Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan harvested the Universe Pearl and prepared to refine the Defective Grotto-heaven into a Personal Space using eight Seventh Grade Treasures. After moving its high-grade Spirit Plants into the Fangcun Book, he began the refinement by spreading the Eightfold Palace over the grotto-heaven.

• Lu Xuan harvested the Universe Pearl from the Cosmos Palace and learned it could help refine a grotto-heaven into a Personal Space.
• He gathered the eight Exotic Treasures needed for the refinement, including the Universe Pearl and the treasures of wind, earth, water, fire, yin, yang, and cosmos.
• Lu Xuan transplanted the Defective Grotto-heaven’s high-grade Spirit Plants into the Fangcun Book to protect them during the process.
• He surveyed the grotto-heaven from above and cast the Eightfold Palace into the air, where it became a gigantic illusory Spirit Flower enveloping the island.

Lu Xuan refined his Defective Grotto-heaven with eight Exotic Treasures, transforming it into a Personal Space held within a Spirit Flower. After transplanting its Spirit Plants, he planned to expand the space before moving in more plants and Demonic Beasts.

• Lu Xuan merged eight Exotic Treasures into the Defective Grotto-heaven, which collapsed and re-formed as a chaotic space infused with the treasures' powers.
• Lu Xuan shaped the new space into a grotto-heaven, then entered it and discovered that it could grow by absorbing soil and forming treasured lands.
• Lu Xuan decided to claim the dragon vein associated with the Azure Dragon Wood in the Thunderfire Cave Mansion and considered the Personal Space's future potential.
• Lu Xuan transplanted the Spirit Plants from the Fangcun Book into the Personal Space and returned to the void with the Spirit Flower.
• Lu Xuan planned to expand the space before moving in Spirit Plants from the two cave mansions in Heavenly Star Grotto and the Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros and Thunder Hǒu Beast Clan, then set off for the Cloud Void Domain.

Lu Xuan returned to Thunder Fire Star Cave, welcomed his Spirit Beasts and visitors, and moved most of his Spirit Plants into his Personal Space. He accelerated the Azure Dragon Wood’s growth and harvested it, receiving an Azure Dragon Corpse as its reward.

• Lu Xuan returned to Thunder Fire Star Cave with the Zhou Tian Star Fighting Sword Formation and reunited with Thunder Ghost, the Grass Puppet, and his other Spirit Beasts.
• He welcomed Thunder Fire Star Master and other visiting cultivators, then began transplanting his Spirit Plants into his Personal Space.
• Lu Xuan planted the Pure Yang Golden Lotuses in the Fire Spring and moved his other fifth-grade and lower Spirit Plants.
• He entered the central area and used Wood Spirit Essence to mature the nearly complete Seventh Grade Azure Dragon Wood.
• Lu Xuan harvested the Azure Dragon Wood and received a Rank 8 Azure Dragon Corpse from its White Light Orb.

Lu Xuan claimed the Azure Dragon Corpse and newly formed dragon vein for his Personal Space, then summoned Azure Sky True Lord to collect the matured Azure Dragon Wood. Azure Sky praised Lu’s cultivation and asked to see where the wood had grown, but Lu refused, leaving Azure Sky to consider how to repay a Nascent Soul cultivator whose rise had far exceeded his expectations.

• Lu Xuan identified the skeleton as a Rank 8 Azure Dragon Corpse and placed it in the Fangcun Book, considering ways to use its Dragon Marrow and True Dragon aura.
• Lu Xuan pulled the newly formed earth-element dragon vein from the Azure Dragon Wood’s Spirit Field and buried it in his Personal Space.
• Lu Xuan contacted Azure Sky True Lord and presented him with the matured Seventh Grade Azure Dragon Wood at Thunder Fire Star Cave.
• Azure Sky asked to see the cultivation site, but Lu refused, saying it was a confidential location.
• Azure Sky praised Lu and wondered what reward could repay him, reflecting on how Lu had advanced from Core Formation Mid-Stage to Nascent Soul in less than a hundred years.

Lu Xuan learned where Azure Sky True Lord had found the Azure Dragon Wood sapling and expanded his Personal Space to prepare it for the Thunder Hǒu Beast Clan and other spirit beasts. He arranged for Hong Qinghai to manage his shop in the Heavenly Star Grotto while he visited less often, and left him with cultivation resources and a powerful sword talisman.

