Chapter Summaries

Chen Beiwu defeated Xu Ziqing by exploiting a weakness in her spellcasting and revealed his exceptional talent for mastering spells. Xu Ziqing gave him the costly Blazing Flame Pull spell, while the chapter left Chen Beiwu wary of the power her aristocratic family could wield.

• Chen Beiwu defeated Xu Ziqing by spotting the moment her magical power faltered as she changed Blazing Flame Pull variations.
• Xu Ziqing realized Chen Beiwu had mastered Water Shadow Convergence and challenged him to learn Blazing Flame Pull.
• Chen Beiwu explained that spells seemed easy to him after his long instruction in the Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion divine ability.
• Xu Ziqing gave Chen Beiwu a spell jade slip for Blazing Flame Pull, a valuable spell normally redeemed for five hundred low-grade spirit stones.
• Chen Beiwu accepted the gift and considered his cautious approach to Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling, whose cultivation families could pose a serious threat.

Chen Beiwu received valuable gifts from Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing, then decided to repay them and Teacher Li Jiacheng. He encouraged Iron Egg to learn a fire spell by presenting the jade slip as an ancient divine scripture, leaving the dog eagerly licking it to activate its instructions.

• Chen Beiwu recalled how his cousin Chen Xiuran disappeared after courting the daughters of two Golden Core lineages.
• Xu Lingling gave Chen Beiwu three Frostfall Pills, and Xu Ziqing teased her about her feelings for him before proposing they compete fairly.
• Chen Beiwu worried that accepting the gifts could cause trouble and resolved to give presents to Xu Ziqing, Xu Lingling, and Teacher Li Jiacheng in return.
• Chen Beiwu told Iron Egg that the jade slip contained the Heavenly Dog Swallowing the Sun Scripture and described the Blazing Flame Pull spell.
• Iron Egg agreed to learn the spell in exchange for a new split of the Jade-Scale Snake and began licking the jade slip to activate its instructions.

Chen Beiwu practiced the Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability and accumulated blue fortune, then gave Huang Xiaoling Frostfall Pills from Xu Lingling. Huang Xiaoling insisted he return them, and Chen Beiwu tried to persuade her that his cultivation prospects would let him repay the debt.

• Chen Beiwu used the Divine Ability’s first eight breaths to gather fortune and cultivate a thread of blue fortune, while Iron Egg watched in awe.
• Chen Beiwu found the Spirit Beast meat restored and felt relieved that his family had weathered its crisis.
• Chen Beiwu gave Huang Xiaoling the Frostfall Pills and said Xu Lingling had gifted them to him.
• Huang Xiaoling urged Chen Beiwu to return the costly pills because the family could not afford a debt to the Fallen Dragon Xu Household.
• Chen Beiwu claimed he could reach the eighth layer of Qi Refining in his second year of high school, but Huang Xiaoling refused to accept that as repayment.
• Chen Beiwu said he could reach the ninth layer before the college entrance examination and enter the Thirteen Immortal Sects.

Chen Beiwu explored the cultivation world with Iron Egg while balancing school and cultivation, then met the injured Lin Yu, who mistook him for a powerful senior and begged for help. He could not understand her language, leaving their first contact unresolved.

• Chen Beiwu persuaded Huang Xiaoling to let him keep the Frostfall Pill by agreeing to reach the eighth layer of Qi Refining before next September.
• Chen Beiwu and Iron Egg searched the mountains, finding three Jade-Scale Snakes and two first-tier exotic herbs.
• Chen Beiwu avoided Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing’s invitations during alchemy class and returned to the other world to explore.
• After a week of exploration, Chen Beiwu and Iron Egg killed a Blackstone Bear.
• Lin Yu approached Chen Beiwu with a wounded shoulder and begged him for help, but he could not understand her language.

Chen Beiwu pretended to abandon Lin Yu, then ambushed her and the bandit cultivators who had staged her distress. After killing Tong Yu, he vanished into the mist while Lin Yu and the scar-faced bandit remained alive.

• Lin Yu pleaded with Chen Beiwu for help as the scar-faced man and Tong Yu caught up with her, but Chen Beiwu kicked her hand away and withdrew into the forest with Iron Egg.
• Lin Yu dropped her act after Chen Beiwu left, and she and the two men considered chasing him but decided the risk was too great.
• Lin Yu sensed Chen Beiwu's ambush and dodged a water chain as his Water Prison Spell restrained Tong Yu and the scar-faced man.
• Iron Egg attacked Tong Yu, and Chen Beiwu shattered his defenses and killed him with water needles.
• Lin Yu urged the scar-faced man to attack and concealed a Soul-Seizing Nail while he launched lightning and fire talismans at Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu evaded the talisman attacks and disappeared into the mist, searching for Lin Yu and the scar-faced man.

