Chapter Summaries

With the Azure Dragon Gang threatening the Lu Clan, Patriarch Lu Qingshan pleaded with the ancestors for help in the ancestral hall. As the gang moved to destroy the clan, Lu Qingshan continued kowtowing, and the chapter ended with the gang leader declaring the Lu Clan would be wiped out.

• Lu Qingshan visited the ancestral hall and prayed to the ancestors as the Lu Clan faced pressure from the Azure Dragon Gang.
• The incense burner released white smoke that comforted Lu Qingshan, but a clansman soon warned him that the Azure Dragon Gang was attacking.
• The Azure Dragon Gang accused the Lu Clan of selling counterfeit goods and assaulting its disciples, then demanded the Lu Clan become its vassal.
• Lu Guangyao claimed Lu Qingshan was healing in seclusion, while Lu Chen and the other clansmen refused to submit.
• The Azure Dragon Gang leader announced that he would wipe out the Lu Clan, while Lu Qingshan remained in the ancestral hall and begged the ancestors to manifest their power.

Lu Qingshan recovered to the Peak Spirit Master Realm with help from the Lu Clan’s hidden ancestor, then drove the Azure Dragon Gang from the clan grounds. The elders met the ancestor through the ancestral shrine’s incense burner, while City Lord Bai Yunfei and the Azure Dragon Gang leader discussed the threat Lu Qingshan posed to White Cloud City’s other powers.

• Lu Qingshan arrived at the Lu Clan grounds with his cultivation restored and confronted the Azure Dragon Gang leader.
• Lu Qingshan attacked the Azure Dragon Gang leader, and the Lu Clan defeated the gang and forced its members to flee.
• Lu Qingshan told Lu Guangyao, Lu Mutong, and Lu Chen that the ancestor had healed him, then led them to the ancestral shrine.
• Smoke from the shrine’s incense burner formed the words “Not bad” and “Yes,” confirming the ancestor’s presence and ability to come out.
• At an emergency meeting, Bai Yunfei heard the Azure Dragon Gang leader warn that Lu Qingshan’s restored strength could eventually threaten White Cloud City’s other three powers.

The Azure Dragon Gang leader persuaded the White Cloud City lord and the Balance Sect leader to join forces against the Lu Clan, while Lu Fan worried that the clan’s declaration of war would bring disaster. As the three factions attacked the apparently empty Lu Clan grounds, the clan summoned its old ancestor through an incense burner.

• The Azure Dragon Gang leader falsely claimed that the Lu Clan possessed an inherited treasure and convinced the White Cloud City lord and the Balance Sect leader to destroy the clan.
• Lu Fan learned that the Lu Clan had declared war on White Cloud City’s three great factions and feared the clan would be wiped out, but Lu Guangyao assured him the elders supported the plan.
• Lu Qingshan and Lu Mutong prepared the clansmen to welcome their old ancestor, and news of the Lu Clan’s declaration of war spread through the city.
• The three great factions stormed the Lu Clan’s gates but found the grounds deserted, while Lu Qingshan and about a hundred clansmen knelt before the ancestor’s spirit tablet.
• The incense burner released azure smoke that formed a circle, and a white-haired, dark-robed figure appeared as the Lu Clan’s old ancestor while the three factions charged toward the ancestral shrine.

The Lu Clan's ancestor killed the invading leaders of White Cloud City's three factions, then awakened the clan's dormant bloodline, greatly increasing its members' cultivation. As the Azure Feather Dynasty prepared to investigate the death of its city lord, Lu Qingshan and the elders returned to the ancestral shrine to hear the ancestor's answers.

• The Lu Clan's ancestor killed Bai Hao and the other three Spirit Master Realm leaders, then reduced the remaining members of the three factions to ashes.
• Lu Qingshan warned that the Azure Feather Dynasty would retaliate for Bai Hao's death, but the ancestor left the clan's next steps to him.
• The Lu Clan took control of White Cloud City and seized its resources while Lu Chen suppressed the other factions' remnants.
• The ancestor awakened the Lu Clan's dormant bloodline, raising Lu Qingshan to the Spirit Concentration Realm and the three elders to the Spirit Master Realm.
• A decrepit man in the Azure Feather Dynasty sensed a Sage King Realm presence and set out to investigate, while the ninth prince received permission to lead the Azure Feather Guard against Bai Hao's killer.
• Lu Qingshan and the three elders visited the ancestor, who promised to answer their questions.

