Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming planted Su Yuqing’s rare Spirit Seeds and continued cultivating, farming, and raising his Mystic Water Crocodile. The Longevity Vine then granted him the Ancient Wood Evergreen Body method, which offered him a path toward the Golden Core.

• Gu Qingzhao delivered Su Yuqing’s letter and Jade Bloom Spirit Lotus seeds to Qin Ming, who sent back a reply and gifts while asking for alchemy advice.
• Qin Ming planted the Jade Bloom Spirit Lotus and Mistveil Illusion Shrooms, using the Grand Five Elements Technique to water the shrooms with water-aligned spirit rain.
• Qin Ming recorded his planting achievements at the Spirit Planter Guild, where the assessment official admired his rapid progress toward Tier 2 High-Grade Spirit Planter.
• Qin Ming discovered that his Mystic Water Crocodile grew rapidly by absorbing the essence of flora released during his cultivation, and urged it to advance to a Second Order Great Demon.
• The Longevity Vine sent a purple rune into Qin Ming, revealing the Ancient Wood Evergreen Body cultivation method and giving him hope of reaching the Golden Core.

Qin Ming tested his new Azure Phoenix Sword, received pill formulas from Su Yuqing, and refined Spirit Curse Pills for his spirit beasts. As they began digesting the pills, Gu Qingzhao informed him that the upcoming auction would include essence blood from a rare Second-Grade Crimson-Blood Suanni.

• Qin Ming tested the Azure Phoenix Sword and used it to carve a long trench across Moon Gazing Lake.
• Qin Ming received pill formulas from Su Yuqing, including the Spirit Curse Pill formula, and sent Wu Jiang to gather its materials.
• Qin Ming learned that Mirror Snow Pavilion would auction a Foundation Establishment Pill and that a Second-Grade Demon Core had been consigned.
• Wu Jiang gathered enough materials for three batches, and Qin Ming rewarded him with Spirit Stones and notes on growing Beast Fang Rice.
• Qin Ming refined twelve Spirit Curse Pills and gave one each to the Mystic Water Crocodile and Six-Winged Frost Bee, which began digesting them.
• Gu Qingzhao told Qin Ming that the upcoming auction would include a small bottle of Second-Grade initial stage Crimson-Blood Suanni essence blood.

Qin Ming arrived in Azure Sea Immortal City for the Mirror Snow Pavilion auction, where he accepted Xue Zhili’s invitation to a Foundation Establishment cultivators’ exchange gathering. The auction began amid intense competition, opening with Qin Ming’s Spirit Nectar Rice.

• Qin Ming traveled to Azure Sea Immortal City and met Gu Qingzhao at Mirror Snow Pavilion before the auction.
• Xue Zhili and Miao Renke invited Qin Ming to an exchange gathering at Xue Zhili’s Flowing Cloud Estate after the auction, and Qin Ming agreed to attend.
• Three days later, Gu Qingzhao arranged a private room for Qin Ming at the auction, where numerous families and cultivators gathered to compete for the Foundation Establishment Pill.
• The auctioneer opened the event by presenting fifty jin of Spirit Nectar Rice produced by Qin Ming.

At the auction, Qin Ming watched rare treasures spark fierce bidding among powerful cultivators and restrained himself from competing for the Dragonblood Divine Wood. The auction then revealed the high-grade Beast Essence Blood he had been seeking, leaving its bidding about to begin.

• The auctioneer sold fifty jin of Second-Grade Mid-Grade Spirit Rest Rice to an elderly man in green robes for eight thousand Spirit Stones.
• Bai Yulin and Mu Yuanshan competed for a Flame-Winged Hawk Demon Core, while Qin Ming blocked their probing divine senses; Mu Yuanshan won it for nine thousand Spirit Stones.
• Fang Yezi, Bai Yulin, Mu Yuanshan, and others bid on Dragonblood Divine Wood, but Qin Ming gave up, and Mu Yuanshan bought it for thirty thousand Spirit Stones.
• After the auction continued for more than half a day, the auctioneer unveiled a jade bottle containing second-grade initial stage Crimson-Blood Suanni essence blood, and Qin Ming recognized the item he had been seeking.

Qin Ming won a bottle of Suanni essence blood at the auction, then watched the Foundation Establishment Pill he had refined sell for eighty thousand Spirit Stones. After earning more than seventy thousand Spirit Stones, he joined Xue Zhili’s private exchange meet, where his supreme Divine Essence Fruits attracted offers of beast essence blood.

