Chapter Summaries

Li Xinnian placated Nangong Qingya by claiming his pure yang body would leave her a widow, while privately admitting he disliked her. Su Chen, a badly injured disciple, revealed that he had been reborn as the last survivor of a clan destroyed by the Li Family and began taking revenge on his bullies.

• Li Xinnian told Nangong Qingya that his pure yang body made marriage impossible, then told Wuyazi that he had lied to save her face and that he disliked her.
• Nangong Qingya’s fellow disciples blamed her for publicly confronting Li Xinnian, and she admitted she had been wrong.
• Nangong Qingya spoke with the injured Su Chen, who thanked her for saving him and asked about her trouble with Li Xinnian.
• Su Chen confronted the cultivators who had bullied him, swiftly broke the leader’s leg, and ordered them to leave the Litian Sect within three days.
• Su Chen revealed that he was Venerable Chen reincarnated in the body of the Su Family’s last survivor, and vowed to fulfill the former owner’s wishes against the Li Family.

Su Chen confronted Li Xinnian and witnessed him condemn infighting in the Litian Sect, while Nangong Qingya hoped Su Chen and Li Xinnian could help her escape the future she saw in dreams. Meanwhile, Li Yaotie sent his father a magical armor that proudly identified him as “Li Yaotie’s Dad,” and Li Xiang discovered his own matching gift labeled “Li Yaotie’s Patriarch.”

• Su Chen recalled how Mu Xueqing and Min Tiange betrayed him sixty thousand years earlier and resolved to take revenge as he faced Li Xinnian’s crowd outside his residence.
• Li Xinnian slapped the cultivator who had accused Su Chen, denounced the sect’s infighting, and left as the Disciplinary Hall arrested the troublemakers.
• A month later, Nangong Qingya went to meet Su Chen after his punishment ended and reflected that neither he nor Li Xinnian had appeared in her prophetic dreams.
• Li Yaotie and Li Yaoqing discussed Li Yaotie’s armor gift for Li Dalong, while Li Xiang received a system notice that Li Yaotie had also offered him magical armor.
• Li Dalong’s thumb ring transformed into armor engraved with “Li Yaotie’s Dad,” and Li Xiang found that his own armor bore the words “Li Yaotie’s Patriarch.”

At fourteen, Li Xinnian led Litian Sect disciples into Ten Directions Ancient Ridge, where they fought alongside Long Sun Prefecture’s four great powers. Watching from the clouds, Li Yaowen decided not to target Su Chen and Nangong Qingya despite their unusual pasts, suggesting they might help Xinnian and affirming that the Li Family would save itself.

• Li Xinnian reunited with Su Chen and Nangong Qingya, teasing Qingya as the three headed to the Spirit Boat.
• Sect Master Wuyazi appointed Li Xinnian to lead Litian Sect’s younger disciples into Ten Directions Ancient Ridge.
• Half a month later, Li Xinnian fought in the ridge and watched Su Chen conjure phantom figures against their enemies while Nangong Qingya described Su Chen’s rapid growth.
• Li Kuangren reported that Su Chen came from an exterminated clan and that Nangong Qingya seemed to foresee events, then considered killing them as potential sources of Calamity.
• Li Yaowen argued that the Li Family’s position and past bloodshed might bring Calamity regardless of Xinnian’s friends, and she chose to let Su Chen and Nangong Qingya live.

Su Chen rejected the former owner's urge to kill Li Xinnian and joined him and Nangong Qingya in raiding a Spirit Herb Garden. Meanwhile, Li Yaotie prepared to forge a magic treasure instead of rushing his breakthrough, prompting Celestial Light Cave's threatened Cave Master to secretly alert a powerful young man, who reacted with anger.

