Recaps

Chu Xinghe worried that the Artifact Refining Palace disciples and Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits would master the Totem Artifact Refining Technique and produce valuable treasures, so he seized on Mu Bai’s comment that totems could not help with pill refining. He persuaded the Grand Elder to transfer all the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to the Medicine King Palace, temporarily removing them from artifact-refining lessons.

• Chu Xinghe fretted over the Artifact Refining Palace disciples and Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits studying the Totem Artifact Refining Technique, while Ma Liang prepared extravagant free-giveaway plans for the resulting treasures.
• Chu Xinghe told Mu Bai that the Medicine King Palace needed a new direction, and Mu Bai observed that totems could not improve pill refining.
• Chu Xinghe realized he could move the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits away from the Artifact Refining Palace and ordered that Tai Chu and the others not teach them pill refining.
• Chu Xinghe brought Mu Bai to the Artifact Refining Palace and asked the Grand Elder to send every Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit to the Medicine King Palace.
• The Grand Elder initially questioned the transfer because the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits still needed to learn artifact refining, but he agreed after Chu Xinghe insisted the Medicine King Palace’s future could not wait.

Chu Xinghe pulled all the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits out of the Artifact Refining Palace and sent them to the Medicine King Palace, disrupting their progress toward making Totem Spirit Treasures. As outsiders demanded an explanation, Holy Lord Gu Mingchao told them to watch quietly as things changed.

• Chu Xinghe ordered every Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit to leave the Artifact Refining Palace and report to the Medicine King Palace, despite Ouyang Ming's objections and Man Sheng's confusion.
• At the Medicine King Palace, Chu Xinghe told Man Sheng and the others to stay put or learn alchemy from Mu Bai, though they knew nothing about alchemy.
• News of the transfer spread, and leaders across the Four Continents worried that the interruption would delay Totem Spirit Treasure production indefinitely.
• The Grand Elder went into seclusion after the leaders confronted him, leaving Holy Lord Gu Mingchao to answer their complaints.
• Holy Lord Gu Mingchao told the gathered leaders to watch quietly as things changed.

Chu Xinghe kept the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits away from artifact refining and sent them to learn medicinal herbs, baffling the visiting Four Continents big shots. Gu Mingchao explained that his Dao of Watching and Waiting depended on trusting Xinghe, while Ouyang Ming urged Xinghe to resume training the group, only to be accused of having changed.

• Chu Xinghe welcomed the big shots who stayed at the Vast Heaven Holy Land and arranged lavish accommodations for them.
• Cheng Xiaotian and Wang Daoquan found the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits at the Medicine King Palace struggling to identify medicinal herbs instead of learning the Totem Artifact Refining Technique.
• The Four Continents big shots confirmed that Chu Xinghe had genuinely barred Ouyang Ming from teaching the group and had moved them away from artifact refining.
• Gu Mingchao told Cheng Xiaotian that his Dao of Watching and Waiting came from his absolute trust in Xinghe.
• Ouyang Ming asked Chu Xinghe to bring some Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits back to the Artifact Refining Palace, and Xinghe complained that Ouyang Ming had changed and was trying to undermine him.

Chu Xinghe reassured Ouyang Ming that he could teach the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits the Totem Artifact Refining Technique faster, but gave no explanation and let Ouyang Ming puzzle over whether he had been deceived. At the Medicine King Palace, after Man Sheng caused a furnace explosion, Chu Xinghe ordered the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to skip ingredient identification and work directly at the pill furnaces.

• Chu Xinghe asked Ouyang Ming how long it would take to teach the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits the Totem Artifact Refining Technique, then claimed he could do it faster without explaining how.
• Ouyang Ming returned to the Artifact Refining Palace, still wondering whether Chu Xinghe had lied to him, while Chu Xinghe happily read criticism of himself on the Haotian Mirror and watched the Misfortune Compass speed up.
• Chu Xinghe arrived at the Medicine King Palace after a furnace exploded and found Man Sheng blackened by the blast while Mu Bai angrily blamed him for ignoring instructions to identify medicinal ingredients.
• Mu Bai stepped forward and accepted responsibility for failing to supervise Man Sheng, but Chu Xinghe recalled his own furnace explosion and ordered the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit disciples to skip ingredient identification and go straight to work at the pill furnaces.

