Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe stopped Wei Buhui from expanding the Spirit Beast Department by ordering him to provide Nebula Spirit Cats for the sect’s new disciples, then secured the other palaces and Body Cultivation disciples against plans that might undermine him. Meanwhile, Hua Xijun and his mother learned Hua Xichen had left for the Land of Bewildered Spirits and began plotting to kill him.

• Wei Buhui showed Chu Xinghe the Spirit Beast Department’s success, including its business across the Three Continents and its growing custom-order backlog.
• Chu Xinghe rebuked Wei Buhui for neglecting the sect’s new disciples, and Wei Buhui agreed to cancel outside orders and arrange Nebula Spirit Cats for them.
• Chu Xinghe visited the palaces and ordered the Body Cultivation disciples to follow his plans and reject unusual requests while he was away.
• Hua Xichen secretly prepared for his journey and entrusted his mother’s safety to trusted aides, unaware that one had been bought off by Hua Xijun.
• Hua Xijun proposed killing Hua Xichen’s mother, but his mother urged him to focus on killing Hua Xichen, who had departed for the Land of Bewildered Spirits.

Madam Ming and Hua Xijun plotted to have Hua Xichen killed before he could regain the Great Prophecy Art in the Land of Bewildered Spirits. Tantai Jing agreed to consider the assassination after Hua Xijun offered resources, but demanded more payment.

• Madam Ming warned Hua Xijun not to use his own people or involve the Ming Clan directly, and told him to seek help from the Demonic Sect on the Blazing Sun Continent.
• Madam Ming sent Hua Xijun to her brother, the Ming Clan Head, who supplied him with far more resources and arranged a cover for his absence.
• Hua Xijun traveled to the Blazing Sun Continent and presented resources to Tantai Jing at the Demonic Sect.
• Tantai Jing initially claimed the Demonic Sect no longer took assassination jobs, then agreed to hear Hua Xijun's target after seeing the payment.
• Hua Xijun named Hua Xichen, and Tantai Jing said he would need to pay more.

Tantai Jing accepted Hua Xijun’s payment to arrange Hua Xichen’s assassination, passing the job through Qiu Tian to the Soul-Devouring Palace. Meanwhile, Chu Xinghe and Hua Xichen reached Bewildered Heart City, where the locals mistook them for poor impersonators of famous figures.

• Hua Xijun paid Tantai Jing to kill Hua Xichen, and Tantai Jing identified him despite his disguise.
• Tantai Jing sent an intermediary to Qiu Tian, who accepted the job and hired the Soul-Devouring Palace’s assassins.
• The Soul-Devouring Palace dispatched nearly all of its top ten assassins to the Land of Bewildered Spirits to target Hua Xichen.
• Chu Xinghe met the nervous Hua Xichen outside Bewildered Heart City, and they entered the city to rest before exploring the nearby land.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Meng Lingxuan’s son was getting married and that Bai Jingyan’s accompanist, Zhao Yanyan, had been invited.
• The townspeople mocked Chu Xinghe and Hua Xichen as unimpressive impersonators, insisting Chu Xinghe would not have placed in the city’s impersonation contest.

Chu Xinghe heard how imitators copied his public image and was amused when people advised him on how to imitate himself. As Zhao Yanyan arrived in Bewildered Heart City to perform, her fans praised her aloofness despite her never acknowledging them, leaving Chu Xinghe to wonder whether Hua Xichen had once acted the same way.

• Chu Xinghe learned that imitators and imitation contests had become popular, then listened as strangers criticized his appearance and his Hua Xichen companion’s resemblance.
• Hua Xichen watched Chu Xinghe chat and share snacks with ordinary people, realizing Chu Xinghe treated them as equals unlike his own former self.
• Chu Xinghe explained that he came from Kaoshan Village and had never considered himself superior, winning the group’s friendship.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Zhao Yanyan had become a famous performer because she resembled Bai Jingyan and had once accompanied her.
• Zhao Yanyan arrived in Bewildered Heart City to perform, while guards kept her fans away and she never opened her carriage curtain.
• Chu Xinghe watched the fans call Zhao Yanyan proud above worldly things and wondered whether Hua Xichen had once been like her.

