Recaps

Mo Yuanjiao investigated the Shangyang Sect’s movements and told Liu Yunan what he had learned. He then revealed to Emperor Li Zhouxuan that he had joined the Lingxian Sect, offering to help the imperial court communicate with it.

• Mo Yuanjiao stayed with Old Madam Mo until she grew tired, then returned to his courtyard and heard Baojian’s report that Shangyang Sect members had been scouting land outside the city.
• Baojian told Mo Yuanjiao that the Cloud and Mist Sect and the Clear River Sect had tried to visit Shangyang Sect, but had not been received.
• Mo Yuanjiao sent Liu Yunan the intelligence he had gathered and decided to reveal himself to the emperor.
• Mo Yuanjiao went to the palace and told his cousin, Emperor Li Zhouxuan, that he had joined the Lingxian Sect and could help the court contact it.
• Li Zhouxuan was shocked when he understood what Mo Yuanjiao had said.

Mo Yuanjiao visited Li Zhouxuan in the imperial palace and revealed that he had joined the Lingxian Sect, while Li Zhouxuan concluded that the sect was more capable than his cousin let on. Back at the sect, Liu Yunan prepared its goods and traveled with Liao Pantu to complete Lin Xiao’s deal with the Many Treasures Pavilion, then returned to Xiushui Village.

• Li Zhouxuan questioned Mo Yuanjiao about his cultivation and sect, but misread his answers as proof that the sect and its master were powerful and wealthy.
• Mo Yuanjiao left the imperial palace, and Li Zhouxuan privately decided that his cousin’s sect must be extraordinary.
• Liu Yunan organized the Lingxian Sect’s members to make goods for Lin Xiao’s deal while they continued their cultivation and farming.
• After the sect gathered enough goods, Liu Yunan accompanied Liao Pantu through a teleportation array to Yuanling City.
• Liu Yunan completed the transaction at the Many Treasures Pavilion and returned to Xiushui Village with Liao Pantu.

As the Lingxian Sect’s name spread through the imperial court, the Li Clan Ancestor decided to leave seclusion and visit Xiushui Village. Mo Yuanjiao and General Mo also set out for the sect, while Old Madam Mo and Madam Mo stayed behind in the capital.

• Xiushui Village celebrated Minor Cold with five-grain porridge, and Liu Yunan eagerly asked Jiang Youfu for another bowl.
• The Lingxian Sect’s name reached the capital, prompting the Cloud and Mist Sect and Clear River Sect to send messages to their sects.
• Li Zhouxuan visited the Li Clan Ancestor, who said he planned to travel to Xiushui Village despite not having reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Mo Yuanjiao invited General Mo to visit the Lingxian Sect, while Old Madam Mo and Madam Mo remained in the capital.
• Three days after Minor Cold, Mo Yuanjiao, General Mo, and Mo Que left the capital for Xiushui Village.

Wei Hai read an imperial dispatch about the newly established Lingxian Sect and suspected it had been founded by the person who took his Spirit Stone mine. Excited by the chance to recover the mine, he sent disciples to locate the sect.

• Wei Hai squandered the Shangyang Sect's storehouse while ignoring earlier imperial dispatches.
• A disciple delivered another official dispatch, and Wei Hai learned that the court recognized a new Lingxian Sect in Liaoju Prefecture.
• Wei Hai recalled Jin Nanhuan's claims about the person who had saved the children and taken the Spirit Stone mine.
• Wei Hai suspected the mine was now with Lingxian Sect and summoned Foundation Establishment disciples to find it within five shichen.

Wei Hai forced Shangyang Sect disciples to search Liaoju Prefecture for information about the Lingxian Sect, promising an antidote to whoever returned first. At the same time, Mo Yuanjiao reached Liaoju Prefecture with General Mo and Mo Que, while a suspicious Foundation Establishment cultivator arrived at Xiushui Village and was captured by Liao Pantu and Liu Yunan.

