Chapter Summaries

Ma Liang helped the Wolf Clan teach its secret arts to spirit beasts, and the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros learned to cultivate the Blood Explosion Art and absorb spiritual power from spirit herbs. The Wolf King realized Chu Xinghe intended to create self-sufficient spirit beasts and establish the profession of summoner.

• The Wolf King brought Ma Liang to the Wolf Clan, where Ma Liang urged him to train spirit beasts with the clan's secret arts.
• Ma Liang proposed using enlightenment transfer to teach the spirit beasts, and Wolf Clansmen guided them through the cultivation methods.
• The spirit beasts became motionless after training, alarming the Wolf King, but the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros suddenly glowed and activated the Blood Explosion Art.
• The Wolf King saw the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros circulate the secret art and absorb spiritual power stored in spirit herbs.
• The Wolf King realized that self-cultivating spirit beasts could provide power to their masters and allow summoners to emerge.

The Wolf King and Ma Liang realized that the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros could cultivate independently and strengthen its master, opening a true summoner path for people with little talent. Ma Liang concluded that Senior Brother Xinghe had created a new system that could transform spirit-beast cultivation across the Three Continents.

• The Wolf King recognized that the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros could grow through its own cultivation and nourish a master instead of consuming the master's power.
• The chapter explained how Rogue Cultivators with mediocre spiritual talent often could not progress through either spiritual cultivation or Body Cultivation.
• Ma Liang recalled how Senior Brother Xinghe had established Body Cultivation as a new path for cultivators lacking spiritual talent.
• Ma Liang realized that the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros represented a summoner path in which people could rely on talented spirit beasts to cultivate and grow stronger.
• Ma Liang concluded that Senior Brother Xinghe had made the old spirit-beast breeding systems obsolete by opening a new summoner system.

The Wolf Clan discovered that spirit beasts empowered with Demon Race cultivation techniques could awaken the ability to cultivate on their own, and Ma Liang organized experiments to expand the breakthrough. At the Vast Heaven Holy Land, Chu Xinghe celebrated the Wolf King's request for more resources, unaware that Ma Liang was trying to build a much bigger surprise for him.

• The Wolf Clan saw the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros and other empowered spirit beasts cultivate on their own, realizing Chu Xinghe had sought to create the first true summoners.
• Ma Liang explained that empowerment let spirit beasts memorize Demon Race techniques, while techniques from the Spirit Beast Continent could harm or kill them.
• The Wolf King prepared to report the success to Chu Xinghe, but Ma Liang persuaded him to wait and make the results into a larger surprise.
• Ma Liang directed the Wolf Clan to test empowerment across other Demon Race clans and to try rhinoceros clans' techniques on rhinoceros spirit beasts.
• The Wolf King and Wolf Clan elders hurried off to carry out Ma Liang's instructions, while Ma Liang relaxed in the Wolf King's seat.
• Chu Xinghe received word that the Wolf Clan was running out of spiritual herbs and happily welcomed the Wolf King's request for more resources.

Chu Xinghe supplied the Wolf King with vast amounts of spiritual medicines for Ma Liang’s plan to awaken spirit beasts by matching them with suitable Demon Race cultivation techniques. As the trials showed dramatic results, Chu Xinghe remained confident, while Holy Empress Ji Ya questioned whether his unprecedented breeding method was reliable.

• Chu Xinghe enthusiastically approved the Wolf King's request for an unlimited supply of resources, believing the Wolf King had finally learned to seek subsidies.
• Ma Liang directed the Wolf Clan to match rhinoceros-type spirit beasts with Rhinoceros Clan techniques, and the beasts improved dramatically after empowerment.
• The Wolf Clan tested techniques from various Demon Race clans, and Ma Liang described the resulting transformation as a spirit-beast awakening.
• The Wolf King made eight trips to the Vast Heaven Holy Land in five days to collect spiritual medicines for further tests.
• Chu Xinghe reassured the grand elder that the Wolf King's plan had made tremendous progress and that victory was coming.
• Holy Empress Ji Ya asked Chu Xinghe about his breeding methods, and he called them ultimate, epoch-making, awakening-grade breeding.

