Chapter Summaries

Zhou Yiren warned Ninth that He Pingsheng’s hidden fortune and obscured fate made him dangerous to attack, then summoned Zhu Ranyu to set his plan in motion. He gave Zhu Ranyu the Chaos Yin-Yang World-Grinding Disc, a supreme treasure returned to his Golden Crow Tribe, leaving his purpose unresolved.

• Zhou Yiren explained that He Pingsheng might carry immense fortune and that even their Master could not clearly see his past or future, so Ninth should avoid attacking him.
• Zhou Yiren told Ninth to stop tracking He Pingsheng and announced that he would use a borrowed blade, ordering Ninth to summon Zhu Ranyu.
• Zhu Ranyu arrived at Zhou Yiren’s Great Hall and nervously apologized for not visiting earlier.
• Zhou Yiren presented Zhu Ranyu with the Chaos Yin-Yang World-Grinding Disc and said their Master was returning the Golden Crow Tribe’s former supreme treasure to him.

Zhu Ranyu thanked Zhou Yiren for returning the white half of the Chaos Yin-Yang World-Grinding Disc, then left as Zhou and Ninth discussed the limits of cultivation and the legendary Divine Spark. Zhou told Ninth to avoid entangling himself in cause and effect and to wait for the Heavenly Dao’s course, including the matter of Qiao Huizhu.

• Zhu Ranyu kowtowed to the white stone disc, and Zhou Yiren explained that its lost black half would reveal itself in the Immortal Realm within ten thousand years.
• Zhu Ranyu left after Zhou Yiren told him to forget He Pingsheng and the Buddhist Path's Holy Maiden.
• Zhou Yiren revealed that he possessed five metal-attribute Great Dao Order pieces but could fuse only three, leaving him without hope of reaching Primordial Unity.
• Zhou Yiren told Ninth to pursue opportunities without becoming entangled in cause and effect, and said no one could fuse thirty-six pieces of Great Dao Order.
• Zhou Yiren told Ninth to wait and see how the Heavenly Dao unfolded, adding that Qiao Huizhu's killer should fear the consequences of her reincarnation.

He Pingsheng opened Qiao Xiaoqiao's Immortal Artifact Shop in Heavenly Eye Emperor City and completed his first customer’s reforging deal, using the Treasure-Gathering Basin to improve the artifacts and a Sword Dao origin. After three hundred years of refining, cultivation, and growing renown, the shop had become well known throughout Emperor City.

• He Pingsheng accepted a damaged fifth-grade divine bell from a Golden Immortal and agreed to reforge it in exchange for immortal copper essence and a sixth-grade Sword Dao origin.
• He Pingsheng negotiated for an additional fifth-grade defensive artifact, promising to upgrade both artifacts to supreme grade in return for the origin and the extra item.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the bell, belt, and Sword Dao origin with the Treasure-Gathering Basin, then used the origin to refine Spring and Autumn Great Dao Pills and cultivate.
• He Pingsheng fed the seventh-grade illusory transformation origin to the Primordial Purple Gold Staff while the Golden Immortal waited past the promised deadline.
• He Pingsheng returned with two supreme-grade artifacts, and the satisfied Golden Immortal left the shop.
• Qiao Xiaoqiao's Artifact Refining Shop grew renowned throughout Emperor City over the next three hundred years.

He Pingsheng’s artifact shop reopened briefly after ten years, and he selected commissions paid with high-grade Sword Intent Origins before returning to seclusion. His Primordial Purple Gold Staff developed a powerful artifact spirit named Little Purple, and He Pingsheng prepared to test whether the Treasure-Gathering Basin could duplicate the staff.

• He Pingsheng accepted five Immortal Artifact forging commissions and five quality upgrades from customers offering Sword Intent Origins, then closed his shop and resumed seclusion.
• He Pingsheng sensed a change in the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and discovered that it had manifested a young female artifact spirit.
• The artifact spirit explained that the staff had become a seventh-grade Immortal Artifact and that she had Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal cultivation.
• He Pingsheng named the artifact spirit Little Purple and learned that she could operate the staff for him and conceal herself and the weapon.
• He Pingsheng asked Little Purple to merge into the staff so he could try duplicating it with the Treasure-Gathering Basin.

