Recaps

Shan Heyuan overcame his blocked meridians, chose the grower’s path, and used his unusual ability to cultivate spirit herbs within his Dantian while repaying his debt to Shen Duheng. After proving his skill in the Supreme Harmony Sect’s diseased Spirit Plant garden, he returned home to find that only some of the cuttings he treated had survived.

• Shan Heyuan accidentally drew a broken sword fragment into his Dantian, where Shen Duheng revealed himself as its sword spirit and offered to clear Shan Heyuan’s blocked meridians for five hundred thousand spirit pearls.
• After Shen Duheng’s treatment enabled him to cultivate, Shan Heyuan registered his low-grade chaos Spirit Root and chose the Spring Transformation Art, committing himself to becoming a grower.
• Shan Heyuan advanced in cultivation and discovered he could store spirit herbs in his Dantian to draw on their spiritual power, though each herb wilted after a different length of time.
• Shan Heyuan joined Zhao Changming, Li Jiamu, and Zhong Shuran on a mountain expedition, found valuable herbs, earned spirit pearls, and advanced to the Qi Refining Fourth Stage.
• After a storm threatened his fields, Shan Heyuan harvested and sold 633 Earth Spirit Ginseng plants, earned 265,860 spirit beads, and repaid Shen Duheng 250,000 spirit pearls.
• Jiu Mingyue brought Shan Heyuan to the Supreme Harmony Sect’s Spirit Plant garden, where Shan Heyuan identified an external disease and revived a Giant Whale Branch with Gentle Breeze.
• Shan Heyuan treated more of the Sect’s Spirit Plants, received thirty thousand spirit pearls, and took discarded cuttings home to study with Shen Duheng.
• At dawn, Shan Heyuan found that the cuttings had rooted, but only about thirty percent survived and grew leaves.

Shan Heyuan revived the Supreme Harmony Sect’s dying Spirit Plants, developed a new fertilizer, and traded with the Illusionless Tree for a branch. After reaching Foundation Establishment, he grew Drunken Ox Grass to overcome the demon bull guarding a spirit spring, then returned with Core Formation-grade water and plans to advance as a planter.

• Shan Heyuan proposed replanting cuttings to save the Supreme Harmony Sect’s diseased Spirit Plants, and Jiu Mingyue agreed to protect him from blame if the effort failed.
• Shan Heyuan treated the plants with the Spring Transformation Art, advanced to Qi Refining Eighth Stage, and successfully replanted the cuttings, producing a garden with a reported 120 percent yield.
• Shan Heyuan passed the planter qualification exam, became Thousand Cries Peak’s planting consultant, and learned from Shen Duheng that Yongli had been destroyed after the sky broke and the Heavenly Dao was severed.
• Shan Heyuan developed the Spirit-Imbuing Heap-Burning Method into a new kind of fertilizer pill, impressed cultivators with his results, and traded pills for Foundation Establishment-grade spirit seeds.
• Shan Heyuan and Shen Duheng collected soil near the dangerous Illusionless Tree and later traded fertilizer for a small branch, while Shan Heyuan concluded that heavy rainfall had depleted the tree’s soil of nutrients.
• He Wu accepted Shan Heyuan as his Registered Disciple, and Shan Heyuan demonstrated his fertilizer method before the Supreme Harmony Sect before settling in He Wu’s garden to cultivate.
• Shan Heyuan provoked the drifting Foundation Establishment tribulation cloud and endured its lightning in Spring Thunder Valley, establishing his Foundation as a tiny green bud sprouted on his broken sword.
• Shan Heyuan grew roots and leaves on the Illusionless Tree branch with a spiritual liquid, then traveled with Shen Duheng to Dinggao Mountain and used Foundation Establishment-grade Drunken Ox Grass to intoxicate the demon bull guarding the spring.
• Shen Duheng killed the sleeping demon bull, and Shan Heyuan and Shen Duheng collected Core Formation-grade spring water while leaving some water and material behind to preserve the spring.
• Wen Chengyi paid Shen Duheng for the spring water and offered to find Shan Heyuan a mid-grade spirit field, while Shan Heyuan planned to collect his fourth-grade planter token and attempt the third-grade exam.

Shan Heyuan joined Sword Reverence Academy as a teaching assistant and used his growing skills to save two poisoned disciples. As he searched for a way to sustain the Illusionless Tree in his Dantian, he retraced Xin Xie's path and learned to tame Spirit Plants with Return a Plum for a Peach.

• Shan Heyuan passed the third-grade planter exam, sold his Spirit Herbs at the Supreme Harmony Sect market, and gave Shen Duheng one of a pair of storage bracelets before they traveled to Sword Reverence City together.
• Tong Liangji hired Shan Heyuan as a teaching assistant at Sword Reverence Academy, where he tended the Spirit Plants in Orchid's Bing and Ding class gardens.
• Shan Heyuan revived the Illusionless Tree in his Dantian and used its Spiritual Power to grow Verdant Dwelling Grass, saving two disciples poisoned while investigating the Dead Realm.
• The rescued disciples gave Shan Heyuan Core Formation-grade Earth Origin Grass and Corpse Insect Grass seeds, while he and Shen Duheng later won high-grade spirit soil at an auction and used it to enrich his courtyard.
• Shan Heyuan tested seventy-three kinds of moss in search of a way to provide the Illusionless Tree with water and nutrients, then decided to retrace Senior Xin Xie's path to overcome his cultivation bottleneck.
• Shan Heyuan practiced Return a Plum for a Peach on fierce Ghost Bud Grass and Foundation Establishment Early Stage Galangal Red, bringing both under his control and taking small pieces.
• Shan Heyuan cultivated Golden Silk Dense Moss to the Foundation Establishment Early Stage and tamed it with Return a Plum for a Peach, then placed it in his Dantian beside the Illusionless Tree and struggled to arrange the two plants.

Shan Heyuan advanced through the academy competition and discovered that his Dantian was becoming a small world infused with Breathing Earth. He traveled with Shen Duheng to Qingmian City, where a powerful tribulation began and Shan Heyuan remained untouched by its lightning.

• Shan Heyuan advanced to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, grew his Dantian, and entered the academy competition to pursue its prizes.
• Shan Heyuan lost to Lin Ji, then refined Fertilizer Pills that testing revealed carried a trace of Breathing Earth, drawing attention from the academy and Sword Reverence Sect.
• Shan Heyuan won the Planting Institute’s Spring Crystal prize and used it with Golden Silk Dense Moss to produce spirit spring water that nourished his Dantian plants.
• Shan Heyuan planted Xin Yellow Grass in his Dantian, and Shen Duheng recognized that it had become a small world with a more complete presence of the Heavenly Dao than the outside world.
• Shan Heyuan read the Azure Cloud Dao Ancestor’s journal, discovered it came from his own world, and learned about the prophecy concerning a cultivator from beyond the world.
• Shen Duheng sealed Shan Heyuan’s Spiritual Power and took him to Fu Province to seek an old acquaintance and investigate his condition.
• In Qingmian City, Shan Heyuan watched tribulation clouds gather, then saw lightning strike Shen Duheng and destroy their room while leaving him untouched.
• Shan Heyuan walked unharmed between two lightning tribulations and followed the innkeeper into an underground refuge, where he met the innkeeper’s family.