Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao bought teleportation and location talismans to help his family and sect members escape danger by returning to the sect. After distributing them, he checked the spiritual field, worried that Lin Yun’s duties were limiting his cultivation, and used growth-accelerating bone meal on the spiritual grain seedlings.

• Lin Xiao bought enough teleportation and location talismans for the people close to his sect members and family, spending thirty Spirit Stones.
• The system assigned Lin Xiao a task to construct a talisman-making room and assured him that the task had no time limit.
• After cultivation the next day, Lin Xiao explained the talismans and distributed them; everyone took exactly the number he had estimated, leaving extra talismans to share.
• Lin Xiao saw that Lin Yun was tending the spiritual field and realized his brother’s carpentry and farming duties left him little time to cultivate.
• Lin Xiao scattered sixteen portions of growth-accelerating bone meal over the spiritual grain seedlings.

Lin Xiao harvested an astonishing sixteen jin of spirit grain from sixteen plants, then discussed saving seed and the upcoming secret realm with Lin Dayou and Lin Yun. After handing out teleportation talismans to the family, he slipped out at night and entered Du Liushui’s room without waking anyone.

• Lin Xiao harvested sixteen spirit grain plants, pounded the grain, and found that they yielded sixteen jin of rice.
• Lin Dayou scolded Lin Xiao for not saving seed, then took the four remaining seeds and planned to plant them in Lin Xiao’s spirit field.
• Lin Xiao gave Lin Dayou teleportation and positioning talismans and explained that he intended to enter a secret realm, promising to flee if danger arose.
• Lin Xiao, Lin Dayou, and Lin Yun visited the old house to distribute teleportation talismans and explain the plan to the family.
• Lin Xiao left Lin Dayou and Lin Yun on the way home and entered Du Liushui’s room silently at night.

Lin Xiao warned Village Chief Du that Grave Mountain might hold a danger and arranged for villagers to seek refuge at Lingxian Sect if needed. On the day he prepared to depart, he unlocked item appraisal and discovered that three First-Tier Spirit Vein Fragments could form an initial-tier spirit vein before turning to appraise his sect robes.

• Lin Xiao used a small flame to wake Village Chief Du and told him he sensed a possible danger at Grave Mountain.
• Lin Xiao asked Village Chief Du to lead the villagers to Lingxian Sect if trouble arose while he was away, and the chief agreed to do his best.
• Lin Xiao visited Clan Chief Hu Deli to encourage further preparations, then changed the sect barrier permissions to let Xiushui Village residents enter.
• Lin Xiao prepared a farewell meal with Yang Jinshu and caught fish using his newly created Law Technique, Heavenly Net and Earthly Snare-Every Thread in Place.
• A system notification announced that Lin Xiao had unlocked item appraisal after sect prestige reached 50.
• Lin Xiao appraised his Mist Spring Grass seeds and First-Tier Spirit Vein Fragments, learning that three fragments formed an initial-tier spirit vein, then began appraising his sect robes.

Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao entered the Green Field Mystic Realm, emerged from a vast thicket, and gathered Ring-Thorn Chrysanthemums by a river. They ventured into a forest where Lin Xiao considered harvesting the straight trees, but distant sounds of fighting interrupted them.

• Lin Xiao discovered that the Lingxian Sect uniforms were defensive Law Artifacts and explained their function to the others.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao entered the mystic realm through its passage, tied together by their robes so they would not be separated.
• They landed trapped in dense vegetation, forced their way out, and changed into their sect uniforms after the plants tore their clothes.
• At a river, Lin Xiao appraised the Ring-Thorn Chrysanthemums and collected flowers with Sun Yigao before they ate and continued onward.
• In a forest of slender, straight trees, Lin Xiao prepared to take out axes to harvest timber, but he and Sun Yigao heard fighting nearby.

Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao secretly watched five cultivators fight over Shadow Grass, then Lin Xiao used his Body Immobilization Technique to stop the attackers and let the two defenders escape. Yuan Gang and his companions fled afterward, unaware of who had intervened.

• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao used the Concealment Technique to approach a sword fight between Yuan Qing and Xu Juan and three attackers led by Yuan Gang.
• Yuan Gang demanded the Shadow Grass and threatened Yuan Qing, while Yuan Qing and Xu Juan fought on despite their injuries and being outnumbered.
• When Xu Juan was wounded protecting Yuan Qing, Lin Xiao immobilized Yuan Gang and his companions with the Body Immobilization Technique.
• Xu Juan and Yuan Qing called out their thanks and escaped after Lin Xiao immobilized the attackers a second time.
• Lin Xiao released the three attackers once the others were gone, and they hurried away in confusion.

Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao searched the secret realm for its heart after the system issued Lin Xiao a quest to claim it for their sect. They found a secluded valley with a lake and cottage, where a translucent old man appeared and called Lin Xiao his disciple.

• The system gave Lin Xiao a quest to find and obtain the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm, and he told Sun Yigao that claiming it would give their sect control of the realm.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao searched through the day without meeting anyone else, then camped by a fire and talked about Sun Yigao's ambitions and their views on life.
• The next morning, Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao entered a lush valley with a large lake and a weathered thatched cottage.
• Lin Xiao spotted a flash beneath the lake, but before he could investigate, the cottage door opened and a translucent old man floated out.
• The old man stopped at the doorway and told Lin Xiao, “My good disciple... I've waited so long for you...”

In the Green Field Mystic Realm, Venerable Pantu offered to take Sun Yigao as his disciple, but Sun refused. Lin Xiao proposed helping Venerable Pantu escape the realm, and Venerable Pantu questioned whether the two young cultivators could undo a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s seal.

• Venerable Pantu introduced himself as a grand elder of the Heavenly Net Sect and offered to take Sun Yigao as his disciple because of his single Wood Element Spirit Root.
• Sun Yigao refused, and Venerable Pantu warned that others who entered Spirit Heart Valley had met an unpleasant fate.
• Venerable Pantu explained that an enemy had divided his soul body and imprisoned part of it in the mystic realm with a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s seal.
• Venerable Pantu transformed the grass into a field of medicinal herbs and offered it to Sun Yigao if he accepted the discipleship.
• Lin Xiao offered to help Venerable Pantu remove the trapped portion of his soul body from the mystic realm.
• Venerable Pantu doubted Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao could break the seal, while the System explained that he had discerned their cultivation levels by observing their Spiritual Qi fluctuations.

Lin Xiao discovered that the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm was in the lake and promised Venerable Pantu he would free him. He seized the heart and began refining it at the lakebed, while Sun Yigao waited with Venerable Pantu above.

• Lin Xiao realized the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm was nearby and promised Venerable Pantu he would find a way to break his seal.
• Lin Xiao jumped into the lake, telling Sun Yigao to stay with Venerable Pantu and not let him harm him.
• Venerable Pantu told Sun Yigao that Lin Xiao was unlikely to survive and gave him one day to decide whether to become his disciple.
• Lin Xiao followed the system's alerts through the lake and grabbed the head-sized green jade that was the secret realm's heart.
• Lin Xiao found the heart's birthplace at the lakebed and began refining it, feeling a connection form between himself and the heart.

Lin Xiao refined the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm, completing his task and claiming the realm for his sect. He persuaded Venerable Pantu to leave with him by promising to help find the rest of his soul and his body, but froze just as he was about to remove the seal.

• Lin Xiao refined the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm and received his reward in private storage.
• Lin Xiao surfaced to find Sun Yigao waiting, then told him the secret realm would belong to their sect.
• Venerable Pantu asked how Lin Xiao had escaped the lake, but Lin Xiao instead offered to release him.
• Lin Xiao promised to help Venerable Pantu find his other soul fragments and physical body within ten years, and Venerable Pantu agreed to leave.
• Lin Xiao began to use the Heart of the Green Wilds Secret Realm to remove Venerable Pantu's seal, then suddenly stopped.

Lin Xiao discovered that Qi Refining cultivators Venerable Pantu had thrown into the lake had been trapped for years inside the Heart of the Secret Realm, where many survived by eating the dead. He released the survivors and their bones, then refused to undo Venerable Pantu’s seal and began helping the lone conscious cultivator find his fellow disciples.

• Lin Xiao showed Venerable Pantu and Sun Yigao the starving cultivators and human bones trapped inside the Heart of the Secret Realm.
• Lin Xiao learned that the people had been sucked into the space after Venerable Pantu threw them into the lake, and that they had endured years of hunger and despair.
• Lin Xiao released the survivors and bones, then told Venerable Pantu he would not undo his seal.
• Venerable Pantu fell silent when Lin Xiao explained that the Heart of the Secret Realm had trapped the people he threw into the lake.
• Sun Yigao offered to find the survivors’ fellow disciples, and Lin Xiao asked the only conscious survivor for a token.

Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao left Venerable Pantu’s group and used the Heart of the Secret Realm to find Yuan Qing and Xu Juan. After defeating two greedy cultivators on the way, they reached the pair and asked about Heavenly Profound Sect members who disappeared in the realm.

