Chapter Summaries

Li Yunbing reflected on his growing demonic nature while using Evil Thought to control five immortals and seize their treasures. Old Cat sensed Li Yunbing’s terrifying aura and recognized him as a Demon Saint, leaving his future power uncertain.

• Li Yunbing realized Spirit Lord had captured and neutralized the people he controlled beneath the Blood Moon, and he considered the dangers facing Azure Cloud Prefecture.
• Li Yunbing crossed the Eternal City Wall, observed the Southern Border’s losses, and recognized how little emotion he felt after becoming a devil.
• Li Yunbing invaded the minds of five trapped immortals, drew out their hidden treasures, and began cultivating new demonic arts.
• Li Xiang received an event log describing the Southern Border’s victory, Li Yunbing’s growing demonic abilities, Li Yunlin’s favor with the Great Dao, and Li Yaotie’s battle with Gu An.
• Old Cat sensed Li Yunbing’s demonic aura and concluded that he had become a Demon Saint more dangerous than a Devil Venerable.

Li Yunlin resisted the Great Dao’s temptations inside Litian Hall, then received Li Yunbing’s battlefield spoils and discovered the extraordinary cultivation art Great Dao Limitless. As he experimented with the art instead of breaking through, Old Cat recognized its name with astonishment.

• Li Yunlin stabilized his overflowing mana, rejected three unclaimed Daos, and ordered their insights recorded for the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Old Cat warned Li Yunlin that Li Yunbing might be a Demon Venerable plotting amid the world’s chaos, but Li Yunlin remained unconcerned and accepted his brother’s choices.
• Li Yunbing told Li Yunlin that the war was going well and that Zishu Feng was preparing a lightning raid on Blood Moon, then sent him battlefield spoils.
• Li Yunlin inspected the spoils, set aside the Sacred Wasteland Earth Spirit Pearl for Spark, and discovered a broken artifact fragment containing the cultivation art Great Dao Limitless.
• Li Yunlin studied and experimented with Great Dao Limitless, causing Litian Hall’s star-like spiritual items to revolve in reverse.
• Old Cat rushed to Li Yunlin, expecting him to break through, then noticed the fragment’s technique and exclaimed, “Heavens Bow???”

After the great battle, Li Jianguo received his share of the spoils and joined the commanders as they planned a counterattack against the Immortal Court’s forces in Xilang Prefecture. Ban Shu Qingping revealed a world-spanning Dao field that astonished the assembled experts, while Li Yunlin sensed its spread from afar.

• Li Jianguo accepted the rewards sent to him and his Forge Heaven Sect disciples, then went to the Xuanyuan Family’s bamboo garden after learning the commander had summoned the Li Family’s seniors.
• Li Jianguo joined Zishu Feng, Ban Shu Qingping, Xuanyuan Yuanhua, and other experts in the main hall of Verdant Garden.
• Zishu Feng proposed a counteroffensive against the Immortal Court forces in the three commanderies touched by the Blood Moon, but Xuanyuan Yuanhua warned of the risks.
• Ban Shu Qingping dismissed the warnings and revealed a Dao field that made the entire bamboo garden appear to be him.
• Li Yunlin sensed Ban Shu Qingping’s spreading aura and realized that Ban Shu Qingping had achieved the world Great Dao that Ban Shu Ao had failed to attain.

Li Yaotie pursued Gu An through the Immortal Realm, while Li Tianyi confronted Pure Immortal Maiden at Hidden Immortal Mountain over her treatment of human worshippers and a blade of grass. As their clash began, Li Tianyi declared that he would be the immortal and demanded that she kneel.

• Li Yaotie chased Gu An through the Immortal Realm, destroying the terracotta soldiers and leaving Gu An shocked when he realized his head had been shaved.
• Gu An fled toward the immortal domain and called on Pure Immortal Maiden to kill Li Yaotie.
• Li Tianyi reached Hidden Immortal Mountain and questioned Pure Immortal Maiden about valuing a blade of grass above human lives.
• Pure Immortal Maiden argued that worshippers fulfilled their desires while Hear Purity needed only her care, and she insisted that she decided who counted as grass and weeds.
• Li Tianyi summoned the Seventy-Two Profound Dharma Divine Resonance Talismans and challenged Pure Immortal Maiden, declaring himself the immortal and ordering her to kneel.

