Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan was appointed to oversee Ten Thousand Demon Cave while Cang Wu Zhenren was away, receiving the Demon Control Token and learning about the blessed land’s spirit beasts and Emperor Flow Paste. After exploring the beast-filled cave, Lu Xuan encountered a Lion-Bird Beast he had once trained, which finally recognized him.

• Huo Liner brought Lu Xuan to Ten Thousand Demon Cave, where Cang Wu Zhenren entrusted him with managing the blessed land during his absence.
• Cang Wu Zhenren gave Lu Xuan the Demon Control Token and warned him about the forbidden area, Emperor Flow Paste, and possible spirit beast fights.
• Lu Xuan explored the blessed land and used the token to calm a giant elephant that approached him.
• Lu Xuan encountered several spirit beasts, then recognized a Lion-Bird Beast he had trained in the past.
• The Lion-Bird Beast remembered Lu Xuan and flew toward him with a loud cry.

Lu Xuan reunited with the Lion-Bird Beast and met the four disciples who had been caring for the Ten Thousand Demon Cave Blessed Land. After they challenged his appointment as its caretaker, he placed the Demon Control Token on the table and dared Sun Yun to take it.

• Lu Xuan praised the Lion-Bird Beast, encouraged it to keep working toward serving the sect, and asked it to gather the other Young Beasts from their past.
• Lu Xuan returned to the Cloud House and met Sun Yun and three Foundation Establishment disciples assigned to the blessed land.
• A Zhao-surnamed disciple questioned Lu Xuan's qualifications, and Lu Xuan explained that Huo Liner had recommended him and Martial Uncle Cangwu had given him the Demon Control Token.
• Lu Xuan rebuked Junior Brother Zhao, while Sun Yun told him to stop and reminded the group to obey Martial Uncle Cangwu's decision.
• Lu Xuan set the Demon Control Token on the table, conceded that Sun Yun seemed more qualified, and challenged him to take it.

Lu Xuan settled a dispute with Sun Yun and explored the Ten Thousand Demon Cave, where he met the White Jade Sky Supporting Ape, the guardian spirit beast and ancestor of his little monkey friend. After learning of Lu Xuan’s connection to the Azure Profound Deer, the ape welcomed him and gave him its home-brewed Monkey Wine.

• Lu Xuan offered Sun Yun the Demon Control Token, prompting Sun Yun and the others to apologize and agree to follow his arrangements.
• Lu Xuan spent his free time exploring the Ten Thousand Demon Cave and reunited with the spirit beasts he had once tamed.
• The White Jade Sky Supporting Ape’s descendant invited Lu Xuan up the mountain, where the elder revealed itself and explained how fifth-grade demonic beasts learned human speech.
• The ape learned that Lu Xuan had received some of the Azure Profound Deer’s Azure Wood Source Qi and praised him for helping the deer resolve its lingering obsession.
• The White Jade Sky Supporting Ape thanked Lu Xuan for caring for its descendant and gave him a bottle of its homemade Monkey Wine.

After recovering from the Old Ape’s Monkey Wine, Lu Xuan thanked him with Hundred Fruit Spirit Nectar and Bewitching Peaches, then asked about the senior spirit beasts in Ten Thousand Demon Cave. Old Ape introduced the other powerful beasts, including a long-lived Dragon Turtle and a reclusive Old Fox.

• Lu Xuan woke after shedding a thin cuticle and realized the Monkey Wine had cleansed his marrow and meridians.
• Xiao Bai Ape revealed it had guarded Lu Xuan while he was drunk, then followed him to visit Old Ape.
• Lu Xuan thanked Old Ape for the Monkey Wine and offered him Hundred Fruit Spirit Nectar and Bewitching Peaches.
• Old Ape praised Lu Xuan’s recovery and recognized the Hundred Fruit Spirit Nectar as a brew once favored by a Core Formation True Person.
• Lu Xuan learned that Ten Thousand Demon Cave held five Fifth Grade and Sixth Grade spirit beasts, including a pair of Mystic Sky Luan Birds, a Dragon Turtle, and Old Fox.

