Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe’s debt repayments brought the Vast Heaven Sect wealth, status, and increased resources, while rumors praising him sparked a rivalry among disciples over who would become his closest aide. He arrived at Haotian Palace for a meeting about the Millennial Grand Sacrifice and was delighted to learn the Vast Heaven Sect would host the costly event.

• The Vast Heaven Sect promoted Chu Xinghe to senior elite disciple and increased resources for its disciples after his debt repayments enriched the sect.
• Rumors claimed Chu Xinghe had surpassed Gu Mingchao, but Gu Mingchao and the Vast Heaven Sect’s disciples agreed the praise understated his abilities.
• Ma Liang, Feng Fei, Mu Bai, Ouyang Ming, and others competed over who would become Chu Xinghe’s closest aide, frustrating Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe decided to stop repaying debts, but Shen Chun summoned him to Haotian Palace for a sect assembly.
• The sect master announced that the Vast Heaven Sect would host the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, and Chu Xinghe welcomed the chance to make the sect lose money.

At Haotian Palace, Chu Xinghe volunteered to oversee the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, an event bringing together the righteous and demonic sides and requiring the Vast Heaven Sect to spend heavily. After Chu Xinghe argued that facing criticism would help him grow, Gu Mingchao and the elders approved his appointment and pledged to support him.

• Gu Mingchao explained that the Millennial Grand Sacrifice would commemorate the war against the Evil Tribe and require the righteous and demonic sides to observe a truce.
• Gu Mingchao called for one person to oversee the sacrifice, and Chu Xinghe eagerly volunteered while calculating how much the Vast Heaven Sect could lose.
• The grand elder and Gu Mingchao tried to dissuade Chu Xinghe, warning that the event carried great responsibility and would attract criticism.
• Chu Xinghe argued that leading the sacrifice would prepare him to face future challenges, even if he made mistakes.
• The grand elder, Elder He, and other elders supported Chu Xinghe, and Gu Mingchao approved his appointment.

After the Vast Heaven Sect appointed Chu Xinghe chief planner for the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, the choice bewildered other powers, who feared he would be ruined by public criticism. As Chu Xinghe reviewed past sacrifices with Feng Fei and Ma Liang, he rejected their limited precedents and proposed a new way to let everyone on the Blazing Sun Continent participate.

• Yan Shoujing accepted that he had to behave during the Grand Sacrifice, though he wondered whether Wu Xingyun would bring Xiao Cui'er to the Vast Heaven Sect.
• News of Chu Xinghe’s appointment spread, and small sects suspected he was only lending his name while great sects recognized his ability but worried the role would expose him to destructive criticism.
• Feng Fei recounted the ten previous Grand Sacrifices, including the Cloud Firmament Sect’s event for one million people a hundred years earlier.
• Chu Xinghe dismissed the old records as too modest and insisted the Millennial Grand Sacrifice should involve every person on the Blazing Sun Continent.
• Ma Liang and Feng Fei were stunned when Chu Xinghe explained how his plan could make that participation possible.

Chu Xinghe decided to use the Haotian Mirror to broadcast the Millennial Grand Sacrifice across the Blazing Sun Continent, allowing everyone to watch. The announcement thrilled ordinary people and Rogue Cultivators, while the Vast Heaven Sect’s branches sold out as Rogue Cultivators rushed to support it.

• Chu Xinghe proposed using the Haotian Mirror to project the Millennial Grand Sacrifice into every city, and Feng Fei warned him about the immense cost in spirit stones.
• Chu Xinghe brought the Haotian Mirror out of the Haotian Grand Hall and announced a live broadcast of the entire ceremony to the world.
• The major sects and Ling Su were stunned by the expense, while ordinary people across the Blazing Sun Continent celebrated the chance to watch from home.
• Rogue Cultivators, moved by the Vast Heaven Sect’s generosity, flocked to its trading companies and bought so much that branches across the land sold out.

After Chu Xinghe announced that the Haotian Mirror would broadcast the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, Rogue Cultivators flooded Vast Heaven’s trading companies and bought them out, turning his expected loss into a surge of customers and possible long-term profits. As Shi Biao, Sima Bian, and Lu Chengqing competed for attention ahead of the year-end meeting, Chu Xinghe resolved to make the sacrifice even more outrageous.

