Recaps

Chen Beiwu used a simulated lightning tribulation to train Golden Egg, then booked a Companion Beast battle to build its confidence. At Combat Platform Fifteen, Han Zheng and his Thunder-Needle Ferret faced Golden Egg just as the battle was about to begin.

• Chen Beiwu put Golden Egg through a high-power one-nine lightning tribulation, and its Flowing Golden Scales shielded it from harm.
• After Golden Egg endured nine thunderclaps, Chen Beiwu decided to find it an opponent and booked a solo Companion Beast battle.
• Han Zheng accepted the sparring match to earn Spirit Origin for medicine his Thunder-Needle Ferret needed to advance.
• At Combat Platform Fifteen, Han Zheng introduced his Thunder-Needle Ferret, whose lightning abilities could bind opponents and store lightning in its armor.
• Chen Beiwu brought out Golden Egg, and the Thunder-Needle Ferret stared at it eagerly despite Han Zheng's request to go easy.

Chen Beiwu’s Golden Egg faced Han Zheng’s Thunder-Needle Ferret in a sparring match, shrugging off its attacks before swallowing it whole with the Sea Absorption Spirit Art. Golden Egg spat the unconscious ferret back out, leaving Han Zheng to rush to its side.

• Han Zheng’s Thunder-Needle Ferret circled Golden Egg cautiously before striking with Wind-Thunder Blade, but the attack rebounded and injured its claws.
• The Thunder-Needle Ferret unleashed its accumulated lightning with Thunder Serpents Dance Wildly, while Chen Beiwu stopped Han Zheng from ending the sparring match.
• Golden Egg recalled the Tribulation Thunder Attack and Defense Testing Platform and used the Sea Absorption Spirit Art to swallow the lightning and the Thunder-Needle Ferret.
• Han Zheng rushed toward Golden Egg when his Companion Beast Contract connection vanished, and Chen Beiwu told Golden Egg to spit the ferret out.
• Golden Egg sneezed out the unconscious Thunder-Needle Ferret and innocently pointed toward it as Han Zheng looked anxiously to Chen Beiwu.

Chen Beiwu ended his sparring session with Han Zheng after Golden Egg defeated the Thunder-Needle Ferret, then searched for scarce spiritual supplies. When a seller tried to pass off diluted Queen Bee Honey, Chen Beiwu exposed the fraud and forced him to swallow the sample before the man offered a replacement batch.

• Chen Beiwu agreed to end the sparring after Golden Egg knocked the Thunder-Needle Ferret unconscious, and Han Zheng left with his Companion Beast.
• Chen Beiwu posted a request on the Myriad Spirits App for moonlight dewdrops and Green Vine Branches, then met a young seller offering Queen Bee Honey.
• Chen Beiwu inspected the honey and used his Divine Sense and magic power to reveal that ordinary Frost Jade Bee honey had been mixed into it.
• Chen Beiwu demanded that the seller eat the bottle after the seller's quality guarantee proved false.
• The seller swallowed the bottle, then offered Chen Beiwu two more bottles and claimed that their Queen Bee Honey was genuine.

Chen Beiwu exposed a counterfeit Queen Bee Honey scam, then began training Iron Egg and studying the Marsh Serpent Kan-Killing Formation. After a formation disk broke during his inscription attempt, he recognized that his understanding was sound but that he lacked the required materials and cultivation strength.

• Chen Beiwu bought two bottles of genuine Queen Bee Honey after catching the Natural Beekeeping Farm shopkeeper trying to pass off a counterfeit.
• Chen Beiwu gave Iron Egg the Sun-Swallowing Qi-Drinking Technique and explained that mastering it could help remedy Iron Egg's congenital paralysis.
• Chen Beiwu took Golden Egg and Iron Egg to Azure Frost Valley, angered a Frost Jade Bee King while investigating its hive, and escaped through the Ten Directions Gate.
• Chen Beiwu studied the Marsh Serpent Kan-Killing Formation and devised two possible variations, including one that could generate eighteen Marsh Abyss Serpents.
• Chen Beiwu inscribed eleven formation patterns before his Formation Disk broke, and he concluded that completing the Second-Tier formation required better materials and stronger Magic Power.

