Recaps

Chu Xinghe refused to sacrifice his Body Cultivation juniors’ future for a personal breakthrough and challenged the Misfortune Compass to find them a path through the Dead Spirit Realm. As Shu Da chased the surviving Shadow Ghosts into the realm’s depths, they entered a vortex that absorbed all the deathly presence, and the Dead Spirit Realm began transforming.

• Chu Xinghe told his Body Cultivation juniors to study formations and assured them that the Dead Spirit Realm held their future path of cultivation.
• News of Chu Xinghe’s plan spread through the Vast Heaven Holy Land and across the Four Continents, leaving most factions puzzled; Leader Bai Yu warned that Chu Xinghe’s repeated destruction of Shadow Ghosts was wasting Formation-Locking Jade.
• Shu Da, Shu Er, and Shu San kept pursuing and blowing up Shadow Ghosts, which had begun fleeing from them.
• After Shu Da destroyed another group, the surviving Shadow Ghosts fled together underground, and he followed them into a vast space deep beneath the Dead Spirit Realm.
• The Shadow Ghosts plunged into a massive vortex, which then drew in all the realm’s deathly presence as the Dead Spirit Realm shook and began to transform.

Shu Da arrived at the Spirit Crane Palace with news of a crisis in the Dead Spirit Realm, while Chu Xinghe tried to steer Ouyang Ming toward developing rocking chairs and away from reaching a new level in artifact refining. The chapter ended with Shu Da about to explain the emergency after Chu Xinghe missed his rocking chair and Shu Da blamed the chair.

• After finding the rocking chair had been damaged by a powerful impact, Ouyang Ming told Chu Xinghe about its new massage function, and Chu Xinghe urged him to focus on inventing rocking-chair features.
• Chu Xinghe persuaded Ouyang Ming to explore rocking chairs as a new branch of artifact refining, hoping to delay his progress toward the Slight Understanding Level.
• The chapter recounted how Ouyang Ming had won over the Evil Shadow Continent's artifact refiners by forging divine artifact-grade food bowls and eating 162 bowls of cold noodles.
• Chu Xinghe asked Ouyang Ming to develop a cooling function and an air conditioner for the rocking chair, and Ouyang Ming left to consider the ideas.
• Shu Da rushed into the Spirit Crane Palace to report that something terrible had happened in the Dead Spirit Realm, and Chu Xinghe fell beside his chair as Shu Da blamed the rocking chair for failing to catch him.

Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Holy Land discovered that the Dead Spirit Realm had turned into an enormous but incomplete Spirit Realm after its Shadow Ghosts vanished into a vortex. They learned the vortex concealed the Source of Fear, which had to be dealt with before the realm could fully transform, and Chu Xinghe focused on how to get rid of it.

• Chu Xinghe saw that the Shadow Ghosts had disappeared and learned from Elder He and the Great Sage that the Dead Spirit Realm had become a Spirit Realm.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land entered the realm under Gu Mingchao’s blue Flame Divinity, which had become poisonous after Ouyang Ling altered it.
• Elder He and the Great Sage realized the realm was incomplete because no one inside had entered enlightenment.
• Shu Da explained that the Shadow Ghosts had been drawn into the vortex after the group killed them, and Elder He and the Great Sage identified the vortex as the Source of Fear.
• The Holy Mother of Wujiang produced a text explaining that the Source of Fear was the Dead Spirit Realm’s core and prevented its full transformation into a Spirit Realm.
• Chu Xinghe wondered how to get rid of the Source of Fear.

The Vast Heaven Holy Land learned that the Lord of Fear hid within the Source of Fear and could be defeated only by conquering fear and making the Lord afraid. Chu Xinghe declined to offer a solution, and as the Source remained sealed, people across the Four Continents began saying he had run out of ideas.

• The Great Sage explained that the Lord of Fear grew stronger by absorbing the fear of whoever entered the Source, and that making him afraid could cause him to collapse.
• At the Grand Elder's request, Shu Da sent a clone into the Source, where it lost its abilities as its fear of losing them overwhelmed it.
• The White Tiger Holy Venerable sealed the Source of Fear, and the Vast Heaven Holy Land's high-ups left the spirit realm to discuss what to do.
• When the Grand Elder asked for his thoughts, Chu Xinghe said he had no way to deal with the Source and resolved to stay uninvolved.
• As news spread across the Four Continents, Zheng Yu and others wondered why Chu Xinghe had offered no outrageous plan, and Leader Bai Yu's post claiming he had run out of ideas trended.

