Chapter Summaries

Li Kuangren met King Yu to discuss peace between the imperial dynasty and the Witch Tribe, but King Yu said Azure Cloud Li Family involvement was needed to stabilize the soldiers. Back at the military camp, Li Tianyue’s former subordinates were being executed as supposed enemy collaborators, and she cut off her hair, rallied her troops, and attacked Tang Miao.

• Li Kuangren followed the Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves’ route to King Yu’s Manor and discussed the imperial dynasty’s peril with King Yu.
• King Yu told Li Kuangren that Azure Cloud Li Family would need to help secure peace and steady the soldiers, leaving Li Kuangren troubled and excited by the prospect.
• Li Kuangren found that Li Tianyue’s former subordinates were being executed for alleged treason while Tang Miao taunted her and implied he could help spare them.
• Li Tianyue drew her swords, cut off her hair, and declared that she and her family would rely on themselves rather than outsiders.
• Li Tianyue’s former soldiers broke free and gathered in force, while Dongfang Liancheng recognized the uprising as a mutiny.
• Li Tianyue charged at Tang Miao as her troops shouted for slaughter and marched toward the execution ground.

Li Tianyue’s call brought roughly two hundred thousand soldiers to the execution ground, where they turned against the commanders who had condemned her veterans. Facing Dongfang Liancheng’s forces, she accused the Eastern Expedition Legion of betraying the soldiers’ sacrifices, and her troops stood ready to fight.

• Li Tianyue’s former subordinates and other soldiers from across the Eastern Expedition Legion mutinied and converged on the execution ground, prompting Dongfang Liancheng to order the camps surrounded.
• Li Tianyue’s troops subdued Tang Miao’s allies, and Li Tianyue had the accused executed despite Tang Miao’s protests.
• Dongfang Liancheng arrived with the army’s leading figures as Li Tianyue’s two hundred thousand soldiers formed a battle array capable of threatening the Void Refinement Realm.
• Dongfang Liancheng urged Li Tianyue to surrender and promised to restore her command, but she laughed and condemned the army for branding her veterans as enemy collaborators.
• Li Tianyue challenged Dongfang Liancheng over his failure to protect her soldiers and her, while her troops beat war drums and prepared to fight.

Li Kuangren and the Li clan intervened after Dongfang Liancheng ordered an attack on Li Tianyue, and Li Yuanshang, Crown Prince Feiheng, and others demanded justice. The chapter left Dongfang Liancheng reeling as his forces faltered and the Li clan withdrew its troops, supplies, and support.

• Dongfang Liancheng ordered Tang Miao’s forces to attack Li Tianyue’s troops, while some of his generals knelt and pleaded with him to stop.
• Li Kuangren arrived, confronted Dongfang Liancheng, and declared that the Li clan would seek justice for Li Tianyue.
• Messages arrived announcing support for Li Tianyue from the imperial capital, Crown Prince Feiheng, and King Yu’s forces.
• Li Yuanshang rebuked Ministry of War officials and ordered them to make Dongfang Liancheng stop and punish those involved.
• Ahei reported that Li Yaozu, the Tianli Hall Dark Division, Liu Wuhuan, and Li Xinjue’s allies were mobilizing or withholding support over Li Tianyue’s treatment.
• Li Kuangren declared that the Li clan would no longer provide troops, taxes, supplies, or veteran soldiers, while Li Tianyue’s forces continued fighting and Dongfang Liancheng’s army began to retreat.

Li Tianyue’s army forced the Eastern Expedition Army to withdraw, and Li Kuangren brought her to the Li Family, where she learned King Yu had agreed to yield territory in exchange for Zishu Lingtian. In the imperial capital, Feiheng explained that Zishu Lingtian was the supposedly missing grandson of his late Third Imperial Brother, whose powerful Human Emperor Blood made him nearly undying.

