Recaps

Jiang Yao sent ninety percent of her livestream earnings as a wedding gift to Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya, hoping to repay Vast Heaven Holy Land’s kindness. Chu Xinghe was alarmed when the gift seemed to disrupt his plans, while Wu Man mistook his shocked composure for proof that he had anticipated everything; other streamers began sending gifts too.

• Jiang Yao’s team proposed using Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya’s wedding as a chance to give Vast Heaven Holy Land an acceptable gift and strengthen Jiang Yao’s ties there.
• Jiang Yao sent a wedding gift worth ninety percent of her livestream earnings, and Wu Man concluded that Chu Xinghe had planned for her move.
• Chu Xinghe was stunned by the gift and noticed that his Misfortune Compass had nearly stopped, but he tried to maintain a calm expression.
• Wu Man saw Chu Xinghe’s composure and took it as confirmation that Chu Xinghe had anticipated the gift.
• Other major streamers followed Jiang Yao’s example, and a line of people bearing wedding gifts formed outside Vast Heaven Holy Land.

Jiang Yao's enormous wedding gift sent her to the top of the Haotian Mirror's trending list, while a rumor about Lu Chengqing's gift register sparked a flood of presents from streamers and embarrassed the Ten Great Sects. After the factions prepared larger gifts to reclaim their standing, Chu Xinghe refused to accept them, leaving everyone baffled.

• Jiang Yao's colossal wedding gift swept the Haotian Mirror's top ten trending spots and prompted streamers to send gifts to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• A rumor started by Wu Man convinced streamers that Lu Chengqing's gift register would affect their future access to livestreaming resources, and gift deliveries surged.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Lu Chengqing to deny the rumor, but the streamers insisted they were simply sending wedding presents.
• The streamers' gifts pushed the Jade Void Palace out of the top five hundred and left Martial Emperor City in ninety-eighth place, prompting the Ten Great Sects to prepare more gifts.
• Zheng Yu and others suspected Ma Liang might have engineered the situation, but the Ten Great Sects mobilized resources to protect their prestige.
• When the Ten Great Sects' new gifts arrived, Chu Xinghe had them refused, stunning the factions across the world.

Chu Xinghe refused a second round of wedding gifts from the major sects, insisting he was not after their resources and asking them to keep his supposed plan secret. The sect masters spread the mystery across the Three Continents, where analysts concluded that Chu Xinghe was facing a massive loss and could not turn it into a profit.

• After rumors spread that Chu Xinghe was scheming to profit from the major sects, he announced that the Vast Heaven Holy Land would refuse their second round of wedding gifts.
• Chu Xinghe told the sect masters that he valued their friendship over their gifts and claimed he had a secret plan that would harm no one's interests.
• The sect masters promised to keep Chu Xinghe's secret, but Cheng Xiaotian, Wang Daoquan, and Xing Yushen each investigated his intentions and spread the mystery.
• The question of what Chu Xinghe was after became the top trending topic on the Haotian Mirror, overshadowing discussion of the gifts.
• Analysts concluded that Chu Xinghe's expenses far exceeded the streamers' gifts and that returning the major sects' gifts left him no way to profit.
• Wu Man realized that the White Spirit Evil Lord's theory about Chu Xinghe's schemes was wrong.

While the factions and Evil Lords tried to understand Chu Xinghe’s plans, he expanded the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s free cultivation offer with teleportation across the Three Continents, driving its resource consumption higher. The wedding procession then set out for the Spirit Beast Continent with an enormous groomsmen lineup, and Wu Xingyun’s couriers opened the gates of Spirit Beast City before Clan Head Hua could test them.

• Wu Man reported Chu Xinghe’s recent actions to the Evil Lords, who debated his motives while dismissing the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord’s theory that he was secretly sabotaging the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to establish free teleportation arrays across the Three Continents so more people could reach the Haotian Mountain Range and receive unlimited cultivation resources.
• The factions watched the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s resources rapidly drain as Chu Xinghe made no apparent effort to recover the cost, while he privately hoped the Misfortune Compass would ensure he lost.
• Gu Mingchao set out for the Spirit Beast Continent in a red wedding outfit, accompanied by Cheng Xiaotian, Wu Xingyun, and prominent figures from the other continents as his groomsmen.
• At the closed gates of Spirit Beast City, Wu Xingyun’s Demon Demon Express couriers took control of the entrance and opened it before Clan Head Hua could challenge the wedding procession.

