Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan secured a Fourth Grade Thousand Illusions Cloud and Mist Array to protect his courtyard and continued buying Demon Beast eyes and rare insect specimens for his Spirit Plants. After acquiring Silver Thread Mantis larvae and Black Armor Beetle eggs, he prepared to raise them alongside his Mystic Insect Vine.

• Lu Xuan obtained a Thousand Illusions Cloud and Mist Array from the Illusory Mist Luo Fruit’s Light Orb reward, easing his concerns about protecting his courtyard in Sword Gate Town.
• A female cultivator sold Lu Xuan fourteen fresh Demon Beast eyes, including a special One-Eyed Barbarian Rhino eye, for 240 Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan stored the eyes in his Life-Preserving Bag and reflected on the expense and value of cultivating high-grade Spirit Plants.
• A tall cultivator brought Lu Xuan seven Black Armor Beetle eggs and two Second Grade Silver Thread Mantis larvae from Red Miasma Valley.
• Lu Xuan bought the insect specimens for 112 Spirit Stones and planned to raise them alongside the Mystic Insect Vine.

Lu Xuan planted insect eggs and larvae to support the Mystic Insect Vine, then avoided joining a dangerous Secret Realm expedition and returned to his Cave Mansion. While sharing a meal with his spirit beasts, he learned that the Luan Bird visiting him was a powerful Mystic Sky White Luan with the potential to become a Seventh Grade spirit beast.

• Lu Xuan placed Black Armor Beetle eggs and Silver Thread Mantis larvae beside the Mystic Insect Vine Spirit Seed to support its growth.
• Lu Xuan canceled his task for Demon Beast Eyes after deciding the eyes he had received and those already on the way were sufficient for the Hundred Eyed Treant.
• A cultivator told Lu Xuan that a newly discovered Secret Realm had drawn interest, but Lu Xuan declined an expedition because he did not want to risk his life or delay his Spirit Plants' harvest.
• Lu Xuan cooked an Iron Pincer Crab and shared pieces with the Cloud Stepping Lynx, Wind Falcon Chick, and the returning Luan Bird.
• Lu Xuan identified the Luan Bird as a third-grade Mystic Sky White Luan, a descendant of a Sixth Grade spirit beast with the potential to grow into a Seventh Grade spirit beast.

Lu Xuan fed the juvenile Pure White Luan Bird Crab meat and Crab Spirit Paste, hoping to build a bond with the powerful demon beast, then tended his Spirit Plants. Yao Qing arrived with an opportunity for him to plant mutated Spirit Plants for a Foundation Establishment martial uncle.

• Lu Xuan charmed the Pure White Luan Bird with food, and it flew away through the Mist Concealing Formation after enjoying Crab Spirit Paste.
• Lu Xuan scolded the Wind Falcon Chick for being fat, then shared the remaining Crab Spirit Paste between it and the Cloud Stepping Lynx.
• Lu Xuan inspected his Spirit Plants and waited for the Flood Dragon Vine's Progress Bar to fill before harvesting it.
• Yao Qing visited Lu Xuan and offered him work planting a batch of Mutated Spirit Plants for a Foundation Establishment martial uncle.

Yao Qing recruited Lu Xuan to help Uncle-Master He care for a batch of mutated spirit plants, and he accepted the mission after confirming he would have freedom over his time. As Uncle-Master He explained spirit plant variety improvement, Lu Xuan realized his abilities suited the work, but worried that he lacked the Spirit Stones to pursue it.

• Yao Qing asked Lu Xuan to care for Uncle-Master He's mutated spirit plants, and Lu Xuan agreed after confirming the mission would not restrict his free time.
• Yao Qing brought Lu Xuan to Uncle-Master He's mountain residence, where he met the Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Uncle-Master He led Lu Xuan and Yao Qing toward the spirit field and explained two methods of improving spirit plant varieties and their risks.
• Lu Xuan concluded that his ability to assess and treat spirit plants made him well suited to variety improvement, but he lacked the Spirit Stones to fund experiments.

