Chapter Summaries

Yuan Li revealed Gang Yuan, a power he had developed through body cultivation, and Li Qingqiu recognized him for opening a new cultivation path. As the Qingxiao Sect reacted to the news, Li Yang warned his second uncle that the Li Clan must not threaten Li Qingqiu’s authority, and Li Da offered the clan’s full support.

• Yuan Li demonstrated Gang Yuan to Li Qingqiu, who tested his punch and praised its strength before promising to erect a stele for the Body Cultivation Path.
• Li Qingqiu instructed Yuan Qi to arrange the stele, and Yuan Qi celebrated his younger brother’s achievement while recalling the hardships they had endured together.
• Yuan Qi challenged Yuan Li to a spar and ended up with his right arm broken after facing his younger brother’s Gang Yuan.
• Disciples gathered around Yuan Li’s new stele, and Xiao Wudi asked to test Gang Yuan while Li Qingqiu encouraged Yuan Li not to hold back.
• Li Yang told Li Da that the Li Clan must never stand above Li Qingqiu and said its members could join the sect by passing its tests.
• Li Da accepted Li Yang’s warning and pledged that the Li Clan would offer the sect even the whole world.

As Qingxiao Sect expanded, Li Qingqiu established a secret intelligence hall and learned that Li Sifeng had broken with the Pei Clan to raise his own army. He allowed Zhu Yan’s clan to support Li Sifeng, provided they used no Qingxiao Sect disciples.

• Yuan Li’s Body Cultivation Path drew disciples’ attention as Qingxiao Sect attracted new followers and began expanding its grounds.
• Li Qingqiu founded the Dark Hall under Mo Jiuhong and assigned its twenty first disciples to infiltrate factions and gather intelligence for him.
• Yang Xuan told Ye Nan he was considering whether his ability to sense plants’ emotions could inspire a new cultivation path, then agreed to watch Ye Nan fight Ning Shu.
• Zhu Yan told Li Qingqiu that Li Sifeng had left the Pei Clan with Pei Miao and planned to raise an army of his own.
• Li Qingqiu authorized Zhu Yan to support Li Sifeng through worldly forces but forbade her from mobilizing Qingxiao Sect disciples.

Li Qingqiu recruited Bai Zhi and three other demons into the Qingxiao Sect, discovering that the Mantis Spirit Jinlang had extraordinary speed and blade talent. He brought the demons to the harbor, where the disciples reacted with alarm, while a Li Clan force approached Li Sifeng.

• The Cultivation Hall grew popular after Li Sijin’s Talismans and Chen Huilan’s Origin Energy Pills went on sale within the sect.
• Pei Miao discussed Li Sifeng’s ambitions with him, and he promised to end the chaotic age quickly.
• A Li Clan force approached Li Sifeng and Pei Miao as they rested by the river.
• Li Qingqiu met Bai Zhi in the forest and invited the Golden Monkey, Black Panther, and Mantis Spirit Jinlang to join the Qingxiao Sect.
• Li Qingqiu brought Bai Zhi and the three demons to the harbor, where the disciples panicked until he announced they had submitted to him.

Li Qingqiu brought three demons to the Qingxiao Sect, nurtured Jinlang, and approved new recruits for Li Sijin’s Cultivation Hall. As disciples watched Ye Nan lose to Ning Shu on the Martial Arts Stage, all of Qingxiao Mountain began to tremble, with spiritual energy surging toward the summit.

• Li Qingqiu brought Jinlang, Yue Shan, and Hei Li to the Qingxiao Sect, leaving Yue Shan and Hei Li at the Monster Taming Hall while he kept Jinlang close.
• Li Qingqiu raised Jinlang’s loyalty to 89 over half a month and brought him along to meet Li Sijin and Li Dongyue.
• Li Sijin showed Li Qingqiu three pills made by Chen Huilan, and he approved her request to recruit another hundred people for the Cultivation Hall.
• Yang Xuan helped Ye Nan up after Ning Shu defeated him for the ninth time on the Martial Arts Stage, then challenged Ning Shu’s humiliating behavior.
• Qingxiao Mountain began to tremble as spiritual energy surged toward its summit, alarming the disciples gathered around the stage.

Li Qingqiu underwent a Heavenly Tribulation on Qingxiao Mountain as he broke through to the Spiritual Sense Realm, while the sect’s disciples watched anxiously from below. After enduring dozens of lightning strikes, he entered the new realm and discovered that his Spiritual Sense had become tangible and could move objects.

