Recaps

After forming a primordial origin golden core, Chen Beiwu gained the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s permission to teach his self-created Core Formation art. He shared the news with his family and friends, and the chapter ended with Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling astonished by the scale of his achievement.

• Violet Firmament Venerable gave Chen Beiwu an Identity Jade Slip and allowed him to hold lectures teaching his method, which Chen Beiwu accepted as a way to build a circle of supporters.
• After leaving Jade Purity Hall, Chen Beiwu avoided Yuyue Guardian’s attempt to lick the primordial origin golden nature from his Dantian, then told his parents that he had formed his core.
• Chen Dong and Huang Xiaoling celebrated Chen Beiwu’s success, while Chen Qin visited the household and later tried to call him to make sure he was safe.
• Chen Beiwu told Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling that he expected to lead the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s delegation at the Immortal Sect Exchange Meet.
• Chen Beiwu invited Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling to attend his upcoming lectures on the Taiyi Five Directions Nine-Turn Core Foundation Mystic Art, which he had created by incorporating the Jade Purity Nine-Turn Primordial Origin Elixir Art.
• Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling were stunned that Chen Beiwu had devised a Core Formation mystic art of his own.

Chen Beiwu visited Azure-Ming Peak, gained a major breakthrough after drinking the Azure-Ming Horned Dragon’s tea, and formally became Cave-Ming Everlasting True Venerable’s fifth true disciple. His master presented him with two vastly different immortal methods and left the choice to him.

• Chen Beiwu assured Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling that attending his class would not cause problems, then ended their call and traveled to Azure-Ming Peak.
• Lin Muyu guided Chen Beiwu to Azure-Ming Grotto-Heaven, where the Azure-Ming Horned Dragon welcomed him and offered him precious withering-and-flourishing tea.
• Chen Beiwu entered Dao enlightenment while drinking the tea, advanced the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book to the late Golden Core stage, and greatly expanded his divine sense and lifespan.
• Cave-Ming Everlasting True Venerable offered to recommend Chen Beiwu to the Sect Leader, but Chen Beiwu chose to remain his disciple and became the next master of Azure-Ming Peak.
• Cave-Ming Everlasting True Venerable presented Chen Beiwu with the Primordial Origin Cavern-Truth Azure Splendor Immortal Method of Commanding Myriad Tribulations and Myriad Spirits and the Hunyuan Evergreen Spirit-Commanding Immortal Scripture, explaining their different strengths and challenges.

Chen Beiwu chose to cultivate two complementary immortal arts, received Evergreen True Venerable’s guidance and protection, and settled into the Water-Evolving Residence. There, he discovered a Withered-Glory Branch and gave it to the Five-Qi Vine, deepening their bond.

• Chen Beiwu chose to cultivate both fundamental immortal arts, and Evergreen True Venerable gave him insights on the Hunyuan Evergreen Spirit-Commanding Immortal Scripture and a cave abode token.
• Evergreen True Venerable warned Chen Beiwu about sect factions but told him to stand his ground and invoke his master’s title if others schemed against him.
• After Chen Beiwu left, the Azure-Ming Horned Dragon praised his extraordinary comprehension, while Evergreen True Venerable said he would not pry into his disciple’s secrets.
• Chen Beiwu chose the Water-Evolving Residence and found a charred Withered-Glory Branch in its medicine field.
• The Five-Qi Vine offered to trade treasured medicine for the branch, but Chen Beiwu planted it in the Five-Qi Forest as a gift.

Chen Beiwu welcomed his Evergreen Lineage senior brothers and sister, received generous gifts, and learned about the upcoming Immortal Sect Exchange Meet. After he claimed he had a seventy-to-eighty-percent chance of beating Shen Lingxing, Shen arrived and challenged him to a spar to decide the team leader.

• Chen Beiwu assigned the Five-Qi Vine to care for the medicine field and prepared the alchemy room with Iron Egg.
• Chen Beiwu welcomed Yue Chenfeng, Su Muyu, and Mo Chen, who gave him an Evergreen Formation Hub, a bottle of Heart-Nourishing Pills, and an Origin-Smiting True Talisman.
• Chen Beiwu told his senior siblings that he had no dao companion and that he would compete with Shen Lingxing for the exchange meet's team leader position.
• Chen Beiwu estimated that he had a seventy-to-eighty-percent chance of winning against Shen Lingxing, startling Jiang Chuan, Su Muyu, and Mo Chen.
• Shen Lingxing visited Chen Beiwu and challenged him to a spar to settle the choice of team leader, locking him with his golden core presence.