Lu Xuan met the Dragon Turtle while exploring the Ten Thousand Demon Cave and won its favor by sharing Hundred Fruit Spirit Nectar and fruit. The Dragon Turtle began telling him old stories about Heaven Sword Sect cultivators, and Lu Xuan realized the symbols on its shell were Eight Trigrams.

• Lu Xuan spent his free time exploring the Ten Thousand Demon Cave and strengthening his bonds with its Spirit Beasts.
• Lu Xuan found mottled tortoise shells covered in moving Divinatory Symbols beside a lake, and the Dragon Turtle emerged to reclaim them.
• The Dragon Turtle recognized Lu Xuan as the new caretaker and asked him for Monkey Wine, so Lu Xuan offered it Hundred Fruit Spirit Nectar instead.
• The Dragon Turtle praised the spirit nectar and told Lu Xuan it had served as a test subject while a Core Formation cultivator developed the brew.
• The Dragon Turtle shared old stories about Cang Wu, Gu Jiankong, and the Heaven Sword Sect Sect Leader as Lu Xuan listened and shared fruit.
• Lu Xuan realized the Divinatory Symbols on the Dragon Turtle's shell were Eight Trigrams.

Lu Xuan befriended the lonely Old Dragon Turtle before being summoned to treat a Fourth Grade Thunderstorm Bear suffering from difficult labor. He traveled to the bear with confidence, intending to discover the cause and help her deliver safely.

• Lu Xuan listened to Old Dragon Turtle's sect gossip, learned of its loneliness, and introduced himself before leaving to return to the Cloud House.
• A Thunderstorm Bear fell into dangerous labor, and Sun Yun and her caretaker debated whether to cut open her abdomen to save the young beast.
• The caretaker proposed asking Lu Xuan to decide the Mother Beast's fate, and Sun Yun hurried to find him.
• Lu Xuan learned the situation and insisted they try to preserve both the Mother Beast's safety and a natural birth.
• Lu Xuan rode with Sun Yun to the Thunderstorm Bear, confident that his knowledge of Spirit Beasts would reveal the cause of her difficult labor.

Lu Xuan examined a Thunderstorm Bear whose unborn cub was draining her life and decided to save both mother and child. He surgically delivered the cub and healed the Mother Beast, leaving both alive and safe.

• Lu Xuan discovered that the Thunderstorm Bear's unusually large, bloodthirsty fetus was draining her vital blood through invisible tendrils.
• Lu Xuan reassured the Mother Beast and told the others he would protect both her and her child.
• Lu Xuan used the Emerald Green Small Sword to open the Mother Beast's abdomen, sever the tendrils, and remove the cub.
• Lu Xuan used Azure Wood Source Qi to heal the Mother Beast's wounds, and she peacefully fell asleep beside her healthy cub.
• The ordinary youth and Sun Yun praised Lu Xuan after confirming that both Spirit Beasts had survived.

Lu Xuan saved a Thunderstorm Bear mother and her young beast, earning the respect of Sun Yun and the other beast keepers. Later, he learned of Old Dragon Turtle’s loneliness and gave it a strange jade silk called the Scripture of Utmost Bliss, which the turtle claimed it would inspect for safety.

• Lu Xuan reassured the others about the blood threads on the Thunderstorm Bear young beast after helping deliver it safely.
• Sun Yun thanked Lu Xuan and admitted he had wrongly suspected Lu Xuan had obtained the Demon Control Token through connections.
• Lu Xuan accepted Sun Yun’s apology, and the beast keepers began treating him more warmly and reporting to him.
• Old Dragon Turtle told Lu Xuan it had remained in the sect for nearly two thousand years and had never found another Dragon Turtle.
• Lu Xuan offered to help ease Old Dragon Turtle’s loneliness, then presented it with the Scripture of Utmost Bliss.
• Old Dragon Turtle said it would inspect the jade silk, and Lu Xuan left while both shared knowing smiles.

Lu Xuan used his reputation as a Spirit Plant Master to persuade the Old Ape to entrust him with cultivating the Spirit Fruit used in its Monkey Wine. The Old Ape agreed, confident that its secret recipe would remain safe, while Lu Xuan privately planned to obtain it through a Light Orb.

