Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng realized Han Houzhi had survived through perfect rebirth and fled to a remote mountain to take stock of the battle. He recognized his losses and shortcomings, then opened Immortal Lord Furnace Master's ring and found an unexpected trove.

• He Pingsheng collected Immortal Lord Furnace Master's corpse and the Black-and-Yellow Divine Sword, but found no trace of Han Houzhi or his belongings.
• He Pingsheng concluded Han Houzhi had been perfectly reborn elsewhere, leaving behind only the sword and the Golden Lightning Black Tortoise's shell.
• He Pingsheng used his remaining Golden Immortal cultivation to flee for several months, then hid in a desolate mountain cave protected by formations.
• He Pingsheng reviewed the battle and noted that he had lost a Heavenly Demon Crimson Core and one-tenth of his Profound Immortal Stage lifespan, while recognizing his lack of divine abilities and Immortal Artifacts.
• He Pingsheng used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to duplicate the cracked turtle shell, then opened Immortal Lord Furnace Master's ring and was overjoyed by what he found.

He Pingsheng searched Immortal Lord Furnace Master's Storage Ring, then spent eighteen years trying to comprehend the Spatial Great Dao Art without success. After enhancing Three Lights Spirit Liquid and using a drop to upgrade the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, he set out for Azure Origin Immortal City.

• He Pingsheng found fifth-grade metal and earth origin in Immortal Lord Furnace Master's Storage Ring and put them away.
• He Pingsheng spent eighteen years attempting to comprehend the Spatial Great Dao Art, but made little progress.
• He Pingsheng finished refining the supreme-grade Black-and-Yellow Divine Sword and discovered that the Treasure-Gathering Basin had doubled twelve drops of fifth-grade Three Lights Spirit Liquid to twenty-four.
• He Pingsheng fed a drop of Three Lights Spirit Liquid to the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, raising its quality to roughly that of a fifth- or sixth-grade immortal artifact.
• He Pingsheng collected the formations and talismans around the Mountain Cave and chose to travel to the nearby Azure Origin Immortal City.

He Pingsheng encountered Demon Emperor Hollow at the gates of Azure Origin Immortal City and learned that his old enemy had fallen to the eighth layer of the human immortal stage. After Demon Emperor Hollow tried to use the city guards to escape, He Pingsheng blasted him outside the city, killing him.

• He Pingsheng entered Azure Origin Immortal City on foot and spotted Demon Emperor Hollow disguised as a cowering Hollow Beast.
• Demon Emperor Hollow begged He Pingsheng to spare him, but He Pingsheng refused because of their longstanding grudge.
• Demon Emperor Hollow fled toward the city gates and called for the guards to arrest He Pingsheng.
• Captain Xu arrived, recognized He Pingsheng as a senior, and offered to have Demon Emperor Hollow removed from the city.
• He Pingsheng struck Demon Emperor Hollow with astral wind and blasted him outside the city, where he died.

After slaying Demon Emperor Hollow, He Pingsheng visited the Hidden Abyss Commerce Association to trade supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pills for Daoist law origins. The association’s experts failed to authenticate a pill and asked him to swear it was genuine, leaving He Pingsheng angered.

• He Pingsheng showed his Immortal King Palace token to the city captain, then flew to the Hidden Abyss Commerce Association and wondered if its name was connected to Mi Zangyuan.
• He Pingsheng offered a supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill and asked to speak with the head shopkeeper after the Heaven Immortal elder could not identify it.
• Silver Pheasant examined the pill, admitted she did not recognize it, and learned from He Pingsheng that it was a Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill.
• He Pingsheng asked to trade the pill for Daoist law origins, preferably those of space or time, but Silver Pheasant said the association had no space origin and demanded that he swear the pill was genuine.
• He Pingsheng grew angry that the association wanted him to prove the pill’s authenticity after its experts could not identify it.

After Silver Pheasant rejected his offer, He Pingsheng brought his Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill to another commerce association to trade for rare treasures. He learned of the pill’s supreme-grade benefits but found none of the association’s listed treasures suitable.

• Silver Pheasant refused He Pingsheng’s demand for a trade, so he left the city and flew to another immortal city.
• Tang Sheng examined the Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill and verified He Pingsheng’s Immortal Root.
• Tang Sheng explained that the supreme-grade pill prevented Wisdom Severance and offered a path to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, but could not restore a Wisdom Root after Wisdom Severance.
• He Pingsheng asked to see the association’s rarest treasures, and Tang Sheng showed him a sixth-grade sword, a water-attribute origin treasure, and a Moon Laurel Tree leaf.
• He Pingsheng rejected all three treasures as unsuitable.

