Recaps

The Vast Heaven Sect learned that Feng Yuzheng’s failed treasure appraisals came from an incomplete Divine Engraving Technique, and decided to fund his research after Chu Xinghe’s supposed foresight impressed everyone. Feng Yuzheng vowed to master the art and challenge the Huang Clan, while Chu Xinghe remained certain he would fail; the Huang Clan likewise concluded that Feng posed no threat.

• Elder He recognized Feng Yuzheng’s methods as an incomplete Art of Awakening from the Divine Engraving Technique, and Gu Mingchao and the sect leaders agreed to support his research.
• The Grand Elder praised Chu Xinghe’s decision to back Feng Yuzheng, while Chu privately believed the technique could never be completed by him.
• Feng Yuzheng embraced Chu Xinghe and vowed to master the Divine Engraving Technique and make the Huang Clan tremble.
• News of Feng Yuzheng’s technique spread through the Vast Heaven Sect and across the world, causing widespread astonishment.
• The Huang Clan patriarch investigated Feng Yuzheng’s incomplete technique and concluded that he was no threat to the clan’s standing.

Chu Xinghe was assigned to escort Vast Heaven Sect’s resources to the Gathering Star Kingdom and collect its payment, while anticipating a mysterious surprise in his hometown. He planned to exploit the journey to lose the valuables, and Shi Biao eagerly joined him, hoping to benefit from Chu Xinghe’s luck.

• News spread that Feng Yuzheng’s Divine Engraving Technique was incomplete, and the Huang Clan claimed its standing as the strongest treasure appraisal clan was secure.
• Chu Xinghe encouraged Feng Yuzheng to keep working on the technique while Ouyang Ming also caused explosions in the Artifact Refining Palace.
• Feng Fei summoned Chu Xinghe to the Medicine King Palace, where the grand elder revealed that the Gathering Star Kingdom had bought large quantities of supreme-grade spirit stones and scarce resources.
• The grand elder put Chu Xinghe in charge of transporting the goods to the Gathering Star Kingdom and collecting its payment, and said he could visit Kaoshan Village to receive a surprise.
• Chu Xinghe accepted the assignment and imagined losing both the delivery and the payment along the way; the grand elder gave him a storage ring full of spirit stones and ordered him to travel by caravan.
• Shi Biao introduced himself as head of the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s eastern branch and hoped working with Chu Xinghe would help him advance.

Chu Xinghe traveled with Shi Biao and a caravan bound for the Gathering Star Kingdom, while trying to prevent his companions from causing unexpected trouble. He finally threw away the Grand Elder’s Qiankun Ring to cause a loss, but Feng Yuzheng returned it, leaving his plan in ruins.

• Shi Biao agreed to manage the caravan and obey Chu Xinghe, while Chu Xinghe gathered the assigned disciples and invited Feng Yuzheng to accompany them.
• Chu Xinghe told Ouyang Ming to rest, misread Feng Fei’s romantic troubles, and asked him whether Wan Lin was involved before the caravan departed.
• The Grand Elder sent Chu Xinghe off with a promise of a surprise, and Chu Xinghe privately resolved to give him a surprise of his own.
• After five peaceful days on the road, Chu Xinghe tossed the Qiankun Ring away and ordered the caravan to hurry onward.
• Feng Yuzheng sprang into Chu Xinghe’s carriage and returned the Qiankun Ring she had picked up, shocking him.

Chu Xinghe repeatedly tried to lose a storage ring, but Feng Yuzheng used the Treasure Seeking Art to find it every time, so Chu Xinghe shifted to a new plan to sabotage the delivery deadline. He then learned that Shi Biao’s eastern trading houses might become profitable and decided to give Shi Biao guidance designed to make them lose money.

