Chapter Summaries

Li Xiang faced the Spirit Lord in the Spirit Hall as the Southern Border war unfolded, and the Spirit Lord explained how both sides had been maneuvered into a conflict. The chapter left Li Xiang reflecting on the Spirit Lord’s plan to make the war strengthen the south through the deaths of immortals and living beings.

• Li Xiang sat in silence across from the Spirit Lord while reports showed the Southern Border fighting and his descendants’ actions.
• The Spirit Lord admitted that the Azure Cloud Li Family’s hidden Great Luo Golden Immortal had defeated his plans and asked whether the war had been a trap.
• The Spirit Lord described how the Eternal City Wall and Gu An’s defeat had drawn the Southern Border into battle while concealing the conflict’s real purpose.
• The Spirit Lord revealed that he welcomed defeat and prolonged warfare because the deaths of immortals and living beings would return power to the world and strengthen the south.
• Li Xiang recalled the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave’s growth amid repeated battles and wondered whether immortals and humans differed in their schemes.

Spirit Lord tried to persuade Li Xiang and the Li Family Ancestor to join his plan for a peaceful world, but their confrontation turned into a battle when he revealed the ancient souls and formations he had prepared. Li Xiang revealed that the Li Family had been waiting for Green Lady and the other immortals to turn against Spirit Lord, then implied his true target was the arriving Heavenly Pool Holy Mother.

• Spirit Lord declared that his Spirit Domain could end war and unite all races, but Li Xiang rejected his vision and defended Azure Cloud Prefecture's right to protect its people.
• Spirit Lord resolved to slaughter humanity, summoned ancient soul bodies from the Spirit Hall, and trapped Li Xiang inside his Immortal Realm.
• Spirit Lord explained that he had anticipated Li Xiang's spatial laws and intended to use him and his descendants as nourishment while awaiting the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother.
• Li Xiang revealed that the Li Family had backed Mortal World Immortal and awakened Green Lady, making the stakes sufficient to challenge Spirit Lord.
• Forest Child's, Pure Immortal Maiden's, and Lady Charming Fox's forces revolted against Spirit Lord, accusing him of betraying the Immortal Court.
• Li Xiang hinted that he had spent days waiting for the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother, leaving Spirit Lord horrified as he realized she was the intended target.

Hundred Slaughter Star Lord reported that the Azure Cloud Li Family threatened the Southern Border, but Heavenly Pool Holy Mother dismissed his warning until Rainbow Fairy arrived pleading for the Spirit Lord’s rescue. Ancestor Blade then spotted a Li Family member inside Purple Star Hall, leaving him stunned.

• Ancestor Blade returned to the Immortal Court with his four generals after abandoning his assassination plans in Azure Cloud, and ordered Lightning Immortal to drive Rainbow Fairy away.
• Ancestor Blade entered Purple Star Hall, where Heavenly Pool Holy Mother mocked his failed assassination campaign and Supreme Immortal Emperor asked about the war in the south.
• Ancestor Blade warned Supreme Immortal Emperor that the Azure Cloud Li Family could endanger the Southern Border and the Spirit Lord, Lady Charming Fox, and Forest Child.
• Heavenly Pool Holy Mother laughed off the warning, but Rainbow Fairy broke into the hall begging her to save the Spirit Lord.
• Ancestor Blade noticed a Li Family member standing in the hall beside an immortal serving Lady Charming Fox, while Supreme Immortal Emperor remained expressionless.

Li Xiang revealed how the Li Family had arranged a deal with the Immortal Emperor to keep the Immortal Court from aiding Spirit Lord and to draw Heavenly Pool Holy Mother Chi Ling into the conflict. As Chi Ling confronted the Immortal Emperor in Purple Star Hall, Spirit Lord realized his schemes had helped bring about his own defeat, just as Chi Ling descended toward the Spirit Domain.

