Recaps

Xiao Xianrui and several Hundred Herbs Sect disciples left Weeping Moon City, but an unfamiliar cultivator ambushed them and killed the disciples with a flying sword. Xiao Xianrui fought back and tried to escape, but the attacker closed in as she prepared a desperate strike.

• Xiao Xianrui led the disciples away from Weeping Moon City, then turned back after realizing they needed its Teleportation Array to return to Hundred Herbs Sect.
• An unfamiliar eleventh-layer Qi Cultivation cultivator intercepted Xiao Xianrui and declared that he would take their lives.
• Xiao Xianrui and the disciples attacked with talismans and Crescent Moon, but the cultivator unleashed eight sword lights that killed the disciples.
• Xiao Xianrui attacked with Crescent Moon and defensive talismans, then searched for a chance to flee as the cultivator used Fireball Talismans.
• The cultivator evaded Xiao Xianrui's attacks, rushed within two zhang, and forced her to turn and strike with Crescent Moon.

Xiao Xianrui nearly died fighting Xiao Hua, but he stopped the demonic hammer and used an Essence Nourishing Talisman to halt her incomplete foundation establishment. After she returned safely to Weeping Moon City, Xiao Hua rejoined Qian Diheng and Xun Shu and hurried with them to the Bidding Convention.

• Xiao Xianrui's Crescent Moon shattered against Xiao Hua's demonic hammer, and she began to establish her foundation as the hammer neared her forehead.
• Xiao Hua stopped the attack, offered Xiao Xianrui a choice between using an Essence Nourishing Talisman and establishing her foundation, then used the talisman to halt her progress and gave her a jade slip explaining it.
• Xiao Xianrui thanked the unnamed senior and returned toward Weeping Moon City, while Xiao Hua watched over her and later followed her to the city.
• After Xiao Xianrui entered the Teleportation Array, Xiao Hua returned to the inn, where Qian Diheng hurried him onto a Spirit Camel carriage with Qian Diheng and Xun Shu for the Bidding Convention.
• Xiao Hua told Qian Diheng and Xun Shu he had bought artifact-refining materials, and apologized when Xun Shu warned him they could be late.

Xiao Hua and his companions reached Weeping Moon City's Bidding Convention late, but Qian Diheng persuaded a guard to let them enter before the finale. Xiao Hua entered the bidding hall in disguise and learned the convention's anonymous bidding system as he arrived at the venue.

• Xiao Hua explained that he had been delayed while helping Xiao Xianrui establish her foundation, and the Spirit Camel carriage brought the group to the convention after it had begun.
• Qian Diheng bribed a city guard, who let the four cultivators enter because the finale magic treasure had not yet arrived.
• The group entered a restricted area to put on Mihuan before proceeding toward the bidding hall.
• A cultivator gave Xiao Hua a jade slip, a numbered token, and a bidding rod, and Xiao Hua learned that only the token's owner could see its number.
• Xiao Hua crossed the corridor and entered the Bidding Convention venue, where the sight left him stunned.

Xiao Hua attended Weeping Moon City's Bidding Convention and watched the bidding for pills, failing to obtain the Huayuan Pills he wanted. The auction then moved on to spirit herbs, beginning with Lotus-Leaning Green Fruit cultivated using a female cultivator's primordial yin.

• Xiao Hua entered the immense auction hall, took his seat, and learned how to use his bidding token.
• Chang Feiyan opened the bidding with ordinary pills, and Xiao Hua tested his token by placing a bid.
• Xiao Hua bid several times on Huayuan Pills but gave up when the price rose beyond his reach, deciding to seek the spirit herbs needed to refine them.
• The bidding for rare pills concluded, and Chang Feiyan announced that the auction would proceed to spirit herbs and fruits.
• A female cultivator presented one hundred high-quality Lotus-Leaning Green Fruit plants, which Chang Feiyan said she had cultivated with Weeping Moon City's secret method and her primordial yin.

