Recaps

Lu Xuan hosted the Mystic Sky White Luan and the White Jade Sky Supporting Ape with spirit fruits and secured their promise to help him if anyone threatened him. He then visited Kong Shixiong, who explained that a True Disciple had killed the Same Heart Demon after its remnant soul helped three demons ambush and kill a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator.

• Lu Xuan harvested three Rank 4 Sword Talismans from his mature Sword Nurturing Gourds and resolved to keep cultivating them.
• Lu Xuan invited the Mystic Sky White Luan and the White Jade Sky Supporting Ape to a spirit fruit banquet, where they enjoyed his high-quality fruit and Hundred Fruit Spirit Nectar.
• Lu Xuan told the two young spirit beasts that powerful cultivators might trouble him, and they agreed to come to his aid.
• Lu Xuan visited Kong Shixiong to ask about the Same Heart Demon, and Kong said the sect had sent a True Disciple to kill it.
• Kong Shixiong revealed that three Same Heart Demons, guided by a Core Formation Old Demon's remnant soul, had broken through their encirclement and killed a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator.

Lu Xuan discussed the risks of pursuing fortuitous encounters with Cultivator Kong and realized the Same Heart Demons could help nourish his Saint Infant Fruit. After returning to his mountain and reflecting on his safer cultivation path, he was summoned by Guan Wan, who had come to deliver seeds.

• Cultivator Kong argued that cultivators had to contend for fortuitous encounters, while Lu Xuan maintained that they should not risk their lives needlessly.
• Lu Xuan learned that Inner Sect Disciples who captured Same Heart Demons could exchange them with the sect, and he considered obtaining one to nourish his Saint Infant Fruit.
• Lu Xuan planned to visit the Small Courtyard in Sword Gate Town and check on his Netherworld Spirit Plants after his watchers let down their guard.
• Lu Xuan returned to his mountain, reprimanded the Demon Ghost Vine for secretly eating Spirit Plants, and reflected that his opportunities were already there among his plants.
• The Grass Puppet alerted Lu Xuan that Guan Wan had arrived to deliver seeds, and he hurried to meet her.

Lu Xuan hosted Guan Wan and accepted twenty Third Grade Hidden Essence Grass seeds and five Fourth Grade Five Elements Fruit seeds from the Alchemy Hall to cultivate. After Guan Wan left, he planted all twenty-five seeds in his special Spirit Field.

• Lu Xuan showed Guan Wan his Spirit Plants, including his Water Firefly Grass and intelligent vine, impressing her with their quality.
• Lu Xuan entertained Guan Wan with Flame Fruits, Ice Luo Fruits, and Hundred Fruit Spirit Nectar.
• Guan Wan offered Lu Xuan twenty Hidden Essence Grass seeds and five Five Elements Fruit seeds, along with three hundred and fifty Sword Seals in guaranteed remuneration.
• Lu Xuan signed an agreement with Guan Wan and received the Spirit Seeds.
• After Guan Wan left, Lu Xuan planted the Hidden Essence Grass and Five Elements Fruit seeds in the Wu Spirit Soil Spirit Field.

Lu Xuan tended his Spirit Plants and attended a treasure-exchange gathering hosted by True Disciple Huo Liner, hoping to find Spirit Seeds, Spirit Beast eggs, a Same Heart Demon, or strange fire. The exchange began when a disciple offered a Phantom Sound Bamboo root segment, and Lu Xuan watched for an opportunity to obtain something he needed.

• Lu Xuan planted Hidden Essence Grass and Five Elements Fruit seeds, then inspected his Water Firefly Grass, Sword Grass, Earth Fire Heart Lotus, and Phoenix Wood.
• Lu Xuan spent the next ten or so days tending his mountain peak and learned that True Disciple Huo Liner would host a treasure-exchange gathering.
• Lu Xuan arrived at Huo Liner's residence and joined more than thirty Inner Sect Disciples for discussion and refreshments.
• Huo Liner explained the gathering's rules, and Lu Xuan spoke with fellow disciples about cultivation and Spirit Plant care.
• After the discussion ended, the treasure exchange began, and Lu Xuan watched as a disciple offered a Phantom Sound Bamboo root segment for a Third Grade offensive Magic Tool or Fourth Grade goods.

