Recaps

Lu Xuan explored the Black Market for Spirit Plants, cultivation resources, and defensive equipment, while growing wary of its strange wares and the possible dangers behind Wang Shan’s purchase of a female cultivator. He traded his Second Grade Li Fire Sword and ten Spirit Stones for a short section of Third Grade Flood Dragon Vine, which he hoped to cultivate.

• Lu Xuan avoided the Black Paper Kite and surveyed the Black Market, noting its crowds, fees, and unusual stalls.
• He passed on a stall selling female cultivators and recalled that Wang Shan’s rapid cultivation after buying one might have been connected to his later Evil Spirit contamination.
• Lu Xuan found a short section of Third Grade Flood Dragon Vine and learned that cultivating it into a complete vine was extremely difficult.
• Lu Xuan negotiated with the female cultivator and exchanged his Second Grade Li Fire Sword and ten Spirit Stones for the Flood Dragon Vine.

Lu Xuan returned from the Black Market with a section of Third Grade Flood Dragon Vine and planted it in his Spirit Field. He learned that it needed snake or flood dragon blood to grow well and resolved to find some rather than hunt demonic beasts himself.

• Lu Xuan sold Qin Ming’s First Grade Flying Sword for thirty-five Spirit Stones and bought an Iron Scale Shield for thirty-two.
• Lu Xuan returned safely to his courtyard, where the Azure-Eyed Cloud Stepping Lynx ignored him until he tossed it Puffer Pig Meat.
• Lu Xuan planted the Flood Dragon Vine and learned that it needed blood from snake-type or flood dragon-type demonic beasts to thrive.
• Lu Xuan decided to search for Serpent Demon Beast Blood or pay cultivators to obtain it, since he would not risk leaving his Spirit Field to hunt.

Lu Xuan harvested and sold mature Spirit Firefly Grass, gaining cultivation, spells, and other rewards before meeting cultivator Zhou outside Hundred Herbs Hall. Zhou complained that his own Spirit Firefly Grass was far inferior and suggested Lu Xuan had withheld part of the cultivation method.

• Lu Xuan harvested twelve mature Spirit Firefly Grass plants and gained two and a half years of cultivation, talismans, spell knowledge, Gold Metal Swordplay insight, and an essence-nurturing pill recipe.
• Lu Xuan sold twenty-six mature Spirit Firefly Grass plants to Manager He for ninety-six Spirit Stones and ten Fragmented Spirit Stones.
• Cultivator Zhou stopped Lu Xuan outside Hundred Herbs Hall and praised the quality of his Spirit Firefly Grass.
• Zhou said his batch of twenty plants had few high-quality stalks after less than seven days of meticulous cultivation, unlike Lu Xuan's harvest.
• Lu Xuan asked whether Zhou suspected him of withholding part of the cultivation method.

Lu Xuan rebuffed Fellow Daoist Zhou, who blamed him for the limited improvement in his Spirit Firefly Grass, then bought Black Line Snake blood at the Rogue Cultivator Market and fed it to the Flood Dragon Vine. The vine absorbed the blood but remained unsatisfied, leaving Lu Xuan with its reaction to consider.

• Lu Xuan explained that his refined cultivation method had improved Fellow Daoist Zhou's Spirit Firefly Grass and warned him to stop demanding more.
• Fellow Daoist Zhou threatened Lu Xuan, but Lu Xuan dismissed his accusations and left Hundred Herbs Hall.
• Lu Xuan searched the wary Rogue Cultivator Market and bought a small bottle of Black Line Snake blood for seventy Fragmented Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan returned to his courtyard, checked the spirit field, and noted that the Grass Puppet's intelligence had improved while it continued guarding the plants.
• Lu Xuan poured the Black Line Snake blood onto the Flood Dragon Vine, which absorbed it and seemed disappointed that it had received so little.

Lu Xuan cultivated his spirit plants and collected rewards while waiting for two Red Cloud Pine Cones to ripen. That night, a Masked Cultivator broke into his Spirit Field to kill him and seize his plants, but the Grass Puppet’s attack revealed the intruder’s presence.

