Chapter Summaries

Ji An asked Old Huang about growing Spirit Fruit Trees and learning advanced farming formulas, then focused on cultivating and practicing spells. He harvested a Wood Origin Pearl from an elm tree and planned to exchange his accumulated pearls for Contribution Points.

• Ji An asked Old Huang how to grow Spirit Fruit Trees, and Old Huang advised him to focus on Spirit Grain, cultivation, and spell mastery instead.
• Old Huang explained that learning fourth-level farming spell formulas required passing a sect assessment and could be paid back gradually through an agreement.
• Ji An refined his spiritual power with Yellow Bud Rice and noticed that a branch vein of his immortal vein had grown longer.
• Ji An practiced the Blazing Fire Spell in his Spirit Fields and improved his understanding of the spell.
• Ji An cast the Wither and Flourish Art on an elm tree, gathered its Wood Element Spiritual Energy into a Wood Origin Pearl, and stored it with his other pearls for a future exchange.

Ji An advanced to the Third Layer of Qi Condensation and improved his Minor Cloud and Rain Art, then visited the General Affairs Hall to exchange for higher-level production spells. The chapter ended as he began demonstrating his Thick Earth Art for Li Changfeng.

• Ji An broke through to the Third Layer of Qi Condensation after two and a half months of cultivation, then used Old Turtle to raise two spells to the Mastery realm.
• Ji An cast the Minor Cloud and Rain Art over both Spirit Fields and improved it from Mastery 1% to 11%.
• Ji An traveled to the General Affairs Hall on his Talisman Bird and asked Li Changfeng to exchange for the fourth layer of the Minor Cloud and Rain Art and the Thick Earth Art.
• Li Changfeng explained that Ji An had to demonstrate the spells and told him the sect’s practical spell jade slip cost two hundred Contribution Points.
• Ji An formed hand seals and began demonstrating his Thick Earth Art so Li Changfeng could test its spiritual power intensity.

Ji An demonstrated mastery of the Minor Cloud and Rain Art and received favorable terms for obtaining two spell formulas. After signing the agreement, he fell into a lake and was rescued by Liang Qiu, who offered to take him to Azure Water Market.

• Ji An demonstrated the Minor Cloud and Rain Art at mastery level, and Li Changfeng approved his exchange for the fourth-level formulas of two spells for 200 Contribution Points each.
• Ji An agreed to repay the 400 Contribution Points over forty years, signed the agreement at the Library, and accepted a jade pendant from Li Changfeng for discounts at his family's shops.
• Ji An fell into a lake while traveling and was rescued by Liang Qiu, whom he recognized from Wei Songnian's fish shop.
• Ji An explained that his Talisman Bird had run out of life, and Liang Qiu invited him to return to Azure Water Market by boat before nightfall.
• Liang Qiu spoke about saving Contribution Points to rent a fishpond while Ji An helped him row.

Ji An sold his Wood Origin Pearls to Wei Songnian for Spirit Crystals after learning what made the pearls valuable. At the General Affairs Hall, Tian Qingbai approved Ji An’s request for the fourth layer of the farming technique and quietly profited from the sect’s rules.

• Ji An met Wei Songnian at the market square and asked him to appraise the Wood Origin Pearls.
• Wei Songnian explained that the pearls were inferior because they came from ordinary vegetation and offered eight Spirit Crystals for the twenty-three pearls.
• Ji An sold the pearls and learned that Wei Songnian would soon travel to Azure Cloud Immortal City to sell goods.
• Tian Qingbai reflected on his stalled cultivation and his decision to pursue wealth and family rather than risk seeking opportunities outside the sect.
• Li Changfeng brought Tian Qingbai the ledger for Ji An’s request to exchange for the fourth layer of the farming technique, and Tian Qingbai approved it while claiming the associated Contribution Points.

Ji An continued cultivating and practicing Farming Spells while managing his dwindling supplies, then went to a gathering organized by Zhang Yuanshan. The gathering ended with Zhang Yuanshan and Chu He questioning how Ji An would repay his debts.

