Recaps

Li Tiangang revealed his Four Establishments Realm cultivation and killed Lord Fengshan, but two Great Void Realm Demon Kings attacked him and summoned reinforcements. He returned to the magic array to find Liang Prefecture facing a massive demon assault, and prepared its defenses for a desperate battle.

• Li Tiangang revealed his Dao Heart Realm cultivation, used his Heaven Defying Nine Steps and Xing Tian Saber to defeat Lord Fengshan, and crushed his fleeing divine soul.
• Two Demon Kings from the Great Void Realm attacked Li Tiangang, but he escaped their disorienting gray mist and entered the magic array.
• Yu Xuan told Li Tiangang that Demon Kings from the Dragon Gate, the Saint Palace, and the Great Void Realm were leading attacks along the defensive line.
• Li Tiangang ordered the soldiers to form military arrays, activate the array's demon souls, and defend the magic array as the demon tide surged against it.
• The Yuan Character Camp deployed its secretly assembled force of two hundred thousand soldiers along the defensive line.

Li Tiangang commanded the defense of the Eastern Border against a massive Demon Tide and fought the Demon Kings attacking his Magic Array. After killing two Demon Kings, he faced Madam Yin and the full force of the Great Void Realm as they shattered the array.

• Li Tiangang reinforced the Six Phases Star Array with soldiers, deployed its Demon Souls, and activated the Nine Abyss Separating Fire Array against the Demon Tide.
• Li Tiangang left the array to fight four Demon Kings, then tricked the young Dragon Gate Demon King into crossing its boundary and killed him with a saber strike.
• The young Demon King's dying attack killed at least a thousand soldiers, while Li Tiangang learned that the Dragon Gate Grand Elder might be heading for his son at Heaven's Gate Pass.
• Seven Great Void Realm Demon Kings arrived, and Madam Yin revealed that the slain young Demon King, Yin Kui, was her son before attacking the array.
• Madam Yin and the other Great Void Realm elders overwhelmed the soldiers and shattered the Magic Array despite Li Tiangang's calls for reinforcements.

An Eight Directions Command Flag warned the Divine General Residence and Boundless Mountain that Liang Prefecture faced an overwhelming demonic invasion, while Li Tiangang’s defenses at the Eastern Border collapsed. The chapter left Li Tiangang wounded and his officers sacrificing themselves as ten Demon Kings advanced.

• He Jianlan told the gathered ladies that Li Tiangang had warned of the Great Void Realm, Dragon Gate, and Saint Palace attacking Liang Prefecture, and that Li Muxiu must remain in Qing Prefecture.
• Li Muxiu planned to seek help from his sisters and Fifth Grandmother, while Jiang Xian'er decided to write to her imperial father.
• Lin Wujing delivered Liang Prefecture’s command flag to the Boundless Buddha, who sent Miaoshan to quell the demons and instructed her to save the world, not its suffering.
• Madam Yin and the Demon Kings shattered the Eastern Border’s Magic Array, incapacitating or killing many Yuan Character Camp soldiers.
• Madam Yin struck Li Tiangang and hurled him into a crater, while Yu Xuan burned his life to charge the Demon Kings and the Vine Demon Elder killed him.
• Li Fu and the other deputy generals moved to protect Li Tiangang as the ten Demon Kings advanced.

Li Tiangang’s Eastern Border forces suffered devastating losses as he retreated, while the Desert Sword Saint intervened to hold off Madam Yin and the Demon Kings. Demon Kings also attacked Li Xuanli’s Western Border defenses, and Li Hao returned to Heaven’s Gate Pass.

• The Vine Demon Elder destroyed the Tiger Might Jiaolong Formation, and Li Fu sacrificed himself after urging Li Tiangang to make peace with his son.
• Li Tiangang ordered the Fa Character Battalion to hold back the Demon Tide while he led the Yuan Character Camp in retreat, but Madam Yin caught and badly wounded him.
• The Desert Sword Saint rescued Li Tiangang, then stayed behind to fight Madam Yin and the pursuing Demon Kings so Li Tiangang could escape.
• At the Western Border, three concealed Demon Kings attacked Li Xuanli’s defensive Magic Array, prompting him and five generals to fly out and confront them.
• Li Hao returned to Heaven’s Gate Pass and stopped at a tea stall, where he ordered hot tea and two baskets of steamed buns.

