Chapter Summaries

Li Kuanghua revealed that she had used Buddhist teachings to temper her heart and fuse her demonic nature with Buddhist power, then overpowered Hongzhen inside Crossing Life Hermitage. The resulting turmoil cracked the hermitage’s lotus barrier, letting two intruders escape while the outside cultivators prepared to charge in and rescue the Crown Prince.

• Li Kuanghua’s Realm Path Buddha Body clashed with Hongzhen’s World-Saving Bodhisattva, but demonic qi emerged and corrupted her Bodhisattva image.
• Hongzhen realized Li Kuanghua had never abandoned her demonic nature and had used Buddhist teachings and the Buddha-Demon Disk to balance it and reach the middle stage of Void Refinement.
• Li Kuanghua resisted Hongzhen’s mind-affecting Buddhist techniques and attacked her with the fused power of Buddha and demon.
• The lotus barrier around Crossing Life Hermitage cracked, and Zhao Guang, Wenren Jiuyue, and Qinghe True Person readied themselves against a possible trap.
• Two people burst through the opening and escaped through the cultivators’ barrier; Zhao Guang recognized one as the thief who had stolen Ling Tian’s Three Corpses.
• Zhao Guang saw the battle’s aftermath inside Crossing Life Hermitage and led the others inside to rescue the Crown Prince.

After Li Xiang died from Dai Rou’s Buddhist fire, he returned to Ancestral Space and assessed the gap between Void Refinement and Body Integration. At Crossing Life Hermitage, the Buddhists began draining believers’ faith, souls, and life force to help Hongzhen break through her dao, while Li Xiang and his clansmen witnessed the resulting horror.

• Li Xiang sent Li Kuanghua to rejoin her clansmen, then succumbed to Dai Rou’s Buddhist fire and died.
• In Ancestral Space, Li Xiang reflected on Dai Rou’s strength and concluded that a Void Refinement cultivator could defeat a Body Integration cultivator by exhausting their Great Dao.
• Dai Rou ordered Hongzhen to break her dao using the believers prepared by Hongdan and Hongjie, despite Hongzhen’s fear that the world would regard Buddhism as demonic.
• One Point Holy Monk and powerful figures across the world noticed the Buddhist sect drawing believers’ faith power toward Crossing Life Hermitage, and several tried to stop it.
• Li Xiang explained that the World-Saving Bodhisattva’s apparent calming of believers came from draining their souls, then watched the victims’ souls and life force become ghosts crawling toward Hongzhen’s Dao Gate.

The Li Family watched as Crossing Life Hermitage’s siege erupted into a chaotic battle, Hongdan was killed by Nirvana Sacred Elder, and Crown Prince Feiheng escaped with a magic treasure. After ordering their forces to encircle and eliminate their targets, the Li Family sent Dark Crows to summon powerful allies across Great Yu and the Southern Lands.

• Yun Hongcai and two allies intercepted Crossing Life Hermitage’s faith power and fled, prompting Dai Rou to pursue them.
• Nirvana Sacred Elder appeared at Crossing Life Hermitage, burned Hongdan to ash, and fought Zhao Guang, Wenren Jiuyue, and Qinghe True Person.
• Qinghe True Person used an array disk to discover that Feiheng had escaped by crushing a spiritual pearl, then left to find him.
• The Li Family decided to stay out of the battle and ordered its people to encircle and eliminate their targets.
• Li Changyao summoned allies with Dark Crows, including a woman painting Radiant City, an old woman in Central Heaven City, and a woman cultivating atop a corpse mountain.

Gu Fenghua and Ba Siyu received news of the chaos at Crossing Life Hermitage and responded to the opening on the battlefield. Meanwhile, Yun Hongcai escaped Abbess Dai Rou with his friends and revealed how Great Yu Prefecture’s former allies had fallen apart amid a hidden scheme.

• A report told Gu Fenghua that Nirvana Sacred Elder had killed Master Hongdan, the Crown Prince had vanished, and battles raged inside Crossing Life Hermitage; Gu Fenghua considered the Li Family’s plans and the chance to help them eliminate Min Tiange.
• Ba Siyu received the same intelligence, led human cultivators against the Witch Tribe, and called out for a fight while resolving to keep a lower profile around the Li Family.
• Abbess Dai Rou pursued Yun Hongcai’s illusion decoys across the border, while Yun Hongcai, Fairy Tinglan, and Heavenly Venerable Jiande gathered in the mountains.
• Yun Hongcai told his friends that he planned to break through amid the battlefield and explained how he had pursued the Stealing Heaven Dao to seize another person’s opportunity.
• Yun Hongcai recounted how a Dao Seed and a hidden scheme destroyed trust among him, Abbess Dai Rou, and Bi Shihu, leading to Great Yu Prefecture’s defeat and his long preparation against Master Hongzhen.

