Chapter Summaries

Zang Ling used seven Evil God Relics to open the Evil God's Scepter, but the power created countless portals across the Three Continents instead of giving the Vast Heaven Holy Land exclusive access. Chu Xinghe welcomed the resulting competition, while the White Spirit Evil Lord realized that his contingency inside the scepter had taken effect.

• Zang Ling revealed that the Evil God's Fang could help open the Evil God's Scepter and proposed using the other relics to unlock it.
• Zang Ling explained how the White Spirit Evil Lord had concealed the scepter's inheritance from the other Evil Lords, and the Grand Elder ordered the relics gathered.
• The Grand Elder lent Zang Ling spiritual power as he activated seven Evil God Relics and opened the Evil God's Scepter.
• Spatial vortices appeared across the Three Continents, creating passages into the world inside the scepter for people everywhere.
• Chu Xinghe welcomed the widespread competition, while the White Spirit Evil Lord recognized that his contingency had taken effect.

Zang Ling’s attempt to open the Evil God's Scepter unexpectedly created entrances to its inner world across the Three Continents, but the Vast Heaven Holy Land reassured him that he would not be blamed. The White Spirit Evil Lord revealed that he had engineered the outcome as Star-Picking Plan 2.1, hoping the Lord of Evil Spirits’ inheritance would provoke conflict between the Holy Land and the other powers.

• Zang Ling feared punishment after the Evil God's Scepter opened entrances across the Three Continents, but the Grand Elder and Wu Man reassured him that his intentions had been good and he had done nothing wrong.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders comforted Zang Ling, reflecting its practice of supporting disciples who take risks in pursuit of good ideas.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord told the other Evil Lords that he had planted a White Spirit Division secret art in the scepter to release its spatial power and create entrances throughout the Three Continents.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord explained that the scepter contained the Lord of Evil Spirits’ inheritance, which he had been unable to claim, and that he had exposed it to draw every power into competing for it.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord proposed killing anyone who entered the scepter, and the White Spirit Evil Lord said this would force the Vast Heaven Holy Land to choose between protecting the inheritance and angering the other powers.

The White Spirit Evil Lord explained how opening entrances to the Evil God's Scepter across the Three Continents had turned the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s inheritance into a tempting prize and a trap that could provoke conflict. With the Holy Land unsure how to stop the countless intruders, Chu Xinghe proposed opening the space to everyone, secretly intent on giving the inheritance away.

• The White Spirit Evil Lord revealed that losing the Evil God's Scepter was part of his Star-Picking Plan 2.1 to pit the Three Continents against the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Tens of thousands of entrances appeared across the Three Continents, drawing Rogue Cultivators into the space while major factions debated whether to defy the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Leaders from the various factions hurried to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to ask what had caused the entrances to open.
• Shen Chun reported the entrances and Rogue Cultivators’ incursions to the leaders gathered in the Haotian Grand Hall, while Ma Liang suggested warning the factions not to enter.
• Elder He and the other leaders acknowledged that they could neither guard every entrance nor let others take the inheritance without protest.
• Chu Xinghe proposed opening the Evil God's Scepter’s space to everyone, privately resolving to give away its inheritance and treasures.

Chu Xinghe proposed opening the Evil God's Scepter to everyone and leading an expedition to claim its inheritance and treasures, believing he could fail and damage his reputation. When his allies volunteered to accompany him, he rejected them and ultimately chose the Civil Engineering Department disciples instead.

• Chu Xinghe proposed allowing everyone to enter the Evil God's Scepter, with the Vast Heaven Holy Land recognizing whoever secured its inheritance and treasures.
• The Grand Elder, Elder He, and Holy Lord Gu Mingchao supported Chu Xinghe's plan, trusting him to claim the treasures as the Ruins Terminator.
• Zang Ling, Wu Man, Ma Liang, and other disciples volunteered to accompany Chu Xinghe, while he privately feared they would secure the treasures and ruin his chance to fail.
• Chu Xinghe refused to take the volunteers, but the elders and Gu Mingchao insisted he could not enter alone and recommended disciples from their palaces.
• Chu Xinghe declared that he would take the senior and junior brothers from the Civil Engineering Department, leaving everyone stunned.

