Recaps

Chen Beiwu killed Yan Yue after learning about the Grand Void Formation Sect ruins, while Li Yuanhang fled a terrifying demon ape in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm. The ape killed Li Yuanhang and turned southeast to seek its next target.

• Yan Yue showed Chen Beiwu a Grand Void Formation Sect token and inheritance Jade Slip, hoping to lure him to the ruins and kill him.
• Chen Beiwu secretly recovered his magic power, used Which Is Real, Which Is Illusory to deceive Yan Yue, and beheaded her before capturing her remnant soul's memories.
• Gu Jianfeng ordered a Mysterious Sword Pavilion cultivator to break the formation in one day and learned that Li Yuanhang was still missing.
• Li Yuanhang fled the Visored Demon Ape, hoping to reach his companions and warn them to leave the secret realm.
• The Visored Demon Ape bound Li Yuanhang with dark-gold chains, shattered his Dao foundation, and killed him before searching southeast for another target.

Chen Beiwu explored the Grand Void Formation Sect ruins and the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, planning to return for the protected medicinal field later. After half a month of searching, his Spirit Rhinoceros Pill shattered, signaling that Senior Sister Feng had encountered a deadly threat.

• Chen Beiwu learned from Yan Yue's memories that the Flameburn Sect had excavated the Grand Void Formation Sect ruins for centuries, while Yan Yue's Ancient Teleportation Formation site remained undiscovered by them.
• Chen Beiwu failed to break the formation protecting the Jade Medicine Plot, recorded its characteristics, and established a spatial anchor with the Ten Directions Gate before teleporting away.
• Chen Beiwu arrived in a forest, killed an ambushing Dual-Tier Nether Snake, and headed northwest after using divination to guide his exploration.
• Chen Beiwu found a five-colored spatial passage leading out of the Heavenly Evolution True Realm but continued exploring with Senior Brother Jiang's Fourth-Rank Profound Talisman for protection.
• After half a month of searching and gathering spirit materials, Chen Beiwu's Spirit Rhinoceros Pill shattered, suggesting Senior Sister Feng had signaled a fatal calamity.

Chen Beiwu discovered signs of a terrifying power in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm as a Visored Demon Ape slaughtered cultivators across the region. The ape revealed itself as a fourth-tier Demon King and turned its attention toward Chen Beiwu and the core inheritance region.

• Chen Beiwu spotted a vast spatial rift and a devastated basin, then prepared to use the Ten Directions Gate to escape danger.
• The Visored Demon Ape killed Feng Yao after she fled from its attack on her group.
• Gu Jianfeng sensed an imminent catastrophe and watched Ji Sinian die after the demon ape appeared behind him.
• Gu Jianfeng attacked the demon ape with the Five Elements Sword Formation, but it caught his flying sword and destroyed the sword qi.
• Gu Jianfeng used his master's sword talisman to sever the demon ape's head, but the head returned to its body while his four fellow disciples died.
• The demon ape killed Gu Jianfeng and looked southwest toward Chen Beiwu and the core inheritance region.

Chen Beiwu secretly watched Zhou Yuan and Zhao Green Vine fight over a True Lord’s inheritance tablet, then joined the gathering after Gu Yun Si exposed his presence. The rival sects became wary of Chen Beiwu’s Mirror Moon Sect illusion aura as the struggle for the inheritance remained unresolved.

• Chen Beiwu concealed himself and observed Zhou Yuan of the Heavy Gold Sect fight Zhao Green Vine of the Greenwood Sect over an inheritance tablet.
• Zhao Green Vine tried to stall Zhou Yuan until allies arrived, while Chen Beiwu judged the tablet and her treasure vine to be valuable and chose to wait in hiding.
• Han Shengwu of the Mirror Moon Sect appeared and proposed that the groups work together to explore the tablet.
• Zhou Yuan sensed another observer and attacked Gu Yun Si, who blocked the blow and joined Han Shengwu.
• Gu Yun Si revealed Chen Beiwu’s hiding place and invited him to join forces, startling the cultivators present.
• Zhou Yuan recognized Chen Beiwu’s Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water aura, and the gathered cultivators grew wary of him.

Chen Beiwu and the Five Great Sects agreed to work with three powerful demon beasts to investigate the inheritance stele, whose message revealed that only someone who subdued the Mind Ape could inherit the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk. The group learned that failure meant death, leaving them facing a dangerous trial.

