Chapter Summaries

Fairy Bai told the Longevity Zhao Clan’s ancestor that Great Joy Prefecture was weak, prompting the clan to prepare to enter the world. Li Yaowen vowed that the Li Family would resist them, while Li Xinnian told Su Chen about the threat; Li Xiang then learned that Li Xinghuo had gained a new trait by taking Su Chen in as an adopted son.

• Fairy Bai reported the events in Great Joy Prefecture to the Longevity Zhao Clan’s ancestor, who dismissed the local forces and agreed that the clan should enter the world.
• Li Yaowen told the Li Family that they could not match the Zhao Clan in strength but would fight to protect their place in the world.
• Li Xinnian visited the recovering Su Chen, turned down the Martial Emperor’s offer to teach him a technique, and told Su Chen about the Longevity Zhao Family.
• Su Chen reacted with interest to the Zhao Clan’s arrival, while Li Xinghuo wondered whether Li Xiang had raised him as he had Su Chen.
• Li Xiang saw a panel report that Li Xinghuo had gained the trait Adoptive Father of Destiny after saving Su Chen and earning his wholehearted submission as an adopted son.

The Li Family watched the Longevity Zhao Family settle in Great Joy Prefecture, then dealt with the Han Family’s flight and the Xuanwu Sect’s revenge. Li Changan and Li Xinghuo visited the Zhao Family and saw its powerful weather-changing formation, while the Grand Preceptor confirmed that the Zhao Family had no Body Integration Realm cultivators.

• Li Xinghuo reflected on Li Xinghuo’s father’s foster-son method, while Li Xiang recognized that his family’s fate-related traits could help it flourish.
• The Longevity Zhao Family occupied the Han Family’s lands, and Han survivors sought the Li Family’s Protection before Xuanji and the Xuanwu Sect attacked them in Sky Dimension City.
• Celestial Master Jinshou broke through to fifth-grade Spirit Transformation, and the Li Family received spoils that included a Golden Dragon Reverse Scale for Old Root.
• Li Changan and Li Xinghuo traveled to the Longevity Domain, where they saw the Zhao Family’s towers and the springlike conditions created by its formation.
• Zhao Qingguang seated Li Changan and Li Xinghuo at the edge of a gathering for visiting families, and Li Xinghuo revealed that the Grand Preceptor had confirmed the Zhao Family had no Body Integration Realm cultivators.

At the Zhao family banquet, Zhao Qingguang tried to weaken the Li family by drawing Great Joy Prefecture’s families into the Zhao family’s expanding trade network. When participating families reported simultaneous raids on their treasure vaults, Zhao Qingguang blamed Li Changan, who denied the accusation and hinted that the Zhao family’s business might not succeed anyway.

• Immortal Master Qi Yue and Ding Yuanxiao provoked Li Changan and Li Xinghuo over their low seats, but Li Changan remained composed.
• Zhao Qingguang announced plans to expand Zhao family shops across the Qing Imperial Dynasty and invited other families to supply them, drawing in Ding Yuanxiao and Immortal Master Qi Yue.
• Li Changan and Li Xinghuo realized they were unlikely to obtain the Zhao family’s environmental-changing secret art, and Li Changan approached Zhao Qingguang only to offer a courteous farewell.
• Ding Yuanxiao learned that his family’s Spirit Herb Garden and treasure vault had been raided, and messages revealed that other participating families had also suffered thefts or attacks.
• Zhao Qingguang blamed Li Changan and unleashed his Spirit Transformation pressure, but Li Changan, Li Xinghuo, the Jiang Family elder, and Zishu Wandong resisted him.
• Li Changan denied that the Li family had arranged the raids and questioned why he would need to resort to theft to stop the Zhao family’s business.

Li Changan exposed Tianli Hall’s powerful backers and revealed that the Zhao Family’s new shops had been seized, while Li Xinghuo forced Zhao Qingguang to deny that the Li Family had caused him trouble. As the Li party departed under Asura Army escort, Li Changan sent Zishu Wandong after a suspicious banquet guard who might have stolen the families’ treasures.

• Ding Yuanxiao accused Li Changan of stealing the families’ materials, but his remarks exposed his ties to the Zhao Family and made the other patriarchs distrust him.
• Li Changan displayed Tianli Hall’s account book, revealing its powerful partners and prompting Zhao Qingguang to realize that the Li Family’s business had influential protection.
• Zhao Family messengers reported that their shops had been seized across several regions and that many of their dispatched clansmen had died.
• Li Xinghuo’s Asura Army escort arrived, and he repeatedly challenged Zhao Qingguang until Zhao admitted that Li Xinghuo had encountered no trouble.
• Sun Haotian, Ding Yuanxiao, and other guests left the now-deserted banquet as Li Changan and Li Xinghuo departed with the Asura Army.
• Li Changan spotted the suspicious guard fleeing the estate and asked Zishu Wandong to capture him; shortly afterward, an enraged roar sounded from the Zhao Family estate.

