Chapter Summaries

Long Xuan used a loophole to win the seven High-Grade Unusual Gu Insects for Long Lie, then revealed evidence that the Feng Clan and Gu Clan had sent Gu King avatars to massacre cultivators in the tomb. He provoked the clans into fighting over the crime and Feng Yu’s Spirit-Ascending Grass, while the Long Family escaped the chaos by boat.

• Long Yan handed over his treasure, and the enforcers exposed Long Bao’s hidden, foul-smelling pearl.
• Long Xuan claimed he had brought out more than a hundred Spirit-Ascending Grass stalks and produced 190, letting Long Lie take first place without triggering the Integrity Gu.
• Long Xuan warned Long Lie about Feng Yu’s hostility, and Long Lie projected an Image-Recording Gu showing the Feng Clan and Gu Clan Gu King avatars killing cultivators, including Miao Dongdong.
• Long Xuan loudly argued that the clans should seize Feng Yu’s 180 stalks of Spirit-Ascending Grass, prompting the Miao Clan leader to attack Feng Yu and the Mu Clan leader to attack the Gu Clan.
• Spiritual Sea Stage cultivators and others from the clans joined the battle, and Long Lie led the Long Family onto the Dragon Boat to flee.

After returning to the Long Family, Long Xuan traded for the Myriad-Year Ice Silkworm and learned that the Spirit-Ascending Grass he had obtained might be scarce. Determined to overcome the Ten Extremity Physique’s difficult breakthrough, he invented and refined Spirit-Impact Pills, then prepared to attempt the Marrow Cleansing Stage.

• Long Xuan reminded Long Lie of their bargain, received the Myriad-Year Ice Silkworm, and gave him spicy wine for refining a Wine Gu.
• Long Xuan returned to Little Poverty Peak and told Old Long that he had obtained the Spirit-Ascending Grass by trading with a rabbit in the medicinal garden.
• Old Long lent Long Xuan three Formation Flags and urged him to attempt breaking through with his fifty-seven Spirit-Ascending Grass plants.
• Long Xuan decided to create a Spirit-Impact Pill Recipe and spent half a month devising one with thirty-six ingredients.
• Long Xuan gathered the ingredients and refined five batches of Spirit-Impact Pills, producing fifteen pills with no failures.
• Long Xuan adjusted himself to peak condition and prepared to attempt breaking through to the Marrow Cleansing Stage.

Long Xuan broke through to the Marrow Cleansing Stage and searched for a mountain to establish his cave abode. He discovered a hidden Spirit Spring beneath a remote peak and decided to claim it and conceal it with a powerful formation.

• Long Xuan endured a month of pain and used five Spirit-Impact Pills to break through his Ten Extremity Physique to the Marrow Cleansing Stage.
• Old Long congratulated Long Xuan, explained that the Long Family would value him highly, and urged him to choose a mountain for his cave abode.
• Long Xuan searched the family’s territory and spotted an enormous, unoccupied mountain with a strange progress reading at its center.
• Long Xuan used Earthworker to dig into the mountain and discovered a hidden cavern containing a Spirit Spring that filled the space with dense spiritual power.
• Long Xuan decided to make the mountain his home and began planning a formation strong enough to hide the Spirit Spring and repel even Gu Kings.

Long Xuan returned to the abandoned Luminous Jade Ancient Tomb, rescued the rabbit, plucked the Demon Flower safely, and looted the sleeping chamber. Back at his Medicine Garden, he began designing a Microscopic-Flow Formation that he hoped could become a Peerless Vicious Formation capable of resisting a Gu King.

• Long Xuan remembered the rabbit he had left in the tomb and hurried there, finding the battlefield abandoned and the tomb filled with Dream Butterfly Gu.
• Long Xuan retrieved the still-living rabbit and used a blindfolded Flame Clone to pluck the Demon Flower without falling for its illusion.
• Long Xuan entered the sleeping chamber and took the storage bags, crystal coffin, ever-burning lamps, Golden Crow statues, and mural of the "Sun-Moon Heart Sutra."
• Long Xuan returned to his Medicine Garden in Great Stone Village and released the rabbit, which vanished into the soil.
• Long Xuan began designing a Formation Diagram, envisioning a Composite Grand Formation anchored by his Spirit Spring that could become a Peerless Vicious Formation.