Li Hao returned to Azure Cliff City and learned that demon forces had attacked Liang Prefecture’s western border, breaking its defenses under three Demon Kings. When demons also threatened Heaven’s Gate Pass, he sent Li Hongzhuang and Li He to aid his Fifth Uncle with one of his battle flags while he stayed behind to guard the pass.

• Li Hao recognized the Tea Stall Elder from Qizhou, then startled visiting youths by using Sky Traversal to leave the stall.
• Li Hongzhuang told Li Hao that his Fifth Brother had reported demons massing at Liang Prefecture’s western border, and Li Hao later invited Xu Zhouyuan to play chess.
• A military report described three Demon Kings breaking the western border’s Magic Array and forcing Li Xuanli and his troops to retreat to the Second Defense Line.
• Li Hao learned that Li Xuanli was safe for now and that the report warned Azure Cliff City to stay vigilant rather than requesting reinforcements.
• A Haotian Army soldier reported that scouts outside Heaven’s Gate Pass had come under attack, so Li Hao sent Li Hongzhuang and Li He with his battle flag to aid the western border.

Li Hao prepared Heaven's Gate Pass for a demon assault, sending Li Hongzhuang and additional battle flags to reinforce the western front while he stayed to defend the pass. As a massive demon army arrived, Li Hao launched the Dragon Sky Sword to test whether a Demon King was among them.

• Li Hao revealed that his battle flags contained his sword moves, and Li Hongzhuang agreed to carry fifty flags to the western defensive line while Li He stayed at Heaven's Gate Pass.
• Li Hao sealed the city, warned nearby martial artists, sent a Grandmaster with twenty more battle flags as reinforcements, and ordered scouts to track the demons.
• Four Three Immortalities Realm Great Demons led more than fifty thousand demons toward the pass, believing Li Hao had not returned and planning to attack before he arrived.
• Li Hao continued a game of Go with Xu Zhouyuan as scout reports confirmed the demon tide's approach, and the demons carefully avoided the battle flags planted beyond the pass.
• When the demon army reached Heaven's Gate Pass, Li Hao had Ren Qianqian bring out the Dragon Sky Sword and sent it flying toward the demons as onlookers rushed to follow.

Li Hao used the Dragon Sky Sword to destroy a fifty-thousand-demon tide outside Azure Cliff City and kill its four Great Demons of the three immortalities realm. The sword returned to Li Hao’s courtyard as the city celebrated him as Young General Haotian.

• The demons charged Azure Cliff City, but Li Hao sent the Dragon Sky Sword through the city’s magic array and unleashed a vast sword tide against them.
• The Dragon Sky Sword slaughtered the demons at the front of the army and killed the first Great Demon of the three immortalities realm.
• The sword pursued and killed the other three Great Demons as they tried to flee.
• The Dragon Sky Sword wiped out the remaining demons, leaving no survivors from the fifty-thousand-strong tide.
• The Dragon Sky Sword returned to Li Hao’s courtyard, and the soldiers and people of Azure Cliff City cheered and called him Young General Haotian.

Li Xuanli and his battered army were trapped outside the Second Defense Line by five Demon Kings, while Thousand Machines Daoist was badly wounded and the city faced destruction. Li Hongzhuang arrived with Li Hao’s Haotian battle flags, stopping the demon tide and leaving everyone wondering whether Li Hao was nearby.

• Li Xuanli’s collateral-born general sacrificed himself to slow the demon tide, while frontier cities fell as the army retreated toward the Second Defense Line.
• Li Xuanli warned the city commander to raise the magic array before the three pursuing Demon Kings could enter, then led the Mystic Unit in battle as reinforcements tried to reach him.
• Li Xuanli sent Li Wushuang toward the city with an array token, but five Demon Kings gathered and badly wounded Thousand Machines Daoist.
• Li Hongzhuang answered Li Xuanli’s desperate call by throwing Li Hao’s Haotian battle flags into the demons’ path, halting the demon tide and terrifying the Demon Kings.
• Li Hongzhuang reached Li Xuanli without revealing whether Li Hao had come, while the city’s soldiers recognized the flags and Li Wushuang stared at them in shock.

Li Hongzhuang used Li Hao’s battle flags to rescue Li Xuanli and the others from five Demon Kings, but the Mystic Unit Army was slaughtered outside the city. After the surviving Demon Kings settled into a siege, a distress signal arrived from the east, and Li Hongzhuang set out to help Li Tiangang’s side.

