Chapter Summaries

Li Xiang watched his descendants grow stronger as the Blood Moon crisis drove the Southern Border into chaos, while Li Yaozu and Li Zhijing made major breakthroughs of their own. The chapter ended with Li Zhijing discovering that Li Xinjue had been acting strangely after emerging from seclusion.

• Inside the Divine Tower, Li Yunbing raged after his scheme involving the Xuanyuan Family failed, while Li Xiang worried that Yunbing had become even more sinister.
• Over two decades, the Southern Border descended into slaughter as people pursued strength and the powerful stopped trying to control the growing chaos.
• Li Yaozu passed the Devil Race trial after decades of flight and gained the Hidden Edge trait, but Fang Linglong repeatedly sent him back into the secret realm to kill her dead clansmen.
• Li Yaozu learned that Fang Linglong wanted him to grant her clansmen peace, then escaped again after making her promise there would be no other place for her to go.
• Li Zhijing broke through to the Void Refinement Realm and learned from Li Xinjue that her father was safe in the Central Plains.
• Li Zhijing noticed Li Xinjue making an orchid-finger pose and walking strangely before he regained his normal manner and angrily scolded someone unseen.

Li Xinjue used Divine Concealment’s Mirror Immortal arts to support the Li Family and plan for its survival as Blood Moon consumed more of the Southern Border. With the elders preparing to send children away and the family choosing to stand and fight, he visited the captured immortals beneath the Family Divine Tree.

• Li Xinjue used Mirror Immortal’s reflections to communicate with descendants and Tianli Hall members, while Divine Concealment’s antics embarrassed him.
• Li Xinjue visited the family hall, where the elders reviewed Blood Moon’s expansion across the Western Border, Heavenly Rampart Prefecture, and half of Single-Name Prefecture.
• Li Changan told Li Xinjue that the elders planned to migrate some children, and Li Xinjue volunteered to arrange secret, self-sufficient grotto-heavens in safe regions.
• Li Xinjue realized the elders intended to keep the family in the Southern Border and defend their home rather than flee together.
• Li Xinjue visited the sealed immortals beneath the Family Divine Tree, where Divine Concealment warned him that the family’s resistance would only lead to death.

Li Changsheng failed to secure the Great Gold Empire’s aid after discovering that Murong Xiaoyao was a half-immortal, while Li Yunlin continued searching for a Dao beyond coexistence with immortals. Li Zhiheng broke through to Body Integration, comprehended Reality and Illusion, and became Azure Cloud Prefecture itself.

• Li Xinjue ignored the Mirror Immortal’s warning against coexisting with immortals.
• Murong Xiaoyao refused Li Changsheng’s request for help, and the Immortal Nascent Soul revealed that he was a half-immortal.
• Li Changsheng and Li Changyao left to seek support from the Cultivator Alliance Nation.
• Li Yunlin questioned the three sealed immortals about the greatest ancient Dao, while they argued over whether he should rely on himself or coexist with them.
• Li Zhiheng opened the Dao gate after learning from the six teachers and the dead figures within the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, then chose the Dao of Reality and Illusion.
• The Mortal World Immortal told Blue Ancestor that Li Zhiheng had become Azure Cloud Prefecture and might be able to recreate someone who died there.

Li Zhiheng merged with Azure Cloud Prefecture and gained power over its illusions, fortune, and land, while Li Yaowen helped him resist the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts and prepare to face the expanding Blood Moon. As the prefecture began changing under their shared rule, Li Zhiheng found his relatives treating him like a wish-granting Earth God.

• Li Zhiheng merged with Azure Cloud Prefecture, gaining the Azure Cloud Will and immortal arts that let him perceive and affect the entire prefecture.
• Li Zhiheng relived memories of his family and nearly succumbed to the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, but Li Yaowen brought him back to himself.
• Li Yaowen explained that Li Zhiheng had become the will of Azure Cloud Prefecture and asked him to govern and expand its realm alongside her against the Blood Moon.
• Azure Cloud Prefecture's seasons, disasters, and other events began changing as Li Zhiheng and Li Yaowen's influence spread.
• Li Yaoqing and other members of the Lineage demanded that Li Zhiheng conjure pill ingredients, artifacts, Spirit Stones, and other things, and he wailed that he could not do it.

As the universe’s immortals and gods awakened, the villa district learned that the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts had appeared and that the Li Family might be hidden within it. Meanwhile, Nangong Qingya’s memories revealed repeated lives in which she met Li Xinnian and died, and she saw herself fading away in his arms as Azure Cloud Prefecture’s cultivators fought.

