Chapter Summaries

Du Lie arrived at the Li Lineage seeking its ancestor, Long Aotian, and was stunned by the lineage’s powerful array and Saint Realm cultivators. After Li Xiao discovered a concealed mark on Du Lie and learned that the Azure Dragon Sect’s previous sect master had warned him against breaking through, Li Xiao took Du Lie and Long Aotian to meet the former sect master.

• Long Aotian sensed Du Lie’s Azure Dragon bloodline and emerged, while Du Lie slammed into the Li Lineage’s barrier array.
• Du Lie recognized Long Aotian as his ancestor, and Li Xiao permitted him to enter the Li Lineage.
• Du Lie sensed the powerful cultivators and abundant Spiritual Qi within the Li Lineage, then introduced himself to Li Xiao as the Azure Dragon Sect’s sect master.
• Li Xiao discovered a concealed mark on Du Lie and asked whether he knew about the people targeting them.
• Du Lie showed Li Xiao a message stone bearing a warning from the Azure Dragon Sect’s previous sect master not to break through to the Saint Realm.
• Li Xiao took Du Lie and Long Aotian through a tear in space to meet the previous sect master.

Li Xiao found the Azure Dragon Sect’s hidden refuge and offered to free the old monsters hiding there from the Executioners. After they agreed to serve the Li Lineage for ten years, he removed their Soul-Chasing Taboos and prepared to confront the threat as Tang Xuan and other Saints headed toward the Li Lineage to destroy it.

• Li Xiao, Long Aotian, and Du Lie entered the sealed desert refuge, where Du Dehai learned of Du Lie’s plight and recognized Long Aotian as an ancestor.
• Gu Chungang attacked Li Xiao, who stopped his sword and identified him; Liu Sanniang and Undying Man then emerged from their houses.
• Li Xiao offered to take the hidden Saints out if they stayed with the Li Lineage for ten years, and Gu Chungang agreed on their behalf.
• Li Xiao erased the group’s Soul-Chasing Taboos and explained that the Divine Blessing at God-Worshipping Mountain had marked them for the Executioners.
• The former fugitives bowed to Li Xiao as their young master, while Tang Xuan and several Saint Realm experts headed for the Li Lineage with an iron box to destroy it.

Tang Xuan and six Saint Realm cultivators attacked the Li Lineage, but the Ten Directions Killing Formation blocked them and struck back. After Yingzi and Ruoshui were defeated trying to assassinate Tang Xuan, Li Xiao’s voice rang out as the attackers prepared to kill them.

• Tang Xuan struck the Li Lineage with a Middle Saint Realm attack, but the Ten Directions Killing Formation stopped it, and Li Kuangfeng held Li Yan back from charging outside.
• Tang Xuan and the other cultivators repeatedly attacked the formation, which counterattacked with Peak Saint Realm power; Tang Xuan survived by using a magical artifact from the Holy Envoy.
• Yingzi, Ruoshui, Ye Linglong, and her husband recognized the formation’s power as Tang Xuan concluded that Li Xiao was absent from the Li Lineage.
• Tang Xuan mocked the Shadow Killing Pavilion, and Ruoshui attacked him with a dagger before he dodged and the elders defeated her and Yingzi.
• Tang Xuan ordered the two Shadow Killing Pavilion masters killed, but Li Xiao’s voice warned that no one could touch the Li Lineage’s people.

Li Xiao arrived with Gu Chungang and the others to rescue Yingzi and Ruoshui and confront Tang Xuan's Executioners. As the battle turned against them, Tang Xuan unleashed a size-changing black iron staff, and Li Xiao recognized it as resembling the Golden-Hooped Rod.

• Li Xiao appeared atop Long Aotian with Gu Chungang, the Undying Man, and the Azure Dragon Sect's current sect master, shocking Tang Xuan and the Li Lineage.
• Gu Chungang and the others joined the fight against Tang Xuan and the Executioners while Li Xiao healed Yingzi and Ruoshui and reassured them.
• Gu Chungang used his recovered early Saint strength and improved swordsmanship to gain a slight advantage over Tang Xuan.
• Tang Xuan retreated and brought out a black iron staff that expanded to several zhang as he and the other Executioners infused it with spiritual power.
• Tang Xuan and the Executioners activated the staff, sending it crashing toward Gu Chungang and the others as Li Xiao recognized its resemblance to the Golden-Hooped Rod.

Tang Xuan and his allies used a replica Ruyi Staff to overwhelm Gu Chungang and the others, but Li Xiao summoned the genuine immortal artifact and destroyed them. He left four elders dead, while three spirit bodies escaped through a vortex.

