Chapter Summaries

Li Qianqing refused Fan Sect’s offer to join its campaign against Cloud Soaring Sect and warned Elder Shi after Elder Shi insulted him. Ten years later, the Li Clan watched the conflict unfold as Ten Thousand Immortals Hall prepared to intervene and the Blood Race considered inflaming the trouble.

• Li Qianqing rejected Elder Shi’s offer of a Rainbow Void Pill and news of the Sky Veil Fusion Stone, then pressured him into apologizing for calling him greedy.
• Elder Shi reported back to the Supreme Elder of Fan Sect, who judged Li Qianqing’s strength to be on par with a sixth-ranked force and told Elder Shi not to approach the Li Clan again.
• Ten years later, Li Zhongyun told Li Qianqing that several Void Refinement forces had begun targeting Cloud Soaring Sect, and Li Qianqing ordered the Li Clan to watch without interfering.
• Long Ling sent Li Qianqing a message that Ten Thousand Immortals Hall would likely take action over Cloud Soaring Sect.
• Two Void Refinement members of the Blood Race discussed the conflict and planned to send subordinates to intensify it.

As the Fan Sect’s campaign against the Cloud Soaring Sect escalated, Blood Race members attacked Red Horn City, prompting Li Qianqing to consider a future trip into Blood Race territory. The Ten Thousand Immortals Hall sent an Elder with Real Power to the Cloud Soaring Sect, threatening the Fan Sect’s plans and leaving its Supreme Elders to decide what to do next.

• Balut told another Void Refinement Blood Race member that his subordinates had acted and discussed trying to bewitch another Human Race cultivator.
• Three years after Li Qianqing received Long Ling’s news, cultivators in Flowing Cloud City discussed the Fan Sect’s coalition against the Cloud Soaring Sect, and Li Yongfeng told Wu Yiyang that the Li Family had not joined it.
• Blood Race members and evil cultivators attacked Red Horn City, caused severe losses, and escaped after the city sent out calls for support.
• Li Qianqing learned of the Red Horn City attack, judged it a small-scale invasion, and ordered Li Zhongyun to report any further Blood Race news promptly.
• The Fan Sect’s five Supreme Elders learned that the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall had sent an Elder with Real Power to the Cloud Soaring Sect and recognized that their plan was in jeopardy.

After the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall intervened in Cloud Soaring Sect’s conflict with Fan Sect and its allies, Li Qianqing learned that the Li Family had avoided the fallout and helped Li Hongbin prepare to attempt Void Refinement. Thirty years after Li Hongbin began his breakthrough, he failed during its second stage, but Li Qianqing found that his injuries were not severe and his five elements had not reversed.

• Fan Sect and the twelve allied Void Refinement forces anticipated Cloud Soaring Sect’s retaliation after the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall’s Elder with Real Power settled the conflict.
• Fan Quanzhen visited Li Qianqing to thank him for advising Snow Moon Sect against joining Fan Sect’s alliance.
• Cloud Soaring Sect punished Fan Sect and the twelve allied forces without harming their fundamental interests, while the Li Family remained uninvolved.
• Li Hongbin reached ten-tenths mastery of the Power of Heaven and Earth, and Li Qianqing refined a Water Pill Root so he could supplement his missing water spiritual root.
• After supplementing his spiritual root, Li Hongbin entered seclusion to attack Void Refinement, and Li Qianqing later found him injured after the attempt failed.
• Li Qianqing checked Li Hongbin and confirmed that his injuries were not too serious and that Five Elements Reversal had not occurred.

Li Qianqing received a Seven Stars Token from Thousand-Faced Lord and chose Li Xunting to enter the Seven Stars Sect Ruins when they opened. Three years later, Li Qianqing and Li Xunting arrived at the ruins ahead of the others as night fell.

• Li Hongbin recovered after failing to break through to Void Refinement, and Li Qianqing urged him to study the failure while he restored his foundation.
• A disguised Thousand-Faced Lord visited Li Qianqing and gave him a Seven Stars Token taken from Azure Sky Valley.
• Li Qianqing decided that Li Xunting would use the token to enter the Seven Stars Sect Ruins, which would open in three years.
• Li Qianqing and Li Xunting reached the Seven Stars Sect Ruins at dusk, apparently before the other arrivals.

Li Qianqing and Li Xunting met the other holders of Seven Stars Tokens as the Seven Stars Sect Ruins prepared to open, while Azure Sky Valley tried to recover the tokens. The Azure Sky Valley supreme elder grew suspicious of Thousand-Faced Lord, and his elders began discussing whether to attack him inside the ruins.

