Chapter Summaries

Li Xinnian confronted Yun Manlou’s accusations before Ba Siyu and used the Li Family’s strength to ensure Ba Siyu sided against him. After Yun Manlou left, Li Xinnian admitted that he had arranged the trouble at Heavenly Wolf Lake and vowed to make the Yun Family suffer for its betrayal.

• Li Changyao lamented that she had not used her nine magical arrows, while Li Xiang considered whether spirit fire could strengthen her ice luan bloodline.
• Yun Manlou accused the Li Family of causing forty-two cultivators to vanish and Han Lingmiao to die, but Li Xinnian denied the charge and demanded evidence.
• Li Xinnian told Ba Siyu that the Li Family had three Void Refinement cultivators and that Li Yunlin had broken through, prompting Ba Siyu to dismiss Yun Manlou’s unsupported complaint.
• After Ba Siyu ordered Yun Manlou to leave, Li Xinnian revealed that he had sent the retainer to Heavenly Wolf Lake and threatened to make the Yun Family’s people abandon or die for them.
• Li Xinnian watched the frightened Yun Manlou leave and said the Yun Family’s blood was growing sweeter.

Bi Shihu’s forces defeated the Witch Tribe at Field Tower, but the Azure Cloud Li Family and Ministry of War officials seized credit and framed his generals. A powerful army from Azure Cloud arrived, and Jiang Chenghuan confronted Bi Shihu, revealing that Li Tianyue called him Uncle.

• Bi Shihu dismissed Yun Manlou’s letter about the Li Family and ordered his generals to destroy the invading Witch Tribe forces.
• Bi Shihu killed a Witch Tribe Elder at Field Tower, while his army celebrated its victory.
• Scouts reported that Li Tianqi and other members of the Li Family had seized credit for the victories of Guan Mingxuan and Cai Yongzhen, and that Guan had been injured and forced to flee.
• The Qingyun Army arrived at Field Tower and overwhelmed the battlefield, while Drunken Madman accused Ge Li of fleeing battle and stealing credit.
• Jiang Chenghuan introduced himself to Bi Shihu and said that Li Tianyue called him Uncle.

Li Yunbing drove Bi Shihu’s army from the battlefield and arranged schemes to undermine Bi Shihu in Radiant City and turn the Witch Tribe against him. After claiming the Profound Yin Possession Soil and creating a soul-sea avatar named Jiang Chenghuan, Li Yunbing reflected on the Blood-Clad Witch Butcher Sword and the person he had once hoped to become.

• Bi Shihu ordered his troops to withdraw after Ge Li protested losing the spoils, and Li Yunbing watched them retreat.
• Li Yunbing ordered Drunken Madman, Dream Demon, Patriarch Tianye, Xuanji, and Wuyazi to torment Bi Shihu’s army, provoke the Witch Tribe, and undermine him before the Spear Saint.
• Li Yunbing ordered the collection of a million Witch Tribe heads and received the Profound Yin Possession Soil among the battle spoils.
• Li Yunbing refined the Profound Yin Possession Soil into his soul sea, where an avatar formed and took on Jiang Chenghuan’s appearance.
• Li Yunbing held the Blood-Clad Witch Butcher Sword and mourned the loyal, valiant person its previous master had been.

At the Southern Lands border, the staked heads escalated the war between humanity and the Witch Tribe and drew powerful cultivators into the conflict. Li Yunlin defended the Azure Cloud Li Family against accusations in Radiant City, then joined his family in the Golden Toad Divine Palace to discuss the factions’ ambitions and their own search for a chance to reach the Body Integration Realm.

