Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya asked Liu Qingshan to fly him to Divine Path Mountain so he could collect new clothes at the Sleeve Garment House. There, he ran into the boastful Wood Family Three Young Masters and tried to intimidate them.

• Li Xiaoya told Liu Qingshan he had seen Senior Sister Zhang Hong searching for something, and Liu Qingshan guessed she was looking for a place to establish a cave abode.
• Li Xiaoya asked Liu Qingshan to take him to Divine Path Mountain, and Liu Qingshan agreed while planning to sell talismans in Heavenly Dao City.
• Li Xiaoya went to the Sleeve Garment House and saw a pretty girl handing out uniforms at a busy counter.
• Mu Dafeng, Mu Sanfeng, and Mu Zhongfeng mistook Li Xiaoya for a fellow admirer of their pink outfits and teased him about his shoes.
• Li Xiaoya used the Heavenly Eye Art to judge the three brothers' cultivation, then barked at them to behave and threatened to have senior brothers arrest them.

Li Xiaoya met the Mu Household Three Brothers and explained that he was a disciple of Heavenly Capital Peak, but Uncle-Master Liu mistook him for a branch-hall trainee and restrained him. A bystander recognized the rumor about Li Xiaoya, leaving Uncle-Master Liu uncertain as he prepared to punish him.

• Lin Dafeng explained that branch halls sent young disciples to Divine Path Mountain for practical training, and Li Xiaoya said he belonged to Heavenly Capital Peak.
• The Mu Household Three Brothers recognized Li Xiaoya as Heavenly Venerable Daoling's disciple and mocked his appearance.
• Uncle-Master Liu ordered the Mu brothers into line, then challenged Li Xiaoya and accused him of pretending to be a main-sect disciple.
• Uncle-Master Liu immobilized Li Xiaoya with red light, and Li Xiaoya angrily insisted that he was Heavenly Venerable Daoling's personal disciple.
• A short, plump young man mentioned the rumor that Daoling had taken a mortal named Li Something as his disciple, making Uncle-Master Liu hesitate before he dismissed the possibility.

Zhang Hong intervened when Uncle-Master Li restrained Li Xiaoya, revealing that Li Xiaoya belonged to Heavenly Capital Peak and was said to be Heavenly Venerable Daoling’s disciple. After the confrontation ended, Li Xiaoya went to collect his sect uniform and met a sweet-voiced female cultivator at the counter.

• Uncle-Master Li approached Li Xiaoya to seize him, but Zhang Hong stopped him and asked him to spare her junior brother.
• Lin Dafeng warned Uncle-Master Li that Li Xiaoya was said to be Heavenly Venerable Daoling’s disciple, so Uncle-Master Li released him and hurried away.
• Li Xiaoya tried to pursue Uncle-Master Li, but Zhang Hong pulled him back and warned him against provoking a Core Condensation Stage cultivator.
• Zhang Hong went into the Sleeve Garment House to buy outfits, while Li Xiaoya headed to the counter to collect his sect uniform.
• A young female cultivator at the counter greeted Li Xiaoya, and he was briefly dazed by her sweet voice.

Li Xiaoya collected new clothes and met Liu Qingshan, who explained Demon Beast Valley and why cultivators bought his talismans. The two headed back while Li Xiaoya wondered why Liu Qingshan did not hunt there himself.

• Li Xiaoya collected blue and gray clothes from Li Xiangxiang and learned that she had previously asked Senior Sister Donggu to cover the counter.
• Li Xiaoya ran into Liu Qingshan, who said senior brothers had bought nearly all his spirit talismans for a trip to Demon Beast Valley.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Qingshan set off back toward Heavenly Capital Peak after Li Xiaoya picked up his clothes.
• Liu Qingshan explained that Demon Beast Valley held abundant spiritual plants and low-level demon beasts, and that the sect kept powerful beasts under control so low-level disciples could train there.
• Liu Qingshan explained that cultivators bought talismans to conserve spiritual power and hunt more safely, prompting Li Xiaoya to ask why he did not hunt beasts himself.

Li Xiaoya visited Liu Hang’s Alchemy Chamber and began learning how cultivators refined pills with spirit fire. Liu Hang demonstrated the use of a pill furnace and explained the basics, while Li Xiaoya asked how spirit fire differed from ordinary flames.

• Liu Qingshan told Li Xiaoya he planned to advance his Talisman Refinement Art before returning to Heavenly Capital Peak.
• Li Xiaoya went to Liu Hang’s cave abode and spent the afternoon reading in his study.
• Liu Hang summoned Li Xiaoya to the Alchemy Chamber so he could observe a pill-refining session.
• Liu Hang explained that cultivators used spirit fire for low-tier pills and that only Golden Core Stage cultivators could use Three-Flavored True Fire for high-tier pills.
• Liu Hang summoned a jade pill furnace and controlled its spirit fire as Li Xiaoya watched and asked how it differed from ordinary fire.