• Su Chen reflected on his growing respect for Li Xinnian and the Li Family, then joined Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya in charging a Spirit Herb Garden to help Li Xinnian repay his enormous family debt.
• Li Xiang learned that King Yu and Dongfang Liancheng had agreed to a temporary ceasefire and rushed to oversee Li Yaotie's planned breakthrough.
• Li Yaotie explained that he would delay his breakthrough to forge a mid-grade magic treasure, while Li Yaoqing revealed that the family owed her two hundred thousand years' worth of debt.
• Celestial Light Cave's Cave Master, worried that Li Yaotie and Wang Jinhu threatened his position, spread word of Li Yaotie's breakthrough and sent a secret message to a young man.
• The young man dismissed Li Yaotie as a nobody and crushed the jade slip in anger at the Cave Master's request for help.

Li Yaotie’s Spirit Transformation tribulation was secretly raised to the fifth grade, nearly destroying his Nascent Soul. The Li Family’s ancestral tablet and Li Xiang’s Lineage Will revived him, while Celestial Light Patriarch failed to identify the mastermind.

• Celestial Light Patriarch hosted cultivators who came to celebrate Li Yaotie’s breakthrough, but the tribulation abruptly intensified from the third grade to the fourth and then the fifth.
• Celestial Light Patriarch discovered that someone had used the gathered cultivators’ auras to conceal an attack on Li Yaotie, and he sent Wang Jinhu to seize Daoist Mingkong.
• Li Yaotie exhausted his preparations as the fifth-grade tribulation shattered his Nascent Soul, then heard his descendants urge him to live and fought to recover.
• Li Xiang spent Lineage Will to upgrade Ancestral Embrace into Shine, Ancestor, and the ancestral tablet’s light restored Li Yaotie’s Nascent Soul.
• Celestial Light Patriarch returned to find Li Yaotie recovering, but told Li Yaoqing that the attackers had escaped and Wang Jinhu had gone to seize Mingkong.

Li Yaotie survived a treacherous tribulation and reached fifth-grade Spirit Transformation, but Li Yaoqing decided the siblings would leave Celestial Light Cave and return home. Daoist Mingkong admitted he had targeted Li Yaotie to keep the Li Family from entangling the cave, then proposed that Celestial Light Patriarch claim Li Yaotie had killed him and sever ties with the family.

• Li Yaotie gained the One Origin True Fire and Heavenly Domain Furnace domain after breaking through to fifth-grade Spirit Transformation, while Celestial Light Patriarch and Li Yaoqing suspected someone had interfered with his tribulation.
• Li Yaoqing took Li Yaotie away and explained that Daoist Mingkong had tried to kill him to prevent the Li Family from gaining influence over Celestial Light Cave.
• Wang Jinhu learned that Li Yaotie had survived and left for home with Li Yaoqing and his wife.
• Celestial Light Patriarch and Wang Jinhu confronted Daoist Mingkong, who argued that he had acted to protect Celestial Light Cave from becoming tied to the Li Family.
• Daoist Mingkong proposed that Celestial Light Patriarch announce that Li Yaotie had killed him, allowing Celestial Light Cave to sever its ties with the Li Family.

After Daoist Mingkong’s death, the Li Family learned that Peerless Hall had arranged the attack on Li Yaotie and decided to wait for the hidden power to reveal itself. In Year 480, the family accepted Celestial Light Cave’s Heavenly Fire Divine Tree, while Li Yaoqing’s secret stockpile of stolen imperial herbs fueled the clan’s cultivation and pill refining.

• Li Yaozu revealed that Mingkong’s attackers came from Peerless Hall, and Li Yaowen explained the ancient sect’s history and suspected reach into the imperial court.
• Li Yaotie dismissed the danger, while Li Yaowen proposed keeping Peerless Hall’s involvement secret and exposing it when the sect made another move.
• Li Yaotie returned Mingkong’s corpse to Wang Jinhu, who failed to persuade him to return to Celestial Light Cave and delivered the Heavenly Fire Divine Tree from the Celestial Light Patriarch.
• At the Li Family’s Year 480 sacrifice, Li Yaotie and Bai Rourou forged iron beside the Heavenly Fire Divine Tree, while Li Yaoqing had Immortal Child tend his pill furnace.
• Li Yaoqing told Immortal Child that he had stolen ninety percent of the imperial palace’s prescribed spiritual herbs and used his leverage over palace consorts to protect himself.