• Wei Hai gave the Shangyang Sect disciples poison pills that would take effect in five hours and sent them to gather information about the Lingxian Sect in Liaoju Prefecture.
• Mo Yuanjiao, General Mo, and Mo Que arrived in Liaoju Prefecture and checked into an inn, where a plainly dressed elderly man later rented a room.
• Tietou stopped a Foundation Establishment cultivator approaching Xiushui Village, but the man struck him aside and headed toward the Lingxian Sect.
• After Tietou reported the incident, Liu Yunan and Liao Pantu watched the road and saw the cultivator inspect the surroundings before flying away.
• Liao Pantu used Divine Sense and a Spirit-Binding Rope to capture a second Foundation Establishment cultivator, and Liu Yunan began questioning him about his intentions.

Liu Yunan learned that Wei Hai, a Nascent Soul Cultivator, was expected to attack, and the Lingxian Sect prepared to protect Xiushui Village and evacuate its villagers. Liao Pantu raised a defensive formation around the village, while the evacuation stalled at the Heart-Questioning Road and Liu Yunan retrieved Lin Xiao’s Two Aspects Life and Death Formation.

• A Foundation Establishment cultivator told Liu Yunan that Wei Hai would come to attack after forcing him to locate the Lingxian Sect, and Liao Pantu urged Liu Yunan to make preparations.
• Liu Yunan sent Liu Shengsheng to give the captive a detoxification pill, then warned the sect members and began arranging to move Xiushui Village’s villagers up the mountain.
• Liao Pantu placed 199 elementary defensive formations around Xiushui Village, creating a dome that could withstand a few full-force attacks from a Nascent Soul Cultivator.
• The Lingxian Sect members hypnotized villagers who refused to leave and carried them toward the mountain, but the Heart-Questioning Road stopped them from going farther.
• Liu Yunan entered the sect’s storeroom and took out the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation that Lin Xiao had stored there.

Wei Hai attacked the Lingxian Sect’s Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation after demanding its Spirit Stone mine, while Liu Yunan hurried to prepare the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation. The villagers remained protected on the Heart-Questioning Road as sect members fought their fear and put out the fires, and Wei Hai sensed people approaching Xiushui Village.

• Liu Yunan took the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation plate and hurried toward the front mountain, determined to use it against the Nascent Soul Realm threat.
• Wei Hai arrived at Xiushui Village, saw the villagers gathered on the mountain path, and demanded that Liao Pantu return the Spirit Stone mine.
• Wei Hai launched an explosive fireball at the Lingxian Sect’s Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation, setting the forest ablaze, but the formation held and Heart-Questioning Road petals shielded the villagers.
• The Lingxian Sect members panicked at Wei Hai’s destructive power, while Liao Pantu judged that Wei Hai’s cultivation foundations were weak and trusted the sect’s defenses.
• Sun Yigao rallied the sect members to extinguish the forest fire as Wei Hai prepared another attack and sensed several people approaching along the road outside the village.

Mo Yuanjiao, General Mo, and Mo Que were ambushed by Wei Hai outside Xiushui Village, and Mo Yuanjiao was badly injured. A lightning bolt struck Wei Hai as Mo Que carried the two others into the village and continued toward the Lingxian Sect, while someone flew out from the sect to meet them.

• Mo Que noticed that Xiushui Village was empty, and Mo Yuanjiao spotted Wei Hai hovering above it.
• Wei Hai attacked Mo Yuanjiao, who used his defensive talismans and formation before taking the brunt of the strike and collapsing unconscious.
• Liao Pantu told the three to run into the village, and Mo Que carried General Mo and Mo Yuanjiao toward the entrance.
• Wei Hai sent a huge hand of spiritual power after them, but a bolt of lightning struck him and made the hand vanish.
• Mo Que rushed deeper into the village toward the Lingxian Sect as a figure flew out from the sect to meet them.

Wei Hai attacked Xiushui Village after Mo Yuanjiao returned, while Lin Xiao began his Golden Core Lightning Tribulation inside the Nature Platform. The chapter left the Lingxian Sect members discovering that lightning was being drawn into the little white stone at the platform’s entrance.