• Feng Yuzheng repeatedly returned Chu Xinghe’s deliberately discarded storage ring, even after Chu Xinghe hid it far away and threw it into an underground river.
• After eight more failed attempts to lose the ring, Chu Xinghe gave up and planned to delay the delivery by lingering in Kaoshan Village so the caravan would miss its fifteen-day deadline.
• Shi Biao praised Chu Xinghe and explained that the eastern branch’s main business was its trading houses, which he had kept running at a small profit.
• Chu Xinghe promised to defend Shi Biao’s management from replacement, then realized the trading houses could become profitable if they continued operating under Shi Biao’s model.
• When Shi Biao asked Chu Xinghe for guidance, Chu Xinghe agreed and resolved to steer the trading houses toward massive losses.

Chu Xinghe visited the Vast Heaven Trading Company in Yan City and proposed a series of costly reforms designed to make customers freely use its goods and services. Shi Biao believed Chu Xinghe’s guarantee would protect him as he carried out the plans, while Chu Xinghe continued devising ways to increase the company’s losses.

• Shi Biao escorted Chu Xinghe to the Yan City branch, where its manager and senior staff welcomed him.
• Chu Xinghe ordered the branch to station beautiful, highly cultivated, aloof greeters at its entrance.
• After learning that the branch had begun making a profit on spirit stones, Chu Xinghe proposed free spirit stone trials to encourage customers to use them without buying.
• Chu Xinghe added free month-long spirit treasure trials with tiny deposits, full refunds, and no charge for damage, then suggested similar free trials and refunds for food and clothing.
• Chu Xinghe demanded one-on-one service for every customer, more employees, and higher pay for the trading company’s staff.

Chu Xinghe imposed doubled compensation, nine days off, and extravagant customer perks on the Vast Heaven Trading Company, convinced the changes would ruin its profits. After secretly swapping his Qiankun Ring for an empty one at the shop, he discovered Feng Yuzheng had found the treasure-filled ring and brought it to him, believing he had passed Xinghe’s test.

• Chu Xinghe doubled the trading company staff’s compensation and ordered them to take nine days off each month, including during the busiest periods.
• Shi Biao reported Chu Xinghe’s plan, and Sect Master Gu Mingchao approved it with the cryptic instruction, “Watch and wait.”
• The Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce extended Chu Xinghe’s customer experience measures across its branches, provoking an uproar among rival companies and their leaders.
• Chu Xinghe secretly switched his treasure-filled Qiankun Ring with an empty one on the shop counter, hoping a customer would buy the valuable ring.
• Chu Xinghe headed for Kaoshan Village, but found Feng Yuzheng in the carriage holding the treasure-filled Qiankun Ring and believing he had passed Xinghe’s test.

Chu Xinghe traveled with the caravan into the Gathering Star Kingdom, where his junior brother Gu Feng turned out to be the son of Clear River City's lord. When Chu Xinghe reached Kaoshan Village, he discovered that the road and village had undergone a massive transformation, which he suspected was the grand elder's surprise for him.

• Feng Yuzheng recovered Chu Xinghe's spatial ring after Chu Xinghe secretly switched it, leaving Chu Xinghe exasperated and determined not to lose it again.
• Chu Xinghe let the junior brothers from the Gathering Star Kingdom visit their families and continued toward Kaoshan Village with Gu Feng, whose home was in Clear River City.
• Gu Chengming, Clear River City's lord and Gu Feng's father, welcomed Chu Xinghe with a grand reception and offered him gifts, which Chu Xinghe declined.
• Chu Xinghe left Gu Feng with his family and traveled toward Kaoshan Village, noticing that the road had become wide enough for fifty carriages.
• Chu Xinghe reached Moon River and saw the enormous changes around Kaoshan Village, realizing that the grand elder had prepared a huge surprise for him.

Chu Xinghe returned to Kaoshan Village and found that the great elder had transformed it into a vast city, then chose to honor their delivery agreement rather than swindle the sect. As Chu Xinghe reunited with the villagers and Chu Youcai was beaten for cursing him, Tantai Jing waited uneasily for the shipment, convinced Chu Xinghe was plotting something.

