Chapter Summaries

After the Vast Heaven Sect reached the final, Martial Emperor City conceded, and the first Blazing Sun Star Spirit Beast Grand Prix ended with rewards distributed to its participants. Chu Xinghe discovered that the Misfortune Compass had started moving again, and resolved to keep the grand prix going so he could continue consuming the sect’s resources.

• People in Spirit Beast City debated Zhu Peng’s Demon Race power and speculated about the power inside Chu Xinghe’s Beast God Talisman, while Chu Xinghe gave up trying to correct their rumors.
• Martial Emperor City defeated the Star Moon Sect and advanced to the final against the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Zheng Yu announced that Martial Emperor City was conceding the final, and its elders persuaded the grand elder to accept the decision.
• Chu Xinghe initially objected to the concession because he had prepared to sabotage the Vast Heaven Sect’s spirit cats, but then decided that the consumed resources made the outcome acceptable.
• The grand prix ended with rewards distributed, and Chu Xinghe saw his Misfortune Compass moving again, prompting him to decide that the event must continue.

After the Spirit Beast Grand Prix ended, Chu Xinghe’s Misfortune Compass turned and raised his cultivation limit to the Seventh Rank Middle Stage. The Grand Elder approved Xinghe’s plan to hold more Grand Prix events to develop the Land of Wilderness, but assigned Ma Liang to manage the implementation, leaving Xinghe determined to prevent Ma Liang from backstabbing him again.

• The factions collected their prizes, praised the Vast Heaven Sect, and heard Ma Liang explain that Certain Cloud Sect had failed to qualify for the top hundred despite being invited.
• Chu Xinghe gained a breakthrough to the Seventh Rank Middle Stage when the Misfortune Compass surged with power after the Grand Prix.
• Chu Xinghe urged the Grand Elder to hold Grand Prix events more often, arguing they would attract visitors and accelerate the development of the Land of Wilderness.
• The Grand Elder accepted Xinghe’s plan but assigned Ma Liang to handle its implementation while Xinghe oversaw the overall direction.
• Chu Xinghe reluctantly accepted Ma Liang’s appointment and vowed to anticipate his ideas and prove that Ma Liang would only play a supporting role.

Chu Xinghe rejected Ma Liang’s profitable development plan and gave him extravagant instructions for the next Spirit Beast Grand Prix, convinced they would cause a huge loss. Back at the Vast Heaven Sect, the Dark Moon Clan began its long-awaited game with Zhu Peng, whose Nether Snake Mark transferred his death curse to the Great Sage and drew the attention of a powerful snake spirit.

• Chu Xinghe rejected Ma Liang’s development proposals, including charging entry fees, and ordered him to hold every competition in Spirit Beast City, raise the prizes, and keep Vast Heaven Sect disciples out of the contests.
• Ma Liang accepted Chu Xinghe’s instructions and worried that the plan would cause the sect to lose money, while Chu Xinghe believed the loss was assured.
• The Great Sage sealed off the Dark Moon Palace, settled the clan’s dispute over who would go first, and led the first Dark Moon Clan Life-Exchange Gathering.
• The Great Sage stabbed Zhu Peng through the heart, causing the Nether Snake Mark to transform into a snake and burrow toward the Great Sage’s forehead.
• As Zhu Peng died, the Dark Moon Clan cheered and argued over who would try the game next, while a powerful snake spirit awoke and vowed revenge on the humans who killed its servant.

She Meng used the Nether Snake Mark to curse the Great Sage and revive Zhu Peng, but the Dark Moon Clan kept killing Zhu Peng so its members could experience the curse themselves. She Meng repeatedly revived Zhu Peng and cursed his killers, while the clan continued its bizarre cycle of attacks.

