Recaps

Widow Liu asked to join Lin Xiao’s sect and revealed that her family had once been wealthy merchants who hoped she would cultivate. Lin Xiao welcomed her and explained that his sect’s method did not require Spirit Roots.

• Lin Xiao let Widow Liu, Liu Shengsheng, and Liu Yunan into the sect and brought them to the great hall.
• Widow Liu told Lin Xiao she wanted to join his sect and cultivate alongside him.
• Widow Liu explained that she had dual earth and wood Spirit Roots and had nearly joined the Shangyang Sect before betrayal and disaster ruined her family’s fortunes and separated her from her parents.
• Widow Liu said she wanted to cultivate because she believed it was the only way to live with dignity, and Lin Xiao agreed to accept her.
• Lin Xiao told Widow Liu, Jiang Youfu, and Liu Yunan that his sect’s cultivation method did not require Spirit Roots.

Lin Xiao admitted Yang Jinshu and Liu Shengsheng into the Lingxian Sect and gave them cultivation manuals and uniforms. With the sect now at nine members, he checked their profiles and considered the sect’s lack of other cultivation manuals.

• Lin Xiao concluded that Sun Yigao’s cultivation speed showed little difference from his own and invited Widow Liu to cultivate.
• Widow Liu revealed her name was Yang Jinshu, and she and Liu Shengsheng joined the Lingxian Sect.
• Lin Xiao gave Yang Jinshu and Liu Shengsheng cultivation manuals and sect uniforms, bringing the sect’s membership to nine.
• Liu Yunan took his mother and sister to the cultivation room, while Jiang Youfu studied Hundred Beasts Spirit Speech to communicate with Xiaoluan.
• Lin Xiao checked the new disciples’ profiles and saw that Yang Jinshu was spiritually perceptive and wise and Liu Shengsheng had outstanding aptitude.
• Lin Xiao realized the sect had only one cultivation manual, leaving its members no choice in what they studied.

Lin Xiao experimented with synthesizing cultivation manuals and discovered that a focused core concept paired with a fitting catalyst produced better results. By using himself as the core and his spiritual power as the catalyst, he created the S-grade Original Essence Heart Sutra, upgraded the sect’s core manual, and began cultivating it.

• Lin Xiao gathered paper mulberry bark with Jiang Youfu and synthesized around ten manuals, but only two were A-grade and none reached S-grade.
• Lin Xiao compared his manuals and concluded that a solid central concept and a matching catalyst helped determine a manual’s grade.
• Lin Xiao used the concept of himself as the core and his own spiritual power as the catalyst, draining his reserves during synthesis.
• Lin Xiao synthesized the S-grade Original Essence Heart Sutra and set it as the sect’s core cultivation manual.
• The sect stele upgraded and granted Lin Xiao a permanent Key to the Green Field Secret Realm and a First-Tier Spirit Vein Fragment.
• Lin Xiao felt a strong desire to cultivate the Original Essence Heart Sutra and began practicing it in the main hall.

Lin Xiao became absorbed in cultivating the Original Essence Heart Sutra, while his friends and Lin Yun watched over him. After cultivating through the night, he reached the Qi Refinement Seventh Layer and wondered whether his rapid progress came from the sutra or from his lack of cultivation experience.

• Lin Xiao cultivated the Original Essence Heart Sutra so intently that he lost track of time, and his friends decided not to disturb him.
• Yang Jinshu offered to bring food, while Qin Jianghe went to tell Lin Dayou and Lin Yun that Lin Xiao was still on the mountain.
• Lin Yun reassured Lin Dayou about the sect's defensive barrier, then brought bedding up the mountain and stayed beside Lin Xiao overnight.
• Lin Yun fell asleep beside Lin Xiao, who continued cultivating until dawn and then covered Lin Yun with his quilt.
• Lin Xiao received a notification that he had advanced to the Qi Refinement Seventh Layer and considered why his cultivation had increased so quickly.

Lin Xiao prepared copies of the Original Essence Heart Sutra for the Lingxian Sect and visited his grandfather to ask for furniture for the sect. His grandfather agreed to make more shelves, beds, and tables if Lin Xiao supplied suitable wood.

• Lin Xiao learned that his idle cultivation function cultivated at roughly the speed of someone with Outstanding aptitude and decided to cultivate regularly himself.
• Lin Xiao copied the Original Essence Heart Sutra twenty times without simplifying it for the sect members.
• Lin Xiao went to his family's old house and asked Old Master Lin for a bookshelf to hold the sect's books.
• Old Master Lin sent Lin Lei to fetch a small bookshelf and agreed to make more furniture if Lin Xiao brought him good, dry wood.
• Lin Ying greeted Lin Xiao and asked him to bring her roast wild rabbit again.

