Chapter Summaries

After surviving the evil cultivators’ invasion, Liu Changxu inventoried the spoils from the battle and found an enormous haul, including a Golden Core Formation Pill and a rare hibiscus jade slip. The slip might contain the high-level cultivation art he had struggled to obtain, but its contents remained unknown.

• Liu Changxu practiced with Li Zhenxin and Lian'er overnight to dispel the violent negativity left by the battles.
• The next morning, Liu Changxu told his wives he would enter secluded cultivation, then went to his chamber to sort through the battle spoils.
• Liu Changxu inventoried the nine evil cultivators’ storage bags and found spirit stones, pills, herbs, spirit artifacts, materials, formations, and jade slips.
• Liu Changxu found a Golden Core Formation Pill prepared by the Evil Cultivator Chief and realized it could improve his own chance of reaching the golden core realm.
• Liu Changxu examined a pink jade slip made from rare hibiscus jade and hoped it contained a high-level cultivation art suited to him.

Liu Changxu unlocked the Red Lotus Heaven-Burning Scripture, a powerful Heaven-Tier cultivation method that matched his spiritual roots, and kept the inheritance secret. After spending over three months switching to it, he gained stronger magic power, red lotus karma fire, and remarkable healing abilities.

• Liu Changxu poured his magic power and soulforce into the Hibiscus Jade Slip until it drained him, transmitted the Red Lotus Heaven-Burning Scripture into his mind, and shattered.
• Liu Changxu learned that the Scripture cultivated magic power, body, and soul, but that he could only access its levels through Foundation Establishment, and resolved to keep it secret.
• Liu Changxu visited Li Zhenxin that night but did not tell her about his discovery.
• Liu Changxu spent more than three months switching from his Profound-Tier method to the Red Lotus Heaven-Burning Scripture and cultivated it to the seventh level.
• Liu Changxu found that his magic power and physical abilities had greatly improved, then tested the Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Body by cutting his arm and watching it quickly heal.

Liu Changxu prepared for a likely conscription in the human-demon war by gathering materials and forging a powerful new spear. He completed the Red Lotus World-Destroying Spear, whose immense weight and abilities left him with a formidable weapon that was still somewhat heavy for him to wield.

• After Su Hao warned Liu Changxu that the sect would likely conscript him, Liu Changxu began preparing for battle by seeking materials for new spirit artifacts.
• Liu Changxu spent 130,000 spirit stones at auctions in Purple Forest Market and Eastern Splendor City to acquire rare forging materials, including thousand-jun iron.
• Liu Changxu entered the Hundred Arts Hall and used its earthfire chamber to melt the materials, including goldcrystal iron, into a spear blank.
• Over a month, Liu Changxu polished the spear and engraved nine restrictions and nearly a thousand artifact runes onto it.
• Liu Changxu completed the Red Lotus World-Destroying Spear, imprinted his soul on it, and tested its ability to expand and shrink.
• Liu Changxu found that the spear weighed thirty-six thousand jin even when reduced to the size of a plum-blossom needle, making it somewhat heavy for him.

Liu Changxu forged a Rainbow Sunset Bow and Starfeather Arrows, then prepared to eliminate the Ironback Crocodiles threatening Hundred Blossoms Manor. He agreed to let Lian'er join the battle, and the group set out for Red Lotus Lake.

• Liu Changxu forged the second-tier top-grade Rainbow Sunset Bow and nine Starfeather Arrows, each with nine restrictions.
• Liu Changxu invited the Liu Household to help clear the dangers around Hundred Blossoms Manor, and the clansmen eagerly signed up.
• Lian'er told Liu Changxu she wanted to fight, pursue Foundation Establishment, and stay with him forever; Liu Changxu recognized how much she had changed.
• Liu Changxu agreed to let Lian'er take part in the battle after considering her wishes and the need for her to earn merit.
• Liu Changxu piloted the Black Feather Boat, carrying seventy-three clansmen toward Red Lotus Lake.