• Li Qingqiu sensed his chance to break through, climbed to the summit, and prepared to face the Heavenly Tribulation after checking that his Heavenly Thunder Spirit Root made lightning a boon.
• Li Qingqiu warned Zhang Yuchun and the other disciples to keep away from the summit, then sent Jinlang, Lin Chuan, Nangong E, and Chu Jing down to safety.
• Dark clouds gathered over Qingxiao Mountain, and disciples across the sect, including Shen Yue and Xu Ning, watched as heavenly lightning began striking Li Qingqiu.
• Li Qingqiu endured repeated lightning strikes while cultivating the Taiqing Primordial Scripture, and his Spiritual Sense grew strong enough to perceive inside his body and lift a stone.
• After withstanding dozens of lightning bolts, Li Qingqiu entered the Spiritual Sense Realm as spiritual energy poured into him and transformed into Origin Energy.

Li Qingqiu survived his heavenly tribulation and spent three days consolidating his breakthrough to the first layer of the Spiritual Sense Realm. After reassuring the Qingxiao Sect and promising to help his junior disciples grow, he encouraged Yun Cai to pursue becoming the sect’s strongest disciple.

• After the ninety-ninth bolt of lightning, Li Qingqiu received a Divine Ability Inheritance reward and absorbed spiritual energy to consolidate his breakthrough.
• Zhang Yuchun had Chai Yunshang keep the curious disciples away while Yun Cai worried about Li Qingqiu with her companions.
• After three days and nights, Li Qingqiu reached the first layer of the Spiritual Sense Realm and told his ghost demons that surviving the lightning had been painful.
• Li Qingqiu reassured Li Dongyue, urged her to cultivate, and promised to devote resources to raising his junior brothers and sisters.
• Li Qingqiu told the disciples that tribulations had to be faced directly and said the sect would study Formations and magical artifacts to help disciples survive them.
• Yun Cai showed Li Qingqiu her Heart Devouring Bees and asked to learn powerful Spells, so he promised to teach her after she reached the sixth layer of the Nourishing Yuan Realm and encouraged her to become the strongest disciple.

Li Qingqiu gained the Mountain Moving God Suppressing divine ability and treated Li Huaizhen while welcoming Xu Hong to Qingxiao Sect. As Zhao Zhen planned to reunite with his mother in two years, Zhang Yuchun reported Lingtian Sect’s location, and Li Qingqiu assigned Shen Yue and Xue Jin to deal with it.

• Li Qingqiu encouraged Yuan Li, then accepted the Mountain Moving God Suppressing inheritance from the Legacy System.
• Madam Xu brought her sick son Li Huaizhen to Li Qingqiu, who treated him with three needles and invited Xu Hong to stay with Qingxiao Sect’s disciples.
• Zhao Zhen learned that his mother was alive at Northern Liang Sky Hanging Mountain and agreed to wait two years before visiting her.
• Zhang Yuchun told Li Qingqiu that Lingtian Sect was hiding in Yuzhou, and Li Qingqiu chose Shen Yue and Xue Jin to lead the mission.

Li Qingqiu discovered a vast Spirit Copper Mountain Range through a Fortune Inheritance and organized Qingxiao Sect to mine and transport its resources. As the sect expanded, he chose Lu Qing for special cultivation support, while Yuan Qi worried that Lu Qing’s rise could limit resources for his younger brother, Yuan Li.

• Li Qingqiu accepted a Fortune Inheritance and learned of the Spirit Copper Mountain Range in Southern Chu Province.
• Li Qingqiu led two hundred disciples to the range, appointed Qingxiao True Person to oversee mining, and chose Yang Jueding to organize a transport route.
• Qingxiao Sect planned to send five hundred Registered Disciples and two thousand Menial Disciples to mine the range as its ranks continued to grow.
• Li Qingqiu decided to support Lu Qing with spirit energy pills so he could become a stronger figure outside the sect master's faction.
• Chai Yunshang urged Lu Qing to put the sect's interests first, while Yuan Qi reflected that Lu Qing's advancement might reduce resources for Yuan Li.

Xue Jin and Shen Yue returned from the assault on Lingtian Sect, where Xue Jin killed Xiao Wuhui but lost his right arm. Li Qingqiu promised to take responsibility for the mission and protect Xue Jin, while the Qingxiao Sect prepared to arm its disciples with spirit-copper swords.

