Chapter Summaries

Li Changan argued for allowing fleeing factions to leave Azure Cloud Prefecture so they might remember the Li Family’s kindness, while Li Changsheng and Li Changyao prepared to fight without retreat. Li Changsheng then tracked down A Xiu, a bearer of Human Emperor Blood, and sent Li Xinjue to capture him alive as the family faced a growing threat.

• Li Changan enforced order in Azure Cloud Prefecture and demanded that fleeing powers leave behind part of their foundations, but he persuaded Li Changsheng and Li Changyao to let them go so they could spread word of the prefecture’s plight.
• Li Changsheng and Li Changyao revealed that Tianli Hall had ambushed the fleeing powers at sea, then recalled the allies they had invited to Azure Cloud Prefecture.
• Li Changsheng asked Old Tree to locate the survivor of Azure Mist Mountain, and Old Tree’s Piercing Delusion showed A Xiu rallying Heaven Mist Mountain’s disciples against the seven surrounding sects.
• Li Changsheng summoned Li Xinjue and ordered him to investigate Heaven Mist Mountain and bring its sect leader back alive.
• Li Changsheng acknowledged that he was using the Human Emperor Blood bearer he had preserved for centuries, while Old Tree warned that the blood might point to a new Human Emperor or a hidden contingency left by past Human Emperors.

As the Blood Moon threatened Azure Cloud Prefecture, Li Xinjue and Li Zhijing faced the pain of sending their family’s children away while their relatives prepared to defend their homeland. Li Dalong sent the children to the South Sea and released Xuantianzi from her contract, charging her to protect the Li descendants as the battle began.

• Li Zhijing told Li Xinjue that she had written to the Heavenly Mountain elders to keep her father in the Central Plains, and explained why she would take his place in the coming war.
• Li Xinjue visited Li Xinghuo and Zishu Wandong, and he and his father awkwardly spoke about the children being evacuated.
• Li Dalong waited three days for more children to arrive, then comforted a child who feared his parents had abandoned him and ordered the Spirit Boat to depart.
• Li Dalong released Xuantianzi from their contract, gave her the City God Token and a Longevity Zhao Family ancestor’s corpse, and charged her to protect the Li descendants before sending her into the Spirit Boat.

Li Changan sent his family’s children toward the South Sea aboard a Spirit Boat, entrusting Liu Xiaofang and their care to the elders before the Blood Moon invasion reached Xilang Prefecture. As the Immortal Court’s forces arrived, Azure Cloud’s clans and sects rallied to defend their homeland, leaving the gathered warriors to march across a rainbow bridge toward the front lines.

• Li Changan sent the Li Family children aboard the Spirit Boat with Drunken Madman and the Martial Emperor, and gave Liu Xiaofang instructions before bidding her farewell.
• In Li Family Year 1100, the Blood Moon invaded Xilang Prefecture, where Li Xinghuo prepared to meet Spirit Lord and the arriving immortal forces.
• Xuanyuan Liqun, Duanmu Qi, and Zishu Feng rallied their forces as the Xuanyuan Family and Eternal Immortal Sect lit beacons and prepared to fight.
• Li Dalong and the Li Family raised their weapons, while Puci Supreme Elder and clans and sects across Azure Cloud committed themselves to the front lines.
• He Hao and Consort Ji, Phantom Ghost and Taotie, and many other recluses joined the gathering forces headed for Xilang.
• Li Tianyi and the gathered lords stepped onto the rainbow bridge as the people of Azure Cloud lit fires and bade them farewell.

As the Southern Border turned Endless Night into day, the battles across the realm paused, and cultivators rushed to defend it. In the Imperial Capital, Yaowen of the Li Family gave Wei Gang a flame and asked him to help find the scattered lights of humanity, leaving him holding a new hope.

• The Southern Border’s light stopped the fighting between the imperial dynasty, Emperor Yu’s army, and the immortals, and an imperial general bowed toward it.
• White Qilin reported the Southern Border’s response to Emperor Yu, who toasted the Azure Cloud Li Family and those working through Endless Night for tomorrow.
• Wei Gang heard Wu Neng declare that the Empress would let the Southern Border perish, then abandoned the night court in despair.
• Yaowen told Wei Gang how the Li Family’s ties to ordinary people had helped them survive Calamities and asked him to seek humanity’s scattered lights.
• Wei Gang accepted Yaowen’s flame and raised it high on the Imperial Capital’s walls.

