Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan killed an evil demon that had disguised itself as Zheng Xing'an and attacked him in his courtyard. After learning that demons had infiltrated the area, he resolved to stay cautious and returned to tending his spirit plants, only for someone claiming to screen the area for the demon to call at his Cave Mansion.

• Zheng Xing'an warned Lu Xuan that evil demons were emerging and had infiltrated Rogue Cultivator residences.
• The demon disguised as Zheng Xing'an attacked Lu Xuan, but Lu Xuan resisted its illusions and burned its many faces with his Southern Bright Thunder Fire Jade Tablet.
• Lu Xuan used his Purification Glazed Red Phoenix Bone and Evil-Exterminating Spirit Thunder to seize and kill the demon.
• Lu Xuan examined the demon's skin sack, reflected that Evil-Exterminating Spirit Thunder could restrain demons, and rewarded the Cloud Stepping Lynx with a Bewitching Peach.
• Lu Xuan returned to checking his Spirit Plants, then heard someone outside claim a demon had attacked area guards and ask to screen his Cave Mansion.

Lu Xuan concealed his role in killing the Mirage Demon while Heavenly Star Grotto searched Thunder Fire Star Cave, then watched the Tree Nymph break through to Fifth Grade. The breakthrough rewarded him with a Sixth Grade Millennial Ancient Tree Heart.

• Azure Pine Daoist inspected Lu Xuan and his spirit peaches with an ancient mirror, but found no sign of an evil demon.
• Lu Xuan sealed his Cave Mansion and continued hiding his involvement as patrols and inspections increased throughout Thunder Fire Star Cave.
• Heavenly Star Grotto failed to locate the Mirage Demon and eventually assumed it had been dealt with secretly or fled into a Secret Realm.
• The Tree Nymph absorbed spiritual aura gathered from Lu Xuan's spirit plants and broke through to her Fifth Grade complete form.
• Lu Xuan claimed the White Light Orb reward and obtained a Sixth Grade Millennial Ancient Tree Heart.

Lu Xuan used a Millennial Ancient Tree Heart to help the Grass Puppet grow stronger and rewarded a newly advanced Tree Nymph with Azure Wood Source Qi. After another Tree Nymph broke through to Fifth Grade and yielded a Green Condensation Dew formula, Lu Xuan considered brewing the healing spiritual liquid.

• Lu Xuan gave the Sixth Grade Millennial Ancient Tree Heart to the Grass Puppet, which began absorbing it but could not yet refine it completely.
• A newly advanced Little Tree Nymph watched the Grass Puppet with envy, and Lu Xuan promised to save similar treasures for the Tree Nymphs and gave her Azure Wood Source Qi.
• Another Tree Nymph broke through to Fifth Grade while Lu Xuan stood guard and supplied Vegetation Spiritual Energy as needed.
• Lu Xuan opened the White Light Orb from the breakthrough and received the Fifth Grade Green Condensation Dew Formula.
• Lu Xuan learned that Green Condensation Dew could nourish the body and soul and heal injuries, and he considered adding it to the spirit brews he could make.

Lu Xuan learned that demonic beings had overwhelmed Heavenly Star Grotto’s forces, prompting the Eighteen Star Lords to recruit cultivators with high-grade treasures as bounties. After reviewing the rewards, he dismissed them as poor compensation for the danger and chose to remain in his Cave Mansion cultivating spirit plants.

• Two Little Tree Nymphs advanced to Fifth Grade Grass and Wood Monsters, and their White Light Orbs gave Lu Xuan a Sixth Grade Millennial Ancient Tree Heart and a Fifth Grade Green Condensation Dew recipe experience pack.
• Lu Xuan cultivated his spirit plants and infused his mature Myriad Manifestation Grass with Demonic Beast spirit essences from the Soul Guiding Lamp.
• Qi Wuheng warned Lu Xuan that demonic beings were rampant in Heavenly Star Grotto and that cultivators would be invited to hunt them for treasure rewards.
• Lu Xuan decided against joining the hunt and planned to increase the General Store’s supply and prices for Dust Cleansing Pills and Sword Talismans.
• Thunder Fire True Lord announced the bounty program and sent jade slips listing rewards, including a Seventh Grade Magic Tool, a divine ability, and a Starlight Sword Pellet.
• Lu Xuan judged the bounty requirements too difficult and the rewards unimpressive, then dismissed the offer.