• Rainbow Fairy reached Purple Star Hall, and Chi Ling learned that Spirit Lord and the three Immortal Lords had betrayed her while her forces in the south were being destroyed.
• Chi Ling accused the Immortal Emperor of harming her, and he summoned Li Yuanshang, who said he had come to make a transaction.
• Spirit Lord claimed that Chi Ling would receive reinforcements, but Li Xiang explained that the Immortal Emperor had chosen to prioritize the threat posed by the Wenren Family's nearly five hundred Void Refinement cultivators.
• Li Xiang revealed that the Li Family had negotiated with the Immortal Emperor and that Chi Ling's year in the Immortal Court had given them time to control Lady Charming Fox and Forest Child.
• As Chi Ling's fury shook the Immortal Domain, Li Xiang watched her descend, and Spirit Lord roared at him in fury.

The Heavenly Pool Holy Mother arrived as the Azure Cloud Li Family waited on a rooftop amid the Spirit Domain’s upheaval. Can An and the Paradise Sparrow realized the family had become so formidable that even they might not survive, and Can An urged the Paradise Sparrow to flee.

• The Heavenly Pool Holy Mother’s arrival covered the sky with dark clouds and lightning, while Li Dalong ignored Ba Siyu’s warnings and stood with his family on the rooftop.
• Li Qiu laughed from his chained Immortal Realm, and the Paradise Sparrow and Can An discussed the threat posed by the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Can An explained that Li Changyao’s arrows contained the bones and immortal qi of immortals who had pursued her and Li Changsheng.
• Can An warned that the Li Family relied on their own strength, had captured their colleagues, and appeared to be waiting for the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother.
• Can An told the Paradise Sparrow to flee and preserve himself, then learned that their last revival had been three hundred and eighty-six years earlier.

The Heavenly Pool Holy Mother’s movement in the South drew the attention of powerful figures across the world, while the Azure Cloud Li Family’s plan to challenge her became clear. The Li Family refused outside aid, and the chapter ended with Wu Neng warning that their Ancestor could slaughter the Lesser Administrator of Fate with ease.

• The Heavenly Pool Holy Mother stirred, drawing the attention of Min Youguo, Linjiu, the Human Emperor, Emperor Yu, and other powerful figures toward the South.
• Min Youguo and Linjiu concluded that the Azure Cloud Li Family intended to kill the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother and gain protection for the South, and Min Youguo sent them a golden decree offering help.
• Yaozu of the Li Family rejected Min Youguo’s offer, knocking the decree back with a sword strike from the northern snow region.
• Wenren Xianyi told the Heavenly Palace’s gathered officials that the Li Family had been treated as chess pieces by everyone and was fighting to be treated as human beings.
• The Lesser Administrator of Fate declared that the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother would destroy the Li Family, but Wu Neng warned that the Li Family Ancestor could slaughter him like a pig or dog.

As the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother arrived, Spirit Lord exposed the Azure Cloud Li Family’s purpose and rallied the Spirit Domain against them, unleashing the ancient souls in his immortal realm. Facing the united resistance, Li Dalong began to wonder whether his family really were the villains of legend.

• Ba Siyu realized that the Azure Cloud Li Family had held back its strength for years and that the attack on Spirit Lord was their final response to having their homeland threatened.
• Spirit Lord accused the Li Family of endangering humanity, but the Li Family Ancestor refused to defend himself and prepared to fight.
• Spirit Lord summoned the power of ancient dragon, phoenix, and other oppressed souls, causing the Spirit Domain to rally behind his call for justice.
• Li Dalong and the other Li Family members saw the Spirit Domain’s forces surge toward them as the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother arrived.
• Li Dalong doubted whether his family were truly villains and glanced at Li Xinnian, whom the ancestor had called a Fated Villain.

The Spirit Lord unleashed the Spirit Domain’s forces against the Azure Cloud Li Family, but Can An’s attempt to kill Li Changsheng and Li Changyao ended with their decoys. The Spirit Lord fell almost immediately in her battle with the Li Family Ancestor, leaving the Spirit Domain’s victory in doubt.

• The Spirit Lord summoned eighteen hundred ancient spirits and eighteen dragons and phoenixes as the Spirit Domain’s warriors charged the rebels and the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Li Qiu broke free and devoured a rebel immortal, while the Paradise Sparrow attacked the southern rebel army with thunder and purple fire.
• Can An revealed his true form and sent thousands of asuras after the Azure Cloud Li Family, drawing Li Changsheng and Li Changyao into his Immortal Realm.
• Can An’s asuras killed the siblings, but they turned out to be strands of hair, and Li Changsheng had apparently anticipated the attack.
• A streak of light burst from the breached Spirit Hall, and the Spirit Lord fell as the Li Family Ancestor’s voice called, “One Thought.”

