Chapter Summaries

The Li Family exposed Venerable Tianxing’s avatars in the imperial capital and reasoned that the clones were bound by rules that made them compete to survive. Li Kuanghua captured Gu Donglai, whose torture caused the other avatars pain, while Lai Teng pleaded for Tianxing to rescue him, unaware someone was watching from the dark.

• Li Kuanghua revealed that she had tested everyone to expose Tianxing’s avatars and identified Gu Donglai as a suspected infiltrator.
• Lin Wudao dismissed the Li Family’s attempt to threaten him and continued to torment the captive Li Kuangren.
• Li Yaowen and the family concluded that Tianxing’s clones could not kill one another and were competing to become the final survivor; they also suspected Tianxing Cave Abode was another trap for selecting a host.
• Li Xiang went to the village, where Li Kuanghua had Gu Donglai captured and tortured while explaining why she believed he had betrayed the Li Family.
• The avatars felt the pain inflicted on Gu Donglai, and Lai Teng demanded that Tianxing send someone to rescue him as an unseen watcher observed him.

Li Xiang’s family captured and imprisoned more of Venerable Tianxing’s incarnations, forcing Lai Teng to surrender spirit materials while the Li Family learned to exploit Tianxing’s vulnerabilities. The chapter leaves the family encouraged by its first real gains against Tianxing, while Li Xiang’s descendants made breakthroughs and Li Changan and Li Xingchen acquired a ghost-crewed pirate ship.

• Li Xiang ordered Li Kuanghua to continue rescuing Yao Tie, protect Gu Donglai, and work with Azure Cloud to imprison Tianxing’s weaker Imperial Capital incarnations.
• Over two years, Daoist Shan Chen and the Sky Star Sword Saint captured Tianxing’s incarnations and transferred them into the Life-Locking Diagram, eventually imprisoning 136.
• Lai Teng repeatedly let a Li Family puppet into his treasury and surrendered spirit materials rather than risk dying and losing his chance to become Tianxing’s true body.
• Li Xiang celebrated the family’s progress against Tianxing and learned that Li Dalong had developed the Soul-Command Divine Movement Art after losing the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin.
• Li Tianming reached complete darkness and the Nascent Soul Realm, but the Li Family restrained him as a powerful lightning tribulation gathered.
• Li Xingchen reached Foundation Establishment Early Stage with a single earth spirit root, and he and Li Changan later found the Undying Pirate Ship, whose crew consisted of immortal dead sailors.

At the Grand Sacrifice, the Li Family reviewed its descendants’ progress and planned to stop capturing Venerable Tianxing’s avatars, fearing his retaliation. Li Xiang ordered the family into prolonged seclusion while they secretly investigated Tianxing’s clones, leaving Tianxing’s agents furious and unable to find them.

• Li Yaowen warned that the Li Family’s repeated captures of Tianxing’s avatars had become too dangerous, and the clansmen agreed to stop the operations.
• Li Yaoqing reported her success in the Great Gold Empire, where she had become a sixth-grade alchemist, while Li Yaotie continued secretly developing his skills in Celestial Light Cave.
• Li Xiang asked Li Yaoqing and Li Yunbing to supply resources, assigned Li Yunbing to provide corpses and witch bones, and encouraged Li Kuanghua after her defeat by a higher-ranked Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Li Xiang ordered the thirteen people in Tianxing Cave Abode to watch Nangong Yazhi and follow Li Changsheng’s arrangements, then instructed the family to protect its allies and investigate possible Tianxing clones.
• The Li Family entered its longest period of cultivation in concealment, and Tianxing’s clones grew furious when they could no longer find their targets.

Li Xiang watched the family’s descendants advance during two decades of seclusion, including Li Dalong’s breakthrough among the Witch Tribe. The chapter ended as Ye Xiu was forced to reveal his impending Spirit Transformation tribulation, drawing Venerable Tianxing’s attention and catching Lin Wudao’s interest.

• Li Xiang spent ten years cultivating beside the Fox Saint while Li Tianyi, Li Changyao, and other descendants made progress; Li Changan and Li Xingchen explored Spirit Prefecture, and Li Xinghuo entered the Blackwater Youth Champion Contest.
• Ten more years passed, and Li Dalong broke through after cultivating among the Witch Tribe, developing his own Myriad Souls Solitary Path Art.
• Li Xiang learned that Ye Xiu had reached the threshold of Spirit Transformation and could no longer suppress his heavenly tribulation.
• Li Kuanghua warned Li Xiang that Ye Xiu was in the imperial capital and could not hide his aura from Venerable Tianxing.
• Venerable Tianxing recognized Ye Xiu, while Lin Wudao decided he would make an interesting collectible.

