Recaps

Lin Mo received special treatment at breakfast, obtained spirit rice seeds, and set out on an assignment to visit Cloud Crane High Person. He found signs of a recent battle near White Jade Ravine and heard the injured Cloud Crane call for help.

• Lin Mo ate breakfast with Qin Sang Sang and received spirit rice and extra food from the dining hall servants.
• Lin Mo asked for uncooked spirit rice, took the grains for planting, and resolved to repay Steward Wang and Zhou Ge by becoming stronger.
• Lin Mo returned to his courtyard, told Qin Sang Sang to eat at the dining hall while he was away, and left the sect.
• Lin Mo traveled to White Jade Ravine and found blood in the air, broken trees, and scattered rocks along the path to Cloud Crane High Person's secluded valley.
• Cloud Crane called to Lin Mo from beneath the rocks, identified himself as a fellow cultivator from the Azure Cloud Sect, and pleaded for help.

Lin Mo rescued the badly injured Cloud Crane High Person from the rubble and earned his gratitude by giving him a Wound-Repair Pill. After Cloud Crane High Person agreed to remember Lin Mo’s request for formation guidance, Lin Mo carried him toward the Azure Cloud Sect using a Hundred-Mile Talisman.

• Lin Mo cautiously cleared the rubble and found the gravely injured Cloud Crane High Person beneath it.
• Cloud Crane High Person explained that Tai Sui Gate had destroyed his Spirit Fields and Five-Element Luo Dou Formation, and that a Doppelganger Puppet had helped him survive.
• Lin Mo gave Cloud Crane High Person a Wound-Repair Pill and said he had brought it for his own protection, then offered to take him back to the sect with a Hundred-Mile Talisman.
• Lin Mo asked Cloud Crane High Person for guidance in formations, and Cloud Crane High Person agreed to remember the request.
• Lin Mo carried Cloud Crane High Person on his back and sped toward the Azure Cloud Sect with the Hundred-Mile Talisman.

Lin Mo returned to the Azure Cloud Sect with the badly injured Cloud Crane High Person and tried to conceal how much the journey had weakened him. When Liu Cui revealed that the Tai Sui Gate was slaughtering villagers, Lin Mo feared for his family and the people of Locust Grass Village.

• Han Kang said the sect would set aside the Tai Sui Gate for now and focus on finding Zhu Ang, then sent Liu Cui to receive Cloud Crane High Person.
• Lin Mo and Cloud Crane High Person arrived at the foot of White Jade Mountain, where Lin Mo pretended to be badly hurt after using a Hundred-Mile Talisman.
• Wang Qiuru dispersed the watching servant disciples, checked on Lin Mo, and gave him an Essence Restoration Pill that loosened a barrier in his cultivation.
• Liu Cui greeted Cloud Crane High Person and explained that the sect's leadership was occupied with reports of the Tai Sui Gate slaughtering mortal villagers.
• Lin Mo panicked as he thought of his parents, sister Xiao He, and the villagers of Locust Grass Village.

Lin Mo persuaded Liu Cui to let him bring his younger sister Xiao He to the Azure Cloud Sect, with Cloud Crane High Person supporting his request by giving him a guide to basic formations. He left that night for Locust Grass Village, intending to bring Xiao He to the mountain while leaving his parents behind.

• Lin Mo asked Liu Cui for permission to bring his family to the sect, explaining that the Tai Sui Gate threatened their safety.
• Cloud Crane High Person credited Lin Mo with saving his life and gave him a handwritten Basic Formation Diagram Guide.
• Liu Cui approved Lin Mo bringing his younger sister, Xiao He, but not his parents.
• Wang Qiuru offered to find Lin Mo a larger courtyard, and Lin Mo set off for Locust Grass Village that night.
• Lin Mo poured a drop of spirit spring water onto the old locust tree at the village entrance before hurrying home.