Li Xiang overwhelmed the Spirit Lord and his ancient forces with a single thought, casting the Spirit Lord from the Immortal Realm and trapping the ancient creatures in a Taiji diagram. After Li Qiu attacked and lost his right arm, Li Xiang turned his attention to the approaching Southern Emperor Lord and challenged him to battle.

• Li Xiang struck down the Spirit Lord with a single thought, wounding him and throwing him from the Immortal Realm.
• Can An, Paradise Sparrow, Li Qiu, Ba Siyu, and other battlefield experts froze in disbelief at the Spirit Lord’s defeat.
• Li Xiang revealed the Spirit Hall and used the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear to trap the ancient creatures in a Taiji diagram.
• Li Qiu charged Li Xiang, who stopped his punch with one finger and drove him and the other ancient creatures from the Immortal Realm.
• Li Qiu severed his right arm as it disintegrated, while the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother’s pressure intensified.
• Li Xiang declared that he requested battle against the Southern Emperor Lord.

The Li Family Ancestor defeated the Spirit Lord and the other immortals with overwhelming power, then rose to face the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother. As the battered immortals prepared to flee, Li Dalong urged the Li family to act.

• The Li Family Ancestor drove back the Spirit Lord’s ancient spirits, defeated Li Qiu and the Paradise Sparrow, and claimed the Spirit Hall.
• Li Qiu realized the ancestor’s time laws could freeze spacetime, while the Spirit Lord recognized his power as the gathering of three thousand laws into chaos.
• The Li Family Ancestor ascended into the thunderclouds to confront the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother.
• Li Xinnian named his blood blade the Immortal-Slaying Blade as Li Dalong noticed Can An and the Spirit Lord preparing to escape.
• Li Dalong told the Li family descendants to stop waiting for orders and act.

The Spirit Lord returned to the ruined Spirit Hall and tried to rally his followers, but Li Dalong challenged his claims of universal harmony. Meanwhile, Li Xinnian pursued Can An across the Spirit Domain, revealed how he had once deceived himself with the same ideals, and demanded to know where Su Chen was.

• The Spirit Lord recalled the humiliation of his past and the Li Family Ancestor's defeat of him, then shouted down his followers as they urged him to fight back.
• The Spirit Lord blamed the Immortal Court's betrayal and rallied the ancient spirits by declaring that they would wait for another opportunity.
• Li Dalong entered the Spirit Hall unnoticed, rejected the Spirit Lord's offer of alliance, and told him he was no match for Li Xinnian.
• Li Xinnian pursued the fleeing Can An through the collapsing Spirit Domain and demanded to know where Su Chen was.
• Can An recognized Min Tiange's face on Li Xinnian's grotesque Dharma body and accused him of eating Min Tiange.
• Li Xinnian compared the Spirit Lord's universal-harmony claims to his own past deception and continued chasing Can An.

Min Tiange's apparent death stirred grief and suspicion in Min Youguo and Su Chen, while Li Xinnian revealed he had absorbed Min Tiange's bloodline and cultivation art. Li Dalong then opened the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin and made the imprisoned Min Tiange dance, revealing him as the Underworld's new Yama King of the First Hall.

• Min Youguo sensed Min Tiange's presence and learned from Linjiu that his son had been eaten and split into pieces, but he secretly believed Min Tiange had a plan.
• Su Chen saw Min Tiange's Soul Lamp flare briefly, heard Min Tiange vow revenge, and ordered Li Chuyuan to investigate him.
• Su Chen resolved to reclaim Min Tiange's Divine Martial Emperor Body, Dao teachings, Primal Unity, and secret method for breaking beyond Mahayana.
• Can An recognized Min Tiange's presence as Li Xinnian displayed a giant Holy Spirit avatar using Min Tiange's bloodline and cultivation art.
• Li Dalong opened the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin, revealing Min Tiange's body and Dao laws, then made him dance as the newly sealed Yama King of the Underworld's First Hall.

