Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu joined Duan Yuwei and Liu Fuhai at the Heavenly Mystery Sect, helped kill two eighth-tier demons, then rushed with Duan Yuwei to rescue three besieged immortal cities. They drove off the attackers at Rongzhou and Yunzhou, but found Liezhou already devastated and destroyed its demon forces.

• Liu Changxu arrived at the Heavenly Mystery Sect and helped Duan Yuwei and Liu Fuhai kill an eighth-tier Thunder Dragon and Diamond Ape.
• Duan Yuwei told Liu Changxu that three large immortal cities were under siege, so he left Liu Fuhai to clear the remaining demons while he and Duan Yuwei went to help.
• Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei killed the Yellow Dragon Shrimp leading the attack on Rongzhou Immortal City, scattering the demon army.
• At Yunzhou Immortal City, Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei killed the Blue-Star Octopus and exterminated most of the invading demons.
• At Liezhou Immortal City, Liu Changxu and Duan Yuwei found the city in ruins and killed the attacking demons and their leader, the Heaven-Howling Wolf.

After reuniting with his family, Liu Changxu took Liu Fuhai to relieve the Myriad Forms Sect’s desperate siege. They defeated the invading demons and went on to aid several other human powers, leaving Liu Changxu’s standing as Human Race Alliance Leader at an unprecedented height.

• Liu Changxu celebrated a warm family banquet at the Purple Tenuity Palace after returning from Liezhou Immortal City.
• Liu Fuhai asked to accompany Liu Changxu to the Myriad Forms Sect, while Liu Fuzhao offered to join them and was told to remain with Duan Yuwei and protect the Heavenly Mystery Sect.
• Liu Changxu and Liu Fuhai arrived at the Myriad Forms Sect and found it under attack by five eighth-tier demons and a vast Demon Race Army.
• Liu Changxu and Liu Fuhai slew the five eighth-tier demons and destroyed the army attacking the Myriad Forms Sect.
• Liu Changxu and Liu Fuhai helped destroy three armies attacking the Myriad Forms Sect’s immortal cities, then relieved crises at the Sea-Calming Sect, the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty, and the Ten-Thousand Buddha Temple.
• Liu Changxu’s prestige among the human race reached an unprecedented peak.

Liu Changxu sent Liu Fuhai and the Demon Suppression Army to eliminate the scattered Demon Race remnants, then welcomed them back years later. At a family banquet, Liu Fuhai asked to marry Zhou Xuetang, and Liu Changxu approved on the condition that her mother and Aunt Duan agreed.

• Liu Changxu sent Liu Fuhai with one million Demon Suppression Army troops to eradicate the remaining demons across Human Race territories.
• Yang Yuxuan gave birth to Liu Changxu's thirtieth son, Liu Fujiang, whom Liu Changxu doted on.
• In Great Han Year 295, Liu Fuhai returned to Great Liang Immortal City after more than twenty years of campaigning, accompanied by Zhou Xuetang.
• At a family banquet, Liu Fuhai asked Liu Changxu for permission to marry Zhou Xuetang as his principal wife.
• Zhou Xuetang confirmed that she sincerely wished to marry Liu Fuhai, and Liu Changxu approved provided her mother and Aunt Duan agreed.

After Liu Fuhai and Zhou Xuetang married, the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty and Sea-Calming Sect sought marriage alliances with Liu Changxu, who agreed to wed their chosen women to preserve their ties. He married Su Yue'e first in a grand ceremony and began their wedding night at Cloud Sky Immortal Palace.

• Liu Fuhai received Murong Yuyao's approval to marry Zhou Xuetang, and Liu Changxu held a grand wedding for them in Cloud Sky Immortal City.
• The Great Qin Immortal Dynasty and Sea-Calming Sect proposed that Liu Changxu marry Zhao Qingxia and Su Yue'e, respectively, to strengthen their alliances with him.
• Liu Changxu persuaded his wives to accept both proposals and decided to hold separate weddings, marrying Su Yue'e before Zhao Qingxia according to the order of the proposals.
• Liu Changxu and Su Yue'e completed their wedding ceremony at Cloud Sky Immortal Palace on the sixteenth day of the eighth month in the year 296 of Great Han.
• Liu Changxu lifted Su Yue'e's veil in their bridal chamber, praised her beauty, and embraced and kissed her.

