Recaps

Li Ye learned that his Five Elements Ascending Spirit Art was approaching Five Elements Ascension Transformation and entered Chaos to follow his instincts. As he ran through the mist, his power began transforming, and his senior brothers and sisters were engulfed by the Chaos stirred in his wake.

• Li Ye received spirit-pattern diagrams that could evolve spirit beasts into the Four Sacred Beasts, and he vowed to raise them despite the immense cost in fortune.
• Senior Sister Ye and Li Ye’s other senior brothers and sisters told him that his cultivation was nearing Five Elements Ascension Transformation, a rare process requiring opportunity, merit, and blessed fortune.
• Li Ye decided to enter Chaos, and his senior brothers and sisters warned him to be careful and keep his Four Seasons Sect jade pendant with him.
• Li Ye walked through Chaos with the Tribulation Fire Spirit and felt his power changing as luminous feathers appeared in his footprints.
• Senior Sister Ye caught one of Li Ye’s feathers, then a Chaos storm swept over the cultivators as Li Ye raced through the mist, seemingly beginning his transformation.

Li Ye underwent Heavenly Human Transformation while racing through the Chaos Mist, then found and took an Azure Lotus treasure from a lake of Chaos Heavenly Light Immortal Water. The Chaos Mist pursued him back to the Four Seasons Sect, where Steward Wei stopped it and Li Ye sensed the power of the Bronze Divine Tree in him.

• Li Ye's spiritual energy transformed as he advanced to the middle stage of the golden core realm and gained the ability to fly freely.
• Li Ye found an Azure Lotus growing in a lake of Chaos Heavenly Light Immortal Water, and the lotus asked him to take it and its leaf away.
• Li Ye pulled up the Azure Lotus and its leaf and fled as the lake's destruction stirred the Chaos Mist into pursuing him.
• Senior Sister Ye and the other Four Seasons Sect cultivators guided Li Ye back and prepared a formation while veteran cultivators watched and ate snacks.
• Li Ye returned to the cultivators, who stared at his transformed appearance and praised his celestial bearing.
• Steward Wei waved his sleeve and made the violent Chaos Mist retreat, and Li Ye recognized the power of the Bronze Divine Tree in him.

Li Ye learned that the Azure Lotus would bind nine Lesser Worlds to him, and Steward Wei offered Weichuan’s Origin Water to help nourish them. After exploring the sect’s world map and learning the cost of visiting other worlds, Li Ye poured the Origin Water into his Lesser World and watched it spread into rivers as he observed from the sky.

• Steward Wei explained that the Azure Lotus would nurture nine Lesser Worlds tied to Li Ye, then offered Weichuan’s Origin Water to help sustain them in exchange for Weichuan flowing through his world.
• Li Ye completed his residence with help from his fascinated senior brothers and sisters, then escaped their attention and examined the Flourishing Spirit Compendium.
• Li Ye used the Four Seasons Jade Tablet to explore the World Star Map, learned that entering the Year Scenery Realm required costly authorization, and heard about its special Yearly Rain spirit marking.
• Steward Wei brought Li Ye a jade bottle of Weichuan’s Origin Water, which Li Ye accepted and carried into his Lesser World.
• Li Ye poured the Origin Water over a mountain, and it flowed into a waterfall and branching rivers that spread across the land as he watched from the sky.

Li Ye discovered that Weichuan connected his Lesser World to places tied to his aura, bringing in creatures and resources from his cave abode. He uncovered the Sea Spirit Ground’s hidden transformation and found a dying merfolk girl afflicted with the Moon Soul Terror Curse in a secret pool.

• Li Ye found that Weichuan nourished the Lesser World with spirituality and could connect it directly to his cave abode.
• The Beavers built Magic Tool-grade dams that spread Weichuan’s waters and brought Li Ye’s spirit beasts and plants into the Lesser World.
• Li Ye discovered that the Bamboo Wood Ants had cultivated Myriad Sinking Bamboo bearing the Bitter Journey Academy character for “lamp.”
• Li Ye saw Azure Sea Spirit Reef flow into the Lesser World and realized its corals created passages that connected to the Sea Spirit Ground.
• Li Ye learned that the Azure Sea Coral Spirit Worm had secretly fused with Voidsky power and transformed the Sea Spirit Ground into a Golden Core-level domain.
• Li Ye entered the hidden passage beneath the coral reef and found a near-death merfolk girl afflicted with the Moon Soul Terror Curse.

