Chapter Summaries

Ye Fei sold spirit herbs at the Flowing Cloud Merchant Association and bought shipi grass seeds, herb records, and a disguise. After selling the rest of his herbs at several shops, he searched the stalls for useful items, where Azure Dragon noticed a strange pill furnace.

• Ye Fei sold one thousand spirit herbs to the Flowing Cloud Merchant Association for twelve hundred Lower-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Ye Fei bought a detailed jade slip about spirit herbs and fifty shipi grass seeds.
• Ye Fei bought a Human-Skin Mask, cloak, and shoes, then changed disguises to sell his remaining two thousand spirit herbs at five shops.
• Ye Fei earned another twenty-four hundred Lower-Grade Spirit Stones, bringing his total to forty-five hundred, and then resumed browsing stalls.
• Azure Dragon told Ye Fei that a pill furnace at a white-haired old man's stall seemed strange and was worth studying.

Ye Fei bought a strange pill furnace, but Huo Qiuyang forced him to hand it over and had it smashed. After Huo Qiuyang and his men left, the old seller vanished, and Azure Dragon revealed it had already swapped out the furnace.

• Ye Fei bought the unusual pill furnace from an elderly seller for fifty Lower-Grade Spirit Stones after Azure Dragon urged him to stop.
• Huo Qiuyang tried to take the furnace, and when Ye Fei refused, he surrounded him with more than twenty men, including two foundation establishment cultivators.
• Outnumbered, Ye Fei gave the furnace to Huo Qiuyang, who decided it was worthless and ordered Black Tiger to smash it.
• After Huo Qiuyang left, Ye Fei demanded his fifty Spirit Stones from the seller, but the old man had disappeared.
• Ye Fei went to inspect the fragments, and Azure Dragon told him it had already swapped out the pill furnace.

Ye Fei learned that the pill furnace was the legendary Medicine God Cauldron and planted Shipi Grass seeds inside the Azure Dragon Sword. While hiding in the grove, he overheard Huo Qiuyang discuss the missing Yinluo Banner and order an investigation, before the burly man revealed a deadly plan for the remaining men.

• Azure Dragon showed Ye Fei how he had replaced the pill furnace with an identical copy and revealed that the original was the Medicine God Cauldron, still powerful despite its replacement lid.
• Azure Dragon explained that the cauldron could raise Ye Fei's pill-refining success rate, but Ye Fei still lacked an Alchemy Formula.
• Ye Fei planted fifty Shipi Grass seeds in the medicinal field and hid inside the Azure Dragon Sword when Huo Qiuyang and his followers entered the grove.
• Huo Qiuyang learned that Liu Yihong and Li Zaitian had gone missing along with the Yinluo Banner, and ordered the burly man to investigate and recover it before the Divine Feather Secret Realm opened.
• Huo Qiuyang left for the Rakshasa Gate, and the burly man told the five remaining black-clad men that he intended to kill them.

Ye Fei returned to the Free and Easy Gate after witnessing Jiang Liuyun kill five men, then accepted a job tending Jiang Mengyun's Herb Garden. Jiang Mengyun gave him an Alchemy Formula and instructed him to refine the Skin Refining Pill and reach qi refining perfection within a year.

• Jiang Liuyun revealed herself to the five men in black and killed them before leaving.
• Ye Fei flew back to the Free and Easy Gate and learned from Ning Siyu's messages that his master had killed Li Zaitian.
• Ning Siyu visited Ye Fei, noticed his sixth layer of qi refining and thriving herbs, and offered him a paid position tending Jiang Mengyun's Herb Garden.
• Ning Siyu brought Ye Fei to Jiang Mengyun, who accepted him and asked Ning Siyu to explain the arrangement to Senior Sister Luo.
• Jiang Mengyun gave Ye Fei an Alchemy Formula for the Skin Refining Pill and told him to reach qi refining perfection within a year.

