Chapter Summaries

Chen Beiwu and Zhu Qiong were trapped in Sun Yuanqing’s grand formation, but Zhu Shaoyuan intervened and shattered it with his Golden Core Dharma Body. Chen Beiwu witnessed the power of a Dharma Body and realized that an awakened Companion Dharma Body could be key to Golden Egg’s future strength.

• Chen Beiwu sensed that Sun Yuanqing was a Golden Core True Person and stepped back, leaving Zhu Qiong to face him.
• Sun Yuanqing trapped Chen Beiwu, Zhu Qiong, and Golden Egg in the Thousand Cities Locking the Dragon Grand Formation, whose divine generals grew stronger over time.
• Golden Egg swallowed several divine generals while Zhu Qiong fought them, and Chen Beiwu warned that the formation’s core had to be found.
• As Golden Core-level divine generals appeared, Zhu Qiong crushed a Talisman and called for his father to save him.
• Zhu Shaoyuan defeated Ji Shaoyuan’s Thousand Tribulations Glazed Dharma Body, then manifested his own Dharma Body and shattered Sun Yuanqing’s formation.
• Chen Beiwu saw the power of the Golden Core Dharma Body and concluded that awakening a Companion Dharma Body could let Golden Egg contend with such strength.

The Heavy Gold Sect destroyed the Void-Gold Marrow deposit with a formation that unleashed a devastating Geng Metal storm, which Zhu Shaoyuan survived by suppressing it with his Dharma body. As the battle revealed a hidden Dragon Vein, Chen Beiwu’s Nine-Breath Chaos intercepted its Fortune Crimson Dragon, making him the battle’s greatest beneficiary.

• Zhu Shaoyuan broke Sun Yuanqing’s formation, but Ji Shaoyuan and Sun Yuanqing activated the Wu Earth Splitting-Gold Formation and detonated the Void-Gold Marrow deposit.
• Chen Beiwu and Zhu Qiong retreated as the Geng Metal storm swept through the battlefield, while Ji Shaoyuan and Sun Yuanqing escaped using the Heavenly Gang Chi-Dragon-Slaying Mace.
• Zhu Shaoyuan confronted and suppressed the storm, surviving with injuries as the mountain range became ruins.
• At the Heavy Gold Sect’s Sect Master's hall, Ji Shaoyuan reported the deposit’s destruction, and the Sect Master rejected Sun Yuanqing’s suggestion to kill the Mirror Moon Dao Child.
• Zhu Shaoyuan discovered that the upheaval had revealed a damaged hidden Dragon Vein, while Chen Beiwu saw its Fortune Crimson Dragon emerge.
• Chen Beiwu’s Nine-Breath Chaos intercepted the Fortune Crimson Dragon before it dissipated, making him the greatest winner of the battle.

After the war, Chen Beiwu learned how to use fortune and sought methods to locate Dragon Veins, while his actions unknowingly caused Shen Wanshan’s Golden Core breakthrough to fail. More than two months passed as Abysswall Market was rebuilt and the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s end-of-term assessment approached.

• Chen Beiwu entered Chaos Heaven and Earth, discovered he could use the Fortune Crimson Dragon to bless himself or his pets, and chose to bless Golden Egg, whose fortune took the dragon’s form.
• Chen Beiwu asked Yu Shuiyao about locating Dragon Veins, and she gave him the Mountain and River Dragon-Seeking Art and told him the sect offered missions to find Dragon Vein sites.
• Shen Wanshan’s Dragon Vein qi dispersed during his final Golden Core trial, causing his secret method to fail and leaving his remains in his cave abode.
• Chen Beiwu withdrew into cultivation, studied formation and beast-refining arts, and trained Golden Egg while unknowingly contributing to Shen Wanshan’s failure.
• Abysswall Market was rebuilt after more than two months, and the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s end-of-term assessment drew near.

