Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei harvested a Void Purple Lotus and Void Spirit Spring water from the Undersea Cave Abode, then left with their gains. Their journey home ended with Liu Changxu breaking through to the middle Tribulation Transcendence stage and promising to formally ask for Duan Yuwei’s hand in marriage.

• Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei discovered an eighth-tier Void Purple Lotus, harvested its flowers, seeds, and rhizomes, and collected Void Spirit Spring water.
• Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei divided twenty-four lotus seeds, six rhizomes, and six flowers equally, concealed the Undersea Cave Abode, and left the lotus parent plant intact.
• Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei stayed together in the Undersea Cave Abode for more than ten days before resuming their journey aboard the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle.
• Duan Yuwei reached the peak of the middle Tribulation Transcendence stage, while Liu Changxu broke through to the middle stage with the aid of her primal yin energy.
• Liu Changxu promised to visit the Heavenly Mystery Sect and formally ask for Duan Yuwei’s hand after consolidating his cultivation.
• Near Penglai Island, Duan Yuwei returned to the Heavenly Mystery Sect, and she and Liu Changxu parted after promising to reunite soon.

After returning to Little Penglai Island with a breakthrough and treasures from his journey, Liu Changxu told his wives about his new Dao Companion and shared Void Spirit Spring Water with them. He held a family dinner before entering seclusion, where he fed precious materials to his Innate Spirit Treasures and began consolidating his cultivation.

• Liu Changxu returned to Little Penglai Island and revealed that he had advanced to the middle Tribulation Transcendence stage and obtained a Ruyi Lotus Palace.
• Liu Changxu told his wives that he and Duan Yuwei had acquired a Void Purple Lotus and Void Spirit Spring Water and had pledged to become Dao Companions; his wives accepted the arrangement.
• Liu Changxu divided the Void Spirit Spring Water among his family and invited the children to dinner before his planned seclusion.
• Liu Changxu, his wives, and their family prepared spirit cuisine together and shared a meal in Ruyi Residence.
• Liu Changxu entered the Seclusion Chamber, fed eighth-tier spirit materials to his Innate Spirit Treasures, and began consolidating his cultivation with the Red Lotus Immortal Scripture.

After emerging from seclusion at the middle Tribulation Transcendence stage, Liu Changxu reunited with his family, prepared for Chen Yufei’s breakthrough, and spent months with his wives before setting out to marry Duan Yuwei. He arrived at the Heavenly Mystery Sect with lavish betrothal gifts and found a long queue at its mountain gate.

• Liu Changxu emerged from seclusion, and Wu Xuege congratulated him on advancing to the middle Tribulation Transcendence stage and asked whether he would marry Duan Yuwei.
• Liu Changxu reunited with his wives, called the children home for a family gathering, and approved Chen Yufei’s plan to enter seclusion to break through to the Body Integration Realm while advising Jiang Xuefeng to wait.
• Liu Changxu spent three months with his wives, then began crafting and gathering betrothal gifts for Duan Yuwei, including two eighth-tier middle-grade Innate Spirit Treasures.
• Liu Changxu traveled aboard the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle for more than two months and arrived at Heavenly Mystery Mountain with the betrothal gifts.
• Liu Changxu saw the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s mountain gate, where a squad of black-armored cultivators managed a long queue of people seeking entry.

Liu Changxu arrived at the Heavenly Mystery Sect to formally propose marriage to Duan Yuwei, and Chu Ping agreed on the sect’s behalf after securing the condition that their future children join the sect. After spending more than ten days there, Liu Changxu departed for home with Liu Fujin and the other Liu Household disciples.