• Ji An expanded another side vein through cultivation and used his Farming Spells to tend his courtyard garden.
• Ji An practiced the Sharp Metal Art and reflected on how the five Farming Spells complemented one another.
• Ji An checked his Stone Turtle progress and took pride in harvesting 588 jin of Yellow Bud Rice from two mu of Spirit Grain.
• Ji An traveled to Hundred Flavors Tower, where he met Zhang Yuanshan, Chu He, and Zhao Mengyao for their gathering.
• Zhang Yuanshan and Chu He pointed out Ji An's debts and questioned how long it would take him to repay them as a Spirit Farmer.

At a reunion banquet, Ji An revealed that he had mastered two farming spells and harvested enough Yellow Bud Rice to repay his debts, changing how Zhang Yuanshan and the others viewed his potential. Zhang Yuanshan then announced that he would go with his clan uncle to garrison Cliff Mountain, where the sect had seized a high-grade Spirit Vein.

• Zhang Yuanshan, Zhao Mengyao, and Chu He realized that Ji An owed them a combined sixteen Spirit Stones and agreed to stop lending to him and raise repayment of the debt.
• Ji An said he had advanced the Minor Cloud and Rain Art and Thick Earth Art to major mastery and harvested 580 jin of Yellow Bud Rice, prompting Zhang Yuanshan to invite himself to Ji An’s home for a celebratory meal.
• Zhang Yuanshan told the assembled disciples that the sect had killed the Green-Eyed Demonic Ape King and occupied Cliff Mountain, where his clan uncle would help establish a garrison.
• Zhang Yuanshan said he would accompany his clan uncle to Cliff Mountain, and Ji An envied the chance to cultivate near its Spirit Vein and resolved to seek a master after reaching Late Qi Condensation.

Ji An hosted Zhang Yuanshan, Zhao Mengyao, and Chu He at his courtyard, where he demonstrated his advanced spellwork and impressed his companions. He ended the gathering by declaring that he would perfect the Minor Cloud and Rain Art before the three-year assessment.

• Zhao Mengyao lent Ji An a Talisman Bird so he could travel with Zhang Yuanshan, Chu He, and her to his courtyard.
• Ji An showed his guests his sacks of Yellow Bud Rice and served them a simple meal of spiritual rice and vegetables grown in his yard.
• Zhang Yuanshan, Zhao Mengyao, and Chu He discussed Ji An's cultivation and waited to see his spellwork.
• Ji An demonstrated his major-mastery Thick Earth Art and a carefully controlled Minor Cloud and Rain Art, impressing Zhao Mengyao with his spell control and spiritual sense.
• Ji An said he would cultivate his courtyard into a first-rank Spirit Field, plant spiritual fruit trees after reaching Foundation Establishment, and perfect the Minor Cloud and Rain Art by the three-year assessment.

Ji An impressed Zhang Yuanshan and the others with his confidence, then practiced the Sharp Metal Art and discovered he could launch a piercing beam of metal energy. After realizing his unusually sharp state of mind had helped his spell practice, he pondered how to summon it again.

• Ji An told Zhang Yuanshan and the others he could perfect the Minor Cloud and Rain Art within three years, then gave them Yellow Bud Rice before they left.
• Ji An cultivated the Clear Origin Scripture and practiced the Sharp Metal Art after deciding to sell some Spirit Rice and raise his cultivation faster.
• Ji An launched a golden beam of Metal Element Spiritual Energy that pierced his wooden carving, then repeated the feat by striking a cucumber.
• Ji An exhausted his spiritual power and divine sense, then concluded that his ambition and sharp state of mind had helped him practice the Sharp Metal Art.
• Ji An recited, "Realms are born from the heart; things turn with the heart," and felt he had nearly grasped a new insight into spell practice.

Ji An celebrated his abundant Yellow Bud Rice harvest with Wei Songnian and Old Huang, who arranged for Ji An to cultivate his Spirit Field after Fei Hu entered the sect. Wei Songnian extended Ji An credit for pills, and Ji An left to exchange spirit rice for Contribution Points and pursue talisman-making.

