[{"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-109":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},2293881,4487,"Chapter 109: Receiving the Jade Emperor (First Chapter)","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-109",109,"\u003Cp>Feng Xue sat quietly in his assigned dorm room, protected by the prayer power of the Stove God; aside from Liu Yunxi’s moonlight gathering being slightly disturbed, he found it far more peaceful than practicing at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue sat at the center of the room and began charging the Five-Colored Jade Seal. The day’s combat had given him much insight—and revealed several problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, since Qi replenishment was easy, he had always recharged only after depleting it completely. But this time, the Fire and Earth Qi failed to replenish in time, rendering his self-developed technique unusable—making him realize he must buy another set of jade stones to alternate, and never drain his Qi completely during training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time only Fire and Earth Qi fell short; next time, if trouble strikes right after training ends, he’d be truly stuck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll go buy another set from Wang Laoyezi tomorrow, but I’m short on cash… Gold as a Qi conductor can’t be replaced yet—I should keep the gold bars the county chief gave me and my gold beans… I’ll pawn two watches. Hmm, with my current reputation, the pawnshop won’t dare cheat me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue mentally planned his next steps while his hands never stopped—each jade seal was gradually filled, and Mo Ying, having consumed vast amounts of Qi, finally recovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet she still refused to speak; after eating Qi, she slipped back into the painting. Unless Feng Xue picked up a magnifying glass and peered closely, he might have suspected she’d been electrocuted into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Forget it. Kids throw tantrums—feed her well and let her rest a few days.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue sighed inwardly, glancing at Liu Yunxi, who was arranging the altar. At least she was easy to deal with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you doing over there? The Stove God ritual’s already over.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Stove God ritual is done, but tomorrow we must receive the Jade Emperor! And as a demon, I can’t handle this myself—I can only set up the altar. At midnight, you must place three cups of tea and five cups of wine, arranged in pairs, never odd numbers. I just asked the innkeeper—the local customs for receiving the Jade Emperor are nearly identical to what the Fox Immortal Grandma described. So tomorrow, don’t speak loudly, and neither I nor Mo Ying should linger near the offering table.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she spoke, Liu Yunxi recalled the local taboos she’d inquired about when securing the altar from the innkeeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Stove God ritual as a warning, Feng Xue naturally took care to note every detail. Compared to sending off the Stove God, receiving the Jade Emperor was far more complicated—but thankfully, the inn wasn’t his home; tasks like laying lime on the ground or replacing deity paintings were handled by staff, so he didn’t have to worry about buying supplies late at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the government had far more elaborate procedures, but with Luocheng County’s small size, it lacked the authority to hold official rituals—Feng Xue didn’t need to consider whether his Xuan cultivation status might get him invited to participate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With time still remaining, Feng Xue found a side room, fed his soul-spirit, and had Mo Ying thoroughly cleanse the Qi before returning to the main hall to wait for midnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time slipped second by second. Liu Yunxi had climbed to the inn’s rooftop to gather moonlight, and Feng Xue had practiced dozens of pages of ritual diagrams. When the watch’s hour hand finally reached twelve, a peculiar sensation descended from the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue immediately switched his perspective to third-person—and saw the radiant splendor descending from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the feeling of sending off the Stove God, this radiance resembled a long rainbow falling from the sky—indistinct, unclear, yet he faintly sensed something traveling down along that light into the mortal world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prayer wall opened during the Stove God ritual merged with the radiant light; the entire world felt as if it had risen from suffocating underwater into crisp, dry land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Feng Xue’s attention was not on this—he noticed, at the edge of his vision, certain numbers were increasing abnormally!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It increases lifespan!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, Feng Xue unsealed his lifespan, watching his own age from a shoulder-level view while calming his mind, silently repeating the wish: “Long life.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a sensation like surfacing from deep underwater to breathe flooded his heart—each breath felt healthier, younger. The number above his head began to climb. With ironclad discipline, he suppressed all wandering thoughts, focusing solely on “increase lifespan.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the sensation slowly faded, Feng Xue felt a quiet sense of loss. He looked up—the number had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“3323… increased by fifty-nine… no, wait—it’s past midnight, so sixty days? Receiving the Jade Emperor grants sixty days of yang lifespan? Too bad it only happens once a year—nine years would only add a year and a bit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue shook his head slightly, resealed his lifespan, and sighed inwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But thinking of this, he immediately pulled out his phone and checked the perpetual calendar, looking for other similarly beneficial days in Chinese folk tradition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, there weren’t any. Aside from the Jade Emperor’s annual descent to inspect the mortal realm, the rest were either the Queen Mother’s birthday—though peaches were involved, useless if you couldn’t reach heaven—or receiving the God of Wealth, sending off the God of Poverty, or the Three Yuan Festivals—all clearly unrelated to wishing or extending life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come to think of it, anything related to longevity and health falls under the Southern Pole Long-Life Great Emperor… but judging from Master Li’s earlier remarks, sects that worship him seem to have vanished for a long time… Wait, could I cultivate my own virtual deity that extends lifespan?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the sky—where the prayer power from the Stove God had merged and now floated silently, motionless—Feng Xue shook his head lightly and stopped thinking further. He sat quietly before the Jade Emperor’s painting, meditating as Liu Yunxi had advised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At dawn, Feng Xue refilled the oil lamp and replaced the incense and candles to maintain the day’s offerings, then left the inn, taking Liu Yunxia—now a ring—with him to shop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because receiving the Jade Emperor required staying up all night, storytellers across Mancheng had all chosen last night to write new tales. By the time Feng Xue stepped out, his story of transforming into a silver-armored divine general who struck down demons with thunder was already being told in roadside teahouses and taverns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally hearing the storyteller cry, “Feng Daoist shouted, ‘Demon, where are you running?’” Feng Xue felt his cheeks burn and quickened his pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the rapid spread had its benefits—when he went to the pawnshop, the owner, upon seeing him, didn’t even haggle, paying him triple the previous price for his two watches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a bag full of cash, Feng Xue, now flush with money, went straight to the bank and exchanged most of it for small gold ingots. He had Wang Laoyezi select four sets of Five-Element Jade, ensuring he could sustain Qi nonstop even in prolonged battles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was fortunate Wang Laoyezi himself knew how to nurture jade—otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to produce so many uniformly high-quality Five-Colored Jade stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet just as everything seemed to be going smoothly, Feng Xue halted as he stepped out of the flower and bird market—Liu Yunxi, hanging from his fingertip, suddenly jerked twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensing the white snake’s secret signal, Feng Xue immediately feigned scratching his head, bringing his hand to his ear, and heard Liu Yunxi whisper:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re being watched!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1263,"2026-06-20T04:32:49.208Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1dddee33a082a6827be8c5eaf878e1c2380947858913385194f30195854ae002","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-110","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-108",365,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-cover.jpg"]