Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan returned to his sect Spirit Field after three years away and tended to his Spirit Plants and spiritual creatures. He began cultivating the Dragon Bone Grass Spirit Seeds, leaving the plants and animals in his care as he considered obtaining fresh Flood Dragon Skeletons.

• Lu Xuan inspected and nourished his Hidden Essence Grass, placed Flying Swords beneath his Sword Nurturing Gourds, and tended the Five Elements Fruit and Nurturing Spirit Pines.
• Lu Xuan fed the Phoenix Wood a Red Lotus Flame after discovering it had absorbed the flame he left behind before departing.
• Lu Xuan reunited with the grown Dazzling Fire Flood Dragon and brought out Fat Bird, the Rock Armor Turtle, and the Azure Horn Dragon Carp, appointing the Flood Dragon boss of the Small Lake.
• Lu Xuan placed Purple Jade Coral in the lake and used Mysterious Origin Heavy Water to begin cultivating the three Dragon Bone Grass Spirit Seeds.
• Lu Xuan decided that he should seek fresh Flood Dragon Skeletons from Huang Yuan or other Fellow Disciples to better cultivate the Dragon Bone Grass.

After returning from Voidsky Island, Lu Xuan reported completing his three-year garrison mission and collected his reward. He concealed his Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivation, then visited the Si Nong Hall to buy spirit seeds and place a large order for Fourth Grade varieties.

• Lu Xuan planted over two hundred Water Firefly Grass seeds and moved several Sword Grass and Sword plants into his Spirit Field.
• Lu Xuan concealed his cultivation and reported to Huang Shixiong that he had completed his mission on Voidsky Island, receiving 960 Sword Seals.
• Lu Xuan decided to spend some of his savings and went to the Si Nong Hall, where he reunited with Xia Chen.
• Lu Xuan asked Xia Chen why the hall did not offer Fifth Grade Spirit Seeds, and Xia Chen explained that they were too rare for the sect to mass-produce.
• Lu Xuan ordered two Earth Fire Heart Lotus seeds, one Mystic Insect Vine seed, one Mayfly Grass seed, and twenty each of Flame Fruit and Ice Luo Fruit seeds.

Lu Xuan bought and planted several high-grade Spirit Seeds, then harvested a Hidden Essence Grass whose Light Orb yielded a Spirit Gathering Grass Orb. He used the orb to nourish the Grass Puppet and planned to deliver his remaining Hidden Essence Grass to Senior Sister Guan Wan.

• Lu Xuan bought Fourth Grade Earth Fire Heart Lotus and Mayfly Grass Spirit Seeds, a Mystic Insect Vine Spirit Seed, and Flame Fruit and Ice Luo Fruit Spirit Seeds from Daoist Qu.
• Lu Xuan planted the Flame Fruit and Ice Luo Fruit, fed insect eggs to the Mystic Insect Vine, planted the Earth Fire Heart Lotus seeds in lava, and buried the Mayfly Grass seed in Wu Spirit Soil.
• Lu Xuan spent half a month tending his Cave Mansion before harvesting a Third Grade Hidden Essence Grass and receiving a Spirit Gathering Grass Orb from its Light Orb.
• Lu Xuan gave the Spirit Gathering Grass Orb to the Grass Puppet, which absorbed its Vegetation Spiritual Energy and turned green.
• Lu Xuan noted that nine Hidden Essence Grass plants remained and planned to give them to Senior Sister Guan Wan in the Alchemy Hall.

Lu Xuan identified the Soul Crossing Zen Incense and Grievous Spirit Mud, then welcomed the White Jade Sky Supporting Ape and Mystic Sky Luan Bird with a feast. After earning their promise to help him in a future fight, he felt more confident about killing the cultivator behind the Saint Infant Fruit Sub-plant.

• Lu Xuan learned that the incense was a Fourth Grade Treasure and the mud was a Fifth Grade Spirit Soil, but found no use for the mud among his current Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan placed the Emerald Green Small Sword in the Yangxuan Sword Sheath, which readily accepted and nourished it.
• The White Jade Sky Supporting Ape and Mystic Sky Luan Bird visited Lu Xuan, who greeted them and served them Spirit Fruits, Spirit Nectar, and Voidsky Spirit Fish.
• Lu Xuan asked whether the two Spirit Beasts could leave the sect and requested their help in a fight he might face in a few years; they agreed.
• The White Jade Sky Supporting Ape reminded Lu Xuan that he could activate its gifted fine hair to summon it, giving him greater confidence in confronting the cultivator behind the Saint Infant Fruit Sub-plant.

