Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao used his private storage while the Lingxian Sect gathered soil, then caught the wild pheasant demon that had harmed Auntie Sun. After learning it had acted in self-defense, Sun Yigao chose to forgive it, but the pheasant surprised Lin Xiao by asking to live at the sect.

• Lin Xiao revealed his private storage and unlocked the Item Synthesizer while the sect members continued gathering soil.
• Lin Xiao sensed Yao Qi, caught a wild pheasant demon, and placed it in the grass shelter for questioning.
• Lin Xiao created the Law Technique Hundred Beasts Spirit Speech and learned that Auntie Sun had tried to eat the pheasant, so it had spat Yao Qi at her.
• Sun Yigao decided to forgive the pheasant and leave the matter at that.
• Lin Xiao returned to tell the pheasant it could go, but it asked to live at the Lingxian Sect.

Lin Xiao welcomed the demon chicken Luan into the Lingxian Sect and gave Jiang Youfu new Law Techniques to cultivate. As dark clouds gathered, the sect members headed home, leaving Xiaoluan in the thatched shed with a warning not to eat the spirit-field sprouts.

• Luan said it wanted to join the Lingxian Sect, and Lin Xiao accepted it as a disciple, earning a hidden reward of a Demon Beast Cultivation Facility Synthesis Recipe and twenty spirit grain seeds.
• Lin Xiao introduced Luan to the sect and offered Hundred Beasts Spirit Speech to members who reached Qi Refining First Layer.
• Lin Xiao gave Jiang Youfu Hundred Beasts Spirit Speech and the first tier of the Purification Technique, warning him not to cultivate techniques beyond his current level.
• Lin Xiao reached Qi Refining Fourth Layer, then ended the day's cultivation as dark clouds and chilly weather signaled rain.
• Lin Xiao warned Xiaoluan not to eat the spirit-field sprouts, and Jiang Youfu offered it his leftover roasted wheat before the group went down the mountain.

Liu Yunan returned home to find his grandmother and aunts trying to send Liu Shengsheng away as a maid to raise money, and he used his strength to throw his eldest aunt out of the courtyard. He faced Old Madam Liu and Third Aunt Liu and demanded to know whether they would leave on their own or be sent away.

• Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu left Xiaoluan with roasted wheat grains and told her to stay in the grass shelter overnight.
• Liu Yunan hurried home after seeing torches and hearing his mother cry, then found his mother and Liu Shengsheng surrounded by his grandmother and aunts.
• Grandma Liu, Eldest Aunt Liu, and Third Aunt Liu claimed that Liu Shengsheng would be sent to a wealthy household as a maid to earn ten taels of silver.
• Liu Yunan questioned them about his eldest male cousin and eldest female cousin, then suspected the offer was a scam and prepared himself.
• Liu Yunan lifted Eldest Aunt Liu over the courtyard wall, and after the others cried murder, he asked Old Madam Liu and Third Aunt Liu whether they would leave or be sent away.

Liu Yunan advanced to the Qi Refining First Layer and drove Old Madam Liu and her daughters-in-law away, but Boss Liu came to take Liu Shengsheng and attacked him. The chapter ended with Boss Liu breaking Liu Yunan’s arm and making him spit blood.

• Liu Yunan used his new strength to throw Eldest Aunt Liu out of the courtyard, and Old Madam Liu and Third Aunt Liu fled.
• Lin Xiao received a system notification that Liu Yunan had advanced to the Qi Refining First Layer.
• Boss Liu heard that Liu Yunan had thrown Eldest Aunt Liu, seized a wooden stick, and went to confront him.
• Liu Yunan told Widow Liu that he had advanced through cultivation, and Liu Shengsheng said she wanted to cultivate too.
• Boss Liu smashed down the Liu Household’s gate and headed for Liu Shengsheng, while Liu Yunan blocked his way.
• Boss Liu grabbed Liu Yunan’s arm and struck it with the stick, breaking it and making Liu Yunan spit blood.

Lin Xiao arrived at the Liu Household as Boss Liu was beating Liu Yunan and threatening to sell Liu Shengsheng, and found Clan Leader Hu and other village elders intervening. After Lin Xiao helped the family inside, Boss Liu discovered he was unable to move or speak, leaving Lin Xiao in control of the confrontation.

• Widow Liu and Liu Shengsheng pleaded with Boss Liu to stop beating Liu Yunan, while Liu Shengsheng offered to sell herself to protect her brother.
• Lin Xiao headed to the Liu Household in the rain and found village elders, led by Third Master Du and Hu Deli, confronting Boss Liu over his abuse of the family.
• Hu Deli ordered Boss Liu to leave the family alone or get out of Xiushui Village, as Hu clan members gathered to support him.
• Lin Xiao helped Liu Yunan and his family into the house beneath his umbrella, and Liu Yunan passed out after seeing Lin Xiao arrive.
• Lin Xiao invited the village elders beneath the eaves and told them to leave the confrontation to him; Boss Liu realized he could no longer move or speak.

