Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe was stunned when the Beast God awakened and powered the Spirit Beast Continent’s Earth Vein Grand Formation, while everyone else believed Xinghe had planned for the rescue. Gui Li then used the formation to upgrade spirit mines across all Three Continents, leaving Chu Xinghe baffled by what he saw as another backstab.

• The Beast God awakened and supplied enough power for the Spirit Beast Continent’s Earth Vein Grand Formation to activate.
• The three formation flags merged, restoring spiritual power to spirit mines across the Three Continents.
• Gui Li used the Evil God Mask and formation flags to redirect earth-vein power, causing spirit mines across all Three Continents to upgrade and their resources to double.
• Chu Xinghe was stunned by Gui Li’s actions, while Elder He concluded that the Fate Divinity’s reading of Gui Li was unreliable.

Gui Li restored and upgraded the spirit mines across the Three Continents, which accelerated the Evil Shadow Continent’s return and brought the age of the Four Continents close. The Grand Elder accepted Gui Li as an outer disciple, while Chu Xinghe believed he had still dodged the damage and could profit by selling the upgraded mines.

• Elder He explained that Gui Li used the Evil God Mask and the Earth Vein Grand Formation to restore and improve the spirit mines.
• The Beast God received the Three Continents’ respect, praised Gu Mingchao and Elder He, then returned to slumber.
• The Evil Shadow Continent suddenly accelerated toward the Three Continents, and the Beast God announced that the age of the Four Continents was near.
• The Grand Elder welcomed the weakened Gui Li as an outer disciple of the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe grumbled that Gui Li had attacked his own supposed teammate, but concluded that he had dodged the blow and could sell the upgraded spirit mines at their original price.

As the Three Continents celebrated the recovery of their spirit mines and the approach of the Four Continents era, Chu Xinghe arranged for the Vast Heaven Holy Land to return mines under Heavenly Dao Contracts. When the first contract failed to dissolve despite the Empty Mountain Sect paying the exact agreed price, Chu Xinghe blamed the Misfortune Compass for openly interfering.

• Chu Xinghe reasoned that the Vast Heaven Holy Land had still lost resources and money, so he had beaten the Misfortune Compass by half a move.
• The Three Continents celebrated the recovery of their spirit mines and earth veins, while the approaching Evil Shadow Continent stirred curiosity and confidence.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang and the Civil Engineering Department disciples to return contracted spirit mines at their original prices, and Ma Liang explained that the life-and-death contracts allowed no short payments or credit.
• Ma Liang announced a fair, first-come, first-served schedule for returning the mines, and factions warned that failing to meet a contract's exact terms could be fatal.
• Chu Xinghe watched as Zhao Kui of the Empty Mountain Sect paid the exact agreed amount, but the Heavenly Dao Contract did not dissolve when Ma Liang tried to cancel it.

Chu Xinghe's attempt to return the spirit mines failed because the Heavenly Dao Contract interpreted “exactly as they were” to exclude the upgraded mines. As the factions waited for a solution, news arrived that Zheng Yu had made his move in Martial Emperor City.

• Ma Liang repeatedly tried to dissolve the contracts after returning the resources, but the resources went back to their original owners and the contracts remained in force.
• The Grand Elder also failed to dissolve the contracts, and Elder He explained that the upgraded spirit mines were no longer “exactly as they were.”
• The factions begged Elder He for a solution, but he said he could not think of one, so the Grand Elder arranged for them to stay at the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe decided he was still taking a loss because the Vast Heaven Holy Land had surrendered its resources and could not touch the mines.
• News arrived from Martial Emperor City that Zheng Yu had made his move.

The Heavenly Dao Contracts prevented the Vast Heaven Holy Land and Martial Emperor City from freely returning the recovered spirit mines, but Zheng Yu devised a way to satisfy their terms while keeping the mines’ increased output for Martial Emperor City. The small and midsize factions accepted his solution, and Zheng Yu credited Senior Brother Xinghe with foreseeing the outcome.

