Festival of Lights · Diwali
Chu Xinghe repeatedly tried to earn punishment and expulsion, but his accidents and choices brought him cultivation, honors, and a leadership role. After leading the Vast Heaven Sect disciples through a clash with the Huang Clan, he reached the spirit cave expecting to be blamed for a delay, only to learn they had arrived early.
Chu Xinghe's attempts to fail instead brought the Vast Heaven Sect spirit liquid, financial gains, and victories over visiting rivals. After buying the supposedly worthless Tianyi Spirit Mine, he improved miner disciples' treatment and left the sect facing demands from other powers for his punishment.
Chu Xinghe survived capture by the Demonic Shadow Sect and returned to the Vast Heaven Sect, where his unlikely successes brought him acclaim and new responsibilities. He championed the struggling Ouyang Lineage, and its failed forging test ended with the discovery that Ouyang Ming had inherited part of a lost technique.
Chu Xinghe saved the Ouyang Lineage, created the Evil Repeller Pill, and oversaw a recruitment round that admitted three thousand disciples despite his efforts to reject talented candidates. The Ouyang Lineage reclaimed its ancestral home, where Ouyang Ling discovered the complete Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing inheritance.
Chu Xinghe tried to bring setbacks to the Vast Heaven Sect, but his guidance instead transformed the Muyue Kingdom disciples and restored the Ouyang Lineage's reputation. He then entered Tantai Jing's ghost formation hoping to be captured for ransom, only for Evil Repeller to free captives and turn Tantai Jing's attack back toward him.
Chu Xinghe took the Fengdu Token, helped the Ouyang Lineage recover its inheritance, and turned Fengdu City into a feared training ground that also exposed Demonic Sect infiltrators. Back at the Vast Heaven Sect, he began cultivating Feng Yuzheng’s treasure-destroying technique, which the sect leaders recognized as the Divine Engraving Technique.
Chu Xinghe’s attempts to sabotage the Vast Heaven Trading Company instead made it thrive, while Feng Yuzheng completed a working replica of the Flute of Space and Time. The Huang Clan challenged Feng Yuzheng, but Chu Xinghe took him to Wuj iang to help Feng Fei end his engagement, where the Wuj iang Holy Mother unexpectedly offered to double her sect’s annual rare treasures.
Chu Xinghe’s interventions brought Wuj iang under the Vast Heaven Sect and helped Feng Yuzheng claim treasures in the Ancient Holy Land. Yan Shoujing’s schemes repeatedly failed, and the sect finished with a new Spirit Explosion Ball as the Demonic Sect found the discarded blueprints.
Chu Xinghe backed Wan Lin’s family in a costly pill war, then won the Formless Heart Sutra at auction and accidentally sparked a series of dangerous experiments and breakthroughs. The arc left the Vast Heaven Sect celebrating Chu Xinghe’s moving sword formations, while the Demonic Sect prepared a new plan against him and Chu Xinghe took charge of Feng Fei and Jiuli’s lavish wedding.
Chu Xinghe opened the Gate of Ruins and freed the Dark Moon Clan, whose members joined the Vast Heaven Sect and helped strengthen its palaces. As the sect prepared Feng Fei’s wedding, Chu Xinghe’s lavish gifts sparked a contest among the visiting factions and brought in a record haul of wedding presents.
Chu Xinghe’s wedding preparations unexpectedly turned into a string of successful performances, alliances, and profitable schemes. Feng Fei and Jiuli married, and Wuj iang pledged vast resources to the Vast Heaven Sect, while Yan Shoujing’s role in building the teleportation array brought him greater danger from the Demonic Sect.
Chu Xinghe backed Ma Liang’s revenge for his sister’s murder and received a demotion that left his privileges largely intact. Yan Shoujing’s sabotage instead strengthened the sect, and Chu Xinghe’s attempts to cause losses led to the Crystal of Xinghe overturning the low-grade pill market.
Chu Xinghe set out to repay the Vast Heaven Sect’s debts and build its reputation, but the repayments brought in even more resources than the sect had paid out. He then took charge of the Millennial Grand Sacrifice and planned to broadcast it across the continent, while its publicity unexpectedly boosted the sect’s trading companies.
Chu Xinghe turned the Millennial Grand Sacrifice into a public reenactment of the Battle to Vanquish Evil, awakening the forebears’ holy souls and restoring Spiritual Qi. After the ceremony, Gu Mingchao became a Martial God, and Chu Xinghe arranged to bring the Savage Wilderness Tribes and their demonic beasts to the Vast Heaven Sect.
Chu Xinghe’s inspection of the sect’s businesses unexpectedly brought hidden embezzlement to light, while his new six-point assessment opened the Vast Heaven Sect to candidates with specialized talent. Wei Xin infiltrated the Dark Moon Palace but found himself caught up in its grisly routines and the Savage Wilderness Tribes’ beast-feasting.
Chu Xinghe turned the Silver Star Mountain Range disaster into a Vast Heaven Sect windfall, then watched unexpected discoveries in demon beast meat and Hu Wenhai’s talisman work frustrate his plans to waste resources. As the ten great sects’ assessment approached, he tried to make the Vast Heaven Sect look unprepared, but Old Master Wuyang praised each mishap as evidence of the sect’s virtues.
Old Master Wuyang’s assessment reshaped the sect rankings, while Ji Changfeng’s defeat brought his poison arts into the Vast Heaven Sect. The arc ended with Wan Lin and Hu Wenhai using Ji Changfeng’s Bewilderment Art and a Mirror Image Talisman to control a demonic beast, revealing Chu Xinghe’s plan.
Chu Xinghe’s efforts to turn the Land of Wilderness into a resource-rich opportunity instead opened the way to Spirit Beast Island, where he and seven others began the sacred beasts’ trials. After passing the Azure Dragon and White Tiger challenges, Chu Xinghe received the Vermilion Bird’s fire and awakened a golden Phoenix’s divine power.
Chu Xinghe and his companions opened Spirit Beast Island, where Chu Xinghe defeated the Beast God’s attempt to possess him and gained the Power of Rebirth. As the Vast Heaven Sect raised Nebula Spirit Cats and the Savage Wilderness Tribes joined the sect, the Beast God’s attempts to recover his strength repeatedly backfired.
Chu Xinghe helped the Vast Heaven Sect share the Spirit Beast Mystic Art, protect Wei Xin by reviving him as Wei Buhui, and expose the Cloud Firmament Sect’s spies. He then organized the Spirit Beast Grand Prix while secretly trying to make the Vast Heaven Sect lose, but Feng Yuzheng’s cat defeated Ye Suifeng’s Lightning Earth Dragon in the opening match.