Recaps

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 gave Wan Lin his disciple token and mobilized Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce resources to defend the Wan Lineage against the Zhou Medical Hall.
• When Zhou Fengshan insulted Chu Xinghe in a peace offer, the Vast Heaven Sect declared a pill war, and Chu Xinghe ordered the sect to keep competing despite the expected losses.
• Ma Liang used the Fengdu Grand Formation’s ghosts to refine low-grade pills, letting the Vast Heaven Sect overwhelm Zhou Medical Hall, while Chu Xinghe’s Misfortune Compass reversed and cost him cultivation.
• Chu Xinghe bought the incomplete Formless Heart Sutra for ten million spirit stones, restoring the compass’s forward movement, then encouraged the elders to study the dangerous technique.
• Elder He practiced the Formless Heart Sutra despite Chu Xinghe’s warnings, suffered severe backlash, and mistook it for the technique’s power.
• After Ouyang Ming explained Flying Locust’s sword patterns, Chu Xinghe made its sword shadows carry shifting formations, and the Vast Heaven Sect celebrated his breakthrough.
• Wu Xingyun accepted Yan Shoujing’s explanation of Chu Xinghe’s formation progress and ordered him to stop scheming and focus on teaching Chu Xinghe, while Tantai Jing began the Fishing Plan.
• Chu Xinghe promised Feng Fei and Jiuli an extravagant wedding, then Jiuli’s cooking made Ouyang Ming collapse and left Chu Xinghe horrified by a taste of the greens.

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.

• Jiuli’s cooking knocked out Ouyang Ming, Feng Fei, and several cooks, while Nangong Yan discovered it amplified poisons and the Ouyang Lineage eagerly took some to eat.
• Chu Xinghe agreed to join Yan Shoujing’s Gate of Ruins expedition and poured vast resources into the gate until it opened, drawing him and the Vast Heaven Sect disciples inside.
• Chu Xinghe used his shoe to guide the disciples through the Nine Stars Concentric Grand Formation, then avoided the City of Dark Moon and encountered the invisible Dark Moon Clan.
• An Zhi explained that the Dark Moon Clan was cursed and trapped in the ruins, and Chu Xinghe used White Rainbow to break the barrier and lead them out.
• The Great Sage defeated the Ghost Emperor and took control of the City of Dark Moon, while Tantai Jing escaped, and Chu Xinghe brought the survivors back to the Vast Heaven Sect, where the Dark Moon Palace was established.
• The Dark Moon Clan helped the sect test poisons, weapons, and dangerous cultivation methods, while Ma Liang added the City of Dark Moon’s ghosts to his Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation.
• As Feng Fei’s wedding approached, Chu Xinghe proposed gifting guests Flutes of Space and Time and supreme-grade spirit weapons, and the Vast Heaven Sect distributed the gifts to visiting factions.
• After guests compared Chu Xinghe’s gifts with their own offerings, several factions upgraded their wedding presents, setting a record, while Fan Sheng refused Chu Xinghe’s request to return the flute.

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.

• Zheng Yu toured the Vast Heaven Sect’s palaces, witnessed Chu Xinghe defeat Zuo Fei and Hu Zhengqin, and joined the visiting leaders at the Flute of Space and Time giveaway.
• Zheng Yu exploited the drawing’s rules to win most of the flutes for Martial Emperor City, while Chu Xinghe’s attempt to stage a bad performance instead produced a hit led by Ma Liang and Lu Chengqing.
• The Dark Moon Clan demonstrated its Undying Bodies and An Zhi’s completed Formless Heart Sutra, prompting other factions to share techniques with the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Yan Shoujing passed the repaired sutra to Wu Xingyun, whose Demonic Sect test ended in an explosion and put Yan on the sect’s Must-Kill List.
• Chu Xinghe ordered extravagant wedding preparations and approved Yan Shoujing’s costly teleportation arrays, while the final giveaway earned the Vast Heaven Sect far more than expected.
• Feng Fei and the Vast Heaven Sect procession overcame Wuj iang’s wedding trials, and Feng Fei and Jiuli completed their wedding rites at Haotian Palace.
• The Wuj iang Holy Mother promised Jiuli regular shipments of treasures and spirit jade, then pledged half of Wuj iang’s inheritance as dowry, turning Chu Xinghe’s expensive array into a valuable alliance route.
• Gu Mingchao publicized the alliance and identified Yan Shoujing as an enemy of the Demonic Sect, prompting Wu Xingyun’s fury and raising Yan’s rank on the Must-Kill List.

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 persuaded Great Sage An Zhi to prioritize completing cultivation techniques, while Yan Shoujing injured himself practicing the unfinished Formless Heart Sutra.
• Ma Liang learned that Ma Zhen and her child had died, received Chu Xinghe’s tokens and support, and attacked the imperial family to avenge their murder.
• Chu Xinghe rescued Ma Liang from Ling Su, killed Tian Wenxin’s son, and forced Ling Su to back down from threatening war.
• Gu Mingchao demoted Ma Liang to the outer sect for life and demoted Chu Xinghe to an ordinary inner disciple with six months of confinement and personal cultivation guidance.
• Great Sage An Zhi completed the Formless Heart Sutra, whose benefits spread through the sect’s medicine refining, forging, and other abilities.
• Yan Shoujing supplied a sabotaged Soul-Devouring Banner, but Great Sage An Zhi absorbed its baleful Qi and strengthened the Dark Moon Clan and Ma Liang’s formation while ending its pill production.
• Chu Xinghe proposed growing pills and burning the spirit fields, but Mu Bai used fire crystal stones to produce the highly effective Crystal of Xinghe instead.
• Sima Bian sold the remaining pill stock before launching cheap Crystals of Xinghe, and he answered medicine refiners’ opposition by publicizing Chu Xinghe’s argument that poor patients deserved a chance to survive.