Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan disguised himself as Zhou Gang and encouraged Zhou Kui to secretly build strength against Qin Miaoyi, then returned to the Qin Family with 117 Spirit Gathering Talismans. After confessing his love and kissing Qin Miaoyi, he left to prepare for Foundation Establishment, while she resolved to kill him despite her momentary feelings.

• Li Qingyuan disguised himself as Zhou Gang and told Zhou Kui that the nameless cultivator could keep Qin Chuan occupied for six months, urging Zhou Kui to wait for Qin Miaoyi to reveal her plans before acting.
• Li Qingyuan returned to Willow Crane Island, then went to the Qin Family and presented Qin Miaoyi with 117 Spirit Gathering Talismans.
• Li Qingyuan asked to cultivate at the Qin Family's Second-grade Spirit Vein and attempt Foundation Establishment, then professed his love and kissed Qin Miaoyi.
• Qin Miaoyi arranged for Li Qingyuan to enter seclusion and obtain more talisman materials, while agreeing to become Dao companions with him after Foundation Establishment.
• After Li Qingyuan left, Qin Miaoyi admitted that she had briefly wanted to abandon the Qin Family's ambitions for him, but declared that he could not be allowed to live.

Li Qingyuan supplied Qin Miaoyi with Spirit Gathering Talismans while secretly strengthening his own cultivation, as the Qin Family began extracting four Second-grade Spirit Veins to build a Third-grade Spirit Vein. Three months later, two cultivators began Foundation Establishment, and Qin Miaoyi asked Li Qingyuan to make his attempt, leaving him curious about what a spiritual cloud revealed about a cultivator.

• Li Qingyuan copied Qin Lan’s one hundred sets of talisman materials, drew Spirit Gathering Talismans, and secretly cultivated within the Qin Family’s spirit vein.
• Qin Miaoyi gave Qin Mo two hundred Spirit Gathering Talismans, and the Qin Family began extracting the spirit energy from four Second-grade Spirit Veins.
• Qin Mo arranged guards and formations on the four islands while Zhou Kui and Su Hong answered Qin Miaoyi’s summons.
• Three months later, Li Qingyuan saw Liu Changfeng and Yan Yao begin Foundation Establishment, producing spiritual clouds of different sizes.
• Qin Miaoyi asked Li Qingyuan if he was ready to attempt Foundation Establishment, and Li Qingyuan asked whether a spiritual cloud’s size reflected a cultivator’s potential and foundation.

Li Qingyuan achieved Foundation Establishment with a seven-zhang Spiritual Energy Tide, while Qin Miaoyi prepared to use him as the final Foundation Establishment Nourishment for the Qin Family’s spirit vein advancement. She summoned the family’s Foundation Establishment Cultivators as Li Qingyuan recognized that her final plan had begun.

• Qin Miaoyi explained Foundation Establishment Spiritual Energy Tides to Li Qingyuan, who concealed his true eighteen-zhang potential and wondered about Ji Kun’s origins.
• Li Qingyuan entered seclusion to attempt Foundation Establishment after witnessing two cultivators break through.
• Qin Mo reported that the Qin Family’s Third-grade Spirit Merging Grand Formation would be completed within a month, while Qin Miaoyi dismissed concerns about the missing Qin Chuan.
• The formation was completed, and Qin Miaoyi finished arranging the methods for advancing the spirit vein while awaiting the final Foundation Establishment Nourishment.
• Three months after Li Qingyuan entered seclusion, he achieved Foundation Establishment with a seven-zhang Spiritual Energy Tide, and Qin Lan praised his potential.
• Qin Miaoyi flew out with two Second-tier Great Demons and ordered all Foundation Establishment Cultivators to gather at the spirit vein’s core region as Li Qingyuan realized her final performance had begun.

Qin Miaoyi revealed that she had gathered nine Foundation Establishment cultivators as sacrifices to merge seven spirit veins and advance the Qin Family’s vein toward Third-grade. After she used the Three Corpses Control Divine Curse to turn four opponents into living corpses, Li Qingyuan appeared to succumb as well, but he launched a sudden attack on her.