• Chu Xinghe crossed the new Moon River bridge and discovered that the great elder had turned Kaoshan Village into a gigantic, semi-independent city.
• The villagers welcomed Chu Xinghe, and the village chief explained how the great elder had funded the city and provided for its residents.
• Moved by the surprise, Chu Xinghe decided to follow the great elder’s plan and deliver the resources within the agreed fifteen days.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Chu Youcai had repeatedly insulted the Vast Heaven Sect after the great elder struck him, and Feng Yuzheng and Shi Biao later joined villagers in beating him again.
• Tantai Jing’s Demonic Sect allies expected Chu Xinghe to deliver the supplies, while Tantai Jing suspected a hidden scheme but could not identify it.

Chu Xinghe rested in Kaoshan Village while the Demonic Sect mistook the Grand Elder’s misdirected teleportation for proof that their plot had been exposed. As five Devil Venerables arrived to kill Chu Xinghe, the Grand Elder finally teleported to the village and appeared right among them.

• Chu Xinghe enjoyed a few days in Kaoshan Village, then prepared Shi Biao and the others to deliver the goods before the deadline.
• The Grand Elder tried to teleport to Kaoshan Village but landed near the Gathering Star Kingdom’s capital, then returned to the Vast Heaven Sect.
• The Demonic Sect mistook the Grand Elder’s appearance near the capital as proof that its Blood Soul Grand Formation plot had been discovered.
• Tantai Jing ordered five Devil Venerables to massacre Kaoshan Village, kill Chu Xinghe, and seize the resources.
• The five Devil Venerables gathered outside Kaoshan Village and chanted for Chu Xinghe’s death as the Grand Elder teleported into their midst.

The Great Elder killed five Devil Venerables who had planned to assassinate Chu Xinghe, and their confession revealed the Demonic Sect’s Blood Soul Grand Formation plot. The formation summoned the Blood Soul Patriarch only halfway before Evil Repeller’s strike spun him around, leaving his lower half outside as the bloody door closed.

• The Great Elder arrived in Kaoshan Village and killed four of the five Devil Venerables before restraining the last one, who confessed the Demonic Sect’s plan.
• Chu Xinghe and Shi Biao learned that the Demonic Sect intended to use the Blood Soul Grand Formation, though Chu Xinghe privately insisted he had not discovered their secret.
• After the five Devil Venerables’ soul lamps went out, Tantai Jing ordered the Demonic Sect to activate the formation instead of retreating.
• The Great Elder reached the capital with Chu Xinghe and two Martial Venerables, where the Blood Soul Grand Formation opened and the Blood Soul Patriarch began emerging.
• Tantai Jing tried to free the Blood Soul Patriarch, but Evil Repeller struck him and spun him around, so the closing formation left only his lower half outside.

The Vast Heaven Sect defeated the Demonic Sect’s summoning attempt, leaving only Blood Soul Patriarch’s lower half behind, and seized the Demonic Sect’s prepared resources. Wu Xingyun then declared that the Demonic Sect would retaliate by attacking the Vast Heaven Sect’s Taiyin and Taiyang treasure vaults unless its demands were met.

• The Great Elder led the Vast Heaven Sect’s attack on the Demonic Sect while Tantai Jing escaped, and Gu Mingchao arrived to find only Blood Soul Patriarch’s lower half.
• The Vast Heaven Sect searched the Demonic Sect’s gathering place, confiscated its payment and demonic crystals, and moved to eliminate the remaining Demonic Sect members in the Gathering Star Kingdom.
• Tantai Jing reported the defeat to Wu Xingyun, who learned that the Demonic Sect had lost its experts, resources, and demonic crystals.
• Wu Xingyun agreed to retaliate after Demonic Sect experts demanded action against the Vast Heaven Sect.
• The Demonic Sect threatened to attack the Vast Heaven Sect’s Taiyin and Taiyang treasure vaults within half a month unless the sect returned the seized resources and Blood Soul Patriarch’s lower half.

