Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe entered the Land of Flames with Clan Head Ning and the Ning Clan, but his Phoenix Fire empowered the Fire Spirits instead of harming them. As the group tried to retreat, Chu Xinghe brought out a flame sniper rifle and destroyed a Fire Spirit, claiming ballistics was a Dao.

• Clan Head Ning led Chu Xinghe, Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird, and Ning Clan members into the Land of Flames, where only fire power could be used.
• Clan Head Ning and the Ning Clan prodigies attacked the Fire Spirits with basic fireball techniques to conserve resources.
• Chu Xinghe unleashed Phoenix Fire attacks, which the Fire Spirits absorbed, making them grow stronger and turn blue.
• Clan Head Ning called for the group to retreat as the empowered Fire Spirits attacked the Ning Clan.
• Chu Xinghe stayed behind, aimed a flame sniper rifle at a Fire Spirit, and blew it apart.

Chu Xinghe used a sniper-rifle-shaped medium powered by Phoenix Fire to kill the Fire Spirits, leaving the Ning Clan amazed by his unconventional approach to the Art of Qimen Dunjia. The Ning Clan discovered they could also form sniper rifles and saw their potential for powerful long-range attacks.

• Chu Xinghe killed the evolved blue Fire Spirit with a shot from his strange sniper-rifle-shaped medium, shocking the Ning Clan and the Vermilion Bird.
• Chu Xinghe explained through his actions that his rifle transformed flame power into bullets, which could harm Fire Spirits but consumed enormous resources.
• Chu Xinghe shot down the surrounding Fire Spirits, including blue ones and those that had devoured Phoenix Fire.
• Clan Head Ning recognized that Chu Xinghe's immense firepower came from his Phoenix Fire rather than the rifle-shaped medium being superior to a Dunjia Heavenly Book.
• Ning Clan prodigies tried condensing sniper-rifle-shaped mediums and found that they delivered powerful long-range shots at great cost.
• The Ning Clan decided the rifles could outperform their Bow of Thunder for ambushes and imagined forming a musket squad by pouring in enough resources.

Clan Head Ning recognized Chu Xinghe’s sniper rifle as a powerful long-range technique and eagerly let the Ning Clan use it. Chu Xinghe then unveiled a Gatling, chased the Fire Spirits through the Land of Flames, and became the focus of Ning Jibei’s wildly popular livestream.

• Clan Head Ning tested Chu Xinghe’s sniper rifle and realized its speed and power made it an ideal ambush technique, despite its enormous resource consumption.
• Clan Head Ning asked whether the Ning Clan could learn the sniper rifle technique, and Chu Xinghe agreed.
• Chu Xinghe transformed the rifle into a Gatling and swept the Fire Spirits to ashes while feeding resources into it.
• The remaining Fire Spirits fled, and Chu Xinghe chased them through the Land of Flames while firing and calling after them.
• Ning Jibei opened a livestream, drawing a huge audience that watched Chu Xinghe hunt down the Fire Spirits.
• Zheng Yu watched the stream and wondered why the Land of Flames seemed so different from the one he had visited.

Chu Xinghe used a resource-consuming Gatling spell to slaughter the Fire Spirits in the Land of Flames, stunning the livestream viewers and spellcasters. Rather than head toward the Flame Deity, he turned back to farm the endlessly reviving Fire Spirits until he had used up his supplies, giving the Civil Engineering Department hope that he would secure their promised vacation.

• Chu Xinghe pursued and killed the Fire Spirits with Gatling, prompting spellcasters to ask what kind of spell it was and learn that its immense resource cost made it unaffordable for most.
• I Really Only Know a Little About Miscellaneous Studies explained that Gatling was likely Chu Xinghe's own creation and consumed more than ten years of an ordinary spellcaster's resources per minute.
• Chu Xinghe turned back toward the entrance, explaining to Clan Head Ning that he planned to see whether the Fire Spirits had revived and kill them again.
• Chu Xinghe decided to avoid the flame barrier and farm Fire Spirits until he had exhausted all the resources he had brought.
• The Civil Engineering Department celebrated Chu Xinghe's decision, believing he would fulfill his promise to give its disciples a vacation.

Chu Xinghe repeatedly slaughtered the reviving Fire Spirits to burn through his resources, baffling everyone watching. When the spirits finally stopped returning, the Land of Flames shook and its flame barrier began to open, though Chu Xinghe had no idea why.

