Recaps

Empress Ji Ya praised Gu Mingchao’s crude Dao porcelain as a profound path that valued meaning over form, and her interpretation inspired potters and martial artists across the world. As Dao porcelain became prized and triggered breakthroughs, a beggar named Zhao Liu found his broken bowl sold for a fortune and was forced to abandon his idle life.

• Ji Ya told Gu Mingchao that his Dao porcelain fused painting and stone carving, and that its plainness revealed the essence of the Dao.
• Gu Mingchao hosted Ji Ya at the Vast Heaven Sect and escorted her out, while news of her praise spread across the world.
• Master potters endorsed Ji Ya’s explanation, and potters and sects began pursuing Gu Mingchao’s plain Dao porcelain as its value soared.
• Cheng Xiaotian fired porcelain at a kiln beside Martial Emperor City and broke through to Half-Step Mystic God, prompting other sects and Lineages to build kilns.
• A wealthy merchant recognized the broken bowl held by beggar Zhao Liu as Half-Step Dao porcelain, and it sold for a fortune that forced Zhao Liu to start a business instead of living idly.

Dao Porcelain spread across the three continents, but every potter who tried to copy Gu Mingchao could make only Half-Step Dao Porcelain, convincing Chu Xinghe that Gu’s unique achievement came from being exceptionally untalented. As the year’s festival approached, the Vast Heaven Sect’s managers returned, and Qin Xiangqian came back as the celebrated but uneasy manager of the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce.

• Potters held a Dao Porcelain Assembly and spent half a month trying various methods, but they produced only Half-Step Dao Porcelain and failed to match Gu Mingchao’s work.
• Chu Xinghe concluded that Gu Mingchao succeeded because his porcelain-making talent was exceptionally poor, and he noted that the grand elder could not expand production because Gu could not reproduce Dao Porcelain consistently.
• Heavy snow covered the Haotian Mountain Range as the Vast Heaven Sect’s managers returned for the approaching festival, and Tieniu greeted Chu Xinghe with a bear hug while preparing to draw his blade.
• Qin Xiangqian had risen from western-branch president to the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s sole vice president and de facto manager, gaining enough influence to affect the fortunes of kingdoms.
• People in Haotian City praised Qin Xiangqian and sought business with him, but he grew alarmed and insisted that his status came from being Chu Xinghe’s trusted aide.

Qin Xiangqian and Lu Chengqing came to report to Chu Xinghe, but Sima Bian and Shi Biao revealed that the Ning Clan’s Earth Spirit Gushing Spring water was undercutting the Vast Heaven Sect’s spirit medicine business. The elders gathered at Haotian Palace and agreed that the sect had to face the Ning Clan’s price war openly, leaving Chu Xinghe secretly delighted by the threat of losses.

• Qin Xiangqian and Lu Chengqing visited Chu Xinghe, who waved away their business reports because he already knew how the chamber was doing.
• Sima Bian and Shi Biao told Chu Xinghe that spirit medicines were failing to sell on the Spirit Beast Continent because the Ning Clan’s spring water was cheaper and just as effective.
• Chu Xinghe happily brought Sima Bian and Shi Biao to the Great Elder, who summoned the sect elders and Mu Bai to discuss the crisis.
• Ma Liang suggested that the Demonic Sect destroy the Ning Clan’s Earth Spirit Gushing Spring, but the Great Elder rejected the plan as dishonorable.
• The elders agreed that the Vast Heaven Sect had to meet the Ning Clan’s price war openly, while Chu Xinghe privately celebrated the prospect of losses.

Chu Xinghe persuaded the Vast Heaven Sect to answer the Ning Clan’s spirit medicine challenge with a price war, ordering the sect to undercut the Ning Clan despite the losses. As the war began, Hua Xichen’s Great Prophecy Art predicted that both sides would lose while Chu Xinghe would win, leaving him baffled.

• Ma Liang accepted the First Elder’s argument that the Vast Heaven Sect had to answer the Ning Clan openly rather than use force.
• Chu Xinghe proposed pricing the sect’s goods below the Ning Clan’s, hoping to outlast it in a contest of losses.
• Shi Biao said the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring was inexhaustible, delighting Chu Xinghe and confirming his plan to keep the price war going.
• After the meeting, Chu Xinghe told Shi Biao and Sima Bian to have the Northern Branch and Vast Heaven Trading Company undercut the Ning Clan by ten percent.
• Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen struggled to understand why the Vast Heaven Sect had started a price war against the Ning Clan.
• Hua Xichen’s Great Prophecy Art declared that the Ning Clan and Vast Heaven Sect would both lose, but Chu Xinghe would win.

