Chapter Summaries

Ouyang Ling’s concoction turned the Ning Clan’s Earth Spirit Gushing Spring pink for eight hundred years, ending the spirit medicine war and making the Vast Heaven Sect’s medicines essential to the Spirit Beast Continent. As the world credited Chu Xinghe with masterminding the victory, news that the Beast God Spirit Temple was about to open kept him from going into seclusion.

• Ji Changfeng determined that Ouyang Ling’s concoction would keep the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring pink for about eight hundred years, though its medicinal properties remained usable.
• News of the spring’s unusual effects spread across the three continents, and Ouyang Ling said Chu Xinghe had guided her while Zheng Yu concluded that Chu had planned the outcome from the start.
• With the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring altered, Sima Bian and Shi Biao restored spirit medicine prices, and the Spirit Beast Continent began buying the Vast Heaven Sect’s medicines.
• Chu Xinghe prepared to enter seclusion, but the coming opening of the Beast God Spirit Temple made him swear he would give away everything he got.

The Ancient Beast God Spirit Temple was set to reopen, and its rumored tenfold admission cost prompted the Vast Heaven Sect to consider lending resources to allied factions. Chu Xinghe objected just as the meeting ended, and the elders returned to hear him out.

• News spread that the Beast God Spirit Temple had returned in its ancient form and might require ten times the usual resources for entry.
• Chu Xinghe celebrated the prospect of the higher admission cost, expecting it to help him reach Ninth Rank.
• Shen Chun brought Chu Xinghe to a meeting where the Grand Elder ordered the Beast Taming Palace to brief the other palaces on the temple’s dangers and customs.
• The Grand Elder proposed lending resources to allied factions that could not afford admission, and all the palace heads agreed.
• The Grand Elder assigned Feng Fei and Ma Liang to coordinate the loans, but Chu Xinghe voiced an objection as the meeting ended.

Chu Xinghe rejected lending resources to the struggling powers and proposed selling advance tickets to the ancient Beast God Spirit Temple, with the Vast Heaven Sect covering any increased cost. Elder He argued the plan would win the smaller powers’ loyalty, and Cheng Xiaotian saw it as a sign that the Vast Heaven Sect was nearing holy-land status.

• Chu Xinghe warned the elders that borrowing resources could leave smaller powers crushed by debt if they failed to gain anything from the ancient spirit temple.
• Chu Xinghe proposed selling tickets for twice the normal Beast God Spirit Temple price and promised the Vast Heaven Sect would cover any shortfall or refund half the price if costs stayed normal.
• Elder He explained that the Vast Heaven Sect would either earn the smaller powers’ gratitude through refunds or help them survive by paying the higher costs.
• The Vast Heaven Sect announced its ticket plan, astonishing powers across the world.
• Zheng Yu asked Cheng Xiaotian what the Vast Heaven Sect hoped to gain, and Cheng Xiaotian said the plan gave small powers a chance to survive and brought the sect closer to becoming a holy land.

Cheng Xiaotian explained why the Vast Heaven Sect was using its resources to help minor factions and Rogue Cultivators, while news of its ticket plan won widespread praise across the three continents. In the Demonic Sect, Yuan Ying stayed after reaching the Mystic God realm, but Tantai Jing warned against exploiting Chu Xinghe’s ticket offer.

• Cheng Xiaotian told Zheng Yu that the Vast Heaven Sect valued winning people’s hearts and cautioned him that the plan involved Chu Xinghe.
• The Vast Heaven Sect’s ticket offer spread across the three continents, allowing minor factions and Rogue Cultivators to enter the ancient spirit temple without bearing the full risk of its possible tenfold cost.
• Yuan Ying considered attacking Wu Xingyun after discovering he had been deceived, but chose to remain with the Demonic Sect because he lacked confidence in defeating Wu Xingyun and had benefited from the sect.
• Yuan Ying proposed that the Demonic Sect buy large numbers of tickets and exploit the Vast Heaven Sect’s promise to cover any extra cost.
• Tantai Jing rejected the scheme and insisted the Demonic Sect buy tickets only for its own disciples, warning that Chu Xinghe might have prepared countermeasures.

