Chapter Summaries

Li Chuan revived in Li Qingfeng’s body and decided to avenge him by killing the Demonic Cultivator who had murdered him. He defeated the cultivator with a barrage of lightning techniques, leaving the man’s magical treasures behind.

• Li Chuan reviewed Li Qingfeng’s memories and resolved to avenge him before the Demonic Cultivator could attack again.
• The Demonic Cultivator stopped refining the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, saw Li Chuan alive, and assumed he had survived with a substitute-death magic artifact.
• The Demonic Cultivator attacked Li Chuan with the Blood Fiend Banner, but Li Chuan blasted it back with Lightning Style: False Darkness.
• Li Chuan created twenty shadow clones and launched twenty-one lightning spears at the Demonic Cultivator.
• The lightning destroyed the Demonic Cultivator, leaving only the Blood Fiend Banner, Blood Nail, and Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl behind.

Li Chuan left the battlefield, traveled to a nearby city, and bought and warded a residence so he could begin cultivating. The Demonic Cultivator escaped underground and decided to seek his master's help recovering his lost treasures, while Li Chuan began his first cultivation session.

• Li Chuan failed to find the escaped Demonic Cultivator, took the three abandoned magical treasures, and flew toward a nearby town on his silver dragon Patronus.
• The Demonic Cultivator escaped using the Five Elements Evasion Technique and resolved to ask his master for help recovering his lost treasures.
• Li Chuan arrived in an ancient city, exchanged gold for local money, and used the Imperius Curse to make a broker find him a suitable residence.
• Li Chuan protected the residence with Sealing Iron Wall and the Muggle-Repelling Charm, then sat down to begin cultivating.

Li Chuan cultivated Little Bamboo Mountain’s Grand Purity Great Grotto True Scripture and completed Foundation Establishment in three days, using his exceptional aptitude and resilient modified body. He then began learning spells and refining magical treasures so he could return to the sect without revealing that he had taken over Li Qingfeng’s body.

• Li Chuan used Li Qingfeng’s memories to begin cultivating the Grand Purity Great Grotto True Scripture and quickly drew spiritual energy into his meridians.
• Li Chuan’s top-tier aptitude and modified body let him absorb spiritual energy at a rate comparable to a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Li Chuan completed Foundation Establishment in three days, far faster than Li Qingfeng had.
• Li Chuan planned to restore Li Qingfeng’s cultivation and master his skills before returning to Little Bamboo Mountain, where he could cultivate more efficiently and seek the sect’s Thirty-Six Divine Bamboo Restriction of Heavenly Evolution.
• Li Chuan used the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to have his clones study basic Daoist spells while he practiced refining Li Qingfeng’s Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl and two magical treasures taken from a Demonic Cultivator.

Li Chuan finished refining the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl and tested its destructive power and flight speed. Outside the city, he was confronted by Elder Nantong of the Xuan Yin Sect and the Demonic Cultivator whose artifacts he had taken, leaving Li Chuan facing a threat from a Core Formation elder.

• Li Chuan completed refining the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl and tested it by smashing a stone table and evaporating a pond.
• Li Chuan rode the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl at supersonic speed before setting out to return to the city.
• Elder Nantong arrived in a sedan chair with his escaped Demonic Cultivator disciple, who identified Li Chuan as the thief of his magical artifacts.
• Li Chuan offered to return the disciple's artifacts, but the disciple demanded Li Chuan's artifacts and blood as well.
• Elder Nantong demanded that Li Chuan join the Xuan Yin Sect and serve him for ten years, threatening to refine him into a magical artifact if he refused.

Li Chuan fought the Xuan Yin Sect Elder after rejecting his offer to join the sect, using lightning, clones, explosive tags, and magic to damage the elder’s Demonic Soldiers and sedan chair. The elder fled the growing blast, but Li Chuan trapped him beneath a storm and struck the airborne sedan chair with lightning.

• Li Chuan attacked the Xuan Yin Sect Elder with a lightning spear, which the elder’s eight Demonic Soldiers blocked, though their armor cracked.
• Li Chuan sent out twenty Shadow Clones, used paired Flame Gale Barrage attacks, and disguised himself behind the sedan chair, but the Demonic Soldiers resisted the flames and destroyed the clones.
• Li Chuan used the Mutual Explosion Tag Technique, forcing the elder to flee the blast zone after his sedan chair began to shake and the Demonic Soldiers were blown apart.
• Li Chuan stopped the explosions as the elder flew away, then cast a Weather Charm that surrounded the sedan chair with a dark cloud and struck it with repeated lightning bolts.

Li Chuan was trapped in the Nine Sons Heavenly Demon Profound Yin Great Array, which stopped him from using Apparition, and faced the Xuan Yin Sect Elder’s Blissful Heavenly Demons. His Shadow Clones confused the attackers, but their ninjutsu passed harmlessly through the nine spirits.

