Chapter Summaries

Fleck took charge of the Blood Race’s plans for the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain after Li Qianqing’s breakthrough, while Laetitia reluctantly agreed to assist. Meanwhile, Thousand-Faced Lord trained his disguise in Blood Race Territory and, after befriending Spirit Transformation Blood Race members as Borna, heard that the Blood Race might soon make a major move.

• Fleck said he would ask Ackerman for instructions and handle the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain, requiring Laetitia to assist or take full responsibility herself.
• Laetitia agreed to assist depending on the situation, and Fleck promised the Li Clan would not be assigned to her if Li Qianqing advanced to the Integrated Body Late Stage.
• Thousand-Faced Lord spent twenty years in Blood Race Territory refining his disguise, then began approaching Spirit Transformation-level Blood Race members as Borna.
• Three years later, Borna joined five Spirit Transformation Blood Race members at a Blood Pool and claimed he had slept for over sixty thousand years before awakening and breaking through.
• A Late-Stage Spirit Transformation Blood Race member said his cousin served Laetitia and warned that the Blood Race might make a major move, prompting Thousand-Faced Lord to recall Li Qianqing’s words.

Thousand-Faced Lord returned from a century in Blood Race territory and warned Li Qianqing that the Blood Race had at least an eighty percent chance of joining other races in a great war against the Human Race. Li Qianqing prepared to alert Ten Thousand Immortals Hall, while considering how his clan’s growing influence had shifted the future and the Blood Race’s focus.

• Thousand-Faced Lord learned that a major Blood Race war involving great lords was possible and decided to report what he discovered to Li Qianqing.
• Thousand-Faced Lord reached Changling Mountain, where Li Qianqing personally welcomed him and learned he had advanced to Mid-Stage Void Refinement.
• Thousand-Faced Lord told Li Qianqing that the Blood Race was very likely to join other foreign races in a great war against the Human Race, raising the estimate to at least eighty percent.
• Li Qianqing said he would contact Ten Thousand Immortals Hall and reflected that the Li Clan’s influence had reduced some local risks while drawing more Blood Race power toward the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain.
• Half a month later, Li Qianqing traveled to Ten Thousand Immortals Hall Headquarters and told Long Ling that he had arrived early because he had received new information.

Li Qianqing told Long Ling that Thousand-Faced Lord’s intelligence indicated an eighty-percent chance the Blood Race would wage war against humanity, prompting the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall to investigate. More than two thousand years later, after the Hall raised its estimate above ninety percent, Long Ling was assigned a task to kill a Blood Race cultivator at the Integrated Body Realm as a step toward becoming an Elder with Real Power.

• Li Qianqing relayed Thousand-Faced Lord’s report to Long Ling, who convened the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall elders to share the warning of a likely Blood Race war.
• The elders debated how much effort to devote to verifying the report and decided to invest substantial resources in an investigation.
• Long Ling later told Li Qianqing that the investigation was ongoing, and Li Qianqing returned to Flowing Cloud City, planning to reach the Integrated Body Late Stage within five thousand years.
• More than two thousand years later, Vice Hall Master Yuan Xiuyuan summoned Long Ling and offered her a task to kill a Blood Race member at the Integrated Body Realm to qualify as an Elder with Real Power.
• Yuan Xiuyuan warned Long Ling to prioritize her safety and said she could enlist other cultivators; Long Ling decided to consult Li Qianqing for information about the Blood Race Territory.

Li Qianqing agreed to help Long Ling kill Laetitia so she could qualify to become an Elder with Real Power. They infiltrated Laetitia’s territory and passed its Blood Barrier undetected, then approached her Blood Pool while Long Ling searched for a way past the Blood Vines.

