Chapter Summaries

After receiving a false Spirit Root and a cultivation method, Chen Fan began using his two months of free cultivation-room access to pursue the Qi Refining Stage. As he followed the Fire Cloud Cultivation Method’s first lesson, his entry panel detected his diligent cultivation and began activating his entries.

• Chen Fan activated his entry panel after qualifying for a false Spirit Root through his college entrance exam results.
• Chen Fan received a 20,000-spirit-coin student loan, admission to Handong University’s Sword Dao Theory and Science major, and the Fire Cloud Cultivation Method.
• Chen Fan resolved to reach the Qi Refining Stage before classes began in September and watched Li Mubai’s instructional video.
• Chen Fan began cultivating according to the Fire Cloud Cultivation Method, and his entry panel detected his effort and started using his entries.

Chen Fan used his diligence traits to master the ninth level of the Fire Cloud Cultivation Method in a single morning, then failed to break through to the Qi Refining Realm because his pseudo Spirit Root could not support the required life-bound spirit vein. A hidden evaluation triggered after his first breakthrough attempt.

• Chen Fan activated his diligence traits and rapidly advanced through the Fire Cloud Cultivation Method while using Xiaoyi to clean and cultivate in his room.
• Chen Fan continued cultivating through the seventh and eighth levels, then achieved complete mastery of the ninth level.
• Chen Fan tried to break through to the Qi Refining Realm, but his Qi vortex shattered because his pseudo Spirit Root lacked sufficient Spiritual Qi affinity and fire essence purity.
• Chen Fan considered whether his powerful diligence traits might be conceptual-level, and the panel triggered a hidden evaluation of his first breakthrough attempt.

Chen Fan used trait draws and the cultivation room’s concentrated Spiritual Qi to overcome his weak affinity and enter the Qi Refining Realm. After opening four Spirit Veins, he received two more draws and his system upgraded to identify other people’s panel information.

• Chen Fan drew five traits, equipped Child of Destiny, and prepared to attempt Qi Refining again.
• Chen Fan raised the cultivation room’s Spiritual Qi concentration to its maximum and endured the violent fire-attribute energy flooding his meridians.
• Chen Fan’s traits stabilized his meridians and improved his cultivation, allowing him to open his first Spirit Vein and enter the Qi Refining Realm.
• Chen Fan used the remaining concentrated Spiritual Qi to open three more Spirit Veins before the room’s allowance ran out.
• Chen Fan received two draws for his breakthrough, then the system upgraded and gained the ability to identify other people’s panel information.

Chen Fan enrolled at Handong University and learned how its cultivation clubs, student council, credit system, and secret-realm access worked. After receiving his campus card, he left the registration hall with a senior’s offer to help him buy cultivation supplies through her channels.

• Chen Fan arrived at Handong University and found no freshman welcome station before two seniors descended from the immortal realm.
• A senior elbowed away a figure she called a scammer, then took Chen Fan to the registration hall while explaining campus clubs, student council duties, credits, and secret-realm access.
• Chen Fan presented his admission Jade Slip, completed enrollment, and received his campus card.
• The senior offered to source pills, law artifacts, weapons, and special spirit materials for Chen Fan, then told him to explore the campus.

At Jingzhou Handong University, Chen Fan learned that his rapid cultivation had made him a standout freshman, while acting senior Qing Song promoted discounted potions and loans. Chen Fan took out a large cultivation loan and saved Qing Song’s contact as a resource connection.

• Qing Song told the freshmen that Chen Fan had opened eleven spirit veins in just three months, startling the class.
• Qing Song promoted White Cloud Pharmaceutical potions and offered to arrange loans, while Chen Fan used his panel to check Qing Song’s traits and found no sign of a scam.
• After class, Chen Fan privately asked Qing Song for a cultivation loan with the highest possible limit, ideally enough to cover Foundation Establishment expenses.
• Qing Song quickly secured Chen Fan a loan with six months of zero interest and deposited the Spirit Coins into his campus card account.
• Chen Fan saved Qing Song’s Micro Message contact, and Qing Song offered to help him obtain cultivation supplies and other resources.

Chen Fan used his market intuition to turn borrowed spirit coins into a fortune through successful contrarian trades. He then shifted toward building a steady supply of cultivation resources, arranging his first potion purchase through Senior Qing Song.