Chen Beiwu and Shen Lingxing fought on Azure-Ming Peak’s Duel Platform to test who was fit to lead the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s team. Chen Beiwu broke Shen Lingxing’s near-Nascent Soul-level attack with the Primordial Origin Five Tribulation Seals, leaving the duel’s outcome unsettled but revealing his importance as a successor to the Sect’s Dao Lineage.

• True Lord Jiang Chuan teleported Chen Beiwu and Shen Lingxing to Azure-Ming Peak’s Duel Platform so they could fight without damaging the cave abode.
• Chen Beiwu struck first with a space-traversing Profound Ability, but Shen Lingxing’s Five-Qi Puppet detonated in thunderfire and Golden Egg emerged to shield Chen Beiwu.
• Shen Lingxing used Overturning Earth and his Earth-Covering Earth Dragon’s Magnetism-Suppressing Prison Ring to raise his power to a level approaching a Nascent Soul True Lord and trap Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu formed the Primordial Origin Five Tribulation Seals, which shattered the Magnetism-Suppressing Prison Ring and caused Shen Lingxing to spit blood and retreat.
• Chen Beiwu asked Shen Lingxing whether he still wished to continue, while Jiang Chuan and the others recognized the seal as the prerequisite Profound Ability for the Jade Purity Sect-Protecting Divine Ability.

Chen Beiwu defeated Shen Lingxing in a sparring match, secured the Jade Purity team leader position, and revealed that he had created a new Core Formation method. He joined the Myriad Treasures Society through Su Muyu, gaining access to rare resources for his Companion Beast’s alchemy.

• Shen Lingxing recognized Chen Beiwu’s Primordial Origin Five Tribulation Seals and learned that his Primordial Origin Golden Core explained their immense power.
• Shen Lingxing named Chen Beiwu leader of Jade Purity’s team, then later accepted his defeat and decided to step aside as the sect’s first seat.
• Chen Beiwu told Su Muyu, Jiang Chuan, and Mo Chen that he had created the Taiyi Five-Direction Nine-Turn Core Foundation Mystic Art and invited them to attend his lecture.
• Su Muyu asked Chen Beiwu for places at the lecture for herself and her niece, and he welcomed them and invited Jiang Chuan and Mo Chen to help review the material.
• Chen Beiwu asked Su Muyu about channels for rare Treasured Medicines, and she added him to the Myriad Treasures Society group chat.

Chen Beiwu took first place on the Jade Void Ranking after defeating Shen Lingxing, while other top-ranked cultivators considered whether to challenge him. Back at his residence, Chen Beiwu prepared to cultivate with a new formation and immortal method before a message in the Myriad Treasures Society group chat caught his attention.

• Chen Beiwu's name rose to the top of the Jade Void Ranking, and sect students debated whether Shen Lingxing had yielded or lost to him.
• Yu Zhaohua decided to challenge Chen Beiwu for first place and the expedition leader position after advancing to the Golden Core late stage.
• Mo Qingshuang rejected Shen Lingxing's invitation to attend Chen Beiwu's lecture and said she would compete for the expedition leader position herself.
• Chen Beiwu returned to Water-Evolving Residence, entered Chaos Heaven and Earth to check his treasures, and installed the Evergreen Formation Hub to raise the residence's spirit vigor.
• Chen Beiwu chose not to use a Heart-Nourishing Pill and estimated that his improved comprehension would let him master his new immortal method quickly.
• A message appeared in the Myriad Treasures Society group chat and drew Chen Beiwu's attention.

Chen Beiwu explored ways to find an evolution method for Iron Egg while preparing to teach the Golden Core Great Dao. His lecture drew a crowd of powerful cultivators, including sixteen Nascent Soul True Lords, and Xu Ziqing led Xu Lingling to their assigned seats.