• The army withdrew after orders from the Imperial Capital Ministry of War and the Imperial Preceptor, while Tang Miao feared Li Tianyue would punish him and Dongfang Liancheng said nothing.
• Li Tianyue ordered her two hundred thousand soldiers to camp in the western city, and Li Kuangren proposed moving them to the frontier with the Crown Prince’s approval.
• In the Ancestor Space, Li Xiang saw that Li Tianyue had reached the limit of Spirit Transformation and gained the Heart of Distrusting Power trait after Dongfang Liancheng abandoned her.
• Li Kuangren told the Li Family that King Yu would lose several battles and cede territory, but demanded Zishu Lingtian in return.
• Feiheng told Li Yuanshang that Zishu Lingtian was the grandson of his late Third Imperial Brother and had possessed exceptionally powerful Human Emperor Blood.

Li Tianyue left the Eastern Expedition Army with 320,000 soldiers after they pledged to follow her, while Dongfang Liancheng allowed them to go and began confronting the corruption within his ranks. The Li Clan rejected King Yu’s offer to search for Zishu Lingtian in exchange for a chance at Body Integration, and the chapter ended with Dongfang Liancheng preparing to purge the battlefield’s hidden abuses.

• Feiheng told Li Yuanshang that Zishu Lingtian had been sealed in three parts and was believed to remain somewhere within the imperial dynasty.
• Li Kuangren told the Li Clan that King Yu had offered them a chance to reach Body Integration if they helped search for Zishu Lingtian, but the clan questioned his motives and declined to prioritize the search.
• Li Zhiheng used the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts to draw in the power of heaven and earth and resolved to reach Spirit Transformation within thirty years.
• Two hundred thousand East Territory soldiers, including two Spirit Transformation generals, knelt before Li Tianyue and asked to join her command; she led them out without waiting for further preparations.
• Dongfang Liancheng let Li Tianyue’s army depart, ordered Tang Miao to leave or face interrogation, and said the imperial capital had ordered severe punishment for those involved.
• Dongfang Liancheng received a message from Li Dalong thanking him, then declared that he and King Yu would use the fighting to root out long-standing abuses.

Li Yaotie and Zhuo Linlin ambushed Tang Miao as he fled toward the Oblivion Immortal Land, then overwhelmed and captured him in his Void Refinement space. Li Yaotie revealed that the imperial dynasty’s balance of power had changed and warned Tang Miao that neither he nor Cloud-Clearing Mountain could escape the reckoning.

• Tang Miao fled the Eastern Expedition Army and reassured himself that the imperial dynasty could not afford to alienate Cloud-Clearing Mountain.
• Li Yaotie and Zhuo Linlin entered Tang Miao’s Void Refinement space and confronted him over his treatment of Li Tianyue.
• Tang Miao blamed Dongfang Liancheng and claimed he had pursued Li Tianyue to protect her, but Li Yaotie rejected his story and attacked.
• Li Yaotie and Zhuo Linlin broke through Tang Miao’s star formation, and Li Yaotie used his evolved Unorthodox Artifact Body and many treasures to defeat him.
• After a day, Li Yaotie questioned the chained Tang Miao and told him the imperial dynasty had changed and Cloud-Clearing Mountain could not escape its reckoning.

Li Xiang’s family used Crown Prince Feiheng’s authority to purge enemies across the empire, while Li Xiang gained a law-enhancing treasure and a new family trait. The chapter ended with Li Kuanghua learning where Zishu Lingtian’s head was located.

• Li Changan attended Feiheng’s meeting with the Immortal Suppression Bureau, where officials reported mass purges and he updated them on the Oblivion Immortal Land and East Territory City.
• Li Yaotie killed Tang Miao and returned toward Azure Cloud Prefecture with Zhuo Linlin, while Li Xiang gave Li Yaozu the bureau’s command token to take to the Oblivion Immortal Land.
• Li Yaozu arrived in the Oblivion Immortal Land with Immortal Suppression Bureau forces and Tianli Hall assassins, then announced the crown prince’s decree to exterminate Cloud-Clearing Mountain.
• On Earth, Boss Qi sought Li Xiang’s help against a powerful monster, while Xiao Qingling remained imprisoned after insisting that ancient civilizations and the Azure Cloud Li Family were real.
• Li Xiang received the Wonder-Appreciation Mirror and the Imperial Law Enforcer family trait at the 700-year ancestral rite, then learned that Li Kuanghua had found information about Zishu Lingtian’s head.

