Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng learned that the Spatial Daoist Law passage transported cultivators with the right aptitude directly into its fourth zone, while others were expelled from the steles. He and Qiao Huizhu entered the desolate zone and, after a month of travel, reached the fourth passage to seek the Temporal Daoist Law.

• Pu Shouzhuo explained that most cultivators could not comprehend the Spatial Daoist Law because it expelled them from the passage.
• He Pingsheng gave Pu Shouzhuo a supreme-grade Transformation Pill, allowing the Reed Elephant to attain a human-shaped Dao Body and comprehend the Spatial Daoist Law.
• Pu Shouzhuo revealed that the eight people who entered the fourth zone over a decade earlier were the top eight on the Sacred Fire Ranking.
• Qiao Huizhu entered the fourth zone from a stele, and He Pingsheng followed her inside.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu crossed the desolate zone aboard the Eight-B treasure Ship and reached the fourth passage a month later.

He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu reached the fourth zone, where the top eight Demon Race prodigies waited for the final place to enter the fifth zone. When the Dragon-Flood Dragon Crown Prince Ao Ji challenged them to fight for the spot, Qiao Huizhu stepped forward to face him.

• He Pingsheng found eight Demon Race prodigies comprehending Temporal Daoist Law in the fourth zone and learned that only one place remained for the fifth zone.
• Ao Ji explained that defeating one of the eight would let He Pingsheng or Qiao Huizhu claim a place, then introduced the Sacred Fire Ranking's top eight.
• Crown Prince Golden Rhinoceros and Crown Prince Double Radiance mocked Ao Ji's Dragon-Flood Dragon lineage, and Ao Ji defended his True Dragon bloodline.
• Ao Ji invited He Pingsheng to challenge him, claiming he was the weakest of the eight.
• Qiao Huizhu stopped He Pingsheng from drawing his Divine Spear and volunteered to fight Ao Ji, confident in her strengthened body and recent gains.

Qiao Huizhu challenged Ao Ji and endured his powerful attacks before exploiting his elemental weakness to wound him. Ao Ji revealed his true form and prepared to retaliate.

• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu an Earthroot Talisman, and she challenged Ao Ji to a fight.
• Ao Ji attacked with his Divine Dragon Sky-Splitting Claw, but Qiao Huizhu blocked it with Ice Dance and Glazed World, then withstood the weakened blow with her body.
• Qiao Huizhu counterattacked with seven ice arrows, transforming them into wood-attribute arrows that shattered Ao Ji’s earth-attribute shields and wounded him.
• Ao Ji revealed his enormous true form, admitted he had been wounded, and roared as he prepared to show Qiao Huizhu his power.

Qiao Huizhu defeated Ao Ji, the Dragon Flood Dragon clan’s Crown Prince, with her Nine Heavens Ice Dragon. When Ao Ji challenged He Pingsheng’s right to enter the Fifth Zone, He Pingsheng offered to defeat him with one move, and the chapter ended as their fight began.

• Ao Ji used Divine Dragon Stirs the Sea against Qiao Huizhu, who summoned her Nine Heavens Ice Dragon and smashed him into the ground.
• Qiao Huizhu prepared another Ice Dragon, and Ao Ji conceded before she could attack again.
• Immortal Maiden Nanli announced that the group would prepare to enter the Fifth Zone, but Ao Ji disputed He Pingsheng’s right to join them.
• He Pingsheng told Ao Ji he would give him one move to withstand, and Ao Ji flew into the void with his true form and three Magical Treasures.
• He Pingsheng flicked his hand and launched two black snowflakes using Heavenly Snow Locks the Realm powered by Five Elements Unity Force.

He Pingsheng defeated Ao Ji with multiplying snowflakes, then learned from Nanli about valuable treasures in the Netherworld Emperor Palace’s fifth zone. The chapter left him dismayed that anyone who found the Southern Bough Immortal Spring had to surrender it to the Demon Emperor.

• He Pingsheng’s multiplying snowflakes overwhelmed Ao Ji’s defenses, severed his manhood, and burned the fallen piece before he could recover it.
• Ao Ji cursed He Pingsheng and fled, while the other cultivators regarded He Pingsheng with respect and fear.
• Nanli explained that the fifth zone held seven-colored yin-yang lotus root and a spirit spring whose water could raise any pill’s quality by one tier.
• Nanli said all cultivators had to hand the Southern Bough Immortal Spring over to the Demon Emperor, and everyone except He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu agreed.

Nanli outlined Zone Five’s four prized locations and proposed that the nine cultivators explore them together under a gentlemen’s agreement. He Pingsheng asked what order they would visit the locations in, leaving Nanli’s proposal unresolved.