• Lu Xuan bathed the Flood Dragon Vine in Black Line Snake blood and saw its vitality improve, though it needed more blood to thrive.
• Over three days, Lu Xuan harvested thirteen mature Spirit Firefly Grass plants and gained cultivation, talismans, spell experience, and Essence Nurturing Pill Recipes from their White Light Orbs.
• Lu Xuan left two nearly ripe Red Cloud Pine Cones unpicked so he could harvest them at their optimal moment.
• A Masked Cultivator used a Second Grade Spirit Breaking Talisman to bypass Lu Xuan’s protective array and entered the Spirit Field, intending to kill him and take his valuables.
• The Masked Cultivator admired Lu Xuan’s rare spirit plants as he approached the house, then cut apart the Grass Puppet’s limbs after it attacked him with grass ropes.

Lu Xuan captured and interrogated the Masked Cultivator who attacked his Spirit Field, learning that Zhou Haiwen had hired him to steal Lu Xuan’s manuals and kill him. After killing the attacker, Lu Xuan went to Zhou Haiwen’s courtyard.

• Lu Xuan and the Azure-Eyed Cloud Stepping Lynx subdued the Masked Cultivator, leaving him unconscious and destroying his cultivation.
• Lu Xuan threatened the bound Masked Cultivator until he admitted Zhou Haiwen had hired him to attack Lu Xuan and promised him the Spirit Field’s plants.
• The Masked Cultivator revealed Zhou Haiwen’s address, and Lu Xuan killed him, burned his body, and scattered the ashes in the Spirit Field.
• Lu Xuan secured his residence, then silently arrived outside Zhou Haiwen’s courtyard.

Zhou Haiwen hired a cultivator to seize Lu Xuan’s spirit-plant cultivation method, but Lu Xuan killed both the hired cultivator and Zhou Haiwen and escaped with their belongings. After reviewing the spoils and deciding to seek a stronger protective array, Lu Xuan harvested a mature Red Cloud Pine Cone and gained a Basic Talisman Compendium.

• Zhou Haiwen waited for the cultivator he had hired to return with Lu Xuan’s cultivation method, confident that the plan would succeed.
• Lu Xuan killed Zhou Haiwen with his sword, took his Storage Bag, and used two Explosive Flame Talismans to burn the corpse and erase evidence before leaving.
• Lu Xuan returned home and counted the loot from both Storage Bags, including Spirit Stones, talismans, pills, and six unknown Spirit Seeds.
• Lu Xuan considered replacing the courtyard’s inadequate protective array with a Second Grade array and checked that his spirit plants had survived the fight.
• Lu Xuan harvested a Superior Grade Red Cloud Pine Cone and absorbed its White Light Orb, gaining a Basic Talisman Compendium containing methods for dozens of First Grade Talismans.

Lu Xuan harvested two Superior Grade Red Cloud Pine Cones and received a Basic Talisman Compendium and the Second Grade Red Thread Needle. After tending his spirit field, he visited Hundred Herbs Hall, where Manager He noticed his apparent breakthrough to Qi Training Stage 4.

• Lu Xuan harvested the second Red Cloud Pine Cone and obtained the Red Thread Needle, a fast, piercing Second Grade Magic Tool.
• Lu Xuan rewarded the damaged Grass Puppet and the Cloud Stepping Lynx, fed the Red-Beard Carp, and tended the spirit plants in his field.
• Lu Xuan decided to seek a Second Grade defense formation and Serpent Demon Beast Blood at the Rogue Cultivator Market, and to check how Hundred Herbs Hall had reacted to Spirit Plant Master Zhou's death.
• Lu Xuan visited Hundred Herbs Hall and told Manager He he planned to sell his remaining Spirit Firefly Grass after it matured and might take more seeds next time.
• Manager He sensed Lu Xuan's apparent cultivation and asked whether he had broken through to Qi Training Stage 4.

Lu Xuan told Manager He that his rapid cultivation came from pills and that he lacked the means to fight for opportunities, so he planned to keep raising Spirit Plants. He visited Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, bought a Mist Concealing Formation, and asked about obtaining serpent or Flood Dragon blood.

