Chapter Summaries

After Wang Yan was stabbed through the dantian and thrown into a lake, a strange red triangular gemstone absorbed his blood and repaired his wound, saving his life. Wang Yan awoke beside the lake with the gemstone embedded in his abdomen, unsure how he had survived.

• Wang Yan sank toward the lakebed, despairing over his destroyed dantian and fading from blood loss.
• After a youth left with the century green shade herb, five-colored light stirred in the lake and drew Wang Yan and his blood toward a buried stone.
• The stone shattered to reveal a red triangular gemstone, which recognized Wang Yan as its master and attached itself to his wound.
• The gemstone stopped Wang Yan's bleeding and filled his body with five-colored spiritual light, while he dreamed of his unknown parents calling to him.
• Wang Yan awoke beside the lake, remembered Wang Ziling's attack, and found the gemstone embedded in his abdomen while his weapon and herbs were missing.

Wang Yan, a poorly gifted young cultivator, struggled through the Wang Household’s Back Mountain Trial, where he needed ten spiritual herbs or demonic-beast cores to earn a place in the inner lineage. On the twenty-sixth day, with his other options exhausted, he climbed a dangerous peak after learning it held enough herbs to pass.

• Wang Yan recalled waking with a strange red metal piece embedded in his abdomen and wondered how he had survived Wang Ziling killing him.
• Three days earlier, Wang Yan climbed a sheer cliff despite his injuries, using faint blue light around his hands and feet to cling to the rock.
• Wang Yan’s poor cultivation aptitude had forced him into the Wang Household’s month-long Back Mountain Trial, which could determine whether he remained an inner disciple.
• Wang Yan had failed to collect enough demonic cores or break through to minor attainment, and the trial had reached its twenty-sixth day.
• Relying on information he had obtained from a senior, Wang Yan climbed toward a peak rumored to contain enough spiritual herbs for him to pass.

Wang Yan climbed a dangerous mountain in the Back Mountain Trial to gather the herbs he needed, only to be ambushed at the summit by another Wang Household disciple. The chapter ended with the attacker recognizing Wang Yan.

• Wang Yan endured years of neglect and bullying, then entered the trial determined to prove himself and escape his humiliating life.
• After another competitor stole his gathered spoils, Wang Yan climbed farther into the Azure Spirit Mountain Range to search for more medicinal herbs.
• Wang Yan scaled a steep mountainside through powerful gales and collected seven ten-year-old herbs, but found the upper slopes nearly stripped bare.
• Exhausted, Wang Yan reached the summit and was attacked from behind with a throwing knife and a magic iron claw.
• Wang Yan counterattacked with his short sword, wounded the ambusher, and narrowly dodged a powerful punch.
• Wang Yan saw that his attacker was another young trial participant, who recognized him and exclaimed, "You?"

Wang Ziling ambushed the exhausted Wang Yan and demanded his magic artifact and medicinal herbs, but Wang Yan fought back despite his depleted spiritual power. After their clash left both wounded, Wang Ziling withdrew and offered Wang Yan a red medicinal pill as an apology.

• Wang Ziling revealed that he had taken the mountain’s medicinal herbs and demanded Wang Yan’s possessions, threatening to kill him if he refused.
• Wang Yan refused and thrust his short sword at Wang Ziling while taking a blow from the iron claw, wounding Wang Ziling’s neck and burning his own shoulder.
• Wang Yan charged again with martial techniques, but Wang Ziling retreated and called a halt rather than risk further injury.
• Wang Ziling claimed he would take nothing from Wang Yan, then apologized for the ambush and offered him a red medicinal pill.

Wang Yan and Wang Ziling parted after a wary exchange, with each privately considering the other a future threat. While searching for his final spirit herb, Wang Yan discovered the bodies of several trial participants and suspected Wang Ziling had killed them.

• Wang Ziling gave Wang Yan a Qi-Returning Pill, and both boys concealed their suspicions while agreeing to part ways.
• Wang Ziling suggested Wang Yan search across the lake for spirit herbs, then left down the cliff; Wang Yan threw away the pill and continued searching elsewhere.
• Wang Yan followed a strong smell of blood to a cave and found it filled with corpses, then panicked and tumbled down a slope.
• Wang Yan returned to the cave and recognized Wang Nan, Wang Li, Wang Xiao, and Wang Ami among the dead trial participants.
• Wang Yan recalled that the dead had associated with Wang Ziling and feared that Wang Ziling had slaughtered them.