Lu Xuan exchanged Fourth Grade Crimson Astral Jade for a Phantom Sound Bamboo root, then tried to trade a Yunshan Jade Talisman for unusual spirit seeds. After finding no suitable offer onstage, he examined an unknown bloodthirsty spirit seed and eagerly considered adding it to his Netherworld Courtyard.

• Lu Xuan traded Fourth Grade Crimson Astral Jade to obtain the Phantom Sound Bamboo root, outbidding a cultivator offering a Frigid Flood Dragon Spear.
• Lu Xuan presented a Fourth Grade Yunshan Jade Talisman and sought Spirit Seeds, Spirit Beast embryos or eggs, Young Beasts, or strange flames in exchange.
• Lu Xuan rejected offers of Magic Tools, medicinal pills, and Talismans, then left the platform without making a trade.
• A short, plump old man privately showed Lu Xuan a blood orb containing an unknown spirit seed that stirred bloodthirsty impulses.
• Lu Xuan felt excited by the blood-colored flower inside the orb and thought it would make another fierce addition to his Netherworld Courtyard.

Lu Xuan traded for a mysterious Blood Orb Spirit Seed and then acquired the Wood Attribute Same Heart Demon he had come to seek. He left with the demon infant bound by a rune chain that would only hold it for about three months.

• Lu Xuan bargained with a short, plump old man and traded a Yunshan Jade Talisman plus five hundred Spirit Stones for the Blood Orb Spirit Seed.
• Lu Xuan judged the Blood Orb Spirit Seed likely to be a Fourth Grade or Fifth Grade Spirit Plant.
• A cold-as-frost female cultivator offered a Wood Attribute Same Heart Demon, which Lu Xuan recognized as the Wood Infant refined by Tong Yin.
• Lu Xuan offered a Good Grade Sword Nurturing Gourd and a Third-grade Explosive Flame Pearl for the Wood Infant and its rune chain.
• The female cultivator taught Lu Xuan how to control the rune chain and warned that it would stop binding the infant after about three months without further refinement.

After the treasure exchange, Lu Xuan returned to his mountain peak and planted the Fourth Grade Phantom Sound Bamboo root and the mysterious Blood Orb Spirit Seed. He discovered the seed was a Fifth Grade Blood Karma Flower and decided to move it to his Small Courtyard in Sword Gate Town.

• Lu Xuan reviewed the treasures he had traded and gained, and considered selling some of his duplicate items.
• After the gathering dispersed, Lu Xuan returned to his mountain peak and planted the Phantom Sound Bamboo root in a Spirit Field.
• The Demon Ghost Vine inspected and marked the Phantom Sound Bamboo root, which reacted with alarm until Lu Xuan chased the vine away.
• Lu Xuan planted the Blood Orb Spirit Seed and learned it was a Fifth Grade Blood Karma Flower that absorbed the blood qi of nearby creatures.
• Lu Xuan dug up the Blood Karma Flower Spirit Seed and decided to plant it in his Small Courtyard in Sword Gate Town.

Lu Xuan secretly traveled to his Small Courtyard in Sword Gate Town, fed its Netherworld Spirit Plants, and planted a Blood Karma Flower. He then brought out the Wood Attribute Same Heart Demon and struck it with his Violet Lightning Sword, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Lu Xuan tried to tempt the Wood Attribute Same Heart Demon with Azure Wood Source Qi, but it refused to submit, so he bound it again and put it away.
• Lu Xuan slipped out of Heaven Sword Sect and reached Sword Gate Town without finding anyone following him.
• Lu Xuan released over twenty Yin Soul Grudges to feed the five Ghost Face Stone Mushrooms and checked the mature Thorn Bone and Hundred Eyed Treant.
• Lu Xuan planted the Blood Karma Flower and divided a Rank 1 Demon Beast among his Netherworld Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan took out the Wood Attribute Same Heart Demon and struck it with the Violet Lightning Sword.

