Chapter Summaries

The Phoenix Emperor demanded the golden token from Jin Buhuan, promising to help the Supreme Coiling Crimson Heaven Zheng become a Divine Race if they aided the Phoenix and Dragon Races against the Witch Race. Jin Buhuan refused, but the Phoenix Emperor revealed that the Dragon Race had taken the Golden Suffering Tribe's people hostage and gave him half an incense stick to surrender the token.

• The Phoenix Emperor told Jin Buhuan that sealing the small world would trap the Witch Race's elites and offered to support the Supreme Coiling Crimson Heaven Zheng as the fourth Divine Race.
• Jin Buhuan rejected the offer, arguing that sealing the world would bring great risks and that He Pingsheng could be reborn through his clones.
• The Phoenix Emperor summoned eight more Demon Emperors, bringing the Phoenix Race's forces to nine against the eight Demon Emperors of the Supreme Coiling Crimson Heaven Zheng.
• The Phoenix Emperor showed Jin Buhuan an image of Dragon Race experts surrounding the Golden Suffering Emperor Palace and holding the tribe's disciples hostage.
• The Phoenix Emperor threatened to exterminate the Supreme Coiling Crimson Heaven Zheng unless Jin Buhuan handed over the Golden Treasury Immortal Ruins token within half an incense stick.

Jin Buhuan surrendered the Golden Token after the Phoenix Emperor promised not to slaughter the Golden Suffering Tribe, and the Dragon, Phoenix, and Golden Suffering forces formed an alliance. After destroying the Token to trap He Pingsheng in the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins, the Phoenix Emperor ordered He Pingsheng’s family and descendants killed, but Zhu Zhengyan warned the Great Order Wisdom King that the Phoenix Race was coming.

• Jin Buhuan handed the Golden Token to the Phoenix Emperor after securing a Heavenly Dao Oath, and the Dragon Race released the Golden Suffering Tribe’s disciples.
• The Phoenix Race and Dragon Race returned to the Undying Volcano, where the Phoenix Emperor tore the Token apart and declared He Pingsheng trapped in the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins.
• Ao Xun urged the Dragon and Phoenix Races to attack the Witch Race, but the Phoenix Emperor chose to plan their assault and ordered He Pingsheng’s relatives killed first.
• The Great Order Wisdom King began teaching Divine Refining to her four children in the Great Order Emperor Palace.
• Zhu Zhengyan warned the Great Order Wisdom King that the Phoenix Race was coming to kill them and urged her to flee immediately.

The Great Order Wisdom King evacuated He Pingsheng’s descendants into the Lineage World as the Phoenix Race attacked Lone Pine Mountain. She and Zhou Qingmei activated the world, escaping the Spirit Realm while Zhu Zhengyan and Zhou Qingmei sacrificed themselves to buy time.

• Zhu Zhengyan urged the Great Order Wisdom King to flee to Lone Pine Mountain, where He Pingsheng had left a fallback plan.
• The Great Order Wisdom King gave the children to Zhou Qingmei, who evacuated the sect’s disciples into the Lineage World, though He Tianya and Luo Bingyao were missing.
• As the Phoenix Race attacked the mountain’s formation, Zhu Zhengyan charged out to fight its Demon Emperors and fell in his Golden Crow form.
• The Great Order Wisdom King helped Zhou Qingmei activate the Lesser Spirit World, while Zhou Qingmei self-destructed to hold off the Phoenix Race.
• The Lineage World vanished from the Spirit Realm, and the Phoenix Emperor suspected it had been a Lesser Spirit World rather than one of the Three Thousand Worlds.

The Phoenix Emperor withdrew after He Pingsheng's descendants escaped, while the Great Order Wisdom King organized their survival and future cultivation in the Lineage World. In the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins, He Pingsheng and Empress Tianwei found no useful clues to the true poisons, and He Pingsheng grew suspicious of the world's abnormalities.