• After Senior Liao announced Mo Yuanjiao’s return, Sun Yigao rushed toward the village entrance and Liao Pantu followed, ordering Liu Yunan and the others to stay inside the sect’s barrier.
• Wei Hai launched fireballs at two parts of Xiushui Village, but Liao Pantu activated a large-scale defensive formation that blocked them.
• Lin Xiao reached the threshold for breaking through to the Golden Core stage, and lightning coursed through the Nature Platform’s stream and pool to strike him.
• Jiang Youfu and the Lin Household hurried toward the mountain behind the Returning to the Garden Mountain Dwelling after a bolt of lightning passed through the Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation.
• Jiang Youfu and the others saw two more bolts strike the same spot and vanish into the little white stone at the entrance to the Nature Platform.

Lin Xiao endured a Golden Core Lightning Tribulation inside the sealed Nature Platform while Wei Hai was struck by matching lightning as he attacked Xiushui Village. Liao Pantu ambushed Wei Hai with talismans to buy time, and the disguised Li Clan Ancestor quietly approached as the battle continued.

• Jiang Youfu and the Lin Household tried unsuccessfully to enter the Nature Platform as lightning struck Lin Xiao inside.
• Wei Hai realized the lightning over him matched a tribulation occurring above the new sect, but misjudged its nature and continued attacking the defensive array.
• Liao Pantu used a Water Dragon Talisman and another talisman to trap Wei Hai inside an ice dragon, then hurried toward Mo Yuanjiao to rescue him.
• The disguised Li Clan Ancestor approached Xiushui Village unnoticed and was astonished to see Wei Hai frozen inside the ice dragon.

Wei Hai broke free of the ice and continued attacking Xiushui Village’s defensive formation as Liao Pantu carried the unconscious Mo Yuanjiao and General Mo toward the Heart-Questioning Road. A streak of pink light rescued the injured and brought them to the Lingxian Sect, where the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree healed them with its pollen.

• Wei Hai shattered the ice dragon, then endured lightning strikes while raging at the hidden attacker who had nearly frozen him.
• Liao Pantu took Mo Yuanjiao and General Mo from Mo Que and hurried with the group toward the Heart-Questioning Road as Wei Hai battered the village’s defensive formation.
• Wei Hai’s attack collapsed the formation and blasted Liao Pantu and the others off their feet, scattering the injured.
• Pink light struck Wei Hai, then swept up Liao Pantu, Mo Yuanjiao, General Mo, Sun Yigao, and Mo Que and carried them to the Lingxian Sect’s mountain path.
• The Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree shed pollen over the injured, and Mo Yuanjiao and the others slowly awoke.

After the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree protected the sect members, Wei Hai attacked the Lingxian Sect’s formation until Li Zhanying intervened to protect the kingdom’s people. Lin Xiao emerged and struck Wei Hai with a powerful sword technique, leaving Wei Hai uncertain of his cultivation and age.

• The Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree shrank slightly after healing injuries, and Mo Yuanjiao and Mo Que awoke safely back at the sect.
• Wei Hai tried to destroy the village, but Li Zhanying stopped his attack and asked him to spare the homes of the Pusi Kingdom’s people.
• Li Zhanying agreed not to interfere in Wei Hai’s grudge with the sect as long as Wei Hai left the kingdom’s people unharmed.
• Wei Hai returned to attacking the Lingxian Sect’s Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation and shouted insults until Lin Xiao’s wooden sword destroyed his fireball.
• Lin Xiao emerged from the flames and struck Wei Hai with Mountains and Rivers Overturned, the Heavens Exhausted, sending him flying a thousand meters.
• Wei Hai took a Rejuvenation Pill and wondered whether Lin Xiao was a powerful Golden Core cultivator or a Nascent Soul cultivator using a Youth-Preserving Pill.

Lin Xiao emerged from seclusion and fought Wei Hai, a Nascent Soul Cultivator who had devastated Xiushui Village. With Liu Yunan’s help, Lin Xiao trapped Wei Hai in the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation and left him near death.

• Wei Hai taunted Lin Xiao and demanded that he return the Spirit Stone mine, while Lin Xiao saw the destruction in Xiushui Village and silently prepared to fight.
• Lin Xiao charged Wei Hai, but Wei Hai’s spiritual power shield repelled him and sent him flying toward the Lingxian Sect.
• Liu Yunan revealed that he had secretly set up the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation in front of the Heart-Questioning Road and lured Wei Hai into it with Lin Xiao’s help.
• Liu Yunan controlled the formation’s attacks as Wei Hai struggled to defend himself, and Lin Xiao joined the fight inside the formation.
• A spike from the formation pierced Wei Hai’s Nascent Soul, leaving him barely alive, and Lin Xiao raised his peachwood sword over him.

