Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingxuan learned about the Dihuan Realm and anticipated the Ye Family’s Spiritual Root Test, which would determine whether he could cultivate. The night before the test, he revealed the Mysterious Yellow Bead and his sealed Eternal Turtle clone, and drew confidence from inheriting its Lifespan Eternal trait.

• Ye Qingxuan left the Library and reflected on the vast Dihuan Realm and his place in the Ye Family.
• Ye Qingxuan hurried home, eager and anxious about the Spiritual Root Test scheduled for the next day.
• Ye Qingxuan reunited with his parents, and Ye Qingyou tried to reassure him while Ye Qingxin scolded her husband for discouraging their son.
• Ye Qingxuan returned to his room and examined his Mind Space, where the Mysterious Yellow Bead and sealed Eternal Turtle clone floated.
• Ye Qingxuan recalled that he had inherited the Eternal Turtle’s Lifespan Eternal trait and convinced himself he could still reach the peak if he had a Spirit Root.

Ye Qingxuan attended the Ye Clan’s spirit root test and discovered that he had a single-element low-grade earth spirit root, qualifying him to begin cultivation. He and Ye Qingxiao, the only other person at their testing point with a spirit root, were told to meet Ye Yonglun in three days to travel to Cloud Mist Mountain.

• Ye Qingxuan’s parents accompanied him to the crowded annual spirit root test.
• Ye Yonglun tested the children, and Ye Qingxiao revealed a rare five-element high-grade spirit root.
• Ye Qingxuan placed his hand on the testing bead and was found to have a single-element low-grade earth spirit root.
• After testing ended, Ye Yonglun told Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao to meet him in three days so he could take them to Cloud Mist Mountain to cultivate.

After confirming he had a Single Element Low-Grade Earth Spirit Root, Ye Qingxuan left his parents to join the Ye family at Cloud Mist Mountain. His first flight on a sword lifted the weight of his hidden past and brought him to the family’s base camp.

• Ye Qingxuan told Father Ye and Mother Ye that he had a Single Element Low-Grade Earth Spirit Root, and they celebrated the news.
• Three days later, Ye Qingxuan said goodbye to his parents and set out to pursue immortality.
• Ye Qingxuan met Ye Qingxiao at the testing hall, and they waited for Ye Yonglun and Ye Yongqing to arrive.
• Ye Yonglun carried Ye Qingxuan, Ye Qingxiao, and Ye Yongqing on an enlarged flying sword toward Cloud Mist Mountain.
• Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao delighted in their first Sword Flight, and Ye Qingxuan felt more relaxed as they reached the Ye Family’s base camp.

Ye Qingxuan entered the Ye Family genealogy ceremony on Cloud Mist Mountain and received his Clan Token. After confronting the loneliness of eternal life, he found a new purpose in pursuing immortality: reaching the pinnacle so he could make those he cared about eternal too.

• Ye Yonglun led Ye Qingxuan, Ye Qingxiao, and the other spirit-rooted youths into Cloud Mist Mountain and brought them to the Ancestral Hall.
• Ye Wenmao announced that 215 Immortal Seeds would enter the genealogy and would study cultivation basics and Ye Family Rules for half a year before taking an assessment.
• Ye Qingshuang wrote her name into the genealogy first, received her Clan Token, and the others followed in turn.
• Ye Qingxuan entered his name into the genealogy and received his Clan Token, prompting him to reflect on belonging, eternal life, and loneliness.
• Ye Qingxuan resolved to pursue the pinnacle of the Immortal Path so he could make his loved ones eternal, and his soul began to strengthen before he had started cultivating.
• Ye Wenmao sensed a change in Ye Qingxuan but could not discern its nature, then returned his attention to the ceremony.

After six months of study, Ye Qingxuan took the Ye Family assessment and won first place, earning the chance to begin cultivation. The chapter ended with the clan members preparing to choose cultivation methods and Ye Qingshuang vowing to surpass him in cultivation speed.

