Recaps

He Song established himself as a Spirit Plant Farmer in Bamboo Mountain Immortal Market, cultivated steadily, and studied the Array Dao while avoiding risks that could cost him his security. As Meng Guan left to seek advancement at the Red Spirit Gold Mine, Lin Cong reached the Qi Refining Middle Stage.

• He Song joined the Spirit Medicine Pavilion as a Spirit Plant Farmer, received five mu of Spirit Fields, and began cultivating Spirit Rice.
• He Song befriended Wei Fan and learned basic spells, while Lin Cong returned badly injured from outside the Immortal Market and later killed an intruder in his home.
• He Song spent five quiet years cultivating and tending his fields, reaching Qi Refining Layer 3 and saving around one hundred Spirit Stones.
• He Song bought the Array Dao Primer and learned that the Thick Earth Sect was recruiting Rogue Cultivators to mine a newly discovered Red Spirit Gold Ore Vein.
• Meng Guan chose to resign from the Spirit Medicine Pavilion and mine for a chance to save for a Realm-Breaking Pill, while He Song and Wei Fan accepted his decision.
• He Song met Zhao Lin, Meng Guan’s replacement, and gave him talisman ink as a gift.
• He Song studied the Array Dao Primer while seeking a safe way to profit from his knowledge, and Lin Cong visited to announce that he had reached the Qi Refining Middle Stage.

He Song survived the attack on Bamboo Mountain Immortal Market, advanced to the Qi Refining Middle Stage, and dealt with a dangerous dispute over his Spirit Fields. After Meng Guan returned from the mine, he and Wei Fan prepared to travel to Qingyuan Immortal City while He Song chose to remain.

• He Song moved into Wei Fan’s courtyard as rumors of danger at the Red Spirit Gold Mine spread, and he warned Lin Cong to leave the Immortal Market.
• Chengsan Real Person returned during the ensuing attack, killed the black-clad cultivators, and left Bamboo Mountain Immortal Market devastated.
• He Song returned to his Spirit Fields, spent three years cultivating and studying the Array Dao, and broke through to Qi Refining Layer 4.
• Zhao Lin assigned He Song two more mu of Spirit Fields, prompting Chen Zhou to demand an exchange and later draw He Song’s suspicion.
• Wei Fan investigated Chen Zhou, helped have him removed from the Spirit Plant Farmers’ roster, and killed him after Chen Zhou’s hostile intentions became clear.
• Wei Fan gave He Song Chen Zhou’s Storage Pouch and ashes, then reunited with Meng Guan, who described surviving the Red Spirit Gold Mine and earning resources there.
• Meng Guan asked Wei Fan to accompany him to Qingyuan Immortal City, and Wei Fan invited He Song to join them.
• He Song declined the invitation, choosing to stay in Bamboo Mountain Immortal Market because he felt safer and more established there.

He Song mastered several arrays and spells while preparing to cultivate outside the Immortal Market, then fled when Zhao Lin warned him of an investigation. He returned after the purge and accepted a Spirit Medicine Pavilion manager position as the market reeled from executions and an attack on the departing team.

• He Song declined Wei Fan’s invitation to Qingyuan Immortal City, took over his Lingjian Pavilion duties, and began studying array patterns.
• He Song completed a Spirit Gathering Array and later concealed it with a Mysterious Trace Array, while buying spells from Ping'er and advancing to Qi Refining Layer 5.
• He Song learned the Earth Escape Technique, Object Manipulation Technique, and Stele-Splitting Finger as he prepared to establish Spirit Fields outside the Immortal Market.
• Zhao Lin warned He Song that Qingyuan Immortal City’s City Enforcement Team was investigating cultivators with notorious records, so He Song packed his valuables and fled to a hidden mountain cave.
• He Song waited in hiding while the City Enforcement Team entered the Immortal Market, then returned after Wei Fan reported that the team had left and found the market damaged and nearly empty.
• Wei Fan told He Song that the City Enforcement Team had killed the Spirit Medicine Pavilion steward and two managers, cleared Zhao Lin, and offered He Song a vacant manager post, which He Song accepted.
• Zhao Lin apologized that He Song’s hired Spirit Field tender had died, agreed to support He Song’s application, and described the purge and the deadly attack on the City Enforcement Team returning to Qingyuan Immortal City.

He Song cultivated secluded Spirit Fields, became a talisman master, and weighed joining the Thick Earth Sect against protecting his freedom and secrets. He ultimately sold his stored Spirit Rice under a disguise at Spirit Rabbit Immortal Market and fled toward Bamboo Mountain Immortal Market.

• He Song established and protected a secluded valley with arrays, transformed ten mu of farmland into Spirit Fields, and began growing Spirit Rice while remaining in Bamboo Mountain Immortal Market.
• He Song reached Qi Refining stage 6, harvested successive crops of Spirit Rice, and became a talisman master after learning to craft Thick Earth Talismans.
• He Song learned from Ping'er that the Thick Earth Sect tracked Spirit Rice production through the same arrays he used, so he rejected joining the sect and worried his hidden fields could be exposed.
• He Song reunited with Su Yan, learned that Su Jin had died, and agreed to keep in touch while concealing his unchanged appearance.
• He Song found the Muscle-Tendon and Bone-Molding Technique on a flower-plucking bandit, learned it, and used it to create a disguise for selling his Spirit Rice.
• He Song traveled in disguise to Spirit Rabbit Immortal Market and sold over twenty-two thousand jin of Spirit Rice to Jiang Jun for 1,990 Spirit Stones.
• He Song rented an inn room, burned his robe, cleansed his belongings of tracking marks, and fled west toward Bamboo Mountain Immortal Market.