Recaps

Jiang Lu agreed to help the Chen Family of Lower River Village save their injured ancestor and used a Jianmu leaf to restore his vitality. She left after telling the family he would awaken the next day.

• Two Chen Family cultivators asked Jiang Lu to help preserve their Qi Refinement lineage by treating their injured elder.
• Jiang Lu warned them against entering the stone steps, where dangerous yin-cold aura remained, and agreed to accompany them back to their lineage.
• Chen Hao and Chen Ming explained that their ancestor, a Ninth Level of Qi Refinement cultivator, had been gravely wounded fighting over resources, leaving the family vulnerable to rival lineages.
• Jiang Lu recognized the worried woman beside the ancestor as the auntie who had introduced her to the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
• Jiang Lu said the ancestor could be saved, and the Chen Family cultivators asked her to use their stroke of fortune to do so.
• Jiang Lu fed the ancestor a Jianmu leaf, restoring his vitality, and said he would awaken the next day.

Jiang Lu gave Auntie a spirit plant after helping the Chen Family ancestor recover, then left and realized she needed to conceal Jianmu’s life force. Meanwhile, Elder Ye defeated a Magic Beast but delayed returning to his disciple while he stabilized his foundation.

• Jiang Lu gave Auntie a second-rank spirit plant to improve the purity of a child’s Spiritual Roots, then left without explanation.
• Chen Ming and Chen Hao told Auntie that their ancestor would wake the next day, and Chen Ming vowed to keep Jiang Lu’s visit secret.
• Rival lineages learned that the Chen Family ancestor had recovered and suspected a visiting cultivator had helped, but their followers lost Jiang Lu’s trail.
• Jiang Lu changed her face and clothes, realized she must not reveal or freely use Jianmu’s life force, and sensed that her karma with the Chen Family had dissipated.
• Jiang Lu let her three Spirit Beasts out of the Spirit Beast pouch, and Chi Li explained how a master and contracted beasts could strengthen one another.
• Elder Ye killed the Magic Beast after it mocked him, collected its resources, and set off to stabilize his slightly shaken foundation before returning to Jiang Lu.

After months training in the Illusory Forest, Jiang Lu arrived in Myriad New City to attend the Medicine King Pavilion auction and continue her journey toward Void City. She entered using her elder’s personal disciple identity token and settled into a private room, where she awaited the auction.

• Jiang Lu defeated a demonic beast, gave its crystal core to Cutie, and decided she needed to find an artifact refiner to forge her natal sword.
• After emerging from the Illusory Forest, Jiang Lu headed to Myriad New City for the Medicine King Pavilion auction and planned to travel toward Void City afterward.
• A disciple at the auction entrance asked Jiang Lu for an invitation, but she presented her identity token and was recognized as an elder’s personal disciple.
• The disciple escorted Jiang Lu to Room Five, a private room reserved for Medicine King Pavilion elders and personal disciples.
• Jiang Lu learned that no other pavilion elders or personal disciples had arrived, then asked for the auction catalog.

Jiang Lu realized she had no need for anything in the auction and watched the crowd gather, unaware that her illuminated private room had drawn the factions’ attention. The auction began with Qi-Replenishing Pills, then a highly sought-after Realm-Breaking Pill sparked fierce bidding.

• Jiang Lu reviewed the auction listings, concluded her own resources surpassed the offerings, and celebrated her wealth while her three little beasts ate spirit fruits.
• Cultivators, including Jian An and other faction representatives, noticed Jiang Lu’s illuminated private room and sent people to investigate her identity.
• Lingling greeted the crowd and opened the auction with a bottle of fifth-tier, high-grade Qi-Replenishing Pills, which sold for thirty-one High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lingling presented a fifth-tier Realm-Breaking Pill, and cultivators eagerly drove its bid from thirty to fifty High-grade Spirit Stones.

At the auction, Jiang Lu recognized that Cutie wanted the Thunder Stone and learned that the seller sought a Scarlet Flame Flower in exchange. Linglong revealed that Jiang Lu had one, and her bid drew attention to the Medicine King Pavilion’s reserved room, leaving the hall wondering who had arrived.

• The Realm-Breaking Pill sold for 101 High-grade Spirit Stones to a cultivator in a second-floor private room.
• Lingling introduced the Thunder Stone and announced that its seller wanted a Scarlet Flame Flower rather than Spirit Stones.
• Cutie urged Jiang Lu to pursue the Thunder Stone, and Linglong told her that Lingxi’s herb garden had a Scarlet Flame Flower.
• Jiang Lu placed the Scarlet Flame Flower on her table and rang the bell to make an offer.
• Lingling and the cultivators at the auction noticed the signal from Jiang Lu’s reserved room and speculated about the important guest inside.

