Chapter Summaries

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.

Lu Xuan helped Liu Su and the other Spirit Plant Masters identify and study mutated plants, earning their trust until Zhong Hao also sought his help. Lu Xuan discovered that Zhong Hao’s dangerous vine was a mutated Arrow vine with intelligence and powerful attacks.

• Liu Su asked Lu Xuan to examine a poisonous Mutated Spirit Plant, and he identified it as a mutated Poison Smoke Wood.
• Over the next two or three days, the other Spirit Plant Masters repeatedly asked Lu Xuan for help, and their confidence in him grew.
• Zhong Hao asked Lu Xuan to inspect the strange vine he had chosen after his own rearing methods failed.
• The vine launched a surprise arrow at Lu Xuan, who deflected it and cut it in two with his Fourth Grade Wind Lightning Sword.
• Lu Xuan identified the plant as a Fourth Grade Mutated Arrow Vine that could fire different arrows and unleash Ten Thousand Arrows Firing.

Lu Xuan agreed to travel to a newly opened blessed land to study Mutated Spirit Plants, with sect cultivators protecting him. Before leaving, he prepared his Spirit Field and decided to use Azure Wood Source Qi to mature a Fourth Grade Nurturing Spirit Pine, hoping its Light Orb would yield something useful.

• Lu Xuan explained the Mutated Arrow Vine’s likely origins and advised Zhong Hao to study it as a creature with faint spirituality.
• Ge Pu told the Spirit Plant Masters their research would pause, then asked Lu Xuan to visit the blessed land and study Mutated Spirit Plants there.
• Lu Xuan agreed to leave in three days with returning cultivators and learned that Core Formation True Person Gu Jiankong would be among the protectors.
• Lu Xuan planted more than two hundred Water Firefly Grass seeds and harvested three Azure Mottled Gourds that produced Rank 4 Sword Talismans.
• Lu Xuan decided to use Azure Wood Source Qi to hasten the maturation of a Fourth Grade Nurturing Spirit Pine before his departure.

Lu Xuan ripened a Fourth Grade Nurturing Spirit Pine, gaining a Spirit Nurturing Jade Slip that strengthened and protected his Spiritual Sense. He chose which companions to bring to the new blessed land and arrived at the meeting point, where the group still awaited one member.

• Lu Xuan harvested a Fourth Grade Nurturing Spirit Pine Cone and received a Fifth Grade Spirit Nurturing Jade Slip from its White Light Orb.
• Lu Xuan refined the jade slip into his consciousness, where it guarded his spiritual platform and slowly strengthened his Spiritual Sense.
• Lu Xuan decided to leave the other three Nurturing Spirit Pines until after his trip and chose to bring the Demon Ghost Vine and Cloud Stepping Lynx to the blessed land.
• Three days later, Lu Xuan arrived at the Inner Sect peak and joined four waiting cultivators, who told him one fellow disciple had yet to arrive.

Lu Xuan arrived at a strange blessed land with Jian Wuxia and the other Heaven Sword Sect disciples, then settled into the rear camp while they went to the front line. After checking the surroundings and cultivating, he greeted Gu Jiankong, who arrived with supplies and noticed Lu Xuan’s cultivation had advanced to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

• Lu Xuan met Li Zhen and learned that Jian Wuxia was a Heaven Sword Sect true disciple with an Innate Sword Physique.
• Jian Wuxia led the group through a teleportation array and a magical wooden sword into the desolate blessed land.
• The group reached the Three Sects’ camp, where Jian Wuxia ordered Lu Xuan to stay behind while she and the others went to the front line.
• Lu Xuan used the Cloud Stepping Lynx and Voidsky Nightmare Eye to check for danger, then cultivated in his room while the Demon Ghost Vine reacted to the mutated spirit plants.
• Gu Jiankong arrived at the camp, received supplies from Jian Wuxia, and remarked that Lu Xuan had reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Gu Jiankong assigned Lu Xuan to study the Mutated Spirit Plants in the blessed land and gave him a Communication Talisman so he could call for help. Lu Xuan began his research with two Foundation Establishment Middle Stage disciples assisting him, and their respect grew after they saw the talisman.

• Gu Jiankong praised Lu Xuan's recent breakthrough and tasked him with investigating the origins, traits, and uses of the Mutated Spirit Plants.
• Gu Jiankong gave Lu Xuan a jade sword Communication Talisman and assigned Feng Yu and Zhang Ruiping to assist him.
• Feng Yu and Zhang Ruiping arrived reluctantly, believing their combat abilities were wasted on assisting a Spirit Plant Master.
• Lu Xuan surveyed the imprisoned Mutated Spirit Plants and explained how the two disciples would help with experiments and control them.
• Feng Yu and Zhang Ruiping recognized Gu Jiankong's talisman on Lu Xuan and began addressing him as Senior Brother, eagerly offering their assistance.