Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan bought a Blood-Colored Spirit Seed of unknown variety from a ghost cultivator at the treasure fair, trading a Mystic Yin Pill and a thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones. He left delighted by the seed and its likely high grade.

• Lu Xuan sealed away flesh and blood from a Calamity-Class Evil Spirit, intending to feed it to his gestating Flesh Spirit God or use it to enrich Spirit Soil.
• Lu Xuan noticed a burly cultivator questioning a thin stall owner about a Blood-Colored Spirit Seed, then examined the seed after the cultivator left.
• Lu Xuan used his Illusory Breaking Eye Technique and discovered that the stall owner was a Ghost Cultivator formed from Yin Qi.
• The stall owner asked for pills or Treasures containing pure Yin Qi, and Lu Xuan offered a Fourth Grade Mystic Yin Pill for the Spirit Seed.
• Lu Xuan bargained down the trade to the Mystic Yin Pill and a thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, then left the stall satisfied with his acquisition.

Lu Xuan found a stone coffin containing a Vengeful Infant at the Heaven Abyss Treasure Assembly, but Mystic Yin Old Ghost threatened the seller into giving it to him instead. Lu Xuan memorized the old man's aura and resolved to track him down after the assembly and kill him.

• Lu Xuan admired the stone coffin's sealed Vengeful Infant and negotiated a price of four thousand two hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones with the Female Cultivator.
• Mystic Yin Old Ghost interrupted the sale and threatened Lu Xuan and the Female Cultivator, claiming he would target them after they left Treasure Pavilion.
• The Female Cultivator yielded the stone coffin to Mystic Yin Old Ghost and secretly warned Lu Xuan that the old man came from the Extreme Yin Sect and was a vicious soul-refiner.
• Lu Xuan let the old man take the coffin, then used his spiritual sight to memorize his appearance and told the Demon Ghost Vine to remember his aura.
• Lu Xuan resolved to track down and kill Mystic Yin Old Ghost after the Treasure Assembly, then returned to his room.

Lu Xuan identified a Fifth Grade Five Organs Treasure Plant seed and told Ge Pu that a Saint Infant Pill might appear at the Heaven Abyss Treasure Assembly. He then searched the middle-level stalls for spirit seeds and found a rare Ink Bone Tree seed from another realm.

• Lu Xuan identified the Five Organs Treasure Plant as a Fifth Grade spirit plant that needed fresh organs to grow, then put its seed away for planting in the Netherworld Courtyard.
• Lu Xuan told Ge Pu that a Saint Infant Pill might appear in the middle-level area and could help increase the odds of reaching Core Formation.
• Ge Pu thanked Lu Xuan and prepared to try to obtain the pill, while Lu Xuan considered using him as backup when dealing with a dried-up old man.
• Lu Xuan searched the middle-level stalls for spirit seeds and found a rare Fourth Grade Ink Bone Tree seed from another realm.
• The stall owner offered the Ink Bone Tree seed to Lu Xuan for two thousand four hundred Spirit Stones.

Lu Xuan bought an Ink Bone Tree Spirit Seed and an Azure Cunning Elephant corpse at the treasure fair, then discovered the seed was a worthless fake. He resolved to track down the stall owner and recover his loss.

• Lu Xuan bargained for and bought the Ink Bone Tree Spirit Seed for 2,200 Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan bought an Azure Cunning Elephant corpse for 2,600 Spirit Stones and planned to use its flesh, blood, and organs to cultivate his Spirit Plants.
• Back in his room, Lu Xuan inspected the seed and learned it had lost all vitality and had been disguised with Thousand-Year Profound Life Spirit Milk.
• Lu Xuan realized the stall owner had deceived him and decided to take back his loss himself.

Lu Xuan confronted the stall owner who had sold him a dead Ink Bone Tree seed and used evidence of the fraud to force him into paying compensation. He left with 180 Middle Grade Spirit Stones and the method for disguising fake seeds, promising to keep the scheme secret.

