Chapter Summaries

After spending more than six thousand years investigating the Immortal Domain Abyss, Qiao Huizhu entered the vortex He Pingsheng had fallen into and discovered another world. Convinced her husband was alive there, she withheld a message to protect him from being pursued.

• Qiao Huizhu investigated records of Immortals who fell into the abyss and found that their Life Tablets could remain intact for thousands of years before shattering.
• Luo Bingyao gave Qiao Huizhu one half of a Message Transmission Immortal Talisman, and Qiao Huizhu said farewell to Luo Bingyao, Lin Xiaoran, and Xin Baobao.
• Qiao Huizhu traveled to Everlasting Life Heaven to enter the same vortex He Pingsheng had used.
• Mingyuan and Ming Yue discussed whether the abyss led to another world, with Ming Yue arguing that it did.
• Qiao Huizhu emerged into a world of stars beside an enormous white vortex and realized He Pingsheng might still be alive.
• Qiao Huizhu decided not to use the talisman because the people hunting He Pingsheng might discover the other world and follow them.

Qiao Huizhu entered the Heavenly Ruins, where Xue Jin and her granddaughter Xue Ling approached her and questioned her about the Immortal Realm. After Qiao Huizhu asked about He Pingsheng, Xue Jin claimed he had died, then revealed her deception and trapped Qiao Huizhu in pink divine light.

• Qiao Huizhu arrived in the Heavenly Ruins and met Xue Jin, a Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal, and her granddaughter Xue Ling.
• Qiao Huizhu and Xue Jin exchanged questions about the Immortal Realm and the Heavenly Ruins.
• Qiao Huizhu asked Xue Jin about He Pingsheng and conjured his image for her to recognize.
• Xue Jin claimed He Pingsheng had been killed, then laughed and trapped Qiao Huizhu in pink divine light.
• Xue Jin ordered Xue Ling to use the Immortal-Binding Rope and take Qiao Huizhu back to their clan.

Qiao Huizhu survived Xue Jin’s ambush, defeated her Three Corpses, and set off to find He Pingsheng. In the Immortal Realm, Zhu Ranyu ordered Dian Mei to enter the Immortal Domain Abyss after her and report what she found.

• Qiao Huizhu revealed that she had seen through Xue Jin’s deception and survived the Charm-Origin Heavenly Poison with Three Lights Spirit Liquid.
• Xue Jin’s Three Corpses attacked Qiao Huizhu, who evaded them with Void Swift Movement and wounded Xue Jin before she fled.
• Qiao Huizhu slew one of the Three Corpses and drove the other two away, then flew toward a nearby star cluster to search for He Pingsheng.
• Dian Mei told Zhu Ranyu that Qiao Huizhu had entered the Immortal Domain Abyss and that He Pingsheng was still alive.
• Zhu Ranyu ordered Dian Mei to enter the abyss with Message Transmission Immortal Talismans and report on the world beyond.

He Pingsheng reached the Second Heaven of the Heavenly Ruins with the Heavenly Gang Eight-Tone Shield and met Dao Lord Sigui, who offered to trade for the technique. Sigui presented two Eighth Grade Dao Armaments and a Demonic Path divine ability, leaving He Pingsheng to consider the deal.

• He Pingsheng met Dao Lord Sigui on the Second Heaven, and Sigui explained that he had come from the Demonic Realm and longed to return.
• Sigui told He Pingsheng that Dao Lord Mystic Heaven was above them, trying to ascend to the Third Layer Heaven.
• He Pingsheng explained that the Heavenly Gang Eight-Tone Shield had let him withstand Chaos Astral Wind and reach the Second Heaven.
• Sigui offered a supreme grade Seventh Grade Immortal Artifact for the shield technique, but He Pingsheng declined and asked for an Eighth Grade Immortal Artifact instead.
• Sigui offered He Pingsheng a choice between a blue bead and a crimson whip, plus the Demonic Path divine ability Shifting Stars and Constellations.

He Pingsheng learned the limits and escape-focused purpose of Sigui’s Shifting Stars and Constellations, then traded for the divine ability and chose the Heavenly Thunder Pearl. After Sigui left, He Pingsheng strengthened the pearl and the copied divine ability, producing two supreme-grade pearls and two jade slips.

