Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe appeared to cure the Wuj iang Holy Mother and exposed Wu Erhan's plot to poison her and seize control of Wuj iang. With the Dark Moon Clan protecting him, Chu Xinghe captured Wu Erhan and revealed that he still needed the Nine-Eyed King Serpent's gallbladder to truly treat the Holy Mother.

• Chu Xinghe refined a lightning-summoning divine pill and gave it to the Wuj iang Holy Mother, making her look healthy as the poison's effects faded.
• Chu Xinghe warned Wu Erhan that the Holy Mother would soon wake and laid out how Wu Erhan had engineered the conflict between East Ridge and West Ridge and poisoned her with the Nine-Eyed King Serpent.
• Chu Xinghe cited the poison's timing and Wu Erhan's missing Earth Chief plants as evidence, then dared Wu Erhan to either surrender or capture him.
• A Half-Step Martial God attacked Chu Xinghe, but hidden Dark Moon Clan members killed the attacker and slaughtered Wu Erhan's subordinates; the Great Sage struck Wu Erhan down.
• Chu Xinghe told Wu Erhan that the pill had only delayed the poison and that he needed the Nine-Eyed King Serpent's gallbladder to save the Holy Mother.

Chu Xinghe rescued Wuj iang Holy Mother by obtaining the Nine-Eyed King Serpent’s gallbladder, then ordered a purge of everyone involved in Wu Erhan’s scheme. With East Ridge’s leadership wiped out, Chu Xinghe headed to West Ridge to recruit Wu Erke to govern Wuj iang, delighted by the prospect of another lucky general.

• The Great Sage killed Wu Erhan, searched his memories, and obtained a Nine-Eyed King Serpent, whose gallbladder Chu Xinghe used to cure Wuj iang Holy Mother.
• Chu Xinghe ordered the Dark Moon Clan to kill everyone involved in Wu Erhan’s scheme while sparing uninvolved people, and An Lan led the overnight purge of East Ridge.
• The Grand Elder publicly revealed the affair, and Tantai Jing criticized Wu Erhan for attacking one of the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s people.
• Chu Xinghe set out for West Ridge to ask Wu Erke to take charge of Wuj iang after East Ridge’s commanders were eliminated.
• Wuj iang Holy Mother warned Chu Xinghe that Wu Erke was a poor manager, but Chu Xinghe privately celebrated him as a new lucky general.

Chu Xinghe learned from Wuj iang Holy Mother how generations of West Ridge leaders repeatedly stole the East Ridge leaders’ wives and relatives, leading to cycles of war. He decided Wu Erke was an exceptionally reliable lucky general, though he could not imagine how to lose with Wuj iang entrusted to him.

• Chu Xinghe recalled rejecting Qin Xiangqian and others who wanted to develop Wuj iang because he feared their plans would make him lose.
• Wuj iang Holy Mother explained that Wu Duoqing abandoned his position to pursue love, then repeatedly eloped with Wu Mi'er’s wives and relatives, provoking wars between the East and West Ridges.
• Wu Mi'er died during a later war, but five years afterward his son Wu Erhan attacked the West Ridge after Wu Erke eloped with Wu Erhan’s wife.
• Chu Xinghe marveled at the father-and-son pair’s history and suggested tracking down Wu Duoqing so he and Wu Erke could write a book about their exploits.
• Chu Xinghe concluded that Wu Erke was a true lucky general and wondered how anyone could make him lose while he was entrusted with Wuj iang.

Chu Xinghe learned how Wu Erke’s wildly destructive inventions had left West Ridge impoverished, armed its Gu worms with terrifying power, and driven the Nine-Eyed King Serpent to extinction. Convinced Wu Erke was an unparalleled lucky general, Chu Xinghe decided to back his inventions and make him the new king of the Wuj iang.

