Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng presented evidence that the Nine-Colored Peacock Tribe’s Nine-Colored Riven Feather Sacrifice shared its origins with two Human Race techniques, but Patriarch Nine Heavens still demanded the techniques be returned. The argument descended into a dispute over Cang Jie, and Nine Heavens began to suspect that He Pingsheng had been among them.

• He Pingsheng had Hu Chen show the Demon Emperors two Heaven Tier Divine Abilities after they swore Heavenly Dao Oaths.
• Zhu Zhengyan and the Heavenly Peng Demon Emperor confirmed the techniques shared roots with the Nine-Colored Riven Feather Sacrifice and judged that the Peacock Tribe had plagiarized the Human Race.
• Patriarch Nine Heavens inspected the techniques, denied that his tribe had copied them, and demanded that He Pingsheng return them.
• Hu Chen argued that the Peacock Tribe’s use of Human Race writing proved the techniques belonged to humans, while Nine Heavens claimed the ancient creator Cang Jie belonged to his tribe.
• The Great Order Wisdom King, Zhu Zhengyan, and the Heavenly Peng Demon Emperor left; He Pingsheng also departed to slaughter Phoenix Race members, leaving Hu Chen, Mu Han, and Nine Heavens behind.
• Nine Heavens asked Hu Chen whether the departing man had been He Pingsheng, and Hu Chen answered with a cold smile.

He Pingsheng returned Zhou Qingmei’s freedom and reunited with Su Zhenzhen, learning that their son He Tianya had children and grandchildren of his own. Concerned that his expanding family might abuse his name and power, He Pingsheng decided it was time to establish a lineage with rules to govern his descendants.

• Patriarch Nine Heavens abandoned the claim to the Wisdom King Sacrifice, while Mu Han speculated that Cang Jie had belonged to the Nine-Colored Tribe.
• He Pingsheng met Su Zhenzhen and Zhou Qingmei in the palace, then returned Zhou Qingmei’s Heavenly Dao Slave Mark and freed her.
• He Pingsheng reunited with Su Zhenzhen and learned that He Tianya had taken a Dao Companion and had children and grandchildren.
• He Pingsheng worried that his descendants might misuse his power and reputation, so he resolved to establish a lineage with rules to restrain them.

He Pingsheng returned to Lone Pine Mountain with his family and established the Lesser Spirit World as a resource-rich inner world and refuge for his descendants. After entrusting its development to True Person West Lake, he was greeted by his old servant Hao Cang.

• He Pingsheng brought his family back to Lone Pine Mountain, which had grown into a powerful sect in the centuries since his departure.
• He Pingsheng placed the Lesser Spirit World within the sect and explained that it could become an independent world and serve as a refuge for his descendants.
• He Pingsheng asked Zhou Qingmei to bring True Person West Lake to him, and the three entered the Lesser Spirit World.
• True Person West Lake proposed bringing ordinary people into the world to establish settlements and gradually cultivate its population, and He Pingsheng entrusted the task to her.
• Hao Cang hurried over, knelt before He Pingsheng, and tearfully welcomed his young master home.

He Pingsheng spent years with his loved ones while studying talismans, then returned to the Heavenly Framework Emperor Domain to find Liu Molin had completed two grand formations. Liu Molin agreed to set up an eighth-grade mountain-guarding formation for He Pingsheng’s sect.

• He Pingsheng gave Hao Cang a supreme-grade Karmic Purification Pill and entrusted True Person West Lake with ten more for deserving sect members.
• He Pingsheng visited a recreated mortal town with the Great Order Wisdom King and reminisced about Master Ma Town.
• Over ten years, He Pingsheng lived with his family and learned to draw sixth-grade talismans while neither he nor the Phoenix Race sought conflict.
• He Pingsheng returned to his shop and found that Luo Bingyao had left to travel again.
• Liu Molin showed He Pingsheng the completed Fleeting Moment Time Formation and Hundred-Convergence Heavenly Light Formation, saying his formation skills had reached the eighth grade.
• He Pingsheng asked Liu Molin to set up an eighth-grade mountain-guarding formation for his sect, and Liu Molin eagerly agreed.

