Recaps

The Three Well Spirits Elders revealed that the Well of Prophecy could restore the Four Sacred Beasts’ souls in two or three years, though it could not give them real bodies. Chu Xinghe realized the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation could remain in place even after the beasts recovered, preserving his plans to spend Vast Heaven Holy Land’s resources.

• The Three Well Spirits Elders explained that the Well of Prophecy had sustained their souls and woven bodies of Qi and blood around them.
• The elders said the Well of Prophecy could restore the Four Sacred Beasts’ souls in about two or three years, exciting White Tiger, Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu.
• The elders clarified that the beasts could not use the well to regain genuine physical bodies, disappointing Xuanwu.
• Chu Xinghe feared that the restored beasts would no longer need the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation, which would end its resource consumption.
• Chu Xinghe noticed that the Misfortune Compass was still turning and concluded that the formation could remain active even after the Four Sacred Beasts recovered.

The Well of Prophecy began repairing the Four Sacred Beasts’ souls, and they pledged themselves to the Vast Heaven Holy Land. White Tiger then brought Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu to meet Holy Son Chu Cheng, whose insults sparked a violent exchange that left the beasts firmly tied to their new home.

• The Great Elder supported keeping the resource-hungry Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation as the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s strongest defense, and Chu Xinghe eagerly backed him.
• The Three Well Spirits Elders spread water from the Well of Prophecy over the Four Sacred Beasts, and White Tiger confirmed that it had begun repairing their souls.
• Azure Dragon declared that the Four Sacred Beasts would protect the Vast Heaven Holy Land as their home, while White Tiger planned to visit the Holy Son each day to show gratitude.
• White Tiger led the other Sacred Beasts to meet Chu Cheng, who mocked them and threatened to turn them into food.
• The Four Sacred Beasts fought Chu Cheng in a prolonged exchange, and Liu Bo gathered spirit-patterned gauze to replace what they used, confirming that the beasts had joined the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

After learning how skilled the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Civil Engineering Department disciples were, Azure Dragon went to the Vast Heaven Divine Domain to guide them in combining earth and wood powers. He improved Zhao Zhihui’s technique, then was asked to guide Huang Ritian, whose treasure vault already had forty-eight times its apparent size in internal space.

• The Four Sacred Beasts agreed to visit the Holy Son every night to express their gratitude, and Azure Dragon returned to his divine hall.
• Azure Dragon saw the exhausted Civil Engineering Department disciples and decided to help improve their abilities.
• Azure Dragon visited the Vast Heaven Divine Domain, marveled at its vast stores of nine-colored spirit stone, and watched Zhao Zhihui construct a treasure vault with five times its apparent internal space.
• Azure Dragon taught Zhao Zhihui how to better combine earth and wood powers, helping him expand the vault’s interior to around six times its apparent size.
• Huang Ritian demonstrated a treasure vault with forty-eight times its apparent internal space and asked Azure Dragon to guide him.

Azure Dragon visited the Civil Engineering Department to advise its disciples, but discovered their earth-and-wood skills already surpassed his own. After demonstrating the Flower of Civil Engineering, he was pressured into helping install it on the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s treasure vaults.

• Chu Xinghe heard that Azure Dragon had gone to the Civil Engineering Department and assumed the visit posed no risk.
• Huang Ritian and the other disciples showed Azure Dragon their remarkable treasure-vault construction efficiency and asked him for guidance.
• Azure Dragon used his soul’s origin powers to create the Flower of Civil Engineering, which replenished the spiritual power of stored resources.
• Azure Dragon explained that he could not teach the technique, but Huang Ritian asked him to mark every treasure vault with it.
• Zhao Zhihui and the disciples pressured Huang Ritian to apologize, then dragged Azure Dragon off to help with the vaults.

Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department celebrated the Flower of Civil Engineering, which stopped spiritual power from dissipating in the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s treasure vaults without adding to their workload. Ma Liang expanded the idea into a profitable business and rushed to tell Chu Xinghe, leaving Chu horrified by yet another plan that would enrich the sect.

• Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department disciples celebrated their Flower of Civil Engineering, which prevented resources in the sect’s treasure vaults from losing spiritual power.
• Huang Ritian sent a disciple to inform Chu Xinghe, but Ma Liang intercepted him and argued that the treasure vaults should be developed and sold to outsiders.
• Ma Liang calculated the profits from selling the Flower of Civil Engineering treasure vaults and went to the Spirit Crane Palace to surprise Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe panicked when Ma Liang told him the Civil Engineering Department had found a way to make a killing, and he fell from his reclining chair.
• Chu Xinghe learned how the Flower of Civil Engineering worked and blamed Azure Dragon and the Civil Engineering Department for thwarting his efforts to keep the sect from making money.

