Records of the Mystic Gardens - Ch. 158 - Adujusting the Divine Soul

[MangaDex]

 

[twinklecake]

thighs

 

[BTRNDL]

Thank you for the chapter!

 

[RanmaChaos]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[Selenaraft]

Still waiting on a new chapter release 😔

 

[LordPigeater7]

Still waiting on a new chapter release 😔

It got cancelled my friend. There are no more chapter releases to be had.

 

[robotcat]

It got cancelled my friend. There are no more chapter releases to be had.

The raw chapters go up to 185. The author was able to finish the story he had planned within the rest of the chapters. I don't know if there will be any more scanlations though.

If you're interested in seeing how the it ends I've summarized the basics:

Spoiler: Summary of the rest of the manhua

1. MC uses his new knowledge to compress his inner garden core, he gets a new form with a ring floating over his back Okami style with 6 golden arms, its badass.
2. MC and Yandere waifu both attack the Bamboo Pavillion while its invading the CIty. Yandere waifu forms swords for the MC for his arms to finish off the big ape cultivator and then they split, MC to fight the white weasel like cultivator and Yandere to distract the master of the Bamboo Institute.
3. They stall for time until the main Cai Lang force shows up, the Bamboo Institute uses a burst of power and basically seemingly 'kill's MC, the yandere waifu by encasing them in his corruption tree, then escapes with the blonde girl.
4. The blonde girl is actually the head of the Bamboo Institute. Or more like a puppet head. They're created and brought up in a class, and 1 is picked to essentially serve as the pillar of the Bamboo Institute. The previous head tries to escape but is caught and then killed the ownership transfers to the blonde girl after she gets picked.
5. After serving as the head for a bit she decides to run away like her predecessor, but the bamboo guy that's supposed to oversee her has pity on her and let's her leave (recall back to the very first arc how some bamboo dudes have gained emotions).
6. The current Bamboo institute is governed by 4 different high up Bamboo guys, but they're all crazy at this point, as they're all 'filled' even tho they're supposed to be hollow, so their dao is impossible to pursue but the guy who's currently in charge (the one that started the attack) is raving mad.
7. The MC is actually alive, some mysterious Bamboo guy prevented him from turning, and he's actually in the Bamboo Institute now, he gets contacted by the Cai Lang intelligence agency and given a mission to locate the acting head of the Bamboo Institute so they do a pincer long range strike on him.
8. Yandere is also not dead, her physical body has leveled up and is attacking the Bamboo Institute, but her mind is separated. She gets visited by a higher realm saint, but quickly figures out that the higher realm saint is the owner of the Cai Lang Pavillion.
9. It turns out the Yandere is a fragment of the head of the Cai Lang Pavillion, who takes all the 'malicious' parts of her own self, separates it, then reincarnates it into a new mortal for it to gain new experiences/memories, and then pull it back to the main soul after living out its lifespan to incorporate these experiences to gain in cultivation, because at this stage she's pretty much hit her peak doing it the normal way.
10. The Penglai cultivation method is owned by the head of the Cai Lang Pavillion, but she doesn't want anyone else to know she has it. So the fact that the Yandere has been showing it off as well as the current situation with the Bamboo Institute has made her act ahead of schedule. She wants to absorb the Yandere back into herself and then descend into the Yandere's mortal body and lay the smack down on the Bamboo Institue, of course Yandere doesn't want to cause she loves the MC.
11. They argue for a bit but finally the head relents and says she has a plan B, which she already put into place with the MC. She'll let the Yandere go back into her own body for now and tells her to attack the Bamboo guy once the MC distracts him. She'll channel the full power of the Cai Lang Pavillion through the Yandere to destroy him.
12. MC using his stealth technique appears, saves the blonde girl, and is about to stab the Bamboo guy but is interrupted and stopped by the bamboo guy that saved him earlier, turns out its his dad! His dad sees his son is so much more powerful, and then somehow breaks free of the bamboo control, gathers his qi and reforms his full body gold skill to see how much his son has grown. They get into an epic throwdown with MC fighting his dad with both at peak power.
13. Bamboo guy is bewildered that these people so low in their cultivation is so powerful, while he's distracted Yandere is sent back to her body to attack him, basically holding him in with all her penglai power.
14. MC and his dad duel finishes with his Dad satisfied with how much he's grown, and they stop. Dad tells him that he's going to leave on his own journey and they'll meet again if fate permits it. Other bamboo dude who have developed their own individuality or regained them start leaving too, leaving the Bamboo Institute weakened enough to be destroyed.
15. MC asks Yandere wife for a sword that's capable of killing the Bamboo dude and she uses her penglai mountain to create a sword for him, allowing him to completely destroy the soul of the Bamboo Institue.
16. In the aftermath, the blonde elf is saved, but the MC has to take her in for the justice department of Cai Lang to deal with, however before he can apprehend her, Yandere grabs the blonde elf and says she'll take care of her since if the blonde elf goes back with MC they'll just put her under lockdown for who knows how long. Yandere then leaves while telling her main body spirit that this is her declaration of war, she'll never rejoin back with the main body.
17. The rest of the Cai Lang forces arrive. The captain of the Cai Lang forces has a talk with the MC. He basically reveals to the MC that sacred garden cultivation is a cultivation method based on society, compared to the individual cultivation that mystic gardens and the MC cultivates, which is selfish because they use all the spiritual power for themselves, leaving none for weaker mortals to utilize. The Cai Lang sacred garden ensures that civilization can go forward, as every citizen contributes to the garden, and in return is rewarded. Even the owner of the garden can only stay as the owner by doing their job, and if they deviate they can be replaced. They will tolerate individual cultivators like the MC as long as they understand by taking all this power for themselves, they need to help others to repay the karma. The current state of the world is because individual cultivators took all the spirit for themselves leaving very little for everyone else.
18. The captain tells the MC will now destroy the physical body of the Bamboo Institute now that its soul has been destroyed. They empower MC with their combined power because of his achievements and wants to give him the honor of basically finishing off the Bamboo Institute. He basically becomes Ultraman sized, and beats the giant Kaiji Bamboo Institute body to death
19. In the aftermath the white weasel cultivator apparently has hidden a part of himself inside the MC's sacred garden, and will now try to take over the MC's garden while he's depleted from fighting the Bamboo Institute. However, the MC already knew about this, and in fact wanted the white weasel cultivator here, as he enacts the next step of his cultivation plan. He collapses his entire sacred garden together, and merges with his ferret spirit minion. So now instead of a sacred garden, his soul is now a divine beast of sorts, and he eats the weasel cultivator. Basically MC created a new form of soul cultivation.
20. In the last chapter MC goes to find the head of his family, the old grampa dude we saw in a few panels the first time he visited, and they fight. The grampa is apparently the apex of martial cultivation and the MC even with all his advancements still can't beat him. After losing to his grampa he tells him that the Cai Lang Pavilion has given him a new research funding for his entire village to help him further his research into his unique cultivation, and that he's going to experiment and train in the wilds.

