Chapter Summaries

After reaching the nascent soul realm, He Pingsheng enhanced several treasures while cultivating in the desert. He left with new high-grade spirit stones and ancient treasures, but his worn Formation Plate remained unchanged.

• He Pingsheng discovered that the Treasure-Gathering Basin had turned two low-grade spirit stones into four high-grade ones and gave two wood attribute stones to Su Zhenzhen.
• He Pingsheng asked Su Zhenzhen to set up a fourth-grade Defense Formation and a divine-sense sealing formation before he began secluded cultivation.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the Heaven-Deficiency Divine Spear into a supreme-grade ancient treasure and received the fire attribute Southern Bright Sky-Piercing Halberd.
• He Pingsheng duplicated Jiang Lan's Jinlan Treasure Robe, and the new red robe gained the ability to conceal fortune.
• He Pingsheng tried to enhance a worn Formation Plate associated with time, but it did not change.

He Pingsheng strengthened his divine sense, left the Heavenly Pole Forbidden Ground with Su Zhenzhen, and used his new fortune-reading ability to survey the land. He planned to seek ordinary Dao-Gathering Pills and search for Qiao Huizhu.

• He Pingsheng trained for a year until his divine sense reached the first layer of the Nascent Soul Chapter, allowing him to manifest Divine Sense Nails, flying knives, and a fifty-zhang phantom palm.
• He Pingsheng explained that his Golden Core Dao Access had cleared the Dao obstacles through the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, but he needed ordinary Dao-Gathering Pills to continue advancing.
• Su Zhenzhen chose to leave the Heavenly Pole Forbidden Ground with He Pingsheng, and they sailed out aboard the Eight-Treasure Ship.
• He Pingsheng used the Heavenly Eye Geomancy True Canon to see the fortune of people nearby and spotted a great concentration of fortune toward Peacock Commandery and Tawenian Mountain.
• He Pingsheng decided to move farther from the Heavenly Pole Forbidden Ground before searching for Qiao Huizhu.

He Pingsheng returned to the Liang Kingdom’s Imperial Capital after failing to find news of Qiao Huizhu, and asked Patriarch Zhenyu to spar so he could test his Nascent Soul Realm strength before going to the Qi Kingdom to rescue his wife. The chapter ended with He Pingsheng arriving at a remote wilderness north of the capital to await Zhenyu.

• He Pingsheng took Su Zhenzhen to her courtyard in Southern Heaven City, gave her fourth-grade formation materials, and later returned to spend several days with her.
• On an Immortal Ship, He Pingsheng used the Heavenly Eye Geomancy True Canon and discovered that Ting Tong had eight-nine fortune, but he could not locate Qiao Huizhu, Xiao Xuan, or Wang Dun.
• He Pingsheng reached Redstone City and visited the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect, but learned that there was still no news of Qiao Huizhu.
• He Pingsheng returned to the Liang Kingdom’s Imperial Capital and told Patriarch Zhenyu that he planned to go to the Qi Kingdom to rescue his wife and avenge her abduction.
• He Pingsheng asked Patriarch Zhenyu to spar with him to test his combat strength, and Zhenyu directed him to a remote wilderness north of the capital.

He Pingsheng tested his strength against Patriarch Zhenyu, a third-layer Spirit Transformation cultivator, and found that even his strongest attacks could not defeat him. After replenishing his spiritual power and activating Heavenly Gang Three Transformations, He Pingsheng launched an even stronger Heavenfire Half-Moon Slash.

• Patriarch Zhenyu arrived to test He Pingsheng and challenged him to attack with everything he had.
• He Pingsheng struck with the Southern Bright Sky-Piercing Halberd, but Patriarch Zhenyu's Azure Qi Shield withstood the attack.
• He Pingsheng unleashed a five-element blade that shattered Zhenyu's qi shield but was stopped by his magical treasure shield.
• He Pingsheng concluded that his spiritual power reserves were too small to defeat a Spirit Transformation cultivator, then drank Icefield Divine Dew to refill his five dantians.
• He Pingsheng activated Heavenly Gang Three Transformations and attacked Zhenyu with a more powerful Heavenfire Half-Moon Slash.

