Chapter Summaries

Li Qianqing welcomed Long Ling, a Black Robe Steward of Ten Thousand Immortals Hall, who recorded the Li Family’s rise to Void Refinement and agreed to stay on Changling Mountain until his banquet. As the banquet began, Glazed Gate sent Elder Wen to observe the Li Family’s ties with Snow Moon Sect, while invited guests from several levels of power arrived.

• Li Qianqing recognized Long Ling as Ye’s disciple by her eyes, and the two discussed their cultivation and addressed each other as fellow Daoists.
• Long Ling recorded the Li Family as the 1,372nd Void Refinement force in Human Race territory and accepted Li Qianqing’s invitation to stay on Changling Mountain for five years.
• The Glazed Gate sect master warned that the Li Family might cooperate with Snow Moon Sect, and Elder Wen volunteered to attend Li Qianqing’s Void Refinement Banquet and observe the situation.
• On the first day of Early September, Nascent Soul cultivators Sun and Luo discovered that both had been invited to the Li Family’s banquet.
• Core Formation cultivator Su arrived with an invitation too, explaining that his clan’s ancestor had once been connected to a Li clan cultivator.

Cultivators gathered at Changling Mountain for Li Qianqing’s Void Refinement Banquet, including several powerful guests who had come without invitations. As Li Qianqing arrived beside a Black Robe Steward of the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall, the other Void Refinement cultivators were surprised by their relationship and strength.

• Many Nascent Soul cultivators from the Mortal Expanse Realm gathered alongside Spirit Transformation cultivators, and Yao Yuntao attended despite not receiving an invitation.
• Su Yichen joined the senior cultivators, while Wu Tianyou and Leng Hanwen greeted Hall Master Jiang, who revealed he had come uninvited because of Li Qianqing’s alchemy achievements.
• Wen Ziliang arrived for the Glazed Gate without an invitation and was admitted, then Fan Quanzhen and Ji Yuelan arrived and learned the Li Clan had not invited him.
• Fan Quanzhen and Hall Master Jiang talked at the banquet, and You Tianchen joined them as the third Void Refinement cultivator present.
• Li Qianqing arrived beside a Black Robe Steward of the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall, surprising Fan Quanzhen and You Tianchen with their apparent connection and strength.

Li Qianqing hosted a Void Refinement Banquet, where guests learned more about Long Ling and the Li Family’s growing standing. After the banquet, he agreed to cooperate with the Snow Moon Sect and requested only modest trade in cultivation resources, leaving Fan Quanzhen surprised.

• Li Qianqing introduced Long Ling, a Black Robe Steward of the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall who had ascended from the Mortal Expanse Realm, to the other Void Refinement cultivators.
• The Li Family held a banquet for cultivators across several realms, and Ji Yuelan learned from Li Xunting that Long Ling had reached Void Refinement at an exceptionally young age.
• After the banquet, Elder Wen of the Glazed Gate waited to speak with Li Qianqing while Fan Quanzhen and Ji Yuelan met him in the reception hall.
• Fan Quanzhen asked whether Li Qianqing planned to expand the Li Family’s influence, and Li Qianqing said the family intended to continue developing as before.
• Fan Quanzhen asked the Li Family to support the Snow Moon Sect if it faced the Glazed Gate or Spirit Mountain Palace, and Li Qianqing agreed.
• Li Qianqing requested to purchase mostly fifth-tier high-grade and Sixth-Order Low Grade resources from the Snow Moon Sect, surprising Fan Quanzhen.

Li Qianqing secured cooperation with the Snow Moon Sect and received visits from other influential cultivators and clans after his Void Refinement Banquet. As he chatted with Long Ling, she teased him about taking a wife and suggested Ji Yuelan might be interested in him.

