Recaps

Lin Xu developed the village and cultivated until he merged two Xuanwei Monastery techniques into the dark-gold Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter. He reached the Night Wandering Realm and wondered whether the monastery master knew the secrets of the inheritance.

• Lin Xu organized the villagers to build infrastructure, and they completed all 29 adobe huts in one day.
• Lin Xu cultivated the Mystic Art God-Descending Technique to grandmaster level, forming spirit seeds in his acupoints.
• Lin Xu discovered that the Bright Lamp Spirit Kindling Art and the Mystic Art God-Descending Technique resonated and merged into the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter.
• Lin Xu used the new technique to steady and strengthen his Source Fire while refining his soul and body.
• Lin Xu sent his soul outside to wander by night, then returned it to his body when he felt fatigued.
• Lin Xu realized he had created the technique by merging two arts of the same origin and wondered whether the master of Xuanwei Monastery knew its secrets.

After refining a Crimson Soul Pill, Lin Xu developed a way to use mana to stimulate his neural network and raise his intelligence. He then began working on compressing the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter’s information so Chen A'niu could learn it despite his low intelligence.

• Lin Xu refined the Crimson Soul Pill, raising his maximum mana and expanding his spiritual sense across the room.
• He considered how to train Chen A'niu and Liu Jiayao, but realized Chen A'niu lacked the intelligence required to learn his cultivation methods.
• Lin Xu used mana to stimulate the neural pathways around his Lingtai acupoint, increasing his intelligence from 15 to 16 and boosting the Wisdom Art’s growth.
• He activated Thought Overclocking and discovered that mana carried information as well as energy, allowing cultivation-method information to be compressed for later decompression.

Lin Xu condensed the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter into a Dharma Seed and used it to open Chen A'niu’s Divine Aperture, beginning his cultivation. He decided Liu Jiayao could not receive the same inheritance yet and planned to raise his intelligence through an adapted method.

• Lin Xu compressed the cultivation method’s information into a Dharma Seed and concluded that inheritances beyond gold grade risked reshaping cultivators into someone else’s clones.
• Lin Xu used the Bright Light Lamp to guide the Dharma Seed into Chen A'niu’s sea of consciousness and opened his Divine Aperture while suppressing the resulting upheaval.
• Chen A'niu began generating magical power, and Lin Xu considered preparing him a Dao Rhyme Bright Light Lamp for his training.
• Lin Xu determined Liu Jiayao lacked the intelligence needed to inherit a Dharma Seed and planned to use magical power to strengthen his neural network and gradually raise his intelligence.

Lin Xu fortified Peach Tree Village and prepared its defenders after discovering more than forty Strange Poison Corpses approaching through the mist. The chapter ended with the villagers in position as the corpses drew near.

• Lin Xu compressed the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter, established civil and martial Dharma Seeds, and opened a Divine Aperture for Liu Jiayao.
• Lin Xu directed the villagers to build walls, watchtowers, barricades, and traps around Peach Tree Village.
• A militia patrol reported more than forty evil creatures approaching, so Lin Xu sounded the highest-level alarm and ordered the village to prepare for battle.
• Lin Xu used the Spirit Eye Technique to identify the approaching creatures as level-three Strange Poison Corpses with paralyzing touch and poisonous breath.
• Lin Xu positioned archers and bamboo spearmen behind the defenses and prepared to face the corpses alongside Chen Yuanfu and five outer disciples.

Lin Xu and the villagers used fire to repel the Strange Poison Corpse horde and survived the attack with their wooden wall intact. After the battle, Lin Xu found Low-Grade Incense-Offering Heaven Silver among the spoils.

