Chapter Summaries

Li Qianqing advanced his cultivation of Extinguishing Spirit Three Absolutes and received word that more of Purple Mountain City's subordinate forces were joining Five Peaks Palace. As the war moved toward Hundred Wells County, the Lei Family attacked Weiling Mountain, and Purple Mountain City's Ten Commander sent a warning to the Old City Lord.

• Li Qianqing learned that his powerful divine sense met the hidden condition for cultivating the third absolute, though he found it far harder than the second.
• Li Xunming and the Shen Family Ancestor received a joint mission near Hundred Wells County, while Five Peaks Palace's forces prepared to seize territory from Purple Mountain City.
• The Lei Family agreed to attack Weiling Mountain with two Core Formation cultivators, expecting only Purple Mountain City's Ten Commander and a few Foundation Establishment cultivators to defend it.
• The Lei Family's two Core Formation cultivators assaulted Weiling Mountain's protective array, and the Ten Commander condemned them as traitors.
• The Ten Commander reinforced the array and used a brief opening to send a Sound Transmission Talisman to the Old City Lord.

The Old City Lord ordered Yao Sunyi to attack the Hundred Wells Lei Family after it joined Five Peaks Palace, despite the Grand Commander's warnings that the move could be a trap. Yao Sunyi instead went to aid another battle in Hundred Wells County, where Li Xunming and the Shen Family Ancestor broke a Purple Mountain City array and drove its commander to flee.

• The Grand Commander warned the Old City Lord that Five Peaks Palace might have prepared an ambush, but the Old City Lord summoned Yao Sunyi to attack the Hundred Wells Lei Family.
• Yao Sunyi heard the Grand Commander's concerns but traveled to Hundred Wells County and chose to aid other forces before attacking the Lei Family.
• Yao Sunyi's arrival was reported to the Seventh Commander as Li Xunming and the Shen Family Ancestor's forces broke the array protecting a valley.
• Li Xunming and the Shen Family Ancestor attacked the Seventh Commander together, overpowering his defenses.
• The Seventh Commander fled, and the Shen Family Ancestor asked Li Xunming whether they should pursue.

Li Xunming and the Shen Family Ancestor stopped pursuing the fleeing Seventh Commander and turned to the Foundation Establishment battle, but Purple Mountain City Deputy City Lord Yao Sunyi arrived and forced them to flee. Yao Sunyi pursued Li Xunming, who escaped his attacks with his movement technique, magic treasure, and Divine Sense Secret Technique.

• Li Xunming declined to pursue the Seventh Commander, and the Shen Family Ancestor attacked Purple Mountain City's Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The Seventh Commander met Yao Sunyi, blamed his retreat on Li Xunming's strength, and identified Li Xunming as a Late Stage Core Formation cultivator from the Qing Country Li Clan.
• Li Xunming sensed Yao Sunyi approaching, warned the others, sent a Sound Transmission Talisman for help, and fled as the Shen Family Ancestor and Five Peaks Palace cultivators withdrew.
• Yao Sunyi pursued Li Xunming while the Seventh Commander chased the Shen Family Ancestor, leaving the Foundation Establishment fighters to continue battling.
• Li Xunming evaded Yao Sunyi's Purple Flying Sword and resumed fleeing, then used a Divine Sense Secret Technique that stunned Yao Sunyi and revealed the technique's exceptional power.

Li Xunming escaped Yao Sunyi’s pursuit until Li Qianqing arrived and killed the Purple Mountain City Deputy City Lord. Their victory prompted Li Qianqing to summon Five Peaks Palace’s Nascent Souls for a final assault, while Purple Mountain City’s commanders began to suspect Yao Sunyi had fallen.

• Li Xunming used Bewitching Heart and escape techniques to evade Yao Sunyi while waiting for Li Qianqing to arrive.
• Li Qianqing struck Yao Sunyi with Extinguishing Spirit Three Absolutes and killed him, then advised Li Xunming to focus on mastering Bewitching Heart.
• Li Qianqing collected Yao Sunyi’s belongings and informed Liu Mingjuan and Zuo Changying that they should gather to take down Purple Mountain City.
• Seventh Commander waited for Yao Sunyi to return, failed to contact him, and concluded that the Deputy City Lord might have died.
• Grand Commander received Seventh Commander’s report and rejected the possibility that Yao Sunyi had been killed without sending a message to the Old City Lord.

Li Qianqing revealed that he had killed Purple Mountain City's Deputy City Lord before the cultivator could send a message, convincing Five Peaks Palace that Li Qianqing was far stronger than they had believed. The leaders agreed to begin the final offensive against Purple Mountain City, with Li Qianqing joining Zuo Changying and Liu Mingjuan while the Core Formation cultivators took the surrounding spirit-vein lands.