• Li Qianqing and Fan Quanzhen agreed on modest terms for cooperation between the Li Clan and the Snow Moon Sect, and Fan promised to trade the Li Clan needed materials in the future.
• Fan Quanzhen admitted to Ji Yuelan that he had negotiated more generously than planned because she had praised Li Qianqing and the Li Clan.
• Li Qianqing rejected Elder Wen's proposal to help the Li Clan expand its influence, then accepted offers of favorable trade terms from two Spirit Transformation clans seeking the Li Clan's protection.
• Li Qianqing met Wu Tianyou and Leng Hanwen, and Wu Tianyou said he planned to attempt a breakthrough to the Void Refinement Realm.
• Li Qianqing and Long Ling reminisced about their friendship and discussed his unmarried status, and Long Ling suggested Ji Yuelan might view him as more than a grandfather figure.

Li Qianqing reflected on the Li Clan’s influence and future plans as Glazed Gate and Spirit Mountain Palace explored cooperation amid the Li Clan’s partnership with Snow Moon Sect. Over four hundred years later, Li Qianqing was cultivating the first layer of the Divine Soul Seal secret art.

• Long Ling discussed the Li Clan’s family style and told Li Qianqing how outsiders viewed the clan before he personally saw her off.
• Elder Wen reported to the Glazed Gate Sect Leader that the Li Clan had cooperated with Snow Moon Sect, but Glazed Gate refused to offer the Li Clan benefits to secure cooperation.
• The Glazed Gate Sect Leader visited Spirit Mountain Palace to propose cooperation, and Palace Lord Qiu said the matter required discussion by the sect’s elders and Supreme Elders.
• Wu Yiyang told Li Yongfeng that Flowing Cloud City had been approved for a teleportation array, and Li Yongfeng sent the news to Li Qianqing.
• More than four hundred years passed, during which Flowing Cloud City became a medium-sized city and Glazed Gate and Spirit Mountain Palace established a cooperative relationship.
• Li Qianqing cultivated the first layer of the Divine Soul Seal inside his cave dwelling on Changling Mountain.

Li Qianqing traveled to Chu Tian City for the Wind Cloud Assembly’s century auction, where he expected to acquire a fragment of the Cao Huan Plate. He reunited with Ji Yuelan and Elder Ye of Snow Moon Sect, avoided Zhu Qingyi’s attempt to exploit tensions between their factions, and settled into his private room as the auction approached.

• Li Qianqing prepared for the Wind Cloud Assembly auction after making progress cultivating the first layer of the Divine Soul Seal.
• Li Qianqing teleported from Flowing Cloud City to Chu Tian City and received a high-level cave residence from a Wind Cloud Assembly manager.
• Ji Yuelan visited Li Qianqing and asked whether Long Ling had contacted him; Li Qianqing said she had contacted him fairly often.
• Li Qianqing, Ji Yuelan, and Elder Ye encountered Glazed Gate’s Zhu Qingyi at the auction entrance, and Li Qianqing left with the Snow Moon Sect elders rather than letting Zhu Qingyi separate them.
• Li Qianqing entered private room seventeen beside Ji Yuelan and Elder Ye in room eighteen, then reviewed the auction list and anticipated the Cao Huan Plate fragment among the mysterious items.

Li Qianqing and Ji Yuelan attended the Wind Cloud Assembly Grand Auction, where Ji Yuelan won a magic treasure and Li Qianqing purchased items for his clan. The ordinary auction ended, and Li Qianqing began bidding on the mysterious items, concealing his specific interest by expressing interest in all thirteen.

• Ji Yuelan left Elder Ye in charge of the Snow Moon Sect's bidding and joined Li Qianqing in private room seventeen.
• The auction began, and bidders competed for ordinary items, including the Sky Soul Spear and Azure Glow Sword Wood.
• Li Qianqing won the Azure Glow Sword Wood for Li Tongxin, while Ji Yuelan later won a Third-Order High Grade magic treasure.
• Li Qianqing won Jade Marrow Sand after competing against bidders from several high-grade private rooms.
• After the 360 ordinary items sold, the auctioneer announced thirteen mysterious items and displayed a damaged flute-shaped object.
• Li Qianqing placed the first high-grade private-room bid on the mysterious item and told Ji Yuelan he was interested in all of them.

