Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu returned to Hundred Spirits Star with the Liu Household cultivators after a four-year journey, then reunited with his family and reorganized the lineage’s leadership and halls. After finalizing the new appointments, he turned his attention to his children’s cultivation.

• Liu Changxu used a powerful flame attack to destroy the Golden Bull Beast herd, collected the beasts’ golden remains, and led the cultivators out of the Colorful Deer Nebula.
• Liu Changxu brought the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators to Rosy Cloud Mountain and the Liu Household cultivators to Jade Dragon Mountain, where the family welcomed them home.
• Liu Changxu ordered Liu Fufeng to arrange for the returning lineage members to settle, and Liu Fujiao organized a grand banquet that Lin Yulian helped prepare.
• Liu Changxu convened the lineage’s Nascent Soul-stage and higher cultivators and finalized the Liu Household’s leadership structure, appointing Liu Fuyue as clan head and assigning elders to its halls.
• Liu Changxu turned his attention to his children’s cultivation.

Liu Changxu upgraded Jade Dragon Mountain’s spirit vein so his children could attempt Spirit Transformation, and four of them entered seclusion. Liu Fufeng, Liu Fuyang, Liu Fufei, and finally Liu Fujiao survived their tribulations, with Liu Fujiao becoming a Spirit Transformation cultivator despite her father’s fears for her safety.

• Liu Changxu led the Liu Household in upgrading Jade Dragon Mountain’s spirit vein to fifth-tier low-grade over ten years.
• Liu Fufeng passed his tribulations and reached early Spirit Transformation, followed by Liu Fuyang, who survived a dangerous breakthrough with Liu Changxu’s intervention, and Liu Fufei, who suffered only minor injuries.
• Liu Changxu worried that his favorite daughter Liu Fujiao would not survive her breakthrough, but she insisted on entering seclusion.
• Liu Fujiao began bodily sandalwood transformation, and Liu Changxu, Li Zhenxin, Liu Fuyue, and other Liu Household cultivators gathered to guard her.
• Liu Fujiao endured the fifty-fourfold heavenly tribulation, replenishing her magic power with spirit-restoring pills and using a Golden Armor Talisman when her defensive treasure was destroyed.
• Liu Fujiao passed the heart demon tribulation and became a Spirit Transformation powerhouse.

Liu Fuyin and Liu Fuhai successfully attained Spirit Transformation, but Liu Changxu’s hopes for more breakthroughs were shattered when Liu Fuqing and Liu Fubo died during their tribulations. The chapter ended with Liu Changxu anxiously awaiting Liu Fuba’s attempt.

• Liu Fuyin passed her Spirit Transformation tribulation without difficulty, and Liu Changxu urged her to keep cultivating toward Void Refinement.
• Liu Fuhai successfully attained Spirit Transformation half a month later, also passing his tribulation without trouble.
• Liu Fuqing failed to defend himself against a tribulation bolt and died despite Liu Changxu’s efforts to restrain Qin Yulian from intervening.
• Qin Yulian held Liu Fuqing’s body and later arranged his funeral, which representatives from major lineages and the Azure Cloud Sect attended.
• Liu Fubo made a fatal mistake during his tribulation and died, leaving Li Zhenxin grieving over his body.
• Liu Changxu mourned the two sons he had lost and focused on whether Liu Fuba would survive his coming tribulation.

Liu Fuba survived his tribulations and became a Spirit Transformation cultivator, bringing the Liu Lineage’s recent breakthroughs to seven. After returning to Purple Sky Mountain, Liu Changxu reunited with Zhao Qi'er and her friends, who inspected one of the Golden Bull Beast eyes he planned to refine into a spirit treasure.

• Liu Fuba passed the fifty-fourfold heavenly tribulation and, with Liu Changxu’s help through the heart demon tribulation, reached Spirit Transformation.
• Three months later, the Liu Lineage held a ceremony for seven new Spirit Transformation cultivators, drawing congratulations, spies, and marriage proposals from other lineages.
• Liu Changxu left Jade Dragon Mountain with his wives and returned to the Golden Bamboo Garden in the Purple Sky Palace in March of 3662.
• Zhao Qi'er visited Liu Changxu with Ning Shuyin, Wu Fengxian, and Sun Jiaqi, and discussed his family’s achievements and his travels through the starry sky.
• Liu Changxu showed the women the Golden Bull Beast corpses and one of their eyes; Ning Shuyin nearly succumbed to the bead’s strange influence before Liu Changxu covered her eyes.

Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er prepared and shared a feast made from Golden Bull Beast meat, but Zhao Qi'er drank too much Golden Peach Wine. As the banquet ended, Liu Changxu restrained the drunken Zhao Qi'er, who became docile in his arms.

• Zhao Qi'er asked whether Golden Bull Beast meat was edible, and Liu Changxu discovered that his Red Lotus Immortal Swords eagerly cut up the beast's carcass.
• Chen Yufei and the other women grilled the meat and prepared spirit cuisine, with Zhao Qi'er lending her Green Lotus Spiritfire to cook the potent beef.
• Liu Changxu hosted the women in the Ruyi Residence's Small Dining Hall with Golden Peach Wine and other spirit wine.
• Chen Yufei, Jiang Xuefeng, and Murong Yuyao struggled to refine the powerful energy in the meat, so Liu Changxu helped guide it through their bodies.
• Zhao Qi'er kept eating and drinking despite Liu Changxu's warnings, eventually becoming so drunk that she swayed and swatted away the women who tried to support her.
• Liu Changxu restrained Zhao Qi'er and held her in his arms, where she became docile, reminding Chen Yufei and the other women of the past.

Liu Changxu brought his drunken senior sister Zhao Qi'er back to her residence, then returned to his wives before visiting his master, Zhao Wenhao. Zhao Wenhao urged him to have his wives and Spirit Transformation children join the Sect.

• Liu Changxu carried Zhao Qi'er to her Begonia Garden residence after Ning Shuyin and Sun Jiaqi refused to help him handle her.
• Liu Changxu laid Zhao Qi'er on her bed and hurried back to the Golden Bamboo Garden, while his companions noticed her attachment to him.
• When Su Jinxiu teased Liu Changxu about marrying Zhao Qi'er, he carried her to the Jade Pool Hall and spent ten days and nights with his ten wives.
• Liu Changxu visited Zhao Wenhao, who spoke of losing his children and explained how difficult it had been to father Zhao Qi'er.
• Zhao Wenhao praised Liu Changxu's children for reaching Spirit Transformation and told him to have his wives and advanced children join the Sect.

Liu Changxu joined the Purple Sky Sect's Artifact Hall and learned that an Interstellar Teleportation Array could not be built from the incomplete formation diagram. With a flexible new assignment, he refined the Golden Bull Beast's final eyeball into a sixth-tier mid-grade Wishful Soul-Destroying Lamp after two failed attempts.

• Liu Changxu told his wives that they and, after reaching spirit transformation, Jiao'er, Yue'er, and the others could join the Purple Sky Sect, then took his wives to complete their admission formalities.
• Liu Changxu reported to the Artifact Hall at Fire God Peak, where Situ Kang, Zhu Yong, and Ouyang De welcomed him and introduced him to Meng Tinghe and Xiao Yumei.
• Meng Tinghe and Xiao Yumei discussed an Interstellar Teleportation Array with Liu Changxu, but they abandoned the plan after learning that Xiao Yumei had only part of its formation diagram.
• Meng Tinghe assigned Liu Changxu duties that required him to attend only major sect treasure-refining projects.
• Liu Changxu tried to refine a Soul-Destroying Lamp with the Golden Bull Beast's eyeballs, ruined the first two, and succeeded with the last one three years later.

Liu Changxu reforged the Great Sun Violet Gold Cauldron, then brought his Spirit Transformation children to join the Purple Sky Sect. The chapter ended with his children receiving their posts, some near Jade Dragon Mountain and Liu Fujiao and Liu Fuyin on Purple Sky Mountain.

