Recaps

Li Hao lost control of the Heaven and Earth Power surging through him and nearly died, but he managed to stabilize his body with Feng Boping and Song Qiumo’s help. As the three injured companions prepared to recover, the Demon Kings returned to attack.

• Li Hao found Song Qiumo wounded after the Demon Kings fled, then began breaking apart as the power within him overwhelmed his body.
• Song Qiumo tried to heal Li Hao, but her power worsened his condition, so she and Feng Boping sealed him inside a barrier to cut off the surrounding energy.
• Li Hao redirected the excess power and found inner peace, allowing Keep a Low Profile to heal him until he regained control of his body.
• Li Hao thanked Feng Boping and Song Qiumo, and the three took healing medicines while agreeing to seek revenge once recovered.
• The three Demon Kings returned and mocked the wounded Li Hao, Feng Boping, and Song Qiumo as they charged toward them.

After the three Demon Kings returned, Li Hao barely drove them off with his collapsing secret art, but they cornered him again as reinforcements arrived and a demon tide attacked. When the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King finally struck, Li Hao activated the Sacred Heart Treasure Talisman to shield himself, Feng Boping, and Song Qiumo.

• Li Hao used his secret art again, and the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King, the Silver-Robed Youth, and the Dragon Lord withdrew after his sword split the demon king’s palm.
• Li Hao, Feng Boping, and Song Qiumo tried to retreat, but a demon tide approached and the three Demon Kings returned to trap them.
• Li Hao prepared to use his strongest form while Feng Boping and Song Qiumo urged him to escape, but a crowd of cultivators and soldiers arrived to reinforce Heaven’s Gate Pass.
• Bai Chunhai, Lin Qingfeng, Zhou Haitang, and many others joined the defenders, fighting the demon tide outside the pass as the Demon Kings held their position.
• After regular troops arrived, the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King attacked Li Hao and his companions, and Li Hao activated the Sacred Heart Treasure Talisman to block the blow.

Li Hao and his allies survived the attack by three Demon Kings after the Heavenly Secrets Grandmaster and Li Muxiu arrived to drive the demons away. The chapter left Li Hao determined to keep defending Heaven’s Gate Pass for three years, while Li Muxiu worried that the Emperor’s support might draw him into imperial schemes.

• Li Hao prepared to stay behind so Feng Boping and Song Qiumo could escape, but Lu Chunsheng arrived and blocked the three Demon Kings.
• Li Muxiu appeared, struck the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King, and forced the three Demon Kings to flee after a fierce exchange.
• Li Muxiu crushed much of the demon tide, then treated Li Hao, Feng Boping, and Song Qiumo for their injuries.
• Li Hao told Li Muxiu he would repay his help as a favor and confirmed he intended to defend Heaven’s Gate Pass for three years.
• Li Hao thanked Lu Chunsheng and recognized that the Emperor had arranged support through the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• Li Muxiu worried that the Emperor might be using Li Hao for imperial purposes and regretted that the boy had been drawn into such affairs.

After the battle at Heaven's Gate Pass, Li Hao mourned the fallen and began rebuilding Azure Cliff City as the Yu Emperor's hidden role in the timely reinforcements came to light. The chapter ended with a new city rising beside the pass beneath a banner bearing the characters “Haotian.”

• Li Hao thanked Li Hongzhuang for bringing reinforcements and asked Lin Qingfeng to record the dead, while Li Hongzhuang sent the Blood Fiend Army to recover the fallen.
• The Yu Emperor and Chu Jiuyue discussed the battle, and the Yu Emperor said that sincere intentions could not be seen through.
• At Heaven's Gate Pass, Feng Boping questioned Li Muxiu about the Li Family's True Dragon and learned that the True Dragon had gone to defend Liang Prefecture's eastern border amid attacks across several prefectures.
• Many martial artists stayed to help Li Hao rebuild Azure Cliff City, and caravans began traveling along Dragon Gate Road again.
• Azure Cliff City's walls and buildings rose quickly, and workers unfurled a military banner marked “Haotian.”

As Azure Cliff City recovered, Li Hao received officials and said goodbye to Song Qiumo, while the Celestial Observation Bureau began investigating the city’s Magic Arrays. He then prepared to deal with the Black Bird Demon King’s corpse, whose blood he intended to use for another purpose.

