Chapter Summaries

Empress Jade Bottle gathered Shen Mo, He Pingsheng, and five other artifact refiners to craft the Nine Poisons Heartbond Bowl while she hid in the Eight Dukes Enclosure. After more than forty days of work, the nine poison bowls were complete.

• Empress Jade Bottle told her subordinates to keep her hiding place secret, and Shen Mo introduced He Pingsheng and his myriad willow ghost-binding wood.
• The empress sent Xiao Qing and her two fellow avatars to assist the six artifact refiners as they entered a protected hall.
• Xiao Qing supplied mystic thunder purple-gold bamboo, which the group shaped into nine bowls and Shen Mo refined in his furnace.
• The five other refiners each took responsibility for one heavenly poison, while Shen Mo undertook the remaining four; the three avatars could not refine them.
• He Pingsheng lent his myriad willow ghost-binding wood to restore the refiners' divine sense as they imprinted restrictions on the poison bowls.
• After more than forty days, the nine poison bowls were complete and could function together with the Nine Poisons Heartbond Grand Array as a seventh-grade immortal artifact.

He Pingsheng offered to set up the Nine Poisons Heartbond Formation far faster than the other formation masters could, and Empress Jade Bottle agreed to his terms. He received a private hall and the formation materials, including the nine poison bowls, and began by bringing Xin Baobao over.

• Shen Mo and the other Artifact Refiners estimated that making the formation plate and completing the formation would take at least four and a half years.
• He Pingsheng claimed he could finish the formation plate within a year and the entire formation in a year and a half, prompting Xiao Qing to take him to Empress Jade Bottle.
• He Pingsheng asked for eighth-grade essence blood and a private hall where he could make the formation plate without anyone spying on his techniques.
• Empress Jade Bottle agreed to his conditions, promised the essence blood later, and ordered Xiao Qing to provide him a hall and all the formation materials.
• He Pingsheng activated several sixth-grade Containing Formation Talismans, then brought Xin Baobao over from Wild Goose Peak.

He Pingsheng completed and enhanced the Nine Poisons Heartbond Formation, then traveled with Empress Jade Bottle to a remote star system to break the Great Heavenly Light Seal on her. After she swore a Heavenly Dao Oath to protect him, he began operating the formation, and the empress suffered its painful effects.

• He Pingsheng used Xin Baobao's Seventh Moon Treasure Mirror and protective formations to hide his work while he inscribed and set up the Nine Poisons Heartbond Formation.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the formation in the Immortal Treasure-Gathering Basin, producing a supreme-grade version, but gave Empress Jade Bottle the middle-grade original.
• Empress Jade Bottle dismissed the six other Artifact Refiners and flew with He Pingsheng to a remote star system, leaving her three avatars behind.
• Empress Jade Bottle swore a Heavenly Dao Oath never to harm He Pingsheng, dispelling his doubts about staying to help her.
• He Pingsheng activated the Nine Poisons Heartbond Formation as Empress Jade Bottle sat inside it, and she spat out golden divine blood in pain.

Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo tracked Empress Jade Bottle to her healing chamber and attacked her over a Buddhist treasure, forcing her to flee with He Pingsheng. After she collapsed in the void, He Pingsheng hid her on Wild Goose Peak, but Lan Tuo caught up and tried to search He Pingsheng’s soul.

• Lan Tuo appeared after sensing the Buddhist Path Heart Seal on Empress Jade Bottle and demanded she return a treasure belonging to the Buddhist Path.
• Jade Bottle rejected Lan Tuo’s claim, and he struck at her with a golden handprint while her powers were sealed.
• Jade Bottle burned her origin to break Lan Tuo’s attack, then used Spirit Roaming Taixu to flee with He Pingsheng before collapsing from exhaustion.
• He Pingsheng stored Jade Bottle in the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, sent her to Wild Goose Peak, and lied to Lan Tuo that she had left him behind.
• Lan Tuo attempted to search He Pingsheng’s soul but stopped when he discovered He Pingsheng’s Divine Sense was too powerful, and He Pingsheng claimed Jade Bottle had sought his help as a sixth-grade formation master.

