Recaps

Li Xiuchang joined the Immortal Dust Sect, chose the Spirit Chef path, and became Elder Zhao Yuansi’s disciple while developing a profitable way to smoke Spirit Meat with his unusual Charcoal Attribute Mana. By the end, he had expanded production with rented furnaces and workers, and his first large batch was ready.

• Li Xiuchang passed the sect’s recruitment test, entered the outer sect, chose House Eighteen in the quiet Eastern Geng District, and began cultivating with the Fire Starting Skill.
• Li Xiuchang discovered that his fire produced black, smoky Charcoal Attribute Mana, then chose the Spirit Chef inheritance after Senior Brother Song Yu recommended the path.
• Li Xiuchang used his mana to smoke Spirit Meat, found that the smoke preserved its Spiritual Power, and made a flavorful product that mildly replenished mana.
• Elder Zhao Yuansi chose Li Xiuchang as his disciple after a poetry trial that rewarded deliberately poor poems, and gave him an alchemy book and a Storage Bag.
• Li Xiuchang persuaded Wang Long to help sell his Smoked Spirit Meat, then hired three Tier 1 Talisman Masters to operate thirty rented furnaces at his residence.
• The smoke from Li Xiuchang’s workshop drew the Law Enforcement Hall and several groups of cultivators, who agreed to pay for collection rights after he proposed sharing the smoke.
• Li Xiuchang signed smoke-collection contracts and expanded his workshop with five new workers and fifty more rented furnaces.
• Four days later, the first batch of Smoked Spirit Meat from thirty furnaces finished smoking.

Li Xiuchang expanded his spirit-meat business, developed his cultivation and spirit-planting skills, and obtained a way to conceal his rapid progress. After passing the Spirit Planter theory test, he excelled in the practical planting exam and pursued Yan Song’s promised reward.

• Li Xiuchang and Wang Long expanded Smoked Spirit Meat production, then moved the workshop after ghosts trapped the workers in illusions and Mo Tu helped capture them.
• Mo Tu taught Li Xiuchang to cultivate Netherfrost Grass and control spirits, while Li Xiuchang discovered his unusual talent for spirit plants.
• Li Xiuchang advanced rapidly to the Fourth Layer of Qi Condensation, recovered from the strain, and spent months cultivating spirit plants and developing his other skills.
• Li Xiuchang entered the Preaching Ranking, chose the Dantian Shadow Creation Technique to disguise his cultivation, and acquired the Vajra Dharma Form Art to strengthen his body.
• Li Xiuchang used the Dantian Shadow Creation Technique to appear at the Third Layer of Qi Condensation, then faced Yan Song’s coming-of-age inspection and agreed to take the Spirit Planter assessment.
• Li Xiuchang passed the Spirit Planter theory test with full marks and planted all ten First-grade Spirit Plant seeds in the practical exam, earning the seed pack.
• Yan Song offered a hundred-year medicinal herb field usage right to anyone who earned full marks in every section, and Li Xiuchang set his sights on the reward.

Li Xiuchang earned his Spirit Planter credentials, developed his strength and ghost-handling skills, and joined a mission that led him to capture a pack of Wolf Souls. He returned to the sect with Su Qingchun and the ghosts in his care, then began training Wangcai and his combat division.

• Li Xiuchang passed the Tier 1 Spirit Planter examination with perfect scores, received his Skill Credential, and claimed a medicine field filled with Thousand Year Fragrance.
• Li Xiuchang took Chu Ya’s job growing Lovesick Moonpetals, expanded his spirit-planting work, and spent accumulated Length Value to reach Second Order Body Cultivation and peak Sixth Layer Qi Condensation.
• Li Xiuchang joined Pang Yuanfu and Chi Hui on a mission to find the Pig Demon near White Cloud City, where he used a captured Dog Soul to track the demon to its cave.
• Zhang Wanzhi rescued Li Xiuchang from the Pig Demon and Su Qingchun’s Yin Soul, and Li Xiuchang learned the Pig Demon had attacked people to draw help for its deceased master.
• After the Pig Demon left, Li Xiuchang followed Wangcai to Green Cui Mountain, where Wolf Demons and their Yin Souls surrounded him.
• Li Xiuchang enlarged a Freezing Talisman with Length Value, froze the pack, shattered the Wolf King’s malevolent spirit, and subdued more than thirty Wolf Souls.
• Li Xiuchang returned to the sect, cared for Su Qingchun and the Wolf Souls, advanced to Late Qi Condensation, and began training Wangcai and his combat ghosts.

Li Xiuchang strengthened his Yin Souls, secretly established his foundation, and developed the Charcoal Burning Skill while pursuing Spirit Chef Arts and expanding his Length Value. As Snail Noodles spread through the sect, Chu Ya revealed the strange love that guided his Heartless Sword Dao.

• Li Xiuchang commissioned Zhang Wanzhi to make the Rainbow Soul Banner, then used it to command Yin Souls and began preparing to establish his foundation.
• Li Xiuchang and Wang Long captured three New Demonic Path cultivators, and the elders released them after confirming they had committed no serious wrongdoing.
• Li Xiuchang helped defeat two Fierce Ghosts, bought Yin Souls from Mo Tu, and learned how Gloomy Chill Flowers could strengthen and calm his pack.
• Li Xiuchang filled and compressed his mana, secretly established his foundation, and cultivated the revised Fire Starting Skill into the Charcoal Burning Skill.
• Li Xiuchang advanced to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage by separating his uneven mana into gaseous, liquid, and solid forms, then began experimenting with enlarged spirit-plant seeds.
• Li Xiuchang developed Snail Noodles, published the recipe on the Preaching Ranking, and watched it become popular across the sect as his Spirit Chef Arts improved.
• Li Xiuchang delivered Her Fragrance flowers to Chu Ya, who described his Severing Love Silks technique and showed him the thick unsevered thread he believed he must cut to ascend.