Chapter Summaries

Gu Mingchao held back from striking the Source of Fear after White Tiger Holy Venerable warned that it could destroy everyone inside, leaving Chu Xinghe’s fate uncertain. As Zheng Yu’s defense faltered, Ji Moran and allies from across the Four Continents took turns sacrificing their Nightmare Realm fragments to protect one another and hold the line for Xinghe.

• White Tiger Holy Venerable stopped Gu Mingchao from striking the Source of Fear, warning that the attack might destroy everyone trapped inside.
• As Zheng Yu was overwhelmed by Shadow Ghosts, Ji Moran arrived with the Cloud Firmament Sect and sent the Martial Emperor City disciples out using their Nightmare Realm fragments.
• The Cloud Firmament Sect took over the defense, and Zheng Yu was sent out to receive treatment from Elder He.
• Fan Sheng, the Ming Clan, Cui Wuming, the Ning Clan, Hua Xichen, and other heaven’s chosen from across the Four Continents joined the battle and offered their fragments to save others.
• No one from Evil Shadow Continent joined because Leader Bai and Xie Yue were still being chased by four Chu Xinghes.

Bai Yu and Xie Yue kept fleeing their harmless Chu Xinghe afterimages because they feared stopping, while Xie Yue’s fans blamed Bai Yu for earning the title of the Four Continents’ number-one coward. Outside the Source of Fear, White Tiger explained that Gu Mingchao could create a one-person opening, but the group had not chosen who should enter when an upheaval began inside.

• Bai Yu and Xie Yue refused to stop and test whether the Chu Xinghe afterimages would vanish, and continued running as the Evil Lords watched.
• Xie Yue’s fans defended him and blamed Bai Yu, causing Bai Yu to be labeled the number-one coward of the Four Continents.
• White Tiger and the formation grandmasters failed to find a normal way to open the Source of Fear.
• White Tiger proposed using the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Formation, with Gu Mingchao creating a brief opening for one person to enter.
• Elder He volunteered, but White Tiger warned that his incomplete Fate Divinity could let the Lord of Fear take control of him.
• An upheaval suddenly erupted inside the Source of Fear as the group considered who should enter.

As Chu Xinghe devoured the Fire of Nirvanic Rebirth, the Lord of Fear unleashed the Shadow Ghosts against the prodigies guarding him. Ma Liang sacrificed his life, soul, and Samsara Divinity to hold the line, but Tantai Jing stopped his self-destruction and sent him to the Nightmare Realm, taking over the final watch.

• Chu Xinghe continued absorbing the Fire of Nirvanic Rebirth while trapped in its inner world, and the Lord of Fear sent the Shadow Ghosts into a frenzy to stop him.
• Ma Liang forced the grievously wounded Ji Moran out, then Elder He used the Nightmare Realm to evacuate the other exhausted prodigies.
• Ma Liang burned his life force and cracked his Samsara Divinity Seed to summon spirits and defend Chu Xinghe from the Shadow Ghosts.
• As his spirits fell, Ma Liang burned his soul and prepared to detonate himself, recalling how Chu Xinghe had earned his loyalty.
• Tantai Jing rode through the Shadow Ghosts, blocked Ma Liang's self-destruction, and sent him into the Nightmare Realm before declaring he would guard Chu Xinghe in his place.

Tantai Jing rescued Ma Liang and held off the Lord of Fear’s Shadow Ghosts so Chu Xinghe could finish absorbing the Phoenix Divine Fire. Outside the Source of Fear, Chu Xinghe’s allies completed a formation but hesitated over whom to send in.

• Tantai Jing became an Undead Knight, sent Ma Liang into the Nightmare Realm, and took his place defending Chu Xinghe from the Shadow Ghosts.
• The Lord of Fear tried to tempt Tantai Jing with power, but Tantai Jing refused and explained that Chu Xinghe’s survival protected the Demonic Sect’s hard-won peace with the righteous path.
• Tantai Jing fought to buy Chu Xinghe time as the seven-colored flames entered Chu Xinghe’s body and he began to stir.
• The White Tiger Holy Venerable completed the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Formation outside the Source of Fear, but Gu Mingchao and the others could not decide whom to send inside.

