Chapter Summaries

The Dark Moon Clan quickly integrated into the Vast Heaven Sect by helping its palaces test poisons, hidden weapons, medicines, and weapons. Chu Xinghe then asked Elder He where the sealed Formless Heart Sutra was, and Elder He eagerly welcomed the request.

• The Everlasting Spring Palace used An Lan to test poisons, while the Frigid Ice Palace welcomed An Xin to test hidden weapons.
• Members of the Dark Moon Clan helped the sect’s palaces conduct dangerous tests, and both the clan and the Vast Heaven Sect grew comfortable with one another.
• Chu Xinghe rushed to the Artifact Refining Palace, where he found Ouyang Ming using the Dark Moon Clan to test weapons rather than eat them.
• The Grand Elder learned that the Everlasting Spring Palace had been testing a poison on the Great Sage, while Ouyang Ling’s medicines caused the Dark Moon Clan even greater trouble.
• The Great Sage lamented to Elder He that he could not die for fun, and Elder He struggled to think of a way to help him.
• Chu Xinghe asked Elder He where the Formless Heart Sutra was sealed, and Elder He lit up at the request.

Chu Xinghe’s attempt to get the Formless Heart Sutra so he could destroy it instead inspired Elder He to have the Great Sage test and complete dangerous cultivation methods using his immortality. The Vast Heaven Sect celebrated Xinghe’s idea, while Ma Liang arrived to receive a Ghost Emperor and powerful ghosts that would transform his formation into a mobile fortress.

• Chu Xinghe went to Elder He seeking the sealed Formless Heart Sutra, hoping to destroy it and trigger the Misfortune Compass.
• Elder He took the sutra to the Great Sage, who eagerly tested its dangerous paths, died, revived, and began completing it.
• Elder He informed Sect Master Gu Mingchao and the Grand Elder, who praised Chu Xinghe and planned to use the Dark Moon Clan to test the sect’s other dangerous cultivation methods.
• Ma Liang arrived at the Vast Heaven Sect after the Grand Elder and sect master assigned him the Ghost Emperor and fierce ghosts brought with the City of Dark Moon.
• Ma Liang planned to use the Great Sage’s help to add the ghosts to his Fengdu Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation, turning it into a powerful mobile battle fortress.

Ma Liang’s Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation became powerful enough to threaten Martial Emperors, while Mu Bai and the Muyue Kingdom geniuses proposed investing in automatic medicine refining. After Chu Xinghe heard more news of his allies’ growing strength, Feng Fei arrived to plan his wedding, and Chu Xinghe proposed an extravagant celebration where the Vast Heaven Sect would give gifts to every guest.

• Ma Liang received the Ghost Emperor and powerful vengeful ghosts, completing the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation and demonstrating its strength around the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Mu Bai and the Muyue Kingdom geniuses discussed how to better help Chu Xinghe, and Mu Heng proposed automatic medicine refining using specially cultivated herbs.
• Chu Xinghe agreed to fund Mu Bai’s automatic medicine refining research, believing it was certain to fail.
• Chu Xinghe studied teleportation formations with Yan Shoujing, who asked whether the Great Sage was close to completing the Formless Heart Sutra.
• Chu Xinghe heard that the Great Sage was nearing completion, saw Ma Liang’s formation improve, and learned from Nangong Yan that the Dark Moon Clan had strengthened the Everlasting Spring Palace.
• Feng Fei came to discuss his wedding with Chu Xinghe, who proposed a grand celebration and gifts for every guest from the Vast Heaven Sect.

Chu Xinghe attended the Vast Heaven Sect’s early midyear review conference, where reports on the sect’s booming ventures stunned Deputy Sect Master Yan Shoujing. The conference ended with Sima Bian revealing the Northern Branch’s performance, alarming Shi Biao as he eyed a vice president position.

• Chu Xinghe learned the midyear review conference had been moved up and was greeted by Qin Xiangqian, who reported the Tianyi Spirit Mine’s soaring output and growing share of top-grade spirit stones.
• Wang Tieniu reunited with Chu Xinghe, announced a perfect ten-out-of-ten stone yield rate, and described his disciples’ impressive results and plans to improve spirit-stone quality.
• The Grand Elder convened the review in the Haotian Grand Hall, where Deputy Sect Master Yan Shoujing heard reports and was stunned by the Vast Heaven Sect’s wealth and Tieniu’s stone-pointing technique.
• Shi Biao reported the Vast Heaven Trading Company’s strong revenue and reputation, earning praise from the Grand Elder for following Chu Xinghe’s business model.
• Shi Biao considered himself a candidate for the vacant vice president position, but Sima Bian presented the Northern Branch’s performance chart and intensified the competition.

