Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu returned safely to Purple Forest Market, reunited with his family, and shared news of his engagement and the spoils from defeating evil cultivators. After reflecting on how much the battle depended on Xiao Jin and Xiao Qing, he resolved to find a way to strengthen his soul.

• Liu Changxu and Liu Shihao arrived at Peach Blossom Pavilion, where Lin Yulian and Liu Changxue welcomed them and heard that they had driven off evil cultivators.
• Liu Changxu told his family about his engagement to Li Zhenxin and gave Lin Yulian and Liu Changxue cultivator robes he had bought in Eastern Splendor City.
• Liu Changxu showed his family the items taken from the two evil cultivators, and they inventoried spirit stones, cultivation texts, herbs, fruits, artifacts, pills, and other materials.
• Liu Changxu considered how Xiao Jin and Xiao Qing had helped secure their victory and concluded that he needed to cultivate a method or secret art to strengthen his soul.

Liu Changxu shared the spoils from Eastern Splendor City with his family, then began cultivating the Flood Dragon Body-Tempering Art despite its heavy resource demands. After several days of preparation, Liu Shihao led the family and other lineage members aboard the Green Feather Boat toward Peach Blossom Mountain for the Foundation Establishment ceremony.

• Liu Shihao took a second-tier spirit medicinal herb and ten mid-grade spirit stones for the family treasury, while Lin Yulian accepted a few supplies and Liu Changxu gave her the Apricot Yellow Umbrella and Purple Gold Sword.
• Liu Changxu and Lin Yulian prepared a lavish family dinner, and Liu Changxu reflected that protecting his loved ones and the Liu Lineage strengthened his resolve to pursue immortality.
• Liu Changxu studied the Flood Dragon Body-Tempering Art, cultivated it with spiritual food and a Blood Bodhi, and felt his physical strength increase.
• Liu Changxu returned to making talismans and refining pills while his parents prepared for the Foundation Establishment ceremony and Liu Changxue played with his three spirit beasts.
• Liu Shihao led Lin Yulian, Liu Changxu, Liu Changxue, and fellow lineage members aboard the Green Feather Boat toward Peach Blossom Mountain.

After returning to Peach Blossom Mountain, Liu Changxu helped prepare for Liu Shihao’s Foundation Establishment ceremony, where guests gathered, exchanged gifts, and heard Liu Shihao lecture on breaking through to Foundation Establishment. The banquet ended with Liu Changxu recognizing that the Liu Lineage needed to improve its cultivation-resource policies.

• The Liu Lineage expanded Peach Blossom Manor into an inner and outer city and built Peach Blossom Hall for gatherings and the Foundation Establishment celebration.
• Liu Changxu and other lineage members welcomed rogue cultivators, nearby lineage representatives, and Azure Cloud Sect cultivators to Liu Shihao’s ceremony.
• Guests presented gifts, and Liu Shihao welcomed them before sharing practical advice about breaking through to Foundation Establishment.
• Wu Changkun sought closer ties with the Liu Lineage and planned to discuss a marriage alliance involving Liu Changxu, while Wang Yuting intended to discuss county defenses.
• Liu Shihao, Liu Baishan, and other senior figures hosted a lavish banquet, where Liu Changxu reflected on the lineage’s shortage of cultivation resources and decided its policies needed to improve.

At the banquet celebrating Liu Changxu’s Foundation Establishment, Wu Changkun considered a marriage alliance with the Liu Household and Wang Yuting described the danger posed by nearby demon forces. Liu Shihao learned that the Azure Cloud Sect would not send an army to the Azure Cloud Range, leaving Yunping County’s households to face the threat themselves.

• Lin Yulian’s Spirit Cuisine Compendium and experience had helped her become an upper-grade first-tier Spirit Cuisine Master and head chef for the banquet.
• Wu Changkun learned Liu Changxu was seventeen and engaged to a woman from the Li Household, then considered arranging a marriage with a collateral-branch woman from the Wu Household.
• Wu Changkun and Wang Yuting explained the nearby demon forces, including the Red-Feathered Crane clan’s six second-tier demon beasts, alarming Liu Shihao.
• Wang Yuting told Liu Shihao that the Azure Cloud Sect would not launch a campaign against the demons because it remained weakened by its devastating war with the Barbarian Tribe.
• Liu Shihao and the others realized they could not rely on the sect and would have to defend themselves.

