Recaps

Lin Xiao rescued children from a Spirit Stone mine, brought the mine back to the sect, and expanded the sect’s fields and facilities while training new disciples. The arc left Lin Xiao developing formation skills and Xiaoluan discovering that a demon core had transformed her and her surviving pheasant disciple.

• Lin Xiao rescued the children held by Xu Kefan, killed the black-robed man, and connected the mine to the sect’s Spirit Vein before evacuating everyone.
• Lin Xiao returned to the courtyard, agreed that Sun Yigao could take a disciple, and welcomed Tuantuan into the sect.
• Mo Yuanjiao and Guard Mo found the sect, and Lin Dayou accepted them as disciples after Mo Yuanjiao mistook him for a powerful senior.
• Lin Xiao passed the county town with Sun Yigao, bought farming supplies and Spirit Plant seeds, and mined over five hundred Spirit Stones after returning to the sect.
• Lin Xiao reunited with his family, created a talisman-making room, and built an Artifact Refining Hall and Array Hall while spending his remaining Spirit Stones on equipment.
• Lin Xiao taught his family the Irrigation Technique and used an Insect-Killing Formation to protect the fields, then began teaching Mo Yuanjiao and Mo Que formation engraving.
• Lin Xiao explored his Divine Sense and learned to control it at a range of about two hundred meters while studying basic formation engraving.
• Mo Yuanjiao successfully engraved a Slight Cooling Formation, and Lin Xiao invited Liu Yunan and Jiang Youfu to practice formations, though they struggled with the Insect-Killing Formation.
• Xiaoluan woke larger after eating part of the demon core, buried two dead pheasant disciples, and named the surviving one Big Peach as Lin Xiao noticed both had advanced in cultivation.

Lin Xiao protected the laborers repairing Guchuan Dam, helped establish a school, and aided Qin Jianghe and Gu Yuxiao against the bandits. After Sun Yigao’s exam success brought Xiushui Village a tax exemption, Lin Xiao prepared to travel to the cultivation world and Mo Yuanjiao offered to join him.

• Lin Xiao helped his family pay the corvée fee, then gave Tietou money to escape forced labor and bring his mother to the mountain.
• Lin Xiao created a spirit boat, pledged with Mo Yuanjiao to build the Lingxian Sect, and secretly placed Reinforcement Formations along Guchuan Dam to protect its workers.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao rescued laborers from deadly falls and injuries, while Sun Yigao decided to open an affordable village school and Lin Xiao helped make it part of the sect’s plans.
• Lin Xiao accepted Prefect Tong’s gift, returned to Xiushui Village, and learned that the sect members and Lin family had built the school.
• Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu joined Gu Yuxiao and Fang Manliang in searching for Qin Jianghe, who had defeated the bandits and let Gu Yuxiao avenge her father.
• Lin Xiao gave Qin Jianghe cultivation supplies and took the bandits’ wealth to Tong Shuzheng, who directed it toward compensation and flood relief.
• Sun Yigao returned with first place in the provincial academy examination, and the county magistrate exempted Xiushui Village from miscellaneous taxes for the year.
• Lin Xiao prepared to seek Heart-Questioning Stone and travel to the cultivation world, then told the gathered group of his departure as Mo Yuanjiao offered to accompany him.

Lin Xiao travels with Liao Pantu to Yuanling City and enters the Icefield Mystic Realm, where he finds Liao Pantu’s sealed soul and frees him. After escaping a hidden ice cave, Lin Xiao searches for a way to rescue the cultivators still trapped inside as the realm grows more dangerous.

• Lin Xiao refused Mo Yuanjiao’s request to join the trip, then used Liao Pantu’s Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation Disk to visit Liao Pantu’s hidden cave abode and traveled with him to Yuanling City.
• Lin Xiao learned that the Icefield Mystic Realm would open in five days, gathered information about it, and entered after Heavenly Profound Sect cultivators opened the entrance.
• Lin Xiao harvested thousands of Ice Stone Grass plants, followed the Soul-Chasing Magpie into a hidden ice cave, and found a house made of Cold-Concentrating Jade.
• Lin Xiao met Jiang Cheng and Hu Guanyu, read Yuan Zhonghe’s warning about the cave’s deadly chill, and removed a jade house while other trapped cultivators searched for an exit.
• Lin Xiao followed Liao Pantu to the sealed soul body and used an advanced unsealing talisman to reunite Liao Pantu’s soul fragments.
• Lin Xiao rejoined Hu Guanyu and Jiang Cheng, then activated the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation and escaped the ice cave with Liao Pantu.
• Lin Xiao searched the other gray areas for an escape route, secretly collected Cold-Concentrating Jade, and resolved to rescue the trapped cultivators if he found no other way out.

Lin Xiao returned from Yuanling City with a new disciple, the Icefield Spirit, and a key to the Icefield Mystic Realm, then expanded Lingxian Sect and prepared to cultivate in seclusion. He left Liu Yunan and other trusted members in charge as the Heart-Questioning Road began drawing the attention of villagers and visitors.

• Lin Xiao found the Key to the Icefield Mystic Realm beneath a pool in the White Forest, then knocked out the cultivators trapped in the ice caves and got them out while collecting Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xiao bought a Heart-Questioning Stone, buried the bones from the ice caves, and made a trade arrangement with Many Treasures Pavilion.
• Liu Chun thanked Lin Xiao, joined Lingxian Sect, and became acting elder of the talisman-making room after Lin Xiao brought him to Xiushui Village.
• Lin Xiao returned home, introduced Liu Chun to the sect, and built the Ten-Li Heart-Questioning Road to screen visitors and intruders.
• Lin Xiao opened the Icefield Mystic Realm entrance at the sect, tested its pool with Silver-Tailed Fish, and built a storehouse for the sect’s treasures and herbs.
• Lin Xiao’s relatives passed onto the Heart-Questioning Road, and Old Master Lin led the family in joining Lingxian Sect.
• Lin Xiao appointed Liu Yunan to manage sect affairs, assigned leaders to its halls, and built the Nature Platform as a secluded cultivation site.
• Lin Xiao prepared to enter seclusion while villagers and visitors discovered the peach-blossom path, where some fell into a daze before emerging with more resolute expressions.