Lu Xuan forced the Wood Attribute Same Heart Demon to release infant Grievance Souls and fed them to the Saint Infant Fruit Spirit Seed, then tended his Blood Karma Flower and Ghost Face Stone Mushrooms. He harvested a Good Grade Ghost Face Stone Mushroom and obtained a Fourth Grade Soul Guiding Lamp from its White Light Orb.

• Lu Xuan shocked the Wood Infant until it released several ignorant infant souls, then guided them into the Saint Infant Fruit Spirit Seed, where the gray-black infant absorbed them.
• Lu Xuan secured the Wood Attribute Same Heart Demon in his Storage Bag, intending to keep it for a supply of infant souls.
• Lu Xuan poured three bottles of Flood Dragon Blood Essence into the Blood Karma Flower spirit seed, and its blood-colored flower bloomed more vividly.
• Lu Xuan fed the hungry Ghost Face Stone Mushrooms with Azure Wood Source Qi and Yin Soul Grudge, ripening one into a Good Grade plant.
• Lu Xuan harvested the Ghost Face Stone Mushroom and received a Fourth Grade Soul Guiding Lamp from its White Light Orb.

Lu Xuan sold rare materials at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion and returned to his mountain, where true disciple Ge Pu arrived with an invitation for him to help raise bugs. The chapter ended with Lu Xuan learning that another true disciple had requested his help.

• Lu Xuan examined the reward from ripening a Ghost Face Stone Mushroom and found a fourth-grade Soul Guiding Lamp, which he decided to keep hidden.
• Lu Xuan sold Crimson Astral Jade and Hundred-Year Ice Soul to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion for 3,700 Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan browsed the Pavilion, found little he wanted, and returned to his mountain.
• Ge Pu appeared at Lu Xuan's mountain and said a true disciple wanted to invite him to help raise bugs.

Ge Pu brought Lu Xuan to Insect Valley to care for Zhong Jingshan’s rare insects while Zhong was away. Lu Xuan accepted the task, met Zhong, and received instructions on raising and controlling the insects.

• Ge Pu told Lu Xuan that True Disciple Zhong Jingshan needed someone to care for his rare insects for about half a year, and Lu Xuan agreed.
• Ge Pu transported Lu Xuan to Insect Valley and introduced him to Zhong Jingshan.
• Zhong Jingshan welcomed Lu Xuan with Hundred Flower Spirit Honey and gave him a talisman sheet detailing the insects’ habits, care, and basic control methods.
• After Lu Xuan memorized the instructions, Zhong Jingshan sent a suona-shaped object flying before him.

Lu Xuan took over the strange insects Zhong Jingshan had left in Insect Valley and learned to control them with an Insect Whistle. After safely exercising a Demon Blade Black Beetle, he found a group of White Jade Spiders fighting and used the whistle to make them stop.

• Zhong Jingshan left Insect Valley, entrusting Lu Xuan with its strange insects and giving him an Insect Whistle, while Ge Pu offered help if problems arose.
• Lu Xuan examined the Demon Blade Black Beetle, a powerful Fourth Grade Demon Worm, and learned about its habits and feeding needs.
• Lu Xuan used the Insect Whistle to guide the Demon Blade Black Beetle out to hunt, then called it back after half an hour.
• Lu Xuan entered another Insect Room and found more than ten White Jade Spiders fighting; he used the Insect Whistle to make them stop.

Lu Xuan tended Zhong Jingshan’s strange insects in the Insect Valley, calming the Jade Condensing Spiders, feeding the Yin Fire Ants, and collecting Glazed Sand from the Seven Stars Glazed insects. He finished his rounds without taking any of the valuable Glazed Sand for himself.