Lin Xiao killed Wei Hai after deciding the dangerous Nascent Soul Cultivator could not be spared, and Liu Yunan erased his remains with the formation’s ultimate attack. Li Zhanying, an imperial ancestor who had blocked visitors from reaching the village, arrived and asked Lin Xiao what he planned to do about the people asleep on the Heart-Questioning Road.

• Lin Xiao shattered Wei Hai’s Nascent Soul and watched him die, then told Liu Yunan to use Divine Soul Annihilation.
• Liao Pantu searched Wei Hai’s body for storage rings and Storage Bags before Liu Yunan wiped out everything inside the formation.
• Eldest Uncle Lin’s wife worried the authorities would punish the villagers, but Lin Xiao, Liu Yunan, and an old man assured her they would not interfere.
• Jiang Youfu and Mo Yuanjiao discussed how Mo Yuanjiao had forgotten to give his father a Teleportation Talisman, while Mo Yuanjiao praised Lin Xiao for defeating Wei Hai.
• Liao Pantu identified the newcomer as Li Zhanying, a Nascent Soul Realm ancestor of the Pusi Kingdom’s imperial family, and Lin Xiao greeted him as the Lingxian Sect’s master.
• Li Zhanying asked Lin Xiao when the people on the Heart-Questioning Road would wake and what arrangements he planned, explaining that he had stopped other visitors from approaching the village.

Lin Xiao welcomed Li Zhanying as a guest of Xiushui Village while making clear he was not yet a guest of the Lingxian Sect. As the villagers began waking from the Heart-Questioning Road, Lin Xiao went to meet village chief Du Liushui and Hu clan chief Hu Deli.

• Liu Yunan advised Lin Xiao to let the visitors enter Xiushui Village, and Li Zhanying removed his barrier.
• Li Zhanying asked to stay in Xiushui Village, and Lin Xiao agreed to have the village chief arrange his lodging.
• Jiang Youfu offered to cook for everyone, while Lin Xiao, Liu Yunan, and Liao Pantu warned him not to make the food too good and attract the imperial family's attention.
• Sun Yigao led the group to the village school, and Lin Xiao stayed to keep Li Zhanying company while the villagers remained on the Heart-Questioning Road.
• Du Liushui and Hu Deli emerged from the Heart-Questioning Road, and Lin Xiao went to greet them.

Lin Xiao learned that the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree had helped save Yuanjiao and the others, while rumors about the immortal sect protecting Xiushui Village spread among visitors. Ma Changlong passed the Heart-Questioning Road but turned back after finding the mountain gate hidden in mist, determined to settle in the village and try again when the sect recruited disciples.

• Lin Xiao returned to the mountain, and Liu Yunan told him that the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree had shrunk after saving Yuanjiao and the others.
• Lin Xiao concluded that the tree had responded to danger because members of Mo Yuanjiao's group cultivated the Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction, and he shared this with Liu Yunan and Liao Pantu.
• Liu Yunan rushed to the Lingxian Dining Seat and secretly put out the dishes after realizing it was his turn to serve food.
• Villagers told visitors that immortals had moved the village to safety and defeated a villain, prompting more people to seek homes in Xiushui Village.
• Ma Changlong passed the Heart-Questioning Road, but the mist hid the mountain gate, so he decided to finish building his house and wait for the sect to recruit disciples.

After Lin Xiao described the Golden Core Stage’s lifespan, Liao Pantu explained why Jiang Youfu’s sudden Foundation Establishment had given him a firm Dao foundation. The Lingxian Sect then planned its New Year celebrations as villagers prepared for New Year’s Eve.

