Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe discovered that the Muyue Kingdom disciples had excelled at growing spirit herbs, so he banned them from the fields and assigned them metal- and fire-type techniques to prevent their talent from developing. He left for the Artifact Refining Palace relieved, where Ouyang Ling vowed to prove herself through hard work.

• Chu Xinghe hid from the Grand Elder in the Technique Repository Tower and learned that burning it down would earn him the task of copying every technique before punishment.
• Ma Biao told Chu Xinghe that Mu Bai and the Muyue Kingdom disciples had discovered their talent for growing spirit herbs, with their crops thriving unusually fast and often reaching top grade.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Mu Bai and the other Muyue Kingdom disciples to leave the spirit fields and focus on cultivation, then gave them the Great Expansion Heavenly Metal Art and the Sun-Illuminating Heart Sutra.
• Mu Bai and the Muyue Kingdom disciples accepted the techniques and began cultivating metal and fire despite their innate Wood Spirit.
• Chu Xinghe visited the Artifact Refining Palace and encountered Ouyang Ling, who promised to work hard and prove she was not useless.

Chu Xinghe arranged for Senior Brother Feng Fei to teach the Muyue Kingdom disciples herb identification, expecting them to struggle, but their innate Wood Spirit ability let all three hundred identify medicinal herbs with ease. He tried to reassure himself that they were still poor at refining medicine as the Spirit Crane Palace disciples praised his foresight.

• Chu Xinghe asked Senior Brother Ma Biao to keep the Muyue Kingdom disciples’ earlier encounter with the Grand Elder secret, and Ma Biao agreed.
• Senior Brother Feng Fei told Chu Xinghe that the three disciples he had driven away had joined Martial Emperor City, where Mo Kai had advanced his mental state and comprehended the Unparalleled Tyrant Sword.
• Chu Xinghe learned that the Grand Elder had ordered Feng Fei to teach the Muyue Kingdom disciples herb identification, and he happily helped bring them to the lessons.
• Chu Xinghe watched as Mu Bai identified evening primrose, Moon Nether Grass, and Moon Soul Grass at a glance, then led the other Muyue Kingdom disciples in rapidly sorting thousands of herbs.
• Mu Bai explained that the Muyue Kingdom’s Wood Spirit made identifying herbs easy even though they were poor at refining medicine, while onlookers credited Chu Xinghe with foresight.

Chu Xinghe encouraged the Muyue Kingdom disciples to keep refining pills after they repeatedly blew up furnaces, hoping their failures would bring him luck. Mu Bai unexpectedly refined a supreme-grade pill, and the Grand Elder credited Chu Xinghe’s fire-technique training with helping the wood-talented disciples master furnace flames, leaving Chu Xinghe bewildered by the result.

• Feng Fei taught Mu Bai alchemy, and Mu Bai blew up two pill furnaces in quick succession while Chu Xinghe encouraged him to continue.
• Chu Xinghe urged Feng Fei to keep giving the Muyue Kingdom disciples chances to refine pills, and the disciples resolved to work hard for him.
• The Grand Elder approved the furnace explosions and instructed Feng Fei to teach the Muyue Kingdom disciples well, while they continued refining pills and cultivating metal and fire.
• When no furnace exploded one morning, Chu Xinghe rushed to the Medicine King Palace and discovered Mu Bai refining a supreme-grade pill.
• Mu Bai embraced Chu Xinghe and thanked him for giving him a new life, while the Muyue Kingdom disciples bowed and echoed his thanks.
• The Grand Elder explained that Chu Xinghe’s fire-element training had helped the wood-talented disciples control their pill-furnace flames, and Chu Xinghe wondered how that had been his intention.

Chu Xinghe’s fire cultivation technique helped Mu Bai and the Muyue Kingdom disciples refine pills with astonishing success, earning them recognition throughout the Vast Heaven Sect. As praise for Chu Xinghe spread, he hid away and pinned his hopes on Mo Kai defeating the sect in the coming contest.

• Mu Bai mastered the fire cultivation technique, controlled the furnace flames, and refined a top-grade pill.
• The First Elder ordered the Muyue Kingdom disciples to refine pills, and nearly a third of the three hundred produced top-grade pills.
• Ma Biao told the First Elder that the Muyue Kingdom disciples also grew higher-quality spirit herbs in less time, and news of their abilities spread throughout the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Chu Xinghe left Medicine King Palace, complained about the Muyue Kingdom disciples, and chased away Ma Liang after Ma Liang thanked him for changing their fate.
• Chu Xinghe thought about Mo Kai’s rise in Martial Emperor City and decided to help him win the upcoming contest against the Vast Heaven Sect.

