Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng killed Qingxuan while disguised as Thunderclap, then planned to kill Thunderclap but learned he had entered the Inner Sect. He returned to his courtyard to examine his spoils, where a warning formation suddenly rang as he began extracting essence blood.

• He Pingsheng lured Qingxuan into his courtyard and killed him with a surprise attack, then hid the corpse and returned to his own courtyard.
• After watching for three days, He Pingsheng saw Thunderclap return and disguised himself as Qingxuan to approach him.
• Elder Qu escorted Thunderclap into the Inner Sect, leaving He Pingsheng to postpone settling their score until he reached it.
• He Pingsheng emptied seven Heaven and Earth Bags, finding Immortal Spirit Pills, twenty immortal crystals, and assorted materials.
• As He Pingsheng began extracting essence blood from a corpse, his warning formation rang, and he hid the body in the Primordial Purple Gold Staff.

The Steward Elder visited He Pingsheng and tried to pressure him over his resources and the deaths of eleven Outer Disciples, but He Pingsheng challenged the accusation and offered to take the matter to the Law Enforcement Court. The Elder abandoned the threat and explained his justification for restricting Outer Disciples’ cultivation, then asked He Pingsheng to replace Thunderclap.

• The Steward Elder entered He Pingsheng’s cultivation grounds and questioned how he had acquired so many resources.
• He Pingsheng said he had sold a supreme-grade Wood Attribute Immortal Sword that Qingxuan gave him to Senior Sister Su Muyu.
• The Steward Elder accused He Pingsheng of killing eleven Outer Disciples, but He Pingsheng denied leaving his cultivation grounds and proposed confronting Thunderclap at the Law Enforcement Court.
• The Steward Elder backed down and admitted he had used the accusation to gain leverage in their negotiation.
• The Steward Elder said Red Lotus Immortal Valley had lost Ascension Pools and Immortal Crystal mines, defended Thunderclap’s role in curbing Outer Disciples’ cultivation, and asked He Pingsheng to replace him.

He Pingsheng rejected the law enforcement elder’s demand that he become the Outer Sect’s chief senior brother and focused on cultivation, formation study, and creating an Immortal Realm version of his Five Elements Unity Heaven Scripture. After nine years of limited progress, he prepared talismans for the approaching Heaven's Gate Trading Fair and went to the Mission Great Hall to find work.

• He Pingsheng refused to become chief senior brother, and the law enforcement elder warned him not to oppose whoever was chosen next.
• He Pingsheng refined essence blood, studied formations, and considered adapting the Five Elements Unity Heaven Scripture to the Immortal Realm.
• He Pingsheng studied his five-element immortal arts for nine years, raising all five dantian to the second layer of the Human Immortal Stage but making no breakthrough in formations or his new cultivation art.
• He Pingsheng learned that the Heaven's Gate Trading Fair was three months away and drew talismans to sell there.
• He Pingsheng enhanced dozens of talismans and went to the Mission Great Hall to take missions because he had run out of essence blood.

He Pingsheng sought a mission to gather demon beast essence blood for body refinement and set out to hunt Immortal Camel Elephants at Sky-Reaching Ridge. Lan Yu asked him to kill Thunderclap and then tried to buy one of his talismans.

• He Pingsheng asked Lan Yu who had become the Outer Sect's senior brother, and she told him it was Red Iron, a seventh-layer Human Immortal.
• He Pingsheng visited Red Iron and requested a mission to kill demon beasts for their essence blood.
• Red Iron assigned He Pingsheng a mission to kill fifty Immortal Camel Elephants at Sky-Reaching Ridge for one thousand points and gave him a map.
• He Pingsheng left for Sky-Reaching Ridge, but Lan Yu stopped him and asked him to kill Thunderclap.
• He Pingsheng refused to kill Thunderclap on Lan Yu's behalf, and Lan Yu asked whether he would sell her a talisman.

