Chapter Summaries

Mortal World Immortal fled the Sacred Master Martial Academy after sensing Li Zhiheng’s Divine Heart, while Li Xiang and Li Xinghuo found only the records she left behind. In the Mortal World Realm, Li Zhiheng used his growing control of the Divine Heart to trap Third Sir in an illusion and began turning the battle against the martial academy’s sirs.

• Mortal World Immortal sensed the enormous heart from the Azure Cloud Li Family and left the academy with the book boy.
• Li Xinghuo and Li Xiang arrived at the empty Library Pavilion, where they found a book recording Heavenly Rampart Prefecture’s history and wondered whether Mortal World Immortal had ordered the killings.
• Li Zhiheng’s Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts granted him new traits and spells as he continued to control it and fight the academy’s sirs.
• Li Zhiheng trapped Sixth Sir in his Soul Inner Realm, prompting Third Sir to unleash a massive punch that seemed to destroy the heart.
• Li Zhiheng revealed that Third Sir, not Sixth Sir, had been trapped in the Soul Inner Realm, leaving Third Sir alone and calling for Mortal World Immortal to save him.

Li Zhiheng subdued three Martial Academy Masters with the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, and their captured knowledge revealed the tangled plans of Heavenly Rampart Prefecture's powers. After Li Zhiheng collapsed from exhaustion, Li Xiang prepared to handle the remaining Masters and continue the clan's search for power.

• Li Zhiheng controlled the three Martial Academy Masters through the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts and learned that his power made him a half-immortal.
• Li Xiang learned that Mortal World Immortal had shaped Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, while the Masters, Linghu Xian, Ban Shu Ao, and the Immortal Nascent Soul pursued conflicting plans for immortality and survival.
• The sixth master denied ordering massacres and said he had planned to devour the Immortal Nascent Soul, Peerless Hall, and Old Lord Valley, while the other two Masters denied responsibility for the killings.
• Li Zhiheng asked Li Xiang how to deal with the three captured Masters, and Li Xiang left the decision to him.
• Li Xiang received a Family Will report describing how the three Masters' Mortal World Realms and teachings could benefit the clan, then decided to seek the other Masters.
• Li Zhiheng collapsed from exhaustion after maintaining the Masters' imprisonment for three days, and Li Xiang summoned a nearby clan member and said the elders would take over.

Li Xiang examined the martial academy gentlemen’s seized treasures and discovered a bridge that could improve cultivators’ spiritual roots, while the remaining gentlemen grew suspicious of one another and reconsidered their plans. Li Tianqi tracked a watchdog toward Old Lord Valley as the Li family weighed whether to confront Ban Shu Weide, and Li Yundou joked that he could become an empress.

• Li Xiang found the Blind-Crossing Bridge among the gentlemen’s spoils and planned to save their Literary Dao treasures for Yaowen.
• First Gentleman, Fourth Gentleman, and Fifth Gentleman debated the vanished gentlemen, accused one another of possible betrayal, and decided to let the Li family and their rivals clash while they waited to seize an advantage.
• Li Tianqi traced a fresh crack in the earth to the watchdog’s path toward Old Lord Valley, then set out to search for the remaining martial academy gentlemen.
• Li Yunlin and Li Yunbing discussed Ban Shu Weide and the Celestial Immortal watchdog accompanying him, while Li Yunlin argued that the Li family had enough allies to confront them.
• Li Yundou agreed without hearing the conversation, then boasted that he could become the Imperial Preceptor and claimed there was still an Empress above the Human Emperor.

Li Tianming tried to recruit Linghu Tiangong to help Old Lord Valley resist the Blood Moon, while Li Yuanshang and Ban Shu Qingping faced the flight from Heavenly Rampart Prefecture. Ban Shu Qingping chose to head toward Old Lord Valley, then vanished from others’ sight as he entered a thriving city.

• Li Tianming startled Linghu Tiangong into fleeing, then met him in a cave and urged him to cooperate against the Blood Moon.
• Linghu Tiangong questioned Li Tianming’s confidence, and Li Tianming insulted Old Lord Valley, provoking him to drive Li Tianming away.
• At the border, Li Yuanshang discussed Heavenly Rampart Prefecture’s ruin with Ban Shu Qingping while cultivators fled into Azure Cloud Prefecture.
• Li Yuanshang learned that Ban Shu Weide and the watchdog were heading to Old Lord Valley, while his own ancestors followed them.
• Ban Shu Qingping stepped toward Old Lord Valley, disappeared from view, and entered a prosperous city; Li Jianguo later told Li Yuanshang he had not seen Ban Shu Qingping at all.

