Chapter Summaries

Chen Beiwu completed the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination Preliminary Test and discussed his chances of entering the Five Great Grotto-Heavens with Xu Ziqing. He returned to the Mirror Moon Sect to ask Yun Yishu how to advance from the peak of the Eleventh Layer of Qi Refining to the Twelfth Layer.

• Chen Beiwu greeted Xu Ziqing before the examination, and she urged him to do his best so they could enter the Thirteen Immortal Sects together.
• Chen Beiwu took the beast-taming examination and answered an obscure question about whether a Heavy-Earth Rampaging Rhinoceros wearing Starvault Beast Armor could defeat a Foundation Establishment Peak cultivator.
• After the Preliminary Test ended, Chen Beiwu estimated he had scored around 790 and asked Xu Ziqing about special recruitment at the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.
• Xu Ziqing explained that true prodigies could receive guaranteed admission and that paying special recruitment fees would not make the Five Great Grotto-Heavens hold an Immortal Examination for him.
• Chen Beiwu declined the farewell dinner and returned to the Mirror Moon Sect to consult Yun Yishu about reaching the Twelfth Layer of Qi Refining.
• Yun Yishu was surprised by Chen Beiwu's rapid cultivation and asked whether he had come to learn how to absorb Yin-Yang spiritual energy and complete a full circulation of Magic Power.

Chen Beiwu learned that he needed to accumulate more liquid magic power before he could reach the twelfth layer of Qi Refining, and Yun Yishu offered to arrange his status as a Sequence Disciple. After Yun Yishu identified his incomplete formation as a Third-Tier Corpse-Refining Grand Formation linked to a Golden Core True Person’s remains, they discussed asking for help to claim the buried assets.

• Chen Beiwu asked Yun Yishu why he could not complete the ultimate magic power circulating heaven cycle, and she explained that he needed at least eight drops of liquid magic power to break through.
• Chen Beiwu confirmed that he had seven drops, and Yun Yishu offered to arrange his status as a Sequence Disciple instead of making him wait for the Six-Lineage Grand Competition.
• Yun Yishu identified Chen Beiwu’s incomplete formation as a Third-Tier Corpse-Refining Grand Formation and deduced that the spirit lake might contain a Golden Core True Person’s remains and treasures.
• Chen Beiwu suggested asking their master to explore the site, but Yun Yishu said their master was away and proposed contacting Hall Master Yu instead.
• Yun Yishu assured Chen Beiwu that his contribution would earn him a few third-tier precious medicinal herbs or a third-tier dharma treasure if the site held Golden Core assets.

Chen Beiwu reunited with Senior Sister Wan'er, who ate a duck he cooked and asked to borrow Iron Egg to tend her pill furnace. Iron Egg agreed after she offered him a third-tier Qi-Burning Pill.

• Senior Sister Wan'er appeared at Chen Beiwu's cave abode and asked him to cook a Green Banana-Leaf Feather Duck.
• Chen Beiwu cooked duck-blood vermicelli soup and roast duck, then saved the duck's three medicinal feathers.
• Senior Sister Wan'er asked to borrow Iron Egg as a furnace attendant while she refined pills, and Chen Beiwu asked Iron Egg to decide.
• Senior Sister Wan'er showed Iron Egg a Golden Tower Elixir and offered him a Qi-Burning Pill instead of the valuable treasure pill.
• Iron Egg agreed to tend Senior Sister Wan'er's furnace in exchange for the Qi-Burning Pill.

Chen Beiwu visited the Alchemy Hall to check on Iron Egg and ask Li Wan'er for a premium-quality Blood-Calling Pill to help Golden Egg advance. Li Wan'er explained how the pill could protect Golden Egg if his breakthrough failed, leaving Chen Beiwu to pursue a safer path before the College Entrance Examination retest.

