Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng prepared his clones and gave Lone Pine Mountain a supreme-grade Spirit Vein Soul, while Zhou Qingmei revealed she could set up a seventh-grade Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation. He gave her a supreme-grade formation plate to study, leaving the mountain’s defenses awaiting her work.

• He Pingsheng revealed that he had refined eight bodies, made five into true clones, and sent the five clones away to return when he needed to perform Dao Union.
• He Pingsheng gave Hao Cang a supreme-grade Spirit Vein Soul to plant beneath Lone Pine Mountain, and Hao Cang warned that the improved grotto could attract powerful enemies.
• Zhou Qingmei said she had learned to set up a seventh-grade Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation and showed He Pingsheng her low-grade Eight Wastes and Four Poles Formation plate.
• He Pingsheng gave Zhou Qingmei a supreme-grade seventh-grade Nine Luminaries Returning to Origin Celestial Star Array formation plate and asked her to work out how to set it up without a formation diagram.
• Zhou Qingmei agreed to study the formation plate and said she expected to understand it within a month.

He Pingsheng and his allies completed Lone Pine Mountain’s seventh-grade protective formation, then prepared a teleportation route to the Vermilion Bird Emperor Palace. Before He Pingsheng could seek revenge on the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor, Tian Jinpeng’s envoy arrived offering reconciliation.

• Qiao Huizhu visited He Pingsheng with her Nascent Soul Realm avatar, and she scolded him for joking about the avatar.
• After two failed attempts, He Pingsheng, Zhou Qingmei, and their helpers completed Lone Pine Mountain’s seventh-grade grand array, which could remain active using supreme grade spirit stones.
• He Pingsheng rejected nameplates as the sole protection against infiltrators and asked Zhou Qingmei to establish a teleportation array to the Vermilion Bird Emperor Palace.
• He Pingsheng told Zhou Qingmei to rest and later accompany him to the Celestial Roc Emperor Domain to collect a debt from the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor.
• Tian Jinpeng’s Void Refinement Realm envoy arrived at Lone Pine Mountain and offered reconciliation, saying He Pingsheng could name his terms.

He Pingsheng laid out four demands to the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor’s envoy as the price of reconciliation, then prepared Lone Pine Mountain for a possible attack. Tian Jinpeng entered the sect’s grand array and revealed that he was an eighth-layer Body Integration Realm cultivator, leaving He Pingsheng alarmed.

• He Pingsheng demanded compensation for the supreme-grade life-saving talisman, Tian Yao’s surrender, payment for two ambushes, and Tian Household disciples to answer for the Li Household’s deaths.
• He Pingsheng gave the envoy three days to accept the demands before the price changed, and the envoy left without agreeing.
• He Pingsheng ordered Long Yue to seal the sect’s grand array and sent the cultivators to guard its nine formation nodes.
• Tian Jinpeng appeared inside the grand array, identified himself as the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor, and stated that his cultivation had reached the eighth layer of the Body Integration Realm.

The Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor found He Pingsheng at Lone Pine Mountain and confronted him, while He Pingsheng sent Qiao Huizhu to safety before agreeing to fight outside the grand array. He took the emperor’s offered resources but refused to swear peace, prompting Tian Jinpeng to unleash a devastating attack that left He Pingsheng facing death.

• The Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor explained how his disciple had discovered He Pingsheng at Lone Pine Mountain after the seventh-grade grand array was tested.
• He Pingsheng told Zhou Qingmei to have her avatar take Qiao Huizhu and her avatar away through a spatial wormhole.
• The Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor asked He Pingsheng to fight outside the grand array to spare Lone Pine Mountain’s disciples from harm, and He Pingsheng agreed.
• Outside the formation, Tian Jinpeng sealed the surrounding space and offered He Pingsheng a blue ring of cultivation resources in exchange for a Heavenly Dao oath.
• He Pingsheng took the ring but refused the oath and vowed that Tian Jinpeng and the Tian Household would still pay for their offenses.
• Tian Jinpeng flew into a rage and attacked He Pingsheng with a thousand-zhang fire dragon that locked down the void and time.

