Chapter Summaries

Li Xiang took Li Zhijing to the Qiu Family and demanded that Qiu Xunfa answer for trying to kill her, leaving the terrified clan scrambling to explain that they could not find him. After returning to Northern Border City, Li Xiang and Li Zhijing found Li Xinri rallying the city and calling for help over his daughter.

• Li Zhijing told Li Xiang that she had tracked a dragon for half a year before Qiu Xunfa attacked her to silence her.
• Li Xiang brought Li Zhijing to Qiu Immortal Mountain and demanded that the Qiu Family hand over Qiu Xunfa.
• Qiu Naihe and the Qiu clan learned that Li Zhijing belonged to the Azure Cloud Li Family and panicked at Li Xiang's half-step Body Integration aura.
• Li Zhijing accused Qiu Xunfa of trying to kill her, and Li Xiang warned the Qiu Family to send him over or face the consequences.
• Qiu Naihe said Qiu Xunfa was away hunting a dragon, and Li Xiang returned with Li Zhijing to Northern Border City.
• Li Xiang and Li Zhijing found Li Xinri rallying cultivators and sending word to the imperial capital and Azure Cloud Prefecture about his suffering daughter.

Li Xiang observed Li Xinri and Li Zhijing managing the Northern Border family after Li Zhijing’s clash with the Qiu Family, and learned how much strength they had developed. As Li Xinri prepared to answer the Qiu Family without involving the busy elders, Li Xinjue arrived from Silver Moon City and offered his help.

• Li Zhijing returned safely to Northern Border City, and Li Xinri publicly denounced Qiu Xunfa before she explained what had happened at Qiu Immortal Mountain.
• Li Xiang watched the Demon-Suppressing Lineage’s family meeting and learned that Li Xinri had become powerful in secret while Li Zhijing had grown into a formidable fifth-tier Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Li Zhijing complained that some relatives wanted to marry her off to the Qiu Family, while Li Xinri advised her not to involve the family elders amid the crisis in Great Yu Prefecture.
• Li Xinri and Li Zhijing gathered more than a hundred loyal descendants and their contracted demonic beasts, preparing to face the Qiu Family themselves.
• Li Xinjue arrived from Silver Moon City and offered to help Li Xinri, and the brothers clasped hands and smiled.

Li Xinghuo explained why he kept his distance from his family’s troubles and revealed his plan to challenge Qiu Xundao to strengthen his standing with Linjiu. Meanwhile, Li Xinjue warned the Demon-Suppressing Lineage about the Qiu Family’s power, but Li Xinri mistook his warning about getting beaten for an accusation that Li Xinjue had arranged past attacks on him.

• Li Xinghuo told Zishu Wandong that he stayed out of family affairs to reassure Linjiu and protect the Li Clan’s descendants, then revealed his demon-mark Dao art and intent to break through to Void Refinement.
• Li Xinghuo and Zishu Wandong joked about him returning from a fight with Qiu Xundao badly injured.
• Li Xinjue arrived in Northern Border City with more than three hundred Silver Moon Lineage descendants, who eagerly ate and hid food among the Demon-Suppressing Lineage.
• Li Xinjue described the Qiu Family’s experts and warned Li Xinri that Qiu Xundao would not surrender Qiu Xunfa, so the family should remain cautious.
• Li Xinri grabbed Li Xinjue by the collar and accused him of secretly arranging for Azure Cloud Prefecture cultivators to beat him over the years.

Li Jianshu decided the Li Family would handle the Northern Border conflict with the Qiu Family on its own, using the campaign to deter those who threatened the family. He then visited the Eternal Immortal Sect and saw his brother Li Jianning’s unusual Golden Core cultivation, which had let him defeat a Nascent Soul cultivator.

• Li Jianshu reviewed Azure Cloud Prefecture’s affairs and told Feng Chunlin that the Li Family had its own plans for the Northern Border.
• Li Jianshu explained to Huang Xiujin that he would lead the family’s grotto-heaven descendants north rather than ignore the threat or rely on allies, and Huang Xiujin agreed with his decision.
• Li Xiang praised Li Jianshu’s leadership and learned that his lightning cultivation had earned him the Child of Lightning trait.
• Li Jianshu traveled to the Eternal Immortal Sect, where a Duanmu elder told him that Li Family descendants returning from the Witch Tribe’s rear territory were on their way.
• Li Jianshu watched Li Jianning finish cultivating and learned that he had opened 182 meridian points to house Golden Cores and had defeated an early Nascent Soul opponent.