Spirit Lord watched the Southern Border rally against the Immortal Court and recognized the danger of its uncompromising resistance. As the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array spread across Xilang Prefecture, Li Xinghuo accepted its first sword and swore to defend the formation to the death.

• Spirit Lord saw cultivators from Xilang Prefecture and Azure Cloud Prefecture surge toward the battlefield, overwhelming the Blood Moon's radiance.
• Pure Immortal Maiden identified the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array and explained that it covered a prefecture, barred flight, and required its formation guardians to fight until death.
• North Pole Immortal Elder warned that the array forced its enemies into a deadly battle, while General Gu An dismissed the threat.
• Li Xinghuo, bearing Bixie blood, rose beneath an immortal sword as Li Tianyi played the zither and Zishu Feng waved the Nine Dragon Banner.
• Li Xinghuo received the formation's first sword and vowed to defend it unto death.

As Blood Moon’s overwhelming immortal army approached Xilang Prefecture, Zishu Feng learned that the Southern Border’s cultivators understood Blue Ancestor’s plan and had chosen to fight for humanity regardless. The chapter ended with Zishu Feng taking a sword talisman and vowing that the immortals would advance no farther, even if she died.

• Zishu Feng saw Blood Moon’s vast army and feared that the Southern Border could not withstand its strength and resources.
• The Li Family ancestor told Zishu Feng that everyone understood Blue Ancestor’s plan, and she watched Li Xinghuo and Duanmu Qi prepare to wield sword talismans.
• Cultivators from Xilang Prefecture, Azure Cloud Prefecture, the Central Plains, and other groups rushed into the Immortal-Banning Sword Formation and claimed positions despite the danger.
• Zishu Feng realized the gathered fighters were risking their lives for humankind, even though they knew they might be used as pieces in Blue Ancestor’s plan.
• Zishu Feng seized a sword talisman and declared that the immortals would not pass through the Southern Border as long as she lived.

The immortals in Spirit City learned that Immortal Maiden Sha and her scouting parties had vanished inside the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array, and Spirit Lord maneuvered Gu An into investigating while pursuing other plans against humanity. In the Imperial Capital, Wenren Xianyi mourned her father before learning that immortals were aiding Emperor Yu’s rebellion, and she prepared to confront the threat.

• An immortal soldier reported that Immortal Maiden Sha and all thirty-seven scouting parties had missed their scheduled contact after entering the sword array.
• Ba Siyu praised General Gu’s past confidence and urged him to investigate the array, prompting the immortals to pressure Gu An into acting.
• Spirit Lord summoned the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother and suggested she investigate Prince Jue of the Emperor Yu, while identifying Southern Border leaders as threats to eliminate.
• Wu Neng urged Wenren Xianyi to exploit Spirit Lord’s focus on the Southern Border, but she dismissed him and went to visit Wenren Yiyuan’s grave.
• Wenren Xianyi mourned her father and reflected on her rule before receiving a golden message that revealed immortals were helping Emperor Yu rebel.
• Wenren Xianyi vowed to challenge her old enemy as the Eastern Yi army marched out from the Central Plains.

Li Xinghuo led his battered army on the Blood Moon frontline, reflecting on what it meant to keep moving forward and on the family he had once neglected. After resting with his soldiers, he marched toward battle again, remembering his father’s final words.

• Li Xinghuo’s Evil-Warding bloodline awakened after he slew the immortal Baleful Fairy, granting him greater deterrence against immortals and the ability to summon the seventy-two Earthly Fiend demons’ dharma manifestations.
• Shi Pengtian brought wine to Li Xinghuo and asked for a brief rest for their remaining 1,082 soldiers, and Li Xinghuo allowed the weary troops to celebrate.
• Li Xinghuo asked Shi Pengtian about his family and losses, then told him that continuing forward could lead people to those and those things worth striving for.
• Li Xinghuo reflected on his estrangement from his children and how reconnecting with them had taught him what it meant to move forward.
• The next day, Li Xinghuo led his equipped and orderly soldiers toward the front, recalling his father’s final instructions and vowing he had never forgotten them.

