Chapter Summaries

Chen Beiwu bargained with Gu Yun Si over his half of a thousand-year marrow ginseng and sought Gu Yun Si’s heart-illuminating lotus. The two agreed to trade the ginseng and golden core formation insights for the lotus and five thousand contribution points, pending the insights being genuine.

• Chen Beiwu refused Gu Yun Si’s offers of contribution points and a Foundation Establishment Pill, insisting on exchanging the ginseng for a third-tier medicinal herb.
• Zhuang Xinya arrived and asked about the ginseng, but Chen Beiwu rejected her offer of a Spirit-Awakening Pill.
• Zhuang Xinya asked Gu Yun Si about his heart-illuminating lotus, and he named his price as thirty-five thousand contribution points or suitable alternatives.
• After Zhuang Xinya left, Gu Yun Si demanded the ginseng and an additional ten thousand contribution points for the lotus.
• Chen Beiwu offered golden core formation insights along with the ginseng in exchange for the lotus and five thousand contribution points, and Gu Yun Si agreed if the insights were genuine.

Chen Beiwu traded Core Formation insights with Gu Yun Si for the great mystery reflecting heart lotus, then requested the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art at the True Transmission Hall. There, Yu Shuxian recognized his exceptional talent, offered to take him as her disciple, and gave him the second level of Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water as a gift.

• Chen Beiwu swore Gu Yun Si to secrecy and exchanged Core Formation insights for the great mystery reflecting heart lotus.
• Gu Yun Si promised to post a bounty for five thousand contribution points and left Chen Beiwu a Message Transmission Talisman.
• Chen Beiwu traveled to the True Transmission Hall and waited while the Sect reviewed his request for the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art.
• Yu Shuxian questioned Chen Beiwu about choosing the difficult art, then offered to take him as her disciple when he said he had mastered the first level of Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water.
• Chen Beiwu refused to change masters, and Yu Shuxian gave him the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art jade slips and the second level of Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water.

Chen Beiwu received techniques from Yu Shuxian and returned to find Iron Egg thriving as an alchemist under Li Wan'er’s guidance. Li Wan'er revealed that Iron Egg’s paralysis might be linked to his alchemy talent and asked to take him as a nominal disciple.

• Yu Shuxian gave Chen Beiwu two technique jade slips, then reflected that Chen Zi'ang’s talent would best serve the Mirror Moon Sect.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Water Moon Secluded Abode and found a Message Transmission Talisman from his senior sister.
• In the Alchemy Side Hall, Iron Egg refined an Azure Heart Pill, astonishing the alchemists who watched him become a first-tier upper-grade alchemist in half a year.
• Iron Egg greeted Chen Beiwu, who noticed that the dog’s cultivation had reached forty-nine years and that Gu Chun possessed a jade-nourished spirit body.
• Li Wan'er told Chen Beiwu that Iron Egg’s paralyzed hind legs might be tied to his exceptional alchemy talent and asked to take him as a nominal disciple.

Chen Beiwu studied the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art, then used the Great Mystery Reflecting Heart Lotus to advance his visualization and improve his spiritual roots. He comprehended the secret art but could not yet use it to break through, since he still needed the right timing, terrain, and human harmony to establish a flawless foundation.

• Chen Beiwu entrusted Iron Egg to Senior Sister Wan'er for alchemy instruction before returning to his abode to study in seclusion.
• Chen Beiwu's first attempt at the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art injured him, so he stopped rather than risk damaging his cultivation foundation.
• Chen Beiwu consumed petals from the Great Mystery Reflecting Heart Lotus while practicing Great Mystery Guarding the One, reaching minor accomplishment and increasing his spiritual root purities.
• Chen Beiwu comprehended the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book and the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art, while his vastwood magic power and divine sense grew stronger.
• Chen Beiwu failed to reach flawless qi refining and learned that he needed favorable timing, terrain, and human harmony to use the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art for a breakthrough.

After two and a half months of seclusion, Chen Beiwu emerged with his Divine Sense greatly strengthened and learned that he had missed the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s registration deadline. He set off for Jade Purity City with Iron Egg, leaving the sect’s response to his late arrival uncertain.