Lu Xuan continued cultivating Spirit Plants and caring for Spirit Beasts until Ge Pu visited with news of a problematic mutated Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring insect larva. Ge Pu took Lu Xuan to see the larva, leaving its fate unknown.

• Lu Xuan harvested Hidden Essence Grass and opened Light Orbs containing Foundation Establishment Pills, an Elixir Recipe Experience Pack, and Spirit Gathering Grass Orbs.
• Lu Xuan observed the growth of his Spirit Plants, including Water Firefly Grass, Flame Fruit, Ice Luo Fruit, and the Sword Nurturing Gourd.
• Ge Pu visited Lu Xuan and told him that his Yin Yang Kun Fish had bred successfully, advanced to Fifth Grade, and improved his prospects for Core Formation.
• Ge Pu explained that one of Zhong Jingshan's three Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring insect larvae reacted violently to poisonous food and might have mutated during gestation.
• Ge Pu took Lu Xuan to inspect the troublesome larva.

Lu Xuan visited Zhong Jingshan’s Insect Valley and learned that a Variant Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect larva could not tolerate the poisons it needed to consume. Zhong gave Lu Xuan the larva, and Lu discovered that its Calamity Poison Body could absorb and refine any toxin, though its frail body made feeding it dangerous.

• Lu Xuan and Ge Pu visited Zhong Jingshan’s Insect Valley, where Lu inspected the insects he had once helped raise.
• Lu Xuan examined the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect larvae and saw one suffer severe reactions after eating a poisonous toad.
• Ge Pu explained that Zhong Jingshan had kept the abnormal larva alive with a White Jade Talisman, but could not help it grow normally.
• Lu Xuan offered to buy the larva, and Zhong Jingshan gave it to him.
• At his Cave Mansion, Lu Xuan fed the larva a small piece of poison pill and learned that it had the Calamity Poison Body, which could refine toxins but made it dangerously sensitive to them.

Lu Xuan rescued the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect larva from the Corpse Poison in a poison pill, earning its trust and imagining how he could help it grow stronger. After caring for his spirit plants and creatures, he left the Spirit Field in peaceful order.

• Lu Xuan identified the larva’s Calamity Poison Body and discovered that the Second Grade Corpse Flame Pill had filled it with Corpse Poison.
• Lu Xuan used a Hundred-Year Ice Soul to control the poison and Azure Wood Source Qi to purge it, relieving the larva’s suffering.
• The larva showed gratitude to Lu Xuan, who promised to help it grow and imagined himself as a Medicine Elder guiding it to a comeback.
• Lu Xuan patrolled the Spirit Field and nurtured its spirit plants while observing the creatures around the lake and mountain.
• The Demon Ghost Vine enjoyed the Bewitching Peach’s Pink Miasma and marked high-grade Spirit Plants throughout the field.

Lu Xuan delivered twenty fully matured Hidden Essence Grass to Guan Wan, earning Sword Seals and praise for their quality. Guan Wan offered him more spirit-plant work, then explained why other cultivators could not reproduce the Foundation Establishment Pill recipe.

• Lu Xuan harvested the last four Hidden Essence Grass and obtained pills, recipe experience, and Spirit Gathering Grass Orbs from their Light Orbs.
• Lu Xuan met Guan Wan at the Alchemy Hall and handed over all twenty Hidden Essence Grass, including several Good Grade plants and one Superior Grade plant.
• Guan Wan paid Lu Xuan 280 Sword Seals for the plants and praised his cultivation results.
• Lu Xuan agreed to continue working with the Alchemy Hall, and Guan Wan said she would arrange for more spirit seeds to be delivered to him.
• Guan Wan explained that cultivators who knew the Foundation Establishment Pill ingredients still lacked the cultivation skills and exact elixir recipe needed to refine the pills, while Lu Xuan privately reflected that he had obtained the recipe through Light Orbs.

