Recaps

An Ying revealed that he had survived in the Land of Bewildered Spirits by impersonating Chu Xinghe, collecting its treasures, and waiting for Chu Xinghe to arrive. He insisted on joining the Vast Heaven Holy Land, but Chu Xinghe declared that he wanted to go farther into the Land of Bewildered Spirits, leaving An Ying stunned.

• An Ying explained that he had used Chu Xinghe’s appearance and borrowed luck to survive, and had lured Chu Xinghe into the Land of Bewildered Spirits so he could follow him out.
• An Ying gave Chu Xinghe treasures and storage rings he had collected from the Land and from the corpses of those who died there.
• An Ying argued that his past work for the Vast Heaven Holy Land qualified him to join, and said he would become Chu Xinghe’s new number one confidant.
• Chu Xinghe realized An Ying could rival Ma Liang in schemes to help the Vast Heaven Holy Land and worried that the two would overwhelm him with surprises.
• An Ying called Chu Xinghe his junior brother, but Chu Xinghe said he intended to go farther into the Land of Bewildered Spirits rather than leave, stunning An Ying.

Chu Xinghe entered the Land of Bewildered Spirits to rescue those taken by the Star Gate and confront the Star Ghost Clan, while An Ying reluctantly decided to follow him. Chu Xinghe used his Shoe Art to find the way, and the Star Gate appeared before them.

• Chu Xinghe told An Ying he intended to enter the Star Gate, rescue the people inside, and deal with the Star Ghost Clan.
• An Ying argued that the danger and distant calamity were not their concern, but realized he might be trapped forever if Chu Xinghe went without him.
• An Ying caught up with Chu Xinghe and decided to enter with him, hoping to survive and become one of Chu Xinghe's trusted aides.
• Chu Xinghe used his Shoe Art to choose their direction, and the fog thinned until the Star Gate appeared before An Ying.

Chu Xinghe entered the Star Gate after discovering it was devouring the Land of Bewildered Spirits, but arrived in an unfamiliar world where spiritual power did not work. He headed toward a distant city after night suddenly fell and firelights appeared on the horizon.

• Chu Xinghe and An Ying realized the Star Gate was consuming the mist and power of the Land of Bewildered Spirits, confirming the Great Sage and Elder He's worst theory.
• Chu Xinghe tested An Ying by warning that the trip could be fatal, then entered the Star Gate; An Ying followed after him.
• Chu Xinghe emerged alone on a country road in a strange world, and the Star Gate vanished before An Ying appeared.
• A farmer drove a six-legged horse cart past Chu Xinghe, who found that the world had no spiritual power and no visible sun.
• Chu Xinghe walked toward the farmer's destination, but the sky abruptly turned dark and he spotted distant firelights that appeared to mark a city.

Chu Xinghe entered Clearwater City and was mistaken for an eminent monk from the Buddha Domain until the Soulless Bell exposed him as a Soulless Ghost. When the city’s defenders summoned a Vajra to kill him, Chu Xinghe destroyed it with one finger, leaving everyone at the gate stunned.

• Chu Xinghe reached Clearwater City, where the farmer identified him as a Buddha Domain monk and the guards ushered him toward the gate.
• The Soulless Bell rang above Chu Xinghe, revealing him as a Soulless Ghost, and the guards attacked him.
• Chu Xinghe knocked the guards down without killing them, then shattered two axes thrown by a man who called him a Vajra Realm Soulless Ghost.
• The man ordered the Hundred Buddha Formation activated, and the guards summoned a golden Vajra to slay Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe pierced the Vajra’s hand and struck between its brows, shattering it while the people at the gate watched in silence.

Chu Xinghe defeated the Buddha Domain’s summoned Vajra with one finger, then fled Clearwater City rather than let its defenders sacrifice themselves against him. Su Ye and Su Tong realized the soulless ghost had spared the city and feared he might be in the Bodhi Realm, so they planned to seek help from a Bodhi.