After emerging from seclusion, Li Xiang learned that Teacher Xiao’s rebellion had exposed Boss Qi’s weapons dealings, so he sent Boss Qi to obtain antimatter bombs and help Xiao Qingling. Xiao Qingling revealed ancient ruins that pointed to the lost Yu Dynasty and a statue of the Dawn Venerable.

• Li Xiang received a Primordial Origin Blood Fruit, left his room, and reunited with Yuexian over her braised pork.
• Li Xiang saw news that Teacher Xiao had been arrested and Boss Qi’s dealings in nuclear and antimatter bombs had been exposed.
• Li Xiang met Boss Qi, gave him Spirit Stones and treasures, and ordered him to obtain antimatter bombs and ask Lawyer Han to help Xiao Qingling.
• Lawyer Han led over a thousand lawyers to the National Security Investigation Bureau and demanded Xiao Qingling’s release.
• Xiao Qingling showed investigators an ancient seabed excavation and explained that it revealed the lost Yu Dynasty and the origins of magical and ancient civilizations.
• The Investigation Bureau director read a stele beside a statue identifying its subject as the Dawn Venerable.

Five hundred years after the Li Family’s rise, its leaders reviewed their power and the threats surrounding them before Li Xinnian asked Li Xinghuo to acknowledge Su Chen as his adopted son. The chapter ended with Li Yunlin lying beside Red Sleeve Fairy, bewildered that their discussion of the Dao had gone so far.

• Li Dalong led the Li Family’s descendants through the five-hundred-year grand sacrifice, and the family gathered afterward to discuss its affairs.
• Li Yunbing described the Li Family’s difficulties in Great Joy Prefecture, while Li Kuangren and Li Changan reported that Long Sun Prefecture was under their control and prospering.
• Li Tianyue and Li Xinghuo warned that King Yu might threaten the Qing Imperial Dynasty, while Li Changyao reported that the Golden Guard and Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had thwarted Tianli Hall’s attempts to infiltrate major powers.
• Li Yunlin said he was learning Other Shore Immortal Palace cultivation arts from Red Sleeve Fairy, and Li Xinnian asked Li Xinghuo to acknowledge Su Chen as his adopted son so Su Chen could seek marriage with an Ethereal Immortal Sect disciple.
• Li Yunlin lay beside Red Sleeve Fairy in the Other Shore Immortal Palace and wondered how their discussion of the Dao had become an intimate encounter.

Li Xiang awakened the Heaven-tier Yin-Yang Carp bloodline, while Li Xinghuo arrived in Great Joy Prefecture on an imperial conscription mission and discussed taking Su Chen as his adopted son. The chapter left Li Xiang wary of the elders’ scheme to use Su Chen to break the Li Family’s political deadlock.

• Li Xiang consumed the Primordial Origin Blood Fruit and awakened the Yin-Yang Carp bloodline, gaining stronger mystical power, deeper law comprehension, and the dangerous Annihilation power.
• Li Yunlin and Red Sleeve Fairy acknowledged their feelings for each other, while Li Xiang and Li Kuanghua watched their growing closeness.
• Li Xinghuo entered the Other Shore Immortal Palace as Grand Preceptor Linjiu’s representative, carrying an imperial mission to recruit cultivators against the Witch Tribe invasion and King Yu’s rebellion.
• Li Yunbing asked Li Xinghuo about adopting Su Chen, and Li Xinghuo proposed waiting until Su Chen faced trouble connected to the Ethereal Immortal Sect so he would accept the offer willingly.
• Li Yunbing revealed that the ancestor believed Su Chen could help break the Li Family’s political deadlock in Great Joy Prefecture, and Li Xiang grew uneasy at the elders’ calculations.

