Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe enjoyed watching the Four Continents puzzle over his activities at the Beast Taming Palace until Shen Chun brought Hua Xichen to report a disturbing incident. Hua Xichen suspected Chu Xinghe had appeared inside the Land of Bewildered Spirits, where Fan Sheng returned from a deeper expedition unable to speak or communicate, leaving everyone unsure what had happened.

• Chu Xinghe relished the quiet half month at the Beast Taming Palace, but Shen Chun interrupted him with news from Hua Xichen.
• Hua Xichen told Chu Xinghe that his team had ventured deeper into the Land of Bewildered Spirits after his Great Prophecy Art predicted a close call without harm.
• The team found an unusually rich trove, but Fan Sheng behaved strangely during the treasure division and later returned to East Moon Pavilion unable to speak or communicate.
• Hua Xichen and Liu Yunshang tried prophecy, Sage's Descent, and other methods to understand Fan Sheng's condition, but found no explanation or sign of possession.
• Hua Xichen revealed that the team had seen Chu Xinghe in the Land of Bewildered Spirits, prompting an elder to suggest that it was Chu Xinghe's clone, though Liu Yunshang doubted the sighting.
• Hua Xichen insisted that the figure he had seen was truly Chu Xinghe, despite the fact that Chu Xinghe had been at the Beast Taming Palace.

Chu Xinghe explained how his reform of the Technique Repository Tower opened its techniques to disciples regardless of rank and accelerated their cultivation, while the Haotian Battle Intent remained a respected inheritance. Hua Xichen came to confirm whether the figure he had seen in the Land of Bewildered Spirits was Chu Xinghe, and Chu Xinghe denied it; they decided to bring Fan Sheng to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to investigate.

• Chu Xinghe proposed letting disciples choose techniques suited to their abilities, and Gu Mingchao approved opening the first eight floors of the Technique Repository Tower to everyone.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land's elders found that the change helped disciples learn suitable techniques earlier and cultivate faster, despite initial objections that it broke ancestral rules.
• Chu Xinghe placed the Haotian Battle Intent on the eighth floor, but the disciples refrained from learning it without his permission because they regarded it as the holy lord's inheritance.
• Hua Xichen told Chu Xinghe that he had seen someone bearing the Haotian Battle Intent deep in the Land of Bewildered Spirits and asked if it had been him.
• Chu Xinghe said it was not him and proposed contacting the East Moon Pavilion to bring Fan Sheng to the Vast Heaven Holy Land so they could investigate.

Chu Xinghe and the leading figures of Vast Heaven Holy Land investigated Fan Sheng after he returned from the Land of Bewildered Spirits unable to speak or communicate. Elder He suspected Fan Sheng had lost his soul, and the Great Sage opened Avici Hell to investigate further.

• Chu Xinghe asked Senior Brother Shen Chun when East Moon Pavilion would arrive, and Shen Chun appeared nearby through his mysterious Concept Teleportation Art, baffling Hua Xichen.
• Liu Yunshang arrived at Vast Heaven Holy Land with Fan Sheng, who behaved normally but could not respond to anyone or speak.
• Hua Xichen recounted the expedition to the Land of Bewildered Spirits, including the strange encounter with a version of Chu Xinghe who knew Haotian Battle Intent.
• Chu Xinghe summoned Evil Repeller, but it had no effect on Fan Sheng, and Elder He ruled out an evil spirit.
• Elder He guessed that Fan Sheng had lost his soul in the Land of Bewildered Spirits, and the Great Sage opened Avici Hell.

The Great Sage and Elder He discovered that Fan Sheng had lost one of his three hun in the Land of Bewildered Spirits, and they could not restore it without recovering the missing soul. East Moon Pavilion’s search failed, while Chu Xinghe stayed out of the dangerous depths as the Beast Taming Palace faced an unexplained problem.