 

[robotcat]

The author also has an afterword. Basically the series had consistent monthly tickets (I'm guessing subs) but overall sub count was low and not growing, so he can't continue it. However he was glad he was given the time to finish the series with what he had already planned. He more or less only planned the plot to the end of the attack of the Bamboo Institute arc, but he also added in some of the worldbuilding, philosophy, and plot reveals he had planned for potential later arcs in so that he was able to say everything he wanted to.

He wants to continue the story in the future, but he'd need to make 2-3 more series with better subs before he can do so. Also he said that if he does continue the story, he'd want to flesh out the other 3 top tier gardens (Cai Lang being the one in this series) as well as eventually restoring the environment of the world.

 

[LordPigeater7]

The raw chapters go up to 185. The author was able to finish the story he had planned within the rest of the chapters. I don't know if there will be any more scanlations though.

If you're interested in seeing how the it ends I've summarized the basics:

Spoiler: Summary of the rest of the manhua

1. MC uses his new knowledge to compress his inner garden core, he gets a new form with a ring floating over his back Okami style with 6 golden arms, its badass.
2. MC and Yandere waifu both attack the Bamboo Pavillion while its invading the CIty. Yandere waifu forms swords for the MC for his arms to finish off the big ape cultivator and then they split, MC to fight the white weasel like cultivator and Yandere to distract the master of the Bamboo Institute.
3. They stall for time until the main Cai Lang force shows up, the Bamboo Institute uses a burst of power and basically seemingly 'kill's MC, the yandere waifu by encasing them in his corruption tree, then escapes with the blonde girl.
4. The blonde girl is actually the head of the Bamboo Institute. Or more like a puppet head. They're created and brought up in a class, and 1 is picked to essentially serve as the pillar of the Bamboo Institute. The previous head tries to escape but is caught and then killed the ownership transfers to the blonde girl after she gets picked.
5. After serving as the head for a bit she decides to run away like her predecessor, but the bamboo guy that's supposed to oversee her has pity on her and let's her leave (recall back to the very first arc how some bamboo dudes have gained emotions).
6. The current Bamboo institute is governed by 4 different high up Bamboo guys, but they're all crazy at this point, as they're all 'filled' even tho they're supposed to be hollow, so their dao is impossible to pursue but the guy who's currently in charge (the one that started the attack) is raving mad.
7. The MC is actually alive, some mysterious Bamboo guy prevented him from turning, and he's actually in the Bamboo Institute now, he gets contacted by the Cai Lang intelligence agency and given a mission to locate the acting head of the Bamboo Institute so they do a pincer long range strike on him.
8. Yandere is also not dead, her physical body has leveled up and is attacking the Bamboo Institute, but her mind is separated. She gets visited by a higher realm saint, but quickly figures out that the higher realm saint is the owner of the Cai Lang Pavillion.
9. It turns out the Yandere is a fragment of the head of the Cai Lang Pavillion, who takes all the 'malicious' parts of her own self, separates it, then reincarnates it into a new mortal for it to gain new experiences/memories, and then pull it back to the main soul after living out its lifespan to incorporate these experiences to gain in cultivation, because at this stage she's pretty much hit her peak doing it the normal way.
10. The Penglai cultivation method is owned by the head of the Cai Lang Pavillion, but she doesn't want anyone else to know she has it. So the fact that the Yandere has been showing it off as well as the current situation with the Bamboo Institute has made her act ahead of schedule. She wants to absorb the Yandere back into herself and then descend into the Yandere's mortal body and lay the smack down on the Bamboo Institue, of course Yandere doesn't want to cause she loves the MC.