Clan Head Hua, Clan Head Cui, the Ming Clan Head, and Clan Head Ning tried to delay Gu Mingchao’s wedding procession, but the procession overcame each obstacle and brought Empress Ji Ya to the Vast Heaven Holy Land. During the wedding ceremony, the guests’ congratulations gathered into a Long River of Fortune that surged toward Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya.

• Clan Head Hua’s gate defenses fell to Wu Xingyun’s Demon Demon Express army, and Cheng Xiaotian scattered Clan Head Cui’s street-fighting forces with Blood Spirit Stones.
• The Ming Clan Head’s puppet array blocked the procession until White Tiger broke it, and Old Master Wuyang defeated Clan Head Ning’s poems and couplets.
• Gu Mingchao welcomed Ji Ya, and their wedding carriage traveled to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, detouring around the Demon Star Continent to distribute resources and celebratory money.
• At Haotian Palace, Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya completed the ceremony before the ancestors, and the grand elder declared Ji Ya a member of the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe led the disciples and invited guests in congratulating the couple, and Wu Man saw their blessings form a Long River of Fortune that surged toward Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya.

Wu Man witnessed Chu Xinghe channel the fortune gathered at Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya’s wedding into Ji Ya, enabling her to break through to the Half-Step Main God realm. Hua Xichen realized Chu Xinghe had used the wedding to complete Ji Ya’s Heavenly Mandate, and the chapter ended with him recognizing the scale of Chu Xinghe’s plan.

• Wu Man saw Chu Xinghe’s fortune erupt and envelop the Vast Heaven Holy Land, touching everyone there.
• As the wedding guests offered congratulations, their fortune flowed into Chu Xinghe’s vortex and then surged into Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya.
• Ji Ya’s barrier shattered, and she broke through from Peak Mystic God to Half-Step Main God before countless livestream viewers.
• Clan Head Hua questioned Hua Xichen’s earlier prophecy that Ji Ya’s Heavenly Mandate was incomplete and that she could not reach the new realm.
• Hua Xichen used the Great Prophecy Art and concluded that Chu Xinghe had gathered vast fortune to complete Ji Ya’s Heavenly Mandate.

Hua Xichen revealed that Chu Xinghe had used the wedding, Vast Heaven Holy Land, and sincere congratulations from countless people to defy the Heavenly Dao and raise Ji Ya to the Half-Step Main God realm. While everyone praised Chu Xinghe for his scheme, Chu Xinghe inwardly despaired that the Misfortune Compass had turned his intended losses into a breakthrough.

• Hua Xichen explained that the Heavenly Dao’s rules had prevented Ji Ya from reaching the Half-Step Main God realm while the Beast God lived.
• Hua Xichen revealed that Chu Xinghe had gathered the right time, place, and sincere support of the people to complete Ji Ya’s destiny and force her breakthrough.
• The leaders and guests realized that Chu Xinghe had spent Vast Heaven Holy Land’s resources to obtain fortune, not gifts, and had intended to challenge the Heavenly Dao.
• Ji Ya understood that Chu Xinghe had planned her rise from the moment she entered Vast Heaven Holy Land, while the Grand Elder led the crowd in shouting, “Heaven blesses Vast Heaven!”
• Wu Man recognized Chu Xinghe as the one behind Vast Heaven’s good fortune, but Chu Xinghe privately cursed the Misfortune Compass and searched for Thunder Shadow after Ji Ya’s breakthrough ruined his intended losses.

Chu Xinghe’s plan culminated in Ji Ya breaking through to become a Half-Step Main God, leaving the Three Continents stunned and the Evil Lords scrambling to understand how he had defied the Heavenly Dao. After the wedding banquet, Chu Xinghe got drunk and ranted about ruining the Vast Heaven Holy Land, while Wuj iang Holy Mother brought the grand elder alarming news.

• Ji Ya became the second Half-Step Main God in the Three Continents, and everyone realized Chu Xinghe had schemed against the Heavenly Dao to make it happen.
• The wedding ceremony concluded, and the guests celebrated at a banquet where Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya toasted them.
• Wu Man reported Ji Ya’s breakthrough to the Evil Shadow Continent, and the Evil Lords fell silent after sensing her new power.
• The guests began leaving, while the grand elder found Chu Xinghe drunk and shouting that he would waste the sect’s resources and ruin the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Wuj iang Holy Mother brought the grand elder news that left him frowning in disbelief.

