Chapter Summaries

After Dugu White Cloud broke through to the Profound Immortal stage, He Pingsheng rejected his offers of peace and demanded the White Cloud Immortal Sect submit to the Red Lotus Immortal Valley. Dugu attacked, and He Pingsheng used talismans to survive the strike, leaving their battle underway.

• A White Cloud Immortal Sect disciple told Xuan Ji that Dugu White Cloud had become a Profound Immortal and wanted to negotiate.
• He Pingsheng refused reconciliation, told Dugu White Cloud he would fight to the death, and sent Lu Xiaoci and Ming Riyue away.
• Dugu White Cloud offered immortal crystal mines and Ascension Exits, but He Pingsheng demanded the sect's submission and its immortals' eternal loyalty.
• Dugu White Cloud rejected He Pingsheng's terms and attacked with an enormous condensed finger.
• He Pingsheng activated Heavenly Thunder Shield Talismans and eight Heaven-Mixing Sword Talismans; the sword lights faded, but his six defensive membranes blocked the remaining strike.

He Pingsheng’s ambush against Dugu White Cloud went awry when Immortal Maiden Gushe betrayed the group, and he fled after being wounded. Cornered by Dugu, He Pingsheng converted his lifespan to reach the Heaven Immortal Stage and killed him with over a hundred Heaven-Mixing Sword Talismans.

• Eight Heaven Immortals revealed themselves and fired thirty-two Heaven-Mixing Sword Talismans at Dugu White Cloud, but Immortal Maiden Gushe diverted four streams toward He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng countered Gushe’s attack with four talismans as the remaining sword qi struck Dugu White Cloud, then fled while wounded.
• Daoist Winter Maple ordered the others to surround Gushe, who explained that she had wanted to follow Dugu White Cloud and resented being assigned to Red Lotus’s side.
• Dugu White Cloud caught He Pingsheng after his short burst of speed and realized He Pingsheng had used Shared Lifespan with Heaven and Earth to reach the Heaven Immortal Stage.
• He Pingsheng activated over a hundred Heaven-Mixing Sword Talismans and chopped Dugu White Cloud into pieces.

He Pingsheng returned with proof that he had killed Dugu, prompting Immortal Maiden Gushe to take her own life. At Mount Kunwu, he learned how Ascension Pools worked and decided to remain in seclusion for centuries or longer to increase his cultivation.

• He Pingsheng returned to the White Cloud Immortal Sect with scraps of Dugu's flesh and confirmed that he had killed him.
• Immortal Maiden Gushe attacked He Pingsheng verbally, then stabbed herself in the throat and died; Winter Maple took her body away.
• At Heavenly Law Palace, Su Nian explained that each lower realm connected to the Immortal Realm as a whole and that sects could purchase Ascension Pools made by high-level cultivators.
• Su Huang planned to enter seclusion, while Su Muyu wanted to play cards with Chu Sheng before attending to sect business.
• He Pingsheng chose to remain at Mount Kunwu and enter seclusion for at least several hundred years, possibly a thousand, to raise his cultivation.

After three thousand years in seclusion, He Pingsheng emerged at the eleventh layer of the earth immortal stage and learned that Su Huang had died. He left to seek Ten-Jiachen Ginseng, while a visitor told Netherworld that Nan Qi had come to see her.

• Chu Sheng ordered disciples to clear the snow outside Heavenly Pill Hall, but He Pingsheng emerged from seclusion and told him to leave the snowy scenery untouched.
• He Pingsheng revealed that his body refining had reached the earth immortal stage eleventh layer and all five of his dantians had reached the eighth layer.
• Chu Sheng told He Pingsheng that Su Huang had died, Su Muyu was stuck at the human immortal stage eleventh layer, and Xu Zhishan had reached the earth immortal stage third layer.
• He Pingsheng offered two Bodhi Fruits to help the sect’s cultivators break through, then left for Sky-Reaching Ridge to find Ten-Jiachen Ginseng.
• A woman told Netherworld that Vermilion Bird Nan Qi had arrived and requested an audience, startling Netherworld.

