Chapter Summaries

Li Qianqing rewarded Li Xunting for successfully using the Ice Soul Stone, then lectured Li Xinglin for neglecting cultivation and disrespecting his responsibilities as an elder. He reported the result to Li Cunliu, who trusted his judgment and increasingly favored him as the Li Family’s future clan head.

• Li Xunting happily accepted a Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pill, believing Li Qianqing had given her special favor and planning to visit her mother at the annual Spiritual Root test.
• Li Xunting tricked Li Xinglin into turning around by claiming Thirteenth Grandfather was behind him, then ran off.
• Li Qianqing caught Li Xinglin and instructed him to act like a responsible elder before ordering him to cultivate for a month until the next inspection.
• Li Qianqing told Li Cunliu that the book’s method had worked and Li Xunting could use the Ice Soul Stone.
• Li Cunliu said he trusted Li Qianqing and revealed that he and Li Lilong had discussed making Li Qianqing the family’s future clan head.

Li Qianqing watched Li Lilong emerge from seclusion after failing to establish Foundation, then encouraged him to accept the setback. Li Qianqing reflected on the Li Family’s coming danger and planned to refine high-grade pills, while Li Lilong reunited with his wife and daughter.

• Li Qianqing checked his cultivation and recalled the Li Family children’s spiritual roots before learning that Li Lilong had come out of seclusion.
• Li Cunliu and Li Qianqing saw that Li Lilong had failed to establish Foundation, and both regretted that he had used the Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Li Qianqing reassured Li Lilong that failure was normal and that he could try again, helping him recover his composure.
• Li Qianqing recalled that Clear Wind Valley’s coming internal strife would threaten the Li Family and considered the family’s plans for the Foundation Establishment Pill and high-grade Qi Gathering Pills.
• Li Lilong returned to his residence, where Gu Yueyun and Li Qianyin welcomed him, and Li Qianyin said that facing failure mattered more than the failure itself.

After Li Lilong recovered from his failed Foundation Establishment attempt, Li Qianqing decided Li Xunting would stay with him and continue cultivating. Li Xunting was delighted by the arrangement.

• Li Qianyin reassured her father, Li Lilong, then muttered that cultivating quickly and establishing a foundation might still end in failure, irritating him.
• Li Qianqing reflected that Li Qianyin’s interest in Artifact Refining could make her a valuable aid to the Li Family.
• A year later, Li Xunting reached Qi Refining Fourth Layer after absorbing a Rank 1 High-Grade Ice Soul Stone and receiving Li Qianqing’s guidance.
• Li Xunting asked Li Qianqing about her future arrangement, and he told her she would stay by his side and continue cultivating.
• Li Xunting happily praised Li Qianqing and rubbed her head against his hand.

Li Qianqing assigned Li Xunting light family duties assisting him with pill refining and testing spiritual roots, and rewarded her for her obedience. In April, the Li Family's Qi Condensation Grass became ready for harvest to make Rank 1 High-Grade Qi Gathering Pills.

• Li Qianqing told Li Xunting she would assist him with ten annual furnaces of Fasting Pills and help test spiritual roots, earning few Contribution Points from her tasks.
• Li Qianqing promised to supplement Li Xunting's rewards himself if she continued to behave well, and Li Xunting happily agreed.
• Li Qianqing gave Li Xunting a Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Gathering Pill, and she returned to cultivate, planning to ask him for spells to learn.
• In April, the Li Family's twenty-six-year-old Qi Condensation Grass became ready to harvest for refining Rank 1 High-Grade Qi Gathering Pills.

Li Qianqing refined the Li Family’s Rank 1 High-Grade Qi Gathering Pills and completed the batch far faster than the family expected. He delivered 844 pills at a meeting where the elders praised his alchemy talent.

• Li Qianqing began refining two sets of spiritual medicines per furnace and completed his first batch with fifteen pills.
• He finished refining all 150 sets of medicines in less than the half year the family’s elders had expected.
• At the family meeting, Li Dihong proposed making Li Qianyin a core higher-up, but Li Lilong objected because she was not ready.
• Li Qianqing delivered 844 Rank 1 High-Grade Qi Gathering Pills, and Li Ditu praised his results.

Li Qianqing’s successful refinement of Rank 1 High-Grade Qi Gathering Pills earned him family rewards and strengthened the Li Family’s confidence in his alchemy. The pills reached the Tongyang County shop, where Li Dixing and Li Liding discussed how his future work could help family cultivators advance.

