Chapter Summaries

Azure Dragon ordered the Heavenly Demon Alliance to keep destabilizing the Western Continent and secretly weaken Harmony Peak. At Crimson Flame Peak, Chu Huaige completed and tested a Teleportation Array, confirming that it could safely transport a small demon beast between the two locations.

• Azure Dragon instructed Xiong Ba to continue spreading Demonic Cultivator methods, abducting mortals, and infiltrating Harmony Peak to undermine its development.
• Chu Huaige met Ji An at Crimson Flame Peak and gave him a rare Bodhi Tree Seed as a congratulatory gift.
• Ji An led Chu Huaige to the prepared stone chamber, where Chu Huaige began constructing the Teleportation Array.
• Ji An hosted Chu Huaige for a meal and tea, and Chu Huaige praised Ji An's cultivation talent and Spirit Farming achievements.
• Chu Huaige completed the Teleportation Array and sent an Earth Rock Rat to Condensing Emerald Cliff for a test.
• The cage and rat returned through the array with the rat only slightly injured, confirming the teleportation was safe.

Ji An completed Chu Huaige’s teleportation-array task and toured the medicine gardens at Condensing Emerald Cliff with Ge Ying, who prepared him to take over their care. He returned to Crimson Flame Peak with Purple Crystal Bees and planted a Bodhi Tree Seed, which sprouted into a sapling.

• Ji An used the Spring Return Art on the Earth Rock Rat, then accompanied Chu Huaige through the completed teleportation array to Condensing Emerald Cliff.
• Ge Ying showed Ji An the medicine gardens and explained their spirit-vein nodes, cultivation duties, and access precautions.
• Ge Ying shared her sorrow about her declining years and the aging Spiritual Peach Tree, then gave Ji An a Purple Crystal Bee King, bees, eggs, and honey.
• Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak, placed the hive in the orchard, and taught the bee king to recognize his disciples’ auras.
• Ji An nourished the Bodhi Tree Seed with spells, planted it in the Wood Element Spirit Plant Garden, and watched it sprout.

Ji An completed the Wood Element Divine Mansion and reached the Origin Seeking Realm. After recovering from the breakthrough, he successfully consumed Wood Element Azure Radiance Qi for the first time.

• Ye Changqing visited Ji An to inspect the Teleportation Array, but Ji An returned to the Cold Pool after the Blood Corrupting Soul Chasing Curse flared, signaling the Golden Feathered Eagle Demon King’s renewed presence.
• Ye Changqing tested the Teleportation Array himself, recorded his inspection, and told Ji An that Condensing Emerald Cliff would receive a monthly allotment of Spirit Stones for teleportation.
• A month later, Ji An opened all thirty-six vein patterns in his liver and formed the Wood Element Divine Mansion, advancing to the Origin Seeking Realm.
• Ji An realized he could open other Divine Mansions while strengthening his first one, then drank his remaining Jade Dew Golden Bud Tea and slept to recover from soul fatigue.
• After waking, Ji An practiced the art of Qi Eater in the Wood Element Spirit Plant Garden and swallowed his first wisp of Wood Element Azure Radiance Qi.

Ji An opened his Wood Mansion, learned to consume Azure Radiance Qi, and continued cultivating and tending Crimson Flame Peak’s spirit plants. After discovering that the Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire could absorb flames from his spells, he found that the Soul Nurturing Wood had finally reached Grade 1 High-tier.

• Ji An opened his Wood Mansion, practiced consuming Wood Element Qi, and circulated the Five Elements Cycle Scripture to refine mana and erode the demon king’s Blood Corrupting Soul Chasing Curse.
• Ji An rode a green cloud to the Jade Leaf Mulberry field, where he successfully consumed Azure Radiance Qi and stopped when his soul grew exhausted.
• Ji An cast cultivation spells across Crimson Flame Peak’s spirit fields and discovered that the Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire absorbed golden Bing Fire flames from his spell.
• Ji An checked the mysterious spirit plant and found that it had grown new tendrils and taken root again.
• Ji An cast the Yellow Dragon Vitality Increasing Art on the Soul Nurturing Wood and discovered that it had broken through to Grade 1 High-tier.

After half a year of cultivating, Ji An continued opening his Fire Element Divine Mansion while strengthening his body and improving his spirit tea harvest. He delivered gifts to his master and fellow disciples, then left Ge Ying confident that he would contend for a Seed of the Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire.

