Recaps

Chen Beiwu used Orange Fortune with the Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability before the Immortal Alliance’s annual treasure pill sale. He successfully bought a Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill, leaving him excited by the apparent success of his wish but cautious about testing his luck again.

• Chen Beiwu prepared to conceal his rapid cultivation progress until Su Miao’s Cleansing Spirit Tune gave him an excuse to advance to the eleventh layer of Qi Refining.
• Chen Beiwu used one strand of Orange Fortune to create a fortuitous encounter and wished to buy a Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill or gain admission to one of the Thirteen Immortal Sects.
• Chen Beiwu failed to buy the Three Lights Meridian-Tempering Pill and the Taiyi Azure Netherworld Pill, but successfully ordered the Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill and paid 99,999 Spirit Origin.
• Chen Beiwu reflected that the purchase might have fulfilled his wish, then suppressed his urge to use Orange Fortune again to seek admission to the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.

With the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination retest approaching, Chen Beiwu weighed how to use his fortune and upgraded his combat equipment. He bought powerful gear for himself and Golden Egg, leaving his account with 17,624.28 spirit origin.

• Chen Beiwu considered whether his orange fortune had already triggered a fortuitous encounter and decided he would eventually use his divine ability to improve his chances of entering the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.
• Chen Beiwu browsed the Immortal Alliance Official Website for replacements for his conspicuous Southern Wasteland artifacts and chose the Twelve Earthly Branches Baleful Bow and its accompanying arrow art.
• Chen Beiwu bought the bow, arrow art, and Flowing Wind Boots, spending most of his savings on combat and movement upgrades.
• Chen Beiwu confirmed that Golden Egg liked the Water-Soul Jade Scale Armor and purchased it as spirit artifact prices began rising ahead of the retest.

Chen Beiwu traded a Third-Tier Incomplete Formation for Contribution Points and redeemed a Spirit-Merging Pill, then returned to the Southern Wasteland to inspect the Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill. Golden Egg and Iron Egg resisted the pill’s temptation, and Chen Beiwu warned Golden Egg that it could not be taken directly.

• Chen Beiwu rejected an offer of three hundred thousand Spirit Origin for his Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill and traveled to the Southern Wasteland.
• Chen Beiwu offered Yun Yishu a Third-Tier Incomplete Formation as collateral for a Contribution Point loan, and Yun Yishu agreed to buy it for ten thousand Contribution Points.
• Chen Beiwu redeemed a Spirit-Merging Pill at the Mysterious Pivot Hall, while Zhao Heng resolved to warn his subordinates not to offend him.
• Chen Beiwu received the Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill and returned to the Water Moon Secluded Abode to examine it.
• Golden Egg and Iron Egg resisted their instinct to seize the pill, and Chen Beiwu warned Golden Egg that it could not be taken directly.

Chen Beiwu treated Golden Egg with the Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill and demonstrated the first form of his newly acquired arrow art. That evening, he arrived at Cloud Sound Pavilion for Lady Su Miao’s performance, where a dragon’s roar interrupted his entrance.

• Chen Beiwu cut open Golden Egg’s neck and placed the Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill near its heart, and Golden Egg fell unconscious as the pill began strengthening its bloodline.
• Golden Egg woke the next day, and Chen Beiwu tested the Twelve Earthly Branches Baleful Bow by striking its tail with the Rat of the Earthly Branches arrow form.
• Chen Beiwu learned that Lady Su Miao would perform the Cleansing Spirit Tune at Cloud Sound Pavilion and went there using his invitation.
• A female cultivator began leading Chen Beiwu into Cloud Sound Pavilion, but a sudden dragon’s roar made him turn to look behind him.

Fang Yuchen, Chen Beiwu, and other cultivators gathered at Cloud Sound Pavilion for Su Miao’s Spirit Cleansing Banquet. As Su Miao began playing, she assessed the guests and found that most were distracted by her beauty rather than the music.

