Chapter Summaries

Li Xiang discovered that his Void Refinement space let him wield time briefly and used his new One Thought technique while pursuing Zhao Tingyu. Meanwhile, the Zhao Family harvested the fortune of everyone trapped in the Longevity Domain, and the Li Family watched from outside without intervening.

• Li Xiang wounded Zhao Tingyu repeatedly with the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear as Zhao Tingyu fled through the Void Refinement space.
• Puci Supreme Elder realized that Li Xiang’s instantaneous movements came from temporal laws, while Li Xiang identified how his treasures and frost laws let him access time.
• Li Xiang stopped time briefly, comprehended the One Thought technique, and pursued Zhao Tingyu again.
• Inside the Longevity Domain, the Zhao Family’s formation drew streams of fortune from Ding Yuanxiao and the other trapped people into its towers.
• Ding Yuanxiao accused the Zhao Family of stealing his fortune and called for help, while Zhao Buqun revealed the Zhao Family intended to use their fortune to strengthen itself.
• Li Changan and the Li Family watched from outside as Li Yaowen said the Longevity Zhao Family had been their own choice and should be respected.

Li Xiang captured Zhao Tingyu, claimed his treasures, and forced Puci Supreme Elder to surrender power as the Li Family confronted the Zhao Family’s defenses. The war spread across the Longevity Domain, where the Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves provoked Old Tree and Li Tianming broke free and charged at a Zhao Family cultivator.

• Li Xiang divided Zhao Tingyu’s treasures among Li Yaozu and Li Dalong, renamed the Honor-Slaying Shadow-Plundering Blade the Zhao-Slaying Blade, and promised Puci Supreme Elder compensation while arranging for Daoist Mingtai to take command of the Ethereal Immortal Sect.
• Zhao Tingyu told Li Xiang that his time law would be unavailable for years and declared that the Zhao Family could endure even if its clan was destroyed.
• Li Xiang arrived as war engulfed the Longevity Domain, where Zhao Buqun controlled the towers and Fairy Bai, Zhao Jingmiao, Zhuo Linlin, and the Martial Emperor fought in a Void Refinement space.
• Old Tree and Li Changsheng joined the battle with summoned tree and stone spirits, while Li Changsheng subdued a Spirit Transformation beast with his white eyes.
• The Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves used a talisman to declare the Zhao Family’s fortune exhausted and urge its members to slit their throats, angering Old Tree by echoing his words.
• Li Tianming suddenly broke free from the lotus platform and charged at a Zhao Family Spirit Transformation cultivator, prompting Li Tianqi and Li Tianyi to chase after him.

Qingyun Prefecture’s forces and the Li Family overwhelmed the Longevity Zhao Family, revealing how much their strength had grown beyond the Zhao Family’s intelligence reports. Li Xiang and his family entered the Longevity Domain and followed the source of its stolen providence toward a mysterious heartbeat.

• Patriarch Tianye mistook an underworld zombie for the Moon God before Qingyun Prefecture’s sects and Azure Cloud Prefecture’s powers joined the battle against the Zhao Family.
• Li Xinnian sent thirty thousand demonic and evil cultivators into Zhao territory, while Li Kuanghua, Li Kuangren, and other Li Family fighters charged into the fight.
• Li Tianyue and Li Xinghuo joined the battle as allied forces overwhelmed the Zhao Family, leaving Zhao Tingyu stunned by the strength Azure Cloud Prefecture had concealed.
• Li Xiang, Li Dalong, Li Yaozu, and their family descended into the Longevity Domain, where Li Yaowen traced the Zhao Family’s stolen providence to its ancestor’s grotto-heaven.
• The group followed the sound of a heartbeat toward the Zhao Family’s secret, advancing together without fear.

The Li Family traced the Zhao Family's hidden power to its ancestral founder, a gigantic heart that had once consumed fortune and revived him after death. As the Zhao elders confronted them, the heart began preparing to resurrect the Zhao Family, leaving Li Xiang and his allies facing a mass of emerging heads.

• Li Yaowen revealed that the heart was the Zhao Family's ancestor and showed the Li Family memories of how he swallowed a crimson heart, gained the ability to devour fortune, and founded the Qi-Watching Zhao Family.
• The memories showed the ancestor's attempt to steal the fiends' fortune, the deaths of his six Void Refinement children, and his grievous wounds after the fiends attacked the Zhao Family.
• The Li Family entered the cave and found the giant heart, Zhao Qingguang kneeling in remorse, and the three Zhao elders appearing to confront them.
• Li Yaozu killed Zhao Tingyu, and Fairy Bai and Zhao Jingmiao declared that the Zhao Family was impossible to kill.
• The heart beat violently as fortune appeared on everyone's bodies, and heads including Zhao Wan'er, Zhao Qingxia, Zhao Hongchang, and the recently killed Zhao Tingyu began emerging from it.