• Thousand-Faced Lord arrived, and Li Qianqing confirmed that he had come to accompany Li Xunting into the Seven Stars Sect Ruins.
• The Azure Sky Valley supreme elder demanded to know how Li Qianqing obtained his token, but Li Qianqing refused to sell it for less than 3,600 High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• The Azure Sky Valley supreme elder offered Thousand-Faced Lord 300 High-Grade Spirit Stones for his token, but Thousand-Faced Lord invoked Li Qianqing's higher valuation and gained his support.
• Cloud Soaring Sect Elder Bai arrived with a core disciple, greeted Li Qianqing, and offered Thousand-Faced Lord a Cloud Soaring Sect core disciple position, which he declined.
• Thousand-Faced Lord, Li Qianqing, and Elder Bai each claimed to know the cultivator on Azure Sky Valley's wanted notice and said they had obtained their tokens from him, deepening the supreme elder's suspicions.
• An Azure Sky Valley elder privately urged Supreme Elder Qian to make a move against Thousand-Faced Lord after they entered the ruins.

Li Xunting explored the Seven Stars Sect Ruins and collected Glazed Spring Spiritual Milk and spiritual herbs before an Azure Sky Valley elder tried to seize her discoveries. She drove him away and found a Sky Ember Fire Spirit that could supplement her deficient Fire Spiritual Root.

• Azure Sky Valley's supreme elder instructed his cultivators to prioritize gathering resources, avoid the Cloud Soaring Sect's core disciple, and only contend with other cultivators when circumstances allowed.
• Li Xunting entered the ruins and explored a cave abode, where she collected a pool of Glazed Spring Spiritual Milk and harvested spiritual herbs from a Small Herb Garden.
• Li Xunting used a tool made by Yao Yuntao to identify a restriction she could break by force, then fired thirty-six arrows from her Ice Crystal Bow to open an underground cave.
• An Azure Sky Valley elder approached to seize the cave's contents, but Li Xunting's tracking ice arrow forced him to defend himself, and he fled after she continued to threaten him.
• Li Xunting entered the cave and discovered a Sky Ember Fire Spirit, a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root that could supplement her Fire Spiritual Root.

Li Xunting returned from the Seven Stars Sect Ruins with the Sky Ember Fire Spirit, while Li Qianqing and Azure Sky Valley weighed the remaining Seven Stars Tokens. Years later, Li Tongxin completed his Five Spiritual Roots and successfully broke through to Void Refinement, becoming the Li Clan’s second cultivator at that stage.

• Li Xunting collected the Sky Ember Fire Spirit and Scarlet Crystal Stone, then left the Seven Stars Sect Ruins before they closed.
• Thousand-Faced Lord, Li Xunting, and the remaining cultivators emerged; Li Qianqing recognized the Sky Ember Fire Spirit as Li Xunting’s greatest gain and planned to give it to her.
• The Supreme Elder of Azure Sky Valley discussed the Seven Stars Tokens with his elders and judged that reclaiming the token held by the Li Clan would be easier than recovering Cloud Soaring Sect’s token.
• Li Tongxin completed his Earth Spiritual Root, joined his other four roots, and prepared to attempt the Void Refinement stage after receiving Li Qianqing’s guidance.
• After thirty-nine years in seclusion, Li Tongxin successfully reached Void Refinement, and Yao Yuntao congratulated Li Qianqing on the Li Clan’s growing strength.

Li Tongxin broke through to Void Refinement, and thirty years later Li Hongbin succeeded on his second attempt, giving the Li Clan three members at that stage and four when Yao Yuntao was counted. The Azure Sky Valley Master responded by sending Supreme Elder Qian to negotiate for the Seven Stars Token at the Li Clan’s previously stated price.

• Li Tongxin successfully broke through to Void Refinement, and Li Qianqing congratulated him as the Li Clan’s second cultivator at that stage.
• Li Hongbin told Li Tongxin that he planned another attempt at Void Refinement after recovering from his earlier failure.
• Wen Wanxi learned of Li Tongxin’s breakthrough and received an invitation to his Void Refinement Banquet.
• Cultivators in Flowing Cloud City discussed the Li Clan’s rise to eighth among the Void Refinement forces in the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain.
• Thirty years later, Li Hongbin began his second attempt at Void Refinement and succeeded after thirty-six years of seclusion.
• After learning of Li Hongbin’s breakthrough, the Azure Sky Valley Master sent Supreme Elder Qian to seek the Seven Stars Token from the Li Clan for three thousand five hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones.

