Chapter Summaries

Li Ye's symbiotic Lamp-Fat Flower consumed vast amounts of Gourd Oil and produced Immaculate Pill Spirits, while the gourd and turtle offspring became the Turtle Spirit Gourd Clan. After bringing the new creations to Ye Hall, Li Ye was urged to rest, and the elders decided to conceal who had cultivated them until he could produce them on a larger scale.

• Li Ye bound the Lamp-Fat Flower to the Immaculate Spirit Lotus, lit its forty-nine lotus-shaped fat flowers, and burned Gourd Oil for seven days.
• The burning produced a Turtle Spirit Gourd Clan from the gourd offspring and Immaculate Pill Spirits that could help the clan nurture Gourd Pills.
• Li Ye brought the new beings and other Spiritual Materials to Ye Hall, where Senior Apprentice Jiang summoned the members and several Perfected Persons to inspect them.
• Perfected Person You Tian took Li Ye aside, praised his Yam-Dragon cultivation, and helped him realize how exhausted he was before Li Ye fell asleep in a flower-and-grass couch.
• Perfected Person You Tian told the other True Persons to conceal Li Ye's role in cultivating the new materials until he could produce them on a larger scale, following Su Xing Zhenren's concern for Li Ye.

Li Ye joined the Four Seasons Sect’s preparations for the Autumn Harvest Festival, helping turn Yam-Dragon meat into a new food for the sect’s harvest gifts. At the festival’s vast granary, he discovered countless food-filled grotto-heavens and the Shennong Ruler suppressing an immense mass of golden merit.

• Li Ye learned that the Perfected Persons wanted him to rest until the Autumn Harvest Festival, and Su Ya took him to see how the sect prepared its harvest gifts.
• Perfected Person Shen Xue showed Li Ye and Su Ya the food boxes being packed with provisions and valuable cultivation resources, then asked them to contribute items.
• Li Ye suggested deep-frying Yam-Dragon meat and serving it with Red Persimmon Fruit sauce, and Perfected Person Shen Xue tested the dish and its uses in other recipes.
• Li Ye attended the Autumn Harvest Festival and heard that the Four Seasons Divine Granary had stored a tenth of the sect’s crops for over ten thousand years.
• Li Ye saw countless grotto-heaven worlds filled with food inside the granary, with the Shennong Ruler at their center suppressing streams of golden merit.

After the harvest celebration, Li Ye received a mission to enter the underworld around East Cang Town and plant Heart Grass to free the Hungry Ghosts from the Hungry Bone curse. He agreed to undertake the dangerous task, while Su Xing Zhenren planned to entrust him with further missions and Nine Songs.

• Li Ye returned to his cave abode after the crowded Four Seasons Sect celebration and advanced closer to the sixth level of Foundation Establishment by listening to Dao teachings.
• Li Ye received an advanced Spirit Herbalist mission to handle Hungry Bone and watched an Image-Recording Pearl reveal East Cang Town overrun by Hungry Bone plants.
• Li Ye brought the Beaver to meet Su Xing Zhenren, and the Beaver sought his help; the True Person fashioned it a sacred lotus-petal bracelet.
• Spirit Vine showed Li Ye that East Cang Town had become an underworld where mortals lived as Hungry Ghosts after a Hell Dao cultivator interfered with a Transformation God Ancestor’s power.
• Su Xing Zhenren asked Li Ye to enter the underworld and plant Heart Grass throughout the town to purify the Hungry Ghost Dao’s evil power, offering three thousand taels of merit.
• Li Ye accepted the mission and returned to prepare, while Su Xing Zhenren told Spirit Vine he hoped Li Ye would earn merit for future missions and inherit Nine Songs.

Li Ye and the Beavers fed the Hungry Ghosts with ink-made wheat buns, turning many back into humans while spreading Heart Grass to purify the underworld. As Li Ye grew exhausted, the humans’ resentment stirred the gray sky, and thunder brought the first drops of purple rain.

