Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hao survived an encounter with a powerful woman who attacked him after a night together and forced him to swallow an unknown pill. He returned to tending the Spirit Medicine Garden and planned to investigate the pill and attempt a breakthrough to Foundation Establishment.

• A woman who had appeared at Jiang Hao’s home the previous night held a sword to his throat and asked whether he belonged to the Heavenly Sound Sect.
• The woman kicked a pill into Jiang Hao’s mouth, gathered her clothes, and vanished through the window.
• Jiang Hao checked his cultivation panel and reflected on how his daily work had helped him advance to the ninth level of Qi Refining and become an Inner Sect Disciple.
• Jiang Hao replaced the bloodstained bedding and worried that the woman might return to kill him.
• Jiang Hao went to the Spirit Medicine Garden to tend heartbreak grass and planned to visit the Scripture Pavilion to identify the pill before attempting a breakthrough.

Hong Yuye emerged from seclusion after an ambush and ordered Bai Zhi to investigate the Heavenly Sound Sect for spies while keeping her return secret. Meanwhile, Jiang Hao headed to the Spirit Medicine Garden on Heartbreak Cliff to collect panel bubbles.

• Hong Yuye questioned Bai Zhi about the Heavenly Sound Sect’s fading reputation and recalled that an ambush using Azure Heaven Mountain’s Three Purities Art had forced her to Heartbreak Cliff.
• Hong Yuye told Bai Zhi to conceal her return, investigate the sect’s disciples for spies, and organize records of recent arrangements.
• Hong Yuye questioned whether Bai Zhi was a spy, then let her leave and coughed after she was gone.
• Jiang Hao went to the Spirit Medicine Garden, recalling how an older Qi Refining disciple had been mocked and robbed before leaving on a mission.

Jiang Hao began overseeing the Spirit Medicine Garden, collected its bubbles, and was surprised that Fairy Yun Ruo’s allure no longer affected him. After she hinted that disciples could be recruited by another sect, he suspected she might be an undercover agent targeting him and resolved to reach Foundation Establishment first.

• Jiang Hao inspected the Spirit Medicine Garden and absorbed bubbles that gave him attributes and a Spirit-Gathering Pill.
• Jiang Hao wondered whether his calmness around Fairy Yun Ruo meant his spirit had grown stronger.
• Fairy Yun Ruo collected medicinal herbs, praised Jiang Hao, and asked whether he would accept a chance to join a renowned immortal sect.
• Fairy Yun Ruo warned Jiang Hao to investigate such offers, then left him unsure whether she was secretly recruiting him or testing him.
• Jiang Hao decided that he should reach Foundation Establishment before dealing with the possibility that Fairy Yun Ruo was an undercover agent.

Jiang Hao reached Foundation Establishment, learned the Daily Appraisal divine ability, and continued cultivating while growing wary of Senior Sister Yun Ruo. After hearing that the sect was taking a census to search for someone, he feared that Yun Ruo’s troubles might involve him.

• Jiang Hao cultivated through the night and successfully reached Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
• Jiang Hao learned Daily Appraisal and used it to discover that his wooden house had hidden structural defects.
• Jiang Hao collected bubbles and tended the Spirit Medicine Garden, keeping his new cultivation level secret until Yun Ruo visited three days later.
• Over the next month, Yun Ruo visited Jiang Hao often, and his growing sense of danger led him to consolidate his cultivation.
• Jiang Hao searched the library for an explanation for his lack of reaction to Yun Ruo but found none, and he collected a Divine Ability Fragment.
• Jiang Hao overheard that the sect was taking a census to find someone and began preparing for possible trouble involving Yun Ruo.

Jiang Hao learned that Senior Sister Yun Ruo was an infiltrator from the Sunset Glow Immortal Sect, and she asked him to hide a mysterious Jade Pendant and deliver it to her sect. As he nearly accepted it, Jiang Hao used Daily Appraisal to investigate her.

• Jiang Hao reflected on the sect’s purge of traitors and decided to focus on growing stronger without attracting attention.
• Senior Sister Yun Ruo visited Jiang Hao’s residence and said she believed he belonged in an immortal sect rather than the Heavenly Sound Sect.
• Yun Ruo revealed that she was a True Disciple of the Sunset Glow Immortal Sect whose mission had been exposed, and asked Jiang Hao to hide a Jade Pendant and deliver it to her sect.
• Jiang Hao hesitated over accepting the pendant, then activated Daily Appraisal to appraise Senior Sister Yun Ruo.