• Qin Ming outbid Fang Yezi and bought the Second-Grade lower-grade Crimson-Blood Suanni essence blood for fifteen thousand Spirit Stones.
• A cultivator from the Zhang Family of Lingnan won Qin Ming’s Foundation Establishment Pill for eighty thousand Spirit Stones, and Qin Ming settled his earnings with Gu Qingzhao.
• Gu Qingzhao reassured Qin Ming about Xue Zhili’s private exchange meet, and Qin Ming arrived at Flowing Cloud Estate the next day to join more than ten Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Xue Zhili traded his Crimson Essence Gold Matrix for a two-hundred-year-old Azure Sky Spirit Grass, and Sun Jinnian exchanged Azure Congealing Pills for Spirit Herbs.
• Qin Ming offered two supreme Divine Essence Fruits and fifty jin of Spirit Rest Rice for high-grade beast essence blood, prompting several cultivators to present offers.
• A cultivator offered Qin Ming Second-Grade Middle Stage White-Armed Azure Ape essence blood but said Qin Ming’s proposed goods were insufficient.

Qin Ming traded Spirit Rest Rice and Divine Essence Fruits for White-Armed Azure Ape essence blood, then overheard Mu Yuanshan and Miao Renke conspiring with Spirit Feather Sect envoy Gu Huai. Lin Zixiao ambushed them, while Qin Ming fled from a pursuing masked cultivator and turned to fight back.

• Qin Ming negotiated with Mu Yuanshan and traded the Divine Essence Fruits and thirty jin of Spirit Rest Rice for the White-Armed Azure Ape essence blood.
• After the exchange meeting, Qin Ming overheard Mu Yuanshan, Miao Renke, and Gu Huai discuss the Seventy-Two Island Alliance's plans and the Spirit Feather Sect's ambitions.
• Lin Zixiao and four masked cultivators ambushed the three conspirators, and one masked cultivator pursued Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming wounded the pig-head-masked pursuer with the Azure Phoenix Sword and escaped his sight.
• Qin Ming's blood shadow appeared above the pursuer and smashed down with a crimson fist.

Qin Ming defeated several devil cultivators, killed Mu Yuanshan after realizing he knew about the group’s scheming, and fled toward Moon Gazing Island with his spoils. Lin Zixiao and the surviving bandits arrived too late to discover who had slaughtered their companions.

• Qin Ming destroyed the fat black-robed cultivator’s defenses, overcame his Asura Demon Fire, killed him, and collected his Blood Orb and Storage Bag.
• Mu Yuanshan and Miao Renke arrived while fleeing a monkey-masked cultivator, who killed Miao Renke; Qin Ming then beheaded Mu Yuanshan when he realized Mu Yuanshan knew about his dealings with Gu Huai.
• Qin Ming blocked the monkey-masked cultivator’s attacks and killed him with the Azure Phoenix Sword, then collected the fallen cultivators’ Blood Orbs and Storage Bags and erased the evidence.
• Qin Ming flew toward Moon Gazing Island while three surviving black-robed cultivators arrived at the battlefield with Gu Huai’s head and found their companions dead.

Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island with spoils from his recent battle and advanced his True Gang Transformation, gaining a powerful new form. The Mystic Water Crocodile then broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, but its lightning tribulation began before its advancement was complete.

• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, checked the island and his spirit plants, and searched the four cultivators’ Storage Bags, finding valuable treasures and an Advanced Puppet Art manual.
• Qin Ming refined White-Armed Azure Ape essence blood and manifested the first transformation of True Gang Transformation, the Giant Ape Transformation.
• Qin Ming tested the transformation on a Barren Island, where one punch flattened a mountaintop, then returned to share Spirit Rest Rice with Wu Jiang and Mu Ruyin’s family.
• The Mystic Water Crocodile triggered a spiritual qi phenomenon and raised its aura to the Foundation Establishment Realm as it advanced.
• Black thunderclouds gathered above the Mystic Water Crocodile, beginning the lightning tribulation it had to survive to become a second-order great demon.

Qin Ming’s Mystic Water Crocodile survived its lightning tribulation and became a Second Order Foundation Establishment Great Demon, while the Longevity Vine’s growth helped Qin Ming cultivate the Ancient Wood Evergreen Body. A year later, Qin Ming fulfilled his promise to Mo Lingwei by refining three Foundation Establishment Pills for her group, leaving them to divide the pills among themselves.

