Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng traveled from Emperor Yu Star to Stalactite Star while the karmic burden from releasing the Devil Race continued to spread across his body. Fifteen years later, the Devil Race had occupied almost all of Emperor Yu Star without expanding further, and He Pingsheng considered using the Three Lights Spirit Liquid.

• He Pingsheng showed Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer that the karmic burden on his body was increasing and ordered him to prepare the starship for departure.
• After the ship left Emperor Yu Star’s atmosphere, He Pingsheng asked Stone Gatherer to check Southern Hills Immortal City, then saw a vast black region expanding across the planet.
• He Pingsheng decided not to use Han Houzhi’s Three Lights Spirit Liquid while the karmic burden was still increasing, and studied the [Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Ability] during the two-month journey.
• Stone Gatherer brought He Pingsheng to his sect on Stalactite Star, where He Pingsheng asked him to keep watch on Emperor Yu Star.
• Fifteen years later, Stone Gatherer reported that the Devil Race had occupied almost all of Emperor Yu Star but had stopped expanding, and He Pingsheng considered taking the Three Lights Spirit Liquid.

He Pingsheng swallowed three lights spirit liquid and dispelled his karmic burden, then arranged for Stone Gatherer to investigate Wang Dun and obtain ingredients for a Dragon Blood Golden Core. He visited his fellow disciples on Graceful Peak and learned that their master was in seclusion.

• He Pingsheng swallowed a drop of three lights spirit liquid, which immediately dispelled the karmic burden covering him.
• He Pingsheng told Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer to find out whether Wang Dun was still on Emperor Yu Star without attacking him, and to obtain White Jade Ginseng and Dragon Blood Vine.
• Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer gave He Pingsheng the Dao-Seeking Immortal Sect's passage token and map, and told him his fellow sect disciples were staying on Graceful Peak.
• He Pingsheng surveyed the Dao-Seeking Immortal Sect and flew to Graceful Peak, where he reunited with Wen Buwan, Lu Xiaoci, and Su Muyu.
• He Pingsheng told the group he did not know how things were on Emperor Yu Star and asked about their master; Su Muyu said the master was in seclusion.

He Pingsheng settled his companions on Graceful Peak and welcomed Wuxuzi, who came to question his relationship with Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer. The meeting turned hostile when Wuxuzi’s disciple accused He Pingsheng of deception and threatened him, claiming to be the patriarch’s own grandson.

• He Pingsheng told Su Muyu, Su Muyu, Xu Zhishan, Lu Xiaoci, and Chu Sheng that they could make Graceful Peak their home and ask for cultivation resources.
• Su Muyu asked He Pingsheng for instant formations, especially a Divine-Sense Sealing Formation and a Warning Formation.
• A servant reported that Wuxuzi and a group of Heaven Immortals had come to Graceful Peak, and He Pingsheng invited them in.
• Wuxuzi questioned He Pingsheng about his relationship with Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer and learned that He Pingsheng was not the patriarch’s disciple.
• A Heaven Immortal disciple insulted He Pingsheng, threatened to kill him, and declared himself the patriarch’s own grandson.

He Pingsheng refused Lu Jiman and Wuxuzi’s demand to share Graceful Peak, then fought Lu Jiman after the Heaven Immortal threatened him. He Pingsheng crippled Lu Jiman’s cultivation, leaving Wuxuzi and the other disciples stunned by an Earth Immortal overpowering a Heaven Immortal.

• Su Muyu denied that her group had used the Dao-Seeking Immortal Sect’s resources, while Lu Jiman accused them of taking over his lineage’s home on Graceful Peak.
• He Pingsheng offered to wait for Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer to arrange another residence, but Lu Jiman demanded that the group move to Guest-Welcoming Peak.
• Wuxuzi proposed that his lineage share Graceful Peak with He Pingsheng’s group, but He Pingsheng refused because his Master and fellow disciples wanted privacy.
• Lu Jiman threatened to kill He Pingsheng, so He Pingsheng struck him with his cudgel and fought him in the void.
• He Pingsheng transformed the cudgel into a black spear, pierced Lu Jiman’s dantian, and crippled his cultivation.
• Wuxuzi and the disciples were shocked that an Earth Immortal had overwhelmed a Heaven Immortal.