• The Grand Commander told the Old City Lord that Purple Mountain City's Deputy City Lord could no longer be contacted, and the Old City Lord ordered Purple Mountain City to strengthen its vigilance.
• The Shen Family Ancestor reunited with Li Xunming and learned that Li Qianqing had arrived in time to support him against the Deputy City Lord.
• Li Xunming told the Shen Family Ancestor that the Deputy City Lord had fallen without discovering Li Qianqing or transmitting a message.
• Li Qianqing showed Zuo Changying and Liu Mingjuan the Deputy City Lord's dimmed Natal Magic Treasure, confirming his death and shocking them with the extent of Li Qianqing's strength.
• Zuo Changying and Liu Mingjuan agreed with Li Qianqing to launch the final offensive, and Li Qianqing approved a force of three Nascent Soul cultivators going to Purple Mountain City without waiting for Yu Qingyun.
• Zuo Changying began revising the Core Formation cultivators' assignments, prioritizing the pursuit and killing of Purple Mountain City's cultivators.

Yu Qingyun reassessed Five Peaks Palace’s alliance with the Li Family and prepared for the final battle against Purple Mountain City, while forces on the front line moved into position. Li Qianqing, Zuo Changying, and Liu Mingjuan reached Purple Mountain City as its Old City Lord activated the Mountain Protecting Grand Array, alerting the commanders to the coming attack.

• Yu Qingyun received Zuo Changying’s report of Li Qianqing’s strength and decided Five Peaks Palace should increase the Li Family’s share of the benefits to cooperate sincerely.
• The Lei Clan Head halted his family’s assault on Weiling Mountain and ordered them to trap Purple Mountain City’s Ten Commander instead of prioritizing the spirit vein land.
• Ten Commander repaired the Mountain Protecting Grand Array and realized the Lei Family had stopped attacking in order to keep him from escaping.
• Li Qianqing, Zuo Changying, and Liu Mingjuan agreed on their roles in the decisive battle and approached Purple Mountain City after receiving the signal to move.
• Purple Mountain City’s Old City Lord sensed three Nascent Soul cultivators approaching and activated the outermost grand array, prompting Grand Commander and the other commanders to leave their residences.

Li Qianqing, Liu Mingjuan, and Zuo Changying attacked Purple Mountain City's outermost grand array while the Old City Lord and his commanders prepared to defend the city. As the barrier began to fail, Purple Mountain City's commanders considered escape and the Grand Commander took control of the Bewildering Formation and Killing Formation.

• Purple Mountain City activated its Mountain Protecting Grand Array, and cultivators in the inner city fled as three Nascent Soul Cultivators appeared above the city.
• The Old City Lord confronted Li Qianqing and realized that Five Peaks Palace had brought two Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators and one Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.
• The Grand Commander told the other commanders that the Deputy City Lord had likely died, prompting Second Commander and Fifth Commander to agree to flee if the grand array broke.
• Li Qianqing, Liu Mingjuan, and Zuo Changying formed a formation and concentrated their attacks on one section of the barrier to break through.
• The Old City Lord gave the Grand Commander control of Purple Mountain City's Bewildering Formation and Killing Formation, and the Grand Commander assigned the Bewildering Formation's array disk to a Foundation Establishment Peak Formation Master.
• The Old City Lord sensed that the core array disk was becoming unstable and realized the barrier would soon be torn open.

Li Qianqing, Zuo Changying, and Liu Mingjuan breached Purple Mountain City’s outer defense, and Li Qianqing’s divine sense technique left its commanders helpless against the attackers. With the city’s defenders falling and Zuo Changying still battling the Old City Lord, the three prepared to face him together.

• Li Qianqing, Zuo Changying, and Liu Mingjuan tore open the outer array, and Zuo Changying engaged the Old City Lord of Purple Mountain City.
• Li Qianqing used his divine sense technique to immobilize many defenders, then killed the city’s Formation Master and Grand Commander before they could activate their array disks.
• Li Qianqing and Liu Mingjuan slaughtered the Core Formation commanders, including the fleeing Second Commander, while Zuo Changying held off the Old City Lord.
• The three attackers finished killing the cultivators caught by Li Qianqing’s technique and turned their attention to the Old City Lord, who showed no sign of retreating.
• Zuo Changying provoked the Old City Lord as he struggled to stay calm while watching Purple Mountain City’s defenders fall.

