[{"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-92":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},2293864,4487,"Chapter 92: The Way to Win Is to Lose More!","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-92",92,"\u003Cp>Although Master Wang said it wasn’t necessary, Feng Xue followed the principle that nothing asked for should be free and paid fifteen guan to buy a piece of Hetian Qinghua seed material priced at that amount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way home, he still pondered the several possibilities Master Wang had mentioned, but after thinking it over, none seemed particularly plausible—whether it was a great demon born from an inanimate object or a true immortal wandering the mortal world, neither had any reason to involve him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It couldn’t possibly be that he was a one-in-ten-thousand cultivation prodigy, could it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue muttered to himself as he walked home, unaware that a figure was trailing him from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As expected, this brat can’t sense my tracking—he must see me face-to-face or use some kind of Heavenly Eye technique to notice anything unusual about me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maintaining a sufficient distance, the demonic cultivator used his superior spiritual perception to lock onto Feng Xue while pondering his next move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the usual logic of demonic cultivators, if someone posed a threat, the solution was simple: kill them. But if this involved the Breaking-Realm Human Tribulation, it became another matter entirely—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he had to consider whether his own tribulation was this brat, or the sect that might emerge from behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Xuan cultivation lineage always sends elders to avenge the young. Ordinary disciples are one thing, but this disciple, surrounded by a century-old spirit ghost and a millennium-old great demon, if killed, would surely drive his elders to madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even an uninitiated disciple noticed my uniqueness—how could his initiated elders, or even his ancestors in the Underworld, fail to track me down with near certainty?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if I ignore him, the sheer number of coincidental encounters between us in just two days clearly forged some karmic bond—if left unchecked, this karma will only grow stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demonic cultivator recalled the experiences of many elder demonic cultivators who had passed their Human Tribulations, and felt only helplessness: unlike the orthodox, demonic cultivators were not harmonious, so these experiences were rarely passed down orally; most were posthumous analyses conducted after someone had successfully passed their tribulation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And among these successful cases, none dared claim perfection—or rather, from a later observer’s perspective, most demonic cultivators who passed their tribulations made numerous low-level mistakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before passing their Human Tribulation, including himself, most demonic cultivators assumed these low-level mistakes were merely the tribulation’s influence on fortune—but after experiencing it firsthand, this demonic cultivator gained a new insight—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could these elders have deliberately suffered losses?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thought sounded absurd—after all, if you know you’re undergoing a tribulation, deliberately making mistakes is just suicide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But upon closer reflection, it seemed to carry some merit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Human Tribulation is, after all, the Dao of Humanity’s resistance to a demonic cultivator’s breakthrough—but this resistance isn’t infinite; the greater your karmic sins, the greater the tribulation you face. The amount of evil karma one accumulates is finite, so the tribulation must be finite too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those demonic cultivators who try to evade their Human Tribulation invariably suffer catastrophic tribulations at the last moment precisely because their evil karma was never neutralized by the tribulation, so it all erupted at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So that’s it! This is the key to passing the Human Tribulation!” The demonic cultivator felt a sudden flash of enlightenment, and his entire mindset cleared instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the principle “no double punishment for a single offense” holds true—whether those elders acted intentionally or by accident, if they kept suffering misfortunes and losses during the tribulation, it was equivalent to having already paid their karmic debt; thus, when the final reckoning came, that portion would be deducted. So if you cash out your karma early, the final tribulation’s intensity will be lower, and your chances of survival higher!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this realization, the demonic cultivator’s thinking opened up instantly—he completely discarded all his previous schemes and plots, because he now understood: the more he won now, the harder he would lose later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he must lose!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But losing had to be done skillfully—if he lost everything too early, it would be suicide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, the demonic cultivator’s attention once again fixed on Feng Xue, because his intuition told him this brat was the key to his tribulation—whether for life or death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mr. Feng!” As Feng Xue reached his doorstep, he saw a familiar face; his already tense expression darkened instantly—until he saw the man’s lifespan above his head, then he relaxed slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you want?