Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan hosted Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator and Wang Suihuai, who had come to Thunder Fire Star Cave to investigate the Thunder Islet Cave Secret Realm, and urged them to bring him any spirit plant-related finds. After harvesting Ice Firefly Grass and absorbing its rewards, Lu Xuan advanced to the Core Formation Mid-Stage.

• Lu Xuan welcomed Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator and Wang Suihuai into his Cave Mansion and treated them to fifth-grade Ape Demon Wine.
• Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator and Wang Suihuai discussed exploring Thunder Islet Cave, while Lu Xuan warned them of the dangers and wished them a safe return.
• Before the visitors left, Lu Xuan offered to buy any Spirit Seeds, Spirit Beast cubs, embryos, or other spirit plant-related finds they discovered.
• Concerned by the growing presence of powerful cultivators near Thunder Islet Cave, Lu Xuan hastened over a hundred mature Ice Firefly Grass plants and harvested most of them.
• Lu Xuan collected the light orb rewards from the Ice Firefly Grass, absorbed the Spiritual Power, and broke through to the Core Formation Mid-Stage.

After harvesting the Ice Firefly Grass, Lu Xuan gained nearly a hundred years of cultivation and broke through to Core Formation Mid-Stage, but concealed his new realm and continued tending his plants and beasts. The Flying Thunder Ganoderma led him to a flickering light orb growing beside the Azure Wood Spirit Thunder Vine.

• Lu Xuan harvested more than eighty Ice Firefly Grass light orbs, gained cultivation and other rewards, and advanced to Core Formation Mid-Stage.
• Lu Xuan concealed his new cultivation realm and continued his routine of cultivating Spirit Plants and raising Spirit Beasts.
• Lu Xuan tempered the Purification Glazed Red Phoenix Bone and used his last sinister eye to cultivate the Illusory Breaking Eye Technique.
• Lu Xuan inspected his Spirit Plants and learned that several Core Formation cultivators had died in the Thunder Islet Cave Secret Realm.
• The Flying Thunder Ganoderma grew unusually agitated, so Lu Xuan followed it to the Azure Wood Spirit Thunder Vine and spotted a White Light Orb.

Lu Xuan learned the first level of the Divine Firmament True Method from the Azure Wood Spirit Thunder Vine and practiced its thunder arts. With his thunder supplies running low, he decided to travel to the Thunder Sea and bring the Thunder Dragon Howl with him.

• Lu Xuan harvested a Light Orb from the growing Azure Wood Spirit Thunder Vine and received the first level of the Divine Firmament True Method.
• Lu Xuan used Purification Glazed Tea Leaves to improve his comprehension and spent a month studying the cultivation method.
• Lu Xuan tested the Five Thunder Palm on the Thunder Dragon Howl, whose strong thunder resistance let it absorb the lightning without harm.
• Lu Xuan found that his spiritual thunder and Ink Green Thunder Liquid were nearly depleted and decided he needed to visit the Thunder Sea.
• Lu Xuan planned to bring the Thunder Dragon Howl back to its former territory during the trip.

Lu Xuan returned to the Thunder Sea to gather Ink Green Thunder Liquid, reunited with the Mutated Thunder Hǒu Beast, and brought the Young Thunder Dragon Howl Beast to its clan territory. There, the young beast faced its former bully with Silver-White Lotus Seeds that outclassed the clan’s Thunder Balls.

• Lu Xuan entered the Thunder Sea with his Thunder Fire Token and used the Voidsky Nightmare Eye to avoid other cultivators.
• Lu Xuan called the Mutated Thunder Hǒu Beast, fed it and the Young Thunder Dragon Howl Beast, and asked for help reaching the clan’s treasure land.
• Lu Xuan collected Ink Green Thunder Liquid before following the Mutated Thunder Hǒu Beast into its territory with the young beast.
• The Young Thunder Dragon Howl Beast visited a mound of earth in a Stone Cave and grieved before leaving with Lu Xuan.
• A tall Thunder Hǒu Beast tried to taunt the young beast with a Thunder Ball, but the young beast displayed Silver-White Lotus Seeds, making the Thunder Ball fall from its mouth.

