Chapter Summaries

Zhu Yu researched monster-beast bloodlines and bloodline transplantation at the Dharma Repository, using his True Sight Eye to record a large collection of texts. As he studied, a golden-robed cultivator became keenly interested in Zhu Yu’s Identity Jade Token, while a woman’s attention increasingly shifted toward him.

• Zhu Yu decided to investigate the risks of transplanting the Storm Naga bloodline and brought the Corpse-Rearing Coffin to the Dharma Repository.
• Die Ersan and Long Jiu greeted Zhu Yu, and he gave them Spirit Stones to fetch books and jade slips about monster-beast bloodlines and transplantation.
• Zhu Yu noticed a golden-robed young man and a cold, scholarly woman at the tea table, while they examined his coffin and watched him.
• Die Ersan and Long Jiu brought Zhu Yu a towering stack of reference materials, drawing the golden-robed man’s interest.
• Zhu Yu used his Identity Jade Token and True Sight Eye to record information from the books and jade slips, while the golden-robed man focused on the token.

Zhu Yu studied bloodline transplantation and met Li Jiu, who sold him a suspiciously cheap spirit liquid meant to resist bloodline erosion. After an awkward encounter with Liu Yingchun, Zhu Yu left for the Underworld Grounds, while Liu Yingchun angrily insulted him and Black Tiger.

• Zhu Yu finished reviewing bloodline records, spending nearly 20,000 Contribution Points, and identified erosion and rejection as the main dangers of transplantation.
• Li Jiu introduced himself as a fellow Underworld Grounds cultivator and offered Zhu Yu spirit liquid that he claimed resisted even spirit-grade bloodline erosion.
• Zhu Yu bought one bottle from Li Jiu for 1,000 Spirit Stones without signing the offered contract, suspecting Li Jiu had an ulterior motive.
• Liu Yingchun approached Zhu Yu, who repeated a rumor that Liu enjoyed men dressing as women, making Liu angrily leave after cursing Hong Xingwang.
• Zhu Yu collected Black Tiger and rode toward the Underworld Grounds; when Liu Yingchun tried to call out to him, Black Tiger quickly carried him out of sight, and Liu cursed them both.

Zhu Yu analyzed bloodline transplantation and decided to cultivate the Storm Naga bloodline, planning to use the True Sight Eye to prevent bloodline rejection. Back at his residence, he rewarded Zhu Er, learned that Manager Liu had invited him to an auction in two months, and was greeted by Little Black and the tiny figure from his shell.

• Zhu Yu used the True Sight Eye to study bloodline transplantation and chose to plant the Storm Naga bloodline, intending to erase its instincts to prevent rejection.
• Zhu Yu noticed something at the Corpse Field, rode Black Tiger to inspect it, praised Zhu Er's work, and awarded him ten Spirit Stones.
• Zhu Yi told Zhu Yu that Manager Liu had left a jade slip inviting him to an auction in two months, where they would discuss a matter.
• Zhu Yu estimated he could gather one million Low-grade Spirit Stones for the auction and considered selling his thirty peak First-Order Upper Grade Corpse Puppets if necessary.
• Little Black greeted Zhu Yu and introduced a tiny figure from his shell, who endured Zhu Yu's erosion aura and offered him a blessing.

Zhu Yu discovered that the sentient Seven-Treasure Soul-Returning Ginseng could heal injuries and nourish the soul, and named it Little Seven after learning about its past. While Zhu Yu continued his corpse cultivation and ordered bloodline tools, a grape-like spiritual fruit matured in the Insect Realm.

• Zhu Yu tasted Little Seven's medicinal tears and learned that its original body was a Third-Order Seven-Treasure Soul-Returning Ginseng from Myriad Pill Valley.
• Little Seven told Zhu Yu that it had fled into the Yi Spirit Ruins after its spiritual garden was destroyed and claimed it could revive him once it reached Third-Order.
• Zhu Yu named the ginseng spirit Little Seven, took it into a room, and later entrusted it to Little Black.
• Zhu Yu inspected the Metal Puppet Spirits, Dragon-Blooded Kobolds, Green-Backed Apes, and Purple-Veined Snake-Person leader, then ordered tools and spiritual items for bloodline extraction and implantation.
• Zhu Yu sensed that a spiritual fruit had matured on a mountain near the Border Wasteland in the Insect Realm.