The Wuj iang Holy Mother rushed to stop Wu Erke and West Ridge’s rebellion against East Ridge while Vast Heaven Holy Land prepared to welcome Holy Empress Ji Ya. As Ji Ya’s support for Chu Xinghe became clear and factions sought his favor, Yuan Ying and Wu Man each plotted ways to benefit him.

• Wu Erke led West Ridge’s six tribes in a raid on East Ridge, and fighting between the two sides caused heavy losses.
• The Wuj iang Holy Mother left for Wuj iang to restore order after the Grand Elder warned her that stability was essential.
• Shen Chun woke Chu Xinghe and brought him to Haotian Grand Hall for Ji Ya’s formal reception by Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Ji Ya rose to help Chu Xinghe after his greeting, signaling her support for his decisions as Holy Empress.
• Other factions offered Vast Heaven Holy Land better deals, while Yuan Ying tried unsuccessfully to reduce the Demonic Sect’s share of Blood Spirit Stones.
• Wu Man told the eight evil lords that he would help Chu Xinghe make a killing and earn his trust to avoid their threats.

The eight Evil Lords pressured Wu Man to win Chu Xinghe’s trust and obtain an Evil God Relic, so Wu Man decided to help the Muyue Kingdom disciples by teaching them Voodoo Arts. He convinced Mu Bai that Chu Xinghe had sent him, leaving Wu Man confident that his lessons would earn favor indirectly.

• The eight Evil Lords rejected sacrificing Wu Man for a two-hundred-year reprieve and demanded that he obtain an Evil God Relic or face death.
• Wu Man promised the Evil Lords he had a plan to gain Chu Xinghe’s trust, despite having failed to impress him before.
• Mu Bai’s reports about the Muyue Kingdom’s exceptional cultivation, alchemy, and new methods drove Chu Xinghe to retreat to the Technique Repository Tower.
• Wu Man told Mu Bai that Chu Xinghe had sent him to teach the Muyue Kingdom disciples lower-level Voodoo Arts, claiming Chu Xinghe would teach them advanced techniques later.
• Mu Bai accepted Wu Man’s offer, and Wu Man privately believed his lessons would indirectly help Chu Xinghe and win his favor.

Wu Man tried to teach the Spirit Crane Palace disciples the Voodoo Arts, but was shocked when Mu Xiaoqi’s dog, Big White, repeatedly identified difficult medicinal ingredients correctly. The chapter left Wu Man humiliated as Big White passed yet another harder test.

• Wu Man claimed that medicinal-ingredient identification was difficult and asked Mu Xiaoqi how much of it he had mastered.
• Mu Xiaoqi said Big White could identify many herbs, and the dog came running when he called.
• Wu Man tested Big White on lookalike herbs, and Big White correctly found the Evening Primrose and Moon Cave Grass.
• Wu Man gave Big White harder tests with Deer Antler Grass, Deer Blood Grass, Fish Scale Grass, and Fish Pattern Grass, and the dog identified them correctly.
• Mu Bai suggested testing Big White with herbs resembling Snowfluff Grass, and Big White passed that test too.
• Wu Man felt more humiliated than hurt by Big White’s success.

Wu Man came to the Spirit Crane Palace to teach the Voodoo Arts but instead lost a herb-identification contest to Big White, Mu Xiaoqi’s dog. Chu Xinghe arrived expecting trouble and learned what had happened, leaving Wu Man devastated by Mu Xiaoqi’s claim that Big White was not strong—Wu Man was simply too weak.

• Wu Man challenged Big White to identify medicinal herbs, but the dog succeeded even when blindfolded.
• Mu Bai sealed Big White’s sight and smell for another round, but Big White identified the herbs by taste, and Wu Man mistakenly claimed one was wrong.
• Wu Man realized he had mistaken a hundred-year-old soaring-cloud grass for another herb and accepted that Big White had beaten him.
• After learning Wu Man had gone to the Spirit Crane Palace to teach the Voodoo Arts, Chu Xinghe rushed there, fearing he would cause trouble.
• Mu Bai explained the contest to Chu Xinghe, and Mu Xiaoqi insisted Big White had barely been trained and that Wu Man was simply too weak.

