Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan stepped down as Clan Leader and appointed Li Qingqing to lead the Li Clan’s sweeping reforms. He left Cloud Mist Peak to pursue greater cultivation, parting from Luo Ling and encountering Li Guangao on the mountain steps.

• Li Qingyuan announced that he was entering seclusion to pursue the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and named Li Qingqing the new Clan Leader.
• Li Qingqing announced reforms to improve clan benefits and establish major markets at Willow Crane City and Purple Cloud Mountain.
• Li Qingyuan stayed with Luo Ling, then slipped away in the night after she wished him success on the immortal path.
• Li Qingyuan descended Cloud Mist Peak and met the aged Li Guangao, who called out to him tearfully.

Li Qingyuan left the Li Clan and the Sea Domain Archipelago to pursue immortality on the Nine Provinces Continent. After saying farewell to his family and entrusting his unborn children’s future resources to Li Dingzhou, he departed at dawn on Ji Kun.

• Li Qingyuan thanked Li Guangao for his guidance, and Li Guangao urged him to form his core, seek Nascent Soul, and see the sights he would never witness.
• Li Qingyuan shared the last of their Purple Flame Jade Nectar with Li Guangyao, who told him to live well and become an immortal.
• Li Qingqing promised to preserve the Li Clan’s inheritance, care for the family, and raise Li Qingyuan’s children to follow his path.
• Li Dingzhou and Chen Xiuyun bid Li Qingyuan farewell, and he gave Li Dingzhou a Storage Bag containing Foundation Establishment Pills, Spirit Condensing Pills, and forty thousand Spirit Stones for his unborn children.
• Li Qingyuan left Cloud Mist Peak and the Li Clan without looking back, then rode Ji Kun toward the Nine Provinces Continent as dawn broke.

Li Qingyuan had Ji Kun trim its feathers into a center-part hairstyle before traveling to the Li Clan’s Teleportation Array and activating it. He arrived at a guarded array in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where Ma Lou and the other cultivators alerted their family and requested a Foundation Establishment elder.

• Ji Kun refused to continue flying until Li Qingyuan trimmed its feathers, and it eagerly admired the center-part hairstyle he gave it.
• Li Qingyuan promised to make Ji Kun a ball-shaped weapon and defensive overalls, then flew with it to the island where Li Clan cultivators guarded the Teleportation Array.
• Li Qingyuan used his Phantom God Eye Technique to make Li Qinglei and the other guards forget his arrival, then entered the formation and activated the array with Five Thousand Spirit Stones.
• Li Qingyuan disappeared through the Teleportation Array, and the guards returned to their cultivation without remembering what had happened.
• In the Hundred Thousand Mountains, Ma Lou and his companions noticed the array activate, so the man in black ordered them to prepare the formation and sent a message requesting a Foundation Establishment elder.

Li Qingyuan arrived through a teleportation array and shattered the Ma Family’s ambush formation before crippling the six Qi Refining guards. He learned that the family captured Foundation Establishment cultivators to turn them into corpse puppets, then demanded to know its strength as the chapter ended.

• Li Qingyuan appeared on a teleportation platform and broke the Ma Family’s second-grade formation with the Primordial Cone.
• He used the Flowing River Sword to pierce the dantian Qi Seas of all six guards and cripple their cultivations.
• The guards told Li Qingyuan that the Ma Family had guarded the teleportation array for centuries and captured five Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The middle-aged man explained that the Ma Family served the Corpse Puppet Sect and blood-refined captured cultivators into corpse puppets.
• Li Qingyuan asked how many Foundation Establishment cultivators and Foundation Establishment-level corpse puppets the Ma Family had.

Li Qingyuan learned the Ma Family’s strength, prepared an ambush near the teleportation platform, and waited for its Foundation Establishment cultivators. Ma Jiang arrived and found six dead clan disciples, but Li Qingyuan remained concealed nearby.

