Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng met with the Divine Thunder Demon Emperor, who denied responsibility for Tianyuan’s pill-slave scheme and offered compensation for the resulting karmic debt. He Pingsheng left with a Golden Bitter Token and a chance to claim the Western Extremity Continent’s sacred land for the Human Race.

• The Divine Thunder Demon Emperor offered He Pingsheng rulership of the Divine Thunder Emperor Domain, but He Pingsheng refused.
• The Divine Thunder Demon Emperor blamed Tianyuan for imprisoning alchemists as pill slaves and gave He Pingsheng a Golden Bitter Token instead.
• The Divine Thunder Demon Emperor explained that the token could open the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins on the Western Extremity Continent, where the ten great true poisons were kept.
• The Divine Thunder Demon Emperor urged He Pingsheng to collect the true poisons and help the Human Race claim the Western Extremity Continent.

He Pingsheng secured the Golden Bitter Token and learned that the Divine Thunder Demon Emperor planned to leave. He then met Bing Xuan, a powerful cultivator seeking a Soul-Restoring Nether Pill, and offered to help her despite not having one.

• He Pingsheng accepted the Golden Bitter Token, ending his cause and effect with the Divine Thunder Demon Emperor, who explained why he was leaving the Thunderwaste Continent.
• Hu Chen told He Pingsheng that Bing Xuan had brought a ten-thousand-year red spirit mandarin to the Mountain Spring Commerce Association in exchange for a Soul-Restoring Nether Pill.
• He Pingsheng met Bing Xuan, learned she was a seventh-layer Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivator, and confirmed that he had neither the pill nor its ingredients.
• When Bing Xuan prepared to leave, He Pingsheng stopped her and said he might be able to do her a great favor.

He Pingsheng offered Empress Bing Xuan the Six Paths Soul-Stealing Art in exchange for her ten-thousand-year red spirit mandarin and an oath not to pass the technique on. After he resisted her threat and raised the price, Bing Xuan left to investigate his background.

• Empress Bing Xuan revealed that her son had become a living corpse after a soul attack sent his soul into the six paths of reincarnation.
• He Pingsheng showed Bing Xuan the outline of the Six Paths Soul-Stealing Art and offered its complete version for the ten-thousand-year red spirit mandarin and a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Bing Xuan refused to swear an oath and threatened He Pingsheng, but he blocked her divine sense attack with the Purple Mansion Nine-Shield Art and challenged her to fight.
• He Pingsheng raised the price of the technique because of Bing Xuan's rudeness, then left the Mountain Spring Commerce Association.
• Bing Xuan stayed in Emperor City and questioned a Spirit Transformation Stage artifact shop owner about He Pingsheng, frightening him until he collapsed.

Bing Xuan learned that He Pingsheng had killed the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor and destroyed his soul, then returned to the Taixu Alchemy Shop with a more respectful attitude. She swore a heavenly dao oath and traded an eighth-grade talisman and a ten-thousand-year red spirit mandarin for He Pingsheng’s divine ability.

• A Spirit Transformation cultivator told Bing Xuan that He Pingsheng had broken through to the Body Integration Realm while imprisoned and killed the second-layer Mahayana Emperor Realm Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor.
• The cultivator explained that He Pingsheng had destroyed the Heavenly Origin Thunder Emperor’s soul and avatar, and possessed All-Heavens True Lightning and Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire.
• Bing Xuan learned that He Pingsheng had endured the unprecedented nine-by-nine annihilation lightning tribulation and left to find his shop.
• Bing Xuan apologized to He Pingsheng and offered to swear a heavenly dao oath before trading for his divine ability.
• Bing Xuan swore the oath and exchanged an eighth-grade talisman and a ten-thousand-year red spirit mandarin for the divine ability, which she could not pass on.

He Pingsheng enhanced a Great Voidness Talisman and tried to refine Great Creation Pills, but repeated failures led him to realize his divine sense needed training. He visited Liu Molin in the Lesser Spirit World, where Liu Molin explained that repairing the time formation would take decades.

