Recaps

Nine-year-old Chen Changming tried to protect Su Linger from the bully Ma San after the children struggled to sell firewood in the snow. As Chen Changming collapsed after striking at Ma San, a mysterious voice sounded in his mind and warmth surged through his body.

• Chen Changming offered Su Linger their last half-bun, and she wept that life was too bitter after recalling their hardships.
• Ma San took the children's firewood without paying and grabbed Su Linger when Chen Changming demanded three copper coins.
• Chen Changming attacked Ma San with his woodcutter's knife, but Ma San kicked him into the snow.
• Chen Changming forced himself to stand and slashed at Ma San once more as Su Linger cried out.
• Warmth surged through Chen Changming's body, and a voice in his mind said, "Strike with a blade, ten thousand times!"

Chen Changming killed Ma San while defending Su Linger, then fled with her from the pursuing constables. A silver-robed immortal rescued Linger and accepted her as a disciple, but rejected Changming because of his poor spiritual root.

• Chen Changming used a sudden insight into his blade technique to kill Ma San, then escaped with Su Linger as Liu Si summoned the constables.
• The constables tracked Chen Changming into the woods with dogs, but he and Linger prepared to face death together.
• A masked woman in silver robes appeared and killed the pursuing constables with a gesture.
• The woman recognized Linger's Heavenly Spirit Root and accepted her as a disciple after Linger asked her to save Changming too.
• The woman revealed that Changming had a Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root and said he could not join her Glazed Sect.

After escaping Xiliang City, Chen Changming received a token to join the Lingxiao Sect but was captured by Zhu Fang, who forced him to cultivate the Spirit Armor Art. While trapped in a cave, Chen Changming recalled how completing ten thousand hatchet swings had awakened his martial prowess, then learned Zhu Fang was a first-layer Qi Refining Realm cultivator.

• The silver-robed woman took Linger and Chen Changming to the Yue Kingdom and gave Chen Changming a token for joining the Lingxiao Sect before leaving with Linger.
• Chen Changming collapsed from his injuries, and Zhu Fang found him, healed him, and carried him to a cave.
• Zhu Fang pinned Chen Changming in a tub of reddish-copper mud and forced him to learn the Spirit Armor Art.
• While cultivating alone, Chen Changming recalled that his ten-thousandth chopping motion had awakened his martial abilities and concluded that the moles on his feet brought him good fortune.
• Zhu Fang returned and revealed that he had a Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root and was a first-layer Qi Refining Realm cultivator.

Chen Changming secretly cultivated the Spirit Armor Art while Zhu Fang prepared him to retrieve Purple Spirit Grass from a deadly valley. After reaching the peak of the Xiantian Realm, Chen Changming was seized by Zhu Fang and taken from the cave.

• Zhu Fang threatened to kill Chen Changming unless he reached the peak of the Xiantian Realm within a month, then promised to make him a disciple after he collected Purple Spirit Grass.
• Chen Changming realized Zhu Fang intended to use him to enter a poisonous valley and began cultivating while pretending to obey.
• On the tenth day, Chen Changming mastered the Spirit Armor Art after its hundredth repetition, though he concealed his progress from Zhu Fang.
• Chen Changming practiced relentlessly, absorbing the energy in the Black Gold Stone mud so quickly that Zhu Fang repeatedly bought more and spent his savings.
• After the nine hundred and ninety-ninth repetition, Chen Changming reached the peak of the Xiantian Realm, and Zhu Fang grabbed him and hurried out of the cave.

Chen Changming strengthened his Spirit Armor Art inside Miasma Valley, retrieved the Purple Spirit Grass, and found a mysterious Silver Stone in a skeleton’s remains. He continued deeper into the valley to seek an escape from Zhu Fang, but a strange woman’s voice lured him onward.

