Recaps

Lu Xuan captured Chen Luo's remnant soul and killed the fleeing Foundation Establishment Perfection Body Cultivator, then erased the evidence and considered how to keep the sect from discovering what happened. He left the forest with their Storage Bags and planned to watch Senior Brother Zhou Qi for any suspicious behavior.

• Chen Luo's remnant soul tried to seize Lu Xuan's body, but Lu Xuan trapped him in the Soul Guiding Lamp.
• Lu Xuan tracked the fleeing Body Cultivator with the Voidsky Nightmare Eye, immobilized him with illusions, and killed him using three Great Sun Sword Talismans.
• Lu Xuan collected both cultivators' souls and Storage Bags, destroyed their corpses, and checked the area with Evil Expelling Talismans before leaving.
• Lu Xuan assessed his physical strength and decided to conceal the killings from the sect.
• Lu Xuan recalled that Senior Brother Zhou Qi had asked about him and planned to watch Zhou Qi with the Voidsky Nightmare Eye.

Lu Xuan looted Chen Luo and the body cultivator, then sold off their seized treasures while secretly watching Zhou Qi for signs of betrayal. Back in his courtyard, he harvested a mutated Arrow Vine and received a Fifth Grade Nailhead Arrow.

• Lu Xuan searched Chen Luo's Storage Bag and found the Hundred Beast Annotations, demon beast records, a Flying Sword, Spirit Stones, pills, and a Monster Beast Egg.
• Lu Xuan searched the body cultivator's Storage Bag and collected an Array Plate, body-tempering supplies, demon beast materials, and more than three hundred Middle Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan returned to Black Star City and later sold a batch of seized Treasures at the Black Market in disguise.
• Lu Xuan used the Voidsky Nightmare Eye to follow Zhou Qi for more than a month but found no sign that Zhou Qi had acted suspiciously.
• Lu Xuan cultivated the Water Firefly Grass and harvested a mature Fourth Grade Mutated Arrow Vine.
• Lu Xuan touched the White Light Orb and obtained the Fifth Grade treasure Nailhead Arrow.

Lu Xuan harvested a fifth-grade curse treasure and refused to explore deeper into the dangerous Black Demon Abyss. After Zhou Qi informed him that the sects planned to withdraw, Lu Xuan chose to return to the sect, where his spirit plants were nearing maturity.

• Lu Xuan obtained a fifth-grade Nailhead Arrow from a Light Orb and continued tending his Arrow Vines.
• Sun Yunming, Qiu Changyuan, and Meng Yue invited Lu Xuan to explore deeper into the Black Demon Abyss, but he declined.
• Zhou Qi told Lu Xuan that Extraterritorial Demons were increasing and the sects planned to evacuate Black Star City’s cultivators and resources.
• Lu Xuan chose to return to the sect with the other disciples because his spirit plants were about to mature.

Lu Xuan returned from Black Star City to Sword Gate Town with a small group of Heaven Sword Sect disciples, eager to tend his spirit plants. Back at his Netherworld Courtyard, he fed his sinister plants and the Flesh Spirit God before returning to the sect.

• Lu Xuan packed his spirit plants and belongings, including the Sixth Grade Tusk Bone Demon Seed, and joined the disciples returning from Black Star City.
• Zhou Qi sent the group toward the sect on a Fourth Grade Four-Winged Thunderstorm Tiger, which brought them safely to Sword Gate Town the next day.
• Lu Xuan put on the Thousandfold Wraith Mask, entered the Netherworld Courtyard, and released the Flesh Spirit God.
• Lu Xuan offered Chen Luo's and another cultivator's organs to the Five Organs Treasure Plant and fed souls to the Yin Cry Wood and Soul Burning Flower.
• Lu Xuan used infant souls to cultivate the Saint Infant Fruit Mother Plant and its child plants, left the Fiend Origin Fruit with too little Killing Intent to cultivate, and returned to the sect.

Lu Xuan returned to his Inner Sect Cave Mansion, reunited with his spirit beasts, and resumed caring for his Spirit Field. He harvested all the mature Jade Dew Fruit and collected the Light Orbs’ rewards, including pills, spirit dew, recipes, and magic tools.