Zhu Yu’s Giant Peak Grapes ripened, drawing White Feather and several intelligent beasts to his mountain. He agreed to let them eat the grape flesh in exchange for harvesting the Spiritual Power fruits, and the gathering began.

• Zhu Yu watched his cultivated Giant Peak Grapes ripen, followed by the wild grapes across the mountain.
• White Feather the Golden-Eyed Crane arrived, received permission to eat the grape flesh, and began harvesting Spiritual Power fruits.
• Baldy the Big Grass Rat and other animals gathered at the mountain, bringing gifts and asking to trade them for grapes.
• Zhu Yu welcomed the visitors and explained that they could eat the grape flesh while helping collect the Spiritual Power fruits.
• The kingfisher couple, Baldy, Fire-Tail, Blackie, and Whitey began harvesting the grapes and separating the fruit flesh from the Spiritual Power fruits.

Zhu Yu harvested the Giant Peak Grapevine’s fruit, rewarded the spirit beasts who helped, and calculated that his crop would bring in thousands of Life Origin Stones. After sharing some wild grapes, he examined the gifts the beasts had left and discovered two living eggs, two seeds, and a piece of iron before reacting with surprise to Baldy’s gift.

• Zhu Yu offered the spirit beasts a hundred Wild Giant Peak Grape Spiritual Power Fruits for one Life Origin Stone, and they eagerly picked the crop.
• Zhu Yu counted the harvest, gave the Hummingbird Couple and the other helpers gifts of thanks, and calculated that 28,405 Spiritual Power Fruits remained for sale.
• Zhu Yu realized the harvest could earn 9,468 Life Origin Stones, enough to repay Hua Ling and buy more effective Spirit Power Food.
• White-Hair the Golden-Eyed Crane, Baldy the Big Grass Rat, and the others helped dry the Spirit Seeds and carry away the fruit and pulp, while Zhu Yu shared wild grapes with the creatures at the mountain’s foot.
• Zhu Yu examined gifts from the beasts, finding two living eggs from Blackie and Whitey, two seeds from the Kingfisher Couple, and a broken piece of iron from Fire-Tail.
• Zhu Yu brushed dust off Baldy the Big Grass Rat’s gift and reacted with surprise at what he found.

After discovering that the jade disc was the powerful Myriad Star Disk, Zhu Yu realized he could use it to connect realms once he gained enough cultivation and Dao Beacons. He sold fruits to his animal neighbors and persuaded Baldy to bring him the Little Grass Mouse who had found the disc, hoping to learn where it came from.

• Zhu Yu identified the jade disc as the Myriad Star Disk, an array artifact capable of shifting objects between realms, but found his current Spiritual Power too weak to refine it.
• White Feather bought fruits with thirty-five Life Origin Stones, and Zhu Yu's other neighbors brought him roughly three hundred more.
• Baldy arrived with three hundred Life Origin Stones and told Zhu Yu that his little ones had offered him the jade disc.
• Baldy brought the Little Grass Mouse that had found the disc, and Zhu Yu asked Baldy to have it lead him to the place where it was discovered.
• After Baldy left with the Little Grass Mouse to pick fruits, Zhu Yu ate several Giant Peak Spiritual Fruits and dozed on a dead branch.

Zhu Yu cleared up the misunderstanding over Baldy’s grape harvest, then followed him to find Qiu Chen’s remains. Back on his mountain, Zhu Yu stored his fruit, checked his Life Seeds, and fed Life Origin Stones to the White-Tail Pear, which asked him to remove the neighboring trees.

• Zhu Yu confirmed that Baldy had bought the Wild Giant Peak Grapes rather than stolen them, and the spirit beasts returned to transport the fruit.
• Zhu Yu followed Baldy and a Little Grass Mouse to a tree hollow, where he found Qiu Chen’s insect-riddled remains.
• Zhu Yu returned to his mountain, stored his dried Giant Peak Grapes, and decided to dig additional storage hollows in the withered Big Banyan Tree.
• Zhu Yu inspected his Nurtured Life Seeds and buried about fifty Life Origin Stones beneath the White-Tail Pear God-Given Spirit Seed.
• The White-Tail Pear asked Zhu Yu to dig up the neighboring trees, but he ignored it and checked the Small Five Elements Concealment Array.