Chu Xinghe stayed silent about the Source of Fear, hoping to avoid causing another bizarre outcome, while Ouyang Ming unveiled an air-conditioned rocking chair. Chu Xinghe accidentally seemed to approve mass production, leaving Ouyang Ming convinced he should make a million air conditioners.

• Chu Xinghe swallowed a Silence Pill and silently refused to advise Ma Liang or the other disciples about the Source of Fear.
• Ouyang Ming brought Chu Xinghe a self-rocking chair with four settings, a massage function, and spirit-stone-powered air conditioning.
• Chu Xinghe silently praised the rocking chair with a thumbs-up, and Ouyang Ming described how popular the air conditioner was among the disciples.
• Ouyang Ming said Qin Xiangqian wanted to sell the air conditioners through the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, and Chu Xinghe's nod seemed to confirm his approval.
• When Ouyang Ming proposed producing more air conditioners, Chu Xinghe shook his head, but Ouyang Ming mistook it for a request to increase the order to a million sets.

Ouyang Ming built a highly efficient air conditioner from Chu Xinghe’s silent design, and the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s disciples and elders eagerly sought one. Qin Xiangqian saw it as a breakthrough for the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce and believed Chu Xinghe had created the opportunity to help him.

• Chu Xinghe remained unable to speak because the Silence Pill had not worn off, while Ouyang Ming credited him with the air conditioner’s design.
• Ouyang Ming’s air conditioner cooled rooms quickly, maintained a steady temperature, and cost far less to use than Myriad-Year Frost Ice.
• Disciples, elders, and the Grand Elder praised the air conditioner, and Ouyang Ming sent one to the elders of every palace.
• Feng Fei summoned Qin Xiangqian after seeing the air conditioner, and Qin embraced Ouyang Ming in excitement over its commercial potential.
• Ouyang Ming told Qin Xiangqian that Chu Xinghe had conceived the design, and Qin believed the invention could revive the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce.

Qin Xiangqian and Ouyang Ming developed an affordable air conditioner for the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, while Ma Liang proposed splitting its heating and cooling functions and selling decorative models. Chu Xinghe tried to stay silent when they brought the plan to him, but his rocking chair’s fourth setting made everyone think he approved.

• Qin Xiangqian praised Chu Xinghe for arranging a major boost for the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce through the air conditioner.
• Ouyang Ming explained that lowering the unit’s cost would shorten its lifespan, then modified it to last fifteen years and provide year-round heating and cooling for about one and a half spirit stones.
• Ma Liang proposed selling separate cooling and heating units, along with customized models for wealthy buyers, and the First Elder approved his plan.
• Qin Xiangqian, Ouyang Ming, and Ma Liang went to the Spirit Crane Palace to ask Chu Xinghe about the proposal.
• Chu Xinghe took a Silence Pill, but accidentally activated his rocking chair’s fourth setting, which Ouyang Ming interpreted as a cheerful sign of agreement.

Chu Xinghe tried to stop the air conditioner project, but his silence and gestures were mistaken for encouragement, and his order to sell the devices at cost left Ma Liang and Ouyang Ming convinced the venture would lose money. Qin Xiangqian recognized a deeper business strategy, but the chapter ended before he explained it.

• Ma Liang announced that the air conditioner would soon go on sale, prompting curiosity across the Four Continents and criticism from Bai Yu, who accused Chu Xinghe and Ouyang Ming of neglecting their proper duties.
• Chu Xinghe, unable to speak because of an overly strong Silence Pill, tried to stop production at the Artifact Refining Palace, but Ouyang Ling and the disciples mistook his gestures for encouragement.
• Chu Xinghe rejected Ma Liang's proposed price of fifteen spirit stones and ordered the air conditioners sold for one and a half spirit stones, then kicked Qin Xiangqian when he questioned the decision.
• Ma Liang and Ouyang Ming calculated that the sale price would leave the Vast Heaven Holy Land losing three or four spirit stones per air conditioner and suggested abandoning the project.
• Qin Xiangqian insisted that Chu Xinghe's pricing move was a brilliant business strategy, but he had not yet explained how it would work.

Qin Xiangqian explained that Senior Brother Xinghe planned to sell air conditioners at a loss to protect the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s reputation and drive away competitors. He revealed that the real profit would come from monopolizing the special spirit stones that powered the machines, leaving Ma Liang and Ouyang Ming impressed by Xinghe’s business strategy.

