Chapter Summaries

Li Yaowen gave up the fortune and borrowed lifespans she had gathered to restore Merit City instead of rebuilding her body, and Heaven’s tribulation returned vitality to its people. As Merit City transformed into a moving grotto-heaven, its roots captured Han Qiusheng and the Li Family set out for Long Sun Prefecture after Li Yaowen declared Tian Xing’s fate exhausted.

• Li Yaowen used her Spirit Transformation breakthrough to return the accumulated fortune and borrowed lifespans to Merit City, restoring the city and its people.
• Li Yaowen thanked Li Xiang and revealed that she had traded away the chance to reach fifth-grade Spirit Transformation to revive Merit City.
• Li Yaowen strengthened her fate arts, severed Tian Xing’s fate, and sensed intruders on the Li Family’s territory.
• Han Qiusheng tried to claim he had come to help the Li Family, but Feng Chunlin condemned him, and Han Qiusheng and Daoist Sacred Flame fled.
• Merit City became a moving grotto-heaven, and its roots caught Han Qiusheng and other fleeing cultivators.
• The Azure Cloud cultivators followed a crimson leaf toward Long Sun Prefecture as an aged voice declared that Tian Xing’s fate had run its course.

Li Yaoqing and the Li Family’s allies revealed a carefully prepared formation that trapped Qu Yang, while the Drunken Madman brought in Qu Yang’s captured friends and relatives to break his composure. Li Yaoqing ordered the captives killed in front of Qu Yang, leaving him raging inside the formation as the siege began.

• Li Yaoqing dispersed the perception-blocking mist, revealing a golden barrier and a trapping formation formed by nearly a thousand Tianli Hall Dark Division cultivators.
• Qu Yang recognized Ye Xiu, Daoist Shan Chen, and the Drunken Madman among the forces surrounding him, and realized the Li Family had outmaneuvered Lin Wudao’s plan.
• The Drunken Madman revealed Qu Yang’s wounded, tongue-less friends and relatives, explaining that the Li Family had captured them while preparing the ambush.
• Qu Yang lost control and attacked the formation as Ye Xiu and the others prepared to resist his desperate assault.
• Li Yaoqing ordered the Drunken Madman to kill the captives one by one and stack their heads in front of Qu Yang.

Li Kuanghua and Li Xinghuo exposed Lai Teng’s isolation and helped capture the Tian Xing avatars in the imperial capital. Across the Qing Imperial Dynasty, the Li Family and their allies gathered the surviving avatars at Qilin Mountain, while news of the campaign reached Bai Rourou on Azure Mist Mountain.

• Li Kuanghua questioned Lai Teng about what mattered most to him, then revealed that the imperial capital’s city guards had never truly supported him.
• Li Xinghuo arrived from the Northern Border, and the city-defense general explained that he had arranged for Ye Xiu and Daoist Shan Chen to return to Long Sun Prefecture and had been watching Lai Teng for centuries.
• Cultivators captured the remaining Tian Xing avatars in the imperial capital, leaving Lai Teng in despair as the guards and Li Family mocked him.
• Two months later, Li Xiang watched the Li Family and their allies capture Tian Xing avatars across the Qing Imperial Dynasty and bring them toward Qilin Mountain.
• Xu Cuihua, Qingyun cultivators, King Jiang, and the Qingyun Army joined the campaign, capturing avatars and pressuring Long Sun Prefecture’s clans and sects to surrender them.
• On Azure Mist Mountain, A Xiu rushed to tell Bai Rourou that the Qingyun Army and the Li Family were capturing Tian Xing avatars and heading for Qilin Mountain.

Lin Wudao learned that the Li Family had captured his avatars and resolved to break through to Void Refinement despite their scheme. As the Li Family gathered outside Qilin Mountain, Young Master Feiheng recognized its immense influence and feared the trial against Lin Wudao would decide whether the family survived.

• Lin Wudao realized the Li Family had captured his avatars and overcame his fear, declaring that he would break into Void Refinement.
• A Tian Xing avatar told Lin Wudao that Qu Yang had been captured alive, confirming the Li Family's plan to stop him from advancing.
• Young Master Feiheng and Young Master Xingyu watched from afar as Feiheng judged Qingyun Prefecture and the Li Family to be far stronger and more influential than expected.
• Feiheng observed the Li Family, its allied geniuses, and its powerful members gathered before Qilin Mountain, and recalled the warnings about the demons among them.
• Young Master Xingyu dismissed the Li Family's chances against Tian Xing, while Feiheng remained wary of Lin Wudao and the danger facing the family.