Lu Xuan reviewed Heavenly Star Grotto’s bounty list and attended Guo Bingqiu’s gathering, where cultivators planned to hunt demons for its valuable rewards. He refused to join them, choosing instead to stay safe in his Cave Mansion and tend his spirit plants.

• Lu Xuan found few Spirit Seeds among the bounty Treasures and expected cultivators to bring rare ones to him for sale.
• Guo Bingqiu invited Lu Xuan to a gathering attended by more than ten Core Formation Cultivators, including Ye Xuanyin.
• Lu Xuan checked the guests for signs of demonic possession while they tasted the Spirit Brew he had brought.
• Guo Bingqiu proposed organizing the cultivators to hunt demons together and divide the rewards according to their contributions.
• Lu Xuan declined an invitation to join the hunt, saying his focus on spirit plants left him unsuited to fighting demons.
• The other cultivators enthusiastically discussed how to hunt demons and divide the Treasures while Lu Xuan drank his Spirit Brew.

Lu Xuan visited the Azure Wood Star Cave after all six Little Tree Nymphs reached their complete forms, hoping to claim the promised High-Level Spirit Seed from the Profound Limit Tree Mother. She praised his care for the nymphs and gave him the seed, asking him to continue nurturing them.

• Lu Xuan learned that demon-hunting efforts had eased some casualties, then received rewards when the last three Little Tree Nymphs completed their growth.
• Lu Xuan entrusted his Cave Mansion to the Grass Puppet and traveled to Azure Wood Star Cave after failing to contact Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator and Wang Suihuai.
• Azure Wood Star Cave's tree nymphs recognized Lu Xuan's six nymphs and led him into the azure Tree Realm.
• The Profound Limit Tree Mother appeared and recognized that Lu Xuan's Tree Nymphs had reached complete form after absorbing a wood-element treasure.
• The Profound Limit Tree Mother decided the nymphs should remain with Lu Xuan and gave him the promised High-Level Spirit Seed.

The Profound Limit Tree Mother gave Lu Xuan a Seventh Grade Spirit Seed and entrusted him with ten more tree nymphs amid the evil demon invasion of the Azure Wood Star Cave. Back in his Cave Mansion, Lu Xuan identified the seed as Burning Lamp Ancient Grass and learned it required light-bearing spiritual energy and Buddhist treasures to cultivate.

• The Profound Limit Tree Mother rewarded Lu Xuan with an unknown Seventh Grade Spirit Seed and asked him to care for more tree nymphs as evil demons threatened the Tree Realm.
• The six tree nymphs agreed to keep following Lu Xuan, and he took ten newly emerged tree nymphs from the Profound Limit Tree Mother's spirit pool.
• Lu Xuan found that Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator and Wang Suihuai had not answered his Communication Talismans, then safely returned to his Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuan planted the Spirit Seed in his core Spirit Field and identified it as Burning Lamp Ancient Grass, a Seventh Grade Spirit Plant that needed light-bearing spiritual energy and Buddhist nourishment.

Lu Xuan kept to his Cave Mansion and learned that Wang Suihuai had died while hunting Demonic Beings. After harvesting a mature Flying Thunder Ganoderma, he obtained the Minor Teleportation Art and began studying its spatial principles.

• Lu Xuan stored the Seventh Grade Burning Lamp Ancient Grass Spirit Seed and let the Little Tree Nymphs explore the Cave Mansion, where the Tree Nymphs stopped them from entering the Bewitching Peach grove.
• Lu Xuan spent three months cultivating spirit plants in seclusion as he heard that more cultivators had died hunting Demonic Beings.
• Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator sent Lu Xuan a Communication Talisman and reported that Wang Suihuai had died during a Demonic Being pursuit.
• Lu Xuan comforted Jade Forest Rogue Cultivator and continued tending his spirit plants in the Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuan caught the mature Flying Thunder Ganoderma and touched its White Light Orb, which rewarded him with the Mid-Grade Divine Power, Minor Teleportation Art.

