Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu instructed Liu Fuyue on rewarding the allies who helped seize Sun Moon Island and announced that the island and mountain would be renamed Peach Blossom Island and Peach Blossom Mountain. He postponed choosing a city site and decided to prioritize protecting Spirit Crane Peak with a fourth-tier formation before the Liu Household built a city.

• Liu Changxu told Liu Fuyue to finish processing the slain Blue-Feathered Cranes and fairly reward and settle the cultivators who fought alongside the Liu Household.
• Liu Changxu ordered Sun Moon Island and Sun Moon Mountain renamed Peach Blossom Island and Peach Blossom Mountain, and directed that the lineage emblem and identity tokens be changed.
• Liu Fuyue proposed building a city near the current camp, but Liu Changxu said the site and timing required more thought despite the promise of land to allied lineages.
• Three days later, Liu Changxu chose the Evergreen Water-Wood Formation to protect Spirit Crane Peak and reserved the Azure Sea Upheaval Formation for the Liu Household’s first immortal city.

The Liu Household settled cultivators and began organizing its new territory on Peach Blossom Island. Liu Fuyue presided over the Southern Sea Liu Lineage’s first full clan assembly, where members began discussing the lineage’s halls and responsibilities.

• Liu Changxu and the Liu Household surveyed Peach Blossom Island and decided to build New Peach City for cultivators from other lineages and the Peach Garden Guards.
• The Liu Lineage reserved the best plots in New Peach City for its members, while Liu Changxu distributed cultivation resources and prepared supplies to help them settle.
• Li Zhenxin worked on the protective formations for Peach Blossom Mountain and New Peach City as the Liu Household developed its territory.
• In the fourth month of year 3248, Liu Changxu gathered the clan members for the first full assembly of the Southern Sea’s Peach Blossom Mountain Liu Lineage.
• Liu Fuyue presided over the assembly, announced that it would establish the lineage’s halls and assign responsibilities, and began discussion of their organization and staffing.

The Liu Household finalized its governing structure and assigned leaders to its halls, then began developing Peach Blossom Island. Construction of New Peach City and the clan grounds got underway under Liu Fuyang and Liu Fuyue, with Liu Changxu lending his power to the work.

• Liu Changxu let Liu Fuyue lead the assembly and watched as the lineage settled its governing structure and hall appointments.
• Liu Fuyue remained Clan Head, while the Liu Household’s elders and younger members took charge of the lineage’s councils, halls, and treasury.
• Liu Changxu planned to hand the Artifact Refining Hall to Liu Zeqian after he established Foundation Establishment.
• After the assembly, more than a thousand cultivators began building their new home on Peach Blossom Island.
• Liu Fuyang oversaw construction of New Peach City with the Peach Garden Guard and cultivators from other lineages, while Liu Fuyue led work on the clan grounds.
• Liu Changxu joined the construction effort and used his Nascent Soul abilities to handle difficult tasks.

After three years of construction, Peach Blossom Island’s New Peach City and the Liu Household’s ancestral grounds were largely established under the protection of Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue. The Azure Cloud Sect’s mining team finished extracting the island’s large spirit gold and spirit jade vein, leaving the Liu Household wealthy and Liu Changxu with materials to upgrade his and Yang Qingxue’s treasures.

• Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue repelled two small-scale beast tides, deterring the fourth-tier Demon Kings that had instigated them.
• The Liu Household and allied cultivators completed New Peach City’s main defenses and facilities, attracting settlers, traders, and seagoing vessels.
• The Liu Household completed its key lineage buildings on Peach Blossom Mountain and activated the fourth-tier middle-grade Everlasting Water-Wood Formation around the ancestral grounds.
• The Azure Cloud Sect dispatched Li Yuping and a mining team to work Peach Blossom Mountain’s spirit gold and spirit jade vein alongside the Liu Household.
• The Azure Cloud Sect’s team mined the entire vein in half a year and took its allotted share back to the sect.
• The Liu Household received spirit gold and spirit jade worth several billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones, including fourth-tier materials Liu Changxu could use to upgrade his and Yang Qingxue’s Life-Bound Magical Treasures.

