Chapter Summaries

Li Qianqing refined Profound Spirit Azure Pills for the Li family while Yellow Dragon Valley planned to seize nearly all profits from the family's Space Channel. When Yellow Dragon Valley's Valley Master and Supreme Elder confronted him, Li Qianqing trapped them and let Fire Spirit Fly attack, leaving the two Spirit Transformation cultivators shocked by his strength and Artifact Spirit.

• Li Qianqing refined thirty furnaces of Profound Spirit Azure Pills, producing 171 pills, and gave Li Xunting and the others three bottles each.
• Yellow Dragon Valley's Valley Master and Supreme Elder decided to claim at least ninety-five percent of the Li family's Space Channel profits, believing Li Qianqing would be unable to resist.
• Li Qianqing stopped Yao Yuntao from intervening and confronted the Valley Master and Supreme Elder as they demanded ninety-five percent of the profits.
• Fire Spirit Fly trapped the three cultivators in fire nets, and Li Qianqing handed the two Yellow Dragon Valley cultivators over to him to fight.
• The Valley Master and Supreme Elder saw Fire Spirit Fly's overwhelming power and recognized that Li Qianqing was far stronger than they had assumed; the Supreme Elder tried to call their demand a misunderstanding.

Li Qianqing killed the Yellow Dragon Valley Valley Master and Supreme Elder after they invaded Changling Mountain and sought the Li Clan’s Space Channel. He sent Li Tongxin to collect Yellow Dragon Valley’s spirit veins, where Li Tongxin met Wen Wanxi, who offered to travel with him.

• The Yellow Dragon Valley Supreme Elder sacrificed the Valley Master to the Fire Spirit Fly’s attacks, then tried to escape with a Nascent Soul secret art.
• Li Qianqing struck down the Supreme Elder with One Flame, River-Severing, revealing his mastery of the Power of Heaven and Earth had reached ten-tenths.
• Li Qianqing collected the two Yellow Dragon Valley leaders’ treasures and ordered Li Tongxin to gather the valley’s spirit veins, saying Yellow Dragon Valley would cease to exist.
• Li Tongxin got lost on the way to Yellow Dragon Valley and stopped Wen Wanxi to ask for directions.
• Wen Wanxi recognized Li Tongxin as a cultivator from Li Xunting’s clan, introduced herself, and agreed to accompany him to Yellow Dragon Valley.

Li Tongxin and Wen Wanxi arrived at Yellow Dragon Valley, where Li Tongxin announced that its Valley Master and Supreme Elder had died after trying to seize the Li Clan’s Space Channel. After Li Tongxin defeated Elder Chen with a single sword strike, Wen Wanxi confirmed the Li Clan’s claim and helped collect Yellow Dragon Valley’s spirit veins, leaving the story on news that Elder Chen had captured a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator known to Li Tongxin.

• Wen Wanxi told Li Tongxin she was traveling to Yellow Dragon Valley for Thunder Fire Sect, and he revealed that he planned to take its spirit veins because its Valley Master and Supreme Elder had died attacking the Li Clan over the Space Channel.
• Li Tongxin and Wen Wanxi arrived at Yellow Dragon Valley, where Li Tongxin announced the deaths and declared that Yellow Dragon Valley would be no more.
• Elder Chen accused Li Tongxin of bluffing and attacked him, but Li Tongxin split Elder Chen’s spear, mirror, body, and Nascent Soul with one sword strike.
• Wen Wanxi explained that the Space Channel belonged to the Li Clan and that Yellow Dragon Valley’s leaders had deserved their deaths, after which the remaining cultivators accepted the sect’s fall.
• Li Tongxin handed Wen Wanxi the Advanced Spirit Vein Map, and she began collecting Yellow Dragon Valley’s spirit veins.
• A Yellow Dragon Valley Nascent Soul told Li Tongxin that Elder Chen had captured a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator he knew.

Li Tongxin freed the former Blazing Fire Institute Head and welcomed him back to Changling Mountain after Yellow Dragon Valley fell. Wen Wanxi told Thunder Fire Sect’s Supreme Elder that the Li Clan had destroyed Yellow Dragon Valley, and news of the event spread throughout the region, leaving the Li Clan’s strength widely discussed.