Su Chen learned that the Li Family had proposed to Liu Rusi on his behalf, but the Ethereal Immortal Sect claimed she was already promised to Ding Zerui. After Red Sleeve Fairy challenged the old marriage contract, the dispute remained unresolved, and Ding Zerui secretly provoked Su Chen with a vile threat about Liu Rusi.

• Li Xinnian told Su Chen that the Li Family had agreed to propose to Liu Rusi and sent precious betrothal gifts.
• Immortal Master Qi Yue and Ding Zerui brought a childhood marriage contract to the Other Shore Immortal Palace and demanded the gifts be returned.
• Li Kuanghua confronted Ding Zerui, while Red Sleeve Fairy argued that Liu Rusi could reject the old contract and demanded that she and the Liu Family speak for themselves.
• Li Yunlin kept Immortal Master Qi Yue at the palace so the matter could be discussed, leaving the dispute unsettled.
• Outside the hall, Ding Zerui taunted Su Chen and claimed he had abused Liu Rusi, threatening to let other disciples harm her too.

Li Xinnian exposed Ding Zerui’s scheme to provoke Su Chen and drove him and Immortal Master Qi Yue away, while Su Chen vowed to reach the Ethereal Immortal Sect for Liu Rusi. After Azure Cloud’s Spirit Boat departed, Li Yunbing learned that Great Joy Prefecture had sent assassins after Su Chen and ordered Tianli Hall to intercept them without telling Li Xinnian.

• Ding Zerui secretly taunted Su Chen and tried to provoke him into attacking, but Li Xinnian struck Ding first and revealed that he had heard the secret transmission.
• Li Xinnian privately warned Ding Zerui to keep Liu Rusi safe and remain silent, then publicly apologized as Ding Zerui and Immortal Master Qi Yue departed for the Ethereal Immortal Sect.
• Li Xinnian told Su Chen he considered his enemies his own, and Su Chen declared that he would enter the Ethereal Immortal Sect to reach Liu Rusi.
• Azure Cloud’s Spirit Boat left the Other Shore Immortal Palace, and Li Xinghuo told Li Yunbing that three Nascent Soul Realm and six Golden Core Stage cultivators had been sent to assassinate Su Chen and destroy the Spirit Boat.
• Li Yunbing ordered Tianli Hall to stop the attackers while keeping the operation from Li Xinnian, and Li Yunlin later told Red Sleeve Fairy he would ask his father about her suggestion that she handle outside affairs.

Li Xinnian sought Huang Xiujin’s guidance after allowing a friend to become a pawn in the family’s plans, and Huang reassured him that he had protected the family. Years later, as Litian Sect hosted a young talents competition, Wuyazi learned that Su Chen, Li Xinnian, and Nangong Qingya had gone to Great Joy Prefecture to help Su Chen reclaim the woman he loved.

• Li Xinnian returned to Merit City and paid respects to his many elders and family ancestors.
• Li Xinnian admitted to Huang Xiujin that he had knowingly let his friend become a pawn and had not done much to rescue the woman his friend loved.
• Huang Xiujin asked whether Li Xinnian had harmed the family, endangered his clansmen, or acted for his own joy, then praised him for protecting the bloodline.
• At Litian Sect’s young talents competition, Wuyazi expected Li Xinnian, Su Chen, and Nangong Qingya to claim the top places.
• A Litian Sect elder told Wuyazi that Su Chen had secretly gone to Great Joy Prefecture to bring back Liu Rusi, and that Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya had gone with him.
• Wuyazi realized his three disciples had abandoned the competition and called out to Qingyun Prefecture for urgent help.

Li Kuangren, Li Changan, and Li Changsheng suspected that outside forces were emboldening the Ethereal Immortal Sect and threatening the Li Family’s territories. Meanwhile, Li Xinnian went to the Liu Family and brought Liu Rusi out, intending to give her to Su Chen.

