Recaps

Jiuli’s cooking incapacitated Ouyang Ming, Feng Fei, and a kitchen full of cooks, prompting Chu Xinghe to summon the Everlasting Spring Palace for help. Nangong Yan and her disciples failed to identify the supposed poison and were knocked down too, while Ouyang Ming woke up with an unexpected taste for the food and promptly collapsed again after another bite.

• Ouyang Ming and Feng Fei ate Jiuli’s cooking and fell over, and curious cooks who tried it soon joined them.
• Chu Xinghe summoned Nangong Yan, whose examination found no poison despite the victims’ symptoms.
• An Everlasting Spring Palace disciple tested the food and collapsed, prompting Nangong Yan to order more disciples to try it.
• Jiuli explained that the victims had been overcome by her cooking, and the Everlasting Spring Palace disciples fell one after another.
• Ouyang Ming woke up, realized the food was more terrifying than poison, and then fell over again while eating another bite.

Jiuli’s cooking wreaked havoc among the Everlasting Spring Palace and Ouyang Lineage, while Chu Xinghe sealed the dangerous Formless Heart Sutra after Elder He failed to find a safe way to use it. The chapter ended with Yan Shoujing preparing to lure Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Sect into Wu Xingyun’s fishing plan.

• Nangong Yan’s disciples packed up Jiuli’s cooking, and Ouyang Ming woke again praising it and asking for more.
• Wuj iang Holy Mother arrived, recounted Jiuli’s disastrous cooking history, and forbade her from cooking again, but Ouyang Ming defended her food.
• Nangong Yan’s tests showed that Jiuli’s cooking amplified poisons, while the Ouyang Lineage obtained some and eagerly ate it despite repeatedly fainting.
• Elder He told Chu Xinghe that every safe route for using the Formless Heart Sutra had failed, so Chu Xinghe persuaded the sect master and grand elder to seal it away.
• Yan Shoujing learned from Wu Xingyun that the fishing plan was ready and resolved to use it to swindle Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Sect.

After Jiuli returned to the Wuj iang to prepare for her wedding, Chu Xinghe remained uninterested in the Gate of Ruins until he learned that opening it required enormous amounts of resources. He joined an expedition intending to spend those resources and escape immediately, unaware that Yan Shoujing was luring him into the Demonic Sect’s scheme to drain the righteous path.

• The Wuj iang Holy Mother and Yan Shoujing supported Chu Xinghe’s plan for a grand teleportation-array wedding procession, and Jiuli returned to the Wuj iang to prepare.
• Chu Xinghe waited for the Misfortune Compass to react and repeatedly refused Yan Shoujing’s attempts to persuade him to visit the Gate of Ruins.
• Yan Shoujing explained that opening the Gate of Ruins required vast resources, while the Demonic Sect’s Dark Moon Shuttle secretly siphoned away everything invested in it.
• Chu Xinghe eagerly agreed to join the expedition so he could throw in resources and leave with a Flute of Space and Time before the ruins opened.
• The grand elder formed a team without Ma Liang, Mu Bai, or Feng Yuzheng, while Yan Shoujing celebrated the prospect of using Chu Xinghe to advance the Demonic Sect’s Fishing Plan.

Chu Xinghe reached the Nebula Mountain Range, where the Gate of the Ruins had attracted forces from across the world but remained unopened despite their contributions. Unaware that Tantai Jing planned to profit from him, Chu Xinghe prepared to throw in resources all at once.

• Chu Xinghe brought twenty junior brothers and sisters to the Nebula Mountain Range after selecting them for prioritizing everyone's safety.
• Zheng Yu welcomed Chu Xinghe and explained that many factions had contributed resources to the Gate of the Ruins without opening it.
• Zheng Yu told Chu Xinghe that the gate's entry requirement depended on the cultivation of the person who opened it, so smaller forces sent weaker disciples to test it.
• Tantai Jing hid nearby and planned to use the Dark Moon Shuttle to make the gate respond, encouraging Chu Xinghe to spend more resources.
• Despite Zheng Yu advising him to contribute gradually, Chu Xinghe decided to go all in.

Chu Xinghe poured his entire fortune and every rare treasure he owned into a ruin gate, convinced it would never open, but the gate finally pulled him and the Vast Heaven Sect disciples inside. Tantai Jing learned that the Demonic Sect had never opened the real ruins because it was too poor, while Chu Xinghe's group celebrated their apparent windfall in the passage.