• Lin Xu burned the leading Strange Poison Corpse and discovered that the creatures were vulnerable to fire.
• Lin Xu used the Wind-Dispelling Spell to keep poisonous fog away while the villagers, archers, and Daoists attacked the horde with torches, tung-oil arrows, and fire talismans.
• The Strange Poison Corpses battered the wooden wall, but Lin Xu’s wind-fed flames engulfed them as villagers fought off those that reached the barrier.
• After the flames died down, Lin Xu ordered the villagers to charge out and destroy the remaining corpses.
• Lin Xu found that the Source Fire Fragments had extended his safe stay by three days and discovered a silver ingot identified as Low-Grade Incense-Offering Heaven Silver.

Lin Xu led a rescue force to save the survivors of an eastern outpost ambushed by a dungeon legion, then returned to Peach Tree Village to prepare its defenses. The next morning, Wang Yue arrived with reinforcements and supplies, strengthening the village as the front line faced mounting danger.

• Lin Xu received word that the eastern outpost had been ambushed and led the militia and Daoists to rescue its survivors.
• Lin Xu's group fought through the fog, defeating a Grudge Corpse and then destroying the skeleton soldiers surrounding three outer disciples and the surviving militiamen.
• The rescued disciples told Lin Xu that black-robed mages, skeletons, and goblins had overwhelmed the outpost, leaving him worried about Peach Tree Village's defenses.
• Lin Xu returned to the village, assigned tighter patrols, and spent the night without a dungeon attack.
• Wang Yue arrived with five outer disciples, thirty Dao soldiers, more than a hundred transferred militiamen, weapons, armor, and carts of spirit rice.

Lin Xu inspected the Xuanwei Monastery’s supplies for Peach Tree Village, including cultivation resources, equipment, and secret techniques. He recognized their value but knew he had to win the coming battle before he could benefit from them, so he organized the villagers and helped Wang Yue prepare the village’s defenses.

• Lin Xu examined the Clear Spirit Rice and the Mirage Dazzling Light Formation, realizing Wang Yue had been sent to lead the team because of his advanced formation skills.
• Lin Xu admired the monastery’s equipment, spirit waters, and pills, especially the Treasured Light Soul-Crossing Pills, and calculated that the resources could speed his cultivation.
• Lin Xu opened the sealed bronze chest with his identity token and discovered jade slips containing a wide range of sect techniques and inheritances.
• Lin Xu reminded himself that the supplies were meant to support Peach Tree Village and that he had to win the defensive battle before considering his own gains.
• Lin Xu assigned the arriving militiamen to help with preparations while the cultivators assisted Wang Yue in setting up the Mirage Dazzling Light Formation.

Lin Xu strengthened Peach Tree Village’s defenses with Dao soldiers, new housing, and a hardened earthen wall, while the monastery’s silence about the dungeon’s advance left him uneasy. After a week without clear reports, he cultivated with an Azure Pattern Pill and extended his spiritual awareness around the village.

• Lin Xu deployed the monastery’s Dao soldiers to patrol and defend Peach Tree Village.
• Lin Xu built twenty houses and used the Illusory Rock Form-Refining Spell to turn the village’s wooden palisade into a hardened sandstone wall.
• Lin Xu noted that a week had passed without news from the dungeon, though he had seen wounded survivors being escorted past the village.
• Lin Xu reviewed the village’s developing defenses and left the nighttime guard to the Dao soldiers, Daoists, and militia.
• Lin Xu swallowed an Azure Pattern Pill and expanded his spiritual awareness to half a kilometer beyond the village.

Lin Xu refined the Evil Eye into a Dharma protector with a new cultivation art that greatly enhanced its spiritual power and long-range vision. The next morning, after Wang Yue reported a missing patrol, Lin Xu sensed danger and ordered everyone outside the village to withdraw while the Evil Eye scanned the wilderness.