After Li Hongbin became the Li Clan’s second Void Refinement cultivator, the clan rose to sixth among the region’s Void Refinement forces, prompting Azure Sky Valley to seek closer ties. Li Qianqing sold Qian Hongchang a Seven Stars Token and map, then left open future cooperation against Nine Peaks Sect while Azure Sky Valley focused on Cloud Soaring Sect.

• Li Hongbin’s breakthrough spread through Flowing Cloud City, and the Li Clan’s rise to sixth place made it the leading cultivation clan in the Eastern Domain.
• Wu Yiyang learned of Li Hongbin’s breakthrough and discussed how the Li Clan might help Flowing Cloud City qualify for an upgrade.
• Qian Hongchang of Azure Sky Valley visited Li Qianqing and bought the Seven Stars Token for three thousand five hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Qianqing sold Qian Hongchang Li Xunting’s map of the Seven Stars Sect Ruins for ten thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Qianqing revealed that the Li Clan had some friction with Nine Peaks Sect, and Qian Hongchang proposed cooperation against it.
• Li Qianqing postponed cooperation until Azure Sky Valley had dealt with Cloud Soaring Sect, then returned to cultivation while considering how to use the rivalry against Nine Peaks Sect.

After a thousand years of relative calm, Li Qianqing broke through to Late-Stage Void Refinement, strengthening the Li Clan’s standing and drawing attention across the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain. In the Blood Race Territory, Balut reviewed news about the Li Clan and asked a subordinate what he thought of them.

• Supreme Elder Qian told the Azure Sky Valley Master that the Li Clan had a conflict with the Nine Peaks Sect and that he had bought a map of the Seven Stars Sect Ruins.
• A thousand years later, Li Qianqing advanced the Divine Soul Seal’s third layer, received news that Long Ling had reached Late-Stage Void Refinement, and then focused on cultivation.
• After reaching the peak of Mid-Stage Void Refinement, Li Qianqing entered seclusion and broke through to Late-Stage Void Refinement in under five years.
• Fire Spirit Fly congratulated Li Qianqing, while clan members and Yao Yuntao gathered outside his cave dwelling to celebrate his breakthrough.
• Wu Yiyang learned from Li Yongfeng of Li Qianqing’s breakthrough and said Flowing Cloud City’s promotion to a large city was assured; news of the breakthrough then spread among the region’s Void Refinement forces and cultivators.
• Balut received news about the Li Clan’s rapid rise and asked a Spirit Transformation Blood Race member for his thoughts on the clan.

Balut and four other Blood Race Void Refinement cultivators debated how to contain the rising Li Clan, agreeing to hinder its development while Launala worked to gain control of Nine Peaks Sect. At Changling Mountain, Li Qianqing prepared Li Xunting to replenish her final spiritual root as she approached a future attempt to break through to Void Refinement.

• Balut told a Spirit Transformation subordinate that the Blood Race planned to move against the Human Race, and the subordinate warned that the Li Clan could become a threat if its clan head reached Body Integration.
• Balut summoned four nearby Void Refinement Blood Race members and shared news of the Li Clan's rapid rise and its clan head's breakthrough to Late-Stage Void Refinement.
• Launala revealed that she had gained influence over some Nine Peaks Sect higher-ups and asked for five thousand years and the others' help to control most of the sect's leadership.
• The Blood Race members agreed that Balut would coordinate efforts to undermine the Li Clan indirectly, while Launala continued her plan to control Nine Peaks Sect.
• Li Qianqing told Li Xunting she could use the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root, Sky Ember Fire Spirit, to replenish her final Fire Spiritual Root and advised her on how her Ice Spiritual Body could aid her future breakthrough.

After You Tianchen warned Li Qianqing that rogue cultivators were secretly asking about the Li Clan, Li Qianqing ordered the clan to take precautions and suspected the Blood Race was targeting him. Li Xingwen was ambushed by two Spirit Transformation evil cultivators, while Ji Yuelan sensed trouble nearby and rushed to investigate.

• A Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation evil cultivator told his Nascent Soul Late Stage subordinate that the Blood Race had increased rewards for killing Li Clan cultivators and ordered him to watch for vulnerable Li Clan Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• You Tianchen told Li Qianqing that rogue cultivators were secretly gathering information about the Li Clan, and Li Qianqing agreed they were likely connected to the Blood Race.
• Li Qianqing warned You Tianchen that the Blood Race might invade, then ordered Li Zhongyun to have Li Clan cultivators take precautions when traveling.
• Li Xingwen was trapped in a dark barrier by two Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation evil cultivators, who attacked him with a giant red tooth and a blood python.
• Ji Yuelan, newly at Peak Spirit Transformation, sensed an abnormality more than three thousand li ahead while traveling toward Changling Mountain and hurried to investigate.

