Recaps

Shen Yuanbao unleashed the World-Cleansing Thunder Lotus and gave his Purple Lightning Thunder Leopard the upper hand against Golden Egg, but Chen Beiwu revealed his heaven-bestowed initial scenery and transformed Golden Egg into a Third-Realm Demon General. Shen Yuanbao conceded the duel when the disparity became overwhelming.

• Shen Yuanbao raised his cultivation with a secret art, then used the World-Cleansing Thunder Lotus to empower the Purple Lightning Thunder Leopard.
• The Purple Lightning Thunder Leopard struck Golden Egg down, while Shen Yuanbao fired a lightning arrow at Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu caught the arrow and revealed his heaven-bestowed initial scenery, the Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate landscape.
• Chen Beiwu merged the landscape with Golden Egg, whose body transformed into a golden flood dragon with the strength of a Third-Realm Demon General.
• Shen Yuanbao conceded the duel to spare the Purple Lightning Thunder Leopard from grievous injuries.

Chen Beiwu defeated Shen Yuanbao, gained his Fourth-Tier Cave Abode, and drew the attention of cultivators and Jade Purity Immortal Sect elders. After settling into the cave abode and sending Xu Ziqing to her train, he teleported to the Southern Wasteland, where Shu You was cornered by the traitor Hua Buqi.

• Shen Yuanbao conceded defeat to Chen Beiwu and handed over the Cloud-Dwelling Residence Cave Abode Token, while vowing to reclaim it after mastering his World-Cleansing Thunder Lotus.
• Golden Egg reverted to its fish-dragon form and fell into a deep sleep, and Chen Beiwu exchanged contact details with cultivators seeking his friendship or guidance.
• True Lord Jiang Chuan praised Chen Beiwu's beast-taming scenery and decided to seek permission for him to learn the Three Purities Companion Scenery Immortal Art.
• Chen Beiwu offered to help Xu Ziqing build a Kan-Li Dao Foundation if she failed to break through, then saw her off to the Nine Refinements Upper Sect the next morning.
• Chen Beiwu moved into Cloud-Dwelling Residence, changed its spiritual qi from lightning to water and wood, and placed Golden Egg in its Cold Pool.
• Shu You, wounded and alone after her companions were ambushed, confronted Hua Buqi, who revealed that betraying the Sect and joining the Heavy Gold Sect was his only chance to survive.

Shu You defeated Hua Buqi but escaped Ji Shaoyuan, prompting the Heavy Gold Sect to prepare for war with the Mirror Moon Sect. At the Alchemy Hall, Chen Beiwu reunited with Iron Egg, whose rapid growth came from eating spirit pills and whose alchemy had produced a stockpile of Azure Essence Pills for him.

• Shu You used a decoy, a talisman, and a sword strike to defeat Hua Buqi, then nearly killed him.
• Ji Shaoyuan arrived and questioned Shu You about her connection to Chen Zi'ang, but she escaped with a Heaven-Earth Displacement talisman.
• Ji Shaoyuan ordered Hua Buqi to prepare for war against the Mirror Moon Sect over the void-gold marrow ore.
• Iron Egg refined second-tier mid-grade Azure Essence Pills at the Alchemy Hall using the Three-Origin Fire Seal.
• Chen Beiwu reunited with Iron Egg and discovered that it had advanced by eating the hall's spirit pills.
• Iron Egg presented Chen Beiwu with seventy-six jade bottles of pills it had accumulated through alchemy.

Chen Beiwu asked Li Wan'er to refine Flood Dragon Transformation Pills to prepare Golden Egg for its rite, then learned that the Heavy Gold Sect might be targeting a rich ore vein in Mirror Moon Sect territory. The Sect prepared for war, and Chen Beiwu volunteered to take part in the campaign.

• Chen Beiwu visited Li Wan'er at the Alchemy Hall and gave her Blood Dragon Ginseng and a Moon Soul Ganoderma to refine Flood Dragon Transformation Pills within two years.
• Shu You returned injured from a failed mission and told Chen Beiwu that a proxy of the Shen Household had joined the renegade elder and drawn the Heavy Gold Sect into the conflict.
• Chen Beiwu suspected the Abysswall Mountain Range vein held Void-Profound Gold Marrow, a resource valuable to the Heavy Gold Sect's Nascent Soul ancestors.
• Chen Beiwu reported the betrayal and ore vein to True Person Zheng Qianwei, who ordered preparations for war and a campaign to reclaim the Void-Gold Marrow vein.
• True Person Zheng ordered punishment for the Cloudsea Shen Household and assigned Mirror Moon Sect forces to attack the Heavy Gold Sect.
• Chen Beiwu declared that he would join the battle, which could help establish his reputation as the Mirror Moon Dao Child.

