Recaps

Lin Xiao prepared to leave the Lingxian Sect with Liao Pantu to explore the cultivation world, giving him a Soul-Nourishing Pendant and the supplies needed for their teleportation. The chapter ended as Liao Pantu activated the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation and its glowing array unfolded beneath them.

• Lin Xiao refused Mo Yuanjiao’s request to join the trip and urged him to stay in the sect and cultivate.
• Liao Pantu gave Lin Xiao a storage ring holding more than fifty thousand Spirit Stones he had mined.
• Lin Xiao handed Liao Pantu a newly synthesized Soul-Nourishing Pendant, and Liao Pantu moved into it and demonstrated that he could still fly and appear to the disciples.
• Lin Xiao gave Liao Pantu the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation Disk and the storage ring of Spirit Stones.
• Liao Pantu placed two thousand Spirit Stones into the disk, causing a glowing formation diagram to spread across the ground.

Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu arrived in the immortal cultivation world and took refuge in Liao Pantu’s lavishly furnished hidden cave abode. Lin Xiao fell asleep on a bed made from Soul-Nourishing Wood, unaware that three Qi Refining cultivators were investigating the formation outside.

• Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu were transported by the Heaven and Earth Shift Formation to Liao Pantu’s concealed cave abode.
• Lin Xiao toured the extravagant abode and recognized that its enormous bed was made from Soul-Nourishing Wood.
• Liao Pantu explained that the bed benefited his Soul Refining Instruction and urged Lin Xiao to rest before exploring.
• Lin Xiao lay on the bed and its soothing effect on his Divine Sense lulled him into a deep sleep.
• Three Qi Refining cultivators examined the formation outside the cave abode while one used a compass and the other two urged him to hurry.

Three Qi Refining cultivators bought information about Liao Pantu’s supposed abandoned cave abode, unaware that he had returned. Myriad Connections withdrew the information, while Lin Xiao awoke in Liao Pantu’s cave and learned about the Southern Spirit Domain.

• Three young Qi Refining cultivators hurried to reach the rumored Nascent Soul cave abode after buying its location from Myriad Connections.
• A Golden Core cultivator at Myriad Connections headquarters learned that Liao Pantu had returned to his cave abode and ordered the information withdrawn from Yuanling City.
• The Yuanling City branch reported that it had sold the information once to three Qi Refining cultivators, and the yellow-robed cultivator ordered them watched to protect Myriad Connections’ reputation.
• The yellow-robed cultivator privately planned to have the branch employee expelled for giving him information without authorization.
• Lin Xiao woke in Liao Pantu’s cave, and Liao Pantu explained that the Southern Spirit Domain had thirty-six cities and eighteen sects but was considered remote.

Lin Xiao learned that the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation Disk had spent more than 1,700 Spirit Stones on their journey, while Liao Pantu prepared to take him out to explore the city. After Liao Pantu let three Qi Refining cultivators enter the cave’s illusion formation, Lin Xiao urged him to hurry so he could finish his tasks before returning home to cultivate.

• Lin Xiao asked Liao Pantu about the Heavenly Net Sect, and Liao Pantu explained how he had joined it before later leaving for the Lingxian Sect.
• Liao Pantu pointed out that sleeping on the soul-nourishing tree bed had slightly strengthened Lin Xiao’s Divine Sense, then offered to show him the city.
• Liao Pantu found three Qi Refining cultivators trying to enter his cave abode and adjusted the illusion formation to scare them away without killing them.
• Lin Xiao appraised the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation Disk and realized their trip had cost more than 1,700 Spirit Stones.
• Liao Pantu bragged that his ceiling held at least a hundred thousand Spirit Stones, while Lin Xiao insisted he still needed to be thrifty and asked to leave for the city.

Lin Xiao left Liao Pantu’s cave abode and traveled to Yuanling City, where he learned about its defenses and paid the entry fee to enter. He arrived safely inside the city, while Liao Pantu warned him that some cities had abused their entry restrictions to rob cultivators.

