Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu and his companions slew the Voidwing Dragon and divided up its enormous carcass with help from the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators and Liu Changxu’s beasts. After the fleet resumed its journey, Liu Changxu studied three treasures from the battle, and the artifact spirits’ intense interest in an unknown piece of multicolored jade left him wondering what it was.

• Liu Changxu froze the Voidwing Dragon with the Ruyi Void-Mystic Mirror, and he and his companions pursued the wounded beast until they slew it three days later.
• Liu Changxu, Chen Hu, and Sima Jinsong divided the carcass, then processed it with help from the arriving Azure Cloud Sect cultivators and Liu Changxu’s four beasts.
• The Azure Cloud Sect cultivators loaded the remaining dragon materials onto their Skyships, shared some with fellow sect members, collected spirit materials from the battlefield, and resumed their voyage.
• Liu Changxu examined a Voidwing Dragon eyeball, its Beast Core, and a piece of multicolored jade, then decided the first two treasures could strengthen the Ruyi Lotus Palace.
• Xiao Gong asked Liu Changxu for the multicolored jade, but he refused until he learned what it was; the artifact spirits of his other treasures also showed strong interest in it.

The Azure Cloud Sect expeditionary fleet reached Hundred Spirits Star and settled into its new base in Golden Sky Immortal City. The sect established a branch there as war between the Purple Sky Sect and the Giant Race loomed.

• After leaving the Colorful Deer Nebula, the Azure Cloud Sect fleet traveled safely for a year and landed near Golden Sky Immortal City in September of year 3507.
• Zhang Wenhao introduced Jiang Wenxuan and Zhou Yuqi of the Purple Sky Sect to the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators, and Song Lihai welcomed the newcomers into the city.
• Song Lihai led the cultivators to the Azure Cloud Sect manor, where Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue settled into their courtyard and visited the flourishing Ruyi Lotus Palace.
• The Azure Cloud Sect appointed Song Lihai branch sect master, Sima Jinsong deputy sect master, and Liu Changxu Chief Grand Supreme Elder of its Hundred Spirits Star Branch.
• Song Lihai reported that war between the Purple Sky Sect and the Giant Race was looming and could erupt at any moment.

Song Lihai briefed Liu Changxu and the others on Hundred Spirits Star’s rival races and the war against the Giant Race, while the Azure Cloud Sect leaders settled their strategy and appointments. Liu Changxu then met Void Refinement Venerable Jin Yinan, who welcomed the sect’s aid and had Qiao'er serve them tea.

• Song Lihai described Hundred Spirits Star’s powerful races, the Purple Sky Sect’s hostile neighbors, and the circumstances that led the sect to join the war against the Hutu Tribe.
• Liu Changxu and the other Azure Cloud Sect leaders agreed on a basic war strategy and finalized several important sect appointments.
• Song Lihai took Chen Hu and Liu Changxu to meet Golden Sky Immortal City’s lord, Jin Yinan, at the City Lord’s Manor.
• Liu Changxu observed how Jin Yinan’s body merged with the void, distinguishing a Void Refinement Venerable from a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Jin Yinan welcomed the three Azure Cloud Sect cultivators, and Qiao'er served them spirit tea while stealing glances at Liu Changxu.

Liu Changxu and the Azure Cloud Sect Hundred Spirits Star Branch joined Jin Yinan’s campaign against the Hutu Tribe, hoping to earn spirit veins for establishing their sect. After the army reached the front lines, Jin Yinan assigned targets and organized the coming attacks.

• Liu Changxu drank Jin Yinan’s Blood-Weeping Tea, while Chen Hu and Song Lihai struggled to refine its potent medicinal energy.
• Jin Yinan questioned Liu Changxu, Chen Hu, and Song Lihai about their sect and personal affairs before they left the City Lord’s Manor.
• Ten days later, Jin Yinan led an army from Golden Sky Immortal City toward the front lines, with nearly the entire Azure Cloud Sect Hundred Spirits Star Branch joining the campaign.
• After seven days of travel, the army reached the border between the Purple Sky Sect and the Hutu Tribe and established a fortified camp.
• Jin Yinan assigned the Golden Saber Sect, the Ma Household, the Azure Cloud Sect, and his own forces to attack specific Hutu Tribe spirit veins, reserving Giant Ape Ridge for a joint assault.
• Jin Yinan introduced Liu Changxu and the other commanders to their counterparts and urged everyone to cooperate and avoid infighting.

