Recaps

Li Hao entered the Mo River through the shrine behind a waterfall and found himself in the Feng Mountain Fallen River, a battle realm filled with monstrous villagers. He slaughtered his way through the village, raising completion to 89%, and continued toward the stronger Black Robed Scholar.

• Li Hao slipped behind the waterfall and found a tiny shrine, where a sheet of divine light struck him and transported him into the Mo River.
• Li Hao registered the name Two and learned that he had entered the Feng Mountain Fallen River, with completion at 0%.
• Li Hao scouted the realm with his divine soul, spotted a Black Robed Scholar with a female soul avatar, and saw that darkness surrounded the far reaches.
• Li Hao entered the village and killed the attacking villagers with a dead branch, freezing and severing them as he advanced.
• Li Hao raised the Mo River's completion to 89% but realized that killing the villagers would not fully unravel it, then continued onward without leaving through the shrine.

Li Hao confronted the Black Robed Scholar in the Mo River and used his painting skill to fulfill the scholar’s wish of seeing A Yue again. The scholar and A Yue disappeared, and the Golden Paper declared Feng Mountain Fallen River cleared while warning Li Hao to leave before the Mo River vanished.

• Li Hao found the Black Robed Scholar painting A Yue’s portrait and learned that the scholar considered the villagers his slaves.
• Li Hao criticized the scholar’s painting, took his brush, and painted a lifelike portrait of A Yue using the scholar’s blood.
• The Black Robed Scholar recognized A Yue in Li Hao’s painting, thanked him, and knelt in gratitude as A Yue’s soul avatar began to change.
• The scholar’s wish was fulfilled, and he and A Yue faded away peacefully.
• The Golden Paper announced that Li Hao had cleared Feng Mountain Fallen River, awarded him 100 merit, and warned him to leave the Mo River immediately.

Li Hao cleared the Feng Mountain Fallen River, earning merit points and a place on the Great Yu Merit Board. After seeing the sacrifices behind the rankings and recognizing Master Feng and Sword Wudao among them, he realized the shrine and the planned student test had disappeared with the Mo River.

• Li Hao placed the Golden Paper in the shrine and escaped the collapsing Mo River Battle Realm as it vanished.
• The Golden Paper revealed that Li Hao, under the name Chong Er, had earned 100 merit points and ranked ninety-ninth in the Great Yu Dynasty.
• Li Hao examined the Merit Board, saw many Wang Family members among the leaders, and reflected on the sacrifices made to suppress Mo Rivers.
• Li Hao found Master Feng listed as Bu Liuxing in thirty-fifth place and Sword Wudao in seventy-sixth, and wondered about their dangerous work.
• Li Hao noticed the shrine sinking, realized he had erased the Mo River intended for next year’s student test, and fled.

Sword Wudao and others noticed a new Merit Board entry, Chong Er, after a Nether Domain Level Mo River was destroyed. At Tan Palace Academy, Song Yufeng learned that the Feng Mountain Fallen River had vanished and sent Song Yueyao and Lin Feifei to find the person responsible, who appeared to be an Outer Institute Disciple.

• Sword Wudao's third disciple asked to descend the mountain to spar with the new Grandmaster Chong Er, but Sword Wudao ordered him to train instead.
• People across the world noticed Chong Er's Merit Board entry and began investigating the newcomer or considering recruitment.
• Song Yufeng learned that the Feng Mountain Fallen River had vanished, and Song Yueyao and Lin Feifei reported seeing an unidentified Outer Institute Disciple nearby.
• Song Yufeng sent Huang Licai with Song Yueyao and Lin Feifei to identify the person and announced a reward, including the Crimson Firmament Sword.
• The academy's announcement stirred Black White Hall and the Four Institutes, while Lin Feifei questioned whether the person who cleared the Mo River could really have been an Outer Institute Disciple.

Song Yueyao and Lin Feifei searched the academy for the person who cleared Feng Mountain Fallen River but failed to identify Li Hao. Several days later, Su Yehua assigned the Class A Institute disciples demon-slaying missions, and Li Hao noticed an assignment in Qizhou.

• Song Yueyao and Lin Feifei inspected the gathered disciples but did not find the person they sought, then briefly mistook Li Hao for him when they encountered him carrying a rabbit.
• Li Hao learned from Li Yuanzhao that the academy had been searching for the person who cleared the trial and felt relieved that no one was blaming him.
• Shen Yunqing and Zhao Zongyuan discussed who might have cleared Feng Mountain Fallen River and noted that its disappearance meant the academy would need another test site.
• Several days later, Su Yehua announced that the Class A Institute disciples would begin slaying demons and distributed missions that awarded academy points.
• Li Hao noticed mission 23, which sent students to Qizhou to assist local demon-slaying teams.