• Lu Xuan noticed that the Old Dragon Turtle seemed listless from studying the Scripture of Utmost Bliss and advised it to take care of its health.
• Lu Xuan observed that the Spirit Beasts received plain, ordinary food from their caretakers, which explained why White Ape and Luan Bird enjoyed visiting his Cave Mansion for food.
• The Old Ape treated Lu Xuan to its Monkey Wine and explained that its quality depended on the ingredients and secret brewing method.
• Lu Xuan told the Old Ape that Qingxu True Person had entrusted him with cultivating a Fifth Grade Spirit Plant, highlighting his skill as a Spirit Plant Master.
• The Old Ape asked Lu Xuan to cultivate the Spirit Fruit used for Monkey Wine and dismissed his concern about the recipe leaking, unaware of Lu Xuan's plans for Light Orbs.

Lu Xuan accepted a Mind Ape Fruit Spirit Seed from Old Ape in exchange for cultivating Spirit Fruits for Monkey Wine, then planted it in the Cloud House. He learned about the blessed land’s dangerous forbidden area and the fruit’s effects, leaving him eager to see what reward it would yield when mature.

• Lu Xuan and Old Ape agreed that Lu Xuan would cultivate Spirit Fruits for Monkey Wine, and Old Ape gave him a pale-gold Mind Ape Fruit Spirit Seed.
• Old Ape explained that the Fifth Grade Spirit Plant needed essence, qi, blood, rich Spirit Soil, and spiritual energy, and that it could affect the minds of nearby cultivators.
• Old Ape told Lu Xuan that the blessed land’s forbidden area held dangerous Demonic Beasts, Evil Beasts, and Spirit Beasts, protected by powerful Restrictions.
• Lu Xuan declined to visit the forbidden area and returned to the Cloud House.
• Lu Xuan planted the Mind Ape Fruit Spirit Seed and learned that its mature fruit could temper the body and mind, brew Monkey Wine, and disturb the mind during its growth.

Lu Xuan left the Ten Thousand Demon Cave Blessed Land to tend his Spirit Fields and returned to his Inner Sect Cave Mansion, where Huo Liner invited him to a Treasure Exchange Conference. He planned to attend in search of rare Spirit Seeds and resumed cultivating his plants.

• Lu Xuan told Sun Yun he would be away for three to five days and assured him that the White Jade Sky Supporting Ape and dragon turtle would help if a serious problem arose.
• Sun Yun was astonished that Lu Xuan could call on the two Sixth Grade Sect Guardian Spirit Beasts by name.
• Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion and found a Communication Talisman from Huo Liner inviting him to a Treasure Exchange Conference in three days.
• Lu Xuan accepted Huo Liner's invitation and considered which treasures he could trade for Spirit Seeds and other items.
• Lu Xuan greeted his spirit beasts, checked his Spirit Plants, and spent most of his Spiritual Power cultivating the Sword Grass and tending the rest of the field.

Lu Xuan sold a batch of high-quality pills at Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, then returned to his Netherworld Courtyard and upgraded its protective array. He fed and tended the courtyard’s Spirit Plants, harvested two Saint Infant Fruit sub-plant seeds, and planted them beside their mother plant.

• Lu Xuan used the Thousandfold Wraith Mask to disguise himself and sold more than ten bottles of pills to Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion for over eight thousand Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan replaced the courtyard’s Fourth Grade array with the Fifth Grade Illusionary Extinction Five Elements Formation.
• Lu Xuan fed the Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng and Blood Karma Flower Flood Dragon Blood Essence, then supplied demon beast meat to the Mutated Longevity Peach and Thousand Tendril Hands.
• Lu Xuan found that the Saint Infant Fruit Mother Plant had produced two new sub-plant spirit seeds because it had not received its mature sub-plant.
• Lu Xuan cut the two Flesh Tumors from the mother plant and planted the seeds beside it.