After the Foundation Establishment banquet, the Liu Household planned to expand its territory and decided to purge demonic beasts before relocating mortals or building new towns. Three days later, Liu Changxu joined a hunting squad led by Liu Baishan, using his three spirit beasts to help search the lineage’s lands.

• Wang Yuting and the lineage representatives agreed that the Wu Household would defend against the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros and Black Mountain Bear tribes, the Liu Household would defend against the Red-Feathered Crane tribe, and the Azure Cloud Sect would coordinate support.
• At the Elder Council meeting, Liu Shisheng and Liu Shijie urged territorial expansion, while Liu Qiushui raised concerns about safety and the lineage’s depleted resources.
• Liu Changxu proposed surveying the territory and first clearing demonic beasts, and the Elder Council unanimously formed a Demon Hunting Team to begin the purge three days later.
• Thirty-six Liu Household cultivators split into three squads, with Liu Shihao scouting from the Green Feather Boat and Liu Baishan and Liu Qiushui leading the ground teams.
• Liu Changxu joined Liu Baishan’s squad and used Xiao Yun, Xiao Jin, and Xiao Qing’s heightened senses to help search for demonic beasts and spiritual treasures.

Liu Changxu hunted a flock of Black-Horned Sheep and discovered a spirit vein with valuable plants nearby. He planned to report the site to the Lineage and returned to prepare lunch.

• Liu Changxu spotted five Black-Horned Sheep, killed the two larger ones with his Moon-Shooting Bow, and captured the three smaller ones.
• Liu Changxu found a lower-grade first-tier spirit vein, white jade lotus, and several kinds of spiritual plants near the grove.
• Liu Changxu gathered the spiritual herbs and planned to transplant the jade celery and lotus roots into his new compound.
• Liu Changxu harvested water spirit grasses from the pool and planned to recommend that the Lineage develop the spirit-vein site.
• Liu Changxu took a dead Black-Horned Sheep from his Storage Bag and began preparing lunch.

Liu Changxu hunted demonic beasts with his spirit beasts, then discovered an Amethyst Bee hive near a grove of Spirit Jujube Trees. He attacked a nearby cave’s Black Mountain Bear, and he and his beasts fought the powerful bear to a standstill.

• Liu Changxu butchered two Black-Horned Sheep, grilled the meat, and fed himself and his spirit beasts before deciding to let them forage after the hunt.
• Liu Changxu and his spirit beasts continued hunting, bringing down Phoenix-Tailed Chickens, Golden-Horned Deer, and Steel-Tusked Boars while gathering spirit medicinal herbs.
• The Green Fox alerted Liu Changxu to a powerful demonic beast near a mountain, and Liu Changxu landed the Azure Cloud Eagle to scout on foot with Xiao Jin and Xiao Qing.
• Liu Changxu found five Spirit Jujube Trees and a hive of amethyst bees, then discovered a concealed cave nearby.
• Liu Changxu attacked the cave with a fireball, drawing out a peak first-tier Black Mountain Bear.
• Liu Changxu, Xiao Jin, Xiao Qing, and Xiao Yun fought the Black Mountain Bear with spells and demon arts, managing only to bring it to a standstill.

Liu Changxu and his spirit beasts killed the Black Mountain Bear after a prolonged battle, then raided an Amethyst Bee hive for eggs and honey. He escaped the swarm and flew back to the Lineage's campsite, uncertain whether the eggs could establish a new colony without a queen.

• Liu Changxu and his companions fought the Black Mountain Bear for two hours, with Xiao Qing's Eye of Samsara helping create openings for the Red Lotus Sword.
• Liu Changxu pierced the bear's eye and brain with the Red Lotus Sword, killing it, then reflected on his spirit beasts' cultivation and his own need for stronger weapons and spiritual sense.
• Liu Changxu collected and butchered the Black Mountain Bear before planning to take bee eggs and part of an Amethyst Bee hive.
• Xiao Jin and Xiao Qing lured away large swarms while Liu Changxu used Fireball Talismans to fend off the remaining bees and Xiao Yun tore away half the hive.
• Liu Changxu escaped the pursuing bees after being stung and reunited with Xiao Yun, Xiao Jin, and Xiao Qing; the hive held over a thousand eggs, honey, and royal jelly but no queen.
• Liu Changxu stored the honey and royal jelly, mounted the Azure Cloud Eagle, and flew toward the Lineage's campsite.