As Tantai Jing struggled to hold off the Shadow Ghosts, Chu Xinghe completed the fourth transformation of his Phoenix Divine Fire and woke. He located the Lord of Fear, but a mysterious voice interrupted his plan with a challenge about the Future.

• Elder He rescued the gravely injured Ma Liang, and Mu Bai used Vast Heaven Holy Land's treasures to stabilize him.
• Elder He warned that the Power of Fear could control anyone below the Main God Realm, leaving the group to debate who could enter the Source of Fear.
• Tantai Jing desperately held off the Shadow Ghosts and begged the unconscious Chu Xinghe to wake before he was forced to burn his life.
• Chu Xinghe fused the Nirvanic Rebirth Fire into his Phoenix Divine Fire, completing its fourth transformation and waking beside Tantai Jing.
• Chu Xinghe found the Lord of Fear among the Shadow Ghosts and prepared to kill him, but an unknown speaker announced, "Having seen the Future, why do you not bow!"

Vast Heaven Holy Land sent Holy Son Chu Cheng, carried on a bed by the Four Sacred Beasts, into the Source of Fear to confront the Lord of Fear. Chu Cheng’s command froze the Lord and made the Shadow Ghosts kneel, leaving everyone across the Four Continents stunned.

• White Tiger Holy Venerable suggested sending Chu Cheng into the Source of Fear, and Elder He realized Xinghe’s clue about a person surnamed Chu might refer to him.
• The Grand Elder ordered Chu Cheng fetched, and the Four Sacred Beasts carried him out of the outer sect on his bed.
• Bai Yu and the White Spirit Evil Lord discussed Chu Cheng’s mysterious reputation and speculated that his bandages suppressed his cultivation.
• The Four Sacred Beasts carried Chu Cheng into the Source of Fear, where he declared, “Now that you have seen the Future, why do you not bow?!”
• Chu Cheng’s words froze the Lord of Fear and caused every Shadow Ghost to kneel.

Holy Son Chu Cheng neutralized the Lord of Fear, who submitted and carried him out of the Source of Fear, transforming the Dead Spirit Realm into a Spirit Realm. As the Four Sacred Beasts took Chu Cheng to rescue Chu Xinghe, the Source of Fear became the Source of Purity, and its Shadow Ghosts turned into reusable Inheritance Spirit Orbs.

• Chu Cheng’s fearlessness overwhelmed the Lord of Fear, who knelt and asked to become his disciple.
• Chu Cheng refused to take the Lord of Fear as his master but accepted his offer to guard the Source of Fear, then let him carry him out.
• The Lord of Fear’s power dissipated, transforming the Source of Fear and the Dead Spirit Realm into places of purity.
• After hearing Chu Xinghe was trapped, Chu Cheng agreed to go with the Four Sacred Beasts, while Chu Xinghe and Tantai Jing wondered how their expected roles had changed.
• The Shadow Ghosts became Inheritance Spirit Orbs linked to the Lord of Purity, allowing their inheritances to be used repeatedly.

After Holy Son Chu Cheng transformed the Lord of Fear into the Lord of Purity, the Spirit Realm became a renewable inheritance sanctuary filled with reusable Inheritance Spirit Orbs. Chu Xinghe feared the transformation was another disastrous reversal, but Elder He noted that the Shadow Ghosts and Formation-Locking Jade were gone, leaving Chu Xinghe convinced he had finally beaten the Misfortune Compass.

• The Lord of Purity restored Elder He's Inheritance Spirit Orb after Elder He failed to comprehend its wood-element inheritance, proving the orbs could be reused indefinitely.
• The major figures from the Four Continents realized the Spirit Realm had become a vast holy land of inheritance.
• The Lord of Purity pledged to join the Vast Heaven Holy Land and guard the Spirit Realm for Holy Son Chu Cheng.
• Chu Xinghe lamented that Chu Cheng had turned his resource-draining Dead Spirit Realm into a valuable inheritance sanctuary, though he was pleased to have gained the Fire of Nirvanic Rebirth.
• Elder He pointed out that the Shadow Ghosts and Formation-Locking Jade had disappeared, and Chu Xinghe declared that he had finally defeated the Misfortune Compass.

