Chapter Summaries

Lin Ke took charge of the Green Mulberry Garden, hoping to use his former-life knowledge to meet his doubled silk quota and survive the coming sect tournament. The mysterious orb in his sea of consciousness awakened and began forming a wondrous space.

• Lin Ke's senior sister warned him that failing his final assessment could get him expelled and cripple his cultivation, then left after urging him to take care of himself.
• Lin Ke inspected the Green Mulberry Garden and considered improving its primitive silkworm-rearing methods to meet his quota.
• Lin Ke's mysterious orb stirred, erupted into purple qi and red radiance, and carved out a hemispherical space in his sea of consciousness.

Lin Ke discovered that the pearl had opened his Niwan Palace and granted him the abilities to fuse and cultivate living creatures, though those powers came with strict limits. He began testing them with Blackgold Moths and common insects, ending as he tried to make a moth mate with a cockroach.

• Lin Ke realized his Niwan Palace had opened directly, letting him cultivate spiritual power rapidly and fuse and nurture creatures.
• He considered the Niwan Palace’s limits, including that it could not alter intelligent creatures or his own body, create life from nothing, or guarantee useful offspring.
• Lin Ke decided to experiment with Blackgold Moths and gathered breeding moths and assorted insects from the Green Mulberry Garden and nearby woods.
• He brought the insects into his Niwan Palace, where they became active, and planned to breed stronger Blackgold Silkworm varieties and combat-capable spirit insects.
• Lin Ke placed a male Blackgold Moth beside a cockroach and aligned their rear ends to begin mating.

Lin Ke successfully fused a Blackgold Moth with a bee in his Niwan Palace, producing an egg and restoring the spiritual power the original owner had lost. At the Green Mulberry Garden, Li Le threatened him over his sect assignment and his senior sister, leaving Lin Ke focused on surviving the Sect Grand Tournament and meeting his quota.

• Lin Ke's attempts to fuse the Blackgold Moth with a cockroach, a rhinoceros beetle, and other insects failed because they could not withstand its essence.
• A bee mated successfully with the Blackgold Moth, then died after laying a pale yellow egg in a honeycomb cell.
• Lin Ke realized the mysterious bead had returned the original owner's three years of spiritual power and opened his Niwan Palace.
• Li Le visited the Green Mulberry Garden, taunted Lin Ke with a funeral bell, and threatened to make his senior sister kneel and beg him to marry her if Lin Ke failed his assignment.
• Lin Ke ordered the mortal women who had overheard them to keep quiet, then considered the dangers posed by the Sect Grand Tournament and his silk quota.

After discovering that the Niwan Palace accelerated his mental cultivation, Lin Ke investigated how the sect raised Blackgold Silkworms so he could meet his doubled silk quota. He suspected the silkworms might be useful breeding stock suited to the Niwan Palace’s abilities.

• Lin Ke cultivated his mental power overnight, then decided to study Blackgold Silkworm production because his sect assignment required twice the usual silk quota.
• Lin Ke questioned three workers separately about the silkworms’ life cycle and care, recording their answers to check that the information was reliable.
• Lin Ke learned that the Blackgold Silkworms were extremely delicate, needed constant attention, and produced ordinary silk despite their unusual ability to spin without forming cocoons.
• Lin Ke considered that Blackgold Silkworms might be bred with other varieties to create a more productive spirit breed and thought they could work well with his Niwan Palace.

Lin Ke planned to scientifically improve Blackgold Silkworm breeding and traveled to Yi-Wa Market to buy supplies for a greenhouse. There, his Niwan Palace reacted to a root carving, which he secretly bought and carried away to inspect.

• Lin Ke decided to use experiments and cultivator techniques to create an ideal environment for Blackgold Silkworms.
• Lin Ke used Swift Travel to reach Yi-Wa Market, the Golden Wing Sect's busy marketplace beside the Red River.
• Lin Ke felt his Niwan Palace react as he passed a stall selling supposed spirit-root carvings.
• Lin Ke pretended to believe the seller's claims and bought an oval carving while the seller was distracted.
• Lin Ke hid the carving in his storage pouch and slipped into the crowd, preparing to examine it.

Lin Ke discovered that the Root Carving concealed a mysterious seed that bonded with the Blackgold Silkworm egg in his Niwan Palace and greatly invigorated him. He then completed the Earth Cicada Warm Sand Formation on a nearby mountain and summoned the farmers to begin work.

