Chapter Summaries

After twenty-six years of cultivation, Zhou Qingmei’s clone reached the peak of Void Refinement Realm, allowing her and her original body to attempt Dao Union. They completed the union and survived a Seven-Nine Heavenly Tribulation inside He Pingsheng’s Magical Treasure space, both advancing to the Integrated Body Realm.

• He Pingsheng prepared Nascent Soul Metamorphosis Pills for Hao Cang, who remained stuck at the eleventh layer of Spirit Transformation Stage.
• He Pingsheng cultivated for another ten years, reaching the tenth layer of Spirit Transformation Stage in cultivation, Divine Refining, and Body Refining.
• Zhou Qingmei’s clone reached the twelfth layer of Void Refinement Realm, and Zhou Qingmei told He Pingsheng she was ready to undergo Dao Union.
• Zhou Qingmei and her clone united their Daoist Laws inside He Pingsheng’s Magical Treasure space, where dark clouds gathered and a Heavenly Tribulation began.
• He Pingsheng withdrew from the space as Zhou Qingmei endured the Seven-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and refined herself into a Dharma manifestation.
• Zhou Qingmei and her clone both entered the Integrated Body Realm.

After Zhou Qingmei achieved Dao Union inside He Pingsheng’s Magical Treasure, she revealed that the real Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire was sealed in a tomb in the Great Order Emperor Domain. He Pingsheng split up his companions and set off with Zhou Qingmei to find it, despite Wang Dun’s warning against visiting the domain.

• He Pingsheng congratulated Zhou Qingmei on her breakthrough and learned that his Magical Treasure’s space could support Tribulation Transcendence.
• Zhou Qingmei told He Pingsheng that she had found the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire’s aura in the tomb of a Divine Emperor in the Great Order Emperor Domain.
• Hao Cang reminded He Pingsheng that Wang Dun had warned him not to go to the Great Order Emperor Domain, but He Pingsheng decided to search for the fire anyway.
• He Pingsheng sent Zhou Qingmei’s avatar and Hao Cang toward Vermilion Bird Emperor City to find Qiao Huizhu, while he and Zhou Qingmei flew toward the Great Order Emperor Domain.
• He Pingsheng asked Zhou Qingmei about her past fight with Buddha Venerable Bright Moon and learned that Bright Moon had been at the fourth layer of the Void Refinement Realm five hundred years earlier.

He Pingsheng encountered a first-layer Void Refinement Realm insect demon in the Boundless Desert and tested his strength against it. His staff strike shattered the demon’s golden bone defense and smashed it beneath the sands.

• He Pingsheng concluded that the first-layer Void Refinement Realm Ming Yue he had met before was likely an avatar, and considered how much stronger he had become.
• Zhou Qingmei asked to consolidate her Body Integration Realm cultivation and Heavenly Law and Earthly Form ability inside He Pingsheng’s magical treasure space, and he agreed.
• While crossing the Boundless Desert, He Pingsheng was attacked by a black spear and evaded its first strike before blocking its return with his Blood-Colored Turtle Shell.
• A bare-chested man caught the spear and revealed himself to be a first-layer Void Refinement Realm insect demon who demanded He Pingsheng’s treasures.
• He Pingsheng attacked with the Thirteen Staff Strikes of Heaven’s Secrets, broke the insect demon’s golden bone defense, and smashed him beneath the desert floor.

He Pingsheng fought a venomous insect in the desert, but its poison failed against his poison-refined body. After its attacks also failed to kill him, the Void Refinement Realm insect fled underground, and He Pingsheng prepared a powerful spear strike to catch it.

• The venomous insect emerged in its enormous true form and trapped He Pingsheng in a poisonous storm of wind and sand.
• He Pingsheng endured the poison and used Thunder Shards Gathering the Sun, but the insect's shell withstood the lightning.
• The insect launched four poisoned stingers, which pierced He Pingsheng after destroying his Yellow Turban Strongman, but his wounds healed without poisoning him.
• The insect fled underground when it realized its poison was ineffective, and He Pingsheng's attacks failed to reach it through the deep sand.
• He Pingsheng transformed the Primordial Purple Gold Staff into a spear and used Myriad Annihilations Return to Origin to lock down the space and time around the buried insect.