Jiang Lu traded a Scarlet Flame Flower for a Thunder Stone at the Medicine King Pavilion auction and met its Pavilion Master, Shi Yan. After he recognized her as Ye Qing’s direct disciple and addressed her as the Little Martial Uncle, Jiang Lu returned her attention to the auction.

• Jiang Lu rang the bell to win the Thunder Stone by trading a Scarlet Flame Flower, and a maid explained the pavilion’s payment arrangements.
• Pavilion Master Shi scolded a servant for not telling him sooner that Jiang Lu was there, then accompanied the maid to deliver the Thunder Stone.
• Jiang Lu inspected the Thunder Stone and let Cutie confirm it was genuine before putting it into her spatial storage.
• Shi Yan asked about Jiang Lu’s identity, recognized Ye Qing’s name and jade pendant, and realized she was the Little Martial Uncle.
• Jiang Lu declined to bid on anything else for the moment, and Shi Yan left after saying they could talk once the auction ended.

Jiang Lu met Myriad New City's City Lord, Jian An, and asked for help finding an artifact refiner to forge her bonded sword. She insisted on avoiding favors and prepared to negotiate for the service herself.

• Jiang Lu spent several days in the Scripture Pavilion while Shi Yan considered how to approach her.
• Shi Yan introduced Jiang Lu to Jian An as the Medicine King Pavilion's Little Martial Uncle, and both men treated her with unusual deference.
• Jiang Lu asked Shi Yan whether the pavilion had a sword suited to become her bonded magic artifact, and he recommended forging a new one.
• Jian An identified Zhao Hu, a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator and skilled artifact refiner, and offered to introduce them.
• Jiang Lu accepted the possibility of meeting Zhao Hu but asked whether Jian An had any needs, making clear she did not want to owe either man a favor.

Jiang Lu learned that Crazy Rock Vines had blocked the meridians of Jian An’s young clan members and agreed to help in exchange for being taken to the hidden barrier and having her spirit sword properly refined. She revealed three Yellow Spirit Fruits that could treat their condition, leaving Jian An and Shi Yan astonished.

• Jian An asked Jiang Lu for a spirit plant or pills to help Qi Refinement cultivators break through bottlenecks, explaining that several young clan members had been injured by Crazy Rock Vines.
• Jian An told Jiang Lu and Shi Yan that the clan members had entered a hidden barrier full of resources and dangers, where Crazy Rock Vines had blocked their meridians despite attempts to treat them.
• Jiang Lu asked whether Jian An could find the barrier again, and she agreed to go there in exchange for proper spirit-sword refinement and the materials aside from the Thunder Stone.
• Jian An accepted Jiang Lu’s conditions and promised her a favor, while Jiang Lu took three Yellow Spirit Fruits from her space as a remedy for the Qi Refinement cultivators.
• Lingxi panicked after noticing fruit had gone missing, then realized Jiang Lu had taken it; Jian An and Shi Yan were stunned that Jiang Lu possessed the rare fruits.

Jiang Lu received a top-grade spirit sword forged by Jian An and named it the Qianming Sword. After leaving the Medicine King Pavilion to avoid visits from other lineages, she followed Jian An’s map to a range of towering stone mountains where an entrance was said to lie.

• Jiang Lu gave Jian An three Yellow Spirit Fruits, a Thunder Stone, and Black Mystic Iron to forge into a spirit sword.
• Jian An and Shi Yan forged Jiang Lu a spirit sword, adding valuable Snow Mountain Ice Marrow and incorporating the Thunder Stone.
• Jiang Lu bonded with the top-grade spirit artifact and named it the Qianming Sword.
• Jiang Lu tested the Qianming Sword at the practice grounds while the disciples congratulated her.
• Jiang Lu left the Medicine King Pavilion and followed Jian An’s map to the stone mountains, where she sought the hidden entrance.

Jiang Lu followed Liu Qingqing and the other disciples into a secret realm, where the mask concealing her face lost its power. She found an open stone coffin containing four ancient books suited to her interests and stored them away.

• Jiang Lu followed Liu Qingqing’s group to the secret realm entrance, then entered after them and was separated from the others.
• Jiang Lu overcame an illusion with a Clear-Mind Pill and followed Cutie, Chi Li, and Cangchen through the realm.
• Jiang Lu discovered that the mirror-like walls had restored her original appearance after the mask’s power vanished.
• Jiang Lu crossed a ripple into a circular platform and found an open stone coffin containing four ancient books.
• Jiang Lu stored the books in her spatial storage while Cutie drooped its head.

