Chapter Summaries

After the Weird Arts Mountain disaster, Li Changan confronted Wu Neng over the deaths of his family elders and demanded compensation from the Immortal Suppression Bureau. He left after warning Wu Neng not to threaten his family again, and Wu Neng ordered Zhao Guang to pay the full amount.

• Zhao Guang reported that One Point Holy Monk had betrayed Peerless Hall and that the Weird Arts Mountain giants were dead, while Wu Neng treated the upheaval as an opportunity to remove hidden enemies.
• Wu Neng learned Li Changan had arrived and claimed the Li Family's two Void Refinement cultivators had died, then offered to confront the Blue Moon Immortal Sect over its actions in Azure Cloud Prefecture.
• Li Changan told Wu Neng that the Blue Moon Immortal Sect had forced its way into his territory and presented a jade slip demanding extensive compensation for the Li Family's losses.
• Li Changan warned that he had evidence and witnesses concerning events in Azure Cloud Prefecture, then threatened to make Wu Neng regret any further harm to his family.
• After Li Changan left, Wu Neng ordered Zhao Guang to provide everything listed in the compensation demand.

Li Xiang examined the family’s new treasures and his descendants’ cultivation before Li Xinnian negotiated an alliance with Heavenly Lord Jiang and Changsun Buhuo. The chapter ended at the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave, where Consort Ji asked Li Yaoqing to return her to the imperial palace so she could expose Peerless Hall.

• Li Xiang wore the Moonlight Divine Armor, which raised his cultivation to the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm, and saw Li Dalong and Li Yunlin advancing through their unique cultivation methods.
• Heavenly Lord Jiang and Changsun Buhuo met with Li Xinnian to discuss joining forces against Wu Neng and receiving the Crown Prince Feiheng’s support.
• Li Xinnian learned that the Immortal Suppression Bureau had given his family a top-grade magical treasure as compensation, prompting Heavenly Lord Jiang and Changsun Buhuo to leave in anger over their lesser gifts.
• Li Xinnian traveled to the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave, where the Li Family’s elders and numerous cultivators had gathered.
• Consort Ji told Li Yaoqing that her Dao Seed had been removed and asked to return to the imperial palace to expose Peerless Hall to His Majesty.

Li Changsheng and his family freed Consort Ji and One Point Holy Monk from Min Tiange’s Dao Seeds, but both warned that Min Tiange had become too dangerous to confront openly. The survivors gathered in the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave, where Su Chen vowed to kill Min Tiange and the others began preparing for the day they could face him.

• Li Changsheng and Li Changyao discussed how Tian Xing’s method had broken Consort Ji’s Dao Seed, while Tian Xing endured loneliness inside Old Tree’s body.
• Consort Ji explained her connection to Min Tiange, and Li Yaoqing warned that returning to the imperial capital would expose her to Peerless Hall and Min Tiange.
• One Point Holy Monk explained that Min Tiange had controlled him through a Dao Seed and that he had secretly tried to protect Weird Arts Mountain during the battle.
• Phantom Ghost confronted He Hao over his role in the deaths of her sect members, but Li Tianyi and Li Dalong stopped her; Li Yaoqing agreed to treat Taotie, and Xu Cuihua suggested hiding Phantom Ghost in the demon cave’s abyss.
• Li Dalong agreed to shelter One Point Holy Monk and Grand Tower, while He Hao remained distraught over killing his fellow disciples.
• Su Chen reunited with Li Xinnian and vowed to kill Min Tiange, as the gathered cultivators began cultivating in the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave.

Su Chen found strength and security among the Li Family after his reincarnation, while the Li Family received compensation treasures and put them to use. At the Eternal Immortal Sect, Li Jianning attempted Blue Ancestor’s dangerous cultivation methods and grew more distant from his grandson Li Chuyuan, finding comfort in the family members who still cared for him.

