Chapter Summaries

The Vast Heaven Sect defeated the Demonic Sect’s summoning attempt, leaving only Blood Soul Patriarch’s lower half behind, and seized the Demonic Sect’s prepared resources. Wu Xingyun then declared that the Demonic Sect would retaliate by attacking the Vast Heaven Sect’s Taiyin and Taiyang treasure vaults unless its demands were met.

• The Great Elder led the Vast Heaven Sect’s attack on the Demonic Sect while Tantai Jing escaped, and Gu Mingchao arrived to find only Blood Soul Patriarch’s lower half.
• The Vast Heaven Sect searched the Demonic Sect’s gathering place, confiscated its payment and demonic crystals, and moved to eliminate the remaining Demonic Sect members in the Gathering Star Kingdom.
• Tantai Jing reported the defeat to Wu Xingyun, who learned that the Demonic Sect had lost its experts, resources, and demonic crystals.
• Wu Xingyun agreed to retaliate after Demonic Sect experts demanded action against the Vast Heaven Sect.
• The Demonic Sect threatened to attack the Vast Heaven Sect’s Taiyin and Taiyang treasure vaults within half a month unless the sect returned the seized resources and Blood Soul Patriarch’s lower half.

The Vast Heaven Sect debated how to respond to the Demonic Sect’s threat to attack its Taiyin and Taiyang treasure vaults. Elder He proposed using Chu Xinghe as bait at one vault, with the Flute of Space and Time as an escape route, and Chu Xinghe eagerly supported the plan.

• Gu Mingchao reasoned that the Demonic Sect would target only one vault, while the elders struggled to determine which one and how to defend it.
• Elder He proposed placing Chu Xinghe, the Blood Soul Patriarch, and demonic crystals at one vault to mislead the Demonic Sect into attacking the Vast Heaven Sect’s main force there.
• The grand elder and Gu Mingchao approved the plan after Chu Xinghe revealed he could use the Flute of Space and Time to escape if the Demonic Sect attacked his position.
• The elders finalized the plan, and Chu Xinghe celebrated by eating four bowls of red-braised pork and praising Elder He’s strategy.

The Vast Heaven Sect secretly moved its main force from the Land of Grand Yin to ambush the Demonic Sect in the Land of Grand Yang, leaving Chu Xinghe behind as a decoy. Tantai Jing investigated and misread Chu Xinghe’s honest confirmation of the plan as an elaborate lie, leaving him convinced the main force was still hidden nearby.

• Gu Mingchao ordered Chu Xinghe to retreat immediately if the Demonic Sect attacked, and Chu Xinghe promised to take everyone to safety.
• Chu Xinghe chose not to bring Feng Yuzheng to the Land of Grand Yin and told him to study the Divine Engraving Technique at the sect.
• Gu Mingchao brought the Vast Heaven Sect’s experts to the Land of Grand Yin, then secretly led them to the Land of Grand Yang, leaving Chu Xinghe and two Martial Venerable-level deacons behind.
• Vast Heaven Sect disciples and Demonic Sect spies assumed Chu Xinghe’s presence meant the sect’s main force was still hidden in the Land of Grand Yin.
• Tantai Jing infiltrated the Land of Grand Yin and overheard Chu Xinghe tell a junior brother that the main force was in the Land of Grand Yang and that he would protect everyone.
• Tantai Jing decided Chu Xinghe was deliberately misleading him and concluded that the Vast Heaven Sect’s main force remained in the Land of Grand Yin.

Tantai Jing mistook Chu Xinghe’s private musings about a surprise in the Land of Grand Yin for proof that the Vast Heaven Sect had hidden its main force there, so the Demonic Sect attacked the Land of Grand Yang instead. The Vast Heaven Sect ambushed them with the Heaven-Supporting Sword Formation, and as the Demonic Sect retreated, Tantai Jing took Wu Xingyun’s avatar and teleported toward Chu Xinghe.

• Tantai Jing overheard Chu Xinghe mention Elder He’s surprise for the Demonic Sect in the Land of Grand Yin and concluded the Vast Heaven Sect’s main force was hiding there.
• Tantai Jing reported his deduction to Wu Xingyun and the Demonic Sect elders, who chose to attack the Land of Grand Yang.
• Chu Xinghe gathered his fellow disciples in the Land of Grand Yin and ordered them to stay within a hundred paces of him, but the Demonic Sect never arrived.
• Wu Xingyun led the Demonic Sect into the Land of Grand Yang, where Gu Mingchao and the Vast Heaven Sect sprang a trap with the Heaven-Supporting Sword Formation.
• As the Demonic Sect suffered heavy losses, Tantai Jing asked Wu Xingyun for his avatar so he could kill Chu Xinghe, then used a forbidden technique to teleport away with it.
• Wu Xingyun covered the Demonic Sect’s retreat while urging Tantai Jing to kill Chu Xinghe.

