Recaps

Lin Chang'an used his talisman skills and growing cultivation to secure resources and join the Zhou Family, while a Wang Family conspiracy triggered a monster attack and chaos at Green Bamboo Mountain Market. As sect rivalries widened and Yun Yao prepared for Foundation Establishment, Lin Chang'an and Li Erniu considered supporting her as a possible refuge.

• Lin Chang'an awakened to a status display, improved his talisman-making, and began selling Fine Golden Light Talismans to build his wealth and prepare for the corvée tax.
• After reaching Qi Refining Fourth Layer, Lin Chang'an killed rogue cultivators who ambushed him, reunited with old companions at Master Lu's funeral, and agreed with Li Erniu to approach the Zhou Family about an External Talisman Master position.
• Lin Chang'an signed a ten-year agreement with the Zhou Family to supply talismans and train its juniors, while Old Man He survived a wolf attack with Lin Chang'an's talisman and revealed that He Yan had joined the Wang Family.
• The Wang Family planted Black Wind Wolf cubs and other evidence to implicate the Zhou Family, while Lin Chang'an suspected a conspiracy and the Zhou Family prepared for the coming threat.
• Monster Beasts charged toward Green Bamboo Mountain Market as the Wang Family's scheme weakened its defenses, and Divine Sword Sect bandits helped spark looting that left Li Erniu crippled and Shen Lie and Lu Qingqing's shop stripped.
• Lin Chang'an sold talismans, bought the Flying Sword Talisman inheritance, and learned that Li Fire Palace and Mystic Sound Pavilion had formed an alliance as sect tensions and the prospect of war grew.
• Lin Chang'an bought rare journals and a restricted Jade Slip, then found Old Man He mentally and physically broken after He Yan died on the way to Li Fire Palace and took him to search for his grandson.
• Three years later, Lin Chang'an visited Old Man He's grave and agreed with Li Erniu to support Yun Yao's Foundation Establishment efforts as a possible refuge, then joined them at Gathering Immortal Pavilion as Yun Yao arrived exhausted.

Lin Chang'an advanced his cultivation and talisman craft while Green Bamboo Mountain Market was shaken by sect conflict, demonic attacks, and conscription. The arc ended with Huang Shaohai ruining Wei Yiyi and targeting Lu Qingqing as the war intensified.

• Yun Yao established her foundation, repaid her friends’ support, and gave Lin Chang'an a complete Golden Light Talisman inheritance, which helped him become a First-Order High-Grade Talisman Master.
• Lin Chang'an perfected Wood Spirit Thorn, killed Zhou Qing during a poisoned exchange, and concealed the valuables he took from him as the Zhou Family weathered an attack and Zhou Tieshan established his foundation.
• War spread across Yue Kingdom, and Li Erniu volunteered for the front lines while Lin Chang'an advanced to the Qi Refining Seventh Layer and continued selling talismans and preparing for danger.
• The Zhou Family Patriarch sacrificed himself to kill two Divine Sword Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and Li Erniu later returned safely from the front lines with news of the fighting.
• Lin Chang'an raised the Evergreen Art to the Supreme Realm, then attended the Auction and spent nine hundred and thirty Spirit Stones to buy a Green-Horned Ox cub.
• At the final Auction, the Wang Family bought a Foundation Establishment Pill for nearly nine thousand Spirit Stones, while Huang Shaohai later crippled Wei Yiyi, took his assets, and fled with Wei Yiyi’s wife.
• Lu Qingqing revealed that Huang Shaohai had also targeted her, Shen Lie resolved to protect his family, and renewed conscription began as the front-line war worsened.

Lin Chang'an weathered the Secret Realm upheaval, moved to Celestial Mystery City, and gathered the resources needed for Foundation Establishment. With Yun Yao's help and support from his friends, he reached Foundation Establishment and began cultivating the Everlasting Evergreen Technique.

• Lin Chang'an stayed focused on cultivation and Talismans as the Secret Realm rumors sparked unrest, factional conflict, and attacks by Demon Beasts across the Market.
• Lin Chang'an killed Wang Lin after luring him away from Lu Qingqing, then found the Everlasting Evergreen Technique among Wang Lin's belongings and concealed the stolen Wang Family items.
• Lin Chang'an joined the Zhou Family convoy to Celestial Mystery City, rented a Dao Field, bought the Wood Armor Binding Spirit Array, and gathered materials for Foundation Establishment.
• Lin Chang'an used the array and Talismans to kill an Iron-Backed Demon Mantis, then found a Foundation Establishment Pill hidden beneath Old Man He's grave.
• After reaching Qi Refining Ninth Layer 97, Lin Chang'an received support from his friends and two Foundation Establishment Pills from Yun Yao.
• Lin Chang'an broke through to Foundation Establishment Early Stage after using two pills, then celebrated with his friends and gave them medicines and cultivation resources.
• Lin Chang'an used Spirit Liquid to awaken an ancient leaf and chose it as his Life-Bound Spirit Plant, beginning to cultivate the Everlasting Evergreen Technique.

Lin Chang'an joined Celestial Mystery City, strengthened his talismans, alchemy, and spirit beast, and uncovered a plot involving hidden array disks. As the third Auction approached, True Person Lu mobilized the city’s cultivators while rival sects prepared for conflict over Su Miaoyin’s Core Formation.

• Lin Chang'an accepted Celestial Mystery City’s guest elder position, signed a thirty-year Spirit Contract, and chose three Second-Rank Talisman inheritances.
• Lin Chang'an traded a Foundation Establishment Pill for beast-raising resources, advanced his alchemy, and helped the Green-Horned Ox break through to the second tier.
• Lin Chang'an forged the Supreme-Grade Green Bamboo Sword and developed Blood Spirit Thorn, while True Person Lu revealed that he had feigned injury to draw out his enemies.
• Lin Chang'an watched True Person Lu drive Zheng Centipede away, then bought a Gilded Needle at the Bountiful Joy Auction and continued improving his skills and resources.
• Lin Chang'an recognized Huang Shaohai beneath a disguise, followed him, and collected the Third-Order Array Disks he had buried around Celestial Mystery City.
• Lin Chang'an disguised himself and traded the disks to Su Miaoyin for Third-Order Spirit Liquid, which he used to revive his Withered Leaf and improve his Divine Sense.
• True Person Lu ordered the city’s Foundation Establishment cultivators to guard assigned districts before the third Auction, and Lin Chang'an joined Chen Qing on patrol.
• Old Ghost told the Mystic Yin Divine Sect that Li Fire Palace had betrayed a Mystic Sound Pavilion Golden Core Elder, and the sects prepared to clash as the Divine Sect moved to protect Su Miaoyin’s Core Formation.