Chapter Summaries

Li Xinghuo continued growing stronger in the Northern Border while holding fast to his resolve to fight Tian Xing, and Li Changan prepared to conquer Spirit Prefecture with Li Xingchen at his side. As the Li clan’s descendants lived through decades of hardship and change, Li Xiang returned to the Ancestral Space stronger and declared that he was ready.

• Li Xinghuo reflected on his lonely childhood, gained the Lone Walker trait, and resolved to become strong enough to face Tian Xing.
• Li Changan considered his family’s past struggles and vowed to take all of Spirit Prefecture within a hundred years, while Li Xingchen promised his companions he would bring them to his hometown someday.
• The chapter recounted how Li Dalong, Li Yaozu, Li Yaotie, and Bai Rourou spent the passing years amid cultivation, family concerns, and lingering grief.
• Li Xiang vanished from the Ancestral Space for ten days, then returned with greater strength.
• Li Yaowen noticed Li Xiang’s changed presence, and Li Xiang told the clan, “I am ready.”

With two years left until the promised battle, Li Dalong emerged from years of cultivation in the Witch Tribe’s ancient battlefield and set out to reclaim the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin. As the coffin flew to him in Star Soul City, he warned Duke Soul Spirit that he would soon come for his life.

• Whitebrow told Bai Rourou that he would open Tianxing Cave Abode in two years and warned that the Li Family might be unable to stop Tianxing if he reached Void Refinement.
• Li Dalong awakened in the ancient battlefield, received the ancestral spirit tablet’s approval, and led an army of lingering souls toward the Witch Tribe Elders.
• Lei Dong, Duke Soul Spirit, and Falling Star learned of Li Dalong’s move, and Falling Star relinquished his half of the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin.
• Li Dalong vanished from the ancient battlefield and called out to Duke Soul Spirit from above Star Soul City.
• The Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin broke free of Duke Soul Spirit’s restraints and flew into the sky, while Lei Dong blocked Duke Soul Spirit from pursuing it.

Li Dalong prepared to break through to Spirit Transformation at Hundred Mountains, using the Dead Soul Domain he had developed over decades and the returned Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin. As a third-grade lightning tribulation gathered and Qingyun and Witch Tribe observers arrived, Patriarch Tianye recognized Li Dalong’s aura while Han Qiusheng dismissed the possibility that he could reach Spirit Transformation.

• Li Dalong reunited with the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin and prayed to his ancestor before beginning his breakthrough at the former Giant Rock Spirit Jade tribe’s domain.
• Li Xiang reviewed Li Dalong’s cultivation history: he had studied the laws of death and souls, reached Nascent Soul peak, and built a Dead Soul Domain by controlling battlefield souls.
• Li Xiang saw that Li Dalong faced a third-grade Spirit Transformation tribulation and resolved to protect him as watchers gathered around Hundred Mountains.
• Patriarch Tianye arrived from Border City, recognized the familiar aura, and hoped it belonged to Li Dalong.
• Han Qiusheng argued that Li Dalong lacked the aptitude, resources, and cultivation to reach Spirit Transformation.

Li Dalong underwent a Spirit Transformation tribulation in Hundred Mountains, and his Ghost Gate pushed the trial from the third rank to the fifth. The Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin appeared to help him face the eight-armed vajra, revealing to the watching cultivators that he had returned.

• Han Qiusheng gathered Azure Cloud cultivators and prepared to fight the Witch Tribe if they interfered with the breakthrough.
• The tribulation revealed a Ghost Gate as Li Dalong's Nascent Soul, and Patriarch Tianye recognized its resemblance to the Heavenly Eye Ghost Gate's Underworld Gate.
• The third-rank tribulation grew into a fourth-rank trial, then escalated to the fifth rank as the Ghost Gate cracked under the four-armed vajra's assault.
• Duke Soul Spirit fled after suspecting Li Dalong's Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin was involved, while the Azure Cloud cultivators assumed the senior was doomed and began leaving.
• The Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin appeared above the Ghost Gate, which opened and sent ghost hands to restrain the eight-armed vajra's fist.
• Patriarch Tianye recognized Li Dalong, and Han Qiusheng watched in shock as the coffin and Ghost Gate fought the fifth-grade tribulation.

Li Dalong survived a fifth-grade Spirit Transformation tribulation with the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin’s aid, gaining two domains and the Primordial Spirit Dao Art Soul Calamity. After briefly reuniting with Patriarch Tianye, he pursued Duke Soul Spirit, whose escape was blocked by Falling Star.