Ye Fei settled into a simple cave on North Peak to help Jiang Yiyun tend the herb terraces, then learned from Azure Dragon that Jiang Mengyun, Luo Yue, and his father knew of the Azure Dragon Sword. Jiang Yiyun returned with her aunt's permission to live with Ye Fei, leaving him speechless.

• Jiang Mengyun told Ye Fei she knew the secret of Azure Dragon Valley and urged him to focus on cultivation.
• Ye Fei reached North Peak, saw its extensive herb terraces, and learned Jiang Yiyun had been tending them alone.
• Ye Fei carved a small cave abode, and Jiang Yiyun asked to live with him; he sent her to seek Jiang Mengyun's permission.
• Azure Dragon revealed that Jiang Mengyun, Luo Yue, and Ye Canglong knew of his existence, and explained Ye Canglong's spiritual talent and why Ye Fei had been chosen for the Spirit-Washing Tree.
• Azure Dragon reminded Ye Fei that his progress depended on his own efforts and the Spirit-Washing Tree's approval.
• Jiang Yiyun returned with Jiang Mengyun's permission to live with Ye Fei and gave him a Storage Pouch.

Ye Fei settled into Jiang Mengyun’s Cave Abode, tended her Herb Garden, and began learning alchemy while Jiang Yiyun openly pursued him. After Jiang Mengyun advised her to improve her cultivation rather than distract him, Jiang Yiyun decided to return to Divine Feather City until she reached qi refining perfection.

• Ye Fei gave Jiang Yiyun a separate stone chamber, then watered the Herb Garden with pool water from the Azure Dragon Sword.
• Jiang Yiyun told Ye Fei that she missed him, but he hurried away to study the Alchemy Formula Jade Slip, Pill Canon, and Bronze Alchemy Furnace.
• Ye Fei memorized the alchemy instructions and practiced pill-forming hand techniques inside his Cave Abode for half a month.
• Jiang Yiyun complained that Ye Fei was avoiding her, then ran to Jiang Mengyun and asked her aunt to teach him a lesson.
• Jiang Mengyun urged Jiang Yiyun to cultivate until she reached qi refining perfection so she could enter the Divine Feather Secret Realm alongside Ye Fei.
• Jiang Yiyun agreed to return to Divine Feather City and work toward qi refining perfection.

Ye Fei used Jiang Mengyun’s earthfire to attempt alchemy, hoping to make Qi-Replenishing Pills as his first step toward refining Skin Refining Pills. After a failed first batch, he succeeded on his second attempt and ended the chapter with six pills, four lowest-grade and two low-grade.

• Ye Fei asked Jiang Mengyun for time away to use Qilin Peak’s earthfire, and she offered him a stone chamber with earthfire in her cave abode.
• Ye Fei used the Medicine God Cauldron and four spirit herbs to begin refining Qi-Replenishing Pills, but his first batch exploded when he merged the medicinal liquids incorrectly.
• Ye Fei realized he needed to merge all four liquids at the same rate, then successfully liquefied and purified the herbs and combined their medicinal liquids on his second attempt.
• Ye Fei shaped the medicinal paste into six pills and completed the final alchemy step while Jiang Mengyun watched and approved of his progress.
• Ye Fei successfully refined six pills, catching four lowest-grade pills and two low-grade pills, though he was disappointed by their quality.

Ye Fei improved his alchemy through intensive practice, then made Skin Refining Pills and followed Jiang Mengyun to Falling Waterfall Peak to begin body refinement. After enduring the waterfall for four hours while his skin repeatedly grew back and was torn away, he collapsed, leaving Jiang Mengyun unsure what to do.

• Ye Fei refined sixty batches of Qi-Replenishing Pills in two days, improving his speed and producing some middle-grade pills.
• Ye Fei refined all fifty stalks of Shipi Grass into sixty Skin Refining Pills, and Jiang Mengyun took him to Falling Waterfall Peak.
• Jiang Mengyun warned Ye Fei that a Skin Refining Pill's potency could be fatal without the waterfall's impact to aid body refinement.
• Ye Fei swallowed a Skin Refining Pill and stood beneath the waterfall, where his clothes were shredded and Jiang Mengyun saw him naked.
• Ye Fei circulated the body-refinement formula for four hours as the waterfall tore his skin and the pill's potency regenerated it, then he collapsed unconscious.
• Jiang Mengyun looked at the unconscious, naked Ye Fei and wondered what to do.

