Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan became a High-Grade First-Rank Alchemist and refined pills for the Li Clan’s elders before spending another year improving his talisman-making skills. He amassed hundreds of Second-grade Low-rank talismans, planned to keep his Five Elements Talisman Array ambitions hidden from Qin Miaoyi, and prepared to visit the Qin Family for more materials.

• Li Qingyuan overcame repeated furnace explosions to refine Spirit Nurturing Pills, officially becoming a High-Grade First-Rank Alchemist.
• He refined Foundation Replenishing Pills and Minor Longevity Pills, keeping standard-quality pills for family cultivators and sending low-grade pills to the Market.
• After a year of alchemy, Li Qingyuan’s Qi Condensation Tenth Layer cultivation neared perfection, and he slept for three days before returning to seclusion.
• Using duplicated materials from Qin Miaoyi, Li Qingyuan learned to draw Mysterious Ice Realm Talismans and increased his stocks of several other Second-grade Low-rank talismans.
• Li Qingyuan resolved to seek Earth Attribute and Wood Attribute talisman papers for the Five Elements Talisman Array without letting Qin Miaoyi discover his plan.
• He decided to visit the Qin Family again and wondered whether Qin Miaoyi had prepared more talisman drawing materials.

Li Qingyuan won Qin Miaoyi’s praise by presenting his improved Second-grade Low-rank talisman skills, and she promised him a Foundation Establishment Pill if he advanced his cultivation and later drew talismans for her. After he left, Qin Miaoyi revealed that she intended to use him to help complete the Qin Family’s plans, even if he had to die for her.

• Li Qingyuan gave Qin Miaoyi most of the talismans he had drawn and claimed his success rates for several Second-grade Low-rank talismans had improved greatly.
• Qin Miaoyi praised Li Qingyuan’s talent, gave him five hundred sets of talisman materials, and urged him to raise his success rates while advancing his cultivation.
• Qin Miaoyi promised Li Qingyuan a Foundation Establishment Pill and access to a Second-grade Spirit Vein if he reached the Qi Condensation Tenth Layer, asking him to draw Second-grade Mid-rank Talismans after establishing his foundation.
• Li Qingyuan left, believing Qin Miaoyi’s support would let him obtain far more talisman materials and improve his skills.
• Qin Miaoyi told Qin Lan that Li Qingyuan’s talent could help her plans and privately considered whether he would be willing to die for her.

Li Qingyuan reached Qi Condensation Tenth Layer Perfection in seclusion, concealed his cultivation, and left the Li Family disguised as Peng Changsheng to seek rare ingredients for making masterwork pills. At an auction in Flame City, he and Bloody Hand Butcher Zhou Gang arrived with their own plans for the Hundred Year Spirit Milk and Three-Leaf Spirit Cleansing Grass.

• Li Qingyuan cultivated with Spirit Stones for a year and reached Qi Condensation Tenth Layer Perfection, then concealed his cultivation at the Ninth Layer and left Purple Cloud Mountain as Peng Changsheng.
• Li Qingyuan settled in Feiyan City as a modest alchemist and used his connections to learn that Hundred Year Spirit Milk and Three-Leaf Spirit Cleansing Grass were available.
• Li Qingyuan studied the Pure Pill Spirit Ascension Technique and decided to buy the ingredients to practice upgrading pills.
• Li Qingyuan traveled to Ice Fire Island and entered the Flame City auction.
• Zhou Kui told his second brother, Bloody Hand Butcher Zhou Gang, that the auction would offer the rare ingredients, and Zhou Gang entered Flame City.

Li Qingyuan attended the Gao Family’s first auction under the identity of Peng Changsheng and bid on a powerful White Rainbow Fish King for Li Qingqing. He won it for 2,000 Spirit Stones, while greedy cultivators took notice of his apparent wealth.

• Li Qingyuan entered the auction disguised as Peng Changsheng, and Gao Lan opened the event by presenting a Peak Tier 1 White Rainbow Fish King.
• Gao Lan explained that the fish could greatly benefit Water-attribute cultivators, and Li Qingyuan thought it could help Li Qingqing advance.
• Li Qingyuan joined the bidding as cultivators competed for the fish, driving the price above 1,800 Spirit Stones.
• Li Qingyuan bid 2,000 Spirit Stones and won the fish after the other bidders withdrew.
• Nearby cultivators eyed Li Qingyuan suspiciously and greedily, while he recognized that some had taken the bait.

