Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng learned that the He Family’s growing population had made its expenses exceed its income, so he discussed ways to expand its businesses with Old Cao. He rejected selling the family’s three-zhang grain and instead proposed building an artifact-refining lineage.

• Zhou Qingmei told He Pingsheng that her cultivation and the family’s had advanced rapidly through incense offerings, and that the He Family had encountered internal financial problems.
• Old Cao explained that the He Family’s expenses had outgrown its income from alchemy and ingredient sales.
• Old Cao proposed raising the family’s star rating, producing third-grade Golden Cores, and selling some three-zhang grain.
• He Pingsheng refused to sell the three-zhang grain to avoid attracting trouble.
• He Pingsheng told Old Cao to take Yu Si to Celestial Water City and bring Old Tong back so they could consider building an artifact-refining lineage.

He Pingsheng gathered Yu Si, Old Cao, and Old Tong to discuss how the He Family could build a sustainable business as its expenses grew. Old Tong proposed refining valuable divine boats and possibly running a route between Celestial Phoenix City and Celestial Scorpion Royal City.

• Yu Si brought Tong Hao Tian to He Pingsheng, who learned that Tong Hao Tian's mother had reached the twelfth layer of the Divine Command Realm and promised her a supreme-grade Spirit Communion Golden Core.
• He Pingsheng explained that the He Family's rapid expansion had made its expenses exceed its income and asked Yu Si, Old Cao, and Old Tong about promising trades.
• Yu Si described her family's divine-pet taming business and control over a Divine Domain, while Old Cao said alchemy could not meet the He Family's needs without more workers.
• Old Tong explained that artifact refining also required more production, then suggested that he could eventually refine supreme-grade divine artifacts.
• Old Tong proposed that the He Family specialize in divine boats, saying a few supreme-grade third-grade boats could cover its yearly expenses.
• Old Tong suggested opening a divine-boat route between Celestial Phoenix City and Celestial Scorpion Royal City if the family's boats were good enough.

He Pingsheng learned from Old Tong that building sect-sized Divine Boats was possible, but their essential formations and spatial components had to be bought from powerful Lineages. He decided to test the business by having Old Tong lead construction and gave him a million pieces of middle grade divine gold.

• Old Tong explained the three kinds of ships in the Divine Realm and why sects needed fast Divine Boats to transport their disciples.
• Old Tong said he could make a Divine Boat’s hull and structures, but Energy Conversion Formations and spatial components had to be purchased from Lineages that guarded their methods.
• He Pingsheng realized the Treasure-Gathering Basin could make shipbuilding worthwhile despite the difficulty of sourcing the core components.
• Old Cao proposed building a few ships and potentially establishing a route between Celestial Phoenix City and Celestial Scorpion Royal City.
• He Pingsheng put Old Tong in charge of a trial and gave him a million pieces of middle grade divine gold to use.

He Pingsheng organized the work needed to build divine ships and gave his family members four-fan hell to help them advance. Old Cao later discovered that the Lu Lineage, their landlord on Heavenly Grace Mountain, grew the sky-blue purple tea wood needed for the ships, and He Pingsheng decided to wait for Old Tong’s blueprints before buying any.

• He Pingsheng and Old Cao discussed shipbuilding supplies, and Old Tong explained that third-grade divine ships needed sky-blue purple tea wood for their hulls.
• He Pingsheng assigned Old Tong to design the ships and Old Cao to find a local supplier of sky-blue purple tea wood.
• He Pingsheng gave four-fan hell to several family members, reassured them about the boredom of cultivation through incense offerings, and sent Yu Si with them to visit nearby cities.
• Old Cao returned and reported that the Lu Lineage grew sky-blue purple tea wood as one of its businesses.
• He Pingsheng told Old Cao to wait until Old Tong’s blueprints established how much wood they needed before approaching the Lu Lineage.

