Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing upgraded the Artifact Refining Room and Talisman Room, then opened the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion in Xunxian Town. He went to invite Zhong Lan from the rival Clear Wind Pavilion, but a young man told him Zhong Lan was unwell and asked him to leave.

• Li Yunjing learned that accumulated comprehension points could eventually improve a disciple's comprehension talent and considered how the Disciple Quarters' effects applied to the elders.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Artifact Refining Room and Talisman Room to lv2 and reviewed their lv3 effects and upgrade requirements.
• After waking late from a drinking contest with Li Jie, Li Yunjing traveled to Xunxian Town with Mo Xuan and the other elders.
• Li Yunjing officially opened the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion, advertised its goods and twenty-percent discount, and welcomed the gathered cultivators inside.
• Li Yunjing entered the sparsely attended Clear Wind Pavilion to invite Zhong Lan, but a young man said Zhong Lan was unwell and asked Li Yunjing to leave.

Li Yunjing inspected the bustling Luozhen Treasure Pavilion, then traveled with Mo Xuan, Shui Yao, and Gu Xuan to the Departing Maple Sect’s Golden Core ceremony. There, True Person Liu asked him to warn Wang Qianxue that the White Bone Immortal Sect was showing signs of resurgence.

• Li Yunjing left Zhong Lan fuming in the Clear Wind Pavilion and returned to find the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion crowded with satisfied customers.
• Li Yunjing told Shen Chun he was leaving the pavilion, then departed with Mo Xuan, Shui Yao, and Gu Xuan for the Departing Maple Sect’s banquet.
• Su Zhen welcomed Li Yunjing and his companions at the mountain gate, accepted Li Yunjing’s gift, and brought them to Ancestral Void Peak.
• True Person Liu greeted Li Yunjing and his companions in Ancestral Void Hall, served them spirit tea, and asked whether Wang Qianxue would attend.
• True Person Liu asked Li Yunjing to tell Wang Qianxue that the White Bone Immortal Sect was showing signs of a resurgence.

Li Yunjing learned that the White Bone Immortal Sect was likely to threaten the Immortal Alliance branch in Xunxian Town, then gained valuable cultivation insights at True Person Liu’s Core Formation ceremony. After the Departing Maple Sect and Luozhen Sect announced an alliance, Zhong Lan marked a bald cultivator and summoned a life-sized deity statue in an unnamed cave.

• True Person Liu privately warned Li Yunjing about the White Bone Immortal Sect’s recurring revivals and gave him a Jade Slip containing more information in exchange for future help for the Departing Maple Sect.
• Li Yunjing kept the warning from Mo Xuan for now and attended True Person Liu’s Core Formation ceremony.
• True Person Liu gave a cultivation discourse that helped Li Yunjing shorten his estimated breakthrough from Foundation Establishment Late Stage to Foundation Establishment Perfection to one month.
• Su Zhen announced that the Departing Maple Sect and Luozhen Sect would form an alliance, drawing attention to Li Yunjing’s rising influence.
• Zhong Lan watched the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion, marked a bald cultivator with Divine Sense, left Xunxian Town, and revealed a life-sized deity statue from her Storage Bag in an unnamed cave.

Zhong Lan sacrificed twenty years of her lifespan to the sinister statue for help killing Li Yunjing, while Li Yunjing stayed at the Departing Maple Sect to discuss their alliance and recruitment. The chapter left Su Zhen astonished and grateful after learning Li Yunjing had gifted the sect a third-grade Nine-Spirit Pill.

• Zhong Lan offered twenty years of her lifespan to the Holy Venerable statue and asked it to make Li Yunjing die after taking a pill.
• Li Yunjing and Su Zhen agreed to inspect the Fire Rosy Cloud Iron Mine in three days and discussed sect management and the upcoming Immortal-Seeking Assembly.
• Li Yunjing left the Departing Maple Sect despite Su Zhen urging him to stay overnight.
• The grand elder showed Su Zhen the gifts list, and Su Zhen discovered Li Yunjing had given the sect a third-grade Nine-Spirit Pill that could extend a Golden Core cultivator's life by fifty years.
• On the way back to the Luozhen Sect, Mo Xuan, Shui Yao, and Gu Xuan questioned Li Yunjing about his gift, but he kept its identity secret.

Li Yunjing learned that the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion had sold out its ordinary stock and earned substantial profits on opening day. The next day, Kuang Qihua died after taking a Condensed Ganoderma Pill, while Li Yunjing arrived at the Spirit Field to see whether Ge Shuyuan had successfully grown first-grade spirit rice.