Li Qingyuan won the Hundred Year Spirit Milk at the auction but let Zhou Gang take the Three-Leaf Spirit Cleansing Grass after Zhou Gang drove its price far above value. The auction ended with four of Li Qingyuan’s Second-grade talismans selling for 4,500 Spirit Stones, while Zhou Gang’s hostility toward him remained unresolved.

• Li Qingyuan outbid Zhou Gang and bought twenty drops of Hundred Year Spirit Milk for 3,000 Spirit Stones, while Zhou Gang privately threatened him.
• Zhou Gang won the Three-Leaf Spirit Cleansing Grass for 2,500 Spirit Stones after Li Qingyuan stopped bidding, and other cultivators mocked the price.
• Gao Lan presented four Second-grade talismans made by Li Qingyuan as the auction’s final item, revealing his reputation as a Grand Talisman Master.
• A leader of a first-rate Qi Condensation clan from Ice Fire Island won the four talismans for 4,500 Spirit Stones.
• Gao Lan declared the auction successfully concluded.

Li Qingyuan completed his auction purchases in Flame City, then left disguised as Peng Changsheng and drew several cultivators into pursuing him. He revealed his Foundation Establishment Divine Sense to kill two Qi Condensation Tenth Layer pursuers, while the Bloody Hand Butcher fled in terror.

• Li Qingyuan bought the White Rainbow Fish King, twenty drops of Hundred Year Spirit Milk, and a Spirit Beast Bag from Gao Lan, while Zhou Gang acquired the Three-Leaf Spirit Cleansing Grass.
• After Li Qingyuan left Flame City, a Qi Condensation Level 7 couple tried to rob him of the White Rainbow Fish King, but he raised his apparent cultivation to Qi Condensation Ninth Layer and killed them with the Qi Blade Technique.
• Li Qingyuan flew away as two Qi Condensation Tenth Layer cultivators pursued him with spells, talismans, and Magic Tools; Zhou Gang followed in disguise as the Bloody Hand Butcher, seeking the Hundred Year Spirit Milk and Li Qingyuan's life.
• Li Qingyuan stopped after drawing the pursuers far from the city and used the Azure Sun Sword, controlled by his Foundation Establishment Divine Sense, to kill both Qi Condensation Tenth Layer cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan collected the dead cultivators' belongings and burned their bodies, while the Bloody Hand Butcher realized the danger and fled.

Li Qingyuan captured and killed Zhou Gang, uncovering the Qin Family’s use of captured cultivators to nourish spirit veins and its possible plans to advance one to Third-grade. After fleeing to Xuebao Island, Li Qingyuan found a fragmented body-refining demonic art among his spoils and decided he could complete it using the Mysterious Feminine Space.

• Li Qingyuan stopped Zhou Gang’s escape and forced him to reveal that the Qin Family used cultivators’ spiritual power and bodily essence to nourish spirit veins.
• Zhou Gang said the Qin Family had captured cultivators from the Five Great Foundation Establishment Immortal Clans, while Li Qingyuan suspected they might use Foundation Establishment Venerables to advance a spirit vein further.
• Zhou Gang tried to attack Li Qingyuan with talismans, but Li Qingyuan killed him and took his possessions.
• Several days later, Li Qingyuan left Ice Fire Island, abandoned his shop on Xuanqi Island, and settled in a crude cave abode on Xuebao Island.
• Li Qingyuan found a fragmented copy of the Jade Pattern Blood Demon Body and decided to complete the cultivation method with the Mysterious Feminine Space.

Li Qingyuan studied the Jade Pattern Blood Demon Body and began cultivating its first stage, using medicinal herbs and the Blood Tiger Demonic Crane Stance to refine his body. After reaching Blood Transformation Stage One, the Mysterious Feminine Space completed the Quasi-Third-grade body-refining cultivation method.

• Li Qingyuan protected his cave abode with an illusion formation and a killing formation before studying the Jade Pattern Blood Demon Body.
• He learned that the method refined blood and qi through nine transformations and reasoned that dual cultivation of Dharma and body would strengthen him for future breakthroughs.
• Li Qingyuan disguised himself, traveled to Xuebao City, and bought mortal medicines and spiritual plants for body refinement.
• After returning and checking his formations, Li Qingyuan practiced the Blood Tiger Demonic Crane Stance and drank a decoction made from blood-nourishing herbs.
• Li Qingyuan completed Blood Transformation Stage One, triggering the Mysterious Feminine Space to restore the full Quasi-Third-grade body-refining cultivation method.

Li Qingyuan spent a year cultivating body refinement, strengthening his qi cultivation, and improving his alchemy, reaching the Body Refining Sixth Layer while bringing his Qi Condensation cultivation to perfection. After successfully upgrading a Spirit Nurturing Pill to Masterwork quality, he disguised himself and set out for Purple Cloud Mountain to advance his Foundation Establishment Plan.

• Li Qingyuan broke through to Blood Transformation Stage One and realized that body refinement helped expel pill toxins.
• Over the next year, Li Qingyuan advanced to the Body Refining Sixth Layer and tempered his Qi Condensation Tenth Layer Perfection cultivation, while his body refinement also strengthened his physical body and divine sense.
• Li Qingyuan decided to wait for a Masterwork Foundation Establishment Pill before attempting to establish his foundation, and he continued nourishing the unhatched Spirit Pet Egg with his essence blood and Spirit Stones.
• Li Qingyuan used the Pure Pill Spirit Ascension Technique to successfully upgrade a standard-grade Spirit Nurturing Pill to Masterwork quality.
• Li Qingyuan collected his formations, disguised himself as an ordinary Qi Condensation Eighth Layer cultivator, and flew toward Purple Cloud Mountain to carry out his plan involving Qin Miaoyi.

After reaching Qi Condensation Tenth Layer, Li Qingyuan visited Qin Miaoyi and used his talisman work to secure Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and a promise of help with Foundation Establishment. Qin Miaoyi also offered him a jade slip for drawing Second-grade Mid-rank Talisman Paper, leaving Li Qingyuan eager to learn more.

• Li Qingyuan broke through to Qi Condensation Tenth Layer, and the Li Clan celebrated its rise to a First-rate Qi Condensation Family.
• Li Qingyuan traveled to meet Qin Miaoyi and explained that pill toxins had impaired his meridians and reduced his talisman completion rate.
• Li Qingyuan presented Qin Miaoyi with 180 completed Second-grade Low-rank talismans, claiming a forty percent completion rate despite his condition.
• Qin Miaoyi gave Li Qingyuan three drops of Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to clear his pill toxins and promised a Standard-grade Foundation Establishment Pill and access to a Second-grade Spirit Vein.
• Qin Miaoyi offered Li Qingyuan her jade slip for drawing Second-grade Mid-rank Talisman Paper, and Li Qingyuan eagerly accepted the prospect.

Li Qingyuan received the Spirit Gathering Talisman method, a fine brush, and materials from Qin Miaoyi, who pretended to seek his help and affection. After he left believing she wanted him as her husband, Qin Miaoyi and Qin Chuan revealed their plan to control and kill him for Foundation Establishment Nourishment; Qin Miaoyi then agreed to meet Liu Changfeng.

• Qin Miaoyi gave Li Qingyuan the Spirit Gathering Talisman runes, a Second-grade Mid-grade talisman brush, and materials for drawing talismans.
• Qin Miaoyi told Li Qingyuan that Qin Chuan was pressuring her to take a husband and claimed she had nominated him as a candidate.
• Li Qingyuan agreed to pursue Foundation Establishment so he could marry Qin Miaoyi, then left delighted.
• Qin Chuan told Qin Miaoyi that Li Qingyuan had flown away looking elated, and Qin Miaoyi admitted they intended to control and kill him for Foundation Establishment Nourishment.
• Qin Miaoyi said she would meet Liu Changfeng.

Li Qingyuan realized Qin Miaoyi had used him and returned to his cave to prepare for Foundation Establishment, while Qin Miaoyi recruited Liu Changfeng to secure exceptional heirs for the Qin Family. The chapter revealed Qin Miaoyi’s ambition to rise beyond family revival and rule as an immortal clan herself, leaving Li Qingyuan racing to strengthen his talisman skills.

• Li Qingyuan sensed Qin Chuan watching him at the Qin Family headquarters and decided to conceal his strength, draw Wildfire Talismans, and pursue Foundation Establishment before confronting the Qin Family.
• Qin Miaoyi freed Liu Changfeng from prison, made him a Qin Family Guest Elder, and promised him a Foundation Establishment Pill in exchange for producing gifted heirs with her.
• Liu Changfeng accepted Qin Miaoyi’s plan while secretly resolving to infiltrate the Qin Family through his descendants and eventually undermine its bloodline.
• Qin Miaoyi declared that Li Qingyuan and Liu Changfeng were nourishment for her ambitions, and vowed to become a Core Formation and then Nascent Soul immortal clan by herself.
• Li Qingyuan returned to his cave in the Purple Cloud Mountain Range and began preparing to master Second-grade Mid-rank Talisman Paper so he could face Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators.