Vast Heaven Holy Land discovered that its Flower of Civil Engineering treasury both prevented spiritual power from dissipating and restored treasures that had already lost it, bringing a flood of commission requests. As the Civil Engineering Department faced even more work, the Ning Clan argued over missing its chance to profit, and Clan Head Ning angrily pointed out they could never have afforded the project.

• Ma Liang explained how the Civil Engineering Department and the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable had built the Flower of Civil Engineering treasury, earning the disciples praise from Vast Heaven Holy Land's leaders.
• At Chu Xinghe's suggestion, Ma Liang put spirit treasures with depleted spiritual power into the treasury, where they began recovering.
• The Grand Elder praised the Civil Engineering Department and thanked the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable, while Ma Liang publicized the treasury's effects.
• Martial Emperor City and many other factions sought commissions, leaving Ma Liang worried that the Civil Engineering Department would have no chance to rest.
• The Ning Clan elders blamed Clan Head Ning for not bringing back the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation, and he angrily argued that the impoverished clan could never have supported it or built the treasury.

Chu Xinghe accepted a flood of construction orders and forced Azure Dragon to help the Civil Engineering Department, where the Sacred Venerable quickly became an exhausted regular. When Vermilion Bird tried to contribute his fire expertise, he found every fire-related group in seclusion, and Chu Xinghe revealed he had arranged it to keep Vermilion Bird from helping.

• Chu Xinghe convinced Ma Liang to accept every order and push the Civil Engineering Department's disciples to their limits, with Azure Dragon recruited to help.
• Huang Ritian showed Azure Dragon the vast number of treasure vaults awaiting work, and Azure Dragon joined the Civil Engineering Department rather than returning to his hall.
• Vermilion Bird grew jealous of Azure Dragon's success and decided to help the Vast Heaven Holy Land using his artifact-refining and fire skills.
• Vermilion Bird found the Ouyang Lineage in seclusion at the Artifact Refining Palace and the Muyue Kingdom in seclusion at the Spirit Crane Palace.
• Vermilion Bird suspected Chu Xinghe had closed off fire-related work, while Chu Xinghe admitted he had deliberately blocked Vermilion Bird from getting involved.

After being turned away across the Vast Heaven Holy Land, Vermilion Bird found the Dark Moon Clan eager to experience its Bright Gold Divine Fire. The clan’s requests reminded Vermilion Bird of White Tiger’s warning about the Dark Moon Palace, but Vermilion Bird decided to enter and help anyway.

• Chu Xinghe sealed off fire-related activities throughout the Vast Heaven Holy Land, leaving Vermilion Bird unable to find anyone to help.
• Vermilion Bird spent the day searching the holy land, growing more determined each time its offer of help was rejected.
• At the Dark Moon Palace, An Lan and the Dark Moon Clan asked Vermilion Bird to burn them with Bright Gold Divine Fire.
• Vermilion Bird recalled how White Tiger had become the Dark Moon Clan’s Second Warrior at its annual Mutual Slashing Conference and had since avoided the palace.
• Despite White Tiger’s warning, Vermilion Bird chose to enter the Dark Moon Palace and give the clan the help it wanted.

Vermilion Bird endured the Dark Moon Clan’s enthusiastic fire-play gathering, then tried to strengthen the fire attribute in their Spirit Pattern Cloth. His flames destabilized the cloth’s talismans, setting the production warehouse ablaze and leaving him desperately battling the spreading fire.

• An Lan and the Dark Moon Clan brought Vermilion Bird to Mutual Slashing Square, where the clansmen delighted in being burned by his Bright Gold Divine Fire and resurrected to praise the experience.
• The Dark Moon Clan kept Vermilion Bird burning and roasting them in various ways until he was psychologically shaken and exhausted.
• An Lan took Vermilion Bird on a tour of Dark Moon Palace, where he found the Three Shadow Rat Brothers making Spirit Pattern Cloth with a fire attribute.
• Vermilion Bird used his Bright Gold Divine Fire to improve the cloth, but the flames destabilized its talismans and caused the stored fabric to ignite and explode.
• Vermilion Bird tried to suppress the spreading fire, but his efforts made the unstable cloth burn in new places as the Dark Moon Clan played amid the flames.

