Recaps

The Civil Engineering Department’s Extreme Realm Heaven Stele unexpectedly brought the Vast Heaven Sect a flood of free intelligence from grateful Rogue Cultivators. Huang Ritian then pushed a plan to pour in resources and accelerate Dao comprehension, and Chu Xinghe joined him despite Feng Fei’s warning that they could be punished if the stele exploded.

• Rogue Cultivators repaid the Vast Heaven Sect’s kindness by freely reporting news, helping the sect discover secret realms and treasures and strengthening its intelligence network.
• Huang Ritian proposed pouring nine-colored spirit stones into the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele and bringing Bai Jingyan back to speed up Dao comprehension and resource consumption.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to invite Bai Jingyan and found the Civil Engineering Department disciples continuing to feed resources into the stele, including stones taken from the Vast Heaven Divine Domain mines.
• Feng Fei warned Chu Xinghe and Huang Ritian that overloading the stele could make it explode and get them confined or punished, but both welcomed the prospect of punishment.
• Huang Ritian called the Civil Engineering Department disciples to work through the night, and Chu Xinghe joined them, leaving Feng Fei stunned by their defiance.

Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department disciples fought over who would take responsibility for filling the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele with nine-colored spirit stones. The stele exploded but remained intact, and its connection to the Heavenly Dao began repairing its incomplete Great Dao as the Vast Heaven Sect leaders arrived.

• Huang Ritian urged the Civil Engineering Department disciples to work harder and pushed the miner disciples to increase their supply of nine-colored spirit stones.
• As the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele filled and began glowing, Huang Ritian told Chu Xinghe that the Civil Engineering Department would accept the punishment, but Chu Xinghe insisted that he should take primary responsibility.
• Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department disciples argued fiercely over who would be punished, bewildering the Dao comprehenders who overheard them.
• The Extreme Realm Heaven Stele erupted in a tremendous explosion, prompting Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department disciples to celebrate.
• Chu Xinghe found the stele intact beneath a pillar of spiritual light, and its connection to the Heavenly Dao began restoring its incomplete Great Dao.
• The sect master, grand elder, and palace chiefs arrived, and Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department disciples each blamed the other for the stele's transformation.

Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department restored the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, earning the sect’s praise and rewards instead of making it explode. Though the disciples feared their extra cultivation duties had ruined their hopes for time off, Chu Xinghe confirmed the stele was still consuming resources, so he believed his plan remained on track.

• The Civil Engineering Department disciples rapidly fed resources into the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, and the First Elder sent Feng Fei to warn them to stop.
• The stele erupted with divine light, regained its spiritual essence, and renewed its connection to the Heavenly Dao, prompting the First Elder to praise the result.
• Chu Xinghe and Huang Ritian each insisted the other deserved the credit, and the First Elder rewarded the Civil Engineering Department with access to the Technique Repository Tower and Chu Xinghe with ten thousand spirit stones.
• Chu Xinghe privately blamed Huang Ritian for restoring the stele, while Huang Ritian lamented that the disciples’ new cultivation duties would take away their remaining rest time.
• Huang Ritian reasoned that the improved stele might attract more Dao comprehenders and consume more resources, preserving their chance to earn time off.
• Chu Xinghe checked the Misfortune Compass and saw it still turning, so he concluded the stele continued consuming resources and believed he still had a huge advantage.

The Extreme Realm Heaven Stele grew more effective as Bai Jingyan’s Heaven-Cleansing Divine Sound helped Dao seekers achieve enlightenment and feed their insights back into the stele. As a vortex of Great Dao lights formed around it, the Vast Heaven Sect’s Ascension to Sainthood Ceremony approached, and Cheng Xiaotian arrived to offer congratulations.

• Chu Xinghe had the Civil Engineering Department carefully replenish the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s spiritual power, while Ma Liang returned with Bai Jingyan.
• Chu Xinghe arranged for Bai Jingyan to play the Heaven-Cleansing Divine Sound at the Extreme Realm Dao Field, doubling the rate of Dao seekers’ sudden enlightenment.
• Elder He and the Great Sage explained that the Dao seekers’ insights strengthened the stele but could not let it generate spiritual power on its own.
• As Dao seekers continued to enlighten, their lights of the Great Dao formed a growing vortex around the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, whose purpose Elder He and the Great Sage could not identify.
• Cheng Xiaotian arrived at the Vast Heaven Sect with Martial Emperor City’s elders and congratulated the sect on becoming a Holy Land.

