Recaps

Madam Hu discovered that the streetlamp near the Lingxian Sect kept mosquitoes away, giving Xiushui Village’s children temporary relief. The sect then developed long-lasting mosquito-repellent lamp oil and prepared to distribute it, with Bai Zhu and the new disciples taking the task.

• Madam Hu carried her crying son to the streetlamp and found that mosquitoes stayed away from its light.
• Word spread through Xiushui Village, and families with children gathered beneath the lamp until Liu Yunan assured Village Chief Du Liushui that the sect would find a solution.
• Sun Yigao, Mo Yuanjiao, and others developed effective lamp oil that repelled mosquitoes and burned for the summer.
• Liu Yunan posted a task to distribute the oil, and Bai Zhu accepted it before telling the other new disciples.

As the Lingxian Sect distributed mosquito-repelling lamp oil, residents from Xiushui Village and nearby villages organized themselves into orderly lines. Bai Zhu gave an elderly man a bamboo tube of oil and lamp wicks, and the man left hoping his wife could sleep well that night.

• News spread that the Lingxian Sect would give away mosquito-repelling lamp oil, drawing crowds from Xiushui Village and nearby areas.
• The villagers formed ten orderly lines and stopped people who tried to push ahead.
• Liu Yunan led eleven new disciples down the Peach Blossom Mountain Path and assigned ten of them to distribute supplies.
• Bai Zhu and the other disciples handed out lamp oil, with bamboo tubes and wicks available for people who needed them.
• Bai Zhu gave an elderly man a bamboo tube of lamp oil and a handful of wicks, and the man left to return to his village.

Bai Zhu helped distribute mosquito-repellent lamp oil and reunited with the old beggar, while Yin Xiaoxiao received a bundle from her parents. After the distribution ended, the Lingxian Sect placed a Sect Bell near Peach Blossom Road so people in difficulty could call for help.

• Xie Rong told Yin Xiaoxiao that her parents had visited and gave her the bundle they brought, while she urged him to review Elder Yang's lesson.
• Elder Liu asked Bai Zhu to lead the next day's disciples down the mountain and gave him a Sound Transmission Talisman and instructions for emergencies.
• Bai Zhu distributed lamp oil and brought some to the old beggar, who was waiting outside the crowd.
• Liu Yunan stored the remaining lamp oil after villagers stopped coming, and the new disciples resolved to cultivate so they could help more people.
• Liu Yunan set up the Sect Bell shrine near Peach Blossom Road after Lin Xiao arranged for it to be made, allowing people in difficulty to summon the sect.

Lin Xiao emerged from seclusion in the sect’s Artifact Refining Hall and revealed the Lock Ring, a device he had developed after breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm. Lin Yun and the others learned its storage and long-distance communication functions, which could let people traveling to the Immortal Cultivation Realm stay in contact with the sect.

• Lin Yun, Lin Lei, and the others waited anxiously as Lin Xiao worked in the sealed room for days, hearing repeated explosions.
• Lin Xiao announced his success and showed everyone a white jade ring he had named the Lock Ring.
• Lin Xiao explained that the Lock Ring could store roughly a hundred cubic meters of items and transmit voices in real time between rings.
• Lin Xiao described how he had adapted miniature teleportation formation patterns to select recipients and transmit sound using little spiritual power.
• Lin Xiao demonstrated that a Divine Sense Mark secured each Lock Ring so it could not be removed while its owner's Divine Sense remained intact.
• Lin Yun, Lin Lei, and the others admired Lin Xiao's invention and noted that it could let Finance Hall members communicate with the sect during trips to the Immortal Cultivation Realm.

Lin Xiao discussed mass-producing Lock Rings and agreed to open the Icefield Mystic Realm to Foundation Establishment Realm members for training. He then learned from Liu Yunan that upgrading the Heart-Questioning Road had depleted more than half of the sect’s Spirit Stone mine, leaving him shocked.

• Qin Jianghe asked whether the Lock Rings could be mass-produced, and Lin Xiao explained their materials and complicated production process.
• Lin Xiao said he had made two hundred Lock Rings and would teach the Artifact Refining Hall to produce them and find substitute materials.
• Lin Xiao asked who wanted to enter the Icefield Mystic Realm, and Jiang Youfu eagerly volunteered to fish for Silver-Tailed Fish.
• The Foundation Establishment Realm members expressed interest, and the sect decided they could enter the Icefield Mystic Realm when it opened.
• Liu Yunan told Lin Xiao that upgrading the Heart-Questioning Road had cost many Spirit Stones, then revealed that more than half of the mine had been emptied.
• Lin Xiao nearly lost control of his voice when he heard how much of the Spirit Stone mine had been depleted.