Lu Xuan tended his spirit plants, planted the Mind Ape Fruit in the Defective Secret Realm, and attended the Treasure Exchange Conference hosted by Huo Liner and Bai Feiyu. The conference began with a cultivator offering a Fourth Grade Cold Bone Sword in exchange for a defensive Magic Tool or cultivation-enhancing pills.

• Lu Xuan fed flesh and blood to the hatching Flesh Spirit God and worried about finding enough supplies for it and his other spirit plants.
• Lu Xuan collected Wu Spirit Soil and planted the Mind Ape Fruit in the Defective Secret Realm, where he also checked on his other spirit plants.
• Lu Xuan met Huo Liner and Sword Hall true disciple Bai Feiyu at the Treasure Exchange Conference and found Zhong Jingshan among the attendees.
• Huo Liner explained the conference's two exchange stages and warned that no one could use force or pressure others to trade.
• A Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator offered a Fourth Grade Cold Bone Sword for a defensive Magic Tool or cultivation-enhancing pills.

Lu Xuan traded a Rank 4 Sword Talisman for a Buddhist Magic Tool he could use to nourish his Vajra Bodhi, then arranged to exchange an Earth Fire Heart Lotus seed for a rare Seven Emotions Bean. The chapter left the exchange for the Spirit Seed agreed upon but not yet completed.

• A female cultivator exchanged a fourth-grade Cold Bone Sword for a defensive Magic Tool at the treasure gathering.
• Lu Xuan traded his Rank 4 Sword Talisman to the burly cultivator for the fourth-grade Demon Subduing Pestle, intending to use its Buddhist power to cultivate the Vajra Bodhi.
• A graceful female cultivator offered a fourth-grade Seven Emotions Bean Spirit Seed in exchange for something that could purify contaminated Spiritual Power and reduce mutation risk.
• Lu Xuan offered an Earth Fire Heart Lotus seed, and the female cultivator agreed to exchange it for the Seven Emotions Bean.

Lu Xuan traded three Fourth Grade Treasures for Bai Feiyu’s unknown sinister Spirit Seed, then planted it in his Cave Mansion after identifying it as a Fifth Grade Yin Cry Wood. The chapter ended with Lu Xuan welcoming the rare Spirit Plant into his Netherworld Courtyard.

• Lu Xuan received a Seven Emotions Bean Spirit Seed and discovered that it absorbed nearby emotions, extinguishing his surprise and anger.
• Lu Xuan offered Phantom Sound Bamboo, a Sword Talisman, and an Earth Fire Heart Lotus seed in exchange for Rank 4 or higher Spirit Seeds or uncontracted Young Beasts, but found no suitable trade at first.
• During the free-exchange phase, Bai Feiyu privately offered Lu Xuan an unknown sinister Spirit Seed that he believed was Rank 5.
• Lu Xuan exchanged his three Fourth Grade Treasures for Bai Feiyu’s pale Spirit Seed.
• Back at his Cave Mansion, Lu Xuan planted the seed and identified it as a Fifth Grade Yin Cry Wood, which fed on Grievance Souls.

Lu Xuan tended his strange Spirit Plants and prepared to gather more resources for them before returning to the Ten Thousand Demon Cave Blessed Land. There, he reassured the lonely Old Dragon Turtle by promising to seek out another similar Magic Tool.

• Lu Xuan worried that his stores of Grievance Souls could not meet the growing needs of the Saint Infant Fruit Sub-plants and Yin Cry Wood, and planted a Fourth Grade Seven Emotions Bean.
• Lu Xuan inspected his Spirit Plants, practiced Instant Arrow Technique on the Arrow Vines, and checked the growth of his sword grasses before heading to the Ten Thousand Demon Cave Blessed Land.
• Lu Xuan returned to the blessed land, greeted Sun Yun and the other disciples, and learned that the Spirit Beasts had been well cared for.
• Lu Xuan visited Old Dragon Turtle, who complained that Lu Xuan had forgotten him, and promised to look for another similar Magic Tool for him.

Lu Xuan asked Old Dragon Turtle about the forbidden land and went with him to inspect its imprisoned beasts. As an aged voice challenged Old Dragon Turtle for bringing a Foundation Establishment Cultivator inside, the turtle pointed out Lu Xuan’s Demon Control Token.

