Chapter Summaries

Min Youguo warned Li Dalong that the Qing Imperial Dynasty was sliding toward chaos and that Prince Jue had likely taken Feiheng. Three years later, Li Dalong and Lei Dong parted as rivals, and Feiheng revealed that he had been living in the Li Family all along.

• Min Youguo told Li Dalong that the Twelfth Prince's disappearance likely involved the struggle for succession and identified Prince Jue as the probable culprit.
• Li Tianyi and his brothers exposed the Sky Tiger God as a demon and learned that King Yu was gathering power in Yu Prefecture.
• The ancestral tablet declared the brothers' mission complete, but Li Tianyi chose to remain in Eastern Yi and investigate further.
• Three years passed as rumors and unrest spread across the Qing Imperial Dynasty, while the Witch Tribe began gathering along the border.
• Li Dalong and Lei Dong exchanged treasures and farewells, each warning that they would show no mercy when they met again.
• Li Dalong and Li Yunbing returned to the Li Family, where Feiheng revealed he had spent the past three years there.

After explaining the Li Family’s plan to Prince Feiheng, Li Yunbing reflected on the secret that led him to live as Jiang Chenghuan rather than as a Li descendant. The chapter revealed how Tian Xing’s attack left Li Yunbing and Jiang Chenghuan gravely wounded and ended with Li Yunbing asking his ancestors to forgive him for concealing his identity.

• Li Yunbing told Prince Feiheng that the Li Family had maneuvered Prince Jue into rebellion to create chaos and a chance for Feiheng to seize power.
• Li Yunbing told Li Dalong that Feiheng was dissatisfied with the plan, and Li Dalong said Feiheng could leave if he could not accept the family’s methods.
• Li Dalong offered Li Yunbing a possible way past the inner demon keeping him from reaching the Out-of-Body Realm, but Li Yunbing stayed alone in the ancestral hall.
• Li Xiang recalled that Tian Xing’s Spirit Transformation avatar had pursued Li Yunbing and Jiang Chenghuan, leaving both gravely wounded before they escaped to the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave.
• Li Yunbing knelt before the ancestral tablets and asked forgiveness for having always claimed to be Jiang Chenghuan instead of appearing as a descendant of the Li Family.

Li Yunbing remembered how Jiang Chenghuan sacrificed his life and body so that Li Yunbing could survive and carry on his vision for Qingyun. In Year 377, the Witch Tribe invaded Xinshang Province and King Yu rebelled, while Li Dalong watched the imperial court descend into chaos and was denied a chance to lead the campaign.

• Li Xiang learned that one hundred thousand demon lords had used a forbidden soul-swapping formation to save Li Yunbing, who took over Jiang Chenghuan's body after Jiang entrusted him with his final wishes.
• Li Yunbing left the Ancestral Hall, still haunted by Jiang Chenghuan's death and by the fact that he had not returned to the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave in over two hundred years.
• In Year 377, the Moon Dragon Totem and Divine Bird Totem invaded Xinshang Province, and Li Yunbing redirected the Qing Imperial Dynasty's request for aid to Min Youguo and Min Youguo's rival, Min Youguo's enemy Min Youguo?
• Prince Jue, King Yu, rebelled and accused Min Youguo of betraying the dynasty, prompting Min Youguo and Li Dalong to defend themselves amid a brawl between court factions.
• The Human Emperor dismissed the accusations against Min Youguo, ordered him to put down King Yu's rebellion, and asked Li Dalong whether Feiheng had been found.
• Min Youguo avoided assigning Li Dalong to the campaign, and Li Dalong lamented that he would not get to embezzle its provisions.

After the court appointed Dongfang Liancheng Grand Marshal of the Eastern Expedition, he asked Li Dalong to lend him Li Tianyue as a general. Tianyue and Li Xingchen prepared to leave the family, while Li Dalong lamented how few of his children stayed home before taking out his loneliness on Iron Gate Seven.

• The Human Emperor appointed Dongfang Liancheng Grand Marshal and authorized him to gather a million troops for the Eastern Expedition.
• Dongfang Liancheng asked Li Dalong to let Li Tianyue join the campaign as a general, warning that the dynasty faced dangers beyond the battlefield.
• Li Tianyue declared that she would join the Eastern Expedition, and Li Xingchen also asked to leave on an adventure.
• Li Dalong told the family children they no longer needed to report to him before going out to make their way in the world.
• Li Dalong and Xu Cuihua lamented that their children were scattered and that Xu Cuihua would soon return to the Fox Clan.
• When Iron Gate Seven said they had important business to attend to, Li Dalong summoned a club and beat them for leaving the old folks alone.