He Pingsheng received the materials for refining the Dragon Blood Golden Core, but Wuxuzi and his followers arrived to complain about Lu Jiman’s crippled Dantian. Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer killed his own grandson and expelled Wuxuzi and his disciples from the Dao-Seeking Immortal Sect.

• Wuxuzi blamed Lu Jiman for ruining his plans after He Pingsheng defeated him and crippled his Dantian.
• He Pingsheng spent the next six months drawing third-grade Containing Formation Talismans while Graceful Peak remained quiet.
• Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer returned with the White Jade Ginseng and Dragon Blood Vine needed to refine the Dragon Blood Golden Core, and lent He Pingsheng his fourth-grade starship to study.
• Wuxuzi and more than twenty Profound Immortals came to Stone Gatherer to complain, and Lu Jiman accused He Pingsheng of crippling him.
• Stone Gatherer killed Lu Jiman without hearing his defense and ordered Wuxuzi and all his disciples to leave the sect.

He Pingsheng arranged for Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer to build a third-grade immortal formation and moved to Graceful Peak, where Wen Buwan offered him her primal yin. The chapter ended with He Pingsheng taking her hand and saying that the Great Dao was merciless.

• Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer spared Wuxuzi but banished him to become the city lord of South Mountain Immortal City, then warned his disciples not to provoke He Pingsheng or Graceful Peak.
• He Pingsheng gave Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer blank Containing Formation Immortal Talismans and instructed him to build a third-grade immortal formation without revealing their relationship.
• He Pingsheng moved to Graceful Peak and asked Wen Buwan to find him a place to cultivate in seclusion.
• Wen Buwan led He Pingsheng to her own Daoist grounds and, after bringing him into the hall, offered him her primal yin.
• He Pingsheng took Wen Buwan's hand and told her that the Great Dao was merciless.

After recovering from his encounter with Wen Buwan, He Pingsheng refined Dragon Blood Golden Cores and used one to break through to the Heaven Immortal realm. His breakthrough led him to comprehend the blood-essence-powered Divine Ability Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Fists.

• Su Muyu confronted He Pingsheng about being in Wen Buwan's room, and he claimed they had only discussed the Dao before sending her out and sealing the Great Hall.
• He Pingsheng recovered for several days, enhanced the ingredients for Dragon Blood Golden Cores with the Treasure-Gathering Basin, and refined two batches of pills.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the twenty-four pills, including the waste pills, into forty-eight supreme-grade Dragon Blood Golden Cores.
• He Pingsheng swallowed a Dragon Blood Golden Core and, after more than ten days, broke through to the Heaven Immortal realm.
• He Pingsheng's Divine Sense entered a black void, where he followed thirty-six immortal runes and comprehended the Divine Ability Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Fists.

He Pingsheng mastered the Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Ability and the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Fists, then enhanced his treasures and advanced his body cultivation during years of seclusion. He emerged from the Great Hall and pulled Wen Buwan inside, leaving Su Muyu outside pounding on the sealed doors with urgent business.

• He Pingsheng studied the Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Ability and the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Fists in seclusion, and Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer returned the Containing Formation Immortal Talismans for him to enhance and distribute.
• After seven years, He Pingsheng mastered both Divine Abilities, then used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance Stone Gatherer's starship into the supreme-grade Heavenly Moon Ship and duplicate the Buddhist Path Relic.
• He Pingsheng spent another sixteen years absorbing the relics and refining the ship, raising his body cultivation from the first to the second layer of the Heaven Immortal Stage.
• He Pingsheng left the Great Hall and told Wen Buwan to call him big brother before dragging her inside and sealing the doors.
• Su Muyu arrived to discuss serious business, but He Pingsheng did not answer as she pounded on the formations outside.

After emerging from seclusion, He Pingsheng learned that a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal from an immortal landmass had waited a year to see him, likely about the Demonic Path breaking its seal on Emperor Yu Star. He learned the Immortal Realm's cultivation ranks and landmasses, then went with Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer to meet her at Guest-Welcoming Peak.

