Chapter Summaries

Shi Yue agreed to try to obtain two Thousand-Year Ice Soul Flowers for Murong Xiaoxiao in exchange for her meeting three conditions, including keeping his identity secret and helping him trade Spirit Herbs with Taixu Sect. He also asked Murong about Chen Xing'er, then flirted with Murong before she hurried away.

• Xiaoyaozi advised Shi Yue to give Murong Xiaoxiao the Ice Soul Flowers to build a useful relationship and expand his Spirit Herb business.
• Shi Yue agreed to seek two Thousand-Year Ice Soul Flowers if Murong accepted three conditions: secrecy about his and Yan'er's identities, Yellow Luo Grass and Spirit Feeding Pills, and help arranging Spirit Herb trades with Taixu Sect.
• Murong accepted the conditions and agreed to bring the Yellow Luo Grass and pills the next day, while Shi Yue promised to find the flowers within a year, probably sooner.
• Murong told Shi Yue that Chen Xing'er remained in seclusion until Foundation Establishment, and Shi Yue admitted he preferred Murong and asked what she thought of him now.
• Blushing, Murong said she had something to do and left, while Shi Yue reflected that he preferred earning Spirit Stones to dealing with romance.

Shi Yue sold his refined Magic Tools for Artifact Refining Materials and continued working in Palm Heaven Space, while Murong Xiaoxiao borrowed Spirit Stones to buy a secret gift for her great-grandfather. The chapter left Murong Xiaoxiao with the loan approved and Shi Yue focused on refining tools.

• Xiaoyaozi urged Shi Yue to pursue Murong Xiaoxiao and offered him the Secret Canon of Joyous Union, but Shi Yue refused.
• Li Yan showed Shi Yue the two Ghost-faced Spiders that had hatched, and Shi Yue advised her to feed them Spirit Feeding Pills and buy an Insect-Raising Art book.
• Shi Yue sold fifty-three Magic Tools to Tai Sheng Tower for Artifact Refining Materials and spent another hundred thousand Spirit Stones on materials.
• Shi Yue returned to the Immortal Herb Pavilion and entered Palm Heaven Space to continue refining tools.
• Murong Xiaoxiao asked the Green-robed Old Man for two hundred thousand Spirit Stones to buy a gift for her great-grandfather, and he agreed to lend them.

Murong Xiaoxiao bought a large quantity of Yellow Luo Grass from Hui Chun Building while the Green-robed Old Man investigated Li Muxian and Immortal Herb Pavilion. Chen Hua questioned the timing of Murong’s purchase, but Elder Liu told her to focus on making money and leave rumors alone.

• Murong Xiaoxiao received two hundred and thirty thousand Spirit Stones from the Green-robed Old Man, who questioned Wu Ming about her visit to Immortal Herb Pavilion and Li Muxian.
• Wu Ming told the Green-robed Old Man what he knew about Li Muxian, and the Green-robed Old Man ordered him to keep an eye on Murong Xiaoxiao and Martial Nephew Luo.
• Murong Xiaoxiao negotiated with Chen Hua and bought two hundred stalks of three-hundred-year-old Yellow Luo Grass for one thousand eight hundred Spirit Stones each.
• Chen Hua told Elder Liu that Murong Xiaoxiao’s purchase followed an order she had placed with Li Muxian for older Yellow Luo Grass.
• Elder Liu told Chen Hua to stop prying into rumors and focus on Hui Chun Building’s profits.

Shi Yue met Murong Xiaoxiao at the Immortal Herb Pavilion, where he received a Storage Bag and discussed plans for contacting Martial Ancestor Murong. Meanwhile, the chapter revealed that the deadly iron fir forest in the Wangyue Mountains was protected by an array belonging to the Zhang Family.

• Murong Xiaoxiao brought Shi Yue the requested items, and he accepted the Storage Bag without checking it.
• Shi Yue told Murong Xiaoxiao that he and Li Yan lived together as brother and sister, then asked when she could help him contact Martial Ancestor Murong.
• Murong Xiaoxiao said her great-grandfather would only consider helping after Shi Yue gave her the Ice Soul Flower.
• Xiaoyaozi urged Shi Yue to prepare to disperse his cultivation and demanded that he raise his debt to a round one million Spirit Stones.
• Murong Xiaoxiao asked Shi Yue to spar at the Spirit Law Hall, but he declined and agreed instead to share his flying-sword combat experience.
• The chapter revealed that the Thousand Wood Maze Array protected the iron fir forest in the Wangyue Mountains and belonged to the Zhang Family.

