Recaps

As the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce lost money, Qin Xiangqian sought help from Ma Liang to decipher Xinghe’s advice. Ma Liang interpreted Xinghe’s claim that a huge loss was a huge profit as a hidden opportunity to buy goods with spirit stones, and Qin Xiangqian decided to risk it.

• Qin Xiangqian panicked over the Chamber of Commerce’s losses and, after Lu Chengqing warned him that Xinghe was testing him, went to Ma Liang for guidance.
• Ma Liang insisted that Xinghe’s words contained a hint and carefully reviewed Qin Xiangqian’s conversations with him.
• Ma Liang focused on Xinghe’s statement that a huge loss was a huge profit and proposed buying materials with spirit stones while their value was uncertain.
• Qin Xiangqian worried that rising spirit-stone prices could make the purchases a loss, but Ma Liang countered that their value might instead plummet.
• Qin Xiangqian accepted Ma Liang’s interpretation and resolved to buy materials with spirit stones without asking Xinghe for further instructions.

Qin Xiangqian reopened the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s spirit stone sections and spent heavily buying resources, following Ma Liang’s deductions and Chu Xinghe’s supposed instructions. As spirit stone prices kept climbing and outsiders thought the Vast Heaven Holy Land was losing a fortune, Chu Xinghe happily took credit, while the Civil Engineering Department hoped the purchases would ease its workload.

• Qin Xiangqian reopened the chamber’s spirit stone sections after Ma Liang persuaded him that Chu Xinghe’s plan required it, and the branch presidents carried out the order.
• People across the Three Continents exchanged resources for spirit stones at the chamber, which appraised goods at market rates as spirit stone prices continued to rise.
• After three days of purchases, factions declared that the chamber had lost a fortune, and the Grand Elder questioned Chu Xinghe about the buying spree.
• Chu Xinghe claimed he had instructed Qin Xiangqian, delighted that the Misfortune Compass was speeding up, and the Grand Elder agreed to watch and wait.
• Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department learned that the miners’ vacation would not reduce their own work, but Qin Xiangqian’s resource purchases gave them hope that their workload would ease.

Wu Xingyun and other factions tried to profit from the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s rising spirit stone prices, while Chu Xinghe urged Qin Xiangqian to keep the exchange operation going. The Cui Clan sought help from Xuanwu Sacred Venerable after earth-vein changes crippled its cultivation, and Chu Xinghe was delighted when he learned that fixing the problem would require enormous resources.

• Wu Xingyun used Demonic Sect resources to exchange for spirit stones and believed he had multiplied the sect’s wealth as prices rose.
• Other factions began selling resources to and buying them back from the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, prompting Qin Xiangqian’s advisers to warn that the operation could be exploited.
• Chu Xinghe told Qin Xiangqian to continue, and he welcomed the growing number of factions trying to profit from the rising spirit stone prices.
• The Cui Clan discovered that changes in the earth veins had weakened its elders and left its younger disciples unable to cultivate, so Cui Wuming urged the clan to treat the crisis as an opportunity to seek help.
• Clan Head Cui went to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, where Chu Xinghe brought him to Xuanwu Sacred Venerable.
• Xuanwu Sacred Venerable explained that restoring the Cui Clan’s cultivation would consume more resources than the whole clan could provide, and Chu Xinghe was thrilled by the prospect.

Clan Head Cui explained why the Cui Clan had lost the ability to cultivate Mystic Water Power, and Xuanwu offered to restore it at an enormous cost. As the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders were called to consider the expense, Chu Xinghe resolved to stay out of the decision and wait.

• Clan Head Cui explained that the Cui Clan had been forced to replace Mystic Water Power with Earth Spirit and Earth Vein Power after Xuanwu left, and changing earth veins had now left the clan unable to cultivate.
• Xuanwu realized the Cui Clan had not abandoned its inheritance willingly and offered to convert its members’ power back to Mystic Water Power.
• Xuanwu estimated that the Mysterious Water Grand Array would require at least three years of the Vast Heaven Divine Domain’s output in Nine-Colored Spirit Stone.
• Xuanwu summoned Shen Chun to report the matter to the Grand Elder, since the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders had to approve such a vast expense.
• Chu Xinghe decided not to influence the decision, believing the Misfortune Compass would not target him if he watched and waited.

