Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng admitted that he had killed two Mount Kunwu disciples with multiple immortal talismans, and Zhong Yue forced him to choose between death and becoming his disciple. As He Pingsheng pretended to kowtow, he used talismans to defend himself and unleashed four Ice Arrow Immortal Talismans at Zhong Yue, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• He Pingsheng confessed that he had killed the two Mount Kunwu prodigies with immortal talismans.
• Zhong Yue offered He Pingsheng a choice between death and becoming his disciple, and He Pingsheng agreed to kowtow to him.
• As He Pingsheng bowed, he activated a Cold Ice Shield Talisman that withstood Zhong Yue's attack.
• He Pingsheng then activated four Ice Arrow Immortal Talismans in succession and sent them crashing toward Zhong Yue.

After killing Immortal Zhong Yue, He Pingsheng returned to Red Lotus Immortal Valley, chose to remain in the Inner Sect, and prepared for a long period of secluded cultivation. After 128 years, he broke through to the third layer of Human Immortal with all five dantian.

• He Pingsheng found Immortal Zhong Yue’s second-grade golden rope and crimson shield among the ruins, burned the area, and returned to Red Lotus Immortal Valley.
• He Pingsheng repaid Liuliu’s gift of over a hundred immortal crystals by declaring their past karma settled, then chose to stay in the Inner Sect rather than flee Mount Kunwu.
• He Pingsheng set up three protective formations, told Su Nian he was entering seclusion, and received the completed essence blood mission before beginning his cultivation.
• He Pingsheng cultivated the [Sun Body-Burning Art], studied [Essentials of Formation], and practiced [Successive Sword Slashes] for 128 years.
• He Pingsheng broke through to the third layer of Human Immortal, with all five dantian reaching the same layer.

After 129 years in seclusion, He Pingsheng emerged at the third layer of the Human Immortal Stage, having also mastered the techniques for second-grade immortal formations. Su Nian rewarded him with a portion of sword intent, and He Pingsheng asked his master for formation materials.

• He Pingsheng left seclusion and learned from Su Muyu that Mount Kunwu had not caused trouble because it was fighting the White Cloud Immortal Sect.
• He Pingsheng and the others went to pay their respects to Su Nian, who emerged from seclusion and praised He Pingsheng’s cultivation breakthrough.
• Su Nian asked whether He Pingsheng used a sword, then gave him a small portion of sword intent to merge with his divine sense and study.
• He Pingsheng told Su Nian he wanted to set up a second-grade immortal formation but lacked the materials, shocking everyone.

He Pingsheng received Su Nian’s nameplate to buy second-grade immortal formation materials at Five Treasures Court, but first went to the Internal Affairs Court to collect his accumulated stipend and points. He and his companions then headed to Five Treasures Court to shop.

• Su Nian gave He Pingsheng his nameplate so he could buy second-grade formation materials, and asked him to make some formations in return.
• Su Muyu explained that Five Treasures Court sold supplies in five halls and took He Pingsheng to the Internal Affairs Court to collect his stipend.
• He Pingsheng presented his identity tag and received fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty immortal crystals, along with one million two hundred and ninety thousand points.
• Su Muyu led He Pingsheng, Su Huang, and their companion from the Internal Affairs Court to Five Treasures Court.

He Pingsheng bought a temporary map of Emperor Yu Star in the Scripture Treasury Hall, then encountered Thunderclap outside the Immortal Formation Treasury Hall. Thunderclap, alarmed by He Pingsheng’s rapid cultivation, offered to pay a price to settle their enmity.

• He Pingsheng entered the Scripture Treasury Hall and asked for a star chart, then agreed to buy a rough map of Emperor Yu Star for ten thousand immortal crystals.
• The hall’s old Human Immortal explained that the map would self-destruct after four hours and warned He Pingsheng not to copy or resell it.
• He Pingsheng paid with a middle-grade immortal crystal and left the hall, then headed toward the Immortal Formation Treasury Hall.
• He Pingsheng met Thunderclap outside the hall, and Thunderclap was shocked to discover that He Pingsheng had reached the third layer of the Human Immortal Stage.
• He Pingsheng taunted Thunderclap about his past threats, and Thunderclap blamed Elder Qu and offered to pay to dissolve their enmity.

He Pingsheng refused Thunderclap’s offer to settle their grudge, keeping the immortal crystals and demanding far more. He bought materials for two second-grade formations and met Jiao Zhi Niang, who corrected how he addressed her.

