Chapter Summaries

The Vast Heaven Sect celebrated the Fox Clan’s new strength while Wu Xingyun worried that the Demonic Sect could not compete with it. Yuan Ying proposed that the Demonic Sect use Tantai Jing’s ghost-controlling skills to seize Ghost Valley, but their lack of resources threatened the plan until the Rat Clan offered to handle them.

• The Vast Heaven Sect credited Chu Xinghe’s skill for the Fox Clan’s combat abilities and mining successes.
• Wu Xingyun reviewed the report on Divine Fox Ridge and worried about the Demonic Sect’s weakness.
• Tantai Jing brought Yuan Ying and a Rat Clan member to meet Wu Xingyun, who mistakenly accused Tantai Jing of joining the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Yuan Ying explained that he wanted revenge on Chu Xinghe and proposed teaming up with the Demonic Sect to control Ghost Valley’s ghosts.
• Wu Xingyun embraced the plan, but worried that the Demonic Sect could not afford the resources needed to subdue the ghosts.
• The Rat Clan member claimed his clan would handle the resources, then admitted they had none.

Yuan Ying and the Demonic Sect used the Gate of Stealing Shadows to rob a Vast Heaven Sect treasury, unaware that its colorful spirit stones had been dangerously altered by Ouyang Ling. The thief rat ate more than three hundred stones and exploded, leaving Wu Xingyun, Yuan Ying, and Tantai Jing stunned.

• Yuan Ying revealed that his thief rat subordinate possessed the Gate of Stealing Shadows, and Wu Xingyun and Tantai Jing agreed to use it to steal from the Vast Heaven Sect.
• The thief rat opened a portal into an outer treasury and siphoned its spirit stones into the Demonic Sect until dawn.
• Feng Fei found the treasury empty and searched the Vast Heaven Sect for the missing spirit stones, but no one knew what had happened to them.
• Feng Fei had been responsible for disposing of the stones Ouyang Ling had contaminated with her experimental medicinal powder, whose effects had caused An Lan to die repeatedly.
• Wu Xingyun admired the colorful stolen stones as the thief rat ate more than three hundred of them, then the thief rat exploded.

Yuan Ying, Wu Xingyun, and Tantai Jing blamed Chu Xinghe’s Star Divination Art for the poisoned spirit stones and tried to find a way around it. With their theft plan stalled and open robbery too dangerous, Tantai Jing proposed that the Demonic Sect earn resources by working instead.

• A spirit stone caused the thief rat to explode, and Yuan Ying discovered that the stones released a force that nearly overwhelmed him with lust.
• Yuan Ying and Wu Xingyun concluded that Chu Xinghe had used the Star Divination Art to anticipate their theft, and Yuan Ying carved “wronged” into his face again.
• Wu Xingyun explained that the Demonic Sect could evade Chu Xinghe’s divinations by targeting Martial Emperor City instead of the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Yuan Ying could not figure out how to operate the Gate of Stealing Shadows, and the last thief rat who knew how had just exploded.
• Wu Xingyun suggested robbing Martial Emperor City, but Yuan Ying warned that Gu Mingchao would detect and kill him if he attacked openly.
• Tantai Jing proposed that the Demonic Sect stop scheming against the Vast Heaven Sect and earn resources through ordinary work, including having Yuan Ying take a job.

Wu Xingyun and Tantai Jing transformed the Demonic Sect into a legitimate business operation, while Yuan Ying agreed to wait and plan his revenge. At the Vast Heaven Sect, Chu Xinghe saw a chance to teach the Voodoo Arts to Muyue Kingdom’s disciples and secretly sabotage the sect’s pill production.

• Wu Xingyun and Tantai Jing persuaded Yuan Ying to avoid targeting the Vast Heaven Sect for now and build strength for a future revenge plan.
• Wu Xingyun established the Demonic Sect Security Corps, reformed the sect’s businesses, and put its experts to work providing paid services.
• The Demonic Sect’s new ventures brought in steady resources, astonishing other factions and leaving Chu Xinghe frustrated that the sect would not help him use up Vast Heaven Sect resources.
• Mu Bai brought the Muyue Kingdom disciples back to the Vast Heaven Sect after the Divine Wood Clan needed a break, then asked to study the Voodoo Arts instead of resting.
• The Grand Elder endorsed teaching the Voodoo Arts, and Chu Xinghe resolved to use the lessons to disrupt the Vast Heaven Sect’s pill production.

