Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan replenished You Jian General Store’s funds and welcomed Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator and Wang Suihuai while they visited for the coming auction. At a stall in Star Plucking Tower, he unexpectedly reunited with Shen Ye, a former Heaven Sword Sect senior brother, who learned Lu Xuan had reached Core Formation.

• Lu Xuan collected nearly 1.2 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones and the shop’s account book from Wen Qian.
• Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator and Wang Suihuai visited You Jian General Store, bought several treasures, and discussed the upcoming Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild auction with Lu Xuan.
• As the auction approached, Lu Xuan noticed more high-level cultivators arriving in Star Plucking Tower and went to browse the rogue cultivators’ stalls.
• Lu Xuan recognized Shen Ye at a stall and greeted his former sect senior brother.
• Shen Ye was surprised to discover Lu Xuan had advanced to Core Formation, and Lu Xuan insisted they keep addressing each other as junior and senior brothers.

Lu Xuan reunited with Shen Ye, a former Heaven Sword Sect senior who was preparing to attempt Core Formation, and explained how he had advanced. Lu Xuan gave Shen Ye Sword Talismans and a Saint Infant Pill to aid his breakthrough, and left him a Communication Talisman as the chapter ended with Shen Ye accepting his offer of help.

• Lu Xuan told Shen Ye that his cultivation had advanced through good fortune, his spirit-plant skills, and resources from the Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild.
• Shen Ye explained that he had become a rogue cultivator and had come to the guild’s Branch Building to seek treasures for his planned Core Formation breakthrough.
• Shen Ye told Lu Xuan that the scattered Heaven Sword Sect disciples were mostly doing well, though one had died during a Secret Realm exploration.
• Lu Xuan offered Shen Ye six Sword Talismans and a Saint Infant Pill, explaining that Shen Ye had helped him greatly in the Heaven Sword Sect.
• Shen Ye accepted the gifts, and Lu Xuan gave him a Communication Talisman and promised to help if he faced difficulties.

Lu Xuan entered the Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild’s auction and obtained advance information about its offerings, including a Seventh Grade Spirit Seed and a Fifth Grade Spirit Plant Seed Condensation Method. The Artifact Spirit then offered him a risky opportunity to explore a Defective Grotto-heaven, and Lu Xuan was left to decide whether to accept.

• Lu Xuan arrived at the auction through a grand teleportation array and found himself inside the high-grade magical treasure’s artifact spirit.
• Lu Xuan met Zhang Jiuzong backstage, and Zhang gave him a jade slip listing the auction’s treasures.
• Lu Xuan learned that the auction included a Seventh Grade Spirit Seed, a Fifth Grade Spirit Plant Seed Condensation Method, and other spirit-plant-related treasures.
• The Artifact Spirit Little Person recognized Lu Xuan’s breakthrough to Core Formation Mid-Stage and reminded him of its promised fortuitous opportunity.
• The Artifact Spirit Little Person offered Lu Xuan access to a Defective Grotto-heaven guarded by Extraterritorial Demons and mysterious void Demonic Beasts.

Lu Xuan agreed to enter a Defective Grotto-heaven and cultivate a spirit plant for the Artifact Spirit Little Person after it obtained a spirit seed and his strength improved. At the Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild auction, he bought a large piece of Yuan Nurturing Soil for his high-grade spirit plants.

• The Artifact Spirit Little Person offered Lu Xuan access to a Defective Grotto-heaven in exchange for cultivating a spirit plant, but Lu Xuan asked it to wait until it had obtained the spirit seed.
• Lu Xuan concealed his identity on a Jet-Black Meteorite and joined the auction after deciding to seek High-Level Spirit Seeds and other treasures.
• Zhang Jiuzong announced the auction rules and introduced its branch venues and main venue.
• Lu Xuan attended the spirit plant branch gathering, where Qing Tan auctioned spirit plants and seeds.
• Lu Xuan bid seventy-five thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and won a large piece of Yuan Nurturing Soil.

Lu Xuan collected the Yuan Nurturing Soil and won the Sixth Grade Talisman Yin Peach Spirit Seed after outbidding Fu Bingzhen. He later bought a Mind Ape Fruit Spirit Seed and returned with both new seeds in his possession.

