Chapter Summaries

Li Yongfeng broke through to the Void Refinement stage after more than thirty-seven years of seclusion, strengthening the Li Clan and deterring nearby evil cultivators. Over a century later, Flowing Cloud City received the result of its upgrade application, and Wu Yiyang learned that he was now the City Lord of a large city.

• Cultivators in Flowing Cloud City discussed Li Yongfeng's long seclusion and the Li Clan's standing among the region's Void Refinement forces.
• Li Yongfeng completed his breakthrough to the Void Refinement stage, becoming the Li Clan's fifth such cultivator, and went to Flowing Cloud City.
• Wu Yiyang welcomed Li Yongfeng, urged him to consolidate his cultivation, and looked forward to his Void Refinement Banquet.
• Evil cultivators near Yingjing City learned of Li Yongfeng's breakthrough and began abandoning plans to target the Li Clan.
• More than a century later, Wu Yiyang received a message from Divine Prefecture Headquarters confirming Flowing Cloud City's upgrade to a large city.

Wu Yiyang successfully broke through to the Void Refinement stage and gave Li Yongfeng more authority, while the Iron Carp Pao Pao advanced to the sixth order. The Li family’s rising strength earned it second place in the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain ranking list.

• Wu Yiyang waited for Flowing Cloud City’s expansion to finish, then entered seclusion and broke through to the Void Refinement stage after forty-seven years.
• Wu Yiyang delegated more authority to Li Yongfeng in gratitude for the Li family’s support.
• Li Qianqing watched as the Iron Carp Pao Pao broke through to the sixth order and emerged from the lake with a more dragonlike form.
• The Azure Sky Valley Master learned of the Iron Carp Pao Pao’s breakthrough and anticipated cooperating with the increasingly powerful Li family against the Nine Peaks Sect.
• Cultivators discussed the Li family’s seven Void Refinement cultivators, and the updated ranking placed the Li family second, ahead of the Carefree Sect.

Li Qianqing entered the Blood Race Territory to search for the final fragment of the Caopan Plate, which he had previously found in Laetitia’s territory. After twenty-eight years of searching, the Caopan Plate reacted near a Blood Race trading site.

• Li Qianqing cultivated the third layer of the Divine Soul Seal to Greater Mastery, explained his absence to Li Xunting, and told her he was going to the Blood Race Territory.
• Li Qianqing traveled through Flowing Cloud City and crossed into the Blood Race Territory, where he began searching Laetitia’s territory for the Caopan Plate fragment.
• A Nascent Soul Realm Blood Race member asked Bruce to identify a strange fragment, and Bruce judged it was probably part of a Human Race ancient treasure.
• After twenty-eight years, Li Qianqing found no reaction near Laetitia’s small treasure vault and searched other locations in her territory.
• The Caopan Plate trembled toward a Blood Race trading site, and Li Qianqing realized the fragment was nearby.

Li Qianqing acquired the final fragment of the Cao Huan Plate in a Blood Race trading place, then traveled to Balut’s territory and killed the Void Refinement Blood Race Lord with a surprise attack. The chapter left the Blood Race investigating Balut’s death without knowing who had killed him.

• Li Qianqing disguised himself as a Nascent Soul Blood Race member and bought the final Cao Huan Plate fragment for one hundred Mid-Grade Blood Spirit Stones.
• Li Qianqing traveled for a year to Balut’s territory, removed the bloodstains from the fragment, and kept it from fusing with the Cao Huan Plate until he returned to Changling Mountain.
• Balut learned that the Nine Peaks Sect and Cloud Soaring Sect had come into conflict, recognized Launala’s likely involvement, and resumed cultivating in his Blood Pool.
• Li Qianqing used a divine sense attack to incapacitate Balut, then killed him and left the territory.
• Ackerman informed Laetitia that Balut was dead and showed her the final breaths of Balut’s memories, which revealed no attacker.
• Laetitia told Ackerman that the Cloud Soaring Sect’s two Integrated Body cultivators remained in the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain, and asked about the cultivators in its Southern and Northern Domains.

Laetitia and Bai Lingfeng investigated Balut’s death, while Li Qianqing confirmed to Li Xunting that he had killed the Blood Race Lord and learned that Li Xunming had reached Void Refinement. A thousand years later, Azure Sky Valley prepared to contact the Li Clan about dealing with Nine Peaks Sect.