Chu Xinghe taught the Spirit Crane Palace the genuine Voodoo Arts, directing everyone toward refining poison pills that consumed vast resources and had almost no buyers. The grand elder and Ji Changfeng approved the lessons, while Chu Xinghe rejoiced as the Misfortune Compass moved and the Muyue Kingdom disciples also began producing poison pills.

• Chu Xinghe agreed to teach the Spirit Crane Palace the Voodoo Arts and focused his lessons on poison-pill methods.
• The disciples made rapid progress, but their pills were all poisonous, so the grand elder summoned Ji Changfeng to investigate.
• Ji Changfeng declared Chu Xinghe's teachings genuine and explained that the Voodoo Arts treated medicine and poison as one, reassuring the grand elder.
• Chu Xinghe saw the Misfortune Compass move as the disciples, including those from the Muyue Kingdom, refined increasingly costly poison pills.
• Mu Bai questioned why they were learning poisons, and Chu Xinghe defended the lessons by citing pills that countered venoms from extinct creatures.
• Ji Changfeng confirmed the poison pills' legendary effectiveness, while Chu Xinghe counted on their high costs and lack of buyers to waste the sect's resources.

Chu Xinghe made the Grand Elder learn poison identification and refining, then the Grand Elder dragged Gu Mingchao into the lessons and made Xinghe memorize hundreds of cultivation manuals. The three retaliated by steadily increasing each other’s workloads, leaving Xinghe facing a mountain of books and wishing they would stop.

• Chu Xinghe caught the Grand Elder refining ordinary pills and made him study the Voodoo Arts, starting with identifying poisons.
• The Grand Elder struggled to distinguish the similar-looking poisons, while Elder He and people from the Muyue Kingdom dismissed the task as easy.
• Chu Xinghe blocked the Grand Elder’s attempts to escape his lessons by assigning others to handle his duties.
• After laughing at the Grand Elder’s confusion, Gu Mingchao was made to learn medicinal ingredient identification, and he retaliated by ordering Chu Xinghe to memorize more than two hundred cultivation manuals.
• Chu Xinghe, the Grand Elder, and Gu Mingchao each increased the others’ workloads until Chu Xinghe faced a mountain of manuals and reconsidered the feud.

After ghosts began escaping from Ghost Valley as Evil Repeller’s power faded, the Vast Heaven Sect agreed to repair the ancient formation and seal them in. As the sect prepared to visit Ghost Valley, Tantai Jing decided the Demonic Sect would sabotage it to make the repair too costly.

• Shen Chun delivered the Wolf King’s warning that ghosts were escaping Ghost Valley and attacking Demon Race clans.
• The Vast Heaven Sect’s elders concluded that resealing Ghost Valley required repairing its ancient formation, and Chu Xinghe proposed asking the Formation Spirit Clan for help.
• Ling Mou pledged the Formation Spirit Clan’s assistance, and the Vast Heaven Sect announced its plan to seal Ghost Valley.
• Demon Star Continent celebrated the Vast Heaven Sect’s decision, while Zheng Yu explained that the effort would protect both continents and build the sect’s prestige.
• Tantai Jing, Yuan Ying, and Wu Xingyun learned that the Vast Heaven Sect planned to seal Ghost Valley, so Tantai Jing resolved to damage the formation and drive up the repair cost.

Chu Xinghe eagerly backed the Formation Spirit Clan’s repair of Ghost Valley, offering ever more resources as Tantai Jing secretly sabotaged the valley to raise the cost. The chapter left Chu Xinghe thrilled by each new discovery of damage, while Tantai Jing remained confident his scheme would make the Vast Heaven Sect suffer.

• Chu Xinghe told Chief Ling Mou to spend as many resources as needed to repair Ghost Valley, even doubling the proposed cost and insisting they seal it thoroughly.
• Tantai Jing, Yuan Ying, and Wu Xingyun agreed to sabotage Ghost Valley, and Tantai Jing used his knowledge of ghosts to worsen several damaged points.
• Chief Ling Mou discovered the new damage and reported that repairs would require more resources, which delighted Chu Xinghe.
• Tantai Jing interpreted Chu Xinghe’s smile as panic and decided to keep damaging Ghost Valley to force the Vast Heaven Sect to spend more.
• Tantai Jing damaged another section of Ghost Valley’s grand formation, and Chu Xinghe urged Chief Ling Mou to keep searching and increase the resources.

