Chapter Summaries

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.

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.