Over a century of comprehending Temporal Daoist Law, He Pingsheng advanced to the fourth layer of the Body Integration Realm and improved his talisman crafting. After completing Dao Union with his four returning avatars, his cultivation reached the eighth layer, and he sent all five avatars away.

• Two years later, He Pingsheng completed the eighth-grade Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation at Lone Pine Mountain and gave Zhou Qingmei, Hao Cang, and True Person West Lake resources and instructions to prepare the lineage's Lesser Spirit World as a refuge.
• He Pingsheng entered his personal Lesser Spirit World and used the Hundred-Convergence Heavenly Light Formation to comprehend Temporal Daoist Law.
• After more than 170 years in seclusion, He Pingsheng broke through to the fourth layer of the Body Integration Realm, learned to craft seventh-grade talismans, and reached the fourth layer of the Body Integration Chapter of the Mysterious Gate Tranquil Mind True Formula.
• Zhou Qingmei told He Pingsheng that Great Order Wisdom King had given birth to twins and that his metal, water, fire, and earth avatars had reached perfected Void Refinement and were waiting at the sect.
• He Pingsheng arranged to complete Dao Union with his avatars one at a time; after four unions, he reached the eighth layer of the Body Integration Realm.
• He Pingsheng sent all five avatars away and gave his fire avatar a strand of Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire.

He Pingsheng prepared his sect with supreme-grade talismans, then infiltrated Hollow Emperor City and kidnapped its new crown prince to lure out Demon Emperor Hollow. He launched a strike that sealed both space and time, leaving Demon Emperor Hollow trapped and scrambling to defend himself.

• He Pingsheng gave Zhou Qingmei and True Person West Lake more than two hundred supreme-grade seventh-grade talismans to distribute for the sect's defense.
• He Pingsheng disguised himself as an old man, gathered information in Hollow Emperor City, and learned that the new crown prince regularly visited a pill hall to practice alchemy.
• He Pingsheng captured the new crown prince, took him outside the city, and forced him to send Demon Emperor Hollow a plea for help.
• Demon Emperor Hollow arrived, recognized He Pingsheng after he placed a Soul-Linking Curse Talisman on the crown prince, and tried to break free of He Pingsheng's attack.
• He Pingsheng transformed into a black spear and used Myriad Annihilations Return to Origin to lock Demon Emperor Hollow in both space and time, forcing him to form a magic-power shield.

He Pingsheng fought Demon Emperor Hollow but could not defeat him, then traveled to the Black Tortoise Emperor Domain to return the Blood-Colored Turtle Shell. The Black Tortoise Demon Emperor told him about the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins and offered to divine whether fortune or misfortune awaited him there.

• He Pingsheng battled Demon Emperor Hollow, but after fifteen exchanges he relied on Void Swift Movement to avoid defeat.
• Demon Emperor Hollow offered He Pingsheng another Imperial Armament and blamed the Phoenix Race, but He Pingsheng refused to forgive him and vowed to kill him after reaching the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
• Demon Emperor Hollow escaped through a void vortex with his son, and He Pingsheng left as well.
• He Pingsheng arrived at the Black Tortoise Emperor Domain and returned the merged Blood-Colored Turtle Shell to the Black Tortoise Demon Emperor.
• The Black Tortoise Demon Emperor told He Pingsheng that the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins might soon open and that it held the ten great true poisons.
• The Black Tortoise Demon Emperor offered to divine whether He Pingsheng would find fortune or misfortune in the ruins.

He Pingsheng prepared for the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins while checking on Nan Qiqi and waiting for news of Wang Dun. Empress Tianwei asked to team up with him, explaining that the ruins could determine which race won the support of the Western Extremity Continent’s people.

• He Pingsheng declined the Black Tortoise Demon Emperor’s offer to divine his fate, confirmed he already had a Golden Bitter Token, and agreed to meet him at the ruins’ entrance.
• Nan Qiqi told He Pingsheng that Wang Dun had vanished after the Stone Terrace Gathering and might have undergone a Nine-by-Nine Annihilation Lightning Tribulation; He Pingsheng promised to share any news.
• He Pingsheng cultivated for thirty-eight years until his divine sense caught up with his eighth-layer Body Integration cultivation, then returned to Heavenly Weft Emperor City.
• Feng Wu showed He Pingsheng messages from Luo Bingyao, who had safely broken through to the Body Integration Realm, and confirmed the shop had enough pills.
• He Pingsheng decided to travel early to the Western Extremity Continent, but Empress Tianwei arrived and proposed forming a team for the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins.
• Empress Tianwei explained that securing the ten great true poisons could win the Western Extremity Continent’s people to the Human Race’s side.

