Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng spared Baili Jian after learning that his knowledge could help him navigate the core region’s divided territories, then used Baili Jian to assume a disciple’s identity and enter the Baili Household’s base. He acquired the Great Dao of Curses and two curse abilities, ending with a wary look at their dangerous effects.

• He Pingsheng questioned Baili Jian, who offered to guide him through the core region and explained that different lineages controlled separate territories.
• Baili Jian offered to become He Pingsheng’s divine slave and proposed that he impersonate a captured disciple to move freely in Baili Household territory.
• He Pingsheng accepted Baili Jian as his slave, and Baili Jian captured a divine lord disciple and provided his identity plaque.
• He Pingsheng used Thirty-Two Great Men to take the disciple’s appearance and followed Baili Jian to the Baili Household base.
• He Pingsheng obtained the Great Dao of Curses, a curse cultivation technique, and two earth-tier divine abilities: Affection-Binding Curse and Twelve Great Exorcism Curses.

He Pingsheng enhanced three Great Exorcism Curses and learned how the Great Dao of Curses related to the Incense Apotheosis Dao. As he and Baili Jian set out to search for treasures, Baili Jian revealed that a former disciple of the Curse Divine Kingdom had founded the Incense Apotheosis Dao.

• Baili Jian explained that curses caused backlash, could be resisted with powerful Daoist laws or curse treasures, and required a target's aura and blood.
• He Pingsheng obtained the remaining Ninth and Third Great Exorcism Curses and began secluded cultivation at the Baili Household.
• After several years, He Pingsheng enhanced the three curses and two curse origins, reducing the curses' backlash and extending their reach to targets one major realm higher.
• He Pingsheng asked Baili Jian about protections against curses and formations that turned blood into soul power, then prepared to go treasure hunting with him.
• While they searched for treasures, He Pingsheng compared the Great Dao of Curses to the Incense Apotheosis Dao, and Baili Jian revealed that a Curse Divine Kingdom disciple had founded the latter to save his mother.

He Pingsheng, Baili Jian, and Gu Baiping searched for treasures while discussing curse arts, and He Pingsheng’s Nine Yin Divine Butterflies advanced to the Divine King Realm. Their search was interrupted when two Baili Household members arrived with news that traces of a Dao-Sacrificing Yin-Yang Cicada had appeared and someone was pursuing them.

• He Pingsheng asked Baili Jian about the Great Dao of Curses and learned that curse-type divine artifacts were rare and required specific materials and knowledge.
• Gu Baiping told He Pingsheng that her divine sense was depleted because her Nine Yin Divine Butterflies were nearing a breakthrough, and he gave her two Kunlun Blood Slaughter Seeds to aid her recovery.
• After Gu Baiping recovered, the two Nine Yin Divine Butterflies advanced to the Divine King Realm, and He Pingsheng put them away before the group resumed its search by flying boat.
• The three searched for half a year without finding anything, until two Baili Household members arrived and told Baili Jian that traces of a Dao-Sacrificing Yin-Yang Cicada had appeared in their territory and someone was chasing them.
• He Pingsheng brought Gu Baiping into the Primordial Chaos Space.

He Pingsheng faced the Heavenly Centipede Household after Baili Jian and Baili Huang revealed that their disciples had found the Dao-Sacrificing Yin-Yang Cicadas near Nine Maidens Mountain. When Tianwu Juyong killed the Baili men and demanded He Pingsheng's spatial ability, He Pingsheng dodged another Divine King attack and prepared to fight.

• Baili Huang told Baili Jian and He Pingsheng that the Heavenly Centipede Household had found a complete pair of Dao-Sacrificing Yin-Yang Cicadas and killed seventeen Baili disciples.
• The Heavenly Centipede Household caught up with the three Baili men, and its Divine Venerable woman argued that an agreement between the households gave her side the right to keep the cicadas.
• He Pingsheng acknowledged the agreement but argued that the Baili Household could still search Nine Maidens Mountain; the Heavenly Centipede Household chose to attack to keep the discovery secret.
• Tianwu Juyong arrived and struck the group with a massive palm, killing Baili Jian, Baili Huang, and his companion while He Pingsheng escaped with Void Swift Movement.
• Tianwu Juyong demanded He Pingsheng's spatial Divine Ability and attacked again using the spatial Great Dao, but He Pingsheng dodged a hundred thousand zhang away.