Cheng Xiaotian brought the Vast Heaven Sect a plaque of Purple Cloud Immortal Wood to celebrate its rise as a holy land, and Gu Mingchao asked Chu Xinghe to write its inscription. Chu Xinghe declined in favor of Gu Mingchao, urging the sect to share its achievements and build its future together.

• Cheng Xiaotian arrived at the Vast Heaven Sect to congratulate it and presented Gu Mingchao with a blank plaque made from Purple Cloud Immortal Wood.
• Cheng Xiaotian explained that Old Master Wuyang had refused to write the inscription, believing only someone from the Vast Heaven Sect was qualified.
• Gu Mingchao asked Chu Xinghe to write the words “Vast Heaven Holy Land” on the plaque, and the sect’s leaders welcomed his choice.
• Chu Xinghe thanked the sect for its trust but said the sect’s rise belonged to all its members and predecessors, not to him alone.
• Chu Xinghe asked Gu Mingchao to write the inscription and urged the disciples to work together for the holy land’s future.
• Cheng Xiaotian admired Chu Xinghe’s humility, while Gu Mingchao privately felt the Vast Heaven Sect was fortunate to have him.

Gu Mingchao renamed the Vast Heaven Sect as the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and factions from across the Three Continents arrived with lavish gifts. As Chu Xinghe struggled to understand the gifts and the rumors about his supposed return presents, news of a mysterious training illusion at the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele drew him and visiting prodigies to investigate.

• Gu Mingchao wrote “Vast Heaven Holy Land” on the new plaque, while Cheng Xiaotian removed the old “Number One Sect Under Heaven” plaque for Zheng Yu to take to Martial Emperor City.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land welcomed a pilgrimage of factions, whose rankings had risen after the Vast Heaven Sect’s advancement.
• Feng Fei showed Chu Xinghe the valuable congratulatory gifts, and Chu Xinghe realized the factions had mistaken rumors about his little gifts for a promise of ten divine weapons in return.
• Clan Head Ning brought three divine weapons expecting to receive ten, but neither he nor any other faction received a gift from Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe raised the factions’ reception standards, but the costs could not match the value of their offerings.
• Huang Ritian reported that the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s new illusory world could create copies of visitors, letting cultivators improve by fighting their phantoms, and the visiting prodigies rushed to try it.

Chu Xinghe and Huang Ritian recognized that the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusory realm could train disciples and consume vast amounts of spirit stones, prompting them to consider making entry free. At the urging of Ma Liang, Zheng Yu, and the gathered Dao seekers, Chu Xinghe entered the realm to face the phantom of himself.

• Huang Ritian showed Chu Xinghe the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusory realm, where a Heavenly Dao-enhanced phantom copied each entrant’s abilities and exposed ways to improve.
• A Civil Engineering Department disciple repeatedly fought his phantom, learned from its techniques, and defeated it on his seventh attempt.
• Ma Liang praised the realm’s potential to improve the Vast Heaven Sect’s combat strength but noted the cost of entry.
• Chu Xinghe and Huang Ritian realized the realm’s spirit-stone fees could become a major expense and considered covering the costs to make it free for everyone.
• Ma Liang, Zheng Yu, and the gathered Dao seekers urged Chu Xinghe to test his strength against his phantom, and Chu Xinghe entered the illusory realm.

Chu Xinghe challenged his Heavenly Dao phantom in the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusion realm and destroyed it with Purple Lightning Flash. He realized the phantom could imitate the Haotian Sword Casket’s appearance but not its true power, which protected him from the mirrored attack.

• A crowd gathered to watch Chu Xinghe challenge his phantom, while Zheng Yu doubted he could win on his first attempt.
• Chu Xinghe entered the illusion realm, and the Heavenly Dao created a phantom that matched his appearance and summoned eight divine swords of its own.
• Chu Xinghe and his phantom both unleashed Purple Lightning Flash, but the phantom was torn apart while Chu Xinghe remained unharmed.
• Chu Xinghe realized his phantom’s Haotian Sword Casket was only an imitation, and the real casket used the Suspended Shears to block the phantom’s strike.

Chu Xinghe defeated the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s phantom by striking first, then offered to pay for everyone to enter its illusion realm. The world praised his generosity, while Tantai Jing concluded that the cost would ruin the Vast Heaven Sect.