He Pingsheng approved Old Tong’s design for a five-hundred-zhang divine boat and brought Old Tong and Old Cao to the Lu Lineage to buy sky-blue purple tea wood. The Lu Lineage’s elder Lu Jianwo recognized a past dispute involving the He Family’s gatekeeper, but Old Cao smoothed things over with a bribe.

• He Pingsheng chose Old Tong’s five-hundred-zhang divine boat design and learned Old Tong could produce three to five high-grade boats each year with helpers.
• He Pingsheng told Old Tong to use three-zhang grain to improve his divine sense and reviewed the materials needed for the boat, including 3,600 logs of sky-blue purple tea wood.
• He Pingsheng, Old Tong, and Old Cao traveled to the Lu Lineage to request an audience and purchase supplies in bulk.
• Lu Jianwo questioned He Pingsheng about the He Family and raised an old grievance involving its gatekeeper, Old Diao.
• Old Cao offered to bring Lu Jianwo five beautiful female slaves, and Lu Jianwo accepted before asking what the group wanted to buy.

He Pingsheng arranged a large purchase of sky-blue purple tea wood for the He Family’s shipbuilding plans, then traveled to Celestial Scorpion Royal City to buy propulsion formations. At the Cheng Household, he met an elder named Cheng Siyu, whose name reminded him of a former Senior Sister.

• Old Tong asked Lu Jianwo to sell the He Family sky-blue purple tea wood, and Lu Jianwo warned that Celestial Phoenix City’s ship market was limited and dominated by the Long Household.
• He Pingsheng paid with ten thousand pieces of middle-grade divine gold to secure a ten-thousand-year supply of wood, and Lu Jianwo agreed to begin deliveries that day.
• Old Tong spent three months refining a five-hundred-zhang divine ship hull, which He Pingsheng inspected before deciding to seek energy formations in Celestial Scorpion Royal City.
• Yu Si accompanied He Pingsheng to the Cheng Household, while Old Cao went to the Black Market to buy servants.
• Cheng Siyu, an eighth-layer Divine Venerable and elder of the Cheng Household’s branch, offered to show He Pingsheng the production site for energy-propulsion formations; her name reminded him of his former Senior Sister.

He Pingsheng visited the Cheng Household to learn how its secret Energy Conversion Formation was assembled and ordered propulsion formations for his household’s third-grade divine ships. He then bought spatial formations from the Void Transformation Divine Valley branch and left with the supplies.

• He Pingsheng toured the Cheng Household’s courtyards and learned that disciples made separate divine talismans that were fused into complete Energy Conversion Formation talismans.
• Cheng Siyu advised He Pingsheng to use high-quality or higher-grade formations and explained that two sets on one ship would interfere with each other.
• After inspecting He Pingsheng’s ship blueprints, Cheng Siyu estimated that a supreme-grade fourth-grade formation could take a third-grade ship from Celestial Scorpion Royal City to Celestial Phoenix City in about a year.
• He Pingsheng ordered ten thousand high-grade third-grade formation sets and ten fourth-grade sets, paid for them, and collected the stock on hand.
• He Pingsheng went to the Void Transformation Divine Valley branch and purchased ten thousand sets of second-grade spatial formations.

The He Family tested its first Divine Boat, then built a fleet and began selling the vessels in Celestial Phoenix City. When the Long Household retaliated by pressuring the Lu Lineage to stop supplying wood, He Pingsheng brushed off the threat and prepared to investigate the Long Household.

• Tong Hao Tian expanded the He Family’s first Divine Boat, and He Pingsheng and the others tested its speed.
• He Pingsheng gave Tong Hao Tian divine grain, then went into seclusion as the He Family established a shipbuilding team and built more than three hundred Divine Boats over ten years.
• He Pingsheng organized a chain of handovers for selling the Divine Boats and agreed with Old Cao to open a shop in Celestial Phoenix City.
• Less than a month after the shop opened, the Long Household pressured the Lu Lineage to stop selling the He Family sky-blue purple tea wood.
• He Pingsheng told Old Cao to find another wood supplier, keep selling the boats, and investigate the Long Household’s Artifact Refiners, but Old Cao revealed he had already gathered the information.

