Chapter Summaries

Li Ye brought Lotus Pills and Ink-Wash Kan-Life Yams to Su Ya’s cave, where the alchemists refined a Lotus Pill into a lotus that nourished Li Ye’s Divine Sense. The group then disputed whether the Kan-Life Yam belonged to alchemy or formations, and the arrival of Su Yu and another Perfected Person left the conflict unresolved.

• Li Ye displayed his Spiritual Materials, and Su Ya’s fellow alchemists and Formation Master examined the Lotus Pills with astonishment.
• Su Ya and the others spent seven days refining a Lotus Pill into a tiny lotus, which Li Ye inhaled and found strengthened his Divine Sense.
• Su Ya proposed recording the new pill in the sect archives in exchange for merit, and Li Ye agreed to cooperate.
• Senior Apprentice Wang argued that the Ink-Wash Kan-Life Yam was suited to formations, while Su Ya and the alchemists insisted it should be used for alchemy.
• Senior Apprentice Wang summoned his master, and Su Ya invited Su Yu; the two Perfected Persons arrived and recognized the Lotus Pill and Kan-Life Yam as the cause of the dispute.

Li Ye negotiated contracts with the Alchemy Hall and Array Hall for his Lotus Pills and Ink-Wash Kan-Life Yams, then used merit to nurture the Jianmu seed. Jianmu broke ground, granting him a surge of vitality and forming a small inner world that still lacked light.

• Perfected Person Su and Perfected Person Lu examined Li Ye’s Spiritual Materials and discussed their unusual properties.
• Perfected Person Lu offered to purchase Li Ye’s mutated Kan-Life Yams once he could provide a stable supply, while Perfected Person Su contracted for twelve Lotus Pills per month.
• Li Ye signed the contracts, delivered the Lotus Pills, and received his share of 285,000 Spirit Stones and five taels of merit from Earth Sentiment Fodder.
• Li Ye agreed to supply families with Earth Sentiment Fodder in exchange for resentment and sent a letter with Lotus Pills and Purple Oil Spring Rain to Senior Apprentice Spirit Vine.
• Li Ye used merit to water the Jianmu seed, which sprouted and increased his Vital Essence by ten thousand points.
• Jianmu absorbed sigils from Li Ye’s spells and formed a small, vitality-filled inner world that still had no light.

Li Ye used the panel’s radiance to illuminate Jianmu’s inner world, then explored its new abilities and bonded Voidsky Grass with spirit beasts. Meanwhile, Su Yu arranged for two sects to obtain Lotus Pills by trading Earthfiend Ginseng, leaving them preparing to hunt the Earthwish Fox Clan.

• Li Ye summoned a drop of light from his panel, exhausting his Vital Essence and illuminating Jianmu’s inner world; Jianmu’s cultivation, spell storage, and Life-Breath Shading also became clear to him.
• Li Ye bought Voidsky Grass and bound it with the Ink-Born Silkworm, which became a Voidink Spirit Silkworm and began weaving a cocoon inside the grass seed.
• Li Ye bound Voidsky Grass with a beaver and a Snowbloom Fawn, discovering that the grass gave them portable storage spaces that could expand with Voidsky Stones.
• Su Yu showed newly developed Lotus Pills to Golden Core cultivators from Spiritforging Mountain and Sky Vein Sword Mountain, then offered more pills in exchange for Earthfiend Ginseng and help against the Earthwish Fox Clan.
• The two visiting Perfected Persons agreed to obtain Earthfiend Ginseng and prepare to attack the Earthwish Fox Clan.

Su Xing Zhenren arranged for Li Ye to oversee planting spirit plants at new outer-disciple residences, while Li Ye discovered that the Five Elements Spirit Gourds produced oils with varied effects and asked the sect for resources to continue his research. The sect quickly supplied more Five Elements Spirit Spring Jade and assigned him the task for the day after tomorrow, as Hall of Affairs officials and True Persons began testing the oils.

• Su Xing Zhenren discussed Li Ye’s discoveries with Perfected Person You Tian and decided to give Li Ye responsibility for the spirit-plant work at the outer disciples’ new residences.
• Li Ye found a seed from a Five Elements Spirit Gourd, grew it, and discovered that its mature gourd contained Jia Wood Gourd Oil that accelerated spirit-plant growth.
• Li Ye tested oils from the different Five Elements gourds and recorded their distinct effects on spirit plants, artifacts, water, flames, and soil.
• Li Ye noticed that the Five Elements Spirit Spring Jade was nearly depleted, submitted his research and remaining materials to the sect, and received more jade along with approval to continue cultivating the gourds.
• The Hall of Affairs instructed Li Ye to oversee planting spirit plants for the new outer-disciple residences at the Beginning of Autumn, which was two days away.
• The deputy hall master and several True Persons examined Li Ye’s Gourd Oil and decided to test its effects for themselves.