Wang Yan searched the mountaintop for the final medicinal herb he needed to complete the trial after escaping Wang Ziling and recovering overnight. He found a hidden cave containing a century-old green shade grass, but a cloud of gray mist struck him as he touched it, leaving him helpless as a familiar voice spoke.

• Wang Yan pieced together that Wang Ziling had likely lured and killed the disciples whose bodies he found, and worried about having made an enemy of him.
• Wang Yan set up warning talismans, cultivated through the night, and decided to search the mountaintop for one last medicinal herb before time ran out.
• Wang Yan followed a strong medicinal fragrance to a concealed cave and discovered a century-old green shade grass.
• As Wang Yan reached for the herb, gray mist burst from the cave and drained his magical power, leaving him collapsed.
• Wang Yan heard a familiar voice telling him to go down.

Wang Ziling revealed that he had lured Wang Yan into a trap and brutalized him for his possessions. He destroyed Wang Yan’s dantian and threw him from a cliff into a lake, then turned back without remorse.

• Wang Ziling returned wearing cloth over his nose and revealed that he had waited to kill Wang Yan.
• Wang Ziling stomped on Wang Yan’s belly, mocked him, and searched his body for his magic artifact and medicinal herbs.
• Wang Yan realized Wang Ziling had sent him toward the lake as part of a trap and had secretly returned to wait for him.
• Wang Ziling stabbed Wang Yan’s dantian with his short sword, then seized him by the neck and carried him away.
• Wang Ziling hurled Wang Yan over a cliff into the lake and turned back toward where he had come.

After Wang Ziling left him for dead, Wang Yan discovered that a mysterious red metal plate had saved his life, though his dantian was destroyed. A voice calling herself Card Fairy promised he could cultivate without a dantian and revealed that the plate was her Immortal Card, but Wang Yan was left wondering when he had acquired it.

• Wang Yan found a triangular red metal plate embedded in his abdomen and realized that his dantian and magical power were gone.
• A cute voice inside Wang Yan's mind claimed she had saved him and insisted that he could cultivate despite his ruined dantian.
• Wang Yan apologized to the voice and accepted her admonition not to give up on cultivation.
• The voice admitted that she had placed the metal plate in Wang Yan's body but evaded his questions about how he could cultivate without a dantian.
• The voice named herself Card Fairy and claimed Wang Yan possessed her peerless Immortal Card, leaving him surprised and confused.

Wang Yan learned that Card Fairy’s Immortal Card Artifact could replace his destroyed dantian, but his water-type cultivation method could not work with its fire-only piece. Card Fairy urged him to switch to a fire-type method, while Wang Yan remained intent on gaining strength to take revenge on Wang Ziling.

• Card Fairy explained that Wang Yan could store spiritual energy in the Immortal Card Artifact on his abdomen through newly opened meridians.
• Wang Yan tried channeling spiritual energy into the artifact, but it vanished and caused him pain.
• Card Fairy revealed that the artifact was incomplete and its single red piece could hold only fire-attribute spiritual energy.
• Wang Yan said he wanted to kill Wang Ziling and asked whether he had another way to cultivate.
• Card Fairy said Wang Yan’s fire immortal root was purer than his water root, so a fire-type method could have raised his cultivation by at least one level.

Wang Yan accepted Card Fairy’s fire cultivation method and began practicing it after realizing his old method might have held him back. He successfully retained a trace of magical power in the Immortal Card, while his missed trial left him unwilling to return to the Wang Household.

• Card Fairy insisted that only fire spiritual energy could charge the Immortal Card, and Wang Yan agreed to try cultivating with fire.
• Card Fairy created and taught Wang Yan a simple fire cultivation method, explaining why its short meridian route helped him absorb spiritual energy.
• Wang Yan remembered that he had missed the final day of his trial and decided not to return to the Wang Household, where Wang Ziling could threaten him.
• After studying the method for less than two hours, Wang Yan explained it back to Card Fairy and received her permission to practice.
• Wang Yan circulated the fire method, and a red spark entered the Immortal Card, allowing him to feel that its magical power had stayed.

