Chapter Summaries

Ouyang Ling tortured a captured Bat Clan spy for three days without questioning him, then released him and explained that the spy’s pursuers would reveal themselves by killing him. She Meng and She Kui were left waiting to learn who had sent him.

• Ouyang Ling sealed the Bat Clan member’s mouth and tested her poisons on him while refusing to question him.
• After three days, the spy offered to confess through sonic transmission, but Ouyang Ling had She Kui seal that too and kept testing her medicines.
• Ouyang Ling ordered She Meng and She Kui to release the spy, reasoning that spreading word of his supposed confession would make his allies treat him as a traitor.
• She Meng and She Kui escorted the spy out of the Haotian Mountain Range and worried about how to explain his release to the grand elder.
• Ouyang Ling said they could identify the spy’s masters by watching who killed him, leaving She Meng and She Kui struck by how innocent and kind they seemed beside her.

Ouyang Ling’s plan exposed the mastermind behind the Bat Clan spy’s murder as a half-step Mystic God who looked like Yuan Zheng, possibly the Ape Emperor’s rumored hidden brother. The elders went to Haotian Palace to inform Gu Mingchao and found it ringed with stone carvings bearing an inscription that said they had been personally carved by him.

• Ouyang Ling explained how An Lan and An Xin had secretly watched the Bat Clan spy and his family after she arranged for the Vast Heaven Sect to release him.
• An Lan and An Xin reported that Yuan Zheng had killed the spy and his family, and An Lan identified the killer as a half-step Mystic God.
• She Meng shared a rumor that Yuan Zheng had a hidden brother who resembled him and matched his cultivation and presence.
• The Grand Elder told the elders to warn Xiong Feng and decided not to alarm Xinghe, then led them to Haotian Palace to inform Gu Mingchao.
• The elders arrived at Haotian Palace and found oddly shaped stone carvings outside, each inscribed as personally carved by Mystic God Gu Mingchao.

Gu Mingchao rushed to the Bat Clan after hearing that the mysterious Yuan Zheng might threaten Xinghe, but found no trace of him and ordered the Vast Heaven Sect to strengthen its defenses. Meanwhile, rumors that stone carving could lead to the Mystic God realm made Gu Mingchao the World's Greatest Stone Carving Master, and Chu Xinghe’s peaceful rest ended when Wang Tieniu discovered more rich mines.

• The Grand Elder and the other elders found Gu Mingchao carving strange self-statues and told him about Yuan Zheng.
• Gu Mingchao searched the Bat Clan and its surroundings but found no trace of Yuan Zheng.
• Gu Mingchao ordered the Vast Heaven Sect to mobilize its spies, alert the Wolf King, and keep his divine sense spread over the sect, while the elders rejected his proposal to move Xinghe into Haotian Palace.
• Rumors that stone carving could help people reach the Mystic God realm spread, raising the status of master carvers and earning Gu Mingchao the title of World's Greatest Stone Carving Master.
• Chu Xinghe enjoyed several days of being waited on but then learned that Wang Tieniu had discovered several more valuable mines in the Spirit Mine Mountain Range.

Chu Xinghe sent Wang Tieniu to search for spirit stones at Divine Fox Ridge, hoping the barren region would curb the Vast Heaven Sect’s growing wealth. Qin Xiangqian eagerly accepted his new assignment as the sect’s chief steward there.

• Wang Tieniu told Chu Xinghe that his Mine Seeking Art had found several rich veins and promised to uncover eight or ten more.
• Chu Xinghe urged Wang Tieniu to look beyond the Spirit Mine Mountain Range and search the supposedly resource-poor Demon Star Continent.
• Chu Xinghe chose Divine Fox Ridge, convinced by Hu Shang and the Fox Clan’s records that the region had no spirit stones.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Qin Xiangqian to stop expanding the mines and relocate with his best subordinates to Divine Fox Ridge.
• Qin Xiangqian received the assignment and took it as a sign that Chu Xinghe trusted him most.

As Chu Xinghe prepared to search Divine Fox Ridge for spirit mines, the ten great sects publicly predicted failure but secretly rushed to buy land next door from the Horse Clan. The sects divided the Horse Clan’s territory among themselves, leaving everyone else furious that they had missed out.

