Recaps

Chen Lingxi used Sight-Roaming to witness Lin Suri meet Wang Chu, receive two powerful pills from Wu Mohe, and write about Consort Chun’s impending arrival in Yuan River Prefecture. After learning that Wu Mohe’s envoys were on Inlaid Gold Mountain, Chen Lingxi decided to make his invented Spirit-Wielding General a real identity.

• Chen Lingxi expanded his Sight-Roaming range and found Lin Suri standing on a vessel on the Yuan River.
• Wang Chu boarded Lin Suri’s ship in disguise and reported that two Mohe Envoys were on Inlaid Gold Mountain.
• Lin Suri opened a box containing two spirit-rich pills and praised Wu Mohe’s pill-refining Cauldron Vessel.
• Lin Suri wrote that Consort Chun would soon come to Yuan River Prefecture seeking the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi and carrying a Cauldron Artifact Fragment.
• Chen Lingxi ended his Sight-Roaming and considered whether Wu Mohe was an immortal from beyond the domain.
• Chen Lingxi decided to become the Spirit-Wielding General he had once invented and drew the Gold-Slaughtering Saber.

Chen Lingxi secretly followed Wang Chu to the abandoned East King's Palace at Inlaid Gold Mountain, where she delivered a letter to the Mahā Envoy. He discovered that the Mahā Envoy and a bearded man were eating human hearts, and stepped toward the hall with his hand on the Gold-Slaughtering Saber.

• Chen Lingxi disguised himself, concealed his aura, and left the city to follow Wang Chu to Inlaid Gold Mountain.
• Wang Chu entered the East King's Palace through a side gate, and Chen Lingxi followed her inside.
• Chen Lingxi found silver-armored guards dead and drained of blood in the courtyard.
• Chen Lingxi watched a scholar and a bearded man roast and eat human hearts in the main hall.
• Wang Chu delivered her master's letter to the Mahā Envoy, who accepted it for delivery to Wu Renxian.
• A frightened guard brought more human flesh for the bearded man, and Chen Lingxi stepped out from hiding with his hand on the Gold-Slaughtering Saber.

Chen Lingxi entered the hall where Wang Chu, a scholar, and a bearded Mahā envoy were gathered, then killed the envoy after condemning him for eating human flesh. The scholar revealed his Golden Body and prepared to fight, while Chen Lingxi challenged him to join the dead man.

• Chen Lingxi entered the hall and calmly asked the scholar for wine, prompting the scholar to invite him and Wang Chu to sit by the fire.
• Chen Lingxi drank the wine, then condemned the bearded man for eating servants’ hearts while speaking of the people’s suffering.
• The bearded man activated Frost Hearing and demanded Chen Lingxi’s origins, but Chen Lingxi used Dragon Roar Technique to halt his blood and qi before killing him with a streak of violet light.
• The scholar erupted with Golden Body radiance and gripped his short sword as Chen Lingxi remained seated by the bonfire.
• Chen Lingxi asked the scholar, “What? You want to die too?”

Chen Lingxi killed a cannibal and revealed that he wanted to make a deal with Wu Mohe. The scholar summoned a misty incarnation of Wu Mohe, who sat by the fire and faced Chen Lingxi.

• Chen Lingxi killed the bearded man for eating people and spared the scholar, who served as Wu Mohe's emissary.
• Chen Lingxi introduced himself as the Spirit-Wielding General and said he wished to meet Wu Mohe and make a deal.
• The scholar used his blood to activate a jade slip bearing Wu Mohe's name, summoning a mist-shrouded figure.
• Wu Mohe's gaze caused Chen Lingxi's spiritual qi to stagnate, though Chen Lingxi concealed his readiness to fight.
• Wu Mohe sat beside the bonfire, and Chen Lingxi asked whether he was Wu Mohe.

Chen Lingxi negotiated with Wu Mohe for three Gathering Qi Pills in exchange for helping him once, while learning that Wu Mohe had no interest in the Spirit Aperture opportunity in Yuan River Prefecture. Wu Mohe vanished from the jade slip, and Chen Lingxi left the hall as Wang Chu wondered about the face beneath his mask.

