Chapter Summaries

After escaping a pursuit by Spirit Feather Sect Foundation Establishment elders, Qin Ming secured passage out of the Cloud Marsh Great Wilderness aboard Mirror Snow Pavilion’s dharma vessel. He prepared to leave Qingyang Market after arranging a partnership with Gu Qingzhao, but hinted that he still planned to stir up trouble for the Spirit Feather Sect.

• Qin Ming used Yin Thunder Grenades to injure one of the Spirit Feather Sect elders pursuing him and escaped to Qingyang Market.
• Qin Ming harvested his movable spiritual herbs, and Black Vine coiled around his arm so he could take it with him.
• Qin Ming passed his Tier 2 Spirit Planter plaque check and accepted honorary guest elder status with Mirror Snow Pavilion in exchange for future cooperation.
• Gu Qingzhao offered Qin Ming passage aboard the pavilion’s dharma vessel when it left the Cloud Wasteland Marsh in half a month, and he entrusted her with fifty jin of Tier 2 Five-Color Spirit Rice for auction.
• Qin Ming delivered the promised half-strand of Essence of Myriad Woods at Huangfu Qi’s cave abode, retrieved his purple alchemy furnace, and buried the earth fire beneath the Alchemy Room before hinting he would add fuel to the coming conflict.

Qin Ming recovered Feng Yuan’s Dragon Token and discovered that his Beast Hide map revealed a hidden route into the ancient ruins. He sent an illusion of Elder Gu to reveal the final token in Qingyang Market, triggering a riot and a battle against the Spirit Feather Sect.

• Qin Ming found Feng Yuan’s remains in the hidden cave and took the Dragon Token and map beside them.
• Qin Ming matched the map to the Beast Hide recording the Hundred Treasures Glazed Scripture and discovered a secret route into the ancient ruins.
• Qin Ming used the Dark Illusion Affix to create an Elder Gu illusion that carried the Dragon Token into Qingyang Market and launched it into the sky.
• Cultivators rushed for the token as Marauder Cultivators attacked the market, and the Spirit Feather Sect activated its Azure Water Canopy Array.
• The Mingzhen Pavilion collapsed during a battle, and Hundred Flowers Saintess accused Goldcloud Valley and the Spirit Feather Sect of plotting evil and called on the factions to attack.

Lin Zixiao seized the last Dragon Talisman Token, opened the ancient ruins, and diverted most rival forces by revealing Yuwen Hong’s possible Golden Core breakthrough. Qin Ming followed a Beast Hide map to a hidden medicinal garden, where he obtained the next part of the Hundred Treasures Glazed Scripture and discovered Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire.

• Lin Zixiao broke Qingyang Market’s defensive array, killed the cultivators fighting over the final Dragon Talisman Token, and escaped with it as the market descended into looting and slaughter.
• Qin Ming followed the sect forces to the sinkhole, where Lin Zixiao and the other factions placed their tokens in a stone stele and opened the underground palace.
• Lin Zixiao claimed Yuwen Hong was secretly preparing to break through to the Golden Core Stage, prompting most major forces to leave for the Tier 3 Spirit Vein while a few entered the ruins.
• Qin Ming used the Beast Hide map to reveal a hidden entrance behind a waterfall and teleported into a medicinal garden inside the ruins.
• Qin Ming used the Beast Hides to open two protected stone platforms, claiming the Foundation Establishment portion of the Hundred Treasures Glazed Scripture and finding Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire in a Jade Bottle.

Qin Ming escaped the Spirit Herb Garden with a Tier-2 Spirit Fire, then overheard Lin Zixiao and Elder Gu discussing their secret ties before they discovered him and gave chase. After using his replicated Divine Sword Lightning Summoning spell, Qin Ming blasted the three pursuers with a devastating storm of golden lightning.