Chu Xinghe drove the Vast Heaven Sect into a ruinous price war with the Ning Clan, thrilled when the Misfortune Compass finally moved and expanded the discounts to deepen the losses. As the New Year festival arrived, Chu Cheng voted for himself to foil the setup he expected from Chu Xinghe, who independently chose to vote for himself instead.

• Hua Xichen was baffled when the Great Prophecy Art predicted defeats for both the Vast Heaven Sect and Ning Clan, but a victory for Chu Xinghe.
• Clan Head Ning cut the price of the Ning Clan's holy water, and Chu Xinghe ordered Shi Biao and Sima Bian to lower the Vast Heaven Sect's prices until its medicines sold at a loss.
• When Sima Bian suggested limiting purchases, Chu Xinghe rejected the idea and ordered increased production and an extra discount for major customers.
• The Vast Heaven Sect's medicines sold in huge quantities, including a major order from Martial Emperor City, while Chu Xinghe celebrated the losses.
• The Vast Heaven Sect celebrated the New Year with lanterns and ballots for its annual awards, and Chu Cheng wrote his own name to prevent Chu Xinghe from making him the sole recipient of a vote again.
• Chu Xinghe decided not to vote for Chu Cheng and wrote his own name on the ballot, unaware that Chu Cheng had also voted for himself.

The Vast Heaven Sect held its annual gathering, where disciples celebrated the sect’s growth and honored their achievements. Chu Xinghe won the sect’s most outstanding disciple award, but Chu Cheng’s single vote once again prevented a unanimous result and left the gathering stunned.

• The grand elder and business stewards praised the sect’s progress as disciples celebrated, while Feng Fei and the civil engineering disciples lamented their exhausting work and hoped for annual leave.
• Mu Bai represented the Spirit Crane Palace and claimed he had wasted the year, while the civil engineering representative wished to take leave or see other palaces surpass them in cultivation.
• Shu Da won the current class’s most outstanding disciple award, and Bai Jingyan unanimously received its most popular disciple award.
• The grand elder announced Chu Xinghe had received 298,658 votes for the sect’s most outstanding disciple, then revealed Chu Cheng had received one vote.
• The gathering found Chu Cheng’s ballot, written in blood, and White Tiger and the others fell silent at his brazen show of defiance.

Chu Xinghe celebrated the New Year before escalating the Vast Heaven Sect’s spirit medicine price war with the Ning Clan, causing the sect’s losses to grow and the Misfortune Compass to move again. As the Ning Clan hired Tantai Jing’s demon-demon troll army to spread criticism of him, Chu Xinghe welcomed the damage to his reputation as another sign that his plan was working.

• Chu Xinghe won the title of the Vast Heaven Sect’s most hated person for a second consecutive year and promised to win in the coming year, including securing a holiday or female construction disciples for the construction division.
• The sect held its New Year’s feast, where the Ouyang Lineage’s Nebula Spirit Cats prepared food and the Artifact Refining Palace looked forward to the Beast God Spirit Temple for cooking techniques.
• The White Tiger Holy Venerable, She Meng, She Kui, Ma Liang, Liu Bo, and others left the feast to visit Chu Cheng at the outer sect and offer New Year’s greetings.
• As the Vast Heaven Sect and the Ning Clan cut spirit medicine prices, Chu Xinghe’s losses increased and the Misfortune Compass began moving; he sent Mu Bai and others to reclaim spirit fields while leaving Mu Xiaoqi to grow medicines.
• Clan Head Ning hired Tantai Jing to unleash the demon-demon troll army against Chu Xinghe, and Tantai Jing’s campaign spread doubts about the Vast Heaven Sect’s price war.
• Chu Xinghe saw the public criticism and privately welcomed the loss of reputation alongside his growing resource losses.

As criticism mounted over Chu Xinghe’s costly spirit-herb price war, the Vast Heaven Sect defended him and Clan Head Ning learned that the losses were negligible compared with the sect’s wealth. At a Ning Clan meeting, Ning Hang proposed targeting Chu Xinghe’s reputation through his Voodoo Arts.