• Li Qingyuan arrived at Purple Sun Peak, where Qin Miaoyi gathered the Foundation Establishment cultivators and revealed her plan to unite seven spirit veins.
• Qin Mo and Qin Miaoyi activated the Spirit Merging Grand Formation, raising the Qin Family’s spirit vein to the peak of Second-grade High-rank.
• Qin Miaoyi announced that the nine Foundation Establishment Nourishments would help the spirit vein advance to Third-grade, prompting Zhou Kui, Su Hong, Liu Changfeng, and Yan Yao to attack her.
• Qin Miaoyi used the Three Corpses Control Divine Curse to make the four Foundation Establishment cultivators lose their minds and become living corpses.
• Qin Miaoyi confessed that she had developed feelings for Li Qingyuan but intended to kill him, then ordered Qin Mo to drain the captives’ magic power and blood essence.
• Li Qingyuan abruptly hurled the Primordial Cone at Qin Miaoyi from behind, and she cried out in terror.

Li Qingyuan ambushed Qin Miaoyi with the Primordial Cone and successive talisman attacks, but she survived by using a Core Formation Talisman Treasure and the Heavenly One Heavy Water Bead. After healing herself, Qin Miaoyi ordered her demonic beasts to help her kill him.

• Li Qingyuan struck Qin Miaoyi with the Primordial Cone, piercing her waist and ribs despite her barrier and soft armor.
• Qin Miaoyi used a Core Formation Talisman Treasure to destroy three of Li Qingyuan's Five Elements Talisman Arrays, but he deployed more arrays and Wildfire Talismans.
• Qin Miaoyi's Twin-headed Green Bird and Three-Colored Flying Centipede rushed into the flames, while she used the Heavenly One Heavy Water Bead to protect them and herself.
• Li Qingyuan's divine sense attack routed the Qin cultivators who charged him, but Qin Miaoyi healed with Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and prepared to fight back with her magic tools and beasts.

Li Qingyuan fought Qin Miaoyi and her allies, overwhelming them with powerful talisman arrays and Wildfire Talismans. Qin Miaoyi burned her Purple Fire Spirit Vein to reach Foundation Establishment Late Stage, but Li Qingyuan revealed that her fleeing Three-Colored Flying Centipede had already been killed.

• Qin Miaoyi attacked Li Qingyuan, who countered her and the Twin-headed Green Bird and Three-Colored Flying Centipede with his sword and Five Elements Talisman Arrays.
• Qin Miaoyi summoned Qin Mo to help, and he merged two killing formations while Qin Miaoyi burned her Purple Fire Spirit Vein to raise her cultivation to Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Li Qingyuan used more talisman arrays and fifty Wildfire Talismans to break Qin Mo's formations, injure Qin Miaoyi, and send the Twin-headed Green Bird crashing down the mountainside.
• Qin Miaoyi threatened Li Qingyuan's family and revealed that the Three-Colored Flying Centipede had fled toward the Purple Cloud Mountain Range.
• Li Qingyuan showed Qin Miaoyi that the Seven-Colored Great Rooster had returned with the dead centipede, whose Demonic Beast Core was missing.

Ji Kun killed Qin Miaoyi’s two Second-tier Great Demons, and Li Qingyuan pursued her with talismans until she unleashed the Meridian Burning Evil Technique. The chapter ended as Qin Miaoyi’s purple flames and Li Qingyuan’s Primordial Cone collided in a decisive attack.

• Ji Kun killed the Three-Colored Flying Centipede, then swiftly killed the Twin-headed Green Bird and devoured its Demonic Beast Core.
• Li Qingyuan sent fifty Wildfire Talismans after Qin Miaoyi and pursued her with the Wind Soaring Technique, while Ji Kun stayed behind to deal with Qin Mo.
• Li Qingyuan struck Qin Miaoyi with repeated Five Elements Talisman Arrays, injuring her and blasting her into the forest.
• Qin Miaoyi accused Li Qingyuan of deceiving her and using the treasures she had given him to kill her.
• Qin Miaoyi unleashed the Meridian Burning Evil Technique, and Li Qingyuan revealed another Primordial Cone and threw it at her purple flames.

Li Qingyuan killed Qin Miaoyi and destroyed the Qin Family after learning how its ancestor Qin Ziyang had wronged True Person San Quan. With the Qin Family wiped out, Li Qingyuan claimed its spirit vein for the Li Family.