Xiao Hua bought young Lotus-Leaning Green Fruits and agreed to purchase Weeping Moon City’s remaining low-level spirit herbs in a discounted bundle. When the bundle’s list revealed ten scarce Danhe plants, other cultivators objected to their inclusion, but Chang Feiyan insisted the deal would stand.

• Chang Feiyan explained that Lotus-Leaning Green Fruits cultivated with a maiden’s primordial yin enhanced Minghua Pills, but no one bid on the young fruits until Xiao Hua offered the starting price.
• Xiao Hua won the hundred Lotus-Leaning Green Fruits and bought several more young spirit herbs as other lots went unclaimed.
• Chang Feiyan offered Xiao Hua all the remaining low-level spirit herbs at a discount, and Xiao Hua agreed.
• Chang Feiyan announced that the remaining 435 varieties, including ten five-year-old Danhe plants, would go to Xiao Hua for eight supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Other cultivators protested that the scarce Danhe should be auctioned separately, but Chang Feiyan refused to reverse the bundled sale.

Xiao Hua watched the Bidding Convention sell spirit herbs and rare materials before spotting two gold-foil sheets tied to the Baye Linglong Scripture. He failed to obtain them without Qian Mo secret stone, then turned his attention to the spiritual flying sword announced as the convention’s grand finale.

• Xiao Hua watched spirit herbs sell for high prices and hoped to trade his ten-thousand-year herbs for the finale item.
• Chang Feiyan offered two mysterious gold-foil sheets in exchange only for Qian Mo secret stone, and Xiao Hua tried to bid with spirit stones and a thousand-year Ling Yi Grass.
• Xiao Hua revealed himself as Jiang Mo and offered his Ling Yi Grass, but the cultivator with Qian Mo secret stone remained silent, leaving Xiao Hua without the gold foil.
• Chang Feiyan unveiled a spiritual flying sword, and Xiao Hua recognized that it likely possessed a sword spirit and considered bidding for it.
• Cultivators questioned whether the flying sword could be refined and whether it was connected to two sword cultivators who had disappeared in Meng Kingdom.

At Weeping Moon City’s Bidding Convention, an azure flying sword escaped its display and drew the attention of Xiao Hua and two foreign sword cultivators. Elder Hua Jianyu arrived to stop them, then confronted them over disrupting the auction.

• Chang Feiyan announced that the azure flying sword came with a jade slip containing its refining method, and Xiao Hua eagerly anticipated bidding for it.
• The flying sword gained sentience and tried to fly into the crowd, but the platform’s restriction stopped it.
• Duan Yuming and Wang Xuyyao revealed themselves as Xuanjian Sect sword cultivators and attacked the platform’s restriction to seize the sword.
• A powerful azure orb shattered Wang Xuyyao’s attack and disrupted Duan Yuming’s Fish-Traveling Sword, forcing both sword cultivators to retreat.
• Chang Feiyan identified the arriving elder as Hua Jianyu, and she warned Duan Yuming and Wang Xuyyao for breaking Weeping Moon City’s rules.

Duan Yuming and Wang Xuyyao confronted Hua Jianyu and Chang Feiyan over the Qing Ling flying sword, which they claimed belonged to their missing fellow disciple Zhang Yutong. Weeping Moon City refused to hand it over without proof or payment, and the chapter ended as Wang Xuyyao reacted furiously to Chang Feiyan’s proposed exchange.

• Duan Yuming and Wang Xuyyao apologized to Hua Jianyu, then accused Weeping Moon City of involvement in the disappearance of two Xuanjian Sect sword cultivators.
• Hua Jianyu used her pressure against the pair, who resisted with their flying swords, and Duan Yuming identified the Qing Ling sword as Zhang Yutong’s.
• Hua Jianyu challenged them to prove ownership, while Duan Yuming asked where the sword came from and requested its return.
• Chang Feiyan explained that an ordinary tenth-layer Qi Cultivation cultivator had sold the sword to Weeping Moon City a month earlier, but refused to reveal the seller’s likeness.
• Chang Feiyan demanded a large payment for the sword and offered to accept the sword cultivators’ own flying swords in exchange.
• Wang Xuyyao flew into a rage and sent a rainbow streak shooting up beside her.

