Chapter Summaries

After successfully refining enough Golden Core Formation Pills, Liu Changxu gave pills to his wives and established rules for lineage members to obtain more. He left the Liu Household with clearer access to core-formation resources, while reserving his strongest support for his direct descendants.

• Liu Changxu reassured Zhang Wenjun, Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue that he had refined enough Golden Core Formation Pills for all of them, then gave each a fine-grade pill.
• Liu Changxu told his children that the pills would be placed in the Household Treasury and exchanged for contribution points, and promised to cover the full cost of his own daughters’ pills but only half the cost for their family members.
• Liu Changxu announced at a lineage meeting that any Liu Household member who reached the great perfection of Foundation Establishment before age one hundred and twenty could exchange for a Golden Core Formation Pill.
• Liu Fuyue, Liu Fuchao, Liu Fuyang, and Xu Yin exchanged for pills; Liu Changxu gave his sons fine-grade pills and Xu Yin a standard-grade pill, while reserving another fine-grade pill for Liu Futing.

Lian'er and Zhang Wenjun entered seclusion to attempt Golden Core breakthroughs, and Lian'er succeeded with a high-grade Golden Core. Zhang Wenjun failed to withstand her more powerful tribulation and died, leaving Liu Changxu grieving.

• Liu Changxu gave Lian'er and Zhang Wenjun protective treasures before they entered seclusion on the Liu Household's Ascension Platforms.
• Lian'er successfully endured her tribulation, formed a high-grade Golden Core, and later entered seclusion to consolidate her cultivation.
• Liu Changxu arranged for Liu Fuyue and Xu Yin to attempt Golden Core breakthroughs next and personally guarded Zhang Wenjun's Ascension Platform.
• Zhang Wenjun's tribulation destroyed the platform's defensive formation, and she failed to activate her Golden Armor Talisman in time.
• The eighth lightning bolt struck Zhang Wenjun, leaving only a charred corpse and bringing Liu Changxu to tears.

Liu Changxu mourned Zhang Wenjun and Xiazhu, then trained his family to face core formation tribulations after recognizing that fear had contributed to their deaths. Between 3273 and 3280, ten members of the Liu Lineage formed golden cores, including Dongxue, who awakened the Ice Soul Spirit Body, and the lineage’s fame spread throughout the Southern Sea.

• Liu Changxu buried Zhang Wenjun in the lineage cemetery and later supplied Liu Fuyue and Xu Yin with treasures before their core formation seclusions.
• Liu Fuyue and Xu Yin formed golden cores, followed by Chunlan, while Xiazhu died beneath her ninth tribulation bolt.
• After Xiazhu’s death, Liu Changxu took his family demon hunting and trained them under simulated tribulation lightning to strengthen their resolve.
• Qiuyue and Dongxue formed golden cores in 3277, and Liu Changxu discovered that Dongxue had awakened the Ice Soul Spirit Body.
• Liu Fuchao and Liu Fuyang formed middle-grade golden cores in 3278, while Liu Futing and Wu Xian'er formed cores in 3280.
• Ten new golden core true persons joined the Liu Lineage between 3270 and 3280, increasing its strength and spreading its fame across the Southern Sea.

After Liu Changxu arranged his new secondary wives, he convened the Liu Household to plan New Peach City’s development and reform its outdated institutions. The clan finalized a new hierarchy and assigned its growing number of cultivators to councils and specialized halls.

• Liu Changxu made Lian'er, Chunlan, Qiuyue, and Dongxue his secondary wives at a low-key banquet, and he and Liu Fuyue decided against holding more Golden Core Celebrations.
• Liu Fuyue reported the Liu Household’s growing population and proposed institutional reforms at a clan meeting attended by its senior cultivators.
• Liu Fuba challenged Liu Fuyue’s proposals, but Su Jinxiu privately urged her son to rein himself in, and the Foundation Establishment cultivators finalized the reforms.
• Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue became the only Grand Supreme Elders, while Liu Fuyue remained Clan Head and the Golden Core cultivators formed the Household Elders’ Council under Su Jinxiu.
• The Liu Household established specialized halls for administration, cultivation, defense, the hundred arts, commerce, intelligence, and treasury management, assigning its senior cultivators to lead them.

