Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng brought high-grade pills to Feng Wu to sell and attended the Mountain Spring Commerce Association's trading fair. He offered a supreme-grade grand array in exchange for an eighth-grade talisman-making text, but the gathering's cultivators challenged his asking price.

• He Pingsheng left Feng Wu in charge of selling his high-grade pills, then planned a fifth-grade grand array in the shop's courtyard.
• He Pingsheng enhanced five Seven-Colored Sacred Lotus Seeds into ten, prepared ingredients for ten batches of tea, and went to the Mountain Spring Commerce Association's trading fair.
• Elder Dong explained that the association had priority in trades and would charge a handling fee before inviting the gathering to begin.
• He Pingsheng offered a complete Twelvefold Nirvana Shared Lifespan Grand Array and said he wanted a classic that taught methods for drawing eighth-grade talismans.
• A Body Integration Realm elder argued that the seventh-grade array was not worth an eighth-grade text and offered two seventh-grade talismans instead, while other cultivators agreed.

At a trading fair, He Pingsheng sought a high-level talisman-making manual and offered his Silver River Heavenly Shuttle, an Imperial Armament, in exchange. After the fair, Senior Sister Qu approached him with an incomplete eighth-grade talisman classic, hoping to trade it for his Twelvefold Nirvana Shared Lifespan Grand Array.

• He Pingsheng refused ordinary offers and displayed the Silver River Heavenly Shuttle to attract anyone with a high-level talisman-making classic.
• Senior Sister Qu and other traders admired the Imperial Armament, but their offers did not meet He Pingsheng's requirements.
• He Pingsheng rejected an offer of an Azure South White Mushroom and several other trades, then left the Commerce Association without finding a manual.
• Senior Sister Qu followed He Pingsheng and explained that she wanted his Twelvefold Nirvana Shared Lifespan Grand Array, not his shuttle.
• Senior Sister Qu offered a damaged classic with some eighth-grade talisman formulas and principles missing, and He Pingsheng examined the fragment skeptically.

He Pingsheng traded the Twelvefold Nirvana Shared Lifespan Grand Array for talisman treasures and a breakthrough aid, then enhanced his gains and refined Seven-Colored Sacred Lotus Tea. He emerged from seclusion and took over as shopkeeper to meet more people and gain experience.

• He Pingsheng traded Senior Sister Qu the Twelvefold Nirvana Shared Lifespan Grand Array for a damaged talisman manual, two Golden Rain Talismans, and an Azure South White Mushroom.
• He Pingsheng returned to his shop, set up fifth-grade formations, and used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance his items into two Azure South White Mushrooms, four Golden Sword Immortal Talismans, and two talisman manuals.
• He Pingsheng refined Seven-Colored Sacred Lotus Tea and sixth-grade pills, then enhanced the resulting medicines.
• Feng Wu told He Pingsheng that the shop's reputation had grown and more customers were coming to buy pills.
• He Pingsheng took a seat behind the counter and made himself shopkeeper, with Feng Wu as his assistant.

He Pingsheng continued running the Taixu Alchemy Shop while studying talismans, then met Luo Bingyao, a formidable Spirit Transformation cultivator who asked him to refine sixth-grade Karmic Purification Pills. The chapter ended with He Pingsheng agreeing in principle but asking her to answer three questions first.

• A Void Refinement cultivator asked He Pingsheng for supreme-grade Nascent Soul Metamorphosis Pills, and He Pingsheng gave him a bottle containing two supreme-grade pills and ten high-grade pills.
• He Pingsheng continued studying the Heavenly Talisman Dao Treasury as business at the Taixu Alchemy Shop grew.
• Luo Bingyao entered the shop and revealed that she could see through Feng Wu's Body Integration cultivation and had killed opponents above her realm.
• Luo Bingyao presented unfamiliar ingredients, and He Pingsheng recognized them as ingredients for sixth-grade Karmic Purification Pills.
• Luo Bingyao asked He Pingsheng to refine the pills, and he asked her to answer three questions first.

