Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu killed a Giant Race Void Refinement cultivator after a seven-day battle, turning the battlefield in the Human Race’s favor. Badly wounded and nearly out of magic power, he began recovering under the protection of his companions.

• Liu Changxu fought the Giant Race Void Refinement cultivator to a stalemate, using his Spirit Treasures and palm strikes to hold back the Giant Race surprise force.
• After seven days and seven nights of fighting, Liu Changxu became distracted by worries about Murong Yuyao and her son, and the Giant Race cultivator attacked him from behind.
• Liu Changxu blocked the halberd strike with the Red Lotus World-Destroying Seal, then wounded the cultivator’s primordial spirit with the Red Lotus Soul-Extinguishing Needle and slew him, though the primordial spirit escaped.
• The Giant Race army lost its courage and retreated as the Human Race launched a counteroffensive; Liu Changxu gathered his wives and companions to guard him.
• Liu Changxu ate a fifth-tier supreme-grade Golden-Silk Blood Peach and two fifth-tier high-grade peaches to restore his depleted magic power.

Liu Changxu survived an ambush by a Giant Race Void Refinement cultivator after injuring him with the Red Lotus Soul-Extinguishing Needle. He returned to the battlefield wary of the Giant Race and the Purple Sky Sect, then reunited with Murong Yuyao and their children and told her that Chunlan and Qiuyue had died.

• A Giant Race Void Refinement cultivator ambushed Liu Changxu while he recovered, but Liu Changxu damaged the attacker’s primordial spirit with the Red Lotus Soul-Extinguishing Needle, forcing him to flee.
• Jin Yinan, Chen Youde, and Yang Weisheng arrived, praised Liu Changxu, and introduced themselves as peers before the four returned to the battlefield.
• Liu Changxu held back from fighting at full strength and worried that his victory had made him a target of both the Giant Race and the Purple Sky Sect.
• Yang Qingxue told Liu Changxu that Murong Yuyao was on her way, and Murong Yuyao soon arrived with Liu Fuhai and Liu Fuyin.
• Liu Changxu told Murong Yuyao that Chunlan and Qiuyue had been killed by the Giant Race, and Liu Fuyin began to cry.

After the Purple Sky Sect defeated the Giant Race, Liu Changxu received generous postwar rewards and agreed to join the sect as a regular elder. He left his Azure Cloud Sect family and lineage in Cao Hui and Chen Hu’s care, ending the chapter with a banquet for the two senior brothers.

• Liu Changxu guarded his wives and children as they pursued the Giant Race army for half a month and drove it out of Purple Sky Sect territory.
• Jin Yinan, Chen Youde, and Yang Weisheng presided over a day-long meeting to divide the spoils, casualty compensation, and merit rewards, with Liu Changxu and the Azure Cloud Sect receiving generous rewards.
• Cao Hui and Chen Hu returned to Rosy Cloud Mountain with the Azure Cloud Sect army, while Murong Yuyao went back to White Dragon Ridge with her children and the Ice Snow Sword Sect cultivators.
• Liu Changxu told Cao Hui and Chen Hu that the Purple Sky Sect had offered him a regular elder position, and that he had agreed to join.
• Cao Hui and Chen Hu congratulated Liu Changxu, promised to protect his family and keep his Azure Cloud Sect position as Grand Supreme Elder, and he asked them to care for his lineage.
• Liu Changxu had his wives prepare a sumptuous banquet for Cao Hui and Chen Hu.

After mourning Chunlan and Qiuyue, Liu Changxu inventoried the enormous spoils he had won in battle and shared spirit treasures with his wives. The war continued to worsen, and after half a year of rest he received a conscription order from the Purple Sky Sect.

• Liu Changxu held a funeral for Chunlan and Qiuyue, and their deaths weighed especially heavily on Liu Fuyang.
• Liu Changxu inventoried the treasures taken from one Void Refinement cultivator and fifteen Spirit Transformation cultivators, including rare pills, materials, and a sixth-tier middle-grade Other Shore Flower.
• Liu Changxu gave storage bracelets of spirit treasures to Su Jinxiu and his other wives, who were pleased with their gifts.
• Murong Yuyao returned to Jade Clarity Peak with Liu Fuhai and Liu Fuyin as the war between the Purple Sky Sect and the Giant Race continued.
• Cao Hui and Chen Hu monitored the war and worried that Liu Changxu would be summoned to the front.
• After half a year of rest, Liu Changxu received a conscription order from the sect master of the Purple Sky Sect.