Long Xuan planned a Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation to conceal and protect his Spirit Spring, designing a seemingly unsolvable Rubik’s Cube Binding Formation and an emergency teleportation formation. He began assigning powerful treasures as Formation Eyes, but had yet to find suitable metal- and earth-attribute treasures.

• Long Xuan conceived a Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation and designed its outer Binding Formation around fifty-four illusionary worlds arranged like a Rubik’s Cube, with restoring the cube as its sole Life Gate.
• Long Xuan planned to place the Spirit Spring and his concealed Medicine Garden at the formation’s heavily guarded core, accepting the enormous cost of building the vast formation.
• Long Xuan decided to develop an Instant Teleportation Grand Formation using the Dragon Gu’s whiskers as Formation Bases, both to save travel time and to escape danger.
• Long Xuan completed outlines for the different formations and began designing the Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation’s five Formation Eyes.
• Long Xuan chose the Spirit Spring as the water Formation Eye, the Demon Flower as the wood Formation Eye, and the Divine Ice Flame as the fire Formation Eye, while postponing the metal and earth Formation Eyes.

Long Xuan completed a usable semi-finished Formation Diagram for the Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation, then considered how to gather its costly materials while keeping his true body safe. He planned to seek Top-Grade Spirit Stones through the Long Family and Di Xin, and began designing a low-grade Gu Recipe using Bagworms.

• Long Xuan combined his original Rubik's Cube Grand Formation with thousands of existing formations and completed the Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation Diagram after eight months of work.
• Long Xuan concluded that the formation could become a world-class Vicious Formation, but its five Top-Grade Spirit Stones and many other materials would cost an enormous amount.
• Long Xuan decided to keep his true body hidden inside the formation and use his clone for activities in the Long Family while collecting materials through the Mission Hall.
• Long Xuan planned to trade with Di Xin for formation materials and Top-Grade Spirit Stones, potentially offering her high-quality Spirit Insects from the clans' stone-gambling businesses.
• Long Xuan titled and stored the Formation Diagram, then began devising a low-grade Gu Recipe based on Bagworms and their house-building abilities.

Long Xuan completed the Thousand Flower Pill formula and discovered that Jade Rabbit Fairy was a talented alchemist, so he assigned her to refine it. He then uncovered the Thatch Gu’s ability to travel between the houses it built, leaving him eager to test how far that power could reach.

• Long Xuan finished the Thousand Flower Pill formula and found Jade Rabbit Fairy refining pills with one of his recipes.
• Long Xuan gave Jade Rabbit Fairy the Thousand Flower Pill formula and told her to refine its pills as tuition, planning to use the Medicine Garden’s flowers as ingredients.
• Long Xuan inspected the Thatch Gu’s two completed houses, an inverted pyramid and a maze-like structure, and suspected its ability was connected to its houses.
• Long Xuan repeatedly pushed the Thatch Gu into one house to keep it from building another, but it eventually emerged from the other house and returned to the construction materials.
• Long Xuan realized the Thatch Gu could travel between its houses and considered that building houses far apart might let it escape instantly across great distances.

Long Xuan discovered that the Thatch Gu could transport goods and messages through the Void Realm but could not safely teleport living creatures, then submitted it and the Raincoat Gu Recipe to the Long Family. Half a month later, the clan elders studied the Thatch Gu and confirmed that its houses could not replace teleportation arrays for living travelers.

• Long Xuan tested the Thatch Gu for three days and found that it could carry inanimate objects through the Void Realm, making it useful for delivery, logistics, and intelligence work.
• Long Xuan reached the Long Family during the Earthworker Tournament and learned from Long Qilin that Long Qilin had lost earlier events and that the tug-of-war had been suspended because every rope and chain snapped.
• Long Qilin told Long Xuan that three Lineages were locked in a stalemate after the ancient tomb incident, while the neutral Long Family remained peaceful amid clashes elsewhere.
• Long Xuan left the Thatch Gu and Raincoat Gu Recipe in the Mission Hall's long-term mission box.
• Half a month later, the First Clan Elder offered the Thatch Gu a branch from the Life Ancient Tree, while the Second Clan Elder explained that its houses could not teleport living creatures.