The He Family’s fast Divine Boats and scarce supreme-grade vessels attracted wealthy customers in Celestial Phoenix City, threatening the Long Household’s shipbuilding business. Long Zhidu learned of the He Family’s success and decided to send Long Yutai to visit them under the pretext of discussing the Dao.

• The He Family’s Divine Boats outperformed the Long Household’s vessels, and its supreme-grade ships drew a thousand orders before He Pingsheng stopped accepting more.
• Long Yutai impressed the Long Household with his combat strength, earning praise as its greatest genius.
• Long Zhidu asked whether anything had happened during his seclusion, and Daoist Wave-Soothing told him the He Family was selling supreme-grade Divine Boats in Celestial Phoenix City.
• Wave-Soothing warned that the He Family’s growing shipbuilding business could undermine the Long Household’s business.
• Long Zhidu rejected direct suppression and decided to send Long Yutai to visit the He Family under the pretext of discussing the Dao.

Long Zhidu sent Long Yutai and Daoist Wave-Soothing to challenge the He Family over its shipbuilding business. At the He Family reception, Long Yutai demanded that Su Zhenzhen become his concubine if he won.

• Long Zhidu ordered Long Yutai to challenge the He Family and make them quit shipbuilding or submit to the Long Household.
• Long Zhidu assigned Divine Lord Wave Calmer to accompany Long Yutai to Heavenly Grace Mountain.
• Old Diao reported that Long Yutai and Wave-Soothing had arrived, and Su Zhenzhen summoned Yu Si and Old Cao before meeting them.
• Wave-Soothing proposed that Long Yutai fight the He Family's Divine Spirits, with the losing side accepting the winner's terms.
• Wave-Soothing demanded that the He Family leave shipbuilding and hand over its shipbuilding artifact refiners, then Long Yutai added that Su Zhenzhen must become his concubine if he won.

Long Yutai challenged the He Family, demanding Su Zhenzhen and the family’s Artifact Refiner as his stakes, while Old Cao demanded that Daoist Wave-Soothing become their slave if they lost. He Pingsheng arrived and chose to fight Long Yutai himself, leaving the duel about to begin outside the He Family’s grounds.

• Long Yutai challenged the He Family and demanded Su Zhenzhen as his prize, while Old Cao required Daoist Wave-Soothing to serve the family as a slave if they lost.
• Old Cao and Daoist Wave-Soothing agreed to the challenge, and Old Cao said their fighter would arrive soon.
• Wen Buwan, Qiao Huizhu, Kong Jiaojiao, and the others arrived, followed by He Pingsheng, who rejected Long Yutai’s advances toward Wen Buwan.
• He Pingsheng confirmed the stakes and volunteered to fight Long Yutai despite being at the divine command realm tenth layer.
• He Pingsheng flew outside the He Family’s grounds, and Old Cao called for the defensive grand array to protect the family’s disciples.

He Pingsheng used the He Family’s fifth-grade defensive array and his mastery of law to defeat Long Yutai, forcing him to surrender. In the reception hall, the Long Household was pressed to honor its wager and hand over Wave-Soothing’s divine slave mark.

• Old Diao activated the He Family’s fifth-grade defensive grand array, shocking Wave-Soothing and Long Yutai.
• Long Yutai dismissed He Pingsheng’s threat and drew a fourth-grade divine artifact, while He Pingsheng prepared to attack with the Purple Gold Gloves.
• He Pingsheng struck Long Yutai with a law-powered palm, and Yu Si stopped Wave-Soothing from interfering.
• After surviving the first strike, Long Yutai surrendered when He Pingsheng began gathering power for a second attack.
• In the reception hall, Old Cao demanded Wave-Soothing’s divine slave mark and revealed that Yu Si was a divine king, leaving Wave-Soothing terrified.

