Chapter Summaries

Twelve-year-old Lin Xiao persuaded his father to build him a thatched hut, hoping to use it as the headquarters needed to activate his sect-building system. He headed into the mountains with his friend Jiang Youfu, eager to begin his plans as Sect Master.

• Lin Xiao asked Lin Dayou for a large house, but after a chase and a beating, he secured a promise of a thatched hut.
• Lin Xiao recalled his lonely previous life, his mother's death in a strange summer snowstorm, and how he gradually grew close to his family and village.
• Jiang Youfu met Lin Xiao and was pleased that Lin Dayou had agreed to build him a hut.
• Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu went to check their mountain snares, with Lin Xiao claiming the Sect Master title and offering Jiang Youfu a pheasant drumstick.
• Lin Xiao explained that his Myriad Realms Sect Construction System required him to own a space for a sect headquarters before it could activate.

Lin Xiao prepared to establish a sect with Jiang Youfu and planned where to build its first structure and whom to recruit. The chapter ended with Lin Xiao waking his father before dawn to demand that they build his thatched shed.

• Lin Xiao told Jiang Youfu about his plan to establish a sect, and Jiang Youfu agreed to join him.
• Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu retrieved a trapped hill chicken, shared a meal, and Lin Xiao brought a chicken leg to Old Master Lin.
• Lin Xiao considered building the sect in the mountains and recruiting Lin Yun and Jiang Youfu's second older brother as disciples.
• Before dawn, Lin Xiao woke Lin Dayou and insisted that it was time to build his thatched shed, angering his father.

After Lin Dayou and Lin Daman built a thatched shelter on North Mountain, Lin Xiao activated the Myriad Realms Sect Construction System and established the Lingxian Sect. He planted a magical peach tree and began creating a cultivation method, but the system accepted a core before he knew what he had entered.

• Lin Dayou, Lin Daman, and Lin Xiao built a thatched shelter halfway up North Mountain, and Lin Yun hung bamboo blinds around it.
• Lin Xiao activated the Myriad Realms Sect Construction System, named the sect Lingxian Sect, and received five Spirit Stones, pine soot ink, and a Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree.
• Lin Xiao planted the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree beside the mountain path, where it bloomed in an instant.
• Lin Xiao prepared paper mulberry bark and pine soot ink in the system's cultivation method creation platform.
• Lin Xiao started the cultivation method core input countdown and watched the system mark the third square complete despite his having no idea what he entered.

Lin Xiao synthesized the A-grade core cultivation method "Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction" and unlocked idle cultivation and the shop. After receiving a mission to recruit a sect member, he went to bring Jiang Youfu to the sect, but first helped him clean the rabbit hutch.

• Lin Xiao placed a peach blossom in the fourth material slot and synthesized the A-grade core cultivation method "Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction".
• Lin Xiao studied the method, failed to draw Qi into his body, and unlocked the cultivation function, which showed his aptitude as a dragon or phoenix among men.
• Lin Xiao spent one Spirit Stone to activate 24 hours of idle cultivation, then unlocked the shop and received a mission to recruit one member.
• Lin Xiao hurried down the mountain to recruit Jiang Youfu and found him cleaning the rabbit hutch at home.
• Lin Xiao declined Grandma Jiang's candy and joined Jiang Youfu in cleaning the rabbit hutch.

Lin Xiao brought Jiang Youfu to the Lingxian Sect base and recruited him as its first member, but discovered that Jiang Youfu could not read the sect’s cultivation method. Lin Xiao found a Cultivation Method Simplifier in the system shop and considered its Spirit Stone costs.

• Lin Xiao led Jiang Youfu to the new sect base, where Jiang Youfu admired the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree and asked Lin Xiao to read the Lingxian Sect stele for him.
• The sect defense system blocked Jiang Youfu from entering until Lin Xiao invited him to join the sect, completing the task to recruit its first member.
• Lin Xiao gave Jiang Youfu the Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction, but Jiang Youfu could not read it.
• Lin Xiao opened the system shop and found a Cultivation Method Simplifier that could make cultivation methods easier to understand with pictures and text.
• Lin Xiao learned that simplifiers cost Spirit Stones according to the cultivation method’s grade and wondered why the shop offered none for C-grade methods.

Lin Xiao created a simplified cultivation manual and taught Jiang Youfu to read it, advancing to Qi Refining First Layer as they studied. After his brother Lin Yun accidentally struck the sect base’s invisible barrier, Lin Xiao brought him home and told Lin Yun and Lin Dayou about his cultivation and sect.