He Pingsheng agreed to help Luo Bingyao refine Karmic Purification Pills using the Creation Immortal Light from her upcoming tribulation, though they discussed the pill quality and his payment. He arranged for her to hide in his shop while he prepared, and planned to accompany her to the ascension platform in three days.

• He Pingsheng explained that Karmic Purification Pills required Creation Immortal Light, which could only be gathered briefly when a cultivator underwent a major tribulation.
• Luo Bingyao offered to undergo her tribulation so He Pingsheng could gather the Creation Immortal Light, and demanded a supreme-grade pill to remove her karmic burden.
• He Pingsheng said he would try to produce high-grade pills and use his Southern Bough Immortal Spring to upgrade one, then asked what payment he would receive.
• He Pingsheng noticed that a sixth-layer Body Integration Realm enemy was watching Luo Bingyao, and she revealed that she had slaughtered the Water Flood Dragon Clan in revenge for its destruction of her family.
• He Pingsheng told Luo Bingyao to hide in his shop and agreed to take her to the ascension platform in three days, then entered his pill-refining room to prepare.

He Pingsheng prepared to refine a Karmic Purification Pill for Luo Bingyao so she could break through, but the City Lord's Manor refused to let her undergo tribulation on its Ascension Platform. With Thunder Dragon threatening them outside the city, He Pingsheng offered to take Luo Bingyao beyond the walls and protect her on one condition.

• He Pingsheng finished studying the Karmic Purification Pill recipe and left his shop with Luo Bingyao to help her undergo tribulation.
• He Pingsheng dismissed the jeers of rival shopkeepers and told Thunder Dragon that threats would not stop him from doing business.
• Thunder Dragon warned He Pingsheng that Luo Bingyao would not be allowed to break through safely, while Luo Bingyao went inside the City Lord's Manor to pay for the Ascension Platform.
• Luo Bingyao emerged after officials refused her use of the platform because its defensive formations were damaged and her tribulation would be too destructive.
• He Pingsheng examined Luo Bingyao's exceptional fortune and offered to take her outside the city and keep her safe, but made his help conditional on one thing.

He Pingsheng convinced Luo Bingyao to become his disciple, promising to protect her from Daoist Thunder Dragon and help her escape. Outside the city, Thunder Dragon attacked, but He Pingsheng knocked him away with a single strike, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• He Pingsheng showed Luo Bingyao a supreme-quality seventh-grade Golden Sword Immortal Talisman and offered to help her escape Daoist Thunder Dragon in exchange for her becoming his disciple.
• Luo Bingyao agreed, knelt, and kowtowed nine times to acknowledge He Pingsheng as her master.
• He Pingsheng led Luo Bingyao outside the city and flew with her to a hilltop, where he prepared two alchemy furnaces to refine pills using her creation immortal light.
• Daoist Thunder Dragon and He Pingsheng's fellow practitioners pursued them, and Thunder Dragon transformed into a giant Flood Dragon and attacked He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng struck Thunder Dragon's head with his Primordial Purple Gold Staff, sending him crashing into a distant mountain and frightening several onlookers into fleeing.

He Pingsheng drove off the Flood Dragon with a Golden Sword Immortal Talisman, then refined two batches of Karmic Purification Pills while Luo Bingyao underwent tribulation. Both batches succeeded, leaving the gathered alchemists astonished at his skill.

• The Flood Dragon recovered from He Pingsheng's blow and flew back toward him, still intent on his feud with Luo Bingyao.
• He Pingsheng threatened the onlookers with a Golden Sword Immortal Talisman and told Luo Bingyao to begin her tribulation.
• He Pingsheng used the Void Heaven Furnace and Azure Mystic Cauldron to refine two batches of Karmic Purification Pills at once as tribulation lightning struck nearby.
• Luo Bingyao sent He Pingsheng two streams of creation immortal light, which he added to the furnaces at the final stage.
• Both furnaces produced twelve pills, and He Pingsheng collected twenty-four pills of varying grades, including two supreme grade pills.

