Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng revealed that he had killed Feng Xian, Yuan Lu, and Shen Mang, leaving no Unbound Immortals at Ethereal Mountain. When the Immortal Mountain Tide swept the gathered cultivators away, He Pingsheng and Maiden Hong Luo remained, and He Pingsheng discovered he could search the mountain with divine sense.

• He Pingsheng gave Gu Miaochen one of the slain Unbound Immortals’ rings after she complained that he had made her worry for nothing.
• Maiden Hong Luo arrived and learned from He Pingsheng that he had killed Feng Xian, Yuan Lu, and Shen Mang, while the other Unbound Immortals had left.
• The Divine Mountain rang its bell twelve times, and Gu Miaochen warned everyone that the Immortal Mountain Tide was coming.
• The tide swept away Luo Bingyao, Gu Miaochen, and nearly all the other cultivators, leaving He Pingsheng and Maiden Hong Luo at the mountain’s foot.
• Maiden Hong Luo urged He Pingsheng to search the mountain, and he found that his divine sense could now reveal all of Ethereal Mountain.

He Pingsheng and the others explored the abandoned immortal mountain, where Maiden Hong Luo explained the site’s layout and the difference between ninth-grade pills and immortal pills. They found an Immortal Transformation Stele whose inscription was said to record a method for converting true spirit energy into immortal spirit energy.

• Maiden Hong Luo said her original body had visited the mountain six hundred thousand years earlier, while Jinku had missed its last opening because he was sealed away.
• He Pingsheng invited the returning Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivators to enter, then flew with Luo Bingyao and Maiden Hong Luo to the nearest buildings.
• Maiden Hong Luo explained that previous visitors had taken the valuable items from the buildings, though immortal-grade materials might still grow in the wilderness.
• Maiden Hong Luo explained that ninth-grade pills and immortal pills followed different laws, helping He Pingsheng understand why the Treasure-Gathering Basin enhanced them at different speeds.
• Luo Bingyao spotted an inscribed stone stele, and Maiden Hong Luo identified it as an Immortal Transformation Stele that recorded a method for turning true spirit energy into immortal spirit energy.

He Pingsheng, Luo Bingyao, and Maiden Hong Luo searched the abandoned Immortal Sect grounds and spent seven months opening a protected formation. When they found the cultivation grounds empty, He Pingsheng’s Primordial Purple Gold Staff led them to buried Immortal Crystals.

• He Pingsheng copied the Immortal Transformation Method from the stone tablet into a Jade Slip and stored it in his Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• Luo Bingyao searched the Outer Disciples’ quarters but found nothing, so the three turned to a formation guarding several dozen cultivation grounds.
• He Pingsheng and Luo Bingyao helped Maiden Hong Luo study and break the formation, which took seven months.
• The three entered the formation and searched its empty cultivation grounds before the opening could close.
• He Pingsheng’s Primordial Purple Gold Staff reacted to something underground, and he uncovered several dozen crystals.
• Maiden Hong Luo identified the crystals as Immortal Crystals from the Immortal Realm.

He Pingsheng and his companions found forty-eight immortal crystals, which he stored in the Treasure-Gathering Basin after Luo Bingyao could not put them in her Storage Ring. At the main peak, they encountered a ninth-grade Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, and He Pingsheng prepared to attack it with Jinku’s help.

• Luo Bingyao counted forty-eight immortal crystals and offered them to He Pingsheng after Hong Luo declined a share.
• Luo Bingyao could not store the crystals, so He Pingsheng put them into his dantian and secretly transferred them to the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng, Luo Bingyao, and Hong Luo left the formation and flew toward the main peaks of Ethereal Mountain.
• The group reached a palace and immortal garden protected by a ninth-grade Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, which Hong Luo said six unbound immortals had once joined forces to breach.
• He Pingsheng refused to summon the remaining unbound immortals and flew above the formation to attack it with Jinku’s help.

Jinku tore open the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, allowing He Pingsheng and Maiden Hong Luo to enter while Luo Bingyao was driven back by the powerful laws. In the Immortal Plantation Garden, He Pingsheng used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to bypass the rule allowing only one item, discovered the peaches could extend lifespan, and saved one for Maiden Hong Luo to eat later.

