Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe tried to help Jiuli claim the Gu God’s White Gu inheritance while hoping Feng Fei could escape his engagement without the Wuj iang receiving tribute. After the White Gu entered Jiuli, Chu Xinghe touched the Black Gu stone to provoke the Wuj iang, but the Black Gu burst free and sent a beam of black light into the sky.

• Chu Xinghe agreed to help Jiuli obtain the inheritance and promised Feng Fei he would end the engagement, while Feng Yuzheng wondered why Xinghe had not helped him find the Divine Engraving Technique.
• Jiuli told Feng Yuzheng that part of the Divine Engraving Technique might be hidden with the Gu God’s inheritance and promised to surprise Chu Xinghe with it.
• Jiuli led Chu Xinghe and Feng Fei through the Gu God Ruins and explained that Feng Fei would open the White Gu inheritance before Chu Xinghe used his fortune to guide the White Gu to Jiuli.
• The White Gu escaped Jiuli’s control and flew toward Feng Fei, so Chu Xinghe gave Jiuli his fortune and redirected it into her, allowing her to receive the inheritance.
• Chu Xinghe touched the stone containing the Black Gu, hoping to make the Wuj iang abandon the engagement and tribute, but the Black Gu exploded free and a beam of black light shot skyward.

Chu Xinghe accidentally activated both Gu God inheritances, which went to Feng Fei and Jiuli, who accepted their bond and delighted Wuj iang. Chu Xinghe was left lamenting his bad luck until Jiuli gave him a Divine Engraving Technique fragment, prompting him to collapse again.

• Chu Xinghe touched the Black Gu's stone, and the Black Gu flew free as a pillar of misfortune rose alongside the White Gu's pillar of fortune.
• The Black Gu tried to enter Chu Xinghe, but he dodged and it entered Feng Fei instead, beginning the inheritance while Jiuli warned Chu Xinghe not to interrupt.
• Feng Fei received the Black Gu and Jiuli received the White Gu, then Feng Fei called Jiuli his future sister-in-law and declared their union heaven's mandate.
• Feng Fei and Jiuli emerged holding hands, and the Holy Mother of Wuj iang proclaimed them the new rulers as Wuj iang's people celebrated their bond.
• Jiuli gave Chu Xinghe a Divine Engraving Technique fragment, and he collapsed while Feng Yuzheng recognized it and wept with joy.

After realizing his attempts to make Vast Heaven Sect lose always backfired, Chu Xinghe decided to help the sect so his luck would supposedly make it fail instead. Feng Yuzheng struggled to understand the Divine Engraving Technique fragment, while a message from Wuj iang revealed that Chu Xinghe had brought all of Wuj iang under Vast Heaven Sect’s command.

• Jiuli credited Chu Xinghe with helping Feng Yuzheng obtain the Divine Engraving Technique fragment, leaving Chu Xinghe convinced his trip to Wuj iang had brought him nothing but trouble.
• Chu Xinghe realized that his efforts to make Vast Heaven Sect suffer losses always benefited it, so he decided to use reverse-reverse tactics by working to help the sect.
• Feng Yuzheng told Chu Xinghe he could not understand the Divine Engraving Technique fragment, and Chu Xinghe encouraged him to keep studying while privately celebrating the setback.
• The grand elder received a message from Wuj iang stating that Chu Xinghe had brought all of Wuj iang under Vast Heaven Sect’s command.
• Gu Mingchao and the palace heads read the message and were stunned by the scale of Chu Xinghe’s achievement.

Chu Xinghe's Wuj iang trip strengthened the Vast Heaven Sect's ties with Wuj iang and brought back inheritances, prompting the Huang Clan to plot against Feng Yuzheng. After returning, Chu Xinghe failed to find another mission but took encouragement from Mu Bai's failed medicine refining.

• The Vast Heaven Sect celebrated the Wuj iang inheritances and Feng Fei's relationship with Jiuli, while rival sects abandoned their hopes of winning Wuj iang over.
• The Huang Clan planned to defeat Feng Yuzheng in the Ancient Holy Land to pressure the Vast Heaven Sect into sharing the Divine Engraving Technique fragment.
• Chu Xinghe, Feng Fei, and Feng Yuzheng returned to the Vast Heaven Sect, where Feng Fei demonstrated his Black Gu abilities and Peak Seventh Rank strength to the Grand Elder.
• Feng Fei moved Chu Xinghe's belongings out of their shared room and redecorated it in Jiuli's favorite color.
• Chu Xinghe sought hidden missions at the sect's palaces without success and failed to persuade Wan Lin to explain her unhappiness.
• Chu Xinghe instructed Mu Bai and the others in medicine refining and felt encouraged when Mu Bai blew up two furnaces.

