Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng joined Resin Extraction Mountain’s disciples for the Xia Household’s blessing test, which required them to pray before the Household Patriarch’s divine statue. Kneeling before it, he felt an irresistible force driving him to worship and struggled to resist, realizing he would soon lose control.

• Niu Ding led sixty-seven recently admitted Resin Extraction Mountain disciples to join hundreds of others for the Xia Household’s blessing test.
• Sister Luo explained that candidates would pray before the Xia Household Patriarch’s statue, and Nan Yang told He Pingsheng that a yuan equaled 120,000 years.
• Sister Luo led the Resin Extraction Mountain group into a dark hall containing a towering, four-headed divine statue.
• The disciples knelt, and white smoke rose from many of their heads as they prayed; Nan Yang’s divine aura was the strongest.
• He Pingsheng resisted the statue’s power as it filled him with devotion, fearing he would soon be compelled to pray for blessings.

He Pingsheng escaped the Great Hall after a mysterious force overwhelmed his mind during the prayer test, then claimed his Divine Sense was injured to avoid returning. He gave Sister Luo a Divine Spark in exchange for exemption from the test, a fire-attribute cultivation technique, and a better posting.

• He Pingsheng broke free of the force compelling him to pray, fled the Great Hall, and collapsed outside after spitting blood.
• Niu Ding tried to punish He Pingsheng, but Sister Luo stopped him and demanded an explanation.
• He Pingsheng claimed his Divine Sense was injured, but Sister Luo struck him and was surprised he survived.
• He Pingsheng offered Sister Luo a Divine Spark and asked her to give him time to recover before praying.
• Sister Luo accepted the Divine Spark, exempted He Pingsheng from the prayer test, and let him choose a cultivation technique.
• He Pingsheng chose Sister Luo's fire-attribute technique, and she offered to arrange him a better job than extracting resin.

He Pingsheng accepted Sister Luo’s assignment at the Mountain Shade Pill Shop in Five-Way Crossing and left Xia Household territory with Niu Ding’s escort. After traveling alone through the mountains, he was confronted by Niu Ding, who demanded his divine sparks and threatened to kill him.

• Sister Luo assigned He Pingsheng to work as an assistant at the Mountain Shade Pill Shop and gave him a map and recommendation letter.
• Nan Yang told He Pingsheng he had been selected for a blessing-related assignment with triple pay, though he was unsure whether it was good news.
• Niu Ding escorted He Pingsheng out of the Xia Household, and He Pingsheng set off alone toward Five-Way Crossing.
• He Pingsheng traveled through the night and stopped briefly near dawn, where Niu Ding appeared and admitted he had followed him.
• Niu Ding demanded He Pingsheng hand over his divine sparks or be killed and searched.

He Pingsheng confronted Niu Ding, who had lured him onto a false route and attacked him to seize his Divine Sparks. He Pingsheng endured Niu Ding’s ice-based techniques and struck him with the Chaos Heaven-Opening Fist, sending him crashing into a Divine Tree.

• He Pingsheng questioned Niu Ding about whether he would spare his life if he handed over his remaining Divine Sparks, but Niu Ding said he intended to kill him.
• Niu Ding revealed that He Pingsheng’s map had been tampered with and that he had taken the wrong road, then attacked him with his saber.
• He Pingsheng blocked Niu Ding’s saber attacks with his fists, surprising Niu Ding with his strength.
• Niu Ding summoned Ice Thorns and trapped He Pingsheng inside his Heavenly Ice World, but He Pingsheng broke out of it.
• He Pingsheng rushed at Niu Ding and hit him with the Chaos Heaven-Opening Fist, sending him into a Divine Tree and snapping its trunk.

He Pingsheng defeated Niu Ding and confronted Sister Luo, who revealed that she had been plotting to make him her divine slave. He Pingsheng killed her with two stone discs, leaving Niu Ding defeated and Sister Luo dead.

• He Pingsheng shattered Niu Ding's shield, wounded him, and demanded to know who had sent him.
• He Pingsheng revealed that he had known Sister Luo was following him, and she admitted she had arranged his escape from the Xia Household to claim him as her divine slave.
• Sister Luo explained that ascenders came from worlds inside divine treasures or rare materials and were prized as divine slaves.
• Sister Luo attacked He Pingsheng with a giant stone ring, but he enlarged himself and stopped its blow.
• He Pingsheng trapped Sister Luo between two stone discs and crushed her to death.

He Pingsheng killed Luo Qiong, forced Niu Ding to become his slave, and learned that the Xia Household was unlikely to pursue them immediately. He chose to avoid Five-Way Crossing and hide deep in the mountains for a while.