Lu Xuan cultivated his new Divine Powers and tested the Minor Teleportation Art, then learned that demonic-being hunts had emptied the area around his Cave Mansion and boosted the merchant guild’s business. Daoist Mu visited with a small supply of Light Blending Dust that the guild had gathered for Lu Xuan.

• Lu Xuan tested his Immovable Wisdom King Seal and Minor Teleportation Art, destroying thunder-tempered boulders and teleporting within a short range.
• Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion and worried that Daoist Ye, Thunder Fellow Daoist, and other cultivators had gone to hunt demonic beings.
• Daoist Mu visited Lu Xuan and described how Rogue Cultivators had left their Cave Mansions to hunt demonic beings at Heavenly Star Grotto.
• Lu Xuan learned that demand for Dust Cleansing Pills and Sword Talismans had surged, so he planned to refine more for the merchant guild.
• Daoist Mu gave Lu Xuan less than nine jin of fifth-grade Light Blending Dust gathered from the merchant guild’s stores and branches.

Lu Xuan bought Light Blending Dust from Daoist Mu to cultivate his Burning Lamp Ancient Grass and asked the Chamber of Commerce to find Purification Glazed Tea Spirit Seeds or seedlings. He studied the first half of the Pharmacist Seven Chapters, planned to cultivate healing Spirit Plants and visit Fengyuan Star Cave, and encouraged his Grass Puppet as it absorbed the Ancient Tree Heart.

• Lu Xuan bought nine catties of Light Blending Dust from Daoist Mu for seven hundred and twenty Middle Grade Spirit Stones, intending to use it on his Burning Lamp Ancient Grass.
• Lu Xuan asked Daoist Mu to find Purification Glazed Tea Spirit Seeds or young seedlings through the Chamber of Commerce, then gave him Fourth Grade Spirit Brew.
• Lu Xuan examined the first half of the Pharmacist Seven Chapters and planned to study healing Spirit Plants and ask Wen Qian and another person to search for them.
• Lu Xuan decided he would visit Fengyuan Star Cave to deliver the Mirage Demon skin and check on the nearly mature Sixth Grade Ghost Eating Evil Vine.
• Lu Xuan praised and encouraged his Grass Puppet as it patrolled the Spirit Field while absorbing the Millennial Ancient Tree Heart.

Lu Xuan returned to Fengyuan Star Cave and found his incarnation Ling Gu killing Evil Cultivators who had repeatedly tried to invade the Cave Mansion. He inspected the Netherworld Spirit Field and fed a Mirage Demon skin to the maturing Bewitching Corpse Skin.

• Lu Xuan entered Fengyuan Star Cave after sensing its yin and evil aura had grown denser.
• Ling Gu and the Flesh Spirit God defeated two Core Formation Mid-Stage Evil Cultivators and captured their souls.
• Lu Xuan arrived as Ling Gu cleaned up the remains, then learned this was the third wave of attackers since he had left.
• Ling Gu explained that he had lured the two intruders into a trap, and Lu Xuan approved of his actions.
• Lu Xuan inspected the thriving evil Spirit Plants and stopped the Bewitching Corpse Skin from trying to merge with his leg.
• Lu Xuan gave the Bewitching Corpse Skin a Mirage Demon skin, which it began absorbing despite its fear of the demon aura.

Lu Xuan matured the Ghost Eating Evil Vine and received the Seventh Grade Hungry Ghost Giant Demon, which he gave to Ling Gu. After returning to Thunder Fire Star Cave, he found Ye Xuanyin waiting outside his Cave Mansion with an arm missing and black flesh sprouting from her wound.

• Lu Xuan inspected the evil Spirit Plants in his Netherworld Spirit Field and found the Ghoul Tumor Demon Wood mature and the Yellow Springs Undying Tree growing rapidly.
• Lu Xuan harvested the mature Sixth Grade Ghost Eating Evil Vine and received the Seventh Grade Treasure Hungry Ghost Giant Demon.
• Lu Xuan gave the Hungry Ghost Giant Demon to Ling Gu and left the Ghost Eating Evil Vine to guard the Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuan returned safely from Fengyuan Star Cave to Thunder Fire Star Cave and found Ye Xuanyin waiting outside his Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuan saw that Ye Xuanyin had lost an arm and that black flesh sprouts were growing from beneath the scar on her shoulder.