• Qin Ming took the Tier-2 Spirit Fire from the Spirit Herb Garden and escaped before Lin Zixiao arrived.
• While resting, Qin Ming overheard Lin Zixiao and Elder Gu discuss Elder Gu's Foundation Establishment and his involvement in Fellow Daoist Long's death, then saw a Shennong Gate elder join them.
• After the three men parted, they sensed Qin Ming and pursued him, forcing him to use two Yin Thunder Grenades to block Lin Zixiao's attack.
• Qin Ming countered Elder Gu's crimson Dharma Sword with the Azure Nether Sword Art, then stopped and challenged the pursuers.
• Qin Ming activated the replicated Divine Sword Lightning Summoning spell, engulfing Lin Zixiao, Elder Gu, and the Shennong Gate elder in golden thunder that blasted everything below into ash.

Qin Ming escaped the destruction of Qingyang Market after killing Elder Gu, then returned safely to Mirror Snow Pavilion and learned that Yuwen Hong had broken through to the Golden Core Stage. He examined treasures from the ruins and began considering where to cultivate next.

• Lin Zixiao survived Qin Ming's lightning attack using a calamity-substitution technique and fled, while Elder Gu and the green-robed old man were reduced to nothing.
• Qin Ming found Qingyang Market and his Secluded Cool Abode destroyed, then flew back to Cloud Dream Mountain.
• Gu Qingzhao welcomed Qin Ming and told him Yuwen Hong had survived his Golden Core lightning tribulation, strengthening the Spirit Feather Sect and setting up future conflict with the Thunder Origin Sect.
• Qin Ming returned to his guest room and studied the Hundred Treasures Glazed Scripture, the blue spirit flame, and a map as he considered where to cultivate next.

Qin Ming studied the map and chose the Spirit Rest Archipelago as a quiet place to develop his cultivation through farming. After discussing the destination with Gu Qingzhao, he prepared to travel aboard Mirror Snow Pavilion’s vessel, which would also hold an auction.

• Qin Ming reviewed the map and decided against settling in Azure Sea Immortal City, choosing the Spirit Rest Archipelago instead.
• Qin Ming planned to rent a Tier 2 Spirit Vein field and continue cultivating until he could seek a Foundation Establishment Pill in Azure Sea Immortal City.
• Qin Ming told Gu Qingzhao he intended to develop in the Spirit Rest Archipelago, and she said its fertile soil suited his work as a Spirit Planter.
• Gu Qingzhao explained that the archipelago was named after a rare second-order Spirit Rice that had once grown there but later disappeared.
• Gu Qingzhao told Qin Ming that Mirror Snow Pavilion’s vessel would depart in two days and hold an auction during the journey; Qin Ming said he was ready to leave.

Qin Ming gave Gu Qingzhao Crimson Silver Hemp and supreme Marrow Cleansing Pills to auction as he prepared to leave the Cloud Marsh Great Wilderness aboard Mirror Snow Pavilion’s Dharma Boat. During the voyage, the auction began, and the chapter ended as supreme Marrow Cleansing Pills were presented as a finale lot.

• Qin Ming asked Gu Qingzhao to auction his Crimson Silver Hemp and supreme Marrow Cleansing Pills, and she praised his alchemy prospects.
• Three days later, Qin Ming boarded Mirror Snow Pavilion’s Dharma Boat with thousands of cultivators fleeing the conflict between great powers.
• The Dharma Boat departed Cloud Dream Mountain, and Qin Ming watched the wilderness disappear before settling into his superior room.
• Three days into the voyage, Qin Ming and Gu Qingzhao watched the auction as Spirit Accumulation Pills sold for more than five hundred Spirit Stones per bottle.
• The auctioneer presented supreme Marrow Cleansing Pills as the first finale lot, starting at two thousand Spirit Stones per pill.

Qin Ming earned a fortune from the auction aboard Mirror Snow Pavilion’s Dharma Boat and learned that a young couple on board came from the Spirit Rest Archipelago. He invited them to his suite to ask about the islands, leaving them impressed by his apparent wealth.

• Qin Ming’s Supreme Marrow Cleansing Pills, Crimson Silver Hemp, and Divine Essence Fruits sold for high prices, earning him nearly thirty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Qin Ming exchanged part of his earnings for Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and learned that Gu Qingzhao planned to take his Five-Color Spirit Rice to Azure Sea Immortal City for her restaurant.
• More than ten days later, Qin Ming overheard a young cultivator and Yin'er lamenting their failed trip to the Cloud Marsh Great Wilderness and their return to the Spirit Rest Archipelago.
• Qin Ming approached the couple, offered them spirit tea in his suite, and asked about the Spirit Rest Archipelago.
• The couple entered Qin Ming’s luxurious room and were stunned by its lavish furnishings.