Netherworld reunited with Nan Qi and learned more about He Pingsheng’s extraordinary Spirit Realm achievements. Meanwhile, He Pingsheng captured five Ten-Jiachen Ginseng, which the Treasure-Gathering Basin later enhanced into ten, bringing his supply of breakthrough treasures to twelve.

• Nan Qi reunited with Netherworld and explained how he had searched for her after ascending, eventually finding her on Emperor Yu Star.
• Netherworld learned from Nan Qi that He Pingsheng had ascended only about thirty-five or thirty-six hundred years ago, not two thousand years earlier as he had claimed.
• Nan Qi told Netherworld that He Pingsheng had reached a record height of a hundred and fifty thousand zhang on the Stone Terrace Heavenly Ladder without using his full strength or a Wallbreaker.
• Netherworld asked Nan Qi to tell her everything he knew about He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng used a Supreme Grade Heavenly Fragrant Pill to lure seven Ten-Jiachen Ginseng into his formation, then kept five and returned two to the forest.
• The Treasure-Gathering Basin enhanced He Pingsheng’s five ginseng into ten, giving him twelve treasures capable of helping Human Immortals break through their bottleneck.

He Pingsheng reunited with Lu Xiaoci and his fellow disciples, then learned that an old acquaintance from the lower realm had come to meet him. He traveled with the Vermilion Bird Demon Emperor to find Netherworld, whose cultivation had reached the fourth layer of the Heaven Immortal stage.

• He Pingsheng gave Su Muyu and Ming Riyue treasures and supreme-grade Earth-Linking Golden Cores to help them reach the Earth Immortal stage.
• He Pingsheng learned that his master was well and that Xu Zhishan had gone traveling, while Su Muyu mourned her brother.
• Lu Xiaoci arrived, and Chu Sheng led everyone through Spirit Medicine Valley to see its immortal herbs.
• A disciple told He Pingsheng that an old acquaintance from the lower realm wanted to meet him, so He Pingsheng went to the reception hall.
• The Vermilion Bird Demon Emperor showed He Pingsheng a portrait of Nan Qi and led him to Netherworld in a mountain range.
• He Pingsheng and Netherworld scanned each other, revealing that Netherworld had advanced to the fourth layer of the Heaven Immortal stage, and He Pingsheng greeted the Vermilion Bird Demon Emperor.

He Pingsheng met the Netherworld Empress, who demanded the Primordial Purple Gold Staff back, but he refused and fought her. Their clash destroyed a mountain peak, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Nan Qi told He Pingsheng that Nan Qiqi had ascended and invited him to Heaven's Destruction Star, but He Pingsheng declined to ask about the Spirit Realm.
• The Vermilion Bird Demon Emperor introduced his master, the Netherworld Empress, who said the Primordial Purple Gold Staff belonged to her and demanded its return.
• He Pingsheng refused, arguing that he had earned the staff and challenging Netherworld to speak openly rather than rely on force.
• Netherworld attacked He Pingsheng with her Soft Whip, but his giant golden body endured the blow without injury.
• He Pingsheng struck back with the Heaven Tier Great Sun Vajra Fist, forcing Netherworld to dodge as his fist obliterated the mountain peak.

He Pingsheng overwhelmed Netherworld in battle and stopped short of killing her after revealing that her death would also destroy her avatar, Hong Luo, who had saved him. He left Netherworld alive but made clear that he would not simply let her go.

• Netherworld realized He Pingsheng could match her despite his lower cultivation, and he battered her with punches until she brought out a silver shield.
• He Pingsheng shattered Netherworld's shield and blasted her into the ground, but she escaped unharmed and attacked with a thousand-zhang sword phantom.
• He Pingsheng countered with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, then used Myriad Annihilations Return to Origin and the Shadowless Immortal Art to press his spearhead against Netherworld's chest.
• Nan Qi knelt and begged He Pingsheng to spare Netherworld, but He Pingsheng said he would not spare her because of their shared homeland or his past transaction with Nan Qi.
• He Pingsheng explained that killing Netherworld would also kill her avatar Hong Luo, who had saved him twice, and said he would not let Netherworld go so easily.

