Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng successfully drew a fifth-grade Cause and Effect Immortal Talisman and proved it could send a message across more than a hundred Immortal Domains. After the test, he caught up with the Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal and demanded the promised Shakya Blood Peach.

• He Pingsheng used three days to comprehend the talisman and, after two failed attempts, drew the Cause Talisman and Effect Talisman.
• The Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal agreed to test the Effect Talisman while He Pingsheng stayed behind with the Cause Talisman.
• He Pingsheng insisted that the Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal leave the Shakya Blood Peach with him, then proposed that they travel together for the test.
• The Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal flew across more than a hundred Immortal Domains, where the talisman successfully sent and received a message.
• He Pingsheng emerged beside the Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal, startling him, and demanded that he honor the wager by returning the Shakya Blood Peach.

He Pingsheng proved his long-distance Message Transmission Immortal Talisman worked, won two Shakya Blood Peaches from Daoist Foolish Man, and publicly shared the talisman formula. The Heavenly Dao rewarded him with merit, leaving him glowing with golden light.

• Daoist Foolish Man gave He Pingsheng two Shakya Blood Peaches and praised his talent after realizing he could use Spirit Roaming Taixu at extraordinary speed.
• Daoist Foolish Man returned with He Pingsheng to Golden Bull Lesser Vehicle Heaven and publicly confirmed that He Pingsheng's Message Transmission Immortal Talisman worked.
• He Pingsheng announced that he would share his talisman formula with everyone for free, and he manifested it in the void.
• A golden cloud appeared and Heavenly Dao Merit descended entirely upon He Pingsheng, surrounding him with brilliant golden light.

After He Pingsheng earned heavenly Dao merit by making his immortal messaging talisman available to everyone, a Primordial Unity Divine Emperor manifested in the sky, and Dao Lord Golden Bull brought him into his Dao Domain. Golden Bull explained the merit’s many uses, while He Pingsheng learned that it could also protect him from death.

• A Primordial Unity Divine Emperor’s eye appeared in the sky and forced He Pingsheng and the gathered crowd to kneel.
• Dao Lord Golden Bull appeared, paid respects to the Divine Emperor, then brought He Pingsheng into his Dao Domain.
• Golden Bull recognized He Pingsheng and explained that his immortal messaging talisman had earned him heavenly Dao merit.
• Golden Bull described how merit could erase recorded karmic burden, boost cultivation, restore wisdom, aid Dao comprehension, and protect its holder.

He Pingsheng discovered that his Heavenly Dao merit could not be refined by ordinary means, so Dao Lord Golden Bull took him to meet Immortal Maiden Huiming, who knew an ancient method for refining merit. Huiming gave He Pingsheng the method and asked him to preserve it for future generations.

• He Pingsheng learned that merit could protect him but would dissipate over time, and he found he could not refine it with Immortal Essence or Divine Sense.
• Dao Lord Golden Bull explained that He Pingsheng and Wang Dun had each received a portion of the merit and offered to take He Pingsheng to someone who knew how to refine it.
• Dao Lord Golden Bull brought He Pingsheng to Huiming Immortal Domain in Central Pole Heaven to meet Immortal Maiden Huiming.
• Dao Lord Golden Bull told Huiming that He Pingsheng had earned merit by publicly sharing the [Message Transmission Immortal Talisman] method.
• Huiming recognized why He Pingsheng had come and gave him her method for refining merit, urging him to pass it down.

He Pingsheng refined his Heavenly Dao merit using the method Dao Lord Hui Ming gave him and learned the Golden Wheel of Merit divine ability. Huiming revealed that she had remained at the pinnacle of the twelfth Dao Origin Realm for over six million years, still one step short of Primordial Unity.

