Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu's family bought Jade Dew Skyblue Tea in Green River City, where Wu Yunyue befriended Jin Yiling and revealed too much about their circumstances. After the family left, the Jin family's clan head tried to pursue and rob them, but Liu Changxu's earlier warning helped avert a confrontation.

• Wu Yunyue bargained with Jin Yiling and bought more Jade Dew Skyblue Tea, while the two women struck up a friendship.
• Wu Yunyue told Jin Yiling that she and Liu Changxu had reached foundation establishment at unusually young ages, prompting Liu Changxu to stop her from revealing more.
• Jin Yiling's great-grandfather warned her that Liu Changxu was powerful and that the Jin family should not provoke him, so she chose not to report the encounter to the clan head.
• Liu Changxu took his family to the Li Household's Spirit Garment Pavilion, then left Green River City aboard the Xin Yue Boat after finding no other treasures of interest.
• The Jin family's clan head led disguised family members in pursuit of Liu Changxu's family to rob them, but they could not catch up and returned frustrated.

Liu Changxu took his family to a spirit lake to train his wives and children against demon beasts, unaware that the outing helped them evade pursuers from the Jin Household. After battles revealed Lian'er’s determination and Jiao'er's talent, he resolved to push Zhang Wenjun and Jiao'er to work harder.

• Liu Changxu brought his family to a spirit lake, where Zhang Wenjun and Lian'er killed its two Azure-Armored Crab overlords.
• Lian'er fought through several wounds and defeated her crab, impressing Liu Changxu with her resolve, while Zhang Wenjun held back to protect her appearance.
• Liu Changxu considered speaking to Zhang Wenjun about her lack of diligence and decided to set stricter expectations for Jiao'er.
• Liu Changxu had his wives and Jiao'er fight low-level demon beasts, and the family inadvertently avoided the Jin Household's pursuers.
• Jiao'er killed an early first-tier Golden-Horned Deer in three exchanges with a single sword strike, impressing Liu Changxu and Li Zhenxin.

Liu Changxu brought his family to Violet Glow Mountain, where they paid their respects to Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing before returning to his Spirit Spring Residence. Su Hao mentioned a possible sect operation beyond the borders, and Liu Changxu left the story settled back in his sect home with his family.

• Liu Changxu trained Lian'er, Zhang Wenjun, and Jiao'er against Demon Beasts during the journey, and all three were injured but improved their combat skills.
• Liu Changxu flew his family to Violet Glow Mountain and led them to Rainjade Garden to visit Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing.
• Liu Changxu introduced his four wives and six children, and Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing gave them Spirit Treasures.
• Liu Changxu presented Su Hao with lower-grade third-tier violet light jade and discussed his cultivation and a possible sect operation beyond the borders.
• Liu Changxu and his family returned to the Spirit Spring Residence, where Qi Ming and four Qi Refinement cultivators had kept the courtyard in good order.
• Liu Changxu summoned the Xin Yue Tower in the courtyard, astonishing Qi Ming and the other cultivators with his second-tier top-grade Spirit Residence.

Liu Changxu and his family visited Liu Qiuju and Wu Lihai, strengthening ties with both the Liu and Wu Households. At a gathering with Xu Youxiang, Liu Changxu heard that the sect might attack the Black Evil Sect after its Grand Supreme Elder was injured while obtaining a powerful treasure.

• Liu Changxu gave Liu Qiuju's family an entire Storage Bag of second-tier spirit treasures, and she was delighted by the Liu Household's prosperity and the growth of its next generation.
• Liu Qiuju told Liu Changxu that Zhao Taijie was in secluded cultivation, preparing to break through to golden core.
• Liu Changxu and Wu Yunyue visited Wu Lihai with their son Liu Ping, and Wu Lihai gave the boy a bloodline Magical Artifact called the Azure Jade Bracelet.
• Liu Changxu decided to research how to forge bloodline Magical Artifacts after seeing the bracelet protect Liu Ping.
• At a gathering with Xu Youxiang and others, Wei Han said the sect was preparing to move against the Black Evil Sect, and a cultivator asked why it would risk confronting such a powerful enemy.
• A cultivator explained that the Black Evil Sect's spirit transformation Grand Supreme Elder had obtained an upper-grade Postnatal Spirit Treasure in the Return to Ruins and had been badly injured.