Chu Xinghe volunteered to take the Civil Engineering Department disciples into the space within the Evil God's Scepter, and the elders agreed after considering their overwhelming strength and eagerness for time off. The Grand Elder then asked the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable to keep the treasure vault project on schedule while they were gone, leaving him horrified at the prospect of doing their overtime work.

• Chu Xinghe explained that he had avoided entering ruins to give his fellow disciples and other parties a chance to gain resources, then chose the Civil Engineering Department disciples for the expedition.
• The palace elders protested Chu Xinghe's choice, and the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable proposed settling it with a martial competition.
• The elders reconsidered after recognizing the Civil Engineering Department's exceptional talents, strength, resources, and motivation to win time off.
• The Grand Elder approved taking the Civil Engineering Department disciples into the Evil God's Scepter and asked the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable to keep the treasure vault work on schedule.
• The Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable realized he might be left handling the Civil Engineering Department's overtime work and feared they were coming for him.

Chu Xinghe prepared to enter the Evil God's Scepter with the Civil Engineering Department, whose disciples planned a treasure-free vacation and packed food and leisure supplies instead of medicines or weapons. The Vast Heaven Holy Land opened the space to everyone, and Huang Ritian leaked Chu Xinghe's challenge to spur the other powers' young geniuses into competing.

• The Grand Elder assigned Azure Dragon to work with the Civil Engineering Department, and Azure Dragon tried unsuccessfully to escape the exhausting duty.
• Chu Xinghe welcomed the Civil Engineering Department as teammates, expecting them to avoid treasures and let him relax inside the Evil God's Scepter.
• Huang Ritian rejected Mu Bai's medicines, made Zhao Zhihui discard his spirit treasures, and supervised the disciples as they packed food, tents, and games instead of combat supplies.
• Huang Ritian led a pledge rally where Zhao Zhihui and the other disciples claimed they would go blind rather than take extraordinary treasures.
• Ma Liang announced that the Vast Heaven Holy Land would not restrict entry to the Evil God's Scepter and that anyone who claimed its treasures before Chu Xinghe could keep them.
• Huang Ritian leaked Chu Xinghe's challenge to provoke young geniuses across the Three Continents into competing for the inheritance and secret treasures.

Chu Xinghe provoked the Three Continents’ geniuses into competing for the Evil God’s Scepter inheritance, then deliberately gave them a three-day head start so he could lose. After nobody found any treasures during those three days, he entered with the Civil Engineering Department disciples as every faction watched to see whether he could find what they could not.

• Chu Xinghe told Huang Ritian to taunt the other factions by claiming no one could take the inheritance or treasures from him, prompting geniuses across the Three Continents to form alliances and compete against him.
• Zheng Yu and Tantai Jing led elite teams into the Evil God’s Scepter’s space, while Chu Xinghe stayed behind and announced that he would give them a three-day head start.
• The factions searched the vast space for three days, but found neither the inheritance nor a single rare treasure, though they could sense that both were nearby.
• Hua Xichen’s Great Prophecy Art failed to reveal anything, and the White Spirit Evil Lord knew the inheritance and treasures had always been impossible to locate within the scepter’s space.
• After the three days passed, Chu Xinghe entered with the Civil Engineering Department disciples as the factions challenged him to find what they had failed to discover.

Chu Xinghe led the Civil Engineering Department into the Evil God's Scepter, where he and the disciples sensed the Lord of Evil Spirits' legacy and secret treasures all around them and fled in fear. They hid in a forest where those presences felt weaker, but Zheng Yu followed and began to suspect Chu Xinghe was avoiding the treasures rather than seeking them.

• Factions searching the Scepter spent three days finding no dangers or making progress toward the legacy, while news spread that Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department had brought no resources.
• Chu Xinghe entered the Scepter with the Civil Engineering Department, and they sensed the legacy and secret treasures nearby as an overwhelming danger.
• Chu Xinghe and the disciples fled to a dense forest, relieved that the treasures' presence felt weaker there.
• Zhao Zhihui and the other disciples hoped the legacy and treasures would stay away from the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Zheng Yu followed Chu Xinghe's group into the forest and wondered why Chu Xinghe seemed to be avoiding the treasures.

