Chapter Summaries

Su Jinxiu’s displeasure eased when Liu Changxu brought her food, and he later took his family and guests to admire the Liu Household’s scenic grounds. The group reached Red Lotus Island, where they were met by blooming spirit lotuses and two aquatic beasts emerging from the lake.

• Su Jinxiu complained that breakfast had been poor, and Liu Changxu cheered her up by bringing spirit cuisine prepared by his mother.
• Liu Changxu invited Xue Yuchan and Xu Youxiang to eat with them; Xu Youxiang then thanked his host and left to gather herbs.
• Liu Changxu planned an outing with his family, Su Jinxiu, and Xue Yuchan, taking them first to Peach Blossom Mountain and then toward Red Lotus Island.
• Liu Changxu opened the island’s protective formation, and the visitors saw household members building new residences across the island.
• Su Jinxiu and the other visitors admired the Second-Tier Red-Heart Lotuses before a blue flood dragon and a blue spirit python leaped from the lake.

Liu Changxu brought his family to Red Lotus Island, where they visited his uncle and toured the residence he was building. After hosting his senior sisters and returning home, he entered seclusion to improve his cultivation with Jade Marrow Spirit Liquid.

• Liu Changxu reunited with his spirit beasts and greeted his uncle Liu Shi'an and the lineage members on Red Lotus Island.
• Liu Changxu appointed Wu Yunyue to manage the residence's spirit plants, while Zhang Wenjun worried that she lacked a special skill of her own.
• Liu Changxu hosted Su Jinxiu and Xue Yuchan with a lavish spirit-cuisine meal, and Xue Yuchan left after receiving an urgent summons from her lineage.
• Liu Changxu returned to Hundred Blossoms Manor with his family and entered seclusion in the cultivation chamber.
• Liu Changxu drank Jade Marrow Spirit Liquid to cleanse his meridians and marrow.

Liu Changxu repeatedly drank jade marrow spirit liquid to cleanse and transform his body, awakening the red lotus body and drawing spiritual energy across Hundred Blossoms Mountain. Worried that the revelation would expose his cultivation technique and cost him his freedom, he decided to break through to explain the commotion.

• Liu Changxu endured the jade marrow spirit liquid's painful effects, then took it six more times until his body stopped expelling impurities and absorbed spiritual energy far faster.
• Liu Changxu drank another bowl, unlocked a shackle within his body, and drew spiritual energy from across Hundred Blossoms Mountain, disrupting clansmen in seclusion.
• Liu Changxu discovered that a pink lotus formed from red lotus karma fire had bloomed in his dantian, awakening the red lotus body.
• Liu Changxu considered the risks of others discovering his spirit body and resolved to conceal his karma fire and find a secret technique to hide his cultivation.
• Liu Changxu sensed that the phenomenon had alerted everyone in Hundred Blossoms Manor, then drank Five-Element Ascension Soup and began refining its spiritual power to break through.

Liu Changxu used four bottles of Five-Element Ascension Soup to break through to the Foundation Establishment late stage and spent seven days consolidating his cultivation. After reuniting with his family, he planned a visit to Red Lotus Island and agreed to bring his younger sisters along.

• Liu Changxu broke through to the Foundation Establishment late stage after drinking four bottles of Five-Element Ascension Soup, then stayed in seclusion for seven days to consolidate his cultivation.
• Liu Jiao greeted Liu Changxu when he emerged and told him that Li Zhenxin and the other women had taken her little brothers to Red Lotus Island.
• Liu Changxu took Liu Jiao to tell Lin Yulian he planned to visit Red Lotus Island, and Lin Yulian confirmed his breakthrough before inviting them to stay for a meal.
• Liu Changxue and Liu Changling returned home and asked Liu Changxu to take them to Red Lotus Island; he agreed to speak with their mother and bring them along.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment late stage, Liu Changxu reunited with his family and brought his daughter and younger sisters to Red Lotus Island. There, he joined his wives in discussing their nearly completed family residence, Xin Yue Tower.

