Chapter Summaries

White Tiger revealed that Spirit Beast Island’s return to the Spirit Beast Continent would destroy the formation sustaining the Four Sacred Beasts, and the sleeping Beast God could not save them. He explained that moving the formation to the Vast Heaven Holy Land and supplying it with vast resources could keep them alive, leaving Chu Xinghe eager to learn the cost.

• After greeting Chu Xinghe, White Tiger suddenly collapsed as his soul weakened, and Liu Bo summoned the grand elder and others for help.
• The Great Sage used the Dark Moon Scepter to suppress White Tiger’s soul long enough for him to explain that Spirit Beast Island’s shifting toward the Spirit Beast Continent threatened the Four Sacred Beasts.
• White Tiger said the Beast God could have freed them from the formation, but Chu Xinghe called and received no response because the Beast God was asleep.
• White Tiger told Gu Mingchao and the others that the only remaining solution was to move the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation to the Vast Heaven Holy Land before Spirit Beast Island merged with the continent.
• White Tiger explained that without Spirit Beast Island’s spirit beasts powering the formation, the Vast Heaven Holy Land would have to pour in enormous resources every day to keep the Four Sacred Beasts alive.

Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Holy Land agreed to spend the vast resources needed to move and maintain the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation, hoping to save the Four Sacred Beasts and strengthen the sect. After Chu Xinghe rushed White Tiger to Spirit Beast Island, the other three Holy Venerables learned of the plan and questioned whether the Vast Heaven Holy Land understood the cost.

• Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Holy Land's leaders welcomed the expense of maintaining the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation and recognized the benefits of having the Four Sacred Beasts at the sect.
• White Tiger asked Chu Xinghe to accompany him to move the formation, and Chu Xinghe insisted they leave for Spirit Beast Island immediately.
• White Tiger and Chu Xinghe found Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu lamenting their approaching deaths as Spirit Beast Island merged with the Spirit Beast Continent.
• Chu Xinghe explained that the Vast Heaven Holy Land would maintain the formation, leaving the three Sacred Beasts astonished.
• Azure Dragon asked whether Chu Xinghe knew the formation's cost, and Chu Xinghe replied that Azure Dragon did not know how rich the Vast Heaven Holy Land was.

Chu Xinghe persuaded the Four Sacred Beasts to let the Vast Heaven Holy Land take over the resource-hungry Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation, promising to save them and honor his contract with the sleeping Beast God. As White Tiger prepared to move the formation, news spread across Spirit Beast Island, where people doubted the Holy Land could afford its upkeep.

• Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu doubted that the Vast Heaven Holy Land could sustain the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation, until White Tiger described its skilled disciples and Chu Xinghe’s extraordinary fortune.
• Chu Xinghe reminded the Four Sacred Beasts of their ties to him and the Beast God, and promised not to let them perish; Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird pledged to help the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe privately considered Xuanwu his most useful lucky general because his lost fortune and ongoing bad luck made him harmless and likely to bring misfortune to the sect’s rivals.
• White Tiger began setting up the formations with Chu Xinghe’s help, preparing to relocate the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation to the Vast Heaven Holy Land within a few days.
• News of the planned move spread, and Spirit Beast Island’s residents were to be evacuated before the formation disappeared and its spatial distortion endangered them.
• People marveled at the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s wealth, while others guessed Chu Xinghe had a plan to cover the formation’s costs and skeptics doubted that any plan could offset its enormous consumption.

Chu Xinghe arranged for the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation to be moved from Spirit Beast Island to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, where the Four Sacred Beasts and their halls would strengthen the sect’s defenses. The formation was restored to peak power, and Azure Dragon was stunned when Chu Xinghe’s first delivery of spirit stones arrived with nine more batches promised that day.

• White Tiger used Chu Xinghe’s connection to the Beast God to activate the Four Saints Translocation Grand Formation and move the restored Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation from Spirit Beast Island.
• Spirit Beast Island returned to the Spirit Beast Continent, and its spirit beasts joined the continent’s world as strange changes began appearing there.
• Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu, and White Tiger brought their divine halls to the Vast Heaven Holy Land and reopened the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation around it.
• White Tiger told Azure Dragon that Chu Xinghe had insisted the formation be restored to peak condition, despite its increased resource consumption.
• Huang Ritian delivered the first batch of Nine-Colored Spirit Stones for the formation and told Azure Dragon that nine more batches would arrive that afternoon.