He Pingsheng used Zhou Qingmei’s superior cultivation to drag a venomous insect from beneath the desert and forced it to surrender its four stingers. He spared the insect and resumed his journey, wondering why it had dared to cultivate in Divine Lord Tianmao’s territory.

• He Pingsheng failed to flush the hidden venomous insect out of the sand and summoned Zhou Qingmei for help.
• Zhou Qingmei used her divine sense and extended bone arm to seize the insect and haul it aboveground.
• The insect begged He Pingsheng for its life and offered to become his servant, but He Pingsheng refused.
• He Pingsheng demanded the insect’s four venomous stingers in exchange for sparing it, and the insect pulled them out and handed them over.
• He Pingsheng let the insect burrow away, boarded the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle with Zhou Qingmei, and wondered why the insects risked staying in Divine Lord Tianmao’s territory.

He Pingsheng had Zhou Qingmei refine four venomous spikes into spirit treasures while they traveled to the Great Order Emperor Domain. After enhancing the finished treasures into Eight-Treasure Purple Cloud Spikes, he began binding their restrictions as Emperor City drew near.

• Zhou Qingmei examined the venomous spikes and offered to refine them using materials He Pingsheng had looted from Daoist Lone Pine and others.
• After pondering for three days, Zhou Qingmei asked He Pingsheng for poison-attribute origin; he gave her a mass of fifth-grade poison Dao rules to use as a primer.
• He Pingsheng crossed the desert and reached the Great Order Emperor Domain, while Zhou Qingmei refined the spikes inside the magical treasure space.
• Zhou Qingmei returned the four spikes as low-grade spirit treasures with invisibility formations, and He Pingsheng placed them in the Treasure-Gathering Basin for enhancement.
• The basin turned the four spikes into eight supreme-grade spirit treasures named Eight-Treasure Purple Cloud Spikes, and He Pingsheng bound their first twelve restriction layers over two days.

He Pingsheng entered Great Order Emperor City with Zhou Qingmei and discovered that the Great Order Emperor Palace had placed a lavishly rewarded wanted notice for him. After hearing a rumor about why he was wanted, he realized Wang Dun had apparently framed him for sneaking into the Empress’s bedchamber.

• He Pingsheng arrived at Great Order Emperor City with Zhou Qingmei and heard her explain the Peacock Race’s status among the Celestial Races.
• They found a wanted notice for a male Human Race cultivator named He Pingsheng, offering a Mystic Heaven Spirit Treasure for detailed leads.
• He Pingsheng and Zhou Qingmei entered a Spirit Tea House, where the proprietor recognized Zhou Qingmei as a Body Integration Realm cultivator.
• He Pingsheng overheard a rumor that he had entered the Emperor Palace to steal, stumbled into the Empress’s bedchamber, and escaped after she slapped him.
• He Pingsheng cursed Wang Dun, realizing the rumor explained why he had been wanted.

He Pingsheng learned that a suspected young phoenix had appeared at Fang Mountain and rushed there, believing it might be Ting Tong. After Zhou Qingmei went searching in the mountain’s mists, a Void Refinement cultivator boarded He Pingsheng’s Imperial Armament and threatened him.

• He Pingsheng decided to skip Emperor City and travel with Zhou Qingmei toward the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire, but overheard that a young phoenix had appeared at Fang Mountain.
• He Pingsheng suspected the phoenix was Ting Tong, checked a map, and hurried with Zhou Qingmei out of Emperor City’s North Gate aboard the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle.
• He Pingsheng reached Fang Mountain, where powerful cultivators searched the mists for the Divine Race creature.
• Zhou Qingmei entered the mists to search for Ting Tong, while a third-layer Void Refinement cultivator landed on He Pingsheng’s Flying Boat and demanded his respect.
• He Pingsheng calmly challenged the cultivator’s rudeness as the man threatened to kill him.