• Su Muyu scolded He Pingsheng for leaving her waiting and told him a female Supreme Unity Golden Immortal had been waiting for him for a year.
• Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer explained that the visitor had come from an immortal landmass after visiting Emperor Yu Star, and He Pingsheng agreed to meet her.
• Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer explained the respectful titles and hierarchy of the Immortal Realm's highest cultivation levels.
• He Pingsheng learned that immortal landmasses were vast stretches of land among the stars, often ruled by Supreme Unity Golden Immortals.
• He Pingsheng worried that the visitor might expose his Treasure-Gathering Basin, then followed Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer to Guest-Welcoming Peak.

He Pingsheng met Immortal King Heavenly Heart, who explained that removing the Light of Karmic Burden did not erase the cause and effect recorded by the Heavenly Dao. Heavenly Heart questioned him about Ming Riyue’s strength and suspected identity, leaving He Pingsheng to go along with her mistaken assumption that Ming Riyue was Immortal Maiden Caiyu.

• Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer and He Pingsheng met Immortal King Heavenly Heart at Guest-Welcoming Peak, and she invited them into the hall without making them kneel.
• He Pingsheng told Heavenly Heart that he had removed the Light of Karmic Burden with Three Lights Spirit Liquid, and she explained that his underlying cause and effect remained.
• Heavenly Heart said the Devil Race’s attack on Emperor Yu Star had been quelled and revealed that Ming Riyue had slain Supreme Unity Heavenly Demons.
• Heavenly Heart asked whether Ming Riyue could truly defeat Supreme Unity Heavenly Demons, and He Pingsheng said he did not know.
• Heavenly Heart asked about Immortal Maiden Caiyu’s identity, and He Pingsheng admitted he had suspected Ming Riyue before Heavenly Heart concluded that she was Caiyu.

He Pingsheng learned that Ming Riyue had a rare sixth-grade bloodline and traded Divine Marrow with Immortal King Heavenly Heart for passage to the immortal enclosure. He invited his companions to join him, warning them that the distant journey could leave them unable to return.

• Immortal King Heavenly Heart explained that bloodlines determined an Immortal's aptitude after reaching Golden Immortal and said Ming Riyue had a sixth-grade bloodline.
• He Pingsheng confirmed that he had taken Divine Marrow from the Secret Realm and asked about Ji Wuxin; Heavenly Heart said Ji Wuxin and Daoist Hidden Sword were also burdened by karmic light.
• He Pingsheng gave Heavenly Heart some Divine Marrow, and she agreed to take him and up to nine companions to the immortal enclosure as payment.
• Heavenly Heart warned He Pingsheng that she would not be responsible for their safety or allow them to act in her name, then gave him one day to prepare.
• He Pingsheng gathered Stone Gatherer, Su Nian, Su Muyu, Xu Zhishan, Lu Xiaoci, Chu Sheng, and Wen Buwan and warned them they might never return; Stone Gatherer said he would follow.

He Pingsheng and his companions returned to Emperor Yu Star, where Ming Riyue took charge of protecting the Red Lotus Immortal Valley while leaving Lu Xiaoci as sect leader. Before departing for the Immortal Enclosure, He Pingsheng learned the truth about Ming Riyue’s demonic cultivation and gave her his Bronze Mask.

• Su Nian, Su Muyu, Lu Xiaoci, Xu Zhishan, and Chu Sheng chose to return to Emperor Yu Star instead of accompanying He Pingsheng to the Immortal Enclosure.
• He Pingsheng and the others traveled aboard Immortal King Heavenly Heart’s starship and reached Emperor Yu Star in less than three days.
• Ming Riyue assured Lu Xiaoci that she had no designs on the Red Lotus Immortal Valley, kept her as sect leader, and asked her to consult her on major decisions.
• Ming Riyue confessed that she had drained four sect members and absorbed the Devil Race’s origins using a Heaven Tier Demonic Path cultivation method to reach the Golden Immortal level.
• He Pingsheng asked Ming Riyue to look after Lu Xiaoci, his master, his senior sister, and especially Chu Sheng before he left.
• Ming Riyue embraced He Pingsheng, and he gave her his third-grade immortal artifact, the Bronze Mask, as a keepsake.