Tantai Jing plotted to exploit the Vast Heaven Sect’s public promise to repair Ghost Valley by repeatedly damaging its seal and forcing it to waste resources. Chu Xinghe independently discovered he could damage the seal too, and after he left a weakened section broken, Tantai Jing arrived and mistook it for a stroke of luck.

• Tantai Jing planned to keep Ghost Valley’s seal damaged but repairable so the Vast Heaven Sect would lose resources and reputation whichever choice it made.
• Patriarch Ling Mou told Chu Xinghe that repairs were becoming more difficult and costly, and proposed repairing the damage in batches.
• Chu Xinghe approved Ling Mou’s gradual repair plan, intending to sabotage the seal himself between repairs.
• Chu Xinghe tested Innate Formation Mastery with the Evil Repeller in Ghost Valley and successfully damaged a weakened section of the seal.
• Tantai Jing arrived at the same spot to continue his sabotage, found it already damaged, and believed heaven was favoring him.

Chu Xinghe, Tantai Jing, and the Formation Spirit Clan all tried to balance damaging and repairing Ghost Valley, but their combined efforts caused its grand formation to collapse. Ling Mou said only White Tiger could restore the seal, though bringing White Tiger from Spirit Beast Island required vast resources and the Beast God’s command, giving the Beast God a chance to rise.

• Ling Mou led the Formation Spirit Clan in repairing Ghost Valley while Tantai Jing and Chu Xinghe damaged it at night to drain the Vast Heaven Sect’s resources.
• After Ling Mou ordered faster repairs, Chu Xinghe and Tantai Jing also increased their destruction, and Ghost Valley’s grand formation collapsed despite the clan’s efforts.
• Tantai Jing realized the collapse had ruined the Demonic Sect’s plan to subdue Ghost Valley’s ghosts, while Chu Xinghe worried the ghosts would escape.
• Ling Mou told Chu Xinghe that only White Tiger could restore the seal, and that White Tiger could leave Spirit Beast Island only with abundant resources and the Beast God’s command.
• Chu Xinghe welcomed the prospect of spending more resources, and the Beast God rejoiced that the crisis could finally let him rise.

Ghost Valley’s failing seal left White Tiger as the only one able to repair it, and the Beast God offered Chu Xinghe a handwritten decree to bring him out. Chu Xinghe planned to conceal the decree and overwhelm White Tiger with resources instead, while the Beast God believed his scheme was unfolding as intended.

• The Beast God saw Ghost Valley’s crisis as a chance to make White Tiger devour Blood Spirit Stone and restore his own soul, so he offered Chu Xinghe a Beast God Handwritten Decree.
• News of Ghost Valley’s failing seal spread across both continents, and people worried because only White Tiger could repair it and the Four Sacred Beasts needed the Beast God’s orders to leave Spirit Beast Island.
• At the Vast Heaven Sect, Elder He proposed offering White Tiger enough resources to persuade him to help despite lacking the decree.
• Chu Xinghe decided to visit White Tiger with a huge amount of resources while hiding the decree, intending to keep offering resources until White Tiger agreed or reveal the decree as a last resort.
• The Beast God remained convinced that Chu Xinghe’s actions were part of his own calculations and that he would get his way.

Chu Xinghe negotiated with the Beast God over how many blood spirit stones were needed to bring the White Tiger off Spirit Beast Island, pushing the proposed amount from twenty thousand to two million. He went to Wei Buhui to collect the stones and found that Wei Buhui had already started bargaining too.

• As rumors spread about whether the Vast Heaven Sect could bring the White Tiger out, Chu Xinghe asked the Beast God how many blood spirit stones Spirit Beast Island would need.
• The Beast God first requested twenty thousand blood spirit stones, then raised his demand as Chu Xinghe insisted the White Tiger and the Beast God deserved more.
• Chu Xinghe argued that the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu, and the other spirit beasts should also receive stones, and concluded that they should bring two million in case the White Tiger refused.
• Chu Xinghe went to Senior Brother Feng Fei to arrange the stones, but Feng Fei told him Wei Buhui managed them.
• Chu Xinghe hurried to the Dark Moon Palace to see Wei Buhui and discovered that Wei Buhui had already begun bargaining.

