Festival of Lights · Diwali
Chu Xinghe’s attempts to manipulate the Holy Land’s formations repeatedly produced unexpected gains, from upgraded earth-vein resonances to the Three Shadow Rat Brothers comprehending the Dao of Death. He turned the brothers’ revived clones against the Dead Spirit Realm’s Shadow Ghosts and left the Body Cultivators with a new path to pursue.
Chu Xinghe tried to avoid involvement with the Source of Fear while Ouyang Ming’s air conditioners became a wildly popular, loss-leading business that reshaped the market. As factions gathered to explore the Source, Chu Xinghe entered with Zheng Yu’s team, and Bai Yu’s anti-Chu alliance fled after encountering manifestations of their fear.
Chu Xinghe’s fear of gaining resources overwhelmed the Source of Fear, then his allies defended him while he absorbed the Nirvanic Rebirth Fire. Chu Cheng subdued the Lord of Fear and transformed the realm into a sanctuary, and Chu Xinghe later appeared to refine a legendary pill.
Chu Xinghe’s accidental Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill led him to spread its refining method, while the resulting failures enriched the Vast Heaven Holy Land and ruined the Spirit Alchemist Alliance. The Holy Land opened the Spirit Realm to the Four Continents, and Chu Xinghe ended the stretch bewildered by a mountain of resources sent in his name.
Chu Xinghe sought losses through the Spirit Realm, costly cultivation support, and Ouyang Ming’s food research, but Ouyang Ming created the Light of Xinghe Silver Plate instead. Chu Xinghe diverted the plates to demonic beasts and sent the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to disrupt artifact refining, leaving the disciples gathered for a food contest.
Chu Xinghe's attempts to waste resources instead produced Eyes of the Fire Phoenix, a new advancement path for Body Cultivators, and totem-enhanced spirit treasures. After diverting the new treasures to the Beast Taming Palace, he decided to act before their production expanded.
Chu Xinghe moved the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits into pill refining, but their experiments produced automatic pill furnaces and taught them the Totem Artifact Refining Technique. While he avoided the Land of Bewildered Spirits and retreated into seclusion, Ouyang Ming, Ma Liang, and Wu Erke developed a mechanical means for the Taiyin Evil Spirits to use their knowledge.
Chu Xinghe gathered several disciples at the Beast Taming Palace to keep them from disrupting his plans, but Ma Liang broke through and devised a blood pill to strengthen demonic beasts. Meanwhile, Fan Sheng lost part of his soul in the Land of Bewildered Spirits, and Chu Xinghe tried to derail the blood pill by stripping ingredients from its formula.
Chu Xinghe's failed blood-pill refinement produced valuable medicine and vitality-restoring demonic beast hearts, while Ma Liang's group developed living mechanical bodies. After Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen lost their Life Souls, Chu Xinghe secured a soul-transfer safeguard and entered the Land of Bewildered Spirits to rescue the missing souls and seek the Ancient God's Arm.
Chu Xinghe entered the Star Gate to find the trapped prodigies and encountered the Buddha Domain, where he learned that its people had suppressed rather than killed the Soulless Ghosts. After the Bodhis tried to capture him, Chu Xinghe defeated them and left them humiliated while continuing to pursue a way to rescue the prodigies and close the Star Gate.
Chu Xinghe secured the Buddha Domain’s cooperation and entered the Star Sea Abyss to rescue the captives’ souls. There, the Floating Immortal Island chose him as its master, but its inheritances repeatedly failed to bond with him.
Chu Xinghe, Little Buddha, and An Ying uncovered how the Buddha Lords had strengthened the Star Sea Abyss and descended to rescue the captured prodigies. An Ying sacrificed himself to save Chu Xinghe from the Origin Ancestor, leaving the Buddha Domain’s leaders to confront the truth about the ancient threat and Luojia’s plans.
Chu Xinghe sacrificed his body to stop the Origin Ancestor and save the Four Continents, then revived through his Xinghe Divinity. He returned with An Ying and the treasures from the Star Sea Abyss, while the Origin Ancestor survived as the World Seal’s seal spirit and offered to help fight the Star Ghosts.
Chu Xinghe organized aid for the Buddha Domain, but the Misfortune Compass’s rewards kept turning losses and sabotage into profits for the Vast Heaven Holy Land. As An Ying’s attempts to escape his work repeatedly benefited the sect, the Origin Ancestor and Ma Liang began secretly arranging to take in the Buddha Domain’s Star Ghost corpses.
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