• Li Ye planted Heart Grass and molded ink into wheat, while the Beavers used colored light to make spring rain and Flintfire for steaming buns.
• Hungry Ghosts ate the buns, shed their ghostly forms, and helped plant Heart Grass and push food carts through the underworld.
• Su Xing Zhenren and Perfected Person Shen Xue watched Li Ye’s efforts and discussed how giving could help him succeed.
• Li Ye continued producing wheat and Heart Grass despite growing exhausted, using Jianmu to force his body onward.
• The transformed humans sensed Li Ye and the Beavers’ fatigue and cursed the heavens until the gray sky formed a vortex.
• Silver-white lightning struck through the mist, and purple rain began to fall.

Li Ye shielded East Cang Town’s Hungry Ghosts from the harmful spring rain and helped them eat, transforming the Netherworld Realm and disrupting the monk’s scheme. After the monk confronted him and the Four Seasons Sect’s Nascent Soul True Persons engaged the monk, the Netherworld Realm rewarded Li Ye, who chose to arrange for the rescued people to reincarnate in Tianhe City.

• When spring rain revived the townspeople’s despair and threatened to turn them into Hungry Ghosts again, Li Ye used Jianmu to absorb ghost qi and grow a vast umbrella over them.
• Li Ye asked the townspeople to help, and they braved the rain to feed steamed buns to the remaining Hungry Ghosts until the storm passed and Heart Grass covered East Cang Town.
• A purple-kasaya monk admitted that he had caused the drought and engineered the crop-destroying rain to create Hungry Ghosts, then took Li Ye to meet several waiting Daoists.
• Su Xing True Person and four other Nascent Soul True Persons confronted the monk, while the Spirit Vine warned Li Ye not to watch their battle.
• The Netherworld Realm gave Li Ye a spirit-filled jade stone, and the Spirit Vine explained that the rescued Hungry Ghosts could be sent to Tianhe City for reincarnation; Li Ye agreed to that arrangement.

Li Ye received his merit for resolving East Cang Town and learned that the rest of the Hungry Ghost Underworld remained beyond his reach. The Underworld’s gift advanced his cave abode to the second tier, and his master gave him a Spirit Vine seed before assigning him a task to begin in fifteen days.

• Li Ye shared his Purple Oil Spring Rain with his senior brothers and sisters, drawing the Spirit Herbalists’ interest and an invitation to visit their cave abodes.
• Su Xing Zhenren brought Li Ye to the Heavenly Age Cloud Hall, where Ginkgo Ancestor recorded his work in East Cang Town and awarded him three thousand taels of merit.
• Su Xing Zhenren explained that East Cang Town was only one part of the Hungry Ghost Underworld and that Li Ye could not handle the more dangerous troubles elsewhere.
• Su Xing Zhenren used the Underworld’s jade stone to expand Li Ye’s cave abode from one hundred mu to five hundred mu, advancing it to the second tier.
• Su Xing Zhenren gave Li Ye a Spirit Vine seed and jade slip, then allowed him fifteen days to rest before a new task.
• Li Ye reviewed his gains, including Jianmu’s merit, his sixth-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation, and the Beavers’ progress, then began studying the Spirit Vine jade slip.

Li Ye renovated his cave abode, expanded his premium honey production, and discovered that Mystic Crystal Algae had absorbed Yam-Dragon essence and overrun his spirit river. He contained the algae and headed to the great lake after finding that its Yam Pearls made useful food and feed.

• Li Ye learned how to plant the Spirit Vine but postponed the work until after renovating his cave abode.
• Li Ye found that the Dew-Bearing Magnolia and Crystalline Spirit Bees had developed a system for blending nectars, then bought Gleaming Gold Osmanthus, Feathered Loquat Trees, and Purple Thorn Vines.
• Yang Ke sent Li Ye more than a hundred Moon Spirit Pearl Clams in exchange for honey, and Li Ye bound three clams and placed them in a new lake.
• Li Ye discovered that Mystic Crystal Algae had absorbed Yam-Dragon essence, drained the spirit river, and produced edible Yam Pearls.
• Li Ye used the Yam-Dragon Algae as feed for the Moon Spirit Pearl Clams, reinforced the river with spirit veins and formations, and went to the eastern great lake.

