Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao synthesized the Yaoguang Floating Island, giving the sect a vast new area and a control console for managing it. He set up an access platform and reached the island, only to find it completely bare.

• Lin Xiao told Liu Yunan to notify him when the fighting was near and to arrange for Fuzi to share what they had learned in the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
• The system announced a library pavilion mission and offered to synthesize three Yaoguang Floating Island Fragments.
• Lin Xiao synthesized the fragments, and the floating island appeared in the sky above the sect.
• Lin Xiao opened the island control console and placed an access platform near the secret realm's little garden.
• Lin Xiao used the platform to reach the island and found it was a flat, empty expanse of soil.

Lin Xiao connected the Yaoguang Attached Pearl to the Yaoguang Floating Island, gaining access to a beautiful small world filled with flowers and a lake. He tested the island’s altitude and safety barrier, then left the small world with plans to have Senior Liao identify its flowers.

• Lin Xiao raised the Yaoguang Floating Island’s altitude from 3,500 to 5,000 meters and saw clouds surrounding it above Lingxian Sect and Xiushui Village.
• Lin Xiao discovered he could walk off the island because he was not registered as a settled resident, so he registered himself and confirmed the safety barrier blocked residents from leaving.
• Lin Xiao tested the barrier and found it extended about 500 meters above the island, with no setting to expand it.
• The system completed the connection between the Yaoguang Attached Pearl and the Yaoguang Floating Island, opening an entrance to the Yaoguang Small World.
• Lin Xiao entered the small world and found a sea of flowers surrounding a crescent-shaped lake, then decided to ask Senior Liao to identify the plants.

Lin Xiao explored the Yaoguang Small World on the floating island and discovered that its clear Crescent Lake water could become spirit lake water when paired with a Spirit Vein. He brought the sect members to the island, showed them that they were high above the ground, and began explaining how the sect would use the new space.

• Lin Xiao appraised Crescent Lake water and learned it could become fine spirit lake water with a Spirit Vein.
• Lin Xiao added every sect member to the floating island’s resident list and summoned them to the secret realm’s garden.
• Lin Xiao led the sect members onto the stone platform, and they appeared on the floating island in groups of no more than five.
• The sect members explored the island’s edges, saw their sect and Xiushui Village far below, and realized they were in the sky.
• Lin Xiao explained that the mountainside was too small for the sect and said they could use it as their public face while moving important things to the floating island.

Lin Xiao showed the sect members the Yaoguang Floating Island and its attached small world, where Liao Pantu discovered a garden of rare, valuable flowers. After agreeing to help move Liao Pantu’s medicinal herb garden there, Lin Xiao left the sect to explore the mountains and plan what to build on the island.

• Lin Xiao led the sect members around the floating island and told them its attached small world would be opened to everyone after its overgrown plants were examined.
• Lin Xiao took Liao Pantu into the small world, where Liao Pantu asked to move his medicinal herb garden there.
• Lin Xiao received a system notification confirming that sect facilities could be moved to the floating island or its small world.
• Liao Pantu identified a flower as the rare Silk Moon Orchid and examined the other plants, then asked Lin Xiao to help move his garden once he cleared a space.
• Lin Xiao left the small world and, after considering how to develop the floating island, took a cold-concentrating jade house from the storeroom and headed into the mountains.

Lin Xiao synthesized a Spirit-Rich Mountain from an uprooted mountain, Spirit Stones, and a Cold-Concentrating Jade house, then installed it on Yaoguang Floating Island. Its waterfall raised the island’s Spiritual Qi density, and Lin Xiao left confident that it would continue improving the island and might eventually nurture Spirit Veins.

• Lin Xiao repeatedly struck a mountain with the fourth form of Swordsmanship in the Clouds until he severed it at its roots.
• Lin Xiao spent fifty thousand Spirit Stones and a Cold-Concentrating Jade house to synthesize the uprooted mountain into a Spirit-Rich Mountain.
• Lin Xiao appraised the Spirit-Rich Mountain and learned it could generate Spiritual Qi and gradually nurture Spirit Veins.
• Lin Xiao placed the Spirit-Rich Mountain on Yaoguang Floating Island, where its waterfall formed a stream around the island.
• Lin Xiao checked the island panel and saw its average Spiritual Qi density rise from 30 to 78.

Lin Xiao built a small bamboo residence on Spirit-Rich Mountain and planned other facilities for the Lingxian Sect, including a kitchen and a library pavilion. At dinner, he asked Liu Yunan to arrange for the Yuan Household to produce more goods, and Liu Yunan worried they might pass the formulas to their sect.

