Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe overwhelmed the exhausted Beast God with Evil Repeller and the swords from his Haotian Sword Casket, hoping to destroy Spirit Beast Island and gain a huge boost from the Misfortune Compass. He stopped when the Beast God offered a Rebirth Mark that would grant an extra life to Chu Xinghe, spirit beasts blessed by the Beast God Talisman, and their masters.

• The Beast God tried to appease Chu Xinghe with blessings, but Chu Xinghe ordered Evil Repeller to attack his soul.
• Chu Xinghe trapped the Beast God in the Evil Repeller Formation and intensified the assault with every divine sword in the Haotian Sword Casket.
• The Beast God warned that destroying his soul would also destroy Spirit Beast Island, but Chu Xinghe became more eager to kill him.
• The Beast God offered his divine soul and the power to reach the Demigod realm, but Chu Xinghe rejected the offer and kept attacking.
• The Beast God offered to sacrifice half his divine soul to grant a Rebirth Mark to Chu Xinghe, blessed spirit beasts, and their masters, and Chu Xinghe hesitated and chose the offer over destroying Spirit Beast Island.

Chu Xinghe forced the Beast God to sacrifice his power of rebirth and acknowledge him as master, binding the weakened deity inside the Beast God Talisman. After leaving the void, Chu Xinghe told the others the Beast God was safe, and the group departed Spirit Beast Island with Xuanwu promising to nurture a Spirit Beast Talisman.

• The Beast God sacrificed his soul to infuse the Beast God Talisman with the power of rebirth, which could give Chu Xinghe and members of the Vast Heaven Sect a chance to return from death.
• Chu Xinghe accused the Beast God of breaking his promise, then beat him with Evil Repeller until the Beast God acknowledged him as master and entered the talisman.
• Chu Xinghe named the Beast God Little Beast and emerged from the void as the others sensed the Beast God's presence in his talisman.
• Chu Xinghe told the Four Sacred Beasts that the Beast God was safe, and they opened a passage for the group to leave Spirit Beast Island.
• Ji Moran urged Xuanwu to hurry and nurture the Spirit Beast Talisman, and Xuanwu promised to begin after he returned and slept.

The group returned from Spirit Beast Island, which had permanently opened, and revealed the powers of their Spirit Beast Talismans. The Beast God Talisman granted the power of rebirth, prompting other factions to pledge loyalty to the Vast Heaven Sect, while Chu Xinghe privately noted that the Beast God was inside it.

• Spirit Beast Island stabilized and opened permanently, and the eight emerged as crowds across the Blazing Sun Continent celebrated.
• Zheng Yu described the group's trials, praising Tantai Jing's cooperation and prompting the leaders to apologize to Wu Xingyun for doubting him.
• The factions revealed their Spirit Beast Talismans: Tantai Jing had gained the Vermilion Bird's flame power, while Ji Moran explained that Xuanwu's new talisman would take seven or eight hundred years to nurture.
• Chu Xinghe revealed the Beast God Talisman's power of rebirth, and the Great Sage explained that it could grant an extra life to blessed spirit beasts and their owners.
• Ling Su and Wu Xingyun both declared their factions would ally with the Vast Heaven Sect, while Chu Xinghe privately reflected that the Beast God was inside the talisman.

The factions argued over sharing or paying to use the Beast God Talisman's power of rebirth until Chu Xinghe offered to bestow it for free on factions in good standing with the Vast Heaven Sect. Gu Mingchao and the grand elder recognized that the offer would improve the sect's reputation while letting it control who qualified as a close friend.

• Cheng Xiaotian offered to share Martial Emperor City's Azure Dragon Spirit Beast Talisman with the Vast Heaven Sect, and Wu Xingyun countered by offering Tantai Jing's Vermilion Bird Spirit Beast Talisman.
• Wu Xingyun proposed paying to use the Beast God Talisman, prompting the factions to bid against one another as Chu Xinghe worried over the escalating prices.
• Chu Xinghe promised to bestow the power of rebirth free of charge on factions in good standing with the Vast Heaven Sect, within the limits of his ability.
• Gu Mingchao realized that the offer let the Vast Heaven Sect decide which factions counted as close friends and use that status to influence rivalries and business dealings.
• Gu Mingchao approved Chu Xinghe's plan, and the grand elder agreed that factions should work to unlock a close friend bond with the Vast Heaven Sect.