Vermilion Bird accidentally set the Dark Moon Palace’s Spirit Pattern Cloth warehouse ablaze, destroying its contents and killing the Dark Moon Clan and tens of thousands of Three Shadow Rat clones, though no one else was harmed. The Grand Elder ordered him to help rebuild, while Chu Xinghe encouraged him to continue experimenting and secretly kept him from learning talisman techniques; Vermilion Bird soon began burning newly made cloth again.

• Vermilion Bird’s Bright Gold Divine Fire destabilized the Spirit Pattern Cloth and caused a fire that destroyed the warehouse and killed the Dark Moon clansmen and tens of thousands of Three Shadow Rat clones.
• Chu Xinghe learned what had happened and privately celebrated the destruction as a profitable loss.
• The Grand Elder confirmed there were no other casualties and ordered Vermilion Bird to help Shu Da and the others rebuild the Dark Moon Palace.
• Chu Xinghe urged Vermilion Bird to keep researching Spirit Pattern Cloth, and Vermilion Bird agreed to make up for the losses he had caused.
• Vermilion Bird tried to seek talisman advice from Hu Wenhai, but Chu Xinghe had arranged for Hu Wenhai to be away on official business.
• Vermilion Bird resumed his experiments, setting the Three Shadow Rat Brothers’ newly made Spirit Pattern Cloth on fire before it reached the warehouse.

Vermilion Bird continued burning Spirit Pattern Cloth while studying its fire element, and Chu Xinghe defended his work despite Shu Da’s concerns. Meanwhile, the Body Cultivation disciples hit a barrier at the Fifth Rank, and Wei Buhui returned from his Nebula Spirit Cat assignment, leaving Chu Xinghe confused about why he was back.

• Shu Da asked Chu Xinghe to move Vermilion Bird’s clone because the repeated fires disrupted Spirit Pattern Cloth production, but Chu Xinghe told him to let Vermilion Bird continue.
• Qu Yifeng and the Body Cultivation disciples discovered that they could not circulate their condensed Qi and blood after reaching the Fifth Rank, preventing progress toward the Sixth Rank.
• Qu Yifeng persuaded the disciples to try solving the cultivation problem themselves instead of immediately asking Chu Xinghe, but their study produced no solution.
• Chu Xinghe entered the Dark Moon Palace and found Wei Buhui, whom he had sent to catch Nebula Spirit Cats, back after less than two months.
• Chu Xinghe assumed Wei Buhui had returned to collect more resources, but Wei Buhui praised him for supposedly predicting that he had earned resources to place in the treasury.

Wei Buhui discovered that male Nebula Spirit Cats brought resources and offered themselves as masters when he gathered female cats, turning Chu Xinghe’s assignment into a profitable venture. Chu Xinghe sent the several thousand cats to the Xuanwu Sacred Venerable to tame their wildness, leaving Xuanwu convinced the arrangement would bring disaster.

• Chu Xinghe was stunned when Wei Buhui revealed he had profited from catching Nebula Spirit Cats.
• At Wan Lin’s request, Wei Buhui caught female Nebula Spirit Cats, and male cats began bringing them gifts and resources while some acknowledged Wei Buhui as their master.
• Wei Buhui proposed catching female spirit beasts of other kinds to attract gift-bearing males, and Chu Xinghe refused to hand out the cats until their wildness faded.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Wei Buhui to leave the cats in the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation under the Xuanwu Sacred Venerable’s care.
• Wei Buhui brought the cats to the Xuanwu Divine Temple, where Xuanwu feared Chu Xinghe’s plan would lead to a crushing loss.

Xuanwu tried to tame the Nebula Spirit Cats for Chu Xinghe but accidentally erased their Power of Chaos, while Vermilion Bird’s attempts to strengthen Spirit Pattern Cloth kept failing. Vermilion Bird’s harmless golden spirit-fire effect caught Ma Liang’s eye, and he realized it could make spectacular clothing to sell.