• Li Muxiu quietly said goodbye to Li Hao, accepting that Li Hao no longer needed the Li Family’s protection.
• Xiang Yuguang arrived with three Demon Suppression Generals to record the Demon King attack, but Li Hao treated him coolly and soon saw him off.
• Song Qiumo told Li Hao she was returning to Qing Prefecture and would wait for him there in three years before leaving.
• A Constellation Official from the Celestial Observation Bureau collected the City Lord Token and began inspecting the Magic Arrays, while Xia Xianglan saw the border graves and understood their cost.
• Li Hao invited Ren Qianqian and Little White Fox to help deal with the Black Bird Demon King’s corpse, and Feng Boping advised him to preserve its Dao Heart and Gilded Bird Feathers.
• Li Hao said the Demon King’s flesh would feed the gathered martial artists and asked for containers because he had another use for its precious blood.

Li Hao butchered and cooked the Black Bird Demon King for the martial artists of Azure Cliff City, and the process unexpectedly helped him achieve Entering Spirit in the Path of Cooking. After sharing the feast, he realized the breakthrough could guide him in his other paths.

• Li Hao harvested the Black Bird Demon King's precious blood, gilded feathers, heart, and other remains, then decided to cook its meat for the city.
• Li Hongzhuang summoned the Blood Fiend Army's cooking squad to help prepare supplies as Li Hao turned the Demon King's body into a feast.
• While cooking, Li Hao soothed the thoughts lingering in the Demon King's flesh and infused them with his gratitude, achieving Entering Spirit in the Path of Cooking.
• Li Hongzhuang thanked the assembled martial artists on Li Hao's behalf, and they tasted the emotions carried through the dishes as they ate.
• Li Hao delivered food to the Celestial Observation Bureau on the walls and saw that his Path of Cooking had advanced from the sixth dan to the seventh dan.
• Li Hao realized his cooking breakthrough had shown him a way toward Entering Spirit in his other paths and that he could allocate points again.

After the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King parted from his allies, rejected a clean-robed figure’s attempt to reform him, and destroyed the demons of the Red Water River, Li Hao advanced his physical cultivation. Li Hao reached the Three Immortalities Realm and transformed into a true dragon, advancing from Indestructible to Undeclining.

• The Silver-Robed Youth and Dragon Lord discussed their escape plans and left the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King, with the Dragon Lord taking Red God to the Dragon Gate.
• A clean-robed figure offered the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King a chance to reform, but he refused, accepted a Sacred Heart Treasure Talisman, and slaughtered the demons in the Red Water River before flying south.
• Li Hao arranged for the Nine Cauldrons Demon King's Precious Blood to be returned to Qing Prefecture, then reviewed his skills and used a Cooking state of mind and an Art Skill Point to raise his Path of the Physical Body to seventh dan.
• Li Hao awakened the transcendent Immovable Wisdom King technique, broke through into the Three Immortalities Realm, and reached the Indestructible Realm as power of heaven and earth surged around the mountain.
• Li Hao practiced the Myriad Flood Dragon Body, transformed into a small true dragon, and advanced from the Indestructible Realm to the Undeclining Realm.

Li Hao completed several body techniques, reached the Three Immortalities Realm, and discovered a Divine Power state that multiplied his strength and healing. He sent a Great Demon King's precious blood to the Li Family, while news of a major border battle reached Li Tiangang.

• Li Hao completed the Supreme Body, reached the pinnacle of the Three Immortalities Realm, and discovered that Divine Power could briefly increase his strength and physical resilience tenfold.
• Li Hao finished cultivating his techniques and returned from the mountain with Ren Qianqian and Little White Fox, while Li Hongzhuang confirmed his breakthrough.
• He Jianlan received nine cauldrons of Great Demon King blood from Li Hao and learned that four Demon Kings had attacked Heaven's Gate Pass before fleeing.
• He Jianlan ordered a letter sent to Li Tiangang in Liang Prefecture, telling him that Li Hao had repaid his debt of gratitude.
• An officer reported that Li Tiangang's forces had slain 43,255 demons and suffered 321 deaths, with many more wounded.

Li Tiangang learned that Li Hao had helped defend Heaven’s Gate Pass and repaid an old debt with a Demon King’s Precious Blood, but he still planned to bring his son back by force. Meanwhile, demons plotted to keep Li Tiangang occupied, and Li Hao left the pass alone to hunt for a Demon King to test himself against.