Chu Xinghe sent the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to the Medicine King Palace, where their repeated cauldron explosions disrupted pill production and drew medicine-refining apprentices from across the Four Continents. Confident that he had contained any chance of an unexpected breakthrough, he was interrupted by Shen Chun, who announced that Hua Xichen, Zheng Yu, and other young prodigies had arrived to see him, likely about the Land of Bewildered Spirits.

• Chu Xinghe ordered Mu Bai to send the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits straight to the pill cauldrons without first learning to identify ingredients.
• The Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits repeatedly blew up cauldrons in the Medicine King Palace, reducing its pill production.
• Big shots from across the Four Continents brought medicine-refining apprentices to witness the explosions, prompting the apprentices to take ingredient study seriously.
• Chu Xinghe settled in at the Medicine King Palace, banned Ma Liang from entering, and arranged for the Artifact Refining Palace to supply replacement cauldrons.
• Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that Hua Xichen, Zheng Yu, and other young prodigies had come to see him, likely about the Land of Bewildered Spirits.

Hua Xichen brought Zheng Yu and other young geniuses to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to recruit Chu Xinghe for an expedition into the Demon Star Continent’s Land of Bewildered Spirits. He offered Chu Xinghe first choice of half the treasures, leaving Chu Xinghe furious because he wanted the expedition to fail, not to be tempted by its riches.

• Hua Xichen explained that his Great Prophecy Art could not predict what was happening to the apparent Chu Xinghe inside the Demon Star Continent’s Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• Hua Xichen explored the Land of Bewildered Spirits alone and collected many treasures, but he did not find the Chu Xinghe who wielded Haotian Battle Intent.
• Hua Xichen entered with Hua Clan elders and Clan Head Hua, but the danger increased and Clan Head Hua was injured, forcing them to retreat.
• Hua Xichen later explored with the Hua Clan’s young geniuses, but they could not access some areas, so he gathered Zheng Yu and other top young cultivators to form a stronger team.
• Hua Xichen asked Chu Xinghe to join the expedition and offered him first pick of half the treasures, making Chu Xinghe inwardly furious.

Chu Xinghe refused to lead a group of heavenly prides into the Land of Bewildered Spirits, despite their relentless offers and pleas. After they returned with a huge haul, he resolved to stay away from the dangerous place so he would not accidentally collect all its treasures himself.

• Hua Xichen, Zheng Yu, Ji Moran, Fan Sheng, Guo Qizhen, and Bai Yu took turns urging Chu Xinghe to guide them into the Land of Bewildered Spirits in exchange for a large share of its treasures.
• Chu Xinghe tried to refuse by citing his duties, his Martial God realm, and the danger, but the group offered to wait, revealed several members were Martial Gods, and Ma Liang volunteered to handle his responsibilities.
• Hua Xichen suggested they abandon the trip if Chu Xinghe truly did not want to go, prompting Chu Xinghe to feel relieved, though the heavenly prides still departed for the Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• Chu Xinghe warned Hua Xichen to follow the Great Prophecy Art and asked Shen Chun to monitor the expedition.
• Three days later, Shen Chun reported that the group had returned with countless resources and rare treasures, and Chu Xinghe was relieved he had stayed behind.

Hua Xichen’s successful expedition sparked a rush to explore the Land of Bewildered Spirits, while Tantai Jing refused to enter and sold supplies outside after learning Chu Xinghe had declined. Meanwhile, rumors attacking Chu Xinghe’s courage spread through the Four Continents, fueled by Old Eight’s writings, and Old Eight became notorious in the Xinghe Haters' Group for an outrageous display that terrified Bai Yu.

