Chapter Summaries

The Myriad Beasts Sect debated Gu Tianlin’s claim that Moonlight Fairy had attacked him and considered whether the attack was part of a larger plot. The sect agreed to strengthen its defenses and contact Colorful Clouds Valley, leaving Uncle-Master Zhang to decide what to do next.

• Gu Tianlin told Uncle-Master Zhang and the Myriad Beasts Sect leaders that Moonlight Fairy had cut off his right hand and killed his natal spirit beast.
• Gu Tianqi and other leaders questioned whether Gu Tianlin had identified the attacker correctly and warned that retaliation could risk war between the sects.
• Gu Tianlin insisted that he recognized Moonlight Fairy’s Natal Magic Treasure, the Moonlight Blade.
• The Middle-aged Scholar proposed that the attacker might have acted alone or been an impersonator, and urged the sect to strengthen its defenses and investigate with Colorful Clouds Valley.
• Gu Tianqi and the other leaders agreed with the proposal, while Gu Tianlin looked to Uncle-Master Zhang for her decision.

Shi Yue cultivated the fourth layer of the True Spirit Nine Transformations while under house arrest, then entered Palm Heaven Space to practice the Taixu Sword Art and inspect his spirit plants and beasts. Xiaoyaozi explained that the Flood Dragon Egg might need the spiritual energy of a million Spirit Stones to hatch, but could emerge as a powerful high-level spirit beast.

• The Great Tang Five Sects pulled back their people and increased security, leaving minor factions anxious about a possible war or outside threat.
• Shi Yue completed the fourth layer of the True Spirit Nine Transformations after more than five months of cultivation beside the Spirit Spring Eye.
• A Sound Transmission Bean Soldier delivered a message from a woman, and Shi Yue asked her to rescue him from the Hundred Sword Spirit Locking Array.
• Shi Yue entered Palm Heaven Space to practice the fourth layer of the Taixu Sword Art and checked on his tea trees, bees, and other plants.
• Shi Yue asked Xiaoyaozi why the Flood Dragon Egg had not hatched after absorbing spiritual energy from hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones, and Xiaoyaozi said it could hatch at Level Five or higher if it absorbed more.

Shi Yue bought Xiaoyaozi’s Spirit Feeding Powder recipe and borrowed one hundred thousand Spirit Stones to help the Flood Dragon Egg absorb spiritual energy. He placed the egg atop the Spirit Stones, hoping to raise its level before it hatched.

• Shi Yue fed and cared for his Golden Silk Silkworms, then flew with Black Phoenix and gave it his last century-old Neon Grass.
• Shi Yue decided to buy Xiaoyaozi’s Spirit Feeding Powder recipe after considering how to help Black Phoenix advance.
• Xiaoyaozi sold Shi Yue the recipe for thirty thousand Spirit Stones and offered him a loan.
• Shi Yue accepted Xiaoyaozi’s loan of one hundred thousand Spirit Stones, agreeing to repay it with ten percent interest within six months.
• Shi Yue filled a water vat with the borrowed Spirit Stones and placed the Flood Dragon Egg on top.

Shi Yue mastered the Hundred Sword Technique during seclusion and emerged from Green Paulownia Pavilion after more than five months. Li Yan visited him to share that she had reached Qi Refining Level 8, while Qu Feiyan waited in Sanxin Market for Shi Yue to return.

• Shi Yue studied the fourth layer of the Taixu Sword Art and practiced forming and controlling more than a hundred solid sword copies with the Hundred Sword Technique.
• Qu Feiyan waited for Shi Yue in Sanxin Market, then teased a yellow bird that claimed he was trapped in a Hundred Sword Spirit Locking Array and demanded entertainment in exchange for help.
• Murong Xiaoxiao declined to accompany Li Yan to visit Shi Yue, so Li Yan flew to Green Paulownia Pavilion alone.
• Shi Yue left Palm Heaven Space after spending more than a year inside it, having mastered the Hundred Sword Technique and reached early Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Li Yan arrived at Green Paulownia Pavilion and told Shi Yue she had reached Qi Refining Level 8 with pills from Murong Xiaoxiao.

