Chapter Summaries

Chen Sheng recalled his first life as the Prince of Yan, in which he built a vast family despite having no Spirit Root. After his death, the Myriad Lives Tome awarded him a Low-grade Spiritual Root, allowing him to cultivate in his next life.

• Chen Sheng looked back on his life as a Spirit-Rootless prince and learned that the Myriad Lives Tome could carry his spirit through his descendants.
• He fathered children across Yan Land, eventually producing more than eighty descendants with Spirit Roots and earning the achievement "Hundred Sons and Thousand Grandsons."
• At nearly eighty, Chen Sheng died surrounded by his family, and the people of Yan Land mourned him.
• The Myriad Lives Tome recorded the end of his first life and offered him a talent for his achievement.
• Chen Sheng received a Low-grade Spiritual Root and rejoiced that he could cultivate immortality.

After awakening his past-life memories, Chen Sheng continued working as a poor Spirit Farmer while considering how to learn a proper cultivation trade. He refused Ji Feng’s invitation to explore a dangerous Secret Realm and, short on the Spirit Stones needed for apprenticeship, decided to seek a loan from a Scar-faced Man.

• Chen Sheng used the Cloud Rain Technique to water his Spirit Fields, then restored his spiritual power before finishing the work.
• Chen Sheng reflected on his new life as Tang Yun, a Qi Refining Second Layer Spirit Farmer, and wondered how long had passed since his previous life.
• Ji Feng invited Chen Sheng to explore a Secret Realm at Cloud Dragon Mountain, but Chen Sheng suspected the trip was dangerous and declined.
• Chen Sheng went home, cooked a frugal meal, and counted the thirty-seven Spirit Stones he had saved toward learning a cultivation trade.
• Chen Sheng realized he needed to borrow money and thought of a Scar-faced Man who might lend it to him.

Chen Sheng visited Qin Dajiang, his late father’s sworn brother, and reunited with the family connection he had neglected. Qin Dajiang gave him money and promised to investigate good apprenticeships, leaving Chen Sheng ready to pursue a trade.

• Chen Sheng arrived at Qin Dajiang’s residence and met Qin Dajiang and his son, Qin Shuang.
• Qin Shuang welcomed Chen Sheng as his younger brother and gave him a Green Light Talisman.
• Chen Sheng told Qin Dajiang he had saved thirty-seven Spirit Stones and wanted to learn a trade.
• Qin Dajiang gave Chen Sheng one hundred and twenty Spirit Stones and insisted he keep them without repayment.
• Qin Shuang urged Qin Dajiang to help Chen Sheng find a trustworthy apprenticeship, and Qin Dajiang promised to investigate before visiting him at harvest time.

Chen Sheng avoided Ji Feng's suspicious invitation and harvested his Spirit Rice, then chose to apprentice under Master Huang at the Huang Clan Pill Workshop. After Chen Sheng told Qin Dajiang about the suspected trap, Qin promised to handle Ji Feng and warned him about local Robber Cultivators' schemes.

• Ji Feng boasted to Chen Sheng about his haul and invited him to join another outing, but Chen Sheng refused and suspected Ji Feng and Old Deng had been setting a trap.
• Chen Sheng harvested his Spirit Rice, kept sixty jin to give to Qin Dajiang, and received five Spirit Stones and four grains of Spirit Sand.
• Qin Dajiang described apprenticeship options at the Huang Clan Pill Workshop, the Artifact Forging Workshop, and the Luo Clan Winery, and Chen Sheng chose Master Huang.
• Chen Sheng told Qin Dajiang about Ji Feng's repeated invitations, and Qin praised his caution and said he would handle the matter.
• Qin Dajiang explained common Robber Cultivator tricks and warned Chen Sheng that avoiding greed was the best way to escape their traps.

Chen Sheng and Li Huayao began their alchemy apprenticeship under Huang Yueyang and spent months learning to prepare medicinal ingredients. After Zhang Yue and Luo Yun advanced to the Fire Room, Huang Wangyou was put in charge of supervising the new disciples in the Medicine Room.

