Chapter Summaries

Li Ye learned that Su Xing Zhenren had assigned him to manage the weather at Eastern Peak Market for a month, then arrived at the undersea market to investigate a cultivator surnamed Jiang with a suspected Gold Sand Bloodline. The chapter ended with Li Ye and Senior Sister Gu reaching Jiang’s residence and smelling a powerful stench of blood coming from inside.

• Su Xing Zhenren gave Li Ye the Heartfelt Melody inheritance and sent him to Eastern Peak Market to serve as Cloud Controller for a month.
• Li Ye arrived at Eastern Peak Market, where Senior Sister Gu told him that the cultivator surnamed Jiang had a suspected Gold Sand Bloodline and sold blood to the Blood Spirit Sect.
• Senior Sister Gu explained that Gold Sand Bloodline descendants depended on the Eastern Yang Sea and showed Li Ye the descendants fishing offshore.
• Senior Sister Gu led Li Ye into the Four Seasons Sky-Crossing Algae, which brought winter from the sect’s grotto-heaven beneath the sea.
• Li Ye met Yang Ke in the undersea market and agreed to visit him after handling his business.
• Li Ye and Senior Sister Gu reached Jiang’s residence and detected a thick stench of blood inside the courtyard.

Li Ye investigated Jiang Tingchao, a Gold Sand Clan cultivator who farmed spirit plants with his unusual blood, and agreed to study his condition and help him. When Senior Sister Gu brought in a Blood Spirit Sect cultivator who had exploited Jiang, Li Ye discovered a damaged Golden Core demon beast hidden inside the man.

• Li Ye and Senior Sister Gu found Jiang Tingchao growing Silver Moon Grass in blood and learned that he had ended his spirit-source lease because he was short of Spirit Stones.
• Jiang Tingchao revealed that a Blood Spirit Sect senior wanted to take him away, and Li Ye examined the blood-eroded spirit plants and offered to investigate his blood and help him if its effects proved useful.
• Jiang Tingchao explained that he had to release about thirty jin of blood each day and offered to sign a master-servant contract with Li Ye, then gave him a bottle of golden-flecked essence blood.
• Senior Sister Gu returned with a crimson-robed Blood Spirit Sect cultivator, who apologized to Jiang Tingchao and compensated him with ten thousand Spirit Stones and pills after admitting he had forced him and withheld payment for his blood.
• Li Ye pressured the cultivator for an explanation, causing him to vomit a fleeing lump of flesh, which Li Ye trapped and identified as Blood Spirit Whale Meat containing a damaged Golden Core.

Li Ye learned that the red-robed cultivator had used a Blood Spirit Whale to extract goldsand, then sought Yang Ke’s help finding the creature’s hidden treasure. Yang Ke brought Li Ye to Ruoquan Island, where a Golden Core Micro-Stream Beaver ran an inn on a fifth-tier spirit vein.

• Li Ye and Senior Sister Gu questioned the red-robed cultivator, who confessed that he had found a Blood Spirit Whale and planned to use its goldsand to offer a Goldsand Spirit Field to a Four Seasons Sect Golden Core.
• A Golden Core aura authorized Li Ye and Senior Sister Gu to keep the gains from the case, and Senior Sister Gu took the red-robed cultivator to Willow Peak Prison while giving Li Ye the extracted information.
• Li Ye met Yang Ke, released his hungry Beavers to feast, and asked Yang Ke to guide him to the place where the Blood Spirit Whale might be found.
• Yang Ke revealed that the destination was Ruoquan Island, where a Golden Core Micro-Stream Beaver occupied an inn; Li Ye sensed a special opportunity there and gifted Yang Ke a Moon Dominion Spirit Fire seed.
• Li Ye and Yang Ke paid for lodging and were transported to Ruo Xian Pavilion, where Li Ye discovered that the island’s fifth-tier spirit vein let guests absorb abundant spiritual energy without cultivating.

