Festival of Lights · Diwali
Chu Xinghe helps Elder He break free of his Heart Demon and gain the Fate Divinity, while the Evil Lords plot to disrupt the continents’ merger. As a spirit-stone crisis devastates commerce, Chu Xinghe keeps the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce operating and expanding, leaving Qin Xiangqian to manage mounting losses.
Chu Xinghe guided the Vast Heaven Holy Land through a spirit-stone crisis and bought spirit mines from struggling factions under contracts that promised their return. As Gui Li arrived with the power to restore a ruined mine, the Holy Land gained a new opportunity while Chu Xinghe’s larger plan remained unclear.
Gui Li restored and upgraded the Three Continents’ spirit mines, while Chu Xinghe’s attempt to return them ran into the Heavenly Dao Contract and triggered his breakthrough to the Martial God realm. As Gui Li resumed his hidden mission, he continued earning the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s trust and joined the Civil Engineering Department.
Chu Xinghe guided the factions through a crisis in the Three Continents’ spirit fields while Gui Li’s attempts to sabotage the restoration repeatedly played into the Holy Land’s plans. The formation strengthened the fields and drew the Evil Shadow Continent closer, while Gui Li severed his final connection to the Evil Spirit Clan and the Evil Lords postponed their next move.
The Hua Clan’s cursed tempering pool led to the discovery of the Craft God Mausoleum and an inheritance that stole talent from every failed candidate. As the curse threatened artifact refiners across the Three Continents, Chu Xinghe refused to risk Ouyang Ming, leaving the gathered powers waiting for a way forward.
Ouyang Ming inherited the Craft God’s knowledge, while Chu Xinghe’s attempt to sabotage the Hua Clan’s rebuilt Quenching Pool instead gave it a powerful new function. As the Hua Clan recovered and the factions sought access to the pool, Spiritual Qi began draining from the Three Continents and the Evil Spirit Clan prepared to fight rather than surrender.
As Spiritual Qi dwindled, Chu Xinghe and Ma Liang organized Reverse Spirit Formations and negotiated for the Blood Spirit Stones needed to sustain them. Gui Li’s earth-vein formation restored Spiritual Qi and reunited the Evil Shadow Continent with the Three Continents, after which the Evil Lords surrendered to Gu Mingchao.
Chu Xinghe stabilized the Four Continents by turning the Evil Lords’ gifts into benefits for the people and offering aid to the great lineages. He then opened the Vast Heaven Holy Land to Evil Spirit disciples, while the White Spirit Evil Lord maneuvered to send Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits as applicants.
Chu Xinghe brought the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits and the costly, seemingly ineffective Taiyin Evil Spirits into the Vast Heaven Holy Land, then set the two groups to training together. During Liu Bo’s visit home, a corpse-poison outbreak led him to uncover corpse thieves, and Chu Xinghe arrived after the attackers killed Liu Bo’s Nebula Spirit Cat.
Chu Xinghe punished those responsible for poisoning Star City, then saw the Taiyin Evil Spirits discover an ability to teach techniques across racial boundaries. Bai Yu later tried to discredit him through worthless mine sales, but Chu Xinghe endorsed the rumors and left everyone waiting for his next move.
Chu Xinghe’s costly gamble transformed Down-and-Out Mountain’s empty mines and Spirit-Devouring Vortex into a source of purified Ten-Colored Spirit Stones. As the stones reshaped the Four Continents’ markets and the Demonic Sect’s fortunes, Chu Xinghe tried to give some away freely, while Bai Yu’s campaign against Ma Liang left the giveaway mired in controversy.
Chu Xinghe’s attempt to turn the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s expansion into a costly failure instead drew rival factions into funding it and brought Evil Spirit workers into its ranks. The chamber opened the way for trade and intelligence across the Evil Shadow Continent, while Chu Xinghe’s casual suggestion that Shen Chun share information became a plan to profit from selling it.
Chu Xinghe opened the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce on the Evil Shadow Continent and turned a rigged-drawing scandal into a public vindication, while the Evil Lords’ schemes repeatedly backfired. After leaving the continent with Ma Liang, he took a job escorting Yue Ling toward the Great Liang capital, where poisoned wine and a mistaken funeral accusation threw their journey into chaos.
Yue Ling traveled toward the Great Liang Kingdom’s capital with Chu Xinghe and Ma Liang while Moon Shadow Cult assassins repeatedly failed to kill her. In Wei City, Tantai Jing met the trio and arranged for Demon Demon Express couriers to discreetly monitor them.
Tantai Jing pursued the killers responsible for the deaths of his couriers, while Night Owl and Black Sha became entangled in a disastrous struggle over Yue Ling. Yue Ling revealed her royal identity and the threat facing Great Liang, and the story left her ship surrounded by the White Dragon Navy as the Grow Old Together Trio intervened.
Chu Xinghe and his companions uncover Lu Shu’s scheme to sacrifice thirteen cities and restore the stolen souls through the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s formation. The people are saved, and the faith of millions creates a Divinity Seed that fuses with Ma Liang and begins to become the Samsara Divinity.
Ma Liang gained a Divinity Seed and rose in the Vast Heaven Holy Land as Chu Xinghe’s allies uncovered new resources and the Evil Lords’ earth-vein scheme. The theft unleashed a Dead Spirit Realm, and Chu Xinghe ended the arc by volunteering Vast Heaven’s spirit stones to help hunt the escaped Shadow Ghosts.
Chu Xinghe acquired the Dead Spirit Realm and arranged costly measures against the Shadow Ghosts while Ma Liang recruited thousands of disciples for an experimental formation-training program. The new disciples arrived at Vast Heaven Holy Land with their spiritual power sealed by Tribulation-Breaking Pills, and their two-year training was about to begin.
Chu Xinghe’s efforts to train formation disciples and open the Haotian Mountain Range to Rogue Cultivators brought unexpected changes, while Cheng Xiaotian’s breakthrough sparked a Four Continents-wide top-up craze. Chu Xinghe restricted large payments to protect powerful factions, but small top-ups continued to pour in as the story left him reviewing the plan’s flaws.
Chu Xinghe’s attempts to lose resources instead brought the Vast Heaven Holy Land Formation-Locking Jade, new disciples, and widespread praise. As Earth Vein Three-Way Resonance began generating resources across the Haotian Mountain Range, Chu Xinghe decided to break it by changing the Holy Land’s resource supply.