Lu Xuan began cultivating a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s Burning Origin Wood and compared the mutated plants with ordinary ones. He discovered that the mutations produced flawed, ordinary, and improved plants, including one that had advanced to Third Grade.

• The Gentle and Graceful Female Cultivator showed Lu Xuan thirty-six mutated Burning Origin Wood and asked him to cultivate them.
• Lu Xuan requested ten ordinary Burning Origin Wood for comparison, and a cultivator brought them to the Spirit Field.
• Lu Xuan examined each plant by carefully transplanting it and reading the information he perceived.
• Lu Xuan found that the Burning Origin Wood included flawed, ordinary, and slightly improved variants.
• At the fourteenth plant, Lu Xuan discovered a Third Grade Burning Origin Wood with superior fire-talisman materials.

Lu Xuan finished recording and testing the Variant Burning Origin Wood while carrying out his new assignment, then returned to his Cave Mansion and harvested a mature Third Grade Flood Dragon Vine. Its White Light Orb rewarded him with the upper section of the Fifth Grade Grand Void Dragon Transformation Art, which required bathing in a decoction made with Flood Dragon and Chi Dragon essence blood.

• Lu Xuan counted the Burning Origin Wood, recorded its growth, and planned experiments on the Variant plants’ cultivation needs and tolerances.
• Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion by Spirit Crane and played with the Wind Falcon Chick and Cloud Stepping Lynx.
• Lu Xuan checked the Third Grade Flood Dragon Vine and found that its progress was complete, then harvested it at Superior Grade.
• Lu Xuan opened the resulting White Light Orb and obtained the upper section of the Fifth Grade Grand Void Dragon Transformation Art, which could let him briefly assume Half-Dragon Form.
• Lu Xuan learned that cultivating the Art required a decoction prepared with Flood Dragon and Chi Dragon essence blood, and wondered whether he would have to seek more at Thousand Dragon Lake.

Lu Xuan took blood samples from the Flood Dragon Giant Pythons for a routine checkup, while Huang Yuan asked whether he had Spirit Fruits for an Ink Scale Flood Dragon. After the other cultivators learned about his inspections, they eagerly asked him to check their own flood dragons too.

• Lu Xuan planted two cuttings from a Superior Grade Flood Dragon Vine and tended the Spirit Plants in his field.
• Lu Xuan fed the Flood Dragon Giant Pythons at Thousand Dragon Lake and persuaded them to let him draw blood for health checks.
• Huang Yuan praised Lu Xuan's dragon-raising skills and asked whether he had Spirit Fruits suited to a Third Grade Ink Scale Flood Dragon; Lu Xuan said he did not.
• Lu Xuan and Huang Yuan returned to the stone house, where the other cultivators asked about the blood samples.
• A cultivator asked Lu Xuan to inspect his flood dragons, prompting the others to ask him to check theirs as well.

Lu Xuan agreed to examine his fellow disciples’ Flood Dragon Giant Pythons in exchange for Spirit Stones and blood essence, then discovered a parasite inside a promising Watery Rain Flood Dragon. He prepared to remove it while the other cultivators watched anxiously.

• Huang Yuan rebuked the cultivators for pressuring Lu Xuan, but Lu Xuan accepted their offer to examine their Flood Dragons for payment.
• Lu Xuan asked the handsome young cultivator to restrain each Flood Dragon and provide Demon Beast Meat before he drew its blood.
• Lu Xuan examined the Flood Dragons and secretly collected their blood essence, finding most of them healthy.
• Lu Xuan discovered that a Strange Fish was parasitizing a Watery Rain Flood Dragon and told its owner to keep it restrained.
• Lu Xuan promised the Watery Rain Flood Dragon he would remove the parasite, and Huang Yuan and the others gathered to watch.

Lu Xuan discovered a Hidden Scale Fish parasitizing a Watery Rain Flood Dragon and explained how the creature affected its host. He examined the Flood Dragon Giant Pythons across Thousand Dragon Lake, found eight more Hidden Scale Fish, and suspected they had spread from a captured outsider.