Liu Changxu led a small force toward Rosy Cloud Mountain while Ouyang Yuzhu commanded Azure Cloud Sect cultivators in an assault on a Giant Race castle. Liu Changxu and Liu Changlan killed the two Giant Race Spirit Transformation defenders, and Yang Qingxue routed their other reinforcements, but the castle battle continued as Liu Changxu prepared to move quickly against Rosy Cloud Mountain.

• Liu Changxu divided the Azure Cloud Sect forces, leading a group toward Rosy Cloud Mountain while Chen Hu took the larger force to attack Greenwood Ridge.
• Liu Changxu ordered Ouyang Yuzhu to attack a Giant Race castle, and she led more than a thousand cultivators into battle.
• Liu Changxu and Liu Changlan confronted two Giant Race Spirit Transformation cultivators while Yang Qingxue attacked the Nascent Soul and Golden Core reinforcements.
• Liu Changxu used his spirit treasures to prevent the two defenders from escaping and killed them with Liu Changlan's help.
• Yang Qingxue defeated most of the remaining Giant Race cultivators and gathered their spoils as the Azure Cloud Sect continued fighting at the castle.
• Liu Changxu decided he had to act quickly against Rosy Cloud Mountain before its remaining defenders resorted to mutual destruction.

Liu Changxu, Yang Qingxue, and Liu Changlan captured Rosy Cloud Mountain, then joined the Azure Cloud Sect's assault on the Hutu Tribe's cities. Under Liu Changxu's leadership, the sect destroyed twenty-three cities in less than a month.

• Liu Changxu, Yang Qingxue, and Liu Changlan broke Rosy Cloud Mountain's formation, killed the Giant Race cultivators who remained, and took its spirit plants, treasury, and Scripture Repository.
• Liu Changxu arrived at a Giant Race fortress where Ouyang Yuzhu and the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators had been unable to break the city-defense formation.
• Liu Changxu ordered Liu Changlan to attack, and Liu Changlan shattered the formation and turned the fortress into a city of the dead.
• Ouyang Yuzhu ordered the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators to attack the surviving Giant Race defenders.
• Liu Changxu led the Azure Cloud Sect in destroying twenty-three Hutu Tribe cities in less than a month.

After Chen Hu’s army suffered a crushing defeat at Greenwood Ridge, Liu Changxu arrived to lead the survivors back to Rosy Cloud Mountain, but the Giant Race attacked as they departed. Liu Changxu’s forces won the ensuing battle, killing two Giant Race Spirit Transformation cultivators, though many Azure Cloud Sect cultivators also died and several enemies escaped.

• Chen Hu reported that eight Giant Race Spirit Transformation cultivators and Greenwood Ridge’s powerful formation had defeated his forces, killing Li Fengzhu and many Azure Cloud Sect cultivators.
• Liu Changxu left Ouyang Yuzhu to guard Rosy Cloud Mountain and brought his army to Chen Hu’s camp, where he found the surviving Spirit Transformation elders wounded.
• As Liu Changxu’s army prepared to leave for Rosy Cloud Mountain, Giant Race skyships arrived, and both sides sent their Spirit Transformation cultivators into battle.
• Liu Changxu used his Innate Spirit Treasures to fight the Giant Race late-stage cultivator, while Yang Qingxue and Liu Changlan gained the upper hand against an early-stage opponent.
• After a day and night of fighting, Liu Changxu killed the late-stage Giant Race cultivator’s body, and Yang Qingxue and Liu Changlan killed their opponent; the other five Giant Race cultivators escaped.
• Chen Hu and the other Azure Cloud Sect elders killed most of the remaining Giant Race forces, but over thirty Nascent Soul cultivators and more than a hundred Golden Core cultivators died in the battle.

The Azure Cloud Sect captured Greenwood Ridge after Liu Changxu helped break its formation and defeat the Giant Race defenders. With the mountain devastated, Chen Hu and Liu Changxu discussed which spirit mountain the Violet Firmament Sect might grant them, and Liu Changxu recommended Rosy Cloud Mountain to avoid appearing too ambitious and to improve their security.

• Chen Hu and Liu Changxu led the Azure Cloud Sect army in alternating assaults on Greenwood Ridge’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, while the Giant Race defenders failed to obtain reinforcements.
• Liu Changxu’s attacks weakened the formation, and the Heaven-Flipping Sea-Splitting Halberd finally broke it and destroyed a towering peak.
• Chen Hu ordered an all-out assault, and Liu Changxu killed a Giant Race Spirit Transformation middle-stage cultivator before the defenders fled.
• Liu Changxu helped Chen Hu and Song Lihai kill two more Giant Race Spirit Transformation early-stage cultivators, and the Azure Cloud Sect pursued the survivors and seized Greenwood Ridge.
• Chen Hu assigned Song Lihai and four others to inventory Greenwood Ridge’s resources, then asked Liu Changxu which spirit mountain the Violet Firmament Sect should grant them.
• Liu Changxu advised choosing Rosy Cloud Mountain over Greenwood Ridge to keep a low profile and stay farther from Giant Race territory, and Chen Hu agreed.