Ye Xiu faced his Spirit Transformation tribulation on Sky's Edge Mountain while Cheng Lingwu tried to recruit him into Min Youguo's service. After Li Kuanghua delivered the Li Family's treasures, Ye Xiu refused the offer and prepared to break through as the Li Family stood guard against the enemies gathering nearby.

• Cheng Lingwu offered Ye Xiu treasures to help him endure the tribulation if he agreed to serve Min Youguo, and threatened him after Ye Xiu refused.
• Cheng Lingwu revealed that Min Youguo knew about Tianxing and had secretly helped Ye Xiu, but Ye Xiu remained unwilling to join him.
• Li Kuanghua arrived with a Storage Ring of sixth-grade pills, spirit herbs, materials, array discs, and Spirit Artifacts from the Li Family.
• Ye Xiu displayed the treasures to Cheng Lingwu and rejected Min Youguo's offer, while Li Kuanghua ordered Cheng Lingwu to leave.
• Cheng Lingwu left and soon found Lai Teng and others, whom he urged to target Ye Xiu and Li Kuanghua.
• Ye Xiu tried to return the treasures, but Li Kuanghua insisted that he break through while the Li Family kept his enemies from disturbing him.

Ye Xiu resolved to break through to Spirit Transformation as the Venerable Tianxing avatars advanced on Sky's Edge Mountain. More than a hundred cultivators from Qingyun overcame their fear and charged to stop the avatars from reaching him.

• Ye Xiu drew resolve from Li Kuanghua and the cultivators of Qingyun, then vowed to shatter the lightning tribulation and face the enemy with them.
• Qu Yang tried to turn Lai Teng against the imperial-capital avatars, but Lai Teng rebuffed him and rallied the group.
• As Ye Xiu's tribulation began, the Tianxing avatars moved to stop it, and Li Kuanghua and the Qingyun cultivators appeared to block their way.
• Daoist Shan Chen assessed the 205 avatars and warned that killing them would strengthen the survivors, while the Qingyun cultivators admitted their fear.
• Liu Wuhuan, Sky Star Sword Saint, and the others chose to fight, and Daoist Shan Chen raised the Great Wall and led their charge against the avatars.

As Azure Cloud fought the Tianxing avatars at Sky's Edge Mountain, Li Kuanghua battled Lai Teng, whose strength rose whenever an avatar died. Elsewhere, Qingyu tried to free Li Yaotie from Celestial Light Cave, while Li Xinghuo called upon Li Xiang through a family sacrifice, leaving Li Xiang to decide whether to bestow his power.

• More than three hundred cultivators clashed at Sky's Edge Mountain as Azure Cloud defended Ye Xiu's path against the Tianxing avatars.
• Lai Teng trapped Li Kuanghua in a formation and wounded her, but she realized the surviving avatars grew stronger whenever one of them was killed.
• Li Kuanghua endured more Heavenly Thunder and grew strong enough to dodge Lai Teng's spear.
• Qingyu entered Celestial Light Cave with Wang Jinhu and met Li Yaotie, who said he could not escape unnoticed and directed her to take puppets from the guarded forging tower.
• Li Xinghuo and Mad Blood Devil Lord attacked the Lin Family at Qilin Mountain while Li Xinghuo offered a sacrifice to Li Xiang.
• Li Xiang saw the prompt asking whether he would bestow power upon Li Xinghuo.

Ten years after their victory at sea, Li Changan and Li Xingchen had built a pirate domain in Spirit Prefecture and hoped to return home to aid their family. Meanwhile, Azure Cloud’s battered defenders faced a final assault as Ye Xiu underwent a fourth-grade Spirit Transformation tribulation, until explosions from Celestial Light Cave halted the battlefield.

• Li Changan told Li Xingchen that the family would overcome its hardships, while planning to seize Spirit Prefecture’s fortune and break through to the Golden Core Stage.
• At Sky’s Edge Mountain, the Azure Cloud defenders struggled to hold their formations as casualties mounted and Li Kuanghua neared the limit of her body’s endurance.
• Lai Teng admitted his fear of Li Kuanghua’s strength but threatened the defenders, and Cheng Lingwu arrived and ordered that none of the Qingyun cultivators be left alive.
• Li Kuanghua and the Azure Cloud cultivators prepared to keep fighting as Lai Teng and the Tian Xing clones charged toward them.
• Explosions sounded from the direction of Celestial Light Cave, stopping everyone on the battlefield.

