Recaps

Chen Beiwu killed the scarred brute with a water spell amplified by his modified Tide Array, then took Lin Yu’s belongings and had her record her language and writing system. He let her leave but Iron Egg killed her, and Chen Beiwu promised the dog a meaty bone for taking the blame.

• The scarred brute charged Chen Beiwu, who activated the Tide Array and killed him with an amplified Water Blade Talisman.
• Lin Yu surrendered her belongings and retrieved the storage pouches of Tong Yu and Zhong Shan at Chen Beiwu’s command.
• Chen Beiwu asked Lin Yu to record her language and writing system in a jade slip, then told her she could go.
• As Lin Yu tried to escape, Iron Egg blocked her with a Flame Hound and killed her with a pillar of flame after she summoned the Soul-Seizing Nail.
• Chen Beiwu scolded Iron Egg for disobeying, then promised him a big, meaty bone, and Iron Egg gladly accepted the blame.

Chen Beiwu collected the spoils from Lin Yu and her companions, then discovered a rare Stone-in-the-Grass while traveling through the mountains. When Mo Li was about to be bitten by a Five-Scarlet Snake, Chen Beiwu intervened and appeared before her.

• Chen Beiwu found Lin Yu dead from the backlash of her own Soul-Seizing Nail, sealed the artifact, and left the battlefield with Iron Egg.
• Chen Beiwu sorted the bandits’ meager spoils in a rocky cave and studied a jade slip because he could not read the pills’ labels.
• Chen Beiwu discovered Stone-in-the-Grass growing in a rock crevice and saw Mo Li gathering it nearby.
• A Five-Scarlet Snake attacked Mo Li, and her powder failed to stop it.
• Chen Beiwu saved Mo Li from the snake, and she opened her eyes to see him.

Chen Beiwu saved Mo Li from a Five-Scarlet Snake, bought the Stone-in-the-Grass from her, and followed her to Twin Rivers Village. He learned that her father was ill and offered to cure him, leaving Mo Li pleading for her father’s life.

• Chen Beiwu killed the Five-Scarlet Snake, then asked Mo Li about the herb and their surroundings in Southern Wilderness Language.
• Mo Li asked Chen Beiwu to leave the Blue-Crystal Exotic Herb to her so she could pay for her father’s treatment, and he gave her fifty taels of silver for it.
• Chen Beiwu dug up the Stone-in-the-Grass and asked Mo Li to lead him to Twin Rivers Village, where he learned about Waterside Mountain Town and the Marshland Kingdom.
• Mo Li brought Chen Beiwu to her home and asked him to help her buy medicine for her gaunt, bedridden father.
• Chen Beiwu said he could cure Mo Li’s father, and Mo Li offered him the silver and begged him to save her father.

Chen Beiwu bought medicine to treat Mo Li’s father and refused her repayment after curing him. Rumors spread through Twin Rivers Village that Chen Beiwu was an immortal, while the village schoolmaster denied that immortals existed.

• Chen Beiwu learned that Iron Egg could not cultivate properly at home and promised to take him somewhere with more spiritual energy.
• Chen Beiwu bought two doses of Wind-Expelling Powder and a sheet of Spirit-Testing Paper after rejecting the medicine shop’s low offer for second-tier spirit medicines.
• The next morning, Mo Li and her father knelt to thank Chen Beiwu, and he told her to keep the silver she had tried to return.
• Villagers in Twin Rivers Village began calling Chen Beiwu an immortal because of his strange habits and Old Mo’s recovery, while the village chief forbade anyone from disturbing him.
• A boy asked his schoolmaster whether immortals existed, and the schoolmaster insisted there were no immortals and told him to study.

Chen Beiwu studied the Southern Wild Region’s language and cultivation world, learning that rogue cultivators faced severe dangers while the Five Great Sects maintained limited order. He suspected the region’s cultivation philosophy made spell arts unusually powerful and decided to seek entry into the Mirror Moon Palace, believing his aptitude might qualify him.