Wang Xuyyao and Duan Yuming fled the Bidding Convention after clashing with Hua Jianyu, and no one bid on the flying sword associated with Zhang Yutong. After the convention ended, Chang Feiyan thanked Xiao Hua and asked about his thousand-year-old Ling Yi Grass, while refusing to explain the gold foil beyond saying it came from a cultivation lineage in southern Meng Kingdom.

• Hua Jianyu blocked the sword cultivators with the Azure Wave Moon-Harming Ruler, but Duan Yuming and Wang Xuyyao broke through the door restrictions and escaped.
• Chang Feiyan resumed the auction of the flying sword, but the cultivators, including Xiao Hua, chose not to bid, and he ended the convention.
• Xiao Hua wondered who had abducted Zhang Yutong and Zhang Yuhe and why Zhang Yutong's flying sword had appeared at the auction.
• A city guard led Xiao Hua to collect his winnings, and Chang Feiyan personally delivered his storage pouch.
• Chang Feiyan asked Xiao Hua about his Ling Yi Grass and said it could help repay a favor, but he only revealed that the gold foil had been entrusted by a cultivation lineage in southern Meng Kingdom.

Xiao Hua received a credential from Chang Feiyan to attend Weeping Moon City's secret bidding gathering, then learned that Kun Feiyan had been invited to an exchange market in Jiangcheng Town where a Condensing Knowledge Treasure might appear. The group agreed to go, though Xiao Hua doubted such a rare treasure would be traded at a small market.

• Chang Feiyan gave Xiao Hua a credential for the secret bidding gathering and urged him to attend in ten days.
• Chang Feiyan hurried away to search for the cultivator who had sold the flying sword after discovering it belonged to Zhang Yutong.
• Xiao Hua reunited with Xun Shu and Qian Diheng, and they waited for Kun Feiyan to leave the Bidding Convention.
• Kun Feiyan returned with news that Qiang Lan had invited her to an exchange market in Jiangcheng Town where a Condensing Knowledge Treasure might appear.
• Qian Diheng and Xun Shu agreed to go to Jiangcheng Town, while Xiao Hua questioned whether such a rare treasure could truly be available there.

Xiao Hua learned that Condensing Knowledge Treasures could restore a reincarnated cultivator’s former Dao-heart realm, and he wondered whether his own lack of cultivation bottlenecks meant he had been reincarnated. Xun Shu confirmed a sect senior had used one to rise to Spirit Transformation, while Qian Diheng and Kun Feiyan debated the Three Thousand Great Daos.

• Qian Diheng and Kun Feiyan explained how a Condensing Knowledge Treasure was made and how it could restore a reincarnated cultivator’s former insights.
• Xiao Hua connected the treasure’s effects to his own lack of cultivation bottlenecks and wondered whether he was a reincarnated cultivator.
• Xun Shu described a former Xun Lei Palace senior who refined a Condensing Knowledge Treasure, later found it again, and became a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Xun Shu and Qian Diheng clarified that the treasure preserved cultivation insights but not memories of a former life.
• Qian Diheng described the Great Daos, and he and Kun Feiyan argued over whether their number was exactly three thousand.

Xiao Hua considered whether to attend a secret gathering and rejected Luan Qing’s inherited Lingmou Zhu Fire seed as unsuitable for his cultivation. He tended his spirit herbs and noticed signs that Little Silver and the Divine Strength Centipede were changing inside his space.

• Xiao Hua learned that Condensing Knowledge Treasures could not be made by cultivators beyond the Nascent Soul stage, and his companions speculated that one might have been left by a past life.
• The four disciples agreed to stay in Weeping Moon City for a few more days before traveling to the Gathering of Exchange, and they moved to another inn.
• Xiao Hua examined Chang Feiyan’s token talisman but decided not to attend the secret gathering because he feared senior cultivators and lacked the resources to trade.
• Xiao Hua studied Luan Qing’s Lingmou Zhu Fire technique and concluded that the inherited fire seed carried the Luan family’s mark and was too weak for his needs.
• Xiao Hua planted plans for the spirit herbs he had acquired, then noticed golden markings on Little Silver and the Divine Strength Centipede and considered raising the centipede in a spirit beast pouch.