• The Phoenix Emperor refused to slaughter Lone Pine Mountain's remaining disciples and ordered the Phoenix Race to withdraw.
• The Great Order Wisdom King ordered Su Zhenzhen to preserve Zhou Qingmei's unconscious avatar after Zhou Qingmei's self-detonation.
• West Lake reported that the Lineage World held extensive supplies and millions of mortals but lacked ingredients for Immortal Ascension Pills.
• The Great Order Wisdom King revealed twelve Immortal Ascension Pills and promised them to those who reached the perfection of the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
• Su Zhenzhen wept over He Tianya's disappearance after the Great Order Wisdom King explained that she had lacked time to find him.
• He Pingsheng questioned the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins' hidden true poisons and absence of natives after several days of searching with Empress Tianwei.

He Pingsheng and Empress Tianwei used fortune-seeing abilities to locate hidden factions and discovered an eighth-grade illusion formation concealing a sect. After He Pingsheng broke the illusion, he confronted the sect and demanded to speak with its master.

• Empress Tianwei suggested that higher-order beings might exist in the world but were hiding, and offered to search for them with her fortune-seeing divine ability.
• He Pingsheng revealed that his Heavenly Eye Geomancy True Canon could also see fortune, and used it to find a cyan pillar marking a local sect.
• He Pingsheng and Tianwei followed the pillar and found an enormous valley concealed by an eighth-grade illusion formation, with other faction pillars visible nearby.
• He Pingsheng attacked the illusion formation with his Primordial Purple Gold Staff, revealing a mountain protected by an eighth-grade Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation and populated mostly by humans.
• A black-clad woman at the eighth layer of Body Integration Realm confronted He Pingsheng, who said he meant no harm and demanded to speak with her sect master.

He Pingsheng and Empress Tianwei persuaded Butterfly Transformation to reveal where the ten great True Poisons might be found. The chapter left them with a map to the deadly Sacred Land, along with a warning that the poisons there had an owner who would surely kill them.

• He Pingsheng weakened the defensive array and persuaded Butterfly Transformation to come out and answer questions.
• Butterfly Transformation explained that she knew of a place where the ten great True Poisons might be found: the Sacred Land, also called the Abyss of Death.
• Butterfly Transformation gave He Pingsheng a map and warned that many outsiders had died in the Sacred Land.
• He Pingsheng gave Butterfly Transformation a Great Creation Pill, and she warned him that the True Poisons had an owner and that he would certainly die if he went there.

He Pingsheng abandoned the search for the ten great True Poisons and secluded himself, convinced the Sacred Land was a trap. His retreat was interrupted by a powerful old man who revealed himself as Patriarch Jinku, the creator of the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins.

• He Pingsheng warned Empress Tianwei that dying in the independent Spirit Realm would send their souls directly to the Underworld, then refused to visit the Sacred Land.
• Empress Tianwei chose to keep searching, and He Pingsheng flew away to cultivate in seclusion until the realm reopened in a hundred years.
• He Pingsheng set up the Spirit-Confounding Formation in a secluded cave and began studying the Temporal Laws.
• Green python-shaped streams of deadly poison attacked He Pingsheng, then merged into an old man who absorbed the poison.
• The old man claimed his cultivation was a level above an Unbound Immortal, and He Pingsheng recognized him as Patriarch Jinku.

He Pingsheng learned that Jinku was an Earth Immortal who had created the Lesser Spirit World and intended to seize his body for its Nine-Nine Fortune Power. Jinku began forming a soul-seizure formation around him, leaving He Pingsheng facing an overwhelming enemy with no clear escape.

• Jinku revealed that his cultivation was at the Earth Immortal level and explained that he had been trapped in the Lesser Spirit World for nearly a million years.
• Jinku identified He Pingsheng and said he knew about the two Human Race geniuses with Nine-Nine Fortune.
• Jinku admitted that he wanted He Pingsheng's body and fortune power to cleanse the curse on his soul and escape the Lesser Spirit World.
• He Pingsheng considered using his Thirty-Seventy Talisman but feared Jinku could seize control of it.
• Jinku formed a powerful formation around He Pingsheng and prepared to seize his soul.

