Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe overwhelmed Xie Yue, who sacrificed his puppets and defenses to force the Heavenly Secrets Formation to activate. The formation began operating, and Xie Yue declared his mission complete despite his crushing losses.

• Xie Yue realized Chu Xinghe could defeat him and fled while his four puppets moved to activate the Heavenly Secrets Formation.
• Xie Yue used his true body to draw Chu Xinghe away as the puppets forced the formation to begin turning ahead of schedule.
• Chu Xinghe repeatedly bluffed about using Purple Lightning Flash, making Xie Yue retreat and then spend Substitution Talismans and puppets to protect himself.
• Xie Yue’s five puppets were destroyed, but he reached the formation’s center and used his evil Qi to drive it into operation.
• Chu Xinghe’s Purple Lightning Flash shattered Xie Yue’s Heavenly Secrets Spirit Bone as the formation started, and Xie Yue laughed that he had completed his mission.

Chu Xinghe tried to stop the Heavenly Secrets Formation and save the Ming Clan's chosen, but discovered the Evil God's Spirit Eye could evade his attacks by slipping into the void. He froze it with Sea Stabilizer and finally pierced it with Evil Repeller as it howled.

• Xie Yue activated the Heavenly Secrets Formation at great cost, while Chu Xinghe saw soul chains linking the Ming Clan's chosen to the Evil God's Spirit Eye.
• Chu Xinghe used Evil Repeller to sever one soul chain, then cut the chain between the Evil God's Spirit Eye and the black hole, causing a Ming Clan disciple to die and the chain to reconnect.
• Chu Xinghe attacked the Evil God's Spirit Eye, but it repeatedly slipped into the void to evade Evil Repeller, while Xie Yue believed the formation was about to succeed.
• Chu Xinghe timed his strike for when the Evil God's Spirit Eye emerged and used Sea Stabilizer to freeze it in place.
• Chu Xinghe ran Evil Repeller through the immobilized Evil God's Spirit Eye.

Chu Xinghe suppressed the Evil God's Spirit Eye with Evil Repeller, collapsing the Heavenly Secrets Formation and sending Xie Yue back through the closing black hole. The Spirit Eye then tried to appease Chu Xinghe by showering him with treasures, but he kept stabbing it as it poured out more.

• Chu Xinghe used Sea Stabilizer to immobilize the Evil God's Spirit Eye and pierced it with Evil Repeller, breaking its soul chains and destroying the Heavenly Secrets Formation.
• The nine Heavenly Secrets Spirit Pillars shattered, while the black hole collapsed and dragged Xie Yue back to the Evil Shadow Continent.
• The Three Continents' big shots entered the Land of Heavenly Secrets and found Chu Xinghe holding the suppressed Evil God's Spirit Eye; the Ming Clan's prodigies had mostly survived.
• The Evil God's Spirit Eye drew treasures from the shattered pillars toward Chu Xinghe, then began spitting out more resources after he stabbed it again.
• Chu Xinghe furiously continued stabbing the Evil God's Spirit Eye as it poured out treasure, leaving the onlookers dumbstruck.

The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord waited for Xie Yue to establish a passage to the Three Continents, but Xie Yue returned battered and the black hole vanished. After confirming Xie Yue’s account was true, the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord realized Chu Xinghe had taken the Evil God's Spirit Eye, leaving the Evil Spirit Clan unable to reopen the passage.

• The nine Evil Lords devised a plan to use Xie Yue and the Evil God's Spirit Eye to create a stable connection between the Evil Shadow Continent and the Three Continents.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord watched the black hole for signs that Xie Yue had completed the Heavenly Secrets Formation.
• Xie Yue was hurled out of the black hole, which promptly disappeared, and the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord found his Eye of Heavenly Secrets ruined and his Heavenly Secrets Spirit Bone shattered.
• Xie Yue told the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord that Chu Xinghe had defeated him, destroyed his puppets, and taken the Evil God's Spirit Eye.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord used the Heavenly Secrets Secret Art to verify Xie Yue’s story and confirmed it was true.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord realized that without the Evil God's Spirit Eye, the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits could not open the barrier to the Three Continents.