• Thunderclap offered He Pingsheng twenty thousand low-grade immortal crystals to settle their enmity, but He Pingsheng demanded a million and kept the payment as interest.
• He Pingsheng entered the Formation Compendium and asked to buy materials for a second-grade Warning Immortal Formation and a Divine-Sense Sealing Immortal Formation.
• A shop assistant said Human Immortal Stage disciples could not buy second-grade supplies, so He Pingsheng showed Su Nian’s token and was taken upstairs.
• He Pingsheng paid Jiao Zhi Niang thirty-nine middle-grade immortal crystals for the two formations’ materials.
• Jiao Zhi Niang introduced herself as He Pingsheng’s Senior Master and corrected him for calling her Junior Master.

He Pingsheng left the Heavenly Law Court with formation materials, a map, and immortal artifacts, then hid in the mountains to enhance them with his Treasure-Gathering Basin. After refining the gains, he set off to test two immortal arts he had comprehended during seclusion.

• He Pingsheng apologized to Jiao Zhi Niang, answered her questions about his master's seclusion and visitors to the Heavenly Law Court, and left the hall.
• He Pingsheng flew to a remote mountain cave, killed its python, and placed formation materials, a map, two artifacts, and Su Nian's sword intent into the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng refined the formation materials while the basin enhanced the other items, producing supreme-grade formation materials, duplicate maps and artifacts, and two masses of purple-gold sword intent.
• He Pingsheng discovered that the enhanced Immortal-Binding Rope could immobilize peak Earth Immortals and that the Heavenly Gang Fire Dragon Shield could block their full-power strikes.
• He Pingsheng examined the detailed Emperor Yu Star map and set off to test Successive Sword Slashes and Heaven-Withering Spirit Absorption Art.

He Pingsheng tested his two immortal arts before returning to his Daoist Grounds, where his senior siblings drew him into a game of tiles. Their Master, Su Nian, caught them playing but told them to continue, claiming the Great Dao could be found even in the game.

• He Pingsheng demonstrated Successive Sword Slashes, striking seven times in less than a breath.
• He Pingsheng used the Heaven-Withering Spirit Absorption Art to drain the vitality of trees and Immortal Herbs across a three-hundred-zhang area.
• He Pingsheng returned to his Daoist Grounds, where Su Muyu, Su Huang, and Xu Zhishan questioned him about his absence and invited him to play tiles.
• He Pingsheng joined the tile game despite saying he needed to return to seclusion to engrave Formation Plates.
• Su Nian arrived while the four were playing tiles and told them to keep going because the Great Dao lay even within a few inches.

He Pingsheng spent eighteen years refining formations and the Immortal-Binding Rope while Su Nian and the others played cards in his Daoist Grounds. Afterward, He Pingsheng went to post missions and learned that Elder Qu’s wealth had likely gone to his hundreds of children.

• Su Nian took He Pingsheng’s place at the card table and beat the others while He Pingsheng left to cultivate in an empty hall.
• He Pingsheng spent eighteen years refining the Warning Immortal Formation, the Divine-Sense Sealing Immortal Formation, and all forty layers of restrictions on the Immortal-Binding Rope.
• He Pingsheng returned to find Su Nian, Su Muyu, Su Huang, and Xu Zhishan still playing cards, and they hurriedly left when they realized eighteen years had passed.
• He Pingsheng cleaned his Great Hall and headed toward the Mission Great Hall to spend his points on missions to hunt Immortal Camel Elephants.
• He Pingsheng met Liuliu and Red Iron, then learned that Elder Qu had supported seven or eight hundred children, which explained why little wealth remained after his death.

He Pingsheng used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to duplicate formation materials and spent a year and a half installing three second-grade arrays around his great hall. After his master and senior brothers asked him to set up formations for them, He Pingsheng began crafting their formations while cultivating and refining a defensive artifact.

• He Pingsheng paid Elder Hong to post missions for Immortal Camel Elephant essence blood, then left the sect to enhance formation materials in the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng returned to the sect and spent a year and a half installing two Divine-Sense Sealing Immortal Formations and a Warning Immortal Formation around his great hall.
• Su Nian praised He Pingsheng's second-grade formations and asked him to set up divine-sense sealing formations for his Daoist grounds.
• Su Huang, Su Muyu, and Xu Zhishan also requested formations, and He Pingsheng agreed to make them using materials they supplied.
• He Pingsheng entered his Daoist grounds to craft the requested formations while cultivating the Sun Body-Burning Art and refining the Heavenly Gang Fire Dragon Shield.

He Pingsheng enhanced formations, fortified the Daoist Grounds, and cultivated in seclusion until the Chaos Golden Scripture advanced him to the third layer of Body Refining. After collecting the Essence Blood delivered during his sixteen-year retreat, he prepared to obtain more supplies before returning to seclusion ahead of Mount Kunwu's attack.

