Recaps

Li Ye discovered that Compassionate Embrace had corrupted Old Master Chou and East Cang Town, and learned that only he could resolve the disaster. He transformed himself into a Jianmu tree to approach Chou, who offered him a beating green fruit taken from his chest.

• Li Ye moved East Cang Town’s residents into Jianmu Space as Wei Qingye attacked the risen Old Master Chou, whose Wheat Ears drained Wei Qingye’s strength.
• Li Ye turned Wei Qingye into a stone statue to save him, then restored him after escaping and suppressed Wei Qingye’s sword before it could self-destruct.
• Chen Mo explained that Compassionate Embrace’s corruption had to be resolved by Li Ye, since anyone else who approached East Cang Town would be assimilated.
• Li Ye examined the corrupted Xiang River Abode and realized Compassionate Embrace’s blessing might create a new form of continued life rather than truly reverse death.
• Li Ye worked with Xiang River Abode to transform himself into a Jianmu tree and spread its power through East Cang Town.
• Old Master Chou greeted the approaching Li Ye and pulled a still-beating green fruit from his chest, asking if Li Ye wanted to seek immortality with him.

Li Ye trapped Old Master Chou inside East Cang Town with Jianmu’s power over time, forcing him to face the loneliness of the immortality he had sought. While maintaining the seal, Li Ye awakened joyful spirits from Jianmu’s emotional fragments, and their presence made the crops ripen in abundance.

• Old Master Chou rejected Li Ye’s warning, insisting that Cihui had promised him immortality and the power to revive his old brothers.
• Li Ye realized that his wish-granting law for Xiang River Abode had helped invite Compassionate Embrace’s influence, and he decided to use Jianmu’s power to contain Old Master Chou.
• Li Ye enveloped East Cang Town in a time domain, while Wei Qingye left to seek a leaf from the Three Star Divine Tree and Chen Mo reinforced the town’s defenses.
• Li Ye told Old Master Chou that he would experience the loneliness of immortality, then returned to his courtyard and remained awake to keep the divine ability in place.
• Li Ye used the Sage Book “Nine Songs: Mountain Spirit” to create Sentient Jian Tree Spirits of Joy from emotional fragments, and their happiness caused the crops to ripen with twice the usual wheat.

Over five years, Li Ye used Compassionate Embrace’s power to nourish East Cang Town and the Bamboo Wood Ants, then discovered its blessings could yield vast Vital Essence. When Hell Dao emerged, his Senior Brother seized Old Master Chou and began summoning black-armored soldiers, leaving their forces poised against Jianmu.

• Jianmu’s dawnlight helped East Cang Town prosper, while the Bamboo Wood Ants grew larger, more intelligent, and desperate for longevity.
• Li Ye played the Xiang Yun Qin to isolate the ants in their nests, where their prayers for longevity drew a response from Compassionate Embrace.
• Pearly dew fell on the crops and produced Wheat Ears; Li Ye absorbed a drop’s vitality and began to understand Compassionate Embrace’s method of granting longevity.
• Xiang River Abode warned Li Ye that Old Master Chou was causing trouble, and Li Ye prepared the Bamboo Wood Ants for battle as Hell Dao appeared.
• Old Master Chou dug up murky yellow Spring Water, from which black-armored beings emerged and drained his vitality.
• Li Ye’s Senior Brother arrived, threw Old Master Chou into the Spring Water, and faced Jianmu as more black-armored soldiers assembled.

Li Ye fought Senior Brother’s Black Armored Army as its dead soldiers’ pain polluted the earth and damaged the Earth Vein Formation. Wei Qingye joined the battle, but Senior Brother used the final chapter of Nine Songs to suppress spiritual energy and shatter the formation, leaving East Cang Town on the brink of catastrophe.