He Pingsheng tested his strength against Patriarch Zhenyu and asked whether his missing wife, Qiao Huizhu, and Xiao Xuan might have ascended to the Spirit Realm. The Liang Kingdom’s Royal Family Ancestor and Zhenyu gave him rare fifth-grade talismans to aid his pursuit of his enemy, Jiang Yu.

• He Pingsheng’s powerful attack shattered Zhenyu’s defenses and sent him flying, though Zhenyu warned that He Pingsheng lacked the Space Power needed to stop an opponent from escaping.
• He Pingsheng considered how his other techniques might improve his chances against Jiang Yu, who had reached the third layer of Spirit Transformation Stage.
• He Pingsheng asked Zhenyu whether Qiao Huizhu and Xiao Xuan could have ascended to the Spirit Realm, and Zhenyu said their Nascent Soul cultivation made that unlikely.
• The Royal Family Ancestor arrived, learned of He Pingsheng’s strength, and promised the Liang Kingdom’s support while explaining that it could not act directly.
• He Pingsheng requested fifth-grade talismans, and the Royal Family Ancestor and Zhenyu gave him a Heavenly Wind Talisman and a Thick Earth Talisman.

He Pingsheng learned that Qiao Huizhu’s disappearance was unrelated to the Qi Kingdom and promised to help Jiang Lan avenge her family by killing Jiang Yu. He delayed confronting Jiang Yu to strengthen himself, then devoured two Glazed Nascent Souls and reached the fourth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.

• He Pingsheng returned Jiang Lan’s Jinlan Treasure Robe and learned that the Qi Kingdom Imperial Family was not responsible for Qiao Huizhu’s disappearance.
• Jiang Lan revealed that Jiang Yu helped overthrow her father and slaughter her family, and asked He Pingsheng to avenge them.
• He Pingsheng promised to kill Jiang Yu but decided to wait until he had cultivated further.
• He Pingsheng swallowed a Glazed Nascent Soul, cultivated with its energy, and placed two fifth-grade talismans and Low-Grade Spirit Stones in the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• Over eight years, He Pingsheng devoured both Glazed Nascent Souls and advanced to the fourth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.

After emerging from seclusion, He Pingsheng recognized Long Juanfeng, gave him the name Dragon Hibernate, and arranged for Liang Zhili to take him as a disciple. He then searched for Qiao Huizhu and examined an enhanced talisman, leaving him concerned she might be at Tawenian Mountain.

• He Pingsheng returned to the Commerce Association and recognized Long Juanfeng as the child he had once helped.
• He Pingsheng named Long Juanfeng Dragon Hibernate and decided to find him a master.
• He Pingsheng brought the Ninth Prince, Liang Zhili, to meet Dragon Hibernate, and Liang Zhili accepted him as a disciple.
• After Liang Zhili and Dragon Hibernate left, He Pingsheng searched for Qiao Huizhu through the power of fortune but could not find her.
• He Pingsheng suspected Qiao Huizhu had gone to Tawenian Mountain, then inspected an enhanced talisman and learned it could unleash a powerful hurricane.

He Pingsheng discovered powerful new talismans, encouraged Xiao He to travel after she failed to break through, and went to Dingxiang City to establish a Teleportation Array. There he learned that Wang Dun was wanted for killing the Qi Kingdom’s Third Patriarch, a spirit transformation stage powerhouse.

• He Pingsheng examined the Wrath of the Soaring Wind talismans and Earthroot Talisman, then resolved to prepare against the Qi Kingdom.
• He Pingsheng comforted Xiao He after she failed to achieve Transformation-Breaking and told her to travel and seek a Dao Companion.
• He Pingsheng and Xiao He arrived in Dingxiang City to set up a Teleportation Array, and Xiao He boarded an Immortal Ship for Great Qi’s Imperial Capital.
• He Pingsheng saw a nationwide wanted notice for Wang Dun outside the City Lord’s Manor and met Zi Lan, whom he had not seen in years.
• Zi Lan told He Pingsheng that Wang Dun had reportedly killed the Qi Kingdom’s Third Patriarch several years earlier.