Li Xinnian weighed the risks of King Yu’s search for Zishu Lingtian’s Three Corpses, which many powers believed could offer a path to Body Integration. After Su Chen revealed a possible connection between the Three Corpses and Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain and Grand Tower, he set out to investigate, while Li Xinnian planned to consult the Li Family elders.

• Drunken Madman reported that a family in Great Yu Prefecture had captured a devil with wind-catching ears while searching for a head.
• Li Xinnian reviewed reports of forces across the Qing Imperial Dynasty pursuing Zishu Lingtian’s Three Corpses and discussed the danger with Nangong Qingya.
• Su Chen returned at the peak of Spirit Transformation, credited his progress to insights and family resources, and said he was close to breaking through to Void Refinement.
• Su Chen told Li Xinnian that Peerless Hall, Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain, and Grand Tower had been linked to unusual beings resembling the Aberrants now appearing across the world.
• Su Chen said he would seek the Three Corpses himself, while Li Xinnian resolved to consult the Li Family elders before acting.
• Nangong Qingya told Li Xinnian that Heng'er was nearing the fifth level of Spirit Transformation.

Li Xiang kept the Li Family hidden and focused on building its strength while his descendants advanced in artifact refining, cultivation, and swordsmanship. When the Immortal Suppression Bureau organized a search for Ling Tian's Three Corpses, Li Xiang told Li Changan not to participate, then took offense when the other great forces excluded him.

• Li Xinnian chose to watch the Three Corpses in secret, and Li Xiang ordered the family to cultivate quietly until they were strong enough to act.
• Li Yaotie reached Void Refinement and forged treasure armor for Xu Cuihua and Li Yaozu, while Li Zhiheng's Ethereal Realm helped family disciples cultivate.
• Li Yaozu continued pursuing the fleeing Tang Family in the Forgotten Immortal Land and gradually comprehended the sword intent of a sword drawn must kill.
• By Year 758, Crown Prince Feiheng had restored order across much of the Qing Imperial Dynasty and forced the Witch Tribe to retreat to Xinshang Province.
• Wu Neng asked Li Changan and representatives of three other powers to help locate Ling Tian's Three Corpses and suppress the forces connected to them; Li Xiang instructed Li Changan not to participate.
• Li Yunlin broke through to early-stage Void Refinement, and Li Xiang resented that the other powers had marginalized Li Changan.

Li Changan was excluded from talks about Ling Tian's Three Corpses, while the Li Family continued strengthening itself beyond the court's notice. Li Xiang surveyed the family's growth, then used space magic to cross the starfield.

• Wu Neng and the three great powers reconvened without Li Changan and discussed keeping the Li Family out of their plans, while Fang Yunyu objected.
• Li Changan learned that the Immortal Suppression Bureau had summoned the three powers again and accepted the exclusion as another sign that they underestimated the Li Family.
• Li Xiang visited the former Great Joy Prefecture and saw Li Zhiheng teaching descendants, with a candle flame that had gained intelligence from listening to the Dao.
• Li Xiang saw Li Chuming finish his punishment at the Cliff of Reflection and learned how the family disciplined descendants who broke its rules.
• Li Yunlin reached Void Refinement with help from Litian Hall and the old cat, while Red Sleeve Fairy was expected to break through within ten years.
• Li Xiang left the game, gathered stored power of rules, tore open space, and stepped through the rift.