• Shen Chun told Li Yunjing that the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion had sold out its ordinary stock and reported sales of 38,763 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing learned that the Wang Household had earned over 3,300 Low-Grade Spirit Stones in sales and that the Luozhen Sect would receive its agreed share.
• Kuang Qihua returned home with Condensed Ganoderma Pills he had bought at the pavilion, then suddenly lost his breath and died after taking one.
• Li Yunjing visited the Spirit Field, where Ge Shuyuan was waiting to see whether his first-grade spirit rice would sprout and qualify him as a spirit farmer.
• Li Yunjing approached Ge Shuyuan and asked whether the rice had succeeded.

Ge Shuyuan became the Luozhen Sect’s first Spirit Farmer, and Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Field to lv5 before asking Ge to develop a new variety of Spirit Rice. A report that a cultivator had died after taking a pill from the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion sparked suspicion and drove away its customers, so Li Yunjing went to investigate at Zheng Household Market.

• Ge Shuyuan successfully cultivated a Spirit Rice seedling and became the Luozhen Sect’s first Spirit Farmer.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Field to lv5 and asked Ge Shuyuan to try cultivating a new variety of Spirit Rice as a requirement for the next upgrade.
• Shui Yao brought Li Yunjing Shen Chun’s report that Kuang Qihua had died after taking a Spirit Pill from the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion, damaging the shop’s reputation and business.
• Li Yunjing closed the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion and left with Shen Chun to investigate Kuang Qihua’s death at Zheng Household Market.
• Zhong Lan learned that the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion had closed and believed her sacrifice of twenty years of lifespan had paid off.
• Li Yunjing and Shen Chun arrived at Zheng Household Market, where the gathered cultivators recognized Li Yunjing and began discussing the incident.

Li Yunjing investigated Kuang Qihua’s death in Zheng Household Market and confirmed that he had taken a Condensed Ganoderma Pill from the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion. The corpse’s unnaturally rapid decay suggested foul play, so Li Yunjing closed the shop while the Luozhen Sect searched for answers.

• Li Yunjing assured passersby that the Luozhen Sect would investigate Kuang Qihua’s death and warned against spreading rumors.
• Zheng Qianjue told Li Yunjing how Kuang Qihua’s body had been found, and Luo Wan confirmed that Kuang Qihua had been alive around the beginning of the You hour the previous evening.
• Li Yunjing examined Kuang Qihua’s badly decomposed corpse and found a Luozhen Treasure Pavilion bottle containing three Condensed Ganoderma Pills; he determined Kuang Qihua had taken the missing pill.
• Li Yunjing concluded the corpse had decomposed far too quickly and told Shen Chun that the circumstances suggested foul play but offered too little evidence for a conclusion.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion closed until the truth came to light, while Shen Chun proposed investigating whom Kuang Qihua had met after leaving the shop.

Li Yunjing investigated Kuang Qihua’s sudden death but found no direct evidence against Zhong Lan, then accepted Su Zhen’s invitation to visit the Fire Rosy Cloud Iron Mine. Meanwhile, Luo Wan claimed Kuang Qihua’s ghost was haunting her and went to the Luozhen Sect to report it.

• Li Yunjing consulted Ding Qifeng, who ruled out a conflict between the Condensed Ganoderma Pill and another medicine because there had been no bone-chilling cold at the scene.
• Li Yunjing asked Mo Xuan to investigate the Clear Wind Sect, while he pursued the case himself; Luo Wan saw what looked like Kuang Qihua’s ghost and fled into her house.
• After two days of investigation, Li Yunjing learned that Zhong Lan had briefly left Xunxian Town, but neither Shen Chun nor Mo Xuan found evidence linking her to Kuang Qihua’s death.
• Li Yunjing accepted Su Zhen’s invitation to inspect the Fire Rosy Cloud Iron Mine and asked the Departing Maple Sect to help investigate Kuang Qihua’s death.
• After Li Yunjing left, Luo Wan arrived at the Luozhen Sect’s gate, claiming that Kuang Qihua’s ghost was tormenting her and asking to speak with the sect master.
• Su Zhen welcomed Li Yunjing, promised to investigate the case, and led him and the others toward the Fire Rosy Cloud Iron Mine.

