Chapter Summaries

Daoist Hidden Sword sent six Earth Immortal prodigies into the ancient Devil Race tomb to search for treasure under strict rules. Inside, Wen Buwan moved close to He Pingsheng, prompting Fang Long and Huang Youshi to compete for her protection.

• Daoist Hidden Sword explained that only six Earth Immortal prodigies could enter the secret realm and set rules for claiming treasures and fighting over them.
• The six prodigies surrendered their offensive items above the second grade, and Fang Long handed over an additional Immortal Artifact.
• Daoist Hidden Sword and the other Golden Immortals opened the formation, and Ji Wuxin, He Pingsheng, Wen Buwan, Fang Long, Huang Youshi, and the unnamed woman in purple entered.
• The Golden Immortals closed the formation and settled down to wait for messages from inside.
• The six landed in a dark corridor whose lamps lit up, and Wen Buwan moved close to He Pingsheng.
• Fang Long and Huang Youshi disparaged He Pingsheng and offered to protect Wen Buwan, leaving He Pingsheng surprised by their jealousy.

He Pingsheng and the others flew through a passage into a demonic world inside the tomb, where a fifth-grade immortal herb grew atop a mountain. Ji Wuxin was blasted away by its chained guardian, and he identified the herb as the Avici Demonic Essence Root.

• Wen Buwan chose to stay beside He Pingsheng, and he advised her to restrain her aura against the demonic energy.
• Ji Wuxin led the group down the only passage, while He Pingsheng examined an enhanced drop of Three Lights Spirit Liquid and learned it could replenish a dantian ten times.
• He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan emerged into a vast world filled with demonic aura and spotted a blood-red immortal herb growing on a mountain.
• Ji Wuxin tried to gather the herb, but a giant demonic guardian punched him away before a chain stopped its pursuit.
• Ji Wuxin returned to He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan and identified the herb as the fifth-grade Avici Demonic Essence Root.

He Pingsheng learned that the Avici Demonic Essence Root was a vital ingredient for a pill that let Profound Immortals comprehend Great Dao Arts early. After the demonic shadows thwarted everyone’s attempt to seize it, He Pingsheng charged toward the mountain again behind a lightning shield.

• Ping Yue explained that the Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill required the Avici Demonic Essence Root to connect a cultivator’s Earth Root, while the Nine Yang Heavenly Radiance Seed connected their Heaven Root.
• He Pingsheng promised Ping Yue a tenth of the Avici Demonic Essence Root if he obtained it, then flew toward the mountain.
• A demonic shadow blocked He Pingsheng and sent him flying, while Ji Wuxin and the others tried to seize the treasure.
• A second demonic shadow appeared and struck Ji Wuxin, forcing everyone to retreat as Ji Wuxin crashed near a distant mountain and swallowed a Golden Core.
• He Pingsheng charged toward the mountaintop again, protected by his Heavenly Thunder Shield Talisman.

He Pingsheng used a lightning shield talisman to take a rootlet from the Avici Demonic Essence Root and shared a branch with Ping Yue. As Ji Wuxin’s group prepared to head deeper into the Secret Realm, Huang Youshi demanded that He Pingsheng lend him a talisman so he could harvest more.

• He Pingsheng endured the demonic figures’ attacks with a lightning shield, took a rootlet from the Avici Demonic Essence Root, and escaped as the talisman broke.
• Wen Buwan and Ping Yue congratulated He Pingsheng, while Huang Youshi and Fang Long complained that his success depended on the talisman.
• He Pingsheng refused Huang Youshi’s request to trade for a defensive talisman and gave Ping Yue one branch of the rootlet.
• Ji Wuxin declined to harvest the remaining root, and Wen Buwan suggested that the group head farther into the Secret Realm to seek Devil Race inheritances.
• Huang Youshi blocked their way and pressured He Pingsheng to lend him a lightning shield talisman so he could harvest the root.