Senior Brother Liu Hang explained how spirit fire and pill formulas were used to refine pills, then taught Li Xiaoya about the ingredients in a True Cultivation Pill. He revealed that key herbs grew in Demon Beast Valley and showed Li Xiaoya an Apricot Blossom Herb from his garden.

• Senior Brother Liu Hang explained why alchemists needed spirit fire and delicate control to extract medicinal ingredients without destroying them.
• Liu Hang told Li Xiaoya that pill formulas specified ingredients and proportions, then gave him a True Cultivation Pill formula containing his own refining notes.
• Li Xiaoya noticed that the formula listed ingredients missing from Liu Hang's medicinal garden, and Liu Hang explained that Green-Yellow Fruits and Apricot Blossom Herbs grew in places rich in spiritual qi.
• Liu Hang said both herbs grew in Demon Beast Valley, explained that Apricot Blossom Herbs were common near the valley and could be cultivated, and showed Li Xiaoya one from his garden.

Liu Hang taught Li Xiaoya how to refine the ingredients for a True Cultivation Pill, explaining the handling of the difficult green-yellow fruit and the risks of condensing medicinal liquid. He began forming the pills, but some of the portions exploded as he explained the final heating process.

• Liu Hang refined apricot blossom herb over a low spirit fire and explained how careful heating preserved its spiritual energy.
• Liu Hang burned the green-yellow fruit’s shell, then sharply lowered the heat when it burst and refined the powerful yellow liquid inside.
• Liu Hang explained why alchemists refined the main ingredient last, and Li Xiaoya asked why they did not refine it first.
• Liu Hang combined the ingredients, divided the medicinal liquid into portions, and heated them at high temperature to form pills.
• A portion of medicinal liquid exploded, and Liu Hang explained how heat, timing, and impurities affected pill formation.

Liu Hang taught Li Xiaoya the fundamentals of pill refining and prepared True Cultivation Pills for him, but refused to let him take them while his cultivation was too low. Three years passed, and Li Xiaoya remained stuck at the peak of the third layer; after another failed breakthrough, he argued with Liu Hang and was driven out of the Alchemy Chamber.

• Liu Hang explained how furnace quality, divine sense, and heat control affected pill refining as Li Xiaoya watched him work.
• Liu Hang finished a batch of True Cultivation Pills and explained that only a furnace’s owner could normally use divine sense to inspect its contents.
• Li Xiaoya asked for the pills, but Liu Hang said Li Xiaoya could not take them yet and stored them away.
• Over the following three years, Li Xiaoya studied alchemy with Liu Hang and practiced making healing medicines and Qi-Replenishing Powder.
• After failing to break through the peak of the third layer again, Li Xiaoya blamed Liu Hang for withholding pills, argued with him, and was driven out.

Li Xiaoya grew frustrated with his stalled cultivation and Senior Brother Liu Hang’s refusal to let him use the alchemy room, so he headed for the market on Heavenly Capital Peak to find ingredients. As he sped away with the Wind-Riding Art, two people watched him and discussed putting a plan into action.

• Li Xiaoya failed to break through to the middle stage of True Cultivation after a year of effort and became increasingly pessimistic about cultivation.
• Li Xiaoya’s Alchemy Art reached the second tier, but Senior Brother Liu Hang confiscated his pills and later barred him from the alchemy room.
• Li Xiaoya remained an inexperienced talisman maker, while Liu Qingshan had left the mountain to seek a breakthrough to the Core Condensation Stage.
• Li Xiaoya kicked a tree in anger and set off for the market to obtain ingredients so he could refine pills himself.
• Li Xiaoya used the Wind-Riding Art to race down the road as two watchers decided that the time had come to carry out their plan.

Li Xiaoya discovered Ouyang Ya and Xue Bo, two young cultivators with mutated spiritual roots, dueling with lightning and wind spells in the woods. When they refused to stop, Xue Bo completed his spell to face Ouyang Ya’s Chain Lightning.

• Li Xiaoya heard explosions in the woods and followed them to a clearing where Ouyang Ya and Xue Bo were exchanging spells.
• Li Xiaoya recognized that both disciples had mutated spiritual roots and watched their evenly matched duel unnoticed.
• Ouyang Ya challenged Xue Bo to face her newly mastered spell, and both began preparing powerful attacks.
• Xue Bo heard Li Xiaoya make a sound and sent a wind blade toward his hiding place, forcing him to reveal himself.
• Li Xiaoya warned Ouyang Ya and Xue Bo that unauthorized spell duels were against sect rules, but they resumed preparing their attacks.
• Ouyang Ya prepared Chain Lightning as Xue Bo finished his spell and glowed with blue-green light.

