Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng spent nine years cultivating the Fire-Bathed Golden Body Art in the lava, then returned to Lone Pine Mountain and decided to establish a sect while keeping his presence secret. He learned Zhou Qingmei had mastered the Spatial Wormhole divine ability and gave Qiao Huizhu a Demon Race inheritance to study.

• He Pingsheng cultivated the Fire-Bathed Golden Body Art in the magma for nine years, reaching the Nascent Soul Chapter but failing to advance further because the flames were too weak.
• He Pingsheng emerged from the lava and met Qiao Huizhu, Hao Cang, Ting Tong, Zhou Qingmei, and her clone at Lone Pine Mountain.
• Zhou Qingmei reported that she had fortified Lone Pine Mountain with sixth-grade formations and that Immortal Maiden Hazy Moon wanted to join them.
• He Pingsheng agreed to establish Lone Pine Mountain as a sect, appointing Immortal Maiden Hazy Moon as sect leader and Hao Cang as Grand Supreme Elder while ordering the others to remain hidden.
• Zhou Qingmei told He Pingsheng that she and her clone had mastered Spatial Wormhole, though opening a passage required several days of recovery.
• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu a golden bone containing the Void Swift Movement divine ability and told her to study it.

He Pingsheng sought high-grade flames to complete his Body Refining method and learned that a special auction item could help break through a Spirit Transformation bottleneck. He agreed to attend the auction before Mo Sang would take him to a source of fifth-grade immortal fire.

• Qiao Huizhu saw He Pingsheng's Void Swift Movement and immediately went into seclusion to cultivate it.
• He Pingsheng sent Hao Cang and Zhou Qingmei's clone to the Human Race's Immortal Emperor Domain to search for his loved ones who were ascending from the lower realm.
• He Pingsheng traveled with Zhou Qingmei to Vermilion Bird Emperor City and asked Mo Sang about fifth-grade flames for his Body Refining method.
• Mo Sang said the Heavenly Fire Commerce Association had no fifth-grade flames but offered to take He Pingsheng to a place with fifth-grade immortal fire.
• Mo Sang told He Pingsheng that the auction featured a Dragon-Eye Immortal Lychee that could break through a Spirit Transformation bottleneck, and He Pingsheng agreed to attend.

He Pingsheng attended the Sacred Fire Commerce Association’s auction, drawn by a sixth-grade Temporal Daoist Law Origin. The bidding began with an unusual consignment: a Human Race woman enslaved and offered for sale, whom He Pingsheng recognized as True Person West Lake.

• Mo Sang told He Pingsheng that the auction would feature a sixth-grade Temporal Daoist Law Origin, and He Pingsheng agreed to attend without consigning any of his own treasures.
• At the auction, Mo Sang explained the bidding rules and opened with a fifth-grade Rootless Grass that could help Nascent Soul Realm cultivators break through a bottleneck.
• He Pingsheng asked Zhou Qingmei whether she had ever seen a supreme-grade spirit stone, and she said she had not.
• Mo Sang introduced a consigned Human Race woman at the third layer of the Nascent Soul Realm as a slave, prompting the crowd to erupt over her beauty.
• He Pingsheng recognized the slave girl as True Person West Lake and turned dark with anger.

He Pingsheng recognized True Person West Lake being auctioned as a slave and suspected the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor had arranged it to target him. He won her freedom at the auction, then learned the Divine Emperor had destroyed the Li Household, leaving him with the truth of her family’s calamity.

• He Pingsheng recognized True Person West Lake at the auction and decided to save her despite suspecting a plot by the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor.
• Hu Tianci bid a supreme-grade Ancient Treasure for True Person West Lake, but He Pingsheng outbid him with three supreme-grade pills.
• Mo Sang awarded True Person West Lake to He Pingsheng, who paid the required brokerage fee and brought her over.
• He Pingsheng asked True Person West Lake what had happened to the Li Household, and she said it had been destroyed in a single night.
• True Person West Lake revealed that the Divine Emperor of the Heavenly Fire Divine Kingdom had ordered the Li Household’s destruction.

He Pingsheng freed True Person West Lake from a seal and won a Dragon-Eye Immortal Lychee at the auction. The auction’s final lot, a piece of sixth-grade time origin, was revealed, and bidding began under the Commerce Association’s special trade rules.

• He Pingsheng restored True Person West Lake’s magic power, told her to meditate, and arranged for Zhou Qingmei to protect them from the shadows.
• He Pingsheng traded a supreme-grade sixth-grade Ice Splendor World talisman for the Dragon-Eye Immortal Lychee and placed it in his Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance it.
• He Pingsheng waited through several more auction lots and saved his valuable items for the time law origin he wanted.
• Mo Sang revealed a piece of sixth-grade time origin as the auction’s final lot and stated that the Commerce Association could reject all offers it found insufficient.
• The attendees examined the time origin through its bottle as bidding began.