Jiang Hao appraised Senior Sister Yun Ruo and learned that she was a Sunset Glow Sect infiltrator planning to make him her scapegoat or kill him. He killed her in self-defense, reported the incident to Ku Wuchang, and was told to cooperate if the Law Enforcement Hall questioned him.

• Jiang Hao used his Divine Ability to appraise Yun Ruo and discovered her identity and plan to target him.
• Jiang Hao tricked Yun Ruo into looking behind her, then stabbed her in the neck and fought her until she fell.
• Yun Ruo threatened Jiang Hao with the powerful people who might avenge her, but he killed her and stabbed her again to ensure she was dead.
• Jiang Hao brought Ku Wuchang to the courtyard and explained how he had killed Yun Ruo.
• Ku Wuchang questioned Jiang Hao about his Foundation Establishment and surprise attack, then took Yun Ruo's body and told Jiang Hao to cooperate with the Law Enforcement Hall.

After killing Yun Ruo, Jiang Hao was punished by the Law Enforcement Hall and ordered to pay the Heavenly Joy Pavilion one thousand spirit stones. Meanwhile, Hong Yuye reviewed a list of suspicious disciples and noticed Jiang Hao’s name.

• Jiang Hao appraised himself and learned that the heaven-extinguishing gu poison had made him abstinent toward every woman except its Yin Gu carrier.
• Liu Xingchen and two Law Enforcement Hall disciples questioned Jiang Hao about Yun Ruo’s death, then deprived him of cultivation resources for five years and ordered him to pay the Heavenly Joy Pavilion one thousand spirit stones within three months.
• The Law Enforcement Hall barred Jiang Hao from leaving while it investigated whether he had helped Yun Ruo betray the sect.
• Jiang Hao went to the Spirit Medicine Garden, worried about finding the money and whether Heartbreak Cliff would protect him.
• Bai Zhi gave Hong Yuye lists of suspicious disciples and traitors, and Hong Yuye’s attention settled on Jiang Hao’s entry.

Hong Yuye gave Bai Zhi a Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower seed and ordered her to use Jiang Hao to draw out hidden traitors. Meanwhile, Jiang Hao collected bubbles in the Spirit Medicine Garden and went to seek sect missions to pay off his debt, where an unfamiliar group approached him.

• Bai Zhi told Hong Yuye that Jiang Hao was suspected of being turned by a Heavenly Joy Pavilion traitor, and Hong Yuye ordered her to test him and the other hidden traitors.
• Hong Yuye gave Bai Zhi a Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower seed to hand to Jiang Hao and have him cultivate.
• Bai Zhi realized the seed was also a test of her own temptation and decided to deliver it to Jiang Hao quickly.
• Jiang Hao collected bubbles in the Spirit Medicine Garden and calculated that he still needed eight hundred spirit stones to repay his debt.
• Jiang Hao went to the foot of Law Enforcement Peak to seek sect missions, where a refined young man approached him with two companions.

Jiang Hao met Qi Yang and two disciples who backed away from him after learning he had killed Yun Ruo and advanced through a fortuitous encounter. Needing spirit stones, he decided to try talisman crafting and accepted a seven-day task tending Pure Yang Flowers at White Moon Lake.

• Jiang Hao greeted Qi Yang, then met Xu Feng and Liang Yue and revealed that he had killed Yun Ruo of the Heavenly Joy Pavilion.
• Xu Feng and Liang Yue distanced themselves from Jiang Hao, and Xu Feng advised Qi Yang not to get close to him after learning Jiang Hao had advanced through a fortuitous encounter.
• Jiang Hao searched for ways to earn spirit stones and concluded that talisman crafting was the most practical trade for him to learn.
• Jiang Hao accepted a task at White Moon Lake to tend Pure Yang Flowers for seven days in exchange for twenty spirit stones.

Jiang Hao began tending White Moon Lake’s Pure Yang Flower and tried to earn spirit stones by making talismans to repay his debt to the Heavenly Joy Pavilion. He discovered that basic talismans were hard to sell and turned to practicing more advanced ones before returning to his new assignment.

• Jiang Hao arrived at White Moon Lake, where Zhou Chan introduced him to steward Elder Qian Xu and explained how he would tend the Pure Yang Flower.
• Elder Qian Xu instructed Jiang Hao to pour lava from a crimson gourd around the flower’s frost-covered patch six times daily, starting after noon the next day.
• Jiang Hao checked his cultivation progress, worried about repaying a thousand spirit stones, and studied a guide to talisman-making.
• Jiang Hao successfully made thirty-one basic talismans overnight and calculated that selling them could help him meet his debt deadline.
• Jiang Hao found that his talismans sold slowly and earned him only one spirit stone, so he bought more materials to practice talismans for foundation establishment cultivators.
• Jiang Hao headed back to White Moon Lake to begin tending the Pure Yang Flower.