• Xue Jin confronted Xiao Wuhui at Lingtian Sect, and Xiao Wuhui killed Wu Huan before using the Martial God's Secret Art to fight Xue Jin.
• Wu Xingyue showed Li Qingqiu a spirit-copper sword that could withstand Origin Energy, and Li Qingqiu ordered ten thousand Qingxiao Swords forged for the sect.
• Shen Yue and Xue Jin returned to Qingxiao Mountain with Xiao Wuhui's preserved head and Xue Jin's severed arm.
• Shen Yue explained that Xiao Wuhui broke Xue Jin's sword arm before Xue Jin killed him with a sword held in his mouth.
• Xue Jin asked Li Qingqiu to tell the Xiao Clan Three Brothers the truth and let them blame him, but Li Qingqiu said he would take responsibility and protect Xue Jin.

Li Qingqiu punished Shen Yue for disobeying mission orders, then established the Tianshan Spirit Pool as a guarded cultivation site and discussed how Qingxiao Sect could bring the Nine Provinces under its authority. Xiao Wuqing reported discovering a registered disciple who might transform the sect and become its strongest disciple.

• Li Qingqiu accepted that Lingtian Sect had been wiped out, punished Shen Yue with three months of gate duty, and reattached Xue Jin's arm.
• Li Qingqiu resolved to have the Dark Hall investigate the Ji clan and reflected on the Qingxiao Sect's need to expand beyond the Tai Kun Mountain Range.
• Li Qingqiu claimed the Tianshan Spirit Pool, left Huang Shan and fifty disciples to guard it, and discovered its abundant spiritual energy, enhanced comprehension, and dangerous spirit fish.
• Li Qingqiu revealed the Spirit Pool to the sect's elders, then discussed with Zhang Yuchun how imperial authority could justify bringing the Nine Provinces under order and managing resources uncovered by Aristocratic Clans.
• Zhang Yuchun reported that Li Sifeng had gained momentum amid the feudal lords' conflicts, while Li Qingqiu resolved not to support him as emperor without proof of his ability.
• Xiao Wuqing told Li Qingqiu that he had found a Registered Disciple with the potential to transform the sect and become its strongest disciple.

Li Qingqiu considered Xiao Wuqing’s recommendation to support He Jinshu, a low-aptitude disciple pursuing medicine, pill-making, and ways to strengthen the body. As spring arrived, Xu Ning left to train at the Tianshan Spirit Pool, Shen Yue changed his cultivation priorities, and Zhang Yuchun reported on spies and Tianxuan Mountain’s closed gates.

• Xiao Wuqing praised He Jinshu’s medical and Pill Dao talent and his ambition to restore injured bodies and improve people’s aptitudes, and Li Qingqiu agreed he was worth supporting without granting him special status.
• Li Qingqiu reflected on Xiao Wuhui’s death and decided to give Xiao Wudi and Xiao Wuming responsibilities so they could grow as Xiao Wuqing had.
• Xu Ning told Shen Yue that cultivation supported sword comprehension, then left to train down the mountain for two years; Shen Yue decided to focus on absorbing energy and cultivating.
• Li Qingqiu told Zhang Yuchun that Xu Ning had gone to the Tianshan Spirit Pool to prepare for the Nourishing Yuan Realm Ninth Layer.
• Zhang Yuchun reported that six Lingtian Sect spies had been found and warned that more might remain, while his investigators had been unable to enter the closed Tianxuan Mountain; Li Qingqiu ordered the investigators withdrawn and planned to send someone else.

Li Qingqiu warned Zhao Zhen that a calamity threatened him before his sixteenth birthday, while Zhao Zhen concealed a letter from his mother and wondered who might be behind it. Later, Li Qingqiu investigated the whirlpool beneath Yuantie Port Town and learned from Lin Chuan that it led to a deep sea filled with enormous creatures.

• Li Qingqiu assigned Mo Jiuhong and the Dark Hall disciples to investigate Tianxuan Mountain and told them to spend more time among the sect.
• Li Qingqiu visited Zhao Zhen, warned him to stay on Qingxiao Mountain because a calamity lay in his fate, and urged him to report anyone who tried to lure him away.
• Zhao Zhen kept his mother's letter secret and wondered whether Tianxuan Mountain or his mother was connected to the calamity.
• Li Qingqiu went with Jinlang to Yuantie Port Town and told Yu Lin that he had sent ghost servants to investigate the whirlpool.
• Lin Chuan appeared and reported that the whirlpool led to an unfathomably deep sea inhabited by enormous fish and a water serpent larger than Bai Zhi.

Li Qingqiu planned the development of Yuantie Port Town after Chu Jing and Nangong E explored the dangerous vortex, then assigned Yun Cai to oversee the sect’s Blessed Lands and train her seven sisters. The chapter left Yun Cai excited to serve while Li Sijin proposed recruiting her into the Cultivation Hall.