• Liu Changxu arrived at the Heavenly Mystery Sect with Liu Fujin and eleven other Liu Household disciples aboard the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle, where Chu Ping and Duan Yuwei welcomed him.
• Chu Ping and Duan Yuwei led Liu Changxu and his companions into the sect’s grand hall.
• Liu Changxu declared his wish to marry Duan Yuwei and presented rare betrothal gifts, including the Ruyi Lotus Bangle and Golden Phoenix Crown.
• Chu Ping agreed to the marriage on behalf of the Heavenly Mystery Sect after Duan Yuwei accepted his condition that their future children join the sect.
• Chu Ping hosted a banquet, and Liu Changxu, Chu Ping, and Duan Yuwei discussed the wedding arrangements.
• After staying at the Heavenly Mystery Sect for more than ten days, Liu Changxu left for home with Liu Fujin and the other Liu Household disciples.

Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei married, formalizing an alliance between the Heavenly Mystery Sect and Penglai Island, while Liu Changxu negotiated cooperation with the gathered cultivation powers. He later completed a long-distance teleportation array linking Penglai Island and Great Ji Immortal City, while the array to the Heavenly Mystery Sect remained delayed by scarce materials.

• Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei completed their wedding rites in Penglai Immortal City as guests recognized the alliance between the Heavenly Mystery Sect and Penglai Island.
• Liu Changxu hosted Tribulation Transcendence Realm guests, discussed human affairs and cooperation, and promised to begin work on the array linking Penglai Island and Great Ji Immortal City soon.
• Liu Changxu returned to Little Penglai Island with Duan Yuwei and Wu Xuege, then spent his wedding night with Duan Yuwei.
• Liu Changxu began refining teleportation platforms but could not yet build the array to the Heavenly Mystery Sect because the required high-grade spirit materials were scarce.
• Liu Changxu and the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty completed and activated their teleportation array, enabling instant travel between Penglai Island and Great Ji Immortal City at a cost of a thousand supreme-grade spirit stones per use.

Liu Changxu completed the ultra-long-distance teleportation arrays linking Penglai Island with the Sea-Calming Sect and the Heavenly Mystery Sect. After the test confirmed the Heavenly Mystery Sect array worked, he joined Duan Yuwei at her cultivation grounds and promised to stay longer.

• Liu Changxu spent two years refining and six months setting up the teleportation array leading to the Sea-Calming Sect.
• After Duan Yuwei gathered the materials, Liu Changxu spent six years refining two teleportation platforms for the Heavenly Mystery Sect and installed them.
• Liu Changxu activated the Heavenly Mystery Sect array, sending six wolf demons through, and Duan Yuwei confirmed they arrived unharmed.
• Liu Changxu told Wu Xuege and the other women he was going to the Heavenly Mystery Sect, then teleported there.
• Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei left the sect platform for Purple Star Peak, where they discussed household and sect matters over tea.

Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei shared an extravagant meal at the Purple Tenuity Palace, where Liu praised Zi Ling’s cooking and assessed her cultivation. Afterward, Duan Yuwei’s supporters in the Heavenly Mystery Sect visited to pay their respects and meet Liu Changxu, leaving the palace bustling with activity.

• Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei went to the dining room, where Zi Ling and other maids served them an elaborate meal of sixth- and seventh-tier spirit cuisine.
• Liu Changxu praised Zi Ling’s cooking and told her she was close to breaking through her late Void Refinement bottleneck.
• Duan Yuwei arranged for Zi Ling to receive more guidance from Liu Changxu, but Liu said Zi Ling had already accumulated enough and should let her breakthrough happen naturally.
• After lunch, Duan Yuwei’s prominent supporters from the Heavenly Mystery Sect arrived at the Purple Tenuity Palace to pay their respects and meet Liu Changxu.

Liu Changxu met Duan Yuwei’s three surviving disciples, Xiao Ningxue, Zhou Xuetang, and Lu Yuzhu, and welcomed them with gifts and conversation. Though they initially remained wary of him, dinner softened their resistance and strengthened their growing fondness for him.

