Chapter Summaries

The Li Family discussed the Ancestor’s disappearance and prepared for trouble as rumors spread that he had fallen. Then Li Yaozu saw the Ancestor come to life on the screen in a strange forest, leaving the family overjoyed and embarrassed by the thought that he might once have watched them through the treasure.

• Li Yaowen and Li Yunbing reasoned that the Ancestor had likely made a deal with the Human Emperor, and the family agreed to wait for more news.
• Li Jianguo reported that outsiders believed the Ancestor had fallen and that Ancestor Lin had inherited his Taiji Great Dao.
• The family decided not to suppress the rumors, and Li Zhiheng offered to handle anyone below the level of Daluo Golden Immortals who threatened them.
• Li Yaozu saw the screen shift to a forest where stone statues came to life, including one who wondered where he had been sent.
• The family watched the newly born Ancestor imitate the statues and sneak food from them at night, then celebrated his return.
• Li Yaozu realized the Ancestor may once have watched the family through the treasure, and the clansmen laughed together despite their embarrassment.

Li Xiang awoke in a dangerous prehistoric jungle among humans who had emerged from stone statues, and realized he had returned to the past as a primitive. In the present, the Li Family watched his struggle inside a Chaos Immortal Artifact and prepared a grand sacrifice to help him while bracing for threats after his disappearance.

• Li Xiang adapted to his new primitive body, reasoned that the Human Emperor had sent him into the past, and resolved to survive in the jungle.
• Li Xiang sensed immense spiritual energy but stopped himself from cultivating after feeling a familiar bloodline pressure drawing the primitives toward an Immortal.
• Li Yaotie revealed a status panel showing Li Xiang's Longevity Body and primitive traits, while the clan watched his hardships inside the artifact.
• Li Yunbing urged the clan to wait for the grand sacrifice, and Li Dalong ordered preparations to offer Li Xiang their most precious treasures in two years.
• Li Xinjue reported suspicious activity among the world's factions, and Li Dalong ordered Tianli Hall to monitor Min Youguo, Linjiu, and the Immortal Court.
• Li Dalong worried that the family lacked a Mahayana cultivator as the world descended into chaos.

Li Yunlin broke through to the Dao Insight Realm and learned that Li Xiang had been sent into the distant past, where he might face an immortal. In the past, Li Xiang became a strategist among the Guawa Tribe, then recognized that a gifted fruit concealed a familiar, sinister presence.

• Li Yunlin transformed Litian Hall into a Heaven-Severing Dao field and emerged from his breakthrough as Li Yunbing and Hongxiu welcomed him.
• Li Yunbing told Li Yunlin and Hongxiu that Li Xiang had been sent back to the dawn of the world and might have encountered an immortal, so they decided to seek Old Tree.
• Li Xiang survived a hundred days in the wilderness and became the strategist of the Guawa Tribe, which settled at the foot of a towering mountain.
• Aba told Li Xiang that the tribes' chiefs had been summoned to the mountain by a god, where a white-haired old man had thanked them for bringing life there.
• Aba offered Li Xiang a crimson fruit bestowed by the god, but Li Xiang shouted for him not to eat it when he recognized its nature.
• The fruit rolled in the dirt, and Li Xiang heard a familiar heartbeat as he sensed an enormous, eye-covered heart on the mountain.

Li Xiang avoided the mountain immortal’s fruit and helped the Guawa Tribe grow while secretly gathering ancient spirit treasures, eventually gaining the Human Sage trait. In the present, Li Yunlin visited Green Lady to ask for Old Tree’s primordial spiritual fruit, and she asked when he needed it.

• Li Xiang rejected a fruit carrying the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts’ aura and warned Aba that the mountain immortal’s gifts were dangerous.
• Over five years, Li Xiang guided the Guawa Tribe’s growth to ten thousand people while Aba brought him spirit fruits and beast remains from his hunts.
• Li Xiang’s accumulated treasures and guidance earned him the Human Sage trait, while his strength rose to the peak of Qi Refining.
• Li Yunlin went to the Immortal Domain, rebuked the immortals for scrutinizing him, and then visited Green Lady.
• Green Lady explained that Old Tree’s rapid transformation might be due to violet qi near Silver Iron Forest, and Li Yunlin asked for Old Tree’s most primordial spiritual fruit.
• Green Lady asked Li Yunlin when he needed the Dao Fruit.