Zhang Yue discovered that unusually potent She Lan Flower and Huang Lian Grass had improved his Harmony Qi Pill refining, and traced the herbs to a recent purchase made by Zhang Feng. The chapter ended with Zhang Yue urging Sixth Uncle to summon Zhang Feng and find out where he had bought them.

• Zhang Yue successfully refined five Harmony Qi Pills after thirty-five batches and wondered what had changed in his process.
• Zhang Yue compared the ingredients in his batch with herbs from the Zhang Family's Spirit Herb Garden and found that the She Lan Flower and Huang Lian Grass he had been given contained more spiritual energy.
• Zhang Yue showed the herbs to Sixth Uncle, who confirmed that the purchased herbs were more potent than the family-grown ones.
• Sixth Uncle checked his records and learned that Zhang Feng had handled the recent purchase of the herbs.
• Zhang Yue urged Sixth Uncle to summon Zhang Feng and ask where he had bought the herbs.

The Zhang Family investigated the high-quality Spirit Herbs from Immortal Herb Pavilion and sent Zhang Feng to place an order and report on the shop. In Sanxin Market, Shi Yue spoke with Murong Xiaoxiao before Xiaoyaozi urged him to practice the Heavenly Thunder Technique.

• The white-robed elder summoned Zhang Feng and learned that he had bought She Lan Flower and Huang Lian Grass from Immortal Herb Pavilion.
• After confirming the herbs were exceptionally rich in spiritual energy, the white-robed elder gave Zhang Feng a Gold Token and sent him with ten Foundation Establishment clansmen to order Mysterious Jade Flowers and investigate the shop.
• The white-robed elder told Zhang Yue that successful orders for rare Spirit Herbs could help the Zhang Family gain more Core Formation and possibly Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Feng and the clansmen left Zhang Family Castle aboard a Yellow Flying Boat.
• Murong Xiaoxiao praised Shi Yue's combat experience, blushed at his reaction, and left; Xiaoyaozi then teased Shi Yue and offered to let him practice the Heavenly Thunder Technique on credit.

Shi Yue explained Immortal Herb Pavilion’s VIP ordering rules to Zhang Feng, who placed an order for four-hundred-year-old Mysterious Jade Flowers and became the shop’s first VIP. Zhang Feng left without choosing a Thousand-Year Spirit Herb, but learned how his spending would qualify him for future orders.

• Shi Yue planted two hundred Yellow Luo Grass plants in Palm Heaven Space and told Xiaoyaozi he would wait to buy more herbs until he had sold refined magic artifacts.
• Zhang Feng caught up with Shi Yue and praised the spirit herbs he had bought from Immortal Herb Pavilion.
• Shi Yue explained that customers could order Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs according to their VIP tier and spending.
• Zhang Feng ordered one hundred four-hundred-year-old Mysterious Jade Flowers for twenty-nine thousand Spirit Stones and paid the outstanding deposit on his previous order.
• Zhang Feng learned that his total spending qualified him to order one Thousand-Year Spirit Herb, and Shi Yue named him Immortal Herb Pavilion’s first VIP.

Shi Yue secured the Spirit Stones needed for Zhang Feng’s Spirit Herb order and took rare herbs to Tongfeng Tower to pawn them. Zhao Shuheng agreed to assess the herbs, leaving Shi Yue awaiting an offer for the six-month pawn.

• Shi Yue gave Zhang Feng receipts for one hundred Mysterious Jade Flowers and learned that Zhang stayed at Gathering Immortals Inn.
• Shi Yue sold 109 Magic Tools at Tai Sheng Tower, combining the proceeds with Zhang Feng’s deposit to reach 100,000 Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue went to Tongfeng Tower and asked manager Zhao Shuheng to appraise rare Spirit Herbs for a six-month pawn with redemption rights.
• Shi Yue presented ten seven-hundred-year-old Spirit Herbs and fifty six-hundred-year-old ones, hoping to raise funds for Mysterious Jade Flowers and a Nine Palaces Spirit Gathering Array.

