Chapter Summaries

Wu Ling used a Shadow-Revealing Spirit Stone to expose and help kill a Shadow Ghost, sending the creature’s remains back to the Vast Heaven Holy Land in a black stone. The Little Bear King recognized the stone as a major threat to the Four Continents, while continuing to struggle with teaching his powerful, childlike father.

• Wu Ling revealed a Shadow Ghost with a Shadow-Revealing Spirit Stone, and the team killed it before it could attack the captain.
• Flying Locust’s array absorbed the Shadow Ghost’s remains and transformed them into a black stone that flew toward the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Old Bear King caught the stone, and the Little Bear King scolded his father while explaining that his memory problems could not be safely fixed until he grew up.
• The Little Bear King took the black stone from his father and recognized it as something that should not still exist in the Four Continents.

The Little Bear King discovered an unused piece of Formation-Locking Jade and believed it revealed Chu Xinghe’s plan for training formation masters. Ma Liang announced that the jade had arrived from beyond the heavens, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned by the threat to his plans.

• The Little Bear King showed the black stone to the Bear Clan elders, who recognized it as likely Formation-Locking Jade but questioned how an unused piece remained.
• The Little Bear King concluded that Chu Xinghe had trained four thousand formation masters as part of a backup plan and rushed the jade to the Grand Elder.
• Chu Xinghe watched over the new disciples practicing formations at the Formation Spirit Palace and encouraged them to keep using resources.
• Ma Liang arrived and told Chu Xinghe that the Little Bear King had brought the Formation-Locking Jade to the Spirit Crane Palace, where the sect leaders confirmed it was genuine.
• Ma Liang told the new disciples that the Formation-Locking Jade had flown in from beyond the heavens, and Chu Xinghe fell from his rocking chair in shock.

A piece of Formation-Locking Jade returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and Chu Xinghe realized it bore the presence of his Haotian Sword Casket. The elders concluded that his nine-colored spirit stones had transformed after killing Shadow Ghosts, revealing a way to produce Formation-Locking Jade as Chu Xinghe feared the consequences.

• Ma Liang told the new Formation Spirit Palace disciples that Chu Xinghe had arranged for Formation-Locking Jade to come to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and Chu Xinghe urged everyone to stay calm.
• At the Spirit Crane Palace, the White Tiger Holy Venerable showed Chu Xinghe a complete piece of Formation-Locking Jade, which he recognized as carrying the presence of his Haotian Sword Casket.
• Chu Xinghe wondered whether his Flying Locust had brought the jade back, and Elder He and the other leaders mistakenly took his question as confirmation.
• Chu Xinghe suggested the jade might have come from the nine-colored spirit stones they had sent out, leading the leaders to conclude that stones which killed Shadow Ghosts transformed into Formation-Locking Jade and returned under the Flying Locust's guidance.
• Elder He explained that complete Formation-Locking Jade was black and turned white as its power was used up, while Chu Xinghe realized the discovery threatened to cause a disaster.

The Vast Heaven Holy Land received another piece of Formation-Locking Jade, prompting Elder He to explain how Chu Xinghe had supposedly maneuvered the Earth Sha Evil Lord into selling the Dead Spirit Realm. As the elders celebrated the windfall, Chu Xinghe silently lamented that he had only meant to lose money and had become so overwhelmed that he could no longer hear, see, or speak.

• Holy Lord Gu Mingchao dodged the Grand Elder’s questions about Cheng Xiaotian and fled, claiming he needed to write.
• A message arrived from the Bear Clan announcing that another piece of Formation-Locking Jade had flown in.
• Elder He explained that Chu Xinghe had spent forty million spirit stones to collect escaped Shadow Ghosts and disguise his interest in the Dead Spirit Realm.
• Elder He said Chu Xinghe had bought the Dead Spirit Realm for ten million spirit stones and secured a Heavenly Dao Contract to prevent the Earth Sha Evil Lord from reclaiming it.
• The elders praised Chu Xinghe’s supposed strategy while Chu Xinghe, unable to hear, see, or speak, thought that he had only wanted to take a loss.

The Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders realized Chu Xinghe’s recruitment of formation disciples and use of Formation-Locking Jade could transform combat across the Four Continents. When they proposed opening the Dead Spirit Realm to collect more jade, Xinghe refused and left them convinced he had a deeper reason, though he had none ready.

• White Tiger Holy Venerable explained that disciples could store formations in Formation-Locking Jade and activate them in battle, making Xinghe’s training plan powerful despite their poor formation aptitude.
• A disciple reported that more Formation-Locking Jade had returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land after Shadow Ghosts were killed across the Four Continents.
• The Grand Elder proposed opening the Dead Spirit Realm to obtain more Formation-Locking Jade, but Chu Xinghe immediately refused.
• Unable to explain his instinctive refusal, Chu Xinghe asked Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable for a reason, and Azure Dragon suggested the realm might be dangerous.
• Chu Xinghe agreed that danger was the reason and told the leaders to watch quietly as events unfolded.

Chu Xinghe kept the Dead Spirit Realm closed despite the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s control of it, while Shadow Ghosts killed across the Four Continents produced Formation-Locking Jade that flew back to the Holy Land. As factions sought to buy the valuable jade, the Grand Elder refused them, and Cheng Xiaotian left angry after being turned away.

• Chu Xinghe announced that he had a plan for the Dead Spirit Realm and insisted that it remain closed, and the Holy Land’s leaders agreed to wait for his next move.
• Shadow Ghosts were killed across the Four Continents, producing Formation-Locking Jade that accumulated at the Vast Heaven Holy Land and drew attention from Tantai Jing and the other factions.
• News that Chu Xinghe had spent forty million spirit stones to obtain Formation-Locking Jade spread, prompting Zheng Yu to boast that his disciple-recruitment strategy would benefit from the jade.
• Formation masters and faction leaders traveled to the Holy Land to buy Formation-Locking Jade, but the Grand Elder refused to sell any because Chu Xinghe would not allow the Dead Spirit Realm to be opened.
• Cheng Xiaotian protested that the Holy Land was mistreating its top spender, but the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable had him shown out, and Cheng Xiaotian cursed Gu Mingchao as he left.

The Vast Heaven Holy Land equipped its chosen disciples with Formation-Locking Jade and punished anyone who tried to steal it. The Earth Sha Evil Lord realized Chu Xinghe’s purchase of the Dead Spirit Realm had trapped him in a binding contract, leaving him mocked by the other Evil Lords.

• The factions learned that the Vast Heaven Holy Land would keep its scarce Formation-Locking Jade for its own disciples, and they recognized the value of Chu Xinghe’s training plan.
• The factions sent resources and Formation-Locking Jade to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, while Shen Chun’s intelligence operatives killed four Martial Gods who tried to seize the jade.
• The Earth Sha Evil Lord realized that Chu Xinghe’s ten-million-spirit-stone purchase and Heavenly Dao Contract prevented him from claiming any benefit from the Dead Spirit Realm.
• The other Evil Lords accused the Earth Sha Evil Lord of selling the Dead Spirit Realm and causing their losses, but he threatened to reveal their theft of the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s earth vein.
• The other Evil Lords backed down and left after the Earth Sha Evil Lord threatened to expose them.

Chu Xinghe sealed the Dead Spirit Realm to keep its Shadow Ghosts from turning into Formation-Locking Jade, while people across the Four Continents praised the Earth Sha Evil Lord for giving the Vast Heaven Holy Land the realm. After four thousand pieces of Formation-Locking Jade returned, the Formation Spirit Palace’s disciples gained new confidence, and Elder Ling Mou told them not to doubt Xinghe’s intentions.

• People across the Four Continents called the Earth Sha Evil Lord a spendthrift and praised his gift of the Dead Spirit Realm’s Formation-Locking Jade to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe sealed the Dead Spirit Realm with grand formations and ordered its guards not to open it without his permission, hoping to prevent more Formation-Locking Jade from being produced.
• The Shadow Ghosts across the Four Continents were cleared, and the Formation-Locking Jade returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land or was brought back by Shen Chun.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land counted exactly four thousand pieces of Formation-Locking Jade, matching the number of disciples Chu Xinghe had arranged to recruit.
• The Formation Spirit Palace’s disciples became enthusiastic about learning formations, believing the jade would let them gain combat strength even if their aptitude was poor.
• Elder Ling Mou reassured the Formation Spirit Palace disciples that Xinghe had a larger plan and told them not to judge his intentions by their own doubts.

