Chapter Summaries

Ma Liang persuaded Wu Erke that Chu Xinghe wanted him to discover and solve problems with him, restoring Wu Erke’s hope and enthusiasm. Wu Erke arrived at the Vast Heaven Holy Land dressed for the occasion, where Chu Xinghe welcomed him and promised to take the blame while they pursued their plans.

• Chu Xinghe told Ma Liang to frame their invitation as a chance for Wu Erke to discover problems and create the future alongside him.
• Ma Liang returned to the West Ridge and told Wu Erke that Chu Xinghe had invited him to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to create the future together.
• Ma Liang convinced Wu Erke that he needed to discover problems and solutions himself, and Wu Erke eagerly prepared to travel to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Wu Erke explained that his teleportation array could return travelers to their original locations without a second expenditure of resources.
• Ma Liang brought Wu Erke to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, where Chu Xinghe welcomed him and promised to take the blame for their coming exploits.

Wu Erke’s hands-off leadership helped Wuj iang prosper, and Chu Xinghe brought him to meet Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders before showing him the Demon God's Arm Bone. Wu Erke detected its hidden resentment and drew dark green radiance from it, leaving the others stunned.

• Wuj iang grew peaceful and prosperous under Wu Erke, as both ridges developed with ample resources and freedom from war.
• The Wuj iang Holy Mother concluded that Chu Xinghe had chosen the right leader, since Wu Erke treated both ridges equally and suited Wuj iang better than Wu Erhan.
• Chu Xinghe took the reluctant Wu Erke to visit the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders, and they arrived at Elder He's Thunder Palace that evening.
• Elder He led Chu Xinghe, Wu Erke, and the Great Sage into a secret chamber to see the Demon God's Arm Bone.
• Wu Erke sensed the bone’s resentment, then drew countless wisps of dark green radiance from it with a dark light in his hand.

Wu Erke extracted the resentment from the Demon God's Arm Bone but could not remove it without destroying the Demon God's inheritance, so Chu Xinghe turned to his other abilities as a way to consume resources. After bringing Wu Erke to the Civil Engineering Department to meet Ding Feng, Chu Xinghe hoped the two could devour resources together.

• Wu Erke drew the resentment out of the Demon God's Arm Bone and explained that removing it would also consume the inheritance and power within the bone.
• Wu Erke admitted he had no way to resolve the resentment, and Chu Xinghe took him to meet the Wuj iang Holy Mother.
• The Wuj iang Holy Mother asked Chu Xinghe to find a way for Wuj iang to earn resources, and he claimed he already had a plan.
• Chu Xinghe brought Wu Erke to the Civil Engineering Department, where Wu Erke praised Ding Feng's ability to devour spiritual power without harming its target.
• Chu Xinghe urged Azure Dragon to prepare resources so Wu Erke and Ding Feng could devour them while discussing their abilities.

Chu Xinghe arranged for Wu Erke and Ding Feng to research the Innate Defective Physique while devouring Vast Heaven Holy Land’s resources, convinced their work could not produce a threat. As their consumption grew and Zheng Yu copied the idea in Martial Emperor City, the Wolf King arrived, and Chu Xinghe asked Wu Erke to investigate the Demon God's Arm Bone too.

• Chu Xinghe urged Wu Erke and Ding Feng to snack on spirit treasures as they discussed the Innate Defective Physique and the Power of Void.
• Chu Xinghe persuaded Wu Erke to stay in the Civil Engineering Department and research Ding Feng’s physique every day, and Wu Erke agreed.
• Wu Erke and Ding Feng’s research increased their resource consumption, alarming the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Grand Elder, while Zheng Yu ordered Martial Emperor City’s Innate Defective Physique to devour resources as well.
• Chu Xinghe watched Wu Erke and Ding Feng compete to consume resources and felt reassured that Ma Liang had no plan to thwart him.
• The Wolf King arrived at the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and Chu Xinghe brought him and the Demon God's Arm Bone to Wu Erke to investigate whether the Power of Void could devour its resentment.

Chu Xinghe struggled to answer when the Wolf King asked him to divine whether he could reach the Half-Step Main God realm, fearing either answer could harm the Wolf King's resolve. After the Great Sage and White Tiger explained the risks and costs of rescuing him from the Demon God's Arm Bone, Chu Xinghe declared that his divination showed the breakthrough was possible.

