Chapter Summaries

Tantai Jing infiltrated the Vast Heaven Sect and tortured Chu Cheng in a dream while trying to learn Chu Xinghe’s location, then entered Chu Xinghe’s dream to attack him. As Tantai Jing unleashed a fierce ghost and Fierce Ghost Joyous Union Powder, the fourth sword in the Haotian Sword Casket emerged to protect Chu Xinghe.

• Tantai Jing slipped through the Vast Heaven Sect’s protective array and entered Chu Cheng’s dream, demanding to know where Chu Xinghe was.
• Chu Cheng gave Tantai Jing Chu Xinghe’s location while cursing him, and Tantai Jing mistook the answer for a deliberate attempt to mislead him before leaving Chu Cheng’s dream.
• Chu Cheng woke in pain, blamed Chu Xinghe for the nightmare, and was beaten by an outer sect group after his cries disturbed them.
• Tantai Jing found Chu Xinghe sleeping in the Spirit Crane Palace and dragged him into a nightmare.
• Tantai Jing sent a fierce ghost empowered by Fierce Ghost Joyous Union Powder toward Chu Xinghe, and the Haotian Sword Casket’s fourth sword, Evil Repeller, emerged from Chu Xinghe’s left arm.

Chu Xinghe learned that Tantai Jing had captured the righteous path’s greatest young disciples in the Fengdu Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation and was summoned to help rescue them. When Cheng Xiaotian explained that failure would cost the righteous path its face and require a million spirit stones in ransom, Chu Xinghe eagerly agreed, hoping to lose on purpose.

• In Chu Xinghe’s bizarre dream, Evil Repeller deflected the Fierce Ghost Joyous Union Powder into Tantai Jing, who was then attacked by the fierce ghost before the dream broke.
• Tantai Jing left the Vast Heaven Sect at dawn, blaming Chu Cheng and Chu Xinghe for what had happened to him.
• Chu Xinghe hid in the Technique Repository Tower for over half a month after hearing that the Muyue Kingdom disciples had improved their pill-making results.
• Feng Fei summoned Chu Xinghe to the Haotian Grand Hall, where he learned that Tantai Jing had captured successive groups of righteous-path prodigies in the Fengdu Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation.
• Cheng Xiaotian told Chu Xinghe that Tantai Jing had captured the chief disciples of the other nine great sects and demanded a million spirit stones in ransom.
• Chu Xinghe agreed to face Tantai Jing, privately hoping to surrender and make sure the Vast Heaven Sect paid the ransom.

Chu Xinghe agreed to enter Tantai Jing’s Fengdu Grand Formation, secretly hoping to be captured so the Vast Heaven Sect would pay a ransom and strip him of his personal disciple status. With the righteous sects supplying him with treasures and the First Elder accompanying him to Central Continent, Chu Xinghe entered Fengdu City, where Tantai Jing waited at the formation’s core.

• Chu Xinghe volunteered to face Tantai Jing, moving the gathered sect seniors with his public declaration that he would defend the righteous path.
• The First Elder and Gu Mingchao warned Chu Xinghe about Tantai Jing’s Yin Soul Patriarch legacy and the Fengdu Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation, while the sects sent Chu Xinghe treasures and supplies.
• Chu Xinghe reassured his fellow disciples and visited the Artifact Refining Palace before news of his challenge spread across the world.
• The First Elder transported Chu Xinghe to Central Continent, where a crowd of righteous and demonic cultivators gathered outside Fengdu City.
• Chu Xinghe refused to wait until the next day and calmly entered Fengdu City as Tantai Jing watched from the formation’s core, determined to capture him and confront Chu Cheng afterward.

Chu Xinghe entered Fengdu City intending to be captured by Tantai Jing, but Evil Repeller drove the vicious ghosts into a terrified flight instead. As rescued prodigies escaped and reported what they had witnessed, the crowd outside learned that Chu Xinghe was chasing the ghosts through the city and wondered whether he would slaughter his way through the entire formation.

• Chu Xinghe entered Fengdu City and called out that he was an acquaintance of Tantai Jing, but Tantai Jing used the Fengdu Token to send the vicious ghosts after him.
• Evil Repeller emerged automatically, destroyed the leading ghost, and scattered the rest; Chu Xinghe recalled it and chased the fleeing ghosts, shouting for them to capture him.
• As Chu Xinghe pursued the ghosts through Fengdu City, their retreat freed several trapped prodigies, who escaped the formation.
• The escaped prodigies told the people outside that Chu Xinghe had driven off the ghosts, leaving the crowd stunned by his combat strength.
• The crowd outside questioned whether Chu Xinghe would defeat Tantai Jing and wondered if he would slaughter his way through the entire Fengdu Grand Formation.