The Dead Spirit Realm became a Spirit Realm filled with Inheritance Spirit Orbs, while Chu Cheng’s feats made him the talk of the Four Continents. The Evil Lords concluded that Chu Cheng had killed the Nightmare Evil Lord, and Chu Xinghe celebrated what he thought was a crushing loss before realizing the Misfortune Compass had given him no reward.

• The Earth Sha Evil Lord regretted that his division had not held out long enough to claim the Spirit Realm, while the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord and Heart-Devouring Evil Lord argued that the division could never have achieved what the Vast Heaven Holy Land had.
• Stories about Chu Cheng’s talent and his encounter with the Lord of Fear spread across the Four Continents, and Zheng Yu wondered whether Chu Cheng cultivated a special mental-power Dao.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord and the other Evil Lords inferred that Chu Cheng had killed the Nightmare Evil Lord, but they kept their conclusion secret because the Nightmare Evil Lord had attacked the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Hua Xizhong said that nobody could learn about Chu Cheng because the area where he stayed was forbidden, and the Great Elder refused to answer private inquiries.
• Chu Xinghe celebrated the Spirit Realm’s failure to produce Formation-Locking Jade as a victory over the Misfortune Compass, then realized the Compass had not rewarded him for the treasures taken by the Martial Emperor City disciples.

Chu Xinghe learned how the factions had risked themselves to save him and tried to make sense of the Misfortune Compass’s lack of a reward. Wan Lin then revealed that Hill Forest Palace would keep the treasures that had acknowledged owners but hand over the Martial Emperor City disciples’ unclaimed treasures, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned over his chicken soup.

• Chu Xinghe realized the Formation-Locking Jade’s loss might have canceled out his gains and argued that the Misfortune Compass still owed him a reward.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Ma Liang, Zheng Yu, Tantai Jing, and others had protected him, while Tantai Jing’s actions earned the Demonic Sect new business with the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The various factions refused Chu Xinghe’s offer of thanks, saying they had protected him because he had always protected them.
• Chu Xinghe waited for the Misfortune Compass to reward him, but it showed no sign of turning.
• Wan Lin brought Chu Xinghe chicken soup and said Hill Forest Palace would keep treasures that had acknowledged owners while submitting those that had not.
• Chu Xinghe realized the unclaimed treasures were the ones obtained by the Martial Emperor City disciples and wondered why Wan Lin’s chicken soup tasted bitter.

Chu Xinghe learned that the Martial Emperor City disciples had given all the resources and spirit treasures they found to the junior sisters of Hill Forest Palace, then happily accepted goose feathers in return. He was left baffled by the disciples’ devotion and wished Martial Emperor City would recruit more female disciples.

• Chu Xinghe questioned Wan Lin about why Martial Emperor City’s unclaimed resources and spirit treasures were in Hill Forest Palace’s hands.
• Wan Lin explained that the Martial Emperor City disciples had insisted on giving their resources to the junior sisters, despite repeated refusals.
• The Martial Emperor City disciples gave away every resource they found and worked for the rest of the trip without keeping any spoils.
• Wan Lin offered the senior brothers goose feathers as mementos, and they treasured the feathers while promising to help the junior sisters again.
• Chu Xinghe reflected that the Martial Emperor City disciples had become devoted admirers even though the junior sisters had not remembered their names.

Chu Xinghe went to Medicine King Palace to personally refine recovery pills for the prodigies injured while helping him fuse with the Fire of Nirvanic Rebirth. He chose an extravagantly expensive recipe for Life Soul Pills, and the chapter ended as the pills neared completion without the usual divine-grade phenomena.