• Rogue Cultivators rushed to Vast Heaven’s trading companies to support the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, buying nearly everything and leaving Shi Biao stunned.
• Feng Fei investigated the sellout and ordered the branches to maintain quality and reasonable prices, prompting Rogue Cultivators to buy even more.
• Feng Fei reported the trading companies’ success to Gu Mingchao and the Grand Elder, who interpreted the unexpected profits as evidence of Chu Xinghe’s hidden plan.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Shi Biao and Sima Bian had sold out their Crystals of Xinghe and that Lu Chengqing was staging a warm-up performance.
• Chu Xinghe imagined the three men competing in a free-for-all for the vice president position at the year-end meeting and decided to make the Millennial Grand Sacrifice even more outrageous.

Chu Xinghe planned a radically different Millennial Grand Sacrifice, turning it into a bright-red, festive event and proposing a city-sized venue. He left the gathered senior brothers and sisters preparing to recruit the world’s finest musicians and performers for the Millennial Joyous Sacrifice.

• Chu Xinghe rejected Feng Fei’s proposal to hold the sacrifice at Haotian Palace and chose to build a new main altar on a mountain.
• Chu Xinghe divided the ceremony into “Remembering the Past,” “Speaking of the Present,” and “Honoring the Forebears,” proposing to show the continent events from a thousand years earlier through time and space.
• Chu Xinghe revealed a construction sketch for an enormous city, and the construction division agreed to build it.
• Chu Xinghe insisted the city be bright red and festive, declaring the event the Millennial Joyous Sacrifice despite Feng Fei and others’ objections.
• Chu Xinghe proposed bringing the world’s finest musicians and performers to the Vast Heaven Sect to make the sacrifice an extravagant celebration.

Chu Xinghe turned the Millennial Grand Sacrifice into a plan for an extravagant performance recreating the Battle to Vanquish Evil, and the sect leaders agreed to trust his idea. He sent Lu Chengqing to recruit thousands of top performers, promising the Vast Heaven Sect would pay every expense.

• The civil engineering disciples reported the Millennial Joyous Sacrifice theme to Gu Mingchao and the Grand Elder, who approved it after deciding to trust Xinghe.
• Lu Chengqing left his profitable performances in the Southern Branch and hurried back to the Vast Heaven Sect when Xinghe summoned him.
• Xinghe explained that he wanted Lu Chengqing to use the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation and thousands of performers to recreate the Battle to Vanquish Evil.
• Lu Chengqing accepted the enormous task of recruiting the finest actors and musicians from across the Blazing Sun Continent.
• Xinghe told Lu Chengqing to spare no expense, promising that the Vast Heaven Sect would cover the performers’ fees.

Lu Chengqing struggled to assemble a cast for the Battle to Vanquish Evil after most performers refused the Vast Heaven Sect’s invitation. Ma Liang convinced him that Senior Brother Xinghe meant to charge the performers for the chance to appear at the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, and Lu Chengqing sent out the new demand, leaving performers across the world outraged.

• Lu Chengqing summoned Haotian Tower’s performers, recruited musicians and actors from across the Blazing Sun Continent, and found that nearly seventy percent could not attend.
• Senior Brother Xinghe told Lu Chengqing to offer the reluctant performers more money, but most still refused.
• Lu Chengqing took the problem to Ma Liang, who interpreted Senior Brother Xinghe’s notes as instructions to make the performers pay for the opportunity to appear.
• Ma Liang ordered Lu Chengqing to tell the performers they must pay the Vast Heaven Sect and risk losing any future chance to perform there if they refused.
• Lu Chengqing’s subordinates sent the demand worldwide, and the musicians and actors reacted with disbelief and anger.

Lu Chengqing sent musicians and actors new invitations asking them to pay for the chance to perform at the Vast Heaven Sect’s Millennial Grand Sacrifice, believing Senior Brother Xinghe had devised a brilliant plan. After Guan Zhongming recognized the invitation as an opportunity to reach the whole world through the Haotian Mirror, famous performers rushed to accept.

