Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng bought ingredients to repair his damaged golden core, then refined and upgraded pills himself and restored his fire-attribute dantian. He stayed in Southern Heaven City to gather ingredients for Dao-Restoring Pills before returning to Redstone City.

• He Pingsheng bought one set of Origin-Stabilizing Pill ingredients from the Heavenly South Trading Company after declining the female elder's advice to visit True Person Capping Mountain.
• The female elder sent a message with a Heartbond Talisman after He Pingsheng left the trading company.
• He Pingsheng refined twelve middle-grade pills using firewood on a barren mountain, and the Treasure-Gathering Basin upgraded them to supreme grade overnight.
• He Pingsheng swallowed one pill to repair his golden core, then drank Golden Bee Sacred Nectar until his fire-attribute dantian was full.
• He Pingsheng lodged at an Immortal Guest House and planned to gather the remaining ingredients for Dao-Restoring Pills before returning to Redstone City.
• He Pingsheng took out the items he had obtained from the Secret Realm to inspect them.

He Pingsheng completed his cultivation to the First-Level Golden Core Stage and gathered ingredients for refining Dao-Restoring Pills. He acquired heavenly su leaf at the Southern River Commerce Association and received a token to attend its auction, where he hoped to inspect a golden Alchemy Furnace.

• He Pingsheng spent a year and a half cultivating and enhancing his possessions, completed his Golden Core Dao Access, and formed five Golden Cores.
• He Pingsheng visited dozens of shops to purchase supplementary ingredients for Dao-Restoring Pills, but could not find purple loquat or heavenly su leaf.
• He Pingsheng saw that the Southern River Commerce Association would hold an auction in three days, including a damaged golden Magical Treasure Alchemy Furnace.
• He Pingsheng bought two portions of heavenly su leaf from the association and accepted a token granting him admission to the auction.

He Pingsheng tried to buy purple loquats from the Heavenly South Trading Company, but its Golden Core Stage elder turned him away and again urged him to visit True Person Capping Mountain. He then attended the Southern River Commerce Association auction, where he learned the first lot was a potent spirit wine.

• He Pingsheng went to the Heavenly South Trading Company to buy two purple loquats, but the elder claimed none were available despite Xiaodong saying a shipment had arrived.
• The elder again directed He Pingsheng to Capping Mountain, but he refused and decided to seek purple loquats later through Ling Zhiwang.
• After resting for three days, He Pingsheng attended the Southern River Commerce Association auction and planned to leave Southern Heaven City afterward.
• The auctioneer opened with five hundred jars of Century-Aged Brew from Spring Rain House, and bidders quickly raised the price.
• He Pingsheng asked a female cultivator what the brew was and learned it was a spirit wine said to benefit cultivation and male prowess.

He Pingsheng learned the uses of Spring Rain House’s Century-Aged Immortal Brew, bought fifty jars, and won a damaged magical cauldron at auction. While traveling north to Redstone City, he enhanced the cauldron into two repaired supreme-grade treasures, one of which he planned to give to Sister Qiao.

• An old man explained that Century-Aged Immortal Brew could clear pill toxins and serve as spirit liquid for alchemy, and the auction’s five hundred jars sold for seventeen million spirit stones.
• He Pingsheng bid on the little golden cauldron and won it for nine hundred and ninety thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• He Pingsheng bought fifty jars of Century-Aged Immortal Brew from a reseller and sampled it after returning to his lodgings.
• He Pingsheng left Southern Heaven City aboard a ship bound for Redstone City and enhanced the cauldron during the voyage.
• The Treasure-Gathering Basin produced a black Ancient Mystic Cauldron and an azure Azure Mystic Cauldron, both repaired supreme-grade magical treasures; He Pingsheng decided the azure one would suit Sister Qiao.

After returning to Redstone City as a Golden Core cultivator, He Pingsheng gathered the final ingredients for Dao-Restoring Pills and refined a batch of high-grade pills. He enhanced all twelve into twenty-four supreme-grade pills, leaving him with the finished medicine in hand.

