Chapter Summaries

The Ape Clan sent Yuan Qi to investigate whether Hu Xinghe planned to harm the Bear Clan, but Chu Xinghe honestly warned them about the Nether Life Fruit and refined a divine Youth Restoration Pill for Xiong Ao. The pill restored Xiong Ao past his prime and kept reversing his age until he became an infant.

• After the Fox Clan offered to help the Bear Clan, Yuan Zheng sent Yuan Qi to test Hu Xinghe's intentions with a hundred-year-old Nether Life Fruit.
• Chu Xinghe refused to use the fruit because its age might endanger Xiong Ao, and he agreed to wait until they found a ninety-nine-year-old one before the Bear Clan persuaded him to proceed.
• Chu Xinghe refined a divine Youth Restoration Pill while Yuan Qi watched, then handed it to Xiong Feng.
• Xiong Feng gave the pill to Xiong Ao, whose body rapidly regained vitality and returned to its prime.
• The pill kept making Xiong Ao younger despite Xiong Feng's protests, until the Bear King became an infant.

Chu Xinghe’s divine Youth Restoration Pill turned the Bear King into a baby who retained his immense power and wreaked havoc on the Bear Clan. She Kui accidentally subdued the Bear King with his Nether Snake Mark, while Chu Xinghe fled, convinced the Bear Clan’s destruction would help him reach the Martial Emperor realm.

• The Youth Restoration Pill transformed the Bear King into an infant, and his crying and thrashing unleashed War Roars and attacks that injured Bear Clan members and destroyed buildings.
• The Bear King struck Xiong Feng when he called him Father, then continued his rampage as Chu Xinghe blamed the Bear Clan for ignoring his warnings.
• Chu Xinghe ordered She Meng to take him away and told She Kui to cover their retreat and subdue the Bear King.
• She Kui released his Nether Snake Mark, and the curious Bear King willingly grabbed it and put it inside himself, becoming She Kui’s servant.
• She Kui celebrated his success and believed Chu Xinghe had foreseen his chance, while Chu Xinghe was left stunned by the outcome.

She Kui enslaved the Bear King after Chu Xinghe’s pill turned him into a baby, and the Bear Clan threatened war over the loss. Yuan Qi arrived, judged the Bear Clan responsible for the disaster, and accepted the outcome because it had preserved the Bear King and the Demon Race’s strength.

• She Kui celebrated gaining the powerful Bear King as his servant, while Chu Xinghe lamented that the Bear Clan’s catastrophe had cost him his expected Martial Emperor breakthrough.
• Xiong Feng and the surviving Bear Clan members accused She Kui and Chu Xinghe of harming their clan and demanded that the Nether Snake Mark be removed.
• She Meng refused to remove the mark, promising that She Kui would release the Bear King once his cultivation surpassed the Bear King’s, and the Bear Clan threatened to fight to the death.
• Chu Xinghe challenged the Bear Clan to make good on its threat, as She Meng and She Kui prepared to fight.
• Yuan Qi appeared with Half-Step Mystic God pressure, rebuked the Bear Clan, and explained that She Kui’s control of the Bear King had saved both the clan and the Demon Race’s fighting strength.

After the Bear King became She Kui’s servant, Grand Elder Yuan Qi judged the events to be accidental and urged the Bear Clan to accept the outcome. Chu Xinghe pledged the Fox Clan’s support for the Demon Race’s invasion of the Blazing Sun Continent, and Yuan Qi’s Heart-Questioning Art convinced him that Chu Xinghe’s words were sincere.

• Grand Elder Yuan Qi decided that Chu Xinghe and the Snake Clan were not to blame for the Bear King’s transformation and subjugation, and told Xiong Feng to thank Prophet Xinghe.
• She Meng agreed to return the Bear King to the Bear Clan if the Ape Clan found a way to remove the Nether Snake Mark.
• Grand Elder Yuan Qi praised Chu Xinghe’s inherited abilities and called on him to help attack the Blazing Sun Continent.
• Chu Xinghe pledged to set aside the Fox Clan’s feud with the Bear Clan and support the Demon Race’s campaign against the Human Race.
• Grand Elder Yuan Qi used the Heart-Questioning Art and found Chu Xinghe’s promises sincere, while detecting the Bear Clan’s resentment.

