Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng bought a map of the Divine Realm and Divine Talismans, then traveled to the White Elephant Divine Kingdom in search of Buddhist Daoist Laws. After nearly forty years of teleportations, he arrived at the Buddhist kingdom but still could not condense Buddhist Daoist Laws.

• He Pingsheng told a curious woman that his unusual Divine Spark represented the Great Dao of Rosy Clouds, and she suggested he seek Buddhist Daoist Laws in the White Elephant Divine Kingdom.
• He Pingsheng bought an outline map of the three thousand Divine Kingdoms and more than sixty low-grade Divine Talismans.
• He Pingsheng learned that the Orthodox God of Time had fallen and that the divine palaces of the Orthodox God and twelve Auxiliary Gods had been sealed; he stayed in the Divine Kingdom of Time for two years.
• He Pingsheng made thirteen teleportations over nearly forty years and reached the White Elephant Divine Kingdom, where believers greeted him with Buddhist chants.
• He Pingsheng used his Purple Gold Gloves to try to condense Buddhist Daoist Laws but failed, and he wondered whether Buddhist teachings lay outside the three thousand Great Daos.

He Pingsheng visited Monastery City to study Buddhist Dharma and asked the Monastery Commerce Association for a Buddhist Path Daoist law origin. Though Deluded Form warned him against seeking quick results, the old monk gave him an origin condensed from his own Buddhist principles.

• He Pingsheng recalled that the Buddhist Path had not yet become a Great Dao and concealed his divine spark with a hat before entering Monastery City.
• He Pingsheng went to the Monastery Commerce Association and asked a nun for a Buddhist Path Daoist law origin.
• Deluded Form, a Divine King, met He Pingsheng and invited him to become his Personal Disciple.
• He Pingsheng declined because he already had a master in the Mystic Sect and only wanted to study Buddhist Dharma.
• Deluded Form condensed his Buddhist principles into a golden Buddhist Path Daoist law origin and gave it to He Pingsheng, leaving himself deathly pale.

He Pingsheng refused Deluded Form’s costly gift, then failed to find Buddhist cultivation methods in Monastery City’s Commerce Associations. After learning that Buddhist teachings could be received by understanding the diagrams at the Boundless Merit Platform, he set out toward it.

• Deluded Form offered He Pingsheng a large amount of Origin, but He Pingsheng refused and hurried out of the Commerce Association.
• Deluded Form swallowed the Origin back and restored his cultivation, while his nun wondered what to do.
• He Pingsheng visited several Commerce Associations seeking Buddhist Dao Origin and cultivation methods, but found none.
• A local Lesser God explained that Buddhist Daoist laws had to be gifted and described the twelve diagrams at the Boundless Merit Platform.
• He Pingsheng asked how to reach the platform, and the man pointed him toward a short-range Teleportation Array.

He Pingsheng climbed the Boundless Merit Terrace and met a mysterious middle-aged woman who guided him to the first Buddha illustration. She revealed that she was Divine Emperor White Elephant and recognized his primordial divine spark, leaving He Pingsheng terrified.

• He Pingsheng arrived at the Boundless Merit Platform and climbed the terrace without kowtowing.
• A middle-aged woman in white approached He Pingsheng, recognized him as a newcomer, and offered to guide him.
• The woman described how long disciples usually needed to comprehend the Buddha illustrations and claimed He Pingsheng could master the first unusually quickly.
• The woman brought He Pingsheng to the first landing and revealed that she knew he possessed a primordial divine spark.
• The woman identified herself as Divine Emperor White Elephant, the Buddhist Path's Divine Emperor and the Orthodox God of the Great Dao of Goodness.

He Pingsheng comprehended the first Buddha diagram under Divine Emperor White Elephant’s watch, completing it in the second-best time ever. White Elephant recognized his name and pressed him to become her disciple, but He Pingsheng refused because he already had a master.

• Divine Emperor White Elephant returned He Pingsheng to the Boundless Merit Terrace and ordered him to comprehend the first divine diagram while she watched.
• White Elephant affixed one of her Divine Talismans to He Pingsheng, increasing his comprehension tenfold.
• He Pingsheng entered meditation and fully comprehended the first Buddha diagram in three thousand four hundred years, earning the second-best time on record.
• White Elephant learned He Pingsheng’s name and revealed that the previous record-holder had also been called He Pingsheng.
• White Elephant offered to make He Pingsheng her personal disciple, then an outer or nominal disciple, but he refused because he already had a master.
• White Elephant explained that she hoped to perfect the Buddhist Path Daoist Laws into a Great Dao that countless believers could cultivate, and said He Pingsheng might inherit that mission.

He Pingsheng agreed to become Empress White Elephant’s disciple in name and received Buddhist treasures and the Twelve Buddha Diagrams, along with a request to help perfect Buddhist Daoist Laws. After she altered the color of his divine spark and left, he continued studying the Buddhist steles, beginning with the second platform.