Li Xiang learned how his descendants were gaining power and influence across the Northern Border, imperial palace, and Yu Prefecture while the family trained an Asura Army and gathered secrets. The chapter ended with Li Tianyue leaving Long Sun Prefecture armed with family treasures as Li Dalong watched her go.

• Li Xinghuo led the Asura Army in a Northern Border battle, gained the Assassin trait, and enabled the Li Family to obtain Asura cultivation arts and begin secretly training the force.
• Li Yaoqing told Li Yaotie and Bai Rourou about treating the Human Emperor's consorts and passing their secrets to the family, while Li Xiang learned that the secrets gave the Li Family leverage over major powers.
• Li Kuangren and Feng Mi discussed having another child, while Li Changsheng and Li Changyao fled a night market just before the Sixteenth Young Master was announced to have been assassinated.
• Li Tianyi, Li Tianqi, and Li Tianming gathered believers in Yu Prefecture and became known as its Three Great Dao Saints, urging the crowd to support the Yu King.
• Li Tianyue left Long Sun Prefecture with a supreme-grade magical treasure and a ring full of protective treasures, while Old Tree promised to care for the Iron Gate Seven.

As the Qing Imperial Dynasty descended into rebellion, the Li Family faced pressure from Long Sun Prefecture and a suspicious demand for a hostage disguised as a marriage alliance. Li Dalong sent Li Yaozu to Great Joy Prefecture and went to check on Li Changsheng, whose cultivation had stalled after he saw the eyes Tian Xing once encountered.

• Xu Cuihua left Merit City with the great demons, and Li Dalong and the children chose not to stop her.
• The Li Family expanded its trade and influence in Qingyun Prefecture as its children traveled and matured; Li Yunlin later merged with Litian Hall and glimpsed an opportunity for Spirit Transformation.
• Prince Jue defeated Dongfang Liancheng's forces, declared himself king, and founded the Yu Dynasty, prompting further rebellions across the Qing Imperial Dynasty.
• Li Tianyue's army suffered heavy losses in battle, but Li Xiang's three older brothers helped her survive an ambush in Yu Prefecture.
• Long Sun Prefecture's major powers urged Li Dalong to choose a side, while the Tranquil Heart Sect's marriage proposal was identified as an attempt to take a Li Family hostage.
• Li Dalong sent Li Yaozu to Great Joy Prefecture and visited Li Changsheng, whom Old Tree said was suppressing his breakthrough after seeing the eyes Tian Xing had seen.

Li Changsheng remained unconscious on Old Tree while the Li Family guarded him from a possession attempt, and news arrived that Great Joy Prefecture wanted a marriage alliance. Li Yaozu and Huang Xiujin met the Qian King, whose proposed bride was Li Yaoqing, and his insulting alternatives left Li Yaozu ready to draw his sword.

• Old Tree and Li Yaowen reassured the Li Family that they were protecting Li Changsheng’s soul from the blood-red eyes, while Li Changyao worried over his condition.
• Li Changsheng told Li Dalong that Great Joy Prefecture had proposed a marriage alliance and that the Dark Division had spotted an old acquaintance there.
• Li Yaozu and Huang Xiujin traveled to the Qian King’s estate to investigate the proposal and discuss cooperation between their families.
• The Qian King proposed marrying Li Yaoqing, and Li Yaozu immediately rose to leave.
• The Qian King suggested Li Tianyue or Li Changyao as substitutes and called women garments, prompting Li Yaozu to stop as his sword keened inside its case.

Li Yaozu avoided King Qian’s trap, then arranged a humiliating marriage alliance that forced King Qian to marry the Li Family’s grotesque adopted daughter. King Qian accepted the wedding under pressure from the three great sects and the advancing Qingyun forces.

• Li Yaozu recognized King Qian’s attempt to provoke him and left without fighting, then ordered Huang Xiujin to reopen marriage-alliance talks.
• King Qian dismissed Li Yaozu’s threats while Daoist White Brow warned him not to underestimate the Li Family and tormented A Xiu to strengthen his divine soul.
• King Qian returned to his manor and found a wedding procession waiting, with Li Yaozu’s zombie messenger announcing the marriage and presenting a meager dowry.
• An inner disciple of the Other Shore Immortal Palace warned King Qian that King Jiang’s forces could raise a million troops, pressuring him not to let the dispute escalate.
• King Qian ordered his aide to receive the bride, and the zombie declared he would guard King Qian and the bride on their wedding night.

