[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky":3,"chapter-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-100":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Must Immediately Strike It Lucky",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2293872,4487,"Chapter 100: What Is Suì?","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-100",100,"\u003Cp>Seeing Feng Xue’s bewildered expression, Wang Laoyezi was slightly surprised:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you weren’t after last night’s ‘suì,’ why buy the Five Elements jade?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My sect has a technique requiring a full set of Five Elements and yin-yang; the seed stone I bought earlier matched the yin-yang perfectly, so I thought I’d just complete the full set here with you, saving myself the trouble of hunting for them later.” Feng Xue had prepared this answer in advance—he’d already stored all his artifacts in the Hutian Bag, keeping only two or three lifesaving items on his person, confident the old man wouldn’t notice anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though curious, Wang Laoyezi was a righteous xuan cultivator; hearing it concerned someone’s technique, he asked no further, merely turned and entered the shop, selected and sorted, then emerged with five pieces of jade:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All Kunlun jade (commonly called Qinghai material)—the best Five Elements jade in the country. I’ll give you a discount: seventy guan. As for top-grade Hetian jade, yellow and red varieties are too rare; completing a full set is nearly impossible… and the cost-to-benefit ratio is poor. Better to wait until you’ve entered the Dao and cultivate them yourself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Wang Laotou say this, Feng Xue didn’t press further, pulling out money as he said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By your tone, are there better ones abroad?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Feng Xue latch onto his words, Wang Laotou felt a surge of satisfaction, yet maintained the demeanor of a senior master, nodding:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Burmese pigeon-blood rubies, Colombian emeralds, American obsidian, Danish amber, plus Hetian white jade—that was a set assembled by a senior from the imperial treasury when the last dynasty fell. It’s currently the highest-tier Five Elements configuration. But since jade-cultivation methods don’t work on the other four, and their circulation is limited, no one studies them seriously. Acquiring natural top-grade specimens is hardly easier than getting the five-colored Hetian jade.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn, so far-flung…” Feng Xue mentally grumbled, yet found it odd—obsidian is black, yes, but it spews from volcanoes; even if not fire-aligned, it should be earth-aligned. Amber is fossilized resin—why isn’t it wood or fire? But then again, the five-colored jade has little to do with the Five Elements either; he’d treat it as a black box, studying its principles later when conditions allowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Storing the information on the five-colored gems in his mind, Feng Xue settled the payment, tucked the five uniform jade seals into his Hutian Bag, then asked about the earlier matter:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old man, you mentioned ‘suì’ just now? What exactly is that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t know?” Wang Laoyezi was puzzled, but remembering he’d only heard it himself that morning from his unworthy disciple, he adopted a gossipy tone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s nothing major—just an annual issue. But this year, the ‘suì’ is inexplicably stronger than before, starting over ten days early, even disturbing the earth’s qi…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So what exactly is this ‘suì’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue scratched his head, then slapped his forehead:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You mean the ‘Sui’ from the New Year’s monster?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ugh!” At Feng Xue’s words, Wang Laoyezi’s face darkened. He sighed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These days’ youth—if you were my disciple, I’d beat you senseless!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh?” Feng Xue was baffled. Seeing this, Wang Laoyezi sighed again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That damn ‘New Year’s monster’? A recent invention by some novelist. Once the article went viral, everyone started spreading it—now people act like you’re illiterate if you don’t know it! Only you youngsters fall for it. Twenty years ago, did anyone ever hear of a New Year’s monster? Did you hear of it as a child?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“‘Xi’ in New Year’s Eve isn’t a monster—it means ‘evening.’ ‘Nian’ means ‘year,’ a time unit. You’re an xuan cultivator—haven’t you studied Small Seal script? Recognized Jinwen? Don’t you know what ‘person’ plus ‘grain’ means? A character symbolizing harvest—you call it a monster?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The ‘suì’ I mean is homophonous with ‘evil spirit.’ The ‘New Year’s money’ suppresses this ‘suì.’ The New Year’s monster is just a corrupted version of the ‘suì’ legend, mixed with tales of firecrackers driving away demons and frightening beasts. Look closely at the New Year’s monster’s image—it’s just a Suoni! Who puts a New Year’s monster on an incense burner? And Suoni loves smoke—why would it fear red and firecrackers?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Laoyezi spoke with such fervor, clearly holding deep resentment over this. Feng Xue realized he’d stepped on a landmine. With no urgent matters, he decided to let the old man vent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps Feng Xue’s obedient demeanor made the old man slightly embarrassed—he gradually lowered his voice, cleared his throat twice, and steered the topic back:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In short, think of ‘suì’ as a naturally born phantom spirit. You know how higher qi becomes purer, and higher devotion becomes more refined?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know.” Feng Xue nodded. With a willing listener, Wang Laoyezi continued comfortably:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Devotion is born from human thoughts. The purest portion is light and clear, slowly rising from devotion into the sky; the impure part is heavy and turbid, sinking to the ground and seeping into the earth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These devotions don’t vanish—they combine with earthly sha qi, forming phantom spirits akin to evil entities. The more they accumulate, the more troublesome they become. After one massive outbreak caused great harm, elders began deliberately triggering their detonation at regular intervals.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since the general consensus holds that the New Year marks the end and beginning of a year, accompanied by rituals, the elders deliberately aligned the suì’s outbreak with the New Year, using the flood of holiday devotion to cleanse the evil spirits.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In past years, these evil spirits emerged only on the 29th of the 12th lunar month. As long as you held through the 30th, the great devotion of ‘saying farewell to the old and welcoming the new’ would purify them. But this year, for reasons unknown, they began surfacing as early as the 16th. Combined with the recent mutated corpse puppets, many suspect someone is secretly meddling…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you mean the county plans to organize a sweep?” Feng Xue thought of the way the wealthy had looked at him earlier—he was now slightly combat-capable, but only slightly. If he fought, his weakness would be exposed. If it were just the evil spirits, fine—but people’s hearts are hidden. Who knew if some xuan cultivator might, in a moment of error, develop ill intentions?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, Feng Xue even considered abandoning the Three Periods guidance from the master and just fleeing on blind luck—but then Wang Laoyezi’s next words calmed him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you thinking? We’ve searched before—didn’t we find nothing? At times like this, don’t act. Just wait calmly. Hold firm for this ten-day period, and when you send off the Stove God and welcome the Jade Emperor, all demonic cultivators and evil spirits will be nothing but clay chickens and paper dogs! Do you know why the suì waits until the 29th to appear? Because the gods are on holiday!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1141,"2026-06-20T04:32:49.208Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e0a8c9fbbfd3a2adac9becde93304a656334856b45534f06e2831ded222c2a8a","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-101","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-99",365,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-cover.jpg"]