Tantai Jing arrived in the Land of Grand Yin as a Demonic Emperor and attacked Chu Xinghe, but the Flute of Space and Time failed to teleport them away. As Tantai Jing nearly killed Chu Xinghe, Blood Soul Patriarch’s kicking lower half released a red light that healed him and filled him with a frightening power.

• Tantai Jing appeared in the Land of Grand Yin and merged with Wu Xingyun’s Demonic Emperor avatar to attack Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe crushed the Flute of Space and Time, but the teleportation left everyone in the Land of Grand Yin with Tantai Jing.
• Chu Xinghe urged his fellow disciples to flee while the two Martial Venerable deacons tried and failed to stop Tantai Jing.
• Tantai Jing struck Chu Xinghe repeatedly, breaking his treasures and leaving him gravely wounded.
• Blood Soul Patriarch’s lower half released a blood-red light that entered Chu Xinghe, rapidly healed his wounds, and filled him with power.

After Blood Soul Patriarch’s power restored Chu Xinghe and pushed him into the Martial Emperor realm, Chu Xinghe unleashed all nine swords of the Haotian Sword Casket and defeated Tantai Jing’s attack, though Tantai Jing escaped. The Demonic Sect learned that Wu Xingyun’s clone had been destroyed and returned home to review how Chu Xinghe had turned their apparent victory into a disaster.

• Blood Soul Patriarch’s lower half transferred its Martial Emperor-level power to Chu Xinghe, healing him and raising him into the Martial Emperor realm.
• Chu Xinghe unleashed all nine swords of the Haotian Sword Casket and used them to overwhelm Tantai Jing’s Yin Souls and wound him.
• Wu Xingyun’s clone exploded under the Haotian Sword Casket’s assault, giving Tantai Jing cover to escape with a forbidden technique that destroyed everything below his waist.
• Chu Xinghe treated the two injured deacons, then discovered Blood Soul Patriarch’s power had also raised his cultivation close to the Sixth Rank.
• Wu Xingyun told the Demonic Sect that Tantai Jing would kill Chu Xinghe, but he soon felt the backlash from his clone’s destruction and watched Tantai Jing collapse in front of the sect members.
• Tantai Jing explained what had happened, and Wu Xingyun led the wounded Demonic Sect members back to the sect to review their defeat.

After the Demonic Sect’s defeat, Chu Xinghe fretted over the dangerous Flute of Space and Time and the grand elder’s dubious explanation. He turned Feng Yuzheng’s offer to study the flute fragments into a chance to spend the sect’s resources, leaving Feng eager to begin his project.

• The Demonic Sect blamed Chu Xinghe’s false information for luring its forces into the Vast Heaven Sect’s prepared ambush, while Zheng Yu and the others praised Chu Xinghe’s bravery.
• Chu Xinghe searched for the grand elder to question him about the Flute of Space and Time, but the grand elder stayed away and publicly explained the battle’s outcome by crediting Blood Soul Patriarch’s power.
• Chu Xinghe gave Elder He the unusable remainder of Blood Soul Patriarch and discarded the broken flute fragments.
• Feng Yuzheng asked Chu Xinghe for the fragments, explaining that his Divine Engraving Technique might let him remake the Flute of Space and Time.
• When Feng Yuzheng admitted he had almost no confidence and expected the project to consume many resources, Chu Xinghe authorized him to use whatever the sect could provide.

Chu Xinghe watched Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming successfully replicate the Flute of Space and Time, only for its first test to teleport Feng Yuzheng back to where he started. While Chu Xinghe celebrated the useless replica as a success, Ouyang Ming encouraged Feng Yuzheng to keep researching it.

• Chu Xinghe learned from Feng Fei that the Vast Heaven Trading Company had suffered a crushing loss and decided to defend Shi Biao at the review meeting.
• Shen Chun summoned Chu Xinghe to the Artifact Refining Palace, where Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming revealed they had made a complete replica of the Flute of Space and Time.
• The elders inspected the replica and watched Feng Yuzheng activate it, but its teleportation returned him to his starting spot.
• Feng Yuzheng despaired over the failed test, while Chu Xinghe comforted him and privately celebrated the replica's uselessness.
• Ouyang Ming urged Feng Yuzheng to continue researching the flute, and Chu Xinghe worried that they would try again.