• Dongfang Xuan told the villa district elders that Li Kuangtu had emerged from a heart in the Dark Star Domain and that Mahayana cultivators were heading to confront the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts.
• Miss Five identified Li Xinnian as a dangerous madman from antiquity and said the group needed him.
• Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya searched for Su Chen, but Nangong Qingya suffered a headache and recalled many different lives in which she met Li Xinnian and died.
• Li Xinnian comforted Nangong Qingya and promised to stay with her, reunite with their family, and find Su Chen.
• A year later, Nangong Qingya lived in Merit City under the family’s protection, while Green Lady warned that Qingya might reach the end of her life when her memories did.
• At the Spirit Boat anchorage, Nangong Qingya remembered herself dying in Li Xinnian’s arms as Azure Cloud Prefecture’s cultivators fought.

Li Xinnian found Su Chen before the events remembered by Nangong Qingya could unfold, while Li Xiang struggled with questions about time, reincarnation, and reality. As the Li Family prepared for Blood Moon's advance, the Southern Border began retreating, and Nangong Qingya hoped her changes would lead to a better future.

• Li Xinnian deduced Su Chen's whereabouts and watched him arrive in a village, where its residents rescued him from mountain bandits.
• Li Xiang learned that Li Zhiheng's Azure Cloud Realm could oppose Blood Moon and became lost in agonized thoughts about whether his world was real.
• Li Zhiheng developed the ability to clone spirit medicines and establish rules within Azure Cloud Prefecture, while Li Yaoqing refined a Nine-Turn Immortal Dew Pill and gave it to Yunlin.
• Xuanyuan Liqun agreed to withdraw from Single-Name Prefecture after learning that his past refusal to retreat had caused many deaths.
• The Li Family helped relocate the Xuanyuan Family and other cultivators to Azure Cloud Prefecture as Blood Moon approached.
• Nangong Qingya spent time with her family and told Li Zhiheng that everything would get better.

Li Changsheng failed to secure help against the Blood Moon and learned that the imperial court and other factions intended to profit from the coming war. Li Kuangren then won Dongfang Liancheng’s promise to open the East Territory border for King Yu, leaving the Li Family ready to turn against the dynasty.

• The Spirit Lord ordered Flame Elder to summon Min Tiange as the Blood Moon’s forces faced growing pressure from the Southern Border.
• Li Changsheng and Li Changyao found that the Great Gold Empire, the Cultivator Alliance Nation, the Witch Tribe, and the Immortal Suppression Bureau would not help them, and Li Changsheng decided the Southern Border could rely only on itself.
• Li Kuangren told King Yu that Azure Cloud Prefecture needed aid and asked Dongfang Liancheng to let King Yu’s forces pass through the East Territory.
• Li Kuangren reminded Dongfang Liancheng that Li Tianyue had died at the Western Border and had not been brought home, and Dongfang agreed to open the border in exchange for Wenren Xianyi’s head.
• King Yu asked whether Li Kuangren feared he would betray the Li Family, but Li Kuangren left without answering.

Li Dalong accepted that Azure Cloud Prefecture’s allies had chosen their own interests, while Li Changsheng spread news of the Western Border and stirred unrest against the imperial dynasty. At Qingyun Prefecture, the Li Family demonstrated Spirit Guns and Spirit Stone Cannons, and Li Kuangren ordered Li Chuxiu to develop them quickly for the coming war.

• Li Dalong and Xu Cuihua discussed the family’s abandoned allies, and Li Dalong said Li Changsheng should not have asked them for help.
• Li Changsheng spread the truth about the Western Border through Tianli Hall, and public suspicion of the imperial court grew as sects confronted the National Guardian Guard.
• At the Wind Family’s stronghold, Li Changsheng told Li Kuangren that asking others for help had left a thorn in his heart, and Li Kuangren led the family to the border.
• The Qingyun Army tested Spirit Stone Cannons and Spirit Guns, unleashing a vast formation that devastated the ground below.
• Li Chuxiu explained how the weapons could let cultivators attack in coordinated formations, and Li Kuangren urged him to strengthen them for the approaching conflict.
• Li Chuxiu asked for the Divine Tower and many Spirit Stones so he could continue developing the weapons without rest.

Li Xiang learned that Li Chuxiu and Li Yaotie were combining spirit firearms with Spirit Puppet craft as the Blood Moon advanced toward Xilang Prefecture. After Old Tree’s omen revealed that Li Yunlin would face a deadly foe and grasp the Great Dao, Li Yunlin set out to find a Heavenly Immortal or a Dao Enlightenment half-immortal.