• Liu Changxu destroyed the cauldron’s Firecloud Sparrow demon soul, added sixth-tier spirit gold, and spent two years reforging it into a sixth-tier low-grade innate spirit treasure.
• Liu Changxu visited Jade Dragon Mountain with his wives, spoke with Liu Shihao and Lin Yulian about staying there, and celebrated his children’s acceptance into the Purple Sky Sect.
• Liu Changxu appointed Liu Fubo deputy clan head and assigned other clan duties to cover for the children when sect missions kept them away.
• Liu Changxu left his four great spirit beasts to protect Jade Dragon Mountain and traveled with his family and eight Spirit Transformation children to Purple Sky Mountain.
• Liu Changxu introduced the eight children to Zhao Wenhao, who welcomed them and gave each a treasure.
• Liu Changxu completed his children’s enrollment at the General Affairs Hall; Liu Fuyue and five siblings chose posts near Jade Dragon Mountain, while Liu Fujiao and Liu Fuyin stayed on Purple Sky Mountain.

After Liu Fuyin married Chen Changqiu, evil cultivators massacred Falling Sky City, prompting the Purple Sky Sect to convene an emergency meeting. When no one volunteered to investigate the slaughter, Zhao Qi'er offered to take the mission.

• Liu Changxu and Meng Tinghe arranged for Liu Fuyin and Chen Changqiu to meet, and the pair eventually grew close and married.
• Two months later, evil cultivators destroyed Falling Sky City's teleportation array, killed its void refinement city lord, and slaughtered the city's hundreds of millions of residents in a Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation.
• Zhao Wenhao summoned the Purple Sky Sect's void refinement and higher elders to discuss the massacre and protect nearby cities.
• Song Yunfeng proposed sending someone to investigate Falling Sky City while forming patrol teams, and the elders agreed.
• When Zhao Wenhao asked for a volunteer to investigate, Zhao Qi'er stepped forward, prompting her father to worry about the danger to her.

Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er were ordered to investigate the evil cultivators who destroyed Falling Sky Immortal City, but their journey led them to a suspected infiltration in Cloud Sky City. As the hidden cultivators attacked the Teleportation Hall, Liu Changxu used his Great Sun Violet Gold Cauldron to absorb a powerful fireball.

• Liu Changxu volunteered to accompany Zhao Qi'er on the mission, and Zhao Wenhao ordered them to investigate cautiously.
• Liu Changxu told Chen Yufei, Jiang Xuefeng, Murong Yuyao, and the other women about the mission, then set out with Zhao Qi'er for Falling Sky Immortal City.
• After reaching Cloud Sky City, Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er met its lord, Pan Wu, who revealed that powerful evil cultivators might be hiding in the city.
• Liu Changxu ordered Pan Wu to report to the sect and sent Zhao Qi'er to secure the Teleportation Hall while he handled the threat.
• The hidden evil cultivators attacked the Teleportation Hall with a black-and-red fireball, and Liu Changxu summoned the Great Sun Violet Gold Cauldron to draw it inside.

Liu Changxu killed one late Void Refinement evil cultivator and led Cloud Sky City's cultivators against the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation. He and Pan Wu escaped when the formation briefly ruptured, but the barrier restored itself and trapped the cultivators still inside.

• Liu Changxu urged Zhao Qi'er to teleport away and send reinforcements, and she left after giving him five sixth-tier supreme-grade talismans.
• Liu Changxu used his spirit treasures to kill the gaunt late Void Refinement evil cultivator, causing the other attacker to flee from Pan Wu.
• Liu Changxu discovered that the formation had disabled the teleportation arrays, so he ordered Pan Wu to gather the city's cultivators and began attacking the barrier.
• Liu Changxu and hundreds of thousands of cultivators weakened the formation together, while his spatial barriers reduced its effect on their blood.
• Liu Changxu used two Golden Blade Talismans to rupture the barrier, then escaped with Pan Wu and more than a dozen Spirit Transformation cultivators before it reformed.

Liu Changxu escaped the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation, defeated one of two late Void Refinement evil cultivators, and returned to find Cloud Sky City liberated by Purple Sky Sect reinforcements. Zhao Wenhao announced the victory and led a search for the three remaining evil cultivators, whose deaths two years later ended the uprising.

• Liu Changxu and Pan Wu fled the eight Void Refinement evil cultivators, and Liu Changxu drew two late-stage pursuers away from Cloud Sky City.
• Liu Changxu used his Innate Spirit Treasures to kill one pursuer, then hid in the Ruyi Lotus Palace to recover before returning to the city.
• Liu Changxu reunited with Zhao Qi'er, and Zhao Wenhao arrived and announced that the evil cultivators attacking Cloud Sky City had been wiped out.
• Liu Changxu reported that three Void Refinement evil cultivators remained at large, so Zhao Wenhao led the Purple Sky Sect in a search for them.
• The Purple Sky Sect cultivators spent two years hunting down and killing the remaining three evil cultivators, ending the uprising.

