Chapter Summaries

Bi Shihu betrayed Yuan Liang and used Central Heaven City’s defenders to weaken the Witch Tribe army, but Jiang Chenghuan’s hidden plan turned the battle into a trap. As the Witch Tribe surrounded Bi Shihu’s forces, Jiang Chenghuan introduced himself as Li Yunbing and declared they would never meet again.

• Bi Shihu revealed that he had pretended to ally with Yuan Liang so he could destroy the Witch Tribe and restore his reputation as the undefeated marshal.
• Feng Tu activated Central Heaven City’s illusion formation, and Bi Shihu kept his armies outside while the defenders and Witch Tribe fought inside the mist.
• After two hours, Bi Shihu ordered his three armies into the city, expecting to annihilate the exhausted Witch Tribe and rescue the civilians.
• The mist cleared to reveal that Central Heaven City was deserted and its ruins concealed tunnels, formations, and decoys; Yuan Liang and the Witch Tribe had prepared an ambush.
• A hundred-meter-tall Golden Toad Divine Palace descended, and Jiang Chenghuan appeared atop it, introduced himself to Bi Shihu as Li Yunbing, and said they would never meet again.

The Azure Cloud Li Family and Gun Saint Gu Fenghua’s decades-long plan trapped Bi Shihu’s armies between the Witch Tribe and the Qingyun Army at Central Heaven City. Bi Shihu abandoned his forces and fled, while Li Xiang and Yuan Liang turned to pursue him.

• More than two hundred thousand Witch Tribe cultivators attacked Bi Shihu’s three armies as the Qingyun Army emerged from the Golden Toad Divine Palace.
• Yuan Liang accused Bi Shihu of betrayal, refused to cooperate, and watched the Golden Toad Divine Palace escape with the Qingyun Army.
• Bi Shihu ordered cultivators above Spirit Transformation to flee with him, then abandoned the rest of his armies and escaped with his junior sister.
• Li Changyao and the other Central Heaven City cultivators emerged from Li Changsheng’s tunnels as the Qingyun Army’s Spear Forest Array trapped the battlefield.
• Li Changyao fired at Bi Shihu while Li Xiang revealed that the Li Family had worked with Gun Saint Gu Fenghua for decades to lure the Witch Tribe out.
• Li Xiang cursed Bi Shihu for fleeing, and Yuan Liang rose with twin swords to stop him.

Yuan Liang pursued Bi Shihu after revealing his hidden half-step Body Integration cultivation, while Li Xiang’s descendants battled Bi Shihu’s fleeing commanders across the Void Refinement space. After the Li Family forces killed Ge Li and Cai Yongzhen, they regrouped and headed toward Bi Shihu, with Guan Mingxuan dying after cursing his former commander.

• Yuan Liang charged after Bi Shihu, and Li Xiang halted his attack to observe the unexpected half-step Body Integration cultivator.
• Li Changyao fought Guan Mingxuan in the Void Refinement space, recognized his strength as a body-cultivating archer, and summoned support before preparing three arrows against him.
• Li Tianqi trapped Cai Yongzhen inside his Tortoise Shell Domain and fought him relentlessly until the battle ended two days later.
• Li Yunbing and Li Xinnian joined forces with a Central Heaven City expert to kill Ge Li after he pleaded that he had opposed Bi Shihu’s attack on Central Heaven City.
• Li Changyao pushed the wheelchair-bound Li Changsheng as the group headed toward Bi Shihu, while dying Guan Mingxuan cursed Bi Shihu and vowed that his men would haunt him.

The Li Family confronted Bi Shihu and Yuan Liang in the Void Refinement space, exposing that Bi Shihu’s own sect had rejected him and his claims of being undefeated. As the fighting escalated, Li Xiang appeared and threatened Yuan Liang for targeting his descendants.

• Guan Mingxuan cursed Bi Shihu for abandoning the Tiger Wolf Army as Li Xinnian held him in the Blood Spirit Dharma Manifestation’s grasp.
• Yuan Liang offered to help capture Bi Shihu, while Wei Yu warned the Li Family that her senior brother was backed by East Sea Sky Island.
• Li Tianqi revealed letters from Sky Island’s master and disciples condemning Bi Shihu, and Bi Shihu urged Wei Yu to follow him as he prepared to fight.
• Yuan Liang and Bi Shihu attacked, but the Li Family and Feng Tu’s allies fought back as Yuan Liang tried to flee.
• Yuan Liang fought off the Li Family’s attacks and claimed he was undefeated beneath Body Integration, until Li Xiang appeared and threatened him for targeting his descendants.

