Chapter Summaries

The Li Family discussed Peerless Hall’s dao seeds and Min Tiange’s growing influence as a survivor brought them news from a slaughtered battlefield. In the Western Border, Min Tiange tried to recruit Spear Saint Gu Fenghua, but Gu Fenghua refused and attacked him.

• Li Yunbing led the Li Family in assessing Peerless Hall, the dao seeds’ influence, and their plan to strike its leaders while remaining hidden.
• Huang Xiujin brought a dying survivor to Merit City, and the Li Family learned they had arrived too late to prevent a massacre.
• Min Tiange and three other Body Integration cultivators confronted Gu Fenghua on the battlefield and offered him a dao seed.
• Min Tiange revealed that the empress knew about his dao seeds and was interested in his power over the Witch Tribe.
• Gu Fenghua rejected Min Tiange’s offer, condemned the imperial dynasty’s greed and cowardice, and attacked with his spear.

Li Yunlin confronted Zhou Chengli over the Spear Saint’s death and learned that Zhou had long carried a Dao Seed and joined a movement seeking to overthrow the imperial dynasty. Li Yunlin revealed his Half-Step Fusion strength, rejected Zhou’s cause, and killed the ambushers while warning Zhou to flee.

• A Western Border commander told Li Yunlin that the Spear Saint had died in battle after Lord Ba Siyu failed to reach him in time.
• Li Yunlin accused Zhou Chengli of letting the Spear Saint die and challenged his account of the rescue attempt.
• Zhou Chengli revealed that he had carried a Dao Seed since before the Blood Moon and explained his plan to build a new dynasty with Peerless Hall.
• Li Yunlin exposed his Half-Step Fusion cultivation, refused to join Zhou, and declared that he would kill anyone from Peerless Hall he encountered.
• Li Yunlin swept through the ambushers with his spear and spared Zhou only long enough to tell him to flee.

Li Xiang confronted Min Tiange and Peerless Hall beneath the Blood Moon after Li Yunlin escaped their ambush. He refused Min Tiange’s Dao Seed and chose to fight, defending the Li Family’s hope for a peaceful future.

• Li Yunlin annihilated over a hundred Peerless Hall ambushers with Litian Slash, killing an early-stage Void Refinement cultivator before leaving the Western Border.
• Min Tiange confronted Li Xiang alongside Ba Siyu, He Qianxia, and Hongzhen, and accused the Li Family of breaking their supposed alliance.
• Min Tiange offered Li Xiang a Dao Seed and revealed that the Empress had appointed him Marshal of the Western Border, but Li Xiang rejected the offer.
• Li Xiang crushed the Dao Seed, summoned Rain Elder’s Nourishing Wave-Stilling Spear, and condemned Min Tiange’s ambitions and the suffering they brought the Li Family.
• Min Tiange threatened that Azure Cloud Prefecture would have no future unless Li Xiang swallowed another Dao Seed, and Li Xiang roared that the Li Family would fight for its future.

Li Xiang escaped the Western Border cultivators by tricking them and raiding Ba Siyu’s lair, where he discovered that the Blood Moon affected both people’s behavior and Min Tiange’s power. After a month of pursuit, he confronted Min Tiange at the border and concluded that the Dao Seed was in the Blood Moon and that Min Tiange had fallen into the Dao’s snare.

• Li Xiang feigned an attack on Min Tiange, then escaped while Min Tiange pursued him and Ba Siyu realized his lair was the real target.
• Li Xiang reached Ba Siyu’s lair, where frenzied soldiers attacked him; he killed them, seized the lair’s contents, and noticed Min Tiange’s aura rose and fell with his gaze at the Blood Moon.
• Li Xiang battled Min Tiange across the Blood Moon’s territory for a month before reaching its edge, where he found the afflicted cultivators unable to cross beyond its reach.
• Li Xiang told Min Tiange that the Dao Seed was in the sky, identified the Blood Moon as the trap controlling him, and left while Min Tiange said no one could escape.

After escaping the Western Border Blood Moon, Li Xiang traveled to the Northern Border and asked Min Youguo for help as he investigated the Dao Seed’s origins and the Empress’s plans. Min Youguo agreed to send Ahei to assist the Li Family and revealed that the Empress’s true target was Blue Ancestor, while removing a Dao Seed from Li Xiang.

