Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe celebrated the runaway air-conditioner sales, while Zhang Bahu’s team made a fortune reselling units in the northwest desert. Zhao Chao left the team to gamble on the black market, but a sudden announcement of massive new production threatened to wipe him out.

• Chu Xinghe learned that air conditioners were selling faster than the Vast Heaven Holy Land could produce them, and he went to the Artifact Refining Palace to encourage its disciples.
• Tantai Jing profited from air-conditioner sales and used the Momo Queueing Service to control access to black-market units as demand surged across the Four Continents.
• Zhang Bahu’s team sold eight thousand air conditioners in one morning for 120,000 spirit stones, while Zhao Chao learned he could not afford the treatment that might save him.
• Zhao Chao left the team over a supposed difference in principles and spent all his money buying air conditioners from Tantai Jing at a promotional price of nine spirit stones each.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land announced that Ouyang Ming’s faster production method would bring massive quantities of air conditioners to market the next day, after Tantai Jing had already sold his stock.

Tantai Jing profited from selling air conditioners at black-market prices, then escaped blame when the Vast Heaven Holy Land flooded the market with affordable units. As the buyers discovered the real profit lay in Ouyang Ming’s specialized power spirit stones, Chu Xinghe learned that Ouyang Ming and Qin Xiangqian believed the entire scheme had been his.

• Tantai Jing stopped selling air conditioners after making his intended profit, and the Vast Heaven Holy Land announced a major increase in production while releasing a large, purchase-limited stock at regular prices.
• Black-market air conditioner prices collapsed, and Tantai Jing mocked the profiteers who accused him of scamming them after they had bought his clearly priced goods.
• Long queues formed at Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce branches, and Tantai Jing earned more through the Momo Queueing Service while people wondered why the Vast Heaven Holy Land kept selling air conditioners at a loss.
• Buyers discovered that ordinary spirit stones could power the air conditioners, but Ouyang Ming’s specialized power spirit stones consumed far fewer resources, making them the practical choice.
• Chu Xinghe summoned Ouyang Ming and Qin Xiangqian over the power spirit stones, and they told him they had assumed the plan was his.

Chu Xinghe watched Vast Heaven Holy Land’s air conditioners and energy stones become a profitable success despite his efforts to avoid making money. Qin Xiangqian reported that the business had already recovered most of its costs, and Chu Xinghe ordered raises for everyone in the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce.

• Artifact refiners across the Four Continents defended Vast Heaven Holy Land’s air conditioners and energy stones, silencing critics by explaining their value and low prices.
• Bai Yu rejected the Xinghe Haters' Group’s plans to attack the products because, as an artifact refiner, he could find no sound reason to criticize them.
• Qin Xiangqian told Chu Xinghe that the energy stones were selling quickly, with wealthy buyers purchasing years’ worth at a time.
• Qin Xiangqian reported that the business had recovered sixty percent of its costs and might turn a profit as soon as the next month.
• Chu Xinghe ordered raises for everyone in the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce so they could share the burden of making a fortune.

Chu Xinghe ordered another raise for Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce employees, prompting complaints from other businesses and a debate over how much of their revenue went to workers. After the Grand Elder dismissed those complaints, Shen Chun interrupted Chu Xinghe to report that something else had happened.

• Chu Xinghe told Qin Xiangqian to announce another raise for everyone at the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, whose employees vowed to work hard in return.
• Outsiders urged the Grand Elder to stop Chu Xinghe from raising wages, and the Grand Elder asked Qin Xiangqian about the chamber’s finances.
• Qin Xiangqian explained that the chamber directed sixty percent of annual profits to the Vast Heaven Holy Land and spent about twenty percent of total expenditure on wages, while other chambers kept far more for themselves.
• The Grand Elder ordered Shen Chun to throw away the complaints, and Chu Xinghe accepted that his raises were pushing other businesses to improve workers’ pay across the Four Continents.
• As Chu Xinghe prepared to rest, Shen Chun appeared and told him that something else had happened.

