Chapter Summaries

Li Ye and Su Ya entered Ripple Cliff Grotto-Heaven, where they discovered the sect used an Earth Vein Spirit Willow to produce spirit veins. Su Ya reunited with his grandfather Su Huan, while the willow drew Li Ye into a cocoon to let him experience Su Huan’s Golden Core formation.

• Senior Brother Qian discussed forging Li Ye a guardian-deity puppet that could transform into a Nine-Toothed Rake.
• The elderly Golden Core Martial Uncle revealed that Zhou Qiumai was her grandson and asked Li Ye and Su Ya to look after the Zhou Family.
• Li Ye and Su Ya entered Ripple Cliff Grotto-Heaven and learned its treasures were replenished by the sect; Li Ye also used Jianmu’s power to restore the spirituality of its spirit plants.
• Li Ye and Su Ya reached the core, where they found a massive Earth Vein Spirit Willow producing thousands of tier-one spirit veins.
• Li Ye used the Heartfelt Melody to connect Su Ya with Su Huan, allowing grandfather and grandson to see and recognize each other.
• Su Huan wrapped Li Ye in a cocoon and directed the spiritual energy of the spirit veins through him to show him the experience of forming a Golden Core.

Li Ye explored the Ripple Cliff Grotto-Heaven after learning about a fortune-blessed Golden Core inheritance and the sect’s experiment with the Divine Dao. He bound Azure Bird Hongdou to a spirit plant born from the buried cultivators’ obsessions, and its growth awakened mysterious figures and began straining a seal on Hongdou’s divinity.

• Perfected Person Su Huan explained how a former patriarch used three immortal music arts to cleanse a world and received a Golden Core shaped by that world’s spiritual energy.
• Su Huan tasked Su Ya with refining one hundred thousand pills and sent Li Ye to search for Earth Vein Spirit Willow seeds and a Divine Dao experiment.
• Li Ye found a Wu Xian Tan among the gravestones, and a chubby Beaver helped him overcome the buried cultivators’ resistance so he could take one flower.
• Li Ye summoned Azure Bird Hongdou and bound it to the Wu Xian Tan after Hongdou agreed.
• Hongdou swallowed the Wu Xian Tan, then spread flaming epiphyllums through the grotto-heaven, stirring up spiritual energy and drawing deathly, divinity-bearing figures from underground.
• Li Ye sensed the flower’s power pressing against the seal on Hongdou’s divinity, which had once belonged to a god worshipped by the Hell Dao.

Li Ye watched Azure Bird Hongdou break free of its Nascent Soul True Person’s seal and reveal a Hell Dao stronghold, then passed the intelligence to Real Person Zhou. He arranged Yam-Dragon cultivation among the local families, giving the Zhou Family responsibility for Yam Mountain and agreeing to visit with Zhou Qiumai.

• Li Ye discovered an Earth Vein Spirit Willow seed amid the clashing powers and collected one before watching Hongdou calculate a Hell Dao stronghold.
• Hongdou exhausted its divine power to reveal the stronghold’s coordinates, shed its seal, and return to Li Ye as a red bean.
• Li Ye gave Real Person Zhou the Hell Dao intelligence, and she hurried to deliver it to Uncle-Master Su Xing.
• Senior Brother Qian showed Li Ye a blindfolded puppet, then sent him away with a Puppet Compendium to handle the arriving Yam-Dragon.
• Li Ye invited the local clan heads into the Four Seasons Pavilion and arranged for each family to receive a Yam-Dragon, assigning Yam Mountain to the Zhou Family.
• The Old Matriarch of the Zhou Family offered to have Zhou Qiumai escort Li Ye to the family home, and Li Ye agreed.

Li Ye brought the Zhou Family’s Yam-Dragons to a lake village and showed that eating their meat could dispel the fishermen’s cold and dampness. He taught several fishermen how to bond with and raise the Yam-Dragons, then stayed with Zhou Qiumai to observe the results.

• Li Ye instructed the Zhou Family elders to document their discoveries about the Yam-Dragons and warned them not to obstruct their spread.
• Li Ye tested a lake near the Zhou Family’s mortal settlements and found a floating village of fishermen suited to raising Yam-Dragons.
• Li Ye cooked a hotpot with Yam-Dragon meat, and the fishermen felt their aches and chill ease after eating it.
• Li Ye revealed a Yam-Dragon and explained that its blood could help the fishermen adapt to the waters and might open a path toward cultivation.
• Li Ye taught Hong Ying and other volunteers a secret technique to bond with Yam-Dragons and take their meat, then chose to stay and observe while Zhou Qiumai remained with him.

