Recaps

Li Qianqing ascended to the Sweeping Spirit Realm, gathered the materials and allies needed to complete a Space Channel, and secured a route linking both realms. As the connection opened, Li Xunting handed over the Acting Clan Head role and departed to ascend.

• Li Qianqing gathered Sky's End Sand and worked with Li Tongyun and Li Zhongcong to build the Mortal Expanse Realm half of the Space Channel, then left Li Xunting as Acting Clan Head before ascending.
• Li Qianqing reached the Sweeping Spirit Realm, refused to join Cloud Soaring Sect, and passed the Fifth-Order Alchemist assessment in Nanmo City.
• Li Qianqing obtained Heavenly Thunder Wood from the Leng Clan, made Fire Spirit Fly his Artifact Spirit, and survived Pu Yan’en’s ambush with Leng Hanwen.
• Li Qianqing traded for Earth Profound Wind and Ink Profound Azure Ice, then bought an Ancestor Ruins key from Yao Yuntao after learning the ruins might contain Chaos Spirit Mud.
• Li Qianqing entered the Ancestor Ruins, earned enough points to claim Chaos Spiritual Mud, and chose an Enlightenment Stone as his additional reward.
• Li Qianqing recruited Yao Yuntao to locate the channel’s Spirit Realm connection point, establish Changling Mountain, and open the other half of the Space Channel.
• Li Xunting received confirmation that the Space Channel had opened, appointed Li Yiqing as Acting Clan Head, and flew away to ascend as the clan saw her off.

Li Qianqing established the Li Clan’s Space Channel in the spirit world, defeated forces that tried to seize its profits, and welcomed more family members from the Lower Realm. The clan grew stronger as Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan reached Spirit Transformation, and the stretch ended with Flowing Cloud City’s lord seeking Li Qianqing’s help to upgrade the city.

• Li Xunting ascended through the Space Channel, and Li Qianqing welcomed her to Changling Mountain and introduced her to Yao Yuntao.
• Li Xunting won three duels in Snow Moon Sect’s Arena Competition, then befriended Ji Yuelan and brought her to meet Li Qianqing.
• Li Qianqing opened the Space Channel to other cultivators, and the Da Ming Royal Family Ancestor, Li Tongxin, and Li Qiuben ascended to the spirit world.
• When Yellow Dragon Valley’s leaders demanded nearly all the Space Channel profits, Li Qianqing killed them and ordered Li Tongxin to take the valley’s spirit veins.
• Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan entered seclusion together and reached Spirit Transformation on the same day, then sparred against Li Qianqing’s Fire Spirit Fly.
• Li Qianqing broke through to Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation, welcomed Li Tianyi through the Space Channel, and learned that Li Huairou possessed the Three Yin Water Body.
• Over the following thousand years, the Li Family grew to nine Spirit Transformation cultivators, Pao Pao advanced to the fifth order, and Wu Yiyang visited to discuss upgrading Flowing Cloud City.

The Li Family strengthened its standing as Li Qianqing won the Alchemy Competition, Li Yongfeng defended Flowing Cloud City, and Li Hongbin ascended to Spirit Transformation. Li Qianqing and his allies explored the Earth Spirit Secret Realm, while You Tianchen’s rise to Void Refinement and friendship with the Li Family drew attention from other powers.

• Wu Yiyang appointed Li Yongfeng Deputy City Lord after the Li Clan passed the Divine Prefecture’s assessment, and Flowing Cloud City was upgraded to a medium-sized city.
• Li Qianqing won the Alchemy Competition, chose the Earth Attribute Five Elements Pill Root, refused an offer to join the Pill Hall, and later broke through to Late-Stage Spirit Transformation.
• Li Yongfeng defeated and captured two Blood Clan evil cultivators who attacked Flowing Cloud City.
• Li Qianqing obtained the Xuan Quan Metal from Fang Xinghan, and Li Hongbin later broke through to Spirit Transformation in record time.
• Li Qianqing, Li Tongxin, and Wen Wanxi entered the Earth Spirit Secret Realm, where Li Tongxin killed a Black-Clad Spirit Transformation and Li Qianqing found the Heart of Earth.
• After You Tianchen acquired the secret realm core and was forced out with the others, he survived an attack by four cultivators and later reached Void Refinement.
• You Tianchen visited Li Qianqing, thanked him for not attacking during the secret-realm trip, and proposed creating a Rogue Cultivator Alliance, while the Li Family offered its help.
• As other forces grew wary of You Tianchen’s friendship with the Li Family, Ji Yuelan visited Changling Mountain to ask about him and challenged Li Xunting’s ruling that their timed contest had ended in a draw.

Li Qianqing advanced to Void Refinement and strengthened the Li Clan’s standing through alliances, cultivation, and alchemy. As he reached Mid-Stage Void Refinement and refined Seventh-Order pills, conflict within Cloud Soaring Sect threatened to draw the region’s powers into a new struggle.

• Li Qianqing completed his Five Spiritual Roots and broke through to Void Refinement after thirty-three years in seclusion, then held a banquet that brought cultivators and allies to the Li Clan.
• Li Qianqing agreed to modest cooperation with Snow Moon Sect, declined Glazed Gate’s proposal to help expand the Li Clan, and later cultivated the first layer of Divine Soul Seal.
• At the Wind Cloud Assembly auction, Li Qianqing won a shard of the Cao Huan Plate and later fused it with a second fragment found by Zhou Fenghua.
• Yao Yuntao broke through to Void Refinement, and Li Qianqing advised the Glazed Gate Sect Leader that the Li Clan might help if foreign races threatened them.
• Long Ling killed Nan Dongchen, a Mid-Stage Void Refinement traitor, while Li Xunting broke through to Late-Stage Spirit Transformation.
• Li Qianqing broke through to Mid-Stage Void Refinement, and Li Xunming and Ling Shujing later reached Late-Stage Spirit Transformation before leaving to travel beyond the Thousand Wind Region.
• Li Qianqing refined Tongxu Pills and established the Li Clan’s reputation as capable of producing Seventh-Order Low-Grade pills, while refusing to join the Pill Hall.
• When Cloud Soaring Sect’s two Body Integration cultivators fell into conflict, Li Qianqing advised Ji Yuelan’s Snow Moon Sect to stay out, and Shi Yucheng arrived to discuss the turmoil.