Li Jianshu and Li Jianning set out to help the Li Family’s Northern Border clansmen, while Li Chuyuan grew resentful after they left him behind and faced pressure from the Duanmu Family elder. In the Immortal Martial Grotto-Heaven, Li Zhiheng broke through to Void Refinement, and Li Xiang worried that Li Yuanwu’s refusal to extend his life might lead to a drastic solution.

• Li Jianshu and Li Jianning informed Blue Ancestor that they would handle the Northern Border crisis and departed the Eternal Ancient Immortal Sect.
• The brothers encountered their injured grandson and descendant Li Chuyuan, but he did not join them, and Li Jianning left disappointed.
• The Duanmu Family elder offered Li Chuyuan a golden Dao Seed, but Li Chuyuan demanded to meet the person behind the elder and threatened to alert Blue Ancestor.
• Li Zhiheng broke through to early-stage Void Refinement, gaining the Sacred Heart Domain and the Heart-Slaying art through his Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts.
• Li Xiang learned that Li Yuanwu was near the end of his lifespan and refusing the family’s life-extending pills, then scolded Li Zhiheng for suggesting body possession.

Li Jianshu prepared to take the family north and revealed that Li Qiuming and Li Chuxiu would learn to manage the family while he was away. Li Jianning was then warned that he might have to succeed Li Jianshu as Patriarch if he failed to reach Nascent Soul.

• Li Jianshu asked Nangong Qingya to oversee family affairs and said the family would not invite Zhuo Linlin on its journey to the Northern Border.
• Li Xiang reviewed Li Qiuming’s rise from a brothel upbringing to a Heavenly Core cultivator and his resentment toward Li Chuyuan.
• Li Xiang learned that Li Chuxiu had become a concealed-weapon spirit master, but Li Chuyuan had defeated him and destroyed his Spirit Artifact.
• Li Qiuming and Li Chuxiu asked to join the Northern Border expedition, but Li Jianshu told them they would stay behind to learn to manage the family.
• Li Jianshu explained to Li Jianning that leaving the Patriarch position let a family member join the ancestors and become part of the family’s foundations.
• Li Zhiheng told Li Jianning to succeed Li Jianshu as Patriarch if he did not break through to Nascent Soul, and Li Jianning protested that he was smart.

Li Jianshu led a thousand Li Family descendants toward the Northern Border, while Li Zhiheng struggled to hold on to his humanity as the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts dulled his emotions. There, Qiu Xunfa’s pursuit of a dragon and attack on Li Zhijing brought the powerful Li Family into conflict with the Qiu brothers, leaving Qiu Xundao to seek their adoptive father’s guidance.

• Li Zhiheng led a thousand Li Family descendants aboard the Spirit Boat, and Li Jianshu set course for the Northern Border with Li Jianning and the aging Li Yuanwu.
• Li Zhiheng realized the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts was eroding his emotions and reminded himself of his family to preserve his humanity.
• Qiu Xunfa learned that the Li Family had rescued Li Zhijing and that its ancestor was nearly at Body Integration, then ordered his clansmen to report his words to Qiu Naihe.
• Qiu Xunfa reported the crisis to Qiu Xundao, who blamed him for endangering his breakthrough and his standing with their adoptive father.
• Qiu Xundao noticed Li Xinghuo preparing to break through to Void Refinement, then took Qiu Xunfa to meet their adoptive father.

Li Xiang watched Qiu Xundao misread Grand Preceptor Linjiu’s silence as guidance and then saw Linjiu advise Li Xinghuo to settle the dispute with Qiu Xunfa himself. Meanwhile, Min Tiange met Li Xinnian and proposed that the Azure Cloud Li Family ally with him to exploit the imperial dynasty’s coming chaos and challenge the Emperor Realm cultivators.

• Qiu Xundao begged Grand Preceptor Linjiu to spare his blood relative Qiu Xunfa, but Linjiu left without answering, and Qiu Xundao interpreted his calligraphy as advice to use the Li Family as an opportunity.
• Grand Preceptor Linjiu told Li Xinghuo that he could seek an apology or demand injury for injury from Qiu Xunfa, and Li Xinghuo agreed to decide what to do.
• Li Xiang received a notice that Li Chuyuan had consumed Min Tiange’s Dao Seed and that Li Xinnian had encountered Min Tiange’s avatar in Great Yu Prefecture.
• Min Tiange told Li Xinnian that the twenty-four Emperor Realm cultivators feared rising threats like their families and that the Li Family should cooperate with him.
• Min Tiange urged Li Xinnian to help bring the Witch Tribe through the passes, launch an assault on the East Territory, and lure King Yu into killing Dongfang Liancheng, promising the Li Family would benefit.