Chu Xinghe tried to make the Vast Heaven Sect lose resources by selling tickets through a loophole, but Tantai Jing suspected a trap and bought only enough tickets for Demonic Sect disciples. Chu Xinghe then ordered Ma Liang to sell tickets to anyone who wanted them, leaving the outcome uncertain as the major factions stayed away.

• Tantai Jing persuaded Yuan Ying and Wu Xingyun to wait and see, then brought Demonic Sect members to the Vast Heaven Sect to buy tickets.
• Tantai Jing claimed the Demonic Sect was a tiny faction entitled to buy tickets, and Chu Xinghe eagerly welcomed his purchase.
• Suspecting Chu Xinghe's enthusiasm hid a trick, Tantai Jing refused to buy extra tickets and purchased only tickets for Demonic Sect disciples.
• After Tantai Jing left, Chu Xinghe wondered why major factions were not exploiting the ticket loophole, while Ma Liang reported that some buyers were purchasing repeatedly.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to sell tickets to everyone, including repeat buyers and people buying under other names.

The Vast Heaven Sect waited for major powers to exploit the obvious loophole in Chu Xinghe’s ticket plan, but none had acted openly. Clan Head Ning tested the loophole, then mobilized the Ning Clan to buy tickets in disguise, and Qiu Tian joined the scheme with the Demonic Sect, convinced Chu Xinghe had no countermeasure.

• Gu Mingchao stopped the elders from warning Xinghe, and the Vast Heaven Sect waited several days while only Rogue Persons and minor factions bought extra tickets.
• The Ning Clan profited from selling Earth Spirit Gushing Spring to brothels, while Clan Head Ning noticed the loophole in the Vast Heaven Sect’s ticket plan.
• Clan Head Ning sent disguised Ning Clan disciples to buy tickets hundreds of times without provoking a response, then launched a large-scale ticket-buying operation.
• Qiu Tian learned of the Ning Clan’s plan from a spy, decided the Demonic Sect could exploit the same loophole, and ordered its factions to disguise themselves as members of the Human Race.
• Qiu Tian dismissed warnings that the ticket plan might be a trap and challenged his strategists to name an open scheme Chu Xinghe could use against them.

Chu Xinghe welcomed mysterious Rogue Cultivators buying Vast Heaven Sect tickets, believing their purchases would help him, while the civil engineering disciples celebrated the resources they expected to gain. White Tiger proposed rebuilding the sect’s mountain-guarding formation, and Chu Xinghe enthusiastically helped secure approval for a defense built on the scale of the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

• Ma Liang told Chu Xinghe that mysterious Rogue Cultivators were buying tickets in bulk, and Chu Xinghe ordered him to sell them as many as they wanted.
• Vast Heaven Sect elders watched the ticket sales, while the civil engineering disciples celebrated the prospect of taking leave once the sect spent its resources.
• Chu Xinghe grew suspicious of everyone around him until White Tiger approached and proposed rebuilding the mountain-guarding formation.
• Chu Xinghe enthusiastically backed White Tiger’s plan and went with him to persuade the Grand Elder.
• The Grand Elder approved the reconstruction and ordered White Tiger and the Formation Spirit Palace to build a formation on the scale of the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

Chu Xinghe celebrated White Tiger’s plan to rebuild the Vast Heaven Sect’s mountain-guarding formation, while the Beast God secretly hoped the Beast God Spirit Temple would restore his power. As Chu Xinghe helped White Tiger merge the new formations, his deliberate mistake unexpectedly produced auspicious radiance, leaving both of them astonished.

• Chu Xinghe learned that White Tiger would replace the old mountain-guarding formation with a holy-land-level array covering the Haotian Mountain Range, while the Beast God secretly planned to use the Beast God Spirit Temple to regain his strength and break their contract.
• White Tiger destroyed the old formation and assigned the Formation Spirit Clan to establish one thousand and eighty grand formations across the mountains.
• White Tiger taught Chu Xinghe how to merge formations by drawing on the force of heaven and earth, producing purple qi as a sign of success.
• Chu Xinghe deliberately made a mistake while merging two formations, expecting to fail, but ten thousand streams of auspicious radiance rose as the formations merged successfully.
• White Tiger excitedly asked Chu Xinghe how he had produced radiance beyond purple qi, and Chu Xinghe could only agree that he wanted to know too.

