Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin reached the thirteenth Qi Refining layer while the women in his household made rapid cultivation gains during ten days of seclusion. Changqingzi recovered his early Nascent Soul strength and became responsible for guarding the Song-Style Courtyard House and Chen Family Village.

• Chen Qianqian interrupted Chen Lin and four women after they spent the night together, then shouted at him in the hallway.
• Chen Lin ordered Changqingzi to guard the Song-Style Courtyard House, keep outsiders away, and stop sweeping the grounds with his divine sense.
• Over ten days, Qin Chuxia advanced to the fourth Qi Refining layer, Song Qiuya, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi reached the peak of the third layer, and Chen Qianqian achieved qi induction.
• Chen Lin reached the thirteenth Qi Refining layer as a terrifying pressure erupted from the rear courtyard bamboo grove.
• Changqingzi emerged with his early Nascent Soul cultivation restored, knelt before Chen Lin, and accepted the duty of guarding the courtyard house and Chen Family Village.

Chen Lin successfully established his foundation in the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station, gaining divine sense and greatly increased power. The station then shook, and a mysterious black-robed man emerged from the Central Control Console’s screen.

• Chen Lin entered seclusion in the station workshop to attempt Foundation Establishment, reassuring Song Qiuya and the other women before leaving.
• Chen Lin swallowed five Foundation Establishment Pills and endured severe internal damage as he forced his spiritual energy to condense into a dao foundation.
• Chen Lin succeeded at early Foundation Establishment, gained divine sense, and sensed everything throughout the station.
• The Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station shook, and the previously dark Central Control Console lit up with mysterious golden runes.
• A black-robed man stepped out of a vortex on the console screen, and Chen Lin prepared to draw his Cloudborne Sword and demanded to know who he was.

Chen Lin learned that Transfer Station 9527 was one of many stations scattered across the heavens and myriad worlds, and that its newly activated weight could bring greater opportunities and dangers. After a recorded projection warned him to grow stronger quickly because stationmasters had little time left, Chen Lin obtained a mysterious black jade token and resolved to prepare for an unknown crisis.

• A black-robed recorded projection told Chen Lin it had been left in his plane and identified the station beneath him as Transfer Station 9527.
• The projection explained that Chen Lin's arrival on the immortal path had activated the station's weight, giving him a chance to receive higher-level garbage along with greater opportunities and dangers.
• The projection urged Chen Lin to grow stronger quickly, warning that stationmasters did not have much time left, then vanished into golden motes.
• The motes formed a black jade token, and Chen Lin nearly injured his newly formed divine sense when he tried to inspect it.
• Chen Lin picked up the token and decided to cultivate so he could protect what mattered before the unknown crisis arrived.

After half a month in seclusion, Chen Lin returned with extraordinary divine sense and reunited with his family. He helped Chen Qianqian’s parents accept her choice to cultivate and began arranging cultivation for his relatives, while the warning of an approaching crisis remained on his mind.

• Chen Lin returned from seclusion, reunited with Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi, and learned their cultivation had advanced.
• Chen Lin tested his divine sense and found it reached three thousand meters, shocking Changqingzi.
• Friday told Chen Lin that Chen Qianqian had withdrawn from university to cultivate, and Chen Guofu and Liu Shuqin arrived asking him to change her mind.
• Chen Lin demonstrated his powers to Chen Guofu, Liu Shuqin, Chen Muyao, and Li Jiaojiao, then explained that Chen Qianqian had begun cultivating.
• Chen Lin asked Changqingzi to teach his relatives the Evergreen Art and wondered about the black-robed figure’s warning and the coming crisis.

Gu Qingxue and Gu Changfeng discovered signs of a spiritual-energy revival in Chen Family Village and set out to meet the powerful expert behind it. Meanwhile, Chen Lin mastered the Voice-Transmission Art and began cultivating One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, successfully forming two identical bodies.

• Gu Qingxue and Gu Changfeng left Shennongjia Primeval Forest and reached a market town, where Gu Qingxue charged her phone and watched videos about Chen Family Village.
• Gu Qingxue showed Gu Changfeng videos of renewed plants, healing water, a cancer patient’s recovery, and Daoist leaders kneeling in Chen Family Village.
• Gu Changfeng recognized the signs of a grotto-heaven blessed land, and he and Gu Qingxue decided to travel to Yicheng to meet its senior expert.
• Chen Lin mastered the Voice-Transmission Art and used it to ask Changqingzi whether the courtyard’s spiritual energy remained abundant.
• Chen Lin studied One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, spent much of his true essence and absorbed spirit stones, then formed two bodies identical to himself.