• Lu Xuan returned to the sect and reunited with Fat Bird and the other spirit beasts at his Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuan gave the Grass Puppet a Fourth Grade Arrow Vine to use as a defensive treasure while patrolling the Spirit Field.
• Lu Xuan transplanted more than two hundred Water Firefly Grass plants and three Arrow Vines into the Cave Mansion’s spirit soil, then tended his Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan found that all fifteen remaining Jade Dew Fruit plants had matured and harvested sixty-two fruits.
• Lu Xuan collected sixty-two Light Orbs and received Dust Cleansing Pills, Jade Cleansing Spirit Dew, recipe experience packs, and three Fourth Grade Qing Wei Jade Lock Magic Tools.

Lu Xuan tended his spirit plants, collected rewards for a harvest of Jade Dew Fruits, and heard fellow cultivators discuss the dangers and opportunities in the Black Demon Abyss. Back in his Cave Mansion, he successfully advanced a mutated Water Firefly Grass into a Third Grade Spirit Plant and named it Ice Firefly Grass.

• Lu Xuan harvested eighty-six Jade Dew Fruits for the Alchemy Hall and received five hundred and ten Sword Seals.
• Over two months, Lu Xuan cultivated his spirit plants and Spirit Beasts, then planted another batch of Jade Dew Fruit seeds entrusted to him by the Alchemy Hall.
• Lu Xuan nourished his Fifth Grade Sword Grasses and discussed the Black Demon Abyss with Liu Su and a group of fellow Spirit Plant Masters, remaining unwilling to risk himself for treasures.
• Lu Xuan planted a mutated Water Firefly Grass seed and discovered that it had advanced into a Third Grade Spirit Plant.
• Lu Xuan named the new ice-attribute spirit plant Ice Firefly Grass.

Lu Xuan discovered that his mutated Third Grade Ice Firefly Grass might provide better cultivation rewards after his breakthrough and learned that Zhou Qi and Qingxu True Person had suffered disastrous fates in the Black Demon Abyss. The sect’s losses shook his confidence, but he resolved to keep cultivating spirit plants and trust the sect to face the danger.

• Lu Xuan found five Ice Firefly Grass Spirit Seeds and handed his Fourth Grade Sword Peacock to Sword Hall in exchange for five hundred Sword Seals.
• Lu Xuan learned that Zhou Qi had suffered severe soul injuries from demons and monsters in the Black Demon Abyss and might need decades to recover.
• Lu Xuan heard nine bell tolls announcing that Qingxu True Person had fallen to demons and monsters in the Black Demon Abyss.
• Lu Xuan recalled that he was cultivating Qingxu True Person’s Purification Glazed Tea and worried about the demons’ threat, then decided to focus on farming and harvesting Light Orbs.

Lu Xuan learned that demons and evil spirits were ravaging the Eastern Wasteland, and Ge Pu revealed that the Heaven Sword Sect planned to relocate to its parent sect in another realm. The sect would take only a select few, leaving Lu Xuan and most disciples to face separate arrangements.

• Liu Su informed Lu Xuan of attacks by a Disaster-Class Evil Spirit, mutated demons, and frenzied Spirit Beasts, heightening his anxiety about the worsening situation.
• Lu Xuan put away the seven Ice Firefly Grass Spirit Seeds he had improved, choosing not to plant them yet.
• Ge Pu visited Lu Xuan after breaking through to the Core Formation Realm and thanked him for helping him along the way.
• Ge Pu told Lu Xuan that stronger Extraterritorial Demons had emerged from the Black Demon Abyss, prompting the Heaven Sword Sect to leave the Eastern Wasteland.
• Ge Pu revealed that the Heaven Sword Sect was a branch of the Profound Cave Sword Sect in the Azure Wave Realm and planned to return there with only a small group of cultivators and relatives.
• Ge Pu explained that most disciples, including Lu Xuan, would not travel with the sect because crossing realms was too dangerous for large groups.

