Recaps

Chen Beiwu used the Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability to turn orange fortune into a fortuitous encounter, then successfully bought a Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill. He resisted immediately spending his remaining fortune on another wish and waited to see whether this encounter would help him gain admission to one of the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.

• Chen Beiwu prepared to buy three rare treasure pills and focused on the Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill for Golden Egg.
• Chen Beiwu turned one strand of orange fortune into a fortuitous encounter, wishing to buy the pill or gain admission to one of the Thirteen Immortal Sects.
• Chen Beiwu used three phones to order the pills and succeeded in purchasing a Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill for 99,999 Spirit Origin.
• Chen Beiwu considered using his remaining orange fortune to wish for admission to the Five Great Grotto-Heavens but suppressed the urge.

With more than six months before the second round of the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination, Chen Beiwu weighed how to use his orange fortune and strengthened his equipment for the dangerous trials ahead. He left the chapter with new weapons, movement gear, and armor purchased, while continuing to consider when to turn his fortune into a fortuitous encounter.

• Chen Beiwu considered whether his orange fortune had already triggered a fortuitous encounter and decided he would eventually use his divine ability to test it and improve his chances of entering the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.
• Chen Beiwu browsed the Immortal Alliance Official Website and chose the Twelve Earthly Branches Baleful Bow and its accompanying True Art of the Twelve Earthly Branches Revolving Baleful Arrows.
• Chen Beiwu bought the bow and archery art, then purchased Flowing Wind Boots to improve his movement speed.
• Chen Beiwu selected the Water-Soul Jade Scale Armor for Golden Egg and completed the purchase as spirit artifact prices began rising.

Chen Beiwu exchanged a third-tier incomplete formation for contribution points and bought a Spirit-Merging Pill before returning to the Southern Wasteland with the Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill. He saw Golden Egg and Iron Egg resist the pill’s temptation, then warned Golden Egg not to take it directly.

• Chen Beiwu rejected an offer of three hundred thousand Spirit Origin for his Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill and traveled to the Southern Wasteland.
• Chen Beiwu offered Yun Yishu a third-tier incomplete formation in exchange for contribution points, and she paid him ten thousand.
• Chen Beiwu exchanged contribution points at the Mysterious Pivot Hall for a Spirit-Merging Pill from Deacon Zhao Heng.
• Chen Beiwu received the Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill and returned to the Water Moon Secluded Abode.
• Golden Egg and Iron Egg resisted the urge to swallow the pill, and Chen Beiwu warned Golden Egg against taking it directly.

Chen Beiwu implanted the Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill beside Golden Egg’s heart and demonstrated the Twelve Earthly Branches Baleful Bow. That evening, he arrived at Cloud Sound Pavilion for Lady Su Miao’s Cleansing Spirit Tune, where a sudden dragon’s roar drew everyone’s attention.

• Chen Beiwu carefully placed the Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill beside Golden Egg’s heart, and Golden Egg fell asleep as the pill began strengthening its bloodline.
• Golden Egg woke the next day, and Chen Beiwu demonstrated the Twelve Earthly Branches Baleful Bow’s Shadowless arrow form.
• Chen Beiwu went to Cloud Sound Pavilion, where Lady Su Miao was scheduled to perform the Cleansing Spirit Tune.
• A dragon’s roar sounded outside Cloud Sound Pavilion, and Chen Beiwu turned to look.

Chen Beiwu attended the Cloud Sound Pavilion’s Spirit Cleansing Banquet, where he met Guan Yongan and watched Pavilion Master Su Miao begin her performance. As Su Miao tested her zither, she judged the guests’ reactions and noticed two promising cultivators among them.