Li Qianqing used bids on the mysterious auction items to conceal his interest in a shard of the Cao Huan Plate, while Zhu Qingyi of the Glazed Gate tried to outbid him on the first item. Li Qianqing won the shard for five hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and continued bidding selectively on the remaining items.

• Li Qianqing and Zhu Qingyi raised the price of the first mysterious auction item, but Li Qianqing stopped at one thousand three hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and Zhu Qingyi won it for one thousand five hundred.
• Li Qianqing bid on the second mysterious auction item and several that followed, leading Zhu Qingyi to decide that competing with him over every item was pointless.
• Li Qianqing bid five hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones on the seventh mysterious auction item, a shard of the Cao Huan Plate, and won it uncontested.
• Li Qianqing joined the bidding on the next three mysterious auction items but won none of them, then skipped the eleventh and last two items.

Li Qianqing returned from the Wind and Cloud Assembly auction, cultivated the Divine Soul Seal, and oversaw the Li Family’s growing strength. After receiving Azure Sky Valley’s arrest warrant for Thousand-Faced Lord, he chose not to act on it, and the chapter ended as Li Hongbin broke through.

• Li Qianqing attended the auction with Ji Yuelan, watched the grand finale items sell, and left after the Supreme Elder of Glazed Gate won two items.
• Li Qianqing returned to Changling Mountain, warned Li Zhongyun to watch Glazed Gate, and spent the next ten years cultivating the first layer of the Divine Soul Seal to Lesser Mastery.
• Li Tongxin broke through to Late-Stage Spirit Transformation, and Li Qianqing guided him on cultivation.
• Li Qianqing emerged from seclusion after refining Sixth-Order Low Grade pills, then received Azure Sky Valley’s arrest warrant for Thousand-Faced Lord and decided to ignore it.
• Li Qianqing sensed that Li Hongbin had broken through from his cave dwelling.

Li Hongbin broke through to Late-Stage Spirit Transformation, and Li Qianqing later helped his friend Yao Yuntao prepare to enter seclusion for the Void Refinement stage. Thirty-eight years later, Yao Yuntao succeeded, and news of the new Void Refinement cultivator on Changling Mountain spread, though outsiders mistakenly suspected he was a Li clan member.

• Li Hongbin successfully broke through to Late-Stage Spirit Transformation, becoming the Li clan’s second cultivator at that stage, and Li Qianqing encouraged him to aim for Void Refinement.
• Yao Yuntao told Li Qianqing he planned to enter seclusion to break through to Void Refinement, and Li Qianqing shared advice and breakthrough insights with him.
• Li Qianqing accompanied Yao Yuntao into seclusion, while Li Yuyan promised to improve her formation skills before her master emerged.
• Thirty-eight years later, Yao Yuntao’s breakthrough caused a great disturbance on Changling Mountain, and cultivators nearby realized a Void Refinement cultivator had been born there.
• News of the breakthrough spread through Flowing Cloud City, where Wu Yiyang learned from Li Yongfeng that the new Void Refinement cultivator was Li Qianqing’s friend and a Sixth-Order Formation Grandmaster, not a member of the Li clan.

Glazed Gate and other Eastern Domain forces learned that Yao Yuntao was a Void Refinement cultivator and Sixth-Order Formation Grandmaster, prompting concern about the Li Clan’s strength. As the Li Clan continued receiving visitors, Glazed Gate’s sect leader arrived to discuss possible cooperation.