Li Ye arrived at a sea where thousands of incoming outer sect disciples were building their new residence island by carrying stones they had excavated during their entrance trials. As the island took shape and the disciples celebrated, several inner sect cultivators invited Li Ye to join them, their eager smiles making him uneasy.

• Su Ya tested Li Ye’s gourd oils and found that they nourished flame seeds and improved pill spirituality, while refiners and Spirit Herbalists also reported strong benefits from the oils.
• The True Persons concluded that the five-element oils were valuable low-rank materials and considered organizing disciples to study and test Li Ye’s future inventions.
• Li Ye received an assignment to help prepare a residence area for incoming outer sect disciples and traveled by teleportation formation to a flying vessel over the sea.
• Senior Brother He, who introduced himself as Dan Hong, explained that the disciples below were carrying their own trial stones to form Outer Sect Residence No. Ding 5625.
• After seven days, the disciples cast their stones into the water, where they grew into a barren island of about one hundred and twenty qing, and celebrated their achievement.
• Several inner sect disciples approached Li Ye and invited him to join them, but their sincere smiles made him suspect they had ulterior motives.

Li Ye planted Spirit Plants across Island 5632, and the Formation Masters marveled at how naturally his work complemented their formations. While inspecting the outer sect disciples’ gardens, he discovered that plants and soil brought from home were suffering from a Lost Hometown condition, and he wondered whether solving it could advance his Heartfelt Melody.

• Li Ye declined to join the senior disciples’ maneuvering over a new hall and agreed to help develop the island.
• Li Ye used Spirit Plant seeds, the Dawnlight Bell, and the Jade Purifying Bottle to cultivate a lush landscape as the Formation Masters laid the island’s framework.
• Li Ye finished planting all one hundred and twenty qing in five days, astonishing the Formation Masters with his speed and the natural harmony of the plants.
• Li Ye visited the outer sect disciples and found that many had brought soil and Spirit Plants from their families or former homes.
• Li Ye sensed that the foreign soil and plants were losing their spirituality and saw Lost Hometown conditions on their panels, then decided to ask Senior Brother He about the problem.

Li Ye investigated why the Courtyard Tiger-Striped Hound was nearing death despite keeping Liu Suiling’s courtyard healthy, and discovered that Liu was forgetting his hometown. He learned that the Earth Sentiment Technique helped anchor disciples to the land and sect, then asked Su Xing Zhenren whether forgetting home might benefit the sect.

• Senior Brother He showed Li Ye a Courtyard Tiger-Striped Hound that could preserve earth qi and spirituality but would die if abandoned by its owner.
• Li Ye left the hound with Liu Suiling and observed that it remained cheerful while its status deteriorated, even as Liu’s courtyard improved.
• Li Ye played Heart Melody for Liu Suiling and revealed that Liu could barely recall his hometown, causing the hound to lose its bond with him and near death.
• Li Ye concluded that the Earth Sentiment Technique anchored disciples to the land and the Four Seasons Sect, and Senior Brother He confirmed the concern behind the hounds’ breeding.
• Su Xing Zhenren returned and explained that he had bred the hounds so disciples would not forget the land that raised them; Li Ye asked whether forgetting home could help them serve the sect, and Su Xing Zhenren affectionately called him silly.

Su Xing Zhenren explained his concerns about the Four Seasons Sect drawing disciples away from their families and tested Li Ye’s Heartfelt Melody. He then passed Li Ye the sect’s spirit-plant inheritance and set him the task of building an End of Heat Cloud Palace before receiving a spirit plant.

• Su Xing Zhenren told Li Ye that recruiting Liu Suiling could weaken the Liu Family’s Spirit Tangerine orchards and warned him that some True Persons disagreed with his views.
• Li Ye played the Heartfelt Melody, and Su Xing Zhenren amplified it across Island 5632, stirring the homesick memories of the cultivators there, especially Liu Suiling.
• Several Nascent Soul True Persons watched Li Ye’s performance and discussed Su Xing Zhenren passing him the Nine Songs inheritance.
• Su Xing Zhenren gave Li Ye the spirit-plant knowledge he could currently learn, including the Four Seasons Summons divine ability.
• Su Xing Zhenren ordered Li Ye to gather End of Heat solar-term power and build an End of Heat Cloud Palace before he could receive a spirit plant.

