Chapter Summaries

Li Jianguo broke through to Nascent Soul under a powerful lightning tribulation, while Li Xiang’s family decided to exploit the world’s turmoil from behind the scenes. As powerful visitors and rival forces converged on Merit City, Li Qiuming realized their auras were aimed at one another, not the Li Family.

• Li Jianguo gained the trait Beneath the Immortals and used his treasures to face a seventh-grade Nascent Soul lightning tribulation, celebrating that he could live without medicine and spend more time building the Eternal City Wall.
• Li Yunbing showed the family letters and gifts from powers across the world, and Li Xiang ordered him to accept them all while avoiding meetings and requests.
• Li Yunbing outlined a plan to use the world’s calamity and the deaths of mighty beings to benefit the Li Family, so Li Yaotie and the others locked him and Li Tianming inside the Chess Saint’s chessboard.
• Four mighty beings and more experts arrived near Merit City, while Li Qiuming prepared to defend the Li Family alone.
• Envoys from the Imperial Divine Hall, the East Sea Emperor, Emperor Yu, the Witch Tribe, and other powers requested audiences and brought gifts as rival auras clashed overhead.
• Li Qiuming realized the arriving forces were confronting one another rather than targeting the Li Family, and concluded that the clan had finally risen.

As powerful factions gathered in Merit City seeking the Li ancestors, Li Qiuming realized the clan’s strength made its neutrality valuable and decided to keep the ancestors out of sight. He gained the trait [Wall-Sitter] as he prepared to handle the visitors himself.

• The Li clan ignored the visitors gathering in Merit City, while Li Dalong returned to the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin and Li Yaozu dismissed them as petty men.
• Li Xiang received Li Qiuming’s question about the situation and watched seven descendants secretly refine human pills near the Red God Ancient Tree.
• The Immortal Child visited the courtyard again, still lost after Li Yaoqing disappeared.
• Li Qiuming escorted the visitors, including the Lesser Commander of Fate, the Turtle Minister, the Six-Eyed Divine General, and Hundred-Year Wither, into the clan while learning they had come seeking his ancestors.
• Li Qiuming concluded that the Li family should remain unaligned and let its absent ancestors’ strength deter the competing factions.
• Li Qiuming gained the trait [Wall-Sitter] after understanding how to manage the gathered powerhouses.

Li Qiuming deflected the visiting powers’ requests while Li Xiang watched, and Linghang from Kunlun Immortal Mountain discovered that the Li Family steward Huang Xiujin carried a wary immortal within him. As guests argued over the Li Family’s allegiance and the death of a Kunlun disciple, Li Changsheng realized Li Tianming might be responsible, leaving the family’s visitors on edge.

• Li Qiuming entertained the visiting experts all day and diverted their questions, preventing the Six-Eyed Heavenly Immortal and the Lesser Fate Commander from fighting.
• Linghang sensed watchers around the Li Family grounds, and Huang Xiujin’s Candlelight Immortal briefly revealed itself when Linghang approached.
• Li Changsheng and Li Changyao discussed why Kunlun Immortal Mountain had come, then Li Changsheng wondered whether a family member had killed one of its disciples.
• Li Tianming’s savage personality took over in his cage and protested after the family suspected him, while Li Dalong challenged anyone who blamed his great-grandson.
• Young Siming accused Wang Jinhu of failing to persuade Li Qiuming, and the Six-Eyed Heavenly Immortal warned White Qilin that the Li Family would not risk war for him.
• Heavenly Lord Jiang told Changsun Buhuo that Linghang had gone to meet Li Qiuming after a Kunlun inner disciple died in her clan territory.

Li Qiuming heard Linghang’s account of Kunlun Immortal Mountain’s thirteen missing disciples and learned that the Changsun Family had killed them, while the Immortal Suppression Bureau’s charges against the family were all substantiated. In the Ancestor Space, Li Xinnian accepted responsibility for handling the matter, and Li Xiang realized the clan had chosen him because he could make the hard decisions others could not.

• Li Qiuming reflected on his constrained life as family head before receiving Linghang in his courtyard.
• Linghang told Li Qiuming that thirteen Kunlun Immortal Mountain disciples had vanished, including Lin Li’s final disciple, and said the Changsun Family had killed them.
• Linghang explained that the Changsun Family’s thirty-six charges against his martial nephew were substantiated, but he believed the nephew could not have committed the alleged crimes.
• Li Qiuming said he believed Linghang but could not decide the matter himself, then realized trouble had come to the family’s door.
• Li Xinnian argued that the Kunlun affair showed the Li Family could not escape the world’s troubles, and he volunteered to handle them so the elders could remain undisturbed.
• Li Changan told Li Xiang that taking charge would demand too great a price, and Li Xiang understood why the family had left the decision to Li Xinnian.