He Pingsheng and Zhou Qingmei faced the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor, whose attacks threatened to overwhelm them. He Pingsheng evaded his strongest strikes with Void Swift Movement, leaving Tian Jinpeng shocked and the battle unresolved.

• Zhou Qingmei blocked most of the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor’s dragon attack, and He Pingsheng used his Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire to destroy what remained.
• Tian Jinpeng recognized He Pingsheng’s fused innate true fire and unleashed Heavenly Law and Earthly Form with a powerful sword strike.
• Zhou Qingmei’s manifestation shattered as she tried to intercept the blow, but He Pingsheng escaped with Void Swift Movement.
• Tian Jinpeng struck again after Zhou Qingmei returned to defend Lone Pine Mountain, and He Pingsheng once more vanished and reappeared a thousand zhang away.

He Pingsheng survived the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor’s divine sense and tracking-arrow attacks by relying on powerful spirit treasures and spatial movement. He left Tian Jinpeng despairing after revealing his supreme grade Death-Substitute Puppet and that five of his nascent souls and avatars were already roaming the outside world.

• The Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor threatened He Pingsheng with six Divine Sense Flying Knives and demanded that he swear a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• He Pingsheng used the supreme grade spirit treasure [Divine Soul] to block two rounds of divine sense attacks, leaving Tian Jinpeng injured and shocked.
• Tian Jinpeng fired a tracking arrow from a golden bow, but He Pingsheng evaded it with Void Swift Movement and Instantaneous Teleportation until it vanished underground.
• He Pingsheng showed Tian Jinpeng a supreme grade Death-Substitute Puppet and revealed that he had five nascent souls and five avatars traveling outside the area.

Six Vermilion Bird Demon Sovereigns intervened when the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor failed to kill He Pingsheng and drove him away. With eighty years left before the Stone Terrace Gathering, He Pingsheng decided to cultivate in seclusion and arranged for his wife to stay at the Vermilion Bird Emperor Palace.

• He Pingsheng revealed that he had no Nascent Soul in his body, and the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor realized he could not kill him.
• Six Body Integration Realm Vermilion Birds arrived, claimed they had come to watch, and warned Tian Jinpeng not to bully the weak in their domain.
• Tian Jinpeng left, and Nan Jingci told He Pingsheng that the Vermilion Birds had acknowledged him as the old Demon Emperor's chosen one.
• He Pingsheng decided to enter seclusion and ordered Lone Pine Mountain to reopen its Formation entrance without inspections.
• Zhou Qingmei told He Pingsheng that his wife had been taken to the Vermilion Bird Emperor Palace to cultivate with the Vermilion Bird Holy Maiden.

Demon Emperor Hollow learned that Wang Dun had been captured and planned to track down He Pingsheng's avatar if Wang Dun's death triggered its escape. Wang Dun remained defiant in captivity, mocked Crown Prince Empty Void, and warned Demon Emperor Hollow not to underestimate him.

• A Body Integration cultivator reported to Demon Emperor Hollow that Wang Dun had been captured, though He Pingsheng's avatar remained missing.
• Demon Emperor Hollow explained that he could follow the spatial fluctuations from Wang Dun's death to find He Pingsheng's avatar within ten breaths.
• Crown Prince Empty Void tortured Wang Dun, who insisted he had been mistaken for He Pingsheng because Ting Tong had used the wrong name.
• Demon Emperor Hollow sent Crown Prince Empty Void away and ordered him to stay out of trouble until the Stone Terrace Gathering in eighty years.
• Demon Emperor Hollow praised Wang Dun's talent and compared him to Buddha Son Ming Yue, prompting Wang Dun to dismiss Ming Yue and boast that he had beaten an old woman from the Great Order Emperor Domain.

