Recaps

Ming Han led Demon Race leaders to the Vast Heaven Sect, where they saw the Bear Clan prospering on an unlimited supply of spirit stones and marveled at the sect’s resources. Mu Ran then watched Mu Bai berate Mu Xiaoqi for growing thousand-year snow ginseng, leaving him questioning whether the Muyue Kingdom had created the Divine Wood Clan.

• Ming Han led the Demon Race delegation into the Haotian Mountain Range, where Bear Clan patrol members said the Vast Heaven Sect supplied them with unlimited spirit stones and described their rapid cultivation gains.
• The Grand Elder welcomed the delegation, and the visitors saw the Little Bear King Xiong Feng guarding the mountain gate while consuming a replenished pile of seven-colored spirit stones.
• Mu Ran asked to see the spirit fields and found acres of thousand-year snow ginseng, which he had previously seen only once as an incomplete root.
• Mu Bai called Mu Xiaoqi’s thousand-year snow ginseng trash and ordered him to destroy it, while Mu Ran rushed to stop them.
• Mu Bai apologized to the Grand Elder for the embarrassment, while Mu Ran wondered whether Elder Mu Sheng had been right that the Muyue Kingdom had brought the Divine Wood Clan into being.

The Grand Elder entertained the Demon Race’s leaders and learned that the Fox Clan had captured Vast Heaven Sect’s Deputy Sect Master, then persuaded Hu Shang to keep torturing him in the name of helping him break through. Meanwhile, Chu Xinghe despaired over the sect’s booming wealth until he heard that Mu Bai and the others might visit the Demon Race, giving him a chance to halt their profits.

• The Grand Elder toured the Demon Race’s leaders through the Vast Heaven Sect’s palaces, where Ouyang Ming overwhelmed Hu Shang with an enormous meal and the visitors received spatial rings full of resources.
• Ming Han’s Wolf Clan elders changed their tune after seeing the Vast Heaven Sect’s treasury, and Hu Shang told the Grand Elder that the Fox Clan had captured and tortured the Deputy Sect Master by mistake.
• The Grand Elder convinced Hu Shang that the Deputy Sect Master’s Unyielding Battle Intent required further torment, and Hu Shang promised that the Fox Clan would keep helping him break through.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Wang Tieniu and Feng Yuzheng had discovered two rich mineral veins, Ma Liang’s Bounty League was generating huge profits, and the sect’s other ventures were flourishing.
• Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that Patriarch Mu Ran wanted Mu Bai and the others to visit the Demon Race to address its spirit fields, and Chu Xinghe welcomed the plan as a way to stop the sect from earning money.

After the Divine Wood Clan asked the Vast Heaven Sect for help restoring its ruined spirit fields, Chu Xinghe rejected their offers to share the harvest and promised to lead the Muyue Kingdom in restoring them at no cost. The Grand Elder interpreted Xinghe’s generosity as a plan to win the world’s respect and establish the Vast Heaven Sect as the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

• Mu Ran and Elder Mu Sheng stayed behind after the Demon Race clans visited the Vast Heaven Sect and asked the Grand Elder for help reviving the Divine Wood Clan’s destroyed spirit fields.
• Elder Mu Sheng offered the Vast Heaven Sect a share of the Divine Wood Clan’s spirit-herb harvest in exchange for borrowing its spirit fields, but Chu Xinghe arrived and refused.
• Mu Ran raised the offered share to eighty percent, but Chu Xinghe still rejected the deal, prompting Mu Ran to prepare to leave.
• Chu Xinghe explained that he felt responsible for the Divine Wood Clan’s losses and promised to lead the Muyue Kingdom in trying every method to restore its spirit fields, offering land of equal size if he failed.
• The Grand Elder decided Xinghe’s generosity would earn the world’s respect and help the Vast Heaven Sect become the Vast Heaven Holy Land, then summoned the Muyue Kingdom’s people through Senior Brother Shen Chun.

