Chapter Summaries

Divine Emperor Dark Moon came to the He Family to investigate the destruction of Late City and took Yu Si away for judgment over entering the Demon Race’s forbidden grounds. He Pingsheng decided to keep the matter secret and gather information before attempting any rescue.

• Divine Emperor Dark Moon summoned the He Family and questioned Yu Si about entering Divine Dream Mountain’s forbidden grounds.
• Dark Moon blamed Yu Si’s intrusion for the beast tide and destruction of Late City, then dismissed He Pingsheng when he tried to defend her.
• Lian Nihong explained that Yu Si had entered the Demon Race’s territory to rescue her, but Dark Moon said Yu Si still had to answer for violating the agreement between the Divine Kingdoms.
• Dark Moon subdued Yu Si and took her away to be handed over to the Divine Emperor for punishment.
• After Dark Moon left, He Pingsheng told his family to keep Yu Si’s identity and the incident secret, and said he would send someone to investigate before considering a rescue.

The Lu Household patriarch learned that He Pingsheng had lost his Divine King protector and led the household’s Divine Lord experts to attack Heavenly Treasure Mountain. Their assault failed against the He Family’s fifth-grade formation, and He Pingsheng tried to move everyone into the Primordial Purple Gold Staff as the Lu Household patriarch prepared to break through.

• A woman told the Lu Household patriarch that Divine Emperor Dark Moon had captured the He Family’s Divine King after the Divine Dream Mountain disaster.
• The Lu Household patriarch learned that He Pingsheng had only two Divine Lord realm cultivators left and ordered every Divine Lord elder to join an attack on the He Family.
• The Lu Household’s Divine Boat reached Heavenly Treasure Mountain, where nine Divine Lord experts attacked the He Family’s mountain-guarding formation.
• The nine attackers failed to damage the fifth-grade formation, and the Lu Household patriarch was urged to break it himself.
• He Pingsheng organized the He Family to supply the formation with divine gold, then offered to test whether everyone could enter the Primordial Purple Gold Staff.

He Pingsheng hid his companions inside the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, then left the protection of the formation to attack the Lu Household. After killing several of its Divine Lords with divine talismans, he pursued the survivors as the Lu Household Patriarch launched an all-out attack at his back.

• Taizhen tested the Primordial Purple Gold Staff’s inner space, confirmed people could stay inside, and He Pingsheng sent everyone but himself into it.
• He Pingsheng slipped out through a gap in the formation and used Nine Dragons Divine Talismans to kill four of the Lu Household’s Divine Lords.
• He Pingsheng used Void Swift Movement to evade the Lu Household Patriarch’s attacks and struck two more Divine Lords with Red Lotus Sword Talismans, leaving their souls alive.
• The three surviving Divine Lords fled together, and He Pingsheng pursued them while the Lu Household Patriarch struck at his back with an all-out attack.

He Pingsheng used talismans and the Divine Mystic Heaven Boat to catch and kill the Lu Household’s Divine Lord cultivators, leaving the Lu Household patriarch as its only powerful survivor. After evading the patriarch for three days until he gave up and left, He Pingsheng headed to Heavenly Treasure Mountain and then toward Celestial Phoenix City.

• He Pingsheng used two Void Divine Talismans and the Five Brigades Marching Umbrella to survive the Lu Household patriarch’s attack and catch the fleeing Lu Household cultivators.
• He Pingsheng killed the last three Lu Household Divine Lord Realm cultivators with Red Lotus Sword Talismans and took their rings.
• He Pingsheng fled toward Celestial Phoenix City, but the Lu Household patriarch caught up and attacked him.
• He Pingsheng evaded the patriarch’s attacks for three days, using Void Swift Movement and pretending to cultivate until the patriarch threatened to advance to the Divine King Realm and left.
• He Pingsheng confirmed the patriarch had departed, dismantled the defensive Grand Array around the item at Heavenly Treasure Mountain, and flew toward Celestial Phoenix City.