• Lin Xu devised a cultivation art combining the Yin Pupil Nether-Peering Record with the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter, then formed a Dharma Seed in the Evil Eye and opened its Divine Aperture.
• The Evil Eye mastered Nether-Peering Yin Pupil, allowing it to see through barriers and the Spirit Realm's Soul-Devouring Mist, seize a wandering yin soul, and kill several monsters from afar.
• Lin Xu surveyed the village's strengthened defenses and watched villagers and militiamen lay traps in the wasteland outside the walls.
• Wang Yue told Lin Xu that a morning patrol had disappeared, prompting Lin Xu to sense danger and order the villagers and patrolling militiamen to withdraw.
• Lin Xu contacted the Evil Eye, which flew above the village and scanned the wilderness across a broad area.

Lin Xu discovered a dungeon scouting party approaching the village and prepared Xuanwei Monastery's defenses. He used the Evil Eye to ambush and kill a dungeon Evil Eye, but the monsters eventually resumed their advance and spotted the village fields.

• Lin Xu spotted a force of fifty or sixty dungeon monsters and ordered nearby militia patrols to retreat to the village.
• Lin Xu organized the militia, Dao soldiers, Daoists, and villagers to defend the village, then decided to target the dungeon's flying scouts.
• Lin Xu used the Evil Eye's superior vision to lock onto a dungeon Evil Eye and unleash Soul Shock Blast, killing it and a nearby Demon Fly.
• The dungeon force paused in confusion for more than ten minutes, then continued toward the village and spotted the fields.

Lin Xu used Soul Shock Blasts and a surprise attack by merged yin soldier paper figures to weaken and disrupt the approaching monster horde. The paper figures killed several dangerous mages and archers, but a dark warrior destroyed one of them as its ashes flew back toward the village.

• Lin Xu detonated a Soul Shock Blast in the monster horde, killing and injuring monsters and knocking out the souls of many skeleton soldiers.
• Lin Xu replenished the Evil Eye’s magic power with the Bright Light Lamp and sent six yin soldiers fused with paper figures to attack the scattered monsters.
• The yin soldiers killed goblins and mages while the elite resentful spirit bewitched goblins into attacking dark elf archers.
• A yin soldier paper figure dodged a fireball and killed its caster with a ghostly flame spear.
• A dark warrior crushed a paper figure’s spear and destroyed the figure with a burst of sword light, sending its ashes toward the village.

Lin Xu used the Mirage Dazzling Light Formation to conceal the village and confuse the dungeon monsters, then led the disciples in a talisman attack. The illusion and bombardment scattered many enemies, but a Dark Warrior broke through the assault and charged toward the watchtower.

• Lightning struck a paper Yin soldier, and the monsters destroyed its weakened body while Lin Xu identified Dark Lady · Blue as a mid-tier professional.
• A Soul Shock Blast staggered a Dark Warrior and let the paper Yin soldiers retreat, giving Lin Xu time to assess the enemy and arrange the village’s defenses.
• Wang Yue activated the Mirage Dazzling Light Formation, hiding the village and making a phantom city appear before the approaching monsters.
• The phantom Yin soldiers confused the monsters, and Lin Xu led the outer sect disciples in firing spirit talismans that blasted several low-tier Devil Creatures.
• A Dark Warrior cut through the fire talismans with Sword Qi and charged toward the watchtower.

Lin Xu and the Daoists fought to stop a dark warrior from breaking through the village defenses, using the Evil Eye and Dao soldiers to subdue him. Other dark warriors continued attacking at the wall breach and village gate.

• The dark warrior shattered the illusion, broke through the stone wall, and charged toward Lin Xu’s watchtower.
• Lin Xu, the Daoists, and the Dharma Protector Wronged Soul attacked, but the warrior resisted their assaults and the Evil Eye drove off the wronged soul.
• The Evil Eye struck the warrior with a soul shock, allowing Lin Xu’s fire talismans and the arriving Dao soldiers to wound and pin him down.
• The Evil Eye used Soul Shock Blast again, and five Dao soldiers pierced the warrior’s joints and subdued him.
• Other Dao soldiers fought a second dark warrior at the wall breach while a third warrior forced the defenders back at the village gate.