Chu Xinghe brought Mu Bai and Muyue Kingdom to the Divine Wood Clan to help restore its ruined spirit fields, but the group found the damage would take at least eight hundred years to mend. When Mu Bai proposed returning to their own fields, Chu Xinghe shamed Muyue Kingdom for giving up after only one day, leaving its disciples kneeling in fear.

• Mu Bai and the Muyue Kingdom disciples warned Mu Xiaoqi to behave during their trip, then Chu Xinghe teleported them safely to the Divine Wood Clan.
• The Divine Wood Clan welcomed Chu Xinghe and Muyue Kingdom with a grand ceremony and banquet as news of their arrival astonished demon clans and human sects alike.
• Mu Bai and Muyue Kingdom inspected the spirit fields and concluded that their severed spirit roots meant the land could not recover for at least eight hundred years.
• After a second inspection, Mu Bai told Chu Xinghe that Muyue Kingdom could not restore the fields and suggested they return to tend their own spirit fields.
• Chu Xinghe accused Mu Bai and Muyue Kingdom of abandoning their renowned determination for the sake of profit, and Mu Xiaoqi, Mu Bai, and the other disciples knelt before him.

Mu Bai and Muyue Kingdom took Chu Xinghe’s rebuke as a call to restore the Divine Wood Clan’s ruined spiritual fields and expand their ambitions across both continents. Their supreme-grade seeds withered, so they switched to divine-grade seeds delivered by Ma Liang, who had been delayed after the first elder’s teleportation formation sent him into Ghost Valley.

• Chu Xinghe criticized Muyue Kingdom for giving up on the Divine Wood Clan’s fields, and Mu Bai rallied the disciples to tackle the ruined land and eventually cultivate the Demon Star Continent.
• Muyue Kingdom planted vast quantities of supreme-grade spiritual herb seeds, but every crop quickly withered because the land’s spiritual roots were gone.
• Mu Ran was moved by Chu Xinghe’s willingness to spend resources on the Divine Wood Clan, while Chu Xinghe seized on Mu Ran’s suggestion to use better seeds and urged Mu Bai to switch to divine-grade ones.
• Mu Bai ordered divine-grade seeds from the sect and grew impatient when Ma Liang took two days to deliver them.
• Ma Liang arrived after the first elder’s teleportation formation dropped him beside Nether Lake in Ghost Valley, and he recounted surviving the dangerous landing with his Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation.
• Chu Xinghe remarked that the first elder’s Star Divination Art and teleportation formations could have led the Wolf Clan straight to the Wolf King’s bones.

Ma Liang survived another trip through Ghost Valley to deliver divine-grade medicinal seeds, which withered after planting in the Divine Wood Clan’s spiritual fields. As Chu Xinghe rejected Mu Ran’s offer to pledge the clan to the Vast Heaven Sect and vowed to keep funding the effort, he decided to escalate his plan by sending herbs over a hundred years old.

• Chu Xinghe told Ma Liang to keep transporting divine-grade medicinal seeds through Ghost Valley, and Ma Liang chose the dangerous route over risking the Grand Elder changing the teleportation destination.
• Chu Xinghe watched the Divine Wood Clan plant the divine-grade seeds, which withered within half a day, then led the discouraged disciples in singing “Good Luck Comes.”
• Mu Ran privately asked Chu Xinghe to stop the costly research and let the Divine Wood Clan join the Vast Heaven Sect, but Chu Xinghe refused and promised to keep trying to restore its spiritual fields.
• Demon clans and continent sects suspected Chu Xinghe was burning resources to take control of the Divine Wood Clan, while Gu Mingchao dismissed the gossip and sent Mystic God self-portraits to silence the sects.
• Chu Xinghe rejected the accusation that he was running amok and decided to replace the failed seeds with fully grown spiritual herbs over a hundred years old.

Chu Xinghe used enormous quantities of increasingly old spiritual herbs in an effort to restore the Divine Wood Clan’s ruined spiritual fields, which caused a sensation across both continents as the herbs withered and the Vast Heaven Sect’s stores dwindled. Convinced he could avoid another unexpected reversal by stopping early, Chu Xinghe declared the project a failure, accepted responsibility, and planned to request punishment from the sect.