• Lu Xuan cut open the Watery Rain Flood Dragon and extracted a Hidden Scale Fish concealed inside it.
• Lu Xuan identified the fish as a nonpoisonous Rank 1 Demon Beast that parasitized aquatic beasts, and reassured the cultivators that it hindered growth but did not threaten a Flood Dragon's life.
• After the Watery Rain Flood Dragon recovered, Lu Xuan accepted payment and continued drawing blood and inspecting the cultivators' Flood Dragon Giant Pythons.
• Lu Xuan found Hidden Scale Fish in eight Flood Dragon Giant Pythons, earning extra Spirit Stones and collecting a large quantity of Flood Dragon Blood Essence.
• Lu Xuan suggested that a Hidden Scale Fish had arrived in a captured Flood Dragon, then grown and reproduced in Thousand Dragon Lake.

Lu Xuan returned from examining the Flood Dragons with more than five hundred Spirit Stones and a large stock of Flood Dragon Blood Essence, then inspected his Spirit Plants and presented his Burning Origin Wood experiment report to Uncle-Master He. The chapter ended with Uncle-Master He praising the report’s clear format and suggesting Outer Sect Disciples could adopt it.

• Huang Yuan said he would report the Hidden Scale Fish problem to a Foundation Establishment martial uncle, and Lu Xuan agreed that this was the best approach.
• Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion and counted more than five hundred Spirit Stones, bringing his total wealth back to around two thousand Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan stored over three hundred bottles of Flood Dragon Blood Essence and celebrated that he had more than he could spend.
• Lu Xuan inspected his Spirit Plants and found that the Mystic Insect Vine had sprouted while its Hidden Winged Cicadas and Silver Thread Mantises developed in cocoons.
• Lu Xuan tested the Burning Origin Woods and gave Uncle-Master He his experiment report, which she praised as clear and useful for Outer Sect Disciples.

Lu Xuan received an unknown Third Grade Poison Shuttle Wood Spirit Seed from Uncle-Master He as a reward for his work distinguishing Variant Burning Origin Woods. After learning the plant needed murky Spiritual Power and poison to grow, he planned to plant it in his Sword Gate Town courtyard and harvested another batch of Spirit Firefly Grass.

• Uncle-Master He praised Lu Xuan’s care and experiments with the Variant Burning Origin Woods and offered him a reward.
• Lu Xuan requested rare Spirit Seeds, and Uncle-Master He gave him a pitch-black, shuttle-shaped Spirit Seed found in Red Miasma Valley.
• Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion, greeted the Wind Falcon Chick and Cloud Stepping Lynx, and examined the Spirit Seed’s information, identifying it as a poisonous Third Grade Poison Shuttle Wood.
• Lu Xuan dug up the Spirit Seed because the sect’s pure Spiritual Power would not suit it and decided to plant it in his Sword Gate Town courtyard.
• Lu Xuan inspected his Spirit Field and harvested forty-one mature Spirit Firefly Grass, including six Perfect Grade plants.

Lu Xuan absorbed rewards from his Spirit Firefly Grass and planned experiments to improve the plant while preparing for Foundation Establishment. At Thousand Dragon Lake, he agreed to examine other cultivators’ Flood Dragons for Hidden Scale Fish, expanding his paid checkup work.

• Lu Xuan absorbed cultivation and technique rewards from the Light Orbs, then fed Grass Spirit Essence Liquid to the Grass Puppet.
• Lu Xuan planned experiments to produce a superior variety of Spirit Firefly Grass and listed preparations for Foundation Establishment and the Grand Void Dragon Transformation Art.
• Lu Xuan tended his Spirit Field and continued caring for his other Spirit Plants and creatures.
• Huang Yuan told Lu Xuan that Hidden Scale Fish still infested the Flood Dragon Giant Pythons across Thousand Dragon Lake, and other cultivators wanted his help finding them.
• After confirming the Foundation Establishment martial uncle had no ulterior motive, Lu Xuan agreed to conduct examinations and blood draws for the other cultivators for a hardship fee.