• Chen Changming entered Miasma Valley under Zhu Fang’s orders to retrieve the Purple Spirit Grass, then hid once Zhu Fang could no longer see him.
• Chen Changming completed his thousandth Spirit Armor Art cycle, strengthening his armor and giving it a faint golden hue.
• Chen Changming reached the Purple Spirit Grass, found a corroded skeleton beside it, and took a spiritual-energy-filled Silver Stone from its ribs.
• Chen Changming picked the Purple Spirit Grass and went deeper into the valley, hoping to find another way out and avoid Zhu Fang.
• A strange woman’s voice called to Chen Changming from the mist, and he unconsciously quickened his pace toward it.

Chen Changming followed a mysterious voice through the miasma and found a wounded Red Great Bird beside the dead Nine Heavens Demon Snake. He gave her the Purple Spirit Grass, and she recovered enough to swallow the snake whole, leaving Chen Changming stunned.

• Zhu Fang entered the valley after Chen Changming and found the Purple Spirit Grass gone, then hurried deeper through the miasma to search for the boy.
• The Red Great Bird guided Chen Changming to a thinner-mist valley, where he saw her trapped around the dead Nine Heavens Demon Snake.
• The Red Great Bird told Chen Changming about his poor Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root and asked him for the Purple Spirit Grass to heal.
• Chen Changming gave the Red Great Bird the Purple Spirit Grass, and she regained enough strength to break free from the snake's coils.
• The Red Great Bird swallowed the Nine Heavens Demon Snake whole, terrifying Chen Changming.

Chen Changming received a body-refining technique and a mysterious Bronze Key from the Red Great Bird, then killed Zhu Fang when the old man ambushed him in Miasma Valley. Three months later, while recovering in a village, Chen Changming learned that the Lingxiao Sect had come to recruit disciples.

• The Red Great Bird gave Chen Changming the Heavenly Furnace Body Refining Art and entrusted him with a Bronze Key before leaving Miasma Valley.
• Chen Changming realized the valley's miasma had thinned enough for him to escape, but Zhu Fang caught up and attacked him from behind.
• Chen Changming's Spirit Armor was split by Zhu Fang's saber, and he killed Zhu Fang by throwing the Silver Stone into the old man's forehead.
• Chen Changming searched Zhu Fang's belongings, took his saber and the Five Tigers Soul-Severing Blade manual, and left the valley.
• Three months later, Chen Changming learned from Uncle Liu that the Lingxiao Sect had arrived to recruit disciples in the village.

After recovering from his injuries, Chen Changming practiced martial arts and sought a chance to join Lingxiao Sect by taking the village's spirit-root test. He revealed his Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root and demonstrated his blade technique to the sect disciples, who began assessing his martial background.

• Chen Changming recovered, struggled to advance his cultivation, and spent months mastering the Five Tigers Soul-Severing Blade.
• Chen Changming paid Uncle Liu to bring him to the village's Lingxiao Sect spirit-root test under the identity of his distant nephew.
• The Lingxiao Sect disciples explained that applicants with low-grade spirit roots might be refused, though they could still enter by passing the sect's trial.
• Chen Changming tested positive for a Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root, prompting the disciples to question his Xiantian peak martial cultivation.
• Chen Changming performed the Five Tigers Soul-Severing Blade, and the disciples recognized it as a common martial-world technique and relaxed.

Chen Changming arrived at the Lingxiao Sect with a Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root and was mocked and separated from the more talented youths. He entered the Heart Demon Tower to face the test required to become an outer disciple.

• Chen Changming learned about spirit roots and endured Shi Kelang mocking him for having a Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root.
• After the Spirit Boat reached the Lingxiao Sect, the Zhao disciple sent Chen Changming to join the youths with the poorest aptitudes.
• Shi Kelang mocked Chen Changming again while the sect leaders selected the talented youths, making Shi Kelang an inner disciple of Skyfire Peak.
• An elder introduced the Heart Demon Tower and said that surviving inside for an incense stick's time could earn the remaining youths outer disciple status.
• Chen Changming sighed and entered the Heart Demon Tower first.