• Chu Xinghe ignored Zheng Yu's warning and poured tens of millions of spirit stones, including supreme-grade ones, into the ruin gate, then threw in all his rare treasures when it still did not open.
• The gate suddenly opened and sucked Chu Xinghe and the nearby Vast Heaven Sect disciples into the ruins, prompting the other factions to rush inside.
• Tantai Jing received information from the Dark Moon Shuttle revealing that the ruins were real and had required an enormous amount of spirit stones to open, which the Demonic Sect had never possessed.
• Tantai Jing led the Demonic Sect into the ruins, confident that the shuttle's information would let him claim the treasures.
• Chu Xinghe found himself in a dim passage with all the Vast Heaven Sect disciples safe, and they cheered that he had opened the ruins and that Vast Heaven would prosper.

Chu Xinghe led his junior brothers and sisters through the Nine Stars Concentric Grand Formation, hoping to avoid danger and delay the expedition, but his formation talent kept finding the correct paths. When Tantai Jing pursued them with a Yin Soul, Chu Xinghe announced he had an ingenious method and chose their route by tossing his shoe.

• Chu Xinghe discovered the maze was the deadly Nine Stars Concentric Grand Formation, and repeated attempts to escape with Flutes of Space and Time failed because the formation blocked teleportation.
• Chu Xinghe led his junior brothers and sisters along the correct paths, while they praised his formation mastery and he struggled to slow their progress.
• Tantai Jing entered the maze with four formation geniuses and used the Dark Moon Shuttle to guide a Yin Soul along the correct paths toward Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe destroyed the Yin Soul after it delivered Tantai Jing's threat, then reassured his frightened companions that he had an ingenious method.
• Chu Xinghe tossed his shoe into the air, treated the direction it pointed as the correct route, and ordered everyone to charge ahead.

Chu Xinghe used his shoe to choose paths through the Nine Stars Concentric Grand Formation, leaving Tantai Jing far behind as he advanced toward the City of Dark Moon. Tantai Jing sacrificed his followers to awaken the city’s spirit entities, then cleared the road so Chu Xinghe would enter his trap.

• Chu Xinghe repeatedly tossed his shoe at forks in the maze and safely led his junior brothers and sisters along the paths it pointed to.
• Tantai Jing used the Dark Moon Shuttle to track Chu Xinghe, but he fell farther behind as formations killed several of his followers.
• Tantai Jing gave his disciples pills, then killed them and used their blood to empower the Dark Moon Shuttle and escape the maze.
• Tantai Jing awakened the spirit entities in the City of Dark Moon, but discovered they could not leave the city to attack Chu Xinghe.
• Tantai Jing cleared the dangers between the maze’s exit and the City of Dark Moon, hoping to lure Chu Xinghe and other righteous-path prodigies into his trap.

Chu Xinghe led the Vast Heaven Sect disciples through the maze and reached the City of Dark Moon, but he refused to enter despite its visible treasures. He took a barren detour around the city, hoping to avoid treasure and danger, until a junior sister pointed out something ahead.

• Chu Xinghe used his shoe to choose paths through all nine layers of the Nine Stars Concentric Grand Formation, guiding the disciples through its 1,080 forks to the exit.
• Chu Xinghe led the disciples toward the City of Dark Moon while hoping for danger that would let him escape with the Flute of Space and Time, but they encountered no obstacles.
• Tantai Jing watched from inside the city and expected Chu Xinghe to enter the open gates, but Chu Xinghe instead turned toward a rough path around the city.
• Chu Xinghe warned the disciples that the easy-to-reach treasures seemed suspicious and led them away from the city to explore the barren route.
• As Chu Xinghe began teaching the disciples to sing, a junior sister pointed ahead, and Chu Xinghe froze at what he saw.

Chu Xinghe and his junior brothers and sisters were trapped inside a deathly village after its mysterious force redirected their teleportation, and an invisible attacker ambushed him. Chu Xinghe exposed and struck the attacker, who survived and called countless figures to his aid.

• Chu Xinghe used the Evil Repeller to hold back the black fog and crushed the Flute of Space and Time, but the village redirected their teleportation and left them inside its barrier.
• Chu Xinghe failed to break the barrier, and the black fog blocked the junior brothers and sisters' attempts to teleport away, so he led them toward the village under the Evil Repeller's protection.
• Chu Xinghe formed a Light-Severing Formation and used the Suspended Shears Sword Wings to repel an invisible blade that nearly cut his throat.
• Chu Xinghe released White Rainbow, whose light revealed a dark-clad attacker standing close to him, and slapped him before piercing him with sword phantoms.
• The wounded attacker got back up, shouted that Chu Xinghe could see him, and summoned countless figures from all directions.

