Recaps

Li Yunjing learned about the Seventy-Two Sword Killing Formation, welcomed Mo Xuan and Shui Yao back to the Luozhen Sect, and began comprehending the Fire Mysterious Light. The next morning, he found their injuries stable and discovered twelve eggs, including a purple high-quality spirit egg, at the Poultry Coop.

• Li Yunjing learned that the Seventy-Two Sword Killing Formation could protect the Luozhen Sect, though the sect lacked the magic swords needed to build one.
• Mo Xuan and Shui Yao asked to return to the Luozhen Sect, and Li Yunjing welcomed them as elders; the sect's prosperity increased to four.
• Li Yunjing recorded the Fire Mysterious Light at the Scripture Repository and comprehended a third of the second-rank Law Technique in one day.
• Li Yunjing checked on Mo Xuan and Shui Yao, found their injuries stable, and decided to investigate the origin of the tree seed before planting it.
• The next morning, Li Yunjing saw Mo Xuan and Shui Yao cultivating the Purple Qi Body-Cleansing Method, then found twelve eggs and a purple high-quality spirit egg in the Poultry Coop.

Li Yunjing fed the sect’s spirit chickens and Green-Headed Cranes, then shared their unusually delicious eggs with Mo Xuan and Shui Yao. Zhang Hanpeng returned with five prospective recruits, including three children, a middle-aged cultivator, and a seventy-year-old man, and Li Yunjing began questioning whether they understood the Luozhen Sect’s situation.

• Li Yunjing fed the spirit chickens and Green-Headed Cranes, then told Mo Xuan and Shui Yao that the improved cultivation room and other changes came from the patriarch’s divine power.
• Li Yunjing served Mo Xuan and Shui Yao spirit chicken eggs, and they were astonished by their rich flavor.
• Li Yunjing sensed that someone had entered Serene Valley, but learned from Zhang Hanpeng that five people had come hoping to join the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing saw that the recruits included three children, an Early Qi Refining middle-aged man, and a hunched old man, and worried that the two older candidates were past the age for cultivation.
• Li Yunjing asked the five recruits whether they wanted to join the Luozhen Sect and then asked if they knew its current situation.

Li Yunjing recruited four newcomers to the struggling Luozhen Sect after explaining its circumstances, then led them through the joining ceremony and began testing their Root Bones. Hu Ruizhu’s Root Bone Ruler reading was still rising past first grade when the chapter ended.

• Li Yunjing brought five strangers to the Luozhen Sect and explained that it had fallen on hard times, allowing anyone to leave or join without a talent requirement.
• The young boy chose not to join and left Serene Valley, while Ge Shuyuan, Lü Hong, Hu Ruizhu, and Hu Ruiyang agreed to join.
• Li Yunjing learned the recruits’ backgrounds and led them to the Patriarch Hall, where Mo Xuan and Shui Yao sensed that offering incense had sharpened their perception and absorption of Spiritual Qi.
• Li Yunjing welcomed Hu Ruizhu, Hu Ruiyang, Lü Hong, and Ge Shuyuan as outer disciples, and a notification reported that the sect’s prosperity had increased by two.
• Li Yunjing brought out the Root Bone Ruler and began testing Hu Ruizhu, whose column of light rose past the first-grade mark.

Li Yunjing tested the four new recruits, rewarded Zhang Hanpeng, and assigned Mo Xuan and Shui Yao to help manage the sect. After ten days of focused cultivation, Li Yunjing decided to use his sudden-enlightenment opportunity to overcome his slow progress toward Foundation Establishment, then reviewed the sect’s proposed Minor Merit exchange list.

• Hu Ruizhu tested close to fifth-grade Root Bone, Hu Ruiyang reached fourth grade, Lü Hong had ordinary second-grade talent, and Ge Shuyuan tested just below second grade.
• Li Yunjing gave Zhang Hanpeng twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones and ordered Mo Xuan to award him three Minor Merits; Shui Yao offered to help Mo Xuan handle the task.
• Mo Xuan asked why his Spiritual Qi absorption had improved after offering incense, and Li Yunjing said the patriarch’s spirit had manifested.
• After ten days of cultivation, Li Yunjing found that his Law Power filled half his Dantian and decided to use his sudden-enlightenment opportunity to reach Foundation Establishment before September fifteenth.
• Mo Xuan handed Li Yunjing a proposed Minor Merit exchange list, which included spirit rice and Yellow Sprout Pills.