Five years into the war against the immortals, Li Jianguo oversaw the construction of the Eternal City Wall while the Qingyun Army trained Southern Border forces. Li Yunbing warned Zishu Feng that the Spirit Lord was driving Emperor Yu into war, and revealed that a Li Family genius had gone to help him.

• Li Jianguo watched cultivators build and fortify the Eternal City Wall, the Southern Border’s planned defense against the immortals.
• Li Jianguo reflected on his decision to join the war effort and took pride in the wall as the greatest work of his life.
• The Qingyun Army trained Southern Border cultivators behind the wall while Li Yunbing restrained his demonic urges and discussed Emperor Yu’s alliance with the immortals with Zishu Feng.
• Li Yunbing told Zishu Feng that the Spirit Lord was forcing Emperor Yu to continue fighting the imperial dynasty and said a Li Family genius had gone to find a solution.
• In the Eastern Yi army camp, Li Xinri assured Emperor Yu that his strategic brilliance would help turn the crisis around, while Emperor Yu doubted his family’s prospects.

Li Xinri urged Emperor Yu to keep fighting the Blood Moon and trust the Southern Border, but Emperor Yu refused to risk his realm on their victory. As the Southern Border’s forces retreated, Li Xinghuo reminded Shi Pengtian that people behind the front were sacrificing themselves to build the Eternal City Wall.

• Li Xinri explained that immortals were manipulating Emperor Yu into becoming a puppet Human Emperor and urged him to gamble on the Southern Border defeating the Blood Moon.
• Emperor Yu rejected Li Xinri’s appeal, and Li Xinri left furious after accusing him of underestimating the Southern Border’s resolve.
• Li Yunbing said Emperor Yu viewed the Southern Border’s cause as lost, but insisted that victory remained undecided and they would find a path to survive.
• In Li Family Year 1110, Li Xinghuo led more than a thousand immortal soldiers in a retreat as the Blood Moon expanded into the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array.
• Shi Pengtian saw a Bodhisattva statue emerge and vanish beneath the ground, but Li Xinghuo silenced him and explained that their people were raising the Eternal City Wall at great cost.

Pure Immortal Maiden entered the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array and killed over a thousand Southern Border cultivators, exposing the Eternal City Wall. Li Tianqi recovered Lin Xiao’s remains and learned that the Heavenly Immortal was Safe Passage’s former mentor, but he showed no fear of confronting her.

• Lin Xiao and his comrades held Pure Immortal Maiden off for half an incense stick before she killed them, and Lin Xiao died cursing her while thinking of the Eternal City Wall and his homeland.
• Li Tianqi arrived, recognized the traces of a Heavenly Immortal, and ordered the front-line troops to retreat because the wall had been exposed.
• Li Tianqi found Lin Xiao’s body and read the iron shard bearing his name and his words about dying on his homeland.
• Li Tianqi summoned Safe Passage, who identified the Heavenly Immortal as Pure Immortal Maiden, her former mentor and a powerful healer.
• Safe Passage warned Li Tianqi that confronting Pure Immortal Maiden would require a price and at least Mahayana power, but he continued gathering the dead without showing fear.

The Spirit Lord learned that humanity had spent fifteen years building the Eternal City Wall and ordered Gu An to destroy it, despite Ba Siyu warning that it might be a trap. In Li Family Year 1120, Li Xiang saw the wall nearing completion and learned that Gu An had been lured into the Southern Border’s plan.

• A returning follower reported that Pure Immortal Maiden had discovered the Eternal City Wall and that humanity had sacrificed more than two hundred thousand cultivators during its construction.
• The North Pole Immortal Elder and other immortals called for an assault, but Ba Siyu warned the Spirit Lord that the wall could be bait and that attacking might spring a trap.
• The Spirit Lord praised Ba Siyu’s caution, then ordered Gu An to destroy the wall before its completion.
• In Li Family Year 1120, Li Xiang reviewed his descendants’ battlefield efforts and arrived above the half-finished Eternal City Wall.
• Li Yunbing told Li Xiang that the Spirit Lord had ordered Gu An to attack five years earlier and that the enemy had taken the bait.