• Dao Lord Sigui explained that Shifting Stars and Constellations enabled teleportation without spatial-law fluctuations, but required Dao Origin cultivation and could not cross between realms.
• He Pingsheng chose the eighth-grade low-grade Heavenly Thunder Pearl over Sigui’s middle-grade rigid whip and gave Sigui a copy of Heavenly Gang Eight-Tone Shield in exchange for the divine ability.
• He Pingsheng memorized Shifting Stars and Constellations from Sigui’s plum-blossom jade slip and learned that Sigui’s master, the foremost Demonic Sage, had given it to him.
• Dao Lord Sigui left to comprehend Daoist law, while He Pingsheng recovered and copied Shifting Stars and Constellations onto a jade slip.
• He Pingsheng put the copied jade slip and Heavenly Thunder Pearl into the Treasure-Gathering Basin, which strengthened them into two jade slips and two supreme-grade Heavenly Thunder Pearls.

He Pingsheng mastered Shifting Stars and Constellations, tested its ability to cross vast distances, and used his Primordial Purple Gold Staff to move a region of stars into his Magical Treasure. He brought Wen Buwan and Yinpan Ying to Yinpan Star within the new world and left them there to cultivate.

• He Pingsheng mastered Shifting Stars and Constellations after twenty-seven years and refined one Heavenly Thunder Pearl, but could not ascend to the Third Layer Heaven.
• He Pingsheng used Shifting Stars and Constellations to travel to Yinpan Star, where Wu Nana reported that most powerful Immortals had already left.
• He Pingsheng ordered Wu Nana to clear high-level Immortals from Yinpan Star and its 132 surrounding stars, then began moving the region into his Magical Treasure.
• He Pingsheng spent eight hours drawing the stars and their surrounding space into the Primordial Purple Gold Staff, forming a small world inside it.
• He Pingsheng brought Wen Buwan and Yinpan Ying to Yinpan Star in the new world and told them to cultivate there until they reached Golden Immortal.

He Pingsheng prepared for a long seclusion in the Second Heaven after failing to break through the world barrier to the Immortal Realm. Meanwhile, Xue Jin learned that He Pingsheng had become notorious throughout the Heavenly Ruins and had reached the Second Heaven.

• He Pingsheng gave Wu Nana the Severed Arm Survival technique and eighth-grade Immortal Talismans, then sent her to explore the Heavenly Ruins while he entered seclusion.
• He Pingsheng tried to cross the white vortex into the Immortal Realm but was forced back after exhausting his Daoist Law and Divine Sense.
• He Pingsheng returned to the Second Heaven, set up ten layers of Immortal Formations, and began strengthening his Divine Sense while studying formation and talisman texts.
• Xue Jin learned that Patriarch Nine Flowers had ordered the Heavenly Fox Clan not to offend He Pingsheng, who had killed thirty-seven Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortals of the White Luan Clan.
• Xue Jin's Third Brother told her that He Pingsheng had ascended to the Second Heaven.

Xue Jin confessed that she had poisoned Qiao Huizhu years earlier to steal her body, and revealed that Qiao was He Pingsheng’s wife. Patriarch Nine Flowers killed Xue Jin and ordered the Heavenly Fox Clan to find and protect Qiao Huizhu, then deliver her to He Pingsheng.

• Xue Jin told her senior brother that she had poisoned Qiao Huizhu in hopes of taking her body, and learned that Qiao was He Pingsheng’s wife.
• Xue Jin’s senior brother warned Patriarch Nine Flowers that He Pingsheng could destroy the Heavenly Fox Clan over the attack.
• Patriarch Nine Flowers confronted Xue Jin and demanded to know how she would atone for endangering the clan.
• Xue Jin proposed killing Qiao Huizhu, but Patriarch Nine Flowers stabbed her and imprisoned her Immortal Soul Light.
• Patriarch Nine Flowers ordered the Heavenly Fox Clan to find and protect Qiao Huizhu and deliver her personally to He Pingsheng.

Qiao Huizhu waited in the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins for a chance to reach He Pingsheng, then learned that Immortals were deliberately entering the Heavenly Ruins and feared Zhu Ranyu might be among them. Her disguise was exposed when Dian Mei recognized her in an immortal teahouse.

