Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng and Wang Dun fought the tree demon in a blazing valley, and He Pingsheng defeated him with an enormous Black Turban Strongman. The tree demon let them pass after asking them to keep the encounter secret from Patriarch He Asks.

• He Pingsheng and Wang Dun set the trees alight, and the tree demon used the blaze and Twin Dipper Flame Formation to trap them in the valley.
• He Pingsheng summoned a Yellow Turban Strongman and climbed onto its head with Wang Dun, then attacked the tree demon's vines and roots.
• The tree demon sent nine fire dragons against He Pingsheng, but He Pingsheng used Five Elements Unity Force to turn the strongman black and enlarge it.
• He Pingsheng used Heavenly Gang Three Transformations to grow the strongman to six hundred feet and break through the tree demon's defenses.
• He Pingsheng wounded the tree demon and agreed to keep their encounter secret from Patriarch He Asks in exchange for safe passage.

He Pingsheng and Wang Dun learned from Broken Wood that the Heavenly Pole Divine Tree was surrounded by lethal fifth-grade poison, but they went to investigate anyway. Wang Dun had to stop fifty li away, and He Pingsheng halted thirty li away when the poison began overwhelming him.

• He Pingsheng asked Broken Wood about dangers in the Heavenly Pole Forbidden Ground, and Broken Wood warned that the poisonous Heavenly Pole Divine Tree could not be approached safely.
• He Pingsheng used the Heavenly Eye Geomancy True Canon to spot law traps, and he and Wang Dun approached the tree on foot.
• Wang Dun was poisoned a hundred li from the tree, but He Pingsheng drew the toxins out of him and used the Poison-Repelling Five Elements Treasure Pearl to shield them.
• Wang Dun stopped fifty li from the tree and gave He Pingsheng the Poison-Repelling Five Elements Treasure Pearl, asking him to bring back some space-time origin if he found any.
• He Pingsheng continued alone until he reached thirty li from the tree, where the poison began to overwhelm him, so he stopped and cultivated the Nine-Toxin Golden Body technique.

He Pingsheng tempered his body with the Heavenly Pole Divine Tree’s poison, then comprehended the poison attribute rule to overcome the limits of his resistance. He advanced to within one li of the tree, but the poison still forced him to stop.

• He Pingsheng retreated to a less poisonous area and refined his body until he reached the first layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• He advanced closer to the Divine Tree and spent three years raising his body refining to the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Unable to endure the poison within three li of the tree, He Pingsheng stayed to comprehend the poison attribute rule while cultivating.
• He Pingsheng broke through his flesh barrier and Dao obstacle, reaching the sixth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm in both cultivation and body refining.
• He Pingsheng used the poison attribute rule to control the poisonous gas and advanced to within one li of the Divine Tree, where he had to stop.

He Pingsheng reached the hollow inside the divine tree and found a fifth-grade poison-rule origin, but no space or time origin. After studying a mysterious nine-colored vortex for a month, he returned to Wang Dun, who suggested it might lead to the Ascension Passage and urged him to decide whether to enter.

• He Pingsheng used Heavenly Gang Three Transformations to overcome the poison and enter the divine tree’s hollow.
• He Pingsheng discovered and collected a fifth-grade poison-rule origin beneath a vortex radiating nine-colored light.
• He Pingsheng spent a month refining Heavenly Pine Mystic Yellow Dew and studying the unchanging vortex, but learned nothing about it.
• He Pingsheng searched the hollow, found only rotten wood besides the vortex and poison origin, then left to meet Wang Dun.
• Wang Dun insisted his map was reliable and guessed that the space-time origin lay inside the vortex, possibly beyond a gateway to the Ascension Passage.
• He Pingsheng agreed to think for a day before deciding whether to enter the vortex.

He Pingsheng entered the Nine-Colored Vortex after strengthening his defenses and discovered a vast formation that once opened a passage to the Spirit Realm. He learned that He Asks and He Thinks had taken all the time and space origins, leaving the formation unusable, and wondered why they had not returned them to ascend.

• He Pingsheng chose to enter the vortex and asked Wang Dun to wait for him, warning that the passage might alter how much time passed.
• He Pingsheng used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance the toxic origin, then consumed it until his Dao Obstacle reached the eighth level of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• He Pingsheng activated his defenses and stepped into the Nine-Colored Vortex, emerging inside a vast Rhombic Crystal Space.
• He Pingsheng identified seven formation focal points: five held elemental origins, while the time and space cores were empty.
• He Pingsheng concluded that He Asks and He Thinks had taken all the time and space origins and questioned why they had not returned them to ascend.

He Pingsheng used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to take a portion of each five-elements origin without damaging the formation, then secluded himself for sixty years. He emerged at the tenth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, ready to prepare for his confrontation with He Asks.