Li Ye learned that the Moon Soul Terror Curse originated as a spirit pattern bestowed by Wangshu, and that the Merfolk Clan’s conflict with her had begun through misunderstandings. He reversed the spirit pattern that had changed the little merfolk’s body, but the suppressed curse erupted and began killing him.

• The little merfolk showed Li Ye memories proving he had been trapped inside a Sunken Sea Clam and explained that a celestial being had changed his male body into a female one to suppress the Moon Soul Terror Curse.
• The Spirit Vine identified the little merfolk as a son of the Li Creek tribe, and Li Ye asked Steward Wei to introduce him to Senior Qisui.
• Steward Wei revealed that Wangshu had originally bestowed the Moon Soul Terror Curse as a beneficial spirit pattern, explained how it became deadly, and said Wangshu wanted Li Ye to find a way to resolve it.
• Steward Wei gave Li Ye a jade slip containing the spirit pattern used to reverse the little merfolk’s body, and Li Ye realized he could remove it.
• Li Ye restored the little merfolk’s male body, causing the Moon Soul Terror Curse to flare and drain his power and consciousness as moonlight and a spring purified his bloodline.

Li Ye used Jianmu’s power of time and his Heartfelt spiritual plant to extract the Taiyin Moon Power from Li Rui’s curse and dispel the Moon Soul Terror Curse. Ancestor Wangshu revealed that the curse stemmed from her incomplete immortal talisman and invited Li Ye to become her temple priest, but he decided to consider the offer.

• Li Ye discovered that Li Rui’s bloodline transformation was failing because the immortal talisman’s divine power conflicted with his spiritual power, then used Jianmu’s bronze power to halt the transformation.
• Li Ye timed the moon-phase transitions and used his Heartfelt spiritual plant to draw Taiyin Moon Power from the immortal talisman and transfer it to Silver Moon Grass, breaking Li Rui’s curse.
• Li Rui thanked Li Ye and offered to serve him, and Li Ye told him to retrieve his tribe’s treasures from the Eastern Yang Sea with Li Ye’s disciple.
• Li Ye summoned Ancestor Wangshu, who gave him a pearl to fill with Taiyin Moon Power and explained that the incomplete Patrolling the Skies in the Moon’s Stead talisman caused the curse.
• Wangshu offered Li Ye the role of her temple priest, with various benefits, and Li Ye asked for time to consider before accepting.

Li Ye accepted Goddess Wangshu’s offer to become her temple master and began resolving the prayers left to him. After blessing a believer’s daughter with a destined marriage, he discovered that another prayer required him to use the Eastern Domain’s Star Curtain to protect a mortal with Big Dipper starlight in his blood.

• Senior Brother explained the temple master’s duties, and Li Ye agreed to serve Goddess Wangshu.
• Wangshu summoned a moonlit temple at Li Ye’s cave abode, where Silver Toad introduced him to the prayers awaiting his help.
• Li Ye sincerely blessed a believer’s unmarried daughter through the Connected Leaf Branch, and the red thread revealed her destined meeting with a female general in a storm.
• Silver Toad gave Li Ye a prayer for a mortal corpse-driver whose inherited Big Dipper starlight made him unable to receive Wangshu’s divine power.
• Silver Toad revealed the Eastern Domain’s Star Curtain and said Li Ye needed to leave the man a protective mark there.

Li Ye granted mortals’ wishes at Wangshu’s temple, earning Merit and Cold Moon Toad Manna from the Silver Toads. When a delegation of merfolk arrived seeking his help, he met them with True Person Mo Qi at his side and revealed a Flawless Moon Seed, leaving Yang Ke and the others astonished.