• Fang Yuchen arrived at Cloud Sound Pavilion in a carriage pulled by an Armored Earth Dragon and demanded to see the pavilion master, but Su Miao declined to meet him before her performance.
• Chen Beiwu entered the lotus-pond listening area, where Guan Anyong introduced himself and struck up a conversation with him.
• Xu Lingling arrived with Xu Ziqing, complaining that Chen Beiwu had not replied to her message.
• Su Miao prepared to perform the Cleansing Spirit Tune with the Thousand-Sound Illusion Fox, hoping the music would help her advance her cultivation.
• The Spirit Cleansing Banquet began, and Su Miao appeared behind the screens and played the zither; Chen Beiwu noticed that most guests seemed captivated by her looks.
• Su Miao surveyed the cultivators and judged that most could not withstand even the opening passage of her music.

At the Spirit Cleansing Banquet, Su Miao’s Cleansing Spirit Tune prompted Fang Yuchen and Chen Beiwu to achieve sudden enlightenment. Chen Beiwu emerged with a Water-Wood Dharma Body Prototype, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Su Miao transformed the Thousand-Sound Illusion Fox into a zither and played the Cleansing Spirit Tune, which left Chen Beiwu in sudden enlightenment.
• Golden Egg left Chen Beiwu’s Spirit Beast Pouch and guarded him while the music continued.
• Fang Yuchen revealed that he had broken through to Qi Refining Beyond the Limit and asked Su Miao whether he now qualified to marry her; she said he was not the only one to achieve sudden enlightenment.
• Su Miao pointed out Chen Beiwu, and Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing stood guard beside him as Golden Egg warned off the onlookers.
• Chen Beiwu awakened and released a terrifying Raging Tide Intent Aspect, while a green shoot appeared in his eyes, revealing his Water-Wood Dharma Body Prototype.

Chen Beiwu reached the qi refining beyond the limit realm after sudden enlightenment, drawing the attention of Fang Yuchen, Su Miao, Xu Lingling, and Xu Ziqing. Su Miao gave him Thunder-Patterned Wood to restore Golden Egg, and the chapter ended with her asking to exchange contact details.

• Fang Yuchen recognized that Chen Beiwu had condensed the embryonic form of a Dharma Body and greeted him courteously.
• Chen Beiwu realized that his sudden enlightenment had transformed his spirit seeds into the Vast Wood Spirit, and he wondered whether qi refining beyond the limit equaled the Southern Wasteland’s twelfth layer.
• Golden Egg collapsed after Chen Beiwu drew out his Azure Wood Spirit Seed, so Chen Beiwu thanked him and placed him in the Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Su Miao gave Chen Beiwu five-hundred-year-old Thunder-Patterned Wood to restore Golden Egg’s vitality, and Chen Beiwu accepted it.
• Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing each took a place beside Chen Beiwu, while Su Miao asked to exchange contact details.

Chen Beiwu left the Spirit Cleansing Banquet to cultivate and help Golden Egg recover, while news of his sudden enlightenment began to spread. The next morning, Huang Xiaoling heard a mother and daughter arguing at the market before a woman approached her by name.

• Fang Yuchen challenged Chen Beiwu to spar, but Chen declined and left the Cloud Sound Pavilion with Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing.
• Lin Wanqing approached Guan Yongan to ask for Chen Beiwu's contact details, leaving him speechless.
• Chen Beiwu told Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing that calls about his Yin-Yang Blood-Cleansing Pill had kept him from answering messages, then returned home to cultivate in seclusion.
• At Rongchuang Market, Huang Xiaoling overheard a mother scold her daughter for failing to advance in cultivation, and the daughter blamed her mother's refusal to give her ten Spirit Origin for a Clear Water Pill.
• A woman with a gentle voice asked Huang Xiaoling if she was Ms. Huang Xiaoling.

Lu Danya revealed Chen Beiwu’s extraordinary potential to Huang Xiaoling, while Han Liangcai began watching him as a possible hidden dragon. After returning from the Southern Wasteland, Chen Beiwu encouraged Golden Egg to dream of evolving into a true dragon and considered ways to help it transform.