• Long Ling told Li Qianqing she needed to kill an Integrated Body Blood Race member to become an Elder with Real Power, and Li Qianqing recommended targeting Laetitia.
• Li Qianqing offered to help Long Ling kill Laetitia, explaining that he would eventually target her even without Long Ling’s mission, and Long Ling agreed to go with him.
• Laetitia felt unsettled in her Blood Pool but assumed Fleck might take too much of her Blood Merit, then resumed cultivating after hearing that more Human Race cultivators had entered Blood Race Territory.
• Li Qianqing and Long Ling reached the area near Laetitia’s core territory, used blood-red liquid to imitate the Blood Race’s aura, and passed through her Blood Barrier without raising an alarm.
• Li Qianqing helped conceal Long Ling as she carefully observed the Blood Vines, and the pair slowly approached Laetitia’s Blood Pool.

Li Qianqing and Long Ling infiltrated Laetitia’s territory, killed the Integrated Body Middle Stage Blood Race member, and escaped with her corpse. Great Ascension Blood Race Ackerman arrived too late to catch them, warned other Blood Race members to strengthen their defenses, and left Fleck worried that his own territory was no longer safe.

• Laetitia sensed two Human Race cultivators nearby, but her attempt to send a warning was intercepted by Li Qianqing.
• Long Ling disrupted Laetitia’s control of the Blood Pool, allowing Li Qianqing to kill her with the Divine Soul Seal while she could not defend herself.
• Long Ling secured Laetitia’s corpse in a container, and she and Li Qianqing escaped as Li Qianqing’s fire withered the Blood Vines pursuing them.
• Ackerman learned of Laetitia’s death, rushed to her territory, and found only blurry images and traces that gave him no way to identify or intercept the attackers.
• Ackerman warned the other Body Integration Blood Race members to strengthen their defenses, while Fleck learned of Laetitia’s death and questioned the safety of his own territory.

Li Qianqing and Long Ling returned from the Blood Race Territory after killing Laetitia, and Long Ling earned the rank of Elder with Real Power in Ten Thousand Immortals Hall. Seven hundred years later, news of an Integrated Body Blood Race member’s death reached Cloud Soaring Sect, though the victim and circumstances remained unknown.

• Fleck strengthened defenses in his territory and warned Blood Race Void Refinement Lords to report any abnormalities after Laetitia’s death.
• Li Qianqing and Long Ling escaped the Blood Race Territory, discussed the increased danger of future attacks there, and parted ways at Flowing Cloud City.
• Long Ling reported her completed task to Yuan Xiuyuan, who confirmed Laetitia’s corpse and granted her the token of an Elder with Real Power.
• Long Ling told Li Qianqing that Ten Thousand Immortals Hall still had not learned of Laetitia’s death, and Li Qianqing chose not to reveal their involvement.
• Seven hundred years later, Cloud Soaring Sect learned that an Integrated Body Blood Race member had died, but Ouyang Bo’s elders could not identify the victim or how they had fallen.

Li Qianqing reached the peak of the Body Integration Middle Stage and began his breakthrough to the late stage while the Li family continued to grow. Twenty-one years later, he succeeded, and Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan hurried to see him, arguing on the way over whether Li Xunting had accepted Long Ling as Li Qianqing’s partner.

• Two thousand years after the fall of Laetitia, Li Qianqing reached the peak of the Body Integration Middle Stage and entered seclusion to break through to the late stage.
• Li Hongbin visited Li Tongxin to discuss cultivation, and Li Zhongyun brought news of trouble at Thunder Fire Sect, prompting Li Tongxin to go there with a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Twenty-one years later, an abnormal movement of the Power of Heaven and Earth signaled that Li Qianqing had successfully entered the Body Integration Late Stage.
• Li Xunting and Ji Yuelan went to see Li Qianqing, and Ji Yuelan questioned Li Xunting for calling Long Ling “Grandma Long.”

Li Qianqing broke through to Integrated Body Late Stage, raising his divine sense strength to eight hundred thousand li and strengthening the Li Clan. The Ten Thousand Immortals Hall updated its ranking list, and observers across the Thousand Wind Region recognized the Li Clan as a rising power as the great war drew closer.