• Xuanwu tried to remove impurities from the Nebula Spirit Cats, but each attempt also erased their Power of Chaos and left them blank slates.
• Vermilion Bird set another fire at the Dark Moon Palace while struggling to improve Spirit Pattern Cloth, and Chu Xinghe urged Vermilion Bird not to give up.
• Vermilion Bird sought comfort from Mu Bai, who first claimed the Muyue Kingdom had failed seventeen or eighteen times, then admitted it had only failed eleven times.
• Vermilion Bird contained the Spirit Pattern Cloth’s five elements beneath harmless phantom flames, but the cloth gained no actual strength.
• Ma Liang saw the golden spirit fire on the failed cloth, recognized its visual appeal, and ordered the weaving workshop to make clothes with the effect.

Ma Liang and Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird unveiled Spirit Pattern Cloth with brilliant illusory flames, captivating the elders and disciples of Vast Heaven Holy Land. Chu Xinghe arrived and realized the cosmetic upgrade could be so desirable that it threatened his plans for the cloth.

• Ma Liang admired Vermilion Bird's flame-effect Spirit Pattern Cloth and had Vermilion Bird apply the effect to more bundles.
• The Grand Elder and the other elders rushed to Dark Moon Palace, where they recognized the cloth's enormous sales potential.
• Chu Xinghe reflected on the Nebula Spirit Cats and the Xuanwu Sacred Venerable's efforts before Senior Brother Shen Chun brought him to Dark Moon Palace.
• Chu Xinghe saw Ma Liang wearing the flaming cloth and realized that its appearance could tempt disciples even without improving its attributes.

Ma Liang and Qin Xiangqian devised a tiered sales plan for Vermilion Bird Spirit Pattern Cloth, and the grand elder approved it. Meanwhile, the Ming Clan discovered the Land of Heavenly Secrets beneath its estate and found a mysterious opening emitting an evil presence.

• The grand elder put Ma Liang in charge of selling flame-effect Spirit Pattern Cloth, and Ma Liang summoned the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce managers to plan the launch.
• Ma Liang and Qin Xiangqian persuaded Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird to make successive grades of Spirit Pattern Cloth, from standard to limited prestige editions.
• The grand elder approved Ma Liang’s tiered sales strategy, and Ma Liang began putting it into action as Chu Xinghe worried about how effective it would be.
• The Ming Clan Head investigated the collapsed Heavenly Secrets City beneath the clan estate and discovered the legendary Land of Heavenly Secrets.
• The Ming Clan Head found an opening in the Land of Heavenly Secrets that gave off an indescribably sinister evil presence.

Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird designed flame-effect clothing for Ma Liang’s new Spirit Pattern Cloth, and the Vast Heaven Trading Company began selling it. Zhao Yu'er bought a dress and became the center of attention as she showed its flames off around Yu City.

• Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird designed men’s and women’s Vermilion Bird Spirit Pattern Cloth outfits with restrained golden flame effects, and Ma Liang put them on sale.
• Zhao Yu'er visited the Vast Heaven Trading Company after her team lost a Mercury Gemstone to a rival team.
• Zhao Yu'er lost interest in the regular clothes and jewelry until her sales assistant showed her a white dress with a golden flame effect.
• Zhao Yu'er bought the dress for thirty times the price of an ordinary Spirit Pattern Cloth dress and wore it out of the shop.
• Zhao Yu'er paraded around Yu City, drawing crowds who marvelled at the steady flames on her dress.

Flame dresses made from Vermilion Bird Spirit Pattern Cloth sold out across the Three Continents, turning them into costly symbols of status. Beneath the Ming Clan’s grounds, the Ming Clan Head grew worried when explorers in the Land of Heavenly Secrets stopped reporting back, and he suspected the sinister presence came from Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit ruins.

• Zhao Yu'er wore a flame dress in Yu City, prompting customers to rush to Vast Heaven Trading Company branches and buy the limited first batch almost immediately.
• Ma Liang sent out a second batch about ten times larger, but customers snatched the clothes off the delivery carts, and resale prices soared.
• Ma Liang refused to disrupt his planned release schedule and prepared to introduce advanced versions of the clothing later.
• The Ming Clan Head learned that the first team sent into the Land of Heavenly Secrets had not returned or contacted the clan, though their soul lamps showed they were alive.
• The Ming Clan grand elder suggested the passage might connect to the Evil Shadow Continent, but the Ming Clan Head dismissed that idea and blamed the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits.

The Ming Clan Head sent chosen members to explore the underground Land of Heavenly Secrets in search of the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits’ legacy. Meanwhile, Xuanwu’s mishaps with Nebula Spirit Cats drained the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation and drove the Misfortune Compass to push Chu Xinghe into the Middle Ninth Rank, where a new change began in its conversion of his power.