• The Snake Spirit cursed the Great Sage through the Nether Snake Mark, killing him, then revived Zhu Peng in the Dark Moon Palace.
• The Great Sage returned to life, and An Lan killed Zhu Peng before the curse could strike again; the Nether Snake Mark then killed An Lan.
• She Meng revived Zhu Peng and cursed An Lan, believing the humans were seeking revenge and would be frightened by the deaths.
• The Dark Moon Clan members scrambled for turns killing Zhu Peng, and An Xin stabbed him to death as She Meng revived him again.
• She Meng sensed that Zhu Peng had died once more and, furious at the humans, ordered the Nether Snake Mark to kill again.

She Meng repeatedly used the Nether Snake Mark to curse Zhu Peng and other Dark Moon clanspeople to death, draining nearly all his power as they resurrected and treated it like a game. When She Meng finally stopped, the Great Sage forcibly activated the mark again, leaving She Meng powerless as the cycle resumed.

• She Meng cursed four human experts to death in succession, but Zhu Peng kept returning to the Dark Moon Palace and being killed again.
• The Dark Moon clanspeople celebrated the repeated deaths and resurrection, lining up to take turns killing Zhu Peng.
• After Zhu Peng had been killed fifteen times, She Meng ran out of power and could no longer activate the Nether Snake Mark.
• The Great Sage used his Dark Moon Mark to forcibly reactivate the Nether Snake Mark, restarting the cursing game.
• The Nether Snake Mark absorbed She Meng's spiritual power without his control, cursed the Dark Moon clanspeople, and resurrected Zhu Peng again.

Chu Xinghe found the Dark Moon Clan forcing the Nether Snake Mark to curse-kill them repeatedly, and he encouraged the great sage to continue despite the resource cost. The mark exhausted She Meng and moved on to She Kui, while Zhu Peng remained gagged and ignored despite begging to confess.

• Chu Xinghe arrived at the Dark Moon Palace and learned that the great sage was using the Dark Moon Mark to force the Nether Snake Mark into repeated curse killings.
• Zhu Peng begged to confess and die, but Chu Xinghe ordered An Lan to gag him and told the great sage to keep going.
• The great sage explained that forcing the curse killings consumed spirit stones, and Chu Xinghe urged him to continue regardless of the cost.
• After repeated curse killings nearly drained She Meng, the Nether Snake Mark left him and forcibly took control of She Kui.
• She Kui was dragged into another round of curse killings as Dark Moon clansmen lined up, while Zhu Peng's muffled pleas went unanswered.

Chu Xinghe watched the Dark Moon Clan spend Vast Heaven Sect resources fighting the Snake Spirit Clan, expecting the Misfortune Compass to react, but it remained still. The Great Sage then revealed that the Snake Spirit Clan had been exhausted and enslaved, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned by the unexpected gain.

• Feng Fei arranged for resources from several warehouses to be shipped to the Dark Moon Palace.
• Chu Xinghe set conditions for Ma Liang to run the Spirit Beast Grand Prix and explained why Vast Heaven Sect disciples should not compete.
• The Dark Moon Clan repeatedly provoked the Snake Spirit Clan into cursing them to death, consuming resources until the snake spirits could no longer continue.
• Chu Xinghe waited for the Misfortune Compass to react to the resource expenditure, but it showed no sign of moving.
• The Great Sage told Chu Xinghe that the Snake Spirit Clan had been exhausted and that every snake spirit had become a slave, declaring that the Dark Moon Clan had made a killing.

The Great Sage revealed that he had used the Dark Moon Mark to subdue the entire Snake Spirit Clan, whose memories exposed the Demon Race’s plans to reconnect the Demon Star and Blazing Sun Continents. Chu Xinghe alerted the major factions, and they agreed to join forces to seal the unstable passage before the Demon Race could invade.

• The Great Sage told Chu Xinghe that every member of the Snake Spirit Clan had been marked and made his servant, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned by the unexpected result of their resource expenditure.
• The Snake Spirit Clan’s leaders, including She Meng, discovered their Dark Moon Marks and were baffled to learn they had become servants without knowing who their master was.
• The Great Sage used the Dark Moon Mark to learn that the Demon Race sought to reopen a stable passage to the Blazing Sun Continent, where their arrival could lead to humanity’s enslavement or destruction.
• Chu Xinghe informed the First Elder and the sect master, and the Vast Heaven Sect invited leaders from factions across the land to discuss the threat.
• Chu Xinghe told the gathered factions about the Demon Race and identified the passage near the Sea of Deep Silence; Yan Shoujing said sealing it might be possible if the world’s experts joined forces.
• The righteous and Demonic factions agreed to unite and seal the passage to prevent the Demon Star Continent from descending.

