Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng and Ming Riyue discovered that the black chain holding the skulls was a hidden treasure, but activating it trapped the group and drained their life force. As He Pingsheng’s body began to wither, he used his blood and vitality power to grow to a thousand zhang tall.

• Ming Riyue ignored Demon King Tianri’s warning and pulled down the black chain, revealing that the skulls had only appeared to be attached to it.
• The chain shrank into a bracelet, and none of the Demon Kings or He Pingsheng could identify it.
• Ming Riyue sent her Demonic Origin Energy into the bracelet, causing it to expand and bind all eight people with chains that drained their energy.
• He Pingsheng converted his Demonic Origin Energy into Mystic Sect power, but the chain began draining his life force and sealed his meridians.
• He Pingsheng roared and activated the thirty-six Immortal Runes in his body, using the Chaos Golden Scripture to grow to a thousand zhang tall.

He Pingsheng escaped the Great Hall as a mysterious chain transformed into nine Immortal Runes and branded themselves into his spine. Heaven’s Lament identified the resulting Great Dao Order as Heavenly Emperor Northern Crown’s inheritance, and began explaining its place in the Immortal Realm.

• He Pingsheng fled the Great Hall, followed by Ming Riyue and the six other Demon Kings, but the chain shot out and blocked his way.
• The chain broke into nine Immortal Runes that pierced He Pingsheng and branded his first nine vertebrae, causing him intense pain.
• The runes emerged with He Pingsheng’s vertebrae, joined into a chain, absorbed demonic energy and Demonic Path Laws, and returned to his body as the Great Dao Order.
• Heaven’s Lament declared that He Pingsheng had received Heavenly Emperor Northern Crown’s inheritance and knelt, followed by the other Demon Kings and Ming Riyue.
• Heaven’s Lament explained that Great Dao Orders produced the laws behind Great Dao Arts and said He Pingsheng carried the Demonic Path’s demonic attribute order.

He Pingsheng learned more about Great Dao Order and left the Heavenly Emperor’s Ruins with the Demon Kings’ allegiance, but failed to break through his bottleneck. He decided to return to the Northern Crown Great Wall and gave Ming Riyue a supreme-grade Sacred Bone Demonic Sword before departing.

• Heaven's Lament explained that He Pingsheng's nine Great Dao Order talismans could help him comprehend Great Dao Arts and were required for higher cultivation realms, while his thirty-six Chaos Golden Scripture runes were not Great Dao Order.
• He Pingsheng found that Demon King bones and skin could not be refined into Immortal Talisman Paper, and that the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and black stone disc could not be strengthened.
• After the hundred-day trial ended, Heaven's Lament and the other Demon Kings pledged allegiance to He Pingsheng and said the Demonic Path had withered compared with the Mystic Sect.
• The Demon Kings gave Ming Riyue Cause and Effect Immortal Talismans, and He Pingsheng discovered that his nine Great Dao Order talismans could not be strengthened and his cultivation remained at the eleventh layer of the Profound Immortal Stage.
• He Pingsheng told Ming Riyue he would return to the Northern Crown Great Wall, gave her a supreme-grade Sacred Bone Demonic Sword, and explained that he had strengthened it with Spirit Liquid taken from Han Houzhi.

After returning to Northern Crown Immortal City, He Pingsheng met Immortal King Celestial Pleiades, who demanded the treasure Han Houzhi had claimed He possessed. Celestial Pleiades threatened to protect He Pingsheng if he surrendered it or kill him and take it by force.

• He Pingsheng returned to Northern Crown Great Wall after 780 years away and reunited with Li Tianxin, who noticed his cultivation had reached the eleventh layer of Profound Immortal.
• Li Tianxin brought He Pingsheng to meet Immortal King Celestial Pleiades, and He Pingsheng secretly activated a defensive Immortal Talisman before entering alone.
• Celestial Pleiades told He Pingsheng that Han Houzhi had reached the Golden Immortal Stage and warned him to be careful if they met.
• Celestial Pleiades said Han Houzhi had claimed He Pingsheng possessed a treasure as remarkable as the Purple-Gold Bottle, and He Pingsheng denied it.
• Celestial Pleiades offered to protect He Pingsheng if he handed over the treasure, or threatened to kill him and search for it.

