Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Holy Land released the Ninth Set of Body Refining Secret Techniques to everyone under heaven, and body cultivators discovered that its simple movements strengthened the whole body without causing harm. Peng Zhan used it to recover from old injuries and break through from the Third Rank to the Fourth Rank.

• Elder He realized that Xinghe's Ninth Set of Body Refining Secret Techniques had been refined through repeated improvements.
• The seven thousand disciples began practicing the technique while recovering, and news of it spread throughout the world.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land announced that Chu Xinghe would teach the technique to everyone for free and released it publicly.
• Body cultivators initially doubted the technique's simplicity, then found that its eight sections strengthened muscles and bones without damaging the body.
• Peng Zhan practiced the technique and felt his misaligned bones, damaged meridians, and stiff muscles recover.
• Peng Zhan struck a strength-testing pillar and discovered that he had advanced from the Third Rank to the Fourth Rank.

Peng Zhan, a Body Cultivator whose progress had stalled for ten years, broke through to the Fourth Rank after practicing Chu Xinghe’s Ninth Set of Body Refining Secret Techniques. As Body Cultivators around the world experienced breakthroughs and healing, they recognized that Chu Xinghe was changing their fate.

• Peng Zhan’s spiritless physique had led him to pursue Body Cultivation, and he had reached the Third Rank before his progress stalled and his health deteriorated.
• After practicing the Ninth Set of Body Refining Secret Techniques for one day, Peng Zhan struck a strength-testing pillar and confirmed that he had broken through to the Fourth Rank.
• Peng Zhan sensed that the techniques were healing his injuries and wondered whether continued cultivation could take him as far as the Fifth Rank.
• Peng Zhan reconsidered his doubts about Chu Xinghe after seeing the technique’s effects and learning that it had been publicly revealed.
• Body Cultivators across the world practiced the Ninth Set of Body Refining Secret Techniques, and many healed their injuries and broke through to new realms.

The Ninth Set of Body Refining Secret Arts spread across the world, helping body cultivators break through without injury and improving the strength of ordinary warriors and even ordinary people. After discovering that the art was already perfectly suited to everyone, Cui Wuming concluded that Chu Xinghe was the true number one in comprehension under heaven.

• Body cultivators around the world practiced the Ninth Set of Body Refining Secret Arts and found that it could advance their cultivation while repairing bodily injuries.
• Peng Zhan defeated or held his own against more than a dozen fourth-rank Martial Ancestors, losing only once as his strength continued to rise.
• Ordinary martial warriors and people practiced the simple art and experienced noticeable improvements in their physical condition.
• Major powers, sects, and clans made the Ninth Set mandatory for their disciples.
• Cui Wuming found that practicing the art was healing some of his innate bodily defects.
• Cui Wuming reasoned that Chu Xinghe had refined the art into an optimal technique for everyone and declared him the true number one in comprehension under heaven.

Chu Xinghe’s Ninth Set of Body Refining Secret Arts let seven thousand disciples enter Body Cultivation safely and quickly, earning him widespread admiration but causing the Misfortune Compass to erase his gains. Determined to avoid further breakthroughs that might reverse his fortune, Chu Xinghe ordered the disciples’ resources replaced with Blood Spirit Stones and resolved to spend them without inventing anything new.

• The Great Sage and the Dark Moon Clan failed to improve Chu Xinghe’s Ninth Set of Body Refining Secret Arts, while the seven thousand Body Cultivation disciples used it to enter the path without pain or injury.
• The seven thousand disciples apologized to Chu Xinghe and vowed to follow his decisions, as Ma Liang and the sect’s elders praised his foresight.
• The grand elder warned Qiu Tian to behave, prompting Qiu Tian to insist he was a good guy and accuse Tantai Jing of framing him; Tantai Jing denied wrongdoing and demanded repayment from the Ning Clan.
• Chu Xinghe saw the disciples’ breakthroughs trigger the Misfortune Compass to deduct all his accumulated gains, but concluded they could not advance far without a cultivation method for the next stage.
• Chu Xinghe resolved to stop developing cultivation methods and ordered the disciples’ resources changed to Blood Spirit Stones so they could consume the sect’s resources without further surprises.

Chu Xinghe tried to waste sect resources by giving body cultivators Blood Spirit Stones, but the plan also left the Beast Taming Palace with only inefficient Nine-Colored Spirit Stones for its Nebula Spirit Cats. As the Misfortune Compass turned again, Chu Xinghe visited the Thunder and Spirit Crane Palaces and discovered that Wan Lin and Mu Bai had taken his advice in unexpected directions.