Chu Xinghe tried to avoid influencing events while the Vast Heaven Holy Land weighed whether to spend three years of the Vast Heaven Divine Domain’s output to save the Cui Clan. He supported the Xuanwu Sacred Venerable’s decision, leaving the final choice to him.

• Chu Xinghe held back from interfering in the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s losses, the Earth Spirit Warm Resonance Grand Array, and the Cui Clan’s looming crisis, suspecting the Misfortune Compass was waiting for him to act.
• Clan Head Cui and the Xuanwu Sacred Venerable explained that the Cui Clan could no longer use earth spirit power and needed three years of the Vast Heaven Divine Domain’s output to recover its Mysterious Water power.
• Azure Dragon publicly supported helping the Cui Clan while privately hoping to turn Haotian Palace into his Azure Dragon Divine Hall.
• Clan Head Cui promised an eternal alliance if the Vast Heaven Holy Land saved his clan, while its leaders waited for Chu Xinghe to speak.
• Chu Xinghe said he supported the Xuanwu Sacred Venerable’s decision and privately reassured himself that he had left the final choice to the Xuanwu Sacred Venerable.

Xuanwu Sacred Venerable and Vast Heaven Holy Land agreed to spend three years of the Vast Heaven Divine Domain’s output to save the Cui Clan, setting off a spirit-stone price surge. Wu Xingyun celebrated his profitable bet, while Zheng Yu refused to let Martial Emperor City trade against Chu Xinghe; the chapter ended as Xuanwu activated the Mysterious Water Grand Array and spirit-stone prices soared.

• Xuanwu Sacred Venerable saw that Vast Heaven Holy Land supported his decision to help the Cui Clan, and Clan Head Cui thanked the sect for its aid without conditions.
• Clan Head Cui returned with the entire Cui Clan to Vast Heaven Holy Land, while news of the planned Mysterious Water Grand Array caused spirit-stone prices to surge across the Three Continents.
• Wu Xingyun celebrated having exchanged the Demonic Sect’s resources for spirit stones before the price spike and urged his followers to hold onto them.
• Zheng Yu rejected the stewards’ request to trade Martial Emperor City’s resources for spirit stones and ordered them not to act recklessly against Chu Xinghe.
• Xuanwu Sacred Venerable used three years of the Vast Heaven Divine Domain’s output to activate the Mysterious Water Grand Array, sending spirit-stone prices soaring again.

Xuanwu activated a vast Mysterious Water Grand Array to convert the Cui Clan’s Earth Spirit Power into Mystic Water Power, a painful process that killed some who could not endure it. Cui Wuming succeeded first, cured his lifelong illnesses, and reached Ninth Rank Great Perfection, while onlookers debated whether Chu Xinghe remained the ultimate realm of the Ninth Rank.

• Xuanwu and White Tiger completed the Mysterious Water Grand Array and gathered the Cui Clan inside it for the conversion.
• The array changed the Cui clanspeople’s ordinary spiritual power into Mystic Water Power, then began converting their source power, causing unbearable pain and killing those who tried to flee or gave up.
• Xuanwu urged the Cui Clan to endure the trial as Clan Head Cui watched young clan members die.
• Cui Wuming became the first to convert his source power, discovered and removed a flaw that had kept him weak, and recovered from his illnesses.
• Cui Wuming’s Qi, blood, and spiritual power turned black as he reached Ninth Rank Great Perfection, prompting one observer to claim Chu Xinghe was the true ultimate realm of the Ninth Rank.

Cui Wuming entered Ninth Rank Great Perfection and taught the Cui Clan how to convert their power into Mystic Water Power, greatly strengthening them. When Clan Head Cui completed his conversion, the discarded Earth Spirit Power gathered into a sphere that trapped the entire clan, and the Heart of the Earth emerged.

• Cui Wuming reached Ninth Rank Great Perfection but remained convinced he could not challenge Chu Xinghe, then shared his method for converting Earth Spirit Power into Mystic Water Power.
• The Cui Clan followed Cui Wuming’s method, and their Mystic Water Power conversions reduced their pain and increased their cultivation and combat power.
• Clan Head Cui completed his conversion, reached the Peak Mystic God realm, and drew the discarded Earth Spirit Power into a vast storm above him.
• The storm formed a sphere that enveloped Clan Head Cui and every member of the Cui Clan, prompting Xuanwu to call for help.
• Elder He stopped the Vast Heaven Holy Land experts from intervening as the Heart of the Earth emerged from between Clan Head Cui’s brows.

