Recaps

Chen Beiwu entered the Six-Gate Heart-Confusing Formation and broke out in thirty divisions, faster than Zhou Quan and Hall Master Yun Yishu’s record. Yun Yishu named him a formation walker and took him to meet Hall Master Lin, leaving Zhou Quan bitter over the opportunity Chen had received.

• Zhou Quan broke the Six-Gate Heart-Confusing Formation in one quarter-hour and thirty divisions, earning qualification as a guard formation master.
• Chen Beiwu entered the formation and used a weakness in its range to escape in thirty divisions.
• Yun Yishu named Chen Beiwu a formation walker with an annual stipend of one thousand contribution points.
• Sun Ying asked how Chen Beiwu had broken the formation, and he answered that he had relied on intuition.
• Yun Yishu took Chen Beiwu to meet Hall Master Lin while Zhou Quan watched them leave with bitterness.

Chen Beiwu joined the Formation Hall and impressed Hall Master Lin with his formation skills, earning an appointment as a formation patrol envoy in the western Ten Thousand Desolate Sea Region. As he prepared to serve outside the sect, Yun Yishu gave him a protective formation and warned him about the dangers of the post.

• Yun Yishu questioned Chen Beiwu about his ambitions and urged him to focus on formation arts instead of beast taming, but he insisted the two paths could complement each other.
• Yun Yishu introduced Chen Beiwu to Hall Master Lin, who tested his formation knowledge and was impressed by his answers.
• Lin Zhiye offered Chen Beiwu a well-paid formation patrol envoy position developing subsidiary islands in the western Ten Thousand Desolate Sea Region, and Chen Beiwu accepted.
• Lin Zhiye tried to arrange a match between Chen Beiwu and his niece, but Yun Yishu helped him leave before he could be drawn into further introductions.
• Yun Yishu gave Chen Beiwu a modified Eight-Gate Mind-Confusing Formation for protection and explained that setting up a formation differed from activating one.

Chen Beiwu learned about Yu Shuiyao’s Illuminating Art before arriving at Qingsu Island as a Formation Patrol Envoy. There, he met the island’s officials and recognized Yu Pan’s hawk as a potentially valuable Heaven-Eyed Black Kite.

• Yun Yishu explained that Yu Shuiyao’s Illuminating Formation Disks let even cultivators without formation knowledge unleash weaker formations, but Chen Beiwu could not learn the art because he did not meet its requirements.
• Yun Yishu took Chen Beiwu to Qingsu Island, which the Mirror Moon Sect had built up into a prosperous cultivation island using grand formations.
• Lu Lei, Wei Bichun, Xiao Qing, and Yu Pan discussed the new envoy and learned that Chen Zi'ang was a disciple of True Person Zhu.
• Chen Beiwu and Yun Yishu arrived at Qingsu Market, where the four officials introduced themselves and bowed to Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu noticed the hawk on Yu Pan’s shoulder and suspected it was a Heaven-Eyed Black Kite, a powerful third-tier treasure beast.

Chen Beiwu recognized the immense potential of Yu Pan’s Heaven-Eyed Black Kite and entered the Sea-Gathering Island-Returning Grand Formation’s nexus with Yu Pan. Yu Pan and the kite considered attacking him, but the kite could neither judge his strength nor see through him, leaving Yu Pan to keep her options open.

• Chen Beiwu recalled the Heaven-Eyed Black Kite’s extraordinary bloodline and resolved to find a chance to secure it.
• Xiao Qing, Lu Lei, Wei Bichun, and Yu Pan each misread or assessed Chen Beiwu’s interest in Yu Pan according to their own plans.
• Lu Lei invited Chen Beiwu and Yun Yishu to dine; afterward Yun Yishu left Qingsu Island, and Chen Beiwu went with Yu Pan to the formation nexus.
• Yu Pan showed Chen Beiwu where the Sea-Gathering Island-Returning Grand Formation could be opened, and he used his Formation Patrol Envoy’s token to enter its nexus.
• Yu Pan asked the Heaven-Eyed Black Kite whether they could defeat Chen Beiwu, but it shook its head and admitted it could not see through him.
• Yu Pan decided she could abandon her search for the Flood Dragon’s corpse if necessary and earn merit through sect assignments instead.

Chen Beiwu inspected the Sea-Gathering Island-Returning Grand Formation while considering how to obtain Yu Pan’s Heaven-Eyed Black Kite, then learned that Qingsu Island’s leaders wanted him to overlook problems with the formations. He rejected their offer of fifteen thousand spirit stones, leaving the meeting tense.

