Chapter Summaries

After returning to the Divine Realm, He Pingsheng dealt with his Dao Companions’ anger over their children staying behind, then cultivated for millennia. He finally consumed a supreme-grade Heavenly Course Golden Core and entered the Divine Command Realm.

• He Pingsheng’s Dao Companions confronted him for bringing only Yuqing to the Divine Realm, and he explained that their other children had chosen to stay with their own families.
• He Pingsheng entered seclusion, fused with a Divine Spark, and enhanced divine gold while cultivating for more than ninety thousand years until he reached the twelfth layer of the Divine General Realm.
• He Pingsheng visited Su Zhenzhen, collected more than three thousand pieces of physical divine gold and two Spirit Communion Golden Cores, then gave Han Houzhi four hundred pieces of middle-grade divine gold and supreme-grade Divinity-Pacifying Pills for the lineage.
• He Pingsheng returned to seclusion, enhanced the gathered divine gold, and swallowed his supreme-grade Heavenly Course Golden Core.
• After more than four thousand years of assimilation, He Pingsheng broke through to the Divine Command Realm, and his divine sense’s range increased from ten thousand zhang to thirty thousand zhang.

He Pingsheng enhanced his Spirit Communion Golden Cores and Heavenly Poison Mechanical Crossbows, then tested the crossbow’s deadly speed and poison. He gave Li Canghai a Golden Core to help him break through and offered Old Cao one in exchange for buying third-grade Demon Beast Poison Pellets.

• He Pingsheng enhanced two Spirit Communion Golden Cores into four supreme-grade cores.
• He enhanced the Heavenly Poison Mechanical Crossbow into two supreme-grade artifacts, refined one further, and discovered it could load poison directly and fire twice.
• He tested the crossbow with a second-grade Poison Pellet, and its poisonous light rapidly rotted a spiritwood pillar.
• He Pingsheng summoned Li Canghai and Old Cao, gave Li Canghai a supreme-grade Spirit Communion Golden Core, and told him to enter seclusion.
• He Pingsheng offered Old Cao the other Golden Core if he bought third-grade Demon Beast Poison Pellets with poisonous Inner Cores.

He Pingsheng obtained and enhanced six third-grade Poison Pellets, then equipped his Heavenly Poison Mechanical Crossbows with lethal and paralyzing poison before cultivating his poison arts. After Wen Buwan told him that Young Lord Zhonghang had arrived and demanded their younger sister become his Dao Companion, He Pingsheng went to confront the situation.

• He Pingsheng learned from Old Cao that the Divine Realm had no Divine Refining methods and that Lian Nihong had left after suppressing the cultivators on Heavenly Grace Mountain.
• Four months later, Old Cao brought He Pingsheng six third-grade Poison Pellets, and He Pingsheng gave him the supreme-grade Spirit Communion Golden Core in return.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the poisons and loaded his Heavenly Poison Mechanical Crossbows with lethal poison and paralyzing poison.
• He Pingsheng cultivated the Great Wilderness Myriad Poisons Scripture for about six thousand years, raising his poison refining to the tenth layer of the Divine General Realm.
• Wen Buwan told He Pingsheng that Young Lord Zhonghang had come to invite the He Family's disciples to the secret realm and was demanding their younger sister become his Dao Companion.

He Pingsheng rejected Young Lord Zhonghang’s demands to surrender Su Zhenzhen and Wen Buwan, pay more divine gold, and join the Secret Realm trial. Young Lord Zhonghang attacked him, and He Pingsheng faced the strike alone after sending his wives away.

• Wen Buwan feared the Zhonghang Family’s strength, but He Pingsheng assured her he could handle them and brought her to the Great Hall.
• He Pingsheng arrived to find Young Lord Zhonghang harassing Su Zhenzhen, while Old Diao and the He Family disciples waited for orders.
• Young Lord Zhonghang demanded another hundred million divine gold for the Secret Realm and claimed he would take Su Zhenzhen and Wen Buwan.
• He Pingsheng refused the demands, ended the He Family’s participation in the trial, and ordered Old Diao to see Young Lord Zhonghang out.
• Young Lord Zhonghang smashed the reception hall and declared that the He Family would be wiped out before attacking He Pingsheng with his Black Divine Spear.
• He Pingsheng sent Wen Buwan and Su Zhenzhen away and confronted Young Lord Zhonghang alone.