• Li Qianqing completed his breakthrough to Integrated Body Late Stage and found his divine sense strength had reached eight hundred thousand li.
• Li Qianqing planned to cultivate the Seventh Seal of the Divine Sense Secret Technique "Divine Soul Seal," while the Fire Spirit Fly’s aura began rising in response to his breakthrough.
• Li Xunting and the other Li Clan juniors congratulated Li Qianqing, while Ji Yuelan resolved to return to Snow Moon Sect for long-term secluded cultivation.
• Long Ling told Ying Yanfeng that Li Qianqing had advanced, and Ying Yanfeng began arranging an update to the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall’s ranking list.
• Ouyang Bo saw that the Li Clan had risen to twenty-eighth among Integrated Body forces, while Li Yongfeng told Wu Yiyang that Li Qianqing could reach Great Ascension within eight thousand years.

Fleck learned that Li Qianqing had advanced to the late stage of Integrated Body and gathered Blood Race Void Refinement Lords to discuss their invasion plans for the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain. After deciding they needed to lure Li Qianqing out of the Li Clan’s Ancestral Land, Fleck sought support from Gu'erben of the Barbarian Race.

• Fleck received news that Li Qianqing had reached the late stage of Integrated Body and regretted taking responsibility for the Human Race’s Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain.
• Fleck summoned the Blood Race Void Refinement Lords and heard Launala argue that the Li Clan would support other Human Race forces and could not be safely ignored.
• Fleck declared that the invasion’s key objective was to lure Li Qianqing away from the Li Clan’s Ancestral Land so Integrated Body cultivators could attack him.
• Fleck traveled to the Barbarian Race Territory to request support from Gu'erben, a late-stage Integrated Body leader.
• Gu'erben asked Fleck why he had come instead of focusing on how to deal with the Human Race.

Fleck persuaded Gu'erben to provide private support by suggesting that the Human Race may have been involved in Zha'erdan's death, though Gu'erben required their cooperation in investigating the Human Race. At the Li Clan, Li Xunting reached Late-Stage Void Refinement, and Li Hongbin said he planned to attempt the Body Integration Realm within three hundred years.

• Fleck told Gu'erben that the Human Race might have played a major role in Zha'erdan's death and linked the Li Clan Head to the Demon Race.
• Gu'erben agreed to give Fleck private support on the condition that they investigate the Human Race together.
• Li Qianqing learned that his cultivation of the seventh seal of Divine Soul Seal had reached minor accomplishment and estimated his path to the Integrated Body Peak Stage.
• Li Xunting successfully broke through to Late-Stage Void Refinement, with her Ice Spiritual Body's potential excavation reaching eighty-five percent.
• Li Hongbin told Li Qianqing that he would enter seclusion within three hundred years to attempt the Body Integration Realm.
• Li Tongxin realized that Li Hongbin expected to become a Body Integration Realm cultivator, rather than a third Late-Stage Void Refinement cultivator, within five hundred years.

Li Xunting broke through to Late-Stage Void Refinement, and Li Hongbin later began a Body Integration attempt with a Spirit Integration Pill prepared by Li Qianqing. Li Hongbin succeeded, raising the Li Clan’s ranking, while Blood Race commander Fleck learned that Gu'erben would come to support the invasion.

• Li Xunting completed her breakthrough to Late-Stage Void Refinement, and Li Qianqing warned her to coordinate with Ji Yuelan if war with the Blood Race began.
• After 290 years, Li Hongbin entered seclusion to attempt the Body Integration Realm, taking a Spirit Integration Pill refined by Li Qianqing.
• Sixty-nine years later, Li Hongbin succeeded, becoming the Li Clan’s second Body Integration Cultivator and moving the clan’s ranking to twenty-fifth.
• Fleck learned that the Li Clan had gained another Integrated Body Cultivator and grew furious at the pressure in the Eastern Domain.
• Gu'erben sent Fleck a message promising to come to the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain after handling problems in Demon Race Territory.

The Blood Race launched a full-scale invasion of the Human Race, attacking Red Willow City with a Void Refinement member while Li Qianqing mobilized the Li Clan for war. The Ten Thousand Immortals Hall ordered the region’s forces to set aside their feuds, leaving Azure Sky Valley to reconsider its plans against the Nine Peaks Sect.

