Chapter Summaries

Li Qiukong died after fighting Zhao clan members at Spirit Mountain, prompting grief and anger among the Immortal Martial Li Branch and the Great Bright King Temple. As Puci Supreme Elder sought compensation from the Zhao Family, Zhao Jingmiao challenged the patriarch’s willingness to avoid war, leaving the clan’s response unresolved.

• Li Zhiheng and Sun Sixiu mourned Li Qiukong as Li Yuanwu rejected the Zhao Family’s claim that his son had provoked the fight.
• Master Yu Ming left Other Shore Immortal City and ordered monks across two prefectures to chant sutras against the Longevity Zhao Family.
• Puci Supreme Elder confronted Zhao Qingguang and urged the Zhao Family to compensate the Li Family with a celestial-phenomena formation, a mid-grade dharma treasure, and the three surviving attackers.
• Zhao Miyu blamed Li Qiukong for the battle, but Puci Supreme Elder dismissed his claims and Zhao Qingguang began to accept the proposed terms.
• Zhao Jingmiao arrived and urged the Zhao elders to reject concessions, arguing that the Li Family had lost only one son while the Zhao Family had lost twenty-six children.

After Li Qiukong was killed by the Longevity Zhao clan on the Ethereal Immortal Sect’s Spirit Mountain, Li Xinnian mourned him and weighed how the Li Family should respond. Li Changyao uncovered that Zhao Golden Core cultivators had been let onto the mountain, shot Immortal Master Qi Yue as he fled Merit City, and the chapter ended with the city’s residents sensing that conflict had begun.

• Li Xinnian found Li Qiukong’s extinguished life candle and told Nangong Qingya that the Longevity Zhao clan had killed him.
• Li Xinnian asked Nangong Qingya to summon Eldest Brother and consulted Huang Xiujin, who warned that the Li Family needed to uphold its sense of justice.
• Immortal Master Qi Yue tried to excuse the Ethereal Immortal Sect’s role in Li Qiukong’s death, but Li Changyao accused the sect of letting Zhao Golden Core cultivators onto Spirit Mountain.
• Li Changyao ordered Qi Yue to flee Merit City and shot him with an icy arrow as he escaped.
• Young Master Feiheng, Drunken Madman, Gu Yinming, Zhuo Linlin, and Dongfang Xuan sensed the crisis, while Gu Yinming lamented that he might have to leave Merit City.

After Li Changyao crippled Immortal Master Qi Yue, the Ethereal Immortal Sect weighed its position as the Li and Zhao families moved toward war. At Li Zhiheng’s residence, the Immortal Martial Lineage mourned Li Qiukong and vowed to grow stronger and avenge him, while Li Xiang declared war on the Zhao Clan.

• Immortal Master Qi Yue returned to the Ethereal Immortal Sect badly wounded and warned that Li Changyao had reached Spirit Transformation and threatened the sect.
• The Grand Elder and Puci Supreme Elder concluded that Li Changyao had left Qi Yue alive to demand an explanation, while the Zhao Clan’s alliance with the Crown Prince made conflict with the Li Family more dangerous.
• Master Yu Ming gathered monks at Azure Cloud Prefecture’s border to invoke Buddhist wrath over his disciple’s death, and Nangong Qingya visited the mourning Li residence.
• Li Yunlin and Red Sleeve Fairy urged Nangong Qingya to let Li Zhiheng’s family face its grief and responsibilities themselves.
• Li Zhiheng gave Li Qiukong’s Heaven and Earth Spirit Spring to Li Yuanwu, who urged Li Jianshu to cultivate and avenge his son; the Immortal Martial Lineage gained new traits.
• Li Xiang declared that the Li Clan would give the Zhao Clan the war it wanted and crush it.

