Chapter Summaries

Lian Nihong learned that her sister had joined the Lian Household to the Diwu Household through marriage, then asked to travel with He Pingsheng and help him establish a lineage. He Pingsheng warmed to the idea, and Li Canghai and Lian Nihong suggested buying an existing lineage.

• Hong Tianshun told Lian Nihong that Lian Niyun had become head of the Lian Household and Dao Companions with Diwu Rensong, joining the two households in marriage.
• Lian Nihong reacted furiously, then made Hong Tianshun swear not to reveal that she had returned.
• He Pingsheng told Lian Nihong that his promise was fulfilled and tried to part ways, but she asked to accompany him and offered to draw talismans to repay the divine gold he had spent.
• He Pingsheng agreed to bring Lian Nihong along and gave Li Canghai Glazed Heart for her to use as talisman ink until she earned back the debt.
• Lian Nihong and Li Canghai persuaded He Pingsheng that founding a lineage would bring practical benefits, and they both advised him to buy one.

He Pingsheng learned how lineages, taxes, and divine kingdom territories worked, then decided to establish a lineage while asking how to bring his family from the Immortal Realm into the Divine Realm. Lian Nihong confirmed that a way existed, and Li Canghai volunteered to manage the lineage while He Pingsheng cultivated in seclusion.

• Lian Nihong explained that a Household Founding Token let someone establish a legitimate lineage, and that bankrupt lineages sometimes sold their tokens cheaply.
• Lian Nihong described how lineages paid taxes and built their income through trades such as alchemy, artifact refinement, or shipbuilding.
• Lian Nihong outlined the hierarchy from the Shimmering Light Divine Kingdom down to cities and identified Celestial Phoenix City as their location.
• He Pingsheng asked whether his family and others from the Immortal Realm could fuse with divine sparks after ascending, and Lian Nihong said the necessary item could be bought at the Commerce Association.
• He Pingsheng decided to establish a lineage and assigned its management to Li Canghai while he cultivated in seclusion.
• Li Canghai eagerly accepted, explaining that he needed a well-run lineage to cultivate the Great Dao of Incense Offerings.

He Pingsheng and his companions bought a Household Founding Token with territory near Heavenly Grace Mountain and ordered second-grade formation materials. After Lian Nihong explained how Lesser Worlds formed, He Pingsheng wondered whether his own world’s unusual origin was connected to the Treasure-Gathering Basin.

• At the Foremost Commerce Association, Lian Nihong challenged the floor restrictions, and the manager led her, He Pingsheng, and Li Canghai to a private room.
• Lian Nihong asked about a Household Founding Token with territory near Heavenly Grace Mountain, and He Pingsheng agreed to buy it for ten million divine gold.
• He Pingsheng ordered two sets each of materials for a defense formation, a Divine-Sense Sealing Formation, and a warning formation, for a total of 5.4 million divine gold.
• He Pingsheng asked Lian Nihong about the Lesser Worlds sold by the association, and she said they formed from the bodies of deceased Divine Lord Realm cultivators who had comprehended laws.
• He Pingsheng recalled that his Immortal Realm had formed after an ordinary Divine General Realm cultivator died, and suspected the Treasure-Gathering Basin was involved.

He Pingsheng and Lian Nihong searched Celestial Phoenix City for a method to fuse a divine spark, carefully assessing the danger of drawing attention. He found the Heaven-Concealing Art in a small pill shop and, reassured by the shop assistant’s account of the owner’s cultivation, prepared to buy it.

• He Pingsheng paid for formation materials and a Household Founding Token, then gave Li Canghai five million divine gold to register the token and meet them in the eastern part of the city.
• He Pingsheng asked Lian Nihong about Divine Venerable experts and learned that none remained in Celestial Phoenix City because such lineages moved to higher-tier cities.
• He Pingsheng and Lian Nihong visited shops seeking a divine-spark fusion method, while Lian Nihong warned that their inquiries could attract dangerous attention.
• He Pingsheng found the Heaven-Concealing Art in a small pill shop and confirmed that it could fuse a divine spark into someone’s body.
• The shop assistant said the owner was a Divine Command Realm expert who sometimes refined second-grade golden cores but traded them elsewhere, reassuring He Pingsheng that he could buy the art.