Jiang Heng and Changsun Buhuo led their pursuers to a hidden mountain where Li Xinnian had restored Peerless Hall and claimed its inheritance. As Li Dalong confronted Dancer’s forgotten grief over Mu Xueqing, Li Xinnian resolved to carry Peerless Hall forward on a new path.

• Jiang Heng challenged Changsun Buhuo over the danger following them, and she revealed that their pursuers were searching for powerful figures of the Li Family.
• Jiang Heng, Changsun Buhuo, and their pursuers reached a hidden mountain and saw Li Xinnian seated in the restored Peerless Hall.
• The Lesser Fate Minister recognized Peerless Hall’s inheritance in Li Xinnian and feared the consequences of opposing the Li Family.
• Li Dalong visited Spirit Lord’s prison in the Underworld and told Dancer that Mu Xueqing had been his Dao companion.
• Li Xinnian reflected on Min Tiange, Mu Xueqing, and Spirit Lord, then vowed to continue Peerless Hall’s legacy along a new path.

Li Xinnian refused Changsun Buhuo and Jiang Heng’s pleas for help, arguing that the Azure Cloud Li Family could not risk being drawn into Kunlun Immortal Mountain’s conflict. After sending them away, he focused on strengthening his Dao Field and Sacred Body Mysteries Sutra while ordering Xinjue to watch for further trouble.

• Changsun Buhuo knelt before Li Xinnian and explained that several Kunlun Immortal Mountain disciples had suddenly gone mad and killed people at the Changsun Family, bringing Kunlun’s forces to their door.
• Li Xinnian rejected Changsun Buhuo and Jiang Heng’s appeals for aid, then used the dragons on Peerless Hall’s pillars to send them away.
• Changsun Buhuo warned Jiang Heng that their families had become vulnerable pieces in a larger scheme, and that the attack might have been a test to draw powerful forces into conflict.
• Wang Jinhu told the Lesser Fate Master that Li Xinnian had agreed to handle the imperial dynasty’s affairs, then handed him a glowing Dao Seed as the condition.
• Li Xinnian reflected on the danger of the disciples’ madness, his plans to keep the Li Family out of the turmoil, and the growth of his Holy Spirit Dao Field and Sacred Body Mysteries Sutra.
• Li Xinnian decided that Xinjue should keep a closer watch as the world’s chaos continued.

Li Dalong and Xu Cuihua discussed the family’s position, the threat of future disasters, and the difficult path to Mahayana. Meanwhile, Li Yaozu reflected on his new Zero Point Great Dao and considered studying the laws within Litian Hall, leaving him and Fang Linglong to seek Li Jianning’s help.

• Xu Cuihua recognized the Immortal Suppression Bureau’s plan to recruit the Changsun Family and Heavenly Lord Dao, and Li Dalong sent a message urging restraint.
• Li Dalong explained Shen Wu’s path to Mahayana, while Xu Cuihua hoped Li Yaozu could gain true teachings from the Demon Sovereign in the snowfields.
• At the former Divine Bird Tribe site, Li Yaozu lamented being instantly killed by the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother despite gaining the Zero Point Great Dao and True Sight Demon Soul.
• Li Yaozu told Fang Linglong that he regretted missing changes in his family and worried about Green Lady and his other relatives.
• Fang Linglong suggested that Li Yaozu study the laws of the three thousand Great Daos, and he realized Litian Hall’s spiritual objects could help him.
• Li Yaozu and Fang Linglong decided to ask Li Jianning for help because the Dao Ancestor’s legacy had been left with her.

Li Yaozu reunited with Li Jianning, learned that the Dao Ancestor’s legacy let him cultivate through dreams of future lives, and discovered the power came at the cost of those future lives. Li Jianning accepted the cost and chose to keep cultivating, while Li Yaozu drew his sword to test him and guide his mastery of the three thousand rules.