Chu Xinghe supplied the Four Saints Divine Halls with a year’s worth of resources, powering the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation and making the Misfortune Compass spin. As the Four Sacred Beasts met the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders, Chu Xinghe tried to prevent Elder He and the Great Sage from finding a way to heal their souls, but the Well Spirits Great Elder unexpectedly offered to restore them immediately.

• Chu Xinghe sent huge stocks of resources to the Four Saints Divine Halls, while he personally delivered supplies to Xuanwu and the Civil Engineering Department disciples explained that their resource piles would soon be replenished.
• The Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation began operating at full power, and White Tiger stopped Chu Xinghe from feeding it so many resources that it might explode.
• Chu Xinghe watched the Misfortune Compass spin and resolved to stay alert for an unexpected setback.
• Holy Lord Gu Mingchao gathered the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders and the Four Sacred Beasts in the Haotian Grand Hall, where White Tiger introduced them and Elder He offered to study ways to heal their damaged souls with the Great Sage.
• The Well Spirits Great Elder announced that they could restore the Four Sacred Beasts’ souls at any time, shocking Chu Xinghe and everyone present.

The Three Well Spirits Elders revealed that the Well of Prophecy could restore the Four Sacred Beasts’ souls in two or three years, though it could not give them real bodies. Chu Xinghe realized the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation could remain in place even after the beasts recovered, preserving his plans to spend Vast Heaven Holy Land’s resources.

• The Three Well Spirits Elders explained that the Well of Prophecy had sustained their souls and woven bodies of Qi and blood around them.
• The elders said the Well of Prophecy could restore the Four Sacred Beasts’ souls in about two or three years, exciting White Tiger, Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu.
• The elders clarified that the beasts could not use the well to regain genuine physical bodies, disappointing Xuanwu.
• Chu Xinghe feared that the restored beasts would no longer need the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation, which would end its resource consumption.
• Chu Xinghe noticed that the Misfortune Compass was still turning and concluded that the formation could remain active even after the Four Sacred Beasts recovered.

The Well of Prophecy began repairing the Four Sacred Beasts’ souls, and they pledged themselves to the Vast Heaven Holy Land. White Tiger then brought Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu to meet Holy Son Chu Cheng, whose insults sparked a violent exchange that left the beasts firmly tied to their new home.

• The Great Elder supported keeping the resource-hungry Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation as the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s strongest defense, and Chu Xinghe eagerly backed him.
• The Three Well Spirits Elders spread water from the Well of Prophecy over the Four Sacred Beasts, and White Tiger confirmed that it had begun repairing their souls.
• Azure Dragon declared that the Four Sacred Beasts would protect the Vast Heaven Holy Land as their home, while White Tiger planned to visit the Holy Son each day to show gratitude.
• White Tiger led the other Sacred Beasts to meet Chu Cheng, who mocked them and threatened to turn them into food.
• The Four Sacred Beasts fought Chu Cheng in a prolonged exchange, and Liu Bo gathered spirit-patterned gauze to replace what they used, confirming that the beasts had joined the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

After learning how skilled the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Civil Engineering Department disciples were, Azure Dragon went to the Vast Heaven Divine Domain to guide them in combining earth and wood powers. He improved Zhao Zhihui’s technique, then was asked to guide Huang Ritian, whose treasure vault already had forty-eight times its apparent size in internal space.

• The Four Sacred Beasts agreed to visit the Holy Son every night to express their gratitude, and Azure Dragon returned to his divine hall.
• Azure Dragon saw the exhausted Civil Engineering Department disciples and decided to help improve their abilities.
• Azure Dragon visited the Vast Heaven Divine Domain, marveled at its vast stores of nine-colored spirit stone, and watched Zhao Zhihui construct a treasure vault with five times its apparent internal space.
• Azure Dragon taught Zhao Zhihui how to better combine earth and wood powers, helping him expand the vault’s interior to around six times its apparent size.
• Huang Ritian demonstrated a treasure vault with forty-eight times its apparent internal space and asked Azure Dragon to guide him.