Shi Yue asked Li Yan to leave Taixu Sect with him after his House Arrest ended, and she agreed. He then tried to persuade Qu Feiyan to help him escape, ending with a desperate appeal about a made-up sickly younger sister.

• Shi Yue asked Li Yan if she would go with him when he left Taixu Sect, and she agreed after he promised to take her to visit her grandfather.
• Shi Yue told Li Yan to keep his plan secret and build a stone house nearby, then dismissed her question about whether Murong liked him.
• Xiaoyaozi offered Shi Yue the Kuishui Art for a hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and Shi Yue agreed to buy it for Li Yan.
• Shi Yue sent Li Yan to inform Murong that she was leaving, and a yellow bird carrying Qu Feiyan's message arrived soon afterward.
• Qu Feiyan said she would help Shi Yue only if he could make her happy, so Shi Yue tried to win her sympathy by claiming he had a frail, sickly younger sister who depended on him.

Shi Yue bargained with Xiaoyaozi for formation-breaking texts, then the chapter shifted to the Ancient Sword Sect, where Dugu Sheng discussed an impostor who had attacked the Wind Fire Sect's spirit ore mine. The gathering expanded when leaders from the Myriad Beasts Sect and Colorful Clouds Valley arrived, leaving the sect elders surprised by the presence of multiple factions.

• Shi Yue persuaded Xiaoyaozi to sell him the Hundred Essentials of Breaking Formations for ten thousand Spirit Stones and collected the Jade Slips he had requested.
• Dugu Sheng told Lin Zhennan that the attacker who impersonated True Person White Flood Dragon was not from the Ancient Sword Sect and was likely an outsider.
• Lin Zhennan asked whether the Myriad Beasts Sect or the other two sects had arranged the attack, but Dugu Sheng doubted they had anything to gain from it.
• A disciple reported that Senior Zhang of the Myriad Beasts Sect and Senior Li of Colorful Clouds Valley had arrived, and Dugu Sheng ordered him to invite them in.
• Li Xue and Zhang Yun entered the Sword Palace with their companions, including Gu Tianlin, and greeted Dugu Sheng and Lin Zhennan.

Dugu Sheng, Lin Zhennan, Zhang Yun, and Li Xue suspected that someone was framing the Great Tang Five Sects and decided to summon Taixu Sect’s Murong. Meanwhile, Qu Feiyan sent help to Shi Yue and reflected on his supposed younger sister, while Shi Yue and Li Yan practiced the Bone Transformation Art to hide from Taixu Sect.

• Zhang Yun and Li Xue told Dugu Sheng and Lin Zhennan that impostors had attacked Wind Fire Sect and Myriad Beasts Sect in the names of other sects.
• Dugu Sheng agreed to invite Murong of Taixu Sect so the sect leaders could investigate who was plotting against them.
• Qu Feiyan received a message from Shi Yue asking to be rescued and sent an Array Breaking Bean Soldier to help him.
• Qu Feiyan told Sister Lin that the person she had been chatting with earned Spirit Stones to support his frail, sickly younger sister.
• Shi Yue encouraged Li Yan to practice the Bone Transformation Art so they could avoid being recognized after sneaking out of Taixu Sect.
• A familiar bird call sounded behind Shi Yue after he returned to Green Paulownia Pavilion.

Shi Yue escaped the formation with Li Yan and left Taixu Sect for Li Family Village, while Qu Feiyan discovered that someone had captured her Sound Transmission Bean Soldier. The chapter left Shi Yue and Li Yan traveling away from the sect and the bean soldier in the hands of an unidentified Green-robed Old Man.