After Zhao Wenhao approved Liu Changxu’s marriage to Zhao Qi'er, they held a lavish wedding attended by cultivators from across the region. On their wedding night, Liu Changxu advanced to mid Void Refinement through dual cultivation, and Zhao Wenhao learned the method from a jade slip.

• Liu Changxu returned to Golden Bamboo Garden and reassured his family after recounting his experiences fighting the evil cultivators.
• Zhao Wenhao asked Liu Changxu what he intended to do about Zhao Qi'er, then gave his blessing to their marriage.
• Liu Changxu told Zhao Qi'er that Zhao Wenhao had agreed to their marriage, and she embraced him while Ning Shuyin, Wu Fengxian, and Sun Jiaqi reacted with mixed feelings.
• Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er married on the tenth day of the ninth month in 3694, in a grand ceremony attended by hundreds of millions of Purple Sky Sect cultivators and representatives from other powers.
• Liu Changxu advanced to mid Void Refinement through dual cultivation with Zhao Qi'er, who came close to the same breakthrough.
• Liu Changxu presented Zhao Wenhao with a jade slip containing the Yin-Yang Harmony Art, and Zhao Wenhao read it with approval.

After consolidating his mid Void Refinement cultivation, Liu Changxu studied the Blood God Scripture and learned of worsening evil cultivator attacks. Concerned for his distant lineage, he arranged for Murong Yuyao to attempt a breakthrough to Void Refinement and reunited with his family.

• Zhao Wenhao hurried off to study the Yin-Yang Harmony Art, while Liu Changxu reflected that its benefits varied among practitioners.
• Liu Changxu consolidated his mid Void Refinement cultivation, then studied the Blood God Scripture and examined the six precious Blood Dragon Fruits he had taken from evil cultivators.
• Zhao Qi'er told Liu Changxu that a stronger band of evil cultivators had sacrificed two immortal cities in the Great Brightness Temple's territory before disappearing.
• Liu Changxu and Li Zhenxin worried about the safety of their distant lineage, so Liu Changxu arranged for Murong Yuyao to prepare for a Void Refinement breakthrough.
• Liu Changxu gathered his family for a meal, gave pregnant Liu Fuyin a Fetal-Nourishing Jade Talisman, and welcomed thanks from her husband Chen Changqiu.

After learning that blood-sacrificing evil cultivators had grown stronger, Liu Changxu and his wives prepared Jade Dragon Mountain for a possible attack. He strengthened his body with Blood Dragon Fruits and then began a two-year patrol with Zhao Qi'er and Sun Xuance.

• At a sect meeting, the elders formed three rotating patrol teams, and Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er were assigned to Sun Xuance's team.
• Zhao Wenhao told Liu Changxu that the evil cultivators had sacrificed five more cities and gained another Integrated Body Divine Lord.
• Liu Changxu and his wives agreed to prepare Jade Dragon Mountain with shelters and relocate promising youths; Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, and Li Zhenxin left to arrange the measures.
• Liu Changxu arranged Murong Yuyao's seclusion to break through to Void Refinement and forged eight fifth-tier flying swords for Chen Changqiu.
• Liu Changxu refined six Blood Dragon Fruits in seclusion, increasing his physical strength and toughness by fifty percent.
• In March of 3699, Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er joined Sun Xuance to begin their two-year patrol.

Liu Changxu discovered a faint spatial fluctuation while searching for surviving evil cultivators, but he and Sun Xuance failed to uncover their hidden secret realm. Two months later, the concealed band attacked Greenwood City and left it in ruins.

• Liu Changxu detected a faint spatial fluctuation in a deep pool and attacked it, but the secret realm remained hidden.
• Liu Changxu warned Zhao Qi'er that a Body Integration Cultivator might be concealed there and summoned Sun Xuance.
• Sun Xuance searched the area but found no sign of the secret realm, and the three left.
• The surviving evil cultivators, including one Body Integration cultivator and thirteen Void Refinement cultivators, remained hidden fifty thousand zhang underground.
• Two months later, the evil cultivators carried out a blood sacrifice in Greenwood City, killing tens of millions of people.
• Sun Xuance arrived with Liu Changxu and the others to find Greenwood City reduced to scorched earth and its people drained into withered corpses.