• Chu Xinghe ordered hundred-year-old spiritual herbs planted in the Divine Wood Clan’s fields, but they withered, so he sent five-hundred-year-old herbs, then older batches that also died.
• Mu Ran tried to stop the spending, but Mu Bai called it research and predicted Chu Xinghe would keep supplying resources.
• As ten-thousand-year-old herbs were planted and consumed, the Vast Heaven Sect’s medicinal stores ran low, and people across both continents predicted Chu Xinghe would fail to restore the fields economically.
• After Ma Liang reported that the Grand Elder had told him to proceed without holding back, Chu Xinghe decided instead to stop the project before anything could reverse his failure.
• Chu Xinghe told Mu Bai and the Divine Wood Clan that the project had failed, took full responsibility, and said he would request punishment upon returning to the sect.

After Mu Bai’s attempts to restore the Divine Wood Clan’s spiritual field failed, Mu Xiaoqi proposed planting Patriarch Mu Ran, whose roots revived the land and made it exceptionally fertile. Mu Bai credited Chu Xinghe with a plan to transform barren regions across the Demon Star Continent, while Chu Xinghe watched Mu Ran’s tree produce Spirit Life Fruits.

• Mu Bai and the Muyue Kingdom disciples asked Chu Xinghe to let them continue trying to restore the spiritual field.
• Mu Xiaoqi suggested planting Patriarch Mu Ran, and Mu Ran agreed to the idea.
• Mu Bai buried Mu Ran and used Muyue Kingdom’s secret technique, causing Mu Ran to grow into a towering tree whose roots restored the spiritual field.
• Mu Bai concluded that Chu Xinghe’s idea could help cultivate barren land across the Demon Star Continent and thanked him for his guidance.
• Mu Ran’s tree produced Spirit Life Fruits, and Grand Elder Mu Sheng recognized them as Chu Xinghe watched in dismay.

Chu Xinghe’s cultivation method helped the Divine Wood Clan produce Spirit Life Fruits and rapidly increase its cultivation, prompting the clan to join the Vast Heaven Sect. News that the Muyue Kingdom’s secret arts could turn barren land into spirit fields spread, and Demon Race clans began claiming Human Race ancestry.

• Mu Ran explained that the Spirit Life Fruits held spiritual power equivalent to a month of his cultivation and thanked Chu Xinghe for opening a new cultivation path for the Divine Wood Clan.
• Elder Mu Sheng led the Divine Wood Clan in declaring itself the Vast Heaven Sect Divine Wood Clan and greeting Chu Xinghe and the Muyue Kingdom disciples.
• Ma Liang alerted the sect, and the Grand Elder arrived and accepted the Divine Wood Clan as a member of the Vast Heaven Sect.
• The Grand Elder recognized that the method could help the Vast Heaven Sect win the Demon Race’s favor by creating spirit fields on barren land.
• The Divine Wood Clan’s accession and the spirit-field method became known across the world, and Demon Race clans that had mocked the clan began claiming their Human Race blood was pure.

After the Muyue Kingdom revealed it could create spirit fields in bulk, factions from both continents flocked to the Vast Heaven Sect to request them. Chu Xinghe arranged for Ma Liang to handle negotiations, then ordered him to charge no fees and sell no slots, confident the plan would make him lose.

• News that the Muyue Kingdom could create spirit fields in bulk stunned the factions of both continents, and representatives gathered at the Vast Heaven Sect to ask for help.
• Chu Xinghe tried to take charge of negotiations, but the grand elder and sect leaders insisted he rest and assigned Ma Liang instead.
• Ma Liang vowed to make the Vast Heaven Sect a fortune through the negotiations.
• Chu Xinghe instructed Ma Liang to help the factions cultivate spirit fields without charging fees or selling slots, citing the criticism the sect had faced over the Bounty League.

Chu Xinghe ordered the Vast Heaven Sect to cultivate spirit fields for every faction for free, with all slots assigned by lottery, leaving Ma Liang and the assembled leaders baffled. The Demon Star Continent’s clans volunteered one-third of their harvests in gratitude, putting pressure on the Blazing Sun Continent factions to respond in kind.

