Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng battled Crown Prince Azure Qilin, evading his lightning attacks and countering with a fused Divine Spear strike that failed to break Azure Qilin’s shield. Azure Qilin then unleashed a seventh-grade supreme-grade Talisman whose golden arrow pursued He Pingsheng through repeated teleports, leaving him close to being struck.

• Crown Prince Azure Qilin demanded that He Pingsheng surrender his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark, but He Pingsheng refused and said Azure Qilin could not kill him.
• Crown Prince Azure Qilin revealed his thousand-zhang True Body of the Dharma Manifestation and attacked with lightning, but He Pingsheng escaped using Void Swift Movement.
• Crown Prince Azure Qilin attacked He Pingsheng with a steel fork and the Azure Heaven Thunder Sword Slash, but He Pingsheng teleported away from both strikes.
• He Pingsheng grew using Heavenly Law and Earthly Form and charged with a Divine Spear formed from the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, but Crown Prince Azure Qilin blocked him with a massive shield.
• Crown Prince Azure Qilin activated a seventh-grade supreme-grade Talisman that formed a golden arrow capable of killing a peak Body Integration cultivator.
• He Pingsheng repeatedly used Void Swift Movement to evade the arrow, but it kept pursuing him and closing the distance.

He Pingsheng survived Crown Prince Azure Qilin’s golden arrow and fought back to stop him from claiming the All-Heavens True Lightning. After poisoning and defeating Azure Qilin, He Pingsheng captured his escaping soul.

• He Pingsheng used the Blood-Colored Turtle Shell and black lotus platform to defend against Crown Prince Azure Qilin’s golden arrow, then escaped into the Primordial Purple Gold Staff’s magical treasure space.
• He Pingsheng returned unharmed and argued with Crown Prince Azure Qilin over ownership of the All-Heavens True Lightning.
• He Pingsheng activated two Golden Sword Immortal Talismans, but Crown Prince Azure Qilin survived the attack as a Body-Refining Cultivator.
• He Pingsheng’s Eight-Treasure Purple Cloud Spikes poisoned Crown Prince Azure Qilin, and He Pingsheng attacked him while the poison weakened him.
• Crown Prince Azure Qilin’s True Body of the Dharma Manifestation collapsed, and He Pingsheng caught his escaping soul with a black hook.

He Pingsheng trapped Crown Prince Azure Qilin’s soul after the prince ruined his chance to obtain the All-Heavens True Lightning. Azure Qilin taught him the Lightning-Binding Incantation as compensation, but remained captive while He Pingsheng considered what else he could demand for his release.

• Crown Prince Azure Qilin cursed He Pingsheng, then admitted defeat and refused to become his servant or mount, even if it meant dying.
• The Second Elder learned that Azure Qilin’s avatar had lost consciousness, found the prince’s Life Tablet intact, and destroyed the avatar.
• Azure Qilin realized his Second Uncle had sent him into a great calamity and asked He Pingsheng to spare him so he could take revenge.
• Azure Qilin offered the Lightning-Binding Incantation, which could capture and refine the All-Heavens True Lightning, as compensation for ruining He Pingsheng’s plans.
• He Pingsheng memorized the incantation, recorded it on a Jade Slip, and told Azure Qilin they were even over the lost lightning before demanding further terms for his release.

He Pingsheng captured the All-Heavens True Lightning with the Lightning-Binding Incantation and stored it in his Primordial Purple Gold Staff. After securing the lightning, he had Hu Chen and Crown Prince Azure Qilin with him.

• Crown Prince Azure Qilin exposed Hu Chen, revealing that Daoist Firmament was the notorious thief Hu Chen from the Azure Qilin Emperor Domain.
• He Pingsheng called Hu Chen over and asked him to help capture the All-Heavens True Lightning, while Crown Prince Azure Qilin urged him not to delay.
• He Pingsheng stored Crown Prince Azure Qilin's soul in a Soul-Nurturing Banner and put it in his Spatial Ring.
• He Pingsheng chanted the Lightning-Binding Incantation, drawing the All-Heavens True Lightning out of the Five-Needle Pine.
• He Pingsheng threw the lightning into the treasure space of his Primordial Purple Gold Staff, where it could not escape.