He Pingsheng survived Tianwu Juyong’s curse and divine-sense attacks, then had Qianzhu help kill him and the remaining Heavenly Centipede Household fighters. After sweeping the battlefield and escaping, He Pingsheng searched the captured rings for the Yin-Yang Cicada.

• Tianwu Juyong used seven pursuing curse spheres against He Pingsheng, who blocked them with the Supreme Dao Bell, though the blast killed more than twenty Heavenly Centipede Household disciples.
• Tianwu Juyong’s divine-sense flying knife failed to kill He Pingsheng, and an unknown attack then damaged Tianwu Juyong’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Tianwu Juyong opened a vortex to escape, and one female Divine Venerable from the Heavenly Centipede Household fled through it before He Pingsheng could stop her.
• He Pingsheng summoned Qianzhu, and together they killed Tianwu Juyong and the other two surviving Divine Venerables.
• He Pingsheng, Qianzhu, and Gu Baiping collected the nameplates, rings, and corpses, then left the battlefield.
• After flying for half a day, He Pingsheng entered a secluded valley and began searching the captured rings for the Yin-Yang Cicada.

He Pingsheng found the Dao-Sacrificing Yin-Yang Cicada and a map to Nine Maidens Mountain, then decided to return to the Qianzhu Tribe. A powerful Baili Household Divine King intercepted him and forced him to revisit the battlefield to investigate the recent fight.

• He Pingsheng searched Divine King Tianwu Juyong’s rings, found the Dao-Sacrificing Yin-Yang Cicada in the seventh ring, and enhanced it with the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng found Nine Maidens Mountain on a map but decided not to approach the Heavenly Centipede Household’s stronghold and planned to leave the continent for the Begonia Divine Kingdom.
• He Pingsheng brought Qianzhu into the Primordial Chaos Space and flew toward the Qianzhu Tribe, but a Baili Household Divine King stopped him.
• He Pingsheng introduced himself as Baili Mo and pointed the Divine King toward the recent battle site, hoping to get him out of the way.
• The Divine King seized He Pingsheng and brought him to the ruined battlefield, where He Pingsheng claimed he knew nothing about who had fought or why.

He Pingsheng was forced by Baili Dachui to travel to Nine Maidens Mountain, where the Dao-Sacrificing Yin-Yang Cicada had been reported. There, the Heavenly Centipede Divine King accused Baili Dachui of killing Tianwu Juyong and attacked him, while Baili Dachui trapped He Pingsheng in his Lesser World.

• Baili Dachui stopped He Pingsheng from leaving and insisted he accompany him to Nine Maidens Mountain to search for the Dao-Sacrificing Yin-Yang Cicada.
• He Pingsheng worried that a surviving woman from the Heavenly Centipede Household would recognize him and expose his fight with Tianwu Juyong.
• At Nine Maidens Mountain, Baili Dachui explained that the territory had recently been opened to the Heavenly Centipede Household and speculated that the opportunity might be meant for He Pingsheng.
• The Heavenly Centipede Divine King confronted Baili Dachui and accused him of killing Tianwu Juyong and seeking the Book of Seven Curses.
• The Heavenly Centipede Divine King attacked, and Baili Dachui sent He Pingsheng into his Lesser World before answering the challenge.

He Pingsheng explored Baili Dachui’s Lesser World, then was pulled into Ancient Taisui with Baili Dachui. As Baili Dachui struggled to hold back the creature’s flesh, he entrusted He Pingsheng with the Book of Seven Curses and said the future of the Baili Household depended on him.

• He Pingsheng searched the Lesser World and found River-Aiding Cold Paulownias growing among corpses, along with unripe Chaos Heaven Fruits infused with the Great Dao of Curses.
• He Pingsheng harvested ripe rare fruits while an hour passed and the two Great Divine Kings fought outside.
• Baili Dachui forcibly pulled He Pingsheng out of the Lesser World, and He Pingsheng realized they were trapped inside Ancient Taisui.
• Baili Dachui used his divine power to hold back Ancient Taisui’s flesh and told He Pingsheng he could only hold out for half an incense stick.
• Baili Dachui called He Pingsheng the fated one and handed him the Book of Seven Curses, entrusting the Baili Household’s future to him.