Jiang Lu learned that the treasures Cutie sensed were gone, while Liu Qingqing entered a cave trial and received an inheritance that revealed her origins. Liu Qingqing returned having reached Foundation Establishment and insisted her senior brothers protect her so she would not have to cultivate.

• Cutie told Jiang Lu that the treasures it had sensed had disappeared, and Jiang Lu reassured it that the ancient books were what she needed.
• Liu Qingqing and the others entered a cavern of cave dwellings, where the Azure Mystic Daoist offered each of them a chance to obtain an opportunity by passing a trial.
• Liu Qingqing entered an inconspicuous cave, met the Azure Mystic Daoist, and learned during the trial that she was native to this world rather than a soul from Blue Star.
• Liu Qingqing passed the trial, received a cultivation technique inheritance, and gained enough power to reach Foundation Establishment.
• Liu Qingqing told Fu Yao she would not cultivate anymore, and her senior brothers agreed to protect her while Fu Yao left the matter to their master.

Jiang Lu ignored Azure Mystic Daoist’s objections and swept through the caves, taking their Heavenly Treasures with help from Cutie, Chi Li, and Cangchen. After Azure Mystic Daoist’s phantom began to vanish and the place changed, Jiang Lu encountered a level-two Thousand-Faced Demon Spider.

• Jiang Lu argued that the Heavenly Treasures should go to whoever could use them, and Azure Mystic Daoist eventually let her enter the caves.
• Jiang Lu broke a formation and claimed the high-grade spirit treasure Heavenly Heart Scroll.
• Cutie, Chi Li, and Cangchen helped Jiang Lu clear the caves of their treasures, leaving Azure Mystic Daoist shocked by their speed.
• Azure Mystic Daoist’s phantom dissipated after Jiang Lu collected the final cave’s treasures, and the surroundings began to change.
• Cangchen sensed a demon beast, and Jiang Lu prepared to face a level-two Thousand-Faced Demon Spider.

Jiang Lu killed the Thousand-Faced Demon Spider and escaped its cave, but demonic plants attacked her after she reached the exit. To avoid being recognized by Liu Qingqing's group, she used a Transformation Stone to conceal her appearance and strength.

• Jiang Lu and her spirit beasts distracted the Thousand-Faced Demon Spider, bound it, and cut it in two.
• Jiang Lu burned the spider's body and ran from the cave, while Liu Qingqing's group encountered a wall of demonic plants.
• Jiang Lu fled from the plants and spotted Liu Qingqing's group ahead, then turned away to avoid meeting them.
• The demonic plants redirected toward Liu Qingqing's group, giving Jiang Lu a chance to conceal herself with her Wood Spirit Root aura.
• Jiang Lu activated the one-use Transformation Stone, which became a red mole behind her ear and concealed her appearance and strength.

Jiang Lu watched Fu Yao’s group defeat the demon plants, then was discovered and pretended to be a young Rogue Cultivator named Jiang Ye. Fu Yao began questioning her about her age and Spiritual Roots, leaving Jiang Lu’s cover at risk.

• Fu Yao warned her companions about the Crazy Rock Vines, and her group fought the demon plants while a Light Spirit Root cultivator healed them.
• Lu Lingfeng used a gourd to unleash unusual fire that drove off or burned the demon plants.
• After the group recovered, Fu Yao found Jiang Lu hiding nearby and lifted her up to question her.
• Jiang Lu claimed she was a Rogue Cultivator named Jiang Ye and cried when Fu Yao asked whether she had a master.
• Fu Yao asked Jiang Lu how old she was and what Spiritual Roots she had.

Jiang Lu used the Chaos Spirit Root’s concealment to present herself as a thirteen-year-old with Mixed Spiritual Roots and Late Qi Refinement, persuading Fu Yao to invite her to the Flowing Cloud Sect. She arrived at the sect’s magnificent mountain gate, where its ancient power and spiritual aura overwhelmed her.

• Jiang Lu concealed her Chaos Spirit Root and used spirit stones to confirm her claimed age and display uneven Five-Element Spiritual Root purities.
• Fu Yao invited Jiang Lu to join the Flowing Cloud Sect without requiring her to take a new master, while Liu Qingqing questioned whether Jiang Lu’s identity was trustworthy.
• Fu Yao took Jiang Lu and the other disciples aboard a spirit boat for the three-day journey to the Flowing Cloud Sect.
• Jiang Lu traveled through the sect’s territory, grew curious about the spirit boat, and returned to her room when the karst landscape made her dizzy.
• The spirit boat reached the Flowing Cloud Sect, and Jiang Lu saw its imposing mountain gate and felt the sect’s powerful spiritual aura.

