Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing bought the Myriad Treasures Pavilion from Shen Chun on behalf of the Luozhen Sect, despite the expected conflict with the Clear Wind Sect. After Li Yunjing left to arrange a loan, the Clear Wind Sect tried to outbid him, and Wan Xing threatened Shen Chun and his family when he learned the pavilion had already been sold.

• Li Yunjing revealed his identity as Luozhen Sect leader and agreed to buy the Myriad Treasures Pavilion for seventeen thousand seven hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Shen Chun warned Li Yunjing that buying the pavilion would provoke the Clear Wind Sect, and Li Yunjing promised the Luozhen Sect would take responsibility for any consequences.
• Li Yunjing checked the sect's resources, saw that it lacked enough Spirit Stones, and headed to the Immortal Pavilion to take out a loan.
• A woman at the Treasure Pavilion sent Wan Xing to secure the Myriad Treasures Pavilion for the Clear Wind Sect.
• Wan Xing offered Shen Chun sixteen thousand six hundred Spirit Stones, but Shen Chun said he had already sold the pavilion.
• Wan Xing threatened to investigate the buyer and harm Shen Chun's family if the Clear Wind Sect punished him for failing to acquire the pavilion.

Wan Xing forced Shen Chun to agree to sell the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to the Clear Wind Sect by threatening his family, while Zhong Lan resolved to cover the purchase price herself. Unaware of the coercion, Li Yunjing borrowed eighteen thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones from the Immortal Pavilion to acquire the pavilion.

• Wan Xing threatened Shen Chun's family and gave him ten breaths to decide whether to sell the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to the Clear Wind Sect.
• Shen Chun agreed to the sale to protect his family, and Wan Xing reported that Shen Chun wanted eighteen thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhong Lan accepted the price and decided to pay any amount beyond the sect's limit herself so she could secure the pavilion and advance her position.
• Li Yunjing visited the Immortal Pavilion and told Gao Qianxun he wanted to borrow Spirit Stones to acquire the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Gao Qianxun gave Li Yunjing eighteen thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stone notes on an interest-free loan repayable within ten years.

Li Yunjing invited Wang Jue to supply the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion with the Wang Household’s beast-taming products and services, agreeing that the sect would take thirty percent of their profits. After tending his spirit medicines the next morning, Li Yunjing set out for Xunxian Town to meet Shen Chun and pursue the Myriad Treasures Pavilion purchase.

• Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect and found Wang Jue delivering resources on behalf of the Wang Household.
• Li Yunjing asked Wang Jue to join the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion by offering the Wang Household’s Demon Beasts and related services, such as renting out Pack Beasts.
• Wang Jue agreed, and Li Yunjing set the Wang Household’s share at seventy percent of its profits while assigning it responsibility for its own gains and losses.
• On January 2, Li Yunjing watered the Jade Firmament Jujube Tree and other spirit medicines with spirit water enhanced by five strands of Pure Spiritual Qi.
• Li Yunjing left his cave abode to find Shen Chun in Xunxian Town and discuss buying the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

Li Yunjing learned that Shen Chun had sold the Myriad Treasures Pavilion after the Clear Wind Sect threatened Shen Chun’s family. He decided to use the threat as grounds to confront Wan Xing and asked Shen Chun to cooperate with his plan.

• Li Yunjing visited the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and found Shen Chun frightened and directing workers to move its belongings.
• Shen Chun told Li Yunjing that he had sold the pavilion the previous day, after Li Yunjing had left.
• Shen Chun revealed that Wan Xing of the Clear Wind Pavilion had visited and that the Clear Wind Sect had threatened his family.
• Li Yunjing resolved to kill Wan Xing if he made a move and to challenge the Clear Wind Sect if it held him accountable.
• Li Yunjing told Shen Chun to proceed with selling him the pavilion, keep his family in place for protection from the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance, and stay by Li Yunjing’s side.

