Recaps

Chu Xinghe removed thirteen ingredients from Mu Xiaoqi’s blood pill formula, including White Stone, and insisted they use the lowest-quality ingredients to ensure the attempt failed. As Mu Xiaoqi began refining with the reduced formula, a new approach suddenly came to him, leaving the pill’s outcome uncertain.

• Chu Xinghe crossed out thirteen of the formula’s twenty-three ingredients, including White Stone, while the pill refiners and Grand Elder questioned his choices but deferred to his authority.
• Chu Xinghe explained that White Stone was not always necessary, and the Grand Elder told Mu Bai to prepare the remaining ingredients.
• Chu Xinghe rejected Mu Bai’s high-quality ingredients and demanded the worst ones he could find, then searched the storeroom himself for poorer-quality supplies.
• Mu Xiaoqi began refining the blood pill in Chu Xinghe’s Vermilion Bird Furnace, putting Man Sheng’s blood in first and considering what to add next.
• Mu Xiaoqi’s mind suddenly cleared, and he realized the remaining nine ingredients might work together in a new order.

Mu Xiaoqi understood Chu Xinghe’s alchemy method and began refining the blood pill, but Chu Xinghe’s contradictory instructions caused the furnace to explode. Chu Xinghe took responsibility for the disaster and protected Mu Xiaoqi from punishment.

• Mu Xiaoqi and Mu Bai realized that Chu Xinghe’s use of Moonlit Grass could purify the blood’s useful medicinal properties, and Mu Xiaoqi produced exceptionally pure blood essence.
• Chu Xinghe told Mu Xiaoqi to let the blood’s medicinal properties run wild, disrupting his successful process and making the refinement increasingly chaotic.
• As Mu Xiaoqi struggled to save the pill, Chu Xinghe repeatedly gave him instructions to lower the heat, control it in the opposite direction, and disperse the medicinal properties.
• The Vermilion Bird Furnace exploded, and Mu Bai ordered the disciples to seize Mu Xiaoqi.
• Chu Xinghe stopped them and declared that Mu Xiaoqi had followed his instructions, taking full responsibility for the explosion.

Mu Xiaoqi’s Blood Pill refining ended in an apparent furnace explosion, and Chu Xinghe took responsibility for directing the process. When Mu Bai opened the undamaged Vermilion Bird Furnace, he found fragrant black medicinal paste that might mean the pill had succeeded.

• Mu Xiaoqi’s furnace exploded while he refined the new Blood Pill, enraging Mu Bai and the Grand Elder.
• Chu Xinghe stepped forward, claimed responsibility for the formula and refining instructions, and defended Mu Xiaoqi from blame.
• Elder He urged Mu Bai and the others to clean the Vermilion Bird Furnace and treat the explosion as a normal setback.
• Mu Bai noticed the Vermilion Bird Furnace was unscathed, still closed, and filled with medicinal fragrance and purple mist.
• Mu Bai found no Blood Pill inside, but dug out fragrant black medicinal paste and tasted it.
• Mu Bai suggested the refining might have succeeded, leaving Chu Xinghe and the onlookers stunned.

Mu Xiaoqi explained that Chu Xinghe had deliberately caused the furnace to explode while forming the liquid into a pill, preserving medicine with the right potency for demonic beasts. Ma Liang then revealed that Chu Xinghe had another step in mind.

• Mu Bai claimed the furnace explosion had produced a successful medicine, and the Grand Elder and other refiners tasted the black paste.
• Douding'er declared the paste ideal for demonic beasts because its medicinal properties were mild enough to use without dilution.
• Mu Xiaoqi concluded that Chu Xinghe had deliberately caused the furnace to explode before the liquid condensed into a pill.
• Mu Xiaoqi explained that the paste retained its medicinal potency and was better suited to demonic beasts than a concentrated pill.
• Ma Liang said Chu Xinghe had another step in mind, leaving Chu Xinghe bewildered.

After Chu Xinghe’s cauldron explosion produced medicine for the demonic beasts, Ma Liang and Man Sheng interpreted his choices as a carefully planned way to save ingredients and Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ blood. Everyone praised Chu Xinghe’s supposed new refining method, while he remained unable to convince them that he had not planned it.

