Recaps

After Yan Mingyi’s grandfather, Puppet Master Yan, died upon completing a second-tier puppet, Lin Changheng accepted his request to look after her in exchange for the puppet and a promised legacy. Yan Mingyi moved into Lin Changheng’s dwelling, and the story leaves off as the appointed day to refine Foundation Establishment Pills arrived.

• Yan Mingyi told Lin Changheng that her grandfather had died, and he accompanied her to examine the body.
• Lin Changheng determined that Puppet Master Yan had died from intense emotional agitation after apparently advancing in puppet crafting.
• Yan Mingyi opened her grandfather’s storage bag and revealed a nearly completed second-tier puppet, then found his jade-slip instructions entrusting her to Lin Changheng.
• Lin Changheng agreed to take Yan Mingyi in and help her complete the puppet in return for the puppet and the promised second-tier puppet legacy.
• After Puppet Master Yan’s funeral, Yan Mingyi moved into Lin Changheng’s dwelling, cleaned it, and prepared spirit cuisine for him and the Black-Armored Earth Turtle.
• The appointed day for refining Foundation Establishment Pills arrived.

Lin Changheng refined a Premium Foundation Establishment Pill for three Foundation Establishment cultivators, bringing him new connections, payment, and fame throughout Floating Life Immortal City. After absorbing Cook Zeng’s Poisonfire Savage Bull essence blood, he decided to stay in seclusion until his body refinement breakthrough, while the city’s cultivators flocked to seek his favor.

• Yan Mingyi welcomed a white-robed female cultivator and Cook Zeng with two Foundation Establishment cultivators to Lin Changheng’s residence.
• Lin Changheng inspected their ingredients and spent seven days refining three Foundation Establishment Pills, including one Premium pill with cloud patterns.
• The Huang Household elder chose the Premium pill first, the white-robed woman and the other Huang Household cultivator took the remaining pills, and Lin Changheng received spirit stones from them.
• Cook Zeng gave Lin Changheng about three hundred portions of Poisonfire Savage Bull essence blood, then learned that Puppet Master Yan had died and offered Yan Mingyi his condolences.
• Lin Changheng used Spirit Seizure on the essence blood, strengthening his fire-poison method and raising his fire Spiritual Root to forty-one strands, then resolved to remain indoors until his Evergreen Azurewood Body advanced.
• After the Huang Household confirmed Lin Changheng’s achievement, his fame spread across and beyond Floating Life Immortal City, visitors brought him more than five thousand Spirit Stones’ worth of gifts, and he gave Yan Mingyi materials to repair the Second-Tier puppet.

Lin Changheng broke through to the fifth level of the Evergreen Azurewood Body, then commissioned a swift flying sword from Artifact Master Guo while catching up on news from his friends. Three months later, Mo Zhaoli arrived at his cave abode.

• Lin Changheng absorbed the remaining power of the Jiao Blood Fruit and advanced to mid-second-tier body refinement, testing his new durability against his own arm.
• Lin Changheng bought a Nine-Python Flame-Swallowing Furnace and, with Lü Tong's introduction, commissioned Artifact Master Guo to craft a low-grade flying sword focused on extreme speed.
• Lin Changheng agreed to help Artifact Master Guo obtain a Realm-Breaking Pill for his eldest son, then finalized the flying sword's design five days later.
• Lin Changheng welcomed Mo Zhaoli's planned visit despite her worry that Senior Brother Feng would accompany her on a Bandit Cultivator Hunt Mission.
• Lin Changheng learned from Tantai Feiyue that the Xu Family had expanded its resources and that she and Xu Qianyan had both become second-tier practitioners; Xu Fugui also reported that his grandson had a high-grade spiritual root.
• Three months later, Mo Zhaoli arrived at Cave Abode Number Ninety-Eight, where Yan Mingyi greeted her.

Lin Changheng learned that the Purple Pole Sect’s campaign against Demonic Cultivators had met fierce resistance, while he transformed the Mountain-Moving Ape Treasure Seed and gained the true intent of the Mountain-Bearing Divine Ability. After Mo Zhaoli reported the operation’s casualties and the sect’s next steps, Lin Changheng was left wary of the hidden threat.