• Li Chuxiu and Li Yaotie joined forces to develop spirit weapons and incorporate them into Spirit Puppets.
• As the Blood Moon neared Xilang Prefecture, Xuanyuan Liqun withdrew from Single-Name Prefecture with his Unorthodox Immortal, while the Xuanyuan iron-eating beasts settled in the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave.
• Li Yunbing became the demon cave’s Demon Saint, cursed its fiends, and sent his wicked thoughts to the Spirit Lord, noting that events in Nangong Qingya’s memories had changed for the worse.
• Nangong Qingya mapped the coming war and warned Li Yunlin that the Spirit Lord would arrange his death within a month by avoiding the Weapon Ancestor and leaving Min Tiange encircled.
• Li Yunlin persuaded Old Tree to divine his fate and learned that an azure blade would pass through his soul before he grasped the Great Dao.
• Li Yunlin told Li Yunbing he needed to find a Heavenly Immortal or a Dao Enlightenment half-immortal, dismissing the idea that a weaker opponent could corner him.

At a Spirit Lord’s assembly, Min Tiange warned the immortals that the Azure Cloud Li Family was a formidable threat, but they mocked him and dismissed the family. When Min Tiange rushed toward a battle in the west, Mortal World Immortal blocked his way, and he returned with news that the Azure Cloud Li Family had captured the Celestial Immortal Sword Heavenly King.

• Min Tiange joined the Spirit Lord, Ba Siyu, and numerous immortals and half-immortals in the Spirit Lord’s hall.
• Min Tiange warned that the Azure Cloud Li Family had repeatedly disrupted the immortals’ plans and urged the High Immortals to prepare for a fight.
• The immortals mocked Min Tiange’s concerns and insisted that the Li Family and Southern Border could not threaten them.
• A surge of power from the west drew the assembly’s attention, and Min Tiange hurried toward the Sword Heavenly King’s location.
• Mortal World Immortal and an array barrier stopped Min Tiange, while Azure Cloud Li Family members withdrew from the battle.
• Min Tiange returned to the Spirit Hall and announced that the Azure Cloud Li Family had captured Sword Heavenly King, alarming the immortals.

The Azure Cloud Li Family captured the Sword Heavenly King, while Li Yunlin prepared for the foretold battle by deepening his understanding of the Great Dao. Li Yunbing then asked their prisoner to send a sword shadow against his own eldest brother, leaving the immortal stunned.

• The Li Family captured the Sword Heavenly King and imprisoned him aboard their Spirit Boat after sweeping through the area.
• Li Yunbing threatened the Sword Heavenly King and warned him that mortals could punish him for the harm immortals had caused.
• Li Changan and Li Tianqi discussed how capturing the Heavenly Immortal had drawn the Spirit Lord’s attention and brought war closer.
• Li Yunlin confided in Red Sleeve Fairy about his regrets and his sense of duty to protect the younger members of his family.
• With Old Cat’s help, Li Yunlin gained the Path Seeker trait, learned the Spirit Bestowal Art, and prepared for the coming sword-shadow battle.
• Li Yunbing asked the Sword Heavenly King to assassinate Li Yunlin by sending a sword shadow across his soul, and the prisoner could hardly believe the request.

Li Yunlin easily defeated and captured the Sword Heavenly King, while the Blood Moon advanced toward Xilang Prefecture and refugees streamed south. Blue Ancestor began preparing Li Jianning to inherit the Dao Ancestor mantle, sharing his own master's advice about acting from the heart.

• Li Yunlin caught the Sword Heavenly King’s assassination attempt and subdued him with the twenty-seven rules within Litian Hall.
• The Li Family arrived to find the Sword Heavenly King imprisoned, and Li Yunlin reassured them that he had a way to handle his tribulation.
• As the Blood Moon neared Xilang Prefecture, refugees fled into Azure Cloud Prefecture and Li Jianning continued his unusual cultivation under Blue Ancestor.
• Blue Ancestor placed something within Li Jianning, asked whether he resented his teachings, and discussed the cost of holding the Dao Ancestor inheritance.
• Blue Ancestor asked Li Jianning what he would do as Dao Ancestor, then recalled his master's counsel to follow chance, act as he wished, and have a self.

Blue Ancestor said farewell to the people he had known across the Southern Border and Azure Cloud Prefecture, then left the Li Family his pots and bowls before challenging the great powers as the Blood Moon rose. He vanished after stepping into the sky, leaving the Li Family to witness his final stand.

