Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng and his companions left the Red Lotus Immortal Enclosure and began a long journey across the Li Mu Star Cluster, taking turns piloting the Void Immortal Boat. While traveling, He Pingsheng enhanced and studied a Divine Ability that let him inspect immortals and see through illusions, and the journey continued as Han Houzhi took another turn at the controls.

• He Pingsheng used a star chart to plot a route to the Li Mu Enclosure, and Han Houzhi drew a curved transcendence route that Ji Wuxin followed with the Void Immortal Boat.
• He Pingsheng enhanced Ji Wuxin's jade-slip Divine Ability and obtained Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils, which could reveal immortals' details and see through illusions.
• After piloting the boat for 236 days, Ji Wuxin asked He Pingsheng and Han Houzhi to take over so he could rest.
• He Pingsheng piloted the boat for about two years while studying Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils, then handed the controls to Han Houzhi.
• Two years later, Han Houzhi grew exhausted and called He Pingsheng back to pilot the boat.

He Pingsheng used Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils to examine Han Houzhi and Ji Wuxin, discovering their hidden and unusually high innate foundations. After a long voyage through the Li Mu Star Cluster, the three reached the enormous Li Mu Enclosure.

• He Pingsheng saw that Han Houzhi had a ninth-grade innate foundation concealed as sixth grade, then discovered Ji Wuxin had an eighth-grade foundation.
• Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils exhausted He Pingsheng’s Divine Sense, so he withdrew the ability and restored it.
• At the highest point of their route, Han Houzhi boasted of his ambitions, and a roar from the void frightened him into steering the boat onward.
• He Pingsheng told Ji Wuxin he could see his innate foundation, and Ji Wuxin explained that his Heaven and Earth Resonance had occurred in the void.
• After fifty-seven years of travel and another month circling a dazzling mass of light, Ji Wuxin brought the immortal boat to the vast Li Mu Enclosure.

He Pingsheng arrived at Li Mu Enclosure, crossed its vast central desert, and reached Wide-Eyed Immortal City. After presenting his Heaven Ascension Token, he entered the city to seek information about the Golden Feather Gathering and the enclosure.

• Han Houzhi took control of the immortal boat and guided it to the center of Li Mu Enclosure, where they found a vast desert.
• Ji Wuxin left to cultivate, and He Pingsheng and Han Houzhi exchanged a brief fight before Han Houzhi departed as well.
• He Pingsheng crossed the desert using the Void-Folding Art and reached Wide-Eyed Immortal City.
• A blue-green-skinned guard checked He Pingsheng’s Golden Immortal Stage Heaven Ascension Token and welcomed him as a ninth-rank genius with ninety-nine points.
• He Pingsheng teleported to the Wide-Eyed Commerce Association to gather information and was greeted by a woman from the Flying Feather Clan.

He Pingsheng reunited with his son He Tianyu at a Commerce Association and learned that a powerful Golden Immortal had abducted Kong Jiaojiao to make her a mount. He set out to rescue her, promising to return within half an hour.

• A Commerce Association attendant led He Pingsheng to a private room to meet Elder He.
• Elder He recognized He Pingsheng as his father, and He Pingsheng realized he was He Tianyu, Kong Jiaojiao's son.
• He Pingsheng saw that He Tianyu was nearing the Golden Immortal stage and gave him a supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill.
• He Tianyu revealed that a peak Golden Immortal had abducted Kong Jiaojiao and was keeping her in a fifth-grade sect in the north of Li Mu Enclosure.
• He Tianyu gave He Pingsheng a jade-slip map, and He Pingsheng told him to stay put while he went to rescue Kong Jiaojiao.

He Pingsheng reached the Five Elements Immortal Sect to rescue the Great Order Wisdom King and discovered her captor was his long-lost disciple, Luo Bingyao. He reunited with his wife, who had been chained up and partially plucked, and offered to let her punish Luo Bingyao for the misunderstanding.