• Li Qianqing told Li Ditu that his recent furnaces usually yielded six or seven pills, with one furnace producing eight, and Li Lilong awarded him sixty thousand Contribution Points for an overall formation rate of seventy percent.
• After the meeting, Li Lilong arranged for most of Li Qianqing’s Rank 1 High-Grade Qi Gathering Pills to be sold and a small portion to be placed in the Clan Treasury.
• Li Qianqing began cultivating with a Rank 1 High-Grade Qi Gathering Pill and reflected that he had kept three hundred and forty pills from the batch after handing the family its share.
• Li Liding delivered the pills to the Li Family shop in Tongyang County, and Li Dixing noted that Li Qianqing’s involvement produced more high-quality pills.
• Li Liding told Li Dixing that Li Qianqing might refine pills to help cultivators break through to Late-Stage Qi Refining in ten or twenty years, giving cultivators like him a better chance to advance.
• Li Dixing said the plan showed that the family recognized Li Qianqing’s Alchemy Talent.

Li Dixing handled the Li Family’s pill shop business and learned that Li Qianyin’s artifact refining was helping the family despite her lack of cultivation. Li Qianqing anticipated the coming Clear Wind Valley conflict and began planning for Li Xunting’s combat training, while deciding the Li Family must support the Valley Master.

• Li Liding delivered pills and three magic tools refined by Li Qianyin, and Li Dixing discussed why the family tolerated her focus on artifact refining.
• Li Dixing sold four high-quality Rank 1 High-Grade Qi Gathering Pills to a middle-aged cultivator for seventy Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Qianqing finished cultivating and estimated that he would reach Qi Refining Ninth Layer the following year.
• Li Qianqing noted that Li Xunting had reached Qi Refining Sixth Layer and planned to improve her practical combat experience.
• Li Qianqing decided the Li Family had to side with the Clear Wind Valley Master against the Grand Elder’s doomed rebellion.

The Li Family discussed the turmoil between Clear Wind Valley’s Valley Master and First Elder factions and had to decide which side to support. Li Cunliu favored the First Elder’s faction, but he asked Li Qianqing to explain his reservations before the decision was settled.

• Li Cunliu convened a Core Family Meeting and told Li Qianqing, Li Ditu, Li Dihong, and Li Lilong that Clear Wind Valley was in turmoil.
• Li Cunliu explained that the Valley Master’s faction and the First Elder’s faction had fallen out, while the aging Grand Elder had helped keep the sect stable and sent news to subordinate forces.
• Li Dihong questioned whether the family should choose a side before the situation became clearer, and Li Lilong asked whether subordinate forces could affect the outcome.
• Li Cunliu argued that the First Elder’s growing faction was more likely to prevail and recommended that the Li Family support it.
• Li Ditu agreed with Li Cunliu, and Li Dihong and Li Lilong also nodded in approval.
• Li Cunliu noticed Li Qianqing had not agreed and invited him to share his thoughts.

Li Qianqing persuaded the Li Clan to support the Clear Wind Valley Master, averting the clan’s destruction in his previous life. He advanced his cultivation to Peak Qi Refining Eighth Layer and began breaking through, planning to seek an opportunity after Clear Wind Valley’s conflict ended.

• Li Qianqing argued that the Li Clan should support the Clear Wind Valley Master's faction, and Li Ditu agreed with him.
• Li Cunliu chose to support the Clear Wind Valley Master and sent the decision to Clear Wind Valley.
• Li Qianqing reflected that the Li Clan had escaped the destruction he remembered from his previous life and planned to claim an opportunity after Clear Wind Valley's internal strife ended.
• Li Qianqing cultivated through the year and reached Peak Qi Refining Eighth Layer at age thirty-two.
• Li Qianqing began breaking through toward Qi Refining Ninth Layer, intending to postpone his final Qi Refining breakthrough until after obtaining the opportunity.

Li Qianqing broke through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer and reassured Li Qianyin that Li Lilong could succeed in his second Foundation Establishment attempt without a Foundation Establishment Pill. He then considered the ongoing conflict in Clear Wind Valley and whether the Jiang Family might suffer the fate that had befallen the Li Family in his previous life.

• Li Qianqing reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, and his divine sense strength increased to thirty zhang.
• Li Qianyin visited Li Qianqing, who urged her to balance artifact refining with cultivation.
• Li Qianyin told Li Qianqing that Li Lilong planned to attempt Foundation Establishment again that day and asked him to dissuade her father.
• Li Qianqing said he could not change Li Lilong's resolve but felt that he could succeed even without a Foundation Establishment Pill, easing Li Qianyin's worry.
• Li Qianqing reflected on the ongoing Clear Wind Valley conflict and wondered whether the Jiang Family would become the next clan to suffer after the Li Family's fate changed.

Li Lilong began another attempt at Foundation Establishment without a Foundation Establishment Pill, while the Li Clan debated his chances and Li Qianqing’s confidence in him. As the attempt continued into the second month, Li Qianqing assessed Li Xunting’s progress in combat spells.

