Chapter Summaries

The Li Family used Li Yaotie's breakthrough into the Heavenly Fire Great Dao as bait while Li Xiang confronted Rain Elder. Rain Elder overwhelmed Li Xiang with the Rain Nourishment Great Dao, and Li Xiang launched a spear at his head, vowing to punch through the sky.

• Nirvana Sacred Elder used a Great Vehicle method to escape in heavenly fire after the Li Family defeated him, promising to return with a stronger Dao.
• Li Yaotie began forcing his way through the Dao Gate as a pillar of heavenly fire rose above Azure Cloud Prefecture, and Blue Ancestor realized the breakthrough was bait for Rain Elder.
• Li Xiang faced Rain Elder with the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock and his half-step Body Integration power while Li Kuanghua tried to restrain Dai Rou.
• Rain Elder dismissed Li Xiang and Li Yaotie, froze the rain across Azure Cloud Prefecture, and turned the raindrops into swords aimed at Li Xiang.
• Li Xiang hurled the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear at Rain Elder and vowed to punch a hole through the sky.

Rain Elder attacked Azure Cloud Prefecture and trapped Li Xiang in his Dao Realm, where his Life Control ability nearly overcame Li Xiang’s spatial laws. Li Xiang broke free long enough to strike Rain Elder and kept evading him as he waited for A Tie and called out to One Point Holy Monk.

• Zishu Ling'er escaped the Immortal Seed Grotto-Heaven and urged the fleeing invaders to regroup, believing Rain Elder would secure their victory.
• Li Jianshu and Li Jianning wondered whether the Li Family could defeat Rain Elder, then resolved to keep hunting down the invaders while their elders fought.
• Rain Elder trapped Li Xiang in his rain-filled Dao Realm and used Life Control to restrain him, mocking his reliance on spatial laws.
• Li Xiang fused multiple laws into the Yin-Yang Burst, broke Rain Elder’s restraint, kicked him, and stabbed at him with his silver spear.
• Rain Elder unleashed World-Nourishing and Life Control across his Dao Realm, while Li Xiang dodged and called for A Tie and One Point Holy Monk.

As Rain Elder attacked the Li Family, Li Changan failed to persuade One Point Holy Monk to help, while Li Yunlin defeated Ban Shu Ao and learned the monk was not coming. The Li Family’s forces prepared to face Rain Elder alone as Old Root and Li Kuanghua headed into battle.

• Li Yaoqing and Li Zhiheng learned from Li Changan’s message that One Point Holy Monk would not come, and they concluded he was weighing Rain Elder’s value as an ally against the Li Family’s survival.
• Li Yunlin killed Ban Shu Ao by cutting through the laws of his Void Refinement space, then learned from Old Cat that One Point Holy Monk had refused to help.
• Li Yaoqing ordered the Li Family to prepare to rely on themselves, while Old Tree raged over the monk’s betrayal.
• Li Kuanghua took Dai Rou onto Old Root’s back and challenged the divine dragon to follow her into battle against Rain Elder.

Li Xiang fought Rain Elder inside his Dao Domain, but Rain Elder overwhelmed and captured him, threatening to kill his descendants unless he revealed how to break the Dao Seed. As Rain Elder carried him away, Li Xiang’s descendants held their ground and Li Yaotie arrived with the power of the Heavenly Fire laws, ready to attack.

• One Point Holy Monk withdrew from the battle, leaving Li Xiang to face Rain Elder without the help the Li Family had expected.
• Rain Elder repeatedly destroyed Li Xiang’s body, seized the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear, and captured Li Xiang after nullifying his final attack.
• Rain Elder recognized that Li Xiang had kept the Mirror Surface barriers in place to protect his descendants, then threatened to kill them unless Li Xiang revealed how to break the Dao Seed.
• Li Xiang described how Li Yaotie had endured years of refining beneath the Heavenly Fire Divine Tree, and Rain Elder saw him approach the Dao Domain wreathed in flames.
• Li Xiang declared that his descendants no longer needed to rely on him, while the family fought the invaders across the other battlefronts.
• Li Xiang called for Li Yaotie to strike Rain Elder, then tried to bite him as Li Yaotie raised his flaming hammer.

As Rain Elder attacked the Li Family in the Dao realm, Li Xiang revealed that the family had spent three months preparing a trap and gathering power for a counterattack. The Li Family sealed the Dao realm around Rain Elder, leaving him to face Li Yaotie and the newly arrived descendants as the battle turned against him.