• Elder He explained that the contracts restricted buyers and required the spirit mines to be returned at their original price, leaving the Vast Heaven Holy Land and Martial Emperor City unable to give them back freely.
• Zheng Yu realized that returning the original quantity of spirit stones would count as returning the mines completely unchanged, even if their total output had increased.
• Zheng Yu tested his plan with a small faction, and the Heavenly Dao Contract accepted the return of the original quantity while Martial Emperor City kept the surplus and shared mining costs and profits with the faction.
• When some sellers protested that Martial Emperor City kept part of the increased output, Zheng Yu threatened to hold on to their mines unless they accepted his terms or found another solution.
• The small and midsize factions accepted Zheng Yu’s method, and Cheng Xiaotian praised how comfortably Martial Emperor City had recovered its resources.
• Zheng Yu said Senior Brother Xinghe, not he, had foreseen the outcome when he signed the contracts.

Chu Xinghe reluctantly ordered the Vast Heaven Holy Land to return the upgraded spirit mines to their original owners under Zheng Yu's method, while the Civil Engineering Department raged over losing its chance at vacation. Although the Misfortune Compass kept turning because Zheng Yu had taken mines Chu Xinghe would otherwise have gained, its reckoning sent spiritual light into Chu Xinghe, who was finally about to break through.

• Chu Xinghe searched for another way to return the spirit mines, but the Vast Heaven Holy Land's Concept Gods said Zheng Yu's method was already the only viable loophole in the Heavenly Dao Contract.
• Tantai Jing defended Zheng Yu's method by comparing it to borrowers claiming profits made with a lender's resources, and the factions criticizing Zheng Yu fell silent.
• Small and medium-sized factions gathered outside the Vast Heaven Holy Land and agreed to reclaim their mines under Zheng Yu's rules, so Chu Xinghe instructed Ma Liang to return them.
• The Civil Engineering Department disciples learned that the mine returns would delay their vacation, cursed Zheng Yu, and barred him from their grounds while welcoming dogs.
• Chu Xinghe realized the Misfortune Compass still counted mines Zheng Yu had bought as resources lost to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, then received its reckoning and began to break through from the peak of the ninth rank.

The Misfortune Compass triggered Chu Xinghe’s breakthrough, drawing Spiritual Qi from the Vast Heaven Holy Land, the Haotian Mountain Range, the Blazing Sun Continent, and ultimately all Three Continents into his body. The Great Sage and Elder He identified the phenomenon as Self-Formed Divinity, while Chu Xinghe remained trapped in the breakthrough and unaware of what was happening.

• The Misfortune Compass sent power into Chu Xinghe, tearing apart and reforging his meridians and Qi Sea as he began to break through.
• Gu Mingchao and the major figures of the Vast Heaven Holy Land gathered around Chu Xinghe and watched Spiritual Qi flood toward him, unable to identify his breakthrough.
• The Spiritual Qi storm spread across the Haotian Mountain Range and the Blazing Sun Continent, drawing shocked cultivators and powerful figures to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The storm expanded across all Three Continents, and a tiny river of stars inside Chu Xinghe’s Qi Sea absorbed the immense flow of Spiritual Qi.
• The Great Sage recognized the breakthrough as Self-Formed Divinity, and Elder He explained that Chu Xinghe was condensing a Divinity through his own power rather than the Heavenly Dao’s recognition.

Chu Xinghe drew the spiritual power of the Three Continents into himself and formed a Divinity, revealing that the realm above Ninth Rank Great Perfection was the Divinity Realm. As his Divinity fused with a heavenly light and the lightning clouds, they formed a second Chu Xinghe in the sky.

• The experts learned that the Beast God's Violent Beast Divinity had existed before he entered the Main God realm, and that a Ninth Rank cultivator could form a Divinity before becoming a Main God.
• Elder He realized Chu Xinghe had reached the Divinity Realm, a level beyond Ninth Rank Great Perfection.
• Chu Xinghe reflected that the Misfortune Compass had strengthened him until he exceeded the power of an ordinary Ninth Rank cultivator and could form a Divinity.
• A vast lightning storm gathered over Chu Xinghe, but a divine light descended instead of a tribulation striking him.
• A river of stars emerged from Chu Xinghe's brow and merged with the divine light, drawing the lightning into a second, starlit Chu Xinghe above the nine heavens.