Lin Xiao brought Lin Ying to the sect and set up a shelf of cultivation manuals in the cultivation room. The sect members began reading the manuals and choosing which ones suited them.

• Lin Dashan asked Lin Xiao to take Lin Ying up the mountain to cultivate, and Lin Xiao agreed.
• Lin Xiao discovered he had grown taller before returning to the sect with Lin Ying and a bookshelf.
• Lin Yun welcomed Lin Xiao and met Lin Ying after worrying about Lin Xiao’s absence.
• Lin Xiao placed the sect’s cultivation manuals and copied Law Techniques on the bookshelf in the cultivation room.
• Lin Xiao introduced the grade A, grade B, and grade S manuals, including the Original Essence Heart Sutra he had created.
• The sect members gathered to read the manuals and asked Lin Xiao, the teaching elder, and Yang Jinshu about unfamiliar characters.

Lin Xiao opened the Green Field Mystic Realm entrance and learned that the Qi Refining-only realm would soon be accessible. He decided to prepare himself and Sun Yigao to enter within ten days, leaving them time to explore before the season ended.

• Lin Xiao welcomed Lin Ying into Lingxian Sect, completing the mission to recruit ten sect members and receiving Spirit Stones and a Green Field Mystic Realm Entrance Connection Point.
• Lin Xiao placed the moss-covered connection point outside the cultivation room and fitted the Green Field Secret Realm key into it, prompting the system to explain the realm’s entry restrictions and seasonal window.
• Lin Xiao realized he had about a month to enter the realm before his cultivation would likely exceed the Qi Refining Stage.
• The system announced that Sun Yigao had advanced to the Third Layer of Qi Refining, and Lin Xiao decided to help him cultivate so they could enter the realm together.
• Lin Xiao resolved to give himself and Sun Yigao ten days to prepare, while keeping the plan from Sun Yigao so it would not affect his cultivation.

Lin Xiao put aside his cultivation to join his family in observing Qingming and visiting his mother’s grave. At the burial mountain, he sensed something strange nearby and told Lin Yun he suspected a danger that might have arrived recently or been hidden from him before he began cultivating.

• Lin Xiao helped Sun Yigao study the Original Essence Heart Sutra while Lin Ying turned to learning from Lin Yun.
• Lin Yun reminded Lin Xiao that the family was going down the mountain for Qingming, and Lin Xiao left cultivation to go with him and Lin Ying.
• The Lin family gathered offerings and tools, then traveled to their graves on a burial mountain southwest of the village.
• At the family graves, Lin Xiao sensed something unusual and warned Lin Yun that something bad might be nearby.
• Lin Xiao told Lin Yun the strange presence might have come recently or might have been there all along, beyond his senses before he cultivated.

Lin Xiao remained uneasy about the strange presence near Grave Mountain, but could not find its source before the Lin family returned home after honoring their ancestors. After Qingming, he devoted himself to cultivating and assisting Sun Yigao, leaving Sun Yigao confused by his sudden attentiveness.

• Lin Xiao and Lin Yun agreed to watch Grave Mountain more closely after Lin Xiao sensed something strange there.
• The Lin family cleared and repaired the graves, then paid respects to their ancestors and Lin Dayou's wife, Chunxiu.
• Lin Xiao searched around the graves for the source of the strange feeling but found nothing before the family headed home at sunset.
• The Lin family shared a festive meal at the old house, and Lin Dayou's spirits lifted enough to whack Lin Xiao's leg with a chopstick.
• After Qingming, Lin Xiao cultivated alongside Sun Yigao every day and urged him to study spells, leaving Sun Yigao uneasy about his sect master's unusual attention.

Lin Xiao prepared for the secret realm by creating Law Techniques and cultivating alongside the sect, while explaining the realm and its risks to the members. He and Sun Yigao planned to enter in two days, and Lin Xiao warned everyone to watch over the village while they were away.

• Lin Xiao spent eight days creating Law Techniques and cultivating as Lingxian Sect members made progress, with Yang Jinshu, Liu Shengsheng, and Lin Ying reaching Qi Refining First Layer.
• Sun Yigao advanced to Qi Refinement Seventh Layer, while Lin Xiao reached Qi Refining Eighth Layer and neared the Ninth Layer.
• Lin Xiao told the sect that he and Sun Yigao would enter the secret realm first to explore it and gather supplies for the sect.
• Lin Xiao explained that they could use single-use keys from the Key to the Secret Realm to return if they encountered danger.
• Lin Xiao said they would enter in two days and asked the sect members to stay vigilant and watch the village while he and Sun Yigao were away.