• He Pingsheng accepted Empress White Elephant as his master in name and received her Disciple Token, Buddhist dharma origin, and a nameless dagger that could not be used to kill living beings.
• Empress White Elephant gave He Pingsheng the original Twelve Buddha Diagrams and asked him to help perfect the Buddhist Path’s Daoist Laws.
• He Pingsheng asked about another He Pingsheng, and Empress White Elephant explained that the elusive man had escaped her grasp.
• Empress White Elephant changed the color of He Pingsheng’s divine spark to conceal its appearance temporarily, then departed after reminding him of his promise.
• He Pingsheng examined the fifth-grade Buddhist dharma origin, decided he needed more comprehension before using it, and began studying the second stone stele on the next platform.

He Pingsheng comprehended Buddhist diagrams on the Boundless Merit Platform until the Divine Talisman’s power ran out, then traveled to the Revival Divine Kingdom and settled outside Spring City. He tested the snow-white dagger’s ability to cut through Divine Artifacts and began adapting Thirty-Two Great Men into his own Divine Ability.

• He Pingsheng thoroughly comprehended the third- and fourth-grade Buddhist teachings on the second through fourth stone tablets, but stopped studying the sixth-grade diagram when his Divine Talisman was exhausted.
• He Pingsheng left the Boundless Merit Platform and traveled from the Buddhist Kingdom to Spring City in the Revival Divine Kingdom.
• He Pingsheng learned that the Revival Divine Kingdom’s Orthodox God cultivated the Great Dao of Spring and found no Life Hawthorn Seed at the Commerce Association.
• He Pingsheng settled in a cave abode outside Spring City and used the snow-white dagger to cut a fifth-grade supreme-grade sword and jade seal in half.
• He Pingsheng wrote down Thirty-Two Great Men and began researching how to reshape it into his own Divine Ability.

He Pingsheng enhanced and mastered the first form of Thirty-Two Great Men, gaining the ability to conceal his appearance and primordial divine spark even from Divine Emperors. He went to Spring City to sell fifth-grade supreme-grade divine artifacts, where Tao Bifu proposed buying them privately and keeping the deal secret.

• He Pingsheng modified Thirty-Two Great Men into a mystic-tier supreme-grade divine ability, then enhanced it to heaven-tier supreme grade with the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng cultivated for more than six hundred years and mastered its first form, changing his appearance and making his primordial divine spark harder to detect.
• He Pingsheng found that the basin had produced two sets of Buddha diagrams, stored them away, and returned to Spring City.
• He Pingsheng visited the All Come Commerce Association and asked to sell fifth-grade divine artifacts.
• Tao Bifu inspected He Pingsheng's ring of more than a hundred fifth-grade supreme-grade artifacts and offered to buy them in her own name, insisting that the transaction remain secret.

He Pingsheng negotiated with Tao Bifu over his supreme-grade Divine Artifacts, insisting that he only wanted Life Hawthorn Seed. Tao Bifu offered him a chance to compete for a Shakyamuni Divine Fruit and information about a lineage that cultivated the seed, leaving their deal unresolved.

• Tao Bifu proposed a private deal for He Pingsheng's Divine Artifacts, but he refused to accept anything other than Life Hawthorn Seed.
• Tao Bifu offered He Pingsheng a chance to represent the Tao Household in the Peach Mountain contest for a Shakyamuni Divine Fruit.
• Tao Bifu explained that the fruit could raise a Divine Venerable's cultivation by one minor level or a Divine Lord's by up to three layers.
• He Pingsheng considered competing in the contest, where forty-odd lineages would vie for the fruits remaining after the City Lord's Manor's share.
• Tao Bifu offered to reveal a lineage that cultivated Life Hawthorn Seed if He Pingsheng agreed to the deal.

He Pingsheng traded his divine artifacts to Tao Bifu for low-grade divine gold and information about the Lu Lineage, which cultivated life hawthorn seeds. He visited the Lu Family Shop and, after the shop’s elder initially rejected him, shocked him with the contents of a jade box.

• Tao Bifu bought He Pingsheng’s fifth-grade divine artifacts and gave him low-grade divine gold, information about the Lu Lineage, and an entry token for a future Tao Household competition.
• Tao Bifu told He Pingsheng the competition would begin in sixteen origin cycles and thirty-four thousand nine hundred and thirty-two years, and warned him to keep their transaction secret.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the life hawthorn seed cultivation method in the Treasure-Gathering Basin and went to the Lu Family Shop in Spring City.
• The shop’s elder refused to discuss life hawthorn seeds with He Pingsheng and ordered him to leave.
• He Pingsheng persuaded the elder to appraise a jade box, and the elder was so shocked by what he found that he invited He Pingsheng inside to talk.