He Pingsheng learned that Wang Dun had disappeared after killing a Qi Kingdom cultivator, then began building a concealed teleportation array in Dingxiang City. When city lord Jiang Chu attacked him for refusing an inspection, He Pingsheng killed him instantly and continued his work as the other city officials fled to the Imperial Capital.

• He Pingsheng learned from Zi Lan that Wang Dun had killed the Qi Kingdom's Third Patriarch twelve or thirteen years earlier and suspected Wang Dun had disappeared.
• He Pingsheng rented a courtyard in Dingxiang City, concealed it with fourth-grade formations, and began constructing a long-distance Teleportation Array.
• He Pingsheng drove off two Golden Core cultivators, then refused city lord Jiang Chu's demand to open his formations or leave the city.
• Jiang Chu attacked He Pingsheng with an ice lotus, but He Pingsheng pierced him with the Black Divine Spear and caught his escaping Glazed Nascent Soul.
• He Pingsheng absorbed Jiang Chu's soul into the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner and returned to his formation, while Zi Lan recognized him and the other Nascent Soul cultivators fled toward the Imperial Capital.

He Pingsheng waited in Dingxiang City for the Qi Kingdom to retaliate, hoping to draw out its Spirit Transformation patriarch. When seven Imperial Family Nascent Soul cultivators arrived, they recognized him and fled before fighting, leaving his plan unresolved.

• Jiang Yu persuaded the Qi Kingdom's emperor that the man in Dingxiang City could not be He Pingsheng and urged him to send Nascent Soul cultivators to capture the suspected impostor.
• The emperor sent seven Imperial Family Nascent Soul cultivators, led by a powerful cultivator carrying the Sea-Suppressing Axe, to attack He Pingsheng's residence.
• True Person Su Huang saw He Pingsheng emerge without a disguise and immediately fled, warning the others that seventeen cultivators had once failed to defeat him when he was only a Golden Core cultivator.
• The other six Nascent Soul cultivators fled as well, while He Pingsheng returned to his formation without a fight.

He Pingsheng faced the Qi Kingdom’s Second Patriarch, Jiang Yu, who offered peace before attacking after He demanded that Jiang Yu and the emperor die. The chapter ended with Jiang Yu’s giant sword slashing toward He Pingsheng as he fled at ten times his speed.

• Su Huang told the Nascent Soul cultivators that He Pingsheng had slaughtered several cultivators and killed the Imperial Consort while still at the Golden Core Stage.
• The group fled from He Pingsheng and decided to report what happened to the Second Patriarch.
• Jiang Yu called He Pingsheng out of Dingxiang City, and He Pingsheng chose to meet him north of the city instead of at the West Gate.
• Jiang Yu dismissed He Pingsheng’s chances against him but offered rewards in exchange for an oath of peace with the Qi Kingdom.
• He Pingsheng demanded Jiang Yu’s death and the death of the Qi Kingdom’s emperor, prompting Jiang Yu to attack with a giant spiritual-power sword.
• He Pingsheng dodged the sword by fleeing at ten times his normal speed.

He Pingsheng fought Jiang Yu, a Spirit Transformation Stage powerhouse, and used his techniques and treasures to withstand Jiang Yu’s attacks. After pretending to be wounded by a divine sense attack, He Pingsheng counterattacked with the Formless Big Dipper Nails and blasted through Jiang Yu’s sea of consciousness.

• He Pingsheng cleaved Jiang Yu’s enormous phantom palm with a fiery halberd strike, then launched a second attack that Jiang Yu blocked with a mountain-sized black seal.
• Jiang Yu praised He Pingsheng’s strength before secretly attacking him with flying needles and two knives aimed at his sea of consciousness.
• He Pingsheng’s Seven-Buckle Sharp-Gold Armor stopped the needles, and his blood-red turtle shell shielded him from Jiang Yu’s enormous axe.
• Jiang Yu mistook He Pingsheng’s apparent injury for a real one, but He Pingsheng revealed the injury was an act and struck back with seven Formless Big Dipper Nails.
• He Pingsheng’s divine sense attack blasted through Jiang Yu’s sea of consciousness.