• Demonic Sect rumors accused Chu Xinghe of recklessly wasting the Vast Heaven Sect’s resources, while he welcomed the resulting damage to his reputation.
• The Vast Heaven Sect said Chu Xinghe had earned the right to spend its resources, and Clan Head Ning was shocked by its support.
• Tantai Jing told Clan Head Ning that calculating how long the Vast Heaven Sect would take to run out of resources would cost eight hundred thousand spirit stones, so Clan Head Ning declined.
• Clan Head Ning convened a meeting to find a way to use the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring against Chu Xinghe, as the price war was draining both sides without giving the Ning Clan an advantage.
• Ning Hang argued that the Ning Clan should attack the Vast Heaven Sect’s reputation by targeting Chu Xinghe, then proposed approaching the problem through Chu Xinghe’s Voodoo Arts.

Elder Ning Hang proposed that the Ning Clan challenge Chu Xinghe in poison arts, relying on the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring to neutralize poisons. Chu Xinghe refused the challenge to avoid the Misfortune Compass turning the tables, and the grand elder sent Ji Changfeng to meet the Ning Clan with Ouyang Ling.

• Elder Ning Hang persuaded the Ning Clan to challenge Chu Xinghe in poison arts, using the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring as their advantage.
• Clan Head Ning spread the challenge across the three continents, and the Vast Heaven Sect and outsiders condemned the Ning Clan for using such an obvious advantage.
• Chu Xinghe welcomed the chance to lose at first, but feared the Misfortune Compass might make him win, so he tore up the challenge.
• The Ning Clan sent three challenges a day and taunted the Vast Heaven Sect for refusing to accept.
• The grand elder considered sending Jiuli, but Feng Fei revealed that Jiuli was pregnant, so the grand elder sent Ji Changfeng and Ouyang Ling instead.

The Vast Heaven Sect accepted the Ning Clan’s challenge, and the grand elder named Ji Changfeng, Ouyang Ling, and Chu Xinghe to represent the sect. Chu Xinghe volunteered to keep Ouyang Ling from fighting unless necessary, while the Ning Clan remained confident that its Earth Spirit Gushing Spring would ensure victory.

• Ji Changfeng volunteered to challenge the Ning Clan, and the grand elder ordered Ouyang Ling to accompany him despite the elders’ warnings.
• Ouyang Ling eagerly promised to poison the whole Ning Clan, so Chu Xinghe volunteered to go and try to prevent her from killing anyone.
• The Vast Heaven Sect accepted the challenge, and news that Ouyang Ling would attend frightened factions across both continents.
• Clan Head Ning celebrated the sect’s acceptance and trusted the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring to defeat Ji Changfeng and Chu Xinghe.
• Clan Head Ning contacted Tantai Jing to buy information about Ouyang Ling, but Tantai Jing pretended the communication signal was failing and hung up.

Chu Xinghe brought Ouyang Ling to the Ning Clan for the poison arts showdown and learned that her fearsome reputation had grown from a survival tactic after she and her brother were left vulnerable. She reassured him that the Vast Heaven Sect was her true bottom line, then proved she still had her own definition of acceptable retaliation by poisoning the Ning Clan's three eldest daughters into growing beards.

• Clan Head Ning dismissed the alarming stories about Ouyang Ling after learning she was only a seventh-rank support cultivator, then welcomed Chu Xinghe, Ji Changfeng, and Ouyang Ling to the Ning Clan estate.
• Chu Xinghe stayed close to Ouyang Ling and warned her not to cause trouble as Clan Head Ning introduced his daughters and hosted a banquet.
• Ouyang Ling told Chu Xinghe that her ruthless reputation had helped protect her when people targeted her during the Ouyang Lineage's decline, and said the Vast Heaven Sect and Chu Xinghe were now her bottom line.
• Chu Xinghe comforted Ouyang Ling and recognized that her past had shaped her behavior, believing she no longer needed her protective coloring within the sect.
• Chu Xinghe heard that Clan Head Ning's three eldest daughters had suddenly grown beards, and Ouyang Ling admitted she had poisoned them because they had been making eyes at her bottom line.

Chu Xinghe brought Ouyang Ling to apologize to Clan Head Ning, who accepted three rings of resources as sincere compensation for her prank. At the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring, Ji Changfeng and Ouyang Ling failed to poison the water, leaving Chu Xinghe convinced the Ning Clan would win their contest and ruin his undefeated reputation.

• Clan Head Ning cured his three daughters’ beards with holy water from the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring and blamed Ouyang Ling for the prank.
• Chu Xinghe gave Clan Head Ning three Qiankun rings of resources as compensation, and Ning happily accepted them as proof of Xinghe’s sincerity.
• Chu Xinghe and Clan Head Ning spent the night hoping Ouyang Ling would—or would not—prank the Ning Clan’s other daughters, but she did nothing.
• Clan Head Ning took Chu Xinghe and Ji Changfeng to Earth Spirit Valley, where Ji tested the spring with many poisons and found that it neutralized every one.
• Ouyang Ling also tried her unusual poisons on the spring, but they failed, and Chu Xinghe concluded the Ning Clan would defeat him in the coming contest.