• Chu Xinghe heard how Wu Erke had taken over West Ridge and made its already dire condition worse through reckless leadership.
• Wu Erke used Ultimate Explosive Gu to mine deposits quickly, blasting away nearly all West Ridge’s mineral resources.
• Wu Erke developed uncontrollable berserk Gu worms that attacked friend and foe alike, forcing both sides to run whenever they appeared.
• Wu Erke ordered West Ridge to kill every Nine-Eyed King Serpent except the one with the strongest venom, making the poison difficult to cure and devastating East Ridge.
• Wu Erke’s plan ultimately drove the Nine-Eyed King Serpent to extinction, leaving West Ridge with a totem but no beast.
• Chu Xinghe resolved to fund Wu Erke’s inventions and make him the new king of the Wuj iang.

Chu Xinghe traveled to Wuj iang’s West Ridge on foot after Wu Erke’s round-trip teleportation array repeatedly sent him back. West Ridge’s guards mistook him for an impostor and attacked, leaving him wondering whether he could even place in the Chu Xinghe Impersonation Competition.

• Chu Xinghe tried teleporting to West Ridge more than two hundred times, but Wu Erke’s array returned him to where he started each time.
• Chu Xinghe crossed into West Ridge and admired the enormous craters left by Wu Erke’s rapid mining.
• West Ridge guards mistook Chu Xinghe for an enemy and fired arrows at him, but he dodged and disarmed them while stopping An Lan and the others from retaliating.
• Chu Xinghe introduced himself, but he had neither his Haotian Token nor a disciple token to prove his identity.
• A West Ridge disciple judged Chu Xinghe to be a fake because he looked shabby compared with the lavish Chu Xinghe impersonators he had seen.
• The West Ridge guards attacked Chu Xinghe, convinced he was impersonating their Senior Brother Xinghe.

Chu Xinghe faced a group of West Ridge youths who mistook him for an impostor and demonstrated overwhelming physical control without using spiritual power. The youths realized he was far beyond their strength, but one remained convinced that he could not be Chu Xinghe because his fighting style differed from what he had seen in an illusion.

• Chu Xinghe learned that West Ridge’s youths welcomed Wuj iang joining the Vast Heaven Holy Land partly because they admired him.
• West Ridge youths attacked Chu Xinghe, and he snapped one attacker’s spiritual-weapon blade with a flick, then sent him into a tree without injuring him.
• A giant West Ridge youth charged Chu Xinghe with a warhammer, but Chu Xinghe pressed him into Black Demon Rock without harming him.
• The West Ridge youths stopped fighting after seeing Chu Xinghe’s control and strength, and they suspected he was Chu Xinghe.
• A youth who had seen Chu Xinghe in the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele’s illusion insisted he was an impostor because Chu Xinghe supposedly used Purple Lightning Flash to finish fights.

Chu Xinghe revealed himself to Wu Beichen, West Ridge’s foremost young Body Cultivator, who demanded a fight to confirm his identity. Chu Xinghe struck Wu Beichen once and sent him flying, leaving the outcome of their clash unresolved.

• Chu Xinghe showed the Haotian Sword Casket, but a young man’s brighter replica left the West Ridge youths and hidden Dark Moon Clan members unsure whether Chu Xinghe was genuine.
• Wu Beichen emerged and asked Chu Xinghe whether he was really Chu Xinghe.
• Wu Beichen recognized Chu Xinghe’s mastery of Body Arts and challenged him, saying he would believe his identity if Chu Xinghe defeated him.
• Wu Beichen unleashed his Qi and Blood and spiritual power, transforming into a six-armed, blood-colored war god before attacking.
• Chu Xinghe stepped in and struck Wu Beichen’s chest with one palm, sending him flying, then called his display all flash and no substance.

Chu Xinghe defeated Wu Beichen with a single precisely controlled palm strike, leaving the West Ridge elders stunned by the gulf between them. He then told Wu Erke that the Vast Heaven Holy Land had destroyed Wu Erhan’s faction and asked Wu Erke to lead both East and West Ridge.

• Chu Xinghe sent Wu Beichen flying with one palm, shattering his armor while leaving him unharmed and unable to continue fighting.
• Chu Xinghe criticized Wu Beichen’s flashy fighting and explained that a body cultivator needed only one decisive strike; Wu Beichen thanked him for the guidance.
• Wu Erke and the West Ridge elders arrived and witnessed Chu Xinghe’s overwhelming strength, while Brother Well-Traveled doubted that the plainly dressed man was really Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe told Wu Erke that Wu Erhan had impersonated West Ridge to attack the Wuj iang Holy Mother and that the Vast Heaven Holy Land had eliminated him and his allies.
• Chu Xinghe said the Wuj iang upheaval had been quelled and asked Wu Erke to take charge of East Ridge as well as West Ridge, leaving the gathering stunned.