Hua Xichen watched Chu Xinghe diligently prepare for their journey into the Land of Bewildered Spirits and came to believe his success came from hard work. Zhao Yanyan arrived in Bewildered Heart City to a crowd of devoted fans, while Chu Xinghe spent the night identifying places to avoid before setting out for the Well of Prophecy.

• Hua Xichen reconsidered his assumptions about Chu Xinghe after seeing how easily Chu Xinghe got along with people.
• Zhao Yanyan arrived at Emerald Jade Tower, where Meng Lingxuan welcomed her and hired guards kept her fans outside.
• Chu Xinghe and Hua Xichen checked into an inn near Emerald Jade Tower to rest before heading to the Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• Chu Xinghe questioned locals about the Land of Bewildered Spirits and recorded every rumored treasure site as a place to avoid.
• Hua Xichen saw Chu Xinghe working late into the night and admired his thorough preparation.

Chu Xinghe planned a route through the Land of Bewildered Spirits while the Night Demon Brothers arrived in Bewildered Heart City to assassinate Hua Xichen. Their attack on the inn was mistaken for an assault on Zhao Yanyan, and the brothers were left baffled when a guard captain offered her to them.

• Chu Xinghe refined his route to avoid treasures while deliberately encountering dangers, and Hua Xichen resolved to work harder after seeing his effort.
• The Night Demon Brothers entered Bewildered Heart City to kill Hua Xichen before he went into the Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• Unable to move through Zhao Yanyan's fanatical crowd, the Night Demon Brothers deployed all 108 Spirit-Severing Nails and drained the spiritual power from the surrounding area.
• The Night Demon Brothers attacked the guards outside the inn, killing several as the block descended into chaos.
• The Seventh Rank guard captain carried Zhao Yanyan out and offered her to the Night Demon Brothers, who were confused because they had come for Hua Xichen.

The Night Demon Brothers attacked Hua Xichen with Spirit-Severing Nails, nearly killing him before Chu Xinghe intervened with his physical strength and defeated them. Chu Xinghe left the elder brother alive and judged that his Body Cultivation still lacked enough power to kill both assassins.

• The guard captain mistook the Night Demon Brothers’ target and brought Zhao Yanyan outside, but the assassins rejected her and attacked the guards.
• The Night Demon Brothers used the Spirit-Severing Nails and Dark Twin Pupils to suppress Hua Xichen, then nearly killed him with their skull sabers.
• Chu Xinghe stopped a skull saber between two fingers, snapped it, and wounded the younger Night Demon with a piece of the blade.
• The elder Night Demon recognized Chu Xinghe and tried to escape with his wounded brother, but Chu Xinghe caught them and shattered the younger brother with a punch.
• Chu Xinghe’s punch pulverized the elder Night Demon’s bones and sent him crashing into the clock tower, after which Chu Xinghe said he had been too hasty and could not kill them both.

Chu Xinghe tested his spiritual-power-free combat strength when the Night Demon Brothers attacked Hua Xichen, then killed both assassins with single punches. He left the crowd stunned, including acquaintances who had mocked his imitation of himself earlier that day.

• Chu Xinghe allowed the Spirit-Severing Nails to seal his spiritual power so he could test his Power of Qi and Blood while Hua Xichen fought the Night Demon Brothers.
• Chu Xinghe shattered the younger Night Demon's Blood Escape Art and killed him with a punch, frightening the Soul-Devouring Palace assassins hiding in the crowd.
• The assassins abandoned their plans and pretended to be Zhao Yanyan's fans as Chu Xinghe confronted the elder Night Demon.
• Chu Xinghe killed the elder Night Demon with a punch that also brought down a bell tower, then collected the Spirit-Severing Nails.
• Chu Xinghe greeted acquaintances in the crowd, who realized that the person they had mocked for imitating Chu Xinghe was Chu Xinghe himself.

Chu Xinghe revealed his identity and treated ordinary men as friends, securing Hua Xichen’s promise to help them. After compensating the innkeeper, he accepted Meng Lingxuan’s invitation to the Jade Tower and gave the Meng Lineage a sacred artifact, while Zhao Yanyan was ignored and driven out of the city.

