Chapter Summaries

The Vast Heaven Sect learned that Chu Xinghe had been held at the Demonic Shadow Sect’s base in Tianrun City and discovered that he had fought his way through the sect’s forces after killing a Devil Venerable with a fake Haotian Battle Intent. The Grand Elder used the Soul Seizing Art to replay the battle, leaving the sect members stunned by Chu Xinghe’s strength.

• Ma Liang reported a sighting of Chu Xinghe’s Thunder Shadow in Tianrun City, and the Grand Elder and Gu Mingchao rushed there with Vast Heaven Sect experts.
• Gu Mingchao and the Grand Elder questioned captured Demonic Shadow Sect disciples, killing two before another revealed that Chu Xinghe had been at the courtyard.
• A disciple explained that Chu Xinghe had pretended to defect, handed over resources and the Stone-Pointing Technique, and used a fake Haotian Battle Intent that caused the Devil Venerable to explode.
• The disciple recounted that Chu Xinghe fought the Demonic Shadow Sect forces alone, leaving the courtyard covered in blood and nearly wiping out its fifth-rank members.
• The Grand Elder seized several disciples’ souls and used the Soul Seizing Art to show the Vast Heaven Sect images of Chu Xinghe’s battle with the Haotian Sword Casket.

After Chu Xinghe survived his escape from the Demonic Shadow Sect, the Vast Heaven Sect and Martial Emperor City searched Tianrun City for him. Recovering at the Feng Lineage residence under the name Wang Tieniu, he learned that Liu Chong was using his influence to block Feng Yuyan’s brother from entering Jade Void Palace, and followed Feng Yuyan out to confront him.

• Soul images revealed Chu Xinghe killing twelve fifth-grade enemies and escaping with fifty-eight wounds, prompting Gu Mingchao to order a citywide search.
• Martial Emperor Cheng Xiaotian mobilized Martial Emperor City, while Zheng Yu rushed to Tianrun City to find Chu Xinghe.
• Feng Yuyan visited the awakened Chu Xinghe, who concealed his identity and introduced himself as Wang Tieniu.
• Uncle Feng explained that Liu Chong had threatened to block Feng Yuyan’s brother from entering Jade Void Palace unless she married him.
• Chu Xinghe recovered enough to leave, but followed Feng Yuyan when a servant announced Liu Chong’s arrival.

Chu Xinghe defended Feng Yuyan from Liu Chong and Liu Jingkuo, then revealed himself as the missing figure pursued by the great sects. The chapter ended with the Vast Heaven Sect’s Great Elder embracing Chu Xinghe as Martial Emperors gathered in Tianrun City.

• Liu Chong pressured Feng Yuyan to marry him, but Chu Xinghe insulted him and sent him flying with Haotian Battle Intent.
• Liu Chong summoned his father, Liu Jingkuo, who demanded Chu Xinghe’s cultivation technique and attacked him.
• A Martial Emperor struck Liu Jingkuo into the ground, and more Martial Emperors arrived by treading through the void.
• The Great Elder embraced Chu Xinghe after he identified himself, leaving the Feng Lineage and Jade Void Palace members stunned.
• The crowd realized Chu Xinghe was the person the Vast Heaven Sect and Martial Emperor City had been searching for.

After Chu Xinghe was rescued by Feng Yuyan, the Vast Heaven Sect and Martial Emperor City’s leaders arrived and rewarded the Feng Lineage while punishing the Jade Void Palace for coveting the Haotian Battle Intent. The Feng Lineage rose to prominence, while Wang Daoquan faced a crisis over Liu Jingkuo’s actions.

• Gu Mingchao and Cheng Xiaotian arrived, confirmed Chu Xinghe was safe, and provided him with precious healing pills.
• The Great Elder crippled Liu Jingkuo for coveting the Haotian Battle Intent, and Gu Mingchao demanded that Wang Daoquan answer for the Jade Void Palace’s conduct.
• Chu Xinghe credited Feng Yuyan with saving him, and the Vast Heaven Sect granted the Feng Lineage control of Tianrun City and subordinate-lineage status, including two disciple recommendations each year.
• The Feng Lineage’s rise drew congratulations from across the region as word spread of its new connection to the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Wang Daoquan learned what Liu Jingkuo had done and nearly died of rage, realizing the Jade Void Palace could not explain away its elder’s failure to recognize Chu Xinghe.