Li Lin brought a valuable snow-skin shark variant to the Mission Hall, where Ma Dongmei refused to accept it for the sect bounty and tried to steer her toward a less useful private bounty. Chen Beiwu bought the fish and gave Li Lin a way to contact him, then found a promising mission on the mission wall.

• Ma Dongmei rejected Li Lin's snow-skin shark variant as failing the sect mission requirements and offered her a private bounty instead.
• Chen Beiwu turned in queen bee honey and received eight hundred contribution points while Li Lin watched Ma Dongmei treat them differently.
• Chen Beiwu offered to buy Li Lin's fish, and Li Lin agreed to sell it for five hundred contribution points.
• Chen Beiwu arranged the purchase through a Mission Hall bounty, gave Li Lin a Message Transmission Talisman, and returned to the mission wall.
• Chen Beiwu noticed a mission awarding contribution points for transcribing cultivation methods verified by the Water-Moon Mirror.

Chen Beiwu transcribed the Clear Spring Heart-Nourishing Art and submitted it to the Mirror Moon Sect for contribution points, unaware that its unusual qualities caught the attention of Yu Shuiyao. Yu Shuiyao studied the method and suspected its creator was an eccentric Late Qi Refining cultivator, leaving open whether Chen Zi'ang had found or devised it.

• Chen Beiwu reviewed the sect's rewards for transcribing cultivation methods, chose the Clear Spring Heart-Nourishing Art, and copied its ten-thousand-character manual.
• Chen Beiwu submitted the method to Ma Dongmei at the Mission Hall, and she told him the True Transmission Hall would take seven to fifteen days to review it.
• Chen Beiwu left, intending to use the contribution points for cultivation resources for himself and Golden Egg.
• Yu Shuiyao reviewed messages in her cave abode and became intrigued by the Clear Spring Heart-Nourishing Art.
• Yu Shuiyao recognized the method's distinctive approach and reasoned that its founder was likely a Late Qi Refining cultivator, while judging that Chen Zi'ang probably obtained it through a fortuitous encounter rather than creating it himself.

Yu Shuiyao considered whether Chen Zi'ang had created the Clear Spring Heart-Nourishing Art himself, while Chen Beiwu received a large reward for transcribing it and took on a mission to complete another cultivation method. He spent most of his remaining Contribution Points on a Flood Dragon Blood Pill for Golden Egg and discovered that the pill carried a trace of Pill Resonance.

• Yu Shuiyao posted a high-paying mission to test whether Chen Zi'ang could complete a Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method, then returned to work on the Calamity Sea Dragon-Subduing Formation.
• Ma Dongmei gave Chen Beiwu 8,000 Contribution Points for his Clear Spring Heart-Nourishing Art transcription and offered him a mission to complete the Grand Void Star-Watching Art.
• Chen Beiwu accepted the cultivation-method mission and posted additional bounty missions for Moonheaven Dew and a Withered Thunder Branch, leaving him with 6,300 Contribution Points.
• Chen Beiwu exchanged 6,000 Contribution Points for a Flood Dragon Blood Pill intended for Golden Egg, leaving him with 300.
• Chen Beiwu examined the pill and was startled to find that it had developed a trace of Pill Resonance.

Chen Beiwu studied a divine sense art and watched Golden Egg practice several spells, then set it a goal of reaching forty-nine years of Dao practice before taking a Flood Dragon Blood Pill. He planned to use Foundation Establishment to help him achieve Flawless Qi Refining.

• Zhao Heng befriended Chen Beiwu by arranging for him to receive a Flood Dragon Blood Pill refined by Fairy Yun Wan.
• Chen Beiwu read the Grand Void Star-Watching Art and decided to keep practicing the Immortal Alliance's Great Mystery Guarding the One Meditation Method instead.
• Golden Egg demonstrated its progress with Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water, Scale-Blade Evasion, Water-Concealing Flow, and Water-Splitting Thorn.
• Chen Beiwu showed Golden Egg the Flood Dragon Blood Pill but told it to wait until its Dao practice reached forty-nine years before taking it.
• Chen Beiwu considered how rare Flawless Qi Refining was and planned to use Foundation Establishment to achieve it.

