Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng met Sage Earth Sovereign, who assured him she could help him learn about Su Zhenzhen and asked what he knew about the Fourth Realm. He recounted a vision from Pangu’s Heart, leaving Earth Sovereign eager to hear what happened next.

• Tian You explained that reincarnated souls lost their memories, prompting He Pingsheng to wonder what had become of Su Zhenzhen.
• Tian You brought He Pingsheng to Sage Earth Sovereign, who said she already knew why he had come and promised he would obtain what he sought.
• Earth Sovereign asked whether He Pingsheng had seen information about the Fourth Realm inside Pangu’s Heart, and he confirmed that he had seen something.
• He Pingsheng described a wounded Divine General sealing himself inside an emerald-green wooden stump, which drifted ashore as four worlds evolved within it.

He Pingsheng showed Earth Sovereign four miniature worlds, prompting her to explain why Divine Venerable Tianzhi searched for the Fourth Realm and how he discovered a way for Primordial Unity Sages to break through their cultivation bottlenecks. Earth Sovereign concluded that the realms they inhabited were inside a piece of rotten wood, while the Fourth Realm remained undiscovered.

• He Pingsheng condensed images of four worlds, and Earth Sovereign identified the tiny specks as likely the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins and the Fourth Realm.
• Earth Sovereign explained that Primordial Unity cultivators saw Divine Generals with Divine Sparks and that Tianzhi believed thirty-six Great Dao Order Chains could form one.
• Earth Sovereign said Tianzhi counted only twenty-seven Chaos Orders across the known realms and deduced that a Fourth Realm must exist.
• Earth Sovereign recounted how Tianzhi searched the realms, reached a cultivation bottleneck, and used Liberation by Violence to seek rebirth in the Fourth Realm.
• Tianzhi failed to reach the Fourth Realm but broke through his bottleneck, leading other Sages to Journey Through Reincarnation to advance.
• Earth Sovereign said Tianzhi had never been reborn in the Fourth Realm and reflected that the Immortal Realm and Demonic Realm lay inside rotten wood.

Earth Sovereign revealed that Su Zhenzhen’s soul had remained sealed for over a hundred thousand years, but karmic burden left her unconscious. She told He Pingsheng that he could resolve it by sincerely reciting the Supreme Scripture of the Mysterious Yellow for ten thousand years, leaving him reluctant to commit to the task.

• Earth Sovereign praised He Pingsheng and Wang Dun for ascending to the Fourth Layer Heaven, then explained how Divine Venerable Tianzhi’s attempt to merge with a seventh Chaos Order led to reincarnation.
• Earth Sovereign revealed Su Zhenzhen’s soul sealed inside a piece of myriad willow ghost-binding wood and explained that she had kept it from reincarnation since Su Zhenzhen died in the lower realm.
• He Pingsheng learned that interrupting Su Zhenzhen’s reincarnation had burdened her with karma, leaving her unable to awaken, reincarnate, or be reborn.
• Earth Sovereign gave He Pingsheng the Supreme Scripture of the Mysterious Yellow and instructed him to recite it sincerely for ten thousand years to dissolve Su Zhenzhen’s karmic burden.
• He Pingsheng asked whether he could use heavenly dao merit instead, but Earth Sovereign refused and said he could leave if he would not recite the scripture.

He Pingsheng recited the Supreme Scripture of the Mysterious Yellow for ten thousand years, but Sage Earth Sovereign removed Su Zhenzhen’s karmic burden herself and restored her to life with Heavenly Dao merit and nine heavens living soil. Reunited in the void, Su Zhenzhen asked whether He Pingsheng had found their son, He Tianya.

• He Pingsheng informed Qiao Huizhu, Wen Buwan, and the others of his situation, then recited the Supreme Scripture of the Mysterious Yellow for ten thousand years as Earth Sovereign instructed.
• After He Pingsheng finished reciting, Earth Sovereign drew Su Zhenzhen’s karmic burden from the wood, and Su Zhenzhen awakened.
• Earth Sovereign told He Pingsheng that Su Zhenzhen needed a new body, took some of his Heavenly Dao merit, and used it with nine heavens living soil to restore her to life as a human immortal.
• Earth Sovereign sent He Pingsheng and Su Zhenzhen into the void, where He Pingsheng shielded her from the astral winds.
• Su Zhenzhen embraced He Pingsheng, then asked whether he had found their son, He Tianya.

