Recaps

Hua Xichen’s Great Prophecy Art warned him to retreat from the Beast God Hall, but its allure drew the other prodigies under its control. When they threatened to kill him for trying to stop them, Hua Xichen attacked to force them out of the Ancient Divine Domain, only to face the entity controlling them.

• Hua Xichen recalled how the Great Prophecy Art had once saved him and his mother from assassins, and recognized its sudden warning to retreat as a sign of certain danger.
• Hua Xichen warned the gathered prodigies not to enter the Beast God Hall, but they dismissed his warning and followed Ming Chenghai toward it.
• As the group approached, the Great Prophecy Art warned Hua Xichen three times, while the hall’s influence blinded the others and turned their eyes blood-red.
• Ming Chenghai and the Hua Clan disciples threatened Hua Xichen when he tried to lead them away, so Hua Xichen used the Sun and Moon Golden Wheels to kill Ming Chenghai and send him out of the Ancient Divine Domain.
• The deaths began carrying the controlled prodigies out of the Ancient Divine Domain, but the remaining red-eyed crowd turned on Hua Xichen as the controlling entity spoke through them.

Hua Xichen led the Spirit Beast Continent’s prodigies to the Beast God Hall, where they fell under a deadly influence that drove them to enter, so he attacked them to force them out. After his Great Prophecy Art showed only blankness and he was defeated, he sent a spirit butterfly toward Chu Xinghe, hoping he could break the deadlock and save the prodigies still inside.

• Hua Xichen used the Sun and Moon Golden Wheels to slay ensnared companions and send them out of the Ancient Divine Domain.
• Clan Head Hua and the other clan heads accused Hua Xichen of killing his allies, then watched as Hua Clan members were expelled too.
• Hua Xichen fought the thousands of prodigies gathered at the Beast God Hall and used Sage’s Descent, but the Great Prophecy Art showed him nothing.
• Hua Xichen fell beneath the prodigies’ attacks, and his Great Prophecy Art became a spirit butterfly carrying his final message toward Chu Xinghe.
• Hua Xichen explained what had happened to the leaders outside, and the expelled prodigies began to remember why he had attacked them.
• Hua Xichen hoped Chu Xinghe could find a way to rescue the Spirit Beast Continent’s prodigies still inside the Beast God Hall.

Chu Xinghe’s group received Hua Xichen’s route to the Beast God Hall and a plea for help, but the spirit butterfly also carried a bewitching force that Evil Repeller dispelled. Chu Xinghe discovered he could no longer contact the Beast God, who realized the treasure in the hall was the first Beast God’s heart, containing the heart demon that had caused his fall.

• Chu Xinghe told his companions he had a lead on the Beast God Treasure Vault and stalled them while waiting for Hua Xichen to act.
• After two days, Hua Xichen’s spirit butterfly delivered a map to the Beast God Hall and revealed that he was asking for help because most of his companions had been lured inside.
• The butterfly unleashed bewitching power on Chu Xinghe’s camp, but Chu Xinghe summoned Evil Repeller and freed everyone it affected.
• Chu Xinghe tried to contact the Beast God, but found that the Beast God was absent from the Beast God Talisman and their connection had been severed.
• The Beast God recognized the force from the hall as the first Beast God’s heart, which had sealed the heart demon that drove the first Beast God to end his own life.

The Beast God revealed that Hua Xichen had opened the Beast God Hall and exposed the first Beast God’s sealed inner demon, which threatened to escape and consume everyone. Chu Xinghe rushed to the hall with Evil Repeller and fought through the bewitched prodigies, leaving the observers outside the Ancient Divine Domain to witness the terrifying strength he showed at his peak.

