Chapter Summaries

Li Qianqing continued the ruins trial, where Fire Spirit Fly defeated increasingly difficult Blood Race simulations and earned him enough points to exchange for Chaos Spirit Mud. After choosing to press on, he faced the warning that the next opponents would be Late-Stage Spirit Transformation Blood Race members.

• Li Qianqing entered the trial space and learned that defeating or killing a Blood Race opponent earned points.
• Li Qianqing let Fire Spirit Fly kill the first early-stage Spirit Transformation opponent, then continued through more rounds as the opponents grew stronger.
• Li Qianqing accumulated fifty points and found that Chaos Spirit Mud cost forty-five, securing the material he needed for his plans to open a Space Channel.
• Fire Spirit Fly continued defeating Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation opponents, raising Li Qianqing's total to one hundred and fifty points.
• The aged voice announced that Late-Stage Spirit Transformation Blood Race members were next, with ten thousand points awarded for killing one.

Li Qianqing completed Heaven Array Old Man’s trial, claimed the Chaos Spiritual Mud, and earned an additional reward by retaining enough points. He chose the Enlightenment Stone for his family and waited outside the vanished ruins for Yao Yuntao, whom he needed to help open a Space Channel.

• Fire Spirit Fly defeated a Late-Stage Spirit Transformation blood clan member, but it escaped through the spatial barrier; Li Qianqing received points and learned the trial had ended.
• Li Qianqing exchanged his points for Chaos Spiritual Mud and returned to the ruins’ stone platform, where Heaven Array Old Man’s Artifact Spirit appeared.
• The Artifact Spirit offered Li Qianqing an additional reward, and he chose an Enlightenment Stone to help future family cultivators reach Spirit Transformation.
• Li Qianqing left the ruins and concealed himself nearby while other cultivators emerged and departed.
• After waiting through the night, Li Qianqing saw Yao Yuntao emerge and revealed himself, startling him.

Li Qianqing reunited with Yao Yuntao, retrieved the Leng Family’s Spirit Vein Map, and guided him to the location where the Mortal Expanse Realm’s half of a Space Channel connected. They began establishing the Li Family’s ancestral land in the Sweeping Spirit Realm, leaving the space-channel formation as the next major step.

• Li Qianqing waited for Yao Yuntao to emerge from the Ancestor Ruins with Heaven Array Old Man’s formation inheritance, then invited him to help establish a Space Channel.
• Li Qianqing and Yao Yuntao visited the Leng Family Ancestral Land, where Li Qianqing collected the Spirit Vein Map from Leng Hanwen.
• Li Qianqing used a map and a piece of Li God Wood to lead Yao Yuntao to the connection point for the half Space Channel already established in the Mortal Expanse Realm.
• Yao Yuntao used a guiding formation disk to locate the precise Space Node, and Li Qianqing reshaped the surrounding mountains into the Li Family’s new ancestral land.
• Li Qianqing released four hundred Micro Spirit Veins from the Spirit Vein Map, and Yao Yuntao helped fuse them into four Medium Spirit Veins.
• Yao Yuntao prepared to set up the primary large spirit formation that would serve as the switch for the Space Channel.

Li Qianqing established Changling Mountain’s spiritual fields and began planning cave residences while Yao Yuntao completed a fifth-order spiritual array. Yao Yuntao opened the Sweeping Spirit Realm half of the Space Channel, forming a Space Node, and Li Qianqing prepared to contact the other side.

• Li Qianqing named the Li Clan’s new ancestral land Changling Mountain and opened spiritual fields across four grades.
• Li Qianqing began opening rental cave residences for cultivators expected to ascend from the Mortal Expanse Realm.
• Yao Yuntao finished the spiritual array and handed Li Qianqing its core array disk, which held a piece of Li God Wood.
• Yao Yuntao used Chaos Spirit Mud and other spiritual objects to open the Sweeping Spirit Realm half of the Space Channel, stabilizing the Space Lightning Storm and Space Storm despite their early overlap.
• Yao Yuntao sensed that a Space Node had formed and asked Li Qianqing to use the core array disk to contact the unopened entrance below.

