Chapter Summaries

Chen Beiwu sought a Profound Elixir Master to refine Pure True Pills and Dao-Traveling Pills, and Yu Zhaohua sent him to Exquisite True Lord. Exquisite True Lord redirected him to Red Cloud True Lord, then proposed breeding Iron Egg with her Sun-Chasing Hound after noticing Iron Egg’s alchemical insight.

• Chen Beiwu sparred with Yu Zhaohua and asked her to recommend a trustworthy Profound Elixir Master.
• Yu Zhaohua gave Chen Beiwu a jade slip for Exquisite True Lord and learned that he had reached the Nascent Soul middle stage.
• Chen Beiwu traveled to Exquisite True Lord’s cave abode with Iron Egg and saw her valuable collection of medicines, materials, and pills.
• Exquisite True Lord declined to refine Chen Beiwu’s pills herself and gave him a jade slip for Red Cloud True Lord, who owed her a favor.
• Iron Egg spotted an error in Exquisite True Lord’s pill-refining method, and she offered Chen Beiwu a puppy from a pairing between Iron Egg and her Sun-Chasing Hound.

Chen Beiwu negotiated with Exquisite True Lord over pills and Iron Egg’s alchemy, and Iron Egg’s insight into her failed refinement impressed her. Chen Beiwu left with pills and an arrangement for Iron Egg to observe Exquisite True Lord refining, giving him a chance to learn.

• Exquisite True Lord proposed breeding Iron Egg with her Sun-Chasing Hound, but Chen Beiwu firmly refused.
• Chen Beiwu agreed to let Xuele help nourish Exquisite True Lord’s fifth-tier origin medicines, despite the risk that Xuele might steal some.
• Exquisite True Lord learned that Iron Egg was a self-taught fourth-tier lower-grade profound elixir master and tested his ability to identify ingredients and explain a failed batch.
• Iron Egg proposed that the refinement had failed because its timing was wrong, and Exquisite True Lord recognized the idea as worth testing.
• Exquisite True Lord offered to let Iron Egg tend the furnace and observe her refining, then gave Chen Beiwu four bottles of pills in exchange for the ox materials and promised four more within a hundred years.
• Chen Beiwu left satisfied, while Exquisite True Lord reflected on how talented cultivators could pursue the Dao even without hardship.

Chen Beiwu cultivated with Pure True Pills, helped Iron Egg and Golden Egg advance, and watched Exquisite True Lord begin refining Calamity-Deliverance Profound True Pills. After years of tending to the comatose Aji, Chen Beiwu finally saw Aji awaken, and Aji demanded to know what he wanted in return for the rescue.

• Chen Beiwu refined a Pure True Pill while cultivating with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling, then stopped their session so Iron Egg could honor an alchemy appointment.
• Chen Beiwu visited Aji in the Southern Wasteland to use his Primordial Origin profound ability, then returned to Exquisite Peak, where Exquisite True Lord began a lengthy refinement of Calamity-Deliverance Profound True Pills.
• Exquisite True Lord explained alchemy to Iron Egg and revealed that her pills would need more than a hundred years to finish; Chen Beiwu left without arranging a trade for his Calamity-Deliverance Lotus.
• Over the following years, Chen Beiwu refined Pure True Pills, Iron Egg advanced through two breakthroughs, and Golden Egg became a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Demon King.
• Chen Beiwu guided Chi Quan to a breakthrough and earned a reputation as the Great Enlightenment Immortal Master, then continued treating Aji, whose injuries improved while Aji remained unconscious.
• Aji finally opened his eyes and told Chen Beiwu that Aji had lost his dragon blood, an incomplete dragon soul, and most of his lifespan; when Chen Beiwu said their original agreement was fulfilled, Aji asked what Chen Beiwu wanted.

Chen Beiwu persuaded the badly injured Aji to form a companion beast contract by promising to help restore its bloodlines and cultivation. After examining Aji’s damaged meridians and discovering the traces of its former demon venerable power, Chen Beiwu prepared to attempt the secret art within twenty years.