Li Yaotie set off explosions across Celestial Light Cave to draw out its Patriarch and ask to become his disciple. After the Patriarch accepted him, Li Yaotie looked back toward his homeland and told his deceased father and old ancestor that he had won his gamble.

• Li Yaotie’s explosive artifacts detonated at 236 locations in Celestial Light Cave, causing damage, injuries, and deaths while the disciples searched for the culprit.
• The Celestial Light Patriarch questioned Daoist Mingkong about his dealings with the Qing Imperial Dynasty and criticized his handling of the crisis.
• Qingyu escaped with Wang Jinhu amid the chaos, revealing that Li Yaotie had not been rescued and that the Puppet Tower had been robbed of ten percent of its puppets.
• Li Yaotie admitted to the Celestial Light Patriarch that he had planted the explosives and begged to become his disciple, citing his years of study in many arts.
• The Celestial Light Patriarch accepted Li Yaotie as his disciple, and Li Yaotie followed him deeper into Celestial Light Cave, believing his gamble had succeeded.

The Li Family’s coordinated attacks on Sky's Edge Mountain and Qilin Mountain concealed its true target: Venerable Tianxing and Lin Wudao. Li Xiang reached Lin Wudao’s courtyard, freed the caged geniuses, and left Tianxing facing their fury.

• Cheng Lingwu and Lai Teng realized the explosion at Celestial Light Cave and Ye Xiu’s breakthrough might be connected to a plan to rescue Li Yaotie, but Li Kuanghua denied it.
• Mad Blood Devil Lord attacked Qilin Mountain alone, repeatedly dying and reviving as he fought the Lin Family and its Qilin phantom.
• Li Xinghuo watched the assault while Li Xiang learned that Qingyu had obtained puppets and Li Yaotie had chosen to become Celestial Light Patriarch’s disciple.
• Li Xiang appeared at Qilin Mountain, sent Li Xinghuo away, and entered Lin Wudao’s courtyard.
• Li Xiang broke Lin Wudao’s formations and opened the cages holding the captured geniuses, revealing that Venerable Tianxing was the Li Family’s true target.

Li Xiang forced Lin Wudao to surrender the Qilin Mountain treasury and freed the imprisoned geniuses, while Mad Blood Devil Lord broke through the Lin Family’s defenses. As Venerable Tianxing’s incarnations moved to stop them, countless puppets poured out of Qilin Mountain, leaving the pursuers stunned.

• Li Xiang threatened Lin Wudao with the half-transparent cube and demanded the Qilin Heavenly Crystal and access to his treasury.
• Lin Wudao handed Li Xiang the treasury token, and Li Xiang emptied the treasury, causing the Qilin phantom to vanish and Mad Blood Devil Lord to regain his power.
• Mad Blood Devil Lord defeated a Lin Family elder, reached Li Xiang, and warned that the escaping group would face Venerable Tianxing’s watching forces.
• Li Xiang asked the freed caged geniuses what they would offer the Li Family in exchange for help and hope of revenge, and they answered with their willingness to give everything.
• Lin Wudao gathered Venerable Tianxing’s incarnations and ordered them to reclaim the stolen treasure and prevent the geniuses from escaping.
• Countless puppets poured out of Qilin Mountain, freezing Lin Wudao and the other incarnations in shock.

Li Kuanghua’s group held off Lai Teng’s Tianxing avatars while the Li Family’s plan freed a thousand geniuses in Long Sun Prefecture. Xuantianzi arrived with treasures for Ye Xiu’s tribulation, restoring his cultivation and bringing his breakthrough within reach as she confronted Cheng Lingwu.

• Lai Teng realized the Li Family had used Ye Xiu’s tribulation as a distraction to send puppet decoys bearing the geniuses’ auras to Long Sun Prefecture, allowing the captives to escape.
• Li Kuanghua apologized to the Azure Cloud cultivators for their role in the plan, but they stood with her as Cheng Lingwu forced Lai Teng to keep fighting.
• Daoist Mingkong blocked Wang Jinhu from reaching Sky’s Edge Mountain, and the two began fighting.
• Xuantianzi arrived amid ghostly energy, forming a magic formation that sent a ray of light toward Ye Xiu and restored his faltering cultivation.
• Xuantianzi revealed that she had killed a corrupt man’s family and taken tribulation treasures from his treasury, then confronted Cheng Lingwu and demanded his tongue.