• Lu Xuan told Manager He he had reached Qi Training Stage 4, and Manager He urged him to consider exploring Secret Realms.
• Lu Xuan explained that pills had accelerated his cultivation and that he was not prepared to fight for opportunities, so Manager He accepted his choice to nurture Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan visited Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion and asked a Delicate Maiden to show him Second Grade defensive formations.
• Lu Xuan bargained for and bought a Mist Concealing Formation for one hundred fifty-five Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan asked whether the pavilion had serpent-type or Flood Dragon-type demon beast blood, and the Delicate Maiden offered to search for it through a paid reservation.

Lu Xuan installed a Second Grade Mist Concealing Formation to protect his courtyard, then discovered and destroyed a swarm of mutated Spirit Devouring insects attacking a Blood Jade Ginseng. Their unusual behavior made him suspect the disturbance in the Marketplace had reached his Spirit Field.

• Lu Xuan paid a deposit for Serpent Demon Beast Blood and returned to his courtyard with the Mist Concealing Formation Array Plate.
• Lu Xuan activated the Second Grade formation, shrouding the courtyard in mist and strengthening its defenses.
• While checking his Spirit Plants, Lu Xuan found over a hundred Spirit Devouring insects clinging to a Blood Jade Ginseng's roots.
• The insects split into a swarm and attacked, but Lu Xuan skewered them with his Red Thread Needle and burned them to ash.
• Lu Xuan suspected the insects had mutated because of the Evil Spirit connected to the Wang Family's Secret Realm and searched the Spirit Field for more.

Lu Xuan harvested the last of his Spirit Firefly Grass, strengthened his cultivation, and fed First Grade snake blood to the Flood Dragon Vine. A conversation with Cultivator Wu revealed a possible source for more snake materials, and Lu Xuan asked to meet the snake-hunting cultivator.

• Lu Xuan harvested twenty-six Spirit Firefly Grass plants and gained four years of cultivation, talismans, pills, and spell experience from their White Light Orbs.
• Lu Xuan used Grass Spirit Essence Liquid to restore the Grass Puppet, then poured Double Winged Golden Scale Snake Blood over the Flood Dragon Vine and observed its golden patterns.
• Lu Xuan left with thirty-nine Spirit Firefly Grass plants to obtain more seeds at Hundred Herbs Hall and met Cultivator Wu, who invited him to drink Spirit Brew.
• Lu Xuan learned that Cultivator Wu's friend used a family secret art to find and capture snake demons, including Second Grade beasts.
• Lu Xuan asked Cultivator Wu to introduce him to the snake hunter, and Cultivator Wu agreed.

Lu Xuan visited the Yu Family to arrange a steady supply of Azure Water Python blood for cultivating his Flood Dragon Vine. He paid a deposit and left with a bottle of unranked snake blood, while the family awaited the return of Yu Jie's father with the promised Azure Water Python blood.

• Cultivator Wu took Lu Xuan to the home of Yu Tong, whose grandson Yu Jie greeted them with his jade-green python.
• Lu Xuan asked Yu Tong how his family handled serpent demon beast blood and requested a long-term supply of First Grade or higher blood.
• Yu Tong offered Second Grade Azure Water Python blood for ten Spirit Stones per catty, and Lu Xuan agreed.
• Lu Xuan and the Yu Family made a simple contract, and Lu Xuan left five Spirit Stones as a deposit.
• Yu Tong slaughtered an unranked demon snake and gave Lu Xuan a bottle of its blood before he departed.

Lu Xuan learned that strange insects and diseased spirit plants were spreading through the Marketplace as evil spirits polluted its spirit vein. After selling his Spirit Firefly Grass, he attended Hundred Herbs Hall’s meeting and decided to try growing a diseased plant in his own Spirit Field.