He Pingsheng reunited with Su Zhenzhen and returned to the Great Void Sect, where he met his gifted son He Tianzhi. He agreed to teach He Tianzhi the Chaos Dao-Devouring Scripture with a warning against using it to devour immortals, then judged that his son could become a Dao Origin Great Dao Lord but could never reach Primordial Unity.

• He Pingsheng brought Su Zhenzhen back from the Underworld to the Great Void Sect in Curved Array Heaven and told Wen Buwan that she was He Tianzhi's mother.
• He Tianzhi greeted He Pingsheng and revealed that he had become a great all-encompassing golden immortal in just over ten thousand years.
• He Tianzhi asked to learn the Chaos Dao-Devouring Scripture, and He Pingsheng initially refused, warning him to value experience and a strong mind over rapid advancement.
• After Wen Buwan urged He Pingsheng to reconsider, he agreed to teach He Tianzhi the scripture but warned him never to use it to devour other immortals.
• He Pingsheng gave He Tianzhi some Heavenly Dao Merit, then told Wen Buwan that their son might become a Dao Origin Great Dao Lord but could never reach Primordial Unity.

He Pingsheng reunited with his family and began arranging to strengthen the Great Void Sect by bringing his old masters and fellow disciples to the Immortal Realm. He also learned that Wang Dun and Han Houzhi had reached the Dao Origin Realm, and the chapter ended with Qiao Huizhu asking what he planned to do next.

• He Pingsheng reunited with his children and sent He Tianya to catch up with Su Zhenzhen in the side hall.
• He Pingsheng asked He Tianyu to bring his old masters and fellow disciples from Emperor Yu Star and Heaven's Heart Immortal Enclosure to the Great Void Sect, but He Tianzhi took the star chart and volunteered for the trip instead.
• He Pingsheng gave He Tianyu the Storage Ring of Fire Dragon, a slain Dao Origin cultivator, and distributed gifts to his other children.
• He Pingsheng asked about Han Houzhi and learned that he had reached the Dao Origin Realm and was widely believed to be Divine Venerable Tianzhi's reincarnation.
• The Great Order Wisdom King and Kong Jiaojiao told He Pingsheng that Wang Dun had become Dao Companions with Princess Chonghua, secured his position in Purple Tenuity Heaven, and killed her older brother without Divine Emperor Purple Tenuity punishing him.
• Qiao Huizhu asked He Pingsheng what he planned to do next and reminded him of his promise to take her to the Heavenly Ruins.

He Pingsheng prepared to cultivate in the Ninefold Heavens of the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins and reunited with his old sectmates and masters. He offered them Supreme Profound Immortal Apricots in exchange for joining the Great Void Sect as elders, and they accepted with one condition from Li Tianxin.

• He Pingsheng said he would cultivate in the Ninefold Heavens of the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins, while Great Order Wisdom King and Wen Buwan stayed behind and Qiao Huizhu agreed to go with him.
• He Pingsheng asked Great Order Wisdom King to watch over Su Zhenzhen and planned to visit Senior Brother Wang in Purple Tenuity Heaven.
• After two years, He Tianzhi brought Su Nian, Su Muyu, Chu Sheng, Lu Xiaoci, Xu Zhishan, and Li Tianxin to meet He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng revealed that he had reached the Dao Origin Realm First Layer, and his masters and old sectmates shared their cultivation levels and concerns about their remaining lifespans.
• He Pingsheng offered each of them a Supreme Profound Immortal Apricot to reach Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal Peak in exchange for becoming elders of the Great Void Sect, and they all agreed.
• Li Tianxin agreed to give up the Cause and Effect Great Dao Art but asked to return to the Li Household after her breakthrough to ensure its Cause and Effect Daoist Law was passed down.

He Pingsheng confronted He Tianzhi after discovering that he had stolen others’ cultivation and accumulated karmic burden. He spared him but warned him not to do it again, while He Tianzhi insisted his actions served a purpose he would eventually explain.

