Recaps

Li Qingyuan strengthened his sect and family, helped the Human King forge the Wind Thunder Drum, and joined the campaign that destroyed the Five Yuan King’s rule. The Nine Provinces then rallied behind Dugu Lei as he ascended as Human Emperor.

• Li Qingyuan rebuilt Arid Province, cultivated for decades, and helped Li Xianhuang and Shang Xiuxin form Nascent Souls while Li Yunmei became a False Nascent Soul.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le joined the Human King at the Crystal Immortal Coffin, which entered Li Qingyuan’s Mysterious Feminine Space, then traveled to Red Flag Mountain to help forge the Wind Thunder Drum with Ao Run.
• The Human King gathered the Nine Provinces’ Late Nascent Soul cultivators and allied demon clans, then led them to Yellow Province to break the Five Yuan Great Formation.
• Li Qingyuan entered the formation, defeated its guardians, captured their Nascent Soul Infants, and helped Ao Run take the Heavenly Mandate Blade from Jin Yuanzi.
• Li Qingyuan pulled Five Yuan Mountain into the Mysterious Feminine Space while Zhao Guangzheng and the Human King fought the Five Yuan King, who died in a self-detonation.
• Li Qingyuan and the gathered cultivators urged Dugu Lei to become Human Emperor, and Dugu Lei accepted and set his ascension ceremony for Red Flag Mountain.
• Li Qingyuan helped Miao Le establish rule in Huang Province, then joined hundreds of cultivators and great demons in pouring their power into the Human Emperor Robe as Dugu Lei ascended.

Li Qingyuan rose to the peak of Nascent Soul, endured the loss of Li Qingqing and Luo Ling, and joined Dugu Lei in preparing the Nine Provinces to break the Heaven Severing Great Array. After transforming it into a seal and opening the Heavenly Gate, Li Qingyuan fought off Outer Realm invaders and faced a Three-Colored Soul Transformation Lightning Tribulation.

• Dugu Lei sacrificed Nascent Soul prisoners to study the Absolute Heaven Array, appointed Li Qingyuan and seven others as the Eight Kings, and sent them to strengthen the Nine Provinces.
• Li Qingyuan reached Peak Nascent Soul, developed his Fortune Artistic Conception, and learned the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique while his family and companions advanced or chose reincarnation.
• Miao Le defeated Ao Run in a duel, and Li Qingyuan accepted Ao Run's wager, helped her improve her Water Intent, and later expanded his Mysterious Feminine Space with Five-Colored Earth.
• Li Qingyuan completed the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body, defeated the Human Emperor in a spar, and learned that the Heaven Severing Great Array would weaken in eighty years.
• Li Qingyuan lost Li Qingqing and Luo Ling, then cultivated the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique as Dugu Lei gathered forces and prepared to open the Heavenly Gate.
• The Nine Provinces' human and demonic forces gathered at Red Flag Mountain, where Li Qingyuan commanded the assault on the Absolute Heaven Array and many combatants sacrificed themselves to destroy its foundations.
• Li Qingyuan followed the Jianmu Sapling into a core foundation, retrieved a Jianmu branch, and received the Ten Ultimate Array Codex before escaping the collapsing formation space.
• Li Qingyuan studied the Heaven Severing Great Array for sixty years and helped transform it into the Heaven Imprisoning Great Array, but Outer Realm cultivators attacked as Heaven's Scar widened.
• Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor opened the Heavenly Gate, battled the invading cultivators, and killed Jin Wujiu before a Three-Colored Soul Transformation Lightning Tribulation descended on Li Qingyuan.

Li Qingyuan and the Nine Provinces fought successive waves of outsiders as their Heavenly Dao revived, culminating in Dugu Lei’s sacrifice and a tribulation that destroyed an invading army. The story left the Devouring Vortex resisting powerful Body Integration cultivators as Dao Venerables opened a gate into the grotto-heaven.

• Li Qingyuan broke through to Soul Transformation, helped his allies pass their tribulations, and joined the Human Emperor in defeating the invading Soul Transformation cultivators and killing Red Moon Heavenly Monarch and Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch.
• The Divine Sword Sect invaded the Nine Provinces, but Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor killed Quijian Heavenly Monarch, and the Nine Provinces forces wiped out the sect’s fighters and seized their resources.
• The Three Sects blockaded the Myriad Severance Mountain Range and sent 1,200 Soul Transformation cultivators into the vortex, while the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao revived and empowered thousands of local cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le trapped the invading army in the Heaven Imprisoning Great Array, where the Nine Provinces fighters ambushed the enemy and suffered heavy losses as Fairy Bingxuan cracked the barrier.
• Li Qingyuan unleashed the Earth Marsh Sword Array and killed many invaders, but Sword Lord Lin Yuan and Fairy Bingxuan continued fighting as 7,100 more Spirit Transformation cultivators descended.
• Dugu Lei sacrificed himself to summon a Six-Colored Great Heavenly Tribulation, which destroyed the invading army and the Heaven Imprisoning Great Array before he disappeared after naming Li Qingyuan as his successor.
• Li Qingyuan distributed resources to the wounded and began recovering, while the Void Refining Dao Lords and Spirit Lords failed to control the vortex and three Dao Venerables opened a teleportation gate into it.

Li Qingyuan led the Nine Provinces cultivators into the Hundred Regions War, disguising himself as Ma Chao while gathering resources and helping Yan Lingyue’s allied sects win the Tianshan Snow Pool contest. After securing the Soul Crystals, he brought the Nine Provinces cultivators to cultivate in seclusion and continued deeper into the Tai Cang Immortal Realm.

• The Tai Cang Immortal Mirror selected the Nine Provinces Soul Transformation cultivators for the Hundred Regions War, and Li Qingyuan left his Blood Shadow Clone to guard the homeland before leading thirty-five companions into the Tai Cang Immortal Realm.
• Li Qingyuan disguised himself as Ma Chao, infiltrated Lingxi Sect, and helped Yan Lingyue’s allies defeat rival sects while secretly gathering treasures and Soul Crystals.
• At Tianshan Snow Pool, Li Qingyuan helped the allied sects fight the Immortal Beasts, but a rival force arrived and challenged them over the spoils.
• Yan Lingyue settled the dispute with arena duels, where Li Qingyuan defeated multiple Wanshan Immortal Sect fighters and survived Wang Kai’s self-destruction.
• Dian Kui drew with Wan Xiaoshan, Luo Yun lost to Huang Yuan, and Yan Lingyue defeated Wan Dashan after severing his left arm, forcing the opposing cultivators to retreat.
• Yan Lingyue divided the Soul Crystals, and Li Qingyuan secretly brought the Nine Provinces cultivators to Tianshan Snow Pool to cultivate in seclusion for a hundred years.
• Li Qingyuan left Yang Xiaohe to protect the secluded cultivators, sent his Second Yuan Clone to join them, then returned to camp and set out with Old Zhao and Ji Kun.