Chen Beiwu considered using two pills to help Golden Egg advance and then draw on the contract’s feedback to pursue flawless Qi Refining, but his plans were interrupted when Li Wan’er visited with a Mao-Day Treasure Chicken. After Li Wan’er demonstrated that the rooster could be frightened into laying eggs, she gave Chen Beiwu three and asked him to cook them.

• Chen Beiwu planned to combine the Flood Dragon Blood Pill and Spirit-Merging Pill to help Golden Egg advance, then use the contract’s feedback to attempt flawless Qi Refining.
• Li Wan’er arrived carrying a struggling Mao-Day Treasure Chicken and invited Chen Beiwu out for boiled eggs.
• Chen Beiwu welcomed Li Wan’er into his cave abode, where she explained that she had meant boiled eggs rather than Foundation Establishment Pills and mentioned the thirteenth layer of Qi Refining.
• Li Wan’er threatened the rooster until it laid three scarlet eggs, then let it escape as a ball of flame.
• Li Wan’er gave Chen Beiwu the eggs and asked him to boil them because she had enjoyed his cooking before.

Chen Beiwu cooked a feast of Mao Day Egg dishes for Li Wan'er, who loved the food and asked him to cook for her again. After she left, he contacted Yun Yishu, who was meeting with Jiang Yuyan over the Golden Tower Elixir.

• Chen Beiwu agreed to cook Li Wan'er's Treasure Chicken Eggs and warned that he could not guarantee the pure yang qi would remain intact.
• Chen Beiwu used Li Wan'er's second tier spirit rice and spirit spring water to prepare egg fried rice and other dishes, and Li Wan'er devoured the meal.
• Li Wan'er praised Chen Beiwu's cooking and arranged to ask him to cook eggs for her again.
• After Li Wan'er left, Chen Beiwu took out Senior Sister Yun's Message Transmission Talisman to ask about his questions.
• At Clear Heart Abode, Jiang Yuyan asked Yun Yishu for the Golden Tower Elixir, but Yun Yishu dismissed her and turned toward the newly appeared Message Transmission Talisman.

Jiang Yuyan tried to trade a Nascent Soul Formation technique for Yun Yishu’s Golden Tower Elixir share, but Yun refused. Yun then explained to Chen Beiwu the hidden thirteenth layer of Qi Refining and its immense costs, and he resolved to pursue it.

• Jiang Yuyan offered Yun Yishu an ancient technique to improve her chances of Nascent Soul Formation in exchange for Yun’s Golden Tower Elixirs, but Yun rejected the offer.
• Yun Yishu arrived at Chen Beiwu’s Water Moon Secluded Abode and asked what he understood about Qi Refining.
• Yun explained that the Five Great Sects concealed the upper layers of Qi Refining from rogue cultivators and described the benefits and resource costs of reaching the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth layers.
• Yun told Chen that most Sequence Disciples stopped at the tenth layer because further progress demanded too many resources and time, then asked whether he still wanted the thirteenth-layer cultivation method.
• Chen Beiwu firmly told Yun Yishu that he wanted to try.

Chen Beiwu learned about the Mirror Moon Sect’s secret Qi Refining methods and decided to focus on his immediate cultivation goals before returning to the Immortal Alliance to post a video. Meanwhile, Xu Lingling ended her seclusion and watched his popular account’s new video.

• Yun Yishu explained the Sect’s three secret foundation-laying methods and said the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art required Sequence Disciple status.
• Chen Beiwu learned that Yun Yishu had reached the Twelfth Layer of Qi Refining before Foundation Establishment and asked how to become a Sequence Disciple.
• After Yun Yishu left, Chen Beiwu decided to pursue the Ninth Layer and gather materials for the Heavenly Book · Qi Refining Chapter rather than chase the costly secret methods.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Immortal Alliance, found his Heavenly Origin Fishing Fortune Account had surpassed 200,000 followers, and filmed a new video.
• True Person Xu allowed Xu Lingling to leave seclusion, and she watched Chen Beiwu’s viral video and wondered why the fishing streamer was showcasing food.