• Qin Miaoyi's purple fire failed to kill Li Qingyuan, and his redirected Primordial Cone pierced her heart while her final act destroyed the Qin Family's Spirit Merging Grand Formation core.
• Li Qingyuan used more than a hundred Golden Armor Talismans to survive the weakening purple fire, then confirmed Qin Miaoyi's death, took her possessions, and burned her corpse.
• At the Qin Family residence, Li Qingyuan learned from Qin Mo that Qin Ziyang had founded the clan's Core Formation legacy and left instructions for the family to flee to the Sea Domain Archipelago.
• Li Qingyuan connected Qin Ziyang's past killing and theft from True Person San Quan to the Qin Family's downfall, then killed Qin Mo when he refused to surrender.
• Li Qingyuan killed the remaining Qin Family cultivators and clan members and claimed the Second-grade High-grade Spirit Vein for the Li Family.

After destroying the Qin Family, Li Qingyuan claimed authority over the Sea Domain Archipelago and secured the remaining Foundation Establishment corpses. He returned to the Purple Cloud Mountain Range and announced that the Li Clan had become a Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan.

• Li Qingyuan presented himself as the Sea Domain Archipelago's sole Foundation Establishment Venerable, and the assembled cultivators praised him for defeating the Qin Family.
• Li Qingyuan declared that he would keep the eight poisoned Foundation Establishment corpses to prevent conflict, and the cultivators agreed before leaving.
• Li Qingyuan ordered Ji Kun to guard the spirit vein while he flew back to the Li Clan using Qin Miaoyi's Wind Spirit Boat.
• Li Qingyuan revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation to the astonished Li Clan and announced that it was now a Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan.

After Li Qingyuan established the Li Clan as a Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan and ordered it to occupy the Willow Crane Mountain Range, he doubled the Qin Family’s captured resources and discovered rare Core Formation treasures and inheritances. He finished taking stock and went out to deal with Qin Chuan’s life.

• Li Qingyuan announced that the Li Clan would relocate to the Willow Crane Mountain Range after he had slain Qin Miaoyi and destroyed the Qin Family, and the clan celebrated.
• Li Qingyuan left the relocation to the Elder Council and examined the Qin Family’s Storage Bags, duplicating their resources in the Mysterious Feminine Space.
• Li Qingyuan found Blood Dragon Ginseng, valuable cultivation and craft inheritances, and a hundred thousand spirit stones in the Qin Family’s possessions.
• Li Qingyuan discovered the Purple Flame Core Condensing Fruit and the Qin Family’s Purple Fire Burning Heaven Art and Purple Profound Sword Art, then duplicated the resources.
• Li Qingyuan finished sorting the gains, counted more than two hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones and many clan inheritances, and left his cave abode to deal with Qin Chuan’s life.

Li Qingyuan ended the Qin Family’s karma, and the Li Clan took control of the Willow Crane Mountain Range and celebrated its dominance of the Sea Domain Archipelago. He then refined four Blood Dragon Ginseng plants and reached the Body Refining Second Stage, leaving his family proud but worried that he would eventually leave the archipelago.

• Li Qingyuan burned Qin Chuan’s body and buried the formation site beneath the quicksand, declaring his karma with the Qin Family severed.
• Three months later, the Li Clan controlled the Willow Crane Mountain Range and held a grand banquet honoring Li Qingyuan’s Foundation Establishment and the clan’s rise.
• After the banquet, Li Qingyuan entered his cave abode on Cloud Mist Peak and began refining four Blood Dragon Ginseng plants to advance his body refinement.
• Over several months, Li Qingyuan formed silver patterns across his body as he consumed the Blood Dragon Ginseng and trained with the Blood Tiger Demonic Crane Stance.
• Li Qingyuan completed the final pattern, broke through to the Body Refining Second Stage, and released Blood Fiendish Energy that shattered his defensive formation.
• Li Dingzhou and the Li Clan recognized Li Qingyuan’s breakthrough, while Chen Xiuyun and Li Dingzhou worried that his talent would take him away from the Sea Domain Archipelago.

After completing the Silver Veined Blood Demon Body, Li Qingyuan sparred with Ji Kun and witnessed the chicken’s strange seven-colored Demonic Power. He then convened the Li Clan’s most powerful members and revealed a trove of inheritances, techniques, and spirit stones, leaving them to wonder whether he planned to leave.