• He Pingsheng showed Wang Dun proof that the vortex contained only five-elements origins, then gave him Heavenly Pine Mystic Yellow Dew and law-infused Dao-Gathering Pills before they parted.
• He Pingsheng enhanced each five-elements origin with the Treasure-Gathering Basin, took half of each enhanced portion, and left the formation’s core intact.
• He Pingsheng cultivated for sixty years, advancing his Nascent Soul cultivation from the eighth layer to the twelfth and his flesh barrier from the sixth layer to the tenth.
• He Pingsheng left the Heavenly Pole Divine Tree after learning to withstand its poisonous fumes and avoiding the law traps with his Heavenly Eye.
• He Pingsheng returned to the valley and asked Broken Wood to test their divine abilities, but Broken Wood refused, frightened by his increased strength.

After eighty years in the Ghost Abyss, He Pingsheng emerged and discovered that Wang Dun had become True Spirit Valley’s patriarch and won Murong Xianxian over. He reunited with Wang Dun, discussed his plan to face He Asks and He Thinks, and learned of a talisman master who could help him prepare.

• He Pingsheng emerged from the Ghost Abyss with a mature ghost and a strengthened Ten-Thousand Souls Banner, then flew to True Spirit Valley to find Wang Dun.
• He Pingsheng found Wang Dun’s cave abode empty and learned from a Deacon Elder that Wang Dun had become True Spirit Valley’s patriarch.
• He Pingsheng used his divine sense to find Wang Dun with Murong Xianxian, then teleported to meet them at her Great Hall.
• Wang Dun greeted He Pingsheng, whose cultivation had reached the tenth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, and offered him the Poison-Repelling Five Elements Treasure Pearl, which he declined.
• He Pingsheng said he needed to prepare talismans before facing He Asks and He Thinks, and Wang Dun directed him to Wu Mi of the Wumeng Sacred Realm in Qi Kingdom.

He Pingsheng visited the Wumeng Sacred Realm to ask Patriarch Wu Mi to craft talismans, carrying a supposed token from Wang Dun. When the token proved to be Wu Mi’s bellyband, Yu Zhi attacked him, but He Pingsheng endured the strike without resistance, leaving the sect’s cultivators wary of his true strength.

• He Pingsheng accepted a Storage Bag from Wang Dun and traveled to Wumeng Mountain to meet Wu Mi.
• He Pingsheng introduced himself as Dragon Hibernate and told grand Elder Yu Zhi that he wanted Wu Mi to craft talismans.
• Yu Zhi opened the Storage Bag and found Wu Mi’s red bellyband inside, while He Pingsheng realized Wang Dun had deceived him.
• Yu Zhi accused He Pingsheng of humiliating the Wumeng Sacred Realm and struck him with his full power.
• He Pingsheng took the strike without defending himself, and Yu Zhi stopped the other cultivators from attacking.

He Pingsheng met Wu Mi, Wang Dun’s old friend, and asked her to make fifth-grade talismans from a Giant Ape’s hide. After watching her work, he saw that only a few of the talismans succeeded.

• Wu Mi dismissed the Nascent Soul cultivators and brought He Pingsheng to her palace, where she asked about Wang Dun.
• He Pingsheng told Wu Mi that Wang Dun had been wandering from place to place, then revealed his own identity and offered her a Giant Ape’s hide for talisman-making.
• Wu Mi agreed to draw Thick Earth Talismans and Heavenly Dao Thunder Talismans, explaining that she first needed to refine the beast hide into Talisman Paper and make Talisman Ink.
• After roughly a dozen days, Wu Mi produced about three hundred sheets of Talisman Paper, and He Pingsheng helped prepare the materials before watching her draw.
• Wu Mi drew fifty Thick Earth Talismans, of which four succeeded, then drew fifty Heavenly Dao Thunder Talismans, of which three succeeded.

Wu Mi told He Pingsheng that Jiang Lan was being pressured to appoint Jiang Xun’s son as crown prince, so he headed for the Qi Kingdom capital. There, Jiang Lan refused to yield to Jiang Xun and his supporters, who insisted the imperial family needed an heir.

• Wu Mi gave He Pingsheng a hundred sheets of fifth-grade talisman paper and warned him that Jiang Lan was in danger from Jiang Xun and allied officials and sects.
• He Pingsheng left for the Qi Kingdom capital and enhanced his talismans aboard his Immortal Ship, gaining powerful Earthroot Talismans and Nine-Heavens Thunder Spears.
• Jiang Xun argued before Jiang Lan and the court that his son should be named crown prince because Jiang Lan had no children.
• Jiang Lan rejected Jiang Xun’s demand and said she could still have children and intended to handle the matter herself.
• A white-haired elder insisted that Jiang Lan appoint the crown prince, and she challenged him over his right to interfere in imperial affairs.