• Wei Songnian invited Ji An to drink and praised his 580-jin harvest from two mu of Spirit Fields.
• Old Huang worried about Fei Hu passing the Illusory Heart Formation and asked Wei Songnian and Ji An to look after his grandson.
• Old Huang promised Ji An his First-tier Spirit Field after Fei Hu entered the sect and asked Wei Songnian about renting fields from the Wei Clan.
• Wei Songnian gave Ji An twelve Yellow Bud Pills on credit and offered to prepare two Azure Jade Pills when Ji An was ready to break through.
• Ji An refined the spiritual power from the feast, then headed to the General Affairs Hall to exchange spirit rice for Contribution Points and seek talisman-making materials.

Ji An paid his field rent, learned more about the sect’s history and the possibility of another war, and met Liu Yu after Liu broke through to the Seventh Layer of Qi Condensation. Liu Yu warned him that using pills to overcome bottlenecks could lower his chances of reaching Foundation Establishment, leaving Ji An more determined to seek a master’s guidance.

• Ji An challenged the General Affairs Hall’s underweight measurement but accepted the loss, exchanged his Contribution Points for seeds, and spent most of the remainder on a jade slip about making talisman paper and ink.
• At the Library, Ji An read that the Golden Spirit Sect and two other sects had migrated from Central Continent and might serve as a buffer in a future war against the Demon Race.
• Ji An tended his Spirit Fields, then recognized Liu Yu and congratulated him on breaking through to Late Qi Condensation.
• Ji An told Liu Yu about Qin Yan’s methods for improving aptitude, and Liu Yu thanked him while noting that he already knew the information.
• Liu Yu advised Ji An to overcome Qi Condensation bottlenecks without pills when possible because using them could slightly reduce his chance of reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Ji An thanked Liu Yu and reconsidered his plan to use pills when he reached the Mid Qi Condensation bottleneck.

Ji An discovered a hidden method for breeding Treasure-Seeking Rats inside his father’s wooden carving and decided to keep it for a future business. After half a year of cultivation, he broke through to Mid Qi Condensation and reflected on how fully he had made this world his home.

• Ji An used the Blazing Fire Spell to loosen the resin on his father’s wooden carving and uncovered a beast-hide secret method for breeding Spirit Seeking Rats and Ore-Seeking Rats.
• Ji An memorized the incomplete method, burned the beast hide, and kept the knowledge rather than selling it.
• Over the next half year, Ji An continued cultivating and gradually weakened his bottleneck while opening new branch meridians.
• Ji An swallowed an Azure Jade Pill and broke through to the Fourth Layer of Qi Condensation, strengthening his Immortal Meridians and opening three more branch meridians.
• Ji An checked his Stone Turtle’s records, considered his progress, and reflected that the foreign land had become his home.

Ji An sold his Talisman Paper and Ink, bought supplies and Azure Jade Pills, and repaid most of his creditors at a dinner in Azure Water Market. He still owed Zhao Mengyao and Chu He, but left the gathering with his cultivation progress and reputation strengthened.

• Ji An counted his harvest of Talisman Paper and Ink, set aside provisions and seed funds, and brought his savings to Azure Water Market to repay his debts.
• Ji An sold his Talisman Paper and Ink to Wei Songnian, returned an unused bottle of Yellow Bud Pills, and bought materials for making Talisman Ink.
• Ji An bought Azure Jade Pills from Wei Songnian and repaid the Spirit Stones he had borrowed from him, leaving part of his debt outstanding.
• Old Huang, Zhao Mengyao, and Chu He arrived, and Ji An repaid Old Huang while telling Zhao Mengyao and Chu He he needed another half year to repay them.
• Zhao Mengyao, Chu He, and Old Huang praised Ji An’s cultivation and earnings, and Ji An thanked them before raising a toast.

Ji An exchanged for pills, seeds, and a cultivation formula, then spent months tending his fields and practicing spells. After planting a new crop, he cast the Minor Cloud and Rain Art in an uncanny state and saw the seeds sprout immediately.