• Lin Ke brought the Root Carving into his Niwan Palace, where it absorbed the surrounding gas and transformed into a black seed.
• The seed reached toward the Blackgold Silkworm egg, and Lin Ke let the two bond as the seed took root in the soil and pierced the egg.
• Lin Ke recognized the seed as a potentially extraordinary treasure and calmed himself by circulating the Miaojiang Gu Art.
• Lin Ke chose a sunny mountain near his cabin and installed the Earth Cicada Warm Sand Formation with the materials he had bought at the Yi-Wa Market.
• After the formation stabilized, Lin Ke returned to the cabin and told the waiting farmers to get to work.

Lin Ke gathered the Blackgold Silkworms and led the Green Mulberry Garden farmers in preparing Golden Silkworm Peak for greenhouse production. After replanting the mulberry trees, he set the mountain’s sunny slope ablaze and used the Earth Cicada Warm-Sand Formation to trap the heat and soot for the soil.

• Lin Ke stored all the Blackgold Silkworms in his Niwan Palace, taking several hours and multiple breaks to recover his spiritual power.
• Lin Ke led the farmers to dig up and replant mulberry trees on the mountain, which he named Golden Silkworm Peak.
• Lin Ke ordered the farmers to turn over the mountain’s soil and pile the uprooted plants on its sunny slope.
• Lin Ke cast the Fireball Technique to ignite the pile and activated the Earth Cicada Warm-Sand Formation to contain the smoke and heat.
• The farmers watched in amazement as Lin Ke controlled the mountain-wide blaze with the formation.

Lin Ke prepared Golden Silkworm Peak and transplanted thousands of mulberry trees with help from the farmers of Green Mulberry Garden. He used the Sweet Rain Art to revive the trees and ease the workers’ aches, then hoped the next month would pass without trouble.

• Lin Ke and the farmers burned away pests and plant debris on Golden Silkworm Peak, then worked out a planting plan together.
• Lin Ke used the Mountain-Moving Art to shape the mountain into terraces while the farmers dug planting holes.
• The farmers carried mulberry trees from nearby mountains and planted larger trees near the foot and smaller ones near the summit.
• Lin Ke cast the Sweet Rain Art over the workers and the newly planted trees, easing some farmers’ aches and restoring the trees.
• Lin Ke looked toward the night sky and hoped nothing unexpected would happen in the coming month.

Lin Ke consolidated the Blackgold Silkworms on one mountain and prepared to pursue beast taming as his secondary profession before Foundation Establishment. The egg fused with the Mysterious Seed hatched inside his Niwan Palace, and the golden creature that emerged called him “Daddy.”

• Lin Ke and the exhausted farmers returned the Blackgold Silkworms to the mulberry trees in Green Mulberry Garden and organized rotating shifts to guard them.
• Lin Ke considered his coming Foundation Establishment breakthrough and decided that beast taming suited him because he had the Niwan Palace and the Miaojiang Gu Art.
• As Lin Ke started down the mountain, his Niwan Palace shuddered, and he sat down to inspect the fused egg and Mysterious Seed.
• Lin Ke gave the seed his blood and mental power, but its terrifying aura shattered his manifested mental body and left the seed impossible to remove from the Niwan Palace.
• The seed absorbed Lin Ke’s blood and drained his mental power as the egg hatched, and a golden creature emerged and called him “Daddy.”

Lin Ke discovered Lin Can, a talking Broodmother born from his Niwan Palace, and learned she could produce spirit insects. After taking her outside to make her his life-bound spirit insect, he began restoring his spiritual power, but an angry voice interrupted him.

• Lin Ke named the newly hatched Broodmother Lin Can and watched her produce a Stinger Hawk Moth from an egg.
• The Stinger Hawk Moth stung and drained beetles, then condensed a jelly-like substance that Lin Can ate before asking Lin Ke for more meat.
• Lin Ke learned Lin Can could communicate and carried her out of his Niwan Palace, where she panicked at the outside air.
• Lin Ke began circulating the Miaojiang Gu Art to restore his spiritual power so he could refine Lin Can as his life-bound spirit insect.
• An unseen speaker shouted at Lin Ke to return a Spirit Pearl.

The Cloud Frontier Beast Venerable accused humans of stealing his Spirit Pearl and clashed with a powerful human cultivator, while Lin Ke suspected the mysterious bead and Lin Can had drawn the Beast Venerable’s attention. Lin Ke refined Lin Can as his life-bound spirit insect and used her to open his embracing origin palace, leaving his Niwan Palace emptied of soil and his breakthrough underway.