Ye Xuanyin sought Lu Xuan’s Dust Cleansing Pills to slow the Demonic Strange Poison spreading through her severed arm, and he offered to have his Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect try to consume it. The insect bit into the poison, but its defenses began to fail, so Lu Xuan pulled it away before the attempt could continue.

• Ye Xuanyin told Lu Xuan that a Demonic Strange Poison had infected her arm and that she had severed it to stop the spread.
• Lu Xuan sold Ye Xuanyin a bottle of Dust Cleansing Pills at a discount and offered to let his poisonous insect try to clear the poison.
• Ye Xuanyin agreed, and Lu Xuan summoned his Variant Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect.
• The insect bit into the blackened growth on Ye Xuanyin’s arm, but the poison overwhelmed its green smoke defenses and began swelling inside its body.
• Lu Xuan sensed the insect’s condition worsening and used his Spiritual Sense to pull it away.

Lu Xuan cured the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect of Demonic Strange Poison, then harvested Azure Wood Spirit Thunder Liquid from his transplanted vine. After the Evil Spirits’ invasion ended, he attended a gathering where cultivators celebrated their gains and mourned their losses, while he kept to himself.

• Lu Xuan used a thunder blade and the Profound Heaven Pure Subtle Method to remove the poison from the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect, promising to let it feed on Ye Xuanyin’s poison again once it recovered.
• Lu Xuan harvested two clumps of Azure Wood Spirit Thunder Liquid from the Azure Wood Spirit Thunder Vine and planned to use them to cultivate his thunder methods.
• The Evil Spirits’ invasion of the Heavenly Star Grotto came to an end after Rogue Cultivators joined the fight.
• Lu Xuan attended Guo Bingqiu’s gathering, where cultivators celebrated their treasures and safe return while grieving their dead and wounded companions.
• Lu Xuan remained apart from the gathering’s shared excitement and grief, quietly enjoying the food.

Lu Xuan watched the Grass Puppet break through to Fifth Grade and received a Sixth Grade Thousand Machines House from its White Light Orb. He began refining the mechanical treasure and considered using it as a mobile base on future trips.

• Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion after a gathering and spent half a month cultivating Spirit Plants, while Ye Xuanyin brought the Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect to absorb Demonic Strange Poison again.
• The Grass Puppet absorbed Vegetation Spiritual Energy and Millennial Ancient Tree Heart as its body transformed during its breakthrough.
• Lu Xuan used the Divine Wood Azure Kettle to pour pure Vegetation Spiritual Energy into the vortex above the Grass Puppet.
• The Grass Puppet advanced into a Fifth Grade special puppet, retaining its fixation on patrolling the Spirit Field.
• Lu Xuan received the Sixth Grade Thousand Machines House from the Grass Puppet's White Light Orb and learned it could transform into a mobile base with a vast interior.
• Lu Xuan tested the Thousand Machines House in its original form, stored it in his Gluttony Insect Pouch, and began refining it.

After Ye Xuanyin’s Demonic Strange Poison was cured, Lu Xuan’s Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect advanced and yielded the complete Calamity Poison Scripture. Lu Xuan then met the Treasure Pagoda Artifact Spirit to claim the promised Defective Grotto-heaven, and judged himself prepared to endure the dangers of reaching it.

• Ye Xuanyin thanked Lu Xuan for curing her Demonic Strange Poison and promised him a rare high-grade Spirit Seed in repayment.
• The Hundred Poisons Heart-Devouring Insect broke through to the Fifth Grade, and Lu Xuan obtained the second half of the Calamity Poison Scripture from its Light Orb.
• Lu Xuan contacted Zhang Jiuzong and traveled to Star Plucking Tower to meet the Treasure Pagoda Artifact Spirit about the Defective Grotto-heaven.
• The Artifact Spirit warned Lu Xuan that reaching the Defective Grotto-heaven required surviving void hazards, flying through space cracks, and evading Star Beasts and evil demons.
• Lu Xuan considered his physical strength, speed, endurance, Spiritual Sense, and defensive treasures sufficient for the journey.