• Feng Mi received word that Su Chen had gone to the Ethereal Immortal Sect and Li Xinnian had gone with him, so Li Kuangren reassured her and suggested she ask Senior Dongfang Xuan to travel there.
• Li Changan warned Li Kuangren that Puci Supreme Elder and the Ethereal Immortal Sect might be backed by outside forces, and Li Changsheng raised the possibility that Peerless Hall was involved.
• Li Changan proposed using Su Chen’s visit to the Ethereal Immortal Sect to draw their hidden opponents into the open, while Li Xiang received a special event warning of danger to the family.
• Li Xinnian learned that Su Chen had gone to the Ethereal Immortal Sect without him and decided to visit the Liu Family with Nangong Qingya.
• Li Xinnian summoned the Liu Family cultivators and secured their cooperation, then left with Liu Rusi, the woman Su Chen had long tried to take away.

Li Xinnian recovered Liu Rusi from the Liu Family and brought her to the Ethereal Immortal Sect, where he and Nangong Qingya arrived during Great Joy Prefecture’s young generation competition. As Great Joy Prefecture’s leaders mocked Qingyun’s prospects, Su Chen entered the arena and challenged all its competitors at once.

• Li Xinnian used the Li Family’s leverage to make the Liu Family Head release Liu Rusi, then escorted her and the Liu Family members toward the Ethereal Immortal Sect.
• Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya reached the competition grounds, where Li Xinnian confirmed that the contest had not yet involved Su Chen.
• Daoist Kongxing, Ding Yuanxiao, and Sun Haotian disparaged the young cultivators from Qingyun and Long Sun Prefecture, prompting Li Yunlin to propose an additional contest for cultivators under five hundred.
• Li Yunbing wagered a low-grade dharma treasure that Qingyun’s cultivators would prove their worth, and Li Yunlin added a fifth-grade spiritual item.
• Su Chen announced himself as a Litian Sect disciple from Qingyun and challenged all the competitors to come at him together.

Su Chen dominated the Ethereal Immortal Sect’s arena, while Li Xinnian confronted Liu Rusi about her choices and left her shaken. The Li Family learned that a Void Refinement cultivator might be backing Su Chen and prepared for the danger around him, as Li Yunlin praised the hidden potential of another family member.

• Su Chen arrived at the arena with a golden dragon manifestation and a Divine Core, then defeated a Great Joy Prefecture cultivator and fought several others at once.
• Li Xinnian questioned Liu Rusi about her broken marriage contract with Ding Zerui and accused her of waiting for Su Chen to rescue her or die without implicating her.
• Liu Rusi denied Li Xinnian’s accusations, and he told her to prove him wrong before leaving her alone in the side room.
• Li Changyao reported that Su Chen had entered Bright Spirit Valley and likely gained the backing of its Void Refinement cultivator.
• Li Yunbing warned Li Yunlin that Su Chen’s talent and enemies made it likely the Ethereal Immortal Sect would try to kill him, while revealing the Li Family had made preparations.
• Li Yunlin praised their youngest family member’s powerful bloodline and suggested he could rival Su Chen despite staying out of the spotlight.

Su Chen won the Ethereal Immortal Sect’s grand competition and demanded that Liu Rusi be returned to him, triggering a confrontation between Great Joy Prefecture and the Li Family’s allies. As the Longevity Zhao Family entered the struggle and Su Chen reunited with Liu Rusi, Ding Zerui arrived to attack her.