• Qin Xiangqian dismissed his subordinates’ doubts and led his best people back to the Vast Heaven Sect, convinced Chu Xinghe knew what he was doing.
• Zheng Yu, Guo Qizhen, Fan Sheng, and Ji Moran publicly declared that Chu Xinghe would find no resources at Divine Fox Ridge, while the ten great sects echoed their skepticism.
• Ji Moran secretly led disciples to the Horse Clan to buy its land, hoping to profit from mineral veins near Divine Fox Ridge, but found Zheng Yu, Guo Qizhen, Fan Sheng, and other sect representatives already there.
• The young geniuses from the ten great sects set aside their excuses and divided the Horse Clan’s territory among themselves.
• News of the land purchases spread, and other sects cursed the ten great sects for buying the Horse Clan’s land before anyone else could.

Chu Xinghe went to Divine Fox Ridge to develop it, choosing to act as bait for the mysterious Half-Step Mystic God despite the elders’ fears for his safety. When Wang Tieniu found no spirit veins there, Chu Xinghe realized the barren ridge might finally guarantee the failure he wanted.

• Chu Xinghe learned that the ten great sects had bought the Horse Clan’s land and rejoiced at the chance to make the Vast Heaven Sect lose face and fortune.
• The Grand Elder warned Chu Xinghe about the mysterious Yuan Zheng, a possible twin of Yuan Zheng who was a Half-Step Mystic God, and urged him to stay home.
• Chu Xinghe insisted on going to Divine Fox Ridge as bait, and the elders arranged for the Great Sage, An Lan, and others to protect him in secret.
• Chu Xinghe declined the Grand Elder’s teleportation array, set one up himself, and arrived at Divine Fox Ridge with the group.
• Hu Shang welcomed Chu Xinghe with chicken legs and boasted to other clan leaders that the Fox Clan was his inner circle and Divine Fox Ridge would be developed.
• Wang Tieniu used his Mine Seeking Art and found no trace of spirit veins within a thousand li, leaving Chu Xinghe thrilled that the project seemed destined to fail.

Chu Xinghe brought Wang Tieniu to Divine Fox Ridge, where Tieniu could find no spirit veins, and encouraged him to exhaust the Vast Heaven Sect’s supply of nine-colored spirit stones searching. The other sects took the Vast Heaven Sect’s efforts as proof that a major mine existed on the Horse Clan’s territory and renewed their search.

• The Fox Clan welcomed Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Sect, while Qin Xiangqian noticed Wang Tieniu’s Mine Seeking Art found no spirit veins at Divine Fox Ridge.
• Chu Xinghe urged the Fox Clan to improve its hospitality toward the vice sect master and arranged for him to receive Jiuli’s pastries and meals.
• Wang Tieniu studied the Fox Clan’s records, then asked Chu Xinghe for nine-colored spirit stones so he could use the Spirit Domain Technique.
• Feng Fei sent nearly all of the Vast Heaven Sect’s nine-colored spirit stones to Divine Fox Ridge, and Wang Tieniu used them to search underground but found no spirit veins.
• Chu Xinghe encouraged Wang Tieniu to keep searching, while the other sects saw the Vast Heaven Sect’s repeated efforts and renewed their own search for a major mine on the Horse Clan’s territory.

As Tieniu’s search beneath Divine Fox Ridge found only worthless ore, struggling sects sold their Horse Clan land to Martial Emperor City, but Zheng Yu chose to buy it all and trust Chu Xinghe. Meanwhile, Yuan Ying revealed that he had survived the Ape Clan’s destruction and planned to make the Vast Heaven Sect suffer by thwarting its search for Divine Fox Ridge’s resources.

• Tieniu used nine-colored spirit stones to search underground rivers beneath Divine Fox Ridge but found only ore that no one could use.
• Ji Moran sold the Cloud Firmament Sect’s Horse Clan land to Zheng Yu at a discount, and the Jade Void Palace and other sects followed.
• Despite warnings from his fellow disciples and Martial Emperor City’s elders, Zheng Yu bought all the remaining Horse Clan land and Cheng Xiaotian chose to support him.
• Zheng Yu recalled his master’s warning about the consequences of failure and resolved to trust Senior Brother Xinghe.
• Yuan Ying revealed that he had survived the Ape Clan’s destruction, arranged the Bat Clan incident, and planned to sabotage the Vast Heaven Sect’s search for Divine Fox Ridge’s resources.