After leaving Li Ye to help the outer sect disciples, Su Xing Zhenren departed, and Li Ye spent months solving their cultivation problems before returning to his cave dwelling. There, he discovered that his Kan-Life Yams and Mystic Water Dragons had produced strange new Yam-Dragon mutations.

• Su Xing Zhenren told Li Ye to remain on Island 5632 and help the outer sect disciples, then left as End of Heat approached.
• Li Ye resolved hundreds of problems for the disciples, who rewarded him with gifts and gathered to thank him when he prepared to leave.
• Su Ya showed Li Ye a pill spirit called Little White, which he renamed White Spirit, and explained that pill spirits could assist with refining pills.
• Li Ye returned to his cave dwelling, where the Beavers had gathered the harvests and made themselves comfortable in the teleportation room.
• Li Ye inspected the river and found dragon-like Kan-Life Yam vines, with crystalline yams containing dragon shapes that the panel identified as Yam-Dragon.

Li Ye discovered that Yam-Dragons could be harvested and eaten, then uncovered the Snow Treading Spirit Deer’s ancestral formation and bound Earth Sentiment Mycelia to Voidsky Grass. He rewarded Zhao He with a cultivation method and ended by watching the mycelia feed the cave’s spirit beasts.

• Li Ye roasted Yam-Dragon meat, shared it with the Beavers, and decided to observe its yield before considering it as a food source.
• Li Ye found the Snow Treading Spirit Deer and Snowbloom Fawns living in a deep cavern, where the herd showed him how they had excavated it.
• The leading Snow Treading Spirit Deer conveyed an ancient formation to Li Ye that used deer antlers and Mist Ripple Radish juice to regulate earth veins.
• Li Ye gave Zhao He the Five Elements Body Forging Art in exchange for retrieving Earth Sentiment Mycelia.
• Li Ye bound the Earth Sentiment Mycelia to Voidsky Grass, which made and delivered food to the Beavers and other spirit beasts.

Li Ye visited Ye Hall, where fellow cultivators presented him with an Earthspirit Array Disk and explored the products made from his creations. After learning about the Ninefold Celestial Gate, he went with them to attempt its trial and gather cloud essence.

• Li Ye received an Earthspirit Array Disk whose newly formed spirit could help manage his cave abode and tend spirit plants.
• Li Ye shared dragon-yam meat, prompting two Spirit Herbalists to ask to see the offspring of a Kan-Life Yam and a Mystic Water Dragon when his cultivation produced results.
• Su Ya and the others reported strong demand for Lotus Pills and Gourd Oil products, and Li Ye agreed to supply what he could while declining what he could not.
• Senior Apprentice Jiang explained that the Ninefold Celestial Gate held cloud essence and other treasures, and Su Ya urged Li Ye to go there for its trial.
• Li Ye traveled with the cultivators through Ye Hall's teleportation formation and arrived before the enormous gate above the clouds.

Li Ye passed the first trial at the Ninefold Celestial Gate, earning a Dawnlight Bell sigil and a token to reach the second level. There, he paid a Dawnlight White Porpoise for a seemingly worthless object that the panel identified as a sleeping Drunken Light Spirit Clam.

• Li Ye explored the busy Ninefold Celestial Gate with Su Ya and the others, learning that its trials centered on the Dawnlight Bell.
• At the cloud pool, Li Ye rang his bell and triggered the instruments to play music that refreshed the cultivators’ Divine Senses.
• A woman in rainbow-feather robes granted Li Ye a sunlight-nourishing sigil for the Dawnlight Bell and the token to enter the second level.
• Li Ye and his companions reached the second level, where Dawnlight White Porpoises sold them miscellaneous objects and offered passage toward the Third Heaven Tower.
• Li Ye paid a thousand Spirit Stones for an object the panel identified as a sleeping Drunken Light Spirit Clam.

Li Ye undertook an unusual Second Heaven Tower trial, using the Dawnlight Bell to revive crops in a city inside a sealed Jianmu leaf. The Sect Leader learned that the Ninefold Celestial Gate’s spirit deity had apparently chosen Li Ye to resolve the leaf’s lingering pollution and ordered the formation reinforced while demanding answers from the deity.