In the ancestral space, the Li Family discussed King Qian’s ambitions and the power of Great Joy Prefecture’s three immortal sects, deciding to confront them through cultivators’ methods. The new year began with three Li Family members approaching the sects: Li Changan visited the Ethereal Immortal Sect, Li Kuanghua challenged the Other Shore Immortal Palace, and Li Yunlin sought an audience with Mingdaozi.

• Li Dalong and Li Yaozu reported King Qian’s marriage plans, and Li Yaowen warned that Great Joy Prefecture possessed dragon qi.
• Li Changsheng described the strength and political ties of the Ethereal Immortal Sect, Other Shore Immortal Palace, and Myriad Dao Immortal Palace, while the Li Family noted that White Brow had joined Great Joy Prefecture.
• Li Dalong declared that White Brow had to die and that the Li Family would deal with the three great sects through cultivators’ methods.
• Li Changan arrived at the Ethereal Immortal Sect to probe Daoist Puci and investigate the sect’s formation.
• Li Kuanghua stirred the Blood Lake and demanded an audience with Red Sleeve Fairy so she could become her disciple and possibly the next palace master.
• Li Yunlin reached the Myriad Dao Immortal Palace and asked Senior Mingdaozi to teach him the Dao.

King Qian ordered his hidden forces to prepare to eliminate the Li Family as its members sought allies among the three great sects. At the Other Shore Immortal Palace, Li Kuanghua uncovered a secret alliance with Red Sleeve Fairy and Zishu Wandong, who revealed a mysterious force inside the palace and a notorious assassin hidden at King Qian’s residence.

• King Qian learned that the Li Family was approaching the three great sects, then ordered his black-mist subordinate to leave the family no chance to act against him.
• Li Kuanghua entered the Other Shore Immortal Palace and persuaded Red Sleeve Fairy while Zishu Wandong and other disciples watched warily.
• Li Kuanghua emerged from the Flower Terrace, drew Zishu Wandong aside, and joined her and Red Sleeve Fairy in a private discussion that Li Xiang secretly overheard.
• Red Sleeve Fairy explained that a hidden force had infiltrated the Other Shore Immortal Palace and had disrupted her predecessor’s breakthrough, while she believed the Li Family could help her survive her own tribulation.
• Zishu Wandong revealed that she had found a famed assassin at King Qian’s residence, a Spirit Transformation cultivator once sentenced to death after attacking someone in the Imperial Preceptor’s residence.

Li Changan used his half year at the Ethereal Immortal Sect to uncover King Qian’s influence over the sect and explain why Daoist Mingtai opposed Supreme Elder Puci’s support for him. After Li Changan laid out the danger facing the sect, Daoist Mingtai shut the hall’s door and moved to beat him before they discussed what came next.

• Li Changan kept an orderly, low profile for 186 days at the Ethereal Immortal Sect until Daoist Mingtai summoned him.
• Li Changan repaired the hall’s formation and straightened Daoist Mingtai’s meditation cushion before confronting the Sect Master about why he had been summoned.
• Li Changan inferred that the sect was divided between supporters of King Qian and Daoist Mingtai’s faction, which had secretly protected him.
• Li Changan deduced that King Qian had used increased resources and a secret force to buy the three great sects’ disciples and eliminate those who resisted.
• Daoist Mingtai explained that King Qian would treat the Ethereal Immortal Sect as disposable, and Li Changan agreed that Supreme Elder Puci risked becoming a discarded pawn.
• Daoist Mingtai shut the hall’s door and advanced on Li Changan, who pleaded to talk things out.

Li Xiang worried about the Li Family’s worsening position as Li Yunlin remained trapped in the Myriad Dao Immortal Palace and confirmed that it had sided with King Qian. As war preparations continued, Li Tianyue gained fearsome renown on the battlefield, Li Changan worked to win over an Ethereal Immortal Sect mountain master, and Li Xinghuo learned that the Li Family had gained a new descendant.

