Chapter Summaries

Li Xinghuo explained that Qiu Xundao had been manipulated into attacking the Li Family, but Qiu Xundao chose to keep fighting and faced the newly arrived Mad Blood Devil Lord. In another battle, Fruit Granny tried to strip Li Xiang of his techniques, but Li Xiang used his descendants’ abilities to overwhelm her and the Qiu Family forces.

• Li Xinghuo told Qiu Xundao that the Grand Preceptor had used him as a weapon and that the Li Family’s uncle had outmaneuvered him politically.
• Qiu Xundao admitted he had sought power for his family, then vowed to kill Li Xinghuo and bring the Li Family’s heads to the Grand Preceptor.
• Mad Blood Devil Lord appeared to protect Li Xinghuo, survived Qiu Xundao’s ice attacks, and challenged him with a saber.
• Fruit Granny used her deprivation technique to erase Li Xiang’s Void Refinement space, rules, and techniques while Qiu Chuhui and the Qiu Family forces prepared to attack.
• Li Xiang drew on his descendants’ spells, seized a Qiu Family cultivator, and advanced as Fruit Granny panicked and he began slaughtering the Spirit Transformation cultivators.

Fruit Granny used her final art to strip Li Xiang of his power and leave him exposed to the Qiu Family, but he survived and revealed himself as the Black Mist Man. After killing Fruit Granny and the remaining Qiu Family forces, Li Xiang gained insight into a path to Integration.

• Fruit Granny unleashed her final art, sweeping away spiritual power and vitality as Li Xiang realized the laws could be divided into yin and yang.
• Qiu Chuhui and the remaining Qiu Family cultivators attacked Li Xiang while he had become mortal, then believed the frost had killed him.
• Fruit Granny asked Qiu Chuhui to honor her oath and take her to the Grand Preceptor, but Qiu Chuhui considered abandoning her.
• Dark vortices and spatial spears appeared throughout the Void Refinement space, killing the demon beasts and pinning down the surviving Qiu Family cultivators.
• The Black Mist Man appeared alive, killed Fruit Granny, and promised to extend her lifespan as she died.
• Li Xiang received a message congratulating him on finding a path to breaking through to Integration.

The Li Family’s forces battled the Qiu Family and the Martial Emperor until the Martial Emperor switched sides and helped turn the fight against the Qiu Family. Li Xiang arrived as the Li Family’s powerful fighters surrounded the three Qiu Family members, and Li Yundou rushed to join the attack.

• Qiu Naihe tried to persuade the Martial Emperor to abandon the Li Family by warning that the Li Family’s old ancestor would die, but the Martial Emperor wavered over the reward.
• The Martial Emperor joined Qiu Naihe and Qiu Xunfa, prompting Li Zhiheng, the Iron Gate Seven, and Red Sleeve Fairy to fight the three enemies together.
• The Martial Emperor trapped Qiu Xunfa’s shadow and struck him down, then revealed that the Li Family’s old ancestor had appeared and attacked the Qiu Family’s forces.
• Qiu Xundao entered the Void Refinement domain and rescued the badly wounded Qiu Xunfa as the Li Family’s fighters gathered against the three Qiu Family members.
• Li Xiang arrived, discarded the corpse he had been carrying, and rushed the Qiu Family with the others while Li Yundou called out to the ancestor.

Li Xiang and the Li Family destroyed the Qiu Family in the Northern Border, then gathered their descendants and assessed the aftermath. Li Xinghuo agreed to return with the family and warned Li Xiang that his adoptive father, Grand Tutor Linjiu, intended to rebel.

• Li Xiang swiftly defeated Qiu Xunfa, Qiu Naihe, and Qiu Xundao, ending the Qiu Family's resistance.
• The campaign against the Qiu Family was declared complete, and Li Xiang reflected on the imperial dynasty's weakening authority and the ambitions growing across its territories.
• Li Xiang discovered that the Iron Gate Seven had assimilated Witch Tribe blood and bones, gaining new traits and establishing the Demonic Witch Seven Totem Pillar.
• Li Xiang ordered Li Xinghuo to return from the Northern Border with the family, and Li Xinghuo agreed, saying every northern family had to leave.
• Li Xinghuo told Li Xiang that he had reason to believe his adoptive father intended to rebel.

Li Xiang learned of growing tensions between the Northern Border and the imperial dynasty as the returning Li Family descendants gathered on an iceberg. A dying Li Yuanwu reconciled with his family, asked Li Xiang to care for ordinary and elderly clan members, and faced his final moments aboard the Spirit Boat.