Ye Fei endured repeated rounds of waterfall training and Skin Refining Pills until he successfully tempered his skin. Jiang Mengyun confirmed his progress, and he left amazed by his newfound toughness but warned to beware of spirit artifacts.

• Jiang Mengyun gave the unconscious Ye Fei a pill, and he woke and dressed himself.
• Ye Fei returned to the waterfall with Skin Refining Pills, enduring the pain as his skin grew tougher.
• After progressing to using fifteen pills, Ye Fei found the waterfall and the pills no longer affected his skin, so Jiang Mengyun told him to stop.
• Ye Fei tested his tempered skin by dragging his magical artifact longsword across his arm, but it left no mark.
• Jiang Mengyun warned Ye Fei that spirit artifacts could still hurt him, and Ye Fei stared at her enchanting smile.

Ye Fei completed his fifth spiritual root cleansing and cultivated beneath the Azure Dragon Pool, where he reached the seventh level of Qi Refining before hitting another bottleneck. After spending vast resources on a sixth and then a seventh cleansing, he found that his cultivation still could not advance, leaving him afraid that the late stage of the seventh level was his limit.

• Jiang Mengyun brought Ye Fei back to Jade Maiden Peak after he lost control, and he set aside his confusion and entered the Azure Dragon Sword.
• Ye Fei used demon beast carcasses, spirit herbs, and two hundred lower-grade spirit stones to mature the Spirit-Washing Tree, then completed his fifth spiritual root cleansing.
• The Azure Dragon told Ye Fei he could cultivate a hundred zhang beneath the Azure Dragon Pool, where he used the dense spiritual energy to advance to the seventh level of Qi Refining over two months.
• After reaching a bottleneck, Ye Fei spent two thousand five hundred lower-grade spirit stones to mature the Spirit-Washing Tree and completed his sixth cleansing, then advanced two minor stages in three months.
• Ye Fei used more than three thousand spirit herbs to mature the tree for his seventh cleansing, but his cultivation remained stuck at the late stage of the seventh level of Qi Refining.

Ye Fei returned to Hidden Dragon Village after accepting that his cultivation was blocked, hoping to visit his father. There he learned that Ye Canglong had disappeared after killing an immortal master, and Wang Lin surrounded Ye Fei and demanded to know where he was.

• Ye Fei failed to circulate true qi beyond his dantian and decided to visit Ye Canglong.
• Ye Fei tended his spirit medicines, then asked Jiang Mengyun for permission to go home; she gave him a map Jade Slip and a Golden Sword Talisman Treasure.
• Ye Fei flew north to Hidden Dragon Village and found the courtyard and wooden house where he had grown up were gone.
• Liu Dashuan recognized Ye Fei, threatened to report him to the Wang Household, and ran back toward the village.
• Wang Lin arrived with armed men and demanded to know where Ye Canglong was, claiming he had killed an immortal master and fled.

Ye Fei confronted Wang Lin and the Wang Household’s cultivator, Chen Shi, in Hidden Dragon Village and learned more about the disciple his father had killed. Chen Shi called Wang Hai for help, and Wang Hai arrived by Flying Sword to face Ye Fei.

• Wang Lin ordered his men to seize Ye Fei, but Ye Fei knocked them down with a wave of sound and let Wang Lin flee for reinforcements.
• Ye Fei learned that the men had been coerced and allowed them to stay rather than punish them.
• Chen Shi arrived from the Wang Household and claimed he was only guarding Elder Wang’s ancestral residence, while secretly sending a message for help.
• Chen Shi confirmed that Ye Canglong had killed an eighth-level Qi Refining Inner Sect Disciple after the disciple provoked him.
• Ye Fei noticed Chen Shi’s hidden actions, and Chen Shi warned that Wang Hai was coming.
• Wang Hai arrived on a Flying Sword after Chen Shi announced that he had reached the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Ye Fei defeated Wang Hai in their rematch and killed him despite his threats. He then turned to Chen Shi and demanded to know why he had stayed in Hidden Dragon Village.