He Pingsheng traded a wisp of Primordial Chaos Purple Qi to the Lu Lineage for Life Hawthorn Seeds. He left with two thousand low-grade seeds, while the Lu Lineage’s Fourth Elder acknowledged the trade was worth making for his purposes.

• He Pingsheng met Lu Hong, who summoned an elder of the Lu Lineage to negotiate for the Life Hawthorn Seeds.
• The Lu Lineage’s Fourth Elder arrived and inspected He Pingsheng’s Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, then confirmed He Pingsheng had cultivated the Primordial Chaos Dao Body.
• He Pingsheng rejected the Fourth Elder’s initial offers and bargained for two thousand low-grade Life Hawthorn Seeds.
• The Fourth Elder gave He Pingsheng the seeds, and He Pingsheng hurried away.
• The Fourth Elder told Lu Hong that the deal was useful to him despite the high price.

He Pingsheng enhanced Life Hawthorn Seeds and their cultivation method, then agreed to attend the All Come Commerce Association’s Trading Fair. As he left his mountain cave, a Divine Lord man and woman blocked his way, and the man attacked him with a spear.

• He Pingsheng enhanced Life Hawthorn Seeds, consumed two of them over many years, and raised his divine sense to the perfection of the Divine Lord Realm First Layer.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the seeds’ cultivation method and discovered that divine blood could replace freshly departed souls, though the required blood-to-soul formation was not explained.
• Tao Bifu invited He Pingsheng to the All Come Commerce Association’s Trading Fair, and he asked her to reserve him a place.
• He Pingsheng dismantled his cave formations and prepared to leave, but a Divine Lord man and woman arrived and blocked him.
• The woman questioned why He Pingsheng cultivated in the mountains, and the man suddenly attacked him with a spear; He Pingsheng dodged the blow.

He Pingsheng killed two cultivators who attacked him, then arrived in Spring City and entered the Trading Fair. Just before it began, Tao Bifu told him that a new decree barred outsiders from competing, so he could no longer represent the Tao Household in the Peach Mountain Grand Competition.

• He Pingsheng killed the spear-wielding man with his Primordial Purple Gold Staff and chased down and killed the fleeing woman.
• He Pingsheng met Tao Bifu in Spring City and received a Token for the Trading Fair, which she said would draw around five or six thousand people and last ten days.
• He Pingsheng entered the hall, found his assigned seat, and waited as the Trading Fair filled with attendees.
• Tao Bifu sat beside He Pingsheng and explained that a new decree prohibited Lineages from recruiting outsiders for the Peach Mountain Grand Competition.
• Tao Bifu told He Pingsheng that he could no longer compete on behalf of the Tao Household.

He Pingsheng was angered when Tao Bifu admitted that the Trading Fair’s changed rules had cost him the Shakyamuni Divine Fruit, then he was unexpectedly chosen to trade first. He offered a complete heaven tier supreme grade cultivation technique, drawing intense interest, and a Buddhist disciple rose with an item to offer in exchange.

• He Pingsheng challenged Tao Bifu to help him obtain a spatial-attribute Shakyamuni Divine Fruit, but she dismissed the demand and promised to speak with him after the fair.
• The host explained the Trading Fair’s rules and selected seat 1985, making He Pingsheng the first trader.
• He Pingsheng offered the complete heaven tier supreme grade Divine Fire Sun-Expanding Art and clarified that he had sold it before and might sell it again.
• A woman offered He Pingsheng a supreme-grade Dragon-Tiger Myriad Forms Pill, but the host ruled that its value was insufficient.
• He Pingsheng said he had no particular requirements, and a Buddhist disciple stood to present an item for him to examine.

He Pingsheng traded a Heaven Tier Supreme Grade cultivation technique to a great monk for Demon-Breaking Beads and sixth-grade Buddhist Path Origin. Later, he offered Buddha Emperor White Elephant’s fifth-grade Buddhist Path Origin for more Bodhi Golden Dew, provoking an uproar among the Buddhist Path disciples.

• He Pingsheng traded his cultivation technique to the great monk for Demon-Breaking Beads and sixth-grade Buddhist Path Origin.
• He Pingsheng examined the Demon-Breaking Beads and learned they would automatically defend against Divine King Realm divine sense attacks.
• After six days at the Trading Fair, He Pingsheng saw a Buddhist nun sell Life Hawthorn Seeds and then offer twelve drops of fifth-grade Bodhi Golden Dew.
• He Pingsheng asked the nun whether she had more Bodhi Golden Dew and offered an item in exchange.
• He Pingsheng presented fifth-grade Buddhist Path Origin condensed by Buddha Emperor White Elephant, and the Buddhist Path disciples angrily demanded to know how he had obtained it.