• Ji An checked his slow progress opening the Fire Mansion, practiced the Glazed Gold Body Tempering Art, and reached a physical constitution comparable to a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage demon beast.
• Zhang Cuihua reported the year's spirit tea harvest, and Ji An rewarded her and arranged gift boxes for Liu Yu, his master, and several fellow disciples.
• Ji An consumed four wisps of Azure Radiance Qi, cultivated the Five Elements Cycle Scripture, and traveled to Condensing Emerald Cliff to visit Ge Ying and Ge Luoying.
• Ge Ying praised Ji An's contributions and urged him to contend for the Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire; Ji An agreed and said he expected to secure one of its Seeds of Fire.

Ji An collected his Origin Seeking resources, including a Soul Nurturing Pendant, and discussed the sect’s plans for its new Department of Agriculture. Jia Yu revealed that Ji An would take over the department after three years and would have to train disciples.

• Ge Ying told Ji An that the sect was drafting rules to establish the Department of Agriculture and said he was likely to become its hall master.
• Ji An asked about Ge Luoying’s missions, reassured Ge Ying about the sect’s concern for its disciples, and left for the Treasure Pavilion.
• Jia Yu gave Ji An a Taoist robe, Spirit Stones, Jade Dew Pills, soul incense, and a Soul Nurturing Pendant, explaining how it nourished the soul.
• Jia Yu learned that Ji An could consume seven strands of qi per day only four months after opening his Divine Mansion and reacted with envy.
• Jia Yu told Ji An that he would take over the Department of Agriculture in three years and would have to take at least two Qi Condensation Stage disciples.

Ji An exchanged Crimson Flame Peak’s resources for minor merit and learned that the sect could not supply him with more Jade Dew Pills for several years. Elsewhere, Xiao Yun killed her injured husband, consumed his Golden Core, and began using the Blood Demon Divine Embryo Rebirth Technique to hide from the three sects.

• Ji An told Jia Yu he would devote himself to the Department of Agriculture while remaining focused on cultivation, and Jia Yu explained the sect’s hopes for his progress.
• Jia Yu refused Ji An’s request to exchange minor merit for Jade Dew Pills, but Ji An handed over spiritual fruits, wood, bamboo, and sword bamboo leaves in return for thirteen thousand minor merit.
• Ji An told Jia Yu that Crimson Flame Peak now had ten Mid-grade Second-tier Mystic Leaf Sword Bamboos and eight Mid-grade Second-tier Spiritual Peach trees, surprising him with their rapid growth.
• Ji An visited Liu Yu’s cultivation grounds and asked a maid to tell Liu Yu to meet him at Crimson Flame Peak when he returned.
• In a deep cave on Mangcang Mountain, Xiao Yun’s injured husband urged her to consume the Blood River Origin, but she revealed she knew of his concealed soul-poison art and seized his Golden Core after he exploded.
• Xiao Yun consumed her husband’s Golden Core, neutralized the blood poison in the Blood River Altar, and entered it to cultivate the Blood Demon Divine Embryo Rebirth Technique.

Ji An cultivated the Five Elements Cycle Scripture, nourished his spirit trees, and used Soul Incense and a Jade Dew Pill to strengthen his cultivation and open his Fire Element Divine Mansion. The chapter ended with him giving Liu Yu spirit tea toward repaying his debt for the Nethermoon Azure Jade Tree.

• Ji An practiced Wood Element Qi and inspected the Blood Soul Profound Origin Tree and Bodhi Tree, which had both reached Grade 1 High-tier.
• Zhang Cuihua worried that Ji An’s growing ability to eat qi would leave her without a role, but Wei Songtao reassured her and urged her to prepare more dishes.
• Ji An absorbed moonlight until it began harming his soul, then stopped and nourished a Crimson Cloud Pine before storing Soul Incense in his secret vault.
• Ji An burned Soul Incense to ease his soul’s exhaustion, swallowed a Jade Dew Pill, and continued using his cultivation technique to open the Fire Element Divine Mansion.
• Three days later, Ji An gave Liu Yu spirit tea as repayment for the Nethermoon Azure Jade Tree, and Liu Yu praised his integrity.

Ji An learned that Demonic Cultivator methods were spreading while Harmony Peak faced a precarious future after True Lord Beichen’s lifespan ran short. After improving his arts, Ji An received word that the patriarch had summoned him to Condensing Emerald Cliff.