He Pingsheng offered his supreme grade Dragon Firmament Sword to obtain a piece of time origin at Mo Sang’s auction. The elders summoned him to negotiate, while a white-haired Void Refinement cultivator and his companions watched the Commerce Association, intent on tracking He Pingsheng.

• He Pingsheng and the other bidders sensed the powerful laws of time emanating from the time origin in its silver bottle.
• He Pingsheng offered the Dragon Firmament Sword, surpassing the other bidders’ offers, and Mo Sang ended the auction to consult the elders.
• Mo Sang invited He Pingsheng to meet the council of elders backstage, and He Pingsheng went with True Person West Lake.
• A white-haired Void Refinement cultivator ordered one companion to watch the entrance and set up a red pointer to detect spatial fluctuations.
• The white-haired cultivator warned his companions that He Pingsheng had grown rapidly and was dangerous, recalling that he had killed Bing Yi’s true body.

He Pingsheng traded the Dragon Firmament Sword and a Sacred Essence Pill for sixth-grade time origin at the Sacred Fire Commerce Association. After Mo Sang warned him about the Void Refinement cultivators behind True Person West Lake’s auction and gave him a jade slip for the True Fire Immortal Sect, He Pingsheng left with her.

• The white-haired youth and his three evil cultivator companions revealed that Tian Jinpeng had hired them to kill He Pingsheng, whom they had finally located at the auction.
• The Sacred Fire Commerce Association’s appraisers said He Pingsheng’s Dragon Firmament Sword was not enough for their sixth-grade time origin and asked him to add to his offer.
• He Pingsheng offered a supreme-grade Sacred Essence Pill, and the association accepted it with the Dragon Firmament Sword in exchange for the time origin.
• Mo Sang warned He Pingsheng that the people behind True Person West Lake were dangerous and gave him a jade slip to take to the True Fire Immortal Sect for access to its fifth-grade fire seed.
• He Pingsheng borrowed a room so True Person West Lake could wash up, then left the Sacred Fire Commerce Association with her.

He Pingsheng traveled south with True Person West Lake and learned that Li Yunyun and her brother had died long ago, while their Li Household had been destroyed. When Hu Tianci tried to seize True Person West Lake and He Pingsheng’s treasures, He Pingsheng revealed a powerful staff and prepared to fight the White Tiger Crown Prince.

• He Pingsheng left the Commerce Association with True Person West Lake and secretly kept Zhou Qingmei ready to ambush their pursuers.
• True Person West Lake told He Pingsheng that Li Yunyun and her brother had died as mortals, and that their descendants’ Li Household had been destroyed.
• He Pingsheng promised to help restore the Li Household and take revenge on their shared enemies.
• Hu Tianci intercepted He Pingsheng, demanded True Person West Lake and the Time Origin, and threatened to kill him for the treasures.
• He Pingsheng produced a purplish-red staff that expanded to three hundred zhang, while Hu Tianci dismissed him as a Spirit Transformation cultivator.

He Pingsheng killed Hu Tianci, the White Tiger Clan's crown prince, with a combination of powerful staff strikes and concealed poison attacks. After recovering, he faced four cultivators sent to hunt him down and admitted he could not defeat them, but doubted they could kill him.

• He Pingsheng used his strongest staff techniques to break Hu Tianci's defenses and destroy the seventh-layer Void Refinement Realm immortal pet protecting him.
• He Pingsheng tricked Hu Tianci with a feigned negotiation, poisoned him with the Eight-Treasure Purple Cloud Spikes, then struck him down after attacking his divine sense with emerald-green divine nails.
• He Pingsheng collected Hu Tianci's and the pangolin's remains and rings, then swallowed Ice Jade Loquat Paste to recover.
• A white-haired youth and three other cultivators appeared and revealed that Tian Jinpeng had hired the youth to hunt He Pingsheng and take a woman from him; the youth denied responsibility for the Li Household massacre.
• He Pingsheng sent West Lake a thousand li away, then told his four opponents that he could not defeat them but they were unlikely to kill him.

He Pingsheng used Void Swift Movement to evade the attacks of four Void Refinement cultivators who had been hired by Tian Jinpeng to kill him. When they tried to negotiate, Zhou Qingmei appeared and revealed that she had reached the Body Integration Realm, leaving them in despair.

• The white-haired cultivator and his three companions sealed the surrounding space and attacked He Pingsheng with a giant golden arrow.
• He Pingsheng escaped the arrow with Void Swift Movement and repeatedly evaded the white-haired cultivator's attacks, becoming more proficient with the ability.
• The four cultivators realized they could not kill He Pingsheng and offered compensation, explaining that Tian Jinpeng had hired them.
• He Pingsheng refused their offer and called on Zhou Qingmei to handle them.
• Zhou Qingmei appeared, restrained all four cultivators with her Daoist Law, and revealed that she was in the Body Integration Realm.

