Recaps

Lu Xuan investigated the abnormal mating behavior of Zhong Hao’s Chiyin Beasts and discovered that the male had been invaded by a Food Lust Insect. He agreed to try drawing the insect out after Zhong Hao offered him a Fourth Grade Chì Lei Stone.

• Zhong Hao brought Lu Xuan and Liu Su to his mountain range and showed them the injured Mother Chiyin Beast and the male beast.
• Lu Xuan observed the male beast lose control and bite the Mother Beast during mating, then suspected an invading entity was responsible.
• After feeding the male beast a pill, Lu Xuan identified a Food Lust Insect that manipulated its host into devouring its mating partner.
• Lu Xuan explained the insect’s nature and how intense-lust treasures could lure it out, while privately hesitating to use his own methods.
• Zhong Hao offered Lu Xuan a Fourth Grade Chì Lei Stone, and Lu Xuan said he had a plan to try.

Lu Xuan removed a Food Lust Insect from Zhong Hao’s male Chiyin Beast and helped restore its desire to mate with a pill and the Pale Yellow Jade Silk. The Chiyin Beasts entered the breeding stage, and Zhong Hao rewarded Lu Xuan with two Chì Lei Stones.

• Lu Xuan used the Pale Yellow Jade Silk to lure the Food Lust Insect out of the male Chiyin Beast and trapped it.
• Zhong Hao destroyed the insect with black lightning, then tried to have the Chiyin Beasts mate, but the male beast showed no interest.
• Lu Xuan guessed that the male beast had developed a psychological aversion to mating and offered a Bewitching Desire Pill to help it recover.
• Lu Xuan gave the male beast the pill and showed the beasts the Pale Yellow Jade Silk, and they began mating.
• Zhong Hao thanked Lu Xuan for helping the Chiyin Beasts enter the breeding stage and gave him two Chì Lei Stones.

Lu Xuan traded a Fourth Grade Bewitching Desire Pill for two Chì Lei Stones and used one to cultivate his Lightning Fall Wood. He tended to his Spirit Beasts and plants, and the chapter ended as the Starlight Sword Grass matured.

• Lu Xuan and Zhong Hao exchanged Beast Taming knowledge after Lu Xuan helped resolve the Chiyin Beasts’ problem.
• Lu Xuan used a Chì Lei Stone to nourish his Fourth Grade Lightning Fall Wood with lightning power.
• Lu Xuan fed his Variant Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect a Corpse Flame Pill and helped it withstand the poison, then saw it dissolve a rock with its poisonous smoke.
• Lu Xuan absorbed an evil eye from the mature Hundred Eyed Treant and gave the other eye to the Cloud Stepping Lynx.
• Lu Xuan discovered that the Starlight Sword Grass had reached maturity.

Lu Xuan harvested a mature Starlight Sword Grass and gained its Sword Intent, then went to Sword Gate Town to sell two Foundation Establishment Pills and a Fourth Grade Soul Guiding Lamp in exchange for rare cultivation resources. He left the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s branch head considering his offer.

• Lu Xuan harvested the mature Starlight Sword Grass and absorbed its light orb, gaining Starlight Sword Intent that greatly improved his Starlight Sword Art.
• Lu Xuan planned to test whether he could produce Wind Lightning Sword Grass Spirit Seeds in batches, then left the sect to tend the Netherworld Spirit Plants in his Small Courtyard.
• Lu Xuan fed the Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng, Mutated Longevity Peach, Blood Karma Flower, and Saint Infant Fruit, then placed the Grievous Spirit Mud in the courtyard.
• Lu Xuan disguised himself as a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage rogue cultivator and visited the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion in Sword Gate Town.
• Lu Xuan offered two Foundation Establishment Pills and a Fourth Grade Soul Guiding Lamp in exchange for high-grade Spirit Seeds, Demonic Beast young, or other cultivation treasures.