• Chen Beiwu mastered the Southern Wilderness Language after spotting deliberate mistranslations in the jade slip.
• He read books about the Southern Wild Region and learned that its cultivation resources were abundant, but rogue cultivators lacked protection, inheritance, resources, spiritual land, and status.
• Chen Beiwu learned that the Mirror Moon Palace and four other major sects ruled the Earth Evolution Realm under Nascent Soul True Lords.
• He decided to inquire about joining the Mirror Moon Palace because the Southern Wild Region was too dangerous for an unaffiliated cultivator.
• Chen Beiwu compared the region’s spell-based cultivation philosophy with the Immortal Alliance’s beast-borrowing path and concluded that his spell arts were stronger because the local Great Dao favored them.
• Chen Beiwu believed his aptitude for spell arts could help him join one of the Five Great Sects.

Chen Beiwu left Mo Li after discovering her superior metal-element earth spiritual root and giving her a cultivation method and basic information about the cultivation world. At school, he learned that killing the Azure Thunder Tiger with a reversed formation would require a Foundation Establishment cultivator, prompting him to consider independent study so he could focus on cultivation.

• Chen Beiwu made Giant Strength, Lightness, and Iron Body talismans and left three for Mo Li before departing.
• Chen Beiwu tested Mo Li's spiritual root, discovered her superior metal-element earth spiritual root, and gave her the Metal Refining Art and a jade slip about the Southern Wild Region.
• Chen Beiwu left Mo Li, promising they might meet again if fate allowed.
• Chen Beiwu asked Teacher Zhao how a water-attribute formation could kill an Azure Thunder Tiger, and she explained that the Yin-Yang Reversal Formation required a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Chen Beiwu considered applying for independent study so he could focus on gaining cultivation resources and reaching Foundation Establishment.

Chen Beiwu and his classmates traveled to the Spirit Beast Pavilion to choose companion beasts, where Dean Lin advised them to select carefully. Chen Beiwu planned to explore Blackfall Island, and Xu Ziqing chose to accompany him.

• Xu Lingling envied Xu Ziqing and Chen Beiwu for their upcoming trip, and Chen Beiwu encouraged her by expressing confidence in her father.
• Chen Beiwu met his classmates at school, and Dean Lin transported the group to the Spirit Beast Pavilion by flying shuttle.
• Steward Wei issued the students jade slips that served as identification and passes, then allowed them to explore and choose their companion beasts.
• Xu Ziqing listed several fire-attribute beasts she planned to consider, while Chen Beiwu named three water-attribute beasts he wanted to inspect.
• Lin Yi invited Xu Ziqing to Sulfur Reef Island, but she declined and said she would accompany Chen Beiwu to Blackfall Island.

Chen Beiwu and Xu Ziqing visited Mystic Falls Island to choose a Companion Beast, where Chen tested several young Azure Spirit Newts. After their powerful clan patriarch appeared, Chen decided the newts’ timid disposition made them unsuitable and continued his search.

• Chen Beiwu and Xu Ziqing followed the jade slip’s directions to a lake where Azure Spirit Newts lived.
• When a white-robed cultivator failed to catch a young newt, Chen trapped five of them in a Water Prison Spell.
• A giant Azure Spirit Newt emerged from the lake, but Chen released the young unharmed and the adult returned beneath the water.
• Xu Ziqing warned that frightening the young newts could undermine their approval, while Chen judged their reluctance to resist as a sign of poor disposition.
• Chen ruled out Azure Spirit Newts as potential Companion Beasts.

Chen Beiwu searched several spirit-beast habitats for a companion beast but found none suitable before reaching Four Seas Lake. There, Golden Core True Person Han Liangcai offered him access to the Darkwater Spirit Turtles in exchange for a supposed token of fate, leaving Chen Beiwu and Xu Ziqing confused by his hint for spirit stones.