Chen Lin tested his new Dao Bodies before detecting two foundation establishment cultivators arriving at Chen Family Village. Gu Qingxue and Gu Changfeng were overwhelmed by the village’s spiritual energy and the powerful figures surrounding Chen Lin, and the chapter ended with Chen Lin asking who their master was.

• Chen Lin discovered that his two Dao Bodies had sixty percent of his strength but lacked awareness and faded away in less than a minute.
• Chen Lin sensed Gu Qingxue and Gu Changfeng approaching Chen Family Village and waited for them.
• Gu Qingxue and Gu Changfeng entered the village and marveled at its dense spiritual energy.
• Changqingzi appeared behind the siblings, revealed overwhelming nascent soul power, and escorted them to Chen Lin.
• The siblings saw that Chen Lin was at early foundation establishment and that Friday was at core formation, then sat down for tea.
• Chen Lin invited Gu Qingxue and Gu Changfeng to discuss the Dao and asked who their master was.

Chen Lin hosted Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue, whose shock grew as they discovered the strength of his companions and spirit pets. Gu Changfeng challenged Chen Lin to test their Dao, and they prepared to fight in the courtyard.

• Chen Lin declined to ask about the siblings’ hidden sect and learned from Gu Qingxue that their master had raised them in a secluded blessed land.
• Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi arrived with two kittens, and Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue sensed the women were at the Qi Refinement Fourth Layer and the cats at the eighth layer.
• Qin Chuxia teased Gu Qingxue, while Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue welcomed the siblings and treated Chen Lin as their close companion.
• Gu Changfeng, unsettled by Chen Lin’s powerful entourage, challenged him to test their Dao.
• Chen Lin accepted casually, and Gu Changfeng went to the courtyard’s open space and released his early Foundation Establishment aura.

Chen Lin effortlessly defeated Gu Changfeng, then allowed him and Gu Qingxue to stay in Chen Family Village so he could learn about the world’s hidden secrets. After discovering the village’s extraordinary spiritual energy and Chen Lin’s power, Gu Changfeng’s master decided to leave seclusion and investigate.

• Gu Changfeng attacked Chen Lin with a Greenwood Art blade, but Chen Lin caught and shattered it between two fingers.
• Chen Lin defeated Gu Changfeng in moments, froze Gu Qingxue with a glance, and then let the siblings stay for a few days.
• Chen Lin told Qin Chuxia that he wanted to learn more about the world’s hidden secrets from the siblings.
• Gu Changfeng contacted his master with a Sound-Transmitting Jade Talisman and reported the village’s dense spiritual energy and Chen Lin’s formidable power.
• Gu Changfeng’s master questioned how a Nascent Soul expert could exist after Blue Star’s spiritual veins were severed, then ordered the siblings not to offend Chen Lin and announced that he would leave seclusion.

Yun Sheng visited Chen Lin’s courtyard and discovered that its spiritual energy and hidden power far surpassed her own Shennong Blessed Land. When Chen Lin asked where her cultivation came from, her composure broke and she said she had no sect.

• Yun Sheng entered Chen Family Village, sensed its Great Spirit-Gathering Formation, and was struck by a Nascent Soul cultivator’s divine sense.
• Chen Lin invited Yun Sheng into his courtyard, where she saw Changqingzi serving him and recognized a Core Formation puppet and two Qi Refining leopard cats.
• Yun Sheng apologized for her disciples Changfeng and Qingxue, then told Chen Lin that she knew of no other cultivators in the world.
• Chen Lin asked Yun Sheng which sect had trained her, and she reacted with fear, confusion, and hatred before saying she had no sect.

Yun Sheng revealed that she killed her master, Madam Yun, in self-defense after escaping an attempted possession. Chen Lin invited her to stay in the Courtyard Compound, and Changqingzi estimated she could reach Nascent Soul within ten years; the chapter ended with Qin Chuxia teasing Chen Lin about his interest in Yun Sheng.

• Yun Sheng told Chen Lin and the others that Madam Yun had tried to possess her, so she escaped the formation and killed her master with a Thunderfire Talisman.
• Changqingzi recognized Madam Yun as a famed cultivator and learned that Yun Sheng had killed her in Shennongjia fifty years earlier.
• Chen Lin invited Yun Sheng to stay in a vacant side courtyard, and she accepted the offer of its rich spiritual energy.
• After Yun Sheng left with Friday, Changqingzi estimated that she could reach Nascent Soul within ten years if given sufficient resources.
• Song Qiuya accepted Yun Sheng's stay but objected to gaining another much older sister, while Qin Chuxia teased Chen Lin about wanting to conquer her.