Lin Xiao worried about the sect’s Spirit Stone supply and decided to resume cultivating on his own after learning that idle cultivation now cost five hundred Spirit Stones a day. Meanwhile, all 132 new disciples drew Qi into their bodies, and Liu Yunan gave them Peach Leaf Pendants for protection outside the sect.

• Lin Xiao arranged for the system to draw Spirit Stones from a sect vault instead of the mine, then learned idle cultivation at his Nascent Soul Realm cost five hundred Spirit Stones per day.
• Lin Xiao chose to cultivate on his own until he could afford idle cultivation again.
• On the twentieth day after the new disciples arrived, all 132 had successfully drawn Qi into their bodies.
• Liu Yunan distributed Peach Leaf Pendants and told the new disciples to wear them to conceal their cultivation when away from the sect.
• Liu Yunan explained that the pendants had been made from leaves that had fallen naturally from the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree.

The new disciples named their mountain Azure Cloud Peak and moved into the houses they had built. Lin Xiao received rewards for establishing the peak, including a First-Tier Spirit Vein and a Heart-Rectifying Mirror, which he placed at the sect’s mountain entrance.

• Bai Zhu told Liu Yunan that Azure Cloud Peak had received the most votes, and the new disciples agreed to make it the mountain’s official name.
• The Azure Cloud Peak disciples finished tiling their roofs, and Elder Hu used a formation plate to dry the houses so they could move in that night.
• Lin Xiao received a system notification that Azure Cloud Peak had been established and was told to choose a Peak Master.
• Lin Xiao found five thousand Spirit Stones, a First-Tier Spirit Vein, and a Heart-Rectifying Mirror among the rewards in his private vault.
• Lin Xiao examined the Heart-Rectifying Mirror, decided it could help people gain insight, and placed it at the entrance to the sect’s mountain path.

Lin Xiao split the Heart-Rectifying Mirror and crafted ornate frames, causing the two halves to transform into a Yin-Yang Heart-Rectifying Mirror. He placed the mirrors at busy entrances and installed a First-Tier Spirit Vein on Azure Cloud Peak, greatly increasing Spiritual Qi around the Lingxian Sect.

• Lin Xiao cut the Heart-Rectifying Mirror in half and went to the Artifact Refining Hall to make frames from Soul-Nourishing Wood, Cold-Concentrating Jade, and other materials.
• When Lin Xiao fitted the two mirrors into their frames, they fused back to back and became a Yin-Yang Heart-Rectifying Mirror with the power to form a Four Symbols Prison when joined.
• Lin Xiao placed one mirror at the cultivation hall entrance on Azure Cloud Peak and the other at the entrance to Yaoguang Floating Island.
• Lin Xiao placed the newly acquired First-Tier Spirit Vein in the drinking-water pool on Azure Cloud Peak, and its coverage overlapped with the existing spirit veins to raise the sect's Spiritual Qi.
• The people of Xiushui Village woke feeling refreshed and noticed that the crops looked more vigorous.

After discovering the Heart-Rectifying Mirrors, the Lingxian Sect disciples returned to cultivation, while Liang Zhonghuai decided to look for work to earn cultivation resources. Bai Zhu and Feng Xuanqie joined him, and the three set out to explore job options around the sect.

• The Lingxian Sect disciples gathered around the newly placed Heart-Rectifying Mirrors, found their reflections blurred in different ways, and soon returned to their work and cultivation.
• Liang Zhonghuai told Bai Zhu he planned to look for suitable work and earn cultivation resources rather than overfill his cultivation schedule, and Bai Zhu asked to go with him.
• Feng Xuanqie followed Liang Zhonghuai and Bai Zhu out of the cultivation hall and asked to join them, making their journey a group of three.
• Liang Zhonghuai said he hoped to find odd jobs at the Four Arts Hall before later studying one of its arts under a master.
• Bai Zhu said he wanted to work under Elder Liu at the General Affairs Hall, and Feng Xuanqie cautioned him to keep the work from interfering with cultivation.

Bai Zhu planned to balance sect work with learning a craft, while new Azure Cloud Peak disciples filled jobs across the Lingxian Sect. Meanwhile, ten cultivators emerged from the Spiritless Land and split up to carry out their negotiations; ten days later, the Azure Cloud Peak disciples gathered for the day they would take masters.