• Li Xiang reflected on the imperial dynasty's failure to aid the Northern Border and noticed several descendants who had achieved Spirit Transformation.
• Li Jianning and Li Jianshu told Li Xiang that Li Yuanwu was dying, and the Li Family gathered around him aboard the Spirit Boat.
• Li Yuanwu advised Li Jianshu and Li Jianning to consult each other and defended Li Yuanshang by recalling how he had supported the family in its early years.
• Li Yuanshang discovered that Li Yuanwu's meridians had become fatally damaged, while Li Zhiheng silently hoped to save his son through body seizure.
• Li Yuanwu refused further life-extending treatment, asked Li Xiang to treat the family's ordinary elders kindly, and rose to display the martial arts he had pursued throughout his life.

Li Yuanwu died after a lifetime of pursuing martial arts, and his family grieved as the Spirit Boat carried them from the Northern Border toward the southeast. As the Li Family prepared to face the Imperial Capital, Zishu Ling'er, Autumn Moon, and Gongyang Ju worried that they would be blamed for the failed Ten Great Crimes.

• Li Yuanwu exhausted his lifespan and died in the snow, leaving his sons and clansmen to catch his falling body.
• Li Jianning grieved with Li Jianshu, confessing his regrets about their father and his own family losses.
• Li Zhiheng refused Li Yuanshang's plea to use the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts to bring Li Yuanwu back, believing the resurrected man would not truly be his son.
• The Li Family's Spirit Boat continued south as descendants withdrew from the Northern Border, and Li Xiang concluded that the Imperial Capital would decide what came next.
• Zishu Ling'er, Autumn Moon, and Gongyang Ju discussed their danger after the Li Family's Northern Border actions undermined the Ten Great Crimes, while Zishu Ling'er insisted her family bloodline protected her.

Wenren Xianyi met Li Changan in the imperial prison and gave him a list of those who had targeted the Li Family, then ordered the list exposed to provoke them. Min Youguo learned that Wenren Xianyi had engineered the Northern Border crisis to pressure Linjiu into rebellion, while Ahei suspected her true target was Blue Ancestor.

• Li Xiang reviewed reports that Body Integration cultivators had been spying on Azure Cloud Prefecture and the Golden Toad Divine Palace.
• Wenren Xianyi visited Min Youguo and Li Changan, questioned Min Youguo about Linjiu’s power in the Northern Border, and told him to deal with Linjiu.
• Wenren Xianyi gave Li Changan a jade slip naming people who had plotted against the Li Family, and Li Changan left the prison to warn his family.
• Wenren Xianyi ordered a shadow to copy the jade slip and send it to everyone named, prompting Min Youguo to warn that the move could spark a deadly conflict.
• Ahei reported that Wenren Xianyi had used the Li Family and a young Demon Race dragon to pressure Linjiu, and he suggested that Blue Ancestor was her real target.

Li Xiang learned that the imperial dynasty was still maneuvering against the Li Family while Li Dalong forged a new path toward the Body Integration Realm in the Underworld. After Li Changan uncovered a covert warning from Gongyang Ju, he returned to Azure Cloud Prefecture as a flood dragon began transforming into a true dragon.

• Li Xiang judged that the Li Family needed time to withstand Empress Wenren Xianyi's schemes and observed Li Dalong developing a new cultivation path through the Boundless Sea of Death and the souls of his ghostly forces.
• Autumn Moon and Gongyang Ju approached Li Changan to apologize for their roles in the Ten Great Crimes scheme, and Autumn Moon knelt while offering Feng Tu's remains.
• Li Changan asked Autumn Moon and Gongyang Ju to ensure Feng Tu's clan was settled, then accepted their apologies.
• After leaving Li Changan, Autumn Moon vowed revenge, while Gongyang Ju warned that the Li Family might be bait in a hidden plot and suggested they wait before choosing sides.
• Li Changan discovered that Gongyang Ju had secretly delivered Wenren Xianyi's intelligence and a message offering to serve as the Li Family's informant.
• Li Changan returned to Azure Cloud Prefecture as a storm spread across three counties, and cultivators recognized that a flood dragon was transforming into a true dragon.

White Root survived his transformation into a Nether Corpse Aberrant Dragon, greatly increasing the Lineage’s fortune and giving it access to powerful dragon materials. Han Ju secretly stole some of White Root’s dragon energy, only for its corrupting power to damage his cultivation.

