Chapter Summaries

Chen Beiwu traded Stone-in-the-Grass to the Darkwater Spirit Turtle for the variant Golden Scale and began contracting it, despite the difficulty and expense of raising it into a Golden Dragon Carp. He subdued the Golden Scale’s powerful resistance by borrowing a trace of Nine-Breath Chaos’s might.

• The Darkwater Spirit Turtle explained that the variant Golden Scale carried Golden-Horned Flood Dragon blood but was nearly impossible to raise into a flood dragon.
• Chen Beiwu offered Stone-in-the-Grass to the Darkwater Spirit Turtle, which accepted and handed him the Golden Scale.
• Chen Beiwu asked the Golden Scale to become his companion beast and began forming a Myriad Beast Mark.
• Guan Ange realized Chen Beiwu had chosen the Golden Scale and wondered how he could afford the rare metal essence qi it needed to advance.
• The Golden Scale resisted the Three Treasures Companion Seal with its immense divine sense, but Chen Beiwu used Nine-Breath Chaos’s aura to subdue it and complete the seal.

Chen Beiwu contracted a Golden Scale and named it Golden Egg, gaining an unusually powerful companion beast despite the doubts its care raised. After registering Golden Egg, he began refining its meridians, a process that could improve his spiritual root purity.

• Chen Beiwu named the Golden Scale Golden Egg and sensed its submission through their Companion Beast Seal.
• Han Liangcai learned that the Darkwater Spirit Turtle had given Chen Beiwu the Golden Scale in exchange for Stone-in-the-Grass, then traced the trade and found it had happened by coincidence.
• Chen Beiwu showed Golden Egg to Xu Ziqing and explained that he needed to feed it instead of accompanying her to Sulfur Reef Island.
• Chen Beiwu registered Golden Egg at the Spirit Beast Pavilion and bought a Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Chen Beiwu rented a cultivation chamber and began Three Meridians Refinement with Golden Egg to develop its origin, attribute, and method meridians.

Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg’s three meridians and discovered its exceptional spiritual roots, mystic-grade origin meridian, and two mutually reinforcing supreme-grade innate spirit arts. He realized his gamble on Golden Egg had paid off, while Golden Egg simply felt hungry again.

• Chen Beiwu found that Golden Egg’s mystic-grade origin meridian raised his water spiritual root purity to 82, equivalent to a heavenly spiritual root.
• Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg’s attribute meridian and discovered outstanding metal, wood, and water aptitudes that surpassed his own.
• Chen Beiwu found that Golden Egg had only ten years of cultivation but possessed the second-tier supreme-grade spirit art Flowing Golden Scales.
• Chen Beiwu discovered Golden Egg’s second supreme-grade spirit art, Sea Absorption, which could strengthen Flowing Golden Scales as the scales’ defense enhanced Sea Absorption.
• Chen Beiwu concluded that Golden Egg’s talents made his gamble worthwhile, while Golden Egg blinked and felt hungry again.

Chen Beiwu taught Golden Egg to use its Sea Absorption Spirit Art, raising its cultivation from ten to fifteen years. He searched for a cultivation method suited to them both and settled on the Qi Refining section of the All Arts Return to One Stream Jianmu Heavenly Scripture, but could not afford to buy it.

• Chen Beiwu gave Golden Egg Illusion Weasel Wolf meat and discovered that it did not know how to use its Sea Absorption Spirit Art.
• Chen Beiwu guided Golden Egg with his Divine Sense, and Golden Egg refined the reserves in its belly to raise its strength from ten to fifteen years of cultivation.
• Chen Beiwu put Golden Egg away and searched the Immortal Alliance Official Website for a suitable cultivation method.
• Chen Beiwu found the All Arts Return to One Stream Jianmu Heavenly Scripture and learned that its demanding requirements matched his and Golden Egg's wood and water spiritual roots.
• Chen Beiwu added the Qi Refining section of the scripture to his cart but did not purchase it because he could not afford it.

Chen Beiwu considered buying a heavenly-grade cultivation technique but lacked the Spirit Origin to afford it, so he planned to keep using the Ten Thousand Beasts Art while saving. Xu Ziqing arrived with a newly contracted Scarlet Flame Fox whose fortune appeared unusually strong, leaving Chen Beiwu surprised by her companion beast.

• Chen Beiwu read about the All Arts Converge Jianmu Heavenly Scripture and learned that flawless qi refining could forge a flawless dao foundation and bring exceptional opportunities.
• Chen Beiwu checked his balance of 753.28 Spirit Origin and decided not to settle for a lower-grade technique despite the cost.
• Chen Beiwu planned to explore the Southern Wild Region more quickly and use the Ten Thousand Beasts Art until he could afford the heavenly-grade scripture.
• Xu Ziqing and Sun Yajing arrived with senior female students, and Xu Ziqing carried a newly contracted Scarlet Flame Fox.
• Chen Beiwu assessed the Scarlet Flame Fox and noticed its pale orange fortune might reach the third tier.

