Recaps

Lin Jing awoke bound in a cell after being abducted by the Corpse Yin Sect, where he learned his longevity body made him a prize for demon kings. When a black bear monster burst into the cell, Lin Jing’s hope of being rescued by righteous cultivators vanished.

• Lin Jing regained consciousness in a cell and learned from his fellow captive that both had been bound by a spell and abducted by immortal traffickers.
• The man with the primordial yang body explained that the Corpse Yin Sect sold people with rare constitutions to cultivators for possession, demonic cultivation, or other uses.
• Lin Jing revealed that he had a longevity body, and the man warned that a demon king might buy him for his flesh and blood.
• Lin Jing reasoned that a demon king might cultivate him and harvest him gradually, then hoped righteous cultivators would rescue them during a commotion outside.
• A black bear monster smashed through the cell wall, recognized Lin Jing’s longevity body, and announced that it planned to eat him.

Lin Jing was rescued from the Corpse Yin Sect stronghold by Ouyang Hao and Elder Black Bear, who revealed they belonged to the Beast Taming Sect. After learning that beast taming suited his slow-growing longevity body, Lin Jing agreed to join the sect, and they prepared to leave for safety.

• Elder Black Bear stopped Lin Jing from being eaten after Ouyang Hao emerged and asked it not to frighten him.
• Ouyang Hao revealed he was an undercover Beast Taming Sect disciple who had called in help to destroy the Corpse Yin Sect outpost.
• Elder Black Bear explained that the Beast Taming Sect's beast-based cultivation suited Lin Jing's longevity body and slow cultivation speed.
• Lin Jing accepted Ouyang Hao's invitation to join the Beast Taming Sect and asked about the Daoist temple that had tricked him.
• Elder Black Bear said the Demon-Slaying Bureau would handle the temple and urged the group to return to the sect, where Elder Mo Wuyou was waiting.

Elder Mo welcomed Lin Jing to the Beast Taming Sect, explained the sect’s teachings and kinds of beasts, and offered him the choice of a bonded beast. The chapter ended with two immortal cranes waiting to carry Lin Jing and Elder Mo to the peak he chose.

• Elder Mo asked Lin Jing why he cultivated, and Lin Jing said he wanted strength to protect himself from demon beasts coveting his longevity body.
• Elder Mo made Lin Jing an outer disciple eligible for inner disciple resources, while warning him to use his strength for good and earn advancement through service.
• Elder Mo explained the differences between spirit, demon, rare, and immortal beasts.
• Elder Mo described the five kinds of basic bonded beasts and their abilities, noting that the Battle Apes had all been chosen.
• Two immortal cranes arrived, and Elder Mo invited Lin Jing to choose which beast’s peak they should visit.

Lin Jing chose the Pineleaf Squirrel as his first pet beast, despite learning that it had unusual habits and had fallen behind its peers. After Lin Jing promised it more storage space for its hoarded Spirit Stones, the squirrel agreed to join him, leaving its savings in his care.

• Lin Jing decided to choose a wood-element Pineleaf Squirrel because its life-oriented abilities suited his longevity body and cautious cultivation plans.
• Elder Mo explained that the squirrel had secretly hoarded its resources and reached the third level of Qi Refining through its own talent.
• At Pine Forest Peak, Lin Jing introduced himself and warned the squirrel that his constitution made cultivation slow, frightening it with the prospect of spending its Spirit Stones.
• Lin Jing promised to buy it a Storage Bag and later Storage Rings, winning the squirrel's interest.
• The Pineleaf Squirrel brought out dozens of low-grade Spirit Stones and agreed to join Lin Jing, who offered to look after its savings until they could buy a Storage Bag.

After settling into the Beast Taming Sect’s Outer Court, Lin Jing studied the Beast Taming Art and spent weeks consuming Spirit Stones while trying to cultivate. He finally reached the qi refining first layer, but left the Pineleaf Squirrel nearly penniless and doubtful that he would repay it.