Li Xinghuo took Su Chen and Nangong Qingya toward the Northern Border, while Li Xinnian stayed behind to help manage the Tianli Hall Dark Division. The Li family learned that a mysterious force called Heavenly Mountain had secretly aided them, and Li Xiang discovered the gift’s connection to Li Yunlin; Heavenly Mountain’s elders then left as the Zhao Family tracked them down.

• Li Xinnian refused to go to the Northern Border, and Nangong Qingya said she would stay too; Su Chen departed with Li Xinghuo and vowed to repay the Li Family’s support.
• Li Changan explained that he had coordinated with Min Youguo, whose Golden Guard had organized a crackdown on the Longevity Zhao Family’s shops and seized their goods.
• Li Kuangren revealed that Great-Uncle Tianyi had robbed the Ding Family’s treasury, while Li Xinnian reasoned that someone else had stolen other families’ treasuries to make them hesitate to side with the Zhao Family.
• Zishu Wandong told Li Changan that the escaping thief claimed to come from Heavenly Mountain, and Li Xiang received a message that Heavenly Mountain had gifted the Li Family treasures, including a Divine Mechanism Pill formula.
• Li Yunlin received a mysterious Storage Ring and decided not to open it, while Red Sleeve Fairy revealed that their clansmen already knew she was expecting a child.
• Elder Jiuyou and the white-robed cultivators departed after learning that the Zhao Family had tracked them down.

Li Kuangren sent a hundred thousand soldiers to aid Xinshang Province against the Witch Tribe, and Li Kuanghua joined the campaign, becoming a revered Battle Buddha-Demon. After seeing the devastation and finding Kuanghua alive, Li Xiang sought a way to break through to Void Refinement by investigating the real world.

• Li Kuangren welcomed Xinshang Province officer Xu Shihua and recruited soldiers from Long Sun Prefecture and Great Joy Prefecture to reinforce the battlefield.
• Li Kuanghua secretly left for the front with Old Root and spent months fighting the Witch Tribe, awakening the faith-powered Battle Buddha-Demon trait.
• Li Kuanghua faced more than a dozen Witch Tribe Nascent Soul high priests and later gathered Buddhist monks and devil cultivators to support the war.
• Li Xiang visited the devastated battlefield, found Li Kuanghua safe, and reflected on the approaching danger to the clan.
• Unable to find a path to Void Refinement, Li Xiang vanished from the ancestral space to investigate cultivation methods in the real world.

Li Xiang asked Miss Five how to reach the Void Refinement Realm quickly, and she taught him an ancient forbidden method. As he left, Miss Five wondered whether he was the black-mist expert she remembered from a blizzard long ago.

• Li Xiang checked on the Li Family, learned its situation was stable, and searched for how humanity had reached the Void Refinement Realm.
• Li Xiang contacted Boss Qi by telegraph, and Boss Qi directed him to Miss Five at Cave Abode Number Thirty-Nine before fleeing a National Security Bureau raid.
• Li Xiang visited Miss Five and asked how to break through to the Void Refinement Realm quickly.
• Miss Five explained that breakthroughs normally required time and comprehension, then offered an ancient forbidden method that Li Xiang eagerly memorized.
• Miss Five watched Li Xiang leave and wondered whether he was the black-mist expert from her memory of a blizzard.

Li Xiang taught the Li Family the Void Soul Path-Swapping Mystic Spirit Art, a costly method for reaching Pseudo-Void Refinement, then sought a source of physical rule power to carry it out. Xiao Qingluo advised him to find an unclaimed planet and install an antimatter device in its core.

• Li Xiang used Family Will to summon the Li Family and explained the Pseudo-Void Refinement method, prompting the clan to plan a space that would consume nearly all their savings.
• Li Xiang left to seek help obtaining the power of laws, but Grandma Ling and Miss Five were away fighting the Magic Civilization, and Boss Qi did not respond.
• Li Xiang contacted Xiao Qingluo through the Savior Army and asked for physical rule power meeting the minimum standard for Void Refinement.
• Xiao Qingluo told Li Xiang to find an unclaimed planet with rule power and place an antimatter device in its core.
• Li Xiang joked that he wanted to blow up a security guard, and Xiao Qingluo offered to send him antimatter bombs.