• After paying the Dawnlight White Porpoises, Li Ye and the others rode them to the Second Heaven Tower’s trial ground.
• Li Ye’s trial revealed a mortal city whose failing rice crops needed the Dawnlight Bell’s spiritual power, alarming the other disciples because the task could affect mortal lives.
• Despite his companions’ warnings, Li Ye accepted their help and rang the Dawnlight Bell, causing the rice to grow instantly and receiving a token as the jade screen disappeared.
• A True Person from the Hall of Affairs ordered everyone to keep the incident secret and revealed that the city was in a Jianmu leaf previously sealed for destruction.
• The Sect Leader learned that the leaf contained pollution and possibly mythical Treasures, then ordered its formation reinforced and summoned the Ninefold Celestial Gate’s spirit deity to answer for involving Li Ye.

Li Ye claimed a Cloud Island with Su Ya and prepared goods for the End of Heat trade fair while gathering Cloud Treasure at Cheng Guang Pool. A mysterious Dawnlight Rice seed absorbed sunlight-rich clouds and sped up his work, as Merfolk and Kaiming Clan traders arrived to buy his goods.

• Su Ya and Li Ye found and claimed a Cloud Island, which their senior brothers and sisters joined into a larger trading site.
• Li Ye left Crystalline Honey, Yam-Dragon meat, Lotus Pills, and other materials for Senior Brother Sun and Senior Brother Jin to sell.
• While gathering Cloud Treasure at Cheng Guang Pool, Li Ye discovered a sleeping Dawnlight Rice seed in his pocket and helped it collect Sunlight Spirit Water.
• The Dawnlight Rice seed drew in clouds and mist, more than doubling Li Ye's Cloud Treasure gathering speed.
• Yang Ke arrived with Merfolk traders and discussed renewing his contract for Li Ye's increasingly valuable honey.
• A group from the Kaiming Clan arrived and demanded to buy all the Yam-Dragon meat.

Li Ye returned from cultivating Sunlight Spirit Water to find foreign races waiting to place large orders, but he limited most sales to the goods already on display. After agreeing to reserve honey for Yang Ke in exchange for a higher price and a rare sun pearl, Li Ye turned to Li Sui, who presented an item he believed would secure a trade.

• Li Sui told Su Ya that the Kaiming Clan still guarded East Cang Town and sought Yam-Dragon meat, so Su Ya arranged for him to wait for Li Ye.
• After exhausting his Divine Sense while making half a tael of Sunlight Spirit Water, Li Ye returned to the stalls and learned that foreign races had left extensive orders with Su Ya.
• Li Ye told the gathered customers that supplies were limited, refused bulk contracts for most goods, and sent most of them to buy directly from his stall.
• Xuan You asked Li Ye to help Xuan Turtle Clan members shed their shells using the aura of his gourds, offering Earth Vein Spirit Emulsion and the shed shells; Li Ye said he would consult the sect.
• Yang Ke offered 1,500 Spirit Stones per jin of honey and an East Extremity Yang Pearl in exchange for Li Ye not selling honey to other Merfolk, and Li Ye accepted.
• Li Sui told Li Ye he had noticed the merit power left by Hungry Bone's dissolution and presented an item, confident Li Ye would agree to trade.

Li Ye negotiated a Yam-Dragon meat trade with the Kaiming Clan, then returned home and discovered that his Beavers had made a Magic Tool that spread Purple Oil Spring Rain. He also learned that his Voidink Spirit Silkworms could weave space-containing cocoons that supported living creatures, and began binding more silkworms with Voidsky Grass.

• Li Ye agreed to supply the Kaiming Clan with up to ten thousand jin of Yam-Dragon meat per month in exchange for Kaiming Gold Ingot and the method for gathering Purple Oil Spring Rain.
• After the Chushu season, Li Ye returned from the Ninefold Celestial Gate with over seven hundred thousand Spirit Stones and accepted an order from the Jade Tortoise Clan.
• Li Ye found his Beavers coating themselves in mud and making a lotus-shaped Magic Tool that released Purple Oil Spring Rain and awakened nearby spirit plants.
• The black cat told Li Ye that the Voidink Spirit Silkworms and Voidsky Grass were hidden inside a small space woven from silk, and Li Ye found a cocoon containing both.
• Li Ye confirmed that the silkworm cocoons could house living creatures, then spent four hundred and sixty thousand Spirit Stones on twenty-three stalks of Voidsky Grass to bind with his remaining silkworms.

Li Ye put his gains from his recent trip to use in his cave dwelling, then fell asleep on a cloud before Su Yu summoned him to examine Wei Qingye. He discovered Soul-Binding Bamboo consuming Wei Qingye from within and prepared to help it grow rapidly, while Wei Qingye’s brother offered his own Essence Blood and spiritual power as nourishment.

