Recaps

Lin Changheng returned to Jade Belt Lake, learned that Mo Zhaoli was being sent to the Jin State front, and received the fire-element demon beast essence blood Deng Changsheng had gathered. He used it to refine Flame Manipulation and complete a transformation into an Explosive Flame Azure Lion True Core, while Deng Changsheng’s mysterious hidden companion warned him that Lin might be far more dangerous than he appeared.

• Lin Changheng left the Immortal City after Bai Hengwan arranged a favorable account of his role, and learned that a Law Enforcement Team leader had silenced a dying Demonic Cultivator before he could confess.
• Bai Hengwan explained that Core Formation required years of compressing liquid mana into a core and carefully preparing and consolidating the breakthrough.
• Lin Changheng read Mo Zhaoli’s letter saying she was assigned to the Jin State front, then asked her to visit and summoned Deng Changsheng.
• Deng Changsheng delivered two thousand portions of Blazing Green Lion essence blood; Lin Changheng rewarded him and accepted his concealed Foundation Establishment cultivation without reproach.
• Deng Changsheng’s remnant-soul companion warned him that Lin Changheng might have sensed its presence and ordered him not to communicate with it around Lin unless his life was at stake.
• Lin Changheng chose Flame Manipulation over the Blazing Green Lion’s other talents, refined it to Transcendent Mastery, and completed the bloodline transformation, producing an Explosive Flame Azure Lion True Core at Supreme rank.

Lin Changheng mastered the [Flame-Shaping Demon Method], combined it with his [Fire-Control Divine Ability], and watched his earth vein yellow essence pass the hundred-year mark. As war weakened the Song Region’s defenses and bandit cultivators grew bolder, he learned that even the [Purple Pole Sect] had sent True Core cultivators to the front and turned his attention to strengthening himself.

• Lin Changheng used the [Flame-Shaping Demon Method] to shape the [Dark Radiance Profound Flame] into creatures and forms, then combined it with the [Fire-Control Divine Ability] to melt a powerful testing dummy with nine Fire Crows.
• Lin Changheng found that his earth vein yellow essence had become a century-old medicinal plant, and he used the [Flourishing Life Divine Ability] to expedite the growth of his other spirit plants.
• Cheng Suling told Lin Changheng that the war had drawn away the [Purple Pole Sect]'s forces, allowing bandit cultivators and even False Core rogues to attack remote Immortal Lineages and leased spirit lands.
• Lin Changheng recalled giving Mo Zhaoli protective treasures and supplies before she left for the front, and embracing her as she promised to return safely.
• Cheng Suling gave Lin Changheng [Cold Jade Crystal Scorpion] essence blood before leaving, and Yan Mingyi told him his prepared medicinal bath was ready to support his intensified body tempering.

Lin Changheng tempered his body and strengthened his natal sword embryo, then joined Cheng Suling and Xu Maoling in defending their islands against increasingly brazen bandit cultivators. As the bandits threatened a fleeing cultivator outside their grand formation, a squad from the Purple Pole Sect arrived and killed the pursuer.

• Lin Changheng endured a powerful medicinal bath, refined rare materials, practiced his spells, and prepared Soul-Eroding Miasma Insects to multiply.
• Lin Changheng used the Spirit Grafting art to absorb the Nine Ghost Soul-Reaping Nail's essence into his natal sword embryo, greatly increasing its power and speed.
• Lin Changheng, Cheng Suling, and Xu Maoling agreed to build a grand formation linking their three islands after bandit cultivators slaughtered miners near Jade Belt Lake.
• The bandits' attacks drove customers away from the islands, while Lin Changheng learned that Elder Kong had formed a False Core.
• When bandits pursued a fleeing cultivator outside the formation, Lin Changheng recognized a squad of five approaching; one of the newcomers killed the pursuer and collected his head.

Lin Changheng and his companions resisted Purple Pole Sect cultivators who tried to force their way into Jade Belt Lake, and Sun Jingshan’s arrival drove the officials away. Lin Changheng then negotiated with Sun Jingshan for a Mystic Turtle Barrier-Breaking Pill in exchange for helping replace ingredients in an ancient formula.