• Iron Egg agreed to tend the Alchemy Hall's furnaces for half a year, and Senior Sister Wan'er promised to look after him.
• Five days later, Iron Egg tended the pill cauldrons and ate medicinal herbs while the Alchemy Hall's cultivators admired him and Gu Chun envied his treatment.
• Chen Beiwu arrived with Hall Master Sun, reunited with Iron Egg, and left Gu Chun behind after she tried to greet him.
• Li Wan'er welcomed Chen Beiwu and offered to teach him alchemy, but he declined because he needed to prepare for the College Entrance Examination retest.
• Chen Beiwu asked Li Wan'er for a premium-quality Blood-Calling Pill to combine with other pills for Golden Egg's breakthrough, and she explained its protective residual potency.

Chen Beiwu completed the Seven-Turns Circulating Heaven Qi Refining Method and reached the twelfth layer of Qi Refining, but he still sought a path to flawless qi refining. After returning from seclusion, he learned he had placed third in Far Sky County and chose the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect as his first application choice.

• Chen Beiwu forced open all twelve hidden Earthly Branches meridians with Golden Egg's help and attained the twelfth layer of Qi Refining.
• Chen Beiwu realized the breakthrough had not advanced his Heavenly Book to flawless qi refining and decided to redeem the Heavenly Evolution Wheel-Turning Art.
• Chen Beiwu learned that Senior Sister was preparing Blood-Calling Pills for Golden Egg, which would help it advance to the second realm.
• Chen Beiwu returned to find his parents waiting for news of his College Entrance Examination results.
• Chen Dong told Chen Beiwu that he scored 807 points and placed third in Far Sky County.
• Chen Beiwu named the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect as his first choice and the Jade Floss Immortal Sect as his second.

Chen Beiwu prepared Golden Egg for its advancement and arranged a suitable cultivation chamber in the Immortal Alliance. He submitted an application to notify the authorities of Golden Egg’s coming breakthrough.

• Chen Beiwu collected a Blood-Calling Pill from Senior Sister Wan'er, gave it to Golden Egg, and brought the sleeping beast to the Immortal Alliance.
• Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing met Chen Beiwu, who explained that Golden Egg was about to advance to become a Second-Realm Lesser Demon.
• Xu Ziqing offered to rent Chen Beiwu her mother’s third-tier cultivation chamber at Lanshan Cloud Residence for two months, and Chen Beiwu agreed to pay one thousand Spirit Origin.
• Chen Beiwu settled Golden Egg in the cultivation chamber and submitted an official notification of its advancement to the Second Realm.

Chen Beiwu helped Golden Egg awaken his flood dragon bloodline and survive a rare red fire tribulation, allowing him to break through to the Second-Realm Lesser Demon. The contract’s feedback greatly strengthened Chen Beiwu, but still gave him no path to flawless Qi Refining.

• Golden Egg’s cultivation surged, and Chen Beiwu fed him the Flood Dragon Blood Pill and Spirit-Merging Pill to begin awakening his bloodline.
• Chen Beiwu guided Golden Egg through the transformation by sharing magic power and helping him circulate the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book.
• A one-nine lightning tribulation formed over Lanshan Cloud Residence, and its lightning turned crimson as Golden Egg faced the red fire tribulation.
• Golden Egg survived the flames, emerged with a golden horn and flood dragon might, and advanced to a Second-Realm Lesser Demon.
• Golden Egg’s breakthrough sent powerful feedback through the companion beast contract, raising Chen Beiwu’s liquid magic power to twenty-one drops without giving him a chance to achieve flawless Qi Refining.

After Golden Egg advanced to the second realm, Chen Beiwu discovered its improved five-element aptitude and four new innate talents, including powerful illusion abilities. He confirmed that Golden Egg could create a convincing True Dragon illusion and found two third-tier treasure arts within its technique meridian.

• Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg's attributes and found its metal, wood, and water aptitudes had each increased by a point, while it possessed ninety-nine years of cultivation.
• Chen Beiwu tested Golden Egg's Flood Dragon Might and found its released pressure was powerful enough to make Golden Egg fall to the ground.
• Golden Egg used Flowers in the Mist to reflect Chen Beiwu's Water Prison Spell back at him.
• Golden Egg activated Which Is Real, Which Is Illusory and made Chen Beiwu perceive it as a majestic True Dragon with solid scales.
• Chen Beiwu concluded that Golden Egg's illusion talents might have developed through its compatibility with the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book and noticed two third-tier treasure arts in its technique meridian.