The Cui Clan restored the Heart of the Earth after gaining the power of Mysterious Water, and White Tiger used it to reduce the earth veins’ recovery time from fifty years to five. Chu Xinghe panicked over the likely collapse of spirit stone prices, then calmed down when Clan Head Cui revealed that the Heart of the Earth could upgrade spirit stones.

• The Heart of the Earth absorbed earth spirit and earth vein power, repaired its cracks, and returned above Clan Head Cui.
• White Tiger used the restored Heart of the Earth in an array and announced that the earth veins would recover in five years instead of fifty.
• Chu Xinghe worried that the shorter recovery would crash spirit stone prices and ruin the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s material investments, while Qin Xiangqian ordered the Chamber of Commerce to stop selling materials.
• The Heart of the Earth entered Clan Head Cui and revealed that much of the ancestor’s inheritance and Spirit Creation Art had been lost.
• Clan Head Cui used the Heart of the Earth to upgrade a spirit stone, and Chu Xinghe calmed down and apologized to the Misfortune Compass.

Clan Head Cui awakened the Heart of the Earth and gained the ability to enhance spirit stones, setting the Cui Clan up to prosper. After Cui offered half the resulting earnings to Xuanwu, the Hua Clan decided it needed to provoke a calamity of its own.

• Ji Ya explained that the Cui Clan's Spirit Creation Art let Clan Head Cui use the Heart of the Earth to increase a spirit stone's spiritual power.
• Clan Head Cui credited Xuanwu with saving his clan and offered him half of the resources earned through the Heart of the Earth.
• Azure Dragon objected to accepting tribute, but Vermilion Bird and White Tiger dragged him away as Xuanwu accepted the Cui Clan's offer.
• The Ming and Ning clan heads described their own clans' prosperous but busy lives, while Clan Head Hua lamented that the Hua Clan had fallen behind.
• Clan Head Hua ordered Hua Xichen, the Hua Clan's juniors, and its elders to go out, cause trouble, and create a chance for a clan-ending calamity; Wu Xingyun agreed that such a chance could be created.

Wu Xingyun exchanged the Demonic Sect’s entire treasury for spirit stones, only for the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce to reset prices and leave the sect having lost at least half its wealth. As Wu Xingyun went into seclusion amid accusations that he was a spy, the spirit stone crisis subsided and Qin Xiangqian’s advisers demonstrated their control over the Three Continents’ markets.

• After learning the spirit mine would take five years rather than fifty, Wu Xingyun exchanged all the Demonic Sect’s resources for spirit stones.
• Qin Xiangqian sealed the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, and his three thousand advisers set a new spirit stone price at roughly three times its former level after the Cui Clan revealed the Heart of the Earth.
• Tantai Jing and the Demonic Sect elders blamed Wu Xingyun for losing at least half the sect’s wealth and accused him of secretly serving the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Wu Xingyun went into seclusion to escape the Demonic Sect’s anger.
• The spirit stone storm subsided within days, and Qin Xiangqian’s advisers used the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s influence to steer the markets across the Three Continents.

As the spirit-stone market recovered, Qin Xiangqian empowered the three thousand business prodigies at the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce with funding, trust, and improved worker benefits, and their ventures quickly began turning profits. Chu Xinghe, frustrated by another blow from the Misfortune Compass, received news that made him excited to begin his counterattack.

• Liu Tong presented Qin Xiangqian with a proposal designed to minimize costs, but Qin ordered him to double workers’ wages and remove exploitative measures.
• Qin Xiangqian told Liu Tong to begin the plan with whatever funds and resources he needed, emphasizing Chu Xinghe’s rules of fair and honest business.
• Business prodigies submitted proposals, and Qin Xiangqian approved them with generous funding, manpower, and resources.
• The Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s ventures expanded rapidly and began earning profits while other chambers still struggled.
• Chu Xinghe lamented the Misfortune Compass’s latest setback, then received news that filled him with excitement about launching a counterattack.

Chu Xinghe learned that changes to the earth veins could leave most current spirit mines worthless, then urged the Vast Heaven Holy Land to buy them anyway to protect smaller factions from collapse. The leaders were moved by his appeal and prepared to support the large-scale purchases.