The Long Family’s elders recognized Thatch Gu’s enormous commercial potential and launched a heavily rewarded House-Building Competition to encourage its cultivation. The chapter ended with Long Xuan entering Long Wanli’s residence to collect his long-delayed contribution points while Long Qilin obsessively prepared to compete.

• The elders agreed to promote Thatch Gu throughout the Long Family and investigate whether it could eventually transport living creatures over long distances.
• The elders awarded Long Xuan’s Thatch Gu recipe the mission’s maximum reward of one hundred million contribution points and announced a House-Building Competition with a twenty-million-point grand prize.
• Long Qilin rushed to the Treasure Repository for the Raincoat Gu Recipe, then began building a house from High-Grade Spirit Stones to challenge Long Ziyan.
• Long Xuan saw that Long Ziyan was building with Century-Old Ice Marrow and learned that other competitors were using exceptionally rare materials.
• Long Xuan went to Long Wanli’s pavilion to receive his delayed contribution points, and Long Wanli invited him inside.

Long Xuan received a hundred million contribution points for creating Thatch Gu and chose a remote mountain for his Medicine Garden, while secretly using his Flame Clone to trade for formation materials. After failing to find Top-Grade Spirit Stones in the market, he visited Di Xin, who revealed she had two Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and might be able to supply other materials for his Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation.

• Long Wanli praised Long Xuan's breakthrough and gave him a hundred million contribution points for Thatch Gu.
• Long Xuan chose the largest, most remote mountain for his Medicine Garden and refused Long Wanli's offer of servants.
• Long Xuan answered Long Wanli's questions about Thatch Gu's Gu Recipe before leaving for the Treasure Repository as his Flame Clone.
• Long Xuan's main body spent half a month searching the market for formation materials but found no Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Long Xuan visited Di Xin and asked to buy her Supreme-Grade Earth and Water Spirit Stones and the remaining materials on his list.

Long Xuan and Di Xin negotiated a trade for formation materials, and Di Xin exposed his theft of the Fire Dragon Fruits. The deal ended with Long Xuan receiving two Top-Grade Spirit Stones and the materials, while Di Xin drove him away after her Medicine Garden was ravaged again.

• Di Xin examined Long Xuan’s formation materials and offered two Top-Grade Spirit Stones and some materials for his Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation diagram, which he refused to provide.
• Long Xuan offered the Empress’s Tomb formation diagram, but Di Xin said she already knew most of its principles and would pay only one Top-Grade Spirit Stone for it.
• Long Xuan offered Spirit Insects and pills for the remaining materials, but Di Xin demanded the tree he had stolen from the cave dwelling instead.
• Long Xuan claimed the tree had died but gave Di Xin two Fire Dragon Fruits, and she paid him two Top-Grade Spirit Stones and prepared the materials.
• Di Xin saw that her Medicine Garden had been gnawed bare again and angrily ordered Long Xuan to take his things and leave.

Long Xuan gathered the remaining formation materials through his clone while he stayed in his Medicine Garden to derive the next layers of his cultivation arts. He developed five powerful Mutated Spiritual Powers and completed the second layer of the Purgatory True Demon Art, but still needed to find an adequately cold environment to cultivate it.

• Long Xuan learned that the Long Family members had claimed all the missions for the remaining Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation materials, then entrusted the gathered materials and formation work to his clone.
• Long Xuan spent half a year deriving the second layer of the Ten Absolutes Scripture and developed Yan Spiritual Power by fusing water, wood, and fire attributes.
• Long Xuan created the other four Mutated Spiritual Powers—Sen, Miao, Xin, and Yao—bringing his five-element spiritual power into balance and greatly increasing his combat strength.
• Long Xuan derived the second layer of the Purgatory True Demon Art, which manifested a Golden Crow and a Divine Dragon and gave him two Dharma manifestations.
• Long Xuan learned that cultivating the second layer required extreme cold and decided to use the Divine Ice Flame for now while arranging for his clones to cultivate in an ice river.