• Manager He told Lu Xuan that Spirit Devouring insects had mutated across the Marketplace and that Hundred Herbs Hall was gathering Spirit Plant Masters to discuss the problem.
• Lu Xuan sold thirty-nine mature Spirit Firefly Grass plants for one hundred forty-three Spirit Stones and thirty Fragmented Spirit Stones.
• He Zongguang showed the Spirit Plant Masters a Blood Jade Ginseng and a Blood-colored Leaf afflicted with mysterious, potentially contagious diseases.
• He Zongguang urged the Spirit Plant Masters to strengthen their protections and pool their knowledge to find a way to stop the disease.
• Lu Xuan wondered whether he could plant a diseased spirit plant and observe its real-time state, then decided to obtain one or two for an experiment.

Lu Xuan took two diseased spirit plants from Hundred Herbs Hall to test whether he could identify and treat their afflictions without endangering his own crops. He destroyed an unsalvageable Blood Jade Ginseng and began treating a Blood Spirit Leaf infested with Mutated Black Bud Worms.

• Lu Xuan bought 120 Spirit Firefly Grass seeds from Manager He and asked him for two spirit plants contaminated by Evil Spirits or Strange insects.
• Manager He warned Lu Xuan about the risk, then gave him the two diseased plants after Lu Xuan promised to keep his Spirit Field safe.
• Lu Xuan isolated the plants in a fog-encircled corner of his Spirit Field and used their real-time states to learn what afflicted them.
• Lu Xuan destroyed the Blood Jade Ginseng after learning it required rare Century Spirit Nectar to recover.
• Lu Xuan cut away the infected parts of the Blood Spirit Leaf, removed and burned its Mutated Black Bud Worm larvae, and cleansed it with an Exorcism Talisman.

Lu Xuan treated the Blood Spirit Leaf, planted new Spirit Firefly Grass, and received Azure Water Python Blood from Yu Jie to nourish the Flood Dragon Vine. Harvesting the last Red Cloud Pine Cones gave Lu Xuan talisman knowledge and a Third Grade Flawless Jade Treasure.

• Lu Xuan discovered he could treat diseased Spirit Plants brought into his Spirit Field and planted one hundred and twenty Spirit Firefly Grass seeds.
• Three days later, the Spirit Firefly Grass seeds sprouted, and Yu Jie arrived with a bottle of Azure Water Python Blood.
• Lu Xuan paid Yu Jie the remaining five Spirit Stones and poured the snake blood over the Flood Dragon Vine, which began absorbing it.
• Lu Xuan harvested a Superior Grade and a Perfect Grade Red Cloud Pine Cone, receiving Basic Talisman Compendium knowledge from the first White Light Orb.
• The Perfect Grade cone's White Light Orb gave Lu Xuan a Third Grade auxiliary Treasure called Flawless Jade, which could sharpen wisdom, resist Evil Spirit contamination, and slightly enhance Spiritual Sense.

Lu Xuan obtained a Third Grade Flawless Jade from a Red Cloud Pine light orb and continued tending his spirit plants as the marketplace faced growing threats from evil spirits. After restoring a diseased Blood Spirit Leaf, he brought it to the Hundred Herbs Hall, where Manager He offered to buy it cheaply.

• Lu Xuan discovered that the Red Cloud Pine light orb had yielded a Third Grade Flawless Jade, which could resist evil spirits and slightly enhance Spiritual Sense.
• Lu Xuan harvested the Red Cloud Pine Cones and cared for the Flood Dragon Vine and the diseased Blood Spirit Leaf, which recovered substantially before he picked it as an inferior-grade plant.
• Lu Xuan took the restored Blood Spirit Leaf to the Hundred Herbs Hall, surprising Manager He, who recognized that Lu Xuan had revived a contaminated spirit plant.
• Manager He offered Lu Xuan twenty-five Spirit Stones for the inferior Blood Spirit Leaf, and Lu Xuan hinted that he had hoped to discuss a possible cooperation.

Lu Xuan asked Manager He to help him buy diseased Spirit Plants cheaply so he could try to save them and obtain Light Orb rewards. Manager He agreed to contact Hundred Herbs Hall’s Spirit Plant Masters, then approached three growers in a Medicine Garden who were struggling with diseased plants.