• Chen Beiwu challenged Aji to seek revenge, but Aji dismissed him and soon fell unconscious from its severe soul and bodily injuries.
• Three days later, Aji awoke, sampled Chen Beiwu’s beast food, and offered him a Spirit Transformation opportunity in exchange for being allowed to leave.
• Chen Beiwu said he could help restore Aji to a fourth-realm demon king and proposed a companion beast contract, which Aji reluctantly accepted.
• Chen Beiwu formed the contract, and his Nascent Soul briefly saw the phantoms of the yin and yang true dragons tied to Aji’s bloodlines.
• Chen Beiwu examined Aji’s three meridians and learned that its origin meridian was severely damaged and its ten thousand years of Dao practice had dwindled to 156 years.
• Chen Beiwu stabilized Aji’s injuries and said he would prepare before performing the secret art, aiming to do so within twenty years.

Chen Beiwu secured Zhu Wuya’s approval to attack the Azure Spirit Sect and led a small force toward Huidan Market. There, he confronted Xu Chengxiu, who agreed to surrender the market and assist the Mirror Moon Sect before summoning his defenses.

• Chen Beiwu persuaded Zhu Wuya to support a campaign against the Azure Spirit Sect and requested eight hundred Waning Moon Dao Soldiers.
• Chen Beiwu ordered Shu You to defend Protectorate City and set out for Huidan Market with Jiang Yuyan, Yu Pan, Mo Li, and Wang Hao.
• Xu Chengxiu accepted the Azure Spirit Sect’s bounty to kill True Martial True Lord in exchange for pills and Huidan Market.
• Chen Beiwu appeared before Xu Chengxiu and demanded that he hand over Huidan Market.
• Xu Chengxiu offered the Qingtan Xu Household’s assistance and asked for peace, then summoned a profound treasure and prepared to defend himself.

Chen Beiwu killed Xu Chengxiu and attacked Danxin Pavilion, but his presence drew the attention of Huidan Market’s strongest cultivators. Surrounded by Thunderclap True Lord Lu Xian, Fire Lotus True Lord Yun Tianfang, and Crimson Refinement True Lord Guo Lu, Chen Beiwu revealed that he and his Demon Kings planned to seize the market and declared that his enemies were the ones surrounded.

• Chen Beiwu killed Xu Chengxiu with an undetected saber slash, then Golden Egg destroyed a black-robed cultivator who confronted them at Danxin Pavilion.
• Thunderclap True Lord Lu Xian arrived and challenged Chen Beiwu, while Golden Egg blocked Lu Xian’s lightning strike.
• Fire Lotus True Lord Yun Tianfang and Crimson Refinement True Lord Guo Lu joined Lu Xian, but Profound Omen True Lord Liu Yiwei refused to intervene.
• Chen Beiwu prepared to seize Huidan Market and gather purple qi, then raised the auras of Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele and told the three True Lords that they were surrounded.

Chen Beiwu and his companions faced three Nascent Soul True Lords at Huidan Market, where Lu Xian’s warning exposed the danger of Chen Beiwu’s illusions. The battle escalated as Lu Xian rescued Fire Lotus True Lord from Chen Beiwu’s devastating attack, then unleashed a lightning sword strike that Golden Egg blocked while Chen Beiwu counterattacked.

• Yun Tianfang, Lu Xian, and Guo Lu each chose an opponent among Chen Beiwu’s companions, while Xuele and Iron Egg prepared to face Guo Lu together.
• Fire Lotus True Lord attacked Chen Beiwu with a fire lotus, and Guo Lu struck her Blood Nascent Soul Drum, but Lu Xian detected Golden Egg’s illusion and destroyed the fire lotus with his sword.
• Lu Xian ordered Azure Spirit cultivators to withdraw from Huidan Market, while Guo Lu and Fire Lotus True Lord used methods to guard against illusions.
• Chen Beiwu teleported behind Fire Lotus True Lord and struck with the Profound Origin Return to Ruins Seal, but Lu Xian intercepted the attack and was forced back.
• Lu Xian unleashed a nine-bolt lightning sword strike, and Golden Egg blocked it with its Three-Aspect Indestructible Mystical Ability as Chen Beiwu countered with the Cavern Truth Calamity-Heaven Finger.