Yun Hongcai began using stolen faith power to open his Dao Gate and attempt a breakthrough, but the Azure Cloud Li Family found his mountain and attacked his guards. Li Xiang arrived with Old Tree to confront Yun Hongcai, leaving Old Tree poised to seize his chance to reach Void Refinement.

• Yun Hongcai used the faith power of living beings to open his Dao Gate, and Fairy Tinglan and Heavenly Venerable Jiande guarded his breakthrough.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family arrived at the mountain, while Dongfang Xuan questioned whether they had found it through her painting.
• Heavenly Venerable Jiande and Fairy Tinglan attacked the Li Family, and the family members fought back with their Void Refinement powers.
• Li Yunbing revealed that the Li Family had waited until the right moment to come, alarming Heavenly Venerable Jiande and Fairy Tinglan.
• Li Xiang stepped through a tear in the air with Old Tree, then urged him to help eat Yun Hongcai and seize his chance to reach Void Refinement.

Yun Hongcai opened the Dao Gate and began restoring his vitality, but Li Xiang and Old Tree attacked him and tried to seize the Dao he had stolen. As the battle raged, Li Xiang relentlessly confronted Yun Hongcai with the harm he had done, while Old Tree’s formation drained the gate’s power.

• Yun Hongcai opened the ancient jade gate, regained his vitality, and demanded that the Azure Cloud Li Family withdraw.
• Li Xiang attacked Yun Hongcai with his treasures while Old Tree activated the Living Beings Death Sacrifice Array across the mountain.
• Yun Hongcai recognized Old Tree’s formation as an attempt to steal his Dao and launched attacks against him.
• Li Xiang used Mirror Surface and the Myriad Dao Divine Bell Tower to shield Old Tree as Yun Hongcai’s arts drained his mana and life force.
• Old Tree’s roots reached the Dao Gate and began pulling away the faith power that sustained it, while Li Xiang pressed his attack with the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock and twin guns.
• Li Xiang taunted Yun Hongcai over his thefts from his descendants and others, then confronted him at close range as Yun Hongcai’s confidence faltered.

Crown Prince Feiheng was cornered by Abbess Dai Rou as Qinghe True Person intervened, while Li Yaozu and Li Yaoqing led Zhou Chengli and others toward the Great Yu borderlands. There they found Feiheng fighting back with a Corpse Dragon, revealing that he had secretly cultivated the Li Family’s Corpse Stitching Art and reached half-step Body Integration.

• Feiheng realized the Li Family had anticipated Yun Hongcai’s attempt to steal Buddhist faith power, but Abbess Dai Rou’s seal exposed and trapped him.
• Qinghe True Person arrived to confront Abbess Dai Rou, while he questioned why Feiheng had waited alone instead of seeking help.
• Li Yaozu and Li Yaoqing appeared in Radiant City and asked Zhou Chengli’s group to guide them to the Great Yu borderlands.
• On the way, Li Yaoqing accused Ba Siyu of plotting against the Li Family’s children, and Li Yaozu reassured Zhou Chengli that Ba Siyu must have had his reasons.
• Li Yaozu and Li Yaoqing used pills to conceal their auras and led Zhou Chengli’s group toward the battle between Feiheng and Abbess Dai Rou.
• At the ruins, Feiheng summoned a Corpse Dragon to block Abbess Dai Rou’s spell, and Li Yaozu recognized the Corpse God’s aura in Feiheng’s Corpse Stitching Art.

Crown Prince Feiheng revealed himself as a corpse-stitched monster using the Corpse Dragon while Dai Rou fought Qinghe True Person. After six Void Refinement cultivators arrived to support Qinghe, Dai Rou accused Feiheng of being behind the calamity that forced her three factions to abandon Great Yu Prefecture, leaving him silent beneath everyone’s scrutiny.

• Zhou Chengli realized Feiheng had used Weird Arts Mountain’s Corpse Stitching Art to fuse the Corpse God’s body with himself and command the Corpse Dragon.
• Dai Rou suppressed Qinghe True Person with her Rebirth Bodhisattva while Feiheng struggled against the Buddhist light below.
• Six Void Refinement cultivators arrived from the Southern Lands, and Li Yaozu and Li Yaoqing joined them in confronting Dai Rou.
• Li Yaozu rejected Dai Rou’s offer to relinquish anything the Li Family wanted and threatened to take her life.
• Dai Rou challenged the group’s view of her factions’ retreat and said they had fled because someone in Great Yu Prefecture carried a Dao Seed.
• Dai Rou accused Feiheng of deceiving Crossing Life Hermitage for decades and being responsible for the factions’ plight, while Feiheng remained silent as the others stared at him.