Xu Lingling watched Chen Beiwu’s video before a message startled her into crushing her phone. At school, Chen Beiwu returned to class and shocked his teacher and classmates by revealing he had advanced to the eighth layer of Qi Refining.

• Xu Lingling watched Chen Beiwu clean, study talismans and formations, and catch a rare-looking spirit fish in his video.
• Xu Lingling received a message asking her to meet, accidentally crushed her phone, and replaced it with one from her Storage Ring.
• Wang Kui scolded High School Soaring Class Two and showed students a video of former students doing menial work.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at class, and Wang Kui noticed he had advanced to the eighth layer of Qi Refining.
• Liu Yan questioned Wang Kui’s judgment, but Chen Beiwu modestly said he had gained insights while studying independently.

Chen Beiwu showed his classmates that he had reached the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining, then left with Xu Lingling to thank her for helping his business. He gave her a mysterious gift, which revealed a familiar rainbow radiance when she opened it.

• Wang Kui dismissed class as the students focused on Chen Beiwu's breakthrough and crowded around him with questions.
• Chen Beiwu said he had used a Spirit-Nurturing Pill, and Li Jing rebuked classmates who doubted him.
• Xu Lingling arrived, and Chen Beiwu escaped the crowd by inviting her for a stroll and a meal.
• Chen Beiwu and Xu Lingling went to Li's Teahouse, where he handed her a thank-you gift.
• Xu Lingling opened the gift box and saw a familiar rainbow radiance.

Chen Beiwu and Xu Lingling ate at Li's Teahouse before the Demon-Capturing Guards raided a Blood Sacrifice Hideout in Far Sky County. After the threat was eliminated, Chen Beiwu walked Xu Lingling home, where they encountered a crowd gathered around a matchmaking event.

• Chen Beiwu explained the Jade Beauty Shark gift to Xu Lingling and showed her the Purple Flame Calyx the Purple Dendrobium Chamber of Commerce had brought as an apology.
• A Clever Ape served Chen Beiwu and Xu Lingling at Li's Teahouse, where Chen Beiwu wondered why the highly cultivated variant beast worked as a waiter.
• The Demon-Capturing Guards arrived in Far Sky County, and Tian Chang subdued a Second-Realm Lesser Demon while the Baleful-Suppressing Tigers surrounded it.
• Chen Beiwu and Xu Lingling waited for the danger to pass, then learned that the Law Enforcement Bureau had destroyed a Blood Sacrifice Hideout and captured Qing Niangzi.
• Chen Beiwu walked Xu Lingling home through Four Seasons Park, where she stopped to look at a crowd Chen Beiwu identified as people attending a matchmaking event.

Xu Lingling and Chen Beiwu discussed the risks hidden in two matchmaking notices, and Chen Beiwu declared he would rely on himself rather than marry into another family. After months of cultivation, he mastered the Illusory Mist Du Spirit Art and tested it on Golden Egg before a Message Transmission Talisman arrived at his cave abode.

• Xu Lingling examined a notice seeking a full-time househusband, and Chen Beiwu explained that its extreme conditions might conceal an unusual purpose or constitution.
• Xu Lingling asked about a female cultivator offering valuable gifts, and Chen Beiwu revealed she might be seeking a husband to take a family member's place in compulsory military service.
• Chen Beiwu told Xu Lingling he would be his own mountain, then ordered cultivation resources for Golden Egg and Iron Egg and went to the Southern Wasteland to cultivate.
• Several months later, Chen Beiwu used the Illusory Mist Du Spirit Art to frighten Golden Egg with an illusion of an Azure Jade Divine Dragon.
• Chen Beiwu stopped Golden Egg's water arrow at Iron Egg, then noticed a Message Transmission Talisman outside his cave abode.

Chen Beiwu obtained the Moonheaven Dew, exchanged contribution points for the Qi Refining Aperture Condensation Method, and began cultivating it. His sudden enlightenment affected Golden Egg as well, while Iron Egg watched in confusion.

