Chapter Summaries

Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird designed flame-effect clothing for Ma Liang’s new Spirit Pattern Cloth, and the Vast Heaven Trading Company began selling it. Zhao Yu'er bought a dress and became the center of attention as she showed its flames off around Yu City.

• Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird designed men’s and women’s Vermilion Bird Spirit Pattern Cloth outfits with restrained golden flame effects, and Ma Liang put them on sale.
• Zhao Yu'er visited the Vast Heaven Trading Company after her team lost a Mercury Gemstone to a rival team.
• Zhao Yu'er lost interest in the regular clothes and jewelry until her sales assistant showed her a white dress with a golden flame effect.
• Zhao Yu'er bought the dress for thirty times the price of an ordinary Spirit Pattern Cloth dress and wore it out of the shop.
• Zhao Yu'er paraded around Yu City, drawing crowds who marvelled at the steady flames on her dress.

Flame dresses made from Vermilion Bird Spirit Pattern Cloth sold out across the Three Continents, turning them into costly symbols of status. Beneath the Ming Clan’s grounds, the Ming Clan Head grew worried when explorers in the Land of Heavenly Secrets stopped reporting back, and he suspected the sinister presence came from Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit ruins.

• Zhao Yu'er wore a flame dress in Yu City, prompting customers to rush to Vast Heaven Trading Company branches and buy the limited first batch almost immediately.
• Ma Liang sent out a second batch about ten times larger, but customers snatched the clothes off the delivery carts, and resale prices soared.
• Ma Liang refused to disrupt his planned release schedule and prepared to introduce advanced versions of the clothing later.
• The Ming Clan Head learned that the first team sent into the Land of Heavenly Secrets had not returned or contacted the clan, though their soul lamps showed they were alive.
• The Ming Clan grand elder suggested the passage might connect to the Evil Shadow Continent, but the Ming Clan Head dismissed that idea and blamed the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits.

The Ming Clan Head sent chosen members to explore the underground Land of Heavenly Secrets in search of the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits’ legacy. Meanwhile, Xuanwu’s mishaps with Nebula Spirit Cats drained the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation and drove the Misfortune Compass to push Chu Xinghe into the Middle Ninth Rank, where a new change began in its conversion of his power.

• The Ming Clan Head ordered the Ming Clan to send its finest people into the underground Land of Heavenly Secrets to seek the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits’ legacy.
• Azure Dragon kept producing Flowers of Civil Engineering for the Civil Engineering Department, while Huang Ritian’s taunts stopped him from admitting he needed rest.
• Vermilion Bird rescued Ma Liang from nearly giving junior sisters priority in the supply of Vermilion Bird Spirit Pattern Cloth.
• Xuanwu used the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation to tame Nebula Spirit Cats, but the cats lost their Power of Chaos and consumed the formation’s resources.
• The Misfortune Compass accelerated as Xuanwu’s actions drained the formation and carried Chu Xinghe past the upper limit of the Early Ninth Rank into the Middle Ninth Rank.
• Chu Xinghe found that nearly half his power had become the Power of Misfortune, then witnessed a new change in the Misfortune Compass’s conversion.

Chu Xinghe discovered that the new Power of Fortune could multiply the damage of his attacks, though using all of it left him with a long recovery time. Meanwhile, Xuanwu’s attempt to tame Nebula Spirit Cats had stripped them of their Power of Chaos, and Wei Buhui arrived with another batch only to discover the damage.

• After advancing, Chu Xinghe found that some of his power had transformed into white Power of Fortune alongside his black Power of Misfortune.
• Xuanwu accidentally purged the Nebula Spirit Cats of their Power of Chaos while trying to tame them, and Chu Xinghe privately welcomed the mishap because it would disrupt Wei Buhui’s scheme.
• Chu Xinghe tested the Power of Fortune on training-ground statues and found that it could multiply his damage, reaching about five times its normal strength when he used all of it.
• Chu Xinghe realized that expending all his Power of Fortune caused it to recover very slowly, making it a powerful trump card with a lengthy cooldown.
• Wei Buhui brought Xuanwu a new batch of Nebula Spirit Cats and learned that Xuanwu had ruined the previous ones.

Wei Buhui returned with thousands of Nebula Spirit Cats, but Xuanwu’s training had stripped most of them of their Power of Chaos. Chu Xinghe stopped Wei Buhui from catching replacements and urged Xuanwu to keep trying, leaving the cats swollen after the first attempt to restore their power with Blood Spirit Stones.