Li Ye and Yang Ke explored the luxurious Ruoquan Island residence, where Li Ye suspected the island was a Heart Grass illusion and decided to search for the Blood Spirit Whale and leave. The Beavers vanished from the shore and awoke inside the mindscape, where an elderly Ruoquan Island Beaver asked them to succeed it in containing the whale, but they refused and wounded it with a lotus petal.

• Li Ye released the Beavers to play on the shore while he and Yang Ke explored the residence and learned that its servants were strange incarnations of the Ruoquan Island Beaver.
• Li Ye used Heart Grass power to inspect the island, suspected it was a Heartscape Illusion, and chose to skip the Ruo Spring and find the Blood Spirit Whale.
• Li Ye discovered the Beavers had disappeared from the shore and worried that the island could affect his Divine Sense.
• The Beavers awoke in a white land filled with Heart Grass, where an elderly Beaver revealed that it was maintaining the mindscape and suppressing the Blood Spirit Whale.
• The elderly Beaver asked the Beavers to become its successor and invited Li Ye into the mindscape, but they suspected a trap and refused.
• One Beaver struck the elderly Beaver with a lotus petal, summoning Hungry Ghosts as the phantom of a sundial behind the elder began to fade.

Li Ye rescued the Beavers from the Heart Grass’s white radiance, but the spreading light engulfed Ruoquan Island and left him unconscious. He awoke beside Senior Brother Jiang, another disciple of Su Xing who claimed Ruoquan Island as his cultivation ground, and followed him toward a Ruomu Branch.

• Li Ye used the Jianmu to reach and retrieve the Beavers, then escaped with Yang Ke as the Heart Grass’s radiance spread across Ruoquan Island and swallowed its residents.
• At Four Seasons Market, a woman ordered the Heaven-Sea Water Curtain raised around Ruoquan Island, assigned the Celestial Phenomena Formation to a Merfolk Clan cultivator, and left to consult Su Xing.
• Li Ye woke on Ruoquan Island, learned that the handsome cultivator beside him was Senior Brother Jiang and another disciple of Su Xing, and confirmed his identity with his jade pendant and the Heartfelt Melody.
• A Beaver called Xiaobai arrived with Spring Water, reacted warily to Li Ye, and left to search for Yang Ke at Senior Brother Jiang’s request.
• Senior Brother Jiang showed Li Ye the island’s spirit plants and gave him a Spring Bloom Autumn Peach, which restored three hundred points of Vital Essence.
• Li Ye and Senior Brother Jiang reached a golden sand sea, where a small tree stood surrounded by darkness.

Li Ye learned two Heartscape techniques from Senior Brother, first extending a beach with Rifting Sand to Fill the Sea and then shaping seawater with Molding Water into Mountains. His attempt produced a sentient Heart-Earth Spirit resembling a turtle with a gourd shell, leaving Senior Brother astonished.

• Li Ye and Senior Brother approached a Ruo Tree branch, where its peaceful nightfall eased Li Ye and helped Yang Ke recover as he slept beneath it.
• Senior Brother questioned Li Ye about the Earth Sentiment Technique and Heartscape Illusion, then demonstrated how Rifting Sand to Fill the Sea extended the beach.
• Li Ye practiced the technique and pushed the shoreline out by half an inch, earning praise and receiving a Ruo Tree branch and Spring Bloom Autumn Peach.
• Senior Brother taught Li Ye Molding Water into Mountains, using Heart Power and five-element qi to turn seawater into earth.
• After more than ten days of practice, Li Ye used his Gourd Oil to create a turtle-shaped Heart-Earth Spirit, bewildering Senior Brother.

Li Ye met the Heart-Earth Spirit and learned Beaver Xiaobai’s Heartscape Illusion had trapped cultivators on Ruoquan Island, then waited with Yang Ke as the Blood Spirit Whale’s golden-sand blood erupted from the ground. His master contacted him and gave him a starlit ruler, ordering him to use the two spells his senior brother had taught him to break down the island’s Heart Power.