• Lu Xuan used the Purification Mantra to calm the Jade Condensing Spiders and learned that they became violent after spinning silk.
• Lu Xuan used Zhong Jingshan’s insect-controlling method to briefly shape the Yin Fire Ants into a human form, then fed them spirit ore.
• Lu Xuan watched a Seven Stars Glazed insect produce Glazed Sand and collected the grains in a sealed agarwood box.
• Lu Xuan decided not to keep any Glazed Sand, reasoning that stealing from Zhong Jingshan risked too much for too little gain.

Lu Xuan managed the rare insects in Insect Valley and tried to improve the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insects’ lack of interest in each other by filling their room with Pink Miasma. He later found the pair mating, leaving their breeding prospects improved.

• Lu Xuan inspected the Fourth Grade Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insects and learned they were preparing to breed but loathed each other.
• Lu Xuan spent the next month or two feeding and managing the insects, training the Demon Blade Black Beetle with a series of tests and observing the other species.
• Lu Xuan collected Pink Miasma from the Bewitching Peach and released it into the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insects’ room to stir their desire.
• Two days later, Lu Xuan found the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insects mating amid the Pink Miasma.

Lu Xuan cared for Zhong Jingshan’s strange insects, studying the Jade Condensing Spiders, training the Demon Blade Black Beetle, and inducing the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring insects to mate. When Zhong Jingshan returned after more than three months, Lu Xuan told him the insects had conceived, leaving him stunned.

• Lu Xuan found the female Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring insect growing three egg-like lumps and added Pink Miasma to help the exhausted male continue mating.
• Lu Xuan calmed the fighting Jade Condensing Spiders and recorded the signs that they were about to spit silk.
• Lu Xuan praised the Demon Blade Black Beetle for reaching more than thirty kills while avoiding insects filled with foul liquid.
• Lu Xuan controlled the Yin Fire Ants and tracked the Seven Stars Glazed insects’ excretion of Glazed Sand.
• Zhong Jingshan returned to the Mountain Valley, and Lu Xuan told him the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring insects had conceived.
• Zhong Jingshan stared at Lu Xuan and asked why he had made the insects pregnant when he had only been asked to raise them.

Lu Xuan showed Zhong Jingshan the results of his work raising demon worms, impressing him with successful breeding, improved training, and careful record-keeping. Zhong paid Lu Xuan with Sword Seals and rare Lightning Struck Wood, while Lu Xuan declined his offer to stay in Insect Valley.

• Zhong Jingshan discovered that Lu Xuan had helped the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insects conceive using miasma from his Bewitching Peach Spirit Plant.
• Lu Xuan demonstrated a game that trained the Demon Blade Black Beetle's killing techniques and instincts, impressing Zhong Jingshan.
• Lu Xuan explained how he identified Jade Condensing Spiders about to produce silk and showed Zhong Jingshan his timetable for isolating them.
• Lu Xuan gave Zhong Jingshan more Glazed Sand than he expected from the Seven Stars Glazed Insect specimens.
• Zhong Jingshan asked Lu Xuan to stay in Insect Valley long-term, but Lu Xuan declined and accepted his payment of Sword Seals and Lightning Struck Wood.

Lu Xuan planted a Fourth Grade Lightning Fall Wood and inspected the spirit plants in his field, then harvested a Superior Grade Sword Grass. Its White Light Orb granted him Spring Rain Sword Intent, deepening his mastery of the Spring Rain Swordplay.

• Lu Xuan planted the Lightning Fall Wood and tested how sword energy and the Violet Lightning Sword’s lightning power affected its growth.
• Lu Xuan inspected his spirit plants, cultivated the Five Elements Fruit, and soothed the four Nurturing Spirit Pines.
• Lu Xuan discovered that one Sword Grass had matured and pulled the Superior Grade plant from the Spirit Field.
• Lu Xuan absorbed the Sword Grass’s White Light Orb and gained a profound understanding of Spring Rain Sword Intent.