Li Hao and four companions accepted the Qizhou mission and rode out from Qing Prefecture. Two hidden demon cultivators learned that Li Hao was on the road and prepared to resume their long-delayed assassination attempt.

• Li Hao chose the Qizhou mission, and Li Yuanzhao, Du Qiuyue, Ren Qianqian, and Yu Wei joined him while Zheng Bai withdrew.
• Li Hao told Li Yun and Li Zhining to be careful as the group prepared to leave.
• Li Hao ordered five Crimson Blood Horses, and the group set off toward Qizhou.
• A black bird spotted two figures secretly following the riders and reported their presence to a jiaolong at Blackwater Pool.
• Two jiaolongs revealed they had waited four years to assassinate Li Hao and decided to act now that he had left the residence.

As Li Hao and his companions stopped at a roadside tea stall, he spoke about the Li Family’s duty to protect ordinary people and shared a meal with the group. When a Black Jiaolong Beauty attacked him from fifteen li away with a scale, Li Hao caught it and rushed off to confront her.

• Li Hao and his companions stopped at a tea stall, where Li Hao explained that the Li Family defended the borders for the people, not for praise.
• Yu Wei paid for the group’s tea and snacks, while Ren Qianqian explained that she kept her sword close because it was part of her.
• Li Hao caught a scale hurled at him from far away and used his divine soul to locate the Black Jiaolong Beauty on a tree fifteen li away.
• Li Hao told the others to wait and vanished from the tea shop to deal with the attacker.

Li Hao chased down and subdued the Black Jiaolong Beauty, who had tried to assassinate him, and questioned her about the Demon Race’s plans in Northern Yan. When her husband threatened Li Fu and another fighter thirty li away, Li Hao killed the male Jiaolong by hurling her scale into his eye.

• Yu Wei, Du Qiuyue, Ren Qianqian, and Li Yuanzhao watched in shock as Li Hao vanished from the tea stall at incredible speed.
• Li Hao caught the fleeing Black Jiaolong Beauty, crushed her into a crater, and pinned her in her true form.
• Li Hao questioned the Black Jiaolong Beauty about the assassination and Northern Yan, and she revealed that taking Northern Yan was only the Demon Race’s first step.
• The Black Jiaolong Beauty called for her husband, and Li Hao used his divine soul to locate him fighting Li Fu and another man thirty li away.
• Li Hao tore a scale from the Black Jiaolong Beauty’s head and hurled it thirty li, killing her husband with a strike through the eye.

Li Hao killed the Black Jiaolong and her mate, but learned only that the Demon Race was bound by a Heart Oath to the Saint Palace. As he rode toward Qizhou with his companions, a bird carried news of his suspected Grandmaster strength to Northern Yan.

• Li Fu and Wei Feng searched for the unseen expert who had killed the Black Jiaolong's mate, then thanked the unknown rescuer.
• Li Hao questioned the Female Black Jiaolong about the Demon Race's attacks, but she revealed that a Heart Oath prevented the demons from betraying the Saint Palace.
• After learning that Li Hao had killed her husband, the Female Black Jiaolong attacked him, and he killed her without learning more about Northern Yan.
• Li Hao returned to the tea stall, confirmed to Li Yuanzhao that he had undergone Soul Inheritance, and told his companions he had dealt with a monster.
• Li Hao and his companions rode toward Qizhou as a bird carried word to the White God Lord that the Li Family had a fourteen-year-old son suspected of being a Grandmaster.
• Li Fu and Wei Feng followed the scent of blood into the woods and found the Female Black Jiaolong's corpse.

Li Hao and his companions reached Cangyu City for their demon-slaying mission, where they learned Song Yueyao had arrived as a Provincial Governor and recently slain an old demon. After Li Yuanzhao insisted they be assigned real danger, Li Hao asked Cui Fan for reports on demon sightings across the territory.

• Li Fu and Wei Feng found a dead Jiaolong and realized Li Hao’s group might have been targeted, then confirmed the travelers were safe and hurried to resume their duties.
• Li Hao and his companions arrived in Cangyu City and reported to the local Demon Suppression Division.
• The group encountered Song Yueyao leaving on a mission, and Cui Fan explained that she had slain a demon hundreds of years old shortly after arriving.
• Cui Fan offered to keep the newcomers out of danger, but Li Yuanzhao insisted they be assigned as usual so they could fight demons.
• Li Hao requested a report from Cui Fan on recent demon sightings throughout the territory.