Lu Xuan visited Thousand Dragon Lake to examine its flood dragons and collect more blood essence, then was asked to investigate a pair of Chiyin Beasts whose mating had caused the male to try to eat the female. He agreed to visit Senior Brother Zhong Hao’s Cave Mansion and inspect the beasts.

• Lu Xuan spoke with Guan Wan about Alchemy before Huang Yuan visited and invited him to examine the flood dragons at Thousand Dragon Lake.
• Lu Xuan went to Thousand Dragon Lake and returned with more than a thousand bottles of Flood Dragon Blood Essence.
• Liu Su introduced Lu Xuan to Zhong Hao, a Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator who had met him in the Azure Profound Deer Secret Realm.
• Zhong Hao explained that his male Chiyin Beast repeatedly lost control during mating and tried to eat the female.
• Lu Xuan asked Zhong Hao to take him to see the Chiyin Beasts in person.

Lu Xuan investigated the abnormal mating behavior of Zhong Hao’s Chiyin Beasts and discovered that the male had been invaded by a Food Lust Insect. He agreed to try drawing the insect out after Zhong Hao offered him a Fourth Grade Chì Lei Stone.

• Zhong Hao brought Lu Xuan and Liu Su to his mountain range and showed them the injured Mother Chiyin Beast and the male beast.
• Lu Xuan observed the male beast lose control and bite the Mother Beast during mating, then suspected an invading entity was responsible.
• After feeding the male beast a pill, Lu Xuan identified a Food Lust Insect that manipulated its host into devouring its mating partner.
• Lu Xuan explained the insect’s nature and how intense-lust treasures could lure it out, while privately hesitating to use his own methods.
• Zhong Hao offered Lu Xuan a Fourth Grade Chì Lei Stone, and Lu Xuan said he had a plan to try.

Lu Xuan removed a Food Lust Insect from Zhong Hao’s male Chiyin Beast and helped restore its desire to mate with a pill and the Pale Yellow Jade Silk. The Chiyin Beasts entered the breeding stage, and Zhong Hao rewarded Lu Xuan with two Chì Lei Stones.

• Lu Xuan used the Pale Yellow Jade Silk to lure the Food Lust Insect out of the male Chiyin Beast and trapped it.
• Zhong Hao destroyed the insect with black lightning, then tried to have the Chiyin Beasts mate, but the male beast showed no interest.
• Lu Xuan guessed that the male beast had developed a psychological aversion to mating and offered a Bewitching Desire Pill to help it recover.
• Lu Xuan gave the male beast the pill and showed the beasts the Pale Yellow Jade Silk, and they began mating.
• Zhong Hao thanked Lu Xuan for helping the Chiyin Beasts enter the breeding stage and gave him two Chì Lei Stones.

Lu Xuan traded a Fourth Grade Bewitching Desire Pill for two Chì Lei Stones and used one to cultivate his Lightning Fall Wood. He tended to his Spirit Beasts and plants, and the chapter ended as the Starlight Sword Grass matured.

• Lu Xuan and Zhong Hao exchanged Beast Taming knowledge after Lu Xuan helped resolve the Chiyin Beasts’ problem.
• Lu Xuan used a Chì Lei Stone to nourish his Fourth Grade Lightning Fall Wood with lightning power.
• Lu Xuan fed his Variant Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect a Corpse Flame Pill and helped it withstand the poison, then saw it dissolve a rock with its poisonous smoke.
• Lu Xuan absorbed an evil eye from the mature Hundred Eyed Treant and gave the other eye to the Cloud Stepping Lynx.
• Lu Xuan discovered that the Starlight Sword Grass had reached maturity.

Lu Xuan harvested a mature Starlight Sword Grass and gained its Sword Intent, then went to Sword Gate Town to sell two Foundation Establishment Pills and a Fourth Grade Soul Guiding Lamp in exchange for rare cultivation resources. He left the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s branch head considering his offer.

