Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu attended a meeting where Chen Hu announced the Azure Cloud Sect would attack Perching Phoenix Island to expand its Southern Sea territory. The meeting ended with Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue assigned to Chen Hu’s team, while Liu Changxu considered how the coming expansion might benefit the Liu Lineage.

• Liu Changxu noticed Sima Wenping’s malice toward him and stayed wary of the Sima Lineage.
• Chen Hu announced that the Azure Cloud Sect would exploit its victory over the Sea-Demon Race by attacking its Southern Sea territories and rewarding those who earned merit.
• Chen Hu named Perching Phoenix Island as the next target, prompting Liu Changxu to consider the territory the Liu Lineage could claim and its shortage of clansmen.
• Sima Jinsong laid out the attack plans and assigned Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue to Chen Hu’s team, while Sima Wenping joined Sima Jinsong’s team.
• The meeting ended after the teams were finalized.

Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue traveled with the Azure Cloud Sect aboard Chen Hu’s Flying Tiger Boat to the waters near Perching Phoenix Island. As the Spirit Transformation battle drew closer, Liu Changxu saw Chen Yufei losing to a Lightning Dove Demon Emperor and faced a dangerous choice about whether to help her.

• Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue boarded Chen Hu’s Flying Tiger Boat with Chen Yufei and settled into Golden Tiger Manor.
• The Flying Tiger Boat carried the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators to Perching Phoenix Island in seven days.
• Liu Changxu and the other Nascent Soul cultivators disembarked ten thousand li from the island to intercept fleeing sea monsters.
• Liu Changxu watched the battle near Perching Phoenix Island and grew worried about Chen Yufei’s safety.
• Liu Changxu saw Chen Yufei at a disadvantage against a fifth-tier low-grade Lightning Dove Demon Emperor and debated whether to intervene.

Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue helped Chen Yufei drive off the fifth-tier Lightning Dove, though it escaped after losing an arm. Chen Yufei then took them toward Perching Phoenix Island, where they saw a battle between the Azure Sea Eagle and Chen Hu and retreated from the danger.

• Yang Qingxue rushed to help Chen Yufei, and Liu Changxu followed with his magical treasures after Chen Yufei was injured by Yi Wood True Lightning.
• The Lightning Dove attacked Liu Changxu, but Chen Yufei recovered enough to join him and Yang Qingxue in fighting it.
• Chen Yufei used a Silver Talisman to sever the Lightning Dove's arm, and the wounded demon escaped Liu Changxu's sword attack by fleeing a thousand li away.
• Liu Changxu warned Yang Qingxue not to rush into danger again, and the two joined Chen Yufei on her way to Perching Phoenix Island.
• Near Perching Phoenix Island, Chen Yufei and her companions saw the Azure Sea Eagle fighting Chen Hu and hurriedly retreated.

After the Spirit Transformation cultivators defeated the demon birds on Perching Phoenix Island, Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue helped hunt the fleeing beasts and later searched the island for spirit treasures. They reached Divine Phoenix Ridge, the island’s heart, after finding treasures for their family along the way.

• Chen Yufei left Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue behind and flew to join Chen Hu at the battle; after half a day, Chen Hu and Yang Qingxue defeated the fifth-tier Azure Sea Eagle, prompting the other fifth-tier Demon Emperors to flee.
• Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue killed fleeing fourth-tier demon birds, including a group of five attackers, and continued hunting until no more fourth-tier beasts escaped by the following morning.
• The Nascent Soul cultivators waited outside Perching Phoenix Island until the Grand Supreme Elders allowed them to enter on the afternoon of the second day.
• Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue searched the island for spirit treasures, finding a fourth-tier low-grade spirit vein already stripped bare before obtaining two Red-Gold Coiling Dragon Ginseng plants at another vein.
• Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue gathered more spirit treasures for their family as they traveled inland, eventually reaching Divine Phoenix Ridge after flying five hundred thousand miles.

After the Azure Cloud Sect captured Divine Phoenix Ridge, Chen Hu rewarded the Nascent Soul elders and assigned them to develop and defend the new territory. Liu Changxu helped repel repeated sea-demon attacks, and the completed Heavenly Cycle Starry Dipper Formation secured the ridge.

