Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Xu secured permission to bring the wounded from the front-line camp to Peach Tree Village and treated their injuries. After stabilizing three soldiers with damaged souls, he secretly implanted spell seeds that would gradually turn them into his guardian deities and avatars.

• Lin Xu discovered that Xu Mingyuan’s soul was nearly destroyed and urged the camp elder to send the wounded to Peach Tree Village for treatment.
• The elder assigned Lin Xu to escort the wounded back with the daily supplies, adding a quest that increased his potential merit.
• Lin Xu transported the wounded to Peach Tree Village, treated their accumulated poison, and assigned the recovering men to the village guard.
• Lin Xu used the Bright Light Lamp to stabilize the damaged souls of Xu Mingyuan and two Dao soldiers.
• Lin Xu implanted a spell seed in one Dao soldier, beginning to refine him into a guardian deity and future avatar.

Lin Xu implanted Dharma seeds in three dying Xuanwei Monastery fighters and refined the ghost bride Yan Jingshu into a powerful guardian deity. He appointed her to command two elite ghosts, expanding the loyal force he hoped to build for his future bid to control the monastery.

• Lin Xu implanted Dharma seeds in three gravely wounded men, intending to cultivate loyal followers.
• Lin Xu examined the ghost bride's memories and learned that Yan Jingshu had been falsely accused of infidelity and drowned by her husband's family.
• Lin Xu refined Yan Jingshu's resentment with a Dharma seed and created the Soul-Cleansing Song of the Forgotten River for her cultivation.
• Yan Jingshu emerged from the Bright Light Lamp, accepted Lin Xu as her master, and displayed her new Nether Wedding Ferryman abilities.
• Lin Xu summoned a vengeful soul and a hanged ghost for Yan Jingshu to command, and she bound them with red silk and mana.

Lin Xu led a ghost procession under Yan Jingshu’s command as it gathered spirits and destroyed a ghost locust on the way to the frontline camp. On the return journey, the convoy found wandering Yin cultivators performing a ritual near Peach Tree Village, and Yan Jingshu began disrupting it.

• Yan Jingshu cleansed the vengeful spirit and the hanged ghost with the Soul-Cleansing Song of the Forgotten River, turning them into lantern-bearing attendants.
• Yan Jingshu gathered nearly a hundred ghosts into a procession that followed Lin Xu’s supply convoy through the fog.
• Yan Jingshu destroyed a ghost locust with her hair and blood-red hairpin, freeing its captive souls to join the procession.
• Lin Xu delivered supplies to the frontline camp and carried wounded soldiers back toward Peach Tree Village.
• Lin Xu spotted wandering Yin cultivators conducting a sacrificial rite, and Yan Jingshu’s song extinguished their sacrificial fire.

Lin Xu defeated the Yin cultivators’ ghost assault, rescued Meng Yaoguang and Meng Yaohua, and gained three ghostly followers. He returned to Peach Tree Village to begin cultivating spirit fields, then studied the Spirit-Nurturing Cauldron he had obtained from the sect treasury.

• Yan Jingshu used the Soul-Cleansing Melody to turn the Yin cultivators’ vengeful souls against them and refine their spirits into red-robed ghosts.
• Meng Yaoguang and Meng Yaohua thanked Lin Xu for rescuing them and revealed their rare Twin Soul Pact talent.
• Lin Xu brought the twins and the three new ghosts back to Peach Tree Village, where he inspected the supplies for reclaiming farmland.
• Lin Xu inscribed spirit tools, and the villagers and outer disciples prepared the first spirit field with plows, seed drills, and the Spirit Rain Spell.
• Lin Xu examined the Spirit-Nurturing Cauldron and studied its formations before sitting down to meditate on artifact refining.

Lin Xu successfully refined Spirit Gathering Pills, advanced his alchemy skill to Grandmaster, and created a pill coating that gathered Spiritual Qi to improve the pills over time. After consuming one and cultivating, he increased his Intelligence and estimated he would reach Level 5 in two or three days.

• Lin Xu refined his first batch of three Spirit Gathering Pills, raising Basic Alchemy from Beginner to Expert.
• Lin Xu refined a second batch of five higher-quality pills, advancing Basic Alchemy to Grandmaster.
• Lin Xu used Ultra-Precise Alchemy to inscribe miniature Spirit Gathering Formations on the pills, allowing them to gather Spiritual Qi and improve over time.
• Lin Xu consumed a Spirit Gathering Pill and cultivated, using Thought Overclocking to examine and nourish his body and brain's nerves.
• Lin Xu's Intelligence rose by 1 to 17, and he estimated that he would break through to Level 5 in two or three days.