He Pingsheng refused to give Lan Yu any talismans and flew toward Sky-Reaching Ridge, but the Red Lotus Immortal Valley Deacon Elder intercepted him and attacked. He Pingsheng’s talismans and strength could not stop the Earth Immortal’s full-force strike, which sent him crashing into a hilltop.

• He Pingsheng refused Lan Yu’s request for talismans, promised Thunderclap would die, and flew away toward Sky-Reaching Ridge.
• After two days of flight, He Pingsheng was caught by the Red Lotus Immortal Valley Deacon Elder, who admitted he had arranged both attempts on He Pingsheng’s life.
• The Deacon Elder attacked He Pingsheng with a powerful immortal bone, and He Pingsheng met the first blow with his expanded body and purple-gold staff.
• The Deacon Elder launched a full-strength strike, and his immortal bone destroyed He Pingsheng’s four Heavenly Mountain Talismans.
• The immortal bone struck He Pingsheng’s staff and sent him plummeting into a hilltop.

He Pingsheng feigned helplessness against the steward elder, then used poisoned weapons and a final ambush to turn the fight around. He smashed the Earth Immortal into the ground, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• The steward elder battered He Pingsheng and demanded that he either die or become his servant.
• He Pingsheng refused to submit and was blasted away, losing hold of the Primordial Purple Gold Staff.
• He Pingsheng activated more than a dozen supreme-grade Golden Finger Shatters Nirvana talismans, forcing the steward elder to expend much of his Immortal Essence destroying them.
• He Pingsheng attacked with a hundred-zhang crimson Immortal Sword, but the steward elder countered with his blood-red immortal bone and hurled him into the void.
• The poisoned Primordial Purple Gold Staff ambushed the steward elder from the valley, weakening him and revealing that He Pingsheng had staged his apparent helplessness.
• He Pingsheng used Divine Sense Nails to disrupt the steward elder’s escape, then struck him with a powerful fist and smashed him into the ground.

He Pingsheng killed the poisoned, exhausted deacon elder after surviving his Ice Attribute immortal arts, then looted the elder’s belongings and continued toward Sky-Reaching Ridge. He enhanced the elder’s Flying Boat and Spatial Ring, gaining two supreme-grade Floating Cloud Immortal Boats and two concealed black rings.

• The deacon elder emerged from underground and attacked He Pingsheng with Ice Thorns, wounding him despite his defenses.
• He Pingsheng struck the depleted deacon elder with his Flying Sword, killing his body; the elder’s soul was pulled away to enter reincarnation.
• He Pingsheng took the elder’s ring and immortal bone, burned away the battle’s traces, and flew toward Sky-Reaching Ridge while replenishing his Immortal Essence and healing.
• He Pingsheng searched the ring and found over two thousand Immortal Crystals, three first-grade Immortal Artifacts, an emerald-green Flying Boat, and other supplies.
• The Treasure-Gathering Basin enhanced the Flying Boat into two supreme-grade first-grade Floating Cloud Immortal Boats and the Spatial Ring into two concealed black rings.
• He Pingsheng moved his belongings into one black ring and placed the immortal bone and remaining Immortal Artifacts in the basin to enhance them.

He Pingsheng reached Sky-Reaching Ridge and learned where the Immortal Camel Elephants lived. After twice provoking the herd and escaping, he was left wondering how he could kill one without drawing the others.

• He Pingsheng asked a Red Lotus Immortal Valley disciple for directions and warnings about the Immortal Camel Elephants.
• He Pingsheng flew to the elephants’ valley, where dozens charged at him and drove him away.
• He Pingsheng returned at night wearing the Bronze Mask and tried to kill a lone Immortal Camel Elephant with his Heaven-Mingling Fire Spirit Sword.
• The Immortal Camel Elephant blocked the sword with its tusks, and the herd chased He Pingsheng beyond its territory until he escaped.
• He Pingsheng realized the elephants protected one another and were too tough to kill with a single strike.