Chu Xinghe faced the final test of his Xinghe Divinity, which took the form of a stronger, Martial God-level copy of himself and attacked him. Unable to defeat it head-on, Chu Xinghe fled across the Spirit Beast Continent, where he crashed into the Cui Clan and injured Cui Wuming.

• Elder He explained that Chu Xinghe's Divinity had gathered the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder to create a copy that Chu Xinghe alone had to defeat to earn its recognition.
• After Chu Xinghe recovered with Phoenix Fire, the Divinity resisted his Thunder Shadow attack and punched him through buildings in the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe summoned the Vast Heaven Nine Swords, but the Divinity used copied abilities and formations to trap him, then followed him through Flying Locust's teleportation formation to the Spirit Beast Continent.
• Gu Mingchao used the Haotian Mirror to locate Chu Xinghe as the Divinity continued pursuing him, leaving Chu Xinghe unable to fight back against its greater strength and Phoenix Fire.
• Cui Wuming emerged from seclusion at Ninth Rank Great Perfection, but Chu Xinghe fell from the sky into the Cui Clan's ancestral grounds and accidentally injured him while fleeing the Divinity.

Chu Xinghe lured the Divinity across the continents and into the Demon Star Continent’s Land of Bewildered Spirits, where its spiritual power was sealed. He trapped it inside with Flying Locust’s great array, revealing that he had planned the fight’s outcome from their first exchange.

• Chu Xinghe’s fall into the Cui Clan’s ancestral land nearly injured Cui Wuming, and a second Divinity attack sent Cui Wuming flying until he passed out.
• Chu Xinghe fled with the Divinity pursuing him, crossing the Spirit Beast Continent and entering the Demon Star Continent’s Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• Chu Xinghe stopped at the mist’s edge, knowing it would seal the Divinity’s spiritual power while leaving his own Power of Qi and Blood intact.
• The Divinity tried to escape, but Chu Xinghe revealed that Flying Locust had sealed the Land of Bewildered Spirits’ perimeter with the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Great Array.
• Gu Mingchao used the Haotian Mirror to show that Chu Xinghe had sent Flying Locust to the Land of Bewildered Spirits while teleporting away from the Vast Heaven Holy Land, allowing it to prepare the trap unnoticed.

Chu Xinghe outsmarted the Divinity by luring it into the Spirit-Forbidden Land of Bewildered Spirits, where a hidden array trapped it and drained its power. After passing the trial and attaining a Ninth-Rank Divinity, he entered the Martial God realm, then heard a mysterious voice pleading for help from within the land.

• Chu Xinghe’s teleportation and apparent flight were revealed to be a plan to draw the Divinity toward the Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• The Flying Locust’s Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Great Array trapped the Divinity inside the Spirit-Forbidden Land, where the mist devoured its spiritual power.
• Chu Xinghe let the weakened Divinity recognize his victory, and it transformed into divine power that entered the space between his brows.
• Chu Xinghe gained a Ninth-Rank Divinity and stepped into the Martial God realm.
• A voice from the depths of the Land of Bewildered Spirits called for someone to save it, startling Chu Xinghe.

Chu Xinghe entered the Martial God realm and gained the Xinghe Divinity, which could become a powerful, seemingly indestructible clone. After fleeing the Land of Bewildered Spirits, he returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land and showed off his Divinity, while privately worrying that the Misfortune Compass remained his greatest obstacle.

• Chu Xinghe formed the Xinghe Divinity into a star-powered clone that had inherited the Misfortune Compass’s powers of fortune and misfortune.
• Chu Xinghe shattered the clone, but it transformed into a galaxy, returned to him, and reformed as a new Chu Xinghe.
• A voice calling for help came from deep inside the Land of Bewildered Spirits, so Chu Xinghe recalled Flying Locust and fled while An Ying wandered through the mist, desperate to escape.
• Chu Xinghe teleported back to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, where Wan Lin and Ouyang Ling eagerly approached his Divinity and Ouyang Ling asked to borrow it.
• The older experts praised the Xinghe Divinity and said Chu Xinghe could reach the Main God realm without further shackles, but Chu Xinghe thought the Misfortune Compass was still the greatest shackle in his life.

After Chu Xinghe revealed the Ninth Rank Divinity Realm, the Three Continents debated the new path to godhood while the Evil Lords questioned Gui Li about his disastrous mission. Gui Li regained his memories, explained his memory loss, and then discovered that his memories remained intact after another bout of head pain, leaving him confident he could succeed.

