Recaps

Chen Jianghe cultivates Xiao Hei and joins Gao Peiyao’s mutual aid alliance as the Yun Household faces attacks from the Bai and Lan Households. The arc leaves Chen Jianghe preparing to travel to Port No. 1 amid dwindling numbers of fisher-farmers and growing danger around Mirror Moon Lake.

• Chen Jianghe avoids the Lan Household’s recruitment, learns Yu Daniu escaped its massacre, and waits for the Yun Household’s fish collection rather than risk mining or lending spirit sand.
• Chen Jianghe earns spirit sand for his catch, attends the year-end conference, buys a Spirit-Opening Pill, and refuses Wang Kui’s request to borrow spirit sand.
• Chen Jianghe feeds Xiao Hei a Spirit-Awakening Pill, advances to the second layer of Qi Refining with a Qi-Nourishing Pill, and learns that Old Gao has died after warning him about the dangers of greed.
• Gao Peiyao proposes a mutual aid alliance, and Chen Jianghe, Yu Daniu, Gao Peiyao, and Zhou Miaoyun swear oaths to its rules and agree to help one another cultivate and survive crises.
• Rumors of war grow after the Bai Household attacks the Yun Household, and Chen Jianghe buys Qi-Nourishing Pills while the alliance watches Yun Bufan calm the fisher-farmers at the conference.
• Lan Tianxiang attacks Port No. 2, killing cultivators and mortals, while Chen Jianghe hides underwater and later urges Yu Daniu to remain in the alliance despite his failure to draw talismans.
• Yu Daniu reports that the Bai Household seized Linyun Mine and struck down Yun Household elders, while Chen Jianghe helps him buy supplies and warns him against risking his life for information.
• As many fisher-farmers flee Mirror Moon Lake, Xiao Hei rejects breeding to pursue immortality, and Chen Jianghe prepares to visit Port No. 1 for a Qi-Nourishing Pill and the year-end gatherings.

Chen Jianghe entered the Yun Household’s Inner Waters, advanced in cultivation, and helped Xiao Hei become a ranked spirit beast. As Gao Peiyao and Zhou Miaoyun left Mirror Moon Lake, Chen Jianghe developed talisman-making as a source of income and began considering Qinghe Market as a future refuge.

• Chen Jianghe broke through to the third layer of Qi Refining, learned the Water Escape Technique, and joined the Fisher-Farmer Conference, where he chose to remain with the Yun Household.
• Chen Jianghe became a senior fisher-farmer in the Inner Waters and began raising Small Blue Fish, later bringing Xiao Hei to help tend them.
• Xiao Hei condensed a spiritual core and became a ranked spirit beast, while Chen Jianghe’s lifespan limit rose to 360 years and Xiao Hei gained the Three-Turn Demon Ascension Art.
• Chen Jianghe reunited with Yu Daniu, Gao Peiyao, and Zhou Miaoyun, and learned that Gao Peiyao planned to leave for the Tian Nan Sect while Zhou Miaoyun would accompany her to Qinghe Market.
• After reaching Qi Refining Fourth Layer, Chen Jianghe turned to talisman-making, gradually improving his work and selling Water Arrow Talismans to buy supplies and a Qi-Nourishing Pill for Xiao Hei.
• Chen Jianghe visited Yu Daniu’s family, returned the Yun Household’s cultivation-world jade slip, and learned that Yu Daniu was anxious about his son’s Spiritual Root test.
• Chen Jianghe continued practicing talisman-making and received Zhou Miaoyun’s letter from Qinghe Market, which offered help if he ever left the Yun Household.