Chapter Summaries

Li Yaowen arrived in Azure Cloud Prefecture, where her Flashbacks of past lives strengthened her but left her struggling to distinguish reality from reincarnation. At the Eternal Immortal Sect, she recruited Blue Ancestor to help her confront the immortal coexisting with her Second Sister, and brought him before a nine-leaved grass beneath a starry sky.

• The Nirvana Sacred Elder taught the younger generation about the calamities facing the totems and sensed Li Yaowen's immense pressure as she entered Azure Cloud Prefecture.
• Li Yaowen evaded a thread of fate from the imperial capital and experienced a Flashback that drew power from one of her reincarnated bodies.
• After several more Flashbacks, Li Yaowen reached the Eternal Immortal Sect, where Blue Ancestor confronted her as powerful figures' prying gazes followed her.
• Li Yaowen told Blue Ancestor that an immortal coexisted with her Second Sister and asked him to help meet it before it could break through the Fusion Realm.
• Li Yaowen closed her eyes and led Blue Ancestor into a transformed world beneath the stars, where a nine-leaved grass stood.

Li Yaowen met Green Lady, the immortal living within Li Yaoqing, and learned that power came with a price as she pleaded for her second brother's release. After Blue Ancestor encountered Green Lady, he went to the Eternal Immortal Sect and announced he would gather cultivators to teach them everything he had learned.

• Green Lady awakened before Li Yaowen and Blue Ancestor, recognized Li Yaowen as the frail sister Li Yaoqing had worried about, and explained that Li Yaoqing had chosen to accept her.
• Li Yaowen asked what price Green Lady would demand to leave Li Yaoqing's body, and Green Lady warned her that she should consider the price of her own power.
• Blue Ancestor appeared at the Eternal Immortal Sect, where Li Yunlin and Red Sleeve Fairy asked him about the Other Shore Dao Path.
• Blue Ancestor agreed to guide Red Sleeve Fairy and ordered cultivators from the three prefectures to gather for a Dao lecture.
• Blue Ancestor said he would impart everything he had cultivated, and Li Yunlin sensed that the old man believed he had grown old.

Li Yaowen and Blue Ancestor helped Li Yaoqing form a pact with Green Lady, while the Southern Border prepared for the Blood Moon. Li Yunlin traveled to the ruined Heavenly Rampart Prefecture and confronted his transformed brother Li Yunbing, leaving him to consider how he could fight immortals without becoming a devil.

• Blue Ancestor taught cultivators from across the prefectures, while Li Yaoqing met Green Lady in his inner world and formed a symbiotic pact with her.
• Li Xiang found the exhausted Li Yaowen carrying the Lineage’s life tablets, and she explained that she had threatened Green Lady to protect Li Yaoqing.
• As the Blood Moon spread through Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, Li Yunlin traveled there with Old Cat and wondered whether he should make a pact with an immortal or become a devil.
• Li Yunlin found Li Yunbing at Old Lord Valley, where Watchdog’s tentacles had become flesh wings on him.
• Li Yunlin acknowledged that his stepmother and seven younger siblings were devils, while Old Cat warned him against transforming like Li Yunbing.

Li Yunbing became a Body Integration Realm fiend after taking Ban Shu Weide’s Cloud Dao inheritance, and Li Yunlin sealed him and brought him home. As the Blood Moon swallowed Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, the people of the Three Prefectures began preparing to face the immortals, including by considering their own transformations and training.

• Li Xiang learned that Li Yunbing had broken through to Body Integration and become a fiend.
• Li Yunlin sealed Li Yunbing’s magical power and carried him away from the Abyss, where Ban Shu Weide died laughing after entrusting the Ban Shu Family’s descendants’ safety to Ban Shu Qingping.
• Li Yunlin brought Li Yunbing toward Azure Cloud Prefecture while cultivators across the Three Prefectures watched their return and learned that a Body Integration Realm fiend had appeared.
• Changsun Buhuo revealed that she possessed Watchdog flesh and records for becoming a fiend, while Changsun Feng warned her about the corruption fiendhood caused.
• Xuanyuan Liqun and Old Bear recognized that they needed greater strength to face the immortals, and Xuanyuan Liqun began studying the Mortal World Immortal’s Immortal Summoning Art.

Li Yunbing became a dangerous acquired devil and asked his family to keep him sealed while he fought to preserve his humanity. Li Yunlin stayed with him in the Divine Bell Tower as the brothers reflected on their childhood and watched the night pass into dawn.