Qin Ming asked Wu Jiang about renting an island with a Spirit Vein in the Spirit Rest Archipelago, and Wu Jiang realized Qin Ming was a Tier 2 Spirit Planter. Wu Jiang told him about the Mo Family’s island lease, which might become available, and agreed to help Qin Ming investigate.

• Wu Jiang introduced himself and his Dao companion, Mu Ruyin, and offered Qin Ming information about the Spirit Rest Archipelago.
• Qin Ming said he wanted to rent an entire island, surprising Wu Jiang and Mu Ruyin.
• Wu Jiang explained that most islands with Spirit Veins were occupied and that Tier 2 Spirit Vein islands were scarce and costly to rent.
• Wu Jiang inferred that Qin Ming was a Tier 2 Spirit Planter and told him that the Mo Family’s lease on a northern island might expire this year.
• Qin Ming asked Wu Jiang to take him to investigate the Mo Family’s situation, and Wu Jiang agreed.

Qin Ming arrived at Azure Sea Immortal City, parted ways with Gu Qingzhao, and traveled with Wu Jiang and Mu Ruyin to the Spirit Rest Archipelago. He left the two to return to their family and went to explore Tianhe Market District, where he was asked to pay an entry fee.

• Qin Ming said farewell to Gu Qingzhao, who gave him Spirit Wine and spirit tea and invited him to join Mirror Snow Pavilion formally.
• Qin Ming traveled with Wu Jiang and Mu Ruyin aboard his Spirit Light Shuttle toward the Spirit Rest Archipelago.
• Wu Jiang explained that his family owned Red Jade Spirit Island, then departed with Mu Ruyin to return home while Qin Ming headed to Tianhe Market District.
• Qin Ming arrived at the market district and a guard told him that first-time entrants had to pay two Spirit Stones.

Qin Ming learned about the lease opening for Azure Radiance Island and asked Wu Jiang to take him there to inspect it. They flew north together, and the chapter left them nearing the spirit island.

• Qin Ming entered Tianhe Market District, heard rumors about the Yu Family's Azure Dragon Spirit Fish King and Mo Lingwei's search for two co-lessees, then sold unwanted items for several thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wu Jiang told Qin Ming that Mo Lingwei seemed determined to find new partners for leasing Azure Radiance Island.
• Qin Ming asked Wu Jiang to take him to the island for an on-site inspection, and Wu Jiang offered to introduce him to Mo Lingwei.
• As they flew north, Wu Jiang explained why he had left Azure Sea Immortal City for Cloud Marsh Great Wilderness, and Qin Ming shared that he had once struggled as a Spirit Farmer.
• Two hours later, Qin Ming and Wu Jiang spotted Azure Radiance Island in the distance.

Qin Ming visited Azure Radiance Island with Wu Jiang and applied to share its lease, but Mo Lingwei rejected him despite his status as a Tier 2 Spirit Planter. The chapter ended with Mo Lingwei explaining that she chose applicants she could trust and control because Qin Ming’s abilities and background made him too difficult to assess.

• Qin Ming and Wu Jiang arrived at Azure Radiance Island, where Old Mo escorted them to meet the family head, Mo Lingwei.
• Mo Lingwei explained the shared-lease arrangement and asked the applicants to introduce themselves; Qin Ming revealed his Tier 2 Spirit Planter identity and proved it with his token.
• Mo Lingwei selected Tang Feng and Duan Haishan, rejecting Qin Ming and the other applicants.
• Qin Ming left the island with a bewildered Wu Jiang, while Mo Lingwei told Old Mo she had rejected Qin because she could not assess or control him.

Qin Ming pursued ownership of an unclaimed island with a Tier 2 Spirit Vein after Wu Jiang found news of an auction. Just as the bidding reached twenty thousand Spirit Stones, a Zhao Family member arrived and challenged the proceedings.

