Chapter Summaries

Ji An bought Blazing Sun Pills to qualify for alchemy assignments and revealed his strong Shengyuan Pill results to Wei Songnian. As the Demon Catastrophe approached, Ji An warned Wei Songnian that Crying Phoenix Mountain Immortal City might fall and urged him to prioritize his clan’s survival, leaving Wei Songnian to reconsider his plans.

• Ji An bought fifty bottles of Blazing Sun Pills and explained that he intended to submit pills to obtain alchemy assignments while building his experience.
• Ji An showed Wei Songnian eight hundred Shengyuan Pills he had refined and discussed the rising prices of pills as the number of cultivators grew.
• Ji An gave Wei Songnian Jade Dew Golden Bud Tea for Qiu Yun’s upcoming Foundation Establishment attempt.
• Wei Songnian asked to borrow Spirit Stones to stockpile combat supplies, but Ji An questioned how his clan would be positioned if Crying Phoenix Peak fell.
• Ji An warned Wei Songnian that Crying Phoenix Mountain Immortal City might not withstand the Demon Catastrophe and advised him to put his clan members’ lives before their holdings.
• Wei Songnian agreed to keep Ji An’s warning secret and abandoned his request for Spirit Stones.

Ji An exchanged pills for medicinal ingredients, learned how to identify alchemy methods, and cultivated beneath the Nethermoon Azure Jade Tree as his Azure Wood Eternal Spring Art continued to transform. Meanwhile, Chen Sheng and Wu Long planned to seize a Golden Core Pill and establish an immortal city for rogue cultivators.

• Wei Songnian paid Ji An for eight hundred pills, and Ji An returned the excess Spirit Stones while explaining that alchemy was only a diversion and he mainly wanted pills for his own cultivation.
• Ji An brought five hundred Blazing Sun Pills to Ye Changqing, who inspected them, identified Falling Maple Valley’s refining method, and offered medicinal ingredients for one hundred and forty furnaces.
• Chen Sheng and Wu Long discussed the sects’ bounties and agreed to risk their lives to pursue a Golden Core Pill, with Chen Sheng hoping to establish an immortal city for rogue cultivators.
• Ji An cultivated beneath the Nethermoon Azure Jade Tree, exhausting the spiritual objects around him before restoring the soil with spells and summoning spirit rain.
• The next morning, Ji An cultivated beside the Dragon Blood Tree as multiple elemental forces entered his body through his altered Azure Wood Eternal Spring Art.

Ji An attended Lin Jiuxiao’s lecture on Foundation Establishment cultivation and the path to the Origin Seeking Stage, then continued seeking the life light within his Wood Element cultivation. He finally glimpsed it, leaving him able to begin nurturing it toward a future breakthrough.

• Ji An reflected on the Five Elements’ transformations before arriving at Limitless Hall, where he reunited with Liu Yu, Zhong Yuefei, and other cultivators.
• Lin Jiuxiao lectured on the Blazing Sun Furnace Scroll and explained that cultivators reached the Origin Seeking Stage by comprehending their method’s divine intent, capturing life light, and nurturing it into Primordial Life Fire.
• After the lecture, Teng Zhiyuan displayed a sword-type spirit tool at the Trade Fair, and Ji An learned that buying one would require about two hundred and forty to two hundred and fifty jin of golden leaves.
• Liu Yu told Ji An that he was returning to Crying Phoenix Peak as demon beasts increasingly attacked the immortal city.
• After months of contemplating the Wood Dao, Ji An used a secret technique and glimpsed a thread of pale silver life light flowing between his kidneys.

Ji An strengthened his cultivation and prepared gifts from Crimson Flame Peak’s Heavenly Origin Pear harvest while fighting intensified at Crying Phoenix Mountain. Liu Yu returned from the front and learned that Du Huaiyuan and Xia Yuhan planned to become Dao Companions.

• Ji An cultivated the life-light, found that it improved his spiritual-energy refinement and spell effects, and rewarded the workers with Spirit Stones.
• Ji An watched his medicinal herbs mature and arranged Heavenly Origin Pear gifts for his master, friends, and elders.
• Liu Yu returned from the Crying Phoenix Mountain front and told Xia Yulian that the defensive line was currently stable.
• Du Huaiyuan arrived with Xia Yuhan, and Liu Yu asked about their relationship.
• Du Huaiyuan said he and Xia Yuhan planned to become Dao Companions after she reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, then invited Liu Yu to share wine.