He Pingsheng turned the tables on Jinku’s attempt to seize his body by luring him with the Treasure-Gathering Basin and using the Thirty-Seventy Talisman. He left Jinku suppressed by his overwhelming divine sense and asked how he wanted to die.

• Jinku invaded He Pingsheng’s sea of consciousness and began devouring his divine sense to seize his body.
• He Pingsheng revealed the Treasure-Gathering Basin and claimed it could help Jinku escape the Heavenly Dao’s curse and shackles.
• Jinku diverted his divine sense to inspect the basin and became absorbed in discovering it was the legendary Immortal Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng stuck the Thirty-Seventy Talisman onto Jinku’s soul and received its seventy share, greatly increasing his divine sense while weakening Jinku’s.
• He Pingsheng overpowered Jinku’s soul and asked how he wanted to die, while Jinku warned that the talisman’s effect would eventually end.

He Pingsheng seized most of Jinku’s divine power but could not defeat him without risking a deadly self-destruction in his Sea of Consciousness. Unable to agree on a safe separation, they considered letting Jinku remain there as a parasite.

• He Pingsheng suppressed Jinku and stole seventy percent of his divine power, but Jinku threatened to self-destruct and unleash his ten True Poisons in the Sea of Consciousness.
• He Pingsheng claimed the talisman bound their lives together, making Jinku hesitate to attack him.
• He Pingsheng proposed that they swear Heavenly Dao Oaths, but Jinku refused because an oath would expose him to the Heavenly Dao.
• Unable to trust each other or safely separate, Jinku proposed parasitism in He Pingsheng’s Sea of Consciousness, and He Pingsheng said the talisman had been enhanced by the Treasure-Gathering Basin.

He Pingsheng forced Jinku to lend him a true poison by tormenting him with Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire, then used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to duplicate and enhance it. He kept one Formless True Poison and decided to wait before fusing with it because he had not reached a bottleneck.

• Jinku marveled as He Pingsheng's Treasure-Gathering Basin duplicated a low-grade Spirit Stone and enhanced both copies to supreme grade.
• He Pingsheng asked Jinku to lend him one of his ten great innate true poisons, but Jinku refused and threatened to detonate his soul.
• He Pingsheng tormented Jinku with All-Heavens True Lightning and then Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire until Jinku agreed to lend him a poison.
• Jinku gave He Pingsheng a Formless True Poison, which the Treasure-Gathering Basin duplicated and slightly enhanced overnight.
• He Pingsheng returned one poison to Jinku, kept the other, and decided not to fuse with it until he encountered a bottleneck.

He Pingsheng collected poison origins at the Sacred Land and then secluded himself to improve his body refining, cultivation, and formation skills. After a hundred years, he had reached the ninth layer of the Body Integration Realm, mastered the ninth layer of the Nine-Toxin Golden Body, and gained several true poisons.

• He Pingsheng traveled to the Sacred Land, where Empress Tianwei told him that poison origins were hidden throughout its mountains and ravines.
• Patriarch Jinku took control of He Pingsheng’s body and gathered an eighth-grade poison origin and several more high-grade origins into the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng returned to his cave dwelling, set up protective formations, and began a long seclusion to improve his cultivation, body refining, and formation skills.
• After a hundred years, He Pingsheng reached the ninth layer of the Body Integration Realm, brought the Nine-Toxin Golden Body to its ninth layer, and advanced his formation proficiency to sixth grade.
• Patriarch Jinku enhanced his ten great true poisons in the Treasure-Gathering Basin, leaving He Pingsheng with all ten, though He Pingsheng chose not to refine them.