• The Beast God explained that the Beast God Heart contained the first Beast God’s inner demon and warned Chu Xinghe that the demon could escape if the seal broke.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Senior Brother Feng Fei to keep everyone in camp, sealed the camp with the Evil Repeller Formation, and hurried toward the Beast God Hall.
• Chu Xinghe dispelled the mist with Evil Repeller and freed a group of bewitched Spirit Beast Continent prodigies, but the demon’s influence soon seized them again.
• Chu Xinghe summoned Flying Locust and the Heaven-Soaring Sword Formation, then fought through the attacking prodigies as his divine swords kept them from coming close.
• Observers outside the Ancient Divine Domain watched Chu Xinghe carve a path toward the hall and realized how powerful he was at his peak.

Chu Xinghe failed to reach the Beast God Hall before it collapsed and released the Beast God Heart Demon, whose blood-red power devoured Spirit Beast Continent prodigies and overwhelmed Chu Xinghe. As the heart demon dragged him into the blood pool, the Beast God Talisman suddenly shone with golden light.

• Chu Xinghe fought through the mind-controlled Spirit Beast Continent prodigies and tried to reach the Beast God Hall, but the Beast God Heart Demon's influence kept turning them against him.
• A blood-red light erupted from the Beast God Hall, which collapsed and gave rise to a lake of blood and the freed Beast God Heart Demon.
• The Beast God Heart Demon's bloody power drove Spirit Beast Continent prodigies into the lake, where their bodies and souls were devoured, and eventually overwhelmed the Evil Repeller Formation protecting Chu Xinghe's camp.
• The heart demon attacked Chu Xinghe with bloody whips and sent him flying, while outside the Ancient Divine Domain Hua Xichen realized his greed had helped release the demon and discovered that his Great Prophecy Art had vanished.
• The Beast God Heart Demon pulled the wounded Chu Xinghe into the blood-red lake, but the Beast God Talisman on his body released a beam of golden light.

The Beast God emerged from Chu Xinghe’s Beast God Talisman, restored a temporary body, and opened an escape route from the Ancient Divine Domain. He stayed behind to face the Beast God Heart Demon in a battle he believed would be his last.

• Gu Mingchao tried to enter the Ancient Divine Domain to save Chu Xinghe, but Ji Ya warned that the Beast God Heart Demon could seize his Beast God Spine and grow stronger.
• The Beast God Talisman lifted Chu Xinghe out of the blood-red lake, and the Beast God emerged from it to dispel the blood-red radiance.
• The Beast God shattered the Beast God Talisman to form a temporary body and used his divine power to cut off the heart demon’s control and open an escape route.
• Chu Xinghe and the awakened prodigies from the Spirit Beast, Blazing Sun, and Demon Star Continents fled the Ancient Divine Domain while the heart demon focused on the Beast God.
• The Beast God resolved to fulfill his duty and struck at the heart demon with his divine axe, unleashing the move called Worldfall.

The Beast God used the Beast God Talisman to seal the heart demon in the Ten Thousand Beasts God Locking Formation, but the heart demon revealed he had kept power outside the seal and began breaking free. As the Beast God prepared to destroy his own soul, Chu Xinghe appeared on the horizon.

• The Beast God and the heart demon fought with golden and blood-colored battle-axes while the heart demon healed from the blood-colored lake.
• The Beast God baited the heart demon into piercing his talisman-made body, then released golden runes that sealed the heart demon and the lake inside the Beast God Talisman.
• The Beast God detonated the talisman-made body, activated the Ten Thousand Beasts Spirit Locking Formation, and raised a new Beast God Hall to contain the heart demon.
• A blood-colored spring appeared outside the seal, and the heart demon used the power he had left behind to tear apart the Beast God Hall and claim the talisman's Power of Rebirth.
• The Beast God, gravely weakened and unable to seal the heart demon again, prepared to ignite his soul, but saw a flash of sword light from Chu Xinghe.

Chu Xinghe returned to the Ancient Divine Domain and fused with the Beast God to fight the Heart Demon, but the Heart Demon repeatedly revived from the blood pool. As Chu Xinghe and the Beast God's strength waned, mysterious heavenly might gathered over the domain.