Liu Changxu learned that the Azure Cloud Sect planned to attack the Black Evil Sect for its powerful Sea-Covering Seal and prepared his family for the dangerous campaign. After half a year of cultivation, he received orders to join the next reinforcement contingent, as the war was already going poorly.

• Liu Changxu discussed the coming war with Xu Youxiang and learned that subordinate lineages might be conscripted, though those recently involved in the Human-Demon War were generally exempt.
• Liu Changxu told Li Zhenxin and the other women that the Azure Cloud Sect planned to attack the Black Evil Sect and seize the Sea-Covering Seal while its Spirit Transformation Grand Supreme Elder was gravely injured.
• Liu Changxu and his family began preparing for war, with Li Zhenxin crafting formations, the women cultivating, and Liu Changxu drawing talismans and training his body and Seven-Colored Glazed Eyes.
• After six months, Liu Changxu received a conscription order to depart with the next reinforcement contingent in thirty days.
• Liu Changxu had perfected the second layer of his Seven-Colored Glazed Eyes, but his Red Lotus Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Body had not yet reached Golden Core-level strength.

Liu Changxu emerged from seclusion and reunited with Su Jinxiu before visiting their master, Su Hao, to discuss the coming war. Su Hao gave Liu Changxu five third-tier talismans and urged him to survive, while revealing the pressures behind the Azure Cloud Sect’s expansion; Su Hao was due to leave for the battlefield in two days.

• Liu Changxu came out of seclusion and found Su Jinxiu visiting his family at Xin Yue Tower.
• Su Jinxiu told Liu Changxu that the war had become a costly war of attrition and that their other senior brothers and sisters had gone to the battlefield.
• Liu Changxu and Su Jinxiu visited Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing, who welcomed their daughter and disciple home.
• Su Hao told Liu Changxu that he would leave for the war in two days and gave him five third-tier talismans.
• Su Hao warned Liu Changxu to act cautiously and explained that the Azure Cloud Sect expanded through war to obtain resources for its growing cultivator population.

Liu Changxu drank a precious spirit wine from Su Hao and spent fifteen days in seclusion, raising his physical strength to the early Golden Core stage and his magic power to great perfection of Foundation Establishment. After emerging, he reunited with his daughters and prepared for the coming war with newfound confidence.

• Liu Changxu shared his Five-Element Ascension Soup with Su Hao, Jiang Yuqing, and Su Jinxiu, and gave Jiang Yuqing the recipe.
• Su Hao gave Liu Changxu a cup of potent spirit wine, then sent him to a cultivation chamber as its energy surged through his body.
• Liu Changxu refined the spirit wine for fifteen days, doubling his physical strength and advancing his body to the early Golden Core stage while reaching great perfection of Foundation Establishment.
• Liu Changxu washed away the impurities expelled during his breakthrough and admired his transformed appearance before leaving seclusion.
• Yun'er and Jiao'er welcomed Liu Changxu, and he told them to keep training while Su Jinxiu watched their reunion with envy.

After reaching the great perfection of Foundation Establishment, Liu Changxu celebrated with his family before leaving to join the war against the Black Evil Sect. He assembled with his unit at Violet Glow Mountain, where Zhang Yuyan and Wang Jinhu would lead the cultivators to the battlefield.

• Liu Changxu thanked Su Jinxiu for guarding him, and she explained that her parents had already gone to the battlefield and that she would delay Core Formation until they returned.
• Liu Changxu invited Su Jinxiu to Xin Yue Tower and prepared a celebratory meal with her and his four wives, who rejoiced at his breakthrough.
• Su Jinxiu returned to her empty courtyard feeling lonely, while Liu Changxu spent the evening with his wives before the family bid him farewell.
• Liu Changxu traveled to the teleportation hall on Violet Glow Mountain and joined his assigned unit of thirty Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Liu Changxu greeted unit captain Zhang Yuyan and vice-captain Wang Jinhu, and Zhang Yuyan ordered him to take his place in formation.

