Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng discovered that an ordinary-looking tree was the Great Dao Order of Creation and claimed it, then sought help from Dao Lord Azure Lotus. Azure Lotus disappeared instead of rescuing him, leaving He Pingsheng face-to-face with Dao Lord Lingbo, who hinted at a connection between Azure Lotus and Qiao Huizhu.

• He Pingsheng followed the Life-and-Death Thread, expecting to find Wen Buwan, but discovered it led to an ordinary little tree.
• He Pingsheng used Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils to identify the tree as the Great Dao Order of Creation, then extracted it and hid it in his Magical Treasure.
• He Pingsheng opened the Heaven-Inlaying Pearl and called to Dao Lord Azure Lotus for help, saying he had obtained the Great Dao Order and feared Dao Lord Lingbo would arrive.
• Dao Lord Azure Lotus recognized He Pingsheng but vanished without coming to his rescue, alarming He Pingsheng.
• Dao Lord Lingbo appeared behind He Pingsheng, mocked his trust in others, and asked whether he knew Azure Lotus's relationship with Qiao Huizhu.

Dao Lord Lingbo explained that her cultivation stalled because the ninth Great Dao Order of Wood had never appeared, so she planned to pursue the Great Dao of Creation instead. She pressured He Pingsheng to surrender the Great Dao Order of Creation and offered him one of her Wood Orders in exchange.

• Dao Lord Lingbo questioned He Pingsheng about destiny and argued that she intended to fight the fate blocking her path to Primordial Unity.
• Dao Lord Lingbo explained that she had fused with eight Great Dao Orders of Wood, but the ninth had never appeared, and she therefore wanted to cultivate the Great Dao of Creation.
• He Pingsheng questioned why Dao Lord Lingbo needed the Creation Order, and she explained that all nine intact Creation Orders were gathered within the Nine Woods Immortal Domain.
• Dao Lord Lingbo warned He Pingsheng that he could neither defeat her nor escape and demanded that he hand over the Great Dao Order of Creation.
• Dao Lord Lingbo recalled her promised exchange and offered He Pingsheng one of her refined Wood Attribute Great Dao Orders, ranked thirty-second.

He Pingsheng deceived Dao Lord Lingbo about the great Dao order of creation, then used his hidden Golden Wheel of Merit to turn her attack against her. Lingbo was left covered in karmic burden, and Master Six Words warned that her deadly tribulation was near.

• He Pingsheng put away the great Dao order of wood and persuaded Lingbo to take them into the void before demanding the great Dao order of creation.
• Lingbo revealed that Dao Lord Azure Lotus was targeting Qiao Huizhu and Wen Buwan, then threatened to take the order from He Pingsheng when he denied having it.
• Lingbo struck He Pingsheng with wood lightning, but his Death Substitution Art protected him from the first attack.
• He Pingsheng revealed his Golden Wheel of Merit, and Lingbo's next lightning strike shattered it and covered her with the light of karmic burden.
• Lingbo begged Master Six Words to save her, and he removed the karmic burden while warning that the Heavenly Dao's recorded cause and effect still threatened her with a deadly tribulation.

Master Six Words took half of Immortal Maiden Lingbo’s Light of Karmic Burden and offered to help send her roots and soul into Reincarnation if she dispelled the rest within a thousand years. He Pingsheng used his Golden Wheel of Merit to reach the Futu Immortal Domain, where he headed for the Buddhist Kingdom of Six Awakenings to visit Junior Sister Wen.

• Master Six Words absorbed half of Immortal Maiden Lingbo’s Light of Karmic Burden and told her she would have to dispel the rest herself.
• Master Six Words explained that he had preserved Qiao’s memories and Origin through Reincarnation, then offered to do the same for Lingbo if she found him within a thousand years.
• Lingbo asked whether Fortune was divided among the Five Directions Heaven, and Master Six Words said he could not see the Heavenly Dao clearly.
• He Pingsheng was transported to a strange space with a star chart of the Five Directions Heaven and chose the Futu Immortal Domain in Everlasting Life Heaven.
• He Pingsheng reached the Futu Immortal Domain and set out for the Buddhist Kingdom of Six Awakenings to visit Junior Sister Wen and give her the Creation Origin and Great Dao Order of Creation.