• Chen Beiwu examined the grand formation’s nexus, and Golden Egg cultivated there while he considered how to acquire Yu Pan’s Heaven-Eyed Black Kite.
• Chen Beiwu finished inspecting the formation and met Yu Pan, who brought him to discuss an urgent matter with Shopkeeper Lu.
• At Drunken Fragrance Residence, Lu Lei and Xiao Qing privately asked Chen Beiwu to help negotiate, and he suspected the request concerned the grand formations.
• Lu Lei offered Chen Beiwu fifteen thousand low-grade spirit stones and recurring payments in exchange for overlooking the formation problems.
• Chen Beiwu refused the bribe, saying he could not betray the Sect, and the room’s atmosphere turned hostile.

Chen Beiwu accepted Lu Lei’s offer to stay out of Qingsu Island’s failing formations in exchange for fifty thousand Spirit Stones, then pretended to follow Xiao Qing to a private room. There, he revealed his deception by activating a formation, trapping Xiao Qing as Yu Pan recognized the Eight-Gate Mind-Confusing Formation.

• Xiao Qing tried to beguile Chen Beiwu, while Lu Lei presented the Withered Thunder Branch he sought as a bribe.
• Chen Beiwu demanded fifty thousand Spirit Stones to ignore the island’s formation problems, and Lu Lei agreed to pay.
• Chen Beiwu accepted Xiao Qing’s invitation to a private room, where she offered him twelve female cultivators.
• Lu Lei suspected Chen Beiwu was pretending to comply and planned to make him complicit through dual cultivation with Xiao Qing.
• Chen Beiwu activated a Green Jade Formation Disk, and Yu Pan recognized the Eight-Gate Mind-Confusing Formation as it trapped Xiao Qing.

Chen Beiwu escaped Qingsu Island after discovering that its officials had corrupted numerous Sea-Gathering Island-Returning Grand Formations. He sent Yun Yishu a report, and she prepared to act on the information.

• Yu Pan agreed to help Lu Lei break the Eight-Gate Mind-Confusing Formation and rescue the trapped cultivators.
• Chen Beiwu used formations and an illusion to briefly distract Xiao Qing, then escaped through the Ten Directions Gate before the formation collapsed.
• Lu Lei, Yu Pan, and Xiao Qing regrouped after Chen Beiwu fled, and Xiao Qing asked whether they should run.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at a crude cave abode and sent a message to his senior sister while studying Moonheaven Dew and the Withered Thunder Branch.
• Yun Yishu read Chen Beiwu's report about Lu Lei, bribery, and Qingsu Island's formations, then resolved to act.

Chen Beiwu used the Moonheaven Dew and Withered Thunder Branch to begin transforming his spirit seeds, learning that the process would take three to five years, then returned to the Mystic Spirit Lake with Golden Egg and Iron Egg. There, Golden Egg was caught off guard when a disguised Cliff Spider revealed itself as a venomous snake variant and coiled around it.

• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg refined the Moonheaven Dew and Withered Thunder Branch separately, restoring balance between the Clear Vast and Azure Wood Spirit Seeds.
• Chen Beiwu learned the transformation would take three to five years and considered whether mastering the Qi Refining Aperture Condensation Method could shorten it.
• Chen Beiwu kept away from the Sect while Senior Sister Yun dealt with the situation on Qingsu Island, then traveled with Golden Egg and Iron Egg to the Mystic Spirit Lake.
• Chen Beiwu spotted a spider with the foul odor of a snake and told Golden Egg to capture it alive.
• Golden Egg's Water Cannon drove the Cliff Spider into a rock crevice, where it revealed itself as a ghost-marked snake variant and trapped Golden Egg in its coils.

Chen Beiwu watched Golden Egg kill a Spider-Tailed Ghost-Faced Viper after its ambush failed against his tough scales, then encountered an injured Azure Thunder Tiger fleeing a Pei Xiao and his Sand-Swimming Falcon. As Chen Beiwu prepared to leave, the cornered tiger suddenly gathered the resolve to fight to the death.