• Hua Xichen warned cultivators on the Haotian Mirror that the Land of Bewildered Spirits remained extremely dangerous, but teams still began forming to enter it.
• Tantai Jing refused to explore the Land of Bewildered Spirits and arranged for Demonic Sect stalls to sell goods outside, reasoning that Chu Xinghe’s refusal signaled danger.
• Rumors spread that Chu Xinghe was too timid to explore ruins and secret realms, and Old Eight’s manuscripts supplied the claims behind the gossip.
• Erlüzi brought Old Eight to the Xinghe Haters' Group, and Old Eight’s shocking stunt on the meeting-room table frightened Bai Yu into apologizing.
• The group replaced its round table and abandoned the meeting room, while Bai Yu and the other members began respectfully calling Old Eight Brother Eight.

Old Eight joined the Xinghe Haters' Group and used a secret manuscript to accuse Chu Xinghe of avoiding secret realms, while disciples revealed that Chu Xinghe's expeditions produced treasures they gave to Vast Heaven Holy Land junior sisters. As more cultivators flocked to the Land of Bewildered Spirits, Chu Xinghe forbade Vast Heaven Holy Land disciples from entering, leaving them to wonder what danger he had foreseen.

• Old Eight joined the Xinghe Haters' Group after learning that meals were provided and presented a secret manuscript criticizing Chu Xinghe for rarely entering secret realms and ruins.
• Martial Emperor City disciples explained that Chu Xinghe's expeditions yielded abundant treasures, which they had given to Vast Heaven Holy Land junior sisters in exchange for goose feathers.
• Chu Xinghe privately admitted that he feared entering secret realms because treasures seemed to chase him whenever he went inside.
• Hua Xichen led a second, larger expedition into the Land of Bewildered Spirits, and cultivators across the factions began flocking there for its treasures.
• Chu Xinghe ordered every Vast Heaven Holy Land disciple to stay out of the Land of Bewildered Spirits, and the disciples believed his warning signaled danger.

Chu Xinghe believed his ban on entering the Land of Bewildered Spirits had kept the Vast Heaven Holy Land out of trouble, until Man Sheng and Mu Bai burst in claiming the Medicine King Palace had succeeded. Mu Bai revealed that Ma Liang had interpreted Chu Xinghe’s earlier kick as an order to act and had gone to the Medicine King Palace.

• Chu Xinghe kept the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s disciples out of the Land of Bewildered Spirits, while other factions eventually explored it and brought back treasures without encountering disaster.
• Chu Xinghe relaxed in his rocking chair, confident that the Vast Heaven Holy Land would avoid losing money or getting caught up in trouble.
• Man Sheng smashed through Chu Xinghe’s reinforced doorway, lifted him from his chair, and announced that the Change-of-Direction Learning Method had succeeded.
• Mu Bai arrived and said Chu Xinghe had arranged the whole thing, leaving Chu Xinghe confused about how Ma Liang could be involved.
• Mu Bai explained that Ma Liang had obeyed the order not to enter the Spirit Crane Palace but had taken Chu Xinghe’s kick as a signal to act and gone to the Medicine King Palace.

Ma Liang explained that Xinghe had sent the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to the Medicine King Palace not to teach them pill refining, but to make them experiment with pill furnaces. Man Sheng realized that combining their totem techniques with a furnace might enable automatic pill refining, and the group prepared to try it.

• Ma Liang arrived at the Medicine King Palace and told Man Sheng, Mu Bai, and the others to stop despairing and trust his guidance.
• Ma Liang argued that Xinghe had never intended the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to learn pill refining, and prompted Mu Bai to reconsider why they had been sent there.
• Mu Bai reasoned that Xinghe had kept Tai Chu from teaching them techniques and had sent them straight to the furnaces so they could interact with the equipment.
• Ma Liang proposed using the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits' Totem Artifact Refining Technique to create automatic pill refining.
• Man Sheng suggested combining a perpetual motion power totem, a fusion totem, a flame totem, and other totems on a pill furnace, and Ma Liang urged them to begin.