• Chen Lingxi and Wu Mohe spoke privately through the Dragon Roar Technique, and Wu Mohe judged that Chen Lingxi had at least Qi Circulation Fifth Floor cultivation.
• Chen Lingxi dismissed the dead bearded man as a minor loss and proposed trading for pills, while Wu Mohe explained Lin Suri's promise involving the Calamity-Seeing Pool.
• Chen Lingxi offered Wu Mohe information about a coming Spirit Aperture opportunity in Yuan River Prefecture, but Wu Mohe said he had no interest in it.
• Wu Mohe offered three Gathering Qi Pills in exchange for Chen Lingxi acting on his behalf once and said they would sign a Jade Law Document in a month; Chen Lingxi agreed.
• Wu Mohe's misty incarnation dispersed, and Chen Lingxi left the hall while the scholar and Wang Chu watched in awe.
• Wang Chu left the palace complex and wondered what Chen Lingxi's face looked like beneath his ghost mask.

After learning that the Cave Heaven and its inhabitants were destined to perish, Chen Lingxi considered how to survive and resolved to strengthen his cultivation without taking reckless risks. He stopped drawing spiritual energy from the Baosu Marquis Residence, stocked up on pills, and was summoned to Young Master Yang’s Clear River Estate.

• Chen Lingxi reflected on the cultivation realms, Lin Suri’s strength, and the greater-world cultivators’ indifference to the Cave Heaven’s fate.
• Chen Lingxi considered investigating the willow tree in Willow Street Alley to replenish Total Perception, but decided the danger was too uncertain.
• Chen Lingxi continued training and realized his growing spiritual-energy needs could eventually alert Lin Suri, so he decided to stop cultivating through the Marquis Residence’s formation.
• Chen Lingxi spent eight hundred taels on pills from pharmacies around the city, shook off men who followed him, and returned to cultivate.
• As preparations began for the Imperial Consort’s winter visit to Yuan River Prefecture, Liuzhu told Chen Lingxi that the young lady had summoned him to Young Master Yang’s Clear River Estate.

Chen Lingxi attended Yang Zhuri’s banquet at Clear River Estate, where Yang tried to buy him before presenting him with a jade pendant as a reward. Back at the Baosu Marquis Residence, Chen Lingxi discovered the pendant contained a formation and realized it was a treasure.

• Chen Lingxi traveled to Clear River Estate and arranged flowers for Yang Zhuri’s banquet.
• Yang Zhuri praised Chen Lingxi’s arrangement and offered Lin Longyue five hundred taels and a Silverblood Pill for him, but Lin refused.
• Yang Zhuri summoned Chen Lingxi and gave him a jade pendant as a reward.
• As Chen Lingxi left the hall, he saw faint wisps of aura flowing from Lin Longyue and two young noblemen into the Yunhe Commandery Princess and Chu Linzi, and sensed Yang Zhuri’s greed.
• Back in his room, Chen Lingxi sent spiritual qi into the pendant, detected a complex formation, and realized it was a treasure.

Chen Lingxi investigated Yang Zhuri’s jade pendant, built a larger formation that gathered only a modest amount of spiritual qi, and continued advancing his martial cultivation. The chapter ended when he saw Liu Changle sneak into the courtyard at night.

• Chen Lingxi discovered that Yang Zhuri’s jade pendant gathered spiritual qi while altering its wearer’s body, apparently preparing him to be harvested as medicine.
• Chen Lingxi copied the pendant’s formation onto forty-six jade pendants and linked them into a room-sized formation, but found that it improved his spiritual qi intake only slightly.
• After more than ten days of training, Chen Lingxi began practicing the Sea-Calming Form and noticed that his qi and blood surpassed that of ordinary Silver Bone Major Accomplishment cultivators.
• Chen Lingxi decided to search the Martial Practice Court for the missing forms of the Seven Forms of Ceasing War.
• Chen Lingxi sensed someone enter the courtyard at night and recognized the intruder as Liu Changle.

Liu Changle reunited with Chen Lingxi and offered to help him escape, but Chen Lingxi’s Divine Chamber surged when he touched Liu Changle, suggesting his friend was extraordinary. After Liu Changle left, Chen Lingxi searched the city’s antique markets and found a mysterious stone that raised his Essence Replenishment progress to 95%.

