Recaps

Lin Xiao prepared a trading center that grew into a city, while the Lingxian Sect expanded its cultivation and secured new allies. As New Year’s Eve approached, Lin Xiao began synthesizing the city and invited several sects to the annual gathering.

• Dao Lord Taihua ordered the Talisman Sect to leave He Yi alone and monitor Myriad Connections, while Lin Xiao returned to Huanyou Nation to alter his sealing formation.
• Yuan Jinsheng found his Golden Core restored, and Shen Yingzi told him he had reached the Qi Refinement Seventh Layer.
• Yuan Jinsheng joined the Xiushui Village construction crew, while He Yi passed the Heart-Questioning Road and joined the Lingxian Sect.
• He Yi identified the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree as an Illusory Spirit Immortal Peach Tree, and Lin Xiao helped him find a way to cultivate Origin Qi and operate the Execution-Binding Treasure Formation.
• Village Chief Du presented the Lingxian Sect with a reclaimed farmstead, and Lin Xiao, Liu Yunan, and Qin Jianghe began planning a trading center that expanded into a city.
• Lin Xiao borrowed a hundred thousand Spirit Stones from Yuan Bi, while the imperial family and Ministry of Works prepared city plans and Lin Yun broke through to the Golden Core realm.
• Sun Yigao formed a Nascent Soul, created the Benevolent Heart Chapter, and gained the Daoist title Lingqing, while Senior Liao’s Secret Method caused Yin Qi to engulf Everbright Mountain.
• Han Weishu’s letter reached Han Shangyi, who proposed that the Clear River Sect become a subordinate brother sect to the Lingxian Sect, and the elders agreed to discuss the offer.
• Before New Year’s Eve, Lin Xiao gathered the city designs and materials for synthesis, while invitations reached the Azure Lotus Sect, Heavenly Heart Sect, and Crimson Firmament Sect.

Liao Pantu regained his soul and reached Spirit Transformation as Lin Xiao established Xiushui City, then hosted a New Year gathering and auction that drew the Mortal Realm’s sects and clans into new trade ties. The arc ended with Li Zhouxuan joining the Lingxian Sect and Venerable Xunfang beginning negotiations for the Crimson Firmament Sect to trade and lease a shop.

• Liao Pantu merged with the soul body sealed in his coffin, survived tribulation, and rebuilt his body at the Spirit Transformation Stage, while Yin Xuanzi questioned whether his junior brother had truly died.
• Lin Xiao established Xiushui City around Xiushui Village, and Liu Yunan explained its new homes, water system, and city services to the residents.
• The Lingxian Sect hosted visiting sects and clans for its New Year gathering, presented generous awards, and served Seven-Color Dip that left some disciples meditating.
• Liu Yunan led cultivators into the concealed Trade Center, where the Lingxian Sect held its first auction and sold pills, premium seeds, saplings, and spirit piglets.
• Lin Xiao entrusted the Li Imperial Clan with external trade, and Li Zhanying began arranging supply and manufacturing deals with visiting organizations.
• Xiushui City’s residents celebrated with lanterns and fireworks, prompting visiting cultivators to join the festivities and consider establishing ties in the city.
• Li Zhouxuan and three other Li Clan youths passed the Heart-Questioning Road and joined the Lingxian Sect, with Li Zhouxuan assigned to the Trade Affairs Center.
• Li Zhouxuan welcomed Venerable Xunfang and the Crimson Firmament Sect’s second elder, explained shop rental terms, and gave them trade lists that surprised Venerable Xunfang.

Lin Xiao expanded the Lingxian Sect’s trade and drew the factions of the Mortal Realm into a plan to capture Myriad Connections’ informants. With thousands of spies imprisoned in Xiushui City and their access to Spiritual Qi cut off, the story left them facing a choice between laboring for the Lingxian Sect or remaining trapped.

• Li Zhouxuan distributed lists and shop vouchers, and the factions chose businesses for Xiushui City’s commercial district while agreeing to hire Rogue Cultivators.
• Wen Xiangzhi moved his family to Xiushui City, where he arranged housing and learned that Lingxian Academy would accept all the city’s children.
• Lin Xiao arranged new sales channels with Su Yaoguang and gave Xiaoluan a peachwood sword after Xiaoluan developed a functional hand and received the Mystic Ultimate Azure Flame.
• He Yi told Lin Xiao that Myriad Connections maintained the Mortal Realm’s stagnation, and Lin Xiao proposed capturing its informants and the cultivators sent by major sects.
• Lin Xiao and Li Zhanying gathered information on the informants, and Liao Pantu captured Venerable Guijia and his subordinate before the Mortal Realm’s factions swept up the remaining spies.
• The factions delivered 14,800 captives to Xiushui City, where Liao Pantu confined them and assigned them to clear farmland.
• After the compound’s Spiritual Qi vanished, Venerable Guijia and the Golden Core cultivators tried to seize the lower-level cultivators’ resources, but resistance weakened Myriad Connections’ control.
• Yuan Jinsheng offered the captives Spirit Stones and access to Spiritual Qi for clearing farmland, and a Golden Core elder urged Venerable Guijia to consider signing up.

Xiushui City grew into a hub for trade, cultivation, and public projects as the Lingxian Sect captured spies, introduced Spirit Beads, and began planning railways. Sun Yigao established an academy in Huanyou Nation, while Lin Xiao turned to affordable farming innovations to support the railway effort.

• Yuan Jinsheng led more than ten thousand spies through the Cage Compound’s back gate to work the fields, promising them time to meditate outside after each day’s labor.
• Sects, royal families, and Rogue Cultivators flocked to Xiushui City, where Lin Xiao opened the Nine Firmaments Mountain Range for visitors and Li Zhouxuan’s Trade Affairs Center began settling orders with the Heaven and Earth Fairness Scale.
• He Yi and Liao Pantu captured Yao Yuchang and sent him to the Cage Compound, where Liao Pantu arranged for imprisoned cultivators to work in exchange for Spiritual Qi and a share of Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xiao introduced Spirit Beads as small-denomination currency, and residents and low-level cultivators began using them to buy goods throughout Xiushui City.
• Sun Yigao left with five disciples to establish a Lingxian Academy in Huanyou Nation, and the group began building a school with help from Greenwood Township villagers.
• The Lingxian Sect auctioned ten Green Field Mystic Realm access rights, and the system then ordered Lin Xiao to establish a sect base in the Immortal Cultivation Realm within ten years.
• Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu developed electric locomotives and negotiated with countries to build railways, while Lin Yun organized recruitment and advised hiring reliable workers long-term.
• When railway costs and labor shortages became obstacles, Lin Xiao enlisted Liao Pantu and experienced farmers to develop affordable agricultural products, and Xiushui City promoted waterwheels as another project for cultivator volunteers.