Chapter Summaries

After the Beast God returned Vast Heaven Holy Land’s betrothal gift with an even larger dowry for Empress Ji Ya, Chu Xinghe tried to turn the wedding into an opportunity for the Holy Land to lose money. He invited everyone in the Three Continents and promised to cover all their expenses, leaving the world stunned by the offer.

• Empress Ji Ya left with the four Lineage heads, and the Beast God’s wedding date and lavish dowry were announced to the world.
• Huang Ritian, Azure Dragon, and the Civil Engineering Department disciples collapsed when they learned they had to return the betrothal treasures and handle the even larger dowry instead of taking their six-month vacation.
• Azure Dragon vented his frustration by recounting embarrassing stories about the Beast God, while Chu Xinghe avoided the Vast Heaven Divine Domain and asked him to choose a different recipe for lunch.
• Chu Xinghe devised a plan to spend heavily on the wedding by inviting guests early and covering their food, lodging, cultivation resources, and other expenses.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land announced that anyone, cultivator or ordinary person, could attend the wedding and receive lavish hospitality, prompting people to joke that it was inviting them to fleece the Holy Land.

Chu Xinghe turned the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s wedding hospitality into an invitation for the Three Continents to consume its resources, hoping the Misfortune Compass would finally make him lose. As millions of guests arrived and the Holy Land’s spending surged, the compass began turning, while Chu Xinghe watched for anyone who might sabotage his plan.

• Chu Xinghe ordered the Vast Heaven Holy Land to build guest rooms, provide guests with generous supplies and pills, and treat all visitors equally.
• Zhao Xing accepted the offer, received abundant cultivation resources, and told his companions that the Holy Land was truly supplying whatever guests requested.
• Millions of cultivators poured into the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and Zheng Yu questioned Chu Xinghe about the immense daily expense.
• Chu Xinghe saw the Holy Land’s resource consumption approach and then threaten to exceed its income, and the Misfortune Compass began turning.
• Chu Xinghe watched Wu Man and the others for signs of betrayal, but Wu Man focused on gossip, Mu Bai refined medicine, and Ma Liang stayed busy serving guests.

Vast Heaven Holy Land drew crowds from across the Three Continents by offering guests free cultivation resources ahead of its celebration, and livestreamers showed the generosity to viewers. While the grand elder trusted Xinghe’s plan despite its costs, Wu Man struggled to find a way to help Chu Xinghe and decided to consult the evil lords.

• Brother Sword-Bearer livestreamed his visit to Vast Heaven Holy Land and showed viewers the respectful welcome, luxurious lodging, and abundant cultivation resources he received.
• Brother Sword-Bearer ended his stream and began cultivating, while many other visitors and streamers spread news of Vast Heaven Holy Land’s hospitality across the Three Continents.
• Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spending grew immense, but the grand elder told the sect to follow Xinghe’s arrangements and wait for his plan to pay off.
• Wu Man worried that he could not get close to important places or find an opportunity to assist Chu Xinghe and earn his trust.
• Wu Man decided to contact the Evil Shadow Continent and report the situation to the evil lords, hoping they could help him find a way forward.

Wu Man contacted the eight Evil Lords for help figuring out how to assist Chu Xinghe and earn his trust. White Spirit Evil Lord misread Chu Xinghe’s wedding plans as a scheme to pressure major powers into giving lavish gifts, and urged Wu Man to tell the streamers first.

• Wu Man decided to seek outside help and used the Skull of the Evil God to contact the eight Evil Lords.
• Phantom Evil Lord demanded news of An Ying, and Wu Man reported that An Ying had become known as an Evil Spirit Hero for helping people across the Three Continents.
• The Evil Lords argued over which of their agents had defected until White Spirit Evil Lord quieted them and heard Wu Man’s report about Chu Xinghe.
• Wu Man explained Chu Xinghe’s wedding arrangements and asked how he could help him gain more trust.
• White Spirit Evil Lord concluded that Chu Xinghe planned to use streamers’ lavish gifts to pressure major powers into giving more, creating an invisible Tribute Ranking.
• White Spirit Evil Lord told Wu Man to warn the streamers before Chu Xinghe acted, and Wu Man resolved to follow the advice and earn Chu Xinghe’s trust.

