Chapter Summaries

Ma Liang fused with the Samsara Divinity Seed, gaining the potential to wield the power of life, death, and reincarnation, while Chu Xinghe accepted that his junior had received the reward for their efforts. After the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders praised Chu Xinghe’s planning, Gu Mingchao tried to take Ma Liang as his disciple but instead demoted him to the sect’s only permanent low-ranking outer sect disciple.

• The Samsara Divinity Seed fused with Ma Liang, making wandering spirits kneel and giving him the potential to grow into a Main God.
• Ma Liang vowed to devote himself to assisting Chu Xinghe, who privately complained that his junior’s help had often undermined him.
• The White Tiger Holy Venerable realized Chu Xinghe had kept the Spirit-Reversing Samsara Grand Formation open to gather the souls’ convictions and summon the Divinity Seed.
• Gu Mingchao praised Chu Xinghe’s handling of the crisis and offered to take Ma Liang as his second personal disciple.
• The elders objected that Gu Mingchao could not make Ma Liang his disciple while serving as Holy Lord, so Gu Mingchao demoted Ma Liang for allegedly slacking off.

Ma Liang’s Samsara Divinity Seed made the Evil Lords despair over how easily Chu Xinghe’s side obtained Divinity. The Earth Sha Evil Lord proposed shifting the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s fortune-gathering earth veins to the Evil Shadow Continent, and the chapter ended with him reminding the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord to use the Heavenly Secrets Secret Art to check whether the plan would succeed.

• Ma Liang became the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s second personal disciple and gained a Divinity Seed, while Bai Yu and others struggled to accept Chu Xinghe’s unexpected success.
• The Evil Lords gathered at the Earth Sha Evil Lord’s place, where the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord suggested surrendering and the White Spirit Evil Lord rebuked him.
• The Earth Sha Evil Lord argued that Vast Heaven’s good fortune came from its location and earth veins, which he had investigated during a tour of the Holy Land.
• The Earth Sha Evil Lord proposed redirecting the earth veins that affected Vast Heaven’s fortune to the Evil Shadow Continent.
• When the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord worried that Vast Heaven would discover the plan, the Earth Sha Evil Lord reminded him to use the Heavenly Secrets Secret Art to divine its outcome.

The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord divined twice that Vast Heaven Holy Land would face calamity while the Evil Shadow Continent enjoyed great fortune, prompting the Evil Lords to prepare their attack on the Holy Land’s earth vein. Meanwhile, Ma Liang’s new Samsara Divinity Seed made his specters nearly impossible to counter, but Chu Xinghe’s Evil Repeller still overwhelmed them because it countered evil beings rather than death.

• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord used his secret art to divine that Vast Heaven Holy Land faced great calamity and the Evil Shadow Continent enjoyed great fortune.
• At the White Spirit Evil Lord’s urging, the Evil Lords pooled resources for a second divination, which produced the same result, and they agreed to support the Earth Sha Evil Lord’s plan to seize Vast Heaven Holy Land’s earth vein.
• News spread that Ma Liang had obtained a Divinity Seed, and his Gate of Reincarnation allowed him to reverse his specters’ life-and-death attributes and overcome the White Tiger Holy Venerable’s countering formations.
• Ma Liang tried to demonstrate his new power to Chu Xinghe, but his specters remained terrified of Evil Repeller even after their attributes were reversed.
• Elder He explained that Evil Repeller countered evil beings, not death, so it could still suppress Ma Liang’s specters regardless of their altered attributes.

Elder He explained that Chu Xinghe's Evil Repeller countered every form of evil, and Ma Liang confirmed its power through tests. After the Great Liang Kingdom affair, the Grand Elder disciplined the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce's leaders and ordered a sweeping reshuffle to prevent another breach.

• Elder He explained why Ma Liang's ghosts feared Chu Xinghe's Evil Repeller, and Ma Liang tested it against other forms of evil.
• The Grand Elder sent Xu Wen to the ancestral mausoleum to clean for the rest of his life and summoned the Chamber of Commerce's senior members.
• The Grand Elder reprimanded Qin Xiangqian for failing to secure the Chamber of Commerce and told the leaders to investigate it from top to bottom.
• Shen Chun spoke with the Grand Elder, who explained that Lu Feng's claim to be Xu Wen's man showed he had forgotten his duty to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Grand Elder initiated a major reshuffle throughout the Vast Heaven Holy Land as the New Year approached.