Lin Xu turned the battle for the city around by using the Bright Light Lamp and the Evil Eye Dharma Protector to disable and eliminate the monsters’ key fighters. After the last Dark Warrior fell, he ordered the defenders to treat the wounded, clear the battlefield, and count their losses.

• Lin Xu burned and incapacitated one Dark Lady, while the other fled through the breach and the Dharma Protector Wronged Soul pursued her.
• Lin Xu blinded the Dark Elf archers with a grandmaster-level Light Mantra, allowing the inner disciple to destroy them with fire talismans.
• Dao soldiers joined the fight, killed the Dark Mages, and drove the monsters’ aerial forces to flee.
• Lin Xu and the defenders defeated the remaining monsters, killing the last Dark Warrior after the Evil Eye Dharma Protector briefly paralyzed him.
• Lin Xu ordered the defenders to treat the wounded, clean up the battlefield, and tally their losses.

After Peach Tree Village repelled a probing attack by five mid-tier professionals, Lin Xu treated the wounded, arranged for reinforcements, and broke the Consciousness Locks on three captured Evil Eyes. The Evil Eye Dharma Protector awakened them as his own Dharma protectors, and Lin Xu named him Qiuqiu.

• Lin Xu ordered the wounded treated and the dead buried, then sent a battle report to Xuanwei Monastery requesting reinforcements.
• He told his disciples to imprison the captured attackers and reserved the three Evil Eyes for himself.
• Lin Xu used the Bright Light Lamp to enter an Evil Eye's sea of consciousness and break its Consciousness Lock.
• The Evil Eye Dharma Protector used a Dharma Seed to awaken the freed Evil Eye as a Dharma protector.
• Lin Xu repeated the process for all three Evil Eyes and named the excited Dharma Protector Qiuqiu.

Lin Xu strengthened his soul through moonlight cultivation, then practiced body refinement and used his magic power to improve his body. With Peach Tree Village quiet after the battle, he reviewed its defenses and identified the spirit-gathering Peach Grove Slope as a promising resource to develop.

• Lin Xu cultivated beneath the Water Moon Light-Gathering Formation, using the Water and Fire Refinement and Deliverance technique to temper his soul with alternating cold moonlight and hot magic power.
• At dawn, Lin Xu watched Liu Jiayao practice a basic body-refining technique, then trained himself and used Thought Overclocking to correct his movements as magic power nourished his body.
• Lin Xu cultivated for several days while the dungeon made no further moves and Xuanwei Monastery issued no new orders; he assigned the four Evil Eye Dharma Protectors to patrol around Peach Tree Village, especially to the east.
• Lin Xu decided to develop the village’s production and examined the Territory Panel’s undeveloped Peach Grove Slope, where strange mists had driven villagers away.
• After an Evil Eye Dharma Protector showed him the grove’s spirit mist, Lin Xu realized its peach trees gathered Spiritual Qi and saw the slope as a future source of resources.

Lin Xu cleared Peach Grove Slope of wandering souls and organized its spirit-peach harvest, then began developing the village’s Spirit Pool. When a massive Xuanwei Monastery force arrived, he realized it was headed for the dungeon, and the procession passed Peach Tree Village without stopping.

• Lin Xu used the Evil Eye Dharma Protector and Bright Light Lamp to capture and refine the wandering souls at Peach Grove Slope, restoring the grove’s spiritual beauty.
• Lin Xu established a caretaker’s cabin, a collection rotation, and a smoke-drying stove, then calculated the grove could produce ten jin of dried spirit peaches a day.
• Lin Xu inspected the Spirit Pool, identified its Azure-Patterned Spirit Fish and cold jade algae, and ordered villagers to harvest them while Wang Yue led work on a Spirit Gathering Formation and Moon-Gazing Pavilion.
• Lin Xu saw that Xuanwei Monastery had sent disciples, Dharma Protector Dao soldiers, militia, and supply carts toward the dungeon, and worried about the dungeon’s strength.
• The Xuanwei Monastery procession passed the assembled Lin Xu, Wang Yue, and Chen Yuanfu at Peach Tree Village and continued east toward the dungeon.