He Pingsheng confronted Dao Lord Azure Lotus at the Six Awakenings Star Cluster and learned that Azure Lotus was trying to resurrect Bodhisattva Futu, his younger sister. The Buddhist Path promised that Qiao Huizhu was safe for now, but Azure Lotus’s plan left He Pingsheng facing a powerful enemy.

• He Pingsheng found Mingyuan confronting Dao Lord Azure Lotus, who left after He Pingsheng returned the Heaven-Inlaying Pearl.
• Mingyuan brought He Pingsheng to the Buddhist kingdom, where Wen Buwan and Six Awakenings welcomed him and Six Awakenings apologized for their past conflict.
• Mingyuan revealed that Dao Lord Azure Lotus was Bodhisattva Futu’s elder brother.
• He Pingsheng realized Azure Lotus planned to combine Wen Buwan’s and Qiao Huizhu’s souls to resurrect Futu.
• Mingyuan and Six Awakenings assured He Pingsheng that Qiao Huizhu was safe while Wen Buwan remained under the Buddhist Path’s protection.

He Pingsheng reassured himself that Dao Lord Azure Lotus would not kill Qiao Huizhu while Wen Buwan remained unharmed, then met Wen Buwan in her Daoist Grounds. He gave her a Great Dao Order of Creation and asked about a mysterious life-and-death bond and the Divine Ability manual Great Restoration to Life, whose connection to their past left her visibly shaken.

• Six Awakenings and Mingyuan reassured He Pingsheng that Dao Lord Azure Lotus was unlikely to attack him or kill Qiao Huizhu yet.
• He Pingsheng told Mingyuan he wanted to focus on improving his cultivation, and Mingyuan invited him to cultivate beside Wen Buwan in the Futu Immortal Domain.
• He Pingsheng followed Wen Buwan to her Daoist Grounds, sealed them with formations and the Seventh Moon Treasure Mirror, and gave her a supreme-grade seventh-grade Creation Origin and a Great Dao Order of Creation.
• Wen Buwan wept over the danger He Pingsheng had faced, and he explained that Dao Lord Azure Lotus had deceived him into seeking the treasure; he then insisted she keep the Great Dao Order rather than give it to Qiao Huizhu.
• He Pingsheng asked Wen Buwan to explain their Life-and-Death Thread, but she refused and agreed instead to answer another question.
• He Pingsheng asked for the Great Restoration to Life manual he had once given Wen Buwan, and she trembled before questioning whether he could cultivate its recovery ability without a Creation Spirit Root.

He Pingsheng learned that Wen Buwan had bound their fates through the Great Restoration to Life, a healing art that let her take his place in a killing tribulation at the cost of her own life. He secluded himself to grow stronger, eventually reaching the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal eleventh layer before stepping outside and being stunned by what he saw.

• He Pingsheng read the Great Restoration to Life and realized Wen Buwan had risked herself to form a one-sided life-and-death thread with him.
• He Pingsheng promised to cultivate until no one in the Immortal Realm could threaten him, then began secluded cultivation in Wen Buwan's side hall.
• He Pingsheng used merit, treasures, and Dao techniques to advance his cultivation, body refining, and divine refining over nearly eight hundred years.
• He Pingsheng exhausted his merit and continued studying the Spatial Great Dao with Heavenly Enlightenment Golden Cores.
• After another 2,842 years, He Pingsheng reached the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal eleventh layer and stepped outside, where he was stunned by the sight before him.

Wen Buwan condensed a Dao seed and broke through to the Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal realm while He Pingsheng continued advancing in cultivation. The chapter ended with Wen Buwan learning that He Pingsheng had reached the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal eleventh layer and asking him for a treasure to help her break through a bottleneck.

• He Pingsheng emerged from seclusion at the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal tenth layer and told Buddha Emperor Six Awakenings that he had also overcome the eleventh layer's Dao obstacle.
• He Pingsheng and Buddha Emperor Six Awakenings saw green clouds gathering over Wen Buwan's palace and realized she was condensing a Dao seed.
• He Pingsheng returned to seclusion, broke through his flesh barrier, and continued cultivating and studying for another four hundred and thirty-six years.
• Wen Buwan's Dao seed condensed successfully, and green clouds and Daoist laws spread across Emperor City as she formed three flowers.
• Wen Buwan emerged as a Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal and was astonished to learn He Pingsheng had reached the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal eleventh layer.
• Wen Buwan asked He Pingsheng for a treasure to help her break through a bottleneck, and he showed her a Shakya Blood Peach that he chose not to use yet.

