Chapter Summaries

He Pingsheng opened twelve Divine Apertures, then began comprehending spatial Daoist law after replacing the fire law on his staff. After 36,844 years, he mastered the condensed law and asked Old Cao whether the Divine Realm had Golden Cores that could improve comprehension.

• He Pingsheng had Red Spirit and Purple Spirit remove the fire Daoist law from his Primordial Purple Gold Staff and condense spatial law while retaining the gloves’ gravity law.
• He Pingsheng told Yu Si that he had opened twelve Divine Apertures and secretly multiplied his remaining Nine-Orifice Exquisiteness plants in the Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• He Pingsheng visited Wen Buwan, and he let her and Su Zhenzhen see that He Tianya, He Tianyu, and their family were safe in the Immortal Realm.
• After half a year, He Pingsheng began comprehending the spatial law condensed on his staff.
• He Pingsheng finished comprehending the spatial law after 36,844 years and asked Old Cao about Golden Cores that could improve comprehension.

He Pingsheng searched Celestial Phoenix City for a Heavenly Heart Golden Core or an Unsullied Insight Talisman to improve his comprehension, but found neither for sale. He went to the Gu Household on South-Supporting Mountain to meet its head, Gu Chizi, and waited for the gatekeeper to report his arrival.

• He Pingsheng learned from Old Cao that Heavenly Heart Golden Cores and Unsullied Insight Talismans could improve comprehension, then set out alone for Celestial Phoenix City.
• The grand elder of the Celestial Phoenix Commerce Association told He Pingsheng that neither item was available in the city and gave him a jade slip listing three fourth-grade golden core masters.
• After the first two masters' households turned him away, He Pingsheng noticed that South-Supporting Mountain lay beside Ice-Drinking Mountain, where Lian Nihong's Lian Household was located, but decided her affairs no longer concerned him.
• He Pingsheng reached the Gu Household and claimed he had an appointment with its head, Gu Chizi, then presented supreme-grade Three-Zhang Grain as proof of his connection to the Tong Household.
• The gatekeeper recognized the Tong Household's reputation, accepted the Three-Zhang Grain as a token, and went to report He Pingsheng's arrival to Gu Chizi.

He Pingsheng traded supreme-grade three-zhang grain with Gu Chizi for Heavenly Heart Golden Cores and arranged for more batches to be refined. He then asked about Lian Nihong and learned that she had been captured.

• Gu Chizi welcomed He Pingsheng after learning that he had brought three-zhang grain from the Tong Household.
• He Pingsheng asked Gu Chizi to refine Heavenly Heart Golden Cores, offering three-zhang grain in exchange.
• Gu Chizi gave He Pingsheng ten batches of pills, and they agreed that Gu Chizi would provide another 120 batches later in exchange for the grain.
• He Pingsheng asked Gu Chizi to save any waste pills for the Tong Household to use as nutrients for three-zhang grain.
• He Pingsheng asked Gu Chizi about Lian Nihong, and Gu Chizi told him that she had been captured.

Gu Chizi told He Pingsheng that Lian Nihong had been captured after returning to the Lian Household, but He Pingsheng decided he was not strong enough to help her. He enhanced Gu Chizi’s waste pills, spent several cycles comprehending Spatial Daoist Law, and successfully used Void Swift Movement before summoning Old Tong and Wave-Soothing.

• Gu Chizi recounted the Lian Household’s feud with the Diwu Household and said Lian Nihong had been captured after returning to her lineage a dozen or so epochs earlier.
• He Pingsheng said he would not try to save Lian Nihong for now because he lacked the strength and they had no close relationship.
• Gu Chizi gave He Pingsheng more than forty batches of waste pills, and He Pingsheng left with plans to return for the remaining golden cores in five epochs.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the pills into supreme-grade Heavenly Heart Golden Cores and consumed them while comprehending Spatial Daoist Law over several cycles.
• He Pingsheng mastered Void Swift Movement, traveled to the lineage’s main hall, and told the guard to summon Old Tong and Wave-Soothing.

He Pingsheng checked on the He Family and asked Yu Si whether his companions’ cultivation progress suggested they had strong talent. Wave-Soothing and Old Tong later crafted him a supreme-grade flying boat, which he refined while comprehending gravity laws, leaving him with a personal craft capable of brief bursts of extreme speed.