Ji An completed his Blazing Sun Pill batches, advanced all ten Dao Seeds to low-grade, and met Liu Yu as preparations began for the Azure Mist Secret Realm. He gave Liu Yu Purple Fire Gourd artifacts for the expedition, and Liu Yu asked to buy more after returning.

• Ji An refined the final batch of Blazing Sun Pills, gained insight into the Path of Water, and confirmed that all ten of his Dao Seeds had reached low-grade.
• Ji An rode his Golden Feathered Eagle down the mountain and met Du Huaiyuan and Liu Yu, who said the Azure Mist Secret Realm would open on the night of the full moon next month.
• Liu Yu thanked Ji An for the Sky Origin Pear, explaining that it had helped him comprehend Water Fire Harmony and improve his cultivation.
• Ji An told Liu Yu that his Blazing Sun Pill success rate was around seventy percent, while Du Huaiyuan and Xia Yuhan went into the bamboo grove together.
• Ji An offered Liu Yu two Purple Fire Gourd artifacts for the secret realm, and Liu Yu asked to buy two more when he returned.

Ji An prepared Liu Yu for the Azure Mist Secret Realm, strengthened his defenses, and exchanged pills and Contribution Points as the Demon Catastrophe approached. The chapter ended with the three sects opening the secret realm and Lin Jiuxiao attacking its dark entrance.

• Ji An gave Liu Yu two supreme-grade talisman soldiers, but declined to enter the Azure Mist Secret Realm because he judged its dangers and uncertainty too great.
• Liu Yu warned Ji An that the sects’ strongest Foundation Establishment disciples would leave for the secret realm while threats on the front lines were growing.
• Du Huaiyuan took Xia Yuhan away to prepare for their dual cultivation ceremony, and Ji An ordered Huang Xuan to keep the Mountain Protecting Array activated at increased strength.
• Ji An learned from Ye Changqing that the Bloodthirsty Vine defenses near Crying Phoenix Mountain Immortal City were nearly destroyed, then exchanged pills for Contribution Points, ingredients, and mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• At a barren mountain southwest of Azure Cloud Immortal City, Lin Jiuxiao and the other sect leaders opened the secret realm with an array and spirit artifacts.
• Lin Jiuxiao launched his red flying sword into the dark void as the secret realm entrance appeared.

Liu Yu and Ge Luoying entered the Azure Mist Secret Realm after the cultivators broke through its spatial barrier, while a Demon Cultivator’s plot to weaken humanity was revealed. Five days later, demon beasts attacked Crying Phoenix Mountain Immortal City as Lin Qiubai and other Chaoyuan Stage cultivators moved to defend it.

• Lin Jiuxiao, Zhu Xiangrong, and other cultivators battered the black plane until it collapsed and opened a passage into the secret realm.
• Ge Luoying told Liu Yu that secret realms were small worlds and described Inner Scenery Worlds, Buddha Kingdoms in the Palm, and Six Desires Heavens.
• Azure Dragon True Person revealed that Soul Gu had controlled twenty-eight rogue cultivators and planned to weaken humanity by eliminating promising cultivators from the secret realm.
• Liu Yu and Ge Luoying entered the passage using a Traction Talisman and arrived in a strange, sulfurous landscape, where Liu Yu heard Ge Luoying’s voice above him.
• Five days later, demon beasts attacked Crying Phoenix Mountain Immortal City, and Lin Qiubai and other Chaoyuan Stage cultivators prepared to defend its walls.

As the demonic beasts’ relentless attacks strained Crying Phoenix Mountain Immortal City and its defenders, the Golden Spirit Sect prepared to commit its reserves. True Lord Zhengyang summoned the sect’s hidden Golden Core spirit beast, the Rock Ancestor, to help at the front, but it agreed only on the condition that it could flee if the danger became critical.

• Lin Qiubai reported to True Lord Yuxiao that the demonic beasts’ attacks were exhausting the defenders and that the city might not hold for more than a few months without greater support.
• Qin Yan returned to the sect and told Jia Yu that the front was collapsing, the mountain-protecting grand formation was at full power, and the ancestors had begun holding the lines.
• True Lord Zhengyang read True Lord Yuxiao’s message and decided to use the sect’s reserves by sending a Golden Core combatant and other cultivators to the front.
• True Lord Zhengyang brought Qin Yan to the secret vault, where Jia Yu revealed the sect’s hidden Golden Core spirit beast, the Rock Ancestor.
• The Rock Ancestor agreed to leave the mountain and help guard the front, but warned that it would flee if the situation became critically dangerous.