Chen Beiwu learned the Mirror Moon Sect planned to send him with an expedition to the Heavy Gold Sect, then attended Jiang Chuan’s lecture on companion-beast evolution and gained insight into Golden Egg’s possible development. Jiang Chuan warned him to keep up with his Jade Purity Immortal Sect studies and offered to help him enter the Great Origin Heaven Realm to refine his landscape.

• True Person Zheng told Chen Beiwu to join True Person Duobao’s expedition to the Heavy Gold Sect in three days, while Mirror Moon Sect elders discussed how to protect the Dao Child.
• Chen Beiwu moved Golden Egg’s cultivation to a fourth-tier cave abode in the Immortal Alliance and attended Jiang Chuan’s lecture on companion-beast bloodline evolution.
• Jiang Chuan explained three orthodox evolution methods and told Chen Beiwu that the Golden Scale required the Bloodline Ancestral-Return Awakening Method, though the Jade Purity Immortal Sect had a way to address its restrictions.
• Jiang Chuan warned Chen Beiwu that his missed classes and lack of credits could force him to repeat a year, and stressed that he needed to complete his coursework before pursuing the Supreme Primordial Limitless Salvation Scripture.
• Jiang Chuan offered to arrange Chen Beiwu’s entry into the Great Origin Heaven Realm to study the Three Purities Companion Scenery Immortal Art, with the hundred-credit fee repayable within ten years.

Chen Beiwu gained approval to study the Three Purities immortal arts and impressed Jiang Chuan by devising a way to simplify a difficult core-formation art. After preparing for the sect war, he joined Yun Yishu and Zhu Qiong in the Justice Hall, where Zhu Shaoyuan asked them what victory over the Heavy Gold Sect would require.

• Chen Beiwu thanked Jiang Chuan for securing him access to the Three Purities immortal arts, then asked about the Jade Purity Nine-Turn Primordial Origin Elixir Art.
• Chen Beiwu explained how he planned to simplify the art using the Five Directions and Five Elders Taiyi Pill-Casting Method, and Jiang Chuan judged his deductions feasible.
• Chen Beiwu said he would wait until Golden Egg reached the Foundation Establishment peak before attempting the Five-Qi Vine trial, while Jiang Chuan resolved to report his talent to their master.
• After three days of preparation, Chen Beiwu went to the Justice Hall, where he discovered Zhu Qiong had advanced to Golden Core and was formally addressed as a Dao Child.
• Zhu Shaoyuan showed Chen Beiwu, Yun Yishu, and Zhu Qiong a map of the Abysswall Mountain Range and asked what the Jade Purity Immortal Sect needed to accomplish to claim victory over the Heavy Gold Sect.

Mirror Moon Sect debated how to retaliate against the Heavy Gold Sect before True Person Duobao led an expedition to Abysswall Market. Chen Beiwu’s spirit beasts defeated the Cloudsea Shen Household’s Foundation Establishment cultivators, leaving the household head dead.

• Zhu Qiong proposed killing Ji Shaoyuan, Yun Yishu urged an ambush with a Four Symbols Suppression Array, and Chen Beiwu suggested striking the Heavy Gold Sect’s Quicksand World.
• Ji Shaoyuan prepared the Wu Earth Splitting-Gold Treasure Formation as a trap and learned that True Person Duobao would lead the Mirror Moon Sect expedition.
• Zhu Shaoyuan arrived at Abysswall Market and condemned the Cloudsea Shen Household for its failure to prevent the Heavy Gold Sect from seizing a mineral vein.
• Chen Beiwu sent Golden Egg and Iron Egg against Shen Tianhong and two Foundation Establishment cultivators; Golden Egg swallowed their attacks, and Iron Egg killed one cultivator.
• Shen Tianhong tried to escape, but Chen Beiwu’s side defeated him and the remaining cultivator, killing Shen Tianhong with a Fire Python.