He Pingsheng spared Netherworld after the three visitors swore Heavenly Dao Oaths, then returned to Spirit Medicine Valley and toured its medicinal stores. With no suitable breakthrough treasures available and needing ingredients for a Dragon Blood Golden Core, he decided to travel around Emperor Yu Star and left his friends behind to manage the sect.

• He Pingsheng withdrew his transformed Primordial Purple Gold Staff from Netherworld after she and the other two visitors swore Heavenly Dao Oaths, and explained how spatial Daoist laws let him bring it into the Immortal Realm.
• He Pingsheng asked the Vermilion Bird Demon Emperor about Wang Dun, but learned that neither she nor Nan Qiqi knew where his senior brother had ascended.
• He Pingsheng returned to Spirit Medicine Valley, reassured Lu Xiaoci and the others, and toured the Heavenly Pill Court's vast collection of immortal herbs.
• He Pingsheng learned that Spirit Medicine Valley lacked ingredients for the Dragon Blood Golden Core and that the sect had no remaining treasures to help him break his Earth Immortal Stage bottleneck.
• He Pingsheng announced that he would travel around Emperor Yu Star and refused Chu Sheng's offer to accompany him, telling him to manage the Heavenly Pill Court.

Four female disciples were found dead after their vital energy had apparently been drained, but the Red Lotus Immortal Valley found no clues over the next two months. He Pingsheng then left the sect and traveled to Heaven and Earth Immortal City, where he disguised himself and headed for the Immortal Ship Plaza.

• Lin Yuting told Lu Xiaoci that four human immortal disciples had died mysteriously at the Heavenly Thunder Court and Soaring Void Peak.
• Lu Xiaoci and He Pingsheng examined the four desiccated corpses and learned that one was her former junior sister Jing Huan.
• Lin Yuting and a Heavenly Thunder Court elder suspected the disciples had been killed by a vicious harvesting technique, but the cause and killer remained unknown.
• The Red Lotus Immortal Valley found no clues during the following two months, and He Pingsheng finally said goodbye to Lu Xiaoci and left Mount Kunwu.
• He Pingsheng traveled by Floating Cloud Immortal Boat to Heaven and Earth Immortal City, concealed his appearance with the Bronze Mask, and went to the Immortal Ship Plaza.

He Pingsheng found the Immortal Ship Plaza in Heaven and Earth Immortal City sealed, gathered most of the ingredients for a Dragon Blood Golden Core, and learned that Wu Zhanyun had disappeared. After two months of waiting, he set out for Celestial Ox Immortal City and encountered Jia Wood, a surviving Mount Kunwu elder he had previously missed.

• He Pingsheng discovered that the City Lord's Manor had suspended all departures from the Immortal Ship Plaza and began shopping for cultivation supplies.
• He Pingsheng gathered the Dragon Blood Golden Core's supplementary ingredients and bought a piece of heaven immortal divine bone, but could not find White Jade Ginseng, Dragon Blood Vine, or bottleneck-breaking treasures.
• He Pingsheng learned that Azure Feather was no longer city lord and that Wu Zhanyun had secretly left Heaven and Earth Immortal City a thousand years earlier.
• After waiting two months without the plaza reopening, He Pingsheng left Heaven and Earth Immortal City and flew toward Celestial Ox Immortal City.
• He Pingsheng encountered Jia Wood, a Heaven Immortal elder of Mount Kunwu who had escaped the earlier assault because he had been away from the sect.

He Pingsheng intercepted Jia Wood and learned that a young man carried a Purple-Gold Bottle that could restore energy, neutralize poison, and accelerate immortal herbs’ growth. He killed Jia Wood rather than seize the bottle and incur a debt of cause and effect, leaving the young man alive with the treasure.