Chu Xinghe’s offer to grant the Power of Rebirth free to forces on good terms with the Vast Heaven Sect was interpreted as a way to make other powers stop competing with the sect. News of the blessing drew crowds of aspiring disciples and workers to the Vast Heaven Sect, while Chu Xinghe told his disciples to wait before entering Spirit Beast Island so he could plan their selection of spirit beasts.

• Chu Xinghe offered the Power of Rebirth free to forces on good terms with the Vast Heaven Sect, and Zheng Yu, Wu Xingyun, and the other leaders realized the offer could discourage them from opposing the sect.
• The parties settled the matter, and news of the Beast God Talisman’s Power of Rebirth spread across the Blazing Sun Continent, sending young geniuses toward Ice City to seek Vast Heaven Sect membership.
• Crowds of talented applicants overwhelmed Qin Xiangqian at the Tianyi Spirit Mine, then sought attendant jobs in Vast Heaven Sect businesses when miner disciple positions filled up.
• Chu Xinghe heard reports of the influx and worried that attendants might soon be the sect’s strongest fighters.
• Geniuses flooded Spirit Beast Island as soon as it opened, but Chu Xinghe told Vast Heaven Sect disciples to wait while he planned how they should choose spirit beasts.

As Spirit Beast Island opened, Chu Xinghe kept the Vast Heaven Sect’s disciples from joining the rush while he searched for spirit beasts that were both powerful and expensive to raise. The Beast God recommended Nebula Spirit Cats, and Chu Xinghe chose them after learning that they were subdued by showering them with spirit stones.

• Reports spread as disciples from other factions subdued spirit beasts on Spirit Beast Island, while the Vast Heaven Sect stayed behind.
• Ma Liang urged Chu Xinghe to send the sect’s disciples to the island, but Chu Xinghe explained that he wanted them to select powerful beasts that would consume many resources.
• Chu Xinghe summoned the Beast God and rejected recommendations for Wind Spirit Hounds, Blazing Flame Sparrows, Spirits of the Earth, and Sibuxiang because they were too easy to raise or too economical.
• The Beast God recommended Nebula Spirit Cats, describing their sacred beast blood, exceptional group strength, slow growth, and heavy resource needs.
• Chu Xinghe chose the Nebula Spirit Cats and learned that they could be subdued by throwing spirit stones at them until they accepted a master.

Chu Xinghe persuaded the Vast Heaven Sect to choose Nebula Spirit Cats, explaining how to subdue them and why their adaptable Power of Chaos made them ideal for the whole sect. Meanwhile, Ouyang Ming announced that the Ouyang Lineage would study and taste every spirit beast on Spirit Beast Island, earning himself a notorious new title.

• Chu Xinghe told the sect master and Grand Elder that the Vast Heaven Sect should choose Nebula Spirit Cats, and the elders approved the plan after Elder He explained their strengths.
• Chu Xinghe revealed that Nebula Spirit Cats could only be subdued by luring them with resources, and the sect leaders agreed to fund the effort.
• The sect announced its choice and the subduing method to its disciples, while Douding'er told them the Savage Wilderness Tribes would also choose Nebula Spirit Cats.
• Ouyang Ming asked Douding'er how Nebula Spirit Cats tasted, then declared that the Ouyang Lineage would study and rank Spirit Beast Island's beasts.
• Ouyang Ming explained that the Ouyang Lineage could subdue a spirit beast and eat it without making it acknowledge them as its master, earning the title Ouyang Ming, the Bane of Spirit Beasts.

The Beast God secretly planned to use the power gained from Spirit Beast Island’s improving spirit beasts to regain his strength and kill Chu Xinghe, while the Vast Heaven Sect began raising Nebula Spirit Cats on a massive scale. The first batch reached the island, and both Chu Xinghe and the Beast God celebrated the resource spending for opposite reasons.

• The Beast God revealed that spirit beasts’ growth on Spirit Beast Island fed power into his soul, and he planned to regain his peak strength before breaking his bond to Chu Xinghe and taking his body.
• The Vast Heaven Sect sent the Grand Elder and five thousand disciples from every palace except the Artifact Refining Palace to Spirit Beast Island, carrying vast quantities of resources.
• Ling Su successfully tamed a Nebula Spirit Cat using the Vast Heaven Sect’s public method, but Cloud Firmament Sect’s elders rejected his plan to equip all their disciples because the cats were too expensive.
• Ling Su learned that even the Vast Heaven Sect had reduced its resource allowances to fund the Nebula Spirit Cats, though its supposedly tight budget still far exceeded what other sects could afford.
• Chu Xinghe rejoiced as the Vast Heaven Sect spent enormous resources on the cats, while the Beast God eagerly anticipated their growth accelerating his recovery.