Liu Changxu reached the Second Demon Hunting Team’s campsite, shared a meal with his family, and set out the next morning. A rare Thunder Spirit Leopard ambushed him in the Azure Cloud Range, and as he fought back, he began to fear that a beast tide was approaching.

• Liu Changxu arrived at the campsite injured after stealing honey and eggs from Amethyst Bees and killing a Black Mountain Bear, then reassured his family and cooked a feast.
• Liu Changxu and the others set out the next morning, and he flew over the mountains on the Azure Cloud Eagle while searching for demon beasts and spiritual treasures.
• A Thunder Spirit Leopard struck the Azure Cloud Eagle with lightning, forcing Liu Changxu to escape on his Red Lotus Sword and recall his spirit beasts.
• Liu Changxu recognized the attacker as a rare upper-grade first-tier Thunder Spirit Leopard and worried that unusual beast activity and the Wu Household Ancestor’s behavior signaled an approaching beast tide.
• Liu Changxu landed and fought the leopard with Xiao Qing, Xiao Jin, a Spell Shield, and his flying sword, but the leopard’s lightning attacks incapacitated Xiao Jin, whom Liu Changxu hurriedly recalled.

Liu Changxu defeated a Thunder Spirit Leopard with talismans and his Red Lotus Sword, then continued hunting despite his injured spirit beasts. After discovering the demon-beast activity was abnormal and hearing that other members of the Demon Hunting Team had been hurt, he warned Liu Baishan that a beast tide might threaten the lineage.

• Liu Changxu burned and bound the Thunder Spirit Leopard with talismans, then killed it with the Red Lotus Sword after blocking its lightning attack with his shield.
• Liu Changxu collected the leopard's blood and demon core, treated Xiao Yun and Xiao Jin, and found two pieces of thunder accumulation stone in its den.
• Liu Changxu hunted more demon beasts and gathered spirit herbs, fawns, eggs, and a rare Fire-Spirit Jujube Tree, but remained worried by the unusual number of beasts.
• Liu Changxu returned to camp and learned that Liu Changchun, Liu Changshun, and Liu Shiju had been injured during the hunt.
• Liu Changxu urged Liu Baishan to send someone into the Azure Cloud Range to investigate, then described his dangerous encounters and rested after a tiring day.

After two days of hunting, Liu Changxu returned to Peach Blossom Mountain with plentiful demonic beasts, spirit herbs, purple moon flat peach trees, and purple spirit soil. He reunited with his family, shared spirit beast eggs and Amethyst Honey with them, and ended the chapter as Lin Yulian prepared a lavish dinner.

• Liu Changxu and Xiao Qing hunted and captured or killed numerous first-tier demonic beasts, using the Eye of Samsara to immobilize weaker prey.
• Liu Changxu gathered spirit medicinal herbs, two purple moon flat peach trees, and the purple spirit soil where they grew.
• Liu Changxu returned to Peach Blossom Mountain with the Second Demon Hunting Team and reunited with Lin Yulian and his younger siblings.
• Liu Changxu gave Golden-Horned Python eggs to Liu Changxin and Liu Changxue, then soothed Liu Ling when she cried over being left out.
• Liu Changxu shared Amethyst Honey with his siblings, gave a python egg to Lin Yulian, and brought home Golden-Horned Deer, Firecloud Chickens, and demonic beast meat.
• Lin Yulian happily took the food and began preparing a lavish dinner.

Liu Changxu learned spirit cuisine from his mother, then refined the meal and Blood Bodhi fruits to advance his body-refining cultivation. He used an upper-grade jade spirit peach to break through to the eighth level of Qi Refinement, leaving him more confident about protecting the Liu Household.

• Liu Changxu helped Lin Yulian prepare twelve spirit dishes and became a middle-grade first-tier Spirit Cuisine Master under her guidance.
• After dinner, Liu Changxu cultivated with the Flood Dragon Body-Tempering Art and ate two Blood Bodhi fruits to break through to the late first tier.
• Liu Changxu bathed and then prepared to advance his Qi Refinement cultivation, mindful of the danger facing the Liu Household.
• Liu Changxu ate an upper-grade first-tier jade spirit peach and refined its spiritual energy with the Fire Lotus Sword Art.
• Liu Changxu broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refinement, and his divine sense reached sixteen zhang.