Shi Yue pawned rare Spirit Herbs at Tongfeng Tower to obtain Spirit Stones for his cultivation plans. After Mu Yun offered favorable terms in exchange for several herbs, Shi Yue had not yet given his answer.

• Zhao Shuheng appraised Shi Yue’s Spirit Herbs at 1.3 million Spirit Stones and offered a 1.2-million-Stone pawn loan, which Shi Yue accepted in Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Xiaoyaozi warned Shi Yue about the risks of pawning the rare herbs and reminded him to repay his debt and replace the Spirit Stones consumed by the Flood Dragon Egg.
• Mu Yun, a Core Formation Cultivator, came upstairs and asked Shi Yue whether he would sell some of the herbs.
• Mu Yun offered 1.3 million Spirit Stones for the remaining herbs and a six-month redemption term if Shi Yue sold him one seven-hundred-year-old Nine-leaf Grass and two six-hundred-year-old Golden Spirit Seedlings for seventy thousand Spirit Stones.

Shi Yue convinced Mu Yun to order Spirit Herbs from the Immortal Herb Pavilion by explaining its advance-order and VIP system. Mu Yun placed a five-hundred-thousand-Spirit-Stone order, qualifying him to order one Thousand-Year Spirit Herb.

• Mu Yun offered to buy three rare Spirit Herbs, but Shi Yue said they belonged to a customer order and were only being pawned temporarily.
• Shi Yue described the Immortal Herb Pavilion’s advance-order and VIP rules, prompting Mu Yun to ask about delivery times and prices.
• Shi Yue told Mu Yun that customers who had not spent five hundred thousand Spirit Stones could order herbs only up to six hundred years old.
• Mu Yun ordered ten six-hundred-year-old Green Sun Grass, seven Purple Moon Grass, and eight Red Origin Flowers for five hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue confirmed delivery within three years and told Mu Yun the order qualified him to order one Thousand-Year Spirit Herb.

Shi Yue pawned Spirit Herbs to Mu Yun at Tongfeng Tower and made plans to buy more herbs and refine array flags. After returning to Immortal Herb Pavilion, he sent Li Yan to buy herbs and replenished the Flood Dragon Egg’s Spirit Stones in Palm Heaven Space, where Black Phoenix arrived.

• Shi Yue arranged to pawn Spirit Herbs to Mu Yun for 1.2 million Spirit Stones and reserve a thousand-year-old Silver Moon Grass, while Mu Yun decided not to watch him in case he ran off and left Tongfeng Tower with the herbs.
• Shi Yue spent 300,000 Spirit Stones at Tai Sheng Tower on Artifact Refining Materials, then asked Li Yan to buy specified Spirit Herbs at Hui Chun Building the next morning.
• Shi Yue gave Xiaoyaozi 120,000 Spirit Stones toward his debt and replenished the Spirit Stones around the Flood Dragon Egg.
• Xiaoyaozi told Shi Yue that the Golden Silk Silkworms were nearing level three and advised him to give them extra Spirit Feeding Pills.
• Black Phoenix flew into Palm Heaven Space and affectionately rubbed against Shi Yue’s leg.

Shi Yue fed his spirit beasts and learned that his Golden Silk Silkworms could potentially evolve into powerful Illusion Flame Moths, though their transformation depended on luck. After buying a cultivation treatise from Senior Xiaoyaozi and tending his creatures, he began refining a spirit artifact to prepare for making formation flags.

• Shi Yue fed Spirit Feeding Pills to Black Phoenix, Snow Cloud Sable, and Yellow Wind Ox, then asked Senior Xiaoyaozi about raising Golden Silk Silkworms.
• Senior Xiaoyaozi explained that Golden Silk Silkworms could evolve into Illusion Flame Moths capable of killing Nascent Soul Cultivators, but the rare transformation depended on luck.
• Shi Yue bought Senior Xiaoyaozi's Golden Silk Silkworm cultivation treatise for thirty thousand Spirit Stones and fed the silkworms Spirit Feeding Pills and Spirit Mulberry Leaves.
• Shi Yue caught Senior Xiaoyaozi admitting that he had eaten about a hundred thousand Spirit Stones intended for the Flood Dragon Egg and warned him to stop.
• Shi Yue fed a Spirit Feeding Pill to the Spirit Devouring Bee King, then flew to the mountaintop and began refining a spirit artifact.