Lu Xuan negotiated with Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion to trade his Soul Guiding Lamp for rare cultivation treasures. After agreeing to exchange two Foundation Establishment Pills for Azure Pill Flame, he offered his lamp and his remaining two pills for the pavilion’s Rank 5 Spirit Seed.

• Lu Xuan offered a Fourth Grade Soul Guiding Lamp to Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion in exchange for treasures he needed.
• The pavilion’s short, fat old man found several options, and Lu Xuan chose Azure Pill Flame in exchange for two Foundation Establishment Pills.
• The old man presented several Third and Fourth Grade Spirit Seeds and Demon Beast eggs, but Lu Xuan showed little interest.
• The old man revealed that the main pavilion held a Rank 5 Spirit Seed obtained by a powerful Guest Elder in a Buddhist sect’s blessed land.
• Lu Xuan offered the Soul Guiding Lamp and his last two Foundation Establishment Pills for the Rank 5 Spirit Seed.

Lu Xuan exchanged four Foundation Establishment Pills and a Fourth Grade Soul Guiding Lamp for a Rank 5 Vajra Bodhi Spirit Seed and a wisp of Azure Pill Flame. After completing the trade, he left with the rare treasures and planned to study the seed’s cultivation method himself.

• Lu Xuan persuaded the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion branch master to trade the Vajra Bodhi Spirit Seed and Azure Pill Flame for four Foundation Establishment Pills and the Soul Guiding Lamp.
• Lu Xuan checked for anyone following him with the Voidsky Nightmare Eye and bought spirit seeds and plants while exploring Sword Gate Town.
• Lu Xuan returned to Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion the next day, where the branch master explained the precautions taken to protect the Rank 5 Spirit Seed.
• The branch master showed Lu Xuan the Vajra Bodhi Spirit Seed and Azure Pill Flame, and Lu Xuan accepted them despite lacking a cultivation method for the seed.
• Lu Xuan handed over the four Foundation Establishment Pills and Soul Guiding Lamp, then prepared to leave with his new treasures.

Lu Xuan planted a Fifth Grade Vajra Bodhi Spirit Seed and used Soul Crossing Zen Incense to nourish it before tending his Spirit Field. Harvesting a Wind Lightning Sword Grass yielded a Rank 4 Wind Lightning Sword Talisman and the Fourth Grade sword art “Wind Lightning Sword Scripture,” leaving him ready to report his mature sword grasses to the Sword Hall.

• Lu Xuan planted the Vajra Bodhi Spirit Seed and found that Soul Crossing Zen Incense smoke could nourish it, though only in its early stage.
• Lu Xuan harvested a mature Wind Lightning Sword Grass and obtained a Rank 4 Wind Lightning Sword Talisman from its light orb.
• Lu Xuan continued cultivating his sword grasses, using Xun Lightning Sword Qi to mutate some ordinary sword grass Spirit Seeds into Wind Lightning Sword Grass.
• Lu Xuan harvested a Good Grade Wind Lightning Sword Grass and obtained the Fourth Grade “Wind Lightning Sword Scripture,” which complemented his Wind Lightning Sword.
• Lu Xuan counted two mature Wind Lightning Sword Grasses, ten ordinary Second Grade sword grasses, and one Third Grade Starlight Sword Grass, and decided he could report to the Sword Hall.

Lu Xuan met Su Manman, the Heaven Sword Sect cultivator who had given him an Azure Cloud Token years earlier, at Sword Hall. She entrusted him with her damaged Fourth Grade Sword Peacock, and he agreed to try to restore it.

• Lu Xuan brought his Wind Lightning Sword Grass to Sword Hall to work on a method for producing its Spirit Seeds.
• Lu Xuan recognized Su Manman's Sword Peacock and called out to her, reminding her that they had met in a Secret Realm near Vast Forest Market.
• Su Manman recalled giving Lu Xuan an Azure Cloud Token after seeing his talent for cultivating Sword Grass, and learned that he had become an Inner Sect Disciple.
• Su Manman explained that an Evil Cultivator had damaged and tainted her Fourth Grade Sword Peacock, and asked Lu Xuan to repair it.
• Lu Xuan accepted the Sword Peacock, and he and Su Manman exchanged Communication Talismans so she could contact him about the repair.