As the Southern Border’s leaders prepared to counterattack the Immortal Domain, Zishu Feng revealed that Li Tianyi would be their hidden weapon against the immortals. When Li Tianyi entered Hidden Immortal Mountain, his chessboard and seventy-two resurrected old monsters astonished Ban Shu Qingping.

• Zishu Feng and Duanmu Qi briefed the Southern Border leaders on the Immortal Court’s hierarchy and suspected Spirit Lord had set a trap with Forest Child’s subordinates.
• Zishu Feng said Li Tianyi, rather than Ban Shu Qingping, would make the Azure Cloud Li Family’s move against the enemy.
• The experts sensed immortal pressure and a chessboard appearing over Hidden Immortal Mountain, where Li Tianyi had begun his attack.
• Zishu Feng recognized the chessboard’s connection to the Chess Sage and recalled that he had taught Li Tianyi and other renowned disciples.
• Ban Shu Qingping saw Li Tianyi playing a zither beside seventy-two stitched-together living dead, whose powers and ancient auras were connected to him.

Southern Lands immortals discovered Li Tianyi’s corpse cave and learned that he had avenged the Witch Tribe war and revived seventy-two ancient experts in bodies suited to their souls. At Hidden Immortal Mountain, Li Tianyi and the resurrected elders confronted Pure Immortal Maiden, with the Chess Saint declaring that immortals saw them as Heaven.

• Southern Lands immortals found a cavern filled with corpses and rescued the trapped Lei Dong and Falling Star.
• Lei Dong revealed that Li Tianyi had killed those involved in the Southern Lands invasion and was searching for the secret behind Min Tiange’s plan to revive through the Corpse Stitching Art.
• Lei Dong explained that Li Tianyi and the Chess Saint had used corpses to give seventy-two remnant souls suitable bodies, hoping they could pursue the legendary Daluo Golden Immortal.
• The immortals learned that Li Tianyi had left the Southern Lands to take his younger sister home, then turned their attention to the disturbance at Hidden Immortal Mountain.
• Pure Immortal Maiden’s life-draining formation withered Hidden Immortal Mountain as Li Tianyi played his zither and seventy-two resurrected experts faced her.
• The Chess Saint revealed Min Tiange’s preserved body and declared that the ancient experts were pillars of the human race and a threat to the ancient immortals.

Li Tianyi and the Chess Saint led seventy-two resurrected cultivators against Pure Immortal Maiden, who trapped them inside an Immortal Realm that drained their vitality. As the Southern Border’s forces arrived outside, the Chess Saint urged Li Tianyi to study his Dao of chess while Li Tianyi sensed more remnant souls pressing against the talismans’ barriers.

• Li Tianyi summoned the Seventy-Two Profound Dharma Divine Resonance Talismans, and the Chess Saint arranged the seventy-two cultivators across a chessboard domain.
• Pure Immortal Maiden merged her Immortal Realm with the chessboard and used Life Plunder to drain the cultivators’ vitality.
• Pure Immortal Maiden sensed the approaching Southern Border forces and welcomed the chance to destroy them before vanishing into her Immortal Realm.
• Li Tianyi and the Chess Saint found themselves surrounded by the endless, life-draining forest, while the Chess Saint deflected Pure Immortal Maiden’s attacks.
• The Chess Saint saw Zishu Feng and the Southern Border forces arrive outside, then instructed Li Tianyi to learn the Dao of chess.
• Li Tianyi used his zither to reach the other cultivators and sensed more than a hundred remnant souls crowding against the talismans’ barriers.

As Southern Border experts rushed toward the Immortal Domain, Forest Child manifested a vast blood tree and Ban Shu Qingping arrived to confront him. The Azure Cloud Li Family’s unexpected fighters began overwhelming immortals, leaving Xu Xian reconsidering his own role in the battle.

• Zishu Feng and Xu Xian learned that Pure Immortal Maiden’s immortal realm was swallowing everything, while Lin An warned the gathered experts to focus on killing immortals and returning alive.
• Forest Child’s flesh-and-blood canopy spread beneath the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array, and Ban Shu Qingping appeared to challenge him.
• Li Yunlin charged toward Forest Child, while He Hao emerged with an array of tortoise shells and summoned Tianming to join the fight.
• Xu Xian saw a yellow-skirted girl repeatedly hurl an immortal and then watched a woman riding Taotie head toward the Immortal Domain.
• Xu Xian learned that the Li Family’s Fire Ancestor was chasing Gu An, then changed course to seek a smaller target instead of heading to Hidden Immortal Mountain.