• Jinku struck the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation twice with the crimson spear, opening a breach that He Pingsheng and Maiden Hong Luo entered while Luo Bingyao and the other cultivators were blown away.
• Maiden Hong Luo told He Pingsheng that each person could take only one item and led him to the Immortal Plantation Garden.
• He Pingsheng found that the Treasure-Gathering Basin let him keep picking peaches without them returning to the tree.
• He Pingsheng ate a peach and discovered that its first bite added a hundred thousand years to his lifespan.
• He Pingsheng stopped Maiden Hong Luo from eating a peach and offered to store it until the Sexagenary Heavenly Blindness passed and Ethereal Mountain closed.

He Pingsheng and Hong Luo explored an immortal plant garden and entered a great hall filled with enchanted instruments and treasures. He Pingsheng gathered immortal materials, took one Immortal Artifact and all the Jade Slips, and left the pills and other artifacts behind.

• He Pingsheng collected Immortal Peaches, Immortal Ginseng, and other herbs in the garden and stored them in his Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng had Jinku smash the formation around the great hall, and he and Hong Luo entered.
• He Pingsheng shouted to stop the hall’s instruments from playing, and they fell before retreating into the hall.
• He Pingsheng used the Nine-Heavens Mystic Fire to inspect the hall and found shelves of Jade Slips, pills, instruments, garments, Immortal Artifacts, and materials.
• He Pingsheng collected the artifact-refining materials, took a low-grade First Grade Immortal Artifact flying sword, and decided to take all the Jade Slips while leaving the pills and other artifacts.

He Pingsheng and Maiden Hong Luo escaped the first mountain with a haul of Immortal Realm jade slips and pills, then tried to enter the more heavily protected mountain on Ethereal Mountain. After sixty years of fruitless Dao comprehension, the Sexagenary Heavenly Blindness ended, expelled everyone, and Ethereal Mountain vanished.

• He Pingsheng collected nearly a thousand jade slips, and he and Maiden Hong Luo escaped through a breach in the Grand Array.
• He Pingsheng gave Luo Bingyao an immortal peach, then the three flew to the mountain protected by a second-grade immortal formation.
• Jinku failed to break the formation, and Maiden Hong Luo explained that it might open for later generations after its power ran out.
• He Pingsheng, Luo Bingyao, and Maiden Hong Luo spent sixty years trying to comprehend the immortal Dao laws but gained nothing.
• The Sexagenary Heavenly Blindness ended, and a force expelled everyone from Ethereal Mountain before it vanished.

After thirteen hundred years of cultivation, He Pingsheng reached the twelfth layer of the Mahayana Emperor Realm and gathered four measures of heaven and earth fortune, returning half to the Spirit Realm. With his meeting with Cui Jue approaching, he arranged for the Human Race’s future and prepared Luo Bingyao to ascend, leaving her to decide whether to kill her avatar.

• He Pingsheng broke through to the twelfth layer of the Mahayana Emperor Realm and strengthened his four measures of fortune into eight.
• He Pingsheng returned four measures of fortune to heaven and earth and kept the remaining four for himself and Cui Jue.
• He Pingsheng met with his inner circle and learned from Hu Chen that the Human Race had become the Spirit Realm’s largest race, with more than forty Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivators.
• He Pingsheng appointed Hu Chen and Liu Molin to oversee the Human Race’s affairs and put Bing Xuan in charge of the Nirvana Emperor Domain and the Heavenly Fire Continent.
• He Pingsheng gave Luo Bingyao a supreme-grade Immortal Ascension Pill and accompanied her to Heavenly King Mountain, where he asked whether she would kill her avatar before ascending.

Luo Bingyao passed her strengthened Heavenly Tribulation and ascended, leaving He Pingsheng to continue handling matters in the lower realms. He traveled to the Netherworld, completed his deal with Cui Jue, and obtained the ability to read Immortal Script.

