Chapter Summaries

After surviving the Heavenly Dao’s purple lightning, He Pingsheng returned to the Sixth Heaven and attacked Central Pole for refusing to return his treasure to Xin Baobao. He and Wang Dun trapped Central Pole between the World-Grinding Discs and began sealing him.

• The Heavenly Dao’s third strike engulfed the Ninefold Heavens in purple lightning, and He Pingsheng, Wang Dun, Ming Yue, and Shang Xihong disappeared.
• The World-Grinding Disc and White Stone Disc fell from the Chaos Heavenly Eye, and Xin Baobao and Central Pole each took one.
• Central Pole refused Xin Baobao’s request to return her Master’s treasure, claiming he would hand it to He Pingsheng himself when he returned.
• He Pingsheng reappeared, slashed Central Pole, and attacked him while Wang Dun split his body with a scythe.
• He Pingsheng used the black and white stone discs to trap Central Pole, who protested as the discs drew together.

He Pingsheng trapped the Central Pole Heaven Emperor and sent Xin Baobao to absorb him, then explained how he had acquired extra chaos orders before resuming his cultivation while resisting the Heavenly Dao. After two hundred years of fighting, the Heavenly Dao appeared as a childlike phantom and He Pingsheng laid out why it could not defeat him.

• He Pingsheng trapped the Central Pole Heaven Emperor in the World-Grinding Disc and ordered Xin Baobao to absorb him in the Sixth Heaven.
• Ming Yue explained that He Pingsheng had saved them from the Heavenly Dao’s purple lightning by taking them through a non-spatial route, and He Pingsheng said the Heavenly Dao occupied the Fourth Realm.
• He Pingsheng told Ming Yue, Wang Dun, and Shang Xihong that his heaven-granted [Reverse Chaos Evolution] ability had created the extra Great Dao Orders, and promised Wang Dun ten temporal orders in a hundred thousand years.
• He Pingsheng began fusing chaos orders in the Ninefold Heavens as Xin Baobao absorbed the Central Pole Heaven Emperor, while the Heavenly Dao attacked him repeatedly.
• After two hundred years of fighting, the Heavenly Dao appeared before He Pingsheng as a childlike phantom and asked to talk.
• He Pingsheng argued that the Heavenly Dao was only slightly stronger than a Sage, could not kill him, and would lose a prolonged battle of attrition while sustaining the worlds.

He Pingsheng negotiated with the Heavenly Dao over the Chaos Order, refusing to surrender the pieces he had fused with and insisting that he wanted to ascend to the Divine Realm. The Heavenly Dao rejected his requests for more Chaos Order, and He Pingsheng ended by promising to leave it in charge of the world if it helped him ascend.

• He Pingsheng provoked the Heavenly Dao to unleash its full power, but it fell silent and offered to negotiate.
• The Heavenly Dao demanded the Chaos Order He Pingsheng had fused with, and he refused, so it agreed not to demand those pieces if he stopped fusing with more.
• The Heavenly Dao offered He Pingsheng rule over the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins, but refused to give him the Chaos Order there.
• He Pingsheng guessed that the Heavenly Dao could fuse with only nine pieces of Chaos Order, and it admitted this while proposing that they divide control of the Three Realms.
• He Pingsheng said he wanted to ascend to the Divine Realm and asked to fuse with more Chaos Order, but the Heavenly Dao refused, warning that it did not trust him or his Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng promised not to attack the Heavenly Dao if it helped him ascend, and said it could continue managing the world afterward.

He Pingsheng evaded the Heavenly Dao’s attacks by hiding beneath the Central Pole Sea and continued fusing with Chaos Orders. After 160,000 years, he gave Wang Dun ten Temporal Orders and learned that the Heavenly Dao had revealed his Treasure-Gathering Basin to the entire Immortal Realm.