• Li Qingyuan completed Body Foundation Establishment and challenged Ji Kun to a spar in exchange for the last Blood Dragon Ginseng.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun fought with their weapons and physical strength, and Ji Kun’s seven-colored Demonic Power broke through Li Qingyuan’s Heavy Sword Technique.
• Li Qingyuan combined five talismans into the Five Elements Talisman Array, and the resulting clash left both combatants impressed by the other’s strength.
• Li Qingyuan gave Ji Kun the Blood Dragon Ginseng, and Ji Kun swallowed it before returning to his coop to digest it.
• Li Qingyuan ordered a core family meeting for members at Qi Condensation Level 7 or above and presented cultivation inheritances, spells, special techniques, and a hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Li Dingzhou asked Li Qingyuan whether he was leaving the family.

After ten years of seclusion, Li Qingyuan advanced to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage while Ji Kun reached the second-tier mid stage, and the Li Clan grew into a powerful Qi Condensation family. Li Qingqing reached Qi Condensation Tenth Layer Perfection, and Li Qingyuan emerged from seclusion to spend time with his aging mother and pursue second-grade alchemy.

• Li Qingyuan gave Li Qingqing spirit stones, masterwork-quality elixirs, a Foundation Establishment cultivation method, and promised her a Foundation Establishment Pill if she reached Qi Condensation Tenth Layer Perfection.
• Li Qingyuan handed the family elders inheritances and secret arts, then entered seclusion in the family head's cultivation cave.
• After ten years of feeding on spirit plants, elixirs, and demonic beast essence souls, Ji Kun broke through to the second-tier mid stage.
• Li Qingyuan used the second-grade high-grade spirit vein and twenty thousand spirit stones to break through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage at age forty-four.
• Li Qingqing reached Qi Condensation Tenth Layer Perfection, while Li Dingzhou, Li Ding'an, Li Qinglei, and other Li Clan cultivators advanced, bringing the family to more than four hundred cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan emerged from seclusion, returned to accompany his aging mother, and refined nourishing and beauty elixirs as he prepared to advance his alchemy to the second grade.

Li Qingyuan advanced his alchemy, formation, and artifact-refining skills to the second-grade while supporting his family and hunting rare resources with Ji Kun. With materials gathered for only two batches of Foundation Establishment Pills and Spirit Condensing Pills, he began refining Foundation Establishment Pills in hopes of becoming a second-grade mid-tier alchemist.

• Li Qingqing accepted a Standard-grade Foundation Establishment Pill from Li Qingyuan and continued tempering her cultivation in seclusion.
• Li Qingyuan refined a Masterwork Quality Longevity Pill and gave it to his mother, Chen Xiuyun, restoring her youthful appearance and bodily functions.
• Li Qingyuan became a second-grade low-rank alchemist, formation master, and artifact refiner after years of study and practice.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun hunted powerful demons in the Sky Yin Mountain Range, obtaining three Foundation Establishment Spirit Items and narrowly escaping a quasi-Tier 3 Great Demon.
• Li Qingyuan gathered materials for two batches each of Foundation Establishment Pills and Spirit Condensing Pills, then began refining Foundation Establishment Pills to pursue second-grade mid-tier alchemist status.

Li Qingyuan refined Foundation Establishment Pills and Spirit Condensing Pills, advancing to a Second-grade Mid-tier Alchemist and producing a Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill. As he prepared to use it to improve his Divine Sense, a surge of spiritual energy revealed that someone in the Li Clan was undergoing Foundation Establishment.

• Li Qingyuan refined one low-grade Foundation Establishment Pill after losing two pills to mistakes during condensation.
• After studying the alchemy process in the Mysterious Feminine Space for half a month, Li Qingyuan refined two more Foundation Establishment Pills, one genuine and one low-grade, and advanced to Second-grade Mid-tier Alchemist.
• Li Qingyuan refined five Spirit Condensing Pills across two batches, then used Second-grade Purifying Elixir Liquid to upgrade one into a Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill.
• Li Qingyuan sensed his Foundation Establishment Divine Sense responding to the Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill and celebrated the prospect of improving it.
• A wave of Foundation Establishment Magic Power and a Spiritual Energy Tide appeared in the Li Clan as someone underwent Foundation Establishment.

Li Qingqing successfully established her foundation, while Li Qingyuan raised his divine sense to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage. His parents then urged him to choose a wife and leave descendants before pursuing immortality, and he faced their plea with a decision still to be given.