Jiang Lan revealed He Pingsheng to stop Jiang Xun and Bu Yuntian from forcing her to appoint a Crown Prince. He Pingsheng pursued Bu Yuntian after he fled and killed the seventh-layer Spirit Transformation cultivator with one strike.

• Jiang Xun pressured Jiang Lan to appoint a Crown Prince while Bu Yuntian threatened to kill her if she refused.
• Jiang Lan opened the screens and revealed He Pingsheng, whose appearance terrified Jiang Xun.
• Bu Yuntian fled after He Pingsheng identified himself, but He Pingsheng teleported after him and trapped him in the wilderness.
• He Pingsheng offered to let Bu Yuntian survive three moves, and Bu Yuntian agreed.
• He Pingsheng's first halberd strike shattered Bu Yuntian's six barriers and cleaved him in two.

He Pingsheng killed Bu Yuntian and delivered his nascent soul to Jiang Lan, then refused to help her again and left the Qi Kingdom. He Asks arrived at the battlefield, recognized He Pingsheng’s terrifying strength, and was left unsure how to deal with him and Wang Dun.

• He Pingsheng killed Bu Yuntian, seized his glazed nascent soul, and brought it to Jiang Lan for the empress to handle.
• Jiang Lan ordered Emperor Mingtai’s descendants arrested and questioned, then asked He Pingsheng to help her bear a child.
• He Pingsheng told Jiang Lan that this would be the last time he helped her and teleported away from the capital.
• He Asks arrived at the battlefield, saw the damage from He Pingsheng’s strike, and realized he could no longer count on defeating him.
• He Asks wondered whether he could still negotiate with He Pingsheng, since using his relatives as leverage had already failed.

Three years later, He Pingsheng revealed his fortune at New Moon Mountain, drawing Sacred Lords He Asks and He Thinks to confront him. He explained that he had reached the Divine Tree and offered to return the stolen time and space origins so the Sacred Lords could ascend.

• He Pingsheng removed the Jinlan Treasure Robe and released his fortune, which He Asks and He Thinks sensed from afar.
• He Asks and He Thinks traveled through the void to New Moon Mountain, where He Pingsheng proposed that they talk rather than fight.
• He Pingsheng described passing the poison barrier and finding the time and space origins missing from the Divine Tree's diamond-shaped chamber.
• He Asks admitted that he and He Thinks had taken the two origins about twenty-eight hundred years earlier, preventing ascension, and revealed they had survived for over thirty-two hundred years by devouring Great Fortune Bearers' fortune.
• He Asks explained that lethal poison around the Divine Tree had stopped them from returning the origins, so He Pingsheng offered to carry them into the formation.

He Pingsheng fought He Asks while He Thinks refused to trust him, and He Pingsheng summoned more than fifty Spirit Transformation cultivators to expose and confront the brothers. The crowd sealed the void and urged He Asks and He Thinks to surrender, leaving the brothers surrounded.

• He Asks rejected He Pingsheng's offer to settle matters with a Heavenly Dao Oath and attacked him with his prayer beads.
• He Pingsheng withstood all 108 beads with the Azure Divine Turtle Phantom, then struck He Asks with the Heavenly God, Half-Moon Slash.
• He Asks survived the slash by healing his wound, while He Pingsheng admitted he could not defeat him alone and summoned dozens of allies from the Great Freedom Pearl.
• Wang Dun and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators revealed they had heard the brothers' conversation, then locked down the void to prevent He Asks and He Thinks from escaping.
• He Asks attacked Wu Mi, but she and nearly all the surrounding cultivators used Earthroot Talismans to raise mountains beneath themselves.
• Liang Zhenming accused He Asks and He Thinks of monstrous crimes and urged them to surrender.

He Pingsheng and the gathered cultivators fought He Asks and He Thinks to obtain the time and space origins needed to repair the Ascension Passage. After poison incapacitated the brothers, He Pingsheng and Wang Dun seized their glazed nascent souls and invited the cultivators to the Sacred Mountain to see the brothers’ crimes.

• He Pingsheng demanded that He Asks and He Thinks surrender the time origin and space origin, but He Asks refused and unleashed Space Tremor.
• He Pingsheng shattered He Asks’s spatial law with repeated axe strikes, then attacked him while Wang Dun and the other cultivators helped keep both brothers trapped.
• After an incense stick of fighting, He Asks offered to surrender the origins in exchange for a guarantee of their lives, but he noticed green thorn vines binding him and He Thinks.
• The fifth-grade poison made He Asks and He Thinks lose consciousness before they could detonate themselves.
• He Pingsheng extracted He Asks’s glazed nascent soul, while Wang Dun extracted He Thinks’s, and He Pingsheng invited the cultivators to the Sacred Mountain.