• The Heavenly Dao repeatedly attacked He Pingsheng to stop him from fusing with the Chaos Orders, so he removed all four remaining orders from the Ninefold Heavens and stored them in the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng hid beneath the Central Pole Sea, where the Heavenly Dao could no longer track him, and used his Yin Void World to study a Chaos Order despite being unable to extend his Divine Sense.
• Over 160,000 years, He Pingsheng fused with four more Chaos Great Dao Orders, reaching sixteen Chaos Orders and nine Spatial Orders.
• He Pingsheng used Reverse Chaos Evolution to help Wang Dun condense ten Temporal Orders, then gave them to him.
• Wang Dun told He Pingsheng that the Heavenly Dao had revealed his Treasure-Gathering Basin to everyone in the Immortal Realm, but He Pingsheng decided he had nothing to fear.

He Pingsheng fused the remaining Chaos Orders across the Immortal and Demonic Realms, reaching the Primordial Unity twelfth layer and gaining power over the laws of heaven and earth. He opened a passage to the Fourth Realm, where a voice on the other side recognized him.

• He Pingsheng took Central Pole captive in his Magical Treasure's space, preventing him from entering reincarnation or losing his Primordial Unity position.
• He Pingsheng took the eight remaining Chaos Orders above the Profound Demon Heavenly Ruins and ignored the Heavenly Dao's offer to erase knowledge of his Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng swallowed his second Chaos Pill and broke through to the Primordial Unity twelfth layer, leaving the Heavenly Dao silent.
• He Pingsheng took three Chaos Orders from the Demonic Realm's Ninefold Heavens and spent 280,000 years fusing all eleven remaining orders.
• He Pingsheng gained the ability to alter laws of heaven and earth, then opened a black vortex to the Fourth Realm.
• A voice from beyond the passage told He Pingsheng that he had found it after all.

He Pingsheng found a lifeless world and confronted the Heavenly Dao, persuading it to help govern the realms while he duplicated the chaos-order fragments. The Heavenly Dao explained its origins and identified the Treasure-Gathering Basin as an Immortal treasure from the Divine Realm, leaving He Pingsheng with more questions about the Ancient God’s legacy.

• He Pingsheng searched the empty world and threatened the hidden Heavenly Dao until it appeared.
• He Pingsheng persuaded the Heavenly Dao to keep governing the realms and took one chaos-order fragment to duplicate in the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• The Heavenly Dao explained that no living beings evolved in this world because it had not extended the rules for their evolution there.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed that it had formed from the Ancient God’s remaining aura, will, and memories, and that it had fused with nine chaos-order fragments.
• The Heavenly Dao said it did not know whether all thirty-six fragments could form a divine spark or lead to the Divine Realm.
• The Heavenly Dao identified the Treasure-Gathering Basin as an Immortal Treasure from the Divine Realm and listed other items left behind by the Ancient God.

He Pingsheng learned more about the Treasure-Gathering Basin, its former owners, and the Divine Realm from the Heavenly Dao. After a century of discussion and cultivation, he asked how he could safely let the Heavenly Dao keep governing the Three Realms, and the Heavenly Dao offered to become his slave.

• The Heavenly Dao explained that he had seen the Treasure-Gathering Basin but could neither retrieve it from the Three Realms nor benefit from it.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed that the basin had seven or eight previous owners, including Northern Crown, who died after being betrayed while advancing to the Dao Origin Realm.
• The Heavenly Dao described Divine Realm attributes and Principal Gods, but admitted he did not know the realm's cultivation system in detail.
• He Pingsheng and the Heavenly Dao spent a hundred years discussing the Divine Realm, during which the basin duplicated a piece of Chaos Order for them.
• He Pingsheng asked how he could trust the Heavenly Dao to govern the Three Realms, and the Heavenly Dao offered to become his slave.

He Pingsheng fully merged with all thirty-six Chaos Orders but still had not condensed a Divine Spark, and he failed to break through the boundary of space to reach the Divine Realm. The Heavenly Dao directed him toward the Central Pole Sea and the Demonic Realm’s abyss for clues, and He Pingsheng traveled freely from the Fourth Realm to the Immortal Realm.

