Recaps

Hu Donghan hunted Yin Souls, acquired and bound a Mortal Ghost, and became the target of Mu Zhengfeng and Wang Linshu’s accusations. Hu Meier intervened, exposed Wang Linshu’s crimes, and left Mu Zhengfeng unconscious in Hu Donghan’s courtyard after purging the gathered enemies and corrupt enforcers.

• Hu Donghan began the Five Ghosts Barrier-Breaking Great Art, and the five ghosts tore apart his flesh and burned his skeleton away.
• Hu Donghan stabilized his Qi Refining First Layer cultivation, accepted an entrance trial to kill ten Yin Soul creatures, and traveled to Lonely Soul Ridge to hunt them.
• Hu Donghan evaded Wang Linshu’s threats, completed his trial, and obtained a Mortal Ghost after defeating a Special Yin Soul.
• Hu Donghan returned to Overlapping Peaks, beat Mu Zhengfeng unconscious, and bound the Mortal Ghost with the Soul List technique, discovering he had formed two Soul Lists.
• Mu Zhengfeng brought Wang Linshu and Enforcement Hall disciples to accuse Hu Donghan, and the Enforcement Hall sentenced Hu Donghan to one hundred and forty lashes.
• Hu Meier revealed herself as Hu Donghan’s elder sister and the Enforcement Hall’s Deputy Hall Master, then ordered Elder Niu to investigate Wang Linshu’s claims.
• Elder Niu’s Soul-Seeking Technique exposed Wang Linshu’s crimes, so he killed Wang Linshu and sentenced his soul to fifty years of torment.
• Hu Meier ordered the gathered onlookers killed, Mu Ming and corrupt Enforcement Hall disciples punished, and Mu Zhengfeng taken to Hu Donghan’s courtyard, where Hu Donghan knocked him unconscious.

Hu Donghan developed the Medicine Spirit Ghost to accelerate the growth of spirit herbs, drawing the attention of Earthfire Hall. He joined as an alchemy disciple and accepted an assignment to cultivate Six-Section Grass on Spirit Medicine Mountain.

• Hu Meier told Hu Donghan that Soul-Devouring Ancestor had chosen her as his first disciple, and Hu Donghan and Hu Meier tortured Mu Zhengfeng until he named Senior Brother Wu as the one who hired him to kill Hu Donghan.
• Hu Donghan killed a menial who had helped Mu Zhengfeng, then bought a Ghost Spirit Herb and used the Soul List to create and strengthen a Medicine Spirit Ghost.
• Hu Donghan accepted a medicinal-field task at Little Jade Flat, removed two servants, and put Niu Ergen in charge of the remaining menials.
• Hu Donghan tested the Medicine Spirit Ghost in the Small Medicine Field, then built a residence and Soul-Forming Ground so it could cultivate herbs and recover its strength.
• Hu Donghan’s field yielded 188 herbs in a month, and the Medicine Spirit Ghost’s cultivation and controlled area increased.
• Wang Ruolong recognized the value of Hu Donghan’s unusually vigorous Six-Section Grass, explained his “little brother-in-law” nickname, and offered to teach Hu Donghan alchemy and provide a pill furnace and Subfire.
• Hu Donghan agreed to join Earthfire Hall, where Heaven-Seizing Ancestor examined the Medicine Spirit Ghost and made him an alchemy disciple.
• Bu Yun gave Hu Donghan pill-refining equipment and an Earthfire Subflame, then assigned him to cultivate Six-Section Grass on Spirit Medicine Mountain for the grand competition.