• Chu Xinghe returned as the Beast God prepared to burn away his soul, and refused to abandon him.
• Chu Xinghe ignited his life force, and the Beast God willingly fused with him, creating an Eight-Armed Demon God form.
• Chu Xinghe and the Beast God wielded the Haotian Sword Casket's divine swords and repeatedly cut the Heart Demon to pieces.
• The Heart Demon kept reviving from the blood pool, revealing that he was undying and indestructible.
• Chu Xinghe stopped attacking as the Heart Demon mocked him, and thunderclouds gathered beneath a mysterious heavenly might.

Chu Xinghe and the Beast God fought the Heart Demon as he repeatedly revived from the pool of blood, until Chu Xinghe drew down the Heavenly Dao to destroy him. The Heart Demon vanished after the pool was exhausted, and Chu Xinghe revealed that accumulated misfortune had summoned the Heavenly Dao.

• The Heart Demon repeatedly revived, while Hua Xichen regretted releasing him and the three continents watched Chu Xinghe and the Beast God weaken.
• Chu Xinghe struck the Heart Demon with the Evil Repeller and summoned the Heavenly Dao’s power.
• The Heavenly Dao’s lightning repeatedly destroyed the Heart Demon and attacked the pool of blood, which shrank with each rebirth.
• The pool disappeared and became the Beast God Heart, and the final lightning bolt reduced the Heart Demon to ashes.
• Chu Xinghe explained that his power of misfortune had accumulated on the Heart Demon until it drew down the Heavenly Dao.

Chu Xinghe destroyed the Heart Demon by using his Power of Misfortune to provoke the Heavenly Dao, then gave the Beast God Heart to the Beast God so he could regain a complete body. Before merging with the heart and falling asleep, the Beast God passed his Beast Taming Arts to Chu Xinghe and promised another surprise, leaving Chu Xinghe worried it would cause him trouble.

• Chu Xinghe revealed that each of his attacks had planted misfortune on the Heart Demon until the Heavenly Dao appeared and destroyed it.
• Chu Xinghe took the Beast God Heart and gave it to the Beast God as a new body, restoring the Beast God's chance to regain his full power.
• The Beast God warned Chu Xinghe that he could become stronger than before and might no longer be suppressible, while Chu Xinghe complained about their past feud.
• The Beast God transferred all of his Beast Taming Arts into Chu Xinghe's memory and said Chu Xinghe would need to prove himself worthy of fighting alongside him.
• The Beast God merged into the Beast God Heart, which entered Chu Xinghe's body, and fell asleep while Chu Xinghe wondered what his promised second surprise would be.

Chu Xinghe emerged from the Ancient Divine Domain after the Beast God destroyed the Heart Demon and fell asleep following his rebirth with the Beast God Heart. As the forces of the three continents thanked Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Sect, Huang Ritian revealed that the Civil Engineering Department had secretly brought out all the stolen resources.

• The Beast God used the first-generation Beast God's Beast God Heart to gain a new body, then fell asleep before explaining his promised second surprise as the Ancient Divine Domain closed.
• Chu Xinghe emerged as the last person from the Ancient Divine Domain, and the three continents learned that the Beast God was the spirit beast inside his Beast God Talisman.
• Gu Mingchao and the Vast Heaven Sect leaders checked Chu Xinghe for injuries and made him eat a basin of foundation-strengthening divine pills.
• Chu Xinghe said the Beast God had caused the Heavenly Dao to intervene and reminded everyone that he had repeatedly told them the Beast God was in his talisman.
• The White Tiger realized that the Four Sacred Beasts had helped Chu Xinghe partly to help the Beast God, while the other forces thanked Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Sect for defeating the Heart Demon.
• Chu Xinghe pretended to mourn the resources left behind, but Huang Ritian revealed that the Civil Engineering Department's upgraded miniature vaults had carried every resource out of the Ancient Divine Domain.