Lin Mo returned home and reunited with his parents and younger sister, Lin Xiaohe, whose health had improved after drinking Spirit Spring Water. He brought Xiao He back to the sect with him, where an unexpected man appeared near the Spirit Plant Courtyard.

• Lin Mo returned to his family’s farmhouse and waited quietly until Xiao He woke and recognized him.
• Lin Mo’s parents said the Spirit Spring Water had restored their health, and he explained that he had earned permission to bring Xiao He up the mountain.
• Lin Mo’s parents encouraged him not to worry about leaving them behind, and he promised to bring them to the mountain someday.
• After breakfast, Lin Mo gave his parents more diluted Spirit Spring Water and set off with Xiao He toward the sect.
• Lin Mo and Xiao He passed through the mountain gate and neared the Spirit Plant Courtyard, where Lin Mo spotted an unexpected man.

Lin Mo brought Lin Xiaohe back to his courtyard after spotting the cloaked youth who had questioned him at the Black Market, and learned that the man had noticed him too. He tended his spirit plants, planned another trip to the Black Market, and began studying a formation guide.

• Lin Mo recognized the cloaked youth at the Spirit Plant Courtyard and hurried away with Lin Xiaohe, but the youth spotted him and realized he had found him.
• Lin Mo returned to his Small Courtyard by a roundabout route and introduced Lin Xiaohe to Qin Sang Sang, who welcomed her warmly.
• Lin Mo inspected and watered his spirit plants, planted fifteen spirit rice seeds, and found that only one drop of spirit spring water remained in his Treasure Gourd.
• Lin Mo decided to disguise himself and visit the Black Market the following night, then studied the Basic Formation Diagram Guide given to him by Cloud Crane High Person.

Lin Mo learned that he could understand formation diagrams and decided to obtain the spirit stones needed for a concealed formation to protect his spirit field. After registering Lin Xiaohe and harvesting his rapidly grown crops, he prepared for a trip to the Black Market that night.

• Lin Mo studied the formation diagrams, chose the Maze-Woven Golden Lock Formation to hide and defend his spirit field, and decided to seek the needed spirit stones at the Black Market.
• Lin Mo registered Lin Xiaohe as clan kin, then brought her back to the Small Courtyard.
• Lin Mo found that his mutated Fire Spirit Fruit plants and ordinary spirit plants had ripened, while his spirit rice had grown ears overnight.
• Lin Mo harvested the spirit plants, stored the withered ones separately, and prepared for his trip to the Black Market.

Lin Mo disguised himself to trade his spirit fruits at the Black Market, where a different black-robed man offered him a more favorable deal in exchange for future exclusivity. The man also gave Lin Mo a Venomous Thorn Bee to help him avoid being followed, but Lin Mo remained wary as he read about the insect.

• Lin Mo returned to the Black Market in disguise and asked the black-robed stallkeeper to screen their transaction.
• Lin Mo rejected the stallkeeper’s initial offer, insisting on the value previously agreed with the man surnamed Du.
• The black-robed man offered Lin Mo 200 metal-attribute spirit stones, 200 earth-attribute spirit stones, 500 drops of spirit liquid, and two blank Formation Discs if Lin Mo traded his future fruits with him.
• Lin Mo accepted the deal and asked for a way to leave the Black Market without being followed.
• The black-robed man gave Lin Mo a Venomous Thorn Bee and a booklet about spirit insects, and Lin Mo began reading it before deciding whether to trust the insect.

Lin Mo acquired and bonded with a Venomous Thorn Bee, then crafted a Formation Disc for his future home. On Spirit Beast Peak, a white-haired elder learned that Lin Mo had produced mutated fire spirit fruit and ordered his disciple to recruit him—or kill him if he refused.

• Lin Mo identified the black-robed man's insect as a Venomous Thorn Bee and bonded with it using a drop of his blood.
• Lin Mo returned safely to his Small Courtyard, counted his spirit stones and spirit liquid, and carved the Maze-Woven Golden Lock Formation onto a blank Formation Disc.
• Lin Mo played briefly with the Venomous Thorn Bee before resuming his cultivation.
• A young man reported to the white-haired elder that Lin Mo, an Outer Sect Disciple of the Spirit Plant Courtyard, had produced mutated fire spirit fruit.
• The white-haired elder ordered the young man to approach Lin Mo about becoming his disciple and to kill him if he refused.

