Chapter Summaries

Di Xin showed Long Xuan her vast Medicine Garden, where his Eye of Heavenly Secrets revealed Spirit Medicines with the potential to live for ten thousand years and produce Supreme-grade Spirit Insects. Long Xuan left determined to build an even greater Medicine Garden of his own.

• Di Xin gave Long Xuan a Formation Key that dispelled the illusion concealing her enormous Medicine Garden.
• Di Xin told Long Xuan to choose Spirit Medicines to take, while warning that she did not do business worth less than a hundred million.
• Long Xuan entered the garden and decided to build a complete Medicine Garden of his own, protected by his Ice Formation.
• Long Xuan used his Eye of Heavenly Secrets to identify Spirit Medicines with exceptional lifespans and learned that ancient trees could produce valuable Spirit Insects.
• Long Xuan found at least ten kinds of Spirit Medicines with the potential to live ten thousand years and produce Supreme-grade Spirit Insects.

Long Xuan discovered that Di Xin grew rare spirit herbs in red loam, a low-grade Spirit Soil that accelerated their growth, and traded fossils for her remaining supply. He then spent over half a day selecting and digging up valuable spirit herbs, including trees with the potential to reach ten thousand years.

• Long Xuan used the Eye of Heavenly Secrets to identify the red loam beneath Di Xin’s high-grade spirit herbs and learned about Spirit Soil.
• Di Xin offered to sell Long Xuan the red loam formula, but Long Xuan declined and asked to buy the soil itself.
• Long Xuan traded Di Xin nine storage bags of fossils for her remaining Spirit Soil, unaware that he had already removed the valuable Spirit Insects from the fossils.
• Long Xuan selected spirit herbs with the potential to reach ten thousand years and spent over half a day digging them up with help from Di Xin’s giant beetle.

Long Xuan created High-Grade Spirit Soil, named Pure Soil, and transformed his Medicine Garden into a flourishing home for Spirit Bees. As his clones began preparing the soil, he started designing a five-element flame spirit art to strengthen his offensive abilities.

• Long Xuan transplanted the spirit herbs he had traded from Di Xin into his Medicine Garden and spent two months developing a Spirit Soil formula while avoiding Long Lie by sending him to Old Long.
• Long Xuan completed a High-Grade Spirit Soil formula and named the snow-white soil Pure Soil, which let more high-grade herbs grow and tripled their growth speed.
• Long Xuan found his Medicine Garden renewed, opened a crack in its barrier, and watched the Spirit Bees abandon Old Long's garden to settle among his flowers.
• A Spirit Bee gathered nectar from the Ten-thousand-year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus, froze its wings, and was rescued by Long Xuan, who then took the abandoned hive full of honey from Old Long's garden.
• Long Xuan assigned his clones to buy materials and compound Pure Soil, then began designing a group flame spirit art that used the five-element Mutual Generation Cycle.

Long Xuan completed the first form of his Five-Element Palm and agreed to join Old Daoist Li’s team on a mandatory spirit-beast hunt in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, hoping to find Supreme-grade Spirit Insects. At the Qian Clan Inn, he reunited with several Rogue Cultivators, including Old Ma, who recognized him as the person who had bought his High-grade Spirit Bee hive, and grew suspicious when Old Daoist Li promised the trip would be safe.

• Long Xuan spent half a year creating the Five-Element Palm, completing the Blazing Flame Palm and Life-Urging Palm while postponing the other three forms.
• Old Daoist Li invited Long Xuan to hunt spirit beasts in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and Long Xuan agreed because he could identify spirit beasts carrying Supreme-grade Spirit Insects.
• Long Xuan got leave from Old Long and traveled to the Qian Clan Inn, where he met Old Daoist Li, the Little Apothecary, Old Ma, Han Mei, and Zhang Ling.
• Old Ma complained that Long Xuan was too weak to join the team, then recognized him as the youth who had bought his High-grade Spirit Bee hive and demanded it back.
• Long Xuan questioned Old Daoist Li’s claim that the hunt would be completely safe, recalling their disastrous ancient-tomb expedition, and Old Daoist Li said he had invited a big shot to protect them.

