Chapter Summaries

After witnessing the battle between the Northern Nether Immortal Emperor and the Kunpeng Demon Emperor, Liu Changxu perfected his understanding of the Origin Laws and devised a powerful spatial escape technique to protect his family. When he visited Bai Xuefeng, she warned him that the Northern Nether Immortal Palace would likely fall and told him to prepare to retreat.

• The Northern Nether Immortal Emperor fought the Kunpeng Demon Emperor for three days before retreating behind the Island-Guarding Grand Formation, which the Kunpeng Demon Emperor failed to break.
• Liu Changxu gained complete comprehension of the Origin Laws and an introductory grasp of the Spatial Great Dao Laws by observing the battle, then reassured Huang Yuqiang and his children that he could take them to safety if necessary.
• Liu Changxu secluded himself in the Ruyi Lotus Disc and devised the spatial escape technique Endless Distance in a Single Step, though using it required immense immortal power and a sturdy body.
• After learning that the sea monsters had not attacked and that Bai Xuefeng had asked to see him, Liu Changxu went to her mountain residence.
• Bai Xuefeng told Liu Changxu that the Northern Nether Immortal Palace would most likely be unable to hold out and urged him to prepare to retreat.

Bai Xuefeng told Liu Changxu that the Northern Nether Immortal Palace would soon be unable to withstand the demon assault, as two more Quasi-Emperors would arrive within five days. With reinforcements too far away and neighboring domains refusing to help, the palace planned no coordinated evacuation, so Liu Changxu agreed to flee with Bai Xuefeng and Palace Master Xiao.

• Bai Xuefeng explained that two demon Quasi-Emperors would join the one already at sea within five days, overwhelming the Northern Nether Immortal Palace's defenses.
• Bai Xuefeng told Liu Changxu that most neighboring Quasi-Emperors had refused to help, while the Limitless Immortal Emperor could not arrive for over a month.
• Liu Changxu learned that a retreat could leave countless cultivators and ordinary people stranded in the Northern Nether Sea.
• Bai Xuefeng said the palace had made no evacuation plan and invited Liu Changxu to escape with her.
• Liu Changxu agreed to leave with Bai Xuefeng, who confirmed that Palace Master Xiao would join them.

Liu Changxu prepared his family and the Demon Suppression Guard to withdraw from Northern Nether Immortal Island, but the Northern Nether Immortal Emperor ordered the island’s cultivators to fight until the grand formation fell. Liu Changxu and his wives joined the desperate defense as the formation began to break under the Demon Race’s assault.

• Liu Changxu gathered his family, moved them and the Demon Suppression Guard into the Ruyi Lotus Disc, and confirmed withdrawal arrangements with Xiao Ziwei.
• Liu Changxu urged Bai Xuefeng to arrange an evacuation for the outside cultivators, and Bai Xuefeng ordered the General Affairs Hall to do so.
• The Kunpeng Demon Emperor led another beast tide against Northern Nether Immortal Island, and the Northern Nether Immortal Emperor ordered all human experts at the Mahayana Realm or above to fight until the formation was breached.
• Liu Changxu, Huang Yuqiang, and Huang Yuwei went to their assigned defensive sector and joined Xiao Ziwei and Bai Xuefeng as the grand formation crumbled.
• Liu Changxu deployed his Red Lotus Immortal-Slaying Swords, Ruyi Star Beads, and Wishful Demon-Suppressing Tower against the Demon Race, while Huang Yuqiang and Huang Yuwei joined the battle.

Liu Changxu used his Temporal Space Cage and Red Lotus Immortal-Slaying Swords to kill four Taiyi Demon Immortals, drawing the fury of the Demon Race. An early-Great Encompassing Stage Snow Deer attacked the Island-Guarding Grand Formation to avenge its offspring, and Liu Changxu prepared to confront it with the Space Law.

• Liu Changxu trapped four Taiyi Demon Immortals with Temporal Space Cage and attacked them with twelve Red Lotus Immortal-Slaying Swords.
• Liu Changxu killed the Snow Deer and Snow Bear, burning their demon spirits away, while the two White Dragons escaped with theirs.
• Liu Changxu recalled the twelve Ruyi Star Beads as an early-Great Encompassing Stage Snow Deer approached the Grand Formation.
• The Snow Deer assaulted the Island-Guarding Grand Formation with towering ice waves, seeking revenge for its slain offspring.
• Liu Changxu channeled the Great Dao's Space Law and prepared to withstand the Snow Deer's attack.