• Chu Xinghe used Purple Lightning Flash before his phantom, and Suspended Shears blocked the phantom’s delayed attack after it died.
• Chu Xinghe emerged from the illusion realm and invited challengers from all sides to enter, with the Vast Heaven Sect covering the resources.
• Ma Liang calculated that paying for everyone could cost the equivalent of an entire Spirit Crane Palace each year, while Rogue Cultivators celebrated the offer.
• Factions questioned whether the Vast Heaven Sect could afford the expense, and Tantai Jing declared that Chu Xinghe’s generosity marked the beginning of its decline.

Chu Xinghe made the Vast Heaven Sect cover the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusory realm and sent Ma Liang to oversee it, insisting that the stele would eventually make a killing. After Ma Liang learned that the stele could summon recorded phantoms for challenges, he realized what Chu Xinghe had been waiting for.

• Chu Xinghe announced that the Vast Heaven Sect would pay for the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusory realm, and Elder Yu reminded the Great Elder that Xinghe had a backup plan.
• Chu Xinghe arranged lavish hospitality for the visiting guests and sent Ma Liang to the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele instead of letting him help receive them.
• Ma Liang saw resources being consumed at the stele and, unable to find a way to earn money, asked Chu Xinghe for guidance; Chu Xinghe told him to wait for the stele.
• Rumors spread that Chu Xinghe’s one-blow victory over his phantom proved he depended on the Haotian Sword Casket, and Ma Liang angrily defended him.
• Huang Ritian told Ma Liang that he had summoned Chu Xinghe’s phantom five times and lost each challenge, revealing that the stele could call up recorded phantoms.
• Ma Liang realized that Chu Xinghe was waiting for the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s phantom challenges to generate a profit.

Ma Liang mistook Huang Ritian’s objections to monetizing the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele for a clever plan to wager resources on a challenge against Chu Xinghe’s equal-strength phantom. Ma Liang presented the proposal to the Grand Elder while crediting Huang Ritian and Chu Xinghe, leaving Huang Ritian horrified and Chu Xinghe still avoiding Ma Liang.

• Huang Ritian explained that the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele could summon a Chu Xinghe phantom matching each challenger’s cultivation, and Ma Liang realized it could draw challengers and resources.
• Ma Liang proposed charging people to challenge Chu Xinghe’s phantom, but Huang Ritian warned that the sect must not force spending or sell tickets.
• Ma Liang turned Huang Ritian’s objections into a wagering plan: challengers would stake resources for a chance to win one million Nine-Colored Spirit Stones by defeating the phantom.
• Ma Liang insisted Huang Ritian had devised the plan and apologized for suspecting his earlier spending was wasteful, while Huang Ritian denied having any plan.
• Ma Liang failed to find Chu Xinghe, who had instructed others to avoid letting Ma Liang see him, and took the written proposal to the Grand Elder instead.
• Ma Liang told the Grand Elder that Chu Xinghe and Huang Ritian deserved the credit, while Huang Ritian was left bewildered.

The Vast Heaven Sect announced a challenge against Chu Xinghe’s phantom, offering five million blood spirit stones, and challengers flocked to the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele. Chu Xinghe discovered that Huang Ritian had helped arrange the challenge, and the first challenger, Li He, was swiftly defeated by the phantom’s Purple Lightning Flash.

• The grand elder raised the challenge reward to five million blood spirit stones, and the Vast Heaven Sect announced the contest across the Three Continents.
• People argued over the challenge’s fairness, while countless young cultivators rushed to test themselves against Chu Xinghe’s phantom.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Huang Ritian had helped Ma Liang arrange the challenge and confronted Huang Ritian, who regretted his actions as the Civil Engineering Department disciples turned against him.
• Li He of Giant Sword Valley entered the illusion realm to challenge a Chu Xinghe phantom matched to his cultivation.
• Chu Xinghe’s phantom used Purple Lightning Flash to knock Li He out in less than a minute, leaving the onlookers stunned.

Li He was defeated by Chu Xinghe’s phantom in one strike, but the pressure of the fight gave him a breakthrough in his state of mind and inspired Rogue Cultivators to challenge the phantom. Tantai Jing promoted Demon Demon Credit to help them pay, while Chu Xinghe realized Ma Liang had collected an enormous sum in reservation deposits and feared the scheme had backfired on him and the Civil Engineering Department.

• Li He entered the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusion and was knocked out by Chu Xinghe’s phantom’s Purple Lightning Flash in a single strike.
• Li He sat down cross-legged and broke through in his state of mind, overcoming the psychological disadvantage he had felt against prodigies.
• The Rogue Cultivators, eager for a chance at the same breakthrough, changed their plans and sought resources to challenge Chu Xinghe’s phantom.
• Tantai Jing and members of the Demonic Sect handed out Demon Demon Credit brochures to help Rogue Cultivators borrow the needed resources.
• Ma Liang collected a huge amount of reservation deposits, and Chu Xinghe blamed Junior Brother Huang for putting him and the Civil Engineering Department in trouble.