• Tang Xuan struck Gu Chungang and the others with the replica Ruyi Staff, shattering the Undying Man’s bone shield and leaving them badly injured.
• Li Xiao identified Tang Xuan’s weapon as a limited-use replica, then summoned a genuine Ruyi Staff from the system.
• Tang Xuan attacked Li Xiao with the replica, but Li Xiao’s staff summoned a monkey king phantom that broke it and struck Tang Xuan’s group.
• Li Xiao and Long Aotian burned four elders’ bodies and spirit bodies to oblivion, while three other spirit bodies escaped through a black vortex.
• The monkey king phantom vanished, and Li Xiao caught the Ruyi Staff before darting down below.

After Li Xiao defeated Tang Xuan and the others, the Li Lineage disciples celebrated his strength. He healed the injured seniors with rare pills, then fled inside when Liu Sanniang flirted with him.

• The Li Lineage disciples praised Li Xiao, and Ye Linglong and Li Chen checked on him while Li Yan marveled at his power.
• Li Xiao noticed Gu Chungang and the others were badly injured, apologized for forgetting them, and gave them White Bone Pills to heal.
• The Undying Man recognized the pills as nine-pattern treasures, and Li Xiao handed him a bottle, prompting him to swear loyalty to Li Xiao as his father.
• Liu Sanniang asked Li Xiao for pills while flirting with him, and he gave her several bottles before rushing into the residence.
• Li Kuangfeng invited the others inside to talk as Liu Sanniang wondered whether Li Xiao was still a virgin.

After Li Xiao destroyed the Executioners’ bodies and broke their artifact, the holy envoy planned to use the Four Symbols Sects’ techniques to entangle him in karmic burden. The spirits set out to steal the techniques, unaware that karmic burden could not affect Li Xiao, who came from outside their world.

• Tang Xuan told the holy envoy that Li Xiao had reached Peak Saint Realm, wielded an identical immortal artifact, and destroyed their physical bodies with dark flame.
• The holy envoy learned that Li Xiao had broken the Executioners’ magical artifact and declared that Li Xiao had to die before their superior discovered what happened.
• The holy envoy proposed stealing the Four Symbols Cultivation Techniques to unite them and use their supreme karmic burden against Li Xiao.
• Tang Xuan and the other two spirits set off to possess holy sons or maidens at three of the Four Symbols Sects, while the holy envoy went to the Black Tortoise Sect.
• The plan was doomed because Li Xiao came from Blue Star, outside the Three Realms and Five Elements, and was untouched by the world’s cause and effect or karmic burden.

Li Xiao made Gu Chungang and the others honorary elders of the Li Lineage and reassured everyone that the escaped Executioners would not remain a threat. Over the following month, the Li Lineage grew stronger, while Du Lie broke through and returned to the Azure Dragon Sect ahead of the Four Symbols Sects' baptism ceremony.

• Li Kuangfeng celebrated Li Xiao's victory by drinking with Gu Chungang and the others, whom Li Xiao appointed honorary elders to guide the Li Lineage disciples.
• Gu Chungang told Li Xiao that three Executioners had escaped with their spirit bodies, and Li Xiao said he could not track them but promised they would eventually come to him.
• Li Xiao allowed Du Lie to stay at the Li Lineage to recover and pursue a breakthrough with help from Du Dehai and Long Aotian.
• Over the next month, Li Yijian reached the Saint King realm, Long Aotian advanced to the late Saint realm, and Li Xiao's parents and other members of the Li Lineage also broke through.
• Du Lie reached early Saint and departed for the Azure Dragon Sect to prepare for the Four Symbols Sects' baptism ceremony, inviting Li Xiao to attend in a month.

Li Xiao took Li Tong to Luoyang City for food and candied hawthorns, then made her a promise to take her somewhere with even more delicious food someday. After buying the vendor’s entire stock, he realized Li Tong had disappeared and searched the city with his divine sense.

• Li Xiao comforted Li Tong when her mother refused to let her have more candied hawthorns and took her out for a stroll.
• Li Xiao ordered a tableful of food at an inn, where Li Tong ate eagerly.
• Li Xiao promised Li Tong he would take her somewhere with lots of delicious food, and they sealed the promise with a pinky swear.
• Li Xiao bought Li Tong treats and toys as they explored Luoyang City, then purchased the vendor’s entire stock of candied hawthorns.
• Li Xiao turned around and found Li Tong missing, so he spread his divine sense across Luoyang City.

Li Xiao rescued Li Tong after a young man hurt and threatened her in the street. He left after Li Tong forgave the young man, then used dark flames to kill the men and destroy their lineage.