Chen Beiwu and the Mirror Moon Sect attacked Void-Gold Mountain, where Ji Shaoyuan used a powerful formation to survive the warship’s devastating cannon strike. As the sects’ forces clashed, Chen Beiwu detected the hidden Sun Yuanqing and called on Zhu Qiong to confront him.

• Chen Beiwu found that the Shen Household’s leaders had concealed or lacked knowledge of the Void-Gold Marrow vein, while Zhu Shaoyuan discovered gaps in a cultivator’s memories and ordered the march on Void-Gold Mountain.
• Ji Shaoyuan raised the Earth-Hidden Yellow Dragon Vein-Suppressing Formation to protect the mountain from the Mirror Moon Sect’s warship and its Falling Moon cannon.
• Ji Shaoyuan anchored the formation with the Heavenly Gang Chi-Dragon-Slaying Mace, allowing him and five hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators to survive the cannon strike in a remaining barrier.
• Zhu Shaoyuan ordered the Mirror Moon Sect to attack, and the two sects’ cultivators fought while Ji Shaoyuan engaged Zhu Shaoyuan.
• Chen Beiwu detected Sun Yuanqing hiding near the battlefield and identified him, prompting Sun Yuanqing to reveal himself.
• Chen Beiwu stepped behind Zhu Qiong and asked his eldest senior brother to take down Sun Yuanqing.

Chen Beiwu and Zhu Qiong were trapped in Sun Yuanqing’s grand formation, but Zhu Shaoyuan intervened and shattered it with his Golden Core Dharma Body. Chen Beiwu witnessed the power of a Dharma Body and realized that an awakened Companion Dharma Body could be key to Golden Egg’s future strength.

• Chen Beiwu sensed that Sun Yuanqing was a Golden Core True Person and stepped back, leaving Zhu Qiong to face him.
• Sun Yuanqing trapped Chen Beiwu, Zhu Qiong, and Golden Egg in the Thousand Cities Locking the Dragon Grand Formation, whose divine generals grew stronger over time.
• Golden Egg swallowed several divine generals while Zhu Qiong fought them, and Chen Beiwu warned that the formation’s core had to be found.
• As Golden Core-level divine generals appeared, Zhu Qiong crushed a Talisman and called for his father to save him.
• Zhu Shaoyuan defeated Ji Shaoyuan’s Thousand Tribulations Glazed Dharma Body, then manifested his own Dharma Body and shattered Sun Yuanqing’s formation.
• Chen Beiwu saw the power of the Golden Core Dharma Body and concluded that awakening a Companion Dharma Body could let Golden Egg contend with such strength.

The Heavy Gold Sect destroyed the Void-Gold Marrow deposit with a formation that unleashed a devastating Geng Metal storm, which Zhu Shaoyuan survived by suppressing it with his Dharma body. As the battle revealed a hidden Dragon Vein, Chen Beiwu’s Nine-Breath Chaos intercepted its Fortune Crimson Dragon, making him the battle’s greatest beneficiary.

• Zhu Shaoyuan broke Sun Yuanqing’s formation, but Ji Shaoyuan and Sun Yuanqing activated the Wu Earth Splitting-Gold Formation and detonated the Void-Gold Marrow deposit.
• Chen Beiwu and Zhu Qiong retreated as the Geng Metal storm swept through the battlefield, while Ji Shaoyuan and Sun Yuanqing escaped using the Heavenly Gang Chi-Dragon-Slaying Mace.
• Zhu Shaoyuan confronted and suppressed the storm, surviving with injuries as the mountain range became ruins.
• At the Heavy Gold Sect’s Sect Master's hall, Ji Shaoyuan reported the deposit’s destruction, and the Sect Master rejected Sun Yuanqing’s suggestion to kill the Mirror Moon Dao Child.
• Zhu Shaoyuan discovered that the upheaval had revealed a damaged hidden Dragon Vein, while Chen Beiwu saw its Fortune Crimson Dragon emerge.
• Chen Beiwu’s Nine-Breath Chaos intercepted the Fortune Crimson Dragon before it dissipated, making him the greatest winner of the battle.

After the war, Chen Beiwu learned how to use fortune and sought methods to locate Dragon Veins, while his actions unknowingly caused Shen Wanshan’s Golden Core breakthrough to fail. More than two months passed as Abysswall Market was rebuilt and the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s end-of-term assessment approached.

