Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect, where he learned that a Jade Firmament Jujube Tree seedling had sprouted and welcomed Ding Qifeng’s extended stay. When he read the inscription on a little pagoda in High Antiquity pronunciation, it vanished in a burst of golden light.

• Li Yunjing met Zhang Hongzhi’s three new apprentices and agreed to rely on them after the veteran craftsmen finished building five structures.
• Ding Qifeng identified a seedling in the medicine field as a Jade Firmament Jujube Tree, a rare lifespan-extending spirit tree.
• Ding Qifeng asked to stay longer at the Luozhen Sect and went with Li Yunjing to pay respects at Nangong Chengyu’s grave, where they saw Wang Qianxue leaving after crying.
• Ding Qifeng went to the pill-refining room while Li Yunjing returned to his cave abode to study the little pagoda.
• Li Yunjing read the pagoda’s inscription in High Antiquity pronunciation, causing it to float, shine with golden light, and disappear.

Li Yunjing discovered three seventh-grade inheritances left by the Mist-Hidden Sect and decided to cultivate the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture. He upgraded the Luozhen Sect’s herb garden and began upgrading the Scripture Pavilion.

• Li Yunjing examined the Three Yang True Body Refinement Method, Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture, and Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book, and resolved to keep the inheritances secret.
• Li Yunjing learned that the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture’s lower section could take him to Golden Core, and planned to switch to it after upgrading five buildings.
• Li Yunjing found that the herb garden held several mature spirit medicines, including twelve-year-old Yellow Jade Grass and Spirit-Calming Flower.
• Li Yunjing used three bottles of first-grade Moonlight Grass juice and forty Low-Grade Spirit Stones to upgrade the herb garden from lv2 to lv3.
• Li Yunjing went to the Scripture Pavilion and upgraded it from lv3 to lv4.

Li Yunjing upgraded several Luozhen Sect buildings and discovered that the Alchemy Chamber could produce Pill-Pattern Spirit Liquid. When Ding Qifeng reported that the herb garden’s medicines had matured and aged overnight, Li Yunjing explained that Patriarch Fang Hexuan had manifested his power and claimed Fang had appeared in his dream.

• Li Yunjing saw the Scripture Repository’s level-five effects and decided to recruit twenty more disciples for the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Disciple Quarters and training ground, discovering that they could bless sleeping disciples and improve Law Techniques.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Alchemy Chamber and learned it could produce Pill-Pattern Spirit Liquid that gave spirit pills patterns.
• Ding Qifeng found that the herb garden’s medicines had matured overnight and gained a year of age.
• Li Yunjing told Ding Qifeng that Patriarch Fang Hexuan had entered his dream and caused the herb garden’s changes.

Li Yunjing told Ding Qifeng that the Luozhen Sect’s missing grandmaster, Fang Hexuan, had appeared in a dream and promised to support the sect, though Ding Qifeng barely believed him and chose not to pry. Li Yunjing then arranged for Mo Xuan and Shui Yao to recruit disciples, set out to finalize an agreement with the Wang Household, and took his first ride on a Green-Headed Crane.

• Li Yunjing claimed that Fang Hexuan had appeared in his dream and would support the Luozhen Sect, and Ding Qifeng warned him to keep the story secret.
• Ding Qifeng privately admitted that he believed little of Li Yunjing’s explanation but would not investigate the sect’s opportunity.
• Li Yunjing gave Mo Xuan and Shui Yao Storage Bags and assigned them to recruit new disciples.
• Li Yunjing prepared to travel to sign a contract with the Wang Household before the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance.
• Li Yunjing mounted a Green-Headed Crane and rode it into the sky.

Li Yunjing finalized the Wang Household’s contract to become a subordinate sect of the Luozhen Sect and arranged for several Wang family youths to join. Afterward, Wang Qianxue warned him about an upcoming raid on a bandit hideout and asked him to call her “Mistress,” while Li Yunjing wondered whether he might someday meet Nangong Chengyu’s reincarnation.