• Elder Mo brought Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel to an Outer Court courtyard, gave Lin Jing a protective talisman, and explained that reaching the qi refining seventh layer would qualify either of them for the inner disciple assessment.
• Lin Jing learned that Ouyang Hao was an outstanding inner disciple at the qi refining ninth layer who might become the sect master’s disciple after achieving foundation establishment.
• An immortal crane delivered Lin Jing’s introductory supplies, including the Beast Taming Art, which taught him how to cultivate and eventually form a bloodline contract with a spirit beast.
• Lin Jing activated the jade slip and began cultivating with Spirit Stones, while the Pineleaf Squirrel waited for him to reach the qi refining first layer so they could contract.
• After Lin Jing used the sect’s Spirit Stones and most of the Pineleaf Squirrel’s hoard, he finally reached the qi refining first layer, then promised to repay the squirrel double.

Lin Jing formed a bloodline contract with the Pineleaf Squirrel, and the contract triggered a mysterious starlight phenomenon that might have caused it to mutate into a treasure beast. The squirrel showed no sign of knowing what had happened, leaving Lin Jing wondering whether it had awakened a new divine ability.

• Elder Mo hoped Lin Jing's Longevity Body would help the Pineleaf Squirrel mutate, despite the six previous failed attempts.
• Lin Jing considered how his nourishing blood might strengthen his pet beast but decided to postpone experimenting with blood-refined pills.
• Lin Jing used his special golden blood to form a contract with the Pineleaf Squirrel, which had chosen to trust him despite his slow cultivation.
• During the contract, the Pineleaf Squirrel relived a memory of bathing in starlight, and the light seemed to settle into its bloodline before its spiritual power surged.
• Lin Jing suspected the Pineleaf Squirrel had mutated into a treasure beast, but the squirrel said it felt nothing unusual.

After reaching the first level of Qi Refining, Lin Jing visited the Outer Sect Scripture Pavilion to choose his first spell. He picked the Spirit-Nurturing Art to support the Pineleaf Squirrel and his studies, while Senior Brother Ouyang introduced him to the possibility of spells giving birth to spirits.

• Lin Jing brought the Pineleaf Squirrel to the Outer Sect Scripture Pavilion, where he reunited with Senior Brother Ouyang Hao, who was stationed there on a sect mission.
• Ouyang Hao explained that outer sect disciples usually chose spells to nourish their pets, since ordinary combat spells were less useful to Beast Taming Sect disciples.
• Ouyang Hao told Lin Jing about Spell Spirits, which could form when a spell was cultivated to its ultimate limit and could act independently using the energy of heaven and earth.
• Lin Jing jokingly considered the Contraception Art as a spell to cultivate into a spirit, then decided to focus on raising his pet instead.
• Lin Jing chose the Spirit-Nurturing Art to ease the Pineleaf Squirrel's mental fatigue and help with his own studies, surprising Ouyang Hao.

Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel spent their remaining Spirit Stones on spirit rice and bean seeds, then began planting them in their courtyard. While the squirrel accelerated the crops’ growth, Lin Jing read about the Heavenly Origin Continent’s history and learned that they were in the Great Wilderness Region, where the strongest active cultivators were at the Nascent Soul realm.

• Lin Jing chose to focus on cultivation and alchemy study rather than learning another spell, while he and the Pineleaf Squirrel worried about running out of food and money.
• Lin Jing decided to grow spirit rice and beans with the Pineleaf Squirrel’s help, and they bought seeds at the outer sect’s Harvest Pavilion.
• Lin Jing reassured the distressed Pineleaf Squirrel that they could sell surplus crops and earn back their Spirit Stones.
• The Pineleaf Squirrel planted the seeds and used its spiritual power to speed their growth while Lin Jing read a history of the Heavenly Origin Continent.
• Lin Jing learned that the Immortal Palace and later the Immortal Alliance had ruled the continent before the Ancient Emperor founded the Heavenly Origin Ancient Kingdom, and that the Great Wilderness Region was among its nine regions.

Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel harvested their first mature Spirit Rice and discovered that the squirrel had awakened the Treasure Beast Divine Ability Glazed Immortal Eyes. Its power transformed a hundred grains of ordinary Spirit Rice into one golden grain that triggered an intense hunger and boosted digestion, leaving the squirrel stronger but unable to keep any food in reserve.

• Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel harvested several thousand grains of mature Spirit Rice, and Lin Jing let the squirrel keep a hundred grains.
• The Pineleaf Squirrel's Glazed Immortal Eyes transformed its hundred grains of Spirit Rice into one golden grain, revealing its Treasure Beast Divine Ability.
• The Pineleaf Squirrel swallowed the golden grain, which made it ravenously hungry and greatly accelerated its digestion and nutrient absorption.
• The Pineleaf Squirrel ate the entire Spirit Rice harvest and the additional grains Lin Jing offered, then cried out in dismay over losing its chance to hoard food.

Lin Jing discovered that the Pineleaf Squirrel’s Glazed Immortal Eyes could combine ordinary leaves into a powerful Red Flying Leaf, but its demonstration drew an angry Immortal Crane from the clouds.

• Lin Jing reassured the Pineleaf Squirrel that its spirit rice had become spiritual power and encouraged it to value high-grade resources.
• Lin Jing joked that golden spirit rice and laxatives could be used against enemies, and the squirrel considered how to deliver them with its Flying Leaf Technique.
• The Pineleaf Squirrel combined tens of thousands of ordinary leaves into a single Red Leaf, but its eyes began to ache from the effort.
• Lin Jing used the Spirit-Nurturing Art to ease the squirrel’s mental fatigue, and the squirrel threw the Red Leaf with great force.
• The squirrel discovered it could control and recall the Red Flying Leaf, which sliced through a stone block and soared into the sky.
• An Immortal Crane poked its head through the clouds and angrily demanded to know who had thrown something upward.

Lin Jing learned that the Corpse Yin Sect had reported his longevity body to its superiors, so Elder Mo Wuyou warned him to remain inside the Beast Taming Sect while he investigated. Hungry, Lin Jing took the Pineleaf Squirrel to hunt at Fierce Tiger Peak, but found the mountain closed because a tiger had reached the ninth layer of Qi Refining.

• A Heavenly Feather Crane delivered Elder Mo Wuyou’s letter warning Lin Jing not to leave the sect or accept outside missions because the Corpse Yin Sect knew about his longevity body.
• Lin Jing explained the threats posed by the three great demonic sects and planned to tell Elder Mo Wuyou that the Pineleaf Squirrel had become a mutated treasure beast.
• Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel left to hunt at Fierce Tiger Peak, hoping to find food and game.
• The peak guardian stopped Lin Jing from entering because a tiger had eaten a spirit plant and gained intelligence and ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivation.
• Ouyang Hao arrived and told Lin Jing that he had accepted a mission to subdue the tiger demon.

Lin Jing accompanied Ouyang Hao into Fierce Tiger Peak as Ouyang prepared to tame the Tiger Demon, and asked why the Sect Master might take him as a disciple. Ouyang explained the Beast Taming Sect's history and revealed that the Sect Master's favor stemmed from Ouyang's relationship with Hong'er, an injured fox he had rescued and later bonded with.

• Ouyang Hao asked the old peak keeper for permission to enter Fierce Tiger Peak and invited Lin Jing to watch him tame the Tiger Demon.
• As they walked through the mountain forest, Lin Jing asked Ouyang Hao how he had drawn the Sect Master's attention.
• Ouyang Hao explained that the sect's founders rejected forcibly enslaving beasts and taught disciples to build genuine bonds with them.
• Ouyang Hao revealed that the Sect Master had become cultivation partners with a woman from the Skyfeather Crane Clan.
• Ouyang Hao said Hong'er was an injured fox he rescued as a mortal, and that she developed feelings for him after they formed a bloodline contract.
• Lin Jing accepted Ouyang Hao's relationship with Hong'er and gave him his blessing.

Senior Brother Ouyang explained the lost Demon Race and his hopes of restoring it before teaching Lin Jing how to tame powerful beasts. He subdued the Tiger Demon by wearing a tiger-skin coat and overpowering its roar with his primordial yang energy, leaving Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel baffled.