At the Vast Heaven Sect’s midyear review, the Northern Chamber of Commerce reported booming pill sales while the Southern Chamber of Commerce came in last, prompting Lu Chengqing to seek Chu Xinghe’s advice. Chu Xinghe pretended to object to Lu’s plan to introduce revealing custom outfits, then asked to see them so he could critique them.

• Sima Bian credited Chu Xinghe for the Northern Chamber of Commerce’s success after it took over Zhou Medical Hall’s customers and dominated the low-end pill market.
• The Grand Elder warned Lu Chengqing that the Southern Chamber of Commerce needed to improve or he would be reassigned.
• After the review meeting, Lu Chengqing followed Chu Xinghe and explained that the Haotian Tower’s large concert had performed poorly.
• Lu Chengqing proposed selling musicians’ performances in custom outfits that used little fabric, inspired by the Star Moon Tower’s successful service.
• Chu Xinghe claimed the outfits could harm the Vast Heaven Sect’s image but asked Lu Chengqing to bring musicians wearing them so he could critique them.

Chu Xinghe rejected Lu Chengqing’s plan to compete with Star Moon Tower through custom outfits and instead told him to combine musicians with Ma Liang’s Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation. Later, Chu Xinghe criticized Feng Fei’s modest gift list and proposed giving visiting dignitaries Flutes of Space and Time, leaving Feng Fei stunned by the expense.

• Lu Chengqing showed Chu Xinghe four musicians performing in custom outfits and explained that Star Moon Tower’s similar approach had helped it challenge Haotian Tower.
• Chu Xinghe called the plan vulgar and suggested using Ma Liang’s Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation to create an underworld-themed performance instead.
• Lu Chengqing consulted Ma Liang, who treated Chu Xinghe’s suggestion as profound guidance and began criticizing the musicians while exploring how to combine them with the formation.
• Chu Xinghe confronted Feng Fei over his gift list, arguing that the Vast Heaven Sect should give visiting dignitaries Flutes of Space and Time and chosen geniuses supreme-grade spirit weapons.
• Feng Fei was dumbfounded by Chu Xinghe’s proposal to give away costly Flutes of Space and Time.

Chu Xinghe persuaded the Great Elder to give Flutes of Space and Time to the wedding guests, turning the gifts into a way to build goodwill and promote future sales. As guests arrived for Feng Fei’s wedding, Xinghe handed out gift boxes, and Fan Sheng was shocked when he opened one.

• Feng Fei brought Chu Xinghe’s proposal to the Great Elder, who agreed that giving away Flutes of Space and Time could earn favors and promote the sect’s creation.
• The Great Elder explained his strategy to Feng Fei and assigned him to plan how the Flutes of Space and Time would later be sold.
• The Vast Heaven Sect invited major factions to Feng Fei’s wedding, which also celebrated its alliance with Wuj iang.
• Chu Xinghe welcomed arriving guests and gave each one a gift box, calling it a modest gift with heartfelt sentiment.
• Fan Sheng received a box along with the other East Moon Pavilion guests, opened it, and was stunned by what Chu Xinghe had given him.

Fan Sheng and Liu Yunshang discovered that the Vast Heaven Sect’s supposedly modest gifts to East Moon Pavilion were supreme-grade spirit weapons and a Flute of Space and Time. After accepting them, East Moon Pavilion’s elders hesitated over whether they could still present their own low-grade sacred artifact as a congratulatory gift.

• Fan Sheng opened the gift boxes and found supreme-grade spirit weapons for the elders and a Flute of Space and Time for Liu Yunshang.
• Liu Yunshang examined the gifts, confirmed the flute was genuine, and expressed admiration for Gu Mingchao and the Vast Heaven Sect.
• East Moon Pavilion’s elders repeatedly checked the flute and speculated about why Gu Mingchao had given it to Liu Yunshang.
• The elders compared their prepared low-grade sacred artifact with the Vast Heaven Sect’s gifts and decided they could not present it without losing face.