• Li Ye calmed the newly formed Heart-Earth Spirit, learned how to knead Heart Power into mountains, and heard Senior Brother tell him to take the spirit along and make it a field of heart-earth.
• Beaver Xiaobai admitted it had sustained the Heartscape Illusion for a thousand years, opened gaps to the demon-beast hunt outside, and sent Li Ye away as Senior Brother’s fading phantom asked him to look after Xiaobai.
• Li Ye fought off attacking demon beasts, hid with the sleeping Yang Ke inside a concealed array, and later told Yang Ke they were still on Ruoquan Island.
• Several days later, golden, foul-smelling blood surged from the ground, and Li Ye recognized it as the Blood Spirit Whale’s Gold Sand Bloodline.
• Li Ye’s master contacted him, ordered him to use the two spells Senior Brother had taught him to break down the island’s Heart Power, and sent a powerful starlit ruler to him.

Li Ye dismantled Beaver Xiaobai’s Heart Power island with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler, restoring it to water and gaining a rare water vein containing the Blood Spirit Whale. After Yang Ke and his father praised the water’s sleep-inducing spiritual power, Li Ye proposed cultivating it into a product to sell to the Merfolk Clan.

• Li Ye accepted the Heaven-Measuring Ruler’s power and, with Beaver Xiaobai’s structural map, began turning the Heart Power forming the island back into water.
• Li Ye’s work broke the island’s spatial barrier, allowing seawater to rush in; Yang Ke’s father controlled the waves and helped protect the cultivators from the Blood Spirit Whale.
• The Heaven-Measuring Ruler took Beaver Xiaobai, the other Beavers, and nearby treasures away, while Li Ye kept a water-vein sphere containing the Blood Spirit Whale.
• Yang Ke thanked Li Ye and offered him a shell of pearls, then asked whether Li Ye would sell the water from his new water vein.
• Yang Ke’s father explained that the Ruo Spring’s spiritual power could help Merfolk sleep, and Li Ye proposed enhancing the water with his Ruo Tree branch before arranging a contract.

Li Ye learned that Jiang Tingchao had no connection to his Senior Brother, then took charge of cloud seeding and rain making at Eastern Peak Market for a month. His unusually intuitive rainfall improved the market, and the former rainmaking cultivator asked his master to let Li Ye stay and explain how he did it.

• The Nascent Soul True Person explained that the sect had not known about Jiang Tingchao or the Blood Spirit Whale and warned that Jiang’s Gold Sand Bloodline likely prevented him from leaving the Eastern Yang Sea.
• Li Ye asked whether Jiang Tingchao was connected to his Senior Brother, and the True Person said he could pursue his plans as long as he tried not to kill Jiang.
• The True Person sent Li Ye to the Celestial Phenomena Formation and assigned him to manage Eastern Peak Market’s weather for one month.
• Ye Juan guided Li Ye through fields of Jade Banana Grass, and he agreed to visit Gold Sand Island after finishing his task.
• Li Ye used the formation to bring rain according to his perceptions, and the market’s spirit plants, spirit beasts, and cultivators benefited from the changing weather.
• The Golden Core cultivator who had previously managed rainfall asked the True Person to keep Li Ye there so he could learn from him.

Li Ye discussed the results of his unconventional rainmaking with seven Four Seasons Sect Golden Core True Persons and received seven thousand Spirit Stones. On Gold Sand Island, he discovered Culinary Coconut Trees that grew meat inside their coconuts and decided to study them, then encountered Wei Qingye arguing with a Gold Sand Clan member.

• Seven Golden Core True Persons asked Li Ye to explain his rainmaking, and he suggested that unpredictable weather might benefit the land and its inhabitants without taking a firm position on the sect’s rules.
• The True Persons accepted Li Ye’s advice as useful, gave him seven jade boxes containing a thousand natural Spirit Stones each, and resolved to discuss the matter with their seniors.
• Li Ye arrived at Gold Sand Island, where Ye Juan showed him a Culinary Coconut that contained pork-belly-like meat.
• Li Ye discovered that the Culinary Coconut Tree could bind as a spiritual plant and decided to buy trees and Jade Banana Grass to cultivate and investigate them on the island.
• Li Ye entered a courtyard where Wei Qingye was arguing with a Gold Sand Clan member, and Wei Qingye’s bamboo sword eagerly rubbed against Li Ye’s arm.

