Recaps

Lu Ming awakened a Sub-Heaven-Grade Divine Ability Bone and began cultivating while Thunderfire Hall struggled with Zhang Yue’s departure and pressure from rival halls. He won support for the hall, uncovered a knack for finding useful pills, and returned with Lu Qingyan to continue his training.

• Tudou announced his seventh novel after reflecting on his writing career and thanking readers who remembered his earlier books.
• Jiang Ling forced Lu Jin to let Zhang Yue leave Thunderfire Hall, and Lu Ming awakened a Divine Ability Bone before the Spirit-Sealing Curse threatened to consume its power.
• Lu Jin sealed the curse using the ancestors’ reserve, and Lu Ming discovered a fire lotus that gave him Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus and could refine his Divine Ability Bone.
• Lu Ming began formal cultivation, mastered Flame Blade and Lesser Thunderlight, and showed a high-grade bone’s strength during the Primordial Qi Infusion at the market offices.
• Zhou Xuan exchanged Thunderfire Hall’s reward for Bone-Tempering Pills, while Lu Jin prepared the hall for the coming gathering amid growing hostility from rival halls.
• Lu Ming used an azure Flame Blade to defeat Luo An and sever three of his fingers, preserving Thunderfire Hall’s partnership with the Qingchuan Merchant Association.
• Lu Ming found usable pills in mud balls at the Half-Pill Shop, including a half-finished Dharma Pattern Pill, then gave the recovered pills to Lu Qingyan.
• Lu Qingyan exchanged the five pills for two High-Grade Bone Refining Pills, and he and Lu Ming returned to Thunderfire Hall.

Lu Ming helped Thunderfire Hall defeat its rivals at the hall assembly, then used the Flame of Life to heal Lu Jin and pursued new cultivation opportunities. After accepting Zhou Xuan’s offer for the sake of his family’s protection, Lu Ming broke through the Divine Ability Barrier and formed three Dharma Marks, with Yuan Qi still surging into him.

• Lu Ming completed his second bone refinement, learned to cultivate Golden Plasma Fire, and left with Lu Jin, Lu Qingyan, and Lu Jinglei for the medicinal herb garden as the Rain Fog Period approached.
• During the Black Rain Fog, Lu Ming cultivated under Lu Jin’s protection, fought off gathering Rain Spawn, and used their Rain Pearls to advance his third bone refinement.
• At the hall assembly, Lu Ming defeated Gong Hu and Lü Xiao, helping Thunderfire Hall repel the Red Sand Hall and then claim the top hall seat by defeating Golden Gang Sword Hall.
• Lu Ming broke the barrier around the Flame of Life, absorbed it into his Fire Lotus Mark, and used it to begin healing Lu Jin’s hidden injuries.
• Zhou Xuan gave Lu Ming a Pattern-Transforming Lesser Yuan Pill and offered to teach him the Sun-Shining Golden Flame Banner if he reached Major Accomplishment before the Black Rain Season.
• Lu Ming agreed to pursue Zhou Xuan’s offer while his family assessed the arrangement, and Lin Changkong watched Thunderfire Hall’s growing influence while waiting for an opportunity to strike.
• Lu Ming continued training, studied alchemy with Zhou Fuling, and swallowed the Pattern-Transforming Lesser Yuan Pill when his Primordial Qi stirred.
• Lu Ming broke through the Divine Ability Barrier and formed three Divine Ability Dharma Marks, but Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi continued pouring into him.

Lu Ming used the Flame of Life to restore Thunderfire Hall’s Moon Spirit Grass supply, won the Li Clan’s contract, and gained the Golden Pupil ability at the Spirit Fish Banquet. He joined Thunderfire Hall’s caravan escort to confront the Peach Mountain Band, and the arc ended as he faced Xu Jushi in the poisonous-fog ambush.

• Lu Ming completed his fourth Divine Ability Dharma Mark, then used the Flame of Life to ripen one hundred Moon Spirit Grass plants after the Peach Mountain Band raided Thunderfire Hall’s herb garden.
• Lu Ming delivered top-grade Moon Spirit Grass to the Li Clan and secured Thunderfire Hall the contract to supply four hundred plants, while Lin Changkong vowed to keep troubling the hall.
• Lu Ming accepted Li Yan’s invitation to the Spirit Fish Banquet, where Yan Qing tried to disrupt his fishing but Lu Ming caught fifteen Golden Pupil Spirit Fish with Fire Lotus Yuan Qi.
• Lu Ming returned twelve fish to Thunderfire Hall, formed his fifth and sixth Divine Ability Dharma Marks, awakened Golden Pupil, and helped reveal that Lu Mengmeng’s divine ability bone was beginning to form.
• Lu Ming asked Zhou Xuan to keep Lin Changkong and Shi Tong from leaving Qingyuan Market, then joined the caravan escort that the Peach Mountain Band ambushed with poisonous mist.
• Lu Ming used Golden Pupil to find the restriction flags and destroyed three as Thunderfire Hall battled the band, but Fan Li sent Xu Jushi to stop him.
• Lu Ming beheaded the rat-masked attacker and fought Xu Jushi, surviving a powerful blow before advancing his Thunderfire Whip to Major Accomplishment.

Lu Ming and Lu Jin destroyed the Peach Mountain Band, uncovered Zhang Yue's plot against the Lu Clan, and brought home treasures to strengthen Thunderfire Hall. Lu Ming secured a pill for Lu Jin and gathered the most Pill Qi at Zhou Xuan's Spirit Pill Jiao as the Rain Weakening Period approached.

• Lu Ming killed Xu Jushi, dismantled the poisonous restriction, and helped Lu Jin defeat Guo Kui with healing and Golden Pupil.
• Lu Ming guided Lu Jin through the peach miasma, where Guo Kui revealed Zhang Yue's orders to destroy the Lu Clan before Lu Jin killed him.
• Lu Ming and Lu Jin recovered the Transformation Technique, Heavenly Gold Sand, and three ailing Red Jade Flat Peach Trees from the Peach Mountain Band's lair.
• Lu Ming restored the peach trees and offered Zhou Xuan peaches and Heavenly Gold Sand to refine a pill that could help Lu Jin face the coming threats.
• Lu Ming reached Minor Accomplishment in the Sun-Shining Golden Flame Banner within ten days and received a True Formation Mystic Peach Pill from Zhou Xuan.
• Lu Ming used thirteen strands of Clear Qi and his Fire Lotus Pill Furnace to gather Pill Qi while depriving Xu Xiong and Zhao Changming of their share.
• Lu Ming feigned exhaustion to leave the furnace with Zhou Fuling and received eleven strands of golden Pill Qi, which he estimated could raise his total to ten Divine Ability Dharma Marks.
• Zhou Xuan ordered the families to help plant Restriction Flags before the Rain Weakening Period, and Lu Mengmeng told Lu Ming that Zhou Fuling was calling for him at the side gate.