• Li Tiangang discussed the danger to Heaven’s Gate Pass and said Li Hao could withdraw if he was unwilling to face the Demon Kings, but he intended to use the threat to teach him a lesson.
• A cloud sparrow delivered a letter telling Li Tiangang that Li Hao had sent him Nine Cauldrons Demon King’s Precious Blood and that four Demon Kings had attacked Heaven’s Gate Pass before the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and Second Uncle drove them away.
• Li Tiangang realized that many people valued Li Hao and resolved to go to Heaven’s Gate Pass after the Eastern Border stabilized and drag him back to the Li Family.
• Black-robed Jiaolong figures discussed keeping Li Tiangang occupied and shifting their invasion toward the north, where they planned to test whether the Xia Family would intervene.
• At Azure Cliff City, Li Hao wrote Ren Qianqian a Spirit Refining Method, then took the Dragon Sky Sword and left the pass alone to search for a Demon King.

Li Hao cleared abandoned demon strongholds beyond Heaven's Gate Pass and learned that the Dragon Gate, Saint Palace, and Great Void Realm planned to attack Liang Prefecture. At the Fire Melt Cave, the Three-Headed Prime received news of the invasion and the vacant territories, while a golden sword struck down the departing Tianji Hall messenger.

• Li Hao entered the deserted Ten Thousand Mountains Region, destroyed its remaining demons and the Myriad Demon Hall, then continued toward the Dragon Mountain Dojo.
• At the Dragon Mountain Dojo, Li Hao killed a seductive centipede demon and a corpse demon after questioning them about the Dragon Gate’s plans for Liang Prefecture.
• Li Hao gathered four demonic body-refining manuals, raised his physical strength to 1.3 million jin, and destroyed the Dragon Mountain Dojo and the abandoned Saint Peak.
• At the Fire Melt Cave, a Tianji Hall messenger told the Three-Headed Prime that the Great Void Realm, Dragon Gate, and Saint Palace would attack Liang Prefecture and that several demon territories were vacant.
• As the black bird messenger flew away from the cave, a golden sword light sliced off her wings.

Li Hao and Feng Boping ventured deep into demon territory, where Li Hao slaughtered powerful demons as Tianji Hall spread warnings about his approach. The chapter ended with Li Hao continuing his sweep across three thousand li while demons fled or challenged him and died.

• Li Hao captured a black bird from Tianji Hall, followed it to Fire Melt Cave, and killed Three-Headed Prime and the demons inside.
• Li Hao and Feng Boping traveled to Peakless Mountain, where Li Hao killed a four-armed giant ape and a golden-striped tiger.
• Dark Blue Bird discovered the devastation at Peakless Mountain and spread an alarm through Tianji Hall’s bird network.
• A crow-like Tianji Hall bird found Hall Master Ming’s final message revealing that Li Hao had entered demon territory, then destroyed the intelligence and flew off.
• Azure Bird warned Black Cloud Lord that Li Hao was approaching after killing five lords of the Three Immortalities Realm, and Black Cloud Lord fled.
• Tianji Hall spread news of Li Hao’s advance, prompting some demons to flee while others stayed to challenge him and were killed.

Tianji Hall spread word of Li Hao’s movements and gathered Demon Kings and other enemies of the Li Family to attack him. Li Hao continued hunting demons beyond the pass, then confronted the arriving force and began fighting its Three Immortalities Realm demons.

• The Red Skirt Girl learned that Li Hao had killed Hall Master Ming and Old Ancestor Pingshan, and she ordered Tianji Hall’s birds to scatter while arranging for Demon Kings to gather against him.
• Li Hongzhuang learned that Li Hao had gone alone beyond Heaven’s Gate Pass, while the Constellation Officials waited for his return to test their magic array.
• Li Hao killed a Dragon Bird and other demons, detected and killed a spying bird demon, and destroyed the abandoned palace in the poisonous valley.
• Lord Fengshan and White God Lord arrived with other enemies of the Li Family, and they headed toward Li Hao after Purple Feather guided them.
• Li Hao faced the assembled demons, wounded a giant tortoise demon with the Dragon Sky Sword, and used the power of heaven and earth to deflect a frost arrow toward the Dragon Mouse and scatter its demonic mist.

Li Hao fought Lord Fengshan and several Demon Kings with overwhelming strength, forcing Lord Fengshan to use his fate-reversal opportunity. When the Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor and the Ten Thousand Caves Ghost Mother joined the attack, Li Hao killed the Ghost Mother and faced the two remaining Demon Kings.