• Chen Beiwu rejected the Azure-Wave Spirit Carp at Jade-Horn Spring and decided to visit Four Seas Lake.
• Chen Beiwu and Xu Ziqing arrived at Four Seas Lake, where Han Liangcai approached them atop a Mysterious-Water Nether Turtle.
• Han Liangcai explained that outsiders needed a token and a fated connection to approach the Darkwater Spirit Turtles.
• Chen Beiwu realized Han Liangcai was hinting that he wanted spirit stones, while Xu Ziqing wondered why a Golden Core True Person would ask for them.
• Han Liangcai expressed surprise that Chen Beiwu had no fated connection on him, and the conversation stalled in awkward silence.

Han Liangcai gave Chen Beiwu a Mysterious-Water Nether Turtle shell fragment and suspected he might be Fallen Dragon Prefecture’s next hidden dragon. He planned to use his Yin-Yang Reincarnation Mirror to investigate the destinies of those connected to the spirit stones and search for the hidden dragon.

• Han Liangcai took Chen Beiwu’s spirit stone and gave him a shell fragment that would keep the young spirit turtles from hiding, while declining Xu Ziqing’s Spirit Origin card.
• Xu Ziqing chose to wait on shore, and Chen Beiwu entered Four Seas Lake with the fragment.
• Han Liangcai wondered whether Chen Beiwu could be Fallen Dragon Prefecture’s hidden dragon, while the Mysterious-Water Nether Turtle searched for the person who could help it advance to Demon King.
• Han Liangcai recalled how True Lord Still Abyss had been a previous hidden dragon with a northern heaven five qi destiny and endured five water-element tribulations.
• Han Liangcai revealed that he had gathered spirit stones to form karmic links and would use the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Mirror to find the hidden dragon’s destiny.

Chen Beiwu found a golden-fortune Darkwater Spirit Turtle hatchling and decided it would be his Companion Beast. As other cultivators gathered around the rare turtle, Guan Ange tried to win it with a Spirit Jade Carp, but the turtle wandered off unimpressed.

• Chen Beiwu found a crowd of Qi Refining cultivators trying to contract Darkwater Spirit Turtles, but none of the hatchlings had the orange fortune he expected.
• Chen Beiwu spotted a larger, pitch-black hatchling with golden fortune and resolved to make it his Companion Beast.
• Guan Ange rushed ahead to approach the variant turtle while Chen Beiwu held back after noticing the other cultivators’ reactions.
• Guan Ange offered the turtle one Spirit Jade Carp each month in exchange for becoming his Companion Beast.
• The Darkwater Spirit Turtle yawned and wandered away from Guan Ange’s offering.

Chen Beiwu learned that Darkwater Spirit Turtles chose companions through an innate sense of compatible fate patterns, and he felt confident his fortune could win the mutant turtle’s approval. The arrival of Lin Xinghe, a powerful clan heir, revealed that the turtle’s bloodline could secure entry to the Cavern Mystery Immortal Sect and the coveted position of First Seat.

• Guan Ange failed to attract the Darkwater Spirit Turtle with Spirit Jade Carp, and Chen Beiwu remained unsure how to win its approval.
• Guan Ange explained that Darkwater Spirit Turtles sensed compatible fate patterns and would approach suitable cultivators on their own.
• Chen Beiwu felt confident that his nine-breath chaos gave him exceptional fortune and could help him win over the turtle.
• A luxurious vessel brought Lin Xinghe and his Foundation Establishment steward to the lakebed, where Lin Xinghe approached the mutant turtle.
• Lin Xinghe recognized that the turtle’s unique bloodline offered entry to the Cavern Mystery Immortal Sect and a chance to become its First Seat, a position associated with Nascent Soul potential.

Lin Xinghe tried to win the Variant Spirit Turtle as his companion beast, but it rejected him for lack of spiritual resonance. He then offered it a drop of Fourth-Realm Demon King blood, leaving the turtle visibly tempted but undecided.

• Lin Xinghe introduced himself and asked the Variant Spirit Turtle to become his companion beast.
• The Variant Spirit Turtle examined Lin Xinghe but rejected him because their fates lacked spiritual resonance.
• Lin Xinghe revealed a jade box containing a drop of blood that Guan Ange identified as belonging to an Azure Waves Mysterious Softshell Turtle, a Fourth-Realm Demon King.
• Lin Xinghe offered the demon king blood in exchange for a companion beast contract, and the Variant Spirit Turtle hesitated at the valuable prize.