• Chu Xinghe learned that Wu Erke and Ding Feng could not remove the resentment from the Demon God's Arm Bone without also devouring its inheritance.
• The Wolf King insisted on attempting to absorb the inheritance, but Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya urged him to wait.
• The Wolf King asked Chu Xinghe to use the Star Divination Art to predict whether he would succeed, leaving Chu Xinghe unsure what to say.
• The Great Sage and White Tiger warned that the Wolf King could become trapped in the bone's Spirit-Forbidden Realm and that rescuing him would require the resource-intensive God-Controlling Formation.
• As the Wolf King prepared to give up, Chu Xinghe announced that his divination showed the breakthrough was possible.

Chu Xinghe encouraged Ming Han to merge with the Demon God's Arm Bone at the Vast Heaven Holy Land, claiming his Star Divination Art guaranteed success, though he knew the breakthrough could go badly. He explained that he lied to protect the Wolf King's confidence and vowed to use the God-Controlling Formation to rescue him if necessary.

• The Great Sage and White Tiger warned the Wolf King that the Demon God's Arm Bone inheritance could trap him and that rescuing him would consume vast resources, so Ming Han prepared to give up.
• Chu Xinghe told Ming Han that the Star Divination Art foretold certain success and insisted he break through at the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe privately planned to use the God-Controlling Formation to enter the Spirit-Forbidden Realm and search for Ming Han if he became trapped, hoping the formation's resource consumption would help him reach Half-Step Main God.
• The Grand Elder and Great Sage questioned Chu Xinghe's claim, and he admitted that Ming Han's breakthrough might not be easy.
• Chu Xinghe explained that telling Ming Han he would fail could deepen his lingering fear from Yuan Zheng's Mystic God Lightning Tribulation and create a Heart Demon.
• Chu Xinghe said he had lied to preserve Ming Han's confidence and was willing to enter the Prohibition Realm with the God-Controlling Formation to help him reach Half-Step Main God.

Chu Xinghe arranged for the Wolf King to fuse with the Demon God's Arm Bone and watched over his breakthrough, while Wu Erke discovered his Power of Void could devour formations. Ding Feng wondered whether it could also devour contracts, and the two turned their attention to the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros.

• Chu Xinghe concealed his risky plan from the Wolf King, and the Grand Elder and others supported spending resources on the God-Controlling Formation to help him reach the Half-Step Main God realm.
• Ma Liang mistook Chu Xinghe's claim that they would not take a loss for a promise they would make a killing, while Gu Mingchao advised him to watch and wait.
• Senior Brother Shen Chun prepared a place for the Wolf King to fuse with the Demon God's Arm Bone, and Chu Xinghe stayed nearby to monitor him personally.
• Wu Erke learned that Chu Xinghe was watching over the Wolf King and redoubled his efforts in the Civil Engineering Department; meanwhile, Azure Dragon's Divine Hall had already been converted into a public latrine.
• Wu Erke discovered his Power of Void could devour barriers and formations, then told Ding Feng about it.
• Ding Feng wondered if the Power of Void could devour contracts, and he and Wu Erke stared at the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros, startling it awake.

Wu Erke and Ding Feng tested whether the Power of Void could devour Ding Feng’s master-recognition contract with the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros, hoping to let him obtain an awakened spirit beast. Though the contract vanished, Ding Feng remained connected to the rhinoceros and could only sign a new contract with it, but he then came up with an even bolder idea.

• Wu Erke told Ding Feng that the Power of Void could devour almost anything, including formations, and they wondered whether it could devour a master-recognition contract.
• Wu Erke used the Power of Void to devour the contract between Ding Feng and the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros, apparently severing their connection.
• Wu Erke brought Ding Feng a new awakened spirit beast, but their attempt to make it recognize Ding Feng as its master failed when the new contract vanished.
• Ding Feng realized he still sensed a connection to the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros and could still direct it despite the vanished contract.
• Wu Erke helped Ding Feng sign a new contract with the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros, and Ding Feng came up with an even bolder idea.