• The Witch Tribe and human cultivators retaliated against one another by staking heads along the border, and their clashes escalated into a wider war.
• Lei Dong and Falling Star recognized the Azure Cloud Li Family’s influence and worried that the family’s forces had joined the Southern Lands conflict.
• Li Yunlin assessed the gathered cultivators in Radiant City and dismissed Bi Shihu’s accusations that the Li Family had stolen military merit and provoked the Witch Tribe.
• Li Yunlin argued that the Witch Tribe had to be deterred and proposed sending Bi Shihu to the Immortal Suppression Bureau for judgment.
• Li Yunlin returned to the Golden Toad Divine Palace, where Li Changyao and the other family members discussed Southern Lands powerholders seeking breakthroughs and the Li Family’s need to find a Body Integration opportunity.
• Li Yunlin said Li Dalong had gone to Yu Prefecture to seek an opportunity from King Yu, while Li Yunbing noted that Li Yunlin had reached mid-stage Void Refinement.

Li Zhiheng guarded Xilang Prefecture while Li Jianshu prepared Azure Cloud Prefecture for war. After rejecting the temptation to raid two distant nations, Li Zhiheng left the decision about the proposed expedition to his elders.

• Li Xiang sent Li Zhiheng to Xilang Prefecture to deal with Witch Tribe threats and other dangerous cultivators.
• Li Jianshu ordered Azure Cloud Prefecture to recruit cultivators, train them for military service, grow spirit plants, and enforce stricter laws.
• Li Jianshu cultivated the Heavenly Condemned Vegetation Divine Art and gained traits that strengthened his cultivation and response to thunder tribulations.
• Li Zhiheng resisted the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts and led Lineage descendants and Azure Cloud experts in killing the cultivators who had entered Xilang Prefecture.
• Duanmu Qi, Changsun Buhuo, and Heavenly Lord Jiang asked Li Zhiheng to help them use a route through the Endless Forest to reach the Great Gold Empire and the Cultivator Alliance.
• Li Zhiheng declined to join the expedition and said he would inform his elders, while Duanmu Qi praised his resolve.

Li Yaoqing’s elders discussed the Lineage’s plans and relied on Zishu Lingtian’s corpse to strengthen their descendants. Li Jianshu and Li Zhiheng agreed to send Lineage members across the Endless Forest for training, just as Old Tree faced a dangerous breakthrough toward the Void Refinement Realm.

• Li Zhiheng reported that members of the Lineage planned to travel to Great Jin and the Cultivator Alliance Nation, and Li Yaoqing warned him to stay out of their schemes.
• Li Yaoqing and Li Yaotie used Zishu Lingtian’s corpse and blood to benefit the Lineage, while Bai Rourou asked whether they should send the corpse to King Yu.
• Li Jianshu decided Azure Cloud’s cultivators should prepare for war and gain experience abroad, and he and Li Zhiheng agreed to seek protection before crossing the Endless Forest.
• Li Jianshu planned to request help from Blue Ancestor and the Eternal Immortal Sect for the Lineage’s expedition.
• Old Tree revealed that its coming breakthrough could make it a Demon Venerable, while Old Snake might become a dragon, and both faced perilous tribulations.

Li Xiang sensed that Old Tree and Old Snake were nearing major breakthroughs while the Li Family’s descendants fought across the Southern Lands and pursued Min Tiange. By Year 810, Li Yaoqing had successfully reached Void Refinement, leaving Li Yaotie to flee before she could punish him.

• Li Xiang learned that Old Tree was nearing a breakthrough to Demon Venerable and Old Snake was approaching dragon transformation, and he resolved to wait for an opportunity to help them advance.
• Li Xinnian, Li Yunbing, Su Chen, and the Phantom Ghost investigated a secret battle in Purple Star County and concluded that Min Tiange and the Nirvana Sacred Elder were contending over a path to Mahayana.
• The Phantom Ghost revealed that she was close to peering into the Dao, while Su Chen displayed mid-stage Void Refinement cultivation and joined the group in waiting for Min Tiange to appear.
• Li Xiang reviewed the growing family’s successes and losses, including descendants who had died in battle or during cultivation.
• Li Yaoqing endured her heavenly tribulation and broke through to Void Refinement, prompting Li Yaotie to try to flee with his wife before Yaoqing could beat him.