He Pingsheng tried to convince Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo that he had no close ties to Empress Jade Bottle, but revealing his need for eighth-grade essence blood exposed his precious myriad willow ghost-binding wood. After He Pingsheng refused Lan Tuo's offer to become his disciple, Lan Tuo attacked him with the Great Heart-Devouring Seal.

• Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo questioned He Pingsheng and took the jade slip containing the Heavenly Prison Soul-Tempering Formula for himself.
• He Pingsheng admitted that Empress Jade Bottle had promised him eighth-grade essence blood in exchange for helping her break the Buddhist seal within her.
• He Pingsheng revealed his myriad willow ghost-binding wood and explained that he wanted to use it to refine a Death-Substitute Puppet.
• Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo asked to borrow the wood, then offered to make He Pingsheng his disciple when he hesitated.
• He Pingsheng refused to enter the Buddhist Path, and Lan Tuo branded him with the Great Heart-Devouring Seal.

Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo brought He Pingsheng to the Lantuo Buddhist Kingdom and used the Great Heart-Devouring Seal’s agony to pressure him into joining the Buddhist Path. Ming Yue secretly eased He Pingsheng’s pain, but warned that Lan Tuo would sense any attempt to loosen the seal; He Pingsheng summoned Xin Baobao and ordered her to open the Seventh Moon Treasure Mirror.

• Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo took He Pingsheng to the Lantuo Buddhist Kingdom, stopped his pain, and offered to free him if he became a disciple or if Lan Tuo captured Empress Jade Bottle.
• Lan Tuo returned the Myriad Willow Ghost-Binding Wood to He Pingsheng, then summoned Ming Yue and assigned him to watch over He Pingsheng until his Demonic Obstacle was gone.
• Ming Yue recognized He Pingsheng but concealed their past from Lan Tuo, then carried him to a meditation chamber where the Great Heart-Devouring Seal’s pain worsened for decades.
• Ming Yue chanted the Adversity-Delivering Spirit-Cleansing Sutra to ease He Pingsheng’s pain and warned that Lan Tuo would immediately sense the seal loosening.
• He Pingsheng summoned Xin Baobao with the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and ordered her to open the Seventh Moon Treasure Mirror.

He Pingsheng broke the Great Heart-Devouring Seal and advanced to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal while hiding in Ming Yue’s meditation hall. When his breakthrough drew Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo’s attention, He Pingsheng escaped inside the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, leaving Ming Yue to mislead his master.

• He Pingsheng used the Nine Poisons Heartbond Formation to dissolve the Great Heart-Devouring Seal over five months, and discovered that he had broken through the barrier to the Golden Immortal Stage eleventh layer.
• Ming Yue warned that Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo would find He Pingsheng once his aura was exposed, and He Pingsheng swallowed an Auspicious Cloud Golden Core to pursue a breakthrough to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.
• After three months, He Pingsheng’s Five Energies formed an auspicious cloud that spread beyond the concealment formation, prompting Ming Yue to urge him to leave.
• He Pingsheng entrusted the Primordial Purple Gold Staff to Ming Yue and hid inside it after putting away the Seventh Moon Treasure Mirror.
• When Lan Tuo arrived, Ming Yue claimed He Pingsheng had escaped through the void using Spirit Roaming Taixu, and Lan Tuo failed to find his trail.

Ming Yue revealed that he had cultivated the Buddhist Nirvana Reincarnation Bridge and warned Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo that He Pingsheng would not let him escape his fate. He Pingsheng returned to Wild Goose Peak, stabilized his new cultivation, and learned that Empress Jade Bottle was barely alive.

• Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo accused Ming Yue of helping He Pingsheng escape, but Ming Yue denied it and refused to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Ming Yue displayed the Buddhist Nirvana Reincarnation Bridge, and Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo realized Ming Yue was a reincarnation person.
• Ming Yue warned Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo that He Pingsheng would deal with him and hinted that the myriad willow ghost-binding wood revealed He Pingsheng's identity.
• He Pingsheng returned to Wild Goose Peak, stabilized his cultivation at the supreme unity golden immortal first layer, and spread his auspicious cloud ten thousand zhang.
• He Pingsheng asked Xin Baobao and Luo Bingyao about Empress Jade Bottle, and Luo Bingyao said she was “a little dead” before going to bring her over.