He Pingsheng gathered spoils from the Lu Household and told his companions they had to move because the surviving Lu patriarch remained a threat. After meeting Xin Baobao’s ships, he gave Long Zhidu the choice of staying with the He Family or leaving at a price, and proposed that Long Zhidu become his slave.

• He Pingsheng found a fifth-grade defensive Divine Talisman and four fourth-grade Divine Talismans among the rings he had taken from Lu Household experts.
• He Pingsheng released his companions from the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and told them he had killed the Lu Household’s nine Divine Lord Realm experts, though its Divine Venerable patriarch had escaped.
• He Pingsheng decided the group would move away from Celestial Scorpion Royal City to protect his family and friends from the Lu Household.
• More than twenty days later, He Pingsheng met Xin Baobao’s two great ships, brought them to a stop, and summoned Long Zhidu to a meeting.
• He Pingsheng told Long Zhidu the Lu Household might target the Long Household and offered it a choice between following the He Family or leaving and paying a price.
• Long Zhidu asked what it would cost to leave, and He Pingsheng proposed that he stay by his side as a slave.

He Pingsheng accepted Long Zhidu’s offer of two living Nine-Colored Divine Butterfly cocoons, which required rare Heavenly Amber Pure Dew to hatch and sustain them. After the Long Household departed, Lian Nihong joined the He Family, Gu Ruyi stayed behind to wait for her father, and Old Cao presented He Pingsheng with a map as the family prepared to decide where to settle.

• Long Zhidu offered He Pingsheng two Nine-Colored Divine Butterfly cocoons and explained that they needed Heavenly Amber Pure Dew to hatch and survive.
• He Pingsheng accepted the cocoons, released Long Zhidu, and let the Long Household take the absorbed Diwu Household disciples with them.
• Gu Ruyi chose to stay until her father returned, while Lian Nihong dissolved the Lian Household and joined the He Family.
• The Long Household departed, and He Pingsheng gave Gu Ruyi a great ship and asked her to take some people to Celestial Scorpion Royal City.
• He Pingsheng summoned the He Family’s core members, and Old Cao presented a map to guide their discussion of where to settle.

He Pingsheng and his companions planned a detour through the Baiyu Divine Kingdom to escape the beast tide and reach the Celestial Pivot Divine Kingdom, while Old Cao intended to return and investigate Yu Si’s fate. After 136 years of travel, He Pingsheng arrived at Overlord Capital and focused on finding a Teleportation Array.

• Old Cao proposed avoiding the beast tide by taking a longer route through the Baiyu Divine Kingdom to the Celestial Pivot Divine Kingdom, then returning to investigate Yu Si.
• He Pingsheng offered the gathered families’ cultivators a choice, and two-thirds left aboard Gu Ruyi’s ship for Celestial Scorpion Royal City.
• He Pingsheng stored Zhou Qingmei’s great ship and its passengers inside his magical treasure, then set out alone aboard his Divine Mystic Heaven Boat.
• He Pingsheng crossed into Baiyu territory and spent years flying while cultivating and strengthening his Divine Sense.
• After 136 years, He Pingsheng reached Overlord Capital and wondered how to use its Teleportation Array.

He Pingsheng traveled through the vast Overlord Capital to reach its Ultra-Long-Distance Teleportation Array, hoping to go to the Celestial Pivot Divine Kingdom. He found the fare was one hundred million physical pieces of low-grade Divine Gold, leaving him shocked as he stood in Celestial Pivot Hall.

• He Pingsheng entered the Overlord Capital and hired a white ox to carry him to an internal teleportation station.
• He Pingsheng learned that the station's arrays only transported people within the city, then followed several transfers to the Heavenly Array Platform.
• He Pingsheng entered Celestial Pivot Hall and asked to travel to the Celestial Pivot Divine Kingdom.
• The woman at the ticket counter told He Pingsheng the fare was one hundred million physical pieces of low-grade Divine Gold because the array consumed costly resources.