Li He’s breakthrough convinced cultivators that challenging Chu Xinghe’s phantom could improve their states of mind, drawing crowds and filling the Vast Heaven Sect’s treasury. Chu Xinghe launched the “Eat, Sleep, Beat Xinghe” challenge for a five-million-Blood-Spirit-Stone wager, but his phantom’s successive sword attacks overwhelmed challengers, who began meeting to discuss his weaknesses.

• After Li He’s breakthrough, several more cultivators improved their states of mind by challenging Chu Xinghe’s phantom, and Ma Liang collected a flood of deposits.
• Ma Liang arranged for resources to refill the treasury, while Chu Xinghe realized the Misfortune Compass had stopped providing cultivation.
• Chu Xinghe decided to wager five million Blood Spirit Stones on anyone who defeated his phantom and launched the “Eat, Sleep, Beat Xinghe” event for visiting prodigies.
• Ma Liang reported that more than eighty percent of the challengers who had called Chu Xinghe’s phantom weak were instantly killed by Purple Lightning Flash.
• Challengers who resisted Purple Lightning Flash with defensive treasures were killed by Fingers-Wrapping Softness, then faced Thread of Sky as they tried other counters.
• The defeated young prodigies refused to give up and began a conference to discuss Chu Xinghe’s weaknesses.

Chu Xinghe’s attempt to help challengers by publishing accurate information about his Haotian Sword Casket was mistaken for a mass taunt, reigniting the prodigies’ determination to defeat his phantom. As challenges swept across the Three Continents and drew the attention of powerful figures, Chu Xinghe was left insisting he had meant well.

• Young prodigies searching for weaknesses in Chu Xinghe’s Haotian Sword Casket received a detailed booklet written by someone using the name Dreaming of Defeating Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe admitted he had written the booklet to help the challengers, but Zheng Yu and other prodigies took the disclosure as an arrogant taunt.
• Zheng Yu recalled repeatedly losing to Chu Xinghe’s phantom despite using Star Shift, lightning resistance, and other tactics, and vowed that Chu Xinghe could not be invincible.
• The angry prodigies renewed their challenges, and Ma Liang told Chu Xinghe that the uproar was bringing the sect a fortune as challengers kept paying to fight.
• The campaign spread across the Three Continents, prompting influential figures to secretly offer their disciples strategies against Chu Xinghe’s phantom.

After Cheng Xiaotian advised Zheng Yu to enter the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele without magical treasures, Zheng Yu reached Chu Xinghe’s phantom without the Haotian Sword Casket. Chu Xinghe still defeated him instantly with Haotian Battle Intent, leaving the spectators stunned by his close-combat strength.

• Cheng Xiaotian told Zheng Yu that leaving behind all his magical treasures would prevent the Heavenly Dao from letting Chu Xinghe’s phantom use the Haotian Sword Casket.
• Zheng Yu entered the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele without any magical treasures, and Chu Xinghe’s phantom appeared without the Haotian Sword Casket.
• Zheng Yu rushed close to the phantom with his seven-colored glazed body, but Chu Xinghe unleashed Haotian Battle Intent and struck him with Vast Heaven Extreme Dragon Break.
• The blow pierced Zheng Yu’s chest and shattered his seven-colored glazed body, defeating him in one move.
• After Zheng Yu returned from the illusion, the spectators fell silent as they recognized that Chu Xinghe’s Haotian Battle Intent had been improved through the Dark Moon Clan’s work.

After Chu Xinghe defeated Zheng Yu with one blow, Ma Liang opened Zheng Yu’s phantom to challenges from the Spirit Beast Continent’s young geniuses for a hefty fee. Zheng Yu’s phantom defeated every challenger, while Zheng Yu and Ma Liang secretly split the earnings that night.

• Chu Xinghe defeated Zheng Yu with a single blow, prompting Spirit Beast Continent geniuses to see Zheng Yu as a target for challenges.
• Zheng Yu refused to let Ma Liang release his phantom, but Ma Liang negotiated compensation from the eager challengers and opened the challenge anyway.
• Hua Xilin, Ming Chengfeng, and Cui Wuming each challenged Zheng Yu’s phantom and were defeated by its varied abilities.
• Zheng Yu’s phantom defeated every challenger that day as Zheng Yu publicly cursed Ma Liang and threatened to seek Main God Gu’s help.
• Ma Liang met Zheng Yu that night, gave him his share of the challenge fees, and coached him to make his public anger look more convincing.