Ji Ya relied on Gu Mingchao to make sense of Chu Xinghe’s plans while the Demon Race celebrated its exclusive spirit-beast empowerment method. Ma Liang urged Wolf King Ming Han to test spirit-beast master bonds next, aiming to surprise Xinghe with the Three Continents’ first true summoner.

• Ji Ya chose to stop puzzling over Xinghe’s plans and sought Gu Mingchao’s guidance in the Dao of Watching and Waiting.
• Wolf King Ming Han and the Wolf Clan elders confirmed that only Demon Race cultivation methods could empower spirit beasts, and they determined suitable herb amounts for some common beasts.
• Ming Han asked Ma Liang whether they should tell Xinghe about their breakthrough, but Ma Liang insisted they wait until they could deliver a much greater surprise.
• Ma Liang proposed testing what happened when an empowered spirit beast acknowledged a master so they could create the first true summoner in the Three Continents.
• Ming Han selected the young wolf Ming Heng as the candidate to become that first summoner.

Ming Heng, an ordinary Wolf Clan member, accepted the risk of becoming the Moon-Howling Wolf’s master and was chosen for Chu Xinghe’s new summoner path. The contract raised him from First Rank to Third Rank, and the wolf transformed into a wolf yao, but another unexpected development began just as the Wolf King and Ma Liang were marveling at it.

• Ma Liang and the Wolf King explained the unknown path’s risks to Ming Heng and promised to care for his family if he died.
• Ming Heng chose to trust Chu Xinghe and agreed to let the Moon-Howling Wolf acknowledge him as its master.
• The Wolf King helped complete the Master-Servant Contract, and the Moon-Howling Wolf entered Ming Heng’s body.
• Ming Heng began absorbing spiritual power through the wolf’s cultivation method and advanced from First Rank to Third Rank.
• Ming Heng summoned the Moon-Howling Wolf, which transformed into a wolf yao and tore apart a Third Rank ghost.
• The Wolf King and Ma Liang were surprised by the transformation, then witnessed another unexpected event.

Ming Heng’s Moon-Howling Wolf awakened into new forms that could fight, protect, and heal him, establishing a powerful summoner path. After testing its abilities, Ma Liang and the Wolf King prepared to surprise Chu Xinghe with their success.

• The Moon-Howling Wolf transformed into a wolf demon, gaining powerful combat abilities linked to Ming Heng.
• Ming Heng called the wolf demon back into his body, where it formed a defensive field and healed him.
• Ma Liang and the Wolf King realized the awakened beast could fight independently and provide offensive and defensive support.
• Ming Heng celebrated that Chu Xinghe’s summoner path had changed his future and could give ordinary cultivators new opportunities.
• Ma Liang and the Wolf King tested Ming Heng’s abilities, then declared they had succeeded and would give Senior Brother Xinghe a huge surprise.

Ma Liang arranged for the Wolf King to invite the Three Continents’ major forces to the Demon Star Continent to witness the awakening plan and the opening of the summoner’s path, keeping the event secret from Chu Xinghe. After three days of visitors gathering, Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe to prepare to go to the Demon Star Continent, leaving him unsure what awaited him.

• Ma Liang praised Chu Xinghe’s support and devised a grand surprise around the awakening plan and the opening of the summoner’s path.
• At Ma Liang’s suggestion, the Wolf King sent invitations signed by himself and Chu Xinghe to prominent forces, telling them to “witness history.”
• Major forces rushed to the Demon Star Continent to find out what the Vast Heaven Holy Land and the Wolf Clan had achieved, while the Yun Clan head doubted they could match the Yun Clan’s Spirit Beast Grass.
• After three days, Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that the grand elder wanted him to go to the Demon Star Continent, but could not say whether the news was good or bad.