He Pingsheng arranged for the Ten Thousand Taels Commerce Association to auction his supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill, drawing powerful immortals to Ten Thousand Taels Immortal City. As the auction began to gather a crowd, Silver Pheasant and Immortal Lord Azure Origin arrived, the Li Household entered, and Han Houzhi came seeking He Pingsheng.

• He Pingsheng agreed with Tang Sheng to auction the pill on-site and showed him his Immortal King Palace token as a warning not to betray him.
• After about three years of publicity, immortals from across the Celestial Pleiades Immortal Enclosure flocked to Ten Thousand Taels Immortal City for the auction.
• Silver Pheasant and her husband, Immortal Lord Azure Origin, arrived at the commerce association and argued about her earlier encounter with He Pingsheng.
• Members of the Li Household arrived, prompting the crowd to discuss their lineage and its standing in the Immortal Enclosure.
• Han Houzhi arrived in a black mask and recognized He Pingsheng as the person he had come to confront.

At the auction, He Pingsheng revealed the extraordinary properties of Three Lights Spirit Liquid and the Purple-Gold Bottle that produced it. Han Houzhi recognized the secret and was left exposed to the greed of the gathered immortals.

• Han Houzhi disguised himself and entered the auction, where he spotted He Pingsheng and tried to hide his murderous intent.
• He Pingsheng learned that three Supreme Unity Golden Immortals were attending the auction.
• He Pingsheng told the crowd that Three Lights Spirit Liquid could upgrade pills, talismans, and artifacts, cure ninth-grade poison, and speed up the growth of immortal ginseng.
• Han Houzhi nearly spat blood when He Pingsheng revealed that a Purple-Gold Bottle absorbed the sun, moon, and stars to produce the spirit liquid every few days.
• One Supreme Unity Golden Immortal stood and demanded to know whether He Pingsheng’s claims were true.

He Pingsheng exposed Han Houzhi as the former owner of the Purple-Gold Bottle and revealed his aura to the auction crowd. Han Houzhi was recognized and fled with Immortal Talismans as four Supreme Unity Golden Immortals pursued him, while He Pingsheng began auctioning his aura.

• He Pingsheng told the gathered immortals that Han Houzhi had possessed the Purple-Gold Bottle and used its spirit liquid to support his claim.
• He Pingsheng swore that Han Houzhi had owned the bottle a thousand years earlier, then displayed Han Houzhi's appearance and aura.
• Several attendees recognized Han Houzhi, who was disguised among them, and he activated two Immortal Talismans to escape.
• Han Houzhi cursed He Pingsheng as four Supreme Unity Golden Immortals chased him away.
• He Pingsheng asked the crowd to begin auctioning Han Houzhi's aura.

He Pingsheng auctioned Han Houzhi’s aura and then reviewed thousands of barter bids for his supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill. He chose the Li Household’s offer of sixth-grade spatial Great Daoist law origin, while Zhou Yiren’s ancient first-grade stone disc was mocked by the crowd.

• He Pingsheng auctioned four portions of Han Houzhi’s aura and left one portion with the Ten Thousand Taels Commerce Association.
• Tang Sheng announced that bids for the supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill had to be submitted once, through barter, for He Pingsheng to judge.
• He Pingsheng and Tang Sheng reviewed roughly eight thousand jade slips, and He Pingsheng rejected offers of techniques, divine abilities, and low-grade artifacts.
• He Pingsheng found the Li Household’s offer of sixth-grade spatial Great Daoist law origin and chose them for the trade.
• Zhou Yiren displayed his first-grade stone disc, but Tang Sheng warned him against shouting and the surrounding immortals mocked the artifact.

After completing the trade with the Li Household, He Pingsheng met Zhou Yiren, who showed him a stone disc that could withstand He Pingsheng’s attack. He began studying the disc, but after three days the Treasure-Gathering Basin still had not enhanced it.

• Tang Sheng announced that He Pingsheng and the Commerce Association had chosen the Li Household, and He Pingsheng traded a supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill for a black Jade Box.
• Zhou Yiren paid Deputy City Lord Zhu to help arrange a meeting with He Pingsheng, and Tang Sheng brought him to He Pingsheng’s great hall.
• Zhou Yiren asked whether He Pingsheng had more pills, then offered his thirty-six-restriction stone disc for inspection.
• He Pingsheng tested the deployed disc with a restrained strike and found that it blocked the attack.
• He Pingsheng began studying the disc in a secured hall and placed it in the Treasure-Gathering Basin, but the enhancement had not succeeded after three days.

He Pingsheng traded Zhou Yiren another supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill for the mysterious stone disk, then left Ten Thousand Taels Immortal City to continue traveling. A group of auction attendees intercepted him in the void and demanded to know whether he had more pills.