Su Chen learned that the ancient Zhao Clan had been protected by six terrifying experts, while the current Zhao elders plotted to destroy the Li Clan with Crown Prince Sheng’s support. As Crown Prince Sheng and Crown Princess Xie approached, Li Yuanshang revealed that one of those ancient experts had arrived, leaving Su Chen alarmed about the threat facing the family.

• Su Chen returned to the Li Family’s ancestral hall, reunited with Li Yuanshang, and questioned him about the Zhao Clan’s past.
• Li Yuanshang described the six powerful experts who had made the Zhao Clan nearly invincible 160,000 years earlier.
• Zhao Qingguang warned the Zhao elders that the Li Clan was exceptionally dangerous, but Zhao Jingmiao and Zhao Buqun dismissed his fears and planned to take the Li Clan’s territory with Crown Prince Sheng’s backing.
• Fairy Bai condemned the Immortal Grain Lineage for killing Li Family youths and warned Zhao Jingmiao against bringing disaster upon the clan again.
• A servant announced that Crown Prince Sheng and Crown Princess Xie were on their way, and Li Yuanshang revealed that one of the ancient Zhao experts had arrived.

Li Yuanshang revealed Lin Wan’er’s connection to the Zhao Family’s ancient history at a banquet for Crown Prince Sheng, but the Crown Prince reacted with fury and ordered an attack. A white-clad swordsman intervened and declared that the Zhao clan would be wiped out of the Qing Imperial Dynasty.

• Li Yuanshang told Su Chen that the Zhao Family had grown powerful through Crown Prince Sheng’s favor and that its Crown Princess, Lin Wan’er, might be a man.
• Crown Prince Sheng arrived with Lin Wan’er and dismissed the merchant Li Family, while Lin Wan’er admitted that its presence troubled her.
• At the banquet, Li Yuanshang recounted the Zhao Family’s destruction and return, then asked Lin Wan’er how she had survived across the ages.
• Crown Prince Sheng attacked Li Yuanshang, and Su Chen used his Spirit Transformation power to protect him.
• Crown Prince Sheng ordered his guards to kill Su Chen and Li Yuanshang, but a white-clad swordsman appeared and warned the Crown Prince to remain in his position.
• The swordsman declared that no Zhao clan would remain within the Qing Imperial Dynasty.

Li Yaozu arrived at the imperial capital, drove off Crown Prince Sheng’s guards, and ordered the Merchant Li Family to strike at the Zhao Family while he went alone to the Heavenly Palace. As the capital’s powers withdrew support from the Crown Prince, Li Yaozu reached the palace, where Min Youguo watched and Guan Tong considered sending someone to stop him if he attacked the Crown Prince.

• Li Yaozu revealed his Void Refinement strength outside the Merchant Li Family, forcing the Crown Prince’s guards to retreat and saving Li Yuanshang.
• Li Yaozu ordered Li Yuanshang to mobilize the family against the Zhao Family and gave Su Chen a flying sword, instructing him to kill the Zhao Family’s three Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Li Yaozu walked toward the Heavenly Palace to kill, while Crown Prince Sheng learned that the city’s experts had not answered his summons and that Min Youguo had withdrawn his forces.
• Ahei reported that the Golden Guard had surrounded the Immortal Suppression Bureau and claimed that experts were suppressing a sudden Demon Race appearance, leaving Crown Prince Sheng furious at Min Youguo’s excuse.
• Min Youguo told Guan Tong that Li Yaozu was 645 years old and had the potential to lead the sword path, while Guan Tong instructed Chen Qingtian to intervene if Li Yaozu tried to kill the Crown Prince.
• Min Youguo watched as Li Yaozu descended into the Heavenly Palace and recalled that he had once considered Li Yaozu an insignificant cultivator.

Li Yaozu confronted Zhao Wan'er in the heavenly palace, where Fang Linglong intervened to protect his mind and help him defeat the ancient cultivator. As the Zhao Clan discovered Zhao Wan'er's death, Li Dalong returned from the frozen wasteland declaring that the Li Clan had a true Void Refinement cultivator too.