Chu Xinghe learned that disciples were retrieving valuable ancient treasures from the Source of Fear, then urged the elders to deal with its Lord. Elder He explained that killing the Lord would destroy the Source and the Spirit Realm, while preserving it required subduing the Lord and making him transform it into a Source of Purity.

• Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that disciples entering the Source of Fear had found and brought back many rare treasures and resources.
• Chu Xinghe went to the Spirit Crane Palace and urged the Grand Elder to deal with the Lord of Fear.
• Elder He explained that ancient experts had killed the Lord of Fear, causing the Source of Fear and their Spirit Realm to vanish.
• Elder He said the Lord had to be subdued and made to transform the Source of Fear into a Source of Purity, a feat he considered almost impossible.
• Chu Xinghe realized the mission seemed impossible to complete and became excited by his chance to avoid success.

Chu Xinghe persuaded the Vast Heaven Holy Land to confront the Lord of Fear and opened the Source of Fear to factions across the Four Continents. He planned to kill the Lord of Fear himself while letting others take the resources, and the chapter ended with Leader Bai supporting the announcement because he could join the expedition too.

• Elder He explained that the Lord of Fear could grow until the Dead Spirit Realm became a forbidden zone, and no one knew whether it might eventually escape.
• Chu Xinghe claimed the Star Divination Art predicted a Chu would subdue the Lord of Fear, though he privately resolved to kill it instead.
• Chu Xinghe told the Grand Elder he would enter the Source of Fear and use his Power of Mind and Spirit to resist the Lord of Fear.
• Chu Xinghe asked the Grand Elder to invite every faction to enter the Source of Fear and keep whatever resources they obtained, and the Grand Elder ordered Shen Chun to announce it.
• Factions across the Four Continents debated Chu Xinghe's offer, while Leader Bai supported it because he could bring people in to claim treasures.

The Four Continents’ factions flocked to the Vast Heaven Holy Land after it invited cultivators below the Martial God realm into the Source of Fear. Chu Xinghe chose Hill Forest Palace’s female disciples and Ma Liang to accompany him, then decided Zheng Yu would lead the exploration while he focused on eliminating the Lord of Fear.

• The factions watched the Source of Fear closely for its potential Spirit Realm and ancient treasures, but the Holy Land’s claim to the site was uncontested because it had appeared on its grounds and been opened with its resources.
• After the Holy Land invited cultivators below the Martial God realm into the Source of Fear, disciples from its palaces pressed Chu Xinghe to take them along.
• Chu Xinghe selected Hill Forest Palace’s female disciples, while Ouyang Ling’s sudden appearance made them retract their flirtatious remarks.
• Chu Xinghe also brought Ma Liang as a bodyguard, explaining that he needed to focus on defeating the Lord of Fear.
• To avoid drawing spirit treasures and resources toward himself, Chu Xinghe decided to let Zheng Yu lead the team and give him whatever they found.

Zheng Yu and Tantai Jing led teams to the Vast Heaven Holy Land as prodigies from across the Four Continents gathered to explore the Source of Fear, while the Phantom Evil Lord and the Grand Elder discussed An Ying’s unexplained disappearance and secret aid to the Holy Land. Trapped in the Land of Bewildered Spirits, An Ying heard an adventuring party approach and call his pleas for help a demonic lure.

• Zheng Yu gathered Martial Emperor City’s finest and set off for the Vast Heaven Holy Land after Chu Xinghe offered to team up and let them keep the treasures.
• Tantai Jing led a Demonic Sect team into the Source of Fear, and prodigies from across the Four Continents gathered at the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Phantom Evil Lord asked the Grand Elder about the missing An Ying, and the Grand Elder described how An Ying had repeatedly infiltrated the Vast Heaven Holy Land to help build it.
• An Ying regained movement in the Land of Bewildered Spirits but failed to activate the teleportation array, then noticed the mist thinning and heard strange sounds from the depths.
• An adventuring party became trapped in the Land of Bewildered Spirits after following a treasure’s glow deeper inside.
• An Ying called for help, but the party recognized the voice as the legendary Demonic Sound of Pleas for Help and fled in fear.