• Lu Chengqing followed Ma Liang’s explanation and sent revised invitations asking musicians and actors to pay for the opportunity to perform.
• Musicians across the world condemned Lu Chengqing and suspected he was retaliating against those who had rejected his earlier offers.
• Guan Zhongming accepted the invitation and explained to his friends that the performers would appear at the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, whose Haotian Mirror broadcast could make them famous worldwide.
• Guan Zhongming’s friends realized the performance was a rare opportunity, and renowned musicians and actors sent the Vast Heaven Sect replies agreeing to attend.
• Lu Chengqing’s subordinates were astonished by the flood of acceptances, while Lu Chengqing praised Senior Brother Xinghe’s brilliance.

Lu Chengqing recruited musicians and actors to perform at the Vast Heaven Sect’s Millennial Grand Sacrifice, rejecting those who had refused earlier invitations and insisting that everyone earn a place through an assessment. When they began paying their fees in advance, Chu Xinghe believed Lu Chengqing had arranged payment for the performers and approved of his initiative.

• Musicians and actors across the land learned that performing at the Millennial Grand Sacrifice could bring them fame, and many agreed to pay the Vast Heaven Sect for the opportunity.
• Lu Chengqing rejected apologies from those who had refused his earlier invitations and selected less-famous replacements.
• Lu Chengqing told the invited performers that only those who passed a final assessment would qualify, and he dismissed those who tried to buy opportunities with offerings.
• After learning Chu Xinghe had devised the plan, the performers stopped offering bribes and began paying their performance fees, with some offering double their usual highest rates.
• Chu Xinghe and the Grand Elder visited the performers, and Chu Xinghe praised Lu Chengqing after a musician told him the queue was for paying fees.

Chu Xinghe discovered that Lu Chengqing had turned the Millennial Grand Sacrifice’s performers into donors, with Ma Liang credited for helping the plan succeed. As news spread that the Vast Heaven Sect’s performers had paid the sect, outsiders began investigating how it had happened.

• The Grand Elder and Chu Xinghe watched musicians pay Lu Chengqing twice their calculated performance fees, leaving both of them baffled.
• Lu Chengqing explained that Chu Xinghe had devised the plan and that the performers willingly paid to be given the opportunity to perform.
• The Grand Elder realized the Vast Heaven Sect had profited from the event, while Chu Xinghe privately blamed Ma Liang for turning his intended spending into earnings.
• Lu Chengqing credited Ma Liang with correcting his misunderstanding of Xinghe’s plan, and Xinghe concluded that Ma Liang had become impossible to undermine.
• News spread that more than ten thousand performers had performed for free and paid the Vast Heaven Sect, prompting outsiders to suspect coercion and question other musicians.

Lu Chengqing proposed using the Haotian Mirror to broadcast a talent showcase and promotions, turning the musicians’ demand for fame into a profitable venture for the Vast Heaven Sect. With the Grand Elder’s approval, he launched Voice of Vast Heaven and gathered registration fees, leaving him confident he would dominate the entertainment world.

• Musicians flocked to the Vast Heaven Sect and demanded a chance to perform, even offering to pay.
• Lu Chengqing asked the Grand Elder to let him use the Haotian Mirror, and won approval after explaining his plan.
• The Grand Elder summoned Chu Xinghe, who objected to Lu Chengqing’s broadcasts and promotional scheme but could not reverse the decision.
• The Grand Elder granted the Southern Branch temporary use of the Haotian Mirror, with continued access dependent on its profitability.
• Lu Chengqing announced Voice of Vast Heaven to the musicians, who thanked him and paid their registration fees.
• Lu Chengqing celebrated his prospects and dismissed Shi Biao and Sima Bian as rivals for the vice president position.

Chu Xinghe tried to make the Battle to Vanquish Evil realistic by arranging for Ten Thousand Evils City to be destroyed, while avoiding another disastrous turn of events. As experts from across the world arrived for the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, Demonic Emperor Wu Xingyun and the Demonic Sect reached the Vast Heaven Sect.