Wang Daoquan tried to appease Gu Mingchao after the Jade Void Palace’s failure to recognize Chu Xinghe, paying with Liu Jingkuo’s family’s heads and a million high-grade spirit stones. As Vast Heaven Sect and Martial Emperor City forces gathered to attack the Demonic Shadow Sect, Chu Xinghe hoped the coming battle would finally cause the sect losses he had been trying to bring about.

• Wang Daoquan presented Gu Mingchao with Liu Jingkuo’s family’s heads and a million high-grade spirit stones, and Gu Mingchao accepted his apology.
• Chu Xinghe’s fellow disciples praised his supposed courage and ingenuity, while Zheng Yu thanked him for saving his life and declared his admiration.
• Chu Xinghe learned that the Vast Heaven Sect had recovered the spirit stones and treasures from Meng Yong’s group, leaving the sect with no losses and a profit.
• Wu Xingyun announced that Meng Yong had abducted Chu Xinghe on his own, but Gu Mingchao declared that the Vast Heaven Sect would retaliate against the Demonic Shadow Sect.
• Experts from the Vast Heaven Sect and Martial Emperor City gathered in Tianrun City to march on Demonic Shadow City, and Chu Xinghe welcomed the prospect of a costly battle.

After the Demonic Shadow Sect fled Demonic Shadow City rather than face the Vast Heaven Sect and Martial Emperor City, Chu Xinghe returned home expecting punishment for revealing a sect art. Gu Mingchao instead began grooming him to succeed as sect master by ordering him to study every technique in the Technique Repository Tower, leaving Chu Xinghe devastated.

• The Demonic Shadow Sect evacuated and destroyed Demonic Shadow City, avoiding the Vast Heaven Sect and Martial Emperor City’s attack and bringing the conflict to a gradual end.
• Zheng Yu thanked Chu Xinghe before returning to Martial Emperor City, while Feng Yuzheng accompanied Chu Xinghe back to the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Chu Xinghe reported the events in Tianrun City to Gu Mingchao and the elders, then asked to be punished for divulging the Divine Stone-Pointing Art.
• The elders praised Chu Xinghe’s achievements, including securing the Tianyi Spirit Mine and training Wang Tieniu in stone-pointing.
• Gu Mingchao ordered Chu Xinghe to study every technique in the Technique Repository Tower, signaling that he intended Chu Xinghe to become the next sect master.
• Chu Xinghe left the hall in tears and recounted his recent ordeals to the gathered Spirit Crane Palace disciples.

Chu Xinghe welcomed Feng Yuzheng into the Vast Heaven Sect and found that the sect treated him with extraordinary privilege, even allowing him unrestricted access to the Technique Repository Tower. Determined to get punished and undermine the sect, Chu Xinghe seized an opportunity to give Thunder Palace disciples cultivation guidance that he hoped would cause trouble.

• Disciples from every palace visited Chu Xinghe with gifts, while Feng Yuzheng was astonished by the sect’s devotion to him.
• Chu Xinghe toured the eighteen palaces with Feng Yuzheng, and Feng Yuzheng chose to join Azure Wood Palace, where the disciples warmly welcomed him.
• Chu Xinghe entered the Technique Repository Tower without a token or fire-suppression talisman and was allowed to visit all nine floors.
• Chu Xinghe remembered his goal of bringing down the Vast Heaven Sect and wondered how he could provoke a punishment.
• Thunder Palace disciples asked Chu Xinghe for help with the Thunderclap Art, and he offered to give pointers to all of them, hoping his guidance would cause cultivation problems.

Chu Xinghe gave the Thunder Palace disciples reckless advice to cultivate the Thunderclap Art in reverse, then learned the Vast Heaven Sect needed a spirit weapon lineage to replace its former partners. He recognized the disastrous Ouyang Lineage as the perfect choice to help bring down the sect.

• Chu Xinghe told Thunder Palace disciples that the Thunderclap Art had to be cultivated in reverse, and many agreed to try it.
• Chu Xinghe considered setting fire to the Technique Repository Tower but decided against it and spent the day studying techniques.
• Feng Fei told Chu Xinghe that spirit weapon lineages had raised their prices, forcing the Vast Heaven Sect to end their cooperation and seek a new solution.
• Feng Fei showed Chu Xinghe a list of spirit weapon lineages the sect could take under its control.
• Chu Xinghe learned that the Ouyang Lineage had contributed to the downfall of several sects and decided that the Vast Heaven Sect had to recruit them.