The Azure Cloud Li Family unleashed its hidden experts across the Immortal Domain, while Safe Passage sealed the Immortal Realm and Pure Immortal Maiden unleashed the Heaven-Transforming Extinction Art. Gu An fled Li Yaotie’s pursuit, only to sense a terrifying figure approaching from the Eternal City Wall.

• Zishu Feng realized the Azure Cloud Li Family had intended to challenge the Southern Border Immortal Domain without relying on its allies.
• Pure Immortal Maiden sensed a brief, overwhelming presence, then saw the Azure Cloud Li Family’s experts appear throughout the Immortal Domain.
• Safe Passage used tortoiseshells to seal the Immortal Realm with thirty-six formations, enraging Pure Immortal Maiden and driving it to unleash the Heaven-Transforming Extinction Art.
• Gu An recognized Pure Immortal Maiden’s deadly art and warned Li Yaotie that the Li Family’s juniors were in danger, but Li Yaotie resumed chasing him to uphold his boast.
• Gu An sensed a sinister man approaching beneath dark clouds and recognized him as one condemned by Heaven and a Born Bad Seed.

Li Tianqi, Li Tianyi, and the ancient cultivators trapped Pure Immortal Maiden as a terrifying newcomer breached her Immortal Realm. The chapter ended with the three brothers closing in on her while she faced defeat.

• Pure Immortal Maiden's life-draining art shattered Li Tianqi's formations and drained vitality from the ancient cultivators.
• Li Tianqi revealed that he had spent ten years searching for Pure Immortal Maiden over the soldiers she killed at the border, and Li Tianyi joined him in condemning her.
• Gu An warned that Forest Child had arrived, and a young man pierced Pure Immortal Maiden's Immortal Realm with two daggers and began corrupting it.
• Li Tianqi used hidden formations to hinder Pure Immortal Maiden's escape, while Chess Saint and the seventy-two cultivators joined the formation.
• Li Tianyi used the Immortal Zither of Lingering Regret to strike Pure Immortal Maiden as the newcomer advanced, leaving her trapped and surrounded by the three brothers.

After Li Tianming broke through to the Dao Insight Realm and gained the Great Dao of Pollution, he joined Li Tianyi in overwhelming the Pure Immortal Maiden inside her Immortal Realm. She fled from their combined powers as Li Tianming’s past victims appeared around him, while Li Tianqi watched from the sidelines.

• Li Tianming’s polluted kick tainted the Pure Immortal Maiden, while Li Tianyi drew power from the Soul-Refining Threads of the ancient cultivators and trapped her on the Chess Saint’s board.
• Li Tianyi’s zither and threads pierced the Pure Immortal Maiden’s bone defenses, and Li Tianqi watched her life-stealing tornado fall apart.
• The chapter revealed that Li Tianming had spent over a century inheriting the White Jade Immortal’s teachings, breaking through to the Dao Insight Realm, and gaining the Great Dao of Pollution.
• Li Tianming chased the Pure Immortal Maiden through her realm as his past victims appeared around him and terrified her.
• Li Tianming continued spreading Pollution through the Immortal Realm, while Li Tianqi and Li Tianyi’s control left the Pure Immortal Maiden unable to escape.

Li Kuanghua endured the Immortal Court’s bombardment in Bodhisattva County and revealed the full power of her fused Buddhist and demonic cultivation. She defeated Master Hongzhen, whose plans to revive Buddhism and build the Western Paradise ended with her falling through an immortal vessel.

• The Retainers bombarded Li Kuanghua, while Yu Ming, Duanmu Yushu, and Xuanyuan Yuanhua watched and learned that she was the one fighting beneath the attacks.
• Li Kuanghua dragged a captured immortal through the bombardment, then used her demonic power to drain the immortal’s spiritual strength.
• Li Kuanghua recognized Master Hongzhen among the immortals aboard the vessels, while Hongzhen resolved to kill her and reclaim what she believed belonged to her.
• Li Kuanghua manifested the enormous Buddha-Demon Disk and fused Buddhist and demonic qi as the bombardment failed to stop her.
• Li Kuanghua struck Hongzhen through the abdomen and sent her crashing through an immortal vessel.

Li Kuanghua overwhelmed the Immortal Court’s forces in Bodhisattva County while Southern Border reinforcements flooded into the Immortal Domain. As Forest Child’s Blood Tree unleashed multiplying swarms of monstrous insects, Li Yunbing sent Zishu Feng a message that left her stunned.