• At a gathering, Wei Songnian advised Chu He to abandon artifact refining and prepare for a combat-cultivator path, helping Chu He make up his mind.
• Ji An exchanged Spirit Stones and Spirit Crystals with Wei Songnian for eight Azure Jade Pills, then bought seeds and the Mid Qi Condensation formula of the Clear Origin Scripture from Li Changfeng.
• Li Changfeng told Ji An that the sect had no formulas for perfection-level spells, which left Ji An disappointed.
• Ji An cultivated and farmed for several months, harvested Spirit Grain and Talisman Grass, paid his rent and taxes, and bought seeds for the next season.
• After planting the seeds, Ji An cast the Minor Cloud and Rain Art in a strange, dreamlike state, and the crops sprouted at once.

Ji An discovered that his Minor Cloud and Rain Art had reached perfection and that its Spirit Rain accelerated the growth of Spirit Grain and Talisman Grass. He went to Azure Water Market to ask Wei Songnian about ways to improve spell comprehension and learned that Companion Spirit Treasures could not be used by anyone except their owners.

• Ji An saw that the Minor Cloud and Rain Art had reached perfection and decided to find a reasonable explanation before revealing his achievement to the sect.
• Ji An flew to Azure Water Market, practiced the Sharp Metal Art while waiting, and sold his talisman-making materials to Wei Songnian for 734 Spirit Crystals.
• Ji An bought thirty Azure Jade Pills and asked Wei Songnian about treasures that could speed up spell comprehension.
• Wei Songnian described Five Elements Essences, Enlightenment Tea, and Soul Nurturing Wood as aids to comprehension, then told Ji An about rare Companion Spirit Treasures.
• Ji An asked whether a Companion Spirit Treasure's owner would be in danger if its existence became known, and Wei Songnian explained that others could not use it.

Ji An researched cultivation physiques, bought more Spirit Grain seeds, and learned that connections made medicinal-garden missions difficult to obtain. He kept his perfected Minor Cloud and Rain Art secret, focused on cultivation and earning Spirit Crystals, and discovered that it had increased his Spirit Grain harvest beyond its expected limit.

• Ji An read about special cultivation physiques and decided he could explain his spell talent as having a Water Spirit Body.
• Ji An bought seeds for two more mu of Spiritual Grain and learned from Li Changfeng that medicinal-garden missions were fiercely competitive and often depended on support from influential people.
• Ji An planted the extra Spirit Grain, abandoned hopes of a medicinal-garden mission, and decided to cast his perfected Minor Cloud and Rain Art only at night.
• Ji An continued cultivating, preparing talisman ink, and practicing spells while using the rain and Blazing Fire Spell to hide its effects.
• More than two months later, Ji An harvested sixteen hundred jin of Yellow Bud Rice from five mu and realized his perfected Minor Cloud and Rain Art had exceeded the crop’s expected yield.
• Ji An planned to sow later than other cultivators and plant two mu of Talisman Grass so he could make more talisman paper and earn more.

Ji An arranged a way to sell his growing spirit-grain harvest through Old Huang and bought pills and talisman-making supplies from Wei Songnian. He arranged to acquire a superior Spirit Absorption Array formation plate, leaving a deposit and promising to pay the balance later.

• Ji An asked Old Huang how he sold his surplus spirit grain, and Old Huang offered to arrange a sale to the Baiyuan Mountain Li Clan on their regular buying day.
• After Ji An left, Old Huang suspected his unusually fast-maturing Yellow Bud Rice came from a special constitution.
• Ji An delivered eighty-one sheets of mid-grade Talisman Paper to Wei Songnian and received payment in Spirit Crystals.
• Ji An bought fifteen Azure Jade Pills and ingredients for ten bottles of talisman ink, then asked Wei Songnian to find a Spirit Absorption Array formation plate for him.
• Wei Songnian recommended a superior-grade formation plate, and Ji An agreed to use his remaining Spirit Crystals as a deposit.

Ji An sold his Yellow Bud Rice to Li Changqing of the Baiyuan Mountain Li Clan for a favorable price after proving his connection to Li Changfeng. Li Changqing agreed to return on the same day in the future to buy more spirit rice.