After breaking through, Liu Changxu gave his mother Amethyst Fruits to help her overcome a cultivation bottleneck, then oversaw work on his lavish new residence in Peach Blossom Manor. He transplanted two Purple Moon Flat Peach trees and continued building with the contribution points he had earned by giving the Liu Lineage three profound-tier cultivation techniques.

• Liu Changxu told Lin Yulian he had broken through, then gave her three Amethyst Fruits to help purify her spiritual power and overcome her bottleneck.
• Liu Changxu visited his thirty-five-mu residence in Peach Blossom Manor's outer city, where the lineage's new Five-Element Spirit-Gathering Primordial Array was still awaiting activation.
• Liu Changxu planted two Purple Moon Flat Peach trees in his Spirit Fruit Garden using purple spirit soil, Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and spirit spring water.
• Liu Changxu inspected the construction of his Red Lotus Pavilion, which he was funding with lineage contribution points and costly materials from the Family Treasury.
• The Liu Lineage had awarded Liu Changxu three hundred thousand contribution points for presenting the Flood Dragon Body-Tempering Art, Fire Lotus Sword Art, and Blackwater Dark Nether Technique, a secret known only to the elders.

Liu Changxu prepared his spirit beasts and produced pills and talismans for the Lineage as demonic beasts displaced by territorial battles threatened Yunping County. After Liu Shihao returned with news of the migration, the county’s leaders decided to assemble all cultivators for battle.

• Liu Changxu inspected his new residence with Fifth Elder Liu Baiqiang, who said construction had resumed and would take about another month.
• Liu Changxu bound the Amethyst Bee eggs and fed Beast Cores and medicine to Xiao Yun, Xiao Jin, and Xiao Qing.
• Liu Changxu spent several days refining healing and Spirit Beast Pills and making talismans, and found that the work slightly strengthened his spiritual sense.
• Liu Shihao returned and explained that two third-tier demonic beasts had driven nearby beasts south by fighting over a spirit medicinal herb.
• Liu Shihao reported that Ironback Crocodiles were fighting the Red-Feathered Cranes near Red Lotus Lake and that migrating beasts had entered Yunping County.
• Liu Shihao, Cultivator Wang, and the Wu Household’s two Foundation Establishment Ancestors decided to assemble Yunping County’s cultivators and prepare for battle.

Liu Changxu proposed creating standing and reserve forces to prepare the Liu lineage for a beast tide and other threats. The Elder Council approved the Clan Soldier Corps, and Liu Changxu began testing his own Three Talents Formation with one of its squads.

• Liu Changxu proposed organizing the lineage's cultivators into standing and reserve soldiers, and the elders approved his plan.
• The Elder Council set the soldiers' eligibility, training, benefits, and equipment, appointed Liu Baichuan as captain, and tasked Liu Shijie and Liu Changxu as deputy captains.
• The Elder Council ordered the lineage to speed up its preparations and stockpile pills, magical artifacts, talismans, formations, and other resources.
• Twenty cultivators, including Liu Changshun, Liu Changyong, and Liu Changchun, signed up for the Clan Soldier Corps.
• Liu Changxu and Liu Shijie divided the recruits into two squads, with Liu Shijie focusing on spell practice and Liu Changxu testing his Three Talents Formation.

Liu Changxu organized the Second Combat Squad into Three Talents Formations and prepared them for their first hunt by improving their equipment and supplies. On their first deployment from Peach Blossom Mountain, the squad encountered two Black Mountain Bears heading toward Peach Blossom Town, and Liu Changxu ordered two groups to engage them in formation.

• Liu Changxu divided the Second Combat Squad into three groups and drilled them in the Three Talents Battle Formation, though poor coordination and unsuitable artifacts caused problems.
• Liu Changxu proposed testing and improving the formation in actual combat, and Liu Baichuan, Liu Baishan, Liu Shihao, and the others supported him.
• On the tenth day after the lineage troops were established, Liu Changxu led the Second Combat Squad out of Peach Blossom Mountain and equipped them with magical artifacts, talismans, pills, and the Small Five Elements Maze Formation.
• Liu Changxu's squad spotted two upper-grade first-tier Black Mountain Bears heading toward Peach Blossom Town, where they threatened the weaker cultivators and the lineage's mortals.
• Liu Changxu ordered two groups to form Three Talents Formations and engage the bears, beginning the lineage combat troops' first battle.