He Pingsheng defeated Young Lord Zhonghang, seized his divine gold, and demanded an apology and payment from the Zhonghang Family. He left Zhonghang incapacitated by poison and Buddhist Path Heart Seals while he took stock of the loot.

• He Pingsheng used his Alchemy Furnace to block Young Lord Zhonghang's spear and Divine Talisman, then agreed to fight without Magical Treasures.
• He Pingsheng dodged Zhonghang's Great Heavenly Wave Crushing Palm, brought out the furnace anyway, and knocked Zhonghang unconscious.
• He Pingsheng killed a Zhonghang Family disciple who accused him of killing the young lord, then forced the remaining disciples to transfer their divine gold.
• He Pingsheng ordered the disciples to tell the Zhonghang Family patriarch to apologize in person and bring ten thousand pieces of physical divine gold within five days.
• He Pingsheng poisoned Young Lord Zhonghang, struck him with four Buddhist Path Heart Seals, took his Storage Ring, and went to inspect his spoils.

He Pingsheng fortified the He Family’s defenses, tortured the captured Young Lord Zhonghang into transferring his wealth, and discovered the Zhonghang Family’s powerful inherited palm technique. After learning the young lord was imprisoned, a Divine Spirit Realm elder vowed to destroy the He Family.

• He Pingsheng told Su Zhenzhen to reinforce the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation and ordered Wen Buwan to alert him if the Zhonghang Family arrived.
• He Pingsheng searched Young Lord Zhonghang’s Storage Ring, took the divine gold from his nameplate, and learned that his jade slips included the [Great Heavenly Wave Crushing Palm].
• A Zhonghang Family cultivator reported to the Second Elder that Young Lord Zhonghang had been captured by the He Family.
• The Divine Spirit Realm Second Elder vowed to destroy the He Family and rescue the young lord.

He Pingsheng learned that the Zhonghang Family had two Divine Spirit Realm cultivators nearby and that its head, Zhonghang Xuqin, was away, then faced the two elders as they attacked the He Family’s formation. After he left the formation to negotiate, Wu Xiaoyao struck him with a divine sense attack, and He Pingsheng countered with his Heavenly Poison Mechanical Crossbow.

• Zhong Chengsheng checked Young Lord Zhonghang’s life tablet, then summoned Wu Xiaoyao to help rescue him from the He Family.
• He Pingsheng tortured Young Lord Zhonghang for information and learned the Zhonghang Family’s strength, including that Zhonghang Xuqin had been away for six yuan and was involved with a Lu Lineage elder.
• Wen Buwan warned He Pingsheng that Zhong Chengsheng and Wu Xiaoyao were attacking the He Family’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation.
• He Pingsheng went to the mountain gate and threatened to kill Young Lord Zhonghang if the elders attacked him after he came outside.
• Wu Xiaoyao secretly hit He Pingsheng with a divine sense attack, but He Pingsheng survived and fired his Heavenly Poison Mechanical Crossbow at Wu Xiaoyao.

He Pingsheng paralyzed Wu Xiaoyao and Zhong Chengsheng with his poison crossbow, then stripped away their divine senses and Divine Sparks after learning they could not transfer their Divine Slave Marks. Back in his hall, he reflected on how close he had come to death and began examining their rings.

• He Pingsheng shot Wu Xiaoyao and Zhong Chengsheng with paralytic poison, then carried them into the He Family compound.
• He Pingsheng failed to use the Great Heart-Devouring Seal and demanded their Divine Slave Marks, but Zhong Chengsheng explained that both men served the Zhonghang Family's patriarch and could not change allegiance.
• He Pingsheng sealed their divine senses with divine poison, and Old Diao gouged out their Divine Sparks.
• He Pingsheng ordered Wu Xiaoyao, Zhong Chengsheng, and the Young Lord Zhonghang locked in a cell, then took the two Divine Spirits' rings.
• He Pingsheng reviewed the dangers of the fight, resolved to strengthen his divine sense and avoid taking risks against stronger opponents, and began inspecting the rings.