• Su Chen defeated the other competitors, claimed first place, and asked Li Yunbing to make the Ethereal Immortal Sect send Liu Rusi back to him.
• After two Ethereal Immortal Sect disciples were found dead, Immortal Master Qi Yue accused Su Chen, and Daoist Kongxing and the Great Joy Prefecture factions demanded that Li Yunbing hand him over.
• Spirit Boats carrying powerful allies from Long Sun Prefecture arrived, shifting the balance against Great Joy Prefecture.
• Puci Supreme Elder met Fairy Bai of the Longevity Zhao Family, who ordered him to relieve Great Joy Prefecture’s predicament and declared that Su Chen must die.
• Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya brought Su Chen to Liu Rusi aboard a Spirit Boat, but Ding Zerui arrived with cultivators and shouted an insult at her.

Li Xinnian arranged for Liu Rusi to be captured and her memories of Su Chen extracted, while Su Chen was cornered by Great Joy Prefecture cultivators. As Su Chen lost consciousness after unleashing temporary Nascent Soul power, Li Xinghuo arrived and fought off his attackers.

• Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya held off the pursuers so Su Chen could escape with Liu Rusi, but Liu Rusi stopped and surrendered to Ding Family retainers.
• Ding Zerui reported Liu Rusi’s capture to Li Xinnian, who received her extracted memories and learned more about her and Su Chen’s past.
• Li Xinnian sent Reckless Monk to consult his granduncle and ordered the Storage Ring delivered to his grandaunt.
• Surrounded beneath the Ethereal Immortal Sect, Su Chen awakened the power of the 'Calamity' ring and briefly reached Nascent Soul strength before collapsing under the attackers’ assault.
• Li Xinghuo arrived on a nine-headed black lion and charged the Great Joy Prefecture cultivators; after Su Chen lost consciousness, Li Xinghuo inspected the 'Calamity' ring and put it back on his hand.

Li Yunbing forced Great Joy Prefecture to submit and learned that the Longevity Zhao Family was behind its hidden power. Meanwhile, Li Yaozu and Zhuo Linlin watched a Void Refinement battle end with the Martial Emperor captured, then refused to help him resume the fight.

• A wounded disciple reported that Li Xinghuo had rescued Su Chen with the aid of a Nine-Headed Ghost Lion, and Daoist Kongxing realized the Li Family could not be challenged.
• Li Yunbing pressured Puci Supreme Elder into a private discussion, after which Great Joy Prefecture's cultivators accepted their defeat and Daoist Kongxing and Immortal Master Qi Yue paid their debt.
• On the Spirit Boat, Li Yunbing told Li Yunlin that Puci Supreme Elder had identified the Longevity Zhao Family as the hidden force in Great Joy Prefecture.
• Li Yaozu, Zhuo Linlin, and Li Xiang watched a battle between two Void Refinement cultivators, and the Martial Emperor was blasted from the spatial rift.
• The Martial Emperor demanded that Zhuo Linlin and Li Yaozu help him fight the woman, but they backed away and left him to face her alone.

After the Li Family’s allies suppressed Great Joy Prefecture, the family examined the Soul-Refining Thread and investigated Su Chen’s origins. Li Yaowen revealed the ancient history of the Longevity Zhao Family and hinted that it deserved its fate, leaving the family facing the prospect of a turbulent age and a hidden enemy.

• Li Yaozu persuaded the Martial Emperor to join the Li Family by offering help for his hidden injuries, while Fairy Bai’s departure left Li Yaozu and Zhuo Linlin wary of future conflict.
• The Li Family received 300 Family Will, a Soul-Refining Thread, and a Sacred Mechanism Stone after its allies united to suppress Great Joy Prefecture.
• Li Tianyi combined the Soul-Refining Thread with the Thirteen Profound Dharma Divine Resonance Talismans, allowing the souls within to begin restoring their strength.
• Li Changyao identified Li Xinnian’s Unparalleled Art as a technique from Peerless Hall, and the family concluded that Su Chen was likely its former hall master reincarnated.
• Li Yaowen reported that the Longevity Zhao Family had existed for 160,000 years and once held Integration Realm experts before its powerful cultivators were slaughtered.
• Li Yaowen declared that the Longevity Zhao Family deserved its fate, alarming the Li Family members.