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Feng Xue’s displeased expression, the broker’s face also turned grim, but he still spoke up:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Today’s train was delayed—heard it was held up by bandits, but they only stole some red goods. Your refrigerator is fine, but the train broke down and needs to be towed back; it won’t arrive until tomorrow. When will you be free tomorrow?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue, though not particularly concerned—he’d grown used to having a refrigerator, but in this winter cold, it wasn’t essential—knew he couldn’t show goodwill now, so he scowled: “I’m free tomorrow, but that kind of large appliance is delicate. If you bring me a broken one, you’d better think hard about the consequences.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No way! Absolutely not! If it doesn’t work, our brokerage will buy you a brand-new one ourselves! If I break my word, may lightning strike me dead the moment I step outside!” The broker raised his right hand and swore, but Feng Xue made no move to stop him—instead, he watched with interest as the man finished speaking. This made the broker break into cold sweat; only now did he remember that this man before him was apparently a master of lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Internally trembling, he still forced a confident expression—and all of this was observed from afar by the demonic cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So he bought something big from the broker? A refrigerator… what’s that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demonic cultivator considered it briefly, then set it aside, waiting quietly until Feng Xue entered the house before casting a concealment spell and silently creeping toward the residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, for a “top-tier mortal” like him, casting a concealment spell was riskier than not casting one—but what else could he do? If he got detected by the great demon or spirit ghost as he approached, then got chased, and took a few spells to the face—wasn’t that already a tribulation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, he couldn’t deliberately expose himself—even with the concealment spell, he had to cast it properly. But he was certain that even if he suppressed his spiritual energy to the bare minimum, the millennium-old great demon would still sense him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s going on? Where’s the great demon? Where’s the spirit ghost?” The demonic cultivator, pressed against the courtyard wall, stared blankly—he couldn’t fathom how he’d gotten this close without anyone coming to beat him up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could they be practicing dual cultivation?” Recalling the strange attire of the snake spirit from earlier, the demonic cultivator couldn’t help but imagine that—and spat inwardly. He gathered his spiritual energy into his fingertip and, like a gecko, climbed over the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, why does your spirit ghost have a round-mirror? No wonder I climbed through the window and still wasn’t spotted!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Note ①: This mechanism is easy to understand—it’s like repaying a debt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karma is the debt you owe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tribulation is your repayment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Human Tribulation is the final due date.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more you repay early, the less you owe on the due date.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if you refuse to pay until the end, the entire debt crashes down on you—and you may not survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This theory may seem familiar to long-time readers, because I previously used it to explain the Saint Lord’s stupidity in my Dragon Adventure fanfiction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply put, the Saint Lord couldn’t use his Shadow Army to find talismans, spellbooks, or the Pangu Treasure Box—he deliberately chose a group of idiots because only by constantly making blunders could he raise righteous energy, lower the balance’s suppression of demonic energy (in fact, yin-yang energy), and have any chance of resurrection when the New Year’s bell rang. If he succeeded too early, his yin energy would be too overwhelming, triggering a yang backlash and reducing his success rate. Of course, in reality, he still didn’t suffer enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conversely, Little Dragon was unlucky enough to gather all eight demonic energies, forcing the Saint Lord to drag him down to hell to balance things with yin suppressing yin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>PS: If you don’t like this book, don’t read it. Don’t jump out to seek attention. If you have legitimate criticism—plot holes, illogical moments, stupidity—go ahead and roast it; blunt tone is fine, veteran readers understand. But if you’re just venting emotion, showing off, thinking you’re superior and trying to teach me how to write—go elsewhere. Don’t ruin my mood here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lastly, about “padding”: isn’t laying out the setting before going paid considered padding?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1481,"2026-06-20T04:32:49.208Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","46e27d87e36f724df3f7b86153a0d460fd424301dbe595ac80770ecc645a0c6e","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-93","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-91",365,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-cover.jpg"]