• Hu Meiren offered fragmentary rubbings of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Evolution Method through a blind barter auction, and Senior Sister Su told Chen Beiwu he could use academic credits to read lower-ranked methods.
• Chen Beiwu asked Iron Egg to choose an evolution method, but Iron Egg rejected the available options, so Chen Beiwu messaged Hu Meiren and posted a request for a fire-attribute black hound evolution method.
• At the Cloudmystic Upper Sect, the Illusion-Tailed Fox reassured Chen Qin that selling rubbings would not expose them, then accepted the highest offer and agreed Chen Qin could visit the Jade Purity Immortal Sect.
• Chen Beiwu changed his fundamental method to the Primordial Origin Cavern Truth Azure Splendor Immortal Method for Governing Myriad Calamities and Myriad Spirits, though his Companion Beasts had not yet learned its basics.
• Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling arrived at Chen Beiwu's lecture and found the hall packed with Golden Core cultivators and sixteen Nascent Soul True Lords; Xu Ziqing pulled her hesitant friend toward their assigned seats.

Chen Beiwu announced that he had pioneered the Nascent Elixir Realm and began explaining the method he created to reach it. His lecture drew the attention of powerful figures, and he claimed the realm could strengthen cultivators’ foundations and improve their chances of forming a high-grade Golden Core.

• Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling took their invited seats in the Lecture Lecture Hall, where they met Ye Xinya and watched Chen Qin arrive.
• Chen Beiwu ascended the Dao Platform and declared that he had pioneered a new realm between Foundation Establishment and Golden Core, which he named the Nascent Elixir Realm.
• Golden Core prodigies questioned Chen Beiwu’s claim, while Shen Lingxing, Yu Zhaohua, and Ye Xinya listened with interest and Nascent Soul True Lords sent word to their sects and families.
• Divine sense beyond the Nascent Soul level descended into the hall, and Chen Beiwu continued his lecture without hesitation.
• Chen Beiwu introduced the Taiyi Five-Direction Nine-Turn Elixir Foundation Mystic Art, explaining that it could produce a Nascent Elixir and improve cultivators’ chances of forming an upper-grade or Honorific Golden Core.

Chen Beiwu lectured on the Nascent Elixir Realm and claimed his Taiyi Five Directions Nine-Turn Elixir-Establishing Art could help cultivators form first-grade or honorific golden cores, though he withheld its practical methods. The Jade Purity Sect Leader summoned him after recognizing the significance of the new realm, while Yu Zhaohua’s challenge remained unresolved.

• Chen Beiwu confirmed that cultivators who reached minor accomplishment in his art could forge first-grade golden cores, exciting the Foundation Establishment prodigies and impressing the Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Chen Beiwu outlined the art’s nine turns but withheld its specific techniques, explaining that he had only intended to describe the Nascent Elixir Realm and its principles.
• Xu Ziqing, Xu Lingling, Ye Xinya, and others prepared to seek Chen Beiwu’s guidance, while Mo Qingshuang left after attending the lecture.
• Yu Zhaohua challenged Chen Beiwu to fight for the Immortal Sect Exchange Assembly team leader position, but the Sect Master summoned him before he could respond.
• The Violet Firmament Venerable praised Chen Beiwu’s creation of a new cultivation realm and considered the recognition it could bring from the Immortal Alliance.

Chen Beiwu secured the Jade Purity Sect Leader’s support for submitting his Nascent Elixir Realm method for an Immortal Alliance award and received resources for Iron Egg’s evolution. At Guizang Tower, he found two powerful fire-attribute canine evolution methods and faced a choice between them.

• Violet Firmament Venerable praised Chen Beiwu’s Taiyi Pill-Establishing Marvelous Method and accepted his Jade Slip to oversee its award application.
• Chen Beiwu asked for an evolution method for Iron Egg, and Violet Firmament Venerable gave him a Myriad Laws Token plus the sect’s promise to provide evolution resources.
• Chen Beiwu traveled to Guizang Tower, where a Spirit Transformation elder let him enter after inspecting his token.
• Inside the tower, Chen Beiwu searched for Heavenly Gang fire-attribute canine methods and found Profound Mastiff Huodou and Moon-Swallowing Profound Hound.