Chu Xinghe forced Wu Man to teach Mu Bai and the Muyue Kingdom disciples, convinced that Wu Man’s inferior methods would hold them back. When Mu Bai rejected Wu Man’s cultivation advice as outdated and less effective, Chu Xinghe insisted they follow it, while Wu Man mistook the assignment for a chance to sabotage the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

• After Wu Man lost to Big White at identifying medicinal ingredients, Chu Xinghe stopped him from leaving and ordered him to teach Mu Bai, the other Muyue Kingdom disciples, and Big White.
• Wu Man accepted the assignment, suspecting Chu Xinghe wanted him to hinder Muyue Kingdom, and resolved to do his best.
• Chu Xinghe kept watch as Wu Man began teaching at the Spirit Crane Palace, where Wu Man proposed growing spiritual medicines at a steady pace.
• Mu Bai rejected Wu Man’s planting method as far behind Muyue Kingdom’s improved techniques and warned that it would reduce yields and quality.
• Chu Xinghe kicked Mu Bai and insisted that he and the others learn Wu Man’s method, then encouraged Wu Man to continue teaching.

Wu Man tried to teach the Muyue Kingdom disciples the Voodoo Arts, only to discover their skills surpassed his in nearly every way. His lessons then made their spirit-herb cultivation and pill production worse, while Chu Xinghe defended him as a lucky general; the chapter ended with the Grand Elder reporting that Wuj iang Holy Mother had been attacked and was near death.

• Wu Man toured the Vast Heaven Holy Land's spirit fields with Mu Bai and learned that the Muyue Kingdom could mature ten-thousand-year snow ginseng in seven days and create spirit fields with help from the Divine Wood Clan.
• Wu Man discovered that Mu Bai and the others had improved every Voodoo Art they knew far beyond his own abilities, but he began teaching them as Chu Xinghe had instructed.
• The Muyue Kingdom's spirit-herb yields and quality fell, and cultivation took longer after the disciples learned Wu Man's techniques.
• Mu Bai told Chu Xinghe that Wu Man's lessons were making the disciples worse, but Chu Xinghe scolded him and insisted Wu Man was helping them build their foundations.
• The Grand Elder told Chu Xinghe that Wuj iang Holy Mother had been attacked in Wuj iang and was at death's door.

Chu Xinghe rushed to Wuj iang after Wu Erke poisoned the Wuj iang Holy Mother with the Nine-Eyed King Serpent. He bought her time with a Yangchun Pill and began refining an antidote, leaving her rescue dependent on his pill-making.

• The Grand Elder told Chu Xinghe that Wu Erke had ambushed the Wuj iang Holy Mother with the Nine-Eyed King Serpent, and Chu Xinghe set out for Wuj iang.
• Wu Erhan welcomed Chu Xinghe and explained that Wu Erke had raided East Ridge after demanding more resources from the Holy Mother.
• Chu Xinghe examined the unconscious, poisoned Holy Mother and stopped Wu Erhan from rushing to seize the serpent, saying his Voodoo Arts could counter the venom if he received the ingredients quickly.
• Chu Xinghe gave the Holy Mother a top-grade Yangchun Pill to slow the poison, then produced his own supply of rare Earth Chief when Wu Erhan could not find any.
• Chu Xinghe began refining the antidote, and Wu Erhan watched in awe at his mastery of alchemy.

Chu Xinghe appeared to cure the Wuj iang Holy Mother and exposed Wu Erhan's plot to poison her and seize control of Wuj iang. With the Dark Moon Clan protecting him, Chu Xinghe captured Wu Erhan and revealed that he still needed the Nine-Eyed King Serpent's gallbladder to truly treat the Holy Mother.

• Chu Xinghe refined a lightning-summoning divine pill and gave it to the Wuj iang Holy Mother, making her look healthy as the poison's effects faded.
• Chu Xinghe warned Wu Erhan that the Holy Mother would soon wake and laid out how Wu Erhan had engineered the conflict between East Ridge and West Ridge and poisoned her with the Nine-Eyed King Serpent.
• Chu Xinghe cited the poison's timing and Wu Erhan's missing Earth Chief plants as evidence, then dared Wu Erhan to either surrender or capture him.
• A Half-Step Martial God attacked Chu Xinghe, but hidden Dark Moon Clan members killed the attacker and slaughtered Wu Erhan's subordinates; the Great Sage struck Wu Erhan down.
• Chu Xinghe told Wu Erhan that the pill had only delayed the poison and that he needed the Nine-Eyed King Serpent's gallbladder to save the Holy Mother.

Chu Xinghe rescued Wuj iang Holy Mother by obtaining the Nine-Eyed King Serpent’s gallbladder, then ordered a purge of everyone involved in Wu Erhan’s scheme. With East Ridge’s leadership wiped out, Chu Xinghe headed to West Ridge to recruit Wu Erke to govern Wuj iang, delighted by the prospect of another lucky general.