Chu Xinghe led the Vast Heaven Holy Land team into the ruins, where other factions followed him and mistook his casual retreat-building and meals for a coded treasure-hunting plan. As the ruins’ rare treasures and inheritances finally appeared, the White Spirit Evil Lord watched the changes from the Evil Shadow Continent.

• Hua Xichen and other prodigies followed Chu Xinghe into the forest, and a rumor that the ruins hid treasures in areas with weak presence sent teams searching those places for two days without success.
• The Civil Engineering Department built a resort with mansions, a pond, and water slides while Chu Xinghe and the disciples relaxed, ate, and discussed food and construction.
• Spies recorded the Vast Heaven Holy Land team’s conversations, and rival factions decided the talk of grilled meat and wine must be a code for finding treasures.
• Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department dismissed concerns about inheritances and focused on enjoying their stay with Chu Xinghe.
• Ten thousand rays of multicolored light and rare treasures appeared in the sky, drawing teams across the ruins as the White Spirit Evil Lord watched from the Evil Shadow Continent.

The White Spirit Evil Lord’s Star-Picking Plan 2.2 aimed to make the unfindable inheritance and treasures inside the Evil God's Scepter consume the Three Continents’ resources and become a Heart Demon, while proving Chu Xinghe could not succeed. But repeated appearances of rosy light, culminating in a solid phantom of the Lord of Evil Spirits, convinced everyone that the inheritance was close to appearing.

• The White Spirit Evil Lord explained that Star-Picking Plan 2.1 had failed because Chu Xinghe’s Vast Heaven Holy Land opened the Evil God's Scepter to everyone, and he set his hopes on Plan 2.2 exhausting the Three Continents’ resources.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord watched the first rosy light appear, confident that it was an illusion no one could catch, as factions inside the Evil God's Scepter chased it for a day and failed.
• Chu Xinghe grew furious when the rosy light vanished without revealing any treasures, then ate hot pot with his junior brothers from the Civil Engineering Department.
• The rosy light appeared a second and then a third time, growing stronger until the Lord of Evil Spirits’ shadow and treasures appeared within it, raising everyone’s hopes.
• The rosy light appeared a fourth time with an even clearer phantom of the Lord of Evil Spirits, who seemed poised to choose an heir as countless people watched excitedly.

The White Spirit Evil Lord revealed that the Lord of Evil Spirits’ phantom repeatedly appeared without choosing an heir, and he planned to use the resulting frustration to awaken Heart Demons among the Three Continents’ young prodigies. As the radiance appeared again, Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department tried to avoid being chosen by digging underground.

• The Lord of Evil Spirits’ phantom appeared and vanished without selecting anyone, leaving the assembled cultivators disappointed.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord explained that the phantom never granted its inheritance and revealed his plan to use repeated false hope to provoke Heart Demons.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord described the White Spirit Clan’s true power: awakening and manipulating the Heart Demons within others.
• The multicolored radiance appeared for a fourth time, and Chu Xinghe panicked that the phantom still seemed to be watching him.
• Huang Ritian told the Civil Engineering Department disciples to dig a basement and hide underground.

Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department hid in a basement as the Lord of Evil Spirits’ inheritance repeatedly tempted entrants and stirred their Heart Demons. Outside, Elder He realized Xinghe had anticipated the mind test and left the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s disciples better prepared than everyone else.

• The Civil Engineering Department dug a basement, and Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Holy Land disciples hid inside as the fifth rosy light appeared in everyone’s hearts.
• The Lord of Evil Spirits’ phantom vanished, leaving entrants distressed and agitated; Zheng Yu used Martial Emperor Heart Guarding to steady himself.
• A sixth rosy light appeared, and Elder He warned that the Lord of Evil Spirits was provoking the entrants’ minds rather than offering a true inheritance.
• Powerhouses outside recognized the inheritance as a test of inner resolve and noticed that Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department showed no interest in its temptations.
• Elder He concluded that Xinghe’s delayed entry, leisure period, and choice of the Civil Engineering Department had prepared them for the test of state of mind.