• He Pingsheng sent the others away and questioned He Tianzhi about how he had advanced two layers in two years.
• He Pingsheng accused He Tianzhi of stealing cultivation and using the merit he had given him to remove the resulting cause and effect.
• Wen Buwan pleaded for He Tianzhi and offered to bear his cause and effect, so He Pingsheng spared him but demanded he swear never to absorb another person’s cultivation.
• He Tianzhi refused to take a heavenly dao oath, and He Pingsheng ordered him out with a warning that he would die if he did it again.
• Wen Buwan slapped He Tianzhi for shouting at his father, then urged him to stop rushing his cultivation.
• He Tianzhi told Wen Buwan that she did not understand his efforts and said she would understand someday.

He Pingsheng assigned his companions roles in the Great Void Sect and the Baobao Immortal Domain before traveling to Purple Tenuity Heaven to visit Wang Dun. At the divine palace, he glimpsed a woman he recognized as Liang Huaqiu, leaving him baffled by how she could be there.

• He Pingsheng introduced Xin Baobao to his companions and arranged for Su Nian, Li Tianxin, and Xu Zhishan to oversee star clusters, while Lu Xiaoci, Su Nian, and Chu Sheng were assigned roles in the Great Void Sect.
• He Pingsheng left for Purple Tenuity Heaven after grounding He Tianzhi for ten thousand years.
• A palace guard verified He Pingsheng’s identity, and a green-robed immortal escorted him to visit Princess Chonghua.
• He Pingsheng saw a moon-white-dressed woman at the palace and recognized her as Liang Huaqiu, but she vanished before he could speak to her.
• He Pingsheng wondered how Liang Huaqiu could have reached the Immortal Realm despite her poor aptitude and having undergone Wisdom Severance.

He Pingsheng reunited with Wang Dun after returning from the Demonic Realm and discussed information about the Fourth Realm. He gave Wang Dun two Netherworld Scythes and received a mysterious golden core in return.

• He Pingsheng met Princess Chonghua, who insisted he call her sister-in-law and accused him of leading Wang Dun astray in the past.
• He Pingsheng explained that he wanted to catch up with Wang Dun and compare information about the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Dun arrived and joked with He Pingsheng about his wife keeping him from visiting.
• He Pingsheng gave Wang Dun two ninth-grade supreme-grade Netherworld Scythes.
• Wang Dun said he had no trial cards but offered He Pingsheng a mysterious golden core with no grade or rank.

He Pingsheng asked Wang Dun for help defeating Zhu Ranyu and learned about a miraculous Chaos Pill that could meet its user’s cultivation needs. Wang Dun obtained a Message Transmission Immortal Talisman from his mother-in-law, and Chonghua suggested using it to lure the Divine Emperor Purple Tenuity back from the Sixth Heaven.

• Wang Dun gave He Pingsheng a Chaos Pill, explaining that it could transform to satisfy a cultivation need or raise its user by one level.
• He Pingsheng asked Wang Dun for the Thousand Mechanisms Divine Diagram to counter Zhu Ranyu’s World-Grinding Disc, but learned the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor was away on the Sixth Heaven.
• Wang Dun proposed joining He Pingsheng to fight Zhu Ranyu, but He Pingsheng refused to put him at risk against the Chaos Supreme Treasure.
• Chonghua explained that her mother had a Message Transmission Immortal Talisman, and Wang Dun left to obtain it from his mother-in-law.
• Wang Dun returned with the talisman, and Chonghua suggested telling her father that her second elder sister missed him so he would come back.

He Pingsheng met the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor to ask for the Thousand Mechanisms Divine Diagram so he could defeat Zhu Ranyu, but learned that the treasure stabilizes time throughout the Immortal Realm and lower realms. The Heavenly Emperor refused to lend it, leaving He Pingsheng without an apparent way to use it against Zhu Ranyu.

• He Pingsheng and Wang Dun discussed Han Houzhi, the Purple-Gold Bottle, and the danger of Han Houzhi reaching the Primordial Unity Realm first.
• Wang Dun received a voice transmission saying the Heavenly Emperor had summoned He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng met the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor, who praised his ambition and declined to examine his jade slip because he already knew methods for resisting the chaos astral wind.
• He Pingsheng asked to borrow the Thousand Mechanisms Divine Diagram to freeze Zhu Ranyu's World-Grinding Disc and take revenge.
• The Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor refused, explaining that the diagram stabilized the time laws of the Immortal Realm and lower realms, and that careless use could cause disaster.