Li Yunjing approved the Luozhen Sect’s merit exchange system, arranged for new buildings, and prepared to attempt Foundation Establishment in seclusion. After refining pills for the sect, he used an enlightenment opportunity, but his consciousness began to fade before he could make full use of it.

• Li Yunjing approved Mo Xuan and Shui Yao’s exchange system and asked Mo Xuan to add tasks for constructing new sect buildings.
• Li Yunjing told Mo Xuan and Shui Yao he would enter seclusion to attempt Foundation Establishment and urged them to remain in Serene Valley.
• Li Yunjing spent a day and night refining pills, producing thirty-two Yellow Sprout Pills and twelve Flesh Regeneration Pills, including fine-grade batches.
• Li Yunjing gave the pills to Shui Yao and said he planned to enter seclusion that night.
• Li Yunjing used an enlightenment opportunity in his cave abode, entered his sea of consciousness, and began understanding difficult problems as his consciousness grew hazy.

While Li Yunjing remained in seclusion attempting Foundation Establishment, Mo Xuan and Shui Yao confronted Li Qiuchen’s cultivators, who surveyed Serene Valley for the Li Household. Li Qiuchen promised to help the Luozhen Sect leave safely after the Immortal Alliance revoked its claim, but the valley’s future remained uncertain.

• Mo Xuan and Shui Yao learned that five Li Household cultivators had entered Serene Valley, and went to meet them with Lü Hong and the other disciples.
• Li Qiuchen said the Li Household had arranged to take over Serene Valley after the Immortal Alliance deacon arrived in four days, and offered the Luozhen Sect a choice between joining the household as Attendants or leaving safely.
• Mo Xuan and Shui Yao allowed the Li Household cultivators to survey only the area near the valley entrance.
• Li Household elders dug up soil and found that it contained spiritual power suitable for cultivation, with richer soil apparently lying deeper in the valley.
• Li Qiuchen honored his agreement not to go farther into the valley and promised that the Li Household would help the Luozhen Sect leave safely on September 15.

As the Luozhen Sect faced the deadline to retain its Immortal Alliance membership, Li Yunjing successfully reached Foundation Establishment Early Stage in seclusion. He remained in his cave abode to master Fire Mysterious Light and discovered that his breakthrough had increased the sect’s prosperity.

• After Li Qiuchen and the Li Household elders left, Mo Xuan reassured the disciples and continued preparing for Foundation Establishment with Shui Yao.
• Jin Wuxu visited the Luozhen Sect, offered Li Yunjing the Golden Millet Pavilion’s second shopkeeper position, and left after learning he was in seclusion.
• Wang Qianxue secretly inspected the Luozhen Sect and planned to take Li Yunjing back to the Immortal Alliance if the sect lost its membership.
• As the deadline approached, Zhang Hanpeng, Hu Ruizhu, Hu Ruiyang, Lü Hong, and Ge Shuyuan worried they would have to leave the sect.
• Li Yunjing reached Foundation Establishment Early Stage and used his epiphany to cultivate Fire Mysterious Light to minor mastery.
• Li Yunjing checked the sect panel, saw prosperity rise to eight, and considered upgrading his cave abode to level three.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Peak Master's Cave Abode and continued cultivating to consolidate his breakthrough. When the Immortal Alliance arrived to revoke the Luozhen Sect’s status, he emerged and announced that he had reached Foundation Establishment.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the Peak Master's Cave Abode to lv3 and saw that lv4 would produce Earth Vein Spirit Milk, but chose to keep cultivating before pursuing the upgrade.
• On September fifteenth, Mo Xuan led the Luozhen Sect members in prayers for Li Yunjing’s breakthrough.
• Wang Qianxue, Huo Junrui, Li Qiuchen, and two other cultivators arrived to assess the Luozhen Sect, and Mo Xuan admitted that Li Yunjing was still at Qi Refining Completion.
• Huo Junrui urged Wang Qianxue to revoke the Luozhen Sect’s status so the Li Household could claim Serene Valley.
• As Wang Qianxue began announcing the revocation, Li Yunjing called out that he had successfully reached Foundation Establishment and appeared before the gathered cultivators.

After Li Yunjing reached Foundation Establishment, the Immortal Alliance confirmed Luozhen Sect could keep its membership, and the Li Household withdrew after its scheme for Serene Valley failed. Li Yunjing decided to use a joint Foundation Establishment banquet to strengthen the sect’s relationships and planned to help Mo Xuan and Shui Yao break through.