• Old Cao reported that the He Family’s operations and profits were normal, its disciples had more than tripled, and the women’s cultivation had advanced, with Taizhen at the twelfth layer and the others at the tenth.
• He Pingsheng ordered Wave-Soothing and Old Tong to craft him an extremely small flying boat, then asked Yu Si whether his wives and Xin Baobao were cultivating too slowly.
• Yu Si reassured He Pingsheng that their progress was exceptional compared with ordinary Divine Realm cultivators and predicted they would open at least thirty Divine Apertures.
• A year later, Wave-Soothing and Old Tong delivered a palm-sized, supreme-grade fourth-grade flying boat to He Pingsheng.
• He Pingsheng enhanced the boat in the Treasure-Gathering Basin, refined it, and comprehended gravity laws over the following epoch.
• He Pingsheng learned that the Divine Mystic Heaven Boat’s Burst Dash could briefly maximize its speed, but it could only be used twice in succession before needing a half-hour recovery.

He Pingsheng tested the Divine Mystic Heaven Boat and his gravity-powered strike before traveling to the Gu Household to collect the Golden Cores owed by Gu Chizi. Gu Chizi was away, but Gu Ruyi gave He Pingsheng the pills after confirming his identity.

• He Pingsheng used a strike infused with the Laws of Gravity and Space to destroy nine mountain peaks, then extinguished the resulting wildfire with gathered water vapor.
• He Pingsheng flew toward Ice-Drinking Mountain and tested the Divine Mystic Heaven Boat’s two dashes, discovering that its acceleration left a long afterimage and could throw him onto the deck.
• He Pingsheng arrived at the Gu Household and told the gatekeeper that Gu Chizi owed him Golden Cores under their agreement.
• Gu Ruyi told He Pingsheng that her father had gone traveling but had instructed her to hand over the pills when he arrived.
• Gu Ruyi gave He Pingsheng a ring containing 120 bottles of finished pills and about 400 bottles of Waste Pills after he proved his identity with a ring of supreme-grade Three-Zhang Grain.

He Pingsheng rejected Gu Ruyi’s offer to trade for Nine-Orifice Exquisiteness, then let her try his flying boat and offered her a second one. When Lian Nihong fled toward them with two Divine Lords in pursuit, she changed course to avoid involving He Pingsheng, but he prepared to charge after her.

• Gu Ruyi recognized that He Pingsheng had opened his divine apertures and asked to trade for Nine-Orifice Exquisiteness, but he refused.
• He Pingsheng scanned Gu Ruyi and discovered she had reached the Divine Spirit Realm seventh layer.
• Gu Ruyi tried He Pingsheng’s flying boat, accidentally activated its burst of speed, and nearly fell overboard before he caught her.
• Gu Ruyi asked to buy a matching flying boat, and He Pingsheng produced a second Divine Mystic Heaven Boat.
• He Pingsheng recognized Lian Nihong’s call for help as she flew toward them, then saw two Divine Lords pursuing her.
• Lian Nihong turned away to keep the pursuers from dragging He Pingsheng into the chase, and He Pingsheng told Gu Ruyi to hold on as he prepared to charge after them.

He Pingsheng caught up with Lian Nihong and rescued her from Lian Niyun and a divine lord realm fourth-layer pursuer. After the enemy's attack damaged the Flying Boat and slowed it down, Gu Ruyi urged He Pingsheng to steer toward the Gu Household for protection.

• He Pingsheng used the Divine Mystic Heaven Boat's Burst Dash to catch up with Lian Nihong's pursuers, whom Gu Ruyi identified as a divine lord realm fourth-layer cultivator and a first-layer cultivator.
• The pursuer attacked He Pingsheng, but the Flying Boat passed beyond the strike, and He Pingsheng caught up with Lian Nihong and let her aboard.
• The pursuer slashed at the Flying Boat from behind, and He Pingsheng used palm strikes, Divine Talismans, his Alchemy Furnace, and the Five Brigades Marching Umbrella to withstand the attack and escape.
• A fragment of the blade light damaged the Flying Boat's energy conversion grand array, reducing its speed by twenty percent.
• Gu Ruyi told He Pingsheng to turn toward the nearby Gu Household, and he steered the damaged Flying Boat in that direction.