• Laetitia agreed to investigate Balut’s death and planned to warn the other Blood Race Lords and inspect Balut’s territory.
• Bai Lingfeng traced teleportation records to Li Qianqing and inferred that he had killed Balut, then considered whether the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall had any compromised members.
• Li Qianqing admitted to Li Xunting that he had killed Balut, and he received word that Li Xunming had broken through to Void Refinement.
• Four Blood Race Lords discussed Balut’s death and Launala’s efforts to take control of Nine Peaks Sect, deciding she could wait for a better opportunity to act.
• A thousand years later, Azure Sky Valley’s Master asked the four Supreme Elders who would visit the Li Clan to discuss dealing with Nine Peaks Sect.

Azure Sky Valley Supreme Elder Qian Hongchang visited Li Qianqing to seek the Li Clan’s help against the Nine Peaks Sect, and the two sides also discussed pill-refining cooperation. Meanwhile, the Nine Peaks Sect’s five Void Refinement elders gathered to investigate the Li Clan’s involvement, while Zhuang Jingxuan concealed his Blood Race ties.

• Azure Sky Valley decided to send Qian Hongchang to ask Li Qianqing for cooperation against the Nine Peaks Sect and to discuss pill refining.
• Li Qianqing agreed that the Li Clan could contribute up to thirty percent of the effort, provided Azure Sky Valley led the plan, and offered to advise once a plan was ready.
• Qian Hongchang and Li Qianqing discussed Azure Sky Valley paying spirit stones and herbs for Li Qianqing to refine seventh-order pills.
• After Qian Hongchang left, Li Qianqing considered how to use the campaign against the Nine Peaks Sect to expose its secret collusion with the Blood Race.
• The Nine Peaks Sect’s five Void Refinement elders met, and Zhuang Jingxuan accused Hu Yongfeng of having a private grudge with the Li Clan as they questioned why the Li Clan was helping Azure Sky Valley.

The Nine Peaks Sect learned that the Li Clan was helping Azure Sky Valley and sent Supreme Elder Zhuang Jingxuan to negotiate, while Li Qianqing revealed to Thousand-Faced Lord that the Nine Peaks Sect was colluding with the Blood Clan. Li Qianqing attacked Zhuang Jingxuan during their meeting, leaving the Blood Clan-linked elder unable to activate his Natal Magic Treasure.

• The Nine Peaks Sect's Supreme Elders chose Zhuang Jingxuan to contact the Li Clan, and he secretly consulted Blood Clan Void Refinement Lord Launala, who told him to befriend the Li Clan and prioritize its interests if necessary.
• Thousand-Faced Lord visited Li Qianqing, learned that the Nine Peaks Sect was likely colluding with the Blood Clan, and agreed not to interfere with the Nine Peaks Sect while the Li Clan handled the matter.
• Three months later, Zhuang Jingxuan arrived at Changling Mountain to negotiate with Li Qianqing and offered the Nine Peaks Sect's benefits in exchange for the Li Clan's support.
• When Zhuang Jingxuan said the Li Clan's demand for twenty percent of the Nine Peaks Sect's yearly profits could be discussed, Li Qianqing questioned his loyalty and attacked him with a colossal flame dragon.
• Zhuang Jingxuan tried to summon his Natal Magic Treasure but found that Li Qianqing's heat had left him unable to activate it.

Li Qianqing discovered that Zhuang Jingxuan, the Nine Peaks Sect's Supreme Elder, possessed Blood Race contact items and a Blood Race cultivation method, then handed him over to Long Ling of the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall. Li Qianqing and allies from Azure Sky Valley joined Long Ling to surround the Nine Peaks Sect, whose elders remained unaware of the reason for the siege.

• Li Qianqing trapped Zhuang Jingxuan, seized his storage items, and had Yao Yuntao remove the restrictions on Zhuang Jingxuan's best Storage Ring.
• Li Qianqing found a Red Stone used to contact the Blood Race and a blood-sealed cultivation-method Jade Slip, prompting him to alert Long Ling.
• Long Ling arrived, examined the evidence, took control of Zhuang Jingxuan, and agreed with Li Qianqing to surround the Nine Peaks Sect.
• Azure Sky Valley Master summoned the Supreme Elders and led them, along with Li Qianqing and Long Ling, toward the Nine Peaks Sect.
• Ten Void Refinement cultivators surrounded the Nine Peaks Sect from four directions while its Mountain Protecting Grand Array was active and its Supreme Elders remained unaware of the situation.