• He Pingsheng enhanced and inscribed formation materials, then set up Divine-Sense Sealing Immortal Formations for Su Nian, Su Huang, and Su Muyu and Spirit-Gathering Immortal Formations for Xu Zhishan and his own Daoist Grounds.
• He Pingsheng cultivated in a Blood Pool with Essence Blood and an Immortal Spirit Pill while Su Muyu arranged for Outer Disciples to store Essence Blood from his missions.
• After sixteen years, He Pingsheng emerged with the Chaos Golden Scripture at the third layer of Body Refining, though his cultivation level had not advanced.
• Su Muyu told He Pingsheng that Elder Hong had delivered the Essence Blood years earlier, and He Pingsheng collected the vats from the hall.
• He Pingsheng and Su Muyu decided to enter seclusion, but He Pingsheng first set out to prepare supplies because he was short on pills.

He Pingsheng failed to find an alchemy furnace, bought thousands of Immortal Spirit Pills, and returned to his Daoist grounds to prepare for cultivation. He began comprehending Su Nian’s enhanced sword intent, but its sword qi cut into his divine sense.

• He Pingsheng learned that Five Treasures Court had no alchemy furnaces available and bought thousands of first-grade Immortal Spirit Pills instead.
• Xu Ruoyi offered to work for He Pingsheng, but he declined and lent her an immortal crystal to help her cultivate.
• He Pingsheng returned to his Daoist grounds, sealed the formation, and enhanced his Immortal Spirit Pills and essence blood in the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng brought out the purple-gold sword intent Su Nian had given him and began to comprehend it with his divine sense.
• The sword qi fragments cut He Pingsheng’s divine sense, so he swallowed a supreme-grade Bitter Spirit Pill to ease the pain and continued.

He Pingsheng spent more than a century cultivating, then devoted himself to comprehending sword intent until a powerful purple-gold sword phantom formed above him. When his sword intent escaped his Daoist Grounds, Su Nian realized He Pingsheng had comprehended it and moved to protect him from rivals and Mount Kunwu.

• He Pingsheng raised his Chaos Golden Scripture body refining to the human immortal fifth layer and his cultivation to the fourth layer before focusing entirely on sword intent.
• After twenty years of concentrated comprehension, a three-foot purple-gold sword phantom formed above He Pingsheng and sword qi began leaking from his Daoist Grounds.
• Su Nian and his disciples sensed the sword intent, and Xu Zhishan mistakenly congratulated Su Nian before they realized it came from He Pingsheng.
• Su Nian ordered Xu Zhishan, Su Huang, and Su Muyu to guard the Heavenly Law Court and keep He Pingsheng's sword intent secret, then sat outside his hall.
• He Pingsheng's sword intent grew stronger and spread beyond the Heavenly Law Court's mountain peak, and Su Muyu sensed its successive waves.

He Pingsheng’s Sword Intent spread across the sect, drawing the attention of Su Nian’s fellow disciples and Patriarch Red Lotus. Su Nian revealed that He Pingsheng had made the breakthrough, and Red Lotus went with him to meet the young prodigy.

• He Pingsheng’s Sword Intent surged through Heavenly Law Court and spread across the sect in nine waves.
• Su Muyu warned the arriving cultivators not to enter while Su Nian comprehended Sword Intent, and Patriarch Red Lotus ordered everyone else to leave and keep the event secret.
• Patriarch Red Lotus entered Heavenly Law Court and asked Su Nian whether he had truly comprehended the Sword Intent.
• Su Nian admitted that He Pingsheng had comprehended it after receiving a portion of Su Nian’s Sword Intent.
• Patriarch Red Lotus asked to meet He Pingsheng, and Su Nian led her toward his Daoist Grounds, protected by second-grade Immortal Formations.

He Pingsheng revealed that he had reached the fifth layer of the Human Immortal Stage and asked Patriarch Red Lotus for a Divine Sense cultivation technique. Red Lotus could not provide one, so Su Nian suggested that He Pingsheng seek one by winning Emperor Yu Star’s Sword Trial Tournament, while Red Lotus warned him to keep his Sword Intent secret.

• Patriarch Red Lotus and Su Nian discovered that He Pingsheng had reached the fifth layer of the Human Immortal Stage, only 386 years after ascending.
• Red Lotus warned that Mount Kunwu might attack the Red Lotus Immortal Valley within two hundred years and urged He Pingsheng to survive and avenge the sect if it fell.
• He Pingsheng asked Red Lotus for a divine refining method, but she explained that such techniques were difficult for their sect to obtain and mentioned Immortal Dugu as one cultivator who possessed one.
• Su Nian proposed that He Pingsheng win the Human Immortal division of Emperor Yu Star’s Sword Trial Tournament in a hundred years to earn a wish from the Star Emperor.
• Red Lotus told He Pingsheng to keep his comprehension of Sword Intent secret so Mount Kunwu would not learn of it and attack early.