• Lu Danya introduced herself to Huang Xiaoling and explained Chen Beiwu’s sudden enlightenment, talent, and marriage proposal, startling her.
• Han Liangcai heard reports about Chen Beiwu and decided to pay particular attention to him during the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination.
• Chen Beiwu returned home with Golden Egg after companion cultivation had restored his azure wood spirit seed and strengthened his clear vast spirit seed.
• Chen Beiwu showed Golden Egg images of flood dragons and a legendary true dragon, then described a path by which it might evolve into one.
• Chen Beiwu privately considered finding a dragon-vein lake in the Southern Wasteland where Golden Egg could attempt to transform into a flood dragon.

Chen Beiwu considered delaying Foundation Establishment so he could pursue flawless Qi Refining, then surprised his parents with his breakthrough. He returned to cultivation afterward to prepare for the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination preliminary test.

• Golden Egg agreed to follow Chen Beiwu’s instructions, and Chen Beiwu promised to find Iron Egg a suitable bloodline secret art.
• Chen Beiwu decided to consolidate his cultivation and pursue flawless Qi Refining rather than immediately use his liquid magic power to reach Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Beiwu’s parents learned he had achieved Qi Refining beyond the limit, and Huang Xiaoling told him she had not agreed to a marriage proposal on his behalf.
• Chen Beiwu searched for past Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination papers and learned he needed more than 750 academic points to qualify for the retest at an immortal sect.

Chen Beiwu completed the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination preliminary test and discussed his chances of entering the Five Great Grotto-Heavens with Xu Ziqing. He returned to the Mirror Moon Sect to ask Yun Yishu about advancing to the Twelfth Layer of Qi Refining, leaving her shocked by his cultivation progress.

• Chen Beiwu met Xu Ziqing at Shouhe No. 2 Middle School before the preliminary examination and they wished each other luck.
• Chen Beiwu took the written exams, answered an obscure question about Starvault Beast Armor, and estimated he had scored around 790 points.
• Chen Beiwu and Xu Ziqing discussed the sect retest, special recruitment, and the difficulty of entering the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.
• Chen Beiwu declined the farewell dinner and hurried to the Southern Wasteland to seek cultivation advice from Yun Yishu.
• Yun Yishu was astonished when Chen Beiwu clarified that he had reached the peak of the Eleventh Layer of Qi Refining and asked how to advance to the Twelfth.

Chen Beiwu learned that seven drops of liquid magic power were why he could not break through to the twelfth layer of Qi Refining, and Yun Yishu offered to arrange his entry as a sequence disciple. After identifying his incomplete formation as part of a Third-Tier Corpse-Refining Grand Formation guarding a Golden Core True Person’s remains, Yun Yishu planned to seek help from their master or Hall Master Yu, promising Chen Beiwu a share of the rewards.

• Chen Beiwu asked Yun Yishu why he could not complete the ultimate magic power circulating heaven cycle, and she explained that he needed at least eight drops of liquid magic power to attempt the breakthrough.
• Chen Beiwu thanked Yun Yishu for diagnosing his shortage of liquid magic power, and she offered to arrange for him to become a sequence disciple.
• Yun Yishu identified Chen Beiwu’s incomplete formation as part of a Third-Tier Corpse-Refining Grand Formation and deduced that the spirit lake held a Golden Core True Person’s remains and treasures.
• Chen Beiwu suggested informing their master, but Yun Yishu said he was away and proposed asking Hall Master Yu to investigate the formation.
• Yun Yishu reassured Chen Beiwu that Hall Master Yu was generous and promised his contribution could earn him third-tier precious medicinal herbs or a Third-Tier Dharma Treasure.

Li Wan'er asked Chen Beiwu to lend her Iron Egg as a furnace attendant while she refined pills, and offered him a Qi-Burning Pill as payment. Iron Egg became interested after Li Wan'er showed off a Golden Tower Elixir, and the chapter ended with the proposed arrangement still awaiting Chen Beiwu's approval.