Long Xuan rescued Long Lie from his Rubik's Cube Grand Formation, then agreed to supply him with wine and have him gather materials for Dragon Gu's evolution. Long Lie refilled his Wine Worm's vat and prayed using his absurd Friend-Sacrificing Method, but his Gu-refining prospects remained unchanged.

• Long Xuan pulled Long Lie out of the formation after its shifting environments nearly drove him to collapse.
• Long Xuan lied that cheap Cement had let him build the enormous formation with little expense.
• Long Lie said he had failed to refine Wine Gu thirty times and came to trade for more spicy wine.
• Long Xuan gave Long Lie a list of nine Beast King materials needed for Dragon Gu's first evolution in exchange for twenty portions of wine.
• Long Xuan supplied wine for Long Lie's Wine Worm, and Long Lie prayed that sacrificing a friend's good fortune would make his refinement succeed.

Long Xuan continued developing his Soul Armor Gu recipe while Long Lie waited for his wine-based Gu to finish refining. Long Lie’s Wine Gu succeeded and proved powerful enough to satisfy him, leaving him with a new supreme-grade Gu called the Blaze Gu.

• Long Xuan spent a year developing the Soul Armor Gu recipe, bringing its progress to 50%, while Long Lie stayed nearby guarding his wine vat.
• Long Lie ran out of Spirit Wine and joked that he would trade a lifetime of being single for a chance to complete a Gu; Long Xuan saw that the refining progress had appeared.
• Months later, Long Xuan predicted the Wine Gu would finish that day, but Long Lie completed it before he arrived.
• Long Lie tested the Supreme-Grade Wine Gu and found that it could breathe fire and spray wine together, creating a wide, persistent sea of flames.
• Long Lie dismissed Long Xuan’s doubts about its power, named the Gu the Blaze Gu, and celebrated its potential to make him famous.

Long Xuan completed the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm Gu Recipe and set out to gather its seven thousand materials. After seeing the Long Family use his Cement Technology to equip Earthworkers with mobile formations, he split from his Flame Clone to collect materials from the family repository and the Qian Clan Merchant Association.

• Long Xuan finished the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm Gu Recipe after more than half a year of work and decided to begin gathering its materials.
• The Long Family clan head gave Long Xuan one hundred million contribution points for Cement Technology, earning him another Hidden Dragon Tattoo.
• Long Xuan saw Long Family cultivators making cement-and-steel formation armor for Earthworkers and realized the cheap mobile formations could greatly boost the clan’s combat power.
• Long Xuan spotted Di Xin disguised among the formation masters, but focused on collecting materials for his Gu Recipe.
• Long Xuan gave the Flame Clone his Contribution Token to buy materials from the Long Family Treasure Repository, while he disguised himself as the mysterious alchemist and went to the Qian Clan Merchant Association.

Long Xuan returned to Little Poverty Peak with rare materials, found that an intruder had died in his formation, and began refining a Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm Gu. As his Medicine Garden flourished and Bingbing transformed, he put a working rabbit to refining Spirit-Impact Pills so he could earn money.

• Di Xin warned her companion that Little Poverty Peak's formation was strange, but he entered it anyway and died inside.
• Long Xuan returned with materials, took the dead formation master's spatial ring, and burned the corpse.
• Long Xuan put silkworm-type Spirit Insects and other ingredients into a cauldron, and the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm Gu began forming on the first attempt.
• Long Xuan found that Chicken Bro had become a second-stage spirit beast and that his Ice Bees had multiplied; Bingbing transformed after drinking nectar from the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree.
• Long Xuan decided to develop a honey-wine recipe for Little White and gave the Spirit-Impact Pill Recipe to the working rabbit so it could refine pills for him to sell.