• Zhu Qingyi learned that a Sixth-Order Formation Grandmaster had broken through to Void Refinement on Changling Mountain and told Glazed Gate’s sect leader to investigate the Li Clan more carefully.
• News of Yao Yuntao’s breakthrough spread through the Thousand Wind Region, and Thousand-Faced Lord considered making contact with the Li Clan because they welcomed cultivators from the Mortal Expanse Realm.
• Li Qianqing and Yao Yuntao discussed the stream of visitors, declined to hold a Void Refinement Banquet, and advised Li Yuyan to focus more on cultivation.
• Li Zhongyun arrived with news that Glazed Gate’s sect leader was visiting, and Li Qianqing sent him to receive the visitor.
• Sect Leader Kong told Li Zhongyun that he had come to discuss cooperation, following a dispute between Glazed Gate’s Supreme Elders over how to approach the Li Clan.

The Glazed Gate's sect leader visited Changling Mountain, where Li Zhongyun discussed business and gave him a courteous but limited answer about future cooperation. Years later, Nan Dongchen reached Mid-Stage Void Refinement and carried out the Blood Race's plan by murdering the Mystic Stream Sect Supreme Elder, while Li Qianqing chose not to interfere; news of the Blood Race's growing influence reached Flowing Cloud City.

• Li Zhongyun agreed to buy goods from the Glazed Gate and told its sect leader that the Li Clan might help if foreign races threatened them.
• Li Zhongyun reported the meeting to Li Qianqing, who considered how he might help the Glazed Gate with a future internal betrayal.
• Yao Yuntao's identity as a Void Refinement-stage Array Formation Grandmaster spread among cultivators visiting the Li Clan.
• Nan Dongchen refused to act for the Blood Race until he reached Mid-Stage Void Refinement, then agreed to carry out its request.
• Li Qianqing learned that Nan Dongchen had murdered the Mystic Stream Sect Supreme Elder and left the matter to Long Ling.
• Li Yongfeng sent Li Qianqing news that the Blood Race had bewitched a Void Refinement cultivator, as Wu Yiyang noted the rarity of such cases.

Long Ling accepted a Ten Thousand Immortals Hall mission to eliminate the Blood Clan defector Nan Dongchen and visited Li Qianqing before heading to Mystic Stream City. After Li Xunting received an Azure Wave Spirit Jade to aid her breakthrough, Long Ling departed with Li Qianqing for Flowing Cloud City, where she used the teleportation array to continue her mission.

• Li Yongfeng and Wu Yiyang discussed the Blood Clan's aims, while news of Nan Dongchen's betrayal spread through Flowing Cloud City's Cultivator Market.
• Long Ling accepted the mission to eliminate Nan Dongchen and traveled from Ten Thousand Immortals Hall headquarters to Changling Mountain to meet Li Qianqing.
• Long Ling told Li Qianqing about her mission, and he offered help, though she said she could handle Nan Dongchen herself.
• Li Xunting told Li Qianqing she planned to enter seclusion to break through to Late-Stage Spirit Transformation, and he gave her an Azure Wave Spirit Jade.
• Long Ling and Li Qianqing traveled to Flowing Cloud City, where Long Ling used the teleportation array to head toward Mystic Stream City.

Li Xunting broke through to Late-Stage Spirit Transformation and raised her Ice Spiritual Body’s Potential Excavation to eighty percent, while Nan Dongchen continued killing Human Race cultivators to meet a Blood Race bargain. When Nan Dongchen hunted a Peak Spirit Transformation cultivator, a Black Robe Steward of Ten Thousand Immortals Hall intervened.

• Li Qianqing told Li Yongfeng that the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall’s deacons would deal with Nan Dongchen and gave him cultivation resources.
• Ji Yuelan visited Changling Mountain, learned Li Xunting was in seclusion, and left after Li Qianqing explained that Xunting could reach eighty percent Potential Excavation of her Ice Spiritual Body.
• Li Xunting emerged from seclusion after breaking through to Late-Stage Spirit Transformation, with her Ice Spiritual Body’s Potential Excavation reaching eighty percent.
• Nan Dongchen offered a Blood Race member one Mid-Stage Void Refinement corpse and two Peak Spirit Transformation corpses, but the Blood Race member demanded more to help him advance.
• Nan Dongchen trapped a Blue-Clothed Peak Spirit Transformation cultivator, who escaped when transparent threads tore open the blood-colored barrier and revealed a Black Robe Steward of Ten Thousand Immortals Hall.