Jiang Hao tended the Pure Yang Flowers and received a Divine Ability Fragment when he discovered that they had matured. After Elder Qian Xu harvested them, she praised him and took him to meet their owner, leaving Jiang Hao unsure what to expect.

• Jiang Hao followed his daily routine of making talismans, working in the Spirit Medicine Garden, and tending the Pure Yang Flowers, gaining cultivation and vitality each day.
• Zhou Chan warned Jiang Hao that Elder Qian Xu was in a bad mood and reminded him that the next day was the last day of his assignment.
• Jiang Hao found a purple bubble beside the Pure Yang Flowers and appraised them as mature.
• Jiang Hao collected the Divine Ability Fragment, bringing his ability panel to 3/3, then reported the flowers’ maturity to Elder Qian Xu.
• Elder Qian Xu harvested the Pure Yang Flowers, praised Jiang Hao, and took him to meet their owner.

Jiang Hao received a mysterious seed from acting sect master Bai Zhi and acquired the Clear Mind, Pure Heart divine ability. The ability helped him make talismans successfully through the night, and the chapter ended as he prepared to appraise the seed.

• Bai Zhi entrusted Jiang Hao with planting a seed after Elder Qian Xu brought her the Pure Yang Flower, and Qian Xu paid him forty spirit stones.
• Zhou Chan told Jiang Hao that Bai Zhi was one of the four Guardian Elders and the Heavenly Sound Sect’s acting sect master.
• Jiang Hao used his full divine ability count to acquire Clear Mind, Pure Heart, which cleared his thoughts and sharpened his understanding of talisman-making.
• Jiang Hao made five talismans from ten sets of materials and expected his success rate and earnings to rise.
• Exhausted after making talismans all night, Jiang Hao watched the sunrise and took out the seed to appraise it.

Jiang Hao planted the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower seed, earned money selling talismans, and watched the flower sprout after seven days. Its purple-gold bubble merged into him and gave him Purple-Gold Legend +1.

• Jiang Hao planted and watered the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower seed in his courtyard, then enclosed the area with a wall.
• Jiang Hao sold five Foundation Establishment-grade talismans to Leng Tian, who ordered up to fifty Blazing Fire Talismans within three days.
• Jiang Hao made twenty-seven Blazing Fire Talismans for Leng Tian and raised his savings to two hundred and fifty spirit stones.
• Jiang Hao continued selling talismans over the following days and saved three hundred spirit stones.
• After seven days, the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower sprouted and released a brief wave of spiritual energy within Jiang Hao's courtyard.
• Jiang Hao absorbed the flower's purple-gold bubble and gained Purple-Gold Legend +1.

Jiang Hao claimed the Primordial Chaos Heart Scripture, learned to conceal his strength, and began tending the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower. Liu Xingchen then explained why the Heavenly Joy Pavilion wanted Yun Ruo and why Jiang Hao had been made to pay a thousand spirit stones.

• Jiang Hao claimed the purple-gold reward and received the Primordial Chaos Heart Scripture, a cultivation method that produced purple qi to conceal his power.
• Jiang Hao switched to the Primordial Chaos Heart Scripture overnight and felt stronger despite remaining at the same cultivation level.
• Jiang Hao found that the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower produced cultivation and vitality bubbles, then watered it as its appraisal instructed.
• Liu Xingchen visited Jiang Hao and asked why he thought the Heavenly Joy Pavilion cared so much about Yun Ruo.
• Liu Xingchen revealed that the Heavenly Joy Pavilion's master needed someone with an innate charm physique as a cultivation cauldron, and that Jiang Hao had killed Yun Ruo before the sect could capture her.

Jiang Hao learned that the Law Enforcement Hall’s compensation demand also offered protection from enemies, then exposed Fairy Mingyi as an undercover agent investigating the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower. After saving enough spirit stones, he broke through to the Foundation Establishment middle stage, only to find a familiar woman in red standing in his courtyard.

• Liu Xingchen explained that paying a thousand spirit stones would help protect Jiang Hao from the Heavenly Joy Pavilion and Yun Ruo’s allies, and Jiang Hao thanked him.
• Jiang Hao used his divine ability to identify Fairy Mingyi as a Golden Core candidate holy maiden of the Heavenly Saint Church who was secretly investigating the Heavenly Sound Sect’s rise.
• Jiang Hao spent over a month making talismans and saved up nine hundred and twenty-six spirit stones toward his compensation.
• Jiang Hao used his full vitality and cultivation with the Primordial Chaos Heart Scripture to advance to the Foundation Establishment middle stage.
• Jiang Hao went to water the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower and found a beautiful woman in red in his courtyard.