He Pingsheng learned that the Thousand Mechanisms Divine Diagram could only be used briefly without destabilizing time across the Immortal Realm, so he left without borrowing it. Princess Taizhen summoned him and revealed her connection to Liang Huaqiu, ending their meeting with a tense exchange over whether she counted as his Senior Concubine.

• The Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor explained that using the Thousand Mechanisms Divine Diagram in the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins for more than ten breaths would throw time in the Immortal Realm into disarray, and He Pingsheng agreed to wait for Zhu Ranyu.
• The Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor offered He Pingsheng another daughter as a potential wife, but He Pingsheng declined, and the emperor left for the Ninefold Heavens.
• A maidservant summoned He Pingsheng to meet Princess Taizhen, who asked whether he recognized her and reminded him they had briefly crossed paths earlier.
• Taizhen told He Pingsheng that Qiao Huizhu had once acknowledged her as his Senior Concubine and explained that Liang Huaqiu had been one of her many manifestations.
• He Pingsheng argued that Taizhen was not his Senior Concubine because she was not Liang Huaqiu, and Taizhen responded with a cold sneer.

Immortal Maiden Taizhen agreed to help He Pingsheng enter the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins and kill Zhu Ranyu using the Thousand Mechanisms Divine Diagram. They prepared to leave immediately, with Taizhen warning that they had to return within one incense stick or time throughout the Immortal Realm would fall into disorder.

• Taizhen revealed that her Thousand Mechanisms Divine Diagram could sustain a trip into the Heavenly Ruins for about one incense stick because she had refined it.
• He Pingsheng agreed the time limit was sufficient to find and kill Zhu Ranyu, whom he could track using his essence blood.
• Taizhen said she was helping partly for Wang Dun’s sake and asked He Pingsheng to promise to do one future favor for her.
• Taizhen asked He Pingsheng to raise her cultivation to Primordial Unity, but he said he could not; she agreed to name another favor later.
• He Pingsheng and Taizhen decided to go at once, and Taizhen warned they must return within one incense stick.

He Pingsheng and Taizhen confronted Zhu Ranyu at the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins, where He Pingsheng launched a deadly attack despite Zhu Ranyu invoking the lives of the Immortal Enclosure’s inhabitants. With Taizhen’s Thousand Mechanisms Divine Diagram and He Pingsheng’s immortal talismans weakening Zhu Ranyu, he escaped through space, leaving his two stone discs behind.

• He Pingsheng and Taizhen arrived at the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins and followed Zhu Ranyu’s essence blood to his Immortal Enclosure.
• He Pingsheng destroyed Zhu Ranyu’s palace with a sword strike, killing countless inhabitants, and Zhu Ranyu confronted him with his black-and-white stone discs.
• He Pingsheng attacked with the Primordial Purple Gold Staffs, but Zhu Ranyu’s discs consumed the strikes.
• Taizhen activated the Thousand Mechanisms Divine Diagram, and He Pingsheng unleashed sixteen immortal talismans that shattered Zhu Ranyu’s defenses.
• Zhu Ranyu used an ancient bronze bell to withstand the remaining attacks, then fled through space as He Pingsheng charged, abandoning the stone discs.

He Pingsheng returned to the Immortal Realm, then confronted Zhu Ranyu in Lesser Vehicle Heaven, where Zhu Ranyu held Lin Xiaoran and the Lin Lineage hostage. He Pingsheng demanded Zhu Ranyu choose between dying through Liberation by Violence and risking the deaths of his descendants, leaving Zhu Ranyu wavering but still pleading to negotiate.

• He Pingsheng and Taizhen returned to the Immortal Realm, and Taizhen corrected disturbances in time before returning to Purple Tenuity Heaven.
• He Pingsheng entered the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins and followed Zhu Ranyu to Lesser Vehicle Heaven, where Zhu Ranyu threatened Lin Xiaoran and the Lin Lineage.
• Zhu Ranyu demanded the return of his World-Grinding Disc, but He Pingsheng refused and threatened the Golden Crow Tribe in response.
• He Pingsheng offered Zhu Ranyu a chance to undergo Liberation by Violence and warned that he could find and expose Zhu Ranyu's descendants.
• Zhu Ranyu began to waver and asked whether they could negotiate, but He Pingsheng insisted that Zhu Ranyu had to die.

