Recaps

Lin Xu used his Spirit Lamp and growing powers to build influence in the Spirit Realm, investigate a dungeon, and secure a new role at Peach Tree Village. After earning promotion to inner disciple, he began recruiting villagers and organizing the settlement.

• Lin Xu left for the Spirit Realm Trial despite Liu Zhi's fears, then entered a rare role-assumption trial at Xuanwei Monastery and learned the legendary Wisdom Art.
• Lin Xu opened his Divine Aperture with the Bright Lamp Spirit-Kindling Art, developed his soul powers, and refined offerings and wandering souls into Dharma Coins and lamp oil.
• Lin Xu gathered Yin soldiers in the Yin Locust Forest, completed monastery tasks, and accepted a patrol assignment to Peach Tree Village.
• Lin Xu subdued the adventurer Liu Jiayao, recruited him as a follower, and acquired paper-soldier skills while preparing to patrol the village's surroundings.
• Lin Xu led a patrol through the mist, defeated hostile spirits and monsters, and discovered a suspected Spirit Vein guarded by demons and contested by dungeon forces.
• Lin Xu used Human-Faced Dogs to draw the demons into a fight, raided their camp for Spirit Stones, and bound a dying Evil Eye as a guardian spirit.
• Lin Xu reported the dungeon to Chen Yuanfu, received promotion to inner disciple from Li Xuanfeng, and was assigned to guard Peach Tree Village.
• Lin Xu recruited fifty-eight villagers, assigned Chen A'niu to himself, and organized teams to build houses and produce bricks.

Lin Xu developed new cultivation methods and Dharma protectors while fortifying Peach Tree Village against dungeon attacks. After securing the village and expanding its resources, he escorted supplies to the frontline, defeated the Ghost Bride, and found Xu Mingyuan gravely injured.

• Lin Xu merged two arts into the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter and used Dharma Seeds to open Divine Apertures for Chen A'niu and Liu Jiayao.
• Lin Xu fortified Peach Tree Village, defeated the Strange Poison Corpses, and rescued survivors of an ambushed outpost before Wang Yue arrived with reinforcements.
• Lin Xu strengthened the village walls and developed the Evil Eye's abilities while Wang Yue prepared the Mirage Dazzling Light Formation.
• Lin Xu and the village defenders defeated the dungeon assault, captured attackers, and converted three captured Evil Eyes into Dharma protectors.
• Lin Xu developed Peach Grove Slope and the Spirit Pool, accepted daily supply convoy duties, and converted two Dark Mages into Dharma protectors.
• Lin Xu studied crafting arts at Xuanwei Monastery, enchanted farming tools, and led a supply convoy toward the frontline.
• Lin Xu and his allies defeated the Ghost Bride's procession and captured her in the Bright Light Lamp.
• Lin Xu reached the frontline camp, purged poisonous miasma from a wounded soldier, and found Xu Mingyuan unconscious and gravely injured.

Lin Xu became a true disciple, returned to reality to defeat Liang Hu and rescue the Jiang Clan, then formed an alliance with Jiang Wanqing and Zhang Meng against Chen Lingfeng. Back in the Spirit Realm, he built up the Ghost Bride’s forces and set out to claim a demon stronghold and its Spirit Vein.

• Lin Xu brought wounded soldiers to Peach Tree Village, cultivated Yan Jingshu as the Ghost Bride, and helped her gather and cleanse ghosts while the village prepared its spirit fields.
• Lin Xu crafted Spirit Gathering Pills and Essence-Gathering Treasure Bottles, accelerated the rice harvest, broke through to the Day Wandering Realm, and became a true disciple of Xuanwei Monastery.
• Lin Xu returned to reality, killed Liang Hu, and went home to his mother and Jiang Wanqing after dealing with Chen Hao and the Black Tiger Gang.
• Chen Lingfeng’s Spirit Realm Beacon unleashed ghosts inside the Jiang Clan compound, and Lin Xu destroyed the beacon and defeated the attacking vengeful ghost and corpse-guarding ghost.
• Jiang Yelei offered the Jiang Clan’s support, and Lin Xu agreed to work with Jiang Wanqing to build influence against Chen Lingfeng.
• Lin Xu recruited Zhang Meng with a Dharma Seed and tasked the Black Tiger Gang with watching Meng City’s underworld, while Chen Lingfeng accused Li Meng of betraying his operation.
• Lin Xu returned to Peach Tree Village, studied the Mystic Yin Soul Refining Scripture, and began refining Yan Jingshu’s gathered ghosts into paper figures.
• Lin Xu’s convoy reached the frontline camp safely under the protection of his followers and ghosts, then he headed to claim a demon stronghold and its Spirit Vein.

Lin Xu captured Azure Cloud Mountain, built up its defenses and resources, and condensed the Mountain Lord Authority into a talisman edict that gave him a Lord Template and new powers. The territory expanded and gained new recruits as Lin Xu prepared its industries and continued refining his forces.

• Lin Xu’s ghosts defeated the Black Tiger King’s army, and Lin Xu made the surrendered tiger yao serve him as Hu Da before claiming the cave abode and building a spirit spring.
• Lin Xu recruited Daoists, mined and refined ore, and fortified Azure Cloud Mountain while he and his forces fought nearby monsters and strengthened the Fallen Demon camp.
• Lin Xu built the Precious Radiance Spirit-Tempering Cauldron and used it to temper his soul and strengthen Yan Jingshu and the red-robed ghosts.
• Lin Xu received the Mountain Lord Seal and hunted monsters across the mountain as conceptual information gathered into an emerging authority.
• Lin Xu used Incense Fire Heaven Silver to hasten the authority’s formation, prompting a dungeon lord to assemble an army against Azure Cloud Mountain.
• Lin Xu watched the authority condense into the Azure Cloud Mountain Lord Talisman Edict, which gave him a Lord Template, the Purifying Fire Glazed Body, and new authorities.
• Lin Xu recruited Li Yingqiu and gave her Hundred Spirit Pills for her sister, then spent Source Fire to upgrade Azure Cloud Mountain and recruit Daoists including Li Qingya.
• Lin Xu opened his Qi sea, built a Demon Refining Cave, and heard Li Yingqiu explain how the territory could produce skill books for the market.