• Lin Yulian hoped Liu Changxu would grow closer to his younger sisters and decided to encourage them to spend time together.
• Third Concubine Shi Wenxia returned home, celebrated Liu Changxu's breakthrough, and helped prepare a family meal.
• Liu Changxu caught up with Liu Changxue and Liu Changling, answered Liu Changxue's cultivation questions, and listened to Liu Changling ask about his adventures.
• Liu Changxu asked Lin Yulian and Shi Wenxia for permission to take his daughter and sisters to Red Lotus Island, and they agreed.
• Liu Changxu brought Liu Jiao, Liu Changxue, and Liu Changling to Red Lotus Island, where his wives and son welcomed them.
• Liu Changxu's wives described the nine-story Xin Yue Tower, whose costly design included short-range teleportation formations and left no space for future wives.

Liu Changxu prepared to build Xin Yue Tower and sought his wives’ permission to venture into the Azure Cloud Range for suitable spirit wood. After refining the Red Lotus Skyburning Swords and helping his four women become pregnant, he began advancing his Eye of Myriad Forms with a Blue Crystal Fruit.

• Liu Changxu proposed searching the Azure Cloud Range for upper-grade second-tier spirit wood, and Li Zhenxin, Wu Yunyue, Lian'er, and Zhang Wenjun objected because they feared for his safety and wanted him to stay.
• Liu Changxu reassured the four women, then spent over two months on Red Lotus Island refining the remaining Red Lotus Skyburning Swords and staying with his family.
• After all four women became pregnant, Lin Yulian brought them and the children to Hundred Blossoms Manor, and Liu Changxu paused construction on Red Lotus Island.
• Liu Changxu prepared to search the Azure Cloud Range for spirit wood so his family could move into Xin Yue Tower before the women gave birth.
• Liu Changxu consumed a lower-grade third-tier Blue Crystal Fruit and spent three days refining its energy to advance his Eye of Myriad Forms.

After perfecting the Eye of Myriad Forms, Liu Changxu set out to hunt powerful demon beasts and stopped at Purple Forest Market to arrange the purchase of materials for Xin Yue Tower. He left the market and rode northeast on the Azure Cloud Eagle.

• Liu Changxu tested his perfected Eye of Myriad Forms and confirmed that it could see a hundred and fifty li, though it could not advance further.
• Liu Changxu declined to bring household members into the mountains, told Liu Shi'an he was going to Purple Forest Market, and departed with the Azure Cloud Eagle and Xiao Qing.
• Liu Changxu met Liu Shifeng at Peach Blossom Pavilion, gave her a list of second-tier materials and a hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and asked her to gather them gradually.
• Liu Shifeng told Liu Changxu that a large auction might take place in a year and could offer Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Liu Changxu asked after his father and Second Mother, then left Purple Forest Market with the Azure Cloud Eagle and Green Fox and flew northeast.

Liu Changxu discovered a rich spirit mountain, slew its two Golden Flame Tiger guardians, and collected its treasures. Unable to carry away all the golden sandalwood, he contacted his father for help and recognized how much he still needed his clansmen.

• Liu Changxu found a second-tier top-grade spirit mountain with golden sandalwood, golden apple trees, and two Golden Flame Tigers guarding it.
• Liu Changxu used his Red Lotus Skyburning Swords to wound and kill both Golden Flame Tigers, then processed their corpses for himself and his spirit beasts.
• Liu Changxu found goldcrystal iron ore in the tigers' cave but no cubs, then picked thirty-six Golden Apples and stored both trees in the Wood Spirit Bottle.
• Liu Changxu discovered more than a hundred golden sandalwood trees, including thirty-three of the grades he needed, but his Storage Bag could not hold them all.
• Liu Changxu contacted his father to send clansmen and reflected that he had wrongly looked down on them despite needing their help.

Liu Changxu’s father, Liu Shihao, arrived with reinforcements after a dangerous journey through demon territory, and the Liu Household gathered a huge haul of Spirit Treasures from the spirit mountain. After their Storage Bags filled, the family prepared to leave, reluctantly abandoning less valuable treasures.