• Liu Yu visited Ji An, brought him Grade 2 Jade Dew Golden Bud Tea, and discussed how Demonic Cultivator methods were spreading across the Western Continent.
• True Lord Beichen told True Lord Nanshan that he had only fifty or sixty years left and ordered him to seal Harmony Peak if no disciple reached Golden Core before then.
• Half a year later, Ji An reflected on his slow progress opening the Fire Mansion and used the Stone Turtle to improve the Azure Dragon Startled Insects Art and Sacred Flame Mantra.
• Ji An received a message from his master saying the Grade 2 Top-tier Spiritual Peach had ripened but its tree had withered, and that the patriarch had specifically summoned him to Condensing Emerald Cliff the next morning.

Ji An met with Ge Ying and the sect’s True Lords, discussed his Origin Seeking Stage cultivation, and inspected a withered Spiritual Peach Tree. After learning of Ji An’s success cultivating dozens of peach trees, True Lord Zhengyang agreed to give him a thick section of the dead tree’s root, leaving Ji An with a new project and the sect’s confidence in his talents.

• Ji An visited Ge Ying, shared his cultivation insights, and explained that he could consume eight strands of Azure Radiance Qi each day.
• True Lord Zhengyang and True Lord Yuxiao arrived, praised Ji An’s progress, and examined the dead Top-tier Spiritual Peach Tree.
• Ji An promised he could cultivate another Top-tier Spiritual Peach Tree and hoped to attempt growing Third-grade Spirit Plants.
• True Lord Zhengyang offered rewards if Ji An cultivated Top-tier Spiritual Peaches and asked whether he had any requests.
• Ji An requested a thick section of the withered tree’s root and revealed that he had cultivated thirty Spiritual Peach Trees, including ten Mid-grade Second-tier trees.
• Impressed by Ji An’s achievement, True Lord Zhengyang granted him the root section without requiring minor merit.

Ji An received the Spiritual Peach Tree roots and learned the rules for taking over Condensing Emerald Cliff, then discovered the Stone Turtle had strengthened his Primordial Life Fire and improved his cultivation. Elsewhere, a woman completed the Divine Embryo Rebirth Technique, fused with the Blood Demon's lingering soul, and emerged with her cultivation reduced to Foundation Establishment Early Stage.

• True Lord Zhengyang uprooted the Spiritual Peach Tree, gave Ji An three roots, and told him to plant a peach seed when Han Yan delivered one.
• Ji An said he would take over Condensing Emerald Cliff in two years, and True Lord Yuxiao told him to contact Jia Yu when he cultivated Grade 2 Top-tier Spiritual Peaches.
• Ge Ying explained the medicinal garden's duties and rewards, including how minor merit could help Ji An obtain resources such as the Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire.
• Ji An cultivated at the Jade Leaf Mulberry field, where the Stone Turtle fed the Primordial Life Fire Pure Spiritual Qi and restored his spent divine sense.
• Ji An spent longer than usual opening the Fire Element Divine Mansion, attributing the improvement to his strengthened Soul intensity.
• A woman emerged from a blood-veined egg in a Mangcang Mountain cave after completing the Divine Embryo Rebirth Technique and fusing with a wisp of the Blood Demon's lingering soul, but her cultivation had fallen to Foundation Establishment Early Stage.

Han Yan visited Ji An with eight Grade 2 Top-tier Spiritual Peach seeds and discussed her pill-formula research and plans to buy peaches and pine honey. Ji An restored and strengthened the seeds, then planted twenty Spiritual Peach seeds across Crimson Flame Peak’s remaining vacant fields.

• Han Yan arrived at Cold Pool and met Ji An after delivering the seeds sent by the ancestor.
• Han Yan told Ji An that the Labor-Study Hall had approved her pill-formula testing and asked for more second-tier pine honey when supplies increased.
• Han Yan asked to buy thirty mid-grade Spiritual Peaches, and Ji An agreed to reserve them from this year’s harvest.
• Ji An used the Azure Dragon Startled Insects Art and the Wither and Flourish Art to improve the vitality and potential of the peach seeds.
• Ji An planted twenty Spiritual Peach seeds in the vacant fields and used his growth, rain, and fire spells to raise them into knee-high saplings.

