Recaps

After killing Jiang Yu, He Pingsheng prepared to confront the Qi Kingdom Emperor and traveled to the capital with Jiang Lan. He challenged the emperor above the palace, but an old man appeared and asked whether Jiang Yu's death had not satisfied his vengeance.

• The Qi Emperor ordered the palace formations activated, patrols increased, princes confined, and word sent to the Patriarch as Nascent Soul cultivators fled the capital.
• He Pingsheng enhanced copies of Jiang Yu's axe and seal, then stored them and put more spirit stones into the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• Jiang Lan arrived, saw Jiang Yu's nascent soul, thanked He Pingsheng for avenging her family, and agreed to go with him to the Qi Kingdom Capital.
• He Pingsheng and Jiang Lan teleported near the capital, where Xiao He had guarded their array, then flew to the city and gathered the array materials.
• He Pingsheng confronted the Qi Emperor above the palace and threatened to kill him or his whole family; an old man appeared and asked whether Jiang Yu's death had not ended his hatred.

He Pingsheng confronted the Qi Kingdom patriarch and demanded the Qi Emperor’s death for the kingdom’s past persecution of him and Jiang Lan. After the emperor was killed, Jiang Chen declared Jiang Lan the new empress, leaving her stunned by her unexpected claim to the throne.

• He Pingsheng warned Jiang Chen that he had slain Jiang Yu despite Jiang Yu’s borrowed seventh-layer spirit transformation power, and Jiang Chen chose not to fight him.
• He Pingsheng demanded that the Qi Emperor die for ordering the persecution that had nearly killed him and his wife.
• Jiang Chen opened the palace defenses and brought the Qi Emperor before He Pingsheng, who offered him reincarnation if he took his own life.
• When the Qi Emperor refused to accept responsibility, Jiang Chen killed him, and He Pingsheng declared his grievances with the Qi Kingdom settled while warning the emperor’s sons not to target his people.
• Jiang Chen summoned Jiang Lan and named her empress of the Great Qi Kingdom, leaving her surprised because her father and brothers were dead.

Jiang Lan became empress, and He Pingsheng returned the Qi Kingdom’s Ancient Treasures before turning down her proposal to have an heir with him. After receiving Dingxiang Commandery as his fief, he spotted Patriarch He Asks approaching with extraordinary fortune and realized Tawenian Mountain might contain many hidden Great Fortune Bearers.

• He Pingsheng returned the Qi Kingdom’s axe and black seal to Jiang Lan after her ascension as empress.
• Jiang Lan asked He Pingsheng to have a child with her, but he refused.
• Jiang Lan granted He Pingsheng full authority over Dingxiang Commandery, with an Imperial Family Nascent Soul cultivator serving as city lord under him.
• He Pingsheng traveled to Dingxiang City and used the Heavenly Eye Geomancy True Canon to search for Qiao Huizhu, Xiao Xuan, and Wang Dun, but found no trace of them.
• He Pingsheng saw a strand of immense fortune leave Tawenian Mountain and recognized its bearer as Patriarch He Asks.
• He Pingsheng noticed Tawenian Mountain’s fortune had barely diminished after He Asks left and suspected the Sacred Mountain held many other Great Fortune Bearers.

He Asks invited He Pingsheng to Tawenian Mountain to help reconnect the Cultivation World to the Spirit Realm, and hinted that He Pingsheng’s missing wife and companions were at He Thinks Mountain. He Pingsheng returned to the Great Void Sect, resolved to go to He Thinks Mountain despite suspecting a trap, and began preparing for the journey.

• He Pingsheng met He Asks, explained that he had advanced by swallowing glazed nascent souls, and declined the invitation to live on the Sacred Mountain until he rebuilt his sect.
• He Asks revealed that the passage to the Spirit Realm had been severed and invited He Pingsheng to help restore it through their study of spatial law.
• He Pingsheng asked about Wang Dun, Qiao Huizhu, and Xiao Xuan, and He Asks said he would learn what happened when he reached He Thinks Mountain.
• After He Asks departed, He Pingsheng weighed whether the mountain invitation was a trap and turned his Eight-Treasure Ship toward the Great Void Sect.
• He Pingsheng found the sect nearly empty, returned to his cleaned home, and decided to prepare supplies before heading to He Thinks Mountain.
• He Pingsheng took out the three rings he had obtained from Jiang Yu to begin enhancing them.