Liu Fuyue raised the Liu Household’s population problem, and Liu Changxu proposed generous marriage and childbirth rewards alongside strict controls on outsiders settling on Peach Blossom Island. Liu Fuyue then suggested making New Peach City residence tokens free for female cultivators, and Liu Changxu approved the plan.

• Liu Fuyue argued that the Liu Household’s population was growing too slowly compared with the influx of outsiders and called for changes to marriage and childbearing policies.
• Liu Changxu proposed rewards for marriages and children, including additional rewards for children with spiritual roots, and encouraged outside cultivators to marry into the Liu Household.
• Liu Changxu proposed restricting outsiders to New Peach City and requiring cultivators to obtain residence tokens after screening and registration.
• The elders agreed to Liu Changxu’s proposals, though some worried that the generous rewards might weaken the lineage’s cultivation and combat strength.
• Liu Fuyue noted the shortage of unmarried women and suggested charging outsiders for residence tokens while letting female cultivators obtain them for free; Liu Changxu approved.

Liu Changxu reassured his wives that he would take no other wives or concubines, then cultivated and tended the spirit fields on Spirit Crane Peak. The chapter ended with him promising to take his spirit beasts into the deep sea to hunt high-tier sea monsters.

• After Liu Changxu introduced the childbirth incentive policy, clan members grew eager to have more children, while Yang Qingxue and Su Jinxiu worried he might take more wives or concubines.
• Liu Changxu promised Su Jinxiu, Yang Qingxue, Qin Yulian, and Li Zhenxin that he would not marry again, and the women were relieved.
• Three days later, Liu Changxu meditated beside the Snow-Moon Tea Tree on Spirit Crane Peak while his wives and companions cultivated nearby.
• Liu Changxu inspected and tended the fourth-tier spirit fields, watering and fertilizing the spirit rice and rare medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Qing, Little Blue, Xiao Jin, and Xiao Yun joined Liu Changxu after their patrol, and he promised to take the spirit beasts to hunt high-tier sea monsters for food.

After all of Liu Changxu’s wives became pregnant, he devoted himself to preparing spirit cuisine to improve their unborn children’s aptitude. When they craved Dragon Star Grouper, he rode Little Blue into the Deep Sea and returned with three fish.

• Six months later, Liu Changxu’s wives, including Yang Qingxue, became pregnant, and he began making spirit cuisine for their unborn children.
• Zhu'er, Liu Fufei, and Liu Fupeng returned from the Lineage School, and Liu Changxu prepared the dishes they requested.
• Su Jinxiu asked Liu Changxu to make steamed Dragon Star Grouper, and his other wives eagerly agreed.
• Liu Changxu flew out on Little Blue to search the Deep Sea for Dragon Star Grouper.
• Liu Changxu and Little Blue caught one third-tier supreme-grade Dragon Star Grouper and two second-tier top-grade Dragon Star Groupers, then headed back toward Peach Blossom Island.

After fifteen years of secluded artifact refining, Liu Changxu emerged with powerful upgraded treasures and a greatly expanded Ruyi Lotus Palace, which he hoped could carry his lineage to safety and eventually travel through the stars. A beautiful young girl appeared before him and asked whether he was her father.

• In 3253, Liu Changxu's wives and concubines bore him eleven children, bringing his family responsibilities to new heights.
• Liu Changxu spent fifteen years reforging his and Yang Qingxue's magical treasures to fourth-tier high-grade and crafting the Space-Sealing Mirror.
• He expanded the Ruyi Lotus Palace's interior to three thousand mu and divided it into residential, spirit beast, spirit field, fruit and wood, medicinal herb, and lotus pond areas.
• The upgraded Ruyi Lotus Palace gained great speed and the ability to briefly teleport, while Liu Changxu considered using it to protect his lineage and explore the starry sky.
• A breathtakingly beautiful young girl appeared before Liu Changxu and asked, "Are you my father?"

After fifteen years in seclusion, Liu Changxu reunited with his wives and children and tried to make up for missing their childhoods. He showed them the reforged Ruyi Lotus Palace and gave his children protective bloodline treasures, leaving them delighted and closer to him.