• Lin Xiao used his reward Spirit Stones to buy a simplifier and synthesized a simplified Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction for Jiang Youfu.
• Lin Xiao taught Jiang Youfu characters from the manual, and a notification announced that Lin Xiao had advanced to Qi Refining First Layer.
• Lin Yun hit the invisible barrier around Lin Xiao’s sect base while coming to fetch him for dinner, and Lin Xiao explained that it kept people out without his permission.
• At dinner, Lin Xiao told Lin Dayou and Lin Yun that an old immortal had granted him a cultivation opportunity in a dream and that he had founded a sect.

Lin Xiao kept his cultivation secret from the villagers while discovering that his system could create Law Techniques and track disciples. The next morning, he and Jiang Youfu began cultivating at the sect, where Lin Xiao made his friend a sect elder.

• Lin Dayou advised Lin Xiao to keep his cultivation secret until he was strong enough, and asked him to research ways to improve the family's harvest.
• Lin Xiao unlocked the Law Technique Creation Function but lacked the paper materials needed to create a technique.
• The system reported that Lin Xiao gained insight in his dreams, raised his core cultivation technique comprehension, and advanced him to the Qi Refining Second Layer.
• Lin Dayou forced Lin Xiao to head up the mountain to cultivate, and Lin Xiao dragged Jiang Youfu along to share the early-morning hardship.
• Lin Xiao opened Jiang Youfu's disciple panel, saw his aptitude and outer disciple status, and created the sect elder position for him.

Lin Xiao promoted Jiang Youfu to personal disciple and explored the System Store before using the Law Technique Creation Function to make a new technique. He sensed an unfamiliar powerful presence in the mountain forest, then received the finished Purification Technique.

• Lin Xiao made Jiang Youfu his chief personal disciple, and they agreed to keep treating each other as brothers.
• Jiang Youfu cultivated eagerly after gaining insights into drawing Qi into the body while Lin Xiao browsed the System Store.
• Lin Xiao received a mission to raise the Lingxian Sect's reputation from 3 to 5 within ten days.
• Lin Xiao went up the mountain to gather paper mulberry bark and sensed a powerful unfamiliar presence passing through the forest.
• Lin Xiao used paper mulberry bark, pine-soot ink, and one Spirit Stone in the Law Technique Creation Function.
• The system announced that the Purification Technique had been created.

Lin Xiao learned the five tiers of the Purification Technique and tested its weakest tier, while avoiding techniques that could strain his meridians. He went shrimp-catching with Jiang Youfu, who spotted Sun Yigao awkwardly fetching water downstream.

• The system told Lin Xiao that he automatically learned Law Techniques he created, but he refused to give up immortality for cultivation without practice.
• Lin Xiao used the Dust Removal Technique to clean his grass mat and decided not to test the higher tiers because their Spiritual Power output could damage his meridians.
• Jiang Youfu came out of the shelter hungry, and Lin Xiao took him down the mountain to catch shrimp at Mountain Stream.
• Jiang Youfu told Lin Xiao that Sun Yigao was usually kept from chores by his mother and expressed surprise at seeing him fetch water.
• Lin Xiao looked downstream and saw Sun Yigao, a boy of about fifteen or sixteen, awkwardly drawing water with a wooden bucket.

Lin Xiao sensed a familiar, unusual presence at the Sun Household, where a spirit medium was performing a ritual for Sun Yigao’s mother. He and Jiang Youfu pulled Sun Yigao aside, and Lin Xiao prepared to show him something.

• Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu set out to tell their village friends about their cultivation, while Lin Xiao warned Jiang Youfu not to make too much of it.
• They passed Landlord Sun’s house and learned that Sun Yigao’s mother had fallen into a daze, so the family had called Spirit Medium Song to drive out an alleged evil spirit.
• Lin Xiao sensed a presence when Sun Yigao’s in-law opened a window and recognized it as similar to one he had felt on the mountain that morning.
• Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu intercepted Sun Yigao as he returned with water and took him to a secluded spot.
• Lin Xiao told Sun Yigao that he would show him rather than simply explain, and asked him to watch closely.

Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu revealed themselves as immortal cultivators and investigated Sun Yigao’s mother, suspecting that a wild pheasant had brought Yao Qi into the Sun Household. As the spirit medium demanded an exorbitant payment without helping her, Sun Changfu left the room and Sun Yigao followed him.