• Li Qingyuan questioned six captured Ma Family disciples and learned that the clan had three Foundation Establishment cultivators and seven Foundation Establishment Grade Corpse Puppets.
• Li Qingyuan let the wounded disciples leave, then had Ji Kun kill them and collected their Storage Bags.
• Li Qingyuan concealed a formation around the teleportation platform, hid his aura, and waited for the Ma Family cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan reviewed his remaining resources and resolved to defeat the Ma Family, obtain its Corpse Puppet refinement art, and later seek more cultivation resources.
• Ma Jiang arrived, saw the six corpses, prepared his defensive Magic Tool, and called for the hidden killer to reveal himself.

Li Qingyuan ambushed Ma Jiang and pretended to be a weaker Foundation Establishment cultivator while battling him alongside Ji Kun. After Ma Jiang summoned help, Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun revealed their true strength and turned the fight against him.

• Li Qingyuan trapped Ma Jiang in a formation and accused the Horse Family of capturing Foundation Establishment cultivators and refining them into corpse puppets.
• Ma Jiang used a Barrier-Breaking Talisman to open an escape route, then attacked Li Qingyuan with two corpse puppets and his Soul-Shattering Nail.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun pretended to struggle against Ma Jiang and his puppets, while Li Qingyuan's soft armor blocked a strike from the Soul-Shattering Nail.
• Ma Jiang sent a Sound Transmission Jade Talisman to summon his Clan Leader, and Li Qingyuan revealed that he was at Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Ji Kun revealed that it was a second-tier mid-stage great demon, and the pair sent the corpse puppets flying before attacking Ma Jiang from both sides.

Li Qingyuan interrogated Ma Jiang, seized his resources, and learned the strength of the Horse Family’s Clan Leader and corpse puppets. After taking control of two puppets and setting a trap near the teleportation platform, he ambushed Clan Leader Ma with the Primordial Cone.

• Li Qingyuan defeated Ma Jiang, interrogated him about the Horse Family, and learned that Clan Leader Ma possessed four powerful corpse puppets.
• Li Qingyuan blood-refined the Soul Control Beads from two Foundation Establishment Early Stage corpse puppets and took control of them.
• Li Qingyuan restrained Ma Jiang, took his belongings, and decided to keep him alive until he captured Clan Leader Ma.
• Li Qingyuan hid near the teleportation platform while Clan Leader Ma arrived and investigated the traces of the earlier battle.
• Li Qingyuan struck Clan Leader Ma from hiding with the Primordial Cone, unleashing his full strength in a surprise attack.

Li Qingyuan attacked Ma Ba, Clan Leader of the Ma Family, and overcame his defenses with a Third-grade Magic Tool, then fought Ma Ba and his corpse puppets in a fierce battle. He unleashed five Five Elements Talisman Arrays, each with Foundation Establishment Late Stage power, and left Ma Ba scrambling to defend himself.

• Li Qingyuan’s Primordial Cone pierced Ma Ba’s Foundation Establishment Late Stage corpse puppet and shattered his defensive talisman, but Ma Ba escaped the strike.
• Ma Ba identified himself as Clan Leader of the Ma Family and tried to avoid a fight, but Li Qingyuan attacked with the Flowing River Sword and revealed his ties to the Liu Family of Willow Crane Island.
• Ma Ba sent four Foundation Establishment corpse puppets and his own magic tool against Li Qingyuan, while Li Qingyuan countered with his own corpse puppets and Wildfire Talismans.
• Li Qingyuan’s foundation and magic power alarmed Ma Ba, and his Heavy Sword Technique broke through most of Ma Ba’s talismans.
• Li Qingyuan launched five Five Elements Talisman Arrays, knocking Ma Ba’s magic tool aside and forcing him to defend against the first attack.

Li Qingyuan defeated and killed Ma Ba with Ji Kun’s surprise attack and a barrage of Five Elements Talisman Arrays, then discovered the Yin Sha Corpse Puppet Art in Ma Ba’s jade slip. He took Ma Ba’s corpse and puppet, killed Ma Jiang, and set off to hunt the Horse Family’s last Foundation Establishment elder as the family learned its clan leader was dead.