Li Yunlin brought Green Lady’s three powerful immortal pills to the Azure Cloud Li Family, where the clan chose to reserve one for its missing ancestor and give the others to Li Dalong. He also warned that someone in the Immortal Court had targeted the family; meanwhile, Qi Kaihui led Jiang Heng and Changsun Buhuo to seek an overseas immortal’s help against the south.

• Li Yunlin sensed the three Primal Chaos Dao Golden Pills Green Lady had given him and brought news of the gift to the ancestral space.
• Li Yaowen proposed saving one pill for the old ancestor and giving the other two to a clan member, and the family settled on Li Dalong as their recipient.
• Li Yunlin told the family that Green Lady had met an Immortal Emperor’s avatar and that someone in the Immortal Court had set their sights on the Li Family.
• In the year 1229, Qi Kaihui traveled with Jiang Heng and Changsun Buhuo, dismissing their warnings and insisting that the weakened south should be destroyed.
• Qi Kaihui brought the two men to a distant ocean continent to find an immortal ally, and they climbed a mountain where the fruit pulsed like a heart and a voice called for its heart to be returned.

Qi Kaihui brought Jiang Heng and Changsun Buhuo to the true progenitor of humankind, who killed Changsun Buhuo while searching for his heart. Decades later, after Li Xiang watched the Guawa Tribe suffer a devastating giant attack and realized the progenitor was turning humans into red fruit for nourishment, an incense burner finally appeared in his secret chamber.

• Qi Kaihui brought Jiang Heng and Changsun Buhuo before the true progenitor of humankind, who killed Changsun Buhuo while searching for his heart.
• Qi Kaihui told the progenitor that he had found his heart and that the Human Emperor was dead, then urged him to lead humanity.
• Five years later, Li Xiang learned that Aba and other powerful humans suspected the mountain’s gods intended to kill them, but humanity lacked the strength to resist.
• Twenty years afterward, one-eyed giants destroyed much of the Guawa Tribe, and Li Xiang secretly killed the invaders while the humans suffered a crushing defeat.
• Aba asked Li Xiang why humanity suffered, and Li Xiang realized the progenitor was turning people into red fruit to feed himself.
• An incense burner appeared in Li Xiang’s secret chamber, and he tearfully realized it had finally contacted him after thirty years.

Li Xiang received a trove of treasures and warnings from his descendants, then used five years of secluded cultivation to regain power. After learning that Aba had lost his position and the tribe had become the Divine Grace Tribe, Li Xiang left the tribe to seek a way to grow strong enough to return home.

• Li Yunbing stopped Li Yaotie from sending all their treasures at once and had the descendants first send leaves and a formation to conceal their ancestor.
• Li Dalong received Li Xiang’s returned gifts and read his warning that the Li Family faced threats from rising powers after the Human Emperor’s death.
• Li Xiang activated the concealment formation, learned of the turmoil at home, and resolved to cultivate until he could find a way back.
• After five years of cultivation, Li Xiang summoned Aba and learned that fruit-eaters had become powerful and the tribe had been renamed the Divine Grace Tribe.
• Li Xiang warned Aba not to eat the mountain being’s fruit, left him cultivation instructions, and departed into the darkness.

Li Dalong’s family examined the ancient treasures and learned their ancestor had gained a Time-Space Spirit Root and Perfect Foundation Establishment, but the ancestor’s encounters with a phoenix and a newly born immortal left Li Xiang fleeing underground. There, a flame-formed immortal found him, and Li Xiang nervously greeted it as “Brother Fire.”

• Li Yaotie identified the treasures as rare spirit medicines that could improve aptitude and cultivation, and Li Dalong ordered the family to investigate their properties and find pill formulas.
• Li Xinnian and Li Xinjue reported that the Human Emperor had ascended, hostile factions were emerging, and Changsun Buhuo had died after following Qi Kaihui overseas; Li Dalong ordered caution until the family produced a Mahayana cultivator.
• The descendants watched Li Xiang gain a Time-Space Spirit Root and Perfect Foundation Establishment, then flee a phoenix and a self-formed immortal before developing the Desperate Escape trait and Yellow Rank Ethereal Flash Step.
• Li Xiang escaped underground with the magic-artifact-grade shovel Li Changsheng had given him and wondered about the phoenix, the purple qi, and the immortal it created.
• A flame-formed immortal appeared in Li Xiang’s tunnel, and he stiffly greeted it as “Brother Fire.”

