Chapter Summaries

The Taiyin Evil Spirits pledged their lives to the Vast Heaven Holy Land after Chu Xinghe helped them break free of their past, while Huang Ritian was punished for provoking the Grand Elder. News of the Taiyin Evil Spirits’ ability spread across the Four Continents, leaving other factions amazed and turning Chu Xinghe’s critics against Group Leader Bai.

• The Taiyin Evil Spirits rose with renewed dignity and vowed to stand and fall with the Vast Heaven Holy Land and Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe and the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable joked with Huang Ritian, who had come to watch the commotion despite his confinement.
• The Grand Elder sentenced Huang Ritian to fifty years of confinement, then raised it to a hundred years after Gui Li asked to share the punishment.
• Spies spread news that the Taiyin Evil Spirits could help break racial shackles, drawing powerful figures from across the Four Continents to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• After witnessing the Taiyin Evil Spirits’ ability, the factions were astonished, and Group Leader Bai was attacked online over his criticism of Chu Xinghe.

Bai Yu rallied the Xinghe Haters' Group to keep attacking Chu Xinghe, while Zang Ling's purchases at the highest market price left the Taiyin Evil Spirits legally belonging to the Vast Heaven Holy Land. As powerful factions flocked to use the spirits to learn lost cultivation arts, Chu Xinghe proposed helping them for free, and Ma Liang enthusiastically praised the idea.

• Bai Yu fought with critics on the Haotian Mirror and ordered the Xinghe Haters' Group to keep hating Chu Xinghe despite the controversy.
• Zang Ling's receipts proved the Vast Heaven Holy Land had bought every Taiyin Evil Spirit from the evil lords at the highest market price.
• News spread that Taiyin Evil Spirits could let cultivators learn arts barred by their race, drawing powerful factions to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Cheng Xiaotian's example showed how the Taiyin Evil Spirits could allow Martial Emperor City disciples to learn the Formless Asura Art.
• As factions offered increasing prices for access to the spirits, Chu Xinghe panicked and proposed helping them for free.
• Ma Liang praised Chu Xinghe's plan to provide the service for free, leaving Chu Xinghe bewildered.

Chu Xinghe proposed helping the factions for free, and Ma Liang turned the offer into a way for the Vast Heaven Holy Land to acquire their cultivation techniques. The factions and Evil Lords panicked when they learned what Ma Liang meant by free.

• Chu Xinghe decided the Vast Heaven Holy Land would help the factions for free after they kept raising their offers for the Taiyin Evil Spirits' help.
• The Great Elder put Ma Liang in charge, and Ma Liang explained that free cooperation would let the Holy Land's disciples learn techniques shared with the Taiyin Evil Spirits.
• Chu Xinghe conceded defeat and went into seclusion in the Technique Repository Tower while Ma Liang announced the free offer.
• Zheng Yu, Hua Xichen, and the other faction representatives insisted that Ma Liang's free offer sounded more frightening than a high price.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord and the other Evil Lords initially expected to freeload, then realized Ma Liang intended for the Vast Heaven Holy Land to learn their techniques for free.

Ma Liang’s supposedly free offer led the Three Continents’ forces to cooperate with the Vast Heaven Holy Land, since only it could persuade the Taiyin Evil Spirits to help them. Cheng Xiaotian explained to Zheng Yu that Chu Xinghe’s success came from treating everyone as an independent disciple rather than a pawn, and Zheng realized the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s model depended on Chu himself.

• Ma Liang explained the terms of his free offer, and the White Spirit Evil Lord complained that the forces were being made to pay for it; the forces ultimately agreed to cooperate with the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The forces accepted the deal because the Taiyin Evil Spirits trusted only the Vast Heaven Holy Land and would not help anyone else.
• Zheng Yu wondered whether he could have secured the same gains, and Cheng Xiaotian told him that Chu Xinghe’s way of welcoming and guiding the Taiyin Evil Spirits had made the difference.
• Cheng Xiaotian explained that Chu Xinghe supported disciples without treating them as pawns, while other leaders trained subordinates toward predetermined roles.
• Zheng Yu asked whether Martial Emperor City could copy the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s approach, and Cheng Xiaotian said that even equal resources would not suffice without Chu Xinghe.