Chen Beiwu discovered that Golden Egg had advanced into a second-realm Lesser Demon with two powerful third-tier treasure arts, then set out with Xu Ziqing for the College Entrance Examination retest at the Heavenly Blaze Immortal Sect. The chapter ended as Xu Ziqing worried about her chances of entering one of the Thirteen Immortal Sects.

• Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg’s transformed Gilded Gold Body and Sea Embracing Ten Thousand Rivers treasure arts and considered how powerful the beast had become.
• Chen Beiwu agreed with Xu Ziqing to leave early for the College Entrance Examination retest.
• Chen Beiwu refused his parents’ offer to accompany him and boarded a Bixi Train for Heavenly Blaze Prefecture with Xu Ziqing.
• Xu Ziqing described the fierce competition for admission to the Thirteen Immortal Sects and admitted she feared she would not qualify.

Chen Beiwu arrived in Azure Firmament City, registered for the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination Retest, and saw a prodigy with extraordinary red dragon fortune. At the examination grounds, he learned the candidates would have to survive on Ugly Ape Planet for over a month, where death and lasting injuries were possible.

• Chen Beiwu spotted Shen Zhaoxue's red dragon fortune at Azure Firmament Station and realized it surpassed golden fortune.
• Chen Beiwu registered for the retest at the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect and received a temporary sect pass and examination ticket.
• Chen Beiwu joined candidates from across the Immortal Alliance at the examination grounds more than twenty days later.
• Chen Beiwu recognized Shen Qiong, who drew the other candidates' attention in their examination room.
• Jiang Chuan announced that the assessment would take place on Ugly Ape Planet and require candidates to survive for over a month, with killing permitted and serious consequences possible in the upgraded Divine Void Realm.

The Immortal Alliance began its deadly college entrance retest on Ugly Ape Planet, where candidates faced a technologically advanced world with little spiritual energy. Chen Beiwu arrived in a mountain forest, while Zheng Lan was killed by sniper fire, becoming the first candidate eliminated.

• The official announced the retest's high death rate and warned that candidates could not quit except by killing themselves, which would lower their ratings.
• Shen Qiong and Chen Beiwu stepped forward to enter the assessment before the Divine Void Realm's guiding lights disappeared.
• Chen Beiwu arrived on Ugly Ape Planet, concealed his aura, and saw gray apes enslaving farmers with collars and chains.
• Zheng Lan killed five apes after arriving near a military base, but a surviving ape's gunfire and hidden sniper rifles overwhelmed her defenses and killed her.
• Golden Core True Persons watching the candidates' screens judged Zheng Lan's performance incompetent, while Jiang Chuan noted the danger of the planet's technology and hoped to see an outstanding candidate.

Chen Beiwu killed an Ugly Ape after seeing that it had been eating an infant, then resolved to fight back against the apes despite the risks to his survival mission. After he destroyed a patrol aircraft, Ugly Ape soldiers discussed escalating their weapons against the strange humans, including Three-Phase Bombs.

• Chen Beiwu saw an infant’s severed limbs in an Ugly Ape’s lunch box and killed the ape with a single kick.
• Chen Beiwu decided to slaughter the man-eating Ugly Apes and searched the dead ape’s soul for information about the planet’s weapons.
• An unmanned aircraft attacked Chen Beiwu, but he caught and crushed its bullets before destroying it.
• At a Silei City military base, a one-eyed Ugly Ape and a golden-haired Ugly Ape discussed the strange humans and the weapons they might use against them.
• The golden-haired Ugly Ape declared that Three-Phase Bombs could kill any living being, while the one-eyed Ugly Ape warned that their own side would die too.