• The Xuan Yin Sect Elder put away his sedan and attacked Li Chuan with his surviving Demonic Soldiers.
• The Elder activated the Nine Sons Heavenly Demon Profound Yin Great Array, trapping Li Chuan and preventing him from using Apparition.
• The Elder summoned nine Blissful Heavenly Demons to attack Li Chuan’s primordial spirit.
• Li Chuan created Shadow Clones to confuse the nine spirits and tested them with ninjutsu.
• Li Chuan discovered that his wind, earth, water, fire, and lightning attacks passed through the Blissful Heavenly Demons without harming them.

Li Chuan used Killing Curses to injure the Heavenly Demons and Fiendfyre to hold back the Profound Yin Divine Fiends. As the Seven Sons of the Clouds arrived to confront Nan Tong, a phantom white tiger burst through the array and attacked him.

• Li Chuan realized the seductive women were souls vulnerable to mental attacks and struck them with Killing Curses, forcing Nan Tong to recall his injured Heavenly Demons.
• Nan Tong unleashed the Profound Yin Divine Fiends, and Li Chuan and his shadow clones met them with Fiendfyre.
• The Seven Sons of the Clouds learned that Lotus Fairy had invited them to subdue a Nascent Soul Stage Nine-headed Demon Python and promised each an Essence Augmentation Pill.
• The Seven Sons of the Clouds sensed Nan Tong's array and flew to attack him, prompting him to send Demonic Soldiers to delay them while preparing to flee.
• A powerful force shook the array, and an enormous phantom white tiger burst through its seal and lunged at Nan Tong.

Li Chuan broke out of the Nine Sons Heavenly Demon Profound Yin Great Array by unleashing Daytime Tiger, then killed Nan Tong and his disciple. He took Nan Tong’s banner as the Seven Sons of the Clouds watched in shock.

• Li Chuan opened the Gate of Wonder and used Daytime Tiger to disrupt the array and force his way out.
• Li Chuan shattered Nan Tong’s defensive sedan chair and killed him before he could summon the banner.
• Li Chuan killed Nan Tong’s disciple as he tried to escape with fire evasion.
• Li Chuan collected the masterless Nine Sons Heavenly Demon Profound Yin Banner and stored it with the other demonic treasures.
• The Seven Sons of the Clouds stopped in shock after witnessing Li Chuan defeat Nan Tong and his disciple.

After defeating the Xuan Yin Sect elder, Li Chuan befriended the Seven Sons of the Clouds from Emei and asked to join their mission to subdue demons at Drunken Immortal Cliff. Chu Yuxiang agreed, and they set out to travel together.

• Li Chuan repaired his robe and called down the seven Emei cultivators who had helped attack the Demonic Soldiers.
• Chu Yuxiang introduced the group as the Seven Sons of the Clouds, and Li Chuan presented himself as Li Qingfeng of Little Bamboo Mountain.
• Li Chuan invited the seven to his residence, but Chu Yuxiang explained that they had to answer Lotus Fairy's call to subdue demons at Drunken Immortal Cliff.
• Li Chuan asked to accompany them on the mission, and the seven were surprised that he had left the mountain for the first time less than two months earlier.
• Chu Yuxiang welcomed Li Chuan to travel with the group.

Li Chuan joined the Seven Sons of the Clouds on their trip to help Lotus Fairy, who was defending a reincarnated lingzhi from a Nine-headed Demon Python. When the Seven Sons learned he had killed a peak Core Formation cultivator while still at Foundation Establishment, they were astonished and saw him as an extraordinary, inexperienced Righteous Path disciple.

• Lotus Fairy’s message prompted True Person Bai Mei to send the Seven Sons of the Clouds to protect the lingzhi at Drunken Immortal Cliff.
• Chu Yuxiang agreed to help Li Chuan, and the Seven Sons introduced themselves as his senior brothers and sisters.
• Li Chuan took out the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, and the Seven Sons noticed his True Essence seemed too unfocused for a Core Formation cultivator.
• Li Chuan explained that he was still at Foundation Establishment and had fought Demonic Cultivators after witnessing them slaughter villagers.
• The Seven Sons were stunned that Li Chuan had defeated peak Core Formation cultivator Nan Tong and concluded that he was a heaven-defying genius.

Li Chuan flew to Drunken Immortal Cliff with Shangguan Qian and learned about True Person Bai Mei’s restraint, the Seven Sons of the Clouds, and Soldier Dissolution reincarnation. The chapter left Li Chuan judging that reincarnation preserved too little of a person to be much better than death.