• Lin Xiao told everyone that Golden Core cultivators could live for over three hundred years, and Liao Pantu explained how cultivation foundations affected lifespan.
• Jiang Youfu worried that his rapid breakthrough meant he would die young, but Liao Pantu reassured him that his sudden enlightenment had given him an exceptionally solid foundation.
• Liu Chun learned about the young cultivators’ achievements and felt pressed to return to cultivating.
• The group assigned tasks to decorate the Lingxian Sect for its first New Year celebration together, while their families prepared to honor their ancestors.
• The villagers reflected on their dreams in the Peach Blossom Mountain Path and made preparations for New Year’s Eve dinner.

Lin Xiao joined his family’s New Year preparations at the Lin Household’s old residence, where they sacrificed the pig given by the Lingxian Sect. After watching his family struggle to scald the carcass, he stepped in to use a newly devised heating spell.

• Lin Xiao’s father brought Lin Xiao and Lin Yun to the old residence, where the family prepared offerings for the New Year sacrifice.
• Liu Yunan’s sect gifts reached the Xiushui Village families as live pigs, while other sect members received equivalent compensation.
• Lin Lei slaughtered the Lin family’s pig as Lin Xiao caught its blood, and Old Master Lin decided the younger generation would take turns learning to slaughter pigs.
• Lin Dayou and Eldest Uncle Lin poured boiling water over the whole pig to remove its bristles, but Lin Xiao offered to handle the task.
• Lin Xiao formed a Method Formula and used his newly devised Distillation Technique to heat the pig in the wooden basin.

Old Master Lin and the other families of Xiushui Village went to Grave Mountain for the ancestral rites, while their new cultivation changed how relatives treated them. Li Zhanying watched the villagers and the rites, and Lin Xiao ended the chapter paying respect to his ancestors.

• Old Master Lin told his relatives that cultivation had made farming easier, and his family reunited warmly with their old friends on the way to Grave Mountain.
• Tietou's mother, the Qin Household, and Jiang Youfu's family received different reactions from their relatives, while the Sun Household was largely unaffected.
• Li Zhanying followed the villagers at a distance, admired their everyday customs, and felt that the Lingxian Sect's honest character could be a blessing for Pusi Kingdom.
• At noon, the families of Xiushui Village set out offerings on Grave Mountain and began their ancestral rites.
• Lin Xiao and his family respectfully kowtowed before their ancestors' gravestones.

During the ancestral rites, Li Zhanying witnessed a mysterious light from Grave Mountain touch the villagers and spread through Xiushui Village, leaving him questioning whether ancestral spirits could manifest. Elsewhere, Liao Pantu prepared to give Lin Xiao looted treasures, while General Mo grew impressed with Lingxian Sect and asked Mo Yuanjiao to arrange a meeting with Lin Xiao and a tour of the sect.

• As Xiushui Village paid respects to its ancestors, Li Zhanying saw a white light gather incense smoke into a giant hand that stroked the villagers before dissolving into mist over the village.
• Lin Xiao sensed something during the rite but kept his head bowed, while Li Zhanying wondered whether the ancestors' spirits had appeared.
• After the communal rites, Lin Dayou took Lin Yun and Lin Xiao to their mother's grave, then stayed behind to speak with his wife as the brothers visited their grandparents' graves.
• Liao Pantu burned incense for his ancestors and decided to give Lin Xiao the Storage Ring and Storage Bag he had taken from the Nascent Soul Cultivator at New Year's Eve dinner.
• After paying respects with Mo Yuanjiao and Mo Que, General Mo asked Mo Yuanjiao to arrange a conversation with Lin Xiao and confirmed he wanted to look around Lingxian Sect the next day.

He Siyou moved his family into Xiushui Village on New Year’s Eve and witnessed the spiritual display over Grave Mountain. After returning to the Lingxian Sect, Lin Xiao joined Liao Pantu to inspect the storage items taken from a Nascent Soul Cultivator, while Mo Yuanjiao took General Mo on a sect tour.

• He Siyou saw white light rise from Grave Mountain, form a giant hand, and scatter across Xiushui Village.
• The villagers returned from their sacrificial rites and saw He Siyou’s belongings being moved into his new residence.
• He Siyou respectfully greeted Sun Yigao, his daughter’s teacher, as Sun Yigao passed with his family.
• Liao Pantu showed Lin Xiao the Storage Rings and Storage Bags recovered from the Nascent Soul Cultivator, and Lin Xiao went with him to the sect’s main hall.
• Xiaoluan set a spiritual rope across the mountain path so it would wake if Tuzi arrived, while Lin Xiao left to inspect the storage items.
• Mo Yuanjiao saw Lin Xiao enter the main hall with Liao Pantu and decided to take General Mo to the formation hall instead.