Chu Xinghe traveled with the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders to Demon Star Continent, unaware that they were hiding the successful spirit-beast breeding results to surprise him. Confident that the Misfortune Compass was still turning and the project would lose money, he was stunned when Ma Liang joined the Wolf King on the platform for the unveiling.

• Ma Liang and the Great Elder arranged to keep the awakening plan’s results secret from Chu Xinghe for three days and surprise him with the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Great Elder gathered the leaders to travel to Demon Star Continent, while the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable was appointed to oversee the Holy Land and White Tiger set up the teleportation array.
• The Wolf King welcomed the group, including Wu Man, and confirmed to Chu Xinghe that the spirit-beast breeding had succeeded.
• Chu Xinghe assumed the project would still lose money and trusted the still-turning Misfortune Compass, so he stayed calm and rested at the Wolf King Palace.
• At the history-witnessing event, Chu Xinghe saw Ma Liang join the Wolf King on the platform and wondered why Ma Liang seemed so threatening.

Ma Liang and the Wolf King demonstrated Chu Xinghe’s plan to transform spirit beasts through Bloodline Transmission, surprising the guests who expected a contest over Spirit Beast Grass. The demonstration left everyone eager to see the next stage of the Awakening Plan.

• The Yun Clan head reassured himself that the Clan’s low production costs would let it win any price war against the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Ma Liang announced that the gathering would witness history, and Yun Hong challenged him by claiming the Yun Clan had pioneered spirit-beast raising and Spirit Beast Grass.
• Ma Liang explained that merely creating another kind of Spirit Beast Grass would not be historic, while the Wolf King fed a spirit beast costly Muyue Kingdom herbs.
• The Wolf King empowered the spirit beast, causing it to absorb the herbs’ spiritual power and begin cultivating.
• Elder He identified the method as Bloodline Transmission and explained that it used shared ancestral traits between demons and spirit beasts.
• Ma Liang called the demonstration the first step of Chu Xinghe’s Awakening Plan and promised to show the moment they would truly witness history.

Ma Liang demonstrated that spirit-beast contracts could open a new path of cultivation, enabling young people with poor talent to break through. The assembled leaders realized the demonstration could change the Three Continents, while Chu Xinghe remained outwardly calm.

• Elder He explained why spirit beasts and the Demon Race shared a connection, and the leaders marveled at Chu Xinghe while the Yun Clan Head looked devastated.
• Ma Liang brought three low-ranked youths from the Demon Star Continent, the Blazing Sun Continent, and the Spirit Beast Continent onto the stage.
• The Wolf King completed master-recognition contracts for the youths, pairing them with a Shadow Wolf, a Flame Giant Lizard, and a Thunder Hound.
• Each youth absorbed spiritual energy and broke through from the First Rank to the Second Rank, shocking the gathered leaders.
• Elder He suggested that the contracts had opened an entirely new path of cultivation, leading everyone to recognize that they were witnessing history.

Three youths with spirit beasts proved that the beasts’ cultivation and recovery could overcome their masters’ poor talent, leading Ma Liang to announce the rise of summoners. As the crowd celebrated, the Yun Clan head and Chu Xinghe both fell when their chairs broke, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned by what his plan had set in motion.

• At Ma Liang’s direction, three youths from different clans cultivated onstage, and the gathered big shots sensed their spirit beasts supplying recovery beyond their own talent.
• Ma Liang declared the youths a new class of cultivators: summoners, prompting the big shots to rise in amazement.
• The Yun Clan head’s chair shattered, and he fell onto the floor as Yun Clan members rushed to help him.
• Chu Xinghe’s rocking chair also broke, and the Vast Heaven Holy Land members laughed as Douding'er interpreted his fall as deliberate mockery of the Yun Clan head.
• Douding'er recalled that Chu Xinghe had bought the spirit beasts from the Yun Clan, and that they had now helped create genuine summoners.
• Chu Xinghe privately admitted he was stunned that Ma Liang and his companions had produced such an unprecedented result.