• Li Ye’s avatar recognized Senior Brother leading the Black Armored Army, endured his Soul Hammer attack, and watched him signal that Li Ye should remember to kill him.
• Li Ye sent the Bamboo Wood Ants and demon spirits against the Black Armored Army, but the army advanced through their defenses as its soldiers’ deaths and memories afflicted his roots.
• Senior Brother revealed that the soldiers were Auspicious Fruit replicas of Forging Spirit Sect fighters and explained how their pain and hatred polluted the earth and weakened Li Ye’s Earth Vein Formation.
• Wei Qingye entered through Jianmu’s canopy, destroyed thousands of soldiers with his sword, and gave Li Ye a branch from his sect’s Three Star Divine Tree to stabilize the Years Sky Curtain.
• Senior Brother invoked Spirit Farewell, the final chapter of Nine Songs, which expelled spiritual energy, stopped Li Ye’s formations, and caused Jianmu and its defenders to weaken.
• As Senior Brother warned that chaos would soon descend, the Earth Vein Formation shattered, and earthquakes, collapsing houses, and clashing weather began to devastate East Cang Town.

As the earth vein formation collapsed, Li Ye received Compassionate Embrace’s Jianmu Flourishing divine ability and used its power to break the Black Armored Soldiers’ armor. He then emerged in purple divine light and swallowed Senior Brother, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Outside the Years Sky Curtain, Chen Mo and Perfected Person Can Ling watched the formation collapse, but the Earth Book’s Earth Womb Membrane began forming before the Solar Four Seasons Sundial could cut away East Cang Town.
• Li Ye mended the earth vein formation as Jianmu while Wei Qingye repeatedly fought Senior Brother and learned that Senior Brother wanted Li Ye to kill him.
• Li Ye called on Compassionate Embrace through the original stalk of Compassionate Wheat, which answered by granting him the Jianmu Flourishing divine ability.
• Li Ye’s divine power shattered the Black Armored Soldiers’ armor and washed away the marks of Hell Dao as Wei Qingye blocked Senior Brother from reaching Jianmu.
• A purple river’s light transformed Li Ye, who walked before Senior Brother and swallowed him whole.

Li Ye absorbed Compassionate Embrace’s power, contained Senior Brother’s incarnation in his Purple Mansion, and entered the Yellow Springs to purge the excess divine force and drive another nail into the Hell Dao. The Earth Womb Membrane formed around East Cang Town, recognizing Li Ye as its master and making him an Earth Immortal as the town transformed into a jade bamboo forest.

• Li Ye told Wei Qingye he had imprisoned Senior Brother’s incarnation in his Purple Mansion, then healed Wei’s wounds and went on alone.
• Li Ye absorbed Compassionate Embrace’s remaining gift from Old Master Chou, whose body crumbled into the Yellow Springs.
• Li Ye entered the Yellow Springs, where fungal threads produced Black Armored Soldiers, and asked Compassionate Embrace to disperse its divine power and drive another nail into the Hell Dao.
• Li Ye’s Jianmu branch vanished with the Yellow Spring water, the Bronze Canopy collapsed, and the Earth Womb Membrane spread over East Cang Town, putting its inhabitants to sleep.
• The formation recognized sleeping Li Ye as its master and granted him Earth Immortal power, while surviving Bamboo Wood Ants transformed into a vast jade bamboo forest.
• Chen Mo, Perfected Person Can Ling, and Perfected Person Xuan entered and saw the earth-vein formation restored, leaving Xuan astonished that his repair efforts had been unnecessary.

At Wen’s housewarming gathering, Li Ye’s Senior Brother bestowed gifts and teachings while revealing the origins of Hell Dao and the fate of Fox Sister’s old master. He then disclosed that he was one of the Three Corpses threatening the patriarch and asked Li Ye how he would deal with him.