He Pingsheng hunted Immortal Camel Elephants by attacking their seas of consciousness with divine sense, then encountered two immortals after accidentally frightening away a Ten-Jiachen Ginseng. He offered to compensate them, but the woman demanded a hundred thousand immortal crystals for the rare ginseng.

• He Pingsheng discovered that his Divine Sense Nails could kill Immortal Camel Elephants and stored four of them before resting to recover his divine sense.
• Over two months, He Pingsheng captured more than sixty living-dead Immortal Camel Elephants.
• As He Pingsheng prepared to leave, a Ten-Jiachen Ginseng flew past, and his attempt to catch it scared it away.
• A woman and her senior brother confronted He Pingsheng and explained that the second-grade ginseng had escaped their carefully prepared formation.
• He Pingsheng apologized and offered compensation, but the woman said the ginseng could help them break through the Human Immortal Stage bottleneck and demanded a hundred thousand immortal crystals.

He Pingsheng clashed with two Mount Kunwu disciples after compensating them for ruining their chance to catch a Ten-Jiachen Ginseng. He killed the man and knocked the fleeing woman from the clouds, leaving her at his mercy.

• He Pingsheng gave the pair two middle-grade Immortal Crystals to compensate them for the Ten-Jiachen Ginseng and left.
• The pair blocked He Pingsheng’s escape and revealed they were Mount Kunwu disciples who wanted to settle their sects’ feud.
• He Pingsheng refused to fight them one at a time and defended himself against both disciples’ attacks.
• He Pingsheng knocked the man’s door-plank artifact away and killed him with a powerful punch.
• The woman fled, but Immortal Camel Elephants blocked her path, allowing He Pingsheng to catch up and knock her from the clouds with his staff.

He Pingsheng returned to Red Lotus Immortal Valley with the spoils from his fight, but found that the new executive elder had ended the Outer Sect's mission-submission arrangement. He examined the items taken from his opponents, began cultivating a sword art, and discovered that the Treasure-Gathering Basin had enhanced two techniques into powerful supreme-grade methods.

• He Pingsheng escaped the pursuing Immortal Camel Elephants, returned to the Outer Sect, and slaughtered the elephants he had stored in his Magical Treasure for their essence blood.
• Red Iron told He Pingsheng that Elder Qu had died and a new Earth Immortal executive elder had banned subcontracted mission submissions; the Mission Great Hall had no Immortal Camel Elephant mission available.
• He Pingsheng searched the jade slips taken from the two Mount Kunwu disciples and the former executive elder, finding the External Alchemy Method and the Sole Technique, then put them into the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng began cultivating the heaven-tier supreme-grade Successive Sword Slashes, but still had not mastered it after a month.
• He Pingsheng retrieved the enhanced Three-Revolution Golden Core Method and Shadowless Immortal Art from the Treasure-Gathering Basin, learning that the latter could increase his speed fivefold.

He Pingsheng visited the Heaven's Gate Trading Fair and bought large quantities of pills, including Bitter Spirit Pills, while other disciples recognized his reputation. He then asked Su Muyu to help him buy an immortal art from the Inner Sect, leaving her request unanswered.

• He Pingsheng reviewed the Shadowless Immortal Art and learned its fivefold speed boost lasted only one or two breaths.
• He Pingsheng attended the Heaven's Gate Trading Fair and found no divine-refining texts among the outer disciples' stalls.
• He Pingsheng bought a bottle of Bitter Spirit Pills and fourteen bottles of low-grade Immortal Spirit Pills for thirty-eight immortal crystals.
• He Pingsheng continued buying pills, and disciples recognized him as the cultivator who had driven Thunderclap into the Inner Sect.
• He Pingsheng greeted Su Muyu and asked her to help him buy an immortal art from the Inner Sect.

He Pingsheng asked Su Muyu to find him a divine-sense cultivation method, but she said none could be obtained and agreed to buy him talisman supplies in exchange for two immortal talismans. After shopping at the Heaven's Gate Trading Fair, he returned to his Small Courtyard and began enhancing the pills he had purchased.