He Pingsheng killed a third-layer Void Refinement Realm deer clansman who tried to seize his Flying Boat, then searched the nearby valleys for Ting Tong. Zhou Qingmei returned without finding her, leaving them unsure how to continue the search.

• The deer clansman attacked He Pingsheng with his saber, but He Pingsheng defended himself with the blood-colored turtle shell and struck him down with the Thirteen Staff Strikes of Heaven's Secrets.
• He Pingsheng poisoned the deer clansman with the Eight-Treasure Purple Cloud Spikes, then killed him with the Formless Big Dipper Nails when he flew up to talk.
• The cultivators watching the fight fled, and He Pingsheng stripped the deer clansman's body for treasures before searching the valleys for Ting Tong.
• Zhou Qingmei returned and told He Pingsheng she had not found Ting Tong.

He Pingsheng searched Fang Mountain for Ting Tong and rescued her, only to be badly injured by a powerful Demon Beast seeking the Celestial Phoenix. Zhou Qingmei arrived to shield him and recognized the attacker as a possible descendant of Demon Emperor Hollow.

• He Pingsheng told Zhou Qingmei to patrol the area for anyone who found Ting Tong while he searched Fang Mountain by calling out to her.
• After searching for two and a half days, He Pingsheng heard Ting Tong call for Wang Dun and raced toward her as a seventh-layer Void Refinement Demon Beast pursued her.
• Ting Tong flew out of a valley, landed beside He Pingsheng, and entered the space inside the Primordial Purple Gold Staff at his request.
• The Demon Beast attacked He Pingsheng with a powerful gust that broke through his defenses and hurled him ten thousand zhang away.
• Zhou Qingmei arrived and confronted the Demon Beast, which demanded the Celestial Phoenix and threatened to kill them; she asked whether it was a descendant of Demon Emperor Hollow.

He Pingsheng refused to surrender his Phoenix to a Hollow Beast, despite Zhou Qingmei warning him about the race’s power. He ordered Zhou Qingmei to kill the arrogant challenger, who escaped by sacrificing an arm and vowed revenge.

• Zhou Qingmei warned He Pingsheng that the Hollow Beasts were few but powerful, led by Great Emperor Empty Void, and urged him to give up the Phoenix.
• Onlookers recognized the Hollow Beast and feared the consequences of offending his race as He Pingsheng refused to back down.
• He Pingsheng asked whether Zhou Qingmei could defeat and kill the Hollow Beast, then ordered her to attack.
• Zhou Qingmei struck with an azure sword lotus, but the Hollow Beast escaped using Severed Arm Survival and vowed to remember Wang Dun and kill him.

He Pingsheng reunited with Ting Tong and learned how his friends and sect members had fared after ascending. He sent Sacred Essence Pills and instructions to the Cultivation World, then told Ting Tong he knew a good place for her to go.

• He Pingsheng drove off the remaining onlookers, and Zhou Qingmei retrieved the Hollow Beast arm and its silver ring before they departed on the Silver River Flying Shuttle.
• He Pingsheng released Ting Tong, gave her a supreme-grade Transformation Pill, and learned she had sought him out after hearing the Empress of Great Order had put him on her wanted list.
• Ting Tong told He Pingsheng that Wang Dun had ascended before her and that Yu Ning, Liang Huaqiu, Zhao Ling'er, Tian Xiaoqing, Xu Kunlun, and others had undergone Wisdom Severance.
• He Pingsheng used his Yin-Yang Teleportation Talisman to send eleven Sacred Essence Pills, other treasures, and instructions for distributing them to his friends and relatives in the Cultivation World.
• He Pingsheng told Ting Tong there was a good place for her to go.

He Pingsheng examined Crown Prince Empty Void’s ring and discovered a Hollow Beast spatial divine ability hidden in a golden bone. After enhancing the bone with the Treasure-Gathering Basin, he identified the ability as Void Swift Movement, which let him teleport instantly over a limited distance.