After He Pingsheng captured Long Yutai and Wave-Soothing, the Long Household discovered they had vanished without dying or becoming slaves. Their disappearances led Long Zhidu to organize an armed expedition to the He Family.

• He Pingsheng ordered Yu Si to take Long Yutai and Wave-Soothing away and use Buddhist Heart Seals to torture them for ten years.
• Half a year passed without Long Yutai or Wave-Soothing returning, and their Life Tablets remained intact.
• A female Elder reported that both men still had their slaves, then left to investigate the He Family herself.
• Long Zhidu learned that the female Elder, Long Yi, had also gone missing after leaving for the He Family.
• Long Zhidu summoned four Elders and decided they would accompany him to the He Family with the Long Household's gunship.

Long Zhidu led the Long Household’s forces to Heavenly Grace Mountain to confront the He Family over its captured elders and disciple. He Pingsheng admitted the captives were in the He Family’s hands, then threatened to capture everyone present unless Long Zhidu explained his forceful arrival.

• Long Zhidu led twenty gunships from Celestial Phoenix City and theorized that the He Family had trapped the Long Household’s captives in a formation.
• The Long Household summoned Lu Tianci and questioned Lu Jianwo about the He Family, but he knew little about its elders or their abilities.
• Lu Jianwo invited He Pingsheng, Old Cao, and Yu Si to meet Long Zhidu aboard a gunship.
• Long Zhidu demanded an explanation for the captured Long Household members, and He Pingsheng admitted the He Family had trapped them.
• He Pingsheng challenged Long Zhidu to explain his threatening arrival and warned that he could capture everyone present in one net.

He Pingsheng exposed the Long Household members’ past conduct and revealed that Yu Si had subdued five of their Divine Lord Realm elders. With the Long Household leaders bound and Lu Tianci forced to witness the negotiations, He Pingsheng offered to release them and preserve Long Zhidu’s position if they agreed to his conditions.

• He Pingsheng defended detaining Long Yutai and Wave-Soothing by showing a recording of their arrogant behavior and another of Long Yutai surrendering in their contest.
• Old Cao claimed Long Yi had tried to force him to become her Dao Companion, explaining why she too had been detained.
• A Long Household elder attacked He Pingsheng, but Yu Si bound her, immobilized Long Zhidu, and captured the remaining elders.
• He Pingsheng told the frightened Lu Tianci to stay as a witness and warned the bound Long Household leaders that he could destroy their lineage.
• Long Zhidu pleaded for forgiveness, and He Pingsheng offered to release them and keep him as deputy city lord if they accepted his conditions.

He Pingsheng forced Long Zhidu to accept terms that made the Long Household pay tribute and surrender its artifact refiners, while keeping two elders as slaves. He then asked Daoist Wave-Soothing about building a supreme-grade Celestial Boat for passenger travel, and decided to build one.

• He Pingsheng released Long Zhidu after making him agree to surrender the Long Household's artifact refiners, pay half its net profits as tribute, and leave two elders as slaves.
• He Pingsheng returned Wave-Soothing and Long Yi, who gave him their Divine Slave Marks, while Long Zhidu apologized to them and asked about the Long Household's Seventeenth Young Master.
• Long Zhidu and the Long Household's ships departed for Celestial Phoenix City, and Lu Tianci left as well.
• He Pingsheng asked Daoist Wave-Soothing whether a Divine Ship could profitably carry passengers between Celestial Phoenix City and Celestial Scorpion Royal City.
• Daoist Wave-Soothing explained that a supreme-grade large Celestial Boat could carry thirty thousand passengers in two years and earn a substantial profit, so He Pingsheng ordered that kind built.