• Li Lilong informed Li Cunliu of his decision to attempt Foundation Establishment again, and Li Cunliu let him enter the clan’s Foundation Establishment cave residence.
• Li Clan cultivators on Changqing Mountain worried that Li Lilong would fail again, then learned that Li Qianqing believed he would succeed.
• The Li Clan continued discussing Li Lilong’s attempt as they waited for its outcome, hoping his success would make their clan Xiangshui Prefecture’s leading immortal cultivation clan.
• Li Xunting demonstrated her Ice Thorn spell to Li Qianqing, who praised her casting speed and combat talent.

Li Lilong successfully established his foundation, making the Li Clan a Double Foundation Establishment clan. Li Qianqing, Li Cunliu, and Li Lilong discussed the clan’s future growth and agreed to postpone Li Lilong’s Foundation Establishment Banquet until Clear Wind Valley’s conflict was over.

• Li Qianqing and Li Xunting went to check on Li Lilong after his cave gate opened.
• Li Cunliu welcomed Li Lilong out of seclusion and celebrated his successful Foundation Establishment.
• Li Qianqing and Li Xunting congratulated Li Lilong, who predicted that Li Qianqing and then Li Xunting would establish their foundations.
• Li Xunting suggested Li Qianyin might establish her foundation before her, then left the elders to talk.
• Li Cunliu, Li Lilong, and Li Qianqing discussed expanding the clan and the resources needed to support more Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Li Lilong said he would wait until the Clear Wind Valley matter ended before holding his Foundation Establishment Banquet.

Li Lilong successfully established his foundation, bringing joy to the Li Family and easing Li Cunliu’s concerns about the clan’s future. The news spread through Changqing Mountain and the Li Family’s affiliated forces, while Li Dihong began considering a foundation-establishment attempt of his own.

• Li Cunliu returned to his cave abode to cultivate, encouraged by Li Lilong’s successful breakthrough and the prospect of the Li Family gaining more Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Li Qianyin and Gu Yueyun visited Li Lilong, who teased his daughter about once warning him against establishing his foundation; Li Qianqing then gave the couple space to speak privately.
• News of Li Lilong’s success spread across Changqing Mountain, where clan members celebrated and debated whether Li Qianqing’s prediction had influenced the outcome.
• After hearing the news, Li Dihong decided he could risk attempting Foundation Establishment and planned to discuss it with Li Cunliu.
• Within half a month, the Li Family’s affiliated Qi Refining forces learned that Li Lilong had established his foundation and that the clan now had two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After Li Lilong established his foundation, the Clear Wind Valley Master's faction defeated the First Elder's faction, confirming that the Li Family had chosen the winning side. Li Qianqing began planning to claim opportunities from his previous life, while Li Cunliu went to Clear Wind Valley to learn more.

• The Huang Clan and Jiang Clan learned of Li Lilong's Foundation Establishment, and Jiang Gaoyuan worried about the Li Family's growing strength.
• News of Li Lilong's success spread through Xiangshui Prefecture, improving the Li Family's shop business.
• Li Cunliu received word that the Clear Wind Valley Master's faction had completely suppressed the First Elder's faction.
• Li Cunliu told Li Qianqing and Li Lilong that the Li Family had backed the winning side and that Clear Wind Valley had invited him to visit.
• Li Cunliu set out for Clear Wind Valley, while Li Qianqing planned to claim opportunities from his previous life after Li Lilong's Foundation Establishment Banquet.

Li Cunliu and Liu Yanchong learned that the Clear Wind Valley Master’s faction had won the sect’s internal strife and received benefits for supporting it. After Li Cunliu returned to the Li Clan, Huang Zhifeng visited and began discussing the reason for his visit.

• Li Cunliu and Liu Yanchong arrived at Clear Wind Valley and realized that only about a third of its subordinate forces had supported the Valley Master.
• The Clear Wind Valley Master declared his faction the orthodox line and promised supporters ten years without tribute and a chance to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Li Cunliu inferred that Clear Wind Valley would punish the clans that had supported the Grand Elder, and he and Liu Yanchong left after resting another day.
• Li Cunliu returned to the Li Clan in mid-April, and Huang Zhifeng visited three days later.
• Li Lilong welcomed Huang Zhifeng, who asked about Li Lilong’s Foundation Establishment Banquet before introducing the purpose of his visit.

Huang Zhifeng sought 2,500 Low-Grade Spirit Stones from Li Lilong to help the Huang Clan appease Clear Wind Valley, and the two negotiated an exchange for the Huang Clan’s Miniature Spirit Mine share. They settled on transferring twenty-five percent of the mining share, then prepared to sign the Spirit Contract.