• Liu Changxu emerged from seclusion and felt guilty when he met Liu Fuhong and realized how much of his children's lives he had missed.
• Yang Qingxue calmed the resentful women, and Liu Changxu took his family into the reforged Ruyi Lotus Palace.
• Liu Changxu gave Liu Fuzhu a powerful bloodline Storage Bracelet, which she bound with essence blood.
• Liu Changxu learned that Liu Fufei and Liu Fupeng had gone demon hunting with the clansmen.
• Liu Changxu gave his other children protective jade pendants and promised them Storage Bracelets when they reached Foundation Establishment.

After emerging from seclusion, Liu Changxu reunited with his family and learned that several relatives urgently needed Golden Core Formation Pills. He later heard how the Southern Sea Liu Lineage had grown during his absence and considered the problem of outside cultivators settling across Peach Blossom Island.

• Liu Changxu shared a banquet with his family, admired Lian'er's skills and cultivation, and realized that Lian'er, Zhang Wenjun, Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, Dongxue, and Liu Fuyue needed Golden Core Formation Pills.
• Liu Changxu showed his wives and concubines the luxurious jade bed in Ruyi Residence, and he spent several days with them.
• Liu Fuyue met Liu Changxu on Spirit Crane Peak and reported that the Southern Sea Liu Lineage had grown to more than twelve hundred people, including over three hundred and eighty cultivators.
• Liu Fuyue told Liu Changxu that New Peach City had grown to more than thirty thousand residents and that at least ten thousand outside cultivators had spread across Peach Blossom Island.
• Liu Changxu concluded that he could not simply kill the outside cultivators living on the island and left the matter for later.

Liu Changxu spent three months rebuilding his relationships with his children and guiding their cultivation. He then took his family from Peach Blossom Island to Cape City to seek medicinal herbs for Golden Core Formation Pills, where Yang Yu welcomed them at the Azure Cloud Pavilion.

• Liu Changxu guided his children by day and grew closer to his wives and concubines at night, and after three months his children had accepted him as their father.
• Liu Changxu learned each child's talents and shortcomings and tailored his cultivation advice, including encouraging Liu Fuba to study artifact refining.
• In the second month of 3269, Liu Changxu took Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, the other women, and his children and grandchildren aboard the Ruyi Lotus Palace to seek herbs or pills for Golden Core Formation.
• Liu Changxu brought his family into Cape City, where the Nascent Soul cultivators and passersby noticed them, and he led them to the Azure Cloud Pavilion.
• Yang Yu welcomed Liu Changxu at the pavilion and ushered him and his family into a spacious room after he said he wanted to buy spirit medicinal herbs.

Liu Changxu bought pill-refining ingredients in Cape City and agreed to join Zhang Yufeng’s group in hunting fourth-tier sea monsters. After returning his family to Peach Blossom Island and preparing two demon beasts for the expedition, he finally set out to sea.

• Liu Changxu bought three sets of Golden Core Formation Pill auxiliary ingredients from Yang Yu and asked about fourth-tier spirit treasures, which the Azure Cloud Pavilion could not sell to him.
• Zhang Yufeng invited Liu Changxu to join a group of Nascent Soul cultivators hunting fourth-tier sea monsters, and Liu Changxu accepted.
• Liu Changxu took his wives and children back to Peach Blossom Island aboard the Ruyi Lotus Palace, refusing Su Jinxiu’s request to bring them on the hunt.
• Liu Changxu chose Little Blue the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon and Xiao Yun the Azure Cloud Eagle to accompany him, while leaving his other demon beasts behind.
• After spending several days with his family, Liu Changxu departed aboard the Ruyi Lotus Palace with Little Blue and Xiao Yun.

Liu Changxu bought the Elegant Abode in Cape City and prepared to join Zhang Yufeng’s demon-hunting expedition. After meeting the team’s leader, Li Yuanqing, Liu Changxu realized the hunt for Black-Shell Turtles might be motivated by their life-extending demonic nascent souls.