• He Pingsheng destroyed the Five Elements Immortal Sect’s gate and demanded to see the person who had captured his peacock.
• Great Expansion warned He Pingsheng that the Ninth Great King was a powerful woman named Luo Bingyao.
• Luo Bingyao recognized He Pingsheng as her master and knelt before him, relieved to have found him again.
• He Pingsheng learned that Luo Bingyao had mistaken the Great Order Wisdom King for a mount and had started plucking her feathers.
• He Pingsheng and Luo Bingyao found the chained Great Order Wisdom King in a hall, freed her, and reunited as she called him her husband.

He Pingsheng reunited with Kong Jiaojiao after Luo Bingyao captured her, then gave her a pill that helped her develop an immortal root. The family began discussing their scattered children, and He Pingsheng discovered that Luo Bingyao had seventh-grade roots.

• He Pingsheng scolded Luo Bingyao for capturing Kong Jiaojiao, and Luo knelt outside the great hall after he sent her out.
• He Tianyu arrived, learned that Luo Bingyao was his father's disciple, and knelt beside her while they waited.
• He Pingsheng comforted Kong Jiaojiao and gave her a supreme-grade Spirit-Writing Heaven-Connecting Pill, which she swallowed to develop an immortal root.
• Kong Jiaojiao told He Pingsheng that she had found only He Tianyu and had not seen their other children.
• He Pingsheng called Luo Bingyao and He Tianyu into the hall, then used his Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils to identify Luo Bingyao's roots as seventh grade.

He Pingsheng compensated Immortal Lord Dayan for Luo Bingyao’s takeover of the Five Elements Immortal Sect, then bought the sect and became its leader. He arranged a search for his missing children and gave Tianyu and Luo Bingyao powerful weapons and treasures.

• He Pingsheng apologized to Immortal Lord Dayan for Luo Bingyao’s actions and offered him a supreme-grade pill and shield as compensation.
• He Pingsheng asked to stay in the Five Elements Immortal Sect, and Immortal Lord Dayan offered to sell him the sect in exchange for another pill.
• He Pingsheng agreed to keep the sect’s name and ancestral spirit tablets unchanged, and Immortal Lord Dayan made him sect leader and became an elder.
• He Pingsheng had Immortal Lord Dayan decree a reward for any disciple who found traces of his missing son and daughter.
• He Pingsheng gave Tianyu a fire-attribute flying sword and a dragon whisker flower to help him break through his bottleneck.
• He Pingsheng gave Luo Bingyao a supreme-grade Sacred Bone Demonic Sword with a divine sense attack.

He Pingsheng learned about Luo Bingyao’s years in the Immortal Realm and her plans for the Golden Feather Gathering, then agreed to test their strength in a duel. Their first clash began when Luo Bingyao’s blood-red saber struck He Pingsheng’s fist.

• He Pingsheng told He Tianyu to reach the twelfth layer before asking for help with his Golden Immortal breakthrough in the void.
• He Pingsheng questioned Kong Jiaojiao and Luo Bingyao about where they had arrived after ascending, and suspected that ascenders from the same lower realm gathered in the same region.
• Luo Bingyao recounted her rapid cultivation, said she had reached the Li Mu Enclosure after gaining Heaven and Earth Resonance, and explained that she had delayed advancing to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal to enter the Golden Feather Gathering.
• Luo Bingyao challenged He Pingsheng to spar, and they agreed that one attack or defense would decide the winner without Immortal Artifacts.
• Luo Bingyao launched Heavenly Net... Blood Saber... Slash, and He Pingsheng met the thousand-zhang blade with a purplish-gold punch.

He Pingsheng tested Luo Bingyao’s strength, easily defending against her saber, ice spear, and immortal-artifact attacks. After she confessed she wanted to defeat him so she could become his wife, he kicked her away, then agreed to upgrade her divine abilities before returning to the great hall, where he caught her spying.