• Chen Beiwu met Gu Chun, who offered the Moonheaven Dew in exchange for his help mediating with Shu You, but he refused and paid her contribution points instead.
• Chen Beiwu received 8,300 contribution points, spent 5,000 on the Qi Refining Aperture Condensation Method, and discovered that Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water was unavailable to him.
• Chen Beiwu studied the secret art and entered a state of self-forgetfulness as spiritual energy surged into him.
• Golden Egg sensed Chen Beiwu's resonance with heaven and earth and began to stir with magic power, while Iron Egg felt left out.

After a sudden enlightenment pushed Chen Beiwu to the peak of the ninth layer of Qi Refining, he examined Golden Egg’s progress and met Li Wan’er, who arrived with a rare Three-Colored Star Toad. He declined to pursue the toad or leave for the sea, while Li Wan’er invited him to help catch a giant loach.

• Chen Beiwu stopped cultivating after pain in his foot interrupted his sudden enlightenment, then used recovery pills to restore his depleted qi and blood.
• Golden Egg emerged from its own brief enlightenment, and Chen Beiwu discovered he had reached the peak of the ninth layer of Qi Refining and nearly opened the Deep Pool Acupoint.
• Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg’s technique meridian and found it had gained two basic Dao marks, bringing its total to forty-six.
• Li Wan’er visited Chen Beiwu carrying a Three-Colored Star Toad, a rare treasure beast raised by her master.
• Li Wan’er invited Chen Beiwu to Daxing Sea Island to catch a giant loach with the toad’s help, but he recognized the beast’s value and decided not to covet it.

Chen Beiwu and Li Wan'er searched the sea for a huge loach, but Chen Beiwu sensed a dangerous creature nearby and Li Wan'er exposed it. The creature's dragon-like pressure froze Chen Beiwu, and Li Wan'er identified it as a Great Hui nearing dragon transformation.

• Li Wan'er brought Chen Beiwu to Daxing Sea Island and used the Three-Colored Star Toad to track the large loach by its scale.
• Li Wan'er steered the Flying Boat deep underwater while the Three-Colored Star Toad followed the scale's scent.
• Chen Beiwu sensed a dangerous presence to the south and warned Li Wan'er, who blasted apart a coral reef to reveal a huge dark silhouette.
• The creature roared with overwhelming pressure, leaving Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg unable to move until its attention shifted.
• Li Wan'er helped Chen Beiwu up and told him the creature was a Great Hui nearing dragon transformation.

Li Wan'er defeated the Azure Python Blood Wyrm and brought its body back to Daxing Sea Island Beach to prepare it as food. She gave Chen Beiwu its valuable gallbladder, leaving him astonished by her generosity.

• Chen Beiwu recognized the giant hui as an Azure Python Blood Wyrm nearing dragon transformation and realized its oppressive aura had overwhelmed him.
• Li Wan'er attacked the beast with her Silver Hairpin, froze it with Ice Soul Treasure Needles, and cut it into four sections.
• Li Wan'er crushed the Azure Python Blood Wyrm's soul and had the Three-Colored Star Toad retrieve its frozen remains.
• Li Wan'er and Chen Beiwu returned to Daxing Sea Island Beach, where she asked him which cuts of the beast would taste best.
• Li Wan'er cut out the beast's heart-tip meat, spinal marrow meat, and Hui Gallbladder, then handed Chen Beiwu the valuable gallbladder.

Chen Beiwu and Li Wan'er prepared and feasted on the Great Hui, while Chen Beiwu used its spinal marrow to fuel an attempt to open the Deep Pool Acupoint. The chapter ended with Li Wan'er noticing his breakthrough attempt and the Three-Colored Star Toad doubting he would succeed.

• Li Wan'er gave Chen Beiwu the Hui Gallbladder and promised him extra Hui marrow, while the Three-Colored Star Toad accepted a ten-percent share of the Hui meat.
• Chen Beiwu cooked dozens of Hui dishes with Li Wan'er’s Heart-Drunk Brew, and Li Wan'er and the Three-Colored Star Toad quickly devoured most of the food.
• Chen Beiwu shared bone-tempering crispy meat with Golden Egg and Iron Egg, and Iron Egg offered him its portion before eating.
• Golden Egg copied Iron Egg’s gesture to prove its loyalty, and Chen Beiwu urged both beasts to cultivate and read fewer Southern Wasteland biographies.
• Chen Beiwu drank Wyrm Spinal Marrow soup and circulated the Qi Refining Aperture Condensation Method to try to open the Deep Pool Acupoint.
• Li Wan'er recognized that Chen Beiwu was attempting to reach the Tenth Layer of Qi Refining, while the Three-Colored Star Toad expected him to fail.