• Lu Xuan secretly observed the stall owner selling fake Ink Bone Tree seeds and recorded the buyers’ details as the man earned over twenty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan confronted the stall owner and claimed he could use special Vegetation Spiritual Energy to expose the dead seed.
• The stall owner admitted the seed was fake and offered a refund, but Lu Xuan threatened to reveal the fraud to Treasure Pavilion and the buyers.
• Lu Xuan demanded sixty percent of the stall owner’s earnings and a copy of his seed-forging method.
• The stall owner handed Lu Xuan 180 Middle Grade Spirit Stones and a bottle of spirit milk used to disguise dead seeds, and Lu Xuan promised to keep the scheme secret.

Lu Xuan set up a stall at Treasure Pavilion and offered his Fifth Grade Saint Infant Pill in exchange for a high-grade spirit seed. The pill drew a crowd of eager cultivators, who dispersed to search for suitable seeds after Lu Xuan rejected their offers of spirit stones and other treasures.

• Lu Xuan kept the Thousand-Year Profound Life Spirit Milk and reviewed the spirit stones and treasures he had gained at the treasure fair.
• Lu Xuan decided to trade his Saint Infant Pill, White Bone Demon Puppet, and remaining Mystic Yin Pill for farming resources, then paid to set up a stall at Treasure Pavilion.
• A blood-fiend cultivator recognized the Saint Infant Pill and offered spirit stones or a magic tool, but Lu Xuan said he would prioritize exchanges for high-grade spirit seeds.
• News of the Fifth Grade Saint Infant Pill spread through Treasure Pavilion, drawing Ge Pu, the cultivator who had taken Lu Xuan's stone coffin, and many other cultivators to his stall.
• Lu Xuan refused the crowd's increasingly high offers and asked them to find high-grade spirit seeds, so the cultivators dispersed to search.

Lu Xuan offered a Saint Infant Pill at the Heaven Abyss Treasure Assembly in exchange for high-grade Spirit Seeds, while concealing his identity and dismissing Ge Pu’s request to borrow seeds. Ge Pu then offered a Sixth Grade Yuan Magnetic Spirit Wood seed, leaving Lu Xuan eager to secure it.

• Lu Xuan returned to the rest area and weighed the risks of selling the Saint Infant Pill while trusting the Treasure Pavilion’s safeguards and his own strength.
• Ge Pu sent Lu Xuan a talisman asking to borrow high-grade Spirit Seeds, and Lu Xuan replied that he had none available.
• Lu Xuan set up his stall and invited offers for the Saint Infant Pill, prioritizing high-grade Spirit Seeds.
• A pale, blindfolded female cultivator offered an unknown seed that the Demon Ghost Vine confirmed was high-grade.
• Ge Pu offered a Sixth Grade Yuan Magnetic Spirit Wood seed, which delighted Lu Xuan.

Lu Xuan traded for Ge Pu’s Yuan Magnetic Spirit Wood seed, then exchanged eye pupils and a Mystic Yin Pill with a blindfolded female cultivator for an unknown seed. He discovered the two seeds were a Sixth Grade Yuan Magnetic Spirit Wood and a Fifth Grade Soul Burning Flower, leaving him delighted with his rare gains.

• Lu Xuan refused Mystic Yin Daoist’s demand and traded the Saint Infant Pill to Ge Pu for the Yuan Magnetic Spirit Wood seed.
• Ge Pu departed with the Saint Infant Pill, while Lu Xuan later approached the female cultivator who had failed to obtain it.
• Lu Xuan offered two Hundred Eyed Treant eye pupils and a Fourth Grade Mystic Yin Pill for the female cultivator’s unknown spirit seed, and she accepted.
• Lu Xuan set up a protected Spirit Field and planted both newly acquired seeds in Wu Spirit Soil.
• Lu Xuan identified the seeds as a Sixth Grade Yuan Magnetic Spirit Wood and a Fifth Grade Soul Burning Flower.

Lu Xuan watched a juvenile Paper Man Evil Spirit sell at the treasure fair, then sensed a sinister presence spying on him at night. The Evil Spirit’s powerful kin appeared outside the Treasure Pavilion and attacked, leaving Lu Xuan preparing to flee.

