Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingyun and Cai'er sacrificed their life force and bloodline power to keep Han Feng's fading true spirit from disappearing, until a mysterious horsetail whisk carried all three toward the Great Thousand World. The author then explained that this was the novel's conclusion, outlining an abandoned continuation and reflecting on the book's development.

• Ye Qingyun burned her Life Origin and Cai'er used her ancient bloodline and the world's fortune to anchor Han Feng's dissolving true spirit.
• Han Feng warned the two women that their efforts could not stop the laws of dissipation, but they refused to abandon him.
• A phantom horsetail whisk appeared and temporarily halted the erosion of all three souls with a power beyond a Saint Grade Heavenly Supreme.
• Han Feng embraced Ye Qingyun's and Cai'er's Soul Origins, and the whisk sent them through the planar barrier toward the Great Thousand World.
• The author announced that the story had concluded and described an unpursued sequel in which Han Feng would lose his memories and reunite with old friends.
• The author reflected on the novel's strengths, flaws, writing process, and alternative ending.

Old Man Han found an abandoned infant in the maple forest and raised him as Han Feng, teaching him to help gather and sell medicinal herbs. At ten, Han Feng prepared to attend Fenglin Village’s Spirit Awakening Ceremony, and he and Old Man Han arrived at the front village clinic to sell herbs.

• Old Man Han found a naked infant clutching a green jade tablet in the maple forest and brought him home after discovering the child suffered when the tablet was taken away.
• Old Man Han rejected the villagers’ suggestion that he give the infant to a wealthy family and decided to raise him himself.
• Old Man Han studied medicine and gathered herbs to support the boy, naming him Han Feng after the maple forest where he found him.
• When Han Feng turned ten, Old Man Han reminded him to attend the Spirit Awakening Ceremony, where children were tested for their ability to sense Spiritual Power.
• Han Feng and Old Man Han carried medicinal herbs to the front village clinic, where an attendant asked them to wait while Physician Qian saw patients.

Han Feng visited Er Niu, then attended Fenglin Village’s Spirit Awakening Ceremony despite having no prior cultivation training. After failing to sense spiritual energy for three days, he left the martial arts school with his hopes fading.

• Han Feng visited Er Niu, who could not play because her father was making her study and prepare for the ceremony.
• Er Niu’s father told her to focus on cultivation and warned that strength mattered less than Spiritual Power.
• Old Man Han admitted he could not afford to send Han Feng to school or teach him cultivation, but Han Feng said he did not resent him.
• Old Man Han took Han Feng to the Spirit Awakening Ceremony, where children tried to sense spiritual energy with the help of a Spirit Sensing Talisman.
• Han Feng failed to sense spiritual energy on the first and second days, and Old Man Han comforted him.
• On the evening of the third day, Han Feng walked out of the martial arts school with mechanical steps after failing again.

After Han Feng failed the Spirit Awakening Ceremony, he accepted that he would study medicine with Old Man Han instead of becoming a cultivator. His new routine was shattered when a beast roared near Fenglin Village and Physician Qian told him that something had happened to his grandfather.

• On the fourth day, Han Feng told Old Man Han that the martial arts school had advised him to give up because he had not sensed spiritual energy.
• Physician Qian explained that Han Feng might need a medicinal bath beyond Old Man Han’s means and suggested that Han Feng learn medicine if he failed the next day.
• Han Feng failed the Spirit Awakening Ceremony on the fifth day and decided to study medicine with Old Man Han.
• Han Feng trained diligently in medicine as Old Man Han began returning late from gathering herbs, while Er Niu left for an academy in the city.
• A beast roared near Fenglin Village, and the next morning Physician Qian told Han Feng that something had happened to Old Man Han.