Yuan Ying contaminated the underground river to ruin the spirit vein at Divine Fox Ridge, but his plan instead caused the waste rocks there to transform into Blood Spirit Stone. Chu Xinghe discovered Yuan Ying’s token and heard his threat, while privately blaming the Misfortune Compass for the sudden windfall.

• Yuan Ying released the Demon God's power from a finger bone into the underground river and sent his name-bearing token downstream toward Divine Fox Ridge.
• Chu Xinghe watched Wang Tieniu spend the last of the Nine-Colored Spirit Stone on the Spirit Domain Technique, expecting it to find nothing.
• The Spirit Domain Technique’s tendrils converged on the underground river, where blood-red light revealed that the waste rocks had become Blood Spirit Stone.
• Qin Xiangqian celebrated the discovery, while Chu Xinghe wondered how the Blood Spirit Stone had appeared and Wang Tieniu traced the change to the river water.
• Qin Xiangqian retrieved Yuan Ying’s token, which played Yuan Ying’s message declaring that the contaminated river was his first gift to Chu Xinghe.

Chu Xinghe discovered that the changed underground river had transformed waste rock into blood spirit stones, while Yuan Ying mistakenly believed he had helped ruin the Vast Heaven Sect’s plans. As the sects celebrated their windfalls, the Misfortune Compass rewarded Chu Xinghe by raising his cultivation from the Seventh Rank to the Eighth Rank.

• Chu Xinghe and the others found that the underground river had turned waste rock into blood spirit stones, and Yuan Ying’s token announced that the stones were a gift for Chu Xinghe.
• The Fox Clan and Hu Shang interpreted Yuan Ying’s gift as proof that Prophet Xinghe had won him over, while Chu Xinghe was baffled by Yuan Ying’s help.
• Zheng Yu discovered blood spirit stones on Martial Emperor City’s side, celebrated the fortune, and joined the disciples in praising Martial Emperor City.
• The Vast Heaven Sect’s leaders arrived at Divine Fox Ridge and marveled at the blood spirit stones, while the sect master joked about carving a statue from them.
• Yuan Ying watched the Vast Heaven Sect gather, wrongly concluded that he had sabotaged their plans, and left unnoticed as the Beast God began scheming to obtain the stones’ power.
• The Misfortune Compass moved, and Chu Xinghe’s cultivation surged from the Seventh Rank to the Eighth Rank despite the sect’s enormous profit.

Chu Xinghe learned that Zheng Yu’s success in claiming the Horse Clan’s Blood Spirit Stone deposit had triggered the Misfortune Compass and helped him break through to the Eighth Rank. After the other sects blamed Ji Moran for their losses, the chapter ended with Yuan Ying bewildered and insisting he had been wronged.

• Chu Xinghe learned that Zheng Yu had secured a second Blood Spirit Stone vein for Martial Emperor City, preventing the Vast Heaven Sect from taking all the gains and triggering the Misfortune Compass.
• Chu Xinghe apologized inwardly to Zheng Yu, who arrived and praised him for enduring pressure and repeatedly creating miracles.
• News of Martial Emperor City’s fortune reached the Cloud Firmament Sect, where Ji Moran realized the land he had sold contained Blood Spirit Stone.
• Guo Qizhen and the other sect leaders blamed Ji Moran for leading them to sell the Horse Clan’s territory, and they suspected he was a spy for Martial Emperor City.
• Yuan Ying learned that the events at Divine Fox Ridge had happened because of him and lamented that he had been wronged.

News of Yuan Ying helping Chu Xinghe with the Blood Spirit Stone vein led the Ape Clan to brand him a traitor, though Yuan Ying vowed to destroy the Vast Heaven Sect and prove his loyalty. Meanwhile, Zheng Yu returned to Martial Emperor City in triumph and was publicly hailed as its sole future leader, while he resolved to repay Chu Xinghe for his help.

• The Ape Clan learned Yuan Ying had helped Chu Xinghe and issued a kill-on-sight order against him.
• Yuan Ying carved "wronged" into his cheek and vowed to destroy the Vast Heaven Sect to prove he had not betrayed his clan.
• Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Sect's higher-ups discussed Yuan Ying's baffling actions, then agreed to wait and see while the Great Sage guarded Xinghe.
• After the three-day celebration, Zheng Yu prepared to return to Martial Emperor City, where Cheng Xiaotian arranged a grand welcome thirty li outside the city.
• Martial Emperor City disciples greeted Zheng Yu as Senior Brother, and Zheng Yu recognized Chu Xinghe's role in his success and vowed to repay him.