• Li Yunjing met Sikong Ying and the Wang Household’s representatives at the Immortal Alliance, where the three parties signed the contract making the Wang Household a subordinate sect of the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing told Wang Jue to send eight newly eligible youths, Wang Shanming, and two beast-taming youths to the Luozhen Sect.
• Wang Qianxue told Li Yunjing that the Immortal Alliance would attack the bandit cultivators the next day and warned him about their powerful Foundation Establishment fighters.
• Wang Qianxue asked Li Yunjing to call her “Mistress” and keep the matter from others; Li Yunjing agreed and left the courtyard.
• Li Yunjing reflected on his new bond with Wang Qianxue and wondered whether he could ever find Nangong Chengyu’s reincarnation.

Li Yunjing checked on his custom Law Artifact, then returned to the Luozhen Sect after preparing to join the Immortal Alliance’s bandit-clearing mission. At the sect, he bought eight spirit medicines from Lei Yang and his companions, then hurried to the medicinal herb garden with them.

• Li Yunjing visited the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion, learned his Law Artifact was still a rough blank, and met Gu Lin’s daughter, Gu Xuan.
• After Li Yunjing left, Gu Xuan told Jiang Chuan she wanted to join the Luozhen Sect and achieve Heaven-Grade Foundation Establishment.
• Li Yunjing rode a Green-Headed Crane toward the Luozhen Sect and received a warning that five people were trying to break through its mountain gate.
• Li Yunjing found Lei Yang and four companions unconscious outside the gate, revived them, and brought them into the sect.
• Lei Yang and his companions offered eight spirit medicines, and Li Yunjing agreed to buy them for three hundred and fifty Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing sent the five to Shui Yao to collect payment and hurried to the medicinal herb garden with the medicines.

Li Yunjing replanted eight spirit herbs, welcomed new members of the Wang Household into the Luozhen Sect, and went to Xunxian Town to join the Immortal Alliance’s bandit suppression. He hesitated over an alliance with the Departing Maple Sect, learned the Li Household had fled town, and secretly set off with Wang Qianxue and the others while Li Qiuchen approached an unknown group on a mountain.

• Li Yunjing replanted eight spirit herbs in the medicine garden and asked Lei Yang and the others to bring him more herbs in the future.
• Li Yunjing left Mo Xuan in charge as acting sect leader, then departed for Xunxian Town while Wang Shanming led eleven members of the Wang Household into the Luozhen Sect.
• At the Immortal Alliance, Li Yunjing told Su Zhen he needed several days to consider an alliance between the Luozhen Sect and the Departing Maple Sect.
• A Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator told Li Yunjing that the Li Household had fled Xunxian Town after rumors spread that Li Wan was near death.
• Wang Qianxue led Li Yunjing and the gathered cultivators through a hidden passage to secretly attack the Heavenly Star Bandits’ hideout northwest of town.
• Li Qiuchen climbed a nameless mountain and identified himself after hearing bird calls from the surrounding bushes.

Li Qiuchen confronted Du Man over the Heavenly Star Bandits killing his grandfather, then asked them to destroy the Luozhen Sect in exchange for a promised gift. Du Xingyu recognized the words “Flying Star” as a clue and, after hearing that sect leaders had gathered at the Immortal Alliance, dismissed Du Man’s fears.

• Li Qiuchen argued with Du Man about the death of his grandfather and said the Li Household could not supply the agreed hundred jin of Illusory Spirit Flowers until March next year.
• Li Qiuchen asked Du Man to destroy the Luozhen Sect and promised a generous gift tied to the words “Flying Star.”
• A flying sword bearing Du Xingyu’s mark arrived from a spy in Xunxian Town, and Du Man carried its letter to his father.
• Du Man relayed Li Qiuchen’s request, and Du Xingyu reacted excitedly when he heard “Flying Star.”
• Du Man read a letter reporting that major sect leaders had gathered at the Immortal Alliance, but Du Xingyu dismissed his warning and boasted about his spies.

