Chapter Summaries

Wu Neng sought the Nook Bureau’s help for Zishu Feng, but Elder Cai refused until a vision showed someone preparing to intervene. As Zishu Feng faced certain death, a black-mist warrior struck her through a spatial rift, and Li Xiang entered the battle under the Human Emperor’s decree.

• Wu Neng asked Elder Cai to help save Zishu Feng, but Elder Cai said the Nook Bureau would leave the matter to fate.
• A vision appeared in Elder Cai’s painting, showing black mist rising and a spear tearing through space.
• Ahei ordered his subordinates to gather cultivators at Peerless Hall to kill Li Xinnian and Su Chen and force Zishu Feng to withdraw.
• The Young Minister of Fate cast a catastrophic hexagram, and the combined attacks of the major factions destroyed Zishu Feng’s soldiers and overwhelmed her banner.
• A black-mist figure appeared through a spatial rift, struck Zishu Feng with a spear, and sent her through the rift after asking her to look after his child.
• Li Xiang entered Peerless Hall and invoked the Human Emperor’s decree, ordering the cultivators to withdraw.

Li Xiang appeared in the Dao arena with overwhelming power and faced the Imperial Capital cultivators while holding back from acting rashly. Elsewhere, the Hundred Slaughter Star Lord planned to target the Li Family Ancestor, and Wenren Xianyi ordered his death as she confronted the growing threats to her rule.

• Li Xiang appeared through a spatial rift on a Yin-Yang Fish Diagram, and his mastery of more than eight hundred rules made the Imperial Capital cultivators fear his strength.
• Li Xiang assessed his newfound power and chose not to attack while the matter in Peerless Hall remained unresolved.
• Ancestor Blade identified the Li Family Ancestor as the greatest threat to the Li Family's destruction and vowed to kill him himself.
• Wenren Xianyi ordered her shadow operative to eliminate Li Xiang, believing he would remain until Zishu Feng had removed the Li Family members.
• After the operative left, Wenren Xianyi recognized that setbacks across the realm were undermining her control, then composed herself.

Li Xiang confronted the imperial capital’s cultivators and condemned them for serving the Demon Empress, then attacked them through spatial rifts. Three days later, intelligence about the bloodshed reached Hundred Slaughter Star Lord Ancestor Blade, who abandoned the plan to kill Li Xiang.

• The Lesser Siming challenged Li Xiang’s claim that he could act freely in the imperial capital, and Li Xiang realized the cultivators had known he intended to let Zishu Feng escape.
• Li Xiang denounced the cultivators for protecting Peerless Hall and serving the Demon Empress, then praised others who had risked their lives against the Blood Moon.
• Li Xiang vanished into spatial rifts and killed cultivators, declaring he would slaughter everyone below the Great Ascension Realm unless they remembered they were human.
• The Lesser Siming ordered the cultivators to coordinate against Li Xiang, but Commander Ahei and the Golden Guard fled to the edge of the Dao Realm.
• Three days later, Hundred Slaughter Star Lord Ancestor Blade read an intelligence scroll about the imperial capital’s bloodshed and left without pursuing Li Xiang.

Li Xiang rampaged through the Imperial Capital for three days, growing stronger as he fought while the empire fractured around him. As the city’s powerful figures debated how to stop him, he targeted the Wenren Family’s hidden realm, and Wenren Xianyi urgently called for help.

• Wenren Xianyi received reports that Li Xiang was slaughtering cultivators in the Imperial Capital, King Yu had claimed the throne, and rebels and immortals were advancing across the empire.
• Li Xiang’s battles deepened his understanding of laws, and he used Lineage Will to learn Li Xinnian’s Devour technique while collecting spoils from his kills.
• Li Xiang evaded the Imperial Capital’s pursuers and located the Wenren Family’s hidden realm as it drifted toward the Heavenly Palace.
• The Lesser Siming, Wei Gang, and other cultivators argued over whether to kill Li Xiang or persuade him to leave the Imperial Capital.
• When Li Xiang’s spatial presence reappeared near the Wenren Family, Wenren Xianyi sent a frantic message asking for help.