• Liu Changxu felled thirty-three golden sandalwood trees and mined goldcrystal iron ore before Liu Shihao arrived with Liu Shijia and more than thirty lineage members.
• Liu Shihao told Liu Changxu that a second-tier middle-grade Lightning Eagle had pursued them, and that he had escaped only after wounding it with a talisman.
• Liu Changxu gave Liu Shihao six second-tier top-grade talismans, while Liu Shihao decided the group should leave rather than risk staying at the mountain.
• The Liu Household searched the mountain for more than ten days and filled their Storage Bags with Spirit Treasures, mostly of second-tier middle grade or lower.
• Liu Changshun and several lineage members ate low-tier spirit fruits to save storage space before the Liu Household boarded the Black Feather Boat to return home.

Liu Changxu returned safely to Hundred Blossoms Manor and reunited with his family, bringing home expedition spoils and gifts. He learned his pregnant wives had been well cared for and planned to buy more spirit treasures before building Xin Yue Tower.

• Liu Changxu arrived at Hundred Blossoms Manor aboard the Black Feather Boat after a peaceful two-day journey, and his family and clansmen welcomed him.
• Liu Changxu shared a celebratory meal with his family, then distributed spirit fruit, herbs, Golden Flame Tiger meat, and spirit treasures as gifts.
• Liu Changxu gave Liu Jiao and Liu Han spirit fruit after they insisted on receiving presents of their own.
• Liu Changxu thanked his pregnant wives and Lian'er for their hard work and learned that Lin Yulian had cared for them while he was away.
• Liu Changxu said he would visit Purple Forest Market the next day to buy more spirit treasures, then return to care for his wives and build Xin Yue Tower.

Liu Changxu traveled to Purple Forest Market for Xin Yue Tower's spirit treasures and attended an underground auction after Eighth Aunt Liu Shifeng secured him an invitation. He won one Foundation Establishment Pill, then returned to the lineage, where Liu Shifeng learned she would not receive it under the household's current distribution plan.

• Liu Changxu arrived at Purple Forest Market, collected the spirit treasures and remaining spirit stones from Eighth Aunt Liu Shifeng, and learned of an underground auction offering Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Liu Changxu used Liu Shifeng's invitation token to enter the auction, where he bought a Snow Jade Fruit and three pieces of second-tier top-grade spirit jade for Xin Yue Tower.
• Liu Changxu outbid other cultivators to win the first Foundation Establishment Pill for fifty-eight thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, then refrained from bidding on another.
• Liu Changxu returned to Peach Blossom Pavilion, where Liu Shifeng was disappointed to learn that the household's distribution plan did not yet allocate a Foundation Establishment Pill to her.
• Liu Changxu rode the Azure Cloud Eagle back to the lineage the next morning.

Liu Changxu was ambushed by seven masked evil cultivators while carrying Foundation Establishment Pills home. He broke through their formation and killed several attackers, but remained injured and locked in battle with the three strongest survivors.

• Liu Changxu flew home openly on his Azure Cloud Eagle, then activated a Golden Armor Talisman when an ambush formation concealed the sky around him.
• Liu Changxu used Red Lotus Karma Fire to break a crucial formation node and escaped as seven masked Foundation Establishment cultivators revealed themselves.
• Liu Changxu deployed his Twelve Red Lotus Skyburning Swords, killing two middle-stage attackers and severely wounding another.
• The masked leader struck Liu Changxu with a third-tier Silver Blade Talisman, shattering his defenses and injuring him despite his powerful body-tempering cultivation.
• The attackers explained that they sought revenge for relatives Liu Changxu had killed, and Liu Changxu slew the wounded cultivator while fighting the remaining late-stage cultivators and their leader.

Liu Changxu defeated an ambush of evil cultivators, but their leader escaped with a rare Void-Escaping Talisman, leaving Liu worried about the threat to his family and the Lineage. He returned safely to Hundred Blossoms Manor, warned his family to stay inside, and planned to discuss the danger with his father.