Ye Xiu broke through to Spirit Transformation and joined Daoist Shan Chen to defeat Qu Yang, while the Li Family’s schemes left Tian Xing’s avatars scattered and humiliated. The chapter ended with Lin Wudao recognizing the Li Family as serious opponents and Li Xiang vowing that his family would grow stronger.

• Xuantianzi trapped Cheng Lingwu in a ghost-path formation and cut out his tongue as Lai Teng fled the battlefield.
• Lai Teng realized the Li Family had deliberately spared him, and Qu Yang concluded that the avatars had fallen into the Li Family’s trap.
• Ye Xiu completed his Spirit Transformation breakthrough and blocked Qu Yang’s escape alongside Daoist Shan Chen.
• Ye Xiu and Daoist Shan Chen defeated Qu Yang, who fled to Lai Teng’s residence battered and ashamed.
• Lin Wudao acknowledged that the Li Family had become opponents worth taking seriously, while Li Xiang vowed that the family would grow stronger.

After Azure Cloud helped Ye Xiu break through, Cheng Lingwu returned to the imperial capital and was killed by State Preceptor Min Youguo, who learned the Cheng Family had already been destroyed. Two years later, Li Yaotie prepared to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, and the chapter ended with the revelation that he would face a Nine-Nine heavenly tribulation.

• After the battle at Sky's Edge Mountain, Ye Xiu released Cheng Lingwu and sent him back to the imperial capital with a message for State Preceptor Min Youguo.
• Min Youguo killed Cheng Lingwu before he could speak, then ordered the Cheng Family exterminated and learned it had already perished.
• Li Xiang reflected on the danger posed by Venerable Tianxing and went to Celestial Light Cave after learning Li Yaotie was ready to break through.
• Li Kuanghua gave Li Yaotie the battlefield spoils, including the Qilin Heavenly Crystal and Mystic Ice Golden Bell Mirror, but Li Yaotie chose to take nothing with him.
• Li Yaotie asked Celestial Light Patriarch to watch over his tribulation, and Li Xiang and Celestial Light Patriarch revealed he would face a Nine-Nine tribulation.

Li Yaotie underwent a nine-nine lightning tribulation, using his body as a furnace to fuse minerals and inscribe unorthodox arts into himself. He returned to Celestial Light Cave and the Li Family as a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator with the Unorthodox Artifact Body, a transformation that made the great powers wary and left Li Xiang confident in the family’s strength.

• Celestial Light Patriarch used a protective talisman to guard Li Yaotie as he began his tribulation at Sky's Edge Mountain.
• Li Yaotie concealed and overcame successive layers of tribulation by fusing minerals into his body, which became a cocoon inscribed with formation, talisman, and puppet patterns.
• Qu Yang recognized Li Yaotie as a growing threat, but Daoist Mingkong refused to help deal with him.
• After three days, Li Yaotie emerged from the shattered cocoon with a refined body and raced back to Celestial Light Cave, alarming Lai Teng and Venerable Tianxing's clones.
• Li Yaotie entered the ancestral space, reported his breakthrough to Li Xiang, and gained the Unorthodox Artifact Body trait, which made his body as powerful as a top-grade Spirit Artifact.

Four years after Li Yaotie's breakthrough, the Li Family learned that Elder Whitebrow had found a way to locate and kill Venerable Tianxing, while the trapped cultivators in Tianxing Cave Abode uncovered the truth about his death and the creation of his remnant soul. Elder Whitebrow planned to strike in a hundred years, and Tianxing's avatars appeared ready for the coming confrontation.

• Li Kuangren and the rescued Qilin Mountain geniuses traveled by Spirit Boat toward the Great Gold Empire while Li Xiang worried over Li Kuangren's emotional numbness.
• The Li Family advanced in cultivation, with Li Yaotie forging the Cloud Thunder Sword, Li Yaoqing refining a Tribulation Crossing Pill, and Li Xinghuo and Li Xingchen breaking through.
• Elder Whitebrow summoned A Xiu and Bai Rourou and offered to help rescue the Li Family members trapped in Tianxing Cave Abode.
• Xu Dingsheng and the other cultivators opened a sealed cave and discovered Wang Rusheng's tomb, whose visions showed that Venerable Tianxing had died and become Tianxing Cave Abode.
• The visions revealed that a later intruder gathered Tianxing's remnant soul and intended to use it to become supreme beneath the heavens.
• Elder Whitebrow told Bai Rourou that Tianxing Cave Abode was Venerable Tianxing's true body and that he planned to kill him in a hundred years, as Tianxing's avatars smiled across the Qing Imperial Dynasty.