Li Yaotie, Martial Emperor, Drizzle Sword Venerable, and Phantom Ghost surrounded Old Lord Valley while its cultivators panicked over their planted Dao Seeds. A Li Family ancestor arrived through spatial mirrors and demanded that Linghu Xian choose between remaining human or becoming immortal, warning that time was running out.

• Li Yaotie and Martial Emperor took positions outside Old Lord Valley and warned its cultivators to turn back.
• Martial Emperor, Phantom Ghost, and Drizzle Sword Venerable discussed their reasons for fighting and agreed they could trust one another.
• Li Chuyuan pleaded with the Fire Ancestor to remove his Dao Seed, but Li Yaotie silenced him and continued watching the valley.
• Linghu Tiangong confronted Linghu Xian about the four Li Family Body Integration cultivators, while Linghu Xian and Fox Saint remained confident in his pursuit of immortality.
• A Li Family ancestor opened spatial mirrors above Old Lord Valley, bringing more Body Integration pressure and demanding that Linghu Xian choose whether to be human or immortal.

The Li Family Ancestor used his new Space Gate art to bring the Southern Border’s powerful cultivators to Old Lord Valley, where Linghu Xian prepared to resist them. Linghu Tiangong chose to help Li Tianming break Old Lord Valley’s formation from within, hoping to spare its younger generation.

• The Li Family Ancestor opened Space Gates and brought cultivators from across the Southern Border to surround Old Lord Valley.
• Li Xiang reflected on the allied forces, including Changsun Feng, Lin Yunzhi, and Xuanyuan Liqun, and the Li Family’s breakthrough in spatial laws.
• The Fox Saint urged Linghu Xian to surrender, but Linghu Xian rejected the offer and chose to fight.
• Linghu Tiangong left Linghu Xian and went to meet Li Tianming and the others behind Old Lord Valley.
• Linghu Tiangong offered to guide Li Tianming’s group to the formation’s junctions and help them break it, asking them to spare Old Lord Valley’s younger generation.

The Li Family and their allies entered Old Lord Valley after its grand formation appeared to break, while Li Tianming discovered that Linghu Tiangong had only pretended to betray the valley. The formation recovered around the invading cultivators, trapping them as Linghu Xian and the valley's forces closed in.

• Li Xiang gave Linghu Xian a deadline to surrender as the assembled cultivators prepared to break Old Lord Valley's formation.
• Changsun Feng assessed the Li Family's formidable experts and wondered what method they had prepared to breach the formation.
• Li Tianming broke one of the formation bases with Linghu Tiangong's help, but Linghu Tiangong immediately ambushed him and revealed he had never betrayed his sect or old ancestor.
• Li Xiang led the allied cultivators into Old Lord Valley after its formation seemed to collapse.
• Linghu Xian remained calm as the formation began to recover, and the Fox Saint warned the trapped cultivators that they had fallen into a trap.

The three prefectures’ forces fell into Old Lord Valley’s restored formation while the Martial Academy and Ban Shu Weide watched for their own chance to act. Inside the valley, Linghu Tiangong revealed that he had deceived Li Tianming, whose true nature surfaced as they faced each other.

• The grand formation reappeared after the Body Integration Realm cultivators entered Old Lord Valley, trapping them as Changsun Buhuo, Dongfang Xuan, and the other cultivators outside ordered a retreat.
• Ban Shu Weide waited underground with the Immortal Nascent Soul, intending to seize Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, and learned that the Martial Academy’s Mortal World Immortal had vanished.
• The three Martial Academy gentlemen suspected Fox Saint of plotting to become a Mahayana and resolved to use the battle to bring the three prefectures under their Mortal World Realm.
• Linghu Tiangong told Li Tianming that he had exposed and killed the Li Family’s spies, including the two Fourth Aunts, and had used his apparent despair as bait.
• Linghu Tiangong explained that he had sincerely opposed Peerless Hall but followed Linghu Xian and his clansmen after they swallowed Dao Seeds; Li Tianming put on a mask and answered him coldly.

Li Xiang and his allies were trapped in Old Lord Valley by Linghu Xian and the Fox Saint, who planned to force them to accept Dao Seeds. Li Xiang launched an attack on the two leaders, and his companions charged into the battle as the chapter ended.