Li Qianqing helped expose Blood Race collaborators within the Nine Peaks Sect, leaving the sect weakened and under Ten Thousand Immortals Hall scrutiny. He returned to Changling Mountain to plan his cultivation, while news of the incident spread and reached the Blood Race Territory.

• Hu Yongfeng accused the Supreme Elders surnamed Xiong and Jiang of colluding with the Blood Race, and Hu, Xiong, and the neutral Supreme Elder subdued Jiang when he kept the Mountain Protecting Grand Array active.
• The Nine Peaks Sect elders began investigating their own ranks, while Long Ling stayed behind to handle the matter and Li Qianqing left with the Azure Sky Valley Master.
• Li Qianqing told the Azure Sky Valley Master that the Li Clan would not interfere in future conflicts between Azure Sky Valley and the weakened Nine Peaks Sect.
• Back at Changling Mountain, Li Qianqing planned to focus on reaching the peak of Void Refinement before pursuing the Body Integration Realm and the Thousand Petal Spiritual Flame.
• News that two Nine Peaks Sect Supreme Elders had colluded with the Blood Race spread through Flowing Cloud City's Cultivator Market, and a Spirit Transformation Blood Race member arrived to warn Launala that something terrible had happened.

Launala’s plan to control the Nine Peaks Sect collapsed after the Li Clan exposed its Blood Race connections, and she failed to gain support for attacking the Li Clan. Fifteen hundred years later, Long Ling reached the Body Integration Realm, while Li Qianqing reached the Void Refinement peak and prepared to attempt the same breakthrough.

• Launala learned that the Li Clan had exposed the Nine Peaks Sect’s collaborators, leaving her plans in the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain in ruins.
• Launala summoned three Void Refinement Blood Race Lords, but they refused to support an attack on the powerful Li Clan.
• Fifteen hundred years later, Long Ling broke through to the Body Integration Realm and sent Li Qianqing the news.
• Li Qianqing continued cultivating until he reached the Void Refinement peak twenty-one years later.
• Li Qianqing told the Li Clan’s Void Refinement cultivators that he would enter seclusion for fifty to one hundred years to attempt the Body Integration Realm.

Li Qianqing entered seclusion to break through from Peak Void Refinement to the Integrated Body stage and succeeded in less than fifty-one years, setting a new record. After celebrating with the Li Clan, he learned that Azure Sky Valley and Nine Peaks Sect had escalated their conflict.

• Before entering seclusion, Li Qianqing told Long Ling he planned to attempt the Integrated Body stage, then began the breakthrough with Fire Spirit Fly's assistance.
• After fifty years and nine months, a vast surge of spiritual energy gathered around the Li Clan Ancestral Land and drew cultivators from nearby areas to witness the breakthrough.
• Li Qianqing completed his breakthrough in less than fifty-one years, examined the Mysterious Pearl, and found his divine sense extended more than 360,000 li.
• Li Qianqing emerged from his cave dwelling and received congratulations from Li Xunting and the other clan members as the Li Clan became an Integrated Body cultivation clan.
• Li Zhongyun reported that the family had faced no internal problems during Li Qianqing's seclusion, while the conflict between Azure Sky Valley and Nine Peaks Sect had intensified.

Li Qianqing successfully broke through to the Body Integration Realm in fifty years and nine months, making the Li Clan the Human Race Territory’s 108th Body Integration force. The Ten Thousand Immortals Hall ranked the Li Clan 89th, and Cloud Soaring Sect Supreme Elder Ouyang Bo traveled to Changling Mountain to visit as Li Qianqing adapted to his new cultivation.

• Long Ling learned that Li Qianqing had broken through in fifty years and nine months and reported the news to the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall elders.
• At the elders’ meeting, Bai Lingfeng and Long Ling connected Li Qianqing to the death of a Late-Stage Void Refinement Blood Race member, and the elders examined the Li Clan’s strength.
• Ouyang Bo received the updated ranking list, saw that the Li Clan had entered at 89th, and decided to visit the Li Clan personally.
• News of Li Qianqing’s breakthrough spread through Flowing Cloud City, where cultivators saw Ouyang Bo head toward the Li Clan Ancestral Land.
• Ouyang Bo introduced himself at Changling Mountain’s gate, and the Li Clan guard hurried to inform Li Qianqing, who was adapting to Body Integration cultivation.