Empress Tianwei explained the dangers and politics surrounding the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins, where He Pingsheng hoped to obtain the ten great true poisons. He decided to enter despite the risks, and he and Empress Tianwei planned to travel to the Western Extremity Continent before the ruins opened.

• Empress Tianwei urged He Pingsheng to help the Human Race by claiming the true poisons and taking control of the Western Extremity Continent.
• He Pingsheng questioned why no one had captured the poisons, and Empress Tianwei explained that their toxicity remained lethal even when their power weakened and that the Divine Races interfered.
• Empress Tianwei told He Pingsheng that the Jinku Lineage controlled the ruins, which opened once every ten thousand years to Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivators with Golden Bitter Tokens.
• Empress Tianwei explained that the Heavenly Dao had cursed Patriarch Jinku and his descendants, preventing them from ascending or fusing with true poison, so outsiders had to retrieve the poisons to break the shackle.
• He Pingsheng decided he still had to obtain the poisons and asked when they would travel; Empress Tianwei said the ruins opened in a year and suggested visiting the Jinku Lineage early.

He Pingsheng and Empress Tianwei arrived at Jinku City a year early to attend the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins opening. While waiting at the Golden Suffering Tribe’s palace, they learned of the ruins’ dangers and heard a Dragon Race cultivator disparage the Human Race; more guests arrived, and a Golden Suffering Tribe cultivator finally appeared.

• He Pingsheng and Empress Tianwei traveled to Jinku City, where Tianwei explained that the Golden Suffering Tribe were venomous Supreme Coiling Crimson Heaven Zheng descended from Patriarch Jinku.
• After presenting their Golden Bitter Tokens, He Pingsheng and Tianwei entered the Golden Suffering Tribe’s palace and waited for a group to gather before being escorted to the Ten Thousand Steles Forest.
• Immortal Maiden Zhishu introduced herself to Tianwei and He Pingsheng and described how the Human Race had lost its territory on the Mysterious Ice Continent.
• Zhishu warned He Pingsheng that the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins were poisonous and dangerous, while a Dragon Race cultivator blamed the Human Race for its weak position.
• Seven or eight days later, more than twenty cultivators had gathered in the hall, and a Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivator of the Golden Suffering Tribe arrived.

He Pingsheng waited at the Ten Thousand Steles Forest for the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins to open, where he reunited with Demon Emperor Azure Qilin and learned the four great Divine Races opposed anyone obtaining the ten great innate true poisons. The chapter ended as the Witch Race arrived.

• A Golden Suffering Tribe cultivator brought He Pingsheng and the other guests to the Ten Thousand Steles Forest to wait for the ruins to open.
• Empress Tianwei warned the group about toxic laws in the air, and He Pingsheng found them too weak to study before turning to temporal laws.
• After a year of waiting, Demon Emperor Azure Qilin arrived and asked He Pingsheng to keep his identity secret.
• Azure Qilin explained that the four great Divine Races did not want anyone to obtain the ten great innate true poisons, then asked after his younger sister.
• A sky boat delivered twelve beautiful members of the Witch Race, and Azure Qilin identified them for He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng learned that the Witch Race and Dragon Race were waiting for Wang Dun at the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins, while the Phoenix Race stayed away to face him. Gu Yedi argued that only one of Wang Dun and He Pingsheng could possess true Nine-Nine Fortune, leaving Ao Lie to consider which was genuine.

• The Witch Race leader Gu Yedi arrived at the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins and told Ao Lie that he had delayed ascending to the Immortal Realm to attend.
• Gu Yedi realized Wang Dun had not arrived and said he would leave to undergo his tribulation if Wang Dun was not coming.
• A Qilin explained that the Phoenix Race would not attend because it was preparing to fight He Pingsheng.
• Gu Yedi insulted the Phoenix and Qilin Races, and Azure Qilin rose angrily to confront him.
• Ao Lie mentioned that He Pingsheng also supposedly had Nine-Nine Fortune, and Gu Yedi claimed one of him and Wang Dun must have false fortune to shield the true genius.

