Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng learned how the Underworld processed souls and discovered that Zhou Qingmei was still held in the Netherworld Bureau. Zhao Xiangdu explained why she could not be released without causing trouble, then confessed that he and two ghost constables had taken ten thousand years of lifespan from Bing Xuan in exchange for freeing her son.

• Zhao Xiangdu explained the Underworld’s offices, judgment process, punishments, and reincarnation to He Pingsheng.
• Zhao Xiangdu revealed that Zhou Qingmei had remained confined in the Netherworld Bureau for seven hundred years because the lord judge had not yet ruled on her unusual return to life.
• He Pingsheng demanded to know how to take Zhou Qingmei back to the Spirit Realm, but Zhao Xiangdu warned that her case had been specifically flagged by the lord judge.
• He Pingsheng reminded Zhao Xiangdu that he had previously let Bing Xuan take her son’s soul, and Zhao Xiangdu admitted that the circumstances were different.
• He Pingsheng threatened Zhao Xiangdu with mystic fire, and Zhao Xiangdu confessed that he and two ghost constables had taken ten thousand years of lifespan from Bing Xuan as payment.
• Zhao Xiangdu explained that ghost constables needed yang energy to survive and that living people’s lifespan was its best source.

He Pingsheng forced Zhao Xiangdu to reveal how to rescue Zhou Qingmei from the Netherworld Bureau, then followed him there with Jinku. He ambushed the ghost officers and envoys guarding the souls, leaving Ox Head and Horse Face subdued as he prepared to take Zhou Qingmei away.

• He Pingsheng roasted Zhao Xiangdu with Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire until Zhao revealed two ways to rescue Zhou Qingmei.
• Zhao Xiangdu led He Pingsheng through the Netherworld to the hall where Zhou Qingmei was being held.
• He Pingsheng and Zhao Xiangdu entered the soul cages, where two ghost officers confronted them.
• Zhao Xiangdu drew the other ghost officer and two envoys to them by promising yang energy.
• He Pingsheng ordered Jinku to attack, and Jinku subdued the three ghost officers while pinning down Ox Head and Horse Face.
• Ox Head agreed to talk after He Pingsheng demanded that they let him take someone away.

He Pingsheng rescued Zhou Qingmei from the Underworld and tried to escape with Jinku and several Underworld officials. Prefecture Lord Cui Jue stopped them, allowed Zhou Qingmei to leave on one condition, and tasked He Pingsheng with collecting a dipperful of Fortune Power over three thousand years.

• He Pingsheng pressured Ox Head into leading him to Zhou Qingmei, and Jinku absorbed her soul into the Buddha Flame Pearl.
• He Pingsheng and Jinku forced Ox Head, Horse Face, Zhao Xiangdu, and the other ghost officers to guide them through the Yellow Springs toward the Underworld's exit.
• Cui Jue appeared on their boat, freed the Underworld officials, and explained that He Pingsheng's Nine-Nine Fortune applied only within his True Spirit World.
• Cui Jue agreed to let He Pingsheng take Zhou Qingmei back if he used the Heavenly Origin Golden Dipper to collect a dipperful of Fortune Power for his prefecture over three thousand years.

He Pingsheng agreed to gather the True Spirit World's fortune for Cui Jue in exchange for keeping Zhou Qingmei's soul, then returned from the Underworld to the Nine Hells Abyss. He placed Zhou Qingmei in a Soul-Nurturing Banner and discovered that he and Jinku were covered in karmic burden.

• Cui Jue explained that Heaven and Earth Fortune was the fortune of all beings and said draining it would make people of great fortune difficult to appear in the True Spirit World.
• He Pingsheng agreed to gather the world's fortune for three thousand years and asked whether he could use the Yellow Springs to reach the small world where his family had taken refuge, but Cui Jue could not guide him.
• He Pingsheng took the Heavenly Origin Golden Dipper, left the Underworld, and returned to the Nine Hells Abyss.
• He Pingsheng released Zhou Qingmei's soul from the Buddha Flame Pearl and placed it in the Soul-Nurturing Banner, promising to reunite it with her avatar or make her a new one.
• Jinku cried out that karmic burden covered him, and He Pingsheng saw red light covering nearly his entire body as well.