He Pingsheng bought tickets for himself to the Celestial Pivot Divine Kingdom and for Old Cao to the Shimmering Light Divine Kingdom, then sent Old Cao ahead to search for news of Yu Si. Six years later, He Pingsheng prepared to teleport and recognized the array official as a disciple of the Void Transformation Divine Valley.

• He Pingsheng learned that the Celestial Pivot Divine Kingdom Teleportation Array would open in six years and that the Shimmering Light route would open in ten months and four days.
• He Pingsheng bought tickets for both routes, gave Old Cao a hundred thousand pieces of middle-grade divine gold, and arranged for them to reunite at a commerce association in the Celestial Pivot Divine Kingdom's capital.
• Old Cao teleported to the Shimmering Light Divine Kingdom after He Pingsheng warned him to stay safe and search for news of Yu Si.
• Six years later, He Pingsheng boarded the Teleportation Platform with roughly four hundred travelers, most of them in the Divine Venerable Realm.
• A gray-robed official from the Void Transformation Divine Valley announced the teleportation and its remaining matters, and He Pingsheng recognized the sect's insignia.

He Pingsheng faced a last-minute inspection that barred spatial treasures from the teleportation array, and negotiated extra time to hide his belongings. He safely reached Celestial Pivot City in the Celestial Pivot Divine Kingdom and found humans and demons living there together.

• A detection treasure exposed He Pingsheng’s spatial treasure, and he refused to hand over the Primordial Purple Gold Staff because his family was hidden inside it.
• He Pingsheng offered the gray-robed old man two pieces of high-grade divine gold, and the old man extended the deadline for dealing with spatial dimensions to half a day.
• He Pingsheng flew far outside the Overlord Capital and put the gloves, staff, and other items into the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng returned in time, passed the inspection, and teleported safely to Celestial Pivot City.
• He Pingsheng left the Receiving Platform and saw demonic creatures among the city’s residents.

He Pingsheng visited the Jade Pivot Commerce Association to leave a message for Old Cao and look for land to establish a lineage. After learning about Gold-Star Lineages and their costs and protections, he agreed to the designation and asked to choose an estate outside Celestial Pivot City.

• He Pingsheng left his name and a high-tier Communication Divine Talisman at the Jade Pivot Commerce Association so Old Cao could contact him when he arrived.
• He Pingsheng told the association's staff that he wanted to buy land for a Four-Star Lineage.
• A specialist explained that Gold-Star Lineages were administered by the City Lord's Manor, paid double taxes, and received protection and business resources in exchange for yearly incense offerings.
• He Pingsheng accepted the Gold-Star Lineage designation and requested an estate outside Celestial Pivot City.
• The specialist showed He Pingsheng a selection of lineage estates to choose from.

He Pingsheng established the He Family in a newly purchased territory near Celestial Pivot City and began organizing its defenses and businesses. Old Cao returned with news that Yu Si had been sentenced to 7.2 billion years of imprisonment.

• He Pingsheng bought a lineage territory west of Celestial Pivot City and registered the He Family’s specialties as alchemy, artifact refining, and shipbuilding.
• He Pingsheng moved tens of thousands of people into the territory, united their households as the He Family, and assigned elders and tasks.
• The He Family settled in, activated a fifth-grade defensive formation, and resumed cultivating Three-Zhang Grain in a guarded area.
• He Pingsheng met Old Cao at the Commerce Association, where Old Cao reported that the Auxiliary Gods of the Shimmering Light Divine Kingdom had imprisoned Yu Si for six hou, or sixty thousand yuan.

After 133 yuan of seclusion, He Pingsheng reached the Divine Spirit Realm Third Layer and turned to replenishing supplies for his cultivation and talisman crafting. He visited the Jade Pivot Commerce Association in Celestial Pivot City and began shopping for fourth-grade Heavenly Heart Golden Cores.