After settling the Liu Household’s new assignments and beginning construction in New Peach City, Liu Changxu rested with his wives, prepared Seven-Star Ginseng Clam Soup, and forged his life-bound Heaven-Flipping Sea-Splitting Halberd. The halberd was completed two years later, giving him a powerful weapon for facing heavily armored sea monsters.

• Liu Fuyue put the Liu Household’s new organizational structure into effect, while Liu Fuchao oversaw construction in New Peach City.
• Liu Changxu spent more than a year cultivating and practicing dual cultivation with his wives before preparing Seven-Star Ginseng Clam Soup with Yang Qingxue and the others.
• Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue drank much of the soup, refined its medicinal power in seclusion, and then used seven days of dual cultivation to dispel its lingering heat and advance his cultivation.
• Liu Changxu began forging his life-bound Heaven-Flipping Sea-Splitting Halberd, using the fourth-tier spirit gold he had acquired while hunting sea monsters.
• In September of 3283 of the Great Tang Calendar, Liu Changxu completed the halberd, which could grow to three thousand zhang long and weigh one million three hundred thousand jin when activated.

After finishing the Heaven-Flipping Sea-Splitting Halberd, Liu Changxu reunited with his family and named his youngest son Liu Qi. When Little Blue reported a herd of Golden-Horned Sea Oxen nearby, Liu Changxu gathered his family to confront them and test his new weapon.

• Liu Changxu refined the Heaven-Flipping Sea-Splitting Halberd and reunited with Su Jinxiu and their infant son.
• Liu Changxu named his seventeenth son Liu Qi, learned about changes in the lineage, and planned to return home in a year.
• Liu Changxu played with Liu Qi on the beach until Little Blue arrived with news of Golden-Horned Sea Oxen, including two fourth-tier beasts.
• Liu Changxu summoned his family, left Su Jinxiu behind to guard the city with Xin'er, and flew with the others toward the sea oxen.

Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue intercepted a herd of Golden-Horned Sea Oxen threatening Peach Blossom Island and defeated its two fourth-tier leaders. With the danger contained, Qin Yulian and the other Liu Household cultivators pursued the remaining herd.

• Liu Changxu and the others encountered the Golden-Horned Sea Oxen less than fifteen thousand li from Peach Blossom Island, and Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue went to confront the two fourth-tier leaders while Qin Yulian led the others away.
• The two Golden-Horned Sea Oxen used their Soul-Quelling Roar against Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue, but Liu Changxu attacked with his Red Lotus Skyburning Swords.
• Liu Changxu killed one fourth-tier Golden-Horned Sea Ox and captured its demon nascent soul, then pursued and killed the gravely wounded leader with the Heaven-Flipping Sea-Splitting Halberd and captured its nascent soul.
• Liu Changxu agreed to help Yang Qingxue refine two life-bound magical treasures after he returned home, and the couple stored the sea oxen's corpses.
• Qin Yulian led the Liu Household cultivators after the remaining sea oxen, and Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue secretly helped them kill and capture several.

After refining twenty-nine Golden Core Formation Pills, Liu Changxu divided some between the Household Treasury and his relatives, then gathered his Peach Blossom Mountain family for a meal. He planned to remain on Peach Blossom Island until Little Blue passed its impending tribulation and identified promising descendants to nurture.

• Liu Changxu gave Little Blue a fourth-tier low-grade Golden-Horned Sea Ox nascent soul, then fed the returning spirit beasts some of the ox’s meat.
• Liu Changxu’s victory over two fourth-tier sea monsters brought more cultivators and lineages to settle in New Peach City.
• Liu Changxu refined twenty-nine Golden Core Formation Pills from five batches and decided to give ten to Yang Qingxue for the Household Treasury while reserving the rest for his relatives.
• Liu Changxu told Wu Yunyue he would wait for Little Blue to undergo its tribulation before returning home, then handed the ten pills to Yang Qingxue.
• Liu Changxu hosted a meal for more than three hundred family members, observing his descendants and discovering promising youths Liu Xiangli and Liu Xiangyong.