Old Daoist Li organized a journey to the Hundred Thousand Mountains with Long Qilin, a powerful Long Family cultivator, leading the Rogue Cultivators. Long Xuan concealed the source of his extraordinary endurance and spiritual power, while Long Qilin suspected he had inherited secret Long Family arts from Old Long.

• Old Daoist Li told the group that Long Qilin would escort them through the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and the Rogue Cultivators agreed to trust the plan.
• Long Qilin arrived with another Rogue Cultivator, Ma Wu, and Long Xuan introduced himself as Old Long's Little Apothecary.
• Long Qilin teased Long Xuan by calling him Old Long's disciple and demanding repayment of a supposed ten-million-Spirit-Stone debt, then led the group out of the market.
• The group hurried toward the mountains, and Long Xuan's exceptional endurance astonished the exhausted Rogue Cultivators.
• Long Qilin questioned Long Xuan about his stamina and powerful Mutated Spiritual Power, and Long Xuan claimed Old Long had taught him the secret technique.

Long Xuan and the group entered the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where hidden insects nearly killed Old Ma and several others. After hunting rabbits for little reward, Long Xuan discovered that a pink-furred rabbit concealed a Supreme-grade Spirit Insect, though he kept his find secret.

• Long Xuan and the group reached the Hundred Thousand Mountains and proceeded cautiously after Old Ma warned them about dangerous insects.
• A silent giant mosquito drained Old Ma until Han Mei shot it off him, and the group found a tick on Zhang Ling and a leech on the young medicine apprentice.
• Long Qilin explained that rabbits dominated the outskirts, and Long Xuan hunted one carrying a Mid-grade Spirit Insect, prompting the group to hunt rabbits for meat and loot.
• The group found only a few Low-grade Spirit Insects among their rabbits, so they abandoned the hunt and continued deeper into the mountains.
• Long Xuan killed a pink-furred rabbit with his Life-Urging Palm and secretly recognized that it contained a Supreme-grade Spirit Insect.

Long Xuan helped Long Qilin and the Rogue Cultivators kill an Earth Bear, then exposed Ma Wu’s attempt to poison them with Gu hidden in smoke. Ma Wu dropped his disguise and summoned Feng Family cultivators to ambush the exhausted group, leaving them surrounded and in grave danger.

• Long Qilin fought the Earth Bear and restrained it with Earth Hand, but the Rogue Cultivators could not pierce its hide.
• Long Xuan repeatedly struck the Earth Bear’s temple with Life-Urging Palm until it died, and Long Qilin discovered its Spirit Core contained no Spirit Insects.
• While the group divided the Earth Bear’s meat, Long Xuan spotted tiny Gu insects spreading through smoke from Ma Wu’s incense burner and warned everyone to flee.
• Ma Wu denied planting Gu, but no one dared approach the smoke, so he abandoned his scheme and called for an attack.
• Nine hidden cultivators surrounded the group, including two Early Marrow-Cleansing Stage men from the Feng Family, and Old Daoist Li identified the ambush as a plot against Long Qilin.

Long Xuan and Long Qilin faced the Feng Clan’s ambush, whose layered schemes left them surrounded and weakened. As Long Qilin’s Ascending Dragon Gu was countered by the Withering Gu and Long Xuan’s realm fell under its domain, Long Xuan prepared to use the Energy Bomb to break through.

• Feng San and Feng Si revealed their ambush against Long Qilin, while Feng Wu led the Feng Clan Gu Masters against the trapped Rogue Cultivators.
• Long Xuan defeated a stronger Feng Clan Gu Master in a head-on clash, and Old Daoist Li survived Feng Wu’s sword attack through the Cockroach Gu.
• Feng Wu sent his Black-armored Beetle swarm after Old Daoist Li, but Long Xuan’s Blazing Flame Palm burned the insects away and accidentally saved him.
• Long Qilin used the Ascending Dragon Gu to raise his realm, but Feng San countered it with the Withering Gu, which lowered Long Qilin’s realm and dropped Long Xuan two levels.
• Long Xuan decided to use the Scripture of Longevity’s forbidden Energy Bomb and sacrificed one hundred years of lifespan to begin forming it.

Long Xuan used a two-hundred-year Energy Bomb to kill Feng Wu, devastate the battlefield, and escape Feng Si with Little White’s Slowing Domain. While recovering in a tree, he began designing a supreme-grade Dragon Gu from nine spirit beasts, but realized the recipe would require nine rare Supreme-grade Spirit Insects.