He Pingsheng left the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins and found the exit had failed to open, then realized the Phoenix Race and Dragon Race had arranged to trap him and the other cultivators inside. The Witch Race warned that the scheme could also prevent them from ascending, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Jinku urged He Pingsheng to leave the Golden Suffering Tribe's little world, and He Pingsheng reached the Immortal Ruins exit to find many cultivators gathered there.
• He Pingsheng saw that the Witch Race and Qilin Tribe had suffered no losses, while only three of the Human Race's six Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivators remained and the Dragon Race's cultivators were absent.
• When the exit remained closed a day past its expected opening, Jinku confirmed that such a delay had never happened before.
• He Pingsheng realized the Phoenix Race and Dragon Race had sealed the little world to trap him, and he pointed out the dragons' unusual ascension and the Phoenix Race's absence.
• Azure Qilin revealed that the Phoenix Race had previously tried to recruit the Qilin Tribe to surround He Pingsheng and Wang Dun, while Gu Yedi concluded that the scheme also endangered the Witch Race by cutting off its blood pool and path to ascension.

He Pingsheng spent centuries trapped in the sealed realm, pursuing a way to escape while advancing his cultivation and studying talismans and temporal laws. He still could not draw an eighth-grade talisman, but he unexpectedly comprehended a divine ability and prepared to test it.

• The Witch Race realized the exit had not opened, and after waiting three years, He Pingsheng left to seek another way out.
• Jinku told He Pingsheng that an eighth-grade World-Passage Talisman could force the passage open, but He Pingsheng could not yet draw one.
• He Pingsheng cultivated for two hundred years, reached the tenth layer of the Body Integration Realm, then fused with the Formless True Poison and advanced to the eleventh layer.
• He Pingsheng fused with the Nine Radiances Yang Poison, but it did not break through his next cultivation bottleneck.
• After learning that the passage had remained closed for 324 years, He Pingsheng returned to seclusion to study talismans and time law.
• He Pingsheng unexpectedly comprehended a divine ability and announced that he wanted to try it.

He Pingsheng comprehended the heaven-tier divine ability Temporal Paralysis, broke through to the twelfth layer, and used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance the ability. After planning to advance his cultivation and study an eighth-grade World-Passage Talisman, he began his Mahayana Emperor Realm tribulation, drawing Gu Yedi and other cultivators to the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins.

• He Pingsheng demonstrated Temporal Paralysis by freezing half of a river, and Jinku explained that mastering time reversal might help open the sealed spatial exit.
• He Pingsheng inscribed Temporal Paralysis onto a jade slip and broke through to the twelfth layer while comprehending temporal laws.
• The Treasure-Gathering Basin produced two identical supreme-grade Temporal Paralysis slips, each able to freeze time within a hundred zhang.
• He Pingsheng learned that about seventy percent of Jinku's curse power remained and said he planned to reach the Mahayana Emperor Realm before studying the eighth-grade World-Passage Talisman.
• He Pingsheng began his Mahayana tribulation in the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins, attracting cultivators from across the small world, including Gu Yedi.

He Pingsheng completed his Mahayana tribulation and challenged Gu Yedi to test his new strength. After overpowering Gu Yedi with his divine abilities, he prepared to strike with blackened Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearls, and Gu Yedi conceded.

• Duan Feihong and Empress Tianwei warned the Witch Race not to interfere with He Pingsheng's tribulation, and Gu Yedi promised to wait until He Pingsheng could help open the exit.
• He Pingsheng passed nine waves of tribulation lightning and advanced to the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
• He Pingsheng challenged Gu Yedi, froze the surrounding void with a time divine ability, and hurled two mountains at him.
• Gu Yedi used [Six-Zhang Witch Body] to withstand He Pingsheng's attacks, but He Pingsheng blasted him back with the Three-Light Divine Fist.
• He Pingsheng appeared above Gu Yedi with his Dharma manifestation and black Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearls, and Gu Yedi conceded.

He Pingsheng killed Gu Yedi with lightning and Formless True Poison, then spent sixty-three years cultivating until he was ready to try drawing an eighth-grade World-Passage Talisman. Jinku warned him the talisman might not open the Immortal Ruins’ exit, but promised other methods if it failed.