The powers of the Blazing Sun Continent prepared the Ten Directions Heavenly Patrol Great Formation to seal the passage to the Demon Star Continent, with Chu Xinghe chosen to serve as its core. Wu Xingyun secretly asked Yan Shoujing to use the formation to send Chu Xinghe into the passage and kill him.

• Yan Shoujing gathered formation masters at the Sea of Deep Silence, and they determined that sealing the passage required the Ten Directions Heavenly Patrol Great Formation.
• Chu Xinghe opened the Vast Heaven Sect's treasury, supplying nearly seventy percent of the formation's rare resources.
• Zhang Zhi and the other leaders agreed that Chu Xinghe should be the formation core because of his exceptional ability to merge formations.
• Wu Xingyun visited Yan Shoujing and ordered him to arrange for Chu Xinghe to be sent into the passage during the sealing.

Wu Xingyun and Tantai Jing arranged for Yan Shoujing to send Chu Xinghe into the passage during the Ten Directions Great Formation, then planned for Yan to die too so the incident would look accidental. After Chu Xinghe and Yan Shoujing were pulled into the passage and the formation sealed it, Gu Mingchao attacked the formation to stop it from closing before Xinghe could return.

• Wu Xingyun threatened Yan Shoujing with exposing his crimes and ordered him to cause Chu Xinghe’s death in the passage.
• Tantai Jing proposed that Yan Shoujing be swept into the passage while trying to save Chu Xinghe, making their deaths appear accidental.
• The Ten Directions Great Formation activated, and Chu Xinghe worked at its center as the passage began to shrink.
• When Chu Xinghe tried to withdraw, the passage’s suction dragged him in, and Yan Shoujing followed as he pretended to rescue him.
• Gu Mingchao attacked the completed formation to reopen the passage, struck Ling Su aside, and warned that anyone who interfered would die.

After Chu Xinghe was sucked into the passage to the Demon Star Continent, the Vast Heaven Sect and Dark Moon Clan fought to keep it open and searched for a way to save him. The sect took control of the Sea of Serenity while Xinghe arrived in a primeval forest, where the Misfortune Compass turned and gave him hope.

• Gu Mingchao, the Great Sage, and the Vast Heaven Sect attacked the Ten Directions Great Formation to stop it from sealing the passage, while the Great Sage threatened anyone who tried to interfere.
• Gu Mingchao broke the formation, but the passage's power prevented him and the others from entering; the Great Sage confirmed that Chu Xinghe was still alive.
• Gu Mingchao warned the gathered experts not to seal Xinghe's only road home, and An Zhi ordered the Snake Spirit Clan to find the Saint on the Demon Star Continent.
• The Great Elder dismissed the experts, and the Vast Heaven Sect took control of the Sea of Serenity and guarded the passage while the Snake Spirit Clan searched for Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe stood bewildered in a primeval forest on the Demon Star Continent, then laughed when the Misfortune Compass turned.

Chu Xinghe was stranded on the Demon Star Continent with his spiritual power drained and tried to survive by disguising himself as a Fox Clan member. Two Fox Clan members immediately saw through his disguise and exposed that his Fox-Pattern Mask made him look like a tailless, crippled fox.

• Chu Xinghe arrived on the Demon Star Continent and discovered the Misfortune Compass had issued missions to destroy powerful Demon Races.
• Chu Xinghe decided to find the Snake Spirit Clan, but he did not know how to use the Dark Moon Mark that controlled them.
• Chu Xinghe wore the Fox-Pattern Mask and learned about the Demon Star Continent and its races from the Beast God.
• Chu Xinghe encountered a Fox Clan man and woman, but they accused him of impersonating their race.
• Chu Xinghe realized the Fox-Pattern Mask had disguised him as a fox without a tail.