He Pingsheng and Lian Nihong lured their pursuers outside Celestial Phoenix City and defeated Cao Zhiwei with a coordinated attack. After Cao Zhiwei became He Pingsheng’s divine slave, He Pingsheng discovered that his balance exceeded six hundred million divine gold.

• He Pingsheng bought a bottle of Spirit Pivot Pills and received the Heaven-Concealing Art as a freebie before leaving Celestial Phoenix City with Lian Nihong.
• He Pingsheng and Lian Nihong noticed two people following them and flew to a secluded mountain, where Cao Zhiwei revealed his plan to make them divine slaves.
• Cao Zhiwei attacked with his divine sense, but He Pingsheng, Lian Nihong, and the ambushing Li Canghai worked together to overwhelm him.
• Cao Zhiwei handed over his Divine Slave Mark and began transferring his funds to He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng saw that Cao Zhiwei had more than six hundred million divine gold on his Nameplate.

He Pingsheng founded the He Family on the site of a defunct lineage and assigned its management to Cao Zhiwei and Li Canghai while preparing to cultivate. Cao Zhiwei volunteered to handle the lineage’s business, but revealed that a lineage he had founded before had failed.

• He Pingsheng took Cao Zhiwei’s former divine slave as his own and returned the shop assistant’s divine gold.
• He Pingsheng and his companions traveled east to the former lineage site using Cao Zhiwei’s flying divine artifact.
• Li Canghai presented the registration documents and Household Founding Token, establishing the place as the He Family’s territory.
• He Pingsheng asked Cao Zhiwei and Li Canghai to manage the lineage while he and Lian Nihong went into seclusion to cultivate.
• Cao Zhiwei proposed making alchemy the lineage’s livelihood and volunteered to manage its business.
• Cao Zhiwei admitted that a lineage he had previously founded had failed.

He Pingsheng learned that Old Cao had failed several attempts to enter the Divine Spirit Realm and promised to help him obtain a supreme-grade Spirit Communion Pill later. After enhancing the Heaven-Concealing Art, He Pingsheng brought it to Qiao Huizhu and proposed testing its divine-spark fusion method on Ming Yue first.

• Old Cao told He Pingsheng that he lacked resources and had failed four attempts to break through to the Divine Spirit Realm using Spirit Communion Pills.
• He Pingsheng assigned Old Cao to refine pills for the lineage and promised to help him obtain a supreme-grade Spirit Communion Pill once he reached the Divine Command Realm.
• After a year of secluded cultivation, He Pingsheng enhanced the Heaven-Concealing Art to heaven tier supreme grade and learned that it let lesser-world cultivators fuse with divine sparks.
• He Pingsheng entered the Immortal Realm and gave Qiao Huizhu the Heaven-Concealing Art to study.
• Qiao Huizhu estimated that mastering the art would take several hundred years, and He Pingsheng said Ming Yue would be the first test subject.

He Pingsheng arranged for Ming Yue to enter the Divine Realm while safeguarding the secret of the Treasure-Gathering Basin. After a year in the Divine Realm and a hundred years in the Immortal Realm, Ming Yue mastered the Heaven-Concealing Art and received a Divine Spark, with instructions to clear the Ninefold Heavens and wait for He Pingsheng.

• Qiao Huizhu worried that Ming Yue and the others might reveal the Treasure-Gathering Basin's secret, and He Pingsheng said he could have the Heavenly Dao erase Ming Yue's memories.
• He Pingsheng gave Ming Yue a Jade Slip containing the Heaven-Concealing Art and explained the Divine Realm and his concern about the basin's secret.
• Ming Yue offered to become He Pingsheng's divine slave as a safeguard, and He Pingsheng agreed to erase his knowledge of the basin's secret and make him a divine slave in name only.
• He Pingsheng spent a year cultivating and prepared formation materials while a hundred years passed in the Immortal Realm.
• After Ming Yue mastered the Heaven-Concealing Art, He Pingsheng gave him a Divine Spark and told him to ascend to the Ninefold Heavens, drive everyone out, and wait there.