After the Bear King became an infant and joined the Snake Clan, Yuan Qi confirmed that the Fox Clan had not plotted against the Bear Clan. Yuan Zheng remained wary of Hu Xinghe and devised a test for him, while Xinghe returned to a celebrating Fox Clan with Divine Fox Ridge restored.

• Yuan Qi reported the Bear Clan’s bizarre disaster to Yuan Zheng and vouched for Hu Xinghe, leaving Yuan Zheng unsure what to believe.
• Yuan Ying suggested seizing Hu Xinghe over possible ties to the Wolf Clan, but Yuan Zheng rejected the idea because the prophet was too valuable to the Demon Race.
• Yuan Zheng summoned Mu Ran and planned to test Hu Xinghe by asking him to improve the Divine Wood Clan’s spirit-herb cultivation methods.
• Xinghe returned to the Fox Clan, which celebrated the recovery of Divine Fox Ridge and the Bear Clan’s losses.
• Hu Shang welcomed Xinghe with chicken drumsticks and announced a feast and special entertainment for She Meng and She Kui.

Chu Xinghe kept Yan Shoujing alive and arranged for him to endure the Fox Clan’s torture, refusing to let the vice sect master escape responsibility for the Vast Heaven Sect disciples he had betrayed. After the Fox Clan praised Xinghe for helping reclaim Divine Fox Ridge, Hu Shang and Hu You revealed that their surprise for him was the Star Divination Art.

• Hu Shang’s banquet featured the scantily clad Yan Shoujing dancing while the tenth elder directed him, leaving Chu Xinghe and the Snake Clan patriarchs stunned.
• She Meng and She Kui fled after Hu Shang offered the Fox Clan’s number one beauty, clarifying that they had only wanted to exchange martial techniques.
• Chu Xinghe confronted the caged Yan Shoujing, refused to kill him, and resolved to keep him alive for ten thousand years of torture.
• Yan Shoujing tried to reveal Chu Xinghe’s identity, but the Nether Snake Mark silenced him, and Xiao Cui’er took him into her room.
• Hu Shang and Hu You praised Chu Xinghe’s conduct and revealed that their surprise for him was the Star Divination Art.

Chu Xinghe entered the Fox Clan’s sealed chamber to learn the Star Divination Art from the first Great Prophet’s inheritance. He discovered that the art amounted to believing in oneself, and that Fox Clan divinations worked through their prophets’ extraordinary luck rather than a genuine ability to see the future.

• Hu Shang and Hu You brought Chu Xinghe to a secret chamber and revealed the Star Divination Art hidden in the Moon God Scepter.
• Hu Shang and Hu You sealed the chamber, leaving Chu Xinghe alone to open the golden casket and take the ancient scroll.
• The first Great Prophet’s remnant appeared and told Chu Xinghe that the Star Divination Art’s four-character secret was to believe in yourself.
• The Great Prophet explained that Fox Clan prophets relied on their strong luck to make accurate predictions, while claiming that failed prophecies were caused by changing heavenly signs.
• Chu Xinghe stayed silent as the Great Prophet repeatedly urged him to believe in his ability to divine the future.

Chu Xinghe found that the Fox Clan’s legendary Star Divination Art had only told him to believe in himself, but Hu Shang and Hu You mistook Mu Ran’s perfectly timed arrival for proof that Xinghe had mastered it. Mu Ran also became convinced that Xinghe had divined his visit, leaving Xinghe unable to persuade anyone that he had no divination powers.

• Chu Xinghe emerged from the secret chamber and told Hu Shang and Hu You that the scroll had crumbled before he could learn the Star Divination Art.
• Hu Shang and Hu You insisted the scroll’s disappearance meant the inheritance had passed to Chu Xinghe and urged him to activate his new ability.
• After Chu Xinghe joked that a lunatic would arrive within ten breaths to seek help with the Voodoo Arts, Mu Ran appeared through a teleportation array.
• Hu Shang and Hu You concluded that Chu Xinghe had effortlessly divined Mu Ran’s arrival and possessed a supreme form of the Star Divination Art.
• Mu Ran overheard them and decided that Chu Xinghe had predicted his visit and already knew he wanted help with the Voodoo Arts.

Chu Xinghe’s offhand guesses convinced Mu Ran, Hu You, and Hu Shang that he had inherited the Fox Clan’s Star Divination Art at its highest level. The Fox Clan celebrated the supposed revelation, while Yuan Zheng began to suspect that Xinghe had foreseen the events involving the Bear Clan.