Ouyang Ya and Xue Bo fought with lightning and wind spells while Li Xiaoya watched and provoked them. Ouyang Ya destroyed Xue Bo’s tornado and sent a lightning bolt toward him, but Xue Bo was too injured to dodge.

• Ouyang Ya attacked Xue Bo with Chain Lightning, while his Tornado Spell deflected one bolt toward Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya climbed into a tree to watch as Ouyang Ya and Xue Bo exchanged lightning and wind attacks.
• Xue Bo sent Wind Blades at Ouyang Ya, cutting her clothes and distracting her from controlling the Thundercloud.
• Ouyang Ya hurled a lightning bead at Li Xiaoya, who dodged it before it blasted apart the tree.
• Ouyang Ya shielded herself with a blue bead and destroyed Xue Bo’s tornado with a powerful lightning bolt.
• Xue Bo suffered a spiritual injury from the tornado’s destruction and could not move quickly enough to evade the incoming bolt.

Liu Xian'er stopped Ouyang Ya's uncontrolled Chain Lightning from killing Xue Bo and reunited with Li Xiaoya after more than three years. She questioned Ouyang Ya and Xue Bo about their unauthorized duel, and Xue Bo tried to excuse their actions.

• Ouyang Ya lost control of Chain Lightning and nearly struck Xue Bo, but an unseen cultivator blocked it with Ice Shield Technique.
• Li Xiaoya and the others saw Liu Xian'er descend on a Flying Sword, and Li Xiaoya eventually recognized her.
• Liu Xian'er greeted Li Xiaoya as Junior Brother Li, and they acknowledged that they had not seen each other for over three years.
• Liu Xian'er questioned Ouyang Ya about dueling outside the Dueling Arena and using a powerful spell.
• Xue Bo claimed they had only been exchanging pointers and thanked Liu Xian'er for saving him, but she challenged his explanation.

Liu Xian'er stopped Li Xiaoya from reporting Ouyang Ya and Xue Bo after their unauthorized duel, then promised to meet him again after completing her errand. Li Xiaoya waited at the hill they had chosen, realizing he could not stop thinking about her.

• Xue Bo and Ouyang Ya pleaded with Liu Xian'er to overlook their duel, while Li Xiaoya threatened to report them.
• Xue Bo apologized to Li Xiaoya, and Liu Xian'er lectured the pair before letting them leave.
• After Ouyang Ya and Xue Bo departed, Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er shared an awkward silence as they gazed at each other.
• Liu Xian'er said she had an errand at Heavenly Capital Peak, but promised to find Li Xiaoya afterward.
• Li Xiaoya watched Liu Xian'er fly away, then headed to the hill where they had agreed to meet.

Li Xiaoya reunited with Liu Xian'er and spent the day talking with her, increasingly aware of his feelings for her. As night fell, Liu Xian'er left to return to Master Qingxia, while Li Xiaoya resolved to improve his cultivation.

• While waiting for Liu Xian'er, Li Xiaoya imagined staying with her forever and became flustered when she arrived.
• Liu Xian'er told Li Xiaoya she had reached the Great Perfection Realm of the True Cultivation Stage and was close to Core Condensation.
• Li Xiaoya lamented that he had not broken through early true cultivation, then resolved to catch up with Liu Xian'er.
• Li Xiaoya told Liu Xian'er about his years on Heavenly Capital Peak, and the two shared stories until nightfall.
• Liu Xian'er said she had to return before Master Qingxia worried, and prepared to leave.

After Liu Xian'er left, Li Xiaoya became determined to visit her at Rainbow Rosy Peak but realized he had no way to travel there. He spent the night planning how to obtain pills and gain the ability to fly, then set out to look for pills at the Small Trading Area.

• Liu Xian'er told Li Xiaoya she could not leave Rainbow Rosy Peak before reaching Core Condensation, but invited him to visit her there.
• Li Xiaoya returned to his room and realized that he lacked a Flying Sword and could not easily travel to Rainbow Rosy Peak.
• Li Xiaoya considered asking Liu Qingshan or Liu Hang for help, but rejected both options.
• Li Xiaoya decided to buy pills at the Small Trading Area or gather ingredients and refine pills himself so he could advance and ride a Flying Sword.
• Li Xiaoya spent the night tossing and turning, then got up at dawn and meditated while waiting for the trading stalls to open.