He Pingsheng and Zhou Qingmei killed the four nonhuman cultivators who had threatened True Person West Lake, then fled toward the True Fire Immortal Sect with her. After discovering a damaged Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure among the spoils and giving Zhou Qingmei two Ice Divine Abilities, He Pingsheng arrived at the sect and asked to see its grand elder.

• He Pingsheng reunited with True Person West Lake and promised to help her find the Li Household's disciples after she improved her cultivation.
• Zhou Qingmei killed the four attackers, and He Pingsheng collected their bodies and Rings before warning that the White Tiger Clan might pursue them.
• On the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle, He Pingsheng found a damaged Low-Grade Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure in the White Tiger Crown Prince's Ring.
• He Pingsheng learned that Zhou Qingmei had a Single Ice Spirit Root and gave her the Divine Abilities Heavenly Ice Sword Slash and Myriad Ice Becomes Dust.
• At the True Fire Immortal Sect's Mountain Gate, He Pingsheng gave a gatekeeper a Jade Slip for the grand elder and revealed that he was at the Body Integration Realm.

He Pingsheng borrowed the True Fire Immortal Sect’s earthfire and spent three years advancing his body refining to the tenth layer of the Spirit Transformation Chapter. Back at Lone Pine Mountain, he learned that Hao Cang had found his second wife, Su Zhenzhen, and his son, He Tianya, in the Immortal Emperor Domain.

• He Pingsheng offered Daoist True Fire a supreme-grade Nascent Soul Metamorphosis Pill in exchange for using the sect’s earthfire.
• He Pingsheng entered the fire pit and refined his body for three years, reaching the tenth layer of the Spirit Transformation Chapter.
• He Pingsheng returned to Lone Pine Mountain with Zhou Qingmei and True Person West Lake, where Immortal Maiden Hazy Moon greeted him.
• Hao Cang told He Pingsheng that he had found Su Zhenzhen and He Tianya, both of whom had reached the Spirit Transformation Stage.

He Pingsheng learned that Su Zhenzhen and He Tianya had ascended but chose not to visit because Su Zhenzhen was uncomfortable coming to Lone Pine Mountain. After Qiao Huizhu emerged from seclusion with new skills and a successful sixth-grade talisman, He Pingsheng discovered a Soul-Tracking Talisman that could help him hunt down his enemies’ avatars.

• Zhou Qingmei's avatar told He Pingsheng that Su Zhenzhen and He Tianya had ascended but would not come to Lone Pine Mountain for now.
• He Pingsheng opened the rings taken from his enemies, enhanced the contents with the Treasure-Gathering Basin, and donated most of the cultivation techniques to Lone Pine Mountain's Scripture Pavilion.
• Qiao Huizhu emerged from seclusion and showed He Pingsheng that she had mastered Void Swift Movement and successfully made a sixth-grade Fire Dragon Talisman.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu spent several days together before he examined her list of sixth-grade talismans.
• He Pingsheng found the Soul-Tracking Talisman, which could link a cultivator's original body and avatars and help him eliminate them all.

He Pingsheng had Qiao Huizhu craft Soul-Tracking Talismans, then enhanced them into powerful Soul-Linking Curse Talismans that could kill a Void Refinement cultivator’s main body and clone together. With his talismans prepared and his cultivation stalled, he entered the magical treasure’s space to attempt to merge with the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire.

• He Pingsheng learned that Soul-Tracking Talismans required sixth-grade soul crystals, and Qiao Huizhu revealed she had found fifth- and sixth-grade crystals in his rings.
• He Pingsheng prepared sixth-grade talisman paper while Qiao Huizhu learned the runes and crafted several talismans, exhausting her Divine Sense and the soul crystal.
• He Pingsheng enhanced a failed talisman in the Treasure-Gathering Basin and discovered it had become a supreme-grade Soul-Linking Curse Talisman that linked a target’s main body and clone.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the failed and finished talismans into forty-four supreme-grade Soul-Linking Curse Talismans and resolved to use them against Bing Yi.
• He Pingsheng entered the magical treasure’s space to merge with the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire, whose flame grew and formed an angry face before him.

He Pingsheng confronted the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire and forced it to agree to cooperate in being fused with him. After it swore a Heavenly Dao Oath, he sat down to begin refining it.

• He Pingsheng let the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire engulf him, but his body remained unharmed.
• The Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire mocked He Pingsheng for being only at the Spirit Transformation Stage and offered to teach him a rule if he released it.
• He Pingsheng threatened to keep the flame trapped in his Magical Treasure forever or divide it into ten thousand portions to refine it.
• The Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire swore a Heavenly Dao Oath not to resist and to cooperate.
• He Pingsheng sat cross-legged and began considering how to fuse with the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire using the [Fire-Bathed Golden Body Art] or a fire attribute cultivation technique.