Sage Tianyan revealed that his divinations had brought a curse upon the Lu Clan, while the clan’s Ancestral Land had been tainted and its fortune diminished. He explained how the Ancestral Land could purify itself and strengthen sleeping ancestors, then urged the elders to begin restoring the clan as they awaited their forefather’s return.

• Lu Qingshan recognized Sage Tianyan as a famed ancestor, and Sage Tianyan explained that heavenly backlash from his divinations had caused the Lu Clan’s decline.
• Sage Tianyan said he had hidden the clan’s heavenly secrets and entered the incense burner, the Ancestral Land, where he discovered the clan’s fortune had been tainted.
• Sage Tianyan revealed that the Ancestral Land extended ancestors’ lifespans and that the forefather had deliberately made its foul Qi harmonize with their death Qi, purifying the land and increasing their cultivation.
• Sage Tianyan told Lu Qingshan and the elders that he had awakened at the Sage King Realm and that other ancestors might also still be alive in the Ancestral Land.
• Sage Tianyan called on the Lu Clan to begin its revival so the forefather would find it strong when he returned, and the elders agreed.

Lu Qingshan organized the Lu Clan’s recovery by planning population growth, a clan guard, and an intelligence organization. Sage Tianyan summoned Lu Fan, discovered he had reincarnated from an Early Sage Realm life, and accepted him as a Lu Clan member after warning him.

• Lu Qingshan assigned Lu Mutong to encourage marriages and childbirth, with rewards and a ban on Lu Clan women marrying out.
• Lu Qingshan tasked Lu Chen with forming a selective Lu Clan Guard and Lu Guangyao with establishing an intelligence organization, advising him to seek Sage Tianyan’s guidance.
• Lu Guangyao summoned Lu Fan to meet the ancestor after Sage Tianyan revealed that Lu Fan had been reincarnated.
• Lu Fan explained that his reincarnation into the Lu Clan had been accidental and argued that he had no reason to target the clan.
• Sage Tianyan let the killing intent fade, warned Lu Fan, and acknowledged him as a Lu Clan member; Lu Fan knelt and paid his respects.

Ancestor Tianyan appointed the reincarnated sage Lu Fan to help manage the Lu Clan, then told Lu Qingshan that a visitor would bring the clan resources. He drew Ancestor Qingtian into his hidden small world and revealed that he knew the old man's history and failing lifespan, leaving Qingtian wary and confused about his purpose.

• Ancestor Tianyan promised Lu Fan the Lu Clan would help him regain his strength, and Lu Fan pledged his loyalty to the clan.
• Ancestor Tianyan introduced Lu Fan to Lu Qingshan as a reincarnated sage who would assist in managing the Lu Clan.
• Lu Qingshan asked Ancestor Tianyan for resources, but Tianyan said he had little to offer and that someone was already coming to deliver resources.
• Ancestor Tianyan drew Ancestor Qingtian into a hidden small world and identified him as the Azure Feather Dynasty's seventy-fourth Feather Emperor, whose lifespan was nearly over.
• Ancestor Qingtian recognized Sage Tianyan and wondered why he had been summoned, but Tianyan left his purpose unexplained.

Sage Tianyan warned Ancestor Qingtian of a future war across the four provinces and secured an alliance between the Lu Clan and the Azure Feather Dynasty. As the Lu Clan prepared to rebuild its strength, Ninth Prince Qing Zhe and Qing Xu arrived near White Cloud City, seeking an unnamed culprit and something Qing Xu hoped to find there.

• Sage Tianyan told Ancestor Qingtian that an unprecedented war would threaten every power and that Qingzhou was too weak to survive without greater strength.
• Sage Tianyan offered an alliance in exchange for the Azure Feather Dynasty helping the Lu Clan recover, and Ancestor Qingtian accepted and swore an oath with him.
• Ancestor Qingtian gave Sage Tianyan his storage ring and hurried back to the dynasty; Sage Tianyan then explained to Lu Qingshan that the coming war was real and handed him the resources.
• Qing Zhe and Qing Xu arrived near White Cloud City, where Qing Zhe dismissed Chi Chen's concerns and ordered the culprit to wait at the city gates.
• Qing Xu warned Qing Zhe against carelessness, then looked toward White Cloud City and hoped that what she wanted was there.