Li Ye learned that Wei Qingye planned to use a strange scroll and spirit plants to make a body for a Soul Essence, then studied the scroll and uncovered dangerous flaws in its method. After confirming that Soul-Binding Bamboo could bind with a Culinary Coconut Tree, Li Ye watched the tree grow a peculiar fruit containing a three-legged crow.

• Wei Qingye explained that he wanted Culinary Coconut Trees to test whether they could retain their properties in the Southern Domain and revealed a scroll describing how they might grow a body for a Soul Essence.
• Li Ye identified the item as a Bamboo Spirit Scroll and learned that it contained a method for making a plant-based body, along with an Ink Spirit Nurturing Method that could exploit spiritual beings and endanger its user.
• Wei Qingye entrusted the scroll to Li Ye and left by merging with his bamboo sword, while Li Ye studied the scroll for three days and found several traps in its techniques.
• Li Ye bought Culinary Coconut Trees and other local spirit plants, then confirmed that a Culinary Coconut Tree could bind with the Soul-Binding Bamboo.
• Li Ye spent ten thousand points of Vital Essence to bind the plants together, and one coconut grew smooth and translucent around a seed containing a three-legged crow.

Li Ye hatched a mindless Gold Sand Crow from the fused Culinary Coconut Tree and Soul-Binding Bamboo after ghosts surged from beneath Gold Sand Island. He returned to Four Seasons Market with the bird, then secured Jiang Tingchao’s obedience through a Bloodline Soul Contract so he could test his interface’s effects on the Demon Race.

• Li Ye captured a ghost drawn to the Gold Sand Crow, while waves of ghosts erupted across Gold Sand Island and cultivators joined in harvesting them.
• After seven days, a Gold Sand Crow emerged from the coconut, and Li Ye discovered it could turn sunlight into gold sand and use light as an attack.
• Li Ye packed up his spirit plants and beasts, returned to Four Seasons Market, and told the Nascent Soul True Person that he had hatched the bird from a coconut.
• Li Ye secured the True Person’s understanding, then bid farewell to Yang Ke, Ye Juan, and the other Golden Core cultivators.
• Li Ye offered Jiang Tingchao a way out in exchange for lifelong obedience, and Jiang Tingchao accepted a Bloodline Soul Contract.

Li Ye brought Jiang Tingchao and the strange Gold Sand Crow to Su Xing Zhenren, who explained how the Ruo Tree, the crow’s awakening Soul Essence, and the Gold Sand Clan were connected. Su Xing Zhenren revealed that Jiang Tingchao and the Ruo Tree might help free the Gold Sand Clan, promised Li Ye Ruoquan Island after he reached Golden Core, and sent him to visit the Yam-Dragon.

• Li Ye bound the Ruo Tree to Jiang Tingchao, and the tree grew from Jiang Tingchao’s head, suppressing his Gold Sand bloodline.
• Li Ye noticed that the Gold Sand Crow’s Soul Essence was growing beside Jiang Tingchao and hurried back to ask Su Xing Zhenren about it.
• Su Xing Zhenren explained that Beaver Xiaobai had tried to create a person using Heart Power and Gold Sand bloodline, and identified the crow as a descendant of the Three-Legged Golden Crow awakened by the Soul-Binding Bamboo.
• Su Xing Zhenren examined Jiang Tingchao and revealed that the Ruo Tree suppressed the Gold Sand Clan’s curse, making Jiang Tingchao and the tree potential keys to freeing the clan from the Eastern Yang Sea.
• Su Xing Zhenren promised Li Ye Ruoquan Island as his Daoist ground after he reached Golden Core, then teleported him to visit the Yam-Dragon.
• After Li Ye departed, Beaver Xiaobai accepted that it would serve him, hoping he could help it find its missing master.