Li Xiang and the Li Family prepared for rising suspicion and attacks after rumors spread that their family possessed opportunities for Body Integration. As they defended their scattered branches and strengthened their forces, an ambush on the road to the Northern Border showed that their enemies had already begun probing them.

• Li Xiang's family discussed Min Tiange's warning, the Human Emperor's failing condition, and the danger posed by Emperor Realm cultivators and the Qiu Family; Li Xiang decided they would not be intimidated by the rumors.
• Rumors branded the Li Family as scheming and demonic, while spreading claims that Body Integration opportunities lay within the family, drawing the attention of the Qing Imperial Dynasty, the Witch Tribe, and the Demon Race.
• Li Zhiheng destroyed a hidden attack that shattered the Li family's Spirit Boat on the way to the Northern Border, and Li Jianshu decided they would investigate the attackers in the imperial capital.
• Li Qiuming told Li Chuxiu that the family had entrusted Azure Cloud Prefecture to him, then revealed that his own important business was opening a brothel.
• Li Yaoqing and Li Yaotie learned that Li Chuyuan had swallowed a Dao Seed and decided to keep him near Min Tiange; the elders then watched Old White Root absorb the Corpse Dragon's blood and vitality as a human form reached peak Spirit Transformation.

Li Xiang watched the Li Family prepare Big Treasure and Li Kuanghua for breakthroughs while their descendants traveled to the imperial capital, where an attack on the road exposed growing hostility toward the family. The chapter ended with Tianli Hall uncovering a conspiracy by powerful imperial figures against the Li Family.

• Li Yaoqing and Li Yaotie discussed incorporating the Corpse Dragon’s body into Big Treasure, while Li Xiang urged Li Yaotie to cultivate toward Spirit Void’s peak.
• Li Kuanghua imitated Dai Rou’s breakthrough path and sent Buddhist and demonic statues across the Qing Imperial Dynasty to gather faith.
• Li Xiang learned that enemies had attacked Li Zhiheng’s traveling descendants and destroyed their Spirit Boat, forcing them to head to the imperial capital for repairs.
• Li Zhiheng’s descendants reunited with the Merchant Lineage in the imperial capital, where Li Yuanshang vowed to investigate the attack.
• Li Jianshu reported the attack to Li Changan, who left to visit the Empress, prompting the family to marvel at his sacrifices for them.
• Tianli Hall’s spies uncovered a conspiracy by Qiu Xundao, Yueqiu, Zishu Ling’er, Gongyang Ju, and other powerful figures to target the Li Family.

Li Changan warned Li Xiang that the Li Family faced growing danger amid the dynasty’s turmoil, then confronted accusations against the family at court. The chapter ended as Autumn Moon produced Feng Tu, who claimed the Li Family had killed Crown Prince Feiheng and Bi Shihu’s forces.

• Li Changan told Li Xiang that the empress was courting the Li Family and that powerful factions might soon move against them.
• Li Changan rejected Li Xiang’s imagined plan to let the Witch Tribe cross the border and plunge the realm into chaos.
• At the court assembly, Autumn Moon accused the Li Family of ten crimes, including harboring Phantom Ghost and killing Bi Shihu and his army.
• Li Changan stepped out from behind the curtain, challenged Autumn Moon’s accusations, and asserted the Li Family’s right to answer them.
• Autumn Moon brought Feng Tu into the hall and claimed he had witnessed the Li Family kill Crown Prince Feiheng and Bi Shihu’s forces.

Autumn Moon used Feng Tu’s coerced testimony to push the imperial court to investigate the Azure Cloud Li Family, while Feng Tu defended the family and exposed the court’s ignorance. Empress Wenren Xianyi killed Feng Tu and ordered Li Changan arrested, but Li Changan warned Autumn Moon that he would soon have to return Feng Tu’s body himself.