• Lu Xuan kept the Yuan Magnetic Spirit Wood seed and congratulated Ge Pu before searching the treasure fair for more bargains.
• Lu Xuan inspected a juvenile Paper Man Evil Spirit at a stall but chose not to buy it, and a Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator purchased it.
• A cold, powerful divine thought probed Lu Xuan’s room, but the Clear Mayfly Feather Garment blocked it.
• A ghost domain formed outside the Treasure Pavilion, where two giant paper figures and their Yin Soldiers attacked with waves of paper creatures.
• Lu Xuan recognized the attackers as the juvenile Evil Spirit’s elders and prepared to escape.

Two Calamity-Class Paper Man evil spirits and their Yin creatures overwhelmed the Treasure Pavilion’s defenses while Lu Xuan kept his strength concealed and looked for a way to survive. After the Paper Men’s laughter caused cultivators inside to mutate, the array failed and the pavilion collapsed.

• Three Core Formation True Persons raised a barrier around the Treasure Pavilion and attacked the two tall Paper Men and the Yin creatures outside.
• The Core Formation cultivators’ attacks damaged the Paper Men but failed to stop their pollution and multiplication, and Lu Xuan judged the defenders were outmatched.
• The Paper Men’s laughter caused more than thirty cultivators to shed their flesh and turn into gray-white skin bags, while others began to stiffen.
• Lu Xuan realized his Clear Mayfly Feather Garment had protected him from the soul attack and prepared to flee when the array fell.
• The mutated cultivators disrupted the array’s operation, allowing the Yin creatures to break through as the barrier cracked and the Treasure Pavilion collapsed.

Lu Xuan escaped the ghost domain by defeating several Paper Man Evil Spirits and using the Five Elements Escape Technique to flee through the earth. After resting, he recognized the female cultivator surnamed Fan who approached him as another Paper Man Evil Spirit and destroyed it with two Rank 4 Sword Talismans.

• Lu Xuan used Explosive Flame Pearls, his Wind Lightning Sword, and a Great Sun Sword Talisman to destroy the paper house and pale ape blocking his escape.
• Lu Xuan escaped the ghost domain, burrowed through the earth with the Five Elements Escape Technique, and fled through the forest while the Voidsky Nightmare Eye watched for danger.
• Lu Xuan stopped to recover his Spiritual Power, then encountered the female cultivator surnamed Fan, who asked to stay with him and offered her service.
• Lu Xuan suspected Fan was an impostor, struck her with the Howling Sea Sword Talisman, and finished off the Paper Man Evil Spirit with a Great Sun Sword Talisman.

Lu Xuan tracked down Mystic Yin Old Ghost to reclaim the stone coffin and avenge the Spirit Plant he had deprived of nourishment. He killed the old man with a series of powerful attacks and recovered his Storage Bag.

• Lu Xuan used the Demon Ghost Vine to locate Mystic Yin Old Ghost and intercepted him in the jungle.
• Mystic Yin Old Ghost sent his Grievance Child and Grievance Souls to attack Lu Xuan, believing him to be an easy target.
• Lu Xuan stunned the Grievance Souls with the Mirage Sound Pearl and struck Mystic Yin Old Ghost's divine soul with a cone spike.
• Lu Xuan overwhelmed the old man's transformed body with Rank 4 Sword Talismans, then burned him to ash with a Golden Crow from the Pure Yang True Fire Talisman.
• Lu Xuan confirmed Mystic Yin Old Ghost was dead and retrieved his Gray Black Pouch without letting the Golden Crow burn it.

Lu Xuan killed Mystic Yin Old Ghost and looted his treasures, including a Rank 5 Spirit Seed, then returned safely to Sword Gate Town. After speaking with Ge Pu, who left for the sect, Lu Xuan set his sights on the Netherworld Courtyard.

