Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe ordered a seventy-percent sale across the Vast Heaven Sect’s businesses to ensure the sect truly lost money while earning a reputation for generosity. The sale drew crowds across the Three Continents, but spirit beasts and pills still turned profits, leaving the extent of the sect’s losses uncertain.

• Chu Xinghe rejected the stewards’ concerns about a fifty-percent discount and raised the sale to seventy percent off.
• Qin Xiangqian backed Chu Xinghe, and the stewards reluctantly agreed to carry out the order.
• The seventy-percent sale spread across the Three Continents, and customers found genuine discounts on every item with no purchase limits.
• The Vast Heaven Sect’s businesses suffered losses on spirit weapons and mined resources, while Wei Buhui’s spirit beasts still made a small profit.
• Mu Xiaoqi’s instruction and encouragement pushed the Muyue Kingdom disciples to improve their pill refining, allowing the sect to profit nearly one hundred percent on discounted pills.

The Vast Heaven Sect’s seventy-percent discount campaign unexpectedly made a fortune, as customers bought up pills and Spirit Pattern Cloth. Chu Xinghe remained convinced the campaign had failed to lose money and pinned his hopes on offering free access to the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele to turn the losses around.

• Mu Xiaoqi’s self-directed teaching had helped Muyue Kingdom disciples improve pill-making until the Vast Heaven Sect could sell high-grade pills at a huge profit, even at thirty percent of their regular price.
• Rogue Cultivators and other customers rushed to buy discounted Spirit Pattern Cloth, clearing Vast Heaven Weaving’s stock and generating enough revenue to cover the campaign’s losses and exceed its annual sales target.
• Qin Xiangqian and the managers praised Chu Xinghe’s business sense, and Ma Liang delivered the financial reports to the grand elder, who celebrated the sect’s profits and reputation.
• Ma Liang interpreted Chu Xinghe’s calm response to the reports as proof that he had planned the outcome, while Chu Xinghe privately cursed that the discount had failed to lose money.
• Chu Xinghe decided against selling high-grade Spirit Pattern Cloth and instead planned to make the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele completely free, hoping the project would finally cost him a fortune.

Chu Xinghe opened the Extreme Realm Dao Field and made comprehension of the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele permanently free, forcing the Vast Heaven Sect to replenish all resources it consumed. As crowds began using the stele, the Misfortune Compass finally turned forward, convincing Chu Xinghe that his plan was working.

• Chu Xinghe opened the Extreme Realm Dao Field to everyone who wanted to comprehend the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele.
• Ma Liang asked whether the Vast Heaven Sect would sell tickets or charge successful cultivators, and Chu Xinghe forbade all fees and paid services.
• Ma Liang announced that entry and comprehension were entirely free, and the Vast Heaven Sect would accept no payment or gifts.
• People across the Three Continents suspected Chu Xinghe was sabotaging the Vast Heaven Sect, but waited to see whether his plan would prove profitable.
• Crowds entered the Dao field and used the stele, while the Vast Heaven Sect replenished the resources it consumed.
• Chu Xinghe saw the Misfortune Compass turn forward and concluded that the plan had no flaw.

Chu Xinghe opened the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele to everyone, and its first day of use brought breakthroughs and insights to countless visitors. Convinced the project would lose money, he entrusted it to Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department, who immediately increased its resource consumption.

• Chu Xinghe opened the Extreme Realm Dao Field without conditions, and crowds from across the Three Continents entered to comprehend the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele.
• Zheng Yu broke through from Eighth Rank to Ninth Rank and deepened his understanding of his Seven-Colored Glazed Body during the first day.
• Chu Xinghe saw the long queue for another visit and rejoiced that more people meant more resources would be consumed.
• Chu Xinghe rejected Ma Liang and Mu Xiaoqi as managers, then decided the Civil Engineering Department was the safest choice.
• Huang Ritian accepted management of the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele and ordered the Civil Engineering Department disciples to use Nine-Colored Spirit Stones instead of ordinary ones.

Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department transformed the Extreme Realm Dao Field with extravagant upgrades and gifts, baffling visitors and prompting rumors that the sect was setting a trap. Their generosity gave many Rogue Cultivators a chance to comprehend the Dao and earned the Vast Heaven Sect their gratitude, while the Grand Elder praised Huang Ritian’s approach as reminiscent of Chu Xinghe’s style.