• Five Purple Pole Sect cultivators demanded entry to search Jade Belt Lake, threatening to accuse Lin Changheng, Xu Maoling, and Cheng Suling of aiding bandits and seize their islands.
• Lin Changheng advised Xu Maoling and Cheng Suling to keep the formation closed, and the three prepared to resist the law enforcers.
• Sun Jingshan arrived with members of the Sun Clan, prompting the Purple Pole Sect cultivators to abandon their search and leave.
• Sun Jingshan invited Lin Changheng and his companions to relocate to Flowing Cloud Immortal City, then privately asked Lin Changheng to replace missing ingredients in an ancient pill formula.
• Lin Changheng presented a successful preliminary deduction and negotiated for three Mystic Turtle Barrier-Breaking Pills, receiving one immediately for his Black-Armored Earth Turtle.

Lin Changheng’s Black-Armored Earth Turtle broke through to mid-stage second-tier, and two months later bandit cultivators attacked the three islands. Lin Changheng used his Dark Cyan Sword Embryo to slaughter most of the attackers, though the fourth-in-command appeared to survive and escape aboard a flying boat.

• Lin Changheng gave the Black-Armored Earth Turtle an elixir when its cultivation reached its limit, and it broke through to mid-stage second-tier by morning.
• Two months later, Signal Talismans alerted Lin Changheng and Yan Mingyi that bandit cultivators were approaching Jade Belt Lake in three Flood Dragon Spirit Boats.
• Cheng Suling reinforced the Joint Defense Formation while Lin Changheng directed Xu Maoling to attack the western boat’s scar-faced leader.
• Lin Changheng killed the scar-faced leader and several other bandit cultivators with his Dark Cyan Sword Embryo, leaving the western boat empty.
• The surviving bandit cultivators tried to flee, but Lin Changheng’s sword killed the eastern boat’s fourth-in-command and several more attackers before the tall, thin second-in-command escaped.
• Lin Changheng noticed the fourth-in-command’s corpse moving aboard the escaping boat, then collected the spoils and told the others the trouble was over.

Lin Changheng defeated a band of raiders, claimed their supplies, and used their corpses to nourish his spirit insects while keeping the battle secret. A month later, he received news from the Xu Family and met Sun Yiming, who came to collect Lin’s work on substituting ingredients in an ancient formula.

• Lin Changheng collected five storage bags and the raiders’ corpses, then made Xu and Cheng promise to keep his strength and the battle quiet.
• Lin Changheng found nearly thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones, valuable materials, damaged spirit artifacts, and toxin-laden elixirs among the spoils; he fed the unsuitable pills to Xiao Hei.
• Lin Changheng examined letters and a token from the scar-faced bandit cultivator and suspected that the raiders had been acting on secret orders, possibly with help from cultivators within the Purple Pole Sect.
• Lin Changheng placed the five Foundation Establishment corpses in his insect-rearing formation, where the Soul-Eroding Miasma Insects absorbed nourishment drawn from their flesh and resentment.
• After a month without news of the battle, Lin Changheng received letters describing Xu Hanji’s progress, Tantai Feiyue’s talisman skills, Xu Xujun’s survival, and the former Xu Family Head’s death.
• Sun Yiming visited Lin Changheng on the Sun Clan ancestor’s orders, and Lin handed him a jade slip explaining the substitutions for the ancient formula and the reasoning behind them.

Lin Changheng learned from Sun Yiming that the Purple Pole Sect was stalled at Ironwall Pass and that the war had strained its resources and weakened control of its territory. Cheng Suling gave Lin her insights into Qi Observation, and he reached the peak of second-tier body refinement, testing the immense strength and defenses of his newly perfected physique.

• Lin Changheng welcomed Sun Yiming, who explained that he did not want to inherit the Sun Clan and shared secret details about the Purple Pole Sect’s stalled campaign at Ironwall Pass and the strain it placed on the sect.
• More than half a year later, Lin Changheng watched the winter snow and monitored the battlefield, Mo Zhaoli, and Ye Qingwu while reflecting on his progress and the fading pressure from local enforcers.
• Cheng Suling invited Lin Changheng to share Winter Plum Reflecting Snow wine and, unable to pass on the Geomancy Dao, gave him her personal insights into Qi Observation.
• Lin Changheng used a concentrated medicinal bath to bring his Evergreen Azurewood Body to the peak of second-tier body refinement.
• Lin Changheng tested his new physique against a spirit-artifact greatsword and his Sword Embryo, then used his Mountain-Bearing Divine Ability to shatter a Test Stone and found its strength amplification had risen to three and a half times.