• He Pingsheng used seven Divine Nails to destroy Luo Qiong's soul, then stopped Niu Ding from fleeing.
• He Pingsheng subdued Niu Ding and took his divine slave mark, making him a slave.
• He Pingsheng ordered Niu Ding to erase Luo Qiong's traces and clean up the battlefield before they left.
• Niu Ding explained that the Xia Household would learn of Luo Qiong's death but likely would not mobilize to find them.
• He Pingsheng decided they would avoid Five-Way Crossing and hide deep in the mountains.

He Pingsheng hid deep in the Divine Mountain and examined the spoils he had taken from Luo Qiong, including a recipe for the Divinity-Pacifying Pill and a pill confirmed to be low-grade. He began studying a fire-attribute cultivation technique while the Treasure-Gathering Basin enhanced a Divine Spark.

• He Pingsheng followed Niu Ding deep into the Divine Mountain and settled in a cave to hide and cultivate.
• He Pingsheng opened Luo Qiong's bracelet and found divine artifacts, jade slips, divine herbs, and two pill bottles.
• He Pingsheng placed a low-tier Divine Spark in the Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance it, then examined Luo Qiong's jade slips and learned the Divinity-Pacifying Pill recipe.
• Niu Ding explained that Luo Qiong's nameplate could not be opened after her death and confirmed that the pill He Pingsheng found was a low-grade Divinity-Pacifying Pill.
• He Pingsheng sent Niu Ding outside and studied a fire-attribute cultivation technique while the Treasure-Gathering Basin worked.

He Pingsheng spent decades enhancing divine treasures and cultivating, eventually reaching the second layer of the Divine General Realm. After asking Niu Ding about returning to the Immortal Realm, he tried entering it and succeeded, bringing the Treasure-Gathering Basin along.

• After the Treasure-Gathering Basin duplicated and enhanced the Divine Spark, He Pingsheng enhanced a fire cultivation technique into the Divine Fire Sun-Expanding Art and gained the Ten Suns Burning the Heavens ability.
• He Pingsheng enhanced a Divinity-Pacifying Pill, then spent 130 years refining its medicinal potency and advanced to the second layer of the Divine General Realm.
• He Pingsheng enhanced five divine artifacts, keeping one saber and shield for himself while reserving their duplicates for Niu Ding.
• He Pingsheng asked Niu Ding about refining pills and returning to a minor world, then gave him back his saber and shield and sent him to guard outside.
• He Pingsheng connected his divine sense to the Immortal Realm within his body and entered it with the Treasure-Gathering Basin.

He Pingsheng returned from the Immortal Realm to the Divine Realm, then used his new ability to revisit Everlasting Life Heaven and reunite with his family and followers. He explained the difference in time between the realms and revealed that the Immortal Realm lived within his body, promising to bring others to the Divine Realm once he had established himself there.

• He Pingsheng returned to the Divine Realm and confirmed that his passage between realms caused no unusual aura or fluctuation.
• He Pingsheng discovered that he could travel freely among the four realms and descended into Everlasting Life Heaven to meet Xin Baobao.
• He Pingsheng reunited with Luo Bingyao, then asked her to gather his wives and close companions while keeping his descendants away.
• He Pingsheng told the gathering that a hundred years passed in the Immortal Realm for every year in the Divine Realm.
• He Pingsheng revealed that the Immortal Realm was a Lesser World nurtured inside his body and would endure as long as he lived.
• He Pingsheng told Xin Baobao that she could go to the Divine Realm after he had established a foothold there, because ascended Immortals were being hunted.

He Pingsheng distributed chaos supreme treasures to his companions and explained why he could not yet take them to the Divine Realm. After preparing Wen Buwan with divine blood for a future journey, he returned to the Divine Realm and asked Niu Ding about finding a safer place to settle.

• He Pingsheng gave Qiao Huizhu, Xin Baobao, Luo Bingyao, Su Zhenzhen, Zhou Qingmei, Ming Riyue, and others powerful treasures, while telling Wen Buwan he would make up her share later.
• He Pingsheng told Wen Buwan that He Luyu was doing well and gave her enhanced Divine General essence blood to strengthen her body for a possible future trip to the Divine Realm.
• He Pingsheng summoned the Sages, warned them that he could return at any time, and then left for the Divine Realm.
• He Pingsheng confirmed with Niu Ding that his return had caused no detectable energy fluctuation and said they should leave their current location.
• He Pingsheng asked Niu Ding about nearby towns or places to settle because he did not want to go to Five-Way Crossing near the Xia Household.