• Gu Yun Si greeted Chen Beiwu, who became suspicious that Gu Yun Si had concealed how he detected him.
• Zhou Yuan proposed ending the fighting, but the Purple Kui Hou, Three-Yin Soul-Eroding Dove, and Pincer-Dragon Tortoise arrived and challenged the human cultivators.
• Zhao Green Vine proposed that the humans and demons cooperate to decipher the stele and share the medicinal treasures, and the Purple Kui Hou accepted a seventy-thirty split in the humans' favor while demanding the Purple-Thunder Mysterious Bamboo.
• The stele revealed the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk and declared that only one who subdued the Mind Ape could inherit it, while anyone else would die.

Chen Beiwu watched cultivators test the inheritance stele, whose assessments warned that they would die if they encountered the mind-monkey. He refused to test it himself, but Zhao Green Vine ultimately attacked the stele with her Green Vine Sword.

• Chen Beiwu considered what the stele meant by the mind-monkey and prepared the Ten Directions Gate while remaining wary of its warning.
• Zhou Yuan struck the stele and received a lower-middle-grade assessment that predicted certain death upon encountering the mind-monkey.
• Gu Yun Si and several other cultivators tested the stele, receiving low assessments as Chen Beiwu noticed deadly ill fortune gathering above them.
• Purple Kui Hou mocked the cultivators, while Zhao Green Vine and others urged Chen Beiwu to test himself; he refused.
• Zhao Green Vine activated her evergreen magic power and slashed the stele with the Green Vine Sword.

The inheritance stele awarded Zhao Green Vine an Azure Nether Fruit, then Chen Beiwu shattered it with an arrow and received the Heavenly Evolution Pill and Void-Traveling Escape Realm. He teleported away as Zhou Yuan and the other cultivators attacked, leaving his new inheritance and escape route in his possession.

• The inheritance stele assessed Zhao Green Vine and granted her the Azure Nether Fruit, drawing the other cultivators' covetous attention.
• Han Shengwu urged the cultivators to work together to break the stele's restrictions, and Zhou Yuan prepared the Burning Gold Sect's Formation-Unraveling Shears.
• Zhao Green Vine pointed out that Chen Beiwu had not been assessed, so he fired the Ox of the Earthly Branches · Mountain-Crushing arrow at the stele.
• The stele split open and revealed Chen Beiwu's supreme-grade assessment, awarding him the Heavenly Evolution Pill and Void-Traveling Escape Realm and offering a chance to inherit its mantle.
• Chen Beiwu activated the Ten Directions Gate and escaped as Zhou Yuan, the Heavy Gold Sect, and the Greenwood Sect attacked.

A masked demon ape attacked the cultivators gathered near the inheritance stele, killing Zhou Yuan and surviving Zhao Green Vine’s Fourth-Rank Profound Talisman. After killing the remaining Foundation Establishment cultivators, it followed Chen Beiwu’s aura, leaving the legacy seekers annihilated.

• The Purple Kui Hou refused to stop Chen Beiwu, while Zhao Green Vine and Zhou Yuan recognized the significance of Chen Zi'ang’s Heavenly Evolution Dao Foundation.
• A masked demon ape appeared, and Zhou Yuan suddenly collapsed and died without warning.
• The demon ape struck Han Shengwu and Gu Yun Si through their hearts, while Zhao Green Vine activated her Nascent Soul Profound Talisman.
• Zhao Green Vine’s Jia Wood Profound Thunder devastated the area, but the demon ape emerged unharmed.
• The demon ape examined the inheritance stele, tracked Chen Beiwu’s aura, and killed the remaining cultivators, including Zhao Green Vine.

Chen Beiwu used the Heavenly Evolution Pill to advance to the foundation establishment late stage and returned from the Heavenly Evolution True Realm with the Void-Traveling Escape Realm formation disk. After presenting the disk to the Mirror Moon Sect, he waited to see whether its higher-ups would support him or demand more.

• Chen Beiwu absorbed the Heavenly Evolution Pill over a month, advancing to the foundation establishment late stage while Golden Egg also reached that stage.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, passed through its exit without encountering a guard, and emerged before Mirror Moon Sect stewards led by Zhao Heng.
• Chen Beiwu handed over his Storage Ring for the Sect's required inspection and refused Zhao Heng's offer to join True Disciple Jiang's team.
• Chen Beiwu revealed the Void-Traveling Escape Realm formation disk, prompting Zhao Heng to ask Elder Yu for instructions.
• Elder Yu summoned Chen Beiwu, who considered the disk a calculated offering and watched the Earth Baleful Treasure Ship while awaiting the Sect's response.