Li Xiang entered the Wenren Family's blessed domain and uncovered a secret life-draining formation on Medicine Mountain, exposing the clan's horrific ambitions. Wenren Yiyuan tried to bargain with him, while Wei Gang and the dynasty's reinforcements stopped outside in terror.

• Wenren Yiyuan told his descendants that the Wenren Family would one day seize the throne and dismissed the Azure Cloud Li Family as a fleeting power.
• Li Xiang broke through Medicine Mountain's outer shell and revealed half-immortals bound to blood-red tendrils, with their stolen mana and life force feeding roughly five hundred Wenren cultivators.
• Wei Gang sensed what was inside the domain and ordered the dynasty's cultivators not to enter, horrified by the empress's crimes.
• Li Xiang recognized the formation's connection to the Blood Moon, the attempt to kill the Blue Ancestor, and the Wenren Family's dealings with immortals.
• Wenren Yiyuan asked Li Xiang to name a price and forget what he had seen, but Li Xiang concluded that the Wenren Family and the dynasty were finished.

Li Xiang exposed the Wenren Family’s hundred-thousand-year alliance with immortals and killed Wenren Yiyuan, revealing a vast force of Void Refinement cultivators hidden within Medicine Mountain. As the dynasty’s officials hesitated to destroy the clan because of the Blood Moon threat, Li Xiang called the imperial capital a latrine.

• The Li Family Patriarch exposed the Wenren Family’s secret dealings with immortals to cultivators across the imperial capital.
• Wenren Yiyuan admitted that his clan had captured half-immortals for over a hundred thousand years and used their power to build its strength.
• Wenren Yiyuan revealed that more than four hundred of the Wenren Family’s cultivators had reached the Void Refinement realm and planned to overthrow the dynasty after Blue Ancestor fell.
• Li Xiang pierced Wenren Yiyuan with the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear as Wenren Yiyuan declared that the dynasty needed his clan against the Blood Moon.
• Wei Gang confronted Li Xiang while the gathered cultivators hesitated, and Li Xiang said the imperial capital was a latrine.

Li Xiang rejected Wei Gang’s plea to spare the Wenren Family despite the dynasty’s desperate need for its cultivators. After killing Wenren Zikun, he attacked the gathered forces, determined to make them pay.

• Wei Gang argued that the imperial dynasty needed the Wenren Family’s nearly five hundred peak Void Refinement cultivators and urged Li Xiang to look toward the future.
• Li Xiang realized that exposing the Wenren Family’s crimes had not turned the world against them, as the dynasty accepted sacrificing victims for the greater good.
• Wenren Zikun offered the Azure Cloud Li Family control of the Southern Border, a high-ranking office, and dozens of immortals in exchange for Li Xiang’s withdrawal.
• Li Xiang cursed Wei Gang and killed Wenren Zikun with his spear despite the proposed agreement.
• As the Wenren cultivators attacked, Li Xiang unleashed his power and charged at Wei Gang and the surrounding forces.

As the Li ancestor rampaged through the imperial capital, Wu Neng confronted the corruption and resignation of the Immortal Suppression Bureau. Wenren Xianyi revealed that she had engineered events to free herself from her father and seize power, while the Human Emperor warned that her victory would not last.

• Wu Neng ordered Wei Chong and the Immortal Suppression Bureau cultivators to act against the Li ancestor, but Wei Chong argued that fighting him would be futile and admitted the Bureau had lost its principles.
• Wu Neng accepted that he and his subordinates had grown old alongside the dynasty as the Li ancestor's spear light tore through the capital.
• After Wenren Yiyuan's death, nearly five hundred Void Refinement cultivators pledged loyalty to Wenren Xianyi, allowing her to take control of the Wenren clan.
• The Human Emperor accused Wenren Xianyi of letting her father die as part of a long plan, and she admitted she had used the Blood Moon crisis and the Li ancestor's return to create an opportunity to rule.
• Wenren Xianyi left the Human Emperor, who reflected that the Li Family ancestor protected people fighting to preserve humanity's last refuge from the Blood Moon.

Li Xiang massacred the Wenren Family and confronted Wenren Xianyi at the Heavenly Palace, refusing her plea to spare her because she had left the Azure Cloud Li Family no way back. As Li Xiang set out to continue the slaughter, Li Dalong rallied the gathered family to prepare for war.

