Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng fought a Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal but could not kill him, so he traded the immobilizing immortal talisman for a divine sense ability. After enhancing his spoils in the Treasure-Gathering Basin, He Pingsheng examined the improved spatial immortal talisman manual and set aside the divine sense art.

• He Pingsheng used his sword, immense strength, and Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Ability to fight the Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal, gaining an advantage without being able to kill him.
• The Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal asked to stop and offered his divine sense ability in exchange for ending the fight, and He Pingsheng accepted the jade slip and departed.
• He Pingsheng put his spoils into the Treasure-Gathering Basin and retrieved them after more than ten days, finding that they had been enhanced.
• He Pingsheng read the enhanced spatial immortal talisman manual, which offered expanded theory for creating higher-grade talismans, then set aside the enhanced Great All-Encompassing Divine Sense Condensation Art.

He Pingsheng learned about the Illusory Moon Deadly Grounds and prepared to join Zheng Yi there. He left Luo Yu with cultivation resources, then learned they would have to wait about three hundred years for the Order Storms to subside.

• He Pingsheng returned to Lesser Vehicle Heaven with Luo Yu and asked her to gather information about the Illusory Moon Deadly Grounds.
• While Luo Yu was away, He Pingsheng studied an untitled text on Spatial Immortal Talismans and was impressed by its methods.
• Luo Yu returned with information that the deadly grounds held many treasures but were dangerous because of illusions and Order Storms.
• He Pingsheng gave Luo Yu resources sufficient for her to cultivate to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, then left without telling her his name.
• He Pingsheng returned the Divination Commerce Association's gold token to Zheng Yi and asked when they would enter the deadly grounds.
• Zheng Yi told He Pingsheng that the Order Storms were raging and they would need to wait about three hundred years before entering.

He Pingsheng agreed to wait three hundred years before exploring the Illusory Moon Deadly Grounds and used the delay to cultivate in Zheng Yi's territory. When the deadly-grounds storm lasted longer than expected, he continued his seclusion and reached the fifth layer of Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.

• Zheng Yi explained that the Illusory Moon Deadly Grounds were governed by fluctuating illusory laws and that a calm period usually followed each order storm.
• He Pingsheng agreed to join Zheng Yi and Zi Yuan in exploring the deadly grounds after three hundred years, and Zheng Yi invited him to stay and cultivate in a great hall.
• He Pingsheng set up formations to protect his Daoist grounds and studied the spatial Great Dao Order alongside an unnamed tome, using a Heavenly Enlightenment Golden Core and the myriad willow ghost-binding wood.
• After three hundred years, He Pingsheng broke through his Dao obstacle to the fifth layer of Supreme Unity Golden Immortal and worked out the sixth-grade Heaven-Rending Divine Talisman.
• Zi Yuan told He Pingsheng that the storm was still raging, so he resumed seclusion and spent more than seventy years working out the seventh-grade Heaven-Rending Divine Talisman.
• He Pingsheng completed the method for drawing the seventh-grade Heaven-Rending Divine Talisman, broke his flesh barrier, and reached the fifth layer of Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.

After more than three hundred years in seclusion, He Pingsheng advanced in cultivation, created seventh-grade Heaven-Rending Divine Talismans, and greatly increased his speed. He left the Fire Source Immortal Enclosure and traveled toward the Nine Woods Immortal Domain to reunite with Qiao Huizhu.

• He Pingsheng completed the Heaven-Rending Divine Talisman formula and drew thirteen talismans, which he enhanced into twenty-six supreme-grade talismans capable of killing undefended Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortals at their peak.
• He Pingsheng tested his improved Spirit Roaming Taixu and found that he could now travel anywhere in the Immortal Realm within half a month.
• He Pingsheng returned to Zheng Yi, asked him to notify him when the Illusory Moon Deadly Grounds opened, and gave him a Cause and Effect Talisman.
• He Pingsheng retrieved his formation and flew toward the Nine Woods Immortal Domain in Everlasting Life Heaven to see Qiao Huizhu, whom he had not seen for thirteen thousand five hundred years.

He Pingsheng rushed toward the Nine Woods Immortal Domain to find his wife, Qiao Huizhu, but encountered Buddhist monks who explained that his Life-and-Death Thread linked his life to Wen Buwan’s. He learned that the Mystic Sect had exploited their bond to threaten the Buddhist Path’s reincarnated bodhisattva.