• He Pingsheng gave Taizhen, Xin Baobao, Qiao Huizhu, and Wen Buwan Nine-Orifice Exquisiteness before entering seclusion to study Spatial Daoist Law and Divine Talismans.
• After 133 yuan, He Pingsheng broke through to the Divine Spirit Realm Third Layer and found the He Family thriving under Old Cao’s management.
• He Pingsheng gave Old Cao six rings of middle-grade Divine Gold and set out alone for Celestial Pivot City to buy Heavenly Heart Golden Cores and materials for Unsullied Insight Talismans.
• At the Jade Pivot Commerce Association, a woman in a Moon-White Daoist Robe guided He Pingsheng to the fourth floor and explained that he could access the fifth floor without special permission.
• He Pingsheng reached the Golden Core section and asked the woman the price of the Heavenly Heart Golden Cores.

He Pingsheng bought pills, talisman supplies, and Life-and-Death Dao Tokens at the Jade Pivot Commerce Association, then stopped at a tavern famed for its Broad Bean Fish. There he learned that many diners were about to enter deadly grounds and suspected they were the place called Dao Collapse and Yellow Fall.

• He Pingsheng ordered five thousand batches of low-grade Heavenly Heart Golden Cores, third-grade Divinity-Pacifying Pills, and fourth-grade Divine Talisman supplies.
• He Pingsheng bought ten Life-and-Death Dao Tokens despite the woman's warning that his cultivation could not support their use, saying they were for his Lineage's elders.
• He Pingsheng left the Jade Pivot Commerce Association and joined the long line at a nearby tavern after seeing Divine Venerable Realm figures waiting there.
• He Pingsheng tasted the tavern's Broad Bean Fish and found the ordinary fish exceptionally delicious.
• He Pingsheng heard diners say they were eating before entering deadly grounds and recalled Lian Nihong's account of Dao Collapse and Yellow Fall.

He Pingsheng learned that the Equality Zone in Dao Collapse and Yellow Fall would equalize cultivators at the Divine Lord Realm, and he decided to use the opportunity to enhance treasures with his Treasure-Gathering Basin. He left the Jade Pivot Commerce Association after ordering 120,000 batches of costly Dragon-Tiger Myriad Forms Pills.

• He Pingsheng declined to enter Dao Collapse and Yellow Fall because his cultivation was too low, until Wu Dabao told him about the Equality Zone.
• Wu Dabao explained that the Equality Zone would raise Lesser God cultivators to the Divine Lord Realm and suppress stronger cultivators to the same realm for one yuan.
• He Pingsheng realized he could use the Treasure-Gathering Basin at the Divine Lord Realm and began planning which Fifth Grade items to bring.
• He Pingsheng learned Wu Dabao's name, returned to the Jade Pivot Commerce Association, and asked the woman there about valuable Fifth Grade items.
• He Pingsheng ordered 120,000 batches of low-grade Dragon-Tiger Myriad Forms Pills, despite their high price.

He Pingsheng bought pills and supplies before setting out alone for Dao Collapse and Yellow Fall aboard a City Lord's Manor celestial boat. During the journey, he enhanced and refined a Life-and-Death Dao Token and began drawing a Mountain-Binding Talisman.

• He Pingsheng bought five hundred batches of Dragon-Tiger Myriad Forms Pills and five thousand batches of five-elements Divine Dao Pills from the Jade Pivot Commerce Association, then gathered more supplies elsewhere.
• He Pingsheng told Old Cao he would travel to the Deadly Grounds alone and chose the City Lord's Manor's fastest celestial boat to reach Dao Collapse and Yellow Fall.
• He Pingsheng enhanced a Life-and-Death Dao Token during the voyage, refined one into himself, and enhanced divine talisman paper.
• He Pingsheng began drawing a Mountain-Binding Talisman using a formula from Yu Si's talisman texts.

