Chapter Summaries

Li Dalong entered a hundred years of seclusion while the Cloud Glow Sect grew stronger and Ke Meili reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm. Ke Meili resolved to find the lover she had lost long ago, and Ke Xialing and Li Dalong began asking what was troubling her.

• Ke Meili asked Li Dalong to establish two more Yin-Yang Heaven and Earth Formations for the Cloud Glow Sect, and he agreed while warning her to keep them secret.
• Li Dalong entered the Creation Cultivation Tower and spent a hundred years in seclusion, advancing toward the mid-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• During Li Dalong's seclusion, Cloud Glow Sect disciples and elders advanced in cultivation, and Ke Meili broke through to the early-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Ke Meili's greater strength brought back memories of her former lover, who had been taken away by his powerful lineage, and she resolved to find him.
• Ke Xialing noticed Ke Meili's distress and asked her what she was keeping from them while Li Dalong and Li Chenxi were present.

Ke Meili revealed her past romance with a man from a secluded Aristocratic Clan and decided to seek him out, while Ke Xialing learned that her father was alive. When Ke Meili activated the Jade Talisman, the Ai Lineage head in the Nine Luminaries Realm sensed her message and prepared to visit her, despite his elders’ objections.

• Ke Meili told Ke Xialing and Li Dalong that her lover’s Lineage had forced him away and that she intended to find him.
• Ke Xialing urged her mother to search for her father, and Ke Meili promised to tell him about Ke Xialing and Chenxi.
• After instructing Ke Xialing, Li Dalong, and Zhou Yong about the Cloud Glow Sect, Ke Meili left and traveled for a month to the place where she had parted from her lover.
• Ke Meili infused Immortal Power into the Jade Talisman, breaking it into fragments and activating its message.
• The Ai Lineage head sensed the Jade Talisman, remembered his former lover, and decided to go to the Immortal Realm.
• Second Grandfather Ai Guizhong and other elders urged the Ai Lineage head to stay and prioritize the Lineage’s crisis and marriage alliances.

Ai Sheng defied his lineage elders and returned to the Immortal Realm after Ke Meili's Jade Talisman signaled danger. He found her safe, learned she had become a Great Luo Golden Immortal and founded the Cloud Glow Sect, and reunited with her after more than a hundred thousand years apart.

• Ai Sheng told Ai Guizhong and the lineage elders that he would leave to find Ke Meili, refusing to sacrifice his love to his duties as patriarch again.
• Ai Guizhong condemned Ai Sheng's decision, and the elders left the Council Hall while Ai Sheng resolved to seek Ke Meili.
• Ai Sheng endured months of danger opening a passage to the Immortal Realm, then followed the Jade Talisman's signal to find Ke Meili.
• Ai Sheng and Ke Meili embraced and wept as they reunited after more than a hundred thousand years apart.
• Ke Meili told Ai Sheng that she had reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm and founded the Cloud Glow Sect, where she was now sect leader.

Ai Sheng reunited with Ke Meili and their daughter, Ke Xialing, at the Cloud Glow Sect and met her husband, Li Dalong, and their son, Li Chenxi. After the family celebrated together, Ai Sheng told Ke Meili that the Ai Lineage was being suppressed by outside powers and faced dwindling resources and possible collapse.

• Ke Meili told Ai Sheng that their daughter, Ke Xialing, had been born after he left and had taken her surname.
• Ai Sheng followed Ke Meili to the Cloud Glow Sect, where he and Ke Xialing joyfully met for the first time.
• Ke Xialing introduced Ai Sheng to her husband, Li Dalong, and their son, Li Chenxi, who greeted him as their father-in-law and grandfather.
• The family returned to Ke Meili's home and shared a happy reunion before Li Dalong took Ke Xialing and Li Chenxi home.
• Ke Meili asked about the Ai Lineage, and Ai Sheng explained that outside suppression had cut off allies and resources, threatening the lineage's survival.

Ke Meili devised a resource-trading plan to help Ai Sheng’s Lineage overcome its crisis in the Nine Luminaries Realm and offered support from her son-in-law, Li Dalong. Ai Sheng returned to the Nine Luminaries Realm with Li Dalong and the resources Ke Meili had given him, intending to keep Li Dalong hidden as a surprise force.