• The men realized Chu Xinghe’s identity and begged forgiveness, but he called them friends and had Hua Xichen promise to help them if they needed it.
• Chu Xinghe paid the innkeeper for the destroyed inn with Blood Spirit Stones.
• Zhao Yanyan tried to attract Chu Xinghe’s attention and hoped he would help her return to the Haotian Tower, but everyone ignored her.
• Meng Lingxuan welcomed Chu Xinghe and Hua Xichen and invited them to rest at the Jade Tower.
• Chu Xinghe gave Meng Lingxuan a sacred artifact as a wedding gift for his son, and Meng Lingxuan believed it would protect and elevate the Meng Lineage.
• The Jade Tower cleared out its unrelated guests, including Zhao Yanyan, who left Bewildered Heart City that night.

After Chu Xinghe killed the Night Demon Brothers, the Vast Heaven Holy Land and the Dark Moon Clan treated the assassination as an intolerable threat, even though Hua Xichen had been the intended target. The Great Sage led the Dark Moon Clan to Heavenly Granary Valley, where he sealed the Soul-Devouring Palace inside a domain of darkness and vowed to let no one escape.

• News of Chu Xinghe defeating the Night Demon Brothers with Body Cultivation spread across the Three Continents, and Soul-Devouring Palace assassins withdrew from Bewildered Heart City.
• Gu Mingchao and the Vast Heaven Holy Land's leaders condemned the attack, and the Grand Elder assigned the Great Sage and the Dark Moon Clan to handle it.
• The Great Sage led the Dark Moon Clan toward Heavenly Granary Valley, while Tantai Jing feared the Vast Heaven Holy Land's response and the Soul-Devouring Palace dismissed the incident as an accident.
• The Great Sage used the Darkness Demonic Runes to seal Heavenly Granary Valley, then entered with a dark demon god appearing behind him.

The Great Sage led the Dark Moon Clan into Heavenly Granary Valley to destroy the Soul-Devouring Palace and send its members’ souls into Avici Hell. He killed Hei Mian and ordered the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Eighth Rank and higher disciples to hunt down any surviving assassins within three days.

• The Great Sage advanced through Heavenly Granary Valley, killing guards with tentacles of darkness and dragging their souls into Avici Hell.
• The Great Sage opened Avici Hell and began turning the valley into a realm where the dead were trapped in their worst nightmares.
• Hei Mian mistook the Dark Moon Clan’s attack for a negotiation, but the Great Sage ignored his offers as the clan slaughtered the Soul-Devouring Palace’s members.
• Hei Mian used a Bloodthirsty Stone to reach the Mystic God realm and flee, but the Great Sage struck him down and destroyed his body, capturing his soul.
• The Great Sage ordered An Lan to mobilize the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Eighth Rank and higher disciples to eliminate any remaining Soul-Devouring Palace assassins within three days.

The Great Sage destroyed the Soul-Devouring Palace and transformed Heavenly Granary Valley into Avici Hell, then set out to punish the Hua Clan’s chief culprits for the attack on Hua Xichen. As the Hua Clan Head confronted Ming over her role in the plot, the Great Sage arrived at the clan, ready to drag those responsible into Avici Hell.

• The Great Sage used his full-moon-boosted power to overwhelm Hei Mian and send the Soul-Devouring Palace assassins’ souls into Avici Hell.
• The Great Sage declared that Heavenly Granary Valley had become Avici Hell and decided to target the Hua Clan’s chief culprits rather than kill everyone.
• News of the Soul-Devouring Palace’s destruction spread across the Three Continents, where many people praised the Great Sage for eliminating the notorious assassins.
• Clan Head Hua slapped Ming and accused her of plotting against Hua Xichen through the people she had planted around him and her younger brother’s actions.
• Ming claimed she had acted to secure Hua Xijun’s future and strengthen ties between the Hua Clan and the Ming Clan, while Clan Head Hua weighed the threat posed by the Dark Moon Clan.
• The Great Sage arrived at the Hua Clan with the dark demon god and vowed to send the soul of anyone who had attacked Hua Xichen into Avici Hell.