Li Xiang traveled through the Beyond as the Li Family worked to earn Spirit Stones, while the Zhao Family planned for the chaos they expected after the Human Emperor’s death. Li Kuangren awakened the Golden Ape Bloodline and reached the fifth tier of Spirit Transformation, and Li Xinghuo welcomed a son in the Northern Border.

• Li Xiang followed a safe route through the Beyond and watched his descendants labor to earn Spirit Stones for the family.
• Fairy Bai told Zhao Qingguang to investigate the mysterious force in Great Joy Prefecture and expand the Longevity Domain, while Zhao Qingguang vowed to kill Li Xinghuo when the time came.
• Li Kuangren awakened the Golden Ape Bloodline, broke through to the fifth tier of Spirit Transformation, and gained the King's Might Domain and the Golden Ape King spell.
• Li Xiang used [Shine, Ancestor] to protect Li Kuangren during his lightning tribulation.
• Jin Qiaoqiao bore Li Xinghuo a son in the Northern Border, and Li Xinghuo found comfort when the ancestral tablet in his arms lit up.

After Li Xinghuo asked the elders to find him a principal wife, Li Changan proposed a match with Zishu Wandong, who chose to be brave and accept. As the wedding party departed for the Northern Border, Li Xinnian proposed to Nangong Qingya, but her answer was interrupted by an unidentified voice shouting from the sky.

• Li Xinghuo asked Li Changan and Grandpa Madman to find him a principal wife, hoping to secure Li Xinnian's position as the family's future head.
• Li Changan explained to Li Xinnian how Li Xinghuo had endured hardship and made sacrifices to protect the Li Family, then took him to the Yu Family to propose a match with Zishu Wandong.
• Consort Shu worried that Zishu Wandong would suffer among Li Xinghuo's concubines, but Zishu Wandong decided to be braver and consider the match.
• Li Yunlin and Red Sleeve Fairy escorted Zishu Wandong's bridal boat toward the Northern Border while Li Xinnian explained to Nangong Qingya that he needed to marry and have children to secure the succession.
• Li Xinnian proposed to Nangong Qingya, who accepted, but a loud voice from the sky began shouting, "Marry him!"

Li Xiang found Yin Water Star and began preparing a space for the Li Family’s first Void Refinement cultivator, while his descendants advanced their own plans and faced growing danger. The chapter ended with Li Xinnian appointed as the new family head as the Qing Imperial Dynasty neared chaos.

• Li Xiang reached Yin Water Star and told Li Yaotie to build a space for a future Void Refinement cultivator.
• Li Yaotie refined space for thirty years and developed the earth-tier hammer technique One Origin Fire Hammer.
• Li Yaoqing continued refining White Brow into an artifact spirit, and Bai Rourou told her that Li Xiang had found enough power of laws.
• Li Dalong and his zombies hunted demons in the Endless Forest, then set off for the Gate of the Underworld as he worried about the Human Emperor’s impending death.
• Li Tianyi reached fifth-tier Spirit Transformation and gained the Spirit Resonance domain and Heavenly Sound Ode.
• The Li Family appointed Li Xinnian as its new family head after Li Changan took over Long Sun Prefecture.

Li Xinnian punished the Nangong juniors for embezzling disaster-relief Spirit Stones while secretly expanding the Li Family’s influence and sheltering outcast factions. Li Xiang then observed Li Xinri’s unruly life in Northern Suppression City, where the wastrel took his infant daughter out to gamble and visit brothels.

• Li Xinnian rebuked Nangong Xianliu for the Nangong juniors’ embezzlement and left him to deal with them as he saw fit.
• Nangong Xianliu publicly punished several juniors, and Tianli Hall reported that twelve unruly forces had been wiped out while remnants were kept to draw out larger targets.
• Li Xinnian ordered the Dream Demon Sect to hide on an island near the South Sea and said loyal forces, whether righteous or evil, could find refuge under the Li Family.
• Li Xiang reviewed Li Xinnian’s new traits, then checked on Li Xinghuo’s son Li Xinri in Northern Suppression City.
• Li Xinri took his crying daughter Li Zhijing from Wu Chunxiu and carried her away, promising to take her gambling and to brothels.

Li Xinghuo and Zishu Wandong worried over Li Xinri, who squandered the Spirit Stones he received by causing trouble at a stone-gambling hall. Su Chen returned from the Northern Border, met his unruly adopted younger brother, and set out to discipline him, while Li Xiang learned of Su Chen’s return and the resources he brought back for the family.