After the Yun Clan fell, Chu Xinghe’s demonstrations revealed transformation and defense forms for spirit beasts, establishing summoners as a new path that could overcome ordinary limits on talent. The chapter ended with aristocratic leaders embracing the path as hope for their descendants and declaring Chu Xinghe their families’ savior.

• Douding'er and the others helped Chu Xinghe stand, while the Wolf Clan brought him a new rocking chair and Ma Liang proudly told the Wolf King how pleased he had made him.
• Ma Liang introduced three youths whose spirit beasts transformed into race- and power-specific forms, and Chu Xinghe called the change “transformation.”
• The youths battled in transformation form, astonishing the gathered leaders, who recognized that spirit beasts could surpass their masters’ talent and combat ability.
• Ma Liang revealed the spirit beasts’ fourth form, defense form, which created shields and rapidly healed injuries and replenished energy.
• Cheng Xiaotian and the other leaders rushed onto the platform to inspect the summoners, then praised the new path as hope for people with ordinary talent and for families with unremarkable descendants.
• The aristocratic leaders defended Chu Xinghe against the name “Aristocratic Family Killer,” declaring that the Yun Clan had fallen but countless other families had gained a new path forward.

The Yun Clan faced ruin after awakened spirit beasts made its Spirit Beast Grass and livestock obsolete, while its history of arrogance left it without allies. The Yun Clan Head begged Holy Empress Ji Ya to intervene, but she refused, leaving the clan to its enemies.

• The Yun Clan realized its monopoly had collapsed because awakened spirit beasts could cultivate without Spirit Beast Grass and were more useful than the Yun Clan's beasts.
• The Four Great Clans and other groups saw the now-wealthy Yun Clan as a target, while old grievances—including the Ming Clan's—fueled calls to destroy it.
• The Yun Clan Head feared he would be killed on the journey home and pleaded with Ji Ya to save his clan in exchange for all its resources.
• Ji Ya refused to interfere in the Spirit Beast Continent's affairs, recalling that the Yun Clan had denied her courtesy when she sought help before.

Ji Ya refused Yun Heng’s plea to save the disgraced Yun Clan, while Chu Xinghe realized the Misfortune Compass still turned because most wealthy buyers already had spirit beasts and could not use newly awakened ones. Zheng Yu’s question about that limitation gave Chu Xinghe a chance to solve the problem himself.

• Ji Ya ignored Yun Heng’s pleas and left the Yun Clan to face the consequences of its conduct.
• Chu Xinghe wondered why the Misfortune Compass had not reversed after Ma Liang and the Wolf King unveiled spirit beast awakening.
• Zheng Yu asked Chu Xinghe to find a way for people who already had spirit beasts to obtain awakened ones.
• Chu Xinghe concluded that existing master-recognition contracts prevented most wealthy heaven’s chosen from using new awakened spirit beasts, while ordinary Rogue Cultivators could not afford them.
• Chu Xinghe hugged Zheng Yu and resolved to solve the problem himself without making a mistake.

Chu Xinghe reassured Ma Liang and the Wolf King that he would handle the limitations preventing prodigies from using awakened spirit beasts, though he secretly had no intention of finding a solution. News of awakened spirit beasts and the summoner path then spread across the Three Continents, inspiring rogue cultivators with new hope and keeping the seven Evil Lords awake.

• Chu Xinghe told Ma Liang and the Wolf King that master-recognition contracts prevented prodigies from switching spirit beasts or awakening their existing ones, and Ma Liang vowed to help solve the problem.
• Chu Xinghe claimed he had already made arrangements and would handle the problem himself, leaving Ma Liang and the Wolf King convinced he had planned everything.
• Chu Xinghe privately decided not to seek a solution, reasoning that few prodigies could use awakened spirit beasts and ordinary cultivators could not afford them yet.
• News of awakened spirit beasts and the summoner path spread across the Three Continents, and rogue cultivators gained hope that they could pursue cultivation again.
• The seven Evil Lords of Evil Shadow Continent began losing sleep, while the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord had already been suffering from insomnia and other ailments.