Li Hao studied records of monster activity near Cangyu City while Song Yueyao investigated a monster attack and learned that a Great Demon was gathering monsters in the Black Wind Mountain Range to threaten the city. The chapter ended with Li Hao noticing the same mountain range in the Demon Suppression Division’s intelligence.

• Cui Fan showed Li Hao and Li Yuanzhao the monster-slaying records and promised to take them on patrol.
• A grotesque monster emerged from Lian'er’s pregnant belly, killed her, and was slain by Song Yueyao.
• Song Yueyao left Tian Congzhi to handle the aftermath and went to meet City Warden Yue Shuhong.
• Yue Shuhong told Song Yueyao that a Great Demon in the Black Wind Mountain Range planned to gather monsters and attack Cangyu City, but the Xia Family had refused to act before an attack began.
• Song Yueyao decided to scout the mountain range’s outskirts herself.
• Li Hao finished reading the records and noticed reports of monsters gathering in the Black Wind Mountain Range.

Li Hao left the patrol to search Black Wind Mountain for the Tiger Robe Immortal and discovered a gathering of demons plotting to devour Cangyu City. After learning that humans were being delivered to them as “Flesh Stock,” he confronted the demons and claimed he had surrounded them.

• Cui Fan led Li Yuanzhao, Ren Qianqian, and two other newcomers on patrol while Li Hao skipped the mission.
• Li Hao flew to Black Wind Mountain and used his Divine Soul to scout the demons there.
• A gathering of demons discussed their plan to join the Red Eyebrow Daoist and devour Cangyu City, while waiting for the Tiger Robe Immortal.
• Li Hao approached the demons and learned they received human Flesh Stock, including a man named Yue.
• Li Hao drew his Demon-Slaying Saber and asked which demon was the Tiger Robe Immortal.
• Li Hao told the demons that he had surrounded them and challenged them not to run.

Li Hao slaughtered the demons gathered on the mountaintop while searching for the Tiger Robe Immortal. He learned that Tiger Robe was in the Northern Lands helping demons prepare to attack Cangyu City, then killed the last surviving bear demon.

• Li Hao attacked the demons after they mocked him, swiftly killing several with the Demon Slayer Blade and revealing his overwhelming strength.
• The giant bear demon attacked Li Hao with black flames, but Li Hao shattered its fire dragon, struck it down, and hunted down the fleeing demons’ divine souls.
• Li Hao questioned the wounded bear demon, which said Tiger Robe was in the Northern Lands helping demons prepare to take Cangyu City.
• The bear demon claimed the demons were attacking to survive and identified Tiger Robe as a tiger demon who had cultivated for nearly a thousand years.
• Li Hao killed the bear demon with a punch to the brow.

After honoring Uncle Lin, Li Hao slaughtered tens of thousands of monsters across the Black Wind Mountain Range. Song Yueyao discovered the massacre and found Li Hao standing among the bodies of an Ape Demon clan.

• Li Hao freed seven traumatized survivors from a cave, then built a platform from monster corpses and poured wine in memory of Uncle Lin.
• Li Hao used his Divine Soul and Demon Slayer Blade to kill tens of thousands of monsters throughout the mountain range, damaging the blade in the process.
• Song Yueyao scouted the range and found rivers of blood, thousands of dead monsters, and a summit platform made from more than twenty Great Demons.
• Song Yueyao met the survivors, who trembled and begged her not to take them, then followed a trail of corpses into the woods.
• Song Yueyao found Li Hao standing among the slain Ape Demons, holding his battered Demon Slayer Blade.

Li Hao continued clearing demons in the mountains, where Song Yueyao recognized him as the youth who had cleared the Mo River and realized he had reached the fifteen li realm. When purple smoke signaled a demon attack on the city, Li Hao hurried back alone while Song Yueyao followed on foot.

• Song Yueyao recognized Li Hao as the newcomer from Sandalwood Palace and realized he had secretly cleared the Mo River.
• Li Hao confirmed that he had killed the Ape Demons and the Great Demon, and Song Yueyao learned he had reached the fifteen li realm.
• Li Hao resumed patrolling the mountain range with his divine soul and told Song Yueyao that he had cleared the Mo River but had not claimed the Crimson Firmament Sword.
• Song Yueyao spotted purple signal smoke and recognized it as an emergency warning that demons were attacking the city.
• Li Hao flew back toward the city, leaving Song Yueyao to hurry after him through the forest.