Li Ye discovered that Yam-Dragon meat could relieve fishermen’s ailments but revealed that a cultivator was leaving their illness partly untreated to cultivate medicinal Earth Spirit Ginseng. He confronted Bai Shunfeng, a Jian Tree White Spirit, and authorized him to travel and heal more people; Bai Shunfeng then began to reveal a secret about Precious Lotus Village.

• Li Ye explained Yam-Dragons’ effects to Zhou Qiumai and entrusted him with observing the fishermen while keeping their lives undisturbed.
• Li Ye arranged for Zhou Qiumai to use the Earth Sentiment Fodder Shop’s accumulated resentment, expand its operation, and return with the Earth Sentiment Mycelia in seven days.
• Li Ye found that Yam-Dragon meat transformed the fishermen’s harmful cold energy and learned that a physician on Zhouhu Mountain had previously treated them.
• Li Ye confronted Bai Shunfeng, a Jian Tree White Spirit, and discovered he had been leaving illnesses partly untreated to cultivate Earth Spirit Ginseng for medicine.
• Li Ye warned Bai Shunfeng that his treatment had harmed patients, then gave him passage authority and ordered him to heal more people and fully cure those he had treated halfway.
• Bai Shunfeng accepted the jade pendant and began telling Li Ye about Precious Lotus Village.

Li Ye learned that Senior Sister Liu had abused her influence over mortals and watched Perfected Person Xing destroy her soul essence, while the Earth Wish Spirit Fox’s involvement raised suspicions of a larger plot. The chapter ended with the Land God attacking Perfected Person Xing as Li Ye saw the Land God Temple collapse.

• Li Ye heard from Bai Shunfeng about Precious Lotus Village, a secluded settlement built by Jianmu immortals, and decided to ask his master before considering a visit.
• Real Person Zhou told Li Ye his intelligence had helped the sect, passed along messages from his master and Shen Xue, and warned him about the soul essences he had freed from the Hungry Ghost Underworld.
• Zhou Qiumai gave Li Ye a jade token worth six million Spirit Stones, and Li Ye asked Senior Brother Qian to review requests to rent Bamboo Wood Ants before leaving for Tianhe City.
• The Land God told Li Ye that Senior Sister Liu had died without earning enough merit to become a Mountain and Earth God because she had interfered with mortals’ lives based on whom she found pleasing.
• Perfected Person Xing described Senior Sister Liu’s abuses, then destroyed her soul essence after the Earth Wish Spirit Fox mocked the Four Seasons Sect through her voice.
• Perfected Person Xing sent Li Ye outside to investigate the fox’s escape, while the Land God attacked Xing with a candle and the Land God Temple collapsed.

Li Ye resisted Hu Yan’s attempt to control him, but she threw him into a river that sent him beyond the Eastern Domain. Real Person Su Xing and Perfected Person Xing tracked him to the Southern Domain and prepared to deal with the corruption in Shanhe Cave Heaven.

• Li Ye pretended to succumb to Hu Yan’s fox stench while using the Lotus Pill and Jianmu to protect his mind.
• Hu Yan took Li Ye underground and showed him a vision of suffering that she claimed revealed Shanhe Cave Heaven’s hidden corruption.
• Li Ye taunted Hu Yan with her severed tails, so she threw him into a river and sent him away from the Eastern Domain.
• A grandfather and granddaughter rescued Li Ye, who discovered he could no longer sense his sect jade pendant or his location.
• Real Person Su Xing and Perfected Person Xing located Li Ye near Sky Vein Sword Mountain in the Southern Domain and revealed they had used him as bait to uncover corruption in Shanhe Cave Heaven.
• Hu Yan became a statue and began cracking, while Perfected Person Xing planned to preserve her for Li Ye to deal with later.

Li Ye helped the starving people of Dawnlight Village turn the ash-covered land into fertile soil and brought sunlight to their fields. As hostile ghosts approached, he sent a guardian puppet armed with a Jianmu branch to defend the village.