He Pingsheng traded a Heavenly Thunder Shield Talisman to Huang Youshi in exchange for ten third-grade Immortal Talismans after witnesses agreed to hold him to the promise. Huang Youshi failed to retrieve the Avici Demonic Essence Root, blamed He Pingsheng for his misfortune, and then plotted with Fang Long to kill him as the group headed toward the demonic energy’s source.

• Ji Wuxin, Fang Long, and Huang Youshi urged He Pingsheng to trade a talisman, and He Pingsheng agreed to accept equivalent-value compensation.
• Huang Youshi took a Heavenly Thunder Shield Talisman and promised ten third-grade Immortal Talismans after leaving the Secret Realm, with Ji Wuxin and Ping Yue as witnesses.
• Huang Youshi flew toward the mountain to retrieve the Avici Demonic Essence Root, but eight demonic phantoms shattered his shield and forced him to flee empty-handed.
• Huang Youshi accused He Pingsheng of giving him a fake talisman, but He Pingsheng, Ping Yue, and Fang Long said the failure was due to Huang Youshi’s bad luck.
• Ji Wuxin led Ping Yue, Wen Buwan, and He Pingsheng toward the strongest demonic energy, while Huang Youshi and Fang Long followed and discussed killing He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng survived Fang Long and Huang Youshi’s surprise attacks and killed Fang Long with a single Sword Intent strike. He spared Huang Youshi, who still owed him ten third-grade Immortal Talismans, and continued onward as Ji Wuxin acknowledged that his Sword Intent was inferior.

• Fang Long and Huang Youshi attacked He Pingsheng with Divine Sense and immortal artifacts, but he emerged unharmed.
• He Pingsheng bound Fang Long with the Immortal-Binding Rope and cut him in two with a Sword Intent strike.
• Huang Youshi begged for mercy, and He Pingsheng spared him because he still owed ten third-grade Immortal Talismans.
• Wen Buwan gave He Pingsheng Fang Long’s ring, but He Pingsheng told her to keep it.
• Ji Wuxin told Ping Yue that He Pingsheng’s Sword Intent surpassed his own, though he was not sure He Pingsheng would defeat him.

Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer tried to persuade Immortal Lord Coral to give him Wen Buwan in exchange for a complete soul-refining method, but their private talk was interrupted when Immortal Lord Dragon Firmament discovered his disciple had died. Meanwhile, He Pingsheng and the others found the corpse of an ancient devil king bearing the Heavenly Devil Golden Scripture and flew toward it.

• Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer offered Immortal Lord Coral the complete Heavenly Prison Soul-Tempering Formula if she swore to give him Wen Buwan.
• Immortal Lord Dragon Firmament shattered Stone Gatherer and Coral’s barrier while cursing over his disciple’s broken Life Tablet.
• He Pingsheng, Ji Wuxin, Wen Buwan, Ping Yue, and Huang Youshi emerged from the clouds and saw a huge black peak covered in golden Rune Patterns.
• Ji Wuxin identified the peak as the corpse of an ancient devil king bearing the Heavenly Devil Golden Scripture.
• The five flew toward the corpse as He Pingsheng examined it with his Divine Sense.

He Pingsheng and the others found the Devil King's corpse, but its blood and an ancient inheritance proved impossible to approach safely. When He Pingsheng tried to leave with Wen Buwan, he discovered they were trapped inside a powerful formation.

• He Pingsheng proposed taking the Devil King's blood while the others divided the rest, but the corpse's force blasted away everyone who approached within a hundred zhang.
• The Devil King's golden blood formed ancient Rune Patterns and unleashed a Demonic Path inheritance that began affecting Huang Youshi and Wen Buwan.
• Ji Wuxin broke Huang Youshi's trance, and He Pingsheng helped Wen Buwan recover by transferring Immortal Essence to her.
• He Pingsheng decided to leave, but found a transparent formation membrane blocking their way and could not break it with the Primordial Purple Gold.

He Pingsheng and the others were trapped in a fourth-grade formation while demonic energy battered Ji Wuxin’s protective barrier. After Ping Yue discovered an illusion formation layered over the entrapment formation, He Pingsheng went out to investigate whether they could exploit the compound formation’s weakness.