• Liu Changxu met Zhang Yufeng, who said their six-person team would hunt three fourth-tier Black-Shell Turtles and divide the spoils by contribution.
• Liu Changxu asked about manors for sale and bought the third-tier Elegant Abode for three hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Liu Changxu appointed Xinyue and Minyue to manage the manor and planned to send his daughter and her husband to oversee it and establish a Peach Blossom Pavilion branch.
• Liu Changxu gathered at Zhang Yufeng’s residence, met the other team members, and learned that Li Yuanqing was an elderly Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.
• Liu Changxu realized that the Black-Shell Turtles’ demonic nascent souls could be used to refine Fourth-Tier Longevity-Extending Pills.

Liu Changxu and five fellow cultivators traveled to the Golden Turtle Archipelago to hunt Black-Shell Turtles, but discovered five fourth-tier turtles instead of the number they expected. Liu Changxu opened the battle with his Twelve Red Lotus Skyburning Swords and faced a Black-Shell Turtle’s counterattack.

• Li Yuanqing, Hu Lian, Lin Hu, Feng Yue, Zhang Yufeng, and Liu Changxu agreed on the hunt and its spoils before setting out on Li Yuanqing’s Firecloud Boat.
• Liu Changxu spotted a flock of Thunder Spirit Sparrows, and Li Yuanqing steered the group around them; the two also detected a pod of Sea-Flipping Whales and avoided a fight.
• After three days of travel, the group approached the Golden Turtle Archipelago on foot, but the Black-Shell Turtles detected them and stirred the sea into a dangerous whirlpool.
• Liu Changxu and the others rose into the sky as five fourth-tier Black-Shell Turtles emerged, including two middle-grade turtles, more than Zhang Yufeng’s information had indicated.
• Liu Changxu attacked a fourth-tier low-grade Black-Shell Turtle with his Twelve Red Lotus Skyburning Swords while Li Yuanqing, Zhang Yufeng, Hu Lian, and the others engaged the remaining turtles.
• The Black-Shell Turtle countered Liu Changxu’s swords with a Black Water Dragon and surging waves.

Liu Changxu slew a fourth-tier low-grade Black-Shell Turtle and helped Zhang Yufeng drive off a stronger one, though it escaped into the deep sea. The group then reached Mystic Turtle Island and discovered a rich high-grade spirit gold vein.

• Liu Changxu killed a fourth-tier low-grade Black-Shell Turtle with his Red Lotus Flying Swords and captured its demon nascent soul.
• Liu Changxu and Zhang Yufeng injured a fourth-tier middle-grade Black-Shell Turtle with their magical treasures, but it escaped into the deep sea.
• Li Yuanqing and the others finished killing another fourth-tier low-grade Black-Shell Turtle and divided its corpse, with Li Yuanqing taking its demon nascent soul.
• Liu Changxu, Zhang Yufeng, Li Yuanqing, and their companions flew to Mystic Turtle Island to search for resources.
• Liu Changxu and the others discovered that Mystic Turtle Island contained a large high-grade spirit gold vein.

Liu Changxu and five fellow cultivators explored Mystic Turtle Island, gathered valuable spirit treasures, and spent two months mining its spirit gold vein. The chapter ended when Liu Changxu sensed danger and spotted a group of Demon Kings approaching the island.

• The six cultivators found a fourth-tier middle-grade golden apple tree and divided its Golden Apples, then agreed to give the tree to the Sect.
• Liu Changxu bought a fourth-tier golden ginseng, and the group divided valuable gold sandalwood and gathered other spirit plants.
• The six divided the spirit gold vein into mining territories according to their cultivation, and Liu Changxu used Mining Puppets and Little Blue to work his allotted area.
• Liu Changxu established four mining sites and began finding increasingly valuable ore, including a piece of fourth-tier middle-grade black gold after five days.
• Two months later, Liu Changxu sensed danger, summoned Little Blue and Xiao Yun, and saw more than a dozen fourth-tier Demon Kings approaching with colossal creatures in the surrounding waters.