Liu Changxu used spatial laws to survive the early Great Encompassing snow deer's assault on Northern Nether Immortal Island and wounded it with surprise attacks. The snow deer grew cautious, leaving the battle at a stalemate while the Island-Guarding Grand Formation continued to hold.

• The early Great Encompassing snow deer battered the Island-Guarding Grand Formation with ice attacks, while Liu Changxu used the Wishful Lotus Cauldron and then a Spatial Barrier to defend himself.
• Liu Changxu reinforced his Spatial Barrier with fire origin law, but the snow deer broke through the formation with a thousand-li ice spear and sent it toward him.
• Liu Changxu used spatial power to transport himself, his wives, and nearby Human Race cultivators hundreds of millions of li away, escaping the spear's impact.
• After the formation quickly repaired itself, Liu Changxu sent Huang Yuqiang and Huang Yuwei into the Ruyi Lotus Disc and stayed to attack the snow deer through gaps in the barrier.
• Liu Changxu's Spatial Blades wounded the snow deer, which became more cautious, and the battle settled into a stalemate.

Liu Changxu fought an early-stage Great Encompassing snow deer for three days, using the battle to raise his comprehension of the Great Dao Laws of space and fire. When two more Demon Race Quasi-Emperors arrived and joined the Kunpeng Demon Emperor, their attacks brought the Island-Guarding Grand Formation close to collapse, leaving Liu Changxu to weigh when to retreat.

• Liu Changxu conserved his strength while fighting the early-stage Great Encompassing snow deer and gradually improved his mastery of the Great Dao Laws of space.
• Liu Changxu’s growing skill inspired the Human Race cultivators on the island to fight back against the demons, though their defeat still seemed inevitable.
• After three days of combat, Liu Changxu’s comprehension of the Great Dao Laws of space reached twenty-three percent, and his understanding of the Great Dao of fire reached five percent.
• Two Demon Race Quasi-Emperors, a gigantic white dragon and an Azure Luan, arrived and unleashed Immortal Arts against the Island-Guarding Grand Formation.
• The early-stage Great Encompassing snow deer seized the formation’s damage to attack Liu Changxu, who defended himself with his newly created Grand Void Lotus Wall.
• Liu Changxu watched the Northern Dark Immortal Emperor fight all three Demon Race Quasi-Emperors as the formation neared collapse and considered when to retreat.

As the human forces fled Northern Nether Immortal Island, Liu Changxu escaped the battlefield and later encountered Xiao Ziwei being pursued by a Great Encompassing Snow Fox. He chose not to intervene, but when he found Chu Qing'er under attack by two Taiyi eagle demons, he rushed to help and struck one with his swords.

• The Northern Dark Immortal Emperor ordered an evacuation and fled, pursued by three demon Quasi-Emperors, while Liu Changxu escaped the island using Endless Distance in a Single Step.
• Liu Changxu hid on a snowy mountain to restore his immortal power, then saw Xiao Ziwei being pursued by an early-stage Great Encompassing Snow Fox and decided not to risk confronting it.
• Liu Changxu left his hiding place and discovered two mid-Taiyi stage eagle demons hunting Chu Qing'er, Bai Xuefeng's disciple.
• Liu Changxu flew to help Chu Qing'er, trapped one eagle demon with Temporal Space Cage, and impaled it with three Red Lotus Immortal-Slaying Swords.

Liu Changxu rescued Chu Qing'er from an eagle demon and invited her to travel with him to Cloudreach Mountain. On the way, they discussed the Northern Nether Immortal Palace’s retreat and the danger facing the human forces, before Chu Qing'er rescued fellow disciples being pursued by demons.

• Liu Changxu killed the fleeing eagle demon with his Red Lotus Immortal-Slaying Swords and rescued Chu Qing'er, who explained that she and Ping'er had been separated while fleeing four Taiyi Demon Immortals.
• Chu Qing'er had nowhere to go, so Liu Changxu invited her to Cloudreach Mountain and carried her there aboard the Ruyi Lotus Disc.
• Chu Qing'er told Liu Changxu that Bai Xuefeng had warned her disciples not to seek refuge at the Northern Nether Immortal Palace’s main strongholds because the palace had angered a powerful force in the Great Demon Immortal Domain.
• Liu Changxu and Chu Qing'er discussed the invasion and the uncertain prospect of reinforcements from other immortal domains.
• Chu Qing'er left the Ruyi Lotus Disc, drove off the demons pursuing Northern Nether Immortal Palace cultivators, and returned safely with the rescued disciples.