• Dao Lord Hui Ming gave He Pingsheng a Golden Jade Slip with a merit-refinement method and a divine ability, then sent him to refine his merit in her side hall.
• He Pingsheng comprehended the method and condensed his merit into a fist-sized mass of purplish-gold substance.
• He Pingsheng learned that the accompanying divine ability, Golden Wheel of Merit, could block a fatal strike and burden an attacker with cause and effect, but he chose to enhance it before cultivating it.
• He Pingsheng returned to Huiming and showed her his condensed merit, which was about twice the size of the merit she had obtained.
• Huiming told He Pingsheng that she had reached the pinnacle of the twelfth Dao Origin Realm six million two hundred thousand years earlier and was still one step from Primordial Unity.

Dao Lord Hui Ming explained why many Dao Origin cultivators could not reach Primordial Unity and praised He Pingsheng's remarkable fortune. She gave him merit and asked him to take her talented young son as his disciple, leaving He Pingsheng to consider the entrustment.

• He Pingsheng congratulated Immortal Maiden Huiming, who explained that reaching Primordial Unity required fusing at least nine complete Great Dao Orders.
• Dao Lord Hui Ming told He Pingsheng that she had fused three orders but could not fuse a fourth, a common limit among Dao Lords.
• Huiming praised He Pingsheng's accomplishments and pointed out how a series of coincidences had helped him gain merit.
• He Pingsheng questioned whether Curved Array Heaven had enough fortune for him, Wang Dun, and Han Houzhi, while Huiming said the claim was only speculation.
• Huiming gave He Pingsheng a mass of merit and asked him to take her eighth-grade-fortune son as his disciple.

Dao Lord Hui Ming arranged for He Pingsheng to take her powerful, unruly son as his disciple, and the two agreed to settle their dispute with a fight. He Pingsheng began negotiating rules for the match while Hui Ming anxiously watched.

• Hui Ming asked He Pingsheng to become her youngest son’s master, and he worried the son would not respect a weaker teacher.
• Hui Ming brought her son to He Pingsheng, revealing that he was a second-layer Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal with an eighth-grade fortune foundation.
• Hui Ming explained that taking a master was about linking lineage, cause, effect, and fortune, and her son kowtowed nine times before challenging He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng proposed a fight in which the winner would decide whether the son remained his disciple, and the son accepted.
• Hui Ming created a void barrier for their match, and He Pingsheng began setting rules after demonstrating that he could use a powerful Immortal Talisman.

He Pingsheng fought Lin Xiaoran under rules that barred Immortal treasures and ended up defeating him after Lin Xiaoran lost his composure. The fight ended with Lin Xiaoran surrendering, and Huiming asked her battered son whether he still refused to accept the result.

• He Pingsheng and Lin Xiaoran agreed to fight without Immortal treasures and to stop when either surrendered.
• Lin Xiaoran attacked with a great fireball, but He Pingsheng countered with One Hundred Thousand Heavenly Ice, and their powers canceled each other out.
• Lin Xiaoran used Heavenly Fire Whirlwind, but He Pingsheng evaded it with Void Swift Movement and punched him.
• He Pingsheng chased Lin Xiaoran and beat him until Lin Xiaoran finally surrendered.
• He Pingsheng and Lin Xiaoran left the barrier, and Huiming asked her injured son whether he still refused to accept the result.

He Pingsheng challenged Lin Xiaoran’s belief that his eighth-grade fortune made him a peerless prodigy by having him spar with two senior sisters. Xin Baobao defeated Lin Xiaoran, leaving him unable to deny that his combat skills were poor.

• He Pingsheng told Lin Xiaoran that his senior brothers and sisters had pretended to lose because Lin Xiaoran’s mother was a Great Dao Lord.
• He Pingsheng brought Luo Bingyao to spar with Lin Xiaoran, and they fought to a draw before he stopped them.
• He Pingsheng brought Xin Baobao out for a second spar, and she defeated Lin Xiaoran with a single strike after thirty moves.