• Ma Liang announced that the Vast Heaven Sect would cultivate spirit fields for free and allocate all slots by random drawing, with no disguised fees.
• The Blazing Sun Continent factions and Demon Star Continent clans reacted with confusion and disbelief at Chu Xinghe’s refusal to sell slots.
• Wolf King Ming Han offered one-third of the Wolf Clan’s spirit-field harvest to the Vast Heaven Sect in return for its help.
• Patriarch Hu Shang and leaders of other Demon Star Continent clans also pledged one-third of their harvests, declaring that they would not be ungrateful.
• Ma Liang realized Chu Xinghe had expected the demons to repay the sect’s kindness, leaving the Blazing Sun Continent factions facing pressure to do the same.

Ma Liang and the other factions believed Chu Xinghe had engineered the negotiations so the Demon Race would offer a third of its output to the Vast Heaven Sect, forcing the Human Race sects to match them rather than seem ungrateful. The sects accepted the offer, while Chu Xinghe remained unaware that his attempt to give resources away for free had produced that result.

• Ma Liang concluded that Chu Xinghe’s free offer and ban on selling spots had been an open scheme designed around the Demon Race’s sense of gratitude.
• Wolf King Ming Han proposed giving the Vast Heaven Sect a third of the Wolf Clan’s output, and the Fox Clan and other demons supported him.
• Cheng Xiaotian, Zheng Yu, and the Human Race sects realized that refusing to contribute would make them look ungrateful, and Zheng Yu’s plan to bargain down the price collapsed.
• The various factions accepted the Wolf King’s proposed one-third repayment, ending the negotiations before they had properly begun.
• The Vast Heaven Sect’s elders were astonished by the outcome, while Chu Xinghe wondered why everyone had turned his free giveaway into a repayment scheme.

Chu Xinghe struggled with the consequences of Ma Liang accepting a third of the profits for the Vast Heaven Sect, then supervised a fair drawing of lots before taking a rest. Meanwhile, Xiong Feng and the Bear Clan reaffirmed their loyalty to the sect, until the Bear Clan Great Elder reported an intruder in the Haotian Mountain Range.

• Ma Liang told Chu Xinghe that the parties had insisted on giving the Vast Heaven Sect a third of the profits, while Ma Liang mistook Chu Xinghe's frustration for a lesson in refusing offers before accepting them.
• Chu Xinghe personally oversaw the drawing of lots, and the Cloud Firmament Sect drew first, prompting Xing Yushen to praise the Vast Heaven Sect and curse Ling Su.
• Chu Xinghe returned to his room to rest while the sect continued its work.
• Xiong Feng asked the Bear Clan whether they wanted to return to Proud Bear Valley or remain with the Vast Heaven Sect, and the clan chose to stay and guard the sect.
• The Bear Clan Great Elder told Xiong Feng that someone had sneaked into the Haotian Mountain Range, and Xiong Feng grew furious.

Xiong Feng led the Bear Clan in catching a Bat Clan spy hidden in the Haotian Mountain Range, and the Vast Heaven Sect tried to determine who had sent him. The Snake Clan offered to interrogate the captive, but the elders instead suggested Ouyang Ling, leaving She Meng and She Kui baffled by the implication that Ouyang Ling was worse than their clan.

• Xiong Feng used the Bear Clan to search the Haotian Mountain Range and captured a Bat Clan member hiding in a hollow tree.
• Xiong Feng beat the captive and escorted him to the Vast Heaven Sect, where the grand elder suspected someone had sent him to spy.
• Shen Chun summoned She Meng and She Kui to use the Nether Snake Mark, but they explained the Bat Clan could hide its secrets even from that technique.
• She Meng offered the Snake Clan's punishment methods, estimating only a thirty-to-forty percent chance of extracting the truth.
• Elder He said the Snake Clan's methods were mild compared with Ouyang Ling, and several elders objected to giving the captive to Ouyang Ling.
• She Meng and She Kui wondered what made Ouyang Ling more ruthless and shameless than the Snake Clan.