He Pingsheng enhanced talismans and divine abilities, gaining powerful techniques for combat, disguise, and escape. He returned to the Great Void Sect, sent Sword Bamboo to retrieve the disciples in Liang Kingdom, and began secluded cultivation on Jade Dragon Peak.

• He Pingsheng searched Jiang Yu's rings for fifth-grade talismans but found fourth-grade talismans and two useful divine abilities instead.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the talismans into Heavenly Fire Condensed Armor, Instantaneous Teleportation, and Transform into Water talismans.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the divine abilities into Wind and Thunder Power, Thunder Shards Gathering the Sun, Stealing Heaven and Replacing the Sun, and Realm of Ten Thousand Flowers.
• He Pingsheng teleported to the Great Void Sect and ordered Sword Bamboo to retrieve Yu Ning, Yuxuan, and the other disciples from the Liang Kingdom's Imperial Capital.
• Sword Bamboo left for Liang Kingdom, and He Pingsheng entered secluded cultivation to master his divine abilities.

After two years of seclusion, He Pingsheng watched Zhao Ling'er, Tian Xiaoqing, and Xu Kunlun form their cores, then traveled to Tawenian Mountain to find Qiao Huizhu, Wang Dun, and Xiao Xuan. He Asks brought him to the Space-Time Origin, where He Pingsheng found them among a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators and was immobilized beneath the origins as He Asks abruptly left.

• He Pingsheng emerged from seclusion with his cultivation unchanged, learned the Great Void Sect had recovered, and prepared to leave for Tawenian Mountain.
• Zhao Ling'er and Tian Xiaoqing survived Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulations, while Xu Kunlun survived a Five-Nine Heavenly Tribulation; He Pingsheng gave them gifts and departed.
• He Pingsheng reached Tawenian Mountain, and He Asks led him through guarded formations to an underground plaza containing the Space-Time Origin.
• He Pingsheng saw Qiao Huizhu, Wang Dun, and Xiao Xuan among roughly a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators comprehending the origins.
• He Asks fixed He Pingsheng in place beneath the origins, claimed it would prevent him from disturbing others, and vanished; He Pingsheng grew suspicious of his haste.

He Pingsheng discovered that He Asks and He Thinks had imprisoned Great Fortune Bearers in a formation to steal their fortune and extend their lives. As Qiao Huizhu lost her memory and Wang Dun warned that the formation would destroy their minds and souls, He Pingsheng remained trapped.

• He Asks and He Thinks celebrated the Sacred Longevity Tree's flowering and planned to use He Pingsheng's fortune to gain another thousand years of life.
• He Pingsheng found that Qiao Huizhu no longer recognized him and was absorbed in contemplating Daoist Law.
• Wang Dun secretly told He Pingsheng that the Sacred Lords had captured Great Fortune Bearers and were draining their fortune through a formation.
• He Pingsheng used the Heavenly Eye Geomancy True Canon to see fortune being siphoned from the people in the formation.
• Wang Dun explained that the formation damaged its captives' minds and souls, then began to warn He Pingsheng about his wife.

He Pingsheng learned that Qiao Huizhu's soul had been damaged by the Spatial Binding and discussed escape with Wang Dun, who had already failed twice. After He Pingsheng tried and failed to break free, he began considering whether combining spatial power with the five elements could create a force strong enough to shatter the binding.

• Wang Dun explained that Qiao Huizhu's soul had partly survived because she practiced the Purple Mansion Nine-Shield Art.
• Wang Dun told He Pingsheng that He Thinks had repeatedly recaptured him after two escape attempts, and that He Asks and He Thinks were exceptionally powerful.
• He Pingsheng revealed that he had killed the Qi Kingdom's Second Patriarch and agreed to escape using an Instantaneous Teleportation Talisman while Wang Dun used the distraction to flee.
• He Pingsheng asked how to take Qiao Huizhu with him, but Wang Dun said he could not break the Spatial Binding unless his mastery of Spatial Daoist Law surpassed He Asks's.
• He Pingsheng tried Space Power of the Laws and Five Elements Unity Force against the binding, then considered combining them into a Pseudo-Six-Element Unity Force.