Wang Yan cultivated Card Fairy’s fire cultivation art and quickly recovered some magical power, then learned more about the Immortal Card and its need for a medium. The chapter ended with Wang Yan claiming he had a beast hide.

• Card Fairy explained that the Immortal Card was a unique, all-purpose divine artifact, then told Wang Yan to focus on cultivating his magical power.
• Wang Yan cultivated through the night and found that the fire art gathered magical power much faster and with less discomfort than his former Water Spirit Art.
• Wang Yan used his new fire magic to light a fire, roasted fish by the lake, and asked Card Fairy about immortals and the Immortal Card’s power.
• Card Fairy said the Immortal Card needed demonic beast hides or certain special materials as a medium, but Wang Yan said Wang Ziling had taken his belongings.
• Wang Yan suddenly remembered that he had a beast hide.

The Card Fairy explained that making Immortal Cards required knowledge of formations, artifact refining, and talisman crafting, then took control of Wang Yan to transform his beast-hide wristguards into a Fireball Spell Card. Wang Yan recovered the finished card and learned the steps to activate it.

• Wang Yan asked the Card Fairy about her presence inside him and showed her his beast-hide wristguards as material for an Immortal Card.
• The Card Fairy explained the skills needed to make Immortal Cards, then told Wang Yan to sit cross-legged and not resist her control.
• The Card Fairy controlled Wang Yan as he used magical power and runes to reshape the wristguards into a card and seal a Fireball Spell inside it.
• The Card Fairy returned control to Wang Yan and told him he could recover after meditating for four hours.
• Wang Yan examined the Fireball Spell Card, learned how to activate it, and began reciting the incantation as red light flashed from the card.

Wang Yan tested the Fireball Spell Immortal Card and learned that it stored mana, letting him cast its spell repeatedly as long as it had energy. After hearing that a Resurrection Card could revive the dead, he resolved to refine one so he could see someone again, then set himself to cultivating.

• Wang Yan activated the Fireball Spell Immortal Card and cast a fireball that blasted a hole in a distant tree.
• Wang Yan cast the Fireball Spell again and realized the Immortal Card could be reused, then demonstrated its power by striking the lake.
• Card Fairy explained that Immortal Cards stored mana and could be used repeatedly until their stored energy ran out.
• Card Fairy said that a Resurrection Card could bring the dead back to life, though refining one required rare materials and tremendous cultivation.
• Wang Yan vowed to refine a Resurrection Immortal Card so he could see her again, then went to eat fish before cultivating.

Wang Yan cultivated the Fire Art beneath the scorching sun, driven by his goal of mastering the Immortal Card Artifact and resurrecting his parents and another lost loved one. After enduring the heat for more than ten days, he appeared close to reaching the minor attainment stage of the Cultivation Realm.

• Wang Yan resolved to grow stronger so he could eventually make Resurrection Cards and bring back three people important to him.
• The Card Fairy explained the Immortal Cards’ requirements and limits, including that the incomplete artifact could only make fire-type cards and could not create a Resurrection Card.
• Wang Yan decided to remain hidden in the mountains behind Azure Spirit Mountain and cultivate before seeking revenge on Wang Ziling.
• Wang Yan trained his fire-type Divine Ability beneath the summer sun, hoping to advance enough to hunt demonic beasts and gather materials.
• The Card Fairy watched Wang Yan persevere for more than ten days, and a blazing red light suddenly burst from his body.

Wang Yan reached minor attainment in the Cultivation Realm, discovered that the Immortal Card Artifact slowed his use of magical power, and told Card Fairy how Wang Ziling had destroyed his Dantian. After resolving to continue cultivating, he received a chance to draw from Card Fairy’s Cube Lottery Wheel, which began spinning.

• Wang Yan broke through to minor attainment, then tested his improved senses and released flames and magical power beyond his body.
• Card Fairy explained that Wang Yan’s low cultivation and reliance on the Immortal Card Artifact made him channel magical power more slowly than other cultivators.
• Wang Yan described Wang Ziling’s plot to destroy his Dantian, and Card Fairy praised Wang Ziling’s cunning before warning Wang Yan that the Cultivation World was ruthless.
• Wang Yan vowed to brave the Cultivation World for the sake of his loved ones, and Card Fairy approved of his resolve.
• Card Fairy summoned the Cube Lottery Wheel, explained that it held Immortal Cards she had refined, and Wang Yan spun it to begin his draw.