Li Qingyuan learned to draw the Second-grade Mid-grade Wildfire Talisman and built up a stock of forty, giving him a new weapon against the Qin Family. He then began studying the Spirit Gathering Talisman so he could keep Qin Miaoyi supplying him with materials.

• Li Qingyuan assessed the Qin Family’s diminished reserves but prepared for the possibility that they could still threaten a Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator.
• He studied the Wildfire Talisman’s runes, then spent two hundred sheets of material and ten days practicing before drawing his first one successfully.
• Li Qingyuan studied the Mysterious Feminine Space’s flawless Wildfire Talisman drawing and improved his own success rate to thirty percent, producing forty talismans in total.
• Li Qingyuan decided to draw the Spirit Gathering Talisman to give Qin Miaoyi a little sweetness and secure more materials for future Wildfire Talismans.

Li Qingyuan improved his talisman skills, learned to refine Jade Spirit Pills, and became a First-grade Top-grade Alchemist. After successfully upgrading pills to Masterwork Quality, he tested a second upgrade, discovered it caused the pill to explode, and prepared to advance his body refinement.

• Li Qingyuan used the Mysterious Feminine Space's guidance to improve his Spirit Gathering Talisman success rate and put away his finished talismans.
• Li Qingyuan refined Jade Spirit Pills, progressing from two low-grade pills to a successful furnace containing two low-grade pills and one standard-grade pill.
• Li Qingyuan purified and upgraded standard-grade Jade Spirit Pills to Masterwork Quality, producing three Masterwork Jade Spirit Pills.
• Li Qingyuan attempted to upgrade a Jade Spirit Pill a second time, but the pill furnace exploded during condensation.
• Li Qingyuan concluded that an unknown forbidden force prevented a second upgrade and took out a Blood Jade Ganoderma to advance to the late stage of body refinement.

Li Qingyuan used the Blood Jade Ganoderma to break through to Body Refining Seventh Layer and form the first silver patterns of the Silver Veined Blood Demon Body. He checked on Li Dingzhou and Li Qingqing as the Li Clan continued to grow stronger.

• Li Qingyuan refined the Blood Jade Ganoderma through the Blood Tiger and Demonic Crane stances, breaking through to Body Refining Seventh Layer and condensing silver patterns across his right hand.
• Li Qingyuan concealed his body-refining cultivation and visited Li Dingzhou, who was cultivating the Silver Veined Blood Demon Body and had reached Body Refining Sixth Layer.
• Li Qingyuan observed Li Qingqing reach Qi Condensation Sixth Layer Perfected and begin refining a masterwork Spirit Nurturing Pill to attempt Qi Condensation Level 7.
• Li Qingyuan surveyed the diligent Li Clan cultivators as spring arrived across the Purple Cloud Mountain Range.

Li Qingyuan took on Zhou Gang’s Bloody Hand Butcher identity to gather body-refinement resources while keeping his supposed seclusion secret. After collecting gifts from the Zhou Family and resources across several islands, he encountered Zheng Yuan, who proposed a paid alliance to kill someone.

• Li Qingyuan disguised himself as Zhou Gang and traveled to Feiyan Island, where cultivators fled from Bloody Hand Butcher’s reputation.
• Zhou Li secretly delivered Hundred Year Spirit Milk, Blood Jade Ganoderma, and Blood Dragon Ginseng, and Li Qingyuan duplicated the resources.
• Li Qingyuan collected body-refinement materials across Feiyan Island and then traveled to Ice Fire Island.
• Zheng Yuan approached Li Qingyuan outside Flame City, offered Second-grade Talisman Paper, and proposed joining forces to kill a Qi Condensation Tenth Layer cultivator.
• Li Qingyuan questioned why Zheng Yuan needed his help if the target was so weak, suspecting the Foundation Establishment Venerable had withheld the truth.

Li Qingyuan, disguised as the Bloody Hand Butcher, learned that Zheng Yuan wanted him to help kill Li Qingyuan, not realizing that the target was the man behind the mask. He used Zheng Yuan’s jealousy and fear to bargain for more talisman paper, leaving the agreement unsettled.