• Qin Xiangqian urged Ouyang Ming to combine the air conditioner’s heating and cooling functions, explaining that selling them separately would damage the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s reputation.
• Qin Xiangqian said Senior Brother Xinghe intended to sell air conditioners below cost and publish their blueprints and production expenses, preventing competitors from gaining an advantage through secrecy.
• Qin Xiangqian argued that rival manufacturers and the limited market would make air conditioners a poor source of lasting profit, while selling at a loss could deter competitors and create a monopoly.
• Qin Xiangqian identified the air conditioner’s power source as the true business opportunity and asked Ouyang Ming to make it usable only with special spirit stones from the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Ouyang Ming said no one could duplicate his special spirit stones, and Ma Liang and Ouyang Ming realized this would let the Vast Heaven Holy Land control the air conditioner industry.

Qin Xiangqian explained his plan to lose money on air conditioners while earning long-term profits from their energy monopoly, and the Vast Heaven Holy Land publicly released the blueprints and costs. Chu Xinghe mistook Qin's strategy for a genuine effort to lose money and urged him to expand production and give units away if necessary, leaving Qin determined to lose over a hundred million by year's end.

• Qin Xiangqian explained to Ma Liang and Ouyang Ming how cheap air conditioners could build a market for the Holy Land's monopolized energy stones and generate profits over time.
• Qin Xiangqian and Ma Liang published the air-conditioner blueprints and production costs, and artifact refiners across the Four Continents confirmed that making them at the advertised price caused a loss.
• Chu Xinghe checked the Misfortune Compass, approved Qin Xiangqian's announcement, and praised him for putting the common people first.
• Chu Xinghe learned that the artifact refiners could produce tens of thousands of air conditioners each day and urged Qin to sell more, even giving them away to expand the market.
• Qin Xiangqian pledged to live in the Artifact Refining Palace and ensure the Holy Land lost over a hundred million by year's end, and Chu Xinghe was delighted by his commitment.

Qin Xiangqian gathered the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s leaders and advisers to plan how to lose more than one hundred million selling Ouyang Ming’s air conditioners, revealing Chu Xinghe’s strategy for turning the apparent losses into a long-term monopoly. The chamber installed air conditioners throughout its locations across the Four Continents, while influential figures at the Vast Heaven Holy Land investigated the Source of Fear.

• Qin Xiangqian promised Chu Xinghe that the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce would lose more than one hundred million this year, then summoned Sima Bian, Shi Biao, Lu Chengqing, and their advisers.
• Qin Xiangqian demonstrated the air conditioner and explained Chu Xinghe’s plan to sell it at a loss while using Ouyang Ming’s unique spirit stones to secure a monopoly.
• The advisers embraced the plan after realizing that the early losses would lead to substantial profits over the following seventeen years.
• Qin Xiangqian and the advisers decided to install air conditioners at Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce locations so customers could experience their effects directly.
• Qin Xiangqian sent air conditioners to locations across the Four Continents, while big shots at the Vast Heaven Holy Land investigated the Source of Fear.

The Vast Heaven Holy Land began sending disciples into the Source of Fear to search for its treasures, using Elder He's Nightmare Power to protect them. Zhang Bahu explained why his team traded only with the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, recalling how faulty Fasting Pills had trapped his first team in a ruin and left him as the sole survivor.

• Elder He told the Vast Heaven Holy Land leaders that his incomplete Fate Divinity might eventually let him devour the Lord of Fear, but could not solve the danger immediately.
• The grand elder proposed searching the Source of Fear for the ancient battlefield's resources, and Elder He offered to rescue endangered disciples through his Nightmare Realm.
• The grand elder ordered disciples from each palace to enter the Source of Fear, and Elder He blessed them with Nightmare Power.
• Zhang Bahu required his Rogue Cultivator teammates to buy and sell only through the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, despite their objections.
• Zhang Bahu recounted how his first team entered a ruin with Fasting Pills bought nearby, became trapped, and discovered after five days that the pills had stopped working.

After recalling how counterfeit fasting pills had cost him his left eye and his teammates’ lives, Zhang Bahu trusted only the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce. He discovered its new air conditioners and decided to buy its entire stock for resale, convinced he had found a chance to make a fortune.