Li Yunjing and Su Zhen discovered that the Fire Rosy Cloud Iron Mine also contained a valuable Low-Grade Spirit Stone deposit, and agreed to ask the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance to oversee it. Meanwhile, Chu Chenzhou searched for a dead Spirit Vein, and Mo Xuan tried unsuccessfully to learn why Kuang Qihua was pestering Luo Wan.

• Li Yunjing and Su Zhen inspected the Fire Rosy Cloud Iron Mine and learned that its reserves included at least fifty or sixty tons of ore and an associated Spirit Stone deposit.
• The surveyors estimated the Spirit Stone deposit could yield at least two hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, so Su Zhen and Li Yunjing agreed to seek the Immortal Alliance's oversight.
• Su Zhen left a Departing Maple Sect elder to guard the mine while he and Li Yunjing returned.
• More than seven hundred li north, Chu Chenzhou used a compass to search for a dead Spirit Vein, hoping to prove his Earth Vein Technique's worth and spite Half-Spirit Valley and the Liu Household.
• At Luozhen Sect, Mo Xuan asked Luo Wan why Kuang Qihua was pestering her, but she refused to tell him because he was not Sect Leader Li.

Li Yunjing learned from Luo Wan that Kuang Qihua’s ghost had been haunting her and planned to wait for it to appear that night. He also upgraded the Beast-Taming Grounds, which gained a chance for newborn Demon Beasts to develop bloodline atavism.

• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that Luo Wan had come seeking help because Kuang Qihua’s ghost was haunting her, and that she had refused to speak to anyone but him.
• Luo Wan told Li Yunjing that Kuang Qihua’s ghost had appeared two days earlier, claimed he had been murdered, and asked her to help find his killer; she also mentioned the Holy Venerable Who Delivers from Suffering and Hardship.
• Li Yunjing suspected an evil cult was involved and arranged to wait until night for Kuang Qihua’s ghost to appear.
• Wang Shanming reported that the Beast-Taming Grounds had five kinds of Demon Beasts and beast-taming rings, and Li Yunjing upgraded the grounds after inspecting them.
• Li Yunjing discovered the next upgrade could give newborn Demon Beasts a chance of bloodline atavism and resolved to wait for Kuang Qihua’s ghost.

Li Yunjing and Mo Xuan waited with Luo Wan for Kuang Qihua’s ghost, which appeared and identified the Greatly Compassionate Holy Venerable Who Delivers from Suffering and Hardship as his killer. Before Kuang Qihua vanished in Soul-Devouring Flames, he named Zhong Lan among the evil god’s believers; Li Yunjing planned to involve the Immortal Alliance, while Luo Wan worried she might be silenced.

• Li Yunjing convinced Mo Xuan to wait with Luo Wan for Kuang Qihua’s ghost, which appeared after two hours.
• Kuang Qihua told Li Yunjing that the Greatly Compassionate Holy Venerable Who Delivers from Suffering and Hardship had killed him and tried to convert him.
• Kuang Qihua named Zhong Lan, pavilion master of the Clear Wind Pavilion and an elder of the Clear Wind Sect, among the evil god’s believers before Soul-Devouring Flames destroyed his ghost.
• Li Yunjing found Kuang Qihua’s Jade Slip containing the Soul-Guiding Nine Heavens Method and decided to place it in the Luozhen Sect’s Scripture Pavilion.
• Li Yunjing told Mo Xuan to wait and enjoy the show, thanked Luo Wan for her help, and left her fearing they might kill her to silence her.

Li Yunjing upgraded his cave abode and successfully established a simplified Seventy-Two Sword Killing Formation to protect Luozhen Sect. At the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance, he shared Cold Scale Fish with Sikong Ying and discussed finding a spirit chef for his disciples.

• Li Yunjing paid Luo Wan with Spirit Stones and pills, then let her leave the Luozhen Sect before dawn after she promised to keep quiet.
• Li Yunjing upgraded his Sect Master's cave abode to level five and studied the Seventy-Two Sword Killing Formation while waiting for daybreak.
• Li Yunjing mastered a simplified, grade-one version of the formation and set it up around the Luozhen Sect's grounds.
• Li Yunjing rode his Fire Cloud Sword to the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance and met Sikong Ying carrying a Cold Scale Fish.
• Li Yunjing and Sikong Ying ate the fish while discussing the shortage of spirit chefs and Li Yunjing's plans for meals for his disciples.
• The Food Pavilion's head chef asked Li Yunjing whether he was looking for a spirit chef.

Li Yunjing learned about the Holy Venerable Sect and identified Zhong Lan as one of its followers, prompting Sikong Ying to arrange her arrest. Wang Qianxue returned from a bloody battle with the Corpse Yin Cult and revealed that Xunxian Town had a spy within the Immortal Alliance.