• Lu Xuan paid 750 Middle Grade Spirit Stones and collected the Yuan Nurturing Soil.
• Qing Tan presented a Sixth Grade Talisman Yin Peach Spirit Seed, and bidding quickly rose as cultivators sought its fruit and talisman-making wood.
• Fu Bingzhen declared his intention to obtain the seed, but Lu Xuan outbid him and won it for 160,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan stored the Talisman Yin Peach Spirit Seed in his Gluttony Insect Pouch and returned to the Spirit Plant sub-venue.
• Qing Tan offered a Fifth Grade Mind Ape Fruit Spirit Seed, which Lu Xuan won for 29,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Lu Xuan won the Myriad Manifestation Grass Seed Condensation Method at the main auction and then learned that a Sixth Grade Star Shifting Sun Changing Sword Grass seed from the Profound Cave Sword Sect was also for sale. He resolved to bid for the inherited seed and reclaim it for the sect.

• Lu Xuan watched Core Formation and Nascent Soul cultivators bid fiercely on a Sixth Grade Ice Soul Dazzling Light Sword, which sold for nearly three hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhang Jiuzong presented the Fifth Grade Myriad Manifestation Grass Seed Condensation Method, and Lu Xuan outbid the other interested cultivators with a bid of two hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan obtained the jade slip and quietly returned among the cultivators.
• Zhang Jiuzong introduced the Sixth Grade Star Shifting Sun Changing Sword Grass seed as an inherited treasure of the Profound Cave Sword Sect.
• Lu Xuan wondered how the seed had left the sect and resolved to reclaim it for the Heaven Sword Sect.

Lu Xuan competed for rare spirit seeds at an auction, winning a Sixth Grade Star Shifting Sun Changing Sword Grass seed before turning his attention to the Seventh Grade Yellow Springs Undying Tree. He drove the bidding to two million one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and Ten Thousand Infants True Lord conceded.

• Lu Xuan won the Star Shifting Sun Changing Sword Grass spirit seed with a bid of two hundred and thirty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan watched the auction and reflected that cultivating spirit seeds could eventually let him surpass powerful cultivators and sects.
• Zhang Jiuzong presented the Seventh Grade Yellow Springs Undying Tree spirit seed and explained that it could bear Undying Fruit.
• Lu Xuan, Ten Thousand Infants True Lord, and Azure Wyrm Old Ghost competed for the Yellow Springs Undying Tree seed as the bidding climbed past two million spirit stones.
• Lu Xuan raised the bid to two million one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and Ten Thousand Infants True Lord conceded.

Lu Xuan won the Seventh Grade Yellow Springs Undying Tree spirit seed at auction and received cultivation advice from the Treasure Tower artifact spirit, who also promised to help him find Myriad Manifestation Grass seeds. After leaving the auction, Lu Xuan reflected on his costly haul and hoped more high-grade spirit seeds would reach him without requiring dangerous exploration.

• Lu Xuan collected the Yellow Springs Undying Tree spirit seed, and the artifact spirit warned him to cultivate it in a superior yin-attribute Spirit Field with Yellow Springs Spiritual Liquid.
• The artifact spirit agreed to find Myriad Manifestation Grass spirit seeds in the Outer Domain and asked Lu Xuan to help cultivate spirit plants in the future.
• The auction ended, and Lu Xuan skipped the post-auction game after finding that none of the three treasures were related to Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan tallied his haul, including several high-grade spirit seeds and the Myriad Manifestation Grass Seed Condensation Method, which had cost him more than 2.8 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuan decided he would avoid exploring dangerous secret realms until he was stronger, while remaining open to personally seeking spirit seeds later.

Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion, planted several high-grade Spirit Seeds, and discovered that the Jade Bottle Willow had matured. Harvesting it gave him Sixth Grade Willow Immortal Dew, which could cleanse and strengthen his body and nourish his soul.

• Lu Xuan returned to Thunder Fire Star Cave, fed his Spirit Beasts, and spread Yuan Nurturing Soil across the core Spirit Field.
• Lu Xuan used the Yin-Yang Treasure Bottle to nourish the quasi-Seventh Grade Yin-Yang Reversal Fruit seed, then planted a Mind Ape Fruit and a Sixth Grade Star Shifting Sun Changing Sword Grass.
• Lu Xuan planted the Talisman Yin Peach and Yellow Springs Undying Tree seeds, but decided to wait for suitable Yellow Springs Spiritual Liquid before entrusting the precious tree seed to his incarnation.
• Lu Xuan inspected and tended his Spirit Plants, then found that the Fifth Grade Jade Bottle Willow had matured and harvested it.
• The Jade Bottle Willow's White Light Orb rewarded Lu Xuan with Sixth Grade Willow Immortal Dew, which could cleanse his body and nourish his soul while strengthening his Spiritual Sense.