Chen Beiwu studied the Five-Qi Vine and dragon-vein fortune, then considered testing Nine-Breath Chaos on the Mystic Spirit Lake’s Advancing Dragon Vein. He left the library for his final assessment, where Su Miao announced a spell-combat contest in the Strife Realm with rewards for winning and penalties for repeated losses.

• Chen Beiwu learned that the Five-Qi Vine could counter elemental opponents and control parasitic puppets, but his uneven spiritual roots meant he would need another way to gain its recognition.
• Chen Beiwu read about five forms of dragon-vein fortune and decided the Mystic Spirit Lake’s Advancing Dragon Vein could be a cautious test of whether Nine-Breath Chaos could seize fortune.
• Chen Beiwu encountered Yu Zhaohua in the library, then left with Golden Egg while Iron Egg remained behind; Yu Zhaohua wondered why he kept the disabled black dog as a companion beast.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at the final assessment with his classmates, who speculated about his chosen courses and cultivation level.
• Su Miao announced that students would fight projections of past Rising Stars in the Strife Realm, with three consecutive losses bringing a repeated year and five bringing expulsion, while three or five wins earned major rewards.

Chen Beiwu advanced through the Strife Realm’s prodigy projections with Golden Egg, winning four matches before facing Yu Zhaohua and her Flintrock Coiling Dragon. After their opening attacks left Yu unharmed and trapped Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg in a molten cage, Chen Beiwu prepared to fight all out.

• True Lord Su Miao explained the Strife Realm contest rules and sent the cultivators into the arena.
• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg defeated Li Jiashi’s projection with a single strike, then quickly won against two more opponents to earn three consecutive victories and a custom Third-Tier Dharma Treasure.
• Chen Beiwu defeated Shen Yuanbao’s projection by exploiting an opening and piercing Shen’s throat with an arrow.
• Yu Zhaohua’s projection appeared with her Flintrock Coiling Dragon, and Chen Beiwu recognized the beast’s overwhelming power.
• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg attacked Yu Zhaohua, but the Flintrock Coiling Dragon countered, and Chen Beiwu’s arrow failed to stop her projection.
• Yu Zhaohua and the Flintrock Coiling Dragon trapped Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg in a molten cage, and the two resolved to fight with everything they had.

Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg fought Yu Zhaohua’s Flintrock Coiling Dragon in the Strife Realm, using a transformed dragon body and illusions against its overwhelming power. The chapter ended with Chen Beiwu charging into a desperate battle, while Yu Zhaohua later faced his projection and considered the gulf between their backgrounds and resources.

• Chen Beiwu merged his heaven-bestowed landscape with Golden Egg, transforming him into a golden flood dragon that broke out of the lava cage.
• Golden Egg pierced the Flintrock Coiling Dragon’s heart, but its Molten Core Arcane Body regenerated around the injury and threatened to engulf him.
• Chen Beiwu’s Twelve Calamity Baleful Intent arrow met Yu Zhaohua’s Crimson Flame Glazed Shield, and the Flintrock Coiling Dragon unleashed its Flintrock Sword.
• Chen Beiwu used Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water to turn the Flintrock Sword against its caster, while Yu Zhaohua empowered the beast with thirty-six fire-attribute treasure arts.
• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg charged Yu Zhaohua and the Flintrock Coiling Dragon as their power neared collapse.
• Shen Yuanbao lost to Chen Beiwu’s projection, and Yu Zhaohua later studied Chen Beiwu’s projection before their own battle began.

After losing to Yu Zhaohua in the Strife Realm, Chen Beiwu passed the assessment and received permission to enter the Jade Purity Treasure Pavilion. He failed to gain the recognition of three third-tier dharma treasures and headed for the second floor to try again.