Eighty-eight years after Li Qianqing left, Li Xunting learned that he had opened the Spirit Realm half of the Space Channel and announced that the clan’s ascension passage could soon be used. She handed the Acting Clan Head position to Li Yiqing and prepared to ascend herself, leaving Li Yiqing in charge of the clan and its array.

• Li Xunting received a signal from the grand array’s core disk confirming that Li Qianqing had opened the Spirit Realm half of the Space Channel.
• Li Xunting summoned the clan’s core high-level members and announced that a Space Node had formed between the Mortal Realm and the Spirit Realm.
• Li Xunting appointed Li Yiqing as the next Acting Clan Head, and the core high-level members accepted the handover without objection.
• Li Xunting reminisced with Li Yiqing about guiding her when she was young and praised Li Qianqing for recognizing her alchemy talent.
• Li Yiqing took the core array disk as Li Xunting flew away to ascend, while the clan’s core high-level members gathered to see her off.

After Li Qianqing opened the Spirit Realm Space Channel, Li Xunting ascended from the Mortal Expanse Realm and reunited with him at Changling Mountain. The channel was then closed, leaving Li Xunting to adapt to the Spirit Realm and the Li Family to prepare its new ancestral land.

• Li Tongxin, Li Yongfeng, and Li Xunming received news that the Space Channel had opened, and each considered ascending after reaching Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Li Xunting said farewell to Li Qiuben, entered the channel above Changqing Mountain, and endured two small lightning storms and one small windstorm during her ascent.
• In Changling City, cultivators witnessed the strange phenomenon above Changqing Mountain and some recognized it from eighty-eight years earlier.
• Li Qianqing waited at Changling Mountain in the Sweeping Spirit Realm until Li Xunting arrived, then helped her adjust and introduced her to Yao Yuntao.
• Yao Yuntao gave Li Xunting a mid-grade Ice-Snow Crystal Stone, and Li Qianqing and Yao Yuntao closed the Space Channel.
• Yao Yuntao went to rest before continuing work on Changling Mountain's spirit arrays and facilities.

Li Qianqing learned about the Li Clan’s progress and Pao Pao’s cultivation, while news spread that he had opened a Space Channel between the spirit world and the Mortal Expanse Realm. The Da Ming Royal Family Ancestor arrived at Changqing Mountain seeking details and finally met Acting Clan Head Li Yiqing after waiting six days.

• Li Qianqing asked Li Xunting about the Li Clan’s cultivators, learned that three Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivators had appeared, and heard that Li Tianyi might reach Nascent Soul within fifty years.
• Li Xunting told Li Qianqing that Pao Pao had reached the peak of early fourth rank but showed no signs of breaking its bloodline limitation.
• Li Clan cultivators and residents of Changqing City learned that Li Qianqing had ascended to the spirit world and opened a Space Channel that Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators could attempt to use.
• Liu Mingjuan asked Li Tongxin about the Space Channel and learned that Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators could ascend with a high probability, while Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators faced grave danger.
• The Da Ming Royal Family Ancestor traveled to Changqing Mountain to ask about the Space Channel and waited six days while Li Yiqing refined pills before meeting her.

Li Yiqing told the Da Ming Royal Family Ancestor that borrowing the Li Clan’s Space Channel would cost him one hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones, but the channel was not yet available to outsiders. In the Spiritual Realm, Li Qianqing received Yao Yuntao’s help in preparing a defensive array and returned to cultivation.

• Li Yiqing explained that the Da Ming Royal Family Ancestor could use the Space Channel for one hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones, but it could not be borrowed until the Li Clan completed its Spiritual Realm ancestral land, likely within a hundred years.
• Nascent Soul-level forces across the Nether Soil Plateau discussed Li Qianqing’s achievement and the prospect of using the Li Clan’s Space Channel to ascend.
• Li Qianqing tended his spirit medicines, declined Li Xunting’s offer to care for them, and decided to postpone searching for the Caopan Plate fragments.
• Yao Yuntao finished absorbing the Heaven Array Old Man’s inheritance, received the spiritual materials Li Qianqing had gathered, and began arranging a fifth-order high-grade Imitation Mystic Tortoise Array.
• Li Qianqing returned to cultivation, aiming to master the Power of Heaven and Earth within a hundred years.