• Lu Chengqing used the Haotian Mirror to dominate the entertainment world, while Sima Bian denounced him and Shi Biao demanded free publicity for the Vast Heaven Trading Company.
• Musicians and actors competed fiercely for leading roles in the Battle to Vanquish Evil, leaving Lu Chengqing with a casting headache and Chu Xinghe frustrated by their unexpected willingness to pay for parts.
• Chu Xinghe instructed Ouyang Ming to create realistic explosions for the performance, and clarified that he meant to destroy Ten Thousand Evils City rather than kill the actors.
• Ouyang Ming made controllable Spirit Explosion Balls that could reduce Ten Thousand Evils City to ashes without harming anyone.
• Chu Xinghe welcomed the invited factions to the Vast Heaven Sect for the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, and Demonic Emperor Wu Xingyun arrived with Demonic Sect experts.

At the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, Chu Xinghe turned Wu Xingyun’s mockery into an idea for a performance featuring the strongest experts under heaven. After the Grand Elder stopped him from announcing it at the banquet, Chu Xinghe went to persuade Cheng Xiaotian, who was furious at the suggestion.

• Wu Xingyun arrived at the Vast Heaven Sect and glared at Chu Xinghe while Tantai Jing displayed even greater hatred toward him.
• At the banquet, Wu Xingyun criticized Chu Xinghe for arranging a performance and inviting musicians to the Millennial Grand Sacrifice.
• Chu Xinghe took Wu Xingyun’s remarks as inspiration and invited the experts under heaven to perform together in the “Speaking of the Present” segment.
• The Grand Elder rebuked Chu Xinghe for asking the gathered experts to appear onstage, and Chu Xinghe offered no explanation.
• After the banquet, Chu Xinghe visited Cheng Xiaotian and asked him to perform, leaving the lord of Martial Emperor City furious.

Chu Xinghe visited Cheng Xiaotian and persuaded him that Martial Emperor City should demonstrate its strengths at the Millennial Grand Sacrifice. Cheng Xiaotian recognized that the broadcast could help suitable disciples discover the city, and admired the Vast Heaven Sect for giving every sect a chance to promote itself.

• Chu Xinghe arrived at Martial Emperor City, where Zheng Yu welcomed him and brought him to Cheng Xiaotian.
• Chu Xinghe asked Cheng Xiaotian to appear onstage, shocking Cheng Xiaotian and Zheng Yu.
• Chu Xinghe explained that the Haotian Mirror would broadcast the Millennial Grand Sacrifice across the Blazing Sun Continent, giving Martial Emperor City a chance to show its strengths.
• Chu Xinghe argued that showcasing the city's distinctive teachings could attract talented disciples better suited to Martial Emperor City than the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Cheng Xiaotian recalled how the Cloud Firmament Sect had risen through promotion at an earlier grand sacrifice and concluded that Chu Xinghe's willingness to help every sect showed greater breadth of mind.

Chu Xinghe arranged for Martial Emperor City to showcase its strength at the Millennial Grand Sacrifice and paid it resources, turning the arrangement into a favor rather than a transaction. Wu Xingyun confronted Chu Xinghe over his insistence that the Demonic Emperor perform onstage, and the chapter ended as an unexpected change interrupted their tense exchange.

• Cheng Xiaotian accepted Chu Xinghe’s offer of resources for Martial Emperor City’s participation after Chu insisted it was not a transaction.
• Zheng Yu asked why Chu Xinghe had paid them, and Cheng Xiaotian explained that the gift made Martial Emperor City indebted to the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Wu Xingyun raged over Chu Xinghe’s demand that he perform onstage, while Tantai Jing warned him that attacking Chu Xinghe could cause the Demonic Sect to suffer a party wipe.
• Wu Xingyun tried to send Chu Xinghe away, but Chu stayed outside and continued requesting an audience and insisting on the performance.
• Wu Xingyun went out to meet Chu Xinghe as Demonic Sect members watched nervously, and their exchange grew increasingly heated before an unexpected change occurred.