• Li Xiang left the Western Border, inspected his spoils—including Gu Fenghua’s corpse, the Spirit-Transmitting Smoky Gourd, and the Enlightenment Gold Chapter—and continued north.
• Li Xiang met Min Youguo playing chess with Linjiu and complained that the Western Border Blood Moon had driven its people mad.
• Min Youguo explained that the imperial dynasty depended on him staying in place and compared the Blood Moon’s expanding cage to the Longevity Zhao Family’s Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts.
• Min Youguo told Li Xiang that the Dao Seeds and other corrupting powers had been left by immortals, and said the Empress had cooperated with the Western Border to reach Blue Ancestor.
• Min Youguo promised to have Ahei help the Li Family, then extracted a tiny Dao Seed from Li Xiang; Li Xiang protested that he had not fallen for the trap and departed.

Li Xiang returned to the Lineage with unsettling discoveries about the Imperial Dynasty, the Dao Seed, and divine immortal objects, then shared gifts with Li Yaoqing before falling asleep. As the Blood Moon spread and the Empress forced the Li Family from the Imperial Capital, Li Dalong organized the family’s response and vowed to defend Azure Cloud Prefecture; at the Eternal Immortal Sect, Blue Ancestor revealed that the Empress planned to kill him publicly.

• Li Xiang investigated the Imperial Dynasty, realized that powerful figures possessed divine immortal objects, and returned to Merit City burdened by what he had learned.
• Li Xiang gave Li Yaoqing a Storage Ring, talked with him about family matters, and fell asleep while Yaoqing massaged his shoulders.
• Li Dalong assigned Li Tianqi and other descendants tasks concerning the Blood Moon, the Spear Saint’s remains, and the Immortal Child, then told them to inform Blue Ancestor of the Imperial Preceptor’s words.
• Li Dalong and Xu Cuihua reflected on their family’s history and the threat of the Blood Moon, and Li Dalong vowed to protect everyone in Azure Cloud Prefecture.
• The Iron Gate Seven visited Blue Ancestor at the Eternal Immortal Sect, and he said the Empress wanted him dead and wanted the world to know it.

Li Yundou learned that Blue Ancestor was the third Dao Ancestor and that the empress wanted him dead to seize control of the Great Daos. As the Blood Moon threatened the Southern and Western Borders in three hundred years, the Li Family prepared to grow stronger, while Li Yaozu set out to walk the world and test his sword again.

• Blue Ancestor explained how the Human Emperor and Dao Ancestor arose to restrain rulers, then revealed that the empress wanted to kill him and claim the Great Daos.
• Li Yundou noticed Blue Ancestor was hanging from a tree in a huge bundle.
• Li Yaozu asked Old Tree for an omen, but Fang Linglong urged him to travel the world again, teach swordsmanship, and challenge its Swordsmen; he agreed.
• Li Xiang woke and learned from the panel that the Blood Moon would reach the Western Border in three hundred years and that Blue Ancestor was the third Dao Ancestor.
• Li Yaoqing reported the Household's progress and prepared to refine pills to improve comprehension, while Li Xiang resolved to help the family build its strength.
• Dongfang Xuan watched Li Xiang and Li Yaoqing at the furnace and concluded that the Li Family could not afford to lose.

Li Xiang watched his descendants advance while the Li family strengthened itself during years of quiet preparation. The chapter ended with Li Yaoqing asking the mysterious six-leaf grass to let him live longer, then remembering his childhood with his siblings and parents.

• Li Xiang watched Li Yaotie improve his Heavenly Fire Dao Principle while forging, and Li Yaotie created Blood Sea Armament for Li Dalong and gained a powerful Hell Right Leg.
• Li Dalong returned from the Underworld, discovered the secret of Li Yaotie's leg, and made the Fire Ancestor howl in the Heavenly Fire Dojo.
• Mosquito Daoist reached the Void Refinement Realm, and he and Xu Cuihua discussed whether to seek out the Fox Saint while Li Dalong listened nearby.
• Li Xiang cultivated beside Li Yaoqing and raised his Wood Law progress as Li Yaoqing refined Insight Pills and learned that those holding the Dao for him were in the Central Plains.
• Li Yaoqing asked the six-leaf grass within his dantian to let him live longer, and the grass swayed before he recalled his family comforting him as a child.