• Mo Zhaoli visited Lin Changheng, heard how Yan Mingyi had come to live with him, and asked him to refine pills for her.
• Mo Zhaoli gave Lin Changheng earth-aspected Profound Spirit Essence Blood, allowing him to transform the Mountain-Moving Ape Treasure Seed and incorporate the true intent of the Mountain-Bearing Divine Ability.
• Mo Zhaoli warned Lin Changheng that the Purple Pole Sect had sent seven Foundation Establishment cultivators to exterminate a demon sect disguised as bandits.
• A month later, Mo Zhaoli returned for healing and recovery pills and told Lin Changheng that two Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Demonic Cultivators had badly injured two sect cultivators during the operation.
• Mo Zhaoli said the Purple Pole Sect would monitor the demons in shifts to stop them from fleeing, while Lin Changheng quietly considered the danger and probed their plans.

Lin Changheng secretly killed Senior Brother Feng, concealed the evidence, and destroyed the Purple Pole Sect’s detection-concealing artifact before returning to Floating Life Immortal City. Mo Zhaoli later collected her elixirs and revealed that Senior Brother Feng’s master, Uncle-Master Qi, had joined the demon-clearing mission, leaving Lin Changheng to hear a secret he was sworn to keep.

• Lin Changheng followed Senior Brother Feng out of the city and ambushed him, using a powerful imitation of the Fire Rain Spell and his purple blades to kill him.
• Lin Changheng took Senior Brother Feng’s belongings, burned the corpse, cleaned the scene, and escaped under several disguises.
• Lin Changheng examined the loot, found the Purple Pole Sect’s gauze concealment artifact, and spent two hours damaging it before destroying his cave and returning to the city.
• Lin Changheng emerged from seclusion with the elixirs, and Yan Mingyi told him that Mo Zhaoli had visited while he was away and seemed troubled.
• Mo Zhaoli returned seven days later to collect her elixirs and said Uncle-Master Qi had swept through the Demonic Cultivators, ensuring the mission succeeded.
• Mo Zhaoli revealed a secret about Uncle-Master Qi and warned Lin Changheng not to tell anyone.

Lin Changheng collected his new flying sword, tended his growing spirit plants, and continued cultivating while hiding his Foundation Establishment from others. After feeding the Redcloud Profound Flame crimson true essence, he transformed it into an upper-grade second-tier flame, then emerged to find that his giant puppet had been fully restored.

• Lin Changheng kept the deaths of Mo Zhaoli's fellow disciples secret and planned to wait years before selling their long saber spirit artifact.
• Lin Changheng collected his azure-gold flying sword from Artifact Master Guo and tested its speed and power back at his cave abode.
• Lin Changheng refined Realm-Breaking Pills and monitored his spirit plants as they continued to grow over the next two years.
• Lin Changheng discovered that his body-tempering spirit liquid had lost potency and resolved to buy stronger ingredients.
• Lin Changheng's Redcloud Profound Flame transformed into an upper-grade second-tier flame after consuming crimson true essence, and he tested its power on a meteoric iron stone.
• Lin Changheng emerged from cultivation and found his nine-foot mystic-black armored puppet fully restored.

Lin Changheng agreed to refine an elixir to stabilize Xu Hanwu’s damaged dantian after learning she had been gravely injured by the Qiu Family’s ancestor. Xu Xujun also delivered gifts from Tantai Feiyue and more than five hundred bottles of Jade-Horned Snake essence blood, leaving Lin Changheng ready to gather ingredients and refine the elixir.

• Yan Mingyi told Lin Changheng that Xu Xujun had visited, and Lin Changheng invited his old friend to come again.
• Lin Changheng considered asking the Fan Family of Fallen Phoenix Forest for a method to accelerate the growth of tamed beasts.
• Xu Xujun told Lin Changheng that Xu Hanwu’s dantian had been cracked when the Qiu Family’s ancestor attacked her over a Foundation Establishment Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Changheng said he could stabilize Xu Hanwu’s dantian for ten years but could not repair it, and agreed to refine the necessary elixir.
• Xu Xujun delivered a wooden box from Tantai Feiyue and more than five hundred bottles of Jade-Horned Snake essence blood, then left after agreeing to settle the elixir’s cost later.
• Lin Changheng planned to buy the medicinal ingredients the next day and examined the essence blood after Xu Xujun departed.