• Chen Beiwu recovered from his Strife Realm injuries and reflected on Yu Zhaohua's strength and his own need for a decisive offensive weapon.
• True Lord Su Miao announced the assessment results and offered Chen Beiwu entry to the Jade Purity Treasure Pavilion after his custom bow would take years to craft.
• Chen Beiwu visited the pavilion, where True Lord Xianyun explained its floors and gave him a Treasure Retrieval Token.
• Chen Beiwu considered the Azure Radiance Sword Pellet, Mars-Chasing Baleful Bow, and Azure Lotus Exquisite Pagoda, but all three rejected him because he had not formed a Golden Core.
• Chen Beiwu decided to search the pavilion's second floor for a dharma treasure that might accept him.

Chen Beiwu searched the Jade Purity Treasure Pavilion for a suitable dharma treasure, but the treasures he wanted either had already chosen another master or rejected him. On the ninth floor, he failed to resonate with the Heaven-Swallowing Sun-Moon Wheel and discovered a plain scrap of cloth marked by crimson good fortune.

• Chen Beiwu met Jiang Yan on the second floor, yielded the Nine-Dragon Three-Legged Cauldron he had examined, and learned about several suitable treasures.
• Chen Beiwu went to the seventh floor to seek the Demon-Slaying Spike, but Ye Xinya had already gained its recognition.
• Chen Beiwu encountered Yu Zhaohua on the ninth floor and learned that the Heaven-Swallowing Sun-Moon Wheel had not accepted him.
• Chen Beiwu tried the Five-Spine Sea-Splitting Treasure Halberd, but it rejected him because he was only at Foundation Establishment Peak.
• Chen Beiwu followed a trace of crimson good fortune into a side hall and picked up an unremarkable scrap of cloth.

Chen Beiwu discovered that the seemingly ordinary gray cloth held powerful fortune and learned it was the Heaven-Sweeping Cloak, a relic from the Primordial Chaos Dao Beast Sun-Devouring Divine Lord. He left the Jade Purity Treasure Pavilion with the cloak and a gift from True Lord Xianyun, while Golden Egg worried that Iron Egg might soon rival it.

• Chen Beiwu found that Golden Egg could not tear the gray cloth and chose it over a third-tier offensive Dharma Treasure because it contained Red Dragon Fortune.
• Yu Zhaohua questioned Chen Beiwu about choosing the cloth, and he later found that his Treasure Retrieval Token could not retrieve it.
• Chen Beiwu asked True Lord Xianyun about taking the cloth and correctly guessed that it could help a Companion Beast transform and evolve its bloodline.
• True Lord Xianyun revealed the cloth was the Heaven-Sweeping Cloak, made from ordinary fabric that had absorbed Dao resonance from the Primordial Chaos Dao Beast Sun-Devouring Divine Lord.
• True Lord Xianyun gave Chen Beiwu Purple Mansion Form-Condensing Sweet Wine and explained that the cloak could nurture a canine Companion Beast's bloodline toward a heavenly gang mysterious beast.
• Golden Egg worried that the cloak could help Iron Egg catch up to or surpass it.

Chen Beiwu used the Heaven-Waving Cloak to accelerate Iron Egg’s bloodline growth, then sought help from Yu Shuiyao to deal with a dangerous corpse-refining formation at Mystic Spirit Lake. He joined Zhu Qiong and Yun Yishu at the burial site and urged them to break the outer formations before confronting the corpse within.

• Chen Beiwu accepted the Heaven-Waving Cloak from True Lord Xianyun and decided to use it to improve Iron Egg’s bloodline; Yu Zhaohua reflected on Chen Beiwu as a future rival.
• Chen Beiwu put the cloak on Iron Egg, whose Dao Practice rose from 288 years to 415 years and whose dormant bloodline began to transform.
• Chen Beiwu asked Yu Shuiyao to help clear the evil cultivators at the Dragon Vein Spirit Lake, and she gave him a Jade Slip explaining how to break the Heavenly Coffin Three-Tribulation Corpse-Subduing Formation.
• Yu Shuiyao explained that Zhu Qiong’s Pure Yang cultivation made him suited to defeat the not-yet-complete Golden-Armored Corpse.
• Two days later, Chen Beiwu, Zhu Qiong, and Yun Yishu reached the burial chamber entrance at Mystic Spirit Lake, where Chen Beiwu proposed breaking the outer formations first.