Yun Manlou and Bi Shihu sought Zhou Chengli’s help against the Azure Cloud Li Family, revealing that the Yun Family’s ancestor had reached half-step Integrated Body. Zhou Chengli told Ba Siyu the ancestor planned to seize the Li Family’s resources for a final breakthrough, leaving Ba Siyu to weigh whether to let the conflict unfold.

• Yun Manlou watched Heavenly Wolf Lake’s decline and met Bi Shihu and Zhou Chengli to negotiate against the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Yun Manlou summoned the Yun Family’s ancestor, whose breakthrough preparations revealed he had reached half-step Integrated Body.
• Zhou Chengli returned to Ba Siyu and reported the ancestor’s breakthrough and the Yun Family’s likely plan to target the Li Family’s wealth and supplies.
• Ba Siyu considered allowing the Yun Family and Bi Shihu to act, then using the resulting conflict to gain an Integrated Body cultivator while distancing himself from responsibility.

Li Yaoqing broke through to Void Refinement, giving the Li Family powerful new abilities and a chance to advance through her pills. As the family prepared for further breakthroughs and war in the Southern Lands, Li Tianyi remained at Tianyue’s statue, determined to avenge her.

• Li Yaoqing survived her tribulation, reached the sixth layer of the Heavenly Condemned Vegetation Divine Art, and gained a Heavenly Wood spiritual root, new Void Refinement arts, and an Unceasing Domain.
• Li Xiang and the family celebrated Yaoqing’s breakthrough and gave her their long-stored pill formulas and materials to refine medicines for the clan.
• In Year 812, Li Xinnian received a Void-Breaking Pill from Yaoqing and planned to use it with his concealed blood qi and mana to cultivate against the Southern Lands’ forces.
• Li Yunlin gave Li Yunbing a Void-Breaking Pill and guidance to help him build a true Void Refinement space with lightning and metal laws.
• Li Tianqi brought Li Tianyi a Void-Breaking Pill and a cultivation art, but Li Tianyi refused them and stayed at Tianyue’s statue, vowing to avenge her.
• Li Tianqi returned to the Southern Lands to confront the Yun Family and Bi Shihu’s forces, while Li Tianyi played music for breaking formations and slaughtering enemies.

Li Tianqi returned to Central Heaven City and learned from Zhou Chengli that the Yun Family and Bi Shihu were plotting to destroy the Li Family, backed by a half-step Body Integration ancestor. Zhou Chengli urged the family to retreat, then left after explaining that he had come to thank them for protecting the Southern Border.

• Li Tianqi carried the Void-Shattering Pill and Void Soul Path-Swapping Mystic Spirit Art toward the Southern Lands while Li Xiang followed him.
• Li Tianyi entered artistic conception through the Dao and obtained the special profession Music Venerable after taking up the zither again.
• Li Tianqi returned to Central Heaven City and found the family merchant association closed, with Li Yunlin, Li Changsheng, and Li Changyao meeting Zhou Chengli inside.
• Zhou Chengli warned the Li Family that Yun Manlou and Bi Shihu planned to wipe them out, and revealed that the Yun Family's ancestor had reached the half-step Body Integration realm.
• Zhou Chengli advised the Li Family to return to Azure Cloud Prefecture or wait until they had a Fusion cultivator, then left without asking for payment.
• Zhou Chengli said he had come to thank the Li Family on behalf of the world for guarding the Southern Border and eradicating internal troubles.

Li Yunlin prepared the Li Family to confront the Yun Family and Bi Shihu’s threat in the Southern Lands, while Li Yaozu learned that his father could not immediately leave the Sacred Hall Sword Pavilion. The Drizzle Sword Venerable ended his failed breakthrough and used its remaining Dao resonance to help Li Yaozu advance his Void Refinement space.