Chu Qing'er and Liu Changxu returned to Cloudreach Mountain after learning that Xiao Ziwei had rescued Bai Xuefeng from the Demon Race. The Liu Household welcomed them, then debated whether to abandon Cloudreach Mountain after the Northern Nether Immortal Palace fell.

• Chu Qing'er learned that Bai Xuefeng was being pursued by two Demon Race Great Encompassing experts, but she and Liu Changxu could not contact the fleeing immortals or locate her.
• Liu Changxu received Xiao Ziwei's message that she had rescued Bai Xuefeng, and his party continued to Cloudreach Mountain without further trouble.
• The Liu Lineage welcomed Liu Changxu and his companions, and he introduced Chu Qing'er to his wives and hosted a banquet for her party.
• Liu Changxu told his family that the Northern Nether Immortal Palace had fallen, prompting Liu Fujian to urge the household to leave the Northern Nether Immortal Domain.
• Gao Xin argued that the family should remain on Cloudreach Mountain and trust the Northern Nether Quasi-Emperor to reclaim the lost territory, starting a heated debate.

After the Northern Nether Immortal Palace fell, Liu Changxu prepared the Liu Lineage to relocate if necessary, but agreed to stay and fight after Palace Master Xiao Ziwei told him the Northern Dark Immortal Emperor had survived. The Liu Household continued preparing for war while keeping relocation as a possible last resort.

• Liu Changxu ordered the Liu Lineage to recall its members, prepare to relocate, and monitor the human-demon war, while transferring movable resources into his Ruyi Lotus Disc.
• Representatives from Great Qi and the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty tried to persuade Liu Changxu to stay, then asked him to take elite members of their ruling lineages if he withdrew; he agreed with strict limits.
• Xiao Ziwei summoned Liu Changxu to the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace, where she told him the Northern Dark Immortal Emperor had escaped the demon Quasi-Emperors.
• Liu Changxu agreed to stay and resist the demon invasion after learning the emperor was alive.
• Xiao Ziwei warned Liu Changxu that a super beast tide could threaten Cloudreach Mountain, so the Liu Lineage needed to prepare for battle while keeping relocation as an option.

Liu Changxu organized the Liu Lineage and united nearby human powers to prepare for the Demon Race’s approaching super beast tide. The Demon-Resistance Alliance was founded with Liu Changxu as Alliance Leader and Chu Qing'er as Deputy Alliance Leader, while Liu Changxu departed to scout the front lines.

• Liu Changxu ordered the Liu Lineage to prepare for battle, relocate vulnerable members and resources, and form the Jadecloud Legion and Cloudreach Legion under his children’s leadership.
• Chu Qing'er offered to join the resistance, and Liu Changxu invited the region’s major human powers to Cloudreach Mountain to coordinate their defense.
• Liu Changxu presided over seven days of discussions, after which the gathered powers established the Demon-Resistance Alliance and chose him as Alliance Leader and Chu Qing'er as Deputy Alliance Leader.
• The alliance finalized its plans for mobilizing cultivators, organizing legions, supplying the war, and dividing defensive sectors, while humans regained confidence and joined the resistance.
• Liu Changxu entrusted routine alliance affairs to Chu Qing'er and left Cloudreach Mountain to scout the demons’ situation at the front lines.

Liu Changxu killed several powerful demon beasts, returned to Cloudreach Mountain, and strengthened its Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation in preparation for the super beast tide. When the tide attacked, he directed the defense as the formation cut down waves of beasts, while the Liu Household Cultivators replenished its energy.

• Liu Changxu killed five ninth-tier demon immortals and then slew a Thunder Bull, a White-Headed Giant Eagle, and a Golden Fire Phoenix before returning to Cloudreach Mountain.
• Liu Changxu reassured Chu Qing'er that they could withstand a Great Encompassing Demon Immortal long enough to hold out, though one might be behind the beast tide.
• Liu Changxu spent three months upgrading the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation with spatial and fire-attribute great Dao laws so it could resist a weaker Great Encompassing Golden Immortal.
• When the super beast tide erupted, Liu Changxu stayed on Jade Firmament Peak to command the defense as the formation's spatial blades slaughtered charging demon beasts.
• As the formation's energy weakened, Liu Changxu ordered the Liu Household Cultivators to replace its spent immortal stones, restoring the formation's power.