Chu Xinghe’s recruitment of the Taiyin Evil Spirits and Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits had made the Vast Heaven Holy Land stronger, while he hid away to recover from his disastrous luck. Meanwhile, Bai Yu gathered the Xinghe Haters’ Group and proposed spreading fabricated rumors about Chu Xinghe, though his subordinates misunderstood what kind of rumors he meant.

• Zheng Yu agreed with his master that Chu Xinghe earned the heaven’s chosen admiration by supporting them and handling the trouble they caused.
• The Four Continents marveled that the Taiyin Evil Spirits had helped the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits learn palace techniques and share their divine abilities with other disciples.
• Chu Xinghe stayed on the ninth floor of the Technique Repository Tower and vowed to leave future disciple recruitment to Ma Liang.
• Bai Yu called a meeting of the Xinghe Haters’ Group and announced that he had devised a new way to target Chu Xinghe.
• Bai Yu explained that the group should invent rumors to smear Chu Xinghe, but Zhang Sanpao offered to spread dirty rumors instead, angering Bai Yu.

Bai Yu decided the Xinghe Haters' Group needed to seize the initiative by exploiting the booming market for spirit mines on the Evil Shadow Continent. He planned to spark rumors linking Chu Xinghe to worthless mines, leaving the chapter with the group preparing to turn a single impersonator's appearance into widespread speculation.

• Bai Yu argued that the Xinghe Haters' Group had repeatedly failed because it reacted to Chu Xinghe's actions instead of controlling the narrative.
• Bai Yu proposed mixing exhausted and fake mines among the White Spirit Division's mines for sale, then spreading rumors that Chu Xinghe had praised them.
• Sanpao asked how the group could make people believe Chu Xinghe had endorsed the mines, and Erlü warned that no impersonator would dare pose as him.
• Bai Yu clarified that an impersonator only needed to appear around the White Spirit Division without saying anything, after which the group could suggest he might have been Chu Xinghe.
• Bai Yu expected buyers to imagine that Chu Xinghe had favored certain mines and blame him if the mines proved worthless.

Bai Yu sent a Chu Xinghe impersonator through the White Spirit Division’s fake mines, prompting greedy buyers to assume Chu Xinghe had secretly identified valuable deposits and bid prices sky-high. When Shen Chun warned Chu Xinghe that the scheme was a trap targeting him, Chu Xinghe seized the chance to fuel the rumors and ended the chapter by declaring in a live broadcast that they were not rumors.

• Bai Yu explained how an impersonator’s visit to the White Spirit Division could spur buyers to invent their own rumors and blame Chu Xinghe if they lost money.
• Bai Yu hired a Chu Xinghe impersonator, who visited every marked location, denied being the real Chu Xinghe, and received payment.
• People connected the impersonator’s route to mines listed for sale, and the prices of the White Spirit Division’s worthless mines soared.
• Shen Chun told Chu Xinghe that the Vast Heaven Holy Land believed someone had set a trap to target him.
• Chu Xinghe went live through the Haotian Mirror and declared that the rumors about the spirit mines were not rumors.

Chu Xinghe tried to stop the rumors about him by livestreaming, but instead of denying them, he declared them all true and left Bai Yu and Shen Chun baffled. Shen Chun realized Chu Xinghe had reached Elder He's legendary third level of handling rumors: using them to achieve his own goals.

• Shen Chun offered to investigate the people spreading rumors, but Chu Xinghe warned that disproving them would be difficult and might not change what people believed.
• Chu Xinghe started a livestream in the Haotian Mirror, drawing in viewers and Bai Yu, who expected him to debunk the rumors and make matters worse for himself.
• Chu Xinghe announced that every rumor about him was true, then immediately ended the livestream.
• Bai Yu and his companions were left unable to understand Chu Xinghe's approach, while Shen Chun recalled Elder He's three levels of dealing with rumors.
• Shen Chun concluded that Chu Xinghe had reached the third level, using rumors to achieve his own goals.

After Chu Xinghe’s livestream, Shen Chun and the elders interpreted his strange response to the rumors as a brilliant third level of intelligence work: using a rumor to strike back at its creator. Chu Xinghe had no real plan and told Shen Chun to wait, confident that the rumors would keep spreading and work in his favor.