Chu Xinghe tried to prevent Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming from successfully replicating the Flute of Space and Time by sending them to study teleportation arrays with the First Elder, whose guidance caused their experiments to fail. As the Vast Heaven Trading Company’s severe losses came under scrutiny, Chu Xinghe prepared to defend Shi Biao at the sect’s review meeting and hoped the backlash would benefit them both.

• Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming resolved to keep working on the Flute of Space and Time, so Chu Xinghe urged them to seek the First Elder’s guidance on teleportation arrays.
• The First Elder guided the pair in modifying the flute’s array, but their next experiment ended with the teleportation array exploding.
• Under the First Elder’s guidance, Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming devoted themselves to the flute and failed even to repeat their earlier teleportation-in-place result.
• Chu Xinghe reviewed the first-quarter figures and saw that the Vast Heaven Trading Company had suffered steep losses after adopting its experience-focused model.
• With the deacon review meeting approaching and Shi Biao still absent, Chu Xinghe planned to defend him against the deacons and elders, hoping to provoke punishment for himself as well.

Chu Xinghe tried to protect Shi Biao after the Vast Heaven Trading Company posted record losses, taking responsibility for the strategies behind them. Shi Biao, however, arrived late with news of a dramatic turnaround and prepared to reveal it to the sect.

• Qin Xiangqian praised the Tianyi Spirit Mine's booming production and described how its miner disciples were earning paths into the sect.
• Chu Xinghe saw the exhausted Shi Biao arrive and vowed to defend him at the business summary meeting.
• The Grand Elder announced that Qin Xiangqian's Tianyi Spirit Mine ranked first, then criticized the low-performing businesses.
• The Grand Elder revealed that Shi Biao's Vast Heaven Trading Company had set a ten-year record by losing money, and Chu Xinghe stepped forward to claim responsibility for its strategies.
• Shi Biao remained calm, thinking that the company had surged over the past half month and that he would reveal the surprise to the sect.

Chu Xinghe tried to take sole responsibility for the Vast Heaven Trading Company's apparent losses, but Shi Biao revealed that Xinghe's customer-focused policies had turned the company into the leading trading business. The sect praised the results, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned that his plan to make the company lose money had instead made it wildly profitable.

• Chu Xinghe insisted that he alone should be punished for the Vast Heaven Trading Company's losses and that Shi Biao should keep his position.
• Gu Mingchao assigned Chu Xinghe to study at the Technique Repository Tower, but Shi Biao asked the sect to review his figures before deciding on punishment.
• Shi Biao explained that free trials, generous refunds, and improved service had attracted customers who increasingly bought the company's goods instead of merely freeloading.
• Shi Biao reported that the company had recovered its losses in less than half a month and surpassed its previous year's first-quarter revenue.
• The sect elders and stewards were astonished by the results, while Chu Xinghe realized his policies had made the company enormously successful.

The Vast Heaven Trading Company’s trial-based shopping model brought it a surge of customers and a strong reputation, while Zheng Yu’s Martial Emperor Trading Company fell to last place. Chu Xinghe agreed to accompany Feng Fei to Wuj iang to handle Feng Fei’s unwanted betrothal, and the chapter ended with Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming discovering that their Flute of Space and Time had improved after following the Grand Elder’s latest guidance.

• Shi Biao reported that the Vast Heaven Trading Company’s trial-based sales approach had transformed its reputation and attracted customers, and the review meeting rewarded him despite the company not yet placing in the top ten.
• Zheng Yu learned that the Martial Emperor Trading Company had finished last and realized that copying Chu Xinghe’s successful model now would leave it trailing behind the Vast Heaven Trading Company.
• Stewards and managers sought Chu Xinghe’s business advice, and he urged the Vast Heaven Restaurant to offer high prices and no service and Vast Heaven Entertainment to stage a massive concert.
• Feng Fei told Chu Xinghe that Wuj iang’s Holy Maiden wanted to break their childhood engagement, and Chu Xinghe offered to go with him to Wuj iang and help end it without worrying about the sect’s reputation.
• Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming followed the Grand Elder’s latest instructions and found that the Flute of Space and Time worked better than before, so they sent for the Grand Elder and Chu Xinghe to share the surprise.

Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming successfully made a Flute of Space and Time under the Grand Elder’s guidance, shocking Chu Xinghe and the Vast Heaven Sect. The elders praised the Grand Elder’s teleportation skills while Chu Xinghe struggled to understand how their unreliable work had succeeded.