He Pingsheng and Wang Dun led more than fifty Spirit Transformation cultivators in defeating the Sacred Lords and discovering the murdered geniuses beneath the Sacred Mountain. He Pingsheng became a new Sacred Lord with Wang Dun, but said he would wait up to ten years before repairing the Ascension Passage so he could settle his affairs first.

• He Pingsheng and Wang Dun gathered more than fifty Spirit Transformation cultivators to overpower He Asks and He Thinks.
• The group found over a hundred dead peerless geniuses in the underground palace and recognized several of their relatives and countrymen.
• He Pingsheng used the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner to trap He Asks and He Thinks, leaving them without consciousness.
• The cultivators agreed that He Pingsheng and Wang Dun would become the new Sacred Lords and keep the Sacred Mountain's treasures undivided.
• He Pingsheng requested the mountain's time and space origins for the Secret Realm and promised to repair the spatial passage within ten years.

He Pingsheng prepared to repair the Ascension Passage and examined the Sacred Mountain’s treasures while Master Yiku performed a divination about the outcome. Yiku foresaw that the passage would be opened within ten years.

• The Spirit Transformation cultivators agreed to prepare to ascend in ten years, and Zhenyu offered to invite Master Yiku to divine the outcome of repairing the formation.
• Wang Dun showed He Pingsheng the Sacred Mountain’s treasures and the spoils from He Asks’s rings, including Divine-Breaking Pill ingredients and space-time origin.
• Wang Dun asked to keep the Primordial Time Formation materials, and He Pingsheng borrowed them and their formation diagram to examine.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the formation materials, the space-time origin, and the Glazed Nascent Soul, extracting its time and space origins.
• Zhenyu brought Master Yiku to the Sacred Mountain, where Yiku divined that the Ascension Passage would be opened within ten years.

After learning that completing the formation would send him to the Spirit Realm, He Pingsheng prepared to leave his friends and family behind and spent a year building a fifth-grade Time Grand Formation. The chapter ended with Dragon Hibernate entering it for ten days so they could test how quickly time flowed inside.

• True Person Yiku divined that completing the grand formation would forcibly send He Pingsheng to the Spirit Realm, and Zhenyu explained the higher realm and confirmed that He Pingsheng could not bring people or the Great Freedom Pearl with him.
• He Pingsheng returned to the Great Void Sect and told Yu Ning to gather everyone while he secluded himself to set up a formation.
• He Pingsheng spent a year installing the enhanced fifth-grade Primordial Time Formation on the former Bamboo Peak.
• He Pingsheng gathered Yu Ning, Yuxuan, Zhao Ling'er, Tian Xiaoqing, Xu Kunlun, Xiao He, Dragon Hibernate, and Old Cheng to test the formation's time ratio.
• He Pingsheng sent Dragon Hibernate into the formation for ten days while everyone else waited outside.

He Pingsheng confirmed that the Primordial Time Formation made time pass five times faster inside, then prepared the Great Void Sect for his departure as he approached ascension. He left the sect and found Su Zhenzhen with a handsome man, stirring unexpected jealousy in him.

• He Pingsheng and Cheng Daocai spent a month in the time formation and confirmed that only six days passed outside.
• He Pingsheng gave Yu Ning and other disciples treasures, entrusted Yu Ning and Xiao He with the formation and Divine-Breaking Pills, and said he might ascend soon.
• He Pingsheng left the Great Void Sect after giving Yu Ning and Xiao He additional supplies and responsibilities.
• He Pingsheng appeared in a courtyard in Southern Heaven City and saw Su Zhenzhen emerge with a tall, handsome man.
• He Pingsheng asked Su Zhenzhen who the man was and felt bitterly jealous, questioning whether she had found another lover.

He Pingsheng reunited with Su Zhenzhen and discovered that He Tianya was their son, a gifted Golden Core cultivator with a thunder spirit root. He learned that Tianya was due to fight one of Liang Zhiyan’s attendants, and the family set off to watch the match.

• He Tianya knelt before He Pingsheng and introduced himself as his son, then revealed he was 105 years old and at the third layer of the Golden Core Stage.
• He Pingsheng learned that Su Zhenzhen had reached the twelfth layer of the Golden Core Stage and that He Tianya had a thunder spirit root and had faced a seven-nine heavenly tribulation.
• He Pingsheng gave He Tianya the Thunder Shards Gathering the Sun divine ability and the Wind-Thunder Mountain-Splitting Axe to prepare him for his match.
• Su Zhenzhen explained that Liang Zhiyan had pressured her to become his Dao companion, leading to an agreement that He Tianya would fight one of his attendants in three days.
• Three days later, He Pingsheng and Su Zhenzhen left with He Tianya for the City Lord’s Manor to watch the match.