Chapter Summaries

After collecting enough Light Orb rewards to approach the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, Lu Xuan was assigned a sect garrison mission. He chose a bitterly cold island near the Boundless Sea for its relative safety and possible spirit-planting opportunities.

• Lu Xuan reflected that another batch of Water Firefly Grass would help him break through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and he let the remaining plants mature naturally for Spirit Seeds.
• Huang Shixiong visited Lu Xuan and told him that he had to complete a sect garrison mission or risk ten years of confinement.
• Huang Shixiong described three possible posts, including a rogue cultivator city near the Fallen Nightmare Mountain Range, Xuan Yin City, and an island near the Boundless Sea.
• Lu Xuan chose the island near the Boundless Sea because it was safer and could offer sea resources, rare spirit grasses, and possibly spirit liquid.

Lu Xuan studied the remote Voidsky Island where he would serve a three-year garrison assignment and assessed his strength and precautions. He prepared to bring select Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts with him, while leaving the rest in his Cave Mansion, and planned to check the Small Courtyard before departing.

• Lu Xuan researched Voidsky Island’s resources, surroundings, and risks at the Scripture Pavilion.
• Lu Xuan assessed his combat abilities and resolved to avoid danger, preserve his life, and call for help when necessary.
• Lu Xuan chose to bring the Water Firefly Grass, several nearly mature Spirit Plants, the Demon Ghost Vine, two high-grade sword grasses, the Cloud Stepping Lynx, and the Wind Falcon.
• Lu Xuan concealed the mature Bewitching Peach and left other Spirit Plants and the young Dazzling Fire Flood Dragon in his Cave Mansion with provisions and care.
• Lu Xuan decided to visit the Small Courtyard in Sword Gate Town to inspect its Netherworld Spirit Plants before leaving.

Lu Xuan harvested two Ghost Face Stone Mushrooms, obtaining the Thousandfold Wraith Mask and another Soul Guiding Lamp, then prepared his plants and set out for Voidsky Island. Spotting Vast Forest Market on his route, he changed course to visit old friends despite the extra distance and uncertain dangers.

• Lu Xuan found two mature Ghost Face Stone Mushrooms and obtained a Fourth Grade Thousandfold Wraith Mask and a Soul Guiding Lamp from their Light Orbs.
• Lu Xuan left the remaining Ghost Face Stone Mushrooms to mature, took the Thorn Bone and Hundred Eyed Treant, and fed infant souls to the Saint Infant Fruit Sub-plant and Flood Dragon Blood Essence to the Blood Karma Flower.
• Lu Xuan left his courtyard on the Wind Falcon and flew toward Voidsky Island along a cautious route from his map.
• Lu Xuan spotted Vast Forest Market on the map and remembered Zhang Hong, Zhang Xiuyuan, and Manager He.
• Lu Xuan decided to detour to Vast Forest Market and directed the Wind Falcon to turn toward it.

Lu Xuan revisited Vast Forest Market and reflected on his early days cultivating Spirit Plants in a small courtyard. He learned that Zhang Xiuyuan had joined a small sect and, unable to visit Zhang Hong’s family, headed toward the central marketplace to look for Old He.

• Lu Xuan returned to the courtyard where he had first cultivated Spirit Plants and remembered the happiness of tending his Half-Acre Spirit Field at Qi Training Stage 2.
• Lu Xuan found strangers living in Zhang Hong’s former residence and questioned the new owner about the family who had lived there.
• The new owner told Lu Xuan that Zhang Hong’s family had moved near a small sect after Zhang Xiuyuan joined it.
• Lu Xuan asked nearby Rogue Cultivators about Zhang Xiuyuan, confirmed he had entered a sect, and accepted that he could not safely find the family right away.
• Lu Xuan left the residence and headed toward the central marketplace, wondering how Old He was doing.

Lu Xuan returned to Hundred Herbs Hall and found Manager He Yong being overworked and a young cultivator struggling to sell ordinary Spirit Firefly Grass. After Lu Xuan used his Perfect Grade herbs to turn He Yong away from the middle-aged manager’s offer, He Yong recognized his old acquaintance.

• Manager He Yong processed Spirit Firefly Grass despite his age and declining status at Hundred Herbs Hall.
• He Yong urged the middle-aged manager to buy a timid boy’s ordinary Spirit Firefly Grass, but the manager refused.
• He Yong purchased the boy’s herbs himself at the normal price and explained their quality.
• Lu Xuan arrived with several Perfect Grade Spirit Firefly Grasses and suggested that He Yong buy them instead of the middle-aged manager.
• He Yong recognized Lu Xuan, who said he had returned to visit him.