• Wei Buhui found that Xuanwu’s training had left most of the Nebula Spirit Cats listless and without their Power of Chaos.
• Wei Buhui offered to catch more cats, but Chu Xinghe refused and told him to find a way to restore the ones they had.
• Chu Xinghe persuaded Xuanwu to gamble on overcoming his bad luck, and Xuanwu joined Wei Buhui in planning a cure.
• Xuanwu proposed injecting Blood Spirit Stones into the cats, and Wei Buhui brought a large supply from the treasury.
• The Blood Spirit Stones made the Nebula Spirit Cats grow larger instead of restoring their Power of Chaos, and Chu Xinghe urged Xuanwu and Wei Buhui to continue.

Chu Xinghe encouraged Xuanwu and Wei Buhui to spend huge quantities of Blood Spirit Stones fattening the Nebula Spirit Cats, believing their project would help him reach the Peak of the Ninth Rank. After Douding'er suggested using water from the Well of Prophecy, the Nebula Spirit Cats transformed into furnaces of Qi and Blood.

• Chu Xinghe praised Xuanwu's research as the Nebula Spirit Cats grew round and heavy from the Blood Spirit Stones.
• Chu Xinghe urged Wei Buhui to keep the project going, and Xuanwu continued pouring Blood Spirit Stones into the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation.
• Douding'er confronted Xuanwu and Wei Buhui, criticizing them for fattening the Nebula Spirit Cats without restoring their Power of Chaos.
• Douding'er's suggestion awakened Xuanwu and Wei Buhui, and Wei Buhui fetched water from the Well of Prophecy.
• Xuanwu and Wei Buhui used the formation to channel the water into the Nebula Spirit Cats, igniting their accumulated power and transforming them into furnaces of Qi and Blood.

Wei Buhui and Xuanwu Sacred Venerable discovered that the Nebula Spirit Cats’ lost Power of Chaos had become a Qi and Blood Furnace that let Qu Yifeng break through Body Cultivation’s Fifth Rank bottleneck. Chu Xinghe learned of the success and realized his planned losses had been ruined yet again.

• Wei Buhui recognized that the Nebula Spirit Cats had developed outward-flowing Power of Qi and Blood and brought Qu Yifeng to the Xuanwu Divine Temple.
• Xuanwu Sacred Venerable contracted Qu Yifeng with the strongest Nebula Spirit Cat, which fused with him and formed a living Qi and Blood Furnace in his dantian.
• Qu Yifeng realized the furnace could solve Body Cultivation’s lack of a way to advance beyond the Fifth Rank and believed Chu Xinghe had prepared this path for the disciples.
• Xuanwu Sacred Venerable concluded that Chu Xinghe had turned his research failures and misfortune into the key to the Nebula Spirit Cats’ success.
• Chu Xinghe watched the Misfortune Compass stop spinning, then fell from his broken rocking chair as Wei Buhui reported that the experiment had succeeded.

At the Xuanwu Divine Temple, Xuanwu and the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s elders learned that the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation could help spirit beasts develop the Power of Qi and Blood, potentially providing Qi and Blood Furnaces to Body Cultivators everywhere. Ma Liang mistook Chu Xinghe’s bewilderment for calculated satisfaction, while Chu Xinghe remained devastated that the Misfortune Compass had stopped spinning.

• Xuanwu described how Nebula Spirit Cats had lost the Power of Chaos and developed the Power of Qi and Blood, and Qu Yifeng demonstrated his Qi and Blood Furnace.
• Chu Xinghe wondered why the Misfortune Compass had stopped spinning even though the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation was still consuming resources.
• Ma Liang asked Xuanwu to test whether the formation, rather than Blood Spirit Stones, had caused Nebula Spirit Cats to develop the Power of Qi and Blood.
• Xuanwu used the formation and water from the Well of Prophecy to awaken the Power of Qi and Blood in another Nebula Spirit Cat without spending large amounts of Blood Spirit Stones.
• Ma Liang proposed testing other spirit beasts, and Xuanwu successfully transformed one, prompting the gathered figures to celebrate the prospect of supplying Qi and Blood Furnaces to Body Cultivators everywhere.
• Ma Liang decided Chu Xinghe’s now-indifferent expression showed satisfaction, while Chu Xinghe felt his heart had died.