Azure Dragon visited the Civil Engineering Department to advise its disciples, but discovered their earth-and-wood skills already surpassed his own. After demonstrating the Flower of Civil Engineering, he was pressured into helping install it on the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s treasure vaults.

• Chu Xinghe heard that Azure Dragon had gone to the Civil Engineering Department and assumed the visit posed no risk.
• Huang Ritian and the other disciples showed Azure Dragon their remarkable treasure-vault construction efficiency and asked him for guidance.
• Azure Dragon used his soul’s origin powers to create the Flower of Civil Engineering, which replenished the spiritual power of stored resources.
• Azure Dragon explained that he could not teach the technique, but Huang Ritian asked him to mark every treasure vault with it.
• Zhao Zhihui and the disciples pressured Huang Ritian to apologize, then dragged Azure Dragon off to help with the vaults.

Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department celebrated the Flower of Civil Engineering, which stopped spiritual power from dissipating in the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s treasure vaults without adding to their workload. Ma Liang expanded the idea into a profitable business and rushed to tell Chu Xinghe, leaving Chu horrified by yet another plan that would enrich the sect.

• Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department disciples celebrated their Flower of Civil Engineering, which prevented resources in the sect’s treasure vaults from losing spiritual power.
• Huang Ritian sent a disciple to inform Chu Xinghe, but Ma Liang intercepted him and argued that the treasure vaults should be developed and sold to outsiders.
• Ma Liang calculated the profits from selling the Flower of Civil Engineering treasure vaults and went to the Spirit Crane Palace to surprise Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe panicked when Ma Liang told him the Civil Engineering Department had found a way to make a killing, and he fell from his reclining chair.
• Chu Xinghe learned how the Flower of Civil Engineering worked and blamed Azure Dragon and the Civil Engineering Department for thwarting his efforts to keep the sect from making money.

Vast Heaven Holy Land discovered that its Flower of Civil Engineering treasury both prevented spiritual power from dissipating and restored treasures that had already lost it, bringing a flood of commission requests. As the Civil Engineering Department faced even more work, the Ning Clan argued over missing its chance to profit, and Clan Head Ning angrily pointed out they could never have afforded the project.

• Ma Liang explained how the Civil Engineering Department and the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable had built the Flower of Civil Engineering treasury, earning the disciples praise from Vast Heaven Holy Land's leaders.
• At Chu Xinghe's suggestion, Ma Liang put spirit treasures with depleted spiritual power into the treasury, where they began recovering.
• The Grand Elder praised the Civil Engineering Department and thanked the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable, while Ma Liang publicized the treasury's effects.
• Martial Emperor City and many other factions sought commissions, leaving Ma Liang worried that the Civil Engineering Department would have no chance to rest.
• The Ning Clan elders blamed Clan Head Ning for not bringing back the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation, and he angrily argued that the impoverished clan could never have supported it or built the treasury.

Chu Xinghe accepted a flood of construction orders and forced Azure Dragon to help the Civil Engineering Department, where the Sacred Venerable quickly became an exhausted regular. When Vermilion Bird tried to contribute his fire expertise, he found every fire-related group in seclusion, and Chu Xinghe revealed he had arranged it to keep Vermilion Bird from helping.

• Chu Xinghe convinced Ma Liang to accept every order and push the Civil Engineering Department's disciples to their limits, with Azure Dragon recruited to help.
• Huang Ritian showed Azure Dragon the vast number of treasure vaults awaiting work, and Azure Dragon joined the Civil Engineering Department rather than returning to his hall.
• Vermilion Bird grew jealous of Azure Dragon's success and decided to help the Vast Heaven Holy Land using his artifact-refining and fire skills.
• Vermilion Bird found the Ouyang Lineage in seclusion at the Artifact Refining Palace and the Muyue Kingdom in seclusion at the Spirit Crane Palace.
• Vermilion Bird suspected Chu Xinghe had closed off fire-related work, while Chu Xinghe admitted he had deliberately blocked Vermilion Bird from getting involved.

After being turned away across the Vast Heaven Holy Land, Vermilion Bird found the Dark Moon Clan eager to experience its Bright Gold Divine Fire. The clan’s requests reminded Vermilion Bird of White Tiger’s warning about the Dark Moon Palace, but Vermilion Bird decided to enter and help anyway.