As a horde of monsters closed in on Cangyu City, Yue Shuhong learned from Tiger Robe that the attack was aimed at the Xia Family and that the city could not be saved. Yue refused to open the northern gate and prepared to fight Tiger Robe, but Li Hao arrived between them.

• The Liu, Qi, and Zhao Families confirmed that forty to fifty thousand monsters were advancing on Cangyu City, and the city sealed its gates and prepared its defenses.
• Yue Shuhong met Tiger Robe in an underground chamber and reflected on his twenty years guarding the city and their long friendship.
• Tiger Robe revealed that the Red Eyebrow Daoist had awakened and that the attack was meant to strike the Xia Family, then asked Yue to open the northern gate in exchange for a chance to survive.
• Yue Shuhong rejected Tiger Robe's offer and went to the weapon rack, intending to fight him.
• Yue Shuhong and Tiger Robe summoned their divine souls as Li Hao descended through a fissure in the ceiling and stood between them.

Li Hao confronted the Tiger Robe Immortal in Cangyu City and brutally punished him for ambushing a member of the Li Family. After Yue Shuhong confessed to sacrificing people to demons, Li Hao left his fate to the court and called on him to help fight the Great Demon approaching the city.

• Li Hao found the Tiger Robe Immortal conspiring with Yue Shuhong and revealed that he was a member of the Li Family.
• The Tiger Robe Immortal attacked Li Hao, who swiftly subdued him and used Tiger Pressure to prevent him from resisting.
• Li Hao skinned and dismembered the Tiger Robe Immortal, then asked Yue Shuhong whether he had helped ambush the Li Family member.
• Yue Shuhong confessed that he had sent condemned prisoners, bandits, and civilians to monsters as food, claiming he had done so to protect Cangyu City.
• Li Hao said the court would judge Yue Shuhong and urged him to help slay the Great Demon approaching the city.

After learning that monsters were attacking the city, Li Yuanzhao and the others headed to the western wall while Li Fu went north to join the fight. As battle began, they saw a massive monster force approaching, then Li Hao arrived flying through the air with Yue Shuhong.

• Cui Fan received word that monsters were attacking the city and told the group to gather at the City Defense Command.
• Wei Feng and Li Fu arrived, and Li Fu left to help defend the city while entrusting Li Yuanzhao and the others to Wei Feng.
• Ren Qianqian refused to leave the city, so Wei Feng agreed to accompany her and protect the Li Family youths as well.
• The group searched for Li Hao, then went to the western wall after signal smoke announced that the battle had begun.
• Li Yuanzhao and the others saw thousands of monsters charging toward the city, and Li Hao arrived riding the wind with Yue Shuhong.

Li Hao encountered Li Yuanzhao and the others as demons attacked the western city walls. He revealed his overwhelming swordsmanship, annihilated the demon horde, and left the battlefield in stunned silence.

• Li Yuanzhao and the others recognized Li Hao, while Wei Feng realized the boy he had followed was in the fifteen li realm.
• The city defenders fired arrows and began a Demon Suppression Formation as the demons charged the walls.
• Li Hao borrowed Ren Qianqian's sword and used Rising Moon to wipe out the demons approaching the battlements.
• Li Hao sent the sword flying to kill fleeing demons, including a spirit wandering realm Great Demon, and the remaining horde fled.

Li Hao sent Ren Qianqian’s sword to the northern wall, where it killed the Red Eyebrow Daoist with a single strike. The monster assault fell into chaos, while Li Fu lay unconscious after being wounded in battle.

• After the western monster horde fled, Li Hao learned that Li Fu had gone to the northern wall and sent a flying sword there.
• At the northern wall, Song Yueyao, Liu Shunqing, and the Qi Family Head struggled against the Spirit Wandering Realm monsters, while Li Fu was knocked unconscious by their attacks.
• Li Hao’s flying sword killed a venomous toad monster before the defending commander could be attacked.
• The Red Eyebrow Daoist sent his Crimson Sword against Li Hao’s flying sword, but it evaded the weapon and charged at him.
• Li Hao’s sword used River Severance to cut the Red Eyebrow Daoist’s jiaolong form apart and destroy his divine soul, throwing the monster tide into chaos.

Li Hao used his flying sword to kill the Red Eyebrow Daoist and the other Great Demons, then routed the demon tide and saved Cangyu City. After the battle, Yue Shuhong thanked him and promised to report his achievement to the court.