Long Ling killed Nan Dongchen and returned to Changling Mountain to tell Li Qianqing the mission was complete, while warning him that the border regions remained unsettled. After the Barbarian Race briefly visited Flowing Cloud City, news of Nan Dongchen’s death spread and Long Ling’s reputation grew.

• Nan Dongchen tried to escape Long Ling’s traps, but she predicted his moves, pierced his defenses, and killed him with her transparent threads.
• Long Ling gave the Blue-Clothed cultivator a token to claim his reward at the Mystic Stream Sect, then brought Nan Dongchen’s corpse to the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall.
• In Blood Race Territory, a Blood Race cultivator called Nan Dongchen useless, while another noted he had helped kill a Human Race Mid-Stage Void Refinement cultivator.
• Long Ling told Li Qianqing that Nan Dongchen was dead and that he had killed four Peak Spirit Transformation cultivators before she defeated him.
• Li Qianqing learned from Li Yongfeng that the Barbarian Race had appeared in Flowing Cloud City, and he told Li Yongfeng to monitor them; the visitors left after five days.
• News spread in Flowing Cloud City that Long Ling, an Early-Stage Void Refinement Black Robe Steward who had attended Li Qianqing’s Void Refinement Banquet, had killed Nan Dongchen.

Li Qianqing accepted Zhou Fenghua’s invitation to the Zhou Family Ancestor’s twentieth-thousand birthday and traveled to the Northern Domain with Li Xunming and Ling Shujing. He met the Zhou Family Ancestor, who welcomed him warmly, and the story left with the two elders discussing their clans before the banquet.

• News spread through the Thousand Wind Region and nearby regions that Long Ling had killed Nan Dongchen, a Mid-Stage Void Refinement Foreign Race traitor.
• Li Xunming and his wife brought Zhou Fenghua to Changling Mountain, where Li Qianqing agreed to attend the Zhou Family Ancestor’s twentieth-thousand birthday and invited Zhou Fenghua to stay for eight years.
• After eight years at Changling Mountain, Zhou Fenghua traveled with Li Qianqing, Li Xunming, and Ling Shujing through a teleportation array to the Zhou Family Ancestral Land.
• The Zhou Family Ancestor welcomed Li Qianqing at the mountain gate and sent Zhou Fenghua to show Li Xunming and Ling Shujing around the ancestral land.
• Li Qianqing and the Zhou Family Ancestor met on the highest peak, discussed their clans, and the Zhou Family Ancestor said he would introduce Li Qianqing to two friends at the birthday banquet.

Li Qianqing broke through to Mid-Stage Void Refinement after a little over ten years in seclusion, reaching a level of divine sense that made him one of the strongest Void Refinement cultivators in the Human Race’s territory. News of his breakthrough spread across the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain, where the Li family’s growing strength drew notice from other powers.

• A hundred years after attending the Zhou Family Ancestor’s birthday banquet, Li Qianqing learned that Long Ling had become a Mid-Stage Void Refinement Red Robe Steward of the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall.
• After roughly two hundred years of cultivation, Li Qianqing reached Peak Early-Stage Void Refinement and entered seclusion to break through.
• Ten years into Li Qianqing’s seclusion, Yao Yuntao and Li Yuyan sensed the disturbance and went with the Li family’s Spirit Transformation cultivators to wait outside his cave dwelling.
• Li Qianqing completed his breakthrough to Mid-Stage Void Refinement in a little over ten years and discovered his divine sense had doubled to a range of 80,000 miles.
• Li Qianqing congratulated Fire Spirit Fly and shared his breakthrough insights with Yao Yuntao before turning to cultivate the first layer of Divine Soul Seal.
• News of Li Qianqing’s breakthrough spread through Flowing Cloud City and reached Snow Moon Sect, where Fan Quanzhen judged that Li Qianqing would not seek to expand his influence.

