Ch. 1241People's Welfare Office

Liu Changxu and his family spent over a month devising a new administrative system for the Great Han Immortal Dynasty’s expanded territory. They established separate administration for mortals and cultivators, with the People’s Welfare Office assigned to oversee the mortal population.

  • Liu Changxu gathered his wives and children in the Council Hall to discuss how to govern the dynasty’s vast new territory.
  • Liu Fuba proposed adopting the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty’s system, but Liu Changxu warned that the smaller Liu Lineage could not implement it wholesale.
  • Liu Fusheng urged the dynasty to supervise other cultivation lineages and recruit their talented younger members into its service.
  • Jiang Xuefeng proposed separate administration for mortals and cultivators and bringing lineages’ mortal members under the dynasty’s authority.
  • After more than a month of discussion, Liu Changxu and his family established the People’s Welfare Office to handle the affairs of the dynasty’s hundreds of billions of mortals, including livelihoods, registration, and public security.

Ch. 1242Chapter 1242

Liu Changxu and his family debated how the Great Han Immortal Dynasty should govern cultivators, especially powerful local lineages that threatened imperial authority. The discussion ended without a decision, leaving Liu Changxu to weigh the risks of reform against preserving Liu Lineage control.

  • Liu Changxu and his wives agreed that the People's Welfare Office would manage the dynasty’s mortal affairs before turning to the challenge of governing cultivators.
  • The chapter described rogue cultivators as numerous but weak, while sects and especially local cultivation lineages held resources and influence that could undermine the dynasty.
  • Liu Changxu asked the family for proposals, and Liu Fuba and Su Jinxiu argued that the dynasty lacked enough trusted personnel to govern its expanded territory.
  • Wu Xuege and Zhao Qi'er urged Liu Changxu to share government responsibilities with other cultivation forces and appoint outsiders.
  • Murong Yuyao argued that Liu Lineage members should remain the dynasty’s mainstay and warned that outsiders must be carefully vetted.
  • The family debated different approaches while Liu Changxu listened and weighed the consequences of reforming the government.

Ch. 1243Grand Five Elements Heavenly Cycle Starry Dipper Array

Liu Changxu appointed Liu Fuba as the first premier of the People's Welfare Office, then spent years overseeing construction of a supreme-grade eighth-tier Grand Five Elements Heavenly Cycle Starry Dipper Array for Cloud Sky Immortal City. After activating the completed array and confirming the city was protected, he prepared to return to Hundred Spirits Star.

  • Liu Changxu told his family to keep discussing their unresolved matter and appointed Liu Fuba as the first premier of the People's Welfare Office.
  • Liu Changxu gathered the Liu Household's fourth-tier-or-higher artifact refiners and formation masters to help build the city-defense array, while instructing his descendants in their crafts.
  • On the tenth day of the third month of Great Han Year 92, Liu Changxu activated the completed Grand Five Elements Heavenly Cycle Starry Dipper Array above Cloud Sky Immortal City.
  • The array drew in spiritual energy and formed a multicolored shield filled with orderly moving stars around Cloud Sky Immortal City.
  • Liu Changxu confirmed that the array could guard the city even in his absence and began preparing to return to Hundred Spirits Star.

Ch. 1244Setting out for home

Liu Changxu prepared to return to Hundred Spirits Star and invited his family at the Heavenly Mystery Sect to join him. After learning he feared danger to Hundred Spirits Star or Mysterious Yellow Star, his family hurried to prepare, and Liu Changxu departed with Zi Ling and over a hundred clan members.

  • Liu Changxu held a family meeting in Cloud Sky Immortal City and chose which wives and children would accompany him, leaving Wu Xuege to govern in his absence.
  • Liu Changxu visited Duan Yuwei, Zi Ling, and Zisu at the Heavenly Mystery Sect, then asked their children Liu Fuzhao, Liu Fuxing, and Liu Fujing whether they wanted to return with him.
  • Duan Yuwei and Zisu stayed to guard the Sect, while Zi Ling and the three siblings agreed to go with Liu Changxu.
  • Liu Changxu warned Duan Yuwei that he sensed danger to Hundred Spirits Star or Mysterious Yellow Star, prompting her to urge the children to prepare quickly.
  • After seven days at the Heavenly Mystery Sect, Liu Changxu returned to Cloud Sky Immortal City with Zi Ling and the three children.
  • On the tenth day of the first month in the ninety-fifth year of Great Han, Liu Changxu piloted the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle toward Hundred Spirits Star with over a hundred clan members.