• As White Root underwent his half-year transformation, Li Kuanghua kept cultivators away while Li Xiang waited for the breakthrough.
• White Root emerged as a Nether Corpse Aberrant Dragon, gaining Netherworld abilities and making the Lineage’s fortune rise.
• Han Ju used a Deceiving Eye Lamp to steal White Root’s first breath of dragon energy, believing it would aid his cultivation.
• Li Xiang learned about White Root’s dragon blood, scales, and teeth, and considered how the Lineage could use them safely.
• A servant reported that Han Ju’s cultivation had fallen by a minor realm after he used the stolen treasure, and Li Xiang realized White Root’s dragon breath had harmed him.

On the winter solstice, the Li Family gathered in Azure Cloud Prefecture and organized its descendants, resources, and branch lineages to prepare for future threats. Li Xiang inspected the family’s new holdings, including an ice mountain that could support Li Zhijing’s cultivation base, while Li Xinjue trained the Silver Moon Lineage and received new shadow techniques.

• The Li Family’s descendants returned to Azure Cloud Prefecture, where the family distributed cultivation resources and adopted a strategy of developing from the prefecture while retaining and protecting its branch lineages.
• Li Qiuheng recalled his travels and the sacrifices made by earlier generations, then told the children that the future belonged to them.
• Li Xinri and Li Zhijing watched Li Xinjue put Silver Moon Lineage children through brutal training, and Li Xinri reported that only a little over three hundred people had moved from Northern Border City.
• Li Xinjue learned that his father had gone to the Eternal Immortal Sect to await representatives of the Immortal Suppression Bureau and other major forces.
• Li Xiang inspected the ice mountain taken from Qiu Immortal Mountain and saw how Li Zhijing could use its crystal vein and Ice Demon Ancient Nest to build an Ice Spirit Root cultivation base.
• Li Xinjue gained Qiu Xunfa’s Ultimate Shadow Art and the Turbid Jade Pendant, which let him move through and conceal himself in shadows.

Li Xiang learned that Ba Siyu had protected the Azure Cloud Li Family by condemning the court’s actions, securing them at least ten years of peace. As Han Ju and Li Chuyuan plotted around the Li Family’s troubles, Li Xiang entered the Myriad Dao Divine Bell Tower as the family pushed its time acceleration to the limit.

• Blue Ancestor tried to recruit Li Xinghuo, Li Zhiheng, and Li Jianshu with dangerous cultivation arts, but they refused.
• Dark Crow delivered news that the Northern Border wanted Li Xinghuo back and that Min Youguo was secretly confronting the Grand Preceptor.
• Li Xiang learned that Ba Siyu had sent a letter condemning the court after Li Yunbing went to the Witch Tribe, winning the Lineage at least ten years of peace.
• Han Ju blamed the Li Family for the corpse qi corroding his body and Void Refinement space, while Li Chuyuan planned to use Dao seeds to make himself indispensable.
• Li Xiang suspected Min Tiange was targeting the Li Family and went to the Myriad Dao Divine Bell Tower.
• Li Yuanshang ordered the family to spend its accumulated Spirit Stones and raise the tower’s time acceleration to ninefold.

Li Xiang grasped a new application of the Divine Bell Tower’s time law while Old Tree underwent a dangerous breakthrough in the Western Border. Old Tree evolved into the Delusion-Breaking Ancient Tree, leaving Li Xiang astonished by its powerful new abilities.

• Li Xiang sensed the Divine Bell Tower’s ninefold time law and began trying to comprehend it.
• Wenren Xianyi confronted the aged Human Emperor, declared that she would take control of the world, and left behind a strand of hair that the Human Emperor used to inspect a web of Karma marked with misfortune.
• Li Tianqi awaited the result of Old Tree’s divination and learned that the breakthrough brought great fortune.
• After another half year, Old Tree emerged from his breakthrough, predicted Crown Prince Feiheng’s death, and showed Li Tianqi a Dao Gate that could not be walked.
• Old Tree collapsed from overexertion, and Li Xiang received the news that he had evolved into the Delusion-Breaking Ancient Tree and gained new talents.