He Pingsheng wounded Jiang Yu with a Divine Sense attack and unleashed his strongest ice-and-snow Divine Ability, but Jiang Yu survived and counterattacked with a devastating axe strike. The chapter ended as Jiang Yu’s attack drove He Pingsheng’s turtle-shell defense deep underground and unleashed a blast that shook the distant Dingxiang City.

• He Pingsheng’s Purple Mansion Nine-Shield Art protected his Sea of Consciousness, allowing his Formless Big Dipper Nails to severely injure Jiang Yu’s Sea of Consciousness.
• He Pingsheng rode his Nine Heavens Ice Dragon at Jiang Yu, whose axe strike destroyed the dragon but failed to overcome He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng cast Heavenly Snow Locks the Realm with Five Elements Unity Force and Heavenly Gang Three Transformations, but Jiang Yu endured the storm and its deadly snowflakes.
• Jiang Yu declared that He Pingsheng could not defeat him and launched Man and Axe as One, Sky-Splitting cleave.
• He Pingsheng strengthened his blood-red turtle-shell defense with Heavenly Gang Three Transformations, but Jiang Yu’s axe drove him underground and devastated the surrounding landscape.

He Pingsheng survived Jiang Yu’s attack and faced Jiang Yu’s strongest strike, empowered by his ancestor’s possession. He Pingsheng redirected all nine axe strikes into the earth, then killed Jiang Yu and captured his nascent soul.

• Jiang Yu discovered that He Pingsheng had survived his attack by blocking it with a blood-red turtle shell.
• Jiang Yu summoned his ancestor, who possessed him and raised his strength to the seventh level of Spirit Transformation in exchange for ten years without magic power.
• Jiang Yu unleashed the nine strikes of Heavenly Axe, but He Pingsheng used the Earthroot Talisman to channel every blow through a mountain and into the earth.
• After the nine strikes failed, He Pingsheng pierced Jiang Yu with a black spear and captured his escaping nascent soul.

He Pingsheng defeated Jiang Yu, captured his soul in the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner, and returned to Dingxiang City as the Qi Kingdom’s emperor waited for news. When the emperor learned Jiang Yu’s Life Tablet had shattered, he feared the Great Qi Kingdom was doomed.

• He Pingsheng drew Jiang Yu’s soul into the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner and took two ancient treasures from his rings.
• He Pingsheng returned to Dingxiang City, where cultivators realized Jiang Yu might have been killed.
• The Qi Emperor waited in the palace for news of Jiang Yu, whom he had sent to deal with He Pingsheng.
• A young eunuch reported that the Second Patriarch’s Life Tablet had shattered.
• The Qi Emperor collapsed and lamented that the Great Qi Kingdom was finished.

After killing Jiang Yu, He Pingsheng prepared to confront the Qi Kingdom Emperor and traveled to the capital with Jiang Lan. He challenged the emperor above the palace, but an old man appeared and asked whether Jiang Yu's death had not satisfied his vengeance.

• The Qi Emperor ordered the palace formations activated, patrols increased, princes confined, and word sent to the Patriarch as Nascent Soul cultivators fled the capital.
• He Pingsheng enhanced copies of Jiang Yu's axe and seal, then stored them and put more spirit stones into the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• Jiang Lan arrived, saw Jiang Yu's nascent soul, thanked He Pingsheng for avenging her family, and agreed to go with him to the Qi Kingdom Capital.
• He Pingsheng and Jiang Lan teleported near the capital, where Xiao He had guarded their array, then flew to the city and gathered the array materials.
• He Pingsheng confronted the Qi Emperor above the palace and threatened to kill him or his whole family; an old man appeared and asked whether Jiang Yu's death had not ended his hatred.

He Pingsheng confronted the Qi Kingdom patriarch and demanded the Qi Emperor’s death for the kingdom’s past persecution of him and Jiang Lan. After the emperor was killed, Jiang Chen declared Jiang Lan the new empress, leaving her stunned by her unexpected claim to the throne.