• Senior Brother Ouyang told Lin Jing that Demon Beasts could no longer become members of the vanished Demon Race and that he hoped to help restore that possibility.
• Senior Brother Ouyang and Lin Jing followed the Tiger Demon's demonic aura, and Ouyang summoned Hong'er from his Life-Bound Spatial Treasure.
• Senior Brother Ouyang taught Lin Jing that a tamer should surpass a beast in strength and defeat it at its specialty to earn its recognition.
• The Tiger Demon awoke and roared at the approaching disciples.
• Senior Brother Ouyang wore a tiger-skin coat, used his primordial yang energy and Submission Art to roar louder than the Tiger Demon, and made it lose its hostility.

Senior Brother Ouyang subdued the tiger demon on Fierce Tiger Peak, leaving Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel free to hunt and gather supplies. Lin Jing planned to earn Spirit Stones and sect contribution through missions, but as he searched the Mission Hall, Elder Yu arrived.

• Senior Brother Ouyang tamed the tiger demon and left with it, assuring Lin Jing that the peak was safe.
• Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel hunted game on Fierce Tiger Peak, then discussed earning money for a Storage Bag without revealing the Pineleaf Squirrel's Glazed Immortal Eyes.
• The Pineleaf Squirrel gathered leaves to synthesize Red Flying Leaves and received a pink bag of pine cones from a senior sister.
• Lin Jing visited the Mission Hall but found few suitable missions and ruled out leaving the sect without a powerful bodyguard.
• Elder Yu entered the Mission Hall, and the disciples and mission attendant hurried to greet him.

Lin Jing accepted Elder Yu’s mission to harvest spirit bamboo for the Beast Taming Sect’s Rising Dragon Festival and learned that the bamboo would be used to build a mechanical dragon. He prepared to head to Golden Pearl Ravine, where harvesting the tough bamboo would test his Pineleaf Squirrel’s Flying Leaf Technique.

• Elder Yu confiscated Senior Brother Ziran’s leisure book and fined him half a month’s Spirit Stones for reading during work.
• Elder Yu offered Lin Jing a mission to harvest spirit bamboo, and Lin Jing accepted the reward of one Spirit Stone and one contribution point for every ten stalks.
• Senior Brother Ziran explained that the sect’s Rising Dragon Festival included a Dragon and Beast Clash against a mechanical dragon made by Elder Yu.
• Lin Jing learned that the harvested bamboo would be used to make a Bamboo Mechanical Dragon for the festival.
• Senior Brother Ziran explained that spirit bamboo had to be cut with wood-element attacks and warned that Lin Jing’s Pineleaf Squirrel might struggle to harvest it.

Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel used the Red Flying Leaf to harvest spirit bamboo at extraordinary speed, nearly clearing Golden Pearl Ravine’s outer perimeter. Elder Yu learned of the destruction and questioned whether Lin Jing had a longevity body or a wood god body.

• Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel tested the ordinary Flying Leaf Technique against the Red Flying Leaf in Golden Pearl Ravine.
• The Pineleaf Squirrel used the Red Flying Leaf to slice through several stalks of spirit bamboo, and Lin Jing decided they would stay in the forest to harvest more.
• After a week, the forest guardian found the pair among huge piles of bundled bamboo and hurried away to consult Elder Yu.
• Elder Yu received the guardian’s message and asked Elder Mo whether Lin Jing had a longevity body or a wood god body.

Elder Mo brought Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel back from the bamboo grove after learning the squirrel had mutated into a treasure beast with the Glazed Immortal Eyes. The squirrel and Lin Jing both broke through in cultivation, and its first synthesized spirit bean exploded when the Black Bear Monster ate it.

• Elder Mo and Elder Yu arrived at the bamboo grove and found that Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel had cut down a huge amount of spirit bamboo.
• Elder Mo took Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel to his courtyard, where Lin Jing explained that the squirrel had created the Red Flying Leaf with its Glazed Immortal Eyes.
• Elder Mo gave the exhausted Pineleaf Squirrel a Spirit-Replenishing Pill, and the squirrel broke through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining while Lin Jing reached the second layer.
• The Pineleaf Squirrel combined more than a hundred spirit beans into one green bean using its Glazed Immortal Eyes.
• Elder Mo had the Black Bear Monster eat the green bean, which exploded like a spiritual energy bomb.

