Recaps

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 lowered the entrance standards and recruited the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits, then sent Zang Ling to buy thirty-two Taiyin Evil Spirits at a high price.
• Chu Xinghe made the Taiyin Evil Spirits inner disciples despite their poor results and enormous resource costs, while Bai Yu published articles criticizing his recruitment decisions.
• The Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits joined the Vast Heaven Holy Land after Man Sheng explained their grudge and thanked Chu Xinghe for avenging his brother, and the Grand Elder approved their admission.
• Chu Xinghe assigned the Taiyin Evil Spirits to Spirit Crane Palace and began pairing the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ divine-ability lessons with cultivation training for Body Cultivation disciples.
• Liu Bo returned to Star City, reunited with his family, and received the respect of Zhao Taixing and Wei Deqian, while Liu Bo’s grandmother suddenly fell ill.
• Wu Qun stabilized Liu Bo’s grandmother and discovered that corpse poison was worsening illnesses across Star City, then treated the city’s water while Liu Bo searched for the poisoners.
• Following Ma Liang’s hint, Liu Bo watched the cemetery and discovered three cloaked men raising corpses, but they ambushed him and Old Li killed his Nebula Spirit Cat.
• Chu Xinghe arrived when Liu Bo’s Power of Rebirth activated, killed Old Li, captured Old Zhang and Old Zhao, and reprimanded Liu Bo for neglecting his flute practice.

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.

• Tantai Jing destroyed the Corpse Demon Sect and gave Chu Xinghe evidence that Shi Mian had orchestrated the poisoning of Star City and theft of corpses.
• Chu Xinghe killed the Corpse Chief Evil Spirits who had consumed blood pills from Star City citizens, forced the Corpse Chief Evil Lord aside, and killed Shi Mian.
• Chu Xinghe used his Xinghe Divinity to expose Shi Hui, and Gu Mingchao beheaded Shi Hui before Ma Liang displayed his head in Star City.
• Man Sheng taught Tai Chu the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit divine abilities, and Tai Chu passed the Strength Soul Divine Ability to Qu Yifeng despite its racial restriction.
• Elder He explained that Qu Yifeng could cultivate the weakened ability, and the Taiyin Evil Spirits pledged themselves to Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Ma Liang arranged free cooperation with other factions that allowed the Vast Heaven Holy Land to learn the techniques they shared with the Taiyin Evil Spirits.
• Bai Yu hired a Chu Xinghe impersonator to spark rumors linking Chu Xinghe to worthless mines, and Chu Xinghe publicly declared the rumors true.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord added worthless mines and sites on Down-and-Out Mountain to the sale, while buyers bid frantically and prospecting experts doubted findings that the mountain contained no spirit mines.

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 told the factions that Down-and-Out Mountain’s mines would profit, then sent Vast Heaven Holy Land resources into the Spirit-Devouring Vortex after the mines proved empty.
• Gui Li used the Evil God Mask and the shifting earth veins to reverse the vortex, turning the mines into sources of Nine-Colored Spirit Stones.
• The transformed vortex became the Spirit-Gathering Vortex, which purified stones into Ten-Colored Spirit Stones and raised cultivators’ breakthrough chances.
• The factions gave Chu Xinghe a thirty-percent share of the mines under their wager, while Tantai Jing and Zheng Yu bought up much of the Ten-Colored Spirit Stone supply and resold it at higher prices.
• Cultivators discovered that Ten-Colored Spirit Stones protected their meridians after a failed breakthrough and gave them a stronger second attempt, prompting Tantai Jing to halt outside sales.
• Chu Xinghe arranged for the Vast Heaven Holy Land to distribute surplus Ten-Colored Spirit Stones to Rogue Cultivators for free, including those from Evil Shadow Continent.
• Bai Yu rallied the Xinghe Haters' Group to accuse Ma Liang of concealing forced labor behind the giveaway, and the group spread the allegations across the Haotian Mirror.
• Chu Xinghe burned Ma Liang’s conditional giveaway plans and ordered him to distribute the stones freely and fairly, while Ma Liang decided to give Chu Xinghe an enormous surprise.

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.

• Ma Liang devised and announced a Ten-Colored Spirit Stone drawing that required a purchase from the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, opening its shops to the Evil Shadow Continent.
• Bai Yu recruited rumor spreaders to claim the drawing was rigged, while Chu Xinghe ordered the chamber’s branches built to extravagant designs in hopes of causing losses.
• Tantai Jing and Zheng Yu offered to cover construction costs, and other factions competed for contracts that gave them access to the Evil Shadow Continent market.
• Tantai Jing launched Demonic Sect businesses across the continent, and the Evil Lords began planning a countermeasure as their markets lost ground.
• Qin Xiangqian hired Evil Spirit workers on generous terms, and Axiu’s experience of the chamber’s medical and family benefits helped draw more recruits.
• Chu Xinghe expanded the workers’ benefits, while Qin Xiangqian and Ma Liang used their local knowledge to identify villains who should not receive Ten-Colored Spirit Stones.
• Shen Chun recognized that the Evil Spirit staff could support intelligence work, and Chu Xinghe’s suggestion to share the resulting information led Shen Chun to plan a profitable information business.