In 3285, Little Blue survived his advancement tribulation, took human form as the fourth-tier Demon King Liu Changlan, and was welcomed into the Liu Lineage. Liu Changxu then began preparing to return home with his Southern Sea-born children and wives, while arranging to bring back local spirit treasures.

• Qin Yulian gave birth to Liu Changxu’s eighteenth son, Liu Cheng, and Dongxue gave birth to his eleventh daughter, Liu Bing.
• Little Blue endured all twenty-seven lightning bolts with help from Liu Changxu’s formation and elixir, then advanced to become a fourth-tier Demon King and took human form.
• Liu Changxu named Little Blue Liu Changlan, welcomed him as a brother, and Yang Qingxue and the Liu Household accepted him into the family.
• Liu Changxu held an induction ceremony for Liu Changlan, celebrated with a banquet, and gave him an island in Sun-Moon Lake as his cultivation grounds.
• Liu Changxu prepared for his return home by arranging to purchase Southern Sea spirit treasures and planning to take his Southern Sea-born children and all his wives except Yang Qingxue.

Liu Changxu returned to Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters and reunited with his family, learning that the Liu Household had survived a devastating beast tide. A granddaughter’s question revealed Zhang Wenjun and Xiazhu had died during tribulations, and Liu Changxu grew anxious upon hearing that Liu Fuqi was preparing to form her Core without his help.

• Liu Changxu returned to Jade Green Peak and heard from Chu Ming that a massive beast tide had devastated much of the Liu Household’s territory, though few of its people had died.
• Liu Fujiao asked to return to the Southern Sea with Liu Changxu, and he agreed before hosting a reunion banquet for his family.
• Liu Changxu welcomed his children and descendants, gave gifts, and shared a joyful reunion with them.
• Jiang Que’er asked why her grandmother Zhang Wenjun had not returned, prompting Liu Changxu to reveal that Zhang Wenjun and Xiazhu had perished during their tribulations.
• Liu Fujiao told Liu Changxu that Liu Fuqi had obtained a Golden Core Formation Pill from the Jiang Household and had been preparing for Core Formation in seclusion for over a year.
• Liu Changxu urgently asked where Liu Fuqi was undergoing seclusion and her tribulation, but waited until morning to find out.

Liu Changxu gave Liu Fujiao and Liu Fufeng Golden Core Formation Pills and tribulation treasures, then traveled with Jiang Que'er to find Liu Fuqi. He learned upon reaching the Jiang Household that Liu Fuqi had died beneath the tribulation lightning.

• Liu Changxu gave Liu Fujiao and Liu Fufeng Golden Core Formation Pills and prepared treasures for their tribulations, while telling them to have their partners exchange something for pills.
• Liu Changxu comforted Jiang Que'er after she learned Liu Fuqi's mother had died, then asked her to lead him to Liu Fuqi's secluded location.
• Liu Changxu took Jiang Que'er on the Azure Cloud Eagle to the Jiang Household and gave her a Blue-Feathered Crane egg.
• Liu Changxu arrived at Golden Rooster Ridge and learned Liu Fuqi had perished beneath the tribulation lightning two days earlier.

After Liu Fuqi’s death, Liu Changxu arranged for Jiang Que’er to become Jiang Yufei’s disciple and brought her along as he returned to visit his family and allies. He finally arrived at Hundred Blossoms Mountain, where the Liu Household welcomed him with a grand celebration.

• Jiang Changchun brought Liu Changxu to see Liu Fuqi’s remains, and Liu Changxu grieved over his daughter’s death.
• At Liu Fuqi’s funeral, Liu Changxu proposed taking Jiang Que’er with him, but Jiang Yufei offered to take her as a disciple instead.
• Jiang Que’er formally became Jiang Yufei’s disciple and asked to visit Hundred Blossoms Mountain and Red Lotus Island with Liu Changxu.
• Liu Changxu returned to the Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters with his family, visited Jiang Yuqing and other acquaintances, then traveled to Violet Glow Mountain to see Liu Fuyi and Wu Yunyue.
• Liu Changxu took his family aboard the Ruyi Lotus Palace to Hundred Blossoms Mountain, where more than a thousand Liu Household cultivators welcomed him with music and dancing.