• Ting Tong refused He Pingsheng’s suggestion that she return to the Heavenly Phoenix Clan, and he gave her fire-attribute pills and origins to cultivate with.
• Zhou Qingmei gave He Pingsheng Crown Prince Empty Void’s ring, which contained spirit stones, supplies, and two lumps of sixth-grade spatial Daoist law origin.
• He Pingsheng received a Hollow Beast inheritance from a golden bone and found that it taught a low-grade Earth Tier spatial divine ability.
• He Pingsheng asked Zhou Qingmei whether she sensed a high-tier magical treasure’s aura, and she said she had not.
• The next morning, He Pingsheng found that the Treasure-Gathering Basin had enhanced the golden bone and learned it contained the supreme-grade Heaven Tier Void Swift Movement divine ability.
• He Pingsheng confirmed that Void Swift Movement enabled instant teleportation within ten thousand zhang, unlike the slower, longer-range Instantaneous Teleportation.

He Pingsheng examined two golden-bone Divine Abilities, gave Zhou Qingmei the Spatial Wormhole ability to study, and learned that her former lover Zhao Xiangdu had reached the Mahayana Emperor Realm. He and Zhou Qingmei reached the hidden tomb, where He Pingsheng recognized a tomb robber at the entrance.

• He Pingsheng learned that Void Swift Movement could evade law-based spatial restraints from opponents within one major cultivation realm of him.
• He Pingsheng discovered that Spatial Wormhole could open passages between any two locations in the Spirit Realm, but could only be used at the Body Integration Realm or above.
• He Pingsheng gave Zhou Qingmei the golden bone to study and told her not to pass the Divine Ability on without his permission.
• Zhou Qingmei revealed that her former lover Zhao Xiangdu had betrayed her and reached the Mahayana Emperor Realm, so He Pingsheng sent her to hide in his Magical Treasure's space.
• Two days later, He Pingsheng and Zhou Qingmei reached the great tomb, where He Pingsheng recognized a tomb robber at its entrance.

He Pingsheng confronted Bright Moon's clone outside a hidden Divine Emperor's tomb, refusing to hand over Zhou Qingmei and challenging the monk to a fight. After their opening exchanges, Bright Moon invoked Buddhist power and launched a golden dragon at He Pingsheng.

• He Pingsheng found Bright Moon breaking the illusion formation around the tomb and mocked him for seeking its treasures.
• Bright Moon asked He Pingsheng to hand over Zhou Qingmei, but He Pingsheng refused and said Bright Moon would not leave alive.
• Bright Moon attacked with 108 prayer beads, and He Pingsheng blocked them with the Blood-Colored Turtle Shell.
• He Pingsheng used his Formless Big Dipper Nails as a feint while eight poison thorns struck Bright Moon, whose treasure quickly cleared the poison.
• Bright Moon invoked the Buddhas, grew to a hundred zhang tall, and sent a golden dragon toward He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng endured Ming Yue’s borrowed Buddhist attack behind an Ice Splendor World until Zhou Qingmei emerged and killed the monk’s avatar. With Ming Yue’s golden Nascent Soul captured, He Pingsheng turned to the mountains below, where the seventh-grade Illusion Formation concealed the Divine Emperor’s tomb.

• Ming Yue unleashed the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons, but He Pingsheng’s Ice Splendor World withstood the borrowed peak Void Refinement strike.
• Ming Yue’s borrowed power ran out, and He Pingsheng released Zhou Qingmei from his Magical Treasure’s space.
• Ming Yue discovered Zhou Qingmei had reached the Body Integration Realm and tried to leave, but she pinned him in place with Space Power of the Laws.
• Zhou Qingmei shattered Ming Yue’s avatar with Myriad Annihilations Return to Origin, and He Pingsheng captured its golden Glazed Nascent Soul.
• He Pingsheng collected Ming Yue’s prayer beads and kasaya, then asked Zhou Qingmei about the Illusion Formation concealing the Divine Emperor’s tomb.

He Pingsheng studied Void Swift Movement while Zhou Qingmei spent seven months opening the Illusion Formation, then they entered the tomb in search of Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire. After locating a mausoleum protected by another seventh-grade formation, He Pingsheng left Zhou Qingmei to break it and resumed cultivating.