He Pingsheng captured and killed Zhu Ranyu despite promising not to harm his descendants, then returned to the Great Void Sect to prepare for a long journey with Qiao Huizhu. His plans were shattered when Stone Gatherer reported that Ming Riyue had fallen, leaving He Pingsheng overwhelmed with grief.

• Zhu Ranyu destroyed his body and left an Immortal Soul Light, but He Pingsheng drew his soul into the Soul Banner and killed him.
• He Pingsheng gave Huiming the location of Zhu Ranyu's descendants and gave Lin Xiaoran a Fire Great Dao Order.
• He Pingsheng returned to the Great Void Sect and told Qiao Huizhu to prepare for a long stay in the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins.
• Stone Gatherer arrived and reported that Ming Riyue's soul and spirit had been utterly destroyed.
• He Pingsheng collapsed in shock and grieved for his fellow disciple, Ming Riyue.

He Pingsheng learned that He Tianzhi had killed Ming Riyue and stolen two levels of her cultivation, then decided his son needed to face a real consequence. He stripped away the stolen cultivation and left He Tianzhi kneeling and injured.

• Stone Gatherer told He Pingsheng that He Tianzhi had killed Ming Riyue and drained her, then secretly killed Demon King Tianshi and Demon King Tianri.
• He Pingsheng grieved for three days before Qiao Huizhu urged him to discipline He Tianzhi rather than let him escape punishment through confinement.
• He Pingsheng agreed to deal with He Tianzhi before entering seclusion at the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins with Qiao Huizhu.
• He Pingsheng struck He Tianzhi and said he was taking back the two levels of cultivation He Tianzhi had stolen from Ming Riyue.

He Pingsheng punished He Tianzhi for killing Ming Riyue and the two Demon Kings by imprisoning him in a dangerous vortex for thirty thousand years. He then left He Tianzhi behind and planned to cultivate with Qiao Huizhu on Fourth Layer Heaven.

• Wen Buwan learned that He Tianzhi had killed Ming Riyue, his father's Senior Sister, and Demon King Tianshi and Demon King Tianri.
• He Pingsheng sentenced He Tianzhi to thirty thousand years of reflection and took him to a vortex between the Third and Fourth Layers of the Ninefold Heavens.
• He Pingsheng removed He Tianzhi's Lightning Great Dao Order and possessions, warned that the Chaos Astral Wind outside would kill him, and left him to repent.
• He Pingsheng and Qiao Huizhu moved to Fourth Layer Heaven, where he planned to cultivate while she comprehended the Dao.
• Qiao Huizhu suggested having a child, but He Pingsheng said they should wait until a child could grow up somewhere less desolate.

He Pingsheng advanced to dao origin realm third layer, completed refining the Chaos Yin-Yang World-Grinding Disc, and released He Tianzhi from confinement after he acknowledged his wrongdoing. He then tried climbing the higher heavens, reached Fifth Layer Heaven, but could not ascend to Sixth Heaven.

• He Pingsheng cultivated on Fourth Layer Heaven, enhanced Wang Dun's Chaos Golden Core into two pills, and refined the World-Grinding Disc over thousands of years.
• After thirty thousand years of confinement, He Tianzhi admitted he had been wrong to seize others' Dao fruits, and He Pingsheng returned his belongings and sent him to Mystic Heaven Lesser Vehicle Heaven.
• He Pingsheng reached dao origin realm third layer and finished refining the Chaos Yin-Yang World-Grinding Disc, which he believed made him undefeated unless a Sage intervened.
• He Pingsheng met Qiao Huizhu, who had reached dao origin realm second layer, and told her he planned to travel and settle his Dao heart before taking her to live in seclusion.
• He Pingsheng climbed to Fifth Layer Heaven but failed to reach Sixth Heaven, even after activating the Heavenly Gang Eight-Tone Shield.