• Lu Xuan asked Azure Sky True Lord about the Azure Dragon Wood sapling, and Azure Sky revealed the location and dangers of Fallen Dragon Abyss after swearing a heart-demon oath.
• Lu Xuan gathered spirit water from Black Water Star Cave and Spirit Soil from Wu Earth Star Cave, then expanded his Personal Space to roughly a thousand li in radius.
• Lu Xuan moved the Dazzling Fire Flood Dragon, Alligator Dragon, Rock Armor Turtle, and other spirit beasts into his Personal Space.
• Hong Qinghai brought Lu Xuan the shop's earnings and accounts, and Lu Xuan told him he would visit the Cloud Void Domain less often and asked him to keep managing the shop.
• Lu Xuan gave Hong Qinghai a Fifth Grade Primal Spirit Pill and a Sixth Grade Formless Ice Soul Sword Talisman, and promised to help him break through to Core Formation when he reached Foundation Establishment Perfection.

Lu Xuan prepared to leave Cloud Void Domain, said farewell to old friends, and visited the Thunder Hǒu Beast Clan to arrange its migration into his Personal Space. The Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros gave him a Seventh Grade Flying Thunder Ganoderma King Spirit Seed and, after seeing the space, agreed it could shelter the clan.

• Lu Xuan watched Hong Qinghai leave and resolved to bring him to Sword Abyss City once the shop there was established.
• Daoist Mu visited Lu Xuan to share a farewell drink and reflected that he might not live to see Lu Xuan again.
• Lu Xuan entered the Thunder Sea, fed two Silver-White Lotus Seeds to the Mutated Thunder Hǒu Beast, and followed it into the clan's territory.
• The Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros gave Lu Xuan a Seventh Grade Flying Thunder Ganoderma King Spirit Seed as thanks for letting the clan move into his Personal Space.
• Lu Xuan brought the Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros into his Personal Space, where it approved of the surroundings and agreed the space could shelter the Thunder Hǒu Beast Clan.

Lu Xuan moved the Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros and the Thunder Hǒu Beast Clan into his Personal Space, where the Rhinoceros installed its Nine Heavens Thunder Attraction Stele. He then arranged for Ling Gu to leave the Fengyuan Star Cave Mansion in the hands of Sun Kai and Wu Peng while Lu Xuan planned how to relocate its remaining strange Spirit Plants.

• Lu Xuan persuaded the Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros to remain active and welcomed the Thunder Hǒu Beast Clan into his Personal Space.
• The Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros placed the Nine Heavens Thunder Attraction Stele in the space, where it could gather Thunder Qi and form a Thunder Attribute Spirit Ground.
• Lu Xuan moved the Thunder Hǒu Beasts into their new habitat and relocated two Azure Wood Spirit Thunder Vines and their Thunder Pool nearby.
• Lu Xuan planned to create a secluded Netherworld Spirit Field for the remaining strange Spirit Plants and the Flesh Spirit God in his Personal Space.
• Through Ling Gu, Lu Xuan told Sun Kai and Wu Peng that he would leave to seek a breakthrough and entrusted them with the Fengyuan Star Cave Mansion.
• Ling Gu gave Sun Kai and Wu Peng control of the Fifth Grade Array Formation and three Sword Talismans each, while warning them against betrayal.

Lu Xuan inspected the creatures and Evil Spirit Plants in his Netherworld Spirit Field before harvesting the mature Corpse Forest. Its reward was an incomplete Seventh Grade Heavenly Demon Corpse Refining Furnace, which could refine corpses into Corpse Puppets.

• Lu Xuan left the Fengyuan Star Cave Mansion in the care of two Evil Cultivators and entered the Netherworld Spirit Field.
• He fed the Flesh Spirit God and warned it and the Thousand Hands Demon to behave when he moved them into his Personal Space.
• Lu Xuan visited the Blood Spring Clam Mother and checked the Talisman Yin Peach, Dark Nightmare Willow, Yellow Springs Undying Tree, and Buddha Mother Demon Seed.
• He harvested the mature Sixth Grade Corpse Forest and received an incomplete Seventh Grade Heavenly Demon Corpse Refining Furnace.
• Lu Xuan learned that the furnace could refine corpses into Corpse Puppets, including Sixth Grade puppets in its incomplete state.