• The Great Sage killed Wu Erhan, searched his memories, and obtained a Nine-Eyed King Serpent, whose gallbladder Chu Xinghe used to cure Wuj iang Holy Mother.
• Chu Xinghe ordered the Dark Moon Clan to kill everyone involved in Wu Erhan’s scheme while sparing uninvolved people, and An Lan led the overnight purge of East Ridge.
• The Grand Elder publicly revealed the affair, and Tantai Jing criticized Wu Erhan for attacking one of the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s people.
• Chu Xinghe set out for West Ridge to ask Wu Erke to take charge of Wuj iang after East Ridge’s commanders were eliminated.
• Wuj iang Holy Mother warned Chu Xinghe that Wu Erke was a poor manager, but Chu Xinghe privately celebrated him as a new lucky general.

Chu Xinghe learned from Wuj iang Holy Mother how generations of West Ridge leaders repeatedly stole the East Ridge leaders’ wives and relatives, leading to cycles of war. He decided Wu Erke was an exceptionally reliable lucky general, though he could not imagine how to lose with Wuj iang entrusted to him.

• Chu Xinghe recalled rejecting Qin Xiangqian and others who wanted to develop Wuj iang because he feared their plans would make him lose.
• Wuj iang Holy Mother explained that Wu Duoqing abandoned his position to pursue love, then repeatedly eloped with Wu Mi'er’s wives and relatives, provoking wars between the East and West Ridges.
• Wu Mi'er died during a later war, but five years afterward his son Wu Erhan attacked the West Ridge after Wu Erke eloped with Wu Erhan’s wife.
• Chu Xinghe marveled at the father-and-son pair’s history and suggested tracking down Wu Duoqing so he and Wu Erke could write a book about their exploits.
• Chu Xinghe concluded that Wu Erke was a true lucky general and wondered how anyone could make him lose while he was entrusted with Wuj iang.

Chu Xinghe learned how Wu Erke’s wildly destructive inventions had left West Ridge impoverished, armed its Gu worms with terrifying power, and driven the Nine-Eyed King Serpent to extinction. Convinced Wu Erke was an unparalleled lucky general, Chu Xinghe decided to back his inventions and make him the new king of the Wuj iang.

• Chu Xinghe heard how Wu Erke had taken over West Ridge and made its already dire condition worse through reckless leadership.
• Wu Erke used Ultimate Explosive Gu to mine deposits quickly, blasting away nearly all West Ridge’s mineral resources.
• Wu Erke developed uncontrollable berserk Gu worms that attacked friend and foe alike, forcing both sides to run whenever they appeared.
• Wu Erke ordered West Ridge to kill every Nine-Eyed King Serpent except the one with the strongest venom, making the poison difficult to cure and devastating East Ridge.
• Wu Erke’s plan ultimately drove the Nine-Eyed King Serpent to extinction, leaving West Ridge with a totem but no beast.
• Chu Xinghe resolved to fund Wu Erke’s inventions and make him the new king of the Wuj iang.

Chu Xinghe traveled to Wuj iang’s West Ridge on foot after Wu Erke’s round-trip teleportation array repeatedly sent him back. West Ridge’s guards mistook him for an impostor and attacked, leaving him wondering whether he could even place in the Chu Xinghe Impersonation Competition.

• Chu Xinghe tried teleporting to West Ridge more than two hundred times, but Wu Erke’s array returned him to where he started each time.
• Chu Xinghe crossed into West Ridge and admired the enormous craters left by Wu Erke’s rapid mining.
• West Ridge guards mistook Chu Xinghe for an enemy and fired arrows at him, but he dodged and disarmed them while stopping An Lan and the others from retaliating.
• Chu Xinghe introduced himself, but he had neither his Haotian Token nor a disciple token to prove his identity.
• A West Ridge disciple judged Chu Xinghe to be a fake because he looked shabby compared with the lavish Chu Xinghe impersonators he had seen.
• The West Ridge guards attacked Chu Xinghe, convinced he was impersonating their Senior Brother Xinghe.

Chu Xinghe faced a group of West Ridge youths who mistook him for an impostor and demonstrated overwhelming physical control without using spiritual power. The youths realized he was far beyond their strength, but one remained convinced that he could not be Chu Xinghe because his fighting style differed from what he had seen in an illusion.