• Li Jianning excitedly paid his respects to Li Yaozu and showed him the Dao character left by his master, explaining that he had aged after receiving the legacy.
• Li Jianning revealed Golden Cores and Nascent Souls in all seven hundred and twenty major acupoints, then left to survive his sixty-eighth Nascent Soul tribulation.
• Li Yaozu realized Li Jianning’s growth might help protect the Lineage and asked what he still needed to understand or cultivate.
• Li Jianning explained that he had dreamed of a future life for thirty years, and Fang Linglong identified the legacy as Great Dream Future Life, which borrowed lifespan from future lives.
• Fang Linglong warned that using the legacy could leave Li Jianning with no future lives or reincarnation, but he accepted the price and said he was fortunate to live this life in the Li Family.
• Li Yaozu drew his sword and asked Li Jianning to show him the three thousand rules so he could guide him.

Zishu Feng failed to persuade Li Yunbing to involve the Azure Cloud Li Family in the imperial dynasty’s affairs, while Li Yunbing revealed his determination to gain enough power to protect his family. At Southern Sacred Mountain, he absorbed immortal blood, forged the Heavenly Gang Divine Net Devil Body, and opened a Dao Gate to begin a new path of cultivation.

• Zishu Feng asked Li Yunbing about the Li Family’s plans, but he rejected her appeal and criticized the Zishu Family for its past actions.
• Li Yunbing returned to the northern sword array, where more than three hundred thousand demonized cultivators had recognized him as their Devil Master and established Southern Sacred Mountain.
• Li Yunbing entered the immortal blood pool and told Old Root that he had pursued power to protect the Li Family and eventually bring down the Blood Moon.
• Li Xiang discovered that Li Yunbing had used the demons and immortal blood to establish the Heavenly Gang Immortal-Refining God-Shocking Array, which could refine the Heavenly Gang Divine Net Devil Body.
• As the array strengthened his body and cultivation, Li Yunbing encountered eighteen Dao Gates and chose one that matched the path he had been seeking.

Li Yunbing’s emergence as a powerful devil alarmed the immortals, while Lady Charming Fox revealed that Li Kuanghua followed a path resembling the Buddha Ancestor’s. Li Kuanghua’s Buddha-Demon Disk transformed into a third-grade spiritual item, and Lady Charming Fox showed Forest Child the ruin left by his subordinate, Pure Immortal Maiden.

• Lady Charming Fox and Forest Child sensed Li Yunbing’s devil qi spreading across the sword array and feared the birth of a new Devil Race.
• Lady Charming Fox told Forest Child that Li Kuanghua had taken a path like the Buddha Ancestor’s, despite not inheriting his legacy.
• Li Kuanghua entered her Dao field and suppressed the surging devil qi with her Buddha body as her Asura body gained strength.
• The Buddha-Demon Disk transformed into a third-grade spiritual item, gaining Buddhist Dao Golden Body, Rakshasa, and the World in the Palm.
• Lady Charming Fox led Forest Child to the barren stretch of land where his subordinate, Pure Immortal Maiden, had fallen into ruin.

Li Yaotie and the elders struggled with the aftermath of the battle while Li Tianyi secretly prepared to absorb Pure Immortal Maiden’s bones and Hongzhen’s Dao charm. In the Immortal Domain, Lady Charming Fox warned Forest Child that the five Li family members posed a fatal threat and vowed to kill them.

• Li Yaotie reassured Bai Rourou that Second Sister’s sleep was a chance for her to rest, though he faltered when Bai Rourou turned away.
• The elders confirmed that Li Tianming’s inner personalities had returned to their strange balance, while the Chess Saint planned to teach him Body Integration methods.
• The Chess Saint advised Li Tianyi to keep Safe Passage suppressed inside Li Tianqi and offered to teach him formations that could seal the immortal.
• Li Tianyi secretly showed the Chess Saint Pure Immortal Maiden’s bones and Hongzhen’s corpse, then began a dangerous ritual to use them in the Arcane Corpse Stitching Art.
• Lady Charming Fox told Forest Child that Li Tianyi had pursued and toyed with Pure Immortal Maiden, and identified Li Yunbing, Li Yunlin, Li Tianyi, Li Tianming, and Li Kuanghua as threats she intended to eliminate.

The Immortal Emperor investigated Su Chen and Li Chuyuan’s ties to the Azure Cloud Li Family while the Immortal Court celebrated its control of the south. In the Imperial Capital, Wenren Xianyi recalled Li Changan’s explanation of why his family fought, and the dying Human Emperor told her that her anger came from resenting the Li Family for surviving.