• Li Changsheng inferred that Zhou Chengli had secretly informed Ba Siyu, and Li Yunlin ordered the family to monitor the Yun Family and Bi Shihu’s allies while summoning support from the Li Family’s allies.
• Li Yunlin told Li Tianqi to cultivate at the Golden Toad Divine Palace and announced that Ancestor Yaoqing had refined three Void-Shattering Pills for the family.
• At the Sacred Hall Sword Pavilion, Li Yaozu received a message about the danger in the Southern Lands, but Tian Xing told him to wait until the Drizzle Sword Venerable finished glimpsing the Dao.
• Fang Linglong warned Li Yaozu not to imitate the Drizzle Sword Venerable’s blocked Dao path and advised him to tell the senior that another cultivator had already claimed the sword Dao of rain.
• Li Yaozu informed the Drizzle Sword Venerable, who abandoned his fourth failed breakthrough and drew Li Yaozu into his Void Refinement space to share his remaining Dao resonance.
• When the Drizzle Sword Venerable offered to help forge his space, Li Yaozu agreed despite the urgent crisis facing his family in the Southern Lands.

Li Yaozu used Drizzle Sword Venerable’s remaining Dao charm to forge his Void Refinement space while Li Yaoqing refined powerful spirit pills for the family. As Yun Manlou welcomed allies in the Southern Lands, Li Xinnian approached a breakthrough and learned an assassin had attacked an elder traveling to aid the Li Family.

• Drizzle Sword Venerable helped Li Yaozu forge his Void Refinement space and urged him to go to the Southern Lands, while asking the Li Family not to hold Weird Arts Mountain against the Sword Pavilion.
• Li Xiang discussed the Southern Lands’ threats and later watched Li Yaoqing refine two Six-Revolution Heavenly Rainbow Spirit-Gathering Pills, each granting 500 years of cultivation.
• Li Dalong declined to take a pill so the younger clansmen could use them, while Xu Cuihua urged him to take his medicine.
• Yun Manlou learned that Dongfang Xuan had left Heavenly Wolf Lake and welcomed Heavenly Venerable Jiande, then mocked Li Xinnian and threatened the Li Family.
• Li Xinnian reached half-step Void Refinement and planned to attempt a breakthrough, but Li Changsheng told him an assassin had attacked an elder traveling to aid the Li Family.

After decades of war and political maneuvering, Ba Siyu’s allies prepared to target the Li Family while the dynasty launched a surprise assault on Great Yu Prefecture. Li Changsheng and Li Changyao seized the moment to attack Yun Manlou, joined by Li Xinnian as he emerged from seclusion.

• Li Changsheng and Li Changyao discussed Ba Siyu’s pressure on the Li Family and celebrated Li Xinnian’s imminent breakthrough.
• Thirty-two years later, Ba Siyu rallied cultivators for a campaign into Great Yu Prefecture and learned that the Yun Family’s ancestor sought a breakthrough by taking the Li Family’s spirit.
• Bi Shihu described his surveillance of the Li Family and urged Ba Siyu to let him and Yun Manlou attack them while the army went to war.
• Zhou Chengli concealed his sympathy for the Li Family as Ba Siyu prepared to depart for the front lines.
• Li Changsheng learned that the army had launched a sudden assault on Great Yu Prefecture and told Li Changyao to kill Yun Manlou.
• Li Changyao fired her Shadow-Slaying Gale Arrow, and Li Xinnian burst from seclusion to ride it toward the battle with his Cloud-Slaying Blade.

Li Xinnian and Li Changyao attacked the Yun Family, killing Yun Manlou and destroying Heavenly Wolf Lake. After discovering the Yun Family’s drained treasures and dried corpses, Li Xinnian sensed that the victims included ordinary civilians.