He Pingsheng returned from Lone Pine Mountain and visited Luo Bingyao, whose cultivation had reached the peak Mahayana Emperor Realm. He asked her to have Liu Molin set up two eighth-grade containment formations at the mountain, while she chose to remain by her master's side rather than ascend.

• He Pingsheng used a Karmic Purification Pill to reduce his karmic burden by about thirty percent, but Jinku realized that, as a soul, he could not swallow pills.
• He Pingsheng returned to the ruins of Lone Pine Mountain and left the Heavenly Origin Golden Dipper there to absorb heaven and earth's fortune while concealing his plan to profit from it.
• He Pingsheng traveled to the Undying Volcano and found that Luo Bingyao had rebuilt the area and reached the peak Mahayana Emperor Realm.
• He Pingsheng asked Luo Bingyao to return his portable small world and to send Liu Molin to Lone Pine Mountain to build two eighth-grade containment grand arrays.
• Luo Bingyao told He Pingsheng she would not ascend until he did, and Liu Molin arrived to discuss setting up the formations.

He Pingsheng arranged for Liu Molin to build a formation to contain his Immortal Artifact and researched ways to remove karmic burden. Gu Miaochen visited to ask for Earth Mother Blood Pills and warned him that the coming Sexagenary Heavenly Blindness would let Unbound Immortals act without losing lifespan, threatening the Witch Race.

• He Pingsheng asked Liu Molin to create a Nine Palaces Boundless Array that would contain an Immortal Artifact's aura while letting outside aura pass in, and Liu Molin estimated it would take a year.
• He Pingsheng checked the Heavenly Origin Golden Dipper in his Treasure-Gathering Basin and found it had not been enhanced, then continued researching karmic burden remedies.
• He Pingsheng learned that Karmic Purification Pills, Heavenly Dao merit, and Red Lotus True Fire could dispel karmic burden, though he did not know the recipe for the Divine Pillar Pill.
• Luo Bingyao told He Pingsheng that Gu Miaochen had come to see him, and Gu Miaochen asked whether he still had Earth Mother Blood Pills.
• Gu Miaochen explained that the Sexagenary Heavenly Blindness would stop the Heavenly Dao for sixty years, allowing Unbound Immortals to act without losing lifespan and making the period disastrous for the Witch Race.

He Pingsheng traded Earth Mother Blood Pills to Gu Miaochen for the Witch Race’s Witch God’s Golden Body and began studying the legacy. He gave Luo Bingyao supplies for Tianya and decided she could choose whether to ascend, then entered the golden ball’s inheritance.

• Gu Miaochen warned He Pingsheng that Unbound Immortals from the Dragon, Phoenix, and other races might emerge, then asked to trade for Earth Mother Blood Pills.
• He Pingsheng exchanged his twenty-four Earth Mother Blood Pills for the Witch Race’s Witch God’s Golden Body, which Gu Miaochen said was made from a Witch Immortal’s divine bone.
• Luo Bingyao suggested that only the Witch Race could cultivate the legacy, and He Pingsheng realized Gu Miaochen might have tricked him.
• He Pingsheng urged Luo Bingyao to ascend for her safety, then gave her a portable little world and eight Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearls to take to Tianya.
• He Pingsheng entered the golden ball with his Divine Sense, where a figure formed from blood and vitality merged with him and began teaching him the Witch God’s Golden Body.

He Pingsheng discovered that the Immortal Treasure-Gathering Basin had resumed enhancing items after apparently spending a year enhancing an Immortal Artifact. He tested it on the Witch Race’s golden divine bone sphere and watched one copy transform into a purple-gold sphere with changed runes and a powerful ancient aura.

• After failing to refine the golden sphere, He Pingsheng found that the Treasure-Gathering Basin enhanced nothing and suspected the Heavenly Dao’s sexagenary heavenly blindness was responsible.
• He Pingsheng stopped cultivating and spent the next year refining pills while Liu Molin completed the formation materials.
• When Liu Molin presented the materials, He Pingsheng discovered that the basin had duplicated the Heavenly Origin Golden Dipper and enhanced several spirit stones.
• He Pingsheng tested the basin with Liu Molin’s formation materials and other items, then guessed that enhancing an Immortal Artifact had taken a year of accumulated moonlight essence.
• He Pingsheng placed the Witch Race’s golden divine bone sphere in the basin, took out one duplicate, and watched the other become purple-gold with altered runes and an ancient aura.