The Great Sage confronted the Hua Clan over the assassination attempt that had entangled Chu Xinghe, demanding that the mastermind be handed over. Ji Ya intervened, but the Great Sage reversed day into a full-moon night with the Vast Heaven Divine Domain and overwhelmed her, Clan Head Hua, and the Pseudo Four Saints; after being decapitated, he regenerated.

• Clan Head Hua apologized to the Great Sage and offered treasures, but refused to hand over the mastermind, calling the affair an internal Hua Clan matter.
• The Great Sage attacked the Hua Clan, and Clan Head Hua met his power with his flame Juling.
• Ji Ya arrived and separated the Great Sage and Clan Head Hua, intending to arrange mediation with Holy Lord Gu Mingchao.
• The Great Sage used the Vast Heaven Divine Domain to turn day into a full-moon night, greatly amplifying his power.
• The Great Sage defeated Ji Ya, wounded Clan Head Hua, and gravely injured her Pseudo Four Saints.
• Ji Ya severed the Great Sage’s head, but he regenerated beneath the moonlight and formed the Darkness Demon God again.

The Great Sage overwhelmed Ji Ya and Clan Head Hua during his assault on the Hua Clan, then threatened to slaughter the clan unless the mastermind behind the assassination appeared. Clan Head Hua offered Hua Xizhen as a scapegoat, but Ma Liang arrived to verify the culprit with his soul-searching technique.

• The Great Sage trapped Ji Ya in a sphere of darkness and shattered Clan Head Hua’s flame giant with a dark arrow.
• The Great Sage advanced on the Hua Clan estate and ordered the Dark Moon Clan to kill everyone there unless the mastermind appeared within ten breaths.
• Clan Head Hua surrendered and released Ji Ya, then named Hua Xizhen as the mastermind behind the assassination.
• Hua Xizhen stepped forward as a seemingly unwilling pawn, but Ma Liang arrived and challenged Clan Head Hua’s attempt to use him as a scapegoat.
• Ma Liang paid his respects to the Great Sage and prepared to use soul-searching to identify the true mastermind.

The Great Sage forced the Hua Clan to reveal the real mastermind behind Hua Xichen’s attempted assassination, and Hua Xijun exposed his mother Ming before Clan Head Hua killed him. The Great Sage sent their souls and those of the slain Hua clansmen to Avici Hell, while the Vast Heaven Holy Land purged the Soul-Devouring Palace; afterward, Ma Liang accepted five great mines from the Ming Clan Head.

• Ma Liang rejected Clan Head Hua’s attempt to blame Hua Xizhen, and Clan Head Hua named Hua Xijun as the real mastermind.
• Hua Xijun accused Ming of ordering Hua Xichen’s assassination and implicated the Ming Clan Head and Tantai Jing, so Clan Head Hua killed him.
• Ming killed herself, and the Great Sage seized her and Hua Xijun’s souls, along with the souls of the other slain Hua clansmen, to send them to Avici Hell.
• The Great Sage left the Hua Clan, and Clan Head Hua burned Ming and Hua Xijun’s bodies as news of the battle spread across the Three Continents.
• Vast Heaven Holy Land disciples hunted down the Soul-Devouring Palace’s fugitive assassins and sent their souls to Avici Hell.
• Ma Liang visited the Ming Clan Head, who offered him five great mines, and Ma Liang accepted them as a gift between gentlemen.

Tantai Jing tried to prove he was a gentleman to Ma Liang by offering him a share of the Demonic Sect’s proceeds, then manipulated Qiu Tian into confirming that water ranked fourth among the five elements. Meanwhile, Chu Xinghe and Hua Xichen traveled through the Land of Bewildered Spirits, where Chu Xinghe’s attempts to avoid treasure-filled danger zones led them to treasure after treasure.

• Tantai Jing offered Ma Liang a share of the Demonic Sect’s proceeds and persuaded him that water ranked fourth among the five elements.
• Ma Liang visited Qiu Tian and pressured him into confirming Tantai Jing’s version by threatening to involve the Great Sage and Teacher Hei Mian.
• Qiu Tian agreed that water ranked fourth, and Ma Liang returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land pleased with his new friendships.
• Chu Xinghe entered the Land of Bewildered Spirits with Hua Xichen and followed his notebook’s warnings about dangerous areas.
• Chu Xinghe found treasure throughout the areas he had marked as dangerous, while Hua Xichen mistook his preparations for proof that he had foreseen every threat.