As the New Year approached, Ma Liang considered Yue Ling’s future while keeping the truth about her father from her, and the Vast Heaven Holy Land investigated its outside businesses after the Chamber of Commerce scandal. Wang Tieniu returned from his mining work and declared that he listened only to Chu Xinghe, even if the Grand Elder punished him.

• Ma Liang’s fellow disciples teased him about Yue Ling, and he explained that he liked her but wanted any relationship to develop naturally.
• Ma Liang recalled Elder He’s advice that Yue Ling’s Extreme Yin Soul could help strengthen his wraiths if they became Dao companions.
• Yue Ling ruled the Great Liang Kingdom without opposition and said she would join the Vast Heaven Holy Land after an alchemist awakened her father, Zhao Su.
• Ma Liang knew Zhao Su’s soul had already perished, but withheld the truth from Yue Ling because he wanted to give her time to prepare.
• After the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce scandal, the Grand Elder ordered inspections of the Holy Land’s businesses, and three deacons were demoted.
• Wang Tieniu returned with news of his mines and disciples, then told Shen Chun that he listened only to Chu Xinghe, regardless of the Grand Elder’s punishment.

The Grand Elder’s investigation found few serious problems in the Vast Heaven Holy Land, while Chu Xinghe enjoyed a quiet holiday. Lu Chengqing then told him that Black Sha had demanded a permanent contract giving the Chamber of Commerce ninety percent of his storytelling revenue, threatening to take poison and kill himself if Lu refused, and Lu had signed it.

• The Grand Elder found that the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s generous benefits had discouraged most wrongdoing and expelled the few managers who abused their authority.
• Chu Xinghe enjoyed his holiday while the Holy Land’s stewards and managers investigated their own businesses.
• Lu Chengqing visited Chu Xinghe and explained that Black Sha wanted a permanent affiliation with the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Lu Chengqing told Chu Xinghe that Black Sha insisted on giving the Chamber ninety percent of his storytelling revenue and threatened to take poison and kill himself if Lu refused.
• Lu Chengqing admitted that he had signed Black Sha’s contract, leaving Chu Xinghe stunned.

Black Sha signed an unusually generous contract with the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce to protect himself after pursuing Chu Xinghe, and his storytelling career flourished. Chu Xinghe tried to steady himself after hearing Lu Chengqing’s report, but a visit to Chu Cheng left him feeling outmatched.

• Black Sha publicized his permanent contract with the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce, which gave it ninety percent of his earnings, and insisted he had signed willingly.
• Black Sha reasoned that joining the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce would protect him from the consequences of pursuing Chu Xinghe, and he quickly earned wealth and endorsement offers as a storyteller.
• Lu Chengqing told Chu Xinghe that Black Sha’s work was bringing in resources, and Chu Xinghe resented the contract but accepted that it could not be broken.
• Chu Xinghe went to visit Chu Cheng in the outer sect and heard him boast that Chu Xinghe would always be second to him.
• Chu Xinghe hung his head in shame and admitted to himself that he could not compare to Chu Cheng.

Chu Xinghe tried to spare Chu Cheng another New Year beating by voting for himself as the most hated person, then asked Shen Chun to ensure Chu Youcai was cared for in Kaoshan Village. Ma Liang stopped Shen Chun’s arrangements, insisting he had misunderstood Chu Xinghe’s meaning.

• Chu Cheng cast his vote for Chu Xinghe as the most hated person, while Chu Xinghe voted for himself so Chu Cheng would not stand out as the sole voter against him.
• Chu Xinghe asked Shen Chun to help care for Chu Youcai, Chu Cheng’s father, over the New Year.
• Shen Chun hurried to arrange for someone to visit Kaoshan Village and check Chu Youcai’s injuries.
• Ma Liang told Shen Chun he was confused and offered to explain what Chu Xinghe had really meant.

Ma Liang corrected Shen Chun’s interpretation of Chu Xinghe’s order to “take care” of Chu Youcai, and they went to Kaoshan Village to beat him until he could only lie on his stomach. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman in black battered Chu Cheng and tore up his New Year voting ballot.