As prodigies gathered at the Vast Heaven Holy Land to enter the Source of Fear, Bai Yu persuaded new Evil Spirit Holy Sons to form the Defeat Chu Alliance. After the Source of Fear opened, the alliance entered and began chanting for Chu Xinghe’s defeat, only for four Chu Xinghes to emerge from the forest.

• Teams around the Land of Bewildered Spirits mistook An Ying’s cries for help as a demon’s trap and fled whenever they heard them.
• Zheng Yu rejected alliance offers, saying he had teamed up with Chu Xinghe, while Chu Xinghe threw Tantai Jing out after he asked to join them.
• Bai Yu recruited Holy Sons from several Evil Spirit divisions into his Defeat Chu Alliance by promising them fame if they beat Chu Xinghe.
• Elder He gave the gathered prodigies Nightmare Realm fragments and warned them to escape if the Source of Fear became too dangerous.
• The White Tiger Holy Venerable opened the Source of Fear, and Bai Yu led the eager alliance inside.
• Bai Yu declared that Chu Xinghe’s era was ending, but four Chu Xinghes emerged from the forest as the alliance chanted for his defeat.

The Holy Sons of Evil Spirits from Evil Shadow Continent encountered four fear-born Chu Xinghes in the Source of Fear and fled into the Nightmare Realm, losing many of their elites. Leader Bai and Xie Yue escaped unnoticed, while the rest set a record for the fastest exit from a ruin.

• The Holy Sons of Evil Spirits shouted that they would defeat Chu Xinghe, then saw four versions of him appear around them.
• Elder He explained that the Chu Xinghes were manifestations of the Evil Spirits’ fear, with two Xinghes and their Xinghe Divinity clones making four.
• Thunder Shadow killed one Evil Spirit who boasted about their numbers, and the others realized the danger of staying.
• The Holy Sons discovered Leader Bai and Xie Yue had already disappeared, then crushed their Nightmare Realm fragments to escape the four Chu Xinghes.
• The fleeing Holy Sons lost nearly a third of their elites and became the fastest group to leave a ruin after entering.

The new Holy Sons blamed Bai Yu and Xie Yue for fleeing when four Chu Xinghes appeared, but the older Holy Sons escaped because they knew better than to fight. Inside the Source of Fear, they discovered that their own fear had created the Chu Xinghes, and they continued running as the figures chased them.

• The new Holy Sons cursed Bai Yu and Xie Yue for abandoning them, while the White Spirit Evil Lord and the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord defended their escape.
• Bai Yu and Xie Yue hid in the Source of Fear and praised each other for escaping quickly rather than fighting four Chu Xinghes.
• They blamed cowardly Holy Sons for creating Chu Xinghe through their fear, then boasted that neither of them feared him.
• Four lightning-wreathed figures appeared, and Bai Yu and Xie Yue realized that each had created a Chu Xinghe and its accompanying clone through his own fear.
• Bai Yu and Xie Yue fled again as witnesses watched them evade the pursuing Chu Xinghes, while Chu Xinghe wondered at the strange things appearing around him.

The Source of Fear forced its entrants to confront terrifying memories, including Hua Xichen’s fear of Chu Xinghe and Tantai Jing’s memory of being chased by undead. Meanwhile, Chu Xinghe put Zheng Yu in charge, and Zheng Yu’s fear of leaving empty-handed seemed to summon a road covered in treasures.

• Hua Xichen relived the rainy night that had once trapped him, but Chu Xinghe appeared as the final boss and left him panicking.
• Tantai Jing entered a teleportation array expecting the Haotian Grand Hall, but it brought him to his first battle with Chu Xinghe, where the Evil Repeller suppressed him and undead chased him.
• Chu Xinghe declared Zheng Yu the leader of their group in the Source of Fear and promised everyone would follow his decisions.
• Zheng Yu described his fortunate life as ordinary and said he feared coming away empty-handed from the expedition.
• The group found the path ahead covered with resources and spirit treasures, while Chu Xinghe thought Zheng Yu’s fear had turned into a dream come true.