• The Spider-Tailed Ghost-Faced Viper ambushed Golden Egg, but its fangs broke against his scales, and Golden Egg crushed it with a tail strike.
• Chen Beiwu reminded Golden Egg to use Divine Sense before fights, and Golden Egg obediently agreed.
• An injured Azure Thunder Tiger appeared, and Chen Beiwu hid with Golden Egg while readying the Ten Directions Gate.
• Chen Beiwu saw Pei Xiao and his Sand-Swimming Falcon pursue the tiger, using a falcon-taming method and earth attacks to wound it further.
• As Chen Beiwu prepared to teleport away, the Azure Thunder Tiger suddenly erupted with power and resolved to fight rather than submit.

Pei Xiao pursued the Azure Thunder Tiger to the Mystic Spirit Lake, where a formation helped the beast turn the fight around. After Pei Xiao wounded it with a powerful arrow, the tiger revealed a mutated innate talent and tore the Sand-Swimming Falcon in half.

• Pei Xiao shot the fleeing Azure Thunder Tiger with Spirit-Breaking Arrows, while Chen Beiwu secretly followed toward the Mystic Spirit Lake.
• At the lake, the Azure Thunder Tiger pretended to collapse, then used the local formation to slow Pei Xiao and the Sand-Swimming Falcon as its wound healed.
• The Azure Thunder Tiger attacked from above, and Pei Xiao and the Sand-Swimming Falcon crashed into the lake.
• Pei Xiao fired a talisman-wrapped arrow that blasted the Azure Thunder Tiger into a distant cliff, but the beast survived and revealed a mutated Thunder Wraith talent.
• The Azure Thunder Tiger caught the Sand-Swimming Falcon and tore it in half before Pei Xiao could act.

After defeating Pei Xiao, the badly wounded Azure Thunder Tiger was ambushed by Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg. The tiger killed Chen Beiwu with Thunder Wraith Entanglement, but an unseen attacker struck from behind and beheaded it.

• The Azure Thunder Tiger killed Pei Xiao after a fierce battle in the thunderstorm, though it suffered devastating injuries.
• Golden Egg sensed that the weakened tiger was near its limit and agreed to attack with Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu detonated the Fivefold Water-Locking Formation, but the Azure Thunder Tiger survived the explosion and struck at him and Golden Egg.
• Golden Egg endured the tiger’s attacks while Chen Beiwu used Water Blade Talismans to hold it off.
• The Azure Thunder Tiger burned its essence blood and used Thunder Wraith Entanglement, piercing Golden Egg and vaporizing Chen Beiwu.
• As the exhausted tiger collapsed, an unidentified attacker cut off its head with an ink-black Spirit Sword.

Chen Beiwu defeated the Azure Thunder Tiger, dealt with its lingering wraith, and recovered the valuable remains of the tiger and Sand-Swimming Falcon. He opened the Falcon-Riding Cultivator’s Storage Ring and discovered a fortune in spirit stones, artifacts, and sealed Jade Boxes.

• Chen Beiwu used the Soul-Seizing Nail to pin down the Azure Thunder Tiger’s Ghost Tiger before destroying its soul with the Cold Pool Spirit Sword.
• Chen Beiwu summoned Iron Egg, which cowered under the Thunder Tiger’s lingering might.
• Chen Beiwu processed the tiger and falcon corpses, then cooked their meat for himself, Golden Egg, and Iron Egg.
• Chen Beiwu refined the Falcon-Riding Cultivator’s Storage Ring and found over ten thousand low-grade spirit stones, fifty-six Middle-Grade Spirit Stones, support items, and three spirit artifacts.
• Chen Beiwu summoned three sealed Jade Boxes from the ring, recognizing them as likely containers for the cultivator’s treasured spirit medicines.

Chen Beiwu inspected the sealed treasures he had found, discovering dangerous Five-Pollution Earth Marrow, a lethal trap, and the marrow blood of a third-realm Rift-Splitting Golden Peng. He then examined the Windplume Pei Clan’s beast-taming manuals and identified a rusty bracelet as their Soul-Contract Lock.

• Chen Beiwu opened a jade box and found Five-Pollution Earth Marrow, which could strengthen earth-affiliated spirit beasts but also corrupt their souls.
• Golden Egg opened another box, triggering a burst of corrosive black mist that Chen Beiwu’s Tideborn Silk Armor blocked.
• Chen Beiwu cautiously opened the last box with the Cold Pool Spirit Sword and found the marrow blood of a third-realm Rift-Splitting Golden Peng.
• Chen Beiwu judged that the Golden Peng marrow blood could potentially advance a Sand-Swimming Falcon’s bloodline, though its metal affinity made it unsuitable for his own beasts.
• Chen Beiwu read the Windplume Pei Clan’s beast-taming manuals and recognized a rusty bracelet as the second-tier spiritual artifact Soul-Contract Lock, which restrained eagle demon beasts and punished betrayal.

