[{"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-323":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},2294095,4487,"Chapter 323: The Actions of Important Figures Are Often Overinterpreted","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-323",323,"\u003Cp>“That rat spirit isn’t simple—don’t get tricked by her.” After Bai Yi left, Liu Yunxi finally spoke to warn him. Feng Xue shrugged:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She’s at least a spirit living in a human city, so she should have some restraint. Besides, our Emperor Flow isn’t easy to come by—any useful thing she offers, we’re not losing. But come to think of it—is she really a rat? Doesn’t feel like the gray mouse on Deng’s girl at all!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Definitely not the same kind. Deng’s girl’s gray mouse was originally a household immortal. This rat spirit is a great demon—her exact cultivation level is hard to gauge, but her spiritual attainment won’t be lower than five hundred years.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When speaking of what she understood, Liu Yunxi’s mood lifted. Feng Xue, curious, brought over two stools, brewed tea, and smiled:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell me more.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unaccustomed to Feng Xue’s attitude, Liu Yunxi paused, then spoke:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Most animals seeking cultivation, aside from a few rare lineages born with innate spiritual awareness after countless generations, need rare herbs or treasures to awaken their consciousness—the most common being Emperor Flow.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Most such spirits focus on cultivation. Those awakened by Emperor Flow without special talents usually draw in lunar essence. But exceptions exist—crows absorb solar essence, wangling absorb mist and miasma. Of course, some evil spirits, for various reasons, choose to plunder human qi and blood.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These spirits are fundamentally the same as human Xuan cultivators—they seek immortality, to attain true enlightenment. But just as only a handful among humans ever achieve Yangshen, so too are very few spirits able to truly attain enlightenment. Most still die, and due to their nature, many can’t even die peacefully (Note ①). After death, their spiritual souls, like human cultivators becoming ghost immortals, shift to becoming spirit immortals.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know that—but Deng’s girl’s isn’t like that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Feng Xue ask, Liu Yunxi naturally shook her head:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I said that, it’s clearly not! Household immortals of the Outriding Immortals, except the first generation which must be invited from outside, are cultivated internally. Simply put, you gather the souls of creatures of the same kind as the household immortal and worship them together. The ritual is like giving the household immortal a group of servants—like the minor spirits serving deities. Though not officially ranked, they absorb some incense offerings.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These animal souls are called ‘Bao Ma’ by Outriding Immortals—the lowest tier of household immortals, used for taking death in place, protection, or delivering messages. They’re consumables. You burned quite a few with one Yin Thunder.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But Bao Ma are easy to cultivate. With a large base, some lucky ones survive, growing stronger under incense nourishment, gradually awakening spiritual awareness and becoming true spirit immortals. Outriding Immortals usually operate by family line. Aside from the earliest ancestral spirit, nearly all are cultivated step by step from Bao Ma. It takes longer, but the risk is lower.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue nodded in understanding, but he was practical—origin didn’t matter much. He cut straight to the point:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So what’s the real difference between these two kinds of spirit immortals?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course there is!” Liu Yunxi answered sharply—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“During cultivation, spirits awaken various innate talents. For example, didn’t I previously strengthen my physical body? As cultivation advances, a spirit’s innate abilities multiply. Even after becoming a spirit immortal, these talents remain. A physical enhancement talent, for instance, can still boost the Outriding Immortal it possesses. But animal souls rising from Bao Ma begin as spiritual bodies, cultivating only the soul—so they have no such innate abilities.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No wonder that gray immortal was so weak…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue murmured. Liu Yunxi fell silent, feeling it sounded like flattery to say “it’s because you’re strong,” so she just shook her head and dropped the subject.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two sipped tea and chatted idly. It was lucky Feng Xue had been drained so badly last night—otherwise, they might’ve drifted back into the bedroom again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Feng Xue was studying the pleasures of the boudoir, while Bai Yi was rushing from place to place. As a great demon who had cultivated for centuries, her network in the region was vast. But this matter couldn’t be entrusted to underlings—she had to visit each household, ask each person herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, one drop of Emperor Flow wasn’t worth such effort—even if the substance was worth dozens of martial body cultivation lineages, it hardly justified her personal time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But deals aren’t judged by surface value. Ignoring the Emperor Flow itself, behind it lies a terrifying figure capable of producing Emperor Flow on New Year’s Eve. From that angle, it’s more than worth it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether he collected it himself or not, it’s the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he did—even by chance—he might still replicate the entire process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he didn’t, he still possesses the technology to preserve Emperor Flow for forty years. In another decade or so, if he stores more, it’s no different from a steady energy source.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention she’d personally seen the flawless white jade statue holding Emperor Flow. The perfect jade itself is proof of lineage; the fact it can hold Emperor Flow proves the authenticity of the moon deity he worships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To not cultivate a relationship with such a figure would be foolish!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Bai Yi’s movement stirred unease in others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As one of the strongest cultivators in the harbor city, Bai Yi drew considerable attention. With no one knowing her intent, just watching her visit household after household, a sense of impending storm spread through the harbor city’s cultivator circles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially among those unfamiliar with Bai Yi or the younger generation—they began speculating wildly. But soon, everyone inevitably linked their thoughts back to last night’s incident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though only a night had passed, the fact that the Japanese had attempted to use malevolent spirits to disrupt the harbor city’s feng shui and affect the Central Plains’ dragon veins was no longer a secret. The reason no war had broken out yet: first, the city’s civilian population was too large—open conflict would inevitably harm innocents; second, those capable were currently conducting investigations, since no one could be sure last night’s site was the only node.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, this wasn’t lost on just the harbor city’s cultivators. Japanese agents posing as civilians or merchants had also discovered Bai Yi’s movements through various means.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside a Korean pharmacy, a Japanese man dressed as a Korean, listening to his informant’s report, frowned deeply. After hesitation, he summoned his subordinate:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Using malevolent spirits alone couldn’t trigger such a commotion—it must mean our plan is exposed! Quick, notify the homeland! Immediately!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1092,"2026-06-20T04:32:50.332Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","06ef7ee90fd7b01fb2aa6d1370287e6eb5428f3e1e394e466ab3bfd552350015","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-324","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-322",365,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-cover.jpg"]