The Li Family flourished under Li Changan’s reforms, while Old Tree gained the power to judge cultivators’ paths and helped the family plan its advancement. The chapter ended with Old Tree discovering that Li Jianning’s bizarre cultivation method had nearly killed him, then prompting him to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Li Qiuming and Li Chuxiu oversaw the family’s resource distribution as the Li Family’s descendants grew stronger and spread through Azure Cloud Prefecture’s major powers.
• Li Xiang learned that descendants were flocking to Li Xinjue’s Silver Moon Lineage after Li Yaoqing secretly spread rumors that it was a sacred cultivation ground.
• Old Tree gained the Eye of Delusion Breaker, allowing him to judge whether cultivators’ Dao paths were viable, and Li Dalong discussed the family’s plans with the Void Refinement elders.
• Li Dalong assigned Li Yaotie, Li Kuanghua, and Li Yunlin different cultivation priorities as the family prepared to face its enemies.
• Blue Ancestor again urged the Li Family’s cultivators to follow his method, while Li Jianshu claimed Li Jianning was away recovering from injuries.
• Old Tree examined Li Jianning’s seven hundred and twenty dantians, condemned his dangerous method, and made him realize he could break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

Li Jianning reached the Nascent Soul Realm while Li Jianshu tempered himself in the same tribulation, and both brothers gained extraordinary abilities. As enemies plotted against the Li Family, Li Yunlin returned to the Old Tree, which inspected his twenty-three Dao gates and helped him see them.

• Li Jianning endured ten days of tribulation as his many Golden Cores transformed, while Li Jianshu joined him to temper his body with lightning.
• Li Jianning gained the Divine Infant Dao Body, and Li Jianshu forged a powerful thunder art and acquired the Heavenly Thunder Thousand-Forging trait.
• Autumn Moon, Han Ju, Zishu Ling'er, and their allies watched the Li Family from Sky-Treading Mountain and discussed gathering forces against them.
• The group saw Li Yunlin pass overhead and recognized him as a powerful Li Family cultivator, prompting Han Ju to propose contacting Peerless Hall.
• Li Yunlin brought Litian Hall to the peak of fourth-grade spiritual items and gained the Dao Performer trait through his mastery of twenty-three rules.
• The Old Tree inspected Li Yunlin's Dao gates, and Li Yunlin suddenly saw the gates for himself.

Li Yunlin learned that all twenty-three of his Dao paths were blocked by a mysterious figure, while the Li Family prepared for growing threats and strengthened its descendants. After Li Xiang emerged from years of cultivation, he ordered Li Yaozu and the clan to take action as enemies converged on Azure Cloud Prefecture and the Western Border.

• Li Yaozu and the clan discussed finding enough fire-element power to help Third Uncle break through, while Li Yunlin accepted that none of his twenty-three Dao paths could be traveled.
• Old Cat realized a single mysterious person had cut off eighteen great Daos, and Li Yunlin resolved to seek an unusual path suited to their Aberrant nature.
• Li Xiang received reports of enemies gathering against the Li Family, while Li Yaoqing summoned Martial Emperor and Zhuo Linlin to see whether they could forge paths of their own.
• Li Yaoqing gave Li Tianqi a Primordial Origin Blood Fruit, awakening his Baxia bloodline and strengthening his defensive power.
• Li Yuanshang ran out of Spirit Stones supporting the Divine Bell Tower, and the ancestral tablet spoke to him as Li Xiang emerged from the tower.
• Li Xiang ordered the descendants to take action, and Li Yaozu and the clan prepared to move in the Western Border.

Rain Elder joined the gathering at Bamboo Grove Path, where Zishu Ling'er and Autumn Moon assembled powerful figures to attack the Li Family. Li Chuyuan interpreted Rain Elder’s arrival as proof that he had chosen the right path and declared that his era had begun.

• Rain Elder secretly planned to claim Azure Cloud’s hidden secret and defy Peerless Hall’s Dao Seed while bringing over a hundred disciples to Bamboo Grove Path.
• Zishu Ling'er and Autumn Moon welcomed more than a hundred cultivators who had gathered to bring down the Li Family, while Gongyang Ju warned that the Li Family might already know of their plans.
• Ban Shu Ao arrived in a lavish sedan and questioned whether the gathered forces were strong enough to defeat the Li Family.
• Zishu Ling'er claimed her teacher Wang Jing would support the campaign, but Rain Elder arrived before Wang Jing appeared and stunned the gathered cultivators.
• Li Chuyuan watched Rain Elder arrive on his behalf and convinced himself that his estranged family had been wrong to reject him.