• Li Hongzhuang unleashed sword qi from her battle flags, severed two of the Giant Spider Demon King's legs, and led Li Xuanli and the others into the defensive magic array.
• The Giant Spider Demon King died after sword qi entered his body, and the White God Lord warned the other Demon Kings not to let the sword shadows touch them.
• The Demon Kings attacked the Mystic Unit Army at close quarters to avoid Li Hongzhuang's banners, slaughtering the soldiers before she drove them back with three more flags.
• Li Hongzhuang told Li Qingling and Li Xueyun that the battle flags belonged to Li Hao, and the Liang Province Commander recognized them as the flags of Young General Haotian.
• A scout reported a distress signal from the east, and Li Hongzhuang took two array tokens and went to aid Li Tiangang's side.

Li Hongzhuang arrived with Li Hao’s Battle Flags just as Li Tiangang prepared to sacrifice himself against six Demon Kings. The flags’ powerful sword formations forced the demons back, giving the siblings a chance to retreat, while Li Tiangang learned Li Hao had sent them from Heaven’s Gate Pass.

• Li Tiangang led hundreds of thousands of soldiers toward the Second Defense Line as Demon Kings slaughtered a Yuan Character Camp unit that stayed behind to delay them.
• Expecting the army would not reach safety, Li Tiangang ordered the troops onward and chose to stay behind, but his Crimson Blood Horse refused to leave him.
• Li Hongzhuang flew to Li Tiangang’s aid, and a Battle Flag she detonated unleashed a sword ray that forced the six pursuing Demon Kings back.
• Li Hongzhuang explained that Li Hao had sent her with Battle Flags containing sword formations as powerful as Dao Heart Realm attacks.
• Li Hongzhuang detonated two more flags to cover their retreat, and Li Tiangang realized Li Hao had supplied the unexpected reinforcements from Heaven’s Gate Pass.

Li Hongzhuang’s battle flags helped Li Tiangang’s army escape the Demon Kings, while Li Hao opened his Heaven and Earth Meridian and advanced his cultivation. The chapter ended as Lu Yuan arrived at Azure Cliff City and attacked its protective formation.

• Li Hongzhuang used her battle flags to hold off the six Demon Kings, and the Vine Demon Elder escaped death by using his fate-reversal opportunity.
• Li Hongzhuang and Li Tiangang reached the Second Defense Line, where Li Xuanli welcomed them and learned that Heaven’s Gate Pass might have many more battle flags.
• Li Hao noticed battle flags being destroyed, then left Azure Cliff City to open all 108 ordinary great meridians and form the Heaven and Earth Meridian.
• Li Hao trained in body-tempering arts and combat techniques through the night as Feng Boping watched his power grow.
• Lu Yuan received news of the battle flags and headed to Azure Cliff City, where he struck the city’s protective formation with a dragon-claw attack.

Li Hao fought Lu Yuan, a True Dragon in the Unique Skill Realm, and broke his strongest technique with a devastating punch. Lu Yuan fled toward the demon army at Liang Prefecture’s Second Defense Line, with Li Hao in pursuit as the defenders recognized them.

• Li Hao took control of the Dragon Sky Sword and battled Lu Yuan, whose Limitless Thunder Dao wounded Feng Boping and forced Li Hao to withstand his lightning attacks.
• Li Hao used his Divine Power State and Immortal Transformation State to overpower Lu Yuan, break his Thunder Dao Burial, and drive him to flee.
• Li Hao pursued Lu Yuan for thousands of li, refusing to let the injured demon escape, while Feng Boping stayed behind to guard Azure Cliff City.
• Lu Yuan reached the demon army outside Liang Prefecture’s Second Defense Line and called on the demons to attack Li Hao.
• White God Lord recognized Li Hao chasing Lu Yuan, while Li Tiangang and Li Xuanli saw the pair approaching and realized Hao'er was pursuing the Unique Skill Realm Demon King.

Li Hao fought Lu Yuan at Liang Prefecture and overwhelmed the Dragon Gate Grand Elder despite the Demon Kings’ intervention. As Lu Yuan gathered power for a final technique, the other Demon Kings closed in on Li Hao.