• Li Yaozu gave Crown Prince Sheng an incense stick to explain himself, and Zhao Wan'er revealed that he was a man before Li Yaozu attacked.
• Zhao Wan'er entered Li Yaozu's Void Refinement space and used seduction arts, but Fang Linglong took control to shield Li Yaozu's mind and counterattacked.
• Li Xiang and the Li Clan elders watched the battle, prepared for conflict with the Longevity Zhao Clan, and Li Yuanshang mobilized allies and assassins against Zhao Clan members in the Imperial Capital.
• Zhao Qingguang saw Zhao Wan'er's ancestral tablet crack, while Fairy Bai ordered Feimeng and Tingyu recalled to the Zhao clan tower.
• Li Dalong emerged from the frozen wasteland, destroyed the empty cube that had held rule-bound spiritual power, and announced that the Li Clan had a true Void Refinement cultivator.

Li Yaozu defeated Zhao Wan'er with Fang Linglong’s help, and the court rewarded the Li Family with control over Great Joy Prefecture and the new office of Southern Border Protection. As the Li Family prepared to confront the Longevity Zhao Family, Li Xiang discovered that the Zhao Family had been draining the region’s fate, and the Zhao Family learned that Zhao Tingyu was being pursued.

• Li Yaozu defeated Zhao Wan'er after Fang Linglong helped him resist her treasures, then demanded that Min Youguo owe the Li Family a Void Refinement corpse.
• Min Youguo announced that Great Joy Prefecture would merge into Azure Cloud and appointed Li Dalong Southern Border Protection, granting the Li Family authority over the two prefectures’ officials and fate.
• Li Xiang examined the fate map and discovered that the Longevity Zhao Family’s towers were siphoning fate from households and clans across Great Joy Prefecture.
• The Li Family and its allies mobilized across the dynasty, while the Zhao Family prepared its formation and blamed the crisis on Min Youguo rather than the Li Family.
• Zhao Jingmiao stored Zhao Wan'er’s damaged Longevity tablet and dismissed the Li Family’s threat, but Zhao Qingguang arrived with Zhao Tingyu’s tablet and warned that someone was chasing him.

Li Tianyue led the Li Family’s forces into Great Joy Prefecture, dismissing the Zhao clan’s preparations as the work of people who had never fought a war. As the invasion began, Li Changyao arrived at the Ding Family’s formation and prepared to strike while Sun Haotian’s forces surrounded the clan.

• Li Tianyue learned that the Zhao clan had raised formations and moved cultivators, then ordered the Li Family forces to attack Great Joy Prefecture.
• Li Zhijing watched Li Tianyue with admiration as she rode her grandfather’s Nine-Headed Ghost Lion toward the coming battle.
• Ding Yuanxiao rallied the Ding Family to support the Zhao clan and fight the Li Family, convinced the Zhao clan would prevail.
• Li Changyao’s ice arrow struck the Ding Family’s protective formation as Sun Haotian’s stone statues and cultivators surrounded the clan.
• Li Changyao climbed onto the formation dome, told Ding Yuanxiao that the Li Family’s earlier chance had passed, and drew her bow.

Li Changyao led the assault on the Ding Family while the Li Family’s allies purged forces across Great Joy Prefecture. As Zhao Qingxia prepared to strike at the mortals left behind, a strange old man carrying a sleeping young man appeared at the border of Azure Cloud.

• Li Changyao blasted through the Ding Family’s formation, and Ding Yuanxiao argued with an elder over how the attackers had reached their grounds unseen.
• Sun Haotian worried about the Zhao Family’s strength, while Daoist Shan Chen reassured him and joined the fighting with his red-leaf magic.
• Li Xiang watched Li Changyao’s attack, recalled that her Azure Luan bloodline had brought her to the Spirit Transformation Realm, and decided to seek a strange fire for her.
• Zhao Qingxia found Other Shore Immortal City’s cultivators missing, spoke with Fairy Bai, and threatened the mortals who remained there.
• A red-robed old man carrying a sleeping young man arrived at the border between Great Joy Prefecture and Azure Cloud, lamenting the loss of Old Tree’s hair.