He Pingsheng and Niu Ding traveled to Five-Way Crossing to find a way to reach Divine Dream Mountain, where He Pingsheng hoped to gather herbs. The chapter left them negotiating with a shopkeeper over the cost of a private Flying Boat.

• Niu Ding told He Pingsheng about Divine Dream Mountain, its valuable herbs, and the dangerous demon beasts that lived there.
• He Pingsheng decided to visit Divine Dream Mountain, and Niu Ding suggested they find someone to take them there from Five-Way Crossing.
• After several days of travel, He Pingsheng and Niu Ding arrived at Five-Way Crossing and passed the Xia Household’s Mountain Shade Shop.
• At the Heavenly Calculation Shop, Niu Ding asked the shopkeeper about travel to Divine Dream Mountain and learned that a private Flying Boat would cost eighty thousand divine gold.

He Pingsheng and Niu Ding paid to join a future boat trip to Divine Dream Mountain, then He Pingsheng sold an earth-tier middle-grade cultivation method and bought divine talismans and pills. They settled in a cave near Five-Way Crossing to wait for the boat.

• The old shopkeeper told He Pingsheng and Niu Ding that they would have to wait until ten people gathered for the boat, and they paid for places and received Jade Tokens.
• He Pingsheng showed the shopkeeper an earth-tier middle-grade divine cultivation method and sold it for eight hundred thousand divine gold.
• He Pingsheng spent three hundred and eighty thousand divine gold on three first-grade divine talismans and another two hundred and forty thousand on two bottles of Divinity-Pacifying Pills.
• The shopkeeper told He Pingsheng and Niu Ding that they would be notified three days before the boat departed.
• He Pingsheng carved out a cave dwelling in a remote spot, moved in, and Niu Ding stood guard outside.

He Pingsheng enhanced a Miasma-Warding Divine Talisman and a batch of Divinity-Pacifying Pills before joining Niu Ding and eight other cultivators on a flying boat bound for Divine Dream Mountain. As the boat began its forty-five-day journey, He Pingsheng studied its Second Grade divine artifact restrictions and resumed cultivating.

• He Pingsheng enhanced the Miasma-Warding Divine Talisman into two Supreme Grade talismans and activated one, creating a barrier that could defend against a first-grade divine poison attack.
• He Pingsheng enhanced twelve Divinity-Pacifying Pills into twenty-four Supreme Grade pills.
• Niu Ding told He Pingsheng that they were heading to Divine Dream Mountain, and the two traveled to Five-Way Crossing.
• The shopkeeper introduced He Pingsheng and Niu Ding to eight Divine General Realm cultivators, then led everyone aboard his flying boat.
• The shopkeeper piloted the group toward Divine Dream City, and He Pingsheng recognized the boat as a Middle Grade Second Grade divine artifact.
• He Pingsheng began cultivating during the forty-five-day journey to digest the divine pill within him.

He Pingsheng arrived in Divine Dream City and learned about the trade in divine herbs while inspecting the local shops. After discovering that a seller had passed off young Lifetime Lotus as Tang Lotus, he learned the rare plant could become a valuable alchemy ingredient after ten million years of growth.

• On the forty-fourth day, He Pingsheng and Niu Ding arrived by ship at Divine Dream City, where He Pingsheng surveyed its bustling streets and shops.
• He Pingsheng examined a roadside stall selling Tang Lotus and learned from Niu Ding why divine herbs were gathered in the mountains and how their cultivation and trade worked.
• He Pingsheng toured the shops without buying anything, then returned and found a woman angrily accusing a seller of cheating her.
• The crowd identified the woman's lotus as young Lifetime Lotus, which resembled Tang Lotus but was useless for alchemy in its early stages.
• He Pingsheng asked about the rare plant and learned that mature, third-grade Lifetime Lotus could serve as an ingredient for a precious Golden Core.

He Pingsheng bought ten immature Lifetime Lotus plants and learned that Divine Gold imposed no limit on the number of divine servants he could take. He then set out with Niu Ding toward the Demon Race territory, hoping to capture a member of the Feather Clan as a slave.

• He Pingsheng offered the woman ten thousand Divine Gold for her ten worthless, immature Lifetime Lotus plants, and she accepted.
• He Pingsheng decided to store the Lifetime Lotus plants because he could only enhance them to the second grade at his current cultivation level.
• Niu Ding explained that Divine Gold had no limit on the number of divine servants someone could take, though He Pingsheng would need to refine a divine image for them to pray for his blessings.
• He Pingsheng told Niu Ding that he wanted to capture a member of the Feather Clan to travel faster.
• He Pingsheng rejected Niu Ding's suggestion to form a team and headed toward the ridge separating Human and Demon territories with him.