Chu Xinghe tried to persuade the Grand Elder to choose the impoverished Ouyang Lineage to build the Vast Heaven Sect’s own spirit-weapon force. When Thunder Palace’s He Yanming confronted him over disciples cultivating the Thunderclap Art backward, a sudden surge of Spiritual Qi suggested that many disciples were breaking through.

• Chu Xinghe argued that the Ouyang Lineage’s legacy and desperation made it the best choice for the Vast Heaven Sect’s long-term plans, despite its heavy resource use and poor output.
• Chu Xinghe urged the Grand Elder to build the number one spirit-weapon force under heaven and support the Ouyang Lineage when it was at its lowest point.
• He Yanming accused Chu Xinghe of harming Thunder Palace disciples by telling them to cultivate the Thunderclap Art backward, and a disciple reported that something terrible had happened.
• He Yanming seized Chu Xinghe and flew to Thunder Palace, where they sensed a terrifying surge of Spiritual Qi and signs that many people were breaking through.

Chu Xinghe’s advice to reverse the Thunderclap Art caused Thunder Palace disciples to bleed at first, but they soon stabilized and broke through in succession. The sect praised him for restoring the technique, and after a lavish celebration, Chu Xinghe heard that the Grand Elder had reported the Ouyang Lineage to the sect master.

• He Yanming seized Chu Xinghe and flew to the Thunder Palace to confront him over the disciples’ apparent Qi deviation.
• He Yanming and the onlookers discovered that the disciples who had reversed the Thunderclap Art were stable and breaking through one after another.
• The disciples thanked Chu Xinghe, and the Grand Elder explained that the Thunderclap Art had likely been assembled backward by earlier elders.
• The sect master, Grand Elder, He Yanming, and Thunder Palace disciples praised Chu Xinghe, while He Yanming showed him around the palace and hosted a feast.
• Senior Brother Feng Fei told Chu Xinghe that the Grand Elder had reported the Ouyang Lineage to the sect master, lifting Chu Xinghe’s spirits.

Chu Xinghe welcomed the newly arrived Ouyang Lineage after discovering its members had devoured the Spirit Crane Palace kitchen’s food. He praised Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling and hoped their lineage would remain at the Vast Heaven Sect, leaving Ouyang Ming moved by the unexpected kindness.

• Chu Xinghe avoided giving disciples more cultivation pointers and stayed in the Technique Repository Tower to escape the Grand Elder’s pill-refining lessons.
• Wan Lin told Chu Xinghe that the Liu, Wang, and Ouyang Lineages had arrived, and described how the Ouyang Lineage had eaten nearly everything in the Spirit Crane Palace kitchen.
• Chu Xinghe went to the kitchen and found Ouyang Ling eating red-braised pork and steamed buns while Ouyang Ming ate leftover fried rice and discussed taking food for winter.
• Chu Xinghe called Ouyang Ming “Ouyang Pixiu,” then learned his name was simply Ouyang Ming.
• Chu Xinghe welcomed the siblings and said he hoped the Ouyang Lineage would stay at the Vast Heaven Sect, bringing Ouyang Ming to tears.

Chu Xinghe defended the fallen Ouyang Lineage from ridicule and made its members feel respected by the Vast Heaven Sect. At the welcoming banquet, he rejected Liu Chenzhao’s spirit armor and gave it to Wan Lin, leaving Liu Chenzhao bewildered.

• Chu Xinghe comforted Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling, assuring them that the Vast Heaven Sect genuinely valued the Ouyang Lineage and wanted its help.
• Chu Xinghe scolded the cooks and Spirit Crane Palace disciples for mocking the Ouyang Lineage, and they admitted they had judged its members by their appearance.
• Feng Fei reported Chu Xinghe’s actions to the Grand Elder, who praised him and told Feng Fei to prepare the welcoming banquet.
• Ouyang Ming praised Chu Xinghe to Ouyang Ling and warned her not to imagine she was worthy of him.
• The Grand Elder hosted a banquet for the Ouyang, Liu, and Wang Lineages, where Liu Dezhu presented a spirit-grade armor forged by Liu Chenzhao.
• Chu Xinghe declined the armor and gave it to Wan Lin, who accepted it while Liu Chenzhao stared in confusion.

