Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe changed the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s entrance assessments to accommodate the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits, removing pill refining and adjusting spiritual power and overall standards. The new rules stunned people across the Four Continents and even the evil lords, who questioned whether Chu Xinghe was trying to destroy the Holy Land.

• Chu Xinghe realized the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits might have too few awakened young elites to pass the usual entrance tests, and decided to change the assessments himself.
• Chu Xinghe told Deacon Yang to remove pill refining, adapt the spiritual power assessment, and lower the standards for all assessments.
• Deacon Yang accepted Chu Xinghe’s instructions and announced the revised assessment rules in Haotian City.
• People across the Four Continents were dumbfounded by the rules, which seemed to give the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits extensive preferential treatment.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord and other evil lords questioned whether Chu Xinghe was deliberately trying to ruin the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

Chu Xinghe oversaw the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ recruitment into the Vast Heaven Holy Land, confident Elder He could monitor their hostility and keep the disciples safe. After learning from Zang Ling about the nearly extinct, resource-hungry Taiyin Evil Spirits who glowed at night, Chu Xinghe eagerly turned his attention to recruiting them.

• The Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits arrived in Haotian City, and Chu Xinghe personally supervised their tests as they all passed despite the Holy Land’s normal requirements.
• Wu Man objected that the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits hated the Vast Heaven Holy Land and would consume too many resources, while Zang Ling defended Chu Xinghe’s decision.
• Zang Ling described the Taiyin Evil Spirits as nearly extinct, able to learn every known ability with terrible efficiency and enormous resource costs.
• Zang Ling explained that Taiyin Evil Spirits glowed brightly at night and were sometimes kept as lamps, prompting Chu Xinghe to decide they would make ideal recruits.

Chu Xinghe learned that Taiyin Evil Spirits consumed enormous resources while producing almost no results, apart from glowing, and immediately decided to recruit every one he could find. He sent Zang Ling to the Evil Shadow Continent, insisting that the Vast Heaven Holy Land buy them all at the highest market price.

• Chu Xinghe asked Zang Ling about the Taiyin Evil Spirits’ abilities, and Zang Ling and Wu Man explained that their skills produced only one-thousandth the normal results while consuming a thousand times the resources.
• Chu Xinghe eagerly ordered Zang Ling to find every Taiyin Evil Spirit and bring them back as disciples, despite Zang Ling warning that few remained and the major divisions controlled them.
• Zang Ling and Wu Man wondered whether Chu Xinghe wanted the Taiyin Evil Spirits as lights for Gui Li’s Civil Engineering Department, but learned he intended to recruit them into the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe sent Zang Ling to the Evil Shadow Continent immediately and instructed him to buy every Taiyin Evil Spirit at the highest market price rather than accept any as a gift.

Zang Ling returned to the Evil Shadow Continent to buy Taiyin Evil Spirits, but showed the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord that she had left her former life behind and now considered the Vast Heaven Holy Land her home. After she departed with four Taiyin Evil Spirits, the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord regretted choosing the Evil God Relics over her.

• Zang Ling traveled alone to the Evil Shadow Continent and went to the Heart-Devouring Evil Spirits Division to obtain Taiyin Evil Spirits.
• The Heart-Devouring Evil Lord welcomed Zang Ling and tried to appeal to their former relationship, but Zang Ling insisted she was a Vast Heaven Holy Land disciple and showed no resentment.
• Zang Ling offered the highest market price for Taiyin Evil Spirits, while the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord tried to lower it, and she ultimately paid far above the market rate for four.
• After Zang Ling left, her family asked the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord why he had kept them away, and he explained that she no longer felt connected to them.
• The Heart-Devouring Evil Lord regretted choosing the Evil God Relics over Zang Ling and recognized Chu Xinghe's ability to see her potential.

Zang Ling bought all thirty-two Taiyin Evil Spirits for Chu Xinghe, who planned to recruit them as Vast Heaven Holy Land disciples. After the sect’s specialists assessed their abilities, they repeatedly claimed Xiaobai could outperform them, leaving Chu Xinghe with the impression that Xiaobai was the Holy Land’s most well-rounded and formidable creature.