• The Food Pavilion's head chef recommended his fifteen-year-old nephew, a first-grade spirit chef, for a tryout at the Luozhen Sect, and Li Yunjing agreed to test him that afternoon.
• Li Yunjing told Sikong Ying about the Holy Venerable Sect and named Zhong Lan of the Clear Wind Pavilion as one of its followers, so Sikong Ying hurried to arrange her arrest.
• Li Yunjing encountered Wang Qianxue among wounded Immortal Alliance disciples and fallen fighters, and she told him to call her Teacher's Wife.
• Wang Qianxue recounted how her team fought and defeated more than fifty Corpse Yin Cult cultivators, suffering heavy casualties across the allied branches.
• Wang Qianxue revealed that she had discovered a Corpse Yin Cult spy in the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance.

Li Yunjing told Wang Qianxue that the Corpse Yin Cult and White Bone Immortal Sect had appeared near Xunxian Town, while Zhong Lan had been arrested on suspicion of belonging to the Holy Venerable Sect. Wang Qianxue found a suspicious deity statue among Zhong Lan’s belongings and ordered her detained, though Zhong Lan insisted she had been wronged.

• Wang Qianxue told Li Yunjing that Gao Jin, the Worry-Relief Shop owner he had vouched for, was a Corpse Yin Cult undercover agent who had already fled.
• Li Yunjing gave Wang Qianxue True Person Liu’s Jade Slip, which described a White Bone Immortal Sect disciple posing as a deity in Little Qing Village; Wang Qianxue decided to report the danger to Immortal Alliance headquarters.
• Li Yunjing revealed that Zhong Lan of the Clear Wind Pavilion was suspected of following the Holy Venerable Sect and that Sikong Ying had captured her.
• Zhong Lan accused the Immortal Alliance of abusing its power over the dispute with the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion, but Wang Qianxue determined that she did not know about the Holy Venerable Sect.
• Wang Qianxue searched Zhong Lan’s Storage Bag and found a large deity statue, prompting her to classify Zhong Lan as a cult follower and order her taken away for interrogation.

Li Yunjing obtained an Alchemy Ancestor's journal and three heroic souls from the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, then used them to upgrade the Luozhen Sect's Alchemy Chamber and prepare an upgrade for its training ground. He waited at the sect for the Immortal Alliance Cuisine Pavilion chef's nephew while the investigation into Zhong Lan remained unresolved.

• Wang Qianxue left after Li Yunjing explained the situation, and Li Yunjing left Zhong Lan's case to Sikong Ying and the others.
• Li Mingjie gave Li Yunjing an Alchemy Ancestor's journal and a jade bottle containing three heroic souls, charging most of the cost to his VIP allowance.
• Li Yunjing used the heroic souls to upgrade the training ground to level five, revealing its new Heroic Soul Possession effect and the requirements for level six.
• Li Yunjing copied the journal, then used the original to upgrade the Alchemy Chamber to level seven, which could enable the production of exquisite-quality spirit pills.
• Li Yunjing accepted Li Mingjie's invitation to a banquet and later waited at the Luozhen Sect for the Immortal Alliance Cuisine Pavilion chef's nephew.

Li Yunjing tested Hou Zihao’s cooking skills to decide whether he could join the Luozhen Sect’s Spirit Cuisine Pavilion. Hou Zihao’s Roasted Green Fang Pig impressed Li Yunjing, but after tasting the other dishes, Li Yunjing found their effects ordinary.

• Mo Xuan brought Chef Hou and his nephew Hou Zihao to meet Li Yunjing, who took them to the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion for a cooking test.
• Li Yunjing asked Hou Zihao to prepare Eight-Treasure Fish, Roasted Green Fang Pig, and Fish Rice while he and Chef Hou waited outside.
• Hou Zihao cooked Roasted Green Fang Pig, and Chef Hou explained that his original recipe made cultivators’ skin tougher and more resilient.
• Li Yunjing tasted the Roasted Green Fang Pig, enjoyed it, and decided that it was enough to let Hou Zihao stay.
• Hou Zihao served the Fish Rice and fish soup, and Li Yunjing judged that both tasted good but had only ordinary effects.

Li Yunjing pointed out Hou Zihao’s cooking mistake but allowed him to remain in the Luozhen Sect on condition that he improve his State of Mind. Later, Li Yunjing learned that the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion had been cleared of wrongdoing and that the Immortal Alliance planned to attack the Holy Venerable Sect, then accidentally sent his soul out of his body while studying a Law Technique.