Li Dalong watched Min Tiange emerge from the underworld as the Dancer and summon the First of the Ten Halls throughout the Spirit Domain. He denounced the Spirit Lord’s hypocrisy and called on the underworld to seize its soul, leaving the two forces poised to clash.

• Li Xinnian’s family deliberated over Min Tiange’s fate, and Li Xinnian devoured part of Min Tiange’s bloodline while Li Tianyi took his hidden Myriad Corpse Supreme Purity Body.
• Min Tiange left the underworld with his memories and emotions diminished, danced beneath the heavens, and declared himself the Dancer of the First Court of the Ten Courts.
• Min Tiange’s dance raised prisons, judgment halls, and other underworld buildings across the Spirit Domain, and the immortals recognized him as the new King Yama.
• The Spirit Lord offered Li Dalong peace, but Li Dalong accused it of exploiting the Spirit Domain and sacrificing Southern Border immortals for its own power.
• The Spirit Lord attacked Li Dalong with eighteen dragon-phoenix forms, and Li Dalong summoned the Dancer and seized the Life and Death Register to condemn the Spirit Lord to perdition.

Li Dalong unleashed the Underworld against the Spirit Lord and appointed several allies to powerful Underworld offices, turning the battle against the Spirit Hall. Elsewhere, Li Changsheng used countless clones to unsettle his enemies, while Emperor Yu’s forces discovered one of his hideouts and learned that A Xiu had been captured.

• Li Dalong led the Underworld’s ghosts and spirit bodies against the Spirit Lord’s forces, then used a scarlet book and brush to appoint the Moon God, White Brow, Yun Hongcai, Dai Rou, and Qiu Naihe to Underworld offices.
• The Spirit Lord protested that Li Dalong was not truly a Yama King as his decrees strengthened the Underworld’s fighters.
• The Paradise Sparrow panicked as the Underworld overran the Spirit Domain, Can An fled, and Li Qiu rampaged while Li Changsheng repeatedly reappeared after being struck down.
• Li Changsheng explained to Li Changyao that his clones and her arrows were meant to make enemies fear ambushes and waste their strength.
• Emperor Yu’s subordinates raided Li Changsheng and Li Changyao’s hideout but found only strands of hair, while the commander identified traces of the Min Family’s aura.
• Li Xinjue reported that A Xiu had been captured; Li Changsheng told him to erase the hideout’s traces and leave, while mirrors revealed that many apparent versions of Li Changsheng were clones.

Li Xiang faced Chi Ling, a Daluo Golden Immortal, as she trapped him in Fishpond World and unleashed Celestial Angling. Though she thought she had killed him, Li Xiang returned through a spirit tablet and vowed to find whoever had taught her to fish.

• Li Xiang sensed the hidden realms and found the battle at World's End before Chi Ling's power drew him into Fishpond World.
• Chi Ling emerged, accused Li Xiang and his allies of destroying her south and conspiring with Zhang Baijie, then attacked with Celestial Angling.
• Chi Ling's lightning shattered Li Xiang's Mirror Surface and Tai Chi defenses, grievously wounding his body and divine soul.
• Chi Ling dismissed Li Xiang as defeated and turned her attention to the battlefield, intending to kill the Li Family members and other cultivators.
• Li Xiang's spirit tablet reappeared with his aura and powers restored, and he declared that he would find the person who taught Chi Ling how to fish.

Li Xiang revived and used his time-based arts and three thousand rules to break through Chi Ling’s defenses, then detonated himself inside her Fishpond World. The heavenly battle shook the Spirit Domain, while Ba Siyu fled and One Point Holy Monk and Fox Saint cornered Can An.

• Li Xiang revived after Chi Ling killed him and attacked her with Heaven Earth Human Realm, One Thought, and Time-Space Freeze.
• Li Xiang reached Chi Ling and used Spirit Bestowal Art to bring three thousand rules together against her Fishpond World.
• Li Xiang used his reserved One Thought to appear before Chi Ling, then self-destructed with the colliding laws.
• Ba Siyu mistook Li Xiang’s power for a long-concealed plan to seize the imperial throne and fled the Spirit Domain.
• Can An escaped Li Xinnian but was intercepted by One Point Holy Monk and Fox Saint.
• One Point Holy Monk and Fox Saint reflected on the Li Family’s rise and their own schemes as One Point Holy Monk attacked Can An.