• Zang Ling resisted every attempt to sway her and bought thirty-two Taiyin Evil Spirits at Chu Xinghe’s high price.
• Zheng Yu rushed to the Evil Shadow Continent to buy Taiyin Evil Spirits but arrived after Zang Ling had bought them all.
• Zang Ling brought the thirty-two Taiyin Evil Spirits to Haotian City, where Chu Xinghe prepared to make them disciples.
• Chu Xinghe summoned the Holy Land’s specialists to assess the Taiyin Evil Spirits, and each described how Xiaobai could surpass them in a different skill.
• Fathead Fish Liu Bo claimed Xiaobai could not learn the Great Luo Cosmic Cycle Crackle-Pop Saint-Descending Art as quickly as Old Bai, whom he identified as the White Tiger Holy Venerable.

After the tests showed the Taiyin Evil Spirits were exceptionally incompetent, Chu Xinghe eagerly admitted all thirty-two as inner disciples of the Vast Heaven Holy Land. Tai Chu and the others learned they would no longer be treated as lighting, and received robes that symbolized a new future and dignity for their race.

• The disciples who tested the Taiyin Evil Spirits urged Chu Xinghe not to take them in, while Chu Xinghe saw their extreme consumption and lack of talent as ideal.
• Chu Xinghe announced that all thirty-two Taiyin Evil Spirits would become inner disciples, stunning the Four Continents and the spirits themselves.
• Tai Chu and the others realized they would no longer be hung up and used as lighting, and they wept as Zang Ling explained they could study and grow.
• Chu Xinghe lifted Tai Chu from his knees and told the Taiyin Evil Spirits that, as disciples, they would never have to kneel except to heaven, earth, and their elders.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land gave the Taiyin Evil Spirits new disciple robes, and Tai Chu vowed to protect the robes and his race's dignity.

Bai Yu became leader of the Xinghe Haters' Group and attacked Chu Xinghe’s recruitment of Taiyin Evil Spirits and Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits with widely read articles. As public opinion turned against Chu Xinghe, he returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land with the new recruits after recruitment ended.

• Bai Yu became leader of the Xinghe Haters' Group and ordered its members to attack Chu Xinghe over the Taiyin Evil Spirits.
• Bai Yu published an article arguing that Taiyin Evil Spirits were useless, and Chu Xinghe praised its writing while feeling reassured about his plans.
• Bai Yu wrote another article attacking Chu Xinghe’s recruitment of Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits, and both pieces rose to the top of the Haotian Mirror’s trending list.
• Bai Yu revealed that Zang Ling had bought the Taiyin Evil Spirits from the Seven Evil Spirit Divisions at a high price, prompting people to question Chu Xinghe’s judgment.
• Old Master Wuyang read Bai Yu’s articles and conceded that Bai Yu was a better writer than he was.
• Chu Xinghe returned from Haotian City to the Vast Heaven Holy Land with the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits and Taiyin Evil Spirits after recruitment ended.

The Grand Elder’s Spine of the Evil God caused the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to recognize him as their new Strength Barbarian Evil Lord, turning the disciples Chu Xinghe expected to cause trouble into loyal followers. When the Grand Elder asked about their grudge with the Vast Heaven Holy Land, Man Sheng thanked Chu Xinghe for avenging his brother, whom Chu Xinghe had killed.

• The Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits knelt before the Grand Elder and hailed him as the Strength Barbarian Evil Lord.
• Elder He explained that the Spine of the Evil God contained the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ inheritance and made its owner their lord.
• Elder He used his Fate Divinity to reveal the Spine’s secret methods, and the Grand Elder sensed an irreversible bond with the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits.
• Ma Liang concluded that Chu Xinghe had knowingly accepted the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits because the Spine would keep them obedient.
• The Grand Elder asked the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits about their grudge with the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and Man Sheng thanked Chu Xinghe for avenging Man Ben, his brother whom Chu Xinghe had killed.