• Li Xiang and his companions entered Old Lord Valley and found themselves surrounded by the disciples’ formations, while Changsun Feng and Xuanyuan Liqun considered their chances of escape.
• The Fox Saint explained that Old Lord Valley had lured them into a trap to remove the Southern Border’s leadership, and Li Xiang spoke to him about Cuihua and the Fox Clan’s legacy.
• Linghu Xian revealed that Min Tiange’s Dao Seeds were the captives’ supposed path to survival, demanding they accept them and kneel beneath the Blood Moon.
• Li Xiang asked his companions to fight, and Phantom Ghost, the Drizzle Sword Venerable, the Martial Emperor, Li Yaotie, Li Kuanghua, and Dai Rou prepared to attack.
• Li Xiang used his spear, the Yin-Yang Diagram, and his laws to strike at Linghu Xian and the Fox Saint, while his allies charged into the surging Dao arts.

Li Xiang fought Linghu Xian inside his Dao Realm while the others battled Old Lord Valley’s formation and the Fox Saint. As Linghu Xian’s Dao Seed began struggling for control of his body, Li Xiang rejected his offer of power and demanded that he reveal the entity within him.

• Li Xiang’s Yin-Yang Burst tested Old Lord Valley’s defenses, while its disciples activated their formation and summoned a powerful old man.
• Changsun Feng and Li Yaotie moved to hold back Old Lord Valley’s grand formation as the Fox Saint and Linghu Xian faced the cultivators from the three prefectures.
• Xuanyuan Liqun helped free Li Xiang from the Fox Saint’s ice, and Li Xiang used Mirror Surface to take Linghu Xian into his Dao Realm.
• Li Xiang used the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear and relentless Taiji attacks to drive Linghu Xian backward, while a fire crystal inside Linghu Xian began fighting for control of his body.
• Linghu Xian offered to share power and rule the Southern Border with Li Xiang, but Li Xiang demanded a hundred immortal artifacts and a path to becoming a Great Emperor, then told him to release the entity within him.

Li Yaotie and the Li Family’s other fighters turned Old Lord Valley’s ambush against its leaders, overwhelming the formation and gaining the upper hand. Li Tianming revealed that the Li Family had deliberately used the battle to draw out the Ban Shu Family’s Immortal Infant and the Martial Academy’s Mortal World Immortal, leaving Linghu Tiangong to realize that the supposed prey had been hunting all along.

• Li Yaotie endured Old Lord Valley’s grand formation and hammered cracks into it, while Changsun Feng helped shield him from its attacks.
• The formation neared collapse, and Li Xiang pressed Linghu Xian to release the immortal seed he was suppressing.
• Li Tianming fought Linghu Tiangong in the Void Refinement space and told him the Li Family had grown far stronger during the past century.
• Linghu Tiangong saw Li Tianqi, Zhuo Linlin, Gu Yinming, and the other supposedly trapped cultivators unharmed behind the formation, waiting to attack.
• Li Tianming revealed that the Li Family had come to draw out the Ban Shu Family’s Immortal Infant and the Martial Academy’s Mortal World Immortal.

Ban Shu Weide unleashed the Ban Shu Family’s Watchdog, a monstrous being that surfaced beneath Old Lord Valley and threatened everyone gathered there. Li Xiang revealed that he had deliberately drawn it out and called on Li Yaotie to break the valley’s formation.

• Ban Shu Weide agreed to let the Immortal Nascent Soul devour the cultivators so the Ban Shu Family could escape subjugation and regain power.
• As Old Lord Valley’s defenses weakened, the Sirs discussed the missing Mortal World Immortal and their dwindling strength.
• The Watchdog erupted from beneath the battlefield, sending tentacles into the sky and terrifying cultivators inside and outside the valley.
• Linghu Xian asked Li Xiang to join forces against the Watchdog, and Li Xiang admitted he had lured it out before teasing Linghu about his motives.
• Li Xiang signaled with fireworks, prompting Li Yaotie to roar at Tianqi to hurry up and break the formation.

Li Tianqi broke Old Lord Valley’s formation, exposing its cultivators to the Watchdog and forcing them to consider an alliance with the three prefectures. As the Watchdog threatened everyone, Linghu Xian overcame the immortal seed’s fear and began fusing with it, intending to devour the immortal and his enemies.