Chen Beiwu and his companions fought the Azure Spirit Sect’s True Lords at Huidan Market, where Iron Egg killed Fire Lotus True Lord and Xuele survived Crimson Refinement True Lord’s trap. Thunderclap True Lord then used the market’s formation to reach Nascent Soul Perfection and demanded Chen Beiwu surrender, but Chen Beiwu remained ready to fight.

• Iron Egg killed Fire Lotus True Lord with Ten Calamities Soul-Suppression, then collected his body and Profound Spear while Zhiling carried it to Chen Beiwu.
• Xuele stole Crimson Refinement True Lord’s Storage Ring and used its puppets to strike her, but Guo Lu trapped it inside a blood-filled domain with a bead.
• Chen Beiwu cut Guo Lu in half and destroyed her golden core, but his saber intent indicated that she was probably still alive; Xuele reappeared safely on his shoulder.
• Lu Xian summoned the Eight-Direction Heavenly Circuit Lightning-Inducing Profound Formation and used Thunder-Inducing, God-Summoning to reach Nascent Soul Perfection at the cost of a hundred years of lifespan.
• Thunderclap True Lord offered to spare Chen Zi'ang if he surrendered, while Chen Beiwu remained prepared to resist.

Chen Beiwu fought True Lord Leiming, whose Azure Thunder Sword and Eight Directions Divine Thunder overwhelmed him until Chen Beiwu used the Three-Scenery Wisdom Light and Dharma Form True Spirit to trap him in the Primordial Origin Dharma Form. Yu Shuiyao then helped seal Huidan Market and prepared to reinforce Chen Beiwu, who hoped to capture or kill Leiming before his burst technique ended.

• True Lord Leiming struck Chen Beiwu with the Eight Directions Divine Thunder, but Chen Beiwu and his spirit companions resisted and entered the Myriad Spirits Calamity Transformation state.
• True Lord Leiming outmatched Chen Beiwu in speed and power, breaking through his defenses and leaving him badly wounded.
• Chen Beiwu summoned his Primordial Origin Dharma Form, then used the Three-Scenery Wisdom Light and Dharma Form True Spirit to suppress True Lord Leiming.
• Liu Yiwei left the market after sensing that Chen Beiwu might defeat and capture True Lord Leiming.
• Yu Shuiyao activated the Seven-Kill Profound Formation to seal Huidan Market and stop fleeing cultivators.
• Yu Shuiyao gave Chen Beiwu the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk to help him suppress True Lord Leiming.

The death of Thunderclap True Lord and Chen Zi'ang's capture of Huidan Market and Lingkai Pass alarmed the major sects, while Chen's feat drew the attention of a powerful sword cultivator. Li Wan'er returned from seclusion with newly refined Nascent Soul Formation Pills and learned that Chen was safe, as Blood Demon Venerable reaffirmed his promise to kill him.

• Qingxuan True Lord learned that Thunderclap True Lord had died, then received news that Chen Zi'ang had killed him and taken Lingkai Pass; Changqing True Lord warned that Chen's momentum could not be stopped.
• Wuming told Xiaoyao Sword Lord that Chen Zi'ang had slain a peak Nascent Soul True Lord, but Xiaoyao refused to recruit him because he was a saber cultivator; Xiaoyao then left the Sword Mound to meet the Earth Evolution Realm's sword cultivators.
• Li Wan'er emerged from seclusion after successfully refining pills and learned from Zhu Wuya that Chen Zi'ang was safe at Linglan Pass, which the Mirror Moon Sect had occupied.
• Ning Xuanji confronted Blood Demon Venerable about allowing Chen Zi'ang to grow stronger, and Blood Demon Venerable promised that Chen would die in exchange for a half-share of a Spirit Transformation opportunity.