• Li Xinri knelt to greet Li Xinghuo and Zishu Wandong, received Spirit Stones from Zishu Wandong, and then took Li Zhijing out to gamble.
• Li Xinghuo revealed his injuries to Zishu Wandong and asked whether Li Xinri had received the Spirit Stones and agreed to cultivate; Zishu Wandong said she had already sent people to watch him.
• Su Chen returned to Northern Suppression City after more than thirty years away and learned that Li Xinri was his adopted younger brother and Li Zhijing his niece.
• Su Chen found Li Xinri wrecking a stone-gambling hall, identified him as his younger brother, and stopped him from chasing the fleeing owner.
• Li Xinri mistook Su Chen for an assassin and fled, but Su Chen said he would straighten out Li Xinri’s temperament.
• Li Xiang learned from the event panel that Su Chen had returned with gifts and resources for the family.

Su Chen returned to the Li Family with treasures from the Strange Path Immortal Sect, while Li Xiang prepared to gather laws for a pseudo-Void Refinement breakthrough. Years later, Long Sun Prefecture became Azure Cloud Prefecture, and Li Yunbing broke through to the peak of Spirit Transformation after fulfilling his late friend Jiang Chenghuan’s wish.

• Su Chen gave Li Xinnian a Storage Ring full of resources and two Void Refinement corpses, then received black armor engraved with “Li Yaotie's descendant.”
• Su Chen asked Li Xinnian about local brothels, gambling houses, and gambling-stone dens before Li Xiang examined the returned treasures and discovered the Strange Path Immortal Sect’s Secret Teaching Stele.
• Li Xiang directed Li Changyao to give Old Tree’s Primordial Origin Blood Fruit to Li Xinghuo and gathered laws into a device for his planned pseudo-Void Refinement breakthrough.
• The Li family had new children, and Su Chen married Liu Tingfei after resting in Long Sun Prefecture for a year.
• Li Xinnian secured the Human Emperor’s approval to rename Long Sun Prefecture Azure Cloud Prefecture, fulfilling Li Yunbing’s long-held ambition.
• Li Yunbing broke through to peak Spirit Transformation during a humanoid lightning tribulation shaped like Jiang Chenghuan and gained the Dominator domain and Celestial Official Guardian technique.

Li Xinghuo and several members of the Li Family celebrated major breakthroughs while their descendants faced family tensions and teasing. The gathering ended with Li Yunlin growing visibly angry after Li Yaoqing mocked him.

• Li Xinghuo consumed the Primordial Origin Blood Fruit, gained the Bixie bloodline, and broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm with the Asura Domain and Life-Severing spell.
• Li Zhijing threatened anyone who mistreated her father, while Li Xinjue rejected his mother’s urging to seek power and favor.
• Nangong Qingya told Li Xinnian that her dreams had shown Tian Xing and Daoist White Brow sacrificing Long Sun Prefecture, though events had since diverged from her visions.
• Li Zhiheng innocently asked Sun Sixiu whether she wanted to marry him and bear children, prompting Li Xinnian to send him away to cultivate.
• Yao Tie announced his successful breakthrough, and Li Yaoqing mocked her brother for succeeding later than she had; Li Yunlin’s anger broke a cup.

The Li Clan prospered under Li Xinnian’s leadership while its descendants pursued very different lives, and Li Xinnian worried about who would inherit the clan’s responsibilities. In Other Shore Immortal City, Li Zhiheng rejected Sun Haotian’s request to use the Li Family against the Zhao Family, leaving Sun Haotian to confront the risk of choosing sides.

• At the 580th Grand Sacrifice, the Li Clan offered Void Refinement treasures, and the Old Ancestor used White Brow’s soul to achieve pseudo-Void Refinement and obtain the Extreme Cold Freeze spell.
• Over the following decades, the Li Clan expanded as Li Xinnian became clan head, Li Xinghuo established a branch family, and descendants spread across the world.
• Li Xinnian told Nangong Qingya that his children and grandchildren had followed their own paths, making it difficult to pass on the responsibility of leading the clan.
• Li Yunbing and Li Kuangren discussed the Longevity Zhao Family’s expanding domain and the Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves’ investigation.
• Sun Haotian asked Li Zhiheng to persuade his father to help the Sun Family against the Zhao Family, but Li Zhiheng questioned whether the families trusted one another.
• Sun Sixiu told Sun Haotian that she and Li Zhiheng would not retreat if the Zhao Family attacked, and Sun Haotian remained frozen after she left.

After forty years away, Li Xiang returned to find the Li Family flourishing and its descendants establishing branches across the realm. As he continued his search for more Power of Rules, the Old Ancestor’s acknowledgment reached the exiled Li Xinjue in Silver Moon City.