Chen Beiwu met Yu Shuiyao aboard the Earth Baleful Treasure Ship and revealed his Heavenly Evolution Dao foundation and secret-realm gains. After offering the sect the Void-Traveling Escape Realm, he requested upper-grade wood- and water-attribute Earth Baleful Essence as his reward.

• Zhao Heng escorted Chen Beiwu into the treasure ship’s inner section, where Yu Shuiyao had summoned him.
• Chen Beiwu resisted the Black Dragon Screen’s formation aura, impressing Yu Shuiyao with his divine sense and comprehension.
• Yu Shuiyao questioned Chen Beiwu about the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, and he disclosed his Heavenly Evolution Dao foundation and the treasures he obtained.
• Chen Beiwu offered the Void-Traveling Escape Realm to the sect, explaining that it could help the sect develop the secret realm.
• Yu Shuiyao offered Chen Beiwu a reward for contributing the fourth-tier Formation Disk, and he requested upper-grade wood- and water-attribute Earth Baleful Essence.

Chen Beiwu negotiated with Yu Shuiyao for rare cultivation resources and learned that a fourth-tier Chi Dragon’s blood could be available through the sect’s campaign against it. Yu Shuiyao then contacted the ancestor to report Chen Zi'ang’s extraordinary talent and his discovery of a fourth-tier formation disk.

• Yu Shuiyao explained the value of upper-grade earth baleful essence and agreed that the sect could provide Chen Beiwu with one wisp of ten-thousand nether earth baleful essence.
• Chen Beiwu requested third-tier water-attribute flood dragon essence blood to help Golden Egg awaken its bloodline and transform.
• Yu Shuiyao suggested requesting fourth-tier Chi Dragon essence blood, revealing that the Five Great Sects planned to slay the Xuanhao Chi Dragon before it became a fifth-tier Demon Venerable.
• Chen Beiwu thanked Yu Shuiyao and left her with the Void-Roaming Realm-Escaping Formation Disk.
• Yu Shuiyao activated the ancestor’s decree and reported that Chen Zi'ang had forged a Heavenly Evolution Dao Foundation, gained the inheritance stone stele’s recognition, and obtained a Heavenly Evolution Pill and a fourth-tier formation disk.

After Yu Shuiyao praised Chen Zi'ang's character and potential, Patriarch Zhu named him the sect's Mirror Moon Dao Child and ordered him to return so he could learn the Great Unity Golden Core method. Chen Beiwu learned that the secret realm had claimed many renowned disciples, reinforcing his resolve to avoid the ominous inheritance stele.

• Patriarch Zhu learned that Chen Zi'ang had a Heavenly Evolution Dao Foundation, and Yu Shuiyao vouched for his loyalty and promise.
• Unable to divine Chen Zi'ang's fate, Patriarch Zhu declared him the Mirror Moon Dao Child, granted him candidate Sect Master treatment, and ordered him to return for personal instruction in the Great Unity Golden Core method.
• Yu Shuiyao requested earth baleful essences, Chi Dragon essence blood, and a Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill on Chen Zi'ang's behalf, and Patriarch Zhu granted the request.
• Chen Beiwu and Zhao Heng returned to the Earth Baleful Treasure Ship and heard that Elder Yu planned to return to the sect.
• Zhao Heng told Chen Beiwu that Feng Yao, Han, and prodigies from several sects had likely perished in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, and Chen Beiwu concluded that he must not touch the inheritance stele.

Chen Beiwu arrived at the Mirror Moon Sect as its newly appointed Dao Child and received a secret formation technique from Yu Shuiyao. His promotion stirred resentment from Yu Xuanhao and surprised Li Wan'er, while Chen Beiwu prepared to collect Earth Baleful Essence and meet the ancestor.

• After five days aboard the Earth Baleful Treasure Ship, Chen Beiwu learned he had become the Sect's Dao Child and discussed the Formation Dao with Yu Shuiyao.
• Yu Shuiyao gave Chen Beiwu her Illuminating Secret Art and took him to the Mysterious Pivot Hall to collect Earth Baleful Essence before meeting the ancestor.
• Yun Cang welcomed Yu Shuiyao and Chen Beiwu at the Mysterious Pivot Hall, and the disciples realized Chen Beiwu was the Dao Child.
• Yu Xuanhao complained to Yu Shuxian that Chen Zi'ang had been chosen over him, but Yu Shuxian said Chen was better than him.
• Li Wan'er learned from a message talisman that Chen Zi'ang had become the Mirror Moon Dao Child, but stayed in the Alchemy Hall because her Golden Tower Elixir was nearly ready.