• Ke Meili proposed trading resources between the Nine Luminaries Realm and the Immortal Realm to attract allies and relieve the Lineage’s shortage.
• Ke Meili told Ai Sheng that Li Dalong was a powerful Great Luo Golden Immortal who had killed three Lingxu Sword Sect Elders and had strong connections through his wife.
• As tensions in the Nine Luminaries Realm worsened, Ai Sheng prepared to leave the Cloud Glow Sect, and Ke Meili asked Li Dalong to accompany him.
• Ai Sheng accepted Li Dalong’s help, then departed with him and the Storage Ring Ke Meili had provided.
• Li Dalong opened a spatial passage to the Nine Luminaries Realm, where Ai Sheng secretly brought him back to the Lineage.

Ai Sheng began improving the Ai Lineage's cultivation resources and planning its development, prompting the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan and Fallen Soul Valley to plot an attack. Li Dalong defeated three assassins who infiltrated the estate, and Ai Sheng prepared to ready the lineage for a larger assault.

• Ai Sheng secretly settled Li Dalong in a secluded part of the Ai Lineage estate and distributed Immortal Realm resources to help its younger members cultivate.
• Zi Yun Ye and Chu Nuohan agreed to send people to investigate the Ai Lineage, seize members for interrogation, and assassinate important figures.
• Three late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal elders from the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan infiltrated the estate and approached Li Dalong's hiding place.
• Li Dalong swiftly defeated all three elders before they could attack the Ai Lineage.
• Ai Sheng thanked Li Dalong and decided to prepare the lineage for an attack, while Li Dalong's presence was no longer a secret.

After three Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan elders sent to assassinate members of the Ai Lineage were killed, Zi Yun Ye gathered his clan to decide how to respond. The elders and disciples debated revenge and investigation, and Zi Yun Ye’s clan had not yet chosen a course of action.

• Zi Yun Ye learned that Elder Changxi, Elder Wei, and Elder Jinhua’s Soul Tokens had shattered and realized the assassination had failed.
• Zi Yun Ye summoned the elders and elite disciples to the Discussion Hall to discuss the three elders’ deaths.
• Ziyun Yiliu and another disciple urged the clan to destroy the Ai Family, but Zi Yun Ye silenced them.
• Elder Ziyun Luoyun questioned whether someone had intervened or the Ai Family was hiding its strength.
• Ziyun Guoyu advised consulting Fallen Soul Valley and investigating before acting, while others proposed joining forces with the valley or confronting the Ai Family.

After the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan and Fallen Soul Valley suspended their campaign against the Ai Lineage, Li Dalong began assassinating their members, leaving both forces weakened and distrustful. He discovered their plan to launch a joint assault on the Ai Lineage and warned Ai Sheng, who prepared to rely on Li Dalong against their strongest fighters.

• Zi Yun Ye and Chu Nuohan agreed to suspend their next operation against the Ai Lineage and investigate the force behind the deaths of three Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan elders.
• Ai Sheng asked Li Dalong to target important members of the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan and Fallen Soul Valley, and Li Dalong began a string of assassinations using Ai Sheng's intelligence.
• Li Dalong's attacks killed senior members and disciples, drove the two forces to retreat and protect their remaining members, and stirred suspicion between their leaders.
• Li Dalong discovered that Zi Yun Ye and Chu Nuohan planned a joint assault to wipe out the Ai Lineage and immediately informed Ai Sheng.
• Ai Sheng warned that the Ai Lineage would struggle to withstand both forces and asked Li Dalong to help fight their strongest members, while urging him to preserve himself if the enemy proved too powerful.

The Ai Family prepared for an attack by the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan and Fallen Soul Valley, but the enemy advanced its assault to three days away. When the battle began, Li Dalong fought the allied army’s strongest fighters while Ai Sheng prepared to use the lineage’s last Violet Firmament Thunder Prison Talisman.

• Li Dalong advised Ai Sheng to reinforce the Defensive Array, seek outside support, and let him hold off the enemy’s top fighters.
• The Ai Lineage began preparing for war, but learned that the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan and Fallen Soul Valley would attack in three days.
• Ai Sheng revealed the lineage’s remaining Violet Firmament Thunder Prison Talisman and planned to use it while Li Dalong occupied the enemy’s leaders.
• The allied army led by Zi Yun Ye and Chu Nuohan attacked the Ai Family, whose members fought back despite being outnumbered.
• Li Dalong inflicted heavy losses on the allied army’s top fighters and evaded Zi Yun Ye and Chu Nuohan when they attacked him together.