After Blood Spirit Stone spread across the Demon Star Continent, the Vast Heaven Sect debated how to manage the rich mine at Divine Fox Ridge. Chu Xinghe persuaded the elders to entrust mining to the inexperienced Fox Clan and volunteered to teach them, expecting their low yield to cause the sect a loss.

• Blood Spirit Stone veins appeared across the Demon Star Continent, and the Vast Heaven Sect sent its first shipment to the Beast Taming Palace, where Douding'er used it to strengthen the Nebula Spirit Cats.
• Wei Buhui's more than four hundred spirit beasts grew rapidly stronger on Blood Spirit Stone while he complained to Chu Xinghe about being banned from the Spirit Beast Grand Prix.
• The Grand Elder convened a meeting to decide who would mine the Divine Fox Ridge deposit, and the elders favored transferring experienced miners from the Tianyi Spirit Mine.
• Elder He explained that trained miners could preserve about seventy percent of the stone, while the inexperienced Fox Clan might preserve only thirty or forty percent.
• Chu Xinghe argued that the Fox Clan should manage the mine to strengthen its place in the Vast Heaven Sect, and he volunteered to teach them how to mine.
• Chu Xinghe privately planned to ensure the Fox Clan's mining losses exceeded its output.

Chu Xinghe gave the Fox Clan the Blood Spirit Mine and chose Tieniu’s exceptionally difficult mining technique for them to learn. He agreed to take Wan Lin to the Fox Clan so she could study their Art of Charm.

• Prophet Xinghe gave the Blood Spirit Mine to the Fox Clan and promised to teach them how to mine it, moving Hu Shang to tears of gratitude.
• Chu Xinghe asked Tieniu for the strongest mining art, and Tieniu presented his own technique, which could extract at least ninety percent of the ore.
• Chu Xinghe took the difficult Tieniu Mining Technique, intending to teach it to the Fox Clan himself.
• Wan Lin asked Chu Xinghe to take her to the Fox Clan so she could study their Art of Charm, and he agreed.

Chu Xinghe brought the Tieniu Mining Technique to the Fox Clan, expecting their inexperience to waste Blood Spirit ore and advance his rank. After a successful first day of mining, he learned that the Fox Clan had no cultivated Art of Charm for Wan Lin to study, though their members possessed an innate charm.

• Chu Xinghe checked that Wan Lin, the Great Sage, and the Dark Moon Clan members knew nothing about mining, then traveled with them to Divine Fox Ridge.
• Hu Shang and Hu You welcomed Chu Xinghe, and he handed them the Tieniu Mining Technique before directing them to study it while mining.
• The Fox Clan struggled to understand the technique and wasted Blood Spirit ore, delighting Chu Xinghe as the Misfortune Compass reacted.
• Chu Xinghe celebrated with the Fox Clan and sang "Good Luck Comes," but Wan Lin warned him that no one there knew the Art of Charm.
• Hu You and Hu Shang explained that the Fox Clan had no Art of Charm to cultivate and that their charm was innate; Chu Xinghe reassured the disappointed Wan Lin that she might still gain insight from them.

Chu Xinghe relaxed at Divine Fox Ridge while the Fox Clan failed to understand Tieniu’s mining technique and Wan Lin struggled to learn the Art of Charm. Wan Lin finally decided that Chu Xinghe wanted her to teach the art to the Fox Clan, and she prepared to carry out what she believed was his plan.

• Chu Xinghe watched the Fox Clan waste Blood Spirit Ore while they made no progress on Tieniu’s mining technique, and he refused to advise them.
• Chu Xinghe kept Wan Lin at Divine Fox Ridge to exchange ideas with the Fox Clan, though she failed to learn the Art of Charm from them.
• Wan Lin realized that the Fox Clan possessed the power of charm but knew nothing about the Art of Charm, so she concluded she should teach it to them first.
• Wan Lin believed that Chu Xinghe intended the Fox Clan to learn the Art of Charm and then share new insights with her.
• Wan Lin resolved to teach the Fox Clan and help Chu Xinghe, convinced that she had finally understood his plan.

