Recaps

Lin Xiao exposed Boss Liu’s abuse of Yunan’s family and crippled him so he could no longer threaten them. As the villagers carried Boss Liu home, Village Chief Du suggested that Lin Xiao might have an extraordinary power and told his son that immortals existed.

• Lin Xiao warned the villagers that Boss Liu would keep bullying his family and might retaliate against Clan Leader Hu, then promised a way to stop him without expelling his household.
• Lin Xiao used the Body Immobilization Technique and a dagger to sever the tendons in Boss Liu’s hands and legs, then released him.
• Several young villagers carried the injured Boss Liu home, while the village elders left and told their clansmen to keep the incident from outsiders.
• Village Chief Du offered Lin Xiao his family’s ox cart in case Brother Nan needed to see a doctor.
• Du Changsheng wondered whether Lin Xiao had been possessed by a mountain monster, and Village Chief Du replied that immortals existed in the world.

Village Chief Du remembered that immortals visited the prefectural capital to recruit disciples and suspected Lin Xiao was cultivating. After discovering Liu Yunan might have a broken shoulder, Lin Xiao rushed through the rain to fetch his grandfather, who knew how to set bones.

• Village Chief Du recalled seeing immortals recruit disciples at the prefectural capital and connected the memory to Lin Xiao's sect recruitment announcement.
• Lin Xiao stayed with the injured Liu Yunan and found that his swollen, misshapen shoulder was likely broken.
• Lin Xiao ran to his family's old home, climbed through his grandparents' window, and asked Old Master Lin to set Liu Yunan's bone.
• Old Master Lin gathered medicinal wine and dressed to leave, and Lin Xiao carried him on his back toward Liu Yunan's home.

Old Master Lin set Liu Yunan’s broken shoulder at the Liu Household, and Lin Xiao helped Widow Liu after learning Liu Shengsheng had developed a fever. The chapter ended with Widow Liu taking Shengsheng to town while Lin Xiao promised to watch over Liu Yunan.

• Lin Xiao carried Old Master Lin through the rain to the Liu Household, where Old Master Lin reset Liu Yunan’s displaced shoulder and instructed the family to keep him at rest.
• On the walk home, Lin Xiao told Old Master Lin what had happened at the Liu Household but left out that he had cut the attackers’ tendons; when Old Master Lin questioned why his clothes were dry, Lin Xiao ran off at astonishing speed.
• The next morning, Lin Xiao visited Widow Liu, who said Liu Yunan had slept well but Liu Shengsheng had a fever after getting soaked in the rain.
• Widow Liu asked Lin Xiao to watch Liu Yunan while she took Liu Shengsheng to town for treatment, and Lin Xiao agreed.
• Widow Liu wrapped Liu Shengsheng in a quilt and set out for the village entrance to catch the village chief’s ox cart.

After Liu Yunan woke, Lin Xiao told him that Liu Dashan had been crippled and learned that Liu Yunan’s little sister had a fever and was taken to town. Liu Yunan joined his friends to cultivate on North Mountain, determined to become strong enough to protect his family, while Lin Xiao planted spirit grain seeds in a newly synthesized spirit field.

• Lin Xiao told Liu Yunan that he had crippled Liu Dashan, and Liu Yunan celebrated his uncle’s defeat.
• Jiang Youfu, Hu Liang, and Qin Jianghe visited Liu Yunan and heard how badly Boss Liu had beaten him.
• Lin Xiao told Liu Yunan that his mother had taken his feverish little sister to town for treatment, leaving Liu Yunan worried about their family’s lack of money.
• Liu Yunan insisted on going to cultivate with his friends and resolved to protect his mother and sister.
• The group reached North Mountain, where Sun Yigao and Lin Yun greeted them and fellow Daoist Xiaoluan received rice.
• Lin Xiao created another spirit field and planted sixteen spirit grain seeds after consulting the Elementary Spirit Herb Cultivation Manual.

