Chapter Summaries

Shen Ge returned to the village with a valuable Storage Bag and the medicine for Han Yu’s brother. He began preparing the treatment amid villagers’ doubts, leaving the result uncertain.

• Shen Ge counted the pills and materials he had taken from the Devil Cultivator, then hid the Storage Bag as he traveled back to the village.
• Han Yu welcomed Shen Ge at the foot of the mountain and hurried with him to treat her brother.
• Shen Ge reassured Han Wu and Mother Han that he could cure the boy, then asked them to prepare an iron pot and firewood.
• Shen Ge set up the pot and began preparing a Detoxification Pill from Clear Brightness Grass and Five-Leaf Ginseng while the villagers questioned his method.

Shen Ge prepared a potent medicine from Clear Brightness Grass and Five-Leaf Ginseng, then used it to cure Han Lin’s poison. The Han family thanked him, and he left them instructions to help Han Lin recover.

• Shen Ge brewed the medicinal ingredients in a pot and judged the resulting black liquid sufficient to treat Han Lin.
• Sixth Master tested a small amount of the medicine, confirmed it was not poisonous, and allowed Shen Ge to use it.
• Shen Ge gave the medicine to Han Lin, whose chest pain subsided and who was able to sit up without pain.
• Shen Ge told Han Wu that Han Lin was cured, advised him to boil small pieces of Five-Leaf Ginseng for Han Lin, and stopped the family from kowtowing.

Shen Ge revealed his cultivation to Han Yu before leaving the village the next day. Han Yu gave him new clothes and watched him depart, while she and Han Lin reflected on his departure and their family's hardships.

• Shen Ge showed Han Yu a flame on his fingertip and spoke with her beneath the moon about his abilities and hardships.
• The next morning, Han Yu caught up with Shen Ge and gave him a set of clothes she had made.
• Shen Ge thanked Han Yu, teased her, and left without hesitation after wishing her farewell.
• Han Yu watched Shen Ge disappear, then returned home and argued with Han Lin about villagers and their family’s need for money.
• Han Lin realized Han Yu had feelings for Shen Ge and joked about trying to charm young women himself.

Shen Ge explored Linhai City, sampling its food and wine before being drawn into a lavish brothel. He was surprised by the establishment’s many talented women and wondered about the powerful organization behind it.

• Shen Ge arrived in Linhai City and rented a room at an inn.
• Shen Ge tried the local Sea Soul Wine and dishes, then learned about the city’s four districts.
• Shen Ge spotted a grand wooden tower filled with women and decided to enter after considering his money.
• Two women welcomed Shen Ge and described the sisters’ talents in music, poetry, dance, and martial arts.
• Shen Ge marveled at the brothel’s range of performers and suspected its backing was powerful.

Shen Ge visited a pleasure house to gather information and learned that immortals had been seen near Sunset Valley, where a possible cultivation marketplace was forming. He also heard about a rare pearl scheduled for auction in Linhai City the next day.

• Shen Ge chose to listen to music and gather information rather than pursue more tempting entertainment, and Haitang, Qiluo, and Zhifeng entered his private room.
• Shen Ge asked Zhifeng about immortals, and she described a battle near Linhai City and reports of many immortal cultivators around Sunset Valley north of Kaohai Commandery.
• Shen Ge suspected the Sunset Valley gathering was a small cultivation marketplace and considered visiting it.
• Shen Ge restrained his desire with the Clear Heart Instruction and changed the subject to recent happenings in Linhai City.
• Zhifeng told Shen Ge that a giant fish had yielded a warm, jade-like white pearl, which the Sea Peak Trading Company would auction the next day.

Shen Ge visited the Sea Peak Merchant Association to inspect its auction items and search for objects with Spiritual Qi. After placing bids on a few items, he entered the last storage room, where a bead and a broken sword tip stirred his spirits.

• Shen Ge used his Spring Breeze Garden token to enter the Sea Peak Merchant Association and asked to inspect the auction items.
• The young woman refused to let Shen Ge see every item, but agreed to show him the storage rooms containing the two or three hundred items he had marked.
• Shen Ge rejected the medicinal herbs and found a sword with a faint trace of Spiritual Qi, placing an eight-hundred-tael bid on it.
• Shen Ge inspected several more rooms, found little of interest, and placed a few modest bids before proceeding to the final room.
• Shen Ge entered the last storage room and sensed Spiritual Qi from the bead and broken sword tip inside.

