Chapter Summaries

The Great Sage learned from She Meng that the Fox Clan had found a tailless fox calling himself Hu Xinghe, and he rushed to the Vast Heaven Sect with the news. Ma Liang recognized Hu Xinghe as Chu Xinghe in disguise, giving the sect hope that their missing senior brother was alive, though his safety and return remained uncertain.

• The Great Sage nearly cursed a Snake Clan expert to death before She Meng stopped him with news of the Saint and promised the report's truth on She Kui's life.
• She Meng reported that the Fox Clan had encountered a tailless fox named Hu Xinghe, and the Great Sage ordered the Snake Clan to verify his identity and protect him at all costs.
• The Vast Heaven Sect mourned Chu Xinghe's disappearance, while Ouyang Ling rebuked Ouyang Ming for giving up on him.
• The Great Sage burst into Haotian Grand Hall and told Gu Mingchao and the elders about Hu Xinghe.
• Ma Liang recognized Hu Xinghe as Chu Xinghe using the Fox-Pattern Mask he had stolen from the treasury, and the sect leaders praised Ma Liang and promised him a reward.
• The Great Sage revealed that he had brought the entire Snake Spirit Clan under his control, but the elders focused on whether Chu Xinghe was safe and when he could return.

The Vast Heaven Sect learned that Xinghe had survived and gained control of the Snake Spirit Clan, and decided to monitor his situation without interfering. Meanwhile, Yan Shoujing remained trapped and weakened on the Demon Star Continent until two Fox Clan members discovered him.

• The great sage reported Xinghe's adventures and survival to the Vast Heaven Sect, whose members recognized his characteristic audacity.
• Elder He and other sect leaders proposed killing Snake Spirit Clan members to deter betrayal, but the great sage explained that the Dark Moon Mark already controlled them and that Xinghe needed their support.
• Gu Mingchao ordered the sect to let the great sage monitor Xinghe and not disturb him, while the elders dismissed concerns about the deputy sect master's safety.
• The Vast Heaven Sect continued suspecting Yan Shoujing's role in Xinghe being pulled into the Ten Directions Great Formation, but could not investigate him while he was also trapped on the Demon Star Continent.
• After days trapped in poisonous fog, Yan Shoujing was discovered by two Fox Clan members, who excitedly decided to capture him and show him to their clan.

At Nether Snake Ridge, She Meng agreed to help the Fox Clan without asking for resources, while Hu You wondered what the Snake Clan was plotting. Back at the Fox Clan, Chu Xinghe waited for Hu You to return until the clan captured Yan Shoujing, a deputy sect master from the Blazing Sun Continent, whose eager confession gave way to claims that he knew nothing about the Vast Heaven Sect’s hidden forces.

• She Meng and She Kui met Hu You and offered to set out immediately to help the Fox Clan, dismissing resources as unimportant.
• Chu Xinghe repeatedly asked Hu Shang when Hu You would return, while Hu Shang suspected Chu Xinghe might be looking for a chance to escape.
• Fox Clan patrol members found and captured Yan Shoujing, a human whose arrival suggested he had crossed over from the Blazing Sun Continent.
• Hu Shang recognized Yan Shoujing as a powerful human and questioned him about the Vast Heaven Sect, while Chu Xinghe realized the captive was the deputy sect master.
• Yan Shoujing readily confessed his identity and shared information about the Vast Heaven Sect’s experts, but claimed not to know its hidden strengths, so Hu Shang ordered him beaten until he talked.

Yan Shoujing endured brutal Fox Clan interrogations, insisting he knew nothing about Vast Heaven Sect secrets while hiding Chu Xinghe’s presence. After Hu Shang handed him to the Fox Clan’s tenth elder, Yan Shoujing discovered she was named Hu Xiaocui and called herself Xiao Cui’er, leaving him horrified by her appearance and intentions.

• Hu Shang ordered Hu Han and the Fox Clan priests to torture Yan Shoujing when his confession revealed no useful Vast Heaven Sect secrets.
• Yan Shoujing endured two days of interrogation without revealing anything, though he concealed that Chu Xinghe had come with him to the Demon Star Continent.
• Hu Shang ordered the injured Yan Shoujing handed over to the tenth elder, and the priests agreed out of fear of her.
• Yan Shoujing blamed Wu Xingyun for his predicament and lamented that he might never see Xiao Cui’er again.
• Hu Xiaocui introduced herself as the Fox Clan’s tenth elder and grabbed Yan Shoujing, who recoiled at her appearance and protested.