Li Yunjing and the Immortal Alliance team ambushed bandit cultivators escaping Nameless Mountain. He fought the white-bearded old man guarding Du Man, gaining the upper hand with ten blazing flying swords.

• Du Man apologized to Du Xingyu, then left the wooden house angry and sought someone to vent his frustration on.
• Wang Qianxue assigned Li Yunjing, Su Zhen, Jiang Liuyun, and two others to guard a concealed exit from Nameless Mountain.
• Sikong Ying used his Divine Sense to incapacitate the mountain’s sentries, and the suppression operation began.
• Li Yunjing sensed approaching cultivators before the others and warned his companions to prepare an ambush.
• Six people emerged from the cave, including Du Man and five Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Li Yunjing’s group secretly chose opponents.
• Li Yunjing attacked Du Man, but the white-bearded old man blocked the strike and fought Li Yunjing; Li Yunjing summoned ten blazing flying swords to counter him.

Li Yunjing wore down and killed the white-bearded old man, then helped his allies defeat the other bandit cultivators. While searching the old man’s possessions, he found the rare second-grade Five-Colored Lotus, whose petals could raise cultivation or heal injuries and would regrow after plucking.

• Li Yunjing used Wind-Riding Escape and repeated Fire Mysterious Light attacks to exhaust the old man’s Law Power and break through his Kan Primordial Flag’s defenses.
• Li Yunjing killed the old man and joined the other four cultivators, helping them defeat all five bandit cultivators.
• Li Yunjing knocked Du Man unconscious with his Divine Sense and guarded the cave while the others restored their Law Power.
• Li Yunjing claimed the Kan Primordial Flag and the old man’s Storage Bag, then learned the flag’s water attribute clashed with his fire techniques.
• Li Yunjing found a rare second-grade Five-Colored Lotus among the old man’s possessions and recognized that its petals could boost cultivation or heal injuries and would regrow.

Li Yunjing and the others finished searching the cave and reported their capture of Du Man to Wang Qianxue, who recognized the captive as the son of a Heavenly Star Bandit chief lieutenant. As Wang Qianxue took Du Man away, he claimed he had information about a traitor in Xunxian Town and pointed to Li Yunjing.

• Li Yunjing stored the Five-Colored Lotus and traded some of the spoils offered by Su Zhen and Jiang Liuyun for Storage Bags.
• Li Yunjing and the other four left the cave after receiving Wang Qianxue's message and joined the Immortal Alliance members clearing the battlefield.
• Li Yunjing reported what happened and presented Du Man to Wang Qianxue, who identified him as Du Xingyu's son and praised the group for capturing him.
• Li Yunjing insisted that Su Zhen and the others share the credit, and Wang Qianxue agreed to recognize their contributions.
• Du Man overheard Su Zhen mention the Luozhen Sect and decided to implicate Li Qiuchen and the Li Household in revenge.
• Du Man stopped Wang Qianxue and claimed he knew of a traitor in Xunxian Town, then pointed to Li Yunjing as the person who needed to hear about it.

Du Man revealed that Li Qiuchen and the Li Household had helped the Heavenly Star Bandits grow Illusory Spirit Flowers and had plotted against Li Wan and the Luozhen Sect. Wang Qianxue promised Li Yunjing a chance to act against the guilty Li Household members, then awarded him a Three-Transformation Golden Core for his service in the bandit campaign.

• Du Man identified Li Qiuchen and the Li Household as traitors and explained their role in the Heavenly Star Bandits’ Illusory Spirit Flower operation.
• Du Man revealed that Li Qiuchen had offered the bandits a flying star to wipe out the Luozhen Sect and that the bandits had killed Li Wan before he could report them.
• Wang Qianxue promised Du Man leniency in prison and told Li Yunjing she would investigate the Li Household and let him lead the arrest of Li Qiuchen.
• The Immortal Alliance returned to Xunxian Town and distributed rewards to the cultivators who had taken part in the campaign.
• Wang Qianxue awarded Li Yunjing one Major Merit, spirit stones, and a Three-Transformation Golden Core for killing a bandit and capturing Du Man alive.

