Chapter Summaries

Li Xiang confronted Daoist White Brow in the sky above Qingyun Prefecture while King Qian withdrew toward Great Joy Prefecture and ordered attacks on Long Sun Prefecture. Li Xiang repeatedly revived and used explosive cubes to wound White Brow, leaving the battle ongoing as White Brow fled.

• King Qian abandoned his plan to attack the Li Family and ordered his forces to spread claims that the Li Family had gone mad and to unleash disasters across Long Sun Prefecture.
• Daoist White Brow told Li Xiang that King Qian's Sky Net was hunting the Li Family descendants, but Li Xiang accused White Brow of falling for his trap.
• White Brow crushed Li Xiang's Primordial Spirit, but Li Xiang revived through another ancestral tablet and appeared with a translucent cube.
• Li Xiang detonated the cube, damaging White Brow and forcing him to retreat, then revived and pursued him again.
• Li Xiang used two more cubes to drive White Brow into flight, while people across Long Sun Prefecture and Great Joy Prefecture heard the explosions.

Li Xiang defeated White Brow and revealed that the Li Family had spent decades manipulating Long Sun Prefecture’s powerful clans and King Qian into a trap. As the clans rose to crush King Qian’s rebellion, White Brow realized the Li Family had anticipated the conflict from the start.

• Li Xiang approached the mortally wounded White Brow, who demanded to know what kind of being had repeatedly returned from death to attack him.
• Li Xiang explained that the Li Family had known White Brow was in Great Joy Prefecture and had prepared for this day since his arrival.
• King Qian believed his forty-year infiltration of Long Sun Prefecture’s powerful clans would let him seize the prefecture amid the chaos.
• The Nangong Family Head revealed that his clan had feigned submission and mobilized its forces to quell King Qian’s rebellion.
• Forces across Long Sun Prefecture gathered under Li Dalong’s command and marched against King Qian.
• Li Xiang revealed that the Li Family had used decades of pressure and promises of territory to turn Long Sun’s powerful clans into allies, while making them appear to pledge loyalty to King Qian.

Li Xiang revealed that the Li Family had absorbed Tian Xing’s legacy and become the Tian Xing Immortal Clan, while Li Changyao defeated the Long Sun Prefecture pursuers. At Hundred Treasure Mountain, Li Kuangren intimidated Gu Yinming into leaving, though he privately feared a fight and relied on hidden Azure Cloud cultivators.

• White Brow clung to the Sky Net as his last hope, but Li Xiang explained that the Li Family had inherited Tian Xing’s power and now surpassed him.
• Li Changyao used her Farewell Bow, arrows, formations, and talismans to kill the pursuing Long Sun Prefecture cultivators, then shot Nangong Yazhi dead.
• Li Changyao and Feng Chunlin burned the battlefield before leaving, while she reflected on Nangong Yazhi’s fate as a sacrifice to her family’s interests.
• Gu Yinming led Sky Net cultivators into Hundred Treasure Mountain, where a jade slip exposed his past and Li Kuangren warned him to leave and bow nine times.
• Gu Yinming bowed and departed, but Li Kuangren continued shouting after him while privately telling Feng Mi to wait and avoid a fight if possible.
• Azure Cloud cultivators remained hidden beneath Hundred Treasure Mountain’s formations, ready to fight if Gu Yinming returned.

Li Changyao reunited with Li Kuangren and the Qingyun cultivators as they prepared to face Sky Net, while Sky Net continued attacking King Jiang Hall. Dongfang Xuan revealed that King Qian had fallen into a trap and that she and Old Man were trapped as well, just as a woman's soul approached.

• Li Changyao secretly recorded Li Kuangren's embarrassing behavior, then signaled Hundred Treasure Mountain and joined her father as he led twenty Nascent Soul cultivators toward northwest Qingyun.
• Li Changyao claimed she had suffered severe injuries, and Li Kuangren gave her a Spirit Transformation healing pill before telling her its cost would come out of her future salary.
• Li Kuangren explained Dongfang Xuan's history to the Qingyun cultivators and identified her as one of Sky Net's most powerful members.
• At King Jiang Hall, Daoist Voidbreaker worked to break the formations while Han Yun mocked him and Old Man rebuked Han Yun.
• Dongfang Xuan told Old Man that King Qian had fallen into a trap and that she and Old Man were trapped too, then warned Han Yun that he could not leave as a woman's soul drifted toward them.