• The Cloud Frontier Beast Venerable sensed a stolen Spirit Pearl and fought a human cultivator, shaking the Golden Wing Sect’s protective formation.
• The sect master ordered the disciples to return and left Grand Elder Luo in charge while she went to the Mu Mansion in the Dali Domain.
• Lin Ke suspected Lin Can had revealed the Spirit Pearl’s aura and decided to keep her from emerging often.
• Lin Ke refined Lin Can into his life-bound spirit insect, discovering that she purified his spiritual energy.
• Lin Can helped Lin Ke open his embracing origin palace, drawing the soil from his Niwan Palace as the clear and turbid separated.

Lin Ke discovered that breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm had given him a Dao Foundation filling 130 percent of his Embracing Origin Palace, vastly increasing his spiritual power. He kept his breakthrough secret and organized the Green Mulberry Garden farmers to gather live insects for him.

• Lin Ke sensed his immense Dao Foundation and realized he could cast Qi Refining spells with barely any spiritual-power cost.
• Lin Ke reminded himself to stay cautious and planned to remain in the Green Mulberry Garden until he became stronger.
• Lin Ke told Li Yanhua to continue reeling silk and bring him each day's work for inspection.
• Lin Ke ordered Fang Tong to leave five men guarding the Blackgold Silkworms while the rest of the farmers gathered live insects in the mountains.
• Fang Tong and Li Yanhua accepted Lin Ke's request, and Fang Tong promised the farmers could catch even the Five Poisons and Six Evils.

Lin Ke learned about the Six Evils and searched the Scripture Repository for powerful spells, but their high prices left him looking for ways to earn money. With upheaval approaching the Poison Tempering Mountains, he went to the Spirit Insect Cave to consider selling Stinger Hawk Moths.

• Fang Tong explained that the Six Evils were six kinds of insects once favored by the Cloud Frontier's great shamans and elders.
• Lin Ke went to the Scripture Repository and considered spells including the Mountain-Moving and Sea-Overturning Method, the Dragonfly Dash Art, and the Moisture-and-Egg Transformation Method.
• Lin Ke realized that he could not afford the spells and resolved to find a way to make money as the Cloud Frontier Beast Venerable's anger threatened the region.
• Lin Ke decided he could sell surplus Blackgold Silkworm silk or Stinger Hawk Moths, then headed to the Spirit Insect Cave.

Lin Ke met Zong Ya at the Spirit Insect Cave and revealed that he had advanced to Foundation Establishment, prompting her to suspect that a powerful being had possessed his body. He explained that his soul had merged with an Outworld Demon’s soul, and Zong Ya was relieved that he was still alive.

• Lin Ke encountered his senior sister, Zong Ya, at the Spirit Insect Cave, where she said she had taken a post to help him with his sect assignment and the Sect Grand Tournament.
• Zong Ya told Lin Ke that Li Le had pressured her to marry him by promising to seek his transfer out of the Green Mulberry Garden.
• Lin Ke revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation and firmly urged Zong Ya not to marry Li Le.
• Zong Ya brought Lin Ke into a warded private room and accused a powerful being of possessing him, then said she would rather die than live without the younger brother she regarded as her own.
• Lin Ke swore by the Heavenly Dao that he was still himself and explained that his soul had merged with an Outworld Demon’s soul after he opened a treasure.
• Zong Ya marveled at the existence of Earth and expressed relief that Lin Ke was alive.

Lin Ke told Zong Ya about Earth and his Dao Foundation cultivation, then discussed the upcoming Sect Grand Tournament and his plans to remain at the Green Mulberry Garden. The chapter ended with Zong Ya advising him to conceal the Blackgold Silkworms’ role in his insect research and claim he found the Stinger Hawk Moth in the Poison Tempering Mountains.

• Lin Ke convinced Zong Ya that he carried memories from Earth, and she erased her memories of what he had told her.
• Zong Ya explained that Dao Foundation disciples had to compete in the Sect Grand Tournament for a chance to become Personal Disciples, and warned that Li Le might target Lin Ke.
• Zong Ya urged Lin Ke to cripple Li Le if necessary, while Lin Ke promised to do his best.
• Lin Ke told Zong Ya he had come to sell spirit insects and explained why he planned to stay at the Green Mulberry Garden to study the Blackgold Silkworms.
• Zong Ya told Lin Ke to show her the Stinger Hawk Moth and advised him to say he had discovered it in the Poison Tempering Mountains, not link it to the Blackgold Silkworms.

Lin Ke showed Zong Ya his Stinger Hawk Moth, and she appraised its traits and value. He agreed to sell twenty through the Spirit Insect Cave, leaving Zong Ya to help arrange the sale.