• Li Ye’s Four Brahma Immortal Qi caused a young Silver Toad to produce Cold Moon Toad Manna, and Wangshu explained the effect of his Chaos Qi.
• Li Ye used the Star Curtain to answer fifteen mortals’ wishes, including a corpse transporter’s prayer, and collected their Merit.
• Li Ye helped the Silver Toads produce about half a jin of Cold Moon Toad Manna, then declined to exchange for Wangshu’s treasures until he grew a moon.
• The Spirit Vine told Li Ye that thirty-six Merfolk Nascent Souls and one hundred thirty-seven Golden Cores had come to request an audience, and Wangshu advised him to demand generous compensation.
• True Person Mo Qi kept the merfolk delegation waiting until Li Ye arrived, then invited him to sit beside her.
• Li Ye greeted Yang Ke and revealed a Flawless Moon Seed, stunning the merfolk gathered in the hall.

Li Ye used a Flawless Moon Seed to lift Yang Ke’s Moon Soul Terror Curse and offered to help the other afflicted merfolk. He established a way to ease their suffering on Haiyao Island, where Yang Ke’s father approved his son’s plan to lead the Yang Yao Tribe to pledge allegiance to Li Ye.

• Li Ye promised to cure Yang Ke’s curse, and Yang Ke apologized for doubting their friendship.
• After Li Ye cured Yang Ke, Mo Qi demanded gifts from the merfolk and warned them not to abuse their cultivation.
• Li Ye said he could cure only eight more people immediately, then needed three months to recover, and offered a way to alleviate the other curses in the meantime.
• Yang Ke’s father gave him Haiyao Island, and Yang Ke asked whether he could lead the Yang Yao Tribe to pledge allegiance to Li Ye; his father agreed to leave the decision to him.
• Li Ye planted Silver Moon Grass around Heartfelt Melody and instructed the afflicted merfolk to hold its branches to ease their pain while he prepared to choose eight people for a cure.

Li Ye uncovered a turbid qi vein beneath the Yang Yao Tribe’s fishery and helped Yang Ke weave its resentful sea qi into mersilk, using the Eastern Yang Sea’s power to aid Yang Ke’s Golden Core formation. As Yang Ke continued weaving, moonlight suddenly spread across the sea, heralding Goddess Wangshu’s arrival.

• Li Ye accepted storage rings from the cured merfolk, gave Mo Qi selected treasures, and agreed to take Yang Ke as his follower.
• Yang Ke reported the Yang Yao Tribe’s resources and led Li Ye to its largest fishery, where Li Ye improved the sea’s spiritual conditions and its formation.
• Li Ye’s giant sword struck a drifting turbid qi vein, releasing the Eastern Yang Sea’s accumulated resentment beneath the fishery.
• Li Ye asked Yang Ke to weave the resentment into mersilk, and Yang Ke endured the deathly qi as he worked.
• The Eastern Yang Sea answered Li Ye’s call by surrounding Yang Ke’s mersilk with azure sea qi, helping his Golden Core begin to form.
• Moonlight spread across the Eastern Yang Sea, and everyone looked up in surprise at the apparent arrival of Goddess Wangshu.

Li Ye secured Wangshu’s reconciliation with the Merfolk Clan and planted the Flying Light Azure Lotus in the Turbid Vein to purify its resentment. As the lotus spread and gathered sea vitality, Senior Brother sensed a dead Ruo Tree several thousand zhang below the miasma, possibly one of his former bodies.

• Li Ye asked Wangshu to let the Merfolk Clan atone, and she ended the ancient grievance, permitting them to build temples and promising blessings once the curse vanished.
• The merfolk gathered to thank Li Ye, while he sent Zhao He to handle them and watched Yang Ke weave mersilk as he advanced to the Golden Core realm.
• Li Ye entered the Turbid Vein with Senior Brother, planted the Flying Light Azure Lotus, and used the Azure Lotus Flying Light Heart Method with his beavers to help it grow.
• The Flying Light Azure Lotus multiplied and absorbed resentment, while Li Ye collected a pearl containing the pure vitality of the sea.
• Senior Brother sensed a dead Ruo Tree thousands of zhang below the miasma and said it might be one of his former bodies.