Chu Xinghe’s guidance caused disciples across the Vast Heaven Sect to suffer repeated failures, though they later turned those setbacks into breakthroughs. He left for the Ancient Holy Land with the Great Elder and Feng Yuzheng, while the disciples he had guided began making remarkable progress.

• Chu Xinghe tested his suspicions by guiding disciples, and their cultivation and crafting repeatedly went wrong despite his sound advice.
• Mu Bai and the other Muyue Kingdom disciples decided to persist through their exploding furnaces, and Mu Bai eventually refined a quasi-divine pill after gaining new insight.
• The sect leaders sent Chu Xinghe to the Ancient Holy Land with the Great Elder and Feng Yuzheng, expecting Feng Yuzheng to use his Treasure Appraisal Art after the Huang Clan ended its cooperation.
• Chu Xinghe urged Feng Yuzheng to recite the Divine Engraving Technique backward, prompting Feng Yuzheng to realize its fragments had been reversed and enter meditation.
• After Chu Xinghe and his companions departed through the teleportation array, Mu Bai and the other disciples he had guided revealed their breakthroughs and praised his guidance.

Chu Xinghe and Feng Yuzheng entered the Ancient Holy Land, where Feng Yuzheng faced the Huang Clan in a contest to appraise rare treasures. When Feng Yuzheng summoned a vortex with his new method, the treasures around it began to tremble.

• The first elder brought Chu Xinghe and Feng Yuzheng to meet the gathered factions, and Huang Yusheng taunted the Vast Heaven Sect about Feng Yuzheng's incomplete Divine Engraving Technique.
• Chu Xinghe reassured the first elder that Feng Yuzheng would secure the treasures they sought, while Feng Yuzheng privately resolved to prove himself.
• The factions sacrificed spirit stones to form spirit jades, and the first elder sent Chu Xinghe and Feng Yuzheng into the Ancient Holy Land the next morning.
• Chu Xinghe saw vast piles of dust-covered treasures and watched the Huang Clan appraisers search through them for valuable items.
• When Chu Xinghe handed Feng Yuzheng two spirit weapons, Feng Yuzheng admitted he could not use the Treasure Appraisal Art and offered to try a new method instead.
• Feng Yuzheng formed a massive vortex with a spirit seal and shouted, "Appraise, come!" as nearby treasures began trembling.

Feng Yuzheng used the Gate of Divine Appraisal to identify vast numbers of treasures, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned as the Vast Heaven Sect’s plan to profit succeeded spectacularly. Chu Xinghe let other sects take the treasures Feng Yuzheng discarded, and they began favoring him over the Huang Clan’s appraisers.

• Feng Yuzheng opened the Gate of Divine Appraisal, automatically identifying treasures throughout the holy land and shocking the Huang Clan and the other sects.
• Feng Yuzheng appraised saint artifacts and divine artifacts in huge quantities, dismissing some as unworthy of Chu Xinghe.
• A young woman from Listening Snow Pavilion asked to take discarded treasures, and Chu Xinghe agreed.
• People from the other sects followed her example, collecting the treasures Chu Xinghe allowed them to take.
• The sect representatives abandoned the appraisal gathering to pick up treasures and resolved to keep their contact with the Huang Clan to a minimum.

Chu Xinghe let the sects take the Vast Heaven Sect’s unwanted treasures for free, but Feng Yuzheng interpreted his casual remark about the Haotian Sword Casket as a hint to combine artifacts, creating a way to take far more treasures out of the sacred land. As the barrier began to close, Huang Yusheng waited outside, confident that the Huang Clan would still be the only winner.

• Chu Xinghe let the other sects collect the Vast Heaven Sect’s unwanted treasures without charge, leaving the Huang Clan’s appraisers sidelined and unable to claim their usual share.
• Chu Xinghe told Feng Yuzheng he would be pleased if he found a treasure on the level of the Haotian Sword Casket, and Feng Yuzheng took it as a hint to combine spirit treasures.
• Feng Yuzheng used the Divine Engraving Technique to create the Bead Bead Casket, combining eight divine artifacts into one treasure that could be taken out of the sacred land.
• Feng Yuzheng explained that Chu Xinghe’s guidance had helped him comprehend the Divine Engraving Technique, and the other sects praised Chu Xinghe while Feng Yuzheng assembled more treasure caskets.
• Feng Yuzheng successfully made ten caskets containing eight rare treasures apiece as the sacred land’s barrier began to flicker and the groups prepared to leave.
• Huang Yusheng watched the barrier outside the sacred land and believed the Huang Clan would be the only winner.