Ji Yuelan rescued Li Xingwen from two Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation evil cultivators ambushing him on the road to Flowing Cloud City, then brought their corpses to Li Qianqing and explained what had happened. Li Qianqing traced the attack to the Blood Clan and, after hearing that Ji Yuelan had reached Peak Spirit Transformation, offered to refine Pill Roots for her without charge.

• Ji Yuelan sensed an anomaly, arrived at the barrier trapping Li Xingwen, and shattered it with a lightning strike.
• The two evil cultivators fled, but Ji Yuelan killed the barrier-setter while Li Xingwen held off the dark-red-haired cultivator.
• Ji Yuelan killed the second evil cultivator, then let Li Xingwen continue to Flowing Cloud City while she carried the bodies to Changling Mountain.
• Ji Yuelan told Li Qianqing that the evil cultivators had ambushed Xingwen, and Li Qianqing explained that the attack was connected to the Blood Clan.
• Ji Yuelan told Li Qianqing that she had reached Peak Spirit Transformation, and he offered to refine Pill Roots for her without charging a fee.

Ji Yuelan asked Li Qianqing to refine two pill roots, then warned Li Xunting about an attack on the Li Clan as evil cultivators grew more active. Thirty years later, Li Xunting entered seclusion to attempt Void Refinement, and twenty years after that Li Haorui went missing near Flowing Cloud City.

• Ji Yuelan gave Li Qianqing materials to refine the Golden Core Root and Fire Pill Root, and he invited her to stay at Changling Mountain while he worked.
• Ji Yuelan told Li Xunting that Li Xingwen had been ambushed by evil cultivators, but Li Xunting chose to focus on preparing for her Void Refinement breakthrough.
• Evil cultivators discussed the risks of targeting the Li Clan and hinted that the Blood Clan was planning a major operation against it.
• After more than ten years of preparation, Li Xunting entered seclusion to attempt Void Refinement.
• Twenty years later, Li Zhongyun told Li Qianqing that Li Haorui had gone missing, likely near Flowing Cloud City, and Li Qianqing ordered an inquiry into his last known whereabouts.

After Li Haorui’s disappearance was traced to a Blood Race member, Li Qianqing arranged for Li Tongxin to secretly protect family cultivators leaving Changling Mountain while Li Yongfeng strengthened patrols around Flowing Cloud City. Twenty years later, Li Xunting successfully broke through to Void Refinement, and she asked Li Qianqing whether there was news of Ji Yuelan.

• Li Yongfeng found evidence that a Blood Race member had taken Li Haorui and told Li Qianqing the Blood Race might still be hiding near Flowing Cloud City.
• Li Qianqing ordered Li Tongxin to secretly protect Li family cultivators who went out, using their journeys to lure out the Blood Race.
• A Blood Envoy told three evil cultivators to hide and gather information on the Li family after the family reacted quickly to Li Haorui’s disappearance.
• Over the next twenty years, Li Yongfeng strengthened patrols, captured several Nascent Soul Realm evil cultivators, and saw the Li family’s Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators go out less often.
• After forty years of seclusion, Li Xunting completed her breakthrough to Void Refinement as Li Qianqing, Li Hongbin, Yao Yuntao, and other cultivators sensed the surrounding disturbance.
• Li Xunting asked Li Qianqing whether there was news of Ji Yuelan, and he said he believed she would also break through to Void Refinement.

After Li Xunting broke through to Void Refinement, she planned to hunt evil cultivators around Flowing Cloud City, while Li Qianqing urged her to adapt to her new realm first. Her breakthrough raised the Li Family to the Eastern Domain’s top three and alarmed the Blood Race, whose agents began weighing how to strike back.

• Li Xunting asked Li Qianqing about the evil cultivators, learned of Li Haorui’s likely death at Blood Race hands, and abandoned her plan to enter Blood Race Territory in favor of hunting nearby evil cultivators.
• Li Qianqing agreed that Li Xunting could join the operations after three years, once she had adapted to Void Refinement, and she asked to wait for Ji Yuelan before deciding about her Void Refinement Banquet.
• Li Yongfeng and Wu Yiyang celebrated Li Xunting’s breakthrough, while Li Yongfeng considered whether to pursue Void Refinement through qi refinement or Body Refinement.
• News of Li Xunting’s breakthrough spread through Flowing Cloud City, where cultivators noted that the Li Family had entered the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain’s top three.
• A Blood Race agent learned of Li Xunting’s breakthrough and reported it to his Void Refinement Lord, who demanded that the Blood Race eliminate a promising Li Family cultivator.
• The Spirit Transformation Blood Race member decided he needed to pursue an opportunity to kill a Li Family cultivator and rely on evil cultivators to gather information.

