Chapter Summaries

As the Four Continents merged, the Evil Lords tried to secure their survival by showering Vast Heaven Holy Land and its allies with benefits. Chu Xinghe was left baffled and miserable as their gestures turned into a windfall for the Holy Land, while Gui Li eagerly anticipated all the extra work.

• The Earth Sha Evil Lord revealed that his earth-vein formation had transformed every Blood Spirit Stone vein into a Crimson Crystal vein and raised the Four Continents' Spiritual Qi.
• Zang Ling tested the Evil God's Fang and confirmed that it now produced Crimson Crystal instead of Blood Spirit Stones, while the aristocratic families realized the change benefited Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord gave the division's puppet doll to Ming Clan Head, presenting it as a token of sincerity and arranging for the Ming Clan to unite its yin and yang puppet dolls.
• Seeing White Spirit, Earth Sha, and Heavenly Secrets offer major benefits, the other Evil Spirit divisions followed suit by giving resources and mineral veins to Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Bai Yu watched in disbelief as the Evil Lords abandoned their promised show of defiance, while Chu Xinghe lamented that their gifts had left him more aggrieved than anyone.
• Gui Li welcomed the influx of resources because it meant more work for him, while Senior Brother Huang remained calm.

After the Four Continents merged, Gu Mingchao made the Evil Lords restrain their clans while Spiritual Qi rapidly recovered. Chu Xinghe’s supposedly free Blood Spirit Stones became Crimson Crystals that had to be returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, leaving the Demonic Sect with a profit but the aristocratic families devastated.

• Gu Mingchao collected resources from the Evil Lords and warned them to keep the Evil Spirit Clan from causing trouble, and the Evil Lords returned to their territories.
• Spiritual Qi across the Four Continents recovered rapidly, enabling many cultivators and ordinary people to cultivate and heralding a new era.
• Major forces sent the Crimson Crystals upgraded from the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Blood Spirit Stones back to Chu Xinghe.
• Tantai Jing ordered the Demonic Sect to return every Crimson Crystal, explaining that Chu Xinghe’s free-of-charge offer meant the stones had never ceased to belong to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Tantai Jing said the Demonic Sect still profited through its share of the Evil God’s Fang, while thousands of aristocratic family heads gathered in Haotian City in despair over Chu Xinghe’s move.

The aristocratic families of the Three Continents tried to recover their losses, but Chu Xinghe’s apparent offer of their share of the crimson crystals was blocked by the Heavenly Dao Contract they had signed. With every Blood Spirit Stone in the world transformed into crimson crystals, the contract left them unable to claim anything without violating its terms.

• The aristocratic family patriarchs sought an audience with the grand elder, but Shen Chun told them he had entered seclusion, and Elder Yu also refused to help them.
• The aristocratic family disciples in the major factions stayed silent rather than risk provoking Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe arrived in Haotian City and promised the patriarchs that the crimson crystals from the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s mines would still belong to them under their agreement.
• When members of the families touched the crimson crystals, the Heavenly Dao struck them dead, and Ma Liang revealed the contract they had signed with the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Ma Liang explained that the contract permitted the families to take Blood Spirit Stones but not other resources, and that the Earth Sha Evil Lord’s intervention had transformed all Blood Spirit Stones into crimson crystals.

Chu Xinghe used the Heavenly Dao Contract and the Earth Sha Evil Lord’s mine upgrades to leave the aristocratic families without Blood Spirit Stones or a way to claim the replacement Crimson Crystals. After Zheng Yu confirmed there was no loophole, Chu Xinghe watched the families collapse, then told Ma Liang it was time to help them.

• Ma Liang realized the contract assigned the families only the Blood Spirit Stones produced, while the upgraded mines now produced Crimson Crystals instead.
• Chu Xinghe suggested the family heads ask Zheng Yu for a way around the contract, so they took Zheng Yu’s uncle to Martial Emperor City and pleaded for help.
• Zheng Yu said the earlier loophole could not work because the type of resource had changed, leaving the families with no solution.
• The aristocratic families sold businesses and ancestral homes to preserve their Lineages as Chu Xinghe’s victory devastated them.
• Chu Xinghe told Ma Liang that they had watched the families suffer long enough and should step in to help, leaving Ma Liang bewildered.