• Li Jianning watched Blue Ancestor disappear and found the character [Dao] resting between his soul and spirit; the Human Emperor felt the Dao Ancestor's karmic thread snap, while Min Youguo and Linjiu recognized that a great calamity was coming.
• King Yu led Yu Prefecture's army through East Territory City after Dongfang Liancheng ordered the defenses opened, and forces across the world reacted to the coming upheaval.
• Blue Ancestor visited cultivators in Xilang Prefecture and traveled through Azure Cloud Prefecture, speaking with Feng Chunlin and leaving him a tome before reaching Merit City.
• Blue Ancestor met the Li Family and other residents of Merit City, revealed the pots and bowls in his travel bundle, and entrusted them to the family as he said farewell.
• Blue Ancestor left Merit City, stepped into the sky, and challenged the Daluo Golden Immortals of the Western Border, Shun Emperor Lin Yuan, Great Emperor Taiyin, and the Ancient Dao Divine Lord to battle at the ends of the earth.

After Blue Ancestor left to fight powerful enemies, the Li Family and Southern Border cultivators resolved to defend their homeland. At the Eternal Immortal Sect, Zishu Feng returned with a corpse and revealed how the Blood Moon grew, then sensed that the Li Family possessed a way to fight it.

• Li Yaotie rallied the Li Family with a call to fight, and Li Xiang chose to defend Azure Cloud Prefecture rather than flee.
• Southern Border cultivators gathered at Azure Cloud Prefecture’s border to prepare for war while Blue Ancestor and the Great Golden Immortals remained missing.
• Li Xinghuo, Li Changan, Duanmu Qi, Xu Xian, and Xuanyuan Liqun discussed the Blood Moon’s advance and how to slow it.
• Zishu Feng arrived at the Eternal Immortal Sect with a corpse carrying Demon Race energy and revealed that she was Blue Ancestor’s earlier disciple.
• Zishu Feng explained that the Blood Moon’s Dao Seed Retainers helped it absorb flesh, blood, and faith, and that killing the immortals inside it could slow its growth.
• Zishu Feng sensed a heartbeat at the edge of Azure Cloud Prefecture and concluded that the group had the means to fight the Blood Moon.

Li Changan traveled with Zishu Feng, Blue Ancestor’s disciple and the dynasty’s Fifth Princess, who revealed that the Human Emperor had left the Southern Border’s fortune as a contingency against the Blood Moon. As Zishu Feng arrived in Azure Cloud Prefecture, the Li Family confronted her, while her presence awakened Zishu Lingtian’s corpse and stirred the Mad Blood Devil Master.

• Zishu Feng questioned Li Changan about killing immortals, then told him Blue Ancestor was fighting Great Emperors and might be sacrificing himself to leave others a chance to survive.
• Zishu Feng identified Li Changan as Wenren Xianyi’s lover, while in the capital Wu Neng weighed Wang Jinhu’s plea to help the Southern Border against the dynasty’s calculations.
• Zishu Feng explained that the Human Emperor had made the Li Family Guardian of the Southern Border and entrusted them with its fortune, which the immortals sought to seize for an Immortal Court.
• Li Yaoqing’s domain trapped Zishu Feng near Merit City, and Li Changan introduced her to the wary Li Family as Blue Ancestor’s disciple and the Fifth Princess.
• Zishu Feng’s arrival caused Zishu Lingtian’s corpse to open its eyes, and the Mad Blood Devil Master recognized her as his Fifth Aunt.

Zishu Feng revealed Zishu Lingtian’s history and warned the Li Family that immortals were moving against the Southern Border, but the family refused to flee and prepared to resist. As Zishu Feng tried to take the Three Corpses away, they resisted being separated from Zishu Lingtian, while the Immortal Court dispatched Hundred Slaughter Star Lord toward the Southern Border.

• Zishu Feng explained that Zishu Qingtian had slaughtered his own branch to stop an immortal-backed rebellion, leaving Zishu Lingtian as the sole survivor and a longstanding enemy of the imperial dynasty.
• Zishu Feng warned the Li Family that immortals were acting openly and that the Southern Border was unlikely to win, but Li Changan agreed to let her take the Three Corpses away.
• Zishu Feng placed the Three Corpses in her Storage Ring, accepted a Bodhisattva statue from Little Bean, and headed west to retrieve Zishu Lingtian’s soul, but the Three Corpses resisted leaving him.
• Li Xiang watched the family refuse to flee, and Li Yaotie ordered Li Zhiheng to find any immortals infiltrating Azure Cloud Prefecture as the Li Family prepared to defend the Southern Border.
• In Single-Name Prefecture, Min Tiange warned that the Li Family and Mortal World Immortal could obstruct an invasion, but the Spirit Lord authorized Hundred Slaughter Star Lord to enter the Southern Border.