Man Sheng explained that Chu Xinghe had not caused Man Ben’s death or the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ downfall, winning the Grand Elder’s approval for their request to join the Vast Heaven Holy Land. The chapter left Chu Xinghe privately insisting that the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits had only stopped making trouble, while he had gained the advantage against the Taiyin Evil Spirits.

• Man Sheng told the Vast Heaven Holy Land that the Demon God's Resentment had killed Man Ben, and Chu Xinghe had avenged him by defeating it.
• Man Sheng explained that the previous Strength Barbarian Evil Lord had died in the Four Continents Barrier passage, blaming the Witch Curse Evil Lord for choosing the fatal landing point rather than the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Man Sheng argued that the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ current plight had resulted from their own actions and the Evil Shadow Continent’s power struggles, not persecution by the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Elder He confirmed through his Fate Divinity that Man Sheng was speaking sincerely, and the Grand Elder approved of the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits joining the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Chu Xinghe concluded that the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits had merely stopped causing trouble, while his actions against the Taiyin Evil Spirits had left him with the advantage.

The Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits entered the Vast Heaven Holy Land as disciples, while Man Sheng’s clear-eyed plan made the Evil Shadow Continent’s lords realize the group might change their people’s fate. Chu Xinghe assigned the thirty-two Taiyin Evil Spirits to the Spirit Crane Palace, where their disastrous, resource-hungry medicine studies delighted him—until news arrived that nearly made him collapse.

• The palace heads selected disciples from the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits, and Man Sheng’s choice to enter the Vast Heaven Holy Land was recognized as a chance to secure his people’s future.
• The Evil Shadow Continent’s lords reconsidered the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits after realizing Man Sheng was using the opportunity to become strong enough to lead them.
• The palaces struggled to assign the thirty-two balanced Taiyin Evil Spirits, and Gui Li asked to take them into the Civil Engineering Department.
• Chu Xinghe refused Gui Li and brought the Taiyin Evil Spirits into the Spirit Crane Palace, assigning Mu Bai to teach them medicine refining.
• The Taiyin Evil Spirits consumed vast resources while struggling to learn, and Chu Xinghe welcomed the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ excellence because they would not betray him.
• A piece of news nearly sent Chu Xinghe off on the spot.

Chu Xinghe discovered that the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ reckless antics were draining Vast Heaven Holy Land’s resources, and he welcomed the losses. When Man Sheng’s teaching unexpectedly improved Qu Yifeng’s physique while consuming many Crimson Crystals, Chu Xinghe rushed to Body Cultivation Peak and insisted the costly method should be promoted.

• The Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits excelled as disciples but caused damage and wasted resources through reckless sparring and greed, keeping the Misfortune Compass active.
• Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that Man Sheng and Qu Yifeng had been injured in a sparring match at Body Cultivation Peak, and Chu Xinghe dismissed the costs as normal.
• Man Sheng taught Qu Yifeng the Great Strength Divine Ability, which Qu Yifeng dispelled after consuming Crimson Crystals, slightly strengthening his meridians and physique.
• The elders judged the method too costly for its limited improvement, but Chu Xinghe declared that it should be promoted on a large scale.

Chu Xinghe pushed Vast Heaven Holy Land to keep experimenting with teaching Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ divine abilities to Body Cultivation disciples, despite the heavy Crimson Crystal cost. When Qu Yifeng said the powers could not merge with his body, Chu Xinghe saw a chance to expand the experiment in both directions.

• Elder He judged the divine-ability training method too costly, but Chu Xinghe urged the elders to continue exploring it.
• Chu Xinghe proposed that Body Cultivation disciples might learn the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits’ divine abilities and that the Evil Spirits might learn other cultivation techniques.
• After the elders left Body Cultivation Peak, Chu Xinghe ordered all Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to gather there with large supplies of Crimson Crystal for instruction.
• Chu Xinghe watched the training as Crimson Crystal was consumed, while Qu Yifeng reported that the divine ability’s power repelled his Qi and Blood and could not merge with his body.
• Qu Yifeng’s report gave Chu Xinghe the idea to have the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits learn cultivation techniques as well, so both groups would consume resources.