• Li Hao killed the Dragon Mouse and Fire Lion, then fought Lord Fengshan with his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form and Dragon Sky Sword.
• Lord Fengshan unleashed his phoenix true fire, but Li Hao endured it and wounded him until Lord Fengshan used his Defy Heaven and Change Fate opportunity to escape death.
• The Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor and Ten Thousand Caves Ghost Mother arrived, and Li Hao agreed with Feng Boping to face the Demon Kings.
• Li Hao activated his Extreme Realm power, destroyed the Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor's reflected devil body, and swept away the Ghost Mother's ghostly forces.
• Li Hao struck the Ten Thousand Caves Ghost Mother with enough Sword Qi to trigger a lethal effect, then cleaved her in two and killed her.
• Li Hao turned to face the Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor and Lord Fengshan.

Li Hao defeated three Demon Kings who had tried to surround and kill him, killing Ten Thousand Caves Ghost Mother and forcing the others to flee. Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor, White God Lord, and Lord Fengshan escaped by different means, while the Red Skirt Girl warned others to give Li Hao a wide berth.

• Li Hao attacked Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor and Lord Fengshan, shrugging off their attacks with his powerful physique and striking back with sword and fist.
• Li Hao’s Heaven and Earth Dharma Form battered Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor, while Li Hao struck Lord Fengshan and sent him flying.
• Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor swallowed Li Hao, but Li Hao wounded him from within and forced him to use Fate Reversal to escape.
• Lord Fengshan fled under Li Hao’s pursuit, and Li Hao’s sword wounded him but could not stop him from getting away.
• Li Hao joined Feng Boping against White God Lord, who used Fate Reversal to escape after the two cornered him.
• The Red Skirt Girl fled the battlefield and sent a warning that everyone should give way wherever Li Hao went.

Li Hao drove the demons from the region outside Heaven’s Gate Pass, killing countless demons and destroying their lairs after defeating three Demon Kings. The Demon Kings returned to find their territories ruined and joined the three major demon factions on Liang Prefecture’s border, while those factions discussed targeting Li Tiangang instead.

• Li Hao slaughtered the fleeing Three Immortalities Realm demons, strung their corpses together, and advanced through the demon territory as Tianji Hall spread warnings about him.
• The Yuan Lake Demon King evacuated with his household after learning Li Hao had defeated Lord Fengshan and the Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor and killed the Ten Thousand Caves Ghost Mother.
• Li Hao destroyed the Yuan Lake Demon King’s lake lair and continued sweeping outward from Heaven’s Gate Pass, killing demons and leveling their territories.
• The three major demon factions discussed attacking Liang Prefecture and agreed that if they could not defeat Li Hao, they would target his father, Li Tiangang.
• After resting overnight, Li Hao returned with demon corpses, and the displaced Demon Kings found their lairs devastated and joined the three factions on Liang Prefecture’s border.

Li Hao returned to Azure Cliff City after slaying numerous Great Demons and reunited with Li Hongzhuang, Ren Qianqian, and Feng Boping. He then began recruiting the martial artists who wanted to serve under him.

• Li Hongzhuang spotted Li Hao approaching Heaven's Gate Pass, dragging the corpses of many Great Demons behind him.
• Li Hao set the demon corpses down in the city, told Li Hongzhuang the three Demon Kings had fled, and went to rest after admitting he was tired.
• Li Hao noticed Ren Qianqian had reached the spirit wandering realm, then cleaned up and shared tea with Feng Boping outside the city.
• Li Hao reassured Ren Qianqian that she did not need to catch up to him because he would come down the mountain to see her.
• Martial artists arrived to enlist under Li Hao, who put Ren Qianqian in charge of registration and assigned the recruits roles suited to their abilities.

Li Hao tested Azure Cliff City's defensive array, which failed to withstand even a casual punch, and received approval for his seven hundred recruits. A Bird Demon then arrived at Heaven's Gate Pass to meet him, leaving Li Hao to identify the visitor as someone from Tianji Hall.

• Li Xuanli questioned Li Wushuang about the demons' withdrawal, then sent warnings to Qing Prefecture, Li Tiangang, and Heaven's Gate Pass.
• Lord Fengshan and a black-robed figure watched Li Tiangang's eastern defenses and agreed to wait before attacking.
• Li Hao tested Azure Cliff City's Five Profound Star Formation, and his punch overwhelmed its five battle souls.
• Li Hao recruited seven hundred people, received approval from Li Xuanli, and was warned to beware of Demon King retaliation.
• A Bird Demon came to Heaven's Gate Pass to see Li Hao, who asked whether he was from Tianji Hall.

