Chapter Summaries

After ascending to the Immortal Realm, He Pingsheng arrived at an Ascension Pool and learned that his wife had not appeared there. He joined Red Lotus Immortal Valley as an Outer Disciple and was told to convert his true essence into immortal spirit energy.

• He Pingsheng crossed the rainbow bridge, emerged from an Ascension Pool, and was caught in a net by the receiving envoy.
• The receiving envoy explained that ascenders arrived at random pools and told He Pingsheng he was on Emperor Yu Star in the Maoyou Immortal Domain.
• He Pingsheng asked whether his wife had arrived, but the envoy said no ascenders had appeared at the pool for several days.
• An immortal woman named Lan Yu took He Pingsheng to Red Lotus Immortal Valley and directed him to the great hall before leaving.
• The Deacon Elder made He Pingsheng an identification token and registered him as an Outer Disciple.
• The Deacon Elder directed He Pingsheng to the Immortal Transformation Stele to convert his true essence and told him to return immediately afterward.

He Pingsheng completed the immortal essence conversion at Red Lotus Immortal Valley and was classified as an outer disciple because it took him six days. Liuliu assigned him Daoist grounds and gave him supplies and instructions, leaving He Pingsheng inside his new residence.

• He Pingsheng pretended to convert his immortal essence for six days while trying to sense Kong Jiaojiao and Jinku, but detected neither.
• The elder in charge judged He Pingsheng's talent insufficient for inner-disciple status and told him to address the elder as Martial Uncle.
• The elder in charge ordered Liuliu to assign He Pingsheng Daoist grounds, provide his supplies, and explain the sect's rules.
• Liuliu led He Pingsheng to a group of vacant residences, and He Pingsheng chose one and received a golden token and a Heaven and Earth Bag.
• He Pingsheng opened the formation with the token and entered a courtyard with a three-story building, immortal herbs, and fruit trees.

He Pingsheng reviewed the Red Lotus Immortal Valley’s rules and realized he would need to take missions to earn points, then met his neighbor Gui De, who offered to lend him points at a steep price. He Pingsheng refused, leaving him without a clear way to obtain the resources he needed.

• He Pingsheng examined the sect rules and learned outer disciples had to complete missions to earn points for cultivation resources.
• He decided he needed basic information about the Immortal Realm and planned to earn points through missions.
• Gui De introduced himself as He Pingsheng’s neighbor and asked how long He Pingsheng had taken to convert his immortal essence.
• Gui De offered to show He Pingsheng a basic-knowledge jade slip and sell it for ten points, but He Pingsheng admitted he had none.
• Gui De proposed lending He Pingsheng three thousand points, demanding nine thousand in repayment within three years or that He Pingsheng become his immortal slave.
• He Pingsheng declined Gui De’s offer to borrow points.

He Pingsheng refused Daoist Gui De’s points loan after learning it came with hidden fees and pressure from Thunderclap. When he tried to find work instead, he discovered every mission had already been taken, leaving him dependent on Thunderclap if he wanted to earn points.

• Daoist Gui De offered He Pingsheng a loan that would provide only 2,500 points while requiring repayment of 9,000, and He Pingsheng refused.
• Liuliu told He Pingsheng that his courtyard cost 500 points in yearly rent and that he could instead build a small cave abode in the wilderness.
• He Pingsheng returned his golden token, left the courtyard, and asked Liuliu where he could take missions.
• At the Mission Great Hall, Elder Hong told He Pingsheng that every mission had already been taken.
• Daoist Gui De told He Pingsheng that he would have to see Senior Brother Thunderclap for missions, though Thunderclap paid less.

He Pingsheng settled in a cave abode outside the Outer Sect and spent years studying immortal cultivation and refining artifacts. After seventeen years, his cultivation had barely advanced, but he had mastered Beauty's Face and still had no way to earn points.

• He Pingsheng rejected Senior Brother Thunderclap's low-paying assignments and carved out a cave abode in the mountains.
• He Pingsheng converted the Primordial Purple Gold Staff's energy and began absorbing nearby materials into it.
• He Pingsheng refined the Heaven-Mingling Fire Spirit Sword and studied the Sun Body-Burning Treatise after finding the Five Elements Unity Heaven Scripture could not absorb Immortal Spirit Energy.
• After half a year, He Pingsheng completed his study of the Human Immortal section and continued cultivating while refining the Bronze Mask.
• Seventeen years later, He Pingsheng had made almost no cultivation progress but had fully refined Beauty's Face, which could change his appearance beyond the sight of Heaven Immortals.
• He Pingsheng left his cave abode still unable to figure out how to earn points.