Lin Xiao bought teleportation and location talismans to help his family and sect members escape danger by returning to the sect. After distributing them, he checked the spiritual field, worried that Lin Yun’s duties were limiting his cultivation, and used growth-accelerating bone meal on the spiritual grain seedlings.

• Lin Xiao bought enough teleportation and location talismans for the people close to his sect members and family, spending thirty Spirit Stones.
• The system assigned Lin Xiao a task to construct a talisman-making room and assured him that the task had no time limit.
• After cultivation the next day, Lin Xiao explained the talismans and distributed them; everyone took exactly the number he had estimated, leaving extra talismans to share.
• Lin Xiao saw that Lin Yun was tending the spiritual field and realized his brother’s carpentry and farming duties left him little time to cultivate.
• Lin Xiao scattered sixteen portions of growth-accelerating bone meal over the spiritual grain seedlings.

Lin Xiao harvested an astonishing sixteen jin of spirit grain from sixteen plants, then discussed saving seed and the upcoming secret realm with Lin Dayou and Lin Yun. After handing out teleportation talismans to the family, he slipped out at night and entered Du Liushui’s room without waking anyone.

• Lin Xiao harvested sixteen spirit grain plants, pounded the grain, and found that they yielded sixteen jin of rice.
• Lin Dayou scolded Lin Xiao for not saving seed, then took the four remaining seeds and planned to plant them in Lin Xiao’s spirit field.
• Lin Xiao gave Lin Dayou teleportation and positioning talismans and explained that he intended to enter a secret realm, promising to flee if danger arose.
• Lin Xiao, Lin Dayou, and Lin Yun visited the old house to distribute teleportation talismans and explain the plan to the family.
• Lin Xiao left Lin Dayou and Lin Yun on the way home and entered Du Liushui’s room silently at night.

Lin Xiao warned Village Chief Du that Grave Mountain might hold a danger and arranged for villagers to seek refuge at Lingxian Sect if needed. On the day he prepared to depart, he unlocked item appraisal and discovered that three First-Tier Spirit Vein Fragments could form an initial-tier spirit vein before turning to appraise his sect robes.

• Lin Xiao used a small flame to wake Village Chief Du and told him he sensed a possible danger at Grave Mountain.
• Lin Xiao asked Village Chief Du to lead the villagers to Lingxian Sect if trouble arose while he was away, and the chief agreed to do his best.
• Lin Xiao visited Clan Chief Hu Deli to encourage further preparations, then changed the sect barrier permissions to let Xiushui Village residents enter.
• Lin Xiao prepared a farewell meal with Yang Jinshu and caught fish using his newly created Law Technique, Heavenly Net and Earthly Snare-Every Thread in Place.
• A system notification announced that Lin Xiao had unlocked item appraisal after sect prestige reached 50.
• Lin Xiao appraised his Mist Spring Grass seeds and First-Tier Spirit Vein Fragments, learning that three fragments formed an initial-tier spirit vein, then began appraising his sect robes.

Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao entered the Green Field Mystic Realm, emerged from a vast thicket, and gathered Ring-Thorn Chrysanthemums by a river. They ventured into a forest where Lin Xiao considered harvesting the straight trees, but distant sounds of fighting interrupted them.

• Lin Xiao discovered that the Lingxian Sect uniforms were defensive Law Artifacts and explained their function to the others.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao entered the mystic realm through its passage, tied together by their robes so they would not be separated.
• They landed trapped in dense vegetation, forced their way out, and changed into their sect uniforms after the plants tore their clothes.
• At a river, Lin Xiao appraised the Ring-Thorn Chrysanthemums and collected flowers with Sun Yigao before they ate and continued onward.
• In a forest of slender, straight trees, Lin Xiao prepared to take out axes to harvest timber, but he and Sun Yigao heard fighting nearby.

Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao secretly watched five cultivators fight over Shadow Grass, then Lin Xiao used his Body Immobilization Technique to stop the attackers and let the two defenders escape. Yuan Gang and his companions fled afterward, unaware of who had intervened.

• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao used the Concealment Technique to approach a sword fight between Yuan Qing and Xu Juan and three attackers led by Yuan Gang.
• Yuan Gang demanded the Shadow Grass and threatened Yuan Qing, while Yuan Qing and Xu Juan fought on despite their injuries and being outnumbered.
• When Xu Juan was wounded protecting Yuan Qing, Lin Xiao immobilized Yuan Gang and his companions with the Body Immobilization Technique.
• Xu Juan and Yuan Qing called out their thanks and escaped after Lin Xiao immobilized the attackers a second time.
• Lin Xiao released the three attackers once the others were gone, and they hurried away in confusion.

Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao searched the secret realm for its heart after the system issued Lin Xiao a quest to claim it for their sect. They found a secluded valley with a lake and cottage, where a translucent old man appeared and called Lin Xiao his disciple.

• The system gave Lin Xiao a quest to find and obtain the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm, and he told Sun Yigao that claiming it would give their sect control of the realm.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao searched through the day without meeting anyone else, then camped by a fire and talked about Sun Yigao's ambitions and their views on life.
• The next morning, Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao entered a lush valley with a large lake and a weathered thatched cottage.
• Lin Xiao spotted a flash beneath the lake, but before he could investigate, the cottage door opened and a translucent old man floated out.
• The old man stopped at the doorway and told Lin Xiao, “My good disciple... I've waited so long for you...”

In the Green Field Mystic Realm, Venerable Pantu offered to take Sun Yigao as his disciple, but Sun refused. Lin Xiao proposed helping Venerable Pantu escape the realm, and Venerable Pantu questioned whether the two young cultivators could undo a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s seal.

• Venerable Pantu introduced himself as a grand elder of the Heavenly Net Sect and offered to take Sun Yigao as his disciple because of his single Wood Element Spirit Root.
• Sun Yigao refused, and Venerable Pantu warned that others who entered Spirit Heart Valley had met an unpleasant fate.
• Venerable Pantu explained that an enemy had divided his soul body and imprisoned part of it in the mystic realm with a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s seal.
• Venerable Pantu transformed the grass into a field of medicinal herbs and offered it to Sun Yigao if he accepted the discipleship.
• Lin Xiao offered to help Venerable Pantu remove the trapped portion of his soul body from the mystic realm.
• Venerable Pantu doubted Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao could break the seal, while the System explained that he had discerned their cultivation levels by observing their Spiritual Qi fluctuations.

Lin Xiao discovered that the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm was in the lake and promised Venerable Pantu he would free him. He seized the heart and began refining it at the lakebed, while Sun Yigao waited with Venerable Pantu above.

• Lin Xiao realized the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm was nearby and promised Venerable Pantu he would find a way to break his seal.
• Lin Xiao jumped into the lake, telling Sun Yigao to stay with Venerable Pantu and not let him harm him.
• Venerable Pantu told Sun Yigao that Lin Xiao was unlikely to survive and gave him one day to decide whether to become his disciple.
• Lin Xiao followed the system's alerts through the lake and grabbed the head-sized green jade that was the secret realm's heart.
• Lin Xiao found the heart's birthplace at the lakebed and began refining it, feeling a connection form between himself and the heart.

Lin Xiao refined the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm, completing his task and claiming the realm for his sect. He persuaded Venerable Pantu to leave with him by promising to help find the rest of his soul and his body, but froze just as he was about to remove the seal.

• Lin Xiao refined the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm and received his reward in private storage.
• Lin Xiao surfaced to find Sun Yigao waiting, then told him the secret realm would belong to their sect.
• Venerable Pantu asked how Lin Xiao had escaped the lake, but Lin Xiao instead offered to release him.
• Lin Xiao promised to help Venerable Pantu find his other soul fragments and physical body within ten years, and Venerable Pantu agreed to leave.
• Lin Xiao began to use the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm to remove Venerable Pantu's seal, then suddenly stopped.

Lin Xiao discovered that Qi Refining cultivators Venerable Pantu had thrown into the lake had been trapped for years inside the Heart of the Secret Realm, where many survived by eating the dead. He released the survivors and their bones, then refused to undo Venerable Pantu’s seal and began helping the lone conscious cultivator find his fellow disciples.

• Lin Xiao showed Venerable Pantu and Sun Yigao the starving cultivators and human bones trapped inside the Heart of the Secret Realm.
• Lin Xiao learned that the people had been sucked into the space after Venerable Pantu threw them into the lake, and that they had endured years of hunger and despair.
• Lin Xiao released the survivors and bones, then told Venerable Pantu he would not undo his seal.
• Venerable Pantu fell silent when Lin Xiao explained that the Heart of the Secret Realm had trapped the people he threw into the lake.
• Sun Yigao offered to find the survivors’ fellow disciples, and Lin Xiao asked the only conscious survivor for a token.

Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao left Venerable Pantu’s group and used the Heart of the Secret Realm to find Yuan Qing and Xu Juan. After defeating two greedy cultivators on the way, they reached the pair and asked about Heavenly Profound Sect members who disappeared in the realm.