He Pingsheng returned with Hu Chen, taught him the Spatial Wormhole divine ability, and accepted him into his shop. After examining the treasures taken from Crown Prince Azure Qilin, He Pingsheng negotiated for Azure Qilin to serve as his mount, but Azure Qilin refused and offered a different bargain.

• He Pingsheng made Hu Chen swear not to reveal the All-Heavens True Lightning or teach the Spatial Wormhole to anyone else, then gave him the jade slip.
• Hu Chen asked to join He Pingsheng’s shop, and He Pingsheng agreed to let him help with the shop and gather medicinal ingredients.
• He Pingsheng studied the Six Directions Lightning Refinement Art and the Dragon-Capturing Method, deciding to cultivate the former first.
• He Pingsheng inspected Crown Prince Azure Qilin’s treasures, released his soul, and proposed that Azure Qilin serve as his mount for a thousand years.
• Azure Qilin refused to become He Pingsheng’s mount and offered to provide another qilin and a Supreme Grade Imperial Armament later.

He Pingsheng secured Crown Prince Azure Qilin’s oath to obtain the Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearl and a Qilin mount, then subdued the All-Heavens True Lightning. Refining the lightning broke his Void Refinement bottleneck, but none of his five clones had reached great perfection, leaving him unable to advance to the Body Integration Realm.

• Crown Prince Azure Qilin promised He Pingsheng the Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearl and a Qilin mount within a hundred years, then swore a Heavenly Dao Oath in exchange for his freedom.
• He Pingsheng returned Azure Qilin’s ring, released his soul, and entered the Primordial Purple Gold Staff’s Magical Treasure space.
• He Pingsheng fought the All-Heavens True Lightning until it weakened, then persuaded it to submit and allowed him to refine it.
• He Pingsheng used the Six Directions Lightning Refinement Art to refine the All-Heavens True Lightning in thirteen years and reached the twelfth layer of Void Refinement Realm.
• He Pingsheng discovered that he could not enter the Body Integration Realm because none of his five clones had reached great perfection Void Refinement Realm.

After refining all-heavens true lightning, He Pingsheng considered the wait for his avatars to reach the cultivation needed for him to enter the Body Integration Realm. Luo Bingyao returned with a Wind and Moon Treasure Mirror, while He Pingsheng revealed that he had killed the Heavenly Mystery Valley cultivators and Crown Prince Azure Qilin.

• He Pingsheng learned that his innate true lightning offered little beyond helping him break through bottlenecks, and decided to wait for his avatars to advance before pursuing Body Integration.
• Luo Bingyao returned after more than a decade, having reached the third layer of the Void Refinement Realm, and asked He Pingsheng about the Heavenly Mystery Valley cultivators.
• He Pingsheng reassured Luo Bingyao that she should follow her conscience, gave her two supreme-grade Lightning-Warding Pills, and said he was not afraid of offending powerful cultivators.
• Luo Bingyao offered He Pingsheng the Wind and Moon Treasure Mirror, a low-grade Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure that could form a seventh-grade defensive formation.
• He Pingsheng declined the mirror, saying he already owned a similar treasure, and revealed that he had killed the three Body Integration Realm cultivators from Heavenly Mystery Valley.
• Luo Bingyao mentioned that He Pingsheng had also killed Crown Prince Azure Qilin, and Daoist Firmament admitted that he had spread the story.

He Pingsheng learned that Hu Chen had broken through his bottleneck and offered to refine the Great Creation Pill once Hu Chen found its remaining ingredients. He copied and enhanced Luo Bingyao’s mirror into a powerful spirit-confounding treasure, then spent fourteen years refining pills and completing it in his Small Courtyard.