• Duan Yuwei told Liu Changxu that her three disciples had arrived to meet him.
• Xiao Ningxue, Zhou Xuetang, and Lu Yuzhu entered, paid their respects to Liu Changxu, and accepted the Spirit Treasures he gave them.
• Duan Yuwei introduced her disciples, and Liu Changxu noticed that they had not yet fully accepted him.
• Liu Changxu spoke gently with the three disciples, who began to feel an unspoken fondness for him despite their lingering reservations.
• During dinner, Liu Changxu impressed Xiao Ningxue, Zhou Xuetang, and Lu Yuzhu with his knowledge, warmth, and charm, and their fondness for him grew.

Duan Yuwei tried to bind Liu Changxu to the Heavenly Mystery Sect by presenting him with eight maids, but he used his power to stop them and punish her. After two months behind a sealed bedroom door, Liu Changxu returned to Penglai Island, while Duan Yuwei told her disciples that their long absence had been due to dual cultivation.

• Duan Yuwei ordered Zi Ling and the other seven maids to attend Liu Changxu, intending to secure his ties to the Heavenly Mystery Sect.
• Liu Changxu froze the maids with a word and used an invisible force to throw Duan Yuwei onto the bed.
• Lu Yuzhu, Zhou Xuetang, and Xiao Ningxue found Duan Yuwei's bedroom sealed and the eight maids missing, then waited for more than a month.
• Two months later, Liu Changxu left Duan Yuwei's room and returned to Penglai Island through the Teleportation Formation.
• The three disciples entered and found Duan Yuwei and her maids in disarray; Duan Yuwei explained that her dual cultivation with Liu Changxu could last a long time.

Liu Changxu reunited with his family, welcomed six more children, and saw his maids strive to become mothers. The chapter ended as Liu Fuba emerged from seclusion to face a tribulation lightning strike.

• Liu Changxu returned to Penglai Island, agreed to bring Su Jinxiu along on future visits to the Heavenly Mystery Sect, and began alternating between the island and the sect.
• Duan Yuwei, Zi Ling, Wu Xuege, Zhao Qi'er, Murong Yuyao, and Zisu gave birth to three sons and three daughters, and Liu Changxu took Zi Ling and Zisu as secondary wives.
• Duan Yuwei's six remaining maids tried to find ways to conceive, but they lacked the rare fertility-enhancing pills that had helped Zi Ling and Zisu.
• In June of 4682, spiritual energy surged toward Ascension Peak as dark clouds gathered over Liu Fuba's secluded retreat.
• Liu Changxu, Su Jinxiu, Murong Yuzhu, and Liu Zeming rushed to Ascension Peak, where Liu Fuba emerged and was immediately struck at by divine lightning.

Liu Fuba endured the destructive tribulation lightning with the protection of his Mixed Origin Golden Armor and Great Sun Pearls, then overcame the heart demon tribulation. Multicolored rain and dew descended, confirming that he had advanced to the body integration realm.

• Liu Fuba summoned his Mixed Origin Golden Armor and a Great Sun Pearl to defend against the first bolt of tribulation lightning.
• Su Jinxiu, Liu Changxu, Murong Yuzhu, and Liu Zeming watched anxiously as Liu Fuba emerged unharmed from the first lightning strike.
• Liu Fuba used his armor and successive Great Sun Pearls to withstand increasingly powerful bolts of three-colored tribulation lightning, suffering only minor injuries.
• Liu Fuba endured the heart demon tribulation, and multicolored rain and dew appeared as he successfully advanced to the body integration realm.

Liu Changxu devoted himself to raising and teaching his six gifted young children, guiding their cultivation and character through lessons, tailored methods, and practical experiences. They advanced to Foundation Establishment and began specializing in different cultivation arts.

• Liu Changxu balanced life between the Heavenly Mystery Sect and Penglai Island, enforcing harmony among his wives and children.
• Liu Changxu personally taught his six young children, prepared spirit cuisine for them, and later devised cultivation methods suited to their aptitudes.
• Liu Changxu took the children on experiences in forests, at sea, and in cultivator markets, teaching them courage, patience, gratitude, and the dangers of the cultivation world.
• Liu Fuzhao and Liu Futian reached Foundation Establishment at thirteen, Liu Fuxin and Liu Fuyue at fourteen, Liu Fujing at fifteen, and Liu Fuxing at sixteen.
• Liu Changxu trained the six children in cultivation arts, and they chose alchemy, artifact refining and formations, spirit planting, talismans, and spirit cuisine.