Chen Beiwu tested the Spirit Lake’s formations, discovered how to cross them safely, and fought his way to the island’s ruined wooden house. He found remains seated on a meditation cushion inside, leaving their identity unknown.

• Chen Beiwu tested the Spirit Lake with branches and had Golden Egg catch a Grayrock Rat to investigate how the lake’s formation worked.
• The Grayrock Rat confirmed Chen Beiwu’s theory about the formations but fled from a Jade-Scale King Snake and froze in the lake.
• Chen Beiwu crossed the Spirit Lake with Golden Egg and killed the Jade-Scale King Snake, while Golden Egg swallowed its poisonous mist unharmed.
• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg killed two more Jade-Scale King Snakes near the ruined wooden house.
• Chen Beiwu entered the house and found remains seated on a meditation cushion.

Chen Beiwu searched Qian Yuan’s hut and learned that the dead cultivator had left incomplete inheritances and a final wish tied to the Yun Household. When Chen Beiwu broke the ward on Qian Yuan’s Storage Ring, a remnant soul attacked him, but he cut it down before Golden Egg could eat it.

• Chen Beiwu searched the hut’s drawer and found incomplete formation and artifact-refining manuals, along with the fourth-tier Ten Thousand Ghosts Soul-Devouring Formation.
• Chen Beiwu read Qian Yuan’s jade slip and learned that the Yun Household had destroyed Qian Yuan’s lineage, and that Qian Yuan had failed to reach his ancestor’s tomb or claim the Mountain-Splitting Blade.
• Chen Beiwu learned that Qian Yuan’s inheritances could be completed by using the blood and souls of the Yun Household’s direct descendants to undo the restriction on his Storage Ring.
• Chen Beiwu used Cold Pool to break the ward on Qian Yuan’s skeleton, then retreated when a ghostly remnant soul emerged and attacked.
• Chen Beiwu cleaved the remnant soul with Cold Pool and stopped Golden Egg from trying to eat it.

Chen Beiwu defeated the remnant soul in the wooden house, recovered its restricted Storage Ring, and discovered that Qian Yuan's ancestor's burial chamber was protected by a powerful heaven formation. After returning home, he declined his parents’ decision not to resume cultivation and went to school, where Teacher Zhao noticed his rapid progress.

• Chen Beiwu warned Golden Egg against devouring the Foundation Establishment remnant soul, and Golden Egg destroyed it with a Water-Splitting Blade.
• Chen Beiwu took the corpse's Storage Ring and concluded that a third-tier artifact refiner could break its restriction.
• Chen Beiwu studied the seven Northern Dipper-aligned steles outside the snake-filled burial chamber and recognized a dangerous third-tier-or-higher heaven formation, recording its layout instead of entering.
• At home, Chen Beiwu told Chen Dong and Huang Xiaoling he would livestream to revive sales and suggested they cultivate again, but they refused.
• Chen Beiwu went to Shouhe No. 2 Middle School, where Teacher Zhao noticed his rise from the eighth to the ninth layer of Qi Refining, and he asked to discuss formations at noon.

Chen Beiwu discussed cultivation, the College Entrance Examination, and possible sects with Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling. After learning about the exam’s survival trial and its evaluations, he left the chapter considering the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect or the Lunar Grotto-Heaven, while Xu Lingling proposed traveling together to take the exam.

• Chen Beiwu walked to the Senior High School Teaching Building with Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling, whose cultivation had fallen as she practiced the Nurturing Yang Method to improve her fire-attribute spirit root.
• Xu Ziqing explained that Senior Lin Yi had earned admission to the Cloud Crane Upper Sect after commanding his Flower Spirit Butterfly to kill a powerful Blood-Devouring Insect during the College Entrance Examination survival trial.
• Xu Ziqing described how the Immortal Alliance Unified College Entrance Examination evaluations corresponded to admission prospects at different sects, and explained the double grade-A requirement for applying to the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.
• Xu Ziqing asked Chen Beiwu which sect he planned to apply to, and he named the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect or the Lunar Grotto-Heaven.
• Xu Lingling proposed that she, Xu Ziqing, and Chen Beiwu travel together to take the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination, since she and Xu Ziqing planned to apply to the Heavenly Blaze Immortal Sect.