• He Pingsheng gave Zhou Yiren a supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill in exchange for the black stone disk, and Zhou Yiren promised to conceal their deal.
• Tang Sheng mistook Zhou Yiren’s tearful departure for evidence that He Pingsheng had beaten him, but He Pingsheng explained that Zhou had likely left disappointed.
• He Pingsheng told Tang Sheng he planned to travel before returning to Celestial Pleiades Immortal City, then flew out of Ten Thousand Taels Immortal City aboard the Heavenly Moon Ship.
• Fourteen or fifteen people who had attended the auction pursued He Pingsheng, and a woman in a green dress intercepted him before the group surrounded him.
• The woman told He Pingsheng that they wanted to be friends and asked whether he had more than one supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill.

He Pingsheng killed a first-layer golden immortal with one strike from the Black-and-Yellow Divine Sword, then escaped aboard the Heavenly Moon Ship. He examined the mysterious black stone disc and suspected its true grade was far above what its thirty-six restrictions suggested.

• A woman from the Immortal King Palace demanded He Pingsheng's supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pills and threatened to kill him.
• The woman attacked He Pingsheng, who used the Black-and-Yellow Divine Sword to kill her and reveal her true form as a Celestial Deer.
• Most of the pursuing immortals fled, while an eighth-layer golden immortal claimed he had come to trade for pills.
• He Pingsheng gave the golden immortal Han Houzhi's aura, collected the Celestial Deer's corpse, and left aboard the Heavenly Moon Ship.
• He Pingsheng inspected the black stone disc and wondered whether its grade exceeded the fifth grade because the Immortal Treasure-Gathering Basin could not strengthen it.

After returning to Celestial Pleiades Immortal City, He Pingsheng visited the Seven Stars Commerce Association to seek items that could improve his Dao comprehension. Three Retreats showed him ten drops of middle-grade Moon Laurel Immortal Brew, and He Pingsheng asked how much they cost.

• He Pingsheng returned to Celestial Pleiades Immortal City after searching the Immortal Enclosure for ways to improve his comprehension.
• Three Retreats asked He Pingsheng for supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pills, and He Pingsheng said Han Houzhi had upgraded the waste pills with three lights spirit liquid.
• He Pingsheng asked Three Retreats about items for Dao comprehension, and Three Retreats said the association had Moon Laurel Immortal Brew.
• Three Retreats brought He Pingsheng a jade bottle containing ten drops of middle-grade brew and explained their comprehension benefits.
• He Pingsheng asked Three Retreats the price of the ten drops.

He Pingsheng traded a supreme-grade Myriad Treasures Furnace for a bottle of Moon Laurel Immortal Brew and two origins, then headed back to his courtyard to cultivate. On the way, he met Grand Elephant and other Immortal King Palace disciples, who invited him to a trading fair, and Egret unexpectedly greeted him as his junior brother Zhiba.

• He Pingsheng exchanged his supreme-grade Myriad Treasures Furnace for a bottle of Moon Laurel Immortal Brew and fire- and wood-attribute origins from Three Retreats.
• He Pingsheng left the commerce association and walked toward his courtyard, hoping to cultivate without attracting attention.
• Grand Elephant and several Immortal King Palace disciples recognized He Pingsheng and told him about the fierce fighting in the Northern Crown Demonic Domain.
• Grand Elephant invited He Pingsheng to a western-city trading fair for Demonic Path items, and He Pingsheng agreed to go.
• Egret arrived, smiled at He Pingsheng, and greeted him as his junior brother Zhiba.

He Pingsheng bought demonic crystals to replenish the energy consumed in battle, then enhanced them alongside his other treasures in his Daoist grounds. After absorbing a crystal’s energy, he discovered that demonic and immortal origin energy could not coexist in his Dantian or meridians.

• Egret tried to follow He Pingsheng, but He Pingsheng rejected him and continued browsing the West Gate market.
• He Pingsheng bought a little over a hundred and twenty low-grade demonic crystals after learning they contained abundant demonic origin energy.
• He Pingsheng returned to his courtyard and enhanced his Moon Laurel Immortal Brew, Wood Origin, Fire Origin, and demonic crystals with the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng absorbed demonic origin energy from a middle-grade demonic crystal and found that it drove the immortal origin energy out of his shared Dantian and meridians.

He Pingsheng tested how demonic primal energy interacted with his five dantian, then spent decades comprehending four elemental origins and refining them into pills. After completing his long refinement of the black stone disc, he revealed its vast form but had not yet discovered its purpose.