Li Xiaoya searched the trading market for cultivation aids and found a fast mid-tier flying Dharma Artifact called the Flying Bamboo Arrow. After agreeing to buy it, he discovered that the seller had concealed a defect that limited its lifespan to three or four years, and Li Xiaoya threatened to seek Liu Hang’s help.

• Li Xiaoya ended his unsuccessful meditation, calmed himself with a walk, and went to browse the small trading market.
• Li Xiaoya found a hollow-bamboo flying Dharma Artifact and learned that it was faster than ordinary artifacts of its tier.
• The stallholder offered the Flying Bamboo Arrow for one hundred and twenty spirit stones, and Li Xiaoya agreed to buy it after questioning its condition.
• Li Xiaoya said he would ask Liu Hang to appraise the artifact, prompting the stallholder to admit that it would last only three or four years.
• Li Xiaoya accused the stallholder of daylight robbery and threatened to find his senior brother for justice.

Li Xiaoya confronted a stallholder over a fake Dharma Artifact, but the dispute turned into a public humiliation as stronger cultivators mocked him. The stallholder left with his goods, and Li Xiaoya was left furious and vowing to remember the insult.

• The stallholder begged Li Xiaoya to accept the Flying Bamboo Arrow and Li Xiaoya paid him a few low-grade spirit stones while insisting he would not take it for free.
• The stallholder grew furious and used his power to force Li Xiaoya back, while Li Xiaoya invoked Senior Brother Liu Hang to threaten him.
• An unseen disciple mocked Li Xiaoya, and the crowd joined in by ridiculing his low cultivation and reliance on his master.
• Li Xiaoya chased the jeering disciples but could not catch them, then kicked at the stall and hurt his foot against a golden barrier.
• The stallholder dismissed the barrier, removed everything from the stall, and walked away as Li Xiaoya shouted after him.

After being mocked for his low cultivation, Li Xiaoya resolved to grow stronger and decided to obtain pills by refining them himself. He returned to the Trading Market for the ingredients but was refused the green-yellow fruit he needed, leaving him without a way to make the True Cultivation Pill.

• Li Xiaoya fled to a stream after disciples mocked him, and two unseen observers watched as he vented his anger.
• Remembering his master, Li Xiaoya vowed to break through the third level of the true cultivation stage and developed a stronger resolve.
• Li Xiaoya decided to gather ingredients and refine pills himself, then returned to the Trading Market.
• Li Xiaoya asked Liang Zhong to sell him green-yellow fruit, but Liang Zhong refused and mocked him for being a third-level cultivator.
• Li Xiaoya searched the other stalls, but the remaining green-yellow fruit was bought before he could obtain any.
• Li Xiaoya returned to his lodgings after eating, while Senior Brother Liu Hang did not summon him to practice.

After failing to find green-yellow fruit at the trading area and discovering that it cost more spirit stones than he could afford, Li Xiaoya decided to investigate Demon Beast Valley. He reached the valley’s market and entered the Medicine Workshop to look for the fruit.

• Li Xiaoya worried about his poor cultivation, dreamed that his seniors and Liu Xian'er abandoned him, and woke frightened and unable to sleep.
• Li Xiaoya spent several days searching unsuccessfully for green-yellow fruit, while other disciples’ mockery of his cultivation level made him increasingly anxious.
• Li Xiaoya decided to inspect Demon Beast Valley, packed the talismans he had made, and set off early the next morning.
• Li Xiaoya reached the valley’s market, where cultivators looked down on him for being at the third level of the True Cultivation Stage.
• Li Xiaoya entered the Medicine Workshop to check for green-yellow fruit and noticed that disciples crowded the appraisal counter while the buying and selling counters stood empty.

Li Xiaoya discovered that the Medicine Workshop charged exorbitant prices and bought talismans before heading to the teleportation gate for Demon Beast Valley. He sought a group to share the teleportation fee, but a tall cultivator warned him that even the valley’s outskirts were too dangerous for him.

• Li Xiaoya learned that the Medicine Workshop sold Green-Yellow Fruit for eighty spirit stones each, twice the usual price, and left without buying any.
• Li Xiaoya visited the Material Workshop and Talisman Workshop, found appraisals expensive, and bought some talismans at normal prices.
• Li Xiaoya observed that groups of five paid spirit stones to pass through the teleportation formation at the stone gate.
• Li Xiaoya returned to the square and asked a group of four cultivators to take him to Demon Beast Valley so he could gather herbs near its edge.
• The tall male cultivator refused, warning Li Xiaoya that even the outskirts were dangerous for someone at the third level of the true cultivation stage.