• Fang Yuchen arrived at the Cloud Sound Pavilion with an armored earth dragon and demanded to see the pavilion master, but Su Miao refused to meet him before her performance.
• Chen Beiwu reached the lotus pond’s music-listening area and met Guan Yongan, who tried to befriend him after finding him unfamiliar.
• Xu Lingling complained that someone had not answered her message, then entered the pavilion with Xu Ziqing.
• Su Miao prepared to perform the Cleansing Spirit Tune with the Thousand-Sound Illusion Fox, hoping to hone her music and advance her cultivation.
• Su Miao began playing the zither, and Chen Beiwu noticed that most guests stared at her instead of listening to the music.
• Su Miao sensed the guests’ reactions and concluded that only two of the Qi Refining cultivators showed promise.

Chen Beiwu achieved Sudden Enlightenment while listening to Su Miao’s Cleansing Spirit Tune, while Fang Yuchen also broke through to Qi Refining Beyond the Limit. The chapter ended with Chen Beiwu revealing a Water-Wood Dharma Body Prototype that stunned the cultivators around him.

• Su Miao transformed the Thousand-Sound Illusion Fox into a zither and played the Cleansing Spirit Tune, causing Chen Beiwu to enter Sudden Enlightenment as Golden Egg guarded him.
• Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing benefited from the performance, while Fang Yuchen emerged from his private room after breaking through to Qi Refining Beyond the Limit.
• Fang Yuchen asked Su Miao if he now qualified to marry her, but Su Miao pointed out that Chen Beiwu had also achieved Sudden Enlightenment.
• Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing stood guard near Chen Beiwu while Golden Egg protected him from the watching cultivators.
• Chen Beiwu opened his eyes and unleashed a terrifying Raging Tide Intent Aspect as a green shoot appeared in his pupils, revealing his Water-Wood Dharma Body Prototype.

Chen Beiwu entered Qi Refining beyond the limit after a sudden enlightenment, revealing a realm that might surpass ordinary eleventh-layer cultivation. After Su Miao gave him Thunderfall Wood to restore Golden Egg, Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing competed for his attention while Su Miao asked for his contact details.

• Fang Yuchen recognized Chen Beiwu's embryonic Dharma Body and greeted him with newfound respect.
• Xu Lingling introduced Chen Beiwu as her friend and wondered at his changed bearing as other female cultivators watched him.
• Chen Beiwu realized his spirit seeds had transformed during genuine sudden enlightenment, giving him immense, partially liquefied magic power and raising the possibility that Qi Refining beyond the limit matched the Southern Wasteland's twelfth layer.
• Golden Egg weakened after Chen Beiwu drew out its Azure Wood Spirit Seed, so Chen Beiwu thanked it and placed it in his Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Su Miao gave Chen Beiwu five-hundred-year-old Thunderfall Wood to restore Golden Egg, and Chen Beiwu accepted it.
• Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing each took a place beside Chen Beiwu as Su Miao asked for his contact details.

Chen Beiwu left the Spirit-Cleansing Banquet to return to cultivation, while news of his sudden enlightenment spread and drew attention to him. The next morning, his mother Huang Xiaoling heard strangers discussing Chen Beiwu at the market without realizing they were talking about her son.

• Fang Yuchen invited Chen Beiwu to spar, but Chen Beiwu declined and left the Cloud Sound Pavilion with Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing.
• Lin Wanqing asked Guan Yongan for Chen Beiwu's contact details, leaving Guan Yongan disappointed.
• Chen Beiwu told Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing that he had obtained a Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill, then vanished to cultivate before the College Entrance Examination Preliminary Test.
• At Rongchuang Market, Huang Xiaoling overheard a mother berating her daughter for failing to match Chen Beiwu's achievements, then modestly claimed her own son was only at the peak of the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining.
• A woman approached Huang Xiaoling and asked whether she was Ms. Huang Xiaoling.

Lu Danya approached Huang Xiaoling with a marriage proposal involving Chen Beiwu, while Han Liangcai considered whether Chen Beiwu might be the hidden dragon he sought. Back home, Chen Beiwu encouraged Golden Egg to dream of becoming a True Dragon and quietly considered how he might help it transform.