• Chu Xinghe's rise to the Martial God realm revealed the Ninth Rank Divinity Realm, inspiring young cultivators and alarming Cui Wuming, who doubted they could survive their own Divinities.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord confronted Earth Sha Evil Lord about Gui Li's actions as the Evil Shadow Continent drew closer to the Three Continents instead of moving away.
• Gui Li regained his memories and met with the seven Evil Lords, and the White Spirit Evil Lord believed his account of selectively losing his memory and forgetting to sabotage the earth veins.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord told Gui Li that the Blazing Sun Continent's or Demon Star Continent's main earth vein could still be sabotaged, giving them two more chances.
• After ending the connection, Gui Li suffered head pain but did not lose his memories, and he became certain he could now carry out his mission.

Gui Li pretended to have amnesia while secretly trying to earn the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s trust so he could stop the Three Continents from merging with the Evil Shadow Continent. When the Civil Engineering Department recruited him to help with its overwhelming workload, he confidently went along, unaware of the disciples’ dread.

• Gui Li’s memories returned, but he continued acting as though he had amnesia while Wu Man and Zang Ling watched him closely.
• Elder He repeatedly used his Fate Divinity to inspect Gui Li, but its warnings conflicted with Gui Li’s efforts to benefit the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Gui Li helped disciples throughout the sect to build their trust and prepare for the next shift of the earth veins.
• The Civil Engineering Department struggled to handle the resource boom while Chu Xinghe secluded himself to stabilize his Martial God cultivation.
• The Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable sent Zhao Zhihui to recruit Gui Li, and Gui Li eagerly agreed to help with civil engineering.
• Fathead Fish Liu Bo warned Gui Li that the department’s work would leave him without holidays, but Gui Li dismissed the warning and followed Zhao Zhihui.

Gui Li joined the Civil Engineering Department to use his Evil God Mask’s earth-vein powers, prove his usefulness, and escape Wu Man and Zang Ling’s surveillance. After he sorted and stored a mountain of resources in one afternoon, he learned that the work he had finished was only leftover odd jobs and was taken to see the department’s even more demanding daily workload.

• Gui Li went with Zhao Zhihui to the Civil Engineering Department, where the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable tested his ability to control earth veins and watched him raise a vault.
• Gui Li demonstrated his skill, and the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable offered to seek his admission to the inner sect if he worked hard.
• Gui Li complained that Wu Man and Zang Ling’s watching distracted him, so the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable ordered Huang Ritian to post a sign barring them from the department.
• Gui Li used the Evil God Mask to sort and store all the department’s resources in vaults in a single afternoon, impressing the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable and the disciples.
• Gui Li announced that the work was finished, but Huang Ritian explained that it was only leftover work from the previous month and led him to see the department’s daily tasks.

Gui Li was trapped in Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Civil Engineering Department, where relentless work wore down his resolve until Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable secured his promotion to inner sect disciple. After completing his outer sect formalities and being mournfully seen off, Gui Li heard a voice from a doorless hut that enraged him.

• Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department disciples forced Gui Li to take on mountains of work, and Gui Li realized the department’s earlier tasks had only been leftover jobs from the previous month.
• Wu Man and Zang Ling concluded that Gui Li must have damaged his brain, since no sane person would willingly join the feared Civil Engineering Department.
• Gui Li endured a month of nonstop work, learned the Half-Asleep, Half-Awake Technique, and wished for the earth veins to change so he could carry out his mission.
• Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable arranged Gui Li’s promotion to inner sect disciple, and gave him a few hours to complete his outer sect formalities.
• Gui Li completed the formalities with Fathead Fish, Liu Bo, and the outer sect disciples saw him off with condolences as he headed back toward the Civil Engineering Department.
• As Gui Li passed a doorless wooden hut, a voice from inside made him furious.

Gui Li discovered that Chu Cheng, the Holy Son of Vast Heaven Holy Land, spent his days lying in bed and stormed into his hut to beat him, only to be mocked and carried away by the Civil Engineering Department disciples. The ensuing visit from powerful figures sparked increasingly extravagant rumors about Chu Cheng, making his hut the foremost forbidden ground in Vast Heaven Holy Land.

