Recaps

After Li Xuanzhong’s death left the Green Maple Li Clan exposed to challenges from rival families, the elders feared they would have to surrender the Silver Ridge Mine. Li Xinge revealed he had reached the Qi and Blood Realm and chose to keep the breakthrough secret so he could use the clan’s opponents to establish his authority.

• First Elder Li Xuantong reported that the Zou and Zhang families were undermining the Li Family, its allies were faltering, and the Su and Song families were pressuring them to surrender the Silver Ridge Mine.
• The elders argued over whether to resist the Su and Song families, while Li Xuantong warned that a fight could destroy the clan and its more than a thousand members.
• Li Xinge reminded the elders that the crisis came from the clan’s lack of a Qi and Blood Realm Cultivator and revealed his Qi and Blood Manifestation.
• Li Xinge confirmed that he had broken through the Qi and Blood Heavenly Pass the day before, leaving the elders overjoyed at the Li Family’s new Qi and Blood Realm Cultivator.
• Li Xinge stopped the Grand Elder from announcing his breakthrough and said he would keep it secret while using the rivals provoking the Li Family to establish his authority.

After Li Xinge reviewed the Family System and reflected on his sudden succession to the Li Family patriarchate, four rival forces conspired with the Su Clan to attack the Li Family during Li Xuanfeng’s funeral procession. Su Yun agreed to deal with Li Xuantong while the others pressured the clan.

• Li Xinge examined the Family System’s clan data and quests, including the mission to lead the Li Family out of crisis.
• Li Xinge recalled being reborn from Blue Star, becoming the Li Family’s heir, and inheriting the patriarch’s position after Li Xuanfeng’s death.
• The Great Saber Sect Master, the Zou Family Patriarch, the Zhang Family Patriarch, and the Jin Family Patriarch celebrated Li Xuanfeng’s death and discussed defying the Li Family.
• The Zou Family Patriarch proposed that their four forces confront the Li Family during Li Xuanfeng’s funeral procession and demand its businesses and an apology.
• Su Yun, Great Elder of the Mangshan Su Clan, revealed his clan’s support for destroying the Li Family and promised to handle Li Xuantong while the others provoked the clan.

On the day Li Xuanfeng was to be buried, Wang Wu and the allied families invaded the Li Residence, seeking to destroy the Li Family. The Great Elder Li Xuantong rejected Wang Wu’s demand that the Li cultivators kill themselves, and the two sides stood on the brink of battle.

• The Zou Family Patriarch led the assembled forces to Green Maple Valley while Su Yun waited in the shadows.
• Wang Wu broke into the Li Residence by knocking aside its two guards, and the Li clansmen confronted the invaders.
• Wang Wu insulted the Li Family and demanded that Li Xuantong come out to meet him.
• Li Xuantong reminded Wang Wu that the Great Saber Sect had once begged the Li Family for protection, but Wang Wu dismissed the account and demanded the Li cultivators commit suicide in exchange for sparing the rest.
• The Li clansmen refused to surrender, and Li Xuantong rejected Wang Wu’s proposal as the invaders prepared to attack.

Li Xinge appeared at Li Xuanfeng’s funeral and killed Wang Wu with ease, revealing the Li Family Head’s overwhelming strength. After trapping the other attackers, he rejected their pleas to leave and prepared to deal with the hidden rat among them.

• Li Xinge arrived on the manor’s roof, and Wang Wu mocked him before charging with his saber.
• Li Xinge caught Wang Wu’s blade between two fingers, snapped it, and crushed Wang Wu’s throat.
• The Zou Family Patriarch and the others realized Li Xinge was far beyond their strength and tried to retreat, but found the gates shut and armed figures surrounding them.
• The Zou Family Patriarch blamed Wang Wu and asked Li Xinge to spare them, and Li Xinge said he did not blame them.
• As the Zou Family Patriarch tried to leave, Li Xinge said he would send them to meet Li Xuanfeng and taunted them about a rat hiding in the shadows.

Li Xinge killed Su Yun and the invading forces that had attacked the Li Family, revealing the full might of his Qi and Blood Realm cultivation. He ordered four groups to destroy the Zou Family, Zhang Family, Jin Family, and Great Saber Sect, leaving the Li Family poised to launch its retaliation.

• Su Yun recognized that Li Xinge had reached the Qi and Blood Realm and fled, intending to return to the Mangshan Su Clan and urge its ancestor to kill him.
• Li Xinge formed a bow from his Qi and Blood power and shot Su Yun through the chest, killing the Su Family Great Elder.
• The Zou Family Patriarch and the other attackers begged Li Xinge for mercy, then charged when he refused to spare them.
• Li Xinge stunned the attackers with the phantom lion's roar and killed them with a single sweep, while archers on the rooftops slaughtered the remaining forces.
• After the Li Family celebrated its victory, Li Xinge ordered four groups to wipe out the Zou Family, Zhang Family, Jin Family, and Great Saber Sect.