• Fleck summoned the Blood Race Void Refinement Lords to discuss new plans after gaining Gu'erben's support.
• A Blood Race force led by Lady Launala attacked Red Willow City, where the City Lord reported the invasion and requested aid as the city’s array came under assault.
• Li Qianqing learned of the attack from Li Yongfeng, then ordered the Li Clan into emergency readiness and told its members to report any Integrated Body enemies.
• Li Yongfeng told Wu Yiyang he planned to support other cities, and Wu Yiyang agreed that he should return to Changling Mountain first.
• The Ten Thousand Immortals Hall informed Azure Sky Valley that the Blood Race had declared war, so the Valley Master called off plans against the Nine Peaks Sect and considered checking its safety.

Li Qianqing organized the Li Family’s response to the Blood Race invasion and sent Li Yongfeng to support LingShou City. There, Li Yongfeng and the city’s lord prepared to ambush a Barbarian Race cultivator who intended to destroy the city’s teleportation array.

• Li Qianqing convened the Li Family’s Void Refinement cultivators, assigned roles for the war, and directed Li Yongfeng to take more support missions from the Divine Prefecture.
• Li Qianqing recalled that Launala hated the Li Family and expected the Blood Race to target them during the invasion.
• Launala waited near LingShou City for the Barbarian Race’s Mogus, who agreed to destroy the city’s teleportation array.
• Mogus entered LingShou City and claimed he wanted to borrow its teleportation array to return to the Barbarian Race.
• The City Lord of LingShou City learned Mogus had arrived and told Li Yongfeng, who proposed watching him at the teleportation array and preparing an ambush.

Mogus tried to destroy LingShou City's teleportation array, but Li Yongfeng and the city lord ambushed and killed him. Launala led a Blood Race army toward the city, and LingShou City prepared to meet them in battle.

• Mogus attacked the teleportation array, but Li Yongfeng struck him and the City Lord of LingShou City activated the grand array.
• Li Yongfeng restrained Mogus while the city lord’s formation struck him with purple lightning, and Li Yongfeng eventually killed him.
• LingShou City’s cultivators learned that a Barbarian Race cultivator, not a Blood Race member, had tried to destroy the array.
• Launala sensed the city’s spirit array activate and ordered her Blood Race army to advance, preparing for either outcome.
• Li Yongfeng warned the city lord that the Blood Race would still come, and a blood cloud appeared as LingShou City sounded the battle bells.

The Blood Race failed to take LingShou City after Launala fled from Li Yongfeng, and Fleck learned that Li Tongxin had also killed Isaac. As the Ten Thousand Immortals Hall assessed the expanding invasion, the Li Clan’s active defense earned growing recognition, while Wu Yiyang wondered why Flowing Cloud City remained untouched.

• Launala fled when Li Yongfeng approached LingShou City, and the Blood Race army lost morale and was defeated.
• Launala reported her failure to Fleck, who learned that Li Tongxin had killed Isaac and resolved to watch the Li Clan closely.
• The Ten Thousand Immortals Hall discussed invasions across the human territory and praised the Li Clan’s independent support of threatened cities.
• Cultivators in a small city praised the Li Clan for resisting the invasion, while Wu Yiyang wondered why Flowing Cloud City had seen no enemy activity.

Fleck ordered Launala to lure Li Xunting into an ambush, but Li Xunting trapped and killed Launala with her strongest arrow. Fleck learned of the failure from Ackerman and realized Li Xunting was much stronger than he had expected.

• Ackerman criticized Fleck for his poor progress in the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain and gave him a hundred years to improve the situation.
• Fleck ordered Launala to lure Li Xunting into a trap and offered her a Blood Artifact to help her escape.
• Li Xunting followed signs of Blood Race activity and pursued Launala, despite recognizing that the Mid-Stage Void Refinement cultivator might be bait.
• Launala used Fleck's blood beads to try to escape Li Xunting's deep-blue mirror trap, but she remained sealed inside.
• Li Xunting released her strongest ice arrow, pierced Launala's defenses, and killed her before sealing her corpse in ice.
• Fleck received Ackerman's message showing Launala's death and raged over the failure of his plan.