Zhu Yu discovered that the Myriad Star Disk contained genuine Third-Order Composite Array Patterns, giving him a valuable Formation Dao inheritance to study. After selling vast quantities of Wild Giant Peak Grapes to spirit beasts, he heard the Traveling Merchant Hua Ling arrive and prepared to meet her.

• Zhu Yu analyzed a glyph on the Myriad Star Disk and confirmed that it was an unknown Third-Order Composite Array Pattern.
• Zhu Yu realized that studying the disk with his True Sight Eye could help him become an upper-grade array master and strengthen his future plans.
• Baldy the Big Grass Rat and other spirit beasts bought Wild Giant Peak Grapes over several days, eventually purchasing the mountain's entire crop and owing Zhu Yu about four thousand Life Origin Stones.
• Zhu Yu heard Hua Ling's drums, collected a Spider Silk Bag, and flew out to meet the Traveling Merchant from the Giant Flea Tribe.
• The spirit beasts hurried to finish harvesting and processing the grapes so they could sell them and buy Origin Spirit Fruit from Hua Ling.

Zhu Yu hosted the Traveling Merchant Hua Ling and learned that Mountain Master Ye Lian’s One-Leaf Lotus Spirit Seed cost one hundred thousand Life Origin Stones. After Zhu Yu revealed his God-Given Spirit Seed, Hua Ling promised to seek Ye Lian’s help in obtaining the One-Leaf Lotus for him.

• Hua Ling arrived at Giant Peak Mountain and sampled Zhu Yu’s Giant Peak Grape Spirit Power Fruits, praising their quality.
• Zhu Yu asked Hua Ling for advice on his upcoming breakthrough and learned which Spirit Power Fruits to eat and why Mountain Master-level fruit could make molting harder.
• Hua Ling told Zhu Yu that the One-Leaf Lotus Spirit Seed enhanced water affinity and cost one hundred thousand Life Origin Stones, more than his twenty-eight thousand fruits could buy.
• Zhu Yu showed Hua Ling the array concealing his God-Given Spirit Seed, and Hua Ling recognized it as genuine.
• Hua Ling promised to beg Mountain Master Ye Lian for the One-Leaf Lotus Spirit Seed and bring it to Zhu Yu.

Hua Ling traveled to Mountain Master Ye Lian to obtain a One-Leaf Lotus seed on credit, using tears to persuade him. She hurried back toward Zhu Yu with the seed, while a crimson Giant Flea prepared to reprimand her when she returned.

• Hua Ling left Zhu Yu's mountain after using the Earth Escape Technique and headed for the Giant Flea Clan's temporary encampment.
• Hua Ling's clansfolk teased her about being robbed, and she hurried to Mountain Master Ye Lian and pretended to cry.
• Mountain Master Ye Lian recognized Hua Ling's hidden excitement and agreed to help her one last time.
• Hua Ling asked to buy a One-Leaf Lotus seed on credit, and Mountain Master Ye Lian gave her the seed.
• A crimson Giant Flea said it would reprimand Hua Ling when she returned, then handed Mountain Master Ye Lian ten jade plaques marked with "ten thousand."

Hua Ling brought Zhu Yu a top-grade One-Leaf Lotus Spirit Seed and secured a promise to receive the White-Tail Pear’s future fruit in exchange. As they traded for supplies, Hua Ling produced a milky-white crystal that Zhu Yu recognized as a valuable source of spiritual energy.

• Hua Yan told Mountain Master Ye Lian that signs of the Ruins Realm’s descent had appeared between the Red Fire Ant Tribe and the Elephant-Horn Stag Beetle Tribe, and Ye Lian chose it for their next trading route.
• Hua Ling returned to Zhu Yu with the One-Leaf Lotus seed and advised him to prepare a deep, clean pond for it.
• Zhu Yu promised Hua Ling all the White-Tail Pear God-Given Spirit Seed’s ripe fruit, expected in about eight months, and future harvests as well.
• Hua Ling traded Zhu Yu Spider Silk Bags filled with Sour Jujubes, Soapberries, and Leucaena Spirit Fruits, and Zhu Yu ordered ten more bags.
• Hua Ling showed Zhu Yu a fist-sized milky-white crystal, and he recognized its dense spiritual energy.