• Lu Xuan killed Mystic Yin Old Ghost with talismans and the Pure Yang True Fire Talisman after the old ghost seized the stone coffin.
• Lu Xuan searched Mystic Yin Old Ghost's Storage Bag and took his Spirit Stones, sinister Magic Tools, stone coffin, and Rank 5 Spirit Seed.
• Lu Xuan flew back to Sword Gate Town without incident, protected by his scouting treasures and concealed aura.
• Lu Xuan met Ge Pu and claimed he had escaped the ghost domain by staying cautious and using the Five Elements Escape Technique.
• Lu Xuan told Ge Pu he would remain in Sword Gate Town to buy pills and cultivation materials, and Ge Pu returned to the sect.
• Lu Xuan eagerly prepared to visit the Netherworld Courtyard with his newly acquired evil Spirit Seeds and plant nourishment.

Lu Xuan returned to the Netherworld Courtyard with the treasures and spirit seeds he gained at the Heaven Abyss Treasure Assembly, then planted and cultivated his new evil spirit plants. He subdued the Azure-Black Vengeful Infant and fed its infant Grievance Souls to the Saint Infant Fruit, where an infant began to take shape.

• Lu Xuan planted the Fiend Origin Fruit, Five Organs Treasure Plant, and Soul Burning Flower spirit seeds in the Netherworld Courtyard.
• Lu Xuan cut up the Azure Cunning Elephant Demon Beast and used its blood, meat, organs, and filthy matter to nourish his spirit plants and the Flesh Spirit God.
• Lu Xuan opened the stone coffin and used lightning to subdue the Azure-Black Vengeful Infant and its infant Grievance Souls.
• Lu Xuan fed the infant Grievance Souls to the Saint Infant Fruit and its child plants, making an infant inside the main plant grow more solid.

Lu Xuan returned to his sect and traded Dust Cleansing Pills and Sword Nurturing Gourds to Fellow Disciples who brought demon beast remains. After the visitors left, he checked his Spirit Plants and discovered that a Hidden Essence Grass had matured.

• Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion, where Qiu Yong and Zhao Huaiguang waited to exchange Fourth Grade Demon Beast corpses for Dust Cleansing Pills.
• Lu Xuan verified their corpses and gave Zhao Huaiguang one Dust Cleansing Pill and Qiu Yong two.
• Zhao Huaiguang and Qiu Yong left to hunt more demon beasts after Lu Xuan said the task would remain open while he had pills to trade.
• Other Fellow Disciples visited to exchange demon beast remains and Sword Nurturing Gourds, then Lu Xuan stored the collected Demon Beast Blood Meat.
• Lu Xuan examined his Spirit Plants and found that a Hidden Essence Grass had matured.

Lu Xuan harvested four mature Hidden Essence Grass plants, gaining a Spirit Gathering Grass Orb, Foundation Establishment Pills, and an Elixir Recipe. He fed the Grass Puppet and the poison-loving Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect, then reflected on how his unusual companions kept him occupied in the sect.

• Lu Xuan harvested four mature Hidden Essence Grass plants and gained a Spirit Gathering Grass Orb, two Foundation Establishment Pills, and a Foundation Establishment Pill Elixir Recipe.
• Lu Xuan fed the Spirit Gathering Grass Orb to the Grass Puppet and found twenty-six Hidden Essence Grass plants still growing in the field.
• Lu Xuan decided that cultivating Spirit Plants and raising Spirit Beasts in the sect suited him better than exploring dangerous Secret Realms without confidence in his safety.
• The Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect rubbed poisonous pus on Lu Xuan's robe, so he gave it a poison pill from Mystic Yin Old Ghost's Storage Bag.
• Lu Xuan expelled the poison from the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect and made it take a qi-and-blood-strengthening pill, after which he lamented the eccentric habits of his Spirit Beasts and Yangxuan Sword Sheath.

Lu Xuan harvested ten Hidden Essence Grass and gained Foundation Establishment pills, a Spirit Gathering Grass Orb, and pill-refining experience. Jian Wuxia visited and offered to yield him the Fifth Grade Sword Grass Spirit Seed from Sword Pool if he cultivated a separate Fifth Grade Sword Grass for her, and Lu Xuan eagerly agreed.