Li Xiang fought Yuan Liang, a half-step Integration Realm expert whose Human Butcher Dao weaponized fear, and was seemingly killed after his mana ran out. Yuan Liang was caught off guard when Li Xiang rose from the corpse and stabbed him with his twin spears, which carried a fifth-grade spiritual item into his soul.

• Yuan Liang trapped Li Xiang among phantoms that drained his strength and divine soul with fear, while Li Xiang used Mirror Surface and One Thought but could not land a decisive blow.
• Yuan Liang threatened Li Xiang’s descendants, and Li Xiang destroyed the totem before continuing to fight him far from the others.
• After a day of battle, Yuan Liang exhausted Li Xiang’s mana, pierced him with twin swords, and believed his soul had been destroyed.
• As Yuan Liang pulled out the swords, Li Xiang rose from the corpse and drove his twin spears through Yuan Liang’s body and into his soul.

Li Xiang’s corpse killed Yuan Liang inside the Void Refinement space, while the Li Family defeated Bi Shihu and captured him before he could flee. With Central Heaven City’s fall averted, Li Xiang wondered what kind of place Mountain Hollow Island was.

• Li Xiang’s corpse used the Nether Eye to keep fighting after his divine soul perished, destroying Yuan Liang’s witchcraft and divine soul as a mysterious fiery bird tried and failed to save him.
• Li Xiang rejoined his descendants, while the Li Family’s seven Void Refinement cultivators wore down Bi Shihu and Wei Yu under Li Changsheng’s direction.
• The Li Family trapped Bi Shihu when his mana ran out and captured him, while Wei Yu realized that her senior brother had tried to escape without her.
• Bi Shihu blamed others for his failures and insisted he was undefeated, while the Li Family discussed how to punish him and Li Changyao knocked Wei Yu unconscious.
• The special event for capturing the Unbeaten Marshal was completed, and Li Xiang concluded that the Li Family had prevented Central Heaven City from falling and the Southern Lands from facing an emergency.
• Li Xiang examined messages from Mountain Hollow Island and wondered what kind of place it was.

Zhou Chengli arrived at Central Heaven City after the Qingyun Army had annihilated the Witch Tribe and Bi Shihu’s forces, and learned how the Li family and their allies had trapped the enemy. The returned Li family cultivators left him wondering where the family’s other members were and what they were planning.

• Zhou Chengli and his reinforcements reached Central Heaven City and found it reduced to ruins after the fighting had ended.
• Drunken Madman welcomed Zhou Chengli, claimed the Qingyun Army had suffered enormous losses, and asked him to secure compensation and rewards.
• Zhou Chengli learned that the Qingyun Army had used escape tunnels, arrays, and its accumulated weapons to trap and slaughter the Witch Tribe and Bi Shihu’s army.
• Feng Tu and the returning Li family members, including Li Yunbing, Li Tianqi, Li Changyao, and Li Xinnian, appeared after fighting outside the city.
• Zhou Chengli mistook the Li family’s powerful cultivators for disguised figures and wondered why the family had hidden its strength and where its remaining members were.

After the Azure Cloud Li Family and Qingyun Army defeated the Witch Tribe and Bi Shihu’s forces, they withdrew into the Golden Toad Divine Palace while Zhou Chengli and Feng Tu considered why they were keeping their distance from Lord Ba. Li Xiang examined the spoils and assigned valuable items for the family to use, while Bi Shihu’s soul remained trapped in a burning lantern.

• Zhou Chengli told Feng Tu that the Azure Cloud Li Family had hidden away because they expected Lord Ba to exploit their strength after previously failing to warn them about the Spear Saint’s raid.
• Li Xiang reviewed the Qingyun Army’s gains and decided Yuan Liang’s fear totem should be sent back to the Immortal Martial Grotto-Heaven as a training ground.
• Li Yunbing tried to appear unfazed while handling Yuan Liang’s Human Butcher Twin Swords, then secretly admitted the swords’ aura frightened him and decided to send them for reforging.
• Li Xiang identified Bi Shihu’s Heavenly Gang Lawbreaking Hammer for Mad Flower and his Heavenly Domain Dharma Eye for Yaotie and Li Yaoqing to refine.
• Li Changyao claimed Guan Mingxuan’s Ten Directions Delusion-Breaking Bow and archery materials, while Li Tianqi obtained Cai Yongzhen’s formation diagrams and array discs.
• The Li Family gathered around Bi Shihu’s soul as it was roasted inside a lantern.