Gu An led the Immortal Court’s heavily equipped army toward the Eternal City Wall, where the defenders feared they could not withstand its strength. As the enemy approached, Li Yaotie arrived with ten thousand Qingyun soldiers, and Li Yunbing told Zishu Feng that the times had changed.

• Gu An surveyed Spirit Lord’s modernized Immortal Court army and learned it could reach the Eternal City Wall in five days.
• The defenders watched the Immortal Court’s Spirit Boats advance and Xuanyuan Yuanhua warned that their immortal-enhanced equipment posed a grave threat.
• Zishu Feng questioned whether the city’s forces could stop the invasion, and Li Yunbing told her to learn how to wage war.
• Li Yaotie arrived at the Eternal City Wall, and Li Yunbing rang a bronze bell to assemble ten thousand Qingyun soldiers.
• Li Yaotie led the ten thousand soldiers away, while Li Yunbing told Zishu Feng that the Azure Cloud Li Family had trained its soldiers for nearly a thousand years.

Zishu Feng learned that the Qingyun Army had trained for generations and received thirty thousand flying beasts, while Li Zhijing spent twenty years building an army of demon beasts in the Endless Forest. As Li Yaotie’s ten thousand soldiers faced the approaching Immortal Court forces, Li Chuhou’s song united them against their fear.

• Zishu Feng questioned a Qingyun Army soldier about their training and learned that his family had served for generations and that recruits had to endure at least thirty years.
• Mosquito Daoist arrived with thirty thousand flying beasts, telling Li Yunbing that more would follow, and ten thousand beasts headed toward Li Yaotie’s battlefield.
• Li Zhijing’s twenty-year journey through the Endless Forest made numerous Demon Kings submit and strengthened her dragon bloodline and demon-beast forces.
• Three days later, Li Chuhou and the Qingyun Army stood in the wind and sand, afraid as they waited for the Immortal Court forces to arrive.
• Li Chuhou began singing about defending Qingyun, and the soldiers joined him until Li Yaotie led their united shout.

As Gu An’s ten thousand immortal soldiers approached the Eternal City Wall, Li Yunbing urged Zishu Feng and the defenders to overcome their fear of immortals. The Qingyun Army then unveiled and fired a hundred Godslayer Cannons at the Immortal Court’s fleet, leaving Zishu Feng watching the phoenix-shaped attack soar toward the enemy ships.

• Zishu Feng saw Gu An’s immortal army approaching and felt the pressure of facing immortals.
• Li Yunbing told Zishu Feng that mortals could defeat immortals if they found the courage to confront them.
• The Qingyun Army assembled one hundred Godslayer Cannons along the Eternal City Wall and aimed them at the Immortal Court’s ships.
• The commander gave the signal, and the cannons unleashed a phoenix-shaped formation of energy toward the fleet.
• Zishu Feng gripped the wall and watched the phoenix fly toward the immortal ships.

Gu An led the Immortal Court fleet against the Eternal City Wall, but the Qingyun Army and Southern Border forces ambushed and overwhelmed him. In Spirit City, the Spirit Lord revealed that Gu An’s attack was a diversion and that the real target was Azure Cloud.

• Gu An dismissed the ten thousand Qingyun soldiers as he advanced on the Eternal City Wall, while they prepared unfamiliar weapons and defenses.
• The Qingyun Army fired Spirit Guns as a phoenix-like attack from the wall struck the fleet, and Li Yaotie confronted Gu An amid the destruction.
• Southern Border experts and defenders joined the battle, and Gu An raged as his fleet’s retainers were burned and shot down.
• Ba Siyu met the Spirit Lord, who promised him authority over the Southern Border after its conquest and urged him to persuade humanity not to resist.
• The Spirit Lord explained that Gu An had volunteered as bait to draw Southern Border forces toward the wall while the Immortal Court fleet threatened Azure Cloud.
• The Spirit Lord said the Southern Border’s interior and rear were exposed, making Azure Cloud the true battlefield.

The Eternal City Wall’s defenders learned that the Azure Cloud Li Family’s weapons had destroyed the invading Immortal Court fleet, while survivors were hunted across the scorched battlefield. The Immortal in the Mist trapped Patriarch Tianye and Feng Chunlin, but Li Yunbing intervened and challenged him.