Li Changsheng and Old Tree reached Other Shore Immortal City and found its people massacred, prompting Li Changsheng to awaken the watching eyes of the Great Dream Human Emperor Art. Meanwhile, the Zhao Family resolved to continue its struggle against the Li Family while Zhao Jingmiao brought Zhao Wan'er's shattered longevity tablet to the clan's monstrous ancestral heart.

• Old Tree carried Li Changsheng through the chaos in Great Joy Prefecture, and they turned toward Other Shore Immortal City after hearing a thunderous boom.
• Li Changsheng stepped onto frozen blood and learned from Old Tree that nearly everyone in the city had been killed, though some survivors remained.
• Li Changsheng's eyes opened with the mysterious gaze of the Great Dream Human Emperor Art as he reacted to the slaughter.
• Zhao Buqun told Fairy Bai that the Zhao Family would not retreat and believed its children could gain power by enduring the crisis.
• Zhao Jingmiao placed Zhao Wan'er's shattered longevity tablet inside the Zhao Family's beating ancestral heart and assured it that the clan's plans were proceeding smoothly.

Zhao Qingxia destroyed Other Shore Immortal City to draw out the Li Family elders, then overwhelmed Old Tree with his flying-dagger art. Li Changsheng revealed that he could suppress Zhao Qingxia’s magical power and drove the helpless cultivator toward the ground.

• Zhao Qingxia massacred the civilians and cultivators of Other Shore Immortal City and blamed the Li Family for abandoning them.
• Li Changsheng and Old Tree emerged from the ruins, and Zhao Qingxia announced that he had slaughtered the city to lure out the Li elders.
• Old Tree attacked Zhao Qingxia with Space-Piercing Stems, but Zhao Qingxia shattered his roots and crushed the city with the Immortal-Slaying World-Rending Blade.
• Zhao Qingxia discovered Old Tree had survived and noticed Li Changsheng had vanished from beside him.
• Li Changsheng appeared behind Zhao Qingxia, suppressed his magical power, and forced him down through the air toward the ground.

After Zhao Qingxia massacred Other Shore Immortal City, the Zhao Family became the target of Great Joy Prefecture’s united forces. Li Changsheng captured and crippled Zhao Qingxia, then urged his ancestors to ensure the Zhao Family could not flee.

• Red Sleeve Fairy and Daoist Mingtai learned that Zhao Qingxia had destroyed Other Shore Immortal City and killed more than three million people, prompting Daoist Mingtai to rally resistance against the Zhao Family.
• Zhao Qingguang, Fairy Bai, Zhao Buqun, and Zhao Jingmiao learned of the massacre and considered fleeing Great Joy Prefecture, but Zhao Qingxia’s longevity tablet cracked and showed a terrifying pair of eyes.
• Li Xiang received reports that cultivators and allied forces were mobilizing toward the Longevity Domain, while Li Yaowen saw Zhao Family members preparing to flee.
• Li Changsheng subdued Zhao Qingxia, rendered him powerless, and beat him nearly to death while Old Tree watched.
• Li Changsheng asked Old Tree to conceal his abilities, dragged Zhao Qingxia toward the Longevity Domain, and called on his ancestor to stop the Zhao Family from escaping Great Joy Prefecture.

Li Changsheng awakened the Human Dao Authority Pupils and defeated Zhao Qingxia, then returned toward Longevity Domain with Old Tree. In Merit City, Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya discovered that the Li Family’s ancestors had effortlessly crushed the Zhao attackers, while the family prepared to pursue the remaining enemy.