Li Yunjing acquired the Myriad Treasures Pavilion for the Luozhen Sect and went to the Immortal Alliance in Xunxian Town to report a plan to attack Shen Chun’s family. The chapter ended with Li Jie asking him to explain the threat.

• Li Yunjing gave Shen Chun eighteen Spirit Stone notes in exchange for three hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones, then took the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s deeds and transferred them to the Luozhen Sect.
• Zhong Lan sent Wan Xing to investigate the sale, and Wan Xing discovered Shen Chun had sold the pavilion to someone else.
• Zhong Lan ordered Wan Xing to find the buyer and recover the pavilion, telling him to report back if the Luozhen Sect owned it.
• Wan Xing learned Shen Chun’s family had not moved and set out with junior brothers to target them.
• Li Yunjing went to the Immortal Alliance to report that someone planned to violate its laws and attack mortals; Li Jie asked him for details.

Li Yunjing and Li Jie captured Wan Xing and five Clear Wind Sect disciples after Sikong Ying stopped them from attacking the Shen Household. Li Yunjing asked Wan Xing to testify about the sect’s past use of Rogue Cultivators to break a Golden Core cave abode formation, but Wan Xing refused, leaving Li Yunjing to seek another chance to destroy the Clear Wind Sect.

• Li Jie gathered Sikong Ying and other cultivators to respond to reports that Wan Xing and Clear Wind Sect disciples were targeting mortals in Hundred Immortals Town.
• Sikong Ying arrived at the Shen Household first and stopped Wan Xing and five other disciples from killing its residents.
• Li Jie ordered the six Clear Wind Sect disciples arrested, and he agreed to leave Wan Xing for Li Yunjing to question.
• Li Yunjing reassured Shen Chun’s family, then visited Wan Xing in the Immortal Alliance prison and asked him to testify against the Clear Wind Sect.
• Wan Xing refused to expose his sect, and Li Yunjing told him about the Clear Wind Sect’s dealings with Mo Xuan and Shui Yao and the new grudge over the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

After Wan Xing died refusing to betray the Clear Wind Sect, Li Yunjing used soul searching to uncover its secrets and planned to gather public evidence against it. He confronted Zhong Lan at the Clear Wind Pavilion, announced the execution of six Clear Wind Sect disciples, and invited her to the opening of the Luozhen Sect’s new pavilion.

• Wan Xing asked Li Yunjing to preserve his head so he could witness the Clear Wind Sect’s destruction, but refused to testify and died during the Immortal Alliance’s torture.
• The Immortal Alliance searched Wan Xing’s soul, and Li Yunjing learned about the Golden Core cave abode, Zhong Lan, and the Clear Wind Sect’s misdeeds.
• Li Yunjing decided to seek conclusive evidence against the Clear Wind Sect while keeping the soul-searching Jade Slip secret.
• Li Yunjing confronted Zhong Lan at the Clear Wind Pavilion and announced that the Immortal Alliance had executed six Clear Wind Sect disciples for attacking mortals.
• Li Yunjing revealed that the Luozhen Sect had bought the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and invited Zhong Lan to its opening, then promoted the opening to onlookers.

Li Yunjing offered Shen Chun the position of head shopkeeper for the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion, then returned to the Luozhen Sect to meet Su Zhen. After learning that the Departing Maple Sect's new Golden Core cultivator had formed a False Core, Li Yunjing accepted an alliance with the sect.

• Zhong Lan vowed to shut down Li Yunjing's new business as soon as it opened.
• Li Yunjing offered Shen Chun the position of head shopkeeper of the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion, and Shen Chun asked for time to discuss it with his family.
• Li Yunjing obtained permission to fly within Xunxian Town and hurried back to the Luozhen Sect.
• Su Zhen invited Li Yunjing to the Departing Maple Sect's Golden Core ceremony and revealed that its founding ancestor had formed a False Core.
• Li Yunjing agreed to an alliance with the Departing Maple Sect and began discussing its terms with Su Zhen.