• Huang Yueyang accepted Chen Sheng and Li Huayao as disciples and established that Huang Wangyou, who had entered earlier, was their Senior Sister.
• Zhang Yue and Luo Yun began guiding Chen Sheng and Li Huayao in identifying and preparing medicinal ingredients, while Chen Sheng worked diligently and Li Huayao often slacked off.
• After another month of training, Chen Sheng and Li Huayao passed Huang Yueyang’s examination, and Zhang Yue and Luo Yun moved to the Fire Room to study Fire Control.
• Huang Yueyang assigned Chen Sheng and Li Huayao the Medicine Room duties and appointed Huang Wangyou to supervise them.
• Huang Wangyou immediately corrected Li Huayao’s Angelica Root preparation and began teaching her how to process it properly.

Chen Sheng finished processing the herbs and played Go with Huang Wangyou, winning repeatedly before letting her take the tenth game. They shared that both had lost their mothers, and Huang Wangyou proposed trading Go games for lessons in identifying herb illustrations, while Li Huayao resented her favoritism toward Chen Sheng.

• Huang Wangyou reprimanded Li Huayao for dropping tools and slacking, while praising Chen Sheng’s careful work with medicinal ingredients.
• After finishing the herbs, Chen Sheng suggested a move that helped Huang Wangyou solve the Go problem she had been studying.
• Huang Wangyou challenged Chen Sheng to Go, and he defeated her nine times before deliberately losing the tenth game.
• Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou spoke about their deceased mothers and agreed that he would play Go with her while she taught him to identify herb illustrations.
• Li Huayao watched them together and privately complained that Huang Wangyou was partial to Chen Sheng.

Five years later, Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou were close companions at the apothecary, where he continued studying medicine and advancing his cultivation. Huang Wangyou gave him a Purple Cloud Pill she had bought with her own savings, and Huang Yueyang watched the couple embrace before quietly leaving.

• Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou played Go at the apothecary while Li Huayao watched them and pretended to focus on slicing herbs.
• Huang Wangyou told Chen Sheng that new apprentices would arrive next month and asked about his progress toward Qi Refining Third Layer.
• Huang Wangyou arranged to meet Chen Sheng in the bamboo grove east of town, where she gave him a Purple Cloud Pill she had bought for him.
• Chen Sheng accepted the pill and embraced Huang Wangyou by the riverbank.
• Huang Yueyang watched the couple from the bamboo grove, smiled, and vanished into the dusk.

Chen Sheng broke through to the Qi Refining Fourth Layer with a Purple Cloud Pill, married Huang Wangyou, and began their wedding night. The chapter left the newlyweds alone together in the bridal chamber.

• Chen Sheng cultivated, visited Qin Dajiang, and bought Huang Wangyou a mid-tier Phoenix Hairpin with his saved Spirit Stones.
• Huang Wangyou’s father, Huang Yueyang, approved her relationship with Chen Sheng and entrusted him with his pharmacy manual; the families arranged their marriage for May seventh.
• Chen Sheng used the Purple Cloud Pill to break through his bottleneck and reach the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.
• Qin Dajiang and Huang Yueyang’s families held Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou’s wedding, with Qin Shuang returning from Qinghua Sect to greet the guests.
• Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou shared wedding wine and retired together to the bridal chamber.

After a month of married life, Chen Sheng advanced to the Fire Room and discussed his study of the Secret Manual of Pharmacy with Huang Yueyang. Huang Yueyang gave him generous cultivation resources and arranged to teach him pharmacy, while Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou ended the chapter planning a celebration.

• Huang Yueyang assigned Li Huayao and Tang Yun to begin working in the Fire Room after they guided the new Apprentices through the basics of pharmacy.
• Chen Sheng explained his understanding of the Secret Manual of Pharmacy, and Huang Yueyang praised his insight and told him to memorize and destroy the jade slip.
• Huang Yueyang arranged for Chen Sheng to study pharmacy with him each afternoon and gave him an annual allowance of Spirit Rice, Qi Gathering Pills, and Spirit Stones.
• Huang Wangyou compared Chen Sheng's allowance with her own and tried to persuade him to ask Huang Yueyang for more resources, but Chen Sheng stopped her.
• Huang Wangyou suggested celebrating Chen Sheng's entry into the Fire Room that night, and Chen Sheng eagerly agreed.