• He Pingsheng identified the barrier as an entrapment formation, and Ji Wuxin discovered it was fourth-grade after testing it.
• The group learned that demonic energy was weakening Ji Wuxin’s golden barrier, and He Pingsheng proposed accepting the demonic inheritance as a possible way out.
• Ji Wuxin sent a message to Daoist Hidden Sword, who replied that he would try to send help with a fourth-grade Immortal Talisman.
• Ping Yue tried to withstand the demonic energy and runes, then returned when she could no longer hold out and reported that an illusion formation was controlling those outside.
• He Pingsheng and Ji Wuxin concluded that the entrapment and illusion formations formed a compound array, and He Pingsheng stepped outside to test it.

He Pingsheng endured the demonic energy and spent decades comprehending the Demonic Path legacy. After the Ghost King's body vanished, he identified its Crimson Core as the power source of the formation and prepared to refine it.

• He Pingsheng and Ji Wuxin contemplated the demonic energy and golden runes, while Ji Wuxin shared that his Master’s people had failed to reach them and asked about Fang Long’s death.
• After three years without finding an answer, He Pingsheng decided to accept the Demonic Path legacy and opened his mind to its golden runes.
• He Pingsheng spent forty-five more years comprehending the legacy, and the ten-thousand-zhang demonic body collapsed into a fist-sized Crimson Core.
• Ji Wuxin failed to take the Crimson Core, and He Pingsheng explained that it powered the fourth-grade immortal formation and could only be taken after refinement.
• He Pingsheng told Ji Wuxin to step aside and said he would refine the Crimson Core, causing the grand array to unravel.

He Pingsheng spent sixty years refining a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal demon king’s Inner Core, breaking the Secret Realm’s formations and overcoming his cultivation bottleneck. He discovered that the Heavenly Dao Slave Mark had reversed, and Ji Wuxin offered him a Heaven-Gazing Golden Core that might help him advance further.

• He Pingsheng began refining the crimson Inner Core and told Ji Wuxin it belonged to a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal demon king and would take about sixty years to refine.
• After another fifty-eight years, He Pingsheng finished refining the Inner Core, swallowed it, and caused the Illusion Formation and Entrapment Formation to vanish.
• The released Demonic Energy surged through He Pingsheng, and he broke through his bottleneck as the others congratulated him.
• He Pingsheng sensed the Heavenly Dao Slave Mark in his Sea of Consciousness and realized it had reversed after a hundred years.
• Ji Wuxin explained that He Pingsheng could still advance to the Heaven Immortal Stage inside the Secret Realm and offered him a Heaven-Gazing Golden Core.

He Pingsheng stayed behind to study the Demonic Path inheritance he had gained, and the Treasure-Gathering Basin transformed his divine ability into the Heaven Tier Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Ability. Ji Wuxin and the others later returned injured after encountering a Heaven Immortal-level phantom guarding a golden divine bone above a sealed abyss.

• He Pingsheng refused Ji Wuxin’s Heaven-Gazing Golden Core and chose to remain on the peak to stabilize his cultivation and investigate his new inheritance.
• After Ji Wuxin and the others left, He Pingsheng tried to enhance the Crimson Core and inscribed the Great Demon P luo Scripture and Heaven-Reaching Hand Eyes into Jade Slips.
• The Treasure-Gathering Basin enhanced the Great Demon P luo Scripture to Heaven Tier and transformed Heaven-Reaching Hand Eyes into the Supreme-grade Heaven Tier Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Ability.
• He Pingsheng studied the new ability, which could summon up to one thousand arms with palm eyes that combined their Heavenly Demon Divine Light, but found that mastering it would take months or years.
• Ji Wuxin and the others returned, and Wen Buwan reported that they had fought a Heaven Immortal-level phantom near a golden divine bone that seemed to suppress something in a bottomless abyss.

He Pingsheng agreed to help Ji Wuxin’s group confront a Heaven Immortal phantom guarding a massive golden finger bone, hoping to obtain its marrow. He joined the fight and traded blows with the phantom, ending the chapter as he launched a sword-intent attack.