The grand elder assigned Ouyang Ling to investigate a captured Bat Clan member, with She Meng and She Kui sent along to keep her within bounds. After learning how dangerous her experimental medicines were, the two Snake Clan elders abandoned the interrogation and praised her as a perfect match for the Holy One to stay safe.

• The grand elder summoned Ouyang Ling and asked how soon she could find out who had sent the Bat Clan member to investigate Haotian Mountain Range.
• Ouyang Ling said she could provide results today or tomorrow, then took the captive to the Vast Heaven Sect prison with She Meng and She Kui.
• The grand elder privately instructed She Meng and She Kui to stop Ouyang Ling if she went too far, and Ouyang Ling promptly had She Meng seal the captive’s mouth instead of questioning him.
• Ouyang Ling admitted she had no intention of interrogating the captive and explained that she wanted to use him for dangerous experiments.
• She Kui learned that Ouyang Ling’s medicines had caused horrific transformations and deaths among Dark Moon Clan members, and even Poison Venerable Ji Changfeng feared her experiments.
• She Meng and She Kui nervously told Ouyang Ling that she and the Holy One made a perfect couple, and she happily agreed.

Ouyang Ling tortured a captured Bat Clan spy for three days without questioning him, then released him and explained that the spy’s pursuers would reveal themselves by killing him. She Meng and She Kui were left waiting to learn who had sent him.

• Ouyang Ling sealed the Bat Clan member’s mouth and tested her poisons on him while refusing to question him.
• After three days, the spy offered to confess through sonic transmission, but Ouyang Ling had She Kui seal that too and kept testing her medicines.
• Ouyang Ling ordered She Meng and She Kui to release the spy, reasoning that spreading word of his supposed confession would make his allies treat him as a traitor.
• She Meng and She Kui escorted the spy out of the Haotian Mountain Range and worried about how to explain his release to the grand elder.
• Ouyang Ling said they could identify the spy’s masters by watching who killed him, leaving She Meng and She Kui struck by how innocent and kind they seemed beside her.

Ouyang Ling’s plan exposed the mastermind behind the Bat Clan spy’s murder as a half-step Mystic God who looked like Yuan Zheng, possibly the Ape Emperor’s rumored hidden brother. The elders went to Haotian Palace to inform Gu Mingchao and found it ringed with stone carvings bearing an inscription that said they had been personally carved by him.

• Ouyang Ling explained how An Lan and An Xin had secretly watched the Bat Clan spy and his family after she arranged for the Vast Heaven Sect to release him.
• An Lan and An Xin reported that Yuan Zheng had killed the spy and his family, and An Lan identified the killer as a half-step Mystic God.
• She Meng shared a rumor that Yuan Zheng had a hidden brother who resembled him and matched his cultivation and presence.
• The Grand Elder told the elders to warn Xiong Feng and decided not to alarm Xinghe, then led them to Haotian Palace to inform Gu Mingchao.
• The elders arrived at Haotian Palace and found oddly shaped stone carvings outside, each inscribed as personally carved by Mystic God Gu Mingchao.

Gu Mingchao rushed to the Bat Clan after hearing that the mysterious Yuan Zheng might threaten Xinghe, but found no trace of him and ordered the Vast Heaven Sect to strengthen its defenses. Meanwhile, rumors that stone carving could lead to the Mystic God realm made Gu Mingchao the World's Greatest Stone Carving Master, and Chu Xinghe’s peaceful rest ended when Wang Tieniu discovered more rich mines.

• The Grand Elder and the other elders found Gu Mingchao carving strange self-statues and told him about Yuan Zheng.
• Gu Mingchao searched the Bat Clan and its surroundings but found no trace of Yuan Zheng.
• Gu Mingchao ordered the Vast Heaven Sect to mobilize its spies, alert the Wolf King, and keep his divine sense spread over the sect, while the elders rejected his proposal to move Xinghe into Haotian Palace.
• Rumors that stone carving could help people reach the Mystic God realm spread, raising the status of master carvers and earning Gu Mingchao the title of World's Greatest Stone Carving Master.
• Chu Xinghe enjoyed several days of being waited on but then learned that Wang Tieniu had discovered several more valuable mines in the Spirit Mine Mountain Range.

