Chapter Summaries

Elder He and Wuj iang Holy Mother explained how Chu Xinghe's mass puppet sales reversed the balance between the Progenitor Puppets and turned the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits Division's resource drain against it. Everyone credited Chu Xinghe with an elaborate scheme, while he privately realized that he had not anticipated the outcome either.

• Elder He and Wuj iang Holy Mother explained that the Taiyang Progenitor Puppet had dominated the Taiyin Progenitor Puppet because it had more subsidiary puppets.
• Elder He and Wuj iang Holy Mother attributed the reversal to Chu Xinghe's discounted puppet sales, which increased the Taiyin Progenitor Puppet's strength and redirected the resource burden onto the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits Division.
• The Grand Elder concluded that Chu Xinghe had concealed his plan to prevent Wu Man from warning the enemy.
• Ji Ya predicted that the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits Division would drain other tribes and eventually clash with the other seven divisions to sustain its puppet techniques.
• Wu Man interpreted Chu Xinghe's apparent wastefulness as deliberate deception, while Chu Xinghe privately admitted that he had not foreseen the result.

The Taiyang Progenitor Puppet reversed its strength with the Taiyin Progenitor Puppet and began consuming the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits Division’s resources, leaving the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord abandoned by his allies. Meanwhile, Vast Heaven Holy Land and the Ming Clan were overwhelmed by resource surpluses and puppet production, and their workers could only wish for a holiday.

• Chu Xinghe realized the puppet sales threshold would have triggered the yin-yang reversal regardless of his plans, and blamed the failure on his lack of knowledge.
• The seven Evil Lords discovered that the Taiyang Progenitor Puppet had begun devouring resources and that its power had weakened as the Taiyin Puppet grew stronger.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord promised to search ancient texts for a solution, while the other Evil Lords made excuses about soup and left the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord alone.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord restricted puppet use, but the Taiyang Progenitor Puppet continued draining the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits Division’s resources for Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Civil Engineering Department disciples complained that the promised holiday had turned into exhausting work handling the Taiyin Puppet’s constant resource output.
• Ming Clan disciples kept producing puppets without holidays, even as their clan’s strength rose rapidly.

After the Taiyin Progenitor Puppet began producing resources by devouring the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits, people across the Three Continents praised Chu Xinghe’s generosity and rushed to buy Ming Clan puppets. The Ming Clan Head swore the puppet belonged to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned as his hope of returning it to the Ming Clan vanished.

• News spread that the Taiyin Progenitor Puppet was producing resources, and people learned Chu Xinghe’s plan had targeted the Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits Division and the Evil Shadow Continent.
• Zheng Yu praised Chu Xinghe for refusing to take a share of the puppet profits, and Tantai Jing agreed before promoting a ten-day discount on Demon Demon Puppet Loans.
• Rogue Cultivators rushed to buy Ming Clan puppets, while two Ming Clan elders asked the Ming Clan Head to reclaim the Taiyin Progenitor Puppet.
• The Ming Clan Head stripped the elders of their positions and declared that the puppet belonged to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, vowing the Ming Clan would never reclaim it.
• Chu Xinghe, who had considered returning the puppet to the Ming Clan, was dumbfounded by the clan’s oath.

Chu Xinghe abandoned his plan to return the Taiyin Progenitor Puppet after the Ming Clan swore lasting loyalty to Vast Heaven Holy Land, prompting Spirit Beast Continent’s clans to seek cooperation. On Demon Star Continent, the Wolf King faced demands to secure similar opportunities, while Hu Shang rebuked the clans for having chosen self-rule and then blaming him for their poverty.

• Chu Xinghe realized the Ming Clan’s pledge of loyalty made returning the Taiyin Progenitor Puppet impossible without endangering the Ming Clan Head.
• Clan Head Hua urged Hua Xichen to visit Chu Xinghe, while the Ning Clan, the Cui Clan, and other Spirit Beast Continent clans sought closer cooperation with Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Demon Race clan leaders pressed Wolf King Ming Han to negotiate deeper cooperation with Vast Heaven Holy Land and complained that the Ming Clan had gotten ahead of them.
• Hu Shang reminded the clan leaders that they had voted for Demon Star Continent’s self-rule and mocked them for blaming Ming Han after failing to develop their clans.
• The Demon Race clan heads fell silent as Hu Shang pointed out that their isolation had left them poor, while the Ming Clan had prospered through Chu Xinghe’s help.