• Ma Liang argued that Chu Xinghe had exploded the cauldron to preserve medicinal efficacy and avoid losses from forming and diluting pills.
• Ma Liang claimed Chu Xinghe had removed costly ingredients and requested poor or expired ones to conserve sect resources, and the gathered experts agreed.
• Ma Liang insisted the cauldron explosion had been deliberate, prompting the experts to name it the Cauldron Explosion Medicine Refining Method.
• Chu Xinghe tried to credit Mu Xiaoqi, but Mu Xiaoqi said he had only followed Chu Xinghe’s instructions, leaving Chu Xinghe speechless.
• Man Sheng said Chu Xinghe’s method also minimized the blood the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits needed to give, and the Grand Elder and others praised Chu Xinghe further.

Chu Xinghe’s plan to delay the consequences of Douding’er’s demonic beast paste collapsed when Ma Liang’s power of vitality rapidly matured the beast. After Douding’er harvested it, Elder He discovered its heart could restore vitality, leaving Chu Xinghe to rue how badly depleted his own vitality was.

• Chu Xinghe reassured himself that the demonic beasts would take a year to mature, but Douding’er announced that one had mutated and begun growing rapidly.
• Ma Liang realized his power of vitality was accelerating the beast’s growth, and he credited Senior Brother Xinghe with sending him to the Beast Taming Palace for this purpose.
• Douding’er killed and dismembered the grown demonic beast, then found a faintly glowing heart in the remains.
• Elder He used his Fate Divinity to examine the heart and discovered that it could restore vitality.
• Chu Xinghe lamented that his own vitality was nearly depleted despite still appearing alive.

The demonic beast hearts were confirmed to restore life force, offering recovery to people whose injuries had resisted all other treatment. The gathered faction leaders offered the Vast Heaven Holy Land lucrative concessions to secure access, while Chu Xinghe inwardly pleaded for a heart himself.

• The gathered experts recognized that demonic beast hearts could restore depleted life force and strengthen healthy cultivators.
• The gathered experts tested a small portion of a demonic beast heart on a man missing an arm, and a pill then caused his missing arm to show signs of regeneration.
• The test confirmed that Ma Liang's life force had mutated the demonic beasts' hearts as well as improved their meat.
• Cheng Xiaotian offered a mining area to the Vast Heaven Holy Land and swore on Gu Mingchao's reputation, prompting Gu Mingchao to kick him away.
• The faction leaders offered gifts and more favorable business terms to the Vast Heaven Holy Land in hopes of obtaining the scarce demonic beast hearts.
• The Grand Elder reserved the priceless hearts for gifts rather than sales, while Chu Xinghe silently begged to consume one.

Chu Xinghe recovered from the vitality he lost amid the Beast Taming Palace’s chaotic backstabs while the Four Continents flocked to the Vast Heaven Holy Land for demonic beast hearts. Tantai Jing secured two hearts by demanding payment, and Ma Liang concluded that Ouyang Ming’s still-unrevealed role was the key to Chu Xinghe’s next plan.

• Chu Xinghe rested in the Dark Moon Palace, ate demonic beast hearts, and decided to stop making plans and recover his vitality.
• News of the demonic beast hearts spread, drawing powerful figures from across the Four Continents to negotiate with the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Tantai Jing left with two demonic beast hearts and boasted that the Vast Heaven Holy Land had promptly arranged them after he demanded payment.
• The Grand Elder negotiated through the night, then emerged smiling in the morning after receiving numerous benefits.
• Ma Liang met a dispirited Ouyang Ming and reasoned that Chu Xinghe had kept the group at the Beast Taming Palace because Ouyang Ming’s task involved them all.
• Ma Liang called for a meeting so the group could bring Chu Xinghe’s happiness to its peak.

Ma Liang gathered the Beast Taming Palace disciples to figure out why Senior Brother Xinghe had kept them there, concluding that Ouyang Ming’s role remained unclear. The group began combining their talents to help Ouyang Ming, and Ma Liang realized this was the purpose of Senior Brother Xinghe’s plan.

• Ma Liang called the Beast Taming Palace disciples together and questioned whether their surprise had fully satisfied Senior Brother Xinghe.
• Ma Liang pointed out that Ouyang Ming seemed to have no role in the group’s work and suggested Senior Brother Xinghe had kept everyone there for a reason.
• Ouyang Ming said he had reached the limit of what he could forge for the Light of Xinghe and could not see how he could contribute further.
• Ma Liang No. 2 suggested they consider what they could do for Ouyang Ming instead, and Ma Liang No. 3 agreed.
• Man Sheng offered his blood to add totems to Ouyang Ming’s spiritual treasures, Douding'er offered demonic beasts, and Mu Bai offered medicines to improve their fusion.
• Ma Liang realized that combining their abilities to help Ouyang Ming was what Senior Brother Xinghe had intended.