• Chu Xinghe recognized that the Vajra was a Mental Power phantom, then shattered it with one finger after its attack failed to harm him.
• The guards who had contributed their Mental Power collapsed, while Chu Xinghe sensed that the Vajra’s righteous, yang power resembled Evil Repeller and opposed the Star Gate’s yin Qi.
• Su Tong ordered the Buddha Domain members in Clearwater City to defend the city through blood sacrifice, so Chu Xinghe decided to withdraw rather than let them die.
• Chu Xinghe vanished at great speed, and the city’s defenders mistakenly cheered when Su Ye descended, believing the Vajra had driven him away.
• Su Ye and his elder brother Su Tong concluded that Chu Xinghe had spared the city and might have reached the Bodhi Realm, and Su Ye prepared to report the incident and seek a Bodhi’s intervention.

Chu Xinghe rested outside Clearwater City, puzzled by the Buddha Domain’s righteous defenders and their apparent lack of connection to the Star Gate. Injured and separated from Chu Xinghe, An Ying reached the city and confidently approached its guards while disguised as Chu Xinghe, unaware they believed he was the Soulless Ghost who had just attacked them.

• Chu Xinghe decided to rest outside Clearwater City before seeking a chance to learn about the unfamiliar world.
• An Ying woke injured in a nearby forest, realized Chu Xinghe was missing, and headed toward Clearwater City.
• Vajra Su Ye arranged for the city to hold its defenses while awaiting a Bodhi expert, and guards watched arrivals closely.
• An Ying followed a caravan to the gate, relying on his confidence and Thousand Illusions Phantom Art to pass as Chu Xinghe.
• A guard recognized An Ying’s appearance as the escaped Soulless Ghost and was stunned when An Ying openly approached him.
• An Ying asked the bewildered guard why there was blood on the ground.

An Ying disguised himself as Chu Xinghe and approached Clearwater City, where the guards mistook him for the attacker who had come earlier that night. Vajra and Su Tong captured and beat him, leaving An Ying imprisoned in the Soul Control Grand Array and unable to explain why he had followed Chu Xinghe.

• An Ying approached the city gate and confidently asked the guards what had happened, but they surrounded him and summoned Vajra.
• An Ying gave his name as Chu Xinghe, and Vajra arrived and struck him, breaking his shoulder and knocking him through the city gate.
• Vajra ordered the guards to seize An Ying and take him to the Soul Control Grand Array after An Ying demanded to know how his disguise had been exposed.
• A guard explained that they recognized An Ying because he had come to the city twice in one night and injured them during his earlier visit.
• Vajra Su Ye and Su Tong confronted An Ying in the Soul Control Grand Array, where Su Tong and the guards beat him while demanding to know his purpose.
• An Ying admitted he had followed Chu Xinghe but did not know why Chu Xinghe had come to Clearwater City.

An Ying endured torture in Clearwater City, escaped the Soul Control Grand Array by transforming into an insect, and vanished while Su Tong ordered a citywide search. Meanwhile, Chu Xinghe learned about the Buddha Domain and its Soulless Ghosts before Su Tong confronted him in a restaurant, where Chu Xinghe swiftly turned the tables on his attackers.

• An Ying told Su Tong he had come to save someone, but Su Tong misread his answers and ordered him beaten.
• An Ying realized the Soul Control Grand Array did not suppress him, used the Thousand Illusions Phantom Art to become an insect, and escaped after biting one of his guards.
• Su Tong learned An Ying had escaped and ordered his subordinates to search Clearwater City.
• Chu Xinghe gathered information in a restaurant about the Buddha Domain, the Buddha Light Pagoda, its cultivation realms, and the Soulless Ghosts.
• Su Tong found Chu Xinghe in the restaurant and ordered his men to seize him, but Chu Xinghe snatched a whip and lashed the first attacker across the face.

Chu Xinghe searched Clearwater City for the people taken to the Buddha Domain, but his overwhelming strength led him to clash with Su Ye and Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi. After defeating them without killing anyone, he walked into a street where another Chu Xinghe appeared, leaving both sides frozen in confusion.