Li Yunbing interrogated Bi Shihu and learned that Yun Hongcai had planned to rob Great Yu Prefecture’s supplies before the Witch Tribe attacked. After Yun Hongcai stole supplies from Central Heaven City and Enlightenment City, Radiant City prepared for another raid, while Yun Hongcai and his allies resolved to target Crossing Life Hermitage.

• Li Yunbing tortured Bi Shihu until he admitted that Yun Hongcai had given Yun Manlou a letter about fleeing with the Yun Family and stealing Great Yu Prefecture’s supplies.
• Li Yunbing concluded that someone had deliberately engineered Great Yu Prefecture’s fall, and the family suspected Yun Hongcai and Dai Rou might know more.
• Mister Zhou told the Li Family that Enlightenment City’s supplies had also been stolen, and Ba Siyu asked them to help defend Radiant City.
• Li Xinnian told Ba Siyu that the Li Family was too depleted to help, leaving Ba Siyu furious as Radiant City’s leaders gathered to defend their supplies.
• Yun Hongcai met Heavenly Venerable Jiande and a woman outside Radiant City, revealed his Dao path was Stealing Heaven, and proposed attacking Crossing Life Hermitage.

Li Changsheng and the Li Clan investigated the spread of Rebirth Buddhist temples, while Huang Xiujin warned Li Jianning that Azure Cloud Prefecture’s rapid cultivation boom would exhaust its resources. Li Jianning brought the rise of Crossing Life Hermitage to One Point Holy Monk, who recalled the hermitage with contempt.

• Li Changyao told Li Changsheng that Rebirth Buddhist temples had spread across the Southern Lands and revealed that their followers were refugees who worshiped Dai Rou’s dharma manifestation.
• Li Changsheng concluded that Dai Rou had chosen the faith of the Great Compassionate Rebirth Bodhisattva as a path to break through and said the elders would handle the Body Integration cultivators.
• Huang Xiujin warned Li Jianning that unrestricted cultivation in Azure Cloud Prefecture would deplete resources and cause conflict within three hundred years.
• Li Jianning ordered Huang Xiujin to monitor the Great Bright King Temple and warn Master Yu Ming not to imitate Crossing Life Hermitage.
• Li Jianning met One Point Holy Monk in the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave and asked about Crossing Life Hermitage, prompting the monk to recall it as a shameless group of old nuns.

The Li Clan investigated Yun Hongcai’s thefts and concluded that he was pursuing theft as his Dao, while Li Xiang and Li Dalong considered how a person’s lifelong traits could reveal their path to the Dao. The chapter left Li Dalong meditating in Scissor Hell as his traits appeared before him.

• One Point Holy Monk recounted how he had eradicated Buddhism and warned that Crossing Life Hermitage’s resurgence might be connected to Min Tiange.
• Li Tianqi rejected Ba Siyu’s demand for Li Clan troops and marriage alliance, while Li Yunbing urged the clan to find Yun Hongcai and bring Mad Flower back.
• Li Changyao presented information on Yun Hongcai’s accomplices, Heavenly Venerable Jiande and Fairy Tinglan, and Li Tianqi reasoned that the three would seek opportunities in the Southern Lands.
• The Li Clan deduced that Yun Hongcai’s Dao was theft and suspected he meant to steal people after taking supplies.
• Li Xiang studied his descendants’ traits for clues to their Daos, while Li Dalong meditated in Scissor Hell beside Xu Cuihua as his lifelong traits appeared.

Li Dalong studied Shen Wu’s Dao Path and realized that opening the Dao Gate required immense accumulated magical power and rules, possibly borrowed from powerful allies or conquered foes. After hearing his family’s plans to find Crossing Life Hermitage, he returned to the Underworld and continued searching for a path to Body Integration.

• Li Dalong’s experiences in the Underworld brought him to the peak of the Void Refinement Realm and earned him the Punishment Office trait and the Tongue-Pulling Forbidden Art.
• Li Dalong witnessed Shen Wu’s past through the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin and saw him open the Dao Gate with the power of his zombies.
• Li Dalong concluded that opening the Dao Gate required a vast accumulation of magical power and rules, and wondered whether he would have to follow Shen Wu’s path of conquest.
• Li Dalong joined his family in Ancestral Space, where Li Xinnian reported that Bi Shihu had been executed and Yun Hongcai remained at large.
• Li Jianshu proposed seizing Crossing Life Hermitage’s temples to force Dai Rou to reveal herself, but Li Kuangren warned that Mad Flower’s presence made the plan dangerous.
• Li Dalong returned to the Underworld and pondered what rules and Dao Path could help him reach the Body Integration Realm.