Chu Xinghe gathered two million Blood Spirit Stones to take to Spirit Beast Island and enlist the White Tiger to repair Ghost Valley, while the Demonic Sect planned to weaken the valley’s seals first. Yuan Ying emptied the Ape Clan’s hidden treasury to fund that plan, leaving the Ape Clan members who later found it with an empty vault.

• Wei Buhui found the Vast Heaven Sect had only about one and a half million Blood Spirit Stones, so Chu Xinghe arranged to obtain the remaining five hundred thousand from Martial Emperor City at double the usual price.
• Zheng Yu delivered five hundred thousand Blood Spirit Stones to the Vast Heaven Sect for free, and Chu Xinghe told Wei Buhui to return five hundred thousand of the Fox Clan’s finest stones to Martial Emperor City later.
• Tantai Jing, Wu Xingyun, and Yuan Ying decided the Demonic Sect would keep damaging Ghost Valley’s seals so the White Tiger could not repair them.
• Yuan Ying took all the resources from the Ape Clan’s hidden treasury and gave them to Tantai Jing to use against Ghost Valley’s seals.
• Yuan Bao led Ape Clan members to the hidden treasury, where they found it empty and questioned what had happened to its resources.

After the Ape Clan discovered its hidden treasury had been emptied, Elder Yuan Bao accused Yuan Ying of betraying them and issued kill orders, while Yuan Ying insisted his alliance with the Demonic Sect was meant to bring down the Vast Heaven Sect. Chu Xinghe arrived on Spirit Beast Island to recruit White Tiger for the fight over Ghost Valley, and his piles of Blood Spirit Stones tempted White Tiger and then drew Azure Dragon toward them.

• Elder Yuan Bao blamed Yuan Ying for secretly opening and emptying the Ape Clan's treasury, and the Ape Clan issued countless kill orders against him.
• Yuan Ying raged at the accusations, while Tantai Jing and Wu Xingyun tried to console him by recounting the Demonic Sect's hardships.
• Chu Xinghe arrived on Spirit Beast Island with the Great Sage and drew a crowd as spirit beasts gathered around him because of the Beast God Talisman.
• White Tiger greeted Chu Xinghe, complained about his isolation, and offered to repair Ghost Valley's seal but said he could not leave without the Beast God's Command.
• Chu Xinghe brought out two mountains of Blood Spirit Stones, leaving White Tiger trembling as the Beast God urged him to resist the temptation.
• Azure Dragon crashed down in front of the Blood Spirit Stones and stared at them with bloodshot eyes.

Chu Xinghe tested whether the Four Sacred Beasts could be swayed with blood spirit stones, then secured their promises to help him in a future life-or-death crisis. After they refused to leave Spirit Beast Island for his request concerning Ghost Valley, he revealed the Beast God Handwritten Decree, and White Tiger agreed to help.

• White Tiger, Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu were overwhelmed by the mountain of blood spirit stones in the White Tiger Divine Hall.
• Chu Xinghe repeated his request, and White Tiger explained that the Four Sacred Beasts could not leave Spirit Beast Island without the Beast God's command.
• Chu Xinghe offered the Four Sacred Beasts more blood spirit stones, and Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird each gave him a token promising aid in a future life-or-death crisis.
• White Tiger also promised to help Chu Xinghe in a crisis but refused to leave Spirit Beast Island for the Ghost Valley matter, citing the Four Sacred Beasts' agreement and dignity.
• Chu Xinghe presented the Beast God Handwritten Decree, and White Tiger read the Beast God's command to help him, then agreed to restore Ghost Valley's grand formation.

Chu Xinghe spent 1.2 million Blood Spirit Stones to replenish the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation, allowing White Tiger to leave Spirit Beast Island and join him. Meanwhile, Tantai Jing devised a scheme to make the Vast Heaven Sect use Ma Liang’s Fengdu Token as Ghost Valley’s formation foundation, costing Ma Liang the token.

• Chu Xinghe poured 1.2 million Blood Spirit Stones into the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation, and the Misfortune Compass began turning faster as the formation gradually consumed them.
• White Tiger left Spirit Beast Island with Chu Xinghe, and he calmly treated people calling him a dog as praise for his achievements.
• News of White Tiger’s departure reached Tantai Jing, who feared White Tiger would repair Ghost Valley and thwart the Demonic Sect’s ghost revival plan.
• Tantai Jing explained that destroying Ghost Valley’s formation foundation would make its repair more costly and require a powerful replacement foundation.
• Tantai Jing planned to force the Vast Heaven Sect to use Ma Liang’s Fengdu Token as Ghost Valley’s foundation, making Ma Liang lose it permanently.