Li Xiang survived the newborn Fire Immortal by distracting it with crafts, gaining its favor and a powerful blessing. In Immortal Martial City, Li Yaozu questioned the Mortal World Immortal about ancient mysteries, leaving her shaken by how much he knew.

• Li Xiang realized Fire Bro had taken his shovel, then watched the curious immortal play with it across the scorched land.
• Li Xiang distracted Fire Bro with pills, artifacts, and handmade toys, earning its favor and the Immortal's Blessing.
• Li Gongqu reported that an immortal had come to see Li Yaozu and Li Jianning, then hurried away as the Mortal World Immortal arrived.
• The Mortal World Immortal complained about Li Xingchen and Li Xinri before Li Yaozu asked about the Divine Grace Tribe, the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, Fire Immortals, prophets, and violet qi.
• The Mortal World Immortal fell silent and asked Li Yaozu how he knew about those things.

Mortal World Immortal explained the origins of humanity, the Seven Tribes of Divine Grace, and the immortals to Li Yaozu. More than a hundred years later, Li Xiang left the Fire Domain with Deer Treasure after Wanrong burned her territory and ate its inhabitants.

• Mortal World Immortal told Li Yaozu that the Human Progenitor created the Seven Tribes of Divine Grace, whose inheritances had never been severed, and that humanity worshipped a legendary Teacher of Immortals.
• Mortal World Immortal identified the purple qi as Primordial Purple Qi and said that the ancient immortals, though numerous, could die.
• Li Xiang reached perfect Foundation Establishment and the Golden Core Stage in the Fire Domain, where he continued strengthening his cultivation and pondered how to return home.
• Wanrong told Li Xiang that he wanted to burn Deer Treasure's territory because he was hungry, and Li Xiang tried to restrain him.
• A month later, Li Xiang left the Fire Domain as its surroundings burned, then met Deer Treasure, who said Wanrong and other immortals had attacked her territory and eaten her friends.
• Li Xiang joined Deer Treasure on a journey to see the outside world and said goodbye to Wanrong.

Li Yuanshang built Tianli Hall into a trading hub in the Immortal Domain before the Immortal Emperor summoned him and pressed the Azure Cloud Li Family to join the campaign against the Great Gold Empire. He returned worried that the Immortal Court’s growing power would threaten Green Lady and the south, while Zhang Baijie reflected on his long reign and sensed a carefree figure riding a deer.

• Qi Kaihui arrived in Azure Cloud Prefecture and planned to destroy the Li Family and seize control of the south for the Divine Sect.
• Li Yuanshang established Tianli Hall’s Bright Division in the Immortal Domain, brokering trades between immortals and other races.
• The Immortal Emperor summoned Li Yuanshang and demanded the Li Family consider joining the Immortal Court’s campaign against the Great Gold Empire.
• Li Yuanshang left Purple Star Hall troubled by the threat to Green Lady’s position and the south if the Li Family refused to cooperate.
• Zhang Baijie reflected on enduring a hundred tribulations to become emperor and sensed a carefree figure riding a deer.

Li Xinjue revealed that the Great Gold Emperor had freed the dragon and phoenix from the Immortal Suppression Bureau, drawing several powers into a war against the Great Gold Empire. The Li family decided to send Li Xinnian with the immortals, while Li Yaozu and Li Zhiheng stayed in Azure Cloud to await Heavenly Pool Holy Mother.

• Li Xinjue told the clan that the Great Gold Emperor had appeared in the Imperial Capital during the Human Emperor's mourning and freed the dragon and phoenix from the Immortal Suppression Bureau.
• Li Xinjue reported that the emperor had vanished and that the Witch Tribe, Immortal Court, Cultivator Alliance Nation, and other powers were converging on the Great Gold Empire.
• Li Changsheng angrily condemned the Great Gold Emperor, while Li Changan and Li Dalong suspected the conflict served hidden calculations and agreed the Li family should respond without overshadowing the immortals.
• Li Yaozu and Li Zhiheng persuaded the Mortal World Immortal to go to the Great Gold Empire by promising to help establish her temple in Azure Cloud Prefecture.
• Li Yaozu and Li Zhiheng chose to remain in Azure Cloud to await Heavenly Pool Holy Mother, and Li Yaozu said Li Xinnian would accompany the immortals to Great Gold.
• The Mortal World Immortal grew alarmed when she learned that other immortals were staying in Azure Cloud Prefecture.