• Chu Xinghe turned back toward the entrance and hunted the revived Fire Spirits with his flame-spewing Gatling while Clan Head Ning and the watchers wondered what he was doing.
• Chu Xinghe learned the spirits’ revival timing and camped at their spawn sites, killing each new batch as the Misfortune Compass began to turn.
• When Chu Xinghe waited for the Fire Spirits to return for the tenth time, none appeared, prompting the factions to question whether the spirits had ever revived endlessly.
• The Land of Blazing Flames shook, and the fiery horizon dimmed after the Fire Spirits stopped reviving.
• Elder He concluded that killing every Fire Spirit for good opened the flame barrier, while White Tiger Holy Venerable recognized the Land of Flames as a vast Spirit Gathering Formation.

White Tiger explained that Chu Xinghe had broken the flame barrier by repeatedly killing the reviving Fire Spirits and draining the Flame Spirit Gathering Formation. As the incomplete Flame Deity emerged from the purple lava and overwhelmed the group, Chu Xinghe’s blue Phoenix appeared to confront him.

• White Tiger explained that the Land of Flames was a Spirit Gathering Formation and that the Fire Spirits’ repeated revivals had consumed the power sustaining the flame barrier.
• The flame barrier vanished, and Clan Head Ning praised Chu Xinghe for solving the formation while the Ning Clan’s young geniuses watched in awe.
• Purple flames gathered at the center of the Land of Flames, and the incomplete Flame Deity rose from the lava.
• The Flame Deity’s shockwave shattered Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird’s protective barrier, suppressed his flames, and injured the Ning Clan members.
• Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird urged everyone to flee, but a gigantic blue Phoenix appeared behind Chu Xinghe and faced the Flame Deity.

Chu Xinghe faced the Heaven-Burning Extreme Fire while Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird led the Ning Clan out of the Land of Flames. He used Suspended Shears to block a fatal strike and seized the fire’s origin, drawing it into his body with Azure Shadow Flame.

• The Heaven-Burning Extreme Fire attacked, and Chu Xinghe used Azure Shadow Flame to hold it back while Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird and the Ning Clan escaped.
• Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable and Elder He explained that subduing the divine flame could trigger Chu Xinghe’s Phoenix Fire’s third transformation.
• Chu Xinghe formed armor and a battleaxe from Azure Shadow Flame, clashed with the Heaven-Burning Extreme Fire, and was injured as his flames began eroding its power.
• Chu Xinghe charged toward the fire’s origin and deliberately extinguished his defenses so the purple ring would strike him.
• Suspended Shears activated its master-protection mode and blocked the fatal attack, allowing Chu Xinghe to seize the Heaven-Burning Extreme Fire’s origin.
• Azure Shadow Flame enveloped the origin and pulled it into Chu Xinghe’s body.

Chu Xinghe seized the Heaven-Burning Extreme Fire’s origin, but let the Flame Deity devour both it and the Azure Shadow Flame, restoring the deity’s body and reviving his soul. As the Flame Deity proclaimed his return and gathered flame power across the Three Continents, Gu Mingchao and the other powerful figures arrived to confront him, only for Gu Mingchao to urge them to wait and watch.

• Chu Xinghe risked a direct hit with Suspended Shears, seized the Heaven-Burning Extreme Fire’s origin, and began absorbing it with the Azure Shadow Flame.
• The Flame Deity’s remnant body attacked Chu Xinghe and wrapped him in a tentacle that began devouring his flames and the stolen origin.
• Chu Xinghe let the Flame Deity devour all of his Azure Shadow Flame and the Heaven-Burning Extreme Fire’s origin, which restored the deity’s missing body and revived his soul.
• The resurrected Flame Deity declared that he had returned and drew flame power from across the Three Continents, alarming the Ning Clan, the Vermilion Bird, and the other witnesses.
• Gu Mingchao, Holy Empress Ji Ya, the Grand Elder, the Great Sage, and the Wolf King arrived to face the Flame Deity, but Gu Mingchao told them to wait and see what happened.

The Flame Deity broke through the Three Continents’ shackles into the Main God realm while Gu Mingchao and the others watched and waited. His breakthrough triggered a seemingly endless lightning tribulation that battered him to ashes and continued striking long after he died.