Chu Xinghe trusted the Civil Engineering Department’s unshakable mental fortitude to withstand the Lord of Evil Spirits, but the apparition toyed with everyone by making every response equally futile. The chapter ended as the Lord offered a seemingly tangible Power of Purity that vanished when people tried to take it, leaving them devastated.

• The Vast Heaven Holy Land’s elders praised Xinghe for choosing Civil Engineering Department disciples, whose composure they credited to their harsh training and strong mental fortitude.
• When the Lord of Evil Spirits asked whether they wanted his legacy or secret treasure, Xinghe instructed his group to stay silent, while others gave answers that made the apparition disappear without granting anything.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord recalled answering the Lord’s questions thousands of times without success and predicted that the Three Continents’ people would be toyed with as he had been.
• The seventh burst of rosy light vanished without anyone obtaining the legacy, regardless of their answers or silence.
• The eighth burst brought the Lord of Evil Spirits before everyone with a sphere of Power of Purity, which he offered to chosen inheritors.
• Countless people reached for the Power of Purity, but it vanished along with the Lord of Evil Spirits, leaving them broken and convinced the legacy could not be obtained.

The Lord of Evil Spirits’ goodness thought revealed why his inheritance and treasures had repeatedly vanished: he had been testing entrants for greed and judged them unworthy. He explained that he had finally found someone qualified, though he had not yet named that person.

• The Lord of Evil Spirits appeared for an eighth time, offered his inheritance and treasures, and watched people touch them before they vanished again.
• Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department disciples resisted the temptation and stayed silent, while Zheng Yu and others were enraged when the treasures disappeared.
• The ninth rosy light failed to appear for a day and night, leaving the gathered prodigies and Rogue Cultivators anxious.
• The Lord of Evil Spirits appeared in the sky, looked toward the forest where Chu Xinghe was, and announced he had found someone qualified to receive his inheritance.
• The Lord of Evil Spirits explained that only his goodness thought remained in the Evil God’s Scepter, and that it had rejected the greedy entrants, including the White Spirit Evil Lord, to prevent his Heart Demon from destroying the Evil Spirit Clan.

Chu Xinghe unexpectedly passed the Lord of Evil Spirits’ test by remaining free of greed and received the inheritance and treasures from the Evil God's Scepter. After the space collapsed, everyone understood the test, while Chu Xinghe blamed the Misfortune Compass for his misfortune.

• The Lord of Evil Spirits’ benevolent thoughts chose Chu Xinghe as the sole inheritor, but the Misfortune Compass forced the inheritance out of his body and into his hands.
• The inheritance orb absorbed the treasures and resources in the space, while the Lord of Evil Spirits’ benevolent thoughts sealed the other entrants’ Heart Demons and urged them to thank Chu Xinghe.
• The space within the Evil God's Scepter shattered, and the scepter fell into Chu Xinghe’s hand with its true power to manipulate the mind revealed.
• Zheng Yu realized that the rosy light had tested everyone’s greed and that Chu Xinghe alone had stayed free of desire throughout the trials.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land disciples praised Chu Xinghe for winning the test, while Chu Xinghe privately concluded that the Misfortune Compass was the real winner.

After Chu Xinghe unexpectedly obtained the Lord of Evil Spirits’ inheritance by feeling no desire for it, the White Spirit Evil Lord realized the Misfortune Compass had ruined his scheme. The other evil lords accused White Spirit of helping the Vast Heaven Holy Land, but he insisted his Star-Picking Plan still had a 3.0.

• Across the Three Continents, people credited Chu Xinghe with winning the inheritance through a flawless plan, while Chu Xinghe privately thought he had been unable to control his greed and had expected to lose.
• The Grand Elder praised Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department disciples, while Azure Dragon lamented that the Evil God’s Scepter had returned without its spatial power and ruined his hopes for a temple.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord despaired after Chu Xinghe took the inheritance, then recognized that his own greed had prevented him from meeting the Lord of Evil Spirits’ test.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord concluded that Chu Xinghe’s lack of interest, caused by the Misfortune Compass, had let him pass the test and defeat the White Spirit’s scheme.
• The other evil lords accused the White Spirit Evil Lord of secretly aiding the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and he told them not to panic because his Star-Picking Plan still had a 3.0.