• Ji Wuxin and Wen Buwan told He Pingsheng that the golden bone might contain Great All-Encompassing fortune, blood and vital energy, and an inheritance, so He agreed to help them.
• Ji Wuxin led He Pingsheng and the others to the enormous golden finger bone, which hovered above an abyss and sent golden light down to suppress it.
• He Pingsheng warned the group about the danger beneath the abyss, but Ji Wuxin explained their plan was only to defeat the phantom and obtain some marrow.
• Ji Wuxin approached the bone and drew out a golden-robed woman phantom, who attacked him with a longsword.
• He Pingsheng blocked the phantom’s strike with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and met her next attack head-on.
• He Pingsheng transformed the staff into a longsword and sent powerful sword intent tearing toward the phantom from both sides.

He Pingsheng and Ji Wuxin teamed up to slay phantoms guarding a divine bone and collected its divine marrow. When a vastly stronger Golden Daoist Robe man appeared, He Pingsheng survived his attack by sacrificing half an arm and raising his cultivation to the pinnacle of the Heaven Immortal realm.

• Ji Wuxin killed the gold-clad woman's phantom with his Great Profound Dragonblood Spike, and he and He Pingsheng split the divine marrow it left behind.
• He Pingsheng waited while Ji Wuxin recovered, and Huang Youshi approached the divine marrow alone, triggering another phantom's attack and escaping after losing half his body.
• He Pingsheng and Ji Wuxin began taking turns claiming divine marrow after killing each phantom, and over two months each gathered roughly five or six lumps.
• A Golden Daoist Robe man emerged from the divine bone and struck He Pingsheng with power comparable to a first-layer Profound Immortal.
• He Pingsheng dodged the fatal blow at the cost of half his left arm, then activated the Heaven's Pinnacle Lifespan Conversion Method and reached the peak of the Heaven Immortal realm.

He Pingsheng used a temporary cultivation boost to kill the golden phantom and harvest divine marrow from the divine bone. After he killed fourteen more phantoms, the demonic energy beneath the bone began rising, and his attempt to return the marrow failed, leaving the group to flee.

• Ji Wuxin realized He Pingsheng's cultivation had risen to the heaven immortal twelfth layer, and He Pingsheng killed the gold-robed man with one slash.
• He Pingsheng repeatedly provoked the divine bone and killed fourteen profound immortal phantoms to collect their divine marrow.
• Ji Wuxin noticed the demonic energy in the abyss rising as the divine bone struggled to suppress it.
• He Pingsheng threw his collected divine marrow toward the bone, but it did not absorb any of it.
• After waiting an hour without success, He Pingsheng told everyone to run.

He Pingsheng and the others fled as Demonic Energy rose through the secret realm, then escaped through the passage after Huang Youshi failed to catch up. Back in the underground chamber, Immortal Lords confronted He Pingsheng over their disciples’ deaths, and Ping Yue suggested Huang Youshi had been killed by the Devil Race.

• He Pingsheng gave Wen Buwan a Tianyu Immortal Talisman so she could keep pace with him as they fled the rising Demonic Energy.
• Strange roars sounded behind the fleeing immortals, and He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan reached the exit before Ji Wuxin, Ping Yue, or Huang Youshi.
• After the ground began shaking, Ji Wuxin sent an Immortal Message Talisman, and He Pingsheng, Wen Buwan, Ji Wuxin, and Ping Yue entered the passage without Huang Youshi.
• Immortal Lord Dragon Firmament accused He Pingsheng of killing Fang Long, while Wen Buwan and Ping Yue testified that Fang Long and Huang Youshi had ambushed him first.
• Celestial Deer questioned He Pingsheng about Huang Youshi’s death, and Ping Yue said Huang Youshi had likely been killed by the Devil Race, alarming the Immortal Lords.

He Pingsheng cleared his name in Fang Long’s death, while the Immortal Lords learned what happened in the Secret Realm. Afterward, Immortal Lord Coral tried to arrange Wen Buwan’s future with Stone Gatherer, leaving her to choose between her Master’s demand and He Pingsheng.