• Lin Xiao synthesized a bamboo house on Spirit-Rich Mountain and furnished it with items he had collected in the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
• Lin Xiao decided to ask Fuzi what kind of kitchen he wanted and planned to build a library pavilion, but postponed the work to go to dinner.
• The Lingxian Sect members reunited over Fuzi's cooking, while Liao Pantu arrived at the meal despite Lin Xiao having forgotten him.
• Lin Xiao told Liu Yunan to select high-demand, less important talisman, formation, and pill formulas for the Yuan Household to produce.
• Liu Yunan agreed to make arrangements but asked whether the Yuan Household might give the formulas to its sect and stop producing goods for them.

Lin Xiao arranged for the imperial family to warn sects about their deposits and began preparing to build up the floating island. He synthesized a grand Scripture Pavilion and was left to choose where to place it.

• Lin Xiao told Liu Yunan that the imperial family should collect the sects’ deposits and warn them, and Liu Yunan decided to send a letter to the capital.
• Lin Xiao asked the sect members to gather materials for the floating island, including a kitchen and dining hall, and they eagerly worked through the night.
• Lin Xiao encouraged Tietou to resume studying artifact refining, and Tietou promised to make it his priority after cultivation.
• Lin Xiao used Cold-Concentrating Jade, Spirit Stones, and the gathered materials to synthesize a Scripture Pavilion, and the system asked him to select its placement location.

Lin Xiao built the sect library pavilion, whose magic automatically sorted his books, then asked Liao Pantu where to build the breeding facility. They settled on using the valley after Liao Pantu moved his herb garden into the little world, while Yuan Qing continued facing the Heart-Questioning Road.

• Lin Xiao placed the seven-story library pavilion near the sect entrance and explored its floors, finding that the upper three held Divine Sense inheritances and required a jade token to enter.
• Lin Xiao piled more than 1,300 books on the first floor, and the library pavilion automatically sorted them by grade and content onto its shelves.
• A system notification told Lin Xiao that he had completed the sect facilities (8) construction task, and he remembered he still needed to build a breeding facility and grow feed for his Demon Beasts.
• Lin Xiao asked Liao Pantu where to build the breeding facility, and Liao Pantu suggested the valley where his herb garden stood after he moved it into the little world.
• Xiaoluan told Lin Xiao that Yuan Qing was standing on the mountain path, and Lin Xiao said to let Yuan Qing continue the Heart-Questioning Road and bring him over if he passed.

The Lingxian Sect members built and furnished a canteen, while Lin Xiao moved Liao Pantu’s medicine garden to its new location. After seeing the floating island’s rapid growth, Lin Xiao went to prepare a self-sustaining breeding farm for the sect’s Demon Beasts.

• The Lingxian Sect members built a canteen and kitchen, and Jiang Youfu prepared a lavish dinner that helped several disciples advance their cultivation.
• Liao Pantu showed Lin Xiao the cleared land for his medicine garden, and Lin Xiao moved the garden there using the floating island’s control panel.
• Lin Xiao saw that the floating island had been landscaped and its average Spiritual Qi concentration had risen to 111.
• Lin Xiao collected building materials and went to the medicine garden’s former location to begin planning a breeding farm that would require little upkeep.

Lin Xiao synthesized a Beast Garden at the former herb garden site and discovered it required identity tokens to control access and settings. He organized Lingxian Sect’s positions and responsibilities, preparing its structure for recruiting disciples.

• Lin Xiao gathered mountain sections, formations, Spirit Stones, and forage plants, then synthesized and placed the Beast Garden at the old herb garden site.
• Lin Xiao explored the Beast Garden and found that it contained abundant food and several environments for his Demon Beasts.
• Lin Xiao searched for a way to activate the garden’s barriers and found an indentation that required identity tokens for entry, exit, and settings.
• Lin Xiao discovered an Identity Token Generator among his rewards for completing the Library Pavilion and reviewed its functions.
• Lin Xiao established leadership roles for the Finance Hall, Law Enforcement Hall, Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, and the sect’s other departments, with all department heads answering directly to him.
• Lin Xiao kept the sect’s four disciple ranks and set equal starting cultivation allocations, with additional resources earned through contributions.

Lin Xiao finalized the Lingxian Sect’s contribution system, generated identity tokens for its members, and configured the Beast Garden. He released the captured Demon Beasts into their new habitats, where they believed they had escaped.