Ji An’s spirit trees flourished, and a long-dormant plant in the lava pool finally sprouted, revealing signs of a treasure plant. Meanwhile, the Chen clan prepared to transform captured rogue cultivators as the sect learned of the Demon Cultivators’ spread and began organizing the Western Continent’s clans against them.

• Ji An cultivated his spirit orchards and forests with spells, then found that the plant from Li Haoran had sprouted and glowed with treasure light despite being only Grade 1 High-tier.
• Chen Xingzhou told Chen Daochang that he had captured thirty-six rogue cultivators and urged him to transform more clan members, while Chen Daochang chose to wait and observe the Heavenly Demon Alliance.
• Chen Daochang and Chen Xingzhou went to transform the captured rogue cultivators.
• Lin Jiuxiao reported that a Demon Cultivator spreading cultivation methods had escaped in the form of a Black Eagle, and True Lord Zhengyang suspected an alliance between Demon Cultivators and demon beasts.
• True Lord Zhengyang sent Lin Jiuxiao to notify the clans and unite the Western Continent’s forces, then praised his progress toward opening a Wood Mansion.

True Lord Zhengyang prepared Lin Jiuxiao to help lead the sect, giving him a Talisman Treasure for protection as threats from a late Golden Core Demon Cultivator loomed. Meanwhile, Chen Sheng and Wu Long sought a way to obtain a Golden Core Pill, and Ji An and Li Haoran agreed on compensation for a rare treasure plant.

• True Lord Zhengyang explained the path to Five Qi Chaoyuan, urged Lin Jiuxiao to pursue Golden Core, and offered him a Golden Core Pill when he met the conditions.
• True Lord Zhengyang gave Lin Jiuxiao a Talisman Treasure made from the essence of his Mysterious Yellow Pagoda and warned him to remain within five hundred li of the sect during missions.
• Chen Sheng lamented that he and his companions were four Chaoyuan Stage demonic beasts short of the bounty for a Golden Core Pill after the beasts withdrew from the area.
• Wu Long told Chen Sheng about a distinguished cultivator who offered to teach them a secret art for forming the core in exchange for their service, and Chen Sheng asked to meet him.
• Li Haoran identified Ji An's spiritual plant as a rare Grade 1 High-tier plant that produced treasure-light, and accepted Ji An's offer of Sword Bamboo leaves and a share of its future yield.

Ji An cultivated his spirit plants, demonstrated his Origin Seeking Farming Spells to Ge Ying, and managed Crimson Flame Peak’s tea harvest and visitors. After two years of cultivation progress, he prepared to begin his three-year term overseeing Condensing Emerald Cliff and the Department of Agriculture.

• Ji An told Ge Ying that Li Haoran’s spirit root had sprouted as a Grade 1 High-tier treasure plant, though Ge Ying could not identify it.
• Ji An planted a spiritual peach and showed Ge Ying his powerful farming spells, convincing her that he could cultivate a Third-grade Spirit Plant.
• Zhang Cuihua and Xia Yulian finished pan-firing the tea, and Ji An rewarded Zhang Cuihua and gave Xia Yulian two supreme-grade Sky Origin Pears after she repaid her Spirit Stones.
• Two years passed as Ji An improved his farming spells, strengthened his Primordial Life Fire, and opened six more inner meridian patterns in his Fire Element Divine Mansion.
• Ji An learned that the Department of Agriculture had been established near Condensing Emerald Cliff and set out to take charge of both it and the cliff.

After three years as a Chaoyuan cultivator, Ji An took over Condensing Emerald Cliff and became the first Hall Master of the Department of Agriculture. He began his new post by meeting its deputies and staff, while Ge Ying returned to her cave abode.

• Ji An visited Ge Ying, gave her spirit goods, and told her he was ready to take up his responsibilities.
• At the Treasure Pavilion, Ji An exchanged harvests for merit points, bought Jade Dew Pills and Soul Incense, and said he planned to forge a Top-Grade Spirit Tool for his future Natal Magic Treasure.
• Ji An collected the formation-control jade token for Condensing Emerald Cliff from Zhang Zizhao and promised to produce usable spirit herbs quickly.
• Ji An took charge of the Department of Agriculture, where Zhang Zizhao introduced him as its first Hall Master and the first Origin Seeking Spirit Farmer in the Western Continent.
• Ji An met Deputy Hall Masters Lin Mao and Kong Yunyi and asked them to support his work.