He Pingsheng left Emperor Yu Star aboard Immortal King Heavenly Heart’s starship and, after more than six years of travel, reached the Immortal Expanse with Wen Buwan and Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer. They landed outside Wenbo City, where He Pingsheng asked the guards where to find the largest nearby city.

• He Pingsheng bid farewell to Su Nian, Su Muyu, Xu Zhishan, and Ming Riyue before departing Emperor Yu Star with Wen Buwan and Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer.
• He Pingsheng cultivated aboard Immortal King Heavenly Heart’s starship for six years and three months as they traveled toward the Immortal Expanse.
• Wen Buwan called He Pingsheng to the deck, where Immortal King Heavenly Heart explained that the purple radiance ahead was the Immortal Expanse.
• Immortal King Heavenly Heart told He Pingsheng, Wen Buwan, and Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer to disembark, and Stone Gatherer piloted his own ship down to the Immortal Expanse.
• He Pingsheng spotted Wenbo City, and Stone Gatherer landed outside its gate; after the guards explained how the city identified visitors’ cultivation, He Pingsheng asked where the largest nearby city was.

He Pingsheng and Stone Gatherer learned about the Formation Breaching Test while arranging a trip from Wenbo City to Sunset Immortal City. After He Pingsheng flew them there aboard his Immortal Ship, they arrived at the vast city, where countless unfamiliar races passed through its gates.

• A guard in Wenbo City told He Pingsheng and Stone Gatherer that a group of Earth Immortals would travel to Sunset Immortal City for the Formation Breaching Test.
• The city lord offered them a place on the slow Immortal Ship departing in three days and gave them a map to Sunset Immortal City.
• The city lord explained that Earth Immortals tested themselves in the Standard Heavenly Gate Formation to earn titles and Tokens, and that higher cultivation made the test more costly.
• He Pingsheng offered to take the city lord to Sunset Immortal City aboard his Interstellar Starship, but the city lord declined.
• He Pingsheng, Stone Gatherer, and Wen Buwan left Wenbo City on He Pingsheng's black Immortal Ship and reached Sunset Immortal City three days later.

He Pingsheng, Wen Buwan, and Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer visited Sunset Immortal City's Standard Heavenly Gate Formation and learned how its trials and rankings worked. He Pingsheng discovered that Heaven Immortals had to wait for enough challengers to gather before they could take the test.

• He Pingsheng hired a black bear to guide him and his companions to the formation square, then tipped the bear ten low-grade immortal crystals.
• He Pingsheng studied the Sunset Ascending Heavenly Stele but could not understand its rankings, and Stone Gatherer and Wen Buwan could not explain them either.
• He Pingsheng read the hall's notices and learned that the formation had nine sections, that each section had ninety-nine parts, and that results depended on progress made within four hours.
• He Pingsheng learned that successful challengers received gold plaques useful for traveling through the Immortal Realm.
• He Pingsheng asked a female immortal about the test and learned that a Heaven Immortal paid one hundred middle-grade immortal crystals and would likely wait about a month, while Sunset Immortal City no longer tested Profound or Golden Immortals.

He Pingsheng learned about the Heaven's Gate test and bought tickets for himself and Wen Buwan, then entered the waiting formation where they had to endure Heavenly Gate Astral Wind for ten days. A man named Duan Beifeng approached them and tried to impress Wen Buwan, but neither of them recognized his name.

• He Pingsheng gave a Heaven Immortal cultivator Immortal Crystals for information about the Heaven's Gate rankings and the purpose of the test.
• He Pingsheng bought two Heaven Immortal Stage tickets and told Stone Gatherer to wait outside while he and Wen Buwan entered the waiting hall.
• A black-robed Immortal led He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan into a formation filled with Heavenly Gate Astral Wind, where He Pingsheng helped Wen Buwan withstand the pressure.
• He Pingsheng recognized the astral wind from the heavenly ladder in Stone Terrace and wondered whether Wang Dun had passed it.
• Duan Beifeng sat down opposite Wen Buwan, introduced himself, and asked for her name, but He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan showed no reaction to his reputation.