• Lin Xiao took Sun Yigao away from the group, and Sun Yigao said he was glad he had chosen his path.
• Lin Xiao used the Heart of the Secret Realm to locate Yuan Qing and Xu Juan, and he and Sun Yigao traveled toward them without hindrance.
• Two Qi Refinement Seventh Layer cultivators tried to rob Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao, but Lin Xiao knocked one down while Sun Yigao bound and hypnotized the other.
• Lin Xiao wondered why they had overwhelmed opponents of similar cultivation and considered seeking cultivation methods from other sects.
• After traveling all night, Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao found Yuan Qing and Xu Juan picking purple fruit, and Lin Xiao asked whether Heavenly Profound Sect disciples sometimes failed to leave the secret realm.

Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao brought Yuan Qing and Xu Juan to Spirit Heart Valley, where Venerable Pantu had spent his strength helping the captured cultivators recover. Lin Xiao opened a secret exit and offered to help the weakened disciples leave the realm.

• Lin Xiao showed Yuan Qing and Xu Juan a Heavenly Profound jade pendant and persuaded them to follow him to the captives.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao led Yuan Qing and Xu Juan safely back to Spirit Heart Valley on the afternoon of the third day.
• Lin Xiao learned that Venerable Pantu had used his soul and spiritual power to strengthen the captives, leaving his remnant soul nearly dissipated.
• Yuan Qing reunited with Senior Brother He, while Yuan Qing and Xu Juan fed Origin-Nurturing Pills to the weakened cultivators.
• Lin Xiao lied that the valley had an exit to the outside and used the Heart of the Secret Realm to open one for the group.

Lin Xiao freed Venerable Pantu from his seal and used Soul-Nourishing Wood to keep his weakened soul from dissipating. Before leaving the secret realm, Lin Xiao had Sun Yigao and Venerable Pantu dig up the medicinal field so he could take it with them.

• Lin Xiao removed Venerable Pantu’s seal after he risked his soul to save the trapped disciples, and kept his promise to help him recover his soul and physical body.
• Lin Xiao placed Soul-Nourishing Wood beside Venerable Pantu, whose soul joined with it and became more solid.
• Venerable Pantu discovered he could extend parts of his body from the wood but could not separate from it, while Sun Yigao examined the unusual object.
• Lin Xiao gave Sun Yigao and Venerable Pantu shovels and told them to dig up the medicinal field, soil and all, so he could take it away.
• Venerable Pantu asked whether Lin Xiao had a high-grade storage Law Treasure, and Lin Xiao agreed that his private storage should count.

Lin Xiao tested the Myriad Realms Iron Bucket by collecting Red Lotus Lava, then returned from the Green Field Mystic Realm with Sun Yigao and Venerable Pantu. As Lin Xiao introduced Pantu to Xiaoluan and showed him Lingxian Sect, the strange presence Lin Xiao had sensed returned, and Pantu identified it as sinister Evil Qi.

• Lin Xiao used the Myriad Realms Iron Bucket to scoop up Red Lotus Lava without feeling its heat and stored it away.
• Lin Xiao collected the herb fields and soil with Sun Yigao and Venerable Pantu, then led them out of the Green Field Mystic Realm.
• Sun Yigao spoke with Xiaoluan, who reacted to Venerable Pantu by leaving a lump at his feet.
• Lin Xiao introduced Xiaoluan and Venerable Pantu to each other, and Pantu asked to meet the sect's elders.
• Lin Xiao showed Pantu Lingxian Sect's grounds and asked whether he sensed anything unusual.
• Venerable Pantu and Sun Yigao sensed an oppressive presence, which Pantu identified as extremely cold and sinister Evil Qi.

Lin Xiao brought Liao Pantu into Lingxian Sect’s main hall, where Liao Pantu discovered the sect was led by two young cultivators in the mortal world. After Liao Pantu joined the sect and received its cultivation art, he realized it was an earth-tier high-grade technique.

• Lin Xiao introduced himself as the sect master of Lingxian Sect, and Liao Pantu was stunned to learn that Sun Yigao was his disciple.
• Sun Yigao told Liao Pantu that the sect had eight other disciples, all under Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao explained that they lived in the mortal world, and Liao Pantu eagerly asked to see their cultivation art.
• Liao Pantu agreed to join Lingxian Sect and swear a Heavenly Mandate Oath, and the system confirmed his membership.
• Lin Xiao gave Liao Pantu the Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction, which Liao Pantu identified as an earth-tier high-grade cultivation art.