The Zhao Family revealed that its members had survived for generations by exploiting their ancestor’s heart to resurrect themselves, while keeping him sealed and manipulating his memories. As Li Xiang and the Azure Cloud forces fought back, the Human Emperor’s eyes stopped the heart, the fiends began destroying the Zhao Family’s towers, and Li Xiang vowed to end the lineage for good.

• Zhao Buqun ordered the Zhao clansmen emerging from the enormous heart to attack the Li Family, and the heart’s growth brought the dead back onto the Longevity Domain battlefield.
• Zhao Qingguang remembered that the Zhao Family had repeatedly resurrected through their ancestor’s heart and realized Zhao Feimeng was using illusions to keep the ancestor enslaved.
• Li Xiang learned how Zhao Buqun, Fairy Bai, Zhao Jingmiao, and Zhao Feimeng had helped suppress the ancestor, then killed Zhao Tingyu in the Void Refinement space before Zhao Buqun’s formation destroyed him.
• Zhao Buqun and Zhao Tingyu returned to the battlefield and ordered the Zhao Family to kill the Azure Cloud forces, while Li Tianyue, Li Xinghuo, and Li Xinnian rallied their troops.
• Li Xiang returned as the Zhao Family High Towers were destroyed by seven fiendish men, and the Human Emperor’s eyes stopped the ancestor’s heart from beating.
• Li Xiang killed Zhao Tingyu again and swore to end the Zhao Family’s repeated resurrections.

The Li Family and Azure Cloud forces attacked the Zhao Family’s Longevity Domain, destroying the towers that sustained its fate-devouring formation while the Zhao Family repeatedly revived from the ancestor’s heart. After the towers fell and the Zhao clansmen were trapped, Li Xiang questioned whether Zhao Tingyu and the resurrected Zhao Family members were truly alive.

• Li Xiang impaled Zhao Tingyu and asked whether the being revived by the Zhao Family Ancestor was still the same person, prompting Zhao Tingyu to drag him back into the Void Refinement space.
• Li Changsheng’s Human Emperor Eyes stalled the heart’s pulse, and Mad Blood Devil Lord and the Iron Gate Seven attacked the formation while Fang Linglong pursued Zhao Wan'er through space.
• Li Yaowen concluded that the Zhao Family’s revivals were tied to the chaos in reincarnation and rose toward the golden seal that granted the Li Family authority over fate.
• Su Chen joined the battle as Li Family elders urged Azure Cloud cultivators to destroy the iron towers, while Li Yaotie, Li Yaoqing, and Li Yunlin fought the resurrected Zhao clansmen.
• Li Dalong dragged Zhao Buqun into the Void Refinement space as Azure Cloud forces destroyed every tower and surrounded the Longevity Domain, trapping the revived clansmen inside.
• Li Xiang pinned Zhao Tingyu to the ground again and condemned the Zhao Family Ancestor as Zhao Tingyu insisted that the ancestor would keep him from being extinguished.

Li Xiang and the Azure Cloud Li Family uncovered how the Zhao Family patriarch had repeatedly revived his clansmen as soulless blood food to build fortune and reach Mahayana. As the patriarch began to revive, the Li Family gathered and advanced toward his heart to stop him.

• Li Yaowen explained that the Zhao Family's souls had been destroyed, while Li Xiang concluded that their memories had been implanted.
• Zhao Qingguang recovered his memories and revealed that the patriarch had used the clan's repeated deaths and revivals to gather fortune and blood food.
• Zhao Qingguang disclosed that Patriarch Feimeng had manipulated the clan and that he had unknowingly helped lead the Zhao Family into conflict with the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Zhao Qingguang warned that the patriarch was about to revive, and crimson veins drained blood from the fallen Zhao Family members as the heart's pressure shook the Longevity Domain.
• Li Xiang joked with his clansmen, and the Azure Cloud Li Family walked together toward the patriarch's heart.

The Zhao Family Ancestor’s heart began devouring his descendants to complete its breakthrough to the Mahayana Realm, while the Li Family and Azure Cloud Prefecture faced its overwhelming power. As the Li Family Ancestor confronted the heart, Li Family voices asked their allies whether they feared it.

