Recaps

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.

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.