• Liu Changle told Chen Lingxi that Mystic Wonder Abbey had saved him and offered to escort him to Great Zhou, but changed his mind after learning Chen Lingxi had cultivated blood-qi.
• Chen Lingxi’s touch sent his Divine Chamber’s Essence Replenishment progress from 25% to 74%, and he recalled Liu Changle’s dream of a mighty river.
• Liu Changle declared that he and Chen Lingxi would take revenge and that he would overthrow the Great Ye Emperor, while Chen Lingxi interpreted his river dream as a sign of cultivating water and attaining the Dao.
• Chen Lingxi warned Liu Changle not to trust Mystic Wonder Abbey completely, and Liu Changle left after assuring him that he knew how to judge whom to trust.
• Chen Lingxi asked Liu Que for permission to go into the city, then searched its antique markets for extraordinary objects.
• Chen Lingxi bought a smooth, flying-dagger-shaped stone for two taels of silver after it raised his Essence Replenishment progress by 21%, bringing it to 95%.

Chen Lingxi completed the replenishment of Total Perception and used the divine ability to scout Inlaid Gold Mountain ahead of his appointment with Wu Mohe. After confirming there was no ambush and tracking the scholar who had waited for him, he appeared before the man as the Spirit-Wielding General and received a jade slip from Wu Mohe’s king.

• Chen Lingxi concluded that the mysterious flying-dagger stone needed more spiritual qi to activate and continued cultivating until his Total Perception replenishment reached 100%.
• Chen Lingxi learned that Consort Chun would visit Baosu Marquis Residence and recalled that she was responsible for his parents’ deaths, then resolved to reach the Fourth Floor of Qi Circulation before confronting her.
• Chen Lingxi activated Total Perception, found that the Candle of Time was gone, and traveled to Inlaid Gold Mountain to check for an ambush before meeting Wu Mohe.
• Chen Lingxi watched the scholar wait at East King's Palace for two nights, then searched the empty palace after the scholar left and followed him down the mountain.
• Chen Lingxi emerged from a tree before the scholar, who bowed to the Spirit-Wielding General and presented him with a jade slip sent by his king.

Chen Lingxi signed a binding Jade Law Document with Wu Mohe and received three Gathering Qi Pills before returning to Willow Street Alley. There, he discovered the willow tree fed on buried blood, received a healing leaf, and chose an Undying Willow Branch that could take a fatal injury for him.

• Chen Lingxi signed the Jade Law Document, binding himself to act for Wu Mohe once in exchange for three Gathering Qi Pills.
• The Jade Law Document delivered the pills, and the scholar took his leave from Chen Lingxi.
• Chen Lingxi returned to Willow Street Alley and sensed the willow tree's roots absorbing blood beneath the ground.
• The Undying Willow granted Chen Lingxi a leaf that could heal minor injuries, apparently in exchange for three mortal lives.
• The willow offered Chen Lingxi a lush twig and a withered branch, and he chose the Undying Willow Branch, which could take a fatal injury in his place.

Chen Lingxi discovered a cocoon inside the Undying Willow, then used Total Perception to investigate Yang Zhuri’s estate and uncover his blood-draining cultivation practice. He left Clear River Estate with plans to meet Lin Suri at the Baosu Marquis Residence.

• Chen Lingxi received an Undying Willow Branch and sensed a mysterious cocoon containing a tiny figure within the willow’s crown.
• Chen Lingxi considered his cultivation needs and decided to investigate Yang Zhuri and seek out Lin Suri during Total Perception.
• Chen Lingxi infiltrated Clear River Estate and found Yang Zhuri cultivating in a pool surrounded by drained corpses.
• Chen Lingxi overheard Yang Zhuri and an old servant discuss the dwindling supply of young refugees and the great medicine they expected to obtain.
• Chen Lingxi left the estate and headed for the Baosu Marquis Residence to meet Lin Suri.

Chen Lingxi traded two Gathering Qi Pills to Lin Suri for the Candle of Time, then used it to obtain the final three forms of the Seven Forms of Ceasing War at the cost of thirty years of his life. After the Candle of Time vanished, Lin Suri appeared outside Chen Lingxi’s ruined house and called his name.

• Chen Lingxi met Lin Suri at the South Courtyard and offered three Gathering Qi Pills in exchange for the Six-Qi True Method and use of the Candle of Time.
• Lin Suri refused to give him the Six-Qi True Method but traded the Candle of Time for two pills, warning that it could be used only once more.
• Chen Lingxi summoned the Cauldron Venerable with spiritual qi and learned that his lifespan could not buy the Six-Qi True Method.
• Chen Lingxi agreed to spend thirty years of his life to obtain the Jade-Breaking Form, Qi-Joining Form, and War-Stilling Form of the Seven Forms of Ceasing War.
• The Candle of Time vanished after the bargain, and Lin Suri appeared on a roof across from Chen Lingxi’s ruined house and called his name.