• Ma Ba sacrificed corpse puppets to counter Li Qingyuan’s Five Elements Talisman Arrays, but Li Qingyuan revealed he had ten arrays and launched three at him.
• Ji Kun struck Ma Ba from behind with the Primordial Cone, and Li Qingyuan’s talisman arrays finished him before he could detonate his incomplete Foundation Establishment Late Stage corpse puppet.
• Li Qingyuan searched Ma Ba’s Storage Bag and read a jade slip explaining the Yin Sha Corpse Puppet Art and warning that the Ma Clan would be destroyed if its secret leaked.
• Li Qingyuan praised Ji Kun, collected Ma Ba’s corpse and puppet, then returned to Ma Jiang and killed him after taking his formation and binding magic tool.
• Li Qingyuan changed his appearance to Peng Changsheng and flew off to kill the Horse Family’s remaining Foundation Establishment elder.
• A Qi Condensation cultivator in the Horse Family ancestral hall saw Ma Ba’s life token shatter and shouted that the clan leader had died.

Li Qingyuan and Peng Changsheng killed the Ma Clan’s Foundation Establishment cultivators, then framed the deaths as revenge to turn Blackwater City’s forces against the Horse Family. With Ma Lei dead and the clan under siege, Ma Ruo faced its impending destruction while Li Qingyuan escaped with valuable resources and planned to refine more corpse puppets.

• Ma Ruo learned that her father, Ma Ba, and the Ma Clan’s other Foundation Establishment cultivators had died, then ordered the estate sealed and sent Ma Lei to summon their aunt.
• Senior Brother Zhou promised to seek help from his master, but Ma Ruo expected him to flee and ordered Ma Lei to invite their aunt instead.
• Li Qingyuan and Peng Changsheng killed Ma Lei, displayed the bodies in Blackwater City, and falsely claimed they had killed Ma Ba and his allies in revenge.
• The Ma Clan’s former vassals demanded that Ma Ruo surrender the family’s holdings or face destruction, and Ma Ruo realized the clan was doomed.
• Li Qingyuan escaped with Ma Hun’s resources, including a Second-grade Yin Sha Bead, and planned to refine Foundation Establishment Corpse Puppets.

Li Qingyuan watched the Horse Family fall, then refined eight vegetative Foundation Establishment cultivators into corpse puppets, bringing his total to thirteen. With the puppets stored away, he set out for Three Joys City to trade his accumulated resources for Spirit Stones and medicinal plants.

• Li Qingyuan killed Ma Hun and the other Horse Family Foundation Establishment cultivators, then stayed hidden as rival forces destroyed the family and Ma Ruo was killed.
• Li Qingyuan left Blackwater City after witnessing Ma Ruo's death, burned Ma Xiu and the others' corpses near the teleportation platform, and concealed the site.
• Li Qingyuan studied the Yin Sha Corpse Puppet Art and successfully refined the vegetative Liu Changfeng into a Foundation Establishment Early Stage corpse puppet.
• Li Qingyuan refined seven more vegetative Foundation Establishment cultivators and gathered thirteen Foundation Establishment-level corpse puppets under his control.
• Li Qingyuan studied his map, chose Three Joys City as his destination, and flew west to sell cultivation resources and seek medicinal plants.

Li Qingyuan entered Three Joys Immortal City under the alias Liu Chuan, surveyed its markets, and cautiously sold off excess resources to amass a large fortune. With his preparations complete, he headed for the cave mansion district hoping to secure a high-grade residence where he and Ji Kun could cultivate.

• Li Qingyuan entered Three Joys Immortal City as a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator and registered under the name Liu Chuan.
• Little Stone sold Li Qingyuan a booklet detailing the city’s markets, and Li Qingyuan confirmed its information while gathering more intelligence over the following days.
• Li Qingyuan used different disguises to sell surplus resources from the Qin Family, the Five Great Foundation Establishment Immortal Clans, and the Horse Family’s cultivators.
• After accounting for his expenses, Li Qingyuan had about 166,000 Spirit Stones and decided to seek a Third-grade Cave Mansion.
• Li Qingyuan rode his Wind Spirit Boat to the cave mansion district to rent a high-grade residence where he could cultivate in peace.

Li Qingyuan, using the name Liu Chuan, negotiated to rent a Third-grade Low-rank Spirit Vein Cave Mansion despite his Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivation. The chapter ended with Ding Xiaojun shocked to learn he was renting a cave mansion she had assumed he could not afford.

