Chapter Summaries

Li Xiang and his descendants joined the Azure Cloud forces at King Qian’s Manor, where King Qian’s fourth-grade formation threatened to halt their attack. Li Xiang refused to retreat and began unleashing his power against the manor, leaving King Qian’s confident smile frozen.

• Li Xiang descended to help Li Yaoqing and Li Yaotie’s family defeat two Spirit Transformation cultivators, while a third escaped.
• Li Xiang traveled with the siblings toward King Qian’s Manor and obtained the Heavenly Fire Divine Spear from the battle spoils.
• Twenty days later, Li Dalong and the Azure Cloud forces gathered outside King Qian’s city, where King Qian awaited them behind a fourth-grade defensive formation.
• Dongfang Xuan and White Qilin urged Li Dalong to retreat because the formation could not be broken quickly, but the Li Family refused to abandon their mission.
• Li Xiang appeared above King Qian’s Manor, ordered everyone to fall back, and caused translucent cubes filled with black mist to appear around him.
• Li Xiang confronted King Qian as the cubes shattered, leaving only white light in King Qian’s eyes.

Li Xiang sacrificed himself by forcing the antimatter bombs into his body and striking King Qian’s formation to break it. As the explosion engulfed the city, the Li Family prepared to charge back in, while the Qingyun Army advanced toward Great Joy Prefecture.

• King Qian mocked Li Xiang and claimed the grand formation and his forces would withstand the Li Family’s hidden weapons.
• Mingdaozi urged Li Xiang to accept King Qian’s terms, but Li Xiang refused and tore open his chest to place the antimatter bombs inside himself.
• Li Xiang fused the bombs, descended onto the formation, and stabbed at its heart with the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear and Heavenly Fire Divine Spear as his body and divine soul were destroyed.
• A massive explosion engulfed King Qian’s Manor, and the Li Family and their allies readied themselves to charge back into the city.
• Li Yunbing led the Qingyun Army and young cultivators from Qingyun Prefecture toward Great Joy Prefecture.

After the Li Family ancestor’s annihilation attack left Mingdaozi and the city’s defenders exhausted, the Li Family returned to assault the failing formation. Sky Net and the others charged with them, while Old Man revealed his hidden Buddhist power and flew toward the city.

• Mingdaozi endured the annihilation attack to sustain the city’s formation, but King Qian vanished and most defenders stopped supplying mana.
• After the attack passed, Mingdaozi saw the Li Family turn back toward the city and warned the celebrating cultivators to prepare.
• The fourth-grade formation cracked as Li Yunlin approached beneath thunderclouds, and the three great immortal sects hurried to form battle lines.
• Sky Net’s boss advanced with the Li Family, intent on confronting the weakened Mingdaozi, while Dongfang Xuan spoke admiringly of the vanished ancestor.
• Old Man revealed a powerful Buddhist manifestation and charged toward the city gates as Gu Yinming retreated to the Spirit Boat.

The Li Family attacked King Qian’s city as cultivators from the three great immortal sects mobilized to defend it. Sky Net’s leader confronted Mingdaozi with revelations about the sects’ corruption, while Li Yaozu launched a surprise sword assault and Li Dalong unleashed yin gods into the city.

• Grand Elder Universal Compassion and White Qilin vanished into a battle beyond ordinary space as cultivators formed defenses over the city.
• Sky Net’s leader told Mingdaozi that King Qian and the three great immortal sects had long used greed and corruption to control Great Joy Prefecture, then attacked him and pursued him through a spatial rift.
• Sky Net’s leader accused Mingdaozi of craving public worship and said the captured War God had only wanted to go home, while Mingdaozi rejected his words.
• Li Yaozu pretended to accept a sect elder’s challenge, then turned back and unleashed his Lawless Sword and a rain of swords on the city.
• Li Dalong opened the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin, summoned yin souls and peak Spirit Transformation yin gods, and ordered them to follow Li Yaozu into battle.

The Li Family and its allies were overwhelmed by the three great immortal sects as they fought their way into the city, while Red Sleeve Fairy and Daoist Mingtai failed to bring their disciples under control. Just as Li Changan charged into the battle, a vast demon army arrived to attack the city.