Liu Changxu celebrated his youngest daughter Liu Fujing's birthday with a family banquet and gave her a powerful Bloodline Spirit Treasure. After the banquet ended, he continued to disregard the romantic interest of Xiao Ningxue, Zhou Xuetang, and Lu Yuzhu.

• Liu Changxu gathered his family for Liu Fujing's birthday banquet at Purple Tenuity Palace.
• Liu Changxu presented Liu Fujing with the Violet Sky Bracelet, a Bloodline Spirit Treasure he had refined for her.
• Liu Fujing bound the bracelet with her blood, causing it to release a dazzling purple radiance before settling around her wrist.
• Xiao Ningxue, Zhou Xuetang, and Lu Yuzhu envied Liu Fujing's treasure and wished Liu Changxu would show them greater affection.
• Liu Changxu ignored the three women's feelings and continued chatting with the guests until the banquet ended near midnight.

Chen Yufei successfully weathered her tribulation and advanced to the Body Integration Realm with Liu Changxu standing guard. After the family celebrated, Yang Qingxue, Liu Qingying, and Jiang Xuefeng began entering seclusion in turn to prepare for their own breakthroughs.

• Liu Changxu entered seclusion in the Ruyi Lotus Palace to refine his insights into his cultivation and spell arts.
• When a tribulation phenomenon appeared over Little Penglai Island, Liu Changxu rushed to Ascension Peak and found Chen Yufei preparing to break through.
• Chen Yufei used her silver spirit treasures and golden armor to withstand the tribulation lightning and pass the heart demon tribulation with only minor injuries.
• Chen Yufei advanced to the Body Integration Realm, and Liu Changxu embraced and congratulated her as Wu Xuege and the other women joined in.
• Yang Qingxue, Liu Qingying, and Jiang Xuefeng entered seclusion one after another under Liu Changxu’s arrangements to prepare for their breakthroughs.

Liu Fuba persuaded Liu Changxu and the Liu Household’s senior members to establish the Great Han Immortal Dynasty, and Liu Changxu spent more than twenty years preparing its systems and ceremony. The dynasty was formally founded in Penglai Immortal City, with Liu Changxu as its first Immortal Emperor.

• Liu Fuba gained the support of most of the Liu Household’s senior members and persuaded Liu Changxu to approve the dynasty’s founding.
• Liu Changxu and the senior members devised rules and regulations, consulting information gathered from the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty, the Great Wei Immortal Dynasty, and the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty.
• After more than twenty years of preparation, the Great Han Calendar began on the first day of the first month in 4720 of the Great Tang Calendar.
• Liu Changxu prepared the Penglai Immortal Palace, the Immortal Emperor Seal, and the Immortal Emperor Sword to safeguard the new dynasty.
• Liu Changxu proclaimed the establishment of the Great Han Immortal Dynasty before its subjects and representatives of major human powers.

Liu Changxu focused on building effective institutions to govern the newly founded Great Han Immortal Dynasty, while the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty prepared for the possibility of Han expansion. After discussing Penglai Island’s governance problems, Liu Changxu established the dynasty’s initial central institutions.

• Murong Qingyun summoned Great Yan’s senior leaders, who decided to maintain friendly ties with Great Han, help their own experts reach the tribulation transcendence realm, and secretly seek allies among other cultivation powers.
• Liu Changxu met with the Liu Household’s senior leadership to address the difficulty of governing Penglai Island with too few officials and a lineage-based system stretched beyond its capacity.
• Liu Changxu and the Liu Household’s senior leaders agreed on the structure of Great Han’s central administrative institutions.
• The Great Han Immortal Dynasty established an Elder Council with authority to veto the Immortal Emperor’s resolutions.
• The Great Han Immortal Dynasty also established the General Affairs Hall, Enforcement Hall, and Hundred Arts Hall to manage administration, public order, and cultivation skills.