Lin Changheng improved his divine-light technique, prepared to leave Perching Moon Island, and traveled under the alias Li Feiyu. After witnessing the Purple Pole Sect's Supervisory Law Enforcement Team plunder the Ye Family, he stopped their flying boat and identified himself.

• Yan Mingyi broke through to the Foundation Establishment third layer and made progress in the Puppet Dao, then crafted a fine-quality lower-grade second-tier Humanoid Puppet.
• Lin Changheng integrated Qi Observation into his divine-light system, later mastered the technique, and reached the overflowing limit of the Foundation Establishment sixth layer.
• Lin Changheng left Perching Moon Island in disguise as Li Feiyu and traveled toward Extreme Mountain Immortal City, stopping at Falling Maple Market Ward.
• Lin Changheng learned that the Purple Pole Sect's Supervisory Law Enforcement Team was targeting the Ye Family, then watched its members force the family to surrender its wealth and storage bags.
• Lin Changheng blocked the law enforcement team's flying boat in the mountains and introduced himself as a rogue cultivator named Li Feiyu.

Lin Changheng disguised as Li Feiyu ambushed and killed the Purple Pole Sect Supervisory Law Enforcement Team, then fled into Azure Firmament Sect territory and began inspecting their spoils. As he opened the final Storage Bag, he discovered something that made his pupils contract.

• Lin Changheng used his Dark Cyan Sword Embryo to kill the Supervisory Law Enforcement Team members after they threatened him and tried to seize his treasure.
• The Sword Embryo devoured the short cultivator’s netherdark baleful qi, while Lin Changheng used Beast Puppets and Dark Radiance Profound Flame to defeat the remaining cultivators.
• Lin Changheng staged the scene to implicate bandit cultivators, escaped into Azure Firmament Sect territory, and hid in a remote cave.
• Lin Changheng searched seven Storage Bags, burned suspicious or traceable objects, and found less wealth than expected because the team had paid off superiors and spent heavily.
• Lin Changheng found an unexpected item in the Storage Bag of the young cultivator who had claimed to have a False Core granduncle.

Lin Changheng sorted through the spoils from his recent battles, discovering a breakthrough treasure and realizing his Sword Embryo could absorb and transform yin baleful energy. After reaching Extreme Mountain Immortal City, he reunited with Zhu Fugui and asked the Flowing Stone Merchant Guild to procure large quantities of demon beast essence blood.

• Lin Changheng identified the essence-gathering jade marrow, stored a bottle of icy substance and the Dark Nether Baleful Art, and set aside a Truth-Peering Talisman and a Blood-Red Flying Sword from his spoils.
• Lin Changheng realized the Primordial Jianmu gave his Sword Embryo an innate ability to embrace and transform external energies, including yin baleful energy.
• Lin Changheng traveled through the disorderly Song Region and entered Extreme Mountain Immortal City, where he rented a cave abode and learned about the city's resources, merchant guilds, and auctions.
• Lin Changheng visited the Flowing Stone Merchant Guild and reunited with Zhu Fugui, who had advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Lin Changheng asked Zhu Fugui to procure at least a hundred portions of profound spirit grade essence blood and, if possible, ten or more portions of water-attribute nether void grade essence blood; he specified that he needed essence blood from Medicinal Spirit Golden Toads.

Lin Changheng gathered materials and commissioned a defensive robe in Extreme Mountain Immortal City while seeking a body-tempering method. After refining the Medicinal Spirit Golden Toad’s Life Concealment talent, he opened a hidden, three-foot internal space and successfully stored a teacup inside it.

• Lin Changheng sold five secondhand spirit artifacts to Zhu Fugui and planned to dispose of his remaining stolen goods gradually.
• Lin Changheng bought medicinal ingredients for a third-tier body-tempering elixir and commissioned an upper-grade second-tier enchanted robe from Cloudweave Workshop.
• Lin Changheng spent a month exploring Extreme Mountain Immortal City, collected the remaining Seven-Star Begonia, and considered ways to obtain a third-tier body-tempering cultivation method.
• Lin Changheng collected a hundred portions of Medicinal Spirit Golden Toad essence blood from Zhu Fugui and examined the beast’s Qi Gathering, Purification, and Life Concealment talents.
• Lin Changheng chose Life Concealment, refined it into the Life-Concealment Foreign Method, and opened a hidden space in his dantian.
• Lin Changheng used his mana to move a steaming teacup into the new space and then retrieve it intact.