Liu Changxu returned to the Liu Household and realized how deeply he still cared for the lineage he had once considered a burden. After reuniting with his relatives and noticing the promise of Liu Zefang, he followed Liu Changyan to visit their parents.

• Liu Changxu emerged from the Ruyi Lotus Palace and was warmly welcomed by the Liu Household, whose members revered him after the beast tide devastated nearby lineages.
• Liu Changshun embraced Liu Changxu and introduced him to promising younger members of the lineage.
• Liu Changxu took note of Liu Zefang's talent as a sword cultivator but was displeased by his arrogance.
• Liu Changxu spoke with Liu Changyan, learned their parents were waiting at home, and went with his family to see them.

Liu Changxu reunited with his parents and extended family after decades away, then shared ten Golden Core Formation Pills he had refined with the Liu Household. He gave superior-quality pills to Liu Changxue and Liu Changyan and a good-quality pill for Liu Changling, leaving his siblings with renewed hopes of core formation.

• Liu Changxu returned to the Liu Household, reunited with Liu Shihao and Lin Yulian, and told them his family had established a foothold in the Southern Sea.
• Liu Changxu and his parents mourned relatives who had died during his absence, then introduced their many children and descendants to one another.
• Liu Changxu learned that Liu Changxue, Liu Changling, Liu Changqin, and Liu Changyan had promising prospects for core formation.
• The Liu Household held a banquet to celebrate Liu Changxu and his family's return.
• Liu Changxu gave ten self-refined Golden Core Formation Pills to the lineage, including superior-quality pills for Liu Changxue and Liu Changyan and a good-quality pill for Liu Changling.

Liu Changxu reunited with his family and descendants on Hundred Blossoms Mountain, observing the younger generation and considering how to keep the Southern Sea and Peach Blossom Mountain branches connected. The chapter ended with Liu Shihao announcing three Golden Core Formation Pills to the Liu Household elders, exciting three young Foundation Establishment cultivators eligible to compete for them.

• Liu Changxu returned to his residence with his family, reunited with Liu Zelin, and brought everyone into the Ruyi Lotus Palace for the night.
• Liu Changxu invited the cultivators among his descendants on Hundred Blossoms Mountain to a family feast and secretly assessed their abilities, identifying several with Golden Core potential.
• Liu Changxu hosted 183 cultivated descendants, including nine Foundation Establishment cultivators, and decided to take promising juniors back to the Southern Sea for focused training.
• Liu Changxu considered the growing distance between the Southern Sea and Peach Blossom Mountain branches and concluded that they needed a system of regular exchanges.
• Liu Shihao announced at a meeting of the Liu Household elders that Liu Changxu had brought three Golden Core Formation Pills, thrilling three qualified young cultivators.

Liu Changxu’s family and the Liu Lineage’s chosen cultivators entered seclusion to form Golden Cores, while he prepared artifacts and refused visitors. By year’s end, eight succeeded and four died during their tribulations, greatly raising the Liu Household’s prestige.

• Liu Changxu’s relatives and the three recipients of Golden Core Formation Pills entered secluded cultivation, while his family members and parents guarded them.
• Liu Changxu began refining life-bound magical treasures and declined visitors as surrounding Lineages sought Golden Core Formation Pills.
• Liu Fujiao and Liu Changyan survived their tribulations in June and July, but Liu Changling and Liu Zexin died in August.
• Liu Fushan survived in September with a middle-grade Golden Core, and Liu Changxue survived with a lower-grade Golden Core.
• Liu Fuyi and Liu Fufeng formed upper-grade Golden Cores in October, while Liu Fuyun and Liu Changhui formed middle-grade Golden Cores in November.
• The Liu Household gained eight Golden Core cultivators in one year, and its prestige soared.

After equipping his children with Life-Bound Magical Treasures, Liu Changxu was summoned by Sect Master Wang Fen to help build a secret Ultra-Long-Distance Teleportation Array linking the Azure Cloud Sect to the Southern Sea. He traveled to the underground construction site and began work under Chen Yufei, leaving his return to the Southern Sea delayed.