• He Pingsheng flew for six days toward the Nine Woods Immortal Domain, then stopped to restore his Immortal Essence and Divine Sense.
• He Pingsheng noticed the Life-and-Death Thread and discovered Ming Yue and the hidden cultivation of the elder Mingyuan nearby.
• Ming Yue told He Pingsheng that Wen Buwan was safe and that their formed Life-and-Death Thread meant her life depended on his.
• Mingyuan revealed that Wen Buwan was the reincarnation of Bodhisattva Futu, the Buddhist Path’s only hope of entering the Primordial Unity Great Realm.
• Mingyuan explained that the Mystic Sect had used the Life-and-Death Thread to make killing He Pingsheng a way to kill Wen Buwan.

He Pingsheng learned that the Myriad Willow Ghost-Binding Wood was a dangerous blood-refined treasure and that his wife Qiao Huizhu might be the other reincarnation of a Buddhist bodhisattva. Mingyuan gave him a way to conceal his identity and travel under alternate Heaven Ascension Tokens, while warning him that his journey to Everlasting Life Heaven was perilous.

• Mingyuan revealed that He Pingsheng's Myriad Willow Ghost-Binding Wood could refine Wen Buwan's soul, then took it in exchange for the seventeenth fragment of spatial Great Dao order.
• Mingyuan warned He Pingsheng that enemies could use his identity and journey to the Nine Woods Immortal Domain to endanger Wen Buwan, and said Qiao Huizhu might be the other half of a bodhisattva's reincarnated soul.
• Mingyuan gave He Pingsheng the Thirty-Two Great Men scripture and thirty-two Heaven Ascension Tokens, advising him to cultivate a Buddha form before entering Everlasting Life Heaven.
• After Mingyuan and Ming Yue departed, He Pingsheng began studying the scripture.
• Ming Yue asked why Mingyuan did not confine He Pingsheng, and Mingyuan explained that Wen Buwan's fate might already be fixed before beginning to give a second reason.

He Pingsheng mastered the first form of the Thirty-Two Great Men Divine Ability and used it to create a false identity as he searched the Nine Woods Immortal Domain for Qiao Huizhu’s former star cluster. He learned that Heaven-Cleansing Sand could cleanse the Dao Heart and potentially reduce the danger of inner demons, leaving him intrigued by the tea’s effects.

• Bodhisattva Mingyuan warned Ming Yue that He Pingsheng and other exceptional talents could have hidden innate foundations, making it dangerous for the Buddhist Path to capture them.
• After eighty-six years of cultivation, He Pingsheng gained a superficial understanding of the Thirty-Two Great Men Divine Ability and mastered its first Buddha form.
• He Pingsheng assumed the identity of Daoist Clear Water and traveled to the Nine Woods Immortal Domain to find the renamed Creation Star Cluster.
• Unable to locate the Creation Star Cluster on his star chart, He Pingsheng entered Nine Woods Lesser Vehicle Heaven and went to a Spirit Tea House to gather information.
• He Pingsheng tasted Heaven-Cleansing Sand and learned from the attendant that the sixth-grade treasure could cleanse the Dao Heart and reduce the risk of inner demons.

He Pingsheng learned that the Nine Woods Immortal Domain had been hunting him for over six hundred years, though his disguise kept him from being recognized. After learning how the domain’s nine Dao Lords and Heaven-Cleansing Sand were connected, he went to buy tea leaves and heard their prices.

• He Pingsheng confirmed he was visiting from Purple Tenuity Heaven, and the woman showed him a wanted image that depicted him.
• He Pingsheng realized the hunt had begun about a century after Wen Buwan planted the Life-and-Death Thread in him, and suspected the Nine Woods Immortal Domain was targeting Wen Buwan through him.
• The woman gave He Pingsheng a jade slip containing his simulated aura, which matched his original aura exactly.
• The woman explained that the Nine Woods Immortal Domain was formed from nine destroyed domains and that nine Dao Lords each watched over an ancient tree.
• The woman told He Pingsheng that Heaven-Cleansing Sand came from leaves of the eighth-grade Heavenly Bitterwood, then led him to the shopkeeper.
• The shopkeeper quoted prices for sixth-grade Heaven-Cleansing Sand leaves, including two hundred high-grade immortal crystals for one high-quality leaf.