• Chen Fan borrowed spirit coins through several loan platforms, growing his campus card balance to ten thousand spirit coins.
• Chen Fan used Reverse Flush and his market intuition to profit from trades in Spiritual Power Batteries, Spirit Gathering Formation Components, and other assets, increasing his holdings to one million spirit coins.
• Chen Fan set aside five hundred thousand spirit coins for Qi Refining Realm potions and asked Senior Qing Song to find reliable suppliers.
• Senior Qing Song arranged a first batch of Body-Tempering Powder and tier-one Qi Gathering Potions for forty-two thousand spirit coins.
• Chen Fan inspected the potions, paid for them, and asked Senior Qing Song to coordinate future batches.

Chen Fan brewed a potent medicinal bath and used it to accelerate his cultivation, but his fragile meridians nearly gave out under the medicine’s force. His system’s entries activated to repair and strengthen him and boost his absorption, though the surging medicinal power left the real test ahead.

• Chen Fan combined his pills and potions with spirit water in a dormitory bathtub to make a powerful medicinal bath.
• Chen Fan soaked in the bath, drank more Marrow-Cleansing Potion, and circulated the Fire Cloud Cultivation Method to absorb the medicine.
• The medicinal power overwhelmed Chen Fan’s fragile meridians, causing severe pain and leaving him afraid he would cripple himself.
• Chen Fan’s [Diligence Can Make Up for Lack of Aptitude] entry activated, repairing and strengthening his meridians and increasing his tolerance for medicinal power.
• Chen Fan’s [Heavenly Dao Rewards Diligence] entry triggered during focused cultivation, greatly accelerating his absorption and spiritual Qi refinement.
• The remaining medicinal power surged into Chen Fan in increasingly powerful waves, pushing both entries’ effects toward their limits.

Chen Fan endured the medicinal potency of two potions as his traits repaired and strengthened his meridians, letting him open more Spirit Veins. He reached Qi Refining Perfection with eighteen Spirit Veins and left the bath exhilarated by his newfound strength.

• Chen Fan drove his eleven Spirit Veins to absorb the potions while his traits repeatedly repaired and reinforced his meridians.
• Chen Fan’s Spiritual Qi conversion rate rose, and he advanced through the Qi Refining stages as the potions’ effects continued.
• Chen Fan opened Spirit Veins thirteen through seventeen while the medicinal liquid gradually lost its potency.
• Chen Fan concentrated the remaining fire essence and medicinal potency in his Dantian and formed his eighteenth Spirit Vein.
• Chen Fan reached Qi Refining Perfection, checked his trait panel, and changed into clean clothes.

Handong University freshman Chen Fan completed the required cultivation tests and revealed Foundation Establishment-level results across all seventeen categories. After finishing, he felt a change in his Dantian and heard a familiar mechanical voice in his mind.

• Chen Fan paid twenty Spirit Coins to use Handong University's testing facility for his required cultivation report.
• Chen Fan met Fatty Wang, who complained about the demands of their sword dao theory major and hoped to reach Foundation Establishment in several categories.
• Chen Fan tested at Foundation Establishment early stage in physical strength, middle stage in soul strength, and Foundation Establishment standard in spiritual power condensation.
• Chen Fan completed all seventeen tests, earning Foundation Establishment-level results across the board and drawing a crowd of impressed students.
• Chen Fan sat down to rest, felt something open within his Dantian, and heard a familiar mechanical voice in his mind.

After Chen Fan reached all-dimensional Foundation Establishment in Qi Refinement, he activated four new traits, including one that granted him one hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones each day. His test results alerted Handong University’s leadership and professors, who scrambled to claim him as a promising disciple.

• Chen Fan activated the Eight Bushels of Wealth, Exceptional Talent, Same Moment Name Change, and Ironheaded Kid traits.
• Auntie Zhang saw that Chen Fan had met Foundation Establishment standards in all seventeen tests and synchronized his results to university leaders and professors.
• President Zhou Zhengyuan reviewed Chen Fan’s results and instructed Dean Lü to give him priority access to university resources.
• Handong University professors argued in their work chat over who should mentor Chen Fan.
• Zhou Zhengyuan recognized Chen Fan as the rare all-round talent the university had long sought.

After noticing Chen Fan’s exceptional results, Shen Moru proposed that Handong University and Jingfu University jointly train him. Zhou Zhengyuan and Shen reached a preliminary agreement, leaving the final details and Chen Fan’s consent unresolved.