Lin Xinghe failed to win the Darkwater Spirit Turtle with Demon King Blood, and Chen Beiwu approached it to offer himself as its companion. The turtle dismissed Chen Beiwu as an ordinary cultivator, leaving his attempt unresolved.

• Lin Xinghe offered the Darkwater Spirit Turtle Demon King Blood, but it rejected the gift because it lacked the power of Demon King Essence Blood to restore its bloodline.
• Lin Xinghe departed after hiding his disappointment, while Guan Ange urged Chen Beiwu to try his luck.
• The Darkwater Spirit Turtle revealed a miniature water realm filled with rare Spirit Fish and four Third-Tier Treasure Fish, astonishing Guan Ange and Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu walked over to the turtle and introduced himself as a sixteen-year-old at the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining with outstanding talent.
• Chen Beiwu asked the Darkwater Spirit Turtle to become his Companion Beast, but it rolled its eyes and dismissed him as an ordinary, overconfident cultivator.

Chen Beiwu failed to win over the Darkwater Spirit Turtle through his fortune, but used descriptions of delicious fish dishes to persuade the turtle to let him choose a Spirit Fish as payment. He selected an unusual Golden Scale that Nine-Breath Chaos revealed had promising evolution paths, leaving him excited by its potential.

• Chen Beiwu described ways to prepare the Jade Marrow Carp and Redblood Fish, tempting the Darkwater Spirit Turtle into using its Spirit Bond Sense talent.
• The Darkwater Spirit Turtle ultimately refused to become Chen Beiwu’s Companion Beast, then blocked his departure and demanded that he cook the Redblood Fish.
• Chen Beiwu negotiated payment for the meal, and the Darkwater Spirit Turtle agreed to let him choose one Spirit Fish from the Miniature Water Realm.
• The Darkwater Spirit Turtle stopped Chen Beiwu from choosing its treasured Rainbow-Horned Pomfret.
• Chen Beiwu noticed a plump, unusual Golden Scale, and Nine-Breath Chaos revealed its possible evolutions, including the Golden Dragon Carp.

Chen Beiwu traded Stone-in-the-Grass to the Darkwater Spirit Turtle for the variant Golden Scale and began contracting it, despite the difficulty and expense of raising it into a Golden Dragon Carp. He subdued the Golden Scale’s powerful resistance by borrowing a trace of Nine-Breath Chaos’s might.

• The Darkwater Spirit Turtle explained that the variant Golden Scale carried Golden-Horned Flood Dragon blood but was nearly impossible to raise into a flood dragon.
• Chen Beiwu offered Stone-in-the-Grass to the Darkwater Spirit Turtle, which accepted and handed him the Golden Scale.
• Chen Beiwu asked the Golden Scale to become his companion beast and began forming a Myriad Beast Mark.
• Guan Ange realized Chen Beiwu had chosen the Golden Scale and wondered how he could afford the rare metal essence qi it needed to advance.
• The Golden Scale resisted the Three Treasures Companion Seal with its immense divine sense, but Chen Beiwu used Nine-Breath Chaos’s aura to subdue it and complete the seal.

Chen Beiwu contracted a Golden Scale and named it Golden Egg, gaining an unusually powerful companion beast despite the doubts its care raised. After registering Golden Egg, he began refining its meridians, a process that could improve his spiritual root purity.

• Chen Beiwu named the Golden Scale Golden Egg and sensed its submission through their Companion Beast Seal.
• Han Liangcai learned that the Darkwater Spirit Turtle had given Chen Beiwu the Golden Scale in exchange for Stone-in-the-Grass, then traced the trade and found it had happened by coincidence.
• Chen Beiwu showed Golden Egg to Xu Ziqing and explained that he needed to feed it instead of accompanying her to Sulfur Reef Island.
• Chen Beiwu registered Golden Egg at the Spirit Beast Pavilion and bought a Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Chen Beiwu rented a cultivation chamber and began Three Meridians Refinement with Golden Egg to develop its origin, attribute, and method meridians.

Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg’s three meridians and discovered its exceptional spiritual roots, mystic-grade origin meridian, and two mutually reinforcing supreme-grade innate spirit arts. He realized his gamble on Golden Egg had paid off, while Golden Egg simply felt hungry again.

• Chen Beiwu found that Golden Egg’s mystic-grade origin meridian raised his water spiritual root purity to 82, equivalent to a heavenly spiritual root.
• Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg’s attribute meridian and discovered outstanding metal, wood, and water aptitudes that surpassed his own.
• Chen Beiwu found that Golden Egg had only ten years of cultivation but possessed the second-tier supreme-grade spirit art Flowing Golden Scales.
• Chen Beiwu discovered Golden Egg’s second supreme-grade spirit art, Sea Absorption, which could strengthen Flowing Golden Scales as the scales’ defense enhanced Sea Absorption.
• Chen Beiwu concluded that Golden Egg’s talents made his gamble worthwhile, while Golden Egg blinked and felt hungry again.

Chen Beiwu taught Golden Egg to use its Sea Absorption Spirit Art, raising its cultivation from ten to fifteen years. He searched for a cultivation method suited to them both and settled on the Qi Refining section of the All Arts Return to One Stream Jianmu Heavenly Scripture, but could not afford to buy it.

• Chen Beiwu gave Golden Egg Illusion Weasel Wolf meat and discovered that it did not know how to use its Sea Absorption Spirit Art.
• Chen Beiwu guided Golden Egg with his Divine Sense, and Golden Egg refined the reserves in its belly to raise its strength from ten to fifteen years of cultivation.
• Chen Beiwu put Golden Egg away and searched the Immortal Alliance Official Website for a suitable cultivation method.
• Chen Beiwu found the All Arts Return to One Stream Jianmu Heavenly Scripture and learned that its demanding requirements matched his and Golden Egg's wood and water spiritual roots.
• Chen Beiwu added the Qi Refining section of the scripture to his cart but did not purchase it because he could not afford it.

Chen Beiwu considered buying a heavenly-grade cultivation technique but lacked the Spirit Origin to afford it, so he planned to keep using the Ten Thousand Beasts Art while saving. Xu Ziqing arrived with a newly contracted Scarlet Flame Fox whose fortune appeared unusually strong, leaving Chen Beiwu surprised by her companion beast.

• Chen Beiwu read about the All Arts Converge Jianmu Heavenly Scripture and learned that flawless qi refining could forge a flawless dao foundation and bring exceptional opportunities.
• Chen Beiwu checked his balance of 753.28 Spirit Origin and decided not to settle for a lower-grade technique despite the cost.
• Chen Beiwu planned to explore the Southern Wild Region more quickly and use the Ten Thousand Beasts Art until he could afford the heavenly-grade scripture.
• Xu Ziqing and Sun Yajing arrived with senior female students, and Xu Ziqing carried a newly contracted Scarlet Flame Fox.
• Chen Beiwu assessed the Scarlet Flame Fox and noticed its pale orange fortune might reach the third tier.

Chen Beiwu left the Spirit Beast Pavilion after contracting Golden Egg and received an invitation from Guan Ange to work at his Immortal Flavor Pavilion. He hurried home to investigate whether the contract had changed his luck, where Chen Dong asked which companion beast he had chosen.

• Chen Beiwu declined Xu Ziqing’s invitation to look around and left the Spirit Beast Pavilion.
• Lin Yi invited Chen Beiwu to spar with his Flower Spirit Butterfly, but Chen Beiwu refused and walked out.
• Guan Ange invited Chen Beiwu to join the Guan Household, then offered him a part-time spirit-fish chef job at the Immortal Flavor Pavilion.
• Chen Beiwu accepted Guan Ange’s business card and hurried home to check whether contracting Golden Egg had affected his luck.
• Chen Dong asked Chen Beiwu which companion beast he had chosen as Iron Egg noticed the scent of water-attribute spirit beasts on him.