Lin Mo moved into his new home, replanted his spirit crops, and concealed them with a formation. When Xun Bin arrived to recruit him for Elder Gou, Lin Mo denied having anything to do with mutated spirit plants.

• Lin Mo moved Qin Sang Sang and Lin Xiaohe into their new home on Spirit Plant Peak and replanted his spirit crops.
• Lin Mo set up the Maze-Woven Golden Lock Formation to hide his spirit plants from intruders.
• Wang Qiuru told Lin Mo that Xun Bin, Elder Gou's direct disciple, had come to see him.
• Xun Bin confronted Lin Mo about cultivating the mutated fire spirit fruit and offered him a place as Elder Gou's disciple.
• Lin Mo rejected the offer indirectly, claiming he did not understand anything about mutated fire spirit fruit.

Lin Mo refused Xun Bin’s attempt to recruit him for Elder Gou and worried about the consequences, then tended his spirit plants and harvested a new crop. He was summoned to the Spirit Plant Courtyard, where he learned Elder Gou had demanded that he restore the cursed Ghost-Crying Field.

• Lin Mo declined Xun Bin’s offer, citing his connection to Cloud Crane High Person, and Xun Bin left with a threat.
• Lin Mo harvested six mutated fire spirit fruits, ordinary spirit fruits, and spirit rice, then planted another crop while worrying about his dwindling spirit liquid.
• A Servant Disciple told Lin Mo that the elders and Wang Qiuru were waiting at the Spirit Plant Courtyard to discuss confiscating his spirit field.
• Lin Mo arrived and heard Elder Yuan complain that Gou Fengying was demanding the Ghost-Crying Field be restored.
• Elder Zhu told Lin Mo that Gou Fengying had proposed sending him to restore the field and asked whether he was confident he could do it.

Lin Mo accepted the elders’ assignment to restore the notorious Ghost-Crying Field and received a thousand water-aligned spirit stones as support. Back at his courtyard, he found a warning from Xun Bin urging him to reconsider an earlier proposal, but he hid its true message from Lin Xiaohe and tore it up.

• Lin Mo agreed to take responsibility for the Ghost-Crying Field despite Cui Zhong’s warning that its past caretakers had died or suffered grave illnesses.
• Elder Yuan promised Lin Mo a place in the grand tournament if he succeeded, while Wang Qiuru assumed the assignment came from the sect master and gave him two Storage Bags.
• Wang Qiuru offered to reassign Qin Sang Sang, and Lin Mo asked that she stay with his younger sister instead of going to the Ghost-Crying Field.
• Lin Mo opened the Storage Bags in his bedroom and found a thousand water-aligned spirit stones inside.
• Lin Xiaohe gave Lin Mo a note from Xun Bin, and Lin Mo lied about its contents before tearing it into pieces.

Lin Mo took possession of the Ghost-Crying Field, where Wang Qiuru had arranged water and hardy spirit wheat seeds to ease his work. After sowing the entire field, he sensed an eerie aura draining the soil’s nutrients as night fell, threatening to kill the seeds.

• Lin Mo left Qin Sang Sang and Lin Xiaohe at home and went with a Servant Disciple to the Ghost-Crying Field.
• Lin Mo found Servant Disciples filling a reservoir with mountain spring water and received spirit wheat seeds Wang Qiuru had selected.
• Lin Mo thanked the Outer Sect Disciple and sowed spirit wheat across all ten mu of the prepared field in just over four hours.
• The Servant Disciples finished filling the reservoir and left as darkness fell over the rear slopes.
• Lin Mo sensed an eerie aura spreading through a planting ridge, rapidly drying the soil and threatening the newly planted spirit wheat.