• Bai Zhu told Feng Xuanqie he intended to learn a craft while working and earning resources to visit the old beggar.
• Liu Yunan recruited Azure Cloud Peak disciples for the Spirit Field Group after its elders pressed him to advertise the work.
• More than a dozen new disciples joined the Spirit Field Group, and other sect departments followed by recruiting disciples for their own positions.
• After more than a year crossing the Spiritless Land, Yao Yuchang and the other nine cultivators reached the Mortal Realm and received maps assigning them kingdoms and sects to negotiate with.
• The nine companions departed in different directions, while He Yi examined his Jade Slip and flew toward his assigned destination.
• Ten days later, Azure Cloud Peak disciples assembled in the sect's square after their morning classes to take masters.

The Lingxian Sect held a brief disciple acceptance ceremony, and 118 Azure Cloud Peak disciples chose masters while fourteen decided to wait. He Rui and three others hoped to become Lin Xiao’s disciples later, and Liu Chun arranged to teach one disciple at a time in Yuanling City.

• Jiang Youfu gained twenty-three disciples, Sun Yigao gained twenty, Liu Chun gained eighteen, Hu Liang gained fifteen, Mo Yuanjiao gained eleven, and Liao Pantu gained six.
• Liao Pantu initially resented receiving only six disciples, then felt pleased when he saw that five already had cultivation and one was at the Golden Core Stage.
• Liu Yunan learned that ten disciples wanted to focus on cultivation and four hoped Lin Xiao would accept them as disciples in the future.
• He Rui and the other three disciples chose to cultivate rather than take another master while waiting for Lin Xiao.
• Liu Chun agreed with Lin Xiao to teach one disciple at a time in Yuanling City, rotating disciples each month.

Yu Jie brought Han Weishu gifts from her mother, the Clear River Sect leader, and a sealed letter for Lin Xiao. Yang Jinshu discovered that the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree had finally borne three fruits and summoned Lin Xiao to see them.

• Yang Jinshu received Yu Jie, who delivered gifts for Han Weishu and a sealed letter for Lin Xiao from the Clear River Sect leader.
• Yang Jinshu accepted the gifts and agreed to pass the letter to Lin Xiao before Yu Jie returned to his sect.
• Yang Jinshu spotted three small fruits among the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree's blossoms and sent Han Weishu's box to Azure Cloud Peak.
• Yang Jinshu used her Lock Ring to summon Lin Xiao, who arrived and examined the tree's three fuzzy green fruits.

Lin Xiao received a letter from Han Shangyi hinting at an unspoken inheritance shared by Mortal Realm sects, and decided to meet him after completing his current work. He continued researching spatial formations while Sun Yigao and Liao Pantu worked on a pill to help Liu Qin recover her Dantian.

• Yang Jinshu gave Lin Xiao Han Shangyi's letter and took the Clear River Sect's gift to the Finance Hall.
• Lin Xiao inferred that Han Shangyi was offering to share the unspoken customs and inheritance of Mortal Realm sects, and decided a meeting would help the Lingxian Sect join their circle.
• Lin Xiao went to the Formation Hall to test his plans for a spatial-expansion formation, choosing to develop the technique without relying on system synthesis.
• Sun Yigao and Liao Pantu studied herbs for a pill to repair Liu Qin's Dantian after its surface began healing and she regained brief periods of consciousness.

Liao Pantu shared his long-standing idea of combining other arts with alchemy and began researching it with Sun Yigao. Meanwhile, the Lingxian Sect’s members stayed busy studying Lock Ring formations, teaching new disciples, and expanding spirit fields.

• Liao Pantu told Sun Yigao about his idea of combining alchemy with other arts and asked him to help test it.
• Liao Pantu brought out his research records, and he and Sun Yigao began discussing experiments after settling on Liu Qin’s recuperation Pill Formula.
• Liao Pantu and Sun Yigao spent long hours studying records in the Alchemy Chamber and talisman-making room while keeping up with their sect duties.
• Mo Yuanjiao studied the fifth Lock Ring formation diagram after failing to inscribe it five times, while the Formation Hall members practiced the first three diagrams.
• Jiang Youfu took on many new disciples and left Spirit Cuisine Hall dinners to Liu Shengsheng as his teaching duties grew.
• The Spirit Field Group’s elders began clearing land for spirit fields, and Lin Xiao adjusted the sect’s grand formation to reserve a large area on the back mountain.

The Lingxian Sect’s disciples kept busy with seed breeding and other work, while Lin Lei prepared a spirit boat for his wedding procession. On the wedding day, he flew to Songyang County with Lin Xiao and the other young men to fetch his bride, astonishing the crowds below.