• Li Yaoqing sensed that Yunbing had become a devil and accepted that his family could only try to understand and support him.
• Li Yaotie sealed Yunbing in the Divine Bell Tower and punished the Iron Gate Seven for helping him transform.
• Li Yunbing asked Li Yunlin to keep him imprisoned, while the Mad Blood Devil Master warned that his mature evil thoughts made him exceptionally dangerous.
• Li Kuanghua's attempt to suppress Yunbing with Buddhist scripture failed, and the Divine Bell Tower became forbidden ground.
• Li Xiang learned that Yunbing had gained the Evil Thought Heavenly Devil talent and the Fangs and Claws—Watchdog ability.
• Li Yunlin visited Yunbing and offered to release him, but Yunbing refused because he feared attacking the family; the brothers sat together through sunset and dawn.

Li Kuanghua used her Buddhist Dao to gather intelligence from across the world as the Blood Moon isolated the Southern Border, while Li Changsheng planned new diplomatic efforts to secure allies. The chapter ended with Li Changsheng asking Li Changyao to help him seek aid from the two distant nations.

• Li Kuanghua decided to refine Dai Rou into a Buddhist-Demon Lotus Platform and make her the Buddha form of her One Body, Twin Forms cultivation.
• Li Kuanghua watched believers across the world through her Bodhisattva bodies and used her Buddhist connections to gather intelligence beyond the Blood Moon.
• Li Changsheng explained that he continued pretending to be crippled because the world already knew him as a wheelchair-bound young master.
• Li Kuanghua reported that the imperial dynasty lacked news of the immortals, hidden powers had suffered losses, and two distant nations had stopped fighting after a strange battle beneath the moon.
• Li Changsheng planned to seek aid from King Yu, contact the Divine Bird Tribe and Moon Dragon Tribe, and approach the two distant nations, then asked Li Changyao to help him.

Li Kuanghua gained the Ancient Demon Celestial Maiden bloodline, while the Li Family watched Mortal World Immortal’s apparent predicament in the Central Plains. Li Xinri and Mortal World Immortal uncovered a shared interest in investigating the newly emerged immortals, and Xinri learned that Heavenly Mountain’s inhabitants were heroic souls.

• Li Xiang studied Blue Ancestor’s Paths and considered how comprehending them could greatly strengthen his Taiji Path.
• Li Kuanghua consumed the Primordial Origin Blood Fruit and gained the Ancient Demon Celestial Maiden bloodline, which united the Buddhist and devilish forces within her.
• Li Kuanghua learned that Mortal World Immortal had been found in the Central Plains and called her an idiot.
• The Li Family watched a recording of Mortal World Immortal drinking and gambling with Li Xinri, while Li Changsheng planned to travel to the Central Plains to help her.
• Mortal World Immortal warned Li Xinri that powers in the Central Plains were watching them, and they agreed to investigate the immortals emerging across the region.
• Li Xinri realized that the beings on Heavenly Mountain were heroic souls, after Mortal World Immortal identified them as such.

Li Xinri and Mortal World Immortal uncovered evidence that the imperial dynasty had allowed Blood Moon to consume the Southern Border as part of a scheme to help powerful cultivators break through. After years of traveling through the Central Plains, Mortal World Immortal launched a formation against Great Evolution Immortal Palace to target Thunder Ancestor He Xingfei, while Li Xinri headed for the sect’s treasury.

• Li Xinri told Mortal World Immortal that he suspected the imperial dynasty had treated the Southern Border as food for Blood Moon to help cultivators advance.
• Li Xiang recognized that Li Xinri’s suspicions were correct and decided the family needed allies who had not joined the forces exploiting the Southern Border.
• Li Xinri gained Heavenly Mountain’s inheritance and a Divine Radiance Fire Body, then traveled the Central Plains with Mortal World Immortal and received an innate staff.
• Li Xinri and Mortal World Immortal infiltrated Great Evolution Immortal Palace to target Thunder Ancestor He Xingfei, whose true Dao was flora and wood rather than thunder.
• Mortal World Immortal transformed Great Evolution Immortal Palace with a vast formation and told Li Xinri to take the treasury while she confronted He Xingfei.

The Mortal World Immortal trapped Thunder Ancestor He Xingfei in an illusion while Li Xinri raided the Great Evolution Immortal Palace treasury and fought his way toward escape. A fleet of Li-family cultivators rescued him, sacked the palace, and departed as pirates of the Sea of Clouds.