Chu Xinghe learned that Qu Yifeng and the Body Cultivation disciples had come to ask for guidance because they had reached a bottleneck approaching the Ninth Rank. Their lack of spiritual power gave Chu Xinghe an idea for combining Body Cultivation with formations.

• Chu Xinghe stayed at the Spirit Crane Palace, avoiding the Formation Spirit Palace, while Ma Liang and Ouyang Ming argued over the supposedly indestructible rocking chair.
• Qu Yifeng led the Body Cultivation disciples to visit Chu Xinghe, and the chapter recounted how Qu Yifeng rejected the Li Clan after they sought to claim him once he had become successful.
• Qu Yifeng asked why Chu Xinghe had been spending time with the formation disciples instead of visiting Body Cultivation Peak, after rumors suggested Chu Xinghe favored the formation masters.
• The Body Cultivation disciples clarified that they wanted Chu Xinghe's guidance because Qu Yifeng was nearing the Ninth Rank and they did not know how body cultivators could progress to the Martial God realm.
• Chu Xinghe seized on the disciples' lack of spiritual power and wondered whether Body Cultivation could work together with formations.

Chu Xinghe told Qu Yifeng that formations held the path for Body Cultivators beyond the Ninth Rank and proposed having them study at the Formation Spirit Palace. He left the meeting planning to recruit two thousand Body Cultivation disciples personally in Haotian City.

• Qu Yifeng explained that Body Cultivators had no way to continue cultivating after reaching the Ninth Rank, and Chu Xinghe told him that studying formations would solve the problem.
• Chu Xinghe brought Qu Yifeng and the Body Cultivation disciples to the Spirit Crane Palace and called the Grand Elder, Shen Chun, and the other leaders together.
• Chu Xinghe proposed sending all Body Cultivation disciples to the Formation Spirit Palace and recruiting two thousand more to study formations alongside body techniques.
• The Grand Elder approved the recruitment, while the elders argued over the new places and their personal connections.
• Chu Xinghe announced that he would personally recruit the two thousand disciples in Haotian City so personal favors would not influence the selection.

Chu Xinghe recruited two thousand Body Cultivation disciples with Innate Severed Meridians, intending to make them study formations because he believed they could never use spiritual power or inscribe formations. After Zheng Yu questioned the plan, Chu Xinghe arrived in Haotian City to begin recruitment, stunning the Four Continents with his methods.

• Chu Xinghe learned from the great elder why disciples from true great clans were well-mannered and exceptionally capable, then resolved to avoid giving connected families another chance to benefit from his plans.
• News spread that Chu Xinghe would recruit two thousand Body Cultivation disciples, prompting people across the Four Continents to compete for the chance to join the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe required recruits to have Innate Severed Meridians and no spiritual power, believing that would prevent them from succeeding at formations and wasting resources.
• People celebrated the opportunity for those with Innate Severed Meridians, then were baffled to hear Chu Xinghe planned to have the recruits study formations.
• Zheng Yu asked Chu Xinghe whether people with Innate Severed Meridians could cultivate formations, and Chu Xinghe replied that he was recruiting them precisely because they could not.
• Chu Xinghe began recruiting in Haotian City, and his process stunned the Four Continents.

Chu Xinghe recruited two thousand people with absolutely no spiritual power and sent them to study formations, then ordered the existing Body Cultivation disciples to do the same. He watched the Misfortune Compass spin faster, convinced his plan could not fail.

• Chu Xinghe avoided the Haotian Courtyard and rejected candidates who showed even the faintest trace of spiritual power.
• After eight days, Chu Xinghe recruited two thousand people with pure Innate Severed Meridians and teleported them to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Deacon Yang feared Chu Xinghe was upset with him, but Chu Xinghe explained through the Grand Elder that he had simply been rushing to finish recruitment.
• Chu Xinghe brought the two thousand new Body Cultivation disciples to the Formation Spirit Palace and told Elder Ling Mou to train them in formations.
• Qu Yifeng reached Ninth Rank, and Chu Xinghe ordered him to bring the existing Body Cultivation Peak disciples to study formations as well.
• Chu Xinghe watched the Misfortune Compass spin faster as the Body Cultivators joined the resource-consuming training.