Chu Xinghe led the Vast Heaven Sect disciples to Nebula Ridge, where the Beast God Talisman drew Nebula Spirit Cats to them and the disciples fed the cats enormous quantities of spirit stones. Chu Xinghe and the Beast God both celebrated their gains, but a sudden change interrupted the Beast God’s plans to recover his power.

• The Vast Heaven Sect’s five thousand disciples entered Spirit Beast Island, drawing attention because the resources they spent on Nebula Spirit Cats revealed their immense wealth.
• Chu Xinghe learned that the Beast God inside his talisman prevented other spirit beasts from acknowledging him as their master, though the Beast God could control any spirit beast.
• Chu Xinghe told Ma Liang and the others why he could not subdue spirit beasts, but Ma Liang assumed the Beast God Talisman had not fully awakened.
• Nebula Spirit Cats gathered around Chu Xinghe on Nebula Ridge and let him and the Vast Heaven Sect disciples pet them.
• The Grand Elder organized the disciples to feed the cats spirit stones, making Chu Xinghe’s Misfortune Compass turn and replenishing the Beast God’s soul.
• The Beast God began plotting revenge against Chu Xinghe as his power recovered, but a sudden change occurred.

The Beast God tried to use the Nebula Spirit Cats’ spiritual power to recover, but Chu Xinghe’s misfortune turned it against him and drained his strength. To save himself, the Beast God spread his presence among the Vast Heaven Sect disciples, causing the cats to acknowledge them without consuming resources and stopping Chu Xinghe’s Misfortune Compass; he then claimed he was helping Chu Xinghe.

• The Beast God felt spiritual power from the Nebula Spirit Cats flow into him, but Chu Xinghe’s misfortune made it devour the power he had already recovered.
• Chu Xinghe watched the disciples spend sect resources and celebrated as his Misfortune Compass turned faster, while Ma Liang showed no sign of betraying him.
• The Grand Elder asked Chu Xinghe to look for a way to reduce the resources needed to tame the Nebula Spirit Cats, and Chu Xinghe pretended to search the Beast God Talisman.
• The Beast God Talisman flew from Chu Xinghe’s hand and sent points of light into the disciples, whose presence immediately made the Nebula Spirit Cats acknowledge them as masters without being fed.
• The Beast God stopped the disciples from consuming resources, ending the misfortune draining his soul, and told Chu Xinghe, “I’m helping you. Heaven blesses Vast Heaven!”

Chu Xinghe watched helplessly as the Beast God used the Beast God Talisman to help the Vast Heaven Sect obtain Nebula Spirit Cats without spending resources. The sect celebrated its good fortune while the Beast God exhausted himself helping Chu Xinghe, who still suspected a hidden scheme.

• The Beast God unexpectedly used his power to make the Nebula Spirit Cats acknowledge their masters, saving the Vast Heaven Sect from spending more resources.
• The grand elder celebrated the sect’s good fortune, while Ling Su and the visiting factions were stunned that the cats had been subdued for free.
• Ma Liang and the Vast Heaven Sect disciples praised Chu Xinghe, who privately resented the Beast God for helping him despite their enmity.
• Word spread through the sect, and the hall masters and Savage Wilderness Tribes celebrated the Beast God’s blessing and its effects on their beast-taming abilities.
• Over the following days, the Beast God blessed each Vast Heaven Sect disciple and arranged a Nebula Spirit Cat for them, exhausting his soul as Chu Xinghe watched.

The Beast God exhausted himself helping the Vast Heaven Sect obtain Nebula Spirit Cats because a strange force of misfortune threatened him whenever he stopped. Chu Xinghe turned to raising the cats as a way to consume sect resources, while the Beast God’s attempt to avoid helping brought misfortune down on him again.

• The Beast God bestowed marks on the Vast Heaven Sect’s disciples so they could tame Nebula Spirit Cats, despite Chu Xinghe urging him to rest.
• Most of the sect’s outer disciples obtained Nebula Spirit Cats, while injured Chu Cheng remained behind; Liu Bo and other disciples visited him, leaving the outer sect short of gauze after their exchange.
• Chu Xinghe decided to focus on raising the cats and ordered Ma Liang to have the sect raise them quickly, regardless of the resources consumed.
• Chu Xinghe told Douding'er that the Vast Heaven Sect would fund the Savage Wilderness Tribes’ research into raising Nebula Spirit Cats, including the detours they would take.
• The Beast God tried to passively absorb spiritual power while the sect raised the cats, but misfortune soon struck him again.