• Su Chen reflected on his past defeat by Min Tiange and wondered whether Min Tiange was the calamity he had foreseen.
• Li Dalong collapsed under the weight of the Demon-Subduing Ring, but Li Yaoqing wielded it easily with her Mountain God technique and decided to keep it until Mad Flower could use it.
• The Li Family examined the Golden Toad Divine Palace and distributed the remaining compensation treasures.
• Li Jianning opened a sixth dantian while attempting Blue Ancestor’s untested cultivation methods, and Blue Ancestor praised his persistence without admitting that no one had successfully cultivated them before.
• Duanmu Qi gave Li Jianning a Storage Ring left by the Li Family’s Sword Venerable, while Li Chuyuan congratulated him and spoke of their family’s future prospects.
• Li Jianning felt disappointed by Li Chuyuan’s concern for the Storage Ring rather than for him, then took comfort in the relatives and clansmen who still cared about him.

Li Zhiheng witnessed Li Jianshu discover that a divine art could draw lightning, while Li Yaozu waited outside the Sacred Hall Sword Pavilion as someone attempted to break through to Body Integration. In Great Yu Prefecture, Feiheng learned that Min Tiange might control his followers, and Falling Star and Lei Dong questioned the Witch Tribe’s sudden invasion into the Central Plains.

• Li Zhiheng watched Li Yuanwu resume training and saw Li Jianshu draw heavenly lightning while practicing Ancestor Yaoqing's Heavenly Condemned Vegetation Divine Art.
• Li Yaozu, Heavenly Lord Jiang, and Changsun Buhuo reached the Sacred Hall Sword Pavilion, where Sister Fang revealed that someone inside was attempting to break through to Body Integration.
• Li Yaozu stayed behind to comprehend the sword intent while Heavenly Lord Jiang and Changsun Buhuo went to meet Feiheng in the Western Border.
• Li Tianyue warned Feiheng that Min Tiange had controlled Grand Tower for ages and might have planted followers among his allies.
• A Witch Tribe ghost delivered news that their forces had reached Qiyang and were advancing into the Central Plains, prompting Falling Star and Lei Dong to suspect an unseen hand was manipulating events.

As the Witch Tribe spread through the Qing Imperial Dynasty, Li Tianyue and Li Kuanghua assessed its strategy while Changsun Buhuo reported Qiyang Prefecture’s betrayal and devastation. In the Imperial Capital, Min Youguo suspected Min Tiange was manipulating the invasion and warned Li Changan not to give King Yu a third Three Corpses.

• Li Tianyue traced the Witch Tribe’s routes across the dynasty and explained how its scattered fighters could disrupt supplies and sow chaos.
• Changsun Buhuo gave Li Tianyue a record of Qiyang Prefecture officials who had vanished after betraying the dynasty, and blamed Min Tiange and Peerless Hall.
• Changsun Buhuo described the losses her clan had suffered and reflected on how the Li Family had endured the Witch Tribe’s earlier invasion of Qingyun Prefecture.
• Li Changan visited Min Youguo in the heavenly prison and asked what Min Tiange intended by drawing the Witch Tribe into the dynasty.
• Min Youguo suspected Min Tiange had used his Dao Seed to control Witch Tribe elders, but warned that the Witch Tribe could turn the conflict to its own advantage.
• Min Youguo told Li Changan that two Three Corpses were enough and warned him not to give King Yu a third, adding that His Majesty had sealed Zishu Lingtian for a reason.

Li Xinnian’s forces wiped out a Witch Tribe scouting party and prepared for the growing threat across the Qing Imperial Dynasty. In Silver Moon City, Li Xinjue learned that Nangong Xianliu had been injured and ordered the Silver Moon Lineage to secretly rein in the Nangong Family while awaiting aid from Northern Border City.