• Li Dalong rescued Li Yaozu from an encirclement, but the father and son were steadily worn down by the cultivators inside the city.
• Li Yaoqing, Li Yaotie, and Bai Rourou failed to break through the city gates, while Li Tianyi, Li Tianqi, Li Tianming, and Li Tianyue fought through the western battlefield toward the formation.
• Li Tianyi saw that the Li Family's allies were losing ground as the three immortal sects' cultivators gathered power and pinned down their forces.
• Red Sleeve Fairy and Daoist Mingtai ordered their sects to stop or retreat, but their elders and disciples defied them and declared them traitors.
• Li Changan joined the fight, and a huge swarm of demons led by an enormous mosquito and a white demon fox surged toward the city.

Demon reinforcements led by Xu Cuihua and Mosquito Daoist joined the Li Family’s fight, while the Witch Tribe, demonic cultivators, and Sea Clan converged on Great Joy Prefecture. The chapter ended with Qing Yuan’s crab demons landing on the shore as a vanguard, forcing the human forces to face another threat.

• Xu Cuihua arrived with Mosquito Daoist and more than ten thousand demons, then carried Li Dalong into battle and helped restore his strength.
• Li Yaozu escaped the formation and rescued a Yu Prefecture cultivator with help from Sister Fang.
• Daoist Mingtai told Red Sleeve Fairy that the Witch Tribe and demonic cultivators had entered Great Joy Prefecture and exterminated a great clan.
• Qing Yuan revealed that Drunken Madman had summoned his crab clan to the East Sea, and sent fifty thousand crab soldiers ashore.
• Investigating cultivators reported the sea demons’ landing and urged their Patriarch to contact the three great immortal sects.

The Li Family’s reinforcements joined the battle in Great Joy Prefecture, while news of sea demons and the Witch Tribe spread panic among the three great immortal sects and drove many disciples to flee. At the border, Ye Xiu confronted Li Yunbing for keeping him out of the fighting, as Li Yunbing remained determined to preserve Qingyun’s forces.

• Mad Blood Devil Lord led the Iron Gate Seven and captured demonic cultivators and Witch Tribe members toward King Qian’s Manor, persuading the prisoners to join the battle.
• The Iron Gate Seven found their injured parents, Li Yaotie and Bai Rourou, before transforming into a fourteen-armed asura and attacking the city’s cultivators.
• Messages about sea demons on the East Sea coast and the arrival of devils and the Witch Tribe triggered panic, and disciples from the three great immortal sects began abandoning the battle.
• Daoist Mingtai and Red Sleeve Fairy recognized that the Li Family’s reinforcements and alarming messages had shaken the sect disciples’ resolve and become the real killing move.
• At the border, Ye Xiu accused Li Yunbing of sending others into the battle while keeping himself and Ye Xiu back, then struck him before Li Yunbing defended the decision to protect Qingyun’s forces.

Li Xiang recovered from breaking the fourth-grade formation as the Li Family’s reinforcements turned the battle in their favor. King Qian fled toward the imperial capital, but Li Yaozu hunted him down, leaving his followers to abandon him as his escape collapsed.

• Li Xiang comprehended the power of annihilation while monitoring the battle, where the Seven Sons and the Mad Blood Devil Lord devastated the Immortal Sects’ forces.
• Li Yaozu left the battlefield and pursued King Qian as he escaped aboard thirteen Spirit Boats.
• King Qian reassured himself that he could rebuild his power elsewhere and considered using A Xiu’s affection for his wife to secure future support.
• An attack shattered the Spirit Boats, and Li Yaozu appeared, cutting them apart with his sword as he closed in on King Qian.
• King Qian urged his followers to stop Li Yaozu, but they saw him trembling and deserted the Spirit Boat, leaving him nearly alone.

Li Yaozu defeated King Qian, while the Li Family and their allies fought through a costly battle in Great Joy Prefecture and returned to Azure Cloud with Mingdaozi dead and King Qian captured. Half a month later, Li Xingchen brought the pregnant Fan Feixuan to meet the Li Family, who welcomed her warmly.