• Li Dalong and Li Kuanghua explained that the Mortal World Immortal had spent three years preparing an immortal formation and chose its attack while Central Plains powers were distracted.
• The Mortal World Immortal trapped Thunder Ancestor He Xingfei in an illusion and demanded to know how he became a Half-Immortal and how many others existed.
• Li Xinri looted the treasury, then armed himself and charged through the Immortal Palace’s monstrous cultivators on his Golden Crow.
• Nearly a hundred Li-family Spirit Boats arrived and attacked the Immortal Palace cultivators, while a man on a spirit turtle drew the lightning-wielding elder into Void Refinement space.
• The Li-family forces rescued Li Xinri, stripped the palace of its plaque and valuables, concealed their tracks, and told him they were pirates of the Sea of Clouds.

Li Xingchen returned from the sea with the Cloud Sea Army and helped rescue Li Xinri, while Mortal World Immortal slew Thunder Ancestor and enabled Li Yaoqing to seize the Dao Gate. The family prepared to exploit the victory, and Li Xingchen learned that Mortal World Immortal was truly an immortal; the story left him too stunned to respond.

• Li Xiang reviewed Li Xingchen’s sea-faring exploits, including his dragon hunt, rise to the Void Refinement Realm, and leadership of the Cloud Sea Army.
• Li Xingchen joined Li Xinri and Mortal World Immortal after the battle, and the three quickly bonded over drinks while Fan Feixuan watched.
• Li Dalong ordered the family to withdraw its reinforcements, cover up the Half-Immortal’s intervention, and monitor Great Evolution Immortal Palace.
• Li Changsheng ordered Merit City sealed and its treasury opened as Li Yaoqing began breaking through, prompting Li Xiang to consider refining a third-grade immortal pill.
• Li Xingchen told Li Xinri that the Cloud Sea Army could evade the Imperial Dynasty by returning to the sea, then avoided answering how long he would stay home.
• Mortal World Immortal revealed that the beings inside Great Evolution Immortal Palace were immortals and that he was one too, leaving Li Xingchen stunned.

As Li Yaoqing’s breakthrough transformed Merit City, the Li Family received imperial envoys urging them to withdraw from Azure Cloud Prefecture because Blood Moon had overwhelmed powerful factions. Li Changan agreed to relocate, then ordered the family to prevent the envoys from leaving the Southern Border.

• Li Yaoqing’s ascent toward immortality caused spirit plants to overrun Merit City, and Green Lady’s protection granted the Li Family new benefits.
• Green Lady sent Old Root to tell the Li Family that visitors had arrived, while the Mad Blood Devil Master hesitated over Zishu Lingtian’s corpse and then left.
• Li Xinghuo told Li Changan that Li Xingchen had returned with Li Xinri, and Li Changan directed him to visit his brother and travel to the Northern Border.
• Gongyang Ju, Zhao Guang, and Wenren Jiuyue told Li Changan that the Empress wanted the Li Family to withdraw from Azure Cloud Prefecture and offered them land and spirit veins in the North Sea.
• Li Changan agreed to relocate, then told Li Changyao to ensure the three envoys did not leave the Southern Border.

After learning why the Empress backed the immortals and sought to drive the Li Family from Azure Cloud Prefecture, Zhao Guang rejected Wenren Jiuyue’s justification. Two months later, Wenren Jiuyue was captured by the allied families and imprisoned on the Pillar of Shame, where he called for Zhao Guang to save him.

• Wenren Jiuyue told Zhao Guang and Gongyang Ju that the Empress planned to use the immortals to kill Blue Ancestor and help the dynasty rule the world.
• Zhao Guang accused Wenren Jiuyue of disguising the Empress’s ambition as a noble cause and condemned the dynasty’s plan to sacrifice the Southern and Western Borders.
• Wenren Jiuyue led Zhao Guang and Gongyang Ju toward the Xuanyuan Family, hoping to persuade it to leave and force the Li Family to follow.
• Two months later, the Formless Academy and allied families captured Wenren Jiuyue and bound him to the Pillar of Shame.
• Li Yaotie and Xuanyuan Feng discussed ways to torment Wenren Jiuyue and exploit his Dao, prompting him to shout for Zhao Guang to save him.

Zhao Guang was captured after the Li Family’s transformed members trapped him in Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, and Li Xiang’s family kept him and the other persuaders in Azure Cloud Prefecture. As the family prepared for a final battle in Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, Gongyang Ju learned that his captors had a grisly punishment in mind.