Li Xunting refined the Ink Profound Azure Ice, then traveled to Flowing Cloud City to buy spiritual materials for Li Qianqing and meet local cultivators. After befriending Wen Wanxi, she heard that Snow Moon Sect had opened registration for its Arena Competition, an event whose details she did not know.

• Li Xunting raised her Ice Spiritual Body's Potential Excavation to seven and a half tenths by refining the Ink Profound Azure Ice.
• Li Qianqing gave Li Xunting a list of four spiritual materials to seek in Flowing Cloud City, and she flew there from Changling Mountain.
• Li Xunting explored the Cultivator Market, where Wen Wanxi approached her and learned that she belonged to the Li Clan.
• With Wen Wanxi's help, Li Xunting purchased two of the listed spiritual materials, while the other two were unavailable.
• A notice announced registration for Snow Moon Sect's Arena Competition, and Wen Wanxi asked whether Li Xunting knew about it.

Li Xunting registered for the Snow Moon Sect’s once-in-a-century Arena Competition and returned to Changling Mountain to prepare, where Li Qianqing cautioned her to avoid injury. After traveling to Snow Moon City for the event, she reunited with Wen Wanxi and met two other Nascent Soul cultivators who were also competing.

• Wen Wanxi explained the Snow Moon Sect’s Arena Competition, and Li Xunting registered at Mid-Moon Pavilion to challenge Nascent Soul stewards.
• Li Xunting returned to Changling Mountain, gave Li Qianqing the spiritual materials she had bought, and told him she had entered the competition; he warned her to be careful, especially in the third battle.
• Li Xunting traveled for three months and arrived in Snow Moon City two days before the competition began.
• Wen Wanxi invited Li Xunting to Intoxicated Heart Pavilion, where she introduced her to Thunder Fire Sect elder Yue Zhijian and rogue cultivator Ren Ziyi, who were also entering the competition.

Wen Wanxi and Li Xunting joined three other Nascent Soul cultivators to attend Snow Moon Sect’s Arena Competition, where Li learned the rules and revealed her confidence by asking whether the contests could continue after three victories. The first day’s matches began with Snow Moon Sect’s stewards winning the early bouts, but the contestants claimed their first victory in the sixth match.

• Wen Wanxi found no records explaining Li Xunting’s origins and concluded that her Ice Spiritual Body and advanced Potential Excavation pointed to a Spirit Transformation cultivation clan.
• Li Xunting met Yue Zhijian, Ren Ziyi, and another Nascent Soul cultivator before the five left Intoxicated Heart Pavilion for Snow Moon Sect’s Arena Competition.
• Li Xunting asked whether the competition could continue if she won three matches, and the receiving cultivator gave a cautious answer about the usual three-match process.
• The five entered the venue the next day, and Wen Wanxi learned that Li Xunting’s match was scheduled for sixteen days later.
• Snow Moon Sect’s elder explained the competition rules, and the first day’s Nascent Soul bouts began before a large audience.
• Snow Moon Sect’s stewards won the first five bouts, but a contestant defeated a steward in the sixth match.

Li Xunting entered Snow Moon Sect’s Nascent Soul Arena Competition and defeated Steward Yuan with a display of strength that suggested she had touched the Power of Heaven and Earth. She chose to continue to a second duel, while Elder Ye ordered an investigation into her identity.

• Over the first sixteen days of the competition, contestants generally won only one or two duels daily, and Ren Ziyi won her first match before continuing.
• On the sixteenth day, Li Xunting faced Snow Moon Sect’s Steward Yuan, whose earlier victories had left him due to fight again.
• Li Xunting summoned a Nine-Headed Ice Serpent and defeated Steward Yuan in fewer than three moves, shocking the spectators and revealing her ability to touch the Power of Heaven and Earth.
• Ren Ziyi and Yue Zhijian praised Li Xunting’s strength, while Wen Wanxi was delighted that she had befriended such a powerful cultivator.
• Li Xunting agreed to enter a second duel, and Elder Ye instructed Steward Yuan to investigate whether she belonged to Spirit Mountain Palace or Glazed Gate.

Li Xunting defeated a powerful Snow Moon Sect Nascent Soul Late Stage steward in the second round of the Arena Competition and advanced to the third round. She agreed to fight again the next day, while spectators speculated that the famed Steward Ji Yuelan might be her next opponent.