Lu Guangyao tried to tell Chi Chen that the Lu Clan was allied with the Azure Feather Dynasty, but Chi Chen dismissed him and fled after sensing Lu Qingshan's Spirit Concentration Realm presence. Qing Xu recognized that White Cloud City held an opportunity for her and went there alone after Qing Zhe chose to report back to the Feather Emperor.

• Lu Guangyao told Chi Chen that the Lu Clan had destroyed the city lord's manor, the Azure Dragon Gang, and the Balance Sect in self-defense, and claimed the Lu Clan had an alliance with the Azure Feather Dynasty.
• Chi Chen rejected Lu Guangyao's account and ordered the Lu Clan to kneel before the Ninth Prince, but Lu Qingshan's Spirit Concentration Realm presence startled him into fleeing the city.
• Lu Qingshan told Lu Guangyao not to worry about the Azure Feather Dynasty yet and asked him to keep an eye on its people because he had plans for them.
• Chi Chen reported the Spirit Concentration Realm expert to Qing Zhe and Qing Xu, and Qing Xu confirmed that something extraordinary was in White Cloud City.
• Qing Xu argued with Qing Zhe, then went alone toward White Cloud City while Qing Zhe ordered Chi Chen to send news to the Feather Emperor.

Qing Xu discovered her Spirit Communion Physique and joined the Lu Clan after Sage Tianyan promised to help her evolve it. Meanwhile, Ancestor Qingtian urged the Azure Feather Dynasty to ally with the Lu Clan, and the Feather Emperor realized he had sent troops to confront them in White Cloud City.

• Qing Xu slipped into White Cloud City, but Sage Tianyan sensed her Spirit Communion Physique and seized her, then offered to help her evolve it if she joined the Lu Clan.
• Qing Xu agreed to join the Lu Clan and suggested marrying Sage Tianyan; he instead sent Lu Qingshan to handle her recruitment.
• Qing Xu offered to become Lu Qingshan's concubine, but he refused and accepted her as his goddaughter, bringing her into the Lu Clan.
• Ancestor Qingtian returned to the Azure Feather Dynasty and advised the Feather Emperor to support the Lu Clan in exchange for a powerful ally.
• The Feather Emperor realized his son was preparing to suppress the Lu Clan in White Cloud City and that he had already sent three Spirit Concentration Realm experts there.
• Ancestor Qingtian warned the Feather Emperor that he could lose his throne if he antagonized the Lu Clan, while the crown prince overheard and brightened.

The Azure Feather Dynasty allied with the Lu Clan, prompting the Feather Emperor to order Qing Zhe beaten and brought to White Cloud City to beg forgiveness. Meanwhile, Lu Qingshan managed the Lu Clan’s breeding plan and recruitment efforts while remembering someone from his past.

• After the Feather Emperor left, Qing Ji planned to investigate the Lu Clan, while Qing Yun privately vowed to trample his rivals.
• Three generals attacked Qing Zhe on the Feather Emperor’s orders, beating him until he passed out.
• The generals told Chi Chen that the Lu Clan and Azure Feather Dynasty were now allies and said they would take Qing Zhe to the Lu Clan to beg forgiveness.
• Lu Mutong reported that the Lu Clan’s members were following the breeding plan, and Lu Qingshan praised his work.
• Lu Qingshan remembered a graceful figure from more than twenty years ago before returning to clan affairs.
• Lu Chen reported recruiting outsiders to fill gaps in the clan guard, and Lu Qingshan approved the arrangement.

Lu Qingshan considered asking the Azure Feather Dynasty to lend the Lu Clan its Lush Wood Blessed Land, then received Qing Zhe and his companions, who had come to seek forgiveness for threatening the clan. After Qing Zhe’s clumsy apology, Lu Qingshan demanded to know what punishment he deserved.

• Lu Qingshan decided he would try to borrow the Azure Feather Dynasty’s Lush Wood Blessed Land to help the Lu Clan develop.
• Qing Zhe and his companions arrived at the Lu Clan to ask for forgiveness, and Lu Fan led them inside.
• Qing Zhe encountered Qing Xu and learned she had become Lu Qingshan’s adopted daughter and was being guided by an ancestor.
• Qing Zhe mistakenly threw himself at Lu Guangyao’s feet before Chi Chen told him that Lu Qingshan was the patriarch.
• Qing Zhe repeated his apology to Lu Qingshan, who lifted him with golden power and demanded to know what punishment he deserved.