Chu Xinghe ordered the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to learn cultivation techniques despite their historic inability to do so, and pushed Body Cultivation Peak into a frantic cycle of failed lessons. Determined to overwhelm the Misfortune Compass with reckless moves, he turned to the Taiyin Evil Spirits, whose bizarrely poor alchemy results left Mu Bai despairing.

• Chu Xinghe ordered the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits to study cultivation techniques, and Man Sheng trusted his senior brother's prediction that their opportunity would come.
• The Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits taught divine abilities to the Body Cultivation disciples each morning, while the disciples helped them establish foundations each afternoon, and Chu Xinghe banned Ma Liang and the others from Body Cultivation Peak.
• Chu Xinghe decided to stop playing cautiously and overwhelm the Misfortune Compass with a rapid series of bold moves.
• Chu Xinghe asked Mu Bai about the thirty-two Taiyin Evil Spirits, and Mu Bai explained that they were clever but needed a thousand times the resources to learn alchemy and achieved only a thousandth of normal results.
• Mu Bai said the Taiyin Evil Spirits' pills were nearly useless and suggested that hanging them up as light balls might be their only way out.

Chu Xinghe had the thirty-two Taiyin Evil Spirits learn pill refining, lightning techniques, and other skills, but they consumed vast resources while producing almost no results. Meanwhile, Liu Bo returned to Star City on leave from the Vast Heaven Holy Land, reflecting on how being rejected by the Thousand Crane Sect had led him to his present standing.

• Mu Bai told Chu Xinghe that the Taiyin Evil Spirits learned pill refining quickly but produced only a fraction of its intended effect.
• Chu Xinghe brought the thirty-two Taiyin Evil Spirits to Thunder Palace, where their lightning techniques amounted to tiny electric arcs despite their rapid learning.
• Chu Xinghe sent the Taiyin Evil Spirits around the Vast Heaven Holy Land to study, and instructors reported that their techniques and skills were ineffective or badly diminished.
• Commander Bai publicized Chu Xinghe's unusual training schemes, prompting factions across the Four Continents to ridicule them.
• Liu Bo returned to Star City after asking the Grand Elder for leave and felt grateful that the Thousand Crane Sect had rejected him years earlier.

Liu Bo returned to Star City after rising from an overlooked outer disciple to Ma Liang’s trusted aide and the manager of the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s outer sect. As he reached the vastly expanded Liu residence, Uncle Xu recognized him and announced his homecoming, while the gathered visitors reacted to the famous Liu Bo’s return.

• Liu Bo recalled how rejection from the Thousand Crane Sect had led him to join the Vast Heaven Sect as an outer disciple and how Ma Liang later entrusted him with managing the outer sect.
• Liu Bo reflected that he had fulfilled his promise to his father and helped make Liu Yuanhong Star City’s wealthiest merchant.
• Liu Bo reached the enlarged Liu residence and was stopped by a guard who did not recognize him.
• Uncle Xu rushed out, recognized Liu Bo, embraced him, and ordered the household to dismiss its visitors.
• Onlookers recognized Liu Bo as a renowned outer disciple of the Vast Heaven Holy Land, while one young man scoffed at his status.

Liu Bo returned to the Liu residence, reunited with his family, and brought his ailing grandmother a medicine refined by Mu Bai. At the family banquet, his cousin Liu Cheng flaunted his status as Zhao Taixing’s personal disciple, until Zhao Taixing arrived to pay his respects to Liu Bo.

• Liu Bo returned to the Liu residence, where Liu Yuanhong welcomed him and arranged a grand banquet for the Liu Lineage.
• Liu Bo gave his grandmother a pill refined by Mu Bai, and her condition improved after she took it.
• Liu Bo reunited with his cousins and answered their questions about the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Liu Yuanheng introduced Liu Cheng as a Thousand Crane Sect inner disciple and Zhao Taixing’s personal disciple, and Liu Cheng tried to outshine Liu Bo.
• Liu Cheng boasted about his master, Zhao Taixing, and Liu Bo said he had never heard of him.
• Zhao Taixing arrived and announced that he had come to pay his respects to Liu Bo of the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

Liu Bo’s relatives boasted about Zhao Taixing and Liu Cheng’s prospects, only for Zhao Taixing to arrive and treat Liu Bo as a powerful business connection. The chapter left Liu Yuanheng and Liu Cheng stunned as Zhao Taixing showered Liu Bo’s family with gifts and called Liu Yuanhong “Little Xing.”

