Chapter Summaries

Xu Changqing met Long Xiyao to discuss opening a Changqing Wine Shop branch in Profound Heart City, but her demand for a majority share ended negotiations. He left the door open to future cooperation while hinting that he knew her secret.

• Xu Changqing recognized Young Master Long as Long Xiyao at Fragrant Invitation Pavilion but let her leave without exposing her identity.
• Sun Peng arranged a meeting between Xu Changqing and Long Xiyao at Spring-Longing Teahouse to discuss a wine shop in Profound Heart City.
• Long Xiyao demanded that the Long Clan receive at least sixty percent of the profits, and Xu Changqing rejected her demand.
• Sun Peng explained that the Long Clan had previously discussed taking only twenty to thirty percent, while Long Xiyao admitted she was getting back at Xu Changqing.
• Xu Changqing left after hinting that he could reveal Long Xiyao's secret, then told Sun Peng he could produce only three thousand jin of wine per month and that cooperation could be discussed later.

Xu Changqing watched Mo Cha battle Ling Chuan in the formal disciples’ competition and saw Mo Cha win after Ling Chuan’s ice defenses weakened. The chapter left Mo Cha advancing after Ling Chuan conceded, while Chu Qiu and Lan Tian watched from the crowd.

• Xu Changqing returned to the Dongting Immortal Sect and went to Arena Seven after hearing Mo Cha’s name.
• Xu Changqing observed Mo Cha combine his wood, earth, and Poison Fire Spiritual Roots against Ling Chuan’s Ice Spirit Root.
• Chu Qiu and Lan Tian joined Xu Changqing to watch Mo Cha’s match, and Chu Qiu predicted that Mo Cha would outlast Ling Chuan.
• After a quarter of an hour, Ling Chuan’s ice barrier shattered, and he conceded to Mo Cha.
• Mo Cha grinned savagely at Chu Qiu and Lan Tian after the match ended.

After the Formal Disciple Grand Competition, Xu Changqing returned to his Spirit Fields, arranged to find a mate for Wangwang, and explored his hundred mu of Grade-Two Spirit Fields in the Portable Space. He planned to transplant his valuable trees there and decide what else to grow.

• Mo Cha reminded Chu Qiu that he had given him the scar on his face, and Chu Qiu warned that they would fight sooner or later.
• Chu Qiu asked Xu Changqing to brew at least a hundred jin of Iceheart Jade-Flask Wine and offered to pay in spirit stones.
• Xu Changqing returned to his Spirit Fields, tended to his pets and chores, and decided to study Puppet Technique after finishing the Portable Space.
• Hu Bugui told Xu Changqing that he had found dog owners who could help Wangwang breed, and Xu Changqing agreed to visit Beast Spirit Valley the next morning.
• Xu Changqing entered the Portable Space, admired its hundred mu of fertile Grade-Two Spirit Fields, and planned to transplant the Time-Space Tree of Rings and Spatial Earth-Origin Fruit Tree there.

Xu Changqing moved rare Mutated Spirit Plants into his Portable Space, then discovered that the Frost Cabbage had transformed into a Cradle Ice Embryo. He melted its icy layers and found something within that made his pupils contract, but the chapter ended before revealing what it was.

• Xu Changqing returned from the Portable Space, calmed Wangwang, and moved the Earth-Eroding Brown-Glow Mutated Rice and Spatial Earth-Origin Fruit Tree inside.
• Xu Changqing uprooted the Time-Space Tree of Rings and placed it in the Portable Space, while leaving the nearly mature rice and the five Dragonfish where they were.
• Xu Changqing entered the Stone Mountain cave and found that the Frost Cabbage had grown into a gigantic, freezing Cradle Ice Embryo.
• Xu Changqing used Chi Huo to melt the Cradle Ice Embryo layer by layer, then saw something inside that made his pupils contract.

Xu Changqing discovered a living, embryo-like mutation called the Cradle Ice Embryo beneath Stone Mountain and decided to return after learning an earth-element cultivation technique. The next morning, he brought Wangwang to Beast Spirit Valley to help find it a mate, where Hu Bugui warned him that the towering green “tree” behind him was actually a resting Pillar Python.