• He Pingsheng froze Gu Yedi with temporal power and struck him with two lightning spheres, then revealed that Formless True Poison was corroding him.
• Gu Yedi pleaded for his life, but He Pingsheng pierced him with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and stored his body.
• He Pingsheng told Tianwei and Duan Feihong to wait at the exit while he stabilized his cultivation, and the other Demon Emperors departed.
• He Pingsheng cultivated outside the Fleeting Moment Time Formation for sixty-three years, advancing his body and divine refining to the first level of the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
• He Pingsheng prepared to draw an eighth-grade World-Passage Talisman, and Jinku cautioned that it might not open the Immortal Ruins’ exit.

He Pingsheng failed to open the Immortal Ruins exit with World-Passage Talismans, then learned from Jinku how to forge a key and obtain Heavenly Fierce Beast blood. Three months later, He Pingsheng opened a passage to the Spirit Realm after securing the Demon Emperors’ promises to support the Human Race.

• He Pingsheng tested two supreme-grade World-Passage Talismans at the Immortal Ruins exit, but neither opened a passage.
• Jinku explained that He Pingsheng needed to forge a key using Space Law and obtain blood from Jinku’s buried corpse to open the exit.
• He Pingsheng spent three months learning to forge the key and preparing to retrieve the blood.
• The Witch Race and other Demon Emperors swore to support the Human Race and accept karmic debts if He Pingsheng opened the exit.
• He Pingsheng opened a green vortex connecting the Golden Suffering Immortal Domain to the Spirit Realm.

He Pingsheng escaped the Golden Suffering Immortal Ruins and led hundreds of Demon Emperors to confront the Golden Suffering Tribe, where he learned that the Phoenix Race had destroyed Lone Pine Mountain. He arrived to find Luo Bingyao surrounded and badly injured by Phoenix Race cultivators demanding to know where He Tianya and his other avatars were.

• He Pingsheng froze the exit vortex with Temporal Paralysis, escaped the sealed world, and rejoined the Demon Emperors waiting outside.
• He Pingsheng joined hundreds of Demon Emperors in confronting the Golden Suffering Tribe, and Jin Buhuan blamed the Phoenix Race and Dragon Race for trapping them.
• Jin Buhuan told He Pingsheng that the Phoenix Race had destroyed Lone Pine Mountain about four hundred and twenty years earlier.
• He Pingsheng tore open a Void Passage to Lone Pine Mountain and found Luo Bingyao surrounded by Feng Wanxi, the Thirteenth Elder, and two other Mahayana cultivators.
• Feng Wanxi and the Thirteenth Elder demanded that Luo Bingyao reveal He Tianya's location and the whereabouts of He Pingsheng's other five avatars.

He Pingsheng appeared just as Feng Wanxi and three other Phoenix Race Demon Emperors cornered Luo Bingyao, then killed them with his Time Stasis Divine Ability. He questioned the surviving Thirteenth Elder and learned that his family had escaped into a small world, though someone had sacrificed herself to protect them.

• Luo Bingyao taunted Feng Wanxi and claimed He Pingsheng’s five avatars would eventually destroy the Phoenix Race.
• He Pingsheng appeared and froze Feng Wanxi and the other three Phoenix Race Demon Emperors with his Time Stasis Divine Ability.
• He Pingsheng killed Feng Wanxi and two others, then kept the Thirteenth Elder alive for questioning.
• He Pingsheng gave Luo Bingyao pills to recover and asked the Thirteenth Elder what had happened to his family and Lone Pine Mountain.
• The Thirteenth Elder said Zhu Zhengyan had warned the Great Order Wisdom King, who brought He Pingsheng’s four children to Lone Pine Mountain before the family hid in a small world.
• The Thirteenth Elder said Zhu Zhengyan was killed and an unnamed woman detonated herself to protect the family; He Pingsheng was relieved they had survived but wondered who had sacrificed herself.