As the Vast Heaven Sect struggled to raise the juvenile Nebula Spirit Cats, the Beast God's attempt to recover his strength was overwhelmed by misfortune. Douding'er received an inheritance containing the Spirit Beast Mystic Art, credited it to Chu Xinghe, and decided the Savage Wilderness Tribes would formally join the Vast Heaven Sect.

• The Beast God watched the Vast Heaven Sect raise Nebula Spirit Cats, but the power from their training mutated and consumed his soul instead of restoring it.
• The Beast God Talisman flew from the sleeping Chu Xinghe and sent a divine light over the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Douding'er prayed for guidance after another failed attempt to raise the Nebula Spirit Cats, then received an inheritance with a complete raising guide and the Spirit Beast Mystic Art.
• Douding'er recognized the Beast God Talisman overhead and concluded that Chu Xinghe had passed on the inheritance.
• Douding'er resolved that the Savage Wilderness Tribes would repay Chu Xinghe by formally joining the Vast Heaven Sect.

Chu Xinghe welcomed the Savage Wilderness Tribes’ apparent decision to leave the Vast Heaven Sect and promised they would always have the sect’s support. Their farewell was a test of his intentions, and his generosity convinced them to join the Vast Heaven Sect as the Beast Taming Palace.

• Chu Xinghe inspected the palaces’ Nebula Spirit Cat raising efforts and found Ouyang Ling’s cat unconscious but alive.
• Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that the Savage Wilderness Tribes might be leaving, and Chu Xinghe hurried to Haotian Palace, delighted by the prospect.
• Douding'er announced that the Savage Wilderness Tribes were returning to the Land of Wilderness, while the Vast Heaven Sect’s elders looked dismayed.
• Chu Xinghe praised the tribes’ choice to return home and promised that the Vast Heaven Sect would always support them.
• Douding'er revealed that the farewell was a test of Chu Xinghe’s character, and his response convinced the Savage Wilderness Tribes to join the Vast Heaven Sect as its Beast Taming Palace.

Douding'er and the Savage Wilderness Tribes joined the Vast Heaven Sect after Chu Xinghe’s sincere response to their supposed departure convinced them he had no designs on their land. The chapter left Chu Xinghe despairing as Douding'er promised to teach the Spirit Beast Mystic Art to the entire sect, threatening his plans for breeding Nebula Spirit Cats.

• Douding'er led the Savage Wilderness Tribes in announcing their departure to test whether Chu Xinghe secretly wanted their land.
• Chu Xinghe responded with genuine happiness for the tribes and offered them his blessings, convincing Douding'er he was benevolent.
• Douding'er and the tribes performed their traditional rites and pledged to join the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Sect Master Gu Mingchao welcomed the tribes and assured them they could preserve their customs and identity.
• Douding'er promised to teach the Spirit Beast Mystic Art to every sect disciple so they could breed Nebula Spirit Cats without using resources, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned.

Douding'er revealed that the Beast God Talisman had passed the Spirit Beast Mystic Art to him, and the Vast Heaven Sect celebrated as its Nebula Spirit Cats began cultivating independently. When Wu Xingyun asked Yan Shoujing to provide the art to the Demonic Sect, Yan explained that only Douding'er could pass it on, leaving Wu to consider bribery.

• Elder He explained the Spirit Beast Mystic Art's benefits, and the Vast Heaven Sect's elders credited Chu Xinghe with giving it to Douding'er through the Beast God Talisman.
• Douding'er recounted how he received the art, while Chu Xinghe privately blamed the Beast God for helping him again.
• Douding'er passed the Spirit Beast Mystic Art on to the Vast Heaven Sect, and the Nebula Spirit Cats began cultivating and learning to merge with their masters.
• Wu Xingyun asked Yan Shoujing to hand over the Spirit Beast Mystic Art, but Yan said only Douding'er knew how to pass it on and suggested bribing him.
• Wu Xingyun responded to Yan's suggestion by proposing that Xiao Cui'er wear Yan Shoujing's mother's clothes while he taught her cultivation techniques.