He Pingsheng spent 122 years refining the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire, breaking through to the twelfth layer of the Spirit Transformation Stage and improving his formation skills. After emerging from seclusion, he reunited with Lone Pine Mountain’s leaders and learned that Qiao Huizhu had reached the Void Refinement Realm, then said he wanted to discuss her future clone.

• He Pingsheng endured the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire’s agony for decades before he could refine it, and continued studying the Heavenly Moon Divine Formation during his seclusion.
• After 122 years, He Pingsheng finished refining the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire and advanced from the tenth to the twelfth layer of the Spirit Transformation Stage.
• He Pingsheng emerged from seclusion and saw that Lone Pine Mountain had grown into a thriving cultivation sect during his absence.
• He Pingsheng summoned the sect’s influential figures and learned that Qiao Huizhu and Immortal Maiden Hazy Moon had reached the Void Refinement Realm, while Hao Cang had reached its second layer.
• He Pingsheng asked Qiao Huizhu whether she had created a clone, and told her he wanted to discuss her clone with her.

He Pingsheng explained Qiao Huizhu’s choices for refining a clone, including using a preserved copy of her body, then entered the purplish-red magical treasure space to undergo his Void Refinement tribulation. He weathered the first eight rounds and used the Blood-Colored Turtle Shell to face the ninth.

• He Pingsheng learned that Lone Pine Mountain had grown into a powerful sect and that Zhou Qingmei had killed a Void Refinement Realm challenger.
• He Pingsheng showed Qiao Huizhu a preserved copy of her body and offered it as an option for refining her clone.
• Qiao Huizhu left to consider whether to use the body, while He Pingsheng prepared himself for the Nascent Soul Metamorphosis Pill.
• He Pingsheng swallowed the pill, and the first six rounds of his previously incomplete heavenly tribulation descended upon him.
• He Pingsheng weathered the seventh and eighth rounds, then activated the Blood-Colored Turtle Shell against the ninth.

After surviving the ninth tribulation, He Pingsheng received creation golden light and comprehended Heavenly Law and Earthly Form at the First Layer of Void Refinement Realm. He tested the resulting power, discovered his magical treasure space had expanded, and began enhancing treasures before turning to his ice-affinity flying swords.

• He Pingsheng endured the ninth wave of tribulation without injury, then absorbed creation golden light and condensed a five-hundred-zhang dharma manifestation.
• He Pingsheng used his manifestation to thrust the Heaven-Deficiency Divine Spear and realized his magical treasure space had expanded from ten thousand zhang to a hundred thousand zhang after his breakthrough.
• He Pingsheng withdrew the Heavenly Law and Earthly Form divine ability, exchanged words with Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire, and left the magical treasure space.
• He Pingsheng put four treasures into the Treasure-Gathering Basin and found the next day that none had changed.
• He Pingsheng placed a damaged low-grade Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure flying sword into the basin, and it became two ice-attribute flying swords the following morning.

He Pingsheng distributed supreme-grade treasures to his allies and helped Qiao Huizhu prepare to refine an avatar. He then considered using his five nascent souls to create up to five avatars of his own.

• He Pingsheng enhanced three spirit treasures into supreme-grade spirit treasures and gave one each to Hao Cang, True Person West Lake, Long Yue, and Zhou Qingmei's avatar.
• Long Yue swore a heavenly dao oath to serve Lone Pine Mountain faithfully after receiving her treasure.
• He Pingsheng gave the Heavenly Ice Sword to Zhou Qingmei and warned her not to reveal his secrets, then gave Inch of Blue to Qiao Huizhu.
• Qiao Huizhu decided to refine an avatar using He Pingsheng's other body, which he enhanced into a living corpse and delivered to her.
• He Pingsheng prepared to refine avatars of his own and realized his five nascent souls could theoretically support five avatars.

He Pingsheng refined and enhanced five elemental avatars, then merged each with a glazed nascent soul. He sent the newly created avatars away to cultivate independently, while remaining able to track and contact them.

• He Pingsheng studied the avatar-refining method for a month, then spent forty-nine days refining his first avatar.
• He Pingsheng discovered that the Treasure-Gathering Basin had turned his Low-Grade Spirit Stones into more than a hundred supreme grade spirit stones.
• He Pingsheng enhanced his first avatar into two supreme-grade avatars and merged them with the metal- and wood-attribute glazed nascent souls.
• Over about a year, He Pingsheng refined and merged five avatars representing metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, each reaching the twelfth layer of the Spirit Transformation Stage.
• He Pingsheng equipped the five avatars and sent them out to cultivate, retaining the ability to track and contact them.