• Long Xuan added another hundred years of lifespan to his Energy Bomb, killed Feng Wu with the blast, and accidentally wounded or killed nearly everyone on the battlefield.
• The explosion destroyed the Withering Gu, leaving Long Qilin at the Mid Marrow-Cleansing Stage; Long Qilin counterattacked Feng San while Feng Si pursued Long Xuan.
• Long Xuan used Little White’s Slowing Domain to escape Feng Si, who abandoned the chase and returned to find Feng San dead and Long Qilin gone.
• Long Xuan hid in a tree to recover and began designing his third supreme-grade Gu as an Animal Gu.
• Long Xuan conceived a Dragon Gu assembled from Spirit Insects representing nine spirit beasts, then realized the recipe required nine Supreme-grade Spirit Insects and resolved to keep developing it.

Long Xuan captured a Great Dragonfish and obtained its Supreme-grade Spirit Insect, then rescued Old Daoist Li and Little Apothecary from a rat swarm. They revealed that an enormous Beast Tide had erupted across the Hundred Thousand Mountains, forcing them to flee.

• Long Xuan discovered that his Dragon Gu Recipe required nine Supreme-grade Spirit Insects and matching body parts from rare beast kings, then left his tree to continue searching.
• After a month of searching, Long Xuan found a Great Dragonfish carrying the exact Supreme-grade Spirit Insect he needed and lured it away from the water with liquor, honey, and spirit pills.
• Long Xuan got the Great Dragonfish drunk, killed it with repeated Life-Urging Palms, and took its emerald-green Supreme-grade Spirit Insect.
• Long Xuan used Blazing Flame Palm to burn a rat swarm that was pursuing Old Daoist Li and Little Apothecary, saving them from being overwhelmed.
• Old Daoist Li and Little Apothecary told Long Xuan that an unprecedented Beast Tide had erupted in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and warned that they needed to leave immediately.

Long Xuan returned from the Hundred Thousand Mountains, avoided being forced into Beast Tide duty, and spent two months researching the Dragon Gu Recipe before traveling to the front lines to check on his Flame Clone. There he found a group of clan geniuses trapped by wolves and eagles, while Lei Guang secretly planned to kill them for their storage bags, and Long Xuan rushed toward the Eagle King to claim its materials.

• Long Xuan escaped Shi Jian's forced recruitment by claiming he had to deliver a medicinal herb to Old Long, then sent his Flame Clone to the front lines and hid at home to work on the Dragon Gu Recipe.
• Long Xuan spent two months researching the recipe in his Medicine Garden, noticed that his gluttonous Spirit Bee had begun an unexplained transformation, and then left to check on his Flame Clone.
• Long Xuan learned that the front line was diverting Beast Tides away from mortal villages by splitting and luring the herds, often through deadly missions imposed on Gu cultivators.
• Lei Yun and a team of geniuses from the Seven Great Clans were surrounded by wolves and eagles, while Lei Guang concealed himself nearby after luring the beasts there to steal their storage bags.
• Long Xuan arrived in the valley, spotted the Eagle King and the two beast herds, and rushed toward the battle because the Eagle King could provide two materials he needed for the Dragon Gu Recipe.

Long Xuan destroyed most of two beast packs with his Blazing Flame Palm, killed the Eagle King, and took its corpse before leaving the battlefield. Lei Guang ambushed him, but Long Xuan drew a wolf pack into their fight, leaving Lei Guang and his Gu insects under attack.

• Long Xuan used Blazing Flame Palm to burn the eagles and wolves, giving Lei Yun and the other geniuses a chance to fight the surviving spirit beasts.
• Long Xuan and Lei Yun killed the Eagle King, and Long Xuan took its corpse and left while Lei Guang watched from hiding.
• Long Xuan spotted Lei Guang’s ambush, and Lei Guang attacked him with the speed of his Lightning Glow Gu.
• Long Xuan endured Lei Guang’s punches, led him toward a wolf pack, and howled to draw the wolves into the fight.
• Long Xuan dodged the wolves while Lei Guang was wounded, then Lei Guang released his Gu insects, which the wolf pack attacked and overwhelmed.