• Huang Ritian ordered ninth-rank spirit stones used at the Extreme Realm Dao Field, and the Civil Engineering Department disciples proposed further ways to use up resources.
• The disciples temporarily barred the third group of Dao seekers and, within six hours, paved the field with two layers of nine-colored spirit stone; Huang Ritian defeated the man who had demanded a duel.
• The disciples warned visitors not to steal more than fifty stones, leading outsiders to suspect the warnings concealed a trap, while the Dao seekers proved too frightened to steal anything.
• The Civil Engineering Department began giving valuable gifts to people who comprehended the Dao, and Rogue Cultivators pledged to repay the Vast Heaven Sect for its help.
• The Grand Elder praised Huang Ritian, saying his resource-consuming schemes were reminiscent of Chu Xinghe’s style.

The Civil Engineering Department’s Extreme Realm Heaven Stele unexpectedly brought the Vast Heaven Sect a flood of free intelligence from grateful Rogue Cultivators. Huang Ritian then pushed a plan to pour in resources and accelerate Dao comprehension, and Chu Xinghe joined him despite Feng Fei’s warning that they could be punished if the stele exploded.

• Rogue Cultivators repaid the Vast Heaven Sect’s kindness by freely reporting news, helping the sect discover secret realms and treasures and strengthening its intelligence network.
• Huang Ritian proposed pouring nine-colored spirit stones into the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele and bringing Bai Jingyan back to speed up Dao comprehension and resource consumption.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to invite Bai Jingyan and found the Civil Engineering Department disciples continuing to feed resources into the stele, including stones taken from the Vast Heaven Divine Domain mines.
• Feng Fei warned Chu Xinghe and Huang Ritian that overloading the stele could make it explode and get them confined or punished, but both welcomed the prospect of punishment.
• Huang Ritian called the Civil Engineering Department disciples to work through the night, and Chu Xinghe joined them, leaving Feng Fei stunned by their defiance.

Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department disciples fought over who would take responsibility for filling the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele with nine-colored spirit stones. The stele exploded but remained intact, and its connection to the Heavenly Dao began repairing its incomplete Great Dao as the Vast Heaven Sect leaders arrived.

• Huang Ritian urged the Civil Engineering Department disciples to work harder and pushed the miner disciples to increase their supply of nine-colored spirit stones.
• As the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele filled and began glowing, Huang Ritian told Chu Xinghe that the Civil Engineering Department would accept the punishment, but Chu Xinghe insisted that he should take primary responsibility.
• Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department disciples argued fiercely over who would be punished, bewildering the Dao comprehenders who overheard them.
• The Extreme Realm Heaven Stele erupted in a tremendous explosion, prompting Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department disciples to celebrate.
• Chu Xinghe found the stele intact beneath a pillar of spiritual light, and its connection to the Heavenly Dao began restoring its incomplete Great Dao.
• The sect master, grand elder, and palace chiefs arrived, and Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department disciples each blamed the other for the stele's transformation.

Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department restored the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, earning the sect’s praise and rewards instead of making it explode. Though the disciples feared their extra cultivation duties had ruined their hopes for time off, Chu Xinghe confirmed the stele was still consuming resources, so he believed his plan remained on track.

• The Civil Engineering Department disciples rapidly fed resources into the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, and the First Elder sent Feng Fei to warn them to stop.
• The stele erupted with divine light, regained its spiritual essence, and renewed its connection to the Heavenly Dao, prompting the First Elder to praise the result.
• Chu Xinghe and Huang Ritian each insisted the other deserved the credit, and the First Elder rewarded the Civil Engineering Department with access to the Technique Repository Tower and Chu Xinghe with ten thousand spirit stones.
• Chu Xinghe privately blamed Huang Ritian for restoring the stele, while Huang Ritian lamented that the disciples’ new cultivation duties would take away their remaining rest time.
• Huang Ritian reasoned that the improved stele might attract more Dao comprehenders and consume more resources, preserving their chance to earn time off.
• Chu Xinghe checked the Misfortune Compass and saw it still turning, so he concluded the stele continued consuming resources and believed he still had a huge advantage.