• Xu Changqing found an eerie, trembling Cradle Ice Embryo where the Ice Soul Pearl had been and suspected Black Soil beneath Stone Mountain had caused Frost Cabbage to mutate.
• Xu Changqing chose not to destroy the Cradle Ice Embryo and planned to return after learning an earth-element cultivation technique so he could investigate and transplant it.
• Xu Changqing stored Wangwang in a Spirit Beast Pouch and flew to Beast Spirit Valley to meet Hu Bugui and find Wangwang a mate.
• Xu Changqing traveled through Beast Spirit Valley, admiring its peaceful grasslands and many spirit beasts, including a powerful Thunder Eagle.
• Xu Changqing contacted Hu Bugui, who told him the tall green object behind him was a resting Pillar Python, so Xu Changqing slowly withdrew his hand.

Xu Changqing met the ancient Pillar Python in Beast Spirit Valley and learned why the snake's territory was dangerous. Hu Bugui then introduced him to Xu Yuan, whose five dogs reacted to the imposing Wangwang.

• The Pillar Python confronted Xu Changqing, but let him go because Hu Bugui vouched for him and promised to bring more food.
• Hu Bugui explained that the thousand-year-old Pillar Chief ruled the valley's snakes and that people were sometimes eaten for provoking spirit beasts.
• Hu Bugui brought Xu Changqing to meet Xu Yuan, a disciple who kept five different dogs.
• Xu Changqing summoned Wangwang, whose fierce presence frightened four of Xu Yuan's dogs.
• Xu Yuan asked how Wangwang had grown so large, and Xu Changqing said he fed the dog the same spirit rice he ate.

Xu Changqing took Wangwang to meet several dogs, but Wangwang rejected the female dogs until he became interested in Zhao Mo’s Golden-Furred She-Wolf. After Lin Ya summoned him to the Outer Spirit Fields, Xu Changqing learned that a new disciple named Miao Huayu had grown a Mutated Spirit Plant on his first planting attempt.

• Xu Changqing and Hu Bugui visited Xu Yuan and Wu Qiuya, but Wangwang showed no interest in their female dogs.
• At Zhao Mo’s home, Wangwang tried to mount his Golden-Furred She-Wolf, and Xu Changqing agreed with the others on how any pups would be shared.
• Lin Ya contacted Xu Changqing and asked him to come to the Outer Spirit Fields, so he left Wangwang in Hu Bugui’s care.
• On the way, Xu Changqing noticed that the resting Pillar Python remained unusually cold, then continued on without investigating.
• Lin Ya told Xu Changqing that Miao Huayu, an outer sect disciple who had joined in summer, had grown a Mutated Spirit Plant on his first planting attempt.

Xu Changqing discovered that outer sect disciple Miao Huayu had cultivated rare Spirit-Vein Regreening Rice in a Grade-One Spirit Field. He brought Miao Huayu to meet Flower Elder so they could decide what to do with the remarkably talented young disciple.

• Xu Changqing followed Lin Ya to a crowded Spirit Field and found a stalk of Spirit-Vein Regreening Rice among the ordinary rice plants.
• The gathered disciples identified Miao Huayu as the field’s cultivator, and Xu Changqing learned that the newly initiated disciple had grown the mutated rice.
• Xu Changqing told Lin Ya to protect the field and keep the rice stalk under trustworthy watch.
• Xu Changqing took Miao Huayu on Big-Leaf Grass to the Spirit Field Core.
• Xu Changqing introduced Miao Huayu to Flower Elder and revealed that he had cultivated Spirit-Vein Regreening Rice.

Flower Elder granted Miao Huayu formal disciple status but sent him back to the Outer Spirit Fields to complete the summer assessment and gain experience. Xu Changqing returned with him, guided the outer sect disciples through their cultivation problems, and encouraged them to strive for formal disciple status.