Lu Xuan handed over his mature Sword Grass to Shen Ye and revealed that he was researching a Seed Condensation Method for Wind Lightning Sword Grass, earning Shen Ye’s promise of a reward if he succeeded. After learning about the Fourth Grade Sword Peacock, Lu Xuan asked for its Spirit Seed, and Shen Ye agreed to seek approval to obtain the one in the Treasure Repository.

• Lu Xuan examined the Sword Peacock Su Manman had given him and found it afflicted with persistent Black Qi and living black spots.
• Shen Ye teased Lu Xuan about Su Manman, then asked whether he had come to collect or hand over Sword Grass.
• Lu Xuan gave Shen Ye ten Second Grade Sword Grass, one Third Grade Starlight Sword Grass, and two mutated Third Grade Wind Lightning Sword Grass.
• Lu Xuan told Shen Ye that his remaining Sword Grass were alive and that he was exploring how to condense Wind Lightning Sword Grass seeds.
• Shen Ye said the Sword Hall would reward Lu Xuan if he established a reliable Seed Condensation Method, and Lu Xuan promised to tell him once he had mastered it.
• Lu Xuan asked for a Fourth Grade Sword Peacock Spirit Seed, and Shen Ye offered to apply for the seed kept in the Treasure Repository.

Lu Xuan obtained a Sword Peacock Spirit Seed and learned how to cultivate the Fourth Grade sword grass while trying to restore Su Manman’s damaged Sword Peacock. He discovered it was contaminated by Mirage Yin Filth Qi and prepared to use the Yunshan Jade Talisman to purify it.

• Shen Ye brought Lu Xuan the Sword Peacock Spirit Seed, its cultivation art, and other sword grass seeds and plants from the Sword Hall.
• Lu Xuan studied the Peacock Sword Formation and planted the Sword Peacock Spirit Seed, learning that it needed Sword Qi arranged into formations during its growth.
• Lu Xuan tried putting Su Manman’s damaged Sword Peacock into the Yangxuan Sword Sheath, but the sheath reacted badly and expelled ghastly green spiritual energy.
• Lu Xuan planted the damaged Sword Peacock and learned that Mirage Yin Filth Qi had contaminated it and could be absorbed and purified by high-grade jade-type Treasures.
• Lu Xuan brought out the Fourth Grade Yunshan Jade Talisman to begin addressing the contamination.

Lu Xuan used a Yunshan Jade Talisman to absorb and dissolve some of the Mirage Yin Filth Qi around the damaged Sword Peacock while continuing his cultivation and study of sword arts. Guan Wan brought him thirty Hidden Essence Grass seeds and ten Jade Dew Fruit seeds, and Lu Xuan began planting the new seeds.

• Lu Xuan drew a wisp of Mirage Yin Filth Qi from the Sword Peacock into a Yunshan Jade Talisman and dissolved it with a Purification Mantra.
• Lu Xuan spent half a month tending his Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts while studying the Peacock Sword Formation and Thousand Owl Sword Art and practicing his other techniques.
• Guan Wan delivered thirty Hidden Essence Grass seeds and ten Jade Dew Fruit seeds from the Alchemy Hall for Lu Xuan to cultivate.
• Lu Xuan examined the Jade Dew Fruit seed and learned that the Third Grade Spirit Plant needed atomized pure Spiritual Energy to grow.
• Lu Xuan planted a Jade Dew Fruit seed in his Spirit Field.

Lu Xuan restored Su Manman’s Sword Peacock and accepted a strange Spirit Seed in place of her offered Spirit Stones. After planting it, he learned it was a Fourth Grade Filth Insect Grass that absorbed foul qi and could pollute those nearby.