• He Pingsheng created a higher-level Slave Mark, accepted the Heavenly Dao’s [Divine Seal], and made the Heavenly Dao his servant.
• He Pingsheng discovered he had to separate his nine Spatial Orders before he could merge with the remaining Chaos Orders, then spent a hundred and thirty-six thousand years merging all thirty-six.
• He Pingsheng realized that fully merging with the Chaos Orders had not condensed a Divine Spark and asked the Heavenly Dao how to enter the Divine Realm.
• He Pingsheng struck the boundary of space but could not cross it, and the Heavenly Dao told him about the ancient god’s remains in the Central Pole Sea and the Demonic Realm’s abyss.
• He Pingsheng parted the void and traveled from the Fourth Realm to the Immortal Realm, a passage only he and the Heavenly Dao could use.

After perfecting his divine sense, He Pingsheng formed a divine spark and reached the lesser grassroot god realm, gaining the ability to leave for the Divine Realm. Before deciding whether to ascend, he resurrected many loved ones and then discussed with Wang Dun how to help him form a divine spark, despite the risk to their world.

• He Pingsheng perfected his divine sense after cultivating the Primordial Unity Chapter and formed a divine spark from the thirty-six chaos orders.
• He Pingsheng advanced into the lesser grassroot god realm and realized he could leave for the Divine Realm, though he was unsure whether he could return.
• He Pingsheng returned to Mahayana Heaven, dismissed most of his descendants, and told his Dao companions that he could resurrect the dead before ascending.
• He Pingsheng resurrected people requested by his Dao companions, along with his parents, and raised the newcomers to great all-encompassing golden immortal peak.
• He Pingsheng visited Wang Dun and explained that only chaos Dao order could form a divine spark, then proposed using the Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance all orders despite the danger of collapsing the world.

Wang Dun completed a mysterious task by resurrecting Linglong and having He Pingsheng empower and seal her before sending her to the Fourth Realm, then received a chaos divine spark as his reward. He Pingsheng put the spark into his Treasure-Gathering Basin to copy it, and the chapter concluded the Immortal Realm arc.

• Wang Dun resurrected Linglong and explained that nearly 2.9 million years had passed since her death.
• Wang Dun raised Linglong to the Human Immortal Realm, and He Pingsheng improved her innate foundation and advanced her to Golden Immortal.
• He Pingsheng planted four Buddhist Path Heart Seals in Linglong and sent her into the empty Fourth Realm so she could live without cause and effect.
• Wang Dun revealed that his completed task had earned him a nine-colored chaos divine spark.
• He Pingsheng placed Wang Dun's divine spark into the Treasure-Gathering Basin to copy it, saying the process would take a hundred years.

After a hundred years with his family, He Pingsheng duplicated a Divine Spark and prepared to ascend to the Divine Realm with Wang Dun. Before leaving, he changed the Heavenly Dao’s rules, leaving Everlasting Life unable to become a Sage.

• He Pingsheng spent a hundred years with his family while the Treasure-Gathering Basin duplicated and enhanced a Divine Spark, then realized none of his Dao Companions could use it.
• He Pingsheng told Xin Baobao to stay and guard the Great Void Sect, promising to remove the Primordial Unity bottleneck so she would not need to enter reincarnation.
• The Sages gathered to see He Pingsheng and Wang Dun ascend, and He Pingsheng gave Wang Dun the second Divine Spark, allowing him to reach the realm above Primordial Unity.
• He Pingsheng crushed the Central Pole Heaven Emperor’s soul, then ascended with Wang Dun amid divine light and nine-colored lotuses.
• The Heavenly Dao changed three rules: Sage seats fell from twelve to nine, Primordial Unity gained no bottleneck, and Primordial Unity Sages became undying and able to rebirth on the spot.
• Everlasting Life realized the new rules had permanently barred him from becoming a Sage and despaired.

He Pingsheng merged the Immortal Realm and the lower realms into his body before using a Teleportation Card to escape approaching Divine Race members. The card dropped him into the Xia Household’s Pill Awakening Assembly, where he was detained and questioned after learning the Divine Realm’s language, and his account of ascending from a lower realm astonished his hosts.