Chen Changming passed the Heart Demon Tower’s trial and was assigned to cultivate Spirit Rice as a servant disciple of the Lingxiao Sect. After settling into his courtyard, he encountered a senior disciple who offered to water his fields for contribution points.

• Chen Changming emerged from the Heart Demon Tower after three incense sticks, impressing the steward elder with his will despite his poor aptitude.
• Tian Shouyi led Chen Changming and twenty-nine other servant disciples to a valley, explained their Spirit Rice duties and contribution pay, and warned that failing their quota for two years would get them expelled.
• Chen Changming chose an empty courtyard, found the sect’s cultivation manuals and planting guide, and cooked Spirit Rice for himself.
• A senior servant disciple used the Cloud Rain Art to water Chen Changming’s field, then demanded five contribution points per session and offered to let him pay later.
• Chen Changming stalled rather than agree to the fee, and the senior disciple left to offer his services to another newcomer.

Chen Changming paid Pi Dong for pest control, then spent a month cultivating the Evergreen Art and broke through to the first level of the Qi Refining Realm. When Pi Dong returned to offer discounted field services, Chen Changming refused and planned to learn the Cloud Rain Art himself.

• Pi Dong introduced himself, charged Chen Changming for pest control, and used Spirit Finger Flick to kill the spirit-field pests.
• Chen Changming studied the Evergreen Art and cultivated it intensely for a month.
• Chen Changming broke through to the first level of the Qi Refining Realm and noticed new patterns on the black moles on his soles.
• Pi Dong returned, recognized Chen Changming's breakthrough, and offered a discount on watering and pest control.
• Chen Changming refused Pi Dong's offer and resolved to handle the spirit fields himself and earn contribution points with the Cloud Rain Art.

Chen Changming studied Cloud Rain Art and steadily improved it while tending his Spirit Rice fields, despite Pi Dong's contempt. Meanwhile, the Ancestor of Lingxiao Sect ordered the sect to kill a youth carrying an ancient green token if he arrived, though Chen Changming remained unaware.

• Pi Dong mocked Chen Changming's Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root and left, while Chen Changming studied the Spirit Rice Planting Guide and killed a Gold Spirit Bug with his saber.
• Chen Changming practiced the Five Tigers Soul-Severing Blade as he cleared pests from his fields, and Pi Dong secretly watched, hoping his crops would suffer without Cloud Rain Art.
• The Ancestor of Lingxiao Sect asked Sect Master Li Yue about a youth bearing an ancient green token and ordered him killed if he came, explaining that he was repaying a favor.
• After seven days of study, Chen Changming grasped Cloud Rain Art, then practiced it repeatedly and used the Evergreen Art to replenish his unusually large spiritual energy reserves.
• Chen Changming improved Cloud Rain Art enough to water his fields, then continued practicing until he had mastered it after watering the five acres six times.
• Chen Changming wondered why no voice had appeared, concluding that his earlier attempts had not counted because he had not truly mastered Cloud Rain Art.

Chen Changming strengthened his Cloud Rain Art, Evergreen Art, and Five Tigers Soul-Severing Blade while tending his Spirit Rice fields. After learning that senior outer servants received Spirit Gathering Pills, he resolved to find a way to obtain them.

• Chen Changming broke through with the Cloud Rain Art after one hundred casts, producing rain powerful enough to cover ten mu of land.
• Chen Changming broke through with the Evergreen Art after one thousand casts, greatly increasing his spiritual energy and its absorption rate.
• Chen Changming broke through with the Five Tigers Soul-Severing Blade after ten thousand casts and discovered his Spirit Rice was growing unusually quickly.
• Pi Dong visited Chen Changming’s fields and explained that plots connected to underground spiritual veins could yield multiple harvests each year.
• Chen Changming visited senior outer servants and learned that mountaintop servants received three Spirit Gathering Pills each month, so he decided to obtain some.