• Li Changyao fired an arrow across several thousand li, killing Yun Manlou as Li Xinnian rode the Azure Luan toward Heavenly Wolf Lake.
• Li Xinnian arrived at Heavenly Wolf Lake and found Cai Yongzhen defending it, while the Yun Family’s Old Ancestor and other experts were absent.
• Li Changyao’s arrow devastated Heavenly Wolf Lake, and Li Xinnian sealed the remaining cultivators inside with his Blood Spirit Dharma Idol.
• Cai Yongzhen broke through Li Xinnian’s barrier and fled, while Li Xinnian slaughtered the Yun Family at Heavenly Wolf Lake.
• Li Xinnian explored the Yun Family’s blessed land and secret grounds, finding drained treasures and dried corpses that carried the auras of Yun Family members and ordinary civilians.

The Li Clan discovered that Yun Hongcai had stolen Central Heaven City’s military supplies while fleeing after destroying the Yun Family at Heavenly Wolf Lake, and concluded that his ambitions went beyond their conflict. As Ba Siyu learned of the losses and tried to enlist the Li Clan, Li Xinnian refused, leaving Ba Siyu to face the Southern Lands’ crisis without their help.

• Li Changsheng and Li Changyao learned that Yun Hongcai was absent from Heavenly Wolf Lake, while a thief escaped Central Heaven City with its military supplies.
• Li Xinnian reported that Heavenly Wolf Lake had been destroyed and the Yun Family’s old ancestor had vanished; he also broke through to early Void Refinement and gained devouring abilities.
• Li Changsheng reasoned that Yun Hongcai and Bi Shihu were pursuing their own escape from the Southern Lands, not targeting the Li Clan, and suspected Yun Hongcai had help from an unseen expert.
• Ba Siyu told Zhou Chengli that reclaiming Great Yu Prefecture would help him pursue Mahayana, then learned that Yun Hongcai had stolen his army’s supplies and the Li Clan had destroyed the Yun Family.
• Ba Siyu asked the Li Clan to support his campaign, but Li Xinnian told him that the Li Clan would not get involved and urged him to seek another way.

Ba Siyu realized the Yun Family had manipulated him and turned to the Azure Cloud Li Family for help, while Bi Shihu’s army learned the Yun Family had been destroyed and was pushed toward betraying the dynasty. Elder Yuan Liang revealed that Bi Shihu’s allies were Witch Tribesmen and urged them to seize Central Heaven City in exchange for a path to Body Integration.

• Zhou Chengli warned Ba Siyu that Yun Hongcai had used him and that several enemies might be plotting against him, so Ba Siyu decided to buy supplies from the Li Clan Chamber of Commerce and use the Li Family against his foes.
• Bi Shihu’s Third Army waited near the Golden Toad Divine Palace for Cai Yongzhen and the Yun Family ancestor to arrive before attacking.
• Cai Yongzhen reported that the Azure Cloud Li Family had destroyed the Yun Family and revealed Li Xinnian’s and Li Changyao’s fearsome new abilities.
• Bi Shihu ordered his army to advance on Central Heaven City after learning the Yun Family would not support them.
• Elder Yuan Liang revealed his Witch Tribe identity and promised Bi Shihu a path to Body Integration if the army captured Central Heaven City for the Witch Tribe.

The Li Family recognized that Ba Siyu wanted to use them to investigate the forces targeting him, but agreed to trade provisions and help preserve the Southern Lands. Decades earlier, Yuan Liang Sacred Elder gathered the Witch Tribe and persuaded Bi Shihu to join an assault on Central Heaven City, while secretly planning to slaughter Bi Shihu’s forces and the Li Family to pursue the path of the Human Butcher.