• Wen Wanxi collected Yellow Dragon Valley’s spirit veins and handed the Spirit Vein Map to Li Tongxin.
• Li Tongxin broke the Spirit Sealing Locks on the former Blazing Fire Institute Head and invited him to rent a cave dwelling at Changling Mountain again.
• Wen Wanxi reported Yellow Dragon Valley’s destruction to Thunder Fire Sect’s Supreme Elder, who urged her to build the sect’s relationship with the Li Clan.
• The Red-Haired Old Man considered the Li Clan’s strength and wondered whether it had more than one Early Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Cultivators across the region spread news of Yellow Dragon Valley’s fall, while survivors corrected rumors about how the Li Clan had taken its spirit veins and the sect’s members had fought over its remaining possessions.

Li Qianqing’s clan consolidated its position after Yellow Dragon Valley’s destruction, while Li Xunming and Ling Shujing left Changling Mountain to temper themselves. A White-Robed Steward of Ten Thousand Immortals Hall arrived to request records of cultivators who had ascended through the Li Clan’s Space Channel.

• News of Yellow Dragon Valley’s destruction discouraged other Spirit Transformation forces from seeking the Li Clan’s Space Channel, and its spirit veins were moved to Changling Mountain.
• Li Qianqing learned that Pao Pao had become a fourth-rank middle-stage demon beast after breaking its bloodline limit a second time.
• Li Xunming and Ling Shujing told Li Qianqing they were leaving to temper themselves, and he saw them off from Changling Mountain.
• Ji Yuelan pulled Li Xunting away for another spell-fighting bout when Li Xunting came to receive Ye Le'an and Feng Hengfeng.
• Feng Hengfeng introduced himself as a White-Robed Steward of Ten Thousand Immortals Hall and asked Li Qianqing for information about cultivators who had ascended from the Lower Realm.
• Feng Hengfeng explained that the only cultivator recorded as ascending at Nascent Soul Early Stage had become Ten Thousand Immortals Hall’s strongest Vice Hall Master.

Li Qianqing welcomed the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall steward and Elder Ye to Changling Mountain, where Ji Yuelan decided to remain and attempt a breakthrough to Spirit Transformation. The chapter ended with Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan planning to enter seclusion together in half a month and compete to break through first.

• Li Qianqing gave the White-Robed Steward information about ascended cultivators and received a Jade Slip for future registrations.
• The White-Robed Steward praised Li Qianqing for following the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall's rules regarding Yellow Dragon Valley, then returned to Snow Moon City.
• Elder Ye warned Li Qianqing that the White-Robed Steward in Yingjing City might have been involved in Yellow Dragon Valley's attempt to seize the Space Channel.
• After sparring, Ji Yuelan admitted she had lost to Li Xunting and proposed that they compete to see who reached Spirit Transformation first.
• Ji Yuelan asked to stay on Changling Mountain and enter seclusion there, and Li Qianqing agreed despite Elder Ye's surprise.
• Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan set their joint seclusion to begin in half a month.

Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan both broke through to Spirit Transformation after thirteen years of seclusion, giving the Li clan a second Spirit Transformation cultivator besides Li Qianqing. The two women then began a sparring match to test their new strength, wielding the Power of Heaven and Earth.

• Li Qianqing reviewed the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall’s Jade Slip and judged that the Li clan’s Space Channel faced little danger from other forces.
• Elder Ye told Fan Quanzhen that Ji Yuelan was in seclusion at the Li Clan Ancestral Land, then returned to his cave dwelling to begin a twenty-year seclusion.
• Thirteen years after Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan began their breakthroughs, both reached Spirit Transformation on the same day, and Yao Yuntao adjusted the spirit vein nodes to supply them with enough spiritual energy.
• Li Xunting told Li Qianqing that her Ice Spiritual Body’s potential excavation had reached seventy-eight percent and returned the remaining Enlightenment Stone.
• Li Qianqing brought Li Xunting to meet Ji Yuelan, who believed she might have lost their contest until Li Qianqing called their breakthroughs a draw.
• Ji Yuelan challenged Li Xunting to spar, and the two began fighting with ice, lightning, and the Power of Heaven and Earth as Li Qianqing watched.

Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan drew their Spirit Transformation spar, then teamed up against Li Qianqing’s Artifact Spirit and lost. Afterward, Ji Yuelan decided she wanted to pursue Li Qianqing, while Li Xunting demanded that she defeat her first; Ji Yuelan returned to Snow Moon Sect and began arranging her Spirit Transformation grand banquet.