• He Pingsheng gave Luo Bingyao defensive treasures, and she passed her Heavenly Tribulation and ascended to the Immortal Realm.
• He Pingsheng told Jinku he had a plan to resolve their situation after their trip to the Underworld, then entered the Nine Hells Abyss with him.
• He Pingsheng met Cui Jue in the Netherworld and handed over the vessel of heaven and earth fortune power to complete their transaction.
• He Pingsheng exchanged a supreme-grade True Immortal Peach for a speck of light that would let him recognize Immortal Script and understand immortal speech.
• He Pingsheng swore not to spread Immortal Script and learned that the fortune power could protect Zhou Qingmei if obstacles arose during her resurrection.
• He Pingsheng and Jinku returned to the Spirit Realm.

He Pingsheng negotiated with Jinku over their future after ascending, then learned the Immortal Realm’s language and mastered a method for converting true essence into immortal essence. He ended by searching his Jade Slips for a way through the Spirit Realm’s barrier so he could visit the Lesser Spirit World.

• He Pingsheng proposed that Jinku become his servant, promising not to command him and to part ways after Jinku handed over his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark.
• Jinku agreed to consider the proposal and said he would decide when He Pingsheng ascended.
• He Pingsheng examined and merged Cui Jue’s speck of light, learning the Immortal Realm’s writing and speech.
• He Pingsheng read the method from the Immortal Transformation Stele and found it was a commonplace technique for converting true spirit energy into immortal spirit energy.
• He Pingsheng studied his enhanced True Essence Immortal Convergence Method and mastered it in less than a month.
• He Pingsheng searched more than a thousand Jade Slips for a way to break through the Spirit Realm’s barrier and reach the Lesser Spirit World.

He Pingsheng and Liu Molin modified an immortal formation into a ninth-grade array capable of opening a True Spirit World's barrier, while He Pingsheng struck a deal with Jinku for help using it. The chapter left Jinku agreeing to assist and hearing He Pingsheng’s advice to lower his cultivation before attempting to ascend.

• He Pingsheng and Liu Molin spent thirty-six years adapting the Nine-Star World-Piercing Formation into a ninth-grade Sun and Moon Realm-Linking Grand Array, which the Treasure-Gathering Basin enhanced without changing.
• He Pingsheng sent Liu Molin to the Western Extremity Continent, Bing Xuan, the Witch Race, and the Dragon Race to gather materials for the array.
• Jinku agreed to become He Pingsheng’s servant on the condition that He Pingsheng never enslaved him in any form.
• He Pingsheng asked Jinku to preside over the grand array and help open the Spirit Realm’s barrier, offering him two enhanced ninth-grade defensive talismans in return.
• Jinku accepted the deal, and He Pingsheng advised him to lower his Earth Immortal cultivation to the peak Mahayana Emperor Realm before ascending to improve his chance of surviving the Heavenly Tribulation.

He Pingsheng completed the ninth-grade Sun and Moon Realm-Linking Grand Array and prepared to leave the Spirit Realm. Before opening the passage, he reunited with Qiao Xiaoqiao, learned she had suffered wisdom severance, and asked his wood clone about the resources gathered in the Lesser Spirit World.

• He Pingsheng made Jinku his servant under a Heavenly Dao Oath, gave him four defensive talismans, and let him explore the Spirit Realm.
• Liu Molin brought the formation materials, and He Pingsheng and Liu Molin spent twenty-eight years completing the grand array.
• Bing Xuan brought Qiao Xiaoqiao to Lone Pine Mountain, where He Pingsheng learned she could no longer ascend because she had suffered wisdom severance at the eighth layer of the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Xiaoqiao talismans and an immortal peach, then gave Zi Qing twelve supreme-grade Immortal Ascension Pills before sending everyone away for a final farewell.
• He Pingsheng stayed behind with Jinku and his five clones, intending to open the passage or ascend, while Jinku planned to lower his cultivation and ascend after helping him.
• He Pingsheng asked his wood clone about the Lesser Spirit World, and the clone reported that it held nearly every spirit root and spirit herb from the Spirit Realm, except certain yin-baleful treasures.