Lin Xiao reviewed the sect’s needs, checked his members’ aptitudes, and assigned them new statuses and positions while worrying about stipends and money. After Sun Yigao reached the Qi Refining First Layer, Lin Xiao decided to investigate the Item Synthesizer, hoping it could make Storage Bags.

• Lin Xiao checked Hu Liang, Qin Jianghe, Liu Yunan, and Luan’s member details, discovering Liu Yunan’s aptitude had improved and Luan had a trace of Luan Bird bloodline.
• Lin Xiao made the members personal disciples and appointed Sun Yigao Teaching Elder, Qin Jianghe Finance Elder, Tietou Infrastructure Elder, and Lin Yun Farming Elder.
• The system gave Lin Xiao a mission to distribute stipends after he created five sect positions, leaving him worried about how to provide money and Spirit Stones.
• The system announced that Sun Yigao had advanced to the Qi Refining First Layer, making four sect members cultivators alongside Jiang Youfu, Liu Yunan, and Xiaoluan.
• Lin Xiao considered earning money at the upcoming town market and opened the Item Synthesizer to see whether it could make Storage Bags.

Lin Xiao used his waistband and Spiritual Power to synthesize a Storage Bag, discovering that it could hold objects much larger than itself. He made another from Jiang Youfu’s waistband and began making one for Tietou as the group prepared to dig mud.

• Lin Xiao put his waistband into the Item Synthesizer, supplied Spiritual Power, and produced a worn pouch that held five head-sized stones.
• Lin Yun and the others emerged from the grass shelter, and Lin Xiao demonstrated the pouch’s capacity to their astonishment.
• Liu Yunan wondered whether the pouch was an immortal’s gift, while Jiang Youfu asked if Lin Xiao was performing a trick.
• Lin Xiao synthesized a second pouch from Jiang Youfu’s waistband, and Jiang Youfu tested it with a large stone and asked to keep it.
• Tietou handed Lin Xiao his waistband and asked for a pouch, then hurriedly pulled up his trousers after they fell down.
• Lin Xiao began synthesizing a pouch for Tietou to carry the mud they would dig up.

Lin Xiao organized the sect’s duties, prepared to earn money at the town market, and gave newly advanced disciples Law Techniques. Liu Yunan returned home to find his little sister still dangerously ill, while Lin Xiao faced his father’s questions about the previous night.

• Sun Yigao brought a bolt of cloth, and Lin Xiao made Storage Bags for him, Qin Jianghe, Lin Yun, and Liu Yunan.
• Lin Xiao assigned sect positions, explained that he would sell tooth-cleaning services at the town market, and invited Qin Jianghe to accompany him.
• Lin Xiao handed out copies of three Law Techniques and warned Jiang Youfu not to neglect cultivation to learn them.
• Liu Yunan learned that Liu Shengsheng’s fever had not improved and that his mother could afford only one dose of medicine.
• Lin Dayou confronted Lin Xiao at home about cutting off people’s hands and feet the previous night.

Lin Xiao prepared to finish building his sect and learned that Lin Yun had reached the Qi Refining First Layer. On the way to market with his family, he revealed his cultivation to Lin Dashan, who excitedly mistook him for an immortal.

• Lin Xiao told Lin Dayou that he had dealt with Boss Liu and arranged to go to market with him the next day.
• Lin Xiao counted the sect’s members and construction materials, then received notice that Lin Yun had advanced to the Qi Refining First Layer.
• Lin Xiao accompanied Lin Dayou, Lin Dashan, and Lady Qin to the market.
• When Lin Dashan asked how Lin Xiao had defeated Boss Liu, Lin Xiao demonstrated his Body Immobilization Technique on him.
• Lin Xiao explained that he had established a sect and was cultivating immortality, but Lin Dashan excitedly called him an immortal and lifted him into the air.
• Lin Xiao persuaded Lin Dashan to put him down and suggested they continue talking as they walked.