• He Pingsheng warned Jiang Chen that he had slain Jiang Yu despite Jiang Yu’s borrowed seventh-layer spirit transformation power, and Jiang Chen chose not to fight him.
• He Pingsheng demanded that the Qi Emperor die for ordering the persecution that had nearly killed him and his wife.
• Jiang Chen opened the palace defenses and brought the Qi Emperor before He Pingsheng, who offered him reincarnation if he took his own life.
• When the Qi Emperor refused to accept responsibility, Jiang Chen killed him, and He Pingsheng declared his grievances with the Qi Kingdom settled while warning the emperor’s sons not to target his people.
• Jiang Chen summoned Jiang Lan and named her empress of the Great Qi Kingdom, leaving her surprised because her father and brothers were dead.

Jiang Lan became empress, and He Pingsheng returned the Qi Kingdom’s Ancient Treasures before turning down her proposal to have an heir with him. After receiving Dingxiang Commandery as his fief, he spotted Patriarch He Asks approaching with extraordinary fortune and realized Tawenian Mountain might contain many hidden Great Fortune Bearers.

• He Pingsheng returned the Qi Kingdom’s axe and black seal to Jiang Lan after her ascension as empress.
• Jiang Lan asked He Pingsheng to have a child with her, but he refused.
• Jiang Lan granted He Pingsheng full authority over Dingxiang Commandery, with an Imperial Family Nascent Soul cultivator serving as city lord under him.
• He Pingsheng traveled to Dingxiang City and used the Heavenly Eye Geomancy True Canon to search for Qiao Huizhu, Xiao Xuan, and Wang Dun, but found no trace of them.
• He Pingsheng saw a strand of immense fortune leave Tawenian Mountain and recognized its bearer as Patriarch He Asks.
• He Pingsheng noticed Tawenian Mountain’s fortune had barely diminished after He Asks left and suspected the Sacred Mountain held many other Great Fortune Bearers.

He Asks invited He Pingsheng to Tawenian Mountain to help reconnect the Cultivation World to the Spirit Realm, and hinted that He Pingsheng’s missing wife and companions were at He Thinks Mountain. He Pingsheng returned to the Great Void Sect, resolved to go to He Thinks Mountain despite suspecting a trap, and began preparing for the journey.

• He Pingsheng met He Asks, explained that he had advanced by swallowing glazed nascent souls, and declined the invitation to live on the Sacred Mountain until he rebuilt his sect.
• He Asks revealed that the passage to the Spirit Realm had been severed and invited He Pingsheng to help restore it through their study of spatial law.
• He Pingsheng asked about Wang Dun, Qiao Huizhu, and Xiao Xuan, and He Asks said he would learn what happened when he reached He Thinks Mountain.
• After He Asks departed, He Pingsheng weighed whether the mountain invitation was a trap and turned his Eight-Treasure Ship toward the Great Void Sect.
• He Pingsheng found the sect nearly empty, returned to his cleaned home, and decided to prepare supplies before heading to He Thinks Mountain.
• He Pingsheng took out the three rings he had obtained from Jiang Yu to begin enhancing them.

He Pingsheng enhanced talismans and divine abilities, gaining powerful techniques for combat, disguise, and escape. He returned to the Great Void Sect, sent Sword Bamboo to retrieve the disciples in Liang Kingdom, and began secluded cultivation on Jade Dragon Peak.

• He Pingsheng searched Jiang Yu's rings for fifth-grade talismans but found fourth-grade talismans and two useful divine abilities instead.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the talismans into Heavenly Fire Condensed Armor, Instantaneous Teleportation, and Transform into Water talismans.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the divine abilities into Wind and Thunder Power, Thunder Shards Gathering the Sun, Stealing Heaven and Replacing the Sun, and Realm of Ten Thousand Flowers.
• He Pingsheng teleported to the Great Void Sect and ordered Sword Bamboo to retrieve Yu Ning, Yuxuan, and the other disciples from the Liang Kingdom's Imperial Capital.
• Sword Bamboo left for Liang Kingdom, and He Pingsheng entered secluded cultivation to master his divine abilities.