Liu Changxu led the Liu Household to Red Lotus Lake, where the members began gathering lotus produce while he flew toward the lake’s center to confront the Ironback Crocodiles. The crocodile leader and its horde surfaced and attacked him, and the chapter ended with the leader’s wave smashing through Liu Changxu’s Water Wall.

• Liu Changxu handed the Black Feather Boat over to the lineage and received 120,000 contribution points in return.
• The Liu Household arrived at Red Lotus Lake, where its members gathered lotus roots and seeds and fought off weak spirit fish, shrimp, and crabs.
• Liu Changxu released his five spirit beasts, assigned the Yellow Mountain Lion to protect the gatherers, and flew toward the lake’s center with his other beasts.
• The Ironback Crocodile horde surfaced near Red Lotus Island, and its upper-grade second-tier leader roared to rally the group.
• The crocodiles fired Water Arrows at Liu Changxu, who blocked them with a Water Wall, but the leader then shattered it with a towering wave.

Liu Changxu and his companions fought the Ironback Crocodile Clan across Red Lotus Lake, killing its second-tier leaders and decimating its first-tier members. The remaining crocodiles hid underwater as Liu Changxu regrouped with the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon, Azure Cloud Eagle, Green Fox, and Silver-Eared Macaque.

• Liu Changxu used the Rainbow Sunset Bow to kill a second-tier lower-grade Ironback Crocodile and a second-tier middle-grade Ironback Crocodile from the air.
• Liu Changxu and the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon dove into the lake, where the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon fought two second-tier Ironback Crocodiles.
• Liu Changxu killed the upper-grade second-tier Ironback Crocodile by sending the Red Lotus World-Destroying Spear into its stomach and expanding it inside.
• Liu Changxu used a water vortex to kill the fleeing second-tier middle-grade Ironback Crocodile, while the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon killed the second-tier lower-grade one.
• The Azure Cloud Eagle returned with the Green Fox and Silver-Eared Macaque, who told Liu Changxu they had killed more than half of the first-tier Ironback Crocodiles.

Liu Changxu explored Red Lotus Island after killing the lake’s Ironback Crocodiles and discovered its rich spiritual resources, but worried that the Liu Household lacked enough Foundation Establishment cultivators to guard it. He returned to the clanspeople, revealed his victory to Li Zhenxin and Lian'er, and prepared to show them the island.

• Liu Changxu and four spirit beasts hauled five Ironback Crocodile carcasses to Red Lotus Island, where he processed them as the beasts eagerly awaited a meal.
• Liu Changxu surveyed Red Lotus Island and found valuable Azure Feather Pines, Golden Moon Peach trees, Azure Snow Spirit Tea, and extensive red-heart lotus growth.
• Liu Changxu worried that the Liu Household had too few Foundation Establishment cultivators to defend Red Lotus Lake, so he decided to leave the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon there and station several Qi Refinement cultivators on the island.
• Liu Changxu returned to the lake, fed Yellow Mountain Lion Xiao Jin Ironback Crocodile meat, and found Li Zhenxin and Lian'er among the harvesting clanspeople.
• Liu Changxu told Li Zhenxin and Lian'er that he had killed all five second-tier Ironback Crocodiles and planned to take them to Red Lotus Island, prompting cheers from the clanspeople.

Liu Changxu explored the Ironback Crocodiles’ underwater caves and helped the Liu Household establish itself on Red Lotus Island before the Azure Cloud Sect ordered him back to war. After saying goodbye to his family, he departed for Purple Forest Market.

• Liu Changxu found Jade Marrow Spirit Liquid, Ironback Crocodile eggs, and spirit jade in the caves, then sealed the largest cave as a Liu Household secret base.
• Liu Changxu returned to Red Lotus Island and saw Li Zhenxin directing the clan as they built their camp and defensive formation.
• Liu Changxu and Li Zhenxin spent more than ten days protecting the island’s second-tier spirit plants, while Li Zhenxin organized clan members to guard the first-tier plants.
• Liu Changxu left the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon to guard Red Lotus Island, returned to Hundred Blossoms Manor, and forged three Red Lotus Skyburning Swords before receiving orders to assemble at Purple Forest Market.
• Liu Changxu spent time with Li Zhenxin, Lian'er, and Liu Jiao before Liu Jiao gave him a White Jade Pendant carved in her likeness.
• In the first month of 3175, Liu Changxu said goodbye to his family and clan members and set out for the Human-Demon War.