Chu Xinghe, powerless and disguised as a tailless Fox Clan member, was captured and brought before the Fox Clan. After his invented story about returning to his people moved priest Hu Han, Hu Han chose him as a sacrifice for the Fox Spirit Grand Sacrifice in three days, leaving Chu Xinghe and the Beast God in despair.

• Hu Gui and Hu Bugui captured Chu Xinghe after deciding his missing tail made him an impostor, then brought him to the Fox Clan gathering place.
• Fox Clan members and priest Hu Han tested Chu Xinghe with illusion-breaking arts, but his Fox-Pattern Mask remained undetected.
• Chu Xinghe claimed to be Hu Xinghe, a sinner's child whose parents had died, and said he had returned to serve the Fox Clan.
• Moved by Chu Xinghe's story, Hu Han declared that he would be offered to the Great Prophet at the sacrifice in three days.
• Hu Han privately admitted the Fox Clan needed a sacrifice, while Chu Xinghe and the Beast God panicked over how to escape.

Chu Xinghe was chosen as the Fox Clan’s sacrifice and tried to plan an escape, but learned the ritual would leave his body in 108 pieces, making the Beast God’s Power of Rebirth useless. Hu Han then sealed Chu Xinghe’s cultivation, movement, and speech, leaving him helpless before the ceremony.

• Hu Han selected Chu Xinghe, posing as Hu Xinghe, as the Fox Clan’s offering for its five-year sacrifice.
• Chu Xinghe secretly took divine pills from his hidden Cosmos Ring to recover his cultivation, while the Beast God warned him that the Fox Clan was too powerful to escape from directly.
• Chu Xinghe and the Beast God decided to use the Power of Rebirth after the sacrifice, but Fox Clan guards explained that his body would be divided into 108 pieces and distributed among warriors.
• The Beast God revealed that he could not revive Chu Xinghe if his body was divided, and Chu Xinghe resumed trying to recover his cultivation and escape.
• Hu Han placed a Cosmos Hoop-like object on Chu Xinghe, sealing his cultivation, movement, and ability to speak.

Chu Xinghe was prepared as a sacrifice in the Fox Clan’s five-year ceremony, but the ancestors’ silver light manifested the first great prophet and chose him for a blessing. The blessing shattered his Heaven and Earth Ring, and Chu Xinghe realized it granted fortune rather than demonic power.

• The Fox Clan carried Chu Xinghe from his cell, dressed him in ceremonial finery, and placed him at the center of the altar.
• Hu Shang began the final rite, calling on the departed great prophets to reveal a new path for the Fox Clan.
• The silver light failed to consume Chu Xinghe, then surged into a pillar and formed the image of the Fox Clan’s first great prophet.
• The first great prophet chose Chu Xinghe for his blessing, stunning the Fox Clan and breaking the Heaven and Earth Ring.
• Chu Xinghe received the blessing and realized that its power was fortune, not demonic power.

Chu Xinghe received the Fox Clan’s ancestral inheritance, but because he was human, he absorbed only its power of fortune and gained no nine tails. As the Fox Clan debated whether he was their new prophet, Hu Shang brought out the Word Spirit Orb, which Chu Xinghe recognized as the Spirit of Fortune Jiang Yunhe possessed.

• The Beast God damaged his own soul to save Chu Xinghe from the first silver light, and the first great prophet then appeared and blessed Chu Xinghe.
• Fourteen generations of Fox Clan great prophets appeared and passed their inheritance to Chu Xinghe, leading the Fox Clan to believe a new Nine-Tailed Prophet had been born.
• Chu Xinghe absorbed the inheritance’s power of fortune but none of its actual contents, and the inheritance ended without giving him any tails.
• The Fox Clan argued over whether Chu Xinghe counted as their prophet, so Hu Shang brought out the Word Spirit Orb to test him.
• Chu Xinghe recognized the Word Spirit Orb as the Spirit of Fortune Jiang Yunhe possessed and expected it to change when he touched it.