Li Yunjing received a Three-Transformation Golden Core from the Immortal Alliance for capturing Du Man and discussed recruiting rejected Hundred Artifacts Pavilion apprentices with Jiang Chuan. He returned to the lively Luozhen Sect and decided to build an Oath Hall to strengthen the loyalty of its disciples.

• The Immortal Alliance rewarded Li Yunjing with a Three-Transformation Golden Core, and cultivators gathered to congratulate him as a future Golden Core True Person.
• Jiang Chuan told Li Yunjing that nine third-year apprentices had failed the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion's assessment and needed new work.
• Li Yunjing agreed that the Luozhen Sect would take five apprentices, and Jiang Chuan promised to send the five most skilled.
• Li Yunjing decided to recruit other kinds of apprentices and build an Oath Hall to restrain disciples who might betray the sect.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect and saw Zhang Hanpeng and Lü Hong sparring as the Hu and Wang Household disciples cheered.

Li Yunjing met Shen Changfeng of the Golden Scale Sect to negotiate an exchange for the Luozhen Sect’s spirit chicken eggs. They agreed on monthly deliveries in return for basic beast-taming arts and access to carefully raised spirit pets.

• Li Yunjing left the Luozhen Sect for Xunxian Town to meet Shen Changfeng and visit Jiang Chuan about five selected apprentices.
• At the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, Luo Qiyuan introduced Li Yunjing to Shen Changfeng, then left them to speak privately.
• Shen Changfeng explained that the Luozhen Sect’s spirit chicken eggs could purify spirit pets’ bloodlines and produce fast-growing, capable chicks, so the Golden Scale Sect wanted a steady supply.
• Li Yunjing offered one hundred eggs a month, and Shen Changfeng accepted.
• Li Yunjing requested basic beast-taming Dao arts, three kinds of adult spirit birds, and discounted, carefully raised young spirit pets in exchange.

Li Yunjing reached an agreement with Shen Changfeng for the Golden Scale Sect to provide the Beast King Heart Sutra and spirit birds to the Luozhen Sect. At the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion, Gu Lin confronted Li Yunjing over his daughter’s wish to join the Luozhen Sect, then learned she had no interest in inheriting the pavilion.

• Shen Changfeng agreed to provide the Beast King Heart Sutra for Luozhen Sect members and six First-Tier Perfection spirit birds, on the condition that the technique would not be passed to outsiders.
• Li Yunjing thanked Luo Qiyuan for mediating and went to the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion, where Jiang Chuan introduced five apprentices who would join the Luozhen Sect.
• Gu Lin angrily accused Li Yunjing of persuading Gu Xuan to join the Luozhen Sect, but Jiang Chuan confirmed Li Yunjing had never asked her to do so.
• Jiang Chuan explained that Gu Xuan wanted to leave because she disliked inheriting the pavilion and had been sheltered from the outside world; Gu Lin was stunned to learn she did not want to take over his life’s work.

Gu Lin agreed to let Xiao Xuan join the Luozhen Sect and discussed making the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion its branch with Li Yunjing, who received his newly forged flying sword. When Wang Qianxue reported that the Li Household’s cultivators had been found, Li Yunjing set out for the Immortal Alliance to confront them.

• Jiang Chuan confirmed that Xiao Xuan did not want to inherit the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion, and Gu Lin recovered from his disappointment and asked Li Yunjing to accept her into the Luozhen Sect.
• Gu Lin said the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion could become a branch of the Luozhen Sect, but Li Yunjing urged him to consider the decision carefully before committing.
• Gu Lin gave Li Yunjing a crimson flying sword with twenty-four Law Restrictions and explained that it could be upgraded to a third-grade Law Artifact.
• Wang Qianxue sent Li Yunjing a message that the Li Household’s cultivators had been found.
• Li Yunjing told his five apprentices to stay in Xunxian Town and headed toward the Immortal Alliance.