• Li Ye gave food to Old Jiang and his granddaughter, then learned that the villagers blamed the Four Seasons Demon Sect for their hardship and that Old Jiang could control Wish Power.
• Old Jiang brought Li Ye to Dawnlight Village and agreed to tell him about the place and Wish Power in exchange for help growing Dawnlight Rice.
• Li Ye used water, fertilizer, and Spirit Stones to transform the village's ash into soil, then illuminated it with the Dawnlight Bell and Sun-Moon Rings.
• Old Jiang and the village elders went to confront approaching relatives, who had become hostile ghosts, while Li Ye summoned his guardian puppet.
• Li Ye gave the puppet a burning Jianmu branch, and it charged into the ghost horde, killing the attackers as the elders watched in shock.

Li Ye helped Dawnlight Village cultivate a remarkable crop of Dawnlight Rice while learning about the village’s wish-based techniques and its ties to Other Shore City. After the harvest opened a spatial gateway, a bamboo sword arrived, sensing the sword talisman meant for Brother Li.

• Li Ye planted ancient Dawnlight Rice seeds, taught the villagers how to grow them, and used a Jianmu branch to store the puppet that had protected him.
• The Garrison Envoy ordered a woman to trouble Li Ye and decided to wait until the rice ripened before sending a girl carrying rice to Other Shore City.
• Li Ye transformed the village’s barren land, killed the woman who attacked him, and received Dawnlight Village’s ancestral book on using wishes from Old Jiang.
• Old Jiang’s granddaughter fled toward Other Shore City with rice, and Li Ye let her go despite warning that crossing the River of Bitterness would kill her.
• Li Ye and the villagers harvested the ripe rice, whose grains formed a glowing river in the sky and opened a spatial gateway.
• A bamboo sword tore through space, puzzled by the sword talisman’s aura and asking for its sword.

Li Ye escaped the Garrison Envoy’s grasp when Wei Qingye’s Sword Qi destroyed her avatar, allowing Jianmu to take root and protect the village’s rice. He traveled with Wei Qingye to Sky Vein Sword Mountain, where he reunited with Perfected Person You Tian and was brought to the Sword Bone Pool.

• The Garrison Envoy trapped Li Ye in a net of hair, but he dropped a Jianmu trunk into the village entrance before Wei Qingye’s Sword Qi split her avatar apart.
• Jianmu took root and protected the village, while the Garrison Envoy’s true body laughed in Other Shore City and watched the heavenly gate close.
• Li Ye thanked Wei Qingye, then flew with him toward Sky Vein Sword Mountain and explained that he had stumbled upon a Hell Dao stronghold.
• Wei Qingye brought Li Ye to meet his master and Perfected Person You Tian, who told Li Ye that the sect was well and asked whether he wanted to stay in the Southern Domain.
• Li Ye chose to stay, and Wei Qingye took him to the Sword Bone Pool, where Li Ye regretted stepping into the water.

Li Ye absorbed the Sword Bone Pool’s copper liquid, strengthening his body and helping Jianmu transform before he faced a series of challenges from Sky Vein Sword Mountain cultivators. After defeating two Foundation Establishment challengers, he and Wei Qingye staged an apparent draw, and both were carried to the Sky Vein Medical Hall.

• Li Ye absorbed the Sword Bone Pool’s copper liquid until the pool dried up, reaching the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment and gaining fifty thousand points of Vital Essence as Jianmu began transforming.
• He Xiuyuan challenged Li Ye, who stopped his sword attack with a curtain of Five Elements flames and won.
• A female cultivator tried another approach, but Li Ye’s Earth Wish Art trapped and protected her with spiritual lotuses until she conceded.
• Wei Qingye entered the pool to give the Golden Core cultivators a chance to save face, and Li Ye overwhelmed him with a torrent of low-level spells.
• Li Ye and Wei Qingye collapsed after their clash, making it appear to be a draw, and the gathered cultivators carried them toward the Sky Vein Medical Hall.

Li Ye accompanied Qin Qian to Ring-Sky City, where he was asked to inspect a troubled Sky Vein Bamboo in exchange for a spirit pill that could repair his meridians. The bamboo’s Sky Veins were due to fall within seven days, and Wei Qingye reacted with excitement, leaving Li Ye wondering what secret made this a good thing.

• Qin Qian asked Li Ye to help plant medicinal herb seeds and offered to arrange a meridian-repairing spirit pill in return.
• Qin Qian led Li Ye and Wei Qingye to Ring-Sky City, where they walked through its lively streets and visited the Qin Family Martial Hall.
• Qin Qian explained that his father practiced Sky Vein Body Cultivation and asked Li Ye to diagnose a Sky Vein Bamboo that could not grow.
• Li Ye saw that the bamboo’s Sky Veins would separate and fall in seven days, and he speculated that their fall might be the cure.
• Wei Qingye said that the Sky Veins falling would be a wonderful thing, startling Li Ye.