• Lu Yuan called for the Demon Kings to surround Li Hao, while the White God Lord and others hesitated before joining the attack and sending a distress signal.
• Li Tiangang took five Battle Flags and prepared to leave the defensive array to help Li Hao, while Li Xuanli organized the defenders to attack the demon tide.
• Li Hao struck Lu Yuan into the ground, then used his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form to seize and repeatedly smash the dragon across the battlefield.
• The Demon Kings’ combined attacks engulfed Li Hao, but he emerged unharmed, leaving Li Tiangang and the defenders stunned.
• Lu Yuan broke free with Limitless Thunder Dao and prepared a powerful attack as the other Demon Kings rushed Li Hao; Li Hao’s Dharma Form kicked one Dragon Gate Demon King aside.

Li Hao battled the Demon Kings alone, killing one and wounding Lu Yuan, while Li Tiangang and the White God Lord fought nearby and the defenders counterattacked the Demon Tide. The chapter ended with the White God Lord charging Li Tiangang again as his taunts about Li Hao shook him.

• Li Hao drove the Demon Kings back with his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form and Spring Rain sword attack, which killed the half-dragon Demon King from Dragon Gate.
• Li Hao disrupted Lu Yuan's lightning attack, while Li Tiangang arrived and fought the White God Lord as Li Xuanli ordered the defenders to counterattack.
• Li Hongzhuang led the charge into the Demon Tide and used three Battle Flags to cut down demons and tear open the enemy ranks.
• Li Hao used the half-dragon's corpse to batter the Demon Kings, then killed a Dao Heart Realm Demon King and crushed its divine soul.
• Li Hao wounded Lu Yuan with a direct punch, but Lu Yuan's lightning dragon drove him into the ground; the White God Lord knocked Li Tiangang down and attacked him again.

Li Hao entered his immortal transformation state and slaughtered Demon Kings and hundreds of thousands of demons, but the heavenly mandate helped one Demon King escape. As Li Hao confronted Lu Yuan, two more Unique Skill Realm Great Demon Kings arrived and surrounded him.

• Li Hao seized and destroyed Lu Yuan's Limitless Thunder Dragon, then killed several Demon Kings with his transformed strength and attacks.
• The remaining Demon Kings fled, but Li Hao's punch killed four more; one Demon King escaped after Li Hao diverted his attack to rescue Li Hongzhuang from the demon tide.
• Li Hao's redirected punch carved a hundred-li-long path through the demon tide and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of demons, stunning both armies.
• The White God Lord fled from Li Tiangang, while Li Hao suspected the heavenly mandate had influenced his decision to rescue Li Hongzhuang and let a Demon King escape.
• Li Hao confronted Lu Yuan, but evaded a surprise attack from a young man who was another Unique Skill Realm Great Demon King.
• Madam Yin arrived and joined Lu Yuan and the young man in surrounding Li Hao, while Li Tiangang recognized her and reacted with alarm.

Li Hao fought three Great Demon Kings as they attacked Liang Prefecture, while Li Tiangang was gravely wounded trying to help him. After the Candlelight God revealed a terrifying Flame Dao Domain, Li Hao fled and lured the Demon Kings beyond the city’s defenses, leaving the people of Liang Prefecture to witness his sacrifice.

• The Candlelight God, Madam Yin, and Lu Yuan confronted Li Tiangang and Li Hao, and the Candlelight God challenged Li Hao to kill his father in exchange for sparing Liang Prefecture for a day.
• Li Hao refused the bargain and attacked Lu Yuan, but Madam Yin and the Candlelight God joined the fight while Li Tiangang hurled Battle Flags to protect him.
• The Candlelight God struck Li Tiangang down, and Li Hao drew on the power of heaven and earth to battle the three Demon Kings and evade their attacks.
• The Candlelight God unfolded a Flame Dao Domain that restricted Li Hao’s power, but Li Hao broke through and fled toward Liang Prefecture’s defensive line.
• Li Hao sent a warning to Li Xuanli, then drew the three Demon Kings away from the defensive Magic Array and toward the lands beyond Liang Prefecture’s border.

After Li Hao lured three Demon Kings away from Heaven’s Gate Pass, the defenders launched a counterattack under his name. Li Tiangang learned that Li Hao might not return, while the Haotian Army’s flags turned the tide against the demon tide.

• Li Hao drew the three Demon Kings away, and Li Xuanli ordered the Magic Array opened so the Liang Province forces could attack the demon tide.
• Li Qingling and Li Xueyun joined Li Hongzhuang, who used her battle flags to fight through the demons, while Li Xuanli rescued the wounded Li Tiangang.
• Li Tiangang awoke and learned that Li Hao had lured the Demon Kings away; Li Xuanli explained that the Candlelight God’s power could have shattered the Magic Array.
• Li Xuanli ordered the armies to replace their flags with Haotian Battle Flags, and most Aristocratic Family Armies charged beneath them as the demons recoiled.
• Li Tiangang watched the demons give way before the Haotian flags and realized how much Li Hao had changed.