• The Mystic Water Crocodile used its lightning talent and tough scales to endure nine tribulation bolts, breaking through to become a Second Order Foundation Establishment Great Demon.
• Qin Ming found that the Six-Winged Frost Bee Queen had not advanced, then fed four Foundation Establishment cultivators’ Blood Orbs to the Longevity Vine.
• The Longevity Vine produced new Affixes, and Qin Ming cultivated the Ancient Wood Evergreen Body to the entry level.
• Qin Ming spent the following year cultivating, tending plants, and learning to refine pills, while the Dragonblood Divine Wood struggled to survive in his Spirit Vein environment.
• Mo Lingwei brought the materials for Foundation Establishment Pills, and Qin Ming refined three common-quality pills for her group, fulfilling his promise before they departed.

For more than two years, Qin Ming cultivated spirit plants on Moon Gazing Island, tended to Wu Jiang’s young twins, and tried brewing Spirit Fire Wine. His quiet life ended when Aunt Long relayed Gu Qingzhao’s warning that the Scattered Alliance would soon attack the Zhao Family.

• Qin Ming inspected thriving Jade Bloom Spirit Lotuses, supreme Spirit Rest Rice, and Mistveil Illusion Shrooms, noting new affixes that could benefit his plants and himself.
• Qin Ming tended his spirit fields with the Grand Five Elements Technique and buried jars of failed-again Spirit Fire Wine beneath the Violet Gold Bamboo grove.
• Wu Wangfeng and Wu Wangyue visited Qin Ming with food from their mother, accepted Spirit Fruits from him, and ran off happily.
• Qin Ming reflected that he had refused Wu Jiang and Mu Ruyin’s wish for him to take their gifted children as disciples.
• Aunt Long delivered Gu Qingzhao’s warning that the Scattered Alliance would attack the Zhao Family within two days, urging Qin Ming to take precautions.

Qin Ming witnessed the Seventy-Two Island Alliance attack the Zhao Family’s Thousand Leaf Island, while Mo Lingwei and other island families fought on the Zhao Family’s side. After the alliance shattered the Golden Dragon Subduing Sea Formation, a hidden defensive formation destroyed the advancing cultivators and warships, and Qin Ming left for Moon Gazing Island.

• Qin Ming bought emergency supplies in Tianhe Market District and saw the Seventy-Two Island Alliance’s fleet sail toward Thousand Leaf Island.
• The alliance bombarded the Golden Dragon Subduing Sea Formation while Qin Ming watched from the clouds.
• Mo Lingwei led Azure Radiance Island’s forces and allied families against the alliance, and Huo Qianqiu used a Tier 3 Formation Breaking Talisman to shatter the formation.
• Cultivators and warships rushed toward Thousand Leaf Island, but a concealed blue defensive formation burned them to ash.
• Qin Ming sensed danger, avoided the battle, and flew back toward Moon Gazing Island.

Qin Ming sheltered the Wu Family on Moon Gazing Island as war engulfed the Spirit Rest Archipelago, then helped the Six-Winged Frost Bee attempt a dangerous breakthrough. The bee survived the first eight tribulation bolts, and the Longevity Vine moved to intercept the ninth.

• Qin Ming reassured Wu Jiang that Moon Gazing Island was safe and invited the Wu Family to take shelter there.
• Wu Jiang brought several dozen members of the Wu Family to Moon Gazing Island, while the war devastated White Rock Island and nearby regions.
• Qin Ming released the Mystic Water Crocodile to patrol and gave the Six-Winged Frost Bee a choice between a Demon Core and Crimson-Blood Suanni Essence Blood.
• The Six-Winged Frost Bee chose the essence blood, refined it, and broke through to become a Second-Grade Foundation Establishment Great Demon.
• The Silver Bee endured eight tribulation bolts before its strength faltered, and the Longevity Vine sent its vines to meet the final golden bolt.

Qin Ming’s Six-Winged Frost Bee survived its tribulation and advanced into a powerful Second Order Great Demon, strengthening Moon Gazing Island’s defenses. As marauder cultivators led by Fiendish Mask Old Freak came to seize the island, the Mystic Water Crocodile discovered them and attacked.