After Muyue Kingdom’s disciples impressed the sects with their pill-refining talent, Muyue Kingdom pledged its geniuses to the Vast Heaven Sect in gratitude to Chu Xinghe. Chu tried to steer Mu Bai toward an ineffective metal-element art, then learned the Spirit Crane Palace might skip the coming disciple competition and resolved to make its disciples compete.

• Word spread that Muyue Kingdom’s disciples had become exceptional pill refiners under Chu Xinghe’s guidance, drawing sects to recruit them.
• Mu Bai urged his father, Mu Shangxing, to send Muyue Kingdom’s geniuses only to the Vast Heaven Sect, and Mu Shangxing declared the kingdom a vassal of the sect.
• The great elder promised to protect Muyue Kingdom and allow its talented people to join the Vast Heaven Sect, while Chu Xinghe privately fumed at Mu Bai’s pledge.
• Chu Xinghe encouraged Mu Bai to persist in cultivating the Great Expansion Heavenly Metal Art, believing it would keep Muyue Kingdom from advancing in cultivation.
• Feng Fei considered asking the sect to let the Spirit Crane Palace sit out the upcoming disciple competition, but Chu Xinghe insisted its Muyue Kingdom disciples should participate.

Chu Xinghe persuaded Feng Fei and the first elder to let the Muyue Kingdom disciples enter the competition, accepting that Spirit Crane Palace would likely come last rather than risk looking afraid to compete. As the tournament began, the three hundred disciples took the stage, determined to honor Chu Xinghe, while he eagerly expected them to lose quickly.

• Chu Xinghe convinced Feng Fei that withdrawing the Muyue Kingdom disciples would make Spirit Crane Palace look afraid of losing, and Feng Fei reported the advice to the first elder.
• The first elder agreed to enter all three hundred Muyue Kingdom disciples, and the other palace heads praised Chu Xinghe for the decision.
• The Muyue Kingdom disciples trained the Great Expansion Heavenly Metal Art on their own while the other palaces prepared for the competition and excluded Spirit Crane Palace from their betting list.
• Sect Master Gu Mingchao opened the competition at the Haotian Martial Arts Arena, where Thunder Palace narrowly defeated Hill Forest Palace and other matches followed.
• The Muyue Kingdom disciples finally got their turn to take the stage, while Chu Xinghe impatiently anticipated their quick defeat.

Mu Bai defeated Xu Sheng with one punch, revealing that all three hundred Muyue Kingdom disciples had awakened the Power of Source Metal through the Great Expansion Heavenly Metal Art. The elders praised Chu Xinghe for transforming the Muyue Kingdom, while Chu Xinghe privately despaired at their unexpected strength.

• Azure Wood Palace's Xu Sheng let Mu Bai attack first, but Mu Bai knocked him unconscious and out of the arena with one punch.
• Gu Mingchao tested Mu Bai and identified the golden force from his fist as the Power of Source Metal.
• Mu Bai explained that all three hundred Muyue Kingdom disciples had developed the same power while cultivating the Great Expansion Heavenly Metal Art.
• The elders examined the Muyue Kingdom disciples and confirmed they all possessed the Power of Source Metal and exceptional strength against opponents of their realm.
• Gu Mingchao and the elders realized that Chu Xinghe's guidance in metal and fire cultivation had transformed the Muyue Kingdom into a force of geniuses.
• Mu Bai thanked Chu Xinghe tearfully for giving the Muyue Kingdom a new path, while Chu Xinghe privately lamented the unexpected outcome.

Chu Xinghe’s Muyue Kingdom disciples swept the sect tournament after cultivating both metal and fire, turning the Spirit Crane Palace into champions while Chu Xinghe privately suffered over their success. As the Muyue Kingdom’s fame spread, Zheng Yu regretted missing the chance to recruit its disciples and prepared for a coming competition against the Vast Heaven Sect.

• Mu Bai and the other Muyue Kingdom disciples thanked Chu Xinghe, and the Grand Elder and Ma Liang praised him for transforming their fortunes.
• The tournament resumed, and Mu Bai was declared the fastest victor in its history.
• The Muyue Kingdom disciples defeated opponents from all seventeen other palaces and secured first place for the Spirit Crane Palace.
• At the celebration banquet, Chu Xinghe invited the Ouyang Lineage to help keep the Muyue Kingdom disciples from eating their fill, then cried alone through the night.
• News of the Muyue Kingdom’s success spread, while Zheng Yu regretted that his envoy had failed to recruit its disciples.
• Mo Kai promised Zheng Yu that his Unparalleled Tyrant Sword would defeat the Muyue Kingdom’s geniuses in the upcoming competition between their sects.