• Wen invited Li Ye and Wei Qingye to celebrate his new home, and Li Ye brought an intelligent iron pot that made osmanthus cool cakes for the children.
• Senior Brother appeared and cleansed Wen’s children’s Divine Senses with Four Seasons Spiritual Light, then taught Wei Qingye the Sky Stream Flowing Light Swordplay.
• Senior Brother imparted the remaining three Heartscape Illusion divine abilities to Li Ye and explained Cihui Medicine King’s connection to the upper realm and Hell Dao.
• Senior Brother revealed that the patriarch had tried to use Auspicious Fruit on the Three Corpse Worms, but her Three Corpses imprisoned her and sought to take over her body.
• Fox Sister asked about her old master, and Senior Brother explained that he had spent his Essence Blood and Soul Essence completing Hell’s Transformation Diagram and died without regret.
• Senior Brother told Li Ye that he was one of the Three Corpses and would eventually turn against the patriarch unless Li Ye killed him, then asked how Li Ye would deal with him.

Li Ye arranged for Senior Brother to oversee a secluded Heartland while the sect prepared a route to Hell Dao, then helped Wen discover that his Iron Pot had produced a new race of Little Iron Pot Taisui. The chapter left Li Ye reconsidering whether to send the young Taisui away after seeing Wen’s sorrow at parting with one.

• Li Ye refused to decide Senior Brother’s fate and bound him with Heartfelt Melody, assigning him to watch over a Heartland on Ruoquan Island until Hell Dao was destroyed and the true body recovered.
• Senior Brother advised Wen that his rebirth could help spiritual beings conceive, and Wen used his Essence Blood to produce a litter of Little Iron Pot Taisui from Li Ye’s spirit-awakened iron pot.
• Senior Brother explained that genuine gold sand from the Eastern Yang Sea could help balance Wen’s overflowing vitality, and told Li Ye that the Undying People, Red Spring, and Sweetwood were in the Mountains-and-Seas Realm of the Inverted Sky.
• The Little Iron Pot Taisui demonstrated their inherited cooking abilities, and Li Ye offered to help Wei Qingye raise one; Wen agreed and handed him the liveliest Taisui.
• Wen and the Taisui grew visibly sorrowful at their separation, making Li Ye question his plan to send the others away to work in a grotto-heaven.

Li Ye visited Perfected Person Shen Xue to place the Little Iron Pot Tai Sui in the sect’s care, but learned that Du Su Mountain had been sealed as part of the plan to destroy the Hell Dao. He was left in the Divine Snow Grotto-Heaven to experience winter as a mortal, where he needed to earn three Spirit Stones and began by taking on a dormant silver pine cone.

• Pot Sister agreed to let Li Ye take her children to the Four Seasons Sect and promised to send her Water of Life there.
• Li Ye returned to the sect with the Little Iron Pot Tai Sui and entered the Divine Snow Grotto-Heaven to meet Perfected Person Shen Xue.
• Lin Dong told Li Ye that Shen Xue wanted him to learn the winter chapter of the Seasonal Song by enduring winter in a mortal body, and that Du Su Mountain had been sealed to destroy the Hell Dao.
• Li Ye arrived at an abandoned courtyard and met Yin Cong, a Snow Spirit Silver Squirrel who offered to repair it for three Spirit Stones.
• Yin Cong gave Li Ye a dormant Silver Birch Spirit Pine Cone to revive and grow in exchange for help selling its fruit, and Li Ye realized he needed a spirit beast associated with Great Cold.

Li Ye found a flock of hungry Snowy Phoenix-tailed Ducks and discovered that they would eat only food cooked over fire. After he fed them steamed Yang Extremity Thousand Year Dates, they laid precious eggs containing phoenix-like feathers, and Li Ye examined one closely.

• Li Ye met more than a hundred Snowy Phoenix-tailed Ducks, which communicated through Divine Sense and followed him in search of food.
• The ducks led Li Ye to Yang Extremity Thousand Year Dates, whose sweet fruit restored his strength and raised his cultivation from Qi Refining First Layer to Qi Refining Second Layer.
• The ducks refused to eat the dates raw, so Li Ye brought out the Little Iron Pot Tai Sui to cook them.
• The ducks devoured the cooked dates and formed a Divine Sense barrier that trapped the squirrels in a joyful illusion of dancing dates.
• After the flock ate the dates, several ducks laid eggs and their leader offered them to Li Ye; he saw multicolored flames and a phoenix-like feather inside one egg.

