Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu chose the Eastern Sea as the direction for the Great Han Immortal Dynasty's expansion and selected Golden Ring Island as its target after comparing three islands. Most of the Liu Household and the dynasty's leaders agreed to join the expedition, while Liu Fuyang and a few others stayed on White Wolf Mountain.

• Liu Changxu decided to seek territory in the Eastern Sea and ordered Liu Fuyang, Liu Ba, and Liu Yu to gather intelligence.
• After reviewing reports, Liu Changxu considered Golden Ring Island, Fireland Island, and Pine Needle Island, each of which held a ninth-tier spirit vein.
• Liu Changxu ruled out Pine Needle Island and chose Golden Ring Island because its golden crab clan lacked a powerful backer, unlike the fire dragon on Fireland Island.
• Liu Changxu announced the plan to attack Golden Ring Island and let the assembled leaders decide whether to go or remain on White Wolf Mountain.
• Most of the Liu Household and Great Han Immortal Dynasty chose to accompany Liu Changxu, while Liu Fuyang and a few others stayed behind.

Liu Changxu traveled with Gao Sheng to Heavenly Lake Sacred Land, where he met Jin Haonan and Zhang Wen Ping and was appointed guest Grand Supreme Elder. He declined to formally join the sacred land but accepted Snow Wolf Peak and three attendants as benefits of his position.

• Gao Sheng invited Liu Changxu to Heavenly Lake Sacred Land to meet his senior brothers and settle the benefits of serving as guest Grand Supreme Elder.
• Liu Changxu reassured his worried family and left with Gao Sheng, reaching the sacred land after three days of travel.
• Gao Sheng introduced Liu Changxu to Jin Haonan and Zhang Wen Ping after they finished their game of Go.
• Jin Haonan and Zhang Wen Ping praised Liu Changxu for helping end the human-demon war and invited him into Heavenly Lake Palace.
• Liu Changxu declined to formally join Heavenly Lake Sacred Land, but accepted the guest Grand Supreme Elder position, Snow Wolf Peak, and three attendants.

Liu Changxu accepted three women offered by the Heavenly Lake Sacred Land, named himself Red Lotus Sacred Emperor, and served as a Guest Grand Supreme Elder. After three months of dual cultivation, Li Yu advanced to the Body Integration Realm while Lin Fengqing and Huang Xuefei reached great perfection Void Refinement, revealing why Liu Changxu had spent his time with them.

• Gao Sheng brought Liu Changxu to Snow Wolf Peak, where Li Yu, Lin Fengqing, and Huang Xuefei were waiting to serve him.
• Liu Changxu asked the three women to swear Heavenly Dao Oaths of loyalty, then declared his title to be Red Lotus Sacred Emperor.
• The next morning, Liu Changxu attended the Heavenly Lake Sacred Land's leadership meeting as a Guest Grand Supreme Elder and avoided taking part in its internal affairs.
• Liu Changxu spent the following months dual cultivating with Li Yu, Lin Fengqing, and Huang Xuefei, drawing criticism from members of the sacred land.
• Three months later, Li Yu passed her heavenly tribulation and entered the Body Integration Realm, while Lin Fengqing and Huang Xuefei reached great perfection Void Refinement.

Liu Changxu returned to White Wolf Mountain and formally married Li Yu, Lin Fengqing, and Huang Xuefei, while his son Liu Fuyang married Guo Xuetang. He then began arranging marriages for the soldiers bound for Golden Ring Island, laying the groundwork for the expedition’s settlement there.

• Liu Changxu left Li Yu, Lin Fengqing, and Huang Xuefei at the Heavenly Lake Sacred Land, gave them cultivation treasures, and returned to White Wolf Mountain.
• After telling his wives about his Dao Companions, Liu Changxu agreed to formally marry the three women and to seek Guo Xuetang’s hand for Liu Fuyang.
• Liu Changxu returned to the Heavenly Lake Sacred Land with Liu Fuyang, and Jin Haonan, Zhang Wen Ping, and Gao Sheng agreed to both marriages.
• Liu Changxu married Li Yu, Lin Fengqing, and Huang Xuefei at White Wolf Mountain, and two months later Liu Fuyang married Guo Xuetang.
• Liu Changxu tasked Liu Fuyang and others with finding spouses for the household members and soldiers joining the Golden Ring Island expedition.
• Liu Fuyang and his companions offered generous bride prices to arrange marriages, prompting nearby lineages to seek alliances with the Liu Household.