He Pingsheng looted Wu Xiaoyao’s and Zhong Chengsheng’s rings, enhanced a defensive talisman, and learned that Li Canghai had broken through to the Divine Spirit Realm. With Zhonghang Xuqin possibly on her way, he sent Li Canghai to prepare defenses against divine sense attacks.

• He Pingsheng searched Wu Xiaoyao’s and Zhong Chengsheng’s rings, taking their divine gold, pills, artifacts, and other valuables, including a third-grade Heavenly Gang Great Gold Talisman.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the Heavenly Gang Great Gold Talisman to supreme grade, activated one for protection, and put the third-grade flying sword into the Immortal Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• Su Zhenzhen told He Pingsheng that Li Canghai had reached the first layer of the Divine Spirit Realm.
• Li Canghai thanked He Pingsheng for helping him advance, then gleefully celebrated that he had broken through before Old Cao.
• He Pingsheng warned Li Canghai that Zhonghang Xuqin might come to avenge her captured son and suppressed servants, and ordered him to stabilize his cultivation before buying defenses against Divine Spirit Realm divine sense attacks in Celestial Phoenix City.

He Pingsheng cultivated a newly enhanced palm technique while Li Canghai searched for a third-grade divine artifact that could defend against Divine Sense attacks. Li Canghai returned with a trade offer requiring a rare Divine Phoenix, just as Cao Zhiwei broke through to the Divine Spirit Realm and was challenged to find one.

• He Pingsheng finished enhancing the Great Heavenly Wave Crushing Palm and began practicing it alongside the Great Wilderness Myriad Poisons Scripture.
• Li Canghai reported that Duanmu Yunzheng would trade her Heavenward Crown for a female third-grade Divine Phoenix with three Divine Fire Flowing Light Feathers and a blue left foot.
• He Pingsheng and Li Canghai sensed someone breaking through and went to greet Cao Zhiwei, who had reached the Divine Spirit Realm.
• Cao Zhiwei explained that a longer breakthrough could indicate a stronger accumulation of law power, citing He Pingsheng's nearly five thousand years to break through.
• Li Canghai asked Cao Zhiwei whether he could find the rare Divine Phoenix He Pingsheng needed.

He Pingsheng, Li Canghai, and Old Cao traveled to the Tang Household to buy a Flowing Light Divine Phoenix for their exchange for the Heavenward Crown. They found a female phoenix with four flowing light feathers instead of the requested three, and Old Cao suggested plucking out the extra feather.

• Old Cao explained that Flowing Light Divine Phoenixes were bred in Celestial Phoenix City and offered to lead He Pingsheng and Li Canghai to a lineage that raised them.
• He Pingsheng told Old Cao to stabilize his cultivation first, then prepared to travel with him and Li Canghai.
• After several days of travel, the three reached the Tang Household, where Tang Wan received them and showed them the phoenixes raised in a lava valley.
• He Pingsheng asked to buy a female phoenix with three flowing light feathers and a blue left foot, and Tang Wan quoted a price of six hundred pieces of physical divine gold.
• Tang Wan returned with a blue female phoenix whose left foot was blue but which had four flowing light feathers, and Old Cao proposed removing one.

He Pingsheng and his companions brought a Divine Phoenix to the Duanmu Household, hoping to sell it to Household Head Duanmu Yunzheng. When the phoenix revealed they had plucked one of her feathers to disguise her bloodline, Yunzheng ordered them to leave, then offered to buy the phoenix for double what they had paid.

• He Pingsheng bought a four-feathered Divine Phoenix from the Tang Household for eight hundred units of physical divine gold.
• Old Cao plucked one of the phoenix’s feathers, and she angrily told him it would grow back.
• Li Canghai led He Pingsheng, Old Cao, and the phoenix to the Duanmu Household after a six-day return to Celestial Phoenix City and another twenty-three days of travel.
• He Pingsheng and his companions presented the phoenix to Duanmu Yunzheng as a three-feathered bird with a blue left foot and a red right foot.
• The phoenix exposed the deception and revealed that she was actually a four-feathered Divine Phoenix.
• Duanmu Yunzheng ordered the men to leave, but when the phoenix begged her to save her from being stewed, Yunzheng offered to pay double for her.