• He Pingsheng enhanced a Great Voidness Talisman and obtained two supreme-grade Great Creation Pills after improving his first batch of waste pills.
• He Pingsheng failed to refine a second batch and decided to enter seclusion to strengthen his divine sense.
• He Pingsheng entered the Lesser Spirit World and found Liu Molin repairing the time formation.
• Liu Molin told He Pingsheng that working out the formation would take at least fifteen more years and setting it up would take another twenty years.

He Pingsheng gave Liu Molin a supreme-grade Great Creation Pill so he could break through to the Mahayana Emperor Realm, then received a request from Crown Prince Azure Qilin to kill his second uncle. He Pingsheng refused to get involved in Azure Qilin’s karma.

• He Pingsheng showed Liu Molin a supreme-grade Great Creation Pill, and Liu Molin agreed to undergo tribulation in He Pingsheng’s magical treasure space.
• He Pingsheng spoke with Luo Bingyao and learned that Hu Chen was busy contacting the Commerce Association’s suppliers.
• Crown Prince Azure Qilin arrived with his younger sister, Qing Yu, and told He Pingsheng that he had broken through his bottleneck after their previous encounter.
• Azure Qilin asked He Pingsheng to kill his second uncle, citing his debt of an Imperial Armament and the Heavenly Dao Oath tied to the Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearl.
• He Pingsheng declined, saying he would not casually get involved in other people’s karma.

He Pingsheng declined Azure Qilin’s request to help kill his uncle but agreed to trade a supreme-grade Great Creation Pill for Qing Yu becoming his mount. After riding her, He Pingsheng learned about her mismatched water and fire spirit roots and gave her cultivation resources to help her advance.

• He Pingsheng refused to help Azure Qilin kill his second uncle, but admitted that he had a Great Creation Pill.
• Azure Qilin offered Qing Yu as He Pingsheng’s mount in exchange for an extra pill, and He Pingsheng gave him a supreme-grade Great Creation Pill for the Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearl.
• Qing Yu transformed into a Qilin, let He Pingsheng ride her through the sky, and began calling him Young Master.
• He Pingsheng learned that Qing Yu had water and fire spirit roots, with water dominant, and that she cultivated mainly through her water root.
• He Pingsheng gave Qing Yu the Heaven Tier [Heavenly Ice Sword Slash], ice-origin [Dao-Gathering Pills], and promised her a water-ice cultivation technique and resources for breaking through her bottleneck.

He Pingsheng took Luo Bingyao to guard Hu Chen as he survived his heavenly tribulation and reached the Mahayana Emperor Realm. The breakthrough attracted the new Demon Emperor, who approached He Pingsheng and assured him she had no ill intent.

• Luo Bingyao questioned Qing Yu's motives for becoming a mount, and He Pingsheng explained his agreement with Crown Prince Azure Qilin and his slave mark with Qing Yu.
• He Pingsheng brought Luo Bingyao to the remote mountains, where his wood avatar watched over Hu Chen's preparations.
• Hu Chen swallowed the supreme-grade Great Creation Pill and faced the seven-nine heavenly tribulation with his body while mourning his deceased master.
• Hu Chen survived the final lightning wave and absorbed creation immortal light to stabilize his foundation, completing his breakthrough to the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
• The new Demon Emperor investigated the breakthrough, and He Pingsheng readied the Primordial Purple Gold Staff before she assured him she had no ill intent.

Immortal Maiden Tianwei welcomed Hu Chen’s breakthrough and placed He Pingsheng under her protection, while Feng Buzhi reported to the Phoenix Emperor that He Pingsheng had survived, reached the Body Integration Realm, and killed a Mahayana Emperor. The Phoenix Race’s leaders debated asking their Patriarch to kill him.