Li Hao fled across Li Prefecture with Lu Yuan, the Candlelight God, and Madam Yin pursuing him, drawing them away from the battlefield toward the Mo River. He reached the Divine General Mo River stele, where Li Xiaoran appeared and blocked the three Demon Kings.

• Lu Yuan, the Candlelight God, and Madam Yin pursued Li Hao despite his repeated bursts of speed, while threats failed to make him turn back toward the battlefield.
• Li Hao crossed thousands of miles, passed the ruined western border of Li Prefecture, and steered toward the Mo River near the area guarded by the Li Family's Fourth Master.
• The three Demon Kings guessed Li Hao was seeking help from the Fourth Master, and Lu Yuan said he would hold the elder off if he appeared.
• Li Hao reached the Divine General Mo River stele, where the bamboo-hatted Li Xiaoran vanished and struck a saber arc that forced Lu Yuan, the Candlelight God, and Madam Yin to stop.
• Li Xiaoran appeared beside Li Hao and identified the pursuers as being in the Three Immortality Realm.

Li Xiaoran reunited with Li Hao and fought alongside him against Candlelight God, Lu Yuan, and Madam Yin before they escaped into a Youdu-level Mo River. Li Hao entered the Dragon City Fallen River and found himself reborn as a newborn Li Family child, the family’s tenth son.

• Li Xiaoran learned that Li Hao had killed six or seven Demon Kings, then faced Candlelight God, Lu Yuan, and Madam Yin as they attacked.
• Li Xiaoran defended Li Hao with his Horizon Untethered Saber, and Li Hao fought back with powerful transformations and punches.
• Li Hao endured the enemy’s attacks without using a Sacred Heart Treasure Talisman, then escaped the closing Dao Domain as Li Xiaoran retreated.
• Li Xiaoran grabbed Li Hao and led him into the Mo River, warning him to find the Divine General Residence in the dangerous territory.
• Li Hao’s household registration sent him into the Dragon City Fallen River, where a quest appeared requiring him to survive to eighteen and become proficient in his studies.
• Li Hao emerged as a newborn in the Li Family, and his mother declared him the family’s tenth child.

Li Hao discovered that the Youdu-level Mo River had made him an infant and warned him that he must rebuild his strength before Dragon City’s battle in eighteen years. After sleeping through months, he woke in the Green Lotus Courtyard as Shilang, held by Chen Hefang while his elder brothers practiced.

• Li Hao realized that sleep accelerated time in the Mo River and saw his Growth quest progress reach three percent.
• Li Xiaoran recognized Li Hao as Little Mouse and explained the Mo River’s rules, the deadly battle awaiting Dragon City, and the need to cultivate his lost insights anew.
• Li Hao summoned his panel and found it blank, then decided he would begin with painting and poetry once he could speak and move.
• After sleeping again, Li Hao awoke in the Green Lotus Courtyard in Chen Hefang’s arms and watched four boys practice with wooden weapons.
• One of the older boys accused Tiangang of cheating after Tiangang struck his hand with a wooden sword.

Li Hao advanced his sword and poetry skills while reliving his infancy, then fell asleep after absorbing the Mystic Sword Treasure Record’s insights. Meanwhile, reinforcements and Li Hao’s battle flags helped the defenders drive back the demons and stabilize Liang Prefecture, though the survivors’ mass cries of Li Hao’s name darkened Li Xuanli and the others’ expressions.

• Li Hao began speaking, met his brothers in the courtyard, and later joined their training before recording the Mystic Sword Treasure Record.
• Li Hao recited famous poems to gain Poetry and Literature experience, spent an Art Skill Point on the Sword Dao, and mastered the sword technique at the cost of a painful headache.
• Xia Family and Chen Family reinforcements arrived at the Second Defense Line, where Lin Wujing joined the battle and wounded a Dragon Gate Demon King.
• Imperial troops reinforced Liang Prefecture, and Li Xuanli ordered the surviving soldiers to sweep through the cities and drive out the remaining demons.
• Survivors credited Li Hao’s battle flags with protecting them and shouted his name across the battlefield, causing Li Xuanli and the others to darken their expressions.