Chen Beiwu captured Lingkai Pass and Huidan Market, killed Thunderclap True Lord after he refused to surrender, and withdrew his army to Protectorate City before the Four Great Sects could retaliate. As Chen Beiwu gathered fortune and weighed how to strengthen his allies, Li Xiaoyao of the Mysterious Sword Pavilion appeared outside the City Lord’s Manor.

• Chen Beiwu offered Thunderclap True Lord a place in the Mirror Moon Sect, but Thunderclap refused to betray the Azure Spirit Sect, so Chen Beiwu killed him and gained two fortunes.
• With Xinling’s help, Chen Beiwu captured Lingkai Pass after the Azure Spirit Sect’s defenders fled, then led his army and captives back to Protectorate City with the stronghold’s movable resources.
• The Four Great Sects arrived at the deserted Lingkai Pass, and Qingxuan True Lord called for an invasion of the Earth Evolution Realm to destroy Protectorate City; the Void Sword Sect’s representative hesitated.
• Li Haichuan heard rumors of Chen Zi’ang killing Thunderclap True Lord and considered joining Protectorate City, while Chen Beiwu’s beasts refined their spoils and he gathered enough fortune to form a wisp of purple qi.
• Chen Beiwu considered using the Fortune Edict Embryo’s enlightenment on Aji, but Iron Egg, Golden Egg, and Xuele each urged him to prioritize other plans; Li Xiaoyao then appeared outside the City Lord’s Manor and introduced himself as being from the Mysterious Sword Pavilion.

Li Xiaoyao visited Chen Beiwu to test his saber intent, and their exchange revealed Chen Beiwu’s ability to sever the sword intent’s foundation. After arranging reinforcements for Protectorate City, Chen Beiwu left to awaken Aji and begin trying to restore its bloodline.

• Shu You recognized Li Xiaoyao as Xiaoyao Sword Lord and escorted him to meet Chen Beiwu.
• Li Xiaoyao offered a Truth-Perceiving Pill in exchange for one full-strength saber strike, and Chen Beiwu accepted after Xuele checked the pill.
• Chen Beiwu used Slay the True to destroy Li Xiaoyao’s sword intent, and Li Xiaoyao caught the strike but suffered severed sections of two fingers.
• Li Xiaoyao praised Chen Beiwu’s saber intent and departed, while Chen Beiwu learned the Yellow Evolution Realm’s allied army remained at Lingkai Pass.
• Chen Beiwu arranged for two Nascent Soul True Lords to guard Protectorate City, then left and activated his Primordial Origin Profound Ability to awaken Aji among the gathered treasures.

Chen Beiwu used the Fortune Edict Embryo Divine Ability to help Aji reconstruct its bloodline, and Aji fused its Qian Yang and Kun Yin powers into a new egg form. After the transformation, Chen Beiwu and his companion beasts gained substantial cultivation feedback, while Aji’s newfound warmth toward him left Chen Beiwu investigating the change.

• Xuele used the Five-Qi Origin Forest to restore enough of Aji’s dao practice for it to prepare for its bloodline transformation.
• Chen Beiwu used the Fortune Edict Embryo Divine Ability on Aji, awakening the ancient true spirits within its bloodline and triggering a dangerous imbalance between its Qian Yang and Kun Yin dragon powers.
• Chen Beiwu used his immortal technique and refined treasured medicines to help Aji resist the Qian Yang dragon blood, then activated the divine ability again when the imbalance threatened to consume it.
• Aji activated Yin-Yang Self-Certification and fused its two bloodlines into a giant egg, whose formation summoned a heavenly tribulation that drew attention from Jisong City.
• After three months, Chen Beiwu and his companion beasts refined the contract’s feedback, greatly increasing their cultivation, while Aji remained in egg form.
• Chen Beiwu sensed that Aji had become unusually affectionate and began probing its meridians through the companion beast contract to discover why.