Chu Xinghe learned why the Fox Clan feared its Tenth Elder, Hu Xiaocui, before meeting Snake Spirit Clan leaders She Meng and She Kui. She Meng agreed to verify Chu Xinghe’s identity that night, setting out a resource wager that left the Fox Clan wary of his motives.

• Hu Gui told Chu Xinghe that the Fox Clan’s Tenth Elder, Hu Xiaocui, was a terrifying beauty skilled in the Art of Fox Allure.
• Hu Xiaocui carried the captured Yan Shoujing away to her residence, and Chu Xinghe felt relieved that he had become a sacrifice instead.
• She Meng and She Kui arrived with First Elder Hu You, sensed the mark within Chu Xinghe, and recognized him as the Saint they sought.
• At a banquet, She Kui identified Chu Xinghe’s power as the Prophet’s inheritance, and She Meng agreed to verify him that night.
• She Meng explained that he would seek no resources if Chu Xinghe proved to be the future Prophet, but the Fox Clan would owe three times its previous payment if the inheritance proved false.

Chu Xinghe contacted the Vast Heaven Sect through She Meng’s Nether Snake Mark and warned the sect not to open a passage to the Demon Star Continent because its powerful demon clans would endanger the Blazing Sun Continent. The sect leaders then agreed to have She Meng monitor the captured Yan Shoujing, leaving his fate dependent on whether he endangered Xinghe.

• Hu Shang realized She Meng had agreed to help the Fox Clan because the Snake Clan expected to profit either way, and he supplied the requested materials and a sealed chamber.
• She Meng and She Kui saluted Chu Xinghe as their Saint and used the Nether Snake Mark to connect him with the Great Sage and the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Chu Xinghe reunited with the sect members, then described the Demon Star Continent’s factions and warned them that opening a passage would expose the Blazing Sun Continent to overwhelming demonic forces.
• Chu Xinghe told the sect leaders that Yan Shoujing had been captured by the Fox Clan, and they discussed making him sacrifice himself to protect Xinghe.
• She Meng offered to implant a Nether Snake Mark in Yan Shoujing so he could monitor him and curse him to death if he threatened Xinghe, and the Vast Heaven Sect leaders approved.

Chu Xinghe learned that Ma Liang had turned his Spirit Beast Grand Prix plan into a scheme requiring other factions to build profitable cities for the Vast Heaven Sect, leaving him furious at Ma Liang’s far-reaching sabotage. She Meng then advised Xinghe to remain with the Fox Clan, where he could seek the Star Divination Art and gain their trust by arranging for the Snake Clan to return Divine Fox Ridge.

• The Vast Heaven Sect reassured Chu Xinghe that he was safe and told him to prioritize his safety while staying on the Demon Star Continent.
• Ma Liang explained that factions would build cities in the Land of Wilderness to qualify for the monthly Spirit Beast Grand Prix and obtain the Spirit Beast Mystic Art, while the Vast Heaven Sect kept the cities’ income.
• Chu Xinghe was enraged that Ma Liang’s Spirit Beast Bounty League plan had reached him across the continents and blamed She Meng for letting the call continue.
• She Meng urged Chu Xinghe to stay with the Fox Clan, seek their Star Divination Art, and help them reclaim Divine Fox Ridge from the Snake Clan.
• Chu Xinghe agreed to establish himself among the Fox Clan and planned to help the Demon Race open the passage between the continents, expecting the Misfortune Compass to make them pay dearly.

She Meng confirmed Chu Xinghe came from Ghost Valley, carried the prophet's inheritance, and had been tainted by a ghost, convincing the Fox Clan to accept him and form an alliance with the Snake Clan. As Chu Xinghe was moved into lodgings fit for a priest, Yan Shoujing endured supernatural torture that punished him for thinking of Xinghe, before Xiao Cui'er entered to explain.

• She Meng used the Nether Snake Mark to confirm Chu Xinghe's origins and explain that a ghost in Ghost Valley had severed his tail, tainted his demonic power, and sealed most of the prophet's inheritance.
• She Meng proposed an alliance between the Snake Clan and the Fox Clan, and Hu Shang eagerly agreed to hold an alliance ceremony.
• Hu Shang ordered Chu Xinghe moved to new lodgings befitting a priest, while Fox Clan leaders met to discuss breaking the seal on his inheritance.
• Hu Shang ordered the tenth elder to continue interrogating Yan Shoujing and ask whether other humans had come with him.
• A Nether Snake Mark tortured Yan Shoujing and warned him not to reveal anything, then punished him whenever he thought of Xinghe.
• Xiao Cui'er entered Yan Shoujing's room and offered to explain what was happening.