Wu Man followed the White Spirit Evil Lord’s advice to quietly hint that Jiang Yao had prospered by knowing how to conduct herself, while Chu Xinghe watched the arriving guests and prepared for Gu Mingchao’s wedding. Wu Man’s plan appeared to pay off when Jiang Yao arrived with ten million worth of wedding gifts, leaving the streamers impressed.

• The White Spirit Evil Lord stopped Wu Man from openly recruiting streamers to send gifts and advised him to spread subtle rumors instead.
• Wu Man ended his call and waited until the major powers and streamers had arrived before acting.
• Chu Xinghe watched his associates and Wu Man, then relaxed as the Misfortune Compass continued turning steadily.
• As Gu Mingchao’s wedding procession approached, Wu Man told a group of streamers that Jiang Yao had succeeded partly because she knew how to conduct herself.
• Jiang Yao arrived with congratulatory gifts worth ten million for Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya’s wedding, astonishing the streamers.

Jiang Yao sent ninety percent of her livestream earnings as a wedding gift to Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya, hoping to repay Vast Heaven Holy Land’s kindness. Chu Xinghe was alarmed when the gift seemed to disrupt his plans, while Wu Man mistook his shocked composure for proof that he had anticipated everything; other streamers began sending gifts too.

• Jiang Yao’s team proposed using Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya’s wedding as a chance to give Vast Heaven Holy Land an acceptable gift and strengthen Jiang Yao’s ties there.
• Jiang Yao sent a wedding gift worth ninety percent of her livestream earnings, and Wu Man concluded that Chu Xinghe had planned for her move.
• Chu Xinghe was stunned by the gift and noticed that his Misfortune Compass had nearly stopped, but he tried to maintain a calm expression.
• Wu Man saw Chu Xinghe’s composure and took it as confirmation that Chu Xinghe had anticipated the gift.
• Other major streamers followed Jiang Yao’s example, and a line of people bearing wedding gifts formed outside Vast Heaven Holy Land.

Jiang Yao's enormous wedding gift sent her to the top of the Haotian Mirror's trending list, while a rumor about Lu Chengqing's gift register sparked a flood of presents from streamers and embarrassed the Ten Great Sects. After the factions prepared larger gifts to reclaim their standing, Chu Xinghe refused to accept them, leaving everyone baffled.

• Jiang Yao's colossal wedding gift swept the Haotian Mirror's top ten trending spots and prompted streamers to send gifts to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• A rumor started by Wu Man convinced streamers that Lu Chengqing's gift register would affect their future access to livestreaming resources, and gift deliveries surged.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Lu Chengqing to deny the rumor, but the streamers insisted they were simply sending wedding presents.
• The streamers' gifts pushed the Jade Void Palace out of the top five hundred and left Martial Emperor City in ninety-eighth place, prompting the Ten Great Sects to prepare more gifts.
• Zheng Yu and others suspected Ma Liang might have engineered the situation, but the Ten Great Sects mobilized resources to protect their prestige.
• When the Ten Great Sects' new gifts arrived, Chu Xinghe had them refused, stunning the factions across the world.

Chu Xinghe refused a second round of wedding gifts from the major sects, insisting he was not after their resources and asking them to keep his supposed plan secret. The sect masters spread the mystery across the Three Continents, where analysts concluded that Chu Xinghe was facing a massive loss and could not turn it into a profit.

• After rumors spread that Chu Xinghe was scheming to profit from the major sects, he announced that the Vast Heaven Holy Land would refuse their second round of wedding gifts.
• Chu Xinghe told the sect masters that he valued their friendship over their gifts and claimed he had a secret plan that would harm no one's interests.
• The sect masters promised to keep Chu Xinghe's secret, but Cheng Xiaotian, Wang Daoquan, and Xing Yushen each investigated his intentions and spread the mystery.
• The question of what Chu Xinghe was after became the top trending topic on the Haotian Mirror, overshadowing discussion of the gifts.
• Analysts concluded that Chu Xinghe's expenses far exceeded the streamers' gifts and that returning the major sects' gifts left him no way to profit.
• Wu Man realized that the White Spirit Evil Lord's theory about Chu Xinghe's schemes was wrong.

While the factions and Evil Lords tried to understand Chu Xinghe’s plans, he expanded the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s free cultivation offer with teleportation across the Three Continents, driving its resource consumption higher. The wedding procession then set out for the Spirit Beast Continent with an enormous groomsmen lineup, and Wu Xingyun’s couriers opened the gates of Spirit Beast City before Clan Head Hua could test them.