Liu Changxu welcomed the births of three children before leading more than five hundred thousand Liu Household members and Expeditionary Army soldiers toward Golden Ring Island. Aboard the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship, he and his family set out to establish roots on the island and reunite the family.

• Liu Fuyang and the others cracked down on bandit cultivators trafficking women while completing Liu Changxu’s marriage-arrangement task.
• Li Yu gave birth to Liu Fuqing, Huang Xuefei gave birth to Liu Fuquan, and Lin Fengqing gave birth to Liu Fujian.
• After the three infants passed their first month, Liu Changxu gathered the expedition force and used the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship to carry them from White Wolf Mountain.
• Liu Changxu departed for Golden Ring Island with some of his wives and children, while others remained behind and Li Yu, Lin Fengqing, and Huang Xuefei took their newborns to the Heavenly Lake Sacred Land.
• Liu Changxu told his family they would reunite after establishing roots on Golden Ring Island, and his wives and children resolved to press on despite their separation.

Liu Changxu and his family watched a golden mystic turtle survive its tribulation and advance to the eighth tier, then captured it with the Ruyi Yellow-Black Tower. At Xiao Zier’s request, he forced the turtle to accept her as its master, and she named it Mystic Shell.

• After more than three months crossing the Eastern Sea without incident, Liu Changxu’s family spotted a golden mystic turtle undergoing tribulation and changed course to watch.
• Liu Changxu explained the turtle’s formidable defense and steady mind as Liu Fuba and the others observed its tribulation for their own cultivation.
• The golden mystic turtle survived its final bolt of lightning and advanced to eighth-tier inferior-grade, but Liu Changxu immediately captured and suppressed it with the Ruyi Yellow-Black Tower.
• Liu Changxu sent his family to explore an eighth-tier inferior-grade spirit vein beneath the sea, while Xiao Zier asked to take the turtle as her spirit pet.
• Liu Changxu threatened the turtle with death unless it submitted to Xiao Zier, and it accepted a master-servant contract after she offered her essence blood.
• Xiao Zier named the golden mystic turtle Mystic Shell, and it bowed to acknowledge her as its master.

Liu Changxu and his family reached Golden Ring Island to destroy the Golden Crab clan, and he confronted its ninth-tier Crab Emperor alone. Liu Changxu gained the upper hand with his Innate Spirit Treasures, but the wounded Crab Emperor was still resisting in his true form.

• After more than three months at sea, Liu Changxu and his family arrived near Golden Ring Island, and Liu Changxu assigned Xiao Zier to hold off the island’s other powerful demons.
• Liu Changxu flew ahead and burned the Golden Crab patrol to ashes with a net of crimson flames.
• The ninth-tier Golden Crab Emperor emerged and attacked Liu Changxu with enormous golden shears.
• Liu Changxu used his Innate Spirit Treasures to overwhelm the Crab Emperor, whose defenses faltered under the Ruyi Soul-Destroying Lamp and Ruyi Void-Mystic Mirror.
• The Crab Emperor transformed into a gigantic golden crab and continued fighting, though his armor was badly cracked and his defeat seemed imminent.

Xiao Zier’s forces broke the Golden Crab army’s encirclement while Liu Changxu defeated and killed the ninth-tier Crab Emperor. With the remaining eighth-tier crab demons driven off or slain, the Expeditionary Army landed on Golden Ring Island to attack the surviving crabs.

• Xiao Zier maneuvered the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship out of the crab demons’ encirclement and destroyed or drove off the three eighth-tier supreme-grade demons pursuing it.
• Liu Changxu overwhelmed the ninth-tier Crab Emperor with his treasures and formations, blocked the Golden Crab reinforcements, and annihilated the Emperor’s body and primordial spirit.
• Liu Changxu collected the Crab Emperor’s demonic blood, then hunted down nearly all the fleeing eighth-tier crab demons while Xiao Zier kept her troops aboard the battleship.
• After Liu Changxu gave permission to sortie, Xiao Zier ordered the Expeditionary Army to attack Golden Ring Island.
• Two hundred thousand Expeditionary Army soldiers emerged from the battleship’s teleportation arrays, formed battle formations, and assaulted the remaining Golden Crab demons.