• Lu Xuan harvested the mature Starlight Sword Grass and absorbed its light orb, gaining Starlight Sword Intent that greatly improved his Starlight Sword Art.
• Lu Xuan planned to test whether he could produce Wind Lightning Sword Grass Spirit Seeds in batches, then left the sect to tend the Netherworld Spirit Plants in his Small Courtyard.
• Lu Xuan fed the Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng, Mutated Longevity Peach, Blood Karma Flower, and Saint Infant Fruit, then placed the Grievous Spirit Mud in the courtyard.
• Lu Xuan disguised himself as a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage rogue cultivator and visited the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion in Sword Gate Town.
• Lu Xuan offered two Foundation Establishment Pills and a Fourth Grade Soul Guiding Lamp in exchange for high-grade Spirit Seeds, Demonic Beast young, or other cultivation treasures.

Lu Xuan negotiated with Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion to trade his Soul Guiding Lamp for rare cultivation treasures. After agreeing to exchange two Foundation Establishment Pills for Azure Pill Flame, he offered his lamp and his remaining two pills for the pavilion’s Rank 5 Spirit Seed.

• Lu Xuan offered a Fourth Grade Soul Guiding Lamp to Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion in exchange for treasures he needed.
• The pavilion’s short, fat old man found several options, and Lu Xuan chose Azure Pill Flame in exchange for two Foundation Establishment Pills.
• The old man presented several Third and Fourth Grade Spirit Seeds and Demon Beast eggs, but Lu Xuan showed little interest.
• The old man revealed that the main pavilion held a Rank 5 Spirit Seed obtained by a powerful Guest Elder in a Buddhist sect’s blessed land.
• Lu Xuan offered the Soul Guiding Lamp and his last two Foundation Establishment Pills for the Rank 5 Spirit Seed.

Lu Xuan exchanged four Foundation Establishment Pills and a Fourth Grade Soul Guiding Lamp for a Rank 5 Vajra Bodhi Spirit Seed and a wisp of Azure Pill Flame. After completing the trade, he left with the rare treasures and planned to study the seed’s cultivation method himself.

• Lu Xuan persuaded the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion branch master to trade the Vajra Bodhi Spirit Seed and Azure Pill Flame for four Foundation Establishment Pills and the Soul Guiding Lamp.
• Lu Xuan checked for anyone following him with the Voidsky Nightmare Eye and bought spirit seeds and plants while exploring Sword Gate Town.
• Lu Xuan returned to Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion the next day, where the branch master explained the precautions taken to protect the Rank 5 Spirit Seed.
• The branch master showed Lu Xuan the Vajra Bodhi Spirit Seed and Azure Pill Flame, and Lu Xuan accepted them despite lacking a cultivation method for the seed.
• Lu Xuan handed over the four Foundation Establishment Pills and Soul Guiding Lamp, then prepared to leave with his new treasures.

Lu Xuan planted a Fifth Grade Vajra Bodhi Spirit Seed and used Soul Crossing Zen Incense to nourish it before tending his Spirit Field. Harvesting a Wind Lightning Sword Grass yielded a Rank 4 Wind Lightning Sword Talisman and the Fourth Grade sword art “Wind Lightning Sword Scripture,” leaving him ready to report his mature sword grasses to the Sword Hall.

• Lu Xuan planted the Vajra Bodhi Spirit Seed and found that Soul Crossing Zen Incense smoke could nourish it, though only in its early stage.
• Lu Xuan harvested a mature Wind Lightning Sword Grass and obtained a Rank 4 Wind Lightning Sword Talisman from its light orb.
• Lu Xuan continued cultivating his sword grasses, using Xun Lightning Sword Qi to mutate some ordinary sword grass Spirit Seeds into Wind Lightning Sword Grass.
• Lu Xuan harvested a Good Grade Wind Lightning Sword Grass and obtained the Fourth Grade “Wind Lightning Sword Scripture,” which complemented his Wind Lightning Sword.
• Lu Xuan counted two mature Wind Lightning Sword Grasses, ten ordinary Second Grade sword grasses, and one Third Grade Starlight Sword Grass, and decided he could report to the Sword Hall.

Lu Xuan met Su Manman, the Heaven Sword Sect cultivator who had given him an Azure Cloud Token years earlier, at Sword Hall. She entrusted him with her damaged Fourth Grade Sword Peacock, and he agreed to try to restore it.