Lu Xuan visited the aging Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros in the Thunder Hǒu Beast Territory, bringing it wine and cleaning the Thunder Death Crystals from its body. The beast gave Thunder Dragon Howl a drop of its essence blood and asked Lu Xuan to protect the Thunder Hǒu Beast Clan after its death.

• Lu Xuan presented the Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros with a pot of Ape Demon Wine, which the beast enjoyed.
• Lu Xuan cleaned more than a hundred jin of Thunder Death Crystals from the beast and noticed its decline had worsened.
• The Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros gifted Thunder Dragon Howl a drop of its essence blood to strengthen and purify its bloodline.
• The Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros revealed its lifespan was nearly exhausted and asked Lu Xuan and Thunder Dragon Howl to help the clan if it faced a crisis.
• Lu Xuan promised to help if he could, and the Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros returned to its Thunder Pool and fell asleep.

Lu Xuan encountered an injured White Jade Giant Ox in the Thunder Sea and discovered it was Xuan Kui, the Li Yang Dao Sect’s guardian spirit beast. After removing the evil worms infecting it and treating its wounds, he invited it to his Cave Mansion.

• Lu Xuan avoided other cultivators as he gathered common spirit thunder in the Thunder Sea.
• A White Jade Giant Ox silently appeared near Lu Xuan and seemed to ask for help, but he initially left it behind.
• The ox followed Lu Xuan and collapsed before him, pleading for help before falling unconscious.
• Lu Xuan identified the ox as Xuan Kui, a Fifth Grade spirit beast with the potential to reach Seventh Grade, and learned that Faceless Yin Worms had invaded it.
• Lu Xuan used the Profound Heaven Pure Subtle Method to destroy the worms, then treated Xuan Kui with a Dust Cleansing Pill and Azure Wood Source Qi.
• After Xuan Kui woke, Lu Xuan invited it to rest at his Cave Mansion.

Lu Xuan rescued the Li Yang Dao Sect’s injured Xuan Kui and treated it lavishly in his Cave Mansion. The Li Yang Dao Child, Yao Qingyue, arrived to reclaim the spirit beast, but the Xuan Kui seemed reluctant to leave and acted as if it did not recognize him.

• The White Jade Giant Ox agreed to follow Lu Xuan back to his Cave Mansion after explaining that an accident had separated it from its companions and left it injured by an Evil Spirit.
• Lu Xuan brought the Seventh Grade Xuan Kui into his Cave Mansion, checked it for lingering Evil Spirit aura, and secretly drew some essence blood.
• Lu Xuan fed the Xuan Kui Spirit Fruits, spirit nectars, and wines, and the spirit beast enjoyed its stay among the Cave Mansion’s other beasts.
• Yao Qingyue, the Li Yang Dao Child, arrived at Lu Xuan’s Cave Mansion and asked to meet the Li Yang Dao Sect’s spirit beast.
• The Xuan Kui walked out to Yao Qingyue but looked back repeatedly and acted as though it did not recognize him.

Lu Xuan reunited the Xuan Kui Spirit Beast with Yao Qingyue, learned about the dangers in the Thunder Islet Cave Secret Realm, and gained a promise of a Spirit Seed from the Li Yang Dao Sect Dao Child. After they departed, Lu Xuan discovered that his Light Splitting Shadowing Sword Grass had matured.

• Yao Qingyue found the Xuan Kui Spirit Beast at Lu Xuan's Cave Mansion and thanked Lu Xuan for saving it from an Evil Spirit.
• Yao Qingyue told Lu Xuan that the Thunder Islet Cave Secret Realm was full of deadly dangers, and Lu Xuan explained why he had stayed out of it.
• Yao Qingyue offered Lu Xuan a fifth-grade Flying Sword, but Lu Xuan declined it and accepted his promise to find him a Spirit Seed instead.
• Lu Xuan gave Yao Qingyue a pot of Ape Demon Wine, and Yao Qingyue left with the Xuan Kui Spirit Beast.
• Lu Xuan inspected his Spirit Field and discovered that the Light Splitting Shadowing Sword Grass had matured.