• Gu Mingchao noticed Chu Xinghe signaling the five Half-Step Main Gods to retreat, so he convinced Ji Ya, the Grand Elder, and the Wolf King to watch and wait while the Great Sage stayed calm.
• The Flame Deity devoured the Three Continents’ flame power, broke through their shackles, and arrogantly declared that his era had begun.
• When the Flame Deity’s lightning tribulation started, Gu Mingchao fled with Ji Ya, the Grand Elder, and the Wolf King, while the Great Sage charged into the storm and welcomed the strikes.
• The lightning tribulation continued far beyond the expected three pillars, repeatedly blasting the Flame Deity and killing the Great Sage, who resurrected and rushed back into the storm.
• After surviving thirty strikes, the Flame Deity declared victory, but the thirty-first pillar reduced him to ashes, and the Heavenly Dao continued striking his remains in repeated rounds of eighty-one pillars.

The Flame Deity was destroyed by the lightning tribulation, but his source flame merged with Chu Xinghe’s Phoenix Fire to create Heaven-Burning Thunderfire, while his spiritual essence became the Dunjia Fire Book. The book empowered Gu Mingchao with a Flame Main God Fate Mark, and the chapter ended with Gu Mingchao being beaten down by the Vast Heaven Holy Land elders after he tried to claim Chu Xinghe as a disciple.

• The Heavenly Dao’s lightning tribulation annihilated the Flame Deity, though it strengthened the merged Azure Shadow Flame and Heaven-Burning Extreme Fire into a new source flame.
• The source flame flew into Chu Xinghe, giving him his third Phoenix transformation, Thunderfire Wings, and the Heaven-Burning Thunderfire.
• The Flame Deity’s remaining spiritual essence became the Dunjia Fire Book, which chose Gu Mingchao because Chu Xinghe could not withstand its power.
• The Dunjia Fire Book raised Gu Mingchao’s spiritual power close to Main God level, and a Flame Main God Fate Mark descended upon him.
• Gu Mingchao declared himself the Flame Main God and offered to teach Chu Xinghe the laws of fire, prompting the Vast Heaven Holy Land elders to beat him down.

Gu Mingchao obtained the Flame Main God Fate Mark, and the Three Continents recognized his Dao of Watching and Waiting as a genuine Dao that had earned him the stature of Emperor of the Human Race. He entrusted the Dunjia Fire Book to the Ning Clan, which offered half of the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring to Vast Heaven Holy Land, while Chu Xinghe reacted with confusion.

• The Vast Heaven Holy Land elders and Ji Ya objected when Gu Mingchao offered to teach Chu Xinghe the power of flame laws, while Gu Mingchao felt slighted by their lack of respect.
• Clan Head Ning and leaders from across the Four Continents congratulated Gu Mingchao, and Cheng Xiaotian recognized that Gu Mingchao’s Dao of Watching and Waiting reflected his trust in Chu Xinghe and his broad mind.
• The Vast Heaven Array broadcast Gu Mingchao’s Flame Fate Mark across the Three Continents, confirming his understanding of the Dao and sending the value of his Dao Porcelain soaring.
• Gu Mingchao promised Clan Head Ning that the Ning Clan could use the Dunjia Fire Book permanently as long as it did not oppose Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Clan Head Ning thanked Gu Mingchao and Chu Xinghe and offered half of the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring to Vast Heaven Holy Land, leaving Chu Xinghe puzzled.

Chu Xinghe tried to make the Ning Clan’s offer of the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring cancel out the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s gift of the Dunjia Fire Book, but the spring had been transformed by the lightning tribulation into a powerful source of lightning enchantment. The Ning Clan and the gathered leaders celebrated its newfound value, while Chu Xinghe watched his hoped-for misfortune turn into another windfall for the clan.

• Clan Head Ning offered half the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring to the Vast Heaven Holy Land after Gu Mingchao gave the Ning Clan use of the Dunjia Fire Book, causing the Misfortune Compass to stop turning.
• Chu Xinghe objected to accepting the spring, but Holy Empress Ji Ya revealed that she had already agreed to Clan Head Ning’s offer.
• A messenger reported that something had happened to the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring, and everyone found its flames gone and a lightning ball remaining at its source.
• Clan Head Ning drank from the altered spring and discovered that it restored him and granted his abilities a trace of lightning power.
• Cheng Xiaotian and other leaders tested the Lightning Earth Spirit Gushing Spring and found its Lightning Enchantment could boost combat power by at least ten percent.