Chu Xinghe discovered that he alone could see the undying Dark Moon Clan, whose Great Sage An Zhi believed Chu Xinghe was destined to lead them out of their sealed village. As the clan and Chu Xinghe’s junior brothers and sisters hailed the prospect of joining the Vast Heaven Sect, Chu Xinghe remained alarmed by the burden he had stumbled into.

• Chu Xinghe saw the invisible Dark Moon Clan gathering around him, including powerful Seventh and Eighth Rank cultivators, while his junior brothers and sisters saw nothing.
• An Zhi appeared, dispelled the black mist, and asked Chu Xinghe how he could see the clan.
• An Zhi explained that the Dark Moon Clan had been cursed with undying bodies and sealed in the ruins after losing the War of Myriad Races.
• An Zhi revealed that a costly divination foretold someone who could see the clan would lead them out, then he and the clan knelt and begged Chu Xinghe to help them.
• Chu Xinghe helped the clan members rise but privately worried about their power, immortality, and the danger of taking them outside.
• Chu Xinghe’s junior brothers and sisters shouted, “Heaven blesses Vast Heaven!” as they saw the Dark Moon Clan as a tremendous boon for their sect.

Chu Xinghe discovered that the Dark Moon Clan, a group of seventy-eight powerful immortals, had joined the Vast Heaven Sect, though he privately saw them as a disastrous threat to his plans. He learned they had to wait two days for the barrier to fluctuate before escaping, while the clan bound itself to him through a blood sacrifice and bewildered him with its members’ death performances.

• Gu Feng watched Chu Xinghe open the ruins gate, navigate the formation, avoid the City of Dark Moon’s treasures, and discover the Dark Moon Clan.
• The Great Sage explained that the clan could leave only when the barrier fluctuated in two days, and that White Rainbow could break the seals then.
• Chu Xinghe hoped the other groups would take the City of Dark Moon before he and the clan escaped, while the Great Sage recounted the ancient era of ten thousand clans.
• The Great Sage led the Dark Moon Clan in a blood sacrifice that linked its members’ spiritual power to Chu Xinghe’s.
• A Dark Moon Clan member stabbed himself three times as a performance, died, then revived and thanked the audience.

After two days of enduring the Dark Moon Clan’s grotesque death performances, Chu Xinghe used White Rainbow to help the clan escape its barrier. Their freedom was short-lived as Chu Xinghe discovered the City of Dark Moon remained occupied by Tantai Jing, who had captured Zheng Yu and other righteous-path youths.

• The Dark Moon Clan repeatedly demonstrated bizarre ways to die, horrifying Chu Xinghe, Gu Feng, and the others until Chu Xinghe ordered them not to involve anyone else in their deaths.
• When the barrier fluctuated, Chu Xinghe used White Rainbow to pierce it, and the Great Sage carried the group outside.
• The Dark Moon Clan wept with joy at their freedom, then celebrated by stabbing themselves and one another.
• Chu Xinghe saw that the City of Dark Moon was still standing and realized the righteous sects had not taken it.
• Inside the city, Tantai Jing gloated over the captured Zheng Yu and other righteous-path youths and planned to torment Zheng Yu while dismissing Chu Xinghe as a coward.

Chu Xinghe reached the City of Dark Moon with the Great Sage, where Tantai Jing confronted him alongside a Ghost Emperor. The Great Sage overwhelmed the city’s forces, but Tantai Jing escaped, leaving the Great Sage convinced he had disgraced himself.

• Chu Xinghe persuaded the Great Sage not to take treasures that his friends had already found, and the Great Sage led him to the City of Dark Moon.
• Tantai Jing appeared with a Ghost Emperor, while Zheng Yu warned Chu Xinghe to flee and report the threat.
• The Great Sage entered the city and stopped the Ghost Emperor’s attack between two fingers before summoning a mara that crushed the Ghost Emperor.
• Tantai Jing used the Blood Escape Technique to flee, abandoning the Dark Moon Shuttle when he realized the Great Sage had taken control of the city.
• The City of Dark Moon’s controlled inhabitants regained their senses, while the Great Sage lamented that he had failed to catch Tantai Jing.