• Wang Qianxue gave Li Yunjing an Immortal Alliance Member Token, and Huo Junrui apologized and gave him Spirit Stone notes before the deacons departed.
• The Li Household Patriarch congratulated Li Yunjing, promised to apologize later, and left with Li Qiuchen; Li Yunjing declined to punish them because he wanted to avoid making an enemy.
• Mo Xuan and the others congratulated Li Yunjing, who rewarded the two elders with fifty Low-Grade Spirit Stones each and the five disciples with thirty each.
• Mo Xuan and Shui Yao updated Li Yunjing on the sect’s progress, including two new structures and the spirit chicken eggs produced by the Poultry Coop.
• Shui Yao suggested a Foundation Establishment banquet, and Li Yunjing proposed waiting until she and Mo Xuan could join him after reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Li Yunjing sent Mo Xuan and Shui Yao to cultivate, then checked the cultivation room’s upgrade requirements and planned to raise it to lv2.

Li Yunjing inspected the Luozhen Sect’s new buildings, collected stored spiritual resources, and traveled to Xunxian Town using his newly learned Wind-Riding Escape. At the Golden Millet Pavilion, he revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation to Jin Wuxu, who acknowledged that his earlier recruitment offer had been presumptuous.

• Li Yunjing inspected the martial arts field and disciple residences, learning their upgrade effects and requirements.
• Li Yunjing collected two months’ worth of Pure Spiritual Qi and Patriarch Incense Offering, bringing his stored totals to sixty-three and five wisps respectively.
• Li Yunjing left for Xunxian Town and used Wind-Riding Escape to arrive in about half an hour.
• He Yan recognized Li Yunjing’s Foundation Establishment cultivation at the Golden Millet Pavilion and went to inform Jin Wuxu.
• Jin Wuxu met Li Yunjing and congratulated him, admitting that his offer to recruit him as the pavilion’s second manager had been a joke.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Li Yunjing arranged discounted monthly rice deliveries for the Luozhen Sect and visited the Treasure Gathering Pavilion. He met its founder, Luo Qiyuan, who treated him as a peer, leaving Li Yunjing wary of the powerful senior’s intentions.

• Li Yunjing asked Jin Wuxu to deliver thirty jin of Blood Fang Rice and one hundred and fifty jin of Golden Jade Rice to the Luozhen Sect each month.
• Jin Wuxu offered the rice at a steep loss as an investment in Li Yunjing’s future, and Li Yunjing agreed to remember the favor.
• Jin Wuxu let the Luozhen Sect put the monthly rice bill on credit so it could use its Spirit Stones for reconstruction.
• At the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, Duan Yang welcomed Li Yunjing with second-tier Mind-Calming Tea after sensing his Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Luo Qiyuan, the Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s head shopkeeper and founder, met Li Yunjing in person and addressed him as Sect Leader Li.

Li Yunjing bought materials and Cultivation Methods at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion to upgrade the Luozhen Sect, receiving a discount and a Storage Bag from Luo Qiyuan. After returning to the sect, he upgraded the mountain gate to lv3 and inspected the effects required for its next level.

• Luo Qiyuan offered Li Yunjing a thirty-percent discount, and Li Yunjing ordered materials and twenty first-grade Cultivation Methods suited to the sect’s five disciples.
• Li Yunjing paid for the purchases with Spirit Stones and four premium spiritual chicken eggs, and the Treasure Gathering Pavilion gave him a Storage Bag.
• Li Yunjing exchanged ten Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for Low-Grade Spirit Stones at the Immortal Pavilion, then used Wind-Riding Escape to return to the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing spent the required materials and 100 Low-Grade Spirit Stones to upgrade the mountain gate to lv3.
• Li Yunjing checked the mountain gate’s next-level effects, which included a stronger warning range, soul-intimidation, and protection working with the sect-protecting grand formation.

Li Yunjing upgraded several Luozhen Sect buildings and began planning to train skilled disciples in useful crafts. After Lü Hong revealed his talent for drawing talismans, Li Yunjing approved a talisman chamber and ordered him to help identify other disciples’ talents.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the training ground after returning to the sect and saw Lü Hong instructing the other four disciples.
• Lü Hong told Li Yunjing he could draw mid-grade, first-rank spirit talismans and asked to build a talisman chamber, which Li Yunjing approved.
• Li Yunjing asked Lü Hong to teach the other disciples talisman drawing and have them explore pill refining, artifact crafting, and other skills.
• Li Yunjing considered the sect’s need for skilled practitioners and decided he would recruit more people.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Sect Grand Hall to lv4, unlocking a sect-protecting formation and a yearly sudden-enlightenment effect for one sect member.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the spirit field, alchemy chamber, Scripture Repository, cultivation chamber, medicine garden, and disciple quarters.