The Li Family launched a coordinated assault that destroyed the Jin Family and three other great powers in Baihe County. More than a thousand people died, and the Four Great Powers were erased from existence.

• Li Xuanzong led several dozen black-robed warriors into Jin Family Town and ordered them to kill everyone in the Jin Family.
• Madam Jin learned that the estate was under attack, sent her young master and two maidservants through a secret passage, then stayed to fight.
• Li Xuanzong killed Madam Jin after a brief clash and ordered his men to pursue the three escapees.
• Li Xuanzong's men found and killed the young master and two maidservants, then burned the Jin Family estate.
• The Li Family destroyed the Great Saber Sect, the Zhang Family, and the Zou Family, bringing the death toll above a thousand and shocking Baihe County.

After Li Xinge killed Su Yun and helped the Li Family destroy four rival powers, Baihe County's leading families and magistrate reacted to his sudden rise. The Zheng Family chose to seek ties with the Li Family, while the Su Family and county adviser faced the consequences of their own plans.

• Zheng Lingjun told Old Ancestor Zheng that seventeen-year-old Li Xinge had reached the Qi and Blood Realm and helped the Li Family destroy the Zou, Zhang, and Jin families and the Great Saber Sect.
• Old Ancestor Zheng warned Zheng Lingjun not to challenge Li Xinge for an empty title, and Zheng Lingjun decided to build ties with the Li Family.
• Su Zhe told the Su Family leaders that Li Xinge had killed Su Yun, and Grand Elder Su Changqing rebuked Su Zhe for attacking the Li Family without consulting him.
• Su Changqing said he would spend half a month attempting a breakthrough and would use the Blood Burning Pill if he failed.
• County Magistrate Gu Zhitíng dismissed his adviser's proposal to send troops against the Li Family, and the adviser cursed him after he left.

After the Li Family’s campaign against the Four Great Powers brought in a huge haul, Li Xinge warned that conflict with the Mangshan Su Clan was looming. He planned to travel to the prefectural city to bid for a Qi and Blood Pill so the First Elder could attempt a breakthrough, and left the First Elder in charge while he was away.

• The elders returned to Green Maple Valley with spoils worth nearly eleven thousand taels of gold, and Li Xinge declared the family’s immediate crisis resolved.
• Li Xinge warned that killing Su Yun had made war with the Mangshan Su Clan likely, and the elders agreed they needed to prepare for the stronger clan.
• Li Xinge doubled the clan’s cultivation resources and asked the First Elder about his chances of breaking through to the Qi and Blood Realm with a Qi and Blood Pill.
• Li Xinge announced he would bid for a Qi and Blood Pill at an auction in three days, and the First Elder reluctantly agreed after the elders urged him to accept.
• Li Xinge ordered the clan to prepare twelve thousand taels of gold, chose Li Yanzhao to accompany him, and left the First Elder in charge while claiming he had entered seclusion.

Li Xinge and his group arrived in Ascending Dragon Prefecture and dined at Green Willow Tower, where they encountered the musician Wen Xi being harassed by Zhang Qin Hu. Li Xinge handed Wen Xi over to Zhang Qin Hu and left after striking up a friendly exchange with him, while Wen Xi watched him with hatred.

• Li Xinge arrived in Ascending Dragon Prefecture with his group and settled in at Green Willow Tower before the auction.
• Li Xinge enjoyed the restaurant’s medicinal dishes while Wen Xi performed the qin for the guests.
• Zhang Qin Hu tried to force Wen Xi to go with him, and she sought protection by hiding behind Li Xinge.
• Li Xinge grabbed Wen Xi by the hair and pushed her toward Zhang Qin Hu, then introduced himself as Li Xinge.
• Zhang Qin Hu paid for Li Xinge’s meal and parted with him cordially as Wen Xi watched Li Xinge with hatred.

Li Xinge learned that Zhang Qin Hu belonged to a powerful clan, but chose to focus on obtaining the Qi and Blood Pill. After Wen Xi urged Zhang Qin Hu to kill Li Xinge, Zhang Qin Hu exposed her motives and ordered his men to assault and dispose of her.

• Zhang Qin Hu's guard warned that Li Xinge's attendant was a formidable expert, and Zhang Qin Hu decided not to investigate Li Xinge's identity.
• Li Yanzhao told Li Xinge that Zhang Qin Hu's father commanded Ascending Dragon Prefecture's military forces and that the Zhang Clan could destroy the Li Family.
• Li Xinge said the Li Family should prioritize securing the Qi and Blood Pill to help the Grand Elder advance.
• Wen Xi asked Zhang Qin Hu to kill Li Xinge, accusing him of disrespecting Zhang Qin Hu and abandoning her.
• Zhang Qin Hu confronted Wen Xi about her schemes, then ordered his trusted men to take turns with her and dispose of her afterward.