• He Pingsheng asked Ling Zhiwang to secretly obtain two Purple Loquats and paid him with a supreme-grade Origin-Reaching Pill.
• He Pingsheng returned to his Alchemy Shop, reassured Cheng Daocai and Xiao He, and gave Xiao He cultivation medicines and manuals.
• During secluded cultivation, He Pingsheng refined ten layers of restrictions on the Ancient Mystic Cauldron and enhanced ingredients and Century-Aged Immortal Brew.
• Ling Zhiwang delivered two Purple Loquats, which He Pingsheng enhanced into four to complete his Dao-Restoring Pill ingredients.
• He Pingsheng used the Ancient Mystic Cauldron to refine twelve high-grade Dao-Restoring Pills, then enhanced them into twenty-four supreme-grade pills.

He Pingsheng used a supreme-grade Dao-Restoring Pill to stabilize and nourish his Dao Root, allowing him to begin comprehending the laws of the world. After setting aside Instantaneous Teleportation, he refined a Sago Palm Sacred Fruit and mastered its wood-attribute laws, greatly strengthening his Sacred Wood Poison Dragon Technique.

• He Pingsheng swallowed the supreme-grade Dao-Restoring Pill, and his Dao Root spread through his sea of consciousness and drew in the laws between heaven and earth.
• He Pingsheng tried to comprehend the Spatial Daoist Law for Instantaneous Teleportation, but after a month found that he lacked either the years or the Nascent Soul expert needed to master it quickly.
• He Pingsheng read about the two ways to acquire Instantaneous Teleportation and decided to postpone pursuing the ability.
• He Pingsheng consumed and refined a supreme-grade Sago Palm Sacred Fruit, comprehending its wood-attribute laws in less than two months.
• He Pingsheng used the wood-attribute laws to cover the Small Courtyard in poisonous thorns, multiplying the power of his Sacred Wood Poison Dragon Technique.

He Pingsheng studied the Five Elements Unity Force and gained rudimentary insights into the water and fire laws, while seeking materials for the remaining elements. He left Elder Red Moon looking for earth- and metal-attribute Law Treasures and spatial laws, then headed toward the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect to deliver a Dao-Restoring Pill to Senior Sister Qiao.

• He Pingsheng studied the Five Elements Unity Force and refined ten-thousand-year ice marrow and scarlet fire crystals to understand water and fire laws.
• He Pingsheng told Xiao He to buy ingredients for Qi-Gathering Pills, Spirit-Gathering Pills, and Essence-Gathering Pills while he was away.
• He Pingsheng visited Ling Zhiwang and asked to meet Elder Red Moon about obtaining Law Treasures.
• He Pingsheng showed Elder Red Moon four supreme-grade law materials and requested earth- and metal-attribute treasures or materials related to spatial laws and Instantaneous Teleportation.
• He Pingsheng evaded Elder Red Moon's question about whether he had attained Golden Core Dao Access by saying the materials might be for his Dao Companion, then departed.

He Pingsheng left Redstone City for the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect, but Elder Jingxin ambushed him on the way. He chose to fight the Nascent Soul cultivator rather than flee, and the chapter ended as she attacked with another sword strike.

• He Pingsheng activated the Eight-Treasure Ship and raced toward the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect.
• Jingxin ambushed He Pingsheng with a sword strike, damaging his ship, but he dodged using his speed-enhancing techniques.
• He Pingsheng identified Jingxin as a first-level Nascent Soul cultivator and challenged her for attacking him without cause.
• Jingxin admitted she wanted to kill He Pingsheng simply to keep her heart free of obstruction.
• He Pingsheng prepared his Heaven-Deficiency Divine Spear, talisman, armor, and speed-enhancing items, deciding to fight instead of escape.
• Jingxin swept her azure sword and sent a powerful streak of sword qi toward He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng fought Elder Jingxin, evading her attacks before wounding her with the Heaven-Deficiency Divine Spear. After he blocked her sword light with Daoist law and the Ancient Mystic Cauldron, he threatened her with a fourth-grade talisman, leaving their battle at a tense standstill.