• Chen Beiwu completed his seclusion, while Golden Egg gained fifty-two years of cultivation and Chen Beiwu condensed thirty-six drops of vastwood magic power.
• Chen Beiwu returned home and reassured his parents that he had not yet reached Foundation Establishment, though his Divine Sense had reached Foundation Establishment Peak strength.
• Chen Beiwu told Huang Xiaoling and Chen Dong that he had cultivated Great Mystery Guarding the One to minor accomplishment and could apply to the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven if the Jade Purity Immortal Sect revoked his admission.
• Chen Beiwu bought a train ticket to Jade Purity City and departed with Iron Egg to join the immortal sect in cultivation.
• On the Bixi Train, Chen Beiwu replied to messages from Xu Ziqing, Xu Lingling, and True Lord Jiang Chuan.

Chen Beiwu arrived at the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, where the Mountain Spirit explained his prospects for contracting a powerful companion beast and the mountain gate’s primordial origin ancestral qi. He climbed the nine thousand steps but received no ancestral qi baptism, leaving the Mountain Spirit disappointed.

• Chen Beiwu reached Jade Purity City and went to Jade Purity Mountain, where the Mountain Spirit appeared as an old tortoise and escorted him toward the sect.
• The Mountain Spirit told Chen Beiwu that he might qualify to contract a Fourth-Tier Mysterious Beast at Jade Purity, while his water-wood roots made mastering Pure Yang’s cultivation method unlikely.
• At the mountain gate, purple auspicious clouds surged as Chen Beiwu stepped forward, and the Mountain Spirit explained the gate’s chance to grant a baptism of primordial origin ancestral qi.
• Chen Beiwu climbed all nine thousand steps and increased the liquid magic power in his Dantian Qi Sea from thirty-six drops to thirty-eight, but received no baptism.
• The Mountain Spirit judged Chen Beiwu promising but not quite sufficient and vanished, disappointed that the Dao Venerable’s will had not noticed him.

Chen Beiwu registered at the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, received a modest cultivation residence, and chose courses and an instructor. A message from True Lord Jiang Chuan brought him to meet He Zhengyu, the sect’s Academic Department head and a Spirit Transformation Venerable.

• Feng Ya guided Chen Beiwu through registration, gave him a student ID, and showed him the remaining third-tier cultivation residence in Soaring Abode.
• Feng Ya explained that students could challenge others for better residences, while Chen Beiwu chose to wait until he advanced his cultivation.
• Chen Beiwu cleaned the residence, released Golden Egg, selected more than a dozen courses, and enrolled in Rainbow-Glow True Lord Su Miao’s course.
• After True Lord Jiang Chuan summoned him, Chen Beiwu visited the Teaching Department and met Academic Department head He Zhengyu.
• Chen Beiwu recognized that He Zhengyu’s position required him to be at least a Spirit Transformation Venerable.

Chen Beiwu chose the chance to contract a fourth-tier mysterious beast cub over using the Jade Dawn Bell to pursue flawless Qi Refining, then studied divination at the Immortal Sect Library. His repeated deductions revealed that he possessed an unrecorded Eastern Splendor dual extremes fate, though he remained uneasy about the result.

• He Zhengyu offered Chen Beiwu a choice between a fourth-tier mysterious beast cub and three strikes of the Jade Dawn Bell, and Chen Beiwu chose the beast cub.
• He Zhengyu gave Chen Beiwu a Jade Purity Token, while he and True Lord Jiang Chuan discussed Chen Beiwu's cultivation art and the Five-Qi Vine.
• Chen Beiwu went to the Immortal Sect Library to study divination techniques and learn about the Jade Purity Mountain Range.
• After ten days of study, Chen Beiwu used nine-breath chaos to deduce his fate and discovered that he carried both the Northern Black Emperor Seal and the Eastern Azure Emperor Seal.
• Chen Beiwu repeated the deduction three times, receiving the same result each time and wondering whether he had calculated his unusual fate correctly.

Chen Beiwu searched for a celestial phenomenon compatible with his fate and discovered that Myriad Stars Annihilation would descend in the Southern Wasteland later that year, giving him a chance to pursue flawless qi refining. He then left for the Formation Hall, while overhearing outer sect disciples discuss the Inner Sect Grand Competition.