• A yellow bird promised Shi Yue help for Li Yan’s sake and used an Array Breaking Bean Soldier to destroy the formation.
• Shi Yue left a note for Zhou Zhenyu, freed Li Yan, and took her away aboard the Haoyue Flying Boat after she sent Murong Xiaoxiao a message.
• Shi Yue and Li Yan passed through Taixu Sect’s defensive formation and headed toward Li Family Village.
• A Green-robed Old Man captured the yellow bird, which turned into a dull yellow bean covered in Silver Runes.
• Qu Feiyan realized that someone had captured her Sound Transmission Bean Soldier and accepted that she might meet Shi Yue again by chance.

Shi Yue and Li Yan visited Li Yi’s grave before returning to Taixu Sect, where the leaders debated a summons from Ancient Sword Sect amid growing unrest. Murong Feng returned to the sect, heard what had happened, and began investigating the attacks and the danger facing Taixu Sect.

• Li Yan mourned at Li Yi’s grave, and Shi Yue promised to care for him before they flew away from Li Family Village.
• Zhou Zhenyu read a Jade Slip and joined Taixu Sect’s leaders after five bells summoned them to the Ancestral Master Hall.
• Zhou Tongtian told the leaders that Ancient Sword Sect had summoned Murong Feng to Myriad Sword Mountain, and they worried the invitation was a trap.
• The leaders decided to activate the Sect Protection Array under the pretense that an elder was attempting to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Murong Feng arrived on the Three-colored Vulture, learned of the sect’s recent troubles, and examined Storage Bags recovered from the attackers.
• Murong Feng asked whether the attackers’ cultivation arts or other evidence could reveal who had planned the attacks.

Shi Yue brought Li Yan to Sanxin Market and sold Golden Silk Silkworm silk to raise Spirit Stones. He rented a standalone shop under the alias Li Muxian and registered himself as being from Great Tang.

• Murong Feng decided to visit Dugu in two days and ordered Zhou Tongtian to compile a record of the sect’s affairs.
• Shi Yue and Li Yan entered Sanxin Market, where Shi Yue rented two rooms at Gathering Immortals Inn before heading out to earn Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue sold 421 Golden Silk Silkworm silk balls to Hu Xuan at Tai Sheng Tower for 70,000 Spirit Stones and received two pounds of Two Elements Tea.
• Shi Yue rented the last standalone pavilion in the market for two years, paying 66,000 Spirit Stones in rent and management fees.
• Shi Yue gave his name as Li Muxian and said he came from Great Tang as the market official recorded his details.

Shi Yue took possession of a tower beside Sheng Ji Magic Robe Shop and met his eccentric neighbors, Sheng Dong and Li Da. Their argument nearly turned into a fight before Su Chen intervened, leaving Shi Yue to enter his new shop.

• The middle-aged man gave Shi Yue a Gold Token granting him two years' use of the tower beside Sheng Ji Magic Robe Shop.
• Shi Yue arrived in Sanxin Market's southern district and saw Sheng Dong outside his shop and Li Da calling after a departing customer.
• Shi Yue used the Gold Token to open the tower's Gold Light Screen, and Sheng Dong welcomed him as a new neighbor.
• Sheng Dong and Li Da traded insults until Li Da summoned two Golden Puppets, drawing a crowd.
• Su Chen arrived with patrol cultivators, threatened not to renew their leases if they caused more trouble, and dispersed the crowd.
• Sheng Dong returned to his shop, Li Da recalled his puppets, and Shi Yue entered the tower.

Shi Yue prepared to open his shop with Li Yan, cleaned the loft, and surveyed pill prices to work out how to raise enough operating capital. He decided to sell his Level Two Gold Silk Balls and sent Li Yan to handle the sale, while she trusted him without asking where they came from.

• Shi Yue inspected the dusty loft, secured its entrance with his Gold Token, and told Li Yan they would open the shop the next day.
• Shi Yue took stock of his pills, talismans, Spirit Stones, and Gold Silk Balls, then brought Li Yan to the shop and warned her to keep her distance from Sheng Dong.
• Shi Yue and Li Yan cleaned the loft, and he recalled Chen Xing'er while preparing to run the shop on his own.
• Shi Yue and Li Yan visited pill shops to check prices, and Shi Yue realized he needed to sell his Gold Silk Balls to get more operating capital.
• Shi Yue gave Li Yan a Gold Storage Bag and instructed her to sell each Gold Silk Ball for at least three hundred Spirit Stones, and she agreed without asking where they came from.

