Chapter Summaries

Shen Juanxiu offered Chen Mobai a Green Bamboo Brush and Second Grade Danzhu Spirit Sand in exchange for his future chance to use Foundation Establishment Treasure on her behalf. Chen Mobai accepted, and Shen Juanxiu went to retrieve the promised items.

• Shen Juanxiu explained that Foundation Establishment Treasure used the Immortal Sect's Super Brain to calculate a cultivator's chances of successfully establishing a foundation.
• Shen Juanxiu asked Chen Mobai to use his new-student priority slot and a later chance to have Foundation Establishment Treasure assess her prospects.
• Chen Mobai agreed immediately, reasoning that the deal would earn him valuable resources and that he could use Turtle Treasure as a Proxy.
• Shen Juanxiu promised him a Green Bamboo Brush and three jin of Second Grade Danzhu Spirit Sand, then offered to convert the remaining two jin into Merit Points at market price.
• Shen Juanxiu pulled Chan Si along and returned to her Cave Mansion to fetch the items.

Chen Mobai prepared for the semifinals and arrived at the arena with his classmates and Qing Nü, where Yan Feng, Kong Feichen, and Yang Jing also gathered. As Kong Feichen began the planned match against Yang Jing, she unexpectedly stopped his talisman and asked to enter the finals herself.

• Chen Mobai admired his new Green Bamboo Brush and Danzhu Spirit Sand, then cultivated for three days until he had recovered for the semifinals.
• Lu Hongsheng, Mo Simin, Pu Jiangxue, Yu Shu, and Vermillion Cinnabar Academy students escorted Chen Mobai to the arena, where he spotted Yan Bingxuan and Qing Nü.
• Yan Feng flew to the summit using a Flight Talisman, and Chen Mobai judged that Yan Feng had spent some spiritual power before the match.
• Qing Nü greeted Kong Feichen and Yang Jing, leaving Chen Mobai puzzled about how they knew one another.
• Kong Feichen activated a Great Wind Talisman to blow Yang Jing off the arena, but Yang Jing scattered it and asked to enter the finals instead.

Yang Jing advanced to the finals after Kong Feichen forfeited, and Chen Mobai faced Yan Feng in the other semifinal. Chen Mobai blocked Yan Feng’s first sword, but Yan Feng revealed he had three more sword qi attacks and launched the second.

• Kong Feichen conceded to Yang Jing, saying he wanted to avoid being wounded before the finals, and True Person Scarlet Robe approved the result.
• Spectators speculated that Kong Feichen had forfeited for love, while Chen Mobai told Lu Hongsheng he would fight Qing Nü with all his strength.
• Chen Mobai entered the arena to face Yan Feng after delaying his entrance and draining some of Yan Feng’s momentum.
• Chen Mobai used his Water Element Shield and Wood Shield Talisman to withstand Yan Feng’s first Finger Sword.
• Yan Feng revealed that he had cultivated the Thirteen Swords of Tianhai and had four sword qi attacks, then used a Sword Talisman to launch his second sword.

Chen Mobai used layered defenses, quicksand, and a rainbow ice blade to force Yan Feng to reveal his Third Sword Qi. As the ice blade shattered, Chen Mobai drew his final talisman to press the attack.

• Yan Feng’s second sword broke through Chen Mobai’s defenses and drove him near the arena’s edge, but Chen Mobai’s Wood Armor Talisman blocked the weakened strike.
• Chen Mobai reasoned that Yan Feng might be exaggerating his fourth strand of sword qi to intimidate him, then unleashed a powerful Ice Spell.
• Chen Mobai used a Quicksand Talisman to trap Yan Feng and a Wood Prison Talisman to hinder his escape.
• Chen Mobai formed a giant Rainbow Ice Blade from the scattered water and ice and brought it down on Yan Feng.
• Yan Feng activated his Third Sword Qi to shatter the ice blade, and Chen Mobai took out his final talisman.

Chen Mobai and Yan Feng fought with increasingly powerful sword talismans, and Yan Feng revealed a Heavenly Heart Sword Talisman capable of unleashing Foundation Establishment-level power. Chen Mobai used his remaining spiritual power and Essence Blood to transform his three Crimson Flame Sword Qi into a wisp of purple fire, leaving the duel at a decisive turning point.