Ge Pu told Lu Xuan that the sect would send its Inner Sect Disciples to the Central Continent to escape the demon invasion, and promised to protect Lu Xuan’s claim to Qingxu’s Fifth Grade Purification Glazed Tea. Lu Xuan began preparing to leave by gathering his spirit plants and supplies, while wishing he had a secret realm of his own.

• Ge Pu explained that the damaged spatial barrier in the Black Demon Abyss had let Extraterritorial Demons into the Eastern Wasteland, so the sect planned to send its Inner Sect Disciples to the Central Continent.
• Lu Xuan asked how Outer Sect Disciples and cultivators unable to use the ancient teleportation array would be settled, and Ge Pu described the limits of spatial Treasures and the aid planned for Qi Practitioners.
• Ge Pu told Lu Xuan to direct anyone seeking Qingxu’s Purification Glazed Tea to him, and Lu Xuan agreed to keep the evacuation news confidential.
• After Ge Pu left, Lu Xuan accepted that he would have to make his way in the Central Continent and planned to gather spirit plants, seeds, and pill-refinement methods before departing.
• Lu Xuan traveled to the Defective Secret Realm and packed its spirit plants, Flame Soil, Underworld Spring Spiritual Dew, and Demon Subduing Pestle into the Gluttony Insect Pouch.
• Lu Xuan left the Wood Sprites behind and lamented that he did not own an independent secret realm.

Lu Xuan evacuated the strange Spirit Plants from his Netherworld Courtyard and spent most of his Sword Seals on Fourth Grade Spirit Seeds and seed-condensation methods before returning to his Cave Mansion. There, Gu Jiankong arrived with a Spirit Seed gifted by a Nascent Soul Grand Elder who valued Lu Xuan’s skill and contributions.

• Lu Xuan removed the strange Spirit Plants and Spirit Soil from the Netherworld Courtyard, then compressed its Yin Qi and concealed the courtyard’s former appearance.
• Lu Xuan went to Si Nong Hall and exchanged 8,200 Sword Seals for twelve Fourth Grade Spirit Seeds and the seed-condensation methods for Earth Fire Heart Lotus and Five Elements Fruit.
• Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion, where Gu Jiankong brought him a Spirit Seed gifted by a Nascent Soul Grand Elder.

As the sect prepared to relocate to the Azure Wave Realm, Gu Jiankong gave Lu Xuan a rare Sixth Grade Zwei Xuan Thunder Fruit Spirit Seed and explained that Lu Xuan would be sent to the Central Continent instead. Lu Xuan packed his spirit plants and beasts, then left his longtime Cave Mansion to join the evacuation.

• Gu Jiankong told Lu Xuan the sect would relocate to the Azure Wave Realm and that he would be sent to the Central Continent, then presented him with a Spirit Seed from the Grand Elder.
• Lu Xuan planted the Zwei Xuan Thunder Fruit Spirit Seed and learned that its fruit could temper the body, improve lightning resistance, and aid Core Formation.
• A Core Formation True Person informed Lu Xuan that he was in the second evacuation batch and had only two days to prepare.
• Lu Xuan packed his spirit plants and spirit beasts into the Gluttony Insect Pouch for the journey.
• Lu Xuan looked back on his years in the sect, then entered the Array Hall to begin his new journey.

Lu Xuan and nine other disciples arrived in the Li Yang Domain of Central Continent through an ancient teleportation formation. After the group split up, Lu Xuan and Shen Ye parted ways, each planning to make his own way in the unfamiliar region.

• Lu Xuan recovered from the long teleportation and learned that he had arrived in Tong Yuan City with nine other Heaven Sword Sect disciples.
• The group left the teleportation hall and saw the scale of the Central Continent’s cultivation world.
• A young disciple with a Nascent Soul ancestor left to seek entry under the ancestor’s friend, while five others departed together and two followed the same route as the young man.
• Lu Xuan and Shen Ye discussed their plans: Lu Xuan would observe the Li Yang Domain before choosing a path, while Shen Ye intended to pursue Core Formation without joining a sect.
• Shen Ye gave Lu Xuan a reusable Communication Sword Talisman, received a Communication Talisman in return, and departed on a flying sword.