Li Qianqing, Liu Mingjuan, and Zuo Changying defeated the Old City Lord of Purple Mountain City, ending Purple Mountain City’s rule as a Nascent Soul force. Five Peaks Palace began distributing the spoils and sending cultivators to finish clearing out its remaining strongholds.

• Li Qianqing and Liu Mingjuan joined Zuo Changying in the battle against the Old City Lord of Purple Mountain City, and the three overwhelmed him.
• When the Old City Lord tried to destroy his Nascent Soul, Li Qianqing’s Flame Dragon Pearl swallowed it, killing him and ending Purple Mountain City as a Nascent Soul force.
• Li Qianqing, Zuo Changying, and Liu Mingjuan divided the Old City Lord’s remnants, while Li Qianqing refused Liu Mingjuan’s offer to hand him most of her gains from the lower-level battles.
• Yu Qingyun received Liu Mingjuan’s message confirming Purple Mountain City’s defeat and ordered Five Peaks Palace to intensify its cleanup of the remaining cultivators.
• A Five Peaks Palace cultivator told the Lei Clan Head that Purple Mountain City had already fallen, startling him as they prepared to attack a remaining Ten Commander.

The Lei Clan Head and Guan led the attack that broke Purple Mountain City’s Ten Commander’s formation, and the Ten Commander died trying to escape. Heavenly Sun Sect and Star Constellation Sect learned of Purple Mountain City’s destruction and discussed how Five Peaks Palace’s victory and the Qing Country Li Clan’s help could shift Fan Yang Country’s balance of power.

• The Lei Clan Head learned that Five Peaks Palace had destroyed Purple Mountain City and hurried with Guan and another Core Formation cultivator to break the Ten Commander’s formation.
• Purple Mountain City’s Ten Commander realized his city had fallen, but the three Core Formation cultivators killed him when the formation broke.
• Sun Yuanhua and Heavenly Sun Sect’s higher-ups concluded that Li Qianqing’s strength and the Qing Country Royal Family’s influence had been underestimated.
• Heavenly Sun Sect’s leaders expected Five Peaks Palace to share Purple Mountain City’s territory with the Qing Country Royal Family and chose to monitor their relations while easing some pressure on Star Constellation Sect.
• Star Constellation Sect received the news of Purple Mountain City’s destruction and held its own meeting to assess the changing situation.

After Purple Mountain City fell, Core Formation families debated whether to affiliate with Five Peaks Palace or the Qing Country Li Clan, while Five Peaks Palace reconsidered how to divide the spoils with the Li Clan. Li Qianqing accepted a revised fifty-fifty split and planned to focus on giving his clan time to grow stronger.

• After Purple Mountain City's destruction, Core Formation forces weighed affiliating with Five Peaks Palace or the Qing Country Li Clan, with some choosing to wait and see how the spoils were divided.
• Yu Qingyun proposed raising the Li Clan's share of Purple Mountain City's benefits to fifty percent, and Zuo Changying agreed after recounting Li Qianqing's decisive role in the final battle.
• Liu Mingjuan said she had not known Li Qianqing's full strength and explained that she had considered forty percent the highest reasonable share for the Li Clan.
• Yu Qingyun told Li Qianqing that Five Peaks Palace had increased the Li Clan's share from thirty-five percent to fifty percent, and Li Qianqing accepted the revised distribution.
• Li Qianqing rejected the idea of further conquests, saying the Li Clan needed time to consolidate its gains and grow stronger without relying on him.

Li Qianqing and Yu Qingyun divided the benefits and future management of Purple Mountain City, which was renamed Li Yue City, while Li Xunming stayed there to represent the Li Clan. After local forces began choosing how to use their battle merits, the Copper Spirit Liang Clan’s head approached Li Xunming to ask that his clan become subordinate to the Li Clan.

• Li Qianqing and Yu Qingyun agreed to split Li Yue City’s annual income evenly, keep Five Peaks Palace in charge of its main management, and rename Purple Mountain City.
• Li Qianqing assigned Li Xunming to garrison Li Yue City and told him to accept any Fan Yang Country Core Formation forces that still wished to become subordinate to the Li Clan.
• The Shen Family Ancestor exchanged his battle merits for a Core Formation Spiritual Object, while the Lu Country Royal Family and Feng Yong Yu Clan pursued spirit vein lands in Fan Yang Country.
• Li Xunming arrived in Li Yue City with Five Peaks Palace’s main force and focused on cultivation while Liu Mingjuan oversaw the city.
• After the Copper Spirit Liang Clan’s head requested an audience, Li Xunming met him and heard that the Liang Clan wanted to become subordinate to the Li Clan.

