Recaps

He Pingsheng fought Tian Yao’s aunt, a first-layer void refinement expert, but his talismans and defenses could not overcome her. He remained badly outmatched and was left searching for a way to survive.

• Tian Yao’s aunt shattered most of He Pingsheng’s first Nine-Heavens Thunder Spear and tore her sleeve while destroying its remaining power.
• He Pingsheng unleashed nine more thunder spear talismans and used Instantaneous Teleportation to flee.
• Tian Yao’s aunt destroyed the nine spears, pursued He Pingsheng through successive teleports, and failed to penetrate his sea of consciousness with two divine sense attacks.
• Tian Yao’s aunt struck He Pingsheng with her Soft Whip, cutting his chest and sending him flying.
• He Pingsheng used his Turtle Shell to block a second lash, but the attack shattered its defenses and left him unable to see how he could fight back.

He Pingsheng fought the Black-Clad Woman and returned to Skywave Lake, where he attempted to kill Tian Yao before being struck down by a Void Refinement woman. The woman realized He Pingsheng might still be alive when his treasures vanished.

• He Pingsheng refused to hand over his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark and used Nine-Heavens Thunder Spears to escape toward Skywave Lake.
• He Pingsheng found Tian Yao guarded by a Black-Clad Woman and confronted her over her demand that he become her servant.
• He Pingsheng used his remaining thunder spears to distract the Void Refinement woman, then killed her Spirit Transformation avatar with his strongest attack.
• The Void Refinement woman shielded Tian Yao and destroyed He Pingsheng's body with black sword qi.
• The Void Refinement woman noticed He Pingsheng's treasures had disappeared and concluded that he might not be dead.

He Pingsheng escaped the Black-Clad Woman by using the Yin-Reversing Yang-Transforming Immortal Talisman, then recovered in a distant valley. After learning more about avatars and higher cultivation realms, he disguised himself and headed toward the Divine Crane City to find out where he was.

• The Black-Clad Woman realized He Pingsheng had survived and feared that he would seek revenge, while Tian Yao trusted in his father's strength.
• He Pingsheng reappeared in a distant valley with all his belongings and explained that the Yin-Reversing Yang-Transforming Immortal Talisman had reborn him after death.
• He Pingsheng considered how Void Refinement cultivators used avatars and how avatars could help cultivators reach Body Integration.
• He Pingsheng changed his appearance and aura, flew to a small cultivation city, and learned that it lay in the Divine Crane Royal Clan's territory near Divine Crane City.

He Pingsheng reached Divine Crane City and traded a supreme-grade Divine-Breaking Pill for a nine-gold yang-transforming fruit at the Heavenly Feather Commerce Association. He learned that six-bath clear dew was unavailable there and asked about rootless grass, which might grow elsewhere in the Divine Crane clan's territory.

• He Pingsheng used the Eight-Treasure Ship to reach Divine Crane City after the Yin-Reversing Yang-Transforming Immortal Talisman sent him into the Divine Crane clan's territory.
• He Pingsheng visited the Heavenly Feather Commerce Association under the assumed name Dragon Hibernate and asked about nine-gold yang-transforming fruit.
• Elder Divine Deer recognized He Pingsheng's supreme-grade Divine-Breaking Pill and agreed to exchange it for one nine-gold yang-transforming fruit.
• He Pingsheng inspected the fruit, accepted it, and asked Elder Divine Deer for leads on six-bath clear dew.
• Elder Divine Deer said six-bath clear dew had not appeared at the association in over forty years, and He Pingsheng asked whether it had rootless grass.

He Pingsheng learned that the Divine Crane Tribe wanted him to refine supreme-grade Transformation Pills for Crown Prince Tianyu, but he refused to avoid the danger of being forced to serve the Demon Race. He bought a comprehensive map of the Divine Crane Royal Clan's territory and prepared to search elsewhere for rootless grass.