The Nine Divisions of Evil Spirits learned that Xie Yue had lost the Evil God's Spirit Eye, so the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord sent Zang Ling into the Three Continents to reclaim it. Meanwhile, Chu Xinghe secured the treasures of the Heavenly Secrets Spirit Pillars, and his victory showed the Three Continents that the Evil Spirit Clan could be defeated.

• The Heart-Devouring Evil Lord and the other evil lords condemned the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord after hearing that Xie Yue had lost the Evil God's Spirit Eye.
• The Heart-Devouring Evil Lord chose Zang Ling to enter the Three Continents and recover the relic, giving him the Evil God's Fang to open a passage.
• Zang Ling crossed into the Three Continents, intending to gather lower evil spirits and make the region a hunting ground.
• Chu Xinghe kept the Heavenly Secrets Spirit Pillars intact so he could claim the Evil God's Spirit Eye and the treasures stored within them.
• Chu Xinghe defeated Xie Yue, shattered the Heavenly Secrets Spirit Bone, broke the Heavenly Secrets Formation, and seized the Evil God's Spirit Eye, lifting the Three Continents' morale.

After footage of Chu Xinghe’s battle against Xie Yue spread across the Three Continents, the public recognized Chu Xinghe’s overwhelming strength and Zheng Yu’s strategic talent. Back at the Vast Heaven Holy Land, Chu Xinghe tried to make the captured Evil God’s Spirit Eye escape, but it remained obedient, leaving him hoping it would not become useful to his sect.

• Lu Chengqing released the Haotian Mirror footage of Chu Xinghe’s battle in the Land of Heavenly Secrets, and viewers saw him find the Spirit Pillars and kill Xie Yue five times.
• People across the Three Continents praised Chu Xinghe’s all-around strength and credited Zheng Yu with wise planning that had benefited Martial Emperor City.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land gathered around the captured Evil God’s Spirit Eye to study the treasure.
• Chu Xinghe pulled Evil Repeller out of the Evil God’s Spirit Eye and waited for it to flee, but the intelligent treasure stayed put because Sea Stabilizer and Evil Repeller had subdued it.
• Chu Xinghe concluded that the Vast Heaven Holy Land had not lost as long as the Evil God’s Spirit Eye could not be made to serve it.

The elders of Vast Heaven Holy Land determined that the Evil God's Spirit Eye was far weaker than the Well of Prophecy and could not be controlled without the Heavenly Secrets Secret Art. Chu Xinghe celebrated its apparent uselessness, but She Meng stepped forward with a plan.

• The Well Spirits elders examined the Evil God's Spirit Eye and said it was vastly inferior to the Well of Prophecy.
• Gu Mingchao asked what might happen if the ancient god's four body parts were reunited, and the Well Spirits Great Elder suggested they could help break the barrier between worlds.
• Elder He, the Great Sage, and the Well Spirits elders all failed to control the Evil God's Spirit Eye.
• Chu Xinghe decided the uncontrollable, power-consuming artifact could serve as decoration at Vast Heaven Holy Land's entrance and jokingly renamed it Hold in High Regard.
• She Meng stepped forward and announced that she had a plan.

She Meng used the Snake Spirit Clan’s Nether Snake Marks to improve the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s intelligence network, then took control of the Evil God’s Spirit Eye by linking it to the soul fragment inside. Far away, the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord felt his connection to the eye vanish and realized it had been lost again.

• She Meng explained that Nether Snake Marks could send intelligence securely and instantly, and linked the marks on the Holy Land’s agents to Elder She Kui so he could relay information to Shen Chun.
• Shen Chun credited She Meng for the intelligence system improvement, while Chu Xinghe lamented that Shen Chun had joined She Meng and She Kui in taking credit from him.
• She Meng connected a Nether Snake Mark to the Evil God’s Spirit Eye and made it enter his forehead as a third eye.
• Elder He explained that the mark could control the eye because it contained a soul fragment that lacked the ability to resist.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord returned to the Land of Heavenly Secrets, then felt his connection to the Evil God’s Spirit Eye disappear and wondered what had happened.