• Li Kuanghua wounded Master Hongzhen and fought off the Immortal Court’s forces, while Xuanyuan Yuanhua explained that the Buddha-Demon Disk helped forge her extreme-dao body.
• Xuanyuan Yuanhua, Master Yu Ming, and Duanmu Yushu joined the battle as the Southern Border army began arriving in the Immortal Domain.
• Zishu Feng received reports of the Li Family’s victories and the advancing Southern Border forces, then heard Li Yunbing’s message through a Hazy Smoke Pot and reacted in disbelief.
• Forest Child’s Blood Tree spread across a prefecture, spawning swarms of insects that attacked both Southern Border cultivators and Immortal Court Retainers.
• Ye Xiu and Xuanji saw the Blood Tree’s insects multiplying and decided to return for help rather than enter Forest Child’s territory.

Li Yunlin joined Ban Shu Qingping inside Forest Child’s Immortal Realm while Zishu Feng rallied the Southern Border cultivators to fight Forest Child. At the sword array’s boundary, Li Yaoqing and Old Tree faced the approaching Immortal Court army, with Green Lady beside them.

• Tang Bing told Li Yunlin that Forest Child was an ancient creator of life whose body covered an entire prefecture and who stood close to becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Ban Shu Qingping struggled against Forest Child and called Li Yunlin back for help, so Li Yunlin entered the Immortal Realm and joined the battle.
• Zishu Feng ordered the Southern Border cultivators to keep fighting until Forest Child was slain, and Duanmu Qi predicted the Immortal Court’s reinforcements would not arrive.
• Li Yaoqing and Old Tree reached the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array’s boundary, where Li Yaoqing planted bamboo and roots to form a defensive barrier.
• Li Yaoqing and Old Tree prepared to face the approaching Immortal Court army, while Green Lady appeared beside them.

Green Lady used her recovered power to protect Li Yaoqing’s clansmen, heal endangered fighters, and tear off Forest Child’s ear so Old Tree could strengthen its bloodline. As Immortal Court reinforcements attacked the sword array, Green Lady revealed her connection to the Celestial Immortals and planted her severed little finger, causing forests to spread across the barren land.

• Zishu Feng recognized that a hidden Daluo Golden Immortal was supporting the Azure Cloud Li Family and understood why the Southern Border had been ordered to fight to the death.
• Green Lady sent a strand of hair to Li Xinghuo, restoring his vitality and letting him return to battle after an immortal had nearly killed him.
• Green Lady scattered her hair to protect people in danger, then tore off Forest Child’s ear and fed it to Old Tree, triggering a rapid transformation of its bloodline.
• Green Lady raised the Demon-Subduing Ring against the Immortal Court’s arriving reinforcements while Li Yaoqing remained focused on protecting her clansmen.
• Green Lady explained that the Celestial Immortals were connected to her and planted her severed little finger, causing grass and vast forests to grow across the barren earth.

Li Yaoqing unleashed Green Lady’s power against the Immortal Court army, wounding Forest Child and spreading a vast forest across the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array. As Green Lady asked Li Yaoqing for her wish, Li Yaoqing relived her life and returned to a peaceful memory of Zhien Village, leaving her fate—and the battle—unresolved.

• Pure Immortal Maiden realized Spirit Lord had lured the Southern Border cultivators into a trap with Forest Child’s lineage as bait and Lady Charming Fox’s lineage waiting to reinforce them.
• Li Yaoqing’s power struck Forest Child’s true body, tearing off his ear and making him collapse in agony; Ban Shu Qingping and Li Yunlin escaped.
• A forest spread across the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array as Green Lady used Li Yaoqing’s power to seize and refine Immortal Court soldiers, and Ban Shu Qingping was gravely injured when he spied on her.
• Li Yaoqing relived her life, then told Green Lady she wanted to marry and have children before asking it to protect Yunlin and her other loved ones.
• Li Yaoqing returned in her soul to a memory of Zhien Village and ran to answer her mother’s call to dinner, while Green Lady watched her go.

Green Lady realized she had chosen Li Yaoqing poorly, while Li Yaoqing’s suppressed immortal power awakened and turned the battle beneath the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array. Green Lady captured Lady Charming Fox and forced her to choose between surrender and death as the Southern Border gained the upper hand.