• Liu Changxu killed two late-stage Foundation Establishment evil cultivators, but their leader escaped using a lower-grade third-tier Void-Escaping Talisman.
• Liu Changxu collected the slain cultivators’ belongings, recorded their faces, freed the Azure Cloud Eagle and Green Fox from the concealed formation, and hurried home.
• Liu Changxu reached Hundred Blossoms Manor safely and reassured Li Zhenxin and the other women that his injuries were minor.
• Liu Changxu told Wu Yunyue he did not know whether the attackers were connected to the assault on the Wu Household, while suspecting their leader wanted the Golden Core Formation Pill.
• Liu Changxu warned Lin Yulian to keep the clanspeople from going out and said he would discuss the threat with his father.

After surviving an attack by Evil Cultivators, Liu Changxu arranged for his family to stay home while he recovered and gave the lineage a Foundation Establishment Pill for Liu Shichao. He sorted through the attackers’ spoils, kept another Foundation Establishment Pill for Li Zhenxin, and emerged from seclusion half a month later to find Liu Shichao attempting Foundation Establishment.

• Liu Changxu told Liu Shihao about the attack and his suspicions, then urged his family to avoid going out while he healed.
• Liu Changxu gave Liu Shihao the Foundation Establishment Pill he had won at auction, and Liu Shihao arranged for Liu Shichao to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Lin Yulian prepared Liu Changxu a feast, and he spent the night with his four wives and concubines before entering seclusion.
• Liu Changxu sorted the five Storage Bags seized from the Evil Cultivators, found another Foundation Establishment Pill, and reserved it for Li Zhenxin.
• Liu Changxu copied the Jade Slips for the lineage's Scripture Repository, prepared gifts for his parents, and began healing.
• Half a month later, Liu Changxu emerged to find the lineage calm and Liu Shichao in seclusion attempting Foundation Establishment while Liu Shihao guarded him.

Liu Changxu strengthened his household’s defenses while investigating the Evil Cultivators who had targeted him. Ninth Uncle Liu Shijia identified them as members of the Black Garment Society, leaving Liu Changxu to consider seeking his master’s help against the growing threat.

• Liu Changxu gave his four wives and concubines first-tier Spirit Treasures, then crafted upper-grade second-tier Golden Armor Talismans for his family.
• Liu Changxu failed to craft Void-Escaping Talismans because he lacked suitable wind-attribute Demon Beast hide.
• Liu Changxu learned that Fifteenth Uncle Liu Shichao had failed to reach Foundation Establishment and suffered serious injuries.
• Liu Changxu searched the Evil Cultivators’ Jade Slips for clues but found none, so he relied on the Peach Blossom Tower’s investigation.
• Ninth Uncle Liu Shijia reported that the nearby Evil Cultivators belonged to the Black Garment Society, an organization whose Golden Core members had recently been defeated by the Azure Cloud Sect’s Green Robe Guard.
• Liu Changxu realized the Society was after his Golden Core Formation Pill and considered asking his master for help, fearing that Golden Core Evil Cultivators might target him.

Liu Changxu pursued Ninth Uncle Liu Shijia, rescued him from three evil cultivators, and learned the location of a hidden Black Garment Society base. He broke through its formation and sent his red lotus karma fire into the cave to attack the cultivators inside.

• Liu Changxu gave Liu Shijia a Golden Armor Talisman and spirit garment before Liu Shijia left to contact Wang Yuting, then gave Liu Shihao protective gear as well.
• Liu Changxu secretly followed Liu Shijia and attacked three Foundation Establishment middle-stage evil cultivators who ambushed him, killing two and capturing the third for soul-searching.
• Liu Changxu learned the location of an evil cultivator hideout, killed the captive, and destroyed the two other bodies before leaving.
• Liu Changxu traveled to the Demon Territory and found a hidden cave protected by a lower-grade third-tier formation.
• Liu Changxu broke the formation with his red lotus karma fire and sent it into the cave to attack the evil cultivators inside.