As the super beast tide devastated nearby human territories and battered Cloudreach Mountain, Liu Changxu launched a counterattack into the Great Wilderness using the Wishful Lotus Cauldron. The demon leaders avoided confronting him directly and decided to attack the Purple Sun Immortal Sect first.

• Super beast tides destroyed settlements and cities across neighboring lands, while Liu Changxu could spare no troops to answer their pleas for help.
• The Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation weakened under the endless demon assault, and Liu Changxu learned that demons from other immortal domains had added vast numbers of beasts to the tide.
• Liu Changxu rejected Chu Qing'er and the others' objections and left Cloudreach Mountain to attack the demon hordes in the Great Wilderness.
• Liu Changxu used the Wishful Lotus Cauldron to rain great sun true fire on the demon beasts and killed many attackers who tried to ambush him.
• Eighteen Taiyi Demon Immortals argued over attacking Cloudreach Mountain until their dragon-headed leader ordered them to target the Purple Sun Immortal Sect first.

Ao Bai led the demon forces toward the Purple Sun Immortal Sect while Liu Changxu returned to Cloudreach Mountain after ending the beast tide. When the sect later asked for help against eighteen Taiyi Demon Immortals, Liu Changxu doubted he could arrive in time and questioned whether its leaders would accept refuge with his family.

• Ao Bai and the demon leaders set out for the Purple Sun Immortal Sect, while Liu Changxu fought through the beast tide and searched the Great Wilderness for the missing demon leadership.
• Liu Changxu found immortal treasures and captured demon beasts before returning to Cloudreach Mountain, where the Liu Household celebrated the end of the beast tide.
• Liu Changxu warned his family that the demons might be attacking another human faction, and he ordered Liu Fujian to investigate their movements.
• Liu Changxu repaired the mountain’s damaged formation as Xiao Yu and the others gathered demon beast materials from the battlefield.
• The Purple Sun Immortal Sect requested aid against at least eighteen Taiyi Demon Immortals, leaving Liu Changxu unsure whether to attempt a rescue or expect the sect to flee to the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace.

After the Purple Sun Immortal Sect fell, Liu Changxu prepared the Liu Household to withstand a demon siege. He then went to reinforce the besieged Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace and left its formation to help Xiao Ziwei fight the demons.

• Liu Changxu decided not to rescue the Purple Sun Immortal Sect and sent an avatar to observe the battle, but learned that the sect had already been destroyed.
• After hearing of the Purple Sun Patriarch's death, Liu Changxu convened the Liu Household's senior leadership, which agreed to move members into his Ruyi Lotus Disc and reinforce the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation.
• Five days later, Xiao Ziwei asked Liu Changxu to reinforce the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace, which was under attack by three Great Encompassing Demon Immortals and thirty-three Taiyi Demon Immortals.
• Liu Changxu arrived and found Xiao Ziwei fighting the three Great Encompassing Demon Immortals while the palace's Taiyi Golden Immortals sheltered behind the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation.
• Liu Changxu asked who would join him in helping Xiao Ziwei; Luo Ziyan volunteered and gave him a token to pass through the formation.
• Liu Changxu accepted the token and flew out of the formation to join the battle.

Liu Changxu emerged from the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, killed four Taiyi Demon Immortals, and held off an early-stage Great Encompassing Black-Shell Turtle long enough for Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace cultivators to counterattack. He and Xiao Ziwei returned to the formation to recover, and the Demon Race halted its assault while regrouping.

• Liu Changxu used his Mystic Heaven Spirit Treasures and Temporal Space Cage to kill four Taiyi Demon Immortals and devastate the demon beast horde.
• The early-stage Great Encompassing Black-Shell Turtle attacked Liu Changxu with Azure Sea Devours the Heavens, and he resisted it using the Spatial Great Dao Laws.
• Luo Ziyan led the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace cultivators out of the formation to counterattack, but the Demon Race regrouped and forced them back inside.
• Liu Changxu and Xiao Ziwei withdrew into the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, where Liu Changxu went to replenish his immortal power.
• The three early-stage Great Encompassing Demon Immortals conferred and halted their assault because Liu Changxu made breaching the formation difficult.