• Mu Ran asked Chu Xinghe to divine why he had come seeking help with the Voodoo Arts, and Xinghe’s guess that Mu Ran had no choice stunned him.
• Hu Shang and Hu You concluded that Xinghe’s divination was real, while Xinghe gave up trying to correct their misunderstanding.
• Hu You secretly announced Xinghe’s supposed Star Divination Art mastery to the Fox Clan overnight, and the clan celebrated outside Xinghe’s room the next morning.
• Mu Ran contacted Yuan Zheng and reported that Xinghe had reached the Star Divination Art’s Creating Something from Nothing realm.
• Yuan Zheng wondered whether Xinghe had also foreseen what would happen to the Bear Clan.

Yuan Zheng concluded that Hu Xinghe had obtained the Star Divination Art and believed the Demon God Token would keep the Fox Clan neutral, while the Wolf Clan considered how to win Hu Xinghe’s support. When Mu Ran came to say goodbye, Chu Xinghe insisted on accompanying him to the Divine Wood Clan to help cultivate spirit herbs.

• Yuan Zheng connected Hu Xinghe’s Star Divination Art to the Bear Clan’s misfortunes and She Kui’s victory over the Bear King.
• Yuan Zheng recalled that the Demon God Token would curse the Fox Clan’s arts if it pledged loyalty to another race, and welcomed the Fox Clan’s enforced neutrality.
• The Wolf King raged over the Demon God Token, but the grand elder pointed out that the Fox Clan could still favor the Wolf Clan while remaining neutral.
• The Wolf King and the grand elder decided to test whether Hu Xinghe’s Star Divination Art lived up to the rumors before trying to win him over.
• Mu Ran visited Chu Xinghe to take his leave and return to the Divine Wood Clan, but Chu Xinghe insisted on accompanying him to help with spirit herbs.

Chu Xinghe traveled with Mu Ran and She Meng to the Divine Wood Clan, where he demonstrated a spirit-herb cultivation method that far surpassed the clan’s techniques. The clan watched its fields mature in moments, but Chu Xinghe dismissed the result as a failure because the herbs had not exceeded their limits.

• She Meng accompanied Chu Xinghe and Mu Ran to the Divine Wood Clan, hoping to receive guidance from the Holy One.
• Mu Sheng led Chu Xinghe and She Meng to the clan’s spirit fields and proudly described its herbs and cultivation methods.
• Chu Xinghe taught Mu Yi a cultivation method from the Muyue Kingdom, and Mu Yi used it to make an entire field of herbs grow rapidly.
• The Divine Wood Clan members were astonished by the mature, glowing herbs, but Chu Xinghe said the cultivation had failed because the herbs had not broken through their limits.

Chu Xinghe taught the Divine Wood Clan cultivation techniques from Muyue Kingdom, enabling them to grow potent spirit herbs, trigger Rebirth Through Fire, and improve their own cultivation while working. He believed that helping the clan so thoroughly would finally ensure the Misfortune Compass brought him disaster, though She Meng saw his actions as strengthening the Demon Race.

• Chu Xinghe gave Mu Yi a fire crystal, and Mu Yi used it to set a cultivated spirit field ablaze.
• The spirit herbs survived the flames and became powerful spirit fruits, leading Mu Sheng to recognize the legendary Rebirth Through Fire technique.
• The Divine Wood clansmen discovered that the herbs grown with Chu Xinghe's method were exceptionally potent and that the cultivation technique resembled a lost clan art.
• Mu Yi broke through from the Sixth Rank to the Seventh Rank and revealed that cultivating spirit herbs with Chu Xinghe's technique also improved his cultivation.
• She Meng wondered why Chu Xinghe was helping the Demon Race, while Chu Xinghe resolved to give the Divine Wood Clan everything he knew and court the Misfortune Compass's backlash.

Chu Xinghe gave the Divine Wood Clan his spiritual-herb cultivation methods and techniques without asking for anything, winning Mu Ran’s oath of eternal alliance and earning the clan’s shameful admiration. Yuan Zheng ordered the Divine Wood Clan to master the arts quickly so their increased harvest could accelerate the opening of the passage to the Blazing Sun Continent.