Liu Changxu defeated a gravely injured Golden Core evil cultivator after a fierce battle, then returned home badly wounded. His family treated him, and his mother Lin Yulian discovered his injuries and wept as he reassured her.

• Liu Changxu fought the Golden Core evil cultivator with the Karma Fire Lotus and Red Lotus Skyburning Swords, then killed him and destroyed his fleeing soul.
• Liu Changxu gathered the evil cultivator’s belongings, searched his cave abode with Xiao Qing, and found little of value.
• Liu Changxu rode the Azure Cloud Eagle home, where Li Zhenxin, Liu Jiao, and the other women treated his injuries.
• Liu Changxu asked his family to hide his injuries from his mother and planned to enter seclusion to heal.
• Lin Yulian arrived with Liu Changxu’s two younger sisters, saw his injuries, and wept as he comforted her.

After recovering from his battle injuries, Liu Changxu examined the Golden Core evil cultivator’s Storage Ring and found abundant treasures, cultivation resources, and inheritance records. The ring’s travelogue eased his concern for the Liu Household and revealed valuable information about the Black Garment Society and routes through the Azure Cloud Range.

• Liu Changxu spent a month cultivating the Red Lotus Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Body, healing his injuries and strengthening his body.
• Liu Changxu imprinted the Storage Ring with his soul mark and discovered its enormous space and many spirit stones, pills, fruits, materials, and magical treasures.
• Liu Changxu found a Foundation Establishment Pill for Wu Yunyue, powerful cultivation arts, and records that could enrich the Liu lineage’s inheritance.
• Liu Changxu read the Golden Core evil cultivator’s travelogue and learned about the Black Garment Society, its defeats, and the evil cultivator’s history.
• Liu Changxu concluded that the Liu Household faced less danger without the dead Golden Core cultivator’s support, but kept the travelogue rather than turning it over to the Green Robe Guard.
• Liu Changxu remained concerned that his clansmen’s strength lagged behind his cultivation and limited his ability to act freely.

Liu Changxu emerged from seclusion fully healed, reunited with his family, and shared the Blue Sea Tide Song cultivation art with his wives. He told Liu Shihao that he had secretly killed the escaped Golden Core evil cultivator and gave his father the complete Scripture.

• Liu Changxu tested Liu Jiao's spiritual roots, found she had three-element roots, and planned to send her to the Lineage School.
• Liu Changxu cooked spirit cuisine for his family and gave his four wives jade slips containing the Qi Refinement section of the Blue Sea Tide Song Art.
• Liu Changxu visited Lin Yulian and Liu Shihao, then privately told Liu Shihao he had killed the escaped Golden Core evil cultivator and wanted to conceal it.
• Liu Shihao warned Liu Changxu against challenging Golden Core cultivators and agreed that they should keep the killing secret.
• Liu Changxu gave Liu Shihao the complete Blue Sea Tide Song Scripture, an earth-tier lower-grade art that could be cultivated to nascent soul great perfection.

Liu Changxu shared a water cultivation inheritance with the Liu Household, established his daughter Liu Jiao in the lineage, and worked on Xin Yue Tower before four children were born. As he struggled to care for the newborns, he realized that supporting his growing family would require more time and cultivation resources.

• Liu Changxu gave Liu Shihao a Nascent Soul cultivation art and instructed him to present it to the family as a supreme-grade Profound Tier art.
• Liu Changxu took Liu Jiao to Yunping City, where Wang Yuting arranged a spirit-root test that confirmed her water, wood, and earth roots.
• Liu Jiao was formally named Liu Fujiao, entered the Liu Household, and began attending the new Lineage School.
• Liu Changxu completed Xin Yue Tower's main structure but struggled to engrave its complex restrictions, especially the teleportation restrictions.
• Wu Yunyue, Li Zhenxin, Lian'er, and Zhang Wenjun gave birth to Liu Ping, Liu Yue, Liu Feng, and Liu Yun, respectively.
• Liu Changxu struggled to soothe all four newborns and realized he needed to earn more resources to provide for his growing family.