• He Pingsheng dodged Jingxin's sword qi and trapped her in ice with Glazed World, but she broke free and attacked again.
• Jingxin used Instantaneous Teleportation to strike at He Pingsheng, but he dodged her first attempt and let her sword hit his defenses during her next, thrusting the Heaven-Deficiency Divine Spear through her shoulder.
• Jingxin pursued He Pingsheng with a rapid flurry of sword slashes, forcing him to combine the Fire Shield Technique with the Ancient Mystic Cauldron to block one attack.
• Jingxin recognized that He Pingsheng had comprehended Daoist law and recalled Mi Zangyuan's past attack on her.
• He Pingsheng showed Jingxin a fourth-grade Instantaneous Teleportation Talisman and warned her to stop fighting or risk being reduced to dust.

He Pingsheng bluffed Elder Jingxin into retreating after their battle and traveled to the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect. There, he reunited with Qiao Huizhu, who told him the missing Dao-Restoring Pill was not important to her.

• He Pingsheng used a fourth-grade Instantaneous Teleportation Talisman and his powerful Divine Sense to convince Jingxin that attacking him would be too dangerous, and she withdrew.
• He Pingsheng reflected on his weakness after facing a Nascent Soul cultivator and resolved to cultivate carefully.
• He Pingsheng reached the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect and used Xiaoyaozi's token to enter.
• He Pingsheng landed on Azure Cloud Peak, where Qiao Huizhu ran to greet him after two years apart.
• Qiao Huizhu said she had missed and worried about him, then insisted that the Dao-Restoring Pill was not important because she could comprehend the Dao after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.

He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu a Dao-Restoring Pill and upgraded the defenses around her cultivation grounds while she stabilized her Dao Root. After they discussed marriage and children, they headed to see her master, where Qiao Xiaoqiao teased them about their time together.

• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu a supreme-grade Dao-Restoring Pill, and she realized he had spent two years gathering ingredients for it.
• He Pingsheng installed four third-grade formations around Qiao Huizhu's cultivation grounds while she took the pill and stabilized her Dao Root.
• Qiao Huizhu proposed having a child, but He Pingsheng said he wanted to restore the Great Void Sect before settling down to raise a family.
• Qiao Huizhu and He Pingsheng set out to tell her master that she had obtained the Dao-Restoring Pill.
• Qiao Xiaoqiao met them on the path and teased Qiao Huizhu about secretly practicing with He Pingsheng, prompting her sister to grab her ear.

He Pingsheng visited the Azure Cloud Immortal Maiden, who warned him that his Three-Nine tribulation lightning might mean he and Qiao Huizhu would not share a future. Qiao Huizhu revealed that He Pingsheng had restored her Dao Root, and Xiaoyaozi arrived to learn the news before the Azure Cloud Immortal Maiden ordered him to teach her the Dao.

• The Azure Cloud Immortal Maiden asked He Pingsheng about his Three-Nine tribulation lightning and warned him to be careful because he might not remain with Qiao Huizhu.
• Qiao Huizhu told the Azure Cloud Immortal Maiden that He Pingsheng had refined a Dao-Restoring Pill and fully restored her Dao Root.
• The Azure Cloud Immortal Maiden summoned Xiaoyaozi, who was astonished to hear that Qiao Huizhu's Dao Root was complete.
• He Pingsheng explained that he had found and secretly taken a mature Black-and-White Lotus Root to make the pill, and Xiaoyaozi marveled at his fortune.
• The Azure Cloud Immortal Maiden ordered Xiaoyaozi to lecture Qiao Huizhu on the Dao for ten years, but he refused because he had important business to attend to.

Xiaoyaozi left for the Ascension Gathering after giving Qiao Huizhu a portion of Spatial Daoist Law, and He Pingsheng secretly enhanced a copy to study it himself. He and Qiao Huizhu both learned Instantaneous Teleportation, and He Pingsheng gave her a technique to defend her sea of consciousness.