• Ye Qingxuan spent six months studying cultivation knowledge and grew closer to several clan members, including Ye Qingxiao and his rival, Ye Qingshuang.
• Ye Qingxiao expected Ye Qingxuan to take first place, while Ye Qingshuang challenged him on the way to the assessment.
• Ye Qingxuan completed the assessment with ease, and Ye Yonglun announced that 212 of the 215 participants had passed.
• Ye Yonglun named Ye Qingxuan first, Ye Qingshuang second, and Ye Qingying third, then announced that the successful candidates could begin cultivation and select methods at the Merit Hall.
• Ye Qingshuang vowed to surpass Ye Qingxuan in cultivation speed, while Ye Qingxiao reminded him to treat him to a feast.

After winning the family assessment, Ye Qingxuan was summoned by Patriarch Ye Yuhong and learned that the Ye Family had received a Blessed Cultivator quota at the Xuantian Sect. He considered the opportunity and asked what benefits and restrictions becoming a Blessed Cultivator would bring him.

• Ye Yonglun gave Ye Qingxuan his assessment reward and escorted him to meet the Patriarch.
• Ye Yuhong told Ye Qingxuan, Ye Qingbi, and Ye Qinghe that the Ye Family's ancestor had obtained a Blessed Cultivator quota at the Xuantian Sect.
• Ye Yuhong explained the Ye Family's ties to the Xuantian Sect and how Blessed Cultivators formed contracts with Spirit Lands to create Blessed Lands and produce resources.
• Ye Qingxuan sensed a reaction in his Mind Space when Ye Yuhong mentioned Blessed Lands and weighed the opportunity against the safety of remaining with the Ye Family.
• Ye Qingxuan asked Ye Yuhong what effects and restrictions becoming a Blessed Cultivator would have on the cultivator.

Ye Qingxuan chose to become a Blessed Cultivator despite the isolation and slow cultivation, hoping to improve his Spirit Root and relying on his hidden advantages. Ye Yuhong agreed to support him and arranged for his journey to Xuantian Sect, while privately reflecting on the Ye Family’s stalled growth.

• Ye Yuhong explained the longevity, Spirit Root growth, slow cultivation, and isolation that came with becoming a Blessed Cultivator, and Ye Qingbi and Ye Qinghe refused.
• Ye Qingxuan asked when a Blessed Cultivator could leave the Blessed Land, then agreed to take the position after considering his limited aptitude, Eternal Turtle Clone, and Mysterious Bead.
• Ye Yuhong warned Ye Qingxuan about planting missions, sharing resources with the ancestor and family, and the risk of mental collapse, but Ye Qingxuan reaffirmed his choice.
• Ye Qingxuan requested Spirit Herb Seeds and the Alchemy Inheritance, and Ye Yuhong granted them along with Thirty Thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Ye Yuhong gave Ye Qingxuan three days to visit his parents and said he would take him to Xuantian Sect afterward; Ye Yuhong then considered the Ye Family’s resource limits and inability to expand without a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

Ye Qingxuan returned to Ye Clan Immortal City and reunited with his worried parents, but he could not bring himself to tell them why he had come back. After contemplating whether to stay with them for a hundred years, he told Father Ye that he would not leave again.

• Ye Yonglun brought Ye Qingxuan to his home and left, while Ye Qingxuan hesitated at the gate, overcome with guilt about leaving his parents for Xuantian Sect.
• Ye Qingxuan heard Mother Ye worry about him and Father Ye comfort her, then pushed open the gate and embraced them both.
• Mother Ye welcomed Ye Qingxuan home, and the family reunited over her braised pork belly as he described his experiences from the past six months.
• Two days passed without Ye Qingxuan telling his parents why he had returned, and he spent a sleepless night wondering whether to stay with them for a hundred years.
• Father Ye found Ye Qingxuan in the courtyard, and Ye Qingxuan told him that he would not be leaving again.