• Li Yunjing explained that the Jade Mushroom had drained the Golden Jade Rice of its Spiritual Qi, and Chef Hou scolded Hou Zihao for ignoring basic ingredient pairings.
• Li Yunjing agreed to keep Hou Zihao in the Luozhen Sect if he cultivated his State of Mind and passed periodic tests, then gave him five food recipes to study.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion and saw that its next level would grant meals a chance to provide additional beneficial effects.
• Shui Yao brought Li Yunjing a message from Sikong Ying confirming Zhong Lan had framed the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion and that the Immortal Alliance would clear its name.
• Li Yunjing learned that the Immortal Alliance would attack the Holy Venerable Sect in five days and decided that he and Mo Xuan would represent the Luozhen Sect.
• While studying the Soul-Guiding Nine Heavens Method, Li Yunjing’s soul left his body and rose above Serene Valley, but he quickly returned when a gust of wind threatened to scatter it.

Li Yunjing recovered from the strain of sending his soul out of his body and found the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion thriving after the Immortal Alliance cleared it of responsibility for Kuang Qihua’s death. He recognized Lei Yang’s skill as a herb gatherer and offered to recruit him as the Luozhen Sect’s exclusive herb gatherer.

• Li Yunjing told Ding Qifeng about sending his soul ten thousand meters into the sky, and Ding Qifeng gave him spirit pills and warned him not to take such risks again.
• Li Yunjing went to Xunxian Town and learned that the Immortal Alliance had blamed the Holy Venerable Sect for Kuang Qihua’s death, bringing a surge of customers back to the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion.
• Li Yunjing bought five ninety-year-old spirit medicines from Lei Yang and his companions for five hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing learned that Lei Yang was a professional herb gatherer and asked whether he would work as the Luozhen Sect’s exclusive herb gatherer.

Li Yunjing recruited Lei Yang and the Medicine King Gang as exclusive herb gatherers for the Luozhen Sect, then rejected the Clear Wind Sect’s offer of compensation for Zhong Lan’s actions. He ended his confrontation with True Person Wu by bringing up the mysterious death of a respected Rogue Cultivator.

• Li Yunjing offered Lei Yang and the Medicine King Gang’s members exclusive herb-gatherer positions with the Luozhen Sect, and Lei Yang agreed to ask the gang leader.
• Li Yunjing stored five spirit medicines to plant in the herb garden, where Nangong Ye’s enhancement could increase their medicinal age.
• Wang Qianxue summoned Li Yunjing to the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance because a Clear Wind Sect representative had come regarding Zhong Lan.
• True Person Wu offered the Luozhen Sect shops as compensation, but Li Yunjing rejected both offers and refused to reconcile with the Clear Wind Sect.
• Li Yunjing advised True Person Wu by asking whether he remembered the respected Rogue Cultivator Feng Feilong, who had vanished five years earlier and was later found dead.

Li Yunjing warned Wu Lingwei that he knew the Clear Wind Sect leader Wu Yunzhi had murdered Feng Feilong, then learned the Luozhen Sect could replace the Clear Wind Sect as a favored force. He planned to cultivate to Golden Core before taking revenge, while Wu Lingwei returned to the Clear Wind Sect and questioned his son about the witnesses to the murder.

• Li Yunjing told Wu Lingwei that Feng Feilong had been murdered for his treasure, and Wang Qianxue later heard Li Yunjing explain the Clear Wind Sect’s role in nearly killing Mo Xuan and Shui Yao.
• Wang Qianxue said the Luozhen Sect could take the Clear Wind Sect’s place among the forces being nurtured, but Li Yunjing needed to reach Golden Core soon to meet the requirements.
• After leaving Xunxian Town, Li Yunjing was stopped by Wu Lingwei, who gave him a Storage Bag and said the Clear Wind Sect wanted no conflict with the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing recalled learning from Wan Xing and Zhong Lan that Wu Yunzhi had killed Feng Feilong for an eight-hundred-year-old vermilion fruit, then silenced Wan Xing’s father, who had refused to help.
• Li Yunjing decided to return the Storage Bag and delay confronting the Clear Wind Sect until he reached Golden Core.
• Wu Lingwei returned to the Clear Wind Sect, summoned Wu Yunzhi, and asked who had known about Feng Feilong’s murder and whether they had all been eliminated.