Chu Xinghe brought the resurrected Dark Moon Clan back to the Vast Heaven Sect, where they established the Dark Moon Palace as a powerful new force. After spending days teaching them about the current era, he thought they had stopped calling themselves useless, but a new incident left him speechless.

• The Grand Sage apologized to Chu Xinghe for letting Tantai Jing escape, and Chu Xinghe warned him not to self-destruct without permission.
• Chu Xinghe led the survivors to the City of Dark Moon’s treasury, but they refused to take any of its treasures and thanked him before departing.
• The Grand Sage used the full-moon scepter to bring the City of Dark Moon into the Dark Moon Shuttle, and Chu Xinghe returned everyone to the Vast Heaven Sect with the Flute of Space and Time.
• The Vast Heaven Sect agreed to establish the Dark Moon Palace under Grand Sage An Zhi, whose status would match that of the palace chiefs.
• Chu Xinghe spent the following days helping the Dark Moon Clan settle in and explaining the current world to them, but just as he believed the lesson had worked, something new left him speechless.

The Dark Moon Clan’s death-and-revival antics drew crowds across the Vast Heaven Sect as Chu Xinghe helped them adjust to their new lives and meet the other palaces. The Everlasting Spring Palace eagerly welcomed them after An Lan proved he could safely test poisons and report their effects.

• Disciples visiting the Dark Moon Palace watched An Lan stab himself to death and revive, then reported the sight to the sect.
• Members of the Dark Moon Clan staged bizarre deaths for visiting disciples, while Chu Xinghe encouraged the clan to stop thinking of themselves as useless and mingle with the sect.
• An Lan led clanspeople on a visit to other palaces and stabbed three of them to enliven the gathering, startling the disciples when they revived.
• The Grand Sage visited palace heads and elders, who treated him with respect after hearing of his strength; Elder He began recording the Dark Moon Clan’s history.
• The Vast Heaven Sect gradually accepted the clan after seeing that they did not harm outsiders, and the Everlasting Spring Palace became their first enthusiastic ally.
• At Nangong Yan’s request, An Lan swallowed a highly toxic drug, revived, and described its effects so the Everlasting Spring Palace could improve its poison research.

The Dark Moon Clan quickly integrated into the Vast Heaven Sect by helping its palaces test poisons, hidden weapons, medicines, and weapons. Chu Xinghe then asked Elder He where the sealed Formless Heart Sutra was, and Elder He eagerly welcomed the request.

• The Everlasting Spring Palace used An Lan to test poisons, while the Frigid Ice Palace welcomed An Xin to test hidden weapons.
• Members of the Dark Moon Clan helped the sect’s palaces conduct dangerous tests, and both the clan and the Vast Heaven Sect grew comfortable with one another.
• Chu Xinghe rushed to the Artifact Refining Palace, where he found Ouyang Ming using the Dark Moon Clan to test weapons rather than eat them.
• The Grand Elder learned that the Everlasting Spring Palace had been testing a poison on the Great Sage, while Ouyang Ling’s medicines caused the Dark Moon Clan even greater trouble.
• The Great Sage lamented to Elder He that he could not die for fun, and Elder He struggled to think of a way to help him.
• Chu Xinghe asked Elder He where the Formless Heart Sutra was sealed, and Elder He lit up at the request.

Chu Xinghe’s attempt to get the Formless Heart Sutra so he could destroy it instead inspired Elder He to have the Great Sage test and complete dangerous cultivation methods using his immortality. The Vast Heaven Sect celebrated Xinghe’s idea, while Ma Liang arrived to receive a Ghost Emperor and powerful ghosts that would transform his formation into a mobile fortress.

• Chu Xinghe went to Elder He seeking the sealed Formless Heart Sutra, hoping to destroy it and trigger the Misfortune Compass.
• Elder He took the sutra to the Great Sage, who eagerly tested its dangerous paths, died, revived, and began completing it.
• Elder He informed Sect Master Gu Mingchao and the Grand Elder, who praised Chu Xinghe and planned to use the Dark Moon Clan to test the sect’s other dangerous cultivation methods.
• Ma Liang arrived at the Vast Heaven Sect after the Grand Elder and sect master assigned him the Ghost Emperor and fierce ghosts brought with the City of Dark Moon.
• Ma Liang planned to use the Great Sage’s help to add the ghosts to his Fengdu Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation, turning it into a powerful mobile battle fortress.