Wang Dun taunted Demon Emperor Hollow but escaped his killing blow with a Death-Substitute Puppet. Back in his palace, Tian Jinpeng told Tian Yao that He Pingsheng had survived their encounter and grown even more dangerous, leaving her anxious about the threat he posed.

• Wang Dun claimed he had fought Emperor Blue Feather with the help of a treasure called “Fifty-Fifty,” but Demon Emperor Hollow dismissed his boasts and prepared to kill him.
• Wang Dun used his last words to insult Demon Emperor Hollow, who struck him down and then realized a shattered Death-Substitute Puppet had taken the blow.
• Tian Jinpeng returned to the Heavenly Fire Divine Kingdom after failing to kill He Pingsheng and fearing the danger he posed to the Tian Household.
• Princess Tian Yao told Tian Jinpeng she had finished refining a clone, and he urged her to cultivate for the approaching Stone Terrace Gathering.
• Tian Yao asked whether He Pingsheng was dead, and Tian Jinpeng explained that He Pingsheng had reached the Void Refinement Realm, possessed five clones and Death-Substitute Puppets, and had escaped even his attack.
• Tian Yao grew anxious as she recognized He Pingsheng as a grave threat she could no longer dismiss.

Tian Jinpeng sought help from his senior brother after failing to kill He Pingsheng and fearing for his family. His senior brother refused to kill He Pingsheng but agreed to try to capture him, ending the favor between them either way.

• Tian Yao urged Tian Jinpeng to kill He Pingsheng because he knew her secrets.
• Tian Jinpeng recalled his service to the Human Race and decided to seek help against He Pingsheng.
• Tian Jinpeng told his senior brother that He Pingsheng could escape his spatial seal with Spatial Instantaneous Teleportation.
• Tian Jinpeng begged his senior brother to kill He Pingsheng, invoking the favor he had earned by saving his life.
• Tian Jinpeng's senior brother agreed only to capture He Pingsheng and declared that their debt would end after this attempt.

He Pingsheng visited Mo Sang to buy ingredients for sixth-grade Dao-Gathering Pills and learned about the Sacred Fire Commerce Association’s auction. He offered five supreme grade Five Elements Spirit Stones for auction in exchange for Mo Sang finding him an alchemy furnace at least as powerful as a Spirit Treasure.

• Mo Sang fawned over He Pingsheng’s new Void Refinement Realm cultivation, while He Pingsheng teased him about serving better tea now.
• He Pingsheng asked Mo Sang for materials to refine sixth-grade Dao-Gathering Pills, and Mo Sang procured twenty sets after an hour.
• Mo Sang invited He Pingsheng to the Sacred Fire Commerce Association’s auction, but He Pingsheng declined after reviewing the listed items.
• He Pingsheng gave Mo Sang five supreme grade Spirit Stones, one for each element, to auction.
• He Pingsheng asked Mo Sang to find him an alchemy furnace at least as powerful as a Spirit Treasure, offering to cover any shortfall.

He Pingsheng and Zhou Qingmei were intercepted on their way to Lone Pine Mountain by Duan Feihong, a powerful Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivator who admitted he had come to capture He Pingsheng for Tian Jinpeng. Duan Feihong dismissed He Pingsheng’s ability to resist, but He Pingsheng remained defiant.

• He Pingsheng left Vermilion Bird Emperor City with Zhou Qingmei and headed for Lone Pine Mountain aboard the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle.
• After the shuttle abruptly stopped, He Pingsheng realized a powerful pursuer had interfered, and Duan Feihong appeared before them.
• Duan Feihong effortlessly disarmed Zhou Qingmei and identified himself as a human cultivator ranked eleventh among the Heavenly Fire Continent’s Mahayana Emperor Realm fighters.
• Duan Feihong told He Pingsheng that he was his foe and had come to capture him for Tian Jinpeng in repayment of a favor.
• He Pingsheng refused to submit, while Duan Feihong declared that He Pingsheng was powerless to resist him.