Chu Xinghe eagerly anticipated losing the poison arts contest against the Ning Clan, but the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring had already defeated Ji Changfeng and Ouyang Ling. With the match drawing a huge crowd, Ouyang Ling stepped forward to try her poisons while Chu Xinghe waited for his turn.

• Chu Xinghe celebrated Ouyang Ling’s earlier defeat and believed the spring would help him lose the contest and secure his Ninth Rank.
• Poison masters across the three continents argued over whether the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring or Chu Xinghe would prevail.
• The Ning Clan opened Earth Spirit Valley to the public, and a vast crowd gathered for the contest.
• Ji Changfeng used a series of powerful exotic poisons, but the spring purified them all, so he conceded.
• Ouyang Ling apologized to Chu Xinghe and stepped forward, while he secretly looked forward to losing when his turn came.

Ouyang Ling failed to affect the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring with her strange poisons, then realized its lawlike ability purified poison. She discovered that ordinary seasonings were not purified and began fusing a new medicine from potent divine-grade pills, ending with a bottle of divine-grade Evil Repeller Pills.

• Ouyang Ling used all her strange poisons on the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring, but it purified every one of them.
• Ouyang Ling recalled Chu Xinghe's explanation that the spring purified all poisons and realized she could not overcome its law with poison arts alone.
• Ouyang Ling poured soy sauce, vinegar, and other seasonings into the spring, which remained unpurified and colored the water.
• Ouyang Ling ignored Elder Ning Hang's demand that she stop and brought out a fusion sphere and various pills.
• Ouyang Ling fused several potent divine-grade medicines, then revealed a bottle of divine-grade Evil Repeller Pills.

Ouyang Ling fused a bottle of divine-grade Evil Repeller Pills with other potent drugs, causing the Fusion Ball to explode and its contents to turn the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring pink. The spring’s medicinal effects remained, but its pink water left Chu Xinghe convinced that Ouyang Ling had made it too dangerous to drink, and he resolved to keep her from leaving the Vast Heaven Sect.

• Ouyang Ling added divine-grade Evil Repeller Pills to the Fusion Ball, which exploded and sent a multicolored substance into the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring.
• The spring turned pink and surged over a hundred meters high, raining droplets that left people across Earth Spirit Valley dazed and acting strangely.
• Chu Xinghe used Evil Repeller to clear people’s minds and Azure Shadow Flame to burn the pink droplets away.
• Ouyang Ling celebrated her success after the spring stabilized, believing she had proved that potent drugs could bypass its poison-purifying laws.
• Chu Xinghe realized the pink spring was now too dangerous to drink and decided Ouyang Ling should never leave the Vast Heaven Sect.

Ouyang Ling’s concoction turned the Ning Clan’s Earth Spirit Gushing Spring pink for eight hundred years, ending the spirit medicine war and making the Vast Heaven Sect’s medicines essential to the Spirit Beast Continent. As the world credited Chu Xinghe with masterminding the victory, news that the Beast God Spirit Temple was about to open kept him from going into seclusion.

• Ji Changfeng determined that Ouyang Ling’s concoction would keep the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring pink for about eight hundred years, though its medicinal properties remained usable.
• News of the spring’s unusual effects spread across the three continents, and Ouyang Ling said Chu Xinghe had guided her while Zheng Yu concluded that Chu had planned the outcome from the start.
• With the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring altered, Sima Bian and Shi Biao restored spirit medicine prices, and the Spirit Beast Continent began buying the Vast Heaven Sect’s medicines.
• Chu Xinghe prepared to enter seclusion, but the coming opening of the Beast God Spirit Temple made him swear he would give away everything he got.

The Ancient Beast God Spirit Temple was set to reopen, and its rumored tenfold admission cost prompted the Vast Heaven Sect to consider lending resources to allied factions. Chu Xinghe objected just as the meeting ended, and the elders returned to hear him out.