• Li Wan'er arrived at Chen Beiwu's cave abode with a Green Banana-Leaf Feather Duck and asked him to cook it.
• Chen Beiwu prepared duck-blood vermicelli soup and crispy roast duck, then saved the duck's three medicinal feathers.
• Li Wan'er asked to borrow Iron Egg to watch her pill furnace while she refined pills, but Iron Egg initially pretended not to understand.
• Li Wan'er showed Iron Egg a Golden Tower Elixir and offered him a Qi-Burning Pill instead, prompting him to reconsider.
• Chen Beiwu cautioned Li Wan'er not to overpay Iron Egg, while Iron Egg showed interest in the offer.

Chen Beiwu visited the Alchemy Hall to check on Iron Egg and ask Li Wan'er for a Premium Blood-Calling Pill to help Golden Egg advance safely. Li Wan'er recognized his plan to combine it with other pills, while Chen Beiwu prepared to focus on cultivation before the College Entrance Examination retest.

• Chen Beiwu let Iron Egg accept a furnace-tending position with Li Wan'er, and Iron Egg agreed despite having to leave his master for half a year.
• Five days later, Iron Egg tended the Alchemy Hall’s pill furnaces and ate medicinal ingredients while the alchemists admired him.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at the Alchemy Hall, reunited with Iron Egg, and was escorted by Hall Master Sun to Li Wan'er’s alchemy room.
• Li Wan'er offered to teach Chen Beiwu alchemy, but he declined because he needed to cultivate for the upcoming College Entrance Examination retest.
• Chen Beiwu asked Li Wan'er for a Premium Blood-Calling Pill to combine with a Spirit-Merging Pill and a Flood Dragon Blood Pill for Golden Egg’s advancement.

Chen Beiwu reached the twelfth layer of Qi Refining with Golden Egg’s help, then returned to the Immortal Alliance and learned he had scored 807 points on the College Entrance Examination. He chose the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect as his first application and the Jade Floss Immortal Sect as his second.

• Chen Beiwu forced open all twelve earthly branches hidden meridians and completed the Seven-Turns Circulating Heaven Qi Refining Method’s major accomplishment, reaching the twelfth layer of Qi Refining.
• Chen Beiwu realized his Heavenly Book had not advanced to the twelfth level of flawless Qi Refining and decided to try exchanging for the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art.
• Chen Beiwu thanked the depleted Golden Egg for helping him cultivate and prepared to return to the Immortal Alliance after three months in seclusion.
• Chen Dong and Huang Xiaoling learned that Chen Beiwu had placed third in Far Sky County with 807 examination points.
• Chen Beiwu chose the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect as his first choice and the Jade Floss Immortal Sect as his backup.

Chen Beiwu arranged for Golden Egg to advance to the Second Realm in a third-tier cultivation room in the Immortal Alliance, hoping to awaken its bloodline during the breakthrough. The chapter ended with him reporting the planned advancement to avoid alarming the Law Enforcement Team.

• Chen Beiwu obtained a Blood-Calling Pill from Senior Sister Wan'er and gave it to Golden Egg before returning to the Immortal Alliance.
• Xu Lingling agreed to bring Xu Ziqing along to meet Chen Beiwu, who explained that Golden Egg was advancing to a second-realm lesser demon.
• Xu Lingling warned Chen Beiwu against advancing too quickly, and he recalled how Senior Zhang Yang had lost his chance at Golden Core.
• Xu Ziqing offered her mother's vacant third-tier cultivation room at Lanshan Cloud Residence, and Chen Beiwu paid one thousand Spirit Origin to rent it for two months.
• At the cultivation room, Chen Beiwu filed an application reporting Golden Egg's advancement so the One-Nine Lightning Tribulation would not alarm the Law Enforcement Team.

Chen Beiwu helped Golden Egg undergo a bloodline awakening and advance to the second realm, where Golden Egg transformed into a dragon-like beast. The breakthrough's feedback greatly strengthened Chen Beiwu, but he still found no path to flawless Qi Refining.