• Luo Bingyao attacked He Pingsheng with her full-strength Heavenly Net Blood Saber Slash, but his punch stopped it without harming him.
• He Pingsheng used the Twenty-Four Gold Zhu Coins to defend against Luo Bingyao’s ice-spear attack, and she managed to break only one of the twenty-four barriers.
• Luo Bingyao admitted she wanted to defeat He Pingsheng so she could become her own master’s wife, and he kicked her ten thousand li away.
• Luo Bingyao caught up with He Pingsheng, gave him jade slips containing her divine abilities, and he promised to modify and upgrade them.
• He Pingsheng returned to the great hall and set up formations, but they immediately warned him that Luo Bingyao was spying, prompting him to yell at her.

He Pingsheng prepared enhanced divine abilities for the Golden Feather Gathering and began planning to advance to the seventh layer of the golden immortal stage by comprehending temporal Daoist law. Just as he was ready to enter seclusion, he learned that Luo Bingyao was fighting a supreme unity golden immortal and rushed to her aid.

• Kong Jiaojiao served He Pingsheng tea, and he told her he preferred her former high-and-mighty manner.
• He Pingsheng examined enhanced versions of Heavenly Net Blood Saber Slash and One Hundred Thousand Heavenly Ice, then gave both divine abilities to Luo Bingyao for the Golden Feather Gathering.
• He Pingsheng discovered that advancing to the seventh layer of the golden immortal stage required him to overcome a Dao obstacle, so he chose to comprehend temporal Daoist law.
• He Pingsheng refined fifth- and sixth-grade Spring and Autumn Great Dao Pills from time origins to prepare for his comprehension.
• Kong Jiaojiao warned He Pingsheng that Luo Bingyao had gotten into a fight with a supreme unity golden immortal, and He Pingsheng teleported to her location.

He Pingsheng arrived as Xiling Qingshan tried to take Luo Bingyao, who revealed that the Xiling Clan had once tried to drain her fortune and bloodline. He Pingsheng defeated Xiling Qingshan with the Black-and-Yellow Divine Sword and a surprise punch, while the enemy’s soul escaped and threatened revenge.

• Xiling Qingshan attacked Luo Bingyao and demanded that she come with him, but He Pingsheng told her to keep fighting.
• Luo Bingyao explained that the Xiling Clan had tricked her into joining its lineage and tried to drain her fortune and bloodline.
• He Pingsheng summoned the Black-and-Yellow Divine Sword and struck at Xiling Qingshan, who blocked the attack with his abacus and a talisman.
• He Pingsheng used Void Swift Movement to appear behind Xiling Qingshan and cripple him with the Heaven-Opening Punch.
• Xiling Qingshan’s soul escaped and threatened revenge, while Luo Bingyao lamented that even a breakthrough to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal would not let her surpass her master.

He Pingsheng questioned Luo Bingyao about her feud with the Western Mausoleum Household Lineage and learned that they had tried to steal her fortune power. He discovered that the household wanted her to advance early and become ineligible for the Golden Feather Gathering, and he left confident they had underestimated the other competitors.

• He Pingsheng demanded that Luo Bingyao reveal everything she knew about the Western Mausoleum Household Lineage, promising to protect her or flee with her.
• Luo Bingyao explained that the Xiling Household had befriended her to trap her in a formation and extract her fortune power for its Holy Maiden, but she escaped when the formation backfired.
• Luo Bingyao described the household's vast territory and its Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal patriarch, who had entered life-or-death seclusion to refine avatars.
• Luo Bingyao revealed that the household had sent someone to pressure her into advancing to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal before the Golden Feather Gathering, making her ineligible to compete.
• He Pingsheng laughed at the household's plan and thought of other powerful competitors, including himself, Han Houzhi, and Ji Wuxin.

He Pingsheng sent Kong Jiaojiao and He Tianyu to hide in Wide-Eyed Immortal City while he and Luo Bingyao stayed behind to face the Xiling Household. In Xiling Immortal City, the household prepared Xiling Tianchen to break through, and Heaven and Earth Resonance announced the emergence of another genius.