• He Pingsheng blocked the young man’s escape, and Jia Wood recognized him and begged for his life.
• Jia Wood offered to reveal a heaven-defying treasure, but the accompanying old Daoist attacked He Pingsheng and was killed by a Heaven-Mixing Sword Talisman.
• Jia Wood revealed that the young man possessed a Purple-Gold Bottle that gathered sunlight, moonlight, and starlight to create a liquid with powerful restorative and growth-accelerating effects.
• He Pingsheng realized taking the bottle could incur a huge debt of cause and effect and attract pursuers, then killed Jia Wood with an Immortal Talisman.

He Pingsheng saved Han Houzhi from a deadly attack and received twelve drops of Three Lights Spirit Liquid from him. After enhancing the liquid with the Treasure-Gathering Basin, He Pingsheng sensed an unusual fluctuation high above him.

• He Pingsheng chose not to kill Han Houzhi, reasoning that the young man’s fortune made him too risky an enemy.
• Han Houzhi fled after He Pingsheng killed Jia Wood, but He Pingsheng chased him and said he wanted to trade for his spirit liquid.
• Han Houzhi revealed his name and gave He Pingsheng twelve drops of Three Lights Spirit Liquid, explaining its uses and potent ability to neutralize poison.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the twelve drops in the Treasure-Gathering Basin, turning them into twenty-four violet-gold drops.
• After searching the area with his divine sense, He Pingsheng detected a faint, unusual fluctuation directly above him and swept his senses upward to find it.

He Pingsheng encountered Wang Dun and Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer, who took the Heavenly Prison Soul-Tempering Formula and demanded a deadly match between He Pingsheng and Wang Dun. The chapter ended as Stone Gatherer gave them one incense stick to fight, declaring that the winner would go with him and the loser would die.

• A powerful Divine Sense immobilized He Pingsheng before Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer arrived with Wang Dun.
• Wang Dun warned He Pingsheng through Divine Sense not to reveal that they knew each other.
• Stone Gatherer learned that He Pingsheng cultivated the Heavenly Prison Soul-Tempering Formula and took the jade slip for himself.
• He Pingsheng claimed the formula came from an ancestor who had reached the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal level, making Stone Gatherer wary before he dismissed the claim as a lie.
• Stone Gatherer ordered He Pingsheng and Wang Dun to fight, offering to accept the winner as his disciple and threatening to kill the loser.

Wang Dun and He Pingsheng fought under Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer’s watch, while Wang secretly gave He Pingsheng a Cause-and-Effect Reversal Talisman. He Pingsheng killed Wang Dun, who vanished as promised, leaving Stone Gatherer worried that the talented cultivator had escaped.

• Immortal Cai Shi set a stick of incense as the deadline for He Pingsheng and Wang Dun’s fight, while Wang Dun secretly explained his death-substitute puppet and talisman plan to He Pingsheng.
• Wang Dun attacked He Pingsheng with a black scythe, and the two fought fiercely until Wang Dun attached a Cause-and-Effect Reversal Talisman to He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng learned that the talisman concealed Heavenly Dao laws and could reverse his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark within a hundred years.
• He Pingsheng’s first Heaven-Mixing Sword Talisman failed to kill Wang Dun, but two Immortal Talismans together finally slew him, causing him to disappear.
• Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer searched the area for Wang Dun and found nothing, then worried that the genius had escaped.

Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer took He Pingsheng aboard his starship and offered to make him a disciple in exchange for retrieving items from a secret realm on Emperor Yu Star. When He Pingsheng refused to surrender his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark, Stone Gatherer tortured him and demanded he choose between submission and more pain.

• Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer dismissed Wang Dun's escape and brought He Pingsheng aboard his starship, setting its course for Star Emperor City.
• Stone Gatherer offered to accept He Pingsheng as his disciple if he retrieved items from an unusual secret realm on Emperor Yu Star.
• Stone Gatherer demanded He Pingsheng surrender his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark and become his servant until the task was complete.
• He Pingsheng refused to become Stone Gatherer's servant, so Stone Gatherer restrained him and burned him with crimson flames.
• Stone Gatherer stopped the torture and gave He Pingsheng half an incense stick to choose whether to surrender his mark or endure further torment.