Lu Xuan improved a batch of Five Elements Fruit seeds into Fifth Grade Five Elements Illusion Fruit seeds and tended the sinister Spirit Plants at his Fengyuan Star Cave. The Flesh Spirit God captured a strange, bloodless skin bag, which Lu Xuan brought into the Cave Mansion for examination.

• Lu Xuan visited Fengyuan Star Cave, where Ling Gu welcomed him and summoned the Flesh Spirit God back to the Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuan fed the Flesh Spirit God Meat Mountain Cultivator flesh and blood, then planted a Talisman Yin Peach seed and cared for the sinister Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan planted his mutated Five Elements Fruit seeds and discovered that one had improved into a Fifth Grade Five Elements Illusion Fruit.
• Lu Xuan left the remaining viable seeds in the Illusionary Extinction Five Elements Formation to continue undergoing mutation.
• The Flesh Spirit God detected a half-illusory skin bag hiding near the Cave Mansion, chased it down, and swallowed it before spitting it back out.
• Lu Xuan used Ling Gu's power to retrieve the dying skin bag and brought it inside the Cave Mansion.

Lu Xuan captured a Corpse Transformation Skin sent by Jade Face True Person and used the Voidsky Nightmare Eye to spy on Jade Face and the Dwarf Cultivator plotting to attack him. As Lu Xuan and his companions approached their Cave Mansion, Jade Face realized he had lost control of the skin, and Lu Xuan confronted the pair.

• Lu Xuan restrained the Corpse Transformation Skin with Evil-Exterminating Spirit Thunder and learned that Jade Face True Person had refined it to spy on others and seize their bodies.
• Lu Xuan sent the Voidsky Nightmare Eye to observe Jade Face True Person's Cave Mansion and discovered its Fourth Grade Illusion Formation.
• Jade Face True Person met with the Dwarf Cultivator, and they discussed Ling Gu's powerful array, his Evil Spirit, and their plan to treat him as a target for slaughter.
• Lu Xuan overheard the two Evil Cultivators and headed for Jade Face's Cave Mansion with his avatar and the Flesh Spirit God.
• Jade Face tried to contact the Corpse Transformation Skin, realized he had lost control of it, and heard Lu Xuan ask whether they had misplaced a skin outside his Cave Mansion.

Lu Xuan used his Ling Gu incarnation to confront Jade Face True Person and the Dwarf Cultivator over a Corpse Transformation Skin, then fought them when they attacked. The battle turned decisively in Ling Gu’s favor as Lu Xuan revealed a succession of powerful treasures and techniques.

• Lu Xuan secretly controlled Ling Gu as he asked Jade Face True Person and the Dwarf Cultivator whether either had left the Corpse Transformation Skin near their cave mansions.
• Ling Gu destroyed the skin with a Netherworld True Water secret art, enraging Jade Face True Person, who joined forces with the Dwarf Cultivator to attack him.
• Ling Gu summoned the Sixth Grade Ghost Wail Strange Diagram, slowing the attackers, then released Killing Intent and sent his Multi-Armed Corpse Slave to tear apart the Dwarf Cultivator’s strange snake.
• Jade Face True Person trapped the Multi-Armed Corpse Slave in a human-skin sack while the Dwarf Cultivator launched Flesh Tumors at Ling Gu.
• Lu Xuan protected Ling Gu with dark spring water and unleashed the Blood God Scripture and the Sixth Grade Suppression Prison Vajra Statue against the two Evil Cultivators.

Lu Xuan and his incarnation Ling Gu defeated two Core Formation Evil Cultivators who had ambushed them, capturing Jade Face True Person and killing the Dwarf Cultivator. The chapter ended with Lu Xuan storing the enemies’ souls in his Soul Guiding Lamp and calling them natural fertilizer.