Chen Beiwu chose both the Karmic-Cleansing Burning Dragon and Candlelight Radiant Lord evolution methods for Iron Egg, then learned that Dao Venerable Guangcheng had taken notice of his Supreme Unity Foundation-Laying Marvelous Method. At his cave abode, Chi Quan knelt and begged Chen Beiwu to accept him as a disciple, leaving Chen Beiwu to consider how to respond.

• Iron Egg sensed that both the Karmic-Cleansing Burning Dragon and Candlelight Radiant Lord evolution methods suited him, and Chen Beiwu decided to let him pursue both.
• Chen Beiwu asked the Guardian Venerable for permission to take both methods, and the Guardian Venerable made an exception after noting that it must not become a precedent.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader told Guizang Venerable that a Dharma Edict from Great Luo Heaven had praised Chen Beiwu's foundation-laying and core-forming method, which Dao Venerable Guangcheng wanted to study further.
• Chen Beiwu saw nineteen young heavenly prodigies gathered outside his cave abode, many seeking his Supreme Unity Foundation-Laying Marvelous Method or hoping to build ties with him.
• Chi Quan knelt before Chen Beiwu and begged to become his disciple, explaining that he was gambling on a chance to forge a first-grade golden core.
• Chen Beiwu watched Chi Quan and his Fortune Crimson Dragon, recognizing Chi Quan's potential but disliking his personality.

Chen Beiwu rejected Chi Quan as a disciple but offered to discuss cultivation with him, then refused three students who tried to imitate Chi Quan’s approach. After accepting gifts and arranging cultivation tasks for his companion beasts, Chen Beiwu returned to his residence, where Chi Quan arrived at night, wondering whether the three shoulder pats had been a hint.

• Chen Beiwu told Chi Quan to rise, rejected his request to become a disciple, and offered to discuss cultivation with him; Chi Quan accepted the offer and left encouraged.
• Yu Mingxuan presented Chen Beiwu with a Small Universe Nurturing Spirit Mustard Ring and Five-Qi Myriad-Transformations Jade Nectar, and Chen Beiwu accepted both gifts.
• Zhang Jun, Li Jin, and Wan Kun knelt and asked Chen Beiwu for guidance, but he told them to study and attend the True Lords’ lectures before returning to his residence.
• Chen Beiwu assigned Golden Egg and Iron Egg cultivation methods and promised the Five-Qi Vine that it could manage the congratulatory medicinal gifts.
• Chi Quan came to Azure-Ming Peak at night, uncertain whether Chen Beiwu’s three pats had hinted that he should visit, but resolved to take the chance.

Chen Beiwu accepted Chi Quan as a named disciple and imparted the Taiyi Five Directions Nine Revolutions Core-Foundation Mystic Art. He then discovered that disciples and the spread of his nascent elixir path strengthened his fortune, but chose to let the Jade Purity Immortal Sect develop and popularize the method rather than risk exposing his secrets.

• Chi Quan visited Chen Beiwu at night after mistaking three shoulder taps for a secret invitation to receive teachings.
• Chen Beiwu explained that Chi Quan needed to rebuild his Dao foundation and enter the nascent elixir realm to form a first-grade golden core.
• Chen Beiwu accepted Chi Quan as a named disciple and transmitted the Taiyi Five Directions Nine Revolutions Core-Foundation Mystic Art.
• Chi Quan failed to grasp the method's basics after two hours, and Chen Beiwu sent him into seclusion with encouragement to persevere.
• Chen Beiwu discovered that accepting Chi Quan had produced a Fortune Crimson Dragon and increased his fortune-gathering efficiency by twenty percent.
• Chen Beiwu realized that opening the nascent elixir path continuously nourished his fortune and decided against simplifying the method himself to avoid exposing nine-breath chaos.

Yu Zhaohua challenged Chen Beiwu, and their duel escalated as she unleashed her powerful [Red Radiance Flame Radiance World-Melting Scenery]. Chen Beiwu chose not to interrupt her transformation and prepared to face her at full strength.