• Chen Mobai used his Crimson Flame Three Sword Talisman, but Yan Feng's Tianhai Third Sword overwhelmed the first Crimson Flame Sword Qi.
• Chen Mobai released the other two sword qi in succession, forcing Yan Feng to use a Golden Light Talisman and then reveal his Heavenly Heart Sword Talisman.
• Yan Feng activated the Heavenly Heart Sword Talisman to unleash Foundation Establishment-level sword qi.
• Chen Mobai poured his remaining spiritual power and Essence Blood into his talisman, drawing the scattered Crimson Flame Sword Qi back and transforming it into purple fire.

Chen Mobai and Yan Feng’s sword qi clashed in the Spell Duel semifinal, and the student council contained the devastating aftermath. Chen Mobai won by using a Quicksand Talisman pit to stay on the arena, then his classmates celebrated as he was carried away.

• Chen Mobai released his Purple Flame Sword Qi as Yan Feng struck with the fourth sword of his Heavenly Heart Sword Talisman, and the two attacks collided.
• Vermillion Cinnabar Academy student council members formed a barrier around the arena, while Chen Mobai and Yan Feng were forced to endure the sword qi’s uncontrolled surge.
• Yan Feng used his remaining spiritual power to strengthen his attack, but the two sword qi streams remained locked in a struggle that pushed both fighters toward the arena’s edge.
• Yan Feng lay down and clung to the arena as the aftershock pushed him off, while Chen Mobai slowed his retreat by lying flat over the pit he had made with his Quicksand Talisman.
• The referee teacher pulled Chen Mobai from the pit and declared him the victor, leaving Yan Feng stunned below the arena.
• Lu Hongsheng and Chen Mobai’s other classmates lifted him in celebration as he reflected that he had reached the finals.

After defeating Yan Feng and advancing to the final, Chen Mobai woke to find Qing Nü waiting with food and a request about his upcoming match against Yang Jing. Qing Nü explained Yang Jing’s dangerous Forbidden Technique and urged her to forfeit, revealing that she also wanted Chen Mobai to reach a Dao Academy.

• Chen Mobai woke in his Cave Mansion after his duel with Yan Feng and returned calls and messages from people who had seen the match.
• Qing Nü visited Chen Mobai, congratulated him on reaching the final, and brought him dinner.
• Qing Nü told Chen Mobai she had tried to persuade Yang Jing to forfeit the final, but Chen Mobai said he still expected to win the championship.
• Qing Nü explained that she, Yang Jing, and Kong Feichen had grown up together in an Immortal Sect orphanage and remained close despite being adopted by different families.
• Qing Nü revealed that Yang Jing’s adoptive parents had taught her a Forbidden Technique, which the Enforcement Department monitored with an Electronic Bracelet.
• Qing Nü gave her reasons for wanting Yang Jing to forfeit, including the danger of her technique, then told Chen Mobai she hoped he would enter a Dao Academy.

Chen Mobai considered Qing Nü’s advice about choosing a Spirit Transmutation technique and decided to pursue the Pure Yang Scroll at Pure Yang Academy. Qing Nü then revealed that it shared its origins with Wuqi Dao Academy’s Spirit Transmutation technique.

• Chen Mobai worried that his score might keep him from entering the Four Great Dao Academies, and Qing Nü encouraged him to prove himself in the Spell Duel.
• Qing Nü explained that cultivators aiming for Spirit Transmutation benefited from cultivating a Primordial Spirit Great Law from the beginning.
• Chen Mobai concluded that his average Spiritual Root made the Pure Yang Scroll or Jade Clarity Scripture his likeliest options, and he chose the established Pure Yang Scroll over the difficult Jade Clarity Scripture.
• Chen Mobai told Qing Nü he had decided to attend Pure Yang Academy because it had the deepest research into the Pure Yang Scroll.
• Qing Nü told Chen Mobai that the Pure Yang Scroll and Wuqi Dao Academy’s Spirit Transmutation technique came from the same source.