• Wu Man reported Chu Xinghe’s recent actions to the Evil Lords, who debated his motives while dismissing the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord’s theory that he was secretly sabotaging the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to establish free teleportation arrays across the Three Continents so more people could reach the Haotian Mountain Range and receive unlimited cultivation resources.
• The factions watched the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s resources rapidly drain as Chu Xinghe made no apparent effort to recover the cost, while he privately hoped the Misfortune Compass would ensure he lost.
• Gu Mingchao set out for the Spirit Beast Continent in a red wedding outfit, accompanied by Cheng Xiaotian, Wu Xingyun, and prominent figures from the other continents as his groomsmen.
• At the closed gates of Spirit Beast City, Wu Xingyun’s Demon Demon Express couriers took control of the entrance and opened it before Clan Head Hua could challenge the wedding procession.

Clan Head Hua, Clan Head Cui, the Ming Clan Head, and Clan Head Ning tried to delay Gu Mingchao’s wedding procession, but the procession overcame each obstacle and brought Empress Ji Ya to the Vast Heaven Holy Land. During the wedding ceremony, the guests’ congratulations gathered into a Long River of Fortune that surged toward Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya.

• Clan Head Hua’s gate defenses fell to Wu Xingyun’s Demon Demon Express army, and Cheng Xiaotian scattered Clan Head Cui’s street-fighting forces with Blood Spirit Stones.
• The Ming Clan Head’s puppet array blocked the procession until White Tiger broke it, and Old Master Wuyang defeated Clan Head Ning’s poems and couplets.
• Gu Mingchao welcomed Ji Ya, and their wedding carriage traveled to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, detouring around the Demon Star Continent to distribute resources and celebratory money.
• At Haotian Palace, Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya completed the ceremony before the ancestors, and the grand elder declared Ji Ya a member of the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe led the disciples and invited guests in congratulating the couple, and Wu Man saw their blessings form a Long River of Fortune that surged toward Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya.

Wu Man witnessed Chu Xinghe channel the fortune gathered at Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya’s wedding into Ji Ya, enabling her to break through to the Half-Step Main God realm. Hua Xichen realized Chu Xinghe had used the wedding to complete Ji Ya’s Heavenly Mandate, and the chapter ended with him recognizing the scale of Chu Xinghe’s plan.

• Wu Man saw Chu Xinghe’s fortune erupt and envelop the Vast Heaven Holy Land, touching everyone there.
• As the wedding guests offered congratulations, their fortune flowed into Chu Xinghe’s vortex and then surged into Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya.
• Ji Ya’s barrier shattered, and she broke through from Peak Mystic God to Half-Step Main God before countless livestream viewers.
• Clan Head Hua questioned Hua Xichen’s earlier prophecy that Ji Ya’s Heavenly Mandate was incomplete and that she could not reach the new realm.
• Hua Xichen used the Great Prophecy Art and concluded that Chu Xinghe had gathered vast fortune to complete Ji Ya’s Heavenly Mandate.

Hua Xichen revealed that Chu Xinghe had used the wedding, Vast Heaven Holy Land, and sincere congratulations from countless people to defy the Heavenly Dao and raise Ji Ya to the Half-Step Main God realm. While everyone praised Chu Xinghe for his scheme, Chu Xinghe inwardly despaired that the Misfortune Compass had turned his intended losses into a breakthrough.

• Hua Xichen explained that the Heavenly Dao’s rules had prevented Ji Ya from reaching the Half-Step Main God realm while the Beast God lived.
• Hua Xichen revealed that Chu Xinghe had gathered the right time, place, and sincere support of the people to complete Ji Ya’s destiny and force her breakthrough.
• The leaders and guests realized that Chu Xinghe had spent Vast Heaven Holy Land’s resources to obtain fortune, not gifts, and had intended to challenge the Heavenly Dao.
• Ji Ya understood that Chu Xinghe had planned her rise from the moment she entered Vast Heaven Holy Land, while the Grand Elder led the crowd in shouting, “Heaven blesses Vast Heaven!”
• Wu Man recognized Chu Xinghe as the one behind Vast Heaven’s good fortune, but Chu Xinghe privately cursed the Misfortune Compass and searched for Thunder Shadow after Ji Ya’s breakthrough ruined his intended losses.