Gu Tie and Ji Gang’s infiltration of the Silei City base was disrupted when Chen Beiwu attacked and overwhelmed its soldiers with Golden Egg’s Flood Dragon Might. The base’s officers fired their Energy Gatling Cannon and received a target-eliminated notice, but the lingering white mist left Gu Tie and Ji Gang unsure whether Chen Beiwu had truly been killed.

• Gu Tie and Ji Gang decided to wait for Suan Luobu and Xie Shite to be alone so they could hypnotize them and take control of the base.
• Chen Beiwu appeared above the base and used Flood Dragon Might, killing or incapacitating many of the ape soldiers with his pressure.
• Xie Shite ordered Suan Luobu to activate the base’s Energy Gatling Cannon, and Suan Luobu fired it at Chen Beiwu while armored vehicles joined the attack.
• The cannon stopped firing, Chen Beiwu vanished, and the base’s screen reported that the target had been eliminated.
• Gu Tie doubted the weapon could kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and Ji Gang noticed that the white mist had not dispersed.

Chen Beiwu wiped out Silei City and its control center after Illusory Mist Dusk turned the Ugly Apes’ weapons against them, then learned from the blond officer’s memories how cruelly humans were treated. As Immortal Alliance judges debated recruiting Chen Beiwu, the New Ape Clan’s king decided to unleash its thermonuclear weapons against the exam-takers.

• Chen Beiwu shot the ape soldiers in the control center, then dispelled Illusory Mist Dusk’s illusion and confronted the surviving Ugly Apes and disguised examinees Gu Tie and Ji Gang.
• Chen Beiwu killed Xie Shite and searched his soul, learning that humans on Ugly Ape Planet were treated worse than laboratory animals.
• Pei Heng considered recruiting Chen Beiwu for the Jade Floss Immortal Sect, while Zhao Wuchen insisted that the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect would claim him.
• Jiang Chuan observed Chen Beiwu and noted that the Ugly Ape Clan would launch its thermonuclear weapons after sensing the examinees’ threat.
• The New Ape Clan’s king showed its leaders recordings of the examinees destroying military bases and announced that he would deploy thermonuclear weapons to kill them.

The Ape King ordered hundreds of Three-Phase Bombs launched against the strange humans, accepting the deaths of millions of New Apes to protect its rule. Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi destroyed a military base, but a nuclear blast engulfed them as they tried to escape.

• The Ape King secured the leaders’ tacit agreement and entered target coordinates to launch Three-Phase Bombs around the globe.
• Hundreds of Three-Phase Bombs lifted off from launch silos across the planet.
• Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi attacked a northern military base, killing the ape soldiers and destroying its weapons.
• Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi sensed an approaching threat and fled, but the danger continued to close in.
• A Three-Phase Bomb detonated in the stratosphere, and its extreme heat threatened Shen Qiong and the Golden Ripple Xi.

After the Three-Phase Bomb devastated the Ugly Ape Planet, Chen Beiwu escaped the blast’s core zone but faced the expanding fireball. Golden Egg swallowed him and used its Gilded Gold Body to endure the nuclear blast, leaving their survival uncertain.

• Shen Qiong woke after killing himself in the Divine Void Realm and received a Grade B-Mid retest assessment from the examiners.
• Jiang Chuan and the other examiners watched the Three-Phase Bomb detonate and discussed Chen Beiwu’s chance of surviving by hiding underground.
• Chen Beiwu warned Gu Tie and Ji Gang to flee, then left the destroyed Silei City base with Golden Egg as a nuclear warhead targeted him.
• Chen Beiwu perfected Treading the Void on Surging Waves and used up his magic power to escape the bomb’s absolute kill zone.
• As the fireball expanded, Golden Egg swallowed Chen Beiwu and unleashed its Gilded Gold Body against the blast.

Chen Beiwu survived the New Ape Clan’s nuclear attacks and completed the month-long survival mission in the Divine Void Realm. After returning to the examination room, he learned that only two hours had passed in reality and Golden Egg’s injuries had disappeared.