He Pingsheng and his allies opened a passage to the Lineage World, and He Pingsheng crossed over to search for Su Zhenzhen and the others. He reached the Lone Pine Immortal Sect and found the Great Order Wisdom King, Su Zhenzhen, West Lake, and their companions.

• He Pingsheng gave his five clones immortal peaches and talismans, then told the metal clone to use a wisp of aura to locate the passage to the Lineage World.
• He Pingsheng and the clones activated the Grand Array, which drew in the sun and moon’s power and opened a breach between the worlds.
• He Pingsheng crossed through the breach, while Jinku and the five clones remained behind until the passage closed.
• In the new world, He Pingsheng learned from two cultivators that the Lone Pine Immortal Sect was led by the West Lake Patriarch.
• He Pingsheng flew to the Lone Pine Immortal Sect and saw the Great Order Wisdom King, Su Zhenzhen, West Lake, and the others.

He Pingsheng reunited with the Great Order Wisdom King, Su Zhenzhen, and West Lake in the Lesser Spirit World, where he learned how their children were faring and brought resources to help them. He strengthened the world's fortune power, leaving the family with better prospects for cultivating its rare materials.

• The Great Order Wisdom King recognized He Pingsheng, flew to him in tears, and welcomed him back to the sect.
• He Pingsheng reunited with Su Zhenzhen and West Lake, then explained how he had entered the Lesser Spirit World.
• He Pingsheng told Su Zhenzhen that He Tianya had ascended to the Immortal Realm and that his avatar remained unharmed.
• The Great Order Wisdom King told He Pingsheng that He Tianyu had ascended, while He Yuqing had failed despite taking three Immortal Ascension Pills.
• He Pingsheng gave West Lake cultivation supplies and twenty-four supreme-grade Immortal Ascension Pills, then released two dou of fortune into the world to help its resources grow.

He Pingsheng reunited with Great Order Wisdom King, Su Zhenzhen, and True Person West Lake, learning that both women had reached wisdom severance and offering a path to help them. He then brought Zhou Qingmei’s soul to her preserved avatar, preparing to resurrect her.

• Great Order Wisdom King said Su Zhenzhen and True Person West Lake had both reached wisdom severance in the Body Integration Realm.
• He Pingsheng explained that merging with a matching innate true substance could resolve wisdom severance, and he gave True Person West Lake a strand of Nine Suns True Fire and the instructions to merge with it.
• He Pingsheng promised to search the Spirit Realm for true lightning to help Su Zhenzhen and reassured her that he would find a solution.
• Su Zhenzhen told He Pingsheng that Zhou Qingmei’s avatar had been preserved since her self-destruction, and he revealed that he had brought her soul back.
• He Pingsheng, Su Zhenzhen, Great Order Wisdom King, and True Person West Lake went to the underground palace, where Zhou Qingmei’s soul recognized them.

He Pingsheng used heaven and earth fortune to overcome reincarnation’s pull and help Zhou Qingmei merge with her duplicate, restoring her to life. After learning the fortune had raised Zhou Qingmei’s grade, he took Su Zhenzhen aside to test whether it could improve hers too.

• He Pingsheng prepared Zhou Qingmei’s duplicate for their merger, but the power of reincarnation dragged her soul toward a black-and-white vortex.
• He Pingsheng and the Great Order Wisdom King tried to hold Zhou Qingmei back, but neither bringing the duplicate to her nor using lightning could stop the pull.
• He Pingsheng remembered Cui Jue’s advice and used fortune power on Zhou Qingmei’s soul and duplicate, causing the vortex to collapse and allowing them to merge.
• Zhou Qingmei awoke in her restored body and discovered that her fortune had risen from seventh grade to eighth grade.
• He Pingsheng took Su Zhenzhen to her cultivation grounds and proposed testing whether a strand of heaven and earth fortune could improve her fortune.

He Pingsheng restored Su Zhenzhen’s ability to cultivate with heaven and earth fortune, then prepared a Sun and Moon Realm-Linking Grand Array to return to the Spirit Realm. The array failed to open a passage between realms, leaving him and Kong Jiaojiao to accept that they might have to ascend from their current world.