• Flower Elder decided Miao Huayu would remain in the Outer Spirit Fields until the end of summer while receiving formal disciple status, benefits, and treatment.
• Xu Changqing brought Miao Huayu back to the Outer Spirit Fields, where the disciples praised him for becoming a formal disciple before the quarterly assessment ended.
• Xu Changqing asked Lin Ya to look after Miao Huayu and warned him to prevent anyone from deceiving or exploiting the new formal disciple.
• Xu Changqing inspected the Grade-One Spirit Fields and personally taught the outer sect disciples how to correct problems with their spirit rice.
• Xu Changqing encouraged the outer sect disciples to work toward becoming formal disciples, moving them with his sincerity and equal treatment.

Xu Changqing restored and mastered the Thick Earth Carries All Technique, gaining stronger earth-element abilities and a domain. He entered the cave to move the Frost Cabbage into his Portable Space, but sensed something beneath it as the Ice Embryo continued to grow.

• Wangwang returned from Beast Spirit Valley, and Xu Changqing fed him before studying the Thick Earth Carries All Technique.
• Xu Changqing restored the incomplete technique and raised it to Level 7, gaining expanded Earth Qi perception and control, elemental bonuses, and the Thick Earth Domain.
• Xu Changqing used the technique to sense Earth Qi within thirty zhang and moved the boulder blocking the Stone Mountain cave entrance.
• Xu Changqing found the Frost Cabbage healed and thicker, then melted its ice layers and saw that the Ice Embryo inside had developed facial features and twitched.
• Xu Changqing sensed Earth Qi fluctuating beneath the Frost Cabbage and extended his consciousness downward until it touched something.

Xu Changqing discovered a corpse beneath the Frost Cabbage and removed the Cradle Ice Embryo from its grasp. After the corpse and its tentacles disintegrated, he found a charcoal-like remnant filled with dense life aura.

• Xu Changqing used the Thick Earth Domain to repel the corpse’s chill, then concluded that the corpse buried beneath the Frost Cabbage had caused its mutation.
• Xu Changqing used Earth Qi to expose the Frost Cabbage’s roots and burned away a black fleshy bud fused to them.
• Xu Changqing placed the Cradle Ice Embryo in his Portable Space, then dug nearly ten meters down to confront the corpse and its tentacles.
• Xu Changqing resisted the corpse’s cold until it weakened, then blocked and snapped its tentacles with the Thick Earth Domain.
• The corpse and tentacles turned to powder, leaving a charcoal-like object that Xu Changqing sensed held dense life aura.

Xu Changqing became troubled by dreams of the black desiccated corpse he had found beneath Stone Mountain and decided to seek Zhu Fuxian’s insight. After visiting Zhu, he described the lump of charcoal haunting his sleep, and Zhu began to suggest the problem lay elsewhere than the house’s feng shui.

• Xu Changqing sealed away the lump of charcoal, restored the soil above the corpse, and decided to abandon Stone Mountain.
• Xu Changqing woke from recurring nightmares and resolved to ask Zhu Fuxian about the place’s history.
• Xu Changqing took refuge in his Portable Space beside the Time-Space Tree of Rings and inspected his spirit plants.
• Xu Changqing brought wine and flew to Zhu Fuxian’s Spirit Fields to ask about his dreams.
• Zhu Fuxian noticed Xu Changqing seemed unwell, listened to his account of the charcoal dreams, and began to explain that the house’s feng shui was not the issue.

Zhu Fuxian explained that expanding Spirit Fields could worsen disasters and linked Xu Changqing’s nightmares to a piece of the Tree of Life from Death recovered on Stone Mountain. Xu Changqing decided to wait for the ice embryo’s birth before making major choices, and the chapter ended as he began harvesting mature Supreme-Grade Spirit Rice.

• Zhu Fuxian told Xu Changqing that more Spirit Fields could make spiritual disasters occur sooner and advised him not to expand beyond five mu.
• Zhu Fuxian identified the charcoal Xu Changqing had found as a piece of the Tree of Life from Death and concluded that someone had entrusted him with a dream.
• Xu Changqing decided to wait for the ice embryo to hatch and ask Flower Elder about a possible new location before deciding whether to move.
• Xu Changqing visited Zhu Fuxian with Spirit Rice Wine and Iceheart Wine, and the two drank together.
• Xu Changqing’s nightmares gradually became less frequent as he waited for the spirit plants to mature.
• Xu Changqing inspected the mature Supreme-Grade Spirit Rice, confirmed its yield was four thousand jin, and began harvesting it.