Lu Xuan harvested a mature Sword Nurturing Gourd and received a Rank 4 Great Sun Sword Talisman, then went to Si Nong Hall to obtain Spirit Seed Condensation Methods and more gourd seeds. He left with plans to cultivate more Sword Nurturing Gourds and grow Flame Fruit and Ice Luo Fruit.

• Lu Xuan infused Spring Rain Sword Intent into the Yangxuan Sword Sheath and found that the Violet Lightning Sword slid into it easily.
• Lu Xuan harvested a mature Sword Nurturing Gourd and received a Rank 4 Great Sun Sword Talisman from its White Light Orb.
• Lu Xuan decided to plant more Sword Nurturing Gourds and to choose Spirit Seed Condensation Methods for Flame Fruit and Ice Luo Fruit.
• Lu Xuan met Zhang Ce at Si Nong Hall and requested the two Second Grade Spirit Seed Condensation Methods.
• Lu Xuan exchanged two hundred and seventy Sword Seals for three Sword Nurturing Gourd Spirit Seeds and left Si Nong Hall.

Lu Xuan visited Thousand Dragon Lake to see his former flood dragons and offer to examine the lake’s hundreds of Flood Dragon Giant Pythons. After reconnecting with Huang Yuan and seeing that the dragons still recognized him, he prepared to inspect them—and secretly planned to collect more Flood Dragon Blood Essence.

• Lu Xuan planted three Sword Nurturing Gourd Spirit Seeds, then studied the condensation methods for Flame Fruit and Ice Luo Fruit spirit seeds.
• Lu Xuan visited Thousand Dragon Lake, where Huang Yuan greeted him as a Foundation Establishment martial uncle and brought him to the platform where he had once raised flood dragons.
• Lu Xuan suppressed the fighting Flood Dragon Giant Pythons, and many of the dragons recognized him and returned to their places in line.
• Lu Xuan fed the dragons according to their individual diets and offered to give all the Flood Dragons in Thousand Dragon Lake a comprehensive examination.
• Huang Yuan contacted cultivators in the other waters to prepare for the examinations as Lu Xuan readied his Red Thread Needle to draw more Flood Dragon Blood Essence.

Lu Xuan examined the Flood Dragons at Thousand Dragon Lake, drawing blood while finding and treating hidden ailments. Tao Zhiqing then led him to inspect his stronger Flood Dragons, where Lu Xuan recognized a Snow White Chi Dragon he had raised before.

• Huang Yuan gathered disciples and their Flood Dragons so Lu Xuan could examine them, while urging Zhang Shidi to attend.
• Lu Xuan examined the outer lake’s Flood Dragons, collected blood, and discovered parasitic Demon Worms and hidden injuries in several of them.
• Tao Zhiqing asked Lu Xuan to examine his Third Grade and Fourth Grade Flood Dragons, and Lu Xuan agreed.
• Tao Zhiqing complained that Yang Qingfeng had refused to lend him an Ink Scale Flood Dragon for breeding.
• Lu Xuan spotted a Snow White Chi Dragon on Tao Zhiqing’s island and recognized it as an old friend he had once raised.

Lu Xuan reunited with an Ice Chi Dragon he had once raised and discovered that a Snow Line Flood Dragon carried a partially undigested Fifth Grade Dragon Bone Grass. The discovery revealed a sealed ancient true dragon skeleton at the bottom of Thousand Dragon Lake, and Tao Zhiqing reported it to the sect while Lu Xuan considered seeing the lake’s depths.

• Lu Xuan recognized the Ice Chi Dragon as one he had raised in the past, and the dragon happily approached him.
• Lu Xuan examined Tao Zhiqing’s flood dragons and found that a Snow Line Flood Dragon contained a foreign object it could not absorb.
• Lu Xuan used his Red Thread Needle to remove the object, which Tao Zhiqing identified as a partially intact Fifth Grade Dragon Bone Grass.
• Tao Zhiqing explained that the grass likely came from an ancient true dragon skeleton buried in the restricted depths of Thousand Dragon Lake.
• Tao Zhiqing reported the discovery to the sect, while Lu Xuan wondered whether he could enter the lake’s depths himself.