• Ling Gu used the Suppression Prison Vajra Statue and the Flesh Spirit God to overpower the two Core Formation Evil Cultivators and their skin-sac minions.
• The Dwarf Cultivator broke through the Multi-Armed Corpse Slave and fled, but Lu Xuan pursued him with his Chiding Thunder Wings.
• Lu Xuan revealed that he was the same person as Ling Gu, then endured the Dwarf Cultivator’s Blood Blade attack and burned it with Glass Red Phoenix Heavenly Fire.
• Lu Xuan destroyed the Dwarf Cultivator’s body with golden spirit lightning and captured his damaged soul in the Soul Guiding Lamp.
• Ling Gu and the Flesh Spirit God captured Jade Face True Person alive, and Lu Xuan praised both enemies as good neighbors who had delivered natural fertilizer.

After defeating Jade Face True Person and the Dwarf Cultivator, Lu Xuan collected their remains and treasures for his spirit plants, then reviewed the strength and limits of his combat methods. Rumors of Ling Gu’s victory spread through Fengyuan Star Cave, leaving him with a fearsome reputation among its cultivators.

• Lu Xuan used the two Evil Cultivators’ remains and souls as fertilizer and materials for his evil spirit plants, then searched their Storage Bags for treasures.
• Lu Xuan gave Ling Gu a Fourth Grade Mystic Yin Pill and assessed how his incarnation and treasures had performed in the fight.
• Lu Xuan considered using matured Thunderstorm Lotuses to supply Ling Gu with more Evil-Exterminating Spirit Thunder against Evil Cultivators.
• Lu Xuan returned to his Spirit Field while several cultivators inspected Jade Face True Person’s ruined cave mansion and discussed Ling Gu’s victory.
• The cultivators resolved to build a good relationship with Ling Gu, whose reputation for powerful methods and ruthless action spread through Fengyuan Star Cave.

Lu Xuan trained his incarnation Ling Gu to explore Fengyuan Star Cave, then returned to Thunder Fire Star Cave and welcomed Ye Xuanyin, who bought several kinds of spirit wine from him. He tended his Spirit Plants and harvested the mature Thunderstorm Lotuses, collecting their light orb rewards.

• Lu Xuan planned for Ling Gu to act more forcefully in Fengyuan Star Cave and explore Secret Realms for Treasures while he trained the incarnation at Filth Sheep Mountain.
• Lu Xuan returned to Thunder Fire Star Cave and met Ye Xuanyin, who visited to buy his spirit wine.
• Lu Xuan sold Ye Xuanyin three bottles of spirit wine at seventy percent of the market price and saw her off.
• Lu Xuan reflected that he built relationships with Core Formation Cultivators to improve his chances of obtaining High-Level Spirit Seeds, then inspected his Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan tended his Ice Firefly Grass, harvested low-grade Spirit Fruits, and ripened the Thunderstorm Lotuses until all thirty matured.
• Lu Xuan harvested the Thunderstorm Lotus Seeds and touched the thirty White Light Orbs, causing them to shatter.

Lu Xuan harvested rewards from Thunderstorm Lotuses and refined his control over Evil-Exterminating Spirit Thunder before tending his sword plants. His Sword Nurturing Gourds mutated into the fourth-grade Small Profound Cave Sword Gourd, and he planned to cultivate the new variety further.

• Lu Xuan received eighteen wisps of Evil-Exterminating Spirit Thunder, five Thunder Evil Pellets, and seven Thunder Control Chapter experience packs from thirty Thunderstorm Lotus light orbs.
• Lu Xuan used his new Thunder-control mastery to weave twenty-one wisps of Evil-Exterminating Spirit Thunder into a small golden net.
• Lu Xuan tended his Star Shifting Sun Changing Sword Grass and expanded the number of Thousand Thunder Sword Grasses growing near the Profound Cave Sword Tablet.
• Lu Xuan harvested most of his Sword Nurturing Gourds for sale and left others to condense seeds.
• Lu Xuan discovered that some Sword Nurturing Gourd seeds had mutated into fourth-grade Small Profound Cave Sword Gourds, then resolved to guide the new variety toward further improvement.

Lu Xuan tended his high-grade Spirit Plants and cultivated a newly matured Purification Glazed Tea, whose light orbs rewarded him with Marrow Cleansing Jade Liquid and insights into the Profound Heaven Pure Subtle Method. He tested the method’s defensive and demon-suppressing techniques, then stored away his rewards.