• Lu Danya introduced herself to Huang Xiaoling as Li Jing’s mother and invited her to tea, where she discussed Chen Beiwu and a marriage proposal.
• Han Liangcai heard about Chen Beiwu’s sudden breakthroughs and used the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Mirror to examine his fate again.
• Han Liangcai decided to pay special attention to Chen Beiwu at the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination, though he doubted the boy was the hidden dragon.
• Chen Beiwu returned home and found that Golden Egg’s spirit seeds had recovered and begun to transform after their joint cultivation.
• Chen Beiwu showed Golden Egg images of powerful dragons and described a path from fish to True Dragon, inspiring it with promises of future transformation.
• Chen Beiwu privately resolved to help Golden Egg attempt Dragon Transformation if the opportunity arose, even if it consumed all his resources.

Chen Beiwu chose to delay Foundation Establishment and pursue flawless Qi Refining, then told his parents he had reached Qi Refining beyond the limit. He began preparing for the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination preliminary test.

• Chen Beiwu persuaded Golden Egg to follow his guidance and promised to find Iron Egg a suitable bloodline secret art.
• Chen Beiwu decided to consolidate his cultivation and aim for flawless Qi Refining instead of immediately advancing to Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Beiwu revealed his breakthrough to his parents, and Huang Xiaoling said she would leave any marriage decision to him.
• Chen Beiwu searched for past Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination papers and learned he needed more than 750 points to qualify for the retest at an immortal sect.

Chen Beiwu completed the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination Preliminary Test and discussed his chances of entering the Five Great Grotto-Heavens with Xu Ziqing. He returned to the Mirror Moon Sect to ask Yun Yishu how to advance from the peak of the Eleventh Layer of Qi Refining to the Twelfth Layer.

• Chen Beiwu greeted Xu Ziqing before the examination, and she urged him to do his best so they could enter the Thirteen Immortal Sects together.
• Chen Beiwu took the beast-taming examination and answered an obscure question about whether a Heavy-Earth Rampaging Rhinoceros wearing Starvault Beast Armor could defeat a Foundation Establishment Peak cultivator.
• After the Preliminary Test ended, Chen Beiwu estimated he had scored around 790 and asked Xu Ziqing about special recruitment at the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.
• Xu Ziqing explained that true prodigies could receive guaranteed admission and that paying special recruitment fees would not make the Five Great Grotto-Heavens hold an Immortal Examination for him.
• Chen Beiwu declined the farewell dinner and returned to the Mirror Moon Sect to consult Yun Yishu about reaching the Twelfth Layer of Qi Refining.
• Yun Yishu was surprised by Chen Beiwu's rapid cultivation and asked whether he had come to learn how to absorb Yin-Yang spiritual energy and complete a full circulation of Magic Power.

Chen Beiwu learned that he needed to accumulate more liquid magic power before he could reach the twelfth layer of Qi Refining, and Yun Yishu offered to arrange his status as a Sequence Disciple. After Yun Yishu identified his incomplete formation as a Third-Tier Corpse-Refining Grand Formation linked to a Golden Core True Person’s remains, they discussed asking for help to claim the buried assets.

• Chen Beiwu asked Yun Yishu why he could not complete the ultimate magic power circulating heaven cycle, and she explained that he needed at least eight drops of liquid magic power to break through.
• Chen Beiwu confirmed that he had seven drops, and Yun Yishu offered to arrange his status as a Sequence Disciple instead of making him wait for the Six-Lineage Grand Competition.
• Yun Yishu identified Chen Beiwu’s incomplete formation as a Third-Tier Corpse-Refining Grand Formation and deduced that the spirit lake might contain a Golden Core True Person’s remains and treasures.
• Chen Beiwu suggested asking their master to explore the site, but Yun Yishu said their master was away and proposed contacting Hall Master Yu instead.
• Yun Yishu assured Chen Beiwu that his contribution would earn him a few third-tier precious medicinal herbs or a third-tier dharma treasure if the site held Golden Core assets.

Chen Beiwu reunited with Senior Sister Wan'er, who ate a duck he cooked and asked to borrow Iron Egg to tend her pill furnace. Iron Egg agreed after she offered him a third-tier Qi-Burning Pill.