Elder Mo explained the Pineleaf Squirrel’s treasure-beast abilities and urged Lin Jing to focus on cultivation rather than selling its resources. He revealed that the Rising Dragon Festival could earn Lin Jing the sect’s support and prepare him to represent the Beast Taming Sect at a future Heavenly Origin Grand Gathering.

• The spirit beans exploded in the Black Bear Monster’s mouth, and Elder Mo identified them as fierce plants before sending the enraged beast away.
• Elder Mo explained that treasure beasts could awaken powerful divine abilities and advised Lin Jing to keep the Pineleaf Squirrel’s synthesized resources for personal use.
• Elder Mo told Lin Jing that the Corpse Yin Sect was under pressure as the Heavenly Origin Grand Gathering approached.
• Elder Mo revealed that Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel were the first of his specially recruited disciples to produce a mutated treasure beast through a bloodline contract.
• Elder Mo urged Lin Jing to perform well at the upcoming Rising Dragon Festival to earn the Beast Taming Sect’s investment and prepare for future competition.

Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel prepared for the Rising Dragon Festival while testing the limits of the Glazed Immortal Eyes. At the festival announcement, they learned that the top reward was a Mechanism Soul Core and a mechanical beast manual, not the Storage Bag they had hoped to win.

• Elder Mo told Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel to prepare for the Rising Dragon Festival and promised to deliver their mission rewards.
• Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel tested the Glazed Immortal Eyes but found they could synthesize only plant-related resources for now.
• The Pineleaf Squirrel received twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones and Spirit-Replenishing Pills from Big Brother Immortal Crane, then focused on cultivating and preparing for the festival.
• Lin Jing learned more about cultivation methods and Foundation Establishment while borrowing books from the scripture pavilion.
• Lin Jing went to the central square after hearing that the festival announcement had been posted.
• Lin Jing learned the Dragon-Beast Contest would pit outer sect disciples against a Bamboo Mechanical Dragon, with the highest-tier reward being a Mechanism Soul Core and a mechanical beast construction manual.

Lin Jing prepared for the Rising Dragon Festival’s Dragon versus beast event while the Pineleaf Squirrel spent its resources building strength and stockpiling weapons. On the festival day, they arrived at the Central Plaza and found Elder Yu’s unusually elaborate bamboo dragon waiting for the contest.

• Lin Jing examined the festival rewards and decided the seventh-layer bamboo dragon should be manageable, though he was not interested in learning the Mechanism Art.
• The Pineleaf Squirrel devoted its resources to cultivating and making Red Flying Leaves and Spirit Beans Bombs, reaching the fifth layer of qi refining.
• Lin Jing told the Pineleaf Squirrel about the rewards and suggested that a machine gun could fire its Spirit Beans Bombs more efficiently.
• On the day of the Rising Dragon Festival, Lin Jing brought the conflicted Pineleaf Squirrel and its belongings to the crowded Central Plaza.
• The disciples examined Elder Yu’s lifelike bamboo dragon and wondered whether it had been made unusually strong.

Lin Jing and his Pineleaf Squirrel challenged the Bamboo Mechanical Dragon after He Yiming’s Battle Ape failed to overcome it. Lin Jing’s Red Leaves and Object-Controlling Art destroyed the dragon’s inner mechanisms, leaving the Outer Gate disciples stunned and making him impossible to overlook.

• Fang Yonghao introduced the Bamboo Mechanical Dragon challenge, and He Yiming volunteered to test it with his Battle Ape.
• He Yiming’s Battle Ape struck the dragon with its spiritual artifact hoe, but the dragon counterattacked and knocked the ape unconscious, earning only a green dragon pearl.
• Lin Jing stepped forward with his Pineleaf Squirrel and used a Red Leaf to wound the dragon, turning its dragon pearl blue before its spiritual flames engulfed the leaf.
• Lin Jing sent ten more Red Leaves toward the dragon’s mouth and used the Object-Controlling Art to steer them into its mechanisms.
• The Red Leaves shattered the dragon pearl and disabled the Bamboo Mechanical Dragon, while the Pineleaf Squirrel rushed to retrieve them and the crowd wondered who Lin Jing was.