• Li Xiang destroyed the Wenren Family's grotto-heaven and killed cultivators as they fled toward the Heavenly Palace.
• Wei Gang realized Wenren Xianyi had used Li Xiang and shouted a warning, but Li Xiang continued killing.
• Wenren Xianyi pleaded with Li Xiang to let her go and promised to spare the Azure Cloud Li Family, but he said her actions had left them no choice and departed.
• A cultivator warned the Heavenly Palace that Li Xiang had gone to slaughter another sect, leaving Wenren Xianyi and the others aghast.
• In the Ancestor Space, Li Yaozu urged Li Dalong to fight for a path to survival, and Li Dalong ordered the family to prepare for battle.

Su Chen regained the authority of Celestial Venerable Xuan'er and revealed that he had once been the Son of Heaven, tasked with restoring the Immortal Court. Li Xinnian realized Su Chen’s mission threatened Azure Cloud Prefecture, while in Spirit City Min Tiange learned the immortals regarded him as disposable and fled in despair.

• Su Chen confronted Mu Xueqing in Peerless Hall, and the Calamity Ancient Ring flew from Li Xinnian to Su Chen as he reclaimed his power.
• Su Chen told Li Xinnian that he had obtained the ring and the mission to restore the Immortal Court after seeing the Blood Moon in the Immortal Tomb.
• Mu Xueqing explained that she had joined Min Tiange to stop the Immortal Court from rising, while Li Xinnian understood that Su Chen’s mission endangered the Southern Border.
• In Spirit City, the immortals discussed the Azure Cloud Li Family’s power and Min Tiange announced that Su Chen had returned.
• The Spirit Lord told Min Tiange that the immortals needed only an agent to open the Immortal Tomb and that Su Chen was more trustworthy than him.
• Min Tiange realized the Spirit Lord had dismissed his sacrifices and rushed out of Spirit Hall, followed by He Qianxia.

Li Xinnian learned that Su Chen had known about the Blood Moon and the immortals while allowing events to unfold, and he declared Su Chen guilty of betraying the Li Family. As Min Tiange rushed toward the imperial capital to destroy what he had helped create, the Azure Cloud Li Family intercepted him in the Dao Realm.

• Min Youguo mourned Min Tiange while Linjiu urged him to help save his son.
• Mu Xueqing explained that she and Min Tiange had once tried to stop Su Chen from reviving the Immortal Court, but Min Tiange later took control of Grand Tower and Strange Gate Occult Arts Mountain.
• Li Xinnian confronted Su Chen, realizing he had hidden his knowledge of the Blood Moon and the immortals while steering Min Tiange toward his downfall.
• Li Xinnian declared Su Chen guilty of betraying the clan and called on Mu Xueqing and Zishu Feng to kill him.
• Min Tiange learned the immortals had always favored Su Chen, then raced toward the imperial capital and vowed to destroy everything.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family trapped Min Tiange in the Dao Realm, where Li Dalong confronted him from atop the Silver Coffin.

Min Tiange was cornered by the Azure Cloud Li Family, but revealed that his schemes and ambitions were far from exhausted. He unleashed power approaching the Great Vehicle Realm and declared that his contest with the heavens had only just begun.

• Li Dalong, Li Yunbing, Li Yaotie, and Mortal World Immortal surrounded Min Tiange beneath the Blood Moon, and Min Tiange calmly discussed Su Chen and his rivalry with him.
• Min Tiange explained his plans to destabilize the world, ally with Wenren Xianyi, use immortals against the imperial dynasty, and eventually lead humanity against the immortals.
• Min Tiange revealed that the immortals feared his Dao of Light and Shadow and had prepared Su Chen and the Great Dao of Sealing Heaven to restrain him.
• Min Tiange unleashed overwhelming power that shattered the Mortal World Realm and cracked the earth and space as the Li Family retreated.
• The Spirit Lord sensed that Min Tiange had reached half a step into the Great Vehicle Realm and recognized that Min Tiange had feigned weakness to escape.