Liu Changxu joined the battle at Thousand Springs Valley, killed two Giant Race Spirit Transformation cultivators, and fought a stalemate with a Void Refinement opponent. After the armies withdrew, Chen Chuanxiong warmly welcomed Liu Changxu into the Purple Sky Sect and rewarded him, while planning to bind him to the sect through Sun Jiaqi.

• Liu Changxu traveled with Chen Youde and Yang Weisheng to Thousand Springs Valley and joined the battle against the Giant Race.
• Liu Changxu blocked seven Golden Feather Arrows with his spatial barriers, seized the arrows, and killed the Giant Race Spirit Transformation great perfection cultivator with his Red Lotus Immortal Swords.
• Liu Changxu killed another Giant Race Spirit Transformation late stage cultivator before engaging a Giant Race Void Refinement cultivator in a long-range battle that ended in a stalemate.
• After ten days and nights of fighting, both armies withdrew, leaving Thousand Springs Valley devastated.
• Chen Chuanxiong welcomed Liu Changxu, gave him an Elder Token, sect merit, spirit treasures, and a Void Transformation Pill, bringing his total to three pills.
• Chen Chuanxiong planned to arrange for Sun Jiaqi and Liu Changxu to become Dao companions and secure Liu Changxu's loyalty to the Purple Sky Sect.

Liu Changxu settled into the Purple Sky Sect’s camp, checked on his spirit pets, and reviewed the spoils from battle. After receiving an invitation from Sun Jiaqi, he decided to attend her gathering despite his reservations about provoking her suitor, Zhang Wenyuan.

• Liu Changxu entered the spatial palace provided by the Purple Sky Sect, found it inferior to the Ruyi Lotus Palace, and brought out his own residence instead.
• Liu Changxu told his four spirit pets that they might join the next major battle, warning them to protect themselves and avoid recklessness.
• Liu Changxu rested in the Ruyi Lotus Palace, then assessed his battle spoils, including a Gale Wind Boat, a Blood Bodhi, and a void essence crystal.
• Liu Changxu found a voice-transmission talisman from Sun Jiaqi inviting him to a small gathering that evening.
• Liu Changxu weighed the risk of angering Zhang Wenyuan and decided to attend Sun Jiaqi’s gathering.

Liu Changxu attended Sun Jiaqi’s gathering and faced suspicion and hostility from Du Yan and the other cultivators. After he described his battle with a Giant Race Void Refinement cultivator and revealed that he had ten Dao partners, the banquet’s tense atmosphere eased.

• Sun Jiaqi welcomed Liu Changxu to the gathering and introduced him to the Purple Sky Sect’s young prodigies.
• Du Yan viewed Liu Changxu as a rival for Sun Jiaqi’s affection and questioned him contemptuously about his humble origins.
• Sun Jiaqi defended Liu Changxu when other guests looked down on his background.
• Wu Fengxian asked Liu Changxu how he had slain the Giant Race Void Refinement cultivator, and he gave an account that concealed his true methods.
• Liu Changxu said he had ten Dao partners, prompting Du Yan and the other male cultivators to lower their guard and join the lively banquet.

Liu Changxu’s drinking contest at a gathering won him new acquaintances, but the ceasefire soon ended and he was forced into repeated battles with a powerful Giant Race cultivator. After months of fighting, both sides negotiated an end to the war, and Liu Changxu parted from his rival Huyan Jinzhuo with mutual respect and an invitation to visit his tribe.

• Liu Changxu challenged Wu Fengxian to a drinking contest, then befriended the gathering’s cultivators while Du Yan and Lü Ning failed to drink him under the table.
• After returning to camp, Liu Changxu declined invitations and focused on cultivation until war between the Purple Sky Sect and the Giant Race resumed half a month later.
• A Giant Race Void Refinement cultivator attacked Liu Changxu with three sixth-tier Innate Spirit Treasures, forcing him to fight defensively.
• Liu Changxu and the Giant Race cultivator battled in each major engagement over roughly half a year, and Liu Changxu improved his mastery of several rules and refined his magic power.
• The senior cultivators negotiated an end to the war, and Liu Changxu learned his rival was Huyan Jinzhuo of the Golden Wind Tribe before they parted on friendly terms.