Liu Changxu established strict immigration controls to preserve the Liu Lineage’s dominance while building the Great Han Immortal Dynasty’s military and recruitment systems. He founded the three-thousand-member Imperial Guards and set out how young subjects with spiritual roots would be trained and assigned paths into cultivation or military service.

• Liu Changxu’s government limited immigration and reserved key offices and resources for the Liu Lineage, despite the opportunity for some immigrants to become officials.
• Liu Changxu decreed that all subjects, mortal or cultivator, had to defend the dynasty and could be conscripted during major conflicts.
• Liu Changxu formed the three-thousand-cultivator Imperial Guards and promised generous pay, rewards, training, and advancement.
• Liu Changxu required every subject to undergo spiritual root testing at age eight, with those who had spiritual roots sent to the Teaching Academy.
• At sixteen, registered cultivators could seek admission to Penglai Academy or join the Imperial Guards, where most would serve if they could not enter the academy.

Liu Changxu handed the Great Han Immortal Dynasty’s daily governance to Liu Fuba and urged the Liu Household to strengthen its foundations instead of expanding rashly. When a potential super beast tide gathered in the Boundless Sea, Liu Fuba and Liu Fujin alerted Liu Changxu, who set out to investigate.

• Liu Changxu entrusted Liu Fuba with the dynasty’s daily affairs and explained why the Liu Household should prioritize steady development over rapid expansion.
• Liu Fuba cautiously pursued small-scale expansion while Liu Changxu withdrew from governing to focus on cultivation.
• A vast horde of sea monsters began gathering in the depths of the Boundless Sea.
• Liu Fuba received an emergency warning about a possible beast tide and agreed with Liu Fujin that they should report it to Liu Changxu.
• Liu Changxu heard the warning from Liu Fuba and Liu Fujin and said he would investigate before deciding how to respond.

Liu Changxu left Penglai Island to investigate the Beast Tide and discovered it was a vast, continent-wide advance led by powerful sea monsters. He encountered an enormous black dragon far out in the Boundless Sea, and the chapter ended as it fixed its blood-red gaze on him.

• Liu Changxu refused Liu Fujin's request to accompany him, entrusted the immortal dynasty's affairs to Wu Xuege, and departed to investigate the Beast Tide.
• Liu Changxu scanned the waters around Penglai Island, confirmed it was safe for the moment, and rode the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle into the Boundless Sea.
• Liu Changxu found dense groups of sea monsters gathering and saw that their movements pointed toward an attack on the entire Mazu Continent.
• Liu Changxu pressed deeper through increasingly vast and powerful monster forces, realizing the Beast Tide was far greater than he had expected.
• Liu Changxu spotted an enormous black dragon several million li ahead, and the dragon fixed its blood-red eyes on him.

Liu Changxu slew an eighth-tier middle-grade black dragon and collected its blood and remains. He left the surrounding sea monsters to feed on the spilled blood, then released his four beasts to join them.

• Liu Changxu attacked the eighth-tier middle-grade black dragon with the Thirty-Six Red Lotus Immortal Swords, overpowering its water dragons and killing it.
• The black dragon’s primordial spirit fled, but Liu Changxu destroyed it with the Wishful Soul-Destroying Lamp’s Gray Spiritual Light.
• Liu Changxu used a Sapphire Blue Jade Bottle to gather the black dragon’s essence blood, though some spilled into the sea and attracted low-tier sea monsters.
• Liu Changxu released Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon Liu Changlan, Yellow Mountain Lion Liu Changjin, Azure Cloud Eagle Liu Changyun, and Azure Fox Liu Changqing, who joined the feeding sea monsters.
• Liu Changxu stored the pieces of the black dragon’s corpse in a dedicated Storage Bracelet.