He Pingsheng borrowed Duanmu Yunzheng’s Heavenward Crown and secretly used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance copies of it. After returning an improved crown and leaving the Duanmu Household, he and his servants were intercepted by a giant Flowing Light Divine Phoenix carrying a woman who claimed to be Duanmu Yunzheng’s younger sister, Duanmu Yunshu.

• He Pingsheng offered to study Duanmu Yunzheng’s Heavenward Crown for a year in exchange for improving it, and Duanmu agreed to let him work in a secluded hall.
• He Pingsheng used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to duplicate and enhance the Heavenward Crown, while studying artifact-refining texts.
• After several months, He Pingsheng returned a middle-grade Heavenward Crown, and Duanmu Yunzheng confirmed that it had gained another layer of restrictions.
• He Pingsheng left the Duanmu Household with his two divine servants, but a thousand-foot Flowing Light Divine Phoenix appeared over them before they reached the Mountain Gate.
• The woman riding the Phoenix introduced herself as Duanmu Yunshu, Duanmu Yunzheng’s younger sister.

Duanmu Yunshu learned that Duanmu Yunzheng had obtained a matching Three-Plumed Divine Phoenix and discovered her Heavenward Crown had been upgraded. He Pingsheng returned to Heavenly Grace Mountain with artifact materials, where Old Diao boasted he could keep the Zhonghang Family’s head out.

• Duanmu Yunshu showed off her Peacock to He Pingsheng and Old Cao, then hurried to Duanmu Yunzheng’s residence after Old Cao claimed they had found a matching Divine Phoenix.
• Duanmu Yunshu found Yunzheng’s Little Cloud and argued with her over the pet’s name and which Phoenix was older.
• Duanmu Yunzheng showed Yunshu her upgraded Middle Grade Heavenward Crown, prompting Yunshu to leave to find He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng returned to Heavenly Grace Mountain aboard the divine boat and told Old Cao he had enough materials to refine more artifacts.
• Old Diao bragged that he could keep the Zhonghang Family’s head away from the He Family, so Old Cao kicked him into the woods and told him to stop boasting.

He Pingsheng learned that Zhonghang Xuqin had arrived to demand the return of her son and two elders, so he prepared to negotiate while still racing to refine the Heavenward Crown. As the family faced the threat of a powerful visitor, he was astonished to discover that Taizhen had reached the seventh layer of the Divine Spirit Realm.

• He Pingsheng drank Old Diao’s Bitter Unevenness tea, then noticed that the He Family still lacked a divine meridian and returned to seclusion.
• He Pingsheng refined seventy-seven layers of the Heavenward Crown before Taizhen informed him that Zhonghang Xuqin had arrived.
• Old Diao reported that Zhonghang Xuqin was at the eighth layer of the Divine Spirit Realm and advised returning her son and two elders to avoid open conflict.
• He Pingsheng sent Old Diao to speak with Zhonghang Xuqin and asked Old Cao to bring her son and the two elders to the hall.
• He Pingsheng noticed that Taizhen had reached the seventh layer of the Divine Spirit Realm as Wen Buwan, Qiao Huizhu, Kong Jiaojiao, and the others arrived.

He Pingsheng reunited with his family and learned that Shang Xihong had gone exploring, while Zhonghang Xuqin came to the He Family seeking her imprisoned son. Old Diao told her the He Family would keep tormenting him and offered to plead for him in exchange for a favor.

• He Pingsheng checked his family's cultivation and asked Wen Buwan where Shang Xihong was; Wen Buwan said she had left to explore the world.
• He Pingsheng sensed Zhonghang Xuqin in the outer hall, but she shielded herself from his Divine Sense.
• Zhonghang Xuqin demanded to meet the He Family head and threatened to break the family's formation, while Old Diao mocked her and said the young master would not see her.
• Old Diao told Zhonghang Xuqin that her son had been tormented with four Heart Seals for several years and would suffer for a full yuan before being killed.
• Zhonghang Xuqin begged Old Diao to plead for her son and offered to pay; Old Diao said he wanted to inspect her sincerity.