Lin Changheng refined new Poisonfire Savage Bull and Jade-Horned Snake abilities, received a powerful defensive talisman disc from Tantai Feiyue, and learned that Wu Huayuan might attempt Core Formation using a third-tier treasure herb. After refining medicine for Xu Hanwu, he was visited by his neighbor Lü Tong and an unidentified bearded cultivator.

• Lin Changheng used Poisonfire Savage Bull essence blood to advance his fire poison to the lower-grade second tier, strengthening his fire spiritual root.
• Lin Changheng refined Jade-Horned Snake essence blood, gaining concealment from divine sense probing and increasing his wood spiritual root.
• Lin Changheng tested Tantai Feiyue's eight-talisman disc and found it could provide protection against Foundation Establishment middle-stage attacks.
• Lin Changheng heard that Azure Mist Rogue Person had given Wu Huayuan a third-tier treasure herb used in the Return-to-Truth Pill, possibly to prepare for Core Formation.
• Lin Changheng bought ingredients, refined a Mystic Origin Renewal Pill for Xu Hanwu, and handed it to Xu Xujun.
• Lü Tong arrived at Lin Changheng's door with a bearded male cultivator.

Lin Changheng accepted Yan Mingyi’s sober confession of love, and the two became lovers. A year later, he harvested a mature Nine-Leaf Violet Cinnabar Fungus, then received a visit from a Foundation Establishment cultivator bearing news from the Fan Family of Fallen Phoenix Forest.

• Lü Tong introduced Yue the Wine Master to Lin Changheng, who accepted his gift of second-tier spirit wine after checking it for tampering.
• Yan Mingyi drank too much of the wine and confessed that she wanted to become Lin Changheng’s concubine; once she was sober, Lin Changheng accepted her.
• A year passed, and Lin Changheng, now seventy, harvested the mature Nine-Leaf Violet Cinnabar Fungus while leaving its roots to regrow.
• Yan Mingyi prepared Lin Changheng’s body-tempering bath, and he continued to keep her out of his Spirit Medicine Garden.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Fan Family of Fallen Phoenix Forest arrived with news, and Lin Changheng remarked on the delay.

Lin Changheng negotiated with the Fan Family for Foundation Establishment Pill ingredients and a beast-feeding pill formula, then helped Deng Changsheng secure a chance to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill. The furnace produced one premium pill and two standard pills, and the participants left after dividing them.

• Lin Changheng secured the Fan Family cultivator's promise to provide the Thick Earth Beast-Feeding Pill formula, though the family could only supply Flame-Tailed Golden Mouse essence blood he had already purchased elsewhere.
• Lin Changheng offered Deng Changsheng a chance to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill if he found a Celestial Crystal Spirit Lotus Root within two months, and Deng pledged loyalty to him.
• Deng Changsheng returned injured with a processed Celestial Crystal Spirit Lotus Root, which Lin Changheng verified and agreed to keep safe.
• Fan Yunqing delivered the promised formula, and Lin Changheng checked the ingredients and assigned the Fan Family first choice, himself second choice for an absent cultivator, and Deng Changsheng third choice.
• After seven days, Lin Changheng refined one premium Foundation Establishment Pill and two standard pills, which the participants divided before departing.

Lin Changheng received news from Mo Zhaoli and Tantai Feiyue, then spent four years cultivating in seclusion. He broke through to the third layer of Foundation Establishment and emerged to find Yan Mingyi waiting for him.

• Lin Changheng refused to safeguard Deng Changsheng's Foundation Establishment Pill and sent him away, while Deng Changsheng concluded that Lin Changheng was already a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Mo Zhaoli told Lin Changheng she had reached the third layer of Foundation Establishment and offered to negotiate for an elder's Red-Eyed Fire and Mountain and Marsh Spirit.
• Tantai Feiyue reported that Xu Hanwu had stabilized after treatment and resumed helping the Xu Family, while Xu Fugui asked Lin Changheng to support his grandson's entry into the Purple Pole Sect.
• Four years passed as Yan Mingyi advanced to the seventh layer of Qi Refining and the Black-Armored Earth Turtle grew on premium beast-feeding pills.
• Lin Changheng's Jade Void Radiant Scripture advanced to Minor Accomplishment, and he broke through to the third layer of Foundation Establishment after eight years of accumulation.
• Lin Changheng emerged from seclusion, and Yan Mingyi approached him in a palace gown.