Liu Changxu and his companions fled as a group of fourth-tier Demon Kings attacked their mining sites, and he escaped pursuit by hiding the Ruyi Lotus Palace inside a fish. On his way back to Peach Blossom Island, he spotted a lone fourth-tier low-grade Golden-Tusked Walrus and stealthily approached its island.

• Liu Changxu warned Li Yuanqing and the others, collected Little Blue, Xiao Yun, and the Mining Puppets, and the six scattered to flee the Demon Kings.
• Three Demon Kings pursued Liu Changxu, so he poured spirit stones into the Ruyi Lotus Palace to outrun them before hiding it inside a fish.
• After the Demon Kings gave up, Liu Changxu rested, counted his valuable spirit gold haul, and considered refining a halberd-type Magical Treasure.
• Three days later, Liu Changxu emerged from the fish, set course for Peach Blossom Island, and evaded a fourth-tier high-grade Blue Sea Flood Dragon.
• Liu Changxu spotted a lone fourth-tier low-grade Golden-Tusked Walrus on an island, checked the surrounding waters, and approached underwater in the Ruyi Lotus Palace.

Liu Changxu hunted down a Golden-Tusked Walrus, then searched the surrounding waters and found a fourth-tier spirit vein and a Seven-Star Clam. After killing the clam and obtaining its Seven-Star Pearl, he continued exploring the sea to uncover why two fourth-tier Demon Kings lived there.

• Liu Changxu killed the Golden-Tusked Walrus with his Red Lotus Skyburning Swords, captured its demon nascent soul, and let Little Blue and Xiao Yun feast on its corpse.
• Liu Changxu searched the island and surrounding seabed, discovering a fourth-tier low-grade spirit vein beneath an underwater mountain range.
• Liu Changxu found a concealed fourth-tier low-grade Seven-Star Clam and fought it for four hours before killing it and capturing its demon nascent soul.
• Liu Changxu found a Seven-Star Pearl inside the clam and decided to refine it into the Ruyi Lotus Palace to grant it illusion and invisibility abilities.
• Liu Changxu finished processing the clam's remains and returned underwater to search for the secrets of the region.

Liu Changxu discovered and spent months mining a vast spirit stone vein, then returned safely to Peach Blossom Island with an enormous haul. He reunited with his family and celebrated with the Liu Household, while keeping the scale of his gains secret.

• Liu Changxu found a spirit stone vein near the seabed where he had fought the seven-star clam and began mining it with puppets and his companions.
• Liu Changxu uncovered a human-head-sized water-attribute supreme-grade spirit stone on the sixth day, confirming the vein was large.
• Liu Changxu finished mining the vein in January of year 3270 of the Great Tang Calendar, collecting 636,000,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones, 5,200,000 middle-grade spirit stones, 70,000 high-grade spirit stones, and eighty-two supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Liu Changxu rested in the Ruyi Lotus Palace and returned to Spirit Crane Peak on Peach Blossom Island after five days of travel.
• Yang Qingxue told Liu Changxu that Zhang Yufeng had visited from Cape City and that she had handled him as instructed.
• Liu Changxu reunited with his children and hosted a lavish banquet for more than two hundred and sixty Liu Household Members, keeping his enormous mining haul to himself.

Liu Changxu returned from his demon-hunting expedition, shared news of his haul with his family, and spent two months refining Golden Core Formation Pills. He gave Lian'er the superior-quality pill and promised to prepare her for a safe breakthrough before raising her to secondary wife.

• Liu Changxu told his family he had harvested thirty million low-grade spirit stones and slain three fourth-tier sea monsters, then revealed he had captured their demon nascent souls for refining Golden Core Formation Pills.
• Liu Changxu spent a month guiding his children’s cultivation and keeping his wives company before entering the Alchemy Room with Lian'er to refine pills.
• Liu Changxu failed at first, then bought more supplementary herbs in Cape City and refined twenty-one Golden Core Formation Pills over two months.
• Liu Changxu gave Lian'er the superior-quality Golden Core Formation Pill and told her to wait until he had prepared spirit treasures and defensive spirit artifacts for her breakthrough.
• Liu Changxu promised to make Lian'er his secondary wife once she formed her golden core, and she embraced him, overwhelmed with emotion.