Li Ye discovered that Yam-Dragons had flourished on barren land and secured approval to seek their wider cultivation beyond the sect. The Sect Leader rewarded him for completing the Moon Nectar Pearl mission, and Li Ye spent half his reward on a Heart Grass seed.

• Li Ye inspected the Yam-Dragon testing ground and learned from Li Sui that the plants had thrived after draining the land of spiritual energy, while the Kaiming Clan reported no harmful effects from eating them.
• Li Ye proposed testing Yam-Dragons at five market towns, with three sites chosen by him and two by the Kaiming Clan, then submitted his application to the sect.
• The Sect Leader agreed to inspect the crop before deciding whether it could spread beyond the sect, while Zhao Zhenren rewarded Li Ye with a Golden Core realm spell from the Spirit Beast Hall.
• The Sect Leader told Li Ye that his Moon Nectar Pearl mission had earned him seventy million first-grade Spirit Stones, and Li Ye chose to give half to Su Xing Zhenren.
• The Sect Leader offered Li Ye a Heart Grass seed for the remaining thirty-five million Spirit Stones, and Li Ye accepted it.

Li Ye returned to his cave abode, reviewed its income and changes, and discovered that the gourd field had produced a powerful but short-lived Treasure Lotus Gourd. He settled Heart Grass and Jiang Tingchao in the abode, then left the chapter with a fourth-order spirit river and a diminished Golden Core whale emerging before them.

• Li Ye returned to his cave abode, where Spirit Vine reported the harvests, rental income, and changes that had occurred during his absence.
• Li Ye released the Beavers, Gold Sand Crow, and Jiang Tingchao, then arranged new plantings and planted Heart Grass in his courtyard.
• Li Ye discovered that Spirit Vein Willows had become Spirit Oil Willows and were channeling Gourd Oil toward the gourd field’s center.
• The Immaculate Spirit Field Lotus created a Treasure Lotus Gourd that became a Lotus Lantern, whose Five Elements-repelling power quickly consumed it.
• Li Ye decided to wait for another Lotus Lantern before reporting it to the sect, then told Jiang Tingchao to tend the cave abode’s spirit plants.
• Li Ye released the fourth-order spirit river and its diminished Golden Core whale, which surfaced and watched him.

Li Ye tested the Blood Spirit Whale’s abilities, contracted it, and assigned Jiang Tingchao duties in his cave residence. Afterward, the Black Cat recognized Li Ye’s Bamboo Spirit Scroll as one of four ancient inheritances and fused it with the Huai Spirit Scroll, opening a mysterious doorway.

• The Blood Spirit Whale demonstrated how it produced feed and purified spirit blood, then extracted unusual dragon blood from Li Ye’s Yam-Dragon flesh and pearls.
• Li Ye learned that the Yam-Dragons’ growth depended on a faint power of vitality fused into their bloodline, and he contracted the Blood Spirit Whale before sending it to East Lake.
• Li Ye assigned Jiang Tingchao to nourish the Ruoshui Spring River, help the Gold Sand Crow make Goldsand, and teach Zhao He farming methods.
• The Black Cat recognized Li Ye’s Bamboo Spirit Scroll as one of four inheritances tied to the Huai Spirit Scroll, and the scroll’s power briefly stirred the Locust Tree and unsettled Li Ye.
• Li Ye agreed to fuse the Bamboo Spirit Scroll with the Huai Spirit Scroll, and the Black Cat opened the ancient doorway formed by a Locust Tree and bamboo.

Li Ye explored the Huai and Bamboo Spirit Scrolls’ painted world and forced Black Cat to reveal the fox spirit it had been secretly nurturing. After binding the awakened Painting Fox with the Five Elements Spirit Control Method, Li Ye gained a new subordinate and learned it could control the painted world.