The Extreme Realm Heaven Stele grew more effective as Bai Jingyan’s Heaven-Cleansing Divine Sound helped Dao seekers achieve enlightenment and feed their insights back into the stele. As a vortex of Great Dao lights formed around it, the Vast Heaven Sect’s Ascension to Sainthood Ceremony approached, and Cheng Xiaotian arrived to offer congratulations.

• Chu Xinghe had the Civil Engineering Department carefully replenish the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s spiritual power, while Ma Liang returned with Bai Jingyan.
• Chu Xinghe arranged for Bai Jingyan to play the Heaven-Cleansing Divine Sound at the Extreme Realm Dao Field, doubling the rate of Dao seekers’ sudden enlightenment.
• Elder He and the Great Sage explained that the Dao seekers’ insights strengthened the stele but could not let it generate spiritual power on its own.
• As Dao seekers continued to enlighten, their lights of the Great Dao formed a growing vortex around the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, whose purpose Elder He and the Great Sage could not identify.
• Cheng Xiaotian arrived at the Vast Heaven Sect with Martial Emperor City’s elders and congratulated the sect on becoming a Holy Land.

Cheng Xiaotian brought the Vast Heaven Sect a plaque of Purple Cloud Immortal Wood to celebrate its rise as a holy land, and Gu Mingchao asked Chu Xinghe to write its inscription. Chu Xinghe declined in favor of Gu Mingchao, urging the sect to share its achievements and build its future together.

• Cheng Xiaotian arrived at the Vast Heaven Sect to congratulate it and presented Gu Mingchao with a blank plaque made from Purple Cloud Immortal Wood.
• Cheng Xiaotian explained that Old Master Wuyang had refused to write the inscription, believing only someone from the Vast Heaven Sect was qualified.
• Gu Mingchao asked Chu Xinghe to write the words “Vast Heaven Holy Land” on the plaque, and the sect’s leaders welcomed his choice.
• Chu Xinghe thanked the sect for its trust but said the sect’s rise belonged to all its members and predecessors, not to him alone.
• Chu Xinghe asked Gu Mingchao to write the inscription and urged the disciples to work together for the holy land’s future.
• Cheng Xiaotian admired Chu Xinghe’s humility, while Gu Mingchao privately felt the Vast Heaven Sect was fortunate to have him.

Gu Mingchao renamed the Vast Heaven Sect as the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and factions from across the Three Continents arrived with lavish gifts. As Chu Xinghe struggled to understand the gifts and the rumors about his supposed return presents, news of a mysterious training illusion at the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele drew him and visiting prodigies to investigate.

• Gu Mingchao wrote “Vast Heaven Holy Land” on the new plaque, while Cheng Xiaotian removed the old “Number One Sect Under Heaven” plaque for Zheng Yu to take to Martial Emperor City.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land welcomed a pilgrimage of factions, whose rankings had risen after the Vast Heaven Sect’s advancement.
• Feng Fei showed Chu Xinghe the valuable congratulatory gifts, and Chu Xinghe realized the factions had mistaken rumors about his little gifts for a promise of ten divine weapons in return.
• Clan Head Ning brought three divine weapons expecting to receive ten, but neither he nor any other faction received a gift from Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe raised the factions’ reception standards, but the costs could not match the value of their offerings.
• Huang Ritian reported that the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s new illusory world could create copies of visitors, letting cultivators improve by fighting their phantoms, and the visiting prodigies rushed to try it.

Chu Xinghe and Huang Ritian recognized that the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusory realm could train disciples and consume vast amounts of spirit stones, prompting them to consider making entry free. At the urging of Ma Liang, Zheng Yu, and the gathered Dao seekers, Chu Xinghe entered the realm to face the phantom of himself.

• Huang Ritian showed Chu Xinghe the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusory realm, where a Heavenly Dao-enhanced phantom copied each entrant’s abilities and exposed ways to improve.
• A Civil Engineering Department disciple repeatedly fought his phantom, learned from its techniques, and defeated it on his seventh attempt.
• Ma Liang praised the realm’s potential to improve the Vast Heaven Sect’s combat strength but noted the cost of entry.
• Chu Xinghe and Huang Ritian realized the realm’s spirit-stone fees could become a major expense and considered covering the costs to make it free for everyone.
• Ma Liang, Zheng Yu, and the gathered Dao seekers urged Chu Xinghe to test his strength against his phantom, and Chu Xinghe entered the illusory realm.