He Pingsheng helped Ming Yue ascend to the Divine Realm and later brought his companions and disciples there as the He Family grew. He offered the Household Founding Token to his companions, and Su Zhenzhen chose to become the He Family head.

• Ming Yue fused the Divine Spark, became a Divine General, and gave He Pingsheng a Divine Slave Mark before ascending.
• He Pingsheng found Ming Yue in his Daoist Grounds, arranged for him to get an identity Nameplate, and sent him to Li Canghai.
• Qiao Huizhu ascended three years later, followed five years afterward by Wen Buwan, Su Zhenzhen, the Great Order Wisdom King, Zhou Qingmei, Luo Bingyao, and Xin Baobao.
• He Pingsheng warned the newly ascended members not to travel casually and explained that refining the Household Founding Token would grant its holder the He Family’s incense offerings.
• Luo Bingyao, Xin Baobao, Qiao Huizhu, and Wen Buwan declined the token, while Su Zhenzhen accepted the position of He Family head.

He Pingsheng appointed Su Zhenzhen head of the He Family and welcomed visitors from the Zhonghang Family, who announced that the family’s annual tribute had risen to one million divine gold. The Zhonghang envoys gave He Pingsheng five days to pay, leaving him to consider how to respond.

• He Pingsheng gave Su Zhenzhen the Household Founding Token, making her head of the He Family and granting her access to the lineage’s power of faith.
• Lian Nihong delivered two sets each of Divine-Sense Sealing and Warning Formations, and He Pingsheng asked her to inscribe two Defense Formations for the family’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation.
• Old Diao told He Pingsheng that people from the Zhonghang Family had arrived, and He Pingsheng went to meet them at the Mountain Gate.
• A Zhonghang Family envoy told He Pingsheng that the He Family’s annual tribute had increased from three hundred thousand to one million divine gold, while other two-star lineages’ tribute remained unchanged.
• The Zhonghang envoys gave the He Family five days to pay the increased tribute and then departed.

Old Diao persuaded the Zhonghang Family’s men to give the He Family a month to pay its shortfall, then shared tea with He Pingsheng. He Pingsheng finished setting up protective formations in his Daoist Grounds, and Old Cao returned furious that the Zhonghang Family had taken a million from them.

• Old Diao blocked the Zhonghang Family’s men and convinced them to extend the He Family’s deadline to a month.
• He Pingsheng thanked Old Diao, drank his Cloud Mist Tea, and learned that Old Diao was Old Cao’s nephew.
• He Pingsheng returned to his Daoist Grounds and spent a month setting up second-grade formations with help from Wen Buwan, Qiao Huizhu, and the others.
• He Pingsheng gave Wen Buwan and Qiao Huizhu supreme-grade Divinity-Pacifying Pills.
• Old Cao returned and cursed the Zhonghang Family for taking a million, vowing to target them after he reached the Divine Spirit Realm.

He Pingsheng emerged after more than sixty thousand years of secluded cultivation, having advanced from the third to the eleventh layer of the Divine General Realm. After Old Cao warned him that his progress was dangerously fast, He Pingsheng asked for more Divinity-Pacifying Pills so he could resume cultivation, and learned that the Zhonghang Family’s secret realm was about to open.

• He Pingsheng accepted Old Cao’s pills and requested an alchemy furnace and books before entering seclusion.
• He Pingsheng spent more than sixty thousand years cultivating and refining the Heavenly Poison Mechanical Crossbow, advancing from the third to the eleventh layer of the Divine General Realm.
• After exhausting his Divinity-Pacifying Pills, He Pingsheng emerged and told Old Cao he planned to replenish his supply and continue cultivating.
• Old Cao was astonished by He Pingsheng’s cultivation speed and warned that outsiders learning of it could bring disaster.
• Old Cao told He Pingsheng that Lian Nihong had reached the Divine Command Realm a hundred years earlier and that the Zhonghang Family’s secret realm was about to open.