Lin Wudao revealed his terrifying mastery of hundreds of rules and the vast formations he had planted across the Qing Imperial Dynasty to drain its people’s vital essence. As the dynasty’s leaders scrambled to stop his advance, the Li Family stood firm on Qilin Mountain, leaving Young Master Feiheng with a final glimpse of hope.

• The Li Family gathered on Qilin Mountain and watched Lin Wudao, while the captured Tianxing clones remained locked in cages.
• Lin Wudao unleashed his power, revealing that the clones’ cultivation methods, spells, rules, and domains were his, and his domain spread across Qilin Mountain as lightning tribulation descended.
• Young Master Feiheng saw formations across Long Sun Prefecture drain vital essence from living beings and realized Lin Wudao had planted them throughout the Qing Imperial Dynasty to fuel his breakthrough to Void Refinement.
• Min Youguo ordered cultivators to destroy the formations, while Grand Preceptor Linjiu rushed toward Long Sun Prefecture and commanded its cultivators to kill Tian Xing at any cost.
• Young Master Feiheng sought help from the old demon carrying a basket, but the old man refused to bring his true body into the dynasty’s territory.
• Young Master Feiheng saw the Li Family still standing firm on Qilin Mountain beneath Lin Wudao’s overwhelming pressure.

Lin Wudao absorbed the world’s essence and gained overwhelming power, but the Li Family restored his connection to his avatars, forcing him to relive their painful memories. Li Xiang and the Li Family fought Tian Xing together, leaving the battle raging as Young Master Feiheng sent his guards to help.

• Lin Wudao drew in the world’s essence and boasted that he would kill the Li Family and the captured geniuses.
• Li Yaowen’s spirit tablet restored Lin Wudao’s connection to his avatars, flooding his mind with their traumatic memories and disrupting his control of his domains.
• Li Xiang attacked Tian Xing with the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear, but Tian Xing blocked him and damaged the Yin-Yang Fish Diagram.
• Li Dalong, Xu Cuihua, and Li Yaozu joined Li Xiang, while the rest of the Li Family surrounded Qilin Mountain and attacked Tian Xing.
• Young Master Feiheng ordered his three guards to join the fight and cursed the other gathered cultivators for refusing to act.

Li Xiang and the Li Family fought Lin Wudao as Qingyun’s forces joined the battle while Long Sun Prefecture’s powers stood aside. Red Leaf and Li Yaowen activated the Living Beings Death Sacrifice Array, redirecting the vital essence Lin Wudao had stolen across the world into the Li Family and leaving him stunned as the array took effect.

• Li Xiang unleashed Yin-Yang Meteor, but Lin Wudao’s bead deflected the spears as the exhausted Li Family struggled to hold the battlefield.
• Young Master Feiheng condemned Long Sun Prefecture’s onlookers for refusing to help, while the Buddhist sect and other powers defended their decision to stay out of the fight.
• King Jiang led the Qingyun Army and cultivators from across Qingyun Prefecture into battle against Lin Wudao, and Young Master Feiheng joined them despite Xingyu’s protest.
• Lin Wudao continued growing stronger by absorbing vital essence, shattered Li Xiang’s manifested body, and caught the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear.
• Red Leaf’s vines pierced Lin Wudao, the Li Family, and Tian Xing’s avatars as the Living Beings Death Sacrifice Array redirected the stolen vital essence into the Li Family.
• Li Yaowen and the voice within Red Leaf declared that Tian Xing’s ten-thousand-year scheme would belong to the Li Family, and Lin Wudao’s Tian Xing mark reappeared as he protested.

The Li Family revived the Primordial Blood Tree and used its roots, formations, and Li Yaowen’s Fate Arts to steal Tian Xing’s power and trap Lin Wudao. As their ancestor held Lin Wudao at bay, Young Master Feiheng realized the Li Family had planned the battle as a trap, and a powerful new lineage was poised to rise.

• The Primordial Blood Tree awakened, spread its roots across Qilin Mountain, and raised the Li Family beneath the red moon.
• Li Yaowen used the Ancestral Spirit Array and the Living Beings Death Sacrifice Array to sever Tian Xing’s links and channel its power into the Li Family.
• Li Xiang’s black-mist figure fought Lin Wudao to a standstill, preventing him from disrupting the Li Family’s power drain.
• Young Master Feiheng recognized that the Li Family had lured Lin Wudao into a trap and used his own formation to steal Tian Xing’s ten-thousand-year gains.
• Young Master Feiheng discovered Li Family marks on Feng Chunlin and other Qingyun cultivators, revealing the family’s hidden contingencies as Lin Wudao raged against them.