Zheng Yu and Cheng Xiaotian visited the Vast Heaven Sect for its wedding, where Chu Xinghe welcomed them with gifts that included rare weapons and the Flute of Space and Time. Martial Emperor City nearly presented a low-grade divine artifact in return, but Cheng Xiaotian stopped Elder Wang before he delivered it, sparing the group another humiliating comparison.

• Zheng Yu arrived at the Vast Heaven Sect with Cheng Xiaotian and greeted Chu Xinghe and Gu Mingchao.
• Chu Xinghe gave Zheng Yu and the Martial Emperor City guests gift boxes, which they handed to Zheng Yu to store.
• Cheng Xiaotian arranged for Elder Wang to deliver Martial Emperor City's low-grade divine artifact as a wedding gift.
• At Cheng Xiaotian's request, Zheng Yu opened the boxes and found top-grade spirit weapons, including the Flute of Space and Time in Cheng Xiaotian's box.
• Cheng Xiaotian sent the grand elder to stop Elder Wang, and they returned with him before he delivered the gift.

Chu Xinghe’s Flutes of Space and Time gifts left visiting sects feeling unable to offer ordinary wedding gifts, and some even tried to take their gifts back. The Vast Heaven Sect received record-breaking treasures, while Chu Xinghe failed to persuade anyone that the flutes were only tokens of goodwill.

• Cheng Xiaotian and Martial Emperor City’s elders first suspected the Vast Heaven Sect had targeted them, but Zheng Yu reported that every visiting sect leader had received a Flute of Space and Time.
• Zheng Yu told them the Scarlet Blood Alliance had given a sacred artifact, then sent Elder Song to retrieve it after realizing the gift seemed too modest.
• Elder Song took the sacred artifact back from Chu Xinghe, claiming the Scarlet Blood Emperor had chosen the wrong gift, and other guests hesitated over what to give.
• Feng Fei and the grand elder praised Chu Xinghe’s gifts as a clever way to pressure the guests into offering more valuable presents, though Chu Xinghe said that was not his intention.
• Martial Emperor City and other powers sent extravagant gifts, including divine artifacts and enormous sums of spirit stones, setting a record for wedding gifts.
• Chu Xinghe asked Fan Sheng whether the Vast Heaven Sect could take back the Flutes of Space and Time, but Fan Sheng refused and accused him of having no regard for the sect’s face.

Zheng Yu toured the Vast Heaven Sect’s Spirit Crane Palace and discovered that its medicine refiners and medicinal resources far surpassed what he had expected. He left convinced that Martial Emperor City could not compare with the palace’s strength under Chu Xinghe’s guidance.

• Zheng Yu visited the Spirit Crane Palace, where Mu Bai offered to show him around.
• Zheng Yu watched Mu Xiaoqi produce supreme-grade Moon Dream Pills, but Mu Bai scolded him for failing to make a quasi-divine pill.
• Mu Bai showed Zheng Yu other Muyue Kingdom disciples’ medicine-refining achievements, including Mu Heng’s fifth-grade skill and chance of producing quasi-divine pills.
• Mu Bai showed Zheng Yu the palace’s medicine fields, where Muyue Kingdom disciples’ Wood Spirits had helped rare medicinal ingredients grow and multiply.
• After the tour, Zheng Yu concluded that the Spirit Crane Palace’s medicine-refining strength outmatched the Heavenly Medicine Palace and wondered how anyone could rival Chu Xinghe.

Zheng Yu toured the Spirit Crane Palace and Artifact Refining Palace, where he discovered the Vast Heaven Sect’s astonishing facilities, weaponsmithing, and stone-pointing talent. After Ouyang Ling secretly tested medicine on him and Ouyang Ming countered it with fruit cut by the Light of Xinghe, Zheng Yu left overwhelmed by the sect’s achievements and its punishing standards for a young prodigy.

• Zheng Yu visited the Spirit Crane Palace and was stunned by how extravagantly Senior Brother Xinghe had developed it.
• Ouyang Ling gave Zheng Yu medicated ginseng tea, but Ouyang Ming realized what she had done and used fruit cut with the Light of Xinghe to neutralize its effects.
• Ouyang Ming showed Zheng Yu that the Ouyang Lineage disciples practiced his simplified Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique, which could eventually let them forge sacred artifacts.
• Ouyang Ming hosted Zheng Yu for an enormous meal, and Zheng Yu became desperate to leave after watching him devour vast quantities of food.
• At the Artifact Refining Palace gates, Zheng Yu saw young Zhou Chen achieve an over-eighty-percent success rate at stone pointing, then learned Zhou Chen had been punished for failing to reach ninety percent.