As the sect prepared to reinforce Crying Phoenix Peak against the intensifying Demon Catastrophe, Ji An learned the danger was growing and discovered that one of his Spiritual Peach Trees had become a Mid-grade Second-tier spirit plant. He shared the news across the sect, then returned to cultivating as the threat of conscription loomed.

• True Lord Zhengyang awakened Rock Ancestor to seek its help, but the Earth Dragon Beast chose to sleep until the planned departure in three days.
• True Lord Zhengyang ordered cultivators and supplies prepared for the defense of Crying Phoenix Peak and warned Jia Yu not to sacrifice independent cultivators needlessly.
• Ji An examined the strange object from Crying Phoenix Mountain Immortal City and found that the Stone Turtle had begun absorbing Kun Spirit from it.
• Xiong Ba and Black Eagle discussed how the demon kings were intensifying their attacks to force the human cultivators to commit more fighters to the front.
• After receiving Ye Changqing's warning about the worsening battle, Ji An prepared his belongings and went to the Cold Pool, where Xia Yulian showed him a changed Spiritual Peach Tree.
• Ji An identified the tree as a Mid-grade Second-tier spirit plant, sent the good news to sect members and friends, rewarded the orchard workers, and began cultivating beside the trees.

Ji An refined the essence of an Azure Water Spirit Lotus after repeated attempts, while news of his success as a high-level Spirit Farmer spread through the sect. He stored the essence for the next stage of pillmaking and ended the day surveying his flourishing Spirit Fields.

• Ye Changqing received Ji An's news that he had cultivated a Mid-grade Second-tier Spiritual Peach Tree and reported it to Hall Master Zhang.
• Ge Ying learned of Ji An's achievement and sent messages to senior Martial Uncles to seek better prospects for him during the Demon Catastrophe.
• Jia Yu sold a Flame Light Banner to a cultivator bound for Crying Phoenix Peak, then learned that Ji An had become a high-level Spirit Farmer and reported the news to a senior figure.
• Ji An repeatedly refined Azure Water Spirit Lotus seeds over earth fire, carefully controlling the temperature and stripping away the fire's Metal Element Killing Intent.
• Ji An successfully produced the lotus seed essence, stored it in a jade bottle, and postponed refining the Azure Lotus Pill until the next day.
• Ji An rode his Golden Feathered Eagle around the Spirit Fields and admired his tea trees and other thriving plants.

Ji An discovered that the Fire Crystal Ants had found a strange plant growing in lava and led Golden Fur and Big Yellow to excavate a tunnel to it. He reached a lava pool containing a green lotus and cautiously approached it.

• Ji An inspected the spirit fields, tended the soil and spirit plants, and learned from the ant queen that the colony had found a blue-green plant growing in lava.
• Ji An brought Golden Fur and Big Yellow to the ant nest and had them help excavate a tunnel, keeping the discovery secret from the others.
• As the tunnel grew hot, Ji An used the Cold Wind Art to cool the rocks and sent Xia Yulian a message forbidding anyone from entering the Crimson Cloud Pine Forest.
• Ji An broke through into a lava cavern and saw a green lotus with a glowing bud growing in the pool.
• Ji An protected himself with the Mountain Stabilizing Art and Apricot Yellow Banner, then carefully flew toward the lotus.

Ji An discovered an Emerald Leaf Red Lotus growing in Crimson Flame Peak’s magma pool and learned that it could eventually produce the Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire. Zhang Zizhao inspected the plant, rewarded Ji An for reporting it, and left him responsible for protecting it.

• Ji An identified the Emerald Leaf Red Lotus, learned how it produced a Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire, and sent Zhang Zizhao a message about his discovery.
• Ye Changqing received Ji An’s message while discussing Grain Abstinence Pill supplies with Zhang Zizhao, and Zhang Zizhao hurried to Crimson Flame Peak with him.
• Ji An guided Zhang Zizhao and Ye Changqing through the cave to the lotus, where Zhang Zizhao determined it would likely need two hundred years to mature.
• Zhang Zizhao awarded Ji An one hundred major contributions, promised additional rewards if the fire developed two or three colors, and assigned Ji An to guard the plant.
• Zhang Zizhao told Ye Changqing to send a Mimicry Formation to seal the cave entrance, then departed while Ye Changqing stayed to speak with Ji An.