Li Ye used the Heartfelt Melody to locate a Sky Vein Shard that would fall in the east seven days later, then learned from an ancient book about wish-powered treasures and the Earth Sentiment Fungus God. While exploring Ring-Sky City, he confronted a young man who had knocked over a noodle bowl, and the dispute drew cultivators from three great sects.

• Li Ye touched the Sky Vein Bamboo with the Heartfelt Melody, glimpsed the azure heavens, and identified the east as the place where a Sky Vein Shard would fall in seven days.
• Qin Qian agreed that Li Ye could have the Sky Vein Shard if he saved the Sky Vein Bamboo, and Li Ye accepted responsibility for its treatment.
• Li Ye read about the Wish-Storing Lamp, wish gods, and the Earth Sentiment Fungus God, discovering that his Earth Sentiment Mycelia were only chef fungus.
• Li Ye ordered noodles at a stall in Ring-Sky City, but a brocade-robed youth knocked the bowl to the ground while rushing past.
• Li Ye seized the youth and demanded an apology, while the stall owner defended his waiter and the youth threatened them.
• Two cultivators from Bitter Journey Academy and Poverty Observation Mountain arrived, identified Li Ye as a member of the Four Seasons Sect, and alarmed the Golden Core elder.

Li Ye befriended Fellow Daoist Zhu and Fellow Daoist Lu while enforcing a punishment on the Xu Family for mistreating mortals, then witnessed dozens of Sky Vein fragments fall over Ring-Sky City. He left the city to investigate the rare descent and was attacked, finding a glowing pebble at his feet.

• Li Ye learned that Fellow Daoist Zhu had foreseen an opportunity tied to seven days and told him and Fellow Daoist Lu about the Sky Vein.
• Li Ye made the Xu Family provide the noodle stall with a shop and supplies and marked the brocade-robed youth to work there until the next wheat harvest.
• Wei Qingye punished True Person Xu for his son's behavior, and Li Ye gave the noodle stall owner a Four Seasons Jade Talisman.
• More than forty Sky Vein fragments began falling, while Sky Vein Sword Mountain declared Ring-Sky City safe and prohibited fighting within it.
• Wei Qingye returned to his sect, and Fellow Daoist Zhu and Fellow Daoist Lu departed before Li Ye left the city to investigate the fragments.
• A sudden spiritual attack struck at Li Ye from behind, and he countered it, causing a five-colored pebble to fall at his feet.

Li Ye used the Five-Colored Stone to begin merging his soul with the world, which caused his magical power to condense toward a Golden Core and left him searching for more stones. After subduing the Silver Frost Wolf Clan cultivator Shuang Li, Li Ye headed toward the ruins of an old Four Seasons Sect spectacle, while Sky Vein Shards began pursuing him.

• Li Ye found that the Five-Colored Stone could merge with all things, then touched it with his Soul Essence and sensed that it could help him truly belong to this world.
• Li Ye returned to his body and discovered that the Five-Colored Stone had started condensing his magical power, leaving him with a new shackle on his path to forming a Golden Core.
• Li Ye encountered a Sky Vein Sword Mountain cultivator fighting Shuang Li, a Silver Frost Wolf Clan infiltrator, and defeated Shuang Li with one palm strike.
• Li Ye healed Shuang Li, bound him with the Five Elements Spirit Control Method, and offered him cultivation resources in exchange for cooperation.
• Shuang Li told Li Ye that his younger brother was heading east to investigate the ruins of an old Four Seasons Sect spectacle, so Li Ye took him there.
• The Sky Vein Sword Mountain cultivator saw Sky Vein Shards falling in pursuit of Li Ye in the direction he had gone.

Li Ye collected Five-Colored Stones from the Heavenly Vein Shards that relentlessly pursued him, then used them to refine his Soul Essence and played the Heartfelt Melody underground. The music drew the falling Heavenly Veins to him as his mana formed a solid golden pill.

• Two Sky Vein Sword Mountain True Persons discussed the unstable Heavenly Vein and watched a five-colored section begin to fall.
• Shuang Li warned Li Ye about incoming shards, and Li Ye caught them before ordering Shuang Li to sniff out nearby opportunities.
• Shuang Li found his younger brother’s corpse, and Li Ye recognized the Formless Bitter Thorns seed that had killed him.
• Li Ye pursued the seed while collecting hundreds of Five-Colored Stones from the Heavenly Vein Shards that followed him, then gathered wolf corpses and stowed Shuang Li in Jianmu.
• Li Ye covered his Soul Essence with Five-Colored Stones and played the Heartfelt Melody, spreading calming willow-branch light that drew the falling Heavenly Veins toward him.
• Wei Qingye and Sword Cultivator disciples guarded the area as Li Ye’s mana condensed into a solid golden pill.