Li Xinge attended the Myriad Treasures Pavilion auction and tried to buy a superior Qi and Blood Pill, but he was outbid by the Purple-Robed Middle-Aged Man. After the man won the pill and left, Li Xinge recognized him as an old acquaintance and concealed his intent to take it back.

• Li Xinge arrived at the auction with Li Yanzhao and sensed the formidable Green Robed Elder guarding the event.
• Wang Xuanyuan opened the auction, and rare treasures drew increasingly fierce bids from the major factions.
• Li Xinge bid eleven thousand taels for the first superior Qi and Blood Pill, but the Purple-Robed Middle-Aged Man used his family's iron mine as collateral to raise his offer.
• Li Xinge stopped bidding at twelve thousand taels, telling Li Yanzhao that they would let the winner hold the pill for them for now.
• The Purple-Robed Middle-Aged Man won the pill and left with the old man, while Li Xinge recognized him as an old acquaintance and watched with concealed killing intent.

Li Xinge ambushed Su Zhe and his companions to seize the Qi and Blood Pill the Su Clan had purchased. After Su Zhe died, Li Yanzhao recognized the pill and saw a chance for the Li Family to gain another Qi and Blood Realm Cultivator.

• Su Zhe and his group stopped at an abandoned temple to rest while carrying the Qi and Blood Pill.
• Li Xinge appeared, revealed that he had been the buyer in Earth Character No. 29, and demanded the pill.
• Su Zhe tried to destroy the pill, but Li Xinge struck him down and took the box from him.
• Su Zhe died after Li Xinge snapped his fingers and claimed the pill.
• Li Yanzhao opened the box, confirmed the Qi and Blood Pill, and said it could give the Li Family another Qi and Blood Realm Cultivator.

Li Xinge gave the Superior Qi and Blood Pill won from the Mangshan Su Clan to the Grand Elder, who used it to break through to the Qi and Blood Realm. With the Su Clan gathering in Mangshan and Su Changqing possibly attempting a breakthrough, Li Xinge ordered an immediate surprise attack.

• Li Xinge revealed that the Qi and Blood Pill was a Superior pill obtained without cost and handed it to the Grand Elder with the Elders' approval.
• The Grand Elder entered secluded cultivation as the Li and Su Clans prepared for war and sought allies without success.
• The Grand Elder emerged with a breakthrough to the Qi and Blood Realm, and Li Xinge said it was time to settle matters with the Su Clan.
• Li Xuanqi reported that Su Changqing had disappeared into seclusion while the Su Clan retreated to Mangshan and fortified its defenses.
• Li Xinge ordered the clan's experts to gather and launch a surprise attack on Mangshan within one hour, before Su Changqing could break through.

Li Xinge led more than two hundred Li Family elites toward Mangshan to destroy the Su Clan and settle a century-old feud. Along the way, he accepted the Hao Family’s renewed allegiance and renamed its new patriarch Hao Zhongli, before the forces continued toward battle.

• Li Xinge rallied the Li Family elites and marched openly toward Mangshan to attack the Su Clan.
• Zheng Lingjun learned of the march and decided to watch the battle, prepared to support Li Xinge whichever way events unfolded.
• County Magistrate Gu Zhitíng closed the yamen gates and ordered the music and dancing to continue, while the Song Family Patriarch saw a possible opportunity for his family.
• Li Xinge learned that the Hao Family had blocked the road and summoned its new patriarch, Hao Ergou.
• Hao Ergou presented his half-brother Hao Cheng’s head, explained that he had executed him for plotting betrayal, and offered the Hao Family’s elites in Li Xinge’s service.
• Li Xinge forgave the Hao Family’s past disloyalty, warned it not to offend again, and renamed Hao Ergou Hao Zhongli.

The Mangshan Su Clan prepared to face the Li Family despite its weakened leadership, and Su Changqing emerged from seclusion only to reveal his breakthrough had failed. At Mangshan, Su Changqing and Li Xinge tested each other’s auras, leaving the real battle about to begin.

• Su Bai ordered the Seventh Elder to escape with the Su Family’s remaining descendants, while the other elders prepared to fight the Li Family.
• Su Changqing emerged from seclusion and revealed that his breakthrough had failed and his vitality was damaged, but he still believed he could defeat Li Xinge.
• Su Bai told Su Changqing that Su Zhe and the Fifth Elder had gone to the prefectural city to seek a Qi and Blood Pill and had not returned.
• Su Changqing and Su Bai led the Su Family to meet Li Xinge’s forces at the foot of Mangshan.
• Li Xinge and Su Changqing exchanged challenges and released their auras, then each stepped back as their silent contest ended.