Chu Xinghe secured Wu Erke’s authority over both West Ridge and East Ridge, promising Wuj iang unlimited resources and freedom from Vast Heaven Holy Land’s rules. He then visited Wu Erke’s invention base, where he learned that Wu Erke’s experimental poison miasma had consumed the spirit medicines and flown away.

• Wu Erke realized Chu Xinghe’s unique authority let him make decisions and command Vast Heaven Holy Land without consulting elders.
• Chu Xinghe heard how Wu Erhan had embezzled West Ridge’s resources, framed Wu Erke, and tried to kill the Wuj iang Holy Mother.
• Chu Xinghe declared Wu Erke would oversee all of Wuj iang and promised its people unlimited supplies with no management requirements or rules.
• Chu Xinghe asked to see Wu Erke’s inventions, and several West Ridge elders privately urged him to reconsider.
• Wu Erke took Chu Xinghe to his empty invention base and explained that his Black Spirit Poison Miasma had swallowed the spirit medicines and flown away.

Chu Xinghe praised Wu Erke’s destructive inventions and promised the Vast Heaven Holy Land would supply whatever resources he needed. After Wu Erke’s experiment consumed the spiritual herbs and drove away Wuj iang’s poisonous miasma, Chu Xinghe declared Wuj iang a research base for invention and governing through nonaction.

• Chu Xinghe declared Wu Erke a great inventor and promised to fund all his future inventions with unlimited resources from the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Wu Erke tried to become sworn brothers with Chu Xinghe, but Wu Beichen and the West Ridge elders stopped him; Wu Erke later drank with Chu Xinghe and called him Brother.
• Chu Xinghe sent Huang Ritian to deliver rare spiritual herbs, and Huang Ritian ordered Mu Bai to supply ten thousand of each listed variety.
• Wu Erke used the spiritual herbs in an invention, and the experiment consumed them all and drove Wuj iang’s poisonous miasma away.
• Chu Xinghe urged Wu Erke to keep inventing and designated Wuj iang as the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s research base for invention and development through governing without action.

Wu Erke was appointed to govern East Ridge and West Ridge, but he refused to manage East Ridge and stayed focused on his inventions. Chu Xinghe returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land confident in his plans, while Zang Ling decided to act against Wu Man.

• The Wuj iang Holy Mother and the Vast Heaven Holy Land announced that Wu Erke would temporarily govern East Ridge and West Ridge.
• East Ridge’s tribes prepared for Wu Erke’s arrival, but he told them to handle their own affairs and not bother him.
• Chu Xinghe saw Wu Erke’s refusal to govern as good fortune for his plans and returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to watch Wu Man.
• Chu Xinghe found Wu Man working steadily in the spirit fields and promised to make him a full disciple if he kept it up.
• Zang Ling heard about Chu Xinghe’s praise for Wu Man and resolved to act to protect the dignity of the Evil Spirit Clan.

Zang Ling grew alarmed by Wu Man’s efforts to help the Vast Heaven Holy Land and decided to stop him from strengthening it. As Wu Man’s Voodoo Arts devastated the spirit-field yield and Chu Xinghe tightened security around the fields, Zang Ling secretly broke in, ready to act.

• Zang Ling concluded that Wu Man had defected and resolved to prevent him from gaining influence by helping the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Wu Man taught his Voodoo Arts to Mu Bai and others, causing spirit-herb yields to fall by ninety percent and cultivation time to increase tenfold.
• Mu Bai asked Chu Xinghe to stop the project, but Chu Xinghe reprimanded him and defended Wu Man; Wu Man and the eight old schemers chose to wait and see as the losses continued.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Shen Chun to guard the spirit fields and bar everyone, including Ma Liang, from entering.
• Zang Ling slipped past the guards into the spirit fields and decided that he would take action against Wu Man’s work.