Chen Lingxi learned from Lin Suri that the Quexing Xi Family planned to refine the grotto-heaven and its inhabitants into karma fire to forge a Golden Grotto for Xi Hengsu. After escaping Lin Suri’s attack through Total Perception, Chen Lingxi chose an Undying Willow Branch and resolved to strengthen his cultivation before the calamity arrived.

• Lin Suri revealed that the Xi Family’s True Lord would refine the grotto-heaven into the World-Refining Furnace and use its karma fire to forge a Golden Grotto for Xi Hengsu.
• Chen Lingxi told Lin Suri he was a native of the grotto-heaven who had entered Qi Circulation, and Lin Suri acknowledged him as a fellow Daoist before deciding to kill him for knowing too many secrets.
• As Lin Suri unleashed a crushing force, Chen Lingxi activated Total Perception and chose an Undying Willow Branch from the three items offered in his Divine Chamber.
• Chen Lingxi concluded that he could only face the coming calamity by increasing his cultivation and realized that the Seven Forms of Ceasing War could lead to the perfection of Nine Revolutions.
• Chen Lingxi collected an Undying Willow Branch from the willow, learned that it could refine the dead into Undying Willow Puppets, and planned to collect the Gathering Qi Pill in three days.

Chen Lingxi used his final Gathering Qi Pill to reach the Fourth Floor of Qi Circulation and Golden Body Minor Accomplishment. After a silver-armored attacker abducted him to Clear River Estate, Yang Zhuri revealed that he planned to use Chen Lingxi as a great medicine and had killed two children as its seasonings.

• Chen Lingxi consumed his last Gathering Qi Pill and broke through to the Fourth Floor of Qi Circulation, transforming his dantian into a Qi Sea.
• Chen Lingxi practiced the Jade-Severing Stance and advanced from Silver Bone Perfection to Golden Body Minor Accomplishment, gaining a Golden-Body Astral Shield.
• As Chen Lingxi left the Baosu Marquis Residence for the government office, a silver-armored Silver Bone expert attacked him and carried him away on horseback.
• Chen Lingxi recognized the destination as Clear River Estate and suspected Yang Zhuri was behind the abduction.
• At Clear River Estate, Yang Zhuri prepared to kill a boy and girl, telling the girl they were seasonings for a great medicine and blaming Chen Lingxi.

Chen Lingxi awoke in Yang Zhuri’s courtyard, where Yang planned to use him in a blood-pool cultivation ritual. Chen Lingxi revealed the Gold-Slaughtering Saber and killed Yang Zhuri and the old servant, leaving the rescued siblings alive.

• Yang Zhuri presented Chen Lingxi with the copper-furnace blood pool and explained that he intended to make him supply blood for his cultivation.
• Chen Lingxi rose and challenged Yang Zhuri, asking how he wished to die.
• Chen Lingxi drew the Gold-Slaughtering Saber and struck Yang Zhuri with the first stance of the Evil-Slaying Saber Method, shattering his defenses and cleaving his chest.
• Chen Lingxi killed the old servant with a strand of spiritual qi as Yang Zhuri lay wounded and asked who he was.
• Chen Lingxi used the second stance of the Evil-Slaying Saber Method to behead Yang Zhuri.

Chen Lingxi rescued two siblings from Clear River Estate, sent them north to safety, and returned to the Baosu Marquis Residence while considering the risks and strength his cultivation gave him. At a hidden cave, he sorted Yang Zhuri’s stolen wealth, mastered a Spiritual Arrow, and examined a mysterious stone treasure he could not yet control.

• Chen Lingxi stopped the youth's bleeding, gave him a pill, and brought the siblings out of Clear River Estate in servant clothes.
• Chen Lingxi arranged for a merchant captain to take the siblings to Celebration Prefecture, warning him that he would return in two months to check on them.
• Chen Lingxi watched the ship depart and reflected that he had chosen to save the siblings despite the danger, believing his cultivation could protect him in most circumstances.
• Chen Lingxi returned to the Baosu Marquis Residence, searched for Lin Suri with Sight-Roaming, and found that Lin Suri was absent from the estate.
• Chen Lingxi went to his concealed cave on Inlaid Gold Mountain, sorted the wealth he had taken from Yang Zhuri, and discovered that Yang Zhuri's feathered arrow was a spiritual weapon.
• Chen Lingxi refined the Spiritual Arrow through the night until he could control it, then examined a complex throwing-knife-shaped stone that remained beyond his ability to command.