He Pingsheng wanted a way to earn points, and Immortal Qingxuan proposed searching an abandoned immortal crystal mine for materials to trade at the sect fair. He Pingsheng recognized the risks but considered using materials he already possessed, and asked when the fair would begin.

• He Pingsheng left his cave abode and met Immortal Qingxuan, who had avoided serving Senior Brother Thunderclap for over two hundred years.
• Qingxuan explained that Outer Sect missions were controlled by Thunderclap and his allies, but disciples could trade materials for points at a fair held every ten years.
• Qingxuan told He Pingsheng about an abandoned mine where discarded artifact-refining materials could be found, and He Pingsheng considered trading materials stored in his Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• Qingxuan warned that the mine tunnels held venomous black-backed centipedes, rival disciples who might kill for treasures, and people sent by Thunderclap to harass miners.
• Qingxuan said Thunderclap had once sealed the mine but was forced to reopen it under pressure from inner disciples, and He Pingsheng asked how soon the next trading fair would begin.

He Pingsheng agreed to explore an abandoned mine with Daoist Qingxuan, and the two traveled for six days before waiting ten more days to replenish their Immortal Essence. They entered the mine, where Qingxuan explained that valuable materials and Immortal Crystal fragments could be found.

• He Pingsheng questioned why Qingxuan had chosen him, then agreed to Qingxuan's rules for exploring the mine together.
• He Pingsheng and Qingxuan flew for six days to reach the abandoned mine.
• The two waited about ten days to replenish their Immortal Essence while several other cultivators arrived.
• Qingxuan led He Pingsheng into a mine tunnel where the Immortal Spirit Energy was denser than outside.
• Qingxuan told He Pingsheng that the mine held refining materials and Immortal Crystal fragments, and that a low-grade Immortal Crystal could fetch a hundred thousand points.

He Pingsheng searched the mine with Daoist Qingxuan and secretly produced two pieces of earth dragon azure gold, which Qingxuan identified as supreme grade. When two Black-Backed Centipedes attacked, He Pingsheng killed them both with his fists, but found that his blows barely affected the mine tunnel.

• He Pingsheng asked Qingxuan which materials the mine produced, and Qingxuan named earth dragon azure gold and immortal mystic red copper.
• He Pingsheng and Qingxuan searched successive secondary tunnels for more than twenty days without finding ore.
• He Pingsheng secretly took two azure-gold stones from the Treasure-Gathering Basin and presented them to Qingxuan as earth dragon azure gold.
• Qingxuan recognized the stones as supreme-grade earth dragon azure gold and asked He Pingsheng to show him where he had found them.
• Two Black-Backed Centipedes attacked He Pingsheng and Qingxuan, and He Pingsheng killed both with punches.
• He Pingsheng realized that the energy from his attacks had barely shaken the tunnel.

He Pingsheng returned from the mine with two pieces of earth dragon azure gold and prepared to sell them at the Outer Sect Trading Fair. When Daoist Gui De offered twenty thousand points, Qingxuan urged He Pingsheng to demand more, and Gui De returned with several Outer Disciples.

• He Pingsheng killed two Black-Backed Centipedes, collected their essence blood and hides, and promised to buy Qingxuan an immortal cultivation method if the azure gold sold well.
• He Pingsheng refined the centipedes’ essence blood, talisman paper, and talisman ink, then cultivated the Chaos Golden Scripture for three months.
• Qingxuan visited He Pingsheng and told him the Trading Fair would begin the next day.
• He Pingsheng and Qingxuan set up at the Mountain Gate plaza, where He Pingsheng displayed two pieces of earth dragon azure gold and asked how Outer Disciples could become Inner Disciples.
• Daoist Gui De offered He Pingsheng twenty thousand points for the two pieces, but He Pingsheng refused; Qingxuan said they were worth at least seventy thousand points.
• Gui De returned with four or five Outer Disciples.

He Pingsheng refused to lower the price of his earth dragon azure gold for Thunderclap, provoking the powerful Outer Disciple's wrath. After Thunderclap plotted to seize him once the Trading Fair ended, an Inner Disciple bought both pieces for seventy thousand points.

• Thunderclap confronted He Pingsheng over the earth dragon azure gold and expected him to offer a cheap price.
• He Pingsheng asked Thunderclap for seventy thousand points, and Thunderclap threatened him before leaving without buying the gold.
• Qingxuan disavowed He Pingsheng out of fear, while Thunderclap ordered Gui De to bring He Pingsheng to him after the Trading Fair.
• An Inner Disciple inspected the two pieces of supreme-grade earth dragon azure gold and paid He Pingsheng seventy thousand points for them.