• The Grand Elder brought Chu Xinghe to the Artifact Refining Palace after Shen Chun reported that Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming had made a Flute of Space and Time.
• Feng Yuzheng crushed the flute and appeared ten meters away, prompting Chu Xinghe to think the test had failed.
• Elder He revealed that the flute had broken through the void and accurately reached its designated destination, proving that it worked.
• Feng Yuzheng credited the Grand Elder’s guidance for the success, and Mu Bai supported his praise by recounting the Grand Elder’s earlier teleportation test.
• The Grand Elder and Gu Mingchao stayed silent as Chu Xinghe began to wonder whether the Grand Elder’s teleportation skills really were powerful.

Feng Yuzheng and Ouyang Ming’s successful replication of the Flute of Space and Time made the Vast Heaven Sect famous and prompted the Huang Clan to cancel its cooperation before the Holy Land Ruins opened. Chu Xinghe tried to keep Feng Yuzheng from studying treasure appraisal by taking him to Wuj iang, while Feng Yuzheng mistakenly believed Xinghe had planned everything perfectly.

• Feng Yuzheng praised the Grand Elder’s teleportation array, and Ouyang Ming credited Chu Xinghe for guiding their work on the Flute of Space and Time.
• News of the replicated flute spread, and factions sought to buy it while the Huang Clan investigated Feng Yuzheng’s achievement.
• The Huang Clan concluded Feng Yuzheng had merely been lucky, canceled its cooperation with the Vast Heaven Sect, and challenged him to appraise treasures at the Holy Land Ruins.
• Chu Xinghe reassured the Grand Elder that Feng Yuzheng could handle the ruins, though he privately hoped Feng Yuzheng would fail there.
• When Feng Yuzheng vowed to study treasure appraisal, Chu Xinghe took him to Wuj iang to help Senior Brother Feng Fei and prevent him from preparing for the ruins.
• Feng Yuzheng interpreted the trip as proof that Chu Xinghe knew about the Feng Lineage’s origins in Wuj iang and had a flawless plan.

Chu Xinghe took Feng Fei to the First Elder and insisted that the Vast Heaven Sect break off Feng Fei’s engagement to Wuj iang, even if the sect lost its yearly rare treasures. After the sect approved and Chu Xinghe traveled with Feng Fei and Feng Yuzheng to confront the Wuj iang Holy Mother, she apologized and offered to double Wuj iang’s annual gifts before Chu Xinghe could speak, leaving him unsure how to proceed.

• Chu Xinghe urged the First Elder to prioritize Feng Fei’s dignity and end his engagement, dismissing the loss of Wuj iang’s rare treasures.
• The First Elder let Chu Xinghe decide, and the sect master approved breaking off the engagement while asking that ties with Wuj iang be maintained.
• Word spread through the Vast Heaven Sect, where disciples praised Chu Xinghe and supported Feng Fei; Chu Xinghe prepared two Flutes of Space and Time as escape precautions.
• Chu Xinghe, Feng Fei, and Feng Yuzheng traveled to Wuj iang and announced their arrival to the Wuj iang Holy Mother.
• The Wuj iang Holy Mother apologized for the dispute and offered to double Wuj iang’s yearly rare treasures, leaving Chu Xinghe surprised before he could demand to break off the engagement.

Chu Xinghe refused the Wuj iang Holy Mother's increasingly generous offers of rare treasures after Jiuli explained why she had broken off her engagement to Feng Fei. Jiuli promised to publicly explain the decision, and Chu Xinghe insisted that the Vast Heaven Sect would accept no further treasures from Wuj iang.

• The Wuj iang Holy Mother offered twice, then three times and four times the rare treasures, but Chu Xinghe refused each offer and declared that Feng Fei mattered more to the Vast Heaven Sect.
• Jiuli came out from behind the curtain and explained that she had broken off the engagement because she would inherit the White Gu and have to remain in Wuj iang for life.
• Jiuli revealed that Jiang Yunhe's Spirit of Fortune would help open the Gu God Inheritance, and said she would never marry anyone else.
• Jiuli promised to publicly explain the broken engagement and honor the fourfold offer, but Chu Xinghe refused the treasures and ended the matter.
• Feng Fei was relieved that Chu Xinghe had refused, believing that accepting the treasures would have damaged the Vast Heaven Sect's reputation.