Zheng Yu toured the Vast Heaven Sect and was repeatedly stunned by its disciples’ extraordinary abilities and bizarre customs, especially the Dark Moon Clan’s performances of self-inflicted deaths. Near the outer sect, he overheard Chu Cheng denouncing Chu Xinghe and decided the claims were outrageous.

• Zheng Yu learned that Zhou Chen was punished for an eighty percent stone-yield rate, while other young disciples reached ninety percent and Wang Tieniu reached a hundred percent.
• Feng Yuzheng called his mastery of the Divine Engraving Technique inadequate despite creating the Flute of Space and Time, leaving Zheng Yu incredulous.
• Zheng Yu toured the Vast Heaven Sect’s palaces and learned more about Chu Xinghe’s influence before entering the Dark Moon Palace.
• Members of the Dark Moon Clan greeted Zheng Yu by demonstrating different ways to die, frightening him into fleeing the palace.
• Zheng Yu took a wrong turn to the outer sect and overheard Chu Cheng curse Chu Xinghe and accuse him of harming the sect.

Zheng Yu and Liu Bo punished Chu Cheng for insulting Chu Xinghe, while the wedding gifts proved far more valuable than Chu Xinghe had expected. During a tour of the Vast Heaven Sect, Zuo Fei challenged Chu Xinghe's Haotian Sword Casket, and his senior brother's taunts pushed Chu Xinghe to accept the confrontation.

• Zheng Yu burst into Chu Cheng's room and joined Liu Bo in beating him, leaving the outer sect short on gauze and delaying Chu Cheng's plans.
• Feng Fei told Chu Xinghe that the wedding gifts had more than covered the costs of the gifts they had given away, leaving Chu Xinghe to regret misjudging the righteous guests' generosity.
• Chu Xinghe served breakfast and led the visiting prodigies on a tour, showing them the Haotian Sword Casket at Haotian Palace.
• Zuo Fei sent the awakened Heavenly Fortune Dharma Sword to challenge the Haotian Sword Casket, but Chu Xinghe initially held back because the tour was part of Feng Fei's wedding.
• Hu Zhengqin taunted Chu Xinghe by claiming Zuo Fei would be bullying him in a sword contest, and Chu Xinghe resolved to face the challenge with the Haotian Sword Casket.

Chu Xinghe overwhelmed Zuo Fei in a sword duel, then sent Hu Zhengqin flying with Haotian Battle Intent when he intervened. He left Zuo Fei and Hu Zhengqin defeated and reminded the onlookers that he had earned his reputation as the foremost of the younger generation.

• Chu Xinghe accepted Zuo Fei's challenge, then struck first with Thunder Shadow's Purple Lightning Flash.
• Chu Xinghe used Flying Locust to form three sword formations around Zuo Fei and attacked him with Suspended Shears Sword Wings and Evil Repeller.
• Chu Xinghe repeatedly struck Zuo Fei with Purple Lightning Flash, leaving him paralyzed before he could land a final blow.
• Hu Zhengqin rushed in to protect Zuo Fei, but Chu Xinghe met his punch with Haotian Battle Intent and sent him flying.
• Chu Xinghe struck Zuo Fei again with Thunder Shadow, defeating him without letting him swing his sword, then reminded the crowd that he had earned his title through fighting.

Chu Xinghe effortlessly defeated Zuo Fei and Hu Zhengqin, proving his strength as the number one of the younger generation and silencing the visiting factions. He then continued the Vast Heaven Sect tour, while the Heavenly Sword Alliance hurriedly sent Hu Zhengqin away amid the sect disciples’ unsettling offers of care.

• Chu Xinghe defeated Zuo Fei with sword formations and Purple Lightning Flash, then injured Hu Zhengqin with Haotian Battle Intent after Hu Zhengqin launched a sneak attack.
• Chu Xinghe declared that he had fought his way to the top and invited anyone who wanted the title to challenge him, but no one accepted.
• Vast Heaven Sect disciples praised Chu Xinghe’s fighting skill, while Ma Liang took the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation to challenge the Heavenly Sword Alliance’s grand elder and was sent away.
• Nangong Yan and disciples from the Frigid Ice Palace and other palaces offered Hu Zhengqin alarming forms of care, prompting the Heavenly Sword Alliance to teleport him away.
• Chu Xinghe led the faction prodigies on a tour of the Vast Heaven Sect, and Zheng Yu hoped they would visit the outer sect so he could stretch his limbs.