• Chen Beiwu entered Chaos Heaven and Earth, discovered he could use the Fortune Crimson Dragon to bless himself or his pets, and chose to bless Golden Egg, whose fortune took the dragon’s form.
• Chen Beiwu asked Yu Shuiyao about locating Dragon Veins, and she gave him the Mountain and River Dragon-Seeking Art and told him the sect offered missions to find Dragon Vein sites.
• Shen Wanshan’s Dragon Vein qi dispersed during his final Golden Core trial, causing his secret method to fail and leaving his remains in his cave abode.
• Chen Beiwu withdrew into cultivation, studied formation and beast-refining arts, and trained Golden Egg while unknowingly contributing to Shen Wanshan’s failure.
• Abysswall Market was rebuilt after more than two months, and the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s end-of-term assessment drew near.

Chen Beiwu studied the Five-Qi Vine and dragon-vein fortune, then considered testing Nine-Breath Chaos on the Mystic Spirit Lake’s Advancing Dragon Vein. He left the library for his final assessment, where Su Miao announced a spell-combat contest in the Strife Realm with rewards for winning and penalties for repeated losses.

• Chen Beiwu learned that the Five-Qi Vine could counter elemental opponents and control parasitic puppets, but his uneven spiritual roots meant he would need another way to gain its recognition.
• Chen Beiwu read about five forms of dragon-vein fortune and decided the Mystic Spirit Lake’s Advancing Dragon Vein could be a cautious test of whether Nine-Breath Chaos could seize fortune.
• Chen Beiwu encountered Yu Zhaohua in the library, then left with Golden Egg while Iron Egg remained behind; Yu Zhaohua wondered why he kept the disabled black dog as a companion beast.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at the final assessment with his classmates, who speculated about his chosen courses and cultivation level.
• Su Miao announced that students would fight projections of past Rising Stars in the Strife Realm, with three consecutive losses bringing a repeated year and five bringing expulsion, while three or five wins earned major rewards.

Chen Beiwu advanced through the Strife Realm’s prodigy projections with Golden Egg, winning four matches before facing Yu Zhaohua and her Flintrock Coiling Dragon. After their opening attacks left Yu unharmed and trapped Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg in a molten cage, Chen Beiwu prepared to fight all out.

• True Lord Su Miao explained the Strife Realm contest rules and sent the cultivators into the arena.
• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg defeated Li Jiashi’s projection with a single strike, then quickly won against two more opponents to earn three consecutive victories and a custom Third-Tier Dharma Treasure.
• Chen Beiwu defeated Shen Yuanbao’s projection by exploiting an opening and piercing Shen’s throat with an arrow.
• Yu Zhaohua’s projection appeared with her Flintrock Coiling Dragon, and Chen Beiwu recognized the beast’s overwhelming power.
• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg attacked Yu Zhaohua, but the Flintrock Coiling Dragon countered, and Chen Beiwu’s arrow failed to stop her projection.
• Yu Zhaohua and the Flintrock Coiling Dragon trapped Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg in a molten cage, and the two resolved to fight with everything they had.

Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg fought Yu Zhaohua’s Flintrock Coiling Dragon in the Strife Realm, using a transformed dragon body and illusions against its overwhelming power. The chapter ended with Chen Beiwu charging into a desperate battle, while Yu Zhaohua later faced his projection and considered the gulf between their backgrounds and resources.

• Chen Beiwu merged his heaven-bestowed landscape with Golden Egg, transforming him into a golden flood dragon that broke out of the lava cage.
• Golden Egg pierced the Flintrock Coiling Dragon’s heart, but its Molten Core Arcane Body regenerated around the injury and threatened to engulf him.
• Chen Beiwu’s Twelve Calamity Baleful Intent arrow met Yu Zhaohua’s Crimson Flame Glazed Shield, and the Flintrock Coiling Dragon unleashed its Flintrock Sword.
• Chen Beiwu used Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water to turn the Flintrock Sword against its caster, while Yu Zhaohua empowered the beast with thirty-six fire-attribute treasure arts.
• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg charged Yu Zhaohua and the Flintrock Coiling Dragon as their power neared collapse.
• Shen Yuanbao lost to Chen Beiwu’s projection, and Yu Zhaohua later studied Chen Beiwu’s projection before their own battle began.