Li Xiang visited Crossing Life Hermitage and learned that Li Kuanghua had gained powerful Buddhist abilities while resisting the hermitage’s influence. After Hongzhen tried to indoctrinate her, an outburst about stolen incense offerings interrupted their lesson, and Li Kuanghua reported it to her ancestors.

• Li Xiang saw that Li Dalong had reached the peak of Void Refinement, while he still lacked enough spatial laws to forge a Dao Gate.
• Li Xiang observed that Crossing Life Hermitage had used the Scripture of Rebirth to take over dead bodies and spread Buddhism, while Dai Rou planned to use Crown Prince Feiheng to secure Buddhism a place in the world.
• Li Xiang checked Li Kuanghua’s progress and learned that she had mastered Three Buddhist Aspects, accumulated Buddhist and demonic laws, and gained the True Self trait.
• Hongzhen urged Li Kuanghua to pursue Buddhist salvation, but Li Kuanghua privately resisted her teachings.
• A Buddhist roar announced that Hongdan’s incense offerings had been stolen, and Li Kuanghua returned to her shrine and informed the ancestors.

Li Kuanghua began a Void Refinement breakthrough at Crossing Life Hermitage, intending to use its need for faith power to help her family locate the hidden sanctuary before Dai Rou could turn her into a puppet. Meanwhile, Li Tianqi discovered that Weishu Bodhisattva statues protected mortals from demons by consuming their vital essence, while attracting even more evil to their village.

• Li Kuanghua reflected on her grief and unresolved attachment, then opened her heart and began breaking through to Void Refinement as the nuns of Crossing Life Hermitage chanted for her.
• Crown Prince Feiheng believed Li Kuanghua had become the hermitage's puppet, while Hongzhen, Hongdan, and Dai Rou celebrated her apparent conversion and expected her to become another Bodhisattva.
• Li Xiang recognized that Li Kuanghua's breakthrough could expose her to Dai Rou's brainwashing, but supported her plan to draw faith power in the mortal world and lead their family to Crossing Life Hermitage.
• Li Tianqi tracked the stolen incense offerings to a Southern Lands temple where pilgrims received Weishu Bodhisattva statues, and he discovered the statues drained their owners' vital essence to repel demons.
• A vicious ghost attacked a household near the temple that night, and the next day villagers flocked to the temple to beg for Buddha statues.

Li Tianqi traced the faith power from Li Kuanghua’s Realm Path Bodhisattva statue toward Crossing Life Hermitage and overheard Yun Hongcai’s plan to use the Azure Cloud Li Family against it. Li Changan then told Wu Neng that Crown Prince Feiheng was at Crossing Life Hermitage, leaving Wu Neng to decide how to respond.

• Li Tianqi identified the effects of several Bodhisattva statues and found that Li Kuanghua’s statue sent a thread of Buddhist light toward Great Yu Prefecture.
• Yun Hongcai, Heavenly Venerable Jiande, and Fairy Tinglan planned to follow the stolen Incense’s trail to Crossing Life Hermitage and manipulate the Azure Cloud Li Family into attacking it.
• Li Tianqi hid for seven days after hearing their discussion, then continued with his plan to pass the clue to the Immortal Suppression Bureau.
• In the Imperial Capital, Li Changan told Wu Neng that Crown Prince Feiheng was at Crossing Life Hermitage and said the Crown Prince trusted him.

Li Changan secured Wu Neng’s promise to secretly act on his aunt’s location and cultivated toward a breakthrough, while Li Yunlin learned that Crown Prince Feiheng was in Crossing Life Hermitage. After Gu Fenghua warned him against investigating the Great Yu Prefecture affair, Li Yunlin rejected the warning and set out to pursue the family’s revenge.

• Li Changan told Wu Neng where Crown Prince Feiheng was being held and received his promise to send people in secret.
• Li Changan reported the matter to his family, cultivated the Profound Yang Life-Generating Qi-Seeking Scripture, and gained the Profound Yang Body and Righteous Yang Dao Heart traits.
• Li Yunlin told Gu Fenghua that Crown Prince Feiheng was in Crossing Life Hermitage, but Gu Fenghua refused to get involved and warned him that the Great Yu Prefecture affair was dangerously complicated.
• Gu Fenghua cautioned Li Yunlin that powerful forces were watching the Southern Lands and urged him to let go of old grievances.
• Li Yunlin rejected Gu Fenghua’s warning, insisted that the Li Family must not abandon its desire for revenge, and requested leave to pursue the matter.
• Gu Fenghua worried that Li Yunlin might uncover a dangerous secret but let him go, wishing the Li Family good fortune.