• News spread that the Beast God Spirit Temple had returned in its ancient form and might require ten times the usual resources for entry.
• Chu Xinghe celebrated the prospect of the higher admission cost, expecting it to help him reach Ninth Rank.
• Shen Chun brought Chu Xinghe to a meeting where the Grand Elder ordered the Beast Taming Palace to brief the other palaces on the temple’s dangers and customs.
• The Grand Elder proposed lending resources to allied factions that could not afford admission, and all the palace heads agreed.
• The Grand Elder assigned Feng Fei and Ma Liang to coordinate the loans, but Chu Xinghe voiced an objection as the meeting ended.

Chu Xinghe rejected lending resources to the struggling powers and proposed selling advance tickets to the ancient Beast God Spirit Temple, with the Vast Heaven Sect covering any increased cost. Elder He argued the plan would win the smaller powers’ loyalty, and Cheng Xiaotian saw it as a sign that the Vast Heaven Sect was nearing holy-land status.

• Chu Xinghe warned the elders that borrowing resources could leave smaller powers crushed by debt if they failed to gain anything from the ancient spirit temple.
• Chu Xinghe proposed selling tickets for twice the normal Beast God Spirit Temple price and promised the Vast Heaven Sect would cover any shortfall or refund half the price if costs stayed normal.
• Elder He explained that the Vast Heaven Sect would either earn the smaller powers’ gratitude through refunds or help them survive by paying the higher costs.
• The Vast Heaven Sect announced its ticket plan, astonishing powers across the world.
• Zheng Yu asked Cheng Xiaotian what the Vast Heaven Sect hoped to gain, and Cheng Xiaotian said the plan gave small powers a chance to survive and brought the sect closer to becoming a holy land.

Cheng Xiaotian explained why the Vast Heaven Sect was using its resources to help minor factions and Rogue Cultivators, while news of its ticket plan won widespread praise across the three continents. In the Demonic Sect, Yuan Ying stayed after reaching the Mystic God realm, but Tantai Jing warned against exploiting Chu Xinghe’s ticket offer.

• Cheng Xiaotian told Zheng Yu that the Vast Heaven Sect valued winning people’s hearts and cautioned him that the plan involved Chu Xinghe.
• The Vast Heaven Sect’s ticket offer spread across the three continents, allowing minor factions and Rogue Cultivators to enter the ancient spirit temple without bearing the full risk of its possible tenfold cost.
• Yuan Ying considered attacking Wu Xingyun after discovering he had been deceived, but chose to remain with the Demonic Sect because he lacked confidence in defeating Wu Xingyun and had benefited from the sect.
• Yuan Ying proposed that the Demonic Sect buy large numbers of tickets and exploit the Vast Heaven Sect’s promise to cover any extra cost.
• Tantai Jing rejected the scheme and insisted the Demonic Sect buy tickets only for its own disciples, warning that Chu Xinghe might have prepared countermeasures.

Chu Xinghe tried to make the Vast Heaven Sect lose resources by selling tickets through a loophole, but Tantai Jing suspected a trap and bought only enough tickets for Demonic Sect disciples. Chu Xinghe then ordered Ma Liang to sell tickets to anyone who wanted them, leaving the outcome uncertain as the major factions stayed away.

• Tantai Jing persuaded Yuan Ying and Wu Xingyun to wait and see, then brought Demonic Sect members to the Vast Heaven Sect to buy tickets.
• Tantai Jing claimed the Demonic Sect was a tiny faction entitled to buy tickets, and Chu Xinghe eagerly welcomed his purchase.
• Suspecting Chu Xinghe's enthusiasm hid a trick, Tantai Jing refused to buy extra tickets and purchased only tickets for Demonic Sect disciples.
• After Tantai Jing left, Chu Xinghe wondered why major factions were not exploiting the ticket loophole, while Ma Liang reported that some buyers were purchasing repeatedly.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to sell tickets to everyone, including repeat buyers and people buying under other names.

The Vast Heaven Sect waited for major powers to exploit the obvious loophole in Chu Xinghe’s ticket plan, but none had acted openly. Clan Head Ning tested the loophole, then mobilized the Ning Clan to buy tickets in disguise, and Qiu Tian joined the scheme with the Demonic Sect, convinced Chu Xinghe had no countermeasure.

• Gu Mingchao stopped the elders from warning Xinghe, and the Vast Heaven Sect waited several days while only Rogue Persons and minor factions bought extra tickets.
• The Ning Clan profited from selling Earth Spirit Gushing Spring to brothels, while Clan Head Ning noticed the loophole in the Vast Heaven Sect’s ticket plan.
• Clan Head Ning sent disguised Ning Clan disciples to buy tickets hundreds of times without provoking a response, then launched a large-scale ticket-buying operation.
• Qiu Tian learned of the Ning Clan’s plan from a spy, decided the Demonic Sect could exploit the same loophole, and ordered its factions to disguise themselves as members of the Human Race.
• Qiu Tian dismissed warnings that the ticket plan might be a trap and challenged his strategists to name an open scheme Chu Xinghe could use against them.