• Ma Liang convinced Shen Chun that Chu Xinghe meant for Chu Youcai to be beaten again, not given medicine, and offered to accompany him to Kaoshan Village.
• Ma Liang and Shen Chun heard Chu Youcai boasting and cursing from inside his home, then entered and beat him until he could no longer lie on his back.
• A dark figure slipped into the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s outer sect and attacked Chu Cheng with a spiked club.
• The woman in black found Chu Cheng’s New Year voting ballot and tore it up.

At Vast Heaven Holy Land’s New Year gathering, disciples received their annual awards, including a unanimous popularity award for Chu Xinghe and a best newcomer award for Man Sheng. Gui Li refused the most hardworking disciple award, and the final vote revealed Chu Xinghe had cast the only vote against himself for most hated disciple.

• The Civil Engineering Department celebrated the resources spent on the Spirit-Reversing Samsara Grand Formation while Gui Li drank and lamented that everyone else worked too little.
• Ma Liang announced Chu Xinghe as the most popular disciple by unanimous vote, leaving Chu Xinghe and Ma Liang puzzled about Chu Cheng’s ballot.
• Man Sheng accepted the best newcomer award, praised the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits, and promised Chu Xinghe a surprise next year.
• Gui Li refused the most hardworking disciple award, criticizing his own work ethic, so Huang Ritian accepted it for him.
• Ma Liang announced Chu Cheng as the most hated disciple, but the tally showed one vote for Chu Xinghe and all the rest for Chu Cheng.
• Chu Xinghe wondered why he had received only one vote instead of two, since he had expected to vote for himself as well as receive Chu Cheng’s vote.

Chu Xinghe tried to prove that he had cast the lone vote against himself, but the First Elder blamed Chu Cheng and ordered Liu Bo to fetch him. Chu Cheng arrived wrapped in bandages and admitted he had voted for Chu Xinghe, leaving Xinghe unable to defend him.

• Chu Xinghe and Liu Bo were baffled that only one ballot named Xinghe as the most hated person, despite Chu Cheng having cast a vote before his ballot was torn up.
• The First Elder punished Huang Ritian by adding a hundred years to his confinement, then ordered Liu Bo to take Chu Cheng away for his vote.
• Chu Xinghe tried to shield Chu Cheng, insisting the surviving ballot was his own and did not bear Chu Cheng’s real-name signature.
• The White Tiger Holy Venerable suggested asking Chu Cheng directly, and Liu Bo brought him over from the outer sect on a bed.
• Chu Cheng openly admitted that he had voted for Chu Xinghe as the person he hated most, leaving Xinghe convinced he could not save him.

Chu Xinghe tried to protect Chu Cheng from punishment, but Chu Cheng proudly admitted to voting against him, and Chu Youcai was also beaten despite Chu Xinghe asking Shen Chun to look after him. Meanwhile, the Evil Lords began using the Earth Vein Grand Formation to connect their earth veins to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, while Chu Xinghe unknowingly helped keep Gui Li from noticing the danger.

• Chu Cheng admitted that he had voted for Chu Xinghe as the person he hated most, so the Grand Elder ordered Liu Bo to take him back to the outer sect for punishment.
• The Grand Elder extended Huang Ritian's confinement by a hundred years after Huang Ritian tried to calm him down.
• Shen Chun and Ma Liang told Chu Xinghe that they had beaten Chu Youcai and turned him onto his stomach, while a memory crystal played Chu Youcai cursing the Grand Elder.
• The Earth Sha Evil Lord activated the Earth Vein Grand Formation with help from the other Evil Lords, linking the earth veins beneath the Evil Shadow Continent and the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department disciples force-fed Gui Li wine, and Chu Xinghe supplied divine-grade sobering pills to keep him drinking.
• When Gui Li's Evil God Mask flickered in response to the shifting earth veins, Chu Xinghe put it in a box and assured everyone that everything was under control.

The Earth Sha Evil Lord successfully exchanged Vast Heaven Holy Land’s earth veins with those of the Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division, and the Evil Lords celebrated their expected gains. Their celebration turned to alarm when a vast Dead Spirit Realm emerged from the exchanged earth veins, leaving the Earth Sha Evil Lord unable to explain its presence.