Ye Qingxuan told Father Ye he was leaving to pursue cultivation, and his father encouraged him to follow his dreams without worrying about his parents. After sharing a farewell meal with his family, Ye Qingxuan departed with Ye Yonglun, leaving his parents behind.

• Father Ye recognized Ye Qingxuan's worries and urged him not to give up his future for his parents, sharing his own youthful dreams of seeing the world.
• Father Ye revealed that he and Mother Ye planned to have more children and asked Ye Qingxuan to protect his future younger siblings and their descendants.
• Ye Qingxuan hugged Father Ye and thanked him, and Father Ye told his son to take care of himself while away from home.
• Mother Ye prepared Ye Qingxuan a farewell meal, while Ye Yonglun waited outside without disturbing the family.
• Ye Qingxuan embraced his parents, kowtowed three times, and said goodbye before leaving with Ye Yonglun on his dharma sword.
• Mother Ye ran after Ye Qingxuan in tears, and Father Ye held her as she wept.

Ye Qingxuan accepted the Ye Clan’s support and set out with Ye Yuhong and Ye Qingxiao for Xuantian Sect. Their journey began with a series of teleportation arrays across the vast Dihuan Realm, leaving them still traveling toward Xuan Prefecture.

• Ye Qingxuan assured Ye Yuhong that he had decided to join Xuantian Sect and asked the clan to care for his parents.
• Ye Yuhong promised to protect Ye Qingxuan’s parents and gave him a Storage Ring containing Spirit Herb Seeds, an Alchemy Inheritance, and thirty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Ye Yongqing brought Ye Qingxiao to join them, and Ye Yuhong explained that the clan had chosen him to enter Xuantian Sect as well.
• Ye Yuhong took Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao aboard a Silver Flying Boat and explained that they would travel through several teleportation arrays to reach Xuan Prefecture.
• Ye Yuhong brought the two youths through teleportation arrays from Qingmu Prefecture to Daoguang Commandery and then onward toward other prefectures.

Ye Yuhong brought Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao through the Teleportation Arrays and into the Xuantian Sect, where they traveled toward the mountain holding the Ye Family Ancestor. After a final half-hour of Sword Flight, Ye Yuhong announced that they had arrived.

• Ye Qingxuan learned the Teleportation Array fees and currency exchanges as the group spent 9,330 Low-grade Spirit Stones traveling toward Xuan Prefecture.
• Ye Yuhong presented his token to the guards, identifying himself as the Patriarch of an affiliated Ye Family and bringing clan disciples to join the sect.
• Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao entered the Xuantian Mountain Range and saw its dense Spiritual Energy and towering central mountain.
• Ye Yuhong led the two through another Teleportation Array, then waited while they recovered from the journey.
• Ye Yuhong carried Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao by Sword Flight for about half an hour before saying they had arrived.

Ye Yuhong brought Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao to meet Ye Zhaoyang, the Ye Family ancestor in the Xuantian Sect, and asked him to admit Qingxiao as well as oversee Qingxuan’s Blessed Cultivator arrangement. Ye Qingxuan agreed to the contract and received Ye Zhaoyang’s share of the Blessed Land’s extra income, leaving him with more support as he began his new path.

• Ye Yuhong revealed Ye Zhaoyang’s hidden Cave Mansion and led Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao inside to meet him.
• Ye Zhaoyang objected to being called Ancestor in front of his sect friends, then learned that Ye Yuhong had brought both the Blessed Cultivator candidate and Ye Qingxiao, who had a Five Element High-Grade Spirit Root.
• Ye Zhaoyang praised Ye Qingxiao’s prospects and welcomed his request for support within the sect.
• Ye Qingxuan calmly confirmed that he was willing to become a Blessed Cultivator.
• Ye Zhaoyang offered to waive his thirty-percent share of the Blessed Land’s additional income, and Ye Qingxuan signed the contract after reviewing it.

Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao arrived at the Xuantian Sect and were placed in its Reception Courtyard before the annual Entrance Ceremony. There, Ye Qingxuan clashed with Long Tian over the value of Blessed Cultivators, while Li Xuan and Zhu Dafu revealed that their recruiting efforts focused on other candidates, especially Lin Fan.