• Lu Xuan harvested ten mature Hidden Essence Grass, including one Superior Grade stalk, and opened their light orbs to receive four Spirit Gathering Grass Orbs, four Foundation Establishment Pills, and two Foundation Establishment Pill recipe experience packs.
• Lu Xuan reflected that the experience packs had brought his Foundation Establishment Pill refining skill close to Minor Achievement.
• Jian Wuxia visited Lu Xuan’s Cave Mansion and praised the condition of his Spirit Plants and Sword Grasses.
• Jian Wuxia explained that a Fifth Grade Sword Grass Spirit Seed might emerge from Sword Pool and that she intended to yield it to Lu Xuan.
• Jian Wuxia offered to give Lu Xuan her own Fifth Grade Sword Grass Spirit Seed for him to cultivate in exchange, and Lu Xuan eagerly accepted.

Jian Wuxia entrusted Lu Xuan with a rare Fifth Grade Sword Grass Spirit Seed while she focused on comprehending an ancient Sword Manual Fragment. Lu Xuan planted the White Bone Killing Sword Grass and learned that it required metal spirit soil and Slaughter Sword Intent, leaving him to find the means to cultivate it safely.

• Jian Wuxia explained that she trusted Lu Xuan to cultivate a Fifth Grade Sword Grass while she devoted herself to an ancient Sword Manual Fragment.
• Lu Xuan asked how he could cultivate the seed without a corresponding fifth-grade Sword Art, and Jian Wuxia told him to comprehend its sword intent himself.
• Jian Wuxia gave Lu Xuan the sword-shaped Spirit Seed, whose powerful killing intent briefly overwhelmed his senses before he broke free.
• Lu Xuan recognized that accepting the seed meant he owed Jian Wuxia a favor, then planted it in an empty Spirit Field.
• Lu Xuan learned that the White Bone Killing Sword Grass required Five Elements Metal Spirit Soil and powerful Slaughter Sword Intent, and that its influence could make cultivators bloodthirsty.

Lu Xuan studied the White Bone Killing Sword Grass, tended his Spirit Field, and harvested sixteen Hidden Essence Grasses, gaining alchemy rewards that advanced his Foundation Establishment Pill expertise. He delivered another batch of Hidden Essence Grass to the Alchemy Hall, where Guan Wan praised its unusually high quality.

• Lu Xuan used his Profound Understanding Sword Heart to perceive the White Bone Killing Sword Grass's Slaughter Sword Intent, then calmed its influence with a Purification Mantra.
• Lu Xuan tended the Spirit Plants in his Cave Mansion and watched them grow well while he stayed home with his Spirit Beasts.
• Lu Xuan harvested sixteen mature Hidden Essence Grasses and received Spirit Gathering Grass Orbs, Foundation Establishment Pills, and Elixir Recipe Experience Packs.
• Lu Xuan absorbed the alchemy experience and reached the Minor Achievement Realm in refining Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Lu Xuan went to the Alchemy Hall and delivered thirty Hidden Essence Grasses to Guan Wan, who praised their high average quality and three Superior Grade specimens.

Lu Xuan collected payment for cultivating Hidden Essence Grass, then went to Sword Gate Town to tend his Netherworld Spirit Plants and investigate resources for two rare spirit plants. There, his Fifth Grade Blood Karma Flower matured, and harvesting it rewarded him with the Sixth Grade cultivation method Blood God Scripture.

• Lu Xuan received 450 Sword Seals from Guan Wan for thirty matured Third Grade Hidden Essence Grass plants and learned that the sect needed more pills that restored Spiritual Power, healed injuries, and purified Evil Spirits.
• Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion, tended his spirit plants, and later traveled alone to Sword Gate Town to replenish nutrients for his Netherworld Spirit Plants and search for Yuan magnetic treasures and Metal Spirit Soil.
• Lu Xuan entered the Netherworld Courtyard and found that his Blood Karma Flower had reached full maturity after more than ten years of cultivation.
• Lu Xuan harvested the Blood Karma Flower and received the Sixth Grade cultivation method Blood God Scripture from its Light Orb.