Chen Beiwu left the Spirit Beast Pavilion after contracting Golden Egg and received an invitation from Guan Ange to work at his Immortal Flavor Pavilion. He hurried home to investigate whether the contract had changed his luck, where Chen Dong asked which companion beast he had chosen.

• Chen Beiwu declined Xu Ziqing’s invitation to look around and left the Spirit Beast Pavilion.
• Lin Yi invited Chen Beiwu to spar with his Flower Spirit Butterfly, but Chen Beiwu refused and walked out.
• Guan Ange invited Chen Beiwu to join the Guan Household, then offered him a part-time spirit-fish chef job at the Immortal Flavor Pavilion.
• Chen Beiwu accepted Guan Ange’s business card and hurried home to check whether contracting Golden Egg had affected his luck.
• Chen Dong asked Chen Beiwu which companion beast he had chosen as Iron Egg noticed the scent of water-attribute spirit beasts on him.

After contracting Golden Egg, Chen Beiwu discovered that it had changed his fortune, though it also brought dangerous calamity aura that he dispelled. He then traveled to Abysswall Market to seek ways to earn spirit stones, where the blatant abuse of weak cultivators revealed how harsh the Southern Wasteland was.

• Chen Beiwu told Chen Dong and Huang Xiaoling that Golden Egg was the companion beast best suited to him, and learned that his parents planned to visit Fallen Dragon Prefecture for his mother's treatment.
• Chen Beiwu found a strand of golden fortune and a powerful crimson calamity aura after contracting Golden Egg, then used Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion to reduce the calamity to gray ill luck.
• Chen Beiwu decided to exploit the differences between the two worlds to earn spirit stones and buy the All Arts Converge Jianmu Heavenly Scripture.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at Abysswall Market, a busy cultivation hub controlled by the Cloudsea Shen Household and backed by the Mirror Moon Palace.
• Chen Beiwu watched gatekeepers seize an exotic herb from a poor cultivator and curse another for offering spirit sand, then paid one spirit stone to enter the market.

Chen Beiwu toured Abysswall Market with the broker Wanwan to learn about its goods and prices, discovering how much more expensive and restricted cultivation legacies were in the Southern Wasteland than in the Immortal Alliance. After a day of scouting the shops without buying anything, he decided he had found a safe way to earn spirit stones.

• Chen Beiwu hired Wanwan to guide him through Abysswall Market and explain its customs and prices.
• At the Myriad Arts Pavilion, Chen Beiwu found that cultivation manuals sold for high prices despite being incomplete and flawed by Immortal Alliance standards.
• Wanwan explained that Foundation Establishment methods were rare and could cost thousands of spirit stones, while Chen Beiwu considered the danger of trying to sell one.
• Wanwan led Chen Beiwu through shops selling pills, magical artifacts, talismans, and formation disks, but he bought nothing.
• Chen Beiwu paid Wanwan one spirit stone and concluded that he had found the fastest and safest way to earn spirit stones.

Chen Beiwu arranged to buy phoenix yellow dendrobium from Wanwan, then rented a cave abode at Abysswall Market and began purifying Golden Egg’s demonic power. The chapter ended with Chen Beiwu preparing gold and purple coral stone to feed the hungry Golden Egg.

• Chen Beiwu asked Wanwan to procure a hundred jin of phoenix yellow dendrobium and paid her a spirit stone deposit.
• Wanwan met two rogue cultivators in an alley, avoided suspicion over her deal with Chen Beiwu, and watched them leave to target another cultivator.
• Chen Beiwu listened to the alley conversation with his divine sense, then rented a lower-grade cave abode for a week.
• Chen Beiwu used the Ten Thousand Beasts Art to cleanse Golden Egg’s demonic power and stabilize their companion beast contract.
• Golden Egg showed hunger, and Chen Beiwu took out half a jin of gold and two pieces of purple coral stone to feed it.

Chen Beiwu fed Golden Egg expensive purple coral stone, then traveled to Anyi County to collect phoenix yellow dendrobium and explore a Strange Fish Studio for a new way to earn spirit stones. He spotted an unusually cheap Jade Sword Fish and decided to buy it alive.

• Chen Beiwu fed Golden Egg gold and purple coral stone, helping the fish gain a year of cultivation and grow half a foot.
• Chen Beiwu traveled by Bixi Train to Anyi County and selected five miscellaneous-grade cultivation methods while on the train.
• Wanwan delivered excellent-quality phoenix yellow dendrobium to Chen Beiwu, and he paid her three spirit stones.
• Wanwan showed Chen Beiwu the Strange Fish Studio, where he noticed a Jade Sword Fish priced at only twenty spirit stones.
• Chen Beiwu asked the shop to pack the Jade Sword Fish alive.