He Pingsheng learned that the Zhonghang Family demanded four billion divine gold from the He Family to enter a Secret Realm, far more than other lineages paid. He suspected they had learned the He Family’s exact wealth and considered how to respond.

• Old Cao explained that the Zhonghang Family’s Secret Realm opened once every hundred thousand years and that lineages had to send disciples, with their numbers decided by combat rankings.
• Old Cao revealed that Lian Nihong had won first place for the He Family, earning it twenty places in the trials.
• Old Cao said the Zhonghang Family required the He Family to pay an enormous participation fee, and He Pingsheng learned the demand was four billion divine gold.
• He Pingsheng compared the fee with the Secret Realm’s value and learned other lineages had paid only two to three hundred million each.
• Old Cao disclosed that the He Family had four billion one hundred million divine gold in its account, and He Pingsheng suspected the Zhonghang Family had obtained the figure from the City Lord’s Manor.

He Pingsheng inspected the He Family Lineage’s new defenses and discovered that Old Diao’s tea affected him strangely, though Cao Zhiwei felt nothing. He then ordered the Lineage’s divine gold distributed among its disciples, family, and elders, leaving the Zhonghang Family to be repaid in installments.

• He Pingsheng and Cao Zhiwei flew over the Lineage and saw its new third-grade Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation and renovated buildings.
• Old Diao explained that he had caught disciples trying to leave without exit Tokens, then served He Pingsheng and Cao Zhiwei tea.
• He Pingsheng felt a powerful sensation with every sip of the tea, while Cao Zhiwei tasted nothing unusual and identified the leaves as first-grade divine tea called [Bitter Unevenness].
• He Pingsheng asked how many disciples the He Family had and ordered three million divine gold for each of its six hundred Outer Disciples.
• He Pingsheng assigned the remaining money to his wives, disciples, Zhou Qingmei, Cao Zhiwei, and Li Canghai, with the rest going to his Nameplate or the Lineage’s Nameplate.
• He Pingsheng told Cao Zhiwei to explain that the Lineage would repay the Zhonghang Family one hundred million divine gold each time the Secret Realm opened.

He Pingsheng learned about divine spark fusion and received an alchemy furnace and a book on golden core refinement. He planned one final trip to the Immortal Realm to bring Su Zhenzhen’s son and the others out before advancing further.

• Old Cao told He Pingsheng that Li Canghai had reached the twelfth layer of the Divine Command Realm and delivered the alchemy furnace and A Thousand Questions on Golden Core.
• He Pingsheng learned from Old Cao and Old Diao how divine sparks could be fused, and that the lineage kept around a hundred second-grade divine sparks.
• He Pingsheng visited Su Zhenzhen and congratulated her on reaching the fourth layer of the Divine General Realm.
• Su Zhenzhen asked when He Pingsheng would bring Tianya to her, and He Pingsheng said he would bring Tianya and the others together on one final trip to the Immortal Realm.

He Pingsheng asked Su Zhenzhen for Divine Sparks to prepare for a breakthrough, then embraced her to discuss the Dao of Yin-Yang. Meanwhile, Young Lord Zhonghang arrived at the He Family to collect four billion Divine Gold, but Cao Zhiwei claimed the family had spent nearly all of it on disciple benefits.

• He Pingsheng asked Su Zhenzhen for twenty Divine Sparks and told her he planned to fuse and upgrade his Divine Spark before breaking through to the Divine Command Realm.
• He Pingsheng embraced Su Zhenzhen and proposed that they discuss the Dao of Yin-Yang.
• Young Lord Zhonghang arrived at the He Family aboard a third-grade divine boat, and Old Diao led him to the reception hall.
• Young Lord Zhonghang told Cao Zhiwei he had come to collect four billion Divine Gold.
• Cao Zhiwei said the He Family had distributed nearly all its funds to disciples and had only a little over a hundred million Divine Gold left.