After Luo Bingyao broke through her tribulation and became He Pingsheng’s disciple, he brought her to his shop and revealed his true surname and origins. He discovered she had a void spirit root and gave her rare heaven-tier divine cultivation arts, while promising her a powerful travel treasure after she stabilized her cultivation.

• He Pingsheng put away the Golden Sword Immortal Talisman as Thunder Dragon retreated and the remaining alchemists praised him before departing.
• He Pingsheng took Luo Bingyao to his shop, where he told her that he came from the Heavenly Fire Continent and that Taixu Zi was not his real name.
• Luo Bingyao revealed that she had a void spirit root, and He Pingsheng recalled a void-rooted adversary who died in the Nascent Soul Realm.
• He Pingsheng gave Luo Bingyao six chapters of the Mysterious Gate Tranquil Mind True Formula and taught her the Purple Mansion Nine-Shield Art.
• He Pingsheng offered Luo Bingyao the Silver River Flying Shuttle to borrow and told her to stabilize her cultivation before receiving a supreme-grade Karmic Purification Pill.

He Pingsheng cleansed Luo Bingyao’s karmic burden and received her Soul-Imprisoning Art, which he enhanced into two powerful Divine Abilities. He discovered the Yellow Springs Soul-Seizing Chain could capture souls up to two major realms above his own.

• He Pingsheng enhanced his Karmic Purification Pills into forty-eight supreme-grade pills over two days.
• He Pingsheng gave Luo Bingyao a supreme-grade Karmic Purification Pill, which erased her karmic burden.
• Luo Bingyao gave He Pingsheng a copy of the Soul-Imprisoning Art, a Divine Ability that could trap or destroy the souls of slain opponents weaker than its user.
• He Pingsheng put the Soul-Imprisoning Art into the Treasure-Gathering Basin, which enhanced it into the Six Paths Soul-Stealing Art and the Yellow Springs Soul-Seizing Chain.
• He Pingsheng learned that the Six Paths Soul-Stealing Art could retrieve specific souls from reincarnation at the cost of heavy karmic burden, while the Yellow Springs Soul-Seizing Chain could capture souls up to two major realms above his own.

He Pingsheng mastered two soul-based Divine Abilities, continued running his shop while studying talisman-making, and gave Elder Dong a supreme-grade Karmic Purification Pill for a barter auction. After two years, Daoist Firmament arrived and asked him to refine high-grade seventh-grade Lightning-Warding Pills to counter a powerful lightning cultivator.

• He Pingsheng mastered the Yellow Springs Soul-Seizing Chain and Six Paths Soul-Stealing Art while restocking and selling pills.
• Elder Dong invited He Pingsheng to contribute a supreme-grade Karmic Purification Pill to a goods-for-goods auction, and He Pingsheng agreed.
• He Pingsheng limited daily sales to four batches of common pills and spent two years studying the Heavenly Talisman Dao Treasury until he could easily make fourth-grade talismans.
• Daoist Firmament asked He Pingsheng to refine high-grade Lightning-Warding Pills so he could counter his formidable lightning-cultivator opponent.
• He Pingsheng warned Daoist Firmament that making high-grade seventh-grade pills would require him to refine above his level.

He Pingsheng refined Lightning-Warding Pills for Daoist Firmament and continued selling enhanced talismans from his shop. A Foundation Establishment cultivator delivered a jade slip saying Luo Bingyao had been abducted, and He Pingsheng went to meet her captors on a barren mountain.

• He Pingsheng used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance ingredients and waste pills, producing two high-grade and twenty-two supreme-grade Lightning-Warding Pills for Daoist Firmament.
• Daoist Firmament collected the two high-grade pills and left, boasting that he would soon make a fortune and repay He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng enhanced fourth-grade talismans and put them up for sale in his Alchemy Shop.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator delivered a jade slip revealing that Luo Bingyao had been abducted and that her captors demanded He Pingsheng negotiate.
• He Pingsheng left Emperor City and reached a barren mountain, where three Body Integration Realm cultivators accused Luo Bingyao of offending them and blamed him as her master.