• Li Qingyuan toured the cave mansions with Li Yunmei and learned that a Second-grade High-grade mansion cost five thousand Spirit Stones a year, while a Third-grade Low-rank mansion cost fifteen thousand.
• Ding Xiaojun mocked Li Qingyuan for asking about a Third-grade mansion, and Li Yunmei defended him and apologized for her colleague’s behavior.
• Li Qingyuan showed Li Yunmei thirty thousand Spirit Stones and negotiated a five-year rental with a five percent discount and the annual price reduced to fourteen thousand Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunmei took Li Qingyuan to complete the rental contract before Steward Zhou, where Ding Xiaojun was handling another customer’s contract.
• Steward Zhou revealed that Li Qingyuan had come to rent a Third-grade Spirit Vein Cave Mansion, leaving Ding Xiaojun stunned.

Li Qingyuan rented a Third-grade Low-rank Cave Mansion in Three Joys Immortal City, secured it with formations, and fed Ji Kun a large supply of pills. After buying materials in the city, he began refining Spirit Condensing Pills to raise his divine sense.

• Ding Xiaojun doubted Li Qingyuan could afford a Third-grade Cave Mansion, but Steward Zhou reprimanded her and approved Li Yunmei's discounted lease arrangement.
• Li Qingyuan paid 70,000 Spirit Stones for a five-year lease, and Li Yunmei took him to the cave mansion and gave him its control jade slip.
• Li Qingyuan activated the cave mansion's defensive formation, set up a Wind Xun Sky-Supporting Formation and twenty Five Elements Talisman Arrays, then fed Ji Kun pills worth tens of thousands of Spirit Stones.
• Li Qingyuan visited the Market and bought five sets of Spirit Condensing Pill materials along with ingredients for several pills for Ji Kun.
• Li Qingyuan entered the alchemy room and began refining Spirit Condensing Pills, and his first furnace started well.

Li Qingyuan refined and upgraded Spirit Condensing Pills, then used several masterwork pills to strengthen his divine sense to Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Perfection, though he could not reach Core Formation divine sense. He arranged for Li Yunmei to sell some of his pills while he began cultivating in seclusion to reach Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

• Li Qingyuan refined five batches of Spirit Condensing Pills, prepared Second-grade Purifying Elixir Liquid, and upgraded the pills to five masterwork, one standard-grade, and nine low-grade.
• Li Qingyuan swallowed three masterwork Spirit Condensing Pills and raised his divine sense to Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Perfection, but concluded that only a Third-grade divine-sense elixir could take it further.
• Li Qingyuan invited Li Yunmei to his cave mansion and confirmed that she recognized the Spirit Condensing Pill and knew its market prices in Three Joys Immortal City.
• Li Qingyuan entrusted Li Yunmei with three low-grade Spirit Condensing Pills to sell at market price in exchange for the customary one-tenth commission.
• After Li Yunmei left, Li Qingyuan cultivated using the Third-grade Spirit Vein and resolved to pursue Foundation Establishment Late Stage in seclusion.

Li Qingyuan expanded his pill business through Li Yunmei while cultivating in seclusion, earning substantial Spirit Stones and keeping his identity secret. Meanwhile, Luo Ling gave birth to twins whose exceptional spirit roots brought joy to the Li Clan.

• Li Yunmei sold Li Qingyuan’s Spirit Condensing Pills and delivered the proceeds, then accepted more pills and later sold them for a larger commission.
• Li Qingyuan gave Li Yunmei Spirit Stones to buy ingredients, refined Spirit Condensing Pills and Jade Spirit Pills, and warned her to keep his identity as a Second-grade Alchemist secret.
• Li Qingyuan and Li Yunmei established a six-month trading routine, and his pill business eventually earned around 30,000 Spirit Stones in net profit each year.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun cultivated in a Third-grade Low-rank Cave Mansion, using Masterwork Jade Spirit Pills to support their cultivation.
• Luo Ling gave birth to Dragon-Phoenix Twins, Li Xianhuang and Li Xianfeng, whose spirit roots were secretly tested at their first-month celebration.
• Li Dingzhou, Chen Xiuyun, Li Guangao, and Li Qingqing celebrated the twins’ exceptional aptitudes as Luo Ling hoped they would one day leave the Sea Domain Archipelago.