After Yang Zhuri was killed at Clear River Estate, Chen Lingxi used Wandering Sight to follow Lin Suri to the Ancestral Mountain, where Lin Suri met the Credit Peddler. The Credit Peddler offered to find materials for Lin Suri’s formation in exchange for the Six-Qi True Formula, a technique Chen Lingxi desperately needed.

• A runner reported that Yang Zhuri had been killed and the martial artists at Clear River Estate slaughtered, prompting Chu Jizhe and the Yunhe Commandery Princess to hurry there.
• Wang Chu recognized the killer’s description as matching the masked man she had seen at the East King’s Palace, while Lin Longyue ordered the residence guards strengthened and recalled its guest retainers.
• Chen Lingxi used Wandering Sight to discover that Lin Suri had gone to the Ancestral Mountain, then left the residence and tried to watch him again from an inn.
• Chen Lingxi saw that Lin Suri had reached the Qi Circulation Sixth Floor and watched him meet the Credit Peddler, who emerged from a stone.
• The Credit Peddler agreed to find materials for Lin Suri’s Mountain-Smelting Formation in exchange for the Six-Qi True Formula, which Chen Lingxi had been seeking.

Lin Suri traded the Six-Qi True Method to the Credit Peddler in exchange for help finding the treasures needed for his formation, while Chen Lingxi watched through Sight-Roaming and wondered at the peddler’s powers. Chen Lingxi concluded that he needed the Six-Qi True Formula to advance and planned to test a trade with the Credit Peddler during his next Total Perception.

• The Credit Peddler named Heaven-Heavy Wood as a difficult treasure to find, making Chen Lingxi suspect that the peddler had foreseen Lin Suri’s needs.
• Lin Suri agreed to give the Credit Peddler the Six-Qi True Method and infused a jade pendant with spiritual qi as payment.
• The Credit Peddler accepted the pendant, sank into the mountain rock, and promised to meet Lin Suri again after finding the formation treasures.
• Lin Suri searched Ancestral Mountain with spiritual ripples but found nothing, then returned to the Baosu Marquis Residence.
• Chen Lingxi ended Sight-Roaming with a painful headache and decided to use his next Total Perception to test whether he could obtain the Six-Qi True Formula from the Credit Peddler.

Chen Lingxi followed Zhao Yong to a hidden courtyard, where Zhao Yong revealed his plan to kill Baosu Marquis Lin Zhongming and resurrect Yunniang. He disclosed that Chen Lingxi was the vital ingredient in a pill meant to poison Lin Zhongming’s demon banner, and the chapter ended with Chen Lingxi quietly pouring himself a cup of wine.

• Chen Lingxi waited for Zhao Yong’s move, but Zhao Yong arrived at night and claimed the Mohe Envoy had come to meet him.
• Zhao Yong led Chen Lingxi out of the Baosu Marquis Residence to a hidden courtyard, where they waited beside a Mohe Flower.
• Zhao Yong opened a secret chamber containing a portrait of Baosu Marquis Lin Zhongming and an Immortal Stone bearing Lin Zhongming’s name.
• Zhao Yong told Chen Lingxi that Lin Zhongming had used Yunniang as medicine and caused her death, and revealed that he had spent forty years seeking a chance to kill the Marquis.
• Zhao Yong explained that he planned to combine the Mohe Flower, other treasures, and Chen Lingxi’s body to make a pill that would poison Lin Zhongming’s demon banner.
• Zhao Yong said he hoped to become immortal and bring Yunniang back to life, while Chen Lingxi listened in silence and poured himself a cup of wine.

Chen Lingxi killed Zhao Yong after a fierce battle, then escaped the city with the black stone. In a cave on Inlaid Gold Mountain, he discovered the stone was likely a tripod artifact fragment as it triggered a surge in Essence Replenishment progress.

• Chen Lingxi revealed his strength, donned a ghost mask, and attacked Zhao Yong with the Gold-Slaughtering Saber.
• Chen Lingxi severed Zhao Yong's right index finger and fought through his Golden-Body Astral Shield, Purple-Tempered Golden Wheel, and treasure armor.
• Chen Lingxi stunned Zhao Yong with the Dragon Roar Technique, split him open with a saber strike, and killed him with the Azure Edge Method.
• Chen Lingxi collected the secret chamber's contents, Zhao Yong's body, and the black stone before slipping out of the city unnoticed.
• Chen Lingxi reached a cave on Inlaid Gold Mountain and found that pouring spiritual qi into the black stone made Essence Replenishment progress surge, suggesting it was a tripod artifact fragment.