• Su Muyu told He Pingsheng that divine-refining cultivation methods were unavailable, even in the Inner Sect's Immortal Scripture Repository Hall.
• He Pingsheng asked for a talisman-crafting manual, a talisman brush, and an immortal artifact alchemy furnace, and Su Muyu agreed to buy the available talisman supplies for two immortal talismans.
• He Pingsheng bought Immortal Spirit Pills from stalls and haggled a stallholder down to ten immortal crystals for a bottle of Heavenly Spirit Pills.
• He Pingsheng returned to his Small Courtyard without second-grade formation materials and placed the Bitter Spirit Pills and Heavenly Spirit Pills in the Treasure-Gathering Basin for enhancement.

He Pingsheng enhanced his pills and received the talisman brush and classic he had asked Su Muyu to buy. After refining his body, advancing his cultivation, and learning to draw talismans, he gave Su Muyu two supreme-grade offensive talismans and asked her to keep his ability secret.

• He Pingsheng enhanced his Bitter Spirit Pills and Heavenly Spirit Pills to supreme grade, doubling their quantities and greatly improving their effects.
• Su Muyu brought He Pingsheng's requested talisman brush and black jade slip after a three-month delay, and asked him to make her two offensive talismans.
• He Pingsheng absorbed the enhanced Immortal Camel Elephant essence blood, raised his Chaos Golden Scripture cultivation to the second layer of the Human Immortal Stage, and grew a hundred-zhang golden body.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the talisman brush and classic, then used them to draw two supreme-grade Golden Finger Shatters Nirvana talismans.
• He Pingsheng delivered the talismans to Su Muyu and asked her to keep his ability to make them secret.

He Pingsheng advanced his talisman-making and created a stock of supreme-grade second-grade Immortal Talismans before deciding to recruit others to gather essence blood for his cultivation. He left the Mission Great Hall after Elder Hong told him that posting twenty batches of Immortal Camel Elephant essence-blood missions would cost two hundred thousand points.

• He Pingsheng spent months cultivating and studying the Golden Book of Immortal Talisman until he believed he could make second-grade talismans.
• He Pingsheng successfully crafted an Ice Arrow Immortal Talisman and a Cold Ice Shield Talisman, and both absorbed Immortal Essence within his courtyard before becoming complete.
• He Pingsheng crafted and strengthened four of each talisman, ending up with eight supreme-grade Ice Arrow Immortal Talismans and eight supreme-grade Cold Ice Shield Talismans.
• He Pingsheng decided to post a mission for adult Immortal Camel Elephant essence blood because he had run out of blood to temper his body.
• He Pingsheng offered one hundred points per elephant and requested twenty batches of fifty, but Elder Hong said he had to pay two hundred thousand points upfront, prompting He Pingsheng to question the charge.

He Pingsheng paid for the tasks he had posted by exchanging three immortal crystals for points at the Steward Great Hall. There, an elder from Mount Kunwu demanded to meet Red Lotus Immortal Valley’s patriarch over the deaths of two Mount Kunwu prodigies, leaving He Pingsheng worried that his own killings had been discovered.

• Elder Hong told He Pingsheng that posting his tasks required him to pay both the disciples and the sect, so He Pingsheng handed over 170,000 points and promised to make up the remaining 30,000.
• He Pingsheng went to the Steward Great Hall, where Martial Aunt Suo Lin exchanged three immortal crystals for 30,000 points.
• A burly Earth Immortal from Mount Kunwu smashed into the Great Hall and knocked He Pingsheng to the floor with his aura.
• The Mount Kunwu elder told Suo Lin that Red Lotus Immortal Valley had violated their truce by killing two of his sect’s prodigies and demanded that its patriarch meet him.
• He Pingsheng suspected the dead prodigies were the man and woman he had killed, while Suo Lin went to ask whether the patriarch would receive the visitor.

He Pingsheng was tested and recruited by Mount Kunwu's Immortal Zhong Yue, who suspected he had been involved in the deaths of two prodigies. Patriarch Red Lotus summoned He Pingsheng and heard Zhong Yue request permission to take him to Mount Kunwu for questioning.