Chu Xinghe challenged his Heavenly Dao phantom in the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusion realm and destroyed it with Purple Lightning Flash. He realized the phantom could imitate the Haotian Sword Casket’s appearance but not its true power, which protected him from the mirrored attack.

• A crowd gathered to watch Chu Xinghe challenge his phantom, while Zheng Yu doubted he could win on his first attempt.
• Chu Xinghe entered the illusion realm, and the Heavenly Dao created a phantom that matched his appearance and summoned eight divine swords of its own.
• Chu Xinghe and his phantom both unleashed Purple Lightning Flash, but the phantom was torn apart while Chu Xinghe remained unharmed.
• Chu Xinghe realized his phantom’s Haotian Sword Casket was only an imitation, and the real casket used the Suspended Shears to block the phantom’s strike.

Chu Xinghe defeated the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s phantom by striking first, then offered to pay for everyone to enter its illusion realm. The world praised his generosity, while Tantai Jing concluded that the cost would ruin the Vast Heaven Sect.

• Chu Xinghe used Purple Lightning Flash before his phantom, and Suspended Shears blocked the phantom’s delayed attack after it died.
• Chu Xinghe emerged from the illusion realm and invited challengers from all sides to enter, with the Vast Heaven Sect covering the resources.
• Ma Liang calculated that paying for everyone could cost the equivalent of an entire Spirit Crane Palace each year, while Rogue Cultivators celebrated the offer.
• Factions questioned whether the Vast Heaven Sect could afford the expense, and Tantai Jing declared that Chu Xinghe’s generosity marked the beginning of its decline.

Chu Xinghe made the Vast Heaven Sect cover the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusory realm and sent Ma Liang to oversee it, insisting that the stele would eventually make a killing. After Ma Liang learned that the stele could summon recorded phantoms for challenges, he realized what Chu Xinghe had been waiting for.

• Chu Xinghe announced that the Vast Heaven Sect would pay for the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusory realm, and Elder Yu reminded the Great Elder that Xinghe had a backup plan.
• Chu Xinghe arranged lavish hospitality for the visiting guests and sent Ma Liang to the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele instead of letting him help receive them.
• Ma Liang saw resources being consumed at the stele and, unable to find a way to earn money, asked Chu Xinghe for guidance; Chu Xinghe told him to wait for the stele.
• Rumors spread that Chu Xinghe’s one-blow victory over his phantom proved he depended on the Haotian Sword Casket, and Ma Liang angrily defended him.
• Huang Ritian told Ma Liang that he had summoned Chu Xinghe’s phantom five times and lost each challenge, revealing that the stele could call up recorded phantoms.
• Ma Liang realized that Chu Xinghe was waiting for the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s phantom challenges to generate a profit.

Ma Liang mistook Huang Ritian’s objections to monetizing the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele for a clever plan to wager resources on a challenge against Chu Xinghe’s equal-strength phantom. Ma Liang presented the proposal to the Grand Elder while crediting Huang Ritian and Chu Xinghe, leaving Huang Ritian horrified and Chu Xinghe still avoiding Ma Liang.

• Huang Ritian explained that the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele could summon a Chu Xinghe phantom matching each challenger’s cultivation, and Ma Liang realized it could draw challengers and resources.
• Ma Liang proposed charging people to challenge Chu Xinghe’s phantom, but Huang Ritian warned that the sect must not force spending or sell tickets.
• Ma Liang turned Huang Ritian’s objections into a wagering plan: challengers would stake resources for a chance to win one million Nine-Colored Spirit Stones by defeating the phantom.
• Ma Liang insisted Huang Ritian had devised the plan and apologized for suspecting his earlier spending was wasteful, while Huang Ritian denied having any plan.
• Ma Liang failed to find Chu Xinghe, who had instructed others to avoid letting Ma Liang see him, and took the written proposal to the Grand Elder instead.
• Ma Liang told the Grand Elder that Chu Xinghe and Huang Ritian deserved the credit, while Huang Ritian was left bewildered.