Liu Changxu visited Peach Blossom Pavilion in Purple Forest Market and learned that unknown forces were targeting the Liu Household’s business. He began considering how to build an intelligence network, but the chapter ended when he saw a drunken cultivator reach for Liu Changxin and a flying knife slash the man’s wrist.

• Liu Changxu arrived at Peach Blossom Pavilion and learned from Eighth Aunt Liu Shifeng that rogue cultivators had repeatedly caused trouble there.
• Liu Changxu concluded that a local Foundation Establishment lineage or sect disciple was likely behind the incidents and decided the Liu Household needed an intelligence organization.
• Liu Changxu considered his Second Aunt Liang as a candidate to gather intelligence and went to find her on the pavilion’s fourth floor.
• A drunken cultivator reached for Liu Changxin’s buttocks, and a small knife slashed his wrist before he could touch her.

After Liu Changxu exposed and detained a rogue cultivator hired to disrupt the Peach Blossom Pavilion, he recruited Liang to lead the Liu Household’s new intelligence organization, the Peach Blossom Tower. The Household Elders’ Council approved the plan, and Liu Changxu began preparing for the coming campaign.

• Liu Changxu used the Soul-Shaking Technique to learn that a masked Foundation Establishment cultivator had paid a rogue cultivator to cause trouble, then handed the culprit over to Li Yufei.
• Liu Changxu reported to the Azure Cloud Sect’s station, returned to the Peach Blossom Pavilion, and comforted Liu Changxin by giving her a cultivator robe.
• Liu Changxu proposed that Liang investigate the attacks and lead a Liu Household intelligence organization, providing her five thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones to begin the work.
• Liu Changxu sent confidential letters to Liu Shihao and Lin Yulian recommending Liang and naming the organization the Peach Blossom Tower.
• Liu Shihao and Lin Yulian convened the Household Elders’ Council, which approved Liang’s appointment and the establishment of the Peach Blossom Tower.
• Liu Changxu turned to preparing for the approaching campaign.

Liu Changxu attended a secret underground auction hoping to buy treasures for the coming battle. He won a Blue Crystal Fruit to improve his Eye of Myriad Forms, while the auction continued with costly pills.

• Liu Changxu obtained an underground auction token from Li Yufei after failing to find high-grade treasures in the market.
• Liu Changxu followed the token to the auction venue, paid the entrance fee, and received a Tiger-Head Mask before entering the hall.
• Qingyue opened the auction, where cultivators bid on spirit herbs and fruit; Liu Changxu bought a Blue Crystal Fruit for nine thousand five hundred low-grade spirit stones.
• Liu Changxu bid on a bottle of Hundred-Flower Jade Dew Pills but stopped when the price climbed too high.
• The auction moved on to cultivation-enhancing pills, and the Foundation Establishment cultivators competed eagerly.

Liu Changxu attended an underground auction and spent heavily on a Foundation Establishment Pill, protective talismans, and the Five Elements Demon-Hunting Formation. After the auction ended, he left through a random teleportation formation and obtained a token for future auctions.

• Liu Changxu outbid a female Foundation Establishment cultivator and bought a Foundation Establishment Pill for sixty thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Liu Changxu won an Earth-Escaping Talisman and bought three Golden Armor Talismans and a Void-Escaping Talisman.
• Liu Changxu passed on expensive spirit artifacts, including a Demon-Trapping Net and a set of Meteor Swords, because he could refine artifacts himself and wanted higher-grade equipment.
• Liu Changxu bid one hundred and eighty thousand low-grade spirit stones and won the Five Elements Demon-Hunting Formation, leaving him unable to afford more treasures.
• Liu Changxu left the auction through a random teleportation formation and asked the staff for a token to attend future underground auctions.