After harvesting his Spirit Fields, Xu Changqing asked Flower Elder about the corpse and Tree of Life from Death found beneath his field, then discussed moving to a new location. Flower Elder reassured him about the danger and revealed that Red Maple Valley would become available next year, while the chapter ended with Xu Changqing questioning how a new trading point could be placed at the destroyed Flower Sea.

• Xu Changqing harvested his crops, replenished his lifespan, and submitted his and Lin An's quarterly Spirit Rice Grain quotas.
• Xu Changqing showed Flower Elder a fragment of the Tree of Life from Death and explained what he had found at his location.
• Flower Elder confirmed that a Rage-Spirit Storm had struck Stone Mountain and said the fragment posed no substantial danger to Xu Changqing.
• Xu Changqing asked about changing locations, and Flower Elder explained that most remote sites had suffered similar disasters.
• Flower Elder told Xu Changqing that Red Maple Valley's trading points would move next year, making the valley available for him to choose.
• Flower Elder said the new trading point would be near the Flower Sea, and Xu Changqing pointed out that the area had been destroyed.

Xu Changqing learned that he would compete with the Rong and Zhang Families for the right to settle in Red Maple Valley, then harvested Yang-Pole Medicinal Materials and began preparing to refine several kinds of pills. The chapter ended as he lit the Spirit Fire beneath the Starfall Secret-Gold Cauldron and watched its constellations reveal the furnace’s temperature.

• Flower Elder told Xu Changqing that the Thousand Sects Dharma Assembly would be held at Dongting Immortal Sect in five years and that Red Maple Valley was too small to host it.
• Flower Elder revealed that the Rong Family and the Zhang Family were Xu Changqing’s competitors for the right to settle in Red Maple Valley, and Xu Changqing resolved to give it his all.
• Xu Changqing investigated past disasters and learned that Lan Xin, Zhu Fuxian’s close friend, had guarded the site of a Rage-Spirit Storm disaster eighty-eight years earlier.
• Xu Changqing harvested Yang-Pole Medicinal Materials, gained 37,028 days of lifespan, and reached a remaining lifespan of 790 years.
• Xu Changqing prepared ingredients for Warm-Sun, Thunder-Jie, Sun-Piercing, and Barrier-Breaking Pills, then lit the Spirit Fire beneath the Starfall Secret-Gold Cauldron.

Xu Changqing refined five supreme-grade Warm-Sun Pills without relying on the system and saw that their formula had reached the Masterful Tier. He concluded that repeated pill-making would naturally strengthen his Alchemy Skill.

• Xu Changqing prepared the Warm-Sun Pill ingredients and began refining the Sun-Piercing Lingzhi in the Starfall Secret-Gold Cauldron.
• Xu Changqing added Jade Dew Grass juice and Warm-Sun Mushrooms as the ingredients reacted and the cauldron reached the fierce-fire stage.
• Xu Changqing added powdered Soul-Congealing Flower, then processed ingredients for the Sun-Piercing Pill while the Warm-Sun mixture refined.
• Xu Changqing cooled and shaped the amber liquid into five supreme-grade Warm-Sun Pills.
• Xu Changqing saw that the Warm-Sun Pill formula had reached the Masterful Tier and reasoned that repeated refinement would improve his Alchemy Skill.

Xu Changqing refined four kinds of pills and improved two of their formulas before discovering that the Poplar Tree had become a spirit but was losing spiritual energy. He uncovered a black dried corpse beneath its roots, burned it and its tentacles, and found a piece of the Tree of Life from Death and a silver-white spherical bone pellet.