He Pingsheng discovered that enhancing the Primordial Purple Gold Staff had created a second staff and named their artifact spirits Purple Spirit and Red Spirit. Seventy years into seclusion, he met Yin Qing Yu, who had come because of his shop sign, and the two began cautiously discussing whether he was the person she sought.

• He Pingsheng found that the Primordial Purple Gold Staff had split into two staffs, each with a Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal artifact spirit.
• He Pingsheng named the spirits Purple Spirit and Red Spirit and sent them to watch the shop while he continued refining pills in seclusion.
• After seventy years, Purple Spirit told He Pingsheng that a woman had come asking about his shop sign, and he left seclusion to meet her.
• He Pingsheng met Yin Qing Yu, a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, and brought her into his Daoist Grounds to speak privately.
• Yin Qing Yu said she could not openly explain why she had come, and He Pingsheng asked her for evidence that he was the person she sought.

He Pingsheng met Yin Qing Yu, who claimed she had been sent by his senior sister, Qiao Huizhu, to find him. After verifying their connection through shared names and his Heaven Ascension Token, he agreed to travel with Yin Qing Yu to find Qiao Huizhu in Sovereign Earth Heaven.

• Yin Qing Yu told He Pingsheng that she was searching for someone too and invited him to see her shop as proof of her story.
• He Pingsheng saw the Great Void Sect Heavenly Talisman Mountain He Asks He Thinks General Store and recognized the names as private connections to Qiao Huizhu.
• Yin Qing Yu explained that she had heard of He Pingsheng's shop two hundred years earlier, returned to consult her junior sister, and had only just come back to find him.
• He Pingsheng asked Yin Qing Yu about Su Zhenzhen and Liang Huaqiu, then revealed his disguise and showed her his Heaven Ascension Token.
• Yin Qing Yu confirmed He Pingsheng's identity and said Qiao Huizhu was in For There Is Lesser Vehicle Heaven, within For There Is Immortal Domain in Sovereign Earth Heaven.

He Pingsheng reached For There Is Immortal Domain and reunited with Qiao Huizhu after years apart. After their emotional reunion, Qiao Huizhu invited him to sit with her beneath a great tree so they could talk.

• He Pingsheng traveled to For There Is Immortal Domain with Yin Qing Yu and changed back to his true appearance before meeting his wife.
• He Pingsheng gave Yin Qing Yu the Heavenly Prison Soul-Tempering Formula as a reward for finding him.
• Yin Qing Yu brought He Pingsheng to the Dao Lord's heavenly palace, where Qiao Huizhu came out to meet him.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu recognized each other, recalled their first meeting, and wept while embracing.
• Qiao Huizhu led He Pingsheng to a swing beneath a great immortal tree and invited him to sit beside her.

He Pingsheng learned how Qiao Huizhu had found her way to Sovereign Earth Heaven and heard the truth about her previous incarnation. Qiao Huizhu revealed that the Empress of Creation had been one of the reincarnations of Bodhisattva Futu, leaving He Pingsheng stunned by her connection to Wen Buwan.

• Qiao Huizhu told He Pingsheng that after ascending in Curved Array Heaven, she had been brought to Sovereign Earth Heaven by her martial uncle, Dao Lord Azure Lotus.
• Qiao Huizhu explained that she had searched for He Pingsheng for years and sent her senior sister to look for him in the Creation Immortal Domain.
• He Pingsheng asked Qiao Huizhu about her previous life as the Empress of Creation, and she explained how struggles over Fortune shaped the Immortal Realm.
• Qiao Huizhu described how thirty-one Mystic Sect Dao Origin Dao Lords had joined forces to kill Bodhisattva Futu, fearing the Buddhist Path would claim Everlasting Life Heaven's Fortune.
• Qiao Huizhu revealed that one fragment of Bodhisattva Futu's Immortal Soul Light reincarnated as the Empress of Creation, while another became Wen Buwan, shocking He Pingsheng.