Li Ye spent his Spirit Stones developing his cave abode, then arranged an anonymous auction to replenish his funds. He left the Four Seasons Treasure Pavilion with an auction planned within three days.

• Li Ye bonded with an East Lake Water Spirit, learned that one thousand Vital Essence covered only one-tenth of a mu, and decided to expand the lake gradually.
• Li Ye bought three Cloud Mirage Dragons, aquatic spirit plants and creatures, and fruit trees, spending his remaining Spirit Stones on the cave abode.
• Li Ye proposed splitting profits equally with his senior brothers and sisters by making pills, Magic Tools, and formations from his materials, and they agreed to join him in an auction.
• Su Ya brought Li Ye to the Four Seasons Market, where Li Ye noticed shops belonging to other sects, including the supervised Blood Spirit Sect.
• Li Ye submitted an anonymous auction list verified by four sect halls to Hu Tong at the Four Seasons Treasure Pavilion, and she said the auction would be arranged within three days.

Li Ye and Su Ya attended the Four Seasons Treasure Pavilion auction, where their rare pills and cave-dwelling products sold for far more than expected. After a wealthy Demon Race cultivator bought nearly everything, Hu Tong delivered 2.3 million Spirit Stones and said the buyer wanted to meet Li Ye about establishing a cave dwelling in Four Seasons Market.

• Li Ye and Su Ya soaked in the Qingqiu Fox Clan's hot spring and discussed the auction and ways to make life in Li Ye's cave dwelling more comfortable.
• Hu Tong delivered the auction catalog and said the Four Seasons Treasure Pavilion's ancestor had taken an interest in Li Ye and Su Ya.
• Hu Tong began the auction, and cultivators from several sects drove the Lotus Spirit Nourishing Pills' price as high as 25,000 Spirit Stones per pill.
• Li Ye and Su Ya discussed how difficult it would be for other sects to reproduce their pills, and Su Ya offered to have his sister teach Li Ye alchemy.
• A Demon Race cultivator bought the Gourd Pills, Gourd Oil, and other products from Li Ye's cave dwelling at high prices, bringing the auction proceeds to 2.3 million Spirit Stones.
• Hu Tong delivered the Spirit Stones and told Li Ye that the Demon Race cultivator wanted to meet him about establishing a cave dwelling in Four Seasons Market.

Li Ye met Yuan Yan of the Yuan Sheng Deer Clan, who hired him to solve problems with a lakebound cave abode and its failing spirituality. Beneath the lake, Li Ye found a Deer God's divine body and used his Heart Melody to help Yuan Yan reconnect with it, then stopped before the banyan-tree city surfaced, awaiting Yuan Yan's response to his demonstrated skill.

• Li Ye met Yuan Yan, who offered him half the profits from a Profound Street cave abode in exchange for help developing it.
• After receiving his share of the auction proceeds, Li Ye borrowed a concealing Magic Treasure and went to inspect Yuan Yan's lakebound property.
• Li Ye discovered that the lake concealed a vast banyan tree and city, while the ground's chaotic spiritual power was harming the site.
• Yuan Yan led Li Ye underground, where Li Ye found the enormous body of a Deer God and deduced that Yuan Yan lacked a Divine Tree Fruit to guide its power.
• Li Ye had Yuan Yan sign a contract protecting his identity, then played his Heart Melody to reconnect Yuan Yan with the Deer God's spirituality.
• Yuan Yan guided the divine body's power into the banyan tree, but Li Ye stopped playing before the city emerged from the water.