He Pingsheng discovered that the Purple-Gold Divine Orb contained the Thirty-Six-Character Chaos Golden Scripture, a technique that strengthened the body by absorbing the essence and qi of living beings. After testing it on Phoenix Race Essence Blood, he advanced its body refinement to the Nascent Soul Realm and learned it could also help him break through in cultivation.

• He Pingsheng blood-refined the Purple-Gold Divine Orb, which burst into thirty-six characters that entered his body and revealed the Chaos Golden Scripture.
• He Pingsheng learned that the scripture automatically refined essence and qi to strengthen its user, but its unique runes meant he could not pass it on.
• He Pingsheng sent Liu Molin to Lone Pine Mountain with Huo Ming to set up a Formation, and promised to arrange another Formation Plate.
• He Pingsheng asked Luo Bingyao about the Phoenix Race bodies and Essence Blood, then had her bring him the remaining stock.
• He Pingsheng absorbed a vat of Phoenix Race Essence Blood over three days, strengthening his body to the equivalent of the Nascent Soul Realm and learning the technique could help him break through in cultivation.

He Pingsheng used the Chaos Golden Scripture to advance his body cultivation despite his karmic burden and set up two formations to gather heaven and earth fortune with his Heavenly Origin Golden Dippers. When Luo Bingyao reported that the Red Lotus True Fire had appeared, He Pingsheng left for the Flame-Dwelling Mountain Range to claim it.

• He Pingsheng reached the Spirit Transformation Stage through the Chaos Golden Scripture while Liu Molin completed an aura-concealing grand array on Lone Pine Mountain.
• He Pingsheng tested the formation with a Heavenly Origin Golden Dipper and asked Liu Molin to build a second Nine Palaces Boundless Array in Golden Suffering Emperor City.
• He Pingsheng placed the second Heavenly Origin Golden Dipper in the new formation, then returned to Lone Pine Mountain to guard the first while cultivating.
• After absorbing hundreds of vats of Phoenix Race essence blood, He Pingsheng raised the Chaos Golden Scripture to peak Body Integration Realm and began refining a Phoenix demon emperor's essence blood.
• Luo Bingyao told He Pingsheng that the Red Lotus True Fire had appeared in the Flame-Dwelling Mountain Range, and he left for the Heavenly Fire Continent after ordering her to guard the formation.

He Pingsheng reached the Flame-Dwelling Mountain Range and found two human cultivators disputing the Red Lotus True Fire with two Suanni Demon Emperors. After ruling that the fire belonged to whoever obtained it, he borrowed the flame, duplicated it with the Treasure-Gathering Basin, and returned one copy to Lian Hong.

• He Pingsheng searched the Flame-Dwelling Mountain Range until he found the Red Lotus True Fire’s aura and encountered Lian Hong, another Suanni Demon Emperor, and two human cultivators.
• Daoist Everbright accused Lian Hong of taking the fire, while the Suanni woman explained that all four had followed its aura and Lian Hong had captured it.
• He Pingsheng rejected Everbright’s demand that he intervene for the Human Race and said the fire belonged to whoever obtained it.
• After the humans departed, He Pingsheng borrowed the Red Lotus True Fire from Lian Hong and placed it in the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• One day later, He Pingsheng returned one of the two flames to Lian Hong and kept the other.

After twenty-six years of seclusion, He Pingsheng advanced his Chaos Golden Scripture, refined the Red Lotus True Fire, and began burning away his Karmic Burden. He Tianya arrived ready to ascend, and He Pingsheng prepared pills and a defensive treasure for him.

• He Pingsheng returned the Red Lotus True Fire to Lian Hong and went back to Lone Pine Mountain, where he refined the Phoenix Race Demon Emperors' essence blood and absorbed it in seclusion.
• After twenty-six years, He Pingsheng had fully refined the Red Lotus True Fire and reached the third layer of the Mahayana Emperor Realm in the Chaos Golden Scripture, but purging his Karmic Burden proved likely to take hundreds of years.
• He Tianya arrived at the twelfth layer of the Mahayana Emperor Realm, but initially refused to ascend because he wanted to stay with He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng persuaded He Tianya to ascend and told him to record a destination so they could meet there in three thousand years.
• He Tianya gathered pill ingredients, and He Pingsheng refined 144 supreme-grade Immortal Ascension Pills before giving his son one and a blood-colored turtle shell to protect him during the ascension tribulation.