Qiao Huizhu told He Pingsheng about her past life as the Empress of Creation, her death at the hands of Immortal Maiden Fu Xue, and her unusual rebirth with her memories and fortune intact. After He Pingsheng discovered her cultivation and learned about the Great Dao Order of Creation, Daoist Thousand Hooks saw him with Qiao Huizhu and flew into a rage.

• Qiao Huizhu explained that her past incarnation was the Empress of Creation, who was killed by her master after being framed for stealing the Great Dao Order of Creation.
• Qiao Huizhu said she believed her unusual rebirth and recovered memories came from being a Great Fortune Bearer, and He Pingsheng discovered she had eighth-grade fortune and had reached the great all-encompassing golden immortal third layer.
• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu a supreme-grade Creation Origin, and she explained that nine Great Dao Orders of Creation had become ancient trees in the Nine Woods Immortal Domain, of which five remained.
• Yin Qing Yu stopped Daoist Thousand Hooks from visiting Qiao Huizhu because she had just been reunited with her husband, He Pingsheng.
• Daoist Thousand Hooks swept his Divine Sense into the courtyard, saw Qiao Huizhu and He Pingsheng together, and became furious.

Daoist Thousand Hooks intruded on Qiao Huizhu’s courtyard and challenged He Pingsheng over his marriage to her. He Pingsheng defeated him with ease and destroyed his Dao root and Dantian, leaving him unable to cultivate.

• Daoist Thousand Hooks ignored Yin Qing Yu’s warning and entered Qiao Huizhu’s courtyard to demand He Pingsheng’s identity.
• Qiao Huizhu named He Pingsheng as her husband and explained that their marriage had been acknowledged by their families and elders in the lower realm.
• Daoist Thousand Hooks challenged He Pingsheng to a fight to the death, and He Pingsheng accepted.
• Daoist Thousand Hooks unleashed Thousand Hooks Frenzied Slash, but He Pingsheng caught the sword between two fingers and pinned him in the air.
• He Pingsheng struck Daoist Thousand Hooks with sword qi and divine sense, destroying his Dao root and Dantian and ending his ability to cultivate.

He Pingsheng reunited with Qiao Huizhu, drove Daoist Thousand Hooks from her courtyard, and learned about her Dao Origin Realm martial uncle, Dao Lord Azure Lotus. After Thousand Hooks’s allies gathered outside, He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu went out to face them.

• Qiao Huizhu threw Daoist Thousand Hooks out of her courtyard and restored its defensive formation.
• Qiao Huizhu told He Pingsheng that Dao Lord Azure Lotus had once been a prodigy of Everlasting Life Heaven and helped her because he valued feeling and reason over strength.
• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu a Black-and-Yellow Divine Sword and showed her the preserved body of her former avatar.
• The courtyard formation shuddered as Thousand Hooks’s master and several hundred people arrived, and He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu went outside to meet them.

He Pingsheng confronted Immortal Emperor Wuchen after Thousand Hooks accused him of crippling his cultivation, then watched Qiao Huizhu kill Thousand Hooks. He seized Thousand Hooks’s soul and challenged Wuchen, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Immortal Emperor Wuchen accused He Pingsheng of bullying Thousand Hooks, while Thousand Hooks falsely portrayed himself as the victim and drew the disciples’ support.
• He Pingsheng insisted Thousand Hooks had challenged him to a fight to the death, but Thousand Hooks claimed he had only been joking.
• Qiao Huizhu suddenly split Thousand Hooks in two, and He Pingsheng seized his escaping Immortal Soul Light.
• Qiao Huizhu accepted responsibility for killing Thousand Hooks, and He Pingsheng openly challenged Immortal Emperor Wuchen to act against them.