Ban Shu Ao tried to lure the Li Family Patriarch into a trap, but Li Yunlin confronted him while the Li Family concealed its true whereabouts. As Autumn Moon’s forces advanced, Li Kuanghua revealed that the family had remained in Sky Dimension City and prepared to strike.

• Ban Shu Ao traveled through the rain toward Azure Cloud Prefecture, confident that no one beneath the Integration Realm could challenge him.
• Li Yunlin entered Ban Shu Ao’s Void Refinement space and attacked him with the Divine Gloom Soul-Locking Art, but Ban Shu Ao dismissed him and invited him to continue their fight.
• Autumn Moon discovered that the Merit Grotto-Heaven had vanished and learned that Li Yunlin had intercepted Ban Shu Ao, then led his forces toward the Immortal Martial Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Kuanghua caught the Primordial Origin Leaf bearing a warning to leave and revealed that the people sheltering in Sky Dimension City were members of the Li Family.
• Li Kuanghua asked the ancestor for permission to act, then led the bound Dai Rou through the rain as she prepared to confront their enemies.

Zishu Ling'er and a force of cultivators arrived to attack the Li Family’s Immortal Seed Grotto-Heaven, but Li Yaoqing, Old Tree, and Li Zhiheng turned their gathering into a deadly trap. The surviving invaders realized more enemies were hiding among them as fear and confusion spread through the rainy night.

• Zishu Ling'er’s group gathered outside Immortal Seed Grotto-Heaven, and Divine Calculator predicted that their attack would succeed.
• Divine Calculator counted three more people than the 124 who had arrived, then suffered a fatal backlash after realizing two opponents had surpassed him in Fate Arts.
• Li Yaoqing and Old Tree watched the invaders panic, while Li Yaoqing released medicinal powder into their shelter.
• Zishu Ling'er discovered that one person had vanished, leaving 125 people in the group.
• Li Zhiheng used his Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts to kill a Golden Core Stage cultivator unseen and warned the others to feel fear.
• The invaders realized another cultivator had vanished and argued over whether to flee.

Gongyang Ju and the Thousand-Faced Swordsman escaped the Li Family’s ambush, while the Li Family’s forces crushed the attackers at Merit City and Li Kuanghua confronted Autumn Moon. Rain Elder watched from above and demanded that the Li Family hand over Taotie, while a mysterious figure in black mist challenged him.

• Gongyang Ju fled toward a city after Taotie routed the force he had led against the Li Family’s northern ice mountain, and he met the wounded Thousand-Faced Swordsman on the way.
• Gongyang Ju and the Thousand-Faced Swordsman entered the city unnoticed and realized that Rain Elder and the Vast Firmament Sacred Master had not appeared.
• Realm Path Bodhisattva and World-Saving Bodhisattva overwhelmed the attackers at Merit City, and Autumn Moon remained trapped by World-Saving Bodhisattva’s flames.
• Li Kuanghua confronted Autumn Moon, who rejected repentance and attacked her, so she prepared to send him to the Eighteen Levels of Hell by other means.
• Rain Elder faced a figure in black mist above a burning tower and demanded that the Li Family surrender Taotie in exchange for his departure.

The Eternal Immortal Sect learned that Rain Elder had joined the attack on the Li Family, while Blue Ancestor realized the battle was part of a plot to draw the Witch Tribe into Qingyun Prefecture. Li Xiang confronted Rain Elder as Li Yaotie opened the Heavenly Fire Great Dao, leaving the confrontation poised for a breakthrough.

• Duanmu Qi asked Blue Ancestor to help the Li Family, and Blue Ancestor revealed that sixteen Void Refinement cultivators and two Body Integration cultivators had entered Azure Cloud Prefecture, including Rain Elder.
• Blue Ancestor recognized that Autumn Moon had been manipulated and concluded that the plot aimed to destroy the Li Family and let the Witch Tribe enter Qingyun Prefecture.
• Rain Elder tried to persuade Li Xiang to join forces, but Li Xiang accused him of waiting for the Li Family's enemies to weaken it before taking its treasures and a way to remove his Dao seed.
• Li Xiang revealed that he had been waiting for Li Yaotie to open the Heavenly Fire Great Dao, while his descendants attacked the Divine Bird Tribe and killed the Nirvana Sacred Elder.
• Li Yaotie absorbed the Heavenly Fire rules and opened the Dao gate, but Li Xiang kicked him toward it and ordered him to break through.