Chu Xinghe proposed using resources taken from the great lineages to keep their businesses running and protect ordinary people from losing their livelihoods. He left the Vast Heaven Holy Land leaders stunned by declaring that he would help every great lineage in the Three Continents for free.

• Chu Xinghe told the Grand Elder he planned to help the great lineages, prompting a meeting of the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s palace heads and elders while Gu Mingchao stayed behind to recover his missing Flame Main God Divinity.
• Elder He and Elder Yu explained to Ma Liang that destroying every great lineage would collapse businesses, harm ordinary workers, and eventually allow new lineages to rise.
• The Grand Elder clarified that Chu Xinghe’s real aim was to protect ordinary people, and Chu Xinghe agreed that keeping the lineages’ businesses afloat would help them continue earning a living.
• The Grand Elder asked Chu Xinghe how he intended to proceed, and Chu Xinghe announced that he would help the great lineages of the Three Continents for free.

After Chu Xinghe announced that the Vast Heaven Holy Land would help the lineages for free, the Three Continents and Evil Shadow Continent struggled to understand his motives. As Ma Liang prepared the resources and wondered which lineages would receive them, Zheng Yu arrived representing the Zheng Lineage.

• The Vast Heaven Holy Land announced that it would help the lineages for free, baffling the Evil Lords and the lineage patriarchs.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord abandoned his expectations of the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s response and reconsidered his plan to secretly aid the lineages.
• Chu Xinghe ordered the Civil Engineering Department to prepare resources and told Ma Liang that lineages harboring evil intentions would not receive help.
• The First Elder refused Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable’s request to send Gui Li back to the outer sect, confirming that Gui Li’s memory had been deleted.
• Zheng Yu arrived at the Vast Heaven Holy Land to meet Ma Liang as a representative of the Zheng Lineage.

Zheng Yu visited Ma Liang to learn how Chu Xinghe planned to handle the lineages, and Ma Liang concluded that the lineages receiving free resources would be judged by whether they returned the favor. Zheng Yu brought the idea back to the Four Continents, where the major lineages scrambled to prove they knew what was good for them, and the Zheng Lineage offered the Vast Heaven Holy Land thirty percent of its annual share.

• Zheng Yu went to the Vast Heaven Holy Land with Cheng Xiaotian's permission to ask Ma Liang about Chu Xinghe's plans for the lineages.
• Ma Liang warned Zheng Yu that Chu Xinghe would help lineages that knew what was good for them and punish those harboring sinister intentions.
• After Zheng Yu asked how the lineages would be judged, Ma Liang inferred that Chu Xinghe would distinguish them by whether they returned the resources they received.
• Zheng Yu agreed that the Zheng Lineage would give the Vast Heaven Holy Land shares in return for free resources, and Ma Liang assured him the Zheng Lineage would receive them.
• Zheng Yu's supposedly secret news spread across the Four Continents, prompting the major lineages to offer gifts to avoid being marked for a purge.
• The Zheng Lineage publicly pledged thirty percent of its annual share to the Vast Heaven Holy Land in gratitude for its help.

Zheng Yu persuaded the Zheng Lineage and the other aristocratic families across the Three Continents to surrender thirty percent of their annual income to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, leaving Chu Xinghe horrified that Ma Liang had turned his plan against him. As Chu Xinghe shut himself away in the Technique Repository Tower, Bai Yu saw a message seeking a leader for the Xinghe Haters' Group.

• Zheng Yu explained to the Zheng Lineage that giving the Vast Heaven Holy Land thirty percent of its income was the price of survival, and the lineage agreed before he left.
• The aristocratic families across the Three Continents followed the Zheng Lineage's example, with many issuing announcements and arranging Heavenly Dao Contracts to offer their share.
• Ma Liang told Chu Xinghe that more than seventy percent of the aristocratic families had accepted the terms, while Chu Xinghe silently dreaded Ma Liang's growing ability to ruin his plans.
• Chu Xinghe entered the ninth floor of the Technique Repository Tower to shut himself off from the world.
• Bai Yu rejected the Evil Lords' surrender and resolved to gather information before acting, then saw a Haotian Mirror message seeking a leader for the Xinghe Haters' Group.