Chu Xinghe’s fear of being showered with resources caused treasures to appear for his group in the Source of Fear, while other entrants faced deadly trials. He gave all the spoils to Zheng Yu and Martial Emperor City, leaving the disciples delighted and the observers baffled.

• Chu Xinghe realized that the Source of Fear manifested the strongest fear within a group, and his fear of resources appearing brought an abundance of treasures before his team.
• Zheng Yu ordered the Martial Emperor City disciples to gather the resources, but Chu Xinghe instructed the Vast Heaven Holy Land disciples to leave everything for Zheng Yu’s people.
• Ma Liang silenced the Hill Forest Palace disciples when they questioned Chu Xinghe’s decision, and Chu Xinghe told Zheng Yu that all the treasures belonged to Martial Emperor City.
• The big shots watching through the Haotian Mirror wondered whether the Vast Heaven Holy Land had secret knowledge, but Cheng Xiaotian argued that Chu Xinghe’s partnership with Zheng Yu disproved the suspicion.
• Martial Emperor City’s disciples gathered treasures while other prodigies fought terrifying powers of fear, leaving the outside observers stunned by the contrast.

Chu Xinghe’s fear of being overwhelmed by resources caused the Source of Fear to pour treasures out faster, threatening the Lord of Fear’s existence because those resources sustained him. The Lord of Fear tried to uncover Chu Xinghe’s deeper fear, but his intervention only made the resources appear even more rapidly.

• The Lord of Fear realized that the chosen ones’ fear strengthened him, while the resources in the Source of Fear sustained his existence.
• Chu Xinghe’s fear of receiving too many resources triggered the Source of Fear’s laws to send him ever more treasures.
• The Lord of Fear recognized that the flood of resources could exhaust his foundation before he grew strong enough to escape the Source of Fear.
• The Lord of Fear approached Chu Xinghe and used his power of fear, hoping to reveal a deeper fear that would replace Chu Xinghe’s fear of resources.
• Zheng Yu marveled as the resources around Chu Xinghe increased in quantity and quality, while the Lord of Fear watched in disbelief as they poured out even faster.

Chu Xinghe’s fear caused the Source of Fear to spawn resources that bound themselves to Hill Forest Palace’s disciples, while the Lord of Fear struggled to understand and stop him. The resources continued appearing and recognizing masters, leaving the other factions unable to claim them.

• The Lord of Fear made the resources resist Martial Emperor City’s disciples, and they suddenly could not pick them up.
• More resources bound themselves to Hill Forest Palace’s female disciples, who had stood by as Chu Xinghe instructed.
• The Lord of Fear made even more resources appear, drawing prodigies from across the Source of Fear who dared not challenge Chu Xinghe or Hill Forest Palace.
• Chu Xinghe told Wan Lin to let everyone take the resources, but the newcomers found they could not carry away treasures that had already recognized masters.
• Zheng Yu explained that Chu Xinghe’s offer showed the resources belonged to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, as new treasures continued appearing already claimed.

The Lord of Fear stopped the Power of Fear after Chu Xinghe’s resource gathering threatened to drain him, freeing the trapped prodigies. A Gate of Inheritance then appeared, but it recognized Chu Xinghe as its master and repelled everyone else, leaving the gathered factions bewildered.

• The Lord of Fear stopped the Power of Fear because Chu Xinghe was rapidly draining his resources while he tried to absorb the prodigies’ fear.
• Hua Xichen escaped his nightmarish world, Tantai Jing’s undead vanished, and Leader Bai and Xie Yue joined the other prodigies freed from the Power of Fear.
• Chu Xinghe’s stream of resources finally paused, but a Gate of Inheritance appeared nearby.
• Proডigies who tried to enter the Gate of Inheritance were thrown back, and they discovered it was connected to Chu Xinghe and exclusive to him.
• The faction leaders outside confronted the Vast Heaven Holy Land over the bizarre secret realm, while Elder He remained at a loss.

The Lord of Fear tried to lure Chu Xinghe into an inheritance so he could keep absorbing everyone else’s Power of Fear, but Chu Xinghe repeatedly fled from increasingly powerful Gates of Inheritance. The Lord of Fear appeared inside a seven-colored Gate and offered him everything, and Chu Xinghe finally stopped when he spotted something inside.