He Pingsheng refused to surrender his supposed secret treasure, attacked Immortal King Celestial Pleiades, and fled toward the Northern Crown Demonic Domain. Celestial Pleiades caught him and struck him with an Immortal Sword, but the Simple Wood Immortal Talisman blocked most of the blow.

• He Pingsheng called Han Houzhi ungrateful, but Celestial Pleiades cited Han Houzhi’s Heavenly Dao Oath and demanded that He Pingsheng swear he had no secret treasure.
• He Pingsheng attacked Celestial Pleiades with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, collapsing the great hall and drawing Li Tianxin to the scene.
• He Pingsheng pretended to prepare a killing blow, then escaped using the Void Immortal Boat and Spatial Folding.
• Celestial Pleiades pursued He Pingsheng with the Void Folding and Compression Art and blocked his path deep in the demonic domain.
• Celestial Pleiades sealed the void and struck He Pingsheng with an Immortal Sword, but the Simple Wood Immortal Talisman blocked ninety percent of the attack.

He Pingsheng fought Immortal King Celestial Pleiades, using talismans, artifacts, and powerful abilities to survive and strike back, but could not seriously injure him. He Pingsheng resumed fleeing toward the Devil Race's heartland while his temporary protections were still active.

• Immortal King Celestial Pleiades struck He Pingsheng twice, but the Simple Wood Immortal Talisman and black stone disc reduced the damage.
• He Pingsheng activated the Heaven's Pinnacle Lifespan Conversion Method and raised his cultivation to the Golden Immortal Stage Eleventh Layer, then struck Celestial Pleiades with his staff.
• He Pingsheng attacked with the Black-and-Yellow Divine Sword and Heavenly Demon Divine Light, breaking through Celestial Pleiades's defenses but causing only superficial injuries.
• Celestial Pleiades revealed his great-rooster form and used a sonic divine sense attack, but He Pingsheng's talisman shield blocked it.
• He Pingsheng launched another Heavenly Demon Divine Light attack, deployed the Void Immortal Boat, and fled toward the Devil Race's heartland.

He Pingsheng fled from Immortal King Celestial Pleiades and joined Ming Riyue, turning their fight into a group battle. With the six demon kings pinning Celestial Pleiades down, He Pingsheng and Ming Riyue kept attacking him, leaving Celestial Pleiades struggling against their coordinated defense and assault.

• He Pingsheng used his Golden Immortal cultivation to outrun Immortal King Celestial Pleiades and led him toward Ming Riyue's sect.
• He Pingsheng and Ming Riyue attacked Celestial Pleiades together, but his talismans and giant rooster abilities countered them.
• Ming Riyue activated six Cause and Effect Immortal Talismans, summoning the six demon kings to help restrain Celestial Pleiades with spatial law.
• He Pingsheng urged the demon kings to capture Celestial Pleiades and used his defensive abilities to block attacks aimed at his allies.
• Celestial Pleiades found He Pingsheng even harder to deal with than Han Houzhi as He Pingsheng and Ming Riyue continued their assault.

He Pingsheng, Ming Riyue, and six Demon Kings joined forces to overwhelm Immortal King Celestial Pleiades, whose power was drained until he could no longer resist. As Ming Riyue began the lengthy process of refining what she had devoured, He Pingsheng discovered that he had broken through to the Profound Immortal Stage twelfth layer.

• Celestial Pleiades blasted Ming Riyue away with nine lightning balls, but He Pingsheng shielded her from his copper coins with two Simple Wood Immortal Talismans.
• He Pingsheng gave Ming Riyue demonic essence purple-azure water, and the two attacked Celestial Pleiades from opposite sides with the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art while the six Demon Kings restrained him.
• Celestial Pleiades offered to make peace and later surrender his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark, but He Pingsheng ignored him and continued draining his power.
• When He Pingsheng's cultivation boost expired, Celestial Pleiades launched a desperate counterattack; He Pingsheng cast Heaven's Pinnacle Lifespan Conversion Method again, grew visibly older, and continued fighting.
• After Celestial Pleiades had lost almost all his Immortal Spirit Power and most of his Daoist Law and vitality, He Pingsheng stopped using the cultivation method and discovered he had reached the Profound Immortal Stage twelfth layer.
• He Pingsheng thanked the six Demon Kings, enclosed Ming Riyue and Celestial Pleiades in a barrier, and confirmed to Heaven's Lament that their captive was Immortal King Celestial Pleiades.