Liu Changxu joined his expedition team, where Qin Yulian ordered him to follow her arrangements and Li Yungang greeted him as a friend. The team teleported to Tanzhou City and left the teleportation hall under Zhang Yuyan and Wang Jinhu's leadership.

• Liu Changxu joined his squad and greeted Qin Yulian, who told him to follow her orders and let her protect him on the battlefield.
• Li Yungang congratulated Liu Changxu, and the chapter revealed that he had arranged to join Qin Yulian's team to pursue her.
• Zhang Yuyan led her team to the Tanzhou City teleportation formation, and cultivators departed in groups.
• Liu Changxu, Qin Yulian, and Li Yungang teleported to Tanzhou City, where Liu Changxu and Li Yungang showed no discomfort.
• Zhang Yuyan and Wang Jinhu arrived, then led the team out of the teleportation hall and into the City Lord's Manor.

Tan Ming welcomed Zhang Yuyan, Wang Jinhu, Liu Changxu, and the Azure Cloud Sect reinforcements to Tanzhou City with a lavish banquet. Liu Changxu focused on sampling the spirit cuisine while his companions drank, and the feast left Li Yungang captivated by a tipsy Qin Yulian.

• Tan Ming greeted Zhang Yuyan, Wang Jinhu, Liu Changxu, and the arriving reinforcements, and told Zhang Yuyan that Wu Jiaxin and the Azure Lotus Island force had not yet arrived.
• Tan Ming escorted the guests to the City Lord's Manor, where he seated Zhang Yuyan and Wang Jinhu in a private room and the Foundation Establishment cultivators in another.
• The Foundation Establishment cultivators were served by beautiful maids, whose flirtatious attention made Qin Yulian and the other female cultivators uncomfortable.
• Liu Changxu ignored the revelry, drank with his companions, and studied the banquet's eighty-one spirit dishes.
• The other female cultivators joined Liu Changxu's lively table, and Qin Yulian blushed after drinking several cups of Icefire Wine.
• Li Yungang gazed at Qin Yulian, while Liu Changxu's body refinement let him drink Icefire Wine without feeling its effects.

Liu Changxu refused to let Tan Xin attend him freely but allowed her to stay in a side room, while reinforcements gathered for the northern campaign. The Azure Cloud Sect’s army crossed the Golden Cang River toward Anzhou, where it planned to attack the Black Evil Sect’s territory.

• Liu Changxu turned away Tan Xin, then let her stay in a side room after she pleaded that she would be punished if she did not serve a guest.
• Tan Xin and Liu Changxu coexisted peacefully as reinforcements arrived at the City Lord’s Manor in Tanzhou City.
• Tan Ming ordered the fifty-thousand-strong army to board fifteen Magical Treasure Flying Boats and depart north under the command of Golden Core cultivators.
• Liu Changxu learned that the Azure Cloud Sect planned to invade Anzhou and seize territory from the Zhao Kingdom while exploiting the Black Evil Sect’s weakened state.
• The Flying Boats crossed the Golden Cang River, whose Demon Beasts hid from the cultivators’ powerful auras, and continued north toward Anzhou.

The Azure Cloud Sect launched its assault on Anzhou City, where the Black Evil Sect’s defenders relied on a powerful defensive grand formation. Liu Changxu observed the clash and learned that Dugu Jinhui commanded the attack, but the city’s barrier quickly repaired the damage and remained difficult to break.

• The Black Evil Sect’s city lord mobilized Anzhou City’s cultivators and activated its defensive grand formation before the Azure Cloud Sect arrived.
• The Azure Cloud Sect’s fifteen Golden Core cultivators attacked the city’s barrier with enlarged magical treasures while the defenders countered with black spears.
• Liu Changxu watched the battle with his Seven-Colored Glazed Eyes and saw that Dugu Jinhui, rather than Tan Ming, commanded the assault.
• Dugu Jinhui’s giant flying sword shattered the black spears and tore a large opening in the barrier, but the formation soon repaired itself.
• A golden-armored body cultivator’s Golden Halberd punched another hole through the barrier, while most of the other attackers failed to break through the defenders’ interceptions.
• The Azure Cloud Sect’s attacks damaged the formation but did not destroy it, leaving the city’s defenses difficult to overcome without finding its formation disc or exhausting its energy.