He Pingsheng escaped He Asks’s underground restraints by combining the Five Elements Unity Force with spatial law, then fled with Qiao Huizhu. He Asks intercepted him, and He Pingsheng’s strongest attack managed only to tear his sleeve.

• He Pingsheng fused spatial law with the Five Elements Unity Force, broke his restraints, freed Qiao Huizhu, knocked her unconscious, and stored her in the Great Freedom Pearl before teleporting away.
• Wang Dun pretended to remain captive while secretly keeping an Instantaneous Teleportation Talisman, and He Asks discovered He Pingsheng had escaped with Qiao Huizhu.
• He Asks pursued He Pingsheng through spatial traces and intercepted him after four teleports, despite He Pingsheng disguising himself and concealing his fortune.
• He Pingsheng used an Earthroot Talisman to break He Asks’s isolated space, then attacked him with Ten Thousand Mountains Flying Snow.
• He Asks emerged unharmed except for a tear in his sleeve and praised He Pingsheng’s power.

He Pingsheng used the Earthroot Talisman to withstand He Asks’s attacks, then escaped He Asks and He Thinks with wind talismans and a series of teleports. He concealed himself as a drop of water in a river, while the two Sacred Lords realized he had escaped and discovered that Wang Dun had too.

• He Asks attacked He Pingsheng with Dragon Imprisonment, a giant sword, and an ancient treasure, but the Earthroot Talisman absorbed each assault.
• He Thinks joined He Asks, and the two Sacred Lords prepared a combined attack using spatial and temporal power.
• He Pingsheng unleashed two Wrath of the Soaring Wind talismans and fled with repeated Instantaneous Teleportations.
• He Pingsheng changed his appearance, concealed his aura and fortune, then used a Transform into Water talisman to enter a river as a drop of water.
• He Asks and He Thinks escaped the whirlwinds and searched the riverbank, but found no trace of He Pingsheng.
• He Thinks realized Wang Dun had escaped, and He Asks hurried back with him.

After drifting down the Great River for two months, He Pingsheng reached Fengdu City and joined True Spirit Valley under the borrowed name Dragon Hibernate. He bribed the recruiting elder to become a nominal disciple and secure a quiet place to cultivate in the Outer Sect.

• He Pingsheng came ashore near Fengdu City, disguised his cultivation as the eighth layer of Qi Refining, and learned that True Spirit Valley was recruiting disciples.
• He bought a map, traveled to True Spirit Valley, and used Stealing Heaven and Replacing the Sun to conceal three spirit roots during the entrance test.
• He Pingsheng passed the test with apparent wood and fire dual spirit roots and gave his name as Dragon Hibernate.
• After the selection, He Pingsheng paid the elder about two hundred spirit stones and asked for a quiet place to cultivate.
• The elder made He Pingsheng his nominal disciple, allowing him to choose a spot in the Outer Sect for a cave abode.

He Pingsheng searched for a pill to repair Qiao Huizhu’s damaged souls, but found none and chose to draw them into the Soul-Nurturing Banner, preserving her body in ice. Grieving and weakened, he returned to his cave and resolved to cultivate so he could eventually take revenge on He Asks and He Thinks.

• Huiyun made He Pingsheng his nominal disciple and gave him a token, which he used to establish a secluded cave dwelling in True Spirit Valley.
• He Pingsheng examined the sect with his divine sense and found two Nascent Soul cultivators and more than twenty Golden Core disciples.
• Inside the Great Freedom Pearl, He Pingsheng searched two alchemical texts for a pill that could heal Qiao Huizhu’s damaged souls but found none.
• He Pingsheng drew Qiao Huizhu’s souls into the Soul-Nurturing Banner and preserved her lifeless body with ten-thousand-year ice marrow and formations.
• After grieving, He Pingsheng returned to his cave and decided to raise his cultivation before seeking revenge on He Asks and He Thinks.

He Pingsheng cultivated for thirteen years and broke through to the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm before traveling to Fengdu City to buy more supplies. At a spirit tea house, he heard rumors that the Sacred Lords of Tawenian Mountain had taken control of him and other Great Fortune Bearers.