At the banquet, Wan Lin defeated Wang Benchao and Liu Chenzhao while testing the gifts they had presented, destroying both the spirit armor and sword. The banquet continued with the Ouyang Lineage still focused on eating, until Ouyang Ming was asked what gift he had prepared.

• Wang Benchao and Liu Chenzhao challenged Chu Xinghe to test their gifts, but Chu Xinghe sent Wan Lin in his place.
• Wan Lin used her staff intent to shatter Liu Chenzhao's spirit armor and break Wang Benchao's spirit sword, then accepted Chu Xinghe's joking punishment to study at the Technique Repository Tower.
• The Grand Elder resumed the banquet as Wang Benchao and Liu Chenzhao were carried away in humiliation.
• The Ouyang Lineage drew attention by devouring the banquet food and asking for more.
• Liu Dezhu and Wang Tieshan pressed Ouyang Ming to reveal his gift, and Ouyang Ming briefly considered offering his sister Ouyang Ling to Chu Xinghe before deciding she was not worthy.

Chu Xinghe defended the impoverished Ouyang Lineage and hoped they could join the Vast Heaven Sect, but learned they had no confidence or equipment for the upcoming test. At the Haotian Grand Hall, the Liu and Wang lineages demonstrated their skills, and Ouyang Ming asked to borrow tools and materials just as the Ouyang Lineage's turn began.

• Chu Xinghe argued that the Ouyang Lineage's sincerity was a worthy gift, shielding them from the Wang and Liu lineages' taunts.
• The Ouyang Lineage ate their fill at the banquet and packed up leftovers, then devoured the Vast Heaven Sect's breakfast the next morning.
• Ouyang Ming told Chu Xinghe that the Ouyang Lineage had no confidence, no full set of underpants, and had sold its spirit-forging tools during a famine.
• At the Haotian Grand Hall, Liu Dezhu requested 150,000 high-grade spirit stones a year, Wang Tieshan requested 130,000, and Ouyang Ming asked for a million without promising a timetable.
• Liu Dezhu forged a supreme-grade saber, and Wang Tieshan forged and imbued a sword until it reached supreme grade.
• When the Ouyang Lineage's test began, Ouyang Ming asked Liu Dezhu to lend him tools and materials.

Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling failed to impress the Vast Heaven Sect with their weapon, and the grand elder prepared to dismiss their lineage. Elder He then recognized faint cloud patterns on Ouyang Ming’s sword as proof that he had inherited the lost Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique, leaving the hall stunned.

• Ouyang Ming borrowed tools and materials from the Liu Lineage and blew up the first artifact furnace while forging.
• Ouyang Ming forged a low-grade sword on his second attempt, and Ouyang Ling’s spirit infusion did not improve it.
• The grand elder declared the Ouyang Lineage had failed the test and could leave while the Wang and Liu lineages stayed.
• Elder He examined Ouyang Ming’s sword and identified its faint cloud patterns as traces of the Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique.
• Gu Mingchao compared the sword’s patterns with those on the Heaven-Supporting Sword and recognized the lost technique.
• Ouyang Ling revealed that Ouyang Ming was the first person in two hundred years to comprehend the Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique, though he had inherited only part of it.

After Ouyang Ling revealed that she could perform Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing, the Vast Heaven Sect chose to keep the Ouyang Lineage and dismissed the Wang and Liu Lineages. The chapter ended with Ouyang Ming stopping his sister from making a request and whispering that she was not worthy of him.

• Ouyang Ling's Cloud-Piercing Hammer display revealed that Ouyang Ming had learned only part of the technique, leaving the Wang and Liu Lineages confident they could still defeat the Ouyang Lineage.
• Elder He urged Gu Mingchao to examine Ouyang Ling's spirit imbuing, and Gu Mingchao recognized it as Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing.
• Ouyang Ling explained that she had learned the technique by listening to her grandfather teach Ouyang Ming and could now succeed roughly once in a hundred attempts.
• Gu Mingchao and the elders decided the Vast Heaven Sect would keep the Ouyang Lineage and told the Wang and Liu Lineages to leave.
• Gu Mingchao promised the Ouyang siblings full support, but Ouyang Ming covered Ouyang Ling's mouth and whispered that she was not worthy of him.