Gu Xi defeated Azure Qilin after Gu Yedi forced a confrontation between them, then Gu Yedi declared that humans were forbidden from entering the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins. The chapter ended as the assembled cultivators looked toward He Pingsheng and Empress Tianwei for their response.

• Ao Lie argued that Wang Dun was more likely to be real than He Pingsheng, and Gu Yedi agreed before turning his attention to Azure Qilin.
• Gu Yedi demanded that Azure Qilin retrieve his younger sister or surrender the Qilin Tribe's Divine Race title and provide Qilin mounts, including his daughter.
• Gu Yedi sent Gu Xi to fight Azure Qilin, and she accepted his challenge away from the immortal ruins entrance.
• Gu Xi broke Azure Qilin's lightning attacks and shattered his Heavenly Law and Earthly Form, sending him flying and winning the fight.
• Gu Yedi announced that humans were forbidden from entering the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins, prompting everyone to look toward He Pingsheng and Empress Tianwei.

He Pingsheng was barred from entering the Immortal Ruins and forced to fight Gu Xi to prove he could stay. After his first punch was overpowered, he launched a powerful spear strike that trapped Gu Xi, who transformed using Six-Zhang Witch Body to face it.

• Ao Lie and Gu Yedi barred the Human Race from entering the Immortal Ruins and singled out He Pingsheng for his low cultivation.
• Gu Yedi demanded that He Pingsheng defeat Gu Xi before he could discuss staying or leaving, and Gu Xi challenged him in the sky.
• He Pingsheng attacked Gu Xi with a punch, but she struck back and blasted him ten thousand li away.
• He Pingsheng returned with a spear strike empowered by Myriad Annihilations Return to Origin, Heavenly Gang Three Transformations, and Five Elements Unity Force.
• Gu Xi found herself unable to escape the altered space and time, so she transformed into her six-zhang Witch Body.

He Pingsheng battled Gu Xi, a Witch Race Mahayana cultivator, and discovered that lightning could injure her despite her resistance to his other attacks. He trapped Gu Xi between two enormous lightning pearls, and she was engulfed in a sea of lightning as bloody light erupted.

• He Pingsheng smashed Gu Xi into the ground with his Divine Spear and secretly struck her with the Eight-Treasure Purple Cloud Spikes, which pierced her skin but snapped.
• Gu Xi emerged from the magma and hurled poison thorns at He Pingsheng, while his Divine Sense Nails proved useless because the Witch Race had no souls or Divine Sense.
• Gu Xi attacked He Pingsheng with a punch, but he struck her away with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and then injured her with a combined lightning-and-fire attack.
• He Pingsheng realized lightning could exploit Gu Xi's weakness and charged at her with two Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearls.
• He Pingsheng used Spatial Law and Temporal Laws to pin Gu Xi in place and trapped her between two enormous lightning spheres, where bloody light erupted.

He Pingsheng killed Gu Xi and another Witch Race Demon Emperor, then evaded Gu Yedi’s attacks with his Void Swift Movement. As the furious Gu Yedi demanded a direct fight, Ao Lie began to suspect He Pingsheng was the real one after all.

• He Pingsheng pierced the dying Gu Xi with a black spear and stored her body in his Magical Treasure after finding no sign of her soul.
• Gu Yedi attacked He Pingsheng, but He Pingsheng dodged his punch and countered with lightning that Gu Yedi easily destroyed.
• He Pingsheng used the two Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearls to kill Gu Rong, a fourth-layer Mahayana Emperor Realm Demon Emperor, while devastating the Ten Thousand Steles Forest.
• Gu Yedi demanded to know why He Pingsheng had attacked Gu Rong, and He Pingsheng replied that the Witch Race had provoked him first.
• He Pingsheng repeatedly escaped Gu Yedi’s attacks and mocked him for calling a much weaker opponent shameless for running.
• Ao Lie watched He Pingsheng evade Gu Yedi and wondered whether He Pingsheng was actually the real one.