He Pingsheng learned that the Creation Star Cluster had been renamed the Heavenly Eye Star Cluster and traveled there to seek clues about Qiao Huizhu while keeping his identity and intentions hidden. He arrived in Heavenly Eye Emperor City and asked the commerce association’s grand elder for a job as a shopkeeper at the counter, presenting his Heaven Ascension Token.

• He Pingsheng bought a jar of low-grade Heaven-Cleansing Sand and asked the tea house shopkeeper about the Creation Star Cluster.
• Customers explained that the Creation Star Cluster was now called the Heavenly Eye Star Cluster and discussed the Empress of Creation’s mysterious death.
• A crimson-robed man offered He Pingsheng secrets about the Empress, but He Pingsheng refused and flew toward the Heavenly Eye Star Cluster.
• He Pingsheng decided to investigate Qiao Huizhu discreetly and live as an ordinary immortal in the Heavenly Eye Star Cluster.
• He Pingsheng asked the grand elder of the Heavenly Eye Commerce Association for work as a counter shopkeeper and showed her his Heaven Ascension Token.

He Pingsheng served as a counter elder at the Heavenly Eye Commerce Association while learning that Qiao Huizhu, the Empress of Creation, had likely been framed before her death. He told Lou Zhiyi he planned to explore a secret realm, and she agreed to cover his post and invited him to a gathering six hundred years later.

• Lou Zhiyi appointed He Pingsheng as the first-floor counter elder, and Shopkeeper Song explained the position and its rules.
• He Pingsheng spent forty-two years at the Commerce Association, gathering treasures and information about Qiao Huizhu's life and suspected betrayal.
• He Pingsheng concluded that Qiao Huizhu's alleged crimes were likely a scheme that forced her death, connected to the schemes targeting Wen Buwan.
• He Pingsheng told Lou Zhiyi he would leave to explore a secret realm, and she agreed to cover his counter position.
• Lou Zhiyi told He Pingsheng she had reserved him a place at the Dao Comprehension gathering at the Heavenly Mulberry Tree in six hundred years.

He Pingsheng prepared a way to evade the powerful figure he believed was surveilling him, then traveled to Zheng Yi’s group to join their expedition into the Illusory Moon Deadly Grounds. After meeting the other members, he impressed Zheng Yi with Heaven-Cleansing Sand, but Liu Ruyan and Longsword looked down on his cultivation.

• He Pingsheng used the Heaven-Inlaying Pearl to record the area around Lou Zhiyi’s room and planned to use the Illusory Moon Deadly Grounds to escape surveillance under a new identity.
• After Zheng Yi’s Cause Talisman cracked, He Pingsheng hurried to Zheng Yi’s Daoist grounds in the Fire Source Immortal Enclosure.
• Zi Yuan introduced He Pingsheng to Liu Ruyan, Longsword, and Jin Wuyuan, while Zheng Yi explained that He Pingsheng could refine supreme-grade six-revolution golden cores.
• Liu Ruyan mocked He Pingsheng’s cultivation, and Longsword warned that he would not save He Pingsheng if he became a burden.
• He Pingsheng gave Zheng Yi supreme-grade Heaven-Cleansing Sand, which Zi Yuan recognized as tea that could cleanse the Dao heart.

He Pingsheng revealed that the leaves he offered were supreme-grade Heaven-Cleansing Sand, whose tea could cleanse the Dao Heart and help dispel inner demons. He gave leaves to Jin Wuyuan, Zheng Yi, and Zi Yuan, while Daoist Longsword and Liu Ruyan were left without any.

• Zheng Yi brewed tea from a Heavenly Bitterwood leaf, and the gathered cultivators tasted it.
• Daoist Longsword and Jin Wuyuan felt the tea’s powerful Dao Heart-cleansing effect, while Liu Ruyan accused He Pingsheng of misrepresenting it.
• Daoist Longsword acknowledged that the tea’s cleansing effect matched or exceeded the Heaven-Cleansing Sand he had tasted before.
• He Pingsheng showed a jar labeled Heaven-Cleansing Sand and explained that his leaves were supreme grade bought in the Nine Woods Immortal Domain.
• He Pingsheng gifted two leaves to Jin Wuyuan, leaving Jin Wuyuan, Zheng Yi, and Zi Yuan with leaves while Daoist Longsword and Liu Ruyan received none.