Liu Changxu held a grand investiture ceremony to reward his family and strengthen the Great Han Immortal Dynasty, then married Zhao Qingxia and invested her as the Rosy Cloud Consort. Their wedding night ended with Zhao Qingxia playfully teasing him and the two beginning a game of chase in their bridal chamber.

• Liu Changxu invested his wives, children, and accomplished Liu household members with titles and granted them fiefs and spirit veins.
• Liu Changxu announced another investiture ceremony within three years, and the dynasty grew more united as its fortune rose.
• The Great Han Immortal Dynasty prepared for Liu Changxu's marriage to Commandery Princess Qingxia, Zhao Qingxia, of the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty.
• Liu Changxu and Zhao Qingxia married at the Cloud Sky Immortal Palace, and he invested her as the Rosy Cloud Consort.
• Zhao Qingxia made her hand vanish to tease Liu Changxu, who responded by starting a playful chase around their bridal chamber.

Liu Changxu held a Grand Enfeoffment for Great Han's officials and armies, then devoted himself to nurturing his wives and children. Liu Fuyin successfully transcended her tribulation, and by Great Han Year 355 his family had made substantial cultivation progress.

• On the tenth day of the first month in Great Han Year 300, Liu Changxu convened the Grand Enfeoffment ceremony and ordered Liu Fuyue to read the proclamation.
• Liu Fuyue announced noble titles for more than seventeen thousand recipients, most of them cultivators serving in Great Han's armies.
• Liu Changxu arranged for Liu Fuyin to enter seclusion on Ascension Peak, where she successfully transcended her tribulation after more than thirty years.
• After Liu Fuyin's breakthrough, Liu Changxu prepared Ascension Peak for Xiao Zier to enter seclusion and attempt her own tribulation.
• By Great Han Year 355, Liu Changxu's children and wives had advanced in cultivation, though several wives still needed a suitable place or further preparation before attempting tribulations.

After developing the Pregnancy Spirit Pill, Liu Changxu helped Su Yue'e and Zhao Qingxia conceive and welcomed two more children. He later sent his family and the Great Han Imperial Guards to attack the Boundless Sea Demon Race, where Liu Fuhai's force began a smooth campaign using a powerful detection mirror.

• Liu Changxu developed the eighth-tier Pregnancy Spirit Pill, and Su Yue'e and Zhao Qingxia both conceived after taking it.
• Su Yue'e gave birth to Liu Fuchang, and Zhao Qingxia gave birth to Liu Fuzhen in Great Han Year 358.
• Liu Changxu organized his wives and children into two forces to lead the Great Han Imperial Guards against the Boundless Sea Demon Race while he secretly guarded them.
• On March 15, Great Han Year 361, Liu Fuhai and Liu Fuyin led one million guards into the Boundless Sea aboard two skyships.
• Liu Fuhai rejected Liu Fuchao's suggestion to split the forces and revealed the Innate Sea-Searching Mirror, which exposed Demon Race hideouts on the seabed.
• Liu Fuhai sent troops to eliminate sea monsters at the discovered cave abodes, and the campaign proceeded smoothly.

After half a year of hunting sea monsters without finding an eighth-tier target, Liu Fuhai and Liu Fuyin discovered and fought an eighth-tier inferior-grade Blackgold Tortoise. They killed it, but its primordial spirit escaped.

• The Sea-Searching Mirror warned Liu Fuhai of an eighth-tier sea monster's cave abode, and he learned that the creature was a Blackgold Tortoise.
• Liu Fuhai and Liu Fuyin left their skyships in their siblings' care and went to confront the Blackgold Tortoise without the Imperial Guards.
• Liu Changxu noticed the siblings' departure, concealed his aura, and rushed after them.
• Liu Fuhai and Liu Fuyin attacked the Blackgold Tortoise with their innate spirit treasures and wounded it.
• The Blackgold Tortoise fled into the sea, but the siblings pursued and killed it after another fierce fight.
• The Blackgold Tortoise used his last strength to let his primordial spirit escape.