• Li Xiang completed his pseudo-Void Refinement breakthrough, returned to Yin Water Star, and continued traveling to gather Power of Rules for Li Yaoqing and Li Yaotie.
• Li Xiang read of decades of family marriages, new branches, and political upheaval, including Crown Prince Sheng’s rise and King Yu’s renewed rebellion.
• Li Xinnian reported the Li Family’s growth to Li Xiang, who told him he had done very well; Li Yaoqing and Li Yaotie announced that they had succeeded again.
• At the Li Family’s 620th-year grand sacrifice, Li Xiang bestowed Power of Rules upon Li Dalong, who reported that he was safe in the disorderly underworld.
• In Silver Moon City, Li Xinjue received the Old Ancestor’s acknowledgment through his shining ancestral tablet and rejoiced that he was still considered part of the family.

Li Xiang evolved the lineage skill into Ancestor, Possess Me!, giving descendants ancestral tablets that lent them his power. As the family branches benefited from the tablets, Li Dalong revealed his growing influence in Tongue-Pulling Hell and a method for sealing ghosts into talismans.

• Li Xiang spent 5,000 points of Lineage Will to evolve the ancestral tablet skill and distributed tablets of several cultivation levels to his descendants.
• Li Xinjue explained the tablets’ power to his Silver Moon City descendants and warned them to keep them secret and use them sparingly.
• Li Yuanshang instructed his son Li Jianguo to protect the ancestral tablet and prepare to strengthen the Imperial Capital branch through business.
• Li Xinnian apologized in the Ancestral Hall for neglecting the branches, and Li Xiang reassured him that the lineage had grown vast and the elders had been occupied protecting it.
• Li Dalong reached Pseudo Void Refinement in the Underworld, gained an Ice Space and the Half-Zombie trait, and told Li Xiang that his forces had seized much of Horizontal Blade King’s territory.
• Li Dalong demonstrated a talisman technique that sealed a Golden Core Long-Tongued Ghost General, leaving Li Xiang stunned by his growing power in Tongue-Pulling Hell.

Li Xiang watched the Li Family expand its influence through commerce, swordsmanship, and new inventions while the Zhao Family dismissed the threat. At Ginkgo Mountain, Li Changan and Li Yuanshang negotiated with Imperial Preceptor Min Youguo, and Li Changan revealed that the political contest involved both the Crown Prince and the Zhao Family.

• Li Dalong told Li Xiang that the underworld had no order and was ruled by warring ghosts, and Li Xiang left him to continue his journey.
• Li Yuanshang established the Li Clan Chamber of Commerce in the imperial capital and sent Spirit Stones and Witch Tribe corpses to Li Dalong as tribute.
• Li Yaozu returned resources and concealed swords to the Li Family after defeating the Sword Pavilion's pavilion master, while Li Yaotie and Li Yaoqing presented Icefire Demon Puppets and Breath-Holding Pills.
• Zhao Qingguang warned Zhao Buqun that the Li Family's influence was spreading, but Zhao Buqun claimed the Zhao Family had already kept it under control.
• At Ginkgo Mountain, Li Yuanshang pleaded with Min Youguo to support his descendant Jianguo's marriage to a Min Family woman, while Li Changan urged the Imperial Preceptor to heed the danger of challengers.
• Li Changan told Li Yuanshang that the Imperial Preceptor's contest with the Crown Prince also involved the Li and Zhao Families, and that both sides had chosen the wrong opponent.

The Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves investigated the Zhao Clan’s 160,000-year-old history, using their growing expertise to uncover traces at a destroyed mountain site. Later, Li Qiukong climbed Spirit Path Mountain to seek a spirit spring and improve his cultivation, hoping to impress his family and Master.

• Li Tianyi, Li Tianqi, and Li Tianming complained that the Zhao Clan had concealed its past and gained the Crown Prince Saint’s support.
• Questionless Scholar led the brothers to the place where the Zhao Clan of Longevity had been destroyed 160,000 years earlier, then hurried away after Li Tianyi dismissed him.
• Li Tianqi used his Black Tortoise shell and formation arts to conceal the mountain while the seniors searched for ancient traces.
• Li Tianming destroyed the mountain with talismans and Spirit Artifacts, exhausting his mana as the seniors uncovered evidence linking the ruins to the Zhao Clan’s formations.
• Li Xiang watched the seniors identify old weapons, armor, and array foundations, while the Li and Zhao clans continued their silent conflict.
• Li Qiukong climbed Spirit Path Mountain through the snow, hoping to obtain its spirit spring and become strong enough to impress his relatives and Master.