Nirvana Sacred Elder revealed that Crown Prince Feiheng had helped Min Tiange invade the Central Plains, while Zhao Guang refused to let the Witch Tribe capture him. At the borderlands, Li Xiang arrived as Dai Rou tried to sway Qinghe True Person, and Feiheng confronted the Li Family before Li Xiang asked whether he had truly learned from them.

• Nirvana Sacred Elder accused Feiheng of helping Min Tiange plan the invasion, but Zhao Guang refused to let him capture the Crown Prince.
• Dai Rou urged Qinghe True Person to hand Feiheng over and keep the imperial dynasty's secrets, but Li Xiang arrived with the Li Family and stopped her.
• The Li Family stared at Feiheng, who blamed Li Tianyue for her death and admitted that Min Tiange had helped him become Crown Prince.
• Feiheng said he had come to the Western Border to learn from the Li Family and gain power, while the Li Family remained silent.
• Li Xiang asked Feiheng whether he had learned, and Feiheng compared his lonely, half-ghost state with the Li Family's enduring unity.

Feiheng revealed that he had used the Witch Tribe’s invasion, the Corpse Stitching Art, and the destruction of Great Yu to build a Dao foundation and pursue the Dao. After absorbing the Corpse God and the blood of Great Yu, he transformed into a Corpse Dragon and asked Qinghe True Person and the Li Family to join him.

• Feiheng explained that Min Tiange had given him the Corpse Stitching Art, which he used to graft corpses and their powers onto himself.
• Feiheng admitted that he had let the Witch Tribe invade Great Yu and allowed countless people to die so he could refine his Dao foundation.
• Feiheng absorbed the Corpse Dragon, its soul, and the blood beneath Great Yu as he began breaking through to Body Integration.
• Feiheng revealed that Min Tiange had used him to destroy Weird Arts Mountain and that he had engineered Great Yu’s collapse, including his own capture by Crossing Life Hermitage.
• Feiheng accused Dai Rou and the other powers of hypocrisy, while Dai Rou urged Qinghe True Person and the Li Family to attack him.
• Qinghe True Person attacked Dai Rou, and Feiheng asked the Li Family to return to their former alliance.

Crown Prince Feiheng urged the Azure Cloud Li Family to help him seize the Human Emperor’s throne, but Li Xiang rejected him and led the family into battle against the Corpse Dragon. As Li Xiang gained Buddhist power and Li Kuanghua’s abilities grew, the Li Family split its forces: Li Yaoqing pursued Dai Rou while Li Yaozu faced Feiheng.

• Feiheng asked the Azure Cloud Li Family to help him replace the Min Family, but Li Xiang mocked his justifications and attacked the Corpse Dragon.
• Li Xiang used Buddhist Dharma and his Buddha Divine Palm to strike the Corpse Dragon, while Li Kuanghua joined him with her Bodhisattva manifestation.
• The Primordial Origin Blood Tree seized Yun Hongcai’s Dao path and sent faith power to Li Xiang, giving him Half-Step Body Integration mana and a Buddhist Dharma manifestation.
• Li Kuanghua’s Buddha-Demon Disk advanced to fourth grade, and her Bodhisattva manifestation gained Three Heads and Six Arms and wielded Heavenly Venerable Jiande’s Primordial Chaos Staff.
• Li Yaoqing led Feng Tu, Zhou Chengli, and others toward Dai Rou, while Li Yaozu drew his sword and confronted the Corpse Dragon.

Li Yaoqing joined Qinghe True Person against Dai Rou, while Li Xiang and the Li Family fought Prince Feiheng’s Corpse Dragon. The chapter ended with Li Yaozu striking through the dragon as it was overwhelmed by the family’s combined attacks.

• Li Yaoqing arrived with four cultivators from Central Heaven City and helped Qinghe True Person resist Dai Rou’s Buddhist domain.
• Dai Rou summoned a demon-like Bodhisattva statue that tormented the group, but Li Yaoqing’s leaves restored their strength and protected their minds.
• Qinghe True Person urged Li Yaoqing to leave the Li Family and help defeat Dai Rou, but Li Yaoqing stayed focused on healing everyone and trusted her eldest brother.
• Li Yaozu spotted the Corpse Dragon’s weakness and tore a long wound beneath its jaw, but Feiheng’s power engulfed him until Li Xiang rescued him.
• Li Xiang trapped the Corpse Dragon with spatial laws and the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock, then called on the Li Family to attack together.
• Li Yaozu charged through the Corpse Dragon’s upper palate and emerged declaring it a mere Corpse Dragon.