• Blue Ancestor abandoned his plans to flee and decided to see whether the Li Family could defeat the danger over Azure Cloud Prefecture.
• Consort Ji refused to abandon the Li Family and left One Point Holy Monk and the Grand Tower cultivators to go toward the battle.
• Li Yaotie broke through to Body Integration and attacked Rain Elder with the Heavenly Fire Great Dao while Old Tree channeled the Li Family’s power into him.
• Rain Elder learned that the Li Family Ancestor had used the Mirror Surface as a diversion and had prepared further defenses over three months.
• Seven Li Family descendants entered the Dao realm, and Li Yaotie regained his clarity as Li Xiang revealed that he had also reached Dao Integration.
• The Li Family sealed the entire Dao realm around Rain Elder, and Li Xiang challenged him to escape alive.

Li Xiang broke through to the Dao Peering Realm by opening the new Taiji Dao, then faced Rain Elder with the Yin-Yang Fish Diagram. Rain Elder tried to escape the encirclement, but Li Xiang confronted him with paired, opposing rules.

• Rain Elder unleashed Life Control, causing six members of the Iron Gate Seven to explode as Mad Blood Devil Lord and Li Yaotie attacked.
• Rain Elder stabbed Li Xiang, but the Yin-Yang Fish Diagram dissolved his Dao techniques and Li Xiang vanished through the Spatial Rule.
• Li Xiang gained enlightenment in Yin-Yang Polarity, broke open the Dao Gate, and reached the Dao Peering Realm with Taiji as his Dao.
• Li Xiang repeatedly reappeared around Rain Elder, using Taiji to dissolve his magical power while Rain Elder fought off the others and tried to escape.
• Li Xiang blocked Rain Elder and invoked more opposing rules around the Yin-Yang Fish Diagram, confronting him with Taiji's power to embrace all things.

Han Ju and Zishu Ling’er’s attempt to free Rain Elder failed when Consort Ji and Grand Tower intervened, while the Li Family completed its seal around Rain Elder’s Dao domain. One Point Holy Monk withdrew, and Blue Ancestor dealt with Vast Sky Immortal Master before returning to Eternal Immortal Sect.

• Han Ju and Zishu Ling’er approached the Li Family’s array, but Consort Ji and Grand Tower attacked their group and stopped their planned ambush.
• The Li Family elders recognized Grand Tower’s aid and focused on keeping Rain Elder sealed inside the Dao domain.
• After three days of fighting, Rain Elder pierced the Li Family Ancestor’s defense and tried to escape, but Old Tree’s seal stopped his spear at the domain wall.
• Li Xiang revealed that thousands of Li Family members and more than ten thousand cultivators from Azure Cloud Prefecture had gathered to reinforce the seal, and Li Yaotie declared that slaying a god was a delight.
• One Point Holy Monk left after sensing danger, while Blue Ancestor ordered Vast Sky Immortal Master to leave and returned toward Eternal Immortal Sect, relieved that the Li Family had spared him a calamity.

Qi Wunian and other allies rushed to Azure Cloud Prefecture, expecting to rescue the Li Family from a coordinated assault, but discovered the family had repelled the invaders and trapped Rain Elder. They accepted Butler Huang’s banquet invitation as the Li Family prepared to finish Rain Elder.

• Qi Wunian, Wang Jinhu, Duanmu Qi, Changsun Buhuo, Ahei, and others hurried toward Azure Cloud Prefecture while Ahei revealed the Empress’s schemes and Rain Elder’s suspected ties to her.
• As the group neared the prefecture, Ahei spotted its defenses and the others assumed the Li Family had been destroyed, until she told them the family was fine.
• Ahei showed them Azure Cloud Prefecture’s assembled forces, where the Li Family’s formation battled around a cocoon that held Rain Elder.
• Butler Huang interrupted Ahei’s spying technique, thanked the arrivals, and invited them to a banquet after dismissing the invaders as petty scoundrels.
• Ahei explained that the Li Family had trapped Rain Elder inside the tree cocoon and intended to kill him, so Drizzle Sword Venerable suggested they attend the banquet.

Li Xiang and his family survived Rain Elder’s invasion, but Rain Elder remained trapped in the Dao Realm as Li Xiang continued wearing him down. A year later, the Li Family’s growing strength was clear, and Li Yunlin had killed Ban Shu Ao while Drizzle Sword Venerable prepared to challenge him.