Ch. 1245Crisis in the Starry Sky

Liu Changxu and his family traveled toward Hundred Spirits Star aboard the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle, sharing stories and enjoying a peaceful journey. In the fifth year, Liu Changxu sensed danger, and Yang Qingxue pointed out something suspicious about a nearby red giant.

  • Liu Changxu answered his daughters’ questions about the long voyage and entertained his children with stories of traveling through the stars.
  • Liu Fujing searched the surrounding darkness for spirit gold and materials, then learned that such finds were more common near nebulas.
  • Liu Changxu and his family enjoyed a quiet journey, guided toward Hundred Spirits Star by the Star Compass, without encountering beasts or evil cultivators.
  • In the fifth year of the journey, Liu Changxu felt an inexplicable unease and scanned the surrounding starry sky with his Seven-Colored Glazed Eyes.
  • Yang Qingxue pointed out that an enormous fiery-red celestial body seemed unusual, and Liu Changxu examined it closely.

Ch. 1246The Red Giant Explodes

Liu Changxu detected a powerful Starry Sky Beast nearing a breakthrough inside a red giant and fled with his family aboard the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle. The star exploded and devastated the surrounding space; Liu survived the blast and gathered its scattered materials without noticing that the newly ascended ninth-tier Starry Sky Beast had escaped.

  • Liu Changxu used the Seven-Colored Glazed Eyes to sense a terrifying presence inside the red giant and ordered the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle to flee.
  • Liu Changxu brought his wife and children into the Ruyi Lotus Palace, then concluded that an eighth-tier supreme-grade Starry Sky Beast was about to break through inside the red giant.
  • Liu Changxu fueled the shuttle with supreme-grade spirit stones and raced away from the star for twenty hours.
  • The red giant exploded, destroying nearby planets and sending waves of energy and matter after the shuttle.
  • Liu Changxu poured his magic power into the damaged shuttle, helped it survive the blast, and gathered high-grade spirit metals and spirit materials in the calmer space.
  • The newly ascended ninth-tier Starry Sky Beast escaped the exploding red giant, but Liu Changxu did not notice it.

Ch. 1247Three-Legged Golden Crow

Liu Changxu collected high-tier spirit treasures from the red giant’s debris while his Innate Spirit Treasures devoured what they could and the damaged Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle began to recover. His search ended when a surviving ninth-tier Three-Legged Golden Crow attacked, forcing him to flee after it overwhelmed his treasures.

  • Liu Changxu gathered spirit treasures, including ninth-tier spirit gold, while his Innate Spirit Treasures devoured treasures and transformed.
  • Liu Changxu spotted a ninth-tier Three-Legged Golden Crow approaching through the cosmic dust and recognized it as the beast that had survived the red giant’s explosion.
  • Liu Changxu sent four Innate Spirit Treasures to intercept the Three-Legged Golden Crow and used Spatial Displacement to escape its golden flames.
  • The Three-Legged Golden Crow knocked aside Liu Changxu’s four treasures, so he abandoned direct confrontation and fled using his Space Divine Ability.

Ch. 1248A Crushing Defeat for the Three-Legged Golden Crow

Liu Changxu turned to fight the wounded Three-Legged Golden Crow after a three-day chase left both of them exhausted. He badly wounded the beast with his spirit treasures, but it escaped, while Liu Changxu collected its blood and continued the pursuit.

  • The Three-Legged Golden Crow relentlessly pursued Liu Changxu through the Starry Sky, hoping to consume him and heal its wounds.
  • After three days of using Spatial Displacement, Liu Changxu and the Three-Legged Golden Crow both began running low on magic power.
  • As the Three-Legged Golden Crow closed in on the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle, Liu Changxu deployed his forty-two Innate Spirit Treasures and formed the Thirty-Six-Petal Red Lotus Sword Formation.
  • Liu Changxu's sword formation pierced the Three-Legged Golden Crow several times, and the wounded beast fled to save its life.
  • Liu Changxu pursued the Three-Legged Golden Crow and collected its spilled blood, but the beast outran his shuttle and escaped.

Ch. 1249An Enormous Harvest

After a red giant exploded, Liu Changxu and his family spent nearly two years gathering the scattered high-tier spirit treasures, while Liu Changxu also secured enough Three-Legged Golden Crow blood to help him advance to the Mahayana stage. With the treasures mostly collected, they left the star domain aboard the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle and headed for Hundred Spirits Star.