• He Pingsheng filled all five dantian with demonic primal energy and discovered that demonic and Mystic Sect energies could not coexist, while demonic energy could occupy any elemental dantian.
• He Pingsheng considered adapting the [Five Elements Unity Heaven Scripture] to transform between immortal and demonic energies, but decided to begin with Dao comprehension.
• He Pingsheng swallowed Moon Laurel Immortal Brew and comprehended the metal, earth, fire, and wood origins over eighty years, while also strengthening his cultivation.
• He Pingsheng refined the four origins into Spring and Autumn Great Dao Pills and found that their Daoist mysteries remained unchanged after refinement.
• He Pingsheng expanded the fully refined black stone disc to a hundred zhang and reflected that it had taken him more than sixty years to refine.

He Pingsheng completed his understanding of the five elements and modified the Five Elements Unity Heaven Scripture and several Divine Abilities to work better in the Immortal Realm. He then spent 1,960 years comprehending Spatial Daoist Law and improving Void Swift Movement.

• He Pingsheng bought fifth-grade Water Origin, refined it into Great Dao Pills, and comprehended the mysteries of water until he had covered all five elements.
• He Pingsheng tested the Five Elements Unity Heaven Scripture in the Immortal Realm and found that it circulated inefficiently, so he began adapting it to Immortal Realm Great Dao Arts.
• After six years of revisions, He Pingsheng enhanced the high-grade Yellow Class scripture into a supreme-grade Heaven Tier cultivation art with five immortal chapters.
• He Pingsheng improved Thirteen Staff Strikes of Heaven's Secrets, Myriad Annihilations Return to Origin, and Five Elements Unity Force.
• He Pingsheng began comprehending sixth-grade Space Origin directly and spent 1,960 years studying Spatial Daoist Law while improving Void Swift Movement.

After nearly two thousand years in seclusion, He Pingsheng emerged at the eighth layer of the Profound Immortal Stage and learned that Han Houzhi had become a powerful Golden Immortal. He discovered that a war against the Devil Race had brought new Contribution Point requirements to the Celestial Pleiades Immortal Enclosure, leaving him with little choice but to head for the Northern Crown Great Wall.

• He Pingsheng left seclusion, tested his new Void Swift Movement, and went to the Seven Stars Commerce Association to trade for resources.
• Immortal Lord Three Retreats told He Pingsheng that Han Houzhi had killed more than forty Golden Immortals and later reached the Golden Immortal realm with a sixth-grade foundation.
• Three Retreats explained that the Devil Race had attacked cities near the Northern Crown Great Wall and that the Immortal King had mobilized cultivators to fight them.
• Three Retreats told He Pingsheng that transactions and other activities now required Contribution Points, which could only be earned by killing members of the Devil Race.
• He Pingsheng reluctantly decided to go to the Northern Crown Great Wall and asked Three Retreats how to reach it.

He Pingsheng traveled from Celestial Pleiades Immortal City to the Northern Crown Great Wall, using the six-year journey to improve his cultivation and master more of the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Fists. After arriving, he learned that Ji Wuxin had once registered a remarkable Heaven Ascension Token at Northern Crown Immortal City, leaving him wondering how Ji Wuxin had reached Celestial Pleiades Immortal Enclosure.

• He Pingsheng investigated the contribution-point system and decided to travel to the Northern Crown Great Wall.
• He Pingsheng boarded the free starship and spent the six-year voyage strengthening his body and refining the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Fists from nine fists into three.
• The starship arrived at Northern Crown Immortal City, and He Pingsheng went to a hall to obtain a Contribution Token.
• A service-window attendant examined He Pingsheng's Heaven Ascension Token and told him that Ji Wuxin had once scored ninth tier, ninety-nine points.
• He Pingsheng wondered how Ji Wuxin, whom he knew to be in Heaven's Heart Immortal Enclosure, had ended up in Celestial Pleiades Immortal Enclosure.

He Pingsheng prepared to raid beyond the Great Wall for contribution points, then met his master Li Tianxin, who gave him the Spatial Nothingness Art and a Void Boat. He left Northern Crown Immortal City alone and reached the Great Wall, where guards warned him about going beyond the pass by himself.

• He Pingsheng obtained a contribution token and prepared to cross the Great Wall to kill members of the Devil Race.
• Xun Yu brought He Pingsheng to Li Tianxin, who had become the city lord and commander of Northern Crown Immortal City.
• Li Tianxin praised He Pingsheng's strength and gave him the Void Boat and the Spatial Nothingness Art.
• He Pingsheng left the city and reached the Great Wall with his token.
• Two guards checked He Pingsheng's token and offered to find him a team, but he chose to go beyond the pass alone.