Lu Xuan left the Cloud Void Domain and returned to the sword sect, bringing his wicked spirit plants and other possessions into his Personal Space. After settling back into Still True Sword Peak, he evaluated his disciple Mu Yuanping’s talent for condensing Spirit Gathering Grass Orbs and urged him to keep cultivation first.

• Lu Xuan stored the Heavenly Demon Corpse Refining Furnace and Corpse Forest for a future sale, moved his incarnation and wicked spirit plants into his Personal Space, and told the Azure Horn Thunder Rhinoceros he was leaving for the sword sect.
• Lu Xuan departed the Cloud Void Domain and arrived at Still True Sword Peak over a month later, where White Ape reported that the Cave Mansion and its visitors had been handled.
• Lu Xuan planted the Profound Yellow Tree, True Qi Mysterious Gourd, and Extreme Saint Demon Fruit in his Personal Space and brought the Listening Wind Beast there to tend the fruit.
• Mu Yuanping visited Lu Xuan and presented three Spirit Gathering Grass Orbs he had condensed after studying the method.
• Lu Xuan praised Mu Yuanping’s talent and advised him not to neglect cultivation, while privately considering how his disciple’s orbs could benefit him.

Lu Xuan cultivated his Sword Grass and discovered a mutated White Bone Killing Sword Grass Spirit Seed, then reunited with Divine Wood Sect True Disciple Lin Jiangyuan, who visited to buy his spirit brews. The two shared wine and began building a closer friendship.

• Lu Xuan inspected his Spirit Field, cultivated its plants, and found that the Sword Grass seedlings and other spirit plants were thriving.
• Lu Xuan nurtured White Bone Killing Sword Grass Spirit Seeds in the Yangxuan Sword Sheath and discovered a mutated seed with a purer Slaughter Sword Intent.
• Lu Xuan decided to plant the mutated seed for seed condensation while continuing to nurture more seeds in the Sword Sheath.
• A Sword Sect cultivator told Lu Xuan that Lin Jiangyuan of the Divine Wood Sect had come to visit, and Lu Xuan welcomed the Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Lu Xuan offered Lin Jiangyuan Heart Flame Wine and Ape Demon Wine at a discount, and the two drank and discussed their shared interests in spirit plants and spirit brews.

Lu Xuan hosted Lin Jiangyuan, discussed the Divine Wood Sect’s growth-accelerating resources, and later harvested mature Spirit Plants in his Personal Space. Harvesting Primal Spirit Ginseng granted him decades of cultivation, and he planned to increase its yield to advance steadily as a Nascent Soul cultivator.

• Lu Xuan asked Lin Jiangyuan about Qing Fu, then exchanged Spirit Plant cultivation insights and learned that the Divine Wood Sect possessed many growth-accelerating methods and resources.
• Lin Jiangyuan invited Lu Xuan to visit the Divine Wood Sect, while Lu Xuan secretly considered seeking its inherited Treasure to complete the Divine Wood Azure Kettle.
• Lu Xuan harvested seventeen Crimson Flame Plums, obtaining nine portions of Heavenly Flame Essence and eight Qian Yuan Fire Cloud Needles, completing a second set of Flying Needle Magical Artifacts.
• Lu Xuan spent more than a year cultivating Spirit Plants, practicing abilities, refining treasures, and teaching his three disciples.
• Lu Xuan harvested four mature Primal Spirit Ginseng plants and gained fifty years of cultivation, along with a Rank 5 Primal Spirit Pill and experience refining it.

Lu Xuan learned that the Sword Palace was nurturing a Rank 8 Sword Grass spirit seed and began planning how to secure it. Li Xuanchen said Lu had a chance despite competition from stronger cultivators, leaving Lu determined to improve his prospects before the seed matured.