He Pingsheng faced angry Buddhist disciples who objected to his selling the Buddha Emperor’s origin, then proved he was her nominal disciple with her dagger and his Disciple Token. After the trade fair resumed, he completed a trade and decided he had no need to bid on anything else.

• Buddhist disciples confronted He Pingsheng for offering the Buddha Emperor’s origin for trade, and he said the Buddha Emperor had made him her nominal disciple.
• He Pingsheng showed the Buddha Emperor’s dagger and his Disciple Token, prompting Chi Wu and the other Buddhist disciples to acknowledge him as their grand-martial uncle.
• He Pingsheng traded the origin for a nun’s seventy-two drops of Bodhi Golden Dew, then insisted she accept the origin as his gift.
• Chi Wu brought out three high-grade divine meridians, but He Pingsheng chose not to trade for them because he expected to enhance low-grade ones himself.
• The trading fair ended without He Pingsheng making any further trades.

He Pingsheng bought low-grade divine meridians and went with Tao Bifu to prove he could place in the top nine of the Peach Mountain Grand Competition. He ambushed Tao Bifu during the test, overwhelmed her, and stopped his staff just short of her divine spark.

• He Pingsheng told Tao Bifu he was confident he could place in the top nine and accepted her offer to test his strength.
• He Pingsheng bought more than thirty low-grade divine meridians, then met Tao Bifu outside Spring City and followed her into the desolate mountains with Tao Yaoyao.
• Tao Bifu told He Pingsheng to defeat Tao Yaoyao within the time it took an incense stick to burn, while forbidding divine talismans and sneak attacks.
• He Pingsheng attacked Tao Bifu instead of Tao Yaoyao, blasted aside her ice-blue pearl, and struck her into a mountaintop.
• He Pingsheng held his staff three inches from Tao Bifu's brow and asked how strong he was.

He Pingsheng proved his overwhelming strength to Tao Bifu, then learned that representing the Tao Household in the Peach Mountain Grand Competition required becoming a woman’s true Dao Companion. He refused to make the relationship real and left, while Tao Yaoyao proposed accepting the arrangement herself.

• He Pingsheng wounded Tao Bifu with a powerful strike, then stopped fighting after she acknowledged his strength.
• Tao Bifu explained that an outsider could represent the Tao Household only by becoming a woman of the household’s Dao Companion, and suggested Tao Yaoyao.
• He Pingsheng rejected both a real relationship and becoming Tao Bifu’s disciple, insisting that the household either arrange his participation or provide the promised Shakyamuni Divine Fruit.
• He Pingsheng left, and Tao Yaoyao warned Tao Bifu that the household should not risk offending him.
• Tao Yaoyao offered to pretend to be He Pingsheng’s Dao Companion and said she could remain unmarried afterward.

He Pingsheng entered the Immortal Realm to visit his sons, He Tianya and He Tianyu, and found them content ruling their own territories. He refused their request to let others ascend until he became strong enough to protect them, then set out to wander the Immortal Realm.

• He Pingsheng settled in a courtyard in Spring City, placed treasures in the Treasure-Gathering Basin, and used the Hidden Dragon Trace-Concealing Art to safely enter the Immortal Realm.
• He Pingsheng surveyed the four worlds and found little had changed before using Spatial Law to reach the Immortal Realm.
• He Tianya and He Tianyu greeted He Pingsheng and asked whether their mothers were well; He Pingsheng reassured them that the family was safe in the Divine Realm.
• He Tianya and He Tianyu chose to remain as rulers of the Immortal Realm, though they asked He Pingsheng to let their children and disciples ascend.
• He Pingsheng refused to allow anyone besides his sons to ascend until he reached the Titled Divine Emperor Realm, gave He Tianya supplies, and left to wander the Immortal Realm.

He Pingsheng wandered the Immortal Realm for countless years before recognizing Zhu Dong, an old acquaintance who was heading to the Ice Jade Immortal Sect to rescue his son. He rescued Zhu Dong’s son and offered to settle the sect’s feud, then summoned a woman of great nobility as the elders confronted them.

• He Pingsheng traveled the Immortal Realm in many disguises, living as an ordinary person and enduring the failures of four Alchemy Shops.
• He recognized Zhu Dong, a Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal, who sought directions to the Ice Jade Immortal Sect to save his trapped son.
• Zhu Dong explained that his son had killed a genius disciple and was being held by the sect, but he remained determined to go despite the danger.
• He Pingsheng offered to rescue Zhu Dong’s son and settle the feud in exchange for Zhu Dong taking him as his master.
• He Pingsheng used his power to bring Zhu Dong’s son to him, then faced elders from the Ice Jade Immortal Sect who demanded Zhu Dong’s capture.
• He Pingsheng said he would settle the feud and summoned a beautiful, noble woman through a Void Vortex.