The three Ma Liangs identified Ouyang Ming’s mechanical body endurance problem and proposed combining an artifact spirit with a demonic beast’s body. Ouyang Ming objected that this could not make a dead object live, but the Ma Liangs revealed their powers of vitality and death, leaving the group hopeful that the plan could work.

• Ouyang Ming explained that his mechanical body could unleash great power but quickly ran out of energy because it could not recover like a cultivator.
• Ouyang Ming recounted how Senior Brother Xinghe had urged him to keep researching and promised to supply Tenth Rank spirit stones.
• Ma Liang suggested giving the mechanical body an artifact spirit and fusing it into a demonic beast’s body, using Man Sheng’s bloodline power and Mu Bai’s pills.
• Ouyang Ming said he had a thirty or forty percent chance of forging a spirit treasure with an artifact spirit, but argued the plan could not turn a dead object into a living thing.
• The other two Ma Liangs manifested the powers of vitality and death, and everyone saw a possible way to make the plan work.

Ma Liang persuaded the group that Chu Xinghe had secretly arranged their talents to create living mechanical bodies that demonic beasts could grow and humans could use, so they began researching instead of telling him. Meanwhile, Chu Xinghe tried to relax until Huang Ritian confronted him over the Civil Engineering Department, and the grand elder arrived to find Huang Ritian there too.

• Ma Liang explained how Ouyang Ming, Douding'er, Man Sheng, Mu Bai, and the three Ma Liangs could combine their abilities to make human-compatible living mechanical bodies using demonic beasts.
• The group accepted Ma Liang's claim that Chu Xinghe had arranged their roles in advance and immediately began researching the plan.
• Ma Liang stopped Man Sheng from rushing to tell Chu Xinghe, arguing that they should present finished results and bring him another wave of joy.
• Chu Xinghe relaxed in his rocking chair, admitting that watching three Ma Liangs was impossible even with two Chu Xinghes.
• Huang Ritian confronted Chu Xinghe and accused him of neglecting the Civil Engineering Department, prompting Chu Xinghe to draw Evil Repeller in protest at the insult.
• The grand elder entered and found Huang Ritian with Chu Xinghe, leaving Huang Ritian bewildered by their encounter.

The Grand Elder caught Huang Ritian visiting Chu Xinghe and assigned his Civil Engineering Department to build a separate Beast Taming Palace within six months. The next morning, Chu Xinghe was summoned to the Haotian Grand Hall, where he learned that Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen had returned injured from a disastrous expedition into the Land of Bewildered Spirits.

• The Grand Elder found Huang Ritian in Chu Xinghe's room and ordered his Civil Engineering Department to complete the Beast Taming Palace within six months.
• Huang Ritian was taken away in despair, while Chu Xinghe felt better seeing the Civil Engineering Department's exhausted disciples the next morning.
• After breakfast, Chu Xinghe was summoned by Shen Chun to the Haotian Grand Hall, where he saw Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen injured among leaders from the Vast Heaven Holy Land and other factions.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen had led a group into the Land of Bewildered Spirits to search for Fan Sheng's missing soul.
• Guo Qizhen vanished and sent messages asking to be rescued, though spiritual power was suppressed in the depths of the land; then other companions disappeared, and Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen became lost while trying to escape.

Hua Xichen and Zheng Yu escaped the Land of Bewildered Spirits after following the direction where a mysterious figure resembling Chu Xinghe had vanished, but they emerged without their Life Souls and began aging. The major figures urged Chu Xinghe to enter the dangerous land, but Gu Mingchao took him into seclusion to prevent anyone from pressuring him.