Li Ye bound a Silver Birch Spirit Pine Cone, which combined with the Snowy Phoenix-tailed Ducks’ Divine Sense to grow into a pine tree bearing many cones. After the squirrels repaired his house, he went to sleep inside, only to wake to a huge black bear knocking at his door.

• Li Ye discovered that the Snowy Phoenix-tailed Ducks could create a realistic Great Cold spirit domain with their Divine Sense and saw the Silver Birch Spirit Pine Cone grow into a tree.
• The ducks asked Li Ye to feed pine cones to the exhausted Little Iron Pot Tai Suis, but he refused until they recovered.
• The squirrels valued the pine cones at twelve hundred Spirit Stones, and Li Ye hired them to repair his house.
• As night fell, Li Ye recognized that winter’s power was affecting his emotions and went indoors to shelter from the cold and darkness.
• Li Ye ate, fell asleep in the warm house, and awoke to find a towering black bear knocking on his door.

Li Ye fought a demonic-qi-tainted bear in the Suike Realm and learned that Shen Xue had sent him there to find a fragment of the Earth Book. When the fragment flew into his hand, spring returned to the courtyard, leaving the local humans and bear astonished.

• Li Ye used the Snowy Phoenix-tailed Ducks’ phoenix-fire ability to burn the demonic qi from the Black Bear, then made it repair his courtyard wall.
• The bear told Li Ye that its family had been instructed to bring visitors from beyond the heavens to humans, and that winter never ended in the Suike Realm.
• A group of locals arrived, and their young leader explained that Shen Xue had taught them farming and told them to give visitors a piece of their Solar Term Heavenly Tablet.
• Li Ye recognized the tablet fragment as a page of the Earth Book and called it into his hand.
• The Earth Book Fragment’s power melted the courtyard’s snow and ice, bringing spring growth to the land around Li Ye.

Li Ye used the Earth Book fragment to briefly bring spring to the courtyard, then cleansed a Swelling Rice Lotus of White Demonic Energy with Phoenix Fire. He traveled with Fu You toward the village and discovered that he could see Nirvana White Demons, leaving him to wonder whether the Phoenix feather in his hand was connected to the children who could also see them.

• Li Ye ended his brief use of the Earth Book fragment and told the young man that bringing spring to the world would require long-term planning.
• Li Ye used Phoenix Fire to burn the White Demonic Energy from the Swelling Rice Lotus, then obtained a Phoenix Fire seed by plucking a tail feather from a Snowy Phoenix-tailed Duck.
• Fu You led Li Ye and the village cultivators through the snow toward their village while Li Ye learned how weak their cultivation inheritance was and how White Demonic Energy had tainted their spiritual energy.
• Li Ye saw strange humanoid figures in the snow, prompting Fu You to cut his arm and create a blood circle that hid the group from the approaching Nirvana White Demons.
• Fu You explained that children with strong cultivation talent could see the Nirvana White Demons, and Li Ye wondered whether the Phoenix feather let him see them too.

Li Ye reached the village, awakened a Phoenix Snow Parasol Tree through Tie Niu, and used Phoenix Fire and the Earth Book to cleanse the fields of demonic energy. He returned to his courtyard before dawn, where the rising sun abruptly fell and the corrupted landscape vanished, leaving pure spiritual qi behind.

• Li Ye examined the village children, recognized Tie Niu's connection to the phoenix, and taught him to awaken the power beneath the earth.
• Tie Niu's Divine Sense stirred the phoenix's lingering spirit, causing the Phoenix Snow Parasol Tree to rise and shelter the village from the cold.
• Li Ye found Clear and Turbid Yellow Spirit tending the Swelling Rice Lotus fields and used Phoenix Fire and the Earth Book to burn away demonic energy.
• As dawn approached, Li Ye returned to his courtyard while white shadows gathered in the mountains and demonic qi seeped from the snow.
• The sun rose and suddenly fell, after which the corrupted snow forest disappeared and pure spiritual qi filled the courtyard.