Lin Changheng tested the [Life-Hiding Space], discovering that it could sustain plants and insects, then attended the [Extreme Mountain Immortal City] Small Auction and bought valuable inheritances and an [Earthfire Red Lotus Seed]. He returned to his cave abode with his gains and planned to enter secluded cultivation to extract the seed’s fire poison.

• Lin Changheng confirmed that the [Life-Hiding Space] could draw in mana-controlled objects from within one foot, and that living spirit plants and insects could survive inside it.
• Lin Changheng shattered a thousand low-grade spirit stones inside the space and found that their spiritual energy remained there, strengthening his belief that it could grow into a cultivated inner treasure land.
• Lin Changheng attended the Small Auction in [Extreme Mountain Immortal City], where he noticed its strict cultivation hierarchy, anonymous bidding mirrors, and the presence of several false core cultivators.
• Lin Changheng won an upper-grade second-tier [Formation Dao Inheritance] for fifteen thousand low-grade spirit stones and an [Earthfire Red Lotus] for thirty-four thousand.
• Lin Changheng outbid Old Monster Wen and secured a [Third-Tier Low-Grade Dao of Alchemy Inheritance] for more than fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Lin Changheng returned to his cave abode after spending a total of one hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones and decided to enter secluded cultivation for half a year to extract the fire poison from the [Earthfire Red Lotus Seed].

Lin Changheng broke through to Foundation Establishment late stage, acquired the Medicinal Spirit Golden Toad’s Life Concealment talent, and began exploring its expanded spatial ability. After learning of the Song State’s battlefield victory, he attended a high-rank cultivator trade fair, where he recognized one of the newly arrived cultivators.

• Lin Changheng purified and swallowed the earthfire red lotus seed, used essence-gathering jade marrow to help break through to Foundation Establishment late stage, and measured his divine sense at eight hundred and thirty zhang.
• After consolidating his cultivation, Lin Changheng collected two hundred portions of Medicinal Spirit Golden Toad essence blood from Zhu Fugui and learned that the Song State had broken through the Jin State’s defenses at Falling Eagle Ravine and secured Victory Ridge Pass.
• Lin Changheng collected custom-made clothes, returned to his cave abode, and used the Origin Cauldron to refine two Medicinal Spirit Golden Toad treasure seeds, advancing his Life Concealment talent and expanding its hidden space to nine feet.
• Lin Changheng tested the space’s ability to draw objects from three feet away and make them reappear nearby, then considered how to supply the increased mana it consumed.
• Lin Changheng went to the Four Great Merchant Guilds’ high-rank cultivator trade fair, registered under the name Li Feiyu, and recognized one of the two cultivators who entered the room.

Lin Changheng attended the High-Rank Cultivator Trade Fair in Extreme Mountain Immortal City, transformed his Fire-Poison Demon Method with century-old fire poison, and agreed to hear out a proposal from the Gao Household. The fair began with False Core cultivators arriving, then two Core Formation True Persons appeared, leaving the gathering under the scrutiny of powerful guests.

• Lin Changheng recognized Fairy Qu and Ye Wugui aboard the pleasure ship, then watched Manager Liu refuse Young Master Shi's request for a guest's identity.
• Lin Changheng refined scarlet gas and concentrated ink-black venom into his Fire-Poison Demon Method, giving it potent corrosive and persistent effects.
• Gao Huaiyi of the Luokun Mountain Gao Household invited Lin Changheng to discuss an undertaking, and they arranged to meet five days later at the riverside Spirit Wine Tower.
• Lin Changheng entered the trade fair's main hall as nearly twenty False Core True Persons arrived, including High Person Jichen.
• Redflame True Person and Green Pine True Person arrived at the hall, and the Foundation Establishment and False Core cultivators rose to greet them.

At the high-rank trade fair, Lin Changheng exchanged rare materials for Nether Void demon-beast essence blood and a broken heavenheart lotus root, while securing a merchant guild VIP Token. After displaying more of his resources, he suspected Fairy Qu might be using her trade offer to test what he still possessed, so he stayed out of her deal.