• Senior Sister Wan'er appeared at Chen Beiwu's cave abode and asked him to cook a Green Banana-Leaf Feather Duck.
• Chen Beiwu cooked duck-blood vermicelli soup and roast duck, then saved the duck's three medicinal feathers.
• Senior Sister Wan'er asked to borrow Iron Egg as a furnace attendant while she refined pills, and Chen Beiwu asked Iron Egg to decide.
• Senior Sister Wan'er showed Iron Egg a Golden Tower Elixir and offered him a Qi-Burning Pill instead of the valuable treasure pill.
• Iron Egg agreed to tend Senior Sister Wan'er's furnace in exchange for the Qi-Burning Pill.

Chen Beiwu visited the Alchemy Hall to check on Iron Egg and ask Li Wan'er for a premium-quality Blood-Calling Pill to help Golden Egg advance. Li Wan'er explained how the pill could protect Golden Egg if his breakthrough failed, leaving Chen Beiwu to pursue a safer path before the College Entrance Examination retest.

• Iron Egg agreed to tend the Alchemy Hall's furnaces for half a year, and Senior Sister Wan'er promised to look after him.
• Five days later, Iron Egg tended the pill cauldrons and ate medicinal herbs while the Alchemy Hall's cultivators admired him and Gu Chun envied his treatment.
• Chen Beiwu arrived with Hall Master Sun, reunited with Iron Egg, and left Gu Chun behind after she tried to greet him.
• Li Wan'er welcomed Chen Beiwu and offered to teach him alchemy, but he declined because he needed to prepare for the College Entrance Examination retest.
• Chen Beiwu asked Li Wan'er for a premium-quality Blood-Calling Pill to combine with other pills for Golden Egg's breakthrough, and she explained its protective residual potency.

Chen Beiwu completed the Seven-Turns Circulating Heaven Qi Refining Method and reached the twelfth layer of Qi Refining, but he still sought a path to flawless qi refining. After returning from seclusion, he learned he had placed third in Far Sky County and chose the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect as his first application choice.

• Chen Beiwu forced open all twelve hidden Earthly Branches meridians with Golden Egg's help and attained the twelfth layer of Qi Refining.
• Chen Beiwu realized the breakthrough had not advanced his Heavenly Book to flawless qi refining and decided to redeem the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art.
• Chen Beiwu learned that Senior Sister was preparing Blood-Calling Pills for Golden Egg, which would help it advance to the second realm.
• Chen Beiwu returned to find his parents waiting for news of his College Entrance Examination results.
• Chen Dong told Chen Beiwu that he scored 807 points and placed third in Far Sky County.
• Chen Beiwu named the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect as his first choice and the Jade Floss Immortal Sect as his second.

Chen Beiwu prepared Golden Egg for its advancement and arranged a suitable cultivation chamber in the Immortal Alliance. He submitted an application to notify the authorities of Golden Egg’s coming breakthrough.

• Chen Beiwu collected a Blood-Calling Pill from Senior Sister Wan'er, gave it to Golden Egg, and brought the sleeping beast to the Immortal Alliance.
• Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing met Chen Beiwu, who explained that Golden Egg was about to advance to become a Second-Realm Lesser Demon.
• Xu Ziqing offered to rent Chen Beiwu her mother’s third-tier cultivation chamber at Lanshan Cloud Residence for two months, and Chen Beiwu agreed to pay one thousand Spirit Origin.
• Chen Beiwu settled Golden Egg in the cultivation chamber and submitted an official notification of its advancement to the Second Realm.

Chen Beiwu helped Golden Egg awaken his flood dragon bloodline and survive a rare red fire tribulation, allowing him to break through to the Second-Realm Lesser Demon. The contract’s feedback greatly strengthened Chen Beiwu, but still gave him no path to flawless Qi Refining.