Lin Mo used the Treasure Gourd’s spirit spring water to restore the Ghost-Crying Field and secretly planted some of its rapidly sprouted spirit wheat in his courtyard. While cultivating, he broke through to the late first layer of Qi Refining, just as Qin Sang Sang and Lin Xiaohe came to check on him.

• The Venomous Thorn Bee investigated the eerie aura in the Ghost-Crying Field, then fell asleep after the aura weakened slightly.
• Lin Mo watered the field with ten drops of spirit spring water, restoring its spiritual energy and making the spirit wheat sprout rapidly.
• Lin Mo uprooted the seedlings, resowed the field with some crushed seeds, and finished restoring it without causing further abnormal growth.
• Lin Mo planted a hundred spirit wheat seedlings in his courtyard, then used spirit spring water and spirit plants while cultivating the Evergreen Art.
• Lin Mo broke through to the late first layer of Qi Refining, and Lin Xiaohe entered his room after hearing his grunt while Qin Sang Sang called from outside.

After Lin Mo broke through to the late first layer of Qi Refining, Wang Qiuru rewarded him and he found that the spirit wheat he had planted had grown at an astonishing rate. The chapter ended with Lin Mo seeing a faintly glowing human silhouette within the wheat heads.

• Lin Mo broke through to the late first layer of Qi Refining, and Qin Sang Sang prepared a bath and helped him with his clothes while Lin Xiaohe teased her.
• Wang Qiuru brought Lin Mo new clothes, praised his progress, and heard his account of the Ghost-Crying Field; Lin Mo kept the Treasure Gourd and Venomous Thorn Bee secret.
• Wang Qiuru gave Lin Mo a large bottle of spirit liquid as a reward, and he poured it into the Treasure Gourd.
• Lin Mo went to the backyard and discovered that his spirit wheat had grown over half a meter tall and already sprouted heads.
• Lin Mo saw a faint golden human silhouette appear within the spirit wheat heads.

Lin Mo found that his Golden-Light Wheat resembled a Vajra Talisman and received the talisman from Liu Xianzong, whom he repaid with a generous gift of spirit stones. The chapter left Lin Mo planning to ask the black-robed man about the wheat’s golden light and the phantom inside it.

• Lin Mo named the spirit wheat in his backyard Golden-Light Wheat after seeing its golden glow and a vacant young man's phantom within it.
• Liu Xianzong visited Lin Mo at the transformed Ghost-Crying Field and gave him a Vajra Talisman to protect him from evil.
• Lin Mo noticed that the talisman's faint golden light resembled the glow from his Golden-Light Wheat and wondered whether the wheat could ward off evil.
• Lin Mo gave Liu Xianzong a Storage Bag containing more than a hundred spirit stones, and Liu vowed to help him whenever needed.
• Lin Mo decided to ask the black-robed man at the Black Market about the golden light and phantoms in the rice grains once they ripened.

Lin Mo harvested his spirit plants, then told Lin Xiaohe and Qin Sang Sang about a fabricated special constitution to explain their new food and keep his cultivation secret. At the Black Market, he offered the trader mutated Golden-Light Wheat and spirit rice to inspect, but the man accused him of lying.

• Lin Mo harvested Golden-Light Wheat and other spirit plants, bringing his total to seven mutated plants and a large stock of fruit and grain.
• Lin Mo told Lin Xiaohe and Qin Sang Sang that the sect was secretly supporting his supposed spirit-plant-growing constitution, and ordered them to keep it secret.
• Lin Mo returned to the Black Market in disguise and asked Black-Robed Du's junior fellow disciple to inspect a grain of mutated Golden-Light Wheat.
• The black-robed man said the wheat could repel evil and ward off malevolent spirits, then judged Lin Mo's mutated spirit rice to have only minor benefits.
• Lin Mo gave the man one grain each of Golden-Light Wheat and spirit rice, then offered five hundred ordinary spirit fruits and claimed his master had no mutated fruit left.
• The black-robed man stared at Lin Mo and declared, "You're lying!"