Long Xuan escaped Lei Guang and gained materials for his Dragon Gu, then spent a year researching its recipe while Flame Clone gathered more Beast King parts. He finally witnessed his Spirit Bee evolve into a queen, named her Bingbing, and discovered she had created a new species of poisonous Ice Bees.

• Long Xuan used Little White’s domain to slow Lei Guang and speed the wolves, which killed Lei Guang before Long Xuan escaped with his belongings.
• Long Xuan found Deer King and Ox King materials in Lei Guang’s pouches, and Flame Clone brought him a Camel King corpse, bringing his collection to six of the nine Dragon Gu materials.
• Long Xuan funded Flame Clone to trade for more Beast King materials, then returned home and advanced the Dragon Gu Recipe to ninety percent over the next year.
• Long Xuan found that his enlarged Spirit Bee had evolved into a queen and was distributing royal jelly to the other bees.
• Long Xuan blood-contracted the queen, named her Bingbing, and learned that her royal jelly could turn ordinary Spirit Bees into Ice Bees with regenerating, poisonous ice-needle stingers.

Long Xuan taxed the Ice Bees’ honey before his Ice Formation slaughtered a beast pack attacking his Medicine Garden. The victory supplied the last rare materials for his Dragon Gu Recipe, but the formation’s bombardment drained its entire Spirit Stone reserve.

• Long Xuan reduced the honey tax to twenty percent and sent Bingbing to collect it, though she secretly took twice the required amount for herself.
• A pack of roughly five hundred spirit beasts attacked Long Xuan’s Medicine Garden, triggering the Ice Formation’s Killing Formation.
• The Divine Ice Flame killed most of the beasts, while a few dozen escaped, and Long Xuan began collecting the preserved corpses for their materials.
• Long Xuan found an Overlord Tiger and a Supreme-grade Spirit Insect, completing the hardest-to-find materials for his Dragon Gu Recipe.
• Long Xuan discovered that the formation’s bombardment had emptied the Spirit Stone reserve at its Formation Eye.

Long Xuan completed his Dragon Gu recipe and spent a year creating Starstep, a qinggong-inspired movement technique that could disperse force, propel him through the air, and reach extraordinary speeds. When he checked the cauldron, he found the Dragon Gu had hatched into Little Green, whose Teleportation Domain made it a powerful addition to his collection; Long Xuan felt ready to leave the beginner’s village and explore.

• After the beast tide ended, Long Xuan completed the Dragon Gu recipe, prepared its materials, and began refining it in a massive cauldron.
• While the Dragon Gu refined, Long Xuan developed Starstep by drawing on the Long Family’s Force-Dispersing Art, then named the finished movement technique and sent his clones to cultivate it.
• A year later, Long Xuan found that the Dragon Gu refinement had reached 100% and discovered a small green dragon asleep in the cauldron.
• Long Xuan blood-contracted the Dragon Gu, learned that its Teleportation Domain allowed it to teleport within its range, and named it Little Green.
• With three supreme-grade Gu worms, Cockroach Gu, and Starstep, Long Xuan decided he was strong enough to leave the beginner’s village and venture out.

After reaching the Peak Spirit-Gathering Stage, Long Xuan agreed to join Old Daoist Li, Di Xin, the little medicine boy, and Li Dashan in exploring a Rogue Cultivator’s cave abode. On the journey, the little medicine boy privately considered a forbidden way to strengthen himself with transplanted organs, while Long Xuan and Di Xin concealed their strength and shared roasted meat during a rest.

• Long Xuan discovered that his five clones had raised him to the Peak Spirit-Gathering Stage, collected honey from Bingbing’s Ice Bees, and prepared honey-glazed roasted meat.
• Old Daoist Li invited Long Xuan to explore a deceased senior’s cave abode with Di Xin, and Long Xuan agreed to bring both his true body and a clone as a precaution.
• At the inn, Long Xuan met Li Dashan and learned that Di Xin had recognized his Peak Spirit-Gathering Stage cultivation; he suspected she was concealing a higher realm but chose not to expose her.
• The group set out from the market, with the little medicine boy leading and Di Xin hiding at the back beside Long Xuan; Old Daoist Li eventually stopped to vomit from exhaustion.
• As Old Daoist Li rested, the little medicine boy silently considered replacing aging organs with parts from other beings, but decided not to share his forbidden idea.
• Long Xuan heated his honey-glazed Beast King meat for the group’s rest, and Di Xin accepted a piece and began eating it.