Liu Changxu watched Azure Cloud Sect's Golden Core cultivators test Anzhou City's defensive grand formation and learned about their powerful treasures and reputations from Li Yungang. In the second assault, the cultivators coordinated their attacks, broke through the formation, and caused destruction inside the city.

• Huang Anming's Golden Mountain Seal battered Anzhou City's defensive grand formation, while Wu Jiaxin's Jade Lake Bottle opened a hole and sent water crashing into the city.
• Liu Changxu realized the gap between himself and the veteran Golden Core cultivators and recognized that he needed a third-tier treasure suited to his body-cultivation strength.
• Li Yungang introduced Du Rulong, Huang Anming, and Wu Jiaxin and described their origins, treasures, and reputations.
• Huang Anming struck first in the Azure Cloud Sect's second assault, drawing the formation's defenses toward the Golden Mountain Seal.
• Sima Jinhui's Seven-Star Sword and Du Rulong's Golden Halberd followed, breaking through the formation as the other Golden Core cultivators' attacks expanded the damage inside Anzhou City.

The Azure Cloud Sect’s first assault failed to break Anzhou City’s defenses, so its army withdrew and prepared to attack again. At a banquet, Liu Changxu learned that his fellow cultivators planned to plunder the city and destroy Black Evil Sect lineages; the next morning, the Azure Cloud Sect’s Golden Core cultivators shattered the city’s grand formation.

• Anzhou City’s formation repelled repeated attacks from the Azure Cloud Sect before Sima Jinhui withdrew the army to a nearby spirit vein and established a fortified camp.
• Li Yungang invited Liu Changxu and other Foundation Establishment cultivators to a banquet, where he urged them to plunder Anzhou City and target the Jiang Household.
• Liu Changxu was troubled by Li Yungang’s plans to destroy hostile lineages and enslave or exploit their survivors, while Qin Yulian recalled how atrocities against captured Azure Cloud Sect cultivators had changed her own views.
• The next morning, Wu Jiaxin’s Jade Lake Bottle and Huang Anming’s Golden Mountain Seal tore open Anzhou City’s defensive formation and devastated the cultivators beneath the breaches.
• Sima Jinhui unleashed the Seven-Star Sword Formation, destroying more formation discs as the Golden Halberd struck the City Lord’s Manor.
• The Azure Cloud Sect’s other Golden Core cultivators precisely destroyed additional formation discs, causing Anzhou City’s grand formation to collapse.

The Azure Cloud Sect broke through Anzhou City's defenses and defeated the Black Evil Sect's golden core cultivators. With the defenders fleeing and order collapsing, Anzhou City descended into chaos and violence.

• The Azure Cloud Sect's cultivators advanced after their Third-Tier Formation Masters helped destroy Anzhou City's protective Grand Formation.
• Sima Jinhui and the Azure Cloud Sect's golden core cultivators engaged the seven Black Evil Sect defenders, and Sima Jinhui quickly killed their golden core great perfection cultivator.
• The remaining Black Evil Sect golden core cultivators tried to flee and fight back, but the Azure Cloud Sect surrounded and killed all six.
• The Azure Cloud Sect's army reached Anzhou City's walls as defenders and members of the major Lineages fled with their valuables.
• With the Black Evil Sect's golden core cultivators gone, Anzhou City descended into chaos as Evil Cultivators looted, burned, and killed throughout the city.

Liu Changxu joined the Azure Cloud Sect's forces intercepting cultivators fleeing north from Anzhou City and killed a Foundation Establishment cultivator and the young Qi Refinement cultivators aboard his boat. He found Qin Yulian being driven back by two Great Perfection cultivators and rushed to help her.

• The Azure Cloud Sect split its army around Anzhou City, assigning Liu Changxu, Li Yungang, and Qin Yulian to intercept escapees on the northern side.
• Liu Changxu killed a fleeing Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivator with his Red Lotus Skyburning Swords, then slew the Qi Refinement cultivators who abandoned the man's flying boat.
• Liu Changxu collected the fallen cultivators' treasures and surveyed the chaotic battlefield while searching for Qin Yulian.
• Liu Changxu spotted Li Yungang fighting four Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivators, then found Qin Yulian and another sect cultivator struggling against two Great Perfection opponents.
• Liu Changxu flew toward Qin Yulian and launched six Red Lotus Skyburning Swords at the two vicious-faced cultivators as he called out that he was coming to help.