Bai Yu joined the Xinghe Haters' Group, hoping to lead it in ruining Chu Xinghe's reputation, while the White Spirit Evil Lord considered how Chu Xinghe had quelled the clans without a fight. As the Four Continents' Spiritual Qi recovered and new geniuses appeared, the major powers asked when recruitment would begin, and Ma Liang was entrusted with selecting disciples for the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

• Bai Yu learned about the Xinghe Haters' Group and began contacting its members, intent on becoming its leader and slandering Chu Xinghe.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord recognized that Chu Xinghe had stabilized the clans by returning resources in exchange for a thirty percent share of their profits, preventing an uprising and binding them to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The clans resumed normal operations after receiving resources, and the major powers contacted the Vast Heaven Holy Land to ask about recruiting disciples.
• The recovering Spiritual Qi brought forth young people with newly revealed talents, prompting the Grand Elder to decide that the Vast Heaven Holy Land would begin its recruitment.
• The Grand Elder assigned recruitment to Ma Liang, who promised to select the finest disciples for the Vast Heaven Holy Land and not disappoint Chu Xinghe.

As the Vast Heaven Holy Land prepared to recruit disciples, Chu Xinghe intervened and proposed recruiting exclusively from the Evil Shadow Continent. He privately hoped the recruits would be incompatible with the sect’s cultivation methods, but presented the plan as a way to unite the Four Continents and accept the Evil Spirit Clan.

• The major powers and lineages watched for the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s recruitment plans, while the Great Elder appointed Ma Liang to lead the selection.
• Chu Xinghe emerged from the Technique Repository Tower and argued that Ma Liang’s recruitment might bring back dangerous disciples.
• Chu Xinghe proposed recruiting all the new disciples from the Evil Shadow Continent, believing their incompatibility with the sect’s methods would prevent another batch of powerful oddities.
• Chu Xinghe told the elders that recruitment could help end prejudice against the Evil Spirit Clan and make the Four Continents truly united.
• The elders admired Chu Xinghe’s concern for the whole Four Continents, and Ma Liang felt ashamed for having misunderstood his earlier proposal.

Chu Xinghe arranged for the Vast Heaven Holy Land to recruit only Evil Spirit Clan disciples, hoping to break the barrier between the Evil Shadow Continent and the Three Continents. The seven Evil Lords feared that the plan would draw evil spirits away from their control, and new information threatened to shake their confidence.

• Ma Liang realized that Chu Xinghe's plan to recruit Evil Spirit Clan disciples was meant to encourage the evil spirits to leave the Evil Shadow Continent and join the other continents.
• Chu Xinghe kept Ma Liang as chief examiner, assigning Wu Man and Zang Ling to accompany him while Chu Xinghe served as adviser.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land announced that this recruitment would accept only Evil Spirit Clan disciples, prompting an uproar across the Four Continents.
• Ma Liang reassured the Three Continents' prodigies that future recruitments would be open to all four continents and explained the message behind the decision.
• The seven Evil Lords met to discuss Chu Xinghe's plan, and the White Spirit Evil Lord argued that the evil spirits would not trust the Vast Heaven Holy Land so easily.
• Just as the Evil Lords urged the Evil Spirit Clan to hold steady, they received news that nearly made them lose their composure.

With no Evil Spirits arriving to apply for discipleship, Ma Liang worried that Vast Heaven Holy Land would lose talented recruits and prestige. Wu Man launched a Haotian Mirror livestream to show the Evil Spirit Clan what the Three Continents and Vast Heaven Holy Land were truly like, and set out to bring his family from the Witch Curse Evil Spirit Branch to Haotian City.