Zhao Changge examined Chen Beiwu’s incomplete formation and discovered it was a corpse-refining evil formation rather than a means of suppressing evil entities, warning him not to study it. After leaving the teahouse, Chen Beiwu declined Xu Lingling’s invitation and later asked Chen Qin where he could hear the Cleansing Spirit Tune.

• Chen Beiwu showed Zhao Changge an incomplete third-tier Heaven Formation he had found in a secondhand market, and she identified it as an ancient formation with limited reference value.
• As Zhao Changge explained the formation, she realized it was actually a third-tier corpse-refining evil formation that used the sun, moon, and stars to manifest the Purple Forbidden Enclosure Star Chart.
• Zhao Changge warned Chen Beiwu that studying the sinister formation would waste his time, and he agreed to stop.
• Xu Lingling invited Chen Beiwu to go fishing at Still Abyss Lake, but he declined and left; afterward, Xu Ziqing teased Xu Lingling about her feelings for him.
• Chen Beiwu encountered Chen Qin near their residential community and asked where he could hear the Cleansing Spirit Tune.

Chen Beiwu learned about the Cleansing Spirit Tune and joined a long waiting list to hear it, then resumed livestreaming and caught a valuable Jade-Pupil Salmon. When a viewer showed him an uncanny fish, Chen Beiwu offered to trade fish, leaving the exchange unresolved.

• Chen Qin explained the music establishments that performed the Cleansing Spirit Tune and recommended Cloud Sound Pavilion to Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Qin looked at a family photograph, then received a phone notification that caused her ears to turn into fox ears.
• Chen Beiwu booked a Cleansing Spirit Tune at Cloud Sound Pavilion and learned that the estimated wait was 24 months.
• Chen Beiwu resumed his livestream, caught a Jade-Pupil Salmon, and declined a viewer's offer to buy it.
• Guess Who I Am showed Chen Beiwu a strange fish, and Chen Beiwu proposed swapping it for the Jade-Pupil Salmon.

Chen Beiwu identified a fan’s bizarre catch as a Ferrying Fish and offered a trade, then pulled a suitcase of human remains from Still Abyss West Lake. He left the livestream task complete and worried that the lake’s staff would keep suspecting him.

• Chen Beiwu explained that the fan’s Ferrying Fish lived in places with heavy yin energy and could not be eaten, while its bones could help forge a Spirit Sword.
• The fan confirmed that an ancient battle had taken place near his fishing spot, and Chen Beiwu clarified the history of the Nanyan War.
• Chen Beiwu offered the fan either his Jade-Pupil Salmon without its eyes or one thousand Spirit Origin, and the fan chose the Spirit Origin.
• Two Foundation Establishment Cultivators watched Chen Beiwu, with the lake caretaker defending him against Old Master Sun’s suspicions.
• Chen Beiwu hooked a heavy suitcase, prompting livestream viewers to speculate that it contained human remains.
• Chen Beiwu noted that his yellowtail dendrobium sales task was complete and hoped his parents could sell their remaining dragonhead dendrobium.

Chen Beiwu returned to the Mirror Moon Sect after waiting half a year, hoping to uncover the full extent of corruption on Qingsu Island. Yun Yishu revealed that two Golden Core True Persons were suspected of backing the corrupt officials, while Yu Pan had confessed and returned her embezzled spirit stones.

• Chen Beiwu brought home a Jade-Pupil Salmon and explained that he had given its belly and back to Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling; at the Xu Residence, Xu Lingling admitted she worried he feared accepting her, while Xu Ziqing joked about threatening him.
• Chen Beiwu teleported to a remote island near Qingsu Island and retrieved Yun Yishu's Message Transmission Talisman after waiting more than half a year to avoid being tracked.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Mirror Moon Sect and asked Yun Yishu about the people backing Lu Lei and the other corrupt officials.
• Yun Yishu identified Li Yuanhua and Zhao Wuji, both deputy hall masters and Golden Core True Persons, as the Justice Hall's two suspects, but said there was not enough evidence to question them.
• Yun Yishu explained that Lu Lei, Wei Bichun, and Xiao Qing had fled, while Yu Pan confessed, provided intelligence, and surrendered ninety-seven thousand low-grade spirit stones to atone for her crimes.
• Chen Beiwu realized Yu Pan's limited knowledge had left the Justice Hall without enough information to pursue the senior figures, and regretted that his mission reward was only seven thousand contribution points.