Li Yunjing considered upgrading the Luozhen Sect’s cultivation room, but a visit from Li Wan and the Li Household interrupted him. Li Wan apologized and offered gifts, then introduced Wang Shanming, who asked the Luozhen Sect to help the Wang Household on Seven Ingenuities Mountain in exchange for acknowledging it as their superior sect.

• Li Yunjing decided that upgrading the cultivation room to level three was important because its empowerment could raise cultivation without side effects.
• Li Wan arrived at the Luozhen Sect with Li Qiuchen and Wang Shanming, and Li Yunjing welcomed them into Luozhen Hall.
• Li Wan and Li Qiuchen apologized for the Li Household’s past offense, and Li Yunjing accepted the apology.
• Li Wan offered two rosewood chests, but Li Yunjing declined them until Li Wan added a rare yin-yang primordial magnet stone, which Li Yunjing accepted.
• Li Wan introduced Wang Shanming as the Wang Household’s eldest young master and explained that the Wang Household was being pushed out on Seven Ingenuities Mountain.
• Li Wan asked the Luozhen Sect to help the Wang Household, offering to have it acknowledge the Luozhen Sect as its superior sect in return.

Li Yunjing considered making the Wang Household a subordinate of the Luozhen Sect and sent Lü Hong to investigate Seven Ingenuities Mountain before deciding. He also examined Li Wan’s generous apology gifts and grew suspicious of the three thousand Spirit Stones.

• Wang Shanming explained that the Wang Household sought the Luozhen Sect’s protection after other Seven Ingenuities Mountain households tried to force it to share its beast-taming cultivation method or leave.
• Li Yunjing said the Luozhen Sect might accept the Wang Household as a subordinate, but he would investigate its claims first.
• Li Yunjing ordered Lü Hong to escort Wang Shanming home and secretly investigate the seven households on Seven Ingenuities Mountain.
• Li Yunjing inspected Li Wan’s gifts, set aside the Yin-Yang Primordial Magnet Stone for a future custom Law Artifact, and left the Spirit Stones and spirit materials untouched because the apology seemed unusually generous.
• Li Qiuchen questioned Li Wan about the gifts, and Li Wan warned that the Li Household could not afford to offend Li Yunjing, whose power and Immortal Alliance backing would make him increasingly influential.

Three months after Li Qiuchen vowed to seize Serene Valley, Li Yunjing advanced his cultivation and managed the Luozhen Sect as its resources and defenses grew. The sect’s prosperity remained stuck at nine, and its next major upgrades still depended on meeting further requirements.

• Li Wan rebuked Li Qiuchen for giving Li Yunjing spirit items and insulted him by comparing him to his dead brother, Li Mu; Li Qiuchen vowed to make the Li Household prosper and take Serene Valley.
• Li Yunjing reached the third level of the Greater Yin and Greater Yang True Fire Scripture and neared a breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Li Yunjing collected Pure Spiritual Qi and Patriarch Incense Offering, but found that Luozhen Sect’s prosperity had stalled at nine.
• Li Yunjing gathered spirit chicken eggs and Condensed Spring Dew, while the Poultry Coop’s thirteen new chicks continued growing.
• Li Yunjing reviewed the cultivation room and mountain gate upgrades, which had strengthened the sect but left further improvements dependent on new requirements.

Li Yunjing considered upgrading the Luozhen Sect’s mountain gate to improve its Spiritual Qi, then heard Lü Hong’s report about growing chaos on Seven Ingenuities Mountain. He concluded that the six small lineages there posed little threat, leaving him confident about protecting the Wang Household.

• Li Yunjing decided to arrange construction of a Spirit Vein Pavilion and other buildings after Zhang Hongzhi finished his project.
• Zhang Hanpeng told Li Yunjing that Lü Hong had returned, and Li Yun-jing brought Lü Hong to Luozhen Hall to hear his report.
• Hu Ruizhu and Hu Ruiyang asked to travel outside the sect, and Zhang Hanpeng promised to speak to the Sect Master if they reached Mid-Stage Qi Refining.
• Lü Hong reported that rogue cultivators had gone missing on Seven Ingenuities Mountain, sparking clashes with small lineages and nearly costing the Zhao Household’s eldest young master his life.
• Li Yunjing learned that the six small lineages were weakened by a fading Spirit Vein and had no promising young members, so he judged them no threat to protecting the Wang Household.