Ding Feng and Wu Erke discovered they could awaken already-bound spirit beasts by devouring their master-binding contracts, resetting the beasts to blank slates, and having the Demon Race awaken them before their masters formed new contracts. After Ma Liang’s Nebula Spirit Cat successfully completed the process, Wu Erke celebrated their breakthrough and credited Chu Xinghe’s vision.

• Ding Feng realized his Innate Defective Physique could reset a spirit beast once Wu Erke devoured its master-binding contract, allowing it to awaken again.
• Ding Feng reset the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros, and a Demon Race member awakened it before it formed a new master-binding contract with Ding Feng.
• Ma Liang urged them to finish testing the method before telling Chu Xinghe, who was watching over the Wolf King.
• Wu Erke devoured the contract binding Ma Liang to his Nebula Spirit Cat, and Ding Feng reset the beast so the Demon Race member could awaken it.
• Ma Liang formed a new contract with the awakened Nebula Spirit Cat, confirming the method worked and leaving Wu Erke celebrating their achievement.

Wu Erke and Ding Feng demonstrated how the Power of Void and Ding Feng’s Innate Defective Physique could reset spirit beasts and let them awaken a second time. The Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders realized Chu Xinghe had planned to offer second awakenings to spirit-beast owners, while Wu Erke and Ding Feng gained recognition for their roles.

• Wu Erke realized Chu Xinghe’s plans had led to the spirit beasts’ second awakening and that his Power of Void had a crucial purpose.
• Ma Liang understood that Chu Xinghe had anticipated the entire process, with Wu Erke and Ding Feng as the key to resolving the limits on awakened spirit beasts.
• Ma Liang summoned the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s elders, Holy Lord Gu Mingchao, and Holy Empress Ji Ya to witness Wu Erke and Ding Feng demonstrate their results.
• Wu Erke used the Power of Void to devour a master-recognition contract, and Ding Feng reset a spirit beast so it could awaken again and recognize a new master.
• Ji Ya realized Chu Xinghe intended to give existing spirit beasts a second awakening rather than sell them, creating a way for the Vast Heaven Holy Land to profit.
• Wu Erke became recognized as a true Great Inventor, and Ding Feng’s Innate Defective Physique was revealed as a divine physique.

Chu Xinghe left the Wolf King’s seclusion after his Misfortune Compass began spinning backward and learned that Wu Erke and Ding Feng had developed a way to reset spirit-beast contracts and awakenings. The discovery promised to make Wujiang immensely profitable, while Chu Xinghe realized it had undone his plans to consume the Holy Land’s resources.

• Chu Xinghe watched Wolf King Ming Han absorb the Demon God's Arm Bone and prepared a God-Controlling Formation in case the Wolf King faced danger during his breakthrough.
• Chu Xinghe’s Misfortune Compass suddenly spun backward and deducted his recent gains, so he left the Wolf King with junior brothers and rushed to the Civil Engineering Department.
• Chu Xinghe found Azure Dragon sprawled on the ground and heard people praising Xinghe’s plans, then Wu Erke and Ding Feng excitedly explained their achievement.
• Wu Erke and Ding Feng had combined their abilities to reset master-recognition contracts and spirit-beast awakenings, giving cultivators a way to awaken their spirit beasts a second time.
• The Holy Mother of Wujiang realized Wu Erke could teach the Power of Void to Wujiang’s people, allowing Wujiang to offer the service across the Three Continents and earn substantial profits.
• Chu Xinghe recognized that the new reset ability had ruined his effort to consume the Holy Land’s resources and complained that Wu Erke and Ding Feng had developed a stat-reset function.

Chu Xinghe’s plan to profit from repeated spirit beast awakenings became clear when the Power of Void removed master-recognition contracts and Ding Feng could perform second awakenings without rest. After the news spread across the Three Continents, Zheng Yu was vindicated for refusing to sell Martial Emperor City’s old man with an innate defective physique.

• Chu Xinghe’s allies realized that Ding Feng and Wu Erke could reset spirit beast stats and enable repeated awakenings, creating a huge new source of income for Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The grand elder understood that Chu Xinghe had given Ding Feng the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros so its stamina-boosting abilities could sustain his work.
• Shen Chun and the others recognized that Zheng Yu’s old man could help Martial Emperor City profit from the awakening business, despite Zheng Yu having refused Vast Heaven Holy Land’s enormous offer.
• News that the Power of Void could devour master-recognition contracts and turn innate defective physiques into divine physiques spread across the Three Continents.
• Factions searched for innate defective physiques, while Zheng Yu boasted that he had been right to keep the old man.