The Fox Clan and Snake Clan began an alliance ceremony, using the Divine Wood Dragon Cauldron to seal an unbreakable covenant. When She Meng's essence blood unexpectedly appeared above the hidden Chu Xinghe as golden flame, the cauldron began to shake violently.

• News that the Snake Clan planned to ally with the Fox Clan spread, and the Fox Clan learned that the Snake Clan was betting on Hu Xinghe's prophet inheritance.
• Hu Shang and She Meng exchanged oaths and clan scepters to complete the alliance ceremony.
• Hu Shang presented the Divine Wood Dragon Cauldron, and She Meng agreed to use it to witness their covenant.
• Hu Shang and She Meng sent drops of essence blood into the cauldron, sealing the covenant between their clans.
• She Meng's contracted essence blood exploded, appeared above the hidden Chu Xinghe, and became golden flame as the cauldron trembled.

She Meng's blood essence triggered the Divine Wood Dragon Cauldron's full inheritance through his connection to Chu Xinghe, who received the Bright Gold Divine Fire and the ancient Voodoo Art. The Dragon Cauldron acknowledged Chu Xinghe as its master, while She Meng believed he had earned the Saint's approval and Chu Xinghe dreaded being forced to refine pills again.

• She Meng's blood essence flew toward Chu Xinghe and triggered the Divine Wood Dragon Cauldron, whose golden dragons enveloped him.
• The Fox Clan recognized Chu Xinghe's Bright Gold Divine Fire and believed he had received the first great prophet's inheritance.
• She Meng realized his mark-linked blood essence had activated Chu Xinghe's Bright Gold Divine Fire and celebrated, believing he had gained the Saint's recognition.
• Chu Xinghe received the Dragon Cauldron's complete Voodoo Art inheritance, which contained pill recipes, poison arts, sorcery, and forbidden techniques.
• The Divine Wood Dragon Cauldron shrank into a small cauldron in Chu Xinghe's palm and acknowledged him as its master.

Chu Xinghe received the Voodoo Arts inheritance from the Divine Wood Dragon Cauldron, proving his identity and giving the declining Fox Clan a chance to regain its influence. He asked She Meng whether the Snake Clan would trade the Voodoo Arts for the Fox Clan’s ancestral land, Divine Fox Ridge, and She Meng agreed it was possible.

• The Divine Wood Dragon Cauldron passed its inheritance to Chu Xinghe when his Bright Gold Divine Fire appeared, dispelling the Fox Clan’s doubts about him.
• Chu Xinghe explained the Voodoo Arts inheritance to the Fox Clan leaders, who celebrated its return and hoped it would restore their clan’s standing.
• She Meng recognized that the Voodoo Arts would benefit both the Fox Clan and the Snake Clan and congratulated them on the inheritance.
• Chu Xinghe asked She Meng whether the Fox Clan could trade the Voodoo Arts for Divine Fox Ridge, which the Snake Clan had taken from the Bear Clan.
• She Meng said the trade seemed doable, leaving the Fox Clan stunned.

Chu Xinghe reclaimed part of Divine Fox Ridge for the Fox Clan by gaining the complete Voodoo Arts and persuading She Meng to return the land. As the Demon Star Continent’s factions sent visitors to test the arts, Xinghe urged the Fox Clan to help them all for free.

• Xinghe obtained the complete Voodoo Arts, and She Meng agreed to return part of Divine Fox Ridge to the Fox Clan.
• Hu You recognized that She Meng had traded land for the Snake Clan’s chance to benefit from the Voodoo Arts, while Xinghe had seized the opportunity to reclaim the ancestral land.
• The Fox Clan celebrated Xinghe’s achievement and came to accept him as their prophet, believing his efforts proved his loyalty and identity.
• News of the Voodoo Arts, the Snake Clan alliance, and the return of Divine Fox Ridge spread across the Demon Star Continent, prompting major powers to send small clans to seek help and assess the arts.
• Hu Shang anticipated earning resources from the visiting clans, but Xinghe proposed helping everyone for free.