He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan tested themselves in the Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal Standard Heavenly Gate Formation after Mingyuan urged He Pingsheng to consider condensing a Dao Seed. He Pingsheng reached the formation’s end with a perfect score, leaving Mingyuan astonished.

• Mingyuan told He Pingsheng that Ming Yue had reached the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal bottleneck and advised He Pingsheng to decide on the foundation for his Dao Seed.
• He Pingsheng chose Spatial Daoist Law as his foundation, and Mingyuan said no current Primordial Unity Divine Emperor cultivated it.
• Mingyuan brought He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan to take the Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal formation test and asked the elder to keep their results secret.
• Wen Buwan reached section eight and scored ninety-six points in the formation.
• He Pingsheng passed Wen Buwan and reached the formation’s end, scoring ninety-nine points.

After He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan completed the Standard Heavenly Gate Formation, Mingyuan explained that it tested affinity for chaos astral wind and revealed the Ninefold Heavens above the Five Directions Heaven. He believed He Pingsheng would one day ascend those heavens, while the deeper mystery of the real Heaven's Gate remained beyond them.

• Mingyuan warned He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan to keep their results in the Standard Heavenly Gate Formation secret, and the three left the formation together.
• Mingyuan explained that the formation simulated chaos astral wind and selected both geniuses and immortals with a strong affinity for it.
• He Pingsheng asked about Dao Origin Realm testing, and Mingyuan said those immortals could enter the real Heaven's Gate Formation directly.
• Mingyuan told He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan that nine heavens lay between the Five Directions Heaven and Heaven's Gate, where chaos astral wind came from above.
• Mingyuan explained that Dao Origin Grand Realm immortals entered the Ninefold Heavens to struggle against chaos qi, while even Primordial Unity experts had never reached the ninth layer.
• Mingyuan said he believed He Pingsheng would one day set foot upon the Ninefold Heavens and reflected that Wen Buwan might be a foil to He Pingsheng's rise.

Mingyuan warned He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan against severing their Three Corpses and explained why immortals sought the Ninefold Heavens. He Pingsheng planned to travel and find a way to undo his Life-and-Death Thread, but the chapter ended as Mingyuan went to welcome the imperial daughter of North Pole Purple Tenuity Heaven.

• Mingyuan warned He Pingsheng and Wen Buwan that severing their Three Corpses would weaken their chances of reaching Primordial Unity.
• Mingyuan explained that immortals hoped to enter the Divine Realm through a rift beyond the Ninefold Heavens because the Immortal Realm’s Great Dao Order could not form a Divine Spark.
• He Pingsheng said he wanted to travel to break through his bottleneck and find a way to undo his Life-and-Death Thread, while Wen Buwan urged him to stay in the Futu Immortal Domain.
• Mingyuan offered to conceal the traces He Pingsheng left when changing forms by letting him use his Buddhist Domain.
• Buddha Emperor Six Awakenings announced that the imperial daughter of North Pole Purple Tenuity Heaven had arrived, and Mingyuan left to welcome her.
• He Pingsheng promised to stay with Wen Buwan after she stabilized her cultivation, then said their time together might help him break through his bottleneck.

He Pingsheng met Princess Chonghua, who asked about his senior brother Wang Dun and his past relationships. Wang Dun revealed himself after He Pingsheng vouched for him, and the two exchanged treasures and merit.

• A nun brought He Pingsheng to meet Princess Chonghua in Buddha Emperor Six Awakenings' meditation hall.
• Princess Chonghua asked He Pingsheng whether Wang Dun had any Dao Companions or concubines, and He Pingsheng insisted that Wang Dun cared only for the Great Dao.
• Wang Dun stepped out from behind the dais, and Princess Chonghua took his arm after hearing He Pingsheng's assurances.
• He Pingsheng gave Wang Dun a Golden Wheel of Merit and explained how he had earned merit through the Message Transmission Immortal Talisman.
• Wang Dun gave He Pingsheng the merit stored in his space.

Wang Dun reunited with He Pingsheng, gave him his merit and a Disguise Card, and offered to help against Dao Lord Azure Lotus. After He Pingsheng declined an invitation to leave with Wang Dun and Princess Chonghua, they traveled toward For There Is Immortal Domain to consider how to confront Azure Lotus, while Wang Dun learned that Chonghua’s father was forbidden from interfering in Immortal Realm cause and effect.