• Li Xiang and his allies fought Rain Elder for ten days inside the sealed Dao Realm, while the family’s defenders defeated most of the invading forces and Azure Cloud Prefecture’s factions captured survivors.
• Li Changan exposed Zishu Ling’er’s betrayal with a letter from her own family, and Mosquito Daoist took her away for the demon beasts of the Ethereal Immortal Grove.
• A year later, Li Xiang had reduced Rain Elder’s cultivation by at least twenty percent and reviewed how Li Zhiheng and Li Yaoqing had grown stronger during the battle.
• Li Yunlin had killed Ban Shu Ao with Litian Slash after their battle, and his feats earned him the trait Dao Path Keeper.
• Drizzle Sword Venerable recognized Li Yunlin as a formidable opponent and planned to challenge him after Rain Elder was dealt with.

The Li Family learned that Rain Elder was nearing death and gathered as Li Xiang and his allies faced him within the Dao Realm. Rain Elder recounted how a broken promise from His Majesty had shattered his faith, leaving Li Xiang conflicted as Rain Elder relived the glory he once believed awaited him.

• Li Xinghuo reported that outsiders had gathered around Azure Cloud Prefecture, and he had soul-searched and killed several of them.
• Li Changan received word that Rain Elder had reached his end and led the Li clan to the Dao Realm.
• Rain Elder explained that His Majesty had promised him godhood and immortality, but abandoned him after the Heavenly Court ceased fulfilling its duties.
• Rain Elder defended his rebellion and declared that he should have become a god, while Li Yaotie prepared to strike and Li Changan led the family away.
• Ahei and Blue Ancestor discussed Rain Elder’s motives, and Li Xiang realized he could no longer see Rain Elder as simply a false god.
• Rain Elder relived his vision of the Celestial Court, thanked His Majesty for immortal wine, and wished him eternal blessings and the realm prosperity.

A year after Rain Elder’s defeat, spiritual rain restored Azure Cloud Prefecture as the Li Family entered the ranks of high-ranking immortal clans. As Drizzle Sword Venerable stepped into the Dao, Li Xiang learned that Nirvana Sacred Elder had been born anew.

• Rain Elder dissolved into the Dao Realm, restoring spiritual energy and water to Azure Cloud Prefecture, while the Li Family gained the Immortal Clan for a Thousand Ages trait.
• Li Yaotie revealed that he had swallowed the Heavenly Fire Divine Tree, then collapsed and was found to be recovering safely.
• Ahei requested Rain Elder’s remains for the Human Emperor, and Li Changan secured a Storage Ring and the treasures on the remains for the Li Family before Ahei departed with the corpse.
• Drizzle Sword Venerable entered the gate of the Dao as the cultivators of Azure Cloud Prefecture watched.
• Li Yaoqing told Li Xiang that Nirvana Sacred Elder had been born, and the newborn cried after returning to the mortal realm.

Li Xiang’s family captured the reincarnated Nirvana Sacred Elder and learned that the Empress and Peerless Hall had interfered during the crisis in Azure Cloud Prefecture. After Li Xiang threatened Nirvana Sacred Elder into cooperating, he began questioning him about his old conflict with Min Tiange.

• Li Yaoqing tied up the newborn Nirvana Sacred Elder, covered him with itching powder, and brought him back to Merit City with Li Xiang.
• Li Xiang learned that the Empress had sent reclusive powers toward Heavenly Mediocrity Prefecture and that Peerless Hall had blocked Li Tianqi, Li Tianming, Li Changsheng, and Li Changyao from returning to Azure Cloud Prefecture.
• Li Xiang spent two days puzzling over why Wenren Xianyi seemed intent on destroying the Li Family, then learned that Nirvana Sacred Elder had started speaking.
• Li Zhiheng used the Soul-Control Lamp to draw out Nirvana Sacred Elder’s soul, and Li Xiang struck him down when he tried to insult the family.
• Li Xiang threatened Nirvana Sacred Elder with further punishment and demanded to know what he and Min Tiange had fought over in the Western Border and what Min Tiange’s path was.

Nirvana Sacred Elder revealed that Min Tiange wielded the Daos of light and shadow and explained how imperial factions were allowing his plans to advance. Li Xiang then appeared at the Heavenly Palace, where a report blamed the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion for the destruction of the Wenren Family’s back mountain, before he returned to Azure Cloud Prefecture and considered who might be behind Min Tiange.