Li Ye collected a million Spirit Stones from Yuan Yan for helping him connect with the Deer God's divine body, then spent heavily on spirit plants to improve his dwelling. After a month of construction, the River Jade Fungus reacted to his Drunken Light Spirit Clam, revealing that the clam contained a Golden Core.

• Li Ye accepted one million Spirit Stones from Yuan Yan and arranged to visit monthly to help him connect with the Deer God's divine body.
• Li Ye bought dwelling plants and materials worth nine hundred thousand Spirit Stones from Li Shi at Treasure Nest Pavilion.
• Li Ye tested the plants, confirmed that Dwelling Spirit Bamboo, Spring Spirit Flowers, and River Vine could be bound to particular spirit insects, and obtained those insects.
• Li Ye planted Dwelling Spirit Bamboo and Five Elements Ridgepole Trees, then built an underground waterway network with River Vine and Muddy Water Earthworms.
• Li Ye discovered River Jade Fungus growing where he had buried River Vine seeds.
• Li Ye's Drunken Light Spirit Clam opened and released wine that transformed the River Jade Fungus into floating pearls, and Li Ye recognized the clam's aura as that of a Golden Core.

Li Ye discovered Jianmu’s new divine abilities, helped Yuan Yan communicate with the Deer God, and accepted responsibility for raising Silver Moon Grass seeds across one hundred market towns. He used the transformed Silver Moon Grass’s Moonfire to nourish the seeds, then saw an unexpected moon appear in the sky.

• The Drunken Light Spirit Clam turned the River Jade Fungi into wine pearls and gave several to Li Ye before falling asleep.
• Jianmu grew another section, raised Li Ye’s cultivation to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment, and granted him the abilities to manifest divine abilities as seals and move at tremendous speed.
• Li Ye helped Yuan Yan communicate with the Deer God’s divine body, accepted five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and promised to return on time.
• At the Hall of Affairs, Li Ye learned that Master Su Xing had assigned him the Silver Moon Grass mission for one hundred market towns, requiring him to sprout one hundred thousand seeds and select promising candidates.
• Li Ye prepared a moonlit spirit lake and discovered that the Silver Moon Grass could release Moonfire, which he guided into the lake to nourish the seeds.
• As the Moonfire filled the spirit lake, Li Ye looked up and saw a moon appear in the sky.

Li Ye cultivated all one hundred thousand Silver Moon Grass seeds with the Soothing Flute and discovered that his Moon Dominion Spirit Fire could help refine pills for the Wangshu Jade Rabbit clan. After arranging for Su Ya to study the Jade Moon Pill formula, Li Ye found that his Bamboo Wood Ants had gained the ability to reshape themselves and turned them into a walking bamboo house.

• Li Ye played the Soothing Flute beneath a divine moon, stimulating every Silver Moon Grass seed to sprout, then asked the Hall of Affairs to inspect the crop.
• Wang Yin inspected the grass, explained the sect’s connection to Lord Wangshu, and recognized Li Ye’s Moon Dominion Spirit Fire.
• Li Ye summoned Su Ya to refine Jade Moon Pills from Wang Yin’s Qionghua flowers and Moon Nectar Pearls, and Su Ya entered seclusion to study the formula.
• Li Ye discovered that his Bamboo Wood Ants could reshape themselves with bamboo mud, and he taught the Ant Queen not to imitate other cultivators.
• Li Ye directed the ants to merge into a five-zhang walking bamboo house, where he rested as the house carried him along and beavers climbed aboard.

Li Ye tested the Bamboo Wood Ants as cargo carriers and sent Zhao He with a fruit shipment to Tianhe City, where the ants’ ability to transform into a boat drew attention. At Returning Shore Market, Zhao He delivered Li Ye’s materials to Qian Fang, just as Mo Family cultivators arrived to pursue the strange carts.