Jiang Hao met Hong Yuye again and learned that she had recognized his rapid cultivation advancement. She claimed the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower and gave him an array diagram, while his attempt to appraise her returned only question marks.

• Jiang Hao realized that Hong Yuye possessed the other half of the gu poison and respectfully greeted her.
• Hong Yuye identified Jiang Hao as a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator and explained how she had inferred his level.
• Hong Yuye declared the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower hers and forced Jiang Hao to agree to care for it until it bloomed and bore fruit.
• Hong Yuye gave Jiang Hao an array diagram that could prevent spiritual qi from dissipating and improve his cultivation.
• Jiang Hao appraised Hong Yuye with his Divine Ability, but received only question marks.

Jiang Hao received an untitled book and a formation diagram from Hong Yuye, who warned him to protect the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower and keep her existence secret. He began studying the book’s methods for concealing and assessing cultivation while tending the Spirit Medicine Garden.

• Hong Yuye gave Jiang Hao an untitled book and warned him that he would suffer if the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower was harmed.
• Hong Yuye told Jiang Hao to keep her existence secret and said she would return to check on the flower.
• Jiang Hao discovered that the book taught him to control his aura, breathing, spiritual awareness, and strength, and also included a formation diagram.
• Jiang Hao set up the formation, then went to the Spirit Medicine Garden, where he collected spirit, strength, endurance, and dagger bubbles.
• Jiang Hao spent the next few days studying the book with Clear Mind, Pure Heart instead of rushing to sell talismans.

Jiang Hao continued concealing his cultivation and sold talismans to earn the spirit stones needed to repay his debt. At the market, he heard warnings about the Heavenly Joy Pavilion before Miao Qian approached and offered to buy all his talismans.

• Jiang Hao checked his status, confirmed his concealment technique made him appear to be an early-stage foundation establishment cultivator, and planned to earn spirit stones for his compensation deadline.
• Jiang Hao saw Qi Yang at the sect market, but Qi Yang's senior brother led him away to avoid drawing trouble from the Heavenly Joy Pavilion.
• Jiang Hao sold five Divine Sword Talismans to Fairy Leng Tian, who warned him that the Heavenly Joy Pavilion was dangerous and advised him not to leave the sect.
• Miao Qian, a middle-stage foundation establishment cultivator from the Heavenly Joy Pavilion, asked Jiang Hao about killing Yun Ruo and offered to buy all his talismans.

Jiang Hao killed Miao Qian to reclaim the spirit stones he was owed, then considered whether the Heavenly Joy Pavilion would investigate. The next morning, Liu Xingchen arrived at Jiang Hao’s courtyard to speak with him.

• Miao Qian took Jiang Hao’s talismans without paying and threatened to make him cough up more spirit stones.
• Miao Qian told a Qi Refining disciple he planned to keep extorting Jiang Hao and turn him into bones at the Heavenly Joy Pavilion.
• An unseen attacker killed Miao Qian with multiple weapons and took his Storage Treasure, telling him, “I came to collect my money.”
• Jiang Hao counted the sixty spirit stones he had taken and decided Liu Xingchen’s response would reveal whether the sect would protect him.
• The next morning, Liu Xingchen appeared outside Jiang Hao’s home and asked to talk inside.

Jiang Hao learned that Miao Qian had been killed and that he was under suspicion, so Liu Xingchen placed him on the Law Enforcement Hall's watchlist for protection. After Liu Xingchen left, Jiang Hao worried that his own killing would be discovered, while Hong Yuye questioned Bai Zhi at Hundred Flowers Lake.

• Liu Xingchen told Jiang Hao that Miao Qian was dead and that the Heavenly Joy Pavilion suspected Jiang Hao because the killer's method resembled his.
• Liu Xingchen explained the sect's punishments for killing fellow disciples and warned Jiang Hao that deaths without evidence could go unanswered.
• Liu Xingchen placed Jiang Hao on the Law Enforcement Hall's watchlist and offered to help him deliver the compensation to the Heavenly Joy Pavilion.
• Liu Xingchen told Jiang Hao that the Sect Leader had ordered even a genius killed for interfering with the sect's enforcement of its laws.
• After Liu Xingchen left, Jiang Hao worried that his own killing would be discovered, while Hong Yuye asked Bai Zhi what she had learned lately.