Lu Xuan explored Tong Yuan City and learned about the major powers in the Li Yang Domain while searching for a suitable place to cultivate his Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts. He became interested in joining Heavenly Star Grotto and decided to investigate it further.

• Lu Xuan compared prices at Tong Yuan City's stalls and found that treasures cost roughly thirty to fifty percent more than in the Eastern Wasteland.
• Lu Xuan considered whether to join a sect or remain a rogue cultivator as he searched for a residence with a broad Spirit Field and dense Spiritual Energy.
• A Qi Refining young man introduced Lu Xuan to the Central Continent and described the Li Yang Dao Sect, the Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild, and Heavenly Star Grotto.
• Lu Xuan ruled out the Li Yang Dao Sect because it would take too long to gain its trust and his unusual Spirit Plants and Treasures could be discovered.
• Lu Xuan decided Heavenly Star Grotto might suit him and planned to ask around before choosing whether to join.

Lu Xuan arrived at Heaven Star Cave and chose a residence suited to his spirit plants. He rented a cave mansion in Thunder Fire Star Cave for ten years, leaving him with far less money but a place to settle and cultivate.

• Lu Xuan reached Heaven Star Cave, restored his cultivation to Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and entered Star Plucking Tower to find a residence.
• A female cultivator explained the Eighteen Star Caves and showed Lu Xuan available cave mansions suited to spirit-plant cultivation.
• Lu Xuan chose Thunder Fire Star Cave because its thunder and fire could nourish his Zwei Xuan Thunder Fruit and Phoenix Wood.
• Lu Xuan agreed to rent a cave mansion for ten years and paid three thousand Middle Grade Spirit Stones.
• The female cultivator gave Lu Xuan a Thunder Fire Token and a Third-grade Bewildering Array, and he prepared to cultivate his spirit plants.

Lu Xuan entered Thunder Fire Star Cave and began turning its Cave Mansion into a base for cultivating his many spirit plants and raising his spirit beasts. After filling the fields and settling the beasts, he left the story in a peaceful new home beneath the cave’s surrounding thunder and fire.

• Lu Xuan used the Thunder Fire Token to enter Thunder Fire Star Cave and found a protected Cave Mansion with rich spiritual energy.
• Lu Xuan set up the Illusionary Extinction Five Elements Formation to separate a core planting area from the outer fields.
• Lu Xuan created a Netherworld Courtyard for his evil spirit plants and planted his high-grade spirit plants across the Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuan filled the remaining fields with numerous other spirit plants and spent much of his spiritual power tending to them.
• Lu Xuan released and settled his spirit beasts around the Cave Mansion, while Fat Bird stayed close to him and the Cloud Stepping Lynx arrived on a wall.

Lu Xuan settled into life in Thunder Fire Star Cave, tending his Spirit Plants and learning about the dangers and benefits of the Thunder Sea from two neighboring cultivators. He left the visit having politely suggested they explore the Thunder Sea together, though he planned to go alone.

• Lu Xuan nurtured his growing Sword Grass and Ice Firefly Grass, refining his Sword Intent as he cared for them.
• Luo Ming and Lei Zheng visited Lu Xuan, who welcomed them into his Cave Mansion while keeping talismans hidden in his sleeves.
• Lu Xuan served the visitors fruit and spirit nectar from his own plants and explained his fondness for cultivating Spirit Plants.
• Luo Ming described the Thunder Sea's rare lightning powers, treasures, storms, and hidden Thunder Beasts.
• Lu Xuan thanked Luo Ming and suggested they might explore the Thunder Sea together someday.

Lu Xuan entered the Thunder Sea to explore its resources and discovered that his Mirage Sound Pearl could imitate thunder. He encountered the powerful Thunder Hǒu Beast known for begging passersby for food.

• Lu Xuan decided to explore the Thunder Sea and, seven days later, traveled there after tending his Spirit Plants.
• A guard checked Lu Xuan’s Thunder Fire Token and warned him about the dangerous Thunder Hǒu Beast that lingered near the passage to beg for food.
• Lu Xuan entered the Thunder Sea and found that his token protected him from its lightning, though he suspected the protection would weaken deeper inside.
• Lu Xuan used his Mirage Sound Pearl to collect and imitate the Thunder Sea’s thunder sounds.
• Lu Xuan spotted the enormous, docile-looking Thunder Hǒu Beast crouching ahead and recognized it as the beast the guard had described.