• Qin Ming’s Six-Winged Frost Bee passed its tribulation, grew larger, and was renamed the Silver-Winged Frost Bee.
• Qin Ming learned the Silver-Winged Frost Bee’s new abilities, rode it around Moon Gazing Lake, and gave it a Spirit Curse Pill to stabilize its realm.
• Wu Jiang congratulated Qin Ming on the breakthrough, and Qin Ming rewarded him with a Spirit Accumulation Pill.
• Qin Ming studied Mo Lingwei’s third-order Spirit Planter inheritance as fighting between the Seventy-Two Loose Cultivator Alliance and the Zhao Family drove cultivators to seek refuge in Azure Sea Immortal City.
• Fiendish Mask Old Freak’s marauder gang came to Moon Gazing Island to seize its Spirit Rest Rice and kill its inhabitants.
• The Mystic Water Crocodile detected Fiendish Mask Old Freak’s gang before they reached the island and erupted from the lake to attack them.

Qin Ming wiped out Fiendish Mask Old Freak’s marauders after they attacked Moon Gazing Island, then suspected the Zhao Family had supplied them with information. More than a month later, Zhao Wuji arrived to recruit Qin Ming into the Zhao Family alliance, offering access to a spiritual item that could aid Core Formation.

• Fiendish Mask Old Freak’s marauders tried to flee after finding Qin Ming and his two Foundation Establishment Great Demons surrounding them, but the Silver-Winged Frost Bee killed one cultivator and the Mystic Water Crocodile struck down the rest.
• Qin Ming gathered Blood Orbs and Storage Bags from the fallen marauders, whose deaths became a warning that kept others away from Moon Gazing Island.
• Qin Ming suspected the Zhao Family had secretly aided the marauders and returned to cultivation while seeking a way to obtain high-grade Beast Essence Blood for his body-refining art.
• More than a month later, Zhao Wuji arrived at Moon Gazing Island with two attendants and invited Qin Ming to join the Zhao Family alliance.
• Zhao Wuji offered Qin Ming the status of an alliance elder and explained that members with enough contribution points could exchange for Profound Yin Earthly Fiend Elixir, which increased the chance of Core Formation by ten percent.

Qin Ming rejected Zhao Wuji’s attempts to recruit him, then focused on strengthening Moon Gazing Island and preparing its defenses. After harvesting rent from the Wu Family, he used Affixes to enhance his soul and began preparing to create a Mist Illusion Realm around the island.

• Qin Ming refused Zhao Wuji’s offers, while Zhao Wuji concealed his role in directing Fiendish Mask Old Freak’s group toward Moon Gazing Island.
• Qin Ming decided to avoid confronting Zhao Wuji and prioritized setting up the third-tier illusion realm of the Mistveil Illusion Shroom.
• Wu Jiang brought Qin Ming to inspect the Wu Family’s harvest and paid him over ten dan of Golden Spirit Rice and more than one dan of Beast Fang Rice.
• Qin Ming kept monitoring the deadlocked war between the Seventy-Two Loose Cultivator Alliance and the Zhao Family through Wu Jiang’s reports.
• Qin Ming ripened three Mistveil Illusion Shrooms, used five Soul Force Crystal Affixes, and raised his Divine Sense to Foundation Establishment Late Stage with a range of roughly ten li.
• Qin Ming prepared to use Leaf of Spacetime and Accelerated Growth Affixes to spread Mistveil Illusion Shrooms around Moon Gazing Island and form the Mist Illusion Realm.

Qin Ming completed a Mist Illusion Realm around Moon Gazing Island, creating a defense comparable to a Third-Grade illusion array. When Zhao Wuji returned with allied families, two cultivators vanished inside the mist, and Zhao Wuji barely escaped its illusion after his jade pendant shattered.

• Qin Ming used Mistveil Illusion Shrooms and affixes to spread pink mist around Moon Gazing Island, then completed the Mist Illusion Realm and added thorn traps.
• Qin Ming gave Wu Jiang a control token and warned him to keep the family away from the mist.
• Half a month later, Zhao Wuji arrived with allied spirit island families, including Mo Lingwei, and found the mist blocking the way to Moon Gazing Island.
• Two Foundation Establishment cultivators entered the mist to investigate but failed to return or answer Zhao Wuji's voice transmission.
• Zhao Wuji approached the mist, was trapped in an illusion of vengeful victims, and escaped only after his jade pendant shattered.

After Zhao Wuji fled Moon Gazing Island’s Mist Illusion Realm, rumors turned the island into a forbidden area, while Wu Jiang reassured Mirror Snow Pavilion that Qin Ming was safe. Qin Ming stayed in seclusion, harvested his supreme Spirit Rest Rice, and advanced his Foundation Establishment cultivation to the peak of the early stage.