• Lin Xiao left Liao Pantu’s cave abode and learned that its exit opened in a different place each time.
• Lin Xiao flew for several hours to Yuanling City, and Liao Pantu explained that the Southern Spirit Domain’s cities had powerful defensive arrays.
• At Yuanling City’s south gate, Liao Pantu told Lin Xiao that entry cost five Spirit Stones and that large-scale use of spiritual power was forbidden inside.
• Liao Pantu returned Lin Xiao’s storage ring, and Lin Xiao paid five Spirit Stones to pass through the gate.
• Lin Xiao checked that the rest of his Spirit Stones remained safe, and Liao Pantu warned him about a city that had once used its entry restriction to steal all visitors’ Spirit Stones.

Lin Xiao entered Yuanling City and explored its practical shops and bustling cultivator gathering place, Seven Stars Street. After Liao Pantu warned him that a newcomer could be robbed, Lin Xiao abandoned his plan to earn money capturing Fire Rhinoceros Beasts and began gathering information instead.

• Lin Xiao transferred his Spirit Stones into the system's private vault, which assured him only he could access it.
• Lin Xiao walked through Yuanling City's streets as Liao Pantu warned him not to offend the influential craft-shop families and explained that flying was allowed despite the ban on spell battles.
• Lin Xiao saw a Jiang Household cart carrying spirit pigs, and Liao Pantu suggested buying one before refusing to explain the household's scandalous history.
• Liao Pantu guided Lin Xiao to Seven Stars Street, where cultivators gathered to recruit teams, hire escorts, trade beasts, and seek opportunities.
• Lin Xiao considered joining a team to capture Fire Rhinoceros Beasts for five hundred Spirit Stones, but Liao Pantu warned that he might be robbed, so Lin Xiao began listening for information instead.

Lin Xiao gathered information in Yuanling City and learned that the Icefield Mystic Realm, which opens in five days, may contain one of Liao Pantu’s soul fragments. He also saw Yuan Zhiyun, the Yuan Household’s young master, but decided to pursue connections with smaller lineages instead.

• Lin Xiao heard that several mystic realms would open near Yuanling City and learned the Icefield Mystic Realm would open in five days.
• Liao Pantu recognized the Icefield Mystic Realm as a place where one of his soul fragments was trapped and explained that he could not recall other realms without hearing their names.
• Lin Xiao suggested collecting mystic realm names to help Liao Pantu remember, and Liao Pantu agreed.
• Lin Xiao gathered the Icefield Mystic Realm’s location and other details, then heard that Yuan Zhiyun, a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator, had arrived.
• Liao Pantu told Lin Xiao that the Yuan Household was Yuanling City’s most powerful lineage and had ties to the Heavenly Profound Sect, but Lin Xiao chose to start with smaller lineages.

Yuan Zhiyun sought a team to capture an Ice Plains Spirit Essence, but no one volunteered. Lin Xiao left the square to arrange a roast suckling pig at the Immortal Fragrance Pavilion, where Liao Pantu told him to set up an isolation formation.

• Yuan Zhiyun announced that she would recruit four people to join her in capturing an Ice Plains Spirit Essence in the Icefield Mystic Realm, but the crowd hesitated and no one stepped forward.
• Lin Xiao left Seven Stars Street Square and went to the Jiang Household Livestock Firm, where he paid to have a spirit pig delivered to the Immortal Fragrance Pavilion.
• Lin Xiao arrived at the Immortal Fragrance Pavilion, learned that Master Luo had died and Master Qian was now head chef, and ordered a silver-tailed fish dish and a small pot of Pinhui Spirit Wine.
• After the attendant left, Liao Pantu told Lin Xiao to set up his isolation formation, and Lin Xiao did so in the private room.

Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu shared roasted spirit pig at the Immortal Fragrance Pavilion while the staff discussed Lin Xiao’s apparent age and connection to Master Luo. Their meal was interrupted by a dispute between a lean cultivator and a Wu Household member over a broken promise of entry into the Heavenly Profound Sect.

• Liao Pantu admitted that he had persuaded Lin Xiao to order wine because he wanted a drink after decades of confinement.
• The shopkeeper told the waiter that powerful seniors often disguised themselves as young people.
• The Jiang Household Livestock Firm delivered Lin Xiao’s spirit pig, and the kitchen served roasted suckling pig, silver-tailed fish, and spirit wine.
• Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu raced to claim the tenderloin and savored the roasted pig together.
• Lin Xiao heard a commotion downstairs and watched as a lean Foundation Establishment cultivator accused a Wu Household member of reneging on a promise of a place in the Heavenly Profound Sect.

Liu Chun accused the Wu Household of breaking its promise to give him a place in the Heavenly Profound Sect, while Wu Sanbao denied the claim before a crowd at the Immortal Fragrance Pavilion. Lin Xiao left without learning who was telling the truth and decided to stay in Yuanling City while preparing for the Icefield Mystic Realm; Sun Yigao’s village school also began enrolling students.

• Wu Sanbao told the onlookers that the Wu Household had treated Liu Chun fairly and had never promised him a Heavenly Profound Sect place.
• Liu Chun said he had given up the Talisman Master Assembly to serve the Wu Household because it promised him a place and his full stipend.
• Wu Sanbao claimed the Wu Household had merely helped Liu Chun when he was destitute, and Liu Chun blamed his stalled cultivation on years of making talismans for them.
• A woman in a neighboring private room proposed that Liu Chun and Wu Sanbao each make a Heavenly Mandate Oath, but Liao Pantu shut the window and urged Lin Xiao to leave.
• Lin Xiao stored the leftover food, left the Immortal Fragrance Pavilion with Liao Pantu, and decided to remain in Yuanling City for several days before traveling to the Icefield Mystic Realm.
• Sun Yigao’s village school in Xiushui Village began formally enrolling students after its custom-made desks and chairs arrived.

Liu Yunan opened a tea stall in Xiushui Village after Qin Jianghe suggested it, while Sun Yigao recruited students and opened his private school. The school began with fifteen pupils, and Mo Yuanjiao became their martial instructor.

• Qin Jianghe advised Liu Yunan to set up a tea stall for the scholars visiting Xiushui Village, and Liu Yunan opened one with Yang Jinshu, Liu Shengsheng, and Lin Ying helping.
• Ruffians who tried to cause trouble at the stall were mysteriously immobilized, then spread rumors that Xiushui Village was haunted; the township and village heads warned them to stay away.
• Sun Yigao accepted fifteen students into his private school, including one girl, after announcing that he would teach pupils of either sex.
• Sun Yigao's private school officially opened, and Mo Yuanjiao offered to teach the students martial skills, riding, and archery.

As Xiushui Village prospered from increased visitors, Lin Xiao explored Yuanling City and found Liu Chun badly injured in an alley. He secretly arranged for a physician to treat Liu Chun, suspected the Wu Household was responsible, and told Liao Pantu about the encounter.

• Visitors and new stalls brought Xiushui Village extra income, easing quarrels among the villagers.
• Lin Xiao spent his days exploring Yuanling City and his nights cultivating at the inn.
• Lin Xiao found Liu Chun, injured and barely conscious in an alley, and hired a physician to take him to a clinic.
• After confirming that the physician had taken Liu Chun for treatment, Lin Xiao suspected the Wu Household had caused his injuries and worried about the danger it posed to his sect.
• Lin Xiao returned to the inn and told Liao Pantu about finding and helping Liu Chun.

Lin Xiao checked on Liu Chun, then joined Liao Pantu at the Icefield Mystic Realm as its entrance opened. He planned to find Senior Liao’s soul body and gather resources for the Lingxian Sect.