• Chu Xinghe lashed the man who had beaten An Ying, then left the tavern to search for the Soulless Ghosts taken to the Buddha Domain.
• Su Ye attacked Chu Xinghe, who broke Su Ye’s arm with a punch and continued on his way.
• Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi attacked Chu Xinghe with sound waves and a giant bell, but Chu Xinghe shattered them and destroyed his Dharma Aspect.
• Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi stopped Su Tong from pursuing Chu Xinghe, warning that the stranger had shown no killing intent and could have killed them all.
• Another Chu Xinghe emerged from a nearby corner, and both he and the people in the street froze as they faced each other.

An Ying returned to Clearwater City disguised as Chu Xinghe and bluffed Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi, but his anger led him to attack the man who had whipped him before, exposing his weakness and getting him captured. The Buddha Domain sealed An Ying and sent him to the dungeon, where Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi chose to send him to the Buddhas rather than interrogate him.

• An Ying transformed into Chu Xinghe and returned to Clearwater City, where Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi mistook him for the powerful fighter who had just left.
• An Ying bluffed the city’s people by saying he would spare them, then tried to whip the man who had beaten him and was struck in return.
• Su Tong recognized that An Ying’s power had vanished again and ordered the others to capture him.
• Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi sealed An Ying and had him taken to the dungeon, where the whip-wielding man beat him.
• Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi declined to interrogate An Ying and told Su Tong he would contact the Buddha Domain and send him to the Buddhas.

Su Tong realized An Ying had endured his interrogation with disdain, while the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders concluded that the Star Gate had cut off Chu Xinghe’s connection to his Divinity. As Chu Xinghe traveled toward Mount Sumeru to investigate the Soulless Ghosts, Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi’s captive Chu Xinghe vanished beneath the bell during transport.

• Su Tong realized An Ying’s apparent enjoyment during torture had actually been disdain for the punishment.
• The Beast God and Lu Chengqing explained that the Star Gate had weakened the link between Chu Xinghe and his Divinity, leaving the Divinity asleep and unreachable through the Haotian Mirror.
• Chu Xinghe learned that the Soulless Ghosts had appeared around the time the Land of Bewildered Spirits opened and had been suppressed rather than killed, then set out for Mount Sumeru to find their souls.
• Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi escorted An Ying, trapped beneath a Buddhist bell, out of Clearwater City toward Mount Sumeru.
• As Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi began a displacement technique, the Chu Xinghe beneath the bell disappeared, while a little flower watched nearby.

An Ying escaped Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi by transforming into a little yellow flower, but a Fragrant Bear trampled him and used nearby flowers to clean itself after relieving itself. Two brothers then gathered the Bear Incense-soiled flowers, leaving An Ying horrified as they planned to grind them up.

• An Ying transformed into a little yellow flower, and Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi failed to detect him while searching the area.
• Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi accidentally trampled An Ying as he stamped his feet in anger, then left.
• A Fragrant Bear relieved itself near An Ying and wiped itself with grass and flowers, pulling An Ying up by the roots.
• Two brothers collected the Fragrant Bear's valuable Bear Incense and decided to gather the soiled flowers to grind them up.
• The brothers picked up An Ying along with the flowers, and he realized they intended to grind him up.

An Ying, trapped in the form of a little flower, was collected by two hunters who mistook his resilience for proof that he was a treasure and subjected him to one bizarre attempt after another to destroy him. By the next day he had regained Chu Xinghe’s form and was roasting a black bear, while claiming not to remember what the hunters had done after taking him to dry their Bear Incense.

• The hunters brought An Ying, disguised as a flower, home with the Fragrant Bear’s Bear Incense and tried to crush him in a mortar.
• The brothers realized the flower could not be smashed and decided it was a treasure, then took it to a millstone and tried to grind it up.
• The hunters tried cutting and burning An Ying, but he remained unharmed even after being blackened by the flames.
• The brothers took An Ying to the place where they were drying the Bear Incense, and he regained Chu Xinghe’s form the next day.
• An Ying roasted a battered-looking black bear and claimed he could not remember what had happened after the hunters took him away.