Chu Xinghe’s Qi and Blood spirit beasts gave Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Spirit Beast Department a monopoly that the Great Elder, Wei Buhui, and Qin Xiangqian expected to make a fortune. Meanwhile, Peng Zhan and other Fifth Rank Body Cultivators remained unable to advance, and they questioned whether Chu Xinghe could help them.

• Ma Liang and the Vast Heaven Holy Land crowd recognized that Chu Xinghe had created a unique market for Qi and Blood spirit beasts through the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation and Xuanwu Sacred Venerable.
• The Great Elder explained that Chu Xinghe had aimed to establish an exclusive Spirit Beast Department rather than compete in the crowded spirit-beast market.
• Wei Buhui and Qin Xiangqian praised Chu Xinghe’s plan, and Qin Xiangqian promised that the Spirit Beast Department would earn enormous resources from selling the exclusive spirit beasts.
• Peng Zhan, now a Fifth Rank Body Cultivator, gathered fellow Body Cultivators to investigate why they could not form a Qi and Blood Furnace or advance further.
• Peng Zhan’s companions debated asking Chu Xinghe for help, but one argued that even Qu Yifeng and Vast Heaven Holy Land had no solution.

Fifth Rank Body Cultivators feared they had reached the limit of their path until Qu Yifeng and Ma Liang revealed that Qi and Blood Spirit Beasts could help them create Qi and Blood Furnaces. The Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce prepared to sell the beasts, and Ma Liang resolved to set a high price.

• Peng Zhan led prominent Body Cultivators to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to seek Chu Xinghe's help with forging Qi and Blood Furnaces.
• Qu Yifeng appeared with his Qi and Blood circulating as a self-contained world, revealing that he had already formed a Qi and Blood Furnace.
• Ma Liang brought the Body Cultivators inside and arranged for Peng Zhan to contract with a Blood Wolf spirit beast.
• The Blood Wolf formed a Qi and Blood Furnace within Peng Zhan, confirming that ordinary Qi and Blood Spirit Beasts could help Body Cultivators advance.
• Ma Liang announced that the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce's Spirit Beast Department would sell Qi and Blood Spirit Beasts in limited quantities, and the eager Body Cultivators insisted price was no obstacle.

Qi and Blood Spirit Beasts brought the Vast Heaven Holy Land a flood of customers, while the Ming Clan lost nearly two hundred disciples inside the Land of Heavenly Secrets. Hua Xichen discovered that the site was connected to the Evil Shadow Continent, which appeared to be returning.

• Ma Liang publicized the Qi and Blood Spirit Beasts, and body cultivators crowded the Peng residence and the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce to see Peng Zhan’s Qi and Blood Furnace and reserve beasts.
• Ma Liang noted that the Four Sacred Beasts had found productive roles in the Vast Heaven Holy Land, from making treasure vaults and clothing to creating more Qi and Blood Spirit Beasts.
• The Ming Clan Head told Hua Xichen that nearly two hundred disciples had vanished inside the Land of Heavenly Secrets, even though their soul lamps showed they remained unharmed.
• Hua Xichen saw evil Qi at the entrance to the Land of Heavenly Secrets and accused the Ming Clan Head of hiding a threat tied to the Evil Shadow Continent.
• Hua Xichen used Sage's Descent to investigate, but the Wise One babbled without giving an answer, revealing that Obscuring Heavenly Secrets was blocking the prophecy.
• Hua Xichen concluded that the Land of Heavenly Secrets was deeply connected to the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits and that the Evil Shadow Continent was returning.

Hua Xichen realized that the Land of Heavenly Secrets concealed a passage linked to the Evil Shadow Continent, and the Ming Clan Head finally reported the danger to the Three Continents. When Hua Xichen’s prophecy showed that any other rescue team would die, he descended alone into the Land of Heavenly Secrets, where a pure-blooded Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit awoke.

• Hua Xichen identified the disturbance in his Great Prophecy Art as the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits’ Obscuring Heavenly Secrets method and ordered the Ming Clan Head to alert the major powers.
• The news of the Evil Shadow Continent’s return spread across the Three Continents, prompting Cheng Xiaotian, the Wolf King, and the Four Great Clans to gather and discuss the threat.
• The Ming Clan Head admitted that his gambler’s mindset had led him to send successive groups of young prodigies into the Land of Heavenly Secrets after the first group vanished.
• Clan Head Hua proposed sending Peak Ninth Rank experts to investigate, but Hua Xichen’s Great Prophecy Art predicted that they would all die, so Hua Xichen volunteered to go instead.
• Hua Xichen accepted life-preserving treasures from the clans and descended into the Land of Heavenly Secrets, where a pure-blooded Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit opened his eyes.