• Lin Xiao ignored Liao Pantu’s offer to explain what he had overlooked and began his daily cultivation.
• The next morning, Lin Xiao saw Liu Chun awake and recovering at the clinic, then left without drawing attention to himself.
• On the fifth day after entering Yuanling City, Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu went to the Icefield Mystic Realm’s entrance.
• Lin Xiao learned that Heavenly Profound Sect cultivators were managing entry to the realm, which only admitted cultivators of Foundation Establishment Realm or below.
• The mystic realm’s entrance opened, and Heavenly Profound Sect cultivators began directing the waiting crowd inside.

Lin Xiao entered the Icefield Mystic Realm and followed Liao Pantu’s directions toward the location of his separated soul. On the way, Lin Xiao discovered a huge patch of Ice Stone Grass and prepared to harvest it before continuing.

• Lin Xiao entered the mystic realm, found himself in a frozen region, and consulted the map he had bought from Myriad Connections.
• After new cultivators appeared nearby, Lin Xiao left the area, and Liao Pantu sensed his soul and directed him onward.
• Lin Xiao reached a vast patch of Ice Stone Grass that was not shown on his map.
• Liao Pantu told Lin Xiao he could harvest the grass first, and Lin Xiao checked for nearby cultivators before taking out his spirit sickle.

Lin Xiao harvested Ice Stone Grass and traveled deeper into the Icefield Mystic Realm, where he encountered strange watchers in the sky and then a snowstorm near an enormous iceberg. Meanwhile, Yuan Zhiyun found herself alone in an unexplored gray area of the realm.

• Lin Xiao harvested more than five thousand Ice Stone Grass plants and stored them in his private vault.
• Lin Xiao sensed eerie gazes when he flew high above the ground, descended, and continued traveling on foot after Liao Pantu could not explain them.
• Lin Xiao avoided other cultivators and gathered few resources as he traveled through the first day of the mystic realm.
• On the second day, Lin Xiao noticed the ice becoming clearer, reached an enormous iceberg, and began climbing it as heavy snow started to fall.
• Yuan Zhiyun realized she had been separated from her teammates and had landed in a gray area that had gone unexplored for a hundred years.

Myriad Connections surveyors Liao Zhonghuai and Yu Guang entered a hidden gray spot in the Icefield Mystic Realm while Tong Hua stayed outside to guard their formations. Elsewhere, Lin Xiao used Liao Pantu’s Soul-Chasing Magpie to search for the hidden space where Liao Pantu’s soul body was located.

• Liao Zhonghuai, Yu Guang, and Tong Hua found a gray spot near a snow mountain and prepared to investigate it.
• Tong Hua won rock-paper-scissors and stayed behind while Liao Zhonghuai and Yu Guang entered the gray spot and were abruptly pulled inside.
• Lin Xiao struggled to find a way across the mountain as Liao Pantu repeatedly redirected him, then concluded the soul body was in a nearby hidden space.
• Liao Pantu gave Lin Xiao the Soul-Chasing Magpie, explaining that it could follow his soul imprint within the same spatial barrier.
• Lin Xiao agreed to pour spiritual power into the magpie and let it fly.

Lin Xiao followed the Soul-Chasing Magpie into a vast ice cave filled with crystal buildings and learned from Liao Pantu that one house was made of exceptionally valuable Cold-Concentrating Jade. After finding piles of bones nearby, Lin Xiao began digging the house free so he could take it, drawing the attention of people elsewhere in the cave.

• Lin Xiao followed the Soul-Chasing Magpie to a gray-dot entrance, ignored Tong Hua’s warning, and was pulled into the Icefield Mystic Realm’s hidden ice cave.
• Lin Xiao landed safely in the cave and examined a distinctive house made of high-grade Cold-Concentrating Jade.
• Liao Pantu explained that Cold-Concentrating Jade gathered cold Qi and could enhance artifacts, talismans, formations, pills, and Spirit Veins.
• Lin Xiao discovered that many white piles around the cave were bones, then decided to dig the jade house out and carry it away.
• Several people heard Lin Xiao chipping at the ice and cautiously approached.