• The Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin helped Li Dalong open its fifth and sixth levels, perfect his Dead Soul Domain, form the Shen Wu Death Domain, and achieve Spirit Transformation with Soul Calamity.
• Li Dalong shattered the Eight-Armed Vajra, completed his tribulation, and appeared before Patriarch Tianye and the people of Qingyun.
• Li Dalong greeted Patriarch Tianye but left to pursue Duke Soul Spirit, while Tianye realized the Li Family’s survivors might still be alive.
• Duke Soul Spirit fled toward the Moon Dragon Totem, but Falling Star intercepted him and explained why Li Dalong was more valuable to the Divine Bird Totem.
• Li Dalong and Lei Dong arrived as Falling Star prepared to help kill Duke Soul Spirit.

Li Dalong fought Duke Soul Spirit alone in a life-and-death duel, struggling against the elder’s Holy Spirit Domain and Immortal-Slaying Chain. When Duke Soul Spirit tried to claim the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin, Li Dalong revealed its loyalty to him, and the coffin released a figure identified by Falling Star as the Moon God.

• Li Dalong insisted on facing Duke Soul Spirit alone, while Lei Dong and Falling Star raised a formation to keep the fighters contained and prevent anyone from interfering.
• Duke Soul Spirit trapped Li Dalong in his Holy Spirit Domain and attacked him with spirit bodies, Witch Tribe spells, and the Immortal-Slaying Chain.
• Li Dalong summoned ghosts and zombies with Soul Calamity, but Duke Soul Spirit overwhelmed him as Lei Dong worried outside the duel.
• After a day of fighting, Duke Soul Spirit urged the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin to abandon Li Dalong and follow him, but the coffin continued protecting Li Dalong.
• Li Dalong declared that the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin recognized only him, and its lid opened to release a death-qi figure.
• Falling Star recognized the figure as the Moon God and asked when Li Dalong had refined her into a zombie.

Li Dalong summoned the Moon God as a zombie emperor and joined her in defeating Duke Soul Spirit, who died after realizing Li Dalong had spent decades preparing for this power. Li Dalong then revealed that Azure Cloud’s army was advancing on Star Soul City, leaving Lei Dong and Falling Star to confront the extent of his preparations as he sensed someone spying on the Witch Tribe.

• Li Dalong unleashed the Moon God, whose Soul-Devouring Eternal Freeze froze Duke Soul Spirit’s spirit bodies and weakened his domain.
• Li Dalong and the Moon God fought Duke Soul Spirit for three hours until his spiritual power was exhausted and Falling Star’s array trapped his Primordial Spirit.
• Duke Soul Spirit deduced that Li Dalong had used the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin and the Witch Tribe’s resources to refine the Moon God, then died and left his weapons and treasures to Li Dalong.
• Li Dalong told Falling Star and Lei Dong that he would repay his debt to the Witch Tribe, while Azure Cloud’s retreat horns sounded and a million cultivators advanced toward Star Soul City.
• Lei Dong realized Li Dalong had used his lightning tribulation to conceal the army’s gathering, and Li Dalong sensed a divine soul spying on the Witch Tribe.

Lin Wudao sought a truce with Li Dalong and explained how Grand Preceptor Linjiu had rescued him, given him Human Emperor Blood, and secretly planned to use him as a vessel. He blamed the Li Family for exposing his scheme, leaving Li Dalong to face the truth behind their feud.

• The Tianxing clones feared Li Dalong’s Spirit Transformation power and Corpse Emperor, while Lin Wudao hesitated to order an attack.
• Lin Wudao’s Primordial Spirit met Li Dalong in the Hundred Mountains and proposed that both sides cease hostilities, provoking Li Xiang and enraging Li Dalong.
• Lin Wudao told Li Dalong that after fleeing Azure Mist Mountain, he was hunted by powerful figures until Grand Preceptor Linjiu took him in as an adopted son.
• Linjiu gave Li Xinghuo a drop of Human Emperor Blood, while Lin Wudao revealed that Linjiu had also given him Human Emperor Blood to make him a vessel for mysterious eyes.
• Lin Wudao explained that he created Tianxing and reincarnated to seek revenge, but Feng Qingyang’s scheme to place geniuses in Human Emperor Blood-exposed bodies was uncovered.
• Lin Wudao blamed the Li Family for letting Li Changsheng enter Tianxing Cave Abode and exposing his ten-thousand-year scheme.