After the Great Han Immortal Dynasty’s army subdued Golden Ring Island, Liu Changxu searched Crab God Mountain and entered the Crab Emperor’s cave abode. He discovered and refined Diamond Mountain, an eighth-tier supreme-grade spatial spirit treasure containing a vast collection of spirit materials, and stored it in his dantian.

• The Expeditionary Army swept across Golden Ring Island, while Liu Changxu went to Crab God Mountain to search for its ninth-tier spirit vein.
• Liu Changxu found and broke the formation concealing the Crab Emperor’s cave abode, then entered its underground palace.
• Liu Changxu discovered a rockery emitting spatial fluctuations and identified it as an eighth-tier supreme-grade spatial spirit treasure.
• The artifact spirit resisted Liu Changxu’s attempt to refine the treasure, but he subdued it and erased the Crab Emperor’s lingering aura.
• The artifact spirit revealed that the treasure was called Diamond Mountain and held the Crab Emperor’s accumulated spirit materials and treasures.
• Liu Changxu stored Diamond Mountain in his dantian to nourish it, planning to inspect its contents later.

After the Crab Demons were defeated on Golden Ring Island, Liu Changxu oversaw postwar duties and spent years preparing and building a ninth-tier island-guarding formation. The Greater Celestial Circuit Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Formation was completed, while his Innate Spirit Treasures advanced to the low ninth tier.

• Liu Changxu and the women celebrated their spoils, and he ordered the Great Han Immortal Dynasty to reward soldiers and compensate the families of the fallen.
• Three days later, the Crab Demons were wiped out, and Xiao Zier and the others organized the spoils, rewards, and compensation.
• Liu Changxu and Liu Fufeng surveyed Golden Ring Island and chose the Greater Celestial Circuit Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Formation to guard it.
• Liu Changxu spent three years completing the formation diagram, while his Innate Spirit Treasures devoured ninth-tier materials and advanced to the low ninth tier.
• Liu Changxu and Liu Fufeng finished preparing the formation implements, and five months after the final formation disc was completed, Liu Changxu activated the formation across Golden Ring Island.

After Golden Ring Island’s cities and Liu lineage territory were completed, Liu Changxu investigated a gathering sea-monster tide with Liu Fufeng and discovered that the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Race had organized it. He sent Liu Fufeng back to prepare for battle while he headed east to confront the race and its Azure Dragon Race allies.

• Liu Changxu and the dynasty’s leaders finalized a plan to build five immortal cities and establish the Liu lineage’s territory around Crab God Mountain.
• The Liu Household and dynasty officials oversaw construction, and after more than twenty years the cities and lineage territory were completed in Great Han Year 739.
• Liu Changxu handed dynasty and lineage affairs to Liu Fufeng and others, but a sudden increase in sea monsters prompted Liu Fufeng to send out investigators.
• Liu Changxu and Liu Fufeng flew out to sea and found vast numbers of sea monsters converging on Golden Ring Island.
• Liu Changxu captured and searched a seventh-tier Yellow Dragon Shrimp Demon, learning that the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Race had incited the tide and sought help from the Azure Dragon Race.
• Liu Changxu told Liu Fufeng to return and prepare for battle, then sped east to confront the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Race and the Azure Dragon Race.

Liu Changxu traveled to the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Race’s territory and confronted the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor and Ao Jing, Dragon Emperor, after they joined forces to stop him. The two emperors launched their attacks, leaving Liu Changxu facing a fierce battle.

• Liu Changxu killed an elite force of Yellow Dragon Shrimp Demons with red lotus karma fire and continued eastward.
• Liu Changxu reached the golden waters of the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Race, and patrols reported his arrival to their leaders.
• Three eighth-tier supreme-grade Yellow Dragon Shrimp Demons told the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor that a human Mahayana expert was approaching Yellow Mountain Island.
• Ao Jing, Dragon Emperor, agreed to confront Liu Changxu, and he and the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor flew out to meet him.
• The Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor attacked Liu Changxu with a lightning-fast punch, while Ao Jing sent an enormous Azure Orb crashing down on him.