After killing Immortal King Celestial Pleiades, He Pingsheng concealed his death and recovered before preparing to break through to Golden Immortal. While Ming Riyue continued absorbing Celestial Pleiades's legacy, He Pingsheng inventoried the king's rings and found powerful artifacts, pills, and other treasures.

• He Pingsheng told the six Demon Kings to keep Celestial Pleiades's death secret until he and Ming Riyue were strong enough to claim the Celestial Pleiades Immortal Enclosure and star system.
• He Pingsheng recovered his blood and qi, studied the Eternal Golden Core Pill formula, and refined a batch before enhancing the twelve pills into twenty-four supreme-grade pills.
• Ming Riyue told He Pingsheng she needed two more months to absorb Celestial Pleiades and sent him the king's two rings to inspect.
• He Pingsheng collected the rings' immortal crystals, ingredients, talismans, artifacts, and the Twelve Gold Zhu Coins, a middle sixth-grade weapon.
• He Pingsheng found Eternal Golden Core Pills, sixth-grade Moon Laurel Immortal Brew, and supreme-grade Double Splendor Golden Cores among Celestial Pleiades's treasures.

He Pingsheng sorted through the vast wealth left by Immortal King Celestial Pleiades while Ming Riyue finished devouring her resources and reached the twelfth layer of Supreme Unity Golden Immortal. Ming Riyue explained that reaching Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal required comprehending and nurturing one’s own Daoist laws, then turned their attention to controlling the Celestial Pleiades Star System.

• He Pingsheng collected and kept the origins and other resources from Immortal King Celestial Pleiades’ two rings.
• After two months of devouring, Ming Riyue reached the twelfth layer of Supreme Unity Golden Immortal and congratulated He Pingsheng on his own progress.
• Ming Riyue showed He Pingsheng her auspicious cloud and explained how a Dao seed nurtured within it became a blue lotus bearing three flowers, marking the Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal realm.
• Ming Riyue explained that the three flowers represented benevolence, malevolence, and the self, and that Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortals could condense them into three avatars.
• Ming Riyue said she now needed to comprehend the Dao and understand herself, then urged He Pingsheng to focus on controlling the Celestial Pleiades Star System.

He Pingsheng began his breakthrough to Golden Immortal and repeatedly triggered Heaven and Earth Resonance, drawing powerful figures and immortals to the site. Li Tianxin discovered that the astonishing prodigy was her own disciple.

• Ming Riyue explained the grades of bloodline foundations and guarded He Pingsheng as he prepared to break through.
• He Pingsheng swallowed a Five-Revolution Eternal Golden Core Pill and triggered Heaven and Earth Resonance with a beam of five-colored light.
• He Pingsheng triggered a second resonance, which was sensed at the Northern Crown Great Wall by Li Tianxin and a divine man.
• The divine man used Spatial Law to bring Li Tianxin to the breakthrough site as immortals from the Demonic Path and Mystic Sect converged.
• He Pingsheng triggered a third resonance, and Li Tianxin recognized him as her disciple.

He Pingsheng completed his breakthrough to the Golden Immortal realm, causing six instances of Heaven and Earth Resonance before three more rays remained hidden within him. After Han Houzhi abandoned his attempt to kill him, He Pingsheng met Wei Tong, who questioned how he had caused the resonance with sixth-grade foundations.

• Han Houzhi spotted the divine light rising from the Demonic Domain and rushed toward He Pingsheng, intent on killing him.
• He Pingsheng’s breakthrough produced six instances of Heaven and Earth Resonance, while three further rays stayed within his body as he entered the Golden Immortal realm.
• Ming Riyue drove away the gathered humans and demons, leaving Li Tianxin and Wei Tong with He Pingsheng.
• Han Houzhi noticed Wei Tong beside Li Tianxin, sensed his immense cultivation, and quietly left without attacking He Pingsheng.
• Li Tianxin introduced Wei Tong as a Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal, and Wei Tong questioned He Pingsheng about his resonance and sixth-grade foundations.
• Li Tianxin cited Han Houzhi’s similar breakthrough as a precedent, leaving Wei Tong surprised by the mystery.

Wei Tong investigated Celestial Pleiades’s death and offered Ming Riyue a choice, but ultimately appointed her ruler of the star system without requiring an oath. Before leaving, he recognized He Pingsheng’s portrait of Qiao Huizhu, leaving He eager to learn where she was.