• Lin Ke told Zong Ya he would claim he found the Blackgold Silkworm breeding method in the Poison Tempering Mountains.
• Zong Ya examined Lin Ke's Stinger Hawk Moth and assessed its abilities, low-grade spirit body, and value at two hundred and thirty low-grade spirit stones.
• Zong Ya discovered the moth had a colony-forming trait and said a batch could sell for two hundred and twenty-eight spirit stones each.
• Lin Ke said he had twenty Stinger Hawk Moths and declined to ask Zong Ya to find buyers for more.
• Zong Ya offered to help Lin Ke prepare for the Sect Grand Tournament, but he reassured her that his fortuitous encounter had left him with enough resources.
• Zong Ya agreed to help sell the twenty moths and told Lin Ke to bring them to the Spirit Insect Cave.

Lin Ke returned to Golden Silkworm Peak and collected insects from the farmers, then brought an Insect-Rearing Jar into his Niwan Palace to test them against Blackgold Moths. After a female centipede died during the first attempt and Lin Can fed the remains to the Stinger Hawk Moth, Lin Ke found that a male Longhorn Beetle produced an unexpected result when paired with a female Blackgold Moth.

• Lin Ke returned home and watched Fang Tong and the farmers gather insects using traditional containers and techniques.
• Fang Tong gave Lin Ke an Insect-Rearing Jar and an Insect-Feeding Box, and Lin Ke stored the jar in his Niwan Palace at the cost of most of his mental power.
• Lin Ke stopped Lin Can from eating the insects before his breeding experiments, promising she could eat those that died.
• Lin Ke paired a female bluish-purple centipede with a male Blackgold Moth, and the centipede burst apart and was eaten by the Stinger Hawk Moth.
• Lin Ke paired a male Longhorn Beetle with a female Blackgold Moth and was surprised by the unexpected result.

Lin Ke discovered that a Blackgold Moth could produce an Amethyst Longhorn Beetle, sold Stinger Hawk Moths to fund new purchases, and improved his silkworm farm. The chapter ended with him confirming the Blackgold Silkworms’ increased silk output and telling Fang Tong to collect their medicinal silkworm sand.

• Lin Ke watched a purple longhorn beetle devour a female Blackgold Moth during mating, after which she laid an egg that Lin Can swallowed and identified as an Amethyst Longhorn Beetle.
• Lin Ke used his remaining insects in further breeding attempts, but produced no other Spirit Insects and lost his breeding moths.
• Lin Ke created twenty more Blackgold Moths, sold Stinger Hawk Moths to Zong Ya for 4,560 Spirit Stones, and bought cultivation techniques and a Golden-Wing Nest.
• Lin Ke’s Blackgold Silkworms produced nearly thirty percent more silk after he improved their environment, and some fifth-instar larvae spun cocoons.
• Fang Tong showed Lin Ke that mulberry leaves at Golden Silkworm Peak had grown larger and thicker, and Lin Ke told him to collect the silkworm sand for later use.

Lin Ke learned that Fang Tong was the village’s 132nd-generation Old Man, and Fang Tong offered him the nearly lost insect-rearing inheritance. The chapter ended with Lin Ke promising to pass on a suitable cultivation method to Fang Tong and possibly take his son as a disciple if he gained authority.

• Fang Tong told Lin Ke that the five mountains’ insects were nearly exhausted, and Lin Ke asked whether he knew how to raise them.
• Fang Tong explained that his family had served the Green Mulberry Garden for generations and revealed that he was an Old Man.
• Lin Ke promised to keep Fang Tong’s identity secret, and Fang Tong offered the Old Man inheritance in exchange for help getting his son into an immortal sect.
• Lin Ke said he could not promise to get Fang Tong’s son into the sect because Li Le’s father was a powerful Nascent Soul elder.
• Fang Tong trusted Lin Ke’s strength, and Lin Ke promised to pass on a suitable cultivation method and possibly take Fang Tong’s son as his disciple in the future.

Fang Tong revealed that his family’s Old Han inheritance was a Gu Tablet containing methods for raising spirit insects, including the legendary Summer-Winter Mosquito. Lin Ke accepted the tablet and prepared to put its methods to use with the insects Fang Tong had caught.

• Fang Tong pledged to keep Lin Ke’s secrets and explained that his father had passed down the Old Han inheritance to him.
• Fang Tong cut the Gu Tablet and a tick out of his body, then instructed Lin Ke to place the tick between his brows to reveal the inheritance.
• The tick died after touching Lin Ke, and the Gu Tablet displayed information about numerous gu insects, including the powerful Summer-Winter Mosquito.
• Fang Tong explained that his ancestors had refused to trade the inheritance to the sect, and Lin Ke comforted him by saying his son could learn immortal arts.
• Fang Tong gave Lin Ke the Gu Tablet, and Lin Ke asked how many of the Five Poisons and Six Evils were among Fang Tong’s captured insects.