• Chen Hu awarded the participating Nascent Soul elders merit points, cultivation mountains, future city land, and spirit treasures; Liu Changxu received two fifth-tier spirit fruits.
• The Azure Cloud Sect began constructing a Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation and an Ultra-Long-Distance Teleportation Array, with Liu Changxu directing cultivators working on the formation.
• Three fifth-tier Demon Emperors attacked Divine Phoenix Ridge, forcing the sect to pause construction and drive off the sea monsters.
• Two months later, Liu Changxu and Chen Yufei fought the Golden Crab Emperor during a massive counterattack, and Chen Yufei wounded him and sent him fleeing.
• The sea monsters launched no more counterattacks, and three months later the Heavenly Cycle Starry Dipper Formation was completed.

Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue developed their new cultivation grounds on Perching Phoenix Island, then returned to Peach Blossom Island to discuss moving the family. The chapter ended with Liu Changxu's children learning that their parents planned to leave Peach Blossom Island, leaving them troubled.

• Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue completed an ultra-long-distance teleportation array linking Perching Phoenix Island and South Cape Island, then named their spirit mountain Ten Thousand Rosy Clouds Peak and protected it with a fourth-tier formation.
• Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue helped Chen Yufei establish Goddess Peak and set up its mountain-guarding formation.
• Liu Changxu returned with Yang Qingxue to Peach Blossom Island and told his wives about the successful capture of Perching Phoenix Island and their new spirit mountain.
• Liu Changxu and Su Jinxiu agreed that Nascent Soul wives would take turns guarding Peach Blossom Island, with Liu Changxu returning every two or three months unless he was in secluded cultivation or occupied by important duties.
• Liu Changxu gathered his children for a family banquet and explained his experiences and plans, leaving them disheartened when they learned their parents would move to Perching Phoenix Island.

Liu Changxu reassured his children that Peach Blossom Island would be protected while he moved with his wives to Perching Phoenix Island, where the family built up Ten Thousand Rosy Clouds Peak. After a year of cultivation, pill-making, and artifact-refining, he completed the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle and showed his wives its spacious interior.

• Liu Changxu arranged for Liu Fuyue, Liu Fujiao, and other family members to manage and protect Peach Blossom Island while he stayed at Perching Phoenix Island with his wives.
• Liu Changxu and his wives traveled to Ten Thousand Rosy Clouds Peak and spent a year establishing spirit fields, gardens, buildings, and protective formations.
• Liu Changxu regularly returned to Peach Blossom Island while refining Golden Core Formation Pills and life-bound magical treasures for his children.
• Liu Changxu entered the artifact-refining hall to create the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle as a fast, concealed means of escape for his family.
• Liu Changxu completed the shuttle in the third month of 3347 and showed his wives its two-hundred-mu interior, which included halls, pavilions, spirit fields, and medicine gardens.

Liu Changxu returned to Ten Thousand Rosy Clouds Peak after testing the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle, where the Xiao sisters visited and invited his wives to a gathering. Their continued interest in becoming his Dao companions stirred conflict among his wives, and Liu reassured them before taking them to the Jade Pool.

• Liu Changxu demonstrated the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle's speed to his family and piloted it back to Ten Thousand Rosy Clouds Peak.
• Xiao Qiang and Xiao Wei visited Liu Changxu's family and invited Yang Qingxue, Su Jinxiu, and Li Zhenxin to Li Xuejiao's gathering.
• Yang Qingxue and the other wives accepted the invitations while keeping their distance from the Xiao sisters, who left determined not to give up on Liu Changxu.
• Su Jinxiu accused Liu Changxu of encouraging the Xiao sisters, and Yang Qingxue rebuked her for crying.
• Liu Changxu promised not to bring another woman into the household without his wives' approval, then took Yang Qingxue and Su Jinxiu to the Jade Pool to soothe their resentment.

Liu Changxu returned to Hundred Blossoms Mountain after decades away, bringing his wives, children, and hundreds of younger descendants to reconnect with his family. He reunited with his parents and revealed that he had reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection, elevating the Liu Lineage’s standing within the Azure Cloud Sect.