Lin Xu took charge of Peach Tree Village’s new duty as a frontline supply base and upgraded the Bright Light Lamp with the convoy’s spiritual materials. With war approaching, he turned his attention to the captured underground city troops, still held in the village prison.

• Li Xuanfeng ordered Peach Tree Village to escort supplies to the frontline, and Lin Xu volunteered to oversee the daily convoys.
• Lin Xu and Chen Yuanfu inventoried the arriving supplies, including provisions, talismans, Spirit Stones, weapons, and spiritual materials.
• Lin Xu used some of the spiritual materials to temper the Bright Light Lamp, raising its grade and strengthening its cultivation and spiritual-awareness effects.
• Lin Xu resolved to prepare Peach Tree Village to defend itself before the war reached it.
• Lin Xu went to the village prison and considered how the captives might receive Dharma Seeds, which required their cooperation.

Lin Xu used the spirit lamp to break into a Dark Mage’s consciousness, learn its Deep Sea Demonic Abyss meditation method, and convert it into a new cultivation method. After destroying the mage’s Troop Type Consciousness Lock, he implanted the Dharma Seed, leaving the mage meditating with purified mana.

• Lin Xu frightened a surrendered Dark Mage with an illusion and ordered it to lower its mental defenses.
• The Dharma Seed entered the mage’s mental sea, where Lin Xu used the spirit lamp and Evil Eye’s mental shock to stabilize its collapsing consciousness.
• Lin Xu identified the Deep Sea Demonic Abyss meditation method and reconstructed it using the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter as a foundation.
• As mental turmoil revealed the Troop Type Consciousness Lock binding a giant dark octopus, Lin Xu burned through the chains with the spirit lamp.
• Lin Xu implanted the Dharma Seed in the octopus, which absorbed the mage’s power and transformed it into light-infused mana.
• The Dark Mage calmed and began meditating with its new mana.

Lin Xu named one of the two converted Dark Mages Alaites, but found that the Dark Ladies and Dark Warriors were too strong-willed to submit to his illusion-based method. He secured the captives, prepared Peach Tree Village for defense, and studied practical Daoist texts at Xuanwei Monastery to improve the village’s production and defenses.

• Lin Xu named one converted Dark Mage Alaites and had the other Dark Mage become a Dharma protector as well.
• Lin Xu failed to break the Dark Lady’s will because she enjoyed the torture illusion, and he found the Dark Warriors’ fighting spirit even more resolute.
• Lin Xu left the high-tier captives under guard and instructed Wang Yue to prepare Peach Tree Village’s defenses.
• Lin Xu traveled to Xuanwei Monastery, where he noticed that the disciples were preparing for battle and gained access to the scripture repository.
• Lin Xu memorized the Azure Earth Artifact Refining Manual, the Compendium of Basic Formation Arts, the Essentials of Alchemy, and the Introduction to Talismans.

Lin Xu mastered artifact refining, formations, and talismans, then enchanted ordinary farm tools to speed up Peach Tree Village’s land reclamation and farming. The next morning, he led a supply convoy toward the front lines, avoided an ogre camp, and had the Evil Eyes kill a pack of wolves for their Source Fire Fragments.

• Lin Xu studied the Azure Earth Artifact Refining Manual and gained expert-level skills in artifact refining, formations, and talismans.
• Lin Xu developed a simple enchanting method and enhanced the village’s farm tools, which helped farmers reclaim land much faster.
• Lin Xu arranged for the village chief to barter for more iron tools and saw that the Spirit Gathering Formation was nourishing the rice fields.
• Lin Xu led ten Dao soldiers and a militia convoy toward the front lines, bringing the Dharma Protectors except Chen A'niu and the two surrendered dark mages.
• Lin Xu used an Evil Eye’s vision to spot an ogre camp and directed the convoy around it.
• The Evil Eyes killed five wild wolves with Mind Blasts, and Lin Xu collected their Source Fire Fragments.

