Recaps

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 directed Ling Yun to alter the Spirit Formation’s resource input, first upgrading the resonance and then shifting it to Haotian City after Ling Yun dismantled the mountain formation.
• Chu Xinghe gained the Vast Heaven Sword and strengthened his mind and spirit, then had Huang Ritian set up a formation that created an Earth Vein Four-Way Resonance.
• As the Dead Spirit Realm’s seal weakened, Chu Xinghe sent the Three Shadow Rat Brothers’ clones inside to draw Shadow Ghosts away from it, and their repeated deaths helped them comprehend the Dao of Death.
• The brothers copied the Dark Moon Clan’s revival curse, and Elder He realized Chu Xinghe’s plan had used their deaths in the Dead Spirit Realm to guide their cultivation.
• Chu Xinghe ordered the brothers to send clones into the realm and self-destruct against Shadow Ghosts, destroying them before they could become Formation-Locking Jade and helping stabilize the seal.
• Chu Xinghe told discouraged Body Cultivation disciples that formations could offer a path beyond the Ninth Rank and proposed combining formations with the Dead Spirit Realm.

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.

• Shu Da pursued the Shadow Ghosts into a vast underground space, where they entered a vortex that absorbed the Dead Spirit Realm’s deathly presence and transformed it into a Spirit Realm.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land discovered that the Source of Fear remained at the realm’s core, and Chu Xinghe stayed silent and declined to advise anyone on how to handle it.
• Ouyang Ming invented an air conditioner for Chu Xinghe’s rocking chair, and the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce began selling the units at a loss while Qin Xiangqian built a business around their specialized power stones.
• Air conditioners sold out across the Four Continents, and Chu Xinghe encouraged production even as black-market traders profited and the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s energy-stone sales began recovering its costs.
• Disciples entered the Source of Fear and returned with rare resources, while Elder He explained that the Lord of Fear had to be subdued and the Source transformed into a Source of Purity.
• Chu Xinghe announced that factions could enter the Source of Fear and keep what they found, then assembled a team led by Zheng Yu and brought Ma Liang as his bodyguard.
• An Ying remained trapped in the Land of Bewildered Spirits as adventurers mistook his pleas for help for a demonic trap, while prodigies gathered at the Vast Heaven Holy Land to enter the Source.
• Bai Yu led his Defeat Chu Alliance into the Source of Fear, where four Chu Xinghes appeared as manifestations of the alliance’s fear and drove the fleeing Holy Sons to lose nearly a third of their elites.

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.

• Bai Yu and Xie Yue fled four Chu Xinghes, while Chu Xinghe’s fear caused treasures to appear for his group and the Lord of Fear failed to stop the flood.
• The Lord of Fear opened a Gate of Inheritance for Chu Xinghe, who absorbed the Nirvanic Rebirth Fire as Ma Liang, Tantai Jing, Zheng Yu, and others fought the Shadow Ghosts to protect him.
• The Lord of Fear sealed the Source of Fear as factions outside struggled to intervene, and Chu Cheng entered the realm and made the Lord of Fear and the Shadow Ghosts kneel.
• Chu Cheng accepted the Lord of Fear’s offer to guard the Source of Fear, transforming the realm and its Shadow Ghosts into a lasting inheritance sanctuary.
• Chu Xinghe learned how his allies had protected him, then discovered the Martial Emperor City disciples had given their treasures to Hill Forest Palace’s junior sisters.
• Chu Xinghe went to Medicine King Palace to refine Life Soul Pills for the injured prodigies, but his first attempt appeared to produce nothing.
• Chu Xinghe livestreamed another refinement, and viewers thought his pitch-black pill was a failure until Wu Qun identified it as Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping, a pill beyond a divine 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.

• Wu Qun identified Chu Xinghe’s failed pill as a Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill, and Mu Bai proved he could reproduce it while Chu Xinghe decided to credit Li Mutong as its discoverer.
• Chu Xinghe joined the Xinghe Haters' Group under the name Seventh Fairy and gave Erlüzi a jade talisman containing the genuine refining method to circulate it beyond the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe distributed more than thirty talismans across the Four Continents, and alchemists repeatedly failed to refine the pill as the Witch Curse Evil Lord exhausted the Evil Lords’ resources trying.
• Qin Xiangqian reported that the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce had made enormous profits selling ingredients, while Mu Bai explained that only the Vermilion Bird Furnace could refine the pill.
• The elders concluded that Chu Xinghe had leaked the method to expose alchemists who broke inheritance rules, and Tantai Jing seized the Spirit Alchemist Alliance’s businesses and alchemists after its failure to repay loans.
• The Holy Lord appointed the Lord of Purity as Elder Ling, and the Grand Elder ordered the Spirit Realm and its inheritance orbs opened to everyone for free.
• The Grand Elder set daily Spirit Realm drawings with fewer places for the Evil Shadow Continent, prompting Evil Spirits with legitimate livelihoods elsewhere to leave the continent.
• Chu Xinghe found a mountain of resources at the gate with a gift sign addressed to him, while the Holy Land’s leaders guessed Yuan Ying had sent it to bolster his reputation.