After Thunderclap’s influence drove Outer Disciples away from his stalls, He Pingsheng bought an Immortal Realm reference and cultivation manuals from an Inner Disciple. He disguised himself and returned to the fair, where he asked an Inner Disciple about formation materials and a formation book.

• He Pingsheng found that Outer Disciples refused to trade with him because he had offended Thunderclap.
• An Inner Disciple sold He Pingsheng a copy of Immortal's Miscellaneous Records for a thousand points.
• He Pingsheng bought a dozen cultivation-method and immortal-art books from the Inner Disciple for over forty thousand points.
• He Pingsheng disguised himself as a woman with a Bronze Mask after spotting Daoist Gui De and several cultivators heading toward his cave abode.
• He Pingsheng returned to the Trading Fair and asked a green-robed Inner Disciple about formation materials and a formation book, which she offered to sell for twenty Immortal Crystals.

He Pingsheng traded a supreme-grade immortal artifact with Su Muyu for formation information and materials, sixty immortal crystals, and an IOU for the remaining debt. After buying pills and returning to his temporary cave abode, he found Daoist Gui De and four other Outer Disciples waiting for him.

• He Pingsheng offered Su Muyu a supreme-grade first-grade wood-attribute flying sword in exchange for her formation manual and materials.
• Su Muyu gave He Pingsheng sixty immortal crystals, wrote him an IOU for the remaining hundred and ten, and lent him an Inner Sect Passage Token.
• He Pingsheng searched the Trading Fair for an Immortal Talisman Brush but could not find one.
• He Pingsheng bought five bottles of low-grade Immortal Spirit Pills for ten immortal crystals.
• He Pingsheng removed his Bronze Mask near his cave abode and found Daoist Gui De and four other Outer Disciples waiting there.

He Pingsheng refused Daoist Gui De’s demand that he apologize to Senior Brother Thunderclap, so Gui De lured him beyond the Outer Sect and threatened him. He Pingsheng killed Gui De and the four men with him, then gathered their belongings and destroyed the evidence.

• Daoist Gui De mocked He Pingsheng and ordered him to apologize to Senior Brother Thunderclap, but He Pingsheng refused.
• Gui De and four men swept He Pingsheng out of the Outer Sect and took him to barren mountains, where Gui De threatened to kill him or force him to face Thunderclap.
• He Pingsheng warned the four followers to leave, then struck Gui De with a punch that shattered his arm and badly wounded him.
• He Pingsheng beheaded Gui De with his Flying Sword and killed the other four men as they tried to flee.
• He Pingsheng collected the five men’s Heaven and Earth Bags, extracted their essence blood, and burned their bodies before leaving.

After looting the five cultivators he had killed, He Pingsheng found little of value and read the [Immortal's Miscellaneous Records] to learn about the Immortal Realm. He discovered that time flowed a hundred times slower there than in the Spirit Realm and learned the realm hierarchy and the location of Red Lotus Immortal Valley.

• He Pingsheng settled in a cave abode and emptied the five Heaven and Earth Bags, finding a few Immortal Spirit Pills, jade slips, and other minor items.
• He Pingsheng found that all five identification tags had zero points and suspected their owners' deaths had reset them.
• He Pingsheng placed thirteen bottles of [Immortal Spirit Pills] into the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng read the [Immortal's Miscellaneous Records] and learned that time in the Spirit Realm passed roughly a hundred times faster than in the Immortal Realm.
• He Pingsheng learned the Immortal Realm's cultivation hierarchy and that golden immortals had infinite lifespans and began comprehending the Great Dao.
• He Pingsheng learned that Red Lotus Immortal Valley was on Emperor Yu Star, in the Celestial Pleiades Star System of Curved Array Heaven.

He Pingsheng studied immortal formations and enhanced his Immortal Spirit Pills before returning to Red Lotus Immortal Valley. He collected the 110 immortal crystals Su Muyu owed him and left the Inner Sect.

• He Pingsheng learned how vast the Immortal Realm was and discovered that Golden Immortals could travel between stars.
• He Pingsheng enhanced his Immortal Spirit Pills and studied formation diagrams, then spent months preparing two first-grade immortal formations.
• He Pingsheng refined the formation components and returned to Red Lotus Immortal Valley because he still needed its resources and protection.
• He Pingsheng showed his passage token to the gatekeepers and requested an audience with Su Muyu at the Heavenly Law Court.
• Su Muyu recognized He Pingsheng from their trade, repaid him 110 immortal crystals, and learned his name before he left.