Ji An agreed to take charge of planting Spirit Rice and medicinal materials around Crimson Flame Peak to supply the front lines during the Demon Catastrophe. After surveying the vast fields and receiving formation sets, he prepared to begin the demanding work the next day.

• Ji An left the fire-baleful cave with Ye Changqing, discussed buying Mimicry Formations, and learned about Martial Uncle Zhang's stolen Azure Flame Purple Spirit Gourd vine.
• Ye Changqing told Ji An that Falling Maple Valley urgently needed food provisions and assigned him and Kong Yunyi to oversee large-scale planting.
• Ji An agreed to plant Yellow Bud Rice, Polygonatum, and ginseng, and suspected that demon cultivators had worsened the insect plague at Falling Maple Valley.
• The next day, Ji An surveyed roughly ten thousand mu of Spirit Fields with Ye Changqing and said he could manage several thousand mu by casting spells daily.
• Ye Changqing gave Ji An three sets of Mimicry Formations, and Ji An paid the minor contributions and prepared to start planting.

As the Demon Catastrophe loomed and reinforcements from Central Continent had not arrived, Ji An secured his hidden passage, tended his spirit plants, and helped the sect expand its food and medicinal supplies. The chapter ended with Ye Changqing comparing harvest reports and realizing Ji An’s fields produced far more rice, much faster, than anyone else’s.

• Ye Changqing left Ji An with the remaining spirit wine and departed to share it with Martial Uncle while Ji An stayed to manage the sect’s work.
• Ji An rewarded Golden Fur, assigned it to seal and uncover the hidden passage, and set up camouflage formations before arranging for Fire Crystal Ants to patrol and erase the excavation traces.
• Ji An tended the spirit fields and lava-pool plants, gained insight into how Fire Element Spiritual Energy nourished the strange spirit plant, and cultivated beneath the Nethermoon Azure Jade Tree.
• Two Qi Refinement disciples watched Ji An cast farming spells across five thousand mu, and Ji An told them to plant only the portion he could cover with his depleted spiritual power.
• Half a month later, Ye Changqing recorded that Ji An had harvested 1,230,000 jin of spirit rice from five thousand mu in eight days, far surpassing Kong Yunyi’s yield and leaving him unsure how to distribute the rewards or process the materials.

Ji An received orders to reinforce Crying Phoenix Peak, prepared for the journey, and joined a group of cultivators assigned to treat wounded defenders. The chapter ended as Ji An used his perfected Spring Return Art to heal a gravely injured cultivator.

• Ji An proposed a magical rice-harvesting artifact, and the Labor-Study Hall created one that harvested as efficiently as more than a hundred Spirit Farmers.
• After receiving a sect order to report to Crying Phoenix Peak, Ji An told his disciples to maintain the mountain formation and received pills and advice from Ge Ying.
• Ji An exchanged minor merits for a Flame Light Banner at Sunrise Peak and joined more than a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators and hundreds of Qi Condensation disciples at Facing Sun Peak.
• Lin Jiuxiao led the reinforcements toward Crying Phoenix Peak and fought off pursuing Golden Feathered Eagles before the spirit vessel reached the immortal city.
• A female cultivator assigned Ji An and several others to heal wounded defenders because medicinal elixirs were scarce.
• Ji An treated a cultivator with a severe abdominal injury, using the Spring Return Art to reconnect his intestines and close his wound.

Ji An healed wounded cultivators at Crying Phoenix Peak as the fighting against the demonic beasts continued to intensify. Meanwhile, more than a third of the Golden Spirit Sect disciples’ soul lamps in the Azure Mist Secret Realm had gone out, and another burst of deaths struck just before the realm was due to open.

• Ji An used the Spring Return Art to heal Chu Feiyun’s severed leg and treated other injured cultivators, rapidly easing the healers’ burden.
• Sheng Liyue learned Ji An’s name and recognized him as the Stone Turtle Cultivator of Crimson Flame Peak.
• After two months of treating the wounded, Ji An’s Spring Return Art reached Perfected 89% and his Detoxification Art reached Perfected 32%.
• Sheng Liyue told Ji An that the demonic beasts’ offensive had eased, but he suspected they were preparing a stronger attack as the beasts began a new battle.
• Ye Changqing watched the Azure Mist Secret Realm soul lamps and saw that around thirty-five percent had gone out.
• More than ten soul lamps went dark within two or three breaths as Ye Changqing struggled to understand the secret realm’s unusually high casualties.