Elder Whitebrow discovered that the Li Family had disrupted his plan for Tianxing, while Li Yaotie and Bai Rourou opened Tianxing Cave Abode and freed the Li Family’s imprisoned members. The escaped family members surged toward Qilin Mountain amid tribulation lightning, leaving Questionless Scholar horrified by their madness.

• Elder Whitebrow revealed that Tianxing’s core was in Azure Mist Mountain and angrily blamed the Li Family for acting before his promised hundred years had passed.
• Bai Rourou’s apparent capture proved to be a puppet, while her true body escaped Azure Mist Mountain and joined Li Yaotie above Long Sun Prefecture.
• Li Yaotie opened a spatial rift into Tianxing Cave Abode, and Questionless Scholar emerged begging him to shut it before the imprisoned people escaped.
• The Li Family’s seven fiends and other relatives came out with bound geniuses, as Li Yaotie told Questionless Scholar they were his family.
• Li Changsheng grabbed Li Changyao and led the escaped Li Family toward Qilin Mountain while tribulation lightning spread across the sky.

Li Xiang and the Li Family subdued Tianxing and rescued their imprisoned relatives, while Tianxing’s master, Elder Whitebrow, fled with A Xiu. A spirit tablet tracked Whitebrow as he escaped, leaving the Li Family poised to pursue him.

• Li Xiang pierced Lin Wudao with the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear, and Old Tree’s roots drained his power as the Li Family surrounded him.
• Tianxing merged with Lin Wudao and claimed his core remained in Tianxing Cave Abode, then called for his master, Elder Whitebrow, to save him.
• Li Changsheng, Li Changyao, and the other rescued Li Family members arrived from Tianxing Cave Abode and Azure Mist Mountain, and Old Tree drew them into the battle.
• Li Xiang told Tianxing that Elder Whitebrow would not come, and Tianxing’s pleas went unanswered as Old Tree drained him.
• Elder Whitebrow fled with A Xiu, whose mind filled with the memories of Tianxing’s tortured incarnations, and admitted that he had to leave Long Sun Prefecture.
• A spirit tablet appeared and declared that it had found Elder Whitebrow and would leave him nowhere to flee.

Li Xiang revealed that Tianxing had been manipulated by Elder Whitebrow, who stole his soul and used him to siphon the world’s vitality. As the Li Family rose from Tianxing Cave Abode and claimed his power, Li Xiang learned that Whitebrow had been found and vowed that the Li Family would kill him themselves.

• Li Xiang told Tianxing that Whitebrow had given him the sacrifice method and used him as a tool, triggering Tianxing’s recovered memories of his death and reincarnation.
• Li Xiang revealed that Whitebrow had split Tianxing’s soul, kept its main portion in A Xiu, and altered Tianxing’s memories to exploit his incarnations and arrays.
• Tianxing tried to kill himself, but Old Tree sealed his mana and kept him alive while the Li Family watched him suffer.
• Li Xiang and the Li Family rose into the air as they absorbed the world’s essence and seized the power Tianxing had accumulated.
• Li Yaowen reported that Whitebrow had been found and could no longer evade them; Li Xiang said he wanted the Li Family to kill him.
• Li Xiang led the Li Family toward the pinnacle of Changyang, with Tianxing’s enemy in their hands.

The Li Family absorbed Tianxing’s legacy on Qilin Mountain as tribulations spread across Long Sun Prefecture, while the imprisoned geniuses began breaking through. Questionless Scholar revealed the geniuses’ terror of their chains, then joined them in congratulating the Li Family as the Li Family elders prepared to face their tribulations.

• Nangong Yazhi complained to the Nangong Family ancestor that the Li Family had used and cursed him, and the ancestor vowed to make them regret it.
• The chained geniuses of Long Sun Prefecture began undergoing tribulations, but Questionless Scholar warned that they would not dare break free after years of torture by the Li Family.
• Questionless Scholar told his teacher that the Li Family had been driven mad by their clansmen’s deaths and urged him to leave Long Sun Prefecture.
• Questionless Scholar flew toward the red mist and publicly welcomed the Li Family’s rise, while the chained geniuses echoed his congratulations.
• Old Tree dragged the Li Family descendants from the red mist as lightning gathered around the elders, and the tribulations descended.