She Meng explained why the Snake Clan had flourished after joining the Vast Heaven Holy Land, where he was treated as an equal and the clan received the same resources and opportunities as every other palace. His account left the Demon Star Continent’s clan leaders eager to pursue cooperation, while the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s prodigies remained secure under Chu Xinghe’s protection.

• The Demon Star Continent’s clan leaders approached the Wolf King to seek cooperation with the Vast Heaven Holy Land after seeing the Ming Clan prosper.
• She Meng visited more than a dozen Demon Race clans and gave their leaders gifts so valuable that they asked him about life in the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• She Meng recalled that the Great Elder had investigated a dispute between Nether Snake Palace and Spirit Crane Palace disciples, demoting the Spirit Crane Palace disciple and confining the Nether Snake Palace disciple.
• The Great Elder urged She Meng to learn the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s affairs and express his views at major meetings, where he sometimes argued against Holy Lord Gu Mingchao.
• She Meng described how the Nether Snake Palace gained access to cultivation resources and techniques, helping the Snake Clan grow stronger and making him value his place in the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

Wolf King Ming Han agreed to visit the Vast Heaven Holy Land and pursue closer cooperation after the Demon Race’s clans admitted their growing poverty. He demanded that they cooperate sincerely, but the clans’ conditions and suspicions sparked a dispute, which Hu Shang answered by citing the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s fair dealings with other groups.

• She Meng described how the Bear, Formation Spirit, Divine Wood, Fox, Snake, and Ming clans had prospered through their ties to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, prompting other demon patriarchs to ask Ming Han to strengthen relations.
• Ming Han agreed to travel to the holy land but warned the patriarchs that his Wolf Clan would destroy any clan that only sought temporary profits or refused to share the risks of cooperation.
• The patriarchs pledged wholehearted cooperation but demanded that the Vast Heaven Holy Land not interfere in their clan affairs.
• Hu Shang argued that the holy land had never seized resources from the Fox or Ming clans and mocked the patriarchs for distrusting it despite its record.
• Yuan Bao threatened to withdraw the Ape Clan from cooperation, and Hu Shang mocked the clan’s tiny numbers and noted that even Yuan Zheng would have to compete with Yuan Ying to be Chu Xinghe’s number one bootlicker.

Wolf King Ming Han set out for the Vast Heaven Holy Land after the Demon Star Continent’s clans agreed to seek its cooperation, hoping the agreement could help unite their interests. His arrival interrupted Chu Xinghe’s attempt to enter seclusion, and Chu Xinghe went to meet him, wondering what crisis had brought him there.

• Hu Shang silenced Yuan Bao’s objection by reminding him that the Fox Clan could easily destroy the weakened Ape Clan.
• Wolf King Ming Han set aside the Ape Clan’s objection and decided to visit the Vast Heaven Holy Land on behalf of the Demon Star Continent.
• Ming Han arrived at the Vast Heaven Holy Land, where Xiong Feng welcomed and escorted him to Haotian Palace.
• Xiong Feng had Shen Chun notify the Holy Land’s leaders, including Chu Xinghe, that Ming Han had arrived.
• Shen Chun summoned Chu Xinghe from the ninth floor of the Technique Repository Tower, and Chu Xinghe reluctantly went to meet Ming Han.

Wolf King Ming Han asked the Vast Heaven Holy Land to help the resource-poor Demon Star Continent become prosperous, and Chu Xinghe eagerly sought lessons from its past failed ventures. As Ming Han began recounting those failures, the meeting learned that the Demon Race had botched both spirit herb cultivation and spirit beast breeding.

• Ming Han asked Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Holy Land to help the Demon Star Continent prosper, admitting that its clans were now willing to cooperate.
• Chu Xinghe asked Ming Han about the Demon Star Continent’s past partnerships and privately celebrated when he learned they had failed.
• Ming Han explained that the Demon Race had bought cultivation methods and precious herbs but still grew misshapen crops unsuitable for sale.
• Ming Han recounted how the Yun Clan hired the Demon Race to raise spirit beasts, but the animals became weak and the Demon Star Continent had to pay compensation.
• Douding'er questioned how strong Spiritual Qi could have led to such poor results, then joined the others in stunned silence as Ming Han explained the Demon Race’s methods.

Douding'er explained how the Demon Race's failed spirit-beast venture with the Yun Clan had left them in debt and at odds with the Yun Clan. Chu Xinghe proposed raising spirit beasts with the Demon Race's spirit medicines anyway, despite hearing that the beasts had fallen ill when fed them before.