Li Xinnian reported the family’s growing strength and recorded the descendants’ unpaid stipends as debts, while Li Changan warned the elders about corruption in the Immortal Suppression Bureau and the struggle over the Three Corpses. At the ruins, Su Chen overheard other powers disparage the Li family, sent intelligence to Azure Cloud Prefecture, and decided to advance to Void Refinement before investigating Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain and Grand Tower again.

• Li Xinnian told the elders that the Li family controlled sixteen grotto-heavens and that its lineages were expanding their resources, armies, and training grounds.
• Li Xinnian revealed a detailed record of the descendants’ stipend debts, and the elders agreed to let the debts be repaid slowly rather than admit they had begun as a scare tactic.
• Li Changan described corruption within the Immortal Suppression Bureau and urged the family not to intervene, then explained that the bureau and the Imperial Preceptor were secretly contending with Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain and Grand Tower over the Three Corpses.
• Li Xinnian argued that the Li family should seek the Three Corpses because King Yu valued them so highly.
• Fang Yunyu, Changsun Buhuo, and Ning'an Heavenly Lord discovered that Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain and Grand Tower had bred generations of corpse creatures and debated whether to involve Li Changan, while Changsun Buhuo dismissed the Li family as opportunists.
• Su Chen emerged after the group left, sent intelligence about the ruins to Azure Cloud Prefecture, and resolved to reach Void Refinement before pursuing the two powers and the headless corpse.

After the family tournament, the Li clan reviewed records exposing the Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain’s human-refinement techniques and discussed its growing strength. Li Yaowen listened to Azure Cloud Prefecture’s leaders plan relations with the Eternal Ancient Immortal Sect before preparing to leave the next day.

• Li Xinnian delivered Su Chen’s records from Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain, revealing that its gifted monsters had been created by refining living people.
• Li Dalong urged Su Chen to act cautiously, praised the clan’s strength, and comforted Li Changan about enduring disdain in the imperial capital.
• Li Yuanshang met Li Yaotie and Li Yaoqing, reported that family resources could sustain them for three hundred years, and left pleased with his management.
• Li Yaowen joined Azure Cloud Prefecture’s secret think tank, listened as its leaders discussed the Eternal Ancient Immortal Sect’s influence in neighboring Xilang Prefecture, and said she would leave the next day.

Li Xinnian visited the Ancient Immortal Sect to form an alliance and confronted Li Chuyuan, who had avoided his family for twenty years. After Li Chuyuan refused to return, Li Xinnian cut him off from the Li Family and urged Li Jianning to witness the family’s true strength.

• Li Xinnian and Immortal Master Qi Yue arrived at the Ancient Immortal Sect, where Li Xinnian and He Hao swore an alliance between their sects.
• Li Xinnian recognized Li Chuyuan among He Hao’s disciples and asked why he had missed the family’s grand sacrifice and competition.
• He Hao kept Li Chuyuan from meeting Li Xinnian, then later urged him to maintain ties with his family; Li Chuyuan insisted he wanted to remain at the Ancient Immortal Sect.
• Aboard the Spirit Boat, Li Xinnian wondered whether the family had wronged Li Chuyuan, while Puci Supreme Elder tried to console him with stories from his past.
• Li Xinnian returned to the Immortal Martial Lineage and declared that Li Chuyuan was no longer a member of the Li Family.
• Li Xinnian told Li Jianning that the ancestors were calling him to see true talent, and Li Jianning’s spirit tablet shone brightly.

Li Jianning used the Primordial Origin Blood Fruit to remake his cultivation, boldly forging five-element spiritual roots and extra dantians with Li Yunlin’s help. Thirty years later, Li Dalong’s growing Underworld syndicate prepared to advance into Scissor Hell, while Li Yaozu returned to Azure Cloud Prefecture worried about his parents.