  • Liu Changxu collected the Three-Legged Golden Crow's blood and began gathering high-tier spirit treasures scattered by the red giant's explosion.
  • Liu Changxu released his wives and children from the Ruyi Lotus Palace, and they joined him in collecting the treasures.
  • Liu Changxu and his family stayed nearly two years in the star domain, gathering vast quantities of spirit treasures, including more than thirteen thousand ninth-tier treasures for Liu Changxu.
  • Zhao Qi'er and Liu Changxu's other wives agreed it was time to leave because few treasures remained.
  • Liu Changxu ordered the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle to head for Hundred Spirits Star, and his family returned to relaxing together on its deck.

Ch. 1250Arrival at Hundred Spirits Star

After returning to Hundred Spirits Star, Liu Changxu found the Liu Household under attack by the Blood Demon Race and swiftly defeated the invading army. He reunited with his children and family after several hundred years apart.

  • Liu Changxu arrived at Hundred Spirits Star and discovered an alien army ravaging the planet.
  • Liu Changxu found the Blood Demon Race attacking Azure Cloud Mountain while Liu Changming fought their early tribulation transcendence stage leader.
  • Liu Changxu used the Ruyi Void-Mystic Mirror to immobilize the leader, captured him with the Ruyi Yellow-Black Tower, and slew many Blood Demon Race soldiers with the Wishful Soul-Destroying Lamp.
  • The Blood Demon Race army broke and fled, and Liu Household cultivators pursued them to victory with Liu Changxu's help.
  • Liu Changxu reunited with his children, learned of their cultivation progress, and shared a warm reunion with his family.

Ch. 1251Rushing to the Purple Sky Sect's Aid

After learning that the Purple Sky Sect was under siege and his father-in-law was gravely injured, Liu Changxu rushed there with Zhao Qi'er. He arrived to find the sect’s defenses broken and its cultivators being slaughtered, then swept the battlefield with his overwhelming divine sense.

  • Liu Changxu’s return and advancement to the late Tribulation Transcendence stage lifted the Liu Household’s morale and prompted surrounding factions to seek his favor.
  • Liu Fukkun told Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er that the Purple Sky Sect was under attack and Zhao Qi'er's father had been critically injured.
  • Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er immediately used the Teleportation Formation to travel to the Purple Sky Sect, while Liu Fukkun hurried after them with Liu Fuxin.
  • Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er found Purple Sky Mountain’s formation breached and the blood demon army overwhelming the sect’s defenders.
  • Liu Changxu released his divine sense across the battlefield, silencing the fighting and terrifying the blood demons while restoring hope to the Purple Sky Sect cultivators.

Ch. 1252Chapter 1252

Liu Changxu rescued Zhao Wenhao and the Purple Sky Sect from the Blood Demon army, then reunited with his family and the sect’s senior members. After learning the Giant Sword Sect was under attack and in dire danger, he prepared to go help it.

  • Liu Changxu slew the three Blood Demons attacking Zhao Wenhao with his Red Lotus Immortal Swords, then killed hundreds of thousands of Blood Demons with his Water Arrow Technique, routing the survivors.
  • Liu Changxu and Zhao Qi'er greeted Zhao Wenhao, and Liu Changxu gave him a Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill that rapidly healed his wounds.
  • Liu Fukkun brought Liu Fuxin to meet Zhao Wenhao, who joyfully welcomed his granddaughter.
  • Liu Changxu joined Zhao Wenhao and Purple Sky Sect leaders in the Spirit Sky Treasure Hall, where he asked about the Sun Moon Sect and the Giant Sword Sect.
  • Zhao Wenhao told Liu Changxu that the Giant Sword Sect faced a dire Blood Demon attack, so Liu Changxu rose to go to its aid.

Ch. 1253The Giant Sword Sect Destroyed, Reinforcements for the Sun Moon Sect

Liu Changxu traveled to the Giant Sword Sect and found it devastated, then learned from Xiao Zhuo that its surviving disciples had scattered and the Blood Demon Army had likely moved on to the Sun Moon Sect. He arrived in time to slaughter the attacking blood demons and give the Sun Moon Sect a chance to counterattack.