Zhu Yu traded with Hua Ling, ate mid-grade Spirit Power Food, and broke through to the First-Instar Intermediate Insect Clan Warrior Stage. After Baldy and the other spirit beasts lost their savings in Broken Tail’s scam, Zhu Yu forgave their delayed repayment and offered them Giant Peak Spiritual Fruits for a task.

• Zhu Yu learned that Hua Ling had obtained a pure spirit stone from a Black Sickle Warrior, then completed their trade for Giant Peak Spiritual Fruits and Spirit Power Food.
• Hua Ling left to continue traveling as a merchant after Zhu Yu asked her to look for suitable Life Seeds.
• Baldy and the other spirit beasts discovered that Broken Tail had fled with their Life Origin Stones and abandoned the canyon spirit land.
• Fire Tail persuaded the group to accept their losses and repay Zhu Yu later instead of running away.
• Zhu Yu ate mid-grade Spirit Power Food, molted into the First-Instar Intermediate Insect Clan Warrior Stage, and found that the One-Leaf Lotus Life Seed had finished Nurturing.
• Fire Tail explained the scam to Zhu Yu, who allowed the spirit beasts to pay him back next time and brought out a bag of Giant Peak Spiritual Fruits for a task.

Zhu Yu asked the spirit beasts to dig a pool and open an underground spring atop the mountain, and they used their spells to excavate the basin. Fire Tail explained the beasts’ abilities and warned Zhu Yu that Cailing was among the strongest in the Borderlands, while Zhu Yu realized she had already noticed the White-Tail Pear God-Given Spirit Seed.

• Zhu Yu gave the spirit beasts Giant Peak Spiritual Fruits and asked them to dig a mountaintop pool and spring.
• Fire Tail urged Baldy to help, and Zhu Yu marked out the area for the pool.
• The Hummingbird Couple mapped the boundaries, the Golden-Eyed Crane cut the soil, the Big Red Fox vitrified it, and Blackie and Whitey removed the stone strips.
• Baldy used his Earth Spirit Body spell to tunnel underground, and Fire Tail described the spirit beasts’ innate spells and abilities to Zhu Yu.
• Fire Tail told Zhu Yu to seek Cailing if he got into trouble, explaining that she was one of the strongest spirit beasts in the Borderlands.
• Zhu Yu recalled Cailing inspecting the White-Tail Pear God-Given Spirit Seed and realized how sharp her senses were.

Zhu Yu planted One-Leaf Lotus in the newly filled pool and rewarded the spirit beasts who helped him, earning their goodwill. Cailing questioned Fire Tail about Zhu Yu, while Zhu Yu inspected the lotus and learned it had entered the seedling stage.

• Fire Tail explained that Cailing had once attempted to break through to the Mountain Master Realm and that witnessing her power had awakened his Fire Refining Gold.
• Baldy emerged from the pool’s central hole after opening a water source, and Zhu Yu planted One-Leaf Lotus in the rising pool.
• Zhu Yu told the spirit beasts that One-Leaf Lotus fruit could enhance water affinity and offered to save fruit for anyone who wanted some.
• Zhu Yu distributed Giant Peak Grape Spirit Power Fruits, accepted two thousand Life Origin Stones from Fire Tail, and escorted the beasts down the mountain.
• Cailing asked Fire Tail what he thought of Zhu Yu, and Fire Tail praised him as a good insect who cared about face.
• Zhu Yu inspected One-Leaf Lotus and saw that it had reached the seedling stage with a healthy status.

Zhu Yu prepared a mixture to cultivate the One-Leaf Lotus when Cailing arrived and offered to follow him. After Cailing captured the hostile White Dream Butterfly, Zhu Yu killed it, but an apparition rose from its remains and threatened him.