Mu Xiaoqi revealed that he and the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits had developed a totem-powered furnace that could refine pills without a pill refiner. Its first successful batch of low-grade Spirit Gathering Pills convinced the gathered leaders that automatic refining would transform the pill industry, though the furnace could only handle pills up to Third Rank for now.

• Mu Bai’s group dragged Mu Xiaoqi to Man Sheng, and Mu Xiaoqi explained that he had previously explored automatic pill refining but had been unable to control furnace heat or medicinal fusion.
• Mu Xiaoqi proposed using flame and fusion totems to automate those processes, and he, Mu Bai, and Man Sheng began experimenting with the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits, repeatedly blowing up furnaces as they made progress.
• Ma Liang left after judging that the researchers could find a solution through continued experimentation, while Chu Xinghe realized the recent explosions came from automatic-furnace tests rather than ordinary pill refining.
• Man Sheng carried Chu Xinghe to the Medicine King Palace, where Mu Xiaoqi demonstrated a totem-powered furnace refining Spirit Gathering Pills without a pill refiner.
• Mu Xiaoqi said the furnace currently produced only low-grade pills and could handle pills up to Third Rank, prompting Palace Master Wu Qun and the other pill refiners to recognize that the invention would reshape their profession.

The leaders debated how the automatic pill furnace would affect alchemists and the Four Continents, while Man Sheng revealed that the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits had learned the Totem Artifact Refining Technique at the Medicine King Palace. Ouyang Ming credited the whole scheme to Chu Xinghe, who collapsed as everyone praised his supposed foresight.

• Wu Qun argued that the automatic pill furnace would pressure alchemists to advance while making low-rank pills more affordable across the Four Continents.
• Cheng Xiaotian explained that the furnace could hurt alchemists’ earnings but would benefit cultivators and ordinary people by lowering pill prices.
• Man Sheng claimed that Chu Xinghe had sent the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to the Medicine King Palace so they could learn artifact refining with simpler pill furnaces.
• Man Sheng revealed that every Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit had now learned the Totem Artifact Refining Technique, and Ouyang Ming concluded Chu Xinghe had planned it all along.
• Chu Xinghe collapsed under the praise, and Ma Liang called for someone to catch him and let him rest.

Ouyang Ming discovered that the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits had improved at artifact refining after Chu Xinghe transferred them to the Medicine King Palace. Elder He credited Chu Xinghe with deliberately arranging practical furnace training to overcome their poor comprehension, while Chu Xinghe remained bewildered by the unexpected success.

• Ouyang Ming tested several Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits and found that they could apply the Totem Artifact Refining Technique far better than before.
• Ouyang Ming and the visiting faction leaders looked to Chu Xinghe for an explanation, but Chu Xinghe was equally confused.
• Elder He explained that generations of reliance on totem inheritance had weakened the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits' ability to comprehend new knowledge.
• Elder He argued that working with medicine furnaces had allowed the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to learn artifact refining through practical exploration.
• Elder He praised Chu Xinghe for planning the transfer, while Chu Xinghe inwardly begged to retreat to the ninth floor of the Technique Repository Tower.

Elder He explained how Chu Xinghe had helped the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits learn artifact refining through hands-on exploration, while Chu Xinghe tried to keep their successes from growing by delaying the totem artifact refining plan. After news of the automatic pill refining furnace spread, the Vast Heaven Holy Land announced major price cuts on low-rank pills, shaking the Four Continents.