• The defenders saw the crimson sky and heard that seven Godslayer Cannon shots had shattered the two-hundred-thousand-strong immortal fleet.
• Xuanyuan Yuanhua and Duanmu Qi asked Li Yunbing for weapons, and he left them facing Old Root after vanishing.
• A wounded Retainer crawled toward a comrade’s Storage Ring but was killed by a Spirit Gun-wielding Qingyun soldier.
• Feng Chunlin and Patriarch Tianye surveyed the devastation and discussed the Azure Cloud Li Family’s weapons before the Immortal in the Mist trapped them in his realm.
• The Immortal in the Mist tried to bewitch Patriarch Tianye, but Li Yunbing appeared through the shadows and mocked him, freeing Patriarch Tianye and Feng Chunlin from their daze.

Li Yunbing used the Watchdog’s powers and his Cloud Dao to subdue five immortals, leaving them convinced they had defeated humanity. After the Qingyun Army finished the battle, Li Yunbing urged the human forces to counterattack toward the Blood Moon, while hinting that the Li Family’s full strength was far greater than what they had seen.

• Immortal in the Mist realized a Devil King’s shadows and tentacles had trapped him and four other immortals, then used his mist to free them from the Watchdog’s suppression.
• The five immortals escaped their Immortal Realms and walked through the Qingyun Army’s battlefield, unaware that they were still under Li Yunbing’s illusion.
• The five immortals reported to the Immortal Lord that they had destroyed the Eternal City Wall and slaughtered a million humans.
• Duanmu Qi and the other elders recognized that Li Yunbing had controlled the five immortals, while the Qingyun Army completed its victory over the surviving Retainers.
• Li Yunbing ordered a surprise march ten thousand miles toward the immortals and challenged Duanmu Qi’s fear of the Immortal Court.
• When Duanmu Qi asked about the Li Family’s strength, Li Yunbing said their current situation was fine and their strength was barely sufficient.

Li Xiang learned that the Spirit Lord’s Immortal Domain regarded the Li Family as demons and set out to confront the Spirit Lord as the Immortal Court invaded. Meanwhile, Li Yunlin trapped Immortal Court forces inside Litian Hall and revealed a strength that could contend with Body Integration, leaving his captives convinced he was invincible beneath the heavens.

• Li Xiang questioned a cultivator in the Spirit City and learned that the Spirit Lord’s Immortal Domain lived peacefully while calling the Li Family’s people demons.
• Li Xiang checked the invasion reports, learned that Li Yunbing had trapped five immortals, Li Yunlin was holding back the enemy forces, Li Yaotie was fighting Gu An, and the Southern Border’s counterattack had begun; he headed toward the Spirit Lord with his gun.
• Old Cat killed an escaping Spirit Transformation cultivator who had been eroded by a Dao seed and complained that Yunlin’s enemies were no match for him.
• Li Yunlin patrolled Litian Hall’s starry sea, where forty-three Immortal Court cultivators were trapped inside one of its worlds.
• A young Southern Lands cultivator explained that Li Yunlin had spent centuries suppressing his strength and surpassing his limits, while the white-haired elder failed to rally the terrified captives.
• Li Yunlin descended into the volcanic world in black armor, and his captive opponents realized that he could contend with Body Integration and remained undefeated beneath the heavens in the absence of a Heavenly Immortal.

The Southern Border forces defeated the Immortal Court’s assault, with the Azure Cloud Li Family’s weapons and fighters overwhelming the invaders. As the survivors assessed the battle, Zishu Feng realized the attack might have been a diversion to lure away the Pure Immortal Maiden.

• More than a hundred Southern Border experts surrounded the captured Heavenly Immortal and Half-Immortal while the Azure Cloud Li Family’s forces routed the Immortal Court army.
• The experts saw Li Yunbing control five immortals and Li Yunlin trap forty-three Immortal Court fighters inside Litian Hall.
• Ban Shu Qingping left after judging Li Yunbing and Li Yunlin worthy future rivals, while Xu Xian complained to Zishu Feng about Ban Shu Qingping’s past insults.
• Zishu Feng concluded that the Spirit Lord had treated Gu An as a disposable decoy and used the attack to draw the Pure Immortal Maiden away.
• Li Yunbing praised Zishu Feng for noticing the likely diversion, and she withdrew into a soundproof formation to scream in frustration.