Chu Xinghe tried to recover from the Muyue Kingdom’s repeated successes by hiding in the Technique Repository Tower, but Ma Liang kept bringing him news of their achievements. The chapter left Chu Xinghe seeking comfort at the Artifact Refining Palace, where Ouyang Ling promised an enormous surprise.

• Chu Xinghe heard that Mu Bai had led the new disciples through the Abyss of Trials in record time, and the three thousand disciples carved Chu Xinghe’s name on the Trial Heavenly Stele instead of their own.
• Ma Liang praised the disciples’ gratitude, while Chu Xinghe ordered him to stop bringing such news and worried about the damage to his reputation.
• Ma Liang reported that Mu Bai had obtained the divine sword Marquis of Xinting and that the other Muyue Kingdom disciples had gained powerful spirit weapons in the Spirit Tomb.
• Chu Xinghe kicked Ma Liang away and went to the Artifact Refining Palace to recover by listening to its furnaces explode.
• Ouyang Ling found Chu Xinghe outside the Artifact Refining Palace and promised that the Ouyang Lineage would soon give him an enormous surprise.

Chu Xinghe rejoiced when Martial Emperor City’s rising disciples and Hundred Refinements Valley both announced visits, believing they would help the Vast Heaven Sect and Ouyang Lineage suffer setbacks. He welcomed the delegations with the Grand Elder and saw Mo Kai and the other disciples he had once defeated arrive eager for revenge.

• Feng Fei told Chu Xinghe that Martial Emperor City would bring its disciples, including Mo Kai, Zheng Yu, and the other former top three, to compete at the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Feng Fei revealed that Hundred Refinements Valley would also visit to invite the sect and Ouyang Lineage to its weapon-refining conference, and Chu Xinghe secretly welcomed the prospect of conflict with the Ouyang Lineage.
• Chu Xinghe concealed Hundred Refinements Valley’s impending visit from the Artifact Refining Palace, ate breakfast, and urged Mu Bai and the others to focus on medicine refining.
• The Martial Emperor City and Hundred Refinements Valley delegations arrived, led by Cheng Xiaotian, and the Grand Elder and Gu Mingchao welcomed them.
• Chu Xinghe saw Mo Kai and the other disciples glaring at him and privately resolved to help them make their comeback.

Chu Xinghe accidentally broke through to the fifth rank after Mo Kai mocked his cultivation, leaving Zheng Yu and the others convinced that Xinghe had been deliberately suppressing his progress. At the welcoming banquet, Ouyang Ling challenged Hundred Refinements Valley, and Chu Xinghe anticipated that the siblings’ bold declaration would make their eventual defeat more damaging to the sect.

• Mo Kai mocked Chu Xinghe for being at the peak of the fourth rank, so Chu Xinghe smiled and immediately broke through to the fifth rank.
• Zheng Yu pulled Mo Kai back and warned him, while Zheng Yu, the first elder, and the sect disciples praised Chu Xinghe and interpreted his breakthrough as proof of his unfathomable strength.
• Chu Xinghe greeted Ou Yunsheng and the Hundred Refinements Valley delegation, then admitted he had forgotten to invite the Ouyang siblings to the banquet.
• Gu Mingchao sent for Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling, who arrived soot-covered from an exploded furnace and traded insults with Ou Yunsheng.
• Ouyang Ling vowed to prove that the Ouyang Lineage was truly number one in artifact refining, and Chu Xinghe privately hoped the declaration would lead to a humiliating defeat for the siblings.

At the tournament between Martial Emperor City and the Vast Heaven Sect, Chu Xinghe expected Mu Xiaoqi to lose the opening match, but Mu Xiaoqi effortlessly defeated Shen Hui. The chapter ended with Martial Emperor City’s first contestant eliminated and the tournament’s outcome suddenly in doubt.

• At the banquet, Ouyang Ming and the drunken Ouyang Ling vented their feelings about Hundred Refinements Valley, and Chu Xinghe escorted Ouyang Ling back to the Artifact Refining Palace.
• The Great Elder asked Chu Xinghe about the coming challenges from Martial Emperor City and Hundred Refinements Valley, and Chu Xinghe urged him to trust Ouyang Ling.
• During the following two days, Chu Xinghe repeatedly reminded Zheng Yu and Martial Emperor City’s top three of their rejection in Haotian City.
• At the tournament, Zheng Yu rallied the top three while Chu Xinghe chose Mu Xiaoqi, the weakest Muyue Kingdom disciple, to fight first against Shen Hui.
• Shen Hui attacked with a saber and vines, but Mu Xiaoqi froze the vines and struck him out of the arena with a golden blade of light.