Lin Wudao tried to persuade Li Dalong to end their feud, but Li Dalong rejected him and promised the Li Family had prepared a great gift. In the Imperial Capital, Li Kuanghua and the Sky Star Sword Saint met Young Master Feiheng, who killed two officials to make room for them.

• Lin Wudao revealed how Min Youguo had used and distrusted him, then urged Li Dalong to join forces against the Qing Imperial Dynasty.
• Li Dalong rejected Lin Wudao's plea, reminded him of the Li Family's losses, and shattered his phantom after warning that the family had prepared a great gift.
• Lin Wudao's incarnation Lai Teng spotted Li Kuanghua in the Imperial Capital and hurried after her, but Tranquil Mind Tower's guards barred him from entering.
• Li Kuanghua and her companions entered Tranquil Mind Tower to meet Young Master Feiheng, while Lai Teng and Lin Wudao's incarnations grew uneasy.
• Young Master Feiheng welcomed Li Kuanghua and the Sky Star Sword Saint, then killed two kneeling officials to free seats for them.

Li Kuanghua secured Young Master Feiheng’s Tian Xing Fate Compass in exchange for the Li Family’s treaty ending hostilities with the Witch Tribe and the Spirit Prefecture Continent. Li Xiang ordered the family to use the compass to hunt Tian Xing’s avatars, while Li Yaoqing led battle-hardened Qing Imperial Dynasty geniuses back toward Qingyun Prefecture to kill him.

• Young Master Feiheng gave the Tian Xing Fate Compass to Li Kuanghua after she negotiated an agreement with him.
• Lai Teng realized the Li Family had taken the compass that tracked his reincarnated bodies, and he fled the imperial capital.
• Min Youguo questioned Feiheng’s decision to abandon Tian Xing, but Feiheng defended it and showed him a map.
• Li Xiang learned the Li Family had traded a Witch Tribe peace treaty and the Spirit Prefecture Continent for the compass, then ordered Li Yaoqing to leave Tian Xing’s avatars nowhere to flee.
• Nearly a hundred Spirit Boats carrying Qing Imperial Dynasty geniuses returned from the Great Gold Empire, and Li Yaoqing prepared to give them good news.

Li Yaoqing sent thirty-two elite geniuses to hunt Venerable Tianxing’s 4,218 avatars across the Qing Imperial Dynasty, while the Li Family prepared to challenge him. She and Immortal Child headed for Long Sun Prefecture, and Li Xiang learned that her habitual misdirection had begun when she fled Tianxing and became lost.

• Li Xiang appeared beside Li Yaoqing aboard the Spirit Boat as she prepared to dispatch the elite geniuses.
• Li Yaoqing distributed a jade slip listing the locations of Tianxing’s 4,218 avatars and warned that each avatar’s death could strengthen the others.
• Immortal Child, Liu Ruyan, and the other geniuses accepted their assignments and scattered across the Qing Imperial Dynasty, promising to meet again in Long Sun Prefecture.
• Immortal Child corrected Li Yaoqing when she flew in the wrong direction, and she explained that Tianxing’s imprisonment had left the Li Family with lasting heart illnesses.
• Li Xiang learned that Li Yaoqing’s damaged divine soul and loss of direction began when she fled Tianxing during his attack on Merit City.

Li Yaoqing and Immortal Child discovered that Tian Xing’s strongest network of avatars was concentrated in Long Sun Prefecture, while Li Yaowen prepared the family to confront him. The chapter ended with Li Yaowen demanding that Prefecture Lord Shang Mi help her kill Tian Xing, threatening him when he hesitated.

• Li Yaoqing and Immortal Child reached Sky Dimension City and learned that more than thirteen hundred of Tian Xing’s avatars, including powerful cultivators, were gathered in Long Sun Prefecture.
• Lin Wudao watched his avatars being hunted across the Qing Imperial Dynasty and vowed that their deaths would make him stronger.
• Li Yaowen revealed that she had developed the Hide Heaven technique and Divine Concealment while resisting Tian Xing and obscuring the Li Family’s presence.
• Li Yaowen told Li Xiang that Long Sun Prefecture was Tian Xing’s main stronghold, and Li Xiang declared that they would challenge him there.
• Li Yaowen confronted Prefecture Lord Shang Mi and demanded his help in killing Tian Xing, while Immortal Child drew a silver spear and backed her threat.