Chu Xinghe tried to sabotage formation fusions, but each attempt produced increasingly rare Divine Formations, culminating in Lingering Immortal Music. White Tiger gained enlightenment from Xinghe’s technique, advanced his formation mastery, and partially restored his remnant soul.

• Chu Xinghe fused formations against White Tiger’s instructions and produced Rosy Light and Auspicious Radiance, astonishing White Tiger and Ling Mou.
• Chu Xinghe changed two steps in another fusion, which created a Nine-Colored Auspicious Cloud and left him frustrated that his attempted failure had succeeded again.
• White Tiger urged Chu Xinghe to keep practicing, and Xinghe scrambled every step in hopes of making the next fusion fail.
• The next fusion produced Lingering Immortal Music, the legendary highest level of Divine Formation, while White Tiger entered a state of sudden enlightenment.
• White Tiger applied what he had comprehended, fused formations to create Rosy Light and Auspicious Radiance, and discovered that his remnant soul had been partially restored.

White Tiger’s formation breakthrough restored part of his remnant soul, convincing him that Chu Xinghe could help the Four Sacred Beasts defy their fate. As the Vast Heaven Sect activated the first layer of its new mountain-protecting formation, the Ancient Beast God Spirit Temple’s second beam revealed that offerings would require ten times the resources, delighting Chu Xinghe.

• White Tiger restored part of his remnant soul through enlightenment and decided to remain by Chu Xinghe to pursue a complete restoration.
• White Tiger and Chu Xinghe continued building the Vast Heaven Sect’s mountain-protecting formation, while Ma Liang sold vast numbers of tickets to Rogue Cultivators for the Ancient Spirit Temple.
• Tantai Jing tested the unfinished formation with a ghost, which it destroyed before the formation had even been activated.
• When the Ancient Spirit Temple’s first beam of divine light appeared, White Tiger activated the formation’s first layer and returned to the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation to rest.
• The Ancient Beast God Spirit Temple’s second beam appeared, revealing that the required offerings were ten times the usual amount, and Chu Xinghe celebrated the news.

The second beam from the Beast God Spirit Temple confirmed that entry required ten times the usual resources, forcing the Vast Heaven Sect to cover the difference for ticket holders. As Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to pay out the resources, the Four Saints appeared and headed toward the temple.

• The second beam of divine light revealed the tenfold entry cost, and the Vast Heaven Sect faced a huge payout under its promise to cover the difference.
• Small factions praised the Vast Heaven Sect for helping them enter, while the Grand Elder saw its reputation rise and the civil engineering disciples celebrated the prospect of annual leave.
• Clan Head Ning and Qiu Tian realized their factions had profited enormously after investing in tickets and celebrated their apparent victories over Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe decided to spend the resources on his push toward the Martial God realm and ordered Ma Liang to prepare the full payout immediately.
• Ma Liang began assembling the resources, but four beams of divine light emerged from Spirit Beast Island and the Four Saints flew toward the Beast God Spirit Temple.

The Four Sacred Beasts bestowed a Four Saints Mark on everyone in the world, granting them access to the Beast God Spirit Temple and presenting the act as a gift from the Vast Heaven Sect. White Tiger’s intervention thwarted Chu Xinghe’s plan to become a Martial God and deprived the Beast God of divine power, while Chu Xinghe insisted he had still lost by earning nothing.

• The Four Sacred Beasts formed the Four Saints Seal Formation above the Beast God Spirit Temple and marked everyone across the three continents.
• White Tiger told the Vast Heaven Sect that the marks were a gift honoring Chu Xinghe’s generosity and gave the world access to the Beast God Spirit Temple.
• Chu Xinghe realized White Tiger’s actions had stopped him from becoming a Martial God, while the Beast God lamented losing the divine power he could have used to restore himself.
• White Tiger and the other Sacred Beasts had acted to help Chu Xinghe and the Beast God, believing they were fulfilling the Beast God’s request to support Xinghe.
• Ma Liang praised Chu Xinghe for supposedly arranging the plan with White Tiger, while Chu Xinghe maintained that he had lost because he would make no profit.

Chu Xinghe returned all ticket-sale resources after the Four Saints Mark meant the Vast Heaven Sect no longer needed to subsidize anyone, believing he had drawn with the Misfortune Compass. When enormous amounts remained unclaimed despite repeated notices and threats, he sent the sect’s scouts to find the owners and vowed to deliver the refunds himself, with interest.

• Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to refund everyone’s resources in full, leaving the civil engineering disciples devastated because they had expected to take leave.
• After the Four Saints Mark spread across the three continents, Chu Xinghe rejected offers to leave some resources as thanks and insisted that every faction and Rogue Person receive a full refund.
• The Vast Heaven Sect refunded claimants for three days, but huge piles of resources remained unclaimed, so Chu Xinghe issued repeated announcements and set a deadline.
• Chu Xinghe questioned factions and Rogue Persons, but they all said they had already collected their refunds and the remaining resources were not theirs.
• Chu Xinghe sent out the Vast Heaven Sect’s scouts to identify the unknown owners and promised to bring them their refunds, including interest.

Chu Xinghe tried to refund resources from anyone who had bought extra tickets, but Tantai Jing recognized the offer as a trap and warned the Demonic Sect factions not to claim them. The Vast Heaven Sect’s search uncovered no buyers, while accusations over the unexplained resources sparked a violent clash between the Ning Clan and the Demonic Sect.

• Chu Xinghe sent Vast Heaven Sect scouts to find factions that had bought extra tickets and invited Tantai Jing to claim refunds, but Tantai Jing insisted the Demonic Sect had bought none and accused Chu Xinghe of fishing for people to punish.
• Tantai Jing warned Demonic Sect factions to accept their losses rather than reveal any private ticket purchases, and Chu Xinghe’s scouts found no one willing to claim the remaining resources.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to search the Spirit Beast Continent, where Clan Head Hua, the Ming Clan Head, Clan Head Cui, and Clan Head Ning all denied buying tickets; Clan Head Cui privately felt relieved that he had called off his plan.
• Qiu Tian denied that the remaining resources belonged to the Demonic Sect and accused the Ning Clan, prompting Clan Head Ning to accuse Qiu Tian of being mad.
• Clan Head Ning and Qiu Tian’s accusations escalated into a large clash that left both badly wounded, while outsiders speculated about romantic entanglements involving Clan Head Cui.
• Chu Xinghe ignored the rumors about the Ning Clan and the Demonic Sect and remained focused on discovering who had bought the tickets.

The Ning Clan and Demonic Sect lost the resources they had spent trying to cheat the Vast Heaven Sect, then denied responsibility when Chu Xinghe investigated. The Ning Clan avoided being exposed but Clan Head Ning decided to use a secret weapon against Chu Xinghe.

• Clan Head Ning's disguised disciples were exposed by the Vast Heaven Sect's mountain-guarding formation, so the Ning Clan abandoned its attempt to claim refunds and agreed to deny involvement.
• Qiu Tian learned that the Demonic Sect's disguises had also been dispelled, attacked the Ning Clan in fury, and then realized the sect could not safely seek its resources back.
• The Vast Heaven Sect's agents traced the ticket scheme to the Spirit Beast Continent but could not identify its perpetrators, while the Ning Clan and Demonic Sect denied the accusations.
• Chu Xinghe visited both factions and offered to return their resources if they confessed, but Clan Head Ning and Qiu Tian accused him of framing them.
• Clan Head Ning concluded that the Ning Clan had survived Chu Xinghe's scheme and ordered Ning Buqu to bring out a secret item to use against him.

Chu Xinghe’s ticket scheme brought the Vast Heaven Sect a huge profit, though Chu Xinghe himself was frustrated that he could not refund unidentified buyers. When the Ancient Divine Domain and the first Beast God’s treasure vault were revealed, he ordered the Vast Heaven Sect to go in knowing nothing so he could avoid gaining any advantage.

• The civil engineering disciples mourned their canceled break after Ma Liang’s calculations showed Chu Xinghe’s scheme had turned their apparent losses into a massive profit.
• The Grand Elder and Hua Xichen recognized that Chu Xinghe had outmaneuvered the buyers, while Chu Xinghe lamented that some refused refunds and could not be found.
• The Ancient Beast God’s third divine light revealed an ancient scroll announcing the Ancient Divine Domain, its lost secret arts, and the first Beast God’s treasure vault.
• Factions across the three continents began gathering information about the Ancient Divine Domain, expecting the Spirit Beast Continent to have an advantage.
• Chu Xinghe halted the Vast Heaven Sect’s research and ordered its disciples to enter the Ancient Divine Domain knowing nothing, refusing to seek treasures or listen to the Beast God.