Chen Beiwu visited the Sect's ancestor, Zhu Wuya, after collecting two high-grade Earth Baleful Essences for his planned Primordial Origin Golden Core. Zhu Wuya revealed the Sect's secret Core Formation method and imparted it directly to Chen Beiwu.

• Chen Beiwu collected Ten Thousand Nether Baleful Qi and Evergreen Earth Baleful Essence from the Mysterious Pivot Hall with Elder Yu's help.
• Yu Shuiyao led Chen Beiwu to meet the ancestor at Taiyi Peak, where two Fire-Scaled Flood Dragons guarded the hall.
• Chen Beiwu saw Zhu Wuya's purple fortune radiance and used the One-Guarding Mirror to clear his thoughts.
• Zhu Wuya demonstrated the Five Directions and Five Elders Taiyi Pill-Casting Method and sent its vision into Chen Beiwu's brow.

Patriarch Zhu helped Chen Zi'ang gather the five Earth Baleful Essences, and Chen reached minor accomplishment in the Five Directions, Five Venerables Great Unity Core-Forging Art. Yu Shuiyao received the promised Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill and warned that danger in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm threatened the Sect's plans to secure its inheritance and pill.

• Patriarch Zhu combined the five Earth Baleful Essences in Chen Zi'ang's dantian while Chen endured the dangerous refinement.
• Chen Zi'ang stabilized his cultivation and attained minor accomplishment in the Five Directions, Five Venerables Great Unity Core-Forging Art.
• Golden Egg rushed out of the Spirit Beast Pouch, but Yu Shuiyao held it back and told it not to disturb Chen.
• Patriarch Zhu gave Yu Shuiyao the Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill, which he said could increase her chance of Nascent Soul Formation by forty percent, at a price.
• Yu Shuiyao warned that the Greenwood Sect suspected a Nascent Soul True Lord was in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm and presented the Void-Traveling Escape Realm formation disk.

Chen Beiwu reached Foundation Establishment Peak, received the sect’s secret heart sutra from Zhu Wuya, and returned to find cultivators bringing gifts after his promotion to Dao Child. He recognized Shu You, who had once brought him into the sect, and she asked to serve him as a slave and attendant.

• Chen Beiwu achieved minor accomplishment in the Five Directions and Five Elders Taiyi Pill-Casting Method, reaching Foundation Establishment Peak, and Zhu Wuya taught him the Mirror Cause, Moon Effect Profound Illumination Heart Sutra.
• Zhu Wuya used the Water Moon Primordial Mirror to divine the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, saw a sign of a deadly calamity, and chose not to enter.
• Chen Beiwu returned to Water Moon Secluded Abode, where Shen Lingqing and other cultivators presented congratulatory gifts for his promotion to Dao Child.
• Chen Beiwu publicly called Shu You his senior sister because she had brought him into the sect, surprising the gathered cultivators and embarrassing her rival, Qiu Wanhui.
• After the visitors left, Shu You asked Chen Beiwu to let her follow him as his slave and servant.

Shu You became Chen Beiwu’s follower, and he ordered her to investigate the Cloudsea Shen Household’s role in an old attempt to seize his cultivation art, authorizing her to destroy the lineage if it was responsible. Chen Beiwu then studied a path to forming a Primordial Origin Golden Core, while Feng Buxiu’s illicit mining of void-gold marrow remained concealed in Abysswall Market.

• Shu You admitted that she wanted Chen Beiwu’s protection so she could surpass Shen Lingqing, and Chen Beiwu required her to abandon her personal vendetta before accepting her as a follower.
• Chen Beiwu tasked Shu You with investigating the Cloudsea Shen Household’s past dealings over the Abyss-Hiding Art and told her to wipe out its lineage if it had tried to intercept and kill him.
• Chen Beiwu gave Shu You his Sequence Disciple identity jade token so she could call upon Justice Hall cultivators if Shen Lingqing interfered, then refused Shu You’s offer of maids.
• Chen Beiwu reviewed the sect’s congratulatory gifts, helped Golden Egg cultivate with the Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate True-Spirit Diagram, and studied the Jade Purity Nine-Turn Primordial Origin Elixir Art.
• Chen Beiwu activated the Ten Directions Gate, worried about explaining his cultivation progress and missed classes to Senior Brother Jiang.
• Feng Buxiu asked Sheng Yong and Sheng Gang whether matters had been handled, and Sheng Yong confirmed they had concealed their secret mining of void-gold marrow from the Shen Household.