• Lin Xiao decided that cultivation resources would depend on each person’s work and contributions, then finished planning the Lingxian Sect’s system.
• Lin Xiao generated and appraised the first Finance Hall master identity token, activating automatic contribution tracking throughout the sect.
• Lin Xiao produced tokens for the sect’s leaders, department workers, ordinary disciples, and himself, including a gold-trimmed sect master token.
• Lin Xiao used his token to activate the Beast Garden’s formations and restrict entry to authorized people while allowing unintelligent creatures to pass.
• Lin Xiao released the captured Demon Beasts into the Beast Garden, and they hurried toward their preferred habitats without realizing they remained confined.

Lin Xiao reorganized the Lingxian Sect’s administration and prepared new halls, then welcomed Yuan Qing as a formal disciple after he passed the Heart-Questioning Road. The sect’s membership grew by one as the mist parted to reveal the sect to Yuan Qing.

• Lin Xiao renamed the Affairs Hall the General Affairs Hall, appointed Liu Yunan as its master, and agreed to hold a formal meeting to announce the sect’s appointments.
• Lin Xiao built the Finance Hall and Law Enforcement Hall on the floating island, and contribution point counters appeared in places where sect affairs were handled.
• Xiaoluan told Lin Xiao that Yuan Qing had emerged from the Heart-Questioning Road, and Lin Xiao went to meet him.
• Yuan Qing encountered Xiaoluan in the mist before Lin Xiao appeared and asked whether he still wanted to join the Lingxian Sect.
• Yuan Qing asked to become Lin Xiao’s disciple, received an identity token, and watched the white mist part as Lin Xiao welcomed him to the Lingxian Sect.

Yuan Qing joined the Lingxian Sect and received his basic disciple supplies as Liu Yunan showed him around. Liao Pantu gave Sun Yigao the Icefield Spirit, which acknowledged Sun Yigao as its master.

• Lin Xiao brought Yuan Qing to the General Affairs Hall, then left him with Liu Yunan to register and collect his disciple supplies.
• Liu Yunan gave Yuan Qing a Storage Bag and showed him around the sect, where Yuan Qing grew increasingly curious about its facilities.
• Liao Pantu asked Lin Xiao about the Icefield Spirit, and Lin Xiao gave it to him to pass on to Sun Yigao.
• Liao Pantu and Lin Xiao found Sun Yigao after class, and Liao Pantu explained how to make the Icefield Spirit acknowledge him as its master.
• Sun Yigao used his heart's blood and Divine Sense to bond with the Icefield Spirit, which settled on his shoulder after the bond succeeded.
• Liao Pantu gave Sun Yigao a Storage Bag of supplies to feed the Icefield Spirit, and Sun Yigao accepted it gratefully.

Sun Yigao planned to expand the Lingxian Sect’s school by recruiting teachers, and Lin Xiao suggested screening applicants with the Heart-Questioning Road. The recruitment drew many applicants but yielded only Teacher Pei before Wen Yuejun arrived to interview, carrying a long-standing reverence for the sect and a complicated history with his father.

• Sun Yigao told Lin Xiao that he wanted to recruit teachers because more families were seeking places for their children at the school.
• Lin Xiao agreed and suggested using the Heart-Questioning Road to assess applicants’ character.
• Liu Yunan set up a recruitment station, and villagers helped manage the crowd of applicants and onlookers.
• Most applicants failed the academic interview or were rejected by the Heart-Questioning Road, leaving Teacher Pei as the sole qualified recruit by the end of the morning.
• Wen Yuejun arrived in the afternoon to apply, having earned a xiucai degree and developed reverence for the Lingxian Sect after entering the Heart-Questioning Road by accident.
• Wen Yuejun’s earlier experience had helped him understand his father better, and he had later returned home to speak at length with his teacher.

Wen Yuejun joined the Lingxian Sect as a teacher, while the sect expanded its private school and prepared for more students. Qin Jianghe returned with news of an impending cultivator war against Huanyou Nation, leaving Lin Xiao concerned about the coming conflict and its toll on innocents.

• Wen Yuejun reflected on how the Lingxian Sect's Heart-Questioning Road had helped him reconcile with his father and chose to return as a teacher.
• Wen Yuejun passed the private school's interviews and the Heart-Questioning Road, joining Sun Yigao and another new teacher.
• Liu Yunan paid for additional land as the sect members expanded the school with classrooms, teachers' quarters, a kitchen, a courtyard, and a riding and archery ground.
• Qin Jianghe returned with a court letter asking how many cultivator travel permits the Lingxian Sect wanted and reported that several countries were preparing to fight Huanyou Nation.
• Lin Xiao reassured the villagers that their sect would provide supplies rather than send people to war, then asked Qin Jianghe when the conflict would begin.
• Qin Jianghe estimated that the war would start in the latter part of the following month, after supplies reached the capital by the end of the current month.