Lu Xuan harvested a mature Fifth Grade Light Splitting Shadowing Sword Grass and obtained a powerful Sixth Grade Formless Ice Soul Sword Talisman. He tended his remaining Sword Grasses and assessed the difficult growing conditions of his newly sprouted high-grade plants.

• Lu Xuan harvested the Light Splitting Shadowing Sword Grass and found that its Formless Sword Qi could divide unpredictably.
• Lu Xuan opened the plant’s light orb and obtained a Sixth Grade Formless Ice Soul Sword Talisman capable of harming powerful Core Formation cultivators.
• Lu Xuan stored the Sword Talisman and planned to use the Light Splitting Shadowing Sword Grass alongside his Peacock King Ming Sword and White Bone Killing Sword Grass.
• Lu Xuan tended his Thunderlight Sword Grasses with spiritual arts and Wind Lightning Sword Qi, while considering how to acquire or cultivate more high-grade Sword Grasses.
• Lu Xuan saw that five Fifth Grade Star Fruits had sprouted but needed more star-related spirit ores, and he worried that the Yin-Yang Reversal Fruit lacked the treasures and environment required to grow.

Lu Xuan hosted Xu Cheng during a patrol and learned that ambushes had been occurring in Thunder Fire Star Cave. After Xu Cheng left, Lu Xuan discovered that the Azure Horn Dragon Carp had advanced to Fourth Grade and received a Black Flood Dragon Scale, then reminded himself not to become careless about valuable treasures.

• Lu Xuan invited Xu Cheng, who was patrolling with four Foundation Establishment cultivators, into his Cave Mansion for Ice Marrow Spirit Wine.
• Xu Cheng told Lu Xuan that some cultivators had begun ambushing others after returning from the Thunder Sea, and showed off his fifth-grade armor.
• Xu Cheng left with Spirit Fruits and spirit syrup for himself and the guards, and Lu Xuan activated his Protective Array to resume tending his Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan sensed that the Azure Horn Dragon Carp had advanced to Fourth Grade, though it retreated to its nest when it sensed the Dazzling Fire Flood Dragon.
• Lu Xuan collected the White Light Orb and obtained a Fifth Grade Black Flood Dragon Scale, which he planned to sell through You Jian General Store.
• Lu Xuan questioned his growing indifference to Fifth Grade treasures, inspected the scale again, and judged it even more common.

Lu Xuan tended his strange and evil Spirit Plants and decided to seek a new Cave Mansion and supplies at Fengyuan Star Cave. Si Tu Yuan then visited with an unidentified spirit seed from an Evil Spirit nest, answering Lu Xuan’s offer to buy rare seeds.

• Lu Xuan fed the Bewitching Corpse Skin, Flesh Spirit God, and other strange Spirit Plants, noting that he needed steady supplies of flesh and malicious ghosts.
• Lu Xuan considered moving his strange and evil Spirit Plants to a Cave Mansion in Fengyuan Star Cave because his current Spirit Field was running out of space.
• Si Tu Yuan arrived at Lu Xuan’s Cave Mansion and praised its two Protective Arrays.
• Si Tu Yuan explained that he had obtained an unknown spirit seed from an Evil Spirit nest and offered to show it to Lu Xuan.
• Lu Xuan welcomed the chance to acquire a rare seed after publicizing his willingness to buy spirit seeds from the Thunder Islet Cave Secret Realm.

Lu Xuan inspected and bought a mysterious sixth-grade Ghoul Tumor Demon Wood Spirit Seed from Si Tu Yuan after negotiating its price. He planted it in the Netherworld Spirit Field and later noticed that his Eightfold Palace had begun to sprout.