• The Zhao Family Ancestor’s heart dragged Zhao Family clansmen into the air to feed on them, and Fairy Bai learned their long lives and memories had been fabricated.
• Li Yaowen asked Fairy Bai why the Zhao Family descendants did not resist, leaving Fairy Bai confused as she watched the Li Family advance.
• The Li Family Ancestor pierced the heart with his spear and mocked the Zhao Family Ancestor, provoking its fury.
• The Zhao Family Ancestor’s heart spread through the Longevity Domain as lightning gathered for its breakthrough, while Li Xinnian and Su Chen chose to stay with Azure Cloud Prefecture.
• The Old Tree’s roots appeared before the people of Azure Cloud Prefecture, who joined hands with the Li Family as voices from the roots asked, “Do you... fear?”

The Li Family, aided by the Human Emperor’s authority over fate, stopped the Zhao Family Patriarch from reclaiming the stolen fate he needed to break through. The resurrected Zhao clansmen turned on their ancestor, while the six elders sent Zhao Qingguang to safety and joined the charge against him.

• The Old Tree, Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin, and Li Family members began absorbing the Zhao Family’s blood while the Human Emperor’s mark reclaimed Great Joy Prefecture’s stolen fate.
• Li Yaowen explained that the Li Family had long known of the Patriarch’s scheme, and Li Xiang revealed they had waited for the fate to return when the Zhao descendants were released.
• The Zhao Family Patriarch emerged from his shattered heart, unable to consume his descendants or the returned fate, but threatened the Li Family with his remaining power.
• The resurrected Zhao clansmen surrounded and charged the Patriarch, while the six elders realized their struggle had been for the Lineage.
• Zhao Feimeng and the other elders sent Zhao Qingguang beyond the Longevity Domain and asked the Li Family to spare him, then joined their clansmen in attacking the Patriarch.

The Li Family and Azure Cloud cultivators trapped the weakened Zhao Family ancestor after the remaining Zhao descendants sacrificed themselves to expose his abilities. Three days into the fight, Li Xiang was still losing to the ancestor in the battle on his computer screen.

• The Zhao Family members charged into the Longevity Domain and died fighting their ancestor, while the six Zhao elders joined the final assault.
• The Zhao Family ancestor tried to flee but entered a Void Refinement space fortified by Azure Cloud cultivators and their treasures.
• Li Xiang attacked the ancestor, then used “Embrace-and-Kill” and “One Thought” to trigger a self-destruction that failed to kill him.
• The Iron Gate Seven, the Mad Blood Devil Lord, and Li Family members repeatedly attacked and restrained the ancestor inside the space.
• Three days later, Li Xiang realized he had been killed by the Zhao Family ancestor again while playing the battle on his computer.

After the Zhao Family Patriarch was subdued, Li Zhiheng’s branch decided to spare Zhao Qingguang, who confessed his guilt and begged for death. Li Xinnian and his companions entered the Zhao Family Grotto-Heaven, while Li Xingchen and Fan Feixuan continued exploring the North Sea.

• Li Xiang watched his clan and Azure Cloud allies take turns suppressing the weakened Zhao Family Patriarch, while younger cultivators cleaned up the battlefield.
• Li Zhiheng led the Immortal Martial Lineage to Zhao Qingguang, who carved his clansmen’s names into the frozen flesh and admitted his own greed and cowardice.
• Li Zhiheng stopped Li Zhijing from attacking Zhao Qingguang, then left him alive and vowed to destroy the Longevity Zhao Family if it caused trouble again.
• The Immortal Martial Lineage members resolved to pursue intensive cultivation, and Li Zhijing fled when Li Zhiheng tried to persuade her to join them.
• Li Xingchen and Fan Feixuan followed a sea turtle toward a North Sea demon’s lair, while Li Xinnian led Nangong Qingya, Su Chen, and their subordinates into the Zhao Family Grotto-Heaven.

After defeating the Longevity Zhao Family, Li Xinnian and Li Xiang explored their Grotto-Heaven and discovered a vast hoard of treasures, spiritual plants, and a Fourth-Grade Divine Path Heavy Water lake. As the Li Family began hauling away its spoils, a Heavenly Palace official arrived to discuss the Crown Prince with Li Xinnian.

• Li Xinnian marveled at the Longevity Grotto-Heaven’s wealth and ordered the family to search every corner and bring its servants to help.
• Li Xiang discovered a Third-Grade Spiritual Vein, several powerful sentient spiritual plants, and a lake of Fourth-Grade Divine Path Heavy Water.
• Li Xiang concluded that the Divine Path Heavy Water had helped the Zhao Family cultivate powerful spells, while the Li Family began transporting treasures back to the Merit Grotto-Heaven.
• After seven days, Li Xinnian received Lord Hu, who said the State Preceptor and other imperial powers questioned the Li Family’s exclusion of outsiders from the campaign.
• Lord Hu told Li Xinnian that he had come on the State Preceptor’s orders to discuss Crown Prince Sheng.