• The Great Sage drew Fan Sheng’s soul out with Avici Hell, and Elder He used White Rainbow to reveal that one of Fan Sheng’s three hun was missing.
• The Great Sage returned Fan Sheng’s damaged soul to his body and explained that he could recover only if his missing hun was found in the Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• Liu Yunshang asked Chu Xinghe to help, but the First Elder refused to let him enter the dangerous realm, so Liu Yunshang took Fan Sheng away and East Moon Pavilion offered a huge bounty.
• Bounty hunters and East Moon Pavilion’s experts searched the Land of Bewildered Spirits without success, and Hua Xichen declined to risk entering it to use his Great Prophecy Art.
• Chu Xinghe considered entering the realm but recognized that its depths could drain the Xinghe Divinity, and the Great Sage warned him not to take the risk.
• While Chu Xinghe remained in Vast Heaven Holy Land, a group in the Beast Taming Palace spent days puzzled and helpless over an unspecified matter.

Chu Xinghe’s plan to overwhelm Ma Liang with confusion appeared to succeed until Ma Liang suddenly collapsed. After the Great Sage examined him, he asked whether the situation was Chu Xinghe’s doing, then praised his method, leaving Chu Xinghe and the gathered onlookers bewildered.

• Chu Xinghe’s assignments left Ma Liang, Mu Bai, Ouyang Ming, and the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits confused about why they had been sent to the Beast Taming Palace.
• Chu Xinghe relaxed, believing that the chaos had prevented Ma Liang from disrupting his plans, until Man Sheng reported that Ma Liang had collapsed and lost consciousness.
• Chu Xinghe hurried to Ma Liang’s room, feared that his junior brother’s old soul injury had returned, and called for the Great Sage and Elder He.
• The Great Sage and Elder He examined Ma Liang, and the Great Sage gravely asked Chu Xinghe whether Ma Liang’s condition was his doing.
• Chu Xinghe admitted responsibility, but the Great Sage praised his method, leaving Chu Xinghe and everyone else confused.

Chu Xinghe feared that his actions had caused Ma Liang’s old ailment to flare up, but the Great Sage and Elder He revealed that Ma Liang was instead rebuilding his soul and nearing a breakthrough to the Martial God realm. The chapter explained how the Great Elder and Holy Lord Gu Mingchao had shaped Chu Xinghe, leaving Chu Xinghe to recognize that the Vast Heaven Holy Land had made him who he was.

• Chu Xinghe admitted that Ma Liang’s condition was his fault and prepared to ask the Great Sage to save him.
• The Great Sage praised Chu Xinghe’s ingenious idea, and Elder He said Ma Liang could complete his soul reconstruction and break through to the Martial God realm that night.
• Elder He credited Chu Xinghe’s daily Dragon Heart Pills and praised his pill-refining skill, making the Great Elder beam with pride.
• The chapter described the Great Elder as Chu Xinghe’s teacher in cultivation and conduct, while Holy Lord Gu Mingchao had passed on Haotian Battle Intent and his combat skills through empowerment.
• Chu Xinghe recognized that the Vast Heaven Holy Land and its people had supported him and made him what he was.

Elder He explained how Chu Xinghe’s pill regimen and seemingly pointless trip to the Beast Taming Palace had brought Ma Liang’s soul, Samsara Divinity, and cultivation to breakthroughs together. The Vast Heaven Holy Land celebrated Ma Liang’s transformation, while Chu Xinghe privately insisted he had never planned any of it.

• The First Elder dismissed Elder He’s claim that Chu Xinghe had surpassed him, while the elders laughed at his proud, fatherly response.
• Elder He explained that Chu Xinghe had prescribed ten Dragon Heart Pills daily, storing their power in Ma Liang’s soul without harming him.
• Elder He revealed that Ma Liang’s Tiger God Pills had pushed his body toward the Martial God realm while the Dragon Heart Pills repaired and strengthened his soul.
• Elder He connected Chu Xinghe’s trip to the Beast Taming Palace to Ma Liang straining his mind, which damaged and repeatedly strengthened his soul until his Samsara Divinity broke through with it.
• Ma Liang’s soul, Divinity, and cultivation all advanced together, and the chapter declared his divine dagger upgraded to the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade.

The Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders interpreted Ma Liang’s recent misfortunes as proof that Chu Xinghe had secretly controlled his supposed schemes all along, while the Fate Divinity insisted it was coincidence. Their argument was interrupted when black and white Qi burst from Ma Liang’s forehead and he entered a profound state.

• Elder He and the Holy Mother of Wujiang persuaded the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders that Chu Xinghe had controlled Ma Liang’s actions and imagination.
• The Holy Mother of Wujiang argued that Ma Liang’s past ideas had only emerged because Chu Xinghe had allowed them to.
• The Fate Divinity challenged their interpretation, claiming that Chu Xinghe had known nothing and that the events were coincidences.
• Elder He angrily defended Chu Xinghe and the Holy Mother of Wujiang, accusing the Fate Divinity of opposing them and falling asleep to avoid problems.
• Black and white Qi surged from Ma Liang’s forehead, and he entered an incomparably profound state.

Ma Liang broke through to the Martial God realm as his Samsara Divinity strengthened his soul. When he could not find a Dharma Aspect, Chu Xinghe offered to forge one, and two black-and-white versions of Ma Liang appeared behind him.

• Ma Liang's Samsara Divinity grew stronger as he cultivated, and he broke through from the peak of the Ninth Rank to the Martial God realm.
• Ma Liang awakened and assumed Chu Xinghe had sent him to the Beast Taming Palace and supplied him with pills to prepare for his breakthrough.
• Ma Liang and the onlookers discovered that he had not formed a Dharma Aspect, and the Holy Lord urged him to search for it in his spiritual world.
• Chu Xinghe offered to help Ma Liang forge a Dharma Aspect when Ma Liang could not find one.
• A black figure and a white figure appeared behind Ma Liang, forming his Dharma Aspect and leaving three Ma Liangs in the air.

Ma Liang broke through to Martial God without a Dharma Aspect, but after letting go of his worries, his Samsara Divinity transformed into two: one embodying life and one death. The unprecedented breakthrough astonished the Four Continents, while Chu Xinghe privately feared that there were now three Ma Liangs and that they might steal eggs.

• Ma Liang panicked when no Dharma Aspect appeared, and Chu Xinghe promised to help him reconstruct one if necessary.
• Ma Liang stopped worrying and entered a profound state, discovering unusual stirrings within his soul.
• Two Dharma Aspects emerged behind Ma Liang, one bearing the power of life and the other the power of death, as his Samsara Divinity completed its growth.
• Elder He, the Great Sage, and the gathered big shots were stunned that Ma Liang had two Dharma Aspects, an unprecedented occurrence.
• Observers praised Chu Xinghe for supporting Ma Liang rather than suppressing him, while Chu Xinghe privately worried about facing three Ma Liangs and them stealing eggs.

Ma Liang broke through to the Martial God Realm and formed two powerful Dharma Aspects from the life and death halves of his Samsara Divinity. After the three Ma Liangs appeared together before Chu Xinghe, the two aspects proved they could act and speak independently, leaving him alarmed.

• The Four Continents watched Ma Liang's breakthrough, and observers compared his twin Dharma Aspects with Chu Xinghe's True Self Dharma Aspect.
• Zheng Yu explained that Ma Liang's aspects were Self-Like Dharma Aspects formed from the life and death powers of his Samsara Divinity, not True Self Dharma Aspects.
• Ma Liang and his two aspects appeared before Chu Xinghe, bowed, and promised together that Ma Liang would live up to his expectations.
• The three Ma Liangs went in different directions and independently thanked the Holy Lord, the Grand Elder, Elder He, the Great Sage, and their junior brothers and sisters.
• Chu Xinghe realized that Ma Liang's Dharma Aspects could act independently and worried that he would now have to guard against three Ma Liangs.

Ma Liang revealed that his two Dharma Aspect doubles could think independently, giving Vast Heaven Holy Land three capable versions of him. The Great Elder saw them as future help managing the sect, and after the three powerhouses tested them, the clones began to change in a way that shocked everyone.