• Chen Beiwu failed to divine a celestial phenomenon through the Immortal Alliance’s protective formation, so he consulted books and learned that most suitable phenomena would not appear for centuries or millennia.
• Chen Beiwu found the Earth-Rising Golden Udumbara, due in two years, and encountered Yu Zhaohua in the library, sensing her powerful Red Dragon Fortune.
• Chen Beiwu read about the powerful beasts of the Jade Purity Mountain Range and its sixth-tier dao beasts, then refocused on flawless qi refining.
• Chen Beiwu searched the Scripture Repository and found that Myriad Stars Annihilation would descend in the Southern Wasteland on the sixteenth day of the eleventh month that year.
• Chen Beiwu divined that the celestial phenomenon’s timing was reliable, ignored outer sect disciples’ discussion of Senior Brother Gu and the competition, and set off for the Formation Hall.

Chen Beiwu used the Myriad Stars Annihilation celestial phenomenon to break through Qi Refining and steal a strand of Heavenly Secrets Dao Resonance. He chose to fuse it with the Vast Wood Spirit and comprehended the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book, leaving his foundation tied to Golden Egg’s future transformation.

• Chen Beiwu asked Yun Yishu and True Lord Jiang Chuan for a Fourth-Tier Cave Abode to prepare for his breakthrough, and Jiang Chuan granted him one for a year.
• Yun Yishu found Chen Beiwu a cave abode with a low-grade fourth-tier spirit vein, which he rented for three thousand contribution points.
• On the day of Myriad Stars Annihilation, Chen Beiwu activated the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art, shattered his Twelve Earthly Branches Hidden Veins, and broke through the twelfth layer of Qi Refining.
• Chen Beiwu intercepted a strand of Heavenly Secrets Dao Resonance without pain and sensed that the Vast Wood Spirit could fuse with it to help him achieve flawless Qi Refining.
• Chen Beiwu chose the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book, witnessed the ancient Jianmu and the silver river of Heavenly Secrets, and comprehended the technique’s true meaning.
• Chen Beiwu saw the vision transform into golden dragon eyes and recognized them as a sign of Golden Egg’s future.

Chen Beiwu formed the Water-Wood Dharma Body, gaining immense magic power, longevity, and the Pine-Climbing Rain-Transforming mystic ability, while Golden Egg’s bloodline also advanced. After leaving seclusion, Chen Beiwu learned that his flawless Foundation Establishment had drawn the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s attention and earned him early privileges reserved for outstanding students.

• Chen Beiwu completed his Water-Wood Dharma Body and gained ninety-nine drops of flawless magic power, an eight-hundred-year lifespan, and the Pine-Climbing Rain-Transforming mystic ability.
• Golden Egg underwent the Heavenly Book’s baptism, growing nearly four zhang long as its scales and flood dragon bloodline strengthened.
• Huang Xiaoling received a call from her son and learned that Chen Beiwu had achieved flawless Foundation Establishment, while Chen Qin and Senior Hu praised his aptitude.
• True Lord Jiang Chuan examined Chen Beiwu at the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s Admissions Department and confirmed that he had formed his Dharma Body.
• True Lord Jiang Chuan told Chen Beiwu that flawless Foundation Establishment granted him some privileges of outstanding sect students ahead of time.

Chen Beiwu became a disciple of Cave-Ming Everlasting True Venerable after achieving flawless Foundation Establishment, and received an immortal-grade Core Formation art and a powerful talisman. After True Lord Jiang Chuan publicized his achievements, Chen Beiwu rose to third place on the Jade Purity Rising Stars Ranking, attracting the attention of the sect’s prodigies.

• True Lord Jiang Chuan contacted his master, who agreed to take Chen Beiwu as a disciple and pass down the Jade Purity Nine-Turn Primordial Origin Elixir Art once Chen achieved flawless Foundation Establishment.
• True Lord Jiang Chuan invited Chen Beiwu to become his fellow disciple and gave him the immortal-grade Core Formation art and a Jade Purity Demon-Subduing Profound Talisman.
• True Lord Jiang Chuan advised Chen Beiwu to wait until he reached Foundation Establishment peak before studying the art and told him about the five-qi vine.
• After Chen Beiwu left, True Lord Jiang Chuan added his details to the Jade Purity Rising Stars Ranking, moving him into third place.
• Jade Purity Immortal Sect students noticed Chen Beiwu’s flawless Foundation Establishment and Variant Golden Scale companion beast, and a beautiful female cultivator asked who had his contact information.