Li Ye learned how the Snow Lotus Spirit and Azure Bird obtained Momentary Ice, then used it to uncover a Ruo Tree and a mysterious Misty Firefly in the turbid qi. Senior Brother taught him the Ruo Tree divine ability Swallow Sun, Receive Pregnancy, and Li Ye planned to try it on Ruoquan Island after settling matters in the Four Seasons Sect and visiting the Su Family.

• The Snow Lotus Spirit returned with Momentary Ice, and Li Ye discovered that she and the Azure Bird had nearly died obtaining it from the Eternal Dark Abyss Sea.
• Senior Brother explained that the Azure Bird had been punished by the Heavenly Dao for helping the Snow Lotus Spirit take the Momentary Ice.
• Li Ye used Momentary Ice to freeze the turbid qi and excavate the buried Ruo Tree, where he found a Misty Firefly that resisted him and later flew into a tributary of Weichuan in Jianmu Space.
• Senior Brother offered to teach Li Ye a Ruo Tree divine ability, and Li Ye accepted.
• Li Ye learned Swallow Sun, Receive Pregnancy, which let a Ruo Tree nurture fruits containing the sun's true intent, and said he would try it on Ruoquan Island after returning from the Su Family.

Su Xing’s Four Seasons Sect forces discovered a world where people lived carefree lives with the potential to become heavenly beings, while Li Ye emerged from the Turbid Vein with treasures and attended the merfolk-Moon Goddess reconciliation ceremony. The Heavenly Age Ginkgo recorded Li Ye’s achievement, granted him a statue and a share of Wangshu’s offerings, and Wangshu stirred beneath the moonlight.

• Su Xing and the Four Seasons Sect cultivators observed a world of extraordinarily long-lived people whose heads bore tiny suns, and they identified the beings as potential heavenly beings created through the union of yin and yang.
• Li Ye escaped the Turbid Vein with the Flying Light Azure Lotus and a pearl of sea vitality, then checked that Yang Ke’s Golden Core Lightning Tribulation was proceeding safely.
• Li Ye arrived at the guest island, where merfolk praised him and offered gifts for helping reconcile their people with the Moon Goddess.
• Grandmaster Tian Sui summoned the Heavenly Age Ginkgo to record Li Ye’s role in ending the 7,420-year enmity between the merfolk and Wangshu, creating a lasting statue of him.
• Grandmaster Tian Sui granted Li Ye a place in Wangshu Temples and a share of her incense offerings, and Li Ye addressed Wangshu as his sister.
• The merfolk congratulated Li Ye as moonlight rippled with signs that Wangshu was awakening.

Li Ye left the Eastern Yang Sea in Yang Ke and Zhao He’s hands and traveled to the Su Family, where he found Su Huan fused with an Earth Vein Spirit Willow to repay his family. Li Ye offered to use an Earth Book to make Su Huan an Earth Immortal, but Su Huan refused.

• Li Ye told Yang Ke to secure Falling Star Sea and left him in charge of the Merfolk’s temple project.
• Li Ye instructed Zhao He to claim the waters surrounding Falling Star Sea and sealed a mysterious call drawing him toward the Southern Domain, promising to accompany him there later.
• Li Ye hurried to the Su Family Mountains, where Su Huan welcomed him through the family’s formation.
• Li Ye realized Su Huan had fused himself with the Earth Vein Spirit Willow to transform the Su Family Mountains into a Blessed Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Ye offered to construct an Earth Book around the willow and turn Su Huan into an Earth Immortal, but Su Huan immediately refused.

Su Huan asked Li Ye to inscribe evanescence runes into his essence so he could sacrifice himself and leave a foundation for the Su Family. At his birthday banquet, he transformed into feather-marked trees across the Su Family Mountains, while Li Ye and Su Ya watched his final farewell.