Liu Changxu watched the Three Talents Formation face two Black Mountain Bears, and the Liu Household cultivators killed both beasts after enduring their desperate final attacks. During the post-battle review, the group identified ways to improve their formation and equipment.

• Liu Changshun, Liu Changxia, and Liu Shi'an used the Three Talents Formation to fight one Black Mountain Bear while Liu Shiju's group fought the other, and Liu Changxu observed without intervening.
• Liu Changxu realized that the formation's offense and defense roles needed to shift with the battle, while the groups improved their coordination and wounded the bears.
• Liu Changxu warned the six cultivators that the bears might launch desperate final attacks, and both bears went berserk when they could not escape.
• The six Liu Household cultivators survived the bears' barrage of boulders and killed them, then divided the spoils.
• Liu Changxu led a post-battle review in which Liu Changshun and Liu Shi'an raised concerns about fixed roles and stamina, Liu Shiju criticized his weapon, and Liu Changyong called for more practice.

Liu Changxu and his companions refined the Three Talents Formation while hunting demonic beasts, then encountered a powerful Azure Wind Wolf pack and fought for survival as they waited for help. Liu Changxu faced the Wolf King alone and, without understanding it, grasped a trace of Sword Momentum Intent.

• Liu Changxu and the others spent two days improving their Three Talents Formation while hunting more than forty demonic beasts.
• Liu Changxu and his companions stumbled into an Azure Wind Wolf pack, and he sent a voice transmission to his father for help.
• Liu Changxu ordered the second Lineage soldier squad to form up, released his spirit beasts, and fought the Wolf King while the others battled the remaining wolves.
• Liu Changxu fought the Wolf King across several hilltops, and his Red Lotus Sword suddenly pierced the beast after he grasped a trace of Sword Momentum Intent.

Liu Changxu and the Liu Household’s Second Clan Soldier Squad defeated a pack of Azure Wind Wolves, killing the Wolf King after Liu Shihao arrived to help. Impressed by the squad’s use of the Three Talents Formation, Liu Shihao decided to introduce it to the whole lineage at Peach Blossom Mountain.

• Liu Changxu and the nine Liu Household cultivators used the Three Talents Formation to hold off the wolf pack while Xiao Jin and Xiao Qing fought two First-Rank Upper-Grade Green Wind Wolves.
• Liu Changxu wounded the Wolf King repeatedly, but it rallied its pack and fled with the wolves shielding it.
• Liu Shihao arrived in an azure flying boat as Liu Changxu pursued the pack, and Liu Changxu killed the Wolf King after surviving its blood-essence-powered attack.
• Liu Shihao and the Liu Household cultivators wiped out the remaining Azure Wind Wolves and collected their shares of the spoils.
• Liu Changxu demonstrated and explained the Three Talents Formation to Liu Shihao, who decided to teach it to every cultivator in the lineage at Peach Blossom Mountain.

As the Liu Household prepared for the coming war, Liu Changxu improved his cultivation stability and alchemy, while his maternal uncle Lin Yuhu arrived seeking help for the besieged Lin Household. Liu Changxu proposed sheltering the Lin Household at Peach Blossom Mountain, but the decision was left pending Liu Shihao's return.

• Liu Changxu led the Liu Household in battle preparations and, after reflecting on his duel with the Wolf King, improved his magical power and became an upper-grade first-tier alchemist.
• Lin Yuhu arrived at Peach Blossom Mountain and told Lin Yulian and Liu Changxu that hundreds of first-tier demonic beasts were besieging the Lin Household.
• Lin Yulian said the Liu Household could not send cultivators without approval from its Elder Council because it also faced danger.
• Liu Changxu suggested that the Lin Household seek refuge at Peach Blossom Mountain instead of asking the Liu Household to send rescuers.
• Lin Yuhu hesitated to abandon the Lin Household's ancestral holdings, so Liu Changxu and Lin Yulian decided to wait for Liu Shihao to return.