Lin Xiao exposed Boss Liu’s abuse of Yunan’s family and crippled him so he could no longer threaten them. As the villagers carried Boss Liu home, Village Chief Du suggested that Lin Xiao might have an extraordinary power and told his son that immortals existed.

• Lin Xiao warned the villagers that Boss Liu would keep bullying his family and might retaliate against Clan Leader Hu, then promised a way to stop him without expelling his household.
• Lin Xiao used the Body Immobilization Technique and a dagger to sever the tendons in Boss Liu’s hands and legs, then released him.
• Several young villagers carried the injured Boss Liu home, while the village elders left and told their clansmen to keep the incident from outsiders.
• Village Chief Du offered Lin Xiao his family’s ox cart in case Brother Nan needed to see a doctor.
• Du Changsheng wondered whether Lin Xiao had been possessed by a mountain monster, and Village Chief Du replied that immortals existed in the world.

Village Chief Du remembered that immortals visited the prefectural capital to recruit disciples and suspected Lin Xiao was cultivating. After discovering Liu Yunan might have a broken shoulder, Lin Xiao rushed through the rain to fetch his grandfather, who knew how to set bones.

• Village Chief Du recalled seeing immortals recruit disciples at the prefectural capital and connected the memory to Lin Xiao's sect recruitment announcement.
• Lin Xiao stayed with the injured Liu Yunan and found that his swollen, misshapen shoulder was likely broken.
• Lin Xiao ran to his family's old home, climbed through his grandparents' window, and asked Old Master Lin to set Liu Yunan's bone.
• Old Master Lin gathered medicinal wine and dressed to leave, and Lin Xiao carried him on his back toward Liu Yunan's home.

Old Master Lin set Liu Yunan’s broken shoulder at the Liu Household, and Lin Xiao helped Widow Liu after learning Liu Shengsheng had developed a fever. The chapter ended with Widow Liu taking Shengsheng to town while Lin Xiao promised to watch over Liu Yunan.

• Lin Xiao carried Old Master Lin through the rain to the Liu Household, where Old Master Lin reset Liu Yunan’s displaced shoulder and instructed the family to keep him at rest.
• On the walk home, Lin Xiao told Old Master Lin what had happened at the Liu Household but left out that he had cut the attackers’ tendons; when Old Master Lin questioned why his clothes were dry, Lin Xiao ran off at astonishing speed.
• The next morning, Lin Xiao visited Widow Liu, who said Liu Yunan had slept well but Liu Shengsheng had a fever after getting soaked in the rain.
• Widow Liu asked Lin Xiao to watch Liu Yunan while she took Liu Shengsheng to town for treatment, and Lin Xiao agreed.
• Widow Liu wrapped Liu Shengsheng in a quilt and set out for the village entrance to catch the village chief’s ox cart.

After Liu Yunan woke, Lin Xiao told him that Liu Dashan had been crippled and learned that Liu Yunan’s little sister had a fever and was taken to town. Liu Yunan joined his friends to cultivate on North Mountain, determined to become strong enough to protect his family, while Lin Xiao planted spirit grain seeds in a newly synthesized spirit field.

• Lin Xiao told Liu Yunan that he had crippled Liu Dashan, and Liu Yunan celebrated his uncle’s defeat.
• Jiang Youfu, Hu Liang, and Qin Jianghe visited Liu Yunan and heard how badly Boss Liu had beaten him.
• Lin Xiao told Liu Yunan that his mother had taken his feverish little sister to town for treatment, leaving Liu Yunan worried about their family’s lack of money.
• Liu Yunan insisted on going to cultivate with his friends and resolved to protect his mother and sister.
• The group reached North Mountain, where Sun Yigao and Lin Yun greeted them and fellow Daoist Xiaoluan received rice.
• Lin Xiao created another spirit field and planted sixteen spirit grain seeds after consulting the Elementary Spirit Herb Cultivation Manual.

Lin Xiao reviewed the sect’s needs, checked his members’ aptitudes, and assigned them new statuses and positions while worrying about stipends and money. After Sun Yigao reached the Qi Refining First Layer, Lin Xiao decided to investigate the Item Synthesizer, hoping it could make Storage Bags.