Chen Beiwu and his companions battled Qian Buhuan’s corpse horde as they dismantled the formation, but Qian Buhuan emerged as a Golden-Armored Corpse and wounded Yun Yishu. The chapter ended with Qian Buhuan launching another attack while Yun Yishu struggled against corpse poison and her companions faced a choice between protecting her and fighting him.

• Chen Beiwu, Eldest Senior Sister, and Yun Yishu defeated three Silver-Armored Corpses sent to ambush them while continuing to dismantle the formation.
• Thirty-six Silver-Armored Corpses and thousands of Iron-Armored Corpses emerged, but Iron Egg and Zhu Qiong destroyed the horde with pure-yang fire.
• The formation gathered the corpse energy from the fallen horde, and Qian Buhuan broke out of the golden coffin as a Golden-Armored Corpse.
• Yun Yishu activated a formation disk and defensive talismans, but Qian Buhuan severed her left arm and poisoned her with corpse energy.
• Qian Buhuan vanished to attack again, forcing Chen Beiwu and Zhu Qiong to choose between protecting Yun Yishu and fighting him.

Chen Beiwu used the Jade Purity Demon-Subduing Profound Talisman to summon a towering Demon-Subduing Dharma Form and destroy Qian Buhuan, the Golden-Armored Corpse. He collected Qian Buhuan’s Corpse Core and Storage Ring as his injured companions watched in silence.

• Qian Buhuan attacked the injured Yun Yishu, and Zhu Qiong fought it with his Li Fire Twin Dragon Halberds while Chen Beiwu guarded her.
• Chen Beiwu refused to retreat without Yun Yishu and said Qian Buhuan would die there, despite the corpse’s attack on him.
• Qian Buhuan teleported behind Chen Beiwu and unleashed Golden Nether Corpse Flame, destroying Chen Beiwu’s Great Wilderness Calamity Needle as Golden Egg and Iron Egg tried to shield him.
• Chen Beiwu activated his Jade Purity Demon-Subduing Profound Talisman, summoning a vast Demon-Subduing Dharma Form that immobilized Qian Buhuan.
• The Demon-Subduing Dharma Form struck Qian Buhuan, annihilating its body and remnant soul; Chen Beiwu collected its Corpse Core and Storage Ring.

Chen Beiwu and his senior sisters explored Qian Buhuan’s tomb, collected its treasures, and returned to the sect, where Chen received substantial rewards and secured Shu You’s promotion to true disciple. After warning Shu You to stay within the sect, Chen returned alone to the burial chamber and prepared to use the nine-breath chaos to seize the Dragon Vein’s energy.

• Chen Beiwu’s senior sisters agreed to conceal the golden-armored corpse and his fourth-rank profound talisman, while he used the Corpse King Core’s powder to cure Yun Yishu’s corpse poison.
• Chen Beiwu and his senior sisters entered the tomb’s central chamber, found a damaged fourth-tier Profound-Gold Coffin, and searched the chamber before returning to Abysswall Market.
• The sect awarded Chen Beiwu the deputy hall master position in the Formation Hall, thirty thousand contribution points, and a Golden Tower Elixir; Elder Zheng also promoted Shu You to true disciple at Chen’s request.
• Chen Beiwu bought healing and cultivation pills for Yun Yishu and Zhu Qiong, then warned Shu You to remain in the sect because he foresaw danger around her.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the corpse-refining grounds alone, left guard duty to Golden Egg and Iron Egg, and began mobilizing the nine-breath chaos to seize the Dragon Vein’s energy.

Chen Beiwu tried to seize the golden fortune in the dragon vein while using a Vein-Collapsing Shuttle to destroy Qian Buhuan’s formation, then opened Qian Buhuan’s storage ring and discovered valuable materials and treasures. He found the Mountain-Splitting Blade, a powerful third-tier dharma treasure that immediately showed hostility toward him and his beasts.