Ma Liang’s Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation became powerful enough to threaten Martial Emperors, while Mu Bai and the Muyue Kingdom geniuses proposed investing in automatic medicine refining. After Chu Xinghe heard more news of his allies’ growing strength, Feng Fei arrived to plan his wedding, and Chu Xinghe proposed an extravagant celebration where the Vast Heaven Sect would give gifts to every guest.

• Ma Liang received the Ghost Emperor and powerful vengeful ghosts, completing the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation and demonstrating its strength around the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Mu Bai and the Muyue Kingdom geniuses discussed how to better help Chu Xinghe, and Mu Heng proposed automatic medicine refining using specially cultivated herbs.
• Chu Xinghe agreed to fund Mu Bai’s automatic medicine refining research, believing it was certain to fail.
• Chu Xinghe studied teleportation formations with Yan Shoujing, who asked whether the Great Sage was close to completing the Formless Heart Sutra.
• Chu Xinghe heard that the Great Sage was nearing completion, saw Ma Liang’s formation improve, and learned from Nangong Yan that the Dark Moon Clan had strengthened the Everlasting Spring Palace.
• Feng Fei came to discuss his wedding with Chu Xinghe, who proposed a grand celebration and gifts for every guest from the Vast Heaven Sect.

Chu Xinghe attended the Vast Heaven Sect’s early midyear review conference, where reports on the sect’s booming ventures stunned Deputy Sect Master Yan Shoujing. The conference ended with Sima Bian revealing the Northern Branch’s performance, alarming Shi Biao as he eyed a vice president position.

• Chu Xinghe learned the midyear review conference had been moved up and was greeted by Qin Xiangqian, who reported the Tianyi Spirit Mine’s soaring output and growing share of top-grade spirit stones.
• Wang Tieniu reunited with Chu Xinghe, announced a perfect ten-out-of-ten stone yield rate, and described his disciples’ impressive results and plans to improve spirit-stone quality.
• The Grand Elder convened the review in the Haotian Grand Hall, where Deputy Sect Master Yan Shoujing heard reports and was stunned by the Vast Heaven Sect’s wealth and Tieniu’s stone-pointing technique.
• Shi Biao reported the Vast Heaven Trading Company’s strong revenue and reputation, earning praise from the Grand Elder for following Chu Xinghe’s business model.
• Shi Biao considered himself a candidate for the vacant vice president position, but Sima Bian presented the Northern Branch’s performance chart and intensified the competition.

At the Vast Heaven Sect’s midyear review, the Northern Chamber of Commerce reported booming pill sales while the Southern Chamber of Commerce came in last, prompting Lu Chengqing to seek Chu Xinghe’s advice. Chu Xinghe pretended to object to Lu’s plan to introduce revealing custom outfits, then asked to see them so he could critique them.

• Sima Bian credited Chu Xinghe for the Northern Chamber of Commerce’s success after it took over Zhou Medical Hall’s customers and dominated the low-end pill market.
• The Grand Elder warned Lu Chengqing that the Southern Chamber of Commerce needed to improve or he would be reassigned.
• After the review meeting, Lu Chengqing followed Chu Xinghe and explained that the Haotian Tower’s large concert had performed poorly.
• Lu Chengqing proposed selling musicians’ performances in custom outfits that used little fabric, inspired by the Star Moon Tower’s successful service.
• Chu Xinghe claimed the outfits could harm the Vast Heaven Sect’s image but asked Lu Chengqing to bring musicians wearing them so he could critique them.

Chu Xinghe rejected Lu Chengqing’s plan to compete with Star Moon Tower through custom outfits and instead told him to combine musicians with Ma Liang’s Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation. Later, Chu Xinghe criticized Feng Fei’s modest gift list and proposed giving visiting dignitaries Flutes of Space and Time, leaving Feng Fei stunned by the expense.

• Lu Chengqing showed Chu Xinghe four musicians performing in custom outfits and explained that Star Moon Tower’s similar approach had helped it challenge Haotian Tower.
• Chu Xinghe called the plan vulgar and suggested using Ma Liang’s Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation to create an underworld-themed performance instead.
• Lu Chengqing consulted Ma Liang, who treated Chu Xinghe’s suggestion as profound guidance and began criticizing the musicians while exploring how to combine them with the formation.
• Chu Xinghe confronted Feng Fei over his gift list, arguing that the Vast Heaven Sect should give visiting dignitaries Flutes of Space and Time and chosen geniuses supreme-grade spirit weapons.
• Feng Fei was dumbfounded by Chu Xinghe’s proposal to give away costly Flutes of Space and Time.