• The Lord of Fear opened an Exclusive Gate of Inheritance to draw Chu Xinghe into enlightenment, but Chu Xinghe turned away and left.
• The Gate of Inheritance chased Chu Xinghe and upgraded from white to silver, then golden, while Chu Xinghe continued fleeing.
• A seven-colored Gate of Inheritance appeared, stunning witnesses across the Four Continents watching through the Haotian Mirror.
• The Lord of Fear appeared inside the seven-colored Gate and offered Chu Xinghe all the Power of Inheritance in the Source of Fear.
• Chu Xinghe ignored the Lord of Fear and tried to leave, but stopped in shock after seeing something inside the Gate.

Chu Xinghe discovered the Nirvanic Rebirth Fire behind the Gate of Inheritance and began absorbing it with his Phoenix Fire. The Lord of Fear awakened the ancient Shadow Ghost army to stop him, while the gathered sects and clans rallied to defend Chu Xinghe as he remained vulnerable.

• Chu Xinghe sensed the seven-colored Nirvanic Rebirth Fire and reached past the Gate of Inheritance to draw it into his body.
• Elder He and the Great Sage identified the fire as the force that had trapped the ancient battlefield’s souls and created the vast Dead Spirit Realm.
• The Lord of Fear realized Chu Xinghe’s Phoenix Fire was absorbing the source of his power and saw a chance to seize Chu Xinghe’s body if the fire consumed him first.
• The Lord of Fear spent his Power of Fear to awaken the ancient Shadow Ghost army and send it charging at Chu Xinghe.
• Ma Liang formed a Samsara Grand Array, and disciples from Vast Heaven Holy Land, Hill Forest Palace, Martial Emperor City, Winter Moon Pavilion, the Star Moon Sect, and the Ming Clan of the Spirit Beast Continent joined the battle to protect Chu Xinghe.

Chu Xinghe entered nirvanic stillness while fusing the Fire of Nirvanic Rebirth with his Phoenix Divine Fire, leaving him unable to defend himself as the Lord of Fear sent Shadow Ghosts to kill him and seize his body. Ma Liang and the Hill Forest Palace disciples formed a desperate defense around him, holding the ghosts back as the attack continued.

• The Lord of Fear unleashed a vast wave of Shadow Ghosts against Chu Xinghe while his soul was trapped in nirvanic stillness.
• Zheng Yu and Ma Liang realized that neither the Haotian Sword Casket nor the Xinghe Divinity was protecting Chu Xinghe.
• Ma Liang activated his fragile Samsara Divinity and destroyed the Shadow Ghosts that approached Chu Xinghe.
• The Hill Forest Palace disciples joined Ma Liang, fighting at full strength to keep the Shadow Ghosts away from Chu Xinghe.
• Wan Lin and the other disciples held their ground as the Shadow Ghosts pressed against their defensive line.

The disciples of the Vast Heaven Holy Land and Martial Emperor City fought the endless Shadow Ghosts to protect Senior Brother Xinghe, while Zheng Yu used Martial Emperor City’s Nightmare Realm fragments to save the exhausted Hill Forest Palace disciples. Outside the sealed Source of Fear, the White Tiger Holy Venerable failed to break through, and Gu Mingchao prepared to pierce it with his sword.

• Qin Xue refused to flee despite her wounds, and Ma Liang failed to save her from the Shadow Ghosts with his fading strength.
• Zheng Yu arrived with the Martial Emperor City disciples, rescued Qin Xue, and sent the exhausted Hill Forest Palace disciples out using his city’s Nightmare Realm fragments.
• Zheng Yu and the Martial Emperor City disciples took over the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s positions and vowed to defend Xinghe to the death.
• Elder He rescued the Hill Forest Palace disciples as leaders from across the Four Continents gathered outside the sealed Source of Fear.
• The White Tiger Holy Venerable could not break the Lord of Fear’s seal, so Gu Mingchao raised his sword and declared that he would pierce the Source of Fear.