• Immortal Maiden Tianwei introduced herself to He Pingsheng and promised to protect him from the Phoenix Race.
• Hu Chen thanked He Pingsheng for helping him reach the Mahayana Emperor Realm and kowtowed to him.
• Feng Buzhi arrived at the Undying Volcano and told the Phoenix Emperor that He Pingsheng was alive on the Thunderwaste Continent.
• Feng Buzhi revealed that He Pingsheng had slain a second-layer Mahayana Emperor and survived the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Phoenix Emperor and the other Phoenix Great Emperors panicked, and the Thirteenth Elder urged them to ask the Patriarch to act.

The Phoenix Emperor persuaded the Phoenix Race's Forefather to kill He Pingsheng despite the lifespan cost of acting. The Forefather arrived at He Pingsheng's shop and unleashed his aura over Emperor City.

• The Phoenix Emperor led the elders to the Shaggy Chrysanthemum Garden to seek the Forefather's help.
• The Phoenix Emperor reported that He Pingsheng had killed a second-layer Mahayana Emperor Realm Demon Emperor after reaching the first layer of the Body Integration Realm.
• The Forefather reluctantly agreed to act once after the Phoenix Emperor and the others knelt and pleaded, but forbade them from seeking his help again.
• The Forefather appeared at He Pingsheng's shop and rebuked Feng Wu for serving someone outside the Phoenix Race.
• He Pingsheng failed to discern the Forefather's cultivation and identified him as an Unbound Immortal.
• The Forefather confirmed his identity, threatened to kill He Pingsheng, and released his aura over Emperor City.

The Phoenix Race patriarch confronted He Pingsheng and offered terms to end their feud, while Empress Tianwei was caught in the encounter. He Pingsheng tried to use a [Thirty-Seventy] talisman against the patriarch, but the patriarch turned it back on him, linking the two with its rules.

• The Phoenix Race patriarch pressured He Pingsheng and offered Feng Wanxi, support for the Human Race, and a chance to live in exchange for a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Empress Tianwei rushed in to protect He Pingsheng, and the patriarch transported them all into a sealed world in the depths of the void.
• He Pingsheng agreed to the terms and asked the patriarch to release his divine pressure so he could swear the oath.
• After the patriarch withdrew his pressure, He Pingsheng activated a [Thirty-Seventy] talisman against him.
• The patriarch stopped the talisman, redirected it onto He Pingsheng, and triggered an invisible rule-chain linking them.

He Pingsheng fought the Phoenix Race Unbound Immortal after the Thirty-Seventy Talisman bound them and divided their power, but his opponent still held the advantage. He survived the Unbound Immortal’s attacks, realized the old man had spent three hundred thousand years of lifespan, and left with Empress Tianwei.

• The Phoenix Race Unbound Immortal sealed space and time and launched a massive finger attack at He Pingsheng, but He Pingsheng broke free and countered with lightning and fire.
• The Unbound Immortal’s attack blasted He Pingsheng away and collapsed the constructed world, while the aftershock sent Empress Tianwei crashing to the ground.
• He Pingsheng returned with a purple-red staff, broke through the Unbound Immortal’s nine seas of lightning, and struck him, but the old man slapped him away without injuring him.
• He Pingsheng realized the Thirty-Seventy Talisman had assigned him thirty and his opponent seventy, and pointed out that the Unbound Immortal had spent three hundred thousand years of lifespan on three attacks.
• The Unbound Immortal threatened to wait for the talisman to expire, but He Pingsheng drank Seven-Colored Sacred Lotus Tea, teleported to Empress Tianwei, and asked whether they should return.

After the Phoenix Patriarch failed to kill He Pingsheng, the Phoenix Race prepared to defend itself against him and Wang Dun. He Pingsheng went into seclusion, refined the Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearl, and returned to find Liu Molin had built the Fleeting Moment Time Formation, though it worked at only five times normal speed.