Feng Buxiu faced pressure from Hua Buqi over dwindling void-gold marrow, while Shu You arrived at the Shen Household as the sect’s envoy. Chen Beiwu sought a way to explain his earth baleful essence, unknowingly drew Pinball Entertainment’s attention, and stayed home to study online.

• Hua Buqi warned Feng Buxiu to increase void-gold marrow production or mine it himself next year.
• Shu You arrived at the Cloudsea Shen Household, where its three Foundation Establishment cultivators greeted her as Moon-Picking Envoy.
• Chen Beiwu found upper-grade earth baleful essence sold out, posted a buying request, and spent spirit origin on pinball plays to obtain mystery boxes.
• Jiang Chen ordered his staff to send Chen Beiwu more upper-grade mystery boxes after learning he was a Jade Purity Immortal Sect student.
• Chen Beiwu watched an elective course with Golden Egg while avoiding outings and making up lessons online.

Chen Beiwu studied Companion Beast Transformation into Weapon and transformed Golden Egg into a Flood Dragon sword, discovering its great power but severe strain. After testing many weapon forms and opening prize mystery boxes, he found a spirit-sealing box containing an egg he suspected belonged to a Red-Striped Scorching Fire Serpent.

• Chen Beiwu watched True Lord Yue explain the principles of Companion Beast Transformation into Weapon and learned that a companion beast’s weapon form must suit its innate nature.
• Chen Beiwu transformed Golden Egg into a Flood Dragon sword, gaining power close to a Golden Core True Person’s, but Golden Egg could sustain the form for only ten breaths before falling asleep.
• Chen Beiwu opened True Lord Yue’s next lesson and spent five days testing weapon forms, finding that Golden Egg worked best as a saber or spear but neither felt right.
• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg opened their fifty mystery boxes, finding mostly worthless goods until Chen Beiwu discovered an expensive spirit-sealing box.
• Chen Beiwu opened the spirit-sealing box and found a hot, pulsing egg whose markings and traits suggested it belonged to a Red-Striped Scorching Fire Serpent.

Chen Beiwu found a deficient Red-Striped Scorching Fire Serpent egg in a mystery box and arranged to trade it to Xu Lingling for Five-Element Earth Baleful Essence. After divining that his plans in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm held good fortune despite danger, he consulted True Lord Su Miao about an ancient formation.

• Chen Beiwu discovered that the Red-Striped Scorching Fire Serpent egg had lost most of its foundational essence and listed it in exchange for Five-Element Earth Baleful Essence.
• Chen Beiwu opened the remaining mystery boxes and found a bottle of Five Foundation Establishment Spirits, while Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing received his message about the serpent egg.
• Xu Lingling asked True Person Xu for help gathering the Five-Element Earth Baleful Essence, and he decided to secure the remaining elements so she could obtain the egg.
• Xu Lingling agreed to buy the egg and deliver the essence the following week, so Chen Beiwu removed his listing and planned to enter the Heavenly Evolution True Realm.
• Chen Beiwu divined three times about his upcoming plans, found good fortune concealed within danger, and messaged True Lord Su Miao to ask about an ancient formation.

Chen Beiwu used True Lord Su Miao’s advice to prepare to break the Secret Realm Medicine Hall’s guardian formation, but a Visored Demon Ape arrived before he could act. After it crushed Wu Jie and his companions, Chen Beiwu faced the demon king, believing that neither escape nor resistance could save him.

• True Lord Su Miao explained how the Medicine Hall’s formation worked and how a Star-Setting Disk could disrupt it, then answered Chen Beiwu’s questions about Formation Dao.
• Chen Beiwu bought a Star-Setting Disk, traveled to the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, and found cultivators from the Five Great Sects gathered outside the Medicine Hall’s guardian array.
• Wu Jie and two allies concealed themselves in a killing formation, but Golden Egg used an illusion technique against them while Chen Beiwu studied the guardian array.
• The Visored Demon Ape teleported to the hall, shattered the killing formation, and suppressed the surrounding Spirit Vigor, leaving Chen Beiwu unable to flee immediately.
• Wu Jie used his Five Peaks Demon-Subduing Talisman, but the Visored Demon Ape crushed the mountain phantoms and killed Wu Jie and his two companions.
• Chen Beiwu put Golden Egg into the Spirit Beast Pouch and faced the Visored Demon Ape, recognizing that escape and fighting both seemed futile.