Chen Changming harvested an unusually large crop of Spirit Rice and traded the surplus at the Lingxiao Sect’s Logistics Hall. Though Tian Shouyi and Elder Luo openly looked down on him for his Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root, he exchanged Contribution Points for two Spirit Gathering Pills and headed to the Pill Pavilion.

• Chen Changming’s Five Tigers Soul-Severing Blade broke through after thirty thousand repetitions, strengthening his attacks with silver blade light and the phantoms of five Variegated Fierce Tigers.
• Chen Changming harvested five mu of Spirit Rice, and Tian Shouyi was astonished that the crop had yielded twice the usual amount.
• Tian Shouyi took Chen Changming to the Logistics Hall, where Elder Luo exchanged 5,100 jin of rice for 120 Contribution Points.
• Tian Shouyi and Elder Luo disparaged Chen Changming’s Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root and advised him not to waste points on Spirit Gathering Pills.
• Chen Changming exchanged 100 Contribution Points for two Spirit Gathering Pills and made his way to the Pill Pavilion.

Chen Changming exchanged contribution points for pills and basic arts, then cultivated, expanded his Spirit Rice fields, and practiced the Spirit Finger Flick. He planned to sell his first large harvest at the market and realized the technique offered many chances to enhance it.

• Chen Changming exchanged contribution points for two Spirit Gathering Pills despite an elder's ridicule and avoided the Mission Hall because menial disciples were looked down on there.
• Chen Changming bought the Spirit Finger Flick and Detoxification Art, ignoring outer sect disciples who mocked his Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root and his choice of manuals.
• Chen Changming cleared ten mu of forest land, planted Spirit Rice, and took two Spirit Gathering Pills, which strengthened his spiritual energy without letting him break through.
• Chen Changming adjusted his watering after finding the new fields had poorer soil, and planned to sell the combined harvest of twenty thousand jin at the market.
• Chen Changming mastered both arts, tested the Spirit Finger Flick's range, and realized he could repeatedly use it to create many chances to enhance the technique.

Chen Changming spent six months strengthening Spirit Finger Flick and Evergreen Art, then harvested Spirit Rice and went to Lingyun City to sell it. He left Detoxification Art for later and entered the bustling cultivator city with his rice, hoping to make his way there.

• Chen Changming enhanced Spirit Finger Flick three times through relentless practice, then spent six months cultivating it, Evergreen Art, and other techniques until Spirit Finger Flick reached its fourth enhancement and Evergreen Art reached its third.
• Chen Changming harvested five mu of Spirit Rice, delivered it to Elder Luo, and exchanged contribution points for a Storage Bag.
• Chen Changming harvested the spirit fields in the forest, replanted two plots, and attempted to practice Detoxification Art without succeeding.
• Chen Changming traveled from Lingxiao Sect to Lingyun City with Spirit Rice to sell and entered the city, impressed by its many cultivators and cultivation shops.

Chen Changming sold some of his Spirit Rice in Lingyun City, bought Spirit Gathering Pills, and headed back toward the Lingxiao Sect. Two robbers ambushed him at Tiger Crouch Ridge, but he killed them both in moments.

• Chen Changming asked a stallholder about Spirit Rice prices and learned that the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion had a good reputation.
• Chen Changming sold three thousand jin of Spirit Rice at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion for twenty Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changming bought clothes and bamboo hats, then spent eighteen Spirit Stones on two Low-grade Spirit Gathering Pills.
• Two Qi Refining cultivators followed Chen Changming to Tiger Crouch Ridge and blocked his path to rob him.
• Chen Changming killed the short, stout robber with Spirit Finger Flick, then shattered the tall, thin robber's Golden Light Talisman and killed him too.