• Si Tu Yuan showed Lu Xuan a strange Spirit Seed, and Lu identified it as a sixth-grade Ghoul Tumor Demon Wood that required flesh, blood, and soul nourishment.
• Lu questioned the Spirit Seed's grade and unknown cultivation method, then bargained with Si Tu Yuan until they agreed on 118,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu paid Si Tu Yuan, invited him to bring more rare Spirit Plants and related treasures, and watched him leave.
• Lu planted the Ghoul Tumor Demon Wood in the Netherworld Spirit Field and fed it Demon Beast Blood Meat.
• Lu inspected the high-grade Spirit Plants in his central spirit field and discovered that the Eightfold Palace had started to sprout.

Lu Xuan discovered that his Seventh Grade Eightfold Palace had begun its first layer and tended the Spirit Plants in his Cave Mansion. Two months later, the Demon Ghost Vine broke through to become a Sixth Grade Demon Transformation Spirit Plant, and Lu Xuan rewarded it with a Thunderstorm Lotus Seed.

• Lu Xuan saw the Eightfold Palace's Xun Wind Palace layer begin to grow and determined it needed Spirit Wind and Strange Wind treasures.
• Lu Xuan harvested Ice Firefly Grass seeds, moved the Sword Nurturing Gourds beside the Profound Cave Sword Tablet, and tended the other Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan stayed in his Cave Mansion for two months, occasionally visiting Star Plucking Tower while no other cultivators brought High-Level Spirit Seeds to sell.
• Lu Xuan sensed a disturbance near the Bewitching Peach forest and watched the Demon Ghost Vine absorb Spiritual Energy before transforming into a single enormous vine.
• Lu Xuan recognized that the Demon Ghost Vine had broken through to Sixth Grade and gave it a Thunderstorm Lotus Seed as a reward.

Lu Xuan obtained the incomplete Sixth Grade Divine Wood Azure Kettle from the Demon Ghost Vine’s breakthrough and discovered that it could strengthen wood-attribute Spiritual Energy, helping him cultivate high-grade Spirit Plants faster. He planned to seek a way to restore the treasure and prepare for a trip to Fengyuan Star Cave, bringing the Flesh Spirit God along.

• The Demon Ghost Vine’s breakthrough to Sixth Grade gave Lu Xuan the Divine Wood Azure Kettle, an incomplete mid-grade magical treasure.
• Lu Xuan tested the kettle and found that it stored, compressed, and transformed wood-attribute Spiritual Energy, including Azure Wood Source Qi.
• Lu Xuan decided to seek the kettle’s lost source essence through the Divine Wood Sect and use the treasure to shorten high-grade Spirit Plants’ maturation cycles.
• Lu Xuan reviewed his plans to find Spirit Wind Treasures, nourish the Yin-Yang Reversal Fruit, visit Star Plucking Tower, and replenish supplies for his heretical spirit plants.
• Lu Xuan summoned the Flesh Spirit God and promised to take it outside for a feast.

Lu Xuan visited You Jian General Store, rewarded Wen Qian for his service, and entrusted him with new treasures to sell. He then bought a Wind Aperture Stone from the merchant guild to nourish the Xun Wind Palace and asked the guild to search for treasures related to yin and yang.

• Lu Xuan learned that Wen Qian had studied spirit plants and was nearing a breakthrough, then gave him three Foundation Establishment Pills and permission to set the shop aside while advancing.
• Lu Xuan gave Wen Qian a Black Flood Dragon Scale and other treasures to sell at You Jian General Store.
• Lu Xuan asked Female cultivator Wen at the merchant guild for fifth-grade wind-attribute treasures and treasures related to yin and yang.
• Female cultivator Wen showed Lu Xuan a Wind Aperture Stone, which he bought for thirty-five thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Female cultivator Wen promised to inquire at other Branch Buildings and headquarters about yin-yang treasures.

Lu Xuan entered Fengyuan Star Cave and met Ghost Seventeen, a white bone ghost cultivator who offered to guide him. Ghost Seventeen explained the cave’s seven layers, leaving Lu Xuan with an overview of its dangers, factions, and markets.