• Li Changsheng’s Human Emperor Blood and Great Dream Human Emperor Art awakened his Human Dao Authority Pupils, and he reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Li Changsheng and Old Tree discussed Zhao Qingxia’s defeat, and Li Changsheng asked Old Tree to protect him as he tried to avoid advancing to Spirit Transformation.
• Li Yaoqing, Li Yaotie, and Bai Rourou left Merit City to settle the score, followed by Immortal Child, Dongfang Xuan, Gu Yinming, Sky Net Old Man, and others.
• Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya realized that the Li ancestors had effortlessly defeated Zhao Hongchang and the other Zhao cultivators who attacked Merit City.
• Li Xinnian returned to manage the family’s affairs, and a furious roar rang out from the Li Family compound.

The Li Family gathered its Spirit Transformation forces to confront the Longevity Zhao Family, while Li Xiang reviewed how his descendants had grown stronger over the past century. The story left the Li Family advancing toward the Zhao Family as a female cultivator in a hidden library wondered why her main body pursued the hidden immortal clans.

• Li Yaowen, Li Yaoqing, and Li Yaotie discussed the Zhao Family’s strength and the danger posed by Zhao Wan'er and an unknown ancestor as they flew toward the border.
• The Azure Cloud cultivators joined the Li Family and Master Yu Ming at the border, preparing to face the Longevity Zhao Family.
• Li Xiang saw that Li Yaotie had gained Extreme Output and the One Origin Molten Hammer, Li Yaoqing had gained the Medicine Spirit Body and Wood Spirit Divine Condemnation, and Li Yaowen had accumulated 306 reincarnated bodies.
• The Li Family descendants marched through the snow toward the Zhao Family, while Xu Cuihua and Li Yaowen reflected on the deaths of three million civilians in Other Shore Immortal City.
• Min Youguo questioned the silent Crown Prince Sheng about Zhao Wan'er and the Longevity Zhao Family, but received no answer.
• A female cultivator in a hidden book repository read about ancient powers and wondered why her main body sought out hidden immortal clans.

Min Youguo learned that the Azure Cloud Li Family had crushed the Longevity Zhao Family’s forces and uncovered signs that the Li Family had quietly prepared against hidden powers. As the Zhao Family’s allies crowded into the Longevity Domain and its elders waited for reinforcements, the Li Family arrived beneath the darkening sky.

• Min Youguo summoned battle reports and discovered that Li Kuanghua and Li Kuangren had brutally slaughtered four Zhao Family Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Min Youguo learned that Li Yaozu had refused aid from the Sacred Hall Sword Pavilion and King Yu, while Tianli Hall had spread news of Great Joy Prefecture’s prosperity among hidden powers, including the Longevity Zhao Family.
• Ding Yuanxiao tried to obtain the Zhao Family elders’ battle plans, but a Zhao clansman dismissed him and left him waiting outside their blessed grotto-heaven.
• Zhao Jingmiao, Fairy Bai, and Zhao Buqun mourned the shattered Longevity Tablets of their powerful clansmen and waited for Listen to Rain and Feimeng to return.
• Fairy Bai noticed nightfall and black clouds as a messenger announced that the Li Family had arrived.

Li Changan confronted the Longevity Zhao Family and Great Joy Prefecture’s allied cultivators, revealing that the Li Family had long prepared for a powerful hidden force to arrive. As Azure Cloud Prefecture’s forces appeared around them, he began explaining the three kinds of power they might have invited into the region.

• Li Changyao’s ice arrow struck the Longevity Domain’s formation, leaving Zhao Jingmiao and the cultivators inside unable to sense their enemies beyond it.
• Zhao Jingmiao reassured the allied cultivators by boasting of the Zhao Family’s strength and waiting for its returning elders.
• Li Changan appeared alone outside the formation and proposed that Great Joy Prefecture’s cultivators break it from within, prompting them to mock his attempt to sow distrust.
• Li Changan explained that the Li Family had prepared for a chaotic age and had planned how to face ten Void Refinement cultivators invading Azure Cloud Prefecture.
• Li Changan revealed that the two prefectures had chosen to invite a weaker hidden power into their lands, and Azure Cloud Prefecture’s forces appeared around the Longevity Domain as he described the possible kinds of force.

