Recaps

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.

• The Samsara Divinity Seed fused with Ma Liang, and Gu Mingchao made him his second personal disciple after demoting him to satisfy the elders.
• The Grand Elder reshuffled the Holy Land after the Chamber of Commerce scandal, while Black Sha signed a contract giving it ninety percent of his storytelling earnings.
• Chu Xinghe and Ma Liang were caught up in the New Year’s vote and Chu Cheng’s punishment, while the Earth Sha Evil Lord activated a formation that exchanged Vast Heaven’s earth veins with his division’s.
• The earth-vein exchange opened a Dead Spirit Realm, and the other Evil Lords abandoned the Earth Sha Evil Lord to bear the cost of containing it.
• Spirit stones and long-extinct medicinal plants appeared across Vast Heaven, and the elders discovered that Gu Mingchao had diverted Haotian Palace’s new resources to recharge an alternate Haotian Mirror account.
• The Earth Sha Evil Lord visited Vast Heaven and reported that the opened realm was releasing Shadow Ghosts, asking the Holy Land to suppress the threat.
• Elder He proposed using the White Rainbow’s revealing power on spirit stones to find the escaped Shadow Ghosts, and Chu Xinghe offered to supply every spirit stone needed.

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 secured forty million Nine-Colored Spirit Stones for Shadow Ghost defenses across the Four Continents, then bought the Dead Spirit Realm from the Earth Sha Evil Lord for ten million stones.
• Gui Li and the Earth Sha Evil Lord moved the Dead Spirit Realm to the Haotian Mountain Range, where it merged with Vast Heaven Holy Land’s earth veins and consumed enormous resources.
• Chu Xinghe used his Xinghe Avatar to oversee the Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division and urged Ma Liang to recruit boldly, then approved a plan to train new disciples in formations.
• Chu Xinghe and Tai Chu taught Shu Da and the Shadow Rat Clan to inscribe formations, while Chu Xinghe used Flying Locust to produce forty million formation-engraved spirit stones.
• Ma Liang rejected the absent top three candidates, recruited three thousand disciples through conventional tests, and faced protests after Bai Yu spread rumors about the formation-training plan.
• Chu Xinghe publicly took responsibility for Ma Liang’s plan, promised divine pills if it failed, and expanded the program to four thousand disciples despite warning that they might lose two years of progress.
• Chu Xinghe gave the arriving disciples Tribulation-Breaking Pills that sealed their spiritual power, and Mu Bai explained that the pills would bring a major breakthrough after two years.
• Chu Xinghe told White Tiger Holy Venerable to teach formations as usual while withholding the reason for the sealed spiritual power, as the elders began planning the lessons.

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 pushed the Formation Spirit Palace to teach its new disciples joyfully, and their success rates doubled as other factions struggled to copy the resource-intensive method.
• At Cheng Xiaotian’s promotion banquet, Chu Xinghe presented hundreds of carts of gifts, while Zheng Yu revealed that he had arranged the tour to profit from Chu Xinghe’s popularity.
• Chu Xinghe ordered the Vast Heaven Holy Land to let Rogue Cultivators cultivate freely in the outer Haotian Mountain Range, and the policy drew crowds and concern over resource costs.
• Cheng Xiaotian credited his Dao of Happiness and Haotian Mirror victories for his breakthrough to Half-Step Main God, while Gu Mingchao protected him and celebrated with him afterward.
• Zheng Yu encouraged faction leaders to compete on the Haotian Mirror leaderboard, and their top-ups turned the rankings into a fierce contest that alarmed Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Lu Chengqing to disable large recharges and had Zheng Yu explain Cheng Xiaotian’s breakthrough, but users’ claims that small top-ups made them stronger fueled more spending.
• Lu Chengqing saw small payments spread across the Four Continents, while major factions thanked Chu Xinghe for limiting large losses and commenters mocked Erlüzi as the only admitted victim.
• Chu Xinghe sighed that he had been wrong and began examining the plan’s flaws as everyone else denied being fooled, leaving Erlüzi named as the sole victim for one spirit stone.

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.

• Chu Xinghe offered refunds for Haotian Mirror top-ups, but most people refused them, and Gu Mingchao later rose in the rankings by stealing and selling Cheng Xiaotian’s belongings.
• Rogue Cultivators flooded the Haotian Mountain Range to cultivate, while Gui Li replenished its Spiritual Qi and Wu Ling exposed Shadow Ghosts with a Shadow-Revealing Spirit Stone.
• Shadow Ghosts’ remains turned into Formation-Locking Jade that returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, where Chu Xinghe’s leaders praised his supposed plan and he kept the Dead Spirit Realm closed.
• Chu Xinghe sent the Body Cultivation disciples to study formations and recruited two thousand more people with Innate Severed Meridians, expecting their training to consume resources.
• Chu Xinghe publicly apologized to Haotian City property owners and offered generous refunds and permanent usage rights, but Zheng Yu persuaded Martial Emperor City to refuse compensation.
• Earth Vein Three-Way Resonance produced abundant resources in the Haotian Mountain Range, and Chu Xinghe decided to shatter it by changing the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s resource supply despite Gui Li’s warning.