• Chu Xinghe tested Blood Spirit Stones on ten body cultivators, confirmed they had no effect on their cultivation, and ordered all seven thousand to use them.
• Douding'er told Chu Xinghe that the Beast Taming Palace had lost its Blood Spirit Stone supply and that Nine-Colored Spirit Stones were inefficient for Nebula Spirit Cats, so Chu Xinghe ordered the Fox Clan to send him every Blood Spirit Stone they mined.
• After the resource changes made the Misfortune Compass move, Chu Xinghe went to the Thunder Palace and learned from Wan Lin that the women practiced the Thunder War Dance in the War Dance Hall.
• At the Spirit Crane Palace, Mu Bai complained that new Muyue Kingdom disciples took several days to learn medicinal ingredients and said they should follow the principle of seeking no merit but avoiding mistakes.
• Chu Xinghe asked Mu Bai to prepare near-divine-grade pills for the body cultivators, but Mu Bai explained that he could now refine only transcend-grade pills and could no longer control their quality.

Chu Xinghe tried to curb the Body Cultivation disciples’ intense training after they mistook his care and advice for reasons to work even harder. When Mu Xiaoqi arrived with pills, Chu Xinghe saw the famously shameless slacker as the perfect teacher to show them how to rest.

• Chu Xinghe gave Mu Bai a list of needed pills and found Mu Xiaoqi idling in a remote corner.
• Mu Bai delivered the pills, and Chu Xinghe distributed them to the Body Cultivation disciples, who were moved by his care.
• The disciples added extra practice to their schedules and rapidly improved, worrying Chu Xinghe as the Misfortune Compass slowed.
• Chu Xinghe urged the disciples not to push themselves so hard, but they took his words as encouragement to persevere and train even more.
• Mu Bai brought Mu Xiaoqi to deliver pills, and Chu Xinghe decided to have the notorious slacker teach the Body Cultivation disciples how to slack off.

Mu Xiaoqi escaped Mu Bai’s close supervision when Chu Xinghe appointed him a special instructor to teach the Body Cultivation disciples how to relax. His classes turned into sprawling, bed-filled sessions that stopped the disciples from cultivating, and Chu Xinghe insisted they keep attending.

• Mu Bai sent Mu Xiaoqi to deliver pills to the Body Cultivation disciples, but Mu Xiaoqi planned to slack off instead of returning to the Spirit Crane Palace.
• Chu Xinghe asked Mu Xiaoqi to teach the disciples how to relax rather than teach Body Cultivation or copy secret arts.
• Chu Xinghe arranged for Mu Xiaoqi to stay with the disciples and promised Mu Bai would not disturb him, so Mu Xiaoqi eagerly accepted the instructor role.
• Mu Xiaoqi began giving rambling talks about leisure and eventually arranged beds for himself and the disciples, leaving them free to listen or sleep but unable to cultivate.
• The Body Cultivation disciples asked Chu Xinghe to cancel or shorten the classes, but he defended Mu Xiaoqi and ordered them to learn from him.

Chu Xinghe was pleased that Mu Xiaoqi’s lectures had cut into the Body Cultivation disciples’ training time, but he grew frustrated when his phantom proved unbeatable at the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele. The younger generation proposed that Hua Xichen, if he regained the Great Prophecy Art, might be able to defeat it, leaving Chu Xinghe eagerly hoping for his recovery.

• Chu Xinghe made the Body Cultivation disciples use their cultivation time to absorb even more resources, while Mu Xiaoqi’s lectures reduced their training and sped up the Misfortune Compass.
• Chu Xinghe visited the Extreme Realm Dao Field and found that challengers could not defeat his phantom, even when the Ning Clan used spirit beasts or Hua Xigong fought with Vermilion Bird Spirit Fire.
• Chu Xinghe lamented that nobody could beat his phantom and said he wanted to give away ten million Blood Spirit Stones, angering the watching younger generation.
• Someone suggested Hua Xichen could have defeated the phantom with the Great Prophecy Art, since the Heavenly Dao could not simulate Chu Xinghe’s fortune or Star Divination Art.
• Chu Xinghe agreed that Hua Xichen’s predictions might expose the phantom’s patterns, then anxiously wondered when Hua Xichen would recover the Great Prophecy Art.

Chu Xinghe’s Body Cultivation disciples grew frustrated with Mu Xiaoqi’s relaxation classes, until Qu Yifeng noticed that Mu Xiaoqi’s cultivation remained strong despite his constant slacking. The chapter left Mu Xiaoqi wondering whether this was the deeper purpose behind Chu Xinghe’s arrangement.