He Pingsheng confronted three Body Integration Realm cultivators from Heavenly Mystery Valley, who blamed his disciple Luo Bingyao for killing one of their own. After learning they planned to kill him and that Luo Bingyao had not been captured, he unleashed the Spacetime Golden Banner and killed their two strongest fighters, leaving only the third-layer elder alive.

• He Pingsheng demanded an account of Luo Bingyao's alleged debt and learned Heavenly Mystery Valley had not captured her.
• The third-layer elder revealed that Luo Bingyao had killed his grandson and declared that He Pingsheng would die in her place.
• He Pingsheng summoned the Spacetime Golden Banner and used two seventh-grade Golden Sword Immortal Talismans against the ninth- and eleventh-layer cultivators.
• He Pingsheng used the Yellow Springs Soul-Seizing Chain to seize both defeated cultivators' souls before they could escape.
• He Pingsheng spared his remaining talismans and faced the third-layer elder, who believed He Pingsheng had run out of them.

He Pingsheng killed the three Heavenly Mystery Valley elders who had lured him out, then returned to Divine Thunder Emperor City and examined their spoils. Daoist Firmament arrived badly injured to request supreme-grade Dao-Healing Pills, but had only one set of ingredients, leaving He Pingsheng irritated by the request.

• He Pingsheng blocked the third-layer Body Integration Realm elder’s flying sword, killed him with his staff, and captured his soul with the Yellow Springs Soul-Seizing Chain.
• He Pingsheng burned the three elders’ souls with Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire, collected their rings, and returned to Divine Thunder Emperor City.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the items from the rings and refined batches of pills before Feng Wu told him Daoist Firmament had come to visit.
• Daoist Firmament revealed that his original body had died and asked He Pingsheng to refine supreme-grade seventh-grade Dao-Healing Pills for his severe Dao injuries.
• Daoist Firmament admitted he had only one set of ingredients, and He Pingsheng complained that he wanted a free ride.

Daoist Firmament begged He Pingsheng to refine Dao-Healing Pills, revealing that he needed his Dao injuries healed to pursue All-Heavens True Lightning. He Pingsheng agreed to obtain the missing Carefree Seed, and the chapter ended with Elder Dong asking what pills he would offer in exchange for it.

• Daoist Firmament offered He Pingsheng most of the Dao-Healing Pills in exchange for refining them, but He Pingsheng refused when he discovered the ingredients lacked the Carefree Seed.
• Daoist Firmament promised to reveal an earth-shattering secret if He Pingsheng produced a supreme-grade seventh-grade Dao-Healing Pill.
• Daoist Firmament revealed that he and his original body had taken Lightning-Warding Pills while trying to subdue All-Heavens True Lightning, which had inflicted his Dao injuries.
• Daoist Firmament explained that All-Heavens True Lightning was absorbing an underground lightning Dao origin and might soon leave, so He Pingsheng agreed to make the pill within two days.
• He Pingsheng went to the Mountain Spring Commerce Association, where Elder Dong confirmed they had a Carefree Seed and asked what pills He Pingsheng would trade for it.
• He Pingsheng placed a jade bottle in front of Elder Dong.

He Pingsheng traded Seven-Colored Sacred Lotus Tea for the Commerce Association’s Carefree Seed, then refined a supreme-grade Dao-Healing Pill for Daoist Firmament. Daoist Firmament revealed that the All-Heavens True Lightning was drawn to a Five-Needle Pine, and offered to lead He Pingsheng there.

• He Pingsheng persuaded Elder Dong to exchange the Carefree Seed for Seven-Colored Sacred Lotus Tea by revealing that it could extend an Integrated Body Realm cultivator’s lifespan by a thousand years.
• Elder Dong verified the spirit liquid and gave He Pingsheng the Carefree Seed, then learned that He Pingsheng had made the tea from an ancient formula.
• He Pingsheng returned to his shop, studied the Dao-Healing Pill formula, enhanced the ingredients, and refined low-grade pills that he upgraded into supreme-grade pills.
• He Pingsheng gave Daoist Firmament a supreme-grade Dao-Healing Pill and demanded the location of the All-Heavens True Lightning.
• Daoist Firmament swore he would not deceive He Pingsheng and said the lightning was drawn to a Five-Needle Pine, offering to guide him there.