Li Yunjing formed an alliance between the Luozhen Sect and the Departing Maple Sect, then learned of a Fire Rosy Cloud Iron Mine they might develop together. After assigning new tasks within the sect, he advanced to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and left his cave abode to hear Mo Xuan’s report.

• Li Yunjing and Su Zhen agreed to an alliance, to be formally announced and contracted at the Golden Core ceremony.
• Su Zhen told Li Yunjing that the Departing Maple Sect had discovered a Fire Rosy Cloud Iron Mine at Flying Dragon Ravine, and invited him to join its survey.
• Li Yunjing instructed Mo Xuan to rename the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and stock it with quality goods for its opening.
• Li Yunjing asked Nangong Ye to tend the Jade Firmament Jujube Tree and the sect’s medicinal garden, then returned to cultivate.
• After three days of cultivation, Li Yunjing reached the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and estimated he could condense his core within three months.
• Li Yunjing left his cave abode, and Mo Xuan began reporting changes in the Luozhen Sect.

After three days, Li Yunjing reviewed Luozhen Sect’s new specialists and preparations for opening the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion. He ordered a demanding test for replacement craftsmen and decided the pavilion still needed a signature treasure.

• Mo Xuan reported that the sect’s disciples had made cultivation advances, its specialists had improved, and Hu An had shown talent for formations.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that Zhang Hongzhi had fallen ill from overwork and could no longer build for the sect, so Li Yunjing ordered Zhang Hongzhi’s disciple Liu Qingsong to prove his skill by building a Welcoming Immortal Pavilion.
• Mo Xuan reported that the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion was nearly ready to open and that Shen Chun had agreed to serve as its chief shopkeeper.
• Shui Yao brought Li Yunjing the pavilion’s sales list, which included artifacts, pills, Demon Beasts, meat, and specially treated spirit eggs.
• Li Yunjing reviewed the merchandise and concluded that the pavilion still lacked a signature treasure.

Li Yunjing inspected the Luozhen Sect’s new dining hall and Beast-Taming Grounds, upgraded both buildings, and learned what would be needed to improve the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion further. He accepted two unidentified Demon Beast eggs from Wang Shanming and left the story with plans to settle them somewhere safe.

• Li Yunjing told Shui Yao to prepare the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion for opening the next day, then inspected the sect’s new buildings.
• Li Yunjing registered and upgraded the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion, discovering its next upgrade required five first-rank spirit recipes and a first-rank spirit chef.
• Li Yunjing suggested that Wang Shanming begin raising meat-producing Demon Beasts such as Azure Fang Pigs at the Beast-Taming Grounds.
• Wang Shanming gave Li Yunjing two unidentified Demon Beast eggs after explaining his fears about raising unknown eggs.
• Li Yunjing registered and upgraded the Beast-Taming Grounds, which would need five sentient Demon Beasts and three beast-taming rings for its next upgrade.

Li Yunjing noticed Hu An attempting a Spirit Gathering Formation, praised his formation talent, and taught him how to set it up before heading to Xunxian Town. At the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion, he found eight barbarians arguing with the sect’s disciples over a costly purchase and invited them inside to discuss the matter.

• Li Yunjing sensed Spiritual Qi gathering and found Hu An exhausted beside four formation flags after failing to set up a Spirit Gathering Formation.
• Li Yunjing gave Hu An a Jade Slip of formation knowledge and taught him how to arrange the Spirit Gathering Formation.
• Li Yunjing flew to Xunxian Town and arrived at the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion, where Shen Chun had taken charge of its management.
• Eight barbarians disputed with the Luozhen Sect’s disciples, claiming the pavilion had promised to buy their goods and demanding eight thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing introduced himself to the eight barbarians and invited them into the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion to discuss their dispute.