• Patriarch Nine Flowers killed Xue Jin and decided to take her soul to He Pingsheng to apologize rather than risk her clan’s destruction.
• Qiao Huizhu, disguised as Li Yu, waited in the Mystic Heaven Lesser Vehicle Heaven after failing to contact He Pingsheng, who was comprehending the Dao in the Second Heaven.
• A young Supreme Unity Golden Immortal told Qiao Huizhu that Immortals had learned of the Heavenly Ruins and were entering through the vortex of their own accord.
• Qiao Huizhu suspected Message Transmission Immortal Talismans had spread the news and worried that Zhu Ranyu might come and endanger He Pingsheng.
• Dian Mei entered the teahouse, recognized Qiao Huizhu despite her disguise, and called her by name.

Qiao Huizhu drove Dian Mei away, then met Patriarch Nine Flowers, who explained that she had killed Xue Jin and sought to settle the feud. After Qiao Huizhu accepted the matter as settled, Nine Flowers sensed Dian Mei was fighting a powerful opponent and took Qiao Huizhu to investigate.

• Dian Mei provoked Qiao Huizhu, then fled beyond the Immortal Domain when Qiao Huizhu followed her.
• Qiao Huizhu changed her appearance, but Patriarch Nine Flowers appeared before her through a spatial passage.
• Nine Flowers explained that Xue Jin had poisoned Qiao Huizhu to steal her body and said she had killed Xue Jin and held her corpse and soul.
• Qiao Huizhu refused compensation and agreed that Xue Jin's death settled their grievance.
• Nine Flowers sensed Dian Mei fighting a powerful Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal and invited Qiao Huizhu to go see.

Luo Bingyao and Xin Baobao entered the Heavenly Ruins to find Qiao Huizhu and He Pingsheng. After Xin Baobao defeated Dian Mei, they reunited with Qiao Huizhu, who had still not found He Pingsheng.

• Luo Bingyao and Xin Baobao traveled through the Heavenly Ruins, hoping to find Qiao Huizhu and learn whether she had located He Pingsheng.
• Luo Bingyao spotted Dian Mei, and Xin Baobao raced ahead to intercept her.
• Xin Baobao defeated Dian Mei with Heavenly Saber Three Demon Slashes and demanded to know whether she had killed Qiao Huizhu.
• Dian Mei insisted she had not harmed Qiao Huizhu and said she had just seen her; Dao Lord Nine Flowers then arrived with Qiao Huizhu.
• Qiao Huizhu reunited with Luo Bingyao and Xin Baobao, learned that Lin Xiaoran had stayed behind, and agreed to discuss how to contact He Pingsheng.

Dao Lord Nine Flowers told Qiao Huizhu how she might find He Pingsheng through his maidservant, while Lin Xiaoran joined the group in the Heavenly Ruins. After centuries of secluded cultivation in the Second Heaven, He Pingsheng struggled to comprehend Daoist laws and realized he could adapt the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art to devour them.

• Qiao Huizhu declined Dao Lord Nine Flowers’s invitation to visit the Heavenly Fox Clan and left with Luo Bingyao and Xin Baobao.
• Dao Lord Nine Flowers followed them to the vortex, where Lin Xiaoran fell from the Immortal Realm and reunited with the others.
• Dao Lord Nine Flowers discovered that the four fellow disciples had eighth-grade fortune and told Qiao Huizhu she could seek He Pingsheng’s maidservant through the Bai Household.
• Qiao Huizhu refused to approach the Bai Household, and Dao Lord Nine Flowers departed to ask Bai Ping for information.
• He Pingsheng spent centuries in seclusion, mastering eighth-grade formations and Immortal Talismans before struggling to comprehend the Chaos Daoist Law.
• He Pingsheng remembered the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and considered improving it to devour Daoist laws.

He Pingsheng mastered Reverse Chaos Evolution, a divine ability that could turn Daoist laws into Great Dao Order, and returned to the Heavenly Ruins to seek rare cultivation materials. There, he learned that Qiao Huizhu and his disciples had come to find him, and he reunited with them, meeting a new companion of Xin Baobao’s.