Chu Xinghe’s scheme failed to make Feng Yuzheng lose the treasure cases, but Feng’s appraisal ability devastated the Huang Clan’s influence while earning the Vast Heaven Sect eighty divine artifacts. As the sect promised to keep helping others for free, Wu Xingyun sent Yan Shoujing to infiltrate and destroy it from within.

• Chu Xinghe dropped ten treasure cases while teleporting out, but a junior sister retrieved them after the barrier’s first item check, and Feng Yuzheng confirmed Chu had lost things before.
• The sects learned that Feng Yuzheng’s Gate of Divine Appraisal had undercut the Huang Clan, and Feng showed the grand elder eighty divine artifacts assembled from the treasures.
• The various sect leaders thanked the Vast Heaven Sect, and Chu Xinghe promised its appraisal service would remain free, with the grand elder approving his decision.
• News of the Ancient Holy Land spread, and Wu Xingyun revealed Yan Shoujing, a former Vast Heaven Sect senior brother who had joined the Demonic Sect after confessing under torture.
• Yan Shoujing agreed to infiltrate and destroy the Vast Heaven Sect, hoping to earn Xiao Cui’er as his reward.

Chu Xinghe learned that Yan Shoujing had returned to the Vast Heaven Sect and been named its first deputy sect master, then was ordered to study formations under him. Yan Shoujing secretly planned to destroy the sect and cripple Chu Xinghe, while Chu Xinghe resolved to avoid learning formations.

• At a banquet, Feng Yuzheng credited his achievements to the Vast Heaven Sect and Chu Xinghe, while the grand elder praised them both.
• The grand elder told Chu Xinghe that Yan Shoujing, Sect Master Gu Mingchao’s long-lost senior brother, had returned and been appointed deputy sect master.
• The grand elder ordered Chu Xinghe to study formations under Yan Shoujing, and Chu Xinghe reluctantly agreed.
• Yan Shoujing recalled betraying the Vast Heaven Sect to the Demonic Sect and vowed to destroy the sect and win Xiao Cui'er.
• Yan Shoujing decided to ruin Chu Xinghe by refusing to teach him properly and using formations to cause him cultivation deviation.
• After returning to the sect, Chu Xinghe resolved not to study formations.

After returning to the Vast Heaven Sect, Chu Xinghe was assigned to study formations under Deputy Sect Master Yan Shoujing, while his earlier guidance continued to cause disciples and alchemists to prosper. Yan Shoujing secretly planned to use reversed formation lessons to cause Chu Xinghe’s Qi deviation, but Chu Xinghe intended to misuse the lessons and waste sect resources.

• The Grand Elder brought Chu Xinghe and Feng Yuzheng back to the sect, then introduced Chu Xinghe to Sect Master Gu Mingchao and the returned Yan Shoujing.
• Gu Mingchao and the Grand Elder praised Chu Xinghe’s achievements, and Yan Shoujing resolved to destroy him while concealing his intentions.
• Chu Xinghe visited the palace heads to learn about Yan Shoujing, but disciples across the sect reported breakthroughs after receiving Chu Xinghe’s earlier guidance.
• Mu Bai told Chu Xinghe that his alchemy advice had helped the Muyue Kingdom produce quasi-divine pills, and the Grand Elder praised Chu Xinghe’s ability to guide others.
• Yan Shoujing barred the palaces from seeking Chu Xinghe’s advice while he studied formations, and Chu Xinghe welcomed the order.
• Yan Shoujing taught Chu Xinghe formation taboos and backward beginner formations, planning to induce fatal Qi deviation, while Chu Xinghe planned to remember the taboos so his formations would fail.

Chu Xinghe secretly cultivated the formations Yan Shoujing taught him in reverse, yet mastered the Lightning Light Formation overnight and convinced Yan he was a terrifying genius. Unable to harm Chu Xinghe directly, Yan plotted to expose the sect’s caravan routes to the Demonic Sect and frame Feng Fei for the resulting ambushes.

• Chu Xinghe practiced the Lightning Light Formation in reverse and completed it overnight, then showed it to Yan Shoujing at Haotian Palace.
• Yan Shoujing was shocked by Chu Xinghe’s success but claimed he had mastered the formation in an hour and taught Chu more advanced formations in reverse.
• Wu Xingyun sent Yan Shoujing a message urging him to destroy the Vast Heaven Sect and kill Chu Xinghe, but Yan decided he could not yet act against Chu.
• Yan Shoujing summoned Feng Fei and ordered him to change several caravan routes to longer detours.
• Yan Shoujing planned to give the new routes to the Demonic Sect so it could ambush the caravans, then blame Feng Fei for the attacks.