• Li Yunlin told Li Xiang that the Myriad Dao Immortal Palace had sided with King Qian, then resolved to break out of Litian Hall without the ancestor’s help.
• Li Tianyue slaughtered enemies on the Eastern Yi battlefield, gained the Rule of Slaughter, and survived a curse cast by Falling Star and Lei Dong.
• Xuantianzi consumed blood from the battlefield dead as she advanced toward a breakthrough, aided by the Li Family’s Qilin Sacred Crystal and qilin bones.
• Li Changan reminded Mountain Master Hu of the Ethereal Immortal Sect of his debt to the Li Family and continued trying to win allies within the sect.
• Li Xinghuo survived a battle after losing a leg, and, once it had regrown, announced that the Li Family had gained a descendant.

The Li Family learned that Li Xingchen had fathered a child with Xuanxuan, a sixteen-year-old half-demon, and resolved to bring them into the clan and protect them. Determined to give the newborn a safer childhood, Li Xiang ordered the clan to deal with King Qian.

• Li Xiang and the Li Family reacted with joy and unease to the news of a newborn, remembering the losses and burdens their descendants had endured.
• Li Yaowen revealed that Li Xingchen had fathered a child during his travels, and Li Xingchen admitted he had spent months with women in an island city.
• Li Yaowen located Xuanxuan, the child's mother, and reported that she was a half-demon with sea serpent bloodline; Li Xiang ordered her and the child brought back and accepted as clan members.
• Li Yaoqing suggested that Li Xinghuo find a partner, but he hid from her among the assassins beneath his barracks and worried about making a child suffer as he had.
• Li Xiang learned that King Qian and a secret force threatened the Li Family, then ordered the clan to deal with King Qian so the child could grow up safely.

King Qian prepared to confront the Li Family, while Li Xingchen sailed home with Fan Feixuan and told her about his powerful, devoted clan. In the imperial capital, Li Xinghuo raided the Imperial Preceptor’s intelligence organization and began interrogating King Qian’s mother about her son’s secrets.

• King Qian told White Brow that the Li Family’s ambitions had exposed their weakness, then set out with the woman sent for the marriage alliance to finish what remained unfinished.
• At sea, Fan Feixuan asked Li Xingchen about his family, and he described their feared reputation and the lengths they would go to protect their kin and unborn child.
• Li Xingchen told Fan Feixuan about his cousin, who had become an assassin after approaching one of the family’s enemies to learn from them.
• Li Xinghuo and his men raided the Imperial Preceptor faction’s intelligence organization and searched its records for what King Qian had taken to Great Joy Prefecture.
• Li Xinghuo captured Consort Shu, King Qian’s mother, and demanded that she reveal what her son had been hiding.

Li Xinghuo captured Consort Shu and her clan, then learned from her and King Qian’s case file that King Qian had built a hidden force from death-row prisoners. As the family prepared to confront the threat in Great Joy Prefecture, Li Xingchen told Fan Feixuan how Li Changsheng and Li Changyao had protected each other.

• Li Xinghuo’s assassins captured Consort Shu and 274 members of King Qian’s maternal clan in the imperial capital.
• Consort Shu described King Qian’s cruel rise and revealed that she had seen an imperial capital fugitive with him.
• Li Xinghuo ordered Consort Shu’s clan sent to Great Joy Prefecture and rejected the Grand Commander’s aid for the Li Family’s affairs.
• The Li Family examined King Qian’s case file and learned he had recruited prisoners to build his Sky Net force.
• Li Changyao briefly appeared in the Ancestor Space before Li Xingchen told Fan Feixuan how Li Changsheng and Li Changyao had protected one another.

Li Changsheng and Li Changyao learned that Long Sun Prefecture’s major powers were preparing to oppose the Li Family, while Nangong Xianliu confronted his descendants over their alliance and plans for war. The chapter left the Nangong Family’s attack underway and Li Yunbing reflecting on his family’s happier past.

• Li Changyao told Li Changsheng that the major powers of Long Sun Prefecture had made their move, and he entrusted the matter to her and the Shadow Division.
• Nangong Xianliu recounted his ancestor’s humble origins and warned the Nangong Family against entering a war for power.
• Nangong Xianliu discovered that his descendants had spent the family’s wealth on formations, weapons, and soldiers to prepare for conflict.
• The Nangong Family head revealed that the allied forces had begun their war against the Li Family and planned to kill someone the Li Family had deliberately concealed.
• Li Yunbing recalled his elder brother’s visit and remembered the happier days when their family lived together in Zhien Village.