The Ning Clan realized that the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring’s lightning enchantment and the Dunjia Fire Book would restore its fortunes, especially after it had already given half the spring to the Vast Heaven Holy Land. Clan Heads Hua and Cui then tried to find ways to bring calamity upon their clans so Chu Xinghe would intervene.

• Clan Head Ning recognized that the lightning enchantment made the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring valuable to cultivators of every level, while the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s half-share deterred rivals from taking it.
• Clan Head Ning credited Chu Xinghe’s fortune with overcoming the Xuanwu Token’s bad luck and entrusted all sales of the spring to the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Clan Head Ning expected the Ning Clan to recover quickly through its spring and the Dunjia Fire Book, while Clan Heads Hua and Cui envied the Ning and Ming Clans’ newfound wealth.
• Clan Head Hua urged Hua Xichen to use the Great Prophecy Art to find a calamity for the Hua Clan, but Hua Xichen was stunned by the request.
• Clan Head Cui prayed for a disaster severe enough to bring Chu Xinghe to the Cui Clan and ordered the clan’s prodigies to pray for calamity.
• Chu Xinghe remained unaware of their wishes and hoped nobody would bring him trouble before the New Year.

Qin Xiangqian partnered with Tantai Jing’s Demon Demon Express to distribute the Lightning Earth Spirit Gushing Spring across the Three Continents, where it became a major success. Tantai Jing also explained how his logistics strategy would undercut Spirit Beast Express, while Clan Head Ning celebrated the Ning Clan’s newfound prosperity.

• Qin Xiangqian rushed to the Ning Clan and arranged for Demon Demon Express to ship the Lightning Earth Spirit Gushing Spring across the Three Continents.
• Tantai Jing explained to Wu Xingyun that low margins on deliveries would secure a long-term monopoly as demand for the spring water grew.
• Qiu Tian launched Spirit Beast Express, but Tantai Jing handed it unprofitable routes and used the move to improve Demon Demon Express’s reputation and reduce its costs.
• Long lines formed outside Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce locations as the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring sold rapidly.
• Clan Head Ning saw the sales reports and realized the Ning Clan’s share of the profits would exceed its past earnings, leaving him hopeful about the clan’s future.

Gu Mingchao’s Main God Fate sparked a booming market in Dao Porcelain and, after he abandoned pottery, in books about his newly announced autobiography. As the New Year approached, Chu Xinghe chose to keep watching and waiting while the Holy Land’s returning stewards reunited with him, including the celebrated Wang Tieniu.

• The Vast Heaven Holy Land canceled Gu Mingchao’s breakthrough banquet, while his Dao Porcelain became so sought-after that he ordered the kilns demolished.
• After Ji Ya criticized his porcelain, Gu Mingchao decided to write four autobiographical books, but he produced only their titles and eight characters.
• Sweet Pomelo So Sweet Bookstore and storytellers rushed out previews and tales about Gu Mingchao, selling books by promising buyers a chance to read his finished works.
• Huang Ritian questioned Ma Liang about the bookstore, and Ma Liang said it belonged to Wan Lin and promoted its books as chances to glimpse Gu Mingchao’s Dao.
• Chu Xinghe refused to interfere with the bookstore, deciding to watch and wait until the year ended, as heavy snow and New Year decorations spread across Haotian Mountain Range and Haotian City.
• Wang Tieniu returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land with more than a hundred disciples and grand-disciples, then embraced Chu Xinghe and showed that he remained the same junior brother at home despite his fame.

As the Vast Heaven Holy Land prepared for the New Year, Chu Xinghe tried to avoid hearing about his subordinates’ booming business, while Wu Man celebrated his growing success and the disciples chose Chu Cheng as the year’s most disliked person. Convinced Chu Xinghe would frame him again, Chu Cheng wrote Chu Xinghe’s name on every ballot and signed his own name as a safeguard.

• Wang Tieniu tried to report his fivefold increase in results, but Chu Xinghe stopped him, and Qin Xiangqian revealed that the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring’s sales ledgers filled more than two hundred carts.
• Chu Xinghe skipped the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce annual review, where Sima Bian came last among the branches despite 496.82 percent annual growth.
• Zang Ling experienced the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s New Year festivities for the first time, while Wu Man helped decorate the Spirit Crane Palace and earned acclaim for supporting his team.
• The disciples agreed to stop voting Chu Xinghe the most disliked person and instead chose Holy Son Chu Cheng, whom they resented for cursing Xinghe.
• Chu Cheng wrote Chu Xinghe’s name on every ballot and added his own name to prevent Xinghe from framing him.