• Zhang Bahu recalled how inferior fasting pills had left his team trapped without food or water, costing him his left eye and his teammates their lives.
• Zhang Bahu explained why he now bought and sold only through the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, whose reliable goods had repeatedly saved his team.
• Zhang Bahu visited the chamber’s desert branch and learned from a saleswoman that its new air conditioner cost one and a half spirit stones, with replacement guaranteed for twenty years.
• Zhang Bahu decided to buy air conditioners for his parents and his dead teammates’ families, then realized he could profit by purchasing the branch’s entire stock of eight thousand units.
• Zhang Bahu persuaded most of his teammates to join his twelve-thousand-spirit-stone purchase, but Zhao Chao refused because he feared the air conditioners would not sell.

Zhang Bahu bought all eight thousand air conditioners from the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, convinced he could profit from their low price and the desert’s demand. He reassured his teammates that they could return the units within a month, while the chapter also explained Chu Xinghe’s strict rules for safe, honestly labeled pills.

• Zhang Bahu persuaded his teammates that the air conditioners worked well and could be resold at a profit compared with Myriad-Year Frost Ice.
• Zhang Bahu argued that the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s purchase limits made buying the air conditioners before their official sale a rare opportunity.
• Zhao Chao warned that poor sales or plentiful stock could leave the team with a loss, and explained that he usually bought cheaper pills from small workshops.
• The narration described how Chu Xinghe instructed Mu Bai that alchemists must not take lives, harm bodies, or conceal risks, and required the Vast Heaven Holy Land to ensure pill safety and disclose side effects.
• Zhang Bahu told Zhao Chao that the chamber allowed any item to be returned within a month without giving a reason, so the team could recover its investment if the air conditioners did not sell.

Zhang Bahu promoted the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s cheap, reliable air conditioners, which sold out across the Four Continents and sparked a rush among cultivators and sects. Zheng Yu and Cheng Xiaotian considered profiting with Tantai Jing, while Chu Xinghe celebrated the prospect of enormous losses as the chamber prepared to restock.

• Zhao Chao asked a Fifth Rank alchemist for help breaking through, but the alchemist blamed years of low-quality pills for ruining Zhao Chao’s spiritual sea and used him as a lesson for his disciples.
• Qin Xiangqian guaranteed the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s products and promised thousandfold compensation if they failed to match their advertised effects, drawing crowds to buy the air conditioners.
• Zheng Yu bought up half the air conditioners on the Blazing Sun Continent, then considered partnering with Tantai Jing to resell them at a higher price; Cheng Xiaotian stepped in and demanded an additional thirty percent.
• Wang Daoquan explained that Jade Void Palace’s disciples had cultivated and earned fewer resources during hot summers, so the palace tried to buy air conditioners but found them sold out.
• Powers across the Four Continents rushed to buy air conditioners, but even the White Spirit Evil Lord waited in line only to learn the stock was gone.
• Qin Xiangqian reported the sellout to Chu Xinghe, who rejoiced because he expected the air conditioner sales to cause him massive losses.

Chu Xinghe celebrated the runaway air-conditioner sales, while Zhang Bahu’s team made a fortune reselling units in the northwest desert. Zhao Chao left the team to gamble on the black market, but a sudden announcement of massive new production threatened to wipe him out.

• Chu Xinghe learned that air conditioners were selling faster than the Vast Heaven Holy Land could produce them, and he went to the Artifact Refining Palace to encourage its disciples.
• Tantai Jing profited from air-conditioner sales and used the Momo Queueing Service to control access to black-market units as demand surged across the Four Continents.
• Zhang Bahu’s team sold eight thousand air conditioners in one morning for 120,000 spirit stones, while Zhao Chao learned he could not afford the treatment that might save him.
• Zhao Chao left the team over a supposed difference in principles and spent all his money buying air conditioners from Tantai Jing at a promotional price of nine spirit stones each.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land announced that Ouyang Ming’s faster production method would bring massive quantities of air conditioners to market the next day, after Tantai Jing had already sold his stock.

Tantai Jing profited from selling air conditioners at black-market prices, then escaped blame when the Vast Heaven Holy Land flooded the market with affordable units. As the buyers discovered the real profit lay in Ouyang Ming’s specialized power spirit stones, Chu Xinghe learned that Ouyang Ming and Qin Xiangqian believed the entire scheme had been his.