Lü Hong reported that several Seven Ingenuities Mountain lineages were secretly growing Illusory Spirit Flowers and might be connected to bandit cultivators, prompting Li Yunjing to plan a report to the Immortal Alliance and consider how to protect the Wang Household. Mo Xuan and Shui Yao reached Foundation Establishment, and the sect’s prosperity increased as Li Yunjing planned a banquet.

• Lü Hong told Li Yunjing that the Zhao, Lu, and Tian Households were growing Illusory Spirit Flowers, while other lineages might follow suit and the Wang Household’s involvement was uncertain.
• Lü Hong reported leads suggesting bandit cultivators had instructed the Seven Ingenuities Mountain lineages to grow the flowers, and Li Yunjing decided to report the matter to the Immortal Alliance Xunxian Town Branch.
• Li Yunjing rewarded Lü Hong with Minor Merits, spirit stones, spirit chicken eggs, and Crimson Cloud Iron, then resolved to protect the Wang Household if it had stayed out of the flower trade.
• Li Yunjing sensed a spiritual Qi vortex above the cultivation rooms and guarded Mo Xuan and Shui Yao as they reached Foundation Establishment.
• Li Yunjing, Mo Xuan, and Shui Yao agreed to hold a Foundation Establishment banquet on the ninth day of the twelfth month, and a notification announced that the sect’s prosperity had increased by three.

Li Yunjing prepared for the Luozhen Sect’s Foundation Establishment banquet and upgraded several sect buildings, gaining new spiritual effects. After activating the sect-protecting formation, he decided to learn formation-building himself so he could safely deploy the Seventy-Two Sword Killing Formation.

• Li Yunjing assigned Mo Xuan, Shui Yao, and the five disciples to prepare banquet supplies while he planned to invite the Immortal Alliance, allied sects, and friendly factions.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the cultivation room to level four, adding a chance to temporarily increase comprehension during empowerment.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Patriarch Hall to level three, giving worship a chance to produce a first-rank spiritual object.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Poultry Coop to level four, which would eventually allow it to drop golden fertilizer and other materials.
• Li Yunjing activated the Sect Grand Hall’s protective formation around Serene Valley and considered adding the Seventy-Two Sword Killing Formation.
• Li Yunjing decided to learn formation-building himself because he did not trust outsiders with the formation diagram.

Li Yunjing visited Xunxian Town to report suspected bandit cultivators on Seven Ingenuities Mountain and invite allies to the Luozhen Sect’s Foundation Establishment Banquet. Wang Qianxue revealed her past with Li Yunjing’s late master, and Li Yunjing ended the chapter meeting Jiang Chuan to commission a second-tier Spirit Artifact.

• Li Yunjing invited Su Zhen to the Luozhen Sect’s Foundation Establishment Banquet after telling him that two more members of the sect had reached Foundation Establishment.
• Li Yunjing told Wang Qianxue that disciples had found suspected bandit cultivators growing forbidden Illusory Spirit Flowers on Seven Ingenuities Mountain, and Wang Qianxue promised to investigate and alert him if the lineages were involved.
• Li Yunjing invited Wang Qianxue to the banquet, and she revealed that she and Nangong Chengyu had once nearly become dao companions before his dangerous search for a millennial vermilion fruit ended their relationship.
• Li Yunjing invited Jin Wuxu, Li Mingjie, and other acquaintances in Xunxian Town to the banquet, then went to the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion to find Jiang Chuan and commission a second-tier Spirit Artifact.
• Jiang Chuan welcomed Li Yunjing and asked what cultivation realm he had reached.

Li Yunjing visited Jiang Chuan to have a Yin-Yang Primordial Magnet Stone checked and commissioned a second-grade magic sword. He invited Jiang Chuan and Gu Lin to the Luozhen Sect’s Foundation Establishment banquet and proposed that the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion become a branch of the sect, leaving Gu Lin curious and Li Yunjing determined to pursue the idea.

• Li Yunjing revealed that he had reached Foundation Establishment, then asked Jiang Chuan to inspect the Yin-Yang Primordial Magnet Stone; Jiang Chuan found nothing wrong with it.
• Li Yunjing commissioned Jiang Chuan to forge a fire-aligned second-grade magic sword for three hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing told Jiang Chuan that he, Mo Xuan, and Shui Yao would celebrate their Foundation Establishment breakthroughs at a Luozhen Sect banquet on December ninth, then encouraged Jiang Chuan to join the sect.
• Li Yunjing proposed that Jiang Chuan bring the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion into the Luozhen Sect as a branch, but Jiang Chuan warned him that his master might hear.
• Gu Lin entered, heard Li Yunjing’s proposal, and asked what benefits the Luozhen Sect could offer; Li Yunjing invited him to the banquet and said time would prove the value of joining.
• Li Yunjing left the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion determined to eventually add the Luozhen Sect’s name to its sign.