• The Phoenix Patriarch told the Phoenix Emperor that his three attacks on He Pingsheng had failed and cost him three hundred thousand years of lifespan.
• The Phoenix Emperor and the Phoenix Race learned that Wang Dun also had ninth-grade fortune, gave up on fighting the two humans, and decided to set up their Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation.
• He Pingsheng left Feng Wu in charge, scolded Luo Bingyao, then secluded himself to refine the Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearl and cultivate.
• After fourteen years, He Pingsheng had refined the pearl and reached the second layer of the Body Integration Realm.
• Liu Molin showed He Pingsheng the completed Fleeting Moment Time Formation, explaining that its time acceleration reached only five times normal speed.
• He Pingsheng took Liu Molin's Formation Diagram and gave him a Hundred-Convergence Heavenly Light Formation Plate to study.

He Pingsheng returned to the Heavenly Fire Continent and learned that Tian Jinpeng and his daughter were hiding in the Wuqiong Emperor Domain. He sealed the area around their sect, where Tian Jinpeng realized his old enemy had found him.

• Liu Molin agreed to complete He Pingsheng's Formation Plate diagram in four years using the Time Grand Formation, and He Pingsheng supplied spirit stones.
• He Pingsheng traveled to the Heavenly Fire Continent and met his water attribute clone, who reported that Tian Jinpeng and his daughter had gone into hiding in the Wuqiong Emperor Domain.
• He Pingsheng and the water clone reached the West Forest Sect and used the Spacetime Golden Banner to seal the surrounding ten thousand li.
• Tian Jinpeng recognized the imperial might and told Tian Xiaoxiao that He Pingsheng had found them.
• The West Forest Sect's Grand Supreme Elder promised to stand against Tian Jinpeng's enemy because Tian Jinpeng had once saved his life.

He Pingsheng entered the West Forest Sect’s grand formation and confronted Tian Jinpeng, revealing their immense cultivation gap. He killed Tian Jinpeng and then Tian Yao, leaving Tian Jinpeng’s soul to curse him.

• The West Forest Sect’s sect master activated the fifth-grade Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation after Tian Jinpeng warned that his enemy could kill him with a slap.
• He Pingsheng appeared inside the formation, and he and Tian Jinpeng recalled their confrontation 295 years earlier and revealed they had reached the Body Integration Realm.
• Tian Yao regretted trying to kill He Pingsheng in the past, while Tian Jinpeng pleaded for her life and offered to cripple her cultivation.
• He Pingsheng killed Tian Jinpeng with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and seized his soul with the Yellow Springs Soul-Seizing Chain.
• He Pingsheng offered Tian Yao a choice between her own life and her father’s, then killed her after she chose to live.

He Pingsheng killed Tian Jinpeng, then returned to Great Order Emperor City and learned that the Great Order Wisdom King had given birth to two of their children. As Zi Qing led him to the Radiant King Palace, the Great Order Wisdom King summoned him inside.

• He Pingsheng killed Tian Jinpeng and spared the nearby Spirit Transformation cultivator before leaving the West Forest Sect.
• He Pingsheng gave Tian Jinpeng’s ring to his water clone and traveled to Great Order Emperor City.
• Zi Qing told He Pingsheng that the Great Order Wisdom King had given birth to a daughter and a son, and that Su Zhenzhen and He Tianya lived in the city.
• He Pingsheng tried to leave for the north of the city to visit Su Zhenzhen and He Tianya, but the Great Order Wisdom King struck him and ordered him to come to her.
• Zi Qing brought He Pingsheng to the Radiant King Palace, where the Great Order Wisdom King told him to enter.

He Pingsheng reunited with the Great Order Wisdom King and met their twins, He Yuqing and He Tianyu, learning why Tianyu resembled Zhu Xuanlun. After several days together, He Pingsheng offered to stay and raise the children with her, but she sent him to visit Sister Su.

• Zi Qing left He Pingsheng at the palace, where the Great Order Wisdom King introduced him to their children, He Yuqing and He Tianyu.
• He Pingsheng suspected the Great Order Wisdom King had been with Zhu Zhengyan, but she explained that Zhu Xuanlun’s soul had entered her womb and that He Tianyu resembled him.
• The Great Order Wisdom King struck at He Pingsheng for distrusting her, and he dodged with Void Swift Movement.
• Several days later, the Great Order Wisdom King told He Pingsheng that He Tianyu was nearing Spirit Transformation while He Yuqing had a single wood Spiritual Root.
• He Pingsheng offered to stay and raise the twins with the Great Order Wisdom King, but she declined and told him to visit Sister Su on the north side of the city.