Xiao Hua studied the Insect Scripture and used its methods to subdue the Divine Strength Centipede, discovering that binding a spirit insect could hurt his Primordial Spirit. He then examined the Scripture’s rankings and wondered about the powerful insects at the top, while the Fire Ape and Spirit Seeking Rat remained absent from its records.

• Xiao Hua reviewed the Insect Scripture and found its methods for controlling spirit insects, then checked Ling Zhengyi’s booklet and found only instructions for refining Shadow Moon.
• Xiao Hua used hand seals to immobilize the Divine Strength Centipede and pressed a thread of his Primordial Spirit onto its spirit essence.
• Xiao Hua felt intense soul pain during the binding, then stored the exhausted centipede back in the space and concluded that subduing the Fire Ape would be even harder.
• Xiao Hua found the Divine Strength Centipede ranked eighty-seventh and read that the Dream Mirage Butterfly and Spirit-Eroding Insect ranked first and second.
• Xiao Hua wondered why the Scripture did not list Fire Apes, Spirit Seeking Rats, or Zhen Tiancang.

Xiao Hua visited Clever Crafts Workshop with Qian Diheng’s command plaque to seek help reforging his Town Cloud Seal. After hearing about a secret bidding gathering, he entered the workshop and was escorted upstairs by assistant shopkeeper Xia Ming.

• Xiao Hua dismissed the Insect Scripture’s rankings and stored the book.
• Qian Diheng showed Xiao Hua his newly refined Minghao Halberd, explained that Clever Crafts Workshop had combined three artifacts into it, and gave him directions and a command plaque.
• Xiao Hua traveled to the busy area around Clever Crafts Workshop, disguised his appearance, and watched the workshop from a nearby teahouse.
• A cultivator wearing Mihuan asked Xiao Hua whether he had a token for a secret bidding gathering, but Xiao Hua said he knew nothing about it.
• Xiao Hua presented his command plaque at Clever Crafts Workshop, and assistant shopkeeper Xia Ming led him upstairs.

Xiao Hua visited Clever Crafts Workshop to have two magical artifacts reforged and learned that one could be turned into a powerful consumable artifact. He set aside the proposed work and revealed two magic treasures for the cultivator to inspect.

• Xia Ming verified Xiao Hua's token plaque and sent him to meet a cultivator surnamed Bai on the third floor.
• Xiao Hua gave Bai the Four Symbols Wheel and a spear-shaped artifact to examine.
• Bai judged the Four Symbols Wheel poorly made and said the spear artifact could be modified into a consumable magical artifact capable of killing an early Foundation Establishment cultivator if it struck true.
• Bai explained that Lizard Beast adhesive bones would raise the artifact's chance of killing its target to seventy percent.
• Xiao Hua set the two artifacts aside and brought out the Hundred Layer Cloud Barrier and the Moyun Armor, startling Bai.

Xiao Hua arranged for Clever Crafts Workshop to combine two damaged defensive magic treasures into a robe and modify the Four Symbols Wheel into a consumable artifact. He then entered Weeping Moon City's secret bidding gathering, where a triggered array transported him onto a rainbow bridge.

• Xiao Hua traded the Four Symbols Wheel, spirit stones, and five aged spirit herbs toward the work, and arranged to collect the consumable artifact in twenty days and the defensive robe in one year.
• Xiao Hua left Clever Crafts Workshop and decided to attend the secret bidding gathering to seek the Minghua Pill formula.
• Xiao Hua used the command phrase from his token to enter a restricted room at the gathering and waited for the appointed hour.
• Xiao Hua placed his command token into a recess in the wall, triggering a powerful array that made the room's walls and floor disappear.
• Xiao Hua raised the Town Cloud Seal for protection as a tri-colored light formed a rainbow bridge beneath his feet.