• Chu Xinghe sealed off fire-related activities throughout the Vast Heaven Holy Land, leaving Vermilion Bird unable to find anyone to help.
• Vermilion Bird spent the day searching the holy land, growing more determined each time its offer of help was rejected.
• At the Dark Moon Palace, An Lan and the Dark Moon Clan asked Vermilion Bird to burn them with Bright Gold Divine Fire.
• Vermilion Bird recalled how White Tiger had become the Dark Moon Clan’s Second Warrior at its annual Mutual Slashing Conference and had since avoided the palace.
• Despite White Tiger’s warning, Vermilion Bird chose to enter the Dark Moon Palace and give the clan the help it wanted.

Vermilion Bird endured the Dark Moon Clan’s enthusiastic fire-play gathering, then tried to strengthen the fire attribute in their Spirit Pattern Cloth. His flames destabilized the cloth’s talismans, setting the production warehouse ablaze and leaving him desperately battling the spreading fire.

• An Lan and the Dark Moon Clan brought Vermilion Bird to Mutual Slashing Square, where the clansmen delighted in being burned by his Bright Gold Divine Fire and resurrected to praise the experience.
• The Dark Moon Clan kept Vermilion Bird burning and roasting them in various ways until he was psychologically shaken and exhausted.
• An Lan took Vermilion Bird on a tour of Dark Moon Palace, where he found the Three Shadow Rat Brothers making Spirit Pattern Cloth with a fire attribute.
• Vermilion Bird used his Bright Gold Divine Fire to improve the cloth, but the flames destabilized its talismans and caused the stored fabric to ignite and explode.
• Vermilion Bird tried to suppress the spreading fire, but his efforts made the unstable cloth burn in new places as the Dark Moon Clan played amid the flames.

Vermilion Bird accidentally set the Dark Moon Palace’s Spirit Pattern Cloth warehouse ablaze, destroying its contents and killing the Dark Moon Clan and tens of thousands of Three Shadow Rat clones, though no one else was harmed. The Grand Elder ordered him to help rebuild, while Chu Xinghe encouraged him to continue experimenting and secretly kept him from learning talisman techniques; Vermilion Bird soon began burning newly made cloth again.

• Vermilion Bird’s Bright Gold Divine Fire destabilized the Spirit Pattern Cloth and caused a fire that destroyed the warehouse and killed the Dark Moon clansmen and tens of thousands of Three Shadow Rat clones.
• Chu Xinghe learned what had happened and privately celebrated the destruction as a profitable loss.
• The Grand Elder confirmed there were no other casualties and ordered Vermilion Bird to help Shu Da and the others rebuild the Dark Moon Palace.
• Chu Xinghe urged Vermilion Bird to keep researching Spirit Pattern Cloth, and Vermilion Bird agreed to make up for the losses he had caused.
• Vermilion Bird tried to seek talisman advice from Hu Wenhai, but Chu Xinghe had arranged for Hu Wenhai to be away on official business.
• Vermilion Bird resumed his experiments, setting the Three Shadow Rat Brothers’ newly made Spirit Pattern Cloth on fire before it reached the warehouse.

Vermilion Bird continued burning Spirit Pattern Cloth while studying its fire element, and Chu Xinghe defended his work despite Shu Da’s concerns. Meanwhile, the Body Cultivation disciples hit a barrier at the Fifth Rank, and Wei Buhui returned from his Nebula Spirit Cat assignment, leaving Chu Xinghe confused about why he was back.

• Shu Da asked Chu Xinghe to move Vermilion Bird’s clone because the repeated fires disrupted Spirit Pattern Cloth production, but Chu Xinghe told him to let Vermilion Bird continue.
• Qu Yifeng and the Body Cultivation disciples discovered that they could not circulate their condensed Qi and blood after reaching the Fifth Rank, preventing progress toward the Sixth Rank.
• Qu Yifeng persuaded the disciples to try solving the cultivation problem themselves instead of immediately asking Chu Xinghe, but their study produced no solution.
• Chu Xinghe entered the Dark Moon Palace and found Wei Buhui, whom he had sent to catch Nebula Spirit Cats, back after less than two months.
• Chu Xinghe assumed Wei Buhui had returned to collect more resources, but Wei Buhui praised him for supposedly predicting that he had earned resources to place in the treasury.