• The Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce prospered as three thousand geniuses devised cautious sales plans and customers flocked to buy its abundant resources.
• Clan Head Cui revealed that changes to the earth veins could redistribute the Spirit of the Earth, leaving more than seventy percent of existing spirit mines in the wrong places after recovery.
• Chu Xinghe questioned Elder He, who confirmed the danger, and persuaded him to affirm that there was no way to prevent it.
• Factions across the Three Continents advertised their spirit mines for sale, but buyers avoided the risky investments despite the low prices.
• Chu Xinghe called a meeting in the Haotian Grand Hall and proposed that the Vast Heaven Holy Land buy spirit mines on a large scale.
• Chu Xinghe argued that the purchases would protect small and medium-sized factions, and the leaders agreed that the Vast Heaven Holy Land should help them.

Chu Xinghe urged the Vast Heaven Holy Land to help small and medium-sized factions survive the spirit mine crisis, arguing that a true sovereign protected the Three Continents rather than exploiting them. The leaders backed him, and he set the direction for the Plan to Benefit All Living Beings by deciding to buy endangered spirit mines at the highest possible prices.

• Chu Xinghe explained that the collapse of small and medium-sized factions would destabilize the Three Continents and urged the Vast Heaven Holy Land to use its resources to help them.
• Chu Xinghe described the sovereign as one who stood behind the people in times of danger, and the leaders of the Vast Heaven Holy Land supported his view.
• The grand elder told Chu Xinghe to do as he wished, while Gu Mingchao and Ma Liang praised him and Ma Liang was assigned to learn from him.
• Chu Xinghe resolved to control the chance of failure himself and declared that he would take charge of the Plan to Benefit All Living Beings.
• Chu Xinghe decided the Vast Heaven Holy Land would buy the struggling factions' spirit mines at the highest possible prices instead of taking advantage of the falling market.

As spirit mine prices collapsed, the Vast Heaven Holy Land announced it would buy mines from small and midsize forces at full value, while Tantai Jing’s Demonic Sect offered only ten percent. Chu Xinghe then asked Wang Tieniu to identify mines most likely to recover, but ordered Ma Liang to buy every mine except those on Tieniu’s list.

• Forces across the Three Continents struggled to sell their spirit mines as buyers feared most would disappear after five years.
• Ma Liang proposed buying mines cheaply, but Chu Xinghe rebuked him for exploiting people in crisis.
• Tantai Jing announced that the Demonic Sect would buy spirit mines for ten percent of their value, expecting to profit from the survivors.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land declared it would buy the mines at their original value, earning widespread praise for Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe asked Wang Tieniu to identify mines with better chances of surviving, and Tieniu compiled a list of over five hundred.
• When Ma Liang asked whether they should buy the listed mines first, Chu Xinghe told him to exclude those mines and buy the rest.

Chu Xinghe arranged for the Vast Heaven Holy Land to buy spirit mines under Heavenly Dao Contracts requiring the mines to be returned to their original owners at the original price if they recovered. Convinced he had blocked every way the Misfortune Compass could turn the purchase into a profit, he watched it spin wildly as the buying began.

• Chu Xinghe told Ma Liang to buy spirit mines while excluding those on Wang Tieniu's list, and required a Heavenly Dao Contract for every purchase.
• Chu Xinghe set the contract terms so the Vast Heaven Holy Land would return recovered mines intact to their sellers at the original purchase price.
• The various factions flocked to sell their mines, then were surprised that the contract protected their right to reclaim them rather than restricting them.
• Some factions offered to waive the contract or share future profits, but Ma Liang rejected their proposals on Chu Xinghe's instructions.
• As the Vast Heaven Holy Land began buying the mines, the Misfortune Compass spun faster and faster, and Chu Xinghe laughed, believing he had it cornered.

Vast Heaven Holy Land bought spirit mines at full value and promised their original owners the right to reclaim them, giving small and medium-sized factions hope while elevating the sect’s standing. In Martial Emperor City, Zheng Yu persuaded Cheng Xiaotian to follow Chu Xinghe’s example, and Cheng agreed to watch and wait.

• Vast Heaven Holy Land bought spirit mines at their actual value and signed Heavenly Dao Contracts promising to return each mine intact at its original price when it recovered.
• Small and medium-sized factions used the proceeds to prepare to endure the five years before the earth veins recovered, trusting they could reclaim their mines or buy new ones.
• Cheng Xiaotian rebuked Zheng Yu for wanting Martial Emperor City to buy spirit mines under Chu Xinghe’s rules, but Zheng Yu argued that Chu Xinghe’s calm, joyful expression suggested a hidden plan.
• Zheng Yu urged Martial Emperor City to risk the cost for prestige, and Cheng Xiaotian agreed to let him proceed while he watched and waited.