• Li Xinnian led cultivators to ambush and kill a thousand Witch Tribe scouts who were plotting to invade Azure Cloud Prefecture by other routes.
• Li Xinnian sent Zhuo Linlin to consult the Eternal Immortal Sect and asked Martial Emperor to protect the Merchant Lineage and his grandfather at the imperial capital.
• Li Xinnian privately directed Martial Emperor to visit Silver Moon City and injure Nangong Xianliu so he would stop speaking out.
• Li Xinjue received letters from Zishu Wandong and Li Zhijing, then learned that Nangong Xianliu had been injured.
• Li Xinjue ordered his descendants to discreetly curb the Nangong Family, avoid direct confrontation, and prepare for the Asura Army’s arrival.
• The Silver Moon Lineage descendants changed into Tianli Hall Dark Division garb, gathered their weapons and supplies, and vanished into the night.

Li Xiang observed Li Xinjue’s rise as the Silver Moon Lineage’s powerful, secretive leader and learned of his growing concern about the Witch Tribe and Demon Race threatening the Northern Border. In Northern Border City, Li Zhijing managed her family’s clansmen and subdued another powerful demon beast while her father remained in seclusion.

• Li Xiang watched the Silver Moon Lineage move through Silver Moon City in Concealment Garments forged from methods derived from Li Yaotie’s teachings.
• Li Xiang reviewed how Li Xinjue overcame exile and isolation, built the Silver Moon Lineage through mining and assassinations, and suppressed the Nangong Family.
• Li Xinjue worried that the main family had not addressed the Witch Tribe’s invasion or Northern Border City’s peril, and he lamented that his strength was insufficient to reach fifth-grade Spirit Transformation.
• Li Xinjue thought of his clan brother in Northern Suppression City and hoped he had begun cultivating seriously.
• Li Zhijing assessed which clansmen could be trusted and complained that marriage alliances and family ties complicated her responsibilities.
• Li Zhijing subdued a thousand-meter Transformation Form spider, marking it as one of the ten demon beasts she could control, and wondered why her father remained in seclusion.

Li Xiang discovered that Li Xinri had reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm while hiding from Azure Cloud Prefecture, then learned that the Witch Tribe was attacking the Western Border. As the human defenses crumbled in Great Yu Prefecture, Li Tianyue’s army entered the battle against the Witch Tribe’s overwhelming forces.

• Li Xinri secluded himself in a secret chamber, reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm, and gained traits for hiding and refusing to accept defeat.
• Li Xiang watched Li Xinri turn to his spring palace illustrations, then returned to the battlefield.
• Linjiu told the Northern Border cultivators that the Western Border was about to fall because the Demon Emperor had tested the human race and the Witch Tribe would exploit its weakness.
• Li Xinghuo and Zishu Wandong left to alert the ancestor, but Li Xinghuo believed the Witch Tribe had already attacked the Western Border and was targeting Crown Prince Feiheng.
• Nirvana Sacred Elder led the Witch Tribe’s colossal tree into the human camp, while the Witch Tribe overwhelmed Great Yu Prefecture and its defenders fled.
• Li Tianyue led more than three hundred thousand cultivators against the Witch Tribe, and Lei Dong recognized the army as it moved to confront the invading elders.

Li Xiang appeared on the Witch Tribe battlefield and tried to take Li Tianyue away, but she refused to abandon the encircled Blood-Clad Army. As Li Xiang faced the Witch Tribe’s overwhelming forces, Li Tianyue chose to lead her soldiers in one final charge.

• Li Tianyue learned that Yu City had fallen and that Yun Manlou, Bi Shihu, and Crossing Life Hermitage had abandoned the battle, leaving the Blood-Clad Army isolated.
• Three Divine Bird Totem elders moved to kill Li Tianyue, but Li Xiang appeared and wounded two of them with his twin spears.
• The Nirvana Sacred Elder stopped the colossal tree outside Yu City, while Li Xiang told Li Tianyue he would take her away.
• Li Tianyue refused to leave the encircled Blood-Clad Army, and Li Xiang hurled his spears at the Nirvana Sacred Elder as he promised the Witch Tribe would not advance.
• Li Tianyue remembered her family and the soldiers who longed to return home, then declared that she would obey Li Xiang in her next life as the Nine-Headed Ghost Lion charged.