The Great Order Wisdom King told He Pingsheng that the Nine-Colored Peacock Tribe was claiming ownership of her award-winning Wisdom King Sacrifice divine ability. She had disclosed the inspirations behind it to the Hundred Feathers Association, but the dispute remained unresolved as she refused to meet the Nine-Colored Tribe’s envoy.

• Immortal Maiden Zi Qing told the Great Order Wisdom King that Immortal Maiden Mu Han of the Nine-Colored Tribe had returned seeking a calm discussion, and the Great Order Wisdom King refused to see her.
• The Great Order Wisdom King explained to He Pingsheng that the Hundred Feathers Association organized a Divine Ability Assembly every ten thousand years to judge abilities created by Feather Clan members.
• The Great Order Wisdom King revealed that her Wisdom King Sacrifice had won the assembly and earned her honor, rewards, and greater influence for her tribe.
• The Great Order Wisdom King said she had combined eleven abilities, including the Nine-Colored Riven Feather Sacrifice, and added her own ideas to create the Wisdom King Sacrifice.
• The Great Order Wisdom King explained that she had listed her inspirations when submitting the ability, but the Nine-Colored Peacock Tribe still claimed that the Wisdom King Sacrifice belonged to them.

He Pingsheng tried to help the Great Order Wisdom King deal with the Nine-Colored Peacock Tribe, which claimed ownership of her heaven-tier Wisdom King Sacrifice. He met their representative, Immortal Maiden Mu Han, who insisted the technique belonged to her tribe and demanded that the Great Order Wisdom King acknowledge it.

• The Great Order Wisdom King told He Pingsheng that the Nine-Colored Peacock Tribe was publicly claiming her Wisdom King Sacrifice and repeatedly demanding she hand it over.
• He Pingsheng learned that the original Nine-Colored Riven Feather Sacrifice was only high-grade yellow tier, while the Wisdom King Sacrifice was middle-grade heaven tier.
• The Great Order Wisdom King asked He Pingsheng to handle the dispute, and he agreed to speak with the Nine-Colored Peacock Tribe.
• He Pingsheng met Immortal Maiden Mu Han and argued that the Great Order Wisdom King had created the Wisdom King Sacrifice herself, incorporating less than a tenth of the Nine-Colored Riven Feather Sacrifice.
• Mu Han insisted that ownership belonged to the Nine-Colored Peacock Tribe, though the Great Order Wisdom King could continue using and passing down the technique.

He Pingsheng challenged Mu Han’s claim that the Wisdom King Sacrifice copied the Nine-Colored Riven Feather Sacrifice, then used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to obtain two Heaven Tier divine abilities as evidence for a public comparison. At the gathering, his boast about surviving the Phoenix Race’s Unbound Immortal stunned the assembled cultivators, and Patriarch Tian Jiu began to suspect He Pingsheng was Wang Dun.

• He Pingsheng examined the Nine-Colored Riven Feather Sacrifice and argued that it was not the same as the Wisdom King Sacrifice.
• He Pingsheng claimed the Nine-Colored Riven Feather Sacrifice had been plagiarized from two Human Race Heaven Tier divine abilities and invited Mu Han to return with witnesses for a comparison.
• After Mu Han left, He Pingsheng copied the Nine-Colored Riven Feather Sacrifice onto a jade slip and tossed it into the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• The next morning, He Pingsheng, Hu Chen, the Great Order Wisdom King, Mu Han, Patriarch Tian Jiu, the Heavenly Peng Demon Emperor, and Zhu Zhengyan gathered at the Emperor Palace Daoist Grounds.
• He Pingsheng said the Phoenix Race’s Unbound Immortal had struck him three times and lost three hundred thousand years of lifespan without killing him.
• Patriarch Tian Jiu guessed that He Pingsheng was Wang Dun and reacted with fear.