• Li Tong broke a young man's leg when she charged into him, and his servants caught her as she tried to flee.
• Li Xiao arrived, severed the young man's arm, and comforted Li Tong.
• The young man invoked his lineage's ties to the Li Lineage, but his second uncle recognized Li Xiao and knelt before him.
• Li Tong forgave the young man after he apologized, and Li Xiao carried her away.
• Li Xiao used dark-red flames to reduce the young man and his second uncle to ashes and destroy their lineage with a fire dragon.

Li Xiao addressed the Li Lineage disciples about subordinate forces abusing the lineage’s name and ordered an investigation to protect its reputation. He then reassured his family that he would punish future offenders and went to ask the System whether Tong'er’s sacred physique could awaken early.

• Li Xiao gathered the Li Lineage disciples and revealed that subordinate forces had been committing evil in the lineage’s name, including one that had targeted him.
• Li Xiao said the offending lineage no longer existed and declared that the abuse would not be allowed to continue.
• Li Xiao appointed Gu Chungang, Liu Sanniang, Du Dehai, and Undying Man as law enforcers and assigned the Shadow Killing Pavilion to investigate and eliminate the offenders.
• Li Chen praised Li Xiao’s bearing, while Li Kuangfeng questioned whether he could prevent such wrongdoing in the future.
• Li Xiao vowed to kill future offenders and dismantle the subordinate forces if necessary, then headed to his eldest uncle’s courtyard.
• Li Xiao asked the System whether Tong'er’s sacred physique could awaken early, and the System assured him it could.

Li Xiao awakened Li Tong’s Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique, drawing a deadly tribulation that he destroyed before the heavens bestowed blessings across the Upper Realm. The chapter left Li Tong’s forbidden physique awakened and the Li Lineage celebrating the power and auspicious signs.

• Li Xiao told Li Yan that Li Tong possessed a saint physique and, with her parents’ approval, began awakening it.
• Dark red tribulation clouds gathered over the Li Lineage, and Li Xiao learned the Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique was forbidden by heaven and earth.
• Li Xiao absorbed a bolt of tribulation lightning with netherfire, then scattered the clouds with a single word.
• Ten thousand miles of purple Qi spread across the sky, while Li Xiao destroyed a taotie phantom that attacked him.
• Immortal figures sent blessings into Li Tong, awakening her Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique as people across the Upper Realm absorbed the purple Qi.

After Li Tong awakened her Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique, Li Xiao spoiled her with spirit-pill candied hawthorn skewers and gave her a golden pet egg. He sent her to Long Aotian at the main gate, insisting that Long Aotian would hatch it.

• Li Dan told Li Xiao that people across the Upper Realm were calling him a reincarnated immortal and treating him as a benchmark.
• Li Tong said she was hungry, and Li Xiao gave her candied hawthorn skewers coated with powdered spirit pills and stored in a pink pouch.
• Li Tong asked for a doggy, so Li Xiao used the system to produce a golden pet egg and gave it to her.
• When Li Tong asked him to hatch the egg, Li Xiao told her to find Grandpa Long at the gate, then ordered Li Dan to watch her.
• Li Xiao watched Li Tong head toward the main gate and declared that Long Aotian would hatch the egg whether he wanted to or not.

Long Aotian reluctantly agreed to incubate Li Tong’s golden egg, but discovered that it contained Chaos Innate Qi and believed it held a powerful Chaos Divine Beast. He coiled around the egg to nurture it while Li Tong watched eagerly for it to hatch.

• The onlookers laughed at Long Aotian for being asked to incubate an egg, and Li Tong insisted that he could do it.
• When Li Tong’s eyes filled with tears, Long Aotian gave in and took the golden egg from her.
• Long Aotian sensed Chaos Innate Qi in the egg and concluded that it contained a Chaos Divine Beast.
• Long Aotian realized the egg’s energy could benefit his cultivation and decided to nurture it with his Dragon Qi.
• Long Aotian coiled around the egg in a corner, while Li Tong sat beside him and watched for it to hatch.

Li Xiao expanded the Li Lineage grounds and built the White Jade Tower, stocking it with cultivation manuals, pills, and divine weapons. He opened recruitment for guest retainers at the Half-Saint Realm and above, drawing attention from across the Upper Realm and the Four Symbols Sects.

• Li Kuangfeng asked Li Xiao to help manage the growing Li Lineage, and Li Xiao reluctantly agreed.
• Li Xiao cleared the land around the Li Lineage and created space for its expanding ranks.
• Li Xiao summoned two white jade towers and stocked one with cultivation manuals, nine-pattern pills, and divine weapons.
• Li Xiao made the White Jade Tower available to the Li Lineage, and Gu Chungang chose the twin swords Specter and Shadow.
• Li Xiao announced that the Li Lineage would recruit guest retainers at the Half-Saint Realm or above, prompting people across the Upper Realm to set out for it.
• The holy sons and holy maidens of the Four Symbols Sects heard Li Xiao's announcement and looked toward the Li Lineage with dark expressions.