Wu Xingyun received caravan routes from Yan Shoujing and ordered Tantai Jing to prepare an ambush, while Chu Xinghe unknowingly expanded the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s costly detours into a security plan for every caravan. When Chu Xinghe demonstrated his rapid formation progress, Yan Shoujing was stunned by how quickly he learned despite being taught incorrectly.

• Wu Xingyun received Yan Shoujing’s route maps and ordered Tantai Jing to use them to ambush the Vast Heaven Sect’s caravans.
• Chu Xinghe found Feng Fei studying the chamber of commerce’s altered routes, and Feng Fei explained the vice sect master’s secret arrangements.
• Chu Xinghe suggested sending every caravan along the detours together to improve security, and Feng Fei issued the new routes to all caravans.
• Chu Xinghe visited Yan Shoujing and demonstrated his formations, leaving Yan Shoujing shocked by his rapid progress despite deliberately teaching him backward.

Yan Shoujing realized Chu Xinghe was a formation prodigy, then helped the Demonic Sect prepare an ambush that ended in disaster. Wu Xingyun learned that the Demonic Sect’s raiders had charged into Vast Heaven Sect forces numbering in the thousands, leaving him to question Yan Shoujing’s motives.

• Yan Shoujing taught Chu Xinghe proper formation techniques, failed spectacularly when he tried reverse cultivation himself, and concluded that Chu Xinghe was a monster whose growing talent made him more urgent to destroy.
• Tantai Jing led more than a hundred Demonic Sect disciples to ambush the Haotian Caravan, but the caravan’s torches revealed thousands of Vast Heaven Sect members surrounding them.
• Tantai Jing escaped using the Blood Escape Technique while the Vast Heaven Sect overwhelmed his raiders, and Demonic Sect attacks on other caravans ended the same way.
• Wu Xingyun heard Tantai Jing’s report and learned that the Demonic Sect forces had been wiped out at every ambush site, prompting him to suspect Yan Shoujing had betrayed them.

After the Demonic Sect’s raid on eight Haotian Caravan locations ended in disaster, Chu Xinghe’s advice was credited with saving the caravans, while Yan Shoujing’s role raised suspicions. The elders dismissed those suspicions after seeing Chu Xinghe’s powerful formations, but Chu Xinghe remained unsure whether Yan Shoujing’s teachings were trustworthy.

• The Demonic Sect’s raid on eight Haotian Caravan locations failed, leaving the sect devastated and baffling factions across the world.
• Feng Fei explained that he had grouped the caravans together on Chu Xinghe’s advice, and the Vast Heaven Sect praised Chu Xinghe for preventing greater losses.
• Chu Xinghe suggested that the Demonic Sect had intercepted news of the route changes, while Feng Fei insisted he had used the usual channels to pass the information along.
• The grand elder asked Chu Xinghe to demonstrate his formations, and Chu Xinghe’s impressive results persuaded the grand elder and Gu Mingchao that Yan Shoujing was not a spy.
• Chu Xinghe decided to practice Yan Shoujing’s formation method the right way around to test whether the vice sect master had taught him incorrectly.

Chu Xinghe found that practicing Yan Shoujing’s formations normally made him advance rapidly, easing his suspicions about the vice sect master. Yan Shoujing and Wu Xingyun planned to use sabotaged Spirit Explosion Ball blueprints against the Ouyang Lineage, but Yan reconsidered how to deliver them without drawing suspicion.

• Chu Xinghe practiced Yan Shoujing’s formations forward, made rapid progress, and decided to stop practicing them backward.
• Yan Shoujing resolved to teach Chu Xinghe properly, then connected with Wu Xingyun, who cursed him for a failed plan that had harmed the Demonic Sect.
• Yan Shoujing asked Wu Xingyun for Spirit Explosion Ball blueprints, intending to add Spirit Cloud Fruit so the weapon would explode during manufacture and kill members of the Ouyang Lineage.
• Wu Xingyun agreed to send the altered blueprints, believing the Ouyang Lineage’s reputation for exploding furnaces would conceal the sabotage.
• Ouyang Ming blew up a furnace at the Artifact Refining Palace, while Feng Yuzheng hoped Chu Xinghe could help him master the Divine Engraving Technique.
• After receiving the altered blueprints, Yan Shoujing decided not to deliver them himself and began devising a safer plan.