Chu Xinghe traveled toward Mount Sumeru to find the prodigies trapped in the Buddha Domain, while Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi recruited two allies to capture him. As Chu Xinghe approached Mount Sumeru with a caravan, he learned that Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi was seeking advancement to Venerable and pretended to support him.

• Chu Xinghe learned that the Buddha Domain was not inherently hostile and decided to focus on finding the trapped prodigies and sending them home.
• Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi told Venerable Duoluo Bodhi and Venerable Wumeng Bodhi that Chu Xinghe had overpowered him, then asked them to help capture him.
• The three Bodhis planned to trap Chu Xinghe in Duoluo Bodhi's Myriad Heavens Buddha Realm and arranged for Luoyin Bodhi to detect his approach to Mount Sumeru.
• Chu Xinghe traveled with a caravan toward Mount Sumeru and heard that the ten-year Venerable advancement conference was underway.
• When a traveler asked whether he supported Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi, Chu Xinghe agreed, recognizing him as the man he had nearly slapped to death.

Traveling toward Mount Sumeru, Chu Xinghe learned how the Venerable Promotion Assembly awarded scarce venerable positions and heard that Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi had drawn an allegedly rigged three-point task to suppress a Soulless Ghost. Chu Xinghe realized Buddha Mochuan had actually set Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi against him, making the task far more dangerous than anyone at the caravan understood.

• Chu Xinghe traveled with a caravan bound for Mount Sumeru because he lacked the means and knowledge to travel there alone.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Bodhi Realm cultivators needed a venerable position to earn a second baptism from the Buddha Light Pagoda, and that only ten candidates could receive one every ten years.
• Caravan members explained that Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi had drawn a three-point task to suppress a Soulless Ghost, which other Bodhis considered an unfairly easy assignment.
• Chu Xinghe realized the task was to capture him and that Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi would be facing an opponent far beyond his abilities.

Chu Xinghe reached Mount Sumeru and realized the Buddha Light Pagoda was an immensely powerful Ancient God's Arm that he could not safely absorb, forcing him to abandon his original plan and improvise. As he continued toward the Soulless Ghost prodigies, Luoyin Bodhi detected him and helped Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi trap him.

• Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi recalled how Buddha Mochuan assigned him the seemingly easy three-point mission to capture Chu Xinghe, and how Chu Xinghe defeated him before disappearing.
• Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi decided he needed help to complete the mission and secure his chance to become a venerable.
• Chu Xinghe reached Mount Sumeru, sensed that the Buddha Light Pagoda was an Ancient God's Arm, and rejected the Well of Prophecy's apparent offer to absorb it because its power would destroy him.
• Chu Xinghe resolved to prioritize rescuing the Soulless Ghost prodigies and closing the Star Gate by another means.
• Luoyin Bodhi sensed Chu Xinghe's unusual lack of three hun and seven po, revealed herself, and called Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi to capture him.
• Three enormous Dharma Aspects arrived and surrounded Chu Xinghe.

Chu Xinghe was captured by Luoyin Bodhi’s Heavenly Spirit Silver Threads while Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi and his companions watched. He effortlessly broke free, overcame Luoyin Bodhi’s defenses, and sent her aside to rest, leaving the other Bodhis stunned.

• Luoyin Bodhi bound Chu Xinghe with her Heavenly Spirit Silver Threads and mocked Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi for needing help to capture a Soulless Ghost.
• Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi, Duoluo Bodhi, and Wumeng Bodhi arrived, and Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi remained silent as Luoyin criticized him.
• Chu Xinghe tore apart the Heavenly Spirit Silver Threads despite Luoyin trying to strengthen them.
• Chu Xinghe walked through Luoyin Bodhi’s Buddha-light barrier and stopped her growing Buddha statue with one hand.
• Chu Xinghe pressed Luoyin Bodhi’s Buddha statue back into her body, patted her head, and told her to rest; she obediently went to the side.