• Wang Hai attacked Ye Fei with his Long Ruler, but Ye Fei countered with the Third Sword of the Nine Leaning Luo Swords and grievously wounded him.
• Wang Hai mocked Ye Fei and challenged him again, but Ye Fei revealed two Spirit Artifact Longswords and defeated him with another strike.
• Ye Fei walked toward the helpless Wang Hai and beheaded him, then felt his cultivation bottleneck had disappeared.
• Chen Shi reacted in terror to Wang Hai's death, and Ye Fei appeared beside him, took Wang Hai's belongings, and demanded to know why Chen Shi had stayed in Hidden Dragon Village.

Ye Fei learned that the Wang Household had been secretly mining a Spirit Stone Mine beneath Hidden Dragon Village, then confronted Wang Lin and was caught in a clash between two talismans that destroyed the estate. After escaping underground with the Wang Household’s and Chen Shi’s treasures, Ye Fei prepared to search the mine, but an enraged voice demanded to know who had annihilated the Wang Household.

• Chen Shi revealed that Wang Changqing had kept the Spirit Stone Mine beneath Hidden Dragon Village as private property, and Ye Fei killed Chen Shi after taking his map and Storage Pouch.
• Ye Fei spared the laborers and pursued Wang Lin, who had fled to the Wang Household Estate and retrieved a powerful Talisman Paper.
• Wang Lin attacked Ye Fei with a Giant Sword formed by the talisman, and Ye Fei used his Jade Talisman to counter it.
• The two attacks exploded, leveling the Wang Household Estate and killing everyone inside while Ye Fei survived with minor injuries.
• Ye Fei used the Earth Escape Technique, collected Chen Shi’s and Wang Hai’s Storage Pouches, and counted thousands of Spirit Stones among their contents.
• As Ye Fei studied the mine map and prepared to dig deeper, an enraged voice demanded to know who had annihilated the Wang Household.

Ye Fei hid inside the Azure Dragon Sword, broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining, and waited for a chance to steal the Spirit Stones mined by Void-Surpassing Gate disciples. Just as he prepared to seize the accumulated Storage Pouches, a mocking voice called out Wang Changqing from above.

• Ye Fei escaped Wang Changqing's divine sense by hiding inside the Azure Dragon Sword and cultivated underground until he broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining.
• Wang Changqing searched the area, then reported the Spirit Stone mine to the Void-Surpassing Gate, whose disciples arrived and began mining.
• Ye Fei found the disciples and their Storage Pouches, but chose to wait rather than risk being discovered by a stronger cultivator.
• As the mined Spirit Stones accumulated to more than a hundred thousand, Ye Fei learned the disciples had finished mining and prepared to take the pouches by force.
• A strange voice mocked Wang Changqing from above the cave abode, and Ye Fei recognized it with shock.

Ye Fei used Deng Chao’s distraction to steal more than thirty Storage Pouches of Spirit Stones from Wang Changqing’s cave. In Linwu Town, Deng Chao revealed that Ye Fei was the son of his master, Ye Canglong.

• Deng Chao appeared and challenged Wang Changqing, drawing his attention away from the disciples.
• While the disciples watched the fight, Ye Fei hid the Storage Pouches inside the Azure Dragon Sword and escaped south.
• Wang Changqing discovered the Storage Pouches were gone and, fearing a nascent soul powerhouse had taken them, returned to the Void-Surpassing Gate.
• Ye Fei flew to Linwu Town and found Deng Chao at a roadside stall, where Deng Chao said Ye Fei was his master’s son.
• Deng Chao named Ye Canglong as his master, leaving Ye Fei astonished that he was truly his father’s disciple.