• Liu Changxu declined requests from Nascent Soul sectmates to refine Golden Core Formation Pills, then gave his children offensive and defensive Life-Bound Magical Treasures.
• As Liu Changxu prepared to return to the Southern Sea, Sect Master Wang Fen summoned him to help construct a secret Ultra-Long-Distance Teleportation Array.
• Liu Changxu told Su Jinxiu and the other women that a top-secret sect project would keep him away for at least three years, then left for the worksite the following morning.
• Vice Hall Master Sima Changjie sent Liu Changxu through a series of teleportation arrays to the underground construction hall.
• Liu Changxu reported to Chen Yufei, received an assignment, and began working alongside the sect's artifact refiners and formation masters.

Liu Changxu helped craft materials and foundations for the Ultra-Long-Distance Teleportation Array, discovering that the Azure Cloud Sect’s earthfire benefited his red lotus karma fire. After new Formation Masters arrived, he befriended the twin sisters Xiao Qiang and Xiao Wei by asking them about formations.

• Chen Yufei assigned Liu Changxu to refine high-grade spirit gold ore for the teleportation array foundations.
• Liu Changxu used his red lotus karma fire to refine ore efficiently, producing higher-quality spirit gold and drawing the interest of Chen Yufei and Li Changyue.
• After a year of ore refining and a three-day rest, Liu Changxu began crafting array foundations to the Formation Masters’ specifications.
• Zhou Cheng and the twin sisters Xiao Qiang and Xiao Wei arrived from the Meishan Branch Sect as fourth-tier Formation Masters.
• Liu Changxu asked Xiao Qiang and Xiao Wei about formations, and the three became good friends.

After completing his work on the Ultra-Long-Distance Teleportation Array, Liu Changxu returned to Jade Green Peak with Xiao Qiang and Xiao Wei as guests. His wives welcomed the sisters warmly, but their attention to him left Su Jinxiu planning a memorable lesson for her husband.

• Liu Changxu spent two years learning to engrave teleportation-array patterns and restrictions from Chen Yufei and the Xiao sisters, then finished his assignment and left the underground hall.
• Xiao Wei accepted Liu Changxu's invitation to visit his home, and Xiao Qiang reluctantly agreed to accompany her to Jade Green Peak.
• Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, and Li Zhenxin welcomed Xiao Qiang and Xiao Wei to the Ruyi Lotus Palace and befriended them while Liu Changxu prepared a feast.
• Liu Changxu served the sisters three fourth-tier spirit dishes he had cooked, and Su Jinxiu silently resolved to teach him a lesson for attracting their attention.
• Xiao Qiang and Xiao Wei gave gifts to Liu Changxu's children and departed, after which Su Jinxiu dragged Liu Changxu into the bedroom to interrogate him.

Liu Changxu prepared to return to the Southern Sea, but his departure was delayed by family celebrations and his and Li Zhenxin’s work developing teleportation arrays. After arriving at Peach Blossom Island with hundreds of clansmen, he reunited with Yang Qingxue and learned how she had defended the area from fourth-tier sea monsters.

• Liu Changxu returned to the Liu Household, where Liu Changshun stepped down as Clan Head and Liu Changyan was approved as his successor; the clan selected 270 people to accompany Liu Changxu to the Southern Sea.
• At Liu Changyan’s succession ceremony, Li Zhenhao told Liu Changxu and Li Zhenxin that their mother, Wang, had formed a Golden Core, and they attended her celebration.
• Liu Changxu and Li Zhenxin researched teleportation arrays, built arrays linking Peach Garden City with Red Lotus Island and Hundred Blossoms Mountain, and strengthened the Liu Household’s defenses.
• In June of 3292, Liu Changxu departed for the Southern Sea with his family and other clansmen, arriving three months later at Peach Blossom Mountain on Peach Blossom Island.
• Yang Qingxue welcomed Liu Changxu and told him that she and the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon had driven away fourth-tier sea monsters that threatened New Peach City while he was gone.