Wuchen challenged He Pingsheng to survive three attacks, but He Pingsheng nearly killed him with a coordinated assault before an enormous figure intervened. The onlookers addressed the figure as Forefather, and He Pingsheng wondered whether he was Dao Lord Azure Lotus.

• Wuchen offered to spare He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu if He Pingsheng survived three attacks, and He Pingsheng accepted despite Qiao Huizhu's concern.
• He Pingsheng transformed into a ten-thousand-zhang demonic form and struck Wuchen with his Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Ability.
• Purple Spirit and Red Spirit ambushed Wuchen with concealed sword strikes, then He Pingsheng attacked with a moon-white sword strike that sealed the void and threatened to kill him.
• An enormous invisible hand stopped He Pingsheng's sword strike, and a voice criticized it as only half a sword strike before shattering it.
• The disciples knelt and greeted the enormous figure as Forefather, while He Pingsheng wondered if he was Dao Lord Azure Lotus.

Dao Lord Azure Lotus stopped the fight between He Pingsheng and Wuchen, judged Thousand Hooks’s deception, and destroyed his soul. He then explained that his For There Is Lesser Vehicle Heaven was a physical Dao Domain, where a powerful Dao Origin cultivator was nearly unbeatable.

• Dao Lord Azure Lotus revealed that He Pingsheng’s sword strike would have killed Wuchen and reprimanded Wuchen for using his seniority to bully He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng handed over Thousand Hooks’s soul, but Azure Lotus destroyed it after Thousand Hooks tried to twist the truth and shift blame.
• Azure Lotus warned the gathered disciples to learn from Thousand Hooks’s fate, then asked He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu to stay behind.
• He Pingsheng asked where the Lesser Vehicle Heavens came from, and Qiao Huizhu explained that powerful Dao Origin cultivators condensed their Dao Domains into physical worlds.
• Qiao Huizhu explained that Dao Origin cultivators were invincible within their own Dao Domains, though that advantage failed if they left their domains or faced many opponents.

Dao Lord Azure Lotus gave He Pingsheng a sword lotus to help him complete his Sword Dao Divine Ability and sent him and Qiao Huizhu to the neighboring Numinous Splendor Star Cluster. After a hundred years of contemplation, He Pingsheng showed Qiao Huizhu his finished technique, but she rejected the name he proposed.

• Dao Lord Azure Lotus explained that Lesser Vehicle Heaven was his Dao Domain and offered He Pingsheng a sword lotus containing the essence of his Sword Dao.
• Azure Lotus gave He Pingsheng a hundred years to comprehend the Sword Intent and told him to meet afterward for an unspecified task.
• Azure Lotus sent He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu to stay in the Numinous Splendor Star Cluster, and they went to Qiao Huizhu's residence there.
• He Pingsheng erected Immortal Formations around the hall, then spent time with Qiao Huizhu before turning to contemplate the Sword Dao.
• After a hundred years, He Pingsheng demonstrated a powerful Divine Ability that locked down space and time, then proposed calling it Combined Strengths.
• Qiao Huizhu rejected the name and asked He Pingsheng to come up with another.

Dao Lord Azure Lotus asked He Pingsheng to find the Great Dao Order of Creation in a secret realm in the Nine Woods Immortal Domain, which Qiao Huizhu needed to enter Dao Origin. He Pingsheng agreed and set out, but headed first to the Golden Bull Immortal Domain to settle old matters.

• He Pingsheng told Dao Lord Azure Lotus that he had completed his Divine Ability and broken through his Dao Obstacle to the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal sixth layer.
• Dao Lord Azure Lotus explained that nine fragments of the Great Dao Order of Creation remained in secret realms across the Nine Woods Immortal Domain and that Qiao Huizhu needed one to enter Dao Origin.
• Qiao Huizhu warned that He Pingsheng would face near-certain death, but Dao Lord Azure Lotus gave him a supreme-grade Heaven-Inlaying Pearl that could summon him for rescue.
• He Pingsheng agreed to search for the Great Dao Order of Creation and departed for the Nine Woods Immortal Domain ahead of a secret realm opening in a little over a hundred years.
• He Pingsheng crossed the Immortal Realm toward Everlasting Life Heaven, passed the Jade Bottle Star Cluster without visiting Xu Yuping, and arrived at the Golden Bull Immortal Domain seventeen days later.