Chen Lin took Qin Chuxia, Song Qiuya, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi to the bedroom to practice the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art. In the western side courtyard, Yun Sheng sensed the resulting spiritual energy surge, discovered what the cultivation involved, and was left astonished by Chen Lin.

• Chen Lin carried Qin Chuxia toward the Main Courtyard bedroom, while Song Qiuya, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi followed him.
• Changqingzi and Lao Qing guarded opposite ends of the courtyard compound as Chen Lin shut the bedroom door.
• Yun Sheng set up a warning formation in her room and began cultivating, slowly repairing the crack in her false core.
• A massive spiritual energy vortex shifted toward Chen Lin's bedroom, interrupting Yun Sheng's cultivation.
• Yun Sheng extended her divine sense into the bedroom and discovered Chen Lin and the four women using intimate contact to cultivate.
• Yun Sheng withdrew her divine sense, overwhelmed by the scene and by the cultivation art's extraordinary efficiency.

Yun Sheng discovered that Chen Lin’s meal was rich in pure spiritual energy and, overcome by its taste, ate enough to embarrass herself before fleeing to check on her disciples. At their guesthouse, she scolded Gu Qingxue for wasting time on her phone, then asked Gu Changfeng what he thought of Chen Lin.

• Chen Lin hosted Yun Sheng and the others at dinner, where Yun Sheng found that the food nourished her with unusually pure spiritual energy.
• Yun Sheng devoured much of the meal, realized everyone had watched her, and rushed out in embarrassment to see her disciples.
• Yun Sheng found Gu Qingxue playing a mobile game and Gu Changfeng cultivating, then reprimanded Qingxue for neglecting her training.
• Yun Sheng asked Gu Changfeng to assess Chen Lin after he had spent a day looking around Chen Family Village.

Yun Sheng and Gu Changfeng learned that Chen Lin had risen from an ordinary mortal to a powerful cultivator in just six months, and Yun Sheng ordered her disciples not to provoke him. In the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station, Chen Lin found a dead fifth-level demon beast whose fatal wound suggested an immensely powerful swordsman had killed it.

• Gu Changfeng told Yun Sheng and Gu Qingxue that Chen Lin had transformed Chen Family Village and gained extraordinary strength and allies within six months.
• Yun Sheng, shaken by Chen Lin’s rise, told Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue to stay cautious around him and suggested he might restore Blue Star’s depleted spiritual energy.
• Chen Lin left his sleeping Dao companions and entered the Wasteland in the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station through a portal.
• A fissure opened in the sky, and several objects crashed into the Wasteland, creating a crater to the northwest.
• Chen Lin found a dead fifth-level demon beast with a sword wound through its skull and concluded its killer had to be beyond the Nascent Soul stage.

Chen Lin recovered a fifth-level demon beast’s core and corpse, along with a dead cultivator’s wealth and powerful pills, from the Wasteland. When a trace of the demon core’s aura escaped in reality, it alarmed the spirit cats, Changqingzi, and Yun Sheng.

• Chen Lin cut into the demon beast’s abdomen, removed its core, and stored the core and corpse.
• Chen Lin found a severed arm and took more than three thousand mid-grade spirit stones from its ring.
• Chen Lin identified thirty-six Foundation Establishment pills, a Purple Gold Dragon-Tiger Pill, and an imitation Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill, then stored them.
• Chen Lin returned to reality and briefly opened the jade box containing the demon core.
• The demon core’s aura frightened Clear Wind and Bright Moon and alerted Changqingzi and Yun Sheng, who suspected Chen Lin had killed a Core Formation demon beast.

Chen Lin brought home a freshly killed Core Formation greater demon and ordered Changqingzi to prepare it as a midnight meal. The potent meat overwhelmed the women and spirit cats, while Yun Sheng devoured a huge portion and gained a rare chance to advance her cultivation.

• Chen Lin dragged a recently slain Core Formation greater demon into the courtyard, astonishing Yun Sheng and Changqingzi.
• Chen Lin ordered Changqingzi to butcher the beast and serve its meat to Friday as a midnight snack.
• Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi ate the meat and broth, then meditated to control the surging spiritual energy.
• Clear Wind and Bright Moon drank the broth, formed glowing cocoons, and fell into a deep sleep as their evolutionary instincts awakened.
• Yun Sheng ate more than forty jin of demon beast meat, absorbing its energy before thanking Chen Lin in embarrassment.
• Changqingzi took the leftovers and eagerly crunched through the demon beast bones and meat.