Lin Xiao, Jiang Cheng, and Hu Guanyu discovered they were trapped in an unmapped part of the Icefield Mystic Realm, where a previous cultivator’s letter described people freezing to death after the realm’s exit failed to release them. Hu Guanyu set out to find a way out, and Lin Xiao asked how he planned to search.

• Lin Xiao met Jiang Cheng, who believed digging could not free them from the ice cave.
• Hu Guanyu of the Heavenly Profound Sect warned that people who entered unmapped areas had never returned with news.
• Hu Guanyu showed Lin Xiao and Jiang Cheng Yuan Zhonghe’s letter, which recounted how the exit failed and a deadly chill killed the trapped cultivators.
• Jiang Cheng panicked at the letter’s warning, while Hu Guanyu refused to give up and returned the letter to Lin Xiao.
• Hu Guanyu said he would look for a way out, and Lin Xiao asked how he planned to search.

Lin Xiao joined Hu Guanyu and Jiang Cheng in searching for a way out of the ice cave, then secretly stored a house made of high-grade cold-concentrating jade in his private vault. Meanwhile, Yuan Zhiyun searched the cave after learning the truth about its danger and confirming that her missing uncle’s final letter was genuine.

• Hu Guanyu agreed to lead Lin Xiao and Jiang Cheng as their captain, while allowing Lin Xiao to keep digging and giving him a paper crane to find the team later.
• After Hu Guanyu and Jiang Cheng left, Lin Xiao separated a cold-concentrating jade house from the ice and stored it intact in his private vault.
• Liao Pantu explained that cold-concentrating jade was valuable and little known to cultivators below Golden Core, prompting Lin Xiao to eye the nearby houses.
• Yuan Zhiyun learned from a Qi Refinement cultivator that those trapped in the ice cave might freeze to death if they failed to escape before the mystic realm closed.
• Yuan Zhiyun confirmed that the cultivator possessed her missing uncle’s genuine final letter and urged him to keep her uncle’s remains safe until he could deliver them to her uncle’s son.

Yuan Zhiyun discovered a hidden crypt and tried unsuccessfully to open its ice coffin, then reconsidered her belief that she had to handle everything alone and left to seek help. Inside the coffin, a part of Liao Pantu’s soul revealed that it had been hiding from her and shut itself away again.

• Yuan Zhiyun followed a bird through a concealed hole and found a crypt containing two skeletons and an opaque ice coffin.
• Yuan Zhiyun failed to push open or damage the coffin, despite using her strength, sword, and Law Techniques.
• Yuan Zhiyun remembered her father’s advice about leading a group and decided to find people to help her open the coffin.
• After Yuan Zhiyun left, a part of Liao Pantu’s soul emerged from the coffin and said the Soul-Chasing Magpie had led her there.
• Liao Pantu examined the Soul-Chasing Magpie, then returned inside the ice coffin and closed it.

Lin Xiao hurried to Liao Pantu’s hidden soul body after learning that a cultivator had discovered its ice coffin and might bring others. He helped Liao Pantu merge his souls and used an advanced unsealing talisman to break the seal, leaving Liao Pantu freed from his confinement.

• Liao Pantu urged Lin Xiao to stop excavating and hurry to the place where his sealed soul body was hidden.
• Liao Pantu explained that Yuan Zhiyun had found the ice coffin and gone to seek help, raising the risk that trapped cultivators would target him.
• Lin Xiao reached the cavern and prepared the advanced unsealing talisman he had synthesized with fifty Spirit Stones.
• Liao Pantu merged his soul bodies, and Lin Xiao swiftly placed the talisman between his eyebrows.
• A soul force field erupted, the seal shattered and vanished, and Liao Pantu looked at Lin Xiao with satisfaction.