After Li Hao disappeared during the battle in Liang Prefecture, Li Tiangang and the others began searching for him while continuing the campaign against the demons. Inside the Mo River, Li Hao learned the danger of exposing his identity and began an astonishingly rapid cultivation at age three, leaving Li Tianzong impressed by his talent.

• Li Xuanli sent two light cavalry squads to search for Li Hao under his military banner, while Li Tiangang and the Xia and Chen elders set out to hunt the remaining demons.
• Li Xiaoran warned Li Hao to hide that he had come from outside the Mo River and explained that Candlelight God and likely Lu Yuan had entered Dragon City to attack during the coming siege.
• At age three, Li Hao absorbed Foundation Establishment liquid so quickly that he consumed three barrels, astonishing Li Tianzong and his brothers.
• At age four, Li Hao quickly absorbed diluted Demon King blood during Blood Fusion, and Li Tianzong praised his extraordinary talent.
• Li Hao began painting and playing Go during his spare time, while young Li Hongzhuang followed him around; Li Tianzong found them in the side room and told Li Hao he did not need to hide his painting.

Li Hao spent months in the Mo River improving his painting and writing, while his family treasured his portraits and celebrated his talents. After comprehending Painting Heart and advancing his Painting Dao, he decided to visit the Listening Rain Pavilion and wondered what the Second Master had looked like when young.

• Li Tianzong praised Li Hao's portrait of Chen Hefang, encouraged his painting, and carried him and Li Hongzhuang to watch the Older Brothers train.
• Li Hao repeatedly accelerated through time, practiced painting, and reached rank two as he produced lifelike portraits of his family.
• Li Hongzhuang told Li Hao that Li Tianzong had collected his paintings to display in Li Hao's future courtyard, and Li Hao later avoided answering young Li Tiangang's question about why he had not painted him.
• Li Hao attended literacy lessons, wrote poems that astonished his tutor, and learned that the tutor intended to tell the master about his talent.
• Li Hao painted Li Tianzong's portrait, comprehended Painting Heart, advanced his Painting Dao to rank four, and decided to visit the Listening Rain Pavilion.

Li Hao visited the Listening Rain Pavilion, raised his Path of the Physical Body to the fourth stage, and deduced the Starlight Body Tempering Art. After he fell asleep and awoke during Bone Measurement, the Green Hill Mountain Daoist reacted with astonishment, leaving Li Tianzong demanding Li Hao’s results.

• Li Tianzong happily praised Li Hao’s poems, then agreed to let him visit the Listening Rain Pavilion with Uncle Zhao.
• Li Xiaoran warned Li Hao not to cultivate before Bone Measurement and explained that the earliest safe age to begin was five.
• Li Hao studied the pavilion’s body-tempering methods, used his Art Skill Points to advance his Path of the Physical Body to the fourth stage, and developed Stone Skin Hundred Refinements into Golden Skin Thousand Refinements.
• Li Hao absorbed and fused many methods until his panel deduced the Starlight Body Tempering Art, which he circulated before falling asleep.
• Li Hao woke during Bone Measurement beside the Green Hill Mountain Daoist, who reacted in shock and called the news wonderful.
• Li Tianzong rebuked the Daoist for his suspense and demanded to hear Li Hao’s Bone Measurement results.

After Li Hao’s extraordinary bones were revealed, a demon attacked him at a banquet, and he recovered by skipping ahead through time while developing several arts. At age six, he chose a sword for his first cultivation lesson and prepared to demonstrate the sword skills he had already learned.

• The Green Hill Mountain Daoist declared that all seventy-two of Li Hao’s major bones surpassed the supreme grade, and Li Tianzong celebrated his son’s transcendent talent with a grand banquet.
• A demon disguised as a noble attacked Li Hao and Ninth Brother at the banquet, but Fourth Uncle killed it; Li Tianzong went outside the city to slay monsters while Li Hao and the others recovered.
• Li Hao resumed painting and persuaded Li Hongzhuang to help him cook, then carved wooden figures of his parents and accumulated experience in several arts.
• Li Hao skipped forward until he was six and had reached Painting Dao rank 5, Path of Cooking rank 2, and Path of Carving rank 3, with five art skill points available.
• At the Martial Arts Arena, Li Hao chose a longsword for his first cultivation lesson, and the instructor asked him to reproduce a sword demonstration.