Ma Liang, Zheng Yu, and Tantai Jing teamed up to profit from Zheng Yu’s phantom challenges, but Chu Xinghe shut the scheme down and had Gu Mingchao publicly explain the phantom’s sealing before rumors spread. Ma Liang and Zheng Yu realized Chu Xinghe had protected them from Tantai Jing’s plan to expose them, while Chu Xinghe lamented having to clean up their mess.

• Tantai Jing caught Ma Liang and Zheng Yu splitting their gains and joined their scheme by offering Demon Demon Credit loans to the Spirit Beast Continent’s challengers.
• Huang Ritian reported Ma Liang’s scheme to Chu Xinghe, who summoned Ma Liang and Zheng Yu, scolded them, and shut down the plan and Zheng Yu’s phantom challenges.
• Tantai Jing arranged for the Demonic Sect to spread rumors about the scheme, hoping to expose Ma Liang and Zheng Yu during the Holy Land Ascension Ceremony.
• Gu Mingchao announced that Ma Liang had released Zheng Yu’s phantom without authorization, permanently demoted Ma Liang, and apologized to Zheng Yu before the rumors gained traction.
• Ma Liang and Zheng Yu thanked Chu Xinghe after realizing his intervention had protected them from Tantai Jing, while Chu Xinghe reflected that he had anticipated the scheme’s risks and arranged Gu Mingchao’s statement in advance.

Chu Xinghe raised the reward for defeating his phantom to ten million Blood Spirit Stones, diverting attention from rumors about Ma Liang and Zheng Yu. He joined the Chu Xinghe Weakness Research Alliance and coached its members, but his recommended strategy failed when Ming Chengfeng was swiftly defeated, leaving Chu Xinghe to review the loss with him.

• Chu Xinghe announced a ten-million-Blood-Spirit-Stone reward, and the news eclipsed rumors about Ma Liang and Zheng Yu.
• As challengers continued to lose to his phantom, Chu Xinghe disguised himself and joined the Chu Xinghe Weakness Research Alliance.
• Chu Xinghe revealed himself to Zheng Yu and the alliance, then analyzed his own phantom's weaknesses and proposed ways to defeat it.
• The alliance sent Ming Chengfeng to exploit the phantom's supposed weakness in speed, while Chu Xinghe enthusiastically cheered him on.
• Ming Chengfeng charged the phantom, was trapped by Haotian Battle Intent, and was defeated by a punch.
• Chu Xinghe told Ming Chengfeng how he should have fought and began reviewing the battle with him.

At the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, Chu Xinghe’s phantom repeatedly defeated challengers, turning attempts to beat him into contests over how many moves they could survive. Chu Xinghe realized a body cultivator might defeat his phantom without spiritual power, and the news that he was seeking one set the Three Continents abuzz.

• Chu Xinghe’s guidance gave Ming Chengfeng confidence, but the phantom killed him in one move as soon as he attacked.
• As more people challenged Chu Xinghe’s phantom, they began boasting about surviving multiple moves, and challengers found that the phantom grew stronger against higher-ranked opponents.
• A challenger’s thirty-six killing formations were turned against him when Chu Xinghe’s phantom demonstrated Innate Formation Mastery.
• After Zheng Yu explained that a challenger without spiritual power would face a phantom without spiritual power, Chu Xinghe decided to find a powerful body cultivator to challenge him.
• When word spread that Chu Xinghe wanted a body cultivator, body cultivators across the Three Continents believed he had finally recognized their path.

Chu Xinghe learned from Elder He and the Great Sage that body cultivators without spiritual power had little chance of advancing, then decided to recruit thousands of talentless body cultivators for the Vast Heaven Holy Land. After meeting the Great Martial Master Peng Zhan, he hoped Peng would defeat him in the illusion realm and win ten million Blood Spirit Stones.

• Chu Xinghe asked Elder He whether people with no cultivation talent could succeed through body cultivation, and Elder He explained its severe limits and costs.
• Chu Xinghe made Elder He swear to his claims and put them in writing, then confirmed with the Great Sage that they agreed.
• Chu Xinghe decided to recruit disciples in Haotian City and fill seven thousand places with people who lacked talent and spiritual power.
• Ma Liang brought Peng Zhan to Chu Xinghe, and Peng Zhan explained that his progress had stalled for ten years despite reaching Great Martial Master-level strength.
• Chu Xinghe sent Peng Zhan into the illusion realm, hoping he would defeat Chu Xinghe and claim ten million Blood Spirit Stones.