After contracting Golden Egg, Chen Beiwu discovered that it had changed his fortune, though it also brought dangerous calamity aura that he dispelled. He then traveled to Abysswall Market to seek ways to earn spirit stones, where the blatant abuse of weak cultivators revealed how harsh the Southern Wasteland was.

• Chen Beiwu told Chen Dong and Huang Xiaoling that Golden Egg was the companion beast best suited to him, and learned that his parents planned to visit Fallen Dragon Prefecture for his mother's treatment.
• Chen Beiwu found a strand of golden fortune and a powerful crimson calamity aura after contracting Golden Egg, then used Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion to reduce the calamity to gray ill luck.
• Chen Beiwu decided to exploit the differences between the two worlds to earn spirit stones and buy the All Arts Converge Jianmu Heavenly Scripture.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at Abysswall Market, a busy cultivation hub controlled by the Cloudsea Shen Household and backed by the Mirror Moon Palace.
• Chen Beiwu watched gatekeepers seize an exotic herb from a poor cultivator and curse another for offering spirit sand, then paid one spirit stone to enter the market.

Chen Beiwu toured Abysswall Market with the broker Wanwan to learn about its goods and prices, discovering how much more expensive and restricted cultivation legacies were in the Southern Wasteland than in the Immortal Alliance. After a day of scouting the shops without buying anything, he decided he had found a safe way to earn spirit stones.

• Chen Beiwu hired Wanwan to guide him through Abysswall Market and explain its customs and prices.
• At the Myriad Arts Pavilion, Chen Beiwu found that cultivation manuals sold for high prices despite being incomplete and flawed by Immortal Alliance standards.
• Wanwan explained that Foundation Establishment methods were rare and could cost thousands of spirit stones, while Chen Beiwu considered the danger of trying to sell one.
• Wanwan led Chen Beiwu through shops selling pills, magical artifacts, talismans, and formation disks, but he bought nothing.
• Chen Beiwu paid Wanwan one spirit stone and concluded that he had found the fastest and safest way to earn spirit stones.

Chen Beiwu arranged to buy phoenix yellow dendrobium from Wanwan, then rented a cave abode at Abysswall Market and began purifying Golden Egg’s demonic power. The chapter ended with Chen Beiwu preparing gold and purple coral stone to feed the hungry Golden Egg.

• Chen Beiwu asked Wanwan to procure a hundred jin of phoenix yellow dendrobium and paid her a spirit stone deposit.
• Wanwan met two rogue cultivators in an alley, avoided suspicion over her deal with Chen Beiwu, and watched them leave to target another cultivator.
• Chen Beiwu listened to the alley conversation with his divine sense, then rented a lower-grade cave abode for a week.
• Chen Beiwu used the Ten Thousand Beasts Art to cleanse Golden Egg’s demonic power and stabilize their companion beast contract.
• Golden Egg showed hunger, and Chen Beiwu took out half a jin of gold and two pieces of purple coral stone to feed it.

Chen Beiwu fed Golden Egg expensive purple coral stone, then traveled to Anyi County to collect phoenix yellow dendrobium and explore a Strange Fish Studio for a new way to earn spirit stones. He spotted an unusually cheap Jade Sword Fish and decided to buy it alive.

• Chen Beiwu fed Golden Egg gold and purple coral stone, helping the fish gain a year of cultivation and grow half a foot.
• Chen Beiwu traveled by Bixi Train to Anyi County and selected five miscellaneous-grade cultivation methods while on the train.
• Wanwan delivered excellent-quality phoenix yellow dendrobium to Chen Beiwu, and he paid her three spirit stones.
• Wanwan showed Chen Beiwu the Strange Fish Studio, where he noticed a Jade Sword Fish priced at only twenty spirit stones.
• Chen Beiwu asked the shop to pack the Jade Sword Fish alive.