Chu Xinghe’s plan culminated in Ji Ya breaking through to become a Half-Step Main God, leaving the Three Continents stunned and the Evil Lords scrambling to understand how he had defied the Heavenly Dao. After the wedding banquet, Chu Xinghe got drunk and ranted about ruining the Vast Heaven Holy Land, while Wuj iang Holy Mother brought the grand elder alarming news.

• Ji Ya became the second Half-Step Main God in the Three Continents, and everyone realized Chu Xinghe had schemed against the Heavenly Dao to make it happen.
• The wedding ceremony concluded, and the guests celebrated at a banquet where Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya toasted them.
• Wu Man reported Ji Ya’s breakthrough to the Evil Shadow Continent, and the Evil Lords fell silent after sensing her new power.
• The guests began leaving, while the grand elder found Chu Xinghe drunk and shouting that he would waste the sect’s resources and ruin the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Wuj iang Holy Mother brought the grand elder news that left him frowning in disbelief.

The Wuj iang Holy Mother rushed to stop Wu Erke and West Ridge’s rebellion against East Ridge while Vast Heaven Holy Land prepared to welcome Holy Empress Ji Ya. As Ji Ya’s support for Chu Xinghe became clear and factions sought his favor, Yuan Ying and Wu Man each plotted ways to benefit him.

• Wu Erke led West Ridge’s six tribes in a raid on East Ridge, and fighting between the two sides caused heavy losses.
• The Wuj iang Holy Mother left for Wuj iang to restore order after the Grand Elder warned her that stability was essential.
• Shen Chun woke Chu Xinghe and brought him to Haotian Grand Hall for Ji Ya’s formal reception by Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Ji Ya rose to help Chu Xinghe after his greeting, signaling her support for his decisions as Holy Empress.
• Other factions offered Vast Heaven Holy Land better deals, while Yuan Ying tried unsuccessfully to reduce the Demonic Sect’s share of Blood Spirit Stones.
• Wu Man told the eight evil lords that he would help Chu Xinghe make a killing and earn his trust to avoid their threats.

The eight Evil Lords pressured Wu Man to win Chu Xinghe’s trust and obtain an Evil God Relic, so Wu Man decided to help the Muyue Kingdom disciples by teaching them Voodoo Arts. He convinced Mu Bai that Chu Xinghe had sent him, leaving Wu Man confident that his lessons would earn favor indirectly.

• The eight Evil Lords rejected sacrificing Wu Man for a two-hundred-year reprieve and demanded that he obtain an Evil God Relic or face death.
• Wu Man promised the Evil Lords he had a plan to gain Chu Xinghe’s trust, despite having failed to impress him before.
• Mu Bai’s reports about the Muyue Kingdom’s exceptional cultivation, alchemy, and new methods drove Chu Xinghe to retreat to the Technique Repository Tower.
• Wu Man told Mu Bai that Chu Xinghe had sent him to teach the Muyue Kingdom disciples lower-level Voodoo Arts, claiming Chu Xinghe would teach them advanced techniques later.
• Mu Bai accepted Wu Man’s offer, and Wu Man privately believed his lessons would indirectly help Chu Xinghe and win his favor.

Wu Man tried to teach the Spirit Crane Palace disciples the Voodoo Arts, but was shocked when Mu Xiaoqi’s dog, Big White, repeatedly identified difficult medicinal ingredients correctly. The chapter left Wu Man humiliated as Big White passed yet another harder test.

• Wu Man claimed that medicinal-ingredient identification was difficult and asked Mu Xiaoqi how much of it he had mastered.
• Mu Xiaoqi said Big White could identify many herbs, and the dog came running when he called.
• Wu Man tested Big White on lookalike herbs, and Big White correctly found the Evening Primrose and Moon Cave Grass.
• Wu Man gave Big White harder tests with Deer Antler Grass, Deer Blood Grass, Fish Scale Grass, and Fish Pattern Grass, and the dog identified them correctly.
• Mu Bai suggested testing Big White with herbs resembling Snowfluff Grass, and Big White passed that test too.
• Wu Man felt more humiliated than hurt by Big White’s success.