Li Xiang repeatedly used spirit tablets to wound Chi Ling inside the Fishpond World, while the Li Family’s forces overwhelmed the Spirit Domain. Li Yaozu arrived from the Northern Border to join the battle, and Li Dalong rejected the Spirit Lord’s pleas as her defeat became certain.

• Chi Ling used Frozen World Divine Punishment to freeze the Fishpond World, but Li Xiang repeatedly sent fake spirit tablets into it before striking her nose with Ancestral Punishment.
• The Spirit Lord’s ancient allies lost ground to Min Tiange and the Nether Offices as the Spirit Hall’s forces fell into disarray.
• Li Yaozu appeared above the Spirit Domain with ten thousand swords and attacked Paradise Sparrow, then told Li Xinnian to sneak up on him.
• The Spirit Lord pleaded with Li Dalong to spare her and offered her political connections and knowledge of the Immortal Domain.
• Li Dalong recalled that the Azure Cloud Li Family relied only on itself and refused to heed the Spirit Lord as the Li Family gained the upper hand.

Li Xiang’s Lineage defeated the Southern Immortal Division, though he struggled to kill Heavenly Pool Holy Mother Chi Ling. News of the south’s victory spread, and the Witch Tribe learned that a thirteenth totem called Eternity had appeared.

• Li Xiang’s Lineage gained the Supreme Immortal Clan trait after defeating the Southern Immortal Division, while Li Xiang continued fighting Chi Ling in Fishpond World.
• Half a month later, the Junior Master of Fate found the Spirit Hall in ruins and learned that Green Lady and the Southern Border had won.
• The Six-Eyed Celestial told Emperor Yu that the Underworld had returned and that Li Dalong and Min Tiange were its Tenth and First Yamas.
• The Witch Tribe’s nine present witch saints discussed their losses and plans to rescue the dragon and phoenix saints.
• The Ancestral Shamans announced that a thirteenth totem, Eternity, had appeared.

The Sword Ancestor watched Li Yaozu’s victory over the Heavenly Immortal and sent the ancient sword Disaster Avoidance toward him as a gift. Meanwhile, the Li Family learned that Li Yaoqing had vanished within Green Lady’s body, leaving her fate uncertain despite the family’s new standing.

• The Sky Star Sword Saint showed the Sword Ancestor and the Drizzle Sword Venerable footage of Li Yaozu slaying the Paradise Sparrow, and the Sword Ancestor praised his swordsmanship but condemned his tactics.
• The Sword Ancestor warned the Sky Star Sword Saint not to return south and ordered him to focus on his breakthrough.
• The Sword Ancestor sent Disaster Avoidance toward Li Yaozu, hoping the sword would find him amid the calamity threatening the Southern Border.
• Li Yunlin and the other descendants who had been in the sword formation knelt before Li Xiang, and Li Yunlin admitted that he had let Li Yaoqing lose her way.
• Li Xiang saw that Li Yaoqing remained marked as the Lost Wayfarer, while the Li Family stood as a powerful clan the Immortal Court had to treat cautiously.

Li Yunlin struggled to comprehend the Dao of Limitless while Green Lady ruled the Southern Border from Li Yaoqing’s body and the human and immortal factions argued over their new arrangements. Li Jianguo’s panic at being questioned about the absent Li elders triggered a breakthrough, leaving the gathered powers staring at the Heavenly Thunder.

• Li Yunlin used the Enlightenment Gold Chapter and Litian Hall to seek insight into Heavens Bow, and learned that Li Yaozu had supposedly been humiliated by immortal maidens.
• Li Yunlin gained the trait Vengeance for Father's Humiliation and blamed Heavenly Pool Holy Mother for his father’s ordeal.
• Green Lady’s transformation left Li Yaoqing lost within the Nineleaf Grass, where she would grow stronger and could eventually awaken as a True Immortal.
• Lady Charming Fox and Forest Child disputed their confinement and territory with the Southern Border cultivators while Green Lady watched.
• Ban Shu Qingping and Zishu Feng questioned Li Jianguo about the Li Family elders’ absence, and Li Jianguo’s furious outburst scared him into breaking through.