• Elder Divine Deer asked whether He Pingsheng had personally refined the supreme-grade Divine-Breaking Pill and offered him a chance to win the Golden-Winged Divine King's favor.
• Elder Divine Deer explained that Crown Prince Tianyu had reached the Spirit Transformation Stage without assuming human form, even after taking a high-grade fifth-grade Transformation Pill.
• He Pingsheng realized that Elder Divine Deer wanted him to make supreme-grade Transformation Pills, but claimed he could not refine fifth-grade pills because he was only a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• He Pingsheng refused to risk attracting the Golden-Winged Divine King's attention and asked Elder Divine Deer to sell him rootless grass, but the commerce association had none.
• He Pingsheng bought a comprehensive map of the Divine Crane Royal Clan's territory and learned that the association had no map of the entire Heavenly Fire Continent.

He Pingsheng traveled to the Nine Hells Abyss to seek rootless grass and learned that its Wind-Suppressing Pearl was a Buddhist artifact whose power had weakened over time. After the pearl stopped working and hurricanes swept across the entrance, he decided to wait four days before entering.

• He Pingsheng received a map from Elder Divine Deer and reached the city surrounding the Nine Hells Abyss.
• He Pingsheng examined the abyss and asked a red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator about the Wind-Suppressing Pearl.
• The cultivator explained that the Buddhist Path Golden Pearl suppressed the hurricanes for three days before needing four days to recover.
• The Wind-Suppressing Pearl stopped working, and hurricanes spread around the entrance and into the city.
• He Pingsheng backed away and decided to wait four days before entering the abyss.

He Pingsheng visited a spirit tea house near the Nine Hells Abyss and discovered that its proprietress’s zither music and beauty could affect people’s senses. After she struck him twice with sound waves, she ordered him back inside, leaving him wary of her overwhelming power.

• He Pingsheng joined a red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator at the tea house, where they paid ten thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones each for spirit tea.
• The red-robed cultivator explained that the patrons came to see the proprietress, who soon appeared and played the zither.
• He Pingsheng sensed that the proprietress’s beauty and music were affecting his perceptions, so he sealed off half his six senses and examined her with Divine Sense.
• The proprietress rebuked He Pingsheng for probing her and struck him with two sound waves, the second blasting him through a window without seriously injuring him.
• He Pingsheng tried to leave, but the proprietress ordered him back inside to sit and listen, while the other patrons remained unaware of what had happened.

After hearing how difficult it was to obtain fifth-grade rootless grass, He Pingsheng left the Spirit Tea House and met Golden Mouse, who offered to trade him three fourth-grade plants. He Pingsheng confirmed the grass was real, but still had no fifth-grade rootless grass.

• Hong Luo recognized He Pingsheng beneath his disguise, called him Young Master Dragon, and invited him to hear her play again.
• He Pingsheng learned that fifth-grade rootless grass drifted away from approaching people and was extremely difficult to find in the Nine Hells Abyss.
• He Pingsheng left the Spirit Tea House intending to search the abyss himself before considering a trade.
• Golden Mouse revealed that he was a treasure-seeking Golden Mouse Tribe member and offered He Pingsheng three fourth-grade rootless grass plants.
• He Pingsheng scanned for accomplices and used his divine sense to confirm the jade box contained three fourth-grade plants.

He Pingsheng followed Golden Mouse to meet his master and trade for fifth-grade Rootless Grass. After discovering the old man was an eighth-layer Spirit Transformation cultivator pretending to be a Nascent Soul cultivator, He Pingsheng offered his supreme-grade Earthroot Talisman, leaving the trade unresolved.

• Golden Mouse told He Pingsheng that his master had six stalks of fifth-grade Rootless Grass and invited him to negotiate.
• He Pingsheng prepared with Heavenly Pine Mystic Yellow Dew and the Earthroot Talisman, then followed Golden Mouse to the cave beyond Measure Mountain.
• He Pingsheng sensed that Golden Mouse's master had eighth-layer Spirit Transformation cultivation, but entered the cave and met him anyway.
• The old man pretended to be a twelfth-layer Nascent Soul cultivator and asked He Pingsheng to name his price for the Rootless Grass.
• He Pingsheng offered ten drops of Heavenly Pine Mystic Yellow Dew, then presented his supreme-grade fifth-grade Earthroot Talisman as his trump card.