• Li Ye found that Voidink Spirit Silkworm threads lacked spatial abilities, used Purple Oil Spring Rain to tend his cave dwelling, and set up his array disk, Cloud Treasure, and Kaiming Gold Ingot.
• Li Ye planted Dawnlight Rice Seeds, which rapidly multiplied and began producing Sunlight Spirit Water, then rode a cloud and fell into a deep, undetectable sleep.
• Xuan Xuan asked Su Yu to contact Li Ye about helping the Xuan Turtle Clan’s children shed their shells, but Su Yu said Li Ye was in seclusion.
• A Sword Cultivator from Sky Vein Sword Mountain asked Su Yu to find Li Ye to treat Wei Qingye, and Su Yu learned that Li Ye had just left seclusion.
• Li Ye examined Wei Qingye and discovered Soul-Binding Bamboo filling his meridians and draining his life, while the Sword-Vein Shoot struggled within his dantian.
• Wei Qingye’s brother asked Li Ye to make the bamboo grow until it withered and offered his own Essence Blood and spiritual power to sustain Wei Qingye.

Li Ye helped Wei Qingye use Soul-Binding Bamboo to recover his younger brother’s soul essence, then encouraged Wei Qingye to face his mistake and received a sapling and a spirit sword in thanks. He returned to his cave abode, where he helped five Xuan Turtle children shed their shells and gathered the clan’s gifts before preparing to expand his planting operation.

• Li Ye used Water of Life to make the Soul-Binding Bamboo grow and wither, collecting its ink-wash liquid and merit as Perfected Person Wei entered the deathly gateway to retrieve a soul essence.
• Wei Qingye awakened, learned what his elder brother had done, and later told Li Ye he would enter the Sword Cemetery to find medicine to restore his brother’s lost Essence Blood.
• Li Ye asked Wei Qingye why he had hidden his plan from his sect, then reassured him that he could study the technique with his elders’ guidance.
• Wei Qingye gave Li Ye a Soul-Binding Bamboo sapling and a spirit sword, promised to come if summoned, and left to correct his mistakes.
• Li Ye returned to his cave abode with five Xuan Turtle children, obtained Gourd Oil from the Earth Turtle, and watched the children pull off their shells.
• Li Ye stored the Xuan Turtle shells and Earth Vein Spirit Emulsion, then turned to preparing an expansion of his planting operation.

Li Ye merged the Crystalline Spirit Bee colonies and supported a Dew-Bearing Magnolia as it devoured and assimilated every other tree in the grove. The evolved tree spirit reorganized the grove and hives, producing honey with far more spiritual power, and Li Ye turned next to increasing Yam-Dragon production.

• Li Ye merged two Crystalline Spirit Bee colonies, and the surviving bees connected their hives while their Queen Bees shared a Dew-Bearing Magnolia.
• After the merge, a Queen-less Dew-Bearing Magnolia asked Li Ye for help, then used his Water of Life to attack and assimilate another tree.
• Li Ye supplied the magnolia with spiritual power and materials, allowing it to devour every Dew-Bearing Magnolia in the grove and form a single tree spirit.
• The evolved magnolia offered its true spirit to Li Ye, and Jianmu drew it to its crown, strengthening Li Ye's connection to the tree.
• Li Ye and his helpers restored the grove as one connected spirit-tree collective, while the bees built a unified hive array that produced honey with over three times the spiritual power.
• Li Ye drank the new honey and headed toward the river to address Yam-Dragon breeding and increase its meat production.

Li Ye expanded the spirit river, raised and branched more Vine Dragons from the Kan-Life Yam, and discovered an Immaculate Spirit Field Lotus mutated by Gourd Oil. He chose a Lamp-Fat Flower to help the lotus share the oil, leaving its mutation path to begin.

• The beavers gave Li Ye recordings of the Mystic Water Dragons and Kan Shui Potatoes, then left to rest.
• Li Ye spent Spirit Stones to widen and deepen the spirit river and add more spirit fish.
• The Mystic Water Dragons produced four more Vine Dragons through their mystic water, and Li Ye branched them from the Kan-Life Yam.
• Li Ye noticed pale red starch from the Kan-Life Yam changing the Mystic Crystal Algae, which gathered around the Yam-Dragon Pearls after he left.
• Li Ye found an Immaculate Spirit Field Lotus formed in Gourd Oil and decided to pair it with a Lamp-Fat Flower.
• Li Ye sent the Foundation Establishment Realm Locust Spirit Courier to buy the Lamp-Fat Flower from the Four Seasons Jade Tablet.