Shen Ge bought a demon core and a Law Treasure sword tip at an auction, then refined the sword tip and tried to make a Law Artifact. After half a month in Linhai City, he set out for Sunset Valley to meet other cultivators before going to the Spirit Moon Sect.

• Shen Ge bid on a demon core and a Law Treasure sword tip, then paid for his purchases with silver notes and pills.
• Shen Ge sold several items back to the auction house and gave the girl who assisted him a thousand taels of silver.
• Shen Ge refined the sword tip and gained a weapon he could direct at will.
• Shen Ge spent a day inscribing formation patterns on a longsword, but his failed attempts left it ugly; he refined it anyway.
• After half a month in Linhai City, Shen Ge set out for Sunset Valley, north of Kaohai Commandery.

Shen Ge and Lü Yang headed toward Sunset Immortal Market, but they were ambushed by five cultivators as they entered Sunset Valley. Shen Ge fought three opponents while Lü Yang tried to evade their two strongest attackers, leaving Shen Ge surrounded by a barrage of spells.

• Shen Ge learned from a villager about the dangerous Ghost Forest near Sunset Valley and left Li Household Town.
• Shen Ge met Lü Yang, a seventh-layer Rogue Cultivator, and agreed to guide him to the immortal market.
• As they traveled, Shen Ge and Lü Yang discussed joining the Spirit Moon Sect and saw cultivators riding a giant eagle.
• Upon entering Sunset Valley, Shen Ge and Lü Yang were attacked by five cultivators wielding spells and Law Artifacts.
• Shen Ge charged at a seventh-layer opponent while Lü Yang maneuvered away from the one-eyed leader and the white-haired cultivator.
• Three attackers surrounded Shen Ge with fireballs and earth spikes as he weighed whether he could withstand their assault.

Shen Ge used a Law Treasure fragment to defeat the ambushers and shared their spoils with Lü Yang before they reached a hidden market. After entering, Shen Ge began browsing the stalls for goods.

• Shen Ge killed the green-robed Daoist with the Law Treasure fragment, then pursued and killed another attacker while the man in purple escaped.
• Shen Ge helped Lü Yang drive off the remaining attackers, killed the white-haired man, and gave Lü Yang a bottle of Five-Leaf Ginseng pills.
• Shen Ge and Lü Yang collected the dead attackers' Storage Bags, and Shen Ge gave one to Lü Yang in recognition of his help.
• Lü Yang used a Sound Transmission Talisman to open a path through the market's illusion barrier, and the two entered the market before parting ways.
• Shen Ge went to the trading area and began inspecting the stalls, where a vendor offered him an intermediate Fire Dragon Talisman.

Shen Ge bargained with Wang Wei over talismans, trading spirit herbs and a storage bag for three valuable talismans. The deal ended with Wang Wei grudgingly refunding Shen Ge five spirit stones and warning himself never to do business with him again.

• Shen Ge bought Wang Wei's mid-grade Fire Dragon Talisman for eight lower-grade spirit stones after negotiating its price down.
• Wang Wei offered three upper-grade talismans for two hundred spirit stones, and Shen Ge negotiated to pay with spirit herbs and a storage bag.
• Wang Wei valued Shen Ge's poorly preserved Clear Brightness Grass at eighty spirit stones and his storage bag and its contents at forty.
• Shen Ge added more medicinal herbs, drawing the attention of nearby pedestrians, and Wang Wei hurriedly accepted the goods in exchange for the talismans.
• Shen Ge demanded the five spirit stones left over from the trade, and Wang Wei gave him the money and two Chicken Blood Flowers before telling him to leave.

Shen Ge traded three Five-Leaf Ginseng plants for a talisman compendium and paper, then rented a cave abode to study talisman-making. After many failed attempts, he drew one Golden Sword Talisman and decided that crafting talismans was too costly to pursue for profit.