Fu Yao brought Jiang Lu into the Flowing Cloud Sect and showed her its magnificent mountain grounds. She then asked her master, the Sect Master, for permission to teach Jiang Lu personally, and he questioned what made the newcomer exceptional.

• Fu Yao led Jiang Lu through the sect's identity barrier and explained how disciples used their tokens to access different areas.
• Fu Yao and Jiang Lu rode spirit cranes through the sect, and Jiang Lu marveled at its palaces, floating peaks, and abundant spiritual energy.
• Fu Yao brought Jiang Lu to the main hall and paid respects to her master, while Jiang Lu felt the hall's many gazes upon her.
• Fu Yao asked the Sect Master of the Flowing Cloud Sect to let her take Jiang Lu by her side for instruction.
• The Sect Master expressed doubt that Jiang Lu had qualities worthy of Fu Yao's unusually high standards.

Jiang Ye became an inner sect disciple of Flowing Cloud Sect and settled at Jade Radiance Peak, while her master Ye Qing agreed to let her study there without revealing their connection. She began cultivating in the sect’s abundant spiritual energy and learned she would receive no task-based monthly resources until reaching Foundation Establishment.

• The sect leader found Jiang Ye’s future impossible to divine, examined her pure aura, and had Fu Yao keep her close by accepting her as a Jade Radiance Peak disciple.
• Fu Yao gave Jiang Ye a Jade Radiance token and leaf, and Cheng Xin showed her the inner sect residences and rules.
• Jiang Ye messaged Ye Qing about joining Flowing Cloud Sect, and he approved her stay while deciding to keep their master-disciple relationship secret for now.
• Jiang Ye settled into a secluded courtyard, cultivated with her Spirit Beasts nearby, and studied the sect rules.
• Cheng Xin summoned Jiang Ye to the Transmission Hall and explained that she could not take tasks or receive monthly resources until reaching Foundation Establishment.

Jiang Lu spent a month studying the Flowing Cloud Sect’s techniques, then cultivated until she reached Perfected Qi Refinement. She entered a Foundation Establishment cultivation cave and began preparing for her breakthrough.

• Jiang Lu entered the Transmission Hall and set herself the goal of reading every book there within a month, while Cheng Xin reported her diligence to Fu Yao.
• After a month of studying, Jiang Lu finished the techniques in the hall and returned to her courtyard to practice cultivation and swordsmanship.
• Jiang Lu advanced to the Eighth Level of Qi Refinement, then reached Perfected Qi Refinement after cultivating and practicing swordsmanship for several months.
• Jiang Lu chose to break through to Foundation Establishment without a pill and went to an inner sect cultivation cave suited for Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Jiang Lu set up a Spirit-Gathering Array in the cave and began absorbing the concentrated spiritual energy.

Jiang Lu successfully advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm and discovered that her spiritual energy could briefly become invisible. She returned to her courtyard, considered whether to keep Chi Li and Cangchen, and organized her treasures and cultivation resources in her space.

• Jiang Lu broke through to Foundation Establishment and tested the changing forms of her spiritual energy, including a moment when it became invisible.
• Jiang Lu sensed that Chi Li and Cangchen had grown stronger and considered keeping them if they remained loyal and harmless.
• Cutie gave Jiang Lu treasures taken from Chi Li and Cangchen, and Jiang Lu stored the items before returning to her space with Cutie.
• Jiang Lu fed Cutie a Speech Pill and learned from Linglong that Lingxi was a Level Seven spiritual plant capable of taking human form.
• Jiang Lu let Linglong arrange the Heavenly Treasures, reviewed the Star River Sword Technique, and left her space.

After mastering six forms of the Star River Sword Technique, Jiang Lu helped Cutie pledge allegiance, allowing them to communicate without forming a contract. Five months had passed during her seclusion, and after reporting her Foundation Establishment breakthrough, Jiang Lu went to watch the Flowing Cloud Sect’s Disciple Grand Competition, where the alchemy contest began.