• Lu Xuan asked Old Dragon Turtle about the forbidden land’s beasts, and Old Dragon Turtle warned him about its effects before offering to take him inside.
• Old Dragon Turtle explained that Lu Xuan’s Demon Control Token let him enter, then carried him through the pit’s Restrictions into the forbidden land.
• Old Dragon Turtle described the common Demon Beasts kept in the upper caves and the fierce beasts restrained in the middle levels.
• Lu Xuan sensed the unsettling gazes of the Evil Beasts held at the lowest level as Old Dragon Turtle explained their dangers.
• An aged voice questioned why Old Dragon Turtle had brought a Foundation Establishment Cultivator inside, and Old Dragon Turtle answered that Lu Xuan carried a Demon Control Token.

Lu Xuan toured the forbidden area's lower level with the Old Dragon Turtle, seeing bizarre sealed Demonic Beasts, then returned to oversee the blessed land. When Emperor Flow Paste descended, he used the Demon Control Token to calm the Spirit Beasts and collected some for his own beasts, leaving with more than his fellow disciples.

• The Old Fox dismissed Lu Xuan's fate as irrelevant and retreated into the darkness, while the Old Dragon Turtle took Lu Xuan to inspect the forbidden area's lower level.
• Lu Xuan saw several grotesque Demonic Beasts sealed in Stone Caves, and the Old Dragon Turtle suppressed a giant-eyed beast when it affected Lu Xuan.
• The Old Dragon Turtle explained that Lu Xuan could use the Demon Control Token to enter the forbidden area and advised him to seek a divination or help from the Old Fox if needed.
• Lu Xuan returned to the Cloud House and spent half a month cultivating while overseeing the blessed land.
• When Emperor Flow Paste began descending, Lu Xuan used the Demon Control Token to calm the Spirit Beasts and collected around half a bottle of the paste.
• The Spirit Beasts absorbed the Emperor Flow Paste, with some growing stronger, while Lu Xuan noticed he had gathered more than his fellow disciples.

Lu Xuan received Emperor Flow Paste from Xiao Bai Ape and Old Dragon Turtle, then entered the forbidden ground to inspect its sealed beasts. There he met a powerful Heaven Sword Sect cultivator who called himself Blood Senior Brother and described himself as a sinner left to atone.

• Xiao Bai Ape delivered Old Ape's bottle of Emperor Flow Paste to Lu Xuan as an advance payment for cultivating the Mind Ape Fruit.
• Old Dragon Turtle gave Lu Xuan another bottle of Emperor Flow Paste and divined that his trip into the forbidden ground would be safe and might bring an opportunity.
• Lu Xuan used the Demon Control Token to enter the forbidden ground and explored its passages, where sealed Demonic Beasts snarled at him from their Stone Caves.
• Lu Xuan entered a Stone Hall and found a bald, blood-covered cultivator processing a wolf demon's carcass.
• The cultivator introduced himself as Blood Senior Brother and told Lu Xuan he was a sect sinner left in the forbidden grounds to atone.

Lu Xuan learned about Bald Head Blood Butcher’s work processing demon beasts in the Ten Thousand Demon Cave forbidden ground and volunteered to help. He secretly collected discarded demon beast scraps in his Gluttony Insect Pouch to feed the strange plants and beings he raised.

• Lu Xuan heard Bald Head Blood Butcher explain that he had been imprisoned for over a hundred years after taking lives and now processed demon beasts in the forbidden ground.
• Bald Head Blood Butcher described the three kinds of demon beasts he handled and how their remains were sorted or destroyed.
• Lu Xuan offered to assist with processing demon beasts, claiming he wanted to learn about their bodies and traits.
• Bald Head Blood Butcher asked Lu Xuan to throw away a pile of useless demon beast scraps in a nearby abyss.
• Lu Xuan used his Gluttony Insect Pouch to collect the scraps, intending to feed them to the Blood Karma Flower, Mutated Longevity Peach, Flesh Spirit God, and others.