Recaps

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left their village, built lives through honest work, and slowly cultivated while avoiding trouble. At the Ascension Convention they sold booklets to fund their supplies, then withdrew from the business before it attracted too much attention and prepared to grow herbs and refine pills.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left their village, took revenge on the Lao Wang Family, and traveled to Pan Ning City, where they worked for blacksmith Sun Kaile.
• After Sun Kaile died, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox studied medicine under Ning Si, then left the clinic and entered the Ningyun Mountain Range to gather herbs and cultivate.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox killed three cultivators who attacked them, returned to Pan Ning City, and later left again after Ning Si died.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached Nine Stars Valley for the Ascension Convention, studied the sects and trials, and began selling booklets about the conventions to wandering cultivators.
• After years of attending the convention, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached Qi Condensation Stage 4 and saved spirit stones from their booklet sales.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox bought spiritual herbs, Medicine Boxes, spellbooks, a Fireball Spell, and Spirit Medicine Seeds, then hid in a mountain den to grow herbs with Essence of All Things.
• Chen Xun traded a hundred-year-old Spirit Gathering Grass for Spirit Stones and bought a low-grade Yellow-rank Pill Refining Furnace.
• Chen Xun stopped selling the booklets because they were easy to copy and drew attention, then warned Big Black Ox not to trust an old man's offer of easy fortune.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left their secluded cave, joined the Five Elements Sect, and built a life in Medicine Valley while steadily improving their cultivation. After entering the dangerous Southern Dipper Mountain Secret Realm to seek herbs, they became isolated and encountered other sect disciples and beasts.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox cultivated in their mountain cave, survived the unrest outside, and later killed the Liao Family members who had hunted them before joining the Five Elements Sect.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traveled to the sect, chose to manage a secluded herb garden, and spent years cultivating herbs, learning the Water Spirit Art, and earning contribution points.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched the Sect Competition, then competed themselves, using Chen Xun’s endurance and Big Black Ox’s help to earn five hundred contribution points.
• Chen Xun learned from Ji Kun that the Southern Dipper Mountain Secret Realm was deadly, then decided to enter with Big Black Ox to obtain herbs for a Foundation Establishment Pill formula.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traveled with the sect disciples to Southern Dipper Mountain and entered the secret realm, where their sect tokens could not reach anyone.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox disguised themselves and watched rival disciples fight over herbs as a Red-skinned Lion attacked, then gathered herbs while Big Black Ox fought the lion.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox wandered the secret realm, killed a venomous snake, and watched three Purple Cloud Sect women kill exhausted Pill Cauldron Sect disciples before a Silicon Valley Bird found them.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox gathered rare herbs in Southern Dipper Mountain, returned to the Five Elements Sect, and broke through to Foundation Establishment. They settled into the Spiritual Herb Garden, while Chen Xun helped Ji Kun prepare for his own breakthrough and urged him to reconcile with Su Yetong.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox stole Foundation Establishment herbs throughout Southern Dipper Mountain, rescued Ji Kun’s Junior Sister from Cao Chen, and escaped the collapsing realm with their haul.
• Back at the Five Elements Sect, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox received contribution points, studied artifact refining and pill making, and secretly built a base behind a waterfall.
• After years of practice, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox refined Foundation Establishment Pills and broke through, then registered Chen Xun’s new cultivation with the Pill Refining Hall.
• Zuo Yiying appointed Chen Xun to the Spiritual Herb Garden, gave Big Black Ox a beast Foundation Establishment Pill, and sent them to Gathering Spring Stream.
• Chen Xun confronted Ji Kun about his changed outlook, learned that Su Yetong had betrayed him, and gave him a magical artifact and cultivation insights for the next expedition.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to the Spiritual Herb Garden after the Southern Dipper Mountain expedition, gave Ji Kun a disguised Foundation Establishment Pill, and obtained the Hundred Refinements Five Elements Art from Zuo Yiying.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox cultivated and tended the garden for two and a half years as tensions rose between the Qian and Wu sects, while Ji Kun achieved Foundation Establishment and prepared an apology for Su Yetong.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox stayed out of the war between Qian Kingdom and Wu Kingdom, then left the Five Elements Sect to pursue Core Formation on their own. After decades of preparation, they completed the Five Elements Pill and set out toward the provincial border.

• Ji Kun joined Elder Li’s ranks, and Su Yetong later died on a dangerous mission assigned by Elder Dai.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox cultivated for decades, mourned Le Feng, and prepared to flee if the coming war overwhelmed them.
• As the Five Elements Sect went to war against Wu Kingdom, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox stayed behind and worried over their absent friends.
• Shi Jing returned badly injured, and decades later Ji Kun came back with a severed arm after Qian Kingdom defeated Wu Kingdom.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage, made a coffin and protective gear, and decided to leave the Five Elements Sect.
• After bidding farewell to Liu Yuan, Shi Jing, and Ji Kun, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox departed and wandered through mortal lands.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox settled in a remote mountain range, cultivated herbs, and killed Wang Chuan after he attacked Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun mastered Gold Essence Pill refinement, and after another fifty years he and Big Black Ox completed the Five Elements Pill and set off toward the provincial border.