• Ye Yuhong left the Xuantian Sect, and Ye Zhaoyang brought Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao to Steward Mo Tian, then returned to his own cave mansion.
• Mo Tian settled the brothers in the Reception Courtyard to wait for the annual Entrance Ceremony and explained how the yearly ceremony differed from the century-scale Recruitment Ceremony.
• Ye Qingxiao made friends with Li Xuan, Zhu Dafu, and Long Tian, then brought Ye Qingxuan to meet them the next day.
• Li Xuan revealed that he knew Ye Qingxuan had a Blessed Cultivator Quota, and Long Tian disparaged Blessed Cultivators as useless farmers.
• Ye Qingxiao challenged Long Tian, but Ye Qingxuan stopped him and rebuked Long Tian for insulting the sect's Blessed Cultivators.
• Long Tian left, and Li Xuan told Zhu Dafu that their reserve members were sufficient as long as nothing went wrong with Lin Fan.

Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao entered Xuantian Sect, where Ye Qingxuan became a Blessed Cultivator Reserve and began cultivating with the Earth Source Art. After secretly reaching Qi Refining Layer One, he tested his storage treasures and a Qi Gathering Pill, then recognized that his Single Element Spiritual Root limited his cultivation speed.

• Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao passed Xuantian Sect’s assessments, while Long Tian failed the Illusion Array assessment.
• Mo Tian arranged for Ye Qingxiao to become a Servant Disciple and brought Ye Qingxuan to the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard as a reserve disciple.
• Ye Qingxuan received the first four layers of the Earth Source Art and reached Qi Refining Layer One on his third day of cultivation, concealing his breakthrough from the sect.
• Ye Qingxuan refined the Storage Ring from Patriarch Ye Yuhong and the Storage Bag from Ye Yonglun, finding spirit herb seeds, jade slip books, spirit stones, and Qi Gathering Pills.
• Ye Qingxuan took a Qi Gathering Pill and found that it increased the Spiritual Energy he drew in but did little to improve his transformation efficiency because of his Single Element Spiritual Root.

Ye Qingxuan entered the Qi Refining Realm, registered at the Xuantian Sect, and received his disciple provisions and a handbook explaining the sect’s ranks and resources. He refined his first artifact and began closed-door cultivation while preparing for the future development of his Blessed Land.

• After observing the other new disciples break through, Ye Qingxuan registered his Qi Refining Realm cultivation with Steward Bai and received his Beginner's Gift Pack.
• Ye Qingxuan tested a Spirit Augmentation Pill, which doubled his cultivation speed for three hours, then studied the Sect Handbook and learned the Xuantian Sect’s hierarchy and disciple ranks.
• Ye Qingxuan refined the mid-grade Artifact Flying Sword and successfully bound it as his first artifact.
• Ye Qingxuan entered closed-door cultivation and avoided socializing so he could quietly build his strength and prepare resources for his future Blessed Land.
• Ye Qingxuan planned to cultivate Spirit Plants and learn alchemy so he could develop his Blessed Land and produce cultivation resources for himself.

Five years after entering the Xuantian Sect, Ye Qingxuan reached Qi Refining Layer 3, developed Spiritual Sense, and mastered the foundations of alchemy. He visited the Law Transmission Hall to exchange for Spells, leaving with the Sword Riding Technique and choosing the Spring Wind and Rain Art to support his future Blessed Land.

• Ye Qingxuan broke through to Qi Refining Layer 3 and developed Spiritual Sense, then studied his Lineage’s Fifth-grade Alchemy Technique and quickly mastered its theoretical foundations.
• Ye Qingxuan left the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard and entered the Law Transmission Hall, where he learned how to select inheritances and pay with Contribution Points.
• Ye Qingxuan spent one thousand Contribution Points to obtain the Sword Riding Technique inheritance, which carried a restriction against passing it on.
• Ye Qingxuan considered Spells that would help his future Blessed Land and chose the Spring Wind and Rain Art to accelerate the growth of Spirit Plants across a wide area.