• Lin Xiao checked Hu Liang, Qin Jianghe, Liu Yunan, and Luan’s member details, discovering Liu Yunan’s aptitude had improved and Luan had a trace of Luan Bird bloodline.
• Lin Xiao made the members personal disciples and appointed Sun Yigao Teaching Elder, Qin Jianghe Finance Elder, Tietou Infrastructure Elder, and Lin Yun Farming Elder.
• The system gave Lin Xiao a mission to distribute stipends after he created five sect positions, leaving him worried about how to provide money and Spirit Stones.
• The system announced that Sun Yigao had advanced to the Qi Refining First Layer, making four sect members cultivators alongside Jiang Youfu, Liu Yunan, and Xiaoluan.
• Lin Xiao considered earning money at the upcoming town market and opened the Item Synthesizer to see whether it could make Storage Bags.

Lin Xiao used his waistband and Spiritual Power to synthesize a Storage Bag, discovering that it could hold objects much larger than itself. He made another from Jiang Youfu’s waistband and began making one for Tietou as the group prepared to dig mud.

• Lin Xiao put his waistband into the Item Synthesizer, supplied Spiritual Power, and produced a worn pouch that held five head-sized stones.
• Lin Yun and the others emerged from the grass shelter, and Lin Xiao demonstrated the pouch’s capacity to their astonishment.
• Liu Yunan wondered whether the pouch was an immortal’s gift, while Jiang Youfu asked if Lin Xiao was performing a trick.
• Lin Xiao synthesized a second pouch from Jiang Youfu’s waistband, and Jiang Youfu tested it with a large stone and asked to keep it.
• Tietou handed Lin Xiao his waistband and asked for a pouch, then hurriedly pulled up his trousers after they fell down.
• Lin Xiao began synthesizing a pouch for Tietou to carry the mud they would dig up.

Lin Xiao organized the sect’s duties, prepared to earn money at the town market, and gave newly advanced disciples Law Techniques. Liu Yunan returned home to find his little sister still dangerously ill, while Lin Xiao faced his father’s questions about the previous night.

• Sun Yigao brought a bolt of cloth, and Lin Xiao made Storage Bags for him, Qin Jianghe, Lin Yun, and Liu Yunan.
• Lin Xiao assigned sect positions, explained that he would sell tooth-cleaning services at the town market, and invited Qin Jianghe to accompany him.
• Lin Xiao handed out copies of three Law Techniques and warned Jiang Youfu not to neglect cultivation to learn them.
• Liu Yunan learned that Liu Shengsheng’s fever had not improved and that his mother could afford only one dose of medicine.
• Lin Dayou confronted Lin Xiao at home about cutting off people’s hands and feet the previous night.

Lin Xiao prepared to finish building his sect and learned that Lin Yun had reached the Qi Refining First Layer. On the way to market with his family, he revealed his cultivation to Lin Dashan, who excitedly mistook him for an immortal.

• Lin Xiao told Lin Dayou that he had dealt with Boss Liu and arranged to go to market with him the next day.
• Lin Xiao counted the sect’s members and construction materials, then received notice that Lin Yun had advanced to the Qi Refining First Layer.
• Lin Xiao accompanied Lin Dayou, Lin Dashan, and Lady Qin to the market.
• When Lin Dashan asked how Lin Xiao had defeated Boss Liu, Lin Xiao demonstrated his Body Immobilization Technique on him.
• Lin Xiao explained that he had established a sect and was cultivating immortality, but Lin Dashan excitedly called him an immortal and lifted him into the air.
• Lin Xiao persuaded Lin Dashan to put him down and suggested they continue talking as they walked.

Lin Xiao and his family traveled to Emerald Peak Town for market day, where he planned to earn money by cleaning teeth. After seeing how poorly Lin Dashan and Lin Dayou sold Old Master Lin’s wares, Lin Xiao decided to begin his own work at the stall.

• Lin Xiao asked Lin Dashan to demonstrate tooth-cleaning and Lady Qin volunteered to be his next demonstration.
• Lin Xiao, Lin Dashan, Lin Dayou, and Lady Qin reached Emerald Peak Town and claimed a stall in the market.
• Lin Xiao searched the market for Qin Jianghe and Fourth Aunt Qin but could not find them.
• Lin Xiao watched Lin Dashan and Lin Dayou barely engage with customers and sell only two baskets as the market grew busier.
• Lin Xiao checked the wares’ prices, announced that he was starting work, and set a folding stool beside the stall.

Lin Xiao attracted a crowd at the market by demonstrating that his tooth powder could whiten teeth, earning money from customers. By nearly noon, the powder had run out, and his family packed up to return to the village.