Chu Xinghe celebrated the Body Cultivation disciples’ repeated failures to learn formations, then learned that his promise to let Rogue Cultivators stay in the Haotian Mountain Range had angered Haotian City property owners. He ordered tenfold refunds while letting everyone stay, confident the resulting losses would finally help him fail, and admitted he had no backup plan.

• Chu Xinghe watched the Body Cultivation disciples consume resources and repeatedly fail to use formations, believing they were his true loyal followers.
• Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that Rogue Cultivators had flooded the Haotian Mountain Range and that Haotian City property owners were protesting the unfairness of their arrangement.
• Chu Xinghe rejected Shen Chun’s suggestion to suppress the complaints and said the Vast Heaven Holy Land could not reverse its public promise to the Rogue Cultivators.
• Chu Xinghe ordered tenfold refunds for people who had bought houses and land, while promising they could keep using their property and that Rogue Cultivators could continue staying.
• Shen Chun left to make arrangements, and Chu Xinghe laughed because he expected the plan to cause huge losses, though he had no backup plan.

After Chu Xinghe opened Haotian City and the Haotian Mountain Range to Rogue Cultivators, property owners protested that the decision undermined what they had paid for, and the public worried the Vast Heaven Holy Land would reverse it. Chu Xinghe issued a personal apology, but instead of facing ridicule, he won widespread praise for taking responsibility.

• Bai Yu explained that the Grand Elder had previously limited how long Rogue Cultivators could cultivate in the Haotian Mountain Range after Haotian City property owners objected to Chu Xinghe's earlier policy.
• Haotian City property owners protested Chu Xinghe's new order and complained on the Haotian Mirror that it disregarded their interests.
• Rogue Cultivators feared the Vast Heaven Holy Land would let the controversy cool before imposing new restrictions, while other factions declined to support them.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land released a statement of apology, and Chu Xinghe personally admitted fault.
• Bai Yu expected people to mock Chu Xinghe, but the public praised him for taking responsibility and correcting his mistake.

Chu Xinghe publicly apologized for the Haotian City decision and offered refunds, tenfold compensation, and permanent use rights for the affected land and houses. His costly offer stunned the Four Continents, while Zheng Yu declared that Cheng Xiaotian would refuse compensation and keep his courtyard.

• Bai Yu prepared articles to criticize Chu Xinghe whether he expelled Rogue Cultivators or offered compensation, but public opinion began praising Chu Xinghe for taking responsibility.
• Shen Chun advised Chu Xinghe to privately contact the big shots and suppress the story, but Chu Xinghe chose to make his apology public so people would stop calling him infallible.
• Chu Xinghe released an apology admitting his mistakes and promising refunds, tenfold compensation, and permanent use rights for affected land and houses in Haotian City.
• People across the Four Continents were shocked by the scale of Chu Xinghe's offer, and Bai Yu realized neither of his planned articles could credibly attack it.
• Zheng Yu told his master Cheng Xiaotian that they would refuse the Vast Heaven Holy Land's compensation and keep the courtyard in Haotian City, leaving Cheng Xiaotian and everyone in Martial Emperor City bewildered.

Chu Xinghe arranged extravagant refunds and compensation for factions that had bought land and houses from the Vast Heaven Holy Land, leaving them bewildered and silencing their complaints. Martial Emperor City refused its refund on Zheng Yu’s advice, so Chu Xinghe decided to raise his offer.

• Chu Xinghe calculated refunds using peak market prices, renovation costs, emotional-distress payments, and generous rounding, then gave property holders permanent usage rights.
• The compensated faction leaders left the Vast Heaven Holy Land astonished, and their complaints about Chu Xinghe stopped.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Martial Emperor City would not accept a refund, despite Senior Brother Shen Chun explaining the offer to Zheng Yu.
• Zheng Yu persuaded Cheng Xiaotian and Martial Emperor City’s elders to refuse, arguing that Senior Brother Xinghe never acted without a hidden catch.
• After Martial Emperor City refused to sell its land and houses, Chu Xinghe told Senior Brother Shen Chun to raise the offer to Zheng Yu.