Li Ye learned from Senior Brother that the fallen sun was the Golden Core of a person chosen by the Suike Realm to end its endless winter, and that the person might be helped with the World-Nurturing Elixir Method. As Shen Xue and Mo Qi agreed to support Li Ye, the Suike Realm’s connection to the Divine Snow Grotto-Heaven suddenly broke, leaving Li Ye trapped inside.

• A squirrel told Li Ye that spirit beasts and plants, including Golden Core and Nascent Soul beings, had entered the polluted world and been corrupted by demonic qi.
• Senior Brother explained that the fallen sun was a Golden Core formed with the Heavenly Dao’s remaining power, and that its owner’s Dao Heart had begun to collapse.
• Senior Brother suggested teaching the world’s chosen person the World-Nurturing Elixir Method so they could control their Golden Core and help Li Ye resolve the calamity.
• Shen Xue learned from Mo Qi that Jiang Guichen had been born from Pure Yang Immortal Qi and the spirit of the Ruo Tree, and had pursued Hell Dao to resolve the calamity tied to his birth.
• Mo Qi agreed to meet Li Ye’s requests, but Shen Xue noticed that the spatial talisman had become murky and the snowy forest coordinate had vanished, severing the Suike Realm’s connection while Li Ye remained inside.

Li Ye used the Snowy Phoenix-tailed Ducks’ Divine Sense and the Spirit Observation Marvelous Secret to carve their Spirit Runes into pine trees, creating a formation that protected his courtyard from White Demonic Energy. With spirit beasts and plants gathered inside, he lifted the courtyard into the air and set off deeper into Eternal Winter.

• Senior Brother explained that the Heavenly Dao sensed A Thread of Life and revealed that his own past made him want to help the savior.
• Li Ye gathered the ducks’ Divine Sense, sent the squirrels to invite willing spirit beasts and plants, and began engraving Spirit Runes into the pine trees.
• As White Demonic Energy invaded, spirit beasts and plants fought it or entered hibernation, buying Li Ye time to finish the formation.
• Li Ye completed a phoenix-feather formation that concealed the courtyard from the demonic energy and the world itself.
• Li Ye commanded the pine tree to lift the protected courtyard, carrying its inhabitants deeper into Eternal Winter.

Li Ye traveled east after the sun vanished, using talismans and phoenix spirits to restrain chaos and protect people. He found the child of Fortune in a deserted village and learned the youth wanted to be planted in a Demon Suppression Tree to escape his grief, but Li Ye revealed that the villagers’ Soul Essences were still trapped there.

• After sunrise and moonset vanished, Li Ye sent out warm talismans and phoenixes to calm the people and punish those causing trouble.
• Li Ye warned True Person Qing Hua to restrain her cultivators and protect the world’s people, then continued east toward the place where the sun had fallen.
• Li Ye reached a deserted village filled with blood-written spells and found a youthful child of Fortune waiting with a brightly feathered chicken.
• The youth asked Li Ye to plant him in a Demon Suppression Tree so he could escape his suffering and let his Golden Core continue following the laws of sunrise and sunset.
• Li Ye discovered the youth’s dead childhood sweetheart and explained that the Soul Essences of the dead villagers remained trapped in the village.

Li Ye helped the Child of Fortune destroy the collapsing world’s Heavenly Dao with Calamity Fire, while the Heavenly Dao willingly accepted its end. Li Ye saved the youth and began sheltering the surviving beings as he prepared a path to the Dao Flourishing Realm.

• Li Ye told Senior Brother that the world could no longer be saved and planned to erase its Heavenly Dao, and Senior Brother agreed to support him if necessary.
• Li Ye used the Glazed Bead to awaken the youth and his childhood sweetheart’s phoenix bloodlines, then asked the youth to carry Calamity Fire into the Heavenly Dao.
• The youth reached the Heavenly Dao and persuaded it to accept its destruction, while the Calamity Fire consumed it and the Five-Colored Stone sealed away the White Demonic Energy phoenix.
• The youth let the Calamity Fire burn him, but Li Ye’s Heartfelt Melody retrieved him with a small Five-Colored Stone; the Glazed Bead then shattered, and a black-and-white fish leaped into the fire.
• Li Ye transformed into Jianmu, sheltered surviving beings within spiritual-power bubbles, and began drawing a spatial formation to the Dao Flourishing Realm while resisting demonic and deathly auras.