• Elder He explained that Ma Liang had inspired the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to explore artifact refining themselves, helping them quickly grasp the Totem Artifact Refining Technique.
• Cheng Xiaotian said the Vast Heaven Holy Land needed a Gu Mingchao who could stop Chu Xinghe, and Chu Xinghe decided that the lack of someone like Cheng Xiaotian had caused his success.
• Ouyang Ming confirmed that the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits had learned the technique, but Chu Xinghe told him to delay the totem artifact refining plan and let them stay at the Spirit Crane Palace to work on the automatic pill refining furnace.
• Mu Bai explained that the automatic furnace would free Spirit Crane Palace disciples from making low-rank pills by hand, allowing them to pursue new research, and Ouyang Ming agreed to follow Chu Xinghe's arrangements.
• News of the automatic pill refining furnace spread, prompting low-rank pill refiners to protest before the Vast Heaven Holy Land announced a thirty percent price cut on pills below Third Rank, with some lifesaving pills reduced by fifty percent.
• People across the Four Continents praised the price cuts, which made essential medicine more affordable and promised to protect them from unsafe pills sold by small workshops.

The Vast Heaven Holy Land cut the prices of everyday pills and offered loans to help people who could not afford treatment, prompting the Misfortune Compass to reward Chu Xinghe with a breakthrough to Peak Martial God and an unusual Divine Sense. As Chu Xinghe investigated his new power, he discovered that the Haotian Sword Casket had begun another transformation.

• Chu Xinghe persuaded the Vast Heaven Holy Land's elders to lower pill prices and let people take essential medicine now and repay in resources later.
• The Misfortune Compass settled a reward for Chu Xinghe, raising his cultivation to Peak Martial God and granting him Divine Sense.
• Chu Xinghe discovered that the Fire of Nirvanic Rebirth had formed a vast Divine Sense that constantly surrounded him and could detect hostile intent.
• Chu Xinghe realized that his breakthrough had triggered a new transformation in the Haotian Sword Casket.

After reaching the Peak Martial God realm, Chu Xinghe unlocked new ways to fuse the Haotian Sword Casket’s divine swords and dramatically increased his combat and formation abilities. Just as he boasted that he feared nowhere, Senior Brother Shen Chun asked him to join Hua Xichen and Zheng Yu at a temple in the Land of Bewildered Spirits, and Chu Xinghe immediately tried to refuse.

• Chu Xinghe fused the Flying Locust into the Lightning Shadow and turned Purple Lightning Flash into a cascading lightning domain.
• Chu Xinghe fused the Lightning Shadow into the Flying Locust, empowering his formations with lightning and greatly increasing their strength.
• Chu Xinghe tried to fuse the Suspended Shears with the other swords but found the ability remained locked at his current cultivation.
• Senior Brother Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that Hua Xichen and Zheng Yu had found a temple in the Land of Bewildered Spirits and wanted him to join them.
• Chu Xinghe took back his boast about fearing nowhere and asked Senior Brother Shen Chun to turn down the invitation.

As Chu Xinghe shut himself away in the Technique Repository Tower to avoid being tempted by rumors about a mysterious double in the Land of Bewildered Spirits, Vast Heaven Holy Land’s automatic pill furnaces began driving small workshops out of business. Meanwhile, Douding'er worried that the Beast Taming Palace’s slow progress with its divine-artifact pig-feeding experiment looked unimpressive, and Ouyang Ming grew suspicious of Tai Chu’s repeated visits to the Artifact Refining Palace.

• As teams flocked to the Land of Bewildered Spirits and rumors spread that a figure using Haotian Battle Intent might be Chu Xinghe, Chu Xinghe refused to investigate and entered seclusion on the Technique Repository Tower’s ninth floor.
• Man Sheng and the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits improved the automatic pill furnaces, and the resulting reliable, affordable pills let the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce push small workshops out of business.
• Douding'er felt pressured because the Beast Taming Palace’s Light of Xinghe Dark Gold Plate experiment had yielded no immediate returns, and the Grand Elder tried to reassure her.
• Douding'er asked Ouyang Ming for a more powerful Light of Xinghe plate, but he told her the Haotian Sword Casket was Vast Heaven Holy Land’s only complete super divine artifact and suggested she ask Chu Xinghe to lend it for raising pigs.
• Tai Chu brought the Taiyin Evil Spirits to the Artifact Refining Palace repeatedly, and Ouyang Ming realized that Tai Chu had something on his mind.