After Li Qianqing reached the Body Integration Realm, Ouyang Bo failed to recruit the Li family into Cloud Soaring Sect’s internal conflict, while other forces and the Blood Race reacted to the family’s rise. Before Li Qianqing’s banquet, Long Ling brought him Ten Thousand Immortals Hall’s ranking token, and he shared his cultivation insights with her.

• Li Qianqing received Ouyang Bo, refused to support his faction in Cloud Soaring Sect’s internal dispute, and warned him about the Blood Race.
• Ji Yuelan and Fan Quanzhen learned that the Li family had become an Integrated Body force, while Zhou Family Ancestor anticipated the protection the family’s rise would offer his clan.
• Launala learned of Li Qianqing’s breakthrough, regretted that the Blood Race’s higher-ups had dismissed earlier warnings, and sent the news to Laetitia.
• Long Ling gave Li Qianqing a Ten Thousand Immortals Hall ranking pendant, which placed the Li family eighty-ninth among Human Race Integrated Body forces.
• Li Qianqing told Long Ling he believed the Li family belonged in the top fifty and shared his early-stage cultivation insights with her.

Li Qianqing hosted his Body Integration Banquet, strengthened ties with the Feng clan, and oversaw a thousand years of Li clan growth. As he planned his next breakthroughs, the Blood Clan approached the Barbarian Race about occupying Human Race lands.

• Li Qianqing welcomed Ancestor Feng, who attended uninvited and gave him a fifth-order low-grade Alchemy Furnace to establish ties with the Li clan.
• Li Qianqing hosted the banquet, and after it ended, You Tianchen and Ancestor Feng were among the first guests to leave while Long Ling stayed for several days.
• Over the next thousand years, the Li clan expanded its influence and Changling Mountain's spiritual veins, while Li Yuyan reached the Void Refinement stage and raised the clan's ranking.
• The Fire Spirit Fly told Li Qianqing it had entered the Body Integration Realm, and Li Qianqing planned to master the fourth seal of the Divine Soul Seal before subduing the Thousand Petal Spiritual Flame.
• In Barbarian Race territory, Gu'erben told Zha'erdan that the Blood Clan wanted to cooperate with the Barbarian Race to occupy Human Race lands, and Zha'erdan set off for the Gray Mist Forest to hunt Demon Race members.

Li Qianqing searched Gray Mist Forest for the Thousand Petal Spiritual Flame, periodically leaving to recover as the mist eroded his perception. On his eighth entry, he found the flame and began trying to subdue it with Fire Spirit Fly.

• Li Qianqing entered Gray Mist Forest to find the place where the Thousand Petal Spiritual Flame had been born in his previous life.
• After fifteen years inside, Li Qianqing emerged in Demon Race Territory, where he met Long Yu, an Azure Feather Dragon preparing a gift for the unborn Dragon Child.
• Li Qianqing returned to Gray Mist Forest and continued searching, eventually recognizing an area with unusually dense Gray Mist Trees.
• After wandering for more than half a month, Li Qianqing spotted the Thousand Petal Spiritual Flame and sent Fire Spirit Fly to engage it.
• As Fire Spirit Fly fought the Thousand Petal Spiritual Flame, Li Qianqing seized his chance to make a move and subdue it.

Li Qianqing initially subdued the Thousand Petal Spiritual Flame and left the Gray Mist Forest. Outside, he joined Azure Feather Dragon Long Yu and Fire Spirit Fly in fighting Zha'erdan, a Barbarian Race cultivator, and they killed him.

• Li Qianqing suppressed the Thousand Petal Spiritual Flame with the Flame Dragon Pearl and spent half a year initially subduing it.
• Li Qianqing left the Gray Mist Forest and found Long Yu fighting Zha'erdan near the border.
• Li Qianqing sent Fire Spirit Fly to attack Zha'erdan and struck him with the Divine Soul Seal.
• Long Yu and Fire Spirit Fly stopped Zha'erdan from calling for help while Li Qianqing struck him with a second Divine Soul Seal.
• Long Yu and Fire Spirit Fly pulled Zha'erdan apart after the seal shattered his Bone Chain and left him dazed.