• Hua Xichen used Sage's Descent and received the guidance, “Seeing Xinghe brings good fortune,” as their teammates vanished one by one in the Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• A figure who looked and sounded like Senior Brother Xinghe awakened Hua Xichen and Zheng Yu before they entered the star gate, and they followed the direction he had disappeared to escape the land.
• Hua Xichen and Zheng Yu told the major figures at Vast Heaven Holy Land that they had lost their Life Souls, while their bodies and abilities continued to weaken with age.
• Elder He explained that the two would keep aging until they died unless their Life Souls could be found, and the gathered leaders turned their attention to Chu Xinghe.
• Gu Mingchao refused to let the others pressure Chu Xinghe into entering the Land of Bewildered Spirits and ordered him into seclusion at Haotian Palace.

After Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen took pills that halted their rapid aging, the elders of Vast Heaven Holy Land investigated the star gate and the danger posed by the Star Ghost Clan. The Well Spirits Great Elder revealed that Chu Xinghe might be the only one able to enter the Land of Bewildered Spirits and seize the Ancient God's arm, leaving Xinghe stunned by the seemingly suicidal task.

• The Great Elder gave Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pills, stopping their bodies from deteriorating, and asked Cheng Xiaotian and the other guests to remain in Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Great Elder brought the report from Hua Xichen and the others to the Three Well Spirits Elders, who identified the star gate as a possible Gate of Reincarnation linked to the Star Ghost Clan.
• The Well Spirits Great Elder explained that the Star Ghost Clan could devour stars and souls, and warned that it might be breaking the seals on the Land of Bewildered Spirits and the Star Sea Abyss.
• The Well Spirits Great Elder said Chu Xinghe, as master of the Ancient God's head, could resist the Gate of Reincarnation and reclaim the Ancient God's arm from the Star Ghost Clan.
• Chu Xinghe realized that the elders expected him to face the Star Ghost Clan alone and silently considered the mission a likely death sentence.

Chu Xinghe and the elders weighed whether he could safely enter the Land of Bewildered Spirits, where the Star Ghost Clan was trapped beyond a Star Gate. His advantages eased their fears, but his questions about how the Well Spirits had once left the realm raised a new mystery about the Star Ghost Clan and Lu Shu.

• The Well Spirits Second Elder argued that the Spirit-Sealing Domain would leave Chu Xinghe's Phoenix Fire and soul protected by Evil Repeller, while the Ancient God's Head could suppress the Star Ghost Clan's remains.
• The Well Spirits elders explained that the Star Gate likely led to a separate world formed by the intact Ancient God's Arm.
• Chu Xinghe asked whether the Well Spirits could leave their world and why the Star Ghost Clan had never appeared in the Four Continents despite possessing the Ancient God's Arm.
• Chu Xinghe connected Lu Shu's unexplained Power of Bewitchment to the possibility that someone from the Well Spirits Clan had once brought water from the Well of Prophecy into the Four Continents.
• The elders reconsidered how the Great Prophecy Art had spread and wondered why the Star Ghost Clan could not use the same means to leave the Land of Bewildered Spirits.

Gu Mingchao and Elder He investigated the Star Gate after the elders concluded that its danger could not be ignored. They returned with news that the seals would be gone within three to five years, but the souls taken through the gate might still exist beyond it.

• The Three Well Spirits Elders considered Xinghe’s explanation for the Star Ghost Clan’s history and raised the possibility that something beyond the Star Gate had prevented the clan from escaping.
• Gu Mingchao decided to investigate the gate with Elder He, whose Fate Divinity could calculate dangers even in the Land of Bewildered Spirits’ Prohibition Domain.
• Gu Mingchao and Elder He returned two days later and reported that the Star Gate eroded the seals without consuming souls, at an accelerating rate.
• Gu Mingchao said the Fate Divinity predicted the seals would be completely destroyed within three to five years, while the souls drawn from the heaven’s chosen might have survived beyond the Star Gate.

Gu Mingchao revealed that the Star Gate would keep expanding and might release the Star Ghost Clan, leaving Chu Xinghe to decide whether to enter the unknown world beyond it. Chu Xinghe consulted the Beast God, who devised a dangerous plan using Chu Xinghe’s Xinghe Divinity, and Chu Xinghe proposed an even bolder idea that stunned him.

• Gu Mingchao told the gathered leaders that Zheng Yu and the others’ souls had probably entered the Star Gate without being devoured, but warned that it could expand further within three to five years.
• The factions learned about the Ancient God’s remains and debated sending Chu Xinghe through the Star Gate to stop the Star Ghost Clan, but Gu Mingchao ended the meeting without deciding.
• Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen urged Chu Xinghe not to act rashly, while Chu Xinghe privately searched for a way to survive the dangerous journey.
• Chu Xinghe woke the Beast God, who explained that they could place one of Chu Xinghe’s souls and spirits in his Xinghe Divinity as a safeguard against death beyond the Star Gate.
• The Beast God outlined a rescue plan involving Gu Mingchao breaking open the Star Gate, and Chu Xinghe suggested an even bolder plan that left the Beast God astonished.