Chu Xinghe chased vengeful ghosts through Fengdu City until Tantai Jing confronted him, and Chu Xinghe immediately surrendered so Tantai Jing would capture him. Tantai Jing tried to drug him with a Yin-Yang Union Pill, but Evil Repeller expelled its effects and sent the red light toward Tantai Jing.

• The escapees told the Grand Elder and other sect leaders that Chu Xinghe had chased the vengeful ghosts through Fengdu City while breaking the formation's abilities with Evil Repeller.
• Chu Xinghe chased the fleeing ghosts and called for Tantai Jing to capture him, while people escaped Fengdu City and praised the Vast Heaven Sect for his rescue.
• Tantai Jing emerged from the ghostly fog, and Chu Xinghe put away Evil Repeller, raised his hands, and let Tantai Jing bind him with a black chain.
• Chu Xinghe urged Tantai Jing to demand a ransom from the Vast Heaven Sect, so Tantai Jing gave him a pill he claimed would seal his cultivation.
• Tantai Jing revealed the pill was a Yin-Yang Union Pill and sent frenzied vengeful ghosts to attack Chu Xinghe, but Evil Repeller appeared, drew a red light out of him, and shot it toward Tantai Jing.

Chu Xinghe’s Evil Repeller Sword neutralized Tantai Jing’s Yin-Yang Union Pill, and Tantai Jing fled after the pill’s effects made him lose control. Chu Xinghe accidentally took the Fengdu Token and led the rescued captives out of Fengdu City, leaving the righteous path celebrating and the Demonic Sect reeling.

• The Evil Repeller Sword drove away two vengeful ghosts and drew the Yin-Yang Union Pill’s power out of Chu Xinghe, causing it to affect Tantai Jing instead.
• After the drug wore off, Tantai Jing cursed Chu Xinghe and fled as black smoke, leaving Chu Xinghe holding the Fengdu Token he had torn from Tantai Jing’s waist.
• Zheng Yu, Fan Sheng, and the other captives thanked Chu Xinghe, then mistook his surrender and escape with the Fengdu Token for a deliberate plan to defeat Tantai Jing.
• Chu Xinghe told them about Tantai Jing’s previous dream visits, and the group praised him for having beaten Tantai Jing twice.
• Chu Xinghe led Zheng Yu and the others out of Fengdu City, where the righteous path celebrated his victory and the Fengdu Token while the Demonic Sect lamented its loss.

Chu Xinghe defeated Tantai Jing, rescued the captured righteous-path disciples, and took the Fengdu Token, then persuaded the Grand Elder to keep the resource-consuming ghost formation active as a training ground. He recommended Ma Liang to oversee it, privately pleased that the appointment would send his troublesome junior far away.

• Chu Xinghe emerged from the Fengdu Grand Formation with Zheng Yu and the other captured disciples, having taken the Fengdu Token from Tantai Jing.
• Zheng Yu and the others spread an embellished account of Chu Xinghe's victory, and news of his triumph astonished both the righteous path and the Demonic Sect.
• At the Demonic Sect's new base, Wu Xingyun misunderstood Tantai Jing's defeat, while Tantai Jing vowed to make Chu Xinghe his lifelong enemy.
• The Grand Elder asked Chu Xinghe what to do with the Fengdu Token, and Chu Xinghe argued that the formation should remain active so its ghosts could grow stronger and disciples could train there.
• Chu Xinghe recommended Ma Liang to manage the Fengdu Token, hoping the assignment would banish him to Central Continent.

Gu Mingchao and the elders approved Chu Xinghe’s request to preserve the Fengdu Grand Formation and put Ma Liang in charge, while Ma Liang proudly spread the news throughout the sect. Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling then set out under the pretense of attending the All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering, intent on carrying out a secret decision to defy their ancestors for Chu Xinghe’s sake.