Liu Changxu joined more than a hundred Azure Cloud Sect inner disciples gathered at the sect’s encampment and learned about several powerful figures among them. After Jiang Yuruo took an interest in him and Li Tiancheng noticed, three golden core True Persons arrived to address the gathering.

• Liu Changxu entrusted his Foundation Establishment Pill to Madam Liang before obeying the Azure Cloud Sect’s summons to its encampment.
• Liu Changxu surveyed the assembled inner disciples and noticed the formidable Jiang Yuruo, Li Tiancheng, and Xiao Wanli.
• Xu Youxiang introduced himself to Liu Changxu and explained the identities, abilities, and influential lineages of those three cultivators.
• Jiang Yuruo stole several glances at Liu Changxu, and Li Tiancheng noticed her attention but dismissed Liu Changxu as no threat.
• Three golden core True Persons entered the hall, and the gathered cultivators fell silent to hear their instructions.

Liu Changxu attended a briefing about the Human-Demon War, then hosted Xu Youxiang at Peach Blossom Pavilion to build their friendship and learn about the Azure Cloud Sect. He discovered that his younger relative Liu Changhui had prepared much of the spirit cuisine they enjoyed.

• Wu Changge ordered the inner disciples to assemble at Purple Forest Market the next morning and warned them to obey sect orders in battle.
• Liu Changxu invited Xu Youxiang to Peach Blossom Pavilion, served him spirit cuisine, Monkey Wine, and Five Elements Spirit Bone Soup, and learned about the sect's factions and Golden Core cultivators.
• Xu Youxiang eagerly drank most of the Five Elements Spirit Bone Soup before leaving to refine its benefits.
• Liu Changxu visited the kitchen and learned that his Fifteenth Uncle, Liu Shichao, had become a Spirit Cuisine Master.
• Liu Shichao introduced his son Liu Changhui, who had spent two years learning spirit cuisine and had prepared most of the meal Liu Changxu served.

Liu Changxu proposed new marriage, childbirth, childcare, and education policies to strengthen the Liu Household, and Liu Shihao and the elders approved them. The policies were implemented, rapidly increasing the household’s strength, while Liu Baishan began taking wives and concubines again.

• Liu Changxu advised Liu Changhui to practice the Flood Dragon Body-Refinement Art and gave him jade slips with cultivation and spirit cuisine guidance.
• Liu Changxu drafted policies to encourage marriage and childbirth and improve the care and education of young cultivators.
• Liu Changxu sent his proposals to Liu Shifeng, who delivered the letter to Liu Shihao at Peach Blossom Mountain.
• Liu Shihao presented the proposals to the Elder Council, and the elders mostly welcomed them while Liu Baishan worried about the Family Treasury.
• Liu Baishan agreed after Liu Shihao explained the household’s need to grow, then decided to take more wives and concubines.
• The Liu Household refined and implemented Liu Changxu’s policies, and its strength grew rapidly.

Liu Changxu joined an Azure Cloud Sect expedition into Demon Race territory to disrupt the gathering demon beasts. The chapter ended as his group separated from the Golden Core cultivators and prepared to face a massive flock of Golden-Winged Eagles.

• Liu Changxu met Xu Youxiang's circle aboard Wu Changge's flying boat, including Hu Changhe, Li Qiushan, and Yao Xintong.
• The flying boat brought the cultivators to the Azure Cloud Sect's newly captured Golden Rhinoceros Ridge camp, where Liu Changxu learned the sect expected a Demon Race counterattack.
• Wu Changge and other Golden Core cultivators led more than a hundred inner sect disciples into Demon Race territory to disrupt the demon beasts' assembly.
• Zhao Yijie explained the expedition's plan, and Liu Changxu worried that the mission put the inner sect disciples at great risk.
• A flock of more than eleven hundred Golden-Winged Eagles approached the flying boat, led by a third-tier mid-grade eagle king.
• At Wu Changge's command, Liu Changxu and the other disciples leaped from the boat to keep clear of the Golden Core battle as the two sides prepared to fight.