Shi Yue and Li Yan opened Hundred Herbs Pavilion, but their attempt to attract customers failed when shoppers found the goods too ordinary and preferred established stores. The shop remained open, leaving Shi Yue and Li Yan worried about whether they could make the business work.

• Li Yan sold goods at Tai Sheng Tower for Shi Yue, earning two thousand extra Spirit Stones by negotiating a higher price and promising future supplies.
• Shi Yue entered his second-level Spirit Devouring Bees in a bug fight at Beast Fighting Palace and paid the entry fee.
• Shi Yue and Li Yan prepared Hundred Herbs Pavilion to open the next morning, displaying their goods and setting up its signboard.
• Li Yan called customers into the shop, but the few who entered left without buying anything.
• Shi Yue asked a departing cultivator why he had not bought anything, and the cultivator explained that the shop's goods were common and he trusted his usual supplier.

Shi Yue changed his struggling shop into the Immortal Herb Pavilion, planning to sell Spirit Herbs grown with the Heaven Controlling Bead. Zhang Feng, a procurement steward short of two kinds of hundred-year-old herbs, noticed the pavilion’s advance-order sign and went inside to investigate.

• Shi Yue found that established Spirit Herb shops drew more customers, while his own shop remained empty despite Li Yan’s efforts.
• Xiaoyaozi advised Shi Yue to sell Spirit Herbs by using the Heaven Controlling Bead to grow them faster, and reminded him of his debt.
• Shi Yue renamed the shop the Immortal Herb Pavilion, posted an advance-order sign, and gave Li Yan a price list for Spirit Herbs.
• Zhang Feng searched Sanxin Market for She Lan Flowers and Huang Lian Grass to fulfill the Zhang Family’s purchase order but remained short of fifty plants of each.
• Zhang Feng spotted the Immortal Herb Pavilion’s claim that it could supply herbs up to a thousand years old and entered to see whether it could help him.

Shi Yue accepted an order for a hundred-year-old Spirit Herb delivery and scrambled to gather the money and plants needed to fulfill it. After Xiaoyaozi advised him to sell rare Spirit Herbs instead of spending time refining common pills, Shi Yue agreed to change his cultivation business strategy.

• Zhang Feng ordered fifty She Lan Flowers and fifty Huang Lian Grass from Shi Yue, agreeing to pay a five-thousand-Spirit-Stone deposit for delivery in one month.
• Shi Yue learned he lacked enough Spirit Stones to buy the herbs and sold a hundred and fifty bottles of Qi Nurturing Pills for twelve thousand Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue disguised himself and bought fifty ninety-four-year-old She Lan Flowers and fifty ninety-four-year-old Huang Lian Grass for forty-eight thousand Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue planted the purchased herbs in Palm Heaven Space and considered Xiaoyaozi's advice to grow and sell rare Spirit Herbs instead of refining common pills.
• Shi Yue agreed to focus on growing Spirit Herbs for sale so he could earn more Spirit Stones for artifact refinement and restarting his cultivation method.

Shi Yue sold thousands of mature spiritual herbs to Chen Hua and earned 480,000 Spirit Stones. After buying seeds and taking Li Yan to Beast Fighting Palace, he prepared to wager on a fight against Fairy Liu’s Golden-eyed Mantises.

• Shi Yue harvested over six thousand mature spiritual herbs from Palm Heaven Space and bought wooden boxes to store them.
• Shi Yue sold 6,400 herbs to Chen Hua for seventy-five Spirit Stones apiece, receiving 480,000 Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue bought Chaotic Origin Pill seeds and took Li Yan out to dinner before heading to Beast Fighting Palace.
• Shi Yue wagered 100,000 Spirit Stones on his Spirit Devouring Bees and arranged for Li Yan to watch from the level-two arena.
• Ma Hong introduced Fairy Liu of Qingyang Sect, who challenged Shi Yue and questioned whether his Spirit Devouring Bees could defeat her two Golden-eyed Mantises.