Lu Xuan accompanied Huang Yuan to examine Zhang Hao’s Flood Dragon Giant Pythons, earning Spirit Stones while locating Hidden Scale Fish parasites. After a long day, he returned to his cave abode and fell asleep beside the Wind Falcon Chick as the Cloud Stepping Lynx watched.

• Huang Yuan brought Lu Xuan to Zhang Hao’s water area, where they agreed on the examination fees for the Flood Dragon Giant Pythons.
• Lu Xuan examined more than two hundred Flood Dragon Giant Pythons, found several Hidden Scale Fish, and earned over five hundred Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan finished examining Zhang Hao’s beasts and offered to return regularly to check them for parasites.
• Huang Yuan flew Lu Xuan back to his cave abode, where Lu Xuan found the Cloud Stepping Lynx and Wind Falcon Chick waiting.
• Lu Xuan sorted his collected Flood Dragon blood, then fell asleep with his head on the Wind Falcon Chick’s belly while the Cloud Stepping Lynx watched.

Lu Xuan traded crab delicacies with the Mystic Sky White Luan for a Third Grade Spirit Fruit and invited it to bring other beasts to his cave abode. He then visited Sword Gate Town, learned about the dangers and rewards of the newly opened secret realm, and returned to the Netherworld Courtyard reassured by its protective array.

• Lu Xuan shared his steamed Iron Pincer Crab with the Cloud Stepping Lynx, Wind Falcon Chick, and Mystic Sky White Luan, which gave him a Jade Spirit Fruit in return.
• Lu Xuan offered the Luan Bird Crab Spirit Paste and invited it to bring its companions to his cave abode, and it agreed before departing.
• Lu Xuan went to Sword Gate Town to find materials for the Grand Void Dragon Transformation Art and learned that the New Secret Realm had yielded treasures but killed several Outer Sect Disciples.
• Lu Xuan checked the Netherworld Courtyard and found its Array Formation intact, allowing him to plant rare Spirit Plants there with confidence in his Thousand Illusions Cloud and Mist Array.

Lu Xuan fortified his Small Courtyard with a powerful array, planted and tended its Netherworld Spirit Plants, and fed the Hundred Eyed Treant fresh Demon Beast Eyes. He returned to his sect Cave Mansion, where the Wind Falcon Chick and Cloud Stepping Lynx eagerly received their food.

• Lu Xuan installed the Thousand Illusions Cloud and Mist Array around the Small Courtyard and planted the Third Grade Poison Shuttle Wood.
• Lu Xuan released fifty Yin Soul Grudges to feed the Ghost Face Stone Mushrooms and inspected the growing Thorn Bone.
• Lu Xuan replaced the Hundred Eyed Treant's exhausted Purple Cloud Leopard eyes with fresh Demon Beast Eyes, and two tentacles shared one eye.
• Lu Xuan tended the Spirit Plants with basic techniques, bought daily necessities at Blue Stone Plaza, and returned to his sect Cave Mansion.
• The Wind Falcon Chick greeted Lu Xuan by landing on his head, and he gave it Spirit Fruit and wind-attribute Demon Beast Meat before feeding the Cloud Stepping Lynx.

Lu Xuan earned a fortune inspecting the Flood Dragon Giant Pythons at Thousand Dragon Lake, then used his new wealth to seek out Second Grade or higher spirit-fruit plants at Si Nong Hall. The Old Farmer Cultivator showed him a Third Grade Bewitching Peach, whose cultivation conditions were unusual.

• Lu Xuan divided Spirit Firefly Grass seeds between a Yin Cold Spring and gentle heat to test whether changing their storage conditions could produce useful variants.
• Lu Xuan finished inspecting nearly a thousand Flood Dragon Giant Pythons, earning more than two thousand Spirit Stones and a large supply of blood essence.
• Lu Xuan invited Huang Yuan to drink and thanked him for introducing the cultivators who needed inspections.
• Lu Xuan visited Si Nong Hall and asked the Old Farmer Cultivator for Spirit Seeds of Second Grade or higher, preferably spirit-fruit varieties.
• The Old Farmer Cultivator showed Lu Xuan a Jade Scroll entry for the Third Grade Bewitching Peach and noted its special cultivation conditions.

