Recaps

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.

• Wu Qun backed Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Sect as Crystals of Xinghe flooded the market and displaced low-rank pills.
• Chu Xinghe sent Ma Liang and Ma Biao to collect overdue debts, and Ouyang Ling helped them pressure debtor sects into repayment through increasingly outrageous tactics.
• Chu Xinghe decided the Vast Heaven Sect should repay its own debts, and Ma Liang joined him as they visited affiliated sects and returned resources with interest.
• Chu Xinghe ordered the sect to repay debts even when creditors had lost their IOUs or loan tokens, and Li Xing accepted payment for the Hundred Herbs Hall’s old debt.
• Gu Feng repaid the Myriad Spirits Sect, prompting Liu Quanshan to reconsider the Vast Heaven Sect even as the Cloud Firmament Sect threatened to seize the Myriad Spirits’ secret technique.
• Zheng Yu and the major sects copied Chu Xinghe’s debt-repayment campaign, and the Vast Heaven Sect recovered more than five times what it had paid out.
• Chu Xinghe was promoted and appointed to oversee the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, where he proposed using the Haotian Mirror to broadcast the ceremony across the continent.
• Rogue Cultivators flocked to Vast Heaven’s trading companies to support the broadcast, and Chu Xinghe decided to make the sacrifice even more outrageous.

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 planned a red-decorated Millennial Joyous Sacrifice and recruited Lu Chengqing to gather performers from across the continent, while Ma Liang’s advice turned the performers’ fees into a source of income for the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Chu Xinghe invited major factions, including the Demonic Sect and Martial Emperor City, to perform, then opened the sacrifice amid criticism for making the memorial look festive.
• Chu Xinghe used the Haotian Mirror and illusion formations to show the Battle to Vanquish Evil, and the assembled factions displayed their strength as he honored the people who had fought in the battle.
• The holy souls appeared, bestowed inheritances on people across the continent, and restored Spiritual Qi before pouring their power into Chu Xinghe.
• The Misfortune Compass redirected the spiritual power toward Gu Mingchao, who survived a dangerous breakthrough and became a Martial God, while Chu Xinghe reached the Seventh Rank Martial Saint realm.
• The factions thanked Chu Xinghe and refused his promised appearance fees, while Gu Mingchao’s attempt to make him chief disciple failed and Chu Xinghe received core disciple status instead.
• Gu Mingchao assigned Chu Xinghe to inspect the sect’s businesses, but Chu Xinghe delayed the trip while the Dark Moon Clan made progress in cultivation.
• Chu Xinghe advised the Vast Heaven Sect to give resources to the Savage Wilderness Tribes and bring them and their demonic beasts to the City of Dark Moon, and the Great Sage went to retrieve them.

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 brought the Savage Wilderness Tribes to the Vast Heaven Sect, where they befriended the Ouyang Lineage after discovering demonic beasts could be eaten.
• Chu Xinghe’s surprise inspection of the Rong City mine uncovered defective ore and embezzlement, but his offer of doubled compensation persuaded the stewards to restore their accounts and repay what they had taken.
• Chu Xinghe promoted Wei Xin and sent him to the Dark Moon Palace, where the clansmen repeatedly terrified him with their death demonstrations.
• Chu Xinghe traveled to Ice City, where An Lan killed Zhang Dongkui and Thousand-Faced Fox after Zhang mistook Chu Xinghe for the fox.
• Chu Xinghe used lineage connections to admit weak candidates, and Ma Liang’s explanation led the sect to adopt a six-point assessment based on full marks in six categories.
• The new assessment spread across the major sects and admitted specialized candidates, including Hu Wenhai, while Chu Xinghe planned elective courses to address their weaknesses.
• Wei Xin endured the Dark Moon Palace’s demonstrations, investigated the Savage Wilderness Tribes, and discovered they were catching demonic beasts to grill and eat.

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.

• The Great Sage taught Wei Xin the Formless Heart Sutra, but Ling Su’s elders collapsed after trying it, so Ling Su cut off contact with Wei Xin.
• Chu Xinghe investigated the Silver Star Mountain Range, arranged for the Dark Moon Clan to blast it apart, and used Xie Songlin’s recorded surrender to fend off Xing Yushen’s accusations.
• The Vast Heaven Sect discovered that the blast had refined a vast store of silver ore, while Wei Xin renounced the Cloud Firmament Sect and pledged himself to Chu Xinghe.
• Wei Xin broke through after eating demonic beast meat, and the Vast Heaven Sect realized it could improve poor physiques, and Chu Xinghe’s attempts to limit the resulting profits and recruitment benefits failed.
• Chu Xinghe created an elective course in raising demonic beasts and brought Hu Wenhai to the Dark Moon Palace, where Hu’s rapid but unsuccessful talisman-making consumed resources.
• As the sect assessment neared, Chu Xinghe ordered the palaces to neglect their usual duties so the Vast Heaven Sect would appear unprepared to Wu Yang’s delegation.
• Old Master Wuyang praised the sect’s lack of ceremony, Gu Mingchao’s self-portrait, and Yan Shoujing’s exploding formations, recording each as a virtue rather than a failure.