• Douding'er described the Yun Clan's dominance in spirit-beast raising and how the Vast Heaven Holy Land could not compete outside its exclusive Qi and Blood Spirit Beasts.
• The Wolf King recounted how the Demon Race had fed spirit beasts its failed spirit medicines, making them sick and forcing the Demon Star Continent to compensate the Yun Clan.
• Chu Xinghe recorded the Demon Race's failures as lessons and envied how naturally they had found ways to lose money.
• The Wolf King said the Yun Clan had ended their cooperation and refused to renegotiate unless the Demon Race accepted even worse terms.
• Chu Xinghe announced that the Demon Race should resume raising spirit beasts, then said they could use spirit medicine instead of buying Spirit Beast Grass from the Yun Clan.
• Douding'er and the others were stunned, while the Wolf King wondered whether Chu Xinghe had ignored his warning that spirit beasts could not digest the medicine.

Chu Xinghe proposed cultivating spirit beasts with spiritual herbs, despite the Demon Star Continent’s past failures and the objections of its experts. When Wolf King Ming Han said the continent could not afford the beasts or herbs, Chu offered to supply both and subsidize the effort, leaving him confident that the plan would ruin the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s profitable ventures.

• Wolf King Ming Han, Elder He, and Wuj iang Holy Mother said spirit beasts could not digest spiritual herbs, while the Four Sacred Beasts called the idea nonsense but chose to wait because Chu Xinghe had proposed it.
• Holy Empress Ji Ya also decided to wait and see, and Chu Xinghe took everyone’s skepticism as proof that the plan would fail.
• Wolf King Ming Han explained that the Demon Star Continent could not afford suitable spirit beasts or the spiritual herbs needed to cultivate them.
• Chu Xinghe offered to send the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit beasts and Muyue Kingdom’s top-grade spiritual herbs to the Demon Star Continent.
• Chu Xinghe promised subsidies for every spirit beast raised, whether the effort succeeded or failed, and planned to have Wei Buhui catch more beasts for the program.

Chu Xinghe offered Demon Star Continent an enormous subsidy to raise spirit beasts, with the Vast Heaven Holy Land taking on the risks and costs. The clan leaders doubted Wolf King Ming Han’s report until the first spirit beasts and subsidy arrived together.

• Wolf King Ming Han thanked Chu Xinghe for the favorable cooperation and learned that Demon Star Continent had received no subsidy under its previous deal with the Yun Clan.
• Chu Xinghe set the subsidy at one-third of each successfully raised spirit beast’s final selling price, payable whether the raising succeeded or failed.
• Ming Han returned to Demon Star Continent and told the clan leaders that the Vast Heaven Holy Land would provide the resources, bear the risks, and pay the subsidy without requiring a contract.
• The clan leaders questioned whether Ming Han had acknowledged Chu Xinghe as their godfather and doubted the agreement was real.
• The first batch of spirit beasts arrived on Demon Star Continent with its full subsidy, confirming Chu Xinghe’s offer.

The Demon Race accepted Chu Xinghe’s advance subsidies and spirit beasts, despite believing their old breeding methods would fail, while Ming Han enforced proper care with lethal threats. As the cooperation drew attention across the Three Continents, the Yun Clan mocked Chu Xinghe’s approach and insisted that only its Spirit Beast Grass could raise spirit beasts successfully.

• The Demon Race clan leaders questioned the Wolf King’s report of the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s unusually generous deal, then eagerly claimed the spirit beasts when the first subsidies arrived.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land disciples said subsidies would accompany every delivery, whether or not the spirit beasts were successfully raised.
• Ming Han warned the clan leaders to care for the spirit beasts properly and threatened to kill anyone who deliberately caused failures to collect more subsidies.
• Ming Han sent Wolf Clan elders to monitor the clans, and they killed three clan leaders who cut corners, forcing the rest of the Demon Race to comply.
• News of the arrangement spread across the Three Continents, where many questioned the breeding method and the Spirit Beast Continent’s clans asked to receive similar deals.
• The Yun Clan leader laughed at Chu Xinghe’s plan and declared that the Yun Clan’s Spirit Beast Grass was the only effective way to raise spirit beasts.