• Shen Moru saw Handong University’s alerts and discovered that Chen Fan had passed all seventeen tests at Foundation Establishment while still in Qi Refining.
• Shen Moru called Zhou Zhengyuan and argued that Jingfu University could provide Chen Fan with higher-end resources than Handong University.
• Shen Moru proposed that Chen Fan spend four undergraduate years at Handong and three postgraduate years at Jingfu, with joint training and a dual degree.
• Zhou Zhengyuan negotiated for access to Jingfu’s cultivation methods and annual star-domain exchange slots, while Shen Moru offered revised terms.
• Zhou Zhengyuan and Shen Moru agreed on a preliminary joint-training framework and stipulated that Chen Fan himself had to agree.

Shen Moru and Handong University’s leaders made plans to recruit Chen Fan for joint training, while Chen Fan remained unaware of the negotiations until he was summoned to meet Handong’s president. The chapter ended with Chen Fan seated before Zhou Zhengyuan as the president prepared to discuss an important matter.

• Shen Moru ordered his assistant to prepare a joint training proposal, retrieve the first director’s cultivation notes, and investigate Chen Fan’s enrollment history.
• Zhou Zhengyuan told Dean Lü to speak with Chen Fan and ensure he received Handong’s resources, then announced that Jingfu proposed joint training with Shen Moru as Chen Fan’s supervisor.
• Chen Fan celebrated receiving a hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones while Fatty Wang predicted university leaders would take notice of his results.
• Auntie Zhang told Chen Fan that the university president wanted to see him, and Chen Fan went to Zhou Zhengyuan’s office.
• Zhou Zhengyuan welcomed Chen Fan and said he wanted to discuss something with him.

Chen Fan met with Han University president Zhou Zhengyuan, received a lavish reward, and agreed to a joint training program with Jingfu University. Zhou also named him the freshman representative for the opening ceremony, and Chen Fan left pleased with his new resources and plans to file a report about the testing fee.

• Zhou Zhengyuan summoned Chen Fan and discovered that Chen Fan's personal records were restricted by higher authorities.
• Zhou Zhengyuan gave Chen Fan a handful of Emperor's Flowing Serum as a reward for placing first in the freshman assessment.
• Zhou Zhengyuan offered Chen Fan a joint program in which he would study at Han University as an undergraduate and at Jingfu University as a postgraduate, with Shen Moru as his mentor.
• Chen Fan agreed in principle to the joint program and accepted Zhou Zhengyuan's request to speak as the freshman representative at the opening ceremony.
• Zhou Zhengyuan promised Chen Fan university resources and access to grade-A spirit-gathering rooms, and Chen Fan left thinking about filing a report over the testing fee.

After receiving new traits and abundant school resources, Chen Fan used emperor's flowing serum and cultivation potions to open more Spirit Veins. He reached thirty-three Spirit Veins and looked forward to meeting the professors at the next day's opening ceremony.

• Chen Fan received five advanced traits and the concept-level trait One Attainment, Eternal, which permanently protected his cultivation, talents, traits, Spirit Veins, and fortune.
• Qing Song delivered cultivation potions, an Omnidimensional Foundation Establishment Refinement Guide, and the remaining resources Chen Fan had requested.
• Chen Fan told Fatty Wang that he had secured his place as the freshman representative and received emperor's flowing serum as a reward.
• Chen Fan cultivated with the serum and potions, opening Spirit Veins until he reached a total of thirty-three.
• Chen Fan reviewed his opening ceremony speech and anticipated meeting the professors, including a specially appointed professor who had transferred from Jingfu.

At Han University’s opening ceremony, Professor Jiang Qingyuan’s arrival drew a crowd, and freshman representative Chen Fan took the stage to deliver his speech. The chapter ended with Chen Fan looking across the auditorium and meeting Jiang Qingyuan’s gaze.

• Chen Fan and Fatty Wang arrived at the crowded auditorium, where students discussed Chen Fan and Jiang Qingyuan.
• President Zhou Zhengyuan welcomed the freshmen, then introduced the newly recruited Professor Jiang Qingyuan, whose appearance drew loud applause and cheers.
• Li Mo decided to make Chen Fan his goal, but Little White mocked his chances after hearing Chen Fan’s accomplishments.
• The host invited Chen Fan to speak as the freshman representative, and Chen Fan walked to the lectern amid the audience’s excited attention.
• Chen Fan surveyed the auditorium and settled his gaze on Jiang Qingyuan at the edge of the dais.