• Ye Wugui offered ten drops of third-tier Dark Nether Jellyfish essence blood, and Lin Changheng traded three taels of bone essence for them after confirming the beast had a Nether Void bloodline.
• Lin Changheng offered flowing flame stone essence and a Premium Foundation Establishment Pill, then traded some ore for eight bottles of Profound Spirit Essence Blood from a cultivator of the Xue Family of Golden Valley Ridge.
• False Core cultivator Wen exchanged a broken heavenheart lotus root for Lin Changheng's Premium Foundation Establishment Pill and added a Thousand Spirits Merchant Guild VIP Token when Lin Changheng requested it.
• Young Master Shi offered roots from a supplementary Core Formation herb, while Fairy Qu offered her Ice Crescent Fan in exchange for Core Formation resources or accurate information about them.
• Lin Changheng suspected Fairy Qu's offer was bait to test whether he still had third-tier spirit materials, so he feigned regret and declined to respond.

Lin Changheng traded a Youth-Preserving Pill for an incomplete fourth-tier body-tempering method, then refined a Cold Jade Crystal Scorpion bloodline ability that strengthened his stealth. After evading a pursuer by staying in the Immortal City, he met with the Gao Household to discuss eliminating insects from their spirit-plant garden.

• Young Master Shi failed to tempt Lin Changheng into revealing whether he still had third-tier spirit materials, while Fairy Qu traded information for a promise of the Ice Crescent Fan.
• Lin Changheng privately exchanged a Youth-Preserving Pill with the False Core cultivator surnamed Qi for a fragment of the Crimson Emperor Fire Sovereign Body method.
• After the trade fair, Lin Changheng completed the exchange with Qi, noticed multiple pursuers, and retreated to his cave abode inside the city.
• Lin Changheng reviewed his gains, absorbed Cold Jade Crystal Scorpion essence blood, and refined the Water-Shadow Stealth Demon Method, which concealed him and created convincing doubles capable of striking.
• Lin Changheng began studying the Red Emperor Three Sovereigns Body and then met Gao Dingtian and Gao Jingshu to discuss the Ice Marrow Spirit-Devouring Insects infesting their Golden Spirit Mulberry trees.

Lin Changheng agreed to help the Luokun Mountain Gao Household eradicate the insects, then switched body-tempering methods and unexpectedly broke through to the third tier. After discovering that enemies were stalking him, he killed their lookout and waited in disguise for their Foundation Establishment Peak leader to arrive.

• Lin Changheng accepted the Gao Household's request to eliminate the Ice Marrow Spirit-Devouring Insects for an additional thirty thousand spirit stones, with the work scheduled to begin in two months.
• Zhu Fugui sent Lin Changheng the body-tempering materials he had requested, and Lin Changheng used them to convert his vitality and blood to the Crimson Emperor Fire Sovereign Body, breaking through to third-tier body tempering.
• Lin Changheng tested the Mountain-Bearing Divine Ability's enhanced true intent, shattered multiple second-tier defenses, and pierced the Mystic-Weight Iron Test Pillar with one punch.
• Lin Changheng advanced his Medicinal Spirit Golden Toad seed and Life-Concealment Foreign Method, while his earth spiritual root improved to twenty-six strands of spirit resonance.
• After leaving the city in disguise, Lin Changheng killed an effeminate Qi Refining Peak lookout, searched his soul, and learned that a Foundation Establishment Peak cultivator named Teng Changfeng was pursuing him.
• Lin Changheng waited on a mountain peak in Li Feiyu's appearance, where Teng Changfeng arrived and realized someone had been waiting for him.

Lin Changheng killed Teng Changfeng after countering his treasures and spells, then traveled to Luokun Mountain to join the Gao Household’s pest extermination. He refined Teng’s Light-Settling Pearl and began studying the Mystic Sun Thorn ahead of the hunt scheduled for the next day.

• Teng Changfeng attacked Lin Changheng with the Light-Settling Pearl, the Mystic Sun Thorn, and the Prison-Suppressing Peak Embryo, but Lin broke his defenses and knocked the embryo away with a single punch.
• Lin Changheng burned Teng Changfeng with the Dark Radiance Profound Flame and killed him with the Dark Cyan Sword Embryo, then collected his treasures and Storage Bag.
• An elderly cultivator heard the distant battle and changed course with his grandson to avoid the fighting.
• Lin Changheng arrived at Luokun Mountain, where Gao Jingshu welcomed him and told him the other three invited cultivators had arrived for the pest extermination scheduled for the next day.
• Lin Changheng refined Teng Changfeng’s Light-Settling Pearl and tested its power to slow weapons and weaken spells, then examined the Mystic Sun Thorn scroll and decided to master the advanced spell.