Ji Yuelan broke through to the Void Refinement stage and joined Li Xunting in searching for the Blood Clan member who had killed a Li Clan cultivator. Li Xunting found and killed him, then reported that he had served a Blood Clan member named Balut.

• Ji Yuelan became a Void Refinement cultivator, and she and Li Xunting agreed to hold their Void Refinement Banquets together.
• Ji Yuelan visited the Li Clan, and she and Li Xunting decided to compete by hunting Blood Clan members near Flowing Cloud City.
• After fifteen years of searching, Li Xunting used an Array Sensing Plate to locate a concealed cave and killed the Spirit Transformation stage Blood Clan member hiding inside.
• Li Xunting returned with the corpse, and she and Ji Yuelan went to see Li Qianqing; Ji Yuelan conceded that she had lost their hunting competition.
• Li Xunting told Li Qianqing that the Blood Clan member had served Balut, whom Li Qianqing recognized as a Void Refinement Blood Clan member.

After the Li Clan killed a Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation Blood Race member, Li Qianqing spread the news to warn Human Race forces and prepare for retaliation. The Ten Thousand Immortals Hall sent Long Ling to offer help and goodwill, and she offered to accompany Li Qianqing into Blood Race Territory.

• Li Qianqing told Li Zhongyun to publicize the Li Clan's killing of a Spirit Transformation Blood Race member and informed Li Yongfeng.
• Li Yongfeng reported the threat to Wu Yiyang, who reinforced Flowing Cloud City's defenses and issued a warning to cultivators.
• Azure Sky Valley learned of the Blood Race's appearance and considered using the crisis to ease Cloud Soaring Sect's pressure on them.
• A Ten Thousand Immortals Hall elder sent Long Ling to the Li Clan to offer help and invite Li Qianqing to join the Hall if he reached Body Integration.
• Long Ling met Li Qianqing at Changling Mountain, learned he planned to retaliate in Blood Race Territory, and offered to go with him.

Li Qianqing welcomed Long Ling to stay at Changling Mountain, where she sparred with Li Xunting and began guiding her after easily stopping her strongest arrow. In the Blood Race Territory, Balut gathered the other four Void Refinement Blood Race members to report his subordinate’s death and discuss what to do next, but their disagreement threatened his plan.

• Li Qianqing refused Long Ling’s offer to accompany him to the Blood Race Territory, and she promised to gather information for him before accepting his invitation to stay at Changling Mountain.
• Li Xunting asked Long Ling for a spar, and Long Ling agreed to fight without suppressing her cultivation.
• Li Xunting’s strongest arrow shattered before reaching Long Ling, who then ended the exchange and offered to help improve her technique.
• Balut told the other four Void Refinement Blood Race members that his subordinate had died in Human Race territory after killing one Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.
• Balut defended his subordinate and compared the Blood Race members’ efforts with those of their human Blood Slaves, then admitted he had spoken wrongly as the others objected.

Balut failed to win support from the other Blood Race Lords for his plan against the Li Clan, leaving its next stage to run through Blood Slaves alone. On Changling Mountain, Ji Yuelan learned how Long Ling had improved Li Xunting’s combat skills, then wondered whether Li Qianqing had compared his strength with Long Ling.

• Balut’s fellow Void Refinement Blood Race members refused to join his plan, though they agreed to leave the Blood Slave missions active and wait for Launala to take control of the Nine Peaks Sect.
• Balut accepted that he would have to continue the plan with his own forces, while the other Blood Race members returned to their territories.
• Li Qianqing met Iron Carp Pao Pao at Changling Mountain and urged him to reach the peak of fifth rank and break through to sixth rank.
• Ji Yuelan visited Li Xunting to learn more about Long Ling, and Li Xunting warned that Long Ling was too formidable for Ji Yuelan to spar with unless she wanted guidance.
• Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan sparred, and Ji Yuelan found herself suppressed by Li Xunting’s improved techniques.
• Ji Yuelan asked whether Li Qianqing had sparred with Long Ling and suggested that Li Xunting arrange a comparison, but Li Xunting refused.