Zang Ling secretly contaminated Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit fields with Heart-Devouring Power to sabotage Wu Man’s work. When Body Cultivation disciples consumed the affected herbs, the power transformed into a holy force that strengthened them, leaving Qu Yifeng eager to report the discovery to Mu Bai.

• Zang Ling recognized Wu Man’s unusually productive spirit herbs and resolved to undermine Vast Heaven Holy Land by contaminating them with Heart-Devouring Power.
• Zang Ling used the Evil God’s Fang to taint every spirit field overnight and returned to his room without being detected.
• Mu Bai gave Qu Yifeng a batch of partially mature spirit herbs after Qu Yifeng demanded resources for the Body Cultivation disciples.
• Qu Yifeng and the other disciples discovered that the herbs’ mysterious power dispelled Heart-Devouring Power and transformed its remnants into a force that further strengthened their bodies.
• Qu Yifeng realized Mu Bai’s group had produced new spirit herbs and hurried to report their effects.

Qu Yifeng discovered that mutated spirit herbs had given Body Cultivation disciples new powers that could assimilate Heart-Devouring Power and protect or restore its victims. Mu Bai rushed to tell Chu Xinghe, who mistakenly believed Wu Man had sabotaged his plans by causing the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit fields to produce a major benefit.

• Qu Yifeng demonstrated the new abilities he gained from the spirit herbs and explained how they refined the Body Cultivation disciples’ Heart-Devouring Power.
• Mu Bai and the other Muyue Kingdom disciples examined the spirit herbs and found that nearly all of them contained a power that could assimilate Heart-Devouring Power.
• Mu Bai concluded that the herbs could protect people from becoming low-level evil spirits or restore those already transformed, and hurried to share the news with Chu Xinghe.
• Mu Bai praised Wu Man for supposedly helping Chu Xinghe’s grand plan, startling Wu Man so badly that his rocking chair broke beneath him.
• Chu Xinghe also fell from his chair, then blamed Wu Man for turning the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit fields into a source of powerful benefits.

Wu Man discovered that Zang Ling had tainted the spirit-field herbs with mutated Heart-Devouring Power, giving cultivators a way to counter the Heart-Devouring Evil Spirits. The elders summoned Zang Ling to explain himself, while he believed they had uncovered his secret sabotage and were coming to kill him.

• Chu Xinghe brought everyone to the spirit fields, where Qu Yifeng demonstrated his new power to Wu Man.
• Wu Man examined the spirit herbs and found that Zang Ling had caused them to develop mutated Heart-Devouring Power that countered ordinary Heart-Devouring Power.
• Wu Man explained that the herbs could make the Heart-Devouring Evil Spirits unable to enslave cultivators and vulnerable to their own power.
• The Grand Elder, Gu Mingchao, Ji Ya, and the others learned what Wu Man and Zang Ling had done, leaving Chu Xinghe and Ji Ya stunned.
• The Grand Elder sent Shen Chun to fetch Zang Ling, who assumed they had discovered his secret plan and were coming to kill him.

Zang Ling expected Vast Heaven Holy Land to punish him for sabotaging the spirit fields, but his actions instead created mutated Heart-Devouring Power and earned him a place as an outer disciple. Wu Man was appalled by Zang Ling’s apparent betrayal, while Chu Xinghe wondered why the two evil spirits had joined forces against him.

• Shen Chun led Zang Ling to the spirit fields, where Zang Ling confidently admitted that he had deliberately caused the damage.
• Wu Man asked whether Zang Ling had acted by accident, but Zang Ling insisted that he had acted on purpose and had a clear conscience.
• The grand elder made Zang Ling an outer disciple of Vast Heaven Holy Land instead of punishing or handing him over to Ouyang Ling.
• After learning that the damaged spirit fields had produced mutated Heart-Devouring Power that could counter the Heart-Devouring Evil Spirits Division, Zang Ling collapsed and laughed.
• Chu Xinghe wondered why Zang Ling and Wu Man had joined forces to sabotage him.