He Pingsheng declined to trade his Heaven-Cleansing Sand, then joined Daoist Longsword and the others as they traveled to the Illusory Moon Deadly Grounds. When they encountered Immortal Emperor Xunlei, Longsword invited the group to pay their respects, though He Pingsheng recognized him as the man he had previously beaten and extorted.

• Daoist Longsword apologized to He Pingsheng and asked to trade for Heaven-Cleansing Sand, but He Pingsheng refused and recommended buying tea in the Nine Woods Immortal Domain.
• Liu Ruyan and the others discussed traveling to Everlasting Life Heaven after their current expedition, and Daoist Longsword and Jin Wuyuan decided to go.
• Zheng Yi led the group toward the Illusory Moon Deadly Grounds after its storm weakened, and Immortal Maiden Zi Yuan revealed that He Pingsheng could use Spirit Roaming Taixu.
• The group arrived at the Immortal Enclosure and learned they would need to wait several more days before Supreme Unity Golden Immortals could enter safely.
• Daoist Longsword recognized Immortal Emperor Xunlei and invited the others to pay their respects, while He Pingsheng recalled beating Xunlei and taking a copy of his divine sense cultivation art.

He Pingsheng confronted Immortal Emperor Xunlei, who fled after learning He Pingsheng could now fulfill his old threat. He Pingsheng caught and killed him, then returned to leave Longsword and the others stunned by the speed and ease of the deed.

• Longsword and the others paid their respects to Immortal Emperor Xunlei, while He Pingsheng stood apart until Xun Lei recognized him as an old acquaintance.
• He Pingsheng reminded Xun Lei of his promise to kill him once he became strong enough, and Xun Lei fled into the void.
• He Pingsheng pursued Xun Lei with Spirit Roaming Taixu and caught up with him, astonishing the witnesses left behind.
• Xun Lei attacked He Pingsheng with a planet, but He Pingsheng evaded it and used a Heaven-Rending Divine Talisman to split Xun Lei's body in two.
• He Pingsheng annihilated Xun Lei's Immortal Soul, collected his corpse, and returned after fewer than thirty breaths.
• He Pingsheng told the group he had avenged an old grudge, and Longsword cautiously asked whether he had really killed a great all-encompassing golden immortal.

He Pingsheng entered the Immortal Enclosure with Zheng Yi and the others, then announced he would stay behind to cultivate rather than search for treasures. As he prepared to work on Immortal Emperor Xunlei’s corpse, Liu Ruyan returned and offered to guard him.

• He Pingsheng explained that his mastery of Spatial Daoist Law let him match Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortals in speed, and the group waited six days for the storm over the Immortal Enclosure to subside.
• Zheng Yi led the group into the Immortal Enclosure, where Liu Ruyan explained that its chaotic rules prevented anyone from using Spatial Law or Spirit Roaming Taixu.
• When Zheng Yi asked how they should divide their gains, He Pingsheng proposed that whoever obtained something could keep it, then revealed Immortal Emperor Xunlei’s corpse and said he would stay behind to cultivate.
• He Pingsheng claimed that killing Immortal Emperor Xunlei had depleted his origin and that he needed to enter seclusion, so Zheng Yi and the others departed.
• Liu Ruyan returned and offered to guard He Pingsheng, leaving him bewildered.

He Pingsheng brought Luo Bingyao out to guard him while he recovered, and she defeated Liu Ruyan in a brief fight. After Luo Bingyao sensed that the strange laws around them felt familiar, He Pingsheng wondered whether her void spirit root was an illusory transformation spirit root.

• He Pingsheng rejected Liu Ruyan’s offer to guard him and brought Luo Bingyao out of the Heaven-Inlaying Pearl to protect him while he recovered.
• Liu Ruyan questioned Luo Bingyao’s ability to guard He Pingsheng, and Luo Bingyao challenged her to a fight.
• Luo Bingyao defeated Liu Ruyan in three moves, then nearly struck her with the Heavenly Net Blood Saber Slash when Liu Ruyan offered He Pingsheng a dual cultivation technique.
• He Pingsheng blocked Luo Bingyao’s attack, and Liu Ruyan fled into the mist.
• Luo Bingyao said the strange laws felt familiar to her, prompting He Pingsheng to suggest that her void spirit root might be an illusory transformation spirit root.