Liu Changxu returned to the battle at the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace, killing six Taiyi Demon Immortals before the Great Encompassing Demon Immortals drove him back behind the formation. He and Xiao Ziwei later fought the demons to a stalemate, then withdrew to recover as the enemy also left the battlefield.

• Xiao Yu visited Liu Changxu, and he urged her to return to Cloudreach Mountain to oversee the Lineage; after lunch, she went back by teleportation array.
• Liu Changxu ambushed six Taiyi Demon Immortals with his Temporal Space Cage and Red Lotus Immortal-Slaying Swords, killing all of them.
• Three Great Encompassing Demon Immortals attacked Liu Changxu, who retreated into the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation as their assault cracked its barrier.
• After Xiao Ziwei arrived with her immortal power restored, she and Liu Changxu charged out to fight the three Great Encompassing Demon Immortals.
• Liu Changxu battled the Azure Phoenix while Xiao Ziwei fought the Black-Shell Turtle and Purple-Horned Rhino; both sides reached a stalemate.
• Liu Changxu and Xiao Ziwei withdrew into the formation when their fight became a war of attrition, and the three Great Encompassing Demon Immortals eventually left the battlefield.

Liu Changxu's repeated attacks weakened the Demon Race until its three Great Encompassing Demon Immortals retreated, and he later attended a victory banquet hosted by Xiao Ziwei. The chapter ended as Xiao Ziwei revealed that the potent wine she served him was mid-grade Red Glow Immortal Brew.

• Liu Changxu repeatedly left the formation to kill Taiyi Demon Immortals and fought the Azure Phoenix while Xiao Ziwei evaded the other Great Encompassing Demon Immortals.
• Liu Changxu's spatial and fire-attribute Dao comprehension increased, strengthening his immortal arts and giving him a slight advantage over the Azure Phoenix.
• The Demon Race's Taiyi Demon Immortal forces dwindled to fewer than ten, and its three Great Encompassing Demon Immortals retreated with their subordinates.
• Luo Ziyan told Liu Changxu that the Demon Race had withdrawn and invited him to Xiao Ziwei's victory banquet.
• Xiao Ziwei poured Liu Changxu Red Glow Immortal Brew, and he refined its potent immortal power after drinking it.

Xiao Ziwei rewarded Liu Changxu for saving the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace and tried to secure his allegiance with an exalted position. Liu Changxu accepted the role of Grand Supreme Guest Elder after declining the Grand Elder and Grand Supreme Elder posts.

• Xiao Ziwei gave Liu Changxu mid-grade Redglow Immortal Wine and six mid-grade Crimson Sun Immortal Jujubes to help him advance his cultivation.
• Xiao Ziwei invited Liu Changxu to become Grand Elder, but he declined because he could not take on the duties.
• Liu Changxu promised to defend the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace in times of danger and asked for a position without routine responsibilities.
• Xiao Ziwei offered Liu Changxu the position of Grand Supreme Elder, but he declined because he was not a member of the Immortal Palace and was only a taiyi golden immortal.
• Xiao Ziwei offered Liu Changxu the same benefits as a Grand Supreme Elder as a Grand Supreme Guest Elder, and Liu Changxu accepted.

Liu Changxu and Xiao Ziwei grew close after he accepted a position in the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace, then became dual cultivation Dao Companions. Their grand ceremony drew representatives from the surrounding human cultivation powers.

• Xiao Ziwei welcomed Liu Changxu as Grand Supreme Guest Elder and shared the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace's history and secrets with him.
• Xiao Ziwei's attempt to win Liu Changxu's sympathy turned into genuine intimacy, and they spent ten days together in the grand hall.
• Liu Changxu and Xiao Ziwei pledged to become Dao Companions, and she appointed him Grand Supreme Elder before the Palace's senior leadership.
• Xiao Ziwei chose Liu Changxu because dual cultivation improved her stagnant cultivation, while Liu Changxu also gained enough progress to approach the late-Taiyi Golden Immortal stage.
• Liu Changxu and Xiao Ziwei held their dual cultivation ceremony at the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the year 38736 of the Great Qi Immortal Calendar.