Chu Xinghe transferred all three spiritual souls and seven physical souls into his Xinghe Divinity, allowing his original body and Divinity to switch roles and making him much harder to kill. The Beast God then watched Shen Chun teleport without leaving any trace and wondered how much the world had changed while he slept.

• Chu Xinghe proposed placing all three spiritual souls and seven physical souls in his Xinghe Divinity, and the Beast God realized it could let Chu Xinghe survive the loss of his physical body.
• Chu Xinghe summoned the Xinghe Divinity and transferred all his souls into it while retaining control of his original body and the Haotian Sword Casket.
• The Beast God concluded that Chu Xinghe and his Divinity could switch which one held his souls, making it nearly impossible to kill him.
• Chu Xinghe called for Senior Brother Shen Chun, who appeared despite the Beast God's active Divine Sense.
• Shen Chun said he had used a teleportation array, then demonstrated by teleporting himself and the Beast God a short distance without leaving any trace.

Chu Xinghe gathered the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders after the Beast God revealed that Xinghe’s soul could move between his body and Xinghe Divinity. The discovery suggested Xinghe might enter the Star Gate with his body while keeping his soul safe in his Divinity.

• Shen Chun teleported Chu Xinghe and the awakened Beast God to the Haotian Grand Hall, where Chu Xinghe summoned the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders.
• The Beast God asked Elder He to use the Lord of Evil Spirits’ Fate Divinity to identify the real Chu Xinghe among two identical figures.
• The Great Sage used Avici Hell to identify the Chu Xinghe with a soul, but that figure turned into starlight and proved to be the Xinghe Divinity.
• The Beast God prompted the Great Sage to inspect them again, revealing that Chu Xinghe’s soul could move between his body and his Divinity.
• Elder He realized Chu Xinghe could leave his soul in the Divinity while sending his body into the Star Gate, giving the leaders hope that he could survive the danger.

The Vast Heaven Holy Land learned that Chu Xinghe could enter the Star Gate without risking permanent death, and the elders rejoiced while Xinghe secretly planned to die inside and exploit the Misfortune Compass. Ma Liang then revealed MetalGreymon Generation One, a self-sustaining mechanical body, just as Xinghe was celebrating his chance to die.

• The Beast God explained how Chu Xinghe could transfer his soul and survive even if he lost his physical body, prompting Gu Mingchao and the elders to thank him.
• The elders celebrated Xinghe's safer chance to obtain the Ancient God's Arm, while Fate Divinity struggled to understand where Xinghe's soul was.
• Chu Xinghe decided to enter the Star Gate, obtain the Ancient God's Arm, and then die there so the Misfortune Compass would reward him for the loss.
• The Great Elder urged Xinghe to protect his physical body, but Xinghe laughed and remained determined to die inside the Star Gate.
• Ma Liang brought Douding'er, Ouyang Ming, Man Sheng, Mu Bai, and a demonic beast to reveal their completed MetalGreymon Generation One mechanical body.
• Ouyang Ming explained that the beast's soul let the mechanical body grow a Spirit Sea and operate without consuming spirit stones, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned.

Ouyang Ming and Wu Erke’s first-generation MetalGreymon proved that a mechanical body could use a demon beast’s Spirit Sea, but its low rank left the design with limited practical value. The Beast God proposed using Spirit Blood Worms instead, giving the researchers a better direction as Chu Xinghe realized the Beast God was helping him again.

• Wu Erke praised the mechanical body’s demon-beast Spirit Sea as a solution to its stamina problem, then judged it only fourth or fifth rank.
• Douding'er promised to keep developing stronger Spirit Seas, while the Grand Elder encouraged everyone to continue along the newly opened path.
• Chu Xinghe relaxed, believing he had escaped Ma Liang’s attempt to involve him in the project, until the Beast God suggested using spirit beasts with existing Spirit Seas.
• The Beast God removed the Spirit Sea from the MetalGreymon and explained that Spirit Blood Worms were especially suitable because they were born with powerful Spirit Seas.
• The Beast God told the group that Spirit Blood Worms lived in Cloud River Valley and hinted to Chu Xinghe that he would keep helping him.