Xiao Hua passed through the fiery formation and used a black Taoist robe to conceal Mihuan before entering a secret bidding gathering. He watched the gathering’s host accept a jade bottle in exchange for a three-thousand-year Mysterious Yin Spirit Grass, learning that the owner chose the winning offer regardless of competing bids.

• Xiao Hua crossed the rainbow bridge through the flames and reached a hidden room containing a black Taoist robe.
• Xiao Hua put on the robe, which concealed Mihuan and blocked outside divine sense, then entered a hall with more than a dozen masked cultivators.
• The gathering’s host explained the bidding rules and presented a three-thousand-year Mysterious Yin Spirit Grass.
• Several cultivators offered spirit stones or other items, but the host rejected their alternatives.
• The host accepted a jade bottle from a hesitant cultivator and gave him the Mysterious Yin Spirit Grass, showing Xiao Hua that the owner chose the winning offer.

At the secret bidding gathering, Xiao Hua watched powerful cultivators compete for rare treasures and traded his Ling Yi Grass for Crushed Gold Stone to prepare to repair the Town Cloud Seal. He avoided offering anything else, but just as the gathering seemed to be ending quietly for him, an unexpected change occurred.

• A cultivator auctioned a Nascent Soul Pill, which a Golden Core cultivator acquired after competing with several others.
• The presiding cultivator displayed the Chaomeng Pearl, and three Nascent Soul cultivators competed until one won it.
• Xiao Hua traded his Ling Yi Grass for the Crushed Gold Stone he needed to repair the Town Cloud Seal.
• The gathering auctioned more treasures, while Xiao Hua worried about what he might have to offer when his turn came.
• When his turn arrived, Xiao Hua declined to present an item, but an unexpected change interrupted the gathering.

At a secret bidding gathering, Xiao Hua recognized a soul cultivator’s inscribed bone and learned of a damaged oil lamp said to have come from the Myriad Monster Realm. As another Nascent Soul cultivator offered to buy the lamp, Xiao Hua weighed whether to bid for it.

• A Nascent Soul cultivator offered a bone taken from a soul cultivator, and the cultivator at the head of the table identified it as a soul-cultivator technique and bought it.
• Xiao Hua recognized the bone as like the one in his space and learned that the gathering prohibited bidding on ordinary cultivation techniques, pill formulas, and artifact-refining methods.
• The Nascent Soul cultivator offered a damaged oil lamp that he said a soul monster had brought from the Myriad Monster Realm.
• The cultivator at the head of the table judged the lamp’s spiritual flame extinguished but noted that three drops of oil remained, then invited the attendees to bid on it.
• Xiao Hua considered bidding because the lamp had once held a spiritual flame, while another Nascent Soul cultivator tossed a storage pouch onto the table to name a price.

Xiao Hua traded spirit herbs to obtain a damaged oil lamp containing a fire seed from the Myriad Monster Realm, then left the secret Bidding Convention and returned to his inn. There, he examined the tiny flame in the lamp, hoping it might help him form a Five Elements Origin fire seed.

• Xiao Hua offered spirit herbs to the Nascent Soul cultivators and received the battered oil lamp after one of them explained that its fire seed could help a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator break through a bottleneck.
• Xiao Hua left the secret Bidding Convention through a concealed teleportation array and reappeared in a secluded corner of Weeping Moon City.
• Xiao Hua looked for puppets in an artifact-refining shop, but the clerk said they were difficult to find and that even the Seven Wonders Sect had none available.
• Xiao Hua returned to the inn, activated his room’s restrictions, and examined the lamp’s tiny flame and three drops of oil.

Xiao Hua discovered that the Myriad Monster Realm spirit fire was an empty shell that could absorb Samadhi True Fire but could not be cultivated by his seals. After delaying his departure to experiment, he left Weeping Moon City with Qian Diheng and the others, while a spy reported their departure to Senior Brother Chang.

