Recaps

Lin Ke used his opened Niwan Palace and Lin Can to develop spirit insects and improve Blackgold Silkworm production while preparing for the Sect Grand Tournament. After building Insect-Breeding Mountain and hiding his work from inspectors, he learned that a Discipline Hall steward had arrived.

• Lin Ke discovered that the mysterious orb had opened his Niwan Palace, then began experimenting with breeding insects and improving Blackgold Silkworm production.
• Lin Ke acquired a Root Carving that transformed into a Mysterious Seed, which fused with a silkworm egg and hatched Lin Can, his talkative Broodmother.
• Lin Ke refined Lin Can as his life-bound spirit insect and opened his embracing origin palace, then kept working at the Green Mulberry Garden as the Cloud Frontier Beast Venerable threatened the region.
• Lin Ke told Zong Ya about his merged soul and his plans, sold her twenty Stinger Hawk Moths for 4,560 Spirit Stones, and continued breeding insects and boosting silk production.
• Fang Tong revealed his Old Man identity and gave Lin Ke the Gu Tablet inheritance, while Lin Can produced an Amethyst Longhorn Beetle that gave Lin Ke a strong defensive skill.
• Lin Ke's silkworms produced four times as much silk, but Han Yun and Han Fu arrived to inspect his assignment and left after he refused to show them his silk or spirit insect.
• Lin Ke bought new techniques, built Insect-Breeding Mountain, and spent a month expanding it, breeding insects, and making inner armor from Blackgold Silkworm silk.
• Lin Can cocooned herself, Lin Ke arranged to hide the farmers during the inspection, and a messenger announced the arrival of a Discipline Hall steward.

Lin Ke won the Sect Grand Tournament, but the demons’ rebellion turned the coming festival into a war and drove him to prepare an underground refuge for the mortals and Zong Ya. As Lin Ke and Zong Ya experimented with breeding spirit creatures, they considered revealing their abilities to attract the elders’ attention.

• Lin Ke exposed Han Yun’s false weighing of the Blackgold Silkworm silk, collected his stipend, and returned to Green Mulberry Garden to plan for the tournament.
• At the Year Festival, Lin Ke was declared the outer disciples’ champion, then drew attention by battling Lin Quan-meng, whose Moon Dance intent earned Hua Wujiang’s offer of discipleship.
• Lin Ke suspected Li Le was targeting Zong Ya, and Rain Spider True Person helped rescue her before the sect learned that the demons had rebelled and a Nascent Soul cultivator had self-detonated.
• Lin Ke and Zong Ya prepared an underground refuge beneath Golden Silkworm Peak, where Lin Ke urged Fang Mang to choose for himself whether to pursue cultivation despite the danger of war.
• Rain Spider True Person announced war against the demon race, dispatched the sect’s powerful cultivators, and promised territory to disciples who conquered and held it.
• Lin Ke introduced Zong Ya to Lin Can, then built underground facilities and arranged for Fang Tong’s people to shelter beneath Golden Silkworm Peak.
• Lin Ke traded Blackgold Silkworm silk for Blood Sandalwood Frogs and bred them with Red-Striped Frogs, producing eggs and a scarlet tadpole.
• Zong Ya urged Lin Ke to focus on breeding spirit insects and reveal some of their abilities to attract the elders’ attention, offering to take on the risk.

Lin Ke survived Li Le’s ambush, claimed a cavern full of spirit insects, and formed the Great Wilderness alliance with his companions. After facing Blood-Devouring True Person, he rented a Dream-Eating Gecko and returned to the cavern with Black Mosquito hidden in his Niwan Palace.

• Fang Du delivered Lin Ke’s tournament reward, then joined him beyond the sect borders, where Zhang Zhihua and others revealed their plan to capture him for Li Le.
• Lin Ke’s allies arrived to fight the attackers, and Lin Ke killed Li Le after Huang Fuqi helped hold him at bay.
• Fang Du led Lin Ke, Huang Fuqi, Shi Ping, and Han Yun to a hidden cavern, where Lin Ke subdued a flea and Ghost-Curtain Insects before discovering an imprisoned Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Lin Ke and his companions claimed the cavern’s surrounding land, swore an oath, and named their alliance Great Wilderness.
• Blood-Devouring True Person pursued Lin Ke and sent Black Mosquito into his Niwan Palace, but Lin Ke trapped the insect in his soul space before Butterfly Transformation True Person intervened.
• The Great Wilderness members pooled spirit stones to rent a powerful spirit insect, and Lin Ke chose the Dream-Eating Gecko, whose strength approached the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Lin Ke brought a Whitegrass Snail egg and the Dream-Eating Gecko to Green Mulberry Garden, kept Black Mosquito captive, and failed to breed the flea with other insects.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko offered to guard Lin Ke’s Niwan Palace, while Lin Ke kept Black Mosquito as a possible weapon against Blood-Devouring True Person and returned to the Great Wilderness Cavern.

Lin Ke helped secure the Great Wilderness Cavern and established the Great Wilderness Palace, where Chang Qing began building a powerful formation. As Lin Ke investigated the Giant Sun Dragonfly’s solar essence, he awakened a mulberry tree that could concentrate it into fruit, leaving him with a new way to obtain the rare substance.

• Lin Ke and his companions fought off successive waves of Demon Beasts, including a Golden Core Locust Fiend, and Butterfly Transformation True Person granted Lin Ke the thousand-li territory around the Great Wilderness Cavern.
• Lin Ke flattened the land and founded the Great Wilderness Palace, then bred a Giant Sun Dragonfly whose speed and solar abilities he tested.
• Zhu Qingge joined the project as an investor, and Chang Qing chose the Cloudglow Formation while the group set out to gather its rare materials.
• Hua Wujiang showed Lin Ke the Golden Wing Sect’s records, explained the Myriad-Leak Body and the sect’s cultivation realms, and taught him how to preserve solar essence in spirit-grade sand.
• Lin Ke revealed the Giant Sun Dragonfly’s ability to condense solar essence, and Hua Wujiang warned that the talent could threaten the Golden Wing Sect if the Dawn Herald Immortal Lord learned of it.
• Lin Quan-meng told Lin Ke how his parents had raised her and how she had survived their deaths, while Chang Qing formed a Golden Core and mastered the Cloudglow Formation.
• Lin Ke’s solar essence awakened a mulberry tree in the Green Mulberry Garden, and his search of old records led him to suspect it carried dormant Fusang Wood traits.
• Lin Ke named the tree Lin Fusang and helped it use the Giant Sun Dragonfly to concentrate sunlight into a golden mulberry, which released thick solar essence when crushed.