11. They argue for a bit but finally the head relents and says she has a plan B, which she already put into place with the MC. She'll let the Yandere go back into her own body for now and tells her to attack the Bamboo guy once the MC distracts him. She'll channel the full power of the Cai Lang Pavillion through the Yandere to destroy him.
12. MC using his stealth technique appears, saves the blonde girl, and is about to stab the Bamboo guy but is interrupted and stopped by the bamboo guy that saved him earlier, turns out its his dad! His dad sees his son is so much more powerful, and then somehow breaks free of the bamboo control, gathers his qi and reforms his full body gold skill to see how much his son has grown. They get into an epic throwdown with MC fighting his dad with both at peak power.
13. Bamboo guy is bewildered that these people so low in their cultivation is so powerful, while he's distracted Yandere is sent back to her body to attack him, basically holding him in with all her penglai power.
14. MC and his dad duel finishes with his Dad satisfied with how much he's grown, and they stop. Dad tells him that he's going to leave on his own journey and they'll meet again if fate permits it. Other bamboo dude who have developed their own individuality or regained them start leaving too, leaving the Bamboo Institute weakened enough to be destroyed.
15. MC asks Yandere wife for a sword that's capable of killing the Bamboo dude and she uses her penglai mountain to create a sword for him, allowing him to completely destroy the soul of the Bamboo Institue.
16. In the aftermath, the blonde elf is saved, but the MC has to take her in for the justice department of Cai Lang to deal with, however before he can apprehend her, Yandere grabs the blonde elf and says she'll take care of her since if the blonde elf goes back with MC they'll just put her under lockdown for who knows how long. Yandere then leaves while telling her main body spirit that this is her declaration of war, she'll never rejoin back with the main body.
17. The rest of the Cai Lang forces arrive. The captain of the Cai Lang forces has a talk with the MC. He basically reveals to the MC that sacred garden cultivation is a cultivation method based on society, compared to the individual cultivation that mystic gardens and the MC cultivates, which is selfish because they use all the spiritual power for themselves, leaving none for weaker mortals to utilize. The Cai Lang sacred garden ensures that civilization can go forward, as every citizen contributes to the garden, and in return is rewarded. Even the owner of the garden can only stay as the owner by doing their job, and if they deviate they can be replaced. They will tolerate individual cultivators like the MC as long as they understand by taking all this power for themselves, they need to help others to repay the karma. The current state of the world is because individual cultivators took all the spirit for themselves leaving very little for everyone else.
18. The captain tells the MC will now destroy the physical body of the Bamboo Institute now that its soul has been destroyed. They empower MC with their combined power because of his achievements and wants to give him the honor of basically finishing off the Bamboo Institute. He basically becomes Ultraman sized, and beats the giant Kaiji Bamboo Institute body to death
19. In the aftermath the white weasel cultivator apparently has hidden a part of himself inside the MC's sacred garden, and will now try to take over the MC's garden while he's depleted from fighting the Bamboo Institute. However, the MC already knew about this, and in fact wanted the white weasel cultivator here, as he enacts the next step of his cultivation plan. He collapses his entire sacred garden together, and merges with his ferret spirit minion. So now instead of a sacred garden, his soul is now a divine beast of sorts, and he eats the weasel cultivator. Basically MC created a new form of soul cultivation.
20. In the last chapter MC goes to find the head of his family, the old grampa dude we saw in a few panels the first time he visited, and they fight. The grampa is apparently the apex of martial cultivation and the MC even with all his advancements still can't beat him. After losing to his grampa he tells him that the Cai Lang Pavilion has given him a new research funding for his entire village to help him further his research into his unique cultivation, and that he's going to experiment and train in the wilds.

Aye, thanks.