The Vast Heaven Sect debated how to respond to the Demonic Sect’s threat to attack its Taiyin and Taiyang treasure vaults. Elder He proposed using Chu Xinghe as bait at one vault, with the Flute of Space and Time as an escape route, and Chu Xinghe eagerly supported the plan.

• Gu Mingchao reasoned that the Demonic Sect would target only one vault, while the elders struggled to determine which one and how to defend it.
• Elder He proposed placing Chu Xinghe, the Blood Soul Patriarch, and demonic crystals at one vault to mislead the Demonic Sect into attacking the Vast Heaven Sect’s main force there.
• The grand elder and Gu Mingchao approved the plan after Chu Xinghe revealed he could use the Flute of Space and Time to escape if the Demonic Sect attacked his position.
• The elders finalized the plan, and Chu Xinghe celebrated by eating four bowls of red-braised pork and praising Elder He’s strategy.

The Vast Heaven Sect secretly moved its main force from the Land of Grand Yin to ambush the Demonic Sect in the Land of Grand Yang, leaving Chu Xinghe behind as a decoy. Tantai Jing investigated and misread Chu Xinghe’s honest confirmation of the plan as an elaborate lie, leaving him convinced the main force was still hidden nearby.

• Gu Mingchao ordered Chu Xinghe to retreat immediately if the Demonic Sect attacked, and Chu Xinghe promised to take everyone to safety.
• Chu Xinghe chose not to bring Feng Yuzheng to the Land of Grand Yin and told him to study the Divine Engraving Technique at the sect.
• Gu Mingchao brought the Vast Heaven Sect’s experts to the Land of Grand Yin, then secretly led them to the Land of Grand Yang, leaving Chu Xinghe and two Martial Venerable-level deacons behind.
• Vast Heaven Sect disciples and Demonic Sect spies assumed Chu Xinghe’s presence meant the sect’s main force was still hidden in the Land of Grand Yin.
• Tantai Jing infiltrated the Land of Grand Yin and overheard Chu Xinghe tell a junior brother that the main force was in the Land of Grand Yang and that he would protect everyone.
• Tantai Jing decided Chu Xinghe was deliberately misleading him and concluded that the Vast Heaven Sect’s main force remained in the Land of Grand Yin.

Tantai Jing mistook Chu Xinghe’s private musings about a surprise in the Land of Grand Yin for proof that the Vast Heaven Sect had hidden its main force there, so the Demonic Sect attacked the Land of Grand Yang instead. The Vast Heaven Sect ambushed them with the Heaven-Supporting Sword Formation, and as the Demonic Sect retreated, Tantai Jing took Wu Xingyun’s avatar and teleported toward Chu Xinghe.

• Tantai Jing overheard Chu Xinghe mention Elder He’s surprise for the Demonic Sect in the Land of Grand Yin and concluded the Vast Heaven Sect’s main force was hiding there.
• Tantai Jing reported his deduction to Wu Xingyun and the Demonic Sect elders, who chose to attack the Land of Grand Yang.
• Chu Xinghe gathered his fellow disciples in the Land of Grand Yin and ordered them to stay within a hundred paces of him, but the Demonic Sect never arrived.
• Wu Xingyun led the Demonic Sect into the Land of Grand Yang, where Gu Mingchao and the Vast Heaven Sect sprang a trap with the Heaven-Supporting Sword Formation.
• As the Demonic Sect suffered heavy losses, Tantai Jing asked Wu Xingyun for his avatar so he could kill Chu Xinghe, then used a forbidden technique to teleport away with it.
• Wu Xingyun covered the Demonic Sect’s retreat while urging Tantai Jing to kill Chu Xinghe.

Tantai Jing arrived in the Land of Grand Yin as a Demonic Emperor and attacked Chu Xinghe, but the Flute of Space and Time failed to teleport them away. As Tantai Jing nearly killed Chu Xinghe, Blood Soul Patriarch’s kicking lower half released a red light that healed him and filled him with a frightening power.