He Pingsheng spent years making and enhancing Mountain-Binding Talismans before disembarking at the Dao Collapse and Yellow Fall Deadly Grounds. He entered the perilous region intending to exploit a loophole in the Immortal Treasure-Gathering Basin and hide in the Equality Zone.

• He Pingsheng drew Divine Talismans and enhanced four defective Mountain-Binding Talismans, eventually upgrading two to supreme grade.
• He Pingsheng examined a supreme-grade Mountain-Binding Talisman and learned it could bind the divine power and Divine Sense of enemies at the Divine Lord Realm or below.
• He Pingsheng disembarked from the ship and surveyed the desolate Dao Collapse and Yellow Fall Deadly Grounds, where demon beasts, Daoist law traps, and other people posed dangers.
• A woman in white embroidered with pink peach blossoms sought Divine Lord Realm teammates and dismissed He Pingsheng as a mere Divine Spirit Realm cultivator.
• He Pingsheng entered the deadly grounds, felt its life-and-death pressure, and flew onward, planning to hide in the Equality Zone and look for fragments containing Primordial Chaos Purple Qi.

He Pingsheng traveled deeper into Dao Collapse and Yellow Fall, escaped an attack by a thorn vine, and learned of a Buddha's Hand Golden Gourd hidden in a valley. After finding the concealed formation, he met Wu Dabao there.

• He Pingsheng flew low through the Deadly Grounds and was caught by a third-grade thorn vine, which wrapped around him and his Divine Mystic Heaven Boat.
• A woman in white robes embroidered with peach blossoms stopped to mock He Pingsheng, then left without helping him.
• He Pingsheng used Void Swift Movement to escape the vines and subdued the thorn vine, which offered information about a Buddha's Hand Golden Gourd in a concealed formation two days away.
• He Pingsheng traveled to the valley, revealed a golden membrane of light with his divine power, and encountered Wu Dabao.
• Wu Dabao told He Pingsheng he had entered less than ten days earlier, then asked what the formation was.

He Pingsheng and Wu Dabao opened an Innate Divine Formation and found a plant bearing hundreds of Buddha's Hand Golden Gourds. After negotiating with the venomous bees guarding it, He Pingsheng took half the gourds and shared fifty with Wu Dabao, who explained their uses.

• Wu Dabao returned to help He Pingsheng open the Innate Divine Formation after He Pingsheng offered him a share of the treasure.
• He Pingsheng and Wu Dabao broke the formation and discovered a Buddha's Hand Golden Gourd vine covered in hundreds of fruits.
• Venomous bees attacked He Pingsheng, but he shielded the plant and negotiated with them for half the gourds.
• The bees gave He Pingsheng about three hundred gourds, then restored the formation around their plant as He Pingsheng and Wu Dabao departed.
• He Pingsheng gave Wu Dabao fifty gourds, and Wu Dabao said they could be used for body refining or to refine a special Golden Core.

He Pingsheng and Wu Dabao traveled toward the Equality Zone using Wu Dabao’s rough map, while He Pingsheng enhanced a copy into a detailed guide to the region’s hazards and treasures. He proposed new terms for dividing their finds, claiming rare resources for himself, and Wu Dabao had yet to respond.

• Wu Dabao gave He Pingsheng the No Taboos Pill recipe and agreed to travel with him, with each free to flee if they met an unbeatable foe.
• Wu Dabao showed He Pingsheng a rough map, and the two flew toward the Equality Zone aboard the Divine Mystic Heaven Boat.
• After six months of travel, He Pingsheng saw their position move only slightly from the boundary and learned the Equality Zone was more than thirty years away at their speed.
• He Pingsheng duplicated and enhanced the map, turning it into a guide that marked Demon Beasts, Daoist Law traps, dangers, and nearby treasures.
• He Pingsheng proposed splitting ordinary herbs and fruits equally while keeping all especially rare resources for himself; Wu Dabao had not yet answered.