• Li Qianqing stopped Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan’s lengthy spar after they failed to decide a winner, and Ji Yuelan declared it a draw.
• Ji Yuelan proposed that she and Li Xunting fight Li Qianqing together, so Li Qianqing sent his Artifact Spirit, Fire Spirit Fly, to test them instead.
• Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan combined their ice and lightning powers, but Fire Spirit Fly defeated them while limiting his control of the Power of Heaven and Earth to thirty-nine percent.
• Ji Yuelan asked Li Xunting whether Li Qianqing had a wife, then said she intended to pursue him; Li Xunting told her to defeat her first, and Ji Yuelan agreed to spar again later.
• After returning to Snow Moon Sect, Ji Yuelan found that Elder Ye was in seclusion, then visited Fan Quanzhen, who offered to prepare her Spirit Transformation grand banquet.

Li Qianqing broke through to Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation after a year of seclusion and learned that the Li Clan’s latest ascendant was Li Tianyi. The chapter ended with Li Tianyi reporting that Li Huairou of the Huai generation possessed the Three Yin Water Body.

• Li Tongxin prepared to enter seclusion to break through to Spirit Transformation, and Li Qianqing gave him an Enlightenment Stone.
• After accumulating spiritual power, Li Qianqing entered seclusion and smoothly broke through to Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation in one year.
• Li Qianqing checked his divine sense strength, then spoke with Li Xunting about her sparring matches with Ji Yuelan.
• Li Qianqing and Li Xunting went to the opened Space Channel and welcomed the ascending Li Tianyi.
• Li Qianqing asked Li Tianyi about the clan, and Li Tianyi reported that Li Huairou possessed the Three Yin Water Body.

After more than a thousand years in the Sweeping Spirit Realm, Li Qianqing completed the Greater Mastery of Extinguishing Spirit Three Absolutes as the Li Family grew to nine Spirit Transformation cultivators. Wu Yiyang visited him to discuss Flowing Cloud City’s proposed upgrade.

• Li Tianyi told Li Qianqing that Pao Pao had reached the late fourth order, and five years later Li Qianqing welcomed the Iron Carp’s ascension and settled him in a prepared lake.
• Over the following thousand years, the Li Family expanded to nine Spirit Transformation cultivators, while Li Qianqing cultivated the third absolute of Extinguishing Spirit Three Absolutes to Greater Mastery.
• Li Qianqing visited Pao Pao, who had advanced to the fifth order about seven hundred years earlier.
• Li Chenghan told Li Qianqing that Wu Yiyang had requested an audience, and Li Qianqing received the Flowing Cloud City lord.
• Wu Yiyang asked Li Qianqing about City Upgrade and said he had come to discuss upgrading Flowing Cloud City from a small city to a medium-sized one.

Wu Yiyang asked Li Qianqing to help Flowing Cloud City qualify for an upgrade, offering the Li Clan a Deputy City Lord position in return. The Divine Prefecture’s examiners arrived, including Zhuang Xingwen, whose hostility made the city’s chances uncertain.

• Wu Yiyang explained that Flowing Cloud City was competing with five other small cities for two remaining upgrade slots and asked the Li Clan to demonstrate its strength.
• Wu Yiyang offered a Li Clan member the Deputy City Lord position, and Li Qianqing agreed to cooperate and chose Li Yongfeng for the post.
• Li Qianqing told Li Yongfeng about the appointment, then returned to cultivating while awaiting the Divine Prefecture’s assessment.
• More than half a year later, Wu Yiyang brought Zhuang Xingwen and another Divine Prefecture cultivator to Changling Mountain to test the Li Clan.
• Wu Yiyang recognized Zhuang Xingwen as a rival likely to judge the Li Clan harshly, leaving Flowing Cloud City’s upgrade prospects uncertain.

Li Qianqing hosted Divine Prefecture cultivators testing the Li Clan’s Spirit Transformation fighters to determine whether Flowing Cloud City could be upgraded. Li Yongfeng held off Zhuang Xingwen for the required time, and Li Tianyi’s Body as Treasure Refinement startled Zhuang Xingwen as their duel began.