• Lin Xiao used the Dust Removal Technique on Sun Yigao, then introduced himself and offered to investigate his mother’s condition with Jiang Youfu.
• Sun Yigao brought Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu to the Sun Household and explained that his mother had become confused that morning despite being well the day before.
• Lin Xiao sensed Yao Qi near Auntie Sun’s room and found the same presence lingering on the broken cage where her wild pheasant had been kept.
• Sun Yigao planned to get his father’s permission for Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu to examine his mother and to distract Grandma Sun.
• Spirit Medium Jiang gave Grandma Sun talisman ashes and demanded at least fifteen taels of silver, while Sun Changfu left the room and Sun Yigao followed him.

Sun Yigao convinced Sun Changfu to keep the spirit medium away from Auntie Sun and let Lin Xiao examine her. Lin Xiao sensed Yao Qi draining her human presence and, lacking the Spiritual Power to use the Qi Purification Technique, began studying a cultivation method so he could break through and try to save her.

• Sun Yigao told Sun Changfu about Lin Xiao’s abilities and warned him that the spirit medium might harm Auntie Sun, so they agreed to let Lin Xiao examine her.
• Sun Changfu took the spirit medium to town while Sun Yigao sent Grandma Sun to rest, then brought Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu to the main house.
• Lin Xiao sensed that Yao Qi was eating away at Auntie Sun’s human presence and warned that she would die before nightfall if it continued.
• Lin Xiao explained that he might purify the Yao Qi with the Qi Purification Technique, but his Spiritual Power was too low to use it safely.
• Lin Xiao asked Sun Yigao to wait while he tried to reach the Third Layer of Qi Refining, then took out the simplified Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction and began studying it.

Lin Xiao advanced to the Third Layer of Qi Refining and purified Auntie Sun of Yao Qi before returning to the Lingxian Sect with Jiang Youfu. He used a new Spirit Gathering Formation to help Jiang Youfu enter the First Layer of Qi Refining, then considered using petals from the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree to make spirit fertilizer.

• Sun Yigao calmed Lin Xiao by reciting The Analects, and Lin Xiao advanced to the Third Layer of Qi Refining.
• Lin Xiao used the Qi Purification Technique to clear Auntie Sun's Yao Qi, and Sun Yigao cared for her as she woke.
• Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu left the Sun Household and returned to the Lingxian Sect after Lin Xiao received a reward for raising the sect's reputation.
• Lin Xiao placed the Initial-Grade Spirit Gathering Formation in the thatched shelter, helping Jiang Youfu enter the First Layer of Qi Refining.
• Lin Xiao bought a spirit herb soil synthesizer and considered composting petals from the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree into spirit fertilizer.

Lin Xiao synthesized spirit herb soil, created a small spirit field on the sect grounds, and planted Mist Spring Grass and Spirit-Gathering Grass seeds. After returning home, he told his family how he had saved Sun Yigao’s wife and demonstrated his Dust Removal Technique, which his father promptly assigned to daily housecleaning.

• Lin Xiao dug a pit, combined hard mountain soil, spring water, and fallen peach blossoms in the Soil Synthesizer, and received a two-by-two-meter spirit field and ten Spirit-Gathering Grass seeds.
• Lin Xiao planted four Mist Spring Grass seeds and five Spirit-Gathering Grass seeds in the new field, watered them, and napped beneath the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree.
• Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu returned home after sunset, where Lin Xiao told Lin Dayou and Lin Yun that he had saved Sun Yigao’s possessed wife.
• Lin Xiao demonstrated the Dust Removal Technique on the main room floor, and Lin Dayou told him to use it to clean the house every morning.
• Lin Xiao used the technique on Lin Dayou and Lin Yun and asked whether that meant he could skip heating bathwater.

Lin Xiao recruited his brother Lin Yun into the Lingxian Sect and began teaching him cultivation, but the system's new construction missions left him worried about how to build the sect without money. He considered doing the work himself, though he did not know how to construct buildings.

• Lin Yun agreed to join Lin Xiao's Lingxian Sect, and Lin Xiao made him a personal disciple and sect elder.
• Lin Xiao received new missions to recruit ten members, upgrade the sect grounds into a sect hall, and build a cultivation room.
• Lin Xiao gave Lin Yun a copied cultivation manual and taught him the Drawing Qi into the Body section.
• Lin Xiao worried about the cost of construction and considered building the structures himself, but realized he did not know how to build houses.