• Ma Liang demonstrated that his two doubles could act independently while sharing his awareness and remaining under his control.
• The Great Elder celebrated the prospect of three Ma Liangs handling the many affairs of Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Great Elder, the Great Sage, and Elder He attacked the three Ma Liangs to test their independent minds, strength, and ability to recover.
• The three Ma Liangs fought independently but were beaten down and injured by the powerhouses.
• Ma Liang's doubles began to undergo an unexpected change that left the crowd incredulous.

Ma Liang demonstrated how his Samsara Divinity healed him and empowered him with three successive attacks of increasing force, while the Fate Divinity showed its ability to predict opponents’ moves. Chu Xinghe braced himself to fight three Ma Liangs, convinced he could still win through ingenuity.

• The experts discovered that Ma Liang’s Dharma Aspect avatars could be injured or destroyed, unlike Chu Xinghe’s endlessly regenerating Xinghe Avatar.
• Ma Liang’s Vitality and Death Dharma Aspects healed one another, then fused with him as afterimages that boosted his strength and healed his injuries.
• Ma Liang struck Elder He with a sequence of attacks whose power doubled and then doubled again, while the Fate Divinity had predicted the attack.
• Elder He and the others realized the Fate Divinity could read people’s intentions and help Elder He anticipate their moves.
• Ma Liang declared that three Ma Liangs would help Senior Brother Xinghe, and Chu Xinghe resolved to defeat them despite being outnumbered.

After Ma Liang broke through to the Martial God realm and split into three, Chu Xinghe ordered all three versions of him to remain at the Beast Taming Palace, convinced this would prevent them from interfering with his plans. Ma Liang’s breakthrough reshaped the Four Continents’ view of him, while the three Ma Liangs began trying to decipher Chu Xinghe’s hidden purpose.

• Chu Xinghe told Ma Liang to stay at the Beast Taming Palace, then insisted that all three Ma Liangs remain there because matters were not finished.
• Ma Liang accepted the order, believing Chu Xinghe had a deeper reason, and all three versions of him were assigned to the palace.
• News of Ma Liang’s Martial God breakthrough and his one god and two Dharma Aspects spread across the Four Continents, revealing his formidable cultivation and earning him new respect.
• Elder He speculated that Ma Liang might eventually form two Divinities, a possibility that astonished cultivators who had once dismissed him as a rival.
• The three Ma Liangs gathered in a room to discuss why Chu Xinghe had ordered them to stay at the Beast Taming Palace.

Chu Xinghe watched as the three Ma Liangs split up, then followed one of them to the Beast Taming Palace. Ma Liang’s attempt to find a way for the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to help raise demonic beasts failed, and Chu Xinghe left to keep watch on the other Ma Liangs.

• The three Ma Liangs divided up, so Chu Xinghe summoned the Xinghe Avatar and had the two of them watch separate Ma Liangs.
• Ma Liang visited Man Sheng, who wondered why the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits had been assigned to the Beast Taming Palace.
• Man Sheng suggested that the shared word “barbarian” might connect the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to the Savage Wilderness Tribes, and Ma Liang brought him to Douding'er.
• Ma Liang asked whether Man Sheng could use the Art of Totems to help demonic beasts grow, but Man Sheng demonstrated that the technique did not work on them.
• Tai Chu told Ma Liang that demonic beasts could not learn the Art of Totems or anything else, while Chu Xinghe listened from the grass and laughed.
• Chu Xinghe left to watch another Ma Liang, while Douding'er invited Ma Liang and Man Sheng to stay for lunch.

Ma Liang and Douding'er realized that the Beast Taming Palace could increase demon-beast meat production by raising larger animals rather than trying to shorten their growth time. When Man Sheng attributed his size to his Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits bloodline, the disciples drew their blades and left him fearing they meant to eat him.

• Douding'er invited Ma Liang and Man Sheng to stay for a meal, following the Grand Elder's advice to welcome visitors from other palaces.
• The Beast Taming Palace disciples marveled at Man Sheng's size, and he told them that some Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits grew over six meters tall.
• Douding'er remarked that Man Sheng was mightier than the palace's demon beasts, prompting Ma Liang to realize that larger beasts could increase meat output without faster growth.
• Ma Liang and Douding'er questioned Man Sheng about why his people grew so large, and Man Sheng credited their unique bloodline.
• The Beast Taming Palace disciples drew their blades as Man Sheng panicked, thinking they planned to eat him.