Li Yaoqing recruited Shang Mi to help the Li Family eliminate Tian Xing, but Shang Mi revealed his long-standing hatred and staged a deadly confrontation to expose how Tian Xing could survive. As Li Yaoqing fled, the Human Emperor received Shang Mi’s confession, which warned that Tian Xing could not be controlled and defended the Li Family’s loyalty.

• Li Yaoqing threatened Shang Mi and revealed that the Li Family had gained Young Master Feiheng’s support against Tian Xing.
• Shang Mi admitted that he had known about Tian Xing for a thousand years, had fought him, and had long wanted him dead.
• Shang Mi agreed to help the Li Family and described Tian Xing’s power to mobilize countless clones and forces across Long Sun Prefecture.
• Masked cultivators with Spirit Transformation auras surrounded the government office, and Shang Mi urged Li Yaoqing to flee while he confronted them.
• Li Yaoqing escaped with the immortal child, and Shang Mi went out to demonstrate how Tian Xing could truly be killed.
• The Human Emperor received Shang Mi’s letter of confession, which warned that Tian Xing could not be trusted and urged him to protect the Li Family and Azure Cloud.

Li Yaoqing revealed that the Li Family had planned to isolate Tian Xing within Long Sun Prefecture and began exploiting the weakness of his divided avatars. As Li Dalong confronted Lin Wudao at Qilin Mountain, Lin Wudao realized the Li Family had spent over a hundred years preparing to kill him and wanted to flee.

• Li Yaoqing and the Immortal Child fled through Long Sun Prefecture while thirteen of Tian Xing’s identities pursued them, led by Qu Yang.
• Qu Yang cornered them, but Li Yaoqing explained that the Li Family had come to Long Sun Prefecture to have Shang Mi isolate Tian Xing from outside help.
• Li Yaoqing attacked Qu Yang’s group with her Heavenly Condemned Vegetation Divine Art and explained that killing powerful avatars weakened Tian Xing by distributing their strength among the survivors.
• Li Dalong arrived at Qilin Mountain carrying a coffin and challenged Lin Wudao and the gathered Tian Xing avatars, who stayed behind their layered formation.
• Lin Wudao realized the Li Family had been seeking a way to kill him for over a hundred years and resolved to escape and become Tian Xing’s true main body.

Sky Star Sword Saint continued to blockade Clear Wind Sect, tormenting its disciples until the sect agreed to give him its Spirit Gathering Cauldron in exchange for an oath. As he collected it, a sword descended from the sky, and someone called Daoist Clear Wind out to die.

• Sky Star Sword Saint told the Clear Wind Sect's sect master that he would leave only when he could kill Daoist Clear Wind, though he was also waiting for Li Yaozu and Wenwen.
• The Clear Wind Sect's sect master offered Sky Star Sword Saint Spirit Stones, a spirit vein, and a magical treasure in return for an oath to stop harassing the sect.
• Daoist Clear Wind reluctantly gave up the Spirit Gathering Cauldron, and Sky Star Sword Saint swore never to trouble Clear Wind Sect again.
• The Clear Wind Sect's sect master asked Sky Star Sword Saint to tell the Li Family that Daoist Clear Wind's past actions had not involved the sect, but Sky Star Sword Saint told him to speak to the person concerned.
• A sword descended from the heavens, and a voice called Daoist Clear Wind out to die.

Li Yaozu returned to Clear Wind Mountain and faced Daoist Clear Wind, whose formation and Primordial Spirit arts empowered him to mid-stage Spirit Transformation. Li Yaozu pierced the formation with a single sword and reunited with Sky Star Sword Saint as Daoist Clear Wind fell.

• Daoist Clear Wind activated Clear Wind Mountain's grand formation, drawing its vital aura to strengthen himself and unleashing Sky Bird and Wind Shadow of Parting Light against Li Yaozu.
• Sky Star Sword Saint and the Clear Wind Sect Master feared that Daoist Clear Wind's attacks would kill Li Yaozu and bring disaster upon Clear Wind Sect.
• Li Yaozu ignored the sword case's warning and dove into the formation, finding a flaw in its patterns before cutting through the spirit birds and Light and Shadow.
• Li Yaozu emerged outside Clear Wind Sect and greeted Sky Star Sword Saint while the sword case berated him for risking his life.
• Li Yaozu's sword returned to the sword case, and Daoist Clear Wind's Light and Shadow shattered as he fell from the sky, riddled with holes.