• He Pingsheng congratulated Hu Chen on breaking through and offered to refine a Great Creation Pill for him when he gathered the ingredients.
• He Pingsheng discovered that he had also broken through his bottleneck, then began replenishing the shop’s depleted supply of pills.
• He Pingsheng copied Luo Bingyao’s Wind and Moon Treasure Mirror in the Treasure-Gathering Basin and enhanced the copy into the Heaven-Trapping Earth-Locking Eight Gates Mirror.
• He Pingsheng returned the original mirror to Luo Bingyao and showed her his enhanced treasure, which could activate a seventh-grade Spirit-Confounding Formation.
• He Pingsheng continued refining pills and enhancing the mirror for fourteen years, finally completing it and spreading a Spirit-Confounding Formation through his Small Courtyard.

After returning from fourteen years of seclusion, He Pingsheng resumed running his pill shop and retrieved his wood-attribute avatar from the Heavenly Fire Continent. News of Elder Dong’s fatal attempt to fuse two Laws Origins inspired He Pingsheng to combine lightning and fire, and he successfully unleashed a powerful new attack.

• He Pingsheng learned that Luo Bingyao had left to travel and that Hu Chen had gone to a Trading Fair, then gave Feng Wu his stock of pills and took over the shop.
• Hu Chen returned without the two rare ingredients he still needed for the Great Creation Pill, so He Pingsheng sent him through a Spatial Wormhole to retrieve his wood-attribute avatar from the Heavenly Fire Continent.
• After Hu Chen brought back the avatar, he told He Pingsheng that Elder Dong had died trying to fuse wood and fire Laws Origins to break through his bottleneck.
• Inspired by the news, He Pingsheng went into seclusion to work out how to combine All-Heavens True Lightning and Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire.
• After half a year of experimentation, He Pingsheng fused the lightning and fire into a crimson dragon-shaped attack whose explosive force sent him flying.

He Pingsheng named his new divine ability Two Truths Merged into One Dragon Fist and visited the Mountain Spring Commerce Association to seek a wood attribute origin. He found a seventh-grade lightning origin that could help his clone, but after rejecting Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden’s conditions, he was led to meet its owner, whose cultivation he could not see through.

• He Pingsheng tested his powerful but energy-consuming divine ability and named it Two Truths Merged into One Dragon Fist.
• He Pingsheng learned that the Mountain Spring Commerce Association’s annual auction would take place in ten days and sent his wood attribute clone to cultivate.
• He Pingsheng visited the association and asked Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden for a wood attribute origin, but she said none was available.
• Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden showed He Pingsheng a seventh-grade lightning Dao origin and demanded that he sell all his pills through the association at a discount.
• He Pingsheng refused her terms, so Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden took him to meet the lightning origin’s owner, who revealed that He Pingsheng could not see through his cultivation.

He Pingsheng refused the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor’s demand to sell him pills and was imprisoned in an imperial-armament cage. After two days of failing to escape, He Pingsheng endured the cage’s painful lightning and agreed to refine pills for two thousand years, but he asked to set a condition.

• He Pingsheng refused to sell his pills to the Mountain Spring Commerce Association, so the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor trapped him in an imperial-armament cage and demanded his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark.
• The Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor took He Pingsheng to a hall and left him imprisoned, where He Pingsheng spent two days unsuccessfully attacking the cage and trying to escape.
• Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden offered He Pingsheng release after two thousand years of refining pills for the emperor, and threatened him with the cage’s painful lightning.
• He Pingsheng agreed to the two-thousand-year arrangement but said he had a condition.

He Pingsheng negotiated with the Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden for protection from divine sense while refining pills, enduring months of feigned torture before she agreed to provide an eighth-grade sealing formation. With the formation completed, he agreed to refine four batches of pills daily and requested a month’s worth of ingredients at a time.

• He Pingsheng questioned the Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden about how the Commerce Association had anticipated his needs, and she said his capture plan had simply coincided with his arrival.
• He Pingsheng demanded an eighth-grade Divine-Sense Sealing Formation as a condition for refining pills, but the Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden left and had lightning used on him.
• He Pingsheng secretly absorbed the lightning while pretending to suffer, then resisted the Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden’s demand to return the seventh-grade Lightning Dao Origin for three months.
• The Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden agreed to his formation demand, and formation masters installed an eighth-grade array around He Pingsheng and his cage.
• After the array was completed, He Pingsheng agreed to refine four batches of pills per day and asked to receive a month’s ingredients at a time.