Chu Xinghe welcomed mysterious Rogue Cultivators buying Vast Heaven Sect tickets, believing their purchases would help him, while the civil engineering disciples celebrated the resources they expected to gain. White Tiger proposed rebuilding the sect’s mountain-guarding formation, and Chu Xinghe enthusiastically helped secure approval for a defense built on the scale of the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

• Ma Liang told Chu Xinghe that mysterious Rogue Cultivators were buying tickets in bulk, and Chu Xinghe ordered him to sell them as many as they wanted.
• Vast Heaven Sect elders watched the ticket sales, while the civil engineering disciples celebrated the prospect of taking leave once the sect spent its resources.
• Chu Xinghe grew suspicious of everyone around him until White Tiger approached and proposed rebuilding the mountain-guarding formation.
• Chu Xinghe enthusiastically backed White Tiger’s plan and went with him to persuade the Grand Elder.
• The Grand Elder approved the reconstruction and ordered White Tiger and the Formation Spirit Palace to build a formation on the scale of the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

Chu Xinghe celebrated White Tiger’s plan to rebuild the Vast Heaven Sect’s mountain-guarding formation, while the Beast God secretly hoped the Beast God Spirit Temple would restore his power. As Chu Xinghe helped White Tiger merge the new formations, his deliberate mistake unexpectedly produced auspicious radiance, leaving both of them astonished.

• Chu Xinghe learned that White Tiger would replace the old mountain-guarding formation with a holy-land-level array covering the Haotian Mountain Range, while the Beast God secretly planned to use the Beast God Spirit Temple to regain his strength and break their contract.
• White Tiger destroyed the old formation and assigned the Formation Spirit Clan to establish one thousand and eighty grand formations across the mountains.
• White Tiger taught Chu Xinghe how to merge formations by drawing on the force of heaven and earth, producing purple qi as a sign of success.
• Chu Xinghe deliberately made a mistake while merging two formations, expecting to fail, but ten thousand streams of auspicious radiance rose as the formations merged successfully.
• White Tiger excitedly asked Chu Xinghe how he had produced radiance beyond purple qi, and Chu Xinghe could only agree that he wanted to know too.

Chu Xinghe tried to sabotage formation fusions, but each attempt produced increasingly rare Divine Formations, culminating in Lingering Immortal Music. White Tiger gained enlightenment from Xinghe’s technique, advanced his formation mastery, and partially restored his remnant soul.

• Chu Xinghe fused formations against White Tiger’s instructions and produced Rosy Light and Auspicious Radiance, astonishing White Tiger and Ling Mou.
• Chu Xinghe changed two steps in another fusion, which created a Nine-Colored Auspicious Cloud and left him frustrated that his attempted failure had succeeded again.
• White Tiger urged Chu Xinghe to keep practicing, and Xinghe scrambled every step in hopes of making the next fusion fail.
• The next fusion produced Lingering Immortal Music, the legendary highest level of Divine Formation, while White Tiger entered a state of sudden enlightenment.
• White Tiger applied what he had comprehended, fused formations to create Rosy Light and Auspicious Radiance, and discovered that his remnant soul had been partially restored.

White Tiger’s formation breakthrough restored part of his remnant soul, convincing him that Chu Xinghe could help the Four Sacred Beasts defy their fate. As the Vast Heaven Sect activated the first layer of its new mountain-protecting formation, the Ancient Beast God Spirit Temple’s second beam revealed that offerings would require ten times the resources, delighting Chu Xinghe.

• White Tiger restored part of his remnant soul through enlightenment and decided to remain by Chu Xinghe to pursue a complete restoration.
• White Tiger and Chu Xinghe continued building the Vast Heaven Sect’s mountain-protecting formation, while Ma Liang sold vast numbers of tickets to Rogue Cultivators for the Ancient Spirit Temple.
• Tantai Jing tested the unfinished formation with a ghost, which it destroyed before the formation had even been activated.
• When the Ancient Spirit Temple’s first beam of divine light appeared, White Tiger activated the formation’s first layer and returned to the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation to rest.
• The Ancient Beast God Spirit Temple’s second beam appeared, revealing that the required offerings were ten times the usual amount, and Chu Xinghe celebrated the news.