After the Azure Cloud Sect distributed the spoils from Greenwood Ridge, Liu Changxu inventoried storage bracelets taken from slain Giant Race cultivators. He uncovered a vast collection of treasures and the Red Lotus Immortal Scripture, which could support cultivation to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

• Song Lihai reported Greenwood Ridge's remaining fifth-rank treasures and other spoils to Chen Hu and the Spirit Transformation Grand Supreme Elders.
• Chen Hu and Liu Changxu oversaw the distribution of fifth-rank treasures and sect merit, with Liu Changxu receiving the largest share and Liu Changlan also receiving rewards.
• Chen Hu ordered the General Affairs Hall to reward the Nascent Soul and Golden Core disciples who had fought, then Liu Changxu entered the Ruyi Lotus Palace to recuperate and inspect his spoils.
• Liu Changxu inventoried the storage bracelets of three slain Giant Race Spirit Transformation cultivators and found numerous pills, magical treasures, spirit herbs, and fruits.
• Liu Changxu discovered the Red Lotus Immortal Scripture, a continuation of the Red Lotus Heaven-Burning Scripture that could support cultivation to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

After obtaining the Red Lotus Immortal Scripture, Liu Changxu returned from seclusion and prepared to lead Azure Cloud Sect cultivators to Purple Bamboo Ridge after the Violet Firmament Sect called them into battle early. He set out with the legion, while Chen Hu and Sima Jinsong stayed behind to recover.

• Liu Changxu received the Red Lotus Immortal Scripture and fifth-rank spirit treasures, then left seclusion and gave Storage Rings of treasures to Su Jinxiu and the other women.
• Five days later, Liu Changxu visited Chen Hu at the Hanging Treasure Hall and learned that the Violet Firmament Sect had summoned Azure Cloud Sect to send at least five Spirit Transformation cultivators to Purple Bamboo Ridge.
• Chen Hu said a Void Refinement Venerable of the Giant Race had arrived with reinforcements, forcing the decisive battle to begin ahead of schedule, and asked Liu Changxu to lead the team.
• Sima Jinsong declined to join the battle, while Song Lihai agreed to go with Liu Changxu.
• Liu Changxu gave Chen Hu and Song Lihai Yang-Origin Tribulation-Crossing Pills, then set out for Purple Bamboo Ridge with the Azure Cloud Sect's Cultivator Legion on the morning of the third day.

Liu Changxu and the Azure Cloud Sect arrived at the Violet Firmament Sect’s camp before Purple Bamboo Ridge, where Jin Yinan prepared another assault. The battle began with Jin Yinan fighting Hutu Lei, while Liu Changxu and the other cultivators attacked the ridge’s formation, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Liu Changxu and Song Lihai led the Azure Cloud Sect’s force to the Violet Firmament Sect’s camp and met Jin Yinan, who planned an assault on Purple Bamboo Ridge in three days.
• Jin Yinan launched the attack with his Primordial Golden Flood Dragon Halberd, and Hutu Lei blocked him with the Golden Giant Staff before the two Void Refinement Venerables fought away from the ridge.
• Zhang Tianfang led the Purple Sky Sect’s cultivators in an assault on the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, and Liu Changxu used his Twelve Red Lotus Skyburning Swords to damage it.
• A perfected Spirit Transformation cultivator of the Giant Race left the formation to fight Liu Changxu, who used several Innate Spirit Treasures but could not gain the upper hand.
• Song Lihai, Yuan Ming, Yang Qingxue, and the other cultivators fought Giant Race opponents, who stayed close to the formation and prevented the assault from producing a clear victory.

Liu Changxu defeated a peak Spirit Transformation Giant Race cultivator, recovered his magic power, and returned to the battlefield as the fighting shifted at Purple Bamboo Ridge. He reunited with his wives, helped them defeat their opponents, and then headed for Purple Bamboo Ridge.

• Liu Changxu used the Red Lotus Sword Formation and the Ruyi Void-Mystic Mirror to kill the peak Spirit Transformation Giant Race cultivator, then collected his spoils and withdrew to recover.
• After restoring most of his magic power, Liu Changxu learned that a Purple Sky Sect Void Refinement expert had broken through Purple Bamboo Ridge's formation and joined Jin Yinan against the Giant Race's Void Refinement Venerable.
• Liu Changxu helped Yang Qingxue and Liu Changlan immobilize and kill their Giant Race Spirit Transformation opponent.
• Liu Changxu found Su Jinxiu and the Other Women battling eight Giant Race Nascent Soul cultivators, then killed the fleeing enemies as they tried to escape.
• Liu Changxu gathered his wives and spirit beasts into the Ruyi Lotus Palace and set off for Purple Bamboo Ridge.