After Chu Xinghe urged the Fox Clan to help other clans for free, Grand Elder Hu You framed the plan as a return to the ancestors’ strategy of building allies through favors rather than hoarding resources. The Fox Clan embraced the approach, and the Ape Clan’s Yuan Zheng took renewed interest in the clan and ordered an investigation into Chu Xinghe.

• Chu Xinghe urged the Fox Clan to use his Voodoo Arts to help the clans seeking aid without charging them, fearing that wealth would trigger the Misfortune Compass’s backlash.
• Grand Elder Hu You explained that the Fox Clan’s ancestors had built wealth and protection by helping others freely and gathering allies who owed them favors.
• Hu You recounted how a later Fox Clan leader’s reckless borrowing had led the Bear Clan to seize Divine Fox Ridge in repayment for its debts.
• Hu Shang agreed that the Fox Clan should follow its ancestors’ example, and he promised the visiting clans free help.
• After hearing the news, Yuan Zheng restored the Fox Clan’s token among the eight great clans and ordered an investigation into Chu Xinghe.

Yuan Zheng recognized Hu Xinghe's decision to help the Demon Race for free as a wise move, and Chu Xinghe demonstrated the power of his Voodoo Arts by treating visiting minor clans. Meanwhile, the Vast Heaven Sect used the Haotian Mirror to send its sub-mirror across the passage to the Demon Star Continent, where it began transmitting images to the main mirror.

• Yuan Zheng learned that Hu Xinghe had decided the Fox Clan would help visitors for free and judged the choice had saved the clan from a dangerous resource grab.
• Chu Xinghe diagnosed ailments among the visiting minor clans and offered to refine treatments, requiring each group to provide its own materials.
• Elder He proposed using the Haotian Mirror's sub-mirror to cross the passage and let the sect monitor the Demon Star Continent.
• Gu Mingchao sent the sub-mirror into the passage, and it crossed safely to the Demon Star Continent.
• The sub-mirror became undetectable on arrival, and the main mirror displayed an image of the Demon Star Continent.

The Vast Heaven Sect used the Haotian Mirror to watch Chu Xinghe on the Demon Star Continent and saw him diligently refining pills for the Demon Race. After discovering that he had obtained the Voodoo Arts and the Divine Wood Dragon Cauldron, they convinced themselves he was secretly sabotaging the demons, then watched Yan Shoujing endure Fox Clan torture without revealing anything.

• Gu Mingchao used the Haotian Mirror to locate Chu Xinghe at the Fox Clan, where the Vast Heaven Sect saw him refining pills for demons and insisting that helping them was his lifelong wish.
• Great Elder Hu You urged Chu Xinghe to rest, but Chu Xinghe continued refining pills, contradicting the Vast Heaven Sect's belief that the Fox Clan was forcing him.
• The Great Elder recognized Chu Xinghe's technique as the Voodoo Arts, and Elder He identified his furnace as the Divine Wood Dragon Cauldron.
• Mu Bai and Gu Mingchao claimed Chu Xinghe must be concealing a plan to undermine the Demon Race, and the Vast Heaven Sect agreed to wait and see what happened.
• The Vast Heaven Sect watched the Fox Clan torture Yan Shoujing, who maintained that he knew nothing, prompting the Great Elder to wonder whether they had wrongly blamed him.

Chu Xinghe discovered that helping the Demon Race reversed the Misfortune Compass without lowering his cultivation limit, but the resulting misfortune killed or ruined several clan leaders and elders. Grand Elder Hu You became known across the Demon Star Continent as the Fox Clan’s Death God, and he ordered Xinghe to stop helping visitors while the Fox Clan returned to Divine Fox Ridge.

• Chu Xinghe helped Demon Race visitors with pills, triggering the Misfortune Compass to spin backward while his cultivation limit remained unchanged.
• The Moon Rat patriarch recovered from his injury, but a meteorite fell from a spatial rift and killed him and his party as Grand Elder Hu You saw them off.
• Two Ice Crane elders died in poisonous miasma after leaving the Fox Clan, and the Heavenly Dog patriarch died after a spatial rift took half his body following his breakthrough.
• Patriarch Hu Shang explained that the Leopard patriarch and his deputy had killed each other, leaving the Leopard Clan in chaos, while outsiders suspected Hu You was responsible for the string of disasters.
• Grand Elder Hu You ordered Chu Xinghe to stop helping the clans and told the Fox Clan to return to Divine Fox Ridge, blaming the Fox Clan’s dangerous territory for the incidents.