Lin Changheng advanced his Poisonfire methods, learned that Cook Zeng had established Foundation Establishment, and agreed to pursue a source of Profound Spirit Essence Blood. He ended the chapter by refining three premium pills and preparing to advance his alchemy.

• Lin Changheng rejected the sect senior's demand for a Foundation Establishment Pill in exchange for the Red-Eyed Fire and integrated Poisonfire into his methods.
• Lin Changheng extracted Poisonfire Savage Bull essence blood to complete Spirit Seizure, then transformed Red-Eyed Fire essence blood into a Poisonfire True Core.
• Cook Zeng visited Lin Changheng after establishing Foundation Establishment and invited him to a celebration for himself and Huang Qingshan.
• Cook Zeng told Lin Changheng that the Sun Clan was selling an aged Deep Lake Spirit Clam with Profound Spirit Essence Blood, and Lin Changheng agreed to let the Huang Household negotiate its purchase.
• Lin Changheng invited Yan Mingyi to travel with him and later refined three premium pills, reaching the pinnacle of second-tier low-grade alchemy.

Lin Changheng tended his expanding Spirit Medicine Garden and attended the Immortal City's grand auction, where he bought spirit wood, an alchemical inheritance, and ingredients for pills. After the auction's Core Formation-related finale drew bids beyond his means, he left and learned that True Disciple Bai had summoned him, then agreed to follow her messenger.

• Lin Changheng inspected his six-ridge Spirit Medicine Garden, noting the growth of his Nine-Leaf Violet Cinnabar Fungus and other valuable plants.
• Steward Xie delivered Lin Changheng a complimentary Heaven Character Pavilion invitation, explaining that True Disciple Bai had arranged it.
• At the three-day auction, Lin Changheng bought eastwheel willow wood and a mid-grade second-tier Dao of Alchemy inheritance, and gave Yan Mingyi a Puppetcraft Dao notebook.
• Lin Changheng purchased Jiao Blood Fruits and two Youth-Preserving Pill ingredients, but did not bid on the Azure Water Lotus seed after its price surged beyond his reach.
• Lin Changheng left the auction and confronted a yellow-robed cultivator waiting outside, who revealed that True Disciple Bai had sent for him.
• Lin Changheng accepted the messenger's invitation and followed him to meet True Disciple Bai.

Lin Changheng agreed to help Bai Wan adapt an incomplete ancient pill formula for a spirit-beast breakthrough pill, seeing a chance to help his Black-Armored Earth Turtle advance. He returned to Cave Abode Number Ninety-Eight with the formula materials and Floating Life Token, while Yan Mingyi learned that Xiao Hei might soon have a chance to reach the second tier.

• Bai Wan apologized to Lin Changheng for the presumptuous invitation and asked him to help replace extinct ingredients in an ancient pill formula.
• Lin Changheng swore not to disclose the formula, discovered that the Jade Slip contained only an incomplete portion, and agreed to work on it for compensation and Immortal City benefits.
• Lin Changheng requested priority to buy the resulting Spirit-Communing Pill for his spirit beast, and Bai Wan agreed.
• Bai Wan revealed that she had detected Lin Changheng's Foundation Establishment cultivation and had ordered the Immortal City's inner circle to treat him as an honored guest.
• Lin Changheng returned to Cave Abode Number Ninety-Eight with ingredients and a Floating Life Token, then told Yan Mingyi that the Spirit-Communing Pill could help spirit beasts advance a tier.
• Yan Mingyi asked whether the pill and Xiao Hei's Profound Spirit Bloodline would give the Black-Armored Earth Turtle a strong chance of reaching the second tier.