• Qin Ming paid Wu Jiang to keep searching for Spirit Islands after Azure Radiance Fairy refused to help him.
• Wu Jiang told Qin Ming that the Seventy-Two Island Alliance would auction a newly discovered northern island, and Qin Ming agreed to attend.
• Qin Ming and Wu Jiang traveled to the island, where Qin Ming examined its soil and assessed its Spirit Veins and isolated location.
• Li Yuanqing opened the auction with a starting price of eight thousand Spirit Stones, and bidders drove the price up to twenty thousand.
• A lean old man bid twenty thousand Spirit Stones, and an unidentified voice from the sky asked why no one had notified the Zhao Family.

The Zhao Family challenged the Scattered Alliance’s auction of a spirit island and pushed for ownership to be decided through duels. Qin Ming advanced to the final against Zhao Chanzhen, who unexpectedly forfeited, leaving the island’s contest unresolved in the chapter.

• Zhao Chanzhen arrived with Zhao Family cultivators and insisted that the island’s ownership be decided by duels rather than the auction.
• Li Yuanqing agreed to the contest on the conditions that only Qi Refining cultivators participate, no one be harmed, and the winner pay fifteen thousand Spirit Stones.
• Despite Wu Jiang’s warning about Zhao Chanzhen’s strength, Qin Ming registered for the contest because he wanted the island.
• Qin Ming defeated two Late Qi Refining opponents with basic wood-element spells, while Zhao Chanzhen defeated one opponent and prompted the others he faced to forfeit.
• Qin Ming and Zhao Chanzhen reached the final, but Zhao Chanzhen suddenly conceded.

Qin Ming won the spirit island after Zhao Chanzhen forfeited upon discovering Qin had Yin Thunder Grenades, and he named the island Moon Gazing Island. He began arranging its development and visited Mirror Snow Pavilion to buy supplies, where he learned that Spirit Rest Rice seeds were unavailable.

• Zhao Chanzhen forfeited the duel after realizing Qin Ming had Yin Thunder Grenades, and Qin Ming paid for the island and signed its ownership contract.
• Qin Ming named the island Moon Gazing Island and accepted Wu Jiang's offer to arrange workers and materials for its renovation.
• Qin Ming planned to obtain a Protective Grand Array, Spirit Seeds, and a method to refine the blue Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire, which could advance his alchemy.
• Qin Ming visited Mirror Snow Pavilion and requested a Second-Order Protection Array and Second-Order Spirit Seeds, including Spirit Rest Rice, Violet Gold Bamboo, and Spirit Gathering Tea.
• The Mirror Snow Pavilion attendant recognized Qin Ming's Honorary Guest Elder token and told him the pavilion had been out of Spirit Rest Rice seeds for a long time.

Qin Ming prepared Moon Gazing Island for cultivation, acquiring a powerful protective formation and valuable Spirit Plants while searching unsuccessfully for Spirit Rest Rice seeds. After inviting Gu Qingzhao and Manager Liao to his completed island, he asked Gu Qingzhao to help find materials for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Qin Ming bought a Tier 2 high-grade protective formation, Spirit Gathering Tea, and Violet Gold Bamboo from Mirror Snow Pavilion, but could not find Spirit Rest Rice seeds or a Spirit Fire refining method.
• Wu Jiang told Qin Ming that the Mo Family might still preserve Spirit Rest Rice seeds, since an ancestor of Mo Lingwei had been the only cultivator in the Spirit Rest Archipelago to grow the rice successfully.
• After Wu Jiang completed the island's cave abodes and buildings, Qin Ming rewarded him and set up the protective formation over the Main Peak.
• Qin Ming sent Wu Jiang to deliver invitations to Gu Qingzhao and Manager Liao, who visited Moon Gazing Island two days later.
• Qin Ming asked Gu Qingzhao to look for materials or Spirit Seeds needed to refine a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Qin Ming arranged with Gu Qingzhao and Wu Jiang to gather materials so he could attempt to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, while learning that the Spirit Feather Sect had gained powerful allies and that Lin Zixiao had advanced to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage. He planted new Spirit Plants and fed Essence of Myriad Woods to his Black Vine.