After three years of seclusion, Li Qingyuan broke through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and developed False Core Divine Sense, while Ji Kun also advanced to a higher demonic beast stage. As they celebrated, Li Qingyuan sensed something was wrong and calculated that Grandpa Clan Leader and the others had met with disaster.

• Li Qingyuan arranged for Li Yunmei to sell his pills while he devoted himself to a breakthrough.
• Li Qingyuan cultivated for three years as Ji Kun consumed pills and spiritual qi to strengthen its cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan broke through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage at age fifty-eight and advanced his divine sense to False Core Divine Sense.
• Ji Kun broke through to second-tier late stage, and Li Qingyuan reinforced the cave mansion’s defensive formation to conceal its aura.
• Li Qingyuan felt a sudden stirring of the heart, calculated the time, and wept as he realized something had happened to Grandpa Clan Leader and the others.

Li Xianhuang and Li Qingyuan mourned the deaths of the Li family’s elders from afar while Li Qingyuan continued his work in Three Joys Immortal City. After settling accounts with Li Yunmei, he learned she had news about a Second-grade High-rank Talisman Script.

• Li Xianhuang comforted Li Guangyao at the funeral for Li Guangao and Li Guangzong, remembering how her father’s support had shaped her life.
• Li Xianfeng wept over the dead elders and worried that his mother would keep whipping him without them to protect him.
• Li Qingyuan honored the three deceased elders with wine in his cave mansion and concealed his Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivation before receiving Li Yunmei.
• Li Yunmei delivered eighty thousand Spirit Stones from their pill sales, and Li Qingyuan gave her an eight-thousand-Stone share.
• Li Yunmei told Li Qingyuan that she had news about the Second-grade High-rank Talisman Script he had asked her to find.

Li Qingyuan agreed to trade a Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill with Fake Core True Person Lei Chen for a Second-grade High-rank Talisman Script, then refined part of the Primordial Cone before the meeting. After the trade, Lei Chen ordered Lei Xing to investigate Li Qingyuan’s background.

• Li Yunmei told Li Qingyuan that Lei Chen had a Second-grade High-rank Talisman Script and wanted a Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill for his youngest son, and Li Qingyuan agreed to the trade.
• Li Qingyuan used his False Core Divine Sense to refine the Primordial Cone for a month, reaching about twenty percent of its restrictions before his progress stalled.
• Li Qingyuan arrived at the meeting pavilion and exchanged the Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill for Lei Chen’s Second-grade High-rank Talisman Script, while Lei Xing complained about Li Qingyuan and Li Yunmei.
• Lei Xing accused Li Yunmei and Li Qingyuan of disrespecting him and Lei Chen, so Lei Chen ordered him to investigate Li Qingyuan’s origins.

Li Qingyuan rented a higher-grade cave mansion and set plans to prepare for Core Formation, strengthen his body, and master high-rank talisman scripts. After disguising himself as Zhen Youde, he gathered alchemy and talisman materials, sold much of his stock to fund new supplies, and began closed-door alchemy as the Lei father and son investigated him.

• Li Qingyuan reassured Li Yunmei that he would not bow to True Person Lei, asked her to find a Second-grade High-rank Talisman Script, and revealed that his surname was Li.
• Li Qingyuan rented a Third-grade Low-rank Cave Mansion, released Ji Kun to cultivate there, and planned to pursue Core Formation, body refinement, and high-rank talisman mastery.
• Li Qingyuan discovered the Dragon Tiger Auspicious Elixir recipe in True Person San Quan's inheritance and disguised himself as Zhen Youde to gather its ingredients and talisman materials.
• Li Qingyuan sold talismans and brushes through several shops, raising 143,000 Spirit Stones and bringing his total to 185,000.
• Li Qingyuan spent his remaining Spirit Stones on high-rank talisman supplies and ten sets of Spirit Condensing Pill materials, then returned to begin closed-door alchemy.
• The Lei father and son investigated Li Qingyuan's identity and background.