Chu Xinghe recruited sects to perform at the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, persuading Wu Xingyun to bring the Demonic Sect onstage with a generous appearance fee. He arranged for the Ouyang Lineage to pay that fee, then proceeded with preparations as the Cloud Firmament Sect waited in vain for an invitation; the Grand Sacrifice began without them.

• Chu Xinghe offered Wu Xingyun escalating payments until the Demonic Emperor agreed to lead the Demonic Sect in a performance at the Millennial Grand Sacrifice.
• Wu Xingyun told the Demonic Sect members that Chu Xinghe had made amends, then admitted he had accepted because the appearance fee was generous.
• Chu Xinghe visited nearly every major sect in one night and secured their agreement to perform, including the Demonic Sect.
• The Grand Elder questioned Chu Xinghe about aiding the Demonic Sect, but Chu Xinghe explained that the Ouyang Lineage would be responsible for paying its fee.
• Xing Yushen and the Cloud Firmament Sect waited for Chu Xinghe to invite them, but the Millennial Grand Sacrifice began without an invitation.

Chu Xinghe ignored the Cloud Firmament Sect’s request to participate in the Millennial Grand Sacrifice performance, then unveiled a bright-red, festive Ten Thousand Evils City that outraged the guests. As everyone prepared to criticize him, Chu Xinghe welcomed the backlash, convinced it would help him advance.

• Ling Su asked Chu Xinghe about the Millennial Grand Sacrifice, but Chu Xinghe said the Cloud Firmament Sect had enough people for the performance and gave no further explanation.
• Ling Su and Xing Yushen tried to confront Vast Heaven Sect leaders, but Gu Mingchao and the others were in seclusion, leaving them unable to resolve the dispute.
• Guests arrived at the reconstructed Ten Thousand Evils City and were shocked by its bright-red decorations, red carpets, lanterns, and a sign calling it the “Millennial Joyous Sacrifice.”
• The Cloud Firmament Sect and other guests accused the Vast Heaven Sect of treating the memorial as a celebration, while Gu Mingchao urged everyone to wait and see Chu Xinghe’s methods.
• Chu Xinghe remained confident as the crowd criticized the ceremony, believing their backlash would fuel his advancement.

Chu Xinghe used the Millennial Joyous Sacrifice and the Haotian Mirror to expose how little people across the Blazing Sun Continent remembered the Battle to Vanquish Evil. He then promised to take everyone back a thousand years to show them what the battle was.

• The Haotian Mirror broadcast the red-decorated Millennial Joyous Sacrifice across the Blazing Sun Continent, prompting widespread outrage and mockery of Chu Xinghe.
• Vast Heaven Sect disciples interviewed passersby in several cities, and each person admitted they did not know what the Battle to Vanquish Evil was.
• The interviews silenced the experts in Ten Thousand Evils City as they realized ordinary people had forgotten the battle and the forebears the sacrifice honored.
• Gu Mingchao realized Chu Xinghe had deliberately made the ceremony festive to mock the world for forgetting its history.
• Chu Xinghe appeared on the Haotian Mirror, asked whether people knew what the Battle to Vanquish Evil was, and promised to show them the battle a thousand years later.

Chu Xinghe used Ten Thousand Evils City, illusion formations, and a huge cast to reenact the Battle to Vanquish Evil, showing the world the sacrifices made by both righteous and Demonic Sect fighters. After the battle left the city in ruins, the ceremony shifted to living sects displaying their power, ending with the world’s great sects appearing in a flourishing age.

• Chu Xinghe used the Haotian Mirror and illusion formations to show the evil beings overrunning Ten Thousand Evils City and humanity’s counterattack.
• Ouyang Ming and the assembled performers reenacted the decisive battle, destroying the city and portraying the deaths of countless fighters.
• Wu Xingyun watched Chu Xinghe give equal recognition to righteous and Demonic Sect contributors, and he praised Xinghe for honoring the historical record.
• After the last king of the evil beings was slain, Guan Zhongming played among the ruins as Chu Xinghe declared that this was the Battle to Vanquish Evil.
• Cheng Xiaotian formed an image of Martial Emperor City with his spiritual power, and other experts followed by displaying their sects’ might.