Lu Xuan entered the Thunder Sea to gather Spirit Thunder for his Zwei Xuan Thunder Fruit and collected several kinds in the outer region. After killing an attacking Thunder Beast, he spotted two cultivators sneaking toward him and prepared to deal with them.

• Lu Xuan fed the Thunder Hǒu Beast Demon Beast Meat and Spirit Fruits, learned of its Thunder Rhinoceros bloodline, and stroked its belly before heading into the Thunder Sea.
• Lu Xuan searched the outer region, located a Gold Element Spirit Thunder, and compressed it into a thunder bead for cultivating the Zwei Xuan Thunder Fruit.
• Lu Xuan gathered several more Five Elements Spirit Thunders and other Spirit Thunders over the next half day.
• A Third Grade Thunder Beast ambushed Lu Xuan, but he crushed its skull and stored its carcass to feed his Netherworld Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan spotted two concealed Foundation Establishment cultivators approaching and decided to take their Storage Bags.

Lu Xuan lured two cultivators who planned to ambush him into a trap, killed them, and claimed their resources and souls. Back at his Cave Mansion, he began nourishing the Zwei Xuan Thunder Fruit Spirit Seed with crimson lightning and considered the cultivation needs of his other rare plants.

• Two cultivators secretly surrounded Lu Xuan in the Thunder Sea and attacked what they thought was their unsuspecting prey.
• Lu Xuan used the Voidsky Nightmare Eye and a transformed Howling Sea Sword Talisman to kill both attackers.
• Lu Xuan captured their souls with the Soul Guiding Lamp and took their corpses, Storage Bags, Spirit Stones, pills, talismans, and Magic Tools.
• Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion with Spirit Thunders for the Zwei Xuan Thunder Fruit and welcomed the relief of seeing his Spirit Beasts.
• Lu Xuan fed crimson lightning from a lightning bead into the Zwei Xuan Thunder Fruit Spirit Seed until it reached saturation, then considered where to cultivate his remaining rare plants.

Lu Xuan harvested more than two hundred Water Firefly Grass light orbs, gaining forty-seven years of cultivation and resources as he prepared to pursue Core Formation. He left Thunder Fire Star Cave to trade treasures and seek Spirit Seeds, and the Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild began appraising his Qing Wei Jade Lock.

• Lu Xuan harvested over two hundred Water Firefly Grass light orbs, gaining forty-seven years of cultivation along with elixirs, talismans, magic tools, and other rewards.
• Lu Xuan assessed the growth of his Spirit Plants and decided to prepare for Core Formation and seek out suitable Spirit Seeds.
• Lu Xuan flew from Thunder Fire Star Cave to Star Plucking Tower and entered a branch of the Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild.
• Lu Xuan asked to sell several magic tools and look at Spirit Seeds, then presented his Crimson Flame Sword, a shield-armor tool, and the Qing Wei Jade Lock.
• Lu Xuan invented a story about the Qing Wei Jade Lock as the merchant guild's attendant sent for an expert appraiser.

Lu Xuan sold Magic Tools and two Qing Wei Jade Locks to the Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild, then asked to browse its rare spirit seeds. Daoist Wen agreed to show him rare Fourth Grade seeds, while Rank 5 seeds remained scarce and were mostly reserved for auctions.

• Senior Brother Mu appraised the Qing Wei Jade Lock and identified its binding, size-changing, and Evil Spirit-targeting properties.
• Daoist Wen offered Lu Xuan ten thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones for each Qing Wei Jade Lock, and he sold her two.
• Lu Xuan accepted payment totaling four hundred and fifty Middle Grade Spirit Stones for the Magic Tools and jade locks.
• Lu Xuan asked Daoist Wen to show him rare spirit seeds no lower than Fourth Grade.
• Daoist Wen explained that Rank 5 spirit seeds were scarce and usually sold at guild auctions, then agreed to show Lu Xuan the rare Fourth Grade seeds.