• Lin Xiao took Sun Yigao away from the group, and Sun Yigao said he was glad he had chosen his path.
• Lin Xiao used the Heart of the Secret Realm to locate Yuan Qing and Xu Juan, and he and Sun Yigao traveled toward them without hindrance.
• Two Qi Refinement Seventh Layer cultivators tried to rob Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao, but Lin Xiao knocked one down while Sun Yigao bound and hypnotized the other.
• Lin Xiao wondered why they had overwhelmed opponents of similar cultivation and considered seeking cultivation methods from other sects.
• After traveling all night, Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao found Yuan Qing and Xu Juan picking purple fruit, and Lin Xiao asked whether Heavenly Profound Sect disciples sometimes failed to leave the secret realm.

Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao brought Yuan Qing and Xu Juan to Spirit Heart Valley, where Venerable Pantu had spent his strength helping the captured cultivators recover. Lin Xiao opened a secret exit and offered to help the weakened disciples leave the realm.

• Lin Xiao showed Yuan Qing and Xu Juan a Heavenly Profound jade pendant and persuaded them to follow him to the captives.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao led Yuan Qing and Xu Juan safely back to Spirit Heart Valley on the afternoon of the third day.
• Lin Xiao learned that Venerable Pantu had used his soul and spiritual power to strengthen the captives, leaving his remnant soul nearly dissipated.
• Yuan Qing reunited with Senior Brother He, while Yuan Qing and Xu Juan fed Origin-Nurturing Pills to the weakened cultivators.
• Lin Xiao lied that the valley had an exit to the outside and used the Heart of the Secret Realm to open one for the group.

Lin Xiao freed Venerable Pantu from his seal and used Soul-Nourishing Wood to keep his weakened soul from dissipating. Before leaving the secret realm, Lin Xiao had Sun Yigao and Venerable Pantu dig up the medicinal field so he could take it with them.

• Lin Xiao removed Venerable Pantu’s seal after he risked his soul to save the trapped disciples, and kept his promise to help him recover his soul and physical body.
• Lin Xiao placed Soul-Nourishing Wood beside Venerable Pantu, whose soul joined with it and became more solid.
• Venerable Pantu discovered he could extend parts of his body from the wood but could not separate from it, while Sun Yigao examined the unusual object.
• Lin Xiao gave Sun Yigao and Venerable Pantu shovels and told them to dig up the medicinal field, soil and all, so he could take it away.
• Venerable Pantu asked whether Lin Xiao had a high-grade storage Law Treasure, and Lin Xiao agreed that his private storage should count.

Lin Xiao tested the Myriad Realms Iron Bucket by collecting Red Lotus Lava, then returned from the Green Field Mystic Realm with Sun Yigao and Venerable Pantu. As Lin Xiao introduced Pantu to Xiaoluan and showed him Lingxian Sect, the strange presence Lin Xiao had sensed returned, and Pantu identified it as sinister Evil Qi.

• Lin Xiao used the Myriad Realms Iron Bucket to scoop up Red Lotus Lava without feeling its heat and stored it away.
• Lin Xiao collected the herb fields and soil with Sun Yigao and Venerable Pantu, then led them out of the Green Field Mystic Realm.
• Sun Yigao spoke with Xiaoluan, who reacted to Venerable Pantu by leaving a lump at his feet.
• Lin Xiao introduced Xiaoluan and Venerable Pantu to each other, and Pantu asked to meet the sect's elders.
• Lin Xiao showed Pantu Lingxian Sect's grounds and asked whether he sensed anything unusual.
• Venerable Pantu and Sun Yigao sensed an oppressive presence, which Pantu identified as extremely cold and sinister Evil Qi.

Lin Xiao brought Liao Pantu into Lingxian Sect’s main hall, where Liao Pantu discovered the sect was led by two young cultivators in the mortal world. After Liao Pantu joined the sect and received its cultivation art, he realized it was an earth-tier high-grade technique.

• Lin Xiao introduced himself as the sect master of Lingxian Sect, and Liao Pantu was stunned to learn that Sun Yigao was his disciple.
• Sun Yigao told Liao Pantu that the sect had eight other disciples, all under Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao explained that they lived in the mortal world, and Liao Pantu eagerly asked to see their cultivation art.
• Liao Pantu agreed to join Lingxian Sect and swear a Heavenly Mandate Oath, and the system confirmed his membership.
• Lin Xiao gave Liao Pantu the Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction, which Liao Pantu identified as an earth-tier high-grade cultivation art.

Lin Xiao confirmed that cultivation-method ranks corresponded to the local tier system and invited Liao Pantu to test the Spirit Root-independent Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction. After welcoming Liao into the shabby Lingxian Sect, Lin Xiao returned home and brought his father a refreshing fruit from the secret realm.