Li Dalong and the Li Family surrounded Sky Net’s forces near King Jiang Hall after a failed assassination left them trapped. Sky Net’s strongest Void Refinement expert saw White Brow captured but chose to leave rather than intervene.

• Li Yaowen arrived and revealed that she had been searching for Sky Net, while Li Dalong and the Tian Xing zombies closed in on its members.
• Gu Yinming fled to the Sky Net group, pursued by Li Dalong and the dead souls surrounding the Silver Coffin.
• The God of War fought a sword-wielding opponent above the clouds as Li Yaoqing arrived with a captured Spirit Transformation cultivator and argued with her brother over who had defeated him.
• Li Xinghuo, Li Kuangren, Li Changyao, battlefield soldiers, and the three members of the Tian generation arrived, surrounding King Jiang Hall and trapping Sky Net.
• Sky Net’s strongest expert saw White Brow defeated and captured, heard his comrades’ pleas, and concealed himself as he departed.

After the Li Family drove off the Void Refinement threat, they used Elder Whitebrow’s capture to strengthen Merit City and help Old Tree evolve into the Primordial Origin Blood Tree. Whitebrow’s awakened remnant soul found itself trapped with Lin Wudao, whose endless torment had only just gained a new companion.

• Li Yaowen told Li Xiang that the Void Refinement presence had left, while Dongfang Xuan revealed that Sky Net’s boss had fled.
• Dongfang Xuan and Gu Yinming realized the Li Family had spared Sky Net because it was focused on battles elsewhere, and the Sky Net members later disappeared from Qingyun Prefecture.
• Li Xiang used the suppression of Elder Whitebrow to claim spirit veins and other spoils, and Old Tree broke through to Spirit Transformation and became the Primordial Origin Blood Tree.
• The Li Family’s formations kept Whitebrow alive so they could harvest his Void Refinement blood essence, while his remnant soul awakened inside Old Tree.
• Lin Wudao encountered Whitebrow’s remnant soul in Old Tree’s bleak inner world and anticipated his former master’s torment.

King Qian learned that the forces he trusted had turned against him and realized the Li Family had been trapping him for decades. As Li Kuangren led an assault on Azure Lotus Mountain, Li Xiang discovered that Kuangren’s heart demon kept him from advancing beyond the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm.

• King Qian received reports that the Nangong Family, Great Bright King Temple, and other forces were aiding the Li Family and opposing his cause.
• A survivor described Li Kuangren’s Bone Bridge warning and reported that the Sky Net assassins, including White Brow, had not returned.
• King Qian recalled Li Yaozu’s words and concluded that the Li Family had been laying a trap for him for forty years.
• Gu Yinming explained that the Li Family had bound the Sky Net members to serve beside its members until King Qian died and the prefectures were at peace.
• Li Kuangren led cultivators from Hundred Treasure Mountain against Azure Lotus Mountain while Gu Yinming confronted its Spirit Transformation sword cultivators.
• Li Xiang’s panel revealed that Li Kuangren’s Caged Bird heart demon prevented him from touching swords, sitting on his throne, or reaching the Soul Departure Realm.

Li Xiang relied on Sky Net to help the Li Family suppress the rebellion in Long Sun Prefecture, while Li Yaowen revealed the powerful reincarnation art she gained from Tian Xing. At the Azure Lotus Sect, Li Xinghuo led the Asura Army into battle and faced a deadly clash with the sect’s Supreme Elder.

• Li Yaowen told Li Xiang that Dongfang Xuan’s painting could track the Sky Net leader, and warned that Sky Net’s members could be used but not trusted.
• Li Yaowen explained that she had reincarnated into eighteen avatars and cultivated one of them to the Golden Core Stage, and Li Xiang told her to rest and reincarnate in the ancestral hall.
• The Li Family and Sky Net drove the rebel forces across Long Sun Prefecture toward defeat, with Li Xiang watching the campaign alongside his descendants.
• Li Xinghuo and the Asura Army broke through the Azure Lotus Sect’s formation and attacked its formation foundation while Gu Yinming fought the sect’s disciples.
• The Azure Lotus Sect’s Supreme Elder struck back, killing Asura soldiers and badly damaging their Dharma Body as Li Xinghuo led the army forward and vowed to kill him.