Min Tiange unleashed his full Dao of Light and Shadow against the Azure Cloud Li Family, trapping Li Yunbing in darkness and scorching Li Yaotie while Li Dalong opened the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin. The Boundless Blood Sea and Nether River emerged, halting Min Tiange’s power as Li Dalong confronted him, while Hundred Slaughter Star Lord chose to withdraw.

• Min Tiange shattered Mortal World Immortal’s Mortal World Realm and split the battlefield into domains of light and darkness, where Li Yunbing became lost and unable to sense his family.
• Min Tiange’s Dao of Light wounded Li Yaotie and threatened Li Dalong, who opened the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin after Li Yunbing vanished.
• The Boundless Blood Sea poured from the heavens and formed a Nether River that swallowed Li Yaotie and stalled Min Tiange’s Dao of Light and Shadow.
• Li Dalong searched the Nether River for Li Yunbing and confronted Min Tiange, who recognized the Underworld’s ancient power and tried to flee.
• Hundred Slaughter Star Lord and His Four Slaughter Generals sensed the Underworld’s power, and Hundred Slaughter Star Lord ordered them to leave rather than attack Li Dalong.

The Ancestor Blade warned the Fire Immortal that Li Dalong might wield the Underworld’s power, while Li Xiang’s assault on the Heaven Edict Sect continued. Li Dalong emerged as the Underworld’s new King of Hell and trapped Min Tiange with the Naihe Bridge, then declared that Min Tiange’s lifespan had run out.

• The Ancestor Blade told the Fire Immortal that a City God had defeated him in the Underworld and ordered him to flee if Li Dalong had inherited a King of Hell’s power.
• Li Xiang ignored Wenren Xianyi’s pleas and continued attacking the Heaven Edict Sect after learning Min Tiange had not reached Mahayana.
• Li Xiang received a message that Li Dalong had inherited the Underworld’s legacy, become King of Hell, and obtained the Naihe Bridge and Life and Death Register.
• The Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin opened, and the Naihe Bridge and Tongue-Pulling Hell’s power blocked Min Tiange’s escape.
• Li Dalong drew an ancient book from the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin and pronounced Min Tiange’s lifespan over.

Min Tiange seemingly destroyed Li Dalong and the Underworld’s manifestations with his light-and-shadow techniques, but the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin revived them and trapped him. Mortal World Immortal recognized the coffin’s connection to the ancient Underworld, then learned Li Yaotie’s family had dug it up while planting vegetables.

• Min Tiange used his light-and-shadow techniques to shatter Li Dalong, the Book of Life and Death, and the Underworld’s manifestations, leaving Li Yaotie and Mortal World Immortal as the apparent survivors.
• Li Yunbing emerged from Min Tiange’s shadow and bound him with his divine abilities as the Nether River began to rise again.
• Mortal World Immortal rescued Li Yaotie and recognized the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin as Shen Wu’s coffin, then suspected Shen Wu and the coffin had originated in the Underworld.
• The Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin reopened, restoring the blood sea, the Nether River, and the destroyed Underworld manifestations as figures emerged from its blood.
• Mortal World Immortal asked Li Yaotie where his father had found the coffin, and he said his family had dug it up while planting trees and vegetables.

After surviving his third death, Li Dalong passed through the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin and emerged with the restored Life and Death Register. He sentenced Min Tiange to hell despite an unseen force trying to extend Min Tiange’s lifespan, while the Mortal World Immortal sensed several powerful presences behind the attempted intervention.

• Li Dalong advanced through the Heavenly Coffin’s levels, deepening his understanding of death and refining Shen Wu’s divine-sense fragment when it appeared.
• The Yama King's Token opened the gates to the Underworld on the eighth level, where Li Dalong encountered Xuantianzi and recovered the restored Life and Death Register.
• Li Dalong emerged from the coffin as Min Tiange was trapped in the Nether River, and the Register listed Min Tiange’s crimes and assigned him to the various hells.
• Min Tiange’s mana and Dao of Light and Shadow were suppressed as the Register declared his lifespan over, while he pleaded and struggled against his sentence.
• An unseen presence added that Min Tiange’s lifespan should be extended, but Li Dalong crossed out the alteration and the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin took Min Tiange away.
• Li Yaotie and the Mortal World Immortal witnessed Li Dalong’s power, and the Mortal World Immortal sensed auras from the Northern Border, the Blue Ancestor, and another source.