Tai Chu told Ouyang Ming that the Taiyin Evil Spirits wanted combat strength, after Chu Xinghe had been unable to find them a solution. Ouyang Ming’s attempts to make treasures recognize them as masters failed, but he refused to let them give up and resolved to find an answer before Chu Xinghe left seclusion.

• Ouyang Qingyan pointed out that Tai Chu and the other Taiyin Evil Spirits kept visiting the Artifact Refining Palace because they wanted something.
• Tai Chu explained to Ouyang Ming that the Taiyin Evil Spirits could learn and teach countless techniques but could not use them or fight, and that Chu Xinghe had promised to consider their problem during seclusion.
• Ouyang Ming brought out spirit treasures and tried blood recognition, soul recognition, and contracts, but none worked for the Taiyin Evil Spirits.
• Tai Chu prepared to leave after the failed attempts, but Ouyang Ming ordered the Taiyin Evil Spirits to stay while he searched for a solution to surprise Chu Xinghe.

Ouyang Ming and Ma Liang tried to find a breakthrough for the Taiyin Evil Spirits so they could surprise Senior Brother Xinghe, but their experiments failed. Ma Liang then interpreted Xinghe's suggestion to study the problem scientifically as a clue to invite Chief Wu Erke, and the group prepared to seek his help.

• Ouyang Ming decided that he and the others had never truly surprised Senior Brother Xinghe, so he called Ma Liang to help devise a big surprise.
• Ouyang Ming told Ma Liang about Tai Chu's problem, and the two began testing ways to help the Taiyin Evil Spirits break through their inability to use power.
• After their experiments failed, Tai Chu said the Taiyin Evil Spirits had accepted that this was their fate, prompting Ma Liang to ask him to repeat what Xinghe had said.
• Ma Liang concluded that Xinghe's advice to study the problem scientifically referred to Chief Wu Erke's teachings and ordered someone to invite Wu Erke from Wujiang.

Wu Beichen welcomed Ma Liang, Ouyang Ming, and the Taiyin Evil Spirits to Wujiang and explained how he had opened the region to outsiders and made its poison-based resources profitable. Ma Liang promised to report Wujiang’s progress to the grand elder and Chu Xinghe, while the visitors prepared to seek out Wu Erke, who was absorbed in his laboratory.

• Wu Beichen hosted Ma Liang, Ouyang Ming, and the Taiyin Evil Spirits and described how he had developed Wujiang under the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s protection.
• Wu Beichen explained that one new city attracted alchemists and poison cultivators to gather local resources, while another bred poisonous creatures and substances for sale.
• Ma Liang praised Wu Beichen’s management and promised to tell the grand elder about Wujiang’s progress; Wu Beichen asked him to tell Chu Xinghe too so he could surprise him.
• Ma Liang asked where Wu Erke was, and Wu Beichen explained that his father was probably in the laboratory and might not welcome visitors.
• Ma Liang understood Wu Erke’s eccentricity and prepared to approach the inventor, who would readily answer Chu Xinghe’s summons.

Ma Liang brought the Taiyin Evil Spirits to Wu Erke so he could use science to solve their inability to wield power. Wu Erke diagnosed their condition and proposed two possible solutions, including extracting and strengthening their souls before placing them in new bodies.