Hua Xichen followed Chu Xinghe through the Land of Bewildered Spirits, where Chu Xinghe’s notebook and inexplicable luck led them to a succession of treasure troves and inheritances. Hua Xichen mistook Chu Xinghe’s actions for careful planning and benevolence, while Chu Xinghe blamed the Misfortune Compass for forcing rewards on him.

• Hua Xichen entered the Land of Bewildered Spirits with Chu Xinghe, who carried a notebook and soon found ruins rumored to be hidden elsewhere.
• On the second day, Chu Xinghe led Hua Xichen to a legendary treasure trove, and Hua Xichen believed Chu Xinghe had found it through a process of elimination.
• On the third day, Chu Xinghe entered an area marked off-limits in his notebook and found an even larger treasure trove, leaving him furious at the Misfortune Compass.
• As they traveled, Chu Xinghe gathered only selected valuables from many troves, and Hua Xichen concluded that he was leaving treasures for Rogue Cultivators.
• After Chu Xinghe refused to take most of the treasures, inheritance lights repeatedly chose him, while Hua Xichen watched several sites pass him over.

Chu Xinghe and Hua Xichen crossed the Land of Bewildered Spirits, with Chu Xinghe’s Star Divination Art guiding them through the deadly mist to the river leading to the Well of Prophecy. They reached its entrance, but could not enter, and a white-haired old man emerged from the vortex with a warning about what had been lost.

• Hua Xichen watched inheritances repeatedly choose Chu Xinghe, while Chu Xinghe complained that the Misfortune Compass kept giving him inheritances he did not need.
• Chu Xinghe led Hua Xichen through the thick central mist without using the Star Divination Art, and the mist opened to reveal a river.
• Hua Xichen realized the river led to the Well of Prophecy, which lay in an independent small world, and followed Chu Xinghe toward a five-colored vortex.
• Chu Xinghe and Hua Xichen passed through the vortex repeatedly but could not enter the Well of Prophecy’s world.
• A white-haired old man emerged from the vortex and said the Heavenly Dao could not be reversed and what was lost could not be recovered.

Chu Xinghe forced open the path to the Well of Prophecy after the guardian well spirit told Hua Xichen he could not reclaim the Great Prophecy Art. Chu Xinghe and Hua Xichen entered the Well of Prophecy, leaving the well spirit bewildered by the Heavenly Dao’s sudden change.

• The guardian well spirit told Hua Xichen that the severed chain of cause and effect meant he could not enter the Well of Prophecy or regain the Great Prophecy Art.
• Chu Xinghe rejected the well spirit’s claim that the Heavenly Dao could not be overcome, and the well spirit found Chu Xinghe’s cause and effect impossible to read.
• The well spirit asked Chu Xinghe to throw a stone into the river to demonstrate that a small force could not change its course.
• Chu Xinghe used the Thread of Sky to cleave a mountain peak, which fell into the river and blocked its flow.
• A path through the five-colored gate opened, and Chu Xinghe and Hua Xichen entered the world of the Well of Prophecy.

Chu Xinghe forced open the gate to the Well of Prophecy, then challenged the well spirits’ claim that Hua Xichen needed the Great Prophecy Art to reach the place where he could regain it. As the elders insisted the Star Divination Art was a fraud, Chu Xinghe unexpectedly agreed with them, leaving Hua Xichen and the elders bewildered.

• Chu Xinghe sliced through a mountain, opening the five-colored gate after the well spirit said the Heavenly Dao would not restore Hua Xichen’s Great Prophecy Art.
• Chu Xinghe told Hua Xichen that using the Great Prophecy Art to change his fate did not mean he had defied the heavens.
• The three well spirit elders explained that Hua Xichen could not reach the Well of Prophecy without the Great Prophecy Art, even though he had come to regain it.
• Hua Xichen suggested Chu Xinghe’s Star Divination Art might let them pass the starlit road, but the elders declared the art was fictional.
• Chu Xinghe solemnly backed the elders’ claim that the Star Divination Art was a scam, confounding them and Hua Xichen.