He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan faced Duan Beifeng, who tried to buy Wen Buwan as his concubine and threatened them. Ji Wuxin arrived at the formation test, and He Pingsheng cut off Duan Beifeng’s manhood, leaving the two men as enemies.

• Duan Beifeng boasted that he was the son of Sunset Immortal City's deputy city lord and demanded that He Pingsheng sell him Wen Buwan.
• He Pingsheng warned Duan Beifeng to stop, but Duan mocked his cultivation and renewed his threat.
• Ji Wuxin entered the Grand Array, reunited with He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan, and learned that Duan Beifeng was threatening them.
• Duan Beifeng declared that Wen Buwan would become his concubine and threatened He Pingsheng's life.
• He Pingsheng struck Duan Beifeng with sword light and severed his manhood, then warned that he might kill him if he kept provoking him.
• Duan Beifeng silenced himself while vowing to get revenge after the test.

He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan took the Standard Heavenly Gate Formation test, advancing through increasingly fierce winds as their scores were measured. Wen Buwan stopped at stage nine, fourteen points, while He Pingsheng and Ji Wuxin reached stage nine, ninety-nine points and learned that this result was only the threshold for a peerless genius.

• Duan Beifeng paid a Heaven Immortal to summon his eldest Senior Brother to guard the testing square and kill He Pingsheng after the test.
• After a hundred participants gathered and had time to adjust to the fierce winds, a black-robed guide explained the test rules and led them into the formation.
• He Pingsheng, Wen Buwan, and Ji Wuxin started in neighboring lanes and pushed through the formation's numbered stages.
• Wen Buwan passed the seventh and eighth stages but stopped at stage nine, fourteen points, and waited for He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng advanced to stage nine, ninety-nine points, where Ji Wuxin was waiting at the finish line.
• Ji Wuxin told He Pingsheng that stage nine, ninety-nine points at the Heaven Immortal Stage was only the threshold for a peerless genius.

He Pingsheng and Ji Wuxin completed the Formation Breaching Test with scores of ninth tier, ninety-nine points, then faced an attack by Duan Beifeng’s senior brother at the exchange hall. Elder Liu voided He Pingsheng’s result and fined him while refusing to punish Duan Beifeng or Penglai, leaving Ji Wuxin laughing at the unfair treatment.

• He Pingsheng and Ji Wuxin left the formation with ninth-tier scores of ninety-nine points, collected Wen Buwan, and followed the black-robed immortal to the Heaven Ascension Token exchange hall.
• Duan Beifeng arrived with four fellow disciples, accused He Pingsheng of injuring him, and demanded that Wen Buwan be seized as his concubine.
• Penglai attacked He Pingsheng, who countered with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Fists, breaking apart Penglai’s palm strike.
• Elder Liu heard what happened and declared He Pingsheng’s test result void, demanding a fine of one hundred middle-grade immortal crystals.
• Elder Liu refused to punish Duan Beifeng or Penglai, and Ji Wuxin laughed at He Pingsheng for being the only one penalized.

He Pingsheng had Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer kill Duan Beifeng after Elder Liu challenged him to invalidate his result. Duan Beifeng’s mother, Deputy City Lord Duan, learned what happened and vowed to kill He Pingsheng, while the City Lord urged her not to fight inside Sunset Immortal City.

• Elder Liu insisted he could invalidate He Pingsheng’s result, so He Pingsheng asked Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer to attack Duan Beifeng.
• Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer killed Duan Beifeng with a palm strike, terrifying Elder Liu and Daoist Penglai.
• Elder Liu secretly reported the incident, and three Golden Immortals from the City Lord’s Manor arrived.
• Deputy City Lord Duan learned that her son had been killed and prepared to attack Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer, but the City Lord stopped her.
• Daoist Penglai recounted the events truthfully, and Deputy City Lord Duan blamed He Pingsheng and threatened to kill him later.