• The Lingxian Sect reserved its remaining spirit rice for seed and served ordinary rice and vegetable dishes instead.
• Three months passed, and the sect began producing Lock Rings on the day of Lin Lei’s wedding.
• The Lin family and villagers prepared a large rolling banquet at the old Lin household.
• Lin Lei finished building and decorating a spirit boat so he could fetch his bride in it.
• Lin Lei, Lin Xiao, and the other unmarried young men flew to Songyang County, where the sight of their festive boat drew a crowd.
• A woman from the bride’s family rushed inside to announce that the groom had arrived by boat.

As Lin Xiao’s wedding boat left Songyang County, Qin Jianghe confronted him about the sect’s mounting expenses. Lin Xiao explained that he had been preparing a wide range of cultivation methods for courses that would help willing sect members gain experience outside the sect.

• Lin Lei invited the bride’s family onto the wedding boat, which carried them east as Songyang County’s residents watched enviously.
• Qin Jianghe pulled Lin Xiao aside and asked why he had been ordering so many expensive items from the Finance Hall.
• Lin Xiao showed Qin Jianghe dozens of cultivation methods and explained that the sect needed more varied skills for members who ventured out.
• Lin Xiao said Senior Liao had warned him that sect members needed experience to improve their state of mind and avoid cultivation bottlenecks.
• Lin Xiao revealed that he planned to offer cultivation-method courses before starting an experience-gaining plan for willing sect members.

Lin Xiao decided the Lingxian Sect needed greater fighting strength without keeping its members shut away from the world. After Lin Lei’s wedding, he stayed up alone in the Formation Hall, working on formation plates modeled partly on the Lock Rings.

• Lin Xiao considered the danger of the Lingxian Sect’s advantages becoming known and resolved to protect his friends and family without confining them to the sect.
• Lin Xiao told Qin Jianghe that he would arrange a training expedition after Lin Lei’s wedding and asked about the materials, including Spirit River Fertile Soil.
• The Lingxian Sect and villagers gathered at the Lin Household’s old residence to celebrate Lin Lei’s wedding, where Lin Xiao had set up a defensive formation.
• After the feast, Lin Xiao and the others returned to the sect, while Liu Yunan recalled the Azure Cloud Peak disciples with their Lock Rings.
• While the sect members slept, Lin Xiao worked alone in the Formation Hall on formation plates resembling parts of the Lock Rings.

Lin Xiao experimented with linking spatial formations in parallel, successfully completing many pairs as he worked through the night. The next morning, he went to meet his new cousin-in-law and brought her a gift, hoping to support her interest in cultivation and help the newlyweds grow closer.

• Lin Xiao used spiritual threads to link two spatial formations in parallel and successfully expanded their combined space.
• Lin Xiao continued linking formations through the night, repeatedly replacing the finished disks with new batches.
• At dawn, Lin Xiao went to formally meet his new cousin-in-law after his eldest paternal cousin's wedding.
• Lin Xiao brought his cousin-in-law pills to strengthen her physique and gave Lin Lei storybooks that could introduce her to cultivation and give the couple more to discuss.

Lin Xiao assembled the Teaching and Research Group and assigned its members to learn over a thousand Cultivation Methods so they could teach them to the sect’s disciples. He continued researching in the Formation Hall while answering their questions, leaving the new courses to be arranged after the group studied the methods.

• After returning from his eldest cousin’s family banquet, Lin Xiao summoned Liao Pantu, Yang Jinshu, Sun Yigao, and Mo Yuanjiao to the Scripture Pavilion’s seventh floor.
• Lin Xiao showed the four piles of Cultivation Methods and asked them to learn the first level of each within a month so they could become teachers.
• After Lin Xiao explained how the methods could help disciples face cultivation bottlenecks and prepare for experience outside the sect, the four accepted the task.
• Sun Yigao proposed that they begin teaching the first levels while continuing to study, and that capable learners be promoted to teachers.
• The Teaching and Research Group postponed detailed teaching arrangements until its members had studied the methods, while Lin Xiao answered their questions through their Lock Rings as he researched in the Formation Hall.

Lin Xiao continued his spatial formation research while Lin Lei settled into married life with Huang Manying and helped her learn about cultivation. A surge of tourists disrupted Xiushui Village, so Du Liushui rang the Lingxian Sect's Sect Bell to seek help, and Liu Yunan received the report.

• Lin Xiao continued linking spatial formations into a larger composite formation after briefly attending Lin Lei's wedding.
• Lin Lei paid for Huang Manying's meals and spent his evenings sharing stories and teaching her to read and learn the sect's principles.
• Old Madam Lin, Eldest Uncle Lin's Wife, Lin Ying, and Lin Yan began visiting Huang Manying, and the young women grew close as they studied together.
• Tourists flocked to Xiushui Village after news spread that members of the Lin family had come down the mountain, and Du Liushui organized a response to the influx.
• Du Liushui rang the Lingxian Sect's Sect Bell at the foot of North Mountain, and Liu Yunan received the report in the General Affairs Hall.