• Gu Mingchao and the palace heads agreed that the Vast Heaven Sect could afford to maintain the Fengdu Grand Formation and approved Chu Xinghe’s request to preserve it.
• The sect assigned Ma Liang to manage the Fengdu Grand Formation, and he excitedly told everyone that Chu Xinghe valued him.
• Ouyang Ling told Ouyang Ming how she had learned Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing, and he asked why she had not kept digging at their ancestral graves.
• Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling decided to repay Chu Xinghe by carrying out an ancestor-defying plan, then told the sect they were traveling to the All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering.
• Ouyang Ming refused the sect’s offer of guards, and the Ouyang siblings departed with their lineage as onlookers watched.

The Ouyang siblings returned to their ancestral home and dug up their ancestors’ graves until they recovered a jade slip containing the lineage’s lost inheritances, including the Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique. Meanwhile, Chu Xinghe handed Ma Liang control of Fengdu City and urged him to spend resources freely, unaware that Ma Liang planned to make the ghost city flourish.

• Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling welcomed the city’s prominent figures but canceled the banquet to hold an “ancestor worship” ceremony at their ancestral residence.
• The siblings dug up their grandfather’s and father’s graves without finding what they wanted, then uncovered a jade slip in the first-generation ancestor’s grave.
• Ouyang Ming received the Ouyang Lineage’s lost inheritances, including the Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique, and vowed to restore the family’s glory at the All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering.
• The siblings repaired the ancestors’ graves, accidentally buried their father’s face under the dirt, and used his memorial tablet to steady the offering table during the feast.
• Ma Liang arrived in Central Continent City, embraced Chu Xinghe, and promised to take good care of the Fengdu Token and strengthen the Fengdu Grand Formation.
• Chu Xinghe gave Ma Liang control of Fengdu City and told him to spend resources without worrying about waste; after seeing the ghosts’ fear of Chu Xinghe, Ma Liang resolved to perfect the city and surprise him.

Chu Xinghe entrusted Fengdu City to Ma Liang and prepared to accompany the Ouyang Lineage to the All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering, hoping Ouyang Ming would embarrass the Vast Heaven Sect. The Great Elder gave Chu Xinghe the ancient Flute of Space and Time for protection, and Chu Xinghe left for the gathering with the Ouyang siblings.

• Chu Xinghe checked Fengdu City's progress and was pleased that Ma Liang had made no progress, while the sect's spending began strengthening Chu Xinghe through the Misfortune Compass.
• The Ouyang siblings arrived in Central Continent City for the All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering, and Ouyang Ming told Chu Xinghe he had no confidence despite secretly planning to surprise him.
• Chu Xinghe received the Great Elder's permission to accompany Ouyang Ming to the gathering and was given the Flute of Space and Time, a treasure that could return him and nearby people to the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Ma Liang reported that Fengdu City had made no progress, and Chu Xinghe reassured him before leaving with the Ouyang Lineage for the gathering.

Chu Xinghe led the Ouyang siblings to Hundred Refinements Valley for the All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering, where the valley’s leaders welcomed him as the foremost member of the younger generation. Ouyang Ling and Ouyang Ming provoked the hosts by invoking their old family ties, leaving Chu Xinghe eager to see Ouyang Ming beaten bloody.

• Chu Xinghe worried about Ouyang Ming eating less than usual until Ouyang Ming explained he was saving his appetite for Hundred Refinements Valley.
• Ouyang Ling announced she would show the world the strength of her Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing, while Chu Xinghe thought her display would only embarrass Ouyang Ming.
• Ou Yunsheng, Ou Yunchen, and Ou Chengshen personally came out to welcome Chu Xinghe and the Ouyang Lineage, astonishing the onlookers.
• Chu Xinghe humbly greeted Ou Yunsheng, but Ouyang Ling claimed that Ou Yunsheng was junior to her by family seniority.
• Ouyang Ming told the Hundred Refinements Valley leaders that their ancestors had forbidden them from returning to the Ouyang Lineage, infuriating the hosts and delighting Chu Xinghe.

Chu Xinghe arrived at Hundred Refinements Valley with the Ouyang siblings, whose taunts infuriated their hosts, while his prestige drew visits from powerful figures across Central Province. The Ouyang Lineage then ransacked the kitchens, forcing Ou Yunsheng to use a teleportation formation to fetch cooks and supplies before the evening banquet.

• Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling provoked the people of Hundred Refinements Valley, and Ou Yunsheng escorted them and Chu Xinghe to their lodgings.
• Chu Xinghe told Ouyang Ming to show his abilities at the Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering and advised Ouyang Ling to guard her reputation.
• Vast Heaven Sect officials and disciples from the ten great sects visited Chu Xinghe, while other sects left gifts at his courtyard.
• Ouyang Ming and the Ouyang Lineage disciples swept the kitchens clean, then overwhelmed the cooks Ou Yunsheng brought in to replace the stolen food.
• Ou Yunsheng ordered a teleportation formation to fetch cooks and groceries as the Ouyang Lineage withdrew to attend the banquet.

At Hundred Refinements Valley, a chaotic banquet of staple foods and an excessive breakfast left Ou Yunsheng mocked as the staple food maniac and healthy living expert. The All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering then began, and Chu Xinghe tried to keep the Ouyang siblings from showing off in its opening competition.

• Guests discovered Chu Xinghe had been given the honored seat at the main table, while the Ouyang Lineage was seated separately.
• Ou Yunsheng's banquet served mostly staple foods because Hundred Refinements Valley had failed to obtain enough ingredients, while the Ouyang Lineage ate so quickly that its dishes could not be replenished fast enough.
• After the Ouyang Lineage complained of still being hungry, Chu Xinghe locked them away from the kitchen, but Hundred Refinements Valley served more than eight hundred dishes at breakfast the next morning.
• Ou Yunsheng began the All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering with a competition for young disciples, but Ouyang Ming refused to enter and claimed his opponents were the ten greatest artifact refiners under heaven.
• Chu Xinghe stopped Ouyang Ling from entering the young disciples' competition and kept watch over her so she could not overwhelm the contestants.

The Ouyang Lineage’s disciples wrecked furnaces and were disqualified from the rankings, while Chu Xinghe welcomed the notoriety. In the final showdown, Zhao Yunkun and Ou Yunsheng forged sacred weapons, then Ouyang Ming’s latest furnace explosion revealed a Cloud-Piercing Hammer and stunned the masters.

• Ouyang Ling gave her fellow disciples perfect scores and the judges disqualified them from the young competitors’ rankings.
• Ou Chengshen won the younger generation’s competition, and the Grand Gathering began its final showdown.
• Zhao Yunkun forged a mid-grade sacred fire saber, and Ou Yunsheng followed with an upper-mid-grade sacred dagger.
• Ouyang Ming blew up another furnace as Chu Xinghe fretted over the contrast with the sacred weapons.
• Ou Yunsheng and Zhao Yunkun recognized the Cloud-Piercing Hammer near Ouyang Ming and stared in shock.

After two furnace explosions, Ouyang Ming mastered the Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique during his third forging attempt and produced a sacred artifact. The chapter left the weapon’s true potential uncertain as he revealed the technique’s highest realm, the Point Quenching Technique.

• Ouyang Ming’s first two furnaces exploded, but he steadied the flames in his third and began forging with the Cloud-Piercing Hammer.
• Ouyang Ming saw Chu Xinghe smiling supportively and entered a state of enlightenment, fully mastering the Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique.
• Ouyang Ming’s forging drew sacred light and produced a golden longsword, which the veteran weapon forgers appraised as a mid-grade sacred artifact.
• Ouyang Ming laughed at the appraisal and pointed at the sword, revealing the Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique’s highest realm, the Point Quenching Technique.

Ouyang Ming used the Point Quenching Technique to forge a super divine artifact with Ouyang Ling, then named it the Light of Xinghe in honor of Chu Xinghe. As the Ouyang siblings celebrated their achievement and credited Chu Xinghe, he privately lamented that their success had ruined his plans, while the gathering’s rankings and the Ouyang Lineage’s resurgence became clear.

• Ouyang Ming revealed the Point Quenching Technique, shattered the holy light around the sword, and raised it to divine artifact grade by surviving a thunder tribulation.
• Ouyang Ming handed the sword to Ouyang Ling, who used Sacred Heart Spirit Imbuing to upgrade it into a super divine artifact.
• Ouyang Ming named the weapon the Light of Xinghe and declared that the Ouyang Lineage would follow Chu Xinghe and help him achieve glory.
• Chu Xinghe hid his anger and dismay as the crowd praised him and the Ouyang siblings celebrated their unprecedented success.
• Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling told Chu Xinghe they had discovered an inheritance in their ancestral graves and credited his support for helping them reclaim their ancestral home.
• The gathering’s first place was assured for Ouyang Ming, the Ouyang Lineage’s rise appeared inevitable, and news of the divine sword spread while Chu Xinghe cried through the night.