He Pingsheng used the Nine Poisons Heartbond Formation to remove the Great Heavenly Light Seal from Empress Jade Bottle, who awoke and recovered her cultivation. He offered her divine marrow to restore her lost origin and proposed killing Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo together, leaving her shocked by the suggestion.

• He Pingsheng began using the Nine Poisons Heartbond Formation to break the seal on Empress Jade Bottle and stop the loss of her origin.
• After three months, Empress Jade Bottle awoke and asked He Pingsheng how they had escaped Lan Tuo and where they were.
• He Pingsheng urged her to focus on removing the seal, and she helped guide the poisonous light until the Great Heavenly Light Seal was eliminated two months later.
• Empress Jade Bottle learned she had been unconscious for over forty years and that He Pingsheng had hidden her at Wild Goose Peak, though he gave her a partly fabricated account of what had happened.
• Empress Jade Bottle said she needed about ten years to recover her strength, but He Pingsheng offered her great all-encompassing divine marrow that could restore her within months.
• He Pingsheng asked for Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo's body after they killed him, and Empress Jade Bottle was stunned that he thought they could kill Lan Tuo.

After Empress Jade Bottle recovered, she accompanied He Pingsheng to confront Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo and retrieve his Heaven-Inlaying Pearl. He Pingsheng tested his strength against Lan Tuo’s attack, and the chapter ended as Lan Tuo unleashed a full-power strike.

• Empress Jade Bottle replenished her Origin and recovered her cultivation while He Pingsheng ended his three months of seclusion.
• He Pingsheng and Empress Jade Bottle traveled to Ming Yue’s meditation hall, where Ming Yue returned the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and revealed that all four Buddhist Path Heart Seals afflicted him.
• He Pingsheng sent Ming Yue to Wild Goose Peak with the Nine Poisons Heartbond Formation, then Empress Jade Bottle took him to confront Lan Tuo.
• Lan Tuo attacked He Pingsheng and Empress Jade Bottle, but the empress blocked his first strike and seven of his eight golden palms.
• He Pingsheng used the Twenty-Four Gold Zhu Coins to withstand Lan Tuo’s palm, shattering sixteen defensive barriers and leaving eight intact.
• Lan Tuo, shocked that He Pingsheng had survived, gathered his full strength and brought a colossal palm down toward him.

Empress Jade Bottle escaped Lan Tuo’s ambush with He Pingsheng, whose Sea of Consciousness survived the monk’s powerful Divine Sense attack. Back in the Jade Bottle Immortal Enclosure, He Pingsheng discovered that he could finally use Spirit Roaming Taixu, though he returned before venturing beyond the enclosure.

• Lan Tuo sealed the void and attacked Empress Jade Bottle and He Pingsheng, but He Pingsheng’s defenses kept the monk’s Divine Sense strike from destroying his Sea of Consciousness.
• Empress Jade Bottle used Spirit Roaming Taixu to bring He Pingsheng to the Jade Bottle Immortal Enclosure, escaping after Lan Tuo’s attack weakened him.
• He Pingsheng recovered with a Spirit-Restoring Golden Core and learned from Empress Jade Bottle that Lan Tuo was a Red-Backed Heavenly Toad of the Demon Race.
• He Pingsheng settled in the Immortal Emperor Palace, then tested Spirit Roaming Taixu and found he could travel at roughly Master Shen Mo’s speed.
• He Pingsheng turned back before leaving the Immortal Enclosure, wary that Lan Tuo might be waiting outside.

He Pingsheng spent centuries cultivating, improving his divine sense, and learning to draw seventh-grade auxiliary Immortal Talismans. He left the Jade Bottle Star Cluster and flew toward the Futu Immortal Domain to visit Wen Buwan.

• He Pingsheng enhanced three Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal corpses and used their materials to cultivate his body, divine sense, and Dao comprehension.
• He Pingsheng spent 364 years in seclusion cultivating the Chaos Golden Scripture, then resumed seclusion to strengthen his divine sense.
• After another 131 years, He Pingsheng's divine sense reached the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal eleventh layer, allowing him to draw the Ten-Thousand-Jun Weight and Heavenly Spirit Shield talismans.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the new talismans and left the Jade Bottle Immortal Enclosure, confident he could withstand Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo's divine sense attack.
• He Pingsheng consulted his star chart and flew across the void toward the Futu Immortal Domain to visit Wen Buwan.