• Li Lilong and Li Qianqing considered Clear Wind Valley’s planned action against clans that had sided with its Grand Elder.
• Huang Zhifeng told Li Lilong that the Huang Clan needed 2,500 Low-Grade Spirit Stones to pay Clear Wind Valley and avoid being targeted.
• Li Lilong refused to lend the stones and proposed exchanging them for thirty percent of the Huang Clan’s Miniature Spirit Mine mining share.
• Huang Zhifeng bargained with Li Lilong, who set twenty-five percent as the share required for 2,500 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Huang Zhifeng and Li Lilong agreed to the exchange, and Huang Zhifeng brought out the Spirit Contract to formalize it.

Huang Zhifeng traded the Huang Clan’s twenty-five percent share of the Miniature Spirit Mine for enough Spirit Stones to resolve its immediate crisis, though the loss left its Foundation Establishment prospects uncertain. Li Qianqing learned that Clear Wind Valley had exterminated three families that backed the wrong faction, while the Jiang Family survived by paying to avert disaster.

• The Li Family paid Huang Zhifeng two thousand five hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones in exchange for the Huang Clan’s twenty-five percent mining share, raising its own share to seventy percent.
• Huang Zhifeng left relieved that the Huang Clan’s crisis had passed but worried that losing the Spirit Stones put a Foundation Establishment Pill out of reach.
• Li Qianqing asked Li Lilong about Clear Wind Valley, and Li Lilong reported that it had chosen three families from the Grand Elder faction for extermination.
• Li Qianqing observed that Clear Wind Valley’s brutality would make the families that paid Spirit Stones feel fortunate, and Li Lilong praised him for keeping the Li Family from joining the wrong faction.
• Li Qianqing asked about the Jiang Family, and Li Lilong said it had survived by paying to avert disaster.

Li Qianqing discussed the weakened Jiang Family and the Li Family’s future with Li Lilong, who trusted that Li Qianqing would establish his foundation and help lead the clan. As the Five Kingdoms Land settled after Clear Wind Valley’s purge, Li Qianqing prepared for the future and reflected on the kingdoms’ relative strength.

• Li Qianqing and Li Lilong discussed how the Jiang Family’s payment to Clear Wind Valley would leave it vulnerable to pressure from the Li Family.
• Li Lilong said that as the Li Family gained more Foundation Establishment cultivators, its clan affairs and rules would need to change.
• Li Qianqing realized that Li Lilong and the clan’s other elders had strong confidence in his future Foundation Establishment.
• Li Lilong decided that he would discipline his daughter, Li Qianyin, after his Foundation Establishment Banquet.
• Cultivators across Zhao Kingdom debated Clear Wind Valley’s destruction of three Foundation Establishment families, while Li Qianqing prepared for what lay ahead.
• Li Qianqing recalled fleeing from Zhao Kingdom to Yue Kingdom in his previous life and considered the Five Kingdoms Land, where only the Two Great Kingdoms had Nascent Soul cultivators.

As Li Qianqing prepared to leave for Yue Kingdom, he attended the Foundation Establishment Banquet for his Fourth Uncle, Li Lilong. The gathering gained an unexpected distinction when Clear Wind Valley sent Elder Yan Xuewei, and the chapter ended with Li Qianqing leading her up the mountain.

• Li Qianqing welcomed Clan Head Liu and other guests arriving for Li Lilong’s Foundation Establishment Banquet.
• Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Liu, Zhong, and Huang Clans arrived, including the Zhong Clan Head, who regretted having supported the wrong side in Clear Wind Valley’s conflict.
• Just before noon, Elder Yan Xuewei of Clear Wind Valley arrived unexpectedly and gave Li Qianqing a medicinal pill for Li Lilong.
• Li Qianqing led Yan Xuewei up the mountain, considering Clear Wind Valley’s visit a favorable sign for the Li Family.

Li Qianqing brought Clear Wind Valley Elder Yan Xuewei to Li Lilong’s Foundation Establishment Banquet, drawing attention from the guests and raising questions about the Li Clan’s ties to Clear Wind Valley. Yan Xuewei took the honored seat, while Li Qianqing encouraged Li Qianyin and Li Xunting to look ahead to Foundation Establishment.

• Li Qianqing arrived with Yan Xuewei, and the affiliated Qi Refining clans speculated about the Li Clan’s growing strength and connection to Clear Wind Valley.
• Li Cunliu welcomed Yan Xuewei and offered her the honored seat; the Foundation Establishment cultivators recognized her arrival as likely reflecting the Clear Wind Valley Master’s wishes.
• The Zhong Clan Head and Huang Clan Head noticed Yan Xuewei’s arrival and, having backed the wrong side, became more reserved.
• Yan Xuewei joined the Foundation Establishment cultivators, who discussed the Li Clan’s relationship with Clear Wind Valley behind a soundproofing barrier.
• Li Qianqing teased Li Qianyin about her father’s management and reassured her that her Dual Spiritual Roots gave her a chance to establish her foundation.
• Li Qianqing asked Li Xunting about her confidence in Foundation Establishment, and she firmly promised she would succeed.