Chu Xinghe arranged for Peng Zhan to challenge his phantom, hoping to lose the ten million Blood Spirit Stones, but the Heavenly Dao’s fairness rules left the phantom unable to fight back without spiritual power. Peng Zhan eventually collapsed from exhaustion, and Chu Xinghe planned to take the stones to Haotian City after the Saint Ascension Ceremony.

• Chu Xinghe summoned Peng Zhan, assuring him that his physical arts could defeat a phantom unable to use spiritual power.
• Peng Zhan entered the illusion realm and struck Chu Xinghe’s phantom, which only dodged instead of retaliating.
• Zheng Yu realized that the Heavenly Dao could not make the phantom attack without violating its rules, and spectators understood that Chu Xinghe had uncovered a loophole.
• Peng Zhan’s attacks failed to injure the phantom, and he collapsed from exhaustion after chasing it for nearly half an hour.
• Chu Xinghe lamented that he still could not lose the ten million Blood Spirit Stones and vowed to go to Haotian City after the Saint Ascension Ceremony.

The Vast Heaven Sect prepared for its Holy Ascension Ceremony, while Gu Mingchao expected Chu Xinghe to become the new Holy Son. The elders instead found a way to avoid making Chu Xinghe keep vigil by appointing Chu Cheng in his place.

• Chu Xinghe relieved Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department disciples from managing the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, but the miners kept working overtime to gather nine-colored spirit stones.
• Elder He and the Great Sage took charge of the Holy Ascension Ceremony, which would honor the fallen forebears and receive the pilgrimage of the myriad sects.
• Gu Mingchao eagerly anticipated Chu Xinghe becoming the Holy Son, but Elder He explained that the Holy Son had to keep vigil for three years before taking the position.
• Gu Mingchao and the elders agreed to break with convention, then the elders used that decision to rule that Chu Xinghe would not become Holy Son.
• White Tiger Holy Venerable proposed that Chu Cheng become Holy Son and keep vigil in Chu Xinghe's place, and the elders approved the plan.

The Vast Heaven Sect made Chu Cheng its acting Holy Son so he could keep vigil for Chu Xinghe, and Gu Mingchao soon gave the newly appointed Holy Son a violent welcome. At the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s coronation, Gu Mingchao was crowned supreme and revealed that Chu Cheng—not Chu Xinghe—was its Holy Son, leaving the assembled guests stunned.

• The White Tiger Holy Venerable proposed Chu Cheng as acting Holy Son because of his close bond with Chu Xinghe and his suitability for keeping vigil.
• Chu Cheng received the Holy Son’s token and celebrated his appointment until Gu Mingchao smashed through his door and wall to confront him.
• The Vast Heaven Sect’s disciples honored their ancestors as Gu Mingchao announced the sect’s new status as the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Cheng Xiaotian presented the Three Continents’ congratulatory letter, and Empress Ji Ya and the Wolf King crowned Gu Mingchao with the Supreme Cloud Robe and Supreme Crown.
• Gu Mingchao announced Chu Cheng as the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Holy Son, surprising the crowd, which had expected Chu Xinghe to take the position.

After making Chu Cheng the Holy Son so Chu Xinghe could avoid three years of vigil, Vast Heaven Holy Land announced that Chu Xinghe would lead its disciple recruitment in Haotian City. The recruitment expanded to ten thousand people, including seven thousand talentless body cultivators, leaving rival factions stunned and prospective recruits celebrating.

• Chu Xinghe agreed to let Chu Cheng become Holy Son because the role’s three-year vigil would keep him from acting in the sect and offered him no worthwhile reward.
• At the banquet after the inauguration ceremony, the Great Elder announced that Chu Xinghe would personally examine recruits in Haotian City.
• News of Chu Xinghe’s recruitment visit stirred Haotian City, where candidates hoped to become his direct followers and a young man claimed his civil engineering talent would secure his entry.
• Vast Heaven Holy Land announced it would recruit ten thousand disciples, prompting rival factions to fear it would take all the promising candidates.
• Vast Heaven Holy Land clarified that it would recruit the usual three thousand prodigies and an additional seven thousand body cultivators with no cultivation talent, exciting those groups and shocking the factions.