• Yue Zhijian lost his duel against a Snow Moon Sect Nascent Soul Late Stage steward, while Huo Tianlei later won his second duel and became the first Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator to reach the third round.
• Ren Ziyi lost to a Snow Moon Sect Nascent Soul Middle Stage steward, leaving Li Xunting as the only one remaining from her group.
• On the twenty-third day, Li Xunting faced a powerful Snow Moon Sect Nascent Soul Late Stage steward and defeated him quickly, suppressing his strength with an unfamiliar Ninth Grade Spirit Art.
• Elder Ye asked Li Xunting whether she would continue, and she agreed to fight in the third round the next day.
• Spectators and Li Xunting's companions discussed her victory and speculated that Steward Ji Yuelan would be her next opponent.

Li Xunting faced Snow Moon Sect’s famous steward Ji Yuelan in the final Nascent Soul Arena Competition duel after Huo Tianlei lost to Steward Tong. The battle began with their opposing ice and lightning domains shaking the Isolation Spirit Array, leaving the audience unsure which powerful cultivator would prevail.

• Snow Moon Sect’s Steward Tong defeated Huo Tianlei in the first duel of the final day, then left without telling him his name.
• Elder Ye announced the last match, and Ji Yuelan appeared as the Snow Moon Sect’s representative against Li Xunting.
• Ji Yuelan provoked Li Xunting before the duel, while Li Xunting replied only that she understood.
• Elder Ye had Steward Huang reinforce the Isolation Spirit Array as Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan began fighting with their ice and lightning powers.
• The Nine-Headed Ice Serpent charged into Ji Yuelan’s lightning domain, and the audience realized the duel could go either way.

Li Xunting defeated Ji Yuelan after freezing her lightning and overwhelming her with ice arrows, winning all three of Snow Moon Sect’s arena duels and ten thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones. She agreed to stay at the sect to face its other Nascent Soul Late Stage stewards, then duel Ji Yuelan again before leaving.

• Yue Zhijian and Wen Wanxi praised Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan’s strength as their duel continued without a clear advantage.
• Ji Yuelan unleashed her Ninth Grade Spirit Art, Startling Thunder, but Li Xunting froze the lightning with Eternal Freeze Domain and drew her Natal Magic Treasure, an ice bow.
• Li Xunting’s repeated ice-arrow attacks forced Ji Yuelan to defend and dodge until a final arrow stopped before Ji Yuelan’s brow, making Ji Yuelan concede defeat.
• Li Xunting asked Elder Ye to arrange another match against a Peak Nascent Soul cultivator, and he instead invited her to duel Snow Moon Sect’s remaining stewards privately at the sect.
• Ji Yuelan praised Li Xunting, agreed to duel her again after she faced the other stewards, and took her to say farewell to Wen Wanxi and the others.
• Elder Ye announced Li Xunting’s victory in all three duels and her ten-thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stone reward as the spectators left the arena.

Li Xunting defeated Ji Yuelan again at Snow Moon Sect, then agreed to take her to Changling Mountain to meet her Thirteenth Grandfather. Snow Moon Sect’s elders remained curious about Li Xunting’s mysterious family as the two friends set out together.

• Li Xunting said farewell to Wen Wanxi and the other cultivators before leaving for Snow Moon Sect, while Ji Yuelan pulled her away.
• Li Xunting defeated Ji Yuelan in their rematch, but acknowledged that a real battle could have ended in Ji Yuelan’s favor.
• Ji Yuelan asked to visit Li Xunting’s family and meet her Thirteenth Grandfather, and Li Xunting agreed to take her to Changling Mountain.
• Ji Yuelan told her master, Fan Quanzhen, that she was leaving with Li Xunting, then hurried out with her before Li Xunting could properly say goodbye.
• Elder Ye asked whether Snow Moon Sect should follow them, but Fan Quanzhen refused, trusting Ji Yuelan to visit her new friend safely.

Li Xunting brought her friend Ji Yuelan to Changling Mountain, where Ji met Li Qianqing and learned about the Li Clan’s origins. After Li Qianqing stopped their escalating duel, Ji stayed as a guest and later returned to Snow Moon Sect, where Elder Ye challenged her to a duel to obtain information about the Li Clan.