Chen Sheng trained in the Xuanyang Flame Control Art while continuing his medicine studies and cultivation, and Huang Wangyou became pregnant. The chapter left the family preparing for the baby’s arrival as Qin Shuang remained away seeking a Foundation Establishment opportunity.

• Huang Yueyang taught Chen Sheng and Li Huayao the five layers of the Xuanyang Flame Control Art and told them to practice the Flame Ignition Art every morning.
• Chen Sheng practiced steadily while Li Huayao struggled to keep her flame lit, and Huang Wangyou brought them ginseng soup.
• Chen Sheng improved his fire control and medicine skills, while cultivation with Huang Wangyou helped both of them advance.
• Qin Shuang left to seek a Foundation Establishment opportunity, leaving Qin Dajiang worried about when he would return.
• In September, Huang Wangyou revealed that she was pregnant, and Huang Yueyang urged Chen Sheng to take care of her.

After five years of diligent study, Chen Sheng perfected his flame control and advanced to Qi Condensation Fifth Level. He reunited with Huang Wangyou and their gifted daughter Tang Xichen, who had mastered her first Sword Skill, and agreed to practice with her.

• Chen Sheng demonstrated his mastery of the Xuanyang Flame Control Art, impressing Huang Yueyang while Huang Yueyang reprimanded Li Huayao for her slow progress.
• Chen Sheng told Huang Yueyang that he had reached the peak of Qi Condensation Fourth Level and entered seclusion to advance.
• After seven days, Chen Sheng broke through to Qi Condensation Fifth Level.
• Chen Sheng emerged from seclusion and reunited with Huang Wangyou, teasing her about neglecting her cultivation.
• Tang Xichen finished practicing her Sword Skill, hugged Chen Sheng, and asked him to practice with her; Chen Sheng agreed.

Tang Xichen began cultivating with her recovered meridians, while Chen Sheng and Li Huayao practiced refining Grain Abstinence Pills under Huang Yueyang's guidance. Qin Shuang returned to the Qin Mansion with his infant son after his wife died protecting them, then left to attempt Foundation Establishment.

• Tang Xichen refined nine strands of spiritual power during her first cultivation session, impressing Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou.
• Huang Yueyang taught Chen Sheng and Li Huayao the basic pill-making steps as they attempted to refine Grain Abstinence Pills.
• Li Huayao failed during Liquid Gathering, and Chen Sheng's first pill crumbled to ashes after he mishandled the Spirit Locking and Pill Collection Hand Seals.
• Chen Sheng successfully refined a Grain Abstinence Pill on his second attempt, which Huang Yueyang judged to have roughly seventy percent efficacy.
• Qin Shuang returned to the Qin Mansion with his son Qin Yuan and told Qin Dajiang that Qin Yuan's mother had died helping him escape after enemies learned he possessed Foundation Establishment Fiendish Qi.
• Qin Shuang left to attempt Foundation Establishment, entrusting Qin Yuan to Qin Dajiang.

Chen Sheng advanced his alchemy and family life while old friends left Qianji Market for opportunities in Yunlong Market. The chapter ended with Qin Dajiang accepting that his grandson Qin Yuan had a Low-grade Wood Spiritual Root and hoping he would live peacefully.