Li Yunlin gained fame across the realm while refusing Blue Ancestor’s offer to meet, and Blue Ancestor reflected on the Blood Moon’s mature Dao seed and the coming threat. Years later, Li Xinri fled Azure Cloud Prefecture, inferred that the Li Family was preparing for a catastrophe, and ended up imprisoned at Heavenly Mountain after trying to join it, where he asked them to tell his daughter he had finally made something of himself.

• Li Yunlin gained two more laws, earned the titles Crown Prince of the Southern Border and Immortal Way Daoist, and refused Blue Ancestor’s invitation to meet.
• Blue Ancestor lamented the Li Family’s disdain, examined the Blood Moon and its mature Dao seed, and questioned whether the Human Emperor and he could suppress the immortals.
• By Year 930, Li Xinri reached peak Spirit Transformation, received a fourth-rank Heavenly Fire from Li Yaotie, and gained the Fire Ancestor’s Bestowal trait.
• Li Xinri secretly left Azure Cloud Prefecture, realized the family was preparing for the Blood Moon’s advance, and decided to protect his daughter.
• Li Xinri went to Heavenly Mountain hoping to cultivate there and make allies, but its attendants suspected him of being a spy and imprisoned him.
• Li Xinri asked the Heavenly Mountain elder and attendants to send word to his daughter that her father had finally made something of himself.

Li Xiang discovered that Heavenly Mountain was a graveyard where Jiuyou lived on as a heroic spirit, and he chose not to tell Li Yunlin. Years later, the Li Family grew stronger, while Li Tianqi revealed that someone had claimed Gu Fenghua’s spear Dao.

• Li Xiang went to Heavenly Mountain after learning Li Xinri had joined and found Zhang Heng secretly testing the young disciple.
• Li Xiang discovered that Jiuyou had died and returned to Heavenly Mountain as a heroic spirit, and he decided not to reveal the truth to Li Yunlin.
• Li Xinri received a warning from his ancestor to cultivate properly, endure bullying, and respect his seniors.
• By Year 950, Li Xiang observed the family’s growing strength as Li Tianming and Li Xinjue reached the Void Refinement Realm.
• Li Tianqi told Li Xiang that someone had taken Gu Fenghua’s spear Dao and revealed that Gu Fenghua’s corpse held his natal spirit treasure.

As Blood Moon spread toward Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, Ban Shu Qingping prepared to retreat after regretting that his clan had ignored the Azure Cloud Li Family’s warning. A masked group claiming to be the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion tried to kill him, but a timid talisman master wearing the same kind of mask intervened, leaving Ban Shu Qingping unsure who truly belonged to the Pavilion.

• Li Changan mourned Gu Fenghua’s death and condemned the imperial dynasty for exploiting his sacrifice with a posthumous title.
• At a banquet, Li Xinghuo told the gathered forces that Azure Cloud people would stand and fight when Blood Moon came, and he vowed to be at the forefront.
• A century later, Blood Moon reached Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, and Ban Shu Qingping ordered his clansmen to urge their clan to retreat to Single-Name Prefecture and contact the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• More than a dozen masked attackers surrounded Ban Shu Qingping and declared themselves members of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, demanding that he die.
• A timid young talisman master appeared between Ban Shu Qingping and the attackers, donned a matching smiling-face mask, and claimed to be protecting him.

Li Tianming used his talismans and shifting personalities to confront the Thunder Lord and protect Ban Shu Qingping’s group from the fake Heavenly Secrets Pavilion members. As Li Xiang continued cultivating, the chapter also showed He Hao living peacefully with Consort Ji and reflecting on the disciples he had taught.

• The Thunder Lord revealed that he knew Li Tianming’s identity and attacked Li Tianming and Ban Shu Qingping with his thunderbirds.
• Li Tianming scattered hundreds of powerful talismans, transforming his Void Refinement space and creating more than a thousand clones.
• Li Tianming’s different personalities appeared in succession as he fought the Thunder Lord, leaving the masked attackers terrified and confused.
• Li Changan meditated before the Spear Saint’s spear while Li Xiang watched a report that Li Tianming had confronted the Thunder Lord.
• He Hao and Consort Ji tended their Spirit Field, and He Hao recalled teaching Li Tianming and Li Tianqi.

Li Tianming defeated Thunder Lord and learned that Peerless Hall had infiltrated Heavenly Rampart Prefecture while searching for an immortal hidden there. Ban Shu Qingping revealed the Ban Shu Family’s guarded secret, but the family head transformed into a monstrous immortal’s lackey and forced them to flee.