Mu Xiaoqi and Mu Heng defeated Martial Emperor City’s fighters in the first two matches, despite Chu Xinghe’s plan to lose the second match deliberately and give their guests a victory. The contest stood at two wins for the Muyue Kingdom, leaving Chu Xinghe’s team struggling to understand why their opponents seemed so weak.

• Mu Xiaoqi seized control of Shen Hui’s vines and defeated him with a single golden saber strike, baffling Chu Xinghe and the spectators.
• The grand elder realized Mu Xiaoqi’s metal-and-fire training and exceptional Wood Spirit had let him counter Shen Hui’s Ten Thousand Woods Heart Sutra.
• After Mu Xiaoqi celebrated with Chu Xinghe, Zheng Yu acknowledged that Martial Emperor City had underestimated how much the Muyue Kingdom’s disciples had changed.
• Chu Xinghe told Mu Heng to hold back and let Yue Cheng win the second match so Martial Emperor City would not lose all three contests.
• Mu Heng suppressed his strength as instructed, but his Sun-Illuminating Heart Sutra and fire-element spear overwhelmed Yue Cheng’s Golden Radiance Battle Intent and knocked him off the arena.

Yue Cheng was crushed by Mu Heng, while Chu Xinghe’s attempt to let Martial Emperor City save face was misunderstood as reverse match-fixing. Mu Bai then acted out a drawn-out defeat against Mo Kai, but Mo Kai suddenly released Demonic Qi, seemingly confirming Chu Xinghe’s earlier suspicion that a Demonic Sect spy lurked among the top three.

• Yue Cheng lost to Mu Heng, whose fire cultivation countered him, and Zheng Yu comforted him as he fell into Qi deviation.
• Chu Xinghe scolded Mu Heng for defeating Yue Cheng too easily, while the great elder learned that Chu Xinghe had told Mu Heng to lose so Martial Emperor City could save face.
• Mu Bai promised Chu Xinghe he would lose to Mo Kai, then spent an hour dodging and parrying the attacks of Mo Kai’s Unparalleled Tyrant Sword.
• As Mu Bai prepared to lose, Mo Kai erupted in black Demonic Qi, shocking the spectators and Cheng Xiaotian.
• Ma Liang recalled Chu Xinghe’s claim that a Demonic Sect spy was among the top three, and the crowd concluded that Mo Kai had been the spy.

Mu Bai killed Mo Kai after Mo Kai revealed his demonic cultivation, humiliating Martial Emperor City and making Chu Xinghe seem prescient. As the demonic sect mourned its lost infiltrator, Tantai Jing emerged from seclusion and vowed to challenge Chu Xinghe, while Chu Xinghe pinned his hopes on the Ouyang Lineage losing to Hundred Refinements Valley.

• Mo Kai revealed his demonic Qi, and Mu Bai broke through during their fight before cutting him down and hacking at his body.
• Cheng Xiaotian took Zheng Yu and the Martial Emperor City disciples away after their defeat, while Chu Xinghe privately lamented how badly the match had gone for him.
• News of Mo Kai's infiltration spread, and people reconsidered Chu Xinghe's actions in Haotian City as evidence of his extraordinary foresight.
• Wu Xingyun learned that Mo Kai had died and grieved the loss of the infiltrator he had trained for years.
• Tantai Jing emerged from seclusion, revealed himself as the reincarnated Yin Soul Patriarch, and vowed to teach Chu Xinghe a lesson.
• Chu Xinghe hoped the Ouyang Lineage would lose to Hundred Refinements Valley and bring his sect another setback.

After the competition ended in disgrace for Martial Emperor City, Cheng Xiaotian announced that the city would no longer compete against the Vast Heaven Sect. Chu Xinghe was hailed as the mastermind behind the decision, though he privately lamented losing his chance to help Martial Emperor City win.

• Cheng Xiaotian returned to Martial Emperor City and ordered a screening that uncovered five or six more disciples connected to the Demonic Sect, while Zheng Yu dealt with them and regretted accepting Mo Kai.
• At the Vast Heaven Sect's banquet, Mu Bai toasted Chu Xinghe and became convinced that Chu Xinghe had planned Mo Kai's exposure, while Chu Xinghe privately mourned the competition's disastrous results.
• Gu Mingchao read Cheng Xiaotian's message announcing that Martial Emperor City had ended the disciples' martial competition, and the Vast Heaven Sect disciples celebrated Chu Xinghe for driving the competition out of existence.
• Other factions attributed Martial Emperor City's withdrawal to Chu Xinghe's growing reputation, and some concluded that Gu Mingchao was right to groom him as the future sect master.
• After the banquet, Chu Xinghe visited the Artifact Refining Palace and found Ouyang Ming and the Ouyang Lineage disciples feasting amid the furnace explosions.