After the Spirit Beast Mystic Art’s discovery sent the Blazing Sun Continent’s factions seeking access to it, the Vast Heaven Sect debated whether to keep it secret. Chu Xinghe argued against monopolizing the art, and the sect decided to sell a watered-down version through Douding'er, leaving its strongest version in Vast Heaven’s hands while earning resources and goodwill.

• News of the Spirit Beast Mystic Art spread across the Blazing Sun Continent, and Cheng Xiaotian visited Gu Mingchao seeking a version for Martial Emperor City.
• The Vast Heaven Sect’s leaders met to decide whether to share the art, with most favoring keeping it exclusive.
• Chu Xinghe warned that monopolizing the art could make the sect a target and that another Spirit Beast Mystic Art might eventually appear elsewhere.
• Elder He endorsed Chu Xinghe’s reasoning and proposed selling a watered-down version through Douding'er while retaining the strongest art.
• The sect’s leaders agreed that sharing the art would bring resources and a reputation for benevolence, then praised Chu Xinghe’s vision of a Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Everyone in the Haotian Grand Hall shouted, “Heaven blesses Vast Heaven!” while Chu Xinghe inwardly lamented how difficult things had become.

Cheng Xiaotian and the factions of the Blazing Sun Continent expected the Vast Heaven Sect to keep the Spirit Beast Mystic Art, but Chu Xinghe persuaded the sect to share it with friendly factions. The announcement strengthened the Vast Heaven Sect’s standing and convinced Cheng Xiaotian that Chu Xinghe could lead it toward becoming the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

• Zheng Yu explained to Cheng Xiaotian that sharing the Spirit Beast Mystic Art would bring the Vast Heaven Sect allies, resources, and lasting influence, and said Chu Xinghe would choose to share it.
• The Vast Heaven Sect announced that it would compile the Spirit Beast Mystic Art and pass it in batches to factions on good terms with the sect.
• Ling Su confirmed the announcement and realized that the Vast Heaven Sect’s position had risen beyond that of the ten great sects.
• Cheng Xiaotian heard from the Grand Elder that Chu Xinghe had persuaded the sect to share the art for the development of spirit beasts across the Blazing Sun Continent.
• Cheng Xiaotian recognized that Chu Xinghe had earned decisive influence in the Vast Heaven Sect and believed the sect might become the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

After the Spirit Beast Mystic Art spread through the Vast Heaven Sect, the sect’s influence and businesses flourished, while its disciples discovered powerful new ways to train their Nebula Spirit Cats. Chu Xinghe watched the Everlasting Spring Palace develop poisonous cats and the Frigid Ice Palace outfit its cats with hidden weapons, as the Beast God withdrew to recover.

• The Vast Heaven Sect shared the Spirit Beast Mystic Art with friendly factions, causing the sect’s businesses to thrive as factions sought its friendship and the Power of Rebirth.
• Chu Xinghe repeatedly cursed the Beast God, who blamed his worsening condition on the sect’s bad-luck backlash and decided to hibernate rather than give Chu Xinghe more harmful gifts.
• Senior Sister Nangong used the Spirit Beast Mystic Art to help the Everlasting Spring Palace’s Nebula Spirit Cats absorb poisons and develop deadly poisonous bodies.
• Elder Ji sampled a Nebula Spirit Cat’s poison and became unable to leave the Everlasting Spring Palace, while Chu Xinghe hoped the research would delay the Poison Saint Inheritance.
• Senior Brother Leng demonstrated how the Frigid Ice Palace’s Nebula Spirit Cats fired Torrential Rain Pear Blossom Needles and described a plan for over ten thousand cats to cover an area two li wide.

Chu Xinghe toured the palaces to see how each had trained its Nebula Spirit Cats, only to find that the cats had gained powerful abilities suited to their disciples. The chapter left him discovering that the Artifact Refining Palace was teaching its cats to forge artifacts.

• Chu Xinghe saw the Thunder Palace's Nebula Spirit Cats activate the Inspiring Battle Formation, boosting the disciples' combat power by thirty percent, with greater strength possible as the cats matured.
• Elder He told Chu Xinghe that the Azure Wood Palace's Nebula Spirit Cats could apply the palace's buffs, letting its disciples charge into battle while receiving support.
• Chu Xinghe watched Wan Lin's Nebula Spirit Cat charm groups of spirit beasts regardless of their gender.
• At the Artifact Refining Palace, Chu Xinghe heard Ouyang Ming criticize students' techniques and discovered he was teaching Nebula Spirit Cats to refine artifacts.