• He Pingsheng refined and consumed Dao-Gathering Pills for thirteen years, breaking through the fifth-layer flesh barrier of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• After running low on pills, He Pingsheng went to the Outer Sect Administration Hall and learned that Huiyun had been killed.
• Elder Xie demanded He Pingsheng's Storage Bag, so He Pingsheng handed over an empty one and received a token naming him Elder Xie's nominal disciple.
• He Pingsheng disguised his cultivation and appearance, then flew to Fengdu City to seek supplies.
• At a spirit tea house, He Pingsheng heard rumors that the Sacred Lords of Tawenian Mountain had taken control of him, Wang Dun, and other Great Fortune Bearers.

He Pingsheng heard that Wang Dun had spread damaging rumors about the Sacred Mountain and went to the Nine Hells Commerce Association to buy materials for Dao-Gathering Pills. He offered two supreme-grade pills in exchange, and the Nascent Soul cultivator who had tried to overcharge him recognized their value.

• At a tea house, cultivators discussed accusations that He Asks and He Thinks had stolen lifespan, made geniuses disappear, and damaged the Ascension Passage.
• He Pingsheng deduced that Wang Dun had spread the rumors and suspected they had thrown the Sacred Mountain into chaos.
• He Pingsheng disguised his cultivation as a sixth-layer Golden Core cultivator and asked the Nine Hells Commerce Association for fourth-grade Dao-Gathering Pill materials.
• A first-layer Nascent Soul woman offered two sets of materials but demanded a barter instead of spirit stones.
• He Pingsheng showed her two supreme-grade Dao-Gathering Pills, and she was shocked by their quality.

He Pingsheng refused a greedy trade at the Nine Hells Commerce Association, bought Dao-Gathering Pill materials elsewhere, and set off for True Spirit Valley. The association’s grand elder and True Person Capping Mountain intercepted him and demanded that he lead them to his master, and He Pingsheng prepared to fight them.

• The Nine Hells Commerce Association’s grand elder demanded four pills for two sets of materials, so He Pingsheng ended the negotiation and left.
• He Pingsheng bought two sets of Dao-Gathering Pill materials from the Dragon Spring Commerce Association for eight million low-grade spirit stones.
• He Pingsheng left Fengdu City for True Spirit Valley, but the grand elder intercepted him and asked about his master’s alchemy and cultivation.
• True Person Capping Mountain emerged from concealment and joined the grand elder in demanding that He Pingsheng take them to his master.
• He Pingsheng recognized the pair’s connection to an earlier scheme and threatened to kill them, while True Person Capping Mountain mocked him.

He Pingsheng killed True Person Capping Mountain and a woman who attacked him, then returned to True Spirit Valley and examined their spoils. He enhanced an alchemy text into two supreme-grade works and began wondering about acquired spirit liquids.

• He Pingsheng ignored True Person Capping Mountain’s spatial suppression and killed him with a single strike, capturing his nascent soul.
• He Pingsheng absorbed True Person Capping Mountain’s soul into the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner, where Jiang Yu swallowed it, then revealed his identity to the woman.
• The woman failed to teleport away, but He Pingsheng killed her with Divine Sense Nails, extracted her nascent soul, and burned both bodies.
• He Pingsheng disguised himself as an eleventh-layer Qi Refining Stage disciple, returned to True Spirit Valley, and found his cultivation formation undisturbed.
• He Pingsheng searched the rings and found abundant alchemy materials, rule origins, spirit stones, and jade slips, including the Daoist Canon of Alchemy.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the jade slip into the supreme-grade Supreme Clarity Golden Liquid Scripture and Golden Coffer Concordance, then wondered what acquired spirit liquid was.

He Pingsheng studied recipes for spirit liquids and pills before Wang Dun found him and proposed a way to gain power from the space-time origin. The chapter left He Pingsheng facing a possible path to revenge against He Thinks and He Asks.

• He Pingsheng studied the Supreme Clarity Golden Liquid Scripture and found a fourth-grade spirit liquid recipe, but he lacked two rare ingredients.
• He Pingsheng found the Tenfold Fusion Pill in the Golden Coffer Concordance and learned that refining it required Yellow Springs aura, which he could not obtain until reaching the Spirit Realm.
• He Pingsheng began refining Dao-Gathering Pills when Wang Dun arrived at his mountain cave.
• Wang Dun reassured He Pingsheng that He Thinks and He Asks could not find him, then explained that he had been spreading rumors about them.
• Wang Dun told He Pingsheng that the two old cultivators had used power from the space-time origin in the Ascension Passage and revealed that he knew where the passage was.
• Wang Dun proposed that he and He Pingsheng enter the passage to cultivate with the space-time origin and gain the strength to defeat He Thinks and He Asks.