• He Pingsheng found the green crystalline wood that had sealed the Divine General’s body and the Treasure-Gathering Basin, then absorbed it and merged the Immortal Realm and its lower realms into himself.
• Wang Dun used a Teleportation Card to teleport away and gave He Pingsheng a second card, which He Pingsheng activated to escape the approaching Divine Race members.
• He Pingsheng appeared in the middle of the Xia Household’s Pill Awakening Assembly, where the attendees bound him and later threw him into a cell.
• After several hours, a burly man brought He Pingsheng to a woman in dark red clothing, who gave him a Jade Slip that taught him the Divine Realm’s language.
• He Pingsheng told the woman that he had ascended from a lower realm, and she reacted with surprise and asked what ascension and a lower realm were.

He Pingsheng was taken from the Xia Household’s Pill Dotting Assembly to Resin Extraction Mountain and assigned work extracting resin. He learned that Divine Realm beings had no fixed lifespan and was shown how heavenly aloe was used to produce divine resin.

• Sister Luo accepted Niu Ding’s proposal to send He Pingsheng to Resin Extraction Mountain and gave him a blank identity Nameplate.
• Niu Ding brought He Pingsheng to Resin Extraction Mountain, assigned him a courtyard, and warned him not to leave without permission.
• Niu Ding told He Pingsheng that Divine Realm beings had no fixed lifespan as long as they were not killed.
• Niu Ding gave He Pingsheng a golden Life Tablet and left to find someone to teach him.
• Nan Yang led He Pingsheng to a valley where workers sent divine power into heavenly aloe to extract heavenly aloe divine resin.

He Pingsheng began extracting heavenly aloe resin for the Xia Household and learned how the work and payment system operated. After earning three divine gold for his first day, he discovered that a Divinity-Pacifying Pill cost ten thousand.

• Nan Yang showed He Pingsheng how to extract heavenly aloe resin and explained that it was processed into heavenly verdure spirit water for alchemy.
• He Pingsheng completed his quota of six large vats, finding the work easier than the other laborers did despite claiming his divine sense was exhausted.
• Niu Ding inspected He Pingsheng's resin, approved it, marked his token, and carried the day's harvest away on the cargo ship.
• Nan Yang told He Pingsheng that his first-day pay was three divine gold and that a Divinity-Pacifying Pill cost ten thousand.
• Nan Yang explained that experienced workers earned four divine gold a day while Niu Ding made several hundred, leaving He Pingsheng indignant about the unequal pay.

He Pingsheng learned about the Xia Household’s trade and went with Nan Yang to its year-end market, where he discovered that human children in the Divine Realm needed divine sparks to survive. He realized the divine spark he carried might be extremely valuable.

• He Pingsheng worked as a glue worker for a year and saved over eight hundred divine gold.
• Nan Yang explained that the Xia Household sold Divinity-Pacifying Pills and held a ten-day market holiday at the end of the year.
• Nan Yang asked to borrow two hundred divine gold so he could buy things for his wife and child, and He Pingsheng agreed to go with him to the market.
• Nan Yang told He Pingsheng that ordinary humans could have only one child and that divine sparks were provided to help newborns withstand the Divine Realm’s power.
• He Pingsheng learned that divine herbs and Demon Beasts did not need to fuse with divine sparks, and wondered whether his own divine spark was worth a fortune.

He Pingsheng learned that Divine Sparks could be fused after birth, though the process was dangerous, and wondered how the first ones had been obtained. At the Xia Household’s market, Nan Yang explained the taxes and compulsory prayer that burden Divine Mortals, leaving He Pingsheng stunned by the power of faith and the costs imposed on ordinary people.

• He Pingsheng asked Nan Yang whether someone could fuse with a Divine Spark after birth, and Nan Yang said it was possible but risky and complicated.
• Nan Yang explained that Divine Sparks could come from Demon Beasts in the Divine Command Realm, prompting He Pingsheng to wonder how humanity had obtained its first one.
• He Pingsheng followed Nan Yang to the Xia Household’s temporary market, where Nan Yang showed him a Low Grade Divine Stabilization Pill priced at ten thousand Divine Gold.
• Nan Yang told He Pingsheng that Divine Mortals paid Companion, Offspring, and other taxes, while unmarried people faced a Solitary Cultivation Tax after a thousand years.
• Nan Yang explained that people unable to pay could be forced to pray for blessings, producing power of faith that benefited higher-realm cultivators.