At the Lingxian Sect’s second assembly, Lin Xiao assigned leaders and staff to the sect’s departments, formally establishing its initial management system. He then explained the need to guide future recruits and pass down cultivation methods, and began to address rules for taking masters and disciples.

• Lin Xiao opened the assembly and announced the sect’s plans before appointing leaders for its halls and other departments.
• Xiaoluan volunteered to manage the Beast Garden, and Lin Xiao appointed Xiaoluan as its master.
• The members received identity tokens and chose departments, with Qin Jianghe placing Fang Mancang, Fang Manliang, and Gu Yuxiao under the Finance Hall.
• Lin Xiao explained that senior members would need to guide new disciples and pass down their cultivation insights and methods.
• Lin Xiao said the sect needed proper rules for master-disciple relationships and seniority as recruitment expanded.

Lin Xiao set qualifications for sect members to take disciples, and the second sect assembly concluded. The sect moved forward with Qin Jianghe leaving for the capital, the private school preparing to enroll more students, and Yang Jinshu settling into her role as Law Enforcement Hall master.

• Lin Xiao announced that only Golden Core Stage cultivators or members assessed at the second rank or higher in a cultivation craft could take disciples.
• Lin Xiao reassured Tietou that he had reserved the Artifact Refining Hall master position for him, and Liao Pantu offered to teach him artifact refining.
• Qin Jianghe set out for the capital with goods, identity tokens, and supplies after Lin Xiao urged him to return soon and take charge of the Finance Hall.
• Sun Yigao limited the private school's initial enrollment because it had only three teachers, while adding books and notes to its library for students.
• Yang Jinshu organized patrols and sect regulations and quickly brought the Law Enforcement Hall into order.

Xiaoluan transformed into a diligent beast-garden master after reading two books, surprising the Lingxian Sect with its careful management and rapid cultivation. At dinner, Liao Pantu invited everyone to visit the Yaoguang Small World the next day, and Lin Xiao asked whether it was ready to show them.

• Liu Yunan reflected on how much his mother had changed and felt glad for her.
• Xiaoluan took charge of the beast garden, advanced to the Core Formation Realm, and began recording the animals’ habits and arranging nutritious fodder with Old Master Lin.
• Xiaoluan argued with the Finance Hall and sect kitchen to control how many Demon Beasts they took from the garden, while studying Hundred Beasts Spirit Speech.
• Sun Yigao revealed that Xiaoluan’s transformation began after it borrowed two books, including one about raising Demon Beasts and one about sow demons’ postpartum care.
• Big Peach vowed to study and make copies of the two books, becoming the Lingxian Sect’s second hardworking chicken.
• Liao Pantu invited everyone to visit the Yaoguang Small World the next day, and Lin Xiao asked whether it was ready.

Liao Pantu finished transforming the Yaoguang Small World into a flower-filled retreat and invited the Lingxian Sect members to see it. He welcomed them to visit whenever they liked, but refused Jiang Youfu’s request to move his kitchen inside.

• After a month of work, Liao Pantu removed the entrance sign and led everyone into the Fuguang Small World.
• The visitors admired the jade paths, encircling flower walls, crystal greenhouse, flowering trellis, fruit trees, and seating area beside Crescent Lake.
• Liao Pantu served tea using the Object Control Technique, and the Lingxian Sect members enjoyed the scenery and refreshments.
• Jiang Youfu asked to move his kitchen into the small world, but Liao Pantu refused because space was limited.
• Liao Pantu invited everyone to visit and enjoy the paths and flower trellis, giving the Lingxian Sect a new place to relax.

Qin Jianghe told Lin Xiao that Huanyou Nation’s campaign was nearly over, but remnants of the old imperial family had joined the alliance and won agreement to restore their rule. He also reported an unverified outbreak of a strange illness in a remote region, leaving Lin Xiao with an alarming lead to consider.

• Lin Xiao greeted Qin Jianghe as he returned and asked about the campaign against Huanyou Nation.
• Qin Jianghe explained that the allied countries had nearly defeated Huanyou Nation, while old-regime remnants helped hunt the fleeing imperial family and sect cultivators.
• Qin Jianghe said the allied nations had agreed to return Huanyou Nation to the old imperial family with little resistance, prompting Lin Xiao to suspect a historical agreement among their ancestors.
• Lin Xiao concluded that the matter had little to do with their sect and turned to other work.
• Qin Jianghe warned Lin Xiao of an unconfirmed outbreak in remote Huanyou Nation, where infected people felt cold and progressively lost their hair, nails, and teeth.