• Autumn Moon questioned Feng Tu about the Li Family’s alleged crimes, and Feng Tu answered yes to all ten under pressure.
• The court officials called on Empress Wenren Xianyi to order an investigation of the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Feng Tu denounced the court, defended the Li Family’s actions in the Western Border, and condemned the Crown Prince before Wenren Xianyi seized his soul and killed him.
• Wenren Xianyi ordered an investigation, and Autumn Moon had immortal soldiers arrest Li Changan and take him to the heavenly prison.
• Li Changan asked Autumn Moon to preserve Feng Tu’s body and warned that Autumn Moon would soon return it to him on his knees.

After Feng Tu’s death, Li Changan explained how the Li Family would survive the dynasty’s investigation by dispersing its descendants among powerful factions and preparing countercharges against Qiu Xundao. The plan left the dynasty unable to seize the family openly, while Li Changan resolved to clear its name without forgetting the court’s betrayal.

• Li Changan grieved over Feng Tu’s death in the imperial prison, where Min Youguo asked how the Li Family planned to survive the political crisis.
• Autumn Moon led imperial soldiers to the Merchant Li Clan’s estate, found only puppets and abandoned treasures, and ordered his troops to leave the property untouched.
• Zishu Ling’er learned that her ancestor refused to advance on Azure Cloud Prefecture because a powerful figure in Xilang Prefecture protected the Li Family.
• Reports revealed that Li descendants had fled their grotto-heavens and joined the Min Family, Celestial Light Cave, great sects, and Hidden World factions, making arrests dangerous.
• Li Changan told Min Youguo that the family’s Thousand-Year Blood Exchange Plan placed its descendants among factions that would protect them while observing their cultivation.
• Li Changan said the Li Family would accuse Qiu Xundao of the crimes attributed to them and insisted that the court’s betrayal had left lasting damage.

The Qiu clan marched to attack the Li family, believing other powers would deal with the Li ancestor and that their campaign would bring them great fortune. As they advanced, a bloodline-wide sense of grief revealed that disaster had struck Qiu Immortal Mountain, while a Li clan woman hinted that the Qiu clan had paid for attacking Li Zhijing and the Li clan.

• Qiu Xundao persuaded the Qiu clan to invade the Li family, claiming the Grand Tutor and other factions intended to suppress the Li family and that someone would handle its ancestor.
• Qiu Naihe agreed to the expedition after learning that Qiu Xundao planned to seize the Li family's fortune and secrets, while Qiu Xunfa would enter secluded cultivation.
• Qiu Xundao received word that Zishu Ling'er and two powerful allies had been stopped in the Southern Border and that Li clan members had hidden among major factions, so he ordered the Qiu forces to hurry.
• The thirty thousand Qiu clan members felt grief through their bloodline, and Qiu Chuhui feared a relative had died as Qiu Naihe rushed back to Qiu Immortal Mountain.
• A Qiu clan woman revealed that the main body had watched the Qiu clan move against Li Zhijing and the Li clan, and that she would die with them.

The Azure Cloud Li Family launched a coordinated assault on the Qiu Family across the Northern Border while its strongest members were away. As Qiu Immortal Mountain’s defenses crumbled, Qiu Anran realized the clan faced extermination and stood frozen before the approaching Li Clan Members.

• Li Yuanwu and Li Jianning killed City Lord Qiu Siwei and led disguised Li Clan Members in a surprise attack on his city.
• Li Yuanwu reflected on the struggle for clan fortune, told Li Jianning to leave no Qiu Family member alive, and gained the trait Cultivation World Philosopher.
• Li Jianshu confronted three Nascent Soul cultivators, ordered the Qiu Family killed, and pursued the fleeing Qiu Family cultivator.
• Li Clan Members breached the Snow Mountain Grand Formation and cut off the Qiu Family’s communications as attacks spread across the Northern Border.
• The Li Family besieged Qiu Immortal Mountain while its strongest Qiu members were away, and Qiu Anran stared numbly at the attacking Li Clan Members.

The Li Family launched a brutal assault on Qiu Immortal Mountain, where Li Xinri discovered a new sense of purpose as he fought for his clan. Li Xinjue led the Silver Moon Lineage in killing the Qiu Family’s hidden people and accepted his own life in the shadows as he watched Li Xinri rise.

• Li Family descendants attacked Qiu Immortal Mountain, fighting fearlessly while carrying their ancestors’ spirit tablets.
• Li Xinri defended a clansman from a Golden Core cultivator, revealed a Golden Crow Primordial Spirit, and charged toward the summit.
• Li Xinjue and the Silver Moon Lineage stormed the Snow God Hall, killed its guardians, and slaughtered the roughly fifty thousand Qiu Family members hidden beneath it.
• Li Xinjue reflected on his guilt and lifelong efforts to prove his loyalty to the Li Family, then watched Li Xinri fight as a Golden Crow.
• Li Xinjue accepted his place in the darkness and sent the Silver Moon Lineage onward to continue the attack.