He Pingsheng submitted to Daoist Stone Gatherer after secretly relying on Wang Dun’s talisman to resist the slave rules. Stone Gatherer explained that he needed He Pingsheng to enter an ancient Devil Lord’s tomb on Emperor Yu Star and retrieve something from its dangerous core region.

• Daoist Stone Gatherer tortured He Pingsheng until he agreed to become his servant, then brought him to Star Emperor City.
• He Pingsheng handed over his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark, and Wang Dun’s hidden talisman prevented the master-servant rules from affecting him.
• Stone Gatherer asked about He Pingsheng’s Immortal Talismans and the Heavenly Prison Soul-Tempering Formula, and He Pingsheng answered that his sect had taught him to make the talismans.
• Stone Gatherer told He Pingsheng that an ancient Devil Lord or Devil Emperor’s tomb had been discovered on Emperor Yu Star and that its core region required a cultivator below the Earth Immortal Stage.
• Stone Gatherer revealed that he had captured Wang Dun to explore the tomb and planned to use He Pingsheng to retrieve something from its dangerous core.

He Pingsheng learned about the dangerous Devil Race tomb on Emperor Yu Star and joined Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer to meet Immortal Maiden Coral, whose disciple would compete alongside him to enter it. Wen Buwan recognized He Pingsheng and praised his past battles against Ji Wuxin.

• Stone Gatherer explained that Earth Immortal disciples from the five Golden Immortals' factions would compete to explore the tomb's guarded core without external assistance.
• Stone Gatherer revealed that Wang Dun had accidentally teleported to Stalactite Star while fleeing pursuers, where Stone Gatherer captured him.
• Stone Gatherer brought He Pingsheng to Immortal Maiden Coral's residence, where Coral questioned He Pingsheng's fighting ability and Stone Gatherer claimed he could match her disciple.
• Wen Buwan arrived, greeted Coral and Stone Gatherer, and recognized He Pingsheng by his reputation.
• Wen Buwan recalled He Pingsheng's contests with Ji Wuxin and asked whether his fighting ability matched that of Emperor Yu Star's foremost Earth Immortal.

Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer argued that Golden Immortals could never escape cause and effect, then took He Pingsheng and Immortal Maiden Coral’s group to investigate demonic energy in the mountains near Southern Hills Immortal City. The group approached the valley where the secret realm’s energy emerged, expecting other immortals to be there.

• Immortal Maiden Coral explained that Ji Wuxin would likely oppose them in the secret realm because Hidden Sword would be present to teach him.
• He Pingsheng said Stone Gatherer had promised to return his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark after the treasure-hunting mission, while Stone Gatherer warned him to behave as a servant.
• Stone Gatherer argued that cause and effect would ensnare Golden Immortals regardless, then openly admitted he wanted Wen Buwan, frightening her until Coral intervened.
• Stone Gatherer told He Pingsheng not to pursue Wen Buwan, and the next day he, Coral, Wen Buwan, and He Pingsheng traveled by Interstellar Starship toward the Southern Mounds.
• Coral pointed out black mist rising from a mountain valley and identified it as demonic energy before leading the group toward it.

He Pingsheng accompanied Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer and Immortal Maiden Coral into an ancient tomb where Golden Immortals had to gather to open a sealed door. Ji Wuxin arrived with the final group and mocked He Pingsheng for becoming Stone Gatherer’s servant.

• Immortal Maiden Coral led He Pingsheng, Wen Buwan, and Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer through the tomb’s formations to a golden door that required five Golden Immortals with different attributes to open.
• Immortal Coral explained that they had to wait for the other Golden Immortals, and the group settled in the underground chamber.
• Immortal Lord Celestial Deer and Immortal Lord Dragon Firmament arrived with their disciples, who ignored He Pingsheng and introduced themselves to Wen Buwan.
• Ji Wuxin arrived with Daoist Hidden Sword and two women, recognized He Pingsheng, and learned that he had become Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer’s servant.
• Ji Wuxin laughed at He Pingsheng and claimed that serving another had made him spineless and weakened his fighting strength.