Li Family

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Power Progression

Background

Two centuries before the present story, the Li Family migrated to Green Maple Valley and established itself in Baihe County. The family tree states that its First Generation Patriarch, Li Qingxian, led 132 clansmen to the valley, destroyed the resident Feng Family, and claimed the territory. Li Qingxian later died from a relapse of an old injury, while his origins and the instructions he passed solely to succeeding patriarchs remained concealed. 1 336

The clan initially rose as the Green Maple Li Clan, one of Baihe County’s Nine Great Families. Its position collapsed into crisis after Patriarch Li Xuanfeng was found dead in seclusion; external families immediately demanded the Silver Ridge Mine and attempted to exploit the succession. His seventeen-year-old grandson, Li Xinge, inherited the patriarchate and revealed his Qi and Blood Realm cultivation to stabilize the clan. 1 2

The family’s first retaliatory campaigns eliminated the Jin, Zhang, and Zou families and the Great Saber Sect. The returning elders reported 5,500 taels of gold and other assets worth 11,000 taels, temporarily resolving the succession crisis while leaving the larger conflict with the Mangshan Su Clan unsettled. 6 8

Under Li Xinge, the family destroyed the remnants of the Mangshan Su Clan, rewarded allies who fought alongside it, and began absorbing territory and resources from defeated rivals. After Chen Shuyao warned the clan of a Song Family-led coalition, the Li Family survived the plot and divided the spoils from the annihilated four families. 20 21 49 56

The Li Family expanded beyond Baihe County through military campaigns, vassalage, marriage alliances, and the relocation of collateral branches. It consolidated control over three counties, founded the Five-County Alliance, and declared itself the dominant power in Ascending Dragon Prefecture. 125 140 201

Later campaigns brought the clan into Yang Province-wide conflicts. The Li Family defeated or absorbed major regional forces, seized the millennia-long accumulation of the Fu Family after its destruction, and became recognized as the Yang Province Li Clan. 279 328 330 423

By the later southern conflicts, the family had expanded into the Southern Li Clan, with more than 56,000 main-family members and over 11.7 million branch-family members recorded on its latest panel. 895

Despite ruling half of the southern lands, the clan remained heavily dependent on Li Xinge for its highest-level military deterrence. Recognizing this weakness, he formally incorporated the ancient ancestor Li Qingcang as a secluded protective elder whose eventual recovery could deepen the family’s foundations. Li Hao’s subsequent Divine Mansion breakthrough further strengthened the direct lineage. 913 940

Leadership and Organization

The patriarch holds decisive authority over the clan’s strategy, military deployments, resource allocation, and major appointments. Li Xinge’s succession was supported by First Elder Li Xuantong, whose counsel and loyalty helped stabilize the family during its earliest crisis. 1 29

Li Xinge retains ultimate authority even when in seclusion. The Elder Council administers the family in his absence, but Li Xuantong explicitly maintained that no returned ancestor or senior figure could challenge the living patriarch’s authority. 166 885

This principle was upheld when Li Xinge met Li Qingcang. He rejected the ancient elder’s proposal to revive more distant ancestors and declared that the Holy Emperor’s era had ended, establishing that ancestral seniority would not supersede the current patriarch’s rule. Li Qingcang accepted the present hierarchy. 913

Elder Council

The Elder Council is the family’s central deliberative body. Its senior members oversee specialized halls and report directly to the patriarch. 21 65

Following Li Xuanqi’s funeral, Li Yanxiao and Li Yanjing were promoted to the Eighth and Ninth Core Elder positions, formalizing the cavalry and intelligence branches within the senior leadership. By this stage, the family maintained nine core elders with specialized administrative responsibilities. 242

The broader governance hierarchy places the patriarch above Sequential Elders, Ordinary Elders, Protectors, stewards, and ordinary clan members. This administrative structure complements, rather than replaces, the resource-allocation tiers. 166