Li Tianyi reached the ruined battlefield at Great Yu Prefecture and found Li Tianyue and her Blood-Clad Army dead after their final stand. He told his sister that he had come to take her home as the soldiers’ bodies finally bowed their heads.

• Li Kuanghua recalled fleeing with the sleeping Feiheng, briefly tried to strangle him, then carried him on toward safety.
• Dongfang Liancheng learned that Great Yu Prefecture had fallen and that Li Tianyue and the other commanders had fled, leaving him devastated.
• Li clan members across the realms felt Li Tianyue’s death, and Li Yaoqing took Li Yaotie toward Great Yu Prefecture to bring her home.
• Li Tianyi arrived at the ruins, and the Nirvana Sacred Elder let him pass so he could collect Li Tianyue’s corpse.
• Li Tianyi found Li Tianyue floating above the kneeling Blood-Clad Army and told her he had come too late to take her home.
• The dead Blood-Clad Army soldiers released their final breaths and lowered their heads while remaining kneeling beside their general.

Li Tianyi tried to bring Li Tianyue home, but her final will and the Blooddrinking Sword kept her and the fallen Blood-Clad Army guarding the Western Border. He received her fused sword and chose to remain beside her stone statue, naming the weapon the Blood-Clad Witch Butcher Sword.

• Li Tianyi could not move Li Tianyue's twin swords, whose spirits and the fallen soldiers' final obsession turned them into stone as they guarded the border.
• The Nirvana Saint Elder let the Witch Tribe's ancient tree return to heaven and earth, while Huai Fan'er reflected on the war and the powerful forces driving it.
• The Spirit-Devouring Sword shattered and fused with the Blooddrinking Sword, releasing Li Tianyue's legacy into the weapon, which came to rest in Li Tianyi's hands.
• Huai Fan'er ordered the Witch Tribe elders not to disturb Li Tianyue's corpse or the soldiers' statues.
• Li Tianyi stayed beside his sister and the fallen soldiers, naming the fused weapon the Blood-Clad Witch Butcher Sword and vowing it would one day destroy the Witch Tribe.

After the Western Border fell and Li Tianyue died defending it, Li Changan sought answers from Min Youguo, who warned that powerful cultivators were testing the dynasty and pursuing their own interests. Meanwhile, Dai Rou prepared to draw Crown Prince Feiheng and Li Kuanghua into Crossing Life Hermitage, where Li Kuanghua encountered her.

• Li Changan heard that the Western Border had fallen, the Crown Prince was missing, and his great-aunt Li Tianyue had died, then visited Min Youguo in the heavenly prison.
• Min Youguo explained that the Witch Tribe’s invasion and other crises were tests of the dynasty’s strength, and warned Li Changan that ancient cultivators often pursued immortality without regard for others.
• Min Youguo urged Li Changan to warn his family that Crown Prince Feiheng’s long campaign in the Western Border and the Witch Tribe’s sudden assault likely concealed deeper motives.
• Dai Rou learned that Li Kuanghua was escorting Crown Prince Feiheng and sent Hongzhen to invite them into Crossing Life Hermitage, while privately anticipating an opportunity in the Great Dao.
• Li Kuanghua carried Feiheng through the mountains, furious that her aunt had died, until Dai Rou’s Void Refinement arts transported them before the Daoist nun.

Li Kuanghua and Crown Prince Feiheng were held under house arrest at Crossing Life Hermitage, where Dai Rou planned to use the Western Border’s defeat to restore the hermitage’s Buddhist identity and manipulate them. Li Kuanghua recognized the hermitage’s influence and secretly cultivated its Buddhist teachings to strengthen herself, while Dai Rou saw her as a promising ally for the Great Vehicle path.