Chen Beiwu killed the scarred brute with a water spell amplified by his modified Tide Array, then took Lin Yu’s belongings and had her record her language and writing system. He let her leave but Iron Egg killed her, and Chen Beiwu promised the dog a meaty bone for taking the blame.

• The scarred brute charged Chen Beiwu, who activated the Tide Array and killed him with an amplified Water Blade Talisman.
• Lin Yu surrendered her belongings and retrieved the storage pouches of Tong Yu and Zhong Shan at Chen Beiwu’s command.
• Chen Beiwu asked Lin Yu to record her language and writing system in a jade slip, then told her she could go.
• As Lin Yu tried to escape, Iron Egg blocked her with a Flame Hound and killed her with a pillar of flame after she summoned the Soul-Seizing Nail.
• Chen Beiwu scolded Iron Egg for disobeying, then promised him a big, meaty bone, and Iron Egg gladly accepted the blame.

Chen Beiwu collected the spoils from Lin Yu and her companions, then discovered a rare Stone-in-the-Grass while traveling through the mountains. When Mo Li was about to be bitten by a Five-Scarlet Snake, Chen Beiwu intervened and appeared before her.

• Chen Beiwu found Lin Yu dead from the backlash of her own Soul-Seizing Nail, sealed the artifact, and left the battlefield with Iron Egg.
• Chen Beiwu sorted the bandits’ meager spoils in a rocky cave and studied a jade slip because he could not read the pills’ labels.
• Chen Beiwu discovered Stone-in-the-Grass growing in a rock crevice and saw Mo Li gathering it nearby.
• A Five-Scarlet Snake attacked Mo Li, and her powder failed to stop it.
• Chen Beiwu saved Mo Li from the snake, and she opened her eyes to see him.

Chen Beiwu saved Mo Li from a Five-Scarlet Snake, bought the Stone-in-the-Grass from her, and followed her to Twin Rivers Village. He learned that her father was ill and offered to cure him, leaving Mo Li pleading for her father’s life.

• Chen Beiwu killed the Five-Scarlet Snake, then asked Mo Li about the herb and their surroundings in Southern Wilderness Language.
• Mo Li asked Chen Beiwu to leave the Blue-Crystal Exotic Herb to her so she could pay for her father’s treatment, and he gave her fifty taels of silver for it.
• Chen Beiwu dug up the Stone-in-the-Grass and asked Mo Li to lead him to Twin Rivers Village, where he learned about Waterside Mountain Town and the Marshland Kingdom.
• Mo Li brought Chen Beiwu to her home and asked him to help her buy medicine for her gaunt, bedridden father.
• Chen Beiwu said he could cure Mo Li’s father, and Mo Li offered him the silver and begged him to save her father.

Chen Beiwu bought medicine to treat Mo Li’s father and refused her repayment after curing him. Rumors spread through Twin Rivers Village that Chen Beiwu was an immortal, while the village schoolmaster denied that immortals existed.

• Chen Beiwu learned that Iron Egg could not cultivate properly at home and promised to take him somewhere with more spiritual energy.
• Chen Beiwu bought two doses of Wind-Expelling Powder and a sheet of Spirit-Testing Paper after rejecting the medicine shop’s low offer for second-tier spirit medicines.
• The next morning, Mo Li and her father knelt to thank Chen Beiwu, and he told her to keep the silver she had tried to return.
• Villagers in Twin Rivers Village began calling Chen Beiwu an immortal because of his strange habits and Old Mo’s recovery, while the village chief forbade anyone from disturbing him.
• A boy asked his schoolmaster whether immortals existed, and the schoolmaster insisted there were no immortals and told him to study.

Chen Beiwu studied the Southern Wild Region’s language and cultivation world, learning that rogue cultivators faced severe dangers while the Five Great Sects maintained limited order. He suspected the region’s cultivation philosophy made spell arts unusually powerful and decided to seek entry into the Mirror Moon Palace, believing his aptitude might qualify him.

• Chen Beiwu mastered the Southern Wilderness Language after spotting deliberate mistranslations in the jade slip.
• He read books about the Southern Wild Region and learned that its cultivation resources were abundant, but rogue cultivators lacked protection, inheritance, resources, spiritual land, and status.
• Chen Beiwu learned that the Mirror Moon Palace and four other major sects ruled the Earth Evolution Realm under Nascent Soul True Lords.
• He decided to inquire about joining the Mirror Moon Palace because the Southern Wild Region was too dangerous for an unaffiliated cultivator.
• Chen Beiwu compared the region’s spell-based cultivation philosophy with the Immortal Alliance’s beast-borrowing path and concluded that his spell arts were stronger because the local Great Dao favored them.
• Chen Beiwu believed his aptitude for spell arts could help him join one of the Five Great Sects.