Village Chief Du asked Liu Yunan to help Xiushui Village prepare for its upgrade to town status, including funding construction. Qin Jianghe agreed that the Lingxian Sect would provide both a loan and a contribution, and the group began discussing the town’s needs.

• Du Liushui told Liu Yunan that Xiushui Village’s population had grown and the authorities were considering raising it to town status, pending the Lingxian Sect’s approval.
• Liu Yunan contacted Lin Xiao and the others, who were delighted by the news that their home village might become Xiushui Town.
• Du Liushui asked the Lingxian Sect to lend money for construction, explaining that the village wanted to establish a strong foundation for future growth.
• Qin Jianghe offered to provide some funds as a contribution and lend the rest, as well as send people to help if the village needed manpower.
• Du Liushui accepted the arrangement and outlined the buildings, materials, administrative offices, and operating funds planned for the town.

Liu Yunan and Qin Jianghe finalized the Lingxian Sect’s funding arrangement for a village project, then discussed starting a sect monthly to share news and involve newer disciples. Liu Yunan began planning it himself and enlisted Qin Jianghe’s help despite their heavy workloads.

• Liu Yunan and Qin Jianghe agreed with Village Chief Du on the project funding, loan interest, and an IOU, with the authorities and Lingxian Sect contributing roughly equal shares.
• After returning to the mountain, Liu Yunan and Qin Jianghe posted notices about the village project and decided it was a good time to start the sect monthly.
• Qin Jianghe warned that the monthly needed a dedicated department and a capable manager, while many potential helpers were busy studying hundreds or thousands of Cultivation Methods assigned by Lin Xiao.
• Liu Yunan decided to begin the monthly himself and create rules so the work could eventually be handed over.
• Liu Yunan took the ledger from Qin Jianghe and asked him to help plan the sect monthly.

Xiushui Village’s prosperity culminated in its planned transformation into Xiushui Town, backed by funding from the Lingxian Sect and new donations from local residents. Village Chief Du then remembered that the village needed to replace its western shelter for beggars before winter.

• After the harvest, the villagers learned that Xiushui Village would be built into Xiushui Town, with funding and a loan from the Lingxian Sect.
• The villagers celebrated the news, and dignitaries and wealthy residents donated nearly as much as the Lingxian Sect had contributed.
• Village Chief Du told his son Changsheng that the village needed to build a new western shelter because the existing one offered too little protection in winter.
• The villagers had built and improved the shelter for seven or eight old people and children who had nowhere else to go.

Du Liushui learned that the frail beggar living in Xiushui Village’s shack wanted to rent land to grow produce, and he remembered how Liu Yunan had helped save the man. Meanwhile, Sun Yigao and Mo Yuanjiao developed new ways to improve farming at Lingxian Sect as the sect prepared for the autumn spirit-grain harvest.

• Du Changsheng told Du Liushui that the old beggar wanted to rent land, and Du Liushui told his son to make the decision himself.
• Du Liushui recalled how the beggar had come to the village near death, how Liu Yunan sent him a pill, and how the man later settled in the shack.
• Du Liushui decided to remind Du Changsheng to prepare cold-weather supplies for the shack’s residents.
• Sun Yigao earned the Spirit Field Group elders’ praise for developing specialized pills to nourish crops and treat plant diseases.
• Mo Yuanjiao created farming formations for regulating temperature, timing pollination, and administering Sun Yigao’s pills.
• The sect’s farmers arranged for the autumn harvest, when spirit grain naturally yielded best.

Lin Xiao secretly completed the construction of Everbright Mountain in a remote part of North Mountain, drawing in Yin Qi to bind the mountain ridges and ravine into the new sect building. He opened its hidden entrance and watched a white fox take shape from the stone stele.

• Lin Xiao went alone to the far end of North Mountain with a black cube he had spent months constructing.
• He unfolded the cube into a vast grid, placed a ball of light inside it, and spread the grid over two ridges and a ravine.
• Lin Xiao poured in his Origin Qi as the grid descended, absorbed Yin Qi, and merged with the mountain terrain.
• A stone stele bearing the name Everbright Mountain appeared, and the system announced that Lin Xiao had constructed and added the sect building.
• Lin Xiao knocked four times on the stele, summoning fog and a white fox face that formed from vapor.