Thunderclap learned that He Pingsheng had returned and tried to determine what had happened to the five men he had sent after him. After He Pingsheng rented a courtyard and prepared it for private cultivation, Liuliu discovered that Gui De and the others’ points had all dropped to zero at the same time a year earlier.

• A disciple told Thunderclap that He Pingsheng had returned and visited Su Muyu, prompting Thunderclap to consider whether He Pingsheng had killed the men he sent after him.
• He Pingsheng rented an Outer Sect courtyard from Liuliu for twenty years, while denying that he had seen Gui De.
• He Pingsheng installed a divine-sense sealing formation and a warning formation around his courtyard so he could use his Treasure-Gathering Basin without being observed.
• Thunderclap asked Liuliu to check Gui De and the other four men’s number-token records for clues about their fate.
• Liuliu reported that all five men’s points had dropped to zero during the same two-hour period a year earlier.

Thunderclap investigated the simultaneous deaths of Daoist Gui De and four others, but He Pingsheng ignored him while fortifying his Daoist Grounds with immortal formations. After an Earth Immortal’s Divine Sense triggered his warning formation, He Pingsheng added a fourth layer, then began cultivating with Essence Blood and an Immortal Spirit Pill.

• Thunderclap learned that Daoist Gui De and four others had simultaneously lost all their points, rejected the idea that He Pingsheng had killed them, and went to question him.
• He Pingsheng ignored Thunderclap and spent a month installing a Warning Immortal Formation and a Divine-Sense Sealing Immortal Formation around his Daoist Grounds.
• An Earth Immortal’s Divine Sense breached the sealing formation and triggered the warning, so He Pingsheng added a second Divine-Sense Sealing Formation inside the other three layers.
• He Pingsheng poured his accumulated Essence Blood into a pool, entered it, and swallowed a supreme-grade Immortal Spirit Pill to cultivate.

After ten years of cultivation, He Pingsheng reached the second layer of the Human Immortal Stage in his fire-attribute dantian but ran out of pills and needed an alchemy furnace. He learned about Gold and Silver Mountain as a place to buy supplies and decided to prepare for the journey.

• He Pingsheng spent ten years cultivating and studying formations, reaching the second layer of the Human Immortal Stage in his fire-attribute dantian.
• He Pingsheng concealed his cultivation with the Bronze Mask and left his Daoist grounds to find an alchemy furnace, but the Trading Fair had ended.
• Qingxuan apologized for abandoning He Pingsheng before and received a metal-attribute immortal cultivation art from him.
• He Pingsheng asked Qingxuan where to buy alchemy supplies, and Qingxuan told him about Gold and Silver Mountain.
• He Pingsheng decided to travel to Gold and Silver Mountain and returned to prepare by drawing talismans.

He Pingsheng crafted and enhanced a set of powerful Immortal Talismans before flying toward Gold and Silver Mountain. He was ambushed by six Red Lotus Immortal Valley disciples who revealed Qingxuan had betrayed him, but He Pingsheng turned the tables by threatening them with his talismans.

• He Pingsheng drew five Immortal Talismans with his finger, exhausting his divine sense.
• Fifteen days later, the Treasure-Gathering Basin had enhanced the talismans into four Heavenly Mountain Talismans and six Golden Finger Shatters Nirvana talismans.
• He Pingsheng flew alone to the abandoned mining pit and continued toward the supposed Gold and Silver Mountain.
• Six Red Lotus Immortal Valley Outer Disciples trapped He Pingsheng in a Grand Array and demanded his identity tag.
• The disciples revealed that Qingxuan had joined their scheme and lured He Pingsheng toward the ambush.
• He Pingsheng brought out his Golden Finger Shatters Nirvana talismans and demanded that the disciples hand over their tags or face death.

He Pingsheng used Immortal Talismans to seize his enemies’ number tokens and kill them, then escaped their Formation and returned to the Outer Sect. Disguised as Thunderclap, he began searching for Qingxuan, and an Outer Disciple went to find out where Qingxuan lived.

• He Pingsheng activated a Golden Finger Shatters Nirvana Immortal Talisman, killed one Immortal, and took the points from the surviving men’s number tokens before killing them as well.
• He Pingsheng called out Thunderclap, who fled toward Red Lotus Immortal Valley, then broke the Formation with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and collected its materials.
• He Pingsheng returned to the Outer Sect but found neither Thunderclap nor Qingxuan at their cave abodes.
• He Pingsheng used the Bronze Mask to take on Thunderclap’s appearance and asked an Outer Disciple where Qingxuan lived.
• The Outer Disciple asked He Pingsheng to wait while he searched for Qingxuan’s residence.