• Gui Li overheard Chu Cheng proclaiming his lofty ambitions and complaining about having to lie in bed, then angrily kicked his way into the little wooden hut.
• Gui Li found Chu Cheng wrapped in bandages and lounging on the bed, and joined Fathead Fish Liu Bo in beating him with spiked clubs.
• Chu Cheng taunted Gui Li throughout the beating, and Civil Engineering Department disciples knocked Gui Li out and carried him away before he exhausted himself.
• White Tiger and Holy Empress Ji Ya arrived at the hut, and Holy Lord Gu Mingchao later came as wave after wave of visitors gathered there.
• Rumors spread across the Three Continents that Chu Cheng had produced hundreds of Divinities, was a reincarnated Great Emperor, had killed the Nightmare Evil Lord, and could protect Vast Heaven Holy Land from an Ancient God.

Rumors spread that Holy Son Chu Cheng was undying, while Gui Li remained trapped in the Civil Engineering Department and Chu Xinghe mistook his protests for an act of betrayal. At a meeting about disciple recruitment, Chu Xinghe unexpectedly argued that Vast Heaven Holy Land should postpone recruiting this year.

• Rogue Cultivators spread rumors that Holy Son Chu Cheng was the reincarnation of a Great Emperor and could not be killed.
• Gui Li confessed that he had come to sabotage Vast Heaven Holy Land, but Huang Ritian and the other Civil Engineering Department disciples assumed his amnesia had worsened and kept him working.
• Chu Xinghe secretly watched Gui Li and decided he was pretending to be a traitor, then left to meet Senior Brother Shen Chun.
• Senior Brother Shen Chun brought Chu Xinghe to a meeting where the Grand Elder proposed sending Ma Liang to recruit disciples.
• Chu Xinghe rejected the proposal and said Vast Heaven Holy Land should hold off on recruiting disciples this year.

Chu Xinghe stopped Ma Liang from recruiting disciples and persuaded the Vast Heaven Holy Land to postpone recruitment until the Four Continents merged, when it would also accept applicants from the Evil Spirit Clan. The elders approved the plan, while Chu Xinghe privately expected the new evil spirit disciples to bring disaster to the Holy Land.

• The Grand Elder proposed sending Ma Liang to recruit disciples, but Chu Xinghe rejected the idea.
• Chu Xinghe argued that the Four Continents' imminent merger and Spiritual Qi recovery could reveal new prodigies, making immediate recruitment premature.
• Chu Xinghe asked how the Three Continents would treat the returning Evil Shadow Continent, and the elders agreed to accept evil spirits willing to integrate while opposing those who continued stirring up conflict.
• Chu Xinghe proposed that the Vast Heaven Holy Land postpone recruitment and offer Evil Spirit Clan members the same chance to join after the merger.
• The Grand Elder and the elders unanimously approved the plan, while Chu Xinghe privately anticipated that the new evil spirit disciples would cause trouble.

Chu Xinghe persuaded the Vast Heaven Holy Land to suspend disciple recruitment and announce that it would welcome evil spirits from the Evil Shadow Continent, presenting the offer as courtesy before force. Zheng Yu explained to Cheng Xiaotian that Martial Emperor City should also wait, since the Four Continents’ merger could awaken even more talented prodigies than those currently seeking discipleship.

• Chu Xinghe convinced the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders to stop recruiting disciples for now and approve a future invitation to the Evil Shadow Continent’s evil spirits.
• Ma Liang announced the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s decision, stirring a sensation across the Three Continents as major forces read it as a warning that the Evil Spirit Clan must not cause trouble after being offered peace.
• Disappointed prodigies who had hoped to join the Vast Heaven Holy Land turned toward other forces, but Zheng Yu refused Cheng Xiaotian’s suggestion that Martial Emperor City recruit them.
• Zheng Yu told Cheng Xiaotian that the Four Continents’ merger could produce a new wave of peerless prodigies, and that Martial Emperor City lacked the teachers to recruit and train both groups well.
• Cheng Xiaotian accepted Zheng Yu’s reasoning, while the chapter recalled Chu Xinghe’s reputation for choosing disciples who went on to become renowned figures.