Chen Beiwu’s flawless foundation establishment spread his name throughout the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, drawing admiration and challenges from fellow prodigies. While Shen Yuanbao sent Ding Xu to challenge him, Chen Beiwu studied the Foundation Establishment Chapter of the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book and formed a greenwood spirit qi vortex, leaving Golden Egg bewildered.

• Shen Yuanbao told Ding Xu to challenge Chen Beiwu after Gu Xiao drew attention to Chen’s third-place ranking.
• News of Chen Beiwu’s flawless foundation establishment stirred admiration, ambition, and rivalry among Jade Purity Immortal Sect students.
• Yu Zhaohua dismissed Chen’s achievement as unworthy of her interest and fed her Flintrock Coiling Dragon while continuing to study a golden core art.
• Feng Ya told Chen that highborn female cultivators wanted his contact details, but he asked her to turn them all down.
• Chen studied the heavenly book’s Foundation Establishment Chapter under the One-Guarding Mirror and condensed a greenwood spirit qi vortex in his Dantian Qi Sea, while Golden Egg stood dazed.

Chen Beiwu attended Su Miao’s lecture on the Beast-Taming Shared-Perception Scenery Method and learned how cultivators forged its stages through their companion beasts. Su Miao revealed her Foundation Establishment scenery and implied that Chen Beiwu still needed to master the method’s initial threshold.

• Chen Beiwu guided Golden Egg through the Heavenly Book’s Foundation Establishment cultivation method until instinct helped it circulate the technique.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at Su Miao’s lecture, where older students discussed his reputation and Jiang Xiaojun considered challenging him.
• Su Miao explained how cultivators forged initial, middle, and final shared-perception sceneries by observing a companion beast’s form, nature, and heart.
• Chen Beiwu learned how shared-perception scenery strengthened companion beasts, enhanced cultivation, and made beast-assisted cultivation superior to ancient methods.
• Li Hang asked Su Miao about her Foundation Establishment scenery, and she described [Mirage Glow Conceives the Chi] before suggesting Chen Beiwu had yet to cross the method’s threshold.

True Lord Su Miao taught the students how to visualize their companion beasts’ true spirits and invited Chen Beiwu to demonstrate. Chen Beiwu created an unusual, incomplete Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate image, impressing Su Miao, who offered to take him as her true disciple, but he declined because he already served Cave-Ming Everlasting True Venerable.

• True Lord Su Miao explained how a cultivator could use a companion beast’s blood essence, divine sense, and magic power to visualize its true spirit.
• After other students practiced, True Lord Su Miao called Chen Beiwu forward, and he brought out Golden Egg.
• Chen Beiwu first visualized a Heaven-Piercing Jianmu, then transformed it into a celestial river where a golden figure leaped against the current and revealed dragon eyes.
• Chen Beiwu exhausted his divine sense before completing the Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate image, and True Lord Su Miao praised his creativity and offered to make him her true disciple.
• Chen Beiwu declined, telling True Lord Su Miao that his master was Cave-Ming Everlasting True Venerable.

Chen Beiwu practiced the Beast-Taming Shared-Perception Scenery Method and discovered it could slightly purify Golden Egg’s magic power. He then sought to compete for a True Disciple position, but Yun Yishu advised him to wait and hinted at Master’s Golden Core honorific.

• True Lord Sumiao ended her lesson after learning Chen Beiwu already had a master and told him he could apply to enter the Great Origin Heaven Realm at Foundation Establishment peak.
• Jiang Xiaojun challenged Chen Beiwu to a spar, but Chen Beiwu refused and used Treading the Void on Surging Waves to leave.
• Chen Beiwu spent ten days practicing the Beast-Taming Shared-Perception Scenery Method and used its embryonic diagram on Golden Egg, slightly purifying the companion beast’s magic power.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Southern Wasteland and told Yun Yishu he wanted to compete for a True Disciple position.
• Yun Yishu confirmed that Foundation Establishment Sequence Disciples could compete, learned Chen Beiwu had reached the middle stage, and advised him that there was no hurry before mentioning Master’s honorific.

After Chen Beiwu reached Foundation Establishment, Yun Yishu told him about Zhu Shaoyuan’s secret method for improving Core Formation chances and summoned their master. Zhu Shaoyuan congratulated Chen Beiwu, accepted his loyalty to the Mirror Moon Sect, and privately suspected that he carried the wisdom of a powerful reincarnated cultivator.