He Pingsheng was intercepted by Lan Tuo while traveling through the void, and the two fought after Lan Tuo revealed he wanted to settle old debts and take He Pingsheng’s treasures. Lan Tuo’s devastating attack grievously wounded He Pingsheng, but he survived, leaving Lan Tuo impressed by his strength.

• He Pingsheng reached a second Immortal Domain, but Lan Tuo interfered with his void travel and confronted him.
• Lan Tuo demanded that He Pingsheng answer for hiding his disciple and repay Buddhist Path karmic debts, then admitted he had followed him to attack far from Empress Jade Bottle.
• Lan Tuo used a black wooden fish to assault He Pingsheng’s Sea of Consciousness, but He Pingsheng protected himself with a seventh-grade Heavenly Spirit Shield Immortal Talisman.
• Lan Tuo’s Buddhist Path Heart Seal failed to affect He Pingsheng, so Lan Tuo struck with a giant demon-subduing pestle.
• He Pingsheng’s saber attack, Twenty-Four Gold Zhu Coins, and black stone disk could not stop the pestle, which blasted him more than ten thousand li and grievously wounded him.
• Lan Tuo approached the still-living He Pingsheng and praised his ability to withstand the attack.

He Pingsheng fought Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo with powerful demonic attacks and escape abilities, but Lan Tuo endured them and struck him with Immortal Toad Heavenly Poison. The chapter ended with He Pingsheng’s escape in doubt.

• Lan Tuo offered to spare He Pingsheng if he accepted a Heavenly Dao Slave Mark, but He Pingsheng refused and unleashed his Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Ability.
• He Pingsheng’s ten-thousand-zhang auspicious cloud shocked Lan Tuo, who blocked eleven beams of Heavenly Demon Divine Light with his thirteen-story pagoda.
• Lan Tuo attacked He Pingsheng with three Great Might Buddha Fists, but He Pingsheng escaped them with Void Swift Movement.
• He Pingsheng tried to flee using Spirit Roaming Taixu, then used a Heaven-Opening Punch as a feint and ambushed Lan Tuo with a Ten-Thousand-Jun Weight Immortal Talisman.
• Lan Tuo revealed that he had secretly struck He Pingsheng with Immortal Toad Heavenly Poison.

He Pingsheng escaped Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo, hid for nearly 189 years to advance to supreme unity golden immortal second layer, and then reached Nine Lions Emperor City. There, Ming Yue returned the Nine Poisons Heartbond Formation and delivered eighth-grade essence blood from Empress Xu Yuping, giving He Pingsheng a key material for refining a Death-Substitute Puppet.

• He Pingsheng neutralized Lan Tuo's poison with Three Lights Spirit Liquid and fled, changing course to evade pursuit.
• He Pingsheng hid in a wild Immortal Enclosure for about 189 years, cultivating until he broke through to supreme unity golden immortal second layer.
• He Pingsheng reached Nine Lions Emperor City in the Futu Immortal Domain and took the Standard Heavenly Gate Formation test, receiving an eighth-tier score of forty points.
• He Pingsheng brought Ming Yue out of the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and learned that Ming Yue had removed the Buddhist Path Heart Seal.
• Ming Yue returned the Nine Poisons Heartbond Formation and gave He Pingsheng the eighth-grade essence blood Empress Xu Yuping had entrusted to him.

He Pingsheng searched for Five Phases with Ming Yue’s help, but learned that the monk might be one of a Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal’s Three Corpses. He traveled to Six Awakenings Emperor City after hearing that its Buddhist holy maiden would appear at an upcoming assembly, where he began gathering information about her.

• He Pingsheng told Ming Yue that Five Phases had abducted Wen Buwan, and Ming Yue offered to seek information using the monk’s portrait.
• After six years of searching, Ming Yue found no record of Five Phases and suggested he might be one of a Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal’s Three Corpses.
• Ming Yue told He Pingsheng that a Buddhist holy maiden would appear at the Heavenly Buddha Assembly in Six Awakenings Emperor City in fifteen days.
• He Pingsheng hurried to Six Awakenings Emperor City and asked Li Zhanxing about the assembly.
• Li Zhanxing explained that Buddha Emperor Six Awakenings would give teachings at the assembly, and those who understood them could discuss Chan with the holy maiden.