• Zhou Qingmei estimated she would need up to half a year to open the Illusion Formation, and He Pingsheng began studying Void Swift Movement as she worked.
• Seven months later, Zhou Qingmei opened a passage, and He Pingsheng demonstrated his newly mastered Void Swift Movement before they entered the tomb and closed the formation behind them.
• He Pingsheng sensed Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire and led Zhou Qingmei through the mountains to a mausoleum built into a mountain.
• Zhou Qingmei found a seventh-grade Defense Formation at the mausoleum entrance and began trying to break it while He Pingsheng resumed cultivating Void Swift Movement, refining the Eight-Treasure Purple Cloud Spikes, and comprehending spatial Daoist Law Origin.
• Another seven and a half years passed as He Pingsheng continued his secluded cultivation.

He Pingsheng entered the Divine Emperor’s tomb with Zhou Qingmei and captured the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire after it resisted being drawn into his ring. They left the tomb without taking its formation materials, preserving its defenses.

• Zhou Qingmei told He Pingsheng that she had opened all the tomb’s formations and confirmed that no defenses remained in the final burial chamber.
• He Pingsheng entered the burial chamber with Zhou Qingmei and found the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire among three hundred and sixty lamps.
• The Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire attacked He Pingsheng, and Zhou Qingmei drove back its fire dragon with her sword intent.
• He Pingsheng tried to capture the flame in his ring, but it burned through the ring and escaped.
• He Pingsheng summoned Little Phoenix, transformed the Primordial Purple Gold Staff into a net, and bound the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire inside his Magical Treasure’s space.
• He Pingsheng left the tomb with Zhou Qingmei and Ting Tong, refusing to dismantle its formations.

He Pingsheng failed to refine the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire and decided to return to Vermilion Bird Emperor City and pursue a fire-based body-refining method. After reuniting with Qiao Huizhu and the others, he learned of their progress and heard that Zhou Qingmei’s avatar could eventually become an unbound immortal in the Spirit Realm.

• He Pingsheng nearly died trying to refine the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire, so he planned to cultivate the Fire-Bathed Golden Body Art as a way to withstand its flames.
• He Pingsheng asked Ting Tong to pilot the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle while Zhou Qingmei comprehended the Spatial Wormhole ability and he studied the Heavenly Moon Divine Formation.
• The group returned to Vermilion Bird Emperor City about six months later, where He Pingsheng reunited with Qiao Huizhu and learned that Hao Cang had reached the Void Refinement Realm.
• Qiao Huizhu recognized the grown Ting Tong, who confirmed that she had ascended, and asked whether Su Zhenzhen had ascended as well.
• He Pingsheng changed the subject by asking Zhou Qingmei about her avatar, and Zhou Qingmei explained that it could become an unbound immortal but could not ascend to the Immortal Realm.

He Pingsheng brought his companions to revive Lone Pine Mountain as a cultivation ground by planting a high-grade spirit vein soul there. After arranging for spiritual energy to gather, he headed toward the volcanic crater to use its earthfire for body refinement.

• He Pingsheng sent Zhou Qingmei and her clone to study the Spatial Wormhole divine ability, then dismissed Ting Tong and Hao Cang before Qiao Huizhu pressed him to explain what had happened with Su Zhenzhen.
• Several days later, He Pingsheng agreed with Zhou Qingmei and Qiao Huizhu that their courtyard was too small and proposed restoring Lone Pine Mountain with a high-grade spirit vein soul.
• He Pingsheng took the group to Lone Pine Mountain aboard the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle and found its buildings buried beneath snow and its cultivators gone.
• Hao Cang planted the spirit vein soul underground, and He Pingsheng gave him a hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones to boost the mountain's spiritual power.
• He Pingsheng ordered Zhou Qingmei to set up a sixth-grade Spirit-Gathering Formation, then went to inspect the volcanic crater for earthfire to use in his Fire-Bathed Golden Body Art.