• Lu Xuan finished cleansing the Sword Peacock of Mirage Yin Filth Qi and returned it to its sheath to recover.
• Su Manman visited Lu Xuan, tested the restored Sword Peacock, and offered him three thousand Spirit Stones as payment.
• Lu Xuan refused the Spirit Stones, so Su Manman gave him a strange Spirit Seed she had found on a dead heretical cultivator.
• Lu Xuan planted the Spirit Seed and identified it as a Fourth Grade Filth Insect Grass that absorbed foul substances and could erode nearby senses.

Lu Xuan accepted Zhong Hao’s invitation to help tame the sect’s high-grade young spirit beasts. On the way, he reunited with the Spirit Cranes and learned that the improvements he had once proposed had greatly improved their lives.

• Lu Xuan considered where to plant the Filth Insect Grass and reflected that his Netherworld Spirit Plants needed a larger, more suitable Spirit Field.
• Zhong Hao invited Lu Xuan to help tame a new batch of high-grade young spirit beasts, and Lu Xuan agreed.
• While flying with Zhong Hao, Lu Xuan passed the Spirit Crane marsh, where the cranes recognized him and gathered around him.
• Xu Yi explained that the Beast Taming Hall had adopted Lu Xuan’s earlier suggestions, improving the Spirit Cranes’ work, compensation, and living conditions.
• Lu Xuan encouraged Xu Yi, then waved goodbye to the Spirit Cranes as he continued toward the young beasts.

Lu Xuan began his new assignment taming the Beast Taming Hall’s Fourth Grade young beasts, learning their abilities and hidden troubles. After identifying several unruly or unhappy beasts, he resolved to address their problems one by one.

• Zhong Hao brought Lu Xuan to the secluded Mountain Valley where the sect kept young Spirit Beasts for taming.
• Zhong Hao introduced the Fourth Grade young beasts, explained their temperaments and abilities, and gave Lu Xuan an Illusory Spirit Flute and supplies.
• After Zhong Hao left, Lu Xuan fed the young beasts and used his ability to learn about their thoughts, habits, and problems.
• Lu Xuan discovered that several young beasts resisted taming for different reasons and decided to deal with their troubles individually.

Lu Xuan began taming the Fourth Grade Young Beasts with patience training and lessons on cultivation commands. He discovered the Lion-Bird Beast needed extra help and the Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger would require special methods to tame.

• Lu Xuan assigned each Young Beast a stone hut and ordered them to stay inside for two hours as a patience exercise.
• Lu Xuan caught the Seven-Colored Pheasant Demon using Illusion Arts to disguise its wandering around the Stone Hall.
• When the exercise ended, Lu Xuan praised the Lion-Bird Beast for remaining in its hut, while the Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger tried to intimidate him with lightning.
• Lu Xuan taught the Young Beasts commands for tasks such as guarding, patrolling, carrying, and attacking, then offered the struggling Lion-Bird Beast extra lessons.
• The Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger attacked with lightning and vanished in a streak of silver light, prompting Lu Xuan to decide ordinary methods would not be enough to tame it.

Lu Xuan tried to reform the rebellious Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger by showing it what could happen if it failed to become a useful sect guardian. The young beast was frightened by the images, leaving Lu Xuan’s new taming method poised to take effect.

• Lu Xuan recognized that the Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger only acted unruly after lessons to avoid being assigned guard duty.
• Lu Xuan taught the young beasts to identify cultivators and their affiliations, while Senior Xiong warned him that the tiger was known for resisting tamers.
• Lu Xuan visited the Scripture Pavilion and found two recordings to use in changing the tiger’s attitude.
• Lu Xuan showed the tiger a Water Mirror Talisman depicting a mature tiger being killed in battle, then another showing one being dissected for its valuable parts.
• The Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger trembled in fear as Lu Xuan told it that guarding the sect was preferable to either fate.

Lu Xuan helped the Lion-Bird Beast overcome its inferiority and trained the young spirit beasts for a month before holding a test of their skills. The Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger and Lion-Bird Beast reached the final, where their decisive match was about to begin.