• Su Huan told Li Ye he had chosen Liberation by Violence and asked him to help his souls and spirits undergo evanescence, leaving benefits for the Su Family and asking others to support Su Ya.
• Li Ye used Four Pure Immortal Force to engrave the evanescence spirit inscriptions throughout Su Huan's dantian, Sea of Consciousness, three souls, and seven spirits over half a month.
• Su Ya told Li Ye that he already knew of Su Huan's plan and accepted his grandfather's choice to support his future cultivation.
• At the birthday banquet, Su Huan's Earth Vein Spirit Willow bloomed with three-colored flowers, which Li Ye and the attending cultivators accepted as treasures and favors.
• Su Huan's body, three souls, and seven spirits merged into the Earth Vein Spirit Willow, whose feather-light spread across the Su Family Mountains and became white, feather-marked trees.

Li Ye rescued several Four Seasons Sect juniors from an Eastern Yang Flow and refined the sea spirit before binding it symbiotically with his Glazed Lamp. Inside the lamp, he discovered that the Misty Firefly had fused with Calamity Fire and become a Tribulation Fire Spirit.

• Li Ye sailed toward Ruoquan Island with Senior Brother and stopped a golden vessel caught in an angry Eastern Yang Flow.
• Li Ye subdued the Eastern Yang Flow, reprimanded the young Four Seasons Sect disciples aboard the ship, and learned they had stumbled upon a place where many yang currents slept.
• Li Ye refined the Eastern Yang Flow with Weichuan water and bound it to his Glazed Lamp in a symbiotic partnership.
• The Glazed Lamp drew Li Ye and the yang current into its inner world, where Li Ye found that the Misty Firefly had fused with Calamity Fire and become a Tribulation Fire Spirit.

Li Ye returned to Ruoquan Island and began restoring it, while Senior Brother and Beaver Xiaobai discussed a way for Senior Brother to remain behind without being affected by the Auspicious Fruit. As Li Ye transformed himself into a young Ruo Tree, Xiaobai began burying Senior Brother in Heart Soil.

• Miao Ying Fire fused with Calamity Fire, and Li Ye discovered that it could burn seawater into Calamity Ash containing a mysterious blue speck of hope.
• Li Ye and his companions reached Ruoquan Island, where he sensed that its Heart Power had grown stronger since he last dismantled the island.
• Senior Brother recounted how his parents had been trapped by the Ruo Tree Nightfall for eighty-one days before his crying awakened them, and he reunited with the aged Beaver Xiaobai.
• Senior Brother worried that the Auspicious Fruit might influence him if he stayed behind, so Xiaobai proposed burying him in Heart Soil to grow a new self.
• Li Ye restored the island with arrays, Weichuan water, and his spirit beasts and plants, then transformed into a flowering young Ruo Tree.
• As the Ruo Tree's night curtain lulled Li Ye toward sleep, he saw Xiaobai digging a pit while Senior Brother stood inside it.

Li Ye rebuilt Ruoquan Island as a peaceful retreat beneath the Ruo Tree Nightfall and sent invitations to cultivators across the region. Wei Qingye and other groups hurried toward the island, while the True Person at Eastern Peak Market opened a jade bridge and summoned her disciples, anticipating a rush for lodging.

• Senior Brother buried himself to shed his body and grow anew, while Little White began teaching the beavers with a Heart Soil dam and offered to cure their yin-yang imbalance.
• Li Ye discovered the Ruo Tree Nightfall could soothe chaotic auras and help with recuperation, then invited Wei Qingye and other cultivators to visit.
• Li Ye rebuilt Ruoquan Island with comfortable dwellings, cultivation facilities, and shops selling goods produced within his dwelling.
• Wei Qingye received Li Ye's letter, recognized the Heavenly Being's spiritual aura, and rushed toward Ruoquan Island with fellow Sword Cultivators.
• Groups of cultivators from different traditions followed from Eastern Peak Market toward the island, prompting its stationed True Person to raise a jade bridge and summon her juniors and disciples.