He Pingsheng survived the Witch Race's continued attacks, and Jin Buhuan intervened to end the clash before explaining the rules for entering the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins. The ruins would open in three days for a hundred-year stay, and the Golden Suffering Tribe offered allegiance to anyone who brought back a true poison to break its curse.

• He Pingsheng evaded the four Witch Race Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivators until they stopped attacking after devastating the entrance area.
• Jin Buhuan arrived with the Golden Suffering Tribe's cultivators and asked both sides to stop, allowing Gu Yedi and the other Witch Race cultivators to withdraw.
• Black Tortoise cooled the lava into solid ground, and Jin Buhuan confirmed that the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins entrance remained intact.
• Jin Buhuan announced that anyone of any race with a Golden Bitter Token could enter the Lesser Spirit World, but no one could leave until the passage reopened after one hundred years.
• Jin Buhuan warned that entrants had to protect themselves and promised the Golden Suffering Tribe's support and allegiance to anyone who supplied a true poison to break its Heavenly Dao curse.
• Jin Buhuan told the assembled cultivators that the Golden Suffering Tribe had no map and could not enter the ruins, leaving it unfamiliar with the world inside.

He Pingsheng learned how Patriarch Jinku's immortal body connected the activated Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins to the Spirit Realm. When the entrance opened, he waited for the Witch Race to enter first, prompting Gu Yedi to accuse him of planning to attack their territory in their absence.

• He Pingsheng revealed that he had visited another Lesser Spirit World but refused to disclose its location.
• Jin Buhuan explained that Patriarch Jinku had activated the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins and used his immortal body after death to bridge it to the Spirit Realm.
• Jin Buhuan asked He Pingsheng to retrieve the ten great true poisons to free the Jinku Lineage from its shackles and promised to ensure his entry despite the Witch Race's opposition.
• Three days later, Jin Buhuan and seven other Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivators used a golden Token and their blood to open the entrance for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• He Pingsheng waited for the Witch Race to enter first while Qilin and Demon Emperors entered the ruins.
• Gu Yedi accused He Pingsheng of intending to slaughter the Witch Race in their territory once their cultivators entered the ruins.

He Pingsheng and the other cultivators entered the Immortal Ruins, where he agreed to search with Empress Tianwei for resources and the Ten Great True Poisons. He left the others behind and decided to seek local inhabitants for information.

• Gu Yedi agreed that the Witch Race and Human Race would avoid conflict during the expedition, and He Pingsheng entered the Immortal Ruins first with the human cultivators.
• He Pingsheng arrived in the lesser spirit world with Empress Tianwei, Duan Feihong, and other cultivators; Gu Yedi and the Witch Race soon entered and headed deeper into the world.
• Empress Tianwei offered to split resources with He Pingsheng and help him capture the Ten Great True Poisons, and he accepted her proposal.
• Duan Feihong offered to protect He Pingsheng, but He Pingsheng refused to travel with him; he also declined Zhishu and the Black Tortoise Demon Emperor's company.
• He Pingsheng and Empress Tianwei set off together, and he said they should find the world's inhabitants and ask them for information about the Ten Great True Poisons.

Jin Buhuan explained how the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins could be opened and why the Supreme Coiling Clan’s keys were safe from seizure. The Phoenix Emperor then asked to borrow the golden Token for a hundred thousand years to seal away He Pingsheng, and Jin Buhuan asked what price the Phoenix Race would pay.

• Jin Buhuan explained that opening the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins required the golden Token and the essence blood of the Taipan Crimson Heaven Zheng Tribe, while a gathering formation could let cultivators of lower realms help.
• Jin Buhuan said the Supreme Coiling Clan was protected by its powerful cultivators and ninth-grade defensive formation, and that the four great Divine Races had little interest in the metal-aligned true poisons inside the ruins.
• Jin Buhuan claimed Patriarch Jinku had willingly undergone Liberation by Violence and might still be alive, fused with the Immortal Ruins.
• The Phoenix Emperor arrived after the entrance had closed and told Jin Buhuan he had come to make a deal, not to enter the ruins.
• The Phoenix Emperor asked to borrow the golden Token for a hundred thousand years so the Phoenix Race could seal away He Pingsheng, whom it feared would become a calamity once he reached the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
• Jin Buhuan asked how long the Phoenix Emperor wanted the Token and what price he could offer.