Li Ye used the Calamity Fire to end Suike Realm’s endless winter, then watched the world settle into a new landscape and obtained a Phoenix Wutong seed and Heavenly Heart Jade. After Perfected Person Shen Xue and True Person Mo Qi arrived, Shen Xue praised his actions and promised him a future chance to investigate the source of the White Demonic Qi.

• Li Ye borrowed Fu Ye’s memories of the long winter through the Heartfelt Melody while the Calamity Fire melted the world’s ice and snow.
• Li Ye gathered Chaos Soil from the clash of fire and floodwaters, and a phoenix phantom appeared, thanked him, and left a Phoenix Wutong seed.
• Heavenly light calmed the chaos and reshaped Suike Realm into a spirit-rich wilderness, while Li Ye obtained Heavenly Heart Jade and a new Glazed Bead.
• Perfected Person Shen Xue and True Person Mo Qi arrived; Mo Qi asked to see Jiang Guichen, and Li Ye brought her into his Heart Soil Purple Mansion.
• Shen Xue told Li Ye she had found the source of the White Demonic Qi and offered him a future place to investigate it through an incarnation of the Auspicious Fruit, then sent him home to rest.

Li Ye returned to his cave abode, used the Heavenly Heart Jade to bring winter to the spirit grounds, and examined the treasures from his journey. After Chaos Soil created unpredictable spirit trees and Spirit Plant Hall invited him to study spiritual patterns, Mo Qi Zhenren said she would raise all three of Su Xing’s sons.

• Li Ye returned to his cave abode and activated the Heavenly Heart Jade, blanketing the grounds in snow and giving its plants and creatures a season of rest.
• Li Ye planted seeds in Chaos Soil, which produced Chaos Spirit Peach Trees with disordered Five Elements attributes and newly recombined spirituality.
• Spirit Vine delivered Spirit Plant Hall’s invitation for Li Ye to enter Spirit Flourishing Pavilion and study spiritual patterns.
• Li Ye met Mo Qi Zhenren, who thanked him and promised to raise all three of Su Xing’s sons.

Li Ye visited Spirit Flourishing Hall, learned about its five-colored spirit water and the Heaven-Bearing willow patriarch, and passed an initial spirit-rune test. He was given three days to study before an assessment, and asked to use the Glass Snow Lotus seed that had once wished to fly.

• Li Ye entered Spirit Flourishing Hall and met Senior Brother Spirit Vine above the five-colored spirit water, which could nurture bodies of spirit plants and spirit beasts without spirituality.
• Senior Brother Spirit Vine led Li Ye to the Heaven-Bearing willow patriarch, who asked him to inspect a branch and draw the Golden Sand Spirit Wings rune.
• The patriarch granted Li Ye entry to Spirit Flourishing Hall and assigned him books to study before a test in three days.
• Senior Brother Spirit Vine explained that the assessment required engraving the flight rune onto one of three spirit plants or spirit beasts, and Li Ye asked to use his own spirit plant seed instead.
• Li Ye revealed the Glass Snow Lotus seed and said he could finally fulfill its wish to be carried into flight.

Li Ye entered Spirit Flourishing Hall’s assessment and used spirit patterns to awaken a Glass Snow Lotus seed into a powerful lotus spirit. When the spirit awakened an Azure Bird and Li Ye bonded with it, a Heavenly Tribulation began forming over the trial grounds.