Li Yaozu returned from the Snow Region and killed Daoist Clear Wind with one sword, then traveled to Qilin Mountain with the Sky Star Sword Saint. He reunited with Li Dalong and left the Sky Star Sword Saint suspecting that Fang Linglong had been secretly living in his sword case.

• Li Yaozu killed Daoist Clear Wind with a single sword strike, avenged his old grudge, and plundered the Clear Wind Sect treasury.
• Li Xiang learned of Li Yaozu's victory as Li Yaozu and the Sky Star Sword Saint flew toward Qilin Mountain, with the Sky Star Sword Saint questioning the secret in Li Yaozu's sword case.
• Li Yaozu told the Sky Star Sword Saint how Fang Linglong had guided his Snow Region cultivation and helped him inherit the Sword Venerable's techniques and treasures, reach Spirit Transformation, and become a Sword Venerable.
• Li Yaozu and the Sky Star Sword Saint arrived at Qilin Mountain, where Li Dalong stopped attacking the formation and joyfully reunited with his son.
• Li Dalong thanked the Devil Master inside Li Yaozu's sword case, and the Sky Star Sword Saint realized Fang Linglong was there and teased Li Yaozu about hiding her.

Li Dalong and Li Yaozu besieged Lin Wudao at Qilin Mountain as Li Yaowen cut off the Tian Xing avatars’ communication across the Qing Imperial Dynasty. In the imperial capital, Li Kuanghua confronted Lai Teng, who revealed that he had gathered powerful allies of his own.

• Li Dalong and Li Yaozu attacked Qilin Mountain together while Sky Star Sword Saint sent for aid from Azure Cloud and the Sacred Hall Sword Pavilion.
• Lin Wudao’s avatars lost contact with one another, and Lin Wudao realized Li Yaowen had used a fate art to interfere with them while cultivating her own strength.
• Tian Xing’s clones fled across the Qing Imperial Dynasty as the people Lin Wudao had once imprisoned pursued them.
• Li Kuanghua arrived at Sky’s Edge Mountain with Old Root and Azure Cloud cultivators to confront Lai Teng, who had reached fifth-tier Spirit Transformation.
• Lai Teng mocked Li Kuanghua and revealed that he had gathered powerful allies in the imperial capital as sword-riding cultivators arrived around them.

Lai Teng and Qu Yang revealed that the Li Family’s allies had been blocked while their own forces prepared traps across the Qing Imperial Dynasty. As Qu Yang taunted Li Yaoqing, thunder and countless spirit tablets appeared in the sky, and an unknown woman opened her clouded eyes.

• Lai Teng surrounded Li Kuanghua and the Li Family with help from the capital garrison general, declaring that the Li Family had walked into their trap.
• Qu Yang fought Immortal Child and Li Yaoqing in the poisonous miasma and claimed Shang Mi was dead and the Li Family’s potential reinforcements had been neutralized.
• The master of Celestial Light Cave stopped Wang Jinhu, the Sacred Hall Sword Pavilion elder destroyed the Li Family’s message, and Daoist Sacred Flame prevented the Jiang Family patriarch from intervening.
• Han Qiusheng and cultivators from several Long Sun Prefecture factions blocked Feng Chunlin, Daoist Heavenly Turtle, Patriarch Tianye, Chen Qingtian, and the other Qingyun allies.
• Qu Yang boasted that the Li Family had lost and that two Spirit Transformation cultivators were heading to Qilin Mountain, but Li Yaoqing calmly asked whether he meant to contend with her fourth sister or the Li Family’s old ancestor.
• Thunder rolled as countless spirit tablets and transparent souls gathered in the sky, and a pale woman opened her clouded eyes with a smile.

Li Yaowen returned to Qingyun Prefecture and underwent a Spirit Transformation tribulation over Merit City, asking Heaven to restore life to its long-dead residents. Heaven answered, bringing Merit City back to life and leaving cultivators across Qingyun astonished.

• Li Xiang watched the Li Family descendants contend with Tian Xing in Qingyun Prefecture as Li Yaowen awoke and declared that she had returned.
• Feng Chunlin, Patriarch Tianye, and their allies prepared to kill Han Qiusheng rather than let Long Sun Prefecture obstruct them.
• The Jiang Family ancestor rejected Daoist Sacred Flame’s attempt to win his support, and their confrontation was interrupted by moving tribulation clouds approaching Qingyun.
• Cultivators saw the clouds descend over Merit City, where Li Yaowen asked Heaven to restore life to its residents.
• The tribulation unleashed pillars of light that revived Merit City and drew vitality from living beings across the world before releasing them.