• The Immortal Emperor showed Su Chen and Li Chuyuan Lady Charming Fox’s warning that the Azure Cloud Li Family was a calamity, then used his deductions to review their histories and ties to the family.
• The Immortal Emperor declared that the south was secure and called on the immortals to celebrate, while Su Chen warned Li Chuyuan that they had to tread carefully in the Immortal Court.
• At court, nobles denounced the Azure Cloud Li Family, but Ahei dragged away Minister Liu when he demanded that the family be struck from mankind’s registers.
• Wenren Xianyi recalled that Li Xinnian had asked why the Azure Cloud Li Family fought, then read Li Changan’s letter explaining the family’s loyalty to its homeland and desire for a place to live.
• Wenren Xianyi confronted the dying Human Emperor, who told her she resented the Li Family for not dying in battle against the Immortal Court.

After five years of uneasy peace in the Southern Border, Li Xiang witnessed a world-spanning war involving the Imperial Dynasty, Immortal Court, Demon Race, and Witch Tribe. He returned to the ancestral space and warned his descendants that the Human Emperor would die in ten years.

• Li Xiang reviewed his descendants’ progress and worried about the missing Heavenly Pool Holy Mother and Chi Ling while the southern defenses remained unbroken.
• Li Xiang appeared on a battlefield in Xinhui Prefecture and contacted Li Xinnian, who explained that the conflict had engulfed the world.
• Li Xiang watched the Imperial Dynasty and Blood Moon forces fight as the Demon Race and Witch Tribe joined in, attacking multiple sides.
• Li Xiang observed the carnage with Li Xinnian, whose Peerless Hall had recruited a hundred members amid the fighting.
• Li Xinnian shared another matter with Li Xiang, who returned to the ancestral space and rang the bell three times.
• Li Xiang told the gathered descendants that the Human Emperor’s lifespan would end in ten years.

Li Dalong left the Underworld to seize a soul while Li Xiang and the Azure Cloud Li Family discussed the Human Emperor’s reported death and the hidden powers waiting for a chance to rise. Li Xiang and Li Dalong then went to the Imperial Capital’s Heavenly Palace to see the Human Emperor one last time and ask him questions.

• Li Dalong toured the Underworld and asked Min Tiange why humans who pursued immortality still died.
• Li Dalong left the Underworld, saying he was going to seize a soul without an escort.
• Li Changsheng argued that the Human Emperor’s death might be a deception, but Li Yunbing said the dynasty had been preparing a successor through Human Emperor Blood.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family discussed the world’s hidden factions and decided to keep focusing on the south while advancing cautiously.
• Li Xiang left the family gathering and met Li Dalong in the Imperial Capital, where they headed to the Heavenly Palace to see the Human Emperor.

Li Dalong and Li Xiang returned to the Heavenly Palace amid the imperial dynasty’s growing isolation and the Human Emperor’s failing health. The Human Emperor opened his door and looked directly at Li Xiang, leaving him stunned.

• Wu Neng warned Wenren Xianyi that the Immortal Court controlled hidden forces across the world and reported that the Heaven-Chosen Divine Sect had pledged loyalty to the Heavenly Palace.
• Ahei reported Li Dalong’s arrival, and Wenren Xianyi allowed him to pass while Wu Neng urged her to remember that he had come to see the Human Emperor.
• Li Dalong and Li Xiang entered the Heavenly Palace without being challenged and walked past onlookers who kept their distance.
• Li Dalong and Li Xiang reached the Human Emperor’s courtyard, where Li Dalong waited as the weakened ruler struggled to dress and open the door.
• The Human Emperor greeted Li Dalong and looked at Li Xiang, who stared back in shock.

Li Xiang met the Human Emperor, who revealed that his mastery of Karma had once led him to pursue immortality for the human race. The Human Emperor’s memories showed that his attempt to lead humanity beyond the heavens had been betrayed, though the consequences remained unrevealed.

• Li Dalong manifested the Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin and Heaven-Imprisoning Lock when the Human Emperor appeared to see Li Xiang.
• Li Xiang used his spirit tablet to tell the Human Emperor that he was on his left, then revealed himself by spending family will.
• The Human Emperor said he had wanted to meet Li Xiang for a thousand years and explained that he cultivated the Dao of Karma.
• Li Xiang saw the Human Emperor’s former reign, his plan to build an Immortal Court, and his decision to lead humanity beyond the heavens.
• The Human Emperor’s memories showed that the immortals and other races had conspired against him, while some humans joined the betrayal.