• Li Qingqing absorbed a four-zhang Spiritual Energy Tide and established her foundation, bringing the Li Clan great joy.
• Li Qingyuan consumed a Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill and, after five days of cultivation, raised his divine sense to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Li Qingyuan went to meet Chen Xiuyun and found over a hundred female cultivators gathered for him to choose as a wife.
• Chen Xiuyun pleaded with Li Qingyuan to marry and leave descendants so his parents would have family to rely on and the branch's bloodline would continue.
• Li Dingzhou joined Chen Xiuyun in asking Li Qingyuan to marry, and Li Qingyuan looked at his parents before slowly giving his answer.

Li Qingyuan agreed to choose a Dao Companion from the women his parents had selected, then put them through trials of luck, courage, wisdom, and honesty. He chose Luo Ling, whose family had suffered under the Qin Family, as his Dao Companion.

• Li Qingyuan agreed to choose one woman from the candidates but insisted that his parents leave him to make the selection.
• Li Qingyuan eliminated half the candidates by having them draw Spirit Stones and dismissing those who did not draw one marked “stay.”
• Li Qingyuan tested the remaining women’s courage by making them meet his gaze, leaving nine candidates.
• Li Qingyuan gave the nine women a hundred-question test and dismissed six based on their answers.
• Li Qingyuan used the Phantom God Eye Technique to reveal the final three women’s motives and their attitudes toward his parents.
• Li Qingyuan chose Luo Ling as his Dao Companion after learning that she hoped to use his help to save her family.

Li Qingyuan chose Luo Ling as his Dao companion, arranged their marriage, and gave her generous betrothal gifts that changed her family’s fortunes. They married on the twenty-seventh day of the eleventh month, and the chapter ended with them alone together on their wedding night.

• Li Qingyuan brought Luo Ling to meet his parents, who approved of her, and Chen Xiuyun set their wedding for the twenty-seventh of the next month.
• Li Qingyuan told Luo Ling he would resign as Clan Leader and leave the Sea Domain Archipelago after she became pregnant, and she agreed to marry him.
• Li Qingyuan gave Luo Ling betrothal gifts worth more than thirty thousand Spirit Stones and arranged for the Li Clan to announce their marriage across the sea region.
• The Li Clan’s invitations spread the news, and Luo Ling’s family gained status and protection through her marriage.
• Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling married, then flew together to his decorated cave residence on Cloud Mist Peak.
• Li Qingyuan closed the formation and spent their wedding night with Luo Ling.

After marrying, Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling settled into a peaceful family life, then traveled across the Sea Domain Archipelago and revisited Li Qingyuan’s ancestral home. There, he discovered that Luo Ling was pregnant, and her question about whether he was leaving left their future uncertain.

• Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling returned home after their wedding night and shared a warm meal with Chen Xiuyun and Li Dingzhou.
• Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling spent half a year living with his parents, then set out aboard the Wind Spirit Boat to tour the Sea Domain Archipelago.
• After visiting the islands and their sights, Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling returned to Willow Crane Island and stopped at his former cave estate on Purple Cloud Peak.
• Li Qingyuan took Luo Ling to Cloud Mist Mountain and reminisced about beginning his cultivation there.
• Luo Ling suddenly retched, and Li Qingyuan used his spiritual power to discover that she was pregnant; Luo Ling asked whether he was leaving.

Li Qingyuan decided to leave his peaceful life with Luo Ling to pursue longevity, while preparing inheritances for their future children. As Luo Ling’s pregnancy progressed, they learned they were expecting twins and Li Qingyuan named them Li Xianfeng and Li Xianhuang.

• Li Qingyuan told Luo Ling that their peaceful months together had ended and that he was setting out to pursue the Immortal Path of Longevity.
• Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling returned home from their three-month trip, and his parents rejoiced when they learned Luo Ling was pregnant.
• Li Qingyuan made jade slips containing his cultivation inheritances and techniques as gifts for their children, and Luo Ling wept over his devotion and impending absence.
• Three months later, Li Qingyuan discovered that Luo Ling was carrying a boy and a girl, Dragon-Phoenix Twins.
• Li Qingyuan named the twins Li Xianfeng and Li Xianhuang, and he and Luo Ling shared a tender moment as the children kicked in her womb.