• Yu Zhaohua defeated Mo Qingshuang, whose life-bound flying sword broke, then agreed to let Mo Qingshuang witness her challenge to Chen Beiwu.
• Yu Zhaohua challenged Chen Beiwu at Azure-Ming Peak, where Golden Egg fought the Flintrock Coiling Dragon while Chen Beiwu strengthened him with several Treasure Arts.
• Golden Egg struck Yu Zhaohua, but she turned into earth-core lava and used lava chains to bind Chen Beiwu, who revealed that she had caught an avatar instead of his true body.
• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg countered Yu Zhaohua's attacks, while Yu Zhaohua showed that she could track Chen Beiwu even through spirit-bewildering mist.
• Yu Zhaohua activated [Red Radiance Flame Radiance World-Melting Scenery], empowering the Flintrock Coiling Dragon until its cultivation neared the Fourth Realm.
• Chen Beiwu declined to interrupt Yu Zhaohua's transformation and began forming seals to face her at full strength.

Yu Zhaohua unleashed her strongest sword strike against Chen Beiwu, but he stopped and destroyed it with his profound abilities. After the spar, Yu Zhaohua acknowledged that Chen Beiwu deserved to lead Jade Purity's team.

• Yu Zhaohua formed her Scarlet Luminary World-Melting Armor and transformed the Flintrock Coiling Dragon into a greatsword, reaching power capable of threatening a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Yu Zhaohua used Burning the Wasteland, and the strike appeared to bisect and annihilate Chen Beiwu, Golden Egg, and the Five-Qi Vine.
• Chen Beiwu reappeared behind the Azure Radiance Ten-Thousand Spirits Wall Fortress, which had stopped Yu Zhaohua's sword strike.
• Chen Beiwu destroyed the remaining sword line with Cavern Truth Calamity-Heaven Finger and healed his injured finger with the Five-Qi Vine.
• Yu Zhaohua thanked Chen Beiwu for the match, introduced herself again, and said he deserved to be Jade Purity's team leader.

Chen Beiwu shared his Core Formation insights and a foundation-laying mystic art with Xu Ziqing, Xu Lingling, and Chen Qin, whose cultivation advanced through the guidance. He then returned to Far Sky County for his Core Formation Ceremony, where the arrival of the Heavenly Derivation Commandery Governor astonished the assembled guests.

• Chen Beiwu hosted Xu Ziqing, Xu Lingling, and Chen Qin and explained his understanding of Golden Core formation, then gave them strands of Primordial Origin True Qi to study a foundation-laying mystic art.
• Chen Qin broke through to the Foundation Establishment peak and embraced Chen Beiwu in gratitude; he spent the day and night with the three women before Xu Ziqing returned to him privately.
• Chen Beiwu traveled by Bixi Train to Far Sky County for the Core Formation Ceremony arranged by his parents, Chen Dong and Huang Xiaoling.
• The ceremony drew prominent guests from three prefectures, who brought valuable gifts to honor Chen Beiwu.
• The master of ceremonies announced that the Heavenly Derivation Commandery Governor had arrived with five-thousand-year-old Purple-Patterned Flat Peaches, leaving the guests stunned by the Spirit Transformation Venerable's attendance.

After returning from the Southern Wasteland, Chen Beiwu revealed his hidden grotto-heaven to the Five-Qi Vine and entrusted it with his treasured medicines. On the way to Abysswall Market, he came across the Bone-Eroding Three Fiends cornering Li Senyi, who offered them an opportunity in exchange for his life.

• Chen Beiwu decided to save the Purple-Patterned Flat Peaches for his parents and told Golden Egg that Wei Qing’s potential discipleship would be considered at the Immortal Sect Exchange Assembly.
• Chen Beiwu revealed the Southern Wasteland grotto-heaven to the Five-Qi Vine, which pledged its loyalty after sensing the world’s unusual power and potential medicinal treasures.
• Chen Beiwu gave the Five-Qi Vine the treasured medicines and profound medicines he had collected, then set out for Abysswall Market with his three pets.
• Chen Beiwu sensed a wounded Foundation Establishment cultivator being pursued but initially refused Golden Egg’s suggestion to intervene.
• The Bone-Eroding Three Fiends intercepted Li Senyi and threatened to rob and sexually assault him, so Li Senyi offered them an opportunity in exchange for his life.