• Five days after Vast Heaven Holy Land opened its Evil Spirit testing site in Haotian City, no Evil Spirits had come, while prodigies offered to apply instead.
• Ma Liang considered asking Chu Xinghe to recruit other prodigies, but Wu Man stepped forward and said the Evil Spirits distrusted outsiders because they assumed the Three Continents worked like the Evil Shadow Continent.
• Wu Man opened a Haotian Mirror livestream titled "Wu Man Shows You the Three Continents" and announced that he would bring his family to settle in Haotian City.
• Wu Man livestreamed his journey to the Witch Curse Evil Spirit Branch, where the Witch Curse Evil Lord received him, then picked up his family and left immediately.
• Wu Man traveled toward Haotian City with his family while livestreaming the journey for the Evil Spirit Clan.

Wu Man livestreamed his journey with his younger siblings across the Three Continents, showing the Evil Spirit Clan’s people a life where ordinary folk could work, live safely, and receive help. Cheng Xiaotian explained that Wu Man had deliberately kept the broadcast ordinary so the Evil Spirits would believe what they saw, leaving Zheng Yu to recognize the depth of Wu Man’s planning.

• Wu Man took Wu Qi and Wu Zhen across the Spirit Beast and Demon Star Continents, where they saw that even people without talent could live by their own labor rather than be enslaved.
• Wu Man brought his family to Haotian City and showed viewers its emergency responders, who treated an injured old man with a Sixth Rank pill at no cost.
• Wu Man showed how Haotian City offered aid to people in hardship, returned lost belongings, paid workers wages, and enforced its laws equally against a powerful attacker.
• Wu Man ended the livestream at the modest courtyard he had prepared for his family, and his broadcast gave Evil Spirits their first glimpse of life beyond the Evil Shadow Continent.
• Zheng Yu questioned the livestream’s lack of dramatic moments, but Cheng Xiaotian praised Wu Man for presenting a believable beam of hope instead of an unbelievable display of prosperity.

Wu Man livestreamed life in the Three Continents, baffling streamers who thought he had failed to showcase its advantages. He revealed that his real goal was to spark curiosity among the Evil Spirit Clan, and the seven evil lords realized his understated approach might undermine their warnings.

• Wu Man's livestream showed spirit beasts, the Wolf Clan, and Haotian City without the dramatic explanations or staged scenes that Brother Sword-Bearer expected.
• Brother Sword-Bearer privately advised Wu Man to make the stream more engaging, but Wu Man replied that its current effect was exactly what he wanted.
• The seven evil lords had warned the Evil Shadow Continent's evil spirits not to trust claims that the Three Continents were perfect.
• Wu Man had never intended to make the evil spirits accept the Three Continents; he wanted only to kindle their curiosity with a glimpse of its reality.

Wu Man’s livestream sparked curiosity among the evil spirits, and the first explorers returned from the Three Continents with spirit beasts, resources, and proof that they were not automatically attacked there. As pressure grew for the Seven Evil Spirit Divisions to follow, the White Spirit Evil Lord announced a plan for a last-ditch comeback.

• Wu Man’s strategy of hinting at the Three Continents’ opportunities led an evil spirit squad to venture into the Spirit Beast Continent in search of spirit beasts.
• The squad encountered a Rhinoceros Clan group, followed the local duel rules, and won a Blazing Flame Horse after its captain defeated the Rhinoceros Clan captain.
• The squad returned to the Evil Shadow Continent with spirit beasts and resources, and its account of fair treatment prompted many evil spirits to travel to the Three Continents.
• As stories of profits and discoveries spread, elders from the Seven Evil Spirit Divisions asked their Evil Lords for permission to send disciples out.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord stepped forward and declared that he had a plan for a last-ditch comeback.

The Evil Lords worried that Chu Xinghe and Wu Man’s influence was drawing Evil Spirits away from the Evil Shadow Continent to seek opportunities in the Three Continents. A Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit spy sent to the Vast Heaven Holy Land was recruited by Hua Xizhong and became a popular fortune-teller, forgetting his mission amid cries of “Master.”

• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord and Heart-Devouring Evil Lord discussed unrest in their divisions as Evil Spirits sought opportunities in the Three Continents.
• A Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirit spy arrived at the Vast Heaven Holy Land, where Hua Xizhong identified him and sold him a private tour.
• Hua Xizhong persuaded the spy to tell his romantic fortune, and the reading helped Hua Xizhong win a beauty’s hand.
• Tour guides and people from Haotian City flocked to the spy for readings, and Hua Xizhong set up a stall with a long queue.
• The spy abandoned his intelligence-gathering mission and chose fortune-telling, deciding the work paid better and the Evil Spirits could not safely come after him.

Hua Xizhong’s partnership with the Heavenly Secrets Master made divination famous and lucrative, while other Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits began leaving the Evil Shadow Continent to work with teams in the Three Continents. As the seven Evil Lords feared losing power before they could reach the Main God realm, the White Spirit Evil Lord proposed a plan that won their approval.

• Hua Xizhong’s Gold Medal Spy Group helped clients reach the Heavenly Secrets Master, whose accurate predictions made him famous across the Three Continents.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Spirits faced rising demand, and some secretly left the Evil Shadow Continent to earn resources by joining teams in the Three Continents.
• Phantom Evil Spirits and Witch Curse Evil Spirits proved valuable teammates, and their contributions earned praise and a greater share of spoils than they could get at home.
• The seven Evil Lords feared the Evil Shadow Continent would open up too quickly for them to reach the Main God realm and escape Gu Mingchao’s threat.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord presented a plan, and the other Evil Lords found nothing wrong with it.

The White Spirit Evil Lord argued that the Evil Lords needed time to reach the Main God realm and rejected the Phantom Evil Lord’s idea of killing Chu Xinghe, who was protected by the Beast God. He proposed sending the remaining Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to Vast Heaven Holy Land to force Chu Xinghe into a difficult choice.

• The White Spirit Evil Lord warned the Evil Lords that they lacked time as the Four Continents merged and their control over their people weakened.
• The Phantom Evil Lord suggested assassinating Chu Xinghe, but the White Spirit Evil Lord explained that the Beast God would defend him and make the attempt suicidal.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord proposed sending Evil Spirit disciples to Vast Heaven Holy Land to help the Evil Lords gain time.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord revealed that he planned to send the remaining Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits, whose history with Chu Xinghe would make accepting or rejecting them troublesome for Vast Heaven Holy Land.

The Evil Lords sent enslaved Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, creating a dilemma that might undermine Wu Man’s efforts to integrate the Evil Spirit Clan. While others debated how Chu Xinghe could respond, he welcomed the plan and declared that the Holy Land would accept the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits.

• The White Spirit Evil Lord arranged for the Seven Evil Spirit Divisions to send Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit slaves to Haotian City and publicized the plan across the Four Continents.
• The plan caused widespread debate, as rejecting or accepting the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits could both damage the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s efforts to recruit Evil Spirit disciples.
• At Martial Emperor City, Zheng Yu suggested making the entrance test harder, but Cheng Xiaotian explained why that would be a middling strategy and slaughtering the applicants would be the worst strategy.
• Wu Man and the elders at the Vast Heaven Holy Land worried over how to handle the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits arriving in half a month.
• Chu Xinghe told the elders that the Vast Heaven Holy Land would keep its promise and accept the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits, leaving Wu Man and the others stunned.

Chu Xinghe replaced Ma Liang as chief examiner for the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s recruitment of Evil Spirit disciples, taking the blame and scrutiny onto himself. When his advisers proposed exploiting the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ weaknesses to exclude them, Chu Xinghe ordered those assessments removed instead.

• The Vast Heaven Holy Land announced that it would recruit all Evil Spirit disciples who met its requirements and would leave the tests unchanged.
• Chu Xinghe replaced Ma Liang as chief examiner, while Ma Liang stayed on as an adviser.
• Ma Liang, Wu Man, and Zang Ling suggested changing the tests to exploit the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ weaknesses in spiritual power and medicine refining.
• Chu Xinghe ordered the medicine-refining and spiritual-power assessments removed from the examination.