• Lin Chuan reported that the vortex opened onto a deep, seemingly endless ocean, and Chu Jing said their search had found colossal creatures but no people or demons like Bai Zhi.
• Li Qingqiu instructed Yu Lin to strengthen the vortex’s guards and develop Yuantie Port Town with fishing missions and a spiritual fish farm.
• Zhao Zhen, Shen Yue, and Xue Jin broke through to the Nourishing Yuan Realm Sixth Layer, while Xue Jin adapted to his reattached arm by practicing swordsmanship with his left hand.
• Li Qingqiu told the Xiao Clan Three Brothers to lead disciples to Tianji Mountain and drive away the troops surrounding it.
• Yun Cai demonstrated her progress with the Soul Seizing Flying Sword, and Li Qingqiu appointed her to oversee the Blessed Lands, manage resources, and train her seven sisters.
• Li Sijin suggested that Yun Cai should join the Cultivation Hall, but Li Qingqiu did not accept the proposal.

Li Qingqiu guided Qingxiao Sect’s growing disciples and institutions, while Li Sifeng worked to build an alliance with Zhu Xian against the realm’s powerful clans. The chapter ended with Li Sifeng arguing that the Nine Provinces must not fracture into warring states.

• Li Sijin and Li Dongyue discussed Yun Cai and teased each other after Li Qingqiu urged Li Sijin to delegate and focus on cultivation.
• The Xiao Clan Three Brothers reported that they had driven off an army of sixty thousand, and Li Qingqiu praised their restraint and teamwork.
• Li Qingqiu visited the Sword Sect, where Sword Solitary wept upon meeting him and promised to mend his arrogant ways after Li Qingqiu counseled him.
• Xue Jin and Zheng Yunqiao proposed mission and Dao Yuan rankings, and Li Qingqiu approved monthly and yearly public rankings while keeping the all-time ranking private.
• Li Qingqiu approved Cheng Canghai’s plan for a Monster Taming Hall branch in Yuantie Port Town and offered Chu Jing a masked role working independently within Qingxiao Sect.
• Li Sifeng told Zhu Xian that the Cai, Liu, and Pei clans threatened to divide the Nine Provinces and revive an era of warring states.

Zhu Xian and Li Sifeng agreed to join forces to reunite the Nine Provinces, while the Qingxiao Sect weighed how to shape the coming struggle. The chapter ended with Shen Yue reporting that someone in the north had entered the legendary Dao realm.

• Li Da proposed that the Zhu and Li families unite against the three warlords, and Li Sifeng agreed to let Zhu Xian lead their alliance.
• Yan Dao Sect's elder urged him to secure Zhao Zhen's help against the Qingxiao Sect, but Yan Dao Sect continued practicing his sword while waiting.
• Li Qingqiu sent Lu Qing to investigate Cai Shao's pill refining and ordered him to kill Cai Shao if it was harming the people.
• Yuan Qi told Li Qingqiu that Zhu Xian had visited Zhang and that Spirit Control Hall disciples had left the mountain afterward.
• Chu Jing discussed Hall Master Zhang's role in unifying the land with Li Qingqiu, who warned that such work could change a person's heart.
• Shen Yue told Li Qingqiu that someone in the north had entered the Dao, a legendary realm beyond martial arts.

Li Qingqiu learned from Shen Yue about martial arts geniuses who might enter the Dao and planned visits to Fengxia Mountain and the Murong Noble Family. Meanwhile, Yan Dao Sect defeated and released Mo Jiuhong, and Zhang Ping encountered Bai Ninger at the Training Hall, where she invited him on a dangerous mission to capture an auspicious beast.

• Shen Yue told Li Qingqiu that a martial artist had entered the Dao and named True Person Bai Yan, Yan Dao Sect, and Murong Zhilong as possible future Dao entrants.
• Li Qingqiu agreed to send someone to Fengxia Mountain, while Shen Yue offered to seek out the Murong Noble Family after reaching the seventh layer.
• Yan Dao Sect defeated Mo Jiuhong on Tianxuan Mountain, identified him as a Qingxiao Sect cultivator, and let him leave with a warning.
• Zhang Ping examined the Training Hall rankings and learned from Bai Ninger why an Aristocratic Clan disciple had completed so many missions.
• Bai Ninger invited Zhang Ping to join her team on a mission to capture an auspicious beast, mentioning that a fifth-layer True Disciple would accompany them.