After Ouyang Ming forged a divine artifact at the All-Under-Heaven Spirit Weapon Grand Gathering, the Ouyang Lineage became famous and the Vast Heaven Sect celebrated its success. Chu Xinghe refused outside forging orders, while Ma Liang began turning Fengdu City into a training ground to prove his own value.

• News of Ouyang Ming's divine artifact spread, bringing visitors to the Vast Heaven Sect who wanted him to forge spirit weapons.
• Gu Mingchao and the palace elders praised the Ouyang Lineage, credited Chu Xinghe with having planned its success, and ordered a new floor for the Artifact Refining Palace.
• Wan Lin supervised the floor work and asked the earth-element disciples to make it as flat as Ouyang Ling had been when she joined the sect, but they could not meet that standard.
• Ma Liang discovered that Fengdu City's vicious ghosts could pressure disciples into cultivating faster, and he resolved to turn the city into a training ground.
• Chu Xinghe rejected all outside forging orders, and Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling agreed that the sect's needs came first.
• Chu Xinghe decided to find a way to send the Ouyang Lineage away, as he had sent Ma Liang to Fengdu City.

Chu Xinghe stopped Ma Liang from turning Fengdu City into a safe cultivation ground and instead ordered him to unleash its fierce ghosts and charge outsiders to enter. Ma Liang interpreted the fee as one hundred spirit stones per person, drawing furious complaints while Chu Xinghe celebrated the result.

• Ou Yunsheng sent Chu Xinghe and the Ouyang Lineage away from Hundred Refinements Valley through a teleportation array, which deposited them in Central Continent City.
• Ma Liang brought Chu Xinghe to Fengdu City and explained his plan to let disciples train there, prompting Chu Xinghe to warn that suppressing the fierce ghosts would stunt their growth.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to let the fierce ghosts attack at full strength without killing anyone and to admit outsiders for a fee of one hundred spirit stones.
• Ma Liang followed the orders and announced the admission fee as one hundred spirit stones per person, provoking angry curses from other sects.
• Chu Xinghe realized Ma Liang had interpreted the fee per person rather than per group and praised his understanding as people denounced the Vast Heaven Sect.

Chu Xinghe set a high entry fee for Fengdu City and planned to make its ghosts as terrifying as possible so outsiders would avoid it. He arranged for Vast Heaven Sect disciples to test the city, but the Grand Elder’s teleportation array sent them far from their destination, leaving Chu Xinghe scrambling to find them.

• Ma Liang announced a fee of a hundred spirit stones per person, causing the other sects to suspect Chu Xinghe was behind the price and decide to wait and see.
• Zheng Yu persuaded Cheng Xiaotian to send disciples to Fengdu City, while the Grand Elder and Gu Mingchao also chose to wait for Chu Xinghe’s plan to unfold.
• After three days with no visitors, Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to make Fengdu City’s ghosts more frightening and requested a batch of firm-minded Vast Heaven Sect disciples.
• Three thousand disciples volunteered, and the Grand Elder selected the first hundred and teleported them toward Central Continent City.
• The disciples arrived more than two hundred li from the city and mistook the detour for a test, while Chu Xinghe discovered the delay and ordered people to search for them.

Chu Xinghe welcomed Mu Bai and the other Vast Heaven Sect disciples to Central Continent City, then brought them to Fengdu City to demonstrate how badly the entry fee was worth paying. After he ordered the ghosts to terrify his junior brothers and supplied them with spare pants, they entered the city amid ghostly howls.

• Mu Bai and the other disciples arrived in Central Continent City a day late, and Chu Xinghe framed their journey as the Grand Elder’s first test; the sect’s elders and Gu Mingchao accepted his explanation that the mishap had been planned.
• Chu Xinghe discovered that the Ouyang Lineage had emptied the city’s high-end restaurants of their chefs, so he canceled the welcome feast for Mu Bai and the others.
• Chu Xinghe led the disciples to Fengdu City, where representatives of other factions gathered to see whether the costly entry fee was justified.
• Chu Xinghe entered Fengdu City with Evil Repeller and ordered the ghost leaders to keep his junior brothers safe while terrifying them enough that they would leave with wet pants.
• Chu Xinghe had two carts of spare pants brought to the entrance, and Mu Bai and the other disciples each took two pairs before entering as ghostly howls rang out.