• Li Xinnian gave Li Jianning the Primordial Origin Blood Fruit that had been intended for Li Chuyuan, and Li Yuanwu urged his son to stop doubting himself and venture forth.
• At Cliff of Reflection, Li Jianning swallowed the fruit, reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, and chose to forge five-element spiritual roots and create additional dantians.
• Li Yunlin used metal and fire laws from Litian Hall to protect Li Jianning, who survived and gained the Five-Element Dao Body and Origin Spirit Body.
• By the Li Family’s 790th year, Li Dalong had occupied many spiritual mines in Tongue-Pulling Hell and planned to investigate Scissor Hell after rebuilding his forces.
• Xu Cuihua warned Li Dalong that Scissor Hell was dangerous and urged him to deal with two nearby Ghost Venerables before advancing.
• Li Yaozu returned to Azure Cloud Prefecture and asked whether his parents were safe in the Underworld, unaware of the scale of Li Dalong’s growing power.

Li Yaozu returned after decades of pursuing Cloud-Clearing Mountain, having gained a Void Refinement Sword Domain and a Vermilion Bird Soul Pearl for the Li Family’s blessed grotto-heaven. He Hao arrived to seek Li Xinnian’s cooperation over Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain and proposed that the Ancient Immortal Sect join forces with the Li Family against the Immortal Suppression Bureau’s three great powers.

• Li Yaozu returned to Merit City after Cloud-Clearing Mountain’s ancestor died, bringing back the Vermilion Bird Soul Pearl and having mastered the Sword Domain and Hidden Sword.
• Li Yaotie and the formation masters incorporated the Vermilion Bird Soul Pearl into the blessed grotto-heaven, giving it a powerful artifact spirit and a means of rapid travel.
• Li Xinnian learned that He Hao, sect master of the Ancient Immortal Sect, had arrived, and the Li Family welcomed his party after repeated border inspections.
• He Hao praised Azure Cloud Prefecture’s resilience and told Li Chuyuan to respect the Li Family, while Li Chuyuan received a cold reception from his relatives.
• He Hao asked Li Xinnian to help pursue Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain and offered the Ancient Immortal Sect’s strength against the Immortal Suppression Bureau’s three great powers.

The Li Family joined forces with the Eternal Immortal Sect and the other powers to prepare an assault on Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain, while Li Tianyi and Li Tianqi remained undercover inside it. With an attack expected within ten years, they began searching for Ling Tian's Three Corpses and the mountain's secrets.

• Commander Wu Neng approved the alliance with the Eternal Immortal Sect, while Ning'an Heavenly Lord, Changsun Buhuo, and Fang Yunyu discussed the risks of sharing the Three Corpses spoils.
• He Hao received secret cooperation offers from Ning'an Heavenly Lord and the Changsun Family, and Li Chuyuan chose to focus on cultivation instead of reporting his master's dealings.
• Li Yaozu's family learned that four forces would prepare an assault on Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain, and Li Yaotie, Li Yaoqing, Li Yunlin, and Li Yunbing volunteered to go.
• Martial Emperor, Puci Supreme Elder, and Zhuo Linlin watched figures from the Li Family head toward the conflict.
• Inside Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain, Li Tianqi told Li Tianyi and Li Tianming that they had ten years to uncover its secrets and find Ling Tian's Three Corpses.
• Li Tianyi and the elders studied the Divine Corpse Occult Arts Myriad Forms Scripture and discussed modifying a strange demon beast.

Li Tianyi and Tianqi’s eight-year infiltration of Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain revealed that its Purple-Robed Elders used divine blood and corpse-stitching arts to create Aberrants. Li Tianyi warned the family that the mountain’s forces were formidable and that the Immortal Suppression Bureau would need every Body Integration expert to have a strong chance of winning.