• Nirvana Sacred Elder told Li Xiang that Min Tiange could evade traps with his Daos of light and shadow and was using the Blood Moon and Crown Prince Feiheng’s Corpse Stitching Art to pursue his ambitions.
• Nirvana Sacred Elder explained that factions in the imperial dynasty were watching Feiheng and Min Tiange for their own purposes, while the Blood Moon advanced toward the Endless Forest.
• Li Changan speculated that the Imperial Preceptor hated Min Tiange and that Ahei might be lying in wait for him, so Li Xiang vanished to investigate at the Heavenly Palace.
• The Heavenly Palace’s danger alarm sounded, and a Wenren Family messenger reported that their back mountain had been destroyed, leaving a Heavenly Secrets Pavilion token and a mask behind.
• Li Xiang returned to Azure Cloud Prefecture, saw Yao Tie tempering spears, and wondered who was secretly supporting Min Tiange.

After breaking through to the Body Integration Realm, Li Xiang discovered the potential of his Taiji Dao and witnessed his family building a Heavenly Fire Dao field. As his descendants ran out of spirit stones, Li Chang'an sent Li Xing火 and his wife toward the imperial palace with Wenren Xianyi's roster.

• Li Xiang recalled confronting Wenren Xianyi, who admitted she had helped use Rain Elder against the Li Family and urged them to leave the Southern Border.
• Li Xiang examined his Taiji Dao gate and learned that his rules could grow powerful enough to surpass Dao methods, while his two beginner divine abilities had already shattered Rain Elder's techniques.
• Li Xiang appeared beside Li Yaotie and saw the family constructing a Heavenly Fire Dao field, which granted the Li Family the Heavenly Fire Immortal Lineage trait.
• Li Yuanshang lamented that he had run out of spirit stones to build the Dao field, and Li Yaoqing told him they could ask others for more.
• Li Xiang regretted returning from the imperial palace empty-handed, so Li Chang'an gave Li Xing火 and his wife Wenren Xianyi's roster and sent them out to collect supplies.

Li Yaotie broke through to the Body Integration realm and began forging himself into the Li Family’s first spiritual treasure, drawing congratulations and political pressure from surrounding powers. As the family prepared to build the Heavenly Fire Dojo, Li Qiuming and Huang Xiujin considered the Li Family’s burdens while Duanmu Qi worried over a scheme to control its new Dao field.

• Li Xinghuo and Zishu Wandong demanded explanations from the factions that had invaded the Li Family, while Li Xinghuo collected compensation from Gao Qiangsheng and Ban Shu Ao’s sect.
• Li Yaotie absorbed the Heavenly Fire Great Dao, gained the Fire Ancestor trait, and resolved to refine his own body into a spiritual treasure.
• Factions sent invitations to honor the Li Family’s new Body Integration cultivator, and Li Qiuming prepared to receive them while Li Chuxiu went to forge concealed weapons.
• Huang Xiujin offered to speak to Li Qiuming’s elders about his future, but Li Qiuming refused to leave before addressing the family’s deep-rooted problems.
• Duanmu Qi and his fellow cultivators learned that letters urged them not to help the Li Family build a Dao field, and they discussed how such aid could bind a family to its benefactors.
• Li Yuanshang set out to sell the family’s seized resources, while Li Zhiheng showed the Nirvana Sacred Elder the supplies for the Heavenly Fire Dojo and Li Kuanghua insisted it would surpass Flame Mountain.

Li Xiang’s family learned from the reborn Nirvana Sacred Elder, while Li Xiang turned away forces demanding a banquet and examined the spoils left by Rain Elder. He discovered that Rain Elder’s Grudge Cup held an immense store of spiritual liquid refined from the resentment of people he had failed, leaving the Li Family with a powerful new resource.

• The Nirvana Sacred Elder advised Li Zhijing to build her Primordial Spirit around herself rather than pursue a half-demon path, then instructed other Li Family cultivators.
• Li Yaotie advanced his Heavenly Fire Dao Laws under the Sacred Elder’s guidance, and Li Xiang’s own Heavenly Fire Laws increased as well.
• Li Xiang received demands from powerful factions to host a banquet and establish Heavenly Fire Dojos in their territories, but he sent them away.
• Li Xiang sent Jian Ning and Jian Shu to ask about the Blue Ancestor and reviewed the treasures left by Rain Elder.
• Li Xiang examined Rain Elder’s damaged robe and discovered that the Grudge Cup contained vast spiritual liquid made from accumulated resentment.

Li Tianqi revealed that Tianyue’s remains concealed a grand array linked to Min Tiange and the Blood Moon, prompting the Li Family to flee the Western Border for Azure Cloud Prefecture. There, Li Xiang examined Rain Elder’s legacy and the family prepared to use its vast spiritual energy to strengthen their cultivators.