• Immortal Zhong Yue struck He Pingsheng twice, praised his resilience, and offered to make him an Inner Sect True Disciple at Mount Kunwu.
• He Pingsheng refused Zhong Yue's offer, and Elder Suo Lin arrived to take Zhong Yue to meet Patriarch Red Lotus.
• He Pingsheng returned to his courtyard, but Elder Suo Lin soon summoned him to Patriarch Red Lotus's great hall.
• Patriarch Red Lotus told Zhong Yue that He Pingsheng had visited the Immortal Camel Elephants' territory around the time Mount Kunwu's two prodigies died, then questioned whether he could have killed them.
• Immortal Zhong Yue asked Patriarch Red Lotus for permission to take He Pingsheng to Mount Kunwu for questioning.

Su Nian defended He Pingsheng against Mount Kunwu’s demand to take him away, and Patriarch Red Lotus upheld the sect’s dignity by refusing to surrender him. The chapter left Red Lotus Immortal Valley with at least five hundred years of peace, according to Patriarch Red Lotus, but with a possible future conflict looming.

• Immortal Zhong Yue asked Patriarch Red Lotus to let Mount Kunwu take He Pingsheng, and most of the Elders agreed to hand him over.
• Su Nian objected, pointing out that Mount Kunwu had no evidence and that He Pingsheng’s first-layer Human Immortal cultivation made the accusation implausible.
• After Zhong Yue argued that He Pingsheng had exceptional talent, Su Nian declared He Pingsheng his personal Inner Disciple and warned the Elders against surrendering him.
• Patriarch Red Lotus refused to let Mount Kunwu take He Pingsheng, then drove Zhong Yue out of the Great Hall and beyond the mountain gate.
• Patriarch Red Lotus told the Elders that Mount Kunwu was wary of the White Cloud Immortal Sect and that Red Lotus Immortal Valley had at least five hundred years of peace to cultivate.

After the elders mocked Su Nian for pretending to accept He Pingsheng, he impulsively took him as his disciple and brought him to Heavenly Law Court. He Pingsheng met his new, mostly related fellow disciples, while Su Nian reconsidered the decision after learning He Pingsheng was a talented talisman maker.

• As the elders mocked Su Nian, he lost his temper and declared that he would take He Pingsheng as his disciple.
• Su Nian brought He Pingsheng to Heavenly Law Court, where He Pingsheng offered to join only after reaching the fifth layer of the Human Immortal Stage, but Su Nian refused.
• Su Muyu recognized He Pingsheng and told Su Nian that he had drawn her two supreme-grade offensive talismans.
• Su Nian introduced He Pingsheng as his fourth disciple, alongside his children Su Huang and Su Muyu and his nephew Xu Zhishan.
• He Pingsheng learned that Heavenly Law Court had only four disciples, while another small court had more than three hundred and twenty.

He Pingsheng joined the Heavenly Law Court and received a cultivation hall, but Immortal Zhong Yue abducted him from the Outer Sect and demanded to know how he had advanced so quickly and killed Mount Kunwu’s prodigies. Zhong Yue held He Pingsheng captive on a remote mountaintop, and He Pingsheng faced his threats.

• Su Muyu showed He Pingsheng a cultivation hall, gave him Inner Sect clothes and a formation key, and explained how to collect his monthly Immortal Crystals.
• He Pingsheng returned to the Outer Sect, changed into his new clothes, dismantled his formations, and prepared to leave with their materials.
• Immortal Zhong Yue bound He Pingsheng with a golden rope, silenced him, and carried him deep into the mountains.
• Zhong Yue revealed that he had investigated He Pingsheng’s rapid cultivation and suspected he had encountered a great opportunity or was hiding a secret.
• He Pingsheng claimed that talismans and Immortal Spirit Pills had helped him advance, but Zhong Yue demanded that he explain both his cultivation and the deaths of Mount Kunwu’s two prodigies.