She Meng used the Nether Snake Mark to bind the Evil God's Spirit Eye, but its powers seemed useless to Vast Heaven Holy Land until he discovered it could materialize souls. The Four Sacred Beasts regained their peak strength, and their new soul bodies could function as bodies as long as the Spirit Eye remained at the Holy Land.

• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord discovered that his connection to the Evil God's Spirit Eye had been severed after She Meng bound it with the Nether Snake Mark.
• She Meng found no resources inside the Evil God's Spirit Eye and learned that its Heavenly Secrets abilities were unusable by Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• She Meng revealed that the Spirit Eye could materialize souls, and he used it to give the Well Spirits Great Elder a solid soul form.
• Gu Mingchao summoned the Four Sacred Beasts, and She Meng used the Spirit Eye to materialize their souls.
• The Four Sacred Beasts absorbed their dispersed innate powers and returned to peak strength, though Xuanwu needed a second attempt before his soul materialized.

The Evil God's Spirit Eye restored the Four Sacred Beasts to their peak and upgraded the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation into a powerful, self-sustaining defense. Ma Liang then discovered that the eye could also turn Ghost Valley's ghosts into soul warriors, giving him a dramatic upgrade and access to the abilities of many races.

• The Four Sacred Beasts returned to peak condition, allowing the Four Holy Beasts Grand Formation to operate at full power without consuming the Vast Heaven Holy Land's spiritual power.
• Chu Xinghe realized that She Meng had understated the Evil God's Spirit Eye's abilities and that the Vast Heaven Holy Land had gained a formidable mountain-protecting formation.
• Ma Liang asked She Meng to use the Evil God's Spirit Eye on two ghosts from Ghost Valley, and their souls materialized at the peak Martial God level they had reached in life.
• Ma Liang concluded that materialized soul warriors could use the abilities of their original races, solving the limitations of his ghost-based cultivation and expanding his formations beyond ghost power.

Ma Liang and Wei Buhui received powerful enhancements to their ghosts and soul beasts, leaving Chu Xinghe overwhelmed by another wave of beneficial consequences from the Evil God's Spirit Eye. Meanwhile, Zang Ling arrived on the Blazing Sun Continent and vowed to conquer the Three Continents and force Chu Xinghe to kneel.

• Ma Liang's strengthened ghosts became soul warriors with varied abilities, and the Vast Heaven Holy Land's leaders realized his buff made him a formidable threat at every stage of battle.
• Ma Liang proposed strengthening Wei Buhui's soul beasts, so the Grand Elder sent Shen Chun to fetch Wei Buhui and She Meng used the Evil God's Spirit Eye on them.
• Wei Buhui's materialized soul beasts gained at least fifty percent more combat power, and he proposed combining forces with Ma Liang's soul warriors.
• Chu Xinghe retreated to the ninth floor of the Technique Repository Tower, despairing over how the evil spirits' arrival had brought his allies yet more benefits.
• Zang Ling descended into a cavern on the Blazing Sun Continent through the Evil God's Fang and declared that he would conquer the Three Continents with an army of converted evil spirits.
• Zang Ling vowed to make the Three Continents surrender the Evil God's Spirit Eye and force Chu Xinghe to kneel before him.

Zang Ling, a Heart-Devouring Evil Spirit, planned to start an invasion of the Three Continents by transforming a city’s cultivators into low-level evil spirits. After gathering information, he chose Bin City as a target that seemed to meet his requirements.

• Zang Ling’s abilities let him mimic other races, devour weaker cultivators’ spiritual power, and turn them into controlled low-level evil spirits.
• Zang Ling delayed his first attack while searching for a city with many weak cultivators and no powerful opponents, since failure would exhaust his Heart-Devouring Power.
• Zang Ling disguised himself as a young man and asked an adventuring party where he could find many cultivators below the fourth rank.
• The party first recommended Haotian City, but Zang Ling clarified that he wanted a place with few cultivators above the seventh rank.
• An adventuring party member suggested Bin City, where cultivators below the fourth rank gathered for well water around the fifteenth of the month, and Zang Ling decided to target it.