Lin Xiao and his family traveled to Emerald Peak Town for market day, where he planned to earn money by cleaning teeth. After seeing how poorly Lin Dashan and Lin Dayou sold Old Master Lin’s wares, Lin Xiao decided to begin his own work at the stall.

• Lin Xiao asked Lin Dashan to demonstrate tooth-cleaning and Lady Qin volunteered to be his next demonstration.
• Lin Xiao, Lin Dashan, Lin Dayou, and Lady Qin reached Emerald Peak Town and claimed a stall in the market.
• Lin Xiao searched the market for Qin Jianghe and Fourth Aunt Qin but could not find them.
• Lin Xiao watched Lin Dashan and Lin Dayou barely engage with customers and sell only two baskets as the market grew busier.
• Lin Xiao checked the wares’ prices, announced that he was starting work, and set a folding stool beside the stall.

Lin Xiao attracted a crowd at the market by demonstrating that his tooth powder could whiten teeth, earning money from customers. By nearly noon, the powder had run out, and his family packed up to return to the village.

• Lin Xiao advertised his tooth powder and offered to clean customers’ teeth for fifty copper coins each.
• Lin Xiao used a Dust Removal Technique to whiten the plump woman’s teeth, and Yan’er confirmed the change was real.
• The plump woman and Yan’er each paid Lin Xiao fifty copper coins for the treatment.
• A crowd formed around Lin Xiao, and he enlisted Lin Dayou to collect money while Lin Dashan watched the stall.
• Lin Xiao sold treatments until the tooth powder ran out, then sent the remaining customers away and packed up with Lady Qin and Lin Dashan.

Lin Xiao stored the family’s earnings in his pouch and bought pigments for the Shangyang Sect’s main hall. On the way home, he and his family learned that the Shangyang Sect would recruit children in their town in ten days.

• Lin Xiao secretly put Lin Dayou’s copper coins into his small pouch, astonishing his father with its storage ability.
• Lin Xiao spent three hundred copper coins on pigments to make the sect’s main hall more impressive.
• Lin Xiao and his family stopped to eat their dry rations before heading toward the town gate.
• A constable announced that the Shangyang Sect would recruit boys and girls under twelve at the town market in ten days.
• The constable told the crowd that his grandfather had witnessed an immortal summon a flying boat and carry chosen children aboard.

Lin Xiao and his family learned more about the upcoming immortal-sect recruitment, then discovered that his Storage Bag could hold their earnings. Lin Xiao said he would not join the sect because he considered himself the master of his own sect, and the group continued home.

• Lin Xiao and his family listened to a yamen runner explain the immortal-sect recruitment and left Emerald Peak Town.
• Lin Dashan and Lady Qin panicked when they noticed Lin Dayou's shoulder bag was missing, but Lin Xiao pulled it from his Storage Bag.
• Lin Xiao explained that he had made the Storage Bag himself and that it held about half a back basket's worth of items.
• Lin Xiao told Lin Dashan he would not join the immortal sect because the grass hut on the mountain was his sect and he was its master.
• Lin Dayou secretly felt relieved that Lin Xiao planned to stay in the village and cultivate on his own.

Lin Xiao returned to Xiushui Village, found Qin Jianghe missing from the mountain, and decided to build the Lingxian Sect's main hall. He successfully synthesized the hall and was prompted to choose where to place it.

• Lin Xiao heard villagers gossiping about the Liu Household and continued toward North Mountain with his family.
• Lin Xiao gave the pouch of copper coins to Lin Dayou, then went up the mountain to check on the sect and found Qin Jianghe absent.
• Lin Xiao saw that the others were cultivating and, after checking Qin Jianghe's character panel, decided there was probably no emergency.
• Lin Xiao gathered mud and cut enough timber to synthesize the sect main hall, adding pigments and his last Spirit Stone to the materials.
• Lin Xiao successfully synthesized a large, dark-red-tinted mud-brick hall with tiled upturned eaves and was asked to select its placement.