He Pingsheng and Lian Nihong took refuge in the Gu Household while Diwu Rensong demanded that the household surrender her. Gu Ruyi agreed to shelter them in exchange for He Pingsheng’s flying boat, and the chapter ended with him helping the injured Lian Nihong recover.

• He Pingsheng returned to the Gu Household with Lian Nihong, and Gu Ruyi activated its defensive grand array against her pursuers, Diwu Rensong and Lian Niyun.
• Diwu Rensong demanded that the Gu Household hand over Lian Nihong, then attacked its array when Gu Ruyi refused.
• He Pingsheng gave Gu Ruyi ten thousand pieces of middle-grade divine gold to cover the array’s costs.
• Lian Nihong told He Pingsheng that Lian Niyun had joined forces with the Diwu Household and imprisoned her after she returned to her lineage.
• Gu Ruyi traded He Pingsheng the Void-Piercing True Eye cultivation technique for his Divine Mystic Heaven Boat and promised to shelter both fugitives until her father returned.
• He Pingsheng gave Lian Nihong supreme-grade three-zhang grain to help heal her injured divine sense and origin.

He Pingsheng repaired the Divine Mystic Heaven Boat, enhanced the Void-Piercing True Eye, and cultivated until he reached the Divine Spirit Realm. Lian Nihong revealed that she would tell him the earth-shaking secret behind the feud between the Lian Household and the Diwu Household.

• He Pingsheng repaired the Divine Mystic Heaven Boat and enhanced the Void-Piercing True Eye to supreme-grade heaven tier.
• He Pingsheng cultivated for more than four hundred years while the Lian and Diwu Household experts continued waiting outside the Gu Household.
• Gu Ruyi showed He Pingsheng that she had refined the Divine Mystic Heaven Boat but could not leave while the enemies watched the formation.
• He Pingsheng spent ten thousand years in secluded cultivation and advanced to the Divine Spirit Realm.
• He Pingsheng used the Void-Piercing True Eye on Lian Nihong and saw that she had nineteen Divine Apertures and had reached the second layer of the Divine Lord Realm.
• Lian Nihong accepted He Pingsheng's low-level Divine Blood and offered to reveal the secret behind the Lian and Diwu Households' feud.

Lian Nihong told He Pingsheng how the Diwu Household killed her father over a fragment containing primordial chaos purple qi, which her father had entrusted to her before his death. She revealed that the demon who killed her after her rebirth took the fragment, but He Pingsheng said he did not want the purple qi.

• Lian Nihong insisted on telling He Pingsheng about the primordial chaos purple qi and explained the benefits of cultivating a primordial chaos Dao body.
• Lian Nihong said her father and Diwu Putong found fragments containing primordial chaos purple qi in Dao Collapse and Yellow Fall, then split them between themselves.
• Lian Nihong explained that her father searched for more fragments and later went to meet Diwu Putong after receiving an outline for refining the purple qi.
• Lian Nihong said Diwu Putong's trap killed her father, though her father shattered Diwu Putong's Dao foundation before he died.
• Lian Nihong revealed that a demon took the fragment from her ring when it killed her after her rebirth, then asked He Pingsheng whether he wanted the purple qi.
• He Pingsheng said he did not want it.

He Pingsheng rejected Lian Nihong’s proposal of marriage and explained that the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi fragments could not cultivate a Primordial Chaos Dao Body on their own. After spending twenty-six epochs in seclusion and advancing to Divine Spirit Realm Second Layer, he decided to risk breaking out with Lian Nihong because Gu Chizi still had not returned.

• Lian Nihong offered He Pingsheng her fragment and proposed marriage, but he refused and pointed out that she wanted his help taking revenge on the Diwu Household.
• He Pingsheng gave Lian Nihong a Jade Slip containing the Primordial Chaos Dao Condensation Scripture, and she realized the Lian Household’s fragment was far less valuable than she had believed.
• He Pingsheng reasoned that the Dao Collapse and Yellow Fall Deadly Grounds might contain more Divine Artifact fragments and decided to investigate them someday.
• He Pingsheng entered seclusion with abundant cultivation resources and advanced from Divine Spirit Realm First Layer to Second Layer over twenty-six epochs.
• With Gu Chizi still absent and two Divine Lord Realm cultivators outside, He Pingsheng told Gu Ruyi he would risk breaking out, while Lian Nihong offered to hold one enemy off.