• Lin Xiao advertised his tooth powder and offered to clean customers’ teeth for fifty copper coins each.
• Lin Xiao used a Dust Removal Technique to whiten the plump woman’s teeth, and Yan’er confirmed the change was real.
• The plump woman and Yan’er each paid Lin Xiao fifty copper coins for the treatment.
• A crowd formed around Lin Xiao, and he enlisted Lin Dayou to collect money while Lin Dashan watched the stall.
• Lin Xiao sold treatments until the tooth powder ran out, then sent the remaining customers away and packed up with Lady Qin and Lin Dashan.

Lin Xiao stored the family’s earnings in his pouch and bought pigments for the Shangyang Sect’s main hall. On the way home, he and his family learned that the Shangyang Sect would recruit children in their town in ten days.

• Lin Xiao secretly put Lin Dayou’s copper coins into his small pouch, astonishing his father with its storage ability.
• Lin Xiao spent three hundred copper coins on pigments to make the sect’s main hall more impressive.
• Lin Xiao and his family stopped to eat their dry rations before heading toward the town gate.
• A constable announced that the Shangyang Sect would recruit boys and girls under twelve at the town market in ten days.
• The constable told the crowd that his grandfather had witnessed an immortal summon a flying boat and carry chosen children aboard.

Lin Xiao and his family learned more about the upcoming immortal-sect recruitment, then discovered that his Storage Bag could hold their earnings. Lin Xiao said he would not join the sect because he considered himself the master of his own sect, and the group continued home.

• Lin Xiao and his family listened to a yamen runner explain the immortal-sect recruitment and left Emerald Peak Town.
• Lin Dashan and Lady Qin panicked when they noticed Lin Dayou's shoulder bag was missing, but Lin Xiao pulled it from his Storage Bag.
• Lin Xiao explained that he had made the Storage Bag himself and that it held about half a back basket's worth of items.
• Lin Xiao told Lin Dashan he would not join the immortal sect because the grass hut on the mountain was his sect and he was its master.
• Lin Dayou secretly felt relieved that Lin Xiao planned to stay in the village and cultivate on his own.

Lin Xiao returned to Xiushui Village, found Qin Jianghe missing from the mountain, and decided to build the Lingxian Sect's main hall. He successfully synthesized the hall and was prompted to choose where to place it.

• Lin Xiao heard villagers gossiping about the Liu Household and continued toward North Mountain with his family.
• Lin Xiao gave the pouch of copper coins to Lin Dayou, then went up the mountain to check on the sect and found Qin Jianghe absent.
• Lin Xiao saw that the others were cultivating and, after checking Qin Jianghe's character panel, decided there was probably no emergency.
• Lin Xiao gathered mud and cut enough timber to synthesize the sect main hall, adding pigments and his last Spirit Stone to the materials.
• Lin Xiao successfully synthesized a large, dark-red-tinted mud-brick hall with tiled upturned eaves and was asked to select its placement.

Lin Xiao completed the Lingxian Grand Hall, received his construction rewards, and renewed his automatic cultivation. Qin Jianghe returned and told Lin Xiao and the others that he had met a prospective bride, leaving the group teasing him about the match.

• Lin Xiao named the completed hall Lingxian Grand Hall, expanded the sect’s defensive range, and received Spirit Stones, spirit silkworm eggs, Mo Mulberry seeds, and a First-Tier Spirit Vein Fragment.
• Lin Xiao spent fifteen Spirit Stones to renew automatic cultivation for half a month and admired the grand hall without entering it.
• Qin Jianghe returned and explained that his mother had taken him to meet a prospective bride, who also thought he seemed dependable.
• Lin Xiao told Qin Jianghe that he had earned about three thousand copper coins, then asked how the meeting had gone.
• Jiang Youfu, Liu Yunan, Hu Liang, Sun Yigao, and Lin Yun gathered with Lin Xiao and Qin Jianghe, and the group teased Qin Jianghe about meeting a girl.

Lin Xiao showed the Lingxian Sect members their new main hall, where their loyalty earned him the Heaven Rank formation Ten Thousand Swords Return to One, though none of them was strong enough to use it. He returned home with Lin Yun for dinner, where Old Master Lin asked whether Lin Xiao’s cultivation was real, and Lin Xiao offered to teach him.

• Lin Xiao led the Lingxian Sect members into their newly built main hall, where they saw the sect’s name displayed above the platform.
• The system awarded Lin Xiao the Heaven Rank formation Ten Thousand Swords Return to One after the members’ loyalty reached 200%, but he stored it because they lacked Golden Core Stage cultivation.
• Lin Xiao dismissed the sect members for dinner and returned to the old Lin family home with Lin Yun.
• Lin Ying announced their arrival, and the Lin family gathered in the courtyard for a meal.
• Old Master Lin asked Lin Xiao if his cultivation was real, and Lin Xiao invited him to cultivate and possibly extend his life.