After losing to Yu Zhaohua in the Strife Realm, Chen Beiwu passed the assessment and received permission to enter the Jade Purity Treasure Pavilion. He failed to gain the recognition of three third-tier dharma treasures and headed for the second floor to try again.

• Chen Beiwu recovered from his Strife Realm injuries and reflected on Yu Zhaohua's strength and his own need for a decisive offensive weapon.
• True Lord Su Miao announced the assessment results and offered Chen Beiwu entry to the Jade Purity Treasure Pavilion after his custom bow would take years to craft.
• Chen Beiwu visited the pavilion, where True Lord Xianyun explained its floors and gave him a Treasure Retrieval Token.
• Chen Beiwu considered the Azure Radiance Sword Pellet, Mars-Chasing Baleful Bow, and Azure Lotus Exquisite Pagoda, but all three rejected him because he had not formed a Golden Core.
• Chen Beiwu decided to search the pavilion's second floor for a dharma treasure that might accept him.

Chen Beiwu searched the Jade Purity Treasure Pavilion for a suitable dharma treasure, but the treasures he wanted either had already chosen another master or rejected him. On the ninth floor, he failed to resonate with the Heaven-Swallowing Sun-Moon Wheel and discovered a plain scrap of cloth marked by crimson good fortune.

• Chen Beiwu met Jiang Yan on the second floor, yielded the Nine-Dragon Three-Legged Cauldron he had examined, and learned about several suitable treasures.
• Chen Beiwu went to the seventh floor to seek the Demon-Slaying Spike, but Ye Xinya had already gained its recognition.
• Chen Beiwu encountered Yu Zhaohua on the ninth floor and learned that the Heaven-Swallowing Sun-Moon Wheel had not accepted him.
• Chen Beiwu tried the Five-Spine Sea-Splitting Treasure Halberd, but it rejected him because he was only at Foundation Establishment Peak.
• Chen Beiwu followed a trace of crimson good fortune into a side hall and picked up an unremarkable scrap of cloth.

Chen Beiwu discovered that the seemingly ordinary gray cloth held powerful fortune and learned it was the Heaven-Sweeping Cloak, a relic from the Primordial Chaos Dao Beast Sun-Devouring Divine Lord. He left the Jade Purity Treasure Pavilion with the cloak and a gift from True Lord Xianyun, while Golden Egg worried that Iron Egg might soon rival it.

• Chen Beiwu found that Golden Egg could not tear the gray cloth and chose it over a third-tier offensive Dharma Treasure because it contained Red Dragon Fortune.
• Yu Zhaohua questioned Chen Beiwu about choosing the cloth, and he later found that his Treasure Retrieval Token could not retrieve it.
• Chen Beiwu asked True Lord Xianyun about taking the cloth and correctly guessed that it could help a Companion Beast transform and evolve its bloodline.
• True Lord Xianyun revealed the cloth was the Heaven-Sweeping Cloak, made from ordinary fabric that had absorbed Dao resonance from the Primordial Chaos Dao Beast Sun-Devouring Divine Lord.
• True Lord Xianyun gave Chen Beiwu Purple Mansion Form-Condensing Sweet Wine and explained that the cloak could nurture a canine Companion Beast's bloodline toward a heavenly gang mysterious beast.
• Golden Egg worried that the cloak could help Iron Egg catch up to or surpass it.

Chen Beiwu used the Heaven-Waving Cloak to accelerate Iron Egg’s bloodline growth, then sought help from Yu Shuiyao to deal with a dangerous corpse-refining formation at Mystic Spirit Lake. He joined Zhu Qiong and Yun Yishu at the burial site and urged them to break the outer formations before confronting the corpse within.

• Chen Beiwu accepted the Heaven-Waving Cloak from True Lord Xianyun and decided to use it to improve Iron Egg’s bloodline; Yu Zhaohua reflected on Chen Beiwu as a future rival.
• Chen Beiwu put the cloak on Iron Egg, whose Dao Practice rose from 288 years to 415 years and whose dormant bloodline began to transform.
• Chen Beiwu asked Yu Shuiyao to help clear the evil cultivators at the Dragon Vein Spirit Lake, and she gave him a Jade Slip explaining how to break the Heavenly Coffin Three-Tribulation Corpse-Subduing Formation.
• Yu Shuiyao explained that Zhu Qiong’s Pure Yang cultivation made him suited to defeat the not-yet-complete Golden-Armored Corpse.
• Two days later, Chen Beiwu, Zhu Qiong, and Yun Yishu reached the burial chamber entrance at Mystic Spirit Lake, where Chen Beiwu proposed breaking the outer formations first.