He Pingsheng secured a settlement with Zhonghang Xuqin that gave the He Family a divine meridian and two Divine Spirit Realm servants. He returned to cultivate and refine the Heavenward Crown, but Taizhen arrived to ask for pills to support his seclusion.

• Old Diao reported that Zhonghang Xuqin agreed to release her son, abolish the He Family’s annual tribute, provide two servants, and give the He Family one of her family’s divine meridians in exchange for sparing her son.
• He Pingsheng recovered the four Heart Seals, released Young Lord Zhonghang, and received the divine meridian from Zhonghang Xuqin.
• Old Diao accidentally brought out a red dudou before presenting the low-grade divine meridian, which He Pingsheng took away.
• He Pingsheng accepted Zhong Chengsheng and Wu Xiaoyao as servants after Zhonghang Xuqin removed their Divine Slave Marks, bringing the He Family’s Divine Spirit Realm servants to four.
• He Pingsheng returned to his cultivation grounds, planned to enhance the divine meridian, and continued refining the Heavenward Crown.
• Taizhen asked He Pingsheng for first-grade Divinity-Pacifying Pills so he could cultivate in seclusion to the peak of the Divine General Realm.

He Pingsheng refined the Heavenward Crown and planted a low-grade divine meridian to strengthen the He Family’s cultivation grounds. With the lineage more secure, he told Su Zhenzhen he was leaving to travel, while giving her instructions for managing the family in his absence.

• Taizhen confronted He Pingsheng about his promise to acknowledge her as his senior concubine, and he challenged her teasing remark about his stamina.
• After three years, He Pingsheng finished refining the Heavenward Crown, which could automatically block two peak Divine Spirit Realm divine sense attacks.
• He Pingsheng examined the middle-grade Divine Dragon Earth Meridian and planted the low-grade meridian beneath the He Family’s mountain, where it began spreading divine power through the grounds.
• He Pingsheng told Su Zhenzhen he planned to travel for an uncertain length of time and refused to take a companion.
• He Pingsheng instructed Su Zhenzhen to support family members who chose the Incense Apotheosis Dao and to improve benefits for outer disciples.

He Pingsheng left the He Family for Celestial Phoenix City to find rare treasures that could strengthen his Divine Sense. He learned such treasures were controlled or forbidden, then sold lifetime lotuses and exchanged middle-grade Divine Gold for low-grade pieces.

• He Pingsheng returned to the He Family to collect Old Diao's bitter unevenness and gave him a supreme-grade Heavenly Course Golden Core.
• He Pingsheng traveled to Celestial Phoenix City, seeking heavenly materials and earthly treasures that could strengthen Divine Sense.
• A female shopkeeper told He Pingsheng that three-zhang grain was controlled by great aristocratic clans and that anyone growing blood nether taro was executed.
• He Pingsheng sold several dozen third-grade lifetime lotuses to the shopkeeper for three pieces of low-grade Divine Gold.
• The shopkeeper exchanged He Pingsheng's five middle-grade Divine Gold for fifty thousand two hundred low-grade pieces and offered a bonus for future exchanges.

He Pingsheng left Celestial Phoenix City aboard a divine ship bound for Great Tower City, with a mysterious cultivator still following him. During the voyage, he read about three-zhang grain and learned how demanding it was to grow.

• He Pingsheng found no divine-refining treasures at the commerce associations, exchanged middle-grade physical divine gold for over 180,000 pieces of low-grade divine gold, and sensed someone following him.
• He Pingsheng learned that no direct divine ship traveled to Celestial Scorpion Royal City and chose a route with five transfers, starting with Great Tower City.
• He Pingsheng bought a ticket and boarded a ship departing in two hours, then detected the same divine sense that had followed him from the commerce association.
• He Pingsheng read the Divine Herb Scripture and learned that three-zhang grain required abundant divine power and murky yin energy, taking up to 1.2 million years to mature.