Liu Changxu used his Spirit Treasures to gain the upper hand against the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor and Ao Jing, Dragon Emperor, then killed the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor with a surprise attack. Ao Jing fled into the Eastern Sea, and Liu Changxu stored the defeated emperor’s corpse in the Ruyi Lotus Palace.

• Liu Changxu unleashed his Spirit Treasures, suppressing the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor and Ao Jing, Dragon Emperor, and forcing them to rely on evasive tactics.
• After six hours of fighting, Liu Changxu baited the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor into attacking from behind and struck its divine soul with golden phantom needles.
• Liu Changxu hit the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor with the Red Lotus Heaven-Burning Palm, then finished it with his Spirit Treasures and burned away its primordial spirit.
• Ao Jing, Dragon Emperor, spent a thousand years of cultivation to flee toward the deepest reaches of the Eastern Sea.
• Liu Changxu recalled his Spirit Treasures and stored the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor’s corpse in the Ruyi Lotus Palace.

After killing the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor, Liu Changxu raided Yellow Mountain Island, collected its treasures, and used the emperor’s flesh to advance his cultivation. He then searched the seabed near the island and discovered a high-grade spirit gold vein.

• Liu Changxu sent Xiao Zier a message asking her to send people to Yellow Mountain Island, then sealed the island and slaughtered nearly all the high-tier Yellow Dragon Shrimp Demons there.
• Liu Changxu plundered the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor’s cave abode, finding a Mid-Ninth-Tier Seven-Colored Orb and many other treasures.
• Liu Changxu searched the island’s other cave abodes and sorted the ninth-tier treasures he had gathered, setting aside lower-tier items for his wives and the Household Treasury.
• Liu Changxu cooked and ate two dishes using the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor’s flesh, then spent three days refining its spirit energy to stabilize his cultivation.
• Liu Changxu searched the seabed near Yellow Mountain Island with his divine sense and found traces of a high-grade spirit gold vein.

Liu Changxu mined the spirit gold beneath Yellow Mountain Island, then returned to Golden Ring Island and reunited with his wives and children from White Wolf Mountain. During the family banquet, he thought of his family on Sea God Star and decided to return to them.

• Liu Changxu used his Mining Divine Ability to extract and refine the undersea spirit gold veins around Yellow Mountain Island.
• Xiao Zier arrived with the Liu Household Members, and Liu Changxu sent them to search Yellow Mountain Island for remaining Spirit Treasures.
• Liu Changxu returned to Golden Ring Island and completed a Teleportation Array to White Wolf Mountain three years later.
• Liu Qingying and Xiao Ningxue brought Liu Fuyu and Liu Futian to reunite with Liu Changxu, while Li Yu, Lin Fengqing, and Huang Xuefei arrived with Liu Fuqing, Liu Fuquan, and Liu Fujian.
• Liu Changxu held a family banquet and, thinking of his family on Sea God Star, resolved to return to them.

Liu Changxu spent ten years building an Interstellar Teleportation Array on Golden Ring Island so his family could travel between Taibai Star and Sea God Star. After sending his avatar to establish the Sea God Star array, he began giving sermons to his family and clan, leaving them waiting for news of the teleportation.

• Liu Changxu obtained rare spirit materials from the Heavenly Lake Sacred Land and used Crab God Mountain’s ninth-tier spirit vein to power the Interstellar Teleportation Array.
• After ten years of work, Liu Changxu completed the array on March 18, in the year 755 of Great Han, and decided to send his avatar to Sea God Star with its Formation Platform.
• Liu Changxu’s avatar activated the array and vanished in a burst of spatial energy, while his family waited for news.
• Liu Changxu gave sermons to his wives, children, and other clansmen, building a Sermon Platform near Crab God Mountain for their cultivation lessons.

Liu Changxu arranged for Zhao Qi'er and his sons Liu Fuba, Liu Fuyang, and Liu Fuyu to enter seclusion and attempt tribulation transcendence. Over the following decades, all four successfully broke through, though Zhao Qi'er nearly succumbed to her injuries and heart demon tribulation before Liu Changxu helped her.