• Chen Sheng and his companions held a farewell gathering for Zhang Yue and Luo Yun, who moved to Yunlong Market to seek opportunities for their clans.
• Six years later, Chen Sheng reached the Qi Refining Sixth Layer and refined a lesser fine-grade Huang Clan Rejuvenation Pill, earning the right to manage the Pill Workshop’s Rejuvenation Pill refining.
• Chen Sheng watched his daughter Tang Xichen practice swordsmanship while Huang Wangyou, pregnant again, teased and doted on her.
• Li Huayao and her husband Zhang Shichang prepared to leave for Yunlong Market, and Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou hosted a farewell banquet for them.
• Huang Wangyou lamented that old friends were scattering, while Chen Sheng comforted her and agreed they should live cautiously.
• Qin Dajiang remembered that his son Qin Shuang had not returned, then accepted Qin Yuan’s Low-grade Wood Spiritual Root and hoped his grandson could live in peace.

Huang Yueyang and Chen Sheng tested a pill formula they had derived from an incomplete Shangyuan Pill formula. After confirming its effects, they named the new mana-increasing pill the Yi Fa Pill.

• Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou welcomed a son, whom Chen Sheng named Yi Jing.
• Huang Yueyang increasingly entrusted the Pill Workshop to Chen Sheng, while the two worked to perfect an incomplete Shangyuan Pill formula.
• Huang Yueyang successfully refined an indigo pill, and he and Chen Sheng used the Pill Appraisal Method to confirm its high-grade quality and mana-increasing properties.
• Huang Yueyang fed a small dose to a Red-tailed Rat, then monitored it as the pill's powerful spiritual effects subsided without harm.
• After two months of testing, Huang Yueyang determined that the pill increased a Qi Condensation Late-stage cultivator's mana by twenty percent, saving about two years of cultivation, and named it the Yi Fa Pill.

Chen Sheng arranged to teach Qin Yuan Alchemy Skill after discovering that his own son lacked a Spirit Root and his other son had no interest in alchemy. Qin Dajiang revealed that Qin Shuang had died after failing to achieve Foundation Establishment and that his own declining health left him worried about Yuan’s future.

• Huang Yueyang introduced the Yi Fa Pill, demonstrated its effects, and sold it to eager Qi Refinement Late-stage cultivators.
• The Yi Fa Pill’s demand declined, but the Pill Workshop secured a yearly order from the Qingmu Merchant Association and a valuable business connection.
• Chen Sheng learned that Yi Jing had no Spirit Root and discussed finding someone else to inherit his Way of Alchemy with Huang Yueyang.
• Chen Sheng visited Qin Dajiang, saw Qin Yuan practicing, and asked to take him as an alchemy disciple; Qin Yuan kowtowed and called him Master.
• Qin Dajiang told Chen Sheng that Qin Shuang had died after failing at Foundation Establishment and that cultivation deviation had left him gravely ill and afraid to die before Yuan was grown.

Qin Yuan began studying medicinal theory under Chen Sheng and later lost his grandfather, Qin Dajiang. As he grieved alone in the mourning hall, Tang Xichen brought him food and comforted him, stirring a new feeling in his heart.

• At Qin Yuan's apprenticeship banquet, Chen Sheng welcomed him into the family, and Tang Xichen returned home and introduced herself as his Senior Sister.
• Chen Sheng taught Qin Yuan medicinal theory and ingredient processing, impressed by his diligence and quick comprehension, while his hopes of pairing Qin Yuan with Tang Xichen made little progress.
• Qin Dajiang's health rapidly declined, and he entrusted Qin Yuan to Chen Sheng before dying with his grandson at his side.
• Chen Sheng arranged Qin Dajiang's funeral and kept Qin Yuan near him as visitors paid their respects.
• Tang Xichen found Qin Yuan weeping alone in the mourning hall, brought him hot meat porridge, and fed him as a special feeling took root in him.

After Qin Yuan moved into the Pill Workshop, he trained diligently and grew closer to Tang Xichen while studying medicine and cultivation techniques. Chen Sheng attempted to break through the Qi Condensation Late-stage bottleneck but failed, leaving him injured and needing to wait two years before trying again.