Chen Beiwu discovered that Aji had transformed into an embryonic egg with the power of a fifth-tier creation origin beast. After testing Aji’s abilities, Chen Beiwu decided to conceal Aji’s origins and seek the Immortal Alliance’s guidance and resources to help Aji grow.

• Aji shot into Chen Beiwu’s arms at tremendous speed, nearly injuring him with the impact, then calmed after sensing his reassurance.
• Chen Beiwu explained that Aji had returned to an embryonic state to reshape its bloodline, and confirmed that Aji had 7,999 years of dao practice and five-element heavenly spiritual root potential.
• Chen Beiwu discovered Aji’s Limitless Embryonic Treasury ability, which protected the egg from anyone below Spirit Transformation, and Golden Egg’s attack failed to harm it.
• Chen Beiwu learned that Aji’s Two Forms, One Qi ability could destroy the cultivation of beings below Spirit Transformation, but that using it consumed considerable power.
• Chen Beiwu found that Aji could not cultivate the Primordial Origin Immortal Technique while still an egg, and resolved to whitewash Aji’s identity and seek Immortal Alliance support.

Chen Beiwu sought permission to venture into the Cangyuan Realm as a Star-Conqueror, and Violet Firmament Venerable equipped him with powerful protective treasures and a resource for his imminent twofold Dao-proving. After Chen Beiwu received his badge and classified intelligence, other cultivators at the All-Stars Pivot suspected he was receiving special treatment.

• Chen Beiwu tasked Chi Quan with establishing a True Martial Society before visiting Exquisite Peak to request True-Congealing Pills.
• Chen Beiwu asked Violet Firmament Venerable to let him join the All-Stars Pivot and temper himself in the Cangyuan Realm, and the sect leader gave him a Divine Firmament Demon-Slaying Origin Seal and a Dragon-Tiger Heaven-Flipping Seal.
• Violet Firmament Venerable allowed Chen Beiwu to withdraw a fourfold Dao-proving resource early, and Chen Beiwu used his Jade Purity Golden Register privilege to obtain central sovereign jade marrow.
• Chen Beiwu went to the All-Stars Pivot, where Lu Yao made him a Star-Conqueror without an assessment and gave him a badge and classified Cangyuan Realm intelligence.
• The three cultivators in the private room grew suspicious when they saw Lu Yao provide Chen Beiwu with top-secret intelligence without requiring merits.

Chen Beiwu chose a low-risk mission before traveling to the Cangyuan Realm, where he sensed something suspicious about Dipper-Shift True Lord. After arriving, he met realm lord Wang Yuan, who learned that Chen Beiwu had accepted only a simple mission.

• Chen Beiwu studied the Cangyuan Realm's demon martial arts and rejected several difficult missions in favor of a simpler one worth one merit.
• Three days later, Chen Beiwu noticed Dipper-Shift True Lord among the Star-Conquerors and suspected he might be connected to the Ancient Demon Cult.
• Lu Yao opened the Two-World Gate, and Chen Beiwu and the other Star-Conquerors entered the Cangyuan Earth Immortal Realm.
• Wang Yuan greeted Chen Beiwu alone in a sea of clouds and asked to see his mission jade slip.
• Wang Yuan approved of Chen Beiwu's cautious choice and reassured him that it was good for young people to be careful.

Chen Beiwu asked Wang Yuan to investigate Chen Qin’s disappearance and learned she had vanished on Yuyuan Island, but he suspected the Xiao Household might be using the lead to trap him. As Chen Beiwu traveled incognito through Fengdu Island, the Ancient God Cult arranged for Dipper-Shift True Lord to pursue him, while a merchant approached him about going to Youyun Island.

• Chen Beiwu accepted Wang Yuan’s jade slip of aid and said he would investigate Chen Qin’s disappearance on Yuyuan Island.
• Chen Beiwu secretly tested Wang Yuan’s jade slip in Chaos Heaven and Earth, then decided Yuyuan Island might be a trap and that Chen Qin was likely alive elsewhere.
• Sea-Splitting True Venerable declined to target Chen Beiwu personally for the offered pill and ordered Tiansu to handle the matter; the cult’s message prompted Dipper-Shift True Lord to seek Chen Beiwu for a Calamity-Deliverance Profound True Pill.
• Chen Beiwu arrived on Fengdu Island in disguise, where Li Wanquan of the Treasure Source Commerce Association approached him and asked whether he was heading to Youyun Island.