• After seeing Wan Lin off, Chu Xinghe went to Medicine King Palace to make pills for the injured prodigies.
• Chu Xinghe told Mu Bai he would personally refine the pills and insisted his gifts would show greater sincerity than ordinary resources or existing pills.
• Chu Xinghe listed costly ingredients for a Life Soul Pill, and Mu Bai realized each pill would cost over a million spirit stones.
• Chu Xinghe began refining the Life Soul Pill in the Vermilion Bird Furnace, and the Great Elder rushed to Medicine King Palace after hearing he was there.
• Chu Xinghe sent out the final alchemical inscription, but although medicinal fragrance spread from the furnace, no divine-grade phenomenon appeared.

Chu Xinghe refined a Life Soul Pill that failed, and he was delighted because he hoped the failure would help him waste the sect’s resources. After the Medicine King Palace disciples deleted their recordings to protect his reputation, Chu Xinghe livestreamed the failure to viewers across the Four Continents.

• Chu Xinghe refined a Life Soul Pill in the Vermilion Bird Furnace, but opening it revealed no pill, fragrance, or other sign of success.
• Mu Xiaoqi, Mu Bai, and the Grand Elder tried to blame the failed refinement on Mu Xiaoqi opening the furnace incorrectly, but Chu Xinghe insisted the fault was his own.
• The Grand Elder told the disciples to delete their recordings so outsiders would not learn that Chu Xinghe had failed to refine a pill.
• Chu Xinghe saw the deleted recordings as a chance to spread news of his failure and began a Haotian Mirror livestream.
• Alchemists from across the Four Continents flooded into Chu Xinghe’s livestream as he announced that they would witness his pill-refinement failure.

Chu Xinghe livestreamed a failed pill refinement at the Medicine King Palace, intending to destroy his reputation as a refiner who always produced divine pills. When viewers mistook the black pill for a ruined failure, Wu Qun arrived and identified it as Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping.

• Chu Xinghe began livestreaming from the Medicine King Palace and announced that he would show everyone his pill-refining process.
• Chu Xinghe introduced the Life Soul Pill ingredients, prompting pill refiners across the Four Continents to debate his unusual formula, while renowned masters defended it as an innovation.
• Chu Xinghe revealed a sooty black pill with no accompanying strange phenomena, and viewers concluded that he had failed to refine it.
• Wu Qun told the viewers to shut up, teleported to the Medicine King Palace, seized the pill from Chu Xinghe, and declared it Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping.

Palace Master Wu Qun recognized Chu Xinghe’s pitch-black pill as Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping, a legendary achievement from the Heavenly Medicine Palace’s history. He revealed that the pill surpassed divine pills and was the feat that Li Mutong accomplished but Lu Changfeng could never surpass; Chu Xinghe’s pill then began emitting the same black light as Wu Qun’s.

• Wu Qun used a special teleportation array to arrive directly at the Medicine King Palace and rushed to inspect Chu Xinghe’s pitch-black pill.
• Wu Qun identified the pill as Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping, leaving the Grand Elder and the others bewildered.
• Wu Qun explained that Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping had appeared only once in recorded history, within the Heavenly Medicine Palace.
• Wu Qun revealed that Li Mutong had achieved Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping and that Lu Changfeng had admitted he could never surpass Li Mutong.
• Wu Qun opened a black jade brocade box to show a pill radiating black light and said it was the only thing in the world beyond a divine pill.
• Chu Xinghe’s pitch-black pill began releasing black light identical to the pill in Wu Qun’s box.

Wu Qun revealed that Chu Xinghe had refined the legendary Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill, which could guarantee ten years of life even when death was certain. The revelation awakened powerful old cultivators across the Four Continents, but they held back from approaching the Vast Heaven Holy Land, where Gu Mingchao guarded the two pills.

• Wu Qun explained that Li Mutong had once obtained a Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill and ordered the Heavenly Medicine Palace to keep its existence secret unless another one appeared.
• Wu Qun identified Chu Xinghe's supposedly failed pill as a Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill and described how it could steal ten years from certain death.
• Chu Xinghe was stunned that his failed attempt had produced a pill far beyond what he intended.
• The livestream and the Four Continents fell silent, then old cultivators nearing the ends of their lives awakened at the prospect of gaining ten more years.
• Although two Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pills were at the Vast Heaven Holy Land, the old cultivators stayed away because Gu Mingchao's blue flames made the approach seem fatal.