• Shen Chun decided Chu Xinghe was using the legendary third level to turn the rumor against whoever had started it.
• The Grand Elder and the palace chief elders came to question Chu Xinghe, and Shen Chun explained Elder He’s supposed three levels of intelligence work.
• Elder He admitted the third level had started as drunken boasting but claimed Chu Xinghe’s actions proved it existed, pledging to support him publicly.
• The elders left to watch Chu Xinghe’s next move, while Shen Chun offered to cooperate and suspected the White Spirit Division was behind the rumor.
• Chu Xinghe told Shen Chun to make no arrangements and wait, privately admitting he knew nothing about the third level but expected the rumor to benefit him.

Chu Xinghe decided to stay inactive, believing that letting his opponents control the scheme would bring him a loss, while Bai Yu also waited for him to make a move. Meanwhile, the White Spirit Evil Lord’s suspicious mines on Down-and-Out Mountain drew fierce bidding after Chu Xinghe’s broadcast convinced buyers they might be real.

• Chu Xinghe told Shen Chun he would take responsibility for the coming losses and instructed him to watch and wait.
• Bai Yu also held back, waiting for Chu Xinghe to act before choosing his moment to strike.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord added fifteen supposed spirit mines to the sale, including five worthless mines and ten sites on spirit-devouring Down-and-Out Mountain.
• Factions bid frantically on the mines, and the White Spirit Evil Lord asked the Earth Sha Evil Lord whether Down-and-Out Mountain could truly contain spirit mines.
• After Chu Xinghe’s broadcast, prospecting masters and even Clan Head Cui doubted the Heart of the Earth’s finding that Down-and-Out Mountain had no spirit mines.

Wang Tieniu first declared that Down-and-Out Mountain could not contain spirit mines, then changed his mind because he trusted Chu Xinghe’s judgment, prompting Zheng Yu to join the bidding. Chu Xinghe kept the Vast Heaven Holy Land out of the purchases but assured the visiting factions that the mines would bring them huge profits, leaving the competing bidders confident and the prices still climbing.

• Wang Tieniu identified a Spirit-Devouring Vortex on Down-and-Out Mountain and insisted that spirit mines could not form there, but reversed himself when Zheng Yu reminded him that Chu Xinghe had predicted the mines were real.
• Zheng Yu joined the factions bidding for the ten spirit mines, while Wang Tieniu returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land and asked Chu Xinghe whether he should join the fight.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Wang Tieniu to stay at the Vast Heaven Holy Land and forbade its members from buying or involving themselves in the mines, hoping to keep the Misfortune Compass from making the supposedly empty mountain yield treasure.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord insisted to the other Evil Lords that Down-and-Out Mountain was empty, even as factions from across the continents crowded the mountain and drove its mine prices to record highs.
• After Cheng Xiaotian sent Zheng Yu to seek his advice, Chu Xinghe told the gathered faction prodigies that the mines would guarantee a massive profit and declared that they could hold him accountable if anything went wrong.

Chu Xinghe advised the factions to buy spirit mines on Down-and-Out Mountain, assuring them they would profit, while Bai Yu and the White Spirit Evil Lord profited from selling the mines. After mining began, none of the factions found any spirit ore, and Chu Xinghe celebrated what he believed was his success.

• Chu Xinghe avoided the visiting prodigies until Zheng Yu prepared to leave, then accepted three spirit stones as payment and guaranteed Martial Emperor City would profit from its mine.
• The other prodigies paid Chu Xinghe for the same advice, and the factions returned to bid record prices for the mines on Down-and-Out Mountain.
• Bai Yu and the White Spirit Evil Lord celebrated the White Spirit Division's windfall, while the White Spirit Evil Lord wondered why Chu Xinghe had endorsed the mines.
• Cheng Xiaotian opened Martial Emperor City's mine, but its miners found stones, bones, and dog heads instead of spirit ore.
• After half a month, all ten factions had found no spirit stones, and Chu Xinghe heard the news with tears of excitement.