After the Ancient Divine Domain closed, Chu Xinghe was forced to record the Beast God’s secret arts, making Mu Xiaoqi write them out while the Vast Heaven Sect’s palaces grew stronger. As Chu Xinghe hid in the Technique Repository Tower, the Beast God Spirit Temple awakened the Spirit Beast Continent, raising its Spiritual Qi and revealing mineral veins across the land.

• The Civil Engineering Department disciples brought the Vast Heaven Sect’s treasury out of the Ancient Divine Domain, and the factions celebrated the rescued resources.
• The great elder sent Chu Xinghe to record all the Beast God Secret Arts, so Chu Xinghe made Mu Xiaoqi write them down in the Technique Repository Tower.
• The Beast Taming Palace and the other palaces used the newly recorded arts to strengthen their combat abilities, while Ouyang Ming complained that the Beast God had left out cooking techniques.
• Chu Xinghe poisoned Ouyang Ming with Voodoo Arts, but Ouyang Ming showed no reaction; Nangong Yan told Chu Xinghe that Ouyang Ming was better than her at neutralizing and avoiding poison.
• Chu Xinghe refused to let Ma Liang interrupt the work and stayed in the Technique Repository Tower to avoid making mistakes.
• After the Beast God Spirit Temple closed, Spiritual Qi surged across the Spirit Beast Continent and mineral veins appeared, prompting factions to buy land and the Cui Clan to profit from its geomancy skills.

As spirit mines spread across the Spirit Beast Continent, Wang Tieniu’s risky purchases lost money, and Qin Xiangqian sent him to ask Chu Xinghe for help. Chu Xinghe refused to go mine-seeking and instead made Mu Xiaoqi help him record the Beast God’s secret arts.

• The Cui Clan used its Geomancy and Spirit-Seeking Art to buy up many valuable mines, while Wang Tieniu and other outside forces mostly settled for surface mines.
• After making several profitable deep-mine purchases, Wang Tieniu bought a string of bad ones and nearly lost his earlier earnings.
• Qin Xiangqian advised Wang Tieniu to return to the sect and ask Chu Xinghe to find mines, citing his success with the Tianyi Spirit Mine.
• Wang Tieniu returned to the sect, but Chu Xinghe decided that leaving for the Spirit Beast Continent would invite trouble and stayed in the Technique Repository Tower.
• Mu Xiaoqi expected Chu Xinghe to depart, but Chu Xinghe instead summoned him to help write down the Beast God’s secret arts through the night.

Chu Xinghe tried to keep Wang Tieniu from using his Mine Seeking Art, but Ma Liang persuaded Tieniu to bring Feng Yuzheng and his Treasure Seeking Art to the Spirit Beast Continent. After Feng Yuzheng and two authorities confirmed the arts could not find spirit mines, Chu Xinghe sent him anyway, convinced the sect would lose heavily.

• Wang Tieniu decided to stop buying spirit-mine veins after losing money on three attempts, and Chu Xinghe panicked at the prospect of ending the effort.
• Ma Liang persuaded Wang Tieniu to enlist Feng Yuzheng, arguing that treasure seeking might work for finding mines, and Feng Yuzheng reluctantly agreed to go.
• Chu Xinghe visited Feng Yuzheng, who repeatedly explained that his Treasure Seeking Art could not locate spirit mines and swore it was useless for that purpose.
• Chu Xinghe told Feng Yuzheng to go with Wang Tieniu and keep making attempts regardless of losses, leaving Feng Yuzheng confused.
• Elder He and the Great Sage confirmed to Chu Xinghe that Treasure Seeking Art could not find spirit mines, and Chu Xinghe watched Feng Yuzheng depart for the Spirit Beast Continent, confident he would lose.

Chu Xinghe sent Feng Yuzheng to help Wang Tieniu assess spirit mines, confident that the Treasure Seeking Art could not overlap with the Mine Seeking Art. Feng Yuzheng’s choices led the Vast Heaven Sect to buy five faulted trash mines in a row, and Chu Xinghe was delighted by the losses.