The Vast Heaven Sect watched Chu Xinghe through the Haotian Mirror and mistook the disasters befalling the Demon Race for the result of his curses, praising him as he fought the enemy at the cost of his fortune. Meanwhile, Chu Xinghe discovered that the Misfortune Compass began spinning forward after its backlash struck the Demon Race, and the Fox Clan set out for Divine Fox Ridge.

• The disciples persuaded the grand elder to move the Haotian Mirror to the Haotian Martial Arts Arena so they could watch Chu Xinghe among the Demon Race.
• The Vast Heaven Sect saw that Demon Race members Chu Xinghe had helped were dying or being crippled, and the great sage concluded that Chu Xinghe was using curses fueled by his own fortune.
• Ma Liang rallied the disciples to train harder and strengthen the sect so they could support Chu Xinghe when he returned.
• The Fox Clan packed up and departed for Divine Fox Ridge while Chu Xinghe became excited to see the Misfortune Compass spin forward after its backlash struck the Demon Race.

Chu Xinghe discovered how to use the Misfortune Compass by helping demons so its backlash punished them, then celebrated the Fox Clan’s return to Divine Fox Ridge. The Bear Clan’s patriarch Xiong Feng stormed the Fox Clan’s banquet to seize Chu Xinghe, but She Meng intervened and began bargaining with him.

• Chu Xinghe realized that the Misfortune Compass’s backlash could punish demons he helped, and that the resulting harm could slowly turn the compass forward and raise his cultivation limit.
• The Fox Clan returned to Divine Fox Ridge, celebrated with the Snake Clan, and praised Chu Xinghe for helping them reclaim their home.
• Xiong Feng arrived at the banquet with Bear Clan warriors, demanded to know who Hu Xinghe was, and ordered his men to seize Chu Xinghe.
• She Meng stopped the bears from capturing Chu Xinghe and warned Xiong Feng against causing trouble in Fox Clan territory.
• Xiong Feng offered She Meng the fire crystal mining area north of Proud Bear Valley in exchange for taking Chu Xinghe, but She Meng demanded Xiong Feng’s mother instead.

She Meng stopped Xiong Feng’s attempt to abduct Hu Xinghe and revealed the Bear Clan wanted a Youth Restoration Pill to save Xiong Ao. Chu Xinghe offered to make the pill in exchange for Divine Fox Ridge, and both clans accepted the deal, though Chu Xinghe privately hoped bad luck would ruin the Bear Clan’s plans.

• Xiong Feng offered She Meng a fire crystal mining area, but She Meng refused and attacked the Bear Clan members accompanying him.
• She Meng trapped Xiong Feng and explained that the Bear Clan wanted Hu Xinghe to refine a Youth Restoration Pill for the dying Xiong Ao.
• Chu Xinghe offered to help save Xiong Ao if the Bear Clan returned Divine Fox Ridge to the Fox Clan.
• Xiong Feng accepted the condition, and Chu Xinghe and Xiong Feng sealed their agreement.
• After arranging Chu Xinghe’s visit to the Bear Clan, Xiong Feng left with a satisfied smile while Chu Xinghe privately looked forward to bad luck striking the Bear Clan.

Chu Xinghe traveled to the Bear Clan with She Meng and She Kui to make a Youth Restoration Pill for the dying Bear King, Xiong Ao. He explained that a hundred-year-old Nether Life Fruit could make the pill too potent, convincing the Bear Clan that he was not trying to harm their king.

• Xiong Feng left the Fox Clan, and Hu Shang kept Grand Elder Hu You from escorting him because of the elder’s ominous reputation.
• Chu Xinghe recruited She Meng and She Kui to accompany him to the Bear Clan, where She Meng suggested She Kui might have to sacrifice himself to protect the Saint.
• Chu Xinghe arrived at Proud Bear Valley with the Snake Clan leaders, and Xiong Feng welcomed them before taking Chu Xinghe to see the dying Xiong Ao.
• Chu Xinghe inspected the materials for the Youth Restoration Pill and warned that the Bear Clan’s hundred-year-old Nether Life Fruit could make the pill restore Xiong Ao to too young an age.
• The Bear Clan realized that Yuan Qi had supplied the fruit as a test of Chu Xinghe’s honesty, and they felt relieved when he openly explained its risks.