Luo Bingyao and Feng Wu confronted the Mountain Spring Commerce Association over He Pingsheng’s disappearance, and their clash exposed his imprisonment inside the Divine Thunder Emperor Palace. He Pingsheng emerged during a heavenly tribulation after forty-four years as a pill slave, and he vowed to kill a Mahayana cultivator if he survived.

• Luo Bingyao accused the Mountain Spring Commerce Association of hiding He Pingsheng and ordered Feng Wu to burn it, prompting Feng Wu and the Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden to fight.
• The Divine Thunder Demon Emperor arrived and questioned Luo Bingyao and Feng Wu, while the Peach Blossom Immortal Maiden denied imprisoning He Pingsheng.
• A tribulation cloud gathered over the Emperor Palace, and its lightning destroyed much of the palace as the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor emerged.
• The tribulation revealed He Pingsheng imprisoned in a spherical cage, and Luo Bingyao demanded to know why he was there.
• He Pingsheng told the crowd that he had been forced to refine pills for forty-four years, then said he would kill a Mahayana cultivator after surviving the tribulation.

He Pingsheng revealed his identity while undergoing an unusually powerful heavenly tribulation, and the ninth wave struck after he survived the eighth. As Feng Wu and Luo Bingyao kept Daoist Peach Blossom from escaping, He Pingsheng shattered the final lightning with his own power.

• He Pingsheng told Luo Bingyao to watch as he revealed his name to the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor, startling both Demon Emperors who recognized him as the Void Refinement cultivator they had failed to kill.
• He Pingsheng endured the seventh wave, and the gathering cultivators realized his tribulation had continued beyond it.
• He Pingsheng used a black lotus platform to block the eighth wave, but the clouds gathered for a ninth.
• Feng Wu and Luo Bingyao knocked Daoist Peach Blossom out of the sky as she tried to flee, and Hu Chen, Daoist Firmament, arrived to help keep her there.
• He Pingsheng used the Blood-Colored Turtle Shell, an Azure Divine Turtle Phantom, and another black lotus platform against the ninth wave, then blasted apart the remaining lightning with his own power.

He Pingsheng survived the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, escaped the Imperial Armament cage, and revealed his control over All-Heavens True Lightning and Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire. After killing Peach Blossom and exposing the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor’s crimes, he turned to face Tianyuan with his wood avatar blocking the emperor’s escape.

• The Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor discovered that the heavenly lightning had erased his Divine Sense imprint, leaving him unable to open He Pingsheng’s cage.
• He Pingsheng merged All-Heavens True Lightning with Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire and blasted the Imperial Armament cage apart.
• He Pingsheng feinted at the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, then killed Peach Blossom and seized her fleeing soul with the Yellow Springs Soul-Seizing Chain.
• He Pingsheng’s wood avatar appeared after reaching the first layer of the Body Integration Realm and used a divine banner to disrupt Spatial Law and block escape.
• Peach Blossom blamed the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor for plotting to capture He Pingsheng and for abducting alchemists and other cultivators to serve him.
• He Pingsheng burned Peach Blossom’s soul away, then faced the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor and declared that he would die.

He Pingsheng confronted the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor over their blood feud after the Divine Thunder Demon Emperor refused to intervene. He Pingsheng pierced Tianyuan with a devastating spear attack, leaving his fate unclear.

• He Pingsheng demanded that the Divine Thunder Demon Emperor stay out of his fight with the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor, and the Divine Thunder Demon Emperor left Tianyuan to face him alone.
• Tianyuan offered He Pingsheng pill profits and the Heaven and Earth Cage to settle their differences, but He Pingsheng rejected the offer and attacked.
• He Pingsheng’s initial staff strike broke Tianyuan’s Thunder Dragon Claw, though Tianyuan believed he could defeat He Pingsheng and launched Nine Radiances Heavenly Dragons.
• He Pingsheng evaded Tianyuan’s dragons with Void Swift Movement and wounded him with Two Truths Unity, then smashed him into the ground with an enhanced staff strike that devastated half of Divine Thunder Emperor City.
• Tianyuan emerged from the magma and pleaded to talk, but He Pingsheng pierced him through the body with Myriad Annihilations Return to Origin and Spear-Wielder Unity.