Lin Xu encountered a ghostly wedding procession led by a powerful Ghost Bride, whose bewitchment briefly ensnared him. He unleashed four Evil Eye Dharma Protectors’ Soul Shock Blasts, but the Ghost Bride survived by draining the surrounding ghosts and remained a threat.

• Lin Xu spotted a wedding procession in the mist and realized the ghosts were rapidly approaching the supply train.
• The Ghost Bride’s illusion drew Lin Xu into a vision of a wedding night, but a cool sensation between his brows broke the spell.
• Lin Xu recognized the Ghost Bride as a level 6 boss and saw that three elite ghosts accompanied her horde.
• Lin Xu ordered four Evil Eye Dharma Protectors to attack with Soul Shock Blasts, tearing through the ghost horde and damaging the Ghost Bride.
• The Ghost Bride drained the surrounding ghosts to restore her battered spirit body, leaving her alive with 331 health.

Lin Xu and his forces fought the Ghost Bride and her wedding procession, using Dao soldiers, paper figures, and spirit techniques to decimate the ghost horde. As the battle continued, Lin Xu’s Bright Light Lamp drew bewitched ghosts into itself and produced lamp oil.

• The Ghost Bride attacked Lin Xu and his baggage train with nether threads while the surviving procession charged.
• Lin Xu burned away the threads with the Bright Light Lamp and sent paper-empowered yin soldiers against the horde.
• The Wronged Soul Dharma Protector and Evil Eye Dharma Protectors disrupted the ghosts, while the Dao soldiers cut down attackers with Soul-Slaying Halberds.
• The Ghost Bride lunged at Lin Xu, but mental attacks restrained her hair, broke her umbrella, and forced her to retreat.
• Lin Xu used candlelight to bewitch groups of ghosts and draw them into the Bright Light Lamp, where they became lamp oil.
• The ghost tide continued attacking the Dao soldiers’ formation in repeated waves.

Lin Xu’s Dao soldiers and spiritual lamp destroyed most of the ghost horde, leaving the ghost bride isolated and surrounded. When she attacked, Lin Xu and his forces halted her attempted escape and wounded her, but the fight was still underway.

• Lin Xu’s Dao soldiers held off the ghost horde while he lured wandering ghosts into the spiritual lamp and refined them into Dharma Coins.
• The yin soldier corporal nearly defeated the elite hanged ghost, and Lin Xu captured it in the spiritual lamp.
• With her horde defeated, the ghost bride hesitated instead of fleeing, so Lin Xu ordered the Dao soldiers to surround her.
• The ghost bride attacked the approaching Dao soldiers, but Lin Xu’s Bright Light Lamp and the Dharma Protector Evil Eyes disrupted her.
• The Dao soldiers struck the ghost bride with their Soul-Slaying Halberds after Paralyzing Gaze stopped her escape, tearing her wedding dress and releasing gray-black smoke.

Lin Xu captured the Ghost Bride, destroyed the bridal procession, and brought the supply convoy safely to camp. There, he healed a wounded soldier and discovered that Xuanwei Monastery inner disciple Xu Mingyuan was gravely injured and unconscious.

• Lin Xu's Dao soldiers trapped and defeated the Ghost Bride, and Lin Xu captured her in the Bright Light Lamp.
• Qiuqiu and Lin Xu's allies killed the elite wronged soul, ending the attack on the convoy.
• Lin Xu led the convoy to camp and found wounded soldiers suffering from the dungeon's poisonous miasma.
• Lin Xu used the Bright Light Lamp to purge the miasma and heal a wounded soldier.
• Lin Xu found Xu Mingyuan, an unconscious inner disciple of Xuanwei Monastery, gravely injured in the tent.