Man Sheng gave Douding'er a large quantity of his blood so she could explore using its Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit powers to strengthen demon beasts, and Man Sheng suggested refining it into medicine. Chu Xinghe tried to stop Ma Liang and Mu Bai from turning the idea into another scheme, but his arrival convinced everyone that he had secretly orchestrated the whole plan.

• Douding'er arranged for Man Sheng to have half a small bucket of blood drawn for research into strengthening demon beasts.
• Man Sheng suggested refining his blood into medicine, and Ma Liang and Douding'er agreed that the method could work.
• Ma Liang No. 2 relayed the idea to Mu Bai, who agreed to help, while Chu Xinghe hurried over to keep the two from causing trouble.
• Ma Liang and Mu Bai reached Douding'er as Chu Xinghe followed, and the grand elder and others arrived at the Beast Taming Palace too.
• Chu Xinghe said he had come because they were using Man Sheng's blood to refine medicine, and Ma Liang took this as proof that Senior Brother Xinghe had planned everything in advance.

Ma Liang and Shen Chun used evidence to convince Cheng Xiaotian and the other important figures that Chu Xinghe had secretly planned the events at the Beast Taming Palace. Chu Xinghe tried to explain that he had secretly followed Mu Bai and Ma Liang, but everyone dismissed the claim and he finally insisted that he never miscalculated.

• Ma Liang summoned Cheng Xiaotian and other important figures to the Beast Taming Palace to show that Chu Xinghe had not been informed about the events there.
• Shen Chun played a Haotian Mirror recording showing that he had notified everyone except Chu Xinghe.
• Ma Liang argued that Chu Xinghe’s arrangements for the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits and Mu Bai had enabled the Beast Taming Palace’s demonic beasts to benefit from Man Sheng’s bloodline.
• Cheng Xiaotian and the other figures concluded that Chu Xinghe had planned everything in advance, even though he claimed he had secretly followed Mu Bai and Ma Liang.
• When Cheng Xiaotian asked whether he was a stalker or a brilliant planner, Chu Xinghe declared that he never miscalculated.

Chu Xinghe redirected the plan to refine a blood pill from a Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit’s blood, choosing Mu Xiaoqi as the refiner because he expected him to fail. The chapter ended with Chu Xinghe stopping Mu Bai from suggesting a formula so Mu Xiaoqi could decide how to proceed.

• Mu Bai claimed that Chu Xinghe had sent him to the Beast Taming Palace as part of a plan, and the gathered experts accepted his explanation.
• Chu Xinghe resolved to use his medicine-refining expertise to prevent the blood pill from succeeding.
• Mu Bai summoned the Muyue Kingdom companions, and Mu Xiaoqi arrived after his senior brothers found him slacking off and gave him a beating.
• Chu Xinghe assigned the blood pill to Mu Xiaoqi, whose inventive pill ideas were strong but whose refining skills were poor.
• When Mu Xiaoqi asked what formula to use, Chu Xinghe stopped Mu Bai from suggesting ingredients and told everyone to follow Mu Xiaoqi’s lead.

Mu Xiaoqi improvised a blood-pill formula from Man Sheng’s blood and impressed the pill refiners with his expertise. Chu Xinghe, worried that the formula would succeed too easily, crossed out most of its ingredients, including White Stone.

• Ma Liang convinced Mu Xiaoqi that Chu Xinghe had left out a formula to test his ingenuity, and Mu Xiaoqi agreed to devise one.
• Mu Xiaoqi examined Man Sheng’s blood and wrote a twenty-three-ingredient formula that began with White Stone.
• The Grand Elder and pill refiners from across the Four Continents praised Mu Xiaoqi’s formula and its high chance of success.
• Chu Xinghe frowned at the formula, crossed out ten ingredients, then removed three more and even struck out White Stone.