Lin Changheng impressed the Gao Household by using precise flame manipulation to clear an infested Golden Spirit Mulberry Tree without harming it. After the Gao Household celebrated his success, Gao Dingtian invited him to the rear hall for a private discussion.

• Lin Changheng joined three other invited cultivators as the Gao Household offered a rare Female Spider Demon as a bonus for whoever performed best against the ice marrow spirit-devouring insects.
• The red-robed Sheng cultivator failed to burn the insects without damaging a mulberry tree, Li’s Flame-Beaked Birds struggled against the pests, and the sword cultivator could not kill them quickly enough.
• Lin Changheng sent more than a hundred Nethergold Fire Sparrows through an infested tree, killing the insects and their phantom doubles without scorching a leaf.
• Gao Dingtian and the other cultivators praised Lin Changheng, while Sheng apologized for dismissing him; Lin promised to finish clearing the infestation.
• The Gao Household held a banquet for the cultivators, gave generous gifts to the three who had failed, and invited Lin Changheng to the rear hall for a private discussion.

Lin Changheng traded insights into his fire-control methods for a third-tier Crimson Sun Radiance Stone, then prepared his Life-Concealment space and subdued two White Jade Spider Demons. After gathering materials and advancing Life Concealment to transcendent mastery, he triggered an unexpected reaction from the Origin Cauldron.

• Lin Changheng accepted Gao Dingtian's advance payment and gifts, finished clearing the insects from the Gao Household's golden spirit mulberry trees, and left on friendly terms.
• Lin Changheng met Daoist Sheng and traded a restricted Jade Slip of his fire-control insights for a third-tier Crimson Sun Radiance Stone, while both men secretly remained prepared for treachery.
• Lin Changheng returned to Extreme Mountain Immortal City, blended spirit soils, planted the gifted Golden Spirit Mulberry Trees in his Life-Hiding Space, and forced the White Jade Spider Demons to submit using his Shouldering Mountains divine ability.
• Lin Changheng enlisted Zhu Fugui to collect materials, learned that the Purple Pole Sect had secured relief from the siege of Ironwall Pass, and received more than a hundred portions of Medicinal Spirit Golden Toad essence blood.
• Lin Changheng used the essence blood to advance Life Concealment to transcendent mastery, but absorbing the remaining blood caused the Origin Cauldron to flare with cyan and yellow light and produce a startling beast's cry.

Lin Changheng gained the true intent of the Heaven-in-a-Pot divine ability and strengthened his Dark Cyan Sword Embryo by using Spirit Grafting on the Prison-Suppressing Peak Embryo. As Jin State cultivators infiltrated the Song Region, he attended the Medium Auction, where Ye Wugui showed him two roots of precious Core Formation herbs.

• Lin Changheng discovered that the Medicinal Spirit Golden Toad’s treasure seed had become a Dao Fruit carrying the true intent of the Heaven-in-a-Pot divine ability, his fourth divine ability.
• Lin Changheng learned that Jin State cultivators had infiltrated the Song Region, and he decided to keep strengthening his means before returning to Jade Belt Lake.
• Lin Changheng used Spirit Grafting to transfer the Prison-Suppressing Peak Embryo’s spiritual essence into the Dark Cyan Sword Embryo, raising its progress toward becoming a Dharma Treasure to sixty-seven percent and giving it the Thousand-Jin trait.
• Lin Changheng attended the Medium Auction in Li Feiyu’s appearance, qualified for a second-floor private room, and met Ye Wugui, who invited him to discuss a collaboration.
• Ye Wugui proposed bidding together for a precious Core Formation herb and showed Lin Changheng two spirit-sealing jade boxes containing herb roots, which Lin Changheng recognized with surprise and delight.

Lin Changheng secured Ye Wugui’s cooperation for the auction, expanded his preparations for Core Formation, and reunited with Yi Jitian and Elder Ling in Extreme Mountain Immortal City. The auction began with the unexpected announcement of a First-Tier Lifespan-Extending Pill.