Chu Xinghe faced four Bodhis from the Buddha Domain, who realized they could not match him and fled. He tried to explain that he had come to Mount Sumeru to talk about the Buddha Light Pagoda, but the Bodhis ran toward Mount Sumeru.

• Luoyin Bodhi recognized Chu Xinghe's overwhelming strength after he subdued her and decided the mission Wrathful-Eyed had taken was far more dangerous than its three-point rating suggested.
• Duoluo Bodhi trapped Chu Xinghe in his Myriad Heavens Buddha Realm while Wumeng Bodhi and Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi praised the technique.
• Chu Xinghe tore open the Myriad Heavens Buddha Realm with his bare hands and walked out.
• Duoluo Bodhi, Wumeng Bodhi, Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi, and Luoyin Bodhi fled toward Mount Sumeru.
• Chu Xinghe called after the fleeing Bodhis, explaining that he had come to discuss the Buddha Light Pagoda rather than cause trouble.

Chu Xinghe followed the four frightened Bodhis to Sumeru City, where Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi yielded his three-point task and challenged the gathered experts to capture him. When the crowd accepted and surrounded him, Chu Xinghe invited them all to attack together.

• Duoluo Bodhi and the other three fled toward Sumeru City with Chu Xinghe following behind them.
• The four Bodhis crashed into the Dao Field during Ruye Bodhi and Jianan Bodhi’s duel, startling the gathered experts.
• Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi yielded his three-point task to anyone willing to take it over, risking permanent disqualification from Venerable promotion.
• Jianan, Ruye, and many other Bodhi Realm experts accepted the task and turned their attention toward Chu Xinghe.
• Angered by the crowd treating him like prey, Chu Xinghe told everyone to attack him together.

At the venerable promotion training ground, Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi challenged the other Bodhi Realm cultivators to defeat Chu Xinghe and claim his three-point mission. Vanishing Shadow Bodhi attacked, but Chu Xinghe’s speed overwhelmed him, leaving the fight with Vanishing Shadow badly wounded and facing three afterimages.

• Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi angrily offered to give up his three-point mission if anyone could defeat Chu Xinghe, while the gathered Bodhi Realm cultivators closed in on Chu Xinghe.
• Vanishing Shadow Bodhi appeared behind Chu Xinghe and struck with his Flower-Plucking Finger, only to hit an afterimage.
• Vanishing Shadow Bodhi repeatedly attacked and found Chu Xinghe always behind him, while Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi laughed at his failure.
• Chu Xinghe warned Vanishing Shadow Bodhi before striking his shoulders and left arm faster than he could dodge.
• Chu Xinghe announced attacks on Vanishing Shadow Bodhi’s legs and belly, then appeared as three lifelike afterimages around him.

Chu Xinghe overwhelmed the Bodhis who challenged him, first breaking Vanishing Shadow Bodhi’s confidence with his speed and then defeating several fighters with precise control of his strength. As Luoyin Bodhi recognized his overwhelming superiority, the remaining Bodhis faced a seemingly invincible opponent.

• Chu Xinghe used his speed to surround Vanishing Shadow Bodhi with afterimages, causing Vanishing Shadow Bodhi to faint from shock.
• Chu Xinghe told Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi that he was better than Vanishing Shadow, and Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi felt vindicated after being accused of relying on connections.
• Iron Arm Bodhi attacked Chu Xinghe, who shattered his arm and armor with a single controlled punch and sent him flying.
• Crimson Yang Bodhi and Mystic Yin Bodhi attacked together, but Chu Xinghe twisted Crimson Yang’s halberd and turned Mystic Yin’s whip into a spear, sending both away.
• Luoyin Bodhi watched Chu Xinghe reverse the weapons’ properties and trembled, unable to imagine defeating him.