Wu Man saw Chu Xinghe awaken spirit beasts and hoped they could give his untalented siblings a chance to become strong. The Evil Lords argued over how to respond, while the Witch Curse Evil Lord hinted at a plan to kill Chu Xinghe and then went home to simmer soup, leaving Wu Man worried that his clan might be destroyed.

• Wu Man witnessed Chu Xinghe awaken spirit beasts and realized they could offer hope to his mocked, untalented siblings.
• Wu Man reported Chu Xinghe's Awakening Plan to the Evil Lords, and the White Spirit Evil Lord asked whether awakened spirit beasts could be sent to the Evil Shadow Continent.
• Wu Man explained that the Four Continents Barrier made sending spirit beasts impossible, while the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord insisted that his division wanted to surrender because it could no longer bear the Taiyang Progenitor Puppet's costs.
• The Witch Curse Evil Lord claimed he was preparing a way to take Chu Xinghe down, but the other Evil Lords dismissed his boast and left to tend their simmering soup.
• The Witch Curse Evil Lord also went home to simmer soup, and Wu Man worried that his master might recklessly get their clan wiped out.

Chu Xinghe worried that awakened spirit beasts might earn enough to stop his Misfortune Compass, but the Ming Clan’s failed attempts to obtain them revealed that most people could have only one awakened spirit beast. Wei Buhui then revealed he had more than twenty, leaving Chu Xinghe to ban him from Spirit Crane Palace.

• The Spirit Beast Continent’s prodigies grew excited about acquiring awakened spirit beasts, while Chu Xinghe worried that their purchases could make up his losses and stop the Misfortune Compass.
• The Ming Clan bought many awakened spirit beasts, but Ming Chenghai failed to have one acknowledge him even with the Wolf King’s help.
• The Wolf King and the Ming Clan discovered that anyone who already had a spirit beast could not have an awakened one acknowledge them, and that most people could have only one awakened spirit beast.
• Wei Buhui announced that he already had more than twenty awakened spirit beasts and could obtain as many as he wanted because he was a Soul Master.
• Chu Xinghe ordered a sign banning Wei Buhui from Spirit Crane Palace.

Chu Xinghe celebrated the limits placed on awakening-level spirit beasts, which had made the Spirit Beast Continent’s expected rush of purchases disappear. At the Holy Land’s monthly letter day, he found a collection of unusual unclaimed letters and was astonished by what they contained.

• Research revealed that Wei Buhui could command an army of awakening-level spirit beasts without the contract restrictions affecting others, making him the Three Continents’ greatest beneficiary.
• Wei Buhui boasted about the resources his Soul Master abilities consumed, so Chu Xinghe banned him from the Spirit Crane Palace and sent him back to the Dark Moon Palace.
• Chu Xinghe rejoiced that Spirit Beast Continent factions had withdrawn from negotiations because each person could only have one awakening-level spirit beast, leaving no short-term market for the beasts being bred.
• Chu Xinghe visited the communications office during the Holy Land’s monthly letter-from-home day and learned that Demon Demon Express delivered the disciples’ letters.
• Chu Xinghe read several unusual unclaimed letters and exclaimed that the heavens seemed to be blessing him.

Chu Xinghe learned that the Vast Heaven Holy Land already compensated fallen disciples’ families and supported their direct descendants for three generations. After reading Ding Feng’s plea for help, he proposed extending that support to six generations, and the Grand Elder called a meeting to discuss the change.

• Shen Chun explained that letters from descendants of fallen disciples reached the Vast Heaven Holy Land, though its support normally ended after three generations.
• Chu Xinghe read Ding Feng’s letter and learned that his sixth-generation ancestor had died fighting the Demonic Sect, leaving Ding Feng and his sick mother in debt and desperate for help.
• Chu Xinghe brought Ding Feng’s case to the Grand Elder and proposed increasing family support for fallen disciples from three generations to six.
• The Grand Elder called the heads of the various palaces to discuss Chu Xinghe’s proposal, which they praised as a way to provide every disciple with greater security.