Zhang Ping agreed to Bai Ninger’s mission offer, while Qingxiao Sect welcomed Li Sifeng’s newborn sons, Li Shouzheng and Li Shoumin, whom Li Qingqiu named and agreed to raise. After the New Year, Mo Jiuhong returned from Tianxuan Mountain with a warning that Yan Dao Sect’s sect master had easily defeated him but said Tianxuan Mountain had no intention of opposing Qingxiao Sect.

• Zhang Ping accepted Bai Ninger’s mission offer after learning Li Yang would join, then regretted agreeing and planned to prepare with talismans and pills.
• Li Sifeng returned to Qingxiao Sect with Pei Miao and their newborn sons, and Li Qingqiu named them Li Shouzheng and Li Shoumin.
• Li Qingqiu discovered the boys’ extraordinary imperial Fates and agreed to raise them at the sect while Li Sifeng remained there for the New Year.
• Li Sifeng learned that Jiang Zhaoxia had reached the Nourishing Yuan Realm Eighth Layer and that the Xiao Clan Three Brothers had reached the Fourth Layer, leaving him shaken by the sect’s growth.
• Mo Jiuhong returned on the third day after the New Year and told Li Qingqiu that Yan Dao Sect’s sect master had broken his arm and said Tianxuan Mountain did not intend to oppose Qingxiao Sect.

Li Qingqiu learned more about Yan Dao Sect and allowed Zhang Yuchun to investigate Tianxuan Mountain, while Qingxiao Sect dealt with a spar between Li Sifeng and Zhao Zhen. Meanwhile, Li Yang and his companions approached Tianxuan Mountain in search of an auspicious beast, with Zhang Ping increasingly uneasy about what awaited them.

• Li Qingqiu told Mo Jiuhong to recover and set aside the matter of Yan Dao Sect for the time being.
• Li Sifeng defeated Zhao Zhen in a spar using the Emperor Profound Sword, then lost to Jiang Zhaoxia and later apologized to Zhao Zhen.
• Li Sifeng left Qingxiao Sect with Pei Miao the next morning to seek experience.
• Zhang Yuchun asked to investigate Tianxuan Mountain, and Li Qingqiu agreed while declining to send his infant sons to the Spirit Control Hall.
• Li Yang, Bai Ninger, Zhang Ping, and other disciples approached Tianxuan Mountain while tracking an auspicious beast, and Zhang Ping felt increasingly uneasy.

Li Qingqiu helped Chu Jing assume the identity of Lord Jing and watched Yun Cai demonstrate her growing sword skill. When the Xiao Clan Three Brothers learned that Yan Dao Sect had defeated Qingxiao Sect disciples and challenged the sect’s reputation, they asked to go to Tianxuan Mountain, and Yun Cai volunteered to join them.

• Li Yang and the Qingxiao Sect disciples waited for permission to enter Tianxuan Mountain, while Zhang Ping worried about dangers beyond ordinary armies.
• Li Qingqiu gave Chu Jing a solid form and the name Lord Jing, then assigned Yuan Qi to introduce him to the sect.
• Yun Cai demonstrated that she could control twelve Soul Seizing Flying Swords, and Li Qingqiu considered teaching her the Heavenly Gang Golden Body Art.
• Xiao Wudi, Xiao Wuqing, and Xiao Wuming told Li Qingqiu that Yan Dao Sect had defeated Li Yang and Yang Dong and asked to go to Tianxuan Mountain.
• Xiao Wudi said he believed he could rival Li Yang, and Yun Cai volunteered to go with the brothers.

Li Qingqiu sent Sword God Shen Yue to challenge the Yan Dao Sect’s master after the sect suffered defeats at Tianxuan Mountain. Meanwhile, Zhao Zhen rejected Ku Yi and Ku Er’s plans for him to reclaim the throne and decided that, if he went to Tianxuan Mountain, he would go as a Qingxiao Sect representative.

• Li Qingqiu forbade Xiao Wudi, Yun Cai, and the others from going to Tianxuan Mountain, then summoned Zhang Yuchun and Shen Yue to discuss the Yan Dao Sect’s victories.
• Li Qingqiu sent Shen Yue to defeat the Yan Dao Sect’s master, and Shen Yue left the mountain with Sword Sect disciples.
• Zhang Yuchun told Li Qingqiu that Li Yang and Yang Dong were recovering at an estate after leaving Tianxuan Mountain.
• Ku Yi and Ku Er told Zhao Zhen about the Yan Dao Sect’s master and urged him to claim the throne, but Zhao Zhen refused and said he would visit Tianxuan Mountain only as a Qingxiao Sect representative.
• An unseen onlooker watched Zhao Zhen’s argument through a nearby rock wall and stifled a laugh.