• Wang Dun gave He Pingsheng his three-foot mass of merit and a Disguise Card, then heard how He Pingsheng had offended several Dao Lords and agreed to cause Dao Lord Azure Lotus trouble.
• Princess Chonghua invited He Pingsheng to North Pole Purple Tenuity Heaven and offered to introduce him to her sister Taizhen, but He Pingsheng declined because he already had a Dao Companion.
• Wang Dun and Princess Chonghua left in a divine carriage guarded by sixteen Dao Origin Realm Dao Lords and headed for For There Is Immortal Domain in Sovereign Earth Heaven.
• Chonghua asked Wang Dun whether her servants could defeat Dao Lord Azure Lotus, but Wang Dun said even many more would not overcome a peak Great Dao Lord.
• Wang Dun suggested asking Chonghua’s father for help, but Chonghua explained that a prohibition prevented those who reached Primordial Unity from interfering in Immortal Realm cause and effect.

Wang Dun and Princess Chonghua destroyed Dao Lord Azure Lotus’s palace, then Wang Dun disguised himself as Azure Lotus and traveled ahead to Princess Yuyao’s birthday banquet in Central Pole Heaven. The chapter ends with Wang Dun introducing himself to a woman in black as Dao Lord Azure Lotus.

• Princess Chonghua and Wang Dun arrived in Lesser Vehicle Heaven, where Wang Dun ordered their dragon-pulled carriage to smash into Dao Lord Azure Lotus’s palace.
• Princess Chonghua apologized to Dao Lord Azure Lotus, and Wang Dun insulted him before tossing him immortal crystals as compensation and departing.
• Wang Dun told Princess Chonghua he intended to make Azure Lotus pay for his junior brother He Pingsheng, then transformed to look and sound exactly like Azure Lotus.
• Wang Dun asked for passage to Central Pole Heaven while Princess Chonghua waited for his signal to follow.
• At Princess Yuyao’s birthday gathering, a woman in black challenged Wang Dun, and he introduced himself as Dao Lord Azure Lotus.

At Princess Yuyao’s birthday banquet, she accused Dao Lord Azure Lotus of trying to assault her, but her senior brothers and the Central Pole Heaven Emperor suspected that someone had impersonated him. The Heavenly Emperor could not determine whether the scene was a disguise, and his oath against interfering in Immortal Realm conflicts left him unsure how to respond.

• Immortals gathered in the Heavenly Emperor’s Imperial Garden for Princess Yuyao’s birthday banquet.
• Princess Yuyao fled her Great Hall in disheveled clothes and accused Dao Lord Azure Lotus of trying to violate her.
• Princess Yuyao’s eldest senior brother reconstructed the scene, which showed Azure Lotus assaulting her before vanishing, then warned that someone might have impersonated him to provoke a conflict.
• The Central Pole Heaven Emperor examined the reconstructed images but could not tell whether Azure Lotus had been disguised.
• The Heavenly Emperor considered that Azure Lotus might have been framed, but his oath to avoid cause and effect prevented him from intervening freely.

Wang Dun and Princess Chonghua rescued Qiao Huizhu from the Central Pole Heaven Emperor’s disciples and brought her to He Pingsheng. After reuniting with his wife, He Pingsheng enhanced Heavenly Dao Merit and Golden Wheels of Merit, while Qiao Huizhu and Wen Buwan began discussing the Dao.

• The Central Pole Heaven Emperor sent seventy-six disciples to attack Dao Lord Azure Lotus, who drew them away from his Daoist grounds to protect his disciples.
• Princess Chonghua and Wang Dun rescued Qiao Huizhu while Azure Lotus fought the disciples, then carried her toward the Futu Immortal Domain.
• Wang Dun brought Qiao Huizhu to He Pingsheng, where she reunited with him and met Wen Buwan.
• He Pingsheng enhanced Wang Dun’s Heavenly Dao Merit in the Treasure-Gathering Basin and refined two Golden Wheels of Merit, then enhanced them into four.
• He Pingsheng found Qiao Huizhu and Wen Buwan discussing the Great Dao of Creation together.

He Pingsheng gave Golden Wheels of Merit to Qiao Huizhu, Wen Buwan, and his disciples, then revealed Azure Lotus’s scheme to resurrect Bodhisattva Futu by merging Qiao Huizhu and Wen Buwan’s souls. Azure Lotus arrived demanding Qiao Huizhu, but Mingyuan intervened as Azure Lotus defended his desire to bring his younger brother back to life.