• Golden Egg’s cultivation surged, and Chen Beiwu fed him the Flood Dragon Blood Pill and Spirit-Merging Pill to begin awakening his bloodline.
• Chen Beiwu guided Golden Egg through the transformation by sharing magic power and helping him circulate the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book.
• A one-nine lightning tribulation formed over Lanshan Cloud Residence, and its lightning turned crimson as Golden Egg faced the red fire tribulation.
• Golden Egg survived the flames, emerged with a golden horn and flood dragon might, and advanced to a Second-Realm Lesser Demon.
• Golden Egg’s breakthrough sent powerful feedback through the companion beast contract, raising Chen Beiwu’s liquid magic power to twenty-one drops without giving him a chance to achieve flawless Qi Refining.

After Golden Egg advanced to the second realm, Chen Beiwu discovered its improved five-element aptitude and four new innate talents, including powerful illusion abilities. He confirmed that Golden Egg could create a convincing True Dragon illusion and found two third-tier treasure arts within its technique meridian.

• Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg's attributes and found its metal, wood, and water aptitudes had each increased by a point, while it possessed ninety-nine years of cultivation.
• Chen Beiwu tested Golden Egg's Flood Dragon Might and found its released pressure was powerful enough to make Golden Egg fall to the ground.
• Golden Egg used Flowers in the Mist to reflect Chen Beiwu's Water Prison Spell back at him.
• Golden Egg activated Which Is Real, Which Is Illusory and made Chen Beiwu perceive it as a majestic True Dragon with solid scales.
• Chen Beiwu concluded that Golden Egg's illusion talents might have developed through its compatibility with the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book and noticed two third-tier treasure arts in its technique meridian.

Chen Beiwu discovered that Golden Egg had advanced into a second-realm Lesser Demon with two powerful third-tier treasure arts, then set out with Xu Ziqing for the College Entrance Examination retest at the Heavenly Blaze Immortal Sect. The chapter ended as Xu Ziqing worried about her chances of entering one of the Thirteen Immortal Sects.

• Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg’s transformed Gilded Gold Body and Sea Embracing Ten Thousand Rivers treasure arts and considered how powerful the beast had become.
• Chen Beiwu agreed with Xu Ziqing to leave early for the College Entrance Examination retest.
• Chen Beiwu refused his parents’ offer to accompany him and boarded a Bixi Train for Heavenly Blaze Prefecture with Xu Ziqing.
• Xu Ziqing described the fierce competition for admission to the Thirteen Immortal Sects and admitted she feared she would not qualify.

Chen Beiwu arrived in Azure Firmament City, registered for the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination Retest, and saw a prodigy with extraordinary red dragon fortune. At the examination grounds, he learned the candidates would have to survive on Ugly Ape Planet for over a month, where death and lasting injuries were possible.

• Chen Beiwu spotted Shen Zhaoxue's red dragon fortune at Azure Firmament Station and realized it surpassed golden fortune.
• Chen Beiwu registered for the retest at the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect and received a temporary sect pass and examination ticket.
• Chen Beiwu joined candidates from across the Immortal Alliance at the examination grounds more than twenty days later.
• Chen Beiwu recognized Shen Qiong, who drew the other candidates' attention in their examination room.
• Jiang Chuan announced that the assessment would take place on Ugly Ape Planet and require candidates to survive for over a month, with killing permitted and serious consequences possible in the upgraded Divine Void Realm.

The Immortal Alliance began its deadly college entrance retest on Ugly Ape Planet, where candidates faced a technologically advanced world with little spiritual energy. Chen Beiwu arrived in a mountain forest, while Zheng Lan was killed by sniper fire, becoming the first candidate eliminated.

• The official announced the retest's high death rate and warned that candidates could not quit except by killing themselves, which would lower their ratings.
• Shen Qiong and Chen Beiwu stepped forward to enter the assessment before the Divine Void Realm's guiding lights disappeared.
• Chen Beiwu arrived on Ugly Ape Planet, concealed his aura, and saw gray apes enslaving farmers with collars and chains.
• Zheng Lan killed five apes after arriving near a military base, but a surviving ape's gunfire and hidden sniper rifles overwhelmed her defenses and killed her.
• Golden Core True Persons watching the candidates' screens judged Zheng Lan's performance incompetent, while Jiang Chuan noted the danger of the planet's technology and hoped to see an outstanding candidate.