• Xiaoyaozi explained that Spirit Transformation cultivators were gathering to find a way into the upper realm, gave Qiao Huizhu Spatial Daoist Law, and departed.
• He Pingsheng advised Qiao Huizhu to absorb ten-thousand-year ice marrow first, then used his Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance a copy of the spatial laws for himself.
• He Pingsheng finished comprehending Spatial Daoist Law and demonstrated Instantaneous Teleportation by traveling outside the sect and back.
• Qiao Huizhu later mastered Instantaneous Teleportation, taking longer than He Pingsheng to comprehend the spatial laws.
• He Pingsheng learned that Qiao Huizhu had cultivated the Mysterious Gate Tranquil Mind True Formula and gave her the Purple Mansion Nine-Shield Art to protect her sea of consciousness.

He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu several defensive treasures and discovered that a second piece of ten-thousand-year ice marrow offered little new benefit. When Wuqiong came to Azure Cloud Peak to challenge him, He Pingsheng chose to face him rather than leave Qiao Huizhu to deal with the fallout.

• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu the Purple Mansion Nine-Shield Art, a Heavenly Poison-Repelling Pearl, the Azure Mystic Cauldron, and Icefield Divine Dew, and told her to keep them secret.
• Qiao Huizhu absorbed another piece of ten-thousand-year ice marrow and found its ice laws overlapped about seventy percent with the previous piece.
• He Pingsheng stayed at the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect with Qiao Huizhu and resumed refining pills for his shop.
• Qiao Xiaoqiao told He Pingsheng that Wuqiong had come to challenge him after using another Origin-Reaching Pill to form a Golden Core and reach the Second Layer of the Golden Core Stage.
• Though Qiao Xiaoqiao urged him to escape and Qiao Huizhu worried about his chances, He Pingsheng decided to go meet Wuqiong.

Wuqiong challenged He Pingsheng to a duel, seeking revenge for the punch that had shattered his false core. He Pingsheng accepted, then appeared in the sea of clouds with instantaneous teleportation, leaving the onlookers alarmed for Wuqiong.

• Wuqiong arrived at Azure Cloud Palace with Jade Tree Peak disciples and demanded a chance to avenge He Pingsheng's attack in Redstone City.
• Bi Yun tried to discourage the challenge, but Wuqiong offered to suppress his cultivation to match He Pingsheng.
• Zhang Qifeng and other disciples accused He Pingsheng of relying on divine sense, and a senior sister argued that it should not be used in a friendly match.
• He Pingsheng accepted the duel and offered to face Wuqiong and Zhang Qifeng together, but Wuqiong insisted on fighting one-on-one in the sea of clouds.
• Wuqiong flew to the sea of clouds in a showy display, and He Pingsheng followed by using instantaneous teleportation, astonishing the crowd.

He Pingsheng revealed his Golden Core Dao Access and forced Wuqiong to surrender by threatening him with overwhelming lightning. Daoist Guanglong confronted He Pingsheng afterward, but could not fault him for sparing Wuqiong.

• Bi Yun and Qiao Huizhu were stunned when He Pingsheng revealed his Golden Core Dao Access, while Wuqiong realized the danger of fighting him.
• He Pingsheng produced a Fourth-Grade Teleportation Talisman and told Wuqiong he planned to kill him and escape the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect’s Nascent Soul seniors.
• He Pingsheng gathered immense bolts of heavenly lightning, and Wuqiong surrendered before the attack landed.
• He Pingsheng sent the lightning into a deserted mountain peak to demonstrate its power, and Wuqiong collapsed on Azure Cloud Peak.
• Daoist Guanglong accused He Pingsheng of being vicious, but He Pingsheng argued that sparing Wuqiong had preserved harmony and left Guanglong unable to retaliate.

He Pingsheng left Azure Cloud Peak and returned to Redstone City, where he spent seven years cultivating and refining pills. A powerful visitor, Patriarch Ruokai, then asked him to refine middle-grade Mingwu Pills, and He Pingsheng agreed to do so with time to prepare.