Clan Policies

• Cultivation support — Li Xinge doubled cultivation-resource allocations for clan cultivators after the Su Clan campaign. 21
• Population growth — The family introduced childbirth incentives, later expanding rewards for childbirth and marriage to strengthen the direct lineage. 21 125
• Member tiers — Clan members were placed into a tiered system based on talent, contribution, and strength, creating clearer routes for advancement. 165
• Six-tier allocation structure — The tiers are Patriarch, Core Layer, Elite Layer, Backbone Layer, Ordinary Layer, and Outer Layer. Core members receive priority access to cultivation arrays, advanced inheritances, pills, and spiritual fruits, while talented or highly contributing members can rise beyond the treatment their cultivation alone would otherwise warrant. 164 165 166
• Contribution missions — The mission board offers assignments including mine defense, spiritual-medicine cultivation, demonic-beast hunts, teaching, and pursuit of enemies. 174
• Contribution-based exchange — The later Contribution Value system replaced direct resource distribution with monthly contribution allocations and mission earnings. Members can exchange their points for cultivation methods, martial skills, spirit stones, pills, and access to the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower. 340 341
• Talent selection — Direct-lineage children are tested from age three, while branch disciples can compete for Ancestral Land opportunities through the All-Clan Grand Competition. 286 380 411
• New Blood Selection Assembly — The family also selects promising children from collateral branches through this assembly, helping address shortages of talented direct-lineage cultivators. 44 65
• Branch integration — Collateral branches were relocated into East and Stone Counties to consolidate the main lineage’s rule. 125
• Kindling preservation — During existential threats, the family may activate a Kindling Plan to preserve descendants, inheritances, and a viable bloodline even if the main force is lost. 71
• Genius protection — The family assigns trusted Clan Martial Pavilion cultivators as protectors for promising descendants, preferring blood relatives over outside guest officials for this duty. 287
• Talent confidentiality — Li Hao’s exceptional childhood aptitude was concealed behind a public claim of fifth-grade talent because the elders feared that the Great Zhou Imperial Family would regard his true potential as a threat. 317
• Restricted ancestral information — Li Qingcang’s identity and Grand Elder appointment are known only to the family’s upper ranks. Li Xinge promised to find him a suitable body once his Divine Soul stabilized. 913

Military Strength

The Li Family’s military grew from a single Qi and Blood Realm cultivator at Li Xinge’s succession into a force capable of operating across prefectures and provinces. 2 423

By the latest documented panel, the main family alone possessed three Divine Mansion cultivators, 47 Innate cultivators, and 9,191 Qi and Blood cultivators. Li Hao’s later breakthrough increased the confirmed number of Divine Mansion cultivators to four, although no updated total for the lower realms is provided alongside that advancement. 895 940

• Azure Wolf Cavalry — A signature mounted force used in major campaigns. During the Yan Family campaign, the clan deployed more than 100 Azure Wolf Cavalry, nearly 100 Body Realm cultivators, and 12 Qi and Blood Realm cultivators. 91
• County soldiers — The family displayed 6,000 county soldiers alongside the Azure Wolf Cavalry at its grand gathering in Green Maple Valley. 139
• Guest officials and reverends — The Hall of Reverence recruits outside cultivators such as Jiang Dao, Cheng Zhao, and Zhang He to supplement the direct lineage. 60 65 109
• Provincial-scale forces — Li Xinge later led over 100 Qi and Blood Realm cultivators against the Ye Family and surrounded the Fu Family’s ancestral mountain with an army of 100,000 cultivators. 186 328
• Absorbed regional forces — The submission of the Huang Family and its former followers added thirty Innate cultivators and more than seven hundred Qi and Blood cultivators to the Li Family’s wider organization. These forces were relocated to Eastern Continent Prefecture or dispersed throughout Yang Province. 426
• Innate reinforcements — As the family’s reputation grew, large numbers of rogue cultivators joined it. The later organization included at least four Late-stage Innate guest cultivators in addition to its established guest officials. 608 895
• Guardian spirit beasts — The clan’s guardian beasts include Chixiao, the Green-Eyed Snake Lord, and the Moon-Worshipping Wolf King and Queen. The Green-Eyed Snake Lord later became a Demon King. 423 895
• Li Xuantong’s battlefield reputation — With Early-stage Divine Mansion cultivation, he killed Wu Gu, the Witch God Hall’s Fourth Priest, who was at Mid-stage Divine Mansion. His position as First Elder made his will a major expression of Li Xinge’s authority throughout the south. 882
• Li Hao’s Divine Mansion breakthrough — He withstood nine tribulation strikes, absorbed lightning to temper his body, and completed his breakthrough above the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower. 940
• Recovering supreme foundation — Li Qingcang was a powerful Half-Saint before his death, but currently survives as a recovering remnant soul. His appointment is intended to provide future stability, not evidence that the family already possesses a restored Half-Saint fighter. 910 913