• The Ming Clan Head ordered the Ming Clan to send its finest people into the underground Land of Heavenly Secrets to seek the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits’ legacy.
• Azure Dragon kept producing Flowers of Civil Engineering for the Civil Engineering Department, while Huang Ritian’s taunts stopped him from admitting he needed rest.
• Vermilion Bird rescued Ma Liang from nearly giving junior sisters priority in the supply of Vermilion Bird Spirit Pattern Cloth.
• Xuanwu used the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation to tame Nebula Spirit Cats, but the cats lost their Power of Chaos and consumed the formation’s resources.
• The Misfortune Compass accelerated as Xuanwu’s actions drained the formation and carried Chu Xinghe past the upper limit of the Early Ninth Rank into the Middle Ninth Rank.
• Chu Xinghe found that nearly half his power had become the Power of Misfortune, then witnessed a new change in the Misfortune Compass’s conversion.

Chu Xinghe discovered that the new Power of Fortune could multiply the damage of his attacks, though using all of it left him with a long recovery time. Meanwhile, Xuanwu’s attempt to tame Nebula Spirit Cats had stripped them of their Power of Chaos, and Wei Buhui arrived with another batch only to discover the damage.

• After advancing, Chu Xinghe found that some of his power had transformed into white Power of Fortune alongside his black Power of Misfortune.
• Xuanwu accidentally purged the Nebula Spirit Cats of their Power of Chaos while trying to tame them, and Chu Xinghe privately welcomed the mishap because it would disrupt Wei Buhui’s scheme.
• Chu Xinghe tested the Power of Fortune on training-ground statues and found that it could multiply his damage, reaching about five times its normal strength when he used all of it.
• Chu Xinghe realized that expending all his Power of Fortune caused it to recover very slowly, making it a powerful trump card with a lengthy cooldown.
• Wei Buhui brought Xuanwu a new batch of Nebula Spirit Cats and learned that Xuanwu had ruined the previous ones.

Wei Buhui returned with thousands of Nebula Spirit Cats, but Xuanwu’s training had stripped most of them of their Power of Chaos. Chu Xinghe stopped Wei Buhui from catching replacements and urged Xuanwu to keep trying, leaving the cats swollen after the first attempt to restore their power with Blood Spirit Stones.

• Wei Buhui found that Xuanwu’s training had left most of the Nebula Spirit Cats listless and without their Power of Chaos.
• Wei Buhui offered to catch more cats, but Chu Xinghe refused and told him to find a way to restore the ones they had.
• Chu Xinghe persuaded Xuanwu to gamble on overcoming his bad luck, and Xuanwu joined Wei Buhui in planning a cure.
• Xuanwu proposed injecting Blood Spirit Stones into the cats, and Wei Buhui brought a large supply from the treasury.
• The Blood Spirit Stones made the Nebula Spirit Cats grow larger instead of restoring their Power of Chaos, and Chu Xinghe urged Xuanwu and Wei Buhui to continue.

Chu Xinghe encouraged Xuanwu and Wei Buhui to spend huge quantities of Blood Spirit Stones fattening the Nebula Spirit Cats, believing their project would help him reach the Peak of the Ninth Rank. After Douding'er suggested using water from the Well of Prophecy, the Nebula Spirit Cats transformed into furnaces of Qi and Blood.

• Chu Xinghe praised Xuanwu's research as the Nebula Spirit Cats grew round and heavy from the Blood Spirit Stones.
• Chu Xinghe urged Wei Buhui to keep the project going, and Xuanwu continued pouring Blood Spirit Stones into the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation.
• Douding'er confronted Xuanwu and Wei Buhui, criticizing them for fattening the Nebula Spirit Cats without restoring their Power of Chaos.
• Douding'er's suggestion awakened Xuanwu and Wei Buhui, and Wei Buhui fetched water from the Well of Prophecy.
• Xuanwu and Wei Buhui used the formation to channel the water into the Nebula Spirit Cats, igniting their accumulated power and transforming them into furnaces of Qi and Blood.

Wei Buhui and Xuanwu Sacred Venerable discovered that the Nebula Spirit Cats’ lost Power of Chaos had become a Qi and Blood Furnace that let Qu Yifeng break through Body Cultivation’s Fifth Rank bottleneck. Chu Xinghe learned of the success and realized his planned losses had been ruined yet again.