He Pingsheng and Wang Dun set out for the Heavenly Pole Forbidden Ground to seek the origin of Daoist laws, and He Pingsheng discovered that the forbidden ground also held the mystic yellow heavenly pine he needed. They headed there with the missing chuanbei essence honey and a supply of Mingwu Pills, ready to pursue their separate goals of comprehending Spatial and temporal Daoist laws.

• Wang Dun told He Pingsheng that the origin of Daoist laws lay in the core of the Heavenly Pole Forbidden Ground and gave him a detailed map.
• He Pingsheng spotted a forest of mystic yellow heavenly pines on the map and explained that he needed them, along with chuanbei essence honey, to refine a powerful Spirit Liquid.
• Wang Dun produced a jar of chuanbei essence honey, which he had received as a reward, and agreed to give He Pingsheng some of the finished Spirit Liquid.
• Wang Dun took He Pingsheng aboard his fast Flying Boat, and they flew toward the Heavenly Pole Forbidden Ground.
• Wang Dun explained that he concealed his fortune to evade He Asks, and He Pingsheng confirmed that Wang Dun’s fortune appeared completely hidden.
• Wang Dun and He Pingsheng agreed to seek temporal and Spatial Daoist laws respectively, and He Pingsheng supplied five bottles of supreme-grade Mingwu Pills.

He Pingsheng left Wang Dun to plant the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner in the Ghost Abyss, then encountered the badly injured True Spirit Valley patriarch, Murong Xianxian. After learning that her Nascent Soul was cracked, he began preparing to refine Dao-Healing Pills for her.

• He Pingsheng and Wang Dun entered the Heavenly Pole Forbidden Ground and agreed to meet at Falling Blossoms Mountain after half a day.
• He Pingsheng went to the Ghost Abyss and left the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner there so its ghost could absorb the surrounding yin energy.
• As He Pingsheng left the Ghost Abyss, the injured Murong Xianxian fell into him and warned him that enemies of True Spirit Valley were nearby.
• Murong Xianxian gave He Pingsheng her sect's legacy ring and urged him to escape, but he examined her injuries and refused to leave her behind.
• He Pingsheng told Murong Xianxian he had ingredients for Dao-Healing Pills and brought out his cauldron to refine them.

He Pingsheng saved the gravely wounded Murong Xianxian, drove off Meng Zhiliang without killing him, and healed her before leaving the Heavenly Pole Forbidden Ground. He later met Wang Dun on Falling Blossoms Mountain, where Wang Dun showed him the corpse of a giant ape.

• He Pingsheng refined pills while Murong Xianxian watched, then told her he was Dragon Hibernate.
• Meng Zhiliang arrived and challenged He Pingsheng, but fled after He Pingsheng displayed sixteen glazed nascent souls.
• He Pingsheng gave Murong Xianxian a Dao-Healing Pill and Icefield Divine Dew, restoring her nascent soul and dantian.
• Murong Xianxian mistook He Pingsheng for a spirit transformation stage immortal and left the Heavenly Pole Forbidden Ground.
• He Pingsheng reached Falling Blossoms Mountain and found Wang Dun beside the corpse of a giant ape.

He Pingsheng and Wang Dun headed for the Mystic Yellow Heavenly Pine Forest, but Yuan Gang, an eighth-layer Spirit Transformation divine ape, ambushed them to avenge his daughter. The chapter ended as Yuan Gang attacked He Pingsheng with his Dragon-Imprisonment Club.

• Wang Dun told He Pingsheng that the Giant Mountain Purple Ape they had fought was a Demigod Stage beast, then set their course for the Mystic Yellow Heavenly Pine Forest.
• Yuan Gang launched a surprise attack that locked space and drove He Pingsheng and Wang Dun's flying boat into the ground, but He Pingsheng's turtle-shell treasure shielded them.
• He Pingsheng used the Heavenly Eye Geomancy True Canon to discover that Yuan Gang had reached the eighth layer of Spirit Transformation.
• Yuan Gang revealed that He Pingsheng and Wang Dun had killed his daughter, the Giant Mountain Purple Ape, and vowed to kill them in revenge.
• Yuan Gang transformed into a thirty-zhang divine ape and attacked both men; after they blocked his punches with defensive treasures, he raised the Dragon-Imprisonment Club and swung it at He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng and Wang Dun teamed up against Yuan Gang, an eighth-layer Spirit Transformation divine ape, and battered him with coordinated attacks. The chapter ended with He Pingsheng sending seven Divine Sense Nails into Yuan Gang’s sea of consciousness.