Li Yunbing sent Abao to the Great Gold Empire as an immortal while the Li Family’s hidden preparations continued. In the Immortal Realm, Li Dalong sought Li Qiu’s help and discovered that the imprisoned giant recognized Li Yuanwu’s martial arts and asked whether his teacher and Deer Treasure were still alive.

• Li Yunbing inspected the God-Imprisoning Facility, where the Li Family drained immortal captives to strengthen its members and the immortal nascent soul.
• Abao, a powerful being assembled and raised by the Li Family, was ordered to go to the Great Gold Empire as an immortal and chose a woman’s skin as his disguise.
• Li Dalong and Xu Cuihua discussed the family’s mission to Great Jin and the threat posed by powers seeking to exploit the Li Family.
• Li Dalong entered the Immortal Realm and offered the imprisoned Li Qiu a chance to serve the Southern Immortal Division alongside the Mortal World Immortal.
• Li Dalong performed Li Yuanwu’s martial body arts, and Li Qiu recognized the techniques, corrected his form, and asked who had taught him and whether Teacher and Deer Treasure were still around.

Li Xiang realized that his student A Li was the future Li Qiu, the enemy who had threatened his family, and decided to leave Wild Mountain after reaching the Golden Core Stage. Five days later, A Li returned covered in blood after killing a traitorous immortal python, while a mysterious violet qi rose from its corpse.

• Li Xiang taught A Li the Hundred Beasts Fist while withholding deeper knowledge because he feared the immortals might someday turn against him.
• Deer Treasure revealed that A Li had been named Li Qiu and was about to be honored as Wild Mountain’s Mountain Lord, shocking Li Xiang with the realization that he had trained his family’s future enemy.
• Li Xiang considered whether to kill A Li or warn him, but his thoughts drained his soul power and deepened his understanding of karma.
• Li Xiang told Deer Treasure that they would leave once he reached the Golden Core Stage, and resolved to gain enough power to escape safely.
• Five days later, A Li arrived at their valley carrying the corpse of a traitorous immortal python, and violet qi rose from the body.

Li Xiang discovered that the purple qi from a dead immortal could transform a small animal and loosen the limits on his cultivation, so he began secluding himself. Centuries later, Li Qiu revealed that he regretted not leaving Wild Mountain with his teacher and agreed to search for Li Xiang and Deer Treasure.

• A Li explained that he had killed the immortal python for violating Wild Mountain’s rules, and Li Xiang questioned what happened to immortals after death.
• Li Xiang and Deer Treasure examined the purple qi and concluded that the python’s consciousness had truly perished.
• Li Xiang used a strand of purple qi on a mouse, which transformed into a powerful new life form, then began closed-door cultivation.
• A Li returned to find Li Xiang leaving with Deer Treasure, and Deer Treasure urged him to leave Wild Mountain with them.
• In the Underworld, Li Qiu told Li Dalong that his greatest regret was not following his teacher, then agreed to search for Li Xiang and Deer Treasure.

Li Dalong agreed to make Xu Cuihua the Underworld’s Second Yama, while Li Xinnian tested his strength and traveled to Hundred Refinements City amid the war against Jin. The chapter ended as Li Xinnian recognized his elder cousin arriving and the city’s three powerful experts reacted furiously.

• Li Dalong reflected on the Ancestor’s disappearance and discussed the dangers of confronting the powers hidden in the world with Xu Cuihua.
• Xu Cuihua asked to become the Underworld’s Second Yama, and Li Dalong agreed despite the risks attached to the office.
• A month later, Xu Cuihua became the Second Yama, gained the Nine-Tailed Ghost Fox bloodline, and began comprehending her Dao Path through the Underworld.
• Li Xinnian reviewed his acquired traits and tested himself against memories of Li Qiu and Paradise Sparrow, finding himself still far weaker than his elders.
• Li Xinnian reached Hundred Refinements City to find his relatives and met three powerful experts who recognized his identity.
• Li Xinnian saw his elder cousin ride a spear into the clouds, prompting the three experts to look down in fury.

Li Xinnian reunited with Li Xingchen and Fan Feixuan in Hundred Refinements City and learned that the Heaven-Chosen Divine Sect had been provoking the family to seize the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts and draw Li Zhiheng out. The Li family departed with reinforcements from the Dragon Palace and Heavenly Mountain, leaving Mountain and the Central Peak Fairy's plan foiled.