Wu Man came to the Spirit Crane Palace to teach the Voodoo Arts but instead lost a herb-identification contest to Big White, Mu Xiaoqi’s dog. Chu Xinghe arrived expecting trouble and learned what had happened, leaving Wu Man devastated by Mu Xiaoqi’s claim that Big White was not strong—Wu Man was simply too weak.

• Wu Man challenged Big White to identify medicinal herbs, but the dog succeeded even when blindfolded.
• Mu Bai sealed Big White’s sight and smell for another round, but Big White identified the herbs by taste, and Wu Man mistakenly claimed one was wrong.
• Wu Man realized he had mistaken a hundred-year-old soaring-cloud grass for another herb and accepted that Big White had beaten him.
• After learning Wu Man had gone to the Spirit Crane Palace to teach the Voodoo Arts, Chu Xinghe rushed there, fearing he would cause trouble.
• Mu Bai explained the contest to Chu Xinghe, and Mu Xiaoqi insisted Big White had barely been trained and that Wu Man was simply too weak.

Chu Xinghe forced Wu Man to teach Mu Bai and the Muyue Kingdom disciples, convinced that Wu Man’s inferior methods would hold them back. When Mu Bai rejected Wu Man’s cultivation advice as outdated and less effective, Chu Xinghe insisted they follow it, while Wu Man mistook the assignment for a chance to sabotage the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

• After Wu Man lost to Big White at identifying medicinal ingredients, Chu Xinghe stopped him from leaving and ordered him to teach Mu Bai, the other Muyue Kingdom disciples, and Big White.
• Wu Man accepted the assignment, suspecting Chu Xinghe wanted him to hinder Muyue Kingdom, and resolved to do his best.
• Chu Xinghe kept watch as Wu Man began teaching at the Spirit Crane Palace, where Wu Man proposed growing spiritual medicines at a steady pace.
• Mu Bai rejected Wu Man’s planting method as far behind Muyue Kingdom’s improved techniques and warned that it would reduce yields and quality.
• Chu Xinghe kicked Mu Bai and insisted that he and the others learn Wu Man’s method, then encouraged Wu Man to continue teaching.

Wu Man tried to teach the Muyue Kingdom disciples the Voodoo Arts, only to discover their skills surpassed his in nearly every way. His lessons then made their spirit-herb cultivation and pill production worse, while Chu Xinghe defended him as a lucky general; the chapter ended with the Grand Elder reporting that Wuj iang Holy Mother had been attacked and was near death.

• Wu Man toured the Vast Heaven Holy Land's spirit fields with Mu Bai and learned that the Muyue Kingdom could mature ten-thousand-year snow ginseng in seven days and create spirit fields with help from the Divine Wood Clan.
• Wu Man discovered that Mu Bai and the others had improved every Voodoo Art they knew far beyond his own abilities, but he began teaching them as Chu Xinghe had instructed.
• The Muyue Kingdom's spirit-herb yields and quality fell, and cultivation took longer after the disciples learned Wu Man's techniques.
• Mu Bai told Chu Xinghe that Wu Man's lessons were making the disciples worse, but Chu Xinghe scolded him and insisted Wu Man was helping them build their foundations.
• The Grand Elder told Chu Xinghe that Wuj iang Holy Mother had been attacked in Wuj iang and was at death's door.

Chu Xinghe rushed to Wuj iang after Wu Erke poisoned the Wuj iang Holy Mother with the Nine-Eyed King Serpent. He bought her time with a Yangchun Pill and began refining an antidote, leaving her rescue dependent on his pill-making.

• The Grand Elder told Chu Xinghe that Wu Erke had ambushed the Wuj iang Holy Mother with the Nine-Eyed King Serpent, and Chu Xinghe set out for Wuj iang.
• Wu Erhan welcomed Chu Xinghe and explained that Wu Erke had raided East Ridge after demanding more resources from the Holy Mother.
• Chu Xinghe examined the unconscious, poisoned Holy Mother and stopped Wu Erhan from rushing to seize the serpent, saying his Voodoo Arts could counter the venom if he received the ingredients quickly.
• Chu Xinghe gave the Holy Mother a top-grade Yangchun Pill to slow the poison, then produced his own supply of rare Earth Chief when Wu Erhan could not find any.
• Chu Xinghe began refining the antidote, and Wu Erhan watched in awe at his mastery of alchemy.