Lin Xiao and his companions found a mysterious formation stone among the spoils and learned through appraisal that it came from the Taiyin Sealing Formation. Lin Xiao kept it and planned to ask a stranded Shangyang Sect disciple whether the formation belonged to his sect.

• Liao Pantu, Lin Xiao, and Liu Yunan counted the spoils taken from Wei Hai and found a pitch-black stone among them.
• Lin Xiao used his appraisal ability and learned the stone was an irreplaceable formation stone from an activated Taiyin Sealing Formation.
• Liao Pantu said he had never heard of the Taiyin Sealing Formation, though he knew of the distant Immortal Ascension Domain and a Taiyang Formation.
• Lin Xiao decided to keep the stone in his private storage and wondered whether the Taiyin Sealing Formation belonged to the Shangyang Sect.
• Wang Goudan failed to pass the Heart-Questioning Road and stayed in Xiushui Village after Li Zhanying asked him to serve as his attendant.
• Lin Xiao suggested asking Wang Goudan about the formation while the Shangyang Sect disciple remained nearby.

Lin Xiao questioned Wang Goudan about the Shangyang Sect and learned that it had no known forbidden area, though its inheritance was tied to a missing sect master's token. He returned to the Lingxian Sect as the New Year's Eve dinner was ready to begin.

• Lin Xiao visited Wang Goudan in Xiushui Village and invited him to talk.
• Wang Goudan knew little about the Shangyang Sect's history but eagerly shared anecdotes and rumors about the sect.
• Lin Xiao learned that the Shangyang Sect's Nascent Soul patriarch had died in seclusion and that a sect master's token needed to claim the sect's inheritance had gone missing after Wei Hai killed the former sect master.
• Lin Xiao concluded that the Shangyang Sect probably did not contain the Taiyin Sealing Formation and returned to the Lingxian Sect.
• The sect members welcomed Lin Xiao to the table, and Jiang Youfu began sending the New Year's Eve dishes over with the Object Control Technique.

During the New Year's Eve dinner, Lin Xiao toasted the Lingxian Sect and everyone celebrated together. In Liaoju Prefecture, Tong Shuzheng and Xue Chengfeng received an imperial dispatch identifying the sect as legitimate and discussed the court's changed approach to it.

• Snow began falling during the dinner, and Liao Pantu raised a barrier while Mo Yuanjiao used a formation to keep the food warm.
• Lin Xiao toasted a better new year for the cultivators, the village, and the Lingxian Sect, then led everyone in eating.
• Liu Yunan realized he had forgotten to buy firecrackers, and the others laughed before enjoying the meal.
• Tong Shuzheng and Xue Chengfeng received an urgent dispatch from the imperial court and learned that the Lingxian Sect was a legitimate immortal sect.
• Tong Shuzheng and Xue Chengfeng decided to send the Lingxian Sect New Year's gifts and wondered whether the court planned to change how it dealt with sects.

On New Year's Eve, Xiushui Village and the Lingxian Sect celebrated together while Liao Pantu captivated the elders with stories of his cultivation journey. Lin Xiao and the youngsters secretly learned a spell and took positions around the village, waiting for midnight to begin their surprise.

• Tong Shuzheng agreed to visit the Lingxian Sect with Xue Chengfeng to deliver New Year's gifts.
• Xiushui Village celebrated with lanterns, food, firecrackers, and couplets written by Sun Yigao's students.
• Lin Xiao invited Lin Yan, Lin Ying, Liu Shengsheng, and the other youngsters to learn a new spell before midnight.
• Liao Pantu joined the elders' conversation and enthralled them with stories from his cultivation life.
• Lin Xiao asked the elders to look toward the village at midnight, then led the youngsters to their assigned positions.
• Village Chief Du's great bronze gong rang out to mark midnight.