• Liu Changxu planned a homecoming and arranged to take several wives and hundreds of young descendants back to Hundred Blossoms Mountain aboard the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle.
• Liu Changxu and his family reached Hundred Blossoms Mountain after eighteen days of travel, and the Liu Household Members welcomed their ancestor enthusiastically.
• Liu Changxu greeted his mother, Lin Yulian, and father, Liu Shihao, and promised to visit more often.
• Liu Changxu told his parents that he had reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection, astonishing them and delighting the Liu Lineage members present.

After returning home at Nascent Soul Great Perfection, Liu Changxu reunited with his family and the elders of the Liu Lineage, who celebrated his achievement and learned how quickly he could travel between home and the Southern Sea. The gathering left many lineage members eager to follow him south and pursue new opportunities.

• Lin Yulian and Liu Shihao celebrated Liu Changxu’s cultivation achievement, and Lin Yulian went to prepare a family feast with the women.
• Liu Changyan and Liu Changshun reunited with Liu Changxu, and Liu Changshun told him the Liu Lineage had grown to over thirty million people and more than ten thousand cultivators.
• Liu Changxu told Liu Changshun that the journey home from the Southern Sea had taken only eighteen days, prompting Liu Changshun to reconsider traveling there.
• Liu Shijia, Liu Shi'an, Liu Changyong, and other lineage elders joined Liu Changxu, and the family held a grand banquet that evening.
• Many senior members declared they wanted to follow Liu Changxu to the Southern Sea, where they hoped to find cultivation resources and expand the Liu Lineage.

Liu Changxu gave cultivation treasures and healing pills to his parents and younger brother, then returned to his residence with his family. He reunited with his grandson Liu Zelian and learned that Liu Fuyi’s family was stationed at Jade Green Peak.

• Liu Changxu gave Liu Shihao spirit treasures to help him advance and gave Lin Yulian and Liu Changyan Storage Rings filled with treasures.
• Liu Changxu advised Lin Yulian to hone her magic power and body for ten years before attempting to form her nascent soul, and said Liu Changxue was in seclusion.
• Liu Changxu discovered Liu Changyan still had hidden injuries from fighting a great monster and gave him Hundred-Flower Jade Dew Pills.
• Liu Changxu returned to his residence and met his grandson Liu Zelian, who managed the old home and told him Liu Fuyi’s family was at Jade Green Peak.
• Liu Changxu summoned the Ruyi Lotus Palace so his family could rest, while Wu Yunyue brought Liu Zelian inside and he marveled at its sights.

After returning to Hundred Blossoms Mountain, Liu Changxu received visitors, comforted Li Zhenxin as she learned of her father’s death, and set fair terms for her family to obtain Golden Core Formation Pills. He then disguised himself as a Qi Refinement rogue cultivator and began inspecting the Liu Household’s territory, arriving at Flower Valley Market.

• Wang and Li Zhenhao visited Liu Changxu and Li Zhenxin, and Wang told Li Zhenxin that Li Yunyue had died more than a decade earlier.
• Liu Changxu discussed the Li Household’s circumstances with Li Zhenhao and learned that he had become its clan head.
• Li Zhenxin asked Liu Changxu to sell her mother and brother three Golden Core Formation Pills, and he offered a favorable price with one pill for Li Zhenhao at half price.
• Wang accepted Liu Changxu’s terms, while Li Zhenhao looked displeased, and Li Zhenxin decided to stop supporting her birth family unconditionally.
• Four days after returning, Liu Changxu disguised himself as a Ninth Layer Qi Refinement rogue cultivator and traveled to Flower Valley Market.
• Liu Changxu waited in line, paid the entrance fee, and entered the market to see how the Liu Household’s territory had changed.

Liu Changxu visited his Cultivator Market undercover and learned that his descendant Liu Xiangbao was accused of abusing women and exploiting their cultivation. After seeing evidence of Liu Xiangbao’s crimes, Liu Changxu considered how to punish him and recognized the need for stricter household laws; the Peach Garden Guards arrived to investigate the young cultivator’s accusations.