Lin Xu crafted the Essence-Gathering Treasure Bottle to let cultivators accelerate spirit-plant growth while conserving their own Spiritual Qi. With Peach Tree Village’s fields expanding and war threatening nearby, he turned to training a group of cultivators to support farming and defense.

• After dinner, Lin Xu checked the spirit fields and realized their development and the three-month spirit-rice growing period were too slow given the nearby war.
• Lin Xu reasoned that a Dharma artifact could let more cultivators use the Essence Acceleration Mantra, then designed and crafted the Essence-Gathering Treasure Bottle.
• Lin Xu tested the bottle’s arrays, confirmed it could gather Spiritual Qi and accelerate plant growth, and made more than twenty bottles from affordable materials.
• Lin Xu decided to train a core group of cultivators and focused on Peach Tree Village’s militiamen, whose limited aptitude would still be useful at beginner levels.

Lin Xu used newly advanced Daoists and Essence-Gathering Treasure Bottles to accelerate the growth of Peach Tree Village’s spirit rice, then burned a Wish Talisman to make it mature in three days. After three days of delivering supplies and tending to the wounded, Lin Xu finally broke through to the Day Wandering Realm.

• Lin Xu selected 23 militiamen with sufficient intelligence and spirit, appointed Xu Mingyuan captain of the protectors, and had him help them advance into Daoists.
• Lin Xu gave the new Daoists Essence-Gathering Treasure Bottles, and they used the Essence-Accelerating Technique to speed up growth across Peach Tree Village’s spirit fields.
• Lin Xu burned a Wish Talisman and wished for the spirit rice to mature as quickly as possible; the rice’s growing period was shortened to three days.
• Lin Xu spent the next three days delivering military supplies and bringing wounded soldiers back from the front-line camp.
• Lin Xu broke through to the Day Wandering Realm.

Lin Xu reached level 5, tempered his soul in sunlight, and learned to fly, then went to Xuanwei Monastery to claim advanced cultivation chapters. He left the Scripture Pavilion with both chapters and a new soul-refinement scripture.

• Lin Xu tested his stronger soul body in sunlight and refined it until its edges took on a faint azure hue.
• Lin Xu decided to become a true disciple before the coming great battle and used his Cloud-Treading Shoes to fly from Peach Tree Village to the monastery.
• Lin Xu visited the Scripture Pavilion, where the elder confirmed his breakthrough and advised him to accumulate merit toward the 200,000-point requirement for true discipleship.
• Lin Xu claimed the advanced chapters of the Bright Lamp Spirit Kindling Art and Mystic Art God-Descending Technique.
• Lin Xu bought the Mystic Yin Soul Refining Scripture for 300 Dharma Coins.

Lin Xu merged the advanced cultivation arts into the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter, purified and strengthened himself, and refined his Bright Light Lamp into a Spirit Light Glazed Lamp. He then discovered that Peach Tree Village’s spirit-rice harvest could provide the merit needed to become a true disciple of Xuanwei Monastery.

• Lin Xu studied the advanced arts and created the advanced Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter, which purified his body and formed the protective Glazed Mystic Light Robe.
• Lin Xu refined spiritual materials into his Bright Light Lamp, elevating it into a Spirit Light Glazed Lamp with nine rings of patterns and enhanced abilities.
• Lin Xu decided to earn merit points and become a true disciple of Xuanwei Monastery as soon as possible.
• Chen Yuanfu, the village chief, Wang Yue, and the villagers harvested and processed spirit rice from Peach Tree Village’s hundred mu of fields.
• Wang Yue told Lin Xu that the fields had yielded one hundred shi of spirit rice, all of it spirit rice.
• Lin Xu calculated that the harvest was worth two hundred thousand merit points, enough to meet the requirement for becoming a true disciple.

Lin Xu refined spirit rice into pills, earned two hundred thousand merit points, and was approved for promotion to true transmission disciple. While waiting for the next day’s ceremony, he learned the true transmission art, Spirit Lamp Prayer Art.

• Lin Xu refined over two thousand Spirit Grain Pills from spirit rice and exchanged them for two hundred thousand merit points.
• Lin Xu presented his jade slip to Daoist Xuanzhen and requested confirmation as a true transmission disciple.
• Daoist Xuanzhen approved Lin Xu and ordered a ceremony for the following morning.
• The attendant gave Lin Xu a true transmission token, a red Daoist robe, and the Daoist book for Spirit Lamp Prayer Art.
• Lin Xu stayed in the main hall, used the Daoist book, and began comprehending Spirit Lamp Prayer Art.