Chu Xinghe agreed to take the Ouyang Lineage to Hundred Refinements Valley’s All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering and watched Ouyang Ming compete against Liang Hong. Ouyang Ming exploded three furnaces without forging anything, leaving both sects stunned and the Grand Elder desperate to end the contest.

• Chu Xinghe visited Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling, who confidently promised to surprise him in the contest against Hundred Refinements Valley.
• Ou Yunsheng brought the Grand Elder an invitation to the All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering, and Chu Xinghe accepted it on behalf of the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Ouyang Ming exploded a furnace as Ou Yunsheng and the Hundred Refinements Valley disciples arrived at the Artifact Refining Palace.
• Liang Hong forged a top-grade spear during the contest, then Ouyang Ming exploded his furnace on his first attempt.
• The Grand Elder urged Ouyang Ming to try again, but Ouyang Ming exploded two more furnaces, leaving the Grand Elder and Hundred Refinements Valley speechless.
• The Grand Elder called off the contest, while Ouyang Ming reasoned that he could not be counted as having lost since he had not forged anything.

Ouyang Ling challenged Ou Yunsheng to a spirit-imbuing contest and stunned everyone by performing the complete Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing. After Ou Yunsheng accused her of succeeding by luck, she erased the result and successfully performed the technique again, leaving the contest in her favor.

• Chu Xinghe stopped the Artifact Refining Palace contest from ending and pushed for a spirit-imbuing match, while Ouyang Ling insisted on competing directly with Ou Yunsheng.
• Ou Yunsheng imbued Liang Hong's spear with Hundred Refinements Spirit Imbuing, but Ouyang Ling casually erased the result.
• Ouyang Ling used the complete Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing on the spear, astonishing Ou Yunsheng, the Grand Elder, and the watching disciples.
• After Ou Yunsheng called her success luck, Ouyang Ling erased her imbuing and successfully performed Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing a second time.

Ouyang Ling stunned the Vast Heaven Sect by successfully performing Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing twice, humiliating Ou Yunsheng and accepting Hundred Refinements Valley’s challenge at the All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering. The sect celebrated her and praised Chu Xinghe, while Chu Xinghe privately despaired and placed his hopes in Ouyang Ming’s furnace explosions.

• Ouyang Ling performed Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing on two consecutive attempts, shocking Gu Mingchao, the elders, and Hundred Refinements Valley.
• Ouyang Ling taunted Ou Yunsheng, declared that the Ouyang Lineage had returned, and accepted Hundred Refinements Valley’s invitation to the All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering.
• Ou Yunsheng conceded defeat and left the Artifact Refining Palace with his disciples, leaving his spirit-imbuing tools behind.
• Gu Mingchao praised Ouyang Ling and asked what reward she wanted, but Ouyang Ming covered her mouth and declared the Ouyang Lineage’s loyalty to Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe lamented that Ouyang Ling’s success had ruined his plans and hoped Ouyang Ming would keep blowing up furnaces at the Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering.

After Ouyang Ling’s Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing brought the Ouyang Lineage fame and a flood of deposits, Chu Xinghe tried to offset her earnings by encouraging Ouyang Ming to waste resources. The chapter left Chu confident that Ouyang Ming’s furnace explosions would cancel out the profits from Ouyang Ling’s work.

• Ouyang Ling defeated Ou Yunsheng with two consecutive uses of Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing, silencing those who had mocked Chu Xinghe’s choice of the Ouyang Lineage.
• At the feast celebrating the Ouyang Lineage, the sect master and Feng Fei praised Chu Xinghe’s judgment, while Chu privately lamented the lineage’s success and named Ouyang Ming the new Ouyang Wolong.
• Ouyang Ling performed Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing for Vast Heaven Sect disciples, achieving a record success rate of one in three attempts and attracting requests and deposits from other sects.
• Chu Xinghe arranged for Ouyang Ming to receive the most expensive artifact-refining furnaces, hoping he would keep destroying them and drain the sect’s resources.
• Ouyang Ming vowed to restore his lineage’s glory at the Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering, and Chu Xinghe calculated that his spending could balance Ouyang Ling’s earnings.