He Pingsheng escaped the Gu Household with Lian Nihong, but the Diwu Household pursued them to the He Family. He raised the Five Brigades Marching Umbrella as the attackers prepared to strike the three-star lineage.

• He Pingsheng used the Divine Mystic Heaven Boat and the Five Brigades Marching Umbrella to break through the Gu Household’s formation and escape with Lian Nihong.
• He Pingsheng discovered that Diwu Putong, Diwu Rensong, and Lian Niyun were pursuing them aboard a faster flying boat.
• He Pingsheng assessed the pursuers’ cultivation and chose to lead them toward the He Family, accelerating just enough to keep them on his trail.
• He Pingsheng reached the He Family after a little over six hours and warned Old Diao that the arriving Diwu Household members were enemies.
• He Pingsheng opened the Five Brigades Marching Umbrella as Diwu Putong dismissed the He Family as a minor lineage and Lian Niyun urged the group to attack its people.

The Diwu Household attacked the He Family to reclaim Lian Nihong’s fragment, but they discovered the family’s formidable defenses and fled when the fight turned against them. Yu Si captured them, and He Pingsheng ordered Diwu Rensong crippled and sent to his room.

• Lian Niyun urged the Diwu Household to destroy He Pingsheng and Lian Nihong before breaking through the He Family’s defenses, while Diwu Rensong demanded Lian Nihong surrender her fragment.
• Diwu Rensong struck the He Family’s grand array, but Diwu Putong realized it was a fifth-grade defensive formation.
• Wave-Soothing and Long Yi emerged from the array as Divine Lords, and He Pingsheng told them the Diwu Household had trapped him in the Gu Household for twenty-six epochs.
• Diwu Putong, Diwu Rensong, and Lian Niyun fled, but Yu Si’s Divine King dharma manifestation bound them and delivered them to He Pingsheng.
• Diwu Rensong offered Lian Niyun to He Pingsheng in exchange for his freedom, but He Pingsheng rejected her and ordered Yu Si to cripple Diwu Rensong’s cultivation and send him to his room.

He Pingsheng tortured Diwu Rensong, extracted his Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, and questioned him about his Divine Apertures. After handing Diwu Rensong and two others over to Lian Nihong, He Pingsheng prepared to return to seclusion and focus on cultivation.

• He Pingsheng used the four Heart Seals to subdue Diwu Rensong, then had Red Spirit and Purple Spirit extract his Primordial Chaos Purple Qi over three months.
• He Pingsheng split the extracted purple qi between the Primordial Purple Gold Staff and the Purple Gold Gloves, then questioned Diwu Rensong about his Divine Apertures.
• Diwu Rensong explained that assimilating the purple qi had opened six additional apertures, but removing it would eventually cause those six apertures to seal shut.
• He Pingsheng took Diwu Rensong's ring and found the Jade Slip for Primordial Chaos Heavenly Secrets, which he planned to enhance and study.
• He Pingsheng kept his promise not to kill Diwu Rensong but handed him, Lian Niyun, and Diwu Putong over to Lian Nihong.
• He Pingsheng decided to return to seclusion and raise his cultivation.

He Pingsheng struggled to comprehend the Dao after his earlier rapid progress, and Yu Si explained that his lower-realm understanding had helped him advance unusually quickly. He tested enhanced talismans but still could not reach the second layer, while Yu Si began studying talisman-making to supply him; Lian Nihong then asked him for a favor.

• He Pingsheng swallowed a supreme-grade Heavenly Heart Golden Core, but found his Dao Comprehension had slowed while studying the Spatial Daoist Law on the Primordial Purple Gold Staff.
• Yu Si explained that He Pingsheng's earlier speed came from his accumulated understanding of lower-realm laws as an ascender, and that his progress was now more typical.
• Yu Si obtained fourth-grade Divine Talismans, and He Pingsheng used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to enhance them into supreme-grade talismans.
• He Pingsheng found that the Unsullied Insight Talisman stacked additively with the Heavenly Heart Golden Core, then used up his talismans during six yuan of seclusion without reaching the second layer.
• Lian Nihong told He Pingsheng that Yu Si had entered seclusion to learn talisman-making, then said her Lian Household's affairs had stabilized and asked him for a favor.