• Shangguan Qian carried Li Chuan toward Drunken Immortal Cliff using sword escape, while the other six members of the Seven Sons of the Clouds followed.
• Li Chuan praised Shangguan Qian’s speed, and she accelerated as she explained that she could fly even faster.
• During the two-hour flight, Shangguan Qian told Li Chuan that True Person Bai Mei suppressed his cultivation to remain and restrain the Demonic Cultivators.
• Shangguan Qian described the Seven Sons of the Clouds and explained how Cheng Xuanfeng and Qin Ruohua had reincarnated through Soldier Dissolution.
• Li Chuan learned that Soldier Dissolution preserved only a wisp of true spirit and past-life memories, and he concluded that it was scarcely better than death.

Li Chuan accompanied the Seven Sons of the Clouds to Drunken Immortal Cliff, where Lotus Fairy asked them to slay the Nine-headed Demon Python before it could devour a transforming lingzhi. The group prepared for the battle the following day, while Lotus Fairy recognized Li Chuan as Daoist Qingzhu’s disciple.

• Shangguan Qian explained that Drunken Immortal Cliff floated in the sky and invited Li Chuan to visit the Emei Sect after their mission.
• Chu Yuxiang led the group toward Lotus Fairy while warning them to avoid alerting the Nine-headed Demon Python.
• Li Chuan introduced himself to Lotus Fairy as Daoist Qingzhu’s disciple, and she asked him to invite his master to visit her.
• Lotus Fairy explained that the Nine-headed Demon Python occupied the mountaintop and would try to swallow a lingzhi when it took human form the next day.
• Chu Yuxiang promised that the Seven Sons of the Clouds would slay the demon while Lotus Fairy protected the lingzhi.

Lotus Fairy recruited the Seven Sons of the Clouds to protect a lingzhi from the Nine-headed Demon Python, and gave them Essence Augmentation Pills in advance. When the lingzhi’s formation concealed the area’s spiritual energy, Lotus Fairy and the sword cultivators launched their attack while Li Chuan stayed back and sensed that others might be hiding nearby.

• Lotus Fairy offered the Seven Sons of the Clouds seven Essence Augmentation Pills, and Chu Yuxiang accepted them after she insisted they deserved a reward for risking their lives.
• Lotus Fairy explained that the lingzhi’s formation at a quarter past noon would conceal spiritual energy and create a chance to approach the Nine-headed Demon Python unnoticed.
• The next day, Li Chuan, Lotus Fairy, and the Seven Sons of the Clouds hid in a cloud near Drunken Immortal Cliff and watched the demon python guard the childlike lingzhi.
• When the lingzhi’s fluctuation concealed the spiritual energy, Lotus Fairy used water evasion to rush toward it while the Seven Sons of the Clouds charged the python as sword lights.
• Li Chuan stayed behind to observe the battle and sensed that someone else might be hiding nearby, hoping an unexpected turn would let him gain something.

The Seven Sons of the Clouds wounded the Nine-headed Demon Python, which tried to flee with the unformed lingzhi, but Lotus Fairy intercepted it and let the swordsmen force it back into battle. Li Chuan watched their fight and assessed how he might evade their flying swords and use Apparition to attack them.

• The Seven Sons of the Clouds attacked the Nine-headed Demon Python with their flying swords, wounding its heads and breaking apart its Five Elements attacks.
• The Nine-headed Demon Python turned to swallow the unformed lingzhi and escape, but Lotus Fairy transformed into a lotus and shielded it.
• The Seven Sons of the Clouds resumed their attack, forcing the python to fight while Lotus Fairy held it off.
• Li Chuan watched the swordsmen wound the python and judged their flying swords too powerful to withstand directly.
• Li Chuan reasoned that he could dodge their swords, draw them away, then use Apparition to reach and attack the swordsmen themselves.

The Seven Sons of the Clouds killed the Nine-headed Demon Python, but Blood God Son ambushed Lotus Fairy and tried to seize her and the transformed spiritual mushroom. Li Chuan interrupted him with Night Guy, and the chapter ended as Blood God Son unleashed his Great River of Blood Technique against Li Chuan and the others.

• The Nine-headed Demon Python used its demon core to escape, but Chu Yuxiang and the other six of the Seven Sons of the Clouds formed the Big Dipper Seven Stars Sword Array and destroyed it.
• The spiritual mushroom transformed into a tiny child, and Lotus Fairy picked it up before a hidden burly middle-aged man ambushed her and knocked her back into her Spiritual Lotus form.
• The man revealed his plan to take the spiritual mushroom and Lotus Fairy, but Li Chuan opened the Gate of Death and struck him with Night Guy.
• The attacker used Blood Demon Dissolution to escape the blow as a cloud of blood mist, then reformed in the air; Lotus Fairy said filthy blood had entered her body and left her unable to cast spells.
• Chu Yuxiang identified the attacker as Blood God Son, a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator and disciple of Youquan Blood Demon.
• Li Chuan taunted Blood God Son, who ignored the bait and launched the Great River of Blood Technique as Chu Yuxiang and the other six tried to block it with their flying swords.