Li Xunming accepted five Core Formation forces in Fan Yang Country as subordinate forces of the Li Clan while the region’s major sects maintained a tense peace. Back at Changqing Mountain, Li Qianqing reviewed the clan’s growth and began planning for a major opportunity in the Heavenly Pool Domain over a century away.

• Li Xunming candidly explained the limits of the Li Clan’s support to the Liang clan head, who chose to make the Liang Clan subordinate to the Li Clan.
• Over the next half month, Li Xunming received four more Core Formation cultivators seeking subordination, bringing the number of new subordinate forces to five as Fan Yang Country’s cultivation world remained stable.
• Li Qianqing and Li Xunting returned to Changqing Mountain, where Li Qingping reported on the clan’s expanded spirit veins, recent developments, and stable relations in the Three Small Kingdoms.
• Li Qianqing scheduled a clan Core High-Level Meeting for half a month later, and Li Xunting chose a cave dwelling before traveling to Changting Mountain.
• Li Qianqing began planning for the fourth major opportunity from his previous life, which he expected to pursue in the Heavenly Pool Domain in over one hundred and twenty years.

Li Qianqing planned his future cultivation and led a clan meeting that expanded the Li Clan’s settlement and changed its rules for Core Formation Spiritual Objects. He also oversaw Li Yiqing’s first successful Rank 2 pill, then welcomed Demon Devouring Child to Changqing Mountain as Qing Country approached its hundredth year.

• Li Qianqing asked Li Qiuben about the Golden Essence Crow Grass, learned it would mature in about twelve years, and told him to keep tending it at the current pace.
• At the clan core meeting, Li Qianqing chose Li Zhonghe to lead a group of cultivators to Li Yue City in Fan Yang Country and instructed him to bring cultivators who could help grow the clan’s population.
• Li Qianqing changed the clan’s rules so qualified Foundation Establishment Peak cultivators who were not Core Formation Seeds could exchange Contribution Points for one Core Formation Spiritual Object.
• Li Yiqing asked to refine Rank 2 Pills, and with Li Qianqing’s guidance she successfully made one pill on her first attempt.
• As Qing Country neared its hundredth year, Demon Devouring Child arrived at the Li Clan with a Peak Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator and told Li Qianqing he had heard of his deeds in Fan Yang Country.

Li Qianqing oversaw the Li Clan’s growth after Purple Mountain City’s destruction, while the clan established itself in Fan Yang Country. The chapter left the Li Clan expanding its local population through marriages and welcoming a Three Spiritual Roots cultivator who chose to join the clan.

• Li Qianqing told Demon Devouring Child how he killed Purple Mountain City’s Deputy City Lord, and he dismissed concerns about the Da Ming Royal Family learning of his strength.
• Li Yongfeng advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage after the Qing Country anniversary celebration.
• Li Zhongxun successfully formed his core, and Li Qianqing rewarded him with a first order low-grade magic treasure.
• The Da Ming Royal Family decided to watch the Li Clan but avoid provoking it unless it threatened Da Ming Country.
• Li Xunming organized marriages between Li Clan disciples and local women in Li Yue City to help the clan establish itself in Fan Yang Country.
• Li Xunming investigated a Three Spiritual Roots female cultivator who wanted to marry into the Li Clan and agreed to her request for a True Spiritual Root husband.

Li Xunming oversaw Fan Yang Country’s first spiritual root test, which found three gifted children, including Li Renjie with Wind Spiritual Roots. Years later, Li Qianqing refined Golden Essence Pills and the Li Clan continued to grow; the chapter ended with Li Yongfeng returning after forming a core in qi refinement while his body refinement remained at Foundation Establishment Peak.

• Li Xunming tested 132 children in Fan Yang Country and found a Three Spiritual Roots cultivator, a Five Spiritual Roots cultivator, and Li Renjie, who possessed Wind Spiritual Roots.
• Li Xunming took responsibility for Li Renjie’s three years of directed training, while Li Qianqing received news of the test.
• The Li Clan tested its children in Qing Country and found five Dual Spiritual Roots cultivators, breaking its previous record.
• Li Qiuben delivered thirty matured Golden Essence Crow Grass stalks, and Li Qianqing spent about half a year refining them into 147 Golden Essence Pills.
• By Qingli Year 125, Li Qianqing had absorbed twelve Golden Essence Pills as the Li Clan expanded, and Li Yongfeng returned after breaking through to Core Formation.
• Li Qianqing learned that Li Yongfeng had formed a core through qi refinement, while his body refinement remained at Foundation Establishment Peak.