He Pingsheng finished processing Immortal Emperor Xunlei’s body and cultivated the second form of the Thirty-Two Great Men over forty-three years. He then adopted the name Qiao Xiaoqiao to open an alchemy shop and attract Qiao Huizhu’s attention, before continuing to cultivate his third form.

• Luo Bingyao chose to stay beside He Pingsheng and cultivate her understanding of illusory transformation laws rather than search for a great Dao order.
• He Pingsheng processed Immortal Emperor Xunlei’s corpse, then began cultivating the Thirty-Two Great Men while keeping watch over Luo Bingyao.
• After forty-three years, He Pingsheng cultivated his second form and demonstrated transformations into a female cultivator, Daoist Clear Water, and himself.
• He Pingsheng wrote the name Qiao Xiaoqiao and an aura onto a blank Heaven Ascension Token, intending to use it for an alchemy shop that might draw Qiao Huizhu to him.
• He Pingsheng continued cultivating his third form to gain another means of survival.

He Pingsheng completed his third form as the Buddhist monk Duxuan but stayed behind because Luo Bingyao was still enclosed in a growing Dao Cocoon. While waiting, he searched Immortal Emperor Xunlei’s belongings, enhanced a divine ability and an artifact-refining manual, and decided to study artifact refining for a future shop under Qiao Xiaoqiao’s name.

• He Pingsheng finished cultivating his third form, assumed the appearance of a young monk, and created the identity Duxuan.
• He Pingsheng saw that Luo Bingyao’s Dao Cocoon had grown beyond ten zhang and decided he could not leave her behind.
• He Pingsheng inventoried Immortal Emperor Xunlei’s two rings and found many supplies, low-grade immortal artifacts, and jade slips.
• He Pingsheng put the Heaven’s Wrath Thunder Dragon divine ability and Copper Furnace Metal Refining Art into his Treasure-Gathering Basin for enhancement.
• He Pingsheng received the enhanced heaven-tier supreme-grade works and decided to try studying artifact refining for Qiao Xiaoqiao’s future shop.

After decades of cultivation, He Pingsheng mastered Heaven's Wrath Thunder Dragon and helped Luo Bingyao obtain supreme-grade Seven-Revolution Golden Cores from a mass of Illusory Transformation Origin. The chapter ended with Luo Bingyao asking him to teach her his pill-refining secret and He Pingsheng smacking her on the head.

• After eighty-nine years in seclusion, He Pingsheng mastered Heaven's Wrath Thunder Dragon, advanced his Divine Sense, and learned the basics of the Copper Furnace Metal Refining Art.
• Luo Bingyao emerged from her Dao cocoon and said she had broken through three Dao Obstacles, reaching the sixth layer in Dao Obstacles while remaining at the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal Third Layer.
• Luo Bingyao sensed a mass of Illusory Transformation Origin, and she and He Pingsheng flew for more than thirty days to find it.
• Luo Bingyao identified the seventh-grade Origin as supreme grade and asked He Pingsheng to refine it into Spring and Autumn Great Dao Pills.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the Origin, gathered enough medicinal ingredients, and refined two batches of supreme-grade Seven-Revolution Golden Cores for Luo Bingyao.
• Luo Bingyao asked He Pingsheng to teach her his pill-refining secret, and he hit her on the head.

He Pingsheng and Luo Bingyao cultivated in the Illusory Moon Deadly Grounds until Luo Bingyao obtained the complete Illusory Transformation Great Dao Order, causing the grounds to collapse. He escaped to Heavenly Eye Emperor City, while Zhou Yiren learned that He Pingsheng had disappeared.

• He Pingsheng stayed with Luo Bingyao as she cultivated, and he improved his artifact-refining skills and divine sense over another 167 years.
• Nine purple-gold marks of Illusory Transformation Great Dao Order struck Luo Bingyao, giving her the complete order from the first through ninth chains.
• Luo Bingyao warned He Pingsheng that the Illusory Moon Deadly Grounds would collapse, so he sent her to Wild Goose Peak in the Heaven-Inlaying Pearl.
• He Pingsheng hid the Heaven-Inlaying Pearl underground, entered it, and emerged on a street in Heavenly Eye Emperor City.
• Ninth told Zhou Yiren that the deadly grounds had vanished and He Pingsheng had disappeared, and Zhou Yiren laughed at the news.