The Human Emperor explained how his attempts to defy Heaven shaped the fate of humanity and urged Li Xiang to save the world, prompting Li Xiang to return to the future. After Li Xiang vanished, the Human Emperor calmed the gathered powers and spoke with Li Dalong before retreating to his room.

• The Human Emperor told Li Xiang that he had once stepped beyond the heavens, seen a sea of stars, and later used Fate and Karma to steer events toward humanity's survival.
• The Human Emperor asked whether humanity still survived in Li Xiang's future and pleaded with him to save the world, causing Li Xiang to return to the real world in a violent burst of space-time power.
• The Human Emperor confronted the experts gathered outside his bedchamber, and they bowed and withdrew at his command.
• The Human Emperor told Li Dalong that Min Youguo had sought his help and that Min Tiange's fortune was tied to the Li Family's contributions, easing Li Dalong's fear for Min Youguo's only son.
• Li Dalong admitted that he had sent the Human Emperor's descendant Zishu Ling'er into the Beast Realm, and the Human Emperor called him ruthless before closing his door and saying Li Xiang had gone to become Li Dalong's ancestor.

Li Dalong discovered that the ancestor had left a message ordering the family to prepare a grand sacrifice and wait for his return, while a strange panel let Li Dalong accelerate time in the ancestor’s world. In the Heavenly Palace, the Human Emperor was declared dead, and Wenren Xianyi confirmed his death as his body turned to ashes.

• Li Dalong searched the ancestral space, found the ancestor’s tablet, and read the message telling him to prepare the grand family sacrifice and wait for the ancestor’s return.
• Li Dalong found traces of a clash between the ancestor and the Human Emperor and concluded that they had fallen into a trap.
• A mysterious panel named Li Dalong the family heir, gave him the temporary trait Guilt-Ridden, and offered him a choice to accelerate time in the ancestor’s world; Li Dalong set it to 20x.
• Wu Neng announced in the Golden Throne Hall that the Human Emperor had ascended to heaven, while Qi Kaihui accused the Azure Cloud Li Family of murdering him.
• Wenren Xianyi slapped Qi Kaihui and hurried to the Human Emperor’s bedchamber, where she watched the Human Emperor’s body dissolve into ashes and fell to her knees in grief.

Li Yaowen discovered that the Human Emperor had died while trying to seize a mysterious treasure through Li Xiang, leaving the Li Family inside the Ancestors’ Space. Li Xiang realized he had been tricked and drifted helplessly through a realm of time and space, while the treasure was revealed to be a computer.

• Li Dalong and his descendants found panels displaying their cultivation information, traits, possessions, and life histories.
• Li Yaowen used the Human Emperor’s karmic Dao rhyme to learn that the Human Emperor had died and that he had lured Li Dalong and Li Xiang into a trap.
• Li Yaowen explained that the Human Emperor had tried to capture a treasure through Li Xiang, and Li Yaozu recognized the treasure as the frame surrounding the Ancestors’ Space.
• Li Xiang realized the Human Emperor had used their handshake to reach the present world and see the universe before dying.
• Li Xiang cursed the Human Emperor but remained trapped in the darkness, carried by the laws of time and space.

After the Human Emperor sent Li Xiang through a chaotic space-time tunnel, Li Xiang disintegrated and left his Great Dao and inheritance to the Li Family. Li Yunlin received that inheritance and entered the Taiji Dao Gate, while the immortals began plotting against the family.

• Li Xiang exhausted the computer’s power in the chaos, reflected on his life and family, and left his Great Dao and the computer’s core for the Li Family before disintegrating.
• Three years after Li Xiang vanished, the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear arrived at Litian Hall and granted Li Yunlin Li Xiang’s inheritance and the Taiji Great Dao.
• Li Yunlin entered the Taiji Dao Gate, prompting Old Cat, Red Sleeve, and cultivators across the sword formation to realize Li Xiang had vanished and his Great Dao had passed on.
• Zishu Feng and Duanmu Qi feared the consequences of Li Xiang’s loss, and Duanmu Qi ordered the sword bearers to prepare for trouble.
• Green Lady withheld the news from Li Yaoqing, while Lady Charming Fox and Forest Child planned to eliminate the Li Family when the sword formation opened.