Ji An took charge of the Department of Agriculture, surveyed its staff and spirit fields, and resolved to improve the sect’s cultivation of spirit plants while keeping his focus on his own path. The next day, Tian Qingbai arrived with several talented disciples for Ji An to choose from as apprentices.

• Ji An met Lin Mao, Kong Yunyi, and the other Department of Agriculture deacons, then told them to continue their duties while he familiarized himself with the department.
• Ji An examined the department’s Azure Dragon Wood grove, ate qi, and cast cultivation spells over the grove and Condensing Emerald Cliff’s medicinal gardens.
• Ge Ying asked Ji An how he felt about wielding authority, and Ji An said that seizing control of his own fate and pursuing immortality mattered more to him.
• The next day, Ji An cultivated the Five Elements Cycle Scripture, then traveled to Condensing Emerald Cliff and met Tian Qingbai.
• Tian Qingbai told Ji An that the Labor-Study Hall had sent him with several talented disciples for Ji An to choose as apprentices.

Ji An accepted Han Shan and Lin Lan as disciples after requiring them to devote themselves to spirit farming, then brought them to Crimson Flame Peak and assigned their training. Three days later, Han Yan and Jia Yu arrived at the Department of Agriculture with a bottle of Crimson Pine Pills and asked Ji An for help.

• Ji An told the prospective disciples they would have to focus on spirit farming, and Han Shan and Lin Lan chose to become his disciples.
• Ji An formally took Han Shan and Lin Lan as disciples, named Lin Lan the eldest senior sister, and arranged for them to receive spirit stones, farming spells, and spirit food.
• Ji An approved Lin Mao's proposed daily arrangements and returned to cultivating the Fire Element Divine Mansion with Soul Incense.
• Ji An brought Han Shan and Lin Lan to Crimson Flame Peak, held a simple disciple-taking ceremony, and instructed his other disciples to help them settle in and train.
• Three days later, Han Yan and Jia Yu visited the Department of Agriculture, found Ji An, and presented him with the Crimson Pine Pills Han Yan had refined.

Ji An helped the sect prepare to mass-produce Han Yan’s Crimson Pine Pills, then spent three years advancing his Divine Mansion and cultivating his spells. After raising the Azure Dragon Startled Insects Art to Great Perfection and both Wood Dao Seeds to mid-grade, he headed to the Azure Dragon Woods to test the strengthened spell.

• Han Yan introduced her Crimson Pine Pill formula, and Jia Yu explained that it could ease the sect’s shortage of Fire Element pills if Ji An supplied enough pine nuts and honey.
• Ji An memorized Han Yan’s formula, agreed to prioritize its ingredients, and ordered Lin Mao to replace herb plantings that the new pill could render unnecessary.
• Three years later, Ji An had opened thirty-one vein patterns in his Fire Element Divine Mansion and confirmed that the Stone Turtle’s Pure Spiritual Qi increased his Primordial Life Fire’s upper limit.
• Ji An raised the Azure Dragon Startled Insects Art to Great Perfection, advancing the All Things Born and Minor Cloud and Rain Art Dao Seeds to mid-grade.
• Ji An used his improved Dao Seeds to raise the Detoxification Art from eighteen to forty-six percent perfection, then went to the Azure Dragon Woods to demonstrate his strengthened spell.

Ji An strengthened Azure Dragon Wood, learned that Ge Luoying had comprehended Sword Intent, and assessed his disciples’ progress while considering plans for the Department of Agriculture. The chapter ended when Lin Mao reported that an overnight Insect Plague had struck more than three thousand mu of Spirit Fields, and Ji An suspected a conspiracy.

• Ji An cast a spell that sent flourishing Wood Element Law Intent across the Azure Dragon Wood grove, and Lin Mao and Kong Yunyi sensed its unusual power.
• Ge Luoying told Ji An that she had comprehended Sword Intent and that the sect had curbed the spread of Demonic Cultivator methods.
• Ji An discussed the Department of Agriculture’s lack of strong recruits with Ge Ying and said he would implement a plan after opening his Fire Element Divine Mansion.
• Ji An assessed Lin Lan and Han Shan, praised their Farming Spell progress, and promised to prepare Foundation Establishment Pills for them.
• Lin Mao reported that an overnight Insect Plague had devastated more than three thousand mu of Spirit Fields, and Ji An asked what kind of insects had appeared and whether there had been warning signs.