Hua Xichen entered the underground Land of Heavenly Secrets and discovered that the Ming Clan prodigies had been trapped by the Evil God's Spirit Eye. A Ninth Rank Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit attacked him, and Hua Xichen escaped toward the edge of the Land of Heavenly Secrets using the Great Prophecy Art.

• Hua Xichen used the Great Prophecy Art to evade a Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit searching for him in the Land of Heavenly Secrets.
• Hua Xichen found the Ming Clan prodigies trapped in a Heavenly Secrets Formation, where the Evil God's Spirit Eye had imprisoned their souls.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit attacked Hua Xichen with chains of spirit runes and a transforming spear, nearly killing him with one blow.
• Hua Xichen fought back with Vermilion Bird Spirit Fire, but the evil spirit transformed its Heavenly Secrets Spirit Bone into several weapons and wounded him.
• Hua Xichen activated Sage's Descent and reversed cause and effect, tearing open space and fleeing toward the Land of Heavenly Secrets' outskirts.

Hua Xichen escaped the Land of Heavenly Secrets gravely wounded and revealed that a Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit was using Ming Clan prodigies to activate a formation that could open a passage to the Evil Shadow Continent. With the spirit protected inside the Land of Heavenly Secrets, the gathered leaders concluded that Chu Xinghe might be their only chance to stop it.

• Hua Xichen emerged from the Land of Heavenly Secrets near death, and the clan heads and Chu Xinghe treated him until he recovered enough to speak.
• Hua Xichen explained that a Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit had countered his Great Prophecy Art and that the Ming Clan prodigies inside had been controlled by the Evil God's Spirit Eye.
• Elder He concluded that the evil spirit was using the prodigies to power a formation linked to a black hole, which could open a passage between the Three Continents and the Evil Shadow Continent.
• Elder He accused the Ming Clan Head of enabling the plot by sending wave after wave of prodigies into the Land of Heavenly Secrets, while the leaders realized they could not reach the evil spirit from outside.
• The leaders looked to Chu Xinghe as the only person below the Martial God realm who might enter the Land of Heavenly Secrets and kill the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit.

After Hua Xichen revealed how dangerous the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit was, Chu Xinghe volunteered to enter the Land of Heavenly Secrets, but focused on asking whether it contained treasures and resources. He descended, and the Evil Spirit divined his landing spot only to find it empty.

• Hua Xichen explained that the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit had nearly killed him and warned that activating the Heavenly Secrets Formation could let stronger evil spirits enter the Three Continents.
• The Great Sage said the Dark Moon Clan could not lower its cultivation to the Ninth Rank quickly enough to enter the Land of Heavenly Secrets.
• Chu Xinghe volunteered to go, then questioned Hua Xichen repeatedly about inheritances, rare treasures, and resource deposits.
• The Grand Elder and other leaders urged Chu Xinghe to put his safety before the sect's resources, and Chu Xinghe entered the Land of Heavenly Secrets.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit used the Art of Heavenly Secrets to locate Chu Xinghe, but found no one at the spot where he had landed.

The Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit tried to lure Chu Xinghe with a false treasure, but Chu Xinghe avoided it and stumbled upon the hidden Heavenly Secrets Spirit Pillars. The Evil Spirit hurried to stop him, only to find the first pillar intact and learn that Chu Xinghe had already reached a second one.

• Unable to calculate Chu Xinghe's location, the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit created a false treasure with the Heavenly Secrets Spiritual Lure and waited to ambush him.
• Chu Xinghe saw the spiritual light, assumed another rare treasure was bait, and fled without looking at it.
• Chu Xinghe encountered a spirit pillar made from treasures and spirit stones, mistook it for another dangerous treasure, and ran away without damaging it.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit sensed that Chu Xinghe had found one of the nine hidden Heavenly Secrets Spirit Pillars and rushed to protect it.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit found the first pillar intact, then sensed that Chu Xinghe had already reached a second pillar.