• Lu Xuan offered Manager He one Spirit Stone for each First Grade diseased Spirit Plant and four for each Second Grade plant, and Manager He agreed to act as a go-between.
• Manager He went to inspect a Medicine Garden while Lu Xuan stayed behind at Hundred Herbs Hall.
• Manager He found three Spirit Plant Masters protecting their Medicine Garden with a Second Grade Peak Formation and asked about the diseased plants.
• The three Spirit Plant Masters said the disease was worsening and its cause remained unknown.
• Manager He told them his Spirit Plant Master friend wanted to buy contaminated plants cheaply, and the three growers considered the offer.

Lu Xuan treated a batch of diseased Spirit Plants and earned a substantial profit by selling the ones he saved. He kept the still-growing White Pattern Wood in his Spirit Field and continued tending his other plants.

• Manager He brought Lu Xuan ten diseased Spirit Plants, which Lu Xuan planted in an isolated section of his Spirit Field.
• Lu Xuan destroyed four plants that were beyond saving and cured the mutated infestations and contamination in the other six.
• Lu Xuan checked his Spirit Field, tended his growing Spirit Plants, and kept the immature White Pattern Wood to cultivate further.
• Lu Xuan brought five recovered First Grade Spirit Plants to Hundred Herbs Hall, where Manager He praised his skill and bought them for one hundred and twenty Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan put away his earnings, pleased that he had profited from the diseased plants while still holding the White Pattern Wood.

Lu Xuan negotiated with two Spirit Plant Masters who wanted him to cure their diseased Second Grade Spirit Plant, while He Zongguang learned of Lu Xuan’s abilities and ordered his disciple to recruit him into Hundred Herbs Hall. The chapter left the plant’s owners weighing Lu Xuan’s risky offer and Hundred Herbs Hall preparing to approach him.

• Manager He returned with diseased Spirit Plants and two Spirit Plant Masters, who asked Lu Xuan to treat plants in their fields.
• Lu Xuan refused to work in their Spirit Fields and offered to transplant their Second Grade Spirit Plant to his own field for treatment, charging half its mature value if successful or twenty percent if it failed.
• One Spirit Plant Master objected to the proposed fee, and Lu Xuan asked whether they wanted a low-price sale or to gamble on restoring the plant.
• He Zongguang questioned his young disciple about Lu Xuan’s cures and scolded him for suggesting they seize Lu Xuan’s secret art.
• He Zongguang told the disciple to build a relationship with Lu Xuan and try to bring him into Hundred Herbs Hall.

Lu Xuan spent Spirit Stones buying diseased spirit plants, rescued those he could, and tended his courtyard’s growing plants and Spirit Beasts. After drinking with Wu Wenjing, he found a Blood Jade Ginseng had matured and carefully dug it up.

• Lu Xuan bought fourteen diseased spirit plants from two Spirit Plant Masters, then rescued eight and planted them in his courtyard.
• Over the next five days, Lu Xuan tended his spirit plants and Spirit Beasts, while the Blood Jade Ginsengs grew increasingly restless near maturity.
• Lu Xuan drank with Wu Wenjing, who told him that sect cultivators might soon come to Vast Forest Market to search for the Evil Spirit.
• Tipsy, Lu Xuan used the Earth Guidance Art to separate the tangled Blood Jade Ginsengs and noticed one had matured.
• Lu Xuan carefully dug up the mature Blood Jade Ginseng.

Lu Xuan harvested mature Blood Jade Ginseng and received Blood Spirit Pills and the Blood Burning Arrow secret art, then visited the marketplace with the Cloud Stepping Lynx. There, he encountered a red-clad cultivator whose Four-Eyed Red Goblin Monkey was drawn to an aura he carried, and he concealed his suspicions about the Red Cloud Pine Cones.

• Lu Xuan harvested three mature Blood Jade Ginsengs and obtained two Blood Spirit Pills and the Blood Burning Arrow secret art.
• Lu Xuan decided to leave the other Blood Jade Ginsengs to mature and collected seven First Grade spirit plants that had ripened.
• Lu Xuan took the Cloud Stepping Lynx to the rogue cultivator Marketplace, where a Four-Eyed Red Goblin Monkey rushed toward him before stopping.
• The red-clad girl explained that her monkey tracked Evil Spirits and asked whether Lu Xuan had handled spirit fruit; Lu Xuan blamed his work at Hundred Herbs Hall.
• The red-clad girl remarked on the Cloud Stepping Lynx’s unusual twin pupils, and Lu Xuan thanked her while keeping his suspicions to himself.