• Wei Buhui recognized that the Nebula Spirit Cats had developed outward-flowing Power of Qi and Blood and brought Qu Yifeng to the Xuanwu Divine Temple.
• Xuanwu Sacred Venerable contracted Qu Yifeng with the strongest Nebula Spirit Cat, which fused with him and formed a living Qi and Blood Furnace in his dantian.
• Qu Yifeng realized the furnace could solve Body Cultivation’s lack of a way to advance beyond the Fifth Rank and believed Chu Xinghe had prepared this path for the disciples.
• Xuanwu Sacred Venerable concluded that Chu Xinghe had turned his research failures and misfortune into the key to the Nebula Spirit Cats’ success.
• Chu Xinghe watched the Misfortune Compass stop spinning, then fell from his broken rocking chair as Wei Buhui reported that the experiment had succeeded.

At the Xuanwu Divine Temple, Xuanwu and the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s elders learned that the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation could help spirit beasts develop the Power of Qi and Blood, potentially providing Qi and Blood Furnaces to Body Cultivators everywhere. Ma Liang mistook Chu Xinghe’s bewilderment for calculated satisfaction, while Chu Xinghe remained devastated that the Misfortune Compass had stopped spinning.

• Xuanwu described how Nebula Spirit Cats had lost the Power of Chaos and developed the Power of Qi and Blood, and Qu Yifeng demonstrated his Qi and Blood Furnace.
• Chu Xinghe wondered why the Misfortune Compass had stopped spinning even though the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation was still consuming resources.
• Ma Liang asked Xuanwu to test whether the formation, rather than Blood Spirit Stones, had caused Nebula Spirit Cats to develop the Power of Qi and Blood.
• Xuanwu used the formation and water from the Well of Prophecy to awaken the Power of Qi and Blood in another Nebula Spirit Cat without spending large amounts of Blood Spirit Stones.
• Ma Liang proposed testing other spirit beasts, and Xuanwu successfully transformed one, prompting the gathered figures to celebrate the prospect of supplying Qi and Blood Furnaces to Body Cultivators everywhere.
• Ma Liang decided Chu Xinghe’s now-indifferent expression showed satisfaction, while Chu Xinghe felt his heart had died.

Chu Xinghe’s Qi and Blood spirit beasts gave Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Spirit Beast Department a monopoly that the Great Elder, Wei Buhui, and Qin Xiangqian expected to make a fortune. Meanwhile, Peng Zhan and other Fifth Rank Body Cultivators remained unable to advance, and they questioned whether Chu Xinghe could help them.

• Ma Liang and the Vast Heaven Holy Land crowd recognized that Chu Xinghe had created a unique market for Qi and Blood spirit beasts through the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation and Xuanwu Sacred Venerable.
• The Great Elder explained that Chu Xinghe had aimed to establish an exclusive Spirit Beast Department rather than compete in the crowded spirit-beast market.
• Wei Buhui and Qin Xiangqian praised Chu Xinghe’s plan, and Qin Xiangqian promised that the Spirit Beast Department would earn enormous resources from selling the exclusive spirit beasts.
• Peng Zhan, now a Fifth Rank Body Cultivator, gathered fellow Body Cultivators to investigate why they could not form a Qi and Blood Furnace or advance further.
• Peng Zhan’s companions debated asking Chu Xinghe for help, but one argued that even Qu Yifeng and Vast Heaven Holy Land had no solution.

Fifth Rank Body Cultivators feared they had reached the limit of their path until Qu Yifeng and Ma Liang revealed that Qi and Blood Spirit Beasts could help them create Qi and Blood Furnaces. The Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce prepared to sell the beasts, and Ma Liang resolved to set a high price.

• Peng Zhan led prominent Body Cultivators to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to seek Chu Xinghe's help with forging Qi and Blood Furnaces.
• Qu Yifeng appeared with his Qi and Blood circulating as a self-contained world, revealing that he had already formed a Qi and Blood Furnace.
• Ma Liang brought the Body Cultivators inside and arranged for Peng Zhan to contract with a Blood Wolf spirit beast.
• The Blood Wolf formed a Qi and Blood Furnace within Peng Zhan, confirming that ordinary Qi and Blood Spirit Beasts could help Body Cultivators advance.
• Ma Liang announced that the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce's Spirit Beast Department would sell Qi and Blood Spirit Beasts in limited quantities, and the eager Body Cultivators insisted price was no obstacle.