• Li Changqing visited Ji An after Old Huang told him the new disciple wanted to sell spirit grain.
• Ji An showed Li Changqing Li Changfeng's jade pendant, and Li Changqing confirmed it was genuine.
• Li Changqing inspected Ji An's Yellow Bud Rice and offered 105 Spirit Crystals per hundred jin because of its excellent quality.
• Li Changqing weighed 1,100 jin of rice and paid Ji An eleven Spirit Stones and fifty-five Spirit Crystals.
• Li Changqing explained that his Storage Bag had a special restriction that allowed it to store only spirit rice, then asked to keep buying from Ji An on the same day in the future.

Three months later, Ji An harvested his Spirit Grain and met Wei Songnian in Azure Water Market to acquire a Spirit Absorption Array. After experiencing the array’s boost to cultivation, Ji An assessed the results as its borrowed Spirit Stones ran out.

• Ji An finished making Tier 1 Mid-grade Talisman Paper, tended his courtyard with spells, and reviewed his Stone Turtle’s spiritual inspiration and spell progress.
• Ji An harvested his Spirit Grain, set aside what he needed for seeds, rent, and taxes, then rode a Talisman Bird to Azure Water Market.
• Ji An met Wei Songnian and said he wanted to obtain a Spirit Absorption Array, though he could only afford to use one a few times each month.
• Wei Songnian activated the array in a private room at Liang Qiu’s tavern and explained that its spiritual energy was weaker than the core areas of Green Bamboo Peak and Red Copper Mountain.
• Ji An cultivated inside the array and found that his spiritual power refined several times faster before the spiritual energy faded after half an hour.

Ji An traded his harvest for cultivation supplies and a Spirit Absorption Array, then spent three years cultivating and tending ten mu of Spirit Fields. At the minor assessment, he demonstrated perfect mastery of the Minor Cloud and Rain Art and received a Grade A-low evaluation at Qi Condensation Layer 6.

• Ji An accepted Wei Songnian's Spirit Absorption Array and control jade slip, then sold his talisman materials and arranged to repay the remaining twenty-three Spirit Stones over half a year.
• Three years passed as Ji An cultivated beside Azure Water Lake and tended his Spirit Fields.
• Liu Yu received an Upper Grade A assessment for reaching the Ninth Layer of Qi Condensation without planting any Spirit Fields.
• Zhang Fan suspected Ji An had falsely claimed to reclaim ten mu of Spirit Fields and warned that he could be sent to the mines.
• Ji An cast the Minor Cloud and Rain Art perfectly over five mu of fields, impressing Liu Yu and Zhang Fan.
• Zhang Fan assessed Ji An at Qi Condensation Layer 6 with ten mu reclaimed and assigned him Grade A-low.

Ji An was appointed caretaker disciple of the Guiwei Spirit Field after Liu Yu and Ji An received Grade A evaluations. Later, Ji An joined Zhang Yuanshan and Chu He in Azure Water Market, where Chu He prepared to join a Monster Hunting Squad and Ji An offered to help when he reached the Seventh Layer of Qi Condensation.

• Ji An reflected that he needed several more months to break through the bottleneck at Qi Condensation Layer 6, while his immortal veins continued to broaden.
• Zhang Fan appointed Ji An caretaker disciple of the Guiwei Spirit Field after Old Huang offered to step down early and leave for Yellow Sprout Dao Academy.
• At Hundred Flavors Tower, Zhao Mengyao congratulated Zhang Yuanshan on reaching the Ninth Layer of Qi Condensation, and Zhang Yuanshan offered to help Chu He find a Monster Hunting Squad at Cliff Mountain.
• Ji An repaid Zhang Yuanshan five Spirit Stones and treated the group to a meal, while Zhao Mengyao praised his perfected Minor Cloud and Rain Art and his ten mu of Spirit Fields.
• Ji An said he planned to join a Monster Hunting Squad during his free month after planting Spirit Grain and invited Chu He to seek him out if his squad needed another member.