Wu Erke's contract-devouring service turned Wujiang profitable as demand for spirit beast awakenings overwhelmed the available specialists. Chu Xinghe received a major boost to his Body Arts rather than a cultivation breakthrough, before Shen Chun arrived with news that something had happened with the Wolf King.

• Prodigies and factions across the Three Continents sought spirit beast awakenings, while observers credited Chu Xinghe with planning the developments.
• Wu Erke taught the Power of Void to the people of Wujiang and opened a master-recognition contract devouring center that quickly turned Wujiang's losses into profits.
• The East Ridge tribal chiefs submitted to Wu Erke and secured his help in teaching their people the Power of Void.
• Ding Feng finished awakening the Vast Heaven Holy Land's Nebula Spirit Cats but faced an overwhelming waiting list for further awakenings.
• The Misfortune Compass rewarded Chu Xinghe because Zheng Yu had secured the old man for Martial Emperor City, but its power strengthened Chu Xinghe's Body Arts instead of advancing him beyond the peak of the Ninth Rank.
• Shen Chun rushed to Chu Xinghe and announced that something had happened with the Wolf King.

Chu Xinghe learned that the Wolf King was trapped in the Spirit-Forbidden Realm after nearly completing the Demon God's Arm Bone inheritance, and he secretly welcomed the chance to spend longer inside with the resource-consuming God-Controlling Formation. Wu Man exposed the Witch Curse Evil Lord's plan to trap and kill Chu Xinghe, believing that revealing it would save both himself and the Evil Shadow Continent.

• Shen Chun brought Chu Xinghe to the Wolf King, whom Gu Mingchao and Ji Ya had sealed while the Great Sage examined him.
• The Great Sage explained that the Wolf King was trapped in the Spirit-Forbidden Realm and, having absorbed over ninety percent of the inheritance's resentment, would not cooperate with a rescue.
• Chu Xinghe was delighted that finding the Wolf King would be difficult, since a longer stay in the Spirit-Forbidden Realm would consume more of the sect's resources.
• Wu Man told the assembled leaders that the Witch Curse Evil Lord might still control the Demon God's Arm Bone and could send the Mighty Savage Evil Spirits Division into its Spirit-Forbidden Realm.
• Wu Man revealed the Evil Shadow Continent's plan to trap and kill Chu Xinghe, reasoning that the attempt would provoke Vast Heaven Holy Land into destroying the Evil Spirit Clan.

Wu Man exposed the Witch Curse Evil Lord’s plan to ambush Chu Xinghe in the Spirit-Forbidden Realm, forcing Vast Heaven Holy Land to confront the choice between risking Chu Xinghe or abandoning the trapped Wolf King. Chu Xinghe insisted on entering to save the Wolf King and test himself against the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ prodigies.

• Wu Man revealed that the Witch Curse Evil Lord and Strength Barbarian Evil Lord planned to send their prodigies after Chu Xinghe in the Spirit-Forbidden Realm.
• The Grand Elder and Vast Heaven Holy Land’s elders opposed sending Chu Xinghe into danger, while An Lan offered to go and Gu Mingchao proposed waiting for Qu Yifeng and the others to grow stronger.
• Holy Empress Ji Ya explained that the Wolf King could survive only a few months, far too little time for Qu Yifeng and the others to prepare.
• Chu Xinghe said he would enter the Spirit-Forbidden Realm because he had encouraged the Wolf King to go in, and declared that he wanted to challenge the Strength Barbarian prodigies.

Chu Xinghe insisted on entering the Spirit-Forbidden Realm to rescue the trapped Wolf King, despite the danger, and brought Wu Beichen along as backup. As they arrived, the Evil Lords prepared Man Ben and the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit prodigies to ambush them.