Lu Xuan reunited with Old He at Hundred Herbs Hall and revealed that he had become a Foundation Establishment Cultivator after joining the Heaven Sword Sect. Before leaving on his sect mission, he gave Old He several valuable gifts, including a token for descendants seeking entry to the sect.

• Lu Xuan explained to Old He that he had left the market after joining a major sect and led him away from the noisy Hundred Herbs Hall.
• When a middle-aged cultivator summoned two guards to drive him out, Lu Xuan restrained all three with Winter Snow Sword Intent and left with Old He.
• Lu Xuan confirmed that he had reached Foundation Establishment, surprising Old He and prompting them to reminisce about their past partnership.
• Lu Xuan told Old He that a cultivator in the Secret Realm had offered him a chance to join the Heaven Sword Sect after discovering his Spirit Plant.
• Before departing for his sect mission, Lu Xuan gave Old He a Spirit Fruit, an Explosive Flame Pearl, a Spirit Cleansing Talisman, and an Azure Cloud Token for a talented descendant.

Lu Xuan gave Manager He several treasures in gratitude for his past kindness, then left Vast Forest Market to begin his garrison duty in the Boundless Sea. After learning Lu Xuan was an Inner Sect Disciple of Heaven Sword Sect, Hall Master He promised to protect Manager He.

• Lu Xuan persuaded the Gaunt Old Man to accept Explosive Flame Pearls, Spirit Cleansing Talismans, Jade Scale Fruits, and an Azure Cloud Token as thanks for his past help.
• Hall Master He Yunzong caught up with Lu Xuan, apologized for his family members' behavior, and invited him back to Vast Forest Market.
• Lu Xuan revealed his Heaven Sword Sect identity and asked He Yunzong to protect Manager He, who promised to treat him as family.
• Lu Xuan left without returning to Vast Forest Market and headed toward the Boundless Sea to complete his garrison duty.

Lu Xuan arrived at Voidsky Island to take up his post overseeing its Voidsky Spirit Fish and learned about Merfolk, prompting him to consider crossbreeding Spirit Beasts. Song Yu welcomed him and reported that the island and its fish farms had remained safe during the handover.

• Lu Xuan reached Voidsky Island after traveling from Vast Forest Market and explored its sea-focused market stalls.
• Lu Xuan examined two Merfolk and learned they supposedly descended from Mer-beasts that mated with cultivators, which led him to consider experimenting with Spirit Beast crossbreeding.
• Lu Xuan introduced himself as a Heaven Sword Sect Inner Sect Disciple, and Song Yu welcomed him as the island's master.
• Song Yu told Lu Xuan that the Voidsky Spirit Fish were safe and that the Song Family had driven away two groups of Sea Beasts attempting to poach them.

Lu Xuan arrived at Voidsky Island and learned from Song Yu about nearby cultivators and demon beasts. After rejecting maidservants and accepting a gift of fish eggs and Spirit Stones, he offered to guide Song Yu’s son and asked for a place to grow spirit plants, leaving Song Yu to find him a suitable Spirit Field.

• Lu Xuan asked Song Yu about nearby Foundation Establishment Cultivators and Rank 3 Demon Beasts, and Song Yu described the islands and the groups living there.
• Song Yu treated Lu Xuan to Voidsky Spirit Fish, and Lu Xuan praised the dishes.
• Song Yu brought two maidservants and gift chests to Lu Xuan, but Lu Xuan sent the women away and accepted the fish eggs and hidden Spirit Stones.
• Song Yu introduced his sixteen-year-old son, Song Yun, and Lu Xuan offered to guide him in cultivation.
• Lu Xuan asked Song Yu to find a fertile, spiritually rich plot for his spirit plants, and Song Yu hurried off to find one.

Lu Xuan settled into a Spirit Field on Voidsky Island, planted his Spirit Plants and Netherworld Spirit Plants, and spent the next several days tending to them. The chapter ended with the Third Grade Thorn Bone reaching maturity.

• Song Yun brought Lu Xuan to a Spirit Field the Song Family had purchased, complete with Spirit Gathering Arrays and nearby Earth Fire.
• Lu Xuan released his Wind Falcon, Cloud Stepping Lynx, and Demon Ghost Vine, then planted his Wind Lightning Sword Grass, Moon Rain Grass, Mystic Insect Vine, Sword Grass, and Water Firefly Grass.
• Lu Xuan placed the Earth Fire Heart Lotus in the magma and planted the Ghost Face Stone Mushrooms, Thorn Bone, and Hundred Eyed Treant in a secluded corner.
• Lu Xuan declined most of Song Yu's banquet invitations and spent more than a dozen days cultivating his Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan discovered that the Third Grade Thorn Bone had matured and carefully pulled it from the Spirit Field.