Shi Yue defeated Liu Qian’s Golden-eyed Mantises with his Spirit Devouring Bees in the Beast Fighting Palace, then accepted her challenge to fight again the next day. After exchanging his winnings, he offered to take Li Yan to buy spirit insects.

• Shi Yue and Liu Qian agreed to wager five thousand Spirit Devouring Bees against her two Golden-eyed Mantises in an insect fight.
• Ma Hong brought them to the arena, where Shi Yue released his bees and Liu Qian sent out her mantises.
• Shi Yue turned the bees into small swords, then swarmed the mantises and ate their wings until Liu Qian surrendered.
• Liu Qian challenged Shi Yue to another fight at the Beast Fighting Palace the next day at the hour of the Dragon, and Shi Yue accepted.
• Shi Yue exchanged his chips for two hundred thousand Spirit Stones and left with Li Yan, then offered to take her to the Myriad Beasts Tower to buy spirit insects.

Shi Yue took Li Yan to the Spirit Law Hall, where he learned how duels and betting worked and wagered on Liu He to defeat Qin Yang. The duel began beneath a protective array, leaving Liu He and Qin Yang poised to fight.

• Shi Yue noticed an advertised match between the Qingyang Sect and the Ancient Sword Sect and entered the Spirit Law Hall with Li Yan.
• An attendant explained the hall’s dueling rules, and Shi Yue bet three thousand Spirit Stones each on Liu He to win.
• Shi Yue and Li Yan watched from a crowded hall as cultivators from both sects argued over whether Liu He or the body cultivator Qin Yang would prevail.
• Referee Chen Yurou brought Liu He and Qin Yang onto the platform and activated the protective four-color array.
• After Chen Yurou announced the duel, Liu He asked Qin Yang how many swords his body could withstand.

Qin Yang fought Liu He in a life-and-death duel and defeated him with his body cultivation and spirit tools. As Qin Yang moved to finish Liu He, Liu Xu and other Ancient Sword Sect disciples intervened and threatened him.

• Liu He unleashed more than a thousand Green Flying Swords at Qin Yang, who repelled them with golden fist shadows.
• Liu He combined his swords into a Green Giant Sword and then a Green Round Disk, but Qin Yang blocked the attacks with his fists and Golden Giant Axe.
• Qin Yang rushed past Liu He's defenses, shattered his Green Light Screen, and punched him unconscious.
• Qin Yang approached the fallen Liu He, but Liu Xu and other Ancient Sword Sect disciples landed on the platform and demanded that he stop.
• Liu Xu threatened Qin Yang with death if he killed Liu He or tried to leave Sanxin Market for Western Han.

After Qin Yang defeated Liu He, Liu Xu stopped him from killing Liu He, and the match ended with Qin Yang declared the victor. Shi Yue then visited the Myriad Beasts Tower with Li Yan to buy spirit insects, where Steward Chen Sheng greeted him.

• Liu Xu threatened Qin Yang with retaliation from the Ancient Sword Sect, and Qin Yang released Liu He and agreed to end the match.
• Chen Yurou removed the barrier, and Ancient Sword Sect disciples carried the unconscious Liu He away.
• Shi Yue considered Qin Yang's strength, and Xiaoyaozi offered to sell him crafting methods for Flying Cloud Boots and Sky-Breaking Gauntlets.
• Spectators and Qingyang Sect disciples praised Qin Yang and mocked the Ancient Sword Sect as Qin Yang left the Spirit Law Hall.
• Shi Yue took Li Yan to the Myriad Beasts Tower and asked to see high-quality spirit insects.
• Steward Chen Sheng introduced himself to Shi Yue and asked his name.