• Golden Egg escaped the Three-Phase Bomb’s blast with Chen Beiwu, then fainted from internal injuries, and Chen Beiwu treated it with the Rejuvenation Technique.
• The Ape King ordered the New Ape Clan to launch every Three-Phase Bomb under the jade shattering plan, hoping radiation would kill the surviving humans.
• Golden Core True Persons watched Chen Beiwu survive the blast, while the sect leaders considered recruiting him; Zhao Wuchen decided to approach him before the Final Test.
• Chen Beiwu hid beneath a canyon as the Ugly Apes bombarded the planet, while other Immortal Alliance candidates were tracked and struck by Three-Phase Bombs.
• After the thirtieth day, Chen Beiwu returned from the Divine Void Realm, where a female cultivator told him the Retest assessment was over.
• Chen Beiwu checked his phone and saw that only two hours had passed, while Golden Egg’s injuries had vanished.

Chen Beiwu received news about his friends’ Retest results and read debates about the deadly examination before Zhao Wuchen offered him guaranteed admission to the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect. Chen Beiwu declined, choosing to attempt the Final Test despite Zhao Wuchen’s promise of a Calamity-Breaking Golden Elixir.

• Chen Beiwu reassured his parents that he had passed the Retest, learned Xu Ziqing had ended her attempt after a nuclear strike, and heard that Xu Lingling had passed special admissions with a Heavenly Blaze Tiger.
• Chen Beiwu read online arguments about the Retest’s nuclear surveillance and learned that a candidate at the Great Luo Immortal Sect’s examination site had taken control of the Ugly Apes’ military forces.
• Zhao Wuchen joined Chen Beiwu for a meal and offered him guaranteed admission to the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect.
• Chen Beiwu declined the offer so he could try the Immortal Alliance Final Test and possibly attract the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.
• Zhao Wuchen promised Chen Beiwu a Calamity-Breaking Golden Elixir within a hundred years if he joined the sect, but Chen Beiwu still refused, and Zhao Wuchen left his contact information.

Chen Beiwu rejected Zhao Wuchen’s offer from the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect and focused on preparing for the Immortal Alliance Final Test. When the Inner Sect Grand Competition made Contribution Points scarce, he abandoned plans to buy or earn them and used his Orange Fortune in hopes of gaining admission to one of the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.

• Zhao Wuchen offered Chen Beiwu a Calamity-Breaking Golden Elixir for joining the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect, but Chen Beiwu decided to wait for the Immortal Alliance Final Test.
• Chen Beiwu asked Zhao Heng to sell him fifteen thousand Contribution Points, but Zhao Heng explained that the upcoming Inner Sect Grand Competition had driven up their value.
• Chen Beiwu learned the competition would begin in three months and considered entering to test his strength and Golden Egg’s.
• Chen Beiwu found that sect missions could not quickly earn him the Contribution Points he needed, so he returned to cultivating at the Water Moon Secluded Abode.
• As the Immortal Alliance Final Test approached, Chen Beiwu used his Orange Fortune with the Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability and wished to enter one of the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.

Chen Beiwu and the other candidates began the Final Test, a series of battles against recorded cultivator phantoms in the Strife Realm. Chen Beiwu entered the arena for his first challenge against Li Yuanba, intending to fight alongside Golden Egg.

• True Lord Jiang Chuan explained that clearing one to four stages earned increasingly prestigious evaluations, and that each phantom would match the candidate's cultivation realm.
• Shen Qiong aimed to clear two stages and join the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect, while Chen Beiwu questioned the fairness of allowing candidates to bring external aids.
• True Lord Jiang Chuan clarified that phantoms would match candidates' use of spiritual artifacts and talismans, making excessive or poorly coordinated aids a disadvantage.
• True Lord Jiang Chuan announced the start of the Final Test, and the Strife Realm transported Chen Beiwu into an Azure-Gold Arena.
• The Strife Realm matched Chen Beiwu with Li Yuanba, a candidate from Year 24013, and Chen Beiwu prepared to defeat him with Golden Egg.