• Li Ye directed the Ant Queen to turn some Bamboo Wood Ants into flying carts and arranged for them to transport goods in exchange for food.
• Li Ye had Cloud Treasure accelerate the orchard’s fruit harvest, then sent Zhao He with the Bamboo Wood Ant convoy and deliveries for Senior Brother Qian and Zhou Qiumai.
• Zhao He took the ant carts through the Celestial Light Cloud River, where they transformed into a boat, and collected contact talismans from interested cultivators along the way.
• At Returning Shore Market, Zhao He fed the ants, visited Qian Fang, and delivered Li Ye’s letter and unusual materials.
• Qian Fang examined the ant carts, but Mo Family cultivators arrived to negotiate for them before he could ask Zhao He about Zhou Qiumai’s letter.

Li Ye agreed to help the Mo Family explore an extraterrestrial ant nest using his Bamboo-Wood Ants, then received Li Sui with a proposal to trial Yam-Dragons on Kaiming Clan territory. The chapter ended with Li Ye questioning whether the clan wanted more than Yam-Dragons and had taken an interest in his standing within the sect.

• Qian Fang explained the Bamboo-Wood Ants to the Mo Family, who revealed they had acquired a Blessed Grotto-Heaven containing an extraterrestrial ant nest and wanted to cooperate.
• True Person He described the Mo Family's proposal to Li Ye, and Li Ye agreed to participate in the exploration in exchange for access to the nest and its treasures.
• Li Ye used about three thousand Bamboo-Wood Ants to build a low, flat outpost for the Mo Family and the sect's Formation Masters to refine.
• Li Sui visited Li Ye and proposed using Kaiming Clan territory as a trial site for Yam-Dragons, offering an Abyssal Mansion Clam and a spirit vein.
• Li Ye questioned whether the Kaiming Clan elders were also seeking to benefit from his status as Su Xing Zhenren's disciple and deputy hall master.

Li Ye planted two Yam-Dragon Vines in a low-spiritual-energy river on Kaiming Clan land to test how they adapted outside his Dwelling. The vines produced Mystic Crystal Yam-Dragon Algae that dug underground and formed pearls with an aura close to Spirit Stones.

• Li Ye chose a low-spiritual-energy river from Li Sui's samples and took two Yam-Dragon Vines from the river, which the Mystic Water Dragon eagerly supplied.
• Li Ye traded Purple Oil Spring Rain and Jianmu's Water of Life to the Spring Bloom Peach God for a plantable Spring Bloom Spirit Peach, then crossed the jade bridge to the Kaiming Clan's territory.
• Li Han brought Li Ye to a spring-fed mountain at the clan's border, where Li Sui had prepared a place to plant the vines.
• Li Ye planted the Yam-Dragon Vines in the river and watched their roots burrow deep into the riverbed despite the hard rock.
• Mystic Crystal Yam-Dragon Algae grew from the roots, dug underground caves, gathered spiritual energy, and produced Mystic Crystal Yam-Dragon Pearls with an aura close to Spirit Stones.

Li Ye discovered that a leak in the Kaiming Clan’s Spirit-Locking Array had made the Yam-Dragon Vines absorb unusual natural Spirit Stone energy, then helped the clan establish an experimental site. After receiving a generous gift and earning another million Spirit Stones from Yuan Yan, he planned to improve his cave abode and plant Spirit Vine.

• Li Ye found active, Spirit Stone-like particles in a Mystic Crystal Yam-Dragon Pearl and warned Li Sui that the local spiritual energy was unusual.
• Li Sui discovered that a breach in the Kaiming Clan’s underground Spirit-Locking Array was leaking spiritual energy, and the elders repaired it before the spirit stone mine was ruined.
• The Kaiming Clan gave Li Ye ten thousand natural Spirit Stones in thanks, and he agreed to study Yam-Dragon Vines at an experimental site supplied with natural Spirit Stone energy.
• Li Ye and the Kaiming Clan designated the barren mountain as the Yam-Dragon Vine First Experimental River and arranged to cultivate and distribute the plants.
• Li Ye performed Heartfelt Melody with Yuan Yan for the third time, helping Carefree Spirit City’s banyan tree grow and earning another million Spirit Stones.
• Li Ye returned to his cave-abode plans, intending to balance its five elemental attributes before planting Spirit Vine.