Lin Changheng and Yan Mingyi traveled to Spirit Vault Mountain for the Huang Family’s Foundation Establishment celebration, where Lin also pursued a deal for the aged Deep Lake Spirit Clam. The welcoming banquet began with Huang Jiuyuan announcing two new Huang Family elders, while the spirit beast negotiations remained ahead.

• Lin Changheng swallowed a Jiao Blood Fruit and resumed body tempering with Eastwheel Willow Wood.
• Lin Changheng and Yan Mingyi flew to Spirit Vault Mountain and were welcomed by Cook Zeng.
• Huang Linglin thanked Lin Changheng for the Beauty-Preserving Pill and arranged to buy more for herself and her friends.
• Lin Changheng spotted the two Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Beast-Taming Sun Clan, who had brought the Deep Lake Spirit Clam for the Huang Family to consider purchasing.
• Huang Jiuyuan welcomed Lin Changheng and began the banquet, then introduced two newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivators as Huang Family elders.

At the Huang Household’s Foundation Establishment celebration, Lin Changheng became the center of attention for his alchemy and sold his remaining Beauty-Preserving Pills to wealthy female cultivators. He stayed with the Huang Household while Cook Zeng negotiated for the Sun Clan’s aged Mystic Spirit-grade Spirit Beast, and Cook Zeng arrived with news that he had fulfilled the mission.

• The banquet guests learned that Cook Zeng had established Foundation Establishment after age seventy, then flocked to toast Lin Changheng after hearing of his alchemy and successful Premium Foundation Establishment Pills.
• At the next day’s celebration, Huang Linglin brought six female cultivators to buy Lin Changheng’s Beauty-Preserving Pills, and they each paid two hundred low-grade spirit stones for one.
• He Jinxing visited Lin Changheng to build ties and promised to ask around about suitable beasts, while four more visitors sought Foundation Establishment Pills and Lin Changheng raised his refining fees.
• Lin Changheng remained at the Huang Household while it negotiated with the Sun Clan for the aged Mystic Spirit-grade Spirit Beast, and Cook Zeng reported that he had fulfilled his mission.
• Cook Zeng explained that the deal had stalled because the Sun Clan demanded an inflated price and the Huang Household refused to pay six thousand spirit stones.

Lin Changheng bought a second-tier Deep Lake Spirit Clam and used the Flourishing Life Divine Ability to remove the hidden energy withering it, greatly extending its remaining lifespan. He then met privately with Huang Jiuyuan, who asked him to preserve their cooperation for the next thirty years, and Lin Changheng agreed after receiving an enticing item.

• Lin Changheng paid the Sun Clan five thousand five hundred Spirit Stones for the Deep Lake Spirit Clam and its raising method.
• Lin Changheng examined the clam and discovered that it had only about ten years left to live, though he could not identify the cause.
• Lin Changheng used the Flourishing Life Divine Ability to draw out and counter the clam's hidden withering silence energy, improving its condition and giving it the nickname Xiao Bai.
• Lin Changheng made a small pool for Xiao Bai in his courtyard and promised it a lake when he moved to a larger residence.
• Huang Jiuyuan privately asked Lin Changheng to overlook lesser disputes and maintain their cooperation for thirty years, and Lin Changheng agreed in exchange for an enticing item.

Lin Changheng learned where Huang Jiuyuan had found the Jade Void Radiant Scripture, received a mysterious crystal, and left the Huang Household for the Xu Family. After killing a cultivator who pursued him, he reunited with Tantai Feiyue and was welcomed back by Xu Xujun and the Xu Family.

• Lin Changheng revealed his cultivation to Huang Jiuyuan, who told him the Jade Void Radiant Scripture came from the Jin State and gave him a red crystal associated with the method in exchange for thirty years of cooperation with the Huang Household.
• Lin Changheng disguised himself and left the Huang Household alone, heading toward the Xu Family after learning Xu Hanwu's Dantian had been mostly repaired and Tantai Feiyue planned to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Three Foundation Establishment cultivators watched for someone outside the Huang Household, and one followed Lin Changheng; Lin killed the black-robed pursuer with his Fire-Control Divine Ability and took his possessions.
• Lin Changheng found a rare auxiliary ingredient for the Youth-Preserving Pill in the pursuer's Storage Bag, then continued his uneventful journey to the Blackwater River.
• Tantai Feiyue and Xu Xujun recognized Lin Changheng outside the Xu Family Base, where Lin embraced Tantai Feiyue and Xu Xujun publicly welcomed him home.