• He Pingsheng studied the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and Reverse Chaos Evolution for seventy-four years, failing to modify the former but mastering the latter.
• He Pingsheng learned that Reverse Chaos Evolution could use the Chaos Daoist Law to turn other Daoist laws into Great Dao Order, though doing so took immense time.
• He Pingsheng returned to the Heavenly Ruins and asked Daoist Elmwood for eighth-grade talisman and formation materials, but none were available.
• Daoist Elmwood told He Pingsheng that Qiao Huizhu and his disciples had come from the Immortal Realm to find him.
• He Pingsheng found Lin Xiaoran in the west of the city, and Qiao Huizhu, Luo Bingyao, and Xin Baobao came out to greet him.
• Xin Baobao introduced the woman behind her as the holy maiden of the Hong Luan Tribe and his junior brother’s Dao Companion.

He Pingsheng reunited with Qiao Huizhu and learned how his companions had reached the Heavenly Ruins. After settling matters with Patriarch Nine Flowers and imprisoning Xue Jin’s soul, he discovered Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo still trapped in a Magical Treasure, asking whether forty years had passed.

• Luo Bingyao explained that Qiao Huizhu had entered the Heavenly Ruins to find He Pingsheng, and that others later followed after word spread.
• He Pingsheng told Qiao Huizhu that Buwan had been reborn with her memories and fortune intact, then learned Qiao Huizhu intended to comprehend the Water-Ice Daoist Law.
• Qiao Huizhu admitted she had already obtained an ice-attribute Great Dao Order, and she and He Pingsheng shared a private reunion.
• Patriarch Nine Flowers confessed that Xue Jin had plotted against Qiao Huizhu and offered the Heavenly Fox Clan’s service to settle the debt with He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng accepted Nine Flowers’s offer, took Xue Jin’s soul, and planted all four Buddhist Path Heart Seals into her.
• He Pingsheng found Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo’s nearly collapsed soul in the Magical Treasure, where Lan Tuo asked whether the promised forty years had passed.

He Pingsheng freed Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo from the Heart Seal and arranged for his soul to reincarnate in an Immortal Fruit. Ming Yue arrived seeking someone destined for the Buddhist Path, and He Pingsheng realized the person might be Yinpan Ying.

• He Pingsheng told Lan Tuo that roughly sixteen thousand years had passed and sent his soul into a piece of myriad willow ghost-binding wood so it could evolve into a new life.
• Ming Yue offered to take Lan Tuo's soul, then merged it into a seventh-grade Immortal Fruit to begin his reincarnation.
• Ming Yue explained that he had come to the Heavenly Ruins World to find someone destined for the Buddhist Path and establish a sacred Buddhist domain.
• He Pingsheng brought out Wen Buwan, but she said she wished only to remain by his side, and Ming Yue clarified that she was not the person he sought.
• He Pingsheng summoned Wu Nana, but Ming Yue ruled her out too, prompting He Pingsheng to realize that Yinpan Ying might be the destined person.

He Pingsheng identified Yinpan Ying as the woman Ming Yue recognized, then prepared formations and explored enhancing immortal crystals while developing a new cultivation technique. After three thousand years in seclusion, he created the middle-grade Earth Tier Chaos Dao-Devouring Scripture, which could devour the Daoist Laws of all the heavens.

• He Pingsheng brought out Yinpan Ying, and Ming Yue recognized her as the woman he had seen; Qiao Huizhu identified her as Bodhisattva Futu, but He Pingsheng and Ming Yue reassured Qiao Huizhu and Wen Buwan that they were safe.
• He Pingsheng gave Yinpan Ying a piece of wood attribute Great Dao Order, and she left after pledging to serve him forever.
• Luo Bingyao delivered the Heavenly Fox Clan's supplies, and He Pingsheng found that the formation materials were incomplete and that he could not draw eighth-grade Immortal Talismans without equivalent Daoist Laws.
• He Pingsheng enhanced formation materials and immortal crystals in the Treasure-Gathering Basin, discovering that the crystals became rare supreme-grade immortal crystals containing Great Dao Laws.
• After the Heavenly Fox Clan delivered the remaining materials, He Pingsheng spent seventy years setting up the formation and three thousand years in seclusion improving the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art.
• He Pingsheng devised the middle-grade Earth Tier Chaos Dao-Devouring Scripture, a Divine Ability that could devour the Daoist Laws of all the heavens.

