Recaps

Li Qianqing led the Li Clan through a royal-family plot and defeated the Zhao Country Royal Family’s Core Formation force. With Zhao weakened, the Li Clan began absorbing its influence while Clear Wind Valley and other sects maneuvered to expand.

• Li Qiuben formed his core, prompting the Zhao Country Royal Family to debate the Li Clan’s growing strength and attend his Core Formation Banquet.
• After Zhao Tiandong’s staged market incident failed to turn opinion against the Li Clan, Zhao Wuming’s attempt to demand justice at Changqing Mountain ended without agreement.
• Li Qianqing fused ten Micro Spirit Veins into a Small Spirit Vein as the Li Clan prepared for an attack, and Li Qianyin died after failing to break through.
• Zhao Longyin led five Core Formation cultivators to Changqing Mountain, where Li Qianqing used his Divine Sense Secret Technique and killed all five, including Zhao Longyin.
• In Weishui Prefecture, Li Xunting killed Zhao Wenyi and Li Xunming pursued and killed Zhao Wengang, while the Zhao Country Royal Family lost contact with its remaining attackers.
• As Zhao’s subordinate forces began to defect and foreign powers sought influence, Li Qianqing chose to gradually replace the Zhao royal family and accepted the allegiance of several Huangmin clans.
• Yan Xuewei secured Clear Wind Valley’s agreement to let Heaven Transmission Mountain and Water Cloud Gate expand openly, while Wang Zhigong affiliated the Jiang Clan with Heaven Transmission Mountain.

The Li Clan destroyed the Zhao Country Royal Family, established Qing Country, and steadily expanded its strength and alliances. As the Azure Cloud Realm opening approached, Li Qianqing secured a third token while the Iron Carp Pao Pao began breaking through its bloodline limit.

• Li Qianqing led the Li Clan and its allies to defeat the Zhao Country Royal Family, then founded Qing Country with Li Zhongyong as its first emperor.
• Li Qianqing assured Qing Country’s sects and clans that the Li Clan would not expand into their lands, while Li Xunming returned with an Azure Cloud Token.
• Li Qianqing helped Lu Shangqing win the Fortune Harmony Merchant Guild assessment, and the guild later opened a branch in Qing Country.
• Li Xunting stopped Qi Dongqiang’s attempt to extend Lu Country’s influence into Xianlin Prefecture, while Flame Turtle Changming broke through to Third Order.
• Li Qianqing discovered Li Yongfeng had the Spirit Devouring Physique, and Demon Devouring Child agreed to teach him as his disciple.
• Li Qianqing and Li Zhonghao achieved Core Formation, and Li Xunting also reached Mid-Stage Core Formation as the clan prepared for the Azure Cloud Realm.
• Lu Shangqing delivered a third Azure Cloud Token to Li Qianqing, who invited Li Xunting to accompany him into the realm.
• Li Changlin found that Pao Pao was breaking through its bloodline limit, and Li Qianqing halted Spirit Fish production to improve its chances.

Li Qianqing and his family explored the Azure Cloud Realm, killed Lei Ting, and weathered Purple Mountain City’s efforts to rally forces against the Li Clan. After years of preparation and nearly six years of seclusion, Li Qianqing broke through to Nascent Soul, shifting the balance of power in Qing Country.

• Li Qianqing, Li Xunting, Li Xunming, and Yan Xuewei entered the Azure Cloud Realm, where Li Xunting met the Moonlight Tribe and Li Xunming joined forces with Liu Mingjuan against Azure Spirit Race elders.
• Li Qianqing and Li Xunting found Immortal Spiritual Spring Water and other treasures in the Forbidden Land, then reunited with Li Xunming, Liu Mingjuan, and Yan Xuewei at the ten pillars of light.
• When Lei Ting attacked Liu Mingjuan, Li Qianqing and their allies defeated him, and Li Qianqing destroyed his Nascent Soul before the group entered the third trial.
• After the Azure Cloud Realm closed, Purple Mountain City tried to enlist the Lu Country Royal Family and other forces against the Li Clan, while Qi Dongqiang secretly coordinated with Li Qianqing.
• Demon Devouring Child brought Li Yongfeng to Changqing Mountain and later reached Nascent Soul, agreeing to guard the Li Clan as Li Qianqing prepared to break through.
• Li Xunming and Li Qiuben advanced, the clan began cultivating Golden Essence Crow Grass, and Li Xunting agreed to train Li Yiqing, the Li Family’s second Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivator.
• Li Qianqing entered seclusion with the Yellow Flame Seed and, after nearly six years, endured a three-bolt lightning tribulation to form his Nascent Soul.
• Demon Devouring Child left with Li Yongfeng for the Mist Rain Forest, news of Li Qianqing’s breakthrough spread across Qing Country, and Qi Dongqiang urged the Lu Country Royal Family to openly support the Li Clan against Purple Mountain City.

Li Qianqing secured the Li Clan’s position in the Mist Rain Forest, then gathered Qing and Lu Country forces to support Five Peaks Palace against Purple Mountain City. As the campaign began, Purple Mountain City struggled to find allies while the Lei Clan pledged support to Five Peaks Palace.

• Qi Lijin killed Purple Mountain City’s Eleventh Commander and affiliated the Lu Country Royal Family with Li Qianqing, who held a Nascent Soul Grand Banquet and accepted the offer.
• Li Qianqing traveled to Mist Rain Forest, stole the Li God Wood from the Blood Shadow Sect, and escaped after killing several sect cultivators.
• The Blood Shadow Sect hired Li Qianqing to kill the Corpse Yin Sect Master and thirteen Core Formation cultivators, and Li Qianqing completed the contract by killing the sect master.
• Li Qianqing returned from Fallen Devil Valley after its campaign, learned Liu Mingjuan had advanced to Nascent Soul, and agreed to help Five Peaks Palace fight Purple Mountain City.
• Li Qianqing gathered Qing Country forces and the Lu Country Royal Family for the campaign, bringing the promised force to sixteen Core Formation cultivators.
• Li Qianqing guided Li Yiqing’s rapid progress in alchemy, then traveled with Li Xunting and Li Xunming to join Five Peaks Palace’s campaign.
• Li Xunting killed Purple Mountain City’s Fourteenth and Fifteenth Commanders, while Five Peaks Palace assigned Li Qianqing to secretly garrison Fulin County and Liu Mingjuan to Che River County.
• After Heavenly Sun Sect rejected the Old City Lord’s costly request for aid, the Lei Clan chose Five Peaks Palace’s side, and Li Qianqing improved his second absolute of the Extinguishing Spirit Three Absolutes.