Li Yunjing invited several sects to the Luozhen Sect’s Foundation Establishment banquet, then set out to invite the alchemist Ding Qifeng. On the way, he rescued Departing Maple Sect disciples from bandit cultivators and summoned the Immortal Alliance; its reinforcements arrived, led by Huo Junrui.

• Li Yunjing told Zhang Yuan to invite Zhang Hongzhi to the Luozhen Sect’s Foundation Establishment banquet, then invited four sects, which all agreed to attend.
• Li Yunjing remembered Ding Qifeng, a second-grade alchemist and friend of Nangong Chengyu, and headed toward his location to invite him.
• Li Yunjing discovered Qi Refining cultivators fighting and used his Foundation Establishment Divine Sense and arcane light to capture the bandits and save the Departing Maple Sect disciples.
• Xu Taihong identified the bandits as cultivators from Purple Bamboo Pool, but Li Yunjing could not get useful answers from them.
• Li Yunjing contacted the Immortal Alliance through his token and waited with Xu Taihong and the other disciples for help.
• A flying ship arrived, and Huo Junrui emerged before Li Yunjing.

Li Yunjing visited Ding Qifeng at Pill Furnace Mountain to invite him to the Luozhen Sect’s joint Foundation Establishment banquet and received guidance on alchemy. After Ding agreed to attend, Li Yunjing asked him to join the sect as its chief alchemist.

• Li Yunjing handed bandit cultivators from Purple Bamboo Pool over to Huo Junrui, who also promised to report the Departing Maple Sect disciples’ bravery.
• Li Yunjing reached Pill Furnace Mountain and was admitted to Ding Qifeng’s courtyard.
• Li Yunjing invited Ding Qifeng to the banquet celebrating his and his junior siblings’ Foundation Establishment; Ding learned Li Yunjing had achieved Heaven Grade Foundation Establishment.
• Ding Qifeng accepted the invitation and answered Li Yunjing’s questions about alchemy.
• Li Yunjing invited Ding Qifeng to join the Luozhen Sect as its chief alchemist.

Li Yunjing asked Ding Qifeng to join the Luozhen Sect, and Ding agreed if the sect could supply the rare spirit medicines he needed for pill refining. Li Yunjing bought ingredients for Jade Lingzhi Pills at Pill Furnace Mountain and returned to find Mo Xuan and the disciples making dinner.

• Li Yunjing asked Ding Qifeng to join the Luozhen Sect, and Ding agreed on the condition that the sect could meet his pill-refining needs.
• Li Yunjing searched the Pill Furnace Mountain market for spirit medicines to cultivate and use in pill refining.
• Li Yunjing bought a Golden Yang Lingzhi and an Azure Flame Flower from Lei Yang for seventy-five Low-Grade Spirit Stones, then invited him to bring future finds to the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect and found Mo Xuan cooking dinner with Zhang Hanpeng and the other four disciples.

Li Yunjing learned that the Wang Household was threatened by the Zhao Household and the Heavenly Star Bandits, then agreed to intervene after Wang Shanming revealed the Wang Household had severed ties with the bandits. He sent Mo Xuan to assist the Wang Household and began preparing to refine Jade Lingzhi Pills.

• Li Yunjing studied the Jade Lingzhi Pill Formula and planned to refine pills using Golden Yang Lingzhi, Azure Flame Flower, and Moon Flow Radiance.
• Wang Shanming arrived at the Luozhen Sect and begged Li Yunjing to protect the Wang Household from the Zhao Household.
• Li Yunjing confronted Wang Shanming about the Zhao Household planting Illusory Spirit Flowers and discovered the Wang Household had expelled members who secretly planted them.
• Wang Shanming revealed the Heavenly Star Bandits had pressured the local lineages and planned to help the Zhao Household attack the Wang Household that night.
• Li Yunjing agreed to intervene and sent Mo Xuan and Wang Shanming to Xunxian Town to seek assistance through the Immortal Alliance.
• Li Yunjing retrieved Moon Flow Radiance from the Patriarch Hall and activated the Alchemy Chamber to begin refining pills.