• Chu Xinghe welcomed the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ interference, believing their attacks would prolong the search and consume more of the God-Controlling Formation’s power.
• The Grand Elder tried to delay Chu Xinghe, but Chu Xinghe named Wu Beichen as a Ninth Rank Body Cultivator who could accompany him.
• News of Chu Xinghe’s plan spread among the factions, and people debated whether his combat record made the mission survivable.
• Wu Beichen joined Chu Xinghe, the elders gave them rare treasures, and the White Tiger Holy Venerable warned them to retreat if they could not win.
• The God-Controlling Formation sent Chu Xinghe and Wu Beichen into the Spirit-Forbidden Realm, while the Witch Curse Evil Lord alerted the Strength Barbarian Evil Lord.
• The Strength Barbarian Evil Lord summoned Man Ben and the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit prodigies to hunt the newcomers.

Chu Xinghe entered the Spirit-Forbidden Realm with Wu Beichen to rescue the Wolf King, while the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits prepared to kill him. Man Ben sealed the realm with a Formation-Sealing Stone, trapping everyone inside as a hidden third threat watched from the Wolf King’s location.

• The Strength Barbarian Evil Lord ordered Man Ben to lead the strongest Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit geniuses into the Spirit-Forbidden Realm to hunt Chu Xinghe.
• Zheng Yu urged Chu Xinghe to avoid fighting and search for the Wolf King, but Chu Xinghe entered with Wu Beichen determined not to run from battle.
• Wu Beichen promised to sacrifice himself so Chu Xinghe could escape, leaving Chu Xinghe bewildered by his resolve.
• Man Ben and the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits arrived and used a Formation-Sealing Stone to seal the Spirit-Forbidden Realm, making escape impossible unless the stone was destroyed.
• An unconscious Wolf King lay within dark green light as a hidden shadow watched the trapped groups and revealed that a third side was present in the coming conflict.

The Demon God's Resentment possessed the Wolf King's soul and waited for the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to take him out of the Spirit-Forbidden Realm. With the Formation-Sealing Stone preventing escape, Man Ben sent 362 prodigies to hunt Chu Xinghe, but the first team to find him was swiftly taken out, leaving Wu Beichen facing one enemy alone.

• The Demon God's Resentment took control of the Wolf King's soul, planning to complete his possession if someone carried him out of the Spirit-Forbidden Realm within a few days.
• The Formation-Sealing Stone trapped Chu Xinghe and Wu Beichen in the realm, while Man Ben organized 362 Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit prodigies into search teams.
• The first five-member team found Chu Xinghe and Wu Beichen, but its leader chose to attack without signaling the other teams.
• Wu Beichen charged one Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit and prepared to face a second, only to find his opponent's teammates had disappeared.
• Chu Xinghe waved from nearby and urged Wu Beichen to keep fighting for training, while Wu Beichen wondered where the other four enemies had gone.

Chu Xinghe killed four Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits in three seconds while Wu Beichen fought a fifth, stunning viewers across the Three Continents. Wu Beichen defeated the last spirit and, inspired by Chu Xinghe, wanted to fight the others head-on, but Chu Xinghe insisted they should focus on dodging.

• Chu Xinghe urged Wu Beichen to fight a Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit while he dealt with the other four.
• Chu Xinghe killed all four Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits with punches in three seconds, shocking the people watching the Haotian Mirror.
• Zheng Yu and Wu Man recognized that the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits were formidable and that Chu Xinghe was simply far stronger.
• Wu Beichen struggled to defeat the Eighth Rank Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit despite being able to reach the Ninth Rank.
• Wu Beichen killed the last Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit, realized Chu Xinghe had blown the other four apart, and excitedly proposed fighting head-on; Chu Xinghe told him to focus on dodging.

Chu Xinghe fled with Wu Beichen after effortlessly killing four Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits, hoping to avoid wiping out the enemy and ruining his plan to drain the sect’s resources. Misreading the brief battle and the lone corpse, Man Ben concluded Chu Xinghe was weak and ordered his forces to capture him alive.

• Wu Beichen watched Chu Xinghe kill four Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits in seconds and became convinced they could win.
• Chu Xinghe decided the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits were too weak to withstand a killing spree, so he grabbed Wu Beichen and ran.
• The Haotian Mirror broadcast Chu Xinghe’s escape, leaving Zheng Yu and the onlookers astonished.
• Man Ben arrived at the scene, examined the single corpse, and mistakenly deduced that Chu Xinghe had barely fought and was still being chased by the other four members of the squad.
• Man Ben changed the mission from killing Chu Xinghe to capturing him alive so the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits could use him to threaten the Vast Heaven Holy Land.