He Pingsheng learned that the Buddhist holy maiden would appear at the Heavenly Buddha Assembly, and he suspected she might be Wen Buwan. Knowing he could not confront her master Five Phases without a way to kill a great all-encompassing golden immortal, he sought materials to craft stronger immortal talismans and tried to negotiate with a commerce association.

• He Pingsheng questioned Li Zhanxing about the holy maiden, learning she had only been spoken of for roughly two thousand years and would appear at the Heavenly Buddha Assembly, which immortals of any path could attend.
• He Pingsheng treated the holy maiden as if she were Wen Buwan and considered how to take her from Five Phases, concluding he needed a way to slay a great all-encompassing golden immortal.
• He Pingsheng decided to pursue seventh-grade immortal talismans rather than wait thousands of years to cultivate enough strength, but he lacked the high-grade sword intent needed to craft powerful ones.
• He Pingsheng visited a commerce association to seek materials, but a female immortal initially refused him access because he was only a supreme unity golden immortal.
• He Pingsheng showed the female immortal his supreme-grade seventh-grade Heavenly Spirit Shield, prompting her to ask what he wanted in exchange.

He Pingsheng tried to trade his supreme-grade seventh-grade defensive immortal talisman for offensive talismans, but the Commerce Associations in Six Awakenings Emperor City had none. He traveled to the Futu Lesser Vehicle Heaven, where another merchant praised his talisman but said seventh-grade offensive talismans were exceptionally rare because no one made them.

• A female immortal at a Commerce Association called He Pingsheng's talisman a niche item, then agreed it could be valuable when Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortals faced soul-attacking immortal artifacts.
• He Pingsheng offered to exchange his talisman for two seventh-grade low-grade offensive talismans, but the female immortal said her Commerce Association had no seventh-grade talismans at all.
• He Pingsheng left Six Awakenings Emperor City and used Spirit Roaming Taixu to travel to the Futu Lesser Vehicle Heaven.
• He Pingsheng bought a map and teleported to the area with the busiest Commerce Associations.
• A white-haired elder praised He Pingsheng's talisman but said his Commerce Association lacked seventh-grade offensive talismans because almost nobody made them.

He Pingsheng traded his supreme-grade Heavenly Spirit Shield for a Truth-and-Falsehood Immortal Talisman and materials, then enhanced them with the Treasure-Gathering Basin. With the Heavenly Buddha Assembly approaching, he decided to disguise himself as Luo Bingyao to investigate whether the Buddhist holy maiden was Wen Buwan.

• A Commerce Association elder explained that high-grade offensive Immortal Talismans were difficult to make and offered He Pingsheng a low-grade Truth-and-Falsehood Immortal Talisman.
• He Pingsheng exchanged his Heavenly Spirit Shield for the talisman and several seventh-grade materials needed for a Death-Substitute Puppet.
• He Pingsheng visited other Commerce Associations, gathered more puppet materials, and returned to Six Awakenings Emperor City using Spirit Roaming Taixu.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the talisman and materials in the Treasure-Gathering Basin, producing two supreme-grade Truth-and-Falsehood Immortal Talismans.
• As the Heavenly Buddha Assembly drew near, He Pingsheng decided to use a talisman and summoned Luo Bingyao to demand her Heaven Ascension Token so he could disguise himself as her.

He Pingsheng used an Immortal Talisman to disguise himself as Luo Bingyao, then attended the Heavenly Buddha Assembly in Emperor City. The assembly revealed that the Buddhist holy maiden was Wen Buwan, whom He Pingsheng recognized as the woman he had known before.

• He Pingsheng transformed into Luo Bingyao, took her Heaven Ascension Token, and sent her into the Primordial Purple Gold Staff after she warned him not to feel around.
• Ten days later, He Pingsheng arrived at the Heavenly Buddha Assembly and took a seat among the gathered Immortals.
• Buddha Emperor Six Awakenings descended and announced that the assembly would gather devotion to help the holy maiden break through to the great all-encompassing realm.
• Wen Buwan descended onto the platform, and He Pingsheng recognized her as the holy maiden.