• Wu Beichen led Ma Liang and the others to Wu Erke's laboratory, where Wu Erke ignored them until Ma Liang called him the Great Inventor.
• Ma Liang explained that Chu Xinghe had sent them to ask Wu Erke to help the Taiyin Evil Spirits, and Wu Erke eagerly examined them.
• Wu Erke concluded that the Taiyin Evil Spirits lacked spirit seas and rejected spiritual power, preventing them from cultivating or using spiritual treasures.
• Wu Erke proposed extracting Tai Chu's soul and placing it in a newly dead body, while first sending it to Avici Hell for ten years of torture to strengthen it.
• Ma Liang and the others were horrified by Wu Erke's brutal proposal but recognized that his theory might solve the Taiyin Evil Spirits' problem.

Wu Erke explained the difference between body possession and returning in a corpse, then proposed ways for Tai Chu and the other Taiyin Evil Spirits to gain power despite their inability to use cultivation arts directly. After they rejected his Avici Hell plan and Ouyang Ming ruled out mechanical bodies controlled by their brains, Wu Erke devised a workaround using the Eternal Life Jade Talisman as an intermediary.

• Wu Erke explained that body possession required a powerful soul to overpower a living host, while returning in a corpse involved entering a recently dead person's body before its soul dispersed.
• Wu Erke proposed sending Tai Chu's soul to Avici Hell for ten years to strengthen it before attempting to return in a corpse, but Ma Liang said Tai Chu and the others would not accept the ordeal.
• Wu Erke offered a second plan to build mechanical bodies that could use the Taiyin Evil Spirits' knowledge of cultivation arts, but Ouyang Ming said their brains and bodies could not use spiritual power to control them.
• Tai Chu confirmed that the Taiyin Evil Spirits could use the Eternal Life Jade Talisman to store and access cultivation arts.
• Wu Erke proposed using the Eternal Life Jade Talisman to relay commands and cultivation arts to mechanical bodies, and Ouyang Ming and Ma Liang praised his intermediary theory.

Ouyang Ming and Wu Erke created an Eternal Life Jade Talisman that let Taiyin Evil Spirits control a mechanical ghost hand, proving that their invention worked. After Wu Erke demonstrated it to Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders, they learned Chu Xinghe was in seclusion and the grand elder demanded that he be brought over to celebrate.

• Ouyang Ming and Wu Erke built a conversion Eternal Life Jade Talisman and a powered ghost hand, which Tai Chu used to make the hand perform the opening move of Ice Palm.
• Ma Liang tried to activate a teleportation array before leaving Wujiang, but Wu Erke stopped him and explained that it would send them back and forth within the area.
• After reaching the Vast Heaven Holy Land, Ma Liang had Senior Brother Shen Chun summon the grand elder, the palace chief elders, and the Holy Lord to the Artifact Refining Palace.
• Wu Erke demonstrated the ghost hand, and Elder He explained that its mechanical body could become immensely powerful if it continued to evolve.
• Elder He asked Chu Xinghe to explain the invention, but Shen Chun said Chu Xinghe was in seclusion on the ninth floor of the Technique Repository Tower, prompting the grand elder to demand that he be brought over.

Shen Chun brought Chu Xinghe to the Artifact Refining Palace, where Ouyang Ming demonstrated a mechanical body for Tai Chu. Elder He explained that mechanical bodies could let people overcome limitations in cultivation, work, and disability, and the chapter ended with Chu Xinghe growing pale as Ma Liang mistook his shock for excitement.

• Shen Chun pulled Chu Xinghe out of seclusion and took him to the Artifact Refining Palace.
• Ouyang Ming demonstrated the ghost hand and Tai Chu, prompting Chu Xinghe to realize he was facing another backstab despite having done nothing.
• Elder He explained that Ouyang Ming could develop a mechanical body tailored to Tai Chu and powerful enough to greatly enhance his combat abilities.
• Elder He argued that mechanical bodies could let people perform professions and techniques beyond their natural talents, operate machinery, and help injured prodigies regain their abilities.
• Ma Liang saw Chu Xinghe's pale face and assumed he was overwhelmed with excitement.