Lin Jing received the Dragon-Vying Beast-Battling Event’s top mechanism reward after destroying Elder Yu’s Bamboo Mechanical Dragon. Elder Yu encouraged him to study Mechanism Art, offering to grant him a reasonable wish if he built a moving Mechanical Beast.

• Elder Yu learned that Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel had smashed his Bamboo Mechanical Dragon and decided to reward them while steering Lin Jing toward Mechanism Art.
• The outer sect disciples marveled at Lin Jing’s strength and assumed he was a gifted newcomer, while the Pineleaf Squirrel wanted to clarify that it had controlled the flying leaves itself.
• Lin Jing chose the highest-tier mechanism reward and received a message summoning him to the Mechanism Workshop.
• Elder Yu gave Lin Jing a Mechanism Soul Core and his Mechanical Beast-Making Insights, then offered him spirit bamboo for practice.
• Elder Yu promised to grant Lin Jing one reasonable wish if he successfully made a moving Mechanical Beast.

Lin Jing secured a promise of free meals at the Outer Sect Canteen by agreeing to study Mechanism Art, then discovered his Pineleaf Squirrel could fuse spirit bamboo with its Glazed Immortal Eyes. Their first blue bamboo creation turned out to be a powerful water cannon that blasted Lin Jing into the house.

• Lin Jing asked Elder Yu for free meals at the Outer Sect Canteen as a reward for successfully building a Mechanical Beast, and Elder Yu agreed.
• Elder Yu learned Lin Jing had memorized the Outer Sect Herbology Compendium and tested his knowledge of medicinal plants, then left him and the Pineleaf Squirrel with the remaining spirit bamboo.
• Lin Jing suggested that the Pineleaf Squirrel try combining spirit bamboo with its Glazed Immortal Eyes, and the squirrel fused ten stalks into one blue stalk.
• Lin Jing picked up the blue spirit bamboo and guessed it could produce spirit bamboo sap, but it fired a high-pressure stream of water and hurled him into the house.

Lin Jing discovered that the mutated blue spirit bamboo produced spiritual water and decided to build a Mechanical Tortoise to water spirit plants. Later, Demon Hunting Hall disciples returned to the outer sect and one of them badly injured He Yiming, shocking the Beast Arena spectators.

• Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel contained the blue spirit bamboo’s powerful water spray, and Lin Jing concluded its stored spiritual water could help irrigate crops.
• Lin Jing proposed building a self-guided Mechanical Tortoise that could spray water and tend spirit plants, then reviewed Elder Yu’s mechanical arts notes and the Mechanism Soul Core.
• After the Rising Dragon Festival, Lin Jing and the Pineleaf Squirrel continued their quiet cultivation routine as Lin Jing’s fame spread through the sect.
• At the Beast Arena, a black-clad youth and his Leopard Beast defeated He Yiming and his Battle Ape, leaving both badly injured.
• Senior Brother Ziran identified the newcomers as Demon Hunting Hall disciples and remarked that an unusually large number of them had returned alive.

Qin Caixin asked Lin Jing to sell her Red Flying Leaves so she could prepare for the harder Inner Gate examination, but he explained that only the Pineleaf Squirrel could use them. Elder Black Bear then advised Lin Jing about choosing an inner peak and asked him to have the squirrel synthesize Dragonbone Flowers.

• Qin Caixin told Lin Jing that Demon Hunting Hall disciples had returned after deadly training in the Wilds and Wasteland, and that He Yiming had been badly injured by one of them.
• Qin Caixin asked Lin Jing to sell her Red Flying Leaves, but he refused because the leaves only worked through the Pineleaf Squirrel's bond with them.
• Elder Black Bear praised Lin Jing, explained that the Pineleaf Squirrel might help him reach the Inner Gate examination, and described several inner peaks.
• Lin Jing said he was interested in Cinnabar Glow Peak because he had studied the Alchemy Art.
• Elder Black Bear asked Lin Jing to see whether the Pineleaf Squirrel could synthesize Dragonbone Flowers, then showed him one of the fruits.