• Liu Changxu listened to market patrons praise him and his family while drinking tea in a teahouse.
• A young cultivator accused Liu Xiangbao of forcing women into marriage and harming his concubines, and his friends and the other customers left in fear.
• Liu Changxu recognized that the Liu Lineage lacked effective laws and enforcement to control its growing membership.
• The young cultivator showed Liu Changxu a Recording Stone depicting Liu Xiangbao forcibly carrying off a female cultivator, and Liu Changxu grew furious.
• Eight Peach Garden Guards arrived and questioned the young cultivator, who handed their leader a Recording Stone as evidence.

Liu Xiangbao used Qing'er’s public declaration of consent to evade blame for abducting her, while Zhang Fang was left powerless and despairing. After learning that Liu Xiangbao used force and promises of advancement to control women, Liu Changxu ordered his arrest and summoned the lineage’s senior cultivators.

• Liu Xiangbao arrived at the teahouse with Qing'er and had her declare that she willingly wanted to become his concubine.
• Liu Xiangbao accused Zhang Fang of slander, then left without being punished as Zhang Fang despaired over his loss and danger.
• Liu Changxu followed Liu Xiangbao and Qing'er to their residence, where he saw Liu Xiangbao promise Qing'er help reaching Foundation Establishment until she stopped resisting.
• Liu Changxu concluded that Liu Xiangbao's methods could corrupt the lineage and vanished from the teahouse.
• Liu Changxu ordered Liu Changyan to arrest Liu Xiangbao and Qing'er and summon all lineage cultivators at Foundation Establishment or above to Peach Blossom Grand Hall.

Liu Changxu punished Liu Xiangbao for his crimes, strengthened the Liu Household’s rules, and traveled through his family’s past to deepen his state of mind. After consolidating his insights in seclusion, he was delighted when Liu Fuyi and Liu Fuyun arrived to visit.

• Liu Changxu showed the Liu Household evidence of Liu Xiangbao’s crimes, and the Household Elders’ Council sentenced him to death; the Peach Garden Guard burned him at Flower Valley Market.
• At Liu Changxu’s direction, the Liu Household refined its rules and established an Enforcement Hall, requiring the Household Elders’ Council to approve all death sentences.
• Liu Changxu visited the graves of Liu Han and Liu Ping, spoke of his feelings, and reflected on his past at places where he had lived and fought.
• Liu Changxu returned to Hundred Blossoms Mountain and entered secluded cultivation to consolidate his gains.
• After emerging a month later, Liu Changxu welcomed Liu Fuyi and Liu Fuyun, who had arrived with their spouses, and ordered a family banquet prepared.

Liu Changxu learned that the Azure Cloud Sect planned to attack the Azure Cloud Mountain Demon Race after its powerful leader, the Flame Flood Dragon, died. The war began, and Liu Changxu was assigned to intercept demon reinforcements alongside Jiang Shengkui and Jiang Shangyun.

• Liu Changxu returned to Violet Glow Mountain with his family, then traveled to the Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters and visited its elders and leaders.
• Sect Master Wang Fen told Liu Changxu that the sect planned to conquer the Azure Cloud Range, waiting for the Flame Flood Dragon's death to weaken the demon race.
• Liu Changxu settled with his family at Jade Green Peak and prepared for war by cultivating, drawing talismans, and refining Wound-Healing Pills.
• Two months later, Wang Fen summoned Liu Changxu to the Azure Cloud Palace, where the sect's Nascent Soul and spirit transformation cultivators gathered for a war council.
• Wang Fen assigned the nine spirit transformation powerhouses to attack Ten Thousand Demons Ridge and tasked Liu Changxu, Jiang Shengkui, and Jiang Shangyun with intercepting demon reinforcements from its east.

Liu Changxu and the Azure Cloud Sect’s cultivators reached Ten Thousand Demons Ridge aboard the concealed Shadow Ark and joined the battle against its demon kings. Liu Changxu slew several powerful opponents, then restored his strength and shared Five Elements Restoration Elixir with Jiang Shangyun and Jiang Shengkui as more reinforcements were expected.