Li Xunting agreed to let Ji Yuelan join her in fighting the Blood Race after Li Qianqing approved their partnership. Their actions further unnerved Fleck, who learned that Li Hongbin had intervened in Shuofeng City and pinned his hopes on Gu'erben arriving to help attack the Li family.

• Li Xunting told Ji Yuelan how she had killed a Mid-Stage Void Refinement Blood Race Lord, and Ji Yuelan asked to fight alongside her.
• Li Qianqing approved Ji Yuelan joining Li Xunting and reminded her to control her Rampaging Thunder Physique around Void Refinement Blood Race.
• Ji Yuelan returned to the Snow Moon Sect, and she later joined Li Xunting's operations near Blood Race Territory, making the Blood Race Lords more cautious.
• Fleck learned that Lord Pierce had died after a human Body Integration Cultivator appeared in Shuofeng City, and he concluded that Li Hongbin was responsible.
• Fleck, unable to open up the Eastern Domain front, pinned his hopes on Gu'erben arriving to help him attack the Li family.

Cultivators from other regions learned that the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain had resisted the Blood Race unusually well, largely due to the Li Clan’s efforts. Fleck and Gu'erben began a plan to lure Li Qianqing out of Changling Mountain, and when Fleck appeared in Flowing Cloud City, Li Qianqing set out to confront him.

• Cultivators from the Northern and Southern Domains compared reports and learned that the Eastern Domain had faced fewer Foreign Races and suffered less than the other regions.
• Fleck received Gu'erben’s message, met with him, and agreed to pursue several plans to draw Li Qianqing away from the Li Clan Ancestral Land.
• Li Yongfeng sensed an unfamiliar Blood Race aura near Flowing Cloud City, and Wu Yiyang activated the city’s grand array.
• Fleck appeared among the mortals in Flowing Cloud City, hoping Li Qianqing would come to fight him.
• Li Qianqing received Li Yongfeng’s warning, concluded that Fleck was targeting him, and left Changling Mountain after arranging for the clan’s defenses.

Fleck lured Li Qianqing away from Flowing Cloud City by staging a retreat, then joined forces with Gu’erben to ambush him. Li Qianqing revealed Fire Spirit Fly’s strength by sending him to fight Gu’erben, who recognized the flame dragon as a Spirit Race being turned into an Artifact Spirit.

• Fleck attacked Flowing Cloud City’s defensive array until Li Qianqing arrived, then fought him while Wu Yiyang activated the Purple Lightning Frost Array.
• Fleck pretended to flee, and Li Qianqing pursued him fifty thousand li from the city.
• Fleck stopped and revealed Gu’erben, a Late-Stage Integrated Body Barbarian Race member, waiting to ambush Li Qianqing.
• Li Qianqing summoned the Flame Dragon Pearl and assigned Fire Spirit Fly to fight Gu’erben.
• Gu’erben recognized the flame dragon as a Spirit Race being and realized it was an Artifact Spirit controlled by Li Qianqing.

Li Qianqing killed Fleck, a late-stage Integrated Body Blood Race member, and Gu'erben, a late-stage Integrated Body barbarian, ending the major fighting in the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain. After Ackerman and the barbarians learned of the deaths, Li Qianqing returned to Flowing Cloud City, where Wu Yiyang struggled to grasp his strength.

• Li Qianqing trapped Fleck and killed him with repeated uses of Divine Soul Seal, then worked with the Fire Spirit Fly to trap Gu'erben and finish him off.
• Li Qianqing judged that the major war in the Thousand Wind Region Eastern Domain had ended and considered how his clan could support the Human Race without provoking stronger enemies.
• Ackerman learned Fleck had died and ordered that he be informed immediately if Li Clan cultivators appeared in the Southern or Northern Domain.
• The barbarians learned of Gu'erben's death and hoped their later gains would make up for their losses in the war.
• Li Qianqing arrived in Flowing Cloud City, told Li Yongfeng that he had killed a late-stage Blood Race member and a late-stage barbarian, and left Wu Yiyang astonished by his strength.