• Lu Xuan entered Fengyuan Star Cave and found a gloomy town filled with Evil Cultivators, ghost cultivators, and Yin beings.
• Ghost Seventeen emerged from the ground and offered to guide Lu Xuan through the Star Cave.
• Lu Xuan agreed to hear Ghost Seventeen’s explanation in exchange for Spirit Stones.
• Ghost Seventeen explained that Fengyuan Star Cave had seven layers, from the low-level first-layer transit station to the sealed ghost city of Fengdu on the seventh layer.

Lu Xuan traveled through the layers of Fengyuan Star Cave to find a suitable place for a Cave Mansion and investigate the Ghost Market for strange, evil Spirit Seeds. He reached the Fifth Layer but put off choosing a site to seek out the market first.

• Lu Xuan questioned the White Bone Ghost Cultivator about establishing a Cave Mansion and learned how to reach the deeper layers of Fengyuan Star Cave.
• Lu Xuan bought a map of the Abyss Realm from the White Bone Ghost Cultivator and had him guide the way through the Second and Third Layers.
• At the passage to the Fourth Layer, the White Bone Ghost Cultivator stopped, and Lu Xuan rewarded him with a Yin Soul Pearl and three Middle Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan traveled alone through the Fourth Layer to the Fifth Layer, using the Soul Capturing Secret Method to deal with Yin souls.
• Lu Xuan decided to postpone choosing a Cave Mansion site and head to the Ghost Market in search of high-grade evil Spirit Seeds.

Lu Xuan visited the Ghost Market in Fengyuan Star Cave, where he found a juvenile Fifth Grade Blood Spring Clam Mother and considered acquiring it. He offered its owner, Ren Hong, a Fiend Origin Fruit in exchange.

• Lu Xuan entered the Ghost Market on the sixth level of Fengyuan Star Cave and surveyed its evil-path wares.
• Lu Xuan considered which of his unusual treasures he might sell, but decided to keep his most valuable items and cultivation techniques.
• Lu Xuan found Ren Hong displaying a Blood Spring Clam Mother in a basin of blood and learned its abilities by feeding it bloodwater.
• Lu Xuan offered Ren Hong a Fiend Origin Fruit in exchange for the Blood Spring Clam Mother.

Lu Xuan traded for a juvenile Blood Spring Clam Mother and bought a damaged Ten Thousand Souls Banner in the Ghost Market. He discovered that a strange Sixth Grade Fragrant Flesh Branch was an Evil Buddha Spirit Plant, then decided to grow it without consuming its fruit.

• Lu Xuan exchanged a Fiend Origin Fruit with Ren for a juvenile Blood Spring Clam Mother, its Fourth Grade rune chain, and ten thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan bought a damaged Ten Thousand Souls Banner containing countless Yin Souls for thirteen thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan purchased several Fourth Grade evil-path Magic Tools to cultivate the eerie Spirit Plants in his Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuan secretly examined a flesh-colored branch at a stall and learned it was a Sixth Grade Fragrant Flesh Branch born from an Evil Buddha's flesh and blood.
• Lu Xuan decided to grow the Fragrant Flesh Branch, collect its Light Orb reward, and sell it without eating its fruit.

Lu Xuan bought several rare evil spirit plant seeds at the Fengyuan Star Cave Ghost Market, then lured two cultivators who tried to rob him into an unguarded level and killed them. He left with their treasures and souls, while Big Meatball devoured one of their thighs.

• Lu Xuan bargained with a mysterious seller and bought the Sixth Grade Fragrant Flesh Branch Spirit Seed for sixty thousand spirit stones.
• At another stall, Lu Xuan bought three Fifth Grade Soul Insect Fungus Spirit Seeds, adding them to the rare plants and evil-path treasures he had acquired at the Ghost Market.
• Lu Xuan noticed that two cultivators had targeted him and followed him out of the Ghost Market, so he restrained his aura and headed for the fifth level of Fengyuan Star Cave.
• The two would-be robbers tracked Lu Xuan with a fierce-ghost Talisman, but Lu Xuan appeared holding their Blue-Black Imp trapped in a net of clear qi.
• Lu Xuan killed the two cultivators with his techniques and treasures, took their Storage Bags, fed one thigh to Big Meatball, and used a strange lantern to drain their souls.