[{"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-43":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},2293815,4487,"Chapter 43: Who Could Have Thought a Master Could Misjudge Too?","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-43",43,"\u003Cp>After receiving a promise from Ya Zi to immediately ship goods from Gangdu, Feng Xue locked the door, returned to the study he had kept empty, and took out a small table, incense, and candles from the Hutian Bag to prepare the altar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, he finally began setting up a proper ritual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ritual may sound mysterious, but in truth, it is merely an external refinement and guidance of one’s Qi, making it easier to produce corresponding transformations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This external guidance generally consists of two parts—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ritual】 and 【Trajectory】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ritual】 refers to the ceremony: a fixed behavioral template.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Trajectory】 refers to the path: the process of Qi transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using chemistry as a metaphor—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ritual】 is the experimental procedure: heating potassium permanganate yields oxygen; mixing hydrogen and oxygen in proportion and igniting them produces steam. Even if you don’t know why, completing this procedure guarantees the result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Trajectory】 is the chemical equation: the theoretical foundation of the process. Once you fully understand the theory, you can achieve the same result through other means without relying on the ritual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the 【Ritual】 of the Ignition Spell involves merging Qi with flame, granting Qi the properties of heat and combustion. Thus, novices often need to hold candles or torches, looking like frauds who pretend to spit fire after swallowing cornstarch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 【Trajectory】, however, is the process of Qi transformation itself. Once you master the steps of heating, accelerating, and shaping Qi, you can produce flame directly without any fire as a medium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When learning a new spell, one typically begins with the 【Ritual】, using fixed forms to guide Qi into transformation, then studying the details of that transformation to deduce the 【Trajectory】. Once you can perform the spell’s 【Trajectory】 purely through Qi, without relying on the 【Ritual】, you can cast spells barehanded, and even inscribe your deduced 【Trajectory】 onto objects to create artifacts or talismans that activate automatically upon inputting Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 【Ritual】 of the Jade Nourishment Spell consists of a pinch of jade powder, a fine piece of jade, and a lump of ordinary stone. Place the jade to be nourished at the center of the triangle formed by these three, first channeling Qi into the jade powder to slowly transform it toward the essence of jade. Once this step is complete, divide the Qi into three parts and channel them into the lump, the fine jade, and the ordinary jade respectively, using the lump and fine jade as benchmarks to adjust the structure and veins of the nourished jade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sounds simple: a comparison test, removing the stone-like portions and rearranging them into the structure of fine jade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in practice…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue was already stuck at the first step—he couldn’t even transform his Qi into 【Jade】-attribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, this was an advanced form of the Lightning Summoning Spell. Compared to active properties like fire or lightning, 【Jade】 is far more dense. Qi in motion does not coagulate; Qi at rest does not change. Even with jade powder as a reference, it was like asking a complete beginner to sketch a plaster statue—getting even a crooked shape would count as talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This isn’t even meant for someone at my level! Is that old man tricking me? How could a normal newbie afford to waste so much Qi?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Feng Xue controlled the flow of Qi, he muttered inwardly. Only his prior practice with the Spirit-Infusing Spell had given him some insight into Qi stability; otherwise, he might not even have managed to keep his released Qi lingering in the jade powder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, Feng Xue had misunderstood. The Jade-Resolving Scripture was never meant for novices, and the old man clearly didn’t hand out cultivation techniques to just anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gave it to Feng Xue because he noticed the jade seal Feng Xue carried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, before entering the Dao, an Xuan Xiu’s Qi is extremely scarce. Refining one’s life weapon requires slow, painstaking effort over years. To reach the completion level of Feng Xue’s jade seal, one would need to polish it day after day for over a decade to make the Qi on it appear as fresh and vivid as if just infused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the elder’s eyes, since Feng Xue could forge such a life weapon and had already mastered the Spirit-Infusing Spell to such a “natural” level, he was effectively on par with a Dao-initiated cultivator. At his age, achieving such mastery in both life weapon and soul cultivation was rare. The elder had begun to feel a flicker of admiration, and since Feng Xue’s jade seal was of low quality, he offered him this opportunity to prevent his decades of painstaking refinement from being limited by inferior base material.