Li Senyi tried to bargain with the Bone-Eroding Three Fiends by revealing an ancient cave abode, but Chen Beiwu arrived and effortlessly killed two of the sisters. After inspecting their jade slip, Chen Beiwu recognized the ruin as a hidden entrance to the Grand Void Formation Sect and considered how to proceed.

• Li Senyi told the Bone-Eroding Three Fiends about the cave abode in Withered Poison Ravine and swore an oath in exchange for their promise to spare him.
• The three sisters exploited a loophole in their oaths and forced Li Senyi to accompany them, while Chen Beiwu overheard their conversation and continued along the road.
• The green-robed and yellow-robed female cultivators propositioned Chen Beiwu, and he killed them with a glance before Zhao Wuyan and Li Senyi knelt and begged for mercy.
• Chen Beiwu examined Zhao Wuyan's and Li Senyi's fortune, noticing unusually powerful calamity Qi around Zhao Wuyan and calamity tied to Li Senyi's cave-abode opportunity.
• Chen Beiwu took Zhao Wuyan's jade slip and learned that the Withered Poison Ravine cave abode was a hidden Grand Void Formation Sect entrance, then considered pursuing Heavenly Evolution True Lord's inheritance instead.

Chen Beiwu killed Zhao Wuyan and Li Senyi, returned to Mirror Moon Sect, and revealed his Primordial Origin Golden Core to Zhu Shaoyuan. A vast celestial phenomenon then erupted over the sect as its dormant Primordial Chaos Dao Artifact stirred, seemingly excited by the arrival of a potential master.

• Chen Beiwu killed Zhao Wuyan and extracted half a strand of Calamity Qi, while the Five-Qi Vine killed Li Senyi and shared his storage ring with Golden Egg and Iron Egg.
• Chen Beiwu destroyed Li Senyi's Mother-Child Corpse Infant Formation banner, while Blood Demon Venerable learned that one of his planted agents had died and continued planning a realm-wide blood sacrifice.
• Chen Beiwu returned to Mirror Moon Sect, where Zhu Shaoyuan sensed his disciple's overwhelming strength and learned that he had formed a Primordial Origin Golden Core.
• Purple Qi spread across the sky above Mirror Moon Sect, and disciples and elders witnessed the immense celestial phenomenon.
• Zhu Wuya sensed the Primordial Chaos Dao Artifact stirring in the sect's reserves and wondered whether it had awakened to choose him as its master.

Chen Beiwu’s connection to the Heavenly One Northern Nether Mirror stirred the Mirror Moon Sect’s hidden reserve and alarmed the other great sects. After learning the mirror’s identity, Chen Beiwu was summoned with Zhu Shaoyuan to meet the patriarch at Taiyi Hall.

• Zhu Wuya tried to contact the Heavenly One Northern Nether Mirror, but it rejected him and turned its attention toward the Star-Transferring Hall.
• The Taiyi Sin-Slaying Sword awakened in response to the mirror, and Sword Lord Xiaoyao ordered the Mysterious Sword Pavilion to watch the Mirror Moon Sect and sought cooperation with the other sects.
• The Nine-Dragon Divine Fire Cover stirred in the Flameburn Sect, and Nine-Dragon True Lord ordered an investigation into the Mirror Moon Sect’s heavenly prodigies.
• Chen Beiwu told Zhu Shaoyuan that an unusual mirror was calling him, and Zhu Shaoyuan identified it as the Heavenly One Northern Nether Mirror.
• After the patriarch summoned Zhu Shaoyuan to bring Chen Beiwu to Taiyi Hall, the two set out for Taiyi Peak.

Chen Beiwu entered the Heavenly One Northern Nether Mirror’s trial and endured the Mirror Abyss Path, earning permission to resonate with the Primordial Chaos Dao Artifact. He then came face to face with its True Spirit, the Heavenly One True Dragon.

• Zhu Wuya recognized Chen Beiwu’s extraordinary Primordial Origin Golden Core and explained that the Heavenly One Northern Nether Mirror would test him before choosing whether to accept him.
• Chen Beiwu agreed to face the trial, and Zhu Wuya sent him into the Eight Desolations Water Mirror Dragon-Subduing Formation.
• Chen Beiwu crossed the Mirror Abyss Path, enduring repeated mirror-shattering trials that tempered his body and golden core.
• An ancient stele judged Chen Beiwu’s talents and declared him the Taiyi Dao Lineage Successor, permitting him to resonate with the Dao artifact.
• Chen Beiwu saw the Heavenly One Northern Nether Mirror, and its True Spirit appeared as the Heavenly One True Dragon.