The clan’s outward prosperity initially concealed a shortage of independent top-level combatants. Li Xinge judged that Li Wuyou could not yet contend against Divine Mansion Great Perfection opponents, Li Xuantong’s cultivation remained too low, and Li Hao had not yet entered Divine Mansion when Li Qingcang was appointed. This assessment motivated the effort to restore the ancient elder. 913

Foundations and Resources

• Green Maple Valley — The family’s ancestral seat and original territory, protected by formations and developed as the center of the clan’s expansion. 1 107
• Activated spiritual vein — Li Xinge activated a hidden spiritual vein beneath Green Maple Valley, raising spiritual-energy concentration, accelerating the growth of spiritual crops and fruits, and improving cultivation conditions. 164
• Silver Ridge Mine — A core economic asset repeatedly targeted by rival families; its management is a major family responsibility. 1 21 65
• Lingdang Mountain Spirit Stone Mine — Initially developed jointly with the Xie and Wang families, the mine contained roughly 200,000 Low-grade Spirit Stones and smaller quantities of higher-grade stones. Luo Mo was appointed to oversee the Li Family’s participation; the Xie and Wang ancestors later conceded the mine to the Li Family. 174 201
• Tianyuan Cauldron — A Supreme Emperor Armament serving as one of the Li Family’s ultimate foundations. 163 186 423
• Divine Mansion Jade Bone — A forged protective foundation capable of annihilating a Late-stage Innate Realm attacker and his followers when activated by Li Xuantong. 101 259
• Heavenly Net and Earthly Net — An Earth Tier spiritual artifact and sealing formation used to trap entire ancestral territories. It was later upgraded from Earth Tier low-grade to Earth Tier high-grade. 186 328 442
• Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower — A contribution-funded cultivation facility. Its concentrated spiritual energy enables rapid advancement and motivates clan members to complete missions. 340 341
• Tower access and upper floors — The fourth through sixth floors serve Qi and Blood cultivators, while the seventh supports Innate cultivation. The eighth contains a Spirit Liquid Pool and requires authorization from the patriarch or First Elder for exceptional contributors; the ninth is reserved for Li Xinge. 340
• Spiritual rice — Successful cultivation of spiritual rice established the family’s own Spiritual Plant Master and provided a food resource capable of slightly increasing cultivation speed. 32 59
• Blood Spirit Fruit Tree — The first tree acquired by the rising Green Maple Li Clan produced fruits that helped establish its early foundation. It is now cultivated in a major medicinal garden and forms part of a larger forest of hundreds of Blood Spirit Fruit Trees; the original tree can yield roughly 200 fruits, each usable for a Qi and Blood Pill. 521
• Qinghe Mountain medicinal garden — A major high-grade spiritual-medicine production site, expanded to more than ten times its original scale and supported by ten second-tier Spirit Gathering Arrays. 521
• Half-Saint’s Hidden Treasure — Li Hao obtained the Crimson Flame Half-Saint’s hidden treasure, containing large quantities of treasures, cultivation methods, and materials that substantially strengthened the clan’s foundations. 533 558 567
• Ancient Li Family inheritance — Li Hao recovered a drop of Pure-blooded True Dragon Essence Blood, the Saint-tier Primordial Scripture, and two Saint-tier divine abilities from an ancient Li Family remnant soul. 865 867 884
• Fifth-tier alchemy — Li Yuran’s Myriad Medicine Spiritual Body supported her successful refinement of three Profound Clarity Foundation-Forging Pills. Her advancement established an internal source of high-level breakthrough support, and the family decided to publicize the achievement through a celebratory ceremony. 808 809
• Advanced spiritual planting — The later family panel identifies Li Yuran as both a fifth-tier alchemist and fifth-tier Spirit Planter, Li Yanxiu as a fourth-tier Spirit Planter, and Li Yanming as a fourth-tier alchemist. 895
• Two-Realm Teleportation Grand Array project — Sage Xuanji and Li Qingshi worked on a seventh-rank array in the Soulbreak Mountains. Li Xinge pressed for completion within three months and offered Nine Nether Soul-Nourishing Grass to support the effort; the cited account describes construction rather than confirmed completion. 809
• Soul-Nourishing Formation — A formation made from top-grade Soul Nurturing Jade sustains Li Qingcang in a secluded valley within the forbidden rear mountain. Over two years, his soul recovered from a vague outline into a recognizable middle-aged form. 910