Martial Emperor City joined Vast Heaven Holy Land in buying spirit ores, while Zheng Yu mistook Chu Xinghe’s attempt to limit his losses as a sign of enormous profits. Gui Li crossed the Four Continents Barrier alive, but woke up in the Three Continents with no memory of his mission.

• Zheng Yu announced that Martial Emperor City would use its resources and Heavenly Dao Contracts to purchase spirit ores and help the factions.
• Chu Xinghe urged Zheng Yu to leave the losses to Vast Heaven Holy Land, but Zheng Yu took his concern as proof the deal would be profitable and committed Martial Emperor City’s resources.
• Gui Li said goodbye to the seven evil lords, donned the Evil God Mask, and entered the passage to the Three Continents to carry out his mission.
• The disrupted Four Continents Barrier battered Gui Li, but the Evil God Mask protected him long enough for him to crash through and reach the Three Continents unconscious.
• Gui Li woke up in the Three Continents confused and unable to remember what his mission was.

After being battered while crossing the Four Continents Passage, Gui Li reached the Three Continents with his memories mostly destroyed, remembering only that he had to join the Vast Heaven Holy Land. He collapsed at a Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce branch in Bamboo City, where Sima Bian discovered his immense strength and the Evil God Mask’s power.

• The Evil God Mask carried Gui Li through the Four Continents Passage, and he emerged in the Three Continents badly injured and confused.
• Gui Li remembered his name and his determination to join the Vast Heaven Holy Land, then learned from townspeople that he should travel north to Bamboo City.
• Gui Li reached the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce branch in Bamboo City and collapsed at its entrance.
• Sima Bian arrived, mistook Gui Li for an exhausted clerk, and then realized the unconscious man was a peak Ninth Rank cultivator.
• When Sima Bian tried to heal Gui Li, the Evil God Mask blasted him backward and injured him.
• Gui Li murmured that he had to join the Vast Heaven Holy Land, leaving Sima Bian astonished.

Gui Li survived his journey through the Four Continents Barrier but woke with amnesia, remembering only that he had to join the Vast Heaven Holy Land and find Chu Xinghe. As Sima Bian mistook him for Chu Xinghe’s devoted fan, Gui Li later offered to help with a city-rebuilding project the Vast Heaven Holy Land could not staff.

• The seven Evil Lords worried while Gui Li remained unconscious, but the Earth Sha Evil Lord reassured them that the Evil God Mask’s bond showed Gui Li was still alive.
• Gui Li woke after three days and told Sima Bian that he remembered neither his past nor his sect, only his name, his wish to join the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and Chu Xinghe.
• Sima Bian decided Gui Li was a fanatical admirer of Chu Xinghe and promised to take him to the Vast Heaven Holy Land after he recovered.
• Steward Liu Da asked Sima Bian for help rebuilding Bamboo City, but Sima Bian refused to involve the overworked Civil Engineering Department and Huang Ritian.
• Gui Li appeared with his mask off and offered to help with the construction work.

Gui Li recovered his memories briefly, then forgot them again and used the Evil God Mask to rebuild Bamboo City's walls while believing he was helping the Vast Heaven Holy Land. Meanwhile, Chu Xinghe celebrated his apparent plan for failure, unaware that Gui Li intended to infiltrate the Holy Land and attack it.

• Gui Li demonstrated that the Evil God Mask let him control the earth and grow plants, and Sima Bian asked him to help rebuild Bamboo City.
• The seven evil lords contacted Gui Li, restoring his memories long enough for him to reveal that he planned to feign amnesia and infiltrate the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• After the connection ended, Gui Li lost his memories again and concluded that his purpose was to help Chu Xinghe build up the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Gui Li evacuated the damaged areas and used the Evil God Mask to replace Bamboo City's crumbling walls with new black-stone walls.
• Chu Xinghe received Sima Bian's letter about Gui Li, laughed at the news, and told Shen Chun and Ma Liang that heavenly secrets must not be revealed.

Chu Xinghe ordered the Vast Heaven Holy Land to accelerate its purchase of spirit mines after Martial Emperor City stopped buying, driving the Civil Engineering Department to empty the treasure vaults. At the Northern Branch, Sima Bian questioned whether the Purple Peak Sect’s ruined mine was truly spiritually depleted, and a sickly young man suggested restoring it to reveal the truth.