Zang Ling arrived in Bin City intending to use the crowded monthly gathering to devour cultivators and create evil spirit puppets. Instead, his blood-red chains opened blocked Qi and Blood meridians, leaving the crowd feeling better and Zang Ling baffled.

• Zang Ling confirmed that crowds of cultivators gathered in Bin City on the fifteenth to collect water from the Well of Prophecy, and learned the Vast Heaven Holy Land organized the distribution.
• Zang Ling reached Bin City and found its gates and streets packed with body cultivators waiting for water.
• Zang Ling used the Evil God's Fang to strengthen his heart-devouring power and sent blood-red chains through the crowd, intending to enslave everyone.
• Qu Yifeng tried to calm the panicking crowd, but the chains entered his body and drew out his accumulated Qi and Blood, clearing some blocked meridians.
• Other linked body cultivators also felt their Qi and Blood flow freely, while Zang Ling wondered why they seemed to be enjoying the chains instead of being devoured.

Zang Ling’s Heart-Devouring Power accidentally cleared the body cultivators’ Qi and Blood blockages and created Blood Spirit Stones, but everyone blamed Yuan Ying for the strange act of helping Chu Xinghe. The body cultivators gave their stones to Qu Yifeng in gratitude, while Yuan Ying emerged from seclusion unaware that he had been credited with the deed.

• Zang Ling’s blood-colored chains entered the body cultivators, failed to find spiritual power, and cleared their blocked Qi and Blood instead.
• The expelled Qi and Blood merged with ambient Spiritual Qi to form Blood Spirit Stones, and Bin City residents concluded that Yuan Ying had used an Ape Clan secret art to help Chu Xinghe.
• Zang Ling fled Bin City after exhausting nearly seventy percent of his power without harming the body cultivators.
• The body cultivators gave their Blood Spirit Stones to Qu Yifeng, thanking the Vast Heaven Holy Land and Chu Xinghe for their help.
• News spread across the Three Continents, and Tantai Jing and Wu Xingyun assumed the exhausted Yuan Ying was responsible for the incident.

After Bin City’s blood-chain incident was blamed on Yuan Ying, the Ape Clan disowned him and Chu Xinghe feared he would bring the Vast Heaven Holy Land another gift. Yuan Ying, who had been secluded and had nothing to do with the incident, set out to find the real culprit and prove his innocence.

• Word spread that Yuan Ying had used the Ape Clan’s secret arts to help Chu Xinghe in Bin City, leaving the Grand Elder unsure whether to treat him as a threat.
• The Ape Clan publicly declared Yuan Ying a mixed-blood ape and expelled him, prompting ridicule across the Three Continents.
• Qu Yifeng returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land with Blood Spirit Stones produced through Body Cultivation, and Chu Xinghe worried Yuan Ying might teach the secret art to the sect.
• Yuan Ying learned that everyone suspected him of causing the Bin City incident, despite his having stayed in secluded cultivation.
• Yuan Ying carved “wronged” into his face and left the Demonic Sect at night to find the person who had helped Chu Xinghe and clear his name.

Yuan Ying set out to prove he had been falsely blamed for the Bin City incident, while Zang Ling realized his plan to turn the city’s cultivators into lesser evil spirits had failed because body cultivation countered his powers. After deciding to recover by targeting a minor lineage, Zang Ling chose Peng Lineage, where Peng Zhan’s Qi and Blood Furnace symposium was underway.

• Yuan Ying vowed to find the culprit behind the Bin City incident and clear his name.
• Zang Ling discovered that Bin City’s body cultivators had no spiritual power, leaving him unable to turn them into lesser evil spirits and weakening him.
• Zang Ling learned that Chu Xinghe had established the body-cultivation path and recognized it as a counter to the Heart-Devouring Evil Spirits.
• Zang Ling avoided detection while the Three Continents blamed Yuan Ying, then decided to restore his strength by attacking minor lineages.
• Zang Ling selected Peng Lineage as his first target while Peng Zhan’s Qi and Blood Furnace symposium drew body cultivators from across the region.