Liu Changxu and the allied forces captured Giant Ape Ridge after a costly two-month siege, and Liu Changxu distinguished himself by killing four Giant Race Spirit Transformation cultivators. Jin Yinan awarded Rosy Cloud Mountain and a Golden Firmament City Lord's Manor Guest Elder position to Liu Changxu, who led the Azure Cloud Sect back to its new home.

• Liu Changxu rejoined Song Lihai and the others at Purple Bamboo Ridge and told them he had killed the Giant Race cultivator at the great perfection of Spirit Transformation.
• Cheng Yu relayed Jin Yinan's order for the forces to assemble at Giant Ape Ridge, and the Azure Cloud Sect joined the Purple Sky Sect's legion there.
• Jin Yinan and Feng Anqing led the assault on Giant Ape Ridge, and after two months of heavy losses, the Purple Sky Sect broke through the mountain's grand formation and occupied the ridge.
• Liu Changxu killed four Giant Race Spirit Transformation cultivators, while the Azure Cloud Sect and Purple Sky Sect suffered severe casualties and found the ridge's treasures and treasury empty.
• Jin Yinan granted Rosy Cloud Mountain to the Azure Cloud Sect and appointed Liu Changxu a Golden Firmament City Lord's Manor Guest Elder.
• Liu Changxu returned to Greenwood Ridge, reunited with Chen Hu and the others, and led the Azure Cloud Sect to Rosy Cloud Mountain.

After the Azure Cloud Sect's cultivators returned to Rosy Cloud Mountain, Ouyang Yuzhu welcomed them and oversaw a conference to divide the sect's new territory. The meeting ended with spirit peaks and lower-tier lands allocated among the cultivators and their lineages, while Ouyang recorded the results.

• Ouyang Yuzhu welcomed Liu Changxu and the returning Azure Cloud Sect cultivators to the restored Rosy Cloud Mountain.
• Ouyang Yuzhu told Liu Changxu that the sect had driven away Giant Race cultivators who harassed them and proposed rewarding disciples with spirit veins.
• Liu Changxu, Chen Hu, and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators allocated Rosy Cloud Mountain's spirit peaks, assigning Jade Clarity Peak to Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue and Supreme Clarity Peak to Chen Hu.
• Liu Changxu secured Jade Dragon Mountain and its surrounding lands for the Liu Lineage, while Chen Hu secured Tiger Head Ridge and its surrounding lands for the Chen Household.
• Sima Jinsong argued for more land for the Sima Household, but Liu Changxu and Chen Hu refuted his claims before the cultivators finalized the allocation plan.
• Ouyang Yuzhu recorded the decisions as the spoils-sharing conference ended at night.

After moving to Jade Clarity Peak, Liu Changxu inventoried the spoils from his battles and found treasures sufficient to support his advancement to Void Refinement. His household finished developing the peak, and Liu Qingying became pregnant while his other wives hoped to conceive as well.

• Liu Changxu celebrated his new home on Jade Clarity Peak with his wives, then spent two days inventorying treasures taken from five Giant Race Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Liu Changxu discovered a sixth-tier low-grade Void Transformation Pill, the Great Sun Violet Gold Cauldron with its solar spiritfire, and many other valuable treasures and resources.
• Liu Changxu decided to cultivate steadily rather than risk further adventures, then pulled his bewildered wives into the Spirit Pool for dual cultivation.
• Liu Changxu and his household installed a fourth-tier supreme-grade Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation and spent more than a year developing Jade Clarity Peak.
• Liu Qingying became pregnant, prompting Yang Qingxue, Su Jinxiu, Li Zhenxin, Wu Yunyue, Lian'er, Qiuyue, and Dongxue to try for another child, though none conceived during the following year.

Liu Changxu and his family surveyed Jade Dragon Mountain, the Liu Lineage’s new territory, and he planned to return to Mysterious Yellow Star to bring lineage members there. His wives then debated who would accompany him, before they spent the night together at the palace.