Chen Beiwu faced the chained Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, earned the chance to challenge it after forming his Golden Core, and entered the Jade Medicine Plot to collect its treasures. At the Jade Purity Mountain, Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling tried to visit him, and Old Turtle reacted when he heard Chen Beiwu’s name.

• Chen Beiwu calmly faced the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, which inspected his aptitude and offered rewards if he challenged it after forming his Golden Core.
• Chen Beiwu asked what would happen if he defeated the demon ape, and it promised to grant him one request before giving him a token and departing.
• Chen Beiwu waited for the Jade Medicine Plot formation to weaken, forced open a passage with the Star-Setting Disk, and harvested six treasured plants while leaving the myriad forms mystic grass untouched.
• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg left the secret realm through its five-colored vortex instead of using the Ten Directions Gate to return directly.
• Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling arrived at Jade Purity Mountain and asked Old Turtle to let them visit Chen Beiwu; Old Turtle froze when Xu Ziqing mentioned his name.

Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling visited Chen Beiwu at the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, where he showed them around and exchanged a Red-Striped Scorching Fire Serpent egg for five strands of earth baleful essence. As Chen Beiwu prepared to pursue the Five-Qi Vine and attempt Core Formation, Ding Xu arrived to challenge him on Shen Yuanbao’s behalf and was defeated by a single glance.

• The old turtle let Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling pass through the Jade Purity Mountain gate because they were Chen Beiwu’s friends.
• Chen Beiwu met the two women, showed them around the Sect, and revealed that he had reached the Foundation Establishment late stage.
• Xu Lingling gave Chen Beiwu five strands of five-element earth baleful essence in exchange for the Red-Striped Scorching Fire Serpent egg, completing the materials he needed for his Core Formation plan.
• Ding Xu offered Chen Beiwu thirty credits for a fight with Shen Yuanbao, president of the Quest for Immortality Association.
• Chen Beiwu refused the challenge and incapacitated Ding Xu with a single glance.

Chen Beiwu drove Ding Xu away after Ding Xu provoked him, then helped Xu Ziqing adjust her cultivation technique as she prepared to pursue Qi Refining beyond the limit. The chapter ended with Shen Yuanbao challenging Chen Beiwu to a cave abode contest.

• Chen Beiwu struck Ding Xu down with a look, and Ding Xu apologized before leaving.
• Shen Yuanbao learned what had happened and declared that he would challenge Chen Beiwu, then defeat Gu Xiao and pursue a contest of the Dao with Yu Zhaohua.
• Xu Ziqing told Chen Beiwu she planned to attempt Qi Refining beyond the limit next year, and he offered to guide her cultivation.
• Chen Beiwu adjusted the qi circulation route of Xu Ziqing's One-Yang Infinite Illumination Heart Sutra, strengthening her aura.
• Xu Ziqing hugged Chen Beiwu and tentatively offered herself to him, but Shen Yuanbao interrupted with a formal challenge.

Xu Ziqing accepted Chen Beiwu’s refusal to promise a cultivation partnership, while Shen Yuanbao challenged Chen Beiwu over his cave abode. Chen Beiwu defeated Shen Yuanbao’s Purple Lightning Thunder Leopard with overwhelming ease, leaving the contest settled by the vast gap between them.

• Chen Beiwu told Xu Ziqing he would not take a cultivation partner or have children, and Xu Ziqing admitted her household expected her to marry but chose to remain close to him.
• Shen Yuanbao challenged Chen Beiwu for the Nine Peaks Cave Abode, drawing a crowd of students and the attention of True Lord Jiang Chuan.
• Chen Beiwu emerged from his cave, and a hemp-robed Nascent Soul True Lord stopped Shen Yuanbao from fighting in the Soaring Abode and directed them to the Duel Platform.
• Shen Yuanbao unleashed the Purple Lightning Thunder Leopard, empowered by seventy-two Thunder Calamity Spirit Needles, against Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg.
• Chen Beiwu’s golden fish-dragon expanded to a hundred zhang, shattered the lightning attack, and badly injured the Purple Lightning Thunder Leopard.