Lu Qingshan demanded compensation from the Azure Feather Dynasty for frightening the Lu Clan, then pressed for yearly access to the Lush Wood Blessed Land. Qing Zhe was detained while Chi Chen and the others left to deliver Lu Qingshan’s terms to the Feather Emperor.

• Lu Qingshan exaggerated the Lu Clan’s losses and demanded fifty million spirit stones and high-grade spirit pills from Qing Zhe.
• When Qing Zhe said the dynasty could not pay, Lu Qingshan feigned readiness to kill him, then revealed he wanted access to the Lush Wood Blessed Land.
• Lu Qingshan asked the Feather Emperor to grant the Lu Clan a few places in the blessed land each year, knowing Qing Zhe lacked the authority to agree.
• Lu Qingshan ordered Lu Fan to detain and treat Qing Zhe well, while Chi Chen and the others left to relay his words to the Feather Emperor.
• Lu Guangyao asked whether the plan would work, and Lu Qingshan said the Lu Clan needed the blessed land to become a true superpower.

The Azure Feather Dynasty refused the Lu Clan access to the Lush Wood Blessed Land, while Ancestor Qingtian offered to help secure it in exchange for the Lu Clan protecting it after his death. Soon afterward, a Central Province force attacked the dynasty, and Ancestor Tianyan explained why the Lu Clan would stay out of the conflict.

• The Feather Emperor refused to let the Lu Clan enter the Lush Wood Blessed Land, dismissing concerns about Qing Xu and Qing Zhe.
• Ancestor Qingtian offered Sage Tianyan help with entering the blessed land if the Lu Clan would protect it after his death, but Sage Tianyan said the Lu Clan had no designs on it for now.
• Ancestor Qingtian accepted Qing Xu's adoption by the Lu Clan as an opportunity for her and left, unaware it would be their last meeting.
• A Central Province force launched a surprise attack on the Azure Feather Dynasty to seize the Lush Wood Blessed Land, and news revealed that Qing Yun had betrayed the dynasty.
• Lu Qingshan asked whether the Lu Clan should aid its ally, but Ancestor Tianyan told him the clan was not strong enough and said he had weakened his oath to avoid serious consequences.

Qing Yun’s betrayal helped Central Province experts bring the Azure Feather Dynasty to the brink of destruction, and Ancestor Qingtian fell while trying to protect it. At the Lu Clan, Qing Xu vowed to avenge the dynasty’s dead as Lu Qingshan sent Lu Fan to gather its remaining forces.

• Qing Yun revealed his ambition to seize the throne as Central Province experts attacked the Azure Feather Dynasty, defeating Qing Ji, the Feather Emperor, and Ancestor Qingtian.
• Ancestor Qingtian failed to defeat the Central Province Saint Realm expert and secretly told several dynasty members to escape to the Lu Clan in White Cloud City.
• Qing Xu vowed to avenge Ancestor Qingtian, and Lu Qingshan urged her to grow stronger.
• Lu Fan proposed recruiting the Azure Feather Dynasty’s survivors, and Lu Qingshan assigned him to gather as many as possible.
• Qing Zhe mourned his lost home until Qing Xu embraced him and vowed to avenge the dynasty’s people.

After the Azure Feather Dynasty fell, Qing Zhe and Qing Xu joined the Lu Clan under Lu Qingshan’s protection, while Sage Tianyan warned that the clan must avoid provoking the other superpowers. Crown Prince Qing Ji reached the Lu Clan mortally wounded and died after urging his siblings to take revenge and restore their nation.

• Qing Zhe asked Lu Qingshan to take him in as an adoptive son, and Qing Xu vouched for him; Lu Qingshan accepted both siblings into the Lu Clan.
• Lu Guangyao reported that the Supreme Purity Palace had defeated the Azure Feather Dynasty, whose ruler and most of its princes had died or disappeared.
• Lu Qingshan asked Sage Tianyan whether the Lu Clan should seize the Lush Wood Blessed Land, but Sage Tianyan refused to risk exposing his strength and triggering a wider war.
• Sage Tianyan told Lu Qingshan to develop the clan gradually and wait for another ancestor to awaken.
• Crown Prince Qing Ji arrived at the Lu Clan near death, urged Qing Zhe and Qing Xu to take revenge and restore the nation, and then died.