He Pingsheng killed the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor, took over the Mountain Spring Commerce Association, and freed the people imprisoned as pill slaves. After releasing them, he prepared to enhance his spoils and claimed he needed seclusion, but a white-haired old man stayed kneeling outside his room.

• He Pingsheng destroyed the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor's soul and found dozens of people imprisoned in the emperor's Lesser Thousand World.
• He Pingsheng sent Hu Chen and Feng Wu to inspect and take over the Mountain Spring Commerce Association, then returned to Cauldron Street with Luo Bingyao and his clone.
• He Pingsheng released twenty-six pill slaves from the Lesser Thousand World and told them the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor was dead and they were free.
• He Pingsheng placed the emperor's treasures and other items into the Treasure-Gathering Basin for enhancement.
• Several freed people thanked He Pingsheng and offered to refine pills for him, but he declined; a white-haired old man remained kneeling outside his room, and He Pingsheng asked what he wanted.

He Pingsheng found a way to extend Liu Molin’s life and help him pursue a breakthrough, then examined the enhanced treasures produced by the Treasure-Gathering Basin. He ended with a powerful but unpredictable Thirty-Seventy Talisman in hand.

• Liu Molin explained that the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor had imprisoned him for three thousand years after promising him Red Feather Wheat, and He Pingsheng offered to help him.
• He Pingsheng gave Liu Molin Seven-Colored Sacred Lotus Tea, which restored a thousand years of lifespan, and promised him Red Feather Wheat.
• He Pingsheng found Emperor Truffle and Purple Gold Immortal Eggplant in the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor’s ring, along with other treasures.
• He Pingsheng fed two enhanced supreme-grade Nirvana Divine Stones to the Primordial Purple Gold Staff.
• The Treasure-Gathering Basin enhanced the formation plates into a Fleeting Moment Time Formation and a Hundred-Convergence Heavenly Light Formation.
• He Pingsheng discovered that the enhanced Thirty-Seventy Talisman permanently divided combat power between its bound target and its user in a random thirty-seventy allocation.

He Pingsheng examined the treasures enhanced by the Treasure-Gathering Basin, including four Lesser Spirit Worlds and two powerful Imperial Armaments. He gave Liu Molin a Lesser Spirit World and asked him to complete the missing parts of an Eighth Grade time formation, leaving Liu to begin studying it in seclusion.

• He Pingsheng discovered that his four purple pearls had become Lesser Spirit Worlds, each capable of accommodating nine Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivators and permitting ascension to the Immortal Realm.
• He Pingsheng identified the Mystic Lightning Devil-Purging Pearl and Thousand-Lock Thunder Dragon, deciding to give the former to Luo Bingyao and keeping the latter for himself.
• He Pingsheng chose not to enhance the All-Heavens True Lightning or Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire yet and left the Daoist Grounds.
• He Pingsheng gave Liu Molin a hundred grains of Red Feather Wheat and asked him to help complete the Fleeting Moment Time Formation.
• Liu Molin accepted the challenge and estimated he could make progress within decades or a century, so He Pingsheng gave him a Lesser Spirit World to use for seclusion.

He Pingsheng took charge of the Mountain Spring Commerce Association, distributed powerful treasures to Luo Bingyao and his wood clone, and enhanced the All-Heavens True Lightning. The chapter ended when the Divine Thunder Demon Emperor invited him to the Emperor Palace to settle their grudge.

• Hu Chen reported that the Commerce Association's stock was running low, and He Pingsheng made him head manager and gave him ingredients for the Great Creation Pill.
• He Pingsheng gave Luo Bingyao the Mystic Lightning Devil-Purging Pearl and gave his wood clone the Thousand-Lock Thunder Dragon and the Lesser Spirit World.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the All-Heavens True Lightning into two stronger strands and gave one to his wood clone.
• After another year of growing business at the shop, Luo Bingyao told He Pingsheng that an envoy from the Emperor Palace wanted to see him.
• The envoy delivered the Divine Thunder Demon Emperor's invitation for He Pingsheng to visit the Emperor Palace and settle their grudge.