Lin Changheng reunited with Tantai Feiyue and agreed to examine Xu Hanwu before her dangerous Foundation Establishment attempt. After receiving five drops of Nether Void Essence Blood from the Xu Family, he transformed the Azure Wave Spirit Turtle treasure seed and prepared to discover its new power.

• Lin Changheng declined a welcoming banquet, learned Xu Hanwu planned to attempt Foundation Establishment in two months despite the risk of her dantian rupturing, and agreed to examine her the next day.
• Lin Changheng reunited with Tantai Feiyue at her pavilion, and the two spent the evening together.
• Xu Xuheng, Xu Xujun, and Xu Qianyan gave Lin Changheng five drops of essence blood taken from a slain Qiu Family Foundation Establishment seed, and Lin promised to do his utmost to help Xu Hanwu.
• Lin Changheng returned to Tantai Feiyue's pavilion and entered seclusion, where he discovered a growing Mystic Root inside the Origin Cauldron and refined Jade-Horned Snake treasure seeds to improve his Breath-Concealing Foreign Method.
• Lin Changheng used the five drops of Nether Void Essence Blood to complete the transformation of the Azure Wave Spirit Turtle treasure seed, whose selected talent was Lifespan Extension.

Lin Changheng incorporated the Azure Wave Spirit Turtle’s essence blood, extending his lifespan and confirming the value of collecting high-grade essence blood. He then examined Xu Hanwu’s damaged dantian and prepared to use the Flourishing Life Divine Ability to heal her while concealing its unusual effects.

• Lin Changheng gained forty years of lifespan from the Azure Wave Spirit Turtle True Core and chose not to pursue the Qiu Family’s Turbid Core Demon Beast.
• Lin Changheng gave Tantai Feiyue a Jade Slip containing methods for crafting three kinds of Talisman Discs, and she supplied him with talismans and discs.
• Lin Changheng reunited with Xu Hanwu and agreed to examine her damaged dantian; she confessed her feelings and asked him to hold her.
• After examining Xu Hanwu, Lin Changheng told the Xu elders he had an eighty percent chance of restoring her dantian, and they promised to keep seeking valuable demon beast essence blood.
• Lin Changheng prepared Azure Spirit Pills to disguise the effects of his healing ability, then began treating Xu Hanwu by channeling the Flourishing Life Divine Ability into her.

Lin Changheng completed the treatment of Xu Hanwu’s dantian and learned of a secret realm opening in ten years, then traveled to the Desolate Ruins Market to seek Purple Date Grass. At the Yang Family Medicine Shop, he recognized the shopkeeper and noticed suspicious traces of blood on the box containing the herb.

• Lin Changheng used his Flourishing Life Divine Ability to heal Xu Hanwu’s dantian over several sessions, and she kissed his cheek before he left the Xu Family.
• Lin Changheng learned that a secret realm under the Purple Pole Sect’s control would open in ten years and that Xu Xujun had seen Purple Date Grass, a Youth-Preserving Pill ingredient, at the Desolate Ruins Market.
• Lin Changheng left the Xu Family after encouraging Tantai Feiyue and flew to the Desolate Ruins Market to search for the herb.
• At the Yang Family Medicine Shop, Lin Changheng asked to buy the Purple Date Grass, and the shopkeeper pretended to retrieve it from a cabinet.
• Lin Changheng recognized the shopkeeper from years earlier and sensed a faint blood trace on the jade box he had taken from his Storage Bag.

Lin Changheng bought a rooted Purple Date Grass, then killed the Foundation Establishment shopkeeper who had followed him to rob him and learned the man had murdered his former master. After returning to Immortal City, Lin Changheng presented a list of ingredients for the Spirit-Communing Pill to the Spirit Materials Hall and pressed its steward to provide the rare items.

