Recaps

Lin Changheng used the Origin Cauldron to strengthen his cultivation and alchemy, becoming a ranked Pill Master while the Xu Family prepared to leave Zichuan Market. After surviving an ambush on the road, he reached the settlement and was appointed a Registered Guest Advisor, with permission to remain behind and refine pills during the Great Reclamation.

• Lin Changheng discovered the Origin Cauldron, improved his fire spiritual root, and gained Fire Control by refining the essence of ruined pills.
• Master Mo recognized Lin Changheng as a Pill Master, and Lin began producing pills while secretly extracting demon beast essence blood and selling pills through Su Shuangjiang.
• Lin refined Greenwood Snake and Fire Crow treasure seeds, advanced his fire control, and raised his fire spiritual root to a low-grade level.
• As unrest grew around Zichuan Market, Lin warned Master Mo about the danger and learned that the Xu Family was coordinating a withdrawal with allied Lineages.
• Lin bought the Wasp Blade at the shantytown Black Market, then left Zichuan Market with the Xu Family party.
• Rogue cultivators ambushed the party on the road, and Lin Changheng used talismans and spells to defend himself and help defeat the attackers.
• At the Xu Family settlement, Lin reunited with Xu Fugui and met Tantai Feiyue, then Xu Qianyan appointed him a Registered Guest Advisor and allowed him to refine pills in the rear during the Great Reclamation.

Lin Changheng advanced his cultivation and pill-making, gained a secret Pill Dao inheritance, and endured the Xu Family’s war with the Chen Family. After the conflict ended, he joined a caravan to the Desolate Ruins Market to sell Premium Pills and seek formulas.

• Lin Changheng took on the Xu Family’s failed pill batches, strengthened his treasure seeds, and built ties with Tantai Feiyue and his fellow Immortal Seedlings.
• Lin Changheng acquired the incomplete Li Fire Night-Illuminating Guide, secured Demon Beast essence blood, and refined pills for the Xu Family’s struggle over a newly discovered Spirit Land.
• As the Xu and Chen Families’ war escalated, Lin Changheng supported his friends, gained Xu Fugui’s Rockmountain Tortoise essence blood, and won the contest for the Xu Family’s secret Pill Dao transmission.
• Lin Changheng memorized the Secret Notes of the Supreme Harmony Pill Scroll while the Xu Family fought the Chen Family and Bai Fengxian returned badly wounded.
• Lin Changheng advanced his treasure seeds, gained new abilities, and watched the Xu and Liu Families defeat the Chen forces before the Chen Family lineage was exterminated.
• Lin Changheng broke through to the fifth layer of Qi Refining, refined the Water Fungus Pill, and joined a Xu Family caravan bound for the Desolate Ruins Market.
• At the Desolate Ruins Market, Lin Changheng sold sixty Premium Wood Origin Pills for spirit stones and asked the Pill Refining Pavilion about buying pill formulas.

Lin Changheng advanced his pillcraft, treasure seeds, and cultivation while building ties with the Xu and Liu Families. After Xu Hanzhou died in an operation against rogue cultivators, Lin headed to the Desolate Ruins Market for an auction featuring a Foundation Establishment Spirit Treasure.

• Lin Changheng sold premium pills, bought beast essence blood, and attended the Desolate Ruins Market Auction, where he won Cloud-Flying Boots and a Crimson Dragon Pill formula.
• After a poisoned ambush on the Xu Family caravan, Lin Changheng completed the Fire Crow Dao Fruit transformation and revealed his identity as Pill Master Lin to the steward.
• Two years later, Lin Changheng became a Mid-Grade Pill Master and was promoted to Guest Advisor as the Xu Family celebrated its growing influence and its discovery of a second-tier spirit land.
• Lin Changheng improved his Earth Escape Art with Rockmountain Tortoise essence blood, then persuaded the Xu Family to arrange a supply of essence blood from the Liu Family.
• Lin Changheng contracted for Lantern Grass Spirit essence blood, completed the Greenwood Snake True Core transformation, and gained the Poison-Transforming Demonic Art and a lifespan-extending treasure talent.
• The Xu and Liu Families began building a market ward at Dustless Valley while robber attacks raised suspicions of Chen Family Remnants, and Lin Changheng broke through to the sixth layer of Qi Refining.
• Lin Changheng encouraged Tantai Feiyue in her cultivation and agreed to trade her pills for continued work producing premium talismans, then recognized Xu Hanzhou’s jealousy and malice.
• After Xu Hanzhou died in an operation against rogue cultivators, Lin Changheng arranged passage to the Desolate Ruins Market, where Xu Xulin told him a major auction would offer a Foundation Establishment Spirit Treasure.

Lin Changheng strengthened his abilities, survived a caravan ambush, and helped the Xu Family through its rise to Foundation Establishment. He became chief Pill Master in Azure Spirit Ward, gained access to a superior-grade pill inheritance, and grew closer to Tantai Feiyue.

• Lin Changheng bought a poisoned Black-Armored Earth Turtle egg and rare beast essence blood, then used spirit seizure to develop new treasure seeds and monster arts.
• After three cultivators ambushed him outside the black market, Lin Changheng killed them and claimed their loot, including the Sinking Sand Bag and hundreds of bottles of Earthfire Lizard essence blood.
• At the auction, Lin Changheng won a feather and essence blood from a Wind-Splitting Falcon, then cultivated and studied ways to strengthen his turtle egg.
• Lin Changheng helped the Xu Family fight off an ambush and killed Chen Guqing after he poisoned Xu Hanwu, while concealing his role in the death.
• Over the next four years, the Xu Family resisted the Qiu Family and celebrated when Xu Xujun stabilized his Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Lin Changheng refined his Lantern Grass Spirit treasure seed, advanced to the eighth layer of Qi Refining, and revised the Lihuo Night-Illuminating Art.
• The Xu Family appointed Lin Changheng chief Pill Master in Azure Spirit Ward and entrusted him with the Two-Yi Profound Furnace Secret Record and a superior-grade Pill Dao inheritance.
• Lin Changheng postponed his departure when Mo Zhaoli returned to visit, and Tantai Feiyue visited him at night, beginning a closer intimacy between them.