Recaps

He Pingsheng escaped the authorities, found Qiao Huizhu, and obtained the Divine Spear while evading the Qi Kingdom’s pursuit. As Qiao Huizhu sacrificed her cultivation and appearance to hide them, they sought shelter with Uncle Cheng and his granddaughter.

• He Pingsheng fled into Divine General Mountain, found Qiao Huizhu, and warned her to leave before investigators uncovered their connection.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu defeated Beast Taming Immortal Sect cultivators, then parted from their allies and agreed to meet near Mount Li.
• Jinlan led He Pingsheng to the mountain’s summit, where he entered the barrier, endured the spear’s trials, and claimed the Spear Intent Crystal and Divine Spear.
• Jinlan revealed that she was Jiang Lan, a princess of the Great Qi Imperial Family, and asked He Pingsheng to help restore her branch of the family.
• He Pingsheng escaped the detained cultivators, reunited with Qiao Huizhu at Mount Li, and found the Qi–Liang border sealed against them.
• As the Qi Kingdom tightened its search, Qiao Huizhu dispersed her Spiritual Power and disfigured herself to conceal her identity, and He Pingsheng promised to restore her Immortal Root.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu met Uncle Cheng and his disabled granddaughter at a farmstead, where He Pingsheng offered to heal the girl in exchange for a favor.

He Pingsheng protected Qiao Huizhu while searching for the ingredients to restore her spirit root, outwitting and killing Bai Shangli before obtaining the last ingredient from the Mi Household. After years of cultivation, he reached a bottleneck and bought a shop in Redstone City as he prepared for his next steps.

• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu fled to Redstone City, where he helped Qiao Huizhu reopen her meridians and dantian and begin cultivating.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu attended the Skull Mountain Assembly to search for heavenly fragrant cardamom, and He Pingsheng traded for pills, seeds, and cultivation techniques along the way.
• After He Pingsheng offered a supreme-grade Spirit Artifact for the rare ingredient, Bai Shangli demanded Qiao Huizhu in exchange and threatened He Pingsheng when he refused.
• Mi Rong lured He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu into Bai Shangli’s ambush, but He Pingsheng killed Bai Shangli with Formless Big Dipper Nails and forced Mi Rong to guide them to the Mi Household.
• Mi Zangyuan gave He Pingsheng two heavenly fragrant cardamom seeds, and Qiao Huizhu used the Spirit-Nurturing Pill He Pingsheng refined to restore her spirit root.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu cultivated for years, with Qiao Huizhu returning to the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment and He Pingsheng reaching the tenth layer before a bottleneck led him to seek spirit fruits containing the power of laws.
• Ling Zhiwang invited He Pingsheng to a shop auction, where He Pingsheng bought hundred-year operating rights to a Jiazi District shop for seven million nine hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones.

He Pingsheng opened his alchemy shop, reunited Qiao Huizhu with Qiao Xiaoqiao, and helped Mi Zangyuan restore his wife. After defending the shop from Jade Tree Peak disciples, He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu used the Harmonious Union Scripture to advance their cultivation, leaving him to ask how she planned to form a golden core.

• He Pingsheng opened Qiao Xiaoqiao Alchemy Shop, met Uncle Cheng and Xiao He again, and made Xiao He his disciple before learning that Qiao Xiaoqiao had joined the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu traveled to the sect, found Qiao Xiaoqiao, and reunited the sisters, and Qiao Huizhu stayed as the Azure Cloud Ancestor’s disciple while He Pingsheng returned to Redstone City.
• He Pingsheng renamed his shop the Taixu Alchemy Shop, arranged pill sales with Red Moon Trading Company, and agreed to refine a Heavenly Fragrant Pill for Mi Zangyuan.
• He Pingsheng produced a supreme-grade Heavenly Fragrant Pill, allowing Mi Zangyuan to reunite Su Yin’s soul with her body despite the City Lord’s Manor’s intervention.
• He Pingsheng spent six months cultivating and running the shop before Zhang Qifeng attacked it, and the City Lord’s Manor arrested Zhang and his companions, and He Pingsheng sought compensation from Jade Tree Peak.
• He Pingsheng traded for Red Essence Ginseng and helped Uncle Cheng reach Foundation Establishment, while Wuqiong delayed paying compensation and recognized He Pingsheng’s cultivation manual.
• Qiao Huizhu returned to the shop, and He Pingsheng joined her in cultivating with the Harmonious Union Scripture as Wuqiong waited outside.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu emerged with He Pingsheng at the eleventh Foundation Establishment layer and Qiao Huizhu at the twelfth, and Wuqiong paid compensation, and He Pingsheng asked how she wanted to form her golden core.

He Pingsheng helped Qiao Huizhu form her Golden Core, then sought the rare lotus root she needed to repair her Dao Root. After overcoming attempts to block him, he entered the Five Dragon Ravine Secret Realm and began searching for the root.

• He Pingsheng defeated Zhang Qifeng and Daoist Wuqiong in the arena, winning the Immortal Fruit Token and Skyborne Boat.
• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu a supreme-grade Origin-Reaching Pill, and she survived an eight-nine heavenly tribulation to form her Golden Core.
• Murong Tianyuan tried to claim Qiao Huizhu as his disciple, but Xiaoyaozi intervened and brought her back to He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng learned that Qiao Huizhu needed mystic yellow-and-black-and-white lotus root to repair her Dao Root, and agreed to retrieve it from the Five Dragon Ravine Secret Realm.
• When Elder Jingxin barred He Pingsheng from competing for entry, he traveled to Southern Heaven City and bought a secret-realm qualification token and Life-and-Death Token from Su Zhenzhen.
• He Pingsheng survived Jingxin’s attack and struck back at Daoist Long Yuan, who fled and told Red Lotus to watch him without provoking him.
• He Pingsheng entered the secret realm, killed Red Lotus, and found Extreme Yin Azure Gold in a cave after fighting a Golden Core Stage yin baleful beast.