• He Pingsheng gave Su Zhenzhen a wisp of fortune power, restoring her insight after Wisdom Severance, and gave her a true immortal peach for later use.
• He Pingsheng inspected He Yuqing, He Tianyi, and He Tianshi, found that all three already had seventh grade fortune, and refused to expend fortune power on them.
• He Pingsheng moved the Hundred-Convergence Heavenly Light Formation and Fleeting Moment Time Formation to the Lone Pine Immortal Sect, where He Tianyi and He Tianshi cultivated.
• He Pingsheng spent forty-three years preparing a Sun and Moon Realm-Linking Grand Array so he could return to the Spirit Realm and help Su Zhenzhen and Qiao Xiaoqiao.
• He Pingsheng and Kong Jiaojiao activated the array, but it only blasted a hole through their small world’s barrier because its sun and moon power was too weak to connect the realms.
• He Pingsheng told Kong Jiaojiao they might never return to the Spirit Realm and said they could ascend from their current world instead.

He Pingsheng and Kong Jiaojiao prepared to ascend by first ensuring their children ascended and creating a secret realm for future cultivators. He Pingsheng completed the Great Order Heavenly Realm, cultivated immortal essence in seclusion, and emerged readying for ascension as his companions gathered.

• Kong Jiaojiao asked that their children ascend before them and proposed creating a secret realm for their descendants and future cultivators.
• He Pingsheng spent three hundred and twenty-two years building the Great Order Heavenly Realm, filling it with rewards and restricting entry to cultivators at the Body Integration Realm or below.
• He Pingsheng told Kong Jiaojiao he would cultivate the True Essence Immortal Convergence Method before ascending, and she asked him to spend time with her in case they arrived in different places.
• He Pingsheng studied jade slips from Ethereal Mountain and converted his true spirit energy into immortal spirit energy over half a year of seclusion.
• Zhou Qingmei, Su Zhenzhen, and the Great Order Wisdom King visited He Pingsheng after he emerged; Su Zhenzhen had reached the early Mahayana Emperor Realm, and Zhou Qingmei had reached the Peak Body Integration Realm.

He Pingsheng prepared to ascend alongside the Great Order Wisdom King, giving his companions paired sensing talismans and entrusting them with most of his possessions. After watching the Great Order Wisdom King ascend safely, he began his own tribulation and discovered that its first strike was survivable, though five living avatars made his tribulation far more powerful.

• He Pingsheng gave the Great Order Wisdom King, Su Zhenzhen, and Zhou Qingmei paired Sensing Immortal Talismans so they could locate one another after ascending.
• He Pingsheng handed most of his possessions to Su Zhenzhen, West Lake, and Zhou Qingmei, then went with the Great Order Wisdom King to an uninhabited mountaintop.
• The Great Order Wisdom King swallowed an Immortal Ascension Pill, endured her tribulation, and ascended to the Immortal Realm.
• He Pingsheng swallowed an Immortal Ascension Pill and faced tribulation clouds that covered a million li, intensified by his five living avatars.
• He Pingsheng used an Eighth Grade Defensive Talisman to blunt the first wave, then withstood the remaining lightning with his body and found himself unharmed.

He Pingsheng endured the deadly ascension tribulation with talismans, divine abilities, and the Immortal Treasure-Gathering Basin. The basin saved his life, and five-colored auspicious energy descended as his tribulation ended.

• He Pingsheng used his golden body and talismans to withstand the fifth through seventh waves, though the seventh left him injured.
• He Pingsheng deployed a ninth-grade Heavenly Mountain Talisman against the eighth wave, but it shattered and the lightning gravely wounded him.
• As the ninth wave gathered, He Pingsheng admitted he could not survive it and activated his remaining defensive talismans.
• He Pingsheng threw the Heavenly Origin Golden Dipper into the lightning, where it shattered, then released the Immortal Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• The Immortal Treasure-Gathering Basin survived the final wave and saved He Pingsheng, after which five-colored auspicious energy descended.
• Zhou Qingmei asked Su Zhenzhen what the basin was, and Su Zhenzhen guessed it was a supreme defensive treasure.