Lu Xuan harvested a Thorn Bone and received a Fourth Grade White Bone Demon Puppet, which he tested by transforming it into various weapons. Meanwhile, cultivators Shi and Zhou discussed Lu Xuan’s arrival on Voidsky Island and dismissed him as an ordinary spirit farmer.

• Lu Xuan harvested the Good Grade Thorn Bone and received a White Bone Demon Puppet that could change forms under spiritual-sense control.
• Lu Xuan tested the puppet as bone spikes, a spear, swords, and arrows, destroying a boulder with its spear form.
• Lu Xuan settled into life on Voidsky Island, guiding Song Yun in cultivation and swordsmanship while Song Yu sent him island updates through Song Yun.
• Daoist Shi caught a rare Second Grade Dragon Carp while fishing beside the sea and learned from Daoist Zhou that Lu Xuan had arrived on Voidsky Island.
• Daoist Shi and Daoist Zhou heard that Lu Xuan focused on Spirit Plants and concluded that he was likely poor at combat, though Daoist Zhou cautioned against underestimating a Heaven Sword Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Lu Xuan inspected his Spirit Plants on Voidsky Island and followed Song Yun to meet his younger sister, Song Sining, who cultivated aquatic Spirit Plants and raised a Sand-Gathering Snail. He learned how the snail refined sand and stone, leaving him intrigued by the island’s unusual Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts.

• Lu Xuan tended his Water Firefly Grass and inspected his Sword Grass, while the Wind Falcon returned with a Demon Bird.
• Song Yun brought Lu Xuan food, received guidance on his swordsmanship, and invited him to visit his younger sister.
• Song Yun introduced Lu Xuan to Song Sining, who showed them her courtyard pool and its aquatic Spirit Plants.
• Song Sining fed golden sand to a Sand-Gathering Snail and explained that it refined sand and stone inside its body.
• Lu Xuan watched the snail devour the sand and thought that cultivators raised it to produce valuable materials before harvesting it.

Lu Xuan diagnosed Song Sining’s Dragon Carp and advised her on improving its living conditions. He then answered Song Yu’s emergency call and arrived with Song Yun to defend the Voidsky Spirit Fish grounds as Sea Beasts approached.

• Song Sining asked Lu Xuan to examine her listless Dragon Carp, and he discovered that its shallow pool and poor water quality were harming it.
• Lu Xuan advised Song Sining to let the Dragon Carp swim in the sea and regularly change the pool water.
• Song Yu contacted Lu Xuan with a warning that a large number of Sea Beasts might invade the Voidsky Spirit Fish grounds.
• Lu Xuan brought Song Yun to join Song Yu and the Song Family cultivators, then sensed movement in the depths and announced that the Sea Beasts had arrived.

Lu Xuan helped the Song Family repel a massive sea beast assault on their Voidsky Island fishing grounds, then descended to the seabed to kill a group of beasts trying to sneak past the defenses. He harvested their eyes for the Hundred Eyed Treant and destroyed the corpses’ heads to conceal what he had taken.

• Song Yu ordered the Song Family cultivators to attack the approaching sea beasts, but their defensive line faltered under the beasts’ numbers.
• Lu Xuan used the Violet Lightning Sword to kill more than twenty sea beasts that broke through the line and then helped stabilize the battle.
• Lu Xuan sensed sea beasts sneaking along the seabed, descended with the Water Element Pearl, and killed them with his sword techniques and White Bone Demon Puppet.
• Lu Xuan carved the sea beasts’ eyes from their corpses to nourish the Hundred Eyed Treant, then smashed their heads so the Song Family would not notice the missing eyes.

After helping the Song Family repel a Sea Beast assault, Lu Xuan returned to his courtyard and harvested a mature Ghost Face Stone Mushroom. Its light orb rewarded him with a Fourth Grade Mystic Yin Pill, which he decided to sell because its yin energy did not suit him.

• Lu Xuan emerged from the water after secretly killing dozens of Sea Beasts, and Song Yu reported the casualties and thanked him for protecting the Voidsky Spirit Fish.
• Lu Xuan told Song Yu to care for the injured, arrange support for the dead cultivator’s family, and sell the Sea Beast corpses while setting aside his share.
• Lu Xuan returned to his courtyard and fed fresh Sea Beast eyes to the Hundred Eyed Treant.
• Lu Xuan harvested a mature Ghost Face Stone Mushroom and received a Fourth Grade Mystic Yin Pill from its light orb.
• Lu Xuan decided the Mystic Yin Pill was unsuitable for him and planned to sell it to an Evil Cultivator.