The Green Maple Li Clan defeated the Mangshan Su Clan after Li Xinge and Li Xuantong killed Su Changqing, who had used a Blood Burning Pill to gain temporary power. The Li Clan then pursued the fleeing survivors and destroyed the Su Clan completely.

• The Li and Su Clans fought fiercely, and the Li Clan gradually gained the upper hand as several Su Family cultivators fell.
• Su Changqing swallowed a Blood Burning Pill, broke through to Qi and Blood Minor Accomplishment, and gravely wounded Li Xinge.
• Li Xuantong stabbed Su Changqing from behind, allowing Li Xinge to kill him with a punch.
• Li Xuanzhong killed Su Bai after Su Bai lost focus at the sight of Su Changqing's death, and the remaining Su Family fighters fled.
• The Li Clan pursued the survivors up the mountain and massacred the remaining Su Clan members, erasing the Mangshan Su Clan from Baihe County.

Li Xinge accepted a precious Treasure Sword from Zheng Lingjun and agreed to become his sworn younger brother, though he remained wary of the Zheng patriarch’s intentions. He named the sword Void Slayer and discovered that it possessed a spirit.

• Zheng Lingjun introduced himself as patriarch of the Dongjiang Zheng Clan and praised Li Xinge for defeating a veteran Qi and Blood Realm cultivator.
• Zheng Lingjun congratulated Li Xuantong on reaching the Qi and Blood Realm and presented Li Xinge with a Treasure Sword forged from meteorite.
• Li Xinge accepted the sword and agreed to address Zheng Lingjun as his elder brother.
• After Zheng Lingjun departed, Li Xuantong warned Li Xinge to be cautious about the patriarch’s motives, and Li Xinge agreed.
• Li Xinge drew the sword, sliced a boulder in two, named it Void Slayer, and heard it hum in response.

After the Li Family destroyed the Mangshan Su Clan, Li Xinge completed his first main quest and received rewards that strengthened the family. Meanwhile, Su Qiong gathered the surviving Su Family kindling and led them to seek refuge with the Jiang Family.

• Li Xinge assigned the Third Elder to take over the Su Family's holdings and ordered the Second Elder to hunt down the surviving members.
• Li Xinge submitted the completed quest and activated family-wide cultivation and birth-rate buffs, gained the Clear Heart Art and Lion's Roar Skill, and raised his cultivation talent to the seventh grade.
• The new cultivation buff accelerated Li Family members' progress, giving Li Xuanzhong an opportunity to break through to Body Cultivation Grand Perfection.
• A messenger told Su Qiong that the Mangshan Su Clan had been wiped out, and Su Qiong urged the survivors to cultivate and avenge their clan.
• With the Li Family blocking the roads out of Baihe County, Su Qiong decided to take the survivors to the Jiang Family for help escaping.

Su Qiong sought Jiang Chenghe’s help to smuggle the surviving Su Family members out of Baihe County, but the Jiang Family’s old master learned of the plan and informed the Li Family. As Su Qiong sensed danger at the Jiang residence, an arrow shot toward him.

• Su Qiong revealed himself to Jiang Chenghe and asked him to help the Su Family remnants escape the Li Family’s blockade.
• Jiang Chenghe agreed to hide the survivors in his merchant caravan, but someone outside the study overheard their plan.
• Second Master Jiang reported the plan to the Jiang Family’s old master, who ordered him to tell the Li Family where the Su Family remnants were staying.
• Second Elder Li Xuanzhong learned the survivors’ location and set out for Qishan Town with a contingent to exterminate them.
• Su Qiong spoke with Su Xun about their plans and the Su Family’s hopes for revenge, then sensed something was wrong at the Jiang residence.
• As Su Qiong turned to wake the survivors, a cold arrow shot toward him.

Li Xuanzhong led the Li Family in exterminating the Su Family remnants, while Jiang Zhonghe forced Jiang Chenghe to choose between killing his wife Su Yue and leaving the family. After Li Xuanzhong reported the purge to Li Xinge, the family head arranged a meeting of the family’s senior members for the next morning.

• Li Xuanzhong ambushed Su Qiong at the Side Room, defeated him, and ordered the black-robed cultivators to kill the remaining Su Family survivors.
• Jiang Zhonghe thanked Li Xuanzhong for the Li Family’s help and then demanded that Jiang Chenghe either kill Su Yue or give up his position and leave the family with her.
• The next day, the Jiang Family announced that Su Yue had died after suddenly falling gravely ill.
• Li Xuanzhong reported the Su Family purge to Li Xinge and explained that the