• Li Changyao, Li Changsheng, and Li Xinnian saw through Ba Siyu’s request for provisions and agreed to negotiate a transaction while considering the threat to the Southern Lands.
• Yuan Liang Sacred Elder led Bi Shihu into a hidden mountain where five hundred thousand Witch Tribe members had prepared for decades to attack Central Heaven City.
• Yuan Liang Sacred Elder explained that humans and the Witch Tribe were pawns of powerful figures and urged Bi Shihu to join him in seizing Central Heaven City.
• Bi Shihu agreed to attack with his Void Refinement cultivators and Tiger Wolf Army, asking Yuan Liang Sacred Elder to capture the Azure Cloud Li Family alive.
• After Bi Shihu left, Yuan Liang Sacred Elder ordered the Witch Tribe to kill his armies and the Li Family once Central Heaven City fell.
• Yuan Liang Sacred Elder revealed his plan to slaughter the city and its cultivators to follow Li Tianyue’s example and become the Human Butcher.

Feng Tu and the Li Family prepared Central Heaven City for a Witch Tribe assault, only for three hundred thousand Witch Tribe soldiers to arrive as Bi Shihu blocked the city's main gate. With the city under siege and reinforcements days away, Li Changsheng and Li Changyao faced the prospect of the city falling.

• Feng Tu told the Li Family that Central Heaven City was short on troops and supplies, and Li Xinnian said the Golden Toad Divine Palace was coming from Radiant City.
• Scouts warned Feng Tu and the Li Family that three hundred thousand Witch Tribe soldiers had appeared behind them and were advancing on Central Heaven City.
• Feng Tu activated the Giant Spirit Divine Flame Formation and urged everyone in the city to defend it until reinforcements arrived.
• Bi Shihu led more than ten thousand elite immortal soldiers to block the city's main gate, while Guan Mingxuan's attack shook the formation.
• Li Changsheng explained that the formation also prevented the city's people from escaping, and Li Changyao pleaded with him to keep Central Heaven City from falling.

Ba Siyu learned that Bi Shihu had cut off Central Heaven City's retreat while the Witch Tribe attacked, and he sent Zhou Chengli back with reinforcements. As the Witch Tribe breached the city, Bi Shihu revealed that he planned to turn the battle into a victory that would erase his troops' reputation as deserters and advance his own cultivation.

• Zhou Chengli reported that Bi Shihu had blocked the retreat and 300,000 Witch Tribe members were attacking Central Heaven City from behind.
• Ba Siyu ordered Zhou Chengli to take a Void Refinement cultivator and 2,000 elite soldiers back to defend the city while he continued fighting the Rising Sun Sacred Elder.
• Yuan Liang's forces weakened the Giant Spirit Divine Flame Formation as Bi Shihu's troops watched, and Ge Li objected to joining the Witch Tribe's attack on their own people.
• Bi Shihu told his subordinates that he intended to attack the Witch Tribe once it entered the city, using the ensuing battle to win glory and restore their standing.
• The Witch Tribe broke through Central Heaven City's formation and walls, and Bi Shihu's aura rose toward Half-Step Body Integration as he declared that battle would advance his Dao.

Gu Fenghua advanced on Great Yu Prefecture with the Li Family’s help while Bi Shihu maneuvered to claim credit for saving Central Heaven City. With the city trapped between the Witch Tribe and Bi Shihu’s scheme, Feng Tu entrusted Li Changsheng with evacuating its people.

• Gu Fenghua discussed the Li Family’s decades-long plan to reclaim Great Yu Prefecture and learned that Li Yunlin’s second brother, Jiang Chenghuan, was hunting their enemies.
• The Witch Tribe overwhelmed Central Heaven City after its Divine Flame Grand Formation fell, while Feng Tu’s forces retreated to a second line of defense.
• Bi Shihu’s three armies appeared behind the Witch Tribe, but Feng Tu realized Bi Shihu meant to let the city’s people fight and die so he could regain his reputation.
• Li Changsheng exposed Bi Shihu’s scheme and suggested that Feng Tu escape with the city’s people rather than give Bi Shihu the victory he wanted.
• Li Changyao revealed that Li Changsheng had spent decades studying how to run away, and Feng Tu entrusted him with getting Central Heaven City’s soldiers and civilians out.