Lin Xiao tested the newly unlocked Building Synthesizer, then set up a recruitment stall in the village to gather people for the Lingxian Sect. Sun Yigao became the sect’s first recruit, and Lin Xiao discovered that his aptitude was exceptionally rare.

• Lin Xiao opened the Building Synthesizer and found that he could add more material slots, but his private storage held nothing suitable to use.
• Lin Xiao decided to recruit sect members before the weather turned rainy and set up a stall at the village threshing ground.
• Lin Xiao called out to the villagers, drawing a crowd who mocked his recruitment pitch and gossiped among themselves.
• Sun Yigao approached Lin Xiao, bowed, and offered to join the Lingxian Sect.
• Lin Xiao checked Sun Yigao’s panel and found that his aptitude was as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.

Lin Xiao recruited Hu Liang, Qin Jianghe, and Liu Yunan into his newly forming sect after explaining cultivation and sects to them. With six disciples now listed, he was four short of ten.

• Lin Xiao sent Sun Yigao home and arranged to tell him where and when to gather the next day.
• Hu Liang, Qin Jianghe, and Liu Yunan arrived, and Lin Xiao joked with them before they helped carry his table and benches home.
• Lin Xiao explained sects and cultivating immortality to the three boys, who eagerly asked to join.
• Lin Xiao guided Hu Liang, Qin Jianghe, and Liu Yunan through the joining process, bringing his disciple count to six.

Lin Xiao brought Tietou, Qin Jianghe, and Liu Yunan to the sect, showed them its grounds, and explained the work needed to build its main hall. The group agreed to gather soil and timber gradually while protecting their time and health for cultivation.

• Lin Xiao told the three newcomers to recruit trustworthy people discreetly and keep their cultivation secret, and Qin Jianghe suggested bringing potential recruits to Lin Xiao to speak with.
• Lin Xiao took Tietou, Qin Jianghe, and Liu Yunan up the mountain, where they greeted Jiang Youfu and toured the sect's facilities.
• Lin Xiao explained that the sect needed a main hall, and the boys offered to help with the construction.
• Lin Xiao planned a roughly fifty-square-meter hall and a cultivation room, estimating that the hall would require about a hundred baskets of soil and fifteen large logs.
• Lin Xiao told everyone to gather the materials a little at a time and avoid harming their health or neglecting cultivation.

Lin Xiao organized the sect’s cultivation and visited Sun Yigao, who joined after his mother approved. The next morning, Lin Xiao discovered a way to turn his Dust Removal Technique into a business and arrived at North Mountain, where Sun Yigao was waiting.

• Lin Xiao told the sect members to gather red clay from upstream of Mountain Stream, taught them to read the cultivation manual, and urged them to keep the sect secret.
• Lin Xiao learned that Sun Yigao had told his mother he saved her and that she had agreed to let him join the Lingxian Sect.
• Sun Yigao said he wanted to help the world and save its people through cultivation, then agreed to meet Lin Xiao at North Mountain the next morning.
• Lin Xiao used the Dust Removal Technique to whiten his teeth, cleaned Lin Dayou’s teeth, and decided to offer tooth-cleaning as a way to earn money for the sect.
• Sun Yigao waited at the foot of North Mountain, and Lin Xiao sprinted there in seconds after reaching the Third Layer of Qi Refining.

Lin Xiao welcomed Sun Yigao into the Lingxian Sect and asked him to teach the disciples to read while he studied the sect’s cultivation manual. After the sect members spent the morning digging red clay, Lin Xiao realized he could use his private storage to transport it instead of making everyone carry it back.

• Lin Xiao told Sun Yigao that the sect needed him to teach its illiterate members, and Sun agreed while also offering to help dig mud.
• Sun Yigao admired the sect’s mountain home, accepted the original Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction, and began studying it.
• Lin Xiao noticed that Lin Yun was close to Drawing Qi into the Body and wondered whether the Spirit Gathering Formation and the sect’s cultivation method had sped up cultivation.
• Lin Xiao showed Tietou, Fuzi, and the others his clean white teeth, prompting them to rush into the shelter and cultivate.
• Lin Xiao led the group to dig red clay upstream of Mountain Stream, and they gathered about twenty baskets by midday.
• Just as everyone prepared to carry the mud back, Lin Xiao remembered his private storage and told them they no longer needed to haul it by hand.