Min Youguo mourned Min Tiange and recorded his death in the family genealogy, while Li Yunbing explained how he had used the Shadow Realm to help capture Min Tiange. Spirit Lord then appeared before the Li family and Mortal World Immortal, presented his immortal domain as a peaceful alternative to the suffering outside it, and urged them to join him.

• Min Youguo remembered Min Tiange’s life and added that he had died in loyal service to humankind.
• Li Dalong checked Li Yunbing’s injuries, and Li Yunbing revealed that he had entered Min Tiange’s Shadow Realm and helped Li Dalong imprison him.
• Spirit Lord manifested on the battlefield and told the Li family and Mortal World Immortal that he considered them friends, not enemies.
• Spirit Lord showed them scenes of harmony in his immortal domain and contrasted them with war and starvation beyond it.
• Spirit Lord claimed the Blood Moon’s expansion was salvation and invited the Li family to join him.

Su Chen tried to convince Li Xinnian to join his vision of peace through the immortals, but Li Xinnian condemned him and revealed that Min Tiange had been imprisoned. Beneath the Blood Moon, Li Dalong rejected the Spirit Lord’s promise and led the Li Family onward, determined to pursue their own hopes through their own efforts.

• Su Chen pleaded with Li Xinnian to accept his plan for the immortals, but Li Xinnian called his dream foolish and said Min Tiange had been imprisoned.
• Wenren Xianyi learned that Li Dalong had captured Min Tiange, while Wei Gang confronted Li Xiang over the accusation that the Li Family served the immortals.
• Wei Gang heard the Li Family acknowledge their hatred of the dynasty and realized they might ally with the immortals.
• Li Dalong told the Spirit Lord that the Li Family would not surrender its choices or depend on someone else to fulfill its dreams.
• The Spirit Lord’s avatar was destroyed by the Underworld’s power, and the wounded Li Family walked away with their heads held high.

During the hundred-day slaughter in the imperial capital, Li Xiang used his clashes with its defenders to comprehend the Dao while the dynasty’s enemies seized territory and invaded its borders. He left the capital unchallenged, having broken through and warned its rulers that he would return if the Southern Border fell.

• Wei Gang questioned the court’s condemnation of the Azure Cloud Li Family, but Ahei warned him that speaking in the family’s defense would get him killed.
• The Son of Destiny Su Chen escaped Li Xinnian, Mu Xueqing, and Zishu Feng with help from hidden immortals, while Emperor Yu seized six provinces and the imperial capital struggled to contain its enemies.
• After a hundred days of fighting, Li Xiang faced the capital’s assembled cultivators beneath a peach tree and announced that he was leaving to return home.
• Li Xiang walked out of the capital without anyone daring to stop him, and his Dao resonance formed a Taiji Diagram over the city as he comprehended the Dao.
• Wenren Xianyi realized that Li Xiang and Blue Ancestor had used their strength to create an opening for King Yu, Blood Moon, and foreign races to attack the dynasty.
• Li Xiang warned that he would return to the Heavenly Palace and threatened the capital if the Southern Border saw no spring, leaving Wei Gang and the cultivators terrified.

After recovering from the Hundred-Day Massacre, Li Xiang reunited with his descendants as the Blood Moon approached, while Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya shared a quiet moment shadowed by Zishu Feng’s knowledge of his atrocities. Li Xiang distributed spoils from the Imperial Capital, then reached the Dao Comprehension Realm.

• Li Xiang meditated in the Ancestral Space and welcomed Yao Tie, Yaoqing, Great Dragon, and other descendants, who reported their experiences and paid their respects.
• Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya discussed her memories of his many possible lives and decided she would leave with Xinjue and the children.
• Li Zhiheng questioned Zishu Feng, who warned him to watch his father and recalled Li Xinnian eating Mu Xueqing and the others in Peerless Hall.
• Li Xiang reviewed the treasures and cultivation resources taken from the Heaven Edict Sect and Wenren Immortal Clan, then gave them to his descendants.
• The Taiji diagram appeared in the Ancestral Space, and Li Xiang reached the Dao Comprehension Realm after the Hundred-Day Massacre.