• Li Tianqi used Ashes and his formation arts to reveal Old Lord Valley’s formation foundations, allowing Zhuo Linlin, Dream Demon Granny, Gu Yinming, and the others to help destroy the formation.
• Linghu Tiangong realized Li Tianming had anticipated Old Lord Valley’s defeat and died beneath the collapsing mountainside.
• Changsun Buhuo, Duanmu Qi, Lin Yunzhi, and Xuanyuan Yuanhua agreed to fight the Watchdog alongside Old Lord Valley while guarding against betrayal.
• The Fox Saint and Linghu Xian recognized that the Watchdog had left both sides with no choice but to cooperate, as Old Lord Valley’s disciples pleaded for help.
• Linghu Xian resisted the immortal seed’s urge to flee, forced his soul into it, and began fusing with its power.
• Li Xiang realized Linghu Xian had been waiting to devour the Watchdog and the Mortal World Immortal.

Linghu Xian transformed into a half-immortal and devoured Old Lord Valley disciples while the cultivators of three prefectures struggled against the Watchdog. The Fox Saint exposed the hidden forces gathered nearby, and Ban Shu Qingping revealed his power before trapping Linghu Xian, leaving Li Xiang to realize the Fox Saint had outplayed the Li Family.

• Linghu Xian transformed into an illusory, white-jade half-immortal and began draining Old Lord Valley disciples, evading Li Xiang’s attacks.
• Li Tianqi and the cultivators of three prefectures formed a defensive array against the Watchdog’s tentacles while searching for its immortal embryo.
• The Fox Saint used a snowflake to reveal hidden forces, including Li Yunlin’s group, Li Dalong’s family, the Qingyun Army, the Eternal Immortal Sect, and the three teachers of the Martial Academy.
• Ban Shu Qingping appeared with power exceeding the six teachers’ Mortal World Realm and drew the accumulated blood essence of Heavenly Rampart Prefecture into himself.
• Ban Shu Qingping joined the Fox Saint, trapped Linghu Xian with the surrounding blood, and challenged his claim that humans were inferior to immortals.
• Li Xiang realized the Fox Saint had outplayed the Li Family.

Ban Shu Qingping and the Fox Saint revealed that they had conspired to absorb Heavenly Rampart Prefecture’s people and strengthen themselves against the Blood Moon, then escaped into Ban Shu Qingping’s Mortal World Realm. Li Xiang chose to protect those present and left the six Sirs and Li Zhiheng to confront Linghu Xian, whose supposedly transcendent power was exposed as inferior to higher immortal arts.

• The Fox Saint exposed Ban Shu Qingping as the one who had killed Heavenly Rampart Prefecture’s people and relayed false decrees through the Mortal World Realm.
• The Fox Saint admitted that he and Ban Shu Qingping had joined forces to absorb the prefecture’s people rather than let the Blood Moon consume them, and Ban Shu Qingping defended the killings as mercy and preparation for battle.
• Ban Shu Qingping’s Mortal World Realm expanded as he absorbed the people’s blood, and he and the Fox Saint vanished beyond the First Gentleman’s reach.
• Li Xiang declined to pursue them and turned his attention to Linghu Xian, who tried to flee after vowing revenge.
• Li Zhiheng, the three Sirs, and the other three Sirs surrounded Linghu Xian with their Mortal World Realms, while Li Zhiheng explained that higher-grade immortal arts could suppress Linghu Xian’s ordinary immortal seed.

Li Xiang and the forces of three prefectures defeated Watchdog after a seven-day battle, but the victory left Li Xiang fearing the coming Blood Moon and the immortals beneath it. At Watchdog’s exposed lair, the Lineage seized the Immortal Nascent Soul and found Ban Shu Weide broken and ready to die.

• Li Xiang realized Old Fox and Ban Shu Qingping had engineered the battle to give the Mortal World Immortal and the Martial Academy a chance to absorb the buried commoners’ vital essence.
• Xu Xian called for the cultivators to let Watchdog absorb demonic methods, and Li Kuanghua summoned Old Root to breathe netherworld-tainted dragon breath into its tentacles.
• The cultivators of three prefectures besieged Watchdog for seven days and finally brought down its last tentacle, while Li Xiang worried that the Lineage had no answer for the immortals under the approaching Blood Moon.
• Changsun Feng sent Changsun Buhuo away with instructions to move the family’s inheritances out to sea, as the survivors turned their attention to survival.
• Li Dalong led the Lineage into Watchdog’s abyss, where they found Ban Shu Weide holding the Immortal Nascent Soul; Li Zhiheng subdued it, and Ban Shu Weide asked Li Yunbing to borrow his Dao before he was killed.