• Li Haotian ended his secluded cultivation, told Lu Xuan he planned to explore a void Secret Realm with trusted Fellow Disciples, and received a Sixth Grade Formless Ice Soul Sword Talisman for protection.
• Lu Xuan waited for several Primal Spirit Ginsengs in his Spirit Field to mature and produce cultivation rewards.
• Li Xuanchen visited Lu Xuan and revealed that a Rank 8 Sword Grass spirit seed was being nurtured in the core region of the Profound Cave Realm.
• Li Xuanchen explained that Lu Xuan's Sword Grass cultivation skill gave him an advantage, though Nascent Soul Middle Stage and late-stage cultivators with greater sect contributions were also competing for the seed.
• Lu Xuan resolved to improve the White Bone Killing Sword Grass, visit the Profound Cave Realm to study the Profound Cave Sword Scripture, and seek support from Sword Master Hai Zhen and Sword Palace Elders.

Lu Xuan declined Li Xuanchen’s offer to guard a blessed land and moved his Spirit Beasts into his Personal Space. He ripened the Twin White Lotus and received an ancient secret art that could let him travel through an incarnation.

• Li Xuanchen asked Lu Xuan to guard a blessed land for ten years, but Lu Xuan politely declined, citing his Sword Grass and Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan moved Fat Bird Wind Falcon, Cloud Stepping Lynx, and his other Spirit Beasts into his Personal Space, where they explored freely.
• Lu Xuan inspected the increasingly spirit-rich Personal Space and decided to ripen the Twin White Lotus to make an incarnation.
• Lu Xuan used six drops of Primal Chaos Tree Sap to mature the Twin White Lotus and harvested it, receiving the Seventh Grade Twin White Lotus and the Other Transformation Freedom Mystical Method.
• Lu Xuan learned that the art could entrust divided Divine Sense to incarnations, puppets, and spiritual objects, and began studying it with plans to travel through a Twin White Lotus incarnation.

Lu Xuan refined the Twin White Lotus into a White Lotus Avatar and discovered that it could harvest light orbs to grow stronger. He then harvested his final seven Primal Spirit Ginseng, gaining pills, recipe experience, and fifty years of cultivation.

• Lu Xuan nurtured the Twin White Lotus with his essence blood, then merged a strand of Divine Sense into it to create the White Lotus Avatar.
• Lu Xuan tested the avatar’s abilities and found that it had exceptional talent, substantial physical strength, and limitations in Divine Sense, cultivation, and using magical treasures.
• The White Lotus Avatar harvested an Ice Firefly Grass and touched its light orb, confirming that it could receive light orb rewards.
• Lu Xuan equipped the avatar with the Zhou Tian Star Fighting Sword Formation and considered using it to cultivate or travel in his place.
• Lu Xuan harvested the final seven Primal Spirit Ginseng and received three fifth-grade Primal Spirit Pills, two Primal Spirit Pill Elixir Recipe experience packages, and fifty years of cultivation.

Lu Xuan tended his spirit plants, let his White Lotus Avatar build goodwill among Sword Sect cultivators, and waited for his Alligator Dragon to break through. The Alligator Dragon reached Sixth Grade and yielded a Seventh Grade Crimson Dragon Spirit Pearl.

• Lu Xuan collected thirty-seven Primal Spirit Ginseng seeds and took the Yangxuan Sword Sheath out to meet a Sword Xuan Hedgehog.
• Lu Xuan used his White Lotus Avatar to meet with Li Haotian, Chen Qingshuang, and Mu Yuanping, then visited familiar Nascent Soul cultivators and gave them fifth-grade Spirit Brew.
• Two months later, Lu Xuan sensed that an Alligator Dragon was about to break through and encouraged it to absorb spiritual energy.
• The Alligator Dragon broke through to Sixth Grade, and Lu Xuan obtained a Seventh Grade Crimson Dragon Spirit Pearl from its light orb.

Lu Xuan harvested Pure Yang Golden Lotus Seeds, received Thunderstorm Lotus seeds and their cultivation method, and planted them in his Personal Space. Preparing to visit Fire God Palace with fire-attribute gifts, he received a powerful sword from the Old Sword Flood Dragon for protection.