  • Liu Changxu refused Zhao Qi'er’s offer to accompany him and left for the Giant Sword Sect in the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle.
  • After three days of travel, Liu Changxu found Ten Thousand Sword Ridge ruined and covered with the dead.
  • Liu Changxu met Xiao Zhuo, who explained that the Blood Demon Army had broken the Giant Sword Sect’s defenses and that its survivors had fled separately.
  • Xiao Zhuo told Liu Changxu that the Blood Demon Army had probably gone to attack the Sun Moon Sect, so Liu Changxu rushed there.
  • Liu Changxu used his Thirty-Six Red Lotus Immortal Swords and Wishful Soul-Destroying Lamp to kill the Blood Demon Army’s Body Integration powerhouses and slaughter its ranks.
  • The Sun Moon Sect Master ordered the sect’s cultivators to attack the weakened Blood Demon Army.

Ch. 1254Forming the Human Alliance Army

After defeating the Blood Demon Army besieging the Sun Moon Sect, Liu Changxu told Wu Yuxi and Xue Qin about the Blood Race invasion of Sea God Star and his plan to form a Human Alliance Army. The sect’s cultivators eagerly volunteered to join, and recruitment was completed in a day.

  • Wu Yuxi and Xue Qin thanked Liu Changxu for saving the Sun Moon Sect and asked to accompany him to Sea God Star, which he agreed to after they arranged the sect’s affairs.
  • Liu Changxu told Wu Yuxi and Xue Qin that the Giant Sword Sect had been destroyed and explained that the Blood Race had invaded Sea God Star before being defeated.
  • Liu Changxu proposed forming a Human Alliance Army to destroy the Blood Demon Army, and Wu Yuxi pledged the Sun Moon Sect’s support.
  • Liu Changxu set the army’s minimum requirement at the golden core early stage, and Wu Yuxi estimated the sect could provide just over twenty thousand cultivators.
  • Wu Yuxi and Xue Qin began recruiting, and Sun Moon Sect cultivators volunteered in such numbers that recruitment finished within a day.

Ch. 1255The Demon-Slaying Army

Liu Changxu brought the Sun Moon Sect’s cultivators to the Purple Sky Sect and announced the Giant Sword Sect’s destruction by the blood demons. The sects agreed to join his Human Alliance Army, which they named the Demon-Slaying Army.

  • Wu Yuxi rallied more than twenty thousand Sun Moon Sect cultivators, and Liu Changxu transported them aboard the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle toward the Purple Sky Sect.
  • Liu Changxu arrived at the Purple Sky Sect, where Zhao Qi'er and the sect’s elders welcomed him; Zhao Qi'er noticed Wu Yuxi and Xue Qin beside him.
  • Liu Changxu told the assembled cultivators that the blood demons had destroyed the Giant Sword Sect and showed them an image of its ruins.
  • Zhao Wenhao pledged Purple Sky Sect support, while Liu Changxu said the Sun Moon Sect had sent more than twenty thousand cultivators and his Liu Lineage would muster ten thousand.
  • Liu Fuxin proposed the name Demon-Slaying Army, and Liu Changxu adopted it with everyone’s agreement.

Ch. 1256The First Battle

Liu Changxu completed the fifty-thousand-strong Demon-Slaying Army and led it to reinforce Iron Mystic Immortal City. The army annihilated the million-strong blood demon force, earning renown across Hundred Spirits Star.

  • Liu Changxu assembled fifty thousand soldiers and sent the Demon-Slaying Army toward its campaign against the blood demons.
  • Zhao Qi'er reported that Iron Mystic Immortal City was under siege, and Sun Xuance urged Liu Changxu to reinforce it immediately.
  • Liu Changxu redirected the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle to Iron Mystic Immortal City, where the blood demons had breached the city defenses.
  • Liu Changxu and the Demon-Slaying Army attacked the blood demons, with Liu Changxu suppressing their forces and preventing them from turning the battle.
  • The Demon-Slaying Army annihilated the million-strong blood demon army, and its victory spread across Hundred Spirits Star.

Ch. 1257Sweeping All Before Them

Liu Changxu led the Demon-Slaying Army in clearing the Blood Demons from the Purple Sky Sect and Liu Lineage territories before sweeping through the Giant Sword Sect and Sun Moon Sect territories. After reaching the Sun Moon Sect headquarters, the army completed the first phase of its campaign.