Li Xiang and the Li Family prepared for a decisive confrontation with Venerable Tianxing, while his scattered incarnations began targeting the family’s allies. The chapter ended with Li Dalong secretly watching his enemy Lin Wudao and regaining his resolve, supported by Lei Dong and You Baiyin.

• White Brow revealed that Tianxing’s vulnerable core was hidden in Long Sun Prefecture and planned to expose Tianxing Cave Abode within a hundred years.
• Li Xiang ordered the Li Family to treat every day as its last and vowed that either they or Tianxing would be gone after a hundred years.
• Lai Teng led Tianxing incarnations into a trap made of Li Yaotie’s puppets, then pursued Li Kuanghua’s group as they headed for the Five Elements Forbidden Land to cultivate.
• Lin Wudao confronted Duke Soul Spirit over Li Dalong’s escape and laughed at Li Dalong’s threat to kill them both.
• Li Dalong watched Lin Wudao from afar with Lei Dong and You Baiyin, and his companions recognized that his old resolve had returned.

Li Kuanghua led the survivors from Sky's Edge Mountain to the Five Elements Forbidden Land to hide from Tianxing and cultivate, while Li Kuangren built a mercenary operation in Great Jin Kingdom to gather resources and strengthen the Li Family. The chapter ended with Li Yaoqing comforting Li Kuangren as his memories of imprisonment and Lin Wudao continued to haunt him.

• In Year 265, Li Kuanghua brought forty-three survivors from Sky's Edge Mountain to the Five Elements Forbidden Land, where she planned to cultivate and prepare to attack Long Sun Prefecture in a hundred years.
• Li Kuanghua entered the forbidden land and faced its oppressive power while snow beasts surrounded the Azure Cloud group; she vowed to take her brothers, sisters, and descendants home.
• In Year 267, Li Yaoqing and more than a thousand geniuses arrived in Great Jin Kingdom, where Li Kuangren organized hired cultivators to earn spirit herbs and spirit ore through the war with the Immortal Alliance Kingdom.
• Li Xiang recognized that the geniuses were cooperating with the Li Family because they shared Tianxing as an enemy, but expected many would eventually leave.
• Li Yaoqing found Li Kuangren shivering at night and heard him describe how the cages reminded him of his imprisonment and Lin Wudao's violence; she promised they would return.

Li Xiang and his descendants continued cultivating as the Li Family sought strength to return to Merit City and confront its enemies. The chapter left Li Yaozu heading to seek the Sword Sovereign’s inheritance and Li Yaotie celebrating the creation of a powerful Spirit Puppet.

• Li Xiang attempted to form the Yin-Yang Diagram into a domain while Li Yaoqing, Li Kuangren, and Li Kuanghua advanced their cultivation through their respective pursuits.
• Li Dalong cultivated on an ancient battlefield, witnessed visions of past battles, and began comprehending the method of the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin, increasing his cultivation speed.
• Li Yaozu recovered from his injuries, reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and learned from Fang Linglong that her intervention had exposed her to the Qing Imperial Dynasty.
• Li Yaozu reassured Fang Linglong that he did not blame her, and she offered to take him to the Sword Sovereign’s remaining sword and inheritance.
• Li Yaotie refined a sixth-grade Spirit Puppet in the form of a white tiger, and Celestial Light Patriarch joyfully tested its abilities.

Celestial Light Patriarch explained how the Qing Imperial Dynasty’s power struggle led Min Youguo to use Tian Xing against the Li Family, though the family remained determined to fight Tian Xing in a hundred years. In the Northern Border, Li Xinghuo joined Grand Tutor Linjiu’s command, gained powerful gifts and a new identity, and began to suspect his adoptive father’s connection to Merit City.

• Celestial Light Patriarch told Li Yaotie that the Li Family’s rise, Li Kuangren’s defiance of the Human Emperor, and Min Youguo’s factional schemes had left the family vulnerable to Tian Xing’s attack.
• Celestial Light Patriarch urged Li Yaotie to abandon revenge, but Li Yaotie held onto Li Tianshuang’s Storage Ring, and the Li Family continued preparing to fight Tian Xing in Long Sun Prefecture in a hundred years.
• Li Xinghuo met Grand Tutor Linjiu in the Northern Border and asked to cultivate under his command.
• Grand Tutor Linjiu bestowed the Heavenfire Nurturing Art and Divine Fire Banner on Li Xinghuo, then made him his adopted son.
• Li Xinghuo watched Linjiu’s hall and wondered whether his adoptive father had been involved in the affairs of Merit City.