Shi Yue sent Li Yan to buy Spirit Herbs from Hui Chun Building, then agreed to attend Fairy Hong Chen’s Immortal Sound Convention with Murong Xiaoxiao. The chapter ended as they reached the packed Juying Pavilion, where Fairy Hong Chen sat ready to play her zither.

• The Golden Silk Silkworms grew too large for their vat and tumbled into the vat holding the Flood Dragon Egg while Shi Yue remained absorbed in his work.
• Li Yan bought the requested Spirit Herbs from Hui Chun Building, met Chen Hua, and returned to give Shi Yue the herbs and report what had happened.
• Murong Xiaoxiao told Shi Yue that Liu Hongfu, known as Fairy Hong Chen, had arrived in Sanxin Market to hold an Immortal Sound Convention.
• Shi Yue agreed to accompany Murong Xiaoxiao to the convention to test his spiritual sense.
• Shi Yue and Murong Xiaoxiao arrived at Juying Pavilion, where Fairy Hong Chen sat behind a red ancient zither before a crowd of Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

Shi Yue attended Liu Hongfu’s Immortal Sound Convention with Murong Xiaoxiao and resisted Liu Hongfu’s illusion-inducing zither music. He escaped the Red Moon Soul-Confusing Melody and left Liu Hongfu questioning how his divine sense was so strong.

• Shi Yue arrived at the convention with Murong Xiaoxiao, and Liu Hongfu allowed him to stay after Chen Feng confirmed his identity as Li Muxian.
• Liu Hongfu played a series of melodies that trapped many cultivators in illusions, while Shi Yue initially remained clearheaded using his powerful divine sense and the Spirit Splitting Art.
• Liu Hongfu’s final melody trapped Shi Yue in a dark illusion, where he realized the apparitions could not harm him and used the second layer of the Spirit Splitting Art to escape.
• Shi Yue urged Liu Hongfu to stop playing, and she ended the music after seeing that he had resisted her technique.
• Liu Hongfu asked how Shi Yue had withstood her melody, and he claimed that a Thousand Year Spirit Nourishing Grass had strengthened his divine sense.

Shi Yue was named the first to break Liu Hongfu’s musical illusion and received the Heaven Shaking Rod as his reward. The gathering then turned to exchanging treasures, beginning with a Myriad Beasts Sect disciple offering insect eggs and Yellow Smoke Ore for spirit honey or other eggs.

• Shi Yue told Liu Hongfu that he had found and eaten Thousand Year Spirit Nourishing Grass, which had greatly increased his spiritual sense.
• Liu Hongfu revealed that Shi Yue had awakened before she finished playing and offered him a reward for breaking her illusion.
• Shi Yue requested artifact-refining material, and Liu Hongfu gave him the Heaven Shaking Rod, a high-grade spirit artifact that grew heavy when infused with magic power.
• Chen Feng asked what could harm Shi Yue, but he kept his weaknesses to himself before the cultivators shared cultivation insights.
• A blue-robed Myriad Beasts Sect disciple proposed an exchange meeting and offered insect eggs and Yellow Smoke Ore for spirit honey or eggs of equal value.

Shi Yue traded Spirit Honey for four dead eggs from a Level Five spirit insect and acquired Cloud-Treading Rhino horns for a Water-Origin Flower. He was interested in Liu Hongfu’s Fire Tin Stone, but lacked the items she demanded in exchange.

• Shi Yue traded a little over five catties of Spirit Honey for four dead insect eggs, which could feed his Spirit Devouring Bees and might help them mutate.
• Murong Xiaoxiao and Wu Ming exchanged pills for rare materials while other cultivators displayed their wares.
• Shi Yue traded a five-hundred-year-old Water-Origin Flower to Liu Xu for three Cloud-Treading Rhino horns.
• Liu Hongfu offered two chunks of Fire Tin Stone in exchange for Golden Silk from a Level Four silkworm or a six-hundred-year-old Fire Attribute Spirit Herb.
• Shi Yue wanted the Fire Tin Stone but had neither the required Golden Silk nor a suitable Fire Attribute Spirit Herb.