• Shen Chun and Ma Liang wondered why Chu Xinghe had laughed at Sima Bian’s news about Gui Li, while the Civil Engineering Department built the Azure Dragon Divine Hall and shipped resources out of the vaults.
• After learning Martial Emperor City had stopped buying spirit mines, Chu Xinghe ordered the Vast Heaven Holy Land to purchase them faster, and Azure Dragon’s department worked through meals to keep up.
• Sima Bian postponed bringing the recovering Gui Li to the Vast Heaven Holy Land and instead led the Northern Branch’s large-scale spirit-mine purchases under Heavenly Dao Contracts.
• Xue Zifeng insisted that the Purple Peak Sect’s mine had been damaged by changes in the earth veins rather than human actions, but Sima Bian demanded proof against the rumors.
• A sickly pretty boy suggested restoring the spirit mine to determine whether Xue Zifeng was telling the truth, leaving Xue Zifeng and Sima Bian stunned.

Xue Zifeng sought help selling the Purple Peak Sect’s spirit mine, but Martial Emperor City and Sima Bian were wary that it had truly been depleted. Gui Li proposed restoring the shifted earth veins, then used his Earth Sha Technique at the mine, where spiritual light began returning to the spirit stones.

• Xue Zifeng explained that rumors about the Purple Peak Sect’s depleted mine had become impossible to disprove after spirit mines everywhere lost their spiritual power, and Zheng Yu refused to buy it.
• Xue Zifeng asked Sima Bian for help, but Sima Bian feared Old Qin would hold him accountable for risking the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s interests.
• Gui Li said that the Earth Sha Technique could return shifted earth veins to their places, despite Sima Bian and Xue Zifeng doubting his claim.
• Sima Bian arranged for Gui Li and Xue Zifeng to travel to the Purple Peak Sect, where Gui Li identified the mine as a victim of shifted earth veins rather than true depletion.
• Gui Li’s Evil God Mask covered his face as he sent an earth spirit underground, and the ground shook while the mine’s spirit stones began to regain their spiritual light.

Gui Li restored the Purple Peak Sect’s depleted spirit mine, astonishing the sect and Sima Bian. Sima Bian concluded that Chu Xinghe had foreseen Gui Li’s arrival and kept the discovery secret, convinced that Chu Xinghe’s plans would bring the Vast Heaven Holy Land both fame and fortune.

• Sima Bian brought Gui Li to the Purple Peak Sect to reactivate its ruined spirit mine, leaving its elders and disciples skeptical of Gui Li’s ability.
• Gui Li used the Earth Sha Technique and the Evil God Mask to restore the earth veins and revive the spirit stones in the mine.
• Sima Bian recognized Gui Li’s extraordinary power and decided that Chu Xinghe’s Star Divination Art had anticipated his arrival and was guiding a larger plan.
• Xue Zifeng ordered the Purple Peak Sect members who witnessed the restoration not to tell outsiders what had happened.
• Sima Bian concluded that Chu Xinghe aimed to make the Vast Heaven Holy Land gain both fame and fortune through his purchases of spirit mines.

Chu Xinghe watched the Vast Heaven Holy Land collect contracts for the spirit mines it had bought, while Sima Bian brought Gui Li to the Holy Land as agreed. The Civil Engineering Department prepared to take leave, and Azure Dragon caused a commotion at Haotian Palace over the name on its grand hall.

• Sima Bian puzzled over why Chu Xinghe had bound the Vast Heaven Holy Land to return every restored spirit mine at its original price, even though the deal seemed certain to lose money.
• Chu Xinghe saw that the Holy Land had acquired about a third of the Three Continents’ spirit mines, mostly from small and medium-sized forces, and celebrated as the last contracts arrived.
• Chu Xinghe promised the exhausted Civil Engineering Department disciples leave after they filed the contracts, while Huang Ritian remained under punishment and could not join them.
• Azure Dragon coiled around a pillar in Haotian Grand Hall and demanded that Holy Lord Gu Mingchao and Holy Empress Ji Ya explain why his Azure Dragon Divine Hall bore the hall’s name.
• Sima Bian brought Gui Li into the Vast Heaven Holy Land, where Gui Li resolved to help build it up, believing that goal was part of his remaining memories.