• Tantai Jing appeared in the Land of Grand Yin and merged with Wu Xingyun’s Demonic Emperor avatar to attack Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe crushed the Flute of Space and Time, but the teleportation left everyone in the Land of Grand Yin with Tantai Jing.
• Chu Xinghe urged his fellow disciples to flee while the two Martial Venerable deacons tried and failed to stop Tantai Jing.
• Tantai Jing struck Chu Xinghe repeatedly, breaking his treasures and leaving him gravely wounded.
• Blood Soul Patriarch’s lower half released a blood-red light that entered Chu Xinghe, rapidly healed his wounds, and filled him with power.

After Blood Soul Patriarch’s power restored Chu Xinghe and pushed him into the Martial Emperor realm, Chu Xinghe unleashed all nine swords of the Haotian Sword Casket and defeated Tantai Jing’s attack, though Tantai Jing escaped. The Demonic Sect learned that Wu Xingyun’s clone had been destroyed and returned home to review how Chu Xinghe had turned their apparent victory into a disaster.

• Blood Soul Patriarch’s lower half transferred its Martial Emperor-level power to Chu Xinghe, healing him and raising him into the Martial Emperor realm.
• Chu Xinghe unleashed all nine swords of the Haotian Sword Casket and used them to overwhelm Tantai Jing’s Yin Souls and wound him.
• Wu Xingyun’s clone exploded under the Haotian Sword Casket’s assault, giving Tantai Jing cover to escape with a forbidden technique that destroyed everything below his waist.
• Chu Xinghe treated the two injured deacons, then discovered Blood Soul Patriarch’s power had also raised his cultivation close to the Sixth Rank.
• Wu Xingyun told the Demonic Sect that Tantai Jing would kill Chu Xinghe, but he soon felt the backlash from his clone’s destruction and watched Tantai Jing collapse in front of the sect members.
• Tantai Jing explained what had happened, and Wu Xingyun led the wounded Demonic Sect members back to the sect to review their defeat.

After the Demonic Sect’s defeat, Chu Xinghe fretted over the dangerous Flute of Space and Time and the grand elder’s dubious explanation. He turned Feng Yuzheng’s offer to study the flute fragments into a chance to spend the sect’s resources, leaving Feng eager to begin his project.

• The Demonic Sect blamed Chu Xinghe’s false information for luring its forces into the Vast Heaven Sect’s prepared ambush, while Zheng Yu and the others praised Chu Xinghe’s bravery.
• Chu Xinghe searched for the grand elder to question him about the Flute of Space and Time, but the grand elder stayed away and publicly explained the battle’s outcome by crediting Blood Soul Patriarch’s power.
• Chu Xinghe gave Elder He the unusable remainder of Blood Soul Patriarch and discarded the broken flute fragments.
• Feng Yuzheng asked Chu Xinghe for the fragments, explaining that his Divine Engraving Technique might let him remake the Flute of Space and Time.
• When Feng Yuzheng admitted he had almost no confidence and expected the project to consume many resources, Chu Xinghe authorized him to use whatever the sect could provide.

Chu Xinghe watched Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming successfully replicate the Flute of Space and Time, only for its first test to teleport Feng Yuzheng back to where he started. While Chu Xinghe celebrated the useless replica as a success, Ouyang Ming encouraged Feng Yuzheng to keep researching it.

• Chu Xinghe learned from Feng Fei that the Vast Heaven Trading Company had suffered a crushing loss and decided to defend Shi Biao at the review meeting.
• Shen Chun summoned Chu Xinghe to the Artifact Refining Palace, where Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming revealed they had made a complete replica of the Flute of Space and Time.
• The elders inspected the replica and watched Feng Yuzheng activate it, but its teleportation returned him to his starting spot.
• Feng Yuzheng despaired over the failed test, while Chu Xinghe comforted him and privately celebrated the replica's uselessness.
• Ouyang Ming urged Feng Yuzheng to continue researching the flute, and Chu Xinghe worried that they would try again.