Liu Changxu traveled to Purple Sky Mountain to complete his enrollment as a Purple Sky Sect elder after choosing to remain at Giant Ape Ridge. He collected his sect benefits and settled into Golden Bamboo Garden, with Jade Spring Peak assigned as his cultivation ground.

• Liu Changxu asked Sect Master Chen Chuanxiong to let him stay at Giant Ape Ridge, and Chen agreed on the condition that he first return to Purple Sky Mountain for enrollment.
• Liu Changxu traveled aboard the Sun-Moon Shuttle with Chen Chuanxiong and the sect's cultivators, arriving at Purple Sky Mountain after nearly a month.
• Chen Chuanxiong brought Liu Changxu to Purple Sky Palace and introduced him to Ning Shuyin, who learned Liu had been promoted to elder for slaying a Giant Race Void Refinement cultivator.
• Ning Shuyin guided Liu Changxu through enrollment, where he received his elder benefits and chose Jade Spring Peak and a residence called Golden Bamboo Garden.
• Liu Changxu invited Ning Shuyin into Golden Bamboo Garden, where she admired the valuable jade bamboo growing throughout the grounds.

Liu Changxu toured the Golden Bamboo Garden with Ning Shuyin, gave her a rare wax apple fruit, and learned about the Purple Sky Sect’s powerful lineages and leaders. The next morning, Ning Shuyin returned to escort him to Jade Spring Peak, and Wu Fengxian and Sun Jiaqi arrived to visit his new residence.

• Liu Changxu and Ning Shuyin toured the Golden Bamboo Garden, where she explained the value of its rare spirit plants and wax apple fruit.
• Liu Changxu gave Ning Shuyin a wax apple fruit, and she shared information about the Purple Sky Sect’s five Integrated Body Divine Lords and their lineages.
• After Ning Shuyin left, Liu Changxu picked the remaining ripe wax apple fruits and realized they could help him purify his magic power and advance to Void Refinement.
• Ning Shuyin returned the next morning to take Liu Changxu to Jade Spring Peak, and Liu Changxu brewed tea for them at the garden.
• Wu Fengxian and Sun Jiaqi arrived, praised Liu Changxu’s residence, and accepted his invitation to have tea.

Liu Changxu entertained visiting cultivators, then took Ning Shuyin to see Jade Spring Peak, his new spirit mountain residence. After touring its abundant resources, he gave Ning Shuyin three ripe spirit peaches.

• Liu Changxu hosted Ning Shuyin, Wu Fengxian, Sun Jiaqi, Du Yan, and Zhang Wenyuan with a feast, and the three men drank until the women ended it.
• After the guests left, Liu Changxu revealed that he had only pretended to be drunk, then took Ning Shuyin to Jade Spring Peak.
• Liu Changxu and Ning Shuyin entered the mountain through its protective formation and met Jiang Hui, the steward assigned to tend its spirit plants.
• Jiang Hui showed them Jade Spring Peak’s spring water and many valuable spirit plants, including thirteen sixth-tier low-grade plants.
• Liu Changxu asked Jiang Hui for time to consider keeping him as steward, then picked three ripe Golden-Silk Blood Peaches and gave them to Ning Shuyin.

Liu Changxu became Zhao Wenhao’s disciple, drawing attention throughout the Purple Sky Sect and beyond. After returning to Jade Clarity Peak, he reunited with his family and sought relief from the desire Ning Shuyin had stirred in him.

• Liu Changxu accepted Zhao Wenhao’s offer to take him as a disciple and formally paid his respects five days later.
• News of Liu Changxu’s feat and new position spread, prompting human powers and alien races to investigate him.
• Liu Changxu traveled back to Giant Ape Ridge by teleportation arrays and returned to Jade Clarity Peak after three months.
• Cao Hui, Chen Hu, and Azure Cloud Sect leaders welcomed Liu Changxu, while Murong Yuyao returned with their children to reunite with him.
• Liu Changxu closed the doors of the Ruyi Lotus Palace with his wives, relieved to be away from Ning Shuyin’s advances.