Li Changyao and the Tianli Hall Dark Division faced a coordinated encirclement by Long Sun Prefecture’s great powers, who threatened to unleash floods and other disasters if Qingyun’s army intervened. She ordered the Immortal Child to stop the disasters, tasked the Drunken Madman and commanders with seizing the enemy forces’ connections, and mobilized the Dark Division with rewards for enemy corpses.

• Tianli Hall Dark Division intelligence reported that Long Sun Prefecture’s forces were coordinating against them and that Tianli Hall Bright Division shops had been ordered to close.
• The Drunken Madman warned Li Changyao that Red Star Fort and other powers were preparing natural disasters, including a flood that could drown a city’s residents.
• Li Changyao ordered the Immortal Child to find and kill those arranging the disasters within ten days, with two commanders assisting him.
• Li Changyao tasked the Drunken Madman and three commanders with capturing the great powers’ clan members, friends, in-laws, and subordinates within a month.
• Li Changyao summoned Dark Division members back to Long Sun Prefecture and offered major rewards for enemy corpses, spurring them to mobilize across the Qing Imperial Dynasty.

Lü Juechen led Long Sun Prefecture cultivators into an ambush against Qingyun, but Li Family forces revealed themselves during the attack. As Li Changyao’s ancestor spirit tablet began summoning an ancestor, Lü Juechen revealed that Nangong Yazhi’s apparent betrayal had served his trap.

• Lü Juechen gathered two hundred Long Sun Prefecture cultivators and accepted King Qian’s support while refusing the Sky Net’s offer to recruit him.
• Lü Juechen told his forces that Tianli Hall was occupied and Great Joy Prefecture was attacking the Li Family, then led them toward Qingyun to destroy the Li Family.
• Feng Chunlin led Qingyun cultivators aboard Wind King Manor’s Spirit Boats toward the Li Family’s new territory, but Lü Juechen’s forces ambushed them and shattered their boats and formations.
• Nangong Yazhi attacked Feng Chunlin alongside Lü Juechen, while Feng Chunlin cried out for Changyao as the Qingyun cultivators were overwhelmed.
• Li Family assassins emerged, and Li Changyao fired at Lü Juechen as her ancestor spirit tablet began releasing black mist.
• Lü Juechen stopped Li Changyao’s arrow and explained that he had used Nangong Yazhi to exploit the Li Family’s ancestor spirit tablet and summon an ancestor.

Li Xiang arrived to confront Lü Juechen and discovered that Old Daoist Whitebrow had been waiting in ambush. Whitebrow revealed King Qian’s plan to seize Long Sun Prefecture and kill everyone in the Li Family, while King Qian approached the City Lord’s Manor.

• Li Xiang appeared before Lü Juechen, who revealed that he had lured the Li Family out by exploiting Nangong Yazhi and arranging for the major powers to hold back Tianli Hall.
• Li Xiang unleashed the Yin-Yang Diagram and Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear, killing the Long Sun Prefecture cultivators and crushing Lü Juechen’s defensive formation.
• Li Xiang sent Li Changyao to help Feng Chunlin pursue Nangong Yazhi, then attacked the clouds and exposed Old Daoist Whitebrow hiding above them.
• Old Daoist Whitebrow admitted that he had come to hold Li Xiang back while King Qian’s forces targeted Feng Chunlin, Li Changyao, and the rest of the Li Family.
• Old Daoist Whitebrow declared that King Qian intended to take the three great immortal sects and Long Sun Prefecture and kill the entire Li Family.
• King Qian arrived by Spirit Boat near the City Lord’s Manor, holding the ugly woman’s hand as he surveyed Long Sun Prefecture.

Li Yaozu confronted King Qian and exposed the secrets behind his Sky Net, while King Qian’s scheme to destroy the Li Family unfolded across Long Sun Prefecture. The God of War chose to repay his debt to King Qian in one final battle before returning to Yu Prefecture.

• Li Dalong and Li Yaozu discussed the Li Family’s past enemies and recognized King Qian as their new opponent.
• King Qian explained his plan to strike the Li Family across Long Sun Prefecture while White Brow kept Li Changsheng occupied.
• Li Yaozu dismissed King Qian and identified the scarred Spirit Transformation cultivator as the God of War, then revealed the God of War’s history and Sky Net’s roster.
• The Li Family presented Consort Shu and her maternal relatives, and Li Yaozu used a tiger tally and information from Min Youguo to expose King Qian’s hold over Sky Net.
• The God of War accepted the tiger tally but declared that he would fight Li Yaozu once more to repay King Qian, then return to Yu Prefecture.