The Li Family ended the centuries-long snow calamity in Azure Cloud Prefecture and gained the Longevity Zhao Family’s vast inheritance, including a cultivable Heaven-tier technique. After capturing and killing the Zhao Family ancestor, they discovered that his heart carried an unnatural aura.

• Lord Hu told Li Xinnian that the Human Emperor and Min Youguo wanted Young Master Feiheng considered for the crown prince position, while Feiheng decided he was ready to return to court.
• Feng Chunlin announced that the snow calamity in Qingyun Prefecture had ended, and he broke through to Spirit Transformation.
• Li Xiang received Family Will for the Li Family’s role in ending the Azure Cloud snow calamity and celebrated the discovery of the Zhao Family’s Heaven-tier Profound Yang Life-Generating Qi-Seeking Scripture and other treasures.
• After a two-month battle, the Li Family captured the Zhao Family ancestor, gained the family trait Longevity Immortal Clan, and increased its members’ lifespans by twenty percent.
• Li Changsheng cut open the Zhao Family ancestor’s chest after sealing his spiritual power, and the ancestor died as a strange, inhuman heart continued to beat inside him.

Li Dalong gave Li Zhiheng the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, while the Li Family plundered and divided the Longevity Zhao Family’s grotto-heaven. Li Xiang assigned Li Zhijing to cultivate in the Ethereal Immortal Grove to help control the Northern Border’s demon-suppressing line, and Young Master Feiheng left for the imperial capital to seek the Crown Prince position.

• Li Yaoqing relayed his master's warning that only someone with an innocent heart could safely use the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, and Li Dalong left the Void Refinement space with the clan.
• Li Dalong gave Li Zhiheng the Divine Heart, and Zhiheng swallowed it, asking his distant ancestor to stop him if he ever became like the Zhao Family ancestor.
• Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya discussed Zhiheng’s upbringing while the elders ransacked the Longevity Grotto-Heaven, prompting Li Xinnian to rush in and try to stop the wasteful looting.
• Li Xiang learned that Li Xinri was drinking in a brothel and told Li Zhijing to cultivate in the Ethereal Immortal Grove so she could help restrain the Northern Border’s immortal clans.
• The Li Family moved the grotto-heaven’s treasures to Merit City, and Young Master Feiheng left for the imperial capital to become Crown Prince as Li Changsheng and Old Tree wagered over whether he would become Human Emperor.

Feiheng left for the imperial capital to contend for the crown prince’s position, while Li Dalong and Xu Cuihua prepared to journey to the Underworld. A year later, Li Xinnian’s reforms had transformed Merit Grotto-Heaven into a hub for cultivation contests, where Li Zhiheng swiftly reached the summit of Peak-Climbing Road and Li Zhijing struggled onward.

• Feiheng declared his intention to restore the Qing Imperial Dynasty and left for the imperial capital with Li Dalong’s secret escort; Li Dalong agreed to support him and asked Li Xinnian to contact Min Youguo.
• Xu Cuihua teased Li Dalong about his appearance, and the couple bid farewell to their children before setting off for the Underworld; Li Xiang saw that Li Dalong had regained the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin and Xu Cuihua had received Zhao Wan’er’s Ten Precepts Charm Art.
• Li Xiang continued absorbing the power of laws as Merit Grotto-Heaven flourished, and Li Xinnian established recurring cultivation events, including the Peak-Climbing Road challenge.
• Li Zhiheng reached the summit of Peak-Climbing Road in less than half an hour, while Li Yuanwu and Li Zhijing pressed on and Li Jianguo stopped early.
• Li Zhiheng left without cultivating before the Secret Teaching Stele, then headed to Longevity Grotto-Heaven, worried that his state of mind was not strong enough to suppress the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts.
• Li Xinnian asked Nangong Qingya to secretly give Li Zhijing supplies, and Nangong Qingya proposed robbing the Witch Tribe to obtain them.

Li Xiang watched the Li Family's descendants cultivate, develop their branches, and gather for the largest ancestral rite yet. As the family prospered, Li Xinri reluctantly hid in seclusion to avoid being caught going to a brothel.