News of Li Qianqing’s breakthrough to Mid-Stage Void Refinement reshaped how other forces viewed the Li family, while Li Xunming and Zhou Fenghua discovered a second Caopan Plate fragment. After Li Qianqing began fusing it, Li Xunming and Ling Shujing reached Late-Stage Spirit Transformation and left the Thousand Wind Region to explore another region.

• Ji Yuelan learned of Li Qianqing’s breakthrough and decided to focus on reaching Peak Spirit Transformation, while the sect master of Glazed Gate and the Zhou Family Ancestor considered how their ties with the Li family affected their plans.
• Li Xunming, Ling Shujing, and Zhou Fenghua explored ruins beneath Lan Water Lake, where Zhou Fenghua found several damaged objects and Li Xunming recognized one as a likely fragment of an ancient treasure held by Li Qianqing.
• Twenty years later, Li Xunming and Ling Shujing returned to Changling Mountain to prepare for secluded cultivation, and Li Xunming gave Li Qianqing the second fragment of the Caopan Plate that Zhou Fenghua had found.
• Li Qianqing confirmed the fragment was part of the Caopan Plate and began fusing it, while Li Xunming and Ling Shujing entered seclusion to pursue Late-Stage Spirit Transformation.
• Li Xunming broke through to Late-Stage Spirit Transformation three years later, and Ling Shujing followed a year after him.
• Five years after Ling Shujing’s breakthrough, she and Li Xunming left Changling Mountain to travel beyond the Thousand Wind Region.

Li Qianqing completed the Caopan Plate’s second fragment fusion, began refining Seventh-Order Low-Grade pills, and established the Li family’s shop in Luan City. After his Tongxu Pills revealed his new alchemy rank to the region, Wu Tianyou visited and asked again whether he would join the Pill Hall, but Li Qianqing refused.

• Li Qianqing completed the fusion of the Caopan Plate’s second fragment and assigned Li Qiuben to grow spiritual medicines needed for seventh-order pill refining.
• After seventy-five years, Li Qianqing refined his first furnace of Tongxu Pills, producing seven pills, then completed four more furnaces over the next two years.
• The Li family opened a shop in Luan City, where its sale of Tongxu Pills spread news that Li Qianqing could refine Seventh-Order Low-Grade pills.
• Wu Tianyou visited Li Qianqing to congratulate him and asked whether he would join the Pill Hall, but Li Qianqing said he would never join, even if he became a Ninth Order Alchemist.

Li Qianqing learned that Cloud Soaring Sect’s two Body Integration cultivators were in conflict and advised Snow Moon Sect not to join Fan Sect’s efforts to exploit the turmoil. Fan Sect elder Shi Yucheng then arrived at the Li Clan to discuss the crisis with Li Qianqing.

• Li Zhongyun reported that Cloud Soaring Sect’s two Body Integration cultivators had an apparently irreconcilable disagreement, and Li Qianqing told him to observe without interfering.
• News of Cloud Soaring Sect’s internal turmoil spread through the Thousand Wind Region, while rumors offered conflicting explanations for the dispute.
• Ji Yuelan told Li Qianqing that Fan Sect wanted Snow Moon Sect’s cooperation to take advantage of Cloud Soaring Sect’s possible collapse, and Li Qianqing advised her sect to stay out of the conflict.
• Li Qianqing told Ji Yuelan that Long Ling had reached Mid-Stage Void Refinement and become a Red Robe Steward of Ten Thousand Immortals Hall.
• Fan Sect elder Shi Yucheng arrived at Changling Mountain and requested an audience with Li Qianqing about Cloud Soaring Sect.