As the Li Lineage recruited cultivators, Li Xiao revealed that Long Aotian was hatching an Innate Chaos Divine Beast egg. When members of the Four Symbols Sects challenged the recruitment, Li Xiao killed one and injured the others, who threatened retaliation from the Black Tortoise Sect.

• Gu Chungang, Du Dehai, and others registered cultivators outside the Li Lineage as onlookers celebrated the lineage’s strength.
• Li Tong watched Long Aotian, who continued to sit on a cracking golden egg and absorb Innate Qi.
• Li Xiao told Li Yijian that the egg was an Innate Chaos Divine Beast egg conceived from Chaos Qi.
• Several men from the Four Symbols Sects confronted Li Xiao over the Li Lineage recruiting their Half-Saint Realm cultivators.
• Li Xiao killed the first man with black flames, then struck the remaining peak Half-Saint experts and sent them flying.
• Li Xiao declared that a higher realm let him do whatever he wanted, and the surviving men warned him that the Black Tortoise Sect would retaliate.

Li Xiao killed the Black Tortoise Sect elders who tried to disrupt the Li Lineage’s recruitment, and the crowd afterward obeyed the rules. At the Azure Dragon Sect, Du Lie watched most of his elders leave for the Li Lineage, then decided the recruitment might benefit his sect through its ties to the Li Lineage.

• Li Xiao crushed the Black Tortoise Sect elders who challenged the Li Lineage and warned others not to cause trouble.
• The crowd stopped disrupting the Li Lineage’s grounds and waited obediently in line.
• Du Lie told his elders they could leave for the Li Lineage, then discovered that two-thirds had already gone.
• Old Yao asked to collect his unpaid allowance before leaving, and Du Lie angrily ordered him out.
• Du Lie reasoned that the Azure Dragon Sect could benefit from its ties to the Li Lineage, while the Azure Dragon Holy Son watched with a sneer.

Li Xiao welcomed over six hundred Half-Saint guest elders into the Li Lineage and urged them to cultivate for the challenges beyond the Upper Realm. As the divine beast’s golden egg began to hatch, Long Aotian announced that it was about to emerge.

• Gu Chungang reported that the Li Lineage had recruited six hundred and eighty Half-Saint-or-higher guest elders, and Li Xiao called the force decent while warning that it would be weak beyond the Upper Realm.
• Li Xiao told the new guest elders that the Half-Saint Realm was only their starting point and instructed them to cultivate diligently.
• Li Tong waited beside Long Aotian’s trembling golden egg while Li Dan persuaded her to share her spirit pill candied hawthorn.
• Li Xiao caught Li Dan eating the candied hawthorn, reproached him for taking a child’s snack, and then let the matter go.
• The golden egg shook violently and burst with golden light, prompting Long Aotian to tell Li Xiao that it was coming out.

The golden egg hatched into a Chaos Divine Beast, a golden ape that Li Xiao named Sun Wukun and contracted to Li Tong. Sun Wukun accepted the Ruyi Staff as Li Tong’s pet toy and stored it in its ear.

• The golden egg cracked open, and a golden ape burst out before falling into a crater outside the Li Lineage’s entrance.
• Li Tong picked up the ape, which thanked Long Aotian for nourishing its egg and agreed to call him Grandpa Long.
• Li Xiao established a contract between Li Tong and the ape, then named it Sun Wukun.
• Li Xiao gave Sun Wukun the Ruyi Staff and told Li Tong it was a toy for her pet.
• Sun Wukun demonstrated that the staff could change size, shrank it to the size of a hair, and tucked it into its ear.

Li Xiao shared a meal with his parents, gave them Beauty Pills that restored their youth, and then received invitations to the Four Symbols Sects’ Holy Son and Holy Maiden baptism ceremony. The Black Tortoise Sect had not invited the Li Lineage because Li Xiao had killed several of its elders.

• Li Xiao spent time eating with Ye Linglong and Li Chen and promised to visit them more often.
• Li Xiao gave Ye Linglong Beauty Pills, and she regained her youthful appearance after taking one.
• Li Chen took a Beauty Pill as well and regained his youthful appearance.
• Li Dan delivered invitations from the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird Sects to Li Xiao.
• Li Xiao explained that the Black Tortoise Sect had not invited the Li Lineage because he had killed several of its elders.