Sword Cultivators and Forging Spirit Sect cultivators arrived at Ruoquan Island and explored the Ruo Xian Pavilions and cultivation grounds, whose Ruo Tree energy made them deeply relaxed. Duan Jiurui then visited Ruoquan Market, where she saw Lu Qingge and a monk competing for Lotus Lantern Oil and began looking for treasures of her own.

• The Sword Cultivators arrived at Ruoquan Island, felt its calming Ruo Tree spiritual energy, and heard an elderly Golden Core Sword Cultivator explain its connection to humanity's ancient habit of resting at night.
• Wei Qingye's group rented twelve Ruo Xian Pavilions from Li Twelve and soon fell asleep beneath the artificial night inside their courtyard.
• Duan Jiurui's Forging Spirit Sect group rented a cultivation ground after the individual pavilions ran short, and her disciples discussed trying to secure a long-term lease.
• Duan Jiurui's disciples went to sleep in their courtyards while she visited Ruoquan Market to see what it offered.
• Duan Jiurui found Lu Qingge and a monk competing for Lotus Lantern Oil and wondered whether the market held treasures suited to body cultivators.

Duan Jiurui discovered that Ruo Spring Market was selling Crimson-Gold Dragon Carp scales and lost them to Pearl Bodhisattva Son in an exchange. Li Ye met the monk, agreed to supply food for his Buddhist kingdoms in return for the Marvelous Dragon Transformation Method, and began preparing to build a Dragon Transformation Pool.

• Duan Jiurui tried to buy all the Crimson-Gold Dragon Carp scales, but Pearl Bodhisattva Son traded a Seven-Treasures Pearl for them.
• Pearl Bodhisattva Son offered Li Ye the Marvelous Dragon Transformation Method in exchange for food to support the Buddhist kingdoms he was sustaining to pursue Arhat fruition.
• Li Ye agreed to keep their transaction secret and provide the food, while Pearl Bodhisattva Son left him Sandalwood Spirit Candles made with dragon materials.
• Li Ye read the method, learned it required a Dragon Transformation Pool and genuine Dragon Blood, and told the Spirit Vine to prepare the materials.
• Li Ye decided he would need to designate a stretch of sea to raise dragons and disappeared with several items from the table.

Li Ye watched the Crimson-Gold Dragon Carp and its symbiotic Spirit Water Phoenix-Eye Lotus transform into dragons in the Dragon Transformation Pool, then face a Heavenly Tribulation. Ao Kong, a Spirit Transformation dragon, arrived and asked Li Ye to let the pair join the Dragon Clan in exchange for a reward.

• Li Ye placed the Crimson-Gold Dragon Carp in the Dragon Transformation Pool, and discovered it could transform alongside its bound Spirit Water Phoenix-Eye Lotus.
• The lotus consumed the pool’s Heavenly Brahma Treasure Liquid as it grew enormous and sprouted a golden dragon, while the carp and lotus completed their transformations.
• The two newly transformed dragons flew into a Heavenly Tribulation, and Ao Kong sent them precious scales that helped them fight the lightning.
• Ao Kong crossed Jianmu’s barrier and met Li Ye beside the pool, asking whether he had learned the method from Void Aspect Temple.
• Ao Kong offered a reward if Li Ye would let the two dragons join the Dragon Clan, whose members were eager for their unusual bloodlines.

Li Ye used Ao Kong’s Dragon Blood and the Dragon Transformation Pool to reveal how the Yam-Dragon would sacrifice its chance to become a dragon and nourish aquatic creatures instead. The chapter ended with Li Ye bringing out a huge collection of potential dragon-transforming creatures, leaving Ao Kong to face the cost of helping them all.