Chu Xinghe reclaimed nearly all of Haotian City's land for Vast Heaven Holy Land, then settled into a comfortable routine while the city remained unchanged and resources were wasted at a furious pace. Elder He warned that his Fate Divinity was growing by detecting Chu Xinghe's intentions, and the Grand Elder pressed him for a plan concerning the Dead Spirit Realm; Chu Xinghe promised to act when the time was right.

• After Zheng Yu refused Chu Xinghe's higher offer for Cheng Xiaotian's property, he convinced Martial Emperor City's leaders that keeping the land would give them leverage to profit from Chu Xinghe's plans.
• Vast Heaven Holy Land reclaimed the land in Haotian City except for Martial Emperor City's portion, but made no changes to the city's daily life or regulations.
• Chu Xinghe relaxed in a rocking chair at the Spirit Crane Palace while his projects consumed resources, and Huang Ritian received a longer confinement after seeking a similar chair.
• Elder He told Chu Xinghe that his Fate Divinity grew whenever Chu Xinghe's schemes succeeded, raising Chu Xinghe's fears that it could eventually expose his intentions.
• The Grand Elder asked Chu Xinghe about plans for the Dead Spirit Realm after forces across the Four Continents sought Formation-Locking Jade, and Chu Xinghe said the time to act had not yet come.

Chu Xinghe investigated the sudden surge of resources growing throughout the Haotian Mountain Range and learned that Rogue Cultivators had formed their own federation to protect the area. Elder He proposed that the strange abundance was caused by Earth Vein Resonance, leaving Gui Li astonished.

• Ma Liang told Chu Xinghe that higher-grade resources were appearing in greater quantities across the Haotian Mountain Range.
• Chu Xinghe and Ma Liang found Rogue Cultivators gathered around the resources, while the Vast Heaven Rogue Cultivator Federation kept everyone from taking them.
• The Grand Elder summoned Gui Li to investigate the growth, while Huang Ritian received extra daily cultivation as punishment for leaving confinement.
• Gui Li said the scale of the growth exceeded what the earth vein normally produced and tried to identify the cause.
• Elder He suggested that Earth Vein Resonance had caused the change, and Gui Li was shocked by his knowledge.

Elder He identified the resource boom in the Haotian Mountain Range as artificially created Earth Vein Three-Way Resonance, which let Rogue Cultivators cultivate while generating even more resources for Vast Heaven Holy Land. As the phenomenon stunned the Four Continents, Chu Xinghe resolved to shatter it himself.

• Elder He explained Earth Vein Resonance and Earth Vein Three-Way Resonance, and Gui Li confirmed that the phenomenon matched the Earth Sha Evil Spirits’ legends.
• The Earth Sha Evil Lord arrived, witnessed the resonance in the Haotian Mountain Range, and fainted; Vast Heaven Holy Land sent him away with a gift.
• The Grand Elder realized the resonance had produced enough resources to more than repay what Rogue Cultivators consumed, and the Rogue Cultivators volunteered to guard and deliver the resources.
• News of the resonance spread across the Four Continents, where people questioned Earth Sha Evil Spirits about it and heard that the Earth Sha Evil Lord had joined the resonance himself.
• Chu Xinghe decided to intervene and announced that he would shatter the Earth Vein Three-Way Resonance.

As the Haotian Mountain Range’s three-way ley-line resonance produced abundant resources, Chu Xinghe looked for a way to make it disappear by changing the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s supply. He ordered the supply quantity changed despite Gui Li warning that doing so would break the resonance’s balance.

• Bai Yu argued in the Haotian Mirror that the ley-line resonance was a coincidence and that Chu Xinghe had not caused it.
• Ma Liang reassured Chu Xinghe that the resonance could keep producing resources if they left things unchanged, prompting Chu Xinghe to consider how to disrupt it.
• Chu Xinghe reasoned that the Holy Land’s resource supply was the controllable third part of the resonance and went to the Civil Engineering Department to consult Gui Li.
• After Gui Li warned that changing the supply would break the balance and likely prevent the resonance from returning, Chu Xinghe ordered the resource quantity changed anyway.