• Nanli explained that the Southern Bough Immortal Spring produced one drop every thousand years and that the Demon Emperor’s agreement required cultivators to leave it for him; He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu agreed to abide by the terms.
• Nanli described the Netherworld Divine Temple and Emperor’s Fall Abyss, where dragonscale immortal wood could be used to refine Death-Substitute Puppets.
• Nanli proposed that the nine cultivators travel together, avoid fighting or stealing from one another, race fairly for the spring water, and divide the white jade lotus roots equally.
• He Pingsheng asked which of the four locations the group would visit first.

He Pingsheng and the other eight cultivators entered the fifth zone and agreed not to attack one another while searching four designated locations. They reached the Netherworld Divine Temple, where Nanli explained how they could claim treasures from its mass of Daoist law over the next ten years.

• Nanli proposed visiting the Netherworld Divine Temple, the Southern Bough Immortal Spring, the Seven-Colored Lotus Pool, and Emperor's Fall Abyss, and the group agreed to avoid fighting at those sites.
• The nine cultivators poured their spiritual power into the stone stele and entered the fifth zone, learning that they could leave early only by working together.
• Nanli flew ahead toward the temple, and He Pingsheng followed with Qiao Huizhu aboard his slow Eight-Treasure Ship.
• After roughly ten days, the group reached the Netherworld Divine Temple and entered its Great Hall, where the doors and formations shut behind them.
• Nanli told the group to use their divine senses to search the temple's Daoist law and refine any treasure they hoped to claim within ten years.

He Pingsheng found and refined the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle in the Divine Temple, reaching the required eighty percent of its restrictions before withdrawing his Divine Sense. He concealed the treasure’s true grade from the Bone Race Crown Prince, who had also finished refining his own weapon.

• Nanli explained that refining eighty percent of a treasure’s restrictions would be enough to take it out of the Divine Temple, and He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu joined the others on the stone stools.
• He Pingsheng searched the gray Daoist Law for shooting stars and found a silver flying shuttle he could refine.
• He Pingsheng learned that the shuttle was the high-grade Mystic Heaven Spirit Treasure, the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle, with thirty-one layers of restrictions, and began refining it.
• He Pingsheng used a Heavenly Innocence Pill to improve his comprehension and, after eight and a half years, refined twenty-five layers of the shuttle’s restrictions.
• He Pingsheng withdrew his Divine Sense and summoned the shuttle, then told the Bone Race Crown Prince that he had obtained a high-grade Spirit Treasure.
• The Bone Race Crown Prince said he had refined seventeen layers of a low-grade Spirit Treasure, and He Pingsheng claimed he had refined nineteen layers.

He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu waited as the cultivators awakened with their treasures, while Nanli revealed that she had failed to finish refining a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure. After Nanli shared the route to the Southern Bough Immortal Spring, the doors opened and the race began, leaving He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu trailing behind.

• Qiao Huizhu awakened with a supreme-grade Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure, and He Pingsheng passed it off to the Bone Race crown prince as a high-grade spirit treasure.
• Over the next year, the others obtained their treasures, and Nanli was the last to awaken; she had abandoned a high-grade Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure after refining only nineteen of its twenty-seven restrictions.
• Nanli showed everyone a map to the Southern Bough Immortal Spring and declared that whoever arrived first would claim it.
• He Pingsheng began considering how to claim the Immortal Spring and spent the remaining months studying the Supreme Profound Immortal Artifact Method.
• When the doors opened, Nanli raced ahead in her true form and ancient flying vessel, while He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu set out aboard the Eight-Treasure Ship.
• The Bone Race crown prince and Crown Prince Chong Ming overtook He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu, leaving them at the rear of the race.

He Pingsheng used the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle to reach the Southern Bough Immortal Spring ahead of the group and secretly collected its single drop. He returned to the group under an assumed identity, while Immortal Maiden Nanli later arrived at the spring and found it missing.

• He Pingsheng showed Qiao Huizhu the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle, then flew with her toward the Southern Bough Immortal Spring at extraordinary speed.
• He Pingsheng left Qiao Huizhu aboard the shuttle, concealed his aura, and teleported to the oasis where the spring was located.
• He Pingsheng collected the Southern Bough Immortal Spring and thoroughly searched the oasis before returning to Qiao Huizhu.
• He Pingsheng reassured Qiao Huizhu that he could evade blame by claiming Dragon Hibernate had taken the spring, then rejoined the group aboard the Eight-Treasure Ship.
• He Pingsheng tried to duplicate the spring with the Treasure-Gathering Basin, but only its jade bottle multiplied.
• Immortal Maiden Nanli reached the spring four and a half days later and found it gone.

Nanli discovered that the Southern Bough Immortal Spring had vanished and confronted the other cultivators, including He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu, about who had taken it. After the group rejected searches and most resisted swearing oaths, Nanli swore her innocence, prompting several others to do the same.