Li Kuangren helped Li Xinghuo escape Green Lotus Supreme Elder’s domain and, as he sat on his iron throne holding a sword, finally began to overcome the fear that had shackled him for years. The battle at the Azure Lotus Sect continued as Li Kuangren carried his unconscious grandnephew away.

• Gu Yinming summoned a regenerating divine corpse, allowing Li Kuangren and the Qingyun Nascent Soul cultivators to disrupt the Green Lotus disciples’ formation and charge into the sect.
• Green Lotus Supreme Elder nearly killed Li Xinghuo, but Li Kuangren used the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits King Array and the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts to rescue him from the domain.
• Li Xinghuo and Li Kuangren retreated to a dark house with heavy injuries, where Li Xinghuo noticed his granduncle was sitting on an iron throne and holding a sword.
• Li Kuangren confronted his old fear of cages and darkness, and the shackles on him began to fade as he reclaimed his resolve.
• Li Kuangren scolded Li Xinghuo, who pretended to faint, then carried him away to find a physician while the battle continued.

Li Xiang watched the Li Family exploit its victory over the Azure Lotus Sect while Li Kuangren recovered from his years of emotional confinement and Li Xinghuo received care for his lost arm. A month later, Li Tianyue led the conquest of Clear Heart Hall, gained powerful blood-and-sword inheritances, and parted from the War God as he prepared to return to Yu Prefecture.

• Li Kuangren broke free of the heart's knot that had trapped him for years, rescued Li Xinghuo, and returned to lead Hundred Treasure Mountain's forces against the Azure Lotus Sect.
• Li Yunbing's traits fused into Shadowy Heroic Overlord, and Li Xiang realized that the Li Family planned to keep rebel forces and its affiliates fighting for generations.
• Li Xinghuo returned home with a severed arm, and Li Yaoqing promised to help regrow it while Li Kuangren entered seclusion and sent the Green Lotus Sword Embryo to be reforged.
• Li Tianyue told the War God he could return to Yu Prefecture after the campaign, and Li Xiang approved her decision.
• Li Tianyue led Gu Yinming, the War God, and allied sects to conquer Clear Heart Hall, where she gained Tian Xing's Bloodthirsty Body inheritance and sword treasures.
• After the battle, Li Tianyue and the War God exchanged farewells, and she said they would meet again on the battlefield of Yu Prefecture.

As the Li Family aided Long Sun Prefecture through disasters and war, King Qian imprisoned the War God, who was later rescued by Sky Net’s leader. The rescued War God arrived in Sky Dimension City with Sky Net, whose members asked the Li Family to let them leave, but gathered with killing intent as the chapter ended.

• Li Dalong used the Clear Heart Sect’s spirit vein and the Li Family’s resources to provide food and clothing to Long Sun Prefecture’s people, earning the family a benevolent trait and the people’s gratitude.
• Li Xiang approved Li Dalong’s relief efforts, while Gu Yinming defended the Li Family’s motives against Han Yun’s criticism.
• King Qian learned that Sky Net had joined the Li Family and that the Li Family had purged his supporters in Long Sun Prefecture.
• King Qian tortured the imprisoned War God and threatened to conquer Long Sun Prefecture with help from Min Youguo.
• A bamboo-hatted Sky Net leader rescued the War God and carried him to Sky Dimension City, where Gu Yinming recognized the curse afflicting him.
• Dongfang Xuan asked the Li Family to let Sky Net leave, and Sky Net’s members gathered with killing intent.

Li Yaoqing saved the War God for one month, and Sky Net brought him back to the Yu Prefecture battlefield while agreeing to delay revenge against King Qian and the Myriad Dao Immortal Palace. Meanwhile, Li Tianyi gained a talisman treasure that housed powerful senior souls, and the chapter ended as the War God’s boat reached the battlefield.

• Li Yaoqing diagnosed the War God with a curse in his soul sea and extended his life by one month, after which he chose to return to his homeland.
• Sky Net’s boss revealed that the Myriad Dao Immortal Palace had stopped him from killing King Qian, and Li Yaozu persuaded Sky Net to wait for the Li Family to act.
• Li Tianyue took the dying War God aboard the Li Family’s Spirit Boat and headed for the Yu Prefecture battlefield as Sky Net agreed to stay in Long Sun Prefecture.
• Li Tianyi received the Twelve Profound Dharma Divine Resonance Talismans, which gave thirty-eight senior souls a home and made him a fearsome force on the battlefield.
• The Spirit Boat carrying the War God arrived at the Yu Prefecture battlefield.