• Chu Xinghe enjoyed watching Ma Liang struggle to understand why he had assigned Mu Xiaoqi to teach relaxation classes, while Chu Xinghe used the arrangement to slack off himself.
• The Body Cultivation disciples complained that Mu Xiaoqi’s classes left them with less time to cultivate, and Mu Xiaoqi scolded several disciples for practicing during class.
• The disciples explained that they feared falling behind and disappointing Chu Xinghe, while Mu Xiaoqi insisted that Chu Xinghe must have a deeper intention.
• Qu Yifeng recalled his Spiritless Physique, his father Li Dongshan’s rejection, and his determination to succeed at the Vast Heaven Holy Land with Chu Xinghe’s help.
• Qu Yifeng pointed out that Mu Xiaoqi’s cultivation had not suffered despite his constant slacking, leaving Mu Xiaoqi wondering if that was Chu Xinghe’s hidden purpose.

Mu Xiaoqi realized his unusual cultivation progress might stem from the Visualization Method he learned as a child, and taught it to the Body Cultivators. It let them control and refine their own Power of Qi and Blood, while the resulting spectacle drew the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders to Body Cultivation Peak.

• Mu Xiaoqi wondered why he had advanced despite barely cultivating and suspected his Visualization Method was the reason.
• Qu Yifeng explained that Visualization Methods were generally considered ineffective, but Mu Xiaoqi said his method tempered his body while he slept.
• Mu Xiaoqi taught his Visualization Method to Qu Yifeng and the other Body Cultivators.
• Qu Yifeng discovered that visualization let him control and concentrate the Power of Qi and Blood in his body, strengthening his bones, flesh, meridians, and hair.
• All seven thousand Body Cultivators used the method, releasing a vast pillar of red light that alarmed the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders.
• Gu Mingchao recognized the phenomenon as pure Power of Qi and Blood and wondered aloud whether such power truly existed.

Mu Xiaoqi’s Great Freedom Visualization Art awakened the Qi and blood power of seven thousand Body Cultivation disciples, revealing a new way for them to cultivate internally. As the Vast Heaven Holy Land recognized the lost art and credited Mu Xiaoqi with opening this path, he explained that Chu Xinghe had arranged the lesson, leaving Chu Xinghe fearing the consequences.

• Gu Mingchao realized the disciples’ pure Qi and blood power surpassed the Beast God’s approach and could keep Heart Demons and other evil entities at bay.
• The seven thousand Body Cultivation disciples awakened their Qi and blood power through Mu Xiaoqi’s visualization art and learned that visualization could refine it.
• Elder He and the Great Sage recognized Mu Xiaoqi’s art as the complete Great Freedom Visualization Art, which cultivated its user continuously, even while resting.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land concluded that Body Cultivators could combine external body training with internal Qi and blood cultivation through visualization arts.
• Mu Xiaoqi told the Holy Lord and elders that Chu Xinghe had arranged for him to teach the disciples, while Chu Xinghe worried that the plan would bring him trouble.

Mu Xiaoqi and Qu Yifeng credited Chu Xinghe with guiding the discovery that the Great Freedom Visualization Art could cultivate Qi and blood, while Chu Xinghe worried that the art would disrupt the sect’s resource plans. He assigned Mu Xiaoqi to focus on pill refining, and the Civil Engineering Department feared the art would leave them with even more construction work.

• Mu Xiaoqi denied deserving credit, and Qu Yifeng said Chu Xinghe had guided the disciples to discover how the visualization art could cultivate Qi and blood.
• Ma Liang agreed that Chu Xinghe gave them enough guidance to learn independently, and the crowd praised Chu Xinghe for arranging Mu Xiaoqi’s lectures.
• Chu Xinghe worried that the Great Sage would improve the Great Freedom Visualization Art and teach it throughout the Vast Heaven Holy Land, reducing other palaces’ need to spend resources catching up on cultivation.
• Chu Xinghe told Mu Bai that Mu Xiaoqi no longer needed to be forced to cultivate, then ordered Mu Bai to devote all of Mu Xiaoqi’s time to pill refining.
• News of the art delighted disciples across the sect, but the Civil Engineering Department worried that automatic cultivation would leave them with even more time for construction.

The Great Freedom Visualization Art spread across the Vast Heaven Holy Land, but most disciples learned it only as an aid rather than a way to slack off like Mu Xiaoqi. Across the Three Continents, body cultivators used visualization arts to refine Qi and blood, and Peng Zhan broke through to Fifth Rank; the chapter ended with puzzlement over why some cultivators instead refined their minds, especially those Chu Xinghe had previously eliminated.