Lu Xuan learned about the Bewitching Peach’s effects and a scandalous sect rumor before deciding to plant it anyway. He bought three Bewitching Peach Spirit Seeds and ten Flame Fruit Spirit Seeds and returned to his Cave Mansion.

• The Old Farmer Cultivator warned Lu Xuan that the Third Grade Bewitching Peach stirred lust and recounted how its aura had led three Foundation Establishment Martial Uncles into a scandalous melee.
• Lu Xuan chose to plant Bewitching Peaches despite the warning and bought three Spirit Seeds for nine hundred and sixty Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan reviewed the available Spirit Plants and chose the Second Grade Flame Fruit, which he had encountered while helping with a mutated plant.
• The Old Farmer Cultivator gave Lu Xuan the three Bewitching Peach Spirit Seeds and ten Flame Fruit Spirit Seeds, and Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion.

Lu Xuan planted Bewitching Peach and Flame Fruit Spirit Seeds, harvested a mature crop of Spirit Firefly Grass, and gained enough cultivation to draw closer to Foundation Establishment. After he fed the Grass Puppet Grass Spirit Essence Liquid, it broke through and developed stronger abilities and low-level intelligence.

• Lu Xuan planted three Bewitching Peach Spirit Seeds and ten Flame Fruit Spirit Seeds in his Spirit Field.
• Lu Xuan harvested seventy-seven mature Spirit Firefly Grasses and absorbed their Light Orb rewards, gaining more than ten years of cultivation.
• Lu Xuan received three Myriad Sword Qi Talismans, four drops of Treasure Grass Spirit Essence Liquid, and three Essence Nurturing Pill Recipe Experience Packs from the Perfect Grade Spirit Firefly Grass rewards.
• Lu Xuan fed the Grass Puppet a drop of Grass Spirit Essence Liquid, triggering its breakthrough and increasing its intelligence, strength, and control over Gray Grass.
• Lu Xuan gave the newly strengthened Grass Puppet another drop of Grass Spirit Essence Liquid.

Lu Xuan received a Substitute Evil Infant when his Grass Puppet advanced to Second Grade, giving him a way to survive a fatal blow. He then used Flood Dragon materials to cultivate the Grand Void Dragon Transformation Art and felt his strength, speed, and physique improve.

• Lu Xuan bonded the Third Grade Substitute Evil Infant with his blood essence and Spiritual Sense, then concealed it in his belt.
• Lu Xuan realized the Grass Puppet’s breakthrough had produced an orb reward and considered how raising demon beasts with growth potential could bring more rewards.
• Lu Xuan scolded the Wind Falcon Chick for sleeping instead of cultivating.
• Lu Xuan prepared a medicinal bath with Flood Dragon Blood Essence and practiced the Grand Void Dragon Transformation Art.
• After roughly two hours, Lu Xuan emerged with faint dragon patterns on his body and noticed gains in his strength, speed, and physique.

Lu Xuan tested whether icy spring water and gentle pill fire could mutate Spirit Firefly Grass seeds, using his ability to inspect their condition immediately after planting. He identified successful Ice and Fire variants, then planned to repeat the process and propagate the mutations through seed condensation.

• Lu Xuan planted Spirit Firefly Grass in the Rock Cave and brought Yin Cold Spring water into it to change the plants’ growing environment.
• Lu Xuan observed the peach sprouts and the newly hatched Black Armor Beetles on the Mystic Insect Vine, deciding that three kinds of Demon Worms were enough for now.
• Lu Xuan planted fifty Spirit Firefly Grass seeds treated in icy spring water and found five successful Ice variants, fourteen damaged seeds, and thirty-one unchanged seeds.
• Lu Xuan planted fifty seeds treated in a Pill Furnace and found seven successful Fire variants, twenty-three damaged seeds, and twenty unchanged seeds.
• Lu Xuan concluded that his ability to inspect seeds let him identify mutations early, and planned to repeatedly induce and condense seeds to improve Spirit Firefly Grass.