• Li Yuanwu practiced beast-inspired martial arts to prove the Martial Emperor wrong, while Li Jianshu rushed to Qingyun Prefecture to witness a Nascent Soul tribulation.
• The Mosquito Daoist trained Li Zhijing in beast taming, and her careless remarks earned her the trait [Screwing Over Dad].
• Li Xinri feared his relatives would punish him for visiting a brothel, so he hid in seclusion and gained the traits [Idle Cultivation] and [Withdrawal].
• Li Xiang observed the Li Family's twelve branch families developing along their own paths, including Li Yuanshang's merchant lineage in the imperial capital.
• At Li Family Year 670, Li Dalong led more than three hundred descendants in a grand ancestral rite at Merit Grotto-Heaven, where the branch heads later reported on their households.

Li Yuanshang built the Merchant Li Family into a commercial powerhouse, but he and the Li Family elders chose to keep their distance from Crown Prince Feiheng’s growing influence. When Feiheng visited, Li Yuanshang eagerly asked him to help embarrass his in-law, Min Youguo.

• Li Dalong and Xu Cuihua brought Underworld spirit items home, and Gu Yinming and Li Xiang put the Sorrowful Wailing Spring and Nether Eye to use.
• Li Xinnian reported that Feiheng had become Crown Prince, and Li Changan advised the Li Family not to curry favor with him or draw attention to itself.
• Li Yuanshang’s commercial ventures flourished, earning him the traits Capitalist of the Cultivation World and Financial Magnate.
• After receiving Li Changan’s message, Li Yuanshang warned his merchant descendants not to exploit their connection to Feiheng, then learned Jianguo had gone to repair the Heavenly Palace instead of doing business.
• Feiheng visited Li Yuanshang and offered to help him; Li Yuanshang asked him to join in humiliating Min Youguo.

Li Xiang learned that the powerful Min Family was tied to the attack on Li Yaotie and urged his descendants to avoid provoking them while the Li Family grew stronger. As the family expanded its branches and grotto-heavens, the Witch Tribe conquered most of Great Yu Prefecture, forcing Li Kuanghua and her followers to retreat.

• Li Yuanshang and Crown Prince Feiheng visited Min Nantian to confront him but left with a top-grade Spirit Artifact, and Feiheng warned Li Yuanshang against underestimating the Min Family.
• Li Xiang learned that Min Tiange of Peerless Hall may have been responsible for the attack during Li Yaotie's tribulation, then discovered his descendants already knew and had kept it from him.
• Li Xiang told his descendants to focus on cultivation and strengthening the family rather than seeking revenge against Min Tiange.
• Over the following years, Li Yuanwu and other descendants advanced, the Li Family grew to fourteen branches, and its grotto-heavens developed into centers for cultivation, trade, and military training.
• The Witch Tribe conquered eighty percent of Great Yu Prefecture, and Li Kuanghua led Buddhist and demonic path disciples in retreat toward Xinshang Province.

Feiheng asked the Li Family to mediate with King Yu so he could focus on the Witch Tribe threat, but Li Kuanghua left with him to fight instead. The family sent Li Kuangren to Yu Prefecture for the peace talks, where he found Li Tianyue’s battlefield fame attracting a crowd of eager admirers.

• Feiheng visited Li Xinnian and asked the Li Family to persuade King Yu to halt his rebellion while the Qing Imperial Dynasty faced the Witch Tribe.
• Li Kuanghua interrupted their meeting, declared she would fight the Witch Tribe, and departed with Feiheng the next day.
• Li Xinnian sent people to build a Battle Grotto-Heaven in Xinshang Province, and Li Kuanghua received armor and a soul-warding earring from the family elders.
• A year later, Li Kuangren traveled to Yu Prefecture to mediate and saw the Qing Imperial Dynasty’s formidable battlefield defenses.
• Li Kuangren arrived in the military city and found cultivators crowding around him to seek introductions to his aunt, Li Tianyue, whose fame had drawn over ten thousand recruits.

Li Kuangren confronted Dongfang Liancheng over Li Tianyue’s poor treatment and begged his aunt to return to Azure Cloud Prefecture, but she stayed silent on whether she would leave. Li Tianyue then warned him that his mission to persuade King Yu to make peace would be difficult because powerful factions on both sides profited from the war and would resist ending it.

• Li Kuangren found Li Tianyue living in a shabby residence and seized a military commander to demand a meeting with Dongfang Liancheng.
• Li Kuangren accused Dongfang Liancheng of neglecting Li Tianyue, and Dongfang explained that Tang Miao and his sect-backed forces had gained influence over the army.
• Li Kuangren begged Li Tianyue to come home, but she left with him without agreeing to return.
• Li Tianyue asked about Li Kuangren’s secret mission to persuade King Yu to make peace and warned that earlier peace efforts had only escalated the conflict.
• Li Tianyue explained that sects and families on both sides benefited from the war, making its end costly and unlikely.