Li Tianyue brought the dying War God, Qiu Mang'er, to King Yu, where the old warrior returned to his former master and died fighting for him. King Yu then asked the Li Family to help him obtain King Qian’s head for Qiu Mang’er’s grave.

• Li Tianyue arrived above the battlefield with the War God and demanded to meet King Yu.
• Qiu Mang'er reunited with King Yu, knelt before him, and asked permission to fight for him.
• King Yu granted permission, and Qiu Mang'er charged alone into the Qing Imperial Dynasty’s army.
• Li Tianyue stopped the enemy cultivators from killing the fallen War God and returned his broken staff to him as he died.
• King Yu recounted how Qiu Mang'er had served him and asked the Li Family to place King Qian’s head before Qiu Mang’er’s tombstone.

Li Yaowen and Dongfang Xuan gathered Qingyun’s powers in Merit City to simulate the Li Family’s invasion of Great Joy Prefecture, weighing a dangerous strike against King Qian’s Manor. After half a month of planning, the factions rested at a banquet while the Li Family prepared to assign their roles.

• Li Tianyue returned to the Spirit Boat with cultivators carrying King Yu’s orders, and Sky Net’s members discussed the power of the Void Refinement presence aboard.
• Cultivators and leaders from Qingyun’s factions gathered in Merit City as the Li Family prepared to move against Great Joy Prefecture.
• Li Yaowen and Dongfang Xuan used a map to simulate the campaign, debating tactics that included unleashing zombies and drawing in the Witch Tribe and sea demons.
• The assembled factions spent half a month refining their plans, while recognizing that the three great Immortal Sects and Great Joy’s hidden defenses made the invasion perilous.
• The Li Family held a banquet after the simulations, but kept everyone inside Merit City and prepared to assign tasks to each faction.

As the Li Family and its allies prepared to march into Great Joy Prefecture, they spent a final night drinking and celebrating before battle. Li Yaowen concluded that Huang Xiujin had secretly arranged the God of War’s death for the family’s sake, while the chapter ended with Li Yaozu and the Azure Cloud elders vowing to fight for a thousand years of peace.

• Huang Xiujin managed the chaotic revelry at the Li Family residence, then reflected on the coming battle and his bonds with the family.
• Li Yaowen told Li Yunbing that Huang Xiujin had likely arranged the God of War’s death and ordered him to keep the secret while checking for evidence.
• The Sky Net members discussed their futures, and their leader persuaded them to remain in Long Sun Prefecture after the battle.
• The Azure Cloud elders bickered over their families and disciples before Li Yaozu raised a toast to winning a thousand years of peace.
• Li Yaozu quietly poured wine into his sword case as the elders continued their last gathering before entering Great Joy Prefecture.

As Qingyun's elders prepared to march on Great Joy Prefecture, Old Tree foresaw a bloody road and King Qian's downfall. Li Dalong gathered his old companions and joined the Yu Prefecture delegation, while White Qilin doubted the Li Family was ready for war.

• Li Kuangren promised Patriarch Heavenly Turtle that the Li Family would protect Qingyun's sects whose legacies lacked Nascent Soul or Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Celestial Master Wushou and Patriarch Tianye asked Old Tree to read the future, and he foresaw bloodshed in Great Joy Prefecture and King Qian's fate ending.
• Li Changsheng asked Old Tree whether he could leave the family while using the power of his eyes, but Old Tree stayed silent as he continued reading omens.
• After dawn, Li Dalong woke his drunken companions with kicks and shouted, "Get up. Time to go to war!"
• White Qilin and eleven Spirit Transformation cultivators from Yu Prefecture arrived, and one subordinate proposed using the Li Family as bait to attack King Qian's Manor.
• Li Dalong ignored their urging, paid respects at the ancestral hall, then told White Qilin that the Li clan would travel with the Yu Prefecture delegation to Great Joy Prefecture.

Li Dalong unleashed the Boundless Sea of Death against Great Joy Prefecture to draw its forces into a sixty-day struggle, while Qingyun’s elderly cultivators secretly assembled to invade from every direction. Moved by their resolve, White Qilin and the Yu Prefecture cultivators pledged to join the campaign.