Family System Benefits

Li Xinge’s Family System supplies lineage statistics, quests, cultivation inheritances, talent-related rewards, and buffs that accelerate the clan’s collective development. Completion of the first major crisis quest brought cultivation-speed and birth-rate enhancements, with clan members experiencing sudden breakthroughs and inspiration. 2 18

Relationships

• Zheng Family — Allied through the marriage arrangement between Li Xingcong and a Zheng Family daughter; Zheng Cangfeng later pledged unconditional support to the Li Family. 28 29 89
• Zheng Family advancement support — Li Xinge offered the Zheng Family thirty percent of the Li Family’s interests in Stone County in exchange for protecting the Qi Family. He later gifted Zheng Cangfeng an Innate Spirit Pill, prompting an oath never to betray Li Xinge, the Li Family, or the Green Maple Valley Sect. 120 261
• Chen Family — Chen Shuyao warned the Li Family about the Song Family coalition, then led the Chen Family into vassalage under the Li Family. 49 196
• Hao Family — Fought alongside the Li Family against the Su Clan and received gold and the Ximei Mountain iron mine as a reward. 21
• Jiang Family — Assisted in eliminating the Su Family remnants and received Li Family approval after betraying the Su Clan. 20
• Hao and Jiang vassal obligations — Both families were ordered to provide cultivators during the Song coalition crisis, with refusal punishable by immediate execution. 50
• Guo Family — Connected through Li Xuling’s marriage to Guo Yulong. After the Li Family intervened against mistreatment of Li Xuling and her son, she took control of the Guo Family and was instructed to maintain its medicinal-herb supplies to the Li Family. 63 65
• Yang Family of Qu County — Yang Zongxing used a favor owed to his late father, Yang Zhongze, to request vassal status. Li Xuantong honored Li Xinge’s promise, accepted the family’s allegiance, and prepared to send protection against Zhao Minglan. 203
• Wei Family of Wu Province — Initially hostile, the two families later reconciled through gifts, diplomacy, and the marriage alliance between Li Xingzong and Wei Qingluo. 338 339 566 567
• Fu Yu and the Fu Family — Fu Yu aided Li Xinge during his early rise and later aligned his family with the Li Family after becoming patriarch. 322 324
• Cao Family — Li Xinge’s maternal relatives, who had maintained no dealings with the Li Family for more than thirty years. His maternal uncle Cao Wenzhao sought protection, and Li Xinge agreed to help despite his emotional distance from that branch of his family. 627 629
• Myriad Treasures Pavilion — A powerful commercial force with which the Li Family maintains a cautious relationship; the Pavilion held a mortgage on a seized Su Family mine. As the Li Family rose, the Pavilion also sought its support in Yang Province. 21 349
• Shi Qianqiu — Head of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s Southern General Pavilion. He witnessed and congratulated Li Hao’s Divine Mansion breakthrough, regarding the young cultivator’s potential as further evidence that the Li Family was a valuable investment. 940
• Old Man Fengshan — A forging expert who took Li Xingzong as his disciple and helped establish the family’s artifact-forging development. He also forged the Divine Mansion Jade Bone that became a decisive early protective foundation. 103 108
• Sage Xuanji — The family supplied soul-stabilizing resources for his recovery, while he offered formation expertise, including plans to improve the clan’s defenses and work on the Two-Realm Teleportation Grand Array with Li Qingshi. 423 809
• Xiong Lie — Xiong Lie, formerly known as Zhou Lie, is a survivor of the Xiong Clan whose unusually concentrated Heavenly Human Bloodline and surviving son led Li Xinge to suspect a connection to the Li Family bloodline. 842 843 895
• Li Qingcang — A remnant soul claiming to be the Li Family’s Seventeenth Grand Elder from seven thousand years ago. Li Xuantong conditionally accepted his identity while reserving final judgment for Li Xinge. Li Xinge subsequently confirmed his identity, formally acknowledged him as an ancestor, and appointed him to a secluded Grand Elder position. 884 885 910 913
• Rootless People — According to Li Qingcang, these enemies descend from Li Family members who betrayed their ancestors thirty thousand years earlier and were responsible for the ancient clan’s downfall. The precise motive for their original betrayal remains unknown to him. 910 911

Family Culture

The Li Family prioritizes collective survival, advancement, and repayment of service. The phrase “everything for the family” reflects an expectation that individual wishes yield to clan interests, particularly in matters of marriage, cultivation resources, and political alliances. 29