Chu Xinghe tried to prevent Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming from successfully replicating the Flute of Space and Time by sending them to study teleportation arrays with the First Elder, whose guidance caused their experiments to fail. As the Vast Heaven Trading Company’s severe losses came under scrutiny, Chu Xinghe prepared to defend Shi Biao at the sect’s review meeting and hoped the backlash would benefit them both.

• Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming resolved to keep working on the Flute of Space and Time, so Chu Xinghe urged them to seek the First Elder’s guidance on teleportation arrays.
• The First Elder guided the pair in modifying the flute’s array, but their next experiment ended with the teleportation array exploding.
• Under the First Elder’s guidance, Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming devoted themselves to the flute and failed even to repeat their earlier teleportation-in-place result.
• Chu Xinghe reviewed the first-quarter figures and saw that the Vast Heaven Trading Company had suffered steep losses after adopting its experience-focused model.
• With the deacon review meeting approaching and Shi Biao still absent, Chu Xinghe planned to defend him against the deacons and elders, hoping to provoke punishment for himself as well.

Chu Xinghe tried to protect Shi Biao after the Vast Heaven Trading Company posted record losses, taking responsibility for the strategies behind them. Shi Biao, however, arrived late with news of a dramatic turnaround and prepared to reveal it to the sect.

• Qin Xiangqian praised the Tianyi Spirit Mine's booming production and described how its miner disciples were earning paths into the sect.
• Chu Xinghe saw the exhausted Shi Biao arrive and vowed to defend him at the business summary meeting.
• The Grand Elder announced that Qin Xiangqian's Tianyi Spirit Mine ranked first, then criticized the low-performing businesses.
• The Grand Elder revealed that Shi Biao's Vast Heaven Trading Company had set a ten-year record by losing money, and Chu Xinghe stepped forward to claim responsibility for its strategies.
• Shi Biao remained calm, thinking that the company had surged over the past half month and that he would reveal the surprise to the sect.

Chu Xinghe tried to take sole responsibility for the Vast Heaven Trading Company's apparent losses, but Shi Biao revealed that Xinghe's customer-focused policies had turned the company into the leading trading business. The sect praised the results, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned that his plan to make the company lose money had instead made it wildly profitable.

• Chu Xinghe insisted that he alone should be punished for the Vast Heaven Trading Company's losses and that Shi Biao should keep his position.
• Gu Mingchao assigned Chu Xinghe to study at the Technique Repository Tower, but Shi Biao asked the sect to review his figures before deciding on punishment.
• Shi Biao explained that free trials, generous refunds, and improved service had attracted customers who increasingly bought the company's goods instead of merely freeloading.
• Shi Biao reported that the company had recovered its losses in less than half a month and surpassed its previous year's first-quarter revenue.
• The sect elders and stewards were astonished by the results, while Chu Xinghe realized his policies had made the company enormously successful.

The Vast Heaven Trading Company’s trial-based shopping model brought it a surge of customers and a strong reputation, while Zheng Yu’s Martial Emperor Trading Company fell to last place. Chu Xinghe agreed to accompany Feng Fei to Wuj iang to handle Feng Fei’s unwanted betrothal, and the chapter ended with Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming discovering that their Flute of Space and Time had improved after following the Grand Elder’s latest guidance.

• Shi Biao reported that the Vast Heaven Trading Company’s trial-based sales approach had transformed its reputation and attracted customers, and the review meeting rewarded him despite the company not yet placing in the top ten.
• Zheng Yu learned that the Martial Emperor Trading Company had finished last and realized that copying Chu Xinghe’s successful model now would leave it trailing behind the Vast Heaven Trading Company.
• Stewards and managers sought Chu Xinghe’s business advice, and he urged the Vast Heaven Restaurant to offer high prices and no service and Vast Heaven Entertainment to stage a massive concert.
• Feng Fei told Chu Xinghe that Wuj iang’s Holy Maiden wanted to break their childhood engagement, and Chu Xinghe offered to go with him to Wuj iang and help end it without worrying about the sect’s reputation.
• Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming followed the Grand Elder’s latest instructions and found that the Flute of Space and Time worked better than before, so they sent for the Grand Elder and Chu Xinghe to share the surprise.

Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming successfully made a Flute of Space and Time under the Grand Elder’s guidance, shocking Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Sect. The elders praised the Grand Elder’s teleportation skills while Chu Xinghe struggled to understand how their unreliable work had succeeded.

• The Grand Elder brought Chu Xinghe to the Artifact Refining Palace after Shen Chun reported that Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming had made a Flute of Space and Time.
• Feng Yuzheng crushed the flute and appeared ten meters away, prompting Chu Xinghe to think the test had failed.
• Elder He revealed that the flute had broken through the void and accurately reached its designated destination, proving that it worked.
• Feng Yuzheng credited the Grand Elder’s guidance for the success, and Mu Bai supported his praise by recounting the Grand Elder’s earlier teleportation test.
• The Grand Elder and Gu Mingchao stayed silent as Chu Xinghe began to wonder whether the Grand Elder’s teleportation skills really were powerful.

Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming’s successful replication of the Flute of Space and Time made the Vast Heaven Sect famous and prompted the Huang Clan to cancel its cooperation before the Holy Land Ruins opened. Chu Xinghe tried to keep Feng Yuzheng from studying treasure appraisal by taking him to Wuj iang, while Feng Yuzheng mistakenly believed Xinghe had planned everything perfectly.

• Feng Yuzheng praised the Grand Elder’s teleportation array, and Ouyang Ming credited Chu Xinghe for guiding their work on the Flute of Space and Time.
• News of the replicated flute spread, and factions sought to buy it while the Huang Clan investigated Feng Yuzheng’s achievement.
• The Huang Clan concluded Feng Yuzheng had merely been lucky, canceled its cooperation with the Vast Heaven Sect, and challenged him to appraise treasures at the Holy Land Ruins.
• Chu Xinghe reassured the Grand Elder that Feng Yuzheng could handle the ruins, though he privately hoped Feng Yuzheng would fail there.
• When Feng Yuzheng vowed to study treasure appraisal, Chu Xinghe took him to Wuj iang to help Senior Brother Feng Fei and prevent him from preparing for the ruins.
• Feng Yuzheng interpreted the trip as proof that Chu Xinghe knew about the Feng Lineage’s origins in Wuj iang and had a flawless plan.

Chu Xinghe took Feng Fei to the First Elder and insisted that the Vast Heaven Sect break off Feng Fei’s engagement to Wuj iang, even if the sect lost its yearly rare treasures. After the sect approved and Chu Xinghe traveled with Feng Fei and Feng Yuzheng to confront the Wuj iang Holy Mother, she apologized and offered to double Wuj iang’s annual gifts before Chu Xinghe could speak, leaving him unsure how to proceed.

• Chu Xinghe urged the First Elder to prioritize Feng Fei’s dignity and end his engagement, dismissing the loss of Wuj iang’s rare treasures.
• The First Elder let Chu Xinghe decide, and the sect master approved breaking off the engagement while asking that ties with Wuj iang be maintained.
• Word spread through the Vast Heaven Sect, where disciples praised Chu Xinghe and supported Feng Fei; Chu Xinghe prepared two Flutes of Space and Time as escape precautions.
• Chu Xinghe, Feng Fei, and Feng Yuzheng traveled to Wuj iang and announced their arrival to the Wuj iang Holy Mother.
• The Wuj iang Holy Mother apologized for the dispute and offered to double Wuj iang’s yearly rare treasures, leaving Chu Xinghe surprised before he could demand to break off the engagement.