• Zhao Guang fled toward Blood Moon but was surrounded by the Li Family and their allies, including Li Yaoqing, Li Yunbing, and Li Zhiheng, inside the Mortal World Realm.
• Li Xiang watched the family escort Zhao Guang and two other old friends back to Azure Cloud Prefecture, while he reflected on the strength of Li Zhiheng, Li Yaoqing, and Li Yunbing.
• Li Yaoqing stopped Li Yunbing from acting on his wicked thoughts, and Li Zhiheng learned from the First Teacher that the six teachers were losing their power and had little time left.
• The group returned to Formless Academy, where Wenren Jiuyue pleaded with Zhao Guang to save him, and the two met each other’s gaze in despair.
• Gongyang Ju asked Li Tianqi whether the feast was his last meal, and Li Tianqi said he would skin him alive and deliver his hide to Wenren Xianyi.

Li Changan exposed the Empress’s hidden motives and the Li Family learned how immortal seeds created half-immortals and vessels for immortal revival. As Li Chuyuan secretly swallowed a seed and rose among the Western Border’s retainers, the Li Family opened Linghu Xian’s sealed corpse and faced the immortal within it.

• Li Changan imprisoned Zhao Guang, Gongyang Ju, and Wenren Jiuyue, then accused the Empress of using them to provide intelligence while pursuing Blue Ancestor’s Dao and opposing Western Border expansion.
• The captives’ intelligence revealed that the Imperial Dynasty and Western Border exchanged Southern Border resources for immortal seeds, which let immortals awaken in human hosts and gradually erode their minds.
• Li Chuyuan fled to the Western Border, stitched a Void Refinement cultivator’s corpse into his body, then stole and swallowed a half-immortal’s seed during a battle between rival factions.
• Li Chuyuan gained the Half-Immortal trait and Retainer immortal art, gathered more than a thousand kneeling retainers, and declared that he would create an era of his own.
• Li Tianqi, Li Tianming, Li Kuanghua, Li Changan, and the others entered Old Tree’s hidden world and released the immortal sealed inside Linghu Xian’s corpse.
• The featureless immortal offered the Li Family everything they desired in exchange for coexistence.

The Li Family let White Jade Immortal enter Li Tianming’s body so he could gain immortal power and pursue the path to becoming a half-immortal. Inside Li Tianming’s soul, White Jade Immortal was hunted and captured by his monstrous inner selves, while Li Changsheng and Li Changyao continued toward the Great Gold Empire and Cultivator Alliance Nation.

• The Li Family rejected White Jade Immortal’s first host choices after discovering the dangers within Li Changan, Li Tianqi, and Li Kuanghua, so White Jade Immortal chose Li Tianming instead.
• Three days after White Jade Immortal entered Li Tianming, Green Lady discussed his unusual nature with Li Yaoqing as Li Tianming examined his corrupted soul world.
• White Jade Immortal hid from the many ferocious versions of Li Tianming in the soul world, but Li Tianming found it and seized it, declaring that it belonged to him.
• Li Yunbing’s evil thoughts corrupted an immortal retainer that headed into Blood Moon.
• Li Changyao pushed Li Changsheng through the Endless Forest toward the Great Gold Empire and Cultivator Alliance Nation, and Li Changsheng carried the Immortal Nascent Soul despite warning her not to risk coexisting with an immortal.

Li Changsheng and Li Changyao learned that Blood Moon had defeated Great Emperor Qizhu and continued toward the Great Gold Empire seeking aid. Meanwhile, Li Tianming became a Half-Immortal, gained White Jade Immortal’s powers, and broke down over whether he was truly himself, leaving Li Tianqi unable to find an answer.

• Li Changsheng and Li Changyao heard that Great Emperor Qizhu had been defeated by Blood Moon, while Li Changsheng reminded his sister that they had survived danger before and subdued the Immortal Nascent Soul.
• Li Changsheng and Li Changyao arrived in the Great Gold Empire and investigated its human nations while seeking aid and helping Li Changyao pursue a breakthrough.
• Li Tianming fused with White Jade Immortal’s immortal power, became a Half-Immortal, and gained the ability to conceal himself and annihilate what he touched.
• Li Tianming’s personalities steered him toward opening the Dao Gate of Pollution and Plague, while he wandered toward the sea in a daze.
• Li Tianming confessed to Li Tianqi that he feared the many personalities inside him and questioned whether he was real, but soon forgot the conversation and continued toward the South Sea.
• Li Xiang learned that Li Tianming’s personalities had gained the Immortal Eater trait, while Li Tianqi searched his formations for an answer and remained uncertain about his brother.

As the Blood Moon consumed the Southern Border, Li Yundou and the Iron Gate Seven launched an attack inside it while the region’s leaders confronted the likelihood that they could not stop its advance. After Zeng Xiao charged into the Blood Moon, the cultivators turned toward the coming battle and affirmed that hope remained.