• Chu Xinghe learned that West Ridge’s youths welcomed Wuj iang joining the Vast Heaven Holy Land partly because they admired him.
• West Ridge youths attacked Chu Xinghe, and he snapped one attacker’s spiritual-weapon blade with a flick, then sent him into a tree without injuring him.
• A giant West Ridge youth charged Chu Xinghe with a warhammer, but Chu Xinghe pressed him into Black Demon Rock without harming him.
• The West Ridge youths stopped fighting after seeing Chu Xinghe’s control and strength, and they suspected he was Chu Xinghe.
• A youth who had seen Chu Xinghe in the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusion insisted he was an impostor because Chu Xinghe supposedly used Purple Lightning Flash to finish fights.

Chu Xinghe revealed himself to Wu Beichen, West Ridge’s foremost young Body Cultivator, who demanded a fight to confirm his identity. Chu Xinghe struck Wu Beichen once and sent him flying, leaving the outcome of their clash unresolved.

• Chu Xinghe showed the Haotian Sword Casket, but a young man’s brighter replica left the West Ridge youths and hidden Dark Moon Clan members unsure whether Chu Xinghe was genuine.
• Wu Beichen emerged and asked Chu Xinghe whether he was really Chu Xinghe.
• Wu Beichen recognized Chu Xinghe’s mastery of Body Arts and challenged him, saying he would believe his identity if Chu Xinghe defeated him.
• Wu Beichen unleashed his Qi and Blood and spiritual power, transforming into a six-armed, blood-colored war god before attacking.
• Chu Xinghe stepped in and struck Wu Beichen’s chest with one palm, sending him flying, then called his display all flash and no substance.

Chu Xinghe defeated Wu Beichen with a single precisely controlled palm strike, leaving the West Ridge elders stunned by the gulf between them. He then told Wu Erke that the Vast Heaven Holy Land had destroyed Wu Erhan’s faction and asked Wu Erke to lead both East and West Ridge.

• Chu Xinghe sent Wu Beichen flying with one palm, shattering his armor while leaving him unharmed and unable to continue fighting.
• Chu Xinghe criticized Wu Beichen’s flashy fighting and explained that a body cultivator needed only one decisive strike; Wu Beichen thanked him for the guidance.
• Wu Erke and the West Ridge elders arrived and witnessed Chu Xinghe’s overwhelming strength, while Brother Well-Traveled doubted that the plainly dressed man was really Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe told Wu Erke that Wu Erhan had impersonated West Ridge to attack the Wuj iang Holy Mother and that the Vast Heaven Holy Land had eliminated him and his allies.
• Chu Xinghe said the Wuj iang upheaval had been quelled and asked Wu Erke to take charge of East Ridge as well as West Ridge, leaving the gathering stunned.

Chu Xinghe secured Wu Erke’s authority over both West Ridge and East Ridge, promising Wuj iang unlimited resources and freedom from Vast Heaven Holy Land’s rules. He then visited Wu Erke’s invention base, where he learned that Wu Erke’s experimental poison miasma had consumed the spirit medicines and flown away.

• Wu Erke realized Chu Xinghe’s unique authority let him make decisions and command Vast Heaven Holy Land without consulting elders.
• Chu Xinghe heard how Wu Erhan had embezzled West Ridge’s resources, framed Wu Erke, and tried to kill the Wuj iang Holy Mother.
• Chu Xinghe declared Wu Erke would oversee all of Wuj iang and promised its people unlimited supplies with no management requirements or rules.
• Chu Xinghe asked to see Wu Erke’s inventions, and several West Ridge elders privately urged him to reconsider.
• Wu Erke took Chu Xinghe to his empty invention base and explained that his Black Spirit Poison Miasma had swallowed the spirit medicines and flown away.

Chu Xinghe praised Wu Erke’s destructive inventions and promised the Vast Heaven Holy Land would supply whatever resources he needed. After Wu Erke’s experiment consumed the spiritual herbs and drove away Wuj iang’s poisonous miasma, Chu Xinghe declared Wuj iang a research base for invention and governing through nonaction.

• Chu Xinghe declared Wu Erke a great inventor and promised to fund all his future inventions with unlimited resources from the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Wu Erke tried to become sworn brothers with Chu Xinghe, but Wu Beichen and the West Ridge elders stopped him; Wu Erke later drank with Chu Xinghe and called him Brother.
• Chu Xinghe sent Huang Ritian to deliver rare spiritual herbs, and Huang Ritian ordered Mu Bai to supply ten thousand of each listed variety.
• Wu Erke used the spiritual herbs in an invention, and the experiment consumed them all and drove Wuj iang’s poisonous miasma away.
• Chu Xinghe urged Wu Erke to keep inventing and designated Wuj iang as the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s research base for invention and development through governing without action.