The Li Family reaped the rewards of defeating Tianxing as its descendants underwent powerful tribulations and breakthroughs. The chapter ended with Li Tianyi possessed by Qingyun Pavilion predecessors and confronting the Imperial Preceptor Min Youguo and Grand Tutor Linjiu.

• Li Xiang received five thousand Family Will and the family gained the trait Walking with Heaven after the Li Family completed its blood feud against Tianxing.
• Li Yunlin used Litian Hall and gifts from his clansmen to overcome the Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation, break through the Nascent Soul Realm, and gain the Hundred Laws Spirit Body.
• Li Tianyue advanced through her tribulation with aid from Li Xiang, Old Root, a Qilin soul, and flood dragon blood, while the Iron Gate Seven also broke through and gained Demon Witch Human Bodies.
• Li Tianming reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm in a state of madness, and Li Yaowen reassured Li Xiang that she hoped to treat him.
• Li Tianyi summoned Qingyun Pavilion predecessors with his guzheng, then faced Min Youguo and Linjiu as the Li Family greeted the Imperial Preceptor and Grand Tutor.

After absorbing Tianxing’s avatar, the Li Family continued gathering the power from the grand array as Linjiu and Min Youguo watched. When Master Yu Ming demanded that the family return the world’s essence and Long Sun Prefecture’s gains, Li Dalong seized him, openly rejecting the demand and accusing Feiheng of ordering Tianxing’s death.

• Li Xiang transferred the old tree roots into Li Yaowen’s soul for protection, then gained new power from absorbing Tianxing’s avatar, including the Wandering Fish domain and the Qilin Ascension Art.
• Li Tianyi’s senior spoke with Linjiu and Min Youguo, while the Li Family continued absorbing the array’s essence and its juniors faced their Nascent Soul tribulations.
• Li Dalong and Li Xinghuo approached the two ministers, but Master Yu Ming arrived first and demanded that the Li Family return the world’s vital essence and Tianxing’s gains to Long Sun Prefecture.
• Li Dalong recognized that the ministers were testing whether the Li Family would submit, then finished shaving his beard and attacked Yu Ming.
• Li Yaozu shattered Yu Ming’s Buddhist formation, and Li Dalong grabbed the abbot by the throat and accused Feiheng of ordering Tianxing killed.

The Li Family humiliated Long Sun Prefecture’s cultivators and beat Abbot Yu Ming after Feiheng gave them permission to act. As Linjiu and Min Youguo considered attacking the gathered Li Family, a decree from the Human Emperor arrived, recognizing the Li Family’s merit and revealing their loyalty to the dynasty.

• Feiheng ignored Yu Ming’s pleas, gained Linjiu and Min Youguo’s assent, and signaled Li Dalong to proceed.
• Li Tianyi blocked Yu Ming’s escape while Li Yaozu sealed him in with swords, and Li Dalong beat him for abandoning the people during past disasters.
• Li Dalong ordered the Qingyun Army and Azure Cloud cultivators to beat Long Sun Prefecture’s cultivators, forbidding them from using spiritual energy to defend themselves.
• Linjiu and Min Youguo silently agreed that the Li Family had become too dangerous to leave alive, while Li Xiang and his clan prepared for an attack.
• An envoy delivered the Human Emperor’s decree praising the Li Family for saving the world, and Li Xinghuo explained that the clan had pledged loyalty and offered Li Yaoqing’s healing skills to the Emperor.

The Human Emperor appointed Li Dalong Prefecture Lord of Long Sun and granted him a hereditary Count’s title, prompting him to accept the power he had long avoided to protect the Li Family. After the Li Family drained and captured Tian Xing, Li Dalong and three children headed to the imperial capital with Linjiu and Min Youguo, while Jiang Chenghuan declared Long Sun Prefecture theirs.

• The Human Emperor’s decree appointed Li Changan Far-Ocean General and Li Xingchen Little General of the Seas, then made Li Dalong a hereditary Count and Prefecture Lord of Long Sun.
• After seeing his clansmen’s support, Li Dalong accepted the Twin Serpents Seal and broke through to the middle stage of Spirit Transformation.
• Li Xiang’s panel recorded new abilities and traits for Li Dalong and other Li Family descendants as they absorbed Tian Xing’s power and inheritance.
• Old Tree drained Tian Xing’s avatars and swallowed Tian Xing while Old Root consumed the avatars’ corpses.
• Li Dalong led three Li Family children toward the imperial capital alongside Linjiu and Min Youguo, and Jiang Chenghuan announced that Long Sun Prefecture belonged to them.