He Pingsheng brought He Tianya to the Ascension Platform on Heavenly King Mountain so his son could ascend to the Immortal Realm. He Tianya chose a landing point in Human Race territory and prepared to undergo tribulation, while He Pingsheng remained confident despite learning that He Tianya still had a clone.

• He Pingsheng brought He Tianya to Heavenly King Mountain, where Bing Xuan showed them the Ascension Platform and explained how the Linking Heavenly Stele let ascenders choose where they would arrive.
• Bing Xuan presented He Pingsheng with belongings left behind by previous ascenders, and He Pingsheng ordered them sent to the Human Race's treasury.
• He Tianya examined the Linking Heavenly Stele and chose the one thousand six hundred and thirty-third landing point in Human Race territory.
• He Tianya sat beneath the stele to prepare for ascension, and Bing Xuan warned He Pingsheng that an existing clone would make the tribulation lightning more than twice as powerful.
• He Pingsheng confirmed that He Tianya had not slain his clone but remained confident because his son had the Turtle Shell.

He Tianya survived his ascension tribulation and ascended, while He Pingsheng returned to secluded cultivation. After 1,100 years inside his time formation, He Pingsheng reached the tenth layer of the Mahayana Emperor Realm and hit a bottleneck.

• He Pingsheng left He Tianya's and his own avatars on the continent to protect the Human Race.
• He Tianya endured seven waves of tribulation lightning with the Azure Sea Tidal Thunder Pearls and ascended through a rainbow bridge.
• He Pingsheng tried to preserve a wisp of Creation Immortal Light with Temporal Paralysis, but it vanished.
• He Pingsheng returned to Lone Pine Mountain and cultivated in the Fleeting Moment Time Formation, reaching the Mahayana Emperor Realm sixth layer after absorbing the essence blood and burning away his karmic burden.
• He Pingsheng continued comprehending the Temporal Daoist Law and helped Jinku burn away his karmic burden, then reached the tenth layer of the Mahayana Emperor Realm and hit a bottleneck.

He Pingsheng borrowed the Witch Race’s Soft Yang True Jade and fused it with his other four elemental true substances, but he still failed to break through his cultivation bottleneck. After hundreds of years of secluded training, he created the Five True Dragon Fist and unleashed its power across the Vermilion Bird Emperor Domain.

• He Pingsheng returned Gu Miaochen’s golden sphere and asked to borrow the Witch Race’s Soft Yang True Jade, which she lent him after he declined her proposal.
• He Pingsheng copied the Soft Yang True Jade with the Treasure-Gathering Basin, returned the original to Gu Miaochen’s hall, and went back to Lone Pine Mountain.
• He Pingsheng fused with the Soft Yang True Jade in the Fleeting Moment Time Formation, but the fusion did not break his bottleneck.
• He Pingsheng spent more than seven hundred years studying how to combine his five elemental true substances.
• He Pingsheng emerged from the formation and unleashed the Five True Dragon Fist, forming a five-colored True Dragon whose pressure swept across the Vermilion Bird Emperor Domain.

He Pingsheng comprehended the Five True Dragon Fist, broke through to the eleventh layer of the Mahayana Emperor Realm, and spoke with Maiden Hong Luo about his plans and the coming Ethereal Mountain opening. Two years later, Ethereal Mountain appeared, and Luo Bingyao urged him to go while she guarded the grand array.

• He Pingsheng unleashed the Five True Dragon Fist, tore open the void, and broke through to the eleventh layer of the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
• Maiden Hong Luo arrived to investigate the energy surge, praised He Pingsheng's self-comprehended Divine Ability, and warned him about drawing on heaven and earth fortune to resurrect Zhou Qingmei.
• Maiden Hong Luo told He Pingsheng that Ethereal Mountain would soon appear and said she would wait for him at its foot; He Pingsheng stayed to guard Lone Pine Mountain.
• Two years later, He Pingsheng sensed the rules of heaven and earth change and saw Ethereal Mountain's image appear in the sky.
• Luo Bingyao told He Pingsheng that Ethereal Mountain had opened and offered to guard the grand array while he went there.