Daoist Firmament promised to lead He Pingsheng to the All-Heavens True Lightning after taking a supreme-grade Dao-Healing Pill. In the Azure Qilin Immortal Domain, a divination foretold great misfortune, but the red-robed prince told Crown Prince Azure Qilin where the lightning had appeared.

• Daoist Firmament swore to take He Pingsheng to the All-Heavens True Lightning after consuming the pill, and He Pingsheng let him use his Daoist Grounds.
• The white-haired old man and his red-robed son cast a hexagram and found Kan, Water, an omen of great misfortune.
• The old man revealed that the All-Heavens True Lightning had reappeared in the Azure Qilin Emperor Domain and said it already had a destined owner.
• The old man ordered his son to tell Crown Prince Azure Qilin about the lightning's location and the ominous hexagram.
• The red-robed prince told Crown Prince Azure Qilin the news and urged him not to go in person.

After Daoist Firmament recovered, He Pingsheng traveled with him to find the All-Heavens True Lightning in the neighboring Azure Qilin Emperor Domain. They reached the lightning-bearing Five-Needle Pine, where Firmament warned that the lightning was dangerous and He Pingsheng revealed a supreme-grade Lightning-Warding Pill.

• Daoist Firmament recovered, and He Pingsheng left Feng Wu in charge of the shop before setting out with him from Emperor City.
• When Firmament explained that the journey would take at least a month on foot, He Pingsheng used Spatial Wormhole to open a passage toward the lightning's location.
• He Pingsheng and Daoist Firmament emerged near the destination and flew for about two hours to reach a valley in the Azure Qilin Emperor Domain.
• Daoist Firmament led He Pingsheng to a concealed Five-Needle Pine growing in a deep rocky fissure, where the All-Heavens True Lightning was hiding.
• Firmament warned that the lightning had overwhelmed his eleventh-layer Body Integration main body, and He Pingsheng swallowed a supreme-grade Lightning-Warding Pill, shocking him.

He Pingsheng lured the All-Heavens True Lightning out of the divine pine and tried to capture it with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff. Just as he nearly trapped it, an unknown blue-green lightning ball struck his net, allowing the lightning to escape back into the pine.

• He Pingsheng swallowed his supreme-grade Lightning-Warding Pill and lured the All-Heavens True Lightning up through the divine pine by channeling lightning power into it.
• He Pingsheng's Yellow Turban Strongman failed to stop the lightning, and Daoist Firmament trapped it with his Golden Bell Shroud before the lightning broke free and struck him.
• He Pingsheng knocked the lightning away from the divine pine with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, then trapped it inside a shrinking purple-gold net.
• A blue-green lightning ball descended and struck He Pingsheng's net, letting the All-Heavens True Lightning escape and burrow back into the divine pine.

He Pingsheng fought Crown Prince Azure Qilin, who overwhelmed him with lightning attacks and demanded his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark. He Pingsheng replenished his magic power and counterattacked, but Crown Prince Azure Qilin blocked his divine sense attack with a defensive treasure.

• Crown Prince Azure Qilin struck He Pingsheng with lightning orbs, blasting him into the ground twice while praising his resilience and declaring that he would make him a slave.
• He Pingsheng used the time bought by Crown Prince Azure Qilin's ten-breath ultimatum to swallow Seven-Colored Sacred Lotus Tea and restore his magic power.
• He Pingsheng leaped up and attacked Crown Prince Azure Qilin with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, combining four divine abilities into one powerful strike.
• Crown Prince Azure Qilin blocked He Pingsheng's staff with his lightning-charged steel fork and remarked that He Pingsheng could surpass him after reaching the Body Integration Realm.
• He Pingsheng gave his name as Wang Dun and launched seven divine spikes at Crown Prince Azure Qilin's sea of consciousness, but a red light from a defensive magical treasure neutralized the attack.