• Chu Xinghe arranged for people to monitor Feng Yuzheng and Wang Tieniu, while the Cui Clan and other forces wondered why the Vast Heaven Sect had sent a Treasure Seeking Art expert instead of Chu Xinghe.
• Wang Tieniu explained how he judged a spirit vein, but Feng Yuzheng could not understand his analysis and used the Treasure Seeking Art, sensing treasure underground.
• Wang Tieniu and Feng Yuzheng bought the first spirit mine, which turned out to contain low-grade spirit stones and a fault.
• Wang Tieniu encouraged Feng Yuzheng to keep trying, but their next three purchases also proved to be faulted trash mines.
• News of five consecutive failed purchases reached Chu Xinghe, who checked the Misfortune Compass and celebrated the Vast Heaven Sect’s losses.

Feng Yuzheng and Wang Tieniu continued buying spirit mines despite a string of disastrous losses, eventually setting a record with eight fault-broken garbage mines in a row. Chu Xinghe urged them to continue, while Ma Liang volunteered to investigate and was sent to the Spirit Beast Continent.

• Chu Xinghe celebrated Feng Yuzheng and Wang Tieniu's early losses, while Zheng Yu and the Martial Emperor City stewards avoided copying their purchases.
• After five failed mine purchases, Feng Yuzheng and Wang Tieniu considered stopping, but Chu Xinghe sent them a message saying to continue.
• Feng Yuzheng carefully selected three more mines, and all three proved to be garbage mines broken by faults, bringing their streak to eight.
• The Vast Heaven Sect's record stunned the three continents and left Cui Wuming unable to understand what Feng Yuzheng was doing.
• Ma Liang offered to go to the Spirit Beast Continent to investigate, and Chu Xinghe immediately sent him there.

Chu Xinghe sent Ma Liang to the Spirit Beast Continent to push Feng Yuzheng and Wang Tieniu into bolder spirit-mine purchases, expecting them to lose resources. After their usual and reverse selections all produced trash mines, Ma Liang’s confidence in his mindset collapsed.

• Chu Xinghe sent Ma Liang to the Spirit Beast Continent and told him to urge Feng Yuzheng and Wang Tieniu to buy boldly.
• Ma Liang scolded Feng Yuzheng and Wang Tieniu for making only eight purchases, then led Feng Yuzheng to select eight more spirit mines.
• All eight mines were trash mines cut off by faults, giving them a record sixteen consecutive failures and shattering Ma Liang’s confidence.
• Ma Liang suggested choosing spirit mines in reverse, and Feng Yuzheng bought four using that approach.
• The four mines were also trash mines cut off by faults, leaving Ma Liang, Feng Yuzheng, and Wang Tieniu stunned.

Ma Liang realized Feng Yuzheng had ignored Senior Brother Xinghe’s advice to trust his instincts, so he urged him to choose a spirit mine by feeling instead of using the Treasure Seeking Art. Feng Yuzheng found rare fire spirit stones beneath a trash mine, but the news left outsiders skeptical and challenged the Vast Heaven Sect to find another by instinct.

• After Feng Yuzheng admitted Senior Brother Xinghe had never taught him the Treasure Seeking Art, Ma Liang blamed his failures on ignoring the advice to trust his feelings.
• Ma Liang took Feng Yuzheng and Wang Tieniu to the spirit mine market and told Feng Yuzheng to choose a mine by instinct.
• Feng Yuzheng sensed strong ripples from one mine, bought it, and ordered the miner disciples to keep digging after they uncovered a fault.
• The excavation revealed rare fire spirit stones beneath the trash mine, and Ma Liang and Feng Yuzheng credited Senior Brother Xinghe’s guidance.
• News of the discovery spread across the Spirit Beast Continent, where people dismissed it as luck and dared the Vast Heaven Sect to find another mine by feeling.