• Chen Beiwu saw a golden fortune dragon in the dragon vein and decided to risk using Nine-Breath Chaos to seize its fortune.
• Chen Beiwu sent the Vein-Collapsing Shuttle into the dragon vein to undermine the damaged Heavenly Coffin Corpse-Suppressing Three-Tribulation Configuration and trigger a collapse.
• Chen Beiwu began refining Qian Buhuan’s storage ring while Golden Egg and Iron Egg waited beside him.
• Chen Beiwu examined Qian Buhuan’s cultivation records and discovered several valuable treasures, including dragon vein yin marrow and Yu'ou Chi Dragon essence blood.
• Chen Beiwu opened the weapon case and found the Mountain-Splitting Blade, which revealed its powerful pressure and locked its edges onto Chen Beiwu, Golden Egg, and Iron Egg.

Chen Beiwu destroyed the spirituality of Qian Buhuan’s Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Saber and let Golden Egg devour the treasure. After learning Qian Buhuan’s history from his diary, Chen Beiwu chose to destroy the corpse-refining formation rather than collapse the dragon vein, but detected something unusual within Chaos Heaven and Earth.

• Chen Beiwu used Golden Egg’s weapon transformation to overpower the Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Saber and annihilated its spirituality when it refused to submit.
• Golden Egg devoured the saber with the Sea Embracing Ten Thousand Rivers Treasure Art, beginning to refine the treasure as nourishment.
• Chen Beiwu read Qian Buhuan’s diary and learned how Qian had pursued longevity, sacrificed a fellow cultivator, and become a golden-armored corpse.
• Chen Beiwu recorded Qian Buhuan’s routes to the Eastern Land and the Heaven-Sent Sea Secret Realm, then reconsidered the risks of destroying the dragon vein.
• Chen Beiwu used the Vein-Collapsing Shuttle to destroy the Heavenly Coffin Three-Tribulation Corpse-Subduing Formation, freeing the dragon of fortune without collapsing the dragon vein.
• Chen Beiwu detected an unusual trace within Chaos Heaven and Earth.

Chen Beiwu discovered a safer way to gain fortune by protecting Dragon Veins, then helped Golden Egg and Iron Egg train while preparing Golden Egg to advance. After assisting Li Wan'er with her planned Golden Core breakthrough, Chen Beiwu cultivated five strands of Taiyi True Qi and became a half-step Golden Core with combat strength comparable to a Golden Core True Person.

• Chen Beiwu realized that protecting and ordering Dragon Veins could grant fortune, though more slowly and safely than destroying them.
• Two years later, Golden Egg and Iron Egg trained against the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape and lasted three breaths; Chen Beiwu encouraged their progress.
• Chen Beiwu received a Flood Dragon Transformation Pill from Li Wan'er and lent her a Tribulation-Fire Golden Shell for her planned Golden Core breakthrough.
• Chen Beiwu cultivated the Five Directions and Five Elders Taiyi Pill-Casting Method to major accomplishment, forming five strands of Taiyi True Qi and advancing his Water-Wood Dharma Body into a Hundred Rivers Dharma Body.
• Chen Beiwu judged himself an unprecedented half-step Golden Core, with combat strength comparable to a Golden Core True Person while his five strands of Taiyi True Qi lasted.

Chen Beiwu studied the Jade Purity Nine-Turn Primordial Origin Elixir Art while delaying Golden Core formation in hopes of condensing a Primordial Origin Golden Core. At a lecture, he suddenly comprehended the Heavenly Empyrean Silent Radiance God-Slaying Thorn, and True Lord Hunting Thunder asked whether he had a master.