Li Yongfeng stayed at Changqing Mountain to prepare to form a core through Body Cultivation, while Li Qianqing and Demon Devouring Child expanded the Li Clan’s ancestral land and planned Changqing City. The chapter ended with Li Qianqing explaining that the city’s outer Spiritual Fields would mainly be leased out.

• Li Qianqing advised Li Yongfeng on using his Qi Refining core to help his Body Refinement form a core, and Li Yongfeng agreed to stay at Changqing Mountain for guidance.
• Li Yongfeng visited Li Xunting and Li Yiqing, and Li Xunting arranged to spar with him after his Body Refinement breakthrough.
• Demon Devouring Child told Li Qianqing that Blood Shadow Sect and Corpse Yin Sect had begun a great war in Mist Rain Forest, then decided to stay at Changqing Mountain.
• Five years later, Li Yongfeng entered seclusion to form a core through Body Refinement, while Li Qianqing and Demon Devouring Child moved mountains to expand Changqing Mountain.
• Li Qianqing showed Demon Devouring Child his plan for Changqing City, including inner and outer districts and extensive Spiritual Fields, and said the fields between the districts would mainly be leased out.

Li Qianqing completed the relocation of the final Micro Spirit Vein, allowing Changqing Mountain to form a Medium Spirit Vein and Changqing City to grow into a major gathering place for cultivators and mortals. As the Li Clan prospered, Li Qianqing learned that Star Constellation Sect had gained a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator and considered what the development meant for the balance of power in Fan Yang Country.

• Li Qianqing explained plans to lease the Li Clan's Rank 1 Low-Grade Spiritual Fields and draw scattered cultivators to Changqing City.
• In the 135th year of Qingli, Li Qianqing moved the final Micro Spirit Vein from Caolong County to Changqing City's outer city, completing the set needed to form a Medium Spirit Vein.
• Li Qianqing and the Li Clan's Formation Masters adjusted the spirit vein nodes, turning the planned fields into spiritual fields and making his cave dwelling the clan's place with the densest spiritual qi.
• Li Xunting estimated that she was about twenty years from Peak Core Formation, and Li Qianqing encouraged her to aim for Nascent Soul Realm with the aid of Primordial Qi and Immortal Spiritual Spring Water.
• By the 139th year of Qingli, Changqing City's outer city was complete, its population had grown, and two-thirds of the Li Clan's Foundation Establishment Seeds had succeeded in breaking through; Li Yongfeng had also formed his core through Body Cultivation.
• Liu Mingjuan informed Li Qianqing that Star Constellation Sect's eldest Supreme Elder had reached Nascent Soul Late Stage, and Li Qianqing judged that Star Constellation Sect would more likely target Heavenly Sun Sect than Five Peaks Palace.

Heavenly Sun Sect and Star Constellation Sect chose to avoid conflict after Star Constellation Sect gained a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator, while Li Qianqing urged Five Peaks Palace to preserve the stable environment. Two years later, Li Yiqing successfully refined a third-order pill at Foundation Establishment Peak and prepared to form her core.

• Heavenly Sun Sect debated whether to attack or cooperate with other forces, then chose caution and warned that it would respond if Star Constellation Sect provoked it.
• Star Constellation Sect also chose to avoid conflict and sent Core Formation Cultivators to probe Five Peaks Palace, which rejected cooperation.
• Li Qianqing agreed with Five Peaks Palace's preference for stability so the Li Clan could develop and prepare for his future trip to the Heavenly Pool Domain.
• Two years passed, and Fan Yang Country's major Nascent Soul forces remained at peace while local conflicts continued among Core Formation forces.
• Li Qianqing guided Li Yiqing as she refined Nine Bend Spirit Pills, and she succeeded on her second attempt.
• Li Yiqing planned to begin secluded cultivation to form her core in about two months.

Li Yiqing successfully formed her core, bringing the Li Clan to eight Core Formation cultivators, while Li Xunming reached Peak Core Formation after decades of cultivation in Li Yue City. The chapter left the clan with more good news as the Iron Carp at Azure Wave Lake advanced to Mid Third Order.

• Li Yiqing formed her core, and Li Qianqing gave her an Alchemy Furnace and advised her to cultivate steadily while advancing her alchemy.
• Li Xunming reached Peak Core Formation after cultivating for more than half a year and reviewed the Li Clan’s development in Li Yue City.
• Li Xunming decided to send his news and updates to Thirteenth Grandfather rather than directly tell Li Xunting that he had reached Peak Core Formation.
• Li Changlin discovered that the Iron Carp had advanced to Mid Third Order and sent Li Qianqing the news with a Sound Transmission Talisman.