He Pingsheng taught Lin Xiaoran to stay humble and avoid conflicts, then traveled with him to give him experience. After a month, He Pingsheng discovered that the Treasure-Gathering Basin had multiplied and enhanced everything he had placed inside, including four enlarged masses of Heavenly Dao Merit.

• He Pingsheng told Lin Xiaoran that he was the weakest of his three disciples and taught him that keeping a low profile would help him stay alive.
• Xin Baobao reframed He Pingsheng's advice as keeping a low profile, and Lin Xiaoran promised to follow it.
• He Pingsheng traveled with Lin Xiaoran, giving him new experiences while secretly placing treasures, formulas, and Heavenly Dao Merit into the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• After a month, He Pingsheng found that the basin had enhanced the items, doubled the Shakya Blood Peaches, and turned two masses of Merit into four human-head-sized masses.
• He Pingsheng put away the Merit and began studying the enhanced Merit-refining method.

He Pingsheng mastered and enhanced the Golden Wheel of Merit, then used a Shakya Blood Peach to break through to the supreme unity golden immortal sixth layer. He kept one of the two enhanced wheels for Senior Brother Wang and reviewed an improved Message Transmission Immortal Talisman formula.

• He Pingsheng studied the enhanced Golden Wheel of Merit and learned that it could block a fatal attack and transport his original body anywhere in the Immortal Realm.
• He Pingsheng and Lin Xiaoran rented a residence and entered seclusion together after Lin Xiaoran said he was afraid to stay alone.
• He Pingsheng spent forty years comprehending the Golden Wheel of Merit, refined one, and put it in the Treasure-Gathering Basin for enhancement.
• He Pingsheng ate a Shakya Blood Peach and broke through to the supreme unity golden immortal sixth layer.
• He Pingsheng found two enhanced Golden Wheels of Merit, learned each person could use one only once, and decided to give one to Senior Brother Wang.
• He Pingsheng put away his remaining merit and examined the enhanced Message Transmission Immortal Talisman formula.

He Pingsheng mastered the Great Reincarnation Seal and used it to punish Lan Tuo’s soul for the torment Lan Tuo had inflicted on him. He sent Lin Xiaoran to join his senior sisters, then disguised himself as Duxuan and set out for the Nine Woods Immortal Domain.

• He Pingsheng studied the enhanced Buddhist Path Heart Seals and began comprehending the Great Reincarnation Seal.
• After twenty-seven years, He Pingsheng mastered the seal and used it on Lan Tuo’s soul, vowing to remove it after forty-six years before erasing him.
• He Pingsheng sent Lin Xiaoran to cultivate with her two senior sisters inside the Heaven-Inlaying Pearl.
• He Pingsheng transformed into his third form, Duxuan, teleported out of Emperor City, and traveled through the Void toward the Nine Woods Immortal Domain.

He Pingsheng used Red Spirit to return ten overdue Immortal Artifacts and close Qiao Xiaoqiao’s Artifact Refining Shop before heading to the Heavenly Mulberry Tree Secret Realm under his Duxuan identity. At a tea house, he learned that the Heavenly Mulberry Tree had been destroyed but that the Empress of Creation had found a Great Dao Order there, leaving him with reason to explore the secret realm.

• He Pingsheng watched as Red Spirit returned the ten Immortal Artifacts he had taken from customers.
• Red Spirit announced that Qiao Xiaoqiao was away and closed the artifact shop indefinitely.
• He Pingsheng concealed his connection to Red Spirit and prepared to explore the Heavenly Mulberry Tree Secret Realm as Duxuan.
• At a spirit tea house, He Pingsheng heard that Heavenly Mulberry Tree had been destroyed after a Dao Origin Realm expert cut it down, but no Great Dao Order was found at the time.
• A tea-house patron said the Empress of Creation had later found a Great Dao Order in the Immortal Enclosure where Heavenly Mulberry Tree had stood.