Li Qianqing killed the Barbarian Race leader Zha'erdan while saving Azure Feather Dragon Long Yu, then returned to the Li family ancestral land. The Barbarian Race learned that a sub-dragon and the Spirit Race were involved, while Long Yu sought information about Li Qianqing and Li Tianyi received a Barbarian cultivation method to study.

• Li Qianqing accepted Zha'erdan's storage item, let Long Yu take the corpse, and declined his invitation to visit the Azure Feather Dragon clan.
• The Barbarian Race priest traced Zha'erdan's death to an Azure Feather Dragon and detected the Spirit Race's involvement; the Piercing Sun Barbarian King and Gu'erben discussed the clues.
• Long Yu told Lord Dragon Mother that Li Qianqing had killed Zha'erdan, and she suggested he ask an ascended Brocade Turtle about the Li family.
• Long Yu went to find the Brocade Turtle, while Li Qianqing returned to the Li family ancestral land without expecting the Barbarian Race to identify him.
• Li Qianqing gave Li Tianyi a bone shard containing a Barbarian Race cultivation method to use as a reference for developing Human Race body-refinement techniques.

Li Qianqing completely subdued the Thousand Petal Spiritual Flame and used it to perfectly refine a furnace of Origin Unification Pills, later becoming one of the Thousand Wind Region’s two top seventh-order alchemists. Five hundred years later, Long Yu visited Changling Mountain and gave Pao Pao high-level Dragon Essence from Dragon Mother, leaving the Iron Carp to absorb it in hopes of completing Turning into a Dragon.

• Three years after Li Tianyi left, Li Qianqing completely subdued the Thousand Petal Spiritual Flame and refined eight Origin Unification Pills with perfect results.
• Over the next five hundred years, Li Qianqing gathered opportunities for the clan’s Void Refinement juniors and established his reputation as a top seventh-order alchemist.
• Long Yu arrived at Changling Mountain and told Li Qianqing that high-level Barbarian Race members had not entered the Demon Race’s territory, though lower-level ones had appeared more often.
• Li Qianqing led Long Yu to meet Pao Pao, and Long Yu gave the Iron Carp high-level Dragon Essence from Dragon Mother.
• Pao Pao swallowed the Dragon Essence and dove into the lake to absorb it, a process expected to take several hundred years.

Li Qianqing reached Peak Early-Stage Body Integration and then broke through to the Integrated Body Middle Stage in less than eleven years. The chapter ended with him receiving a message from Long Ling, who had likely achieved the same breakthrough.

• Pao Pao began seclusion to absorb the high-grade Dragon Essence while Li Qianqing and Long Yu discussed the Blood Race’s growing activity and the risk of war.
• At a Blood Race meeting, Laetitia objected to being solely responsible for the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain because the Li clan had become an Integrated Body force, but the other Blood Race members rejected her request to reassign forces.
• Li Qianqing reached Peak Early-Stage Body Integration, and the Li clan’s ranking among Human Race Integrated Body forces rose from eighty-eighth to eighty-sixth as its strength grew.
• Li Qianqing entered seclusion to break through to the Integrated Body Middle Stage, aiming to complete it within eleven years.
• Li Qianqing succeeded before eleven years had passed, and Li Hongbin sensed the breakthrough.
• After reaching the Integrated Body Middle Stage, Li Qianqing received Long Ling’s Sound Transmission Talisman, which likely carried news of her own breakthrough.

After Li Qianqing broke through to the middle stage of Body Integration, the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall raised the Li Clan’s ranking to sixty-third, prompting reactions from nearby allies and rivals. The news alarmed Laetitia, who called for another Blood Race meeting because she feared facing the strengthened Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain alone.

• Li Qianqing informed Long Ling of his breakthrough, checked his greatly increased divine sense, and received congratulations from the Li Clan cultivators gathered outside his cave.
• The Ten Thousand Immortals Hall updated the Li Clan’s ranking from eighty-sixth to sixty-third, and Li Xunting discussed future sparring visits with Li Qianqing.
• Ouyang Bo saw the Li Clan’s new ranking and regretted that Li Qianqing had no interest in Cloud Soaring Sect’s internal affairs.
• Ancestor Feng welcomed Li Qianqing’s rapid progress and speculated that the Li Clan might eventually become the Thousand Wind Region’s second Great Vehicle force.
• Laetitia learned that Li Qianqing had reached the middle stage of Body Integration and summoned a meeting, fearing she could not face the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain alone.