Lin Xiao completed the Lingxian Grand Hall, received his construction rewards, and renewed his automatic cultivation. Qin Jianghe returned and told Lin Xiao and the others that he had met a prospective bride, leaving the group teasing him about the match.

• Lin Xiao named the completed hall Lingxian Grand Hall, expanded the sect’s defensive range, and received Spirit Stones, spirit silkworm eggs, Mo Mulberry seeds, and a First-Tier Spirit Vein Fragment.
• Lin Xiao spent fifteen Spirit Stones to renew automatic cultivation for half a month and admired the grand hall without entering it.
• Qin Jianghe returned and explained that his mother had taken him to meet a prospective bride, who also thought he seemed dependable.
• Lin Xiao told Qin Jianghe that he had earned about three thousand copper coins, then asked how the meeting had gone.
• Jiang Youfu, Liu Yunan, Hu Liang, Sun Yigao, and Lin Yun gathered with Lin Xiao and Qin Jianghe, and the group teased Qin Jianghe about meeting a girl.

Lin Xiao showed the Lingxian Sect members their new main hall, where their loyalty earned him the Heaven Rank formation Ten Thousand Swords Return to One, though none of them was strong enough to use it. He returned home with Lin Yun for dinner, where Old Master Lin asked whether Lin Xiao’s cultivation was real, and Lin Xiao offered to teach him.

• Lin Xiao led the Lingxian Sect members into their newly built main hall, where they saw the sect’s name displayed above the platform.
• The system awarded Lin Xiao the Heaven Rank formation Ten Thousand Swords Return to One after the members’ loyalty reached 200%, but he stored it because they lacked Golden Core Stage cultivation.
• Lin Xiao dismissed the sect members for dinner and returned to the old Lin family home with Lin Yun.
• Lin Ying announced their arrival, and the Lin family gathered in the courtyard for a meal.
• Old Master Lin asked Lin Xiao if his cultivation was real, and Lin Xiao invited him to cultivate and possibly extend his life.

Lin Xiao persuaded the Lin Household to discuss cultivation calmly, then used his earnings to begin paying monthly salaries to his sect members. He delivered Lin Yun’s pay and headed to Hu Liang’s home next.

• Lin Xiao urged Eldest Uncle Lin's Wife and Lin Lei to discuss cultivation without arguing, and invited the Lin Household to join him.
• Lin Dayou refused Lin Xiao’s attempts to persuade him to cultivate, then handed over Lin Xiao’s earnings.
• Lin Xiao divided the copper coins into strings, kept one month’s salary for himself, and planned to buy grain for the sect.
• Lin Xiao gave Lin Yun a string of copper coins as his sect salary, and Lin Yun returned to cultivating.
• Lin Xiao set out to pay the other sect members and arrived at Hu Liang’s home in the middle of the village.

Lin Xiao paid Tietou his wages and gave him money to buy a roast chicken, then brought Qin Jianghe along to deliver stipends to their fellow sect members. The two arrived at Sun Yigao’s home to pay his stipend.

• Lin Xiao met Tietou outside the Hu Household and secretly paid him his wages, then gave him thirty-eight copper coins to buy a roast chicken.
• Third Aunt Hu questioned Tietou about Lin Xiao’s earnings, but Tietou’s mother called him inside before he could reveal anything.
• Lin Xiao visited Qin Jianghe and handed him his stipend and the remaining money to manage as the sect’s finance elder.
• Qin Jianghe agreed to help pay the other members and went with Lin Xiao to Sun Yigao’s home.
• Auntie Sun welcomed Lin Xiao and Qin Jianghe, and Lin Xiao explained that they had come to give Sun Yigao his sect stipend.