• Chen Beiwu suppressed his Taiyi True Qi, strengthened his Divine Sense with Purple Mansion Image-Congealing Nectar, and began comprehending the Jade Purity Nine-Turn Primordial Origin Elixir Art.
• A month later, Chen Beiwu attended True Lord Hunting Thunder’s lecture on the Heavenly Empyrean Silent Radiance God-Slaying Thorn, drawing the interest of the Golden Core students and Si Yunyun.
• True Lord Hunting Thunder demonstrated the treasure art, and Chen Beiwu suddenly understood it well enough to form a crude God-Slaying Thorn with Golden Egg’s Divine Sense.
• True Lord Hunting Thunder interrupted Chen Beiwu’s sudden enlightenment to prevent harm to his Purple Mansion and Golden Egg, whose Divine Sense had nearly been drained.
• True Lord Hunting Thunder praised Chen Beiwu’s extraordinary comprehension and asked whether he had a master.

After learning that Chen Beiwu was Cave-Ming Everlasting True Venerable’s disciple, True Lord Hunting Thunder advised him about Golden Egg’s evolution, and Cave-Ming sent Jiang Chuan with treasures to help. Chen Beiwu returned to the Southern Wasteland and chose Cloud Dragon Marsh as the likely site for Golden Egg’s Flood Dragon Transformation.

• Chen Beiwu revealed that Cave-Ming Everlasting True Venerable was his master, changing how True Lord Hunting Thunder and the Golden Core True Persons regarded him.
• Chen Beiwu asked True Lord Hunting Thunder about Golden Egg’s Dragon Transformation, and Qin Zheng advised him to consult Cave-Ming about it.
• Cave-Ming sent Jiang Chuan to deliver a Dragon Vein Pill and Twin-Extreme Profound Flood Dragon marrow blood to Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu used the gifts to prepare Golden Egg’s evolution and teleported to the Southern Wasteland.
• Shu You gave Chen Beiwu details about three Dragon Vein waterways, and he set aside Dragon-Severing Gorge and Nine-Bend River before choosing Cloud Dragon Marsh.

Chen Beiwu obtained permission from Zhu Wuya to use Revealed Dragon Lake and received Golden Edge Chi Dragon essence blood for Golden Egg’s transformation. He brought Golden Egg to the Immortal Alliance, where it survived its tribulation and became a third-realm demon general, but its newly formed core was only equivalent to a third-grade golden core.

• Chen Beiwu divined that Revealed Dragon Lake was suitable for Golden Egg’s flood dragon transformation and returned to the Mirror Moon Sect to seek permission.
• Zhu Wuya recognized Chen Beiwu’s mastery of the Five Directions and Five Elders Taiyi Pill-Casting Method, granted him Revealed Dragon Lake, and gave him fourth-realm Golden Edge Chi Dragon essence blood.
• Chen Beiwu took Golden Egg to the Immortal Alliance and prepared it to break through under the Alliance’s rules.
• Golden Egg swallowed the Premium Flood Dragon Transformation Pill, shed its scales, formed an inner core, and drew a Two-Nine Heavenly Lightning Tribulation.
• Golden Egg swallowed eighteen bolts of tribulation lightning and advanced to a third-realm demon general, but found its core equivalent to only a third-grade golden core.

Golden Egg advanced to a third-realm demon general, gaining a powerful inner core and transformed innate treasure arts, while Chen Beiwu consolidated the strength flowing through their companion beast contract. At Revealed Dragon Lake, Chen Beiwu used his accumulated fortune and extensive preparations to begin Golden Egg’s flood dragon transformation.

• Golden Egg advanced to a third-realm demon general, grew larger and more imposing, and gained the ability to speak with Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu refined the power flowing back through their contract and examined Golden Egg’s improved spiritual roots, dao practice, and innate treasure arts.
• Shen Yuanbao and the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s elders speculated that Chen Beiwu aimed for an honorific golden core rather than forming an ordinary golden core.
• After Golden Egg mastered his new power, Chen Beiwu traveled with Golden Egg and Iron Egg to Revealed Dragon Lake and used three strands of orange fortune to produce golden fortune and a fortuitous encounter.
• Chen Beiwu prepared multiple methods and treasures for Golden Egg’s transformation, then Golden Egg plunged into Revealed Dragon Lake to begin it.