With the wedding seven days away, Chu Xinghe replaced a planned arena tournament with a grand lucky draw, offering seventy Flutes of Space and Time. The first day's winners included two members of the Heavenly Sword Alliance, convincing the gathered sects that Xinghe was fair and magnanimous.

• After Hu Zhengqin was sent away, the grand elder punished the kitchen disciples responsible for the Heavenly Sword Alliance's upset stomachs by making them reflect in the Technique Repository Tower for half a month.
• The grand elder told Chu Xinghe that the arena tournament had been canceled, and Chu Xinghe proposed drawing ten Flutes of Space and Time each day until the wedding.
• Gu Mingchao approved the lucky draw, and visitors from every sect eagerly entered by placing their signatures in spirit stones.
• At the first draw in the Spirit Crane Palace, Chu Xinghe randomly picked the Heavenly Sword Alliance's grand elder as the first winner, and the grand elder accepted a Flute of Space and Time.
• Chu Xinghe later drew Zuo Fei as the tenth winner, giving the Heavenly Sword Alliance two prizes and prompting the gathered leaders to praise Xinghe's fairness and broad-mindedness.

After Zuo Fei apologized to Chu Xinghe for challenging him during the wedding, Chu Xinghe graciously gave him the Flute of Space and Time he had won. Lü Yong learned that Hu Zhengqin had manipulated Zuo Fei and punished him, while Zheng Yu came up with a plan to help Martial Emperor City obtain more flutes.

• Zuo Fei accepted his prize from Chu Xinghe and apologized for challenging him at Feng Fei's wedding.
• Chu Xinghe accepted Zuo Fei's apology, advised him to think before acting, and presented him with a Flute of Space and Time.
• Lü Yong questioned Zuo Fei after the drawing and learned that Hu Zhengqin had been egging him on to provoke Chu Xinghe.
• Lü Yong stripped Hu Zhengqin of his personal-disciple status and confined him to the Heavenly Sword Alliance for three years.
• Zheng Yu noticed that Martial Emperor City had won no Flutes of Space and Time and went to Spirit Crane Palace to seek the grand elder's permission for a new plan.

Chu Xinghe’s second day of giving away Flutes of Space and Time descended into chaos when Zheng Yu won the first three draws in a row. Zheng Yu explained how it happened, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned by his seemingly outrageous idea.

• Chu Xinghe began the second day of the giveaway, confident that the Vast Heaven Sect’s no-tricks approach would make everyone happy.
• Chu Xinghe drew Zheng Yu as the first winner, and Zheng Yu accepted a Flute of Space and Time.
• The second draw also selected Zheng Yu, prompting confusion among the spectators and Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe drew Zheng Yu for a third time, and the crowd began accusing the Vast Heaven Sect of cheating.
• The first elder asked Zheng Yu to explain the repeated wins, and Zheng Yu gave his explanation, leaving Chu Xinghe dumbfounded.

Zheng Yu exploited a loophole in the Vast Heaven Sect’s lucky-draw rules by entering ten thousand spirit stones, winning nine of the ten Flutes of Space and Time. Chu Xinghe’s attempt to give the flutes away for free instead drew a crowd of eager investors, while Feng Fei praised him for what he mistook for a clever plan.

• Zheng Yu explained that the rules allowed participants to enter multiple spirit stones, and the Grand Elder confirmed that his ten-thousand-stone entry was legitimate.
• The Grand Elder mistakenly concluded that Chu Xinghe had deliberately left the loophole to encourage people to invest more spirit stones in later drawings.
• Zheng Yu won nine of the ten Flutes of Space and Time, while Cheng Xiaotian won the remaining flute.
• Big shots in Martial Emperor City rushed to enter spirit stones for the next drawing, and the growing crowd filled a storage ring with their contributions.
• Feng Fei praised Chu Xinghe for turning the giveaway into a profitable scheme, while Chu Xinghe lamented that his plan to give the flutes away had backfired.