Chen Beiwu left Mo Li after discovering her superior metal-element earth spiritual root and giving her a cultivation method and basic information about the cultivation world. At school, he learned that killing the Azure Thunder Tiger with a reversed formation would require a Foundation Establishment cultivator, prompting him to consider independent study so he could focus on cultivation.

• Chen Beiwu made Giant Strength, Lightness, and Iron Body talismans and left three for Mo Li before departing.
• Chen Beiwu tested Mo Li's spiritual root, discovered her superior metal-element earth spiritual root, and gave her the Metal Refining Art and a jade slip about the Southern Wild Region.
• Chen Beiwu left Mo Li, promising they might meet again if fate allowed.
• Chen Beiwu asked Teacher Zhao how a water-attribute formation could kill an Azure Thunder Tiger, and she explained that the Yin-Yang Reversal Formation required a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Chen Beiwu considered applying for independent study so he could focus on gaining cultivation resources and reaching Foundation Establishment.

Chen Beiwu and his classmates traveled to the Spirit Beast Pavilion to choose companion beasts, where Dean Lin advised them to select carefully. Chen Beiwu planned to explore Blackfall Island, and Xu Ziqing chose to accompany him.

• Xu Lingling envied Xu Ziqing and Chen Beiwu for their upcoming trip, and Chen Beiwu encouraged her by expressing confidence in her father.
• Chen Beiwu met his classmates at school, and Dean Lin transported the group to the Spirit Beast Pavilion by flying shuttle.
• Steward Wei issued the students jade slips that served as identification and passes, then allowed them to explore and choose their companion beasts.
• Xu Ziqing listed several fire-attribute beasts she planned to consider, while Chen Beiwu named three water-attribute beasts he wanted to inspect.
• Lin Yi invited Xu Ziqing to Sulfur Reef Island, but she declined and said she would accompany Chen Beiwu to Blackfall Island.

Chen Beiwu and Xu Ziqing visited Mystic Falls Island to choose a Companion Beast, where Chen tested several young Azure Spirit Newts. After their powerful clan patriarch appeared, Chen decided the newts’ timid disposition made them unsuitable and continued his search.

• Chen Beiwu and Xu Ziqing followed the jade slip’s directions to a lake where Azure Spirit Newts lived.
• When a white-robed cultivator failed to catch a young newt, Chen trapped five of them in a Water Prison Spell.
• A giant Azure Spirit Newt emerged from the lake, but Chen released the young unharmed and the adult returned beneath the water.
• Xu Ziqing warned that frightening the young newts could undermine their approval, while Chen judged their reluctance to resist as a sign of poor disposition.
• Chen ruled out Azure Spirit Newts as potential Companion Beasts.

Chen Beiwu searched several spirit-beast habitats for a companion beast but found none suitable before reaching Four Seas Lake. There, Golden Core True Person Han Liangcai offered him access to the Darkwater Spirit Turtles in exchange for a supposed token of fate, leaving Chen Beiwu and Xu Ziqing confused by his hint for spirit stones.

• Chen Beiwu rejected the Azure-Wave Spirit Carp at Jade-Horn Spring and decided to visit Four Seas Lake.
• Chen Beiwu and Xu Ziqing arrived at Four Seas Lake, where Han Liangcai approached them atop a Mysterious-Water Nether Turtle.
• Han Liangcai explained that outsiders needed a token and a fated connection to approach the Darkwater Spirit Turtles.
• Chen Beiwu realized Han Liangcai was hinting that he wanted spirit stones, while Xu Ziqing wondered why a Golden Core True Person would ask for them.
• Han Liangcai expressed surprise that Chen Beiwu had no fated connection on him, and the conversation stalled in awkward silence.

Han Liangcai gave Chen Beiwu a Mysterious-Water Nether Turtle shell fragment and suspected he might be Fallen Dragon Prefecture’s next hidden dragon. He planned to use his Yin-Yang Reincarnation Mirror to investigate the destinies of those connected to the spirit stones and search for the hidden dragon.

• Han Liangcai took Chen Beiwu’s spirit stone and gave him a shell fragment that would keep the young spirit turtles from hiding, while declining Xu Ziqing’s Spirit Origin card.
• Xu Ziqing chose to wait on shore, and Chen Beiwu entered Four Seas Lake with the fragment.
• Han Liangcai wondered whether Chen Beiwu could be Fallen Dragon Prefecture’s hidden dragon, while the Mysterious-Water Nether Turtle searched for the person who could help it advance to Demon King.
• Han Liangcai recalled how True Lord Still Abyss had been a previous hidden dragon with a northern heaven five qi destiny and endured five water-element tribulations.
• Han Liangcai revealed that he had gathered spirit stones to form karmic links and would use the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Mirror to find the hidden dragon’s destiny.