Li Hao rejected the Demon Kings’ demand for compensation, forced Tianji Hall’s envoy to plant his military banner five thousand li beyond Heaven's Gate Pass, and warned his Fifth Uncle that the demons might attack Liang Prefecture. As Azure Cliff City prospered and spring arrived, Li Hao continued cultivating the arts while keeping the border secure.

• Li Hao intimidated the bird demon boy, refused the Demon Kings’ demands, and ordered him to plant his military banner on the farthest mountain Li Hao had reached.
• Li Hao suspected the envoy had been testing whether he would guard Heaven's Gate Pass for three years and sent a warning letter to Li Xuanli through Ren Qianqian.
• The Red Skirt Girl learned that Li Hao intended to remain at the pass and ordered nearby demons to avoid his banner and stay clear of his patrols.
• Li Xuanli received Li Hao’s warning about a possible demon attack on Liang Prefecture and ordered scouts to investigate and watch the border closely.
• Li Hao patrolled the region, helped make Azure Cliff City prosperous, and advanced his artistic cultivation while hosting visiting masters of painting, chess, and music.
• After the snow melted, Li Hao obtained a treasured painting and two chess manuals, and spring arrived.

Li Hao used marked military banners to drive demons from the lands beyond Heaven's Gate Pass, while one banner's hidden sword qi killed a Three Immortalities Realm demon. A year later, a demon ignored warnings and charged onto Dragon Gate Road, where lingering sword qi split it apart.

• Li Hao created a Dark Side Clone from Two-Faced Person and used Universe Chart to turn military banners into markers containing his strength and sword qi.
• An Indestructible Realm demon destroyed one banner, triggering sword qi that killed it and terrified the Tianji Hall birds witnessing the attack.
• Li Hao sent his Dark Side Clone to investigate, and it killed a Tianji Hall messenger; afterward, Li Hao warned Tianji Hall, and demons gradually abandoned the lands beyond the pass.
• After spring passed and summer arrived, a bloated demon approached Dragon Gate Road and ignored an old tree demon's warning about the military banner.
• The bloated demon charged onto Dragon Gate Road and was cut apart by sword qi lingering there from Li Hao's strike a year earlier.

Over half a year, Li Hao strengthened Azure Cliff City’s defenses and improved his skills while Ren Qianqian rose through the Universe Rankings. After leaving for the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to study cultivation methods, Li Hao’s departure gave the demons an opening to launch their planned attack on Liang Prefecture.

• Ren Qianqian reached the seventh level of the Spirit Wandering Realm, opened her Profound Meridian, and rose to fifth on the Earth Phoenix Rankings and twenty-ninth on the Heaven Dragon Rankings.
• Li Hao advanced his Dao of Music and Body Movement Dao, received the reforged Dragon Sky Sword from Lu Cheng, and tested its power beyond the pass.
• Li Hao placed 180 military banners around the mountains beyond the pass and Azure Cliff City, strengthening their defenses enough to leave Heaven's Gate Pass in his Dark Side Clone’s care.
• Li Hao concealed his aura and left Heaven's Gate Pass with the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's guide to claim his reward and study cultivation methods.
• Tianji Hall learned that Li Hao had left the pass, and the Red Skirt Girl and the girl in purple concluded that the demons should attack Liang Prefecture while he was away.

Hong Yun informed the Dragon Gate that Li Hao had left Heaven’s Gate Pass, but its elders postponed an attack until their Grand Elder emerged from seclusion. In Yong Province, Li Hao visited the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, where Lu Chunsheng confirmed his Three Immortalities Realm and let him study its cultivation manuals.

• Hong Yun told the Dragon Lord and another Dragon Gate elder that Li Hao had likely left Liang Prefecture, and the Dragon Lord urged them to seize the chance to attack.
• The elder rejected the Dragon Lord’s plan to ambush Li Hao and said the Grand Elder would deal with him after leaving seclusion; he ordered the Dragon Gate’s branches to assemble.
• Heaven’s Mystery Mountain Man escorted Li Hao to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion in prosperous Yong Province, where Lu Chunsheng welcomed him with tea.
• Lu Chunsheng recognized that Li Hao had reached the Three Immortalities Realm, and Li Hao confirmed it before declining to play the Ancient Zither.
• Li Hao asked to study cultivation manuals, and Lu Chunsheng gave him permission to choose freely and read as long as he wished.