• Nanli arrived first at the fifth zone but found the Southern Bough Immortal Spring missing and feared the others would suspect her.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu arrived, and Nanli asked He Pingsheng whether he had taken the spring; he denied it and pointed out that he had been slow to arrive.
• Nanli proposed searching everyone, but the others objected, so True Person Nanyuan suggested they swear Heavenly Dao Oaths instead.
• Bai Yutang and Bai Yuyu refused to swear, and Nanli knelt and swore that she had not taken the spring.
• Hong En, Crown Prince Double Radiance, Crown Prince Golden Rhinoceros, and True Person Nanyuan followed Nanli by swearing their innocence.

After clearing themselves of suspicion over the Southern Bough Immortal Spring, He Pingsheng and the others gathered lotus seeds and divided the seven-colored yin-yang lotus roots at the Seven-Colored Immortal Pool. Nanli then led them toward the Emperor's Fall Abyss, where they agreed that anyone who found dragonscale immortal wood would keep it.

• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu swore they had not stolen the Southern Bough Immortal Spring, while the Heavenly Fox Clan siblings refused to swear.
• Nanli led the group to the Seven-Colored Immortal Pool, where she distributed one hundred lotus seeds to each person.
• Nanli and the others dug up thirty-six seven-colored yin-yang lotus roots and divided them evenly, giving He Pingsheng four.
• Nanli explained that dragonscale immortal wood was rare and proposed that whoever found any in the Emperor's Fall Abyss would keep it.
• Nanli led the group toward the Emperor's Fall Abyss and arranged for them to meet at the passage to the Sixth Zone after searching the Fifth Zone.

He Pingsheng explained dragonscale immortal wood to Qiao Huizhu before they entered the Emperor's Fall Abyss to search for it. As they descended through the ghost-filled abyss, He Pingsheng defeated an enormous ghost, whose ghost spirit escaped into the depths.

• He Pingsheng told Qiao Huizhu that dragonscale immortal wood was the remains of Great Emperors' bones and could be used to make a one-use Death-Substitute Puppet.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu reached the Emperor's Fall Abyss and agreed to search it for ten days.
• He Pingsheng used the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner and a barrier to protect them as they descended through the Yin Baleful Energy.
• Qiao Huizhu grew frightened by the ghostly sounds, and He Pingsheng reassured her that ghosts were weak fighters despite their cultivation.
• An enormous ghost ambushed them, but He Pingsheng shattered its body with the Heaven-Deficiency Divine Spear, and its ghost spirit fled into the abyss.

He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu searched Emperor's Fall Abyss for the Dragonscale Immortal Wood, but a Void Refinement Ghost King drove them out. Nanli and the others joined forces against it, then fled almost immediately, leaving the battle unresolved.

• He Pingsheng killed several weaker ghosts and tested a Spirit Transformation ghost before continuing his search with Qiao Huizhu.
• After two days without finding the Dragonscale Immortal Wood, He Pingsheng heard Crown Prince Double Radiance call for help from a Ghost King.
• Nanli warned that the Ghost King had reached Void Refinement, and its attack badly injured He Pingsheng and nearly shattered his Divine Turtle Phantom.
• He Pingsheng escaped the abyss with Qiao Huizhu and joined the others in the sky while Nanli fought her way out.
• Nanli urged everyone to attack the thousand-zhang Ghost King, but the others fled before He Pingsheng could count to three.

He Pingsheng used his Heaven Tier Divine Ability, Myriad Annihilations Return to Origin, to injure a Void Refinement Realm ghost king, which then vanished into the abyss with dragonscale immortal wood embedded in its body. After rejoining Nanli and the others, He Pingsheng set out with Qiao Huizhu to collect treasures in the Fifth Zone.

• Nanli and the other demons fled as the ghost king attacked He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu, and He Pingsheng blocked its sword strike with the divine turtle phantom.
• He Pingsheng merged with the Heaven-Deficiency Divine Spear and struck the ghost king, breaking its sword, wounding its origin, and blasting it into the abyss.
• He Pingsheng glimpsed dragonscale immortal wood inside the ghost king's wound, but the ghost king disappeared into the abyss before he could obtain it.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu caught up with Nanli and the other demons, and Nanli ended their agreement and told everyone to search the Fifth Zone independently.
• He Pingsheng consulted a jade slip map and chose locations for himself and Qiao Huizhu to gather treasures and medicinal ingredients.

He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu gathered cultivation ingredients throughout the Fifth Zone before reaching its Poison Daoist Law passage. He Pingsheng began comprehending the poisonous laws, hoping to use them to enter the Sixth Zone.

• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu picked more than a hundred Spirit-Nurturing Withered Apricots, but He Pingsheng noted he still lacked the Immortal Ascension Seed.
• He Pingsheng used the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle to search the Fifth Zone for three days and gathered the ingredients he needed without taking everything they found.
• At the Fifth Zone passage, Qiao Huizhu was weakened by the poisonous mist, and He Pingsheng drew the poison out of her body.
• He Pingsheng checked the map and found that the Sixth Zone held the Primordial Chaos Hall and an item called Primordial Purple Gold.
• He Pingsheng entered the poisonous mist, meditated for a day, and realized that the mist itself consisted of Poison Daoist Law.
• He Pingsheng swallowed a Heavenly Innocence Pill and began comprehending the Poison Dao rules.

He Pingsheng learned that no one had ever entered the Sixth Zone because comprehending the Poison Daoist Law conflicted with warding off its poison. After rescuing Crown Prince Golden Rhinoceros from the passage, He Pingsheng revealed that he could absorb its rule poison and chose to stay and continue comprehending it while the others left.

• Nanli and the other Demon Race prodigies arrived, and He Pingsheng asked Nanli about the Sixth Zone and sought to trade for Immortal Ascension Seeds.
• Bai Yuyu and Nanli explained that entering the Sixth Zone required drawing in the Poison Daoist Law, which poison-warding methods prevented, and that no one had yet opened the barrier.
• Crown Prince Golden Rhinoceros entered the poisoned passage, became gravely ill, and found that Nanli's Detoxification Pill could not help him.
• He Pingsheng used the Nine-Toxin Golden Body method to draw the rule poison out of Crown Prince Golden Rhinoceros.
• Nanli and the others realized He Pingsheng could absorb the Poison Daoist Law, and He Pingsheng chose to stay in the passage while they left.

He Pingsheng stayed in the Fifth Zone to comprehend the poison Dao, while the others agreed to wait for him. Before entering the poisonous passage again, he traded for ingredients, refined supreme-grade Spirit Concentration Pills for the group, and gave Qiao Huizhu pills and talisman supplies.

• The group agreed to wait for He Pingsheng, since they needed nine people to open the barrier back to the Fourth Zone.
• He Pingsheng traded two spirit-nurturing withered apricots for two portions of immortal ascension seeds and agreed to refine pills for Bai Yutang.
• He Pingsheng enhanced his ingredients and refined batches of Spirit Concentration Pills, then gave Bai Yutang a bottle of twelve supreme-grade pills.
• The other great demons asked He Pingsheng to refine their ingredients, and he later gave each of them twelve supreme-grade Spirit Concentration Pills.
• Nanli proposed holding a small Trading Fair after He Pingsheng left the passage, and the others agreed.
• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu supreme-grade pills and his spare fifth-grade talisman paper and ink before entering the poisonous passage again.

He Pingsheng cultivated for over sixty years beneath the Poison Dao rules, advancing his cultivation and mastering two poison-imbuing Divine Abilities. He then approached the passage barrier to test whether he could enter the long-sealed Sixth Zone.

• He Pingsheng used the Dao-Refining Heavenly Stele and studied the Supreme Profound Immortal Artifact Method while cultivating in the passage, as Qiao Huizhu and the seven great demons secluded themselves outside.
• Over thirty-four years, He Pingsheng advanced his cultivation and comprehended a Poison Dao Divine Ability that could imbue poison onto weapons and treasures.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the ability through the Treasure-Gathering Basin, obtaining the Myriad Corrosions Magic-Imbuing Ability and the Myriad Corrosions-Imbuing Divine Ability, which could poison his magic power and divine sense.
• After another twenty-nine years of cultivation, He Pingsheng reached the sixth layer of Spirit Transformation Stage and made his Formless Big Dipper Nail and divine sense shields poisonous.
• Nanli told He Pingsheng that he was the second person to comprehend a Poison Dao Divine Ability there and urged him to try entering the Sixth Zone.
• He Pingsheng agreed and stepped toward the passage barrier, whose opening had eluded an earlier Poison Dao cultivator.

He Pingsheng entered the Sixth Zone by channeling his poison laws and abilities into its barrier, then found the Primordial Chaos Hall on the zone’s only island. There he discovered a rod of primordial purple gold and a jade slip left by the ascended Netherworld Empress, and pulled the rod from its pedestal.

• He Pingsheng opened the Sixth Zone barrier with his poison laws and abilities, leaving the Demon Race members behind as he entered alone.
• He Pingsheng crossed the endless sea in the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle and found the Primordial Chaos Hall on a small island.
• He Pingsheng opened the hall and saw a violet-red rod standing in a stone pedestal.
• He Pingsheng picked up a jade slip whose message revealed that the Netherworld Empress had ascended and left the primordial purple gold as a gift.
• He Pingsheng gripped the rod and wrenched the primordial purple gold out of the pedestal.