He Pingsheng confronted Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo in the Lantuo Buddhist Kingdom and demanded his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark. Lan Tuo fled, but He Pingsheng caught and killed him before he could surrender.

• He Pingsheng arrived at the Lantuo Buddhist Kingdom and destroyed the formations and meditation hall around Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo.
• Lan Tuo was shocked by He Pingsheng's Supreme Unity Golden Immortal fifth-layer cultivation and apologized for his past actions.
• He Pingsheng demanded that Lan Tuo surrender his Heavenly Dao Slave Mark, but Lan Tuo used Spirit Roaming Taixu to flee.
• He Pingsheng caught up to Lan Tuo, sealed him with Temporal and Spatial Daoist Laws, and attacked with repeated Combined Strengths sword strikes.
• Lan Tuo tried to surrender, but He Pingsheng's attacks pierced and killed him, revealing his corpse as a giant Red-Backed Heavenly Toad.

He Pingsheng captured Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo’s soul, claimed his treasures, and helped a group of travelers find their way. After he introduced himself as Wang Dun, the woman recognized the name as belonging to a famed prodigy associated with the Wang Dun Code.

• He Pingsheng trapped Lan Tuo’s escaping soul and imprisoned him in the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, intending to learn the Great Heart-Devouring Seal from him.
• He Pingsheng collected the Red-Backed Heavenly Toad, Lan Tuo’s storage rings, and a jade slip containing four Buddhist Path Heart Seals.
• He Pingsheng sent Lan Tuo’s other resources to Wild Goose Peak for his disciples and children.
• Six or seven Supreme Unity Golden Immortals met He Pingsheng in the void and asked for directions to the heart of the Golden Bull Immortal Domain.
• He Pingsheng gave the travelers a route and called himself Wang Dun, prompting the black-clad woman to identify him as a prodigy who had comprehended the Wang Dun Code.

He Pingsheng learned that the Wang Dun Code was a system for sending messages across the Immortal Realm using Cause and Effect Talismans. After memorizing its code table and crafting instructions, he thought the method could be improved.

• He Pingsheng heard a group of seven Immortals explain the Wang Dun Code and agreed to visit the Golden Bull Lesser Vehicle Heaven, but left them behind because they were too slow.
• He Pingsheng reached the City Lord's Manor ahead of the others and found tens of thousands of Immortals studying the code.
• He Pingsheng learned that the Wang Dun Code combined Cause and Effect Talismans to encode characters and send specific messages over any distance.
• He Pingsheng memorized the Wang Dun Yin-Yang Code Table and the instructions for making coded Immortal Talismans, then considered improving how the talismans stored Cause and Effect Talismans.

He Pingsheng criticized an Immortal Talisman assembled from Cause and Effect Talismans and claimed he could improve it by drawing one directly. After accepting a challenge wagered on a Shakya Blood Peach, he began studying Wang Dun’s principles to create his own design.

• A blue-robed cultivator tried to sell He Pingsheng a crude message talisman that held up to one hundred characters for a sixth-grade origin.
• He Pingsheng said the talisman was merely Cause and Effect Talismans packed inside a Storage Talisman, and remarked that Wang Dun might not understand Immortal Talismans.
• Nearby Immortals accused He Pingsheng of insulting Wang Dun, and a Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal challenged him to draw a better talisman.
• The Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal offered a Shakya Blood Peach if He Pingsheng succeeded, and He Pingsheng asked for a month to study.
• He Pingsheng sat down to work out how to combine Wang Dun’s principles, Cause and Effect Talismans, and a character reference table into a directly drawn talisman.