Chen Beiwu and his companions battled Qian Buhuan’s corpse horde as they dismantled the formation, but Qian Buhuan emerged as a Golden-Armored Corpse and wounded Yun Yishu. The chapter ended with Qian Buhuan launching another attack while Yun Yishu struggled against corpse poison and her companions faced a choice between protecting her and fighting him.

• Chen Beiwu, Eldest Senior Sister, and Yun Yishu defeated three Silver-Armored Corpses sent to ambush them while continuing to dismantle the formation.
• Thirty-six Silver-Armored Corpses and thousands of Iron-Armored Corpses emerged, but Iron Egg and Zhu Qiong destroyed the horde with pure-yang fire.
• The formation gathered the corpse energy from the fallen horde, and Qian Buhuan broke out of the golden coffin as a Golden-Armored Corpse.
• Yun Yishu activated a formation disk and defensive talismans, but Qian Buhuan severed her left arm and poisoned her with corpse energy.
• Qian Buhuan vanished to attack again, forcing Chen Beiwu and Zhu Qiong to choose between protecting Yun Yishu and fighting him.

Chen Beiwu used the Jade Purity Demon-Subduing Profound Talisman to summon a towering Demon-Subduing Dharma Form and destroy Qian Buhuan, the Golden-Armored Corpse. He collected Qian Buhuan’s Corpse Core and Storage Ring as his injured companions watched in silence.

• Qian Buhuan attacked the injured Yun Yishu, and Zhu Qiong fought it with his Li Fire Twin Dragon Halberds while Chen Beiwu guarded her.
• Chen Beiwu refused to retreat without Yun Yishu and said Qian Buhuan would die there, despite the corpse’s attack on him.
• Qian Buhuan teleported behind Chen Beiwu and unleashed Golden Nether Corpse Flame, destroying Chen Beiwu’s Great Wilderness Calamity Needle as Golden Egg and Iron Egg tried to shield him.
• Chen Beiwu activated his Jade Purity Demon-Subduing Profound Talisman, summoning a vast Demon-Subduing Dharma Form that immobilized Qian Buhuan.
• The Demon-Subduing Dharma Form struck Qian Buhuan, annihilating its body and remnant soul; Chen Beiwu collected its Corpse Core and Storage Ring.

Chen Beiwu and his senior sisters explored Qian Buhuan’s tomb, collected its treasures, and returned to the sect, where Chen received substantial rewards and secured Shu You’s promotion to true disciple. After warning Shu You to stay within the sect, Chen returned alone to the burial chamber and prepared to use the nine-breath chaos to seize the Dragon Vein’s energy.

• Chen Beiwu’s senior sisters agreed to conceal the golden-armored corpse and his fourth-rank profound talisman, while he used the Corpse King Core’s powder to cure Yun Yishu’s corpse poison.
• Chen Beiwu and his senior sisters entered the tomb’s central chamber, found a damaged fourth-tier Profound-Gold Coffin, and searched the chamber before returning to Abysswall Market.
• The sect awarded Chen Beiwu the deputy hall master position in the Formation Hall, thirty thousand contribution points, and a Golden Tower Elixir; Elder Zheng also promoted Shu You to true disciple at Chen’s request.
• Chen Beiwu bought healing and cultivation pills for Yun Yishu and Zhu Qiong, then warned Shu You to remain in the sect because he foresaw danger around her.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the corpse-refining grounds alone, left guard duty to Golden Egg and Iron Egg, and began mobilizing the nine-breath chaos to seize the Dragon Vein’s energy.

Chen Beiwu tried to seize the golden fortune in the dragon vein while using a Vein-Collapsing Shuttle to destroy Qian Buhuan’s formation, then opened Qian Buhuan’s storage ring and discovered valuable materials and treasures. He found the Mountain-Splitting Blade, a powerful third-tier dharma treasure that immediately showed hostility toward him and his beasts.

