Recaps

Lü Yuan used his connection to Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan to cultivate while navigating the aptitude test and his deal with Lin Qi. After opening a Spirit Aperture and receiving Wang Yan’s sixth-grade Fire Virtue method, Lü Yuan entered Embryonic Breathing and discovered he could exchange cultivation with his other self.

• The factory director arranged Lü Yuan’s Spirit Aperture opening and gave him money, while Lü Yuan dreamed of Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan’s past and received The Five Luminaries Treatise from an immortal.
• Punk Lü Yuan borrowed Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan’s Spirit Root, began sensing Spiritual Qi, and negotiated a wager with Lin Qi for fifteen thousand Spirit Stone Vouchers.
• Lü Yuan cultivated with Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan’s guidance, bought a secondhand Law Sword, and prepared for the aptitude test.
• Lü Yuan’s test result of 49.68 revealed a Pseudo Spirit Root, drawing attention from powerful figures and prompting him to invite Lin Qi to discuss their agreement.
• Lü Yuan told Lin Qi that he had killed Li Jinglian in self-defense, and Lin Qi gave him methods to improve and conceal Spiritual Qi Aptitude.
• Lü Yuan accompanied Lin Qi and Wang Yan to open their Spirit Apertures, while Qin Huai arranged for Lü Yuan to use Third-Generation Spirit Aperture Technology.
• Wang Yan shared his sixth-grade Fire Virtue Cultivation Method with Lü Yuan, who entered Embryonic Breathing immediately and won their bet.
• Punk Lü Yuan discovered he could exchange cultivation with Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan, borrowed his Fourth Layer strength briefly, and showed him two cultivation methods.

Lü Yuan began cultivating, rescued refugees with Liu Bang, and learned that his origins and the cultivation world were tied to powerful lineages. In Ten Directions Bright, he rose as a freshman leader and met Li Yelan, who explained the value of his top-grade pseudo spirit root and his choice of Fire Virtue.

• Punk Lü Yuan began Fetal Breathing cultivation while Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan prepared to explore the cultivation world with him.
• Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan followed a path of flowers to Han Fei, then gathered and treated refugees and chose to guide them to safety despite Punk Lü Yuan’s warning.
• Punk Lü Yuan linked Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan’s sudden breakthrough to rescuing people and the Southern Dipper lineage’s Acting Method.
• Liu Ji reached Lü Yuan’s refugee camp, recognized him as a figure connected to E Xu, and revealed that he was Liu Bang and Lü Yuan’s mother was Lü Zhi.
• Liu Bang explained the cultivation world’s major Dao lineages and told Lü Yuan to continue the Southern Dipper Cultivation Method as they traveled toward Great Marsh Mountain.
• Lü Yuan cultivated and studied in Ten Directions Bright, befriended Wang Yan and Lin Qi, and became the freshman representative and first-year head student.
• Lü Yuan challenged his classmates to defeat him within two years, stopped Sima Mingli’s attack, and made him his sparring partner.
• Li Yelan summoned Lü Yuan, revealed her many prosthetic bodies, and explained that his top-grade pseudo spirit root and choice of Fire Virtue made him valuable as the Fire Virtue lineage prepared to rise.

Lü Yuan broke through to Qi Refinement and received the Northern Dipper method Turning the Dipper Handle, while Liu Bang sought guidance on its risks. In Mingyang City, Lü Yuan built a dark-market business with Lin Qi and Wang Yan, received their cultivation gifts, and unexpectedly eased Li Yelan’s recurring pain.

• Li Yelan told Lü Yuan that imitating the coming Golden Core True Lord’s intent of “struggle” could speed his cultivation and urged him to win school contests for a chance at an Upper City branch company.
• Lü Yuan broke through to Qi Refinement under the sun and moon, stirring [Red Emperor] and [Wangshu], and the Immortal Book bestowed a Northern Dipper technique.
• Liu Bang warned Lü Yuan against the declining Northern Dipper lineage, then softened when Lü Yuan named its Immortal Method Turning the Dipper Handle and went to consult the Two Gods of Marsh and Xun.
• Lü Yuan learned that Turning the Dipper Handle could provide a provisional Immortal Foundation slot and help him cultivate multiple Divine Abilities, but waited for Liu Bang’s confirmation before using it.
• After discovering his one-million monthly loan limit, Lü Yuan recruited Lin Qi and Wang Yan to sell pure air in the Dark Air Realm, where they leased a shop and sold out their stock.
• Lin Qi kissed Lü Yuan and passed him accumulated cultivation power that could raise his Sword Light to Sword-Ray, while Wang Yan gave him a visualization diagram to help develop Divine Sense.
• Li Yelan’s prosthetic body immobilized Lü Yuan at home, and his presence eased the pain afflicting her true body after Bright Yang fell.
• Li Yelan decided to give Lü Yuan an Artificial Spirit Root, while Lü Yuan told Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan about the day and asked him to investigate two things he had received.