Min Tiange learned that Crown Prince Feiheng had fallen and set out for Great Yu, while Mu Xueqing concealed Su Chen’s living life plaque. The Li Family killed Feiheng, framed Dai Rou for his death, and turned on her as Min Tiange arrived at the battlefield.

• Min Tiange learned that Feiheng had met with an accident in Great Yu and flew off to discover who had disrupted his plans.
• Mu Xueqing visited Peerless Hall’s life-plaque chamber, found Su Chen’s brilliant plaque, and hid it to keep Min Tiange from learning that he might be alive.
• The Li Family destroyed Feiheng’s divine soul after suppressing his Corpse Dragon, and Feiheng died longing to return to Merit City.
• Li Xiang led the Li Family toward Dai Rou as Qinghe True Person and Dai Rou continued their battle.
• Dai Rou revealed that the Li Family had killed Feiheng, but Li Changyao, Li Yunbing, Zhou Chengli, and the others claimed Dai Rou had murdered him and began attacking her.
• Min Tiange arrived at the place where Feiheng had died and stared at the pool of corpse blood.

Li Xiang’s family learned that Feiheng’s Body Integration Realm corpse was built around an ancient dragon, while Nirvana Sacred Elder joined the battle against Dai Rou. Wenren Jiuyue arrived, discovered Feiheng was dead, and agreed to help Qinghe True Person deny responsibility for his death.

• Nirvana Sacred Elder examined the blood of a dead cultivator and concluded that the spiritual power lost from battlefields might lead him to Feiheng’s corpse.
• Nirvana Sacred Elder saw Dai Rou being besieged and joined her fight against the cultivators.
• Li Xiang examined the Seven-Clawed Rotten-Horned Azure Dragon corpse he had obtained from Feiheng, and Li Changyao realized it could help White Root break through.
• Nirvana Sacred Elder’s arrival sparked a fight with Zhao Guang, while Wenren Jiuyue’s attacks helped ease the pressure on the other cultivators.
• Wenren Jiuyue learned from Qinghe True Person that Feiheng had been killed by Dai Rou, then offered to testify that Qinghe True Person had not killed the Crown Prince.

The Li Family watched the imperial cultivators battle Nirvana Sacred Elder, and Li Yunlin revealed the power of his Star River Slash while rescuing Li Yaoqing. When Nirvana Sacred Elder attacked the family to seize Crown Prince Feiheng’s corpse, Li Xiang and his descendants confronted him with Phantom Ghost and their full strength.

• Li Changyao revealed that Zhao Guang fought the Witch Tribe out of hatred for the clan they had enslaved and exterminated.
• Wenren Jiuyue refused Nirvana Sacred Elder’s demand to return Feiheng’s corpse and vowed the Human Race would eventually attack the Divine Bird Totem.
• Nirvana Sacred Elder sent nine fire dragons toward Li Yaoqing, but Li Yunlin used Star River Slash to break the attack and protect her.
• Nirvana Sacred Elder sensed Feiheng’s corpse with the Li Family, transformed into a phoenix, and charged at them; Qinghe True Person warned that the crown prince’s corpse was there.
• Li Xiang summoned Phantom Ghost, and the Li Family joined forces to block Nirvana Sacred Elder’s assault.

The Azure Cloud Li Family lured Nirvana Sacred Elder into a trap and destroyed him with Li Xiang’s antimatter bombs and the gathered cultivators’ attacks. As Dai Rou was captured and the scheme came to light, Min Tiange watched from afar and realized the Li Family had been waiting for him too.

• Phantom Ghost and the Li Family’s hidden allies helped stall Nirvana Sacred Elder as the Li Family Ancestor lured him into range of ten antimatter bombs.
• Li Xiang ordered everyone to unleash their strongest techniques, and the Li Family used spatial Mirror Surfaces to direct their attacks into the explosion that erased Nirvana Sacred Elder.
• Zhao Guang blocked Dai Rou’s escape, while Dai Rou realized the Li Family had used Feiheng to lure Nirvana Sacred Elder into their trap.
• Li Yunbing said the plan had not been entirely as Dai Rou assumed, as Min Tiange watched the aftermath from above Great Yu Prefecture.
• Hongjie reported the Li Family’s scheme to Min Tiange, who concluded that the family had anticipated his involvement and fixed his gaze on Su Chen.