Liu Fuhai and Liu Fuyin slew an eighth-tier Blackgold Tortoise, explored its cave, and mined a vast spirit gold vein before continuing through the Boundless Sea. When an eighth-tier Netherworld Sea Serpent badly injured Liu Fuyin, Liu Changxu intervened, helped Liu Fuhai kill it, and ended the siblings’ sea-monster campaign.

• Liu Fuhai and Liu Fuyin killed the eighth-tier Blackgold Tortoise, then explored its cave and found high-grade Spirit Treasures and a large spirit gold vein.
• Liu Fujiao, Liu Fuyue, Liu Fuhai, Liu Fuyin, and the Imperial Guards mined the vein for over a month before continuing deeper into the Boundless Sea.
• A month later, Liu Fuhai and Liu Fuyin pursued an eighth-tier Netherworld Sea Serpent into the sea’s depths, where it struck Liu Fuyin and grievously injured her.
• Liu Changxu used the Wishful Soul-Destroying Lamp to wound the serpent’s Primordial Spirit, allowing Liu Fuhai to kill it.
• Liu Changxu gave Liu Fuyin an immortal healing pill, sent her to recover in the Ruyi Lotus Palace, and declared the sea-monster campaign over.

Liu Changxu returned to Cloud Sky Immortal City with his family after Liu Fuyin was gravely injured, then prepared for Xiao Zier’s coming tribulation while worrying about the expedition to Taibai Star. Xiao Zier survived the tribulation and advanced to the early Tribulation Transcendence stage, leaving her family to celebrate her breakthrough.

• Liu Changxu halted the sea-monster operation after Liu Fuyin was wounded and returned to Cloud Sky Immortal City with the Imperial Guards.
• Liu Changxu’s family shared stories of the hunt at a banquet, and he said they would wait until Xiao Zier advanced before planning another expedition.
• Wu Xuege told Liu Changxu that no news had arrived from the human Expeditionary Army traveling to Taibai Star, and he resolved to create interstellar communication spirit treasures.
• Liu Changxu arrived at Ascension Peak and gave Xiao Zier tribulation-transcending spirit treasures as her tribulation began.
• Xiao Zier endured the tribulation lightning and heart demon trial, then advanced to the early Tribulation Transcendence stage.
• Xiao Zier thanked Liu Changxu, and Wu Xuege, Murong Yuyao, Zhao Qi'er, and the other women congratulated her.

After Xiao Zier emerged from seclusion, Liu Changxu celebrated her advancement with a family banquet, rewarded his brother Liu Changyan, and invested her as Southern Palace Immortal Empress. Concerned about threats from the cosmic starry sky, he arranged for Liu Changlan to attempt a breakthrough and, more than a decade later, completed the Constellation Tokens for interstellar communication.

• Xiao Zier stabilized her cultivation and emerged from seclusion, after which Liu Changxu spent three months with her and hosted a grand family banquet.
• Liu Changxu welcomed Liu Changyan and numerous descendants, gave talented juniors spirit treasures, and dined with the gathered lineage members.
• At a court assembly, Liu Changxu named Liu Changyan the Rock Prince, expanded his fief, and invested Xiao Zier as the Southern Palace Immortal Empress.
• Liu Changxu arranged for Liu Changlan to enter seclusion and attempt to break through to the eighth tier because the dynasty needed more powerful experts.
• After more than a decade of research, Liu Changxu refined twenty-eight Constellation Tokens that enabled cultivators of at least the integrated body early stage to communicate across cultivation stars.

Liu Changxu refined Constellation Tokens and distributed them to his family, giving them a way to communicate across great distances. Later, Liu Changlan survived a six-colored heavenly tribulation and advanced to the eighth-tier inferior-grade realm.

• Liu Changxu completed twenty-eight Constellation Tokens and gave one to Liu Fufeng, instructing him to refine more communication treasures.
• Liu Changxu demonstrated the tokens' communication abilities to Wu Xuege and distributed them among the imperial consorts and Duan Yuwei, Zisu, and Zi Ling.
• In March of Great Han Year 402, Liu Changlan drew down a six-colored heavenly tribulation on Ascension Peak, and Liu Changxu hurried to watch.
• Liu Changlan used the Tribulation-Transcending Pearl to withstand the first seventy bolts, then faced the seventy-first in his true form and endured the remaining lightning with his body.
• Liu Changlan survived the heavenly and inner demon tribulations and advanced to the eighth-tier inferior-grade realm.