• Liu Bo ignored Liu Yuanheng and Liu Cheng’s boasting, having outgrown the need to answer their taunts.
• Zhao Taixing arrived at the Liu residence, greeted Liu Bo warmly, and offered him gifts in gratitude for their business dealings.
• Liu Yuanheng and Liu Cheng were shocked to see Zhao Taixing defer to Liu Bo and address Liu Yuanhong as his uncle.
• Zhao Taixing explained that his dealings with the Vast Heaven Holy Land had helped him meet his procurement quota and could advance his standing in the Thousand Crane Sect.
• Zhao Taixing revealed that he had taken Liu Cheng as his personal disciple because of his connection to Liu Bo, then promised to teach him well.
• Liu Yuanheng and Liu Cheng were left wishing they could hide from the embarrassing reversal.

Liu Bo showed magnanimity toward his uncle Liu Yuanheng and younger cousin Liu Cheng after Elder Zhao Taixing revealed that Liu Cheng’s appointment as his disciple had depended on his background. The family began a peaceful feast, but the arrival of Wei Deqian, president of the Daxing Chamber of Commerce, brought another surprise.

• Liu Yuanhong recognized that Liu Bo’s standing in the Vast Heaven Holy Land was far greater than Liu Yuanheng understood, while Zhao Taixing’s visit exposed that Liu Cheng’s background—not his talent—had secured his place as a disciple.
• Liu Bo asked Zhao Taixing to guide Liu Cheng firmly and then encouraged his younger brother to cultivate diligently, promising to help him if he faced difficulties.
• Liu Cheng was moved by Liu Bo’s kindness and realized how far he had fallen short of his elder brother in character and bearing.
• Liu Bo seated Liu Yuanheng beside Liu Yuanhong and invited Zhao Taixing to stay for a meal, bringing the brothers together without an argument.
• Wei Deqian, president of the Daxing Chamber of Commerce, arrived to visit Liu Bo, prompting Liu Yuanhong to rise and greet the famed merchant.

Wei Deqian arrived at the Liu Lineage gathering and showed why the Daxing Chamber of Commerce had become a major force through its partnership with the Vast Heaven Holy Land. After presenting Liu Bo with the promised roast chickens, he sought cooperation with Liu Yuanhong, the richest man in Star City.

• The chapter recounted how Wei Deqian transformed the Daxing Chamber of Commerce into a materials supplier and became the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s largest supplier.
• Wei Deqian arrived with his subordinates, and Liu Yuanhong and Zhao Taixing stood to greet the influential merchant.
• Wei Deqian praised Zhao Taixing and delivered the hometown roast chickens he had promised Liu Bo.
• Wei Deqian formally greeted Liu Yuanhong and proposed that the Daxing Chamber of Commerce cooperate with him.

Liu Bo welcomed Wei Deqian and Zhao Taixing home, then learned how highly the Great Elder regarded him when Ma Liang contacted him during the feast. The celebration ended abruptly when Liu Bo’s grandmother collapsed, and Zhao Taixing insisted that the pill Mu Bai had made could not be at fault.

• Wei Deqian offered Liu Yuanhong a chance to work with the Daxing Chamber of Commerce, and Liu Bo accepted his roast chickens while leaving the business decision to his family.
• Liu Bo hosted Wei Deqian and Zhao Taixing at a feast as crowds of Star City dignitaries gathered outside his home.
• Ma Liang contacted Liu Bo, greeted his family, and said the Great Elder had asked him to check that Liu Bo had arrived home safely.
• Liu Bo’s grandmother suddenly lost consciousness and began vomiting blood, so the family rushed to her room.
• Zhao Taixing examined Liu Bo’s grandmother and could not identify her condition; when someone questioned Mu Bai’s pill, Zhao Taixing angrily defended its safety.