He Pingsheng agreed to help Lian Nihong recover her family’s belongings from Divine Dream Mountain, but sent Long Yi in his place. When a Divine Venerable Realm demon began hunting Long Yi and Lian Nihong, He Pingsheng rushed to enlist Yu Si’s help.

• Lian Nihong asked He Pingsheng to help retrieve her family’s belongings and a fragment from Divine Dream Mountain, and he agreed to give her the fragment if they killed her enemy.
• Lian Nihong explained that her younger sister had joined Diwu Rensong willingly and that the Long Household now managed the Diwu Household’s assets for He Pingsheng’s side.
• After hearing about a powerful blue ice silkworm and Divine Dream Mountain’s dangers, He Pingsheng sent Long Yi to accompany Lian Nihong and told them to leave a Teleportation Talisman with Madam Su.
• He Pingsheng returned to cultivation, but Su Zhenzhen soon reported that a Divine Venerable Realm demon was hunting Long Yi and Lian Nihong.
• He Pingsheng hurried to Yu Si, gave her a map and the pair’s location, and urged her to rescue them.

Yu Si pursued the demons who had captured Lian Nihong and Long Yi, then forced Divine Venerable Purple Bat to release them and recovered the ring He Pingsheng wanted. Back at the He Family estate, Lian Nihong returned the promised items to He Pingsheng and left for the Lian Household.

• Yu Si followed clues from the site of the battle and found Divine Venerable Purple Bat's party holding Lian Nihong and Long Yi.
• Divine Venerable Purple Bat demanded that one captive remain as payment for a slain Silkworm King, but Yu Si refused and overwhelmed the demons with her Divine King power.
• Yu Si freed Lian Nihong and Long Yi, took the blue-green ring from Divine Venerable Purple Bat, and confirmed that it held the items they sought.
• Yu Si brought the two back to the He Family estate, where Lian Nihong gave He Pingsheng the promised ring and thanked him.
• Lian Nihong said goodbye to He Pingsheng and returned to the Lian Household.

After Yu Si obtained ancient god sand for her Unsullied Insight Talismans, He Pingsheng learned that her visit to Divine Dream Mountain had helped trigger a demon beast tide. He ordered his allies and nearby households to evacuate to Celestial Scorpion Royal City before the tide reached them.

• Yu Si showed He Pingsheng the two grains of ancient god sand she had collected and said she needed more time to master fourth-grade Divine Talismans.
• He Pingsheng put one grain into the Treasure-Gathering Basin to duplicate it and planned to return one copy to Yu Si before enhancing the other.
• Old Cao and Old Diao told He Pingsheng that the Demon King had unleashed a beast tide after two humans killed a Divine Lord and a female Divine King entered the Demon Race's forbidden grounds.
• Old Cao warned that the beast tide had already devastated Late City and could reach their area within five to fifteen days.
• He Pingsheng ordered Old Diao to prepare his household and move the Grand Array, and instructed Old Cao to alert the Han, Tong, Lian, and Gu Households and direct the fleets toward Celestial Scorpion Royal City.

He Pingsheng led his companions ahead to Celestial Scorpion Royal City, where they chose Heavenly Treasure Mountain as a shared home for their lineages and began building the He Family estate. Just as the estate was completed, Divine Emperor Dark Moon arrived at its gates and revealed her identity.

• He Pingsheng took Yu Si and several others ahead of the migrating fleet to find a place for their lineages to settle in Celestial Scorpion Royal City.
• At the Tianyuan Commerce Association, He Pingsheng specified his requirements and chose Heavenly Treasure Mountain for the group.
• He Pingsheng claimed the valley land for the He Family, and Yu Si completed the purchase and transfer formalities.
• With Yu Si's help, He Pingsheng built the He Family estate and established a fifth-grade defensive grand array.
• A woman arrived at the He Family's Mountain Gate, and He Pingsheng learned that she was Divine Emperor Dark Moon, junior martial sister of Divine Emperor Dawn.