• The Divine Wood Clan discovered that Chu Xinghe’s methods could vastly increase spiritual-herb yields and improve cultivation.
• Mu Ran asked Chu Xinghe to impart the divine arts, and Chu Xinghe transmitted the complete methods to him without demanding payment.
• Chu Xinghe explained that the Fox Clan’s prophets had always helped the Demon Race and that he considered helping the Divine Wood Clan his responsibility.
• Mu Ran swore that the Divine Wood Clan would remain allies of the Fox Clan, while the clan members regretted their past treatment of the Fox Clan.
• Yuan Zheng heard what Chu Xinghe had done, respected his actions, and ordered the Divine Wood Clan to cultivate herbs quickly to support opening the passage between the continents.

Chu Xinghe helped the Divine Wood Clan master spirit-herb cultivation and Rebirth Through Fire, while Yuan Zheng arranged a trade with the Bear Clan for fire crystals. The Divine Wood Clan’s grand attempt to accelerate its crops ended in disaster, and Yuan Qi extinguished the blaze at the cost of severe injury, leaving the fields and herbs destroyed.

• Chu Xinghe taught the Divine Wood Clan divine arts and instructed them in using fire crystals to cultivate spirit herbs, earning their gratitude and an alliance pledge.
• Yuan Zheng urged the Divine Wood Clan to increase its herb yield for the Demon Race, but Mu Ran reported that the clan lacked fire crystals.
• Yuan Qi failed to persuade Xiong Feng to hand over the Bear Clan’s fire crystals, so Yuan Zheng traded a large quantity of resources for them.
• At Mu Ran’s command, the Divine Wood Clan used fire crystals to perform Rebirth Through Fire across its spirit fields, but the flames spread out of control and burned the crops.
• Yuan Qi arrived to inspect the fields and used his divine ape manifestation to absorb the fire, but the blaze left the fields charred and him badly weakened.

After the Divine Wood Clan's spirit fields burned down, Chu Xinghe found evidence that Fire Cloud Stone had caused the disaster, clearing him of blame and implicating the Bear Clan. The fields' Wood Spirit foundation was destroyed as well, and the furious Divine Wood Clan demanded justice from Yuan Qi.

• Mu Ran and the Divine Wood Clan mourned the burned spirit fields while Yuan Qi accused Chu Xinghe of plotting against the Demon Race.
• Chu Xinghe searched the ashes and found Fire Cloud Stone mixed in with the Fire Crystal Stone, explaining that its uncontrollable flames had started the fire.
• Yuan Qi recognized that the Bear Clan had supplied the stones and concluded Chu Xinghe was not responsible.
• Elder Mu Sheng reported that the flames had destroyed the spirit fields' foundation, leaving the Divine Wood Clan without usable fields.
• Chu Xinghe said rebuilding the fields would take about eight hundred years, prompting Mu Ran and the clan to demand that Yuan Qi seek justice against the Bear Clan.

After the Divine Wood Clan’s spirit fields were destroyed, Mu Sheng convinced Yuan Qi that the Bear Clan had done it to frame Chu Xinghe, and Yuan Qi resolved to punish them. She Meng proposed enslaving the Bear Clan under the Snake Clan instead of exterminating them, and both Yuan Qi and Mu Ran agreed, leaving Chu Xinghe baffled.

• Mu Sheng argued that the Bear Clan had deliberately destroyed the Divine Wood Clan’s spirit fields to frame Chu Xinghe, and Yuan Qi accepted the explanation.
• Yuan Qi apologized to Chu Xinghe, pledged that the Ape Clan would deal with the Bear Clan, and declared them doomed for their crime.
• She Meng proposed that the Bear Clan be branded with the Nether Snake Mark and enslaved by the Snake Clan so their strength would be preserved while they were punished.
• Yuan Qi approved She Meng’s proposal, and Mu Ran agreed after She Meng explained the mark’s consequences to him.
• Chu Xinghe wondered why the Divine Wood Clan had agreed to enslavement instead of extermination.

She Meng persuaded the Divine Wood Clan and Yuan Qi to let the Snake Clan enslave the Bear Clan, while Chu Xinghe despaired that his actions had again brought Vast Heaven a windfall. After the Bear Clan was exposed and subdued, Wolf King Ming Han lost a duel to Yuan Zheng and turned to the dangerous Ghost Valley, asking whether someone could change his clan’s fate.