  • Liu Changxu used the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle to lead the Demon-Slaying Army in destroying more than five million Blood Demons across the Purple Sky Sect's territory, then cleared the Liu Lineage's territory in half a month.
  • After a brief rest, Liu Changxu led fifty thousand soldiers toward the Sun Moon Sect and found the Giant Sword Sect's territory overrun by Blood Demons.
  • Liu Changxu and the Demon-Slaying Army killed more than ten million Blood Demons in the Giant Sword Sect's territory before advancing to the Sun Moon Sect border.
  • At Sunflame Immortal City, Liu Changxu slew five Body Integration realm Blood Demons with his Red Lotus Immortal Swords and used the Heavy Rain Arrow Technique to devastate an eight-million-strong army, while Zhao Qi'er, Wu Yuxi, and other cultivators killed the remaining powerful demons.
  • Liu Changxu led the Demon-Slaying Army onward for three months until it reached the Sun Moon Sect headquarters, ending the campaign's first phase.

Ch. 1258Chapter 1258

After clearing Blood Demons from the Sun Moon Sect's territory, Liu Changxu convened the Demon-Slaying Army's leaders to plan their next campaign. They agreed to advance gradually through nearby territories, recruit surviving sects, and postpone expeditions into other races' lands until later.

  • Liu Changxu asked the leaders whether to clear nearby territories or pursue every Blood Demon on Hundred Spirits Star, and Zhao Qi'er argued against venturing too far from their home factions.
  • Liu Fuyang, Sun Xuance, and Wu Yuxi supported a gradual campaign and pledged their factions' continued participation until the Blood Demons were destroyed.
  • Xue Qin proposed recruiting more factions and rotating the army's cultivators; she reported that the Giant Sword Sect had only tens of thousands of members and one Body Integration Realm Grand Supreme Elder, Xiao Yan.
  • Liu Changxu welcomed the surviving Giant Sword Sect members into the army and said the Giant Race could join later if it sincerely wished to do so.
  • The leaders agreed to clear the Giant Sword Sect's territory first, then advance through other Human Race factions' territories and recruit their members, leaving campaigns in other races' lands for a third phase.

Ch. 1259The demon-slaying war came to an end

Liu Changxu led the Demon-Slaying Army through the remaining territories and helped exterminate the blood demons across Hundred Spirits Star. With the war over, the planet's races pledged allegiance to the Great Han Immortal Dynasty, and Liu Changxu began planning Hundred Spirits Immortal City as its capital on the star.

  • Liu Changxu led the Demon-Slaying Army into the Giant Sword Sect's territory, where Xiao Yan and five thousand cultivators joined the campaign, and the army exterminated the remaining blood demons in two months.
  • Liu Changxu and the Demon-Slaying Army reached the Great Brightness Temple's devastated territory, found no survivors or intact secret realms, and cleared it of blood demons.
  • The Demon-Slaying Army continued its campaigns across other human territories until the blood demons were exterminated in the 136th year of Great Han.
  • The races of Hundred Spirits Star pledged themselves as vassals of the Great Han Immortal Dynasty, and Liu Changxu reorganized the Demon-Slaying Army as a force of the dynasty.
  • Liu Changxu chose a site near Azure Cloud Mountain for Hundred Spirits Immortal City and assigned specialists to plan and design the planet's new capital.

Ch. 1260Hundred Spirits Immortal City

Liu Changxu oversaw the design and construction of Hundred Spirits Immortal City, then activated its three city-defense grand formations when the supercity was completed. He returned to Hundred Spirits Immortal Palace, where representatives of Hundred Spirits Star’s races had gathered for the inauguration ceremony.

  • Liu Changxu entrusted other affairs of the Great Han Immortal Dynasty to his family while he designed Hundred Spirits Immortal City and its three eighth-tier defensive formations.
  • After three years of planning, Liu Changxu approved a circular city plan divided into the outer city, inner city, and Hundred Spirits Immortal Palace.
  • Liu Changxu requisitioned ten million cultivators and used materials from the Blood Demons campaign to build the city, while he and Liu Fufeng led the production of formation equipment.
  • In the third month of Great Han Year 170, Hundred Spirits Immortal City was declared complete.
  • Liu Changxu activated the city-defense formations, drawing in spiritual energy and starlight to create three protective curtains around the city.
  • Liu Changxu returned to Hundred Spirits Immortal Palace, where representatives of Hundred Spirits Star’s races had assembled for the inauguration ceremony.
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