• Chu Xinghe ordered the Evil God Mask packed into a box and thrown into a ditch so it would not disturb the gathering.
• The Earth Sha Evil Lord activated the Earth Sha Grand Formation and exchanged Vast Heaven Holy Land’s earth veins with those of the Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division.
• The Evil Lords celebrated the powerful earth veins and reminded the Earth Sha Evil Lord that their Heavenly Dao Contract required him to share the benefits.
• A black well erupted from the ground at the center of the Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division, releasing wails and countless spirit lights.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord recognized the well as a Dead Spirit Realm, and the Earth Sha Evil Lord turned to the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord for an explanation.

The Evil Lords discovered that the Dead Spirit Realm had opened after the earth-vein exchange, and the Earth Sha Evil Lord tried to contain it with a formation. The Earth Sha Evil Lord’s borrowed earth veins proved too weak, leaving the Shadow Ghosts’ escape imminent and revealing that the Heavenly Dao’s blessing—not the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s earth veins—had kept the realm suppressed.

• The Earth Sha Evil Lord confirmed that he had exchanged the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s earth veins, while the Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord offered a belated explanation that the veins brought misfortune.
• The Phantom Evil Lord accused the other Evil Lords of leaking their plans to Chu Xinghe, stirring suspicion among them.
• The Earth Sha Evil Lord ordered the Evil Spirits and the other Evil Lords to form the Juling Soul-Locking Formation and stop Shadow Ghosts from escaping the Dead Spirit Realm.
• The Earth Sha Evil Lord drew on the surrounding earth veins, but their power proved weak and some began to shatter before the formation could seal the realm.
• The chapter revealed that the Dead Spirit Realm had long been hidden beneath the Haotian Mountain Range and held down by the Heavenly Dao’s blessing, which the earth-vein exchange had removed.

The Earth Sha Evil Lord sealed the Dead Spirit Realm by pouring resources into the fragile earth veins he had taken from the Vast Heaven Holy Land, while the other Evil Lords refused to help. After a night of drinking, Ma Liang discovered spirit stones pouring out of the ground throughout the Vast Heaven Holy Land and rushed to tell Chu Xinghe.

• The Earth Sha Evil Lord stabilized the Juling Soul-Locking Formation with the Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division's resources, but the fragile earth veins soon began consuming more resources again.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord, White Spirit Evil Lord, Phantom Evil Lord, and the other Evil Lords used their contract's wording to avoid helping the Earth Sha Evil Lord and left for soup.
• Chu Xinghe woke with a hangover and asked Ma Liang whether Junior Brother Gui Li was still unconscious; Ma Liang said Gui Li had already gotten up.
• Ma Liang inspected the Azure Wood Palace and Thunder Palace, found spirit stones scattered everywhere, and punished their disciples for littering them.
• Ma Liang inspected the rest of the Vast Heaven Holy Land and realized spirit stones were gushing out of the ground, then hurried to tell Chu Xinghe something big had happened.

After a night of drinking, Chu Xinghe discovered that spirit stones were sprouting throughout Vast Heaven Holy Land and the Haotian Mountain Range. The crisis grew stranger when the spirit fields produced extinct heavenly treasures, leaving Chu Xinghe and the gathered elders stunned.

• Ma Liang reported that spirit stones were emerging across every palace, and the news jolted Gui Li awake from his drunken stupor.
• Chu Xinghe followed Ma Liang to investigate and found spirit stones covering Spirit Crane Palace, while Little Bear King reported that they were appearing across the Haotian Mountain Range.
• Little Bear King ordered the Bear Clan to guard the stones and warned others not to take anything from Vast Heaven Holy Land's territory.
• The palace elders gathered at Spirit Crane Palace and reported that spirit stones kept regrowing faster than their disciples could harvest them.
• Mu Bai told Chu Xinghe that heavenly treasures had appeared in Spirit Crane Palace's spirit fields, and Chu Xinghe recognized them as extinct varieties from past eras.