• Liu Changxu sent Zhao Qi'er, Liu Fuba, Liu Fuyang, and Liu Fuyu into seclusion to prepare for tribulation transcendence, while delaying other cultivators' breakthroughs until suitable cave abodes became available.
• More than thirty years later, Liu Fuba faced his heavenly tribulation and used the Tribulation-Transcending Pearl to survive it, then overcame the heart demon tribulation and advanced to tribulation transcendence.
• Two months later, Zhao Qi'er survived her tribulation lightning but suffered severe injuries and faltered during the heart demon tribulation, so Liu Changxu steadied her mind and helped her break through.
• A month later, Liu Fuyang calmly passed his lightning and heart demon tribulations and advanced to tribulation transcendence.
• Half a month afterward, Liu Fuyu endured his tribulations and became a cultivator of the tribulation transcendence realm.

After the Troll Race invaded Taibai Star and attacked the Kunlun Sacred Land, Liu Changxu abandoned his seclusion and gathered his family to plan a response. He agreed to join the fight if summoned and planned to prepare an avatar to defend Golden Ring Island in his absence.

• The Troll Race army arrived on Taibai Star with eight Mahayana experts and slaughtered people under the Kunlun Sacred Land while its Sacred Emperors held their mountain fortress.
• Heavenly Lake Sacred Emperor Jin Haonan sent Gao Sheng to guard Taibai Mountain and led Zhang Yunping and an army to aid Kunlun, while sending Liu Changxu news of the invasion.
• Liu Changxu ended his seclusion and summoned the Liu Household's senior members to Crab God Mountain to discuss the crisis.
• Liu Changxu explained to Liu Fuqing that the trolls viewed humans as food, and she understood the danger they faced.
• Liu Fuyang asked how Golden Ring Island would be protected if Liu Changxu went to war, so Liu Changxu said he would prepare an avatar to guard the Island-Guarding Grand Formation and cover the family's escape if needed.

Liu Changxu formed an Early Mahayana Stage avatar as the Human Race struggled against the invading Troll Race and prepared a prolonged war. After arranging affairs on Golden Ring Island, he traveled to the Kunlun Sacred Land with his family and fifty thousand Imperial Guards.

• Liu Changxu entered seclusion to form an avatar, while the Human Race and Troll Race began fighting on a massive scale.
• The Human Race's Mahayana experts counterattacked with reinforcements but retreated to Kunlun Mountain after losing ground and suffering heavy casualties.
• The human leaders sought an alliance with the Demon Race, but abandoned the plan after the demons demanded harsh conditions.
• The Human Race protected civilians and lower-level cultivators and issued a Demon-Slaying Order, while the Troll Race's high-level experts grew stronger through blood sacrifices.
• After more than a year, Liu Changxu completed an Early Mahayana Stage avatar, gathered his family and fifty thousand Imperial Guards, and traveled to the Kunlun Sacred Land.

Liu Changxu joined the Human Race leaders at Kunlun Sacred Land as they prepared a counterattack against the Troll Race with support from three Demon Race factions. During the battle, he overwhelmed and killed a powerful Troll Race Demon Emperor with his many Innate Spirit Treasures, leaving the wider war underway.

• Jin Haonan welcomed Liu Changxu to Kunlun Sacred Land and introduced him to the Human Race's Sacred Emperors.
• Jin Haonan explained that the Golden Wind Eagle Emperor, Silvermoon Wolf Emperor, and Red Fox Demon Emperor had agreed to join the counterattack against the Troll Race.
• On Liu Changxu's fifth day at Kunlun Sacred Land, he and the other Sacred Emperors launched a surprise assault on the Troll Race troops outside its gates, and eight Demon Emperors arrived to fight them.
• Liu Changxu targeted a peak early-Mahayana Troll Race Demon Emperor whose Soul-Destroying Demonic Light had helped the Troll Race defeat the Humans in the previous war.
• Liu Changxu used the Wishful Soul-Destroying Lamp and Ruyi Void-Mystic Mirror to restrain the Demon Emperor while his other Innate Spirit Treasures attacked.
• The Red Lotus Immortal Swords killed the Demon Emperor before his Primordial Spirit could escape.