The Vast Heaven Sect announced a challenge against Chu Xinghe’s phantom, offering five million blood spirit stones, and challengers flocked to the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele. Chu Xinghe discovered that Huang Ritian had helped arrange the challenge, and the first challenger, Li He, was swiftly defeated by the phantom’s Purple Lightning Flash.

• The grand elder raised the challenge reward to five million blood spirit stones, and the Vast Heaven Sect announced the contest across the Three Continents.
• People argued over the challenge’s fairness, while countless young cultivators rushed to test themselves against Chu Xinghe’s phantom.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Huang Ritian had helped Ma Liang arrange the challenge and confronted Huang Ritian, who regretted his actions as the Civil Engineering Department disciples turned against him.
• Li He of Giant Sword Valley entered the illusion realm to challenge a Chu Xinghe phantom matched to his cultivation.
• Chu Xinghe’s phantom used Purple Lightning Flash to knock Li He out in less than a minute, leaving the onlookers stunned.

Li He was defeated by Chu Xinghe’s phantom in one strike, but the pressure of the fight gave him a breakthrough in his state of mind and inspired Rogue Cultivators to challenge the phantom. Tantai Jing promoted Demon Demon Credit to help them pay, while Chu Xinghe realized Ma Liang had collected an enormous sum in reservation deposits and feared the scheme had backfired on him and the Civil Engineering Department.

• Li He entered the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusion and was knocked out by Chu Xinghe’s phantom’s Purple Lightning Flash in a single strike.
• Li He sat down cross-legged and broke through in his state of mind, overcoming the psychological disadvantage he had felt against prodigies.
• The Rogue Cultivators, eager for a chance at the same breakthrough, changed their plans and sought resources to challenge Chu Xinghe’s phantom.
• Tantai Jing and members of the Demonic Sect handed out Demon Demon Credit brochures to help Rogue Cultivators borrow the needed resources.
• Ma Liang collected a huge amount of reservation deposits, and Chu Xinghe blamed Junior Brother Huang for putting him and the Civil Engineering Department in trouble.

Li He’s breakthrough convinced cultivators that challenging Chu Xinghe’s phantom could improve their states of mind, drawing crowds and filling the Vast Heaven Sect’s treasury. Chu Xinghe launched the “Eat, Sleep, Beat Xinghe” challenge for a five-million-Blood-Spirit-Stone wager, but his phantom’s successive sword attacks overwhelmed challengers, who began meeting to discuss his weaknesses.

• After Li He’s breakthrough, several more cultivators improved their states of mind by challenging Chu Xinghe’s phantom, and Ma Liang collected a flood of deposits.
• Ma Liang arranged for resources to refill the treasury, while Chu Xinghe realized the Misfortune Compass had stopped providing cultivation.
• Chu Xinghe decided to wager five million Blood Spirit Stones on anyone who defeated his phantom and launched the “Eat, Sleep, Beat Xinghe” event for visiting prodigies.
• Ma Liang reported that more than eighty percent of the challengers who had called Chu Xinghe’s phantom weak were instantly killed by Purple Lightning Flash.
• Challengers who resisted Purple Lightning Flash with defensive treasures were killed by Fingers-Wrapping Softness, then faced Thread of Sky as they tried other counters.
• The defeated young prodigies refused to give up and began a conference to discuss Chu Xinghe’s weaknesses.

Chu Xinghe’s attempt to help challengers by publishing accurate information about his Haotian Sword Casket was mistaken for a mass taunt, reigniting the prodigies’ determination to defeat his phantom. As challenges swept across the Three Continents and drew the attention of powerful figures, Chu Xinghe was left insisting he had meant well.

• Young prodigies searching for weaknesses in Chu Xinghe’s Haotian Sword Casket received a detailed booklet written by someone using the name Dreaming of Defeating Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe admitted he had written the booklet to help the challengers, but Zheng Yu and other prodigies took the disclosure as an arrogant taunt.
• Zheng Yu recalled repeatedly losing to Chu Xinghe’s phantom despite using Star Shift, lightning resistance, and other tactics, and vowed that Chu Xinghe could not be invincible.
• The angry prodigies renewed their challenges, and Ma Liang told Chu Xinghe that the uproar was bringing the sect a fortune as challengers kept paying to fight.
• The campaign spread across the Three Continents, prompting influential figures to secretly offer their disciples strategies against Chu Xinghe’s phantom.