Chen Beiwu found a golden-fortune Darkwater Spirit Turtle hatchling and decided it would be his Companion Beast. As other cultivators gathered around the rare turtle, Guan Ange tried to win it with a Spirit Jade Carp, but the turtle wandered off unimpressed.

• Chen Beiwu found a crowd of Qi Refining cultivators trying to contract Darkwater Spirit Turtles, but none of the hatchlings had the orange fortune he expected.
• Chen Beiwu spotted a larger, pitch-black hatchling with golden fortune and resolved to make it his Companion Beast.
• Guan Ange rushed ahead to approach the variant turtle while Chen Beiwu held back after noticing the other cultivators’ reactions.
• Guan Ange offered the turtle one Spirit Jade Carp each month in exchange for becoming his Companion Beast.
• The Darkwater Spirit Turtle yawned and wandered away from Guan Ange’s offering.

Chen Beiwu learned that Darkwater Spirit Turtles chose companions through an innate sense of compatible fate patterns, and he felt confident his fortune could win the mutant turtle’s approval. The arrival of Lin Xinghe, a powerful clan heir, revealed that the turtle’s bloodline could secure entry to the Cavern Mystery Immortal Sect and the coveted position of First Seat.

• Guan Ange failed to attract the Darkwater Spirit Turtle with Spirit Jade Carp, and Chen Beiwu remained unsure how to win its approval.
• Guan Ange explained that Darkwater Spirit Turtles sensed compatible fate patterns and would approach suitable cultivators on their own.
• Chen Beiwu felt confident that his nine-breath chaos gave him exceptional fortune and could help him win over the turtle.
• A luxurious vessel brought Lin Xinghe and his Foundation Establishment steward to the lakebed, where Lin Xinghe approached the mutant turtle.
• Lin Xinghe recognized that the turtle’s unique bloodline offered entry to the Cavern Mystery Immortal Sect and a chance to become its First Seat, a position associated with Nascent Soul potential.

Lin Xinghe tried to win the Variant Spirit Turtle as his companion beast, but it rejected him for lack of spiritual resonance. He then offered it a drop of Fourth-Realm Demon King blood, leaving the turtle visibly tempted but undecided.

• Lin Xinghe introduced himself and asked the Variant Spirit Turtle to become his companion beast.
• The Variant Spirit Turtle examined Lin Xinghe but rejected him because their fates lacked spiritual resonance.
• Lin Xinghe revealed a jade box containing a drop of blood that Guan Ange identified as belonging to an Azure Waves Mysterious Softshell Turtle, a Fourth-Realm Demon King.
• Lin Xinghe offered the demon king blood in exchange for a companion beast contract, and the Variant Spirit Turtle hesitated at the valuable prize.

Lin Xinghe failed to win the Darkwater Spirit Turtle with Demon King Blood, and Chen Beiwu approached it to offer himself as its companion. The turtle dismissed Chen Beiwu as an ordinary cultivator, leaving his attempt unresolved.

• Lin Xinghe offered the Darkwater Spirit Turtle Demon King Blood, but it rejected the gift because it lacked the power of Demon King Essence Blood to restore its bloodline.
• Lin Xinghe departed after hiding his disappointment, while Guan Ange urged Chen Beiwu to try his luck.
• The Darkwater Spirit Turtle revealed a miniature water realm filled with rare Spirit Fish and four Third-Tier Treasure Fish, astonishing Guan Ange and Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu walked over to the turtle and introduced himself as a sixteen-year-old at the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining with outstanding talent.
• Chen Beiwu asked the Darkwater Spirit Turtle to become his Companion Beast, but it rolled its eyes and dismissed him as an ordinary, overconfident cultivator.

Chen Beiwu failed to win over the Darkwater Spirit Turtle through his fortune, but used descriptions of delicious fish dishes to persuade the turtle to let him choose a Spirit Fish as payment. He selected an unusual Golden Scale that Nine-Breath Chaos revealed had promising evolution paths, leaving him excited by its potential.

• Chen Beiwu described ways to prepare the Jade Marrow Carp and Redblood Fish, tempting the Darkwater Spirit Turtle into using its Spirit Bond Sense talent.
• The Darkwater Spirit Turtle ultimately refused to become Chen Beiwu’s Companion Beast, then blocked his departure and demanded that he cook the Redblood Fish.
• Chen Beiwu negotiated payment for the meal, and the Darkwater Spirit Turtle agreed to let him choose one Spirit Fish from the Miniature Water Realm.
• The Darkwater Spirit Turtle stopped Chen Beiwu from choosing its treasured Rainbow-Horned Pomfret.
• Chen Beiwu noticed a plump, unusual Golden Scale, and Nine-Breath Chaos revealed its possible evolutions, including the Golden Dragon Carp.