He Pingsheng learned that entry to the Heavenly Mulberry Tree Secret Realm required a qualification token, while Lou Zhiyi searched for his Daoist Clear Water identity and accused him of taking the Heavenly Eye Commerce Association’s most precious treasure. He discovered that the available routes were internal allocation or a test inside a Dao Lord’s domain, but neither offered him a safe solution.

• People in the teahouse discussed how the Empress of Creation had taken the Great Dao Order from the Heavenly Mulberry Tree Secret Realm, only for it to return after her death.
• Lou Zhiyi arrived and asked the teahouse patrons for information about Daoist Clear Water, claiming he had taken the Heavenly Eye Commerce Association’s most precious possession.
• When patrons asked whether the commerce association could sell or trade entry qualifications, Lou Zhiyi said it could not and dismissed the idea of a Trading Fair.
• He Pingsheng learned that the Heavenly Eye Star Cluster’s internally allocated places belonged to Immortal Emperor Heavenly Eye, while other candidates had to pass a test in a Dao Lord’s domain.
• He Pingsheng rejected the idea of seeking a qualification from Lou Zhiyi or entering the Dao Lord’s domain, and continued weighing his options.

He Pingsheng spent more than a century in seclusion, strengthening his Divine Sense, mastering Buddhist Path Heart Seals, and cultivating new abilities while still lacking a qualification for the Heavenly Mulberry Tree Secret Realm. With only twenty-odd years left, Lou Zhiyi arrived with a qualification token from someone who had identified him as Daoist Clear Water, leaving him to suspect a Dao Lord had uncovered his disguise.

• He Pingsheng rented a residence in Heavenly Eye Immortal City, failed repeatedly to craft Azure Lotus Sword Talismans, and enhanced two failed attempts into supreme-grade talismans with the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• During 120 years of seclusion, He Pingsheng advanced his Divine Sense, mastered the remaining Buddhist Path Heart Seals, cultivated his fourth aspect, and produced Demonic Blood through [Severed Arm Survival].
• With the Heavenly Mulberry Tree Secret Realm just over twenty years away and no qualification in hand, He Pingsheng prepared to search for one.
• Lou Zhiyi entered He Pingsheng's residence and called him Daoist Clear Water, though he denied being the person she named.
• Lou Zhiyi said an unidentified, high-cultivation woman had given her a Heavenly Mulberry Tree qualification token for He Pingsheng and told her he must not miss the opportunity.
• He Pingsheng concluded that a Dao Lord had seen through his identity and arranged for the token to reach him.

He Pingsheng revealed his true appearance to Lou Zhiyi, then spent years preparing for the Heavenly Mulberry Tree Secret Realm. At the secret realm’s gathering place, he learned that Dao Lord Lingbo guarded it, and Mo Ping arrived to escort him to her master.

• He Pingsheng admitted he had posed as Monk Duxuan and Daoist Clear Water, then transformed into his female appearance and told Lou Zhiyi he was Master Qiao.
• After Lou Zhiyi left, He Pingsheng continued refining his body and crafting seventh-grade Heaven-Rending Divine Talismans during his seclusion.
• Twenty-six years later, He Pingsheng left his Daoist grounds and traveled to the Heavenly Mulberry Tree Secret Realm in his original appearance.
• A female Supreme Unity Golden Immortal told He Pingsheng that the planet near the secret realm was Dao Lord Lingbo’s Dao Domain and that Dao Lord Lingbo would preside over the opening.
• Mo Ping introduced herself as Qiao Huizhu’s senior sister and told He Pingsheng that Dao Lord Lingbo wanted to see him, then asked him to come along.

Empress Mo Ping brought He Pingsheng to Dao Lord Lingbo, who revealed that she was also Qiao Huizhu’s former master, Dao Lord Fu Xue. Lingbo warned him to protect Qiao Huizhu and distrust Dao Lord Azure Lotus, but her explanation for Qiao’s past-life fate left He Pingsheng unconvinced.