The Three Continents debated Chu Xinghe’s plan to raise spirit beasts on the Demon Star Continent using Muyue Kingdom spiritual herbs instead of the Yun Clan’s Spirit Beast Grass. While the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s generous deal fueled speculation that Chu Xinghe was secretly aiding the Demon Star Continent, the Yun Clan doubled its prices, confident he would still have to buy its grass.

• The factions learned that the Vast Heaven Holy Land planned to use Muyue Kingdom spiritual herbs to raise spirit beasts, despite earlier failures with such herbs.
• Hua Xichen questioned the plan because his own tests of those herbs had left spirit beasts sickly, and factions argued over whether Chu Xinghe would succeed or fail.
• The terms of the deal revealed that the Vast Heaven Holy Land would cover the risks and pay the Demon Star Continent a subsidy, leading many to suspect Chu Xinghe was using the venture to help the Wolf King.
• Wu Man reported the news to the Evil Shadow Continent, where the eight Evil Lords studied it but could not work out Chu Xinghe’s plan and chose to wait.
• The Yun Clan doubled its Spirit Beast Grass prices for the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and its leader challenged Douding'er to stop buying if Chu Xinghe could raise spirit beasts without it.

The Yun Clan leader doubled Spirit Beast Grass prices and challenged Vast Heaven Holy Land, convinced its efforts to raise spirit beasts without the Yun Clan’s exclusive medicine would fail. As spirit medicines from the Muyue Kingdom reached Demon Star Continent, the first spirit beasts began taking them, and something went wrong.

• The Yun Clan leader doubled Spirit Beast Grass prices for Vast Heaven Holy Land, prompting Douding'er to end their cooperation and stop buying it.
• The Yun Clan leader raised prices for powers that had sided with Vast Heaven Holy Land and insisted that spirit beasts would become sick without Spirit Beast Grass.
• The Yun Clan leader blamed Chu Xinghe for disrupting his plan to make Demon Star Continent a spirit beast breeding base and vowed to recover his losses from Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Yun Clan leader waited for Vast Heaven Holy Land's spirit beasts to fail while Chu Xinghe arranged shipments of Muyue Kingdom spirit medicines to Demon Star Continent.
• The first spirit beasts to take the Muyue Kingdom's spirit medicines suffered an unexpected problem.

The Yun Clan raised the prices of Spirit Beast Grass and spirit beasts after Chu Xinghe’s nurturing method left Demon Star Continent’s spirit beasts sickly, forcing buyers to return to the Yun Clan. Martial Emperor City debated buying the overpriced spirit beasts, but Zheng Yu urged patience, and Gu Mingchao advised Cheng Xiaotian to watch and see what happened.

• The Yun Clan head doubled the price of Spirit Beast Grass, prompting buyers to suspend purchases and seek a substitute from Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Wolf King brought sickly spirit beasts to Chu Xinghe after Demon Star Continent fed them Muyue Kingdom’s spirit herbs, and Chu Xinghe told him to keep feeding them.
• Buyers who had copied Chu Xinghe’s method found their spirit beasts weakened and began purchasing Spirit Beast Grass from the Yun Clan at double the price.
• The Yun Clan raised its spirit beast prices after Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Spirit Beast Department ran out of animals to sell, leaving buyers with few alternatives.
• Cheng Xiaotian and Martial Emperor City’s elders debated buying spirit beasts for new disciples, while Zheng Yu urged them to wait for Chu Xinghe’s plan.
• Cheng Xiaotian contacted Gu Mingchao for information, and Gu Mingchao told him to watch and see what happened.

Chu Xinghe refused to halt his spirit beast-raising plan despite the Yun Clan exploiting the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s empty Spirit Beast Department to double its prices. He promised Ma Liang he would solve the shortage by buying every spirit beast the Yun Clan had, leaving Ma Liang stunned.

• The Yun Clan’s spirit beast shops displaced the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce after Spirit Beast Continent returned, and the Yun Clan raised prices when Chu Xinghe sent the department’s stock to Demon Star Continent.
• Factions urged Chu Xinghe to suspend his plan, while Zheng Yu asked whether he would pause it; Chu Xinghe refused because the Misfortune Compass was spinning steadily and he believed the plan advanced his path to becoming a Martial God.
• Ma Liang told Chu Xinghe that the Yun Clan had nearly doubled its prices and suggested having Wei Buhui capture spirit beasts to restock the department.
• Chu Xinghe told Ma Liang he would solve the spirit beast problem by buying every last one of the Yun Clan’s spirit beasts.
• Ma Liang was left wondering whether Chu Xinghe was joking about his outrageous solution.