• Li Tianqi returned to the Golden Toad Divine Palace without Li Tianyi and warned the family that Tianyue had left behind clues to a hidden array beneath Great Yu Prefecture’s ley lines.
• Li Tianqi explained that the array connected to blood-qi across the Western Border and could drain cultivators or plant Dao Seeds, so Li Dalong ordered the family to leave.
• The Golden Toad Divine Palace carried the Li Family out of the Western Border while Li Changsheng warned Li Changyao not to reveal what they had learned.
• Li Xiang reviewed the mysterious grand array and Min Tiange’s threat, then watched the returning family members gather outside Merit City.
• Li Yaoqing revealed that Rain Elder’s resentment-gathering cup held enough spiritual energy to rapidly raise the family’s cultivators, and Li Xiang prepared to pit that legacy against Min Tiange’s schemes.

Li Xiang’s clan gained strength from Rain Elder’s spirit fluid while Li Jianning warned Blue Ancestor about the Empress’s plans and discovered Li Chuyuan was wanted. In Heavenly Mediocrity Prefecture, Li Chuyuan joined Peerless Hall’s preparations to conquer the Western Border and learned that the command envoy was the Fox Saint, who claimed old ties to the Azure Cloud Li Family.

• Li Yaoqing distributed Rain Elder’s spirit fluid as Li Xiang watched his descendants advance their cultivation and then entered seclusion.
• Li Jianning told Blue Ancestor that the Empress was massing troops to turn the Southern Border into a land of death, and Blue Ancestor promised to deal with her.
• Blue Ancestor offered Li Jianning the Yin-Yang Reversal Art, but Li Jianning fled after hearing it required him to sacrifice his yang energy.
• Li Jianning found a wanted notice for Li Chuyuan, who had fled after the Immortal Sect uncovered Peerless Hall spies within its ranks.
• In Heavenly Mediocrity Prefecture, Li Chuyuan brooded over the Li Family’s growing power before joining thousands of Peerless Hall members preparing for battle.
• The command envoy promoted Li Chuyuan to commander, revealed Peerless Hall intended to conquer the Western Border, and identified himself as the Fox Saint with old ties to the Li Family.

After the banquet, the Li Family’s descendants cultivated and made breakthroughs while Li Xiang worried about their paths to the Dao. Li Yunbing settled into seclusion, then began investigating Ban Shu Ao’s plans and earned a dangerous new trait, leaving Li Xiang wondering what he intended to do.

• The Drizzle Sword Venerable repaid Li Yaozu by turning his rain into a blessing for Azure Cloud Prefecture, and Li Yaozu gained the Heart Is Its Own Sword trait after taking his advice about the Dao.
• Li Yaoqing reached the peak of the Void Refinement Realm, while Li Xiang resolved to deal with whoever occupied the Dao of vegetation.
• Li Changyao strengthened her Ice Phoenix Bloodline, and Li Changan awakened the Flame Lord Bloodline as he broke through to the Void Refinement Realm.
• Li Dalong reprimanded Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya for eating people, then took Li Xinnian to the underworld to eat ghosts instead.
• Li Yunbing learned from Patriarch Tianye that Ban Shu Ao planned to seize Ban Shu Weide’s Dao of Cloud, and he asked Tianye to watch Ban Shu Weide and investigate his cultivation method.
• Li Yunbing searched for formations to seize opportunities and fate, spoke with Li Tianqi, and gained the Mastermind Behind the Scenes trait, prompting Li Xiang to ask what he was planning.

Li Xiang’s family celebrated Li Changan’s righteous breakthrough and watched the imperial dynasty win victories, while Ba Siyu discovered that the Western Border’s Blood Moon had already compromised people around him. By Year 900, the Li descendants debated the spreading threat and the Human Emperor’s inaction, and Li Xiang declared his interest in the Blood Moon.

• Li Changan reached Void Refinement through the True Yang Dao, and Li Dalong proudly took him to worship at the Ancestral Hall.
• Li Dalong kicked descendants he considered crooked-hearted, prompting complaints that Li Xiang read through the ancestral spirit tablets.
• The imperial dynasty won major victories against the Demon Race and the Witch Tribe, while Ba Siyu learned that Zhou Chengli had been corrupted by the Blood Moon and received orders to confront the Witch Tribe’s Rising Sun Sacred Elder.
• Li Kuanghua advanced along her Buddhist and demonic path by spreading teachings and gaining followers beneath the Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree.
• Li Xinghuo reported that the Human Emperor had ignored warnings about the Western Border formation, while Li Dalong urged the family to do what they could and Li Xiang insisted they control their own fate.