• Zheng Yuan confessed that he wanted Li Qingyuan, Lord of the Li Immortal Clan, killed because he believed Li Qingyuan had taken the Qin Family’s talisman-making resources and blocked his advancement.
• Li Qingyuan pretended to share Zheng Yuan’s concerns and warned that Li Qingyuan’s cultivation, talismans, and favor with the Qin Family Patriarch made him dangerous to attack.
• Zheng Yuan asked the Bloody Hand Butcher to watch the Li Family and alert him when Li Qingyuan left, offering twenty sheets of Second-grade Low-rank Talisman Paper for protection.
• Li Qingyuan rejected Zheng Yuan’s offer, claiming that twenty sheets might not be enough to face Li Qingyuan and that the Qin Family Patriarch would investigate his death.
• Zheng Yuan raised his offer to twenty-five sheets, but Li Qingyuan demanded thirty and said that was only his first condition.

Li Qingyuan bargained with Zheng Yuan for supplies by posing as the Bloody Hand Butcher, then returned to the Purple Cloud Mountain Range and spent over half a year advancing his body-refining cultivation. After reaching Body Refining Eighth Layer Perfection, he prepared a trap for Zheng Yuan and began the hunt.

• Li Qingyuan, disguised as the Bloody Hand Butcher, agreed to help Zheng Yuan kill Li Qingyuan in exchange for thirty Second-grade Low-rank Talisman Papers and three Body Refining Great Elixirs.
• Li Qingyuan returned to the Purple Cloud Mountain Range with spirit plants and talismans, gave Li Dingzhou a Blood Jade Ganoderma, and entered seclusion to cultivate the Silver Veined Blood Demon Body.
• After more than half a year, Li Qingyuan reached Body Refining Eighth Layer Perfection and decided to lure Zheng Yuan into a trap.
• Li Qingyuan and Li Dingzhou set up a Second-grade Mid-rank Killing Formation, a Second-grade Low-rank Binding Formation, and a Second-grade Low-rank Illusion Formation in a valley.
• When Zheng Yuan arrived, Li Qingyuan bound Li Dingzhou with an artifact rope and announced that the hunt had begun.

Li Qingyuan lured Zheng Yuan into a killing formation by posing as the Bloody Hand Butcher, then revealed himself and attacked to avenge his clan. His Heavy Sword Technique overwhelmed Zheng Yuan’s sword, and Li Qingyuan brought down a powerful strike as Zheng Yuan struggled to defend himself.

• Li Qingyuan, disguised as the Bloody Hand Butcher, persuaded Zheng Yuan that Li Qingyuan was nearing a breakthrough and used Li Dingzhou as bait to draw him out.
• Zheng Yuan brought three spirit plants as payment, but Li Qingyuan revealed that he intended to kill Zheng Yuan and activated a Second-grade Mid-rank Killing Formation.
• Li Qingyuan revealed his identity, freed Li Dingzhou, and summoned the Ice Fire Sword while asking his father to support him from the sidelines.
• Zheng Yuan recognized the Ice Fire Sword and fought Li Qingyuan with his own Second-grade flying sword, but Li Qingyuan’s Heavy Sword Technique knocked it aside.
• Zheng Yuan cast Iron Mad Hand to block Li Qingyuan’s giant sword, while Li Qingyuan struck down with the force of his perfected Iron Arm Technique and powerful Qi Refining foundation.

Li Qingyuan used the Wind Xun Sky-Supporting Formation and his spells to defeat and kill Zheng Yuan, a Foundation Establishment cultivator. He and Li Dingzhou collected Zheng Yuan’s belongings and left, while the Qin Family learned that Zheng Yuan’s life plaque had shattered and vowed revenge.

• Li Qingyuan overwhelmed Zheng Yuan with sword techniques and talismans, then activated the Wind Xun Sky-Supporting Formation.
• Zheng Yuan exhausted his talismans and tried to destroy his Storage Bag, but a hidden formation attack pierced his chest and killed him.
• Li Qingyuan collected Zheng Yuan’s Storage Bag, magic tool, formation disk, and Formation Flags, and gave Li Dingzhou fifteen Armor-Shedding Gold Talismans.
• Li Qingyuan warned Li Dingzhou to keep the killing secret because the Qin Family might question how he had so many talismans.
• The Qin Family discovered that Zheng Yuan’s life plaque had shattered, and Qin Chuan vowed to kill his murderer.