• Lu Xuan brought his Wind Lightning Sword Grass to Sword Hall to work on a method for producing its Spirit Seeds.
• Lu Xuan recognized Su Manman's Sword Peacock and called out to her, reminding her that they had met in a Secret Realm near Vast Forest Market.
• Su Manman recalled giving Lu Xuan an Azure Cloud Token after seeing his talent for cultivating Sword Grass, and learned that he had become an Inner Sect Disciple.
• Su Manman explained that an Evil Cultivator had damaged and tainted her Fourth Grade Sword Peacock, and asked Lu Xuan to repair it.
• Lu Xuan accepted the Sword Peacock, and he and Su Manman exchanged Communication Talismans so she could contact him about the repair.

Lu Xuan handed over his mature Sword Grass to Shen Ye and revealed that he was researching a Seed Condensation Method for Wind Lightning Sword Grass, earning Shen Ye’s promise of a reward if he succeeded. After learning about the Fourth Grade Sword Peacock, Lu Xuan asked for its Spirit Seed, and Shen Ye agreed to seek approval to obtain the one in the Treasure Repository.

• Lu Xuan examined the Sword Peacock Su Manman had given him and found it afflicted with persistent Black Qi and living black spots.
• Shen Ye teased Lu Xuan about Su Manman, then asked whether he had come to collect or hand over Sword Grass.
• Lu Xuan gave Shen Ye ten Second Grade Sword Grass, one Third Grade Starlight Sword Grass, and two mutated Third Grade Wind Lightning Sword Grass.
• Lu Xuan told Shen Ye that his remaining Sword Grass were alive and that he was exploring how to condense Wind Lightning Sword Grass seeds.
• Shen Ye said the Sword Hall would reward Lu Xuan if he established a reliable Seed Condensation Method, and Lu Xuan promised to tell him once he had mastered it.
• Lu Xuan asked for a Fourth Grade Sword Peacock Spirit Seed, and Shen Ye offered to apply for the seed kept in the Treasure Repository.

Lu Xuan obtained a Sword Peacock Spirit Seed and learned how to cultivate the Fourth Grade sword grass while trying to restore Su Manman’s damaged Sword Peacock. He discovered it was contaminated by Mirage Yin Filth Qi and prepared to use the Yunshan Jade Talisman to purify it.

• Shen Ye brought Lu Xuan the Sword Peacock Spirit Seed, its cultivation art, and other sword grass seeds and plants from the Sword Hall.
• Lu Xuan studied the Peacock Sword Formation and planted the Sword Peacock Spirit Seed, learning that it needed Sword Qi arranged into formations during its growth.
• Lu Xuan tried putting Su Manman’s damaged Sword Peacock into the Yangxuan Sword Sheath, but the sheath reacted badly and expelled ghastly green spiritual energy.
• Lu Xuan planted the damaged Sword Peacock and learned that Mirage Yin Filth Qi had contaminated it and could be absorbed and purified by high-grade jade-type Treasures.
• Lu Xuan brought out the Fourth Grade Yunshan Jade Talisman to begin addressing the contamination.

Lu Xuan used a Yunshan Jade Talisman to absorb and dissolve some of the Mirage Yin Filth Qi around the damaged Sword Peacock while continuing his cultivation and study of sword arts. Guan Wan brought him thirty Hidden Essence Grass seeds and ten Jade Dew Fruit seeds, and Lu Xuan began planting the new seeds.

• Lu Xuan drew a wisp of Mirage Yin Filth Qi from the Sword Peacock into a Yunshan Jade Talisman and dissolved it with a Purification Mantra.
• Lu Xuan spent half a month tending his Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts while studying the Peacock Sword Formation and Thousand Owl Sword Art and practicing his other techniques.
• Guan Wan delivered thirty Hidden Essence Grass seeds and ten Jade Dew Fruit seeds from the Alchemy Hall for Lu Xuan to cultivate.
• Lu Xuan examined the Jade Dew Fruit seed and learned that the Third Grade Spirit Plant needed atomized pure Spiritual Energy to grow.
• Lu Xuan planted a Jade Dew Fruit seed in his Spirit Field.