He Pingsheng and Niu Ding traveled deep into Divine Dream Mountain to search for divine medicines, only to encounter a man enforcing Shui Zongheng’s claim over several sites. He paid to cross the claimed territory and learned that powerful Divine Mortals had divided up the mountain’s profitable outskirts.

• He Pingsheng and Niu Ding spent the night traveling through the mountains and entered Divine Dream Mountain, finding no divine grasses or medicines.
• After eight days without meeting humans or proper Demon Beasts, He Pingsheng encountered a man who ordered them away from thirteen claimed divine medicine sites.
• He Pingsheng offered a thousand divine gold for the man to carry them across the territory on his black bird and explain the local rules.
• The man explained that powerful Divine Mortals had claimed the outskirts where divine grasses grew and described the enormous profits from the medicine sites.

He Pingsheng learned that powerful cultivators had claimed most of Divine Dream Mountain’s valuable territory, so he and Niu Ding followed a map toward the unclaimed herb-gathering grounds. They reached Demon Passage Valley and found two men blocking the way, claiming they were keeping travelers safe as they demanded passage fees.

• A patrolman explained that powerful cultivators occupied more than six hundred territories and that herb gatherers could find unclaimed land deeper in the mountain, near Demon Race settlements.
• The patrolman gave He Pingsheng a rough map and told him that his Black Dragon mount had been hatched from an egg he found in the mountains.
• He Pingsheng and Niu Ding followed a small river inward for twenty days until they reached Demon Passage Valley.
• He Pingsheng and Niu Ding entered the valley and found two men stopping four early divine general cultivators from going farther.
• One of the men told the pleading woman that he was blocking her path for her own good because the demon beasts ahead were dangerous.

He Pingsheng and Niu Ding reached the valley entrance to Divine Dream Mountain, where two men demanded payment or a fight before letting them pass. He Pingsheng bested the eighth-layer guard’s defenses, but the other guard struck him with a poisoned sneak attack, leaving him to protect himself against another shot.

• Two guards let a four-person team leave after one member paid them divine gold, then warned He Pingsheng and Niu Ding to turn back.
• He Pingsheng called out the guards’ extortion and agreed to fight the eighth-layer Divine General rather than pay.
• He Pingsheng blocked the guard’s saber with the White Stone Disc, then used Ten Suns Burning the Heavens and the Golden Mountain Shoes to break through four layers of defense.
• The seventh-layer guard attacked He Pingsheng from behind with a poisoned strike, shattering his Miasma-Warding Divine Talisman and cutting his waist.
• He Pingsheng healed the wound, claimed he had Hundred Poisons Immunity, and expanded both stone discs around himself to guard against another attack.

He Pingsheng killed the Poison Cultivator Du Yun and forced Daoist Sanyuan to become his divine servant. He then searched Du Yun’s remains and recovered a jade-green Spatial Ring, hoping to use the lingering Divine Sense to access Du Yun’s nameplate.

• He Pingsheng used his World-Grinding Discs and Golden Mountain Shoes to evade the Poison Cultivator’s attacks and strike him down.
• He Pingsheng crushed Du Yun and destroyed his escaping soul with his Divine Sense.
• He Pingsheng caught the fleeing Daoist Sanyuan and forced him to choose between death and becoming a divine servant.
• Sanyuan accepted servitude and told He Pingsheng that Du Yun had carried a third-grade Divine Artifact in his Spatial Ring.
• He Pingsheng retrieved Du Yun’s jade-green ring and gathered the Divine Sense left on it, intending to use it to open Du Yun’s nameplate.

He Pingsheng escaped with Three Origins and Niu Ding after killing Du Yun, then examined Du Yun’s belongings and studied his poison arts. He refined the Heavenly Poison Mechanical Crossbow enough to learn its limits and decided to wait until reaching the Divine Command Realm before enhancing it.

• He Pingsheng burned away the traces of Du Yun’s death, recovered Du Yun’s Divine Spark, and fled with Three Origins and Niu Ding.
• After traveling for a day and night, He Pingsheng hid in a mountain cave and failed to use Du Yun’s Divine Sense to open his nameplate.
• He Pingsheng identified Du Yun’s weapon as a third-grade Heavenly Poison Mechanical Crossbow that could fire a fast, lethal poison bolt.
• He Pingsheng searched Du Yun’s belongings, found pills, divine herbs, and poison-related jade slips, then placed two second-grade divine herbs in the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• After studying Du Yun’s poison texts for several days, He Pingsheng spent a month refining the crossbow and learned it could fire only once before needing a lengthy recharge.
• He Pingsheng resolved to enhance the Heavenly Poison Mechanical Crossbow later, when he reached the Divine Command Realm.