Ye Fei learned from Deng Chao that his father was his master and that his mother, Fairy Luo Yue, had ascended to the Upper Realm. After hearing about the approaching Divine Feather Secret Realm, Ye Fei returned to the Free and Easy Gate, where Jiang Mengyun asked him to take her inside.

• Deng Chao told Ye Fei that his father was his master, though he did not know where Ye Canglong was or how to contact him.
• Deng Chao revealed that Ye Fei's mother was Fairy Luo Yue, the former strongest person in the Divine Feather Kingdom, and that she had ascended over a decade earlier.
• Deng Chao warned Ye Fei to reach the peak of Qi Refining before the Divine Feather Secret Realm opened in less than half a year, and gave him a Voice Transmission Jade Plaque.
• Ye Fei returned to Jade Maiden Peak at the Free and Easy Gate ten days later.
• Jiang Mengyun asked Ye Fei to take her into the Divine Feather Secret Realm.

Ye Fei agreed to enter the Divine Feather Secret Realm so Jiang Mengyun could search for the soul-devouring ganoderma, and she gave him Azure Cloud Pills to prepare. After cleansing his spiritual root twice and counting his Spirit Stones, Ye Fei began cultivating with a pill, leaving him to build strength before the realm opened.

• Jiang Mengyun explained that qi refining cultivators needed the Divine Feather Secret Realm’s mortal-cleansing herb to reach foundation establishment and said she planned to seek the soul-devouring ganoderma there.
• Ye Fei agreed to enter the secret realm, and Jiang Mengyun gave him Azure Cloud Pills with four months remaining until it opened.
• Ye Fei tended the Herb Garden, returned to his cave abode, and counted 123,500 Spirit Stones inside the Azure Dragon Sword.
• Ye Fei spent nearly eight thousand Lower-Grade Spirit Stones to complete two more spiritual root cleansings, enduring severe pain during the ninth cleansing.
• Ye Fei took an Azure Cloud Pill and circulated the Free and Easy True Formula, rapidly converting its medicinal power into true qi.

Ye Fei advanced to the peak of the qi refining ninth layer, began refining true spirit pills, and learned that the Yinluo Banner could help secure the God-Devouring Zhi. He went to Divine Feather Peak to meet fellow secret-realm entrants, where a white-clad young man called Du Yuan over before he could answer Ye Fei’s question.

• Ye Fei cultivated with Azure Cloud Pills for two months and reached the peak of the qi refining ninth layer.
• Ye Fei practiced alchemy for a month and refined his first batch of genuine low-grade Qi-Replenishing Pills.
• Jiang Mengyun explained that the Yinluo Banner would be useful against low-level yin souls while obtaining the God-Devouring Zhi, and Ye Fei handed it to her.
• Jiang Mengyun urged Ye Fei to visit Divine Feather Peak and meet other elite disciples before the secret realm opened.
• Ye Fei saw more than eighty late-stage qi refining disciples sparring at Divine Feather Square and met Du Yuan, who asked if he was entering the secret realm.
• A handsome young man in white summoned Du Yuan before he could answer Ye Fei’s question.

Ye Fei stepped in to protect Du Yuan from Jiang Feng and challenged Jiang Feng to a public spar. Ye Fei effortlessly defeated Jiang Feng’s attacks, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Jiang Feng tried to force Du Yuan into another spar, but Ye Fei offered to fight Du Yuan instead and Du Yuan accepted.
• Jiang Feng challenged Ye Fei and agreed that if he lost, he would apologize to Du Yuan; the crowd gathered to witness the match.
• Jiang Feng thrust his longsword at Ye Fei’s heart, but Ye Fei blocked it with his arm and sent Jiang Feng staggering backward.
• Jiang Feng unleashed Thousand-Blade Slash, but Ye Fei’s Golden Goose Across the Sky shattered the sword shadows and drove Sword Qi toward him.
• Ye Fei dispelled the Sword Qi before it struck Jiang Feng, and the square fell silent at his display of power.