• Lin Changheng and Ye Wugui agreed to share auction costs under a magic contract, with Lin Changheng paying no more than a fifty-percent premium and bidding only on medicines with rootlets.
• Lin Changheng sold four spirit artifacts, then bought the Return-to-Truth Pill and Dust-Descending Pill formulas and their ordinary ingredients from the Thousand Spirits Merchant Guild while refusing Steward Liu’s offer of secret channels.
• Lin Changheng and Ye Wugui encountered Yi Jitian and Elder Ling at the auction, recalled their earlier meeting over the Coiling Phoenix Grass, and accepted Yi Jitian’s invitation to gather after the auction.
• Lin Changheng and Ye Wugui entered their private room and waited as the auction began, while Lin Changheng contemplated alchemy and listened to the lots being announced.
• True Person Shi announced a First-Tier Lifespan-Extending Pill, startling Lin Changheng, Ye Wugui, and cultivators throughout the auction hall.

At the auction, Lin Changheng learned that a newly developed Lifespan-Extending Pill could add three years to a cultivator’s life, while Ye Wugui explained the powerful figures behind the event. Lin Changheng discovered that the troublesome Young Master Shi was related to a prominent local True Core cultivator, planned to leave the city cautiously, and acquired a third-tier Talisman Dao inheritance for Tantai Feiyue before spotting the item Ye Wugui wanted.

• Fairy Shi announced that a standard-grade First-Tier Lifespan-Extending Pill added three years to a cultivator’s life, and Purple Thunder True Person inspected one before winning it for twenty-six thousand spirit stones.
• Ye Wugui told Lin Changheng that he was prioritizing ingredients for the Return-to-Truth Pill and explained Purple Thunder True Person’s strength and True Person Azure Wood’s standing.
• Ye Wugui revealed that Young Master Shi was related to True Person Azure Wood, prompting Lin Changheng to plan to leave Extreme Mountain Immortal City after securing the Medicinal Spirit Golden Toad’s essence blood.
• Fairy Shi announced that future auctions would feature premium-grade Lifespan-Extending Pills, and Lin Changheng bought the Hundred Explanations of Cloud Talismans as a gift for Tantai Feiyue.
• Lin Changheng spotted the item Ye Wugui wanted and interrupted their conversation to point it out.

Lin Changheng and Ye Wugui won the five-leaf wish-fulfilling glazed ganoderma at auction, and Lin acquired Ye’s sword manual as collateral for a loan. At Yi Jitian’s banquet, Yi raised the Jin State’s infiltrators and hinted that he wanted their help.

• Ye Wugui asked Lin Changheng to lend him spirit stones, pledging the Light-Splitting, Shadow-Transforming Sword Manual as collateral, and Lin agreed.
• Ye Wugui won the wish-fulfilling glazed ganoderma for 1,150 mid-grade spirit stones, and Lin paid his share and received roots from several medicinal ingredients.
• Lin bought celestial star vine and accepted two pieces of lavafire crystal from Ye Wugui as compensation.
• Ye Wugui told Lin that Azure Mist Rogue Person was rumored to possess a means of threatening a Nascent Soul True Lord, explaining why Floating Life Immortal City stood apart from the Song Region’s sects.
• Lin and Ye attended Yi Jitian’s banquet, where they concealed their successful auction purchase from Elder Ling.
• Yi Jitian told Lin and Ye that Jin State infiltrators were causing trouble in Song State and began asking for their assistance.

Lin Changheng agreed to help Yi Jitian hunt Jin State infiltrators, then gained the Heaven-in-a-Pot divine ability and transformed his Life-Hiding Space into a small cave heaven while his divine sense soared. After Young Master Shi hired assassins to kill him, Lin Changheng slaughtered them and vowed to settle the score with Shi himself.

• Lin Changheng and Ye Wugui accepted Yi Jitian’s request to kill any Jin State infiltrators they encountered, and Yi gave them Guest Tokens for the Immortal Relay Station.
• Young Master Shi insulted Lin Changheng and Ye Wugui at Yi Jitian’s banquet, but Yi defended his friends and mocked Shi until he retreated; Lin secretly added Shi to his must-kill list.
• After receiving the final Medicinal Spirit Golden Toad essence blood, Lin Changheng completed the transformation and gained the Heaven-in-a-Pot divine ability, expanding his Life-Hiding Space into a cave heaven thirty feet across.
• Lin Changheng reorganized the new cave heaven, settled its White Jade Spider Demons, supplemented its spiritual energy with spirit stones, and discovered his divine sense could reach ten thousand feet.
• Young Master Shi sent three cultivators after Lin Changheng, but Lin killed them, buried their bodies in the cave heaven, and promised to kill Shi when they met again.