The Beast God volunteered to help Ma Liang research Spirit Blood Worms for mechanical bodies, despite Chu Xinghe’s attempts to stop him. As Chu Xinghe prepared to leave for the Land of Bewildered Spirits, the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s disciples and elders loaded him with supplies and parting gifts.

• The Beast God explained that Spirit Blood Worms had powerful Spirit Seas and could support mechanical bodies, and Ma Liang praised him for the discovery.
• Chu Xinghe warned that Spirit Blood Worms could trigger deadly chain explosions, but the Beast God said he could control them and would stay at the Vast Heaven Holy Land to help with the research.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land members praised the Beast God, while Chu Xinghe cursed the trouble he had brought upon himself by giving the Beast God Heart to him.
• Senior Brother Feng Fei brought Chu Xinghe chests of spirit stones and reminded him to stay safe on his journey.
• Ma Liang, Ouyang Ming, and Ouyang Ling gave Chu Xinghe unusual treasures, divine weapons, poison, and medicinal powders to take along.
• Sister-in-law Jiuli gave Chu Xinghe baskets of pastries, which he carefully stored as potentially life-saving supplies.

As Chu Xinghe prepared to enter the Star Gate, his fellow disciples and elders brought him gifts and supplies, showing how much they cared about him. Gu Mingchao’s treasured grasshopper doll and request for a matching one moved Chu Xinghe to promise he would return, leaving him resolved to try to survive for everyone awaiting his gifts.

• Chu Xinghe’s fellow disciples brought him books, pills, talismans, and more than a thousand jin of blood to help him beyond the Star Gate.
• Gu Mingchao offered Chu Xinghe the Flame Divinity, but Chu Xinghe refused because he believed it would not help inside the Spirit-Sealing Domain.
• Gu Mingchao showed Chu Xinghe the grasshopper doll he had kept since Chu Xinghe’s first gift and asked him to bring back an identical one for Ji Ya.
• The Grand Elder and other disciples asked Chu Xinghe to bring them gifts too, and Chu Xinghe promised he would.
• Chu Xinghe changed his plan and resolved to do his best to survive the Star Gate journey for the people waiting for him.

Vast Heaven Holy Land and people across the Four Continents loaded Chu Xinghe with supplies and prayers before he entered the Land of Bewildered Spirits to rescue those trapped beyond the Star Gate. Once inside and out of sight, Chu Xinghe threw his shoe to choose a direction.

• Vast Heaven Holy Land prepared enormous quantities of supplies for Chu Xinghe, while the Four Continents' forces sent treasures and the Xinghe Haters' Group organized prayers for him.
• Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen asked to accompany Chu Xinghe, but he refused and reassured them that he would bring everyone back.
• Chu Xinghe privately admitted he was uncertain he would survive, though he planned to try to return and had a backup plan involving his Qiankun ring.
• Experts and ordinary people gathered at the Land of Bewildered Spirits to see Chu Xinghe off, and he entered the mist alone.
• Gu Mingchao demanded a view of Chu Xinghe through the Haotian Mirror, but the Spirit-Sealing Domain blocked the image.
• After he could no longer see anyone outside, Chu Xinghe took off his shoe and threw it to determine which way to go.

Chu Xinghe followed his shoe deeper into the Land of Bewildered Spirits, collected abundant rare treasures, and fled from a mysterious voice that seemed to know his fears. He recognized the pursuer as An Ying, who had survived in the land by hiding and was finally reunited with him.

• Before Chu Xinghe set out, Hua Xichen gave him a map, but Chu Xinghe trusted his shoe to guide him instead.
• Chu Xinghe followed his shoe’s direction deeper into the Land of Bewildered Spirits, where he gathered more than fifty rare treasures.
• A plaintive voice offered Chu Xinghe treasures and a trusted aide position, prompting him to flee from the presence charging through the mist.
• The pursuer called himself An Ying and explained that he had been trapped in the Land of Bewildered Spirits since Feng Fei’s teleportation formation sent him there.
• An Ying revealed that he had hidden after seeing a mysterious force draw out Fan Sheng’s soul, then clung to Chu Xinghe in relief at finally getting a chance to escape.