Baili Dachui sacrificed himself to blast He Pingsheng out of the Ancient Taisui, but Divine King Heavenly Centipede pursued him for the Book of Seven Curses. He Pingsheng activated a seventh-grade Divine Talisman and entered its teleportation vortex, but an attack struck him as the passage vanished, leaving his fate unknown.

• Baili Dachui gave He Pingsheng the Book of Seven Curses and his possessions, then self-destructed to blast a passage through the Ancient Taisui and send him out.
• Divine King Heavenly Centipede escaped the Taisui and attacked He Pingsheng to seize the Book of Seven Curses.
• He Pingsheng sent Qianzhu to hold off Divine King Heavenly Centipede, then released Gu Baiping as well when Qianzhu began to falter.
• He Pingsheng spent thirty breaths activating a seventh-grade Divine Talisman, recalled Qianzhu and Gu Baiping, and entered the spatial teleportation passage.
• An attack struck He Pingsheng as he entered the vortex, which then vanished; the Ancient Taisui crawled out from beneath Nine Maidens Mountain and grew larger.

After teleporting away from the Heavenly Centipede Household, He Pingsheng healed the curse-struck stump of his left arm and traveled with Gu Baiping and Qianzhu to Ice Pole City. There, he examined the Book of Seven Curses and learned that the Sacred Artifact could optimize and amplify curse-path divine abilities.

• He Pingsheng arrived in an icy wilderness missing his left forearm after a Divine King of the Heavenly Centipede Household struck him with curse power.
• Qianzhu explained that lightning could dispel the curse, and He Pingsheng used a supreme-grade lightning-attribute Divine Dao Pill to clear it and regrow his arm.
• He Pingsheng, Gu Baiping, and Qianzhu identified the region as likely belonging to the Ice Pole Divine Kingdom, found directions to its capital, and flew to Ice Pole City.
• He Pingsheng decided to delay traveling to the Truth Divine Kingdom and settled with Gu Baiping and Qianzhu in a small courtyard in Ice Pole City.
• He Pingsheng examined the Book of Seven Curses in the Immortal Treasure-Gathering Basin and learned that it was a supreme-grade Sacred Artifact with 108 layers of restrictions that amplified curse-path divine abilities.

He Pingsheng examined the Book of Seven Curses and Baili Dachui’s belongings, then spent more than two hundred years cultivating and studying formations. When he learned that a Shakyamuni divine fruit was going up for auction, the Third Great Exorcism Curse suddenly drained all the divine power from his body, leaving him trapped at the third layer of the Divine Lord Realm.

• He Pingsheng found no method for Blood into Soul among the jade slips and identified Baili Dachui’s lesser world as a seventh-grade Sumeru Gourd.
• He Pingsheng decided to return the Sumeru Gourd to Baili Dachui’s family if he met them and planned to give the dangerous Book of Seven Curses to Wang Dun.
• He Pingsheng cultivated and studied formations for more than two hundred years before Gu Baiping told him about a Shakyamuni divine fruit at the Ice Pole Commerce Association’s auction.
• He Pingsheng felt his divine power vanish and recognized the effect as the Third Great Exorcism Curse, which would prevent him from advancing beyond the third layer of the Divine Lord Realm until the flesh barrier was removed.
• He Pingsheng realized the Divine King from the Heavenly Centipede Household could have cursed him using his retained essence blood and aura, while Gu Baiping went to fetch Qianzhu.

He Pingsheng suffered curses that stripped away his divine power and divine sense, while his fortune barely diminished; the curse backlash instead erased the Curse Divine Emperor’s fortune. He Pingsheng went with Gu Baiping and Qianzhu to seek a cure, but the Ice Pole Commerce Association lacked sixth-grade lightning Dao origin, so they decided to wait and planned to attend its auction.

• Qianzhu and Gu Baiping learned that He Pingsheng’s divine power had been cursed, and He Pingsheng set out to find sixth-grade lightning Dao origin.
• He Pingsheng’s divine sense was sealed, and his fortune began to decline but stopped after he lost only a tenth.
• The Curse Divine Emperor revealed that his own fortune had vanished after he cursed He Pingsheng, then ordered Divine King Heavenly Centipede to find and kill Baili Mo.
• He Pingsheng entrusted his rings to Gu Baiping and Qianzhu, and the three went to the Ice Pole Commerce Association.
• The Commerce Association told He Pingsheng it lacked sixth-grade lightning Dao origin, so he agreed to wait and asked about the Shakyamuni Divine Fruit in its auction.

He Pingsheng waited at the Commerce Association for an auction, obtained a method for cultivating Kunlun Blood Slaughter Seeds, and welcomed Yinpan Ying after she ascended to the Divine Realm. Gu Baiping traded for an ice-attribute divine fruit, then reported that Yin Xiaoyue wanted to meet He Pingsheng.

• He Pingsheng received a Jade Slip with the Kunlun Blood Slaughter Seeds cultivation method and put it into the Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance it.
• Yinpan Ying suddenly appeared in the private room after ascending to the Divine Realm, and He Pingsheng gave her a Divine Spark.
• He Pingsheng had Gu Baiping refine Baili Dachui's gourd and take Yinpan Ying into its Lesser World.
• He Pingsheng chose the Divine Fire Sun-Expanding Art as payment for the Shakyamuni Divine Fruit, and Gu Baiping traded for an ice-attribute fruit at the auction.
• Gu Baiping returned and told He Pingsheng that Yin Xiaoyue had asked to meet him.

He Pingsheng asked Yin Xiaoyue to trade his Gravity Origin for Deception Origin and a cultivation technique, then continued cultivating while Gu Baiping searched for Lightning Dao Origin. When the Lightning Dao Origin failed to weaken his curse, he suspected that a Divine Emperor or an even greater power had cursed him and wondered why it had taken over two hundred years to appear.

• He Pingsheng reunited with Yin Xiaoyue, exchanged back their Origins, and learned that she planned to return to the Begonia Divine Kingdom.
• He Pingsheng asked Yin Xiaoyue to exchange his Gravity Origin for Deception Origin and a cultivation technique in the Truth Divine Kingdom, and paid her with two Divine Talismans.
• He Pingsheng continued comprehending the Great Dao while Gu Baiping searched for sixth-grade Lightning Dao Origin.
• After sixteen hundred years, Gu Baiping obtained middle-grade Lightning Dao Origin, but He Pingsheng found it could not remove any of his Curse Power.
• He Pingsheng proposed that a Divine Emperor or greater being had cursed him and asked why the curse appeared over two hundred years after they left the Shaman Ancestral Homeland.

He Pingsheng learned that a powerful curse blocked his cultivation, but the seventh-grade lightning Dao origin needed to remove it was effectively unobtainable. He and his companions settled on studying the Dao of Curses, though the cultivation limits trapping him made that solution difficult.

• Gu Baiping warned He Pingsheng that removing a Divine Emperor-level curse required a seventh-grade lightning Dao origin, while Qianzhu suggested using the power of faith and Gu Baiping rejected it.
• He Pingsheng, Gu Baiping, and Qianzhu visited the Ice Pole Commerce Association, where Elder Lu said seventh-grade origins were rarely available and could not be bought.
• Elder Lu explained that someone could dispel a curse by studying the Dao of Curses beyond the caster’s level, and said cursed people generally carried no mark that could locate them.
• Gu Baiping and Qianzhu argued over how He Pingsheng could raise his Daoist-law comprehension while the curse prevented him from advancing his cultivation.
• Qianzhu confirmed that her tribe’s lightning-attribute Witch Emperor was dead, then traded insults with Gu Baiping when asked about the tribe’s seventh-grade origins.

He Pingsheng learned that the Qianzhu Tribe’s Lightning Divine Spark might cleanse the curse in his body and agreed to seek it in the Sea of Wu Wang. As the group prepared to enter the dangerous sea in the Truth Divine Kingdom, he gave Gu Baiping the Supreme Dao Bell for protection and brought out Great Dao of Deception Origin to study.

• Qianzhu explained that the Qianzhu Tribe’s Lightning Divine Spark had been hidden by a former Witch Emperor, and that it might cleanse He Pingsheng’s curse.
• Qianzhu revealed that the divine spark and the patriarch’s body were hidden beneath the dangerous Sea of Wu Wang in the Truth Divine Kingdom.
• He Pingsheng agreed to use the divine spark only to suppress his curse and return it to Qianzhu when she reached the Witch Sovereign Realm.
• He Pingsheng gave Gu Baiping the Primordial Chaos Supreme Dao Bell to refine so it could protect them in the sea.
• He Pingsheng took out three masses of Great Dao of Deception Origin to study before their journey.

After sixteen epochs of seclusion, He Pingsheng regained the great dao of deception and traveled with Gu Baiping and Qianzhu to the Truth Divine Kingdom. He left the True Essence Commerce Association asking Ji Yueming for a map of the Swindler Divine Kingdom.

• He Pingsheng spent sixteen epochs comprehending daoist laws and absorbing several origins, but did not break through his Dao Obstacle.
• He Pingsheng learned that Gu Baiping had refined the Primordial Chaos Supreme Dao Bell and that fragments had nearly repaired it.
• Four years later, He Pingsheng, Gu Baiping, and Qianzhu used a teleportation array to reach the Truth Divine Kingdom.
• He Pingsheng searched the hall where he had been swindled but did not find the old man and woman, then headed to the True Essence Commerce Association.
• Ji Yueming mistook He Pingsheng for a peerless expert and agreed to fetch him a map of the Swindler Divine Kingdom.

He Pingsheng bought a map and set out to travel to the Sea of Wu Wang, but first confronted four men who had tricked him in forthright Immortal City. After learning how their scam worked, he demanded repayment and offered them two ways to settle the debt.

• He Pingsheng bought a simple map of the Divine Kingdom after refusing the costly detailed version, then learned the Sea of Wu Wang was about two years away by flight.
• He Pingsheng recognized four fake guards who had previously tricked him, and Gu Baiping captured them outside the city.
• The four men admitted they had targeted newcomers with help from a ticket seller, and that the supposed old man and granddaughter who tricked He Pingsheng had been one shapeshifter.
• He Pingsheng demanded the stolen Daoist Law back or told the four to summon the shapeshifter so they could repay a smaller debt.

He Pingsheng forced Golden Snake and her companions to surrender Daoist law origin as compensation for deceiving him, then traveled with Gu Baiping and Qianzhu to the Sea of Wu Wang. After seeing the sea corrode rocks and a third-grade divine artifact, he asked Gu Baiping to test a sixth-grade artifact.

• He Pingsheng stopped one of Golden Snake's companions from leaving and threatened his three brothers until he sent her a message.
• Gu Baiping restrained Golden Snake, and He Pingsheng had her right arm severed after rejecting her defense of the Truth Divine Kingdom's customs.
• He Pingsheng demanded Daoist law origin from the five companions, collected their offerings, and left with Gu Baiping and Qianzhu.
• Gu Baiping and Qianzhu carried He Pingsheng for two and a half years until they reached the Sea of Wu Wang.
• Gu Baiping and Qianzhu tested the sea with a rock and a third-grade divine artifact, and both were rapidly corroded.
• He Pingsheng asked Gu Baiping to test a sixth-grade divine artifact, offering to replace it if it was damaged.

He Pingsheng and his companions tested whether the Supreme Dao Bell could withstand the corrosive Sea of Wu Wang and used it to explore the depths. Gu Baiping returned after a month without reaching the seabed, so He Pingsheng ordered her to continue once they obtained more Spirit Pivot Pills.

• Gu Baiping’s sixth-grade divine artifact melted in the seawater, and Qianzhu burned her hand when she touched a drop.
• Gu Baiping tested the Primordial Chaos Supreme Dao Bell, which remained unharmed in the sea, and He Pingsheng found the Book of Seven Curses also resisted corrosion.
• He Pingsheng proposed that they use the bell to descend together, but Gu Baiping and Qianzhu objected, so Gu Baiping went down alone to inspect the seabed.
• Gu Baiping surfaced a month later and reported that the water was so deep she had not reached the bottom after descending for twenty days, and she had seen no living creatures.
• He Pingsheng told Gu Baiping to keep exploring until she reached the seabed, but she said she needed more Spirit Pivot Pills to replenish her divine sense.