Feng Yuzheng chose spirit mines by relying on his feelings, and Ma Liang backed his choices because he trusted Chu Xinghe’s calculations. Their latest purchase seemed worthless until mining revealed a vein of extreme ice spirit ore, leaving Cui Wuming wondering whether Feng Yuzheng was using cheats.

• After the Vast Heaven Sect discovered a fire spirit stone mine, Ma Liang claimed Feng Yuzheng had found it by feeling, and the other powers dismissed the idea.
• Ma Liang took Feng Yuzheng and Wang Tieniu to select more spirit mines, and Feng Yuzheng relied only on his feelings while Cui Wuming and others watched.
• Feng Yuzheng chose a western mine that Cui Wuming had judged worthless, but Ma Liang ordered Wang Tieniu to buy it after asking whether he trusted Chu Xinghe.
• The Vast Heaven Sect’s miner disciples began excavating the mine, and Cui Wuming prepared to leave when ordinary spirit stones appeared.
• An icy blue light revealed extreme ice spirit ore beneath the ordinary stones, and Cui Wuming wondered whether Feng Yuzheng was using cheats.

Feng Yuzheng repeatedly found rare spirit mines by trusting his instincts, prompting the Cui Clan and the Vast Heaven Sect to conclude that he was a legendary Spirit Shepherd. As the sect celebrated his success and credited Chu Xinghe with foreseeing it, Chu Xinghe left the Technique Repository Tower, determined to stop the group before they made matters worse.

• Feng Yuzheng's discovery of an extreme ice spirit mine stunned the crowd, and a Cui Clan steward suggested that he was a Spirit Shepherd.
• Over the next two days, Feng Yuzheng bought seven mines that yielded rare spirit stones, quickly recovering the Vast Heaven Sect's losses and earning huge profits.
• Chu Xinghe received news of Feng Yuzheng's success and panicked, while Mu Xiaoqi and the Vast Heaven Sect mistook his earlier advice for proof that he had predicted Feng Yuzheng's talent.
• Elder He explained that Feng Yuzheng's instincts, not the Feng Lineage's Treasure Seeking Art, made him a Spirit Shepherd, and the sect praised Chu Xinghe and Ma Liang for their supposed insight.
• Chu Xinghe left the Technique Repository Tower, resolved to intervene before Feng Yuzheng, Ma Liang, and Tieniu went further on their winning streak.

Feng Yuzheng’s revelation as a Spirit Shepherd disrupted Clan Head Cui’s plans to profit from the spirit-mine boom, so he used the Cui Clan’s Xuanwu Shell to suppress Feng Yuzheng’s ability for a year. Feng Yuzheng slept through the effect, while Chu Xinghe decided to prevent him from acting again by relying on his own feelings.

• Feng Yuzheng credited Senior Brother Xinghe for recognizing his Spirit Shepherd traits, and the three continents reacted with amazement at his abilities.
• Clan Head Cui realized Feng Yuzheng’s Spirit Shepherd ability threatened the Cui Clan’s plans to profit from its Geomancy and Spirit-Seeking Art.
• Clan Head Cui activated the Xuanwu Shell and sent its power to suppress Feng Yuzheng’s Spirit Shepherd ability for a year.
• The Xuanwu Shell spread dark light across the Cui Clan, and Clan Head Cui believed Xuanwu’s fortune would make the clan victorious.
• The shell’s power entered Feng Yuzheng while he slept, and Chu Xinghe resolved to keep him from making another move by following his own feelings.

Feng Yuzheng’s Spirit Shepherd ability brought the Vast Heaven Sect and other factions enormous profits, while the Ning Clan’s secret records revealed that overusing the ability would kill him. After arriving on the Spirit Beast Continent, Chu Xinghe ordered five major mines Feng Yuzheng had selected sold at their original price, leaving the factions divided over whether to buy them.