After factions found no spirit stones at Down-and-Out Mountain, they questioned Chu Xinghe’s prediction and demanded an explanation. Chu Xinghe announced that he would personally go to the mountain, while spirit stones were transported from the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

• The Three Continents defended their faith in Chu Xinghe’s Star Divination Art against Evil Shadow Continent’s disbelief that Down-and-Out Mountain held spirit mines.
• Tantai Jing explained that the Demonic Sect was profiting from selling goods at stalls rather than competing for spirit mines.
• Factions struggled to mine Down-and-Out Mountain because its spirit-devouring vortex drained miners’ spiritual power and consumed extra spirit stones.
• After factions dug extensively without finding a single spirit stone, people across the Four Continents questioned Chu Xinghe and demanded an explanation.
• Chu Xinghe promised to personally visit Down-and-Out Mountain and explain the situation, as spirit stones were transported from the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

After the spirit mines on Down-and-Out Mountain yielded no spirit stones, Chu Xinghe sent vast quantities of nine-colored spirit stones there as compensation, intending to make his losses even greater by feeding them to the Spirit-Devouring Vortex. The chapter ended with Gui Li speeding up the shipment on Chu Xinghe’s orders as the Four Continents watched in disbelief.

• The spirit mines on Down-and-Out Mountain produced no spirit stones, leaving the factions that had bought them in uproar while others celebrated avoiding the loss.
• Bai Yu and the Xinghe Haters' Group declared that Bai Yu had defeated Chu Xinghe and demanded that the Vast Heaven Holy Land compensate the buyers.
• Chu Xinghe sent countless nine-colored spirit stones toward Down-and-Out Mountain to compensate the factions, planning to maximize his losses through the Spirit-Devouring Vortex.
• Gui Li watched the vortex devour the arriving resources and urged Chu Xinghe to keep the shipment outside Down-and-Out Mountain.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Gui Li to speed up the transport, and Gui Li obeyed as the Four Continents erupted in astonishment.

Chu Xinghe poured Vast Heaven Holy Land’s resources into Down-and-Out Mountain’s Spirit-Devouring Vortex while reassuring the factions awaiting compensation. After consulting Elder He and the Holy Mother of Wujiang, he concluded the vortex could not reverse or be harmed, and left their late-night “ancient text” studies firmly covered up.

• Chu Xinghe brought Vast Heaven Holy Land’s resources to Down-and-Out Mountain and kept feeding them into the Spirit-Devouring Vortex despite Zheng Yu and the other prodigies urging him to stop.
• Chu Xinghe told the factions to wait, intending to let the vortex consume resources before paying them their full compensation.
• Chu Xinghe visited Elder He and learned that Elder He and the Holy Mother of Wujiang had been studying ancient texts together, despite their suspicious lipstick marks and medicine bottles.
• Chu Xinghe asked Elder He about the Spirit-Devouring Vortex, and Elder He and the Holy Mother of Wujiang used ancient texts to confirm it could not reverse or be affected by the resources.
• Chu Xinghe defended Elder He and the Holy Mother of Wujiang’s late-night studies and promised to refine their medicines himself.

Chu Xinghe poured Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit stones into the Spirit-Devouring Vortex, hoping to waste them, until it stopped accepting more. Gui Li investigated with the Earth Sha Technique, triggering a change in the Evil Shadow Continent’s earth vein and discovering a hidden purpose behind the vortex.

• Chu Xinghe brought vast resources to Down-and-Out Mountain and ordered the disciples to throw spirit stones into the Spirit-Devouring Vortex.
• The Spirit-Devouring Vortex glowed nine colors, transformed into a giant disc, and stopped absorbing stones until Chu Xinghe ordered the disciples to throw them directly into it.
• After the vortex devoured all the stones, Chu Xinghe had Gui Li transport more resources, and the disciples continued feeding them into it.
• The Spirit-Devouring Vortex eventually stopped accepting spirit stones, so Chu Xinghe asked Gui Li to inspect the earth vein with the Earth Sha Technique.
• Gui Li’s contact with the vortex shook the entire Evil Shadow Continent and revealed that its earth vein was changing.
• Gui Li concluded that the vortex could borrow the earth vein’s power to reverse heaven and earth, and declared that this had been Chu Xinghe’s goal.

The Four Continents’ earth veins began shifting, and Gui Li explained that Chu Xinghe’s spirit stones had pushed the Evil Shadow Continent’s veins into motion. Gui Li then reversed the Spirit-Devouring Vortex, transforming Down-and-Out Mountain’s fake spirit mines into genuine Nine-Colored Spirit Stone mines.