Chen Beiwu killed an Ugly Ape after seeing that it had been eating an infant, then resolved to fight back against the apes despite the risks to his survival mission. After he destroyed a patrol aircraft, Ugly Ape soldiers discussed escalating their weapons against the strange humans, including Three-Phase Bombs.

• Chen Beiwu saw an infant’s severed limbs in an Ugly Ape’s lunch box and killed the ape with a single kick.
• Chen Beiwu decided to slaughter the man-eating Ugly Apes and searched the dead ape’s soul for information about the planet’s weapons.
• An unmanned aircraft attacked Chen Beiwu, but he caught and crushed its bullets before destroying it.
• At a Silei City military base, a one-eyed Ugly Ape and a golden-haired Ugly Ape discussed the strange humans and the weapons they might use against them.
• The golden-haired Ugly Ape declared that Three-Phase Bombs could kill any living being, while the one-eyed Ugly Ape warned that their own side would die too.

Gu Tie and Ji Gang’s infiltration of the Silei City base was disrupted when Chen Beiwu attacked and overwhelmed its soldiers with Golden Egg’s Flood Dragon Might. The base’s officers fired their Energy Gatling Cannon and received a target-eliminated notice, but the lingering white mist left Gu Tie and Ji Gang unsure whether Chen Beiwu had truly been killed.

• Gu Tie and Ji Gang decided to wait for Suan Luobu and Xie Shite to be alone so they could hypnotize them and take control of the base.
• Chen Beiwu appeared above the base and used Flood Dragon Might, killing or incapacitating many of the ape soldiers with his pressure.
• Xie Shite ordered Suan Luobu to activate the base’s Energy Gatling Cannon, and Suan Luobu fired it at Chen Beiwu while armored vehicles joined the attack.
• The cannon stopped firing, Chen Beiwu vanished, and the base’s screen reported that the target had been eliminated.
• Gu Tie doubted the weapon could kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and Ji Gang noticed that the white mist had not dispersed.

Chen Beiwu wiped out Silei City and its control center after Illusory Mist Dusk turned the Ugly Apes’ weapons against them, then learned from the blond officer’s memories how cruelly humans were treated. As Immortal Alliance judges debated recruiting Chen Beiwu, the New Ape Clan’s king decided to unleash its thermonuclear weapons against the exam-takers.

• Chen Beiwu shot the ape soldiers in the control center, then dispelled Illusory Mist Dusk’s illusion and confronted the surviving Ugly Apes and disguised examinees Gu Tie and Ji Gang.
• Chen Beiwu killed Xie Shite and searched his soul, learning that humans on Ugly Ape Planet were treated worse than laboratory animals.
• Pei Heng considered recruiting Chen Beiwu for the Jade Floss Immortal Sect, while Zhao Wuchen insisted that the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect would claim him.
• Jiang Chuan observed Chen Beiwu and noted that the Ugly Ape Clan would launch its thermonuclear weapons after sensing the examinees’ threat.
• The New Ape Clan’s king showed its leaders recordings of the examinees destroying military bases and announced that he would deploy thermonuclear weapons to kill them.

The Ape King ordered hundreds of Three-Phase Bombs launched against the strange humans, accepting the deaths of millions of New Apes to protect its rule. Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi destroyed a military base, but a nuclear blast engulfed them as they tried to escape.

• The Ape King secured the leaders’ tacit agreement and entered target coordinates to launch Three-Phase Bombs around the globe.
• Hundreds of Three-Phase Bombs lifted off from launch silos across the planet.
• Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi attacked a northern military base, killing the ape soldiers and destroying its weapons.
• Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi sensed an approaching threat and fled, but the danger continued to close in.
• A Three-Phase Bomb detonated in the stratosphere, and its extreme heat threatened Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi.