Chapter Summaries

Qiao Huizhu agreed to join the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect’s Immortal Talisman Garden, with He Pingsheng supporting her decision and sharing a dual cultivation technique to help them overcome their bottlenecks. The Azure Cloud Immortal Maiden then offered to take Qiao Huizhu as her Personal Disciple.

• Qiao Xiaoqiao teased Qiao Huizhu and He Pingsheng about their marriage before asking whether Qiao Huizhu would join the Immortal Talisman Garden.
• He Pingsheng said he supported Qiao Huizhu joining, and Qiao Huizhu agreed to stay at the sect.
• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu the Harmonious Union Scripture and suggested they use it to try to overcome their cultivation bottlenecks.
• Qiao Xiaoqiao brought Qiao Huizhu and He Pingsheng to meet her master, the Azure Cloud Immortal Maiden.
• The Azure Cloud Immortal Maiden learned that Qiao Huizhu had a single ice Spirit Root and offered to make her a Personal Disciple.

Qiao Huizhu became the Azure Cloud Ancestor’s disciple, while He Pingsheng declined to join her sect and received a token allowing him to visit his wife. Back in Redstone City, he built up the Taixu Alchemy Shop and was approached by Red Moon about a business partnership backed by the City Lord’s Manor.

• The Azure Cloud Ancestor accepted Qiao Huizhu as her disciple and offered He Pingsheng a place as well, but he declined because he already had a master and explained that he and Qiao Huizhu were lawfully married.
• The Azure Cloud Ancestor gave He Pingsheng a token granting him access to the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect’s inner sect, and Qiao Huizhu returned the Jinlan Treasure Robe to him before he left for Redstone City.
• He Pingsheng renamed the Qiao Xiaoqiao Alchemy Shop the Taixu Alchemy Shop and sold increasingly scarce, high-grade third-grade pills at steep prices.
• Ling Zhiwang and Elder Red Moon visited He Pingsheng, who attributed the third-grade pills to his nascent soul master, Taixu.
• Red Moon proposed that the Red Moon Trading Company cooperate with He Pingsheng and revealed that the company belonged to the City Lord’s Manor.

Red Moon negotiated for the Red Moon Trading Company to buy He Pingsheng’s high-grade Essence-Gathering Pills, while Ling Zhiwang shared leads on treasures that could break Foundation Establishment bottlenecks. After they left, Mi Zangyuan arrived with a favor to ask He Pingsheng’s alchemist master, asking whether he knew of the Heavenly Fragrant Pill.

• Red Moon asked He Pingsheng to sell his high-grade Essence-Gathering Pills to the Red Moon Trading Company for 1.2 million spirit stones per batch, and he agreed.
• Red Moon asked He Pingsheng to send any future supreme-grade pills to the trading company for auction, and he agreed.
• Ling Zhiwang gave He Pingsheng a list of treasures that could help break Foundation Establishment bottlenecks, though the nearest would not ripen for twenty-eight years.
• He Pingsheng returned to secluded cultivation and prepared to swallow a Spear Intent Crystal, but Xiao He summoned him to meet Mi Zangyuan.
• Mi Zangyuan asked He Pingsheng about his master’s alchemy skill and whether he had heard of the Heavenly Fragrant Pill.

He Pingsheng learned why Mi Zangyuan needed a supreme-grade Heavenly Fragrant Pill to awaken his comatose Dao Companion and accepted one set of ingredients to refine it. After enhancing the ingredients and recipe, He Pingsheng unexpectedly succeeded in making his first batch of third-grade pills, though they were all low grade.

• Mi Zangyuan explained that his Dao Companion had lost one of her souls a hundred years earlier and that he had preserved it with Soul-Nourishing Wood.
• Mi Zangyuan told He Pingsheng that heavenly fragrant sacred cardamom could be replaced with second-grade heavenly fragrant cardamom only if the pill reached supreme grade.
• He Pingsheng agreed to try refining the pill without guaranteeing success, and Mi Zangyuan gave him one of his two sets of ingredients.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the ingredients and recipe in his courtyard, studied the recipe, and prepared to refine the pills.
• He Pingsheng added Golden Bee Sacred Nectar to the furnace and unexpectedly produced twelve successful low-grade third-grade pills.

He Pingsheng delivered the Heavenly Fragrant Pills to Mi Zangyuan, who began trying to revive his wife, Su Yin. As Mi Zangyuan’s ritual released a torrent of yin energy, He Pingsheng worried that outsiders would notice.

• He Pingsheng enhanced waste pills into a batch of two supreme-grade and ten high-grade pills for Mi Zangyuan.
• Mi Zangyuan received the pills, then gave He Pingsheng a Dao-Grinding Stone before entering his cultivation quarters to revive Su Yin.
• Mi Zangyuan spent several days preparing a formation and brought out Su Yin’s body and one of her souls.
• Mi Zangyuan placed a supreme-grade Heavenly Fragrant Pill in Su Yin’s mouth, and her soul merged perfectly with her body.
• The formation released dense yin energy, and Uncle Cheng mistook it for a fire before He Pingsheng recognized the strange spectacle and feared it would attract outsiders.

Yin energy leaking from He Pingsheng’s Alchemy Shop drew the City Lord’s Manor’s patrol guards, who tried to stop Mi Zangyuan’s Soul-Fusion Art. A Nascent Soul cultivator arrived and ordered Mi Zangyuan to end the ritual, while he pleaded for just over two more hours to save his wife.

• He Pingsheng told Ling Zhiwang and the City Lord’s Manor guards that he had lent his cultivation space to a guest who was saving someone inside.
• Mi Zangyuan emerged and explained that yin energy had surged during his relative’s soul fusion, asking the guards to wait four hours.
• When the captain tried to enter, Mi Zangyuan blasted him away, prompting the captain to summon more guards.
• A black-robed Golden Core cultivator arrived, but Mi Zangyuan’s aura made clear that he was stronger, so the cultivator reported the situation to the City Lord’s Manor.
• A blue-robed woman appeared through Instantaneous Teleportation and ordered Mi Zangyuan to stop the Soul-Fusion Art.
• Mi Zangyuan explained that his wife had lost one of her three souls and asked the woman to let the ritual continue for just over two more hours.

Mi Zangyuan fought off a Nascent Soul cultivator to protect Su Yin’s ongoing soul fusion and secured four hours from City Lord Murong. He returned to He Pingsheng’s house to watch over Su Yin as the onlookers wondered about his power.

• Mi Zangyuan begged the Nascent Soul Woman in Blue to let Su Yin’s soul fusion continue, warning that interrupting it would kill his wife.
• When the woman threatened to destroy the formation, Mi Zangyuan challenged her and blasted her a hundred zhang away with a single palm strike.
• City Lord Murong appeared and recognized Mi Zangyuan, who explained that he had delayed his breakthrough to wait for his Dao Companion.
• Mi Zangyuan revealed a high-grade Transformation-Breaking Pill and warned Murong that he could use it to fight back if attacked.
• Murong granted Mi Zangyuan four hours, and Mi Zangyuan returned to He Pingsheng’s little house to watch over Su Yin.
• The cultivators outside discussed Mi Zangyuan’s strength and his use of Instantaneous Teleportation.

He Pingsheng learned that Mi Zangyuan’s wife, Qi Suyin, planned to rebuild her cultivation using his supreme-grade pills. After Mi Zangyuan warned him to keep the Dao-Grinding Stone secret, He Pingsheng asked Ling Zhiwang how Mi could use teleportation while still in the Golden Core Stage and learned about Golden Core Dao Access.

• Mi Zangyuan and Qi Suyin emerged from the courtyard, and Qi thanked He Pingsheng for saving her life.
• Qi Suyin asked for pills to rebuild her meridians, and He Pingsheng gave her three supreme-grade pills.
• Mi Zangyuan warned He Pingsheng through divine sense never to reveal the Dao-Grinding Stone, then left with Qi Suyin.
• He Pingsheng visited Ling Zhiwang at the Red Moon Trading Company and asked how Mi Zangyuan could teleport before reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Ling Zhiwang explained that some Golden Core cultivators developed a dao root early, a phenomenon called Golden Core Dao Access, and said it could occur through talent or outside help.

Ling Zhiwang explained how a Dao Root could sprout during the golden core stage and how the Dao-Restoring Pill and Dao-Grinding Stone could strengthen it, but He Pingsheng doubted he would need the stone. After failing to comprehend the Spear Intent Crystal, He Pingsheng spent six months practicing the Harmonious Union Scripture before a group from the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect arrived to challenge him.

• Ling Zhiwang explained that an early Dao Root needed a Dao-Restoring Pill to stabilize it and a Dao-Grinding Stone to temper it.
• He Pingsheng tried consuming powder from the Spear Intent Crystal, but its spear intent dissipated at his Spirit Root because he had no Dao Root.
• He Pingsheng put away the crystal and began practicing the Harmonious Union Scripture.
• He Pingsheng spent six months cultivating, refining and selling pills, and practicing the scripture.
• Xiao He warned He Pingsheng that people from the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect had come to challenge him.
• The sect's eleventh-layer Foundation Establishment cultivator identified He Pingsheng as Xu Kunlun and challenged him.

Zhang Qifeng challenged He Pingsheng over his relationship with Qiao Huizhu, then destroyed He Pingsheng’s Alchemy Shop when He refused to fight. The City Lord’s Manor arrested Zhang and the other Free and Carefree Immortal Sect disciples, while He Pingsheng prepared to claim compensation for his losses.

• Zhang Qifeng introduced himself as a core disciple of Jade Tree Peak and demanded that He Pingsheng leave Qiao Huizhu, but He revealed they were already husband and wife and Dao Companions.
• He Pingsheng refused Zhang’s challenge and told him to leave unless he intended to buy pills.
• Zhang attacked He Pingsheng, who dodged his strikes as Zhang destroyed the shop and its pill shelves.
• The City Lord’s Manor arrived and arrested Zhang and the other Free and Carefree Immortal Sect disciples for disrupting the city’s order.
• He Pingsheng thanked the captain and offered him discounted high-grade Spirit-Gathering Pills, then planned to tally his losses and seek compensation.

After rebuilding his Alchemy Shop, He Pingsheng traded two supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pills for a Red Essence Ginseng and enhanced it into two, giving one to Uncle Cheng to help him break through his Qi Refining bottleneck. The chapter ended with a handsome customer revealing that he had reached the false core realm and could advance to the Golden Core Stage without an Origin-Reaching Pill.

• He Pingsheng reopened his rebuilt Alchemy Shop and learned from Ling Zhiwang that the Red Moon Trading Company would soon auction a treasure for breaking through a Qi Refining bottleneck.
• He Pingsheng met Elder Red Moon and traded two supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pills for the Red Essence Ginseng intended for his disciple.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the Red Essence Ginseng into two and gave one to Uncle Cheng, who went into seclusion to break through his cultivation bottleneck.
• A customer at the peak of the twelfth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm told He Pingsheng that he had already entered the false core realm and needed no Origin-Reaching Pill to reach the Golden Core Stage.

He Pingsheng confronted Wuqiong, a false core cultivator from the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect, over the damage Wuqiong’s junior brother Zhang Qifeng had caused. Wuqiong left without paying the demanded compensation, then realized He Pingsheng had been reading a Dual Cultivation Technique.

• He Pingsheng explained that false core cultivators formed cores without an Origin-Reaching Pill and were unusually strong.
• Wuqiong introduced himself as the eldest disciple of Jade Tree Peak and offered to compensate He Pingsheng for Zhang Qifeng’s damage.
• He Pingsheng refused to wait for Zhang Qifeng’s release and demanded six million low-grade spirit stones for the destroyed pills and lost business.
• He Pingsheng mocked Wuqiong’s name and wealth, enraging him until he left the shop without paying.
• As Wuqiong left, he recognized the book He Pingsheng had been reading as a Dual Cultivation Technique.

Old Cheng reached the Foundation Establishment Realm after He Pingsheng gave him a high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill. He chose to remain at the Pill Shop with He Pingsheng and received cultivation techniques and a fire-attribute spell.

• Qiao Huizhu contacted He Pingsheng through a second-grade Heartbond Talisman and said she would come to the Pill Shop.
• Old Cheng told He Pingsheng that he had stabilized his Qi Refining cultivation at the twelfth layer, and He Pingsheng gave him a high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Old Cheng swallowed the pill and reached the Foundation Establishment Realm in half a day, regaining a youthful appearance.
• Old Cheng revealed that his name was Cheng Daocai and said he wanted to stay with He Pingsheng and his granddaughter rather than travel.
• He Pingsheng gave Cheng Daocai the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core chapters of the Lihuo True Method and the Fire Shield Technique.

He Pingsheng studied the Heavenly Moon Divine Formation while Jade Tree True Person arranged payment to Xu Kunlun for Zhang Qifeng’s release. Qiao Huizhu arrived at the Alchemy Shop and proposed that she and He Pingsheng use the Harmonious Union Scripture to try to break through her bottleneck.

• He Pingsheng took over refining pills at the Alchemy Shop and used his spare time to study the Heavenly Moon Divine Formation.
• Daoist Wuqiong asked Jade Tree True Person for help getting Zhang Qifeng released from the City Lord’s Manor.
• Jade Tree True Person verified the thirty-six high-grade pill fragments and gave Wuqiong six hundred middle-grade spirit stones to pay Xu Kunlun.
• Jade Tree True Person told Wuqiong that Jade Tree Peak had to reclaim its dignity because Qiao Huizhu was at Azure Cloud Peak, then sent him away.
• Qiao Huizhu arrived at the Alchemy Shop, checked that He Pingsheng was unharmed, and gave him the Harmonious Union Scripture.
• He Pingsheng agreed to try the scripture with Qiao Huizhu, though he was unsure whether mutual replenishment would help her break through.

He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu emerged from three days of joint cultivation having broken through their Foundation Establishment bottlenecks, while Daoist Wuqiong arrived to deliver compensation for Zhang Qifeng. After Wuqiong paid the spirit stones and left, He Pingsheng asked Qiao Huizhu how she would proceed toward forming a golden core.

• He Pingsheng sealed the rooms behind the pill shop with layered grand formations before beginning joint cultivation with Qiao Huizhu.
• Daoist Wuqiong arrived at the pill shop to see Xu Kunlun, but Cheng Daocai kept him waiting for three days.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu emerged together, and Wuqiong was distressed to learn that Qiao Huizhu was He Pingsheng’s wife and Dao Companion.
• Qiao Huizhu revealed that joint cultivation had raised He Pingsheng to the eleventh Foundation Establishment layer and her to the twelfth.
• Wuqiong gave He Pingsheng six hundred middle-grade spirit stones as compensation, and He Pingsheng issued a certificate before Wuqiong left.
• He Pingsheng asked Qiao Huizhu whether she would use an Origin-Reaching Pill to form a golden core or cultivate one gradually without pills.

Qiao Huizhu chose to try forming her Golden Core without an Origin-Reaching Pill while He Pingsheng cultivated at their Small Courtyard. After Zhang Qifeng challenged He Pingsheng to an arena duel, He Pingsheng accepted and arrived at the City Lord's Manor, where Zhang taunted him before their fight.