Liu Changxu and the Azure Cloud Sect disciples fled through demon territory, rescuing Jiang Yuruo, Li Tiancheng, and Xiao Wanli along the way. A third-tier Golden-Winged Eagle then scattered their group, and Liu Changxu escaped alone toward the southeast.

• Wu Changge and two other Golden Core cultivators fought the third-tier Golden-Winged Eagles, drawing more demon beasts toward the group as Liu Changxu and the others fled south.
• Wang Quansheng led the inner sect disciples at low altitude, helping them evade pursuers until they found Jiang Yuruo, Li Tiancheng, and Xiao Wanli surrounded by demonic birds.
• Liu Changxu killed a Black-Feathered Eagle with one sword strike, then helped the Azure Cloud Sect disciples defeat most of the birds and rescue the three cultivators.
• A third-tier Golden-Winged Eagle attacked the group, killing several disciples and forcing Wang Quansheng to order everyone to scatter.
• Liu Changxu flew southeast at low altitude in his Cloud-Piercing Shuttle and killed an upper-grade second-tier Golden-Winged Eagle that pursued him.

Liu Changxu returned to Golden Rhinoceros Ridge after escaping a Demon Beast pursuit with Spirit Fruits, a tree, fox cubs, and medicinal herbs. As he recovered at camp, he learned the sortie had caused heavy losses and began making higher-grade Talismans to prepare for the war.

• Liu Changxu and his Spirit Beasts defeated the blue fox clan, collected its treasures, and fled pursuing Demon Beasts before safely reaching camp.
• Liu Changxu reunited with Xu Youxiang, then visited injured Hu Changhe and left him spirit food and fruit.
• Liu Changxu and Xu Youxiang visited Yao Xintong, who told them the sortie had devastated the Azure Cloud Sect's Inner Sect Disciples and forced the sect to revise its plans and send reinforcements.
• Liu Changxu began making higher-grade Talismans because he expected the Human-Demon War to intensify and needed better protection.

Liu Changxu prepared materials and successfully drew second-tier middle-grade Golden Armor Talismans before reuniting with his master and fellow disciples at Golden Rhinoceros Ridge. Su Hao introduced the gathered disciples and urged them to stay united as they faced the coming battle.

• Liu Changxu crafted an upper-grade second-tier talisman brush, made talisman paper and ink, and drew twelve second-tier middle-grade Golden Armor Talismans.
• Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing arrived at the main camp, and Liu Changxu went to greet them.
• Su Hao asked Liu Changxu about Li Tiancheng's rescue, and Liu Changxu explained that his team had helped when they encountered Li Tiancheng and his companions in danger.
• Su Hao introduced Liang Yuanshan, Zhang Yuxin, Wang Yong, and Qin Yulian to Liu Changxu, who also greeted Su Jinxiu and Su Jinjiang.
• Su Hao urged his disciples to remain united and forbade them from killing one another, then asked Liu Changxu to prepare spirit cuisine while the others helped.

Liu Changxu impressed his master’s family and fellow disciples with a feast of spirit cuisine, then returned to making talismans as the Azure Cloud Sect and the demon race prepared for battle. With the demon beasts approaching Golden Rhinoceros Ridge, Su Jinxiu increasingly sought comfort in Liu Changxu’s company and cooking.

• Liu Changxu prepared a lavish spirit-cuisine feast with rare ingredients from Su Hao, while Su Jinxiu followed him around and eagerly ate the dishes.
• Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing praised Liu Changxu’s cooking, and his senior brothers and sisters left with a favorable impression of him.
• Liu Changxu gave Su Jinxiu his remaining prepared dishes before returning to his camp and making upper-grade second-tier Golden Armor Talismans.
• The Azure Cloud Sect gathered two hundred thousand cultivators as the demon race mustered five hundred thousand demon beasts, which were advancing toward Golden Rhinoceros Ridge.
• Su Jinxiu repeatedly visited Liu Changxu for food and devoured his Hundred-Flower Lotus Seed Cake, supplying ingredients so he would make more.