As the Ancient Divine Domain appeared, Chu Xinghe directed the Vast Heaven Sect to ignore the Beast God’s treasury and focus on collecting ancient secret arts, convincing the elders and disciples that the arts mattered more. The Beast God secretly planned to seal Chu Xinghe’s and the sect’s spiritual resonance so they could not enter the domain at all.

• The Ancient Divine Domain’s appearance sent the three continents searching for information, but Chu Xinghe forbade the Vast Heaven Sect from gathering records about it.
• Chu Xinghe told the elders that unreliable information could be dangerous and argued that ancient secret arts mattered more than the treasures in the Beast God’s treasury.
• The Great Elder agreed and informed the sect to abandon the search for treasures and resources in favor of secret arts, earning Chu Xinghe’s disciples’ admiration.
• Chu Xinghe secretly hoped the Beast God would not intervene and resolved to give away anything he obtained, while the Beast God pretended not to hear his calls.
• The Beast God decided to seal the spiritual resonance of Chu Xinghe and every Vast Heaven Sect disciple, intending to prevent them from entering the Ancient Divine Domain.

The Beast God Spirit Temple’s divine light enveloped the Spirit Beast Continent, allowing people to comprehend Beast Taming Arts while the Beast God secretly sealed the Vast Heaven Sect’s spiritual marks. When the Ancient Divine Domain appeared, the Beast God believed his seal had barred Chu Xinghe and the entire sect from entering.

• The Ancient Beast God Spirit Temple’s divine light spread across the Spirit Beast Continent, letting anyone with a spirit beast mark attempt to comprehend Beast Taming Arts.
• As Chu Xinghe sat bewildered at his inability to comprehend anything, the Beast God used the divine light to cast a Spirit-Sealing Seal on every member of the Vast Heaven Sect, secretly stripping them of eligibility to enter the Ancient Divine Domain.
• Over two days, people across the continent comprehended secret arts; Cui Wuming and others produced golden light, while no one in the Ning Clan comprehended an ancient art.
• A huge vortex gathered the temple’s divine light and revealed the Ancient Divine Domain, beginning the struggle over entry.
• The Beast God returned to Chu Xinghe’s Beast God Talisman, confident that his seal had excluded the entire Vast Heaven Sect from the Ancient Divine Domain.

Clan Head Ning used the Ning Clan’s Beast-Subduing Bell to try to kill Chu Xinghe’s spirit beast and keep him from entering the Ancient Divine Domain, but the bell struck the Beast God instead. The Beast God’s brief paralysis disrupted the Spirit-Sealing Seal, allowing Chu Xinghe and the Beast God to be chosen by the gate and sent into the Ancient Divine Domain.

• Clan Head Ning activated the Beast-Subduing Bell and sent it toward Chu Xinghe while he watched the Gate of the Ancient Divine Domain.
• The Beast-Subduing Bell struck Chu Xinghe and then locked onto the Beast God, knocking him down and immobilizing him for several seconds.
• The Gate of the Ancient Divine Domain opened while the Beast God was paralyzed, and the Spirit-Sealing Seal briefly disappeared.
• The gate’s spiritual light chose Chu Xinghe and carried him into the Ancient Divine Domain.
• Clan Head Ning watched Chu Xinghe enter without realizing the Beast-Subduing Bell had failed to kill his spirit beast, and the Beast God was dragged into the domain as well.

The Ancient Divine Domain opened after the Beast God’s Spirit-Sealing Seal was broken, drawing the younger generation into an ancient era where the Spirit Race and Beast Race fought for supremacy. The Beast God gained control over the domain and believed his position as its master guaranteed victory.

• Clan Head Ning’s Beast-Subduing Bell briefly immobilized the weakened Beast God, shattering his Spirit-Sealing Seal and allowing Chu Xinghe and the others to enter the Ancient Divine Domain.
• The entrants discovered that the domain had selected only the younger generation because its Spirit Locking Formation could restrain cultivation only up to the Half-Step Martial God realm.
• The Ancient Divine Domain transported the chosen people to the era of spirit beasts contending for supremacy, where the Spirit Race and Beast Race fought before the Equal Contract emerged.
• The Beast God felt immense power flood into him and realized he could control the Ancient Divine Domain as its master.