Chen Changming sold his Spirit Rice in Lingyun City, earned 160 Low-grade Spirit Stones, and spent nearly all of them on Spirit Gathering Pills to advance his cultivation. Shopkeeper Xu reported his Cloud Rain Art skill to the White-Clad Woman, who considered recruiting him to tend spirit medicines.

• Chen Changming found Storage Bags and Spirit Stones on the two men who had attacked him, then returned safely to Lingxiao Sect and cultivated with Spirit Gathering Pills.
• Chen Changming bought more Spirit Gathering Pills, packed twenty thousand jin of Spirit Rice, and disguised himself before going to Lingyun City.
• Shopkeeper Xu examined Chen Changming's Spirit Rice, found it nearly Mid-grade, and offered him an extra twenty percent for the harvest.
• Chen Changming received 160 Low-grade Spirit Stones and spent most of them on nineteen Low-grade Spirit Gathering Pills before returning safely to Lingxiao Sect.
• The White-Clad Woman told Shopkeeper Xu to watch Chen Changming and considered inviting him to help tend the medicine fields at the ruins of Taicang Mountain Medicine Sect.

Chen Changming strengthened his Cloud Rain Art while secretly raising the quality of his Spirit Rice and avoiding the war between Yue Kingdom and Chu Kingdom. When a red mark on his foot briefly transformed him into a red-haired monster, an unseen man suppressed it, and Chen Changming woke to find the mark gone.

• White-Clad Woman told Shopkeeper Xu to wait and see whether Chen Changming brought Mid-grade Spirit Rice to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.
• Chen Changming strengthened Cloud Rain Art and carefully watered his fifteen mu of spirit fields so the sect would not discover its potential.
• Chen Changming decided to pursue talisman-making as a faster source of income, while war between Yue Kingdom and Chu Kingdom drew Lingxiao Sect disciples into deadly fighting.
• Chen Changming mastered and strengthened Detoxification Art, then observed that the Spirit Rice in some fields was growing exceptionally well.
• A red mole on Chen Changming's foot triggered a spread of red hair across his body, but an unseen man used black light to restore him before the mark vanished.

Chen Changming harvested a large crop of Mid-grade Spirit Rice and sold it to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, where Shopkeeper Xu proposed a partnership. Meanwhile, the war forced Lingxiao Sect to reassign its servants, potentially leaving Chen Changming responsible for the middle-slope Spirit Fields.

• Chen Changming harvested fifteen mu of Spirit Rice, including more than thirty thousand jin of Mid-grade Spirit Rice, and handed over his sect quota to Tian Shouyi.
• Tian Shouyi told the servant disciples that the war had forced the sect to send third-level Qi Refining disciples to the front and move second-level disciples to the mountaintop fields.
• The first-level servants refused to take on the middle-slope fields, and Chen Changming realized he might be able to plant more than two hundred mu himself.
• Chen Changming visited the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion in disguise, where Shopkeeper Xu confirmed the rice was Mid-grade and bought the entire batch for six hundred and seventy-two Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Shopkeeper Xu sold Chen Changming eighty-four Low-grade Spirit Gathering Pills at a discount, then offered him a partnership watering the pavilion's medicinal field.

Chen Changming agreed to tend the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s medicinal field for a hundred Low-grade Spirit Gathering Pills each month. The White-Clad Woman revealed his identity, gave him a cloak treasure, and brought him to a guarded cave leading into the Ziyuan Secret Realm.

• Shopkeeper Xu offered Chen Changming fifty Low-grade Spirit Gathering Pills per month to water the medicinal field ten times, then raised the offer to a hundred, which Chen accepted.
• The White-Clad Woman recognized Chen Changming through her spiritual sense and offered him a cloak treasure after he swore to keep the medicinal field secret.
• The White-Clad Woman gave Chen Changming a black cloak and took him aboard Little Black, a Foundation Establishment Azure Eagle.
• The White-Clad Woman brought Chen Changming to a guarded cave among ruins and said the Ziyuan Secret Realm’s space needed to remain stable until the spirit herbs matured.
• A young man led Chen Changming through the cave entrance and into the Ziyuan Secret Realm.