Wang Yan obtained and tested a powerful Water-Fire Blast Card, then decided not to return to the Wang Household and set out to hunt demonic beasts. He found a White-Headed Wolf and began a strange plan to attack it, while three other young cultivators traveled toward a demonic beast’s lair.

• Wang Yan received a Water-Fire Blast Card from the rotating cube and blasted a huge crater into a cliff to test its power.
• Wang Yan learned the card consumed much of his magical power and decided to save it for a critical moment.
• Wang Yan told the Card Fairy he planned to stay away from the Wang Household, recover his magical power, fill his two Immortal Cards, and set off.
• Junior Sister Qiao, Brother Luo, and a robed youth traveled through the forest toward a demonic beast, carrying the Thousand Spirit Arrow and discussing the Wang Household.
• Wang Yan found a resting White-Headed Wolf, dug a narrow pit, and crept toward the beast despite the Card Fairy’s doubts about his plan.

Wang Yan lured a White-Headed Wolf into a prepared pit and killed it with two Fireball Spells, then salvaged and hid its valuable parts before continuing his hunt. He later trapped a Black-Furred Ape and attacked it with fireballs, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Wang Yan baited the White-Headed Wolf into chasing him and evaded its bite by diving into a pit.
• Wang Yan blasted the wolf’s exposed belly with two fireballs, killing it despite Card Fairy’s alarm.
• Wang Yan stripped the wolf’s claws and hide, collected its blood, hid the materials in a tree, and ate some meat before continuing.
• Wang Yan lured a Black-Furred Ape beneath a falling log, which triggered a vine snare that hoisted the beast into the air.
• Wang Yan turned and hurled four or five fireballs at the trapped ape’s backside.

Wang Yan killed a Black-Furred Ape with a trap and his Fireball Spell Immortal Card, earning Card Fairy’s praise for how cleverly he used his strengths. As he practiced refining the ape’s hide, a terrifying roar sounded from the forest, and Wang Yan rushed to investigate.

• Wang Yan used a trap and successive Fireball Spells to fatally wound the Black-Furred Ape, then butchered it for its hide and other materials.
• Card Fairy praised Wang Yan’s tactical skill and said he was especially suited to using the Immortal Card Artifact.
• Wang Yan asked Card Fairy to teach him artifact crafting, and she had him practice refining bone and ape tendons.
• Wang Yan repeatedly burned the Black-Furred Ape’s hide while practicing, but eventually refined two or three pieces successfully.
• A crashing sound and a terrifying demonic beast’s roar came from the forest, so Wang Yan extinguished his campfire and ran to the cave entrance.

Wang Yan watched a Fang Bear Beast overwhelm three cultivators from the Ma Family, then went to kill the survivors himself. After stabbing the wounded female cultivator, he turned to find the unconscious man had gotten up and witnessed the attack.

• Wang Yan climbed a cliff and watched a Fang Bear Beast chase and overpower two men and a woman from the Ma Family.
• The beast badly wounded the burly man and female cultivator, while the robed young man used an azure talisman to flee.
• Wang Yan recognized the cultivators as members of the Ma Family and leaped down to reach the fallen pair.
• Wang Yan pretended to offer help, then stabbed the wounded female cultivator in the throat.
• Wang Yan turned toward the unconscious male cultivator and saw that he had stood up and witnessed the killing.

Wang Yan fought the burly Ma Family cultivator, who had survived the Fang Bear Beast by using the Earth Armor Spell. Their battle left both badly wounded, and the Fang Bear Beast returned as they lay on the ground.

• The burly cultivator revealed that he had survived the beast's attack with the Earth Armor Spell and accused Wang Yan of killing Junior Sister Ma, Elder Ma's granddaughter.
• Wang Yan and the burly cultivator exchanged attacks, using fire spells, earth-enhanced fists, and the burly cultivator's saber artifact; both were injured.
• Wang Yan fled, but the faster burly cultivator chased him and launched his saber at his back.
• Wang Yan feigned a fall, then blasted the burly cultivator's thighs with four fireballs, sending them both crashing to the ground.
• The Fang Bear Beast roared and charged back through the forest.