Chen Beiwu met the Heavenly One True Dragon, learned that the Southern Wasteland’s damaged heavens made Spirit Transformation difficult, and accepted a pact to help restore the realm in exchange for the chance to advance. After receiving the Tianyi Northern Underworld Myriad Forms Dao Canon, he returned to the Mirror Moon Sect as Sect Master Candidate and prepared to face rival sects’ prodigies at his Core Formation Ceremony.

• The Heavenly One True Dragon explained that creation Dao resonance had run dry across the Southern Wasteland Nine Realms, obstructing the path to Spirit Transformation.
• The Heavenly One True Dragon offered to help Chen Beiwu unify Diyan and the Southern Wasteland if he swore to use the Heavenly One Northern Nether Mirror to repair heaven and earth.
• Chen Beiwu accepted the pact and received the Tianyi Northern Underworld Myriad Forms Dao Canon, then spent a month beginning to comprehend it.
• Chen Beiwu returned to Taiyi Hall and told Zhu Wuya that the Heavenly One True Spirit had imparted the Dao canon but had not recognized him as a wielder of the mirror.
• Zhu Wuya named Chen Beiwu the Mirror Moon Sect’s Sect Master Candidate, to succeed as sect master after reaching Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Zhu Wuya revealed that rival sects planned to probe the Mirror Moon Sect at Chen Beiwu’s Core Formation Ceremony, and Chen Beiwu declared himself invincible below True Lord.

Chen Beiwu returned from seclusion, approved Shu You’s Beast Taming Lineage and received a fortune secret technique that revealed a strand of True Venerable Purple Qi. Shu You then asked him to investigate Jiang Yuyan’s alleged murder of her master, and Chen Beiwu agreed to uncover the truth while preparing a fortune-borrowing formation.

• Chen Beiwu met Shu You and her recruits Gu Chun, Wang Hao, and Bai Zhi, and approved their work establishing the Beast Taming Lineage.
• Chen Beiwu sensed True Venerable Purple Qi granted through the Heavenly One Northern Nether Mirror and examined the fortune gathering around the new lineage.
• Shu You gave Chen Beiwu the incomplete Profound Heaven Secret Record of Receiving Fortune, Ingesting Qi, and Attaining Longevity, and he rewarded her with a secret core formation method.
• Shu You told Chen Beiwu that Jiang Yuyan had defected after allegedly killing her master, Yu Zhaoli, and asked him to let Jiang explain herself if they met.
• Chen Beiwu agreed to investigate Jiang Yuyan’s motives, then gave Golden Egg a new cultivation method and began setting up a fortune-borrowing formation.

The Greenwood Sect and Heavy Gold Sect discussed how to assess the Mirror Moon Sect’s newly formed Dao Child, while their leaders attended Chen Zi'ang’s Core Formation Ceremony. The celebration ended with the arrival of Eight Desolations Sect ancestor Ning Xuanji and Dao Child Ning Wujiu, who challenged Chen Beiwu to a Dao-Questioning Battle.

• Zhao Cang decided to send Zhao Muyü to the Mirror Moon Sect’s ceremony with the Ten Thousand Marvels Azure Lotus to test its Dao Child.
• Wu Shijie chose to lead the Heavy Gold Sect’s delegation to the ceremony with Li Feijue, leaving the elders uncertain about his strategy toward the Mirror Moon Sect.
• Gu Wuji arrived on behalf of the Mysterious Sword Pavilion, and Chen Beiwu appeared at the ceremony, prompting Gu Wuji, Wu Shijie, and Zhao Cang to reassess his strength and significance.
• As the banquet began, a massive warship bearing the Eight Desolations Sect’s emblem approached the Mirror Moon Sect’s mountain gate, led by Spirit Transformation Venerable Ning Xuanji.
• Ning Xuanji introduced his sect’s Dao Child, Ning Wujiu, who challenged Chen Beiwu to a Dao-Questioning Battle as a congratulatory gift.