• Li Xunting brought Ji Yuelan to Changling Mountain and explained that the Li Clan’s other members remained in the Lower Realm until they reached Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Ji Yuelan questioned Li Qianqing about opening the Space Channel, prompting Li Xunting to challenge her to a duel; Li Qianqing restrained them when Ji’s Rampaging Thunder Physique went berserk.
• Li Xunting asked Ji to respect Li Qianqing, and Ji agreed before hearing Li Qianqing’s stories about the Space Channel and the Li Clan.
• Ji stayed at Changling Mountain for half a month, then traveled via Yingjing City back to Snow Moon Sect.
• Elder Ye asked Ji about the Li Clan, and Ji agreed to share what she knew only if he could suppress her throughout a duel at the sect’s Tier-A Combat Platform the next day.

Ji Yuelan defeated Elder Ye in a brutal sparring match, then revealed that the Li Clan came from the Mortal Expanse Realm and had opened a Space Channel. At Changling Mountain, Yao Yuntao completed the clan’s Grade 5 High-Quality Large Attack Spirit Array and agreed to settle there.

• Ji Yuelan entered an uncontrollable berserk state and fought Elder Ye, who won only after a difficult battle.
• Ji Yuelan told Elder Ye the Li Clan was a Spirit Transformation cultivation clan from the Mortal Expanse Realm, and Elder Ye realized it had opened a Space Channel.
• Elder Ye submitted his mission and considered the possibility that the Snow Moon Sect might become the Li Clan’s protective umbrella.
• Yao Yuntao completed the Grade 5 High-Quality Large Attack Spirit Array at Changling Mountain after thirty-two years of work.
• Li Qianqing invited Yao Yuntao to settle at Changling Mountain, and Yao Yuntao agreed to move to East Mountain.
• Li Qianqing gave Yao Yuntao thirty tokens for rental cave abodes within the attack array’s range.

Li Yiqing opened the Li Clan’s Space Channel to outsiders, and the Da Ming Royal Family Ancestor ascended to the Sweeping Spirit Realm and rented a cave dwelling. Li Tongxin then ascended as a Li Clan cultivator, while the family’s long queue of future travelers continued to grow.

• The core formation plate told Li Yiqing that outsiders could use the Space Channel, so she began notifying the cultivators who had asked to borrow it.
• The Da Ming Royal Family Ancestor paid one hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones, and Li Yiqing opened the Space Channel for him to ascend.
• Li Qianqing received the Da Ming Royal Family Ancestor, introduced him to the Sweeping Spirit Realm, and rented him Cave Dwelling Number One for five years.
• Li Tongxin ascended using the Space Channel, reunited with Li Qianqing, and shared news about the Li Clan’s affairs and the queue of cultivators waiting to ascend.
• Li Tongxin reported that the queue extended more than a hundred years ahead and that the latest ascendant had been the Supreme Elder of Apricot Blossom Ridge.

Li Qianqing reached tenfold mastery of the Power of Heaven and Earth, then welcomed Li Qiuben as he ascended to the spiritual world. Li Qiuben reported on the clan and took charge of Changling Mountain’s neglected spiritual fields, while Li Qianqing prepared to expand them.

• Li Qianqing reached tenfold mastery of the Power of Heaven and Earth, giving him a lifespan of ten thousand years despite remaining in early Spirit Transformation.
• After the Space Channel opened, Li Qiuben ascended successfully and quickly adapted to the spiritual world thanks to his Flora Body.
• Li Qiuben told Li Qianqing that the clan had gained two Nascent Soul cultivators and that Li Xunming had already reached Nascent Soul Late Stage while waiting for his wife.
• Li Qiuben inspected Changling Mountain’s spiritual herbs and found that Li Qianqing’s simple care had left them below his standards.
• Li Qiuben agreed to care for the existing spiritual herbs and asked Li Qianqing to open another twenty mu of Fourth-Order High-Grade Spiritual Fields.
• Li Qianqing agreed to expand the fields, and Li Qiuben began carefully tending the herbs so their quality could eventually meet the standard for ripening.