After the Li Family defeated the Nirvana Sacred Elder and captured Dai Rou, the family searched the ruined Crossing Life Hermitage but failed to draw out Min Tiange. As the humans advanced against the Witch Tribe, Min Tiange’s enormous blood-gathering opportunity appeared over Great Yu, and the injured Nirvana Sacred Elder was confronted by figures emerging from a Silver Coffin.

• The Li Family returned to the ruined Crossing Life Hermitage with Dai Rou imprisoned, while Phantom Ghost explained her debt to the True God and her anger that Min Tiange had escaped.
• Su Chen told Li Xinnian and Li Xiang how Min Tiange had secretly taken a former genius’s Dao and turned his companions into loyal followers.
• Li Xiang checked on Old Tree as he prepared for a lightning tribulation, while the family looted the Hermitage and received Zhao Guang’s request for help against the Witch Tribe.
• Ba Siyu and Gu Fenghua led the human army into Witch Tribe territory, then witnessed blood and souls from across Great Yu gather into a vast crimson sphere.
• The injured Nirvana Sacred Elder recognized the sphere as Min Tiange’s opportunity, but a Silver Coffin arrived and the Li Family ancestor and other figures emerged to confront him.

The Li Family cornered the gravely wounded Nirvana Sacred Elder, but he fled, prompting Li Dalong and Li Yaowen’s clone to pursue him while the family planned to help Li Yaotie cultivate the Heavenly Fire Great Dao. Ten days later, the chase continued as the human race held the border and the Li Family counted its spoils.

• Li Xiang, Li Dalong, and Li Yaowen’s clone confronted the wounded Nirvana Sacred Elder in the Endless Forest, but he escaped before they could attack.
• Li Yaowen explained that cultivators would covet the Nirvana Sacred Elder’s Heavenly Fire Great Dao, and Li Dalong and Li Xiang decided to keep him from recovering while preparing Li Yaotie to cultivate fire Dao rules.
• Li Dalong and Li Yaowen’s clone pursued the Nirvana Sacred Elder across the world, while Li Xiang’s ten-day manifestation ended.
• Li Xiang told Li Yaotie to focus on cultivation, and Li Yaotie began training beneath the Heavenly Fire Divine Tree with the Enlightenment Gold Chapter.
• At the border, Li Yaoqing treated the wounded as the human race held its position, while Li Yunbing burned Ba Siyu’s plea for help and focused on the Li Family’s spoils.

As the Human-Witch War and blood moon threatened Great Yu, Li Xiang learned that Su Chen had reached the Half-Step Body Integration Realm and chosen to pursue the Demon-Sealing Great Dao through mortalization. The chapter left Su Chen traveling alone, Li Xinnian holding his ring, and the Li Family preparing for further conflicts and breakthroughs.

• Li Yunbing gained the [Nation-Hater] trait after losing faith in the Imperial Dynasty, while Li Xiang observed the blood moon and considered Min Tiange’s influence.
• Li Xiang learned that Su Chen had comprehended the Demon-Sealing Great Dao and heard him explain that he would seal his own power and pursue mortalization.
• Su Chen gave his ancient ring to Li Xinnian and left to cultivate, promising to return when he could challenge Min Tiange.
• Li Xiang saw Li Kuanghua tormenting captive Dai Rou while comprehending the Dao principle of Rebirth through her statues and temples.
• Li Xiang found Hongzhen’s teachings on his Dao Gate unusable and decided to comprehend Green Mountain through Dai Rou instead.
• Li Xiang’s event log reported that Azure Cloud Prefecture planned to attack the sea race, Li Zhiheng had reached the Void Refinement Realm, and Li Zhijing sought help to devour a dragon.

The Azure Cloud Li Family agreed to support the imperial forces against the Witch Tribe while its members returned home and discovered the family’s growing influence and resources. After learning that Li Zhijing had been gravely wounded by Qiu Xunfa, Li Jianshu received news that Li Xiang had saved her and prepared to confront the attackers.

• Qinghe True Person and the other cultivators discussed Nirvana Sacred Elder’s disappearance and warned against coveting the Azure Cloud Li Family’s power or Dai Rou.
• Ba Siyu asked Li Yaozu to aid the fight against the Witch Tribe, and Li Yaozu promised the family would help while protecting its home territory.
• Li Yaoqing and Li Kuanghua returned to Azure Cloud Prefecture, where Li Yaoqing locked Dai Rou in a furnace and Li Kuanghua built a temple nearby.
• Li Jianshu examined the powerful treasures sent home by his ancestors and learned that Li Zhijing had been gravely injured by Qiu Xunfa and pursued by the Qiu Family.
• Li Xiang used a family skill to save Li Zhijing, then watched over her in a cave amid the corpses of Qiu Family disciples.