• Dai Rou told Li Kuanghua that the Western Border had fallen and claimed that General Li and the Blood-Clad Army had died, while concealing her role in the defeat.
• Dai Rou told Dharma Master Hongzhen that the hermitage could not leave the Western Border and ordered the recovery of its relics so Crossing Life Hermitage could return to Buddhism.
• Li Kuanghua discovered that Crossing Life Hermitage’s statues, incense, and bells subtly influenced people’s minds, and she warned her ancestor that Dai Rou meant to control her and Feiheng.
• Dharma Master Hongzhen delivered Buddhist teachings to Li Kuanghua, who recognized the True Buddha Chant as a means of binding its practitioners to a supposed True Buddha.
• Li Kuanghua used the hermitage’s Buddha nature to refine the flesh and blood within her Buddha-Demon Disk, while a black-robed demon monk and a female Bodhisattva let its power fill her veins.
• Dai Rou sensed the Buddha nature flowing toward Li Kuanghua and decided that Li Kuanghua could take the Dharma name Hongkuang and help her cultivate the Great Vehicle Dharma.

Three years after the battle at Great Yu Prefecture, the Li Family searched for justice and tracked those responsible while the realm descended into chaos. Li Changyao received a lead on Marshal Bi Shihu and Prefectural Lord Yun Manlou, and Phantom Ghost set out to kill them for the Li Family.

• Li Kuanghua cultivated at Crossing Life Hermitage, gaining the traits Buddha-Devil Thought and Self-Questioning Justice as she sought justice for Li Tianyue.
• Heavenly Lord Jiang, Changsun Buhuo, Duanmu Qi, and Li Changyao discussed the spreading war, the Changsun Family's relocation, and the Li Family's search for Peerless Hall and Crossing Life Hermitage.
• Li Changyao visited Li Jianning as he risked his life cultivating under Blue Ancestor, then fled when Blue Ancestor offered to transform her into a Nine Heavens Ice Phoenix.
• Li Changyao found a report that Marshal Bi Shihu and Prefectural Lord Yun Manlou had been located and sent a dark crow to the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave.
• Phantom Ghost agreed to kill the two men for the Li Family and left the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave, while One Point Holy Monk vowed to oppose Min Tiange.

Li Xinnian refused to help Duanmu Yushu use a sacrificial formation to break through, but obtained a copy of the array and made plans to exploit the scheme for his own purposes. As he prepared to enter the conflict in the Southern Lands, Nangong Qingya revealed a vision in which Min Tiange claimed the heavens and the imperial throne.

• Duanmu Yushu invited Li Xinnian to help him sacrifice an entire Witch Tribe to advance his cultivation, but Li Xinnian refused and promised to keep the plan secret.
• Li Xinnian learned that Yun Manlou and Bi Shihu were in the Southern Lands and vowed to settle the accounts surrounding Tianyue Patriarch’s defeat.
• A disciple gave Li Xinnian a copied Eternal Spirit-Refining Eight Directions Array, and Li Xinnian sent Questionless Scholar to bring the disciple back for Tianli Hall.
• Li Xinnian reached the South Sea, cultivated with the Bloodthirsty Spirit Array and Blood Phantom Demon Art, and decided to enter the Southern Lands as the clan elders joined the struggle against Min Tiange.
• Nangong Qingya showed Li Xinnian a vision of Min Tiange ascending toward heaven and declaring that everyone should kneel before him.

The Li Family prepared to join the Southern Lands’ war against the Witch Tribe, sending its experts south while Li Xinnian insisted on going with them. As the family departed, Li Yaowen revealed that the rest of the Enlightenment Gold Chapter was in the Southern Lands, and warned that a Body Integration cultivator held it.

• Li Xinnian returned to Merit City with the Dream Demon Crone, who eagerly sought out Xuanji to feast on his dreams.
• Li Kuangren assigned Li Changsheng and Li Changyao to lead Azure Cloud Prefecture’s experts south, while Li Yunbing planned to find the Crossing Life Hermitage and bring Kuanghua back.
• Li Yunbing and Li Yunlin discussed Bi Shihu and Yun Manlou, and Li Yunbing vowed to kill them for their role in Li Tianyue’s fate.
• Li Xinnian volunteered to join the expedition, saying he wanted to see why the elders of his family were treated as disposable pieces; the family then departed on a Spirit Boat.
• Li Yaowen told Li Yaoqing that the remaining sixty percent of the Enlightenment Gold Chapter was held by a Body Integration cultivator in the Southern Lands, and promised to guide the family’s expedition.
• Young cultivators across the world headed toward the Southern Lands, while their secret chambers were revealed to contain fortune-devouring arrays and severed limbs for corpse stitching.