Chen Beiwu refined the Great Hui’s spinal marrow with Golden Egg’s help and broke through to the tenth layer of Qi Refining. He discovered that his body had already gained some leak-free traits, earlier than his cultivation method predicted.

• Golden Egg and Iron Egg struggled to contain the powerful qi and blood from eating Great Hui flesh, while Li Wan'er watched over Chen Beiwu and kept her Three-Revolution Qi-Origin Pill in reserve.
• Golden Egg finished refining the flesh and developed blood-colored, barb-shaped scales, then called to Chen Beiwu for help when Li Wan'er picked it up.
• Chen Beiwu realized he could combine his Qi Refining Aperture Condensation Method with the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book and Golden Egg's Sea Absorption talent to refine the spinal marrow essence.
• Golden Egg joined Chen Beiwu in refining the essence, calming the boiling magic power as Chen Beiwu's body healed and his Deep Pool Acupoint condensed.
• Chen Beiwu broke through to the tenth layer of Qi Refining and found that his body already possessed some leak-free traits.

After feasting on the Great Hui, Chen Beiwu and his companion beasts gained significant benefits, and he returned to the Mirror Moon Sect. Hoping to advance beyond the tenth layer of Qi Refining, he headed to the Formation Hall to seek a new way to earn sect contribution points.

• Chen Beiwu discovered that reaching the tenth layer of Qi Refining had strengthened his spirit seeds, while Golden Egg showed signs of absorbing the Azure Python Blood Wyrm’s Black Blood Scales talent.
• Chen Beiwu found that eating Great Hui flesh had increased Iron Egg’s potential, then agreed to cook more Hui flesh for Li Wan’er.
• After spending the day cooking, Chen Beiwu washed his Cold Pool Spirit Sword and returned to the Mirror Moon Sect with Li Wan’er.
• Three days later, Chen Beiwu realized that buying the sect’s advanced Qi Refining methods required more contribution points than he could readily earn.
• Chen Beiwu went to the Formation Hall, planning to use his Formation Dao skills to take exclusive missions, while Golden Egg attracted the attention of nearby disciples.

Chen Beiwu applied to join the Formation Hall and impressed Yun Yishu by completing its damaged-formation assessment almost immediately. The other applicants were still working when Sun Ying questioned whether he was truly finished.

• Chen Beiwu arrived at the Formation Hall and asked to join, where he met Zi Ling, Zhao Qingxue, the Burly Man, and Zhou Quan.
• Zi Ling explained the hall’s stipends, lectures, and formation missions, while Chen Beiwu said he was a first-tier formation master.
• Yun Yishu arrived and began the entrance assessment, instructing the applicants to repair identical damaged formation disks within one incense stick.
• Chen Beiwu identified the disk’s spirit pivot hubs and repaired its formation in one uninterrupted flow.
• Chen Beiwu handed in his disk while the others were still working, shocking them and prompting Sun Ying to ask if he had really finished.

Chen Beiwu impressed Yun Yishu by repairing the damaged formation with an unconventional design, earning a place in the Formation Hall. After the other candidates finished their assessments, Yun Yishu announced a formation-breaking test to determine their stipends, and Zhou Quan volunteered to enter first.

• Chen Beiwu declared that he had finished repairing the formation, and Yun Yishu examined his disk and congratulated him on joining the Formation Hall.
• Zhou Quan, Zi Ling, and Zhao Qingxue passed the repair assessment, while the burly man failed to finish before time ran out.
• Zhao Qingxue and Zhou Quan examined Chen Beiwu's disk and saw that he had added two formation pivot hubs.
• Yun Yishu announced that the second assessment would test how quickly candidates could escape Sun Ying's second-tier upper-grade maze formation, with their time determining their annual stipends.
• Zhou Quan volunteered to enter the maze formation first, hoping to impress Yun Yishu.