Lu Xuan traveled through the void with the Artifact Spirit Little Person, learning to recognize its dangers and discovering the Thousand Treasure True River. The Artifact Spirit explained how the river could yield ancient Treasures but warned that it could also trap living beings, while Lu Xuan considered trying to fish there someday.

• The Artifact Spirit Little Person took Lu Xuan through the void and slowed down so he could observe its hazards and memorize the route to the Defective Grotto-heaven.
• Lu Xuan spotted a Space Crack, and the Artifact Spirit warned him about space storms and spatial collapse.
• A Sixth Grade Star Beast charged them, and the Artifact Spirit instantly dismantled it, giving Lu Xuan everything except its Demon Pill.
• The Artifact Spirit showed Lu Xuan the Thousand Treasure True River and explained that living beings could be absorbed by its waters, though certain Treasures could be used to fish up other Treasures.
• Lu Xuan considered visiting the river to fish, remembering that Soul Insect Fungus made top-grade bait.

Lu Xuan received a Defective Grotto-heaven from the artifact spirit, along with the rare Nine True Spirit Leaf to cultivate. He swore to protect the Spirit Seed and prepared to raise it in the grotto-heaven.

• The artifact spirit brought Lu Xuan to a lush island grotto-heaven and handed it over to him with a token to locate it.
• Lu Xuan admired the grotto-heaven’s lake, spirit plants, Palace, and resident beasts, and thought of giving his water-attribute Spirit Beasts room to live there.
• The artifact spirit revealed that it had entrusted the grotto-heaven to Lu Xuan partly so he could cultivate its Nine True Spirit Leaf, a Rank 8 spirit plant capable of bearing the Nine True Dao Fruit.
• Lu Xuan learned the Spirit Seed needed True Spirit Essence Blood, swore a Heart Demon Oath not to take it, and discovered its leaves and Dao Fruit could each yield a Light Orb reward.
• The artifact spirit gave Lu Xuan several bottles of essence blood from Demonic Beasts connected to True Spirits for the Spirit Seed’s early growth.

Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion after obtaining a Defective Grotto-heaven and the Nine True Spirit Leaf, then planned how to cultivate and protect his high-grade Spirit Plants. While tending his Spirit Field, he discovered that a Bewitching Peach had mutated into a higher-grade variant.

• The Artifact Spirit Little Person returned Lu Xuan to the Chamber of Commerce Branch Building and explained dangers along the route to the grotto-heaven.
• Lu Xuan returned to Thunder Fire Star Cave and decided to transplant most of his Seventh Grade Spirit Plants into the grotto-heaven and strengthen its defenses with a Zhou Tian Star Fighting Sword Formation.
• Lu Xuan tended his Spirit Plants, including the Star Fruits, Yin-Yang Reversal Fruit, Spirit Cage, and Yellow Millet Dreamwood.
• Lu Xuan inspected the Bewitching Peach trees and found that one had mutated into a Fourth Grade variant with stronger spiritual power and beautifying effects.

Lu Xuan attended the merchant association’s auction after learning it would feature treasures related to evil demons. He reviewed the auction list and resolved to bid on a Thousand Hands Demon and a mysterious special Spirit Seed.

• Lu Xuan considered replacing his aging Bewitching Peach plants and improving several other Spirit Plants, then waited two months before heading to the auction.
• Lu Xuan traveled to the merchant association’s Branch Building in Star Plucking Tower and entered the Artifact Spirit space with the other attendees.
• Lu Xuan met Xu Xiangdong, learned that Zhang Jiuzong was away, and gave merchant association cultivators Jade Cleansing Spirit Dew.
• Lu Xuan received a jade slip with advance auction details and read it without revealing its contents.
• Lu Xuan learned that the auction included a mid-rank Thousand Hands Demon and an unidentified special Spirit Seed, and decided he would try to obtain both.