He Pingsheng, Zhou Qingmei, and Ting Tong confronted Duan Feihong, who overpowered their attacks but was wounded by He Pingsheng’s surprise strike. The Great Order Wisdom King arrived and declared that He Pingsheng was no ant, but a peerless prodigy who outshone Duan Feihong.

• Duan Feihong used Heavenly Law and Earthly Form to overwhelm He Pingsheng and Zhou Qingmei, then offered to capture He Pingsheng in exchange for sparing his life.
• He Pingsheng stood against Duan Feihong’s pressure and struck him with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, but Duan Feihong caught the attack; he also blocked Zhou Qingmei’s sword strike.
• Ting Tong transformed into a ten-thousand-zhang True-Blood Phoenix and attacked Duan Feihong while He Pingsheng’s hidden Magical Artifact pierced Duan Feihong’s palm and poisoned him.
• He Pingsheng challenged Duan Feihong’s claim that he was an ant, and Duan Feihong acknowledged his strength but insisted he must come with him.
• The Great Order Wisdom King arrived and told Duan Feihong that He Pingsheng was a peerless Human Race prodigy, making Duan Feihong the ant by comparison.

The Great Order Wisdom King stopped Duan Feihong from taking He Pingsheng, and their clash drove Duan Feihong away. She then confronted He Pingsheng about breaking into the Great Order Emperor Palace and demanded to know whether his Fifty-Fifty ability had linked their lives.

• Duan Feihong challenged the Great Order Wisdom King, who claimed He Pingsheng as one of her own and met him in a probing clash.
• He Pingsheng urged Zhou Qingmei to flee through a Spatial Wormhole, but the Great Order Wisdom King had sealed the surrounding space.
• The Great Order Wisdom King used Wisdom King Sacrifice, and Duan Feihong disappeared after the attack; she said he had merely left.
• The Great Order Wisdom King sent Zhou Qingmei and her purple-robed attendant away, then recognized He Pingsheng’s disguise and identified him as the intruder from the palace more than 170 years earlier.
• He Pingsheng drew Wang Dun’s likeness to deny being the intruder, but the Great Order Wisdom King pointed out that only she had seen that appearance.
• The Great Order Wisdom King asked whether He Pingsheng’s Fifty-Fifty ability had linked their lives, warning that she might die if he did.

He Pingsheng bluffed his way through the Great Order Wisdom King's questions about the Fifty-Fifty Talisman, which had once made her evenly matched with Wang Dun. After learning that its restraints would last until He Pingsheng reached the Mahayana Emperor Realm, she tried to take him away and supervise his cultivation, but he resisted.

• He Pingsheng claimed the Fifty-Fifty Talisman was a special talisman he had obtained in the Netherworld Emperor Palace.
• He Pingsheng told the Great Order Wisdom King that the talisman's effects would end only when he reached the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
• The Great Order Wisdom King recalled how Wang Dun had used the talisman to equalize their strength after entering her Daoist grounds, and how she had mistakenly believed it bound their lives together.
• The Great Order Wisdom King invited He Pingsheng to cultivate beside her and promised him the best resources so he could reach the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
• He Pingsheng refused, claiming imprisonment could ruin his Dao Heart and affect the Great Order Wisdom King as well.

The Great Order Wisdom King left Zi Qing to protect He Pingsheng, who returned to Lone Pine Mountain and decided to test his new ally. Zi Qing challenged him to a bet that she could catch him, but after half an hour of trying, she still could not.

• The Great Order Wisdom King assigned Zi Qing to protect He Pingsheng and then departed.
• He Pingsheng took Zi Qing and Zhou Qingmei back to Lone Pine Mountain aboard the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle.
• He Pingsheng challenged Zi Qing to catch him, wagering that the loser would obey the winner.
• Zi Qing tried to seize He Pingsheng with her divine abilities, including her true-form peacock feather net, but he repeatedly escaped using his techniques.
• Zi Qing continued pursuing He Pingsheng for half an hour without catching him.