The Purple Sky Sect mobilized to hunt the evil cultivators, and Liu Changxu helped defeat most of them in a fierce battle. Zhao Wenhao eventually trapped and burned their Body Integration leader to ash, ending the threat from the group.

• The Purple Sky Sect set a trap after the evil cultivators sacrificed several more immortal cities, and Zhao Wenhao and Sun Xuance led twenty Void Refinement cultivators into battle.
• Liu Changxu killed a late Void Refinement evil cultivator with his spirit treasures, then helped Zhao Qi'er kill her opponent.
• Liu Changxu aided the Purple Sky Sect elders in slaying several fleeing evil cultivators, and he and Chen Chuanxiong killed a Great Perfection Void Refinement enemy.
• Zhao Wenhao and Sun Xuance continued fighting the Body Integration leader while Liu Changxu watched and studied his extraordinary recovery.
• When the leader tried to escape, Zhao Wenhao trapped him with a seventh-tier upper-grade Heaven-Earth Fire Prison Talisman.
• The Body Integration evil cultivator failed to break free with his Blood Sword Talisman and burned to ash after three days and three nights.

After the evil cultivator uprising ended, Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er returned home to celebrate with their family. Liu Changxu then began sorting through his battle spoils before entering secluded cultivation.

• Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er returned to the Golden Bamboo Garden, where Chen Yufei and the other wives welcomed them home.
• Liu Changxu reassured his family that the Integrated Body evil cultivator and most of the other evil cultivators had been killed, while a few Void Refinement cultivators had escaped.
• Chen Yufei announced that Liu Fuyin was two months pregnant, and Zhao Qi'er resolved to have a child of her own.
• Zhao Qi'er brought Liu Changxu to the Spirit Pool Hall, where his wives joined them in a battle that lasted ten days and nights.
• Liu Changxu reviewed his spoils, including blood lotus seeds, blood dragon rice, medicinal herbs, and spirit fruits, then began sorting the Storage Bracelet of the late Void Refinement evil cultivator he had slain.

After refining a Golden-Silk Blood Peach, Liu Changxu used two pills Zhao Qi'er received from her father to help her conceive. The couple visited Zhao Wenhao after learning he was delighted by the pregnancy, and Liu Changxu offered to prepare spirit cuisine for him.

• Liu Changxu counted a vast haul of sixth-rank treasures, then refined a Golden-Silk Blood Peach over a month and strengthened his cultivation.
• Zhao Qi'er told Liu Changxu that her father had obtained two Yin-Yang Sect-Founding Pills for them, and the couple used them in hopes of conceiving.
• Liu Changxu sensed that Zhao Qi'er was pregnant, while Chen Yufei and the other women later joined him in the Spirit Pool Hall.
• Liu Changxu reminded Zhao Qi'er to care for herself, and she told him that Zhao Wenhao already knew about the pregnancy and was overjoyed.
• Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er visited Zhao Wenhao, who invited them to lunch, and Liu Changxu offered to prepare spirit cuisine.

Liu Changxu celebrated Zhao Wenhao and Song Yunfeng’s engagement, then watched his family grow as his son and grandson became promising sword cultivators. The chapter ended with Lian'er surviving her tribulation and advancing to Spirit Transformation.

• Zhao Wenhao announced that he and Song Yunfeng planned to become Dao companions and hold their wedding in a year, and Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er congratulated them.
• Liu Fuyin and Zhao Qi'er each gave birth to a son, and Liu Changxu chose to spend more time raising Liu Fukkun.
• Liu Fukkun and Chen Qi grew into close sword-cultivating relatives, and Liu Changxu devised a heaven-tier sword cultivation method and forged flying swords for each of them.
• Liu Changxu protected Lian'er's secluded mountain from swarming demon beasts when her breakthrough transformation began.
• Lian'er survived the fifty-fourfold heavenly tribulation and heart demon tribulation, advanced to Spirit Transformation, and thanked Liu Changxu and Li Zhenxin for helping her reach that point.
• Li Zhenxin looked forlorn as the others celebrated Lian'er's breakthrough, since her own cultivation remained stalled at Nascent Soul.