• Jiang Lu offered Cutie a Speech Pill, but Cutie instead pledged allegiance through a Heavenly Dao Blessing, letting Jiang Lu hear its thoughts without creating a contract.
• Cutie explained that Treasure-Seeking Mouses could pledge allegiance only once and would die if that allegiance were severed.
• Jiang Lu discovered that five months had passed and that the Disciple Grand Competition registration period had ended while she was in seclusion.
• Jiang Lu told her master she had reached Foundation Establishment, practiced the Star River Sword Technique, and planned to study more cultivation arts.
• Jiang Lu went to the Disciple Grand Competition and watched the alchemy contest begin as participating disciples selected spiritual plants.

Liu Qingqing entered the Foundation Establishment alchemy competition and produced six middle-grade pills using external spirit fire, while Jiang Lu watched and considered having her own pills assessed. Jiang Lu then explored the Poison Arts competition and spent the two-month Disciple Grand Competition learning from its events.

• Liu Qingqing competed in alchemy with a high-grade spirit-tool furnace, using a Spirit-Fire Gourd to provide the heat despite lacking Fire-Wood Spiritual Roots.
• Liu Qingqing refined six middle-grade pills, and an elder judged that her spirit-fire temperature control and pill-making steps were inadequate.
• Jiang Lu decided to have her own pills assessed and then went to watch the Poison Arts competition, resolving to learn the craft despite her unease around venomous creatures.
• Jiang Lu traveled between competitions throughout the two-month Disciple Grand Competition and gained a wealth of knowledge through her photographic memory.

Jiang Lu accepted an invitation to enter a major secret realm and began making poisons with venomous bugs, discovering that Linglong’s space might soon support living creatures. After preparing venom-coated weapons and building up poison resistance, she headed to the sect’s transport and spotted Liu Qingqing among the disciples.

• Yingchun told Jiang Lu about the ten-year secret realm trial, and Jiang Lu accepted an entry token and decided to participate.
• Linglong explained that the Jianmu was repairing Jiang Lu’s space, which would soon be able to hold living creatures.
• Jiang Lu used venomous bugs to make colorless, odorless poisons, accidentally poisoned herself, and then neutralized the toxin.
• Jiang Lu stored her poisons and venom-coated hidden weapons, took the three spirit beasts, and rode a spirit crane to the sect’s transport.
• Jiang Lu arrived where cultivators were gathering to travel to the secret realm and saw Liu Qingqing with several inner sect disciples.

Jiang Lu traveled to the Linlan Secret Realm, prepared by crafting talismans, and entered when the gate opened. She landed on three little spirit noons and found them unharmed.

• Liu Qingqing distributed pills to the disciples accompanying her while Jiang Lu boarded the spirit boat alone to cultivate.
• Jiang Lu crafted a stack of Tier 2 offensive talismans during the journey and later spotted the secret realm gate from the deck.
• The spirit boat arrived, and Jiang Lu leaped down to the designated landing area, then moved near Liu Qingqing.
• Four elders opened the Linlan Secret Realm, and Jiang Lu rushed inside with the other cultivators.
• Jiang Lu landed on three little spirit noons, climbed off them, and picked them up to check that they were okay.

Jiang Lu explored Cloudmist Mountain, gathering venomous insects and poisonous plants into her newly usable space. After nearly a month, she prepared to leave, prompting the mysterious creature watching her to reveal itself.

• Jiang Lu found Jade-Pattern Miasma Mosquitoes and learned that Linglong had eaten some magic treasures, allowing the space to store insects.
• Jiang Lu located the mosquitoes’ enormous nest and collected part of it, along with nearby plants and debris, into her space.
• Jiang Lu spent nearly a month exploring Cloudmist Mountain and gathered most of its venomous insects, beasts, and poisonous plants.
• A pair of red eyes watched Jiang Lu from the shadows, growing curious about her collections.
• When Jiang Lu tried to leave Cloudmist Mountain, the hidden creature appeared in front of her.

Jiang Lu encountered a tiny Frostblood Gu, accepted its recognition, and named it You Meng before sending it to manage her poisonous insects. She then headed toward a cliff behind Cloudmist Mountain, but her journey ended with an Ironlight Beast chasing her through the rocks.

• Jiang Lu spotted the tiny white Gu Insect that had been following her and let it recognize her as its master with a drop of blood.
• Jiang Lu learned that the creature was a Frostblood Gu and named it You Meng.
• Jiang Lu sent You Meng into her spatial dimension to raise and manage the poisonous insects there.
• Jiang Lu checked her map and flew toward a cliff behind Cloudmist Mountain in search of a fortuitous encounter.
• Jiang Lu crashed into an Ironlight Beast and ran as the tier-three demonic beast pursued her through the rocky terrain.