• Qin Ming asked Gu Qingzhao to gather Foundation Establishment Pill materials, and she agreed while expressing interest in buying his Spirit Gathering Tea and Violet Gold Bamboo once they matured.
• Gu Qingzhao told Qin Ming that Yuwen Hong's rise to Golden Core had led the Zhao Family and other forces to pledge allegiance to the Spirit Feather Sect amid its conflict with the Thunder Origin Sect.
• Gu Qingzhao reported that Lin Zixiao had taken the Cloud Wasteland Marsh ruins' inheritance, killed two Foundation Establishment elders, and reached the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Qin Ming asked Wu Jiang to search for supplementary pill ingredients, then planted the Spirit Gathering Tea and Violet Gold Bamboo saplings beneath Main Peak.
• Qin Ming planted his Black Vine in the spiritual soil and fed it a wisp of Essence of Myriad Woods.

After feeding the Essence of Myriad Woods to his Natal Spirit Plant, Qin Ming’s Longevity Vine transformed and greatly advanced his Supreme Wood Dharma Body. He also broke through to the ninth layer of the Qi Refining Stage, leaving him one step from completion and closer to Foundation Establishment.

• The Black Vine absorbed one wisp of Essence of Myriad Woods, transformed into a Longevity Vine, and refreshed four powerful Affixes as Qin Ming’s Supreme Wood Dharma Body advanced.
• Qin Ming fed the Longevity Vine five more wisps, and it grew into a towering tree while its essence pushed his Supreme Wood Dharma Body’s progress past halfway.
• Qin Ming easily cast the wood-element Arrow Rain Technique and discovered the Longevity Vine could turn incorporeal and conceal itself from sight and divine sense.
• Qin Ming ate Five-Color Spirit Rice, swallowed a Spirit Accumulation Pill, and cultivated until his magic power broke through to the ninth layer of the Qi Refining Stage.
• After consolidating his cultivation, Qin Ming judged that his magic power and Body Tempering Art could let him contend with ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After breaking through to the ninth layer of the Qi Refining Stage, Qin Ming bought Spirit Rest Rice seeds from Mo Lingwei and began preparing fields to cultivate them. He learned how Spirit Planters qualified for the Flora Mirage Realm, then received word from Wu Jiang about spirit-fire refinement and two spirit medicines.

• Qin Ming released his Four-Winged Frost Bees on Moon Gazing Island and decided he wanted a powerful spirit beast to guard his grounds.
• Qin Ming visited Mo Lingwei and agreed to give the Mo Family fifty jin of Spirit Rest Rice if he successfully cultivated it, or pay an equivalent value in Spirit Stones if he failed.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island with the Spirit Seeds, prepared three mu of paddy fields, made spirit fertilizer, and sowed the seeds.
• Qin Ming learned at the Spirit Planter Guild that advancing beyond Tier 2 required a Flora Mirage Realm trial, with the nearest entrance in Azure Sea Immortal City.
• Wu Jiang sent Qin Ming a message saying he had news about spirit-fire refinement and the whereabouts of two spirit medicines.

Qin Ming obtained the Profound Yin Flame Sacrifice Art and discovered that the spirit fire he had found was the dangerous Spirit-Devouring Poison Flame. With the Longevity Vine’s help, he refined the flame and used it to successfully make Supreme Spirit Accumulation Pills.

• Wu Jiang told Qin Ming that a Qi Refining family on Yellow Maple Island possessed the spirit-fire refining method and a rogue cultivator held two supplementary ingredients for Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Qin Ming traded Second-Order Five-Color Spirit Rice for the Profound Yin Flame Sacrifice Art and acquired the two ingredients as seedlings.
• Qin Ming identified his blue spirit fire as the Spirit-Devouring Poison Flame and learned that refining it required exceptional physical strength and meridians.
• The flame escaped its bottle, but the Longevity Vine trapped and subdued it before Qin Ming swallowed it and began refining it.
• The Longevity Vine calmed the poison flame inside Qin Ming, allowing him to finish refining it after two hours.
• Qin Ming used the refined flame to brew and fuse pills, producing more than ten Supreme Spirit Accumulation Pills.