Chen Beiwu learned that the three cultivators who had targeted him were dead, while Yu Pan remained imprisoned, and Yun Yishu explained how the Mirror Moon Sect’s powerful cliques protected their own. At the Marrow-Eroding Abyss, Chen Beiwu tried to buy Yu Pan’s Eagle Kite, but she offered to give him both the bird and herself if he married her as his dao companion.

• Yun Yishu told Chen Beiwu that Lu Lei and the other two cultivators were dead, and that Yu Pan was the only one still alive.
• Yun Yishu explained that sect factions had embezzled resources and that the higher-ups were protecting suspected accomplices Li Yuanhua and Zhao Wuji.
• Yun Yishu told Chen Beiwu not to worry about matters inside the sect and sent him to the Marrow-Eroding Abyss to discuss Yu Pan’s Eagle Kite.
• Chen Beiwu visited Yu Pan in her cell and offered up to 13,100 contribution points and 10,000 low-grade spirit stones for her Eagle Kite, Little Gray.
• Yu Pan refused to sell Little Gray, then proposed marrying Chen Beiwu as his dao companion in exchange for both herself and the Eagle Kite.

Chen Beiwu failed to obtain the Heaven-Eyed Black Kite after refusing Yu Pan’s demand to become dao companions, then spent his contribution points on the Seven-Turns Circulating Heaven Qi Refining Method. He returned to his cave abode to study it, but chose to focus first on advancing to the eleventh layer of Qi Refining.

• Chen Beiwu rejected Yu Pan’s condition of becoming dao companions, ending their negotiations over the Heaven-Eyed Black Kite.
• Li Renjie offered to arrange Yu Pan’s death in the Marrow-Eroding Abyss, but Chen Beiwu refused to harm a fellow sect member.
• Yun Yishu insisted that Li Renjie keep Yu Pan safe and wondered whether the barrier between Foundation Establishment and Golden Core could be crossed.
• Chen Beiwu chose to spend ten thousand Contribution Points on the Seven-Turns Circulating Heaven Qi Refining Method rather than redeem a Spirit-Merging Pill.
• Chen Beiwu studied the method’s Jade Slip, found it difficult to comprehend, and decided to concentrate on reaching the eleventh layer of Qi Refining first.

After two and a half years of secluded cultivation, Chen Beiwu broke through to the eleventh layer of Qi Refining and returned to school to prepare for the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination. He arrived at Shouhe No. 2 Middle School just as his homeroom teacher warned the class about its poor admissions record.

• Li Yuanhua handed over three Formation Hall Foundation Establishment Cultivators and volunteered for front-line duty, while Yu Pan refused Chen Beiwu's proposed trade.
• Golden Egg reached forty-nine years of Dao Practice, Iron Egg cultivated Devouring the Sun and Drinking Qi to minor accomplishment, and Chen Beiwu prepared to open another aperture.
• With Golden Egg's help, Chen Beiwu opened the Six Harmonies Apertures and advanced to the eleventh layer of Qi Refining, gaining a leak-free body.
• Chen Beiwu ended his seclusion and went to Shouhe No. 2 Middle School to collect his examination admission ticket.
• Chen Beiwu entered his fifth-year Soaring Class, where his classmates recognized him and Homeroom Teacher Wang Kui scolded them over the school's failure to place anyone in the Seventy-Nine Upper Sect the previous year.

Wang Kui announced that the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination would add a retest, but candidates had to sign a Life-and-Death Contract to take it. Chen Beiwu and Xu Ziqing signed, while Xu Lingling planned to pursue sect special recruitment, leaving the friends facing different paths into the sects.

• Wang Kui explained that the new retest could give candidates with a grade-B retest evaluation a chance to enter the Seventy-Nine Upper Sect despite receiving grade C in the final test.
• Wang Kui announced that candidates had to sign a Life-and-Death Contract to take the retest and final test, or withdraw and attend a Specialized Academy.
• Chen Beiwu confirmed that the examination reform was real, and Xu Lingling said she would likely withdraw and seek sect special recruitment.
• Xu Ziqing signed the contract, while Xu Lingling offered to ask her father for help and Xu Ziqing declined.
• Chen Beiwu also signed and reassured Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling that they could reach the Seventy-Nine Upper Sect and might even enter the Thirteen Immortal Sects.