Liu Changxu arrived at Giant Ape Ridge, took charge of the first rotation of patrols against the Giant Race, and spent six peaceful months overseeing the sect. After handing over guard duty, he entered seclusion to strengthen his cultivation and began refining a fifth-tier supreme-grade wax apple fruit, whose effects greatly improved his body and magic power.

• Liu Changxu arrived at Giant Ape Ridge with his family, where Wu Changchun welcomed them and assigned them Golden Ape Peak.
• Wu Changchun hosted a banquet where Liu Changxu learned that repeated clashes with the Giant Race had left the sect’s cultivators on edge.
• Liu Changxu and Wu Changchun divided patrol and guard duties into six-month rotations, and Liu Changxu oversaw the first rotation.
• After six peaceful months, Liu Changxu handed over guard duty and entered seclusion in the Ruyi Lotus Palace to advance his cultivation.
• Liu Changxu refined a fifth-tier supreme-grade wax apple fruit over a month, purifying his magic power and greatly improving his physical strength.

Liu Changxu received Wu Changchun’s urgent plea for help after the Giant Race trapped him in a formation, and he set out to rescue him. He reached the battlefield and began fighting the Giant Race’s Void Refinement cultivator.

• Liu Changxu learned that the Giant Race had wiped out his patrol squad and trapped Wu Changchun, then decided he had to rescue him.
• Liu Changxu agreed to bring his wives and four spirit pets in the Ruyi Lotus Palace, while ordering Sun Chunlai, Chen Yulin, and Ma Yongbo to defend Giant Ape Ridge.
• Liu Changxu sent Jin Yinan an urgent message and traveled fifty million li to Wu Changchun’s location.
• Liu Changxu approached with his aura disguised as late-stage Spirit Transformation and killed the three Giant Race cultivators sent to intercept him.
• The Giant Race Void Refinement cultivator recognized Liu Changxu and abandoned his attack on Wu Changchun to fight him.

Liu Changxu and Wu Changchun escaped a Giant Race ambush and decided to strike back, leading a Purple Sky Sect army against Golden Cauldron City. The city fell and its inhabitants were slaughtered, while Liu Changxu’s resolve faltered slightly at the scale of the killing.

• Liu Changxu overwhelmed the Giant Race Void Refinement cultivator with his spirit treasures while Wu Changchun broke out of the formation and killed the Giant Race cultivators; the enemy elder escaped.
• Liu Changxu and Wu Changchun agreed to launch a surprise attack, and the Purple Sky Sect cultivators approved their plan.
• Liu Changxu invited Su Jinxiu, Chen Yufei, and his other wives to join the campaign against the Giant Race.
• Wu Changchun and Liu Changxu led fifty thousand Purple Sky Sect cultivators to attack Golden Cauldron City and shattered its defensive formation before reinforcements arrived.
• Liu Changxu’s swords killed the city’s defending experts, and the Purple Sky Sect army slaughtered the inhabitants; Liu Changxu slowed his attacks after feeling a trace of pity, while Wu Changchun killed without hesitation.

The Purple Sky Sect defeated the Giant Race forces at Golden Cauldron City, looted the city, and withdrew to Giant Ape Ridge before the Giant Race could surround them. The Hutu Tribe considered retaliation but rejected it after learning its own side had provoked the conflict, defusing the risk of a larger war.

• Giant Race reinforcements arrived through a hidden teleportation formation, but the Red Lotus Immortal Swords killed all but their Void Refinement Venerable, who escaped from Wu Changchun and Liu Changxu.
• Liu Changxu ordered the Purple Sky Sect cultivators to leave Golden Cauldron City within two hours while they collected spoils.
• Liu Changxu and Wu Changchun broke into the City Lord's Manor treasury and had disciples inventory its abundant treasures.
• The Purple Sky Sect legion withdrew to Giant Ape Ridge despite some cultivators wanting to continue plundering.
• The Hutu Tribe's leaders learned their side had provoked the conflict and rejected a proposal to retaliate against the Human Race.