• Yun Yishu told Chen Beiwu that Zhu Shaoyuan would craft a custom Third-Tier Dharma Treasure for him if he gathered the materials, and that collecting them before Core Formation would qualify him for a secret technique.
• Yun Yishu explained that the Dao-Suppressing Furnace Artifact-Pill Method used a third-tier natal Dharma Treasure to improve Core Formation chances, especially when paired with a Golden Tower Elixir.
• Yun Yishu crushed a Jade Slip to report Chen Beiwu’s Foundation Establishment, and Zhu Shaoyuan’s Divine Sense Dharma Body appeared before them.
• Zhu Shaoyuan praised Chen Beiwu’s progress, said he would not probe his secrets, and asked how he regarded the Mirror Moon Sect.
• Chen Beiwu said the sect’s support had made his achievements possible, and Zhu Shaoyuan believed his sincerity.
• Zhu Shaoyuan noticed that Chen Beiwu’s divine sense approached the strength of a Golden Core True Person and suspected he was a reincarnated Nascent Soul True Lord or Spirit Transformation Venerable.

After rewarding Chen Zi'ang for reaching Foundation Establishment, Zhu Shaoyuan summoned him and Yun Yishu to the main peak with the sect’s two golden-bell tolls. There, the elders revealed that Foundation Establishment disciples would explore a perilous secret realm believed to hold Heavenly Evolution True Lord’s inheritance.

• Zhu Shaoyuan gave Chen Zi'ang a single-use magical treasure, a Core Formation method, and a message transmission talisman.
• Yun Yishu told Chen Zi'ang that Yu Shuiyao had planned to deal with a Third-Tier Golden-Armored Corpse, but the plan had been postponed.
• Two tolls of the golden bell summoned the sect’s Foundation Establishment cultivators to the main peak.
• Yu Shuiyao and Yu Zhaoli discussed the True Lord Secret Realm, its suspected inheritance, and the dangers facing the disciples entering it.
• Chen Zi'ang and Yun Yishu arrived at the Cultivation Plaza, where a Golden Core elder ordered the gathered cultivators to be silent.

Yu Zhaoli announced that Foundation Establishment disciples would enter the Heavenly Evolution True Realm to compete for a Nascent Soul True Lord’s legacy and receive lavish rewards. Chen Beiwu decided to enter, and Yun Yishu suggested he team up with Feng Yao while warning him about rival sects.

• Chen Beiwu saw ominous tribulation aura gathering over Yu Zhaoli as the elder emerged from the Elder Hall.
• Yu Zhaoli explained that the Heavenly Evolution True Realm had appeared and that disciples from the Five Great Sects would compete for the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk and other treasures.
• Yu Zhaoli promised major rewards to whoever obtained the legacy or a Nascent Soul Formation Mystic Pill, and opened registration to all Foundation Establishment disciples.
• Chen Beiwu considered entering the realm, reasoning that Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators could not enter and that he could defend himself with Golden Egg.
• Chen Beiwu invited Yun Yishu to join him, but she declined and recommended that he team up with Feng Yao.
• Yun Yishu warned Chen Beiwu to watch out for Flameburn Sect and Heavy Gold Sect cultivators, then sent a Message Transmission Talisman.

Chen Beiwu joined Feng Yao’s team of Mirror Moon disciples preparing to enter the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, though he sensed that calamity threatened them. The group boarded an Earthly Baleful Warship bound for the realm, while Yu Shuiyao recognized Chen Beiwu’s extraordinary divine sense.

• Feng Yao introduced Chen Beiwu to five fellow disciples and explained how their Spirit Rhinoceros Pills could help them regroup if they were transported to different locations.
• Chen Beiwu sensed dense calamity aura over Feng Yao and the other disciples, and suspected they would perish in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm.
• After a day, Chen Beiwu and the team boarded an Earthly Baleful Warship overseen by Yu Shuiyao.
• Yu Shuiyao detected Chen Beiwu’s divine sense, comparable to that of a Golden Core middle stage cultivator, and considered him a possible heir to Heavenly Evolution True Lord’s formation lineage.
• Yu Shuiyao activated the warship, and it set out on a five-day journey to the Heavenly Evolution True Realm.