Chu Xinghe had the Vast Heaven Holy Land buy every spirit beast in the Yun Clan’s shops, then sent them all to the Demon Star Continent to be raised. The Three Continents and the Yun Clan were left baffled, and the Grand Elder warned the Yun Clan Head not to damage Chu Xinghe’s reputation.

• Chu Xinghe proposed that the Vast Heaven Holy Land buy all the Yun Clan’s spirit beasts so the other factions could no longer agonize over whether to purchase them.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land’s regional managers bought every spirit beast offered in the Yun Clan’s shops, surprising the Yun Clan Head and elders.
• Zheng Yu questioned Ma Liang about the purchase, and Ma Liang explained Chu Xinghe’s reasoning; Zheng Yu remained dumbfounded.
• Rumors spread that Chu Xinghe intended to monopolize spirit beasts and resell them at higher prices, but he instead sent every purchased beast to the Demon Star Continent to be raised.
• The Yun Clan questioned whether the Vast Heaven Holy Land would rein Chu Xinghe in, and the Grand Elder warned the Yun Clan Head not to damage Chu Xinghe’s reputation.

Chu Xinghe urged the Wolf King to keep raising spirit beasts with ever-increasing doses of spirit herbs, while the Demon Race and other factions feared the beasts were being ruined. The spirit beasts lost their spiritual power, but Chu Xinghe celebrated the result as an unprecedented success and insisted they continue.

• The Demon Race clan leaders worried that their spirit beasts were growing weaker and suspected Chu Xinghe might hold them responsible for the losses, but the Wolf King reassured them and promised to atone with his life if the Vast Heaven Holy Land betrayed them.
• The Wolf King warned Chu Xinghe that the spirit beasts were weakening, and Chu Xinghe told him not to panic and to keep raising them; the Vast Heaven Holy Land then sent even more spirit beasts and resources.
• Factions from across the Three Continents saw the sickly spirit beasts, including a shrunken Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros, and speculated that Chu Xinghe had failed and was stubbornly continuing anyway.
• The Wolf King repeatedly reported that the spirit beasts were weaker and refusing food, but Chu Xinghe told him to keep increasing the dose of spirit herbs.
• The spirit beasts lost their spiritual power and became like ordinary animals, so the Wolf King rushed to report the disaster to Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe was delighted that the spirit beasts had lost their spiritual power and ordered the Wolf King to keep increasing the dose.

Chu Xinghe sent the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit beasts and spirit herbs to the Demon Star Continent, insisting the Wolf King keep breeding the weakening beasts while he hid in seclusion. As the Wolf King and Wei Buhui struggled to understand his promised turning point, Wei Buhui sent the Wolf King to fetch Ma Liang for an explanation.

• Chu Xinghe bought the Yun Clan’s overpriced spirit beasts and ordered them sent to the Demon Star Continent, while the Wolf King grew alarmed as the beasts weakened.
• Chu Xinghe refused to let the Wolf King change the breeding method, claimed a turning point was near, and went into seclusion in the Technique Repository Tower.
• Gu Mingchao told the anxious Wolf King to watch and wait, while Wei Buhui continued sending captured spirit beasts to the Demon Star Continent as Chu Xinghe had ordered.
• Wei Buhui realized Chu Xinghe had mentioned a turning point and concluded the Wolf King might have misunderstood his instructions.
• Wei Buhui told the Wolf King to go to the Spirit Crane Palace and fetch Ma Liang, whom he trusted to understand Chu Xinghe’s meaning.

Ma Liang explained to the Wolf King that Chu Xinghe’s advice to make the spirit beasts “practice more” meant teaching them the Demon Race’s secret arts. The Wolf King accepted Ma Liang’s interpretation and decided to return to Demon Star Continent and try it.

• Ma Liang finished reprimanding disciples at the Frigid Ice Palace and met the Wolf King and Wei Buhui.
• The Wolf King told Ma Liang about the spirit-beast breeding project and Chu Xinghe’s comments that the beasts sucked and needed more practice.
• Ma Liang concluded that the Wolf King had mistaken feeding the beasts spirit medicines for practice and said Chu Xinghe meant for them to train.
• Ma Liang argued that the spirit beasts should learn the Demon Race’s secret arts, since Chu Xinghe had sent them to Demon Star Continent for a reason.
• The Wolf King, despite remaining uncertain, decided to return to Demon Star Continent and try Ma Liang’s suggestion.