• Feng Yuzheng’s mine discoveries earned the Vast Heaven Sect and the factions that bought nearby mines considerable profits, and Zheng Yu’s Martial Emperor City and the Ning Clan profited especially well.
• Clan Head Ning acted on secret records that said a Spirit Shepherd’s power caused rapid aging and death if used too long, and the Ning Clan bought mines alongside Feng Yuzheng while hoping to witness his eventual death.
• Feng Yuzheng told Chu Xinghe he had chosen five especially rich major mines as a surprise, but Chu Xinghe ordered all five sold at their original price.
• Ma Liang arranged the sale, and Clan Head Ning’s faction quickly bought three of the five mines.
• Zheng Yu refused to let Martial Emperor City buy the remaining mines and ordered its stewards to sell the mining properties they had acquired nearby.

After the Ning Clan and other buyers lost money on mines that held only a thin layer of seven-colored stones, Chu Xinghe took Feng Yuzheng to choose more mines. Chu bought the four mines Feng rejected, which proved extraordinarily valuable, while the two Feng chose were worthless pseudo-veins.

• The Ning Clan opened its three mines and found seven-colored spirit stones only on the surface, with empty hollows beneath; the two other mines proved just as worthless.
• Clan Head Ning accused Chu Xinghe of cheating him, but other factions pointed out that the Ning Clan had bought the mines voluntarily at Chu's original cost.
• Chu Xinghe brought Feng Yuzheng to choose six new mines, then ordered Ma Liang to buy the four Feng had rejected.
• The Vast Heaven Sect opened the four mines and found a dark spirit mine, a wood spirit mine, and two mines containing five-colored spirit stones.
• A buyer opened the two mines Feng had chosen and found only worthless pseudo-veins, leaving observers doubtful that Spirit Shepherds could reliably pick mines by feeling.

Chu Xinghe’s choices made Feng Yuzheng’s Spirit Shepherd abilities look unreliable, while Elder He and the Great Sage revealed that using those powers too often could drain his lifespan. They concluded that Xinghe’s Star Divination Art had humbled Yuzheng enough to keep him from relying on the dangerous ability, though Xinghe remained frustrated by his own Misfortune Compass.

• Chu Xinghe switched to buying the spirit mines Feng Yuzheng selected, and all three yielded nine-colored spirit stones.
• Elder He and the Great Sage arrived and explained that Spirit Shepherd powers consumed their users’ lifespans when used frequently.
• Elder He reasoned that Xinghe’s repeated success against Yuzheng’s selections had made the Spirit Shepherd ability seem unimpressive and helped protect Yuzheng from becoming dependent on it.
• Feng Yuzheng decided the power was unreliable and that he would cultivate normally, using it only in emergencies.
• Chu Xinghe reflected that the Misfortune Compass repeatedly brought him bad luck and denied that he could ever lose himself in its power.

Chu Xinghe stopped Feng Yuzheng from overusing his Spirit Shepherd ability, but Ma Liang revealed that Chu Xinghe had bought enough spirit mines to supply the Vast Heaven Sect for a thousand years. With Chu Xinghe and Feng Yuzheng out of the way, the Ning Clan turned to the Cui Clan for help, leaving Clan Head Cui confident that his clan could dominate the spirit mine boom.

• Chu Xinghe told Feng Yuzheng to return to the sect, and Ma Liang revealed that the spirit mines Chu Xinghe had bought could keep the Vast Heaven Sect's miners busy for a thousand years.
• The Vast Heaven Sect publicly disclosed the Spirit Shepherd ability's side effects, prompting other forces to stop seeking Feng Yuzheng's help.
• Clan Head Ning lamented the Ning Clan's losses, and Grand Elder Ning Buqu advised him to ask the Cui Clan for assistance.
• Clan Head Cui promised to help the Ning Clan, then celebrated that Chu Xinghe and Feng Yuzheng had left and other forces were once again seeking the Cui Clan's cooperation.