• Li Yaozu gave A Xiu a Storage Ring and urged him and the ugly woman to flee, then beat King Qian and took him back toward Great Joy Prefecture.
• The Li Family and their allies continued fighting in Great Joy Prefecture, suffering heavy casualties as Li Yaoqing healed the wounded and Li Yunlin fought as a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Mingdaozi fell from the sky, and after the three great immortal sects abandoned him, Li Yunlin went to speak with him before Mingdaozi died.
• The surviving Qingyun forces returned home carrying Mingdaozi's body and the bound King Qian, and Li Dalong told the gathered juniors, “We won.”
• Half a month later, Li Xingchen brought the pregnant Fan Feixuan to shore, where the Li Family welcomed her.

Li Xingchen returned to the Li Family with his pregnant wife, Fan Feixuan, and learned that the family’s battles in Long Sun and Great Joy Prefectures had ended. The family traveled to Qingyun Prefecture to mourn the countless cultivators who had died defending it, accompanying their old comrades on their final journey through a month of snowfall.

• Li Xingchen and Fan Feixuan returned to the Li Family, where the elders welcomed them and showered Fan Feixuan with gifts.
• Li Xinghuo told Li Xingchen that the fighting in Long Sun Prefecture was over and that King Qian had been captured in Great Joy Prefecture.
• Li Xiang emerged from seclusion after gaining a Primordial Spirit technique and insight into the Void Refinement Realm.
• Li Changan led the family to Qingyun Prefecture, where Li Xingchen saw the mourning clothes and funeral streamers marking the many dead.
• Li Xiang and the Li Family joined survivors and mourners at the Azure Cloud Cemetery, where they honored fallen cultivators including Daoist Heavenly Turtle, Jiang Ning, and Celestial Master Wushou.
• The Li Family spent a month in the snow accompanying their fallen comrades on their final journey as Azure Cloud remembered the dead.

After capturing King Qian and defeating Mingdaozi, the Li Family gathered Qingyun’s clans and sects in Litian Hall to discuss the region’s new balance of power. Li Changan explained how the three great immortal sects and Puci Supreme Elder might respond, and Li Dalong asked Qingyun’s leaders if they were ready to take over the conquered lands.

• White Qilin thanked Li Dalong, said King Yu owed the Li Family a favor, and departed for Yu Prefecture.
• The Li Family and Qingyun’s families, sects, and Sky Net assembled in Litian Hall, where Li Dalong addressed the gathered leaders.
• Li Dalong explained that Qingyun’s allies had helped capture King Qian and eliminate Mingdaozi, leaving Great Joy Prefecture without its former leader.
• Li Changan described how Great Joy Prefecture’s clans had withdrawn from the war and suggested they might use the Li Family to break free from the three great immortal sects.
• Li Changan predicted that Puci Supreme Elder would back Great Joy Prefecture’s clans and eventually pledge allegiance to the Li Family.
• Li Dalong asked the gathered people of Qingyun whether they were ready to take over the lands they had conquered.

After Qingyun's victory in Great Joy Prefecture, Li Dalong sought official posts for its people, and Min Youguo accepted the request as a sign that the Li Family would stand with the Qing Imperial Dynasty. Back in Merit City, Li Dalong punished Li Xingchen, while Li Xinghuo prepared to return to the Northern Border and Li Xiang went to inspect the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin, where King Qian was imprisoned.

• The Qingyun leaders left Litian Hall, and Li Dalong sent letters and memorials to the Human Emperor and Min Youguo.
• Min Youguo learned that a million Qingyun cultivators had entered Great Joy Prefecture and that only ten thousand had returned; he heard how the Li Family defeated King Qian with help from allies and intelligence he had enabled.
• Min Youguo read Li Dalong's request for official posts across Long Sun Prefecture and Great Joy Prefecture, then ordered the memorials drafted and said the Li Family would not rebel.
• Li Dalong whipped Li Xingchen in the Ancestral Hall for his conduct during the expedition, then went to find Li Changan to address his son's upbringing.
• Li Xinghuo told Li Xingchen that he would soon return to the Northern Border, and Li Xiang went to the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin to inspect the spoils, including the imprisoned King Qian.

Li Xiang inspected the survivors and spoils from the Li Family’s battle in Great Joy Prefecture, while Li Kuanghua confronted the imprisoned King Qian. The chapter left Li Xiang planning to use the newly acquired treasures to support the clan and provide a refuge for Mosquito Daoist and the others.