Chen Mobai recovered from the strain of the semifinals, deepened his Spiritual Sense, and faced Yang Jing in the finals. After Yang Jing said she would not use the Two Parts Divine Technique or Chen Mobai’s purple flame Talisman, they agreed to fight with spells alone, leaving the match about to begin.

• Qing Nü told Chen Mobai that Wuqi Dao Academy inherited the Cantong Qi and Pure Yang Scroll from Ancestor Yun Ya, prompting Chen Mobai to make the academy his first target.
• Chen Mobai searched the National Library for the Cantong Qi, found only its complete general text, and decided to learn it at Wuqi Dao Academy.
• Chen Mobai used a Revival Talisman and, with Chan Si’s help, obtained blood-replenishing and qi-replenishing talismans to recover from using the Crimson Flame Three Sword Talisman.
• While recovering, Chen Mobai’s Spiritual Sense improved, and he visualized another green sprout with the Nurturing Thought God Forging Technique.
• At the finals, Yang Jing said her sister had forbidden her from using the Two Parts Divine Technique, and Chen Mobai proposed a spell-only match without talismans or Forbidden Techniques.
• True Person Scarlet Robe called Chen Mobai a natural at magic combat and dubbed him Magic Combat Victor, startling the representatives of the Four Great Dao Academies.

True Person Scarlet Robe persuaded Bian Yiqing to seek permission for Wuqi Dao Academy to admit Chen Mobai if he won the magic combat final, while Lan Haitan offered to take him into Kunpeng Daoist Academy. Chen Mobai and Yang Jing began their spell-only duel, and Yang Jing wounded him before swiftly placing her black sword at his neck.

• True Person Scarlet Robe urged Bian Yiqing to lower Wuqi Dao Academy's admission threshold for Chen Mobai, and Bian Yiqing sent the Vermilion Cloud City exam results to the admissions office director for instructions.
• Lan Haitan said Kunpeng Daoist Academy could admit Chen Mobai, praising his magic combat talent as potentially comparable to his own.
• Chen Mobai opened the final duel by sending ice needles at Yang Jing, but they missed her by a hair's breadth.
• Yang Jing launched black knives at Chen Mobai; one cut his cheek after his Water Element Shield blocked the others.
• Yang Jing formed a black longsword, dashed across the arena, and laid it against Chen Mobai's neck.

Chen Mobai defeated Yang Jing in the spell duel final by seeing through her illusions and countering her attacks. He was announced as the Spell Duel Champion.

• Yang Jing used illusions, a pitch-black longsword, and a hidden short staff to attack Chen Mobai, but Chen blocked her strikes with water and ice techniques.
• Chen Mobai identified flaws in Yang Jing's art and used unpredictable movement and a wide ice-spike attack to wound her.
• Yang Jing vanished and attacked from different directions, but Chen sensed her through droplets of water floating around him and blocked each strike.
• Chen froze Yang Jing and struck her with an ice pillar, but she launched a Spiritual Sense attack that Chen resisted with the Nurturing Thought God Forging Technique.
• Yang Jing fainted from the backlash of her attack, and the referee declared Chen Mobai the Spell Duel Champion.

After winning the spell duel, Chen Mobai received offers from Kunpeng Daoist Academy and Wuqi Dao Academy. He chose Wuqi, citing his connection to Bian Yiqing, and finalized the change to his application.

• Chen Mobai celebrated his victory as Fifth High School students and Principal He Jingshan congratulated him.
• Ning Anning examined Yang Jing and Chen Mobai, finding Yang Jing's condition dependent on her own efforts and Chen Mobai's injuries minor.
• True Person Scarlet Robe offered Chen Mobai admission to either Kunpeng Daoist Academy or Wuqi Dao Academy after ruling out Goumang and Mending Heaven.
• Lan Haitan described Kunpeng's Giant Kun Technique and Foundation Establishment resources, while Bian Yiqing outlined Wuqi's offerings.
• Chen Mobai chose Wuqi Dao Academy without hesitation and had He Jingshan revise his preference form.
• Chen Mobai explained that Bian Yiqing's song had helped him cultivate Spiritual Sense, prompting Bian Yiqing to remember him and True Person Scarlet Robe to praise his respect for the Dao.