After a meal of core formation demon beast meat healed Yun Sheng’s long-standing injuries and strengthened her cultivation, she asked Chen Lin to let her stay in the Courtyard Compound. Chen Lin welcomed the offer, seeing her as a useful enforcer against powerful cultivators.

• Yun Sheng used the demon beast’s vitality to heal her torn meridians and improve her cultivation.
• The next morning, Chen Lin found Song Qiuya and three other women cultivating rapidly, while Changqingzi swept the courtyard.
• Yun Sheng approached Chen Lin but struggled to ask if she could remain in the Courtyard Compound.
• Chen Lin directly asked whether Yun Sheng wanted to stay, and she admitted that she did.
• Yun Sheng offered to serve as Chen Lin’s enforcer, saying she could kill anyone below nascent soul.
• Chen Lin smiled, recognizing Yun Sheng as the capable ally he had been waiting for.

Chen Lin offered Yun Sheng a job as security captain at Chen Family Village, with generous pay and lodging, and she eagerly accepted. He also arranged for her disciples Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue to stay and work in the village.

• Chen Lin told Yun Sheng she could stay only if she worked as the village's security captain.
• Yun Sheng refused the job as an insult until Chen Lin offered five hundred low-grade spirit stones a month, plus room, board, and access to cultivation resources.
• Chen Lin paid Yun Sheng's first month in advance with five mid-grade spirit stones, and she accepted the position enthusiastically.
• Chen Lin told Yun Sheng to bring Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue to stay in the West Side Courtyard, assigning Gu Changfeng as her deputy and noting that Gu Qingxue's talent would be useful later.
• Yun Sheng thanked Chen Lin and left to fetch her disciples.

Yun Sheng brought Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue to work at Chen Lin’s Song-Style Courtyard House, where they received their duties and first month’s pay. Gu Qingxue began teaching the women basic spells, while Chen Qianqian challenged her by claiming her brother could perform the Water-Condensing Art.

• Yun Sheng told Gu Qingxue and Gu Changfeng to pack and move to the Song-Style Courtyard House, where she had become security captain for five hundred low-grade spirit stones a month.
• Chen Lin assigned Gu Changfeng to patrol the village with Yun Sheng and Changqingzi and tasked Gu Qingxue with teaching the women basic spells.
• Chen Lin paid Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue one hundred low-grade spirit stones each for their first month’s work.
• Gu Qingxue began teaching Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi the basics of spellcasting in the back courtyard.
• Chen Qianqian interrupted the lesson by boasting that her brother could use the Water-Condensing Art.

Chen Lin gave the fifth-tier Demon Core to Clear Wind and Bright Moon, splitting it with his sword so each cat could swallow half. The cats began advancing inside enormous cocoons in the Song-Style Courtyard House, while Changqingzi’s envy turned to fervor after Chen Lin promised he might help him reach late Nascent Soul.

• Gu Qingxue taught Song Qiuya, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi while Chen Lin opened the jade box containing a fifth-tier Demon Core, releasing its pressure across the Back Courtyard.
• Clear Wind and Bright Moon begged Chen Lin for the Demon Core, and he split it in two with the Cloudborne Sword despite Yun Sheng and Changqingzi’s shocked protests.
• Chen Lin fed one half to each cat, and Clear Wind and Bright Moon transformed into large silver-furred combat forms before dark gold cocoons formed around them.
• Chen Lin contained the cats’ surging spiritual energy within the Song-Style Courtyard House, and Changqingzi explained that they were advancing toward Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Lin told Changqingzi he might help him break through to late Nascent Soul, replacing the old man’s bitterness with fervor.

After Zhao Cheng tried to cripple a tourist with a spell, Gu Changfeng stopped him and Chen Lin warned the Daoists against abusing their cultivation. The newly advanced cultivators submitted to Chen Lin’s authority, while life at the Song-Style Courtyard House continued normally until Ye Wenjun called.

• Zhao Cheng bumped into a tourist, then began forming a Frostbite Finger spell to cripple her after she challenged him.
• Gu Changfeng crushed Zhao Cheng’s spell, restrained him, and took him to the Back Hill, where Zhao Cheng admitted he thought mortals deserved punishment.
• Zhang Jinling, Li Guangfu, and other Daoist leaders arrived, and Gu Changfeng overwhelmed them with his early Foundation Establishment spiritual pressure.
• Chen Lin sent a divine-sense warning that cultivators must not reveal spells or use spiritual power against ordinary people, and the kneeling Daoists vowed to obey.
• Gu Changfeng ordered the Daoists to take Zhao Cheng away, while Chen Lin returned to his tea and received a call from Ye Wenjun.