Chu Xinghe learned that White Tiger needed Ma Liang’s Fengdu Token to restore Ghost Valley, but found a way to preserve it by spending enormous resources. He summoned Ma Liang to Ghost Valley, leaving Ma Liang to abandon negotiations with visiting sect masters and rush there.

• White Tiger explained that Ghost Valley’s damaged formation foundation required the Fengdu Ten Thousand Ghosts Token, and Chu Xinghe realized using it could cripple Ma Liang.
• White Tiger offered to replace the Fengdu Token after the formation was built, at a cost of up to ten times its value, and Chu Xinghe eagerly accepted.
• At the Vast Heaven Sect, Ma Liang reprimanded disciples in several palaces and handled negotiations with visiting sect masters.
• After Chu Xinghe summoned him, Ma Liang left the negotiations unfinished and used the grand elder’s teleportation formation to go to Ghost Valley.

Ma Liang gave up his Fengdu Token to become Ghost Valley’s new formation foundation, believing Chu Xinghe would find a way to help him afterward. The Vast Heaven Sect’s disciples and elders worried about the consequences, but Gu Mingchao insisted Xinghe had a plan and stormed off after scolding them.

• Chu Xinghe told Ma Liang that the Fengdu Token had to become Ghost Valley’s formation foundation and that Ma Liang would lose it permanently.
• Ma Liang handed over the Fengdu Token without resentment, while Chu Xinghe privately kept quiet that White Tiger could retrieve it later so he could scare Ma Liang.
• White Tiger approved of Ma Liang’s composure, and Ma Liang trusted that Chu Xinghe would not let him become a cripple.
• Vast Heaven Sect disciples worried about Ma Liang losing the token but trusted Chu Xinghe’s decision, recalling Ma Liang’s past help and generosity.
• The elders worried that losing the token would harm Ma Liang’s future, but Gu Mingchao berated them for doubting Xinghe and left.
• The elders suggested discussing whether to remove the increasingly arrogant sect master from his position.

White Tiger used the Fengdu Token and vast resources to restore Ghost Valley’s Nether Domain Grand Formation, sealing the ghosts inside and earning gratitude from the Demon Race. Chu Xinghe returned White Tiger to the Vast Heaven Sect to recover, but was puzzled when his Misfortune Compass failed to rise as much as he expected.

• Chu Xinghe prepared resources for White Tiger, and Ling Mou led the Formation Spirit Clan to Ghost Valley to watch White Tiger repair its restrictions.
• White Tiger deployed the Fengdu Token as Ghost Valley’s formation foundation and built the Nether Domain Grand Formation, sealing the ghosts within the valley.
• White Tiger said the work had exhausted them and that retrieving the Fengdu Token would have to wait until they recovered.
• The Demon Race thanked Chu Xinghe and White Tiger for restoring Ghost Valley, and Chu Xinghe took White Tiger back to the Vast Heaven Sect to rest.
• Chu Xinghe watched his Misfortune Compass move less than expected and wondered why it had not risen sharply after the repair.

Chu Xinghe surged into the Martial God realm when the Misfortune Compass spun, while Ma Liang discovered that the Soul-Devouring Banner could command the ghosts of Ghost Valley. The Compass then reversed, stripping Chu Xinghe of his new power and leaving him barely at the peak of the Eighth Rank.

• Chu Xinghe wondered why the enormous cost of repairing Ghost Valley had not made the Misfortune Compass spin faster, while factions argued over whether he had sacrificed Ma Liang for his reputation.
• The Misfortune Compass suddenly spun wildly and boosted Chu Xinghe from the Eighth Rank through the Martial Emperor and Half-Step Martial God realms into the Martial God realm.
• White Tiger told Ma Liang that Chu Xinghe had a backup plan, and Ma Liang contacted Lu Chengqing to warn him that the Soul-Devouring Banner should have stopped working.
• Lu Chengqing said the banner still worked and contained many powerful ghosts, so Ma Liang summoned him to the Vast Heaven Sect and took control of it.
• Ma Liang discovered that the Soul-Devouring Banner could summon the ancient ghosts of Ghost Valley and concluded that Chu Xinghe had given him control of the valley.
• The Misfortune Compass spun backward and stripped Chu Xinghe of his Martial God power, leaving him barely at the peak of the Eighth Rank after his trial card expired.