Ye Qingxuan bought a Mid-grade Artifact Level Alchemy Furnace at the Myriad Things Hall and learned about the Sect’s Marketplace, where disciples could trade with Spirit Stones. He traveled there to buy Spirit Herbs and began negotiating with Hong Miaomiao.

• Ye Qingxuan exchanged 700 Contribution Points for a Mid-grade Artifact Level Alchemy Furnace, leaving him with 100 Contribution Points.
• The manager told Ye Qingxuan about the Marketplace inside the Sect, its management fees, and the prices of Spirit Augmentation Pills and Qi Gathering Pills.
• Ye Qingxuan asked a Teleportation Array guard for directions and traveled to the bustling Marketplace.
• Ye Qingxuan browsed the stalls and asked Hong Miaomiao how much she charged for Sky Blue Flower, Purple Spirit Grass, and Spirit Guiding Flower.

Ye Qingxuan bought Qi Gathering Pill ingredients from Hong Miaomiao and considered which pills to refine for profit. He entered the Hundred Treasures Pavilion to learn about medicinal pills.

• Ye Qingxuan bought thirty batches of Qi Gathering Pill ingredients from Hong Miaomiao for seventy-five Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Hong Miaomiao told Ye Qingxuan that she gathered her herbs from small peaks in the Xuantian Mountain Range and exchanged Sound Transmission Talismans with him.
• Ye Qingxuan considered four first-tier pills but judged that the Xuantian Sect had limited demand for most of them and little profit in Qi Gathering Pills.
• Ye Qingxuan entered the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and told a shop assistant that he wanted to learn about Medicinal Pills.

Ye Qingxuan bought the Spirit Augmentation Pill recipe and a large supply of its ingredients from the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, intending to earn spirit stones by refining the pills. After spending most of his funds, he visited Ye Qingxiao at the Labor Courtyard and returned to his small courtyard determined to study alchemy and cultivate.

• Ye Qingxuan bought the First-order Spirit Augmentation Pill recipe with spirit stones and befriended the shop assistant, Bai Wenyang, an Outer Sect Disciple.
• Bai Wenyang explained the cost of Spirit Augmentation Pill ingredients and the Pavilion’s purchase price, and Ye Qingxuan ordered 3,300 portions of the spirit medicine.
• Ye Qingxuan asked why higher-tier healing, recovery, and detoxification pills were so expensive, but Bai Wenyang admitted he did not know.
• Ye Qingxuan spent 32,625 Low-grade Spirit Stones on alchemy supplies and the recipe, leaving only 375 spirit stones in his Storage Ring.
• Ye Qingxuan visited Ye Qingxiao, learned that his cultivation had reached the Qi Refining Fifth Layer, and exchanged Sound Transmission Talismans with him.
• Ye Qingxuan left for his small courtyard, intending to cultivate diligently and study alchemy.

Ye Qingxuan received a visit from Su Daobin, who befriended him and explained the different kinds of Blessed Land quotas. Su Daobin’s parting advice about choosing a Spirit Land Node left Ye Qingxuan more determined to refine pills and reach Qi Refining Realm Perfection before his peers.

• Su Daobin visited Ye Qingxuan and urged him to balance cultivation with relaxation after years of keeping to himself.
• Su Daobin explained that Blessed Cultivator quotas could grant Nascent Spirit Lands or rare inherited Blessed Lands, and revealed that Lin Fan had an inheritance quota.
• Ye Qingxuan exchanged Contact Marks with Su Daobin after hearing that Blessed Cultivators could benefit from sharing experience.
• Su Daobin warned Ye Qingxuan that whoever first reached Qi Refining Realm Perfection could choose a Spirit Land Node first.
• After Su Daobin left, Ye Qingxuan resolved to refine Spirit Augmentation Pills and advance step by step toward choosing a suitable Spirit Land.