Eight barbarians from Hundred Yue Mountain went to the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion to sell rare goods, frustrating Zhong Lan’s plans to work with them through the Clear Wind Pavilion. Li Yunjing welcomed their leader Pan and, seeing the valuable wares, hoped to build a lasting partnership.

• The eight barbarians entered the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion, where Li Yunjing welcomed them and had spirit tea served.
• Zhong Lan learned the barbarians had gone to Li Yunjing’s pavilion, shoved a disciple aside in anger, and worried that her trading plan had failed.
• Pan explained that the barbarians had come to sell goods, and Li Yunjing offered to buy them.
• The barbarians unpacked rare items, including Earth Spirit Fruit, Cold Iron, Fallen Star Gold, and a Demon Core.
• Li Yunjing recognized the goods’ value and looked eagerly at Pan, hoping to establish a long-term partnership.

Li Yunjing sought a speaker of the barbarian tongue to negotiate with Pan and the other barbarians, finding Liu Yiyi through Know-It-All. Liu Yiyi joined him at the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion and began translating as the group resumed their discussion.

• Li Yunjing offered Pan’s group eight thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones for their goods and sought help when they struggled to communicate.
• Li Yunjing visited the Immortal Alliance, where Sikong Ying gave him a Jade Slip identifying Liu Yiyi as a cultivator who spoke the barbarian tongue.
• Li Yunjing found Liu Yiyi at her home in Longevity Lane and persuaded her to come interpret for the barbarians.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion with Liu Yiyi, where she translated his words for Pan and his companions.
• Pan and the other barbarians celebrated that Liu Yiyi could speak their language and said they wanted to obtain more spirit rice and other goods.

Li Yunjing negotiated with Pan’s tribe to trade spirit rice, spirit pills, and Law Artifacts for their spiritual treasures, then offered extra rice in exchange for a long-term partnership. Pan accepted and honored Li Yunjing with his tribe’s highest courtesy, and Li Yunjing promised to keep his word.

• Li Yunjing offered to trade for Pan’s spiritual treasures, and Pan said through Liu Yiyi that his tribe needed spirit rice, spirit pills, and Law Artifacts more than Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing offered five thousand jin of Golden Jade Rice, but Pan explained that his tribe’s poor harvest and large population meant they needed more.
• Li Yunjing explained the value of the rice and the tribe’s need for both food and supplies, then offered another three thousand jin in exchange for a long-term partnership with the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion.
• Pan and the seven other barbarians accepted Li Yunjing’s proposal and honored him with their tribe’s highest courtesy.
• Liu Yiyi explained the barbarians’ gratitude and friendship, and Li Yunjing solemnly promised Pan that he would keep his word.

Li Yunjing finalized a trade with Pan’s barbarians and arranged to obtain spirit rice, pills, and Law Artifacts for them. He secured eight thousand jin of Golden Jade Rice from Jin Wuxu with delayed payment, while Zhong Lan worried that Li Yunjing would succeed where she had failed.

• Li Yunjing and Pan formally established cooperation, agreeing on the barbarians’ needs for healing pills and varied Law Artifacts, especially defensive ones.
• Li Yunjing sent Shui Yao to fetch spirit pills and Shen Chun to obtain Law Artifacts, then went to the Golden Millet Pavilion to request spirit rice.
• Zhong Lan watched Li Yunjing leave and feared he would reach an agreement with the barbarians, recalling the Clear Wind Sect’s reprimand after Wan Xing’s actions and execution.
• Li Yunjing asked Jin Wuxu for eight thousand jin of Golden Jade Rice and explained that payment in Spirit Stones would be delayed; Jin Wuxu agreed to wait.
• Li Yunjing collected the rice, invited Jin Wuxu to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, and left; Jin Wuxu told Jin Qin that he had his own plan for dealing with the He Household and would personally teach him.

