Recaps

Li Shiming survived Escort Chief Wang’s threat, obtained cultivation tools, and used his knowledge and Server Room Space to begin cultivating while preparing for the Autumn Examination. After passing as Second Scholar and building a Spirit Rice farm, he left Nanling and met a cultivator who offered information in exchange for his rice.

• Li Shiming hid the Three Days Soul Severing Pill, then poisoned Escort Chief Wang with Abrin and found cultivation books and a Wooden Sword in Wang’s hidden box.
• Shi Ximing tracked Wang to the Government Office garden, but Li Shiming’s trapped box killed him and left Li Shiming with his Leather Pouch.
• Li Shiming used a Spirit Gathering Disk to reach Qi Refining First Level, opened Shi Ximing’s Storage Bag, and expanded his Server Room Space’s power and computing capacity.
• Li Shiming passed the Autumn Examination as Second Scholar and learned to cast Spring Breeze Transforming Rain Art by recreating its artistic conception through the IBMz15 Mainframe.
• Li Shiming built a soilless plant factory in the Server Room Space and harvested Spirit Rice, while Li Wenyuan prepared his journey to the Central Capital.
• Li Shiming boarded the official vessel and agreed to sell Fan Yiyang one hundred catties of Spirit Rice in exchange for cultivation-world information and received the Aura Concealing Art.

Li Shiming built up his cultivation and defenses in Central Capital while navigating Gu Jia’s warnings, the local cultivator market, and the Hao Family’s suspicions. The arc ends with Old Fourth infiltrating Li Shiming’s courtyard for an assassination attempt as Li Shiming prepares to fight back.

• Li Shiming reached Central Capital, survived Pei Xinlu’s assassination attempt, and learned that Li Wenfeng had ordered the attack.
• Li Shiming studied cultivation spells, met Gu Jia, and killed Prince Shun with a concealed incendiary device that left no trace of spiritual power.
• Li Shiming visited the Cultivator Market, sold Spiritual Rice, bought manuals and talisman supplies, then killed two Hao Family cultivators who tried to rob him.
• Li Shiming learned more spells, acquired petroleum for fuel, and attended Gu Jia’s gathering, where the cultivators agreed to move the Market into the city.
• Li Shiming used IBMz15 parts to build a monitoring drone, discovered that his grafted Unknown Spirit Plant was a recovering Spirit Tea Tree, and mastered making Low-Grade Body Lightening Talismans.
• Old Cultivator Hao suspected Li Shiming was connected to several deaths and sent Old Fourth to assassinate him with Invisibility Talismans.
• Li Shiming spotted Old Fourth climbing into his courtyard with thermal imaging and readied ten Low-Grade Geng Metal Talismans.

Li Shiming destroyed the Hao Family, uncovered a corpse-controlling threat, and earned a place in the Sky Ocean Sect. After surviving a Profound Darkness Sect ambush that killed many of the new disciples, he reached the sect and chose a body-refining technique.

• Li Shiming killed Old Fourth, destroyed the Hao Family estate with Nitroglycerin jars, and recovered their supplies and a surviving Bamboo Root.
• Li Shiming learned that Gu Jia suspected a Foundation Establishment cultivator was behind the massacre, then earned Tanhua in the Palace Examination and resolved to pursue cultivation.
• After a Refined Corpse killed rogue cultivators, Li Shiming helped Gu Jia locate a suspected Profound Darkness Sect cultivator, and Uncle-Master Cui gave him the Dragon's Eye Awakening Touch Art.
• Li Shiming advanced to Qi Refining Stage 3, told Si Qin and his household that he planned to join a cultivation sect, and passed the Immortal Ascension Gathering tests with Gold, Fire, and Wood Triple Spiritual Roots.
• On the Flying Boat, Li Shiming spotted an ambush and killed a Profound Darkness Sect cultivator underwater, but the attack killed Jin Shufeng, Senior Brother Ma, Senior Brother Wu, and many youths.
• Uncle-Master Cui and the other survivors reached Sky Ocean Sect with Li Shiming, where he learned the disciples' cultivation requirements and discovered his Spiritual Root Values were Gold 81, Fire 11, and Wood 8.
• Li Shiming went to the Scripture Pavilion and chose Vajra Body Protection Divine Art as his combat technique.

Li Shiming advanced his cultivation, established himself as a spirit planter on Eagle Beak Island, and gained allies and resources through Changming Island Market. After Baili Jin Yan abducted him over Yin Shilan, Li Shiming escaped the sealed formation and killed his captor, then began refining the Array Plate.

• Li Shiming memorized the Sword Control Art and Vajra Body Protection Divine Art, claimed the Profound Darkness Sect’s corpse-refining materials, and subdued the Qi Refining Stage 7 Bronze Corpse despite its terrifying mental attacks.
• Li Shiming purified two Five Ghosts Soul Refining Banners and used their ghost shadows to power a Perpetual Motion Generator, then endured the pain of cultivating the Vajra Body Protection Divine Art.
• Li Shiming became a Novice Spirit Planter, received the isolated Eagle Beak Island field, and discovered a cavern beneath it containing a hidden spiritual meridian and Spirit Spring.
• Li Shiming practiced sword control and body refining with Spirit Fish, killed a Sea Pig Beast attacking his defense formation, and met Qiu Tan, who bought his Spirit Rice and helped him obtain supplies and cultivation knowledge.
• Li Shiming and Yin Shilan exchanged formation knowledge and designed an improved Spirit Turtle Shield, while her spirit tea helped him break through to Qi Refining Fourth Level.
• After hearing that Yin Shilan had visited Li Shiming, Baili Jin Yan infiltrated Eagle Beak Island, subdued him, and abducted him to an isolated island, where he threatened to kill him and turn his soul into a Soul Banner.
• Li Shiming used IBMz15 and the Bronze Corpse to escape Baili Jin Yan’s formation, detonated bombs inside its Energy Cocoon, confirmed Baili Jin Yan was dead, and began refining the Array Plate.