Chu Xinghe faced dozens of Bodhisattvas on Mount Sumeru’s training ground and remained unhurt as they escalated their attack. Dayin Bodhi and two allies trapped him in a Buddha Sound bell, but Chu Xinghe absorbed its reverberations, shattered it with a Lion’s Roar, and demanded to know why the ninth sound had not come.

• Dozens of Bodhisattvas summoned their Buddha statues, drawing a crowd to the training ground where Chu Xinghe stood surrounded.
• Dayin Bodhi and two allies amplified their Buddha Sound and trapped Chu Xinghe inside a great bell.
• The bell’s reverberations grew through eight increasingly powerful sounds, but Chu Xinghe remained standing and asked Dayin Bodhi to unleash the ninth.
• Chu Xinghe inhaled the Buddha Sound inside the bell and released a Lion’s Roar that shattered it and sent sound waves across the training ground.
• The roar injured everyone in the training ground, and Chu Xinghe asked where the ninth sound was.

Chu Xinghe shattered Dayin Bodhi’s great bell with a lion’s roar after enduring eight Buddha Sounds, leaving the Bodhis stunned by his strength. Jianan Bodhi then trapped him in the Buddha Heart Illusory Realm, but Chu Xinghe resisted its charm and prepared to show Jianan Bodhi a true Art of Charm.

• Chu Xinghe’s lion’s roar shattered Dayin Bodhi’s great bell and blasted Dayin Bodhi and his two helpers into a bloody mess.
• The Bodhis realized Chu Xinghe had endured eight Buddha Sounds without injury, and Duoluo Bodhi and Wumeng Bodhi stared at Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi for bringing them into the ambush.
• Jianan Bodhi enveloped Chu Xinghe in the Buddha Heart Illusory Realm, where succubi appeared and tried to charm him.
• Chu Xinghe remained unaffected because the succubi’s illusion was too weak to trigger Evil Repeller, while Jianan Bodhi continued trying to control him.
• Chu Xinghe decided to use Wan Lin’s methods to show Jianan Bodhi what a true Art of Charm was.

Chu Xinghe escaped Jianan Bodhi’s illusion and turned Jianan’s longing for a Clear Sight Pill into a charm he could not resist. The chapter left Jianan holding the pill, unsure whether to accept it despite knowing Chu Xinghe had deliberately appealed to his deepest desire.

• Jianan Bodhi trapped Chu Xinghe in an illusion filled with seductive succubi, and the spectators believed Jianan had won.
• Chu Xinghe reached Jianan and dispelled the succubi, revealing that the illusion had not even activated Evil Repeller.
• Chu Xinghe struck Jianan between the brows and made him experience a dizzying sensation before showing him a Clear Sight Pill.
• Jianan recognized the pill he had sought for years to restore his blind mother’s sight, and Chu Xinghe tossed it to him.
• Jianan wondered if the pill was an illusion, but Chu Xinghe explained that true charm worked by appealing to what someone most desired in their heart.

Chu Xinghe watched Wan Lin’s Art of Charm draw Jianan Bodhi into his deepest regret, then faced a wave of Bodhis challenging him for points. He overwhelmed them, seized their Buddhist treasures, and left them humiliated by defeating them at their own techniques.

• Chu Xinghe realized Wan Lin’s Art of Charm manipulated people through their deepest longings and regrets, and Jianan Bodhi accepted the Clear Sight Pill to fulfill his wish for his mother to witness his success.
• Jianan Bodhi dismissed the illusions and withdrew from the fight, while the other Bodhis mistakenly assumed he had defeated Chu Xinghe and accused him of betraying the Buddha Domain.
• A Bodhi attacked Chu Xinghe with illusionary duplicates, but Chu Xinghe saw through them with Phoenix Divine Fire and struck the attacker down, drawing protests that his technique was vicious.
• The Bodhis attacked with Buddhist treasures, and Chu Xinghe caught and stored them for Junior Brother Ouyang to study.
• Chu Xinghe defeated the Bodhis with superior speed, strength, charm, and Buddha Sound, leaving them humiliated.