• After showing the Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger two Water Mirror Talismans, Lu Xuan found it became obedient during training.
• Lu Xuan entered the Lion-Bird Beast’s Beast Pen at night and encouraged it to accept its mixed bloodline and trust its strengths.
• Lu Xuan gave the Lion-Bird Beast extra lessons at night, and it kept working hard over the following weeks.
• A month later, Lu Xuan held a test of the young beasts’ training and combat abilities, and the Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger, Lion-Bird Beast, and Seven-Colored Pheasant Demon reached the top eight.
• The Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger defeated the Seven-Colored Pheasant Demon, while the Lion-Bird Beast defeated the Black Horn Spirit Rhino.
• The Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger and Lion-Bird Beast advanced to the final match.

Lu Xuan used Azure Reed Spirit Rice to encourage the Seven-Colored Pheasant Demon to build up spiritual power so it could lay eggs. He then challenged it to resist a Fourth Grade Illusion Arts Magic Tool, betting that it would have to lay eggs if it reacted.

• The Lion-Bird Beast defeated the Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger by enduring its lightning and holding it in place with its wings.
• Lu Xuan healed both beasts and rewarded the young spirit beasts according to their rankings.
• Lu Xuan continued adjusting the spirit beasts’ diets and training, but the Seven-Colored Pheasant Demon still showed no sign of laying eggs.
• Lu Xuan discovered that the Seven-Colored Pheasant Demon loved Azure Reed Spirit Rice and used it to help build up its spiritual power.
• Lu Xuan summoned the Seven-Colored Pheasant Demon and challenged it to resist his Fourth Grade Illusion Arts Magic Tool, wagering that it would have to lay eggs if it reacted.

Lu Xuan finished taming the unruly Young Beasts and earned praise, five hundred Sword Seals, and a Spirit Beast Token from Beast Taming Hall. He returned to his Cave Mansion, reassured his own Spirit Beasts, and went to inspect the Spirit Plants nearing maturity.

• Lu Xuan subdued the Seven-Colored Pheasant Demon with an illusion technique and used the White Jade Sky Supporting Ape’s reputation to make the Young Beasts more obedient.
• Zhong Hao and two Fellow Disciples tested the Young Beasts and praised Lu Xuan’s success, including his work with the Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger, Lion-Bird Beast, and Seven-Colored Pheasant Demon.
• The thin old man from Beast Taming Hall gave Lu Xuan five hundred Sword Seals and a Spirit Beast Token as rewards for his work.
• Lu Xuan said goodbye to the Young Beasts, comforted the reluctant Lion-Bird Beast, and left for his Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuan reassured the Cloud Stepping Lynx that his own Spirit Beasts remained his priority, then inspected the Spirit Plants nearing maturity.

Lu Xuan harvested four mature Sword Nurturing Gourds and obtained powerful Rank 4 Sword Talismans, including a Dragon Elephant Sword Talisman. He then surveyed the many Spirit Plants in his Cave Mansion and assessed their growth.

• Lu Xuan replenished the Sword Nurturing Gourds with Flying Swords, and they rapidly absorbed sword qi and sword intent over several months.
• Lu Xuan harvested four mature Sword Nurturing Gourds, obtaining two Great Sun Sword Talismans, one Starfall Sword Talisman, and one Dragon Elephant Sword Talisman.
• Lu Xuan added the new talismans to his collection, bringing his total to seven Rank 4 Sword Talismans.
• Lu Xuan patrolled his Spirit Field and checked the growth of his Water Firefly Grasses, spirit fruits, sword grasses, and other plants.
• Lu Xuan found that his high-grade Spirit Plants were progressing at different rates, with the Dragon Bone Grass beginning to grow while the Vajra Bodhi remained slow to sprout.

Lu Xuan harvested a large crop of Water Firefly Grass, gained nearly thirty years of cultivation rewards, and let others see that he had reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage. He visited Yang Qingfeng to examine his flood dragons, where Yang Qingfeng was astonished by Lu Xuan’s progress.