Chu Xinghe persuaded the Great Elder to give Flutes of Space and Time to the wedding guests, turning the gifts into a way to build goodwill and promote future sales. As guests arrived for Feng Fei’s wedding, Xinghe handed out gift boxes, and Fan Sheng was shocked when he opened one.

• Feng Fei brought Chu Xinghe’s proposal to the Great Elder, who agreed that giving away Flutes of Space and Time could earn favors and promote the sect’s creation.
• The Great Elder explained his strategy to Feng Fei and assigned him to plan how the Flutes of Space and Time would later be sold.
• The Vast Heaven Sect invited major factions to Feng Fei’s wedding, which also celebrated its alliance with Wuj iang.
• Chu Xinghe welcomed arriving guests and gave each one a gift box, calling it a modest gift with heartfelt sentiment.
• Fan Sheng received a box along with the other East Moon Pavilion guests, opened it, and was stunned by what Chu Xinghe had given him.

Fan Sheng and Liu Yunshang discovered that the Vast Heaven Sect’s supposedly modest gifts to East Moon Pavilion were supreme-grade spirit weapons and a Flute of Space and Time. After accepting them, East Moon Pavilion’s elders hesitated over whether they could still present their own low-grade sacred artifact as a congratulatory gift.

• Fan Sheng opened the gift boxes and found supreme-grade spirit weapons for the elders and a Flute of Space and Time for Liu Yunshang.
• Liu Yunshang examined the gifts, confirmed the flute was genuine, and expressed admiration for Gu Mingchao and the Vast Heaven Sect.
• East Moon Pavilion’s elders repeatedly checked the flute and speculated about why Gu Mingchao had given it to Liu Yunshang.
• The elders compared their prepared low-grade sacred artifact with the Vast Heaven Sect’s gifts and decided they could not present it without losing face.

Zheng Yu and Cheng Xiaotian visited the Vast Heaven Sect for its wedding, where Chu Xinghe welcomed them with gifts that included rare weapons and the Flute of Space and Time. Martial Emperor City nearly presented a low-grade divine artifact in return, but Cheng Xiaotian stopped Elder Wang before he delivered it, sparing the group another humiliating comparison.

• Zheng Yu arrived at the Vast Heaven Sect with Cheng Xiaotian and greeted Chu Xinghe and Gu Mingchao.
• Chu Xinghe gave Zheng Yu and the Martial Emperor City guests gift boxes, which they handed to Zheng Yu to store.
• Cheng Xiaotian arranged for Elder Wang to deliver Martial Emperor City's low-grade divine artifact as a wedding gift.
• At Cheng Xiaotian's request, Zheng Yu opened the boxes and found top-grade spirit weapons, including the Flute of Space and Time in Cheng Xiaotian's box.
• Cheng Xiaotian sent the grand elder to stop Elder Wang, and they returned with him before he delivered the gift.

Chu Xinghe’s Flutes of Space and Time gifts left visiting sects feeling unable to offer ordinary wedding gifts, and some even tried to take their gifts back. The Vast Heaven Sect received record-breaking treasures, while Chu Xinghe failed to persuade anyone that the flutes were only tokens of goodwill.

• Cheng Xiaotian and Martial Emperor City’s elders first suspected the Vast Heaven Sect had targeted them, but Zheng Yu reported that every visiting sect leader had received a Flute of Space and Time.
• Zheng Yu told them the Scarlet Blood Alliance had given a sacred artifact, then sent Elder Song to retrieve it after realizing the gift seemed too modest.
• Elder Song took the sacred artifact back from Chu Xinghe, claiming the Scarlet Blood Emperor had chosen the wrong gift, and other guests hesitated over what to give.
• Feng Fei and the grand elder praised Chu Xinghe’s gifts as a clever way to pressure the guests into offering more valuable presents, though Chu Xinghe said that was not his intention.
• Martial Emperor City and other powers sent extravagant gifts, including divine artifacts and enormous sums of spirit stones, setting a record for wedding gifts.
• Chu Xinghe asked Fan Sheng whether the Vast Heaven Sect could take back the Flutes of Space and Time, but Fan Sheng refused and accused him of having no regard for the sect’s face.