He Pingsheng took Luo Bingyao to Ethereal Mountain after entrusting Hu Chen and Feng Wu with guarding the Grand Array. As the mountain’s restrictions began to lift, he encountered Feng Xian and immediately attacked her.

• Luo Bingyao told He Pingsheng that Ethereal Mountain had appeared in the Polar Ice Emperor Domain, and he agreed to bring her along.
• He Pingsheng asked Feng Wu and Hu Chen to guard the Grand Array at Lone Pine Mountain while he and Luo Bingyao traveled to Ethereal Mountain.
• He Pingsheng and Luo Bingyao reached the floating mountain, sensed its powerful laws and pressure, and waited at its foot with the other arriving cultivators.
• Gu Miaochen explained that the mountain’s restrictions had not fully lifted and warned that accumulated Immortal Realm aura would soon surge out.
• Feng Xian arrived with two other unbound immortals, and He Pingsheng attacked her with his Primordial Purple Gold Staff.

Feng Xian discovered that Unbound Immortals could attack without losing lifespan and struck He Pingsheng with Nirvana True Fire, leaving him badly wounded. As she pressed her assault, He Pingsheng deliberately took the hits, telling Jinku that he was using himself as bait.

• Feng Xian broke free of He Pingsheng’s Temporal Paralysis and blocked his staff with a black compass.
• Feng Xian demonstrated that the laws no longer drained Unbound Immortals’ lifespans, then urged Daoist Yuan Lu and Daoist Divine Radiance to help kill He Pingsheng.
• Feng Xian attacked He Pingsheng with Nirvana True Fire, shattering his Azure Divine Turtle Phantom and injuring him.
• Feng Xian transformed into a divine phoenix and tore apart He Pingsheng’s Heavenly Law and Earthly Form manifestation.
• He Pingsheng told Jinku that he could have dodged but was deliberately using himself as bait.

Feng Xian, Yuan Lu, and Shen Mang attacked He Pingsheng, while Gu Miaochen fought Yuan Lu and Ao Cheng refused to intervene. He Pingsheng revealed that he had been pretending to be overwhelmed and summoned Jinku, whose crimson spear struck down Shen Mang.

• Feng Xian shattered He Pingsheng's Turtle Shell and wounded him, then urged Yuan Lu and Shen Mang to help kill him.
• Yuan Lu and Shen Mang joined Feng Xian in attacking He Pingsheng, while Gu Miaochen engaged Yuan Lu with her Witch God's Golden Body.
• He Pingsheng asked Ao Cheng to help and offered the Dragon Race territory and treasures, but Ao Cheng refused because of his Heavenly Dao oath.
• Ao Cheng promised that the Dragon Race would not aid He Pingsheng's enemies, and He Pingsheng accepted that only the three Unbound Immortals' blood would be enough for him.
• He Pingsheng revealed he had been pretending to be outmatched and summoned Jinku as a crimson spear.
• Daoist Shen Mang tried to flee, but Jinku's spear pierced him and brought him down.

He Pingsheng revealed his strength by killing Unbound Immortals Yuan Lu, Feng Xian, and Shen Mang, then intimidated the Dragon Race into leaving Ethereal Mountain. Ao Cheng suspected that He Pingsheng had planned to target him and Ao Feng for their essence blood, and the Dragon Race fled to avoid that fate.

• He Pingsheng stopped Jinku from killing Yuan Lu so he could fight him himself, then caught the fleeing Yuan Lu with Void Swift Movement.
• He Pingsheng shattered Yuan Lu's defenses with the Five True Dragon Fist and killed him with a Divine Spear.
• He Pingsheng collected Yuan Lu's corpse and frightened Ao Cheng by glancing toward the Dragon Race.
• Ao Cheng claimed the Dragon Race would leave to honor its Heavenly Dao Oath, and He Pingsheng asked him for two hundred vats of Dragon Race Unbound Immortal essence blood.
• Ao Cheng and Ao Feng departed, and Ao Cheng concluded that He Pingsheng had intended to target the two of them for their blood.