The Ouyang Lineage joined the Vast Heaven Sect after Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling revealed their remarkable forging and spirit-imbuing talents. Chu Xinghe restored the lineage’s treasured tools and arranged for it to build its own Artifact Refining Palace, leaving Ouyang Ming overwhelmed by the sect’s support and the mountain of materials.

• News of the Ouyang siblings’ talents spread, and people praised Chu Xinghe for giving them another chance after their first failed attempt.
• Chu Xinghe welcomed the Ouyang Lineage into the Vast Heaven Sect and returned many of the tools they had sold during their decline.
• Chu Xinghe persuaded the sect master and grand elder to let the Ouyang Lineage establish a separate Artifact Refining Palace rather than join the Spirit Crane Palace.
• Ouyang Ming declared that he would devote himself to the sect and adopted Pixiu as his courtesy name, while Ouyang Ling tried to offer herself to Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe chose a mountain between the Spirit Crane Palace and Haotian Palace and demanded that the new palace match the Medicine King Palace’s standards.
• Construction and deliveries of top-tier materials began, and Ouyang Ming ate sixteen bowls of cold noodles in astonishment.

Chu Xinghe inspected the extravagant Artifact Refining Palace and celebrated how the Ouyang Lineage’s furnace explosions were draining the Vast Heaven Sect’s resources. The grand elder then asked him to accompany him to Jiangbei to treat the gravely ill Elder Zhao, leaving Chu Xinghe eager to help his friend die with dignity and damage the Medicine Saint Inheritance’s reputation.

• Chu Xinghe caught Ouyang Ming hiding pigswill and ordered disciples to return it to the pigs.
• Ouyang Ming’s Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique caused repeated furnace explosions and consumed the sect’s spirit stones, delighting Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe encouraged Ouyang Ling to spend more time with Wan Lin instead of focusing on cultivation.
• Shen Chun summoned Chu Xinghe to the grand elder, who explained that Elder Zhao had fallen unconscious after bleeding from all seven orifices.
• The grand elder asked Chu Xinghe to accompany him to Jiangbei and, if Elder Zhao could not be saved, help him avoid becoming a monster.
• Chu Xinghe agreed to leave the next morning and secretly looked forward to failing to save Elder Zhao so the Medicine Saint Inheritance would be disgraced.

Wu Qun said only Chu Xinghe might be able to save the unconscious Old Master Zhao, so the great elder brought him to the Zhao Lineage. After the great elder examined Zhao Zhidong, Chu Xinghe took a look and his expression changed drastically.

• Old Master Zhao collapsed, and Wu Qun told Zhao Yuanzhen that he could not treat the evil fire afflicting him.
• Wu Qun named Chu Xinghe and the Medicine Saint Inheritance as the Zhao Lineage’s remaining hope, prompting Zhao Yuanzhen to summon him.
• The great elder took Chu Xinghe through a teleportation array to the Lake of the Moon and brought him to the Zhao Lineage.
• Zhao Yuanzhen welcomed the great elder and Chu Xinghe, while Luo Ying'er approached Chu Xinghe and Chen Xuewang warned him to stay away from her.
• The great elder examined Zhao Zhidong, then called Chu Xinghe over; Chu Xinghe looked at the old master and his face changed drastically.

Chu Xinghe proposed attacking the evil fire that threatened Zhao Zhidong, then secretly chose an absurdly potent pill formula while claiming it had a fifty percent chance of saving him. The chapter ended with the gathered experts stunned by the pill’s intensely yang ingredients.

• Chu Xinghe diagnosed Zhao Zhidong’s evil fire and explained that ordinary treatments would only suppress it while risking further damage to his Spiritual Qi.
• Chu Xinghe proposed using a fierce medicine to sever the evil fire at its root and claimed a nameless pill from the Medicine Saint Inheritance offered a fifty percent chance of success.
• Chu Xinghe selected the Dick-Blasting Pill, a dangerously potent tonic, believing it suited Zhao Zhidong’s unyielding nature.
• Zhao Yuanzhen welcomed Chu Xinghe’s claimed odds, while Wu Qun and the Grand Elder asked him to reveal the pill formula.
• Chu Xinghe listed potent, yang-heavy ingredients, leaving the medicinal experts stunned by how powerful the mixture might be.