Lin Xiao and Qin Jianghe distributed sect stipends to Sun Yigao, Jiang Youfu, and Liu Yunan, strengthening their enthusiasm for the sect. Lin Xiao realized he had forgotten Xiaoluan and headed up the mountain at night to ask whether the little demon chicken should receive a stipend.

• Auntie Sun welcomed Lin Xiao and Qin Jianghe, and Sun Yigao joined them after dressing formally; the three agreed to set aside formalities among friends.
• Lin Xiao and Qin Jianghe gave Sun Yigao a hundred copper coins as his sect stipend, and Lin Xiao asked him to help teach future sect members.
• Lin Xiao gave Jiang Youfu his stipend, then suggested he use some money to join Tietou for roast chicken.
• At Liu Yunan's home, Lin Xiao and Qin Jianghe gave him a hundred copper coins, lifting his spirits despite his sister's lingering fever.
• After leaving, Lin Xiao noticed the stipend task was still incomplete because he had forgotten Xiaoluan, so he went up the mountain to ask whether the little demon chicken should receive coins.

Lin Xiao completed the sect stipend task by giving Xiaoluan a Spirit Stone and received Spirit Stones, a uniform recipe, and growth-accelerating bone meal. The next morning, Lin Dayou confronted him about cutting up his new belt, then left him to sleep again.

• Lin Xiao gave Xiaoluan a Spirit Stone as its sect stipend, and Xiaoluan said it could absorb the stone for three months.
• Lin Xiao completed the stipend task and received twenty Spirit Stones, a basic sect uniform recipe, and fifty portions of Spirit Plant Growth-Accelerating Bone Meal.
• Lin Xiao examined the uniform recipe, decided to test it later, and went to sleep.
• Before dawn, Lin Dayou woke Lin Xiao and demanded to know where his new belt was.
• Lin Xiao showed Lin Dayou the Storage Bag he had made from the belt, and Lin Dayou told him to keep using a grass rope or buy a replacement himself.
• Lin Dayou went to wash clothes, and Lin Xiao fell asleep again.

Lin Xiao planted Mo Mulberries in a new Spirit Field, then realized the spirit silkworms would still take time to grow. Worried about a sect arriving in nine days, he made strengthening his members the priority and built a cultivation room.

• Lin Xiao dug up ground and synthesized a roughly fifty-square-meter Spirit Field, then planted five Mo Mulberry seeds and used growth-accelerating bone meal on them.
• He placed ten spirit silkworm eggs on the new leaves, but realized he had no way to speed up the silkworms’ growth.
• Lin Xiao considered the approaching Shangyang Sect and decided his sect urgently needed to grow stronger.
• He took the Initial-Grade Spirit Gathering Formation from the thatched shelter and used it with mud, wood, straw mats, and four Spirit Stones to synthesize a cultivation room.
• Lin Xiao placed the roughly thirty-square-meter cultivation room behind and to the right of the sect’s main hall, and the system issued a task reward.

Lin Xiao built a cultivation room that greatly accelerated the sect members’ training, and the group spent five days cultivating there. As Sun Yigao reached Qi Refining Second Layer and the others all reached Qi Refining, Lin Xiao neared Qi Refining Fifth Layer, but Qin Jianghe arrived looking troubled after visiting his prospective bride’s family.

• Lin Xiao opened the cultivation room, and its dense Spiritual Qi prompted everyone to settle in and cultivate.
• Lin Xiao and the others shared lunch, then spent five days cultivating while villagers speculated that they were practicing martial arts.
• Lin Xiao discovered that the spirit silkworms had begun spinning silk and forming cocoons.
• The system announced that Sun Yigao had advanced to Qi Refining Second Layer; Lin Xiao also learned that Qin Jianghe and Hu Liang had reached Qi Refining First Layer, meaning every sect member had begun cultivating.
• Lin Xiao, close to Qi Refining Fifth Layer, stopped Qin Jianghe from entering the cultivation room and asked why he looked listless after visiting his prospective bride’s family.