• He Pingsheng showed Dragon Firmament the images proving Fang Long and Huang Youshi had ambushed him, and Celestial Deer gave him the promised talismans before leaving.
• Ji Wuxin recounted the events in the Secret Realm, including He Pingsheng’s power to raise his cultivation and the demon sealed within it.
• Dragon Firmament decided Fang Long had deserved to die and settled his ties with He Pingsheng; Hidden Sword and the other Immortal Lords then departed.
• Immortal Lord Coral asked Wen Buwan about finding a husband and announced that she should become Stone Gatherer’s Dao Companion.
• Wen Buwan objected that Stone Gatherer had promised to return He Pingsheng’s Slave Mark, but Coral insisted that He Pingsheng would always be a slave and threatened to cripple Wen Buwan if she refused.

Wen Buwan agreed to become Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer's Dao Companion only after he swore to free He Pingsheng from his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark and never enslave or seek revenge on him again. As they fled the emergence of a Supreme Unity fiend, Wen Buwan fell toward its mouth, and Immortal Lord Coral turned back to save her, begging her disciple to come home.

• Immortal Lord Coral confronted Wen Buwan, who agreed to obey her master but demanded that Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer release He Pingsheng and swear never to enslave or take revenge on him.
• Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer swore the oath, and the group left the underground space and prepared to travel to Star Emperor City.
• The earth split open, and a massive fiend with Supreme Unity cultivation emerged, forcing He Pingsheng, Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer, Immortal Lord Coral, and Wen Buwan to flee.
• Wen Buwan knocked away Immortal Lord Coral's hand and drifted toward the fiend's open mouth.
• Immortal Lord Coral turned back, caught Wen Buwan, and tearfully apologized and pleaded with her to come home.

Immortal Lord Coral sacrificed herself to destroy the Supreme Unity Heavenly Demon and save Wen Buwan, while He Pingsheng and Daoist Stone Gatherer escaped with the survivors. After more Supreme Unity Heavenly Demons emerged on Emperor Yu Star, He Pingsheng planned to evacuate Red Lotus Immortal Valley’s disciples.

• Immortal Lord Coral pushed Wen Buwan out of the Heavenly Demon’s closing maw, then self-destructed inside it while He Pingsheng rescued her.
• He Pingsheng recovered the demon’s Crimson Core and Immortal Lord Coral’s ring, and gave the ring to Wen Buwan.
• Several more Supreme Unity Heavenly Demons emerged from underground as the starship escaped into the interstellar void.
• He Pingsheng revealed that Daoist Stone Gatherer had become his servant, and Stone Gatherer castrated himself at He Pingsheng’s command.
• He Pingsheng ordered Stone Gatherer to pilot the starship toward Heaven and Earth Immortal City so they could evacuate Red Lotus Immortal Valley’s disciples.

He Pingsheng warned the gathered elders that Supreme Unity Golden Immortal-level devils had been released on Emperor Yu Star and offered to evacuate everyone to Stalactite Star. Most of his companions chose to leave with him, but Ming Riyue stayed behind to pursue the opportunity presented by the Devil Race.

• He Pingsheng arrived at Gathering Phoenix Peak with Wen Buwan and asked Lu Xiaoci to summon the elders and disciples from nearby sects.
• He Pingsheng told more than a hundred gathered elders that the Devil Race had been released near Southern Hills Immortal City and gave them until the next morning to decide whether to leave Emperor Yu Star for Stalactite Star.
• He Pingsheng explained the danger to Su Nian, Su Muyu, Xu Zhishan, Chu Sheng, Lu Xiaoci, and the others, while Ming Riyue asked about the devils and their source of power.
• Lu Xiaoci, Su Muyu, Su Nian, Xu Zhishan, and Chu Sheng chose to leave with He Pingsheng, while Ming Riyue said she would stay because she had practiced a Demonic Path technique.
• He Pingsheng respected Ming Riyue's decision and gave her the enhanced Great Demon P luo Scripture and the Heaven-Reaching Hand Eyes divine ability.