Chu Xinghe shattered the Fox Clan’s Word Spirit Orb, revealing divine power so immense that the elders concluded he had received only part of the prophet’s inheritance. He denied becoming the prophet and agreed to stay with the Fox Clan under Grand Elder Hu You’s guidance, while secretly planning to find his way home.

• Hu Shang gave Chu Xinghe the Word Spirit Orb, which shattered as soon as he touched it.
• Fox Clan members accused Chu Xinghe of destroying their sacred relic, but Grand Elder Hu You ordered them to stand back.
• Hu You and the other elders realized Chu Xinghe’s divine power had broken the orb and decided he had inherited the power but not the prophet’s nine tails.
• Hu You questioned Chu Xinghe about the inheritance, and Chu Xinghe denied receiving it while mentioning strange things that had appeared in his mind.
• Hu You told Chu Xinghe to stay with the Fox Clan and offered to teach him personally, and Chu Xinghe agreed.

After receiving part of the prophet’s inheritance, Chu Xinghe avoided being killed by claiming he would start at the bottom, but the Fox Clan’s leaders still worried about his unknown origins. They decided to test him with the Snake Spirit Clan’s Nether Snake Mark, and Chu Xinghe reacted with excitement when Hu You told him.

• Chu Xinghe realized that claiming the prophet’s position would get him killed, so he accepted starting at the bottom of the Fox Clan.
• The Fox Clan’s leaders debated how to verify Chu Xinghe’s origins and recalled how mixed-blood Hu Ying had nearly destroyed the clan.
• Hu You proposed using the Snake Spirit Clan’s Nether Snake Mark, and Hu Shang agreed to seek help from She Meng or She Kui despite the cost.
• The leaders decided to tell Chu Xinghe about the test first and judge his reaction for signs of guilt.
• Hu You explained the Nether Snake Mark and Hu Ying’s history to Chu Xinghe, who showed no fear or hesitation and instead appeared excited.

Chu Xinghe welcomed the Fox Clan’s plan to verify him with the Snake Spirit Clan, while Hu You and the other elders watched him closely and found no sign he would flee. After learning the Demon Race planned to conquer the Blazing Sun Continent, Chu Xinghe resolved to help the Demon Race prosper, hoping the Misfortune Compass would make his efforts backfire on them.

• Hu You told Chu Xinghe the Snake Spirit Clan would use the Nether Snake Mark to verify his identity, and Chu Xinghe eagerly agreed.
• Over the next few days, Chu Xinghe studied Fox Clan customs and repeatedly urged Hu You to arrange the verification, while the elders secretly monitored him for signs of escape.
• Chu Xinghe learned that the Ape Clan was the strongest of the eight great clans and that most Demon Race factions wanted to invade the Blazing Sun Continent once the passage opened.
• After considering how an invasion could destroy the Vast Heaven Sect and enslave humanity, Chu Xinghe rejected weakening the Demon Race and decided to help it with all his strength instead.

Chu Xinghe waited among the Fox Clan for the Snake Spirit Clan to verify his identity, while the Great Sage forced the Snake Clan to search for him by killing one of its members each day. The Snake Clan finally learned that the Fox Clan had a visitor named Hu Xinghe and rushed to tell the Great Sage they had news of the Saint.

• Chu Xinghe urged Grand Elder Hu You to leave for the Snake Spirit Clan, then returned to the Fox Clan to await news.
• The Great Sage continued cursing one Snake Clan expert to death each day while the Vast Heaven Sect and Dark Moon Clan failed to open the passage between the continents.
• She Meng and She Kui ordered the Snake Clan to keep searching for Chu Xinghe, fearing the Great Sage would kill them all if the Saint remained missing.
• A Snake Clan member told She Meng and She Kui that Grand Elder Hu You had come seeking help to verify the identity of someone named Hu Xinghe.
• She Meng welcomed Hu You and sent the Great Sage a message asking him not to kill anyone because the Snake Clan had news of the Saint.