Li Tianming faced the Qiu Family’s final counterattack while his other self offered to lend him power without fully taking over his body. As Qiu Anran’s bloodline array transformed him into an ice giant, Li Tianming’s murderous side awakened, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Li Tianming defended himself against thirty-three Qiu Family experts with talismans while apologizing to his other self and asking for help.
• Li Tianming’s other self lent him a strand of divine sense and the Hundred Treasures array technique, using a talisman slip to limit its control over his body.
• The Qiu Family awakened its ancient bloodline array, transforming Qiu Anran into a hundred-meter ice giant as Li Family fighters rushed to aid Li Tianming.
• Li Xinjue warned the others to run if Li Tianming became a different person, and the clan members fled as bloody energy and treasures emerged around him.
• Qiu Anran attacked Li Tianming and the fleeing Li Family members with ice pillars, but Li Tianming’s other self awakened and grinned at him as the pillars engulfed him.

Li Tianming broke free from Qiu Anran’s ice sphere and unleashed his savage other personality, using talismans and his Heaven’s Doom domain to slaughter the Qiu Clan. After Qiu Anran asked why he had tortured his clansmen, Li Tianming returned to his harmless appearance, leaving the Li Clan wary of him.

• Qiu Anran trapped Li Tianming inside a vast sphere of ice, but Li Yuanshang told the Li Clan that Li Tianming’s fate had long been tied to a dangerous demonic nature.
• Black energy seeped through the ice sphere’s cracks, and Li Tianming emerged surrounded by malice, controlling more than a hundred talisman-covered magical artifacts and Spirit Artifacts.
• Li Tianming used the artifacts’ explosions and his spells to break through Qiu Anran’s attacks, then seized and tortured Qiu Clan members with talismans.
• Li Tianming’s Heaven’s Doom domain and Extinction spell contaminated Qiu Anran as the Snow God Giant pursued him, unable to stop the slaughter.
• Qiu Anran asked Li Tianming why he had killed and tortured his clansmen, and Li Tianming replied that he felt like it.
• Li Tianming crossed to the younger Li Clan members and regained his harmless expression, causing them all to step back.

The Li Family’s attack left Qiu Immortal Mountain frozen and its clansmen dead, while Qiu Anran revealed how the elders’ choices had brought the clan to ruin. With the Qiu survivors turning against their elders and the Li forces surrounding the mountain, Li Xiang ordered the final assault.

• The Qiu clan returned to Qiu Immortal Mountain and found it sealed in ice, with no survivors except Qiu Anran in his corrupted Snow God form.
• Qiu Anran explained that a rational madman had manipulated and corrupted him until he killed his own clansmen.
• Qiu Anran accused Qiu Xunfa, Qiu Xundao, and Qiu Naihe of causing the disaster through their selfishness, cowardice, and greed.
• Qiu Naihe realized Qiu Anran knew too much, and Qiu Xundao recognized that the Li Family had used the clan’s grief to undermine its resolve.
• Li Xiang and the assembled Li Family forces surrounded Qiu Immortal Mountain, and Li Xiang ordered them to kill the Qiu elders.

The Li Clan’s battle-hardened descendants besieged Qiu Immortal Mountain while Li Xinghuo confronted Qiu Xundao. In Linjiu, the Grand Tutor reviewed evidence of the Qiu Clan’s treachery and the crude attempt to frame the Li Clan.

• Li Xiang ordered thousands of Li Clan descendants to deploy puppet arts, formations, talismans, and weapons around Qiu Immortal Mountain.
• Li Xiang recalled how nearly five thousand descendants had survived decades of fighting in the Western Border, gaining strength and losing hundreds of their number.
• Qiu Anran unleashed his final attack before falling, and the Li Clan forces surged against the weakened Qiu Clan.
• Qiu Xundao charged toward Li Tianming, but Li Xinghuo intercepted him and declared that no one would come to the Qiu Clan’s aid.
• The Grand Tutor reviewed a decree and recording showing evidence of Bi Shihu and Qiu Xundao’s plan to collaborate with the Witch Tribe and Wei Yu’s attempt to implicate the Li Clan.