• Lin Changheng recognized the former Pill Refining Pavilion assistant, bought his thirty-year-old Purple Date Grass for two thousand spirit stones, and noticed signs it might mature into a Golden-Pattern Purple Date Grass.
• The shopkeeper followed Lin Changheng out of the market ward, but Lin Changheng lured him into the forest and killed him with his Flying Sword.
• Lin Changheng used the Soul-Seizing Secret Art and learned the man had murdered the middle-aged shopkeeper who had nurtured him, then preyed on wealthy customers to fund his cultivation.
• Lin Changheng left for the Huang Household on Spirit Vault Mountain and spent the journey developing four substitution plans for two ancient herbs in the incomplete Spirit-Communing Pill formula.
• After returning to Immortal City with Yan Mingyi, Lin Changheng visited the Spirit Materials Hall and gave its steward a list of six ingredients.
• When the steward hesitated over two rare ingredients, Lin Changheng reclaimed the Jade Slip with his mana and threatened to report the hall to True Disciple Bai, prompting the steward to promise he would fetch them.

Lin Changheng returned to his cave abode, examined his recent gains, and discovered that the Red Transparent Crystal could accelerate his cultivation and strengthen the Redcloud Profound Flame. He realized the Jade Void Radiant Scripture might drive practitioners to hunt one another for such crystals, and began considering how to conceal himself and avoid danger.

• Lin Changheng requisitioned rare ingredients from the Immortal City storehouse, then returned to Cave Abode Number Ninety-Eight and entered seclusion.
• Lin Changheng searched the Storage Bag taken from the shop assistant he had killed and found nearly five thousand spirit stones, then reviewed his ingredients for the Youth-Preserving Pill.
• Lin Changheng compared the Red Transparent Crystal with his Crimson True Essence and confirmed they shared the same origin.
• Lin Changheng drew energy from the Red Transparent Crystal, refined its mana into his dantian, and fed its Crimson True Essence to the Redcloud Profound Flame, strengthening it.
• Lin Changheng concluded that the Jade Void Radiant Scripture might encourage practitioners to hunt one another for crystals and decided he must conceal his cultivation method.

Lin Changheng continued refining his cultivation and plans, successfully reviving a precious herb and treating Xiao Bai and the Deep Lake Spirit Clam. He returned to the Spirit Materials Hall with a workable herb substitution and told the steward he had an eighty percent chance of completing the task for True Disciple Bai.

• Lin Changheng emerged from a month of seclusion after confirming one substitute herb worked with double-pupiled seed and devising a new mixture for another; his cultivation and spiritual roots had also improved.
• Yan Mingyi showed Lin Changheng the finely crafted mid-grade puppet dog she had made, and he praised her progress and encouraged her to continue working toward a great puppet formation.
• Lin Changheng used the Flourishing Life Divine Ability to improve the Deep Lake Spirit Clam's injuries, fed it a second-tier elixir, and then revived the withered roots of purple date grass in his Spirit Medicine Garden.
• Lin Changheng inspected the nine-leaf violet cinnabar fungus and vermilion beauty fruit grass, estimating that each would need roughly four to five more years of intensive ripening before use.
• At the Spirit Materials Hall, Lin Changheng told the elderly steward that one main ingredient substitution had succeeded and that he had an eighty percent chance of completing the remaining substitution; the steward reacted with delight.

Lin Changheng obtained a second-tier wood-water Demon Core for the Youth-Preserving Pill, then spent half a year healing Xiao Bai and drawing its essence blood. After True Disciple Bai emerged from seclusion, she requested a meeting with him.

• Lin Changheng collected an Azure Rain Mist Toad Demon Core from the Spirit Materials Hall, but the hall lacked an Azure Flower Moon Lotus and its steward hinted that True Disciple Bai might know about the toad's blood.
• Lin Changheng finished treating Xiao Bai, the Deep Lake Spirit Clam, and persuaded it to donate a portion of essence blood with a Cold Marrow Silver Needle.
• Lin Changheng gave Xiao Bai a blood-replenishing pill and placed it in the water to recover while he assessed how often it could safely donate blood.
• The Black-Armored Earth Turtle watched eagerly, but Lin Changheng told Xiao Hei to wait until it reached the second tier before donating blood.
• Three days later, a visitor told Lin Changheng that True Disciple Bai had emerged from seclusion and requested a meeting.