Chen Beiwu traveled toward Youyun Island with the Treasure Source Commerce Association while pursuing a chance to break through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. During a Great Qian patrol inspection, he secretly questioned Zhao Jingxuan and learned that Martial Ancestor Bai Qi had supposedly defeated Zhu Wu, leaving Chen Beiwu suspicious of the claim.

• Li Wanquan offered Chen Beiwu Longevity-Extending Pills in exchange for help, and Chen Beiwu negotiated passage to Youyun Island and access to the association's resources.
• The Treasure Source Commerce Association's fleet set sail, and Chen Beiwu began cultivating during the three-month journey while his companions debated how to explain Aji's origin.
• Two months into the voyage, Li Wanquan warned Chen Beiwu that Sea Patrol Regional Commander Zhao Jingxuan was inspecting ships for Heavenly Immortal Realm cultivators.
• Zhao Jingxuan searched Chen Beiwu's cabin but failed to notice him, then answered Chen Beiwu's unseen questions about Zhu Wu and Martial Ancestor Bai Qi.
• Chen Beiwu doubted Zhao Jingxuan's claim that Bai Qi had defeated Zhu Wu, reasoning that Zhu Wu's strength and standing made such a defeat unlikely.

Chen Beiwu learned from Li Wanquan of an Earth Qilin sleeping beneath Other Shore Island and traded a Blood-Cleansing Pill for its location. A month later, as the merchant ship crossed the black tide, Chen Beiwu sensed a powerful presence marked by purple auspicious clouds and chose not to investigate.

• Chen Beiwu questioned Zhao Jingxuan about rumors surrounding Zhu Wu and the Other Shore Flower, then used Golden Egg to make him end the search of the merchant caravan.
• Li Wanquan knelt before Chen Beiwu and offered information about an Earth Qilin in exchange for help escaping Great Qian and gaining a chance at immortality.
• Li Wanquan explained that the Earth Qilin had defeated Martial Ancestor Tianlong five hundred years earlier and gave Chen Beiwu a map and a finger bone that might lead to it.
• Chen Beiwu refused to make Li Wanquan his disciple and gave him a Blood-Cleansing Pill in exchange for the qilin's location.
• A month later, the merchant ship entered the Eternal Night Sea Region's black tide, where Chen Beiwu spotted purple auspicious clouds surrounding a presence whose fortune slightly surpassed Aji's, then deliberately looked away.

Chen Beiwu reached Youyun Island, where he encountered Zhu Wu and learned that the chief disciples were competing over a Calamity-Heart Fox on Other Shore Island. As Gu Yong challenged Bai Qi, Chen Beiwu watched Bai Qi overpower him and studied the strength of Yaoqian’s martial path.

• Chen Beiwu used Golden Egg’s ability to alter Li Wanquan’s memories, then teleported to Youyun Island.
• Bai Qi discussed the danger posed by immortal cultivators with Bai Zhao before Chen Beiwu found Zhu Wu selling goods at a market stall.
• Bai Qi confronted Chen Beiwu’s group, and Gu Yong emerged with his Netherdark Mysterious Civet and challenged Bai Qi to a fight.
• Zhu Wu told Chen Beiwu that the chief disciples were competing to tame a Calamity-Heart Fox, then left after Chen Beiwu feigned ignorance.
• Gu Yong used his sword and the Netherdark Mysterious Civet’s abilities to sever Bai Qi’s head, but Bai Qi endured the attack and seized Gu Yong.
• Bai Qi overwhelmed Gu Yong with his dragon claws and Ice Crystal Giant Dragon pressure while Chen Beiwu watched and considered how to develop his own techniques.