Zang Ling’s work with mutated spirit herbs won him the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s trust while neutralizing the Heart-Devouring Evil Spirits’ ability to enslave others. Wu Man reported what happened to the evil lords, who accused the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord of plotting a surrender, while the Phantom Evil Lord blamed him for a popular book portraying An Ying as a hero.

• Zang Ling’s spirit herbs made people immune to Heart-Devouring Power and allowed Body Cultivation practitioners to use that power, earning him praise and the rank of the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s first evil spirit outer disciple.
• Wu Man realized Zang Ling had reported An Ying and lamented that Zang Ling’s actions had struck a blow against their own clan.
• Mu Bai celebrated the spirit herbs’ benefits, including their potential to boost cultivation and be sold through the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Wu Man contacted the Evil Shadow Continent and told the eight evil lords what Zang Ling had done, prompting the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord to accuse the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord of sending Zang Ling ahead to prepare a surrender.
• The Phantom Evil Lord accused the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord of writing the popular book “Evil Spirit Hero An Ying Braves the Three Continents” to shift blame from the Phantom Evil Spirits, and the evil lords began arguing.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord urged the evil lords to stop fighting and discuss a countermeasure.

Wu Man vowed to take revenge on Zang Ling despite the White Spirit Evil Lord ordering him to lie low. At the Vast Heaven Holy Land, Ji Ya secretly visited the outer sect and discovered Liu Bo loudly boasting about defeating Chu Xinghe, but she left without challenging him.

• The White Spirit Evil Lord suppressed infighting and told Wu Man to lie low and watch how events developed.
• Wu Man blamed Zang Ling for ruining his chance to earn the Vast Heaven Holy Land's trust and vowed to surpass him.
• After visiting every inner sect palace, Ji Ya ignored repeated warnings and went to inspect the outer sect in secret.
• Ji Ya admired the outer sect's talented disciples and reflected on Chu Xinghe's influence over the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Ji Ya found Liu Bo practicing with a spiked club while declaring that Chu Cheng would always be superior to Chu Xinghe.
• Liu Bo offered his spiked club to Ji Ya, who declined to quarrel with a junior and departed, leaving Liu Bo convinced she was a divine being.

Chu Xinghe reached the Peak of the Ninth Rank and unsealed Star Shatterer, the ninth divine sword, whose power could destroy spiritual energy. He eagerly set out to use it on the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit fields, hoping to ruin their spirit herbs.

• Ji Ya left Chu Cheng alone, while Liu Bo broke the unused spiked clubs and tended to him.
• A mysterious woman had Ouyang Ming forge Nine Heavens Slash into the Nine Heavens Spiked Club, then secretly tested it in the outer sect.
• Shen Chun reported the nighttime intruder, and the Grand Elder ordered the disciples not to interfere; White Tiger later failed to catch the mysterious figure and questioned Ji Ya.
• Chu Xinghe discovered that Wu Man’s slow cultivation of Zang Ling’s spirit herbs kept the Misfortune Compass turning, and he broke through to the Peak of the Ninth Rank.
• Star Shatterer was unsealed, and Chu Xinghe learned that its Star Shattering power could strip spiritual energy from land and objects.
• Chu Xinghe headed for the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit fields, intending to destroy their spirit herbs with Star Shatterer.

Mu Bai's Seventh Granduncle visited the Vast Heaven Holy Land to ask for help finding opportunities for the ordinary young people of the Muyue Kingdom, who were barred from joining other factions but could not qualify for the Holy Land. Chu Xinghe promised to find a solution, leaving the problem in his hands.

• Senior Brother Shen Chun told Mu Bai that his Seventh Granduncle had come from the Muyue Kingdom, and Mu Bai hurried to meet him.
• Mu Bai learned that the Muyue Kingdom's ban on joining factions other than the Vast Heaven Holy Land had left many ordinary young people without a path forward.
• Seventh Granduncle asked Mu Bai to help those young people find a livelihood, and Mu Bai suggested consulting Senior Brother Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe greeted Mu Bai's Seventh Granduncle respectfully and listened as he explained the Muyue Kingdom's problem.
• Chu Xinghe promised Seventh Granduncle that he would find a solution for the Muyue Kingdom.