• Chen Beiwu fed Golden Egg the Flood Dragon Blood Pill and Spirit-Merging Pill, then guided him through the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book as his bloodline awakened.
• Golden Egg endured a red fire tribulation and emerged as a slender, golden, horned second-realm lesser demon with powerful flood dragon might.
• Golden Egg coiled affectionately around Chen Beiwu after he tested his strength against him.
• Chen Beiwu refined the power fed back through their companion beast contract, increasing his liquid magic power to twenty-one drops and his divine sense to sixty zhang.
• Chen Beiwu realized that Golden Egg's breakthrough had not given him a way to achieve flawless Qi Refining, and he examined Golden Egg's three meridians.

After Golden Egg advanced to the Second Realm, Chen Beiwu discovered its strengthened Five-Phases meridians and four new innate talents, including abilities that reflected and created illusions. He tested the talents and found that Golden Egg could conjure a convincing True Dragon, then noticed two third-tier treasure arts in its technique meridian.

• Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg’s meridians and found that its metal, wood, and water aptitudes had each increased by a point, while its technique meridian held ninety-nine years of Dao practice.
• Chen Beiwu discovered Golden Egg’s four new companion beast marks: Flood Dragon Might, Flowers in the Mist, Which Is Real, Which Is Illusory, and Ruyi.
• Chen Beiwu activated Flood Dragon Might and felt the powerful aura make Golden Egg fall to the ground in surprise.
• Golden Egg used Flowers in the Mist to reflect Chen Beiwu’s Water Prison Spell back at him.
• Golden Egg used Which Is Real, Which Is Illusory to make Chen Beiwu see and touch a lifelike True Dragon before his thought ended the illusion.
• Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg’s technique meridian and found two rays of treasure light that marked third-tier treasure arts.

Chen Beiwu learned that Golden Egg’s transformed talents were powerful third-tier treasure arts, then traveled with Xu Ziqing to Heavenly Blaze Prefecture for the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination retest. The journey began as Xu Ziqing worried about the long odds of entering one of the Thirteen Immortal Sects.

• Chen Beiwu inspected Golden Egg’s talents and found that Flowing Golden Scales had become the third-tier treasure art Gilded Gold Body, while Sea Absorption Talent had become Sea Embracing Ten Thousand Rivers.
• Chen Beiwu judged that Golden Egg might defeat Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators, put the beast away, and left the cultivation room.
• Xu Lingling teased Chen Beiwu about becoming a Rogue Person, and Xu Ziqing suggested leaving early for the College Entrance Examination retest; Chen Beiwu agreed to book train tickets.
• At Pingchen Township Railway Station, Chen Beiwu reassured his parents that he would enter an Immortal Sect and refused their offer to accompany him.
• Chen Beiwu and Xu Ziqing boarded the Bixi Train to Heavenly Blaze Prefecture, where Xu Ziqing voiced her anxiety about the retest and its very low admission rate.

Chen Beiwu arrived in Azure Firmament City, registered for the Immortal Alliance retest, and encountered Shen Qiong and the crimson fortune radiance surrounding Shen Zhaoxue. At the examination site, Chief Judge Jiang Chuan announced that examinees had to survive more than a month on Ugly Ape Planet, where falling in the upgraded Divine Void Realm carried serious risks.

• Chen Beiwu spotted Shen Zhaoxue's extraordinary crimson fortune and learned that she was a Peerless Heaven's Pride guaranteed admission by the Lunar Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Beiwu registered at the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect and received a temporary pass and admission ticket.
• At the retest, Chen Beiwu discovered that Shen Qiong was assigned to his examination room and looked forward to facing the other prodigies.
• Jiang Chuan announced that the examinees had to survive for more than a month on Ugly Ape Planet, where killing was permitted but outside aids were forbidden.
• Jiang Chuan warned that falling in the upgraded Divine Void Realm could cause death, a cultivation drop, severe divine sense damage, or a month-long coma.

Candidates entered the deadly Immortal Alliance retest on Ugly Ape Planet, where Chen Beiwu encountered enslaved farmers and Zheng Lan was killed by sniper fire. The observers assigned Zheng Lan a Lower Ding Grade as the assessment continued.