• Lu Xuan nurtured his Sword Nurturing Gourd Spirit Seeds and tended the Eightfold Palace Spirit Plant, Yin-Yang Reversal Fruit, Heavenly Essence Fruit, and Thunder Attribute Spirit Plants.
• Lu Xuan used the Divine Wood Azure Kettle to nourish the Azure Wood Spirit Thunder Vine and considered replenishing his Ink Green Thunder Liquid and obtaining a Thunderstorm Lotus Seed Condensation Method.
• The Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild delivered fifty Thunderstorm Lotus Spirit Seeds, which Lu Xuan planted in his Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuan harvested three leaves from a matured Purification Glazed Tea and touched its first light orb to obtain a drop of Marrow Cleansing Jade Liquid.
• Lu Xuan touched the second light orb to gain insights into the Profound Heaven Pure Subtle Method, then formed a protective gauze robe and demonstrated a giant palm technique that restrained demons and evil spirits.

Lu Xuan received an invitation to Hundred Flowers Palace’s banquet for renowned Spirit Plant Masters, while his incarnation Ling Gu learned of a possible Yellow Springs tributary in Fengyuan Star Cave and agreed to explore it. Lu Xuan planned to attend the banquet, where he hoped to encounter rare Spirit Seeds.

• Lu Xuan harvested a drop of Sixth Grade Marrow Cleansing Jade Liquid from a White Light Orb and returned to his courtyard.
• Nine Infants Old Man visited Ling Gu and asked about Jade Face True Person, whom Ling Gu said he had killed in self-defense.
• Nine Infants Old Man told Ling Gu of a rumored Yellow Springs tributary beneath the seventh-layer ghost city and invited him to explore it with other cultivators; Ling Gu agreed.
• A Flower Spirit Envoy from Hundred Flowers Palace invited Lu Xuan to its Hundred Flowers Banquet, to be held three months later, and gave him a Spirit Flower invitation.
• Lu Xuan accepted the invitation and gave the envoy a bottle of Jade Cleansing Spirit Dew, which she accepted before leaving.

Lu Xuan traveled to Hundred Flowers Palace for the Hundred Flowers Banquet, where he learned about the palace and its unusual Flower Spirit. The Flower Spirit poured Hundred Flowers Honey for the guests, and Lu Xuan’s cup filled until it was about to overflow.

• Lu Xuan traveled to Hundred Flowers Palace with Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator and Liang Yong, hearing about the banquet and Hundred Flowers True Lord along the way.
• Hundred Flowers True Lord’s incarnation welcomed the three guests and recognized Lu Xuan as a Spirit Plant Master and Guest Elder of the Sea Pavilion Merchant Guild.
• Lu Xuan and his companions entered the garden, where Liang Yong explained that the Flower Spirit gave each guest an amount of Hundred Flowers Honey determined by her mood.
• The Flower Spirit poured honey for Liang Yong and Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator, then began filling Lu Xuan’s cup.
• Lu Xuan’s cup filled past the amounts given to the others and continued rising until he warned that it was about to overflow.

At the Hundred Flowers Banquet, Lu Xuan attracted attention when a Flower Spirit gave him an unusually generous cup of Hundred Flowers Honey, and the Palace Master explained that his devotion to cultivating Spirit Plants had earned its favor. After meeting several Nascent Soul True Lords, Lu Xuan shared his cultivation knowledge and displayed his own high-grade spirit wines, leaving the gathered cultivators interested in his craft.

• A Flower Spirit filled Lu Xuan's cup with Hundred Flowers Honey, prompting the Palace Master of Hundred Flowers to explain that his plant-growing lifestyle and lack of slaughter had earned its favor.
• Lu Xuan drank the honey and welcomed Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator and Liang Yong to share it, while other cultivators approached to make his acquaintance.
• Four powerful cultivators arrived, and Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator identified three of them as a Medicine King Valley Elder, Evergreen True Lord, and Azure Sky True Lord.
• The Palace Master welcomed everyone to the banquet and announced feasting, discussions of Spirit Plant cultivation, and exchanges of Spirit Seeds and spirit herbs.
• Lu Xuan displayed his Fourth Grade and Fifth Grade spirit wines and described their ingredients and effects to an interested cultivator.