• He Pingsheng and Wang Dun combined their attacks, but Yuan Gang endured them and knocked both men away.
• He Pingsheng used Thunder Shards Gathering the Sun to blast a bloody hole in Yuan Gang’s back, then survived the ape’s counterattack with his Turtle Shell and armor.
• Wang Dun distracted Yuan Gang while He Pingsheng struck with his Wind-Thunder Mountain-Splitting Axe, empowered by Heavenly Gang Three Transformations.
• Wang Dun pierced Yuan Gang as the ape and He Pingsheng’s attacks clashed, and He Pingsheng followed with seven Formless Big Dipper Nails aimed at Yuan Gang’s sea of consciousness.

He Pingsheng and Wang Dun killed Yuan Gang, a Spirit Transformation Stage Giant Ape, and divided his spoils before traveling to a Heavenly Pine Forest. He Pingsheng entered its poisonous mist to gather amber, collecting more than a dozen pieces while fending off moth demons.

• He Pingsheng's Divine Sense strike stunned Yuan Gang, allowing Wang Dun to destroy the Giant Ape's dantian and spirit root and extract his glazed nascent soul.
• He Pingsheng and Wang Dun escaped aboard the Flying Boat and agreed they would have to kill the two Sacred Lords, He Asks and He Thinks.
• Wang Dun took Yuan Gang's Iron Staff, ring, and glazed nascent soul, while He Pingsheng claimed the Giant Ape's hide, fur, flesh, and blood.
• Wang Dun brought He Pingsheng to a mystic yellow heavenly pine forest and stayed behind as He Pingsheng entered its poisonous, Divine Sense-blocking mist.
• He Pingsheng used the Heavenly Eye Geomancy True Canon to see through the mist, gathered amber, and defended himself from attacking moth demons with the Blood-Colored Turtle Shell.

He Pingsheng refined Heavenly Pine Mystic Yellow Dew and used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance it into supreme-grade spirit liquid that could store immense spiritual power. He gave Wang Dun two bottles and a powerful talisman, but they decided to seek the Rule Origin before confronting He Asks and He Thinks.

• He Pingsheng set up a Divine-Sense Sealing Formation, studied the recipe, and refined two batches of low-grade Heavenly Pine Mystic Yellow Dew.
• The Treasure-Gathering Basin doubled the spirit liquid and enhanced it to supreme grade, whose properties let a single drop refill a Nascent Soul cultivator's dantian and let multiple drops store power for later use.
• He Pingsheng drank half a bottle and confirmed that the spirit liquid's power remained stored in his five dantian.
• He Pingsheng gave Wang Dun two bottles, and Wang Dun tested the purple liquid and discovered it was supreme-grade Heavenly Pine Mystic Yellow Dew.
• Wang Dun proposed returning to fight He Asks and He Thinks, but He Pingsheng insisted they first investigate the Rule Origin.
• He Pingsheng gave Wang Dun a supreme-grade Yin-Reversing Yang-Transforming Immortal Talisman, saying it had been passed down from ancient times and given to him by his wife.

He Pingsheng and Wang Dun reached a valley in the Heavenly Pole Forbidden Ground, where a tree demon guarding the way attacked them. They escaped its wooden cage with fire, but the demon revealed a greater technique and opened the Heaven and Earth Great Furnace.

• He Pingsheng used the Heavenly Eye Geomancy True Canon to guide Wang Dun safely through the law traps toward the forbidden ground's core.
• He Pingsheng and Wang Dun found a dead tree in a barren valley, where crimson writing warned them not to pass.
• The tree revealed that it guarded the forbidden ground's core on the Sacred Lord's orders and threatened to kill them if they stayed.
• Wang Dun refused to leave, and the tree used its laws to fill the valley with roots, branches, and thorn vines that trapped both cultivators.
• He Pingsheng and Wang Dun burned through the wooden cage with their fire techniques, but the tree declared that wood fed fire and opened the Heaven and Earth Great Furnace.