Lu Xuan followed True Disciple Dragon Li to the bottom of Thousand Dragon Lake, where they searched for Dragon Bone Grass amid the draconic pressure. After collecting several plants, Lu Xuan secretly took Flood Dragon fossils for his Cave Mansion.

• Tao Zhiqing introduced Lu Xuan to Dragon Li and showed him the Dragon Bone Grass found inside her Snow Line Flood Dragon.
• Dragon Li opened a path through the lake’s restrictions, and Lu Xuan followed him underwater using his Water Element Pearl.
• Dragon Li protected Lu Xuan from the growing draconic pressure as they descended to the lake bottom.
• Dragon Li found four fifth-grade Dragon Bone Grasses, and Lu Xuan found another among the strange stones.
• Lu Xuan asked to take some Flood Dragon fossils, then secretly stored more than ten strange stones in his Storage Bag.

After helping search Thousand Dragon Lake, Lu Xuan earned four hundred Sword Seals and secretly recovered three Dragon Bone Grass Spirit Seeds hidden in flood dragon fossils. He planted one in his mountain lake and celebrated the discovery of all three Fifth Grade seeds.

• Long Li awarded Lu Xuan four hundred Sword Seals for discovering Dragon Bone Grass and treated Tao Zhiqing’s flood dragon as Tao’s reward.
• Lu Xuan inspected and drew blood from Tao Zhiqing’s remaining flood dragons before leaving the island.
• Back at his cave mansion, Lu Xuan recalled that he had secretly collected stones containing three Dragon Bone Grass Spirit Seeds.
• Lu Xuan planted one seed in the lake on his mountain peak and discovered that all three were Fifth Grade Spirit Seeds.

Lu Xuan tended the Dragon Bone Grass and harvested the last Sword Nurturing Gourd, gaining a Fourth Grade Starfall Sword Talisman. Harvesting the Sword Grasses also gave him four kinds of Sword Intent, and he planned to visit the Sword Hall once the remaining plants matured.

• Lu Xuan decided to preserve the Dragon Bone Grass in a Flood Dragon fossil until he could obtain the spiritual liquid needed to cultivate it, and warned the Dazzling Fire Flood Dragon to stay away.
• Lu Xuan harvested the final mature Sword Nurturing Gourd and obtained a Fourth Grade Starfall Sword Talisman.
• Lu Xuan removed the spent Sword Nurturing Gourd vine and decided to keep one or two gourds while dealing with the rest through the sect.
• Lu Xuan harvested the mature Sword Grasses and gained Spring Rain, Summer Day, Autumn Wind, and Winter Snow Sword Intents, advancing his Four Seasons Swordplay to sword stances.
• Lu Xuan noted that the Third Grade Wind Lightning Sword Grass and the grass nurtured with Scarlet Flame Sword Qi were still growing, and planned to visit the Sword Hall after the latter matured.

Lu Xuan brought nine mature Sword Grass plants to Shen Ye, who was astonished to learn that Lu Xuan had also improved the missing tenth seed into a Third Grade Wind Lightning Sword Grass. After inspecting it, Shen Ye praised Lu Xuan’s achievement and recognized his talent for cultivating Sword Grass.

• Lu Xuan visited Sword Hall and showed Shen Ye the nine Good Grade Sword Grass plants he had cultivated.
• Shen Ye asked about the tenth seed, and Lu Xuan revealed that he had improved it into a Third Grade Sword Grass.
• Shen Ye hurried Lu Xuan back to his cave mansion to inspect the Wind Lightning Sword Grass.
• Shen Ye confirmed that the plant contained the power of wind and lightning and was indeed Third Grade.
• Shen Ye praised Lu Xuan for creating a rare new Sword Grass variety on his first large-scale cultivation attempt.