• Li Tianming recalled his timid nature and relied on the other presence within him for protection as he watched the seniors investigate Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain.
• An old man explained how he had once stolen the Divine Corpse Occult Arts Myriad Forms Scripture, while Li Tianyi described the mountain’s Purple-Robed and Black-Robed cultivators and its White-Robed leaders.
• Li Tianyi and Tianqi received a bottle of divine blood and a jade slip containing corpse-stitching insights, then reported their findings to the ancestors.
• Li Tianyi revealed that Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain had captured people for sixty thousand years and used Ling Tian’s replenishable blood as a foundation for creating Aberrants.
• Li Tianqi showed the family an image of the mountain’s thousands of temples, stitched monsters, and a colossal dragon guarding its summit.
• Li Tianyi warned that the Immortal Suppression Bureau needed all its Body Integration experts to have an eighty percent chance of defeating Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain.

The Li family studied Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain’s Corpse Stitching Art and began creating powerful stitched beings, while the Immortal Suppression Bureau debated the threat and suspected hidden interference. Two years later, the family completed its first special Golden Core lifeform, Big Treasure, and planned to continue its secret research.

• The Immortal Suppression Bureau received intelligence about Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain’s powerful corpse commanders, and Wu Neng accused someone of leaking the Bureau’s plans.
• Li Tianyi’s family examined the Corpse Stitching Art, with Li Yaotie, Li Yaoqing, and other clan members proposing ways to use it with puppets, corpses, poison, and their own arts.
• Li Tianyi asked his elders to help with experiments, but Iron Gate Seven fled, while Li Xiang contacted Boss Qi for information on genetic modification and human-body alteration.
• Li Xiang sent his family documents on artificial Aberrant modification, and several clan members became Corpse Stitchers as their research progressed over two years.
• The clan completed Big Treasure, a special Golden Core lifeform made from five kinds of evil ghosts, and Li Yaotie and Li Yaoqing celebrated the family’s achievement.

Li Tianyi impressed the Four Great Figures at Occult Arts Mountain and became Phantom Ghost’s disciple, while Li Xiang questioned who the true villains were. Su Chen investigated Grand Tower’s slave-trafficking network and found evidence that Ning'an Heavenly Lord was connected to it.

• Li Tianyi met True Self, Taotie, and Phantom Ghost at White Robe Hall and explained his insights into corpse-stitching, earning their praise and becoming Phantom Ghost’s disciple.
• Li Xiang saw officials from the four great factions argue over how to divide the spoils of their coming assault on Occult Arts Mountain, while the summit’s White Robes seemed peaceful.
• After receiving intelligence about the four great figures, Su Chen questioned how Occult Arts Mountain had changed and suspected that Grand Tower was involved in its corpse-refining operations.
• Su Chen found that the Mountain Breaker Sect, a renamed Grand Tower subordinate, trafficked people, then spent a year investigating Grand Tower’s branches and concluded that its agents had infiltrated major sects.
• Su Chen watched Ning'an Heavenly Lord exchange storage rings with Nascent Soul cultivators and recognized the lingering scent of blood on him.

Wu Neng gathered support for an attack that would eliminate the Li Family’s Void Refinement cultivators, while Changsun Buhuo realized the danger facing them at Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain. In Azure Cloud Prefecture, the Li Family prepared to answer the Immortal Suppression Bureau’s summons, unaware that its leaders were plotting against them.

• Wu Neng questioned Ning'an Heavenly Lord about the Li Family, then summoned Changsun Buhuo, Fang Yunyu, and He Hao before visiting the deranged Prince Sheng and promising to eliminate the Li Family’s Void Refinement cultivators.
• Wu Neng showed Fang Yunyu case files documenting his and the other powers’ crimes, then let him leave without explanation; Changsun Buhuo inferred that Wu Neng planned to strike the Li Family during the assault on Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain.
• Li Xiang continued gathering the power of rules in Merit City as the Li Family grew to a thousand members and Big Treasure reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Li Yaozu discussed using Ling Tian’s Three Corpses to secure King Yu’s help in reaching the Fusion Realm, while Li Changan announced that the Immortal Suppression Bureau had ordered the Li Clan to assemble at Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain.
• The Li Clan members took up ancestral spirit tablets, and Li Dalong led them out to face the coming battle.