As casualties in the Azure Mist Secret Realm reached catastrophic levels, True Lord Zhengyang joined the other sect leaders at the exit while Azure Dragon secretly prepared a final assault. Meanwhile, Ji An saved Wei Songnian from losing his cultivation with a rare pill, and the chapter left the sects unaware of the impending attack.

• Ye Changqing reported that deaths among the secret-realm disciples had surged, and Zhang Zizhao went to warn True Lord Zhengyang.
• True Lord Zhengyang learned that eighty-one disciples had died, ordered the sect sealed during his absence, and traveled to the secret-realm exit.
• True Lord Nanshan and True Lord Qingxu arrived, and the three Golden Core cultivators discussed the severe casualties.
• Azure Dragon mocked the human cultivators for noticing the danger too late, then ordered Black Eagle to confirm the timing of the Demon King's final assault.
• Ji An treated Wei Songnian's injured dantian with an exquisite Profound Origin Reconstruction Pill, restoring his ability to use spiritual power.

Ji An mastered the Spring Return Art while treating the wounded at Crying Phoenix Peak, then learned from Wei Songnian that the demonic-beast siege was worsening. At the mystic realm exit, survivors revealed that independent cultivators had provoked the beast hordes, and Li Haoran returned last with a Black Jade Bottle and a possible clue to the riot’s cause.

• Ji An’s Spring Return Art reached mastery as its healing flowers appeared, impressing Meng Wanqiu and the other cultivators.
• Ji An and Wei Songnian shared a meal, and Wei Songnian reported heavy casualties and a weakening mountain-protecting grand formation.
• True Lord Zhengyang, True Lord Qingxu, and True Lord Nanshan opened the mystic realm gateway, but the first figure to emerge was a headless corpse.
• A returned disciple explained that independent cultivators had incited a demonic-beast stampede and lured Origin Seeking beasts toward the exit, while Li Haoran and other geniuses stayed behind to fight.
• Liu Yu and Ge Luoying emerged wounded, followed by Li Haoran, who told the Golden Spirit Sect’s leaders that he might have found the cause of the demonic-beast riot.

Li Haoran revealed that Silken Soul Devouring Gu had controlled independent cultivators and helped cause the secret realm disaster, while a Golden Core Demon Cultivator gravely wounded True Lord Qingxu. True Lord Zhengyang prepared to join the other sect leaders at Crying Phoenix Peak and strengthened the Golden Spirit Sect’s defenses before leaving.

• True Lord Zhengyang examined the captured Gu insect, and Lin Jiuxiao identified it as a Soul Gu before Zhengyang confirmed it was a Silken Soul Devouring Gu.
• Li Haoran explained how he killed two independent cultivators who were luring demonic beasts toward sect territories and discovered that Gu insects had controlled many others.
• A two-headed Origin Seeking demonic wolf emerged from the secret realm, and True Lord Nanshan killed it in one exchange.
• True Lord Zhengyang summoned Li Haoran to share his account with the other sects and attend to the defense of Mount Mingfeng.
• True Lord Zhengyang told the gathered cultivators that True Lord Qingxu had been gravely injured by a Golden Core Demon Cultivator and that all the accompanying disciples had died.
• True Lord Zhengyang announced that he would travel to Crying Phoenix Peak, ordered stronger sect defenses and reduced patrols, and said he would awaken the Leaving Fire Turtle.

As demonic beasts attacked Crying Phoenix Peak, Ji An struggled to save the wounded and watched Chu He die. Grief drove him to ask Lin Qiubai for permission to fight on the city walls, where he demonstrated his ability to resist Sword Intent with his Wood Element Dharma Intent.

• Sheng Liyue announced that high-level cultivators from every sect would arrive the next day to reinforce Crying Phoenix Peak, while Ji An questioned the strategy of continuing to defend the peak.
• Ji An used the Spring Return Art to treat the severely wounded, but he could not save a cultivator whose life force was already fading.
• Ji An tried to heal Chu He’s grave wounds, but Chu He died before the spell could close them, leaving Ji An devastated.
• Ji An asked Lin Qiubai to let him defend the city walls and fight demonic beasts alongside the younger cultivators.
• Lin Qiubai tested Ji An with his Autumn Sword Intent, and Ji An’s Wood Element Dharma Intent resisted it through cycles of withering and renewed growth.