Chu Xinghe wandered through the Land of Heavenly Secrets, repeatedly finding spirit pillars but refusing to touch them, while Xie Yue failed to locate him and took his actions as deliberate humiliation. At the formation’s center, Chu Xinghe’s Evil Repeller severed the Evil God’s Spirit Eye’s soul-stealing power, and Xie Yue finally confronted him, furious over insults Chu Xinghe did not know he had delivered.

• Chu Xinghe found and avoided multiple Heavenly Secrets Spirit Pillars, cursing the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit for failing to appear.
• Xie Yue pursued Chu Xinghe but could not locate him with the Art of Heavenly Secrets, interpreting Chu Xinghe’s discovery of the pillars as provocation.
• Chu Xinghe continued through the formation, encountering all nine hidden Heavenly Secrets Spirit Pillars while Xie Yue grew increasingly enraged.
• Chu Xinghe reached the formation’s center, where the Evil God’s Spirit Eye sent soul-stealing power toward him.
• Evil Repeller emerged from the Haotian Sword Casket and severed the soul-stealing power, apparently wounding the Evil God’s Spirit Eye.
• Xie Yue arrived and threatened to tear Chu Xinghe apart, leaving Chu Xinghe confused about why the stranger blamed him for humiliation.

Chu Xinghe used the Star Divination Art to evade Xie Yue and locate all nine Heavenly Secrets Spirit Pillars, leading the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit on a fruitless chase instead of destroying them. When they finally met, Chu Xinghe’s Purple Lightning Flash struck Xie Yue’s Heavenly Secrets Spirit Bone shield, which blocked the attack.

• The powerful figures worried when Chu Xinghe remained silent in the Land of Heavenly Secrets, but the Great Sage sensed that he was safe.
• Gu Mingchao used the Haotian Mirror to observe Chu Xinghe, who was walking through the Land of Heavenly Secrets without being found by Xie Yue.
• Chu Xinghe repeatedly discovered the nine Heavenly Secrets Spirit Pillars but left each one untouched, while Xie Yue chased after him and arrived too late.
• Chu Xinghe and Xie Yue finally met, and Xie Yue cursed at him as Chu Xinghe summoned Thunder Shadow and unleashed Purple Lightning Flash.
• Xie Yue’s Heavenly Secrets Spirit Bone formed a battle shield that withstood Purple Lightning Flash, shocking Chu Xinghe and the watching experts.

Chu Xinghe fought Xie Yue at full strength, using formations and his weapons to withstand the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit’s strongest techniques. After Xie Yue created five powerful puppets with Five Gods Towering to Heaven, Chu Xinghe pierced the original Xie Yue’s chest and left him sprawled in a trench.

• Xie Yue’s Heavenly Secrets Spirit Bone blocked Chu Xinghe’s Purple Lightning Flash, then Xie Yue attacked with a spear, but Chu Xinghe trapped him in the Five Elements Killing Formation and Cold Heaven Grand Formation.
• Xie Yue opened the Eye of Heavenly Secrets and used Five Gods Towering to Heaven to create five puppets, each with half his strength, and attacked Chu Xinghe from all sides.
• Chu Xinghe used White Rainbow to reveal the stealthy short-saber puppet and Thread of Sky to sever its arms, forcing it to flee.
• Chu Xinghe activated Suspended Shears armor and his Power of Qi and Blood, endured the war-hammer puppet’s blow, and charged the original Xie Yue.
• Suspended Shears absorbed Xie Yue’s spear thrust, allowing Chu Xinghe to punch through Xie Yue’s chest and send him crashing into the ground as the Land of the Ming Clan fell silent.

Chu Xinghe killed Xie Yue with a single punch, but Xie Yue survived by using his Substitution Talisman to transfer the fatal damage to one of his puppets. Chu Xinghe immediately resumed his assault, leaving Xie Yue’s Heavenly Secrets Spirit Bone cracked and Xie Yue convinced he had lost.

• Chu Xinghe overwhelmed Xie Yue and his five puppets, killing Xie Yue’s original body with a single punch.
• Xie Yue used his Substitution Talisman to sacrifice a puppet and restore his body, prompting Elder He to explain that the art could transfer fatal injuries to a puppet.
• Chu Xinghe attacked again with Purple Lightning Flash, and Xie Yue blocked it with his Heavenly Secrets Spirit Bone.
• The lightning cracked Xie Yue’s battle shield and damaged his Spirit Bone, while Xie Yue realized he had already lost the fight.