• He Pingsheng gave Golden Wheels of Merit to Qiao Huizhu and Wen Buwan, warning that each could block an attack even from someone at Primordial Unity.
• He Pingsheng explained Azure Lotus’s plot, and Wen Buwan and Qiao Huizhu realized he had intended to take Wen Buwan’s soul and might later merge their souls to resurrect Bodhisattva Futu.
• He Pingsheng urged Qiao Huizhu to stay with him and gave Golden Wheels of Merit to Luo Bingyao, Xin Baobao, and Lin Xiaoran.
• He Pingsheng sensed Azure Lotus’s arrival and flew into the void, where Bodhisattva Mingyuan had stopped him.
• Azure Lotus demanded that He Pingsheng hand over Qiao Huizhu, while He Pingsheng mocked him as the greatest hypocrite in the Immortal Realm.
• Azure Lotus explained that Futu was his younger brother and that he wanted to merge Qiao Huizhu’s and Wen Buwan’s souls to resurrect him, but Mingyuan urged Azure Lotus to let go of the past.

Azure Lotus tried to take Qiao Huizhu and Wen Buwan to merge their souls, but Divine Emperor Everlasting Life stopped him. Everlasting Life then gave He Pingsheng the purified myriad willow ghost-binding wood and asked him for a favor before revealing that he was about to enter reincarnation.

• Azure Lotus fought Mingyuan as he tried to take Qiao Huizhu and Wen Buwan, wounding the monk after a dozen exchanges.
• Divine Emperor Everlasting Life appeared and told Azure Lotus that taking the two women was against the proper order and could not be done.
• Azure Lotus blamed his former master for failing to prevent Futu’s death, then left after Everlasting Life refused to yield.
• Everlasting Life removed a profound aura from the myriad willow ghost-binding wood and returned it to He Pingsheng to refine.
• Everlasting Life explained that Primordial Unity Divine Emperors journeyed through reincarnation to break bottlenecks and strengthen their Dao hearts, and said he was about to enter reincarnation himself.
• Everlasting Life asked He Pingsheng for a favor and gave him a Storage Bag containing ten ninth-grade Supreme Profound Immortal Apricots.

Divine Emperor Everlasting Life asked He Pingsheng to spare Dao Lord Lingbo, revealing that she was his daughter and that he had preserved Qiao Huizhu’s previous incarnation for rebirth. Everlasting Life left He Pingsheng two mysterious items, then entered reincarnation as a sage’s fall brought mourning across heaven and earth.

• Everlasting Life gave He Pingsheng ten Supreme Profound Immortal Apricots and explained their effects on cultivation and wisdom roots.
• Everlasting Life revealed that Dao Lord Lingbo was his daughter and asked He Pingsheng to spare her when his Daoist law reached the heavens.
• He Pingsheng refused to trade the apricots for Lingbo’s life, and Everlasting Life asked him instead to preserve her soul for reincarnation.
• Everlasting Life gave He Pingsheng a Jade Slip and a speck of purple light, warning him not to open the slip before its destined moment.
• Everlasting Life dispersed his Daoist law and immortal essence, entered reincarnation, and fell as a sage while blood rain fell through the void.
• Mingyuan appeared, explained that Everlasting Life would one day return, and chanted for his rebirth as He Pingsheng put away the Storage Bags.

He Pingsheng stayed with Wen Buwan for a thousand years before preparing to take his disciples away to cultivate and travel. After the disciples developed aspects to hide their identities, they argued that they should head for Mahayana Heaven instead of a remote star cluster.

• He Pingsheng let his three disciples explore Futu Lesser Vehicle Heaven while he stayed with Wen Buwan and Qiao Huizhu.
• He Pingsheng spent a thousand years with Wen Buwan and worked as a counter elder, but his cultivation remained stuck.
• Wen Buwan urged He Pingsheng to cultivate, so he gathered his disciples and gave them the [Thirty-Two Great Men] scripture to develop aspects that concealed their identities.
• After seventy-seven years, Luo Bingyao, Xin Baobao, and Lin Xiaoran completed their aspects, and He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu changed their own appearances as well.
• Luo Bingyao, Xin Baobao, and Qiao Huizhu persuaded He Pingsheng to take them to Mahayana Heaven rather than settle in a barren star cluster.