• Cao Hui took Liu Changxu and the other cultivators aboard the Shadow Ark, which carried them undetected to Ten Thousand Demons Ridge in two days and two nights.
• Liu Changxu joined seventeen Nascent Soul cultivators heading east while Cao Hui and the other Spirit Transformation powerhouses flew to confront the fifth-tier demon emperors.
• Thirty-two fourth-tier demon kings charged the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators, and Liu Changxu’s Twelve Red Lotus Skyburning Swords swiftly killed four of them.
• Liu Changxu used the Space-Sealing Mirror and his swords to kill a fourth-tier supreme-grade Blackflame Tiger and a fourth-tier high-grade Purple-Gold Eagle, driving the remaining demon kings to flee.
• Liu Changxu replenished his strength with Five Elements Restoration Elixir and gave bottles to Jiang Shangyun and Jiang Shengkui.

Liu Changxu and the Azure Cloud Sect fought successive waves of Demon Race reinforcements at Ten Thousand Demons Ridge, while the Grand Supreme Elders remained locked in battle with the Fifth-Tier Demon Emperors. The chapter ended with three fourth-tier supreme-grade Demon Kings surrounding Liu Changxu as he prepared to fight them.

• Jiang Shengkui and Jiang Shangyun learned that Liu Changxu's Five Elements Restoration Elixir restored magic power and stamina, and accepted more bottles from him.
• Liu Changxu used the Twelve Red Lotus Skyburning Swords to kill and wound Demon Kings in the first wave of reinforcements, then killed a Golden-Horned Deer with the Space-Sealing Mirror and forced the survivors to flee.
• Liu Changxu recovered with the Five Elements Restoration Elixir, but a larger force arrived with a hundred Fourth-Tier Demon Kings, including at least nine fourth-tier supreme-grade Demon Kings.
• Liu Changxu fought the new wave with his swords and Space-Sealing Mirror as the Demon Race targeted him with five supreme-grade Demon Kings.
• Jiang Shangyun and Jiang Shengkui each drew away one attacker, leaving Liu Changxu to face a Flame Flood Dragon, a Golden Lion, and a Fire-Departure Sparrow.

Liu Changxu fought three supreme-grade fourth-tier Demon Kings, killed the Golden Lion and Flame Flood Dragon, and drove off the Fire-Departure Sparrow before repelling the demon assault. After finding the Azure Cloud Sect’s forces badly weakened, he tried to reassure them, but the fourth wave of demon reinforcements arrived.

• Liu Changxu used his magical treasures to battle the Flame Flood Dragon, Fire-Departure Sparrow, and Golden Lion while trying to protect the besieged Azure Cloud Sect cultivators.
• After two hours, Liu Changxu’s Red Lotus Skyburning Swords killed the Golden Lion, though his demon nascent soul escaped as an Azure Cloud Sect Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator also fell.
• Liu Changxu unleashed the Twelve Red Lotus Skyburning Swords to kill the Flame Flood Dragon and frighten the Fire-Departure Sparrow into fleeing, then repelled the demon horde after restoring his magic power.
• Liu Changxu found that one of his seventeen fellow Nascent Soul cultivators had died and five were badly injured, and he reassured the others that the next reinforcements might be no stronger.
• The fourth wave of demon reinforcements arrived as Liu Changxu finished speaking.

After Liu Changxu replenished the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators’ magic power, he helped defeat the fourth wave of Demon Race reinforcements, and the sect’s Spirit Transformation elders drove the Demon Emperors from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge. The Azure Cloud Sect secured the ridge and began fortifying it as the sect launched a full-scale offensive against the weakened demons.

• Liu Changxu sold Five Elements Restoration Elixir to the exhausted cultivators in exchange for spirit fruits and medicinal herbs.
• Liu Changxu slew seven fourth-tier middle- and low-grade Demon Kings and wounded four, helping rout the fourth wave of reinforcements.
• The Spirit Transformation Grand Supreme Elders announced that they had slain three Demon Emperors and wounded two more, driving them from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge.
• The Azure Cloud Sect cultivators gathered at Fire Dragon Peak, where Grand Supreme Elder Cao Hui rewarded Liu Changxu for his contributions.
• Sect Master Wang Fen presided over plans to build a Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation and an Ultra-Long-Distance Teleportation Array at Ten Thousand Demons Ridge.
• The Azure Cloud Sect mobilized more than half its subordinate lineages, including the Liu Lineage, to begin a full-scale offensive against the demons.