Chu Xinghe sent Wang Tieniu to search for spirit stones at Divine Fox Ridge, hoping the barren region would curb the Vast Heaven Sect’s growing wealth. Qin Xiangqian eagerly accepted his new assignment as the sect’s chief steward there.

• Wang Tieniu told Chu Xinghe that his Mine Seeking Art had found several rich veins and promised to uncover eight or ten more.
• Chu Xinghe urged Wang Tieniu to look beyond the Spirit Mine Mountain Range and search the supposedly resource-poor Demon Star Continent.
• Chu Xinghe chose Divine Fox Ridge, convinced by Hu Shang and the Fox Clan’s records that the region had no spirit stones.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Qin Xiangqian to stop expanding the mines and relocate with his best subordinates to Divine Fox Ridge.
• Qin Xiangqian received the assignment and took it as a sign that Chu Xinghe trusted him most.

As Chu Xinghe prepared to search Divine Fox Ridge for spirit mines, the ten great sects publicly predicted failure but secretly rushed to buy land next door from the Horse Clan. The sects divided the Horse Clan’s territory among themselves, leaving everyone else furious that they had missed out.

• Qin Xiangqian dismissed his subordinates’ doubts and led his best people back to the Vast Heaven Sect, convinced Chu Xinghe knew what he was doing.
• Zheng Yu, Guo Qizhen, Fan Sheng, and Ji Moran publicly declared that Chu Xinghe would find no resources at Divine Fox Ridge, while the ten great sects echoed their skepticism.
• Ji Moran secretly led disciples to the Horse Clan to buy its land, hoping to profit from mineral veins near Divine Fox Ridge, but found Zheng Yu, Guo Qizhen, Fan Sheng, and other sect representatives already there.
• The young geniuses from the ten great sects set aside their excuses and divided the Horse Clan’s territory among themselves.
• News of the land purchases spread, and other sects cursed the ten great sects for buying the Horse Clan’s land before anyone else could.

Chu Xinghe went to Divine Fox Ridge to develop it, choosing to act as bait for the mysterious Half-Step Mystic God despite the elders’ fears for his safety. When Wang Tieniu found no spirit veins there, Chu Xinghe realized the barren ridge might finally guarantee the failure he wanted.

• Chu Xinghe learned that the ten great sects had bought the Horse Clan’s land and rejoiced at the chance to make the Vast Heaven Sect lose face and fortune.
• The Grand Elder warned Chu Xinghe about the mysterious Yuan Zheng, a possible twin of Yuan Zheng who was a Half-Step Mystic God, and urged him to stay home.
• Chu Xinghe insisted on going to Divine Fox Ridge as bait, and the elders arranged for the Great Sage, An Lan, and others to protect him in secret.
• Chu Xinghe declined the Grand Elder’s teleportation array, set one up himself, and arrived at Divine Fox Ridge with the group.
• Hu Shang welcomed Chu Xinghe with chicken legs and boasted to other clan leaders that the Fox Clan was his inner circle and Divine Fox Ridge would be developed.
• Wang Tieniu used his Mine Seeking Art and found no trace of spirit veins within a thousand li, leaving Chu Xinghe thrilled that the project seemed destined to fail.

Chu Xinghe brought Wang Tieniu to Divine Fox Ridge, where Tieniu could find no spirit veins, and encouraged him to exhaust the Vast Heaven Sect’s supply of nine-colored spirit stones searching. The other sects took the Vast Heaven Sect’s efforts as proof that a major mine existed on the Horse Clan’s territory and renewed their search.