• Li Tianming used fourth-grade talismans and his many personalities to defeat Thunder Lord inside the Void-Refining space.
• Li Tianming told Ban Shu Qingping that Thunder Lord was a Peerless Hall member and warned that spies had infiltrated Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, then collected payment from the survivors.
• Ban Shu Qingping said he believed Blood Moon was a Dao Seed that allowed immortals to reincarnate, though he did not know why it was expanding southward.
• Ban Shu Qingping took Li Tianming to a hidden realm where a strange infant fed on people through underground tentacles, and explained that the Ban Shu Family had guarded it for generations.
• Ban Shu Qingping suspected the infant was an immortal and that Peerless Hall was searching for it, but Ban Shu Weide discovered them and emerged as a monstrous immortal’s lackey, forcing them to flee.

Li Tianming reported the immortal hidden by the Ban Shu Family and learned that Peerless Hall had infiltrated Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, while the Li Family weighed evacuation and the threat of the Blood Moon. As Azure Cloud prepared for war, the Drizzle Sword Venerable advanced into the Dao and the Martial Emperor’s practice stirred a revelation in Li Yuanshang.

• Li Tianming told Ban Shu Qingping that the Li Family had once fought an existence more powerful than the Ban Shu Family’s infant immortal, then warned him that Heavenly Rampart Prefecture could not be defended and urged its people to evacuate.
• Ban Shu Qingping lamented the devastation of his prefecture, while Li Tianming said they would also deal with Peerless Hall as they returned to his family.
• Li Qiuming informed the Li Family elders that Li Tianming had saved Ban Shu Qingping and discovered an immortal in the Ban Shu Family’s secret ground; Xuanji reported that the Blood Moon’s influence had transformed one of his old friends.
• Li Changyao proposed capturing an immortal, while Li Kuangren stressed evacuating Heavenly Rampart Prefecture and Li Changsheng suggested using Peerless Hall’s pursuit of the Ban Shu immortal to trap its members.
• The Drizzle Sword Venerable advanced into the Dao as he watched the Martial Emperor practice, and Li Yuanshang reflected that his elder brother had believed Heaven unfairly denied him the martial path.

Li Zhiheng learned that the Sacred Master Martial Academy was killing civilians in Heavenly Rampart Prefecture while he struggled to keep the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts under control. Li Tianming and Ban Shu Qingping returned to Heavenly Mediocrity City as Li Xiang prepared to confront the hidden forces at Old Lord Valley.

• Li Zhiheng spoke with the ghostly family of three at a ruined breakfast stall, learned that the Sacred Master Martial Academy had killed their daughter, and left them yellow paper before heading toward the academy.
• Li Zhiheng argued with the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, refusing to avenge the dead as it demanded and offering instead to teach it how to be an immortal.
• Li Tianming told Ban Shu Qingping that the Sacred Master Martial Academy had been killing civilians and that another force might be imitating the Western Border's blood rituals to summon a god.
• Li Tianming and Ban Shu Qingping entered Heavenly Mediocrity City, where Li Tianming revealed that Peerless Hall had heavily infiltrated Old Lord Valley.
• Li Xiang confronted Li Chuyuan and the assembled Old Lord Valley disciples, then resolved to see what threat the immortals posed alongside the Li Family's three Body Integration cultivators.

Li Chuyuan regretted joining Peerless Hall and begged his ancestor for help, while Li Xiang watched silently as the Blood Moon crisis drew the Li Family and their allies toward Heavenly Rampart Prefecture. The chapter left the prefecture’s leaders stunned as Ban Shu Qingping returned and took his seat, while Li Tianming struggled to contain his anger at being overshadowed.

• Li Chuyuan learned that Peerless Hall members in Heavenly Rampart Prefecture would eventually lose themselves beneath the Blood Moon, then prayed to his ancestor and smashed his spirit tablet when no answer came.
• Li Xiang watched Li Chuyuan’s breakdown and received ten points of Family Will from his descendant’s worship.
• Li Yunlin, Red Sleeve Fairy, Phantom Ghost, Taotie, and allied forces gathered outside Heavenly Rampart Prefecture as the Li Family prepared for battle and handed out ancestral tablets.
• Leaders in Heavenly Mediocrity City argued over whether to retreat or trust the imperial court, while Zhang Jing and the Great Elder of Old Lord Valley accused each other’s factions of aiding Peerless Hall.
• Ban Shu Qingping entered the great hall and approached the empty Prefecture Lord’s seat, as Li Tianming fought the urge to attack him for taking credit.