• Xu Changqing refined Warm-Sun Pills, Thunder-Jie Pills, Sun-Piercing Pills, and a Barrier-Breaking Pill, then raised the Thunder-Jie and Barrier-Breaking pill formulas to Masterful Tier.
• Xu Changqing finished his alchemy and resumed his morning routine around the pond, animals, and Spirit Fields.
• Xu Changqing discovered that the Poplar Tree had become a spirit but had withered because it lacked spiritual energy.
• Xu Changqing used Earth Qi to uncover black tentacles and a dried corpse buried beneath the Poplar Tree's roots.
• Xu Changqing burned the corpse and tentacles, revealing a piece of the Tree of Life from Death and a silver-white spherical bone pellet.

Xu Changqing restored the Poplar Tree Spirit, prepared his animals, and expanded his Portable Space with a large lake and new spirit-rice fields. He learned that Bai Xiaotian had finished drawing a thousand talismans and was leaving the Immortal Sect with his daughters to help his wife.

• Xu Changqing found a Tree of Life fragment and a growing Natal Sword Pellet beneath the poplar tree, then restored the soil and saw the tree regain its vitality.
• Xu Changqing named his Pearl Hen Cluck-Cluck, fed his pond creatures, and took the five Dragonfish into his Portable Space.
• Xu Changqing dug a large lake, settled the Dragonfish in it, planted two mu of Mutated Child Rice and Golden Rice-Gathering Spirit Rice, and accelerated their growth with his Companion Green Lotus and Four Seasons Scripture.
• Xu Changqing received Bai Xiaotian's Communication Talisman and learned that Bai Xiaotian had drawn one thousand talismans that restrained yin and evil.
• Bai Xiaotian told Xu Changqing that the Formal Disciple Grand Competition was nearly over and that he was leaving the Immortal Sect with Bai Ling'er and her sister to help his wife.

Xu Changqing collected spirit talismans from Bai Xiaotian and returned to Black Dragon Pool to catch Dragonfish and investigate the Demon Dragon remains. He reached the enormous skeleton deep beneath the water, where its chilling aura grew stronger.

• Xu Changqing visited the Water-Control Pavilion, where he heard that Chu Qiu and Mo Cha would compete for first place and Jian Hanxin had taken third after his Metal Spiritual Root mutated into a Lightning Spiritual Root.
• Xu Changqing reunited with Bai Xiaotian, Bai Ling'er, and Zhang Xue, gave Bai Ling'er a large supply of snacks, and collected their prepared spirit talismans.
• Bai Xiaotian warned Xu Changqing to avoid the dangerous Return-to-Ruins Secret Realm, and Xu Changqing promised to focus on farming and making money.
• Xu Changqing saw Jian Hanxin with the female disciple whose battle had triggered his Spiritual Root mutation, then left the Water-Control Pavilion for Black Dragon Pool.
• Xu Changqing caught five Dragonfish with the Demonwood Water-Evasion Boat and continued deeper into the pool to investigate the Demon Dragon remains.
• Xu Changqing reached the massive Demon Dragon skeleton and felt its chilling aura intensify.

Xu Changqing let the Demonwood Water-Evasion Boat devour the Demon Dragon’s remains, transforming it into the powerful Demon Dragon Water-Evasion Boat. He explored the waterway beyond Black Dragon Pool, collected black water for his Portable Space, and discovered a stele bearing the words “Water Spirit Palace,” “Dragon-Locking Abyss,” and “Reverse Scale.”

• Xu Changqing left the Demonwood Water-Evasion Boat to devour the Demon Dragon’s remains while he inspected the waterway behind the carcass.
• After the boat absorbed the remains, it transformed into the Demon Dragon Water-Evasion Boat, gaining top-tier effects and new dragon-themed abilities.
• Xu Changqing rode the transformed boat deeper into the waterway and found an expansive stretch of black water filled with enormous fish.
• Xu Changqing used the Water-Storage Pearl to collect black water, then poured it into his Portable Space pond, where it delighted the ten Dragonfish.
• Xu Changqing returned to the boat and discovered a stone stele inscribed with “Water Spirit Palace,” “Dragon-Locking Abyss,” and “Reverse Scale.”