Wu Man won Newcomer of the Year at the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s annual banquet and declared his loyalty to the sect. As the Grand Elder prepared to announce the year’s most outstanding disciple, Liu Bo faced the dangerous task of persuading Chu Cheng to vote for Chu Xinghe.

• The Grand Elder announced that Wu Man had beaten Ding Feng to win Newcomer of the Year, and the disciples celebrated him.
• Wu Man accepted the award, thanked Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and vowed that only death could take him away.
• Ma Liang joked that Wu Man would still be buried in the sect’s cemetery, and the crowd laughed as the Grand Elder continued announcing the awards.
• Before the final award, the Grand Elder hoped Chu Xinghe would win unanimously and looked to Liu Bo, whom he had tasked with influencing Chu Cheng’s vote.
• Liu Bo asked the White Tiger Holy Venerable for help, then set out with fellow disciples and borrowed Holy Empress Ji Ya’s divine spiked club, which was later broken from use.

Chu Xinghe won the best disciple award unanimously, but Chu Cheng’s signed vote naming him the most disliked disciple exposed Liu Bo’s failed plan and led Liu Bo to take Chu Cheng away for a brutal “cold treatment.” As the Vast Heaven Holy Land continued celebrating, the Evil Lords learned that sacrificing Wu Man would have to wait four thousand six hundred and eighty-two days beyond a month.

• The Grand Elder announced Chu Xinghe as best disciple by unanimous vote, and Chu Xinghe thanked Liu Bo for helping secure the result.
• The Grand Elder revealed that Chu Cheng had voted for Chu Xinghe as the most disliked disciple and signed the blood-stained ballot.
• Liu Bo took more than two hundred outer sect disciples to Chu Cheng’s cabin, where he ordered them to treat Chu Cheng’s cold after Chu Cheng admitted the ballot was his.
• Wu Man entertained the banquet with a rap gossip show while Zang Ling resolved to keep fighting for the evil spirits.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord asked the Witch Curse Evil Lord to sacrifice Wu Man, but the Witch Curse Evil Lord revealed that the Skull of the Evil God’s mark needed four thousand six hundred and eighty-two days beyond a month to recover.

The Evil Lords realized the Witch Curse Evil Lord could no longer use the Skull of the Evil God’s mark to kill Wu Man, and they feared threatening him would expose their weakness. The Heart-Devouring Evil Lord proposed using Zang Ling to drain spiritual power from Vast Heaven Holy Land’s treasures, leaving the others to consider whether Zang Ling had truly remained loyal.

• The Witch Curse Evil Lord explained that activating the Skull of the Evil God’s mark had exhausted its power, so he could not kill Wu Man again soon.
• The Phantom Evil Lord suggested ordering Wu Man to kill himself, but the White Spirit Evil Lord warned that Wu Man might refuse and uncover their weakness.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord argued that threatening Wu Man’s family could make him suspect the mark was powerless and prompt him to threaten the Evil Shadow Continent in return.
• The Heart-Devouring Evil Lord proposed having Zang Ling use the Evil God’s Fang to drain spiritual power from Vast Heaven Holy Land’s treasures and send it to the Evil Shadow Continent.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord and Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord judged that the plan could benefit the Evil Spirits or confirm Zang Ling’s defection without costing them anything, and the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord insisted Zang Ling remained loyal.

The Evil Lords gave Wu Man a secret method for using the sealed Evil God's Fang to steal spiritual power from the Vast Heaven Holy Land and send it to the Evil Shadow Continent. Wu Man reported the scheme to Chu Xinghe, who ordered Zang Ling to carry it out immediately instead of letting the plan be exposed.

• The Evil Lords approved the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord's plan and taught Wu Man how to control the Evil God's Fang and transfer stolen spiritual power.
• Wu Man pretended to agree to find Zang Ling, then rushed to tell Senior Brother Xinghe about the plan.
• Wu Man proposed telling the Evil Lords that Zang Ling had surrendered and would not help them.
• Chu Xinghe rejected Wu Man's proposal and ordered him to have Zang Ling steal spiritual power and send it to the Evil Shadow Continent at once.