Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing upgraded his Spirit Field, began establishing an upgradable medicinal garden, and received news about his missing junior disciples. At Gao Jin’s shop, he found two headless corpses that seemed to be Mo Xuan and Shui Yao, then discovered something strange on the male corpse’s chest.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Field to lv2 and calculated the profits from selling his newly refined Yellow Sprout Pills.
• Li Yunjing established a medicinal garden plot and registered it as a new upgradable structure.
• Gao Jin sent Li Yunjing a flying sword message saying he had news about Li Yunjing’s junior brother and junior sister.
• Li Yunjing hurried to Gao Jin’s Worry-Relief Shop, where Gao Jin showed him eight mutilated corpses, including two headless bodies believed to be Mo Xuan and Shui Yao.
• Li Yunjing examined the male corpse and noticed something wrong with its chest.

Li Yunjing discovered that the corpses at the Worry-Relief Shop were not Mo Xuan and Shui Yao, leaving open the possibility that they were still alive. He then sold spirit eggs at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where Li Mingjie confirmed that the premium eggs could boost cultivation speed and proposed valuing them like first-grade Gathering Essence Pills.

• Li Yunjing checked the corpses for Mo Xuan's mole and Shui Yao's birthmark, confirmed they were strangers, and asked Gao Jin to continue searching for the missing pair.
• Li Yunjing went to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion to sell Yellow Sprout Pills and spirit eggs, and Duan Yang gave him twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones as thanks for a previous commission.
• Li Yunjing sold 184 ordinary spirit eggs to Duan Yang for ninety-five Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing presented five premium spirit eggs with cultivation-boosting effects, and Duan Yang asked Appraiser Li to examine them.
• Li Mingjie verified that the five premium spirit eggs increased cultivation speed and offered to buy them at the price of ordinary first-grade Gathering Essence Pills.

Li Yunjing sold spirit eggs and Yellow Sprout Pills, bought materials and medicine, then saved Mo Xuan and Shui Yao with Immortal Dew Pills. After they stabilized, he upgraded his cave abode to lv2.

• Li Yunjing sold five premium spirit eggs and his Yellow Sprout Pills to Li Mingjie for a total of 638 low-grade Spirit Stones, while asking him to keep his alchemist identity secret.
• Li Yunjing bought materials to upgrade the medicinal garden and his cave abode, along with spirit medicines and seeds, leaving himself 200 low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing found Mo Xuan and Shui Yao unconscious at the Luozhen Sect's mountain gate and carried them to Luozhen Hall.
• Li Yunjing gave Mo Xuan and Shui Yao Flesh Regeneration Pills, then used two Immortal Dew Pills after finding their pulses and Qi dangerously unstable.
• After about a quarter of an hour, Li Yunjing confirmed that both Mo Xuan and Shui Yao had stabilized and left them to recover.
• Li Yunjing upgraded his cave abode to lv2 using a small Spirit Gathering Formation diagram and fifty low-grade Spirit Stones.

Li Yunjing upgraded the medicine garden, discovered its potential to rapidly age spirit medicines, and earned an enlightenment opportunity when the Luozhen Sect reached ten buildings. After tending the garden, he helped Mo Xuan recover and learned that the Clear Wind Sect had deliberately sent cultivators into a deadly formation at a Golden Core tomb.

• Li Yunjing saw that the lv3 cave abode would double his combat power, then upgraded the medicine garden to lv1 and discovered its spirit medicines could gain a year of age every ten days.
• A notification rewarded Li Yunjing with an opportunity for enlightenment because the Luozhen Sect had ten buildings of at least lv1, leading him to plan further building upgrades.
• Li Yunjing planted spirit medicine seeds and watered them with first-grade spirit water made in his cowhide waterskin.
• Mo Xuan arrived injured, and Li Yunjing supported him into Luozhen Hall and gave him spirit water while Shui Yao remained unconscious.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that the Clear Wind Sect had concealed that the Golden Core cave abode was a tomb protected by a killing formation, using the mission-takers to gather information for breaking it.

After Mo Xuan and Shui Yao survived the Clear Wind Sect’s ambush, they returned to Li Yunjing with a Storage Bag filled with valuable treasures. Li Yunjing chose to postpone revenge while the Luozhen Sect grew stronger, and the chapter ended with him discovering a powerful sword formation diagram.

• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that the Clear Wind Sect had lured Rogue Cultivators into a trap, causing heavy casualties, and sent elite disciples after him and Shui Yao.
• Li Yunjing concluded that reporting the Clear Wind Sect would likely bring little justice, so he urged Mo Xuan to wait until the Luozhen Sect could take revenge.
• Shui Yao woke, and Mo Xuan gave Li Yunjing a Storage Bag that he and Shui Yao had found in the Golden Core cave abode.
• Li Yunjing discovered more than six hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones, twelve Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, two Foundation Establishment Pills, and a superior second-tier jade hook Law Artifact in the bag.
• Li Yunjing examined the remaining treasures, finding Crimson Flame Jade, the Fire Mysterious Light Law Technique, and an unidentified tree seed.
• Li Yunjing read the ancient characters on the formation diagram and identified it as the Seventy-Two Sword Killing Formation, which could reach the third grade.

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.