Li Yunjing learned that Li Qiuchen alone had colluded with the Heavenly Star Bandits and left his punishment to the Immortal Alliance. After flying back toward the Luozhen Sect with his new sword, he arrived to find a young man arguing at the gate to join.

• Li Yunjing heard from Wang Qianxue, Huo Junrui, and Li Jie that Li Qiuchen had acted alone, then asked the Immortal Alliance to subject him to its tortures.
• Wang Qianxue suggested making the Li Household a subordinate sect of the Luozhen Sect, and Li Yunjing said its people should decide for themselves.
• Li Yunjing refused Huo Junrui and Li Jie's invitation to drink, collected his five apprentices, and left the Immortal Alliance.
• Li Yunjing refined his flying sword and used Sword Flight, delighting in the trip before returning to his apprentices and continuing to the Luozhen Sect.
• At the Luozhen Sect's gate, Li Yunjing found Zhang Hanpeng arguing with a young man who had been rejected by other sects but now wanted to join.

Li Yunjing rejected Sun Shaoyun’s request to join the Luozhen Sect again, then introduced five Hundred Artifacts Pavilion apprentices to the sect’s disciples. He began studying array formation in the Scripture Pavilion and unexpectedly created a small flame during a sudden enlightenment.

• Sun Shaoyun returned and asked Li Yunjing to let him join the Luozhen Sect, but Li Yunjing refused and told him to leave.
• Lü Hong suggested killing Sun Shaoyun, but Li Yunjing rebuked him and said they should not harm mortals.
• Li Yunjing introduced five Hundred Artifacts Pavilion apprentices to Zhang Hanpeng, Lü Hong, and Ge Shuyuan, who considered how the apprentices might help them obtain useful Law Artifacts.
• Li Yunjing went to the Scripture Pavilion to study the fundamentals of array formation.
• Li Yunjing entered sudden enlightenment, formed array patterns with his hand, and conjured a small flame.

Li Yunjing studied formation-setting in the Scripture Pavilion and, after five days, successfully formed a First-Rank Fire Movement Formation without external aids. Meanwhile, the Luozhen Sect’s disciples advanced in cultivation, and Li Yunjing prepared to deepen his formation knowledge through practical work.

• Li Yunjing quickly grasped the basics of formation-setting and set up a basic Fire Movement Formation out of thin air.
• He studied the basic and advanced material on First-Rank formations, using the Scripture Pavilion’s accelerated comprehension effect to work through difficult passages.
• While Li Yunjing remained in the Scripture Pavilion, seven Luozhen Sect disciples reached Mid-Stage Qi Refining, Wang Shanming remained at Late Qi Refining, and the Wang Household youths and Hundred Artifacts Pavilion apprentices reached Early Qi Refining.
• After five days of practice, Li Yunjing formed a First-Rank Fire Movement Formation out of thin air and celebrated his success.
• Li Yunjing recognized that he needed to combine theory with practice and master formation contents before attempting a simplified Seventy-Two Sword Killing Formation.

Li Yunjing learned that the Luozhen Sect had grown and gained three new buildings, then approved the artifact-refining apprentices’ attempt to make First-Rank Law Artifacts. He upgraded the Oath Hall to lv1, preparing it to witness the disciples’ oaths on New Year's Day.

• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that the sect had gained more cultivators and several new buildings, while the sect panel showed its prosperity had reached sixteen and its reputation had improved.
• Li Yunjing wondered why the panel still ranked the Luozhen Sect as a First-Rank Sect despite its three Foundation Establishment cultivators, but decided not to dwell on it.
• Mo Xuan asked whether the five artifact-refining apprentices could try refining First-Rank Law Artifacts, and Li Yunjing authorized them to use the sect’s resources.
• Li Yunjing inspected the new artifact-refining room, talisman room, and Oath Hall, then designated all three as upgradable buildings through the panel.
• Li Yunjing took five patriarch portraits to the Oath Hall and spent a wisp of Patriarch Incense Offering to upgrade it from lv0 to lv1.