• Li Ye entered the Earthen Tower and learned that the painted world could gather spells, shelter created lifeforms, store yin energy and Soul Essence, and cultivate spirituality.
• Black Cat admitted that uniting the five spirit scrolls could let Li Ye manifest and alter the painted world, but only after reaching at least the late Golden Core stage.
• Li Ye used his control over the spiritual energy supplied by the Spirit Vein Willow to threaten the scrolls’ collapse until Black Cat offered its true spirit and submitted to him.
• Black Cat led Li Ye to a Painting Fox that lacked spirituality, explaining that its old master had wanted it fully nurtured and that he had concealed this to help it.
• Li Ye used the Five Elements Spirit Control Method on the Painting Fox, awakening and binding it; the fox called Li Ye its master and offered to help control the painted world.

Li Ye learned that a Painting Dao genius and a Four Seasons Sect True Person may have created the Earth Wish Spirit Fox six thousand years ago, and Master agreed to investigate the buried mystery. After arranging to spread his Yam-Dragon through Returning Shore Market and buying seeds, Li Ye planted one hundred mu of Start of Spring Wheat and fell asleep as its spirituality gathered around him.

• The Painting Fox told Li Ye that its old master and a Four Seasons Sect True Person had created the Earth Wish Spirit Fox about six thousand years ago, linking the fox race to an ancient Spirit Race upheaval.
• Master said the sect's records held no trace of the experiment and promised to investigate, then advised Li Ye to interact with people and suggested spreading his Yam-Dragon through Returning Shore Market and East Cang Town.
• Li Ye offered Senior Brother Su a Yam-Dragon slot for Returning Shore Market, but Su Ya said he had not known the market belonged to his family and hurried home to investigate.
• Li Ye bought Start of Spring Wheat seeds for one hundred mu, then used the Wheat Spirit Yellow Ox, spirit liquid, and the Dawnlight Seed-Soothing Art to prepare them.
• Li Ye planted all one hundred thousand seeds across his fields and fell asleep as spiritual energy from the wheat gathered around him.

Li Ye discovered that the Bamboo Wood Ants had begun sustaining his Earth Sentiment Mycelia with faith power, possibly turning it into a god. After learning the danger from Senior Sister Qi, he decided to study how faith power worked and report the situation to the sect.

• Li Ye found that the Bamboo Wood Ants were cultivating Azure Leaf Spirit Abode leaves in their nest, where the Earth Sentiment Mycelia grew and produced food for them.
• Li Ye visited Senior Sister Qi, who explained that Earth Sentiment Mycelia could grow through either resentment or faith power and warned that the sect prohibited Foundation Establishment Cultivators from raising gods.
• Li Ye realized the Bamboo Wood Ants might be worshipping the Earth Sentiment Mycelia as a Fungus God and that their sacrifices could strengthen it.
• Li Ye decided to study faith power, report the possible Fungus God to the sect, and visit Tianhe City while promoting the Yam-Dragon at Returning Shore Market.
• Li Ye wondered why Su Ya had not contacted him and whether he had returned home to inherit his family's market management.

Su Ya told Li Ye that his grandfather had been imprisoned inside Ripple Cliff Grotto-Heaven for stealing its spiritual essence to help Su Ya, and Li Ye set out with him to search for residual fragments that might ease the punishment. After returning to Returning Shore Market, Li Ye met Senior Brother Qian and a Mo Family disciple, who showed him a transforming puppet and spear made from special spiritual-plant sap.

• Su Ya explained that his grandfather had stolen Ripple Cliff Grotto-Heaven's spiritual pill, which had fused with Su Ya's Soul Essence and led to his grandfather's punishment.
• Li Ye urged Su Ya to look for residual spiritual essence in the grotto-heaven and traveled with him to Returning Shore Market.
• Su Xing Zhenren and the Sect Leader discussed Li Ye's potential to help Su Ya's grandfather and the possibility of teaching Li Ye a top inheritance.
• Su Ya left to ask the Golden Core True Person guarding Returning Shore Market for early access to Ripple Cliff Grotto-Heaven, while Li Ye went to find Senior Brother Qian.
• Senior Brother Qian and a Mo Family disciple showed Li Ye a puppet that transformed into a spear made from spiritual-plant sap gathered by the Bamboo Wood Ants, and invited him to make a weapon and protective puppet.