• Green Lady recalled choosing Li Yaoqing for her simple heart, then concluded that Li Yaoqing’s devotion to the Li Family had condemned her to a life of toil.
• Li Yaoqing’s divine soul vanished as Green Lady’s power surged through her, allowing her thousand cauldrons to absorb an immortal’s power and drawing nearby immortals’ aura into her forest.
• Pure Immortal Maiden recognized Li Yaoqing’s aura as that of the seven-leaf clover Progenitor and hoped to use the awakening to break free of the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother.
• Li Yunlin resonated with a strand of black silk and asked whether his second aunt truly had to go through with this, while the Southern Border cultivators feared that an immortal had taken Li Yaoqing’s body.
• The land of Xilang Prefecture rose against the immortal troops, the Blood Moon began to retreat, and Lady Charming Fox realized the troops entering the array could no longer escape.
• Green Lady pulled Lady Charming Fox into her immortal realm, forced her to kneel, and challenged her to choose whether to oppose Green Lady or face the Southern Border forces.

Green Lady awakened as a Daluo Golden Immortal, and the Azure Cloud Li Family’s hidden plan became clear as the battlefield turned against the immortals. Pure Immortal Maiden was captured after Green Lady rejected her, leaving the Li Family poised to strike back against the forces trapped inside the sword formation.

• Green Lady took control of Li Yaoqing’s body, subdued Forest Child, and caused the immortals to bow before her.
• Zishu Feng told the Southern Border cultivators that Green Lady would not attack them, while Ban Shu Qingping realized the Earth Deity was pushing back the Blood Moon.
• Pure Immortal Maiden escaped the Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves’ weakened formation and hurried toward Green Lady, expecting to join her ancestral lineage.
• Green Lady restrained Pure Immortal Maiden, and Li Tianming dragged her back into the dao field as Lady Charming Fox continued to worship Green Lady.
• Li Tianqi explained that Green Lady, Forest Child, and Lady Charming Fox had been Azure Cloud Prefecture’s first line of defense, while Li Tianyi revealed that Second Aunt had rejected Blue Ancestor’s plan to use the sword formation to defend the imperial dynasty.

In the Spirit Domain, Ba Siyu watched Retainers enlist for the war before Li Xinnian and the Azure Cloud Li Family unexpectedly arrived beneath the Blood Moon. In Merit City, Li Changan received refusals to his pleas for aid, then entrusted the city and his family’s plans to Huang Xiujin before the Li elders departed for the sword formation.

• A father told his son why he was enlisting to defend the Immortal Domain, and the boy promised to find him after mastering his arts.
• Ba Siyu reflected on the Spirit Lord’s rule and the coming battle until Li Xinnian and the Azure Cloud Li Family appeared on the rooftops, leaving him convinced the situation was lost.
• Li Changan read the Empress’s and Emperor Yu’s refusals to aid the Li Family and accepted that their final hope had failed.
• Li Changan told Huang Xiujin and Merit City’s elders that Blue Ancestor was unlikely to hold out, then explained the Li Family’s arrangements to protect the Southern Border.
• Li Changan asked Huang Xiujin to guide Merit City and watch over Li Qiuming, while Li Qiuming read the instructions left by his elders.

The Azure Cloud Li Family’s allies debated the family’s plan while Green Lady awakened as a Great Golden Immortal inside the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array. Li Yunbing revealed that Second Aunt had sacrificed herself to give the family a chance under Green Lady’s protection, while his other body continued a secret scheme involving captured half-immortals.

• Xuanyuan Liqun asked Dongfang Xuan why the Li Family had claimed the Southern Border would face no foreign enemies, and Han Meng and Nangong Siwen argued over whether the family meant to serve the immortals.
• Dongfang Xuan explained that the Li Family had chosen sacrifice over a prolonged war that would devastate the Southern Border and the sword array.
• Green Lady awakened in Li Yaoqing’s body and told the Li Family that Li Yaoqing’s soul remained, but Green Lady would take complete possession unless Li Yaoqing’s magic power regained the upper hand.
• Li Yunbing told Li Jianguo that Second Aunt had chosen Green Lady’s awakening to secure the family’s survival and a chance to negotiate with a Great Golden Immortal.
• Li Yunbing’s other body met Li Xinjue in the South Sea secret realm, ordered him to obtain more half-immortals, and watched the Immortal Nascent Soul drain a captive’s bloodline.