The Immortal Nascent Soul revealed the immortals’ history and warned that a Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal within the Blood Moon threatened the Southern Border. The Mortal World Immortal joined the cultivators to prepare ancient legacies for the coming fight, while Blue Ancestor declared his duty complete and Li Xiang refused to let him face death alone.

• The Immortal Nascent Soul explained that immortals had once ruled the world, fed on living beings, and now feared the Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal inside the Blood Moon.
• Blue Ancestor arrived with the Mortal World Immortal, and Li Yundou rebuked his siblings for nearly believing Watchdog’s offer to make them Retainers.
• The Mortal World Immortal explained her bond with the mortal world and revealed ancient scrolls containing legacies for fighting immortals.
• Li Xiang stood with Blue Ancestor beneath the Blood Moon as Blue Ancestor said he planned to die fulfilling his duty as the Dao Ancestor’s successor.
• Blue Ancestor told Li Xiang to lead his descendants into the new age, but Li Xiang used a Space Gate to race ahead and provoke him into pursuing him across the Southern Border.

The Mortal World Immortal taught cultivators how to fight immortals, and Li Xiang gained ancient techniques and insights into the laws of time and space. In the Underworld, Li Dalong broke through to Body Integration, became its last Yama, and discovered Shen Wu’s Immortal-Slaying Array as he led his forces deeper into hell.

• The Mortal World Immortal explained that heaven-grade techniques, ancient bloodlines, demonic transformation, and immortal arts could help cultivators fight immortals before the Blood Moon arrived.
• Li Xiang obtained the Chaos Spirit-Pointing Art and ancient texts on time and space, then entered secluded cultivation and urged his descendants to prepare for the coming battle.
• Li Dalong led his army through the Underworld while Xu Cuihua worried about the Blood Moon and the limits of her nine-tailed demon fox bloodline.
• Li Dalong used the Blood Sea, his zombies, Underworld ghosts, and his Nether Offices status to break through to Body Integration and inherit the Underworld as its last Yama.
• Li Dalong opened the Heaven Coffin’s seventh level and found Shen Wu’s Ten-Thousand Corpse Immortal-Slaying Array, which Shen Wu warned could kill even gods and immortals.

Li Yaozu learned about Fang Linglong’s past before she sent him into the Devil Race’s deadly trial to strengthen his sword Dao ahead of the Blood Moon. Meanwhile, Mortal World Immortal discovered the Li Family’s unusual cultivation and encountered Li Yaoqing’s growing power, which she did not yet understand.

• Fang Linglong told Li Yaozu that she was born in the Devil Race’s Snow Region, and recounted its destruction and her assassination of a Human Emperor.
• Fang Linglong brought Li Yaozu to the ruined Devil Capital and sealed him inside the Devil Emperor’s nine-deaths-one-life grand trial formation.
• Li Yaozu survived the formation’s slaughter, found shelter after a hundred days, and gained a sliver of Sword Dao comprehension and the trait Hope of the Devil Race.
• Fang Linglong sat outside the formation, reflecting that she had only begun cultivating after her people fell.
• Mortal World Immortal found that Li Jianshu and Li Jianning had already developed powerful, unique paths, then was swept away by high-grade immortal qi in the Li Family’s farmland.
• Li Yaoqing learned from Immortal Child that she had unknowingly ordered Mortal World Immortal to kill someone in the Central Plains, and the six-leaf grass in her dantian told her she was growing stronger, not sick.

Immortal Child revealed that an immortal had awakened inside Li Yaoqing, and she admitted the truth to her worried family while insisting that removing it would destroy her cultivation. Li Xiang comforted her and, with Li Yaowen, resolved to find a way to protect her as Li Yaotie sought power to confront the immortal.

• Immortal Child panicked after realizing Li Yaoqing was ill and told the Li Family and Azure Cloud Prefecture that an immortal had possessed her.
• Li Yaotie offered Li Yaoqing his treasures, but she admitted that an immortal had awakened within her and powered her Heavenly Condemned Vegetation Divine Art.
• Li Yaoqing explained that the immortal needed her, and that extracting it would strip away the power and cultivation it had given her.
• Li Yaoqing broke down before Li Xiang and asked whether she would die; Li Xiang comforted her as the records revealed her Immortal Physique and the immortal's plans for her body.
• Li Yaowen reassured Li Xiang that the family would find a solution, and Li Xiang told her to make clear that the family stood behind Li Yaoqing.
• Li Yaotie told Bai Rourou that he would seek strength beyond an immortal and asked for Watchdog and Ban Shu Weide's corpse.