• Tantai Jing stopped selling air conditioners after making his intended profit, and the Vast Heaven Holy Land announced a major increase in production while releasing a large, purchase-limited stock at regular prices.
• Black-market air conditioner prices collapsed, and Tantai Jing mocked the profiteers who accused him of scamming them after they had bought his clearly priced goods.
• Long queues formed at Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce branches, and Tantai Jing earned more through the Momo Queueing Service while people wondered why the Vast Heaven Holy Land kept selling air conditioners at a loss.
• Buyers discovered that ordinary spirit stones could power the air conditioners, but Ouyang Ming’s specialized power spirit stones consumed far fewer resources, making them the practical choice.
• Chu Xinghe summoned Ouyang Ming and Qin Xiangqian over the power spirit stones, and they told him they had assumed the plan was his.

Chu Xinghe watched Vast Heaven Holy Land’s air conditioners and energy stones become a profitable success despite his efforts to avoid making money. Qin Xiangqian reported that the business had already recovered most of its costs, and Chu Xinghe ordered raises for everyone in the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce.

• Artifact refiners across the Four Continents defended Vast Heaven Holy Land’s air conditioners and energy stones, silencing critics by explaining their value and low prices.
• Bai Yu rejected the Xinghe Haters' Group’s plans to attack the products because, as an artifact refiner, he could find no sound reason to criticize them.
• Qin Xiangqian told Chu Xinghe that the energy stones were selling quickly, with wealthy buyers purchasing years’ worth at a time.
• Qin Xiangqian reported that the business had recovered sixty percent of its costs and might turn a profit as soon as the next month.
• Chu Xinghe ordered raises for everyone in the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce so they could share the burden of making a fortune.

Chu Xinghe ordered another raise for Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce employees, prompting complaints from other businesses and a debate over how much of their revenue went to workers. After the Grand Elder dismissed those complaints, Shen Chun interrupted Chu Xinghe to report that something else had happened.

• Chu Xinghe told Qin Xiangqian to announce another raise for everyone at the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, whose employees vowed to work hard in return.
• Outsiders urged the Grand Elder to stop Chu Xinghe from raising wages, and the Grand Elder asked Qin Xiangqian about the chamber’s finances.
• Qin Xiangqian explained that the chamber directed sixty percent of annual profits to the Vast Heaven Holy Land and spent about twenty percent of total expenditure on wages, while other chambers kept far more for themselves.
• The Grand Elder ordered Shen Chun to throw away the complaints, and Chu Xinghe accepted that his raises were pushing other businesses to improve workers’ pay across the Four Continents.
• As Chu Xinghe prepared to rest, Shen Chun appeared and told him that something else had happened.

Chu Xinghe learned that disciples were retrieving valuable ancient treasures from the Source of Fear, then urged the elders to deal with its Lord. Elder He explained that killing the Lord would destroy the Source and the Spirit Realm, while preserving it required subduing the Lord and making him transform it into a Source of Purity.

• Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that disciples entering the Source of Fear had found and brought back many rare treasures and resources.
• Chu Xinghe went to the Spirit Crane Palace and urged the Grand Elder to deal with the Lord of Fear.
• Elder He explained that ancient experts had killed the Lord of Fear, causing the Source of Fear and their Spirit Realm to vanish.
• Elder He said the Lord had to be subdued and made to transform the Source of Fear into a Source of Purity, a feat he considered almost impossible.
• Chu Xinghe realized the mission seemed impossible to complete and became excited by his chance to avoid success.

Chu Xinghe persuaded the Vast Heaven Holy Land to confront the Lord of Fear and opened the Source of Fear to factions across the Four Continents. He planned to kill the Lord of Fear himself while letting others take the resources, and the chapter ended with Leader Bai supporting the announcement because he could join the expedition too.

• Elder He explained that the Lord of Fear could grow until the Dead Spirit Realm became a forbidden zone, and no one knew whether it might eventually escape.
• Chu Xinghe claimed the Star Divination Art predicted a Chu would subdue the Lord of Fear, though he privately resolved to kill it instead.
• Chu Xinghe told the Grand Elder he would enter the Source of Fear and use his Power of Mind and Spirit to resist the Lord of Fear.
• Chu Xinghe asked the Grand Elder to invite every faction to enter the Source of Fear and keep whatever resources they obtained, and the Grand Elder ordered Shen Chun to announce it.
• Factions across the Four Continents debated Chu Xinghe's offer, while Leader Bai supported it because he could bring people in to claim treasures.