Lin Mo traded mutated fire spirit fruits for spirit liquid and learned that his Venomous Thorn Bee seemed close to advancing. He returned home safely and set up the Empty-Eye Formation around his courtyard, then posted a notice explaining the added privacy.

• Lin Mo exchanged his mutated fire spirit fruits for more than two thousand drops of spirit liquid and turned down the Black-Robed Man's offer to buy the Venomous Thorn Bee.
• The Black-Robed Man examined the sleeping bee and said it looked as though it was about to advance.
• Lin Mo returned to his courtyard after taking a cautious, four-hour route back from the Black Market.
• Lin Mo engraved and set up the Empty-Eye Formation, making the courtyard difficult to see from outside.
• Lin Mo posted a notice explaining that the formation was there to provide privacy for the women living inside.

Xun Bin attacked the Ghost-Crying Field with a figure created from a Yellow Paper Talisman, causing the spirit wheat shoots to wither overnight and knocking Liu Xianzong unconscious. Lin Mo found traces of life remaining in the seedlings and took out the Treasure Gourd, which suddenly opened and glowed.

• Liu Xianzong guarded the Ghost-Crying Field overnight until Xun Bin knocked him unconscious.
• Xun Bin used a Yellow Paper Talisman to summon a ghostlike figure that withered the spirit wheat as it drifted across the field.
• Liu Xianzong warned Lin Mo that the seedlings had withered, and Lin Mo sent Qin Sang Sang and Lin Xiaohe to take him home.
• Lin Mo examined the seedlings, suspected Gou Fengying and Xun Bin, and found that a little vitality remained at their roots.
• Lin Mo took out the Treasure Gourd to try to save the seedlings, and its cap popped open as it began to glow.

Lin Mo confronted the resentful Ashen Youth in the Ghost-Crying Field, but the Treasure Gourd absorbed and subdued him without harming its spirit spring water. Lin Mo revived the Spirit Wheat and resolved to ask Wang Qiuru for a formation to protect the field from Gou Fengying and Xun Bin.

• The Treasure Gourd gathered the Ashen Youth from ashes, and Lin Mo recognized him as the Spirit Plant Courtyard disciple who had died over a hundred years earlier.
• The Ashen Youth blamed Ruan Xiong and the Azure Cloud Sect for his unjust expulsion and death, while Lin Mo told him about his own hardships and urged him not to harm innocents.
• The Ashen Youth refused to abandon his revenge, so the Treasure Gourd pulled him inside and sealed him away.
• Lin Mo checked the gourd and found its spirit spring water unharmed, then used some to water the failing Spirit Wheat shoots.
• The Spirit Wheat revived, and Lin Mo decided to ask Wang Qiuru for a formation to guard the field against Gou Fengying and Xun Bin.

Lin Mo secured the Spirit Plant Courtyard’s support against Gou Fengying and discovered that the Treasure Gourd had changed the Ashen Youth’s phantom and bound the youth to him. The chapter ended with Lin Mo anticipating the youth’s awakening.

• Wang Qiuru agreed to send Lin Mo a blank Formation Disc and said Elder Yuan could handle the dispute with Gou Fengying.
• Lin Mo returned to find Liu Xianzong recovering while Qin Sang Sang worried and Lin Xiaohe tried to charge off with a hatchet to attack Gou Fengying.
• Lin Mo told Liu Xianzong to focus on cultivation and promised that Servant Disciples would tend the Spirit Fields so he would not need contribution points.
• Lin Mo inspected the back courtyard and saw the Ashen Youth’s phantom vanish from the Golden-Light Wheat as he entered.
• Lin Mo examined the Treasure Gourd and found the Ashen Youth’s phantom had grown more solid; a familiar sensation in his sea of consciousness made him realize he had become the youth’s master.