• Lin Xiao appraised Liao Pantu's Soul Refining Instruction as B-rank and concluded that it was earth-tier low-grade.
• Liao Pantu asked why the Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction did not require a matching Spirit Root, and Lin Xiao invited him to try cultivating it.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao led Liao Pantu to the sect's sole cultivation room, where the sect members welcomed his wooden soul-body figure.
• Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao left the sect to visit their families because the lingering Evil Qi made them uneasy.
• Lin Xiao found Lin Dayou, Lin Dashan, and Lin Lei working in the fields, then gave Lin Dayou a chilled water mist lotus from the secret realm, which his father quickly ate.

Lin Xiao brought his cousin Lin Lei to the Lingxian Sect and began planning new facilities as its membership grew. After using the Chongming Cauldron to synthesize an Alchemy Chamber, he prepared to build a disciple dormitory.

• Lin Xiao cleared the weeds from his family’s fields, and Lin Lei agreed to try cultivating before returning with Lin Xiao to the Lingxian Sect.
• Lin Xiao placed Lin Lei in Sun Yigao’s care, where Lin Lei began his cultivation career by learning to read.
• Lin Xiao discovered that his reward for recruiting Liao Pantu was the low-grade heaven-tier Chongming Cauldron, which could produce pills with a chance of supreme quality.
• Lin Xiao decided the growing sect needed a disciple dormitory and chose a nearby hill for future houses.
• Lin Xiao synthesized an Alchemy Chamber using building materials, the Chongming Cauldron, and Red Lotus Lava, then placed it near the cultivation room.
• The system marked the Alchemy Chamber task complete, and Lin Xiao prepared to synthesize the disciple dormitory next.

Lin Xiao inspected the Alchemy Chamber and built eleven individual dormitories for the sect’s disciples, exhausting his spiritual power in the process. After completing a construction task, he collected its rewards, synthesized a First-Tier Spirit Vein, and decided to ask Senior Liao where to place it before setting up the newly acquired Two Instruments Life and Death Formation Disk.

• Lin Xiao inspected the Chongming Cauldron and found the Red Lotus Lava glowing at its bottom.
• He decided against building a Demon Beast Cultivation Facility for Xiaoluan and planned to give him a chicken coop instead.
• Lin Xiao cut into the mountainside with his blade of spiritual power and installed eleven individual dormitory rooms.
• The system announced that Lin Xiao had completed a sect construction task and sent its rewards to private storage.
• Lin Xiao found that his rewards included 200 Spirit Stones, a third First-Tier Spirit Vein Fragment, pill recipes, and a formation disk.
• He synthesized a First-Tier Spirit Vein but stored it until he could ask Senior Liao where to place it, then appraised the Two Instruments Life and Death Formation Disk.

Lin Xiao tested the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation, reached the Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement, and led the sect members to claim their new houses. He persuaded Lin Dayou to join the mountain’s cultivation community, where Sun Yigao took charge of teaching him and Lin Lei.

• Lin Xiao discovered that the formation disc had 108 nodes and would take him nearly two hours to activate at his current cultivation level, so he put it away.
• Lin Xiao advanced to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement as the others finished meditating, and Liao Pantu noticed his progress.
• Lin Xiao led everyone to the hill of eleven houses, where they playfully competed to choose their homes; Liao Pantu became the first resident, while Xiaoluan stayed at the grass shed.
• At dinner, Lin Xiao and Lin Yun convinced Lin Dayou to let them handle the fields so he could cultivate on the mountain.
• The next day, Lin Dayou saw the houses on the hill and joined the others in Sun Yigao’s care, studying reading and the Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction with Lin Lei.

Lin Xiao considered setting requirements for future Lingxian Sect recruits, then asked Liao Pantu how sects arranged their facilities and Spirit Veins. After learning where a Spirit Vein should be placed, Lin Xiao installed his First-Tier Spirit Vein beneath the mountain spring, dramatically increasing Spiritual Qi across the region.

• Lin Xiao decided the Lingxian Sect should avoid accepting people indiscriminately in the future.
• Lin Xiao visited Liao Pantu and asked him about sect layouts and the usual placement of a Spirit Vein's source point.
• Liao Pantu explained that sects secured Spirit Vein sources deep within their grounds and arranged the surrounding environment to renew them.
• Lin Xiao placed his First-Tier Spirit Vein beneath the mountain spring, spreading dense Spiritual Qi across Lingxian Sect, Xiushui Village, and much of the North Mountain Range.
• Lin Xiao returned to Liao Pantu, who recognized that Lin Xiao possessed valuable resources and looked forward to the sect's development.