• Shen Ge bought the Complete Compendium of Low-Level Talismans and two stacks of talisman paper by trading three Five-Leaf Ginseng plants.
• Shen Ge rented a cave abode and found that the compendium described thirty talismans, but only ten were for attack, defense, or movement.
• Shen Ge repeatedly failed to draw a Golden Sword Talisman, blaming an invisible force he called the power of heaven and earth.
• Shen Ge practiced for more than four hours and finally drew one Golden Sword Talisman with his last sheet of talisman paper.
• Shen Ge calculated that his materials and time made talisman-making unprofitable and abandoned the idea of selling talismans.

Shen Ge visited the market in disguise and found a Wan Household stall selling three high-grade Law Artifacts. After waiting for potential robbers to leave, he bought all three and returned safely to his cave abode, where he began refining the folding fan.

• Shen Ge disguised himself and went to the market to look for talisman paper and other useful goods.
• He discovered a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator selling three Law Artifacts and learned from other shoppers that the stall belonged to the Wan Household.
• Shen Ge held back while several buyers hesitated over the prices, noticing that greedy groups were watching those who seemed able to afford the artifacts.
• After the onlookers dispersed, Shen Ge paid twelve hundred Spirit Stones for all three Law Artifacts and quickly left the market.
• Shen Ge avoided being followed on his way back to his cave abode and began refining the folding fan Law Artifact.

After refining his three Law Artifacts, Shen Ge browsed the market and met Lü Yang, whom he invited for a drink. Lü Yang revealed a connection that could help him enter Flowing Gold Valley, while Shen Ge said he planned to join the Spirit Moon Sect after the market ended.

• Shen Ge completed refining his three Law Artifacts and went to browse the market.
• Shen Ge bought an ice phoenix pendant and ran into Lü Yang, then invited him to a restaurant.
• Lü Yang explained that he had hidden his Storage Bag because he had feared Shen Ge might kill him after Shen Ge beheaded the white-haired man.
• Over drinks, Lü Yang told Shen Ge that his grandfather had connections to Flowing Gold Valley and offered to help him join.
• Shen Ge declined Lü Yang's invitation to travel with him and said he intended to join the Spirit Moon Sect after the market ended.

After leaving the dwindling market, Shen Ge accepted a Law Artifact from a battered boy in exchange for killing three Rogue Cultivators pursuing him. Shen Ge wondered whether the boy was a child of fortune, then let him go after the boy found a technique among the corpses and hinted there might be more to his luck.

• Shen Ge left the nearly deserted market after spending five months improving his talisman drawing and building up his supplies.
• A boy at the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining offered Shen Ge the Azure Dark Robe, a defensive Law Artifact, to kill three men who had attacked him.
• Shen Ge killed the three Sixth Layer Rogue Cultivators with his Golden Light Sword and advised the boy not to flaunt valuable possessions.
• After pretending to leave, Shen Ge watched as the boy searched the corpses, found a book called Spirit Rhinoceros Finger, and hurried away.
• Shen Ge suspected the boy had found something valuable but decided not to pursue him, reasoning that they had no enmity and the boy might be a child of fortune.

After searching Qingyang Commandery for the Spirit Moon Sect, Shen Ge reunited with Su Liuyue and was brought to the sect. Mo Qingyu offered to take him as her disciple, and Shen Ge eagerly accepted.

• Shen Ge searched the mountains of Qingyang Commandery for the Spirit Moon Sect while nearing a breakthrough in Qi Refinement.
• Su Liuyue sensed Shen Ge’s disciple token and went to bring him to the sect after her master, Mo Qingyu, approved.
• Su Liuyue met Shen Ge on the road, accepted his carved ice phoenix gift, and carried him to the Spirit Moon Sect.
• Su Liuyue brought Shen Ge to Mo Qingyu, who praised his aptitude and offered to take him as her disciple.
• Shen Ge knelt and greeted Mo Qingyu as his Master and Su Liuyue as his Eldest Senior Sister.

Shen Ge became Mo Qingyu’s second personal disciple and replaced his harmful cultivation method with the Gold Sword Instruction. After settling into his new residence and converting his spiritual power, he prepared to use his remaining pills to reach Foundation Establishment.