Li Ye furnished his cave abode, balanced its five-element spiritual energy, and planted the Spirit Vine using the Water of Life. After bonding with it, he merged his consciousness with the vines and awakened a mountain-spirit power, while Su Xing Zhenren sensed a sudden surge of divine power from Lord Wangshu.

• Li Ye spent 1.5 million Spirit Stones filling his cave abode with spirit plants and beasts, then bought an Earth Origin Tea Tree to assess its spiritual balance.
• Li Ye added fire and metal veins until the Earth Origin Tea Tree's leaves turned black and white, then began building the Spirit Vine Formation across the cave abode.
• Su Ya emerged from seclusion during the formation's activation, retreated behind defensive formations, and obeyed Li Ye's warning not to come out.
• Li Ye planted the Spirit Vine seed in the Water of Life, and the vines spread throughout the cave abode as its plants and beasts offered their spirituality.
• Li Ye added his Divine Sense to the Spirit Vine's crystal, merged his consciousness with its vines, and unknowingly let Jianmu buds grow from his body as the Sun-Moon Rings sounded on their own.
• Su Xing Zhenren sensed Li Ye's Mountain Ghost power from afar, then felt Lord Wangshu's immense moonlight overwhelm his senses.

Li Ye witnessed Lady Wangshu take Su Ya’s pills and bless the Moonlight Spirit Ground, where the Flint Crystal Worms and Silver Moon Grass produced new spirit creatures. He then joined Su Ya in arranging large-scale pill refining and Moon Nectar Pearl processing, ending with Li Ye choosing a moonlight grotto-heaven despite its violent tides.

• Lady Wangshu took several pills from Su Ya’s seclusion chamber and left Moonlight Divine Water for Li Ye, while Su Ya received a note demanding more pills.
• Li Ye discovered that the Flint Crystal Worms had become Moon Dominion Spirit Worms and had produced Flint Moon Crystal Butterflies from their union with the Silver Moon Grass.
• The butterflies sacrificed themselves to form crystals, but Lady Wangshu’s moonlight revived them as Wangshu’s Kin and empowered the Moonlight Spirit Ground.
• Li Ye told Su Ya that Moon Dominion Spirit Fire was no longer a concern, and they agreed to recruit alchemists and process the harvested Moon Nectar Pearls.
• The Hall of Affairs disciple showed Li Ye the only available moonlight grotto-heaven, where immense silver tides battered the Sea Cliffs, and Li Ye rented it anyway.

Li Ye finished sorting Moon Nectar Pearls and secured permission to travel to Eastern Peak Market to investigate a skilled cultivator. Before leaving, he gathered his companions and helped Yuan Yan awaken the Deer God's power, while Su Xing Zhenren concealed the banyan tree’s transformation.

• Li Ye sorted pearls from one hundred markets in less than half a month, found that a cultivator surnamed Jiang at Eastern Peak Market produced unusually high-quality pearls, and obtained permission to visit the market.
• Li Ye agreed to take the Beavers and Azure Bird Hongdou with him, then entrusted Zhao He and the Spirit Vine with watching over his cave abode while he was away.
• Li Ye visited Yuan Yan at Four Seasons Market, accepted a token to find Yuan Yan’s old servant at Eastern Peak Market, and performed Heartfelt Melody for him free of charge.
• Yuan Yan and the Deer God exchanged forms as the banyan tree rapidly expanded, creating a vast cave abode above the lake.
• Su Xing Zhenren returned from the Central Domain, recognized the Yuan Sheng Deer descendant and his disciple’s connection to the Mountain Ghost’s direct bloodline, and concealed the transformation with starlight.