He Pingsheng expanded the He Family’s income through Celestial Boat routes and Three-Zhang Grain, then spent centuries stabilizing the family before cultivating to the twelfth layer of the Divine Command Realm. He emerged from seclusion to let his cultivation settle and prepare to upgrade his divine spark before his next major breakthrough.

• He Pingsheng tasked Yu Si with buying propulsion and energy formation sets, while she supplied Baleful Armored Dragon back plates for his arrays.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the back plates and had Wen Buwan build Earth-Ordering Baleful Entrapment Grand Arrays to grow Three-Zhang Grain for sale.
• He Pingsheng arranged regular Celestial Boat routes between Celestial Phoenix City and Celestial Scorpion Royal City, bringing wealth to the He Family.
• Qiao Huizhu comforted He Pingsheng, and he spent time with her and Wen Buwan while tending to the family’s affairs.
• After several hundred years, He Pingsheng entered seclusion and advanced to the eleventh and then twelfth layer of the Divine Command Realm.
• He Pingsheng left seclusion to let his cultivation settle before upgrading his divine spark.

After emerging from fifty-nine yuan of seclusion, He Pingsheng visited Old Diao and explored the newly built Scripture Repository Hall. He found and memorized a cultivation technique for forming a primordial chaos Dao body, but realized his supply of primordial chaos purple qi was insufficient.

• He Pingsheng left seclusion at the peak of the Divine Command Realm and drank Old Diao's Bitter Unevenness tea.
• He Pingsheng visited Old Cao at the Scripture Repository Hall, which had been built to house the He Family's cultivation books.
• He Pingsheng found a purple jade slip on the hall's seventh floor titled Primordial Chaos Dao Condensation Scripture.
• Old Cao explained that the technique used primordial chaos purple qi to cultivate a primordial chaos Dao body.
• He Pingsheng memorized the technique and concluded that the primordial chaos purple qi he had was far too little to form the Dao body.

He Pingsheng reviewed the He Family’s growing businesses and, after years of waiting for his divine spark to condense, broke through to the divine spirit realm. He enhanced a Nine-Orifice Exquisiteness and asked Yu Si about divine apertures, learning how their number shaped a cultivator’s potential.

• He Pingsheng heard from Old Cao that he was ready to break through, then discussed the He Family’s shipbuilding, transport, and Three-Zhang Grain businesses and its efforts to stay inconspicuous.
• While He Pingsheng waited for his divine spark to condense over several years, Luo Bingyao and Kong Jiaojiao reached the divine spirit realm, while others advanced in cultivation.
• He Pingsheng set aside forming a primordial chaos Dao body because he lacked enough primordial chaos purple qi, then swallowed a Spirit Communion Golden Core and broke through to the divine spirit realm.
• He Pingsheng enhanced a Nine-Orifice Exquisiteness to supreme grade and wondered whether consuming it would cause an anomaly in heaven and earth.
• Yu Si explained the number of divine apertures needed to reach higher realms and revealed that she had opened twenty-seven, while her elder sister had opened twenty-four.

He Pingsheng learned more about divine apertures and the Divine Realm’s tangled relationships between Titled Divine Emperors and Auxiliary Gods before consuming Nine-Orifice Exquisiteness. He opened twelve apertures at once, and twelve beams of purple divine light appeared before fading.

• Yu Si explained that thirty heaven-opened divine apertures gave someone a chance to reach the Divine Emperor Realm, while thirty-six were associated with legendary figures.
• Yu Si told He Pingsheng that heaven-opened apertures caused no unusual phenomena and described how Titled Divine Emperors enfeoffed Auxiliary Gods and exchanged positions across different Great Daos.
• He Pingsheng asked Yu Si to guard him, then swallowed a supreme-grade Nine-Orifice Exquisiteness enhanced by fire.
• He Pingsheng opened twelve apertures in succession, despite expecting the Nine-Orifice Exquisiteness to open only nine.
• He Pingsheng rose three feet into the air as twelve beams of purple divine light shone from his body, then faded after a dozen or so breaths.