• Lu Xuan ripened and harvested more than one hundred and fifty Water Firefly Grass, receiving cultivation, formulas, and other rewards from their light orbs.
• The rewards brought Lu Xuan nearly thirty years of cultivation and moved him closer to Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Lu Xuan decided to reveal his Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivation after years of hiding his progress.
• Lu Xuan accepted Yang Qingfeng’s invitation to draw blood from and examine his flood dragons.
• Yang Qingfeng learned that Lu Xuan had reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and Lu Xuan claimed his cultivation was obtained through trickery.

Lu Xuan explained his limited combat abilities to Yang Qingfeng before drawing blood from the Ink Scale Flood Dragons for a future Blood Karma Flower. Back at his Cave Mansion, Ge Pu and Zhong Jingshan visited him, and Ge Pu asked him to examine a strange, aggressive spirit plant.

• Lu Xuan told Yang Qingfeng that he had reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage by spending his earnings on cultivation pills, leaving him with little combat experience or equipment.
• Lu Xuan drew extra blood from the mixed-blood Variant Ink Scale Flood Dragon, intending to use its essence to cultivate a fifth-grade Blood Karma Flower.
• Ge Pu and Zhong Jingshan visited Lu Xuan, and Zhong Jingshan saw that the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect larva was healthy in Lu Xuan's care.
• Ge Pu presented Lu Xuan with a bizarre spirit plant whose roots, trunk, branches, and leaves moved aggressively, and asked for his assessment.

Lu Xuan studied an aggressive spirit plant from a newly discovered blessed land and used his spirit plant insight to identify its origins. He decided to observe it further before reporting his findings to Ge Pu.

• Ge Pu brought Lu Xuan a strange, aggressive spirit plant found in a blessed land and asked him to investigate it.
• Lu Xuan found no sinister aura in the plant and agreed to study it for the sect.
• After the plant bit his finger, Lu Xuan forced it to stop attacking and judged that it could sense danger.
• Lu Xuan watered the plant and learned it was a Third Grade Dragon Vein Wood mutated by an unknown force of flesh and blood.
• Lu Xuan decided to observe the plant’s habits for several days before contacting Ge Pu.

Lu Xuan identified the Mutated Dragon Vein Wood as a mutated Third Grade Dragon Vein Wood and later joined Ge Pu's investigation of aggressive Spirit Plants from a blessed land. He received a fire-wreathed Spirit Plant to study and faced its flame attacks.

• Lu Xuan told Ge Pu that the Mutated Dragon Vein Wood had once been a Third Grade Dragon Vein Wood and suggested a blood-flesh aura might have caused the mutations.
• Lu Xuan returned the plant to Ge Pu and harvested three mature Sword Nurturing Gourds, receiving three Rank 4 Sword Talismans.
• Ge Pu summoned Lu Xuan and other Spirit Plant Masters to investigate strange, aggressive Spirit Plants brought back from a blessed land.
• Zhong Hao assigned the Spirit Plants among the group, and Lu Xuan received a blazing red plant that attacked him with flames.
• Lu Xuan gathered the flames around him and condensed them into a dark-red fireball.

Lu Xuan identified the Flame Spirit Plant as a mutated Flowing Fire Wood and discovered its precious fire essence, earning Ge Pu’s praise and impressing the other Spirit Plant Masters. He shared his method for studying mutated plants as the others acknowledged how far ahead he was.

• Lu Xuan used his Flame Manipulation Art to withstand the Flame Spirit Plant’s attacks while secretly learning its nature.
• Lu Xuan determined that the plant was a mutated Flowing Fire Wood and found a fire essence inside its trunk.
• Lu Xuan told Ge Pu the plant’s identity and explained that it contained fire essence that could aid the cultivation of high-grade Fire-Type techniques.
• Ge Pu extracted the fire essence and praised Lu Xuan for his discovery.
• The nearby Spirit Plant Masters praised Lu Xuan, who explained how to observe, hypothesize about, and test mutated spirit plants.