Liu Changxu led his family and a million Great Han Imperial Guards into the Boundless Sea to hunt demons, taking command himself after Liu Fuyin had been injured on an earlier expedition. The expedition began with a successful hunt, then met a vast school of Tuna Demons, and the battle was still raging as Imperial Guards suffered casualties.

• Liu Changxu departed Penglai Immortal City aboard the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle with his wives, children, and a million Imperial Guards, while Liu Qingying asked when he would go to Taibai Star to see Liu Fuyu.
• The Sea-Searching Mirror found a seventh-tier low-grade Vajra Crab, and Su Jinxiu killed it after a fierce battle, though its primordial spirit escaped.
• Liu Changxu promised to refine Su Jinxiu a spirit treasure that could attack souls, and his family held a crab banquet using the Vajra Crab.
• The shuttle encountered tens of millions of Tuna Demons, and Duan Yuwei ordered the million Imperial Guards to emerge and encircle them.
• The Imperial Guards formed battle formations and attacked the Tuna Demons, who retaliated with golden spear light and began injuring and killing soldiers.

Liu Changxu led the Great Han Imperial Guards, his wives, and his children on a demon-hunting expedition in the Boundless Sea, using the battles to strengthen them. After five years of fighting and collecting spoils, the expedition continued with his family and troops eager for more.

• Liu Changxu allowed his children to join the battle against the Tuna Demons, and they fought alongside the Imperial Guards until the demons were defeated after a day and night.
• The Imperial Guards suffered heavy casualties but collected the Tuna Demon corpses, and Liu Changxu distributed the surplus as rewards before continuing deeper into the sea.
• Zhao Qi'er volunteered to fight a seventh-tier supreme-grade Azure Dragon Lobster and eventually killed it after a fierce battle that left her injured.
• Liu Changxu continued assigning strong Sea Monsters to his wives and children for training and sending the Imperial Guards against large groups of monsters.
• Liu Changxu led his family and a million Imperial Guards on a demon-hunting expedition that lasted five years, and none of them grew tired of it.

After returning victorious from the demon-hunting war, Liu Changxu learned that the Liu Lineage had nine billion members but too few powerful cultivators to secure its standing. He made strengthening the lineage his priority and established new institutions and an Imperial Guard Army to develop its members.

• Liu Changxu returned to Cloud Sky Immortal City after the Imperial Guards slew numerous sea monsters and gathered abundant spirit treasures with few casualties.
• At a victory banquet, Liu Fuyue reported that the Liu Household had nine billion members, including ninety-five million cultivators and 168,000 Golden Core cultivators.
• Liu Changxu resolved to expand the lineage and invest more in its younger generation, directing his children to encourage marriage and childbirth.
• Liu Changxu and the lineage's senior members established a Clan Affairs Office and councils and halls to manage lineage matters separately from the immortal dynasty.
• Liu Changxu ordered the formation of an Imperial Guard Army for Liu Lineage members at the Golden Core stage or above, promising generous resources and strict discipline.

The Liu Lineage grew rapidly through childbirth rewards, abundant resources, and improved cultivation training. After more than thirty years of seclusion, Yang Yuxuan overcame the Tribulation Transcendence tribulation with Liu Changxu’s help and advanced to the Early Tribulation Transcendence Stage.

• The Liu Lineage’s childbirth rewards and fertility pills increased its population from nine billion to twenty billion in thirty years and produced more talented young cultivators.
• In September of Great Han year 442, Yang Yuxuan faced her Tribulation Transcendence tribulation after more than thirty years of seclusion on Ascension Peak.
• Liu Changxu arrived and gave Yang Yuxuan a Storage Bracelet filled with Tribulation-Transcending Pearls, while Liu Fujiang came to guard his mother.
• Yang Yuxuan used the pearls to withstand the six-colored heavenly tribulation, then passed the heart demon trial with only minor injuries.
• As Thunder Tribulation Rain Dew fell, Yang Yuxuan transformed and advanced to the Early Tribulation Transcendence Stage, then received congratulations from Liu Changxu, Liu Fujiang, and the other women.