Dai Rou’s Crossing Life Hermitage received a warning that the Azure Cloud Li Family was coming, while Yun Hongcai’s scheme drew powerful forces toward the hidden Buddhist sect. In the imperial capital, Li Changan reassured Li Yuanshang about Feiheng’s rescue and hinted at his pleasant conversation with the Empress.

• Li Kuanghua neared a breakthrough as Dai Rou, Hongzhen, and Hongdan discussed their sect’s growing power and plans to gather five Body Integration cultivators.
• A dagger bearing Yun Hongcai’s aura arrived at Crossing Life Hermitage with a warning that the Azure Cloud Li Family was coming, and Dai Rou suspected Yun Hongcai wanted the factions to fight.
• Heavenly Venerable Jiande and Fairy Tinglan learned that Zhao Guang and other Immortal Suppression Bureau experts were heading to the Southern Lands, then discovered that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion was also sending Body Integration experts.
• Li Changan and Li Yuanshang discussed Wu Neng’s anger and the dangers surrounding Feiheng’s rescue, and Li Changan said he had had a pleasant talk with the Empress.

Three Body Integration cultivators arrived in Great Yu Prefecture as the Witch Tribe and human forces maneuvered around the newly discovered Crossing Life Hermitage. The Li Family, Zhao Guang, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, and the Wenren Immortal Clan gathered at the hidden grotto-heaven, where they prepared to confront Dai Rou.

• Gu Fenghua realized the three incoming Body Integration cultivators had arrived for their own purposes, while Rising Sun Sacred Elder summoned the Moon Dragon Totem for aid.
• Nirvana Sacred Elder learned that Crown Prince Feiheng was inside Crossing Life Hermitage and set off to seize his opportunity.
• Li Yunlin and Li Yunbing led the Li Family to the concealed Crossing Life Hermitage, where they met Zhao Guang and discussed the forces gathering around the Crown Prince.
• Zhao Guang told the Li Family that he had been ordered to protect the Crown Prince and warned them about Qinghe True Person and the Wenren Immortal Clan.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and Wenren Immortal Clan arrived, and an unseen voice called Dai Rou a demoness and demanded that she come out and die.

Li Xiang watched Zhao Guang, Qinghe True Person, and Wenren Jiuyue attack Crossing Life Hermitage, then entered the hermitage and destroyed its cauldrons and Buddhist temples. He claimed to be Min Youjia sent by Min Tiange, but Dai Rou and the Dharma Masters saw through his bluff, leaving him furious and the conflict unresolved.

• Zhao Guang, Qinghe True Person, and Wenren Jiuyue attacked Crossing Life Hermitage's grand formation while Dai Rou resisted them with the hermitage's accumulated Buddhist power.
• Dai Rou told Hongzhen and Hongdan that the hermitage could not hold out, and Hongzhen claimed Feiheng and Li Kuanghua had joined the Buddhist path.
• Li Xiang appeared inside Crossing Life Hermitage, destroyed its great hall and cauldrons, and evaded Dai Rou's Bodhisattva Divine Palm using time and spatial laws.
• Li Xiang claimed to be Min Youjia and said Min Tiange had sent him to save the hermitage, but Dai Rou recognized his claim as a trick.
• Li Xiang showed a Min Family identity plaque and genealogy, then attacked and destroyed more than a dozen Buddhist temples while insisting that his surname was Min.

Li Xiang fought Dai Rou, Hongzhen, and Hongdan while destroying Crossing Life Hermitage’s Buddha statues to weaken its formation and protect Li Kuanghua. Hongzhen tried to lead Li Kuanghua away, but Li Kuanghua resisted her influence and revealed her demonic cultivation, leaving Li Xiang facing Dai Rou’s furious attack.

• Li Xiang evaded the three women’s attacks and used the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock to smash the Buddhist temples, while Dai Rou suppressed it with her Green Mountain Dao.
• Dai Rou threatened Li Kuanghua’s life, but Li Xiang warned that he would kill Hongdan if the Dharma Masters harmed Li Kuanghua.
• Hongzhen reached Li Kuanghua’s breakthrough site and ordered her to follow, but Li Kuanghua’s Bodhisattva manifestation abruptly resisted her control.
• Li Kuanghua revealed that she had cultivated demonic qi in secret while using the hermitage’s Buddhist power, then punched at Hongzhen.
• Dai Rou realized Li Xiang had kept her away from Li Kuanghua and launched a barrage of Bodhisattva Divine Palms at him.