• Empress Mo Ping escorted He Pingsheng through the Dao Domain to meet her master, Dao Lord Lingbo.
• Dao Lord Lingbo had He Pingsheng water her flowers, then revealed that she was also Dao Lord Fu Xue, Qiao Huizhu’s former master.
• Lingbo said she had tracked He Pingsheng since he entered the Nine Woods Immortal Domain, but insisted she had not summoned him to kill him.
• Lingbo told He Pingsheng to protect Qiao Huizhu, stay away from Dao Lord Azure Lotus, and test Azure Lotus by suggesting Qiao leave him.
• He Pingsheng asked why Lingbo had sent Qiao Huizhu into reincarnation, and Lingbo argued that Qiao and Wen Buwan should not seek the Great Dao Order of Creation.
• He Pingsheng remained unconvinced because Lingbo still had not explained why she killed Qiao Huizhu.

Dao Lord Lingbo asked He Pingsheng to retrieve the Great Dao Order of Creation from the Heavenly Mulberry Secret Realm, offering him a Great Dao Order of Wood in exchange. He refused to surrender the Creation Order to her, and she hurled him into the void; he survived and waited for the Immortal Enclosure to open.

• He Pingsheng asked Dao Lord Lingbo about the qualification token, and she explained that she wanted him to find the Great Dao Order of Creation in the Heavenly Mulberry Immortal Enclosure.
• Dao Lord Lingbo gave He Pingsheng a Light of Creation and offered to trade him a Great Dao Order of Wood for the Creation Order, so he could give the Wood Order to Qiao.
• He Pingsheng refused, insisting that the Creation Order belonged to whoever obtained it and that he sought it for his wife, not for Lingbo.
• Dao Lord Lingbo pinned He Pingsheng with her power and struck him with her sleeve, blasting him out of Lesser Vehicle Heaven into the void.
• He Pingsheng considered his life-saving abilities and decided to wait about half a year for the Immortal Enclosure to open.

He Pingsheng entered the Heavenly Mulberry Tree Secret Realm and killed a Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal who tried to seize his Spatial Great Dao Order. Meanwhile, Dao Lord Lingbo told Master Six Words that she intended to act against He Pingsheng, despite knowing the plan might be a scheme.

• The red-robed female Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal announced the secret realm's rules and let qualified immortals enter after checking their tokens.
• He Pingsheng entered the secret realm, used Spirit Roaming Taixu to reach the Heavenly Mulberry Tree stump, and drew the attention of covetous immortals.
• A Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal demanded to know whether He Pingsheng possessed a Spatial Great Dao Order, then attacked him.
• He Pingsheng killed the attacker with a supreme-grade Azure Lotus Sword Talisman and intimidated the other immortals with seventh-grade immortal talismans.
• Dao Lord Lingbo told Master Six Words she could not abandon her plan against He Pingsheng and explained that she had killed Qiao girl and believed the Heavenly Dao favored her.
• Master Six Words said he could not understand the grand tide of the Heavenly Dao or guide Dao Lord Lingbo.

Six Words explained to Lingbo that the great Dao of creation belonged to He Pingsheng by predetermined course, while Lingbo rejected his warning and insisted on defying Heaven. He chose to enter reincarnation, and He Pingsheng left the crowded stump to search the secret realm, where his Life-and-Death Thread suddenly lit up.

• Six Words told Lingbo that Qiao Huizhu and He Pingsheng had obtained the great Dao of creation because the Heavenly Dao had favored them, and warned Lingbo to abandon her murderous intent.
• Lingbo refused to believe in predetermined courses and argued that staking one's life against Heaven was cultivation.
• Six Words said he would enter reincarnation to cleanse his Dao heart, and explained that Primordial Unity experts could return even if they lost themselves for a time.
• He Pingsheng left the crowded Heavenly Mulberry Tree stump and began searching the vast secret realm for the great Dao order of creation.
• The green Life-and-Death Thread suddenly lit up on He Pingsheng's body.