• Qiao Huizhu decided to attempt the second path to Golden Core and went into seclusion at the Small Courtyard with He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng studied the Heavenly Moon Divine Formation and swallowed a supreme-grade Spirit-Gathering Pill as he continued cultivating.
• Daoist Wuqiong freed Zhang Qifeng and the other Jade Tree Peak disciples, then urged Zhang to challenge He Pingsheng and cripple him.
• After the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect's Challenge Letter reached the Small Courtyard, He Pingsheng accepted Zhang Qifeng's arena challenge to avoid trouble for Qiao Huizhu.
• He Pingsheng went to the City Lord's Manor with Qiao Huizhu and Ling Zhiwang, where Zhang Qifeng taunted him and invited him into the arena.

He Pingsheng agreed to fight Zhang Qifeng only after insisting that Qiao Huizhu could not be used as a wager. When He Pingsheng demanded a stake, Daoist Wuqiong could not match the treasures he displayed, leaving the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect humiliated and the duel unresolved.

• Zhang Qifeng challenged He Pingsheng to fight on the arena, but He Pingsheng questioned why he had to accept or admit defeat.
• Daoist Wuqiong pressured He Pingsheng to fight, and He Pingsheng agreed on the condition that Qiao Huizhu, his wife, was not part of the wager.
• He Pingsheng displayed the supreme-grade Fire Essence Blood-Reflecting Armor as a possible stake, leaving Wuqiong unable to match it.
• He Pingsheng offered the supreme-grade spirit artifact Skyborne Boat instead, but Wuqiong still had no comparable stake.
• He Pingsheng mocked Wuqiong for lacking a supreme-grade spirit artifact, put the Skyborne Boat away, and left without fighting.

He Pingsheng tried to avoid fighting until Zhang Qifeng offered an Immortal Fruit Token as a wager, which He accepted. After they agreed to fight without magical treasures, talismans, or pills, He Pingsheng defeated Zhang Qifeng so quickly that Daoist Wuqiong never saw what happened.

• He Pingsheng refused Daoist Wuqiong’s wager of a divine sense attack bell and showed that his own Small Bell had more restrictions.
• Zhang Qifeng challenged He Pingsheng directly and offered his Immortal Fruit Token against He Pingsheng’s Skyborne Boat.
• The City Lord’s Manor secured both wagers, and Daoist Wuqiong set rules forbidding magical treasures, talismans, and pills.
• He Pingsheng struck Zhang Qifeng into the arena barrier and left him motionless on the ground.
• Daoist Wuqiong turned back to find Zhang Qifeng already defeated and asked the stunned spectators what had happened.

He Pingsheng defeated Zhang Qifeng with a punch and denied cheating with a divine-sense treasure. Daoist Wuqiong challenged him without the Soul-Slaying Bell, but He Pingsheng suppressed his divine sense and shattered his false core with a single strike.

• He Pingsheng knocked Zhang Qifeng unconscious and claimed his Skyborne Boat and [Immortal Fruit Token].
• Zhang Qifeng identified a divine-sense attack, then accused He Pingsheng of cheating with a magical treasure.
• He Pingsheng showed the Soul-Slaying Bell and handed it to Qiao Huizhu before accepting Daoist Wuqiong's challenge.
• Daoist Wuqiong let He Pingsheng attack first, but He Pingsheng's divine sense suppressed him and his punch blasted him off the arena.
• Daoist Wuqiong spat blood and cried that his false core had shattered.

He Pingsheng defeated Daoist Wuqiong, then discovered that enhancing Mi Zangyuan’s Dao-Grinding Stone produced a growing Dao-Refining Heavenly Stele. He bought and enhanced a comprehensive Cultivation Miscellany, but both resulting copies were identical.

• He Pingsheng defeated Daoist Wuqiong in the arena, shattering his false core, and left with his companions.
• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu the Immortal Fruit Token and asked her to collect the South Qi Fruit when it ripened.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the Dao-Grinding Stone in the Treasure-Gathering Basin and received a Dao-Grinding Stone and a Dao-Refining Heavenly Stele that could grow by absorbing the power of rules.
• He Pingsheng visited Ling Zhiwang at the Red Moon Trading Company and bought its most comprehensive Cultivation Miscellany for one thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the Cultivation Miscellany, but the two resulting Cultivation Collections were identical.