Wei Buhui discovered that male Nebula Spirit Cats brought resources and offered themselves as masters when he gathered female cats, turning Chu Xinghe’s assignment into a profitable venture. Chu Xinghe sent the several thousand cats to the Xuanwu Sacred Venerable to tame their wildness, leaving Xuanwu convinced the arrangement would bring disaster.

• Chu Xinghe was stunned when Wei Buhui revealed he had profited from catching Nebula Spirit Cats.
• At Wan Lin’s request, Wei Buhui caught female Nebula Spirit Cats, and male cats began bringing them gifts and resources while some acknowledged Wei Buhui as their master.
• Wei Buhui proposed catching female spirit beasts of other kinds to attract gift-bearing males, and Chu Xinghe refused to hand out the cats until their wildness faded.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Wei Buhui to leave the cats in the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation under the Xuanwu Sacred Venerable’s care.
• Wei Buhui brought the cats to the Xuanwu Divine Temple, where Xuanwu feared Chu Xinghe’s plan would lead to a crushing loss.

Xuanwu tried to tame the Nebula Spirit Cats for Chu Xinghe but accidentally erased their Power of Chaos, while Vermilion Bird’s attempts to strengthen Spirit Pattern Cloth kept failing. Vermilion Bird’s harmless golden spirit-fire effect caught Ma Liang’s eye, and he realized it could make spectacular clothing to sell.

• Xuanwu tried to remove impurities from the Nebula Spirit Cats, but each attempt also erased their Power of Chaos and left them blank slates.
• Vermilion Bird set another fire at the Dark Moon Palace while struggling to improve Spirit Pattern Cloth, and Chu Xinghe urged Vermilion Bird not to give up.
• Vermilion Bird sought comfort from Mu Bai, who first claimed the Muyue Kingdom had failed seventeen or eighteen times, then admitted it had only failed eleven times.
• Vermilion Bird contained the Spirit Pattern Cloth’s five elements beneath harmless phantom flames, but the cloth gained no actual strength.
• Ma Liang saw the golden spirit fire on the failed cloth, recognized its visual appeal, and ordered the weaving workshop to make clothes with the effect.

Ma Liang and Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird unveiled Spirit Pattern Cloth with brilliant illusory flames, captivating the elders and disciples of Vast Heaven Holy Land. Chu Xinghe arrived and realized the cosmetic upgrade could be so desirable that it threatened his plans for the cloth.

• Ma Liang admired Vermilion Bird's flame-effect Spirit Pattern Cloth and had Vermilion Bird apply the effect to more bundles.
• The Grand Elder and the other elders rushed to Dark Moon Palace, where they recognized the cloth's enormous sales potential.
• Chu Xinghe reflected on the Nebula Spirit Cats and the Xuanwu Sacred Venerable's efforts before Senior Brother Shen Chun brought him to Dark Moon Palace.
• Chu Xinghe saw Ma Liang wearing the flaming cloth and realized that its appearance could tempt disciples even without improving its attributes.

Ma Liang and Qin Xiangqian devised a tiered sales plan for Vermilion Bird Spirit Pattern Cloth, and the grand elder approved it. Meanwhile, the Ming Clan discovered the Land of Heavenly Secrets beneath its estate and found a mysterious opening emitting an evil presence.

• The grand elder put Ma Liang in charge of selling flame-effect Spirit Pattern Cloth, and Ma Liang summoned the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce managers to plan the launch.
• Ma Liang and Qin Xiangqian persuaded Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird to make successive grades of Spirit Pattern Cloth, from standard to limited prestige editions.
• The grand elder approved Ma Liang’s tiered sales strategy, and Ma Liang began putting it into action as Chu Xinghe worried about how effective it would be.
• The Ming Clan Head investigated the collapsed Heavenly Secrets City beneath the clan estate and discovered the legendary Land of Heavenly Secrets.
• The Ming Clan Head found an opening in the Land of Heavenly Secrets that gave off an indescribably sinister evil presence.