After twenty years in seclusion, Liu Changxu reached the peak of Spirit Transformation and prepared to travel to Purple Sky Mountain to break through to Void Refinement. He agreed to delay his breakthrough until Chen Yufei and Jiang Xuefeng conceived, then left Giant Ape Ridge with his wives and visited his family.

• Liu Changxu emerged from seclusion in 3590, having reached Spirit Transformation great perfection, and reunited with his wives.
• Jiang Xuefeng asked Liu Changxu to wait until she and Chen Yufei became pregnant before entering seclusion, and he agreed.
• Liu Changxu spent several days with his wives before telling Wu Changchun to look after the Liu Household while he was away.
• Liu Changxu took his wives to the Azure Cloud Sect, where they visited Cao Hui and Chen Hu, then continued to Jade Dragon Mountain.
• Liu Changxu reunited with his children and grandchildren and was pleased with their cultivation progress.

Liu Changxu brought his family to Purple Sky Sect and reunited with Ning Shuyin, whose feelings for him made his wives wary. During their visit, Liu Changxu learned that the Golden-Horned Azure Ox Race was preparing a beast tide against the sect.

• Liu Changxu heard Liu Fufeng report on the Liu Lineage’s growth on Jade Dragon Mountain and advised him to expand beyond the area.
• Liu Changxu left four beasts to guard the lineage grounds, then traveled to Purple Sky Mountain with his wives, Liu Fuhai, and Liu Fuyin.
• Liu Changxu obtained Identity Tokens for his family and settled them in Golden Bamboo Garden, where Ning Shuyin arrived with friends to visit.
• Liu Changxu and Ning Shuyin caught up, while Chen Yufei, Jiang Xuefeng, and the other women noticed Ning Shuyin’s interest in him.
• Du Yan and Sun Jiaqi told Liu Changxu that the Golden-Horned Azure Ox Race planned a beast tide against Purple Sky Sect after the Golden Lion Race seized its territory.

Liu Changxu waited for Chen Yufei and Jiang Xuefeng to give birth before attempting his Void Refinement breakthrough, forging twenty-four Red Lotus Immortal Swords in the meantime. After meeting his children Liu Fuhui and Liu Fule, he learned that the Purple Sky Sect’s war with the Golden-Horned Azure Ox Race had remained strangely quiet.

• Liu Changxu learned from Ning Shuyin and Wu Fengxian that the Seven-Colored Deer Race and Moon-Howling Wolf Race had shown no unusual movements, then hosted them for dinner.
• After Chen Yufei and Jiang Xuefeng struggled to conceive, Liu Changxu followed Sect Master Chen Chuanxiong’s advice and obtained Dragon Deer Pills from Li Yongbo; both wives became pregnant.
• Liu Changxu postponed his Void Refinement breakthrough and spent four years forging twenty-four Red Lotus Immortal Swords to strengthen his chances of surviving the tribulation.
• Liu Changxu finished the swords and met his three-year-old children, Liu Fuhui and Liu Fule, outside the artifact refining hall.
• Chen Yufei told Liu Changxu that the Purple Sky Sect and the Golden-Horned Azure Ox Race had gone to war, but the fighting remained subdued, deepening his suspicion that the Ox Race had another plan.

Liu Changxu entered seclusion on Ascension Peak and spent more than thirty years preparing to break through to Void Refinement. He survived the lightning and heart demon tribulations, becoming a Void Refinement Venerable as the Purple Sky Sect watched.

• Liu Changxu told Zhao Wenhao he planned to enter seclusion, and Zhao arranged for him to cultivate on Ascension Peak while personally guarding him.
• After more than thirty years, Liu Changxu emerged to face his heavenly tribulation as Chen Yufei, the other women, and Purple Sky Sect cultivators gathered to watch.
• Liu Changxu used his spirit treasures in rotation to withstand the tribulation lightning, damaging many of them before relying on additional defensive treasures to survive the final bolts.
• Liu Changxu passed the heart demon tribulation, and Thunder Tribulation Rain Dew healed his injuries as he advanced to Void Refinement.