Its members are expected to observe strict order in important family spaces, contribute through missions, and compete for resources through merit. The Ancestral Land’s stronger disciples hold clear authority over branch members, though outstanding branches can receive cultivation methods, martial skills, pills, and increased resource allocations. 341 413 422

The clan is fiercely protective of its members, including collateral branches and recruited outsiders, but it is equally ruthless toward enemies. Its campaigns against the Tong, Fu, Lin, and other families established a reputation for systematic extermination and overwhelming retaliation. 136 303 330 427

The family’s doctrine of eliminating future threats extends beyond defeating hostile cultivators. Li Hao describes the practice of collecting enemy souls after battle as a Li Family tradition intended to prevent later retaliation and extract further use from defeated enemies. 872

Annual talent testing is treated as an essential family tradition that continues even during external military crises. The elders regard the younger generation as the clan’s foundation and future, and refuse to let outside turbulence disrupt this process. 286

The family preserves reminders of its earlier hardships to educate descendants who have grown up amid abundance. The original Blood Spirit Fruit Tree is respected not merely as a medicinal asset, but as a testament to the risks, sacrifices, and scarce opportunities that enabled the clan’s rise. 521

Opening the ancestral shrine in full marks an event important enough to enter the clan’s genealogy. Li Xuantong’s Divine Mansion advancement warranted such recognition, giving him a distinct place in the family’s recorded history. 733

Li Hao’s Divine Mansion breakthrough became another collective celebration. He credited Li Xinge and the First Elder for his development, while Li Xinge praised him but cautioned against allowing outside compliments to encourage arrogance. 940

Major Arcs

• Succession Crisis — Li Xuanfeng’s death leaves Green Maple Valley vulnerable until Li Xinge assumes leadership and reveals his Qi and Blood Realm strength. 1 4
• Retaliation Against the Initial Conspirators — Li Family elders destroy the Jin, Zhang, and Zou families and the Great Saber Sect, eliminating their fugitives and collecting resources for the clan’s recovery. 6 8
• Fall of the Mangshan Su Clan — The Li Family eliminates the Su Clan remnants, takes its assets, and rewards allied families. 20 21
• Five Great Families Scheme — Chen Shuyao exposes a coalition led by the Song Family; the Li Family survives and profits from the destruction of four hostile families. 49 50 56
• Kindling Plan and Demonic Chaos — Following the fall of Red Maple City to the Demon Race, the family prepares a contingency to preserve its bloodline and inheritance while seeking a Baihe County-wide defensive alliance. 71 72
• Defense of Green Maple Valley — The ancient Family Protection Formation blocks an Innate attack before collapsing, while the completed Divine Mansion Jade Bone becomes the clan’s decisive hidden foundation. 107 108
• Five-County Alliance — The Li Family publicly demonstrates its military strength and establishes an alliance that offers protection in exchange for unconditional wartime conscription. 139 140
• Family System Reform — Li Xinge activates the valley’s spiritual vein and introduces a six-tier resource structure and expanded governance hierarchy to support the growing clan. 164 165 166
• Yang Province Expansion — The clan defeats major rivals, suppresses opposition, and destroys the Fu Family after surrounding Tianfu Mountain. 201 279 328 330
• Spirit Gathering Tower Opening — The Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower and contribution-based exchange system stimulate cultivation breakthroughs and a surge in mission participation. 340 341
• Elevation Ceremony — Li Xinge leads the ancestral worship ceremony marking the family’s rise to a Divine Mansion Immortal Clan; the clan’s Destiny manifests as a dragon. 367
• Ancestral Land Grand Competition — The Li Family gathers branch and main-lineage disciples to display its younger generation’s strength and select talent. 411 413
• Lin Fan Pursuit — After Lin Fan becomes a vengeful survivor of the exterminated Lin Family, the Li Family mobilizes overwhelming force against him; Li Xinge ultimately takes his Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body. 427 439 441
• Crimson Flame Half-Saint’s Hidden Treasure — The Li Family dispatches hundreds of disciples to contest the Half-Saint’s hidden treasure. Although it suffers 24 elite casualties, Li Hao secretly secures the inheritance. 533 558 567
• Fifth-tier Alchemy Foundation — Li Yuran successfully refines fifth-tier Profound Clarity Foundation-Forging Pills, creating a new internal foundation for supporting Divine Mansion advancement. 808 809
• Li Hao’s Ancient Inheritance — While training under the name Li Longxiang, Li Hao encounters an ancient Li Family remnant soul, receives the Primordial Scripture and Saint-tier divine abilities, and brings the ancestor’s soul back to the family. 864 867 884 885
• Ancient History and Grand Elder Appointment — Li Xinge confirms Li Qingcang’s identity, learns that the Rootless People originated through internal betrayal, and incorporates the ancestor into the current clan as a secluded Grand Elder without administrative authority. 910 911 913
• Fourth Divine Mansion — Li Hao survives his tribulation and becomes the family’s fourth Divine Mansion cultivator. His breakthrough benefits surrounding disciples and strengthens the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s interest in the clan. 940