Chen Lingxi learned that the Fated Star Stone could grant him fortune when a chosen person died, but he decided not to risk using it on Lin Suri or Crown Prince Ying Chi. He uncovered Zhao Yong’s Soul-Severing Pill formula, refined a poison pill from Zhao Yong’s corpse and gathered ingredients, then left Inlaid Gold Mountain with a new trump card.

• Chen Lingxi learned that the Fated Star Stone could designate a Fated Star whose death would bring him a Cauldron Artifact Fortune, and he chose not to use it yet.
• Chen Lingxi considered Lin Suri and Crown Prince Ying Chi as candidates, but dismissed both because Lin Suri was valuable to Sight-Roaming and Ying Chi was too powerful to kill safely.
• Chen Lingxi found Zhao Yong’s Soul-Severing Pill formula and discovered traces of Dragon-Drawing Powder in Zhao Yong’s bones.
• Chen Lingxi used Zhao Yong’s corpse and the collected medicinal ingredients to refine a Soul-Severing Pill, resisting its alluring fragrance before storing it as a trump card.
• Chen Lingxi left his cave at dawn and headed back to the residence.

As Consort Chun’s arrival approached, Chen Lingxi learned that Lin Suri had abruptly been sent away and weighed whether to leave Baosu Marquis Residence to avoid discovery. He decided to stay and scheme for Lin Zhongming’s Demon Banner, then noticed Lin Longyue’s unusual fatigue and waited for nightfall as she fell asleep.

• Chen Lingxi arranged wintersweet and holly for Lin Longyue, while servants reported that Zhao Yong had been missing for two days.
• Liu Que told Lin Longyue that Lin Suri had been ordered to leave for Luyang Prefecture as an inspector, and Chen Lingxi suspected the assignment was part of a plan involving Consort Chun’s cauldron artifact fragment.
• Chen Lingxi considered leaving to avoid Consort Chun and her powerful court guards, but decided to remain because he wanted to obtain Lin Zhongming’s Demon Banner.
• Chen Lingxi observed Lin Longyue yawning repeatedly and seeming unusually weary, then returned to the servants’ quarters to wait for nightfall.
• Lin Longyue inspected the East Courtyard, drank her prescribed medicine, and fell asleep in her bedchamber before hearing a soft exhalation beside her ear.

A ghost-masked Chen Lingxi appeared in Lin Longyue’s courtyard, nearly killed her, then spared her after sensing she possessed a Treasure Body. He took her flower-arranging official slave to divine the Mirror Listening demon’s whereabouts, leaving Lin Longyue suspicious that Consort Chun had drugged her with the Wind-Riding Elixir.

• Lin Longyue woke to a roar and found the ghost-masked Chen Lingxi standing beneath the locust tree.
• Chen Lingxi subdued Lin Longyue with his roar and saber, but halted his blade before her forehead after discovering her Treasure Body.
• Chen Lingxi told Lin Longyue that the Mirror Listening demon had drugged her and asked who in the residence arranged flowers for the demon.
• Lin Longyue directed Chen Lingxi to the official slave’s room in the West Courtyard, and he took the slave away to use for divination.
• Lin Longyue suspected Consort Chun had drugged her with the Wind-Riding Elixir and decided to question Chen Lingxi when he returned.

Chen Lingxi completed Total Perception and used Thorough Awakening to explore Ancestral Mountain, where the Credit Peddler gave him the Six-Qi True Formula and traded him the Clear-Mystery Pivot-Qi Formation for a future treasure. He realized he might repeatedly trade with the peddler inside Total Perception without using up his one real-world trade.

• Chen Lingxi searched Yuan River Prefecture and nearby mountains with Sight-Roaming but found no trace of Lin Suri.
• After three days of cultivation, Chen Lingxi completed Total Perception’s Essence Replenishment progress and activated Thorough Awakening.
• Chen Lingxi encountered the Credit Peddler on Ancestral Mountain and recognized the jade pendant containing the Six-Qi True Formula.
• The Credit Peddler gave Chen Lingxi the true formula and traded him the Clear-Mystery Pivot-Qi Formation for a treasure Chen Lingxi would obtain in the future.
• Chen Lingxi studied the formula and formation, then reasoned that he could repeatedly trade with the Credit Peddler inside Total Perception while preserving his chance to trade in reality.