Lu Xuan continued cultivating sword plants on Voidsky Island until Song Yu asked for help with increasingly abnormal behavior among the Voidsky Spirit Fish. Lu Xuan agreed to investigate and went with Song Yu to examine the fish and their habitat.

• Lu Xuan planted another mutated Wind Lightning Sword Grass Spirit Seed and put a new Sword Grass Spirit Seed into the Ancient Sword Sheath to nurture.
• He inspected his Spirit Plants and stored the Mystic Yin Pill that appeared from the matured Ghost Face Stone Mushroom.
• Song Yu visited Lu Xuan and described how Voidsky Spirit Fish were ramming Reef Stone and refusing to return to their habitat.
• Song Yu explained that the Song Family suspected a strange creature was harming the fish or their habitat, but their searches had found nothing.
• Lu Xuan asked Song Yu to take him to inspect the situation.

Lu Xuan discovered that Formless Algae were driving the Voidsky Spirit Fish into a frenzy and found a way to expose the hidden spirit plants. He suspected someone had deliberately spread them to kill or drive away the fish and harm the Song Family.

• Lu Xuan inspected an abnormal Voidsky Spirit Fish and ruled out an Evil Spirit before discovering that Formless Algae were parasitizing it.
• Lu Xuan used scorching flames to force the concealed Formless Algae out of the fish and identified the spirit plant.
• Lu Xuan explained to Song Yu and the fish tenders how the Formless Algae hid inside the spirit fish.
• Lu Xuan suspected someone had deliberately scattered Formless Algae to damage the Song Family or drive the Voidsky Spirit Fish from their waters.

Lu Xuan discovered that the Formless Algae infestation on Voidsky Island was deliberate, treated the affected Voidsky Spirit Fish, and helped Song Yu uncover the Chongning Island Ning Family’s plot. He decided to turn their methods against them.

• Lu Xuan told Song Yu that the Formless Algae infestation was man-made and ordered him to investigate secretly while sealing the waters.
• Lu Xuan treated dozens of parasitized Voidsky Spirit Fish with fire and searched the waters for Formless Algae that had not yet infected a fish.
• Madam Ning learned from her agent that the infestation was disrupting Voidsky Island’s fish and discussed plans with the one-eyed Sun to shift the fish toward Chongning Island.
• Song Yu reported that a Song Family cultivator had confessed to helping the Chongning Island Ning Family spread the Formless Algae.
• Lu Xuan learned that the Ning Family’s strongest cultivator was an aging Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator and resolved to use the enemy’s methods against them.

Lu Xuan planted Formless Algae in the Ning Family’s waters, prompting Madam Ning to suspect Sun Hai and have him taken for questioning. He harvested a mature Moon Rain Grass and received a Fourth Grade Moon Essence Pearl from its Light Orb.

• Lu Xuan secretly released nearly a hundred Formless Algae into the Ning Family’s waters using his Concealing Spirit Cloak.
• Madam Ning confronted Sun Hai after Ning Family spirit fish began mutilating themselves, and Sun Hai blamed the Song Family.
• Madam Ning ordered Sun Hai taken to the Law Enforcement Hall for questioning and instructed her subordinates to investigate the Song Family.
• Lu Xuan harvested the mature Third Grade Moon Rain Grass after its Progress Bar filled.
• Lu Xuan touched the Light Orb and obtained a Fourth Grade Magic Tool, the Moon Essence Pearl.

Lu Xuan discovered that the Moon Rain Grass’s light orb had yielded a Fourth Grade Moon Essence Pearl, then fed the grass to his three demon beasts. The Cloud Stepping Lynx advanced to Second Grade and granted him the upper part of the Third Grade Illusory Breaking Eye Technique.

• Lu Xuan learned that the Moon Essence Pearl could nourish and heal the body and soul, tested its soothing moon essence, and stored it away.
• Lu Xuan fed the Moon Rain Grass to the Demon Ghost Vine, Wind Falcon, and Cloud Stepping Lynx after finding them waiting nearby.
• The Cloud Stepping Lynx absorbed the moon essence, broke through to Second Grade, and displayed greatly increased speed and strength.
• Lu Xuan touched the lynx’s light orb and obtained the upper part of the Third Grade Illusory Breaking Eye Technique.
• Lu Xuan considered how the lynx might obtain the technique’s lower part by advancing further and encouraged it to cultivate.