The Li Family learned that Ancestor Blade and the Thunder Department’s slaughter generals were approaching the Southern Border, while Li Xinnian continued following Su Chen through his mortal life. When Su Chen headed for Min Tiange’s stronghold, Li Xinnian realized he was going to Peerless Hall, and Li Kuanghua asked Zishu Feng to watch over him.

• The Mortal World Immortal identified Hundred Slaughter Star Lord Ancestor Blade as a formidable Thunder Department immortal leading four slaughter generals toward the Southern Border, and Li Xinjue sent warnings to the region’s powers.
• Li Xinghuo explained that Min Tiange’s light-and-shadow Dao prevented the Li Family from infiltrating the Blood Moon, so Li Yunlin enlisted the Mortal World Immortal to hold him back.
• Li Xinnian watched Su Chen begin walking toward the Imperial Capital and lamented his own lack of power as he struggled to change the fate awaiting Su Chen and his wife.
• After following Su Chen for another half month, Li Xinnian learned from Li Kuanghua that Su Chen was heading to Peerless Hall, where Min Tiange had once appeared.
• Li Kuanghua asked Zishu Feng to watch over Li Xinnian, and Zishu Feng complained that she had expected trouble from the bodhisattva statue.

Li Xiang learned that Su Chen had gone to Peerless Hall to settle a sixty-thousand-year-old grudge, while Wenren Xianyi ordered Li Xinnian arrested. Su Chen stormed Peerless Hall alone, slaughtering its defenders as Li Xinnian watched and Mu Xueqing awaited him in seclusion.

• Li Xiang learned that Li Yunlin’s family was entering Blood Moon to kill Min Tiange and that Li Xinnian had found Su Chen, who had returned to his peak after living as a mortal and was heading for Peerless Hall.
• Li Kuanghua told Li Xiang that Peerless Hall was protected by the demon empress, Mu Xueqing had reached the Dao-Comprehension realm, and Li Xinnian had insisted on following Su Chen.
• Wenren Xianyi learned that someone had broken into Peerless Hall with Li Xinnian and ordered Zhao Guang to arrest him, but her attendant said the Immortal Suppression Bureau and Heavenly Secrets Pavilion could not be found while Blue Ancestor lived.
• Su Chen entered Peerless Hall and killed a Foundation Establishment cultivator with a glance, then advanced through its disciples and formations without being harmed.
• Mu Xueqing recognized Su Chen and remained in seclusion, while Li Xinnian watched as Su Chen seized a Spirit Transformation cultivator by the throat.

Su Chen and Li Xinnian stormed Peerless Hall to settle old grudges, while forces across the Imperial Capital gathered to stop them. As Li Xinnian began devouring cultivators and Zishu Feng faced the Divine Hall’s Lesser Commander of Fate, the attackers remained surrounded with no clear escape.

• Su Chen fought his way through Peerless Hall’s defenses and told Li Xinnian to return to the clan while he went to Azure Cloud Prefecture afterward.
• Li Xinnian rejected Su Chen’s order, drained a fleeing cultivator of his life and power, and descended into Peerless Hall using demonic cultivator methods.
• Zishu Feng and Li Xiang watched as the Empress ordered Su Chen eliminated and Li Xinnian captured, while experts across the Imperial Capital moved to reinforce Peerless Hall.
• Wang Jinhu led Celestial Light Cave’s cultivators toward Peerless Hall alongside forces from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, the Immortal Suppression Bureau, the National Guardian Guard, the Golden Guard, and the Divine Hall.
• The Divine Hall’s Lesser Commander of Fate warned Zishu Feng to follow Heaven’s course, and she challenged his authority as an imperial princess.

Zishu Feng defended Peerless Hall from the dynasty’s forces while Li Xinnian embraced ruthless methods and devoured its cultivators. After his ancestor approved his choices and departed for the Imperial Capital, Li Xinnian entered the main hall and found Su Chen facing Mu Xueqing.

• Zishu Feng summoned the Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon Banner of Mountains and Rivers and attacked the Junior Arbiter of Fate after rejecting the cultivators’ demands.
• Su Chen broke into Peerless Hall as Li Xinnian devoured its cultivators and gained the trait All things are straw dogs.
• Li Xiang concluded that the Li Family had been driven into a dead end and urged them to cast aside mercy, sympathy, honor, and hesitation.
• Li Xinnian expected his ancestor to reprimand him, but the ancestor told him to act carefully and announced that the Lineage would enter the Imperial Capital.
• Li Xinnian continued devouring Peerless Hall’s cultivators, reached the main hall, and wondered whether Mu Xueqing was Min Tiange’s weak spot.