• Li Qianqing brought Zhuang Xingwen, Wu Yiyang, and Meng Biqin to the dueling grounds, where Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan finished their draw.
• Zhuang Xingwen acknowledged that Li Xunting was comparable to a Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation cultivator and agreed not to duel her.
• Li Yongfeng used his Water Fire Cudgel and dual cultivation to withstand Zhuang Xingwen’s full assault until the time limit passed.
• Li Yongfeng declined Ji Yuelan’s offer to spar, and Li Xunting defended him.
• Li Tianyi entered the circle, and Zhuang Xingwen recognized that he practiced the rare Body as Treasure Refinement technique.

The Li Clan’s cultivators passed Divine Prefecture’s evaluation, helping secure Flowing Cloud City’s upgrade and establishing Li Yongfeng as its Deputy City Lord. The city announced its expansion, and news of the Li Clan’s strength spread through the Cultivator Market.

• Li Tianyi defeated Zhuang Xingwen, and Li Tongxin withdrew after Zhuang acknowledged his reputation.
• Li Qianqing fought Meng Biqin to a draw and passed the final test, confirming the Li Clan as a top-tier Spirit Transformation force.
• Wu Yiyang gave Li Qianqing the Deputy City Lord contract, which Li Qianqing planned to pass to Li Yongfeng.
• Wu Yiyang learned Flowing Cloud City had placed fifth in the final competition and welcomed Li Yongfeng as Deputy City Lord, granting him considerable authority.
• Flowing Cloud City announced its upgrade to a medium-sized city and Li Yongfeng’s appointment, prompting cultivators to discuss the Li Clan’s growing influence.

Li Qianqing’s family prospered as Flowing Cloud City grew into a medium-sized city, and he prepared to enter the Pill Hall’s millennium Alchemy Competition after learning its top rewards included the Five Elements Pill Root. He left Changling Mountain and arrived at the Nanmo City Pill Hall Branch to meet Elder Wu Tianyou.

• The Li family opened a shop in Flowing Cloud City selling pills from Fourth-Order High-Grade to Fifth-Order High-Grade, and its reputation grew over the following century.
• Li Qianqing reflected on his cultivation plans and how future trouble in the Cloud Soaring Sect could affect the Li family, then learned that the Alchemy Competition offered the Five Elements Pill Root as a reward.
• Li Qianqing invited Li Qiuben to attend the competition, but Li Qiuben declined because he disliked traveling far from Changling Mountain.
• Li Qianqing left Changling Mountain after speaking with Li Xunting and traveled through Yingjing City to the Nanmo City Pill Hall Branch.
• Li Qianqing showed his Honorary Steward token and went to Elder Wu Tianyou’s cave dwelling.

Li Qianqing traveled with Wu Tianyou to Danhe City to compete in the Pill Hall’s thousand-year Alchemy Competition. He passed the preliminary assessment with full marks, chose to refine a Spirit Transformation Pill, and waited with the other contestants for the final contest to begin.

• Li Qianqing met Wu Tianyou, explained that he had come for the Alchemy Competition, and joined Wu Tianyou and three other alchemists on the journey to Danhe City.
• Li Qianqing explored Danhe City’s Cultivator Market for three days but found no hidden treasures to buy.
• Li Qianqing entered the Pill Hall assessment, identified all the spiritual medicines correctly in both rounds, and earned full marks.
• Li Qianqing told the Artifact Spirit that he would refine a Sixth-Order Low Grade Spirit Transformation Pill in the final competition.
• Li Qianqing received contestant number six hundred seventy-five and waited with Wu Tianyou and the other alchemists while contestants completed their assessments.

Li Qianqing entered the Alchemy Competition and refined a Low-Grade Spirit Transformation Pill with a Third-Order High Grade Alchemy Furnace, drawing attention for attempting a Sixth-Order pill at Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation. By the seventieth day, Wu Tianyou had finished with a disappointing pill yield, while Li Qianqing neared the final stage of his refinement.

• Li Qianqing told Wu Tianyou and the other alchemists that he planned to refine a Low-Grade Spirit Transformation Pill, and they doubted his chances at his current realm.
• The Main Hall Elder opened the Alchemy Competition, explained its scoring rules, and sent the alchemists to their numbered areas.
• Li Qianqing checked his spiritual herbs and began refining the Spirit Transformation Pill in his Third-Order High Grade Alchemy Furnace.
• Spectators noticed Li Qianqing attempting a Sixth-Order pill at Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation as the competition continued for weeks.
• By the fiftieth day, most alchemists refining fifth-order pills had finished, and three of Wu Tianyou's companions had completed their refinements.
• On the seventieth day, Wu Tianyou finished with fewer pills than he had expected, while Li Qianqing approached the final stage of his refinement.