• Xiao Hua tested the spirit fire with a spirit stone and spirit grass, then realized it had lost its fire marrow and could not burn them.
• Xiao Hua found that the spirit fire could absorb Samadhi True Fire, but he chose not to risk his Lingmou Zhu Fire and brought both flames into his body for cultivation.
• Qian Diheng, Kun Feiyan, and Xun Shu visited Xiao Hua, who asked them to delay their departure while he dealt with cultivation problems.
• More than ten days later, Xiao Hua and the others departed from Weeping Moon City through the Teleportation Array.
• A cultivator reported to Senior Brother Chang that the Thunder Control Sect disciples had left, though he could not confirm whether they were headed to Jiangcheng Town.

Senior Brother Chang plotted to send Thunder Control Sect disciples toward a rumored Condensing Knowledge Treasure while ensuring no one else could claim it. Meanwhile, Xiao Hua and his companions reached the Li Qian Mountain Range and agreed that he would lure Green Pythons so the group could hunt them and divide the spoils.

• Senior Brother Chang warned Mo Feng that cultivators from other sects might pursue the Condensing Knowledge Treasure, then left the Secret Chamber to make plans.
• Xiao Hua and Qian Diheng traveled with Xun Shu and Kun Feiyan toward the Li Qian Mountain Range, while Qian Diheng wondered about Xiao Hua’s year-long magic tool commission.
• Xiao Hua examined the single-use azure-and-crimson magic tool and considered its power to kill stronger Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The four discussed crossing the mountain range, where Green Pythons lived in groups and posed a serious threat to travelers.
• Xun Shu, Qian Diheng, and Kun Feiyan persuaded Xiao Hua to lure the Green Pythons, and Xiao Hua negotiated an extra twenty percent of the loot.

Xiao Hua reached the Green Python territory and found a group of martial artists being killed by a venomous snake. He saved Zhang Xuyang and led him away, while larger Green Pythons arrived at the scene afterward.

• Xiao Hua approached the Green Python territory and discovered a fog-covered forest marked by signs of giant snakes.
• Xiao Hua watched a Green Python poison and kill several martial artists, leaving Zhang Xuyang as the only survivor.
• Xiao Hua killed the Green Python with a sword strike that pinned its tail beneath a falling tree.
• Zhang Xuyang mistook Xiao Hua for a martial world hero, and Xiao Hua took him away from the forest.
• Several larger Green Pythons arrived, ate the dead martial artists, and dragged away the slain snake.

Xiao Hua learned about the Jianghu and the upcoming Luofeng Mountain Sword Debate while trying to understand his unexplained martial abilities. He suspected that he had once belonged to the Martial World and decided the Sword Debate might reveal his past, while keeping the possibility from Qian Diheng and the others.

• Zhang Xuyang told Xiao Hua about the Martial World Five Immortals and the Luofeng Mountain Sword Debate, where their titles would be challenged in two months.
• Xiao Hua watched Zhang Xuyang demonstrate his sect’s martial arts, then showed him his own scattered moves, which Zhang Xuyang thought resembled Lei Hu Ming’s Thunderous Body Technique.
• Xiao Hua declined Zhang Xuyang’s offer to travel together to Luofeng Mountain and left to seek the Green Python after confirming Zhang Xuyang had departed.
• Xiao Hua wondered whether he had lost his memories after an incident in the Jianghu and considered attending the Sword Debate so someone might recognize him.

Xiao Hua ventured into the Green Python-infested fog and used Earth Evasion to gather a pursuing group of snakes. He brought nearly twenty Green Pythons to the agreed location, where Xun Shu and the others prepared to attack.

• Xiao Hua discovered that the mountain range was filled with Green Pythons, including powerful ones that detected his divine sense and Buddhist consciousness.
• Xiao Hua evaded the pursuing snakes underground and chose six weaker Green Pythons to lure away with his Profound Iron needle.
• Xiao Hua led the snakes through the fog, drawing in more Green Pythons until the procession grew to nearly twenty.
• Xiao Hua lured the group to the agreed location and called for the others to strike, while Qian Diheng warned that the plan could fail if any Green Python escaped.