• Liu Qingying gave birth to Liu Changxu’s twenty-second son, Liu Fuyu, whom Liu Changxu cherished.
• Liu Changxu traveled to Jade Dragon Mountain with Yang Qingxue, Su Jinxiu, Li Zhenxin, Wu Yunyue, Lian'er, Chunlan, Qiuyue, and Dongxue, and they surveyed its rich lands and spirit sites.
• Liu Changxu told his wives he planned to return to Mysterious Yellow Star and bring lineage disciples to develop Jade Dragon Mountain.
• Li Zhenxin wanted Liu Fuyue to move to Hundred Spirits Star, while the other wives asked to accompany Liu Changxu on his return journey.
• Liu Changxu said the wives could go if they wished, but one would have to remain behind on Hundred Spirits Star, and they could draw lots if they could not agree.
• After dinner, Su Jinxiu led Liu Changxu to Jade Pool Hall, and the other wives followed.

Liu Changxu and his wives finished establishing defenses and a teleportation array at Jade Dragon Mountain, then returned to Rosy Cloud Mountain. There, Ouyang Yuzhu visited and accepted an invitation to stay for a meal, curious about life in the Liu Household.

• Liu Changxu and his wives established the Five Elements Lotus Formation around Dragon Horn Peak and completed a Long-Distance Teleportation Array to Rosy Cloud Mountain.
• Liu Changxu left Li Zhenxin and Lian'er to guard Jade Dragon Mountain with four beasts and returned to Jade Clarity Peak with six wives.
• Liu Changxu reunited with his son Liu Fuyu, who happily played with him while Liu Qingying and Ouyang Yuzhu watched.
• Ouyang Yuzhu reflected on her distrust of men, her difficult life as a demon-beast hunter, and the suitors she had turned away.
• Yang Qingxue chided Liu Changxu for neglecting Ouyang Yuzhu, and Liu Changxu invited her to stay for a meal.
• Liu Qingying praised Liu Changxu's spirit cuisine, and Ouyang Yuzhu agreed to stay, curious about the Liu Household.

Ouyang Yuzhu visited Liu Changxu’s family, then Liu Changxu traded for black pearl rice with Chen Hu and learned the Hutu Tribe might counterattack. He delayed his return to Mysterious Yellow Star, connected Jade Clarity Peak to Jade Dragon Mountain with a teleportation array, and entered seclusion.

• Liu Qingying welcomed Ouyang Yuzhu to a lavish meal at the Ruyi Residence, where the guest relaxed and mingled with Liu Changxu’s wives.
• After Ouyang Yuzhu left, Liu Changxu visited Chen Hu on Supreme Clarity Peak and bought four jin of fifth-tier supreme-grade black pearl rice.
• Chen Hu warned Liu Changxu that the Hutu Tribe might counterattack and threaten Rosy Cloud Mountain, so Liu Changxu agreed to wait before returning to Mysterious Yellow Star.
• Liu Changxu set up a Long-Distance Teleportation Array beneath Jade Clarity Peak connecting it to Jade Dragon Mountain.
• Liu Changxu entered a secluded chamber in the Ruyi Lotus Palace to cultivate in seclusion.

After five years in seclusion, Liu Changxu returned to find Azure Fox Liu Changqing undergoing her breakthrough to demon emperor. He and his family defended her from a massive beast tide, and Liu Changqing successfully endured her heavenly tribulation.

• Liu Changxu emerged from five years of seclusion, having greatly improved his cultivation, and reunited with his youngest son, Liu Fuyu.
• Liu Qingying told Liu Changxu that Liu Changqing was advancing on Jade Dragon Mountain, so he took his family there.
• Liu Changxu and the others fought off the beast tide drawn to Liu Changqing as she completed her transformation.
• Liu Changqing used her magical treasures, Treasure Armor, and defensive talismans to withstand the fifty-fourfold heavenly tribulation.
• Liu Changqing survived the tribulation and became a fifth-tier demon emperor.

Liu Changxu celebrated Green Fox’s advance to Demon Emperor with a grand banquet, where Chen Hu told him that Jin Yinan had asked about him and invited the Azure Cloud Sect to an auction. Liu Changxu later visited Jin Yinan, who treated him warmly for reasons he kept hidden, leaving Liu Changxu wary and determined to grow stronger.

• Liu Changxu hosted a lavish banquet after Green Fox advanced to Demon Emperor, and Chen Hu and other sect members congratulated him.
• Chen Hu told Liu Changxu that Jin Yinan had asked about him and invited the Azure Cloud Sect to an auction in Purple Sky City; Liu Changxu agreed the sect should go but declined to join.
• A month later, Liu Changxu and Chen Hu visited Jin Yinan, who welcomed Liu Changxu warmly but made no request before they departed.
• Liu Changxu returned to Rosy Cloud Mountain and pondered Jin Yinan’s intentions, then resolved to break through to the Spirit Transformation late stage as soon as possible.