Li Qianqing refined three Low-Grade Spirit Transformation Pills and won first place in the Alchemy Competition with a score of 97.35. He received the Earth Root Spirit Pill and other rewards, then heard the Pill Hall Main Hall Elder offer him a position as a Main Hall Deacon.

• On the seventy-second day, Li Qianqing refined three Low-Grade Spirit Transformation Pills, surprising Wu Tianyou and the other alchemists.
• The Pill Hall Main Hall Elders scored Li Qianqing at 97.35, placing him first and securing his place among the top three.
• As the competition continued, Li Qianqing remained in first place; after the final scores were tallied, He Qiaofeng placed second and Zhong Taihong third.
• At the award ceremony, Li Qianqing chose the Earth Attribute Five Elements Pill Root and received an Earth Root Spirit Pill, its pill formula, and one hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• After He Qiaofeng and Zhong Taihong left, the Main Hall Elder invited Li Qianqing to join the Pill Hall as a Main Hall Deacon.

Li Qianqing refused an offer to become a Pill Hall Main Hall deacon and returned to cultivating, while news of his Alchemy Competition victory spread through Flowing Cloud City. He broke through to Late-Stage Spirit Transformation, discovered his divine sense had reached 9,900 li, failed to cultivate the Divine Soul Seal, and resumed preparing for Peak Spirit Transformation.

• Li Qianqing refused the Main Hall Elder’s invitation to join the Pill Hall as a Main Hall deacon because he would not leave his clan.
• News spread that Li Qianqing had won first place in the Alchemy Competition, and cultivators in Flowing Cloud City speculated that he might eventually reach Void Refinement.
• After twenty years of cultivation, Li Qianqing accumulated enough spiritual power to enter seclusion and broke through to Late-Stage Spirit Transformation in a year and a half.
• Li Qianqing learned that his divine sense had reached 9,900 li, but he could not cultivate the Divine Soul Seal without the 10,000-li threshold.
• After five years of trying to cultivate the Divine Soul Seal, Li Qianqing gave up, refined pills for the clan, and resumed accumulating spiritual power toward Peak Spirit Transformation.

Two Blood Clan evil cultivators chose Flowing Cloud City as their next target, and Li Yongfeng arranged precautions after learning of their attacks on nearby cities. When the pair attacked the Cultivator Market, Li Yongfeng confronted them alone as they turned their attention to killing him.

• Two Blood Clan evil cultivators decided to attack Flowing Cloud City within a year, expecting its defenses to be weaker than those of other medium-sized cities.
• After hearing that the pair had attacked three small cities, Li Yongfeng urged Flowing Cloud City to strengthen its defenses and quietly prepared key positions.
• Less than half a year later, Li Yongfeng sensed a Spirit Transformation cultivator's spiritual power fluctuation in the Cultivator Market and rushed to investigate.
• The tall, thin evil cultivator trapped market cultivators beneath a blood-colored dome while the fat one killed two Foundation Establishment cultivators; the dome vanished when the pair left to face Li Yongfeng.
• The two evil cultivators chose to fight Li Yongfeng together, hoping to kill him and claim his blood essence, while nearby cultivators fled and others watched the clash begin.

Li Yongfeng fought two Spirit Transformation evil cultivators in Flowing Cloud City, defeating them and capturing them alive. Wu Yiyang arrived to record Li Yongfeng’s credit, while the prisoners remained available for interrogation.

• The fat evil cultivator attacked Li Yongfeng with his Dark Red Meteor Hammer, while the tall, thin evil cultivator tried to kill him from behind with a Blood Claw.
• Li Yongfeng used his dual Qi and Body Refinement to withstand the claw, then drove the tall, thin evil cultivator into the ground with his Water Fire Cudgel.
• The fat evil cultivator fled, but Li Yongfeng used his Spirit Devouring Physique to drain his spiritual power and weaken his control of the Power of Heaven and Earth before blocking his escape.
• Wu Yiyang and Wen Wanxi arrived and found the tall, thin evil cultivator pinned down as Li Yongfeng finished defeating the fat evil cultivator.
• Li Yongfeng brought the two living evil cultivators to Wu Yiyang, who recorded credit for their capture and took responsibility for the remaining matters.