Recaps

Lin Xiao established the Lingxian Sect, created cultivation methods, and recruited villagers while using his new abilities to help people in the village. The arc ended with Boss Liu attacking Liu Yunan and Lin Xiao confronting him with an unseen power.

• Lin Xiao founded the Lingxian Sect on North Mountain, planted a Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree, and created the Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction.
• Lin Xiao recruited Jiang Youfu and Lin Yun, taught them to cultivate, and created the Purification Technique and other sect resources.
• Lin Xiao saved Auntie Sun from Yao Qi and recruited Sun Yigao and several village boys, who began gathering materials for a sect hall.
• Lin Xiao captured the pheasant demon that had afflicted Auntie Sun, learned its account of the incident, and accepted it as the disciple Luan.
• Liu Yunan used his cultivation to drive away relatives who planned to send Liu Shengsheng away, but Boss Liu came and broke Liu Yunan’s arm with a stick.
• Lin Xiao arrived at the Liu Household in the rain, helped Liu Yunan’s family inside, and rendered Boss Liu unable to move or speak.

Lin Xiao built up the Lingxian Sect with a grand hall, stipends, and a cultivation room while preparing for the Shangyang Sect’s recruitment. After watching the sect recruit a girl with a mutated lightning spirit root and depart by spirit ship, Lin Xiao created a technique for walking and flying through the air, then went to greet Widow Liu.

• Lin Xiao crippled Boss Liu to stop his abuse, then carried Old Master Lin through the rain to reset Liu Yunan’s shoulder.
• Lin Xiao expanded the Lingxian Sect, appointed elders, created Storage Bags, and earned money by cleaning customers’ teeth at the town market.
• Lin Xiao synthesized the Lingxian Grand Hall, welcomed his family to see the sect, and distributed stipends to its members.
• Lin Xiao planted Mo Mulberry seeds, raised spirit silkworms, and built a cultivation room that helped the sect members advance.
• Lin Xiao made Lingxian Sect uniforms and took the disciples to Emerald Peak Town to watch the Shangyang Sect’s recruitment.
• Niu Xiaoxue revealed a mutated lightning spirit root and joined the Shangyang Sect, while Qin Jianghe recognized her as his prospective bride.
• Lin Xiao watched the Shangyang Sect leave on a spirit ship, created the Cloud Soaring Technique, and went to meet Widow Liu after learning she had come to see him.

Lin Xiao expanded Lingxian Sect, created its core cultivation manual, and entered the Green Wilds Mystic Realm with Sun Yigao. After claiming the realm’s heart and rescuing trapped cultivators, Lin Xiao returned with Venerable Pantu, who joined the sect, while an ominous Evil Qi lingered over its grounds.

• Lin Xiao accepted Yang Jinshu, Liu Shengsheng, and Lin Ying into Lingxian Sect, then created the S-grade Original Essence Heart Sutra as its core cultivation manual.
• Lin Xiao prepared Sun Yigao and the sect for their absence, distributed talismans to protect their families and villagers, and warned Village Chief Du about a possible danger near Grave Mountain.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao entered the Green Field Mystic Realm, gathered herbs, and intervened when Yuan Qing and Xu Juan were attacked over Shadow Grass.
• Lin Xiao met Venerable Pantu in Spirit Heart Valley, found and refined the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm, and discovered that it held starving cultivators and the bones of people Pantu had cast into the lake.
• Lin Xiao refused to remove Pantu’s seal until Pantu risked his soul to help save the trapped cultivators, then released the survivors and reunited them with Yuan Qing and Xu Juan.
• Lin Xiao removed Pantu’s seal, strengthened his soul with Soul-Nourishing Wood, and took Pantu’s medicinal fields and Red Lotus Lava out of the realm.
• Back at Lingxian Sect, Lin Xiao introduced Pantu to Xiaoluan and the sect, and Pantu sensed a cold, sinister Evil Qi on the grounds.
• Liao Pantu learned that Sun Yigao was Lin Xiao’s disciple, joined Lingxian Sect, and identified the Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction as an earth-tier high-grade cultivation art.

Lin Xiao built up the Lingxian Sect, placed a Spirit Vein beneath it, and killed the Silver Frost Python that had brought dangerous Evil Qi to the region. As the sect’s members advanced and began pursuing their own paths, Lin Xiao traveled with Sun Yigao, Jiang Youfu, and Liu Yunan to the county seat for Sun Yigao’s examination.

• Lin Xiao welcomed Liao Pantu into the sect, recruited Lin Lei, built an alchemy chamber and eleven dormitory rooms, and placed a First-Tier Spirit Vein beneath the mountain spring.
• As the Evil Qi spread cold and darkness across the villages, Lin Xiao used Liao Pantu’s Nascent Soul Pressure Talisman to trace it to a black mountain near Grave Mountain.
• Lin Xiao faced the Silver Frost Python, escaped its poison with a Teleportation Talisman, and killed it with the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation before collapsing, and Sun Yigao later cured him with antidote pills.
• After recovering, Lin Xiao made Peach Blossom Spirit Gathering Formations, cultivation-concealing pendants, and peachwood swords, then established contribution rules and assigned disciples to sect roles and training.
• Qin Jianghe left the village to seek income for the sect, while Tong Shuzheng asked Jin Nanhuan to investigate children who had disappeared near a forest south of Liaoju Prefecture.
• Lin Xiao, Sun Yigao, Jiang Youfu, and Liu Yunan traveled to the county seat for Sun Yigao’s examination, where a cat yao named Tuantuan attacked them before allowing them to stay in its house.
• The four visited Old Master Fang, learned that his late wife’s cat was named Tuantuan, and left to explore the county town and scout the examination grounds while Sun Yigao studied.