Wan Lin taught the Fox Clan the Art of Charm, and the clan rapidly mastered it, gaining a powerful new way to fight. Chu Xinghe had secretly sabotaged the Tieniu Mining Technique to keep them from learning it, but he discovered the Fox Clan’s transformation only when Wan Lin showed him their success.

• Wan Lin secretly taught selected Fox Clan members the Art of Charm, and their insights helped the technique spread throughout the clan.
• Chu Xinghe found the Misfortune Compass had stopped moving, tore two pages from the Tieniu Mining Technique, and ate them to prevent the Fox Clan from comprehending it.
• Wan Lin and the Fox Clan revealed their mastery of the Art of Charm to Chu Xinghe, explaining that the whole clan had learned it.
• Wan Lin credited Chu Xinghe with changing the Fox Clan’s fate, while Hu Shang announced that the clan had become strong enough to stand on its own.
• Chu Xinghe realized Evil Repeller had concealed the Fox Clan’s progress by blocking their Art of Charm, and Wan Lin stabbed him with it.

Wan Lin taught the Fox Clan the Charm Art, transforming them into a formidable force and revealing that Chu Xinghe had changed their fate rather than focusing on the Blood Spirit Ore. As the Fox Clan’s rise spread across both continents, Chu Xinghe tried to redirect them toward mining, but Hu Shang promised they would pursue both skills.

• Wan Lin watched the Fox Clan demonstrate Charm Arts that could attack, control, and reduce damage, while the Great Sage recognized how much the clan had advanced.
• The Grand Elder questioned Elder He, who explained that the Fox Clan’s innate Charm Physiques made them uniquely suited to the Charm Art and that Chu Xinghe had intended to change their fate.
• Zheng Yu concluded that the Fox Clan’s new strength mattered more than the Blood Spirit Ore, and reports of their abilities spread across both continents.
• Demon Race members who challenged the Fox Clan witnessed its Charm Arts firsthand and realized the once-weak clan had become dangerous.
• Chu Xinghe asked Hu Shang to halt Charm Art research and focus on the Tieniu Mining Technique, but Hu Shang promised to develop both together.

Chu Xinghe tried to stop the Fox Clan from learning the Tieniu Mining Technique, but Hu Shang and the other foxes mastered it after Chu Xinghe tore out two pages. Their mining yields far exceeded Chu Xinghe’s expectations, leaving him convinced he had sabotaged himself.

• Chu Xinghe forbade Wan Lin from entering the Blood Spirit Ore mine and watched Hu Shang study the Tieniu Mining Technique.
• Hu Shang mined Blood Spirit Ore with a sixty-percent yield, then announced that he understood the technique, and other Fox Clan members quickly understood it too.
• Hu Gui revealed that Chu Xinghe had torn out two pages of the technique; the Fox Clan believed this had removed misleading instructions, and Tieniu praised Chu Xinghe for improving the technique.
• Chu Xinghe convinced himself that the Fox Clan’s yields would remain below average, while Hu Shang taught the other foxes to mine.
• Hu Gui achieved a seventy-percent yield, Hu Bugui reached seventy-five percent, Hu Han reached eighty-five percent, and Hu You led the Fox Clan with ninety percent.
• Chu Xinghe watched even the Fox Clan’s weakest miner reach seventy percent and angrily resolved to stab Hu Shang to death.

At Divine Fox Ridge, Chu Xinghe discovered that the Fox Clan had mastered mining and the Art of Charm, while the Tenth Elder described how the Fox Clan had been practicing the Art of Charm on the vice sect master. Reassured by comparing his setbacks to the vice sect master’s ordeal, Chu Xinghe returned to the Vast Heaven Sect as news spread that his mining expertise surpassed Wang Tieniu’s.

• Hu Shang praised Chu Xinghe as the Fox Clan’s benefactor and celebrated the clan’s new mining skills and renewed revelry.
• The Tenth Elder apologized to Chu Xinghe for having the Fox Clan practice the Art of Charm on the vice sect master, describing how they alternated between women and men.
• Chu Xinghe visited the vice sect master with gifts from the sect’s elders and regained his fighting spirit by reflecting on the vice sect master’s hardships.
• Chu Xinghe told Hu Shang to prioritize cultivating the Art of Charm over mining, but Hu Shang promised the Fox Clan would maintain its ore production.
• Chu Xinghe returned to the Vast Heaven Sect with Wan Lin and the others, while factions across the region tested his torn-page mining method and concluded his skills exceeded Wang Tieniu’s.