Chen Changming used his Cloud Rain Art to accelerate the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s medicinal fields and took over abandoned Spirit Rice fields at the Lingxiao Sect. As the war threatened low-level disciples, he kept working and cultivating, eventually breaking through to the second Qi Refining layer.

• Chen Changming entered the Ziyuan Secret Realm and watered the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s medicinal field, impressing its guards with his powerful Cloud Rain Art.
• The White-Clad Woman learned the herbs were growing faster and arranged to meet Chen Changming again in three days.
• Chen Changming returned to find the Spirit Rice fields abandoned, while Pi Dong warned that menial disciples might be sent to the battlefield and urged him to flee.
• Chen Changming refused to run and began tending the unoccupied fields on the mountainside and summit, planting Mid-grade Spirit Rice in the fields he could use.
• For a month and a half, Chen Changming tended the fields and cultivated with Spirit Gathering Pills and the enhanced Evergreen Art, then broke through to the second Qi Refining layer.

Chen Changming stayed away from Lingxiao Sect as the Blood Demon Sect threatened to attack, cultivating in the Ziyuan Secret Realm and breaking through in his Five Tigers Soul-Severing Blade. After Lingxiao Sect’s reinforcements drove off the invaders, he learned that displaced menial disciples could return and be promoted to outer disciples.

• Chen Changming found Lingxiao Sect deserted, sold his Spirit Rice, and bought a larger Storage Bag after learning its disciples had gone to war.
• The White-Clad Woman warned Chen Changming that the Blood Demon Sect planned to invade Lingxiao Sect, so he remained in the Ziyuan Secret Realm.
• Chen Changming cultivated and practiced the Five Tigers Soul-Severing Blade until it broke through, greatly increasing its power.
• A young man told Chen Changming that Lingxiao Sect’s reinforcements had driven out the Blood Demon Sect and that the two countries had agreed to a ceasefire.
• The young man said Lingxiao Sect was being rebuilt and would promote returning menial disciples at the second level of Qi Refining or above to outer disciples.

After surviving the war, Chen Changming returned to find the spirit fields destroyed and was promoted to an outer sect disciple. As Yu Hailong led him to his new residence, Chen Changming asked who the imposing Senior Sister was.

• Chen Changming accepted the offer to become an outer sect disciple and returned to Lingxiao Sect with a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Chen Changming found the spirit fields ruined and learned from Zhao Huanzhen that the Blood Demon Sect had destroyed the underground spirit vein.
• Elder Luo gave Chen Changming an outer sect identity token, robes, cultivation manuals, Spirit Stones, and Spirit Gathering Pills.
• Elder Luo's granddaughter, Senior Sister, welcomed Chen Changming as an outer sect disciple and offered to help him if trouble arose.
• Yu Hailong recognized the returning Chen Changming and led him toward his new residence, where Chen Changming asked who Senior Sister was.

Chen Changming learned about Senior Sister’s reputation, settled into his new outer disciple cave, and chose Dragon Glide Step at the Scripture Library. After Shao Pu challenged him to the Life-Death Arena, Chen Changming refused and left to focus on training.

• Yu Hailong told Chen Changming that Senior Sister had chosen to be an outer disciple and saved many disciples during the war between the two kingdoms.
• Chen Changming moved into his cave, read the outer disciple handbook, and discovered that his new Identity Token came with 100 Contribution Points, Spirit Gathering Pills, and Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changming visited the Scripture Library and chose Dragon Glide Step as the movement technique he needed most.
• Shao Pu mocked Chen Changming and challenged him to the Life-Death Arena, but Chen Changming refused to reveal his trump card and walked away.
• Shao Pu backed down after the other outer disciples reminded him that Senior Sister would scold him for bullying someone weaker.