The Four Continents’ factions flocked to the Vast Heaven Holy Land after it invited cultivators below the Martial God realm into the Source of Fear. Chu Xinghe chose Hill Forest Palace’s female disciples and Ma Liang to accompany him, then decided Zheng Yu would lead the exploration while he focused on eliminating the Lord of Fear.

• The factions watched the Source of Fear closely for its potential Spirit Realm and ancient treasures, but the Holy Land’s claim to the site was uncontested because it had appeared on its grounds and been opened with its resources.
• After the Holy Land invited cultivators below the Martial God realm into the Source of Fear, disciples from its palaces pressed Chu Xinghe to take them along.
• Chu Xinghe selected Hill Forest Palace’s female disciples, while Ouyang Ling’s sudden appearance made them retract their flirtatious remarks.
• Chu Xinghe also brought Ma Liang as a bodyguard, explaining that he needed to focus on defeating the Lord of Fear.
• To avoid drawing spirit treasures and resources toward himself, Chu Xinghe decided to let Zheng Yu lead the team and give him whatever they found.

Zheng Yu and Tantai Jing led teams to the Vast Heaven Holy Land as prodigies from across the Four Continents gathered to explore the Source of Fear, while the Phantom Evil Lord and the Grand Elder discussed An Ying’s unexplained disappearance and secret aid to the Holy Land. Trapped in the Land of Bewildered Spirits, An Ying heard an adventuring party approach and call his pleas for help a demonic lure.

• Zheng Yu gathered Martial Emperor City’s finest and set off for the Vast Heaven Holy Land after Chu Xinghe offered to team up and let them keep the treasures.
• Tantai Jing led a Demonic Sect team into the Source of Fear, and prodigies from across the Four Continents gathered at the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Phantom Evil Lord asked the Grand Elder about the missing An Ying, and the Grand Elder described how An Ying had repeatedly infiltrated the Vast Heaven Holy Land to help build it.
• An Ying regained movement in the Land of Bewildered Spirits but failed to activate the teleportation array, then noticed the mist thinning and heard strange sounds from the depths.
• An adventuring party became trapped in the Land of Bewildered Spirits after following a treasure’s glow deeper inside.
• An Ying called for help, but the party recognized the voice as the legendary Demonic Sound of Pleas for Help and fled in fear.

As prodigies gathered at the Vast Heaven Holy Land to enter the Source of Fear, Bai Yu persuaded new Evil Spirit Holy Sons to form the Defeat Chu Alliance. After the Source of Fear opened, the alliance entered and began chanting for Chu Xinghe’s defeat, only for four Chu Xinghes to emerge from the forest.

• Teams around the Land of Bewildered Spirits mistook An Ying’s cries for help as a demon’s trap and fled whenever they heard them.
• Zheng Yu rejected alliance offers, saying he had teamed up with Chu Xinghe, while Chu Xinghe threw Tantai Jing out after he asked to join them.
• Bai Yu recruited Holy Sons from several Evil Spirit divisions into his Defeat Chu Alliance by promising them fame if they beat Chu Xinghe.
• Elder He gave the gathered prodigies Nightmare Realm fragments and warned them to escape if the Source of Fear became too dangerous.
• The White Tiger Holy Venerable opened the Source of Fear, and Bai Yu led the eager alliance inside.
• Bai Yu declared that Chu Xinghe’s era was ending, but four Chu Xinghes emerged from the forest as the alliance chanted for his defeat.

The Holy Sons of Evil Spirits from Evil Shadow Continent encountered four fear-born Chu Xinghes in the Source of Fear and fled into the Nightmare Realm, losing many of their elites. Leader Bai and Xie Yue escaped unnoticed, while the rest set a record for the fastest exit from a ruin.

• The Holy Sons of Evil Spirits shouted that they would defeat Chu Xinghe, then saw four versions of him appear around them.
• Elder He explained that the Chu Xinghes were manifestations of the Evil Spirits’ fear, with two Xinghes and their Xinghe Divinity clones making four.
• Thunder Shadow killed one Evil Spirit who boasted about their numbers, and the others realized the danger of staying.
• The Holy Sons discovered Leader Bai and Xie Yue had already disappeared, then crushed their Nightmare Realm fragments to escape the four Chu Xinghes.
• The fleeing Holy Sons lost nearly a third of their elites and became the fastest group to leave a ruin after entering.