Zang Ling tried to devour members of the Peng Lineage, but his heart-devouring power was drawn to the Qi and Blood of the gathered Body Cultivation practitioners, accidentally clearing their blockages before he fled. The practitioners credited Yuan Ying, who was already investigating false claims that he had helped Chu Xinghe and headed to the Peng Lineage to uncover who was responsible.

• Peng Zhan held a Qi and Blood Furnace symposium and banquet at the Peng Lineage, drawing Body Cultivation practitioners from across the region.
• Zang Ling secretly entered the Peng Lineage at night and unleashed the Heart-Devouring Technique on a cultivator.
• Zang Ling's blood-colored chains veered toward the Body Cultivation practitioners, clearing their Qi and Blood blockages and producing Blood Spirit Stones as he fled.
• The practitioners celebrated what they believed was Yuan Ying's intervention and credited him with helping Chu Xinghe's followers.
• Yuan Ying investigated rumors in Bin City that he had used an Ape Clan secret art and helped Chu Xinghe, then set off for the Peng Lineage to find the real culprit.

Yuan Ying searched the Peng Lineage and found a faint, unfamiliar presence left by the person who framed him. Zang Ling, unable to prey on ordinary people because body cultivation had dispersed their spiritual power, attacked a small lineage of low-level cultivators, only for Yuan Ying to confront him.

• Yuan Ying questioned the Peng Lineage, but its members and the body cultivators falsely claimed they had witnessed him attack.
• Yuan Ying used the Ape Clan art Seeking Tracks and Tracing Shadows to find a faint, unfamiliar presence at the Peng Lineage.
• Zang Ling realized that widespread body cultivation had left ordinary people without spiritual power for his Heart-Devouring art to consume.
• Zang Ling chose to attack low-level cultivators and carefully watched a small lineage before striking with blood-red chains.
• As Zang Ling found spiritual power in the cultivators he attacked, Yuan Ying appeared and shouted that he had finally found him.

Yuan Ying caught Zang Ling attacking a small Lineage and carved a declaration of innocence into his face before bringing him to the Vast Heaven Holy Land. The Grand Elder welcomed Yuan Ying, who entered determined to clear his name before the Holy Land’s leaders and Chu Xinghe.

• Zang Ling tried to devour spiritual power, but Yuan Ying arrived and pinned him down with Mystic God power.
• Yuan Ying carved “I'm the one who helped Chu Xinghe like crazy! Yuan Ying is innocent!” into Zang Ling’s face and erased one “wronged” character from his own face.
• Yuan Ying took Zang Ling through the void and teleported to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to prove his innocence.
• The Little Bear King recognized Yuan Ying, and Yuan Ying ordered him to summon Gu Mingchao, the chief elders, and Chu Xinghe.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land reacted to Yuan Ying’s arrival, and the Grand Elder personally welcomed him inside.

Yuan Ying came to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to prove he had not caused the recent incidents in Bin City and the Peng Lineage, presenting the captured Zang Ling as the culprit. When Zang Ling was revealed to be a Heart-Devouring Evil Spirit, the Holy Land praised Yuan Ying for saving the Three Continents and saw him as a genuine ally of Chu Xinghe and the sect.

• Shen Chun summoned Chu Xinghe to the Haotian Grand Hall, where Yuan Ying had arrived to clear his name.
• Yuan Ying released Zang Ling and declared that he had captured the man responsible for the incidents in Bin City and the Peng Lineage.
• The Great Sage dispelled Zang Ling's concealment, exposing him as a Heart-Devouring Evil Spirit, and Gu Mingchao sealed the Evil God's Fang.
• Elder He identified Zang Ling as one of the Heart-Devouring Evil Spirits, and the elders realized his powers had threatened lives across the Three Continents.
• Gu Mingchao thanked Yuan Ying for saving the Three Continents, while Ma Liang pointed out that Zang Ling could help the Holy Land produce Blood Spirit Stones.
• The Holy Land's leaders concluded that Yuan Ying had deliberately and repeatedly helped Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Holy Land.