• The Great Sage explained that other disciples could not use the Great Freedom Visualization Art to slack off as effectively as Mu Xiaoqi, and the Grand Elder warned them to keep training.
• Rumors spread that Chu Xinghe had been behind Mu Xiaoqi's lecture and the discovery that visualization arts could cultivate Qi and blood.
• Peng Zhan credited the Ninth Set of Body Refining Secret Arts with healing and strengthening him, then used the Tiger Form Visualization Method to refine his Qi and blood.
• Peng Zhan tested his strength and reached Fifth Rank, or Martial Spirit, while body cultivators across the Three Continents began breaking through with visualization arts.
• Some body cultivators found that visualization arts refined their minds rather than their Qi and blood; observers noticed they tended to be spiritually talented cultivators or formerly outstanding body cultivators whom Chu Xinghe had eliminated.

After the Visualization Method revealed how it could awaken Qi and Blood, people credited Chu Xinghe with having carefully chosen and dismissed Body Cultivation recruits for their physiques and hidden spiritual-power seeds. Chu Xinghe discovered that his own transformed body could cultivate Qi and Blood fused with Phoenix Fire, while Peng Zhan arrived at the Vast Heaven Holy Land seeking another fight against his phantom.

• People realized that those with no spiritual-power talent could use the Visualization Method to temper Qi and Blood, while recruits with spiritual-power seeds had to remove them before beginning Body Cultivation.
• Zheng Yu found that two hundred of his five hundred recruits carried spiritual-power seeds, and he praised Chu Xinghe for having dismissed candidates whose shortcuts would hinder their cultivation.
• People defended Chu Xinghe’s ability to pursue Body Cultivation because his body had undergone Shedding the Mortal Frame and Exchanging the Bones, while Qiu Tian denied having challenged that claim.
• Chu Xinghe visualized the Qi and Blood and Phoenix Fire within his body, fused them, and found that the Misfortune Compass had capped his body’s potential despite the power-up.
• After breaking through to the Fifth Rank, Peng Zhan went to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to challenge Chu Xinghe’s phantom again.

Peng Zhan challenged Chu Xinghe’s phantom again after reaching Fifth Rank, hoping to prove the strength of Body Cultivators. The phantom revealed overwhelming Qi and Blood power and defeated Peng Zhan with one punch, leaving Chu Xinghe frustrated that he had lost another chance to give away ten million spirit stones.

• Peng Zhan announced he would challenge Chu Xinghe’s phantom again and refused to accept the ten million Blood Spirit Stones, seeking to inspire Body Cultivators.
• Peng Zhan entered the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele and unleashed his Tiger Aspect and Fifth Rank Power of Qi and Blood before a huge crowd.
• Chu Xinghe’s phantom surrounded itself with blood-red Qi and Blood flames, revealing that it could now use the power Chu Xinghe had recently awakened.
• Peng Zhan charged, but Chu Xinghe’s phantom met him with one punch that shattered his Qi and Blood and blew his body apart.
• Spectators concluded that Chu Xinghe had mastered Body Cultivation before Peng Zhan, while Chu Xinghe privately lamented that Peng Zhan had waited too long and ruined his chance to lose the ten million spirit stones.

After Peng Zhan’s challenge revealed the power of Chu Xinghe’s transformed body, Chu Xinghe reassured himself that other Body Cultivators would need enormous resources to advance, feeding power to the Misfortune Compass. He then checked on the Artifact Refining and Spirit Crane Palaces, before learning that Hua Xichen had come to see him and that the Grand Elder was leaving the decision to him.

• Peng Zhan’s defeat showed cultivators that Chu Xinghe’s transformed body could use both spiritual power and Phoenix Fire-infused Power of Qi and Blood.
• Chu Xinghe reasoned that other Body Cultivators would need vast amounts of Blood Spirit Stones to strengthen their Power of Qi and Blood, and the disciples’ growing consumption made the Misfortune Compass turn again.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Ouyang Ming to stop developing braised pork-flavored pills and make roast lamb chop-flavored pills instead, then corrected Ouyang Ling’s mistaken name for the Great Freedom Visualization Art.
• Chu Xinghe found Mu Bai training Mu Xiaoqi relentlessly, comforted Xiaoqi, and told Mu Bai to keep him working hard.
• Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that Hua Xichen had arrived to see him, and said the Grand Elder had left the matter for Chu Xinghe to decide.

Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that Hua Xichen had likely lost the Great Prophecy Art for good and was being abandoned by the Hua Clan, while Chu Xinghe saw helping him as a chance to lose ten million Blood Spirit Stones. Hua Xichen arrived at the Spirit Crane Palace after the Wise One directed him toward the Well of Prophecy, which only Chu Xinghe might be able to help him reach.

• Shen Chun explained that the Hua Clan's growing hostility and its failure to stop repeated assassination attempts suggested Hua Xichen would never recover the Great Prophecy Art.
• Shen Chun described how Hua Xichen's powerful relatives and rivals had turned against him after his divine art disappeared, leaving him and his mother in danger.
• Chu Xinghe decided to receive Hua Xichen because helping him might let Hua Xichen defeat Chu Xinghe's phantom and cost him ten million Blood Spirit Stones.
• Shen Chun brought Hua Xichen to the Spirit Crane Palace, where Hua Xichen recalled how losing the Great Prophecy Art had left him helpless and desperate.
• Hua Xichen used the last of the art's power to ask the Wise One for guidance, and it directed him to seek the Well of Prophecy in the Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• Hua Xichen realized that Chu Xinghe might be the only person capable of leading him through the Land of Bewildered Spirits to the Well of Prophecy.

Hua Xichen came to the Vast Heaven Holy Land hoping Chu Xinghe would help him recover the Great Prophecy Art, but he expected rejection or humiliating demands. Chu Xinghe offered help without asking for anything beyond a future alliance to protect the Three Continents, leaving Hua Xichen to recognize the difference between them.

• Hua Xichen sought Chu Xinghe's help to reach the Well of Prophecy and recover the Great Prophecy Art, despite their hostility and his doubts that Chu Xinghe would agree.
• Chu Xinghe welcomed Hua Xichen with tea and pastries, then promised to help him without hesitation.
• Chu Xinghe said Hua Xichen was a future comrade-in-arms and asked only that they fight together to protect the Three Continents.
• Hua Xichen reflected on how the Hua Clan feared his Great Prophecy Art while the Vast Heaven Holy Land respected Chu Xinghe for who he was.
• Hua Xichen realized that he and Chu Xinghe had never been alike, because Chu Xinghe would remain a source of support even if he lost everything.

Chu Xinghe agreed to help Hua Xichen recover the Great Prophecy Art, earning the Grand Elder’s admiration for asking only for a comrade-in-arms. As they prepared to leave in fifteen days, Chu Xinghe checked the sect for possible trouble and discovered that his improvements had changed the Thunder Palace’s War Dance.

• Hua Xichen thanked Chu Xinghe, agreed to meet him in Bewildered Heart City in fifteen days, and left to arrange matters for his mother.
• Shen Chun reported the agreement to the Grand Elder, who realized Chu Xinghe’s sincere offer had won Hua Xichen’s loyalty without demanding resources.
• Chu Xinghe planned to secure the Vast Heaven Holy Land before leaving, inspected Ouyang Ming’s pill research, and found he was developing flavored pills.
• Chu Xinghe visited the Thunder Palace and offered to guide its disciples in the Thunder War Dance.
• Wan Lin explained that Chu Xinghe’s Ninth Set of Body Refining Secret Arts had let the Thunder Palace’s senior and junior sisters perform an improved Thunder War Dance fully clothed, while the men still practiced bare-chested.

Chu Xinghe advised the Great Sage and Elder He to let body cultivators discover their own path, then heard Douding'er’s plea for blood spirit stones and learned that Wei Buhui’s beast-soul army had made the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s Spirit Beast Department enormously successful. The chapter left Chu Xinghe distressed after Wei Buhui hinted that he had prepared a surprise for the year-end meeting.

• Chu Xinghe urged the Great Sage and Elder He not to chart the new Body Cultivation path for its disciples, and they agreed that body cultivators should explore it themselves.
• Douding'er asked Chu Xinghe to help the Beast Taming Palace obtain blood spirit stones, and Chu Xinghe promised to find a way to stop body cultivation disciples from consuming them.
• Wei Buhui told Chu Xinghe that he was preparing to hunt spirit beasts for the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s new Spirit Beast Department.
• Wei Buhui explained that his beast-soul army had swept the Spirit Beast Continent, allowing the department to offer a wide selection of spirit beasts and fulfill custom orders.
• Wei Buhui said he planned to give Chu Xinghe a surprise at the year-end summary meeting, leaving Chu Xinghe alarmed by the department’s success.