• Li Dalong opened the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin and ordered Moon God, Duke Soul Spirit, Qu Yang, and Lai Teng to lead the corpse tide into Great Joy Prefecture for sixty days.
• Li Dalong told Xuantianzi to guard the Boundless Sea of Death and bring it back after the assault, regardless of how many zombies were lost.
• As the death aura spread across the border, hidden Qingyun cultivators emerged from towns and countryside, changed into their sect robes, and charged into Great Joy Prefecture.
• Elder Tianqing, Patriarch Tianye, and other leaders joined their forces, while millions of Qingyun cultivators scattered across the border to fight Great Joy’s forces.
• White Qilin understood that the elders were risking their lives to secure a future for their descendants, saluted them, and offered to serve Li Dalong as a foot soldier.

Li Yaoqing, Li Yaotie, and Bai Rourou drew Great Joy Prefecture’s forces into battle while Qingyun fighters attacked clans across the prefecture, preventing them from supporting King Qian. The crisis reached King Qian’s Manor, where Mingdaozi confronted King Qian about the Sky Net War God and the deception that had sent him after the War God.

• Li Yaoqing and Bai Rourou explained that Qingyun’s invasion was meant to draw Great Joy Prefecture’s clans away from King Qian, while Li Yaotie sent out his phantom and discovered that three Spirit Transformation cultivators and many Nascent Soul cultivators were closing in.
• Li Yaoqing prepared a green-mist mountain with a formation and iron men as Li Yaotie and Bai Rourou readied themselves to face the approaching experts.
• Li Yaotie was struck through the chest by a flying sword, then pulled it free and vowed to hammer the surrounding cultivators to death as the three siblings prepared to fight.
• Qingyun’s zombies and cultivators attacked clans and cities across Great Joy Prefecture, forcing the clans to defend their territories instead of aiding King Qian.
• King Qian learned that Qingyun forces had tied down defenders throughout the prefecture, and Mingdaozi confronted him over his earlier claim that the Sky Net War God had rebelled.

King Qian manipulated Mingdaozi into believing that the Li Family and Sky Net threatened Great Joy Prefecture, turning the Myriad Dao Immortal Palace elder into a rallying figure for the three great immortal sects. Li Yunlin rejected Mingdaozi’s accusations and prepared to leave seclusion, while Li Changan warned that King Qian could soon use the united forces of Great Joy Prefecture to invade Long Sun Prefecture.

• King Qian persuaded Mingdaozi that Sky Net and the Li Family were evil invaders, and Mingdaozi resolved to break his vow against killing.
• King Qian revealed that Mingdaozi’s support was part of his plan to unite Great Joy Prefecture’s immortal sects against Sky Net and the Li Family.
• Mingdaozi accused Li Yunlin of serving the Li Family’s evil, but Li Yunlin challenged his claims and said he was preparing to leave seclusion.
• Mingdaozi called on Universal Compassion and Red Sleeve Fairy to lead Great Joy Prefecture’s forces against the invaders, and both agreed.
• Li Changan warned that King Qian could use Mingdaozi’s influence to unite Great Joy Prefecture and invade Long Sun Prefecture within a year.

Li Xiang arrived as Li Yaoqing fought three Spirit Transformation cultivators and many Nascent Soul Cultivators in her Mountain God form. Li Yaotie and Bai Rourou joined the battle with explosive Spirit Puppets and an arsenal of artifacts, and Li Yaotie confronted the three Spirit Transformation cultivators in silver armor.

• Li Xiang ordered Sky Net and White Qilin to rush to King Qian's Manor after Mingdaozi's words stirred Great Joy Prefecture against Azure Cloud.
• Li Xiang found Li Yaoqing transformed into a mountain, using her Mountain God powers to resist three Spirit Transformation cultivators and numerous Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Li Yaotie and Bai Rourou used Li Yaoqing's spells to launch more than a thousand Thunderfire Spirit Seekers, which exploded among their enemies.
• Bai Rourou emerged in the Tian Xing Walker Spirit Puppet and used its inherited spells to kill a Nascent Soul Cultivator.
• Li Yaotie revealed his Unorthodox Artifact Body and controlled numerous Spirit Artifacts as the Divine Puppet formed silver armor around him.
• Li Yaotie faced the three Spirit Transformation cultivators and threatened to kill them all.