• Li Dalong’s Boundless Sea of Death occupied the sixth level of the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin, where it began refining corpses and could eventually help him open the seventh level.
• Li Xiang saw that fewer than ten zombies had survived the month-long battle in Great Joy Prefecture, and that the Boundless Sea of Death was refining a Void Refinement corpse and nine Spirit Transformation corpses.
• Li Kuanghua rejected King Qian’s attempt to appeal to his connection with Zishu Wandong and cut off one of his ears, telling him that Zishu Wandong had regretted not killing him herself.
• Li Xiang found a Mystic Clear Jade Ring containing the Myriad Dao Divine Bell Tower, a treasure pagoda that accelerated cultivation and could attack enemies with bell chimes.
• Li Xiang also found an Ethereal Immortal Grove and planned to use it as a refuge for Mosquito Daoist and the others, while arranging for Li Yaotie to reforge the clan’s seized treasures.

Fan Feixuan gave birth to Li Xinnian, whose arrival brought blessings and hope to the Li Family and Qingyun Prefecture. The clan then saw Li Xinghuo depart for the Northern Border and Li Tianyue return to the battlefield, while Li Tianyi revealed that he had left Heavenly Secrets Pavilion members in King Yu’s hands.

• Fan Feixuan gave birth to a son, and Li Dalong named him Li Xinnian before the gathered family and Qingyun friends.
• Li Xinnian received numerous gifts of mana and traits from the people who blessed him, and Li Xingchen complained that the newborn was ugly while holding him.
• Li Xinghuo refused his family’s pleas to stay and boarded a Spirit Boat for the Northern Border with young people who needed his backing.
• Li Tianyue prepared to return to the war in Yu Prefecture, and Li Tianyi gave her a jade slip with information about King Yu’s followers and offered his brothers’ help.
• Li Tianyi and Li Tianqi explained that they had left the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s people with King Yu, where Chen Qingtian was now imprisoned.

One year after the battles, the Li Family had become a hidden power overseeing affairs across Long Sun Prefecture and Great Joy Prefecture while Merit City prospered. As Li Xiang observed the family’s daily life, Li Yaozu reported that Yunlin had finally grown up, leaving the gathered clansmen surprised and Li Xiang pleased.

• The Li Family’s influence expanded as Qingyun powers entered Long Sun Prefecture and Great Joy Prefecture, while the Ethereal Immortal Sect emerged as the winner of the conflict in Great Joy Prefecture.
• Merit City flourished as its residents farmed and cultivated, and Li Xiang found Sky Net’s boss and Old Man running an inn while Dongfang Xuan operated a calligraphy and painting shop.
• Li Xiang saw Li Changyao leave Tianli Hall at the evening bell and learned she had gained the Precise Calculation trait through her punctual work routine.
• Li Xiang examined Li Changsheng’s Mysterious Twin Eyes trait and considered the danger that the eyes might possess him.
• The family gathered around the one-year-old Li Xinnian, and Li Yaozu told Li Dalong that Consort Shu had come seeking King Qian before adding news that made Li Xiang pleased about Yunlin.

Li Yunlin cultivated in Litian Hall and received instruction from Red Sleeve Fairy while Li Kuanghua tried to bring them closer. The chapter ended with Li Kuanghua learning that the Vast River Ding Family had attacked and badly wounded disciples of Other Shore Immortal Palace.

• Li Yunlin studied the rules within Litian Hall and practiced the Art Dao Spirit-Channeling Divine Formula and his Dao Soldiers art.
• Old Cat let Li Kuanghua and Red Sleeve Fairy enter Litian Hall after Li Kuanghua bribed it with a spirit fish.
• Li Yunlin welcomed Red Sleeve Fairy and asked her to advise him on transforming the Primordial Spirit, while Li Kuanghua left for a spirit spring.
• Old Cat accepted more fish from Li Kuanghua and declared that Red Sleeve Fairy must be a good teacher and helpful friend.
• Li Kuanghua encountered wounded disciples of Other Shore Immortal Palace, learned the Vast River Ding Family had attacked them, and sent them for treatment.

Li Dalong and Xu Cuihua sheltered Imperial Consort Shu and Zishu Wandong, while the Li Family continued aiding allies and civilians amid growing upheaval. The chapter ended with Li Dalong reporting that the Witch Tribe had invaded again and the Imperial Preceptor was demanding Li Family reinforcements.