• Chen Beiwu saw a golden fortune dragon in the dragon vein and decided to risk using Nine-Breath Chaos to seize its fortune.
• Chen Beiwu sent the Vein-Collapsing Shuttle into the dragon vein to undermine the damaged Heavenly Coffin Corpse-Suppressing Three-Tribulation Configuration and trigger a collapse.
• Chen Beiwu began refining Qian Buhuan’s storage ring while Golden Egg and Iron Egg waited beside him.
• Chen Beiwu examined Qian Buhuan’s cultivation records and discovered several valuable treasures, including dragon vein yin marrow and Yu'ou Chi Dragon essence blood.
• Chen Beiwu opened the weapon case and found the Mountain-Splitting Blade, which revealed its powerful pressure and locked its edges onto Chen Beiwu, Golden Egg, and Iron Egg.

Chen Beiwu destroyed the spirituality of Qian Buhuan’s Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Saber and let Golden Egg devour the treasure. After learning Qian Buhuan’s history from his diary, Chen Beiwu chose to destroy the corpse-refining formation rather than collapse the dragon vein, but detected something unusual within Chaos Heaven and Earth.

• Chen Beiwu used Golden Egg’s weapon transformation to overpower the Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Saber and annihilated its spirituality when it refused to submit.
• Golden Egg devoured the saber with the Sea Embracing Ten Thousand Rivers Treasure Art, beginning to refine the treasure as nourishment.
• Chen Beiwu read Qian Buhuan’s diary and learned how Qian had pursued longevity, sacrificed a fellow cultivator, and become a golden-armored corpse.
• Chen Beiwu recorded Qian Buhuan’s routes to the Eastern Land and the Heaven-Sent Sea Secret Realm, then reconsidered the risks of destroying the dragon vein.
• Chen Beiwu used the Vein-Collapsing Shuttle to destroy the Heavenly Coffin Three-Tribulation Corpse-Subduing Formation, freeing the dragon of fortune without collapsing the dragon vein.
• Chen Beiwu detected an unusual trace within Chaos Heaven and Earth.

Chen Beiwu discovered a safer way to gain fortune by protecting Dragon Veins, then helped Golden Egg and Iron Egg train while preparing Golden Egg to advance. After assisting Li Wan'er with her planned Golden Core breakthrough, Chen Beiwu cultivated five strands of Taiyi True Qi and became a half-step Golden Core with combat strength comparable to a Golden Core True Person.

• Chen Beiwu realized that protecting and ordering Dragon Veins could grant fortune, though more slowly and safely than destroying them.
• Two years later, Golden Egg and Iron Egg trained against the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape and lasted three breaths; Chen Beiwu encouraged their progress.
• Chen Beiwu received a Flood Dragon Transformation Pill from Li Wan'er and lent her a Tribulation-Fire Golden Shell for her planned Golden Core breakthrough.
• Chen Beiwu cultivated the Five Directions and Five Elders Taiyi Pill-Casting Method to major accomplishment, forming five strands of Taiyi True Qi and advancing his Water-Wood Dharma Body into a Hundred Rivers Dharma Body.
• Chen Beiwu judged himself an unprecedented half-step Golden Core, with combat strength comparable to a Golden Core True Person while his five strands of Taiyi True Qi lasted.

Chen Beiwu studied the Jade Purity Nine-Turn Primordial Origin Elixir Art while delaying Golden Core formation in hopes of condensing a Primordial Origin Golden Core. At a lecture, he suddenly comprehended the Heavenly Empyrean Silent Radiance God-Slaying Thorn, and True Lord Hunting Thunder asked whether he had a master.

• Chen Beiwu suppressed his Taiyi True Qi, strengthened his Divine Sense with Purple Mansion Image-Congealing Nectar, and began comprehending the Jade Purity Nine-Turn Primordial Origin Elixir Art.
• A month later, Chen Beiwu attended True Lord Hunting Thunder’s lecture on the Heavenly Empyrean Silent Radiance God-Slaying Thorn, drawing the interest of the Golden Core students and Si Yunyun.
• True Lord Hunting Thunder demonstrated the treasure art, and Chen Beiwu suddenly understood it well enough to form a crude God-Slaying Thorn with Golden Egg’s Divine Sense.
• True Lord Hunting Thunder interrupted Chen Beiwu’s sudden enlightenment to prevent harm to his Purple Mansion and Golden Egg, whose Divine Sense had nearly been drained.
• True Lord Hunting Thunder praised Chen Beiwu’s extraordinary comprehension and asked whether he had a master.