Xun Bin investigated Lin Mo’s sudden rise and blamed it on the Old Locust Tree in Locust Grass Village, then kicked it until its buds fell. Back at his yard, Lin Mo harvested his spirit plants, unaware of the attack, until the Treasure Gourd began to glow and the ash-formed young man’s phantom appeared.

• Gou Fengying ordered Xun Bin to investigate Lin Mo’s background but warned him not to harm Lin Mo’s family.
• Xun Bin questioned children in Locust Grass Village and concluded that the Old Locust Tree was the source of Lin Mo’s power.
• Xun Bin kicked the Old Locust Tree, causing its buds and dead branches to fall, though new buds began growing again after he left.
• Xun Bin told Gou Fengying that he had destroyed Lin Mo’s source of power, and Gou Fengying ordered him to avoid Spirit Beast Peak and the Black Market for a few months.
• Lin Mo harvested his mutated crops and planned to expand his spirit field before the Treasure Gourd glowed and the phantom of the young man formed from ashes emerged.

Lin Mo learned that Du Li was a resentful ghost whose strength had risen to the ninth layer of qi refining, then helped him reclaim some of his energy from the Golden-Light Wheat. Du Li entered the Treasure Gourd to recover further, while Lin Mo returned to cultivation, expecting to reach the second layer of qi refining within two days.

• Du Li introduced himself to Lin Mo and revealed that he was a resentful ghost with strength near the tenth layer of qi refining.
• Du Li explained that the Venomous Thorn Bee and the Treasure Gourd had consumed some of his resentful energy, weakening him.
• Lin Mo showed Du Li the Golden-Light Wheat, and Du Li recognized the resentful energy within its golden glow.
• With Lin Mo's permission, Du Li reclaimed the energy from the wheat and recovered enough strength to rival an ordinary cultivator at the tenth layer of qi refining.
• Du Li entered the Treasure Gourd so it could nurture him, and Lin Mo confirmed that the Golden-Light Wheat remained spiritually potent.
• Lin Mo returned to his room to cultivate, anticipating that he would advance to the second layer of qi refining within two days.

After three months of cultivating, Lin Mo reached the third layer of Qi Refining and successfully grew spirit wheat in the Ghost-Crying Field. He secluded himself to investigate a change in the Treasure Gourd’s spirit spring water and discovered that bathing in it was strengthening his body.

• Lin Mo reached the third layer of Qi Refining while sharing his harvest with Qin Sang Sang and Liu Xianzong, who helped him cultivate and kept their extra meals secret.
• A messenger from the Spirit Plant Courtyard reported that Lin Mo’s spirit wheat had ripened after just three months, and Lin Mo asked him to notify Steward Wang.
• Lin Mo told Liu Xianzong, Qin Sang Sang, and Lin Xiaohe to guard the courtyard and let no one disturb his secluded cultivation.
• Lin Mo poured ten drops of spirit spring water into a wooden tub and climbed in, feeling intense heat as gray-black impurities left his skin.
• Lin Mo sensed a warm current circulate from his chest outward in the reverse direction of spiritual qi, increasing his physical strength.

After Lin Mo strengthened his body with spirit spring water, he learned that his spirit wheat harvest had far exceeded expectations and earned a place in the Spirit Plant Grand Competition. Yuan Jingtu then flew to Spirit Beast Peak to confront Gou Fengying, leaving Lin Mo worried that Gou Fengying might retaliate against him.

• Lin Mo finished his spirit spring water bath, assessed his improved physique, and went to the Spirit Plant Courtyard.
• Disciples harvested Lin Mo's spirit wheat and found the yield was 120 jin, far above the expected 50 jin.
• Wang Qiuru gave Lin Mo rewards from the elders, and Yuan Jingtu praised his work resolving the Ghost-Crying Field.
• Yuan Jingtu invited Lin Mo to compete in the Spirit Plant Grand Competition, which would begin in half a month.
• Yuan Jingtu took some spirit wheat and flew to Spirit Beast Peak to show Gou Fengying, while Lin Mo feared Gou Fengying might target him in response.