Lu Xuan bought every Azure Spirit Branch and Thunderstorm Lotus seed available at the Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild, then planted them in his cave mansion at Thunder Fire Star Cave. He learned their cultivation needs and used Azure Wood Source Qi and thunder from his thunder bead to nourish them.

• Lu Xuan examined the rare spirit seeds and chose the two Azure Spirit Branch cuttings and three Thunderstorm Lotus seeds.
• Lu Xuan paid two hundred and eighty middle-grade spirit stones and asked Daoist Wen to watch for rank five spirit seeds.
• Lu Xuan returned to his cave mansion and planted the Azure Spirit Branch cuttings and Thunderstorm Lotus seeds in the spirit field.
• Lu Xuan learned that the Azure Spirit Branch needed pure spiritual energy and careful tending, while the Thunderstorm Lotus required lightning and could trigger a thunder rampage.
• Lu Xuan watered the newly planted seeds and added Azure Wood Source Qi to the branches and a small bolt of thunder to the lotus seeds.

Lu Xuan finished condensing seeds from his Water Firefly Grasses and inspected his Spirit Field, where a Dragon Bone Grass matured. Harvesting it granted him a Sixth Grade Alligator Dragon Pearl.

• Lu Xuan watched the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect suppress a new poison and warned it not to approach him while covered in toxic smoke.
• Lu Xuan gave the Medicine Midge an ordinary Third Grade pill after realizing it wanted to taste pill poison.
• Lu Xuan finished condensing and processing about three hundred Spirit Seeds from his remaining Water Firefly Grasses.
• Three days later, Lu Xuan inspected his Spirit Field and found that one of his two remaining Dragon Bone Grasses had matured.
• Lu Xuan harvested the Fifth Grade Dragon Bone Grass and received a Sixth Grade Alligator Dragon Pearl from its White Light Orb.

Lu Xuan harvested a Sixth Grade Alligator Dragon Pearl, tended his Spirit Plants, and agreed to investigate Luo Ming’s withered Bewitching Yin Wood. At Luo Ming’s Cave Mansion, they passed a Thunder Serpent being tempered by a treasure from the Thunder Sea and reached the Spirit Field where the abnormal plant awaited inspection.

• Lu Xuan obtained a Sixth Grade Alligator Dragon Pearl from a treasure pearl and stored Dragon Bone Grass for the Dazzling Fire Flood Dragon.
• Lu Xuan tended the Ice Firefly Grass and other Spirit Plants, then caught the Demon Ghost Vine trying to mark the maturing Earth Sovereign Jujube and tossed it back into the Bewitching Peach grove.
• Luo Ming visited Lu Xuan and asked for help with his listless Fourth Grade Bewitching Yin Wood, whose cause of decline he could not identify.
• Lu Xuan agreed to examine the Bewitching Yin Wood and followed Luo Ming to his Cave Mansion.
• Luo Ming explained that his Thunder Serpent was using a Thunder Sea treasure to purify its bloodline and temper its body as they entered the Spirit Field.

Lu Xuan discovered that Luo Ming's Fourth Grade Bewitching Yin Wood was deteriorating because thunder from Luo Ming's Thunder Serpent had disturbed its Yin-rich growing environment. After Lu Xuan advised moving the spirit beast and clearing the Thunder Spirit Aura, the tree began recovering, and Luo Ming rewarded him with spirit stones.

• Lu Xuan inspected Luo Ming's struggling Bewitching Yin Wood and used his special ability to identify its condition.
• Lu Xuan determined that the Thunder Serpent's breakthrough had increased the Thunder Spirit Aura and frightened the tree with its thunderclaps.
• Luo Ming moved the Thunder Serpent and used a lightning-drawing technique to disperse the Thunder Spirit Aura from the Spirit Field.
• Black Qi gathered around the Bewitching Yin Wood, and its leaves regained their moisture and gloss.
• Luo Ming gave Lu Xuan around three thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, which Lu Xuan accepted.