The Vast Heaven Holy Land discovered spirit fields filled with nearly every extinct medicinal plant, a breakthrough made possible by the Muyue Kingdom’s cultivation expertise. The first elder celebrated the find as a new age for alchemy, while Chu Xinghe wondered how the plants had all appeared.

• The chapter explained that the Muyue Kingdom had transformed alchemy by making it possible to cultivate medicinal plants that had once been impossible to replace.
• The first elder cautiously entered the spirit fields and asked Mu Bai whether the extinct herbs could be cultivated.
• Mu Bai summoned his companions, and Mu Xiaoqi assessed soul-returning grass, saying it could yield two harvests a year at most and was less productive than wheat.
• The Muyue Kingdom disciples counted 1,966 kinds of extinct medicinal plants in the fields, leaving the first elder overwhelmed with excitement.
• Chu Xinghe questioned why the count exceeded the roughly 1,820 recorded extinct herbs, and Elder He explained that the larger total included unrecorded plants and that the tasteless flower had vanished sixteen years earlier.

Mu Xiaoqi identified the cultivation prospects of the 1,966 revived spiritual herbs, while Elder He explained that shifting earth veins had restored the hidden seeds and roots. The Vast Heaven Holy Land celebrated its blessings as Chu Xinghe protested being credited, and Ma Liang discovered that Haotian Palace alone had gained no resources.

• Mu Xiaoqi assessed the cultivation difficulty and likely yields of the revived spiritual herbs, astonishing the gathered figures.
• Gui Li reported that the Evil God Mask had warned of changes to the Holy Land’s earth veins, and Huang Ritian played a memory crystal showing Chu Xinghe claiming the situation was under his control.
• Gu Mingchao stopped the others from pressing Chu Xinghe, while Mu Bai asked how the extinct herbs had appeared.
• Elder He explained that earth-vein changes had revived seeds and roots thought extinct, and the crowd began chanting that both heaven and earth blessed Vast Heaven.
• Ma Liang counted the new resources and found that Haotian Palace alone had received no spirit stones or other changes.

The Vast Heaven Holy Land’s elders investigated why Haotian Palace had produced no resources, and their suspicions turned toward Gu Mingchao when the Haotian Mirror’s top-up rankings exposed a suspicious new account. Gu Mingchao denied any connection and instead demoted Ma Liang, leaving the elders without an explanation.

• Ma Liang organized a resource count and discovered that Haotian Palace alone had gained no new resources despite its dense Spiritual Qi.
• Elder He questioned Ji Ya and Gu Mingchao, then tried using his half Fate Divinity on Gu Mingchao but detected nothing.
• Gu Mingchao flew into a rage and ordered Chu Xinghe to move into Haotian Palace to investigate.
• Ma Liang showed the Haotian Mirror rankings, where Cheng Xiaotian, Shameless Brat, Kneel Down and Speak had taken first place from Gu Mingchao Is My Defeated Foe.
• Gu Mingchao denied knowing anything about Cheng Xiaotian, then demoted Ma Liang to a non-staff outer-sect disciple for entering Haotian Palace.

Gu Mingchao’s recharge scheme was exposed, and Ji Ya seized the resources he had taken from Haotian Palace while Chu Xinghe received only a tiny Misfortune Compass reward. As the Civil Engineering Department resumed work and the Earth Sha Evil Lord’s allies dodged his summons, the story left the Evil Lords arguing over who would suppress the Dead Spirit Realm.

• The Grand Elder explained that Gu Mingchao had taken Haotian Palace’s newly grown resources and used them to recharge an alternate Haotian Mirror account, so Ji Ya confiscated his spatial ring and gave the resources to the Grand Elder.
• The Grand Elder refunded some of Cheng Xiaotian’s recharges, leaving Chu Xinghe with a small Misfortune Compass reward; Gu Mingchao defended his actions and went into seclusion, while the hall masters agreed to keep the incident secret.
• Chu Xinghe celebrated that he had gained something from the Misfortune Compass, but the Civil Engineering Department’s disciples lamented that his resources had ruined their hopes for a New Year’s holiday, and Gui Li eagerly set them back to work.
• The Earth Sha Evil Lord contacted the other Evil Lords for help suppressing the Dead Spirit Realm, but each claimed to be busy or went into seclusion, leaving him to question why the task had fallen to his faction alone.