Liu Changxu rescued Qin Yulian and Bai Yujiao from two powerful enemies, then helped them find the gravely wounded Su Yue. The chapter ended with Su Yue alive but unconscious after Qin Yulian gave her a healing pill.

• Qin Yulian and Bai Yujiao struggled against two great-perfection Foundation Establishment cultivators after the enemies wounded Su Yue and drove the sisters into a trap.
• Liu Changxu arrived and killed both enemies with his six Red Lotus Skyburning Swords.
• Liu Changxu offered the captured top-grade spirit artifact swords to Qin Yulian and Bai Yujiao, who accepted them after he praised their efforts.
• Qin Yulian, Liu Changxu, and Bai Yujiao searched the forest and found Su Yue unconscious, hanging from a Spirit Tree.
• Qin Yulian lowered Su Yue from the tree and fed her a second-tier top-grade Wound-Healing Pill.

After helping Su Yue recover enough to travel, Liu Changxu left Qin Yulian and Bai Yujiao to escort her to the main camp and headed toward Anzhou City's northern gate. He intercepted a Black Evil Sect Flying Boat and became locked in a fierce battle with three Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

• Qin Yulian and Liu Changxu prepared a Spirit House so Qin Yulian could treat Su Yue's severe wounds while Liu Changxu guarded them.
• Qin Yulian and Bai Yujiao took the injured Su Yue back to the main camp, and Liu Changxu rode his Red Lotus Skyburning Sword toward Anzhou City.
• Liu Changxu spotted a Black Evil Sect Flying Boat and pursued it, attacking with three Flying Swords as its three Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment Cultivators moved to intercept him.
• Azure Cloud Sect and Black Evil Sect cultivators converged around the Flying Boat, turning the encounter into a major aerial battle.
• Liu Changxu fought the three Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment Cultivators with his three Red Lotus Flying Swords, and neither side could break the deadlock.

Liu Changxu helped the Azure Cloud Sect overwhelm the Black Evil Sect’s forces and slaughtered cultivators fleeing Anzhou City. After the sect occupied the city, he headed with Li Yungang and the others toward the Jiang Household estate.

• The three Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment Cultivators escaped Liu Changxu using third-tier Void-Escaping Talismans after the Black Evil Sect’s Golden Core cultivators had fallen.
• Liu Changxu activated a Golden Armor Talisman and used his six Red Lotus Skyburning Swords to kill eleven Foundation Establishment Cultivators fleeing north from Anzhou City.
• Liu Changxu collected the Storage Bags and spirit artifacts of his victims as the interception battle ended.
• Sima Jinhui ordered the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators to stop pursuing and enter Anzhou City, where they took control without resistance.
• Liu Changxu traveled with Li Yungang and the others toward the Jiang Household estate, and Li Yungang treated him with greater deference.

After the Jiang Household fled, Liu Changxu and Li Yungang found the estate nearly empty, then settled in and took stock of the spoils they had seized in battle. The Azure Cloud Sect repaired Anzhou City’s defenses, and the chapter ended with the city secured and its cultivators resting.

• Liu Changxu, Li Yungang, and their companions broke through the Jiang Estate’s formation and found its cultivators gone and its valuable spirit plants removed.
• Liu Changxu and Li Yungang compared their gains: Li Yungang had killed six fleeing foundation establishment cultivators, while Liu Changxu had slain fourteen.
• Liu Changxu hosted a spirit-cuisine banquet in the Autumn Moon Tower, then catalogued his many spoils, including three Foundation Establishment Pills.
• The Azure Cloud Sect organized Anzhou City’s cleanup and defense repairs, with Liu Changxu discovering that Wu Jiaxin was a third-tier formation master.
• The Azure Cloud Sect repaired the city-defense formation and cleared the city and its surroundings within seven days, then rested in Anzhou City.