Li Ye used the Sky Vein Shard and the Heartfelt Melody to undergo an unprecedented Golden Core tribulation shaped by the Four Seasons. After proving that human desire could grow life from barren land, he completed his Golden Core and became a Golden Core True Person.

• Li Ye poured most of the Sky Vein’s spiritual power into the earth and drew down a Four Seasons Lightning Tribulation.
• Wei Qingye and more than thirty cultivators joined Li Ye’s tribulation, receiving willow bracelets that let them experience the seasonal lightning.
• Li Ye endured spring, summer, and autumn lightning, absorbing its power to strengthen his Golden Core.
• Winter’s snow overwhelmed the participating cultivators until Li Ye summoned spirit plants and beasts to clear it away.
• Li Ye threw his Golden Core and a Dawnlight Rice seed into the snow, and the seed grew into a towering rice plant that brought life back to the barren land.
• The snow receded, spiritual-power rice spread across the wasteland, and Li Ye’s perfected Golden Core returned to his dantian, making him a Golden Core True Person.

After surviving the Four Seasons Lightning Tribulation, Li Ye advanced to Golden Core and gained a Heavenly Dao divine ability that rewarded him for cultivating spiritual plants and beasts. Senior Yao gave him a Small Thousand World Seed, and Li Ye prepared to use his new connection to the Hell Dao stronghold to settle old scores.

• Li Ye examined his new Golden Core abilities, including the divine ability that strengthened him as his planted seeds sprouted, and learned that the Sun-Moon Rings had gained spiritual intelligence.
• Li Ye reunited with Wei Qingye and his spirit pets, then thanked the cultivators who had helped him through the tribulation.
• Senior Yao thanked Li Ye on behalf of Sky Vein Sword Mountain and gave him a Small Thousand World Seed protected by the power of the Bronze Divine Tree.
• Li Ye traced his connection to the Dawnlight Rice and Jianmu branch to the Hell Dao stronghold and vowed to gather Sword Cultivators and others to settle scores.
• The rice plants offered Li Ye a radiant Daoist Robe woven from their grains.

At his Golden Core banquet, Li Ye gathered allies to attack a Hell Dao stronghold and protect Dawnlight Village. The assault overwhelmed the stronghold’s defenses, but the Garrison Envoy’s fate remained uncertain when pure white light suddenly appeared beside Li Ye.

• Li Ye announced that he knew the location of a Hell Dao stronghold, and the assembled cultivators agreed to help destroy it.
• Li Ye promised to use his rice robe and Heartfelt Melody to give the Foundation Establishment cultivators Golden Core-level strength.
• Real Person He opened a spatial passage, and Li Ye led the cultivators through after sharing spiritual energy and telling them to protect the village.
• The Garrison Envoy killed Old Jiang to provoke Li Ye, who retaliated with the Sun-Moon Rings as Sword Cultivators and other allies swept through the stronghold.
• Cultivator Zhu summoned a tribulation aura that weakened the Garrison Envoy, while Li Ye and Wei Qingye attacked her through a doorway without entering.
• Pure white light emerged from the room and descended beside Li Ye.

Li Ye used the Heart Grass seed and a Five-Colored Stone clay doll to absorb the Heart Power and defeat the Garrison Envoy. He trapped her inside a Demon Suppression Tree, declaring that she belonged to him.

• Li Ye used the Heartfelt Melody to guide the courtyard's Heart Power into a Heart Grass seed while Wei Qingye and other cultivators defended him.
• Li Ye shaped Five-Colored Stone around the seed, and the awakened clay doll absorbed Heart Power as it charged into the courtyard.
• The clay doll overwhelmed the Garrison Envoy with Heart Power, turning her into a white statue while nearby cultivators marveled at its strength.
• Li Ye stopped the clay doll from attacking two cultivators who coveted its Five-Colored Stone, then faced the Garrison Envoy as she cursed him and mentioned his Senior Brother.
• Li Ye fused a Demon Suppression Tree seed into the Garrison Envoy, trapping her body and consciousness inside the growing tree.