• Wei Tong identified Ming Riyue as a Devil and questioned her about Celestial Pleiades’s death, while He Pingsheng admitted that he and Ming Riyue had helped the six Great Devil Kings kill him.
• Wei Tong explained that Celestial Pleiades alone bore the consequences of his actions and offered Ming Riyue the choice of facing Immortal Emperor Li Mu or staying in the star system as its ruler.
• Ming Riyue hesitated because she feared He Pingsheng would eventually leave, so Wei Tong appointed her ruler without requiring an oath and renamed the system the Ming Riyue Star System.
• He Pingsheng realized Wei Tong had maneuvered him into owing a favor, then asked whether Wei Tong knew the Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal empress Qiao Huizhu.
• Wei Tong conjured Qiao Huizhu’s portrait, and He Pingsheng recognized her and asked where she was.

Wei Tong explained why Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortals separated their Dao into three avatars, then gave He Pingsheng a qualification for the Golden Feather Gathering, where he might learn Qiao Huizhu’s whereabouts from Wei Tong’s original body, Immortal Emperor Li Mu. The gathering was three thousand years away, and He Pingsheng learned that Golden Immortal Stage entrants needed a tier-nine, ninety-nine-point score in the Standard Heavenly Gate Formation.

• He Pingsheng asked why Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortals condensed benevolence, evil, and self into three avatars, and Wei Tong explained that this concealed their timelines and prepared them for the Dao Origin Realm.
• He Pingsheng asked where Qiao Huizhu was, and Wei Tong said his original body, Immortal Emperor Li Mu, had met her but that He Pingsheng would need to ask Li Mu directly at the Li Mu Enclosure.
• Wei Tong offered He Pingsheng a place at a gathering in the Li Mu Enclosure in about three thousand years and gave him a Golden Feather Immortal Token.
• Wei Tong gave Ming Riyue two more tokens and warned that Golden Immortal Stage cultivators needed a tier-nine, ninety-nine-point score in the Standard Heavenly Gate Formation to participate.
• After Wei Tong departed, Li Tianxin explained that the Li Mu Star Cluster held a gathering of prodigies every hundred thousand years and that the token qualified He Pingsheng to attend.

He Pingsheng completed a long seclusion in the Red Lotus Immortal Enclosure, strengthening his treasures and reaching the sixth layer of the Golden Immortal Stage. He then traveled to Heaven's Heart Immortal Enclosure ahead of the Golden Feather Gathering and reunited with Stone Gatherer.

• Ming Riyue told He Pingsheng she did not hate the woman who had spared her, and he gave her four supreme-grade sixth-grade offensive Immortal Talismans before entering seclusion.
• He Pingsheng enhanced Immortal Talismans, the Space Origin, and the Twelve Gold Zhu Coins, then refined and enhanced Spring and Autumn Great Dao Pills.
• After sixteen hundred years of seclusion, He Pingsheng reached the sixth layer of the Golden Immortal Stage, caught up in divine refining, and completely refined the Twenty-Four Gold Zhu Coins.
• He Pingsheng told Ming Riyue he was leaving early for the Golden Feather Gathering, then flew from the Red Lotus Immortal Enclosure to Heaven's Heart Immortal Enclosure aboard the Void Immortal Boat.
• He Pingsheng visited Li Tianxin, obtained a star system chart of the Li Mu Star Cluster, and then met Stone Gatherer in Floating Light Immortal City, where Stone Gatherer wept over their long separation.

He Pingsheng visited Stone Gatherer in Floating Light Immortal City, gave him a new assignment, then secretly returned to Red Lotus Immortal Valley to see Lu Xiaoci. He left her talismans and resources and vanished before she could finish speaking to him.

• Stone Gatherer told He Pingsheng that Crimson Feather was far away to the southeast, but he had no news of Qiao Huizhu and the others.
• Stone Gatherer gave He Pingsheng a ring of Daoist Law origins, and He Pingsheng asked him to prepare to open a commerce association in Red Lotus Immortal City.
• He Pingsheng secretly observed Su Nian, Chu Sheng, Xu Zhishan, Su Muyu, and Lu Xiaoci at Red Lotus Immortal Valley, then went to visit Lu Xiaoci.
• He Pingsheng gave Lu Xiaoci fifth-grade immortal talismans and resources, told her about Ming Riyue and the renamed Red Lotus Galaxy, and asked her not to tell the others he had visited.
• Lu Xiaoci tried to speak before He Pingsheng vanished, then ran outside and called after him.