• Li Ye prepared for the assessment by studying spirit patterns and asking Su Xing for guidance, then joined forty-eight other Golden Core True Persons.
• Li Ye entered his minor heaven and found that his altered assessment involved a Glass Snow Lotus seed and an Azure Bird.
• Li Ye engraved the Glass Snow Lotus seed, causing it to sprout into a Foundation Establishment Realm lotus spirit with wings resembling his own.
• The lotus spirit infused the Azure Bird with spirit energy, and Li Ye used Vital Essence to bond with the newly sentient Glass Bird.
• The sky split open above the trial grounds as a Heavenly Tribulation began to brew, astonishing the Nascent Soul cultivators.

Li Ye passed the Spirit Flourishing Hall assessment after the lotus spirit and Azure Bird left through a Heavenly Tribulation, and he received a manual tied to the rare Flying Light Azure Lotus. He watched another senior sister demonstrate a winged Coiled Horn Rock Sheep and a Starfall Epiphyllum whose beautiful bloom struck ascending figures with deadly starlight.

• The Jianmu-like Heavenly Tribulation carried the Azure Bird and lotus spirit away toward the Northern Domain, and the lotus spirit promised to bring back gifts.
• The Nascent Souls awarded Li Ye first place and gave him the Azure Lotus Flying Light Heart Method, promising him a Flying Light Azure Lotus seed after he completed a task.
• Li Ye asked how Chaos Soil could preserve a spirit plant's intelligence while allowing controlled mutations, and a Nascent Soul explained that the Flying Light Azure Lotus could do so.
• The first senior sister presented a Coiled Horn Rock Sheep with spirit-patterned wings on its hooves, and a Nascent Soul praised the idea while warning that breeding the sheep could damage mountain ecosystems.
• The senior sister's Starfall Epiphyllum bloomed, suppressing movement and spatial arts as its starlight struck the ascending Golden Core figures into ash, and Li Ye retreated behind the Nascent Souls.

Li Ye and nine other True Persons passed Spirit Flourishing Hall’s assessment and were sent to reclaim land in the chaos. When Li Ye laid down a stone slab, his Tribulation Fire Spirit erupted and burned away the surrounding Chaos Mist, revealing many objects and heaps of Calamity Ash.

• Li Ye watched the Nascent Soul ancestors reject most Golden Core creations for harmful drawbacks, while he and nine others passed the assessment.
• The ten entered Spirit Flourishing Hall and learned from Steward Wei that they would mine Heaven's Question Stone to build residences in the chaos beyond the hall.
• After mining for three months, the True Persons each received enough stone to reclaim ten mu of land and traveled to the edge of the chaos.
• Senior Sister Ye laid the first stone slab in the chaos, opening a narrow path, and Li Ye volunteered to lay the next one to advance his cultivation.
• Chaos energy pierced Li Ye's defenses, and his enraged Tribulation Fire Spirit burst out and set the Chaos Mist ablaze.
• The fire cleared roughly a mile of Chaos Mist, dropping gleaming objects and heaps of Calamity Ash as the cultivators stared in shock.

Li Ye used Calamity Fire to uncover treasures in the Chaos and arranged an exchange with Spirit Flourishing Hall’s veteran Golden Core cultivators for access to their spirit patterns. After receiving a reincarnation spirit pattern and a Spirit Vein Willow fusion method, he agreed to visit the Su Family, where Su Bing'er revealed that Su Huan’s Nascent Soul had merged with the Earth Vein Spirit Willow and asked Li Ye to intervene.

• Li Ye uncovered more than a thousand Chaos treasures with Calamity Fire and invited the veteran Golden Core cultivators to exchange spirit patterns for them.
• Li Ye played the Heartfelt Melody for the seniors, who approved of his state of mind and agreed to trade their spirit patterns.
• True Person Yuan Xia exchanged a Life-Generating Spirit Pattern for an Azure Light and warned Li Ye about the karmic debt involved in using it.
• Su Bing'er gave Li Ye a Spirit Merging Method for fusing a Spirit Vein Willow with a spirit vein in exchange for Chaos Spirit Water.
• Su Bing'er told Li Ye to visit the Su Family when Su Huan emerged in a month, then revealed that Su Huan’s Nascent Soul had merged with the Earth Vein Spirit Willow and asked Li Ye to act.