White Spirit Evil Lord teased Star-Picking Plan 3.0 while the other Evil Lords refused to hear it, and Chu Xinghe returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land with the Lord of Evil Spirits' inheritance spirit orb. Chu Xinghe persuaded the Holy Land leaders not to save the orb for him and instead proposed giving it to Elder He, though he privately feared the Power of Mind and Spirit could unleash his Heart Demons.

• White Spirit Evil Lord announced Star-Picking Plan 3.0, but Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord and the other Evil Lords withdrew and agreed to wait and watch.
• Huang Ritian returned to the Vast Heaven Divine Domain and was reminded that he still had more than a year of reform through labor to complete.
• Gu Mingchao and the Holy Land leaders proposed saving the Lord of Evil Spirits' inheritance spirit orb for Chu Xinghe, who argued that its power should help disciples overcome their Heart Demons now.
• Elder He suggested that Chu Xinghe absorb the Power of Mind and Spirit because he supposedly had no Heart Demons, but Chu Xinghe privately feared its backlash.
• Chu Xinghe warned that the inheritance and Power of Purity should be used together and proposed giving the spirit orb to Elder He instead.

The elders agreed that Elder He should use the Inheritance Spirit Orb, but he feared its power would amplify his unresolved Heart Demon. The Grand Elder revealed Elder He's painful past with Xu Peishan, and the chapter ended with the elders realizing Elder He's real torment came from his own past behavior, not from Xu Peishan herself.

• Chu Xinghe proposed that Elder He use the Inheritance Spirit Orb, and the Grand Elder, Gu Mingchao, and the other chief elders supported the choice.
• Elder He warned that the Power of Mind and Spirit could magnify his Heart Demon and cause him to lose himself.
• At Elder He's request, the Grand Elder recounted how Xu Peishan rejected him after he failed the imperial examination and later ordered her people to beat him to death.
• Elder He survived, left Great Qi, and devoted himself to study, but his heartbreak left him unable to trust romantic affection.
• Ma Liang offered to send Wu Xingyun to kill Xu Peishan, but the elders explained that Xu Peishan had long been dead and Elder He's real Heart Demon was his shame over having acted like a simp.

Elder He accepted the inheritance of the Power of Mind and Spirit and the Power of Purity, then entered a mindscape built from his past with Xu Peishan. Though he recognized the illusion, his attempts to reject her or relive the past kept returning him to their first meeting, leaving him trapped and afraid.

• Chu Xinghe persuaded Elder He to accept the inheritance, and the elders agreed that he was its best candidate.
• Elder He took the inheritance spirit orb, which merged into his palm and began transferring its powers.
• Inside the mindscape, Elder He recognized Xu Peishan as his Heart Demon and tore up the poem he had written for her.
• When Elder He rejected Xu Peishan, the scene reset to their first meeting; after several repetitions, he chose to relive their past instead.
• Elder He remained unmoved by his failed examination and Xu Peishan's marriage, but avoiding a confrontation with General Weiyuan caused the mindscape to reset again.
• Elder He realized that his Heart Demon was stronger than expected and could not find a way out of the repeating illusion.

Elder He became trapped in a repeating Heart Demon illusion shaped by the Lord of Evil Spirits' Power of Mind and Spirit, while the Vast Heaven Holy Land's leaders tried and failed to intervene. The chapter ended with Elder He's condition worsening and the Grand Elder warning everyone not to interfere.

• Elder He discovered that rejecting Xu Peishan or changing his choices only reset the illusion, and he could not find its weakness.
• The Grand Elder urged Gu Mingchao to help Elder He, but the inheritance power violently resisted Gu Mingchao's Flame Main God power.
• The inheritance spirit orb's power turned violent, and Chu Xinghe rejoiced, expecting Elder He's rescue to destroy the inheritance and its treasures.
• Gu Mingchao tried using the Flame Main God's Divinity, but the Power of Mind and Spirit had merged with Elder He, making it dangerous to dispel.
• White Tiger's Calming the Mind Grand Formation shattered, and a stronger formation caused Elder He more pain before White Tiger withdrew it.
• The Grand Elder stopped everyone from intervening as Elder He's pained expression worsened.