Liu Changxu decided to travel to Taibai Star to check on his sons and attempt a breakthrough to the Mahayana Realm, while leaving enough power on Sea God Star to protect the Great Han Immortal Dynasty. He and his family organized a large Expeditionary Army, which other human powers also agreed to join.

• Liu Changxu discussed the journey with his consorts, and Duan Yuwei, Wu Xuege, Murong Yuyao, Yang Yuxuan, Zi Ling, and Zisu agreed to remain on Sea God Star.
• Liu Changxu and his children decided to raise a three-hundred-thousand-strong Great Han Expeditionary Army, transfer twenty thousand Imperial Guard soldiers, and include several of his children in the expedition.
• Duan Yuwei prepared a force of Heavenly Mystery Sect disciples led by her eldest disciple, Xiao Ningxue.
• The Myriad Forms Sect, Sea-Calming Sect, Great Qin Immortal Dynasty, and Ten-Thousand Buddha Temple offered troops, and Liu Changxu assembled their forces under the Human Race Alliance banner.

Liu Changxu prepared his family and the Great Han Immortal Dynasty for his departure, then led a 1.5-million-person expedition to Taibai Star. Aboard the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle, he arranged separate quarters and duties for the expeditionary forces and assigned his accompanying family to monitor the starry sky in shifts.

• Wu Xuege and Murong Yuyao advanced to the middle Tribulation Transcendence stage, and Duan Yuwei later advanced to the late stage.
• Liu Changxu held a family banquet to celebrate Duan Yuwei’s breakthrough and encouraged everyone to remain spirited during his coming absence.
• Liu Changxu discussed arrangements for the Liu Lineage and Great Han Immortal Dynasty with his family at the banquet.
• Liu Changxu departed Great Liang Immortal City for Taibai Star aboard the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle with an expeditionary army of 1.5 million.
• Liu Changxu arranged separate living areas and activities for the expeditionary forces aboard the shuttle.
• Liu Changxu divided his accompanying wives and children into six groups to take turns monitoring the cosmic starry sky.

After years of uneventful travel, Liu Changxu diverted the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle to explore the dangerous Begonia Nebula at his wives’ urging. The shuttle reached the nebula and encountered a planet spewing poison that corroded its shield, while Liu Changxu began searching it for treasures.

• The Expeditionary Army soldiers grew increasingly restless during the long journey, and violent conflicts broke out among them.
• Su Jinxiu spotted the Begonia Nebula, and Liu Changxu learned from the Star Compass that it was dangerous but rich in high-tier Spirit Treasures.
• Liu Changxu agreed to visit the nebula and ordered the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle to change course toward it.
• After half a year, the shuttle reached the Begonia Nebula and passed a planet whose poisonous green smoke and dust corroded its Spiritual Power Shield.
• Liu Changxu ordered the shuttle to circle the planet and used his Seven-Colored Glazed Eyes to search for hidden Spirit Treasures.

Liu Changxu found and refined the eighth-tier supreme-grade Ten Thousand Poisons Pearl, then joined Dongxue at a small planet covered in spirit gold ore. He suspected the planet’s core might contain ninth-tier spirit gold.

• Liu Changxu entered the volcano, seized the Ten Thousand Poisons Pearl from the magma, and sealed it after recognizing its grade.
• Liu Changxu returned to the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle and told Xiao Zier, Zhao Qi'er, and the others about the pearl and the poisoned spirit treasures on the star.
• Liu Changxu destroyed the pearl’s resisting artifact spirit with the Red Lotus Soul-Extinguishing Needle and completed its refinement after half a year in seclusion.
• Liu Changxu learned from Dongxue that Xiao Zier, Zhao Qi'er, and the others had taken the Expeditionary Army to mine a nearby planet’s high-grade spirit gold vein.
• Liu Changxu and Dongxue flew to the golden planet, where Liu Changxu suspected its ore-covered core might contain ninth-tier spirit gold.