Yan Shoujing repeatedly tried to make Chu Xinghe hand a Spirit Explosion Ball diagram to the Ouyang Lineage, hoping to destroy them and damage Chu Xinghe. Chu kept throwing the first two diagrams away, but after finding the conspicuously labeled third one, he decided to keep it from the Ouyang Lineage, leaving Yan Shoujing convinced his plan had succeeded.

• Yan Shoujing dropped a crooked Spirit Explosion Ball diagram where Chu Xinghe would find it, but Chu mistook it for litter and threw it away.
• Yan Shoujing left a neatly folded second diagram for Chu, who studied it before again crumpling it and tossing it into a trash can.
• Yan Shoujing made a third diagram with “Spirit Explosion Ball” written prominently on it and placed it in Chu's path.
• Chu recognized the diagram as a Demonic Shadow Sect secret treasure and decided to keep it rather than let the Ouyang Lineage study it.
• Yan Shoujing watched Chu put the diagram away and returned to Haotian Palace, believing the Ouyang Lineage would soon blow themselves up.

Yan Shoujing repeatedly planted Spirit Explosion Ball schematics for Chu Xinghe, who collected and buried them to prevent the Ouyang Lineage from benefiting. Feng Yuzheng found the buried materials and delivered them to the Artifact Refining Palace, leaving Yan Shoujing overjoyed that his plan had finally worked without understanding why.

• Yan Shoujing discovered that Chu Xinghe had not delivered the first schematics and planted increasingly detailed versions for him over the following days.
• Chu Xinghe collected the schematics and books, convinced that fortune was targeting him, then buried them outside the Medicine King Palace.
• Feng Yuzheng used his Locating Treasure Seeking Art to find the buried materials and mistook them for the results of Chu Xinghe's secret research.
• Chu Xinghe told Feng Yuzheng to hand the materials to Ouyang Ming, and Feng Yuzheng immediately delivered them to the Artifact Refining Palace and alerted the sect's elders.
• Yan Shoujing confirmed that the schematics had reached the Artifact Refining Palace and celebrated his apparent success.

The Vast Heaven Sect began testing the Spirit Explosion Ball blueprints, while Chu Xinghe expected Ouyang Ming to waste resources after the Ouyang Lineage ate the Spirit Cloud Fruits. Ouyang Ming secretly kept the final fruit out of the furnace, but the refining unexpectedly produced a glowing sphere that launched into the air.

• Gu Mingchao and the palace leaders accepted Ouyang Ming's judgment that the Spirit Explosion Ball blueprints were feasible and ordered the sect to gather materials.
• Ouyang Ling told Chu Xinghe that Wan Lin had seemed depressed, and he resolved to find out what was troubling her.
• Chu Xinghe discovered that Ouyang Ming and the Ouyang Lineage had eaten most of the Spirit Cloud Fruits, and Ouyang Ming promised he could refine the weapon without them.
• Ouyang Ming reported that the available Spirit Cloud Fruits were unsuitable, so Yan Shoujing fetched higher-grade replacements.
• Ouyang Ming began refining the Spirit Explosion Ball as the sect leaders watched, and Chu Xinghe saw him secretly put the final Spirit Cloud Fruit into his storage ring.
• A beam of spiritual light rose from the furnace, and a purplish-black sphere flew into the air while Yan Shoujing and Chu Xinghe eagerly anticipated the outcome.

Ouyang Ming successfully made Spirit Explosion Balls despite the missing Spirit Cloud Fruit, and the Vast Heaven Sect celebrated gaining a powerful weapon while Yan Shoujing despaired over his failed plot. Chu Xinghe and Ouyang Ming quietly kept the fruit for themselves, but discarded blueprints were found by Demonic Sect disciples, who planned to bring them back to their sects.

• Ouyang Ming completed a Spirit Explosion Ball, baffling Yan Shoujing and Chu Xinghe, then explained how he had made it.
• Gu Mingchao tested the Spirit Explosion Ball and emerged unharmed, while the elders praised its power and Ouyang Ming made more than a dozen successful copies.
• Yan Shoujing regretted his scheme as the Ouyang Lineage remained safe and the Vast Heaven Sect celebrated its new weapon.
• Chu Xinghe and Ouyang Ming shared the Spirit Cloud Fruit and agreed to keep buying it, with Ouyang Ming revealing hidden rooms where he had concealed more fruit.
• News of the Spirit Explosion Ball spread, and Demonic Sect disciples found the blueprints Chu Xinghe had discarded and hurried to report them to their sects.