Legacy and Bloodline Mysteries

The Li Family’s documented genealogy begins only with Li Qingxian’s arrival in Green Maple Valley. It omits his parents and any earlier family history despite evidence that the clan was already substantial before its migration. The First Generation Patriarch’s private instructions have been passed exclusively from patriarch to patriarch. 336

Li Qingxian was twenty-three when he destroyed the Feng Family and died three years after establishing the clan in Green Maple Valley. His younger brother, Li Qinglang, succeeded him as Second Generation Patriarch and is identified as Li Xinge’s ancestor. 336

Li Xinge’s parents, Li Yanzong and Cao Yueying, died more than thirty years before Cao Wenzhao sought the family in Baihe County. Their identities were rarely discussed because Li Yanzong was Li Xuanfeng’s only son and Li Xinge’s birth father. 627 629

Li Xinge later sensed a possible bloodline connection to Xiong Lie, a surviving member of the Xiong Clan. Testing confirmed that Xiong Lie’s son possesses Li Family blood, prompting further investigation into the connection. 842 843

Li Hao’s encounter with an ancient remnant soul substantially altered the family’s understanding of its past. The soul identified itself as Li Qingcang, the Seventeenth Grand Elder of an ancient Li Family whose ancestral land was located in Ji Province. According to Li Qingcang, the clan suffered a catastrophe involving the Rootless People more than seven thousand years earlier. 864 865 885

Li Xuantong concluded that the First Generation Patriarch and the migrants to Green Maple Valley likely erased the family’s earlier records deliberately to protect their surviving descendants. Although he conditionally accepted Li Qingcang’s claim, he remained wary of deception and insisted that Li Xinge alone would make the final decision regarding the ancient ancestor’s status. 885

Li Xinge subsequently verified Li Qingcang’s identity through his special ability. The elder was confirmed as the ancient Li Family’s Seventeenth Grand Elder, formerly a Half-Saint with the Fearless Swordheart and an unactivated Heavenly Human Bloodline. This resolved the immediate uncertainty over whether the remnant soul was genuinely a family ancestor. 910

Ancient Supremacy and the Rootless People

According to Li Qingcang, the ancient Li Family once ruled the entire world and possessed several Heavenly Human Saints. At that time, the world was approaching evolution from a Middle Thousand World into a Great Thousand World. The distant ancestor at the center of this era was the Sacred Emperor, also referred to as the Holy Emperor. 910 911

Li Qingcang identified the Rootless People as descendants of the Li Family who betrayed their ancestors thirty thousand years earlier. His account places internal betrayal at the heart of the ancient clan’s collapse, rather than presenting the Rootless People as an unrelated outside enemy. 910

The cause of the original betrayal remains unresolved. Li Qingcang admitted that he did not know the precise motive, since the Holy Emperor’s era preceded his own lifetime by more than twenty thousand years. The thirty-thousand-year-old betrayal and the catastrophe of Li Qingcang’s own period are therefore distinct historical points within the family’s long decline. 885 910 911

Recognition of the Ancient Ancestor

Li Xinge formally acknowledged Li Qingcang as an ancestor, followed by Li Xuantong and Li Hao, but refused to allow reverence for the ancient clan to displace the present patriarch’s authority. Li Qingcang abandoned his proposal to revive more distant ancestors and accepted a role centered on recovery rather than governance. 913

The new Grand Elder position grants Li Qingcang status above the First Elder and the family’s best resources while excluding him from family affairs. His eventual restoration is intended to recover part of the ancient lineage’s strength and reduce the modern clan’s dependence on Li Xinge. Until his Divine Soul stabilizes and a suitable body is obtained, that restoration remains a future objective. 913

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