• Chen Sheng moved Qin Yuan into the Pill Workshop, where Qin Yuan quickly recovered from grief and trained with Tang Xichen in daily Magic Battles.
• A year later, Qin Yuan had advanced in medicine and begun learning the Flame Control Technique, while he and Tang Xichen grew closer.
• Huang Wangyou and Chen Sheng discussed sending Yi Jing to a Mortal City when he grew older, and agreed to let Qin Yuan and Tang Xichen's relationship develop naturally.
• Chen Sheng took a Cloud-Dispelling Pill to break through the Late-stage Bottleneck, but the attempt failed and left his mana and meridians in disarray.
• Qin Yuan helped Chen Sheng inside, and Huang Wangyou told him to rest; Chen Sheng calculated that he would need two years before another attempt, but still had time to try for Foundation Establishment.

After two years of improving his alchemy and training Qin Yuan, Chen Sheng refined a High-grade Yi Fa Pill and advanced to the Qi Condensation Seventh Level. He reunited with Huang Wangyou after his breakthrough, and she confirmed his cultivation was stable as the family prepared to celebrate.

• Chen Sheng refined a High-grade Yi Fa Pill, and Qin Yuan delivered it to Huang Yueyang for inspection.
• Qin Yuan demonstrated his fire-control skills, condensed golden radiance briefly, and earned praise from Huang Yueyang and Chen Sheng.
• Chen Sheng took over refining Yi Fa Pills while Huang Yueyang worked to improve the remaining Pill Formulas.
• Chen Sheng used a Cloud-Dispelling Pill to break through to the Qi Condensation Seventh Level and stabilized his cultivation.
• Tang Xichen congratulated Chen Sheng and walked with him to Huang Wangyou, who checked his pulse and arranged a family celebration.

Chen Sheng, Huang Wangyou, and Huang Yueyang attended the Qingmu Merchant Association’s once-in-a-decade auction, where Chen Sheng bought Sword Arts and a Beauty-Preserving Pill but could not afford Foundation Establishment items. The Yuquan Zhou Clan won the Foundation Establishment Pill, and Huang Wangyou left disappointed that no Pulse-Protecting Pill had been offered.

• Huang Wangyou told Chen Sheng about the upcoming auction and urged him to buy a Pulse-Protecting Pill when they reached Qi Condensation Perfection so they could preserve their lives if Foundation Establishment failed; Chen Sheng agreed.
• After taking seven Yi Fa Pills, Chen Sheng reached the late stage of the Qi Condensation Seventh Level and planned to consolidate his cultivation and clear the accumulated pill toxins.
• Chen Sheng, Huang Wangyou, and Huang Yueyang entered the auction at Qingmu Treasure Tower and saw Foundation Establishment experts among the guests.
• Chen Sheng spent thirteen hundred Spirit Stones on top-grade Sword Arts and eight hundred and seventy on a Beauty-Preserving Pill, while Huang Yueyang gave up bidding on a Pill Formula.
• The Yuquan Zhou Clan bought the Foundation Establishment Pill for sixty-seven thousand Spirit Stones, and a White-Browed Elder remarked that Old Ghost Zhou was making a desperate gamble.
• After the auction, Huang Wangyou complained that no Pulse-Protecting Pill had appeared, and Chen Sheng reassured her that they might find one later.

After reaching Qi Condensation Ninth Level, Chen Sheng warned his family that the Zhou Clan’s Foundation Establishment Ancestor might have died, threatening to plunge Yunlong Market into chaos. Tang Xichen agreed to stay and cultivate, while Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou arranged companions for Tang Yijing, whose spirits gradually improved.

• Chen Sheng consumed his final Crimson Origin Pill and reached Qi Condensation Ninth Level.
• Chen Sheng warned Tang Xichen to avoid distant missions because rumors said the Zhou Clan’s Foundation Establishment Ancestor had died.
• Tang Xichen agreed to stay indoors and cultivate, while Chen Sheng told Tang Yijing he planned to arrange a marriage for him.
• Huang Wangyou persuaded Chen Sheng to seek daughters of Qi Refining minor clans rather than female cultivators with Spirit Roots as companions for Tang Yijing.
• Huang Wangyou selected several women from small clans, and they joined Tang Yijing as Maids; his melancholy faded and he began smiling more often.