Lu Xuan sold cured Spirit Plants to Manager He, then met He Yuntong, who tried to recruit him into Hundred Herbs Hall and offered to expand their cooperation. He refused to join, keeping his independence while agreeing to continue selling his Spirit Plants to the hall.

• Lu Xuan sold Manager He seven cured First Grade Spirit Plants for one hundred and fifty Spirit Stones.
• Manager He gave Lu Xuan twenty-three more diseased Spirit Plants to treat, including three Second Grade plants.
• Manager He told Lu Xuan that He Yuntong had asked about him and led him to meet her.
• He Yuntong offered Lu Xuan a position managing a Medicine Garden at Hundred Herbs Hall, but Lu Xuan declined and proposed continuing their existing arrangement.
• He Yuntong accepted Lu Xuan's refusal and offered chances to cultivate Second Grade and possibly Third Grade Spirit Plants for the hall.

Lu Xuan visited Zhang Hong after learning that the cultivators who explored a new secret realm had returned, and heard about Zhang Hong’s injury and growing doubts about risking his life as an adventurer. Meanwhile, the Wang Family Head planned to use two sect cultivators to help clear the secret realm once its central formation was broken.

• Lu Xuan visited the Zhang family and reunited with Zhang Hong, Xu Wan, and Zhang Xiuyuan.
• Zhang Hong revealed that an Evil Spirit had withered one of his arms during the secret-realm expedition, though he had advanced to Qi Training Stage 4.
• Zhang Hong told Lu Xuan he was reconsidering exploration after witnessing a Ghoul-Class Evil Spirit wipe out a team of cultivators.
• Lu Xuan and Zhang Hong discussed the secret realm while Zhang Xiuyuan played near the Cloud Stepping Lynx and the Eclipse Moon Trees.
• The Wang Family Head told Chong'an that two sect companions had helped clear threats from the market and ordered him to bring them into the secret realm after its central Array Formation was broken.

Lu Xuan harvested Blood Jade Ginseng and gained pills, a secret technique, and a Life-Preserving Bag. The treasure solved his concern about transporting his Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts if he ever had to leave Vast Forest Market.

• Lu Xuan planted the salvageable diseased Spirit Plants Manager He had found and inspected his healthy Spirit Field.
• He separated the tangled Blood Jade Ginseng and harvested four mature plants, including one of Perfect Grade.
• The White Light Orbs yielded two Blood Spirit Pills and the Second Grade Blood Burning Arrow secret technique.
• The Perfect Grade plant’s orb gave Lu Xuan a Third Grade Life-Preserving Bag that could preserve the vitality of Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts.
• Lu Xuan realized the bag would let him transport his valuable Spirit Plants without worrying about their vitality draining away.

Lu Xuan tested his Life-Preserving Bag, harvested a mature Red-Beard Carp, and obtained a Second Grade Crimson Scale Armor before cooking the fish. Meanwhile, Wang Chong'an tried to find suitable Spirit Fruits for a red-clad girl’s picky Four-Eyed Red Goblin Monkey and brought her to meet young talents at a garden gathering.

• Lu Xuan tested the Life-Preserving Bag on a Red-Beard Carp and the Cloud Stepping Lynx, then comforted the lynx after it recalled being trapped in a cage.
• Lu Xuan found a mature Red-Beard Carp, harvested it, and received a Second Grade Crimson Scale Armor.
• Lu Xuan cooked and ate the Red-Beard Carp with the Cloud Stepping Lynx, saving the fish’s whiskers and scales.
• Wang Chong'an brought Spirit Fruits to the red-clad girl, but her Four-Eyed Red Goblin Monkey barely touched them because it was so picky.
• Wang Chong'an invited the red-clad girl to a secluded garden, where they joined a gathering of young talents that included He Yuntong.