He Pingsheng mastered the Chaos Dao-Devouring Scripture and used it to speed up his refinement of cosmic Daoist laws. After reconciling with Wen Buwan, he went to the Second Heaven to cultivate, where Dao Lord Sigui arrived and questioned his new formations.

• He Pingsheng mastered the Chaos Dao-Devouring Scripture and found that it let him refine cosmic Daoist laws more than ten times faster.
• Wen Buwan told He Pingsheng that she had reached the Golden Immortal Stage First Layer and that Qiao Huizhu, Lin Xiaoran, Luo Bingyao, and Xin Baobao were unavailable.
• He Pingsheng checked that Wen Buwan's innate foundation fortune remained eighth grade, then told her to live for herself rather than for him.
• He Pingsheng gave Wen Buwan the Dao-Devouring Scripture and left for the Second Heaven, leaving Wu Nana to protect her.
• He Pingsheng began setting up eighth-grade formations in the Second Heaven, and Dao Lord Sigui arrived and asked whether they were meant to guard against him or Dao Lord Mystic Heaven.

He Pingsheng learned how long Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortals typically took to advance and discussed with Sigui the possibility of returning to the Immortal Realm. After they completed a defensive formation, Dao Lord Mystic Heaven suddenly appeared and attacked He Pingsheng, who escaped the sword strike with Chaos Swift Movement.

• Sigui explained that ordinary Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortals took thousands or tens of thousands of years to advance, while He Pingsheng might need only four or five thousand.
• Sigui suggested that a powerful cultivator might be able to travel between realms, and asked He Pingsheng to send him back to the Demonic Realm if he gained that ability.
• He Pingsheng and Sigui completed a supreme-grade eighth-grade Defense Formation that allowed Chaos Qi and Chaos Daoist Law to pass through.
• Dao Lord Mystic Heaven appeared and demanded that He Pingsheng receive a sword strike from him.
• He Pingsheng evaded the attack with Chaos Swift Movement, and Mystic Heaven's sword light struck the formation, dimming it but failing to break it.

He Pingsheng survived Dao Lord Mystic Heaven’s lethal assault by escaping into his eighth-grade defensive Grand Array and replenishing it with supreme grade immortal crystals. After strengthening his defenses and entering seclusion, he began cultivating Chaos Daoist Law with several aids.

• Dao Lord Mystic Heaven pursued He Pingsheng with sword shadows, forcing He Pingsheng to flee into his defensive Grand Array.
• Mystic Heaven unleashed a sea of lightning that drained most of the array’s energy, but He Pingsheng replenished it with supreme grade immortal crystals, and Mystic Heaven left.
• Sigui asked He Pingsheng when he had offended Mystic Heaven, then advised him to focus on cultivating and departed.
• He Pingsheng built an eighth-grade Divine-Sense Sealing Formation inside the defensive Grand Array, then entered seclusion and enhanced immortal crystals in the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng used the Chaos Dao-Devouring Scripture to absorb Chaos Laws, while taking Heaven-Cleansing Sand, a Three-Inch Dao Heart, and a seventh-grade Heavenly Enlightenment Golden Core to aid his cultivation.

After more than twenty-two thousand years in seclusion, He Pingsheng emerged as a fifth-layer Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal and went to challenge Dao Lord Mystic Heaven. Mystic Heaven blocked his opening attack and struck back with eight lightning-infused sword lights.

• Dao Lord Sigui waited by the formation and watched He Pingsheng emerge after more than twenty-three thousand years.
• He Pingsheng revealed he had advanced four layers in chaos Daoist law and reached the fifth layer of Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal.
• He Pingsheng learned that Dao Lord Mystic Heaven was at the twelfth layer and trying to break into Third Layer Heaven.
• He Pingsheng used Chaos Swift Movement to reach Mystic Heaven and launched a sword strike at him first.
• Mystic Heaven blocked the strike with a Thunder Dragon, then swung his sword and sent eight lightning-infused sword lights toward He Pingsheng.