Li Chuan learned that lightning arts could counter the Blood River and summoned hundreds of shadow clones to attack the Blood God Son. Their combined lightning began overpowering the weakened Blood River, but the Blood God Son expanded it again, forcing the battle onward.

• The Seven Sons of the Clouds struggled against the Blood River after exhausting their True Essence, while Li Chuan weighed retreating with the Teleportation Book against risking a fight.
• Chu Yuxiang told Li Chuan that lightning arts countered the Blood Demon Palace’s filthy blood and urged him to escape.
• Li Chuan summoned around five hundred shadow clones and had them unleash Lightning Style: False Darkness at the Blood River.
• The combined lightning purified large portions of the Blood River, startling the Blood God Son and putting him at a disadvantage.
• The Blood God Son poured in his True Essence and expanded the Blood River, betting that Li Chuan would run out of power first.

Li Chuan kept attacking the Blood God Son with Shadow Clones and Lightning Style, replenishing his strength with Ration Pills until his body neared its limit. He revealed a supposed reincarnated cultivator’s secret technique, and Lotus Fairy asked whether strengthening him could let him fight longer.

• Li Chuan repeatedly created five hundred Shadow Clones and used Lightning Style while eating Ration Pills to keep them going.
• The Blood God Son poured out more rivers of blood and mocked Li Chuan, but grew shocked when he saw the clones return after Li Chuan ate more pills.
• After using his fourth handful of Ration Pills, Li Chuan realized his body was reaching its limit and considered fleeing with Chu Yuxiang and the others.
• Li Chuan told the Seven Sons of the Clouds and Lotus Fairy that his attacks relied on a secret technique powered by his body and primordial spirit, not True Essence.
• Lotus Fairy asked whether strengthening Li Chuan could let him consume more secret medicine and continue using Lightning Style, and Li Chuan agreed that it might.

Li Chuan used pills from Lotus Fairy to recover and grow stronger, then drove the Blood God Son to flee with increasingly large waves of Shadow Clones. The group survived the encounter, and Li Chuan left with new allies and pills whose effects would continue to develop.

• Lotus Fairy gave Li Chuan dozens of pills that strengthened the body and primordial spirit, and he took them all.
• Li Chuan recovered enough to summon 550 Shadow Clones, and the successive waves grew to 570 and then 600.
• The Blood God Son, nearly out of True Essence, withdrew his river of blood and fled using Blood Style.
• Lotus Fairy and the Seven Sons of the Clouds sighed in relief and praised Li Chuan for driving off the Blood God Son.
• Li Chuan chose not to pursue the Blood God Son and reflected that he had gained allies and pills without risking Youquan Blood Demon's retaliation.

After Li Chuan defeated the Blood God Son, Lotus Fairy accepted the Seven Sons of the Clouds’ offer to stay at Emei for safety and traveled there with them. Li Chuan arrived at the magnificent floating sect, where Shangguan Qian began showing him around.

• Lotus Fairy thanked Li Chuan for saving her by giving him two bottles of Essence Augmentation Pills, and he accepted them.
• Chu Yuxiang warned Lotus Fairy that the Blood God Son might return for revenge and invited her and Lingzhi Boy to stay at Emei.
• Lotus Fairy harvested her herbs, sealed her medicinal garden, and left Drunken Immortal Cliff with the others.
• The group traveled through the night and reached Emei at dawn.
• Li Chuan admired Emei’s floating mountains and buildings as Shangguan Qian introduced the sect and pointed out Dan Chenzi.

Li Chuan learned how powerful Emei was as the Seven Sons of the Clouds returned and reported how he had driven back Blood God Son. True Person Bai Mei welcomed Li Chuan to stay and cultivate at Emei, giving him a courtyard on Liuyun Peak, where the chapter left him with a valuable place to reside.

• Shangguan Qian explained Emei’s strength, and Li Chuan compared its formidable disciples with the much weaker Little Bamboo Mountain.
• Dan Chenzi spotted the returning Seven Sons of the Clouds, who arrived with Lotus Fairy and Li Chuan.
• True Person Bai Mei appeared and asked the Seven Sons of the Clouds to explain what had happened on their journey.
• Chu Yuxiang recounted Li Chuan’s help against demons and how he drove back Blood God Son, astonishing the Emei disciples.
• True Person Bai Mei invited Lotus Fairy to stay at Xiaoyue Peak and offered Li Chuan a courtyard on Liuyun Peak.
• Li Chuan accepted the offer, gaining the right to reside and cultivate within Emei.