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, this wasn’t merely a favor. By learning the Jade-Resolving Method, even without becoming a disciple, Feng Xue would interact more frequently with jade and minerals. After a hundred years (post-death), when his soul returned to the Underworld, he would find it easier to join the elder’s sect for his next assignment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But who could have imagined that Feng Xue was nothing but brute force and cheating—he had poured into the jade an amount of Qi that ordinary Xuan Xiu would take six lifetimes to accumulate?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue, of course, knew nothing of the elder’s thoughts. He only assumed that since the elder could see his shallow cultivation (in the elder’s eyes, anyone not yet initiated was shallow), he must also have seen his soul strength—and would never give him a technique he couldn’t possibly learn. So his stubborn nature clashed with the Jade Nourishment Spell: when his Qi ran out, he sacrificed his lifespan to squeeze out vital energy, then cultivated more Qi and kept fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, his practice of the Spirit-Infusing Spell had given him ample experience in Qi control. By late night, a new term finally appeared above Feng Xue’s head—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Jade Transformation: Convert Qi into 【Jade】-attribute, possessing the qualities of hardness, density, purity, and stability.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got it!” Feng Xue’s eyes lit up. The tension he’d forced himself to maintain snapped, and he immediately felt exhausted and hungry. He yanked off his ring and tossed it aside:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You look like a person! Go make something to eat!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh!” Liu Yunxi had barely touched the ground before she transformed into human form. Hearing Feng Xue’s order, she spoke no word of protest—she was hungry too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Feng Xue had ruined her cultivation. Now, she couldn’t even abstain from food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Liu Yunxi cooked, Feng Xue locked the 【Jade Transformation】 term and experimented with this Qi. Though only a small part of the full Jade Nourishment Spell, this skill could be isolated and was no different from the Lightning Summoning Spell, the Ignition Spell, or even the yet-unlearned Golden Body Spell. But unlike fire, lightning, or golden body—whose applications were obvious from their names—the 【Jade】-attribute Qi, radiating a soft luster, was far more abstract.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recalling how he had applied transformed Qi in the Lightning Summoning and Ignition Spells, Feng Xue pointed two fingers like a sword at the lump of stone on the altar. A pale white glow shot from his fingertip—but it wobbled wildly. Even with his utmost control, at barely half a meter, it only grazed the stone’s edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Snap!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soft sound made Feng Xue pause in thought. The 【Jade】-attribute Qi was clearly denser than ordinary Qi, which barely stirred the air, and possessed some physical impact—but its power was no greater than throwing a stone, and even less accurate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So this kind of Qi isn’t suited for long-range attacks like the Lightning or Ignition Spells. It should be used like the Golden Body Spell—coated over the body to enhance defense, or hardened onto fists or weapons to increase physical damage?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding the system: because of the existence of the Underworld, the overall system of this world is Yin. Human Xuan Xiu are Lesser Yin (cultivating Yin spirit through Yang Qi), ghosts are Greater Yin (absorbing Yang Qi to cultivate Yin bodies), and demons are Supreme Yin (Supreme Yin lunar essence).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Yang systems exist too—such as demonic beasts and Wu Xiu—but, well, system development depends on environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this world, humans become ghosts after death, and Xuan Xiu can seamlessly switch to Yin cultivation. This results in a vast number of Yin-system cultivators lingering in the Underworld. Even if a Yang-system master emerges once in a generation, he might live a few centuries at most—after death, his cultivation dissipates, and he must still switch to Yin cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, there’s the issue of transmission. In a great catastrophe, Yang-system lineages easily break. But Yin-system lineages have ancestors below; summon them up, and the transmission resumes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, in this world, the Yin system’s dominance is inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if someone asks why demons, despite their large numbers, never built a civilization…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve already complained about this countless times. You can’t lump all demons together just because they’re called “yao,” any more than you can treat all foreigners as one group just because they’re called “foreigners.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Demons are numerous, but the chance of them gaining sentience is tiny, and their cultivation takes long. Without receiving a title or falling into demonic corruption, even a gifted one takes five hundred years to take human form, a thousand to become a great demon. In that time, humans can produce dozens of comparable masters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with the Emperor’s Dew, which triggers a demon surge every sixty years, newly awakened demons are merely longer-lived in their early stages—still easily handled by ordinary humans—and thus pose little threat to humanity as a whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1600,"2026-06-20T04:32:49.208Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","4b82d1b92e3a1f71abbe66a1136f432037292400431f7a45dfd6a72edbbb5367","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-44","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-42",365,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-cover.jpg"]