• The Fox Clan welcomed Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Sect, while Qin Xiangqian noticed Wang Tieniu’s Mine Seeking Art found no spirit veins at Divine Fox Ridge.
• Chu Xinghe urged the Fox Clan to improve its hospitality toward the vice sect master and arranged for him to receive Jiuli’s pastries and meals.
• Wang Tieniu studied the Fox Clan’s records, then asked Chu Xinghe for nine-colored spirit stones so he could use the Spirit Domain Technique.
• Feng Fei sent nearly all of the Vast Heaven Sect’s nine-colored spirit stones to Divine Fox Ridge, and Wang Tieniu used them to search underground but found no spirit veins.
• Chu Xinghe encouraged Wang Tieniu to keep searching, while the other sects saw the Vast Heaven Sect’s repeated efforts and renewed their own search for a major mine on the Horse Clan’s territory.

As Tieniu’s search beneath Divine Fox Ridge found only worthless ore, struggling sects sold their Horse Clan land to Martial Emperor City, but Zheng Yu chose to buy it all and trust Chu Xinghe. Meanwhile, Yuan Ying revealed that he had survived the Ape Clan’s destruction and planned to make the Vast Heaven Sect suffer by thwarting its search for Divine Fox Ridge’s resources.

• Tieniu used nine-colored spirit stones to search underground rivers beneath Divine Fox Ridge but found only ore that no one could use.
• Ji Moran sold the Cloud Firmament Sect’s Horse Clan land to Zheng Yu at a discount, and the Jade Void Palace and other sects followed.
• Despite warnings from his fellow disciples and Martial Emperor City’s elders, Zheng Yu bought all the remaining Horse Clan land and Cheng Xiaotian chose to support him.
• Zheng Yu recalled his master’s warning about the consequences of failure and resolved to trust Senior Brother Xinghe.
• Yuan Ying revealed that he had survived the Ape Clan’s destruction, arranged the Bat Clan incident, and planned to sabotage the Vast Heaven Sect’s search for Divine Fox Ridge’s resources.

Yuan Ying contaminated the underground river to ruin the spirit vein at Divine Fox Ridge, but his plan instead caused the waste rocks there to transform into Blood Spirit Stone. Chu Xinghe discovered Yuan Ying’s token and heard his threat, while privately blaming the Misfortune Compass for the sudden windfall.

• Yuan Ying released the Demon God's power from a finger bone into the underground river and sent his name-bearing token downstream toward Divine Fox Ridge.
• Chu Xinghe watched Wang Tieniu spend the last of the Nine-Colored Spirit Stone on the Spirit Domain Technique, expecting it to find nothing.
• The Spirit Domain Technique’s tendrils converged on the underground river, where blood-red light revealed that the waste rocks had become Blood Spirit Stone.
• Qin Xiangqian celebrated the discovery, while Chu Xinghe wondered how the Blood Spirit Stone had appeared and Wang Tieniu traced the change to the river water.
• Qin Xiangqian retrieved Yuan Ying’s token, which played Yuan Ying’s message declaring that the contaminated river was his first gift to Chu Xinghe.

Chu Xinghe discovered that the changed underground river had transformed waste rock into blood spirit stones, while Yuan Ying mistakenly believed he had helped ruin the Vast Heaven Sect’s plans. As the sects celebrated their windfalls, the Misfortune Compass rewarded Chu Xinghe by raising his cultivation from the Seventh Rank to the Eighth Rank.

• Chu Xinghe and the others found that the underground river had turned waste rock into blood spirit stones, and Yuan Ying’s token announced that the stones were a gift for Chu Xinghe.
• The Fox Clan and Hu Shang interpreted Yuan Ying’s gift as proof that Prophet Xinghe had won him over, while Chu Xinghe was baffled by Yuan Ying’s help.
• Zheng Yu discovered blood spirit stones on Martial Emperor City’s side, celebrated the fortune, and joined the disciples in praising Martial Emperor City.
• The Vast Heaven Sect’s leaders arrived at Divine Fox Ridge and marveled at the blood spirit stones, while the sect master joked about carving a statue from them.
• Yuan Ying watched the Vast Heaven Sect gather, wrongly concluded that he had sabotaged their plans, and left unnoticed as the Beast God began scheming to obtain the stones’ power.
• The Misfortune Compass moved, and Chu Xinghe’s cultivation surged from the Seventh Rank to the Eighth Rank despite the sect’s enormous profit.