Li Changan revealed that the Li Family had used King Qian’s lessons to lure the Longevity Zhao Family into a trap, while their allies surrounded Great Joy Prefecture. As King Qian was executed in Yu Prefecture, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion helped the Li Family track the Zhao Family, leaving the Zhao forces trapped and divided.

• Li Changan summoned the three families and eight great sects of Qingyun Prefecture, and Great Joy Prefecture’s leaders recognized the Li Family’s strategy as reminiscent of King Qian.
• King Qian recalled teaching the Li Family to feign weakness and exploit outside strength, then King Yu executed him before the War God’s tomb.
• Fairy Bai and Zhao Buqun realized the Li Family had used Puci Supreme Elder and their hidden backers to mislead the Zhao Family about the Li Family’s strength.
• Li Changan offered Great Joy Prefecture’s families a chance to surrender and leave with their bloodlines, while Zhao Jingmiao tried to keep them from believing him.
• Chen Qingtian told Li Yuanshang that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had once tracked the Li Family using personal belongings and was now using similar arts to locate the Longevity Zhao Family.

Zhao Tingyu fled a relentless pursuer back to Great Joy Prefecture, only to be trapped by Puci Supreme Elder and surrounded by three Li Family Void Refinement cultivators. Li Changan revealed that the ambush was part of a plan that forced the Zhao Family’s elders to choose between rescuing Zhao Tingyu and protecting their domain.

• Zhao Tingyu spent three months fleeing Li Dalong, who pursued him without explanation and finally drove him toward Great Joy Prefecture.
• Puci Supreme Elder trapped Zhao Tingyu in his Void Refinement space, then greeted Li Dalong as Prefecture Lord Li and acknowledged his breakthrough.
• Li Yaozu and two Li Family ancestors joined Li Dalong, revealing that the Li Family had three Void Refinement cultivators and leaving Zhao Tingyu facing four opponents with Puci Supreme Elder.
• Fairy Bai, Zhao Buqun, and Zhao Jingmiao sensed the trap and realized that rescuing Zhao Tingyu would leave the Longevity Domain vulnerable.
• Li Changan told the Zhao elders that they could rescue Zhao Tingyu or stay to defend their domain, warning that another trap might await them.

As Li Dalong broke through to the Void Refinement Realm and gained a top-tier Blood Sea Space, the Li Family joined Puci Supreme Elder in confronting Zhao Tingyu inside his Void Refinement Space. Zhao Tingyu overwhelmed their defenses until the Li Family Ancestor revealed a time-bending spear technique that caught him by surprise.

• Li Dalong broke through to early Void Refinement Realm, formed a Blood Sea Space, and received the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin from Li Xiang.
• Puci Supreme Elder and Li Dalong fought Zhao Tingyu while Li Yaozu and Li Xiang supported them inside the Void Refinement Space.
• Zhao Tingyu unleashed the Heavenly Rainbow Shadow-Skimming Art, breaking through Li Dalong's Blood Sea and destroying two of Puci Supreme Elder's divine statues.
• Li Yaozu used Ancestor Wan'er's Bewildering Soul Heart-Seizing Bell and Heavenly Radiance against Zhao Tingyu, but Zhao Tingyu still gained the advantage.
• Li Xiang expanded the Yin-Yang Fish Diagram's Heaven Earth Human Realm and summoned the Myriad Dao Divine Bell Tower to suppress Zhao Tingyu.
• Li Xiang's spear struck toward Zhao Tingyu through a stretch of missing time, leaving Zhao Tingyu unable to sense its approach.