• Zhu Yu gathered water-element Spirit Stone powder, Life Origin Stones, and rotten grass and dead leaves to prepare the One-Leaf Lotus cultivation mixture.
• Cailing revealed that the White Dream Butterfly had repeatedly visited Zhu Yu's mountaintop and asked for a White-Tail Pear God-Given Spirit Seed.
• Zhu Yu promised Cailing a seed from the next harvest, and she offered to catch the White Dream Butterfly for him.
• Cailing returned with the injured White Dream Butterfly, and Zhu Yu killed it with a stone needle after confirming it was a Demon Cultivator from another realm.
• A white vapor apparition rose from the butterfly's remains, looked at Zhu Yu, and threatened him.

Zhu Yu and Cailing visited White Dream Butterfly’s former home, where Zhu Yu found a healthy Slender-Leaf Sword Cedar growing above an iron mine. He could not transplant it yet, so he created a concealment-and-sealing Array Pattern for it.

• Zhu Yu welcomed Cailing as a companion, and she asked to build a nest on the God-Given Spirit Seed.
• Zhu Yu and Cailing traveled to White Dream Butterfly’s home on Flower Mountain to inspect its spiritual energy.
• Zhu Yu searched White Dream Butterfly’s hollow and gave Cailing its Life Origin Stones and Spirit Power Foods.
• Zhu Yu explored Flower Mountain and discovered a Slender-Leaf Sword Cedar thriving above an iron mine.
• Zhu Yu carved a jade plaque and formed a composite concealment-and-sealing Array Pattern to protect the cedar.

Zhu Yu secured White Dream Butterfly’s spirit land and confronted Black Sickle, who revealed that he and White Dream Butterfly were Outer Realm Cultivators. Zhu Yu demanded a rare Spirit Seed in exchange for Black Sickle’s freedom, but a sudden surge of spiritual energy interrupted them.

• Zhu Yu concealed the Slender-Leaf Sword Cedar with an array and asked Cailing to leave her aura to deter intruders.
• Cailing sensed an approaching insect, and Black Sickle arrived at the spirit land before recognizing Zhu Yu and the Seven-Colored Rooster.
• Black Sickle confessed that he and White Dream Butterfly were Outer Realm Cultivators, then surrendered a Demon-Breaking Orb White Dream Butterfly had ordered.
• Zhu Yu examined the orb, then offered to spare Black Sickle in exchange for a God-Given Spirit Seed or Divine-Grade Spirit Seed.
• A sudden surge of spiritual energy erupted somewhere on the hill, drawing Zhu Yu and Cailing’s attention.

Zhu Yu and Cailing discovered a flower nurturing a God-Given Spirit Seed and used Life Origin Stones to keep it alive until it matured. Zhu Yu claimed the West Mansion Begonia seed, agreed to share its benefits with Cailing, and left Black Sickle with an offer to trade for rare Spirit Seeds.

• Zhu Yu and Cailing rushed to a spiritual energy disturbance and found a flower nearing the birth of a God-Given Spirit Seed.
• Zhu Yu spent nearly three hundred Life Origin Stones to restore the flower's vitality while Black Sickle arrived and recognized what it was producing.
• Zhu Yu proposed that he and Cailing split the seed's benefits, and Cailing agreed.
• Zhu Yu collected the West Mansion Begonia seed and learned that it could strengthen the body's six viscera.
• Zhu Yu asked Cailing to monitor Black Sickle, then invited him to bring special or top-grade Spirit Seeds to White Fox Mountain for a good price before leaving with Cailing.

Zhu Yu continued preparing his spirit land and tending his cultivated insects while Xiao Qing awakened after her transformation into an Iron-Armored Corpse. The chapter ended with Zhu Yu entering an Armor-Casting Corpse Land and placing his hand on a low grave mound.

• Black Sickle lamented losing the God-Given Spirit Seed and decided to curry favor with his powerful neighbor until he could turn things around.
• Zhu Yu let Cailing visit White-Tail Pear, then prepared fertilizer for the spirit land and considered where to plant the West Mansion Begonia.
• Xiao Qing awoke after Zhu Yu separated a bloodline from her, and he promised her she would not have to return for more blood.
• Zhu Yu checked his Green Sucklings and found that their Insect Mother was nearing a breakthrough to mid-grade.
• Zhu Yu recalled that transformed Xiao Qing had become his strongest fighter, then entered the Armor-Casting Corpse Land and touched a grave mound.