Lin Xiao synthesized elegant, self-sizing Lingxian Sect uniforms and took the sect’s young disciples to Emerald Peak Town to watch the Shangyang Sect recruit. The group pushed through the packed marketplace to get a closer view of the recruitment.

• Qin Jianghe complained to Lin Xiao about his prospective bride and her family, so Lin Xiao dragged him off to cultivate; Lin Xiao advanced to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer.
• Lin Xiao used the Item Synthesizer to turn spirit silkworm cocoons, cotton, and Spirit Stones into ten white Lingxian Sect uniforms.
• The disciples admired their uniforms but put them away to save for a special occasion.
• Lin Xiao led everyone except Xiaoluan to town, and the young men raced there on foot, with Jiang Youfu losing and barking three times.
• Lin Xiao and the disciples entered crowded Emerald Peak Town and squeezed through the marketplace crowd for a better view of the Shangyang Sect recruitment.

At the Shangyang Sect's recruitment, Niu Xiaoxue revealed a rare mutated lightning spirit root and was accepted, while Qin Jianghe watched the girl he had expected to marry choose a different path. Lin Xiao and the others tried to comfort Qin Jianghe, who eventually smiled and joined their roughhousing.

• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao reached the front of the crowd as the Shangyang Sect began testing children under twelve.
• Qin Jianghe spotted Niu Xiaoxue, the girl he had met as a potential bride, waiting to be tested.
• Niu Xiaoxue's test produced a flash of white light, revealing a single mutated lightning spirit root, and the sect disciples accepted her.
• Feng Xuanqie welcomed Niu Xiaoxue, gave her an umbrella, and introduced himself as Senior Brother Feng.
• The others gathered around the dejected Qin Jianghe and tried to console him, and he finally smiled before they teased him for acting sad.

Lin Xiao observed the Shangyang Sect’s recruitment and realized its cultivators’ elemental Qi differed from the cultivation path used by the Lingxian Sect. On the final day, the system shielded him from a high-level cultivator’s Divine Sense, and he watched the Shangyang Sect depart with its newly recruited disciples aboard a spirit ship.

• Lin Xiao noticed that the three Shangyang Sect cultivators gave off elemental Qi and wondered whether Spirit Roots were only one path to cultivation.
• Lin Xiao and the others stopped attending the recruitment, while villagers doubted that the boys from Xiushui Village could really cultivate.
• Lin Xiao went alone to watch the final departure and approached the Shangyang Sect cultivators gathered outside Emerald Peak Town.
• The system activated its Divine Sense Probe Prevention Function when a middle-aged cultivator probed Lin Xiao, causing the cultivator’s sensing to fail.
• The middle-aged cultivator summoned a spirit ship, and Lin Xiao bowed as the Shangyang Sect’s cultivators and newly recruited disciples boarded it.

Lin Xiao created and mastered the Cloud Soaring Technique, then tested its first tier by walking through the air and startled Jiang Youfu. Jiang Youfu told him that Widow Liu and Liu Shengsheng had come to see him, and Lin Xiao went to meet them at the mountain entrance.

• Lin Xiao watched the spirit ship depart and hurried back to the sect, inspired to create a flying technique.
• Lin Xiao used the Law Technique Creation Function to create the Cloud Soaring Technique, which had tiers for walking in the air, flying with Spiritual Power wings, and riding clouds.
• Lin Xiao tried the Air-Stepping Technique and soon walked in circles through the main hall.
• Jiang Youfu arrived, got startled by Lin Xiao in midair, and asked to learn the new Law Technique.
• Jiang Youfu told Lin Xiao that Tuzi's mother and younger sister had come to see him, so Lin Xiao went to the mountain entrance.
• Lin Xiao greeted Widow Liu, who thanked him for the money that had helped Liu Shengsheng receive treatment.