• Mo Qingyu accepted Shen Ge as her second personal disciple, warned him about the Yin Cold Instruction’s harm, and gave him the Gold Sword Instruction and supplies.
• Mo Qingyu announced that she would enter seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm and placed Su Liuyue in charge of Divine Sword Peak.
• Su Liuyue took Shen Ge to his courtyard and explained how to open it and get around the peak.
• Shen Ge spent three months converting his spiritual power to the Gold Sword Instruction, reaching the early Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement and increasing his Sword Qi’s power.
• Shen Ge returned inside and began cultivating with his remaining pills, aiming to reach Foundation Establishment.

Shen Ge broke through to Foundation Establishment and learned to fly on his Golden Light Sword before visiting Su Liuyue’s cave abode. There, he met Jin Ling, who learned that Shen Ge was her senior brother, and Su Liuyue invited them inside.

• Shen Ge reached Foundation Establishment after five days of cultivation, gaining more than three times his previous spiritual power and cleansing impurities from his body.
• Shen Ge tested his Golden Light Sword in flight, discovered he could fly at full speed for about four hours, and later returned to the mountain.
• Qin Yu, Li Kui, Liu Xiao, and Lu Fan watched Shen Ge fly and discussed his rapid cultivation, his connection to Su Liuyue, and visiting him.
• Shen Ge arrived at Su Liuyue’s cave abode and met Jin Ling, who mistook him for a junior before Su Liuyue clarified that Jin Ling was his junior sister.
• Su Liuyue opened the cave’s restrictions and invited Shen Ge and Jin Ling inside.

Shen Ge asked Su Liuyue and Jin Ling about sect affairs before meeting several Azure Jade Peak and other hall disciples who welcomed him and offered advice. He learned more about cultivation and sect life, while Liu Xiao invited him to consider joining the Artifact Refining Hall.

• Shen Ge asked Su Liuyue about sect resources and received a Jade Slip containing the rules for new disciples.
• Jin Ling asked Su Liuyue about Shen Ge's sudden Foundation Establishment and received Golden Body Talismans and Burst Talismans for hunting Burrowing Spiders.
• Qin Yu, Lu Fan, Li Kui, and Liu Xiao visited Shen Ge, introduced themselves, and welcomed him to the sect.
• Liu Xiao invited Shen Ge to join the Artifact Refining Hall because of his Supreme-Grade Metal Spirit Root, but Qin Yu urged him to focus on consolidating his cultivation first.
• Shen Ge invited the visitors into his courtyard and asked about sect affairs and cultivation, learning from their answers.

Shen Ge accepted a staged artifact-refining mission and bought spirit fruit, wine, and a flower before visiting Su Liuyue with gifts. She gave him talismans and advised him to focus on cultivation while learning artifact refining and talismans only as time allowed.

• Shen Ge accepted a long-term artifact-refining mission that offered increasing contribution points as he advanced through its stages.
• Shen Ge bought spirit fruit, spirit wine, and a moonlight flower at the trading building.
• Shen Ge visited Su Liuyue and arranged the gifts in her cave, explaining that he wanted to be better prepared to receive visitors.
• Su Liuyue questioned his spending, then gave him five Burst Talismans and three Golden Body Talismans and urged him to gain combat experience and study Law Techniques.
• Su Liuyue advised Shen Ge against pill refining and intensive formation study, and said artifact refining and talismans suited him best, though cultivation should remain his priority.

Shen Ge visited the Artifact Refining Hall, where Liu Xiao welcomed him and introduced him to the hall’s people and study arrangements. Liu Xiao directed Shen Ge to Martial Uncle Wang’s lesson and explained how artifact refining and other assignments could earn Spirit Stones.

• Shen Ge arrived at the Artifact Refining Hall and asked Liu Xiao to guide him in learning artifact refining.
• Liu Xiao introduced Shen Ge to Mu Wan, and the three exchanged jokes about visiting each other for food and drink.
• Liu Xiao explained that Mu Wan was Martial Uncle Qingyou’s granddaughter and told Shen Ge not to mind her temper.
• Liu Xiao told Shen Ge to accept a permanent artifact refining assignment that paid Spirit Stones while he studied, and described spirit medicine and talisman work as other ways to earn them.
• Liu Xiao led Shen Ge to Martial Uncle Wang’s lesson, then left to meet Ye Lin while Shen Ge went inside on his own.