• He Pingsheng told the Great Order Wisdom King, Kong Jiaojiao, and He Tianyu to hide in Wide-Eyed Immortal City, while Luo Bingyao insisted on staying with him.
• He Pingsheng sent Kong Jiaojiao and He Tianyu to the city, then taught Luo Bingyao the Divine Ability [Void Swift Movement] as she went into seclusion.
• In Xiling Immortal City, Xiling Ye and the elders discussed keeping Luo Bingyao out of the Golden Feather Gathering so Xiling Tianxue could win and qualify for the next stage.
• Xiling Ye gave Xiling Tianchen a supreme-grade Eternal Golden Core Pill and urged him to break through openly before the assembled elders.
• Xiling Tianchen swallowed the pill, and five-colored light and Heaven and Earth Resonance heralded his breakthrough, prompting Xiling Ye to celebrate the Xiling Household's rise to greatness.

Xiling Tianchen triggered eight Heaven and Earth Resonances and became the Western Mausoleum Household Lineage’s Holy Son, while Xiling Qingshan’s dying soul revealed that Luo Bingyao’s Master had killed him. The chapter ended with Xiling Ye suspecting that the mysterious Master had eighth-grade potential, leaving the Xiling Household shaken by the arrival of another rival genius.

• Xiling Tianchen’s innate foundations reached the eighth grade, and Xiling Ye named him Holy Son of the Western Mausoleum Household Lineage.
• Tianchen said he wanted to kill Xiling Kun, but Xiling Ye urged him to defeat and humiliate Kun himself before killing him.
• Xiling Ye ordered a woman to report Tianchen’s talent to the Patriarch and took the others to a side hall to discuss what came next.
• A disciple reported that Xiling Qingshan had fallen, and Qingshan’s surviving soul begged Xiling Ye to avenge him and kill Luo Bingyao’s Master.
• Xiling Ye concluded that Luo Bingyao’s Master might have eighth-grade innate foundations, shocking the gathered members of the Xiling Household.

Xiling Ye planned how to deal with the powerful stranger who had killed Third Brother, while Wang Dun used He Pingsheng's name to charm two Yun Family sisters and joined a long line to meet Master Six Words. Just as Wang Dun's turn came, a young man cut in line and offered him an immortal crystal to let the Holy Son go first.

• Xiling Ye decided to investigate the stranger's innate foundation, negotiate with him if it was eighth grade, and eliminate him if he refused to back down.
• Xiling Ye assigned Seventh Brother to protect Tianchen and prepared to visit Luo Bingyao and her master with four Supreme Unity Golden Immortals.
• Wang Dun pretended to be He Pingsheng and amused the Yun Family sisters with a monkey riddle.
• Wang Dun and the Yun sisters hurried to meet Master Six Words and waited half a day in the queue.
• A young man stopped Wang Dun and offered him a high-grade immortal crystal so the Holy Son could go first.

Wang Dun challenged Xiling Tianchen’s attempt to cut in line, then used Tianchen’s offer of three moves to slap him three times without harming him. Humiliated and enraged, Tianchen ordered Xiling Tianya to kill Wang Dun.

• Xiling Tianchen and Xiling Tianya stepped ahead of Wang Dun in line, while the crowd praised Tianchen’s eighth-grade bloodline foundation and Xiling Household backing.
• Tianchen offered Wang Dun three moves and promised to leave if Wang Dun defeated him within them.
• Wang Dun slapped Tianchen three times with ordinary, harmless blows, then courteously invited him to take his place in line.
• The crowd laughed at Tianchen’s humiliation as Wang Dun’s two companions grew worried.
• Tianchen, furious and trembling, told Xiling Tianya to kill Wang Dun immediately.

Xiling Tianya failed to kill Wang Dun with a sword strike, and Wang Dun fled the city with Tianya in pursuit. Meanwhile, Xiling Ye and four Supreme Unity Golden Immortals confronted He Pingsheng, who struck back by maiming Xiling Ye and killing the ninth elder.