He Pingsheng sought basic knowledge about the Divine Realm but found no books available and spent his free time cultivating, only to discover his technique worked poorly there. Niu Ding visited to inspect items from He Pingsheng’s supposed lower realm, and the pills disintegrated under the Divine Realm’s power.

• Nan Yang bought a stalk of God-Invoking Grass for his son while He Pingsheng asked a shopkeeper for a book about the Divine Realm and was turned away.
• Nan Yang promised to ask around for a basic knowledge book, then hurried home with his God-Invoking Grass, leaving He Pingsheng to return to his courtyard.
• He Pingsheng spent a day cultivating with the Chaos Dao-Devouring Scripture but stopped when he found his progress too slow in the Divine Realm.
• Niu Ding visited He Pingsheng and asked him to show items from the lower realm he claimed to have ascended from.
• He Pingsheng presented a jade bottle of pills, but the bottle and its twelve golden pills shattered before Niu Ding could touch them, which He Pingsheng blamed on the Divine Realm’s power or laws.

He Pingsheng discovered that the Divine Realm’s laws destroyed treasures from the lower realms, then received Nan Shisi’s collected observations about Divine Realm cultivation. The book revealed that lower-ranking gods could advance faster by establishing a Lineage and consuming the incense offerings of their descendants.

• He Pingsheng showed Niu Ding a mass of Ninth Grade Chaos Origin, which dissolved into the Divine Realm, and an Eighth Grade Soul Banner, which shattered after Niu Ding unfurled it.
• After Niu Ding left, He Pingsheng briefly expanded a Primordial Purple Gold Staff, saw it crack, and put it away before it broke.
• Nan Yang brought He Pingsheng a copy of Nan Shisi’s Collected Observations in exchange for forgiving the two hundred Divine Gold he had borrowed.
• He Pingsheng read the book and learned that Nan Shisi had reached the Divine Command Realm and established his own Lineage.
• He Pingsheng learned that lower-ranking gods could advance rapidly by cultivating a Lineage and consuming the incense offerings produced by their descendants, while cultivation without incense was far slower.

He Pingsheng studied the Record of Observations to learn the Divine Realm’s cultivation system, divine sparks, currency, and social structure. He left with a basic understanding of the lower realms, while higher-level details remained beyond his reach.

• He Pingsheng learned that incense offerings required a lineage and that cultivators needed to reach the Divine Command Realm before they could begin building one.
• He Pingsheng read about the Divine Realm’s nine cultivation realms, the lower, middle, and upper three realms, and the absence of tribulation lightning in the lower three.
• He Pingsheng learned that divine sparks could be upgraded through fusion or, after their attributes awakened, by devouring sacred Dao laws.
• He Pingsheng discovered that divine gold was the Divine Realm’s universal currency and that Nameplates tied their holders to taxes and identity requirements.
• He Pingsheng reviewed the Record of Observations’ descriptions of golden cores, divine talismans, formations, and divine weapons, while recognizing that its higher-level information might be unreliable.

He Pingsheng learned that strong divine sense improved blessing prayers and discovered his own could reach ten thousand zhang. When the Xia Household summoned its newly admitted disciples for a blessing prayer test, he worried his unusual ability would be exposed, especially if they tested before the patriarch's divine image.

• He Pingsheng read that powerful divine sense helped deities pray for blessings and found his own reached ten thousand zhang despite being at the first level of the divine general realm.
• He Pingsheng weighed whether to remain with the Xia Household and earn divine gold or sell his divine spark for a cultivation technique and resources.
• Niu Ding summoned everyone to the square, where Nan Yang told He Pingsheng that the Xia Household tested newly admitted disciples' blessing prayers every ten years.
• Nan Yang explained that successful disciples could earn more divine gold and become outer disciples, though prolonged blessing prayers might diminish their divine fortune.
• He Pingsheng resolved to conceal his powerful divine sense and learned from Nan Yang that praying before the patriarch's divine image could reveal his full ability.