Chu Xinghe refused Wuj iang’s rare treasures and completed the engagement negotiations before meeting Jiang Yunhe at a banquet. That night, Jiang Yunhe tried to steal Chu Xinghe’s fortune, but the Spirit of Fortune exploded when Chu Xinghe touched it.

• Chu Xinghe rejected Wuj iang Holy Mother’s repeated offers of rare treasures and threatened to send Feng Fei to Wuj iang as a live-in son-in-law, prompting her to compromise and promise a public notice.
• Chu Xinghe met Jiang Yunhe of the White Crane Sect at the welcome banquet, then returned to the lodgings intending to leave with Feng Fei and Feng Yuzheng the next morning.
• Jiang Yunhe revealed that he planned to use Wuj iang’s Spirit of Fortune to control Wuj iang through Jiuli and then devour Chu Xinghe’s fortune to raise the White Crane Sect’s standing.
• Jiang Yunhe sent the Spirit of Fortune into Chu Xinghe’s room and began drawing out his fortune, but the flow grew uncontrollably and the Spirit of Fortune would not retreat.
• Chu Xinghe woke, mistook the glowing Spirit of Fortune for a night-light, touched it, and caused it to explode.

Jiang Yunhe tried to steal Chu Xinghe’s fortune, but the Spirit of Fortune shattered and its remaining power entered Feng Fei. The ensuing attack on Chu Xinghe and Feng Fei ended with Jiang Yunhe accidentally impaling himself on Chu Xinghe’s invisible sword.

• Jiang Yunhe used the Spirit of Fortune to draw Chu Xinghe’s fortune, but Chu Xinghe touched it and caused it to explode, leaving Jiang Yunhe gravely injured.
• The shattered Spirit of Fortune’s remaining fortune flowed into Feng Fei, and Jiang Yunhe ordered White Crane Sect disciples to seize Feng Fei and Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe and Feng Fei fought off the attackers; Chu Xinghe advanced to sixth rank and killed a seventh-rank Martial Saint with the invisible White Rainbow sword.
• After the remaining attackers fled, Chu Xinghe approached the wounded Jiang Yunhe, who suddenly tried to stab Feng Fei.
• Jiang Yunhe ran into White Rainbow and died with his own dagger still raised.

Chu Xinghe survived a White Crane Sect ambush, though Jiang Yunhe died after apparently losing his fortune. When the Eye of the Heavenly God exploded at Chu Xinghe’s touch, Wuj iang believed his account and recognized the scale of his fortune; Chu Xinghe then called on Wuj iang to hunt down the surviving attackers.

• Jiang Yunhe attacked Feng Fei and died, leaving Chu Xinghe and Feng Fei bewildered.
• Wuj iang Holy Mother arrived, saw Jiang Yunhe dead, and initially accused Chu Xinghe of killing him.
• Chu Xinghe explained that a glowing orb had exploded when he touched it, and Wuj iang Holy Mother confirmed the Spirit of Fortune’s fragments in his room.
• Chu Xinghe touched the Eye of the Heavenly God, causing the divine artifact to explode and convincing Wuj iang that his fortune surpassed Jiang Yunhe’s.
• Wuj iang concluded that the White Crane Sect had tried to seize Chu Xinghe’s fortune and that Jiang Yunhe had lost his own, then Chu Xinghe used the Haotian Token to order Wuj iang to kill the surviving White Crane Sect members.

After Jiang Yunhe tried to kill Chu Xinghe, the Vast Heaven Sect crushed the White Crane Sect and Wuj iang hunted down its escaped remnants. The Wuj iang Holy Mother proposed using Feng Fei’s fortune to open the Gu God Inheritance and continue his engagement to Jiuli, but Chu Xinghe resolved to spare his senior brother that supposed injustice.

• Gu Mingchao ordered Elder He to attack the White Crane Sect and issued a proclamation explaining its punishment.
• Elder He’s forces razed White Crane Ridge, and the White Crane Sect surrendered Jiang Yuxing, his family, and its resources to prove its innocence.
• The Vast Heaven Sect’s elders judged the White Crane Sect’s submission insufficient, and its three supreme elders and grand elder died that night.
• Cheng Xiaotian told Zheng Yu that a powerful sect had to crush challenges to its authority, while the Wuj iang Holy Mother reported that her experts had killed the White Crane Sect’s escaped remnants.
• The Wuj iang Holy Mother asked Chu Xinghe to help open the Gu God Inheritance and continue Feng Fei’s engagement to Jiuli in exchange for five times the rare treasures.
• Feng Fei agreed to help Wuj iang, and Chu Xinghe resolved not to let his senior brother suffer the engagement.