• The Earth Sha Evil Lord explained that the Evil Shadow Continent’s earth veins were naturally adjusting after the Four Continents merged.
• Gui Li arrived and said Chu Xinghe’s spirit stones had been the final force that triggered the earth-vein shift through the Spirit-Devouring Vortex.
• Bai Yu dismissed the shift as a coincidence, while Chu Xinghe wondered whether spending so many spirit stones had been worthwhile.
• Gui Li entered the Spirit-Devouring Vortex and used the Evil God Mask to invoke “Reverse Heaven and Earth,” turning the vortex around.
• The power of the earth veins shook Down-and-Out Mountain, and Nine-Colored Spirit Stones appeared throughout its spirit mines.
• Zheng Yu realized the fake mines had become genuine Nine-Colored Spirit Stone mines and credited Chu Xinghe with anticipating the change.

The spirit mines on Down-and-Out Mountain yielded nothing at first, but the changed earth veins reversed yin and yang and produced vast quantities of nine-colored spirit stones, confirming that Chu Xinghe’s prediction had been right. As Zheng Yu offered Chu Xinghe a thirty-percent share for advising Martial Emperor City, Chu Xinghe learned that accepting three spirit stones had supposedly committed him to a wager arrangement.

• Hua Xichen had failed to use the Great Prophecy Art to read the mine’s prospects, then stopped when he heard Chu Xinghe predicted a massive profit.
• After the mines initially appeared empty, the changed earth veins reversed yin and yang, and Down-and-Out Mountain produced nine-colored spirit stones throughout its ten divine mines.
• Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen concluded that Chu Xinghe had anticipated the change, while Bai Yu insisted Chu Xinghe had still lost heavily by throwing resources into the Spirit-Devouring Vortex.
• Zheng Yu offered Chu Xinghe thirty percent of Martial Emperor City’s mine output in return for serving as its adviser, leaving Chu Xinghe confused about their supposed agreement.
• Ma Liang explained that three spirit stones accepted by Chu Xinghe signified a thirty-percent share under an unwritten rule, and that Chu Xinghe had chosen the spirit-seeking world’s wager arrangement.

Chu Xinghe learned that everyone had interpreted his promise to take responsibility as a wager, entitling him to thirty percent of the spirit mines while making him liable for any shortfall. His reputation persuaded the other factions to honor the agreement without a Heavenly Dao Contract, and the chapter ended with the Vast Heaven Holy Land celebrating its share as Chu Xinghe noticed his Misfortune Compass had stopped spinning.

• Ma Liang explained that Chu Xinghe's promise to take responsibility had counted as a wager, which required him to cover any shortfall and entitled him to an agreed share.
• Zheng Yu argued that Chu Xinghe's reputation made a Heavenly Dao Contract unnecessary, and the prodigies who had bought spirit mines agreed to give him the promised thirty percent.
• Wang Daoquan explained that some factions had withdrawn because they lacked the resources to compete with Martial Emperor City, not because they doubted the wager.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land's Grand Elder celebrated that the Holy Land would receive thirty percent of every spirit mine.
• Chu Xinghe despaired over being trapped by his own credibility, then noticed that his Misfortune Compass had suddenly stopped spinning.

Chu Xinghe panicked when the Misfortune Compass stopped and reversed, then discovered that Gui Li’s experiment had transformed a nine-colored spirit stone into a ten-colored one. Elder He explained that the earth veins’ reversal had changed the Spirit-Devouring Vortex into an unprecedented new existence, though he left the gathered experts puzzled by his final remark.

• Chu Xinghe realized the Misfortune Compass had stopped and reversed, suggesting he had gained an enormous windfall despite the ten spirit mines.
• Gui Li tossed a nine-colored spirit stone into the Spirit-Devouring Vortex, which swallowed it and then spat it back out.
• Ma Liang counted the stone’s colors and found that it had gained a tenth, transparent-white light.
• Elder He examined the Ten-Colored Spirit Stone and the vortex while the gathered experts questioned how the vortex could return anything it had swallowed.
• Elder He explained that the earth veins’ Yin-Yang Reversal had transformed the Spirit-Devouring Vortex into a new, unprecedented existence.