• Li Dalong told Imperial Consort Shu that King Qian was imprisoned and arranged for her to leave, but Zishu Wandong asked the Li Family to hide her great-grandmother from the turmoil in the imperial capital.
• Xu Cuihua agreed to shelter Imperial Consort Shu and her clansmen, and Li Xiang reflected on his family’s children before Li Tianming burst out and was tied up again by Li Tianyi and Tianqi.
• Li Xinnian followed Li Changan’s example and gained the trait Elegance; Li Changsheng then took the child’s birthday gifts and offered to teach him.
• Li Dalong and Xu Cuihua helped the Demon Race establish a cultivation ground at the former Azure Lotus Sect site, where Mosquito Daoist asked about the missing Fox Clan and Fox Saint.
• Li Dalong brought a Qing Imperial Dynasty order to Li Xiang and reported that the Witch Tribe had invaded again and the Imperial Preceptor was demanding troops as reinforcements.

The Li Family debated how to aid the Qing Imperial Dynasty against the Witch Tribe while preserving its fragile control of Great Joy Prefecture, and decided to send a joint force. Meanwhile, the Human Emperor searched for his missing heir Feiheng, who remained hidden in the Li Family’s grotto-heaven, living as a farmer.

• Li Xiang and the Li Family discussed Min Youguo’s report, and Li Yunbing proposed sending cultivators from the prefectures and major powers to the borderlands.
• Puci Supreme Elder persuaded Great Joy Prefecture’s clan heads to follow the Li Family’s order despite their resentment toward Azure Cloud, and they agreed to dispatch troops.
• Min Youguo told the dying Human Emperor that Feiheng was still missing, then privately hoped the Li Family would keep him hidden.
• Feiheng continued working the Spirit Fields under a hidden name, and Li Dalong questioned why he chose a farmer’s life.

Li Xiang watched the Li Family expand its influence in Great Joy Prefecture and build up Merit City while its descendants took on new roles and cultivation paths. The chapter ended with nine-year-old Li Xinnian becoming a personal disciple of Litian Sect and gaining the trait Fated Villain after making an enemy of a young man.

• Li Yunbing became Great Joy Prefecture's lord, reached early Spirit Transformation, and established his residence beside the Other Shore Immortal Palace.
• Li Yunlin and the major sects established Other Shore Immortal City to challenge Great Joy Prefecture's great clans, while Li Yunlin became its vice city lord.
• Li Yunlin agreed to ask Red Sleeve Fairy to encourage the major sects to pressure the clans, and Li Yunbing and Li Kuanghua teased him about his growing affection for her.
• Li Kuanghua became Sect Master of the Myriad Dharma Sect and made the Five Elements Body-Impact Art its foundational cultivation art.
• The Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves found the Divine Path Heart-Cleansing Art, but Li Tianming's cultivation deviation split his soul sea and gave him an innocent, timid second personality.
• By Year 472, Merit City had grown into a self-sustaining stronghold, and Li Xiang learned that Li Xinnian had become a Litian Sect personal disciple and gained the Fated Villain trait.

Li Xiang learned that Li Xinnian’s Fated Villain trait could bring calamity upon the family, but vowed the Li Family would never abandon him. Li Yaowen confirmed Xinnian was the family’s Calamity star, and the chapter ended with a girl confronting him at the Litian Sect over his refusal to become betrothed to her.

• Li Xinnian asked Fan Feixuan to help Spring Orchid’s younger brother find work at Hundred Treasure Mountain, arguing that the family should support its longtime servants without making them feel they were accepting charity.
• Li Xiang discovered Li Xinnian’s Fated Villain trait and resolved that the Li Family would protect him rather than abandon him.
• Li Yaowen awoke and used the Tianxia Sutra and Fate Arts to divine that a Calamity star had appeared within the family; she identified Li Xinnian, and Li Yaozu agreed to inform the ancestor and shield him.
• Li Xinnian traveled with the Sky Net Old Man to the Litian Sect and explained that he avoided playing with his peers because their cultivation levels and interests did not suit him.
• A young girl confronted Li Xinnian at the Litian Sect, demanding to know why he refused to become betrothed to her.