He Pingsheng brought Stone Gatherer and over a hundred people to Red Lotus Immortal Enclosure in the Primordial Purple Gold Staff’s treasure space. Han Houzhi confronted him over the Golden Feather Immortal Tokens, and their battle began with both men replenishing their depleted Dantians.

• He Pingsheng stored Stone Gatherer and the others inside the Primordial Purple Gold Staff before piloting the Void Immortal Boat to Red Lotus Immortal Enclosure.
• Han Houzhi confronted He Pingsheng, accused him of exposing his aura, and asked to buy one of Wei Tong’s three Golden Feather Immortal Tokens.
• He Pingsheng attacked Han Houzhi with a sixth-grade Immortal Talisman, and Han Houzhi blocked the thousand-zhang fire saber with a Defensive Light Barrier.
• He Pingsheng’s Twenty-Four Gold Zhu Coins struck from all directions, but Han Houzhi defended himself with two Little Mountains.
• He Pingsheng swallowed a Double Splendor Golden Core to restore his Dantian, while Han Houzhi replenished his with Three Lights Spirit Liquid.

He Pingsheng attacked Han Houzhi after suspecting he had gone after Ming Riyue, but learned that Han Houzhi had only sought a trade. The two swore agreements not to target each other through the River of Time or expose each other’s secrets at the Li Mu Enclosure, and Han Houzhi then asked He Pingsheng for a Golden Feather Immortal Token.

• He Pingsheng attacked Han Houzhi with his unified Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Fists and thousand-armed demonic form, demanding to know whether he had sought out Ming Riyue.
• Han Houzhi insisted he had gone to propose a trade, and He Pingsheng flew with him to Ming Riyue’s cultivation grounds to confirm she was unharmed.
• Han Houzhi and He Pingsheng agreed not to enter the River of Time to kill each other’s past or future selves and not to reveal each other’s great secrets at the Li Mu Enclosure, then swore Heavenly Dao Oaths.
• Han Houzhi asked He Pingsheng for one of the Golden Feather Immortal Tokens, arguing that the token should go to whoever could earn it.

He Pingsheng traded a Golden Feather Immortal Token to Han Houzhi for fifty drops of sixth-grade Three Lights Spirit Liquid, then headed to Red Lotus Immortal City and the Standard Heavenly Gate Formation. There he learned Han Houzhi had killed Egret, whom He Pingsheng remembered as his Fellow Daoist Zhiba.

• He Pingsheng bartered a Golden Feather Immortal Token for fifty drops of Han Houzhi’s Three Lights Spirit Liquid and concealed his Treasure-Gathering Basin by inventing a tale about a rebirth bead.
• Han Houzhi proposed taking turns on the journey to Li Mu Enclosure, and He Pingsheng said he would leave in three days after going to Red Lotus Immortal City.
• He Pingsheng released Stone Gatherer and the others in Red Lotus Immortal City, set Stone Gatherer up at the city’s largest commerce association, and introduced him to Demon King Tianshi.
• He Pingsheng went to the Standard Heavenly Gate Formation to take the test required for the Golden Feather Gathering.
• He Pingsheng found Han Houzhi at the entrance beside Egret’s mangled body and learned that Han Houzhi had killed Egret with a mountain.

He Pingsheng completed the Standard Heavenly Gate Formation with a score of ninety-nine points in the ninth tier and prepared to travel with Han Houzhi. Ji Wuxin then asked him for a Golden Feather Immortal Token, and Daoist Elmwood offered sixth-grade time origin in exchange.

• He Pingsheng learned that Ji Wuxin had also scored ninety-nine points in the ninth tier, then earned the same score himself and obtained a Heaven Ascension Token.
• He Pingsheng and Han Houzhi prepared to leave in He Pingsheng's Void Immortal Boat, each protecting himself with a Heavenly Armor Immortal Talisman.
• Ji Wuxin arrived with Daoist Hidden Sword and Daoist Elmwood, and He Pingsheng greeted them before Ji Wuxin requested a Golden Feather Immortal Token.
• He Pingsheng gave Ji Wuxin his last Golden Feather Immortal Token, and Ji Wuxin offered a jade slip containing a divine ability.
• Daoist Elmwood offered He Pingsheng a portion of sixth-grade time origin, which pleased him.