The Azure Cloud Li Family arrived in the Southern Lands to aid the dynasty and establish a foothold amid the war with the Witch Tribe. Li Xinnian confronted the fleeing Yun Family’s Prefecture Lord, Yun Manlou, and left him shaken while revealing that the Li Family had not forgotten his flight from Great Yu.

• Yun Manlou traveled to Zenith Sun City to meet Ba Siyu and worried that the Azure Cloud Li Family would seek revenge for his flight from Great Yu.
• Yun Manlou found Li Xinnian speaking with Ba Siyu, who praised the Li Family for coming to aid the dynasty and gave Li Xinnian the Dragon-Phoenix Light-Severing Sword.
• Li Xinnian greeted Yun Manlou courteously and said he would visit the Yun Family’s home at Heavenly Wolf Lake, leaving Yun Manlou convinced that he had been threatened.
• Ba Siyu dismissed Yun Manlou’s fears and urged him to serve the dynasty rather than act timidly.
• Yun Manlou found Li Xinnian still watching him outside the hall and hurried his clan away, while Li Xinnian privately condemned the Yun Family.

Li Xinnian reported to Li Changsheng and Li Changyao that Yun Manlou suspected the Great Yu war was being manipulated by Min Tiange and the Nirvana Sacred Elder. As Dongfang Xuan drained the Yun Family’s spiritual energy, Yun Manlou learned his ancestor planned to exploit the war to reach the Integrated Body realm and chose to sacrifice Great Yu for his family’s advancement.

• Li Xinnian told Li Changsheng and Li Changyao about Ba Siyu, the National Guardian Guard, and his suspicions that Min Tiange and the Nirvana Sacred Elder were competing over the spiritual energy released by the war.
• Li Xinnian said Yun Manlou believed Ba Siyu could offer him a way to survive, though it would be an agonizing one.
• Dongfang Xuan painted the Yun Family’s grotto-heaven and drew away the spiritual energy around Heavenly Wolf Lake, alarming the Yun Family.
• Yun Manlou recognized Dongfang Xuan’s Azure Cloud Li Family token, panicked, and ordered a clan elder to find Bi Shihu for help.
• Yun Manlou visited his ancestor, who dismissed the threat and urged the family to gather resources and fight the Witch Tribe to support his attempt to reach the Integrated Body realm.
• After reading a warning that the Witch Tribe Sacred Elder would advance in three months, Yun Manlou burned the letter and decided to pursue his family’s gain even if Great Yu fell.

Li Xinnian secretly devoured captives from Heavenly Wolf Lake to strengthen his cultivation and renamed his bloodthirsty blade the Cloud-Slaying Blade. Meanwhile, Li Changsheng kept Li Changyao from attacking Bi Shihu and revealed that he could locate spirit flames for her to consume.

• Li Xinnian studied intelligence on Heavenly Wolf Lake’s cultivators and used the Blood Phantom Demon Art to drain three captives, including Han Lingmiao, whose unusual cultivation method gave him the Perfect Spirit Transformation Path trait.
• Li Xinnian renamed the Zhao-Slaying Blade the Cloud-Slaying Blade, and the weapon’s growing bloodthirst threatened to corrupt anyone who wielded it.
• Li Changsheng and Li Changyao watched Bi Shihu pass overhead with the Witch Tribe forces, and Li Changsheng stopped her from attacking him.
• Li Changsheng explained that his cultivation had regressed because he was preparing to break through to Spirit Transformation, and he said he could eventually use the Human Emperor Eye to kill powerful cultivators.
• Li Changsheng used the Human Emperor Eye to locate two spirit flames for Li Changyao, whose Ice Luan bloodline needed them to advance.