He Pingsheng gathered divine sparks and divine gold from Su Zhenzhen, enhanced his resources, and prepared to enter the Immortal Realm for what he believed would be his final visit. There, he killed Linglong, annihilating her spirit and soul.

• Old Cao persuaded Young Lord Zhonghang to accept an eighty-installment deal totaling eight billion divine gold, and transferred him the first hundred million.
• He Pingsheng collected twenty divine sparks and six pieces of middle-grade divine gold from Su Zhenzhen, then received two hundred pieces of low-grade divine gold from her.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the twenty divine sparks into forty, stored the two hundred low-grade divine gold in the Treasure-Gathering Basin, and entered the Immortal Realm.
• He Pingsheng said it should be his last return to the Immortal Realm and used Sever to annihilate Linglong's spirit and soul.

After returning to the Immortal Realm, He Pingsheng learned that Everlasting Life and Central Pole's reincarnation had become Sages, then gathered his family and companions to choose whether to ascend with him to the Divine Realm. Most chose to stay, leaving seven people prepared to go with him as the chapter ended.

• He Pingsheng returned to the Emperor Palace, where Taizhen welcomed him and reported that Everlasting Life and Central Pole's reincarnation had become Sages.
• He Yuting gathered twenty-five of He Pingsheng's relatives, friends, elders, and disciples at the Immortal Palace's main hall.
• He Pingsheng explained the dangers of ascending to the Divine Realm and asked everyone to choose whether to go with him or remain in the Immortal Realm.
• Taixu chose to stay and asked He Pingsheng to secure a Primordial Unity position so he could resurrect people; Hao Yun and many others joined him.
• He Tianya, He Tianyu, He Tianshi, and He Tianyi also chose to stay, leaving He Pingsheng with five children, Qiao Xiaoqiao, and Xiao He among those who remained undecided or ready to go.

He Pingsheng offered Divine Sparks to those who wished to ascend, but most of the Sages refused, and Taizhen questioned whether she truly wanted to accept his help. The chapter ended with Taizhen saying she would enter the Divine Realm only if He Pingsheng still acknowledged her as his Senior Concubine.

• He Pingsheng gave the Divine Spark fusion method to Qiao Xiaoqiao and learned that He Tianya and He Tianyu both intended to remain in the Immortal Realm.
• He Pingsheng appointed He Tianya grand patriarch of the He Family after learning he had more than sixty Dao Companions and could not leave them behind.
• He Pingsheng summoned the Sages and offered them a chance to ascend, but only Shang Xihong accepted for herself.
• Purple Tenuity declined to ascend and asked He Pingsheng to take his daughter Taizhen instead.
• He Pingsheng gave Taizhen the fusion method, but she said her gratitude made her uneasy and tied her decision to whether he still acknowledged her as his Senior Concubine.

He Pingsheng traveled through the realms and found that time had erased nearly all traces of his past, then prepared to take people to the Divine Realm. Han Houzhi agreed to become He Pingsheng’s divine slave so he could ascend, while the chapter ended with He Pingsheng ordering the Heavenly Dao to transfer fortune to his sons.

• He Pingsheng accepted Taizhen’s request to join him in the Divine Realm after she mastered the method he gave her.
• He Pingsheng revisited the realms and found that nearly ten million years had erased his old acquaintances and left only his name in second place on the Stone Terrace Heavenly Ladder.
• Shang Xihong fused with her divine spark and ascended to the Divine Realm after He Pingsheng erased her memories of the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• Han Houzhi asked He Pingsheng to take him to the Divine Realm and agreed to become his divine slave after learning that a slave would become free if the master died.
• Qiao Xiaoqiao, He Tianwei, and others ascended, followed by Xiao He, while the Grand Ancestor of the Great Void attained primordial unity.
• He Pingsheng ordered the Heavenly Dao to take fortune from two people and give it to his sons, He Tianya and He Tianyu.