• She Meng convinced Mu Ran that the Nether Snake Mark was worse than death, and Mu Ran agreed to let the Snake Clan enslave the Bear Clan; Yuan Qi approved and promised to report the decision to the Ape Emperor.
• She Meng celebrated the Snake Clan’s new prize and credited the Holy One with anticipating events, while Chu Xinghe lamented that he had failed to escape Vast Heaven’s good fortune.
• The Demon Star Continent’s major clans blamed the Bear Clan for destroying the Divine Wood Clan’s spiritual fields, and Yuan Zheng used the Heart-Questioning Art to confirm that the Bear Clan had deliberately sold fire cloud stones to the Ape Clan.
• The clans subdued the Bear Clan, but the Wolf Clan opposed She Meng’s enslavement proposal; Wolf King Ming Han then lost a one-on-one battle with Ape Emperor Yuan Zheng and returned north with his followers.
• Ming Han reflected that his father’s disappearance in Ghost Valley had deprived the Wolf Clan of secret arts, then asked the great elder whether someone could change the Wolf Clan’s fate.

Hu Gui told Chu Xinghe about the Wolf Clan’s search for its lost king, while Chu Xinghe wondered how to ask why the Demon Race feared ghosts without exposing his identity. After the Bear Clan became servants of the Snake Clan—and, unknowingly, the Human Race—She Meng persuaded Xiong Feng that resistance or disclosure would doom his clan.

• Hu Gui explained that Wolf King Ming Han had vanished in Ghost Valley and that the Demon Race feared the ancient ghosts there.
• Chu Xinghe decided to ask She Meng about the Demon Race’s fear of ghosts, since asking Hu Gui might reveal that he was a fake.
• Yuan Qi forced the Bear Clan to choose between being wiped out and becoming servants of the Snake Clan, and Xiong Feng chose servitude.
• She Meng revealed that the Bear Clan had also become servants of the Human Race through the Snake Clan’s allegiance, and the Nether Snake Mark prevented Xiong Feng from resisting or reporting them.
• She Meng convinced Xiong Feng that exposing the Snake Clan would cause the Demon Race to destroy both clans, and reflected that the Saint had treated the Snake Clan with unexpected respect and helped it grow stronger.

Chu Xinghe learned from She Meng that ghosts could counter the Demon Race, but the limitations of ghost cultivation and Ghost Valley blocked his plans to use them. After the Vast Heaven Sect heard the discussion, Elder He and Ma Liang proposed turning the late Tian Qingquan into a ghost to test whether humans avoided the same cultivation loss.

• She Meng explained Ghost Valley and how demonic power struggled against ghosts, while stronger demons could still defeat them.
• Chu Xinghe considered recruiting a powerful ghost or capturing ghosts in Ghost Valley, but She Meng said ghost cultivation fell after death and the valley's ghosts could not leave.
• The Vast Heaven Sect's leaders watched Chu Xinghe's recent actions and then gathered after hearing ghosts could counter the Demon Race.
• Elder He proposed testing ghost conversion on the late Tian Qingquan, and Ma Liang enthusiastically argued that Tian Qingquan had hinted he would become powerful as a ghost.

The Great Sage summoned Elder Tian’s weakened soul, and Ma Liang promised to train him before apparently pushing him too hard. At Divine Fox Ridge, She Meng subdued the Bear Clan and Hu You tried to disprove his reputation for bad luck, but the Water Spirit Clan’s Grand Elder ended up teleporting into Ghost Valley.

• The Great Sage used the Soul Seizing Art to summon Elder Tian’s soul, and Ma Liang promised to help him rebuild his cultivation; the next day, the Great Sage had to gather Elder Tian’s nearly dissipated soul again.
• She Meng took over the Bear Clan’s territory and made Xiong Feng the head of security at Divine Fox Ridge, where he obediently protected Chu Xinghe.
• Hu You invited the Spirit Rhinoceros Clan Leader to be cured, but after Xinghe healed him and he broke through, eight waves of lightning tribulation killed him and left no body to find.
• Hu You then invited the Water Spirit Clan’s Grand Elder, who recovered, broke through, and safely passed his lightning tribulation, convincing Hu You that his bad-luck reputation was undeserved.
• After drinking with Hu You, the Water Spirit Clan’s Grand Elder miscalculated his teleportation coordinates and arrived in Ghost Valley, where even the Wolf King had nearly failed to escape.