• Xiling Tianya's sword attack carved a huge rift through the plaza, but Wang Dun emerged unharmed and cursed the Xiling Household.
• Xiling Tianya drew his sword again, and Wang Dun fled the city; Tianya chased after him.
• Xiling Ye and four Supreme Unity Golden Immortals pursued Luo Bingyao to He Pingsheng's mountain and learned that his bloodline was sixth grade.
• He Pingsheng put Luo Bingyao into the Primordial Purple Gold Staff's treasure space and attacked Xiling Ye with Heaven-Opening Punch, blasting apart his arm.
• He Pingsheng swiftly beheaded the ninth elder with the Black-and-Yellow Divine Sword and took his two Storage Rings.

He Pingsheng fought the Xiling Household’s Supreme Unity Golden Immortals, forcing them to negotiate after demonstrating his powerful artifacts and demonic abilities. As he demanded Wide-Eyed Immortal City as compensation for Luo Bingyao’s mistreatment, news arrived that another Golden Immortal had killed the Xiling Household’s Seventh Elder, and He Pingsheng threatened to keep one of the elders from leaving.

• He Pingsheng collected the Ninth Elder’s corpse and flew beyond the Five Elements Immortal Sect with the four remaining Supreme Unity Golden Immortals.
• He Pingsheng used twenty-four defensive copper coins to withstand a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal’s golden arrows, replenishing his Immortal Essence Energy with a Double Splendor Golden Core.
• Xiling Ye asked to negotiate, and He Pingsheng demanded compensation for the Xiling Household’s attempt to extract Luo Bingyao’s fortune.
• He Pingsheng transformed into a ten-thousand-zhang demonic body and demanded ownership of Wide-Eyed Immortal City, silencing an elder who objected with a display of Heavenly Demon Divine Light.
• The Sixteenth Elder reported that a tenth-layer Golden Immortal had killed the Seventh Elder while the Holy Son remained unharmed.
• He Pingsheng warned Xiling Ye that at least one of the four elders would have to stay if the others tried to leave.

He Pingsheng drove off Xiling Ye and the remaining Supreme Unity Golden Immortals, then entered seclusion to break through his Dao Obstacle. At the Xiling Household, Xiling Ye learned of several other powerful geniuses emerging across the realms, including one whose identity remained unknown.

• Xiling Ye surrendered Wide-Eyed Immortal City to He Pingsheng and left with the others.
• He Pingsheng sent Luo Bingyao to take over Wide-Eyed Immortal City, then swallowed a five-revolution [Spring and Autumn Great Dao Pill] and fifth-grade [Moon Laurel Immortal Brew] before entering seclusion.
• At the Xiling Household, Xiling Ye questioned Holy Son Tianchen and learned that the household still knew little about He Pingsheng's background.
• Xiling Yuan reported new eighth-grade geniuses from the [Northern Plateau Kong Household], the Heavenly Mystery Lineage, and the Southern Enclosure's [Vermilion Bird Tribe], including [Ji Wuxin].
• Xiling Yuan also reported that an unknown purple-clad cultivator had killed thirteen Supreme Unity Golden Immortal leaders in the Black Domain, and that Devil Race holy maiden [Xin Baobao] could reportedly kill a Supreme Unity with one strike.

The Xiling Household panicked over the sudden rise of Golden Immortal geniuses and agreed to give Wide-Eyed Immortal City to He Pingsheng and Luo Bingyao for now. After more than thirteen hundred years of seclusion, He Pingsheng reached the Golden Immortal Stage eighth layer and reunited with his daughter He Yuqing, who told him that He Tianya had been found.

• Xiling Ye ordered Tianchen to enter seclusion and pursue a breakthrough before the Golden Feather Gathering.
• Xiling Ye recounted his battle with He Pingsheng, and the Xiling Household agreed to give Wide-Eyed Immortal City to He Pingsheng and Luo Bingyao while waiting for the patriarch to emerge.
• He Pingsheng completed over thirteen hundred years of seclusion at the Golden Immortal Stage eighth layer, improving his divine sense and body refining as well.
• He Yuqing visited He Pingsheng, who encouraged her to keep cultivating despite her slower progress.
• He Yuqing told He Pingsheng that He Tianya had been found, and He Pingsheng hurried to see him.