Long Xuan developed Spirit-Recovery Wine and watched the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm mature into Little Dream, whose appetite for spirit leaves accidentally revealed a transformation path. After Little Dream began transforming, Long Xuan went to visit Long Ziyan, hoping to learn about the Evil Dragon Emperor Eye and grow closer to her.

• Long Xuan completed the Spirit-Recovery Wine recipe and ordered Flame Clone to brew and distill a vat of wine for Little White.
• The Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm matured, and Long Xuan blood-contracted it and named it Little Dream.
• Little Dream devoured spirit leaves, including three Fire Dragon Fruit Tree leaves, then fell asleep as its spiritual power surged and it began transforming.
• Long Xuan realized Earth-grade Spirit Medicine leaves could trigger Little Dream’s transformation and placed it in the Insect-Rearing Pouch.
• Long Xuan found Little White unconscious in the wine vat and decided to investigate how the Eye of Heavenly Secrets could transform.
• Long Xuan traveled to Long Ziyan’s cave dwelling to ask about the Evil Dragon Emperor Eye and spend time with her.

Long Xuan visited Long Ziyan to ask about the Evil Dragon Emperor Eye, and she explained its abilities, evolution, and the Lineage’s upcoming Gu-Dueling Tournament and Eye-Washing Day. He decided to seek a Divine Dragon Tree of his own so he could evolve his Eye of Heavenly Secrets perfectly.

• Long Xuan entered Long Ziyan’s mountain residence and found her watching a Thatch Gu build a house from second-rank Dragon Silkworm Silk.
• Long Ziyan explained that the Lineage had made the Thatch Gu’s birthday a yearly festival, and Long Xuan considered building his Thatch Gu a luxurious home.
• Long Xuan asked about the Evil Dragon Emperor Eye, and Long Ziyan described its ability to find flaws, its sealed abilities, and its evolution through eye drops.
• Long Ziyan gave Long Xuan the Dragon’s Tear recipe and explained the Gu-Dueling Tournament, Eye-Washing Day, and the limited supply of Divine Dragon Milk.
• Long Xuan resolved to obtain a Divine Dragon Tree and wondered whether he could grow one from a branch using his Cutting Propagation Technique.

Long Xuan improved his Dragon's Tear formula, watched his Thatch Gu build an ice-and-fire villa, and examined the newly evolved Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm. He discovered Little White had finished evolving and was pretending to remain in the wine vat to get more wine.

• Long Ziyan told Long Xuan that her Evil Dragon Emperor Eye carried the powerful Soul Seed Illusion Technique, and Long Xuan remembered Long Chao as another person who possessed it.
• Long Xuan gave his Thatch Gu Fire Dragon Fruit Tree branches, and it built a beautiful villa divided into icy and fiery halves.
• Long Xuan completed and named his improved eye-drop formula Dragon's Eye, then found Long Ziyan's Thatch Gu visiting the new villa and sent her an invitation to go shopping with him.
• Long Xuan found the awakened Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm spinning tough silk and decided to call armor made from it Heavenly Dream Soul Armor.
• Long Xuan realized Little White had completed its evolution and was pretending to sleep in the wine vat for more wine, so he grabbed it and shook it awake.

Long Xuan and Long Ziyan celebrated Thatch Gu Day, where Long Ziyan won both house exhibition crowns and received a poem from Long Xuan. Three days later, Long Xuan joined the crowd at the Gu-Dueling Tournament to watch the Marrow Cleansing Stage matches and inspect the newly built Gu Pits.

• Long Xuan cast all his votes for Long Ziyan's Dragon Silkworm House and declined to show her his unentered Icefire Cabin.
• Long Xuan sent Long Ziyan a love poem through his Thatch Gu, and she received it after he left.
• Long Ziyan won both crowns at the house exhibition, while Long Qilin placed second and reportedly failed to find a partner.
• The Long Family prepared reinforced Cement Gu Pits for Eye-Washing Day to contain the destructive Earthworkers.
• Long Xuan sent his Flame Clone to compete for a top-twenty place and watched the Marrow Cleansing Stage tournament from a distant tree.