• Li Ye asked Ao Kong why he had not obtained the Marvelous Dragon Transformation Method, and Ao Kong said he could not afford its price.
• Li Ye showed Ao Kong the Yam-Dragon, and Ao Kong supplied Dragon Blood and Spirit Stones to help it transform.
• The Yam-Dragon’s offspring endured the tribulation, while the original Yam-Dragon shattered and rooted itself across the seabed to nourish aquatic creatures with its flesh, blood, and dragon qi.
• Ao Kong recognized the Yam-Dragon’s choice as a grand vow to help aquatic clans transform into dragons, though he doubted it could succeed.
• Li Ye brought out numerous Yam-Dragons, Dragon Carp, Water Spirits, Mystic Water Dragons, and other creatures with the potential to transform, and Ao Kong realized he would need the clan’s help.

Li Ye helped the dragons establish a thriving sea domain, and Spring Radiance Daoist rewarded him with authority over a vast territory and a new group of disciples. The chapter ended with Spring Radiance and Ao Kong discovering that Weichuan had secretly helped the dragons bring sea qi to Li Ye, leaving them to wonder why.

• Ao Kong summoned more than thirty Nascent Soul dragons to bleed into the Dragon Transformation Pool, enabling spirit plants and beasts to become dragons.
• After forty-nine Yam-Dragons transformed, Li Ye stopped the process when Wangshu warned that continuing could provoke heavenly punishment, and the tribulation clouds dispersed.
• Spring Radiance Daoist arranged for the Four Seasons Sect to recruit disciples to serve Li Ye and named the surrounding hundred-thousand-li territory the Spirit Leaf Sea Domain.
• Spring Radiance Daoist and Ao Kong discovered that the dragons were gathering sea qi as a gift for Li Ye, with Weichuan secretly helping transport it.
• Spring Radiance Daoist and Ao Kong wondered whether the Beaver or the Precious Lotus Lantern had caused Weichuan to intervene.

Li Ye explored his newly enfeoffed sea domain and learned how his transformed dragons could cultivate spirit plants and produce Dragon Qi-infused yam flour. A Mystic Water Dragon then led him to a Kan-Life Yam that seemed like a perfect vessel for the Azure Dragon, where Li Ye sensed an old acquaintance buried beneath a spirit vein.

• Li Ye examined the Crimson-Gold Carp Dragons’ and Spirit Eye Lotus Dragons’ powers, then assigned them and the Beavers to develop the sea domain with spirit plants.
• The Yam-Dragon gave Li Ye glasslike fragments as a gift and asked whether he would reserve a place for it; Li Ye promised it and the other little ones a home in his cave abode.
• Li Ye inspected the Mystic Crystal Yam Dragons’ improved yam flour, which could give mortals a trace of Dragon Qi, and considered its potential demand.
• A Mystic Water Dragon brought Li Ye to the seabed cave where its Kan-Life Yam grew fruits containing water-and-wood spirit energy, and Li Ye recognized it as a suitable Azure Dragon vessel.
• The Mystic Water Dragon told Li Ye that something seemed alive beneath the spirit vein, and Li Ye sensed an old acquaintance there.

Li Ye arranged sea territory for the dragons and negotiated long-term cultivation-ground leases with several sects on Ruoquan Island. He gave Ci Zhu the promised grain but refused to share Sweet Potato Dragon scale powder, instead proposing a partnership to develop paper for Buddhist scriptures.

• Li Ye left the Mystic Water Dragon to guard the dragon eggs growing on the Kan Shui Potato and went to meet the dragons waiting on the island.
• A silver-robed dragon cultivator asked for ten thousand li of sea territory, and Li Ye agreed while a female dragon volunteered to survey the waters.
• The silver-robed youth showed Li Ye a Jiaoli fruit, and Li Ye learned that obtaining its rootstock would require approval from his grandfather and Daoist Xia Hui.
• Li Ye agreed to lease cultivation grounds to the visiting sects for fifty million Spirit Stones per year, and they signed long-term contracts and paid ten years of rent.
• Ci Zhu asked Li Ye for grain and Sweet Potato Dragon scale powder; Li Ye supplied the grain but refused to share the scale powder without sect approval.
• Li Ye offered to work with Ci Zhu on paper for copying Buddhist scriptures, hoping to keep their relationship intact while discouraging the temple from seeking Yam-Dragons.