He Pingsheng tricked Zi Qing into agreeing to help him confront Tian Jinpeng by offering her the Spatial Wormhole divine ability. He, Zi Qing, and Zhou Qingmei traveled toward the Heavenly Fire Divine Kingdom, but their arrival point seemed far from the capital.

• After winning their hour-long contest, He Pingsheng asked Zi Qing to practice dual cultivation with him, then revealed that he wanted her help against Tian Jinpeng.
• Zi Qing warned that she could defeat Tian Jinpeng but might not be able to kill him, and He Pingsheng offered her the Spatial Wormhole divine ability as payment.
• Zi Qing agreed to accompany He Pingsheng to the Heavenly Fire Divine Kingdom, and Zhou Qingmei prepared a spatial passage aimed near its capital.
• He Pingsheng, Zi Qing, and Zhou Qingmei crossed through the passage and emerged in an uninhabited stretch of mountains.
• Zi Qing questioned whether they had arrived near the capital, and He Pingsheng boarded the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle and proposed searching in one direction.

The Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor sent Bing Yi away with the Tian Household’s descendants hidden in a lesser thousand world, hoping they could escape He Pingsheng. He Pingsheng encountered Bing Yi before she could reach her destination and captured her with a Soul-Linking Curse Talisman.

• Tian Jinpeng told Bing Yi that the Tian Household was doomed and entrusted her with hiding its descendants in an unlinked lesser thousand world.
• Bing Yi asked about Tian Yao, and Tian Jinpeng assured her that he had separate plans for her before sending Bing Yi away under an assumed identity.
• He Pingsheng traveled through the void in the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle and asked Zi Qing to assess a passing cultivator’s strength.
• He Pingsheng recognized Bing Yi, then linked her soul to her clone’s with a Soul-Linking Curse Talisman.
• Bing Yi tried to flee, but Zhou Qingmei sealed the surrounding Void Laws and He Pingsheng kicked her down, leaving her pleading for her life.

He Pingsheng killed Bing Yi and discovered that the bead she carried held a lesser thousand world, which he hoped to enhance with the Treasure-Gathering Basin. At the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor’s palace, Tian Jinpeng learned that Bing Yi’s life tablet had shattered and realized she was dead.

• Bing Yi surrendered, but He Pingsheng killed her with a single palm strike, destroying her distant clone as well.
• Zhou Qingmei collected Bing Yi’s ring and blue-green bead and gave them to He Pingsheng, who let Zhou Qingmei keep the ring.
• Immortal Maiden Zi Qing identified the bead as a lesser thousand world, and He Pingsheng found it contained spirit veins and fewer than ten thousand people.
• Zi Qing explained how the little world could shelter He Pingsheng’s descendants or be anchored as a lower realm, and He Pingsheng considered enhancing it with the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• A disciple reported Bing Yi’s shattered life tablet to Tian Jinpeng, who was shocked that both her main body and clone had died.

Tian Jinpeng summoned his disciples after He Pingsheng killed Bing Yi, then ordered them to leave the imperial city while Tian Yao stayed behind. He Pingsheng arrived with Zi Qing and Zhou Qingmei, demanded that Tian Yao answer for betraying the man who saved her, and prepared to attack the palace formation when she refused.

• Tian Jinpeng identified He Pingsheng's talisman as a Soul-Linking Curse Talisman and gathered his elders and disciples to warn them that Bing Yi had been killed.
• Tian Jinpeng described He Pingsheng's abilities, then ordered his disciples to flee the imperial city while Tian Yao remained with him.
• He Pingsheng, Zi Qing, and Zhou Qingmei appeared outside the palace's seventh-grade defensive formation, and He Pingsheng threatened to strike it unless Tian Jinpeng opened it.
• He Pingsheng accused Tian Yao of trying to silence him after he rescued her from three water flood dragons at Skywave Lake, and Tian Yao denied the accusation.
• He Pingsheng told Zi Qing and Zhou Qingmei to attack the grand array, and both women swung their treasured swords.