• Li Xinnian arrived in Hundred Refinements City, heard Li Xinri identify Mountain and the Central Peak Fairy as Heaven-Chosen Divine Sect Chosen Ones, and learned they had threatened the Li family.
• Mountain and the Central Peak Fairy discussed using the dispute to target the Li family, recover the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, and lure Li Zhiheng out of Azure Cloud.
• Li Xinnian reunited with Li Xingchen and Fan Feixuan, who revealed that they had been followed and deliberately provoked by Divine Sect disciples for years.
• Li Xinnian and Li Xingchen concluded that the Divine Sect wanted the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts and intended to use the family to draw Li Zhiheng out.
• Fan Feixuan blew a conch, summoning Prime Minister Turtle and a fleet of Dragon Palace pirates and sea demons, while Li Xinri revealed he had also secured Heavenly Mountain's aid.
• Li Xingchen, Li Xinnian, and their family flew away with the reinforcements, leaving Mountain and the Central Peak Fairy furious that their plan had failed.

Immortal Court and Four Immortal Division leaders gathered at Moon Dragon Sacred Mountain to discuss their advance into Great Jin and plans to exploit the Southern Immortal Division. Their plotting faltered when Li Qiu and three other powerful figures arrived, and the chapter ended with Golden Abacus abruptly denying his earlier scheme after Ancestor Blade confronted him.

• Lü Zhun asked whether the Southern Immortal Division would join the gathering, and Golden Abacus disparaged its new ruler and proposed taking the south’s resources.
• Golden Abacus suggested killing members of the Azure Cloud Li Family over time and enslaving the survivors, then urged Hundred Slaughter Star Lord to erase his past humiliation by assassinating them.
• Li Qiu appeared dragging a mountain range, followed by the Mortal World Immortal, a black-clad man, and a woman in green from Peerless Hall.
• Lü Zhun revealed that the Mortal World Immortal had once tricked him and admitted that even the immortals together might not be able to kill her.
• Ancestor Blade challenged Golden Abacus about sending him south to kill, but Golden Abacus denied the plan and threatened to report him to the Immortal Emperor.

Li Xinnian and the southern immortals met the Immortal Court’s forces on Moon Dragon Sacred Mountain and learned why the factions were converging on Great Jin. Night-Watch God Lü Zhun privately asked what the Azure Cloud Li Family wanted in exchange for cooperation, and Li Xinnian began his reply by naming two enemies.

• Li Xinnian misjudged the Immortal Court’s forces as weak, while the Mortal World Immortal realized neither side understood the other’s strength.
• Li Qiu stayed hidden while searching for the teacher and Deer Treasure, and Abao found a new name, Yuexian.
• Li Xinnian greeted the assembled immortals, and Lü Zhun explained that factions sought Great Jin’s emperor for power, profit, and the secret of the immortal within him.
• Lü Zhun urged the Immortal Court’s immortals to unite whenever its survival was at stake, and they agreed.
• Lü Zhun met Li Xinnian privately and asked what the Azure Cloud Li Family wanted in exchange for following orders; Li Xinnian answered that he had two enemies from the Heaven-Chosen Divine Sect.

Li Xinnian traveled with Lü Zhun and the Immortal Court’s Heavenly Immortals to the Great Gold Empire, learning how the Immortal Court formed and how living beings’ cultivation threatened the immortals. At the imperial capital, he discovered that gathered powers were competing for a multicolored lotus linked to a chance at the Mahayana Realm, and admitted he wanted to advance.

• Li Xinnian and Lü Zhun grew familiar in Peerless Hall while the Immortal Court fleet traveled toward the Great Gold Empire.
• Lü Zhun explained that the Immortal Court had been established after living beings learned cultivation methods and began challenging the immortals.
• Li Xinnian suspected his family ancestor might have been one of the Dao Ancestors who spread cultivation methods.
• Peerless Hall reached the Great Gold imperial capital, where Li Xinnian sensed more than a hundred Body Integration cultivators and powerful beings from many races.
• Lü Zhun revealed that the gathered powers were seeking a multicolored lotus formed from the Great Gold Empire’s calamity and tied to a chance to reach the Mahayana Realm.
• Li Xinnian said he wanted to advance, and Lü Zhun warned him that winning the lotus’s favor and keeping it would be difficult.