• Li Jianshu arrived at the ruined Drunken Dream Sect and hesitated to punish Zeng Xiao, who defended his decision to kill those fleeing Single-Name Prefecture.
• Mad Blood Devil Lord and the Iron Gate Seven entered the Blood Moon, where Li Yundou and his companions fought the Western Border’s immortal retainers.
• Li Yundou attacked Flame Elder at the Sacred Master Martial Academy and repeatedly survived Flame Elder’s assaults, forcing his followers to seek Spirit Lord.
• Mortal World Immortal returned to the Southern Border and told Xuanyuan Liqun that the gathered experts could not hold back the Blood Moon.
• Li Xinghuo promised to stand at the battlefield’s first hill, and Xuanyuan Liqun led the cultivators away from the Blood Moon toward the Southern Border’s heartland.
• Zeng Xiao charged toward the Blood Moon, and the Southern Border’s cultivators answered Xuanyuan Liqun’s question about hope with a thunderous affirmation.

As the Li Family prepared to resist the Blood Moon, Li Xiang watched Li Dalong gain the Underworld’s favor and receive the Yama King’s Token. The token’s protected Yin Soldiers might offer a way to fight the Blood Moon’s influence.

• Li Yaoqing and the Li Family discussed the Blood Moon’s effects, their dwindling resources, and the possibility of becoming another immortal’s followers to enter its range.
• Green Lady offered to make the Li Family her followers with fruit from the Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree, but Li Changan set the proposal aside as the family focused on surviving the war.
• In Spirit City, the Spirit Lord sent aid to Flame Venerable Elder and encouraged her follower to treat the attacking devils as a test before a greater conflict.
• A guard in the Spirit Lord’s palace swallowed a blood-colored pill and began revealing what he had seen and heard to a voice from beneath the Blood Moon.
• Li Dalong reached the ninth level of the Underworld, sat upon an ancient throne, and received the Yama King’s Token from the Underworld’s will.
• Li Xiang realized that Yin Soldiers protected by the token might resist the Blood Moon’s influence and considered sending some beneath it.

Li Zhiheng entered Blood Moon searching for the opportunity Fierce Ancestor Yun Bing had promised and for Ban Shu Qingping, while the Xuanyuan Family prepared to capture Wen Yan. He joined Venerable Yan’s force heading to support her and secretly completed a transaction with a cultivator who believed the outsiders were monsters.

• Xuanyuan Liqun planned to capture the half-immortal Wen Yan, with Xuanyuan Yuanhua and the Xuanyuan Family acting while he held off an Integration Realm half-immortal.
• Li Zhiheng entered Blood Moon to seek the promised opportunity and find Ban Shu Qingping, and he sensed distant spiritual-energy ripples.
• Rainbow Fairy ordered Venerable Yan to support Wen Yan, and Venerable Yan gathered his people, believing the Spirit Lord was drawing out the outsiders.
• A cultivator in the mining city took Li Zhiheng along with Venerable Yan’s force, explaining that they were going to defend General Wen from the outsiders.
• Li Zhiheng realized the cultivator viewed people like him as devils, erased the man’s fate, and declared their transaction complete.

Li Tianqi led a Li Family rescue of the Xuanyuan Family, but the Spirit Sovereign's forces trapped them and the two families barely escaped the Blood Moon. They captured Wen Yan and another half-immortal, but Wen Yan’s immortal began taking control of her, and the Spirit Lord learned that two High Immortals had been killed.

• Li Xiang discovered that the Spirit Sovereign had located the Xuanyuan Family and intended to destroy them at Wen Yan’s position.
• Li Tianqi entered Wen Yan’s formation to rescue the Xuanyuan Family, only to find that the apparent captives were disguised bamboo and that he had walked into a trap.
• Wen Yan ordered Li Tianqi killed, but a warning to break through was followed by the arrival of powerful reinforcements, and the Li and Xuanyuan families fought their way out with difficulty.
• Li Yaotie and Xuanyuan Liqun argued over their failed rescue plan, then learned that beings tainted beneath the Blood Moon could not survive outside it, though the immortals within them could be extracted.
• As an immortal began taking control of Wen Yan, she calmly asked the Southern Border cultivators to kill her, and Li Yunlin used his spear to sever a soul and strip out an immortal.
• The Spirit Lord watched the Southern Border from his Heavenly Palace and learned that demons beyond the Blood Moon had killed two High Immortals.