• The flying sword killed the Red Eyebrow Daoist, and the frightened demons began to flee.
• Li Hao pursued and killed all eight Spirit Wandering Realm Great Demons, then cut through the demon tide with his flying sword.
• Wei Feng brought Ren Qianqian and Li Yuanzhao after Li Hao, while the city’s defenders and allies joined the pursuit as the demons scattered.
• The demon tide collapsed, the demon cloud dispersed, and the soldiers cheered over Cangyu City’s survival.
• Yue Shuhong thanked Li Hao, admitted he would report his own collusion with demons, and promised to submit Li Hao’s achievement to the court.

After Li Hao routed the monsters in Cangyu City, he checked on the wounded Li Fu and spoke with Ren Qianqian, who insisted on becoming his retainer to learn his sword technique. The chapter then shifted to Boundless Mountain, where Nan arrived at Qian Feng’s Vajra Heart Hall to register him.

• Li Hao had Yue Shuhong send the gravely wounded Li Fu to the best military physician for treatment.
• Ren Qianqian asked Li Hao about his cultivation and sword technique, then offered to become his retainer to learn it and access the Listening Rain Pavilion.
• Li Hao asked Yue Shuhong about books, art, music, and recipes, and Yue Shuhong arranged for a civil official to show him around Cangyu City.
• At Boundless Mountain, a young monk told Nan that Qian Feng had reached the fifteen li realm and received the title Qiankun Vajra.
• Nan insisted on meeting Qian Feng, and the young monk asked the soldiers at the Vajra Heart Hall to announce her visit to register him.

Li Qianfeng emerged from seclusion and prepared to leave the mountain to earn merit before competing for the True Dragon Seat, while Murong Qiulan insisted on joining him. In Cangyu City, Li Hao finished gathering cultural treasures and discovered that a new Imperial Dao chess-manual effect could temporarily double his power.

• Li Qianfeng rejected Murong Qiulan’s proposal to marry him because her family background was beneath his, but agreed she could follow if she kept up.
• Li Qianfeng registered his departure and said he planned to earn merit before returning home to compete for the True Dragon Seat against his cousin Li Wushuang.
• Li Hao prepared to leave Cangyu City after the demon disaster ended and reviewed the cultural treasures he had collected.
• Li Hao embedded Keep a Low Profile into his Path of the Physical Body, granting rapid healing and slow limb regeneration while relaxed.
• Li Hao embedded Seven Phoenixes Lighting the Lamp into his Imperial Dao and learned that seven cultivation cycles could temporarily double his power.

After Li Hao’s group completed their mission in Cangyu City, Yue Shuhong accepted responsibility for the city’s past crimes and bade them farewell. On the road to Qing Prefecture, Xia Yong and Xia Qingshuang stopped their carriage and learned that a young member of the Li Family had quelled the demon calamity.

• A scout confirmed that Li Hao had killed the Great Demons in the Black Wind Mountain Range, and Yue Shuhong realized how narrowly Cangyu City had escaped disaster.
• Two days later, Yue Shuhong escorted Li Hao and the others to the city gate and said he would take the blame for Cangyu City’s crimes.
• Li Hao warned Yue Shuhong that his confession could implicate his clan, but Yue Shuhong explained that he had severed ties with its nine branches twelve years earlier.
• Li Hao agreed to pour a cup of wine for Yue Shuhong if he ever passed through Cangyu City, and the carriage departed for Qing Prefecture.
• Xia Yong and Xia Qingshuang stopped the carriage, questioned its driver Yue Ming, and learned that a young master of the Li Family had ended the demon calamity with few casualties.

Li Hao confronted Xia Yong and Xia Qingshuang after they disparaged the Li Family and the Yanbei Battlefield, demanding an apology for their insults. He defeated Xia Yong’s divine soul in a single strike, and Xia Qingshuang took the injured man away while Li Hao’s group continued toward Cangyu City.

• Xia Yong mocked the Li Family despite learning that Li Yuanzhao belonged to it, and Li Hao challenged him for insulting the family’s service at the Yanbei Battlefield.
• Xia Yong used object manipulation to order Li Hao to slap his own mouth, but Li Hao’s power forced Xia Yong off his horse instead.
• Xia Yong attacked Li Hao with his divine soul, and Li Hao shattered it with the Half-Step Invincible Fist, leaving Xia Yong unconscious and gravely injured.
• Xia Qingshuang condemned Li Hao’s strike, then carried Xia Yong away to seek treatment after he demanded an apology.
• Li Hao let the Xia siblings depart and told the coachman to continue toward Cangyu City.