• The administrator warned that the retest had a fifty percent casualty rate, barred candidates from withdrawing, and opened the Divine Void Realm's guiding lights.
• Shen Qiong stepped forward to pursue the championship, and Chen Beiwu entered with the goal of earning the highest rating.
• Chen Beiwu arrived in a low-spiritual-qi mountain forest, concealed his aura with Golden Egg, and saw gray apes enslaving farmers.
• Zheng Lan killed five Ugly Apes and knocked out a sixth, but sniper fire broke through her barrier and killed her.
• The Golden Core True Persons judged Zheng Lan's performance incompetent and assigned her a Lower Ding Grade.

Chen Beiwu killed an Ugly Ape after discovering that it had a human infant’s remains in its lunch box, then resolved to fight the man-eating apes despite the risks to his survival mission. After he defeated an aircraft attack, Ugly Apes at a military base discussed the strange humans and the weapons they might use against them.

• Chen Beiwu found a severed infant’s limbs in an Ugly Ape’s lunch box and killed the ape with a kick.
• Chen Beiwu searched the ape’s remnant soul to learn about Ugly Ape Planet’s military and weapons.
• An aircraft attacked Chen Beiwu, but he caught and crushed its bullets before destroying it.
• At Silei City’s military base, a one-eyed Ugly Ape and a golden-haired Ugly Ape discussed the strange humans and the possibility of using weapons up to Three-Phase Bombs.

Chen Beiwu attacked the Silei City military base, killing or incapacitating most of its soldiers with Golden Egg’s Flood Dragon Might. The Ugly Apes fired their Energy Gatling Cannon and received a target-eliminated notice, but Ji Gang noticed that the white fog had not cleared.

• Gu Tie and Ji Gang planned to hypnotize Silei City’s commanders, Suan Luobu and Xie Shite, but an unexpected fog and an approaching attacker disrupted their infiltration.
• Chen Beiwu appeared above the base and used Flood Dragon Might to crush hundreds of Ape Soldiers and drive others into attacking their own forces.
• Suan Luobu activated the Energy Gatling Cannon while the remaining Ape Soldiers fired on Chen Beiwu with their armored vehicles.
• After the cannon stopped firing, the base received a target-eliminated notification, and Xie Shite celebrated while Suan Luobu remained uneasy.
• Gu Tie doubted that the weapons could have killed a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, and Ji Gang warned that the white fog was still present.

Chen Beiwu used an illusion to turn the base’s weapons against Silei City, then killed the Ape Soldiers in the Control Center and searched the Golden-Haired Ugly Ape’s memories. As the Immortal Alliance observers debated recruiting him, the New Ape Clan prepared to use thermonuclear weapons against the candidates.

• Chen Beiwu concealed himself with Illusory Mist Dusk, seized a Submachine Gun, and killed the Ape Soldiers in the Base Control Center.
• Chen Beiwu kicked Xie Shite into the screen, then searched his soul and learned how brutally humans were treated on Ugly Ape Planet.
• Pei Heng considered recruiting Chen Beiwu for the Jade Floss Immortal Sect, while Zhao Wuchen declared that the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect would claim him.
• Jiang Chuan noted that the candidates’ attacks were likely to hasten the Ugly Ape Tribe’s planned nuclear response.
• The Ape King showed the New Ape Clan leaders videos of the candidates destroying bases and proposed using thermonuclear weapons to kill them.

The Ape King authorized a global Three-Phase Bomb strike against the strange humans threatening the New Ape Clan. As Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi destroyed a military base, one bomb detonated nearby, leaving their fate uncertain.

• The Ape King decided to launch Three-Phase Bombs after the New Ape leadership accepted his proposal despite fears of mass casualties.
• The Ape King completed the launch verifications, and hundreds of Three-Phase Bombs lifted off toward their designated targets.
• At a northern military base, Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi slaughtered the Ape Soldiers and destroyed the base’s defenses.
• Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi sensed an approaching danger and tried to flee, but the threat kept growing.
• A Three-Phase Bomb detonated in the stratosphere, releasing extreme heat as Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi prepared their strongest defense.