Shi Yue promoted the Immortal Herb Pavilion by offering elite disciples the chance to order rare Spirit Herbs, including Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs. He returned to Palm Heaven Space and discovered something in the water vats that made him furious at Senior Xiaoyaozi.

• Liu Hongfu sought silk from a fourth-level Golden Silk Silkworm or a six-hundred-year-old Fire Attribute Spirit Herb in exchange for Fire Tin Stone, but no one offered either.
• Shi Yue declined to trade and told the gathered disciples that his Immortal Herb Pavilion stocked commonly used Spirit Herbs and could accept orders for Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs.
• Shi Yue circulated a price list requiring customers to spend at least five hundred thousand Spirit Stones to order a Thousand-Year Spirit Herb, then left to avoid further questions.
• Shi Yue returned to the Immortal Herb Pavilion, entered Palm Heaven Space, and found something in the water vats that prompted him to angrily summon Senior Xiaoyaozi.

Shi Yue discovered that the Flood Dragon Egg had shattered and accused Xiaoyaozi of destroying it, but Xiaoyaozi denied responsibility and said the Golden Silk Silkworms had absorbed the egg’s essence. Shi Yue moved the sleeping silkworms to a new vat and left to finish refining spirit tools, while their possible mutation remained unknown.

• Shi Yue found the shattered Flood Dragon Egg and two unconscious Golden Silk Silkworms in its vat, then blamed Xiaoyaozi for destroying the egg.
• Xiaoyaozi denied breaking the egg and pointed out that Shi Yue might have left one silkworm over the vat, arguing that the silkworms had consumed the egg’s essence.
• Xiaoyaozi explained that the silkworms might advance to Level Five or mutate after refining the egg’s essence, though he could not predict what abilities they would gain or when they would wake.
• Shi Yue moved the silkworms into a vat of mulberry leaves, collected the remaining Spirit Stones, and set aside repayment of his debt to Xiaoyaozi.
• Shi Yue fed pills to his spirit beasts and went to the mountaintop to focus on artifact refining.

Wang Lin and the Zhang Family investigated Immortal Herb Pavilion’s offer to accept advance orders for Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs. Meanwhile, Shi Yue finished refining several arrays and prepared to use them at Immortal Herb Pavilion, where they could trouble Core Formation Cultivators.

• Wang Lin received Chen Lin’s report about Immortal Herb Pavilion and decided to visit Li Muxian to verify the advance orders.
• Zhang Yi and the white-robed elder discussed whether the pavilion could help the Zhang Family challenge the Western Han’s Four Sects, and Zhang Yi sent Zhang Feng and Third Brother to investigate.
• Shi Yue finished refining spirit artifacts and the flags and equipment for four arrays inside Palm Heaven Space.
• Shi Yue asked Xiaoyaozi whether three of the arrays could deal with Core Formation Cultivators, and Xiaoyaozi assured him they could make such cultivators struggle.
• Shi Yue left Palm Heaven Space, hoping the arrays would prove worth the Spirit Stones he had spent.

Shi Yue opened Immortal Herb Pavilion and refused Wang Lin’s demand to reserve two thousand-year-old Golden Luo Zhi without meeting the shop’s spending requirements. When Wang Lin attacked him and Li Yan with Spiritual Pressure, Shi Yue activated powerful formations, drawing the attention of cultivators throughout the market.

• Shi Yue finished setting up three formations in Immortal Herb Pavilion, and Xiaoyaozi claimed they could overpower a late Core Formation Cultivator inside the shop.
• Wang Lin arrived with Chen Lin and demanded to reserve two thousand-year-old Golden Luo Zhi, but Shi Yue explained the shop’s spending rules.
• Wang Lin released Spiritual Pressure at Shi Yue, then intensified it until Li Yan was flung backward and injured.
• Shi Yue activated two array plates, easing the pressure and raising a powerful five-colored barrier around Immortal Herb Pavilion.
• Cultivators gathered outside to investigate the disturbance as Shi Yue confronted Wang Lin and declared that he would not let him run wild in the shop.