After leaving the ice cave, Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu discussed the Frigid Ice Coffin and Soul-Nourishing Pendant. Meanwhile, Jiang Cheng set his sights on Lin Xiao’s supposed treasures, Hu Guanyu warned him not to harm a teammate, and Yuan Zhiyun approached two surveyors with a proposal.

• Liao Pantu put away the Frigid Ice Coffin, explained that it nourished the soul, and returned to the Soul-Nourishing Pendant.
• Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu left the cavern, and Liao Pantu refused to give him the Soul-Nourishing Giant Wood bed.
• Hu Guanyu found the buildings in the ice cave gone, while Jiang Cheng guessed Lin Xiao had taken them and might know a way out.
• Jiang Cheng admitted he wanted to steal Lin Xiao’s treasures, but Hu Guanyu warned that harming a teammate would cause conflict within the group.
• Jiang Cheng pretended to apologize and promised not to speak that way again, while Hu Guanyu urged the group to cooperate.
• Yuan Zhiyun approached Liang Zhonghuai and Yu Guang as they surveyed the area and said she had a matter to discuss.

Lin Xiao left the cavern with Liao Pantu and followed Hu Guanyu’s paper crane, while Yuan Zhiyun and two Myriad Connections workers found the ice coffin missing. As Lin Xiao learned more about the Icefield Mystic Realm and its deadly blizzard, Yin Xuanzi suddenly opened his eyes in a distant cave abode.

• Yuan Zhiyun told Liang Zhonghuai and another Myriad Connections worker that the ice coffin might offer a way out, but their Transposition Formation failed to teleport them.
• Yuan Zhiyun led the two workers to the cavern, where they discovered the ice coffin was gone; Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu had already left.
• Lin Xiao followed Hu Guanyu’s paper crane to seek him out, explaining to Liao Pantu that he wanted to make connections and learn more about the Heavenly Profound Sect.
• Lin Xiao learned from the system that the Icefield Mystic Realm had an owner, and Liao Pantu said refining a Heart of the Secret Realm required a unique method even beyond Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Liao Pantu warned Lin Xiao that a swarm of Snow Worms would sweep through as a blizzard on the realm’s twentieth day, stripping flesh from the dead.
• Yin Xuanzi opened his eyes while meditating in a dark cave abode tens of thousands of miles away.

Yin Xuanzi dismissed a fleeting sense that Liao Pantu might have escaped, while Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu searched the ice cave for a way out. After finding no exit, Lin Xiao used the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation to escape and emerged beside the snowy mountain.

• Yin Xuanzi reasoned that Liao Pantu's sealed soul fragments could not have escaped and resumed his secluded cultivation.
• Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu discussed using the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation to break through the ice cave's spatial barrier.
• Lin Xiao rejoined Hu Guanyu and Jiang Cheng, denied knowing about the vanished houses, and joined them in searching the cave for an exit.
• After ten hours of searching failed, Lin Xiao hypnotized Hu Guanyu and Jiang Cheng, added Spirit Stones to the formation, and activated it.
• Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu teleported out of the ice cave and appeared beside the snowy mountain.

Lin Xiao left the ice cave and searched the Icefield Mystic Realm for a way to rescue the people trapped inside, insisting that he would use the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation if necessary. After two days of searching, he had found no clues, while the realm’s resources were nearly exhausted and its Demon Beasts began to emerge.

• Lin Xiao confirmed he had returned to the area outside the ice cave, then decided to search elsewhere for a way to rescue the trapped people.
• Lin Xiao told Liao Pantu he would bring the prisoners out one by one with the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation if he found no other solution, despite the danger of exposing it.
• Lin Xiao explained that he wanted to save the trapped people because he could, and Liao Pantu agreed to help him plan if his search failed.
• Lin Xiao explored the other two gray areas on the map, found no escape clues, and secretly collected their high-grade Cold-Concentrating Jade.
• With Liao Pantu’s advice, Lin Xiao searched the mystic realm for two days as its resources were plundered and its Demon Beasts began to emerge.