• Zhao Wuji failed to break through Qin Ming’s Mist Illusion Realm, fled with his group, and left behind two Blood Orbs and two Storage Bags for Qin Ming to collect.
• Qin Ming fed the Blood Orbs to the Longevity Vine, and rumors spread that Moon Gazing Island’s fog could repel even Golden Core Ancestors.
• Wu Jiang reassured Gu Qingzhao and Manager Liao that Moon Gazing Island was safe and explained that Qin Ming had created the mist to protect it from the war and hostile forces.
• Qin Ming studied Tier 3 Spirit Planter inheritance and the Miao Clan’s puppet arts, then made Straw Man Puppets to help work his fields.
• Three months later, Qin Ming harvested three dan of supreme Spirit Rest Rice, two Affix leaves, and plump Rice Flower Spirit Fish.
• After eating and cultivating with the Longevity Vine, Qin Ming used five Mana Crystals to reach the peak of Foundation Establishment Early Stage and saw progress in his Ancient Wood Evergreen Body.

Qin Ming disguised himself to visit Tianhe Market District, where he heard that the Zhao Family faced an imminent assault and that the Mu Family had been annihilated. He returned to Moon Gazing Island, warned Wu Jiang to stay put, and received word from Aunt Long that the Seventy-Two Island Alliance had found a way to break Thousand Leaf Spirit Island’s final grand array.

• Qin Ming refined and swallowed a Myriad Illusion Pill, disguising himself as a dark-skinned Bearded Man before riding the Silver-Winged Frost Bee to Tianhe Market District.
• At a tavern, Qin Ming heard that the Seventy-Two Island Alliance had recruited a powerful formation master to break the Zhao Family’s final barrier, and he suspected Lin Zixiao might be involved.
• Qin Ming learned that the Mu Family of Qilian Mountain had been wiped out, including its Foundation Establishment Late Stage ancestor Mu Chongzhou, and wondered who could have killed them.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island and told Wu Jiang not to leave the island for the time being.
• Three days later, Aunt Long sent Qin Ming a message that the Seventy-Two Island Alliance had found a way to break Thousand Leaf Spirit Island’s Third-Grade Grand Array and that the final battle was about to begin.

As the Seventy-Two Island Alliance attacked Thousand Leaf Spirit Island, Qin Ming let Wu Jiang gather news and learned that the Double-Pupiled Demon Ape had disrupted the battle to avenge its offspring. Qin Ming realized he had consumed the ape’s offspring’s essence blood and resolved to stay on Moon Gazing Island until he reached the Golden Core Stage.

• Wu Jiang asked Qin Ming whether he could send cultivators to investigate the distant battle, and Qin Ming agreed while giving him defensive artifacts and talismans.
• Wu Jiang reported that the Scattered Alliance had breached Thousand Leaf Spirit Island’s array and was close to defeating the Zhao Family.
• Wu Jiang returned with news that the Double-Pupiled Demon Ape had exterminated three Foundation Establishment families, including the Mu Family, to avenge its offspring.
• Wu Jiang explained that the demon ape had killed the White-Armed Azure Ape whose essence blood Qin Ming had consumed.
• The Double-Pupiled Demon Ape attacked the coalition’s rear, forcing its forces and two Pseudo-Core Ancestors to withdraw and allowing some Zhao Family disciples to escape.

Qin Ming used affixes to revive and mature the Dragonblood Divine Tree, then consumed its fruits to greatly increase his Vital Energy True Force. After meeting the requirements for the second transformation of True Astral Transformation, he unlocked a new beast form and focused on a violet light cluster.

• Qin Ming told Wu Jiang to remain on the island until the demon ape’s attack had passed.
• Qin Ming used lifespan, Blood Qi Crystal, and adaptation affixes, then accelerated the Dragonblood Divine Tree’s growth and arranged for the spirit bees to pollinate it.
• Qin Ming matured the tree’s flowers into Dragonblood Divine Fruits and gave one fruit each to the Mystic Water Crocodile and Silver-Winged Frost Bee.
• Qin Ming ate the fruits over the following month, increasing his Vital Energy True Force until he qualified to cultivate the second transformation of True Astral Transformation.
• Qin Ming activated the Hundred Beasts Visualization Diagram, unlocked a new region, and chose the violet light cluster.