Li Yunjing bought the barbarians’ goods after Pan mistakenly took the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion for the Clear Wind Pavilion, then earned Pan’s friendship and saw his group safely out of town. Zhong Lan failed to intercept them, while Li Yunjing prepared the Pavilion’s opening and offered Liu Yiyi a job.

• Li Yunjing inspected the goods Pan and the barbarians brought, paid them, and learned Pan planned to return to the Clear Wind Pavilion.
• Pan explained that he had mistaken the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion for the Clear Wind Pavilion, and Li Yunjing learned the barbarians had come to town seeking business with the latter.
• Li Yunjing escorted Pan and the barbarians out of Xunxian Town, but Zhong Lan caught up with them and tried to recruit them for the Clear Wind Pavilion.
• Pan intimidated Zhong Lan and left with his group, leaving her devastated and furious at Li Yunjing.
• Shen Chun estimated the spirit treasures would sell for at least twelve thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and Li Yunjing asked him to oversee the Pavilion’s opening.
• Li Yunjing praised Liu Yiyi and invited her to discuss her pay and a possible job.

Li Yunjing hired Liu Yiyi as the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion’s second shopkeeper, then learned that Luo Qiyuan was leaving Xunxian Town for a promotion in Scarlet Dragon City. After arranging a farewell dinner and gathering building-upgrade materials, Li returned to the Luozhen Sect and began upgrading its buildings.

• Li Yunjing offered Liu Yiyi fifty Low-Grade Spirit Stones for interpreting and hired her on a five-year contract as the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion’s second shopkeeper for three hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones a month.
• Li Yunjing introduced Liu Yiyi to Shen Chun, who welcomed her and agreed to teach her how to run the business.
• Li Yunjing saw Zhong Lan enter the Clear Wind Pavilion looking despondent, then visited Luo Qiyuan and invited him to dinner at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
• Luo Qiyuan told Li Yunjing that he was leaving to become the Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s third shopkeeper in Scarlet Dragon City and that Ming Jie would take over his current position.
• Li Yunjing invited friends to dinner, collected building-upgrade materials using his VIP card, returned to the Luozhen Sect, and began upgrading the Alchemy Chamber.

Li Yunjing gave Ding Qifeng the Jade Flame Furnace and upgraded the Alchemy Chamber and Scripture Repository, revealing new spiritual effects and future requirements. He then visited Nangong Ye in the medicine garden, where she showed him an unusual orange-red spirit medicine growing among the White Jade Flowers.

• Ding Qifeng received the Jade Flame Furnace from Li Yunjing and prepared to use it for pill refining.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Alchemy Chamber to lv5 and discovered that its next upgrade could generate a first-grade Pill Formula when a third-grade Alchemist was stationed there.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Scripture Repository to lv6 and saw that its next level would unlock first-grade Dao art creation, but the requirements remained unmet.
• Li Yunjing visited Nangong Ye in the medicine garden and praised her for improving the spirit medicines, which now supplied the sect with first-grade ingredients.
• Nangong Ye led Li Yunjing to an orange-red spirit medicine growing among the White Jade Flowers and asked him what had happened to it.

Li Yunjing discovered several mutating spirit medicines, upgraded the medicine garden, and equipped Nangong Ye as its spirit medicine essence, greatly enhancing the garden’s effects. He then went to upgrade the Disciple Quarters, but learned it still required more Warm Sun Spirit Bamboo and at least fifty disciples.

• Li Yunjing found a mutated White Jade Flower and instructed Nangong Ye to tend it and report future mutations.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the medicine garden to lv5, expanding it and improving its spiritual effects.
• Li Yunjing equipped Nangong Ye and discovered she was a sentient Nine-Curved Spirit Ginseng that had grown for nine thousand years.
• Equipping Nangong Ye strengthened the medicine garden’s effects and added the ability for Medicine Spirits to be born there.
• Li Yunjing attempted to upgrade the Disciple Quarters, but its requirements included fifty second-grade Warm Sun Spirit Bamboo and at least fifty disciples.