He Pingsheng concealed his breakthrough to the fifth layer and learned that he would travel to Heaven and Earth City to preserve the Daoist laws he had comprehended in the lower realm. The chapter ended with Su Muyu explaining how the Dao-Stabilizing Heavenly Stele could transform those laws into a bridge for future Golden Immortal cultivation.

• He Pingsheng used a Bronze Mask to hide his fifth-layer cultivation from Su Muyu, Su Huang, and Xu Zhishan.
• Su Muyu rejected Su Huang’s suggestion to celebrate at the Wind and Emerald Pavilion and proposed playing cards instead.
• A disciple from the Five Treasures Court invited the Heavenly Law Court to send someone to the Dao-Stabilizing Heavenly Stele, and Su Muyu registered He Pingsheng for the trip in three days.
• Su Muyu explained that the stele could preserve He Pingsheng’s fading lower-realm Daoist laws by transforming some of them into laws of the Immortal Realm.

He Pingsheng learned why he needed to stabilize his Spirit Realm Daoist laws before advancing beyond the Human Immortal Stage and traveled to board the sect’s ship to Heaven and Earth City. He met Chi Zhongyue and heard that the trip was organized in large part to help the prodigy Lu Xiaoci stabilize her Dao.

• He Pingsheng learned that the Dao-Stabilizing Heavenly Stele could preserve his Spirit Realm laws and help him comprehend the Immortal Realm Great Dao, but he had to use it while still a Human Immortal.
• Three days later, He Pingsheng arrived at Five Treasures Court and saw the enormous Immortal Ship that would carry the disciples to Heaven and Earth City.
• Chi Zhongyue explained the month-long journey’s rules and announced that 764 disciples would travel to stabilize their Daoist laws.
• Lu Xiaoci boarded the ship, and disciples discussed her ninth-layer Human Immortal cultivation and the danger that Mount Kunwu might attack them.
• He Pingsheng boarded, received Jade Token number seventeen, and learned that the woman who had organized the trip was named Chi Zhongyue.

He Pingsheng boarded the Immortal Ship bound for Heaven and Earth City, learned to operate its formations, and settled in for the month-long journey. When Chi Zhongyue visited to ask him for talismans, they overheard a couple in the neighboring room and discovered that its Divine-Sense Sealing Formation did not block sound.

• He Pingsheng accepted Chi Zhongyue’s Jade Token and settled into his room aboard the Immortal Ship.
• Jiao Zhi Niang gathered the disciples, explained the ship’s attack and defense formations, and gave each of them Formation Diagrams to study.
• He Pingsheng quickly learned to operate the Grand Array, then read his alchemy text as the Immortal Ship took off.
• He Pingsheng consulted a map and learned that Red Lotus Immortal Valley fell under Heaven and Earth Immortal City’s jurisdiction.
• Chi Zhongyue visited He Pingsheng to ask him to draw talismans, but they heard lewd sounds from the neighboring room and realized a Divine-Sense Sealing Formation could not block sound.

He Pingsheng drew two supreme-grade Heavenly Mountain Talismans for Chi Zhongyue, who promised to keep his skill secret and offered to show him around Heaven and Earth Immortal City. Later, he met Heavenly Saber, the man behind the sounds from the neighboring room, who blamed He Pingsheng for laughing at him and vowed to last longer next time.

• Chi Zhongyue brought He Pingsheng ten sheets of first-grade Immortal Talisman Paper and Talisman Ink in exchange for two talismans.
• He Pingsheng drew two supreme-grade Heavenly Mountain Talismans and asked Chi Zhongyue to keep his ability secret.
• Chi Zhongyue agreed and offered to show He Pingsheng around Heaven and Earth Immortal City.
• After several days of studying, He Pingsheng went out to the Great Ship's rail and encountered a dark-skinned man carrying a golden saber.
• The man introduced himself as Heavenly Saber, accused He Pingsheng of laughing at his bedroom troubles, and threatened him before insisting he would last longer than half an incense stick next time.

He Pingsheng and the other disciples defended their Immortal Ship from a flock of Two-Headed Mighty Eagles using its cannon formation. He Pingsheng suspected that someone was controlling the attackers, but Jiao Zhi Niang and the other disciples dismissed his warning as the beasts continued their assault.

• A blast from an unidentified Demon Beast rocked the Immortal Ship, and Jiao Zhi Niang ordered the disciples to prepare for battle.
• He Pingsheng joined the first group operating the offensive Grand Array and helped power a cannon that killed a Two-Headed Mighty Eagle.
• More Two-Headed Mighty Eagles appeared and attacked one at a time, while the disciples rotated groups to fire the ship's cannon.
• He Pingsheng warned Jiao Zhi Niang that the eagles seemed to be controlled by someone, but she and the other disciples dismissed his concern.