Chen Fan delivered a humorous, down-to-earth address as the freshman representative, impressing the audience. Afterward, Dean Lü told him that Professor Shen Moru would arrive that afternoon to discuss joint training, while Jiang Qingyuan planned to test Chen Fan and oversee the arrangements.

• Chen Fan exchanged greetings with Jiang Qingyuan and privately examined her cultivation and talents through his system panel.
• Chen Fan joked about the testing fee before giving an address that urged students to stay grounded, follow the Immortal Palace's rules, and pursue Foundation Establishment in every category.
• The audience applauded Chen Fan's speech, and Dean Lü praised him backstage before explaining that Professor Shen Moru would arrive to discuss joint training.
• Jiang Qingyuan told her assistant she wanted to test Chen Fan and ensure the joint training arrangements helped him develop properly.

Chen Fan received the rewards for completing the joint-training quest and discovered that his new trait and cultivation method had transformed his spiritual sea. After his Luofu Society was approved, he followed Jiang Qingyuan to her residence to begin one-on-one lessons.

• The universities finalized Chen Fan’s joint-training arrangement, including one-on-one instruction from Jiang Qingyuan and a move into her residence.
• Chen Fan completed the quest and received the Diagram of the Five Supreme Dao Evolutions and the Aperture of the Mysterious Female trait.
• Chen Fan found that his spiritual sea had become chaotic and calm, and that his false fire Spirit Root was beginning to change.
• Jiang Qingyuan sensed Chen Fan’s transformation and wondered whether he had awakened a special physique or was hiding another secret.
• Chen Fan learned that his Luofu Society had been approved and told Jiang Qingyuan he now had an organization of his own.
• Jiang Qingyuan invited Chen Fan to choose a room at her residence and said their lessons would begin that afternoon.

Chen Fan moved into Jiang Qingyuan’s luxurious courtyard and began private lessons on Spirit Roots. Jiang Qingyuan explained their origins and warned him to focus on building a firm foundation while his Spirit Root transformed.

• Jiang Qingyuan showed Chen Fan her courtyard and invited him to use its facilities and choose a spare room.
• Chen Fan unpacked upstairs and reflected on how far he had come since studying in an orphanage in Pingzhou.
• Jiang Qingyuan began teaching Chen Fan and explained that his progress in the four-year joint training program would depend on his effort.
• Jiang Qingyuan described how the Immortal Palace nurtured Spirit Roots from undying spiritual objects and recovered them when needed.
• Jiang Qingyuan told Chen Fan that his Spiritual Qi absorption rate was nearing mid-grade and advised him to strengthen his foundation during his Spirit Root’s transformation.

Chen Fan attempted to comprehend the second stage of the Diagram of the Five Supreme Dao Evolutions, but the Aperture of the Mysterious Female activated and forced his spiritual sea through the five realms. His spiritual sea transformed into a boundless sea of chaos that Chen Fan could not control, and Jiang Qingyuan rushed to intervene.

• Chen Fan struggled to understand the principles of the five realms after Jiang Qingyuan's explanation left him confident about the basics.
• The Aperture of the Mysterious Female activated and flooded Chen Fan's mind with the evolution framework of the five realms.
• Chen Fan's spiritual sea cycled through Supreme Change, Supreme Beginning, Supreme Inception, Supreme Simplicity, and Supreme Ultimate, forming thirty-six Spirit Veins.
• The new Spirit Veins dissolved, and Chen Fan's spiritual sea expanded into a boundless sea of chaos as his body and meridians began to suffer.
• Jiang Qingyuan sensed the out-of-control transformation, reached the third-floor meditation room, and opened the door.

Jiang Qingyuan stabilized Chen Fan as the Five Supreme Origins transformed his spiritual sea, opening a rift to pour primal Qi into him. Her Mahayana manifestation appeared over Xuzhou, alarming its cultivators and the Netherworld Ghost Domain, whose leaders went to investigate.

• Jiang Qingyuan recognized that Chen Fan's weak soul and low cultivation could not control the transformation of his spiritual sea.
• Jiang Qingyuan suppressed the chaos in Chen Fan's spiritual sea and drew primal Qi through a rift in space to stabilize it.
• Jiang Qingyuan summoned a vast Mahayana manifestation over Xuzhou, and cultivators across the region felt its pressure.
• The Netherworld Ghost Domain sounded alarms and activated its defenses after sensing the Mahayana presence near the border.
• Tianzhao Mingyin led senior figures toward the border to find out why the Immortal Palace's Mahayana had appeared.