After the Azure Feather Dynasty fell, the Lu Clan expanded across Qingzhou, and Chi Chen joined the clan to help build its intelligence network. Five hundred years later, Lu Qingshan reached the Saint Realm as the clan began running short of resources, and the long-silent Ancestral Land stirred.

• Lu Guangyao told Lu Qingshan that Qing Ji had died, and reported that Lu Fan was gathering the Azure Feather Dynasty's remnants under Qing Zhe's name.
• Chi Chen asked to join the Lu Clan and offered to sign a Life and Death Contract; Lu Guangyao instead invited him to work in the clan's intelligence organization.
• After the Azure Feather Dynasty's fall, Qingzhou descended into factional conflict while the Lu Clan quietly grew, and the Supreme Purity Palace withdrew after taking the Lush Wood Blessed Land.
• Five hundred years later, Lu Qingshan became an Early Sage, and the Lu Clan had grown to more than ten thousand members but was struggling to afford its expenses.
• As Lu Qingshan prepared to consult Ancestor Tianyan about the clan's finances, the Ancestral Land stirred for the first time in five hundred years.

Ancestor Danyang, a ninth-grade alchemist from more than eight hundred thousand years ago, awakened and was welcomed by the Lu Clan. After meeting the clan’s leaders, he urged them to establish themselves in Central Province, where he could find the resources and furnace needed to practice alchemy.

• Lu Qingshan gathered the Lu clansmen to welcome Ancestor Danyang after Ancestor Tianyan announced his awakening.
• Ancestor Danyang emerged from the ancestral shrine and explained to Ancestor Tianyan that pills had bolstered his cultivation, making it weaker than it appeared.
• Ancestor Danyang met Lu Qingshan and the three elders, praised their work, and revealed that the clan’s resources were too poor for him to refine high-grade pills.
• Ancestor Tianyan said he had identified a suitable place in Central Province, and Ancestor Danyang agreed the clan should go there after settling matters in Qingzhou.
• Ancestor Danyang noted that he needed to reach Central Province because he had no resources or even an alchemy furnace.

As the Lu Clan prepared to migrate to Central Province, Qing Zhe asked Lu Qingshan for permission to stay in Qingzhou and rebuild the Azure Feather Dynasty, and Qing Xu chose to join him. Lu Qingshan allowed them to remain without clan members or resources, while a masked figure reported that preparations across Qingzhou were nearly complete.

• The Lu Clan decided to split its migration, with Ancestor Tianyan leading the clan to Central Province and Ancestor Danyang traveling elsewhere with Lu Qingshan.
• Qing Zhe asked Lu Qingshan to let him stay in Qingzhou and rebuild the Azure Feather Dynasty, explaining that he could not abandon his homeland and its people.
• Qing Xu revealed that she would stay with Qing Zhe, and Lu Qingshan granted them permission while warning them they would receive no people or resources from the Lu Clan.
• Powerful cultivators with other surnames began contacting Qing Zhe, hoping to join him and help rebuild the Azure Feather Dynasty if the Lu Clan left them behind.
• A black-robed figure told Lord Chi that preparations throughout Qingzhou were nearing completion, and Lord Chi ordered the inspections to continue.

Chi Chen established the Lu Clan’s intelligence organization as the Shadow Division while the clan prepared to move from Qingzhou to Central Province. Meanwhile, the injured rogue cultivator Yu An found a remote place on Qiyun Mountain to recover with the Yellow Pill Grotto-Heaven, but a terrifying presence suddenly pinned him in place.

• Chi Chen told Lu Guangyao that his agents had infiltrated nearly all of Qingzhou and proposed naming the intelligence organization the Shadow Division, which Lu Guangyao approved.
• Lu Mutong expanded the clan’s population, Lu Chen planned a martial arts platform and ranking, and Lu Fan devoted himself to the clan academy after Lu Qingshan appointed him its elder.
• Qingzhou’s forces learned the Lu Clan was leaving and began to stir, unaware that Qing Zhe, Qing Xu, and some Lu Clan experts would remain behind.
• On Qiyun Mountain in Central Province, the gravely injured Yu An celebrated finding the Yellow Pill Grotto-Heaven and planned to heal in seclusion and master it.
• A terrifying presence descended and pinned Yu An in place.