• Bi Yun sent several Azure Cloud Peak disciples to Reflection Cliff for three months after they undermined one another in front of her.
• He Pingsheng said farewell to the Azure Cloud Immortal Maiden and Qiao Huizhu, then teleported away from the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect to pursue cultivation.
• He Pingsheng returned to Redstone City, gave Xiao He his refined pills, and resumed refining and cultivating at the Pill Shop.
• Over seven years, He Pingsheng advanced from the First-Level Golden Core Stage to the second level, while Xiao He reached the second level of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Patriarch Ruokai brought five sets of materials to He Pingsheng and requested one batch of middle-grade Mingwu Pills.
• He Pingsheng agreed to refine the pills but asked Patriarch Ruokai to give him some time.

He Pingsheng agreed to refine Mingwu Pills for True Person Ruokai, using precious treasures as collateral before secretly enhancing the ingredients and pills. He returned ahead of schedule with twelve middle-grade pills, leaving Ruokai to inspect the completed batch.

• He Pingsheng promised True Person Ruokai twelve middle-grade Mingwu Pills within five days and left two treasures as collateral.
• He Pingsheng used Instantaneous Teleportation to reach his Small Courtyard, impressing True Person Ruokai with his Golden Core Dao Access.
• He Pingsheng studied the Mingwu Pill recipe, enhanced the ingredients, and refined twelve waste pills followed by twelve low-grade pills.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the pills into middle-grade and supreme-grade versions, discovering that supreme-grade Mingwu Pills increased comprehension fourfold for three years.
• He Pingsheng returned to the Alchemy Shop early and presented True Person Ruokai with twelve middle-grade Mingwu Pills.

He Pingsheng refused True Person Ruokai’s attempt to trade for his ten-thousand-year ice marrow without offering a metal or earth law origin, then learned that a Nascent Soul cultivator planned to auction a bottle of Dao-Gathering Pills. He planned to ask Elder Red Moon about the pills’ unknown attribute.

• True Person Ruokai praised He Pingsheng’s middle-grade Mingwu Pills and tried to trade for his ten-thousand-year ice marrow, but He Pingsheng asked for metal or earth law origins instead.
• After True Person Ruokai’s attendant threatened He Pingsheng, Ruokai rebuked him and left Redstone City with his followers.
• He Pingsheng refined nineteen batches of Mingwu Pills over several days, enhancing ten batches to supreme grade and nine to high grade.
• Ling Zhiwang visited He Pingsheng, shared news about reserving a Blood-Jade Purple-Skinned Jujube, and revealed that a Nascent Soul cultivator planned to consign a bottle of fourth-grade Dao-Gathering Pills for auction.
• He Pingsheng learned that the Dao-Gathering Pills’ attribute was still unknown and decided to ask Elder Red Moon about them.

He Pingsheng learned from Red Moon that Dao-Gathering Pills and law origins circulated through private Nascent Soul cultivator circles, so he refined pills to trade and left Redstone City for Tianqiang Mountain to seek Mi Zangyuan’s help. If Mi Zangyuan could not connect him to those circles, He Pingsheng planned to rely on the much slower path of comprehending the Great Dao himself.

• He Pingsheng visited Red Moon at the trading company and learned that Nascent Soul cultivators traded Daoist laws privately; the bottle of fourth-grade Dao-Gathering Pills consigned that day contained wood-attribute pills and would not be auctioned.
• Red Moon advised He Pingsheng to refine his law origins into pills rather than trade entire origins, and he agreed that this would make exchanges easier.
• He Pingsheng spent a month refining two batches each of high-grade ice-, wood-, and fire-attribute Dao-Gathering Pills, making twenty-four pills of each type.
• He Pingsheng teleported out of Redstone City, boarded the Eight-Treasure Ship, and headed west toward Tianqiang Mountain to ask Mi Zangyuan for help reaching Nascent Soul trading circles.
• He Pingsheng considered relying on his own comprehension of the Great Dao if Mi Zangyuan could not help, though he knew that path could take decades or longer.