• Lu Xuan harvested more than a hundred Crimson-Gold Lotus Seeds and collected rewards from twenty-eight White Light Orbs, including Taiyi Pure Yang True Fire and Heart Flame Wine.
• Mu Heng delivered the Thunderstorm Lotus Seed Condensation Method and fifty Spirit Seeds from the Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild, and Lu Xuan planted them in the Thunder Hǒu Beast Territory.
• Lu Xuan decided to visit Fire God Palace and bring the Fire God Ape spirit fruits and Heart Flame Wine.
• Lu Xuan told the Old Sword Flood Dragon about his trip and received a sword blade containing its original power for protection.

Lu Xuan traveled to the Fire God Palace with White Ape to visit the Fire God Ape, displaying his power as he crossed the void. After arriving, he was recognized by the sect’s disciples, and a senior welcomed him from within the palace.

• Lu Xuan took White Ape through the void using his physical strength and Thunder Escape Technique, destroying a giant demonic beast with his sword qi.
• After many days of travel, Lu Xuan reached the Heavenly Fire Domain and flew toward the Fire God Palace.
• A crimson-robed cultivator stopped Lu Xuan at the palace entrance, then recognized him as a renowned Nascent Soul True Lord from the Profound Cave Sword Sect.
• Lu Xuan said he had come to visit Senior Fire God Ape, and the guard sent a golden-scaled snake to report his arrival.
• A powerful voice from inside the Fire God Palace welcomed Lu Xuan and apologized for not receiving him sooner.

Lu Xuan visited Fire God Palace to deliver Spirit Fruits and Spirit Brew to Fire God Ape, then toured the Heavenly Fire Domain with Yan Li. After three days, Yan Li reported that a Spirit Beast belonging to a Fire God Palace elder had clashed with Lu Xuan’s Spirit Beast.

• Yan Li welcomed Lu Xuan to Fire God Palace and served him Spirit Brew and Fire Jade Lotus Seeds.
• Yan Li escorted Lu Xuan through the palace to meet Fire God Ape.
• Lu Xuan gave Fire God Ape Pure Yang Golden Lotus Seeds, Crimson Flame Plums, Heart Flame Wine, and Ape Demon Wine, and relayed greetings from Sword Flood Dragon.
• Fire God Ape praised the offerings and asked Yan Li to entertain Lu Xuan as he toured the Heavenly Fire Domain.
• After three days of touring, Yan Li told Lu Xuan that a Nascent Soul elder’s mischievous Spirit Beast had quarreled with Lu Xuan’s Spirit Beast.

Lu Xuan and Yan Li arrived to find the Sky Supporting White Jade Ape fighting Zhuang Chunqiu’s Long-Armed Fire Ape over the origin Monkey Hair bestowed by the Fire God Ape. Lu Xuan allowed the spar to continue, and the White Ape shattered the Fire Ape’s newly formed dharma image with the Sea Suppressing Staff.

• Yan Li explained that the Long-Armed Fire Ape had attacked after sensing the origin Monkey Hair’s aura on Lu Xuan’s White Ape.
• Lu Xuan went with Yan Li to watch the fight and told Zhuang Chunqiu he would allow the White Ape to spar.
• Lu Xuan and Zhuang Chunqiu agreed that the two Spirit Beasts could fight as long as neither was killed.
• The White Ape and Long-Armed Fire Ape fought fiercely until the Fire Ape summoned a towering four-armed dharma image.
• The White Ape produced the Crimson Gold Long Staff and shattered the Fire Ape’s dharma image with a strike.

Lu Xuan’s White Ape defeated Zhuang Chunqiu’s Long-Armed Fire Ape, and Zhuang challenged Lu to a martial contest to recover his pride. When Zhuang wagered a rare Seventh Grade Spirit Seed, Lu accepted the match.

• The White Ape used the Seventh Grade Sea Suppressing Staff to defeat the Long-Armed Fire Ape, then stopped when Lu Xuan ordered it to.
• Yan Li and a Fire God Palace cultivator praised the White Ape, while Zhuang Chunqiu treated his injured Spirit Beast and recalled it.
• Zhuang Chunqiu taunted Lu Xuan and challenged him to a Combat Arts match, but Lu initially declined.
• Zhuang Chunqiu offered a rare Seventh Grade fire-attribute spirit seed as his stake and asked only that Lu apologize to the Long-Armed Fire Ape if Lu lost.
• Lu Xuan accepted the match after hearing about the spirit seed.