Li Tianming used a barrage of talismans to destroy the hall and kill the First Elder while rescuing Ban Shu Qingping. Li Zhiheng warned Heavenly Rampart Prefecture to evacuate ahead of the Blood Moon, then stopped Zhang Jing from leaving and considered killing her.

• Ban Shu Qingping told the gathered cultivators that the imperial court had deceived them and would send no reinforcements against the Blood Moon.
• Li Tianming scattered immobilization and sealing talismans, summoned twenty-four vicious ghosts, and bombarded the hall with talisman-covered magical implements.
• The blast destroyed the hall and killed the First Elder, while Li Tianming and Ban Shu Qingping escaped above it.
• Li Zhiheng warned the cultivators to evacuate to Single Name and Xilang within three months and ordered Old Lord Valley to purge Peerless Hall's people.
• Li Zhiheng prevented Zhang Jing from leaving and said he was considering whether to kill her.

The Sacred Master Martial Academy and Old Lord Valley prepared to purge Heavenly Rampart Prefecture as the Li Family’s actions destabilized the region. Linghu Xian forced a Dao Seed into Linghu Tiangong, while the Fox Saint watched and reflected on the Blood Moon’s ancient hold over his people.

• The First Teacher learned that Li Tianming had killed Old Lord Valley’s Grand Elder and discussed the coming slaughter in Heavenly Mediocrity with the other teachers and the Library Pavilion’s young man.
• The young man declared Heavenly Mediocrity his immortal domain and used a book to absorb a mortal world trapped within its pages.
• Linghu Tiangong pleaded with Linghu Xian to abandon the pursuit of immortality, but Linghu Xian forced a Dao Seed into his mouth and ordered him to slaughter people.
• The Fox Saint’s commander reported that the academy’s five masters had left and ordered Peerless Hall to kill intruders in Heavenly Rampart Prefecture.
• Li Chuyuan begged the Fox Saint to save him from becoming a Blood Moon monster, and the Fox Saint recalled how the shrine’s sacrifices had left him the last surviving fox.

As Earth’s ancient factions prepared for war and Li Kuangtu emerged from the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, Xiao Qingling was tasked with tracking the supposedly vanished enemies of humanity. In Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, Li Zhiheng revealed that the Li Family’s mission was not merely to rescue people, but to devour their enemies.

• Grandma Ling explained that the villa district’s inheritors had been protecting Li Xiang and that his adulthood would break the ancient contract, while Yuexian said he would return when hungry.
• Li Kuangtu emerged from the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts and rode toward Earth as an ancient voice spoke from within the heart.
• The director told Xiao Qingling that the Li Family’s enemies had not died and ordered her to find them by investigating the broken Dao Seeds.
• Zhang Jing confronted Li Zhiheng and explained that Heavenly Rampart Prefecture’s families sought immortality by consuming people, while the Martial Academy’s Third and Sixth Gentlemen approached.
• Li Zhiheng admitted that he had been waiting for Zhang Jing’s allies to gather, and the hidden Li clan members and Azure Cloud Prefecture cultivators moved to attack across Heavenly Rampart Prefecture.

Li Zhiheng confronted the Martial Academy’s three Sirs while Li Tianming and Ban Shu Qingping escaped the Mortal World Realm. After the Sirs unleashed their full power, Li Zhiheng revealed a gigantic heart filled with the bodies of the Zhao Family, Ban Shu Ao, and other experts, leaving the Sirs convinced they faced an immortal.

• Second Sir, Third Sir, and Sixth Sir joined forces to create a Mortal World Realm, trapping Li Zhiheng while Li Tianming took Ban Shu Qingping to safety.
• Li Tianming told Ban Shu Qingping that the three Sirs could not leave, while Li Zhiheng remained alone inside the realm.
• Second Sir and the other Sirs planned a combined attack, and Li Zhiheng seized a patch of land from their Mortal World Realm, saying he had found what he sought.
• The three Sirs absorbed the realm’s inhabitants and unleashed their strongest attacks, flattening the city without Li Zhiheng defending himself.
• A gigantic heart emerged from the flattened ground, releasing Zhao Family members, Ban Shu Ao, and other experts as Li Zhiheng appeared atop it and declared that he was hungry.
• Second Sir recognized Li Zhiheng as an immortal and urged the others to run.