Ten years after the battle on Qilin Mountain, the Li Family had become the power ruling Long Sun Prefecture, while its members dealt with rumors and family troubles. After Li Yaozu reunited with his family in Merit City, Li Dalong revealed that the Human Emperor planned to establish a crown prince.

• A storyteller exaggerated the Li Family’s deeds until Li Yundou caught him and learned that Tianyi had released him from prison and taken Tianqi and Tianming to the Witch Tribe.
• Li Yaozu brought Li Yundou to Merit City, where the Li Family had returned and the city had become a blessed grotto-heaven.
• Sky Star Sword Saint told Li Yaozu that Wenwen had asked who he was, and Fang Linglong threw him out of the cave abode.
• Li Yaozu joined his family in the main hall as Li Dalong offered incense before the ancestors’ spirit tablets.
• Li Dalong announced that the Human Emperor had secretly sent word that he intended to establish a crown prince.

The Li Family debated the Human Emperor’s plan to make Feiheng heir, while Li Dalong deferred action and asked the ancestors for guidance. In the real world, Li Xiang enjoyed his newfound status as a Spirit Transformation cultivator, while Xiao Qingling investigated the ruins and Xiao Qingluo prepared to attack the Magic Civilization.

• Li Yaowen proposed killing the Imperial Preceptor’s other candidates, faking Feiheng’s death, and exploiting the resulting chaos to let the Li Family preserve itself and eventually seize the state.
• Li Changsheng warned that Long Sun Prefecture’s powers might be plotting against the Li Family and offered an underground escape plan, but Li Kuanghua threw him out.
• Li Dalong dismissed the family and prayed to the ancestral spirit tablets, asking why the Old Ancestor had not appeared for two years.
• Li Xiang relaxed at Jixian Manor Villa District, rejected his teacher’s call to join the Savior Army, and tossed the phone into the pool.
• Xiao Qingling studied the ruins and decided to contact the authorities because she feared something was going terribly wrong.
• The zombie little girl recruited Xiao Qingluo to help destroy the Magic Civilization and revealed that his past-life fame came from running brothels as a kind pimp.

Li Dalong told Li Xiang that the dying Human Emperor hoped the Li Family would help secure the human race’s future, while the family considered taking the throne. After ten years of growth, the Li Family faced a sudden crisis when Young Master Xingyu reported that his Twelfth Brother had been captured, and the clan prepared to act.

• Li Xiang returned to the Ancestor Space and heard reports from Li Dalong and other descendants.
• Li Dalong told Li Xiang that the Human Emperor had revealed his failing strength and hoped to leave behind a worthy successor and an upright clan to safeguard the human race.
• Li Dalong admitted that the Li Family was considering taking the state, and Li Xiang advised him to keep the Human Emperor’s words in mind and face events as they came.
• Li Xiang surveyed how Merit City, the Qingyun Army, Hundred Treasures Mountain, and Tianli Hall had expanded under the Li Family’s influence.
• Li Changsheng returned to the clan, where Young Master Xingyu announced that his Twelfth Brother had been captured, prompting Li Dalong and the Li Family to mobilize.

Li Tianyi, Li Tianming, and Li Tianqi traveled to Yu Prefecture to find the missing Feiheng while also seeking a cure for Tianming’s madness. Their investigation began at a city where Sky Tiger God worshippers seized Li Tianyi, while Li Dalong confronted Imperial Preceptor Min Youguo about the Golden Guard’s failure to protect Feiheng.

• Li Tianyi, Li Tianqi, and Li Tianming arrived in Yu Prefecture and discussed finding Feiheng and searching for a cure for Tianming.
• Li Xiang watched the three brothers and noted that Li Tianyi gained Soul Descent, Li Tianqi gained Life Refinement, and Li Tianming gained the Longevity Treasure Body.
• The people worshipping the Sky Tiger God branded the three brothers heretics, and Li Tianyi let them carry him off as a captive so he could investigate Feiheng’s disappearance.
• Li Dalong visited Min Youguo in the imperial capital, where Li Yaotie angrily demanded to know what had happened to Feiheng and insulted the Golden Guard.