Palace Master Wu Qun explained that the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill could overcome a cultivator’s limits as well as extend their life, and he gave one of the two pills to the Grand Elder for safekeeping. Just as the Grand Elder accepted the danger of keeping it, someone revealed that Chu Xinghe had taught them the complete recipe and method, so the pill could now be mass-produced.

• Palace Master Wu Qun explained that the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill could grant dying cultivators a chance to break through their limits, stunning those watching across the Four Continents.
• Mu Bai defended Chu Xinghe’s reputation as an alchemist and said his absence from the Medicine King Palace came from being busy, not from lacking skill.
• Palace Master Wu Qun asked the Grand Elder to safeguard the pill Chu Xinghe had refined and gave the second pill to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Grand Elder agreed to keep the pill safe, but Wu Qun warned that the Heavenly Medicine Palace would remain in danger as long as the pill belonged to it.
• Someone told Palace Master Wu Qun that Chu Xinghe had taught them the entire formula and refining method, making the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill possible to mass-produce.

Wu Qun gave the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to spare the Heavenly Medicine Palace trouble, while Chu Xinghe tried to keep Mu Bai from making claims about mass production. Mu Bai successfully refined another pill, leaving Wu Qun stunned by its strength and Chu Xinghe bewildered that the supposedly unrepeatable pill had appeared again.

• Wu Qun explained why he gave away the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill, since keeping it under the Heavenly Medicine Palace's ownership would invite danger.
• Mu Bai claimed that he and the others had learned the pill's formula and method, and Chu Xinghe urged him to try refining it in batches.
• Wu Qun warned that the pill could not be replicated, but Mu Bai began refining it in the Vermilion Bird Furnace with ingredients for a hundred batches prepared.
• Mu Xiaoqi opened the furnace and announced that Mu Bai had successfully refined a Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill.
• Wu Qun compared Mu Bai's pill with his own and found its medicinal effect even stronger, while Chu Xinghe questioned how this inexplicable success had happened.

Mu Bai successfully refined the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill twice, proving it could be mass-produced and setting off a rush among the Four Continents’ elders seeking longer lives. As the Vast Heaven Holy Land received their requests and honored Old Master Wuyang with Chu Xinghe’s pill, Chu Xinghe remained confident that his backup plan could still ruin the victory.

• Mu Bai replicated the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill, and Wu Qun and the Grand Elder examined the genuine but lower-quality pill with Chu Xinghe.
• At the Grand Elder’s request, Mu Bai refined a second pill and succeeded again, proving he could produce the pills repeatedly.
• Countless hidden elders emerged and sent calling cards to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, hoping to obtain a pill that could extend their lives.
• The Grand Elder sent Chu Xinghe’s pill to Old Master Wuyang, who displayed it at a gathering and explained that he had once helped Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe thought that he still had a chance to fail and that his backup plan could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

The Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill’s ability to extend patriarchs’ lives caused a stir across the Four Continents, while alchemists recognized Chu Xinghe as its true creator. Chu Xinghe kept Li Mutong’s name for the pill to honor him, and Little Squirrel proposed being sent to Chu Xinghe as thanks, prompting Wu Qun to warn her about Ouyang Ling’s poison.

• The chapter explained why factions prized patriarchs who could protect their successors and how the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Pill’s extra years could safeguard their sects.
• Cultivators at Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion in Cao City discussed the pill and debated whether Chu Xinghe or Li Mutong deserved credit for creating it.
• The alchemy world determined that Chu Xinghe was the pill’s true creator because he had its complete formula and could reproduce it, while Li Mutong had only discovered it.
• Chu Xinghe told Wu Qun he would keep Li Mutong’s name for the pill, earning the Heavenly Medicine Palace’s gratitude and increased renown.
• Little Squirrel asked Wu Qun to give her to Chu Xinghe as thanks, and Wu Qun questioned whether she could survive Ouyang Ling’s poison.