Long Xuan and his companions reached Old Daoist Li’s hidden cave dwelling in a lava field, where Di Xin identified a dangerous formation guarding the route. While Di Xin prepared to break it, Long Xuan sent Flame Clone to enter in his place and used the lava region to collect the last variety of Supreme-grade Water Bear he needed.

• Little Apothecary wagered his share of the cave dwelling’s treasure against three Spirit-Gathering Pills, and Long Xuan accepted and handed them over.
• The group traveled for more than twenty days to reach the lava region, where Old Daoist Li explained how he had found the hidden cave dwelling and its illusory stone path.
• Di Xin deduced that the lava was filled with trapped stone pillars and offered to break the formation, warning that scouting the route could cost lives.
• Long Xuan pretended to leave, secretly switched places with Flame Clone, and sent the clone toward the cave dwelling with his pouches and instructions to watch Li Dashan.
• Long Xuan released Water Clone and Metal Clone, then collected Supreme-grade Water Bears from the lava region to complete his collection of varieties adapted to extreme heat.

Di Xin used a Formation Key to lead the group safely into the cave dwelling, but they could not open its locked treasure vault. They divided the contents of the cave master's storage bag, discovering a Gu King's inheritance, and began copying its books while Long Xuan produced an astonishing assortment of supplies.

• Di Xin revealed that she had forged a Formation Key, warned that the stone door's combination lock controlled dangerous mechanisms, and led the group safely to the cave master's chamber.
• The group decided not to guess the vault password, and Old Daoist Li resolved to sell the vault's location rather than risk opening it.
• Long Xuan persuaded the group to copy every knowledge inheritance in the cave master's storage bag so everyone could benefit.
• Old Daoist Li opened the storage bag, revealing abundant treasures and a Gu King's cultivation inheritance, then began dividing the loot.
• Long Xuan supplied paper and pens for everyone to copy the books, then brought out a table, chair, tea, and food, leaving the others amazed.

Long Xuan copied the Nine Deaths Divine Art and formation books before leaving the cave with the other Rogue Cultivators. After returning alone, he opened a hidden chamber and discovered an ancient Fire Dragon Fruit Tree that could live forever, an Earth-grade Spirit Medicine.

• Long Xuan copied the Nine Deaths Divine Art as material for creating his own body-tempering cultivation art.
• After three days of copying, Old Daoist Li proposed that everyone leave the remaining books with him in Li Family Village, and the Rogue Cultivators departed with their shares of the treasure.
• Long Xuan returned to the stripped cave, found a combination lock on a stone door, and guessed its twenty numbers until it opened.
• Long Xuan entered the hidden chamber and discovered a fiery ancient tree growing in lava, with an infinity symbol displayed above it.
• Long Xuan identified the tree as a Fire Dragon Fruit Tree whose fruit increased fire resistance and whose Earth-grade status made it extraordinarily valuable.

Long Xuan’s Flame Clone joined the group on their return journey and was caught in a Nether Soul Gu attack orchestrated by Black Heaven Ancestor, who tried to possess him. The clone survived and absorbed the Gu King’s scattered soul, but four of Feng Si’s allies then arrived seeking revenge, sending everyone fleeing.

• Long Xuan decided to risk transplanting the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree into his Medicine Garden using the Divine Ice Flame in place of magma.
• Black Heaven Ancestor emerged from Li Dashan’s ring and revealed that he had infected the group with Nether Soul Gu to find a suitable body.
• Black Heaven Ancestor attempted to possess Long Xuan, but discovered he had chosen a clone and died as his soul dispersed; the clone absorbed the fragments.
• Li Dashan used an antidote to free the group from the Nether Soul Gu, and Long Xuan confronted Old Daoist Li over his promises of safety.
• Four Early Marrow-Cleansing Stage cultivators arrived seeking revenge for Feng Si, and Long Xuan, Old Daoist Li, Di Xin, Li Dashan, and Little Apothecary fled.