Li Hao explored the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, recording cultivation manuals until he found methods that opened all 108 great meridians and greatly expanded his martial skills. Lu Chunsheng then invited him to see the Heavenly Shadow Steles, where a disciple had just passed a challenge, and suggested that Li Hao try leaving his image on one.

• Li Hao recorded Meridian Opening Methods until he found a low-grade method that opened his final great meridian, completing all 108.
• Li Hao recorded Body Refining methods, sword and fist arts, Qi Circulation Methods, and movement arts, while Lu Chunsheng played the zither.
• Li Hao selected the peerless sword art Embroidered Spring Breeze, and Lu Chunsheng invited him to see the Heavenly Shadow Steles after hearing that Tang had passed a challenge.
• Lu Chunsheng introduced Li Hao to the gathered disciples as Young General Haotian, and the crowd reacted with surprise.
• Lu Chunsheng explained the Heavenly Shadow Steles and invited Li Hao to try leaving his image on one.

Li Hao explored the Heavenly Shadow Steles and used his panel to record their cultivation methods, leaving true-state images after a single viewing. He reached the top-ranked stele, where Sword Wudao’s image remained, and learned it contained an ancient, incomplete sword art.

• Lu Chunsheng introduced the Heavenly Shadow Steles, and Li Hao left a true-state image on Kong’s stele after viewing its sword art once.
• Li Hao continued through the steles, recording and surpassing numerous sword and fist arts in a single viewing, while the disciples and Tang Zhixi watched in shock.
• Lu Chunsheng urged Li Hao to spare some steles so their inheritances would remain usable, and Li Hao agreed to try the first-ranked stele while still activating the others to record their methods.
• Li Hao activated the mountaintop stele and saw Sword Wudao’s image; Lu Chunsheng explained that Sword Wudao had reached supreme perfection in its ancient, incomplete sword art after seven viewings and three years.
• Li Hao offered to erase Sword Wudao’s image, and Lu Chunsheng told him the stele’s sword art was among the finest ever recorded.

Li Hao mastered and surpassed Sword Wudao’s Sixteen Laws after viewing the Heavenly Shadow Stele once, then left the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to return to Heaven’s Gate Pass. Meanwhile, a dragon Grand Elder gathered demon armies to launch a brutal assault on Liang Prefecture.

• Li Hao recorded Sword Wudao’s Sixteen Laws and extrapolated its three displayed strikes into nine, demonstrating the swordsmanship at true state and replacing Sword Wudao’s image on the Heavenly Shadow Stele.
• Lu Chunsheng watched Li Hao’s achievement in shock, while Tang Zhixi and the other disciples were overwhelmed by the gap between their abilities and his.
• Li Hao declined Lu Chunsheng’s invitation to stay and departed for Heaven’s Gate Pass because he feared his absence would leave Azure Cliff City and its people exposed.
• At a deep lake west of Liang Prefecture, a dragon Grand Elder emerged and learned that no one of the unique skill realm was stationed there.
• The Grand Elder ordered the Great Void Realm armies and Dragon Gate demons to attack Liang Prefecture, destroy its cities, and kill every remaining human.

Li Tiangang recognized that the demons were preparing attacks along multiple fronts and faced Lord Fengshan, who challenged him beyond Liang Prefecture’s defenses. As the Demon Tide approached elsewhere, Li Tiangang left the Magic Array to fight Lord Fengshan, whose next strike threatened to kill him.

• Li Tiangang reviewed intelligence, concluded the demons’ feints concealed an attack on Liang Prefecture or You Province, and decided to order Li Hongzhuang to disperse the civilians from Azure Cliff City.
• Lord Fengshan appeared beyond the border and challenged Li Tiangang, then attacked the defensive line with his scarlet-flamed spear.
• Li Tiangang activated the Magic Array, and the Yuan Character Camp’s ten thousand soldiers joined their strength to hold off Lord Fengshan.
• Li Tiangang ordered Yu Xuan to alert the other camps, and the approaching Demon Tide appeared at both ends of the defensive line.
• Li Tiangang summoned a demon soul and charged out of the Magic Array to fight Lord Fengshan, who drove him back and then launched a spear attack at his head.