After Chen Mobai's admission to Wuqi Dao Academy drew reporters to his home, he and Tang Pancui fled to Green Mountain Village to stay with her family. As the village celebrated his success, Chen Mobai prepared to visit the hilltop temple to fulfill a vow and noticed the Turtle Shell he used to weigh down his Talisman Paper.

• Chen Mobai reunited with his family and celebrated winning first place in the spell duel and entering Wuqi Dao Academy.
• Chen Mobai posed for reporters at Fifth High School, then refused further interviews as paparazzi began watching his home.
• Chen Mobai suggested escaping to Green Mountain Village, and he and Tang Pancui left Vermilion Cloud City that night with help from Wang Jianyuan.
• Tang Lu greeted Chen Mobai and Tang Pancui, and the family traveled to Green Mountain Village, where Tang Pancui proudly shared the news with the villagers.
• Chen Mobai reunited with his grandmother and joined several days of family celebrations.
• Tang Pancui told Chen Mobai they would visit the hilltop temple to fulfill a vow, and Chen Mobai noticed the Turtle Shell on his talisman-making table.

Chen Mobai returned to Taixu Temple with Tang Pancui to fulfill an old vow and investigate the origins of his Turtle Shell, but the temple was closed for the death rites of Elder Liu Lengpei. When Chen recognized the elder’s name, a young cultivator said Liu had never received visitors, leaving Chen’s childhood memory unexplained.

• Chen Mobai and Tang Pancui reached Taixu Temple and learned that its Firework Elder had died, but the abbot allowed them inside to offer incense.
• Chen Mobai donated Merit Points, offered their gifts, and posed for a promotional photo with the abbot without asking about the missing Turtle Shell.
• Chen Mobai discussed the temple’s history and spirit energy with a young cultivator while they ate a vegetarian meal.
• An older cultivator asked the young cultivator to pack up Liu Lengpei’s belongings for disposal, and Chen Mobai recognized the elder’s name.
• Chen Mobai said Liu had given him candy when he visited as a child, but the young cultivator replied that Liu had never received incense visitors.

Chen Mobai found Liu Lengpei’s hidden diaries while helping Taixu Temple clear out the late elder’s belongings. The notes revealed that Liu had come from the Sky River Realm and was investigating Earth Origin Star, and Chen began reading about his attempt to enter Taixu Temple.

• Chen Mobai helped a Taixu Temple cultivator sort Liu Lengpei’s belongings and discovered notebooks written in invisible ink.
• The young cultivator said Liu Lengpei had been the temple’s most senior member, a reclusive herb gatherer with late Qi Cultivation.
• Chen Mobai accepted the notebooks as payment for helping and carried the discarded belongings to the temple’s Dump.
• Chen Mobai read Liu Lengpei’s diary and learned that Liu had arrived on Earth Origin Star after being gravely wounded in a fight during a Five Elements Sect rebellion.
• Liu Lengpei’s notes described his fear of the Immortal Sect and his efforts to avoid discovery as an unregistered outsider.
• Chen Mobai read that Liu believed his arrival might be connected to Taixu Temple and planned to infiltrate it.

Chen Mobai read Liu Lengpei’s notebooks and learned how he had repeatedly crossed between Earth Origin Star and the Sky River Realm whenever he broke through, then spent decades living at Taixu Temple. The final entry ended with Liu Lengpei choosing to attempt Foundation Establishment again as he approached death.

• Chen Mobai read Liu Lengpei’s account of arriving at Taixu Temple without identification and spending years trying to find a way home.
• Liu Lengpei failed Foundation Establishment in the temple and returned to the Sky River Realm, where the Five Elements Sect expelled him for failing to answer its summons.
• After recovering at Blue Wave Lake and reaching Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer, Liu Lengpei returned to Taixu Temple and concluded that breakthroughs caused his crossings between worlds.
• Liu Lengpei spent decades at the temple, and after the abbot died, persuaded his Little Junior Brother to take over as abbot.
• Liu Lengpei recalled accidentally causing a child to cut his hand on the Taixu Statue’s Turtle Shell, after which the abbot gave the shell to the child’s mother.
• Near the end of his life, Liu Lengpei decided to attempt Foundation Establishment once more, and Chen Mobai finished reading his account.

After studying Liu Lengpei’s cultivation insights and methods for breaking Ren Shui Thunder Method Restrictions, Chen Mobai returned to Green Light Island to find it devastated by a fierce battle. He left the island without learning whether his squad or other cultivators had survived.

• Chen Mobai honored Liu Lengpei and studied his notes on the Black Water Technique, gaining insights into its spells and methods for setting up and breaking Ren Shui Thunder Method Restrictions.
• Chen Mobai returned to the Sky River Realm after a month and found the tunnel entrance blocked by debris.
• Chen Mobai emerged to find Green Light Island’s huts, mountain peak, formation trees, and Spirit Vein devastated by battle.
• Chen Mobai followed a Direction Talisman to the Teleportation Array site and found signs of a bloody last stand, but no bodies.
• Chen Mobai discovered Black Plague Birds feeding on cultivators’ corpses offshore, then returned to his tunnel and went back to Earth Origin Star.

Chen Mobai sought guidance on switching to the "Pure Yang Scroll" and traveled to Vermillion Cinnabar Academy to meet True Person Scarlet Robe. After hearing Chen Mobai’s reasons and assessing his Spiritual Root aptitude, True Person Scarlet Robe agreed that cultivating the Pure Yang Dharma Body might offer his best chance at Foundation Establishment or Core Formation.

• Chen Mobai contacted Bian Yiqing for advice about changing cultivation methods, and Bian Yiqing arranged for True Person Scarlet Robe to guide him.
• Chen Mobai failed to draw a Revival Talisman twelve times while waiting for Bian Yiqing’s reply.
• Chen Mobai said farewell to his grandparents and left for Vermillion Cinnabar Academy after his mother urged him not to keep True Person Scarlet Robe waiting.
• Chan Si met Chen Mobai at the academy entrance and brought him to True Person Scarlet Robe.
• Chen Mobai explained his reasons for choosing the "Pure Yang Scroll," and True Person Scarlet Robe said the Pure Yang Dharma Body might be his best path to Foundation Establishment or Core Formation.

After True Person Scarlet Robe briefly guided Chen Mobai in transforming his spiritual power, Chen helped Shen Juanxiu use Foundation Establishment Treasure to calculate her chances of succeeding on her second attempt. The app estimated a 39% success rate, leaving Chen thinking about the Foundation Establishment Pill from Sky River Realm.

• True Person Scarlet Robe guided Chen Mobai for three days, then left him to contact the principal if he ran into difficulties.
• Chen Mobai activated his Foundation Establishment Treasure membership with his Wuqi Dao Academy Student ID and imported Shen Juanxiu's cultivation information.
• Shen Juanxiu selected the Foundation Establishment Trio, Giant Kun Essence Blood, and Mysterious Fire Spirit Liquid, then entered details of her previous attempt and spirit vein.
• Foundation Establishment Treasure flagged a mismatch between Shen Juanxiu's backend information and her panel, but Chen Mobai chose to proceed with the deduction.
• The app estimated Shen Juanxiu's Foundation Establishment success rate at 39%, and its report showed that her actual rate without the unavailable items was 30%.
• Chen Mobai recalled that a Sky River Realm Foundation Establishment Pill could raise the success rate by 30%.

Chen Mobai found a pair of White Jade Bells while searching the ruined Green Light Island and brought them back to the Vermillion Cinnabar Academy side for appraisal. Wu Wan identified their material and low-grade refinement, but had not yet determined their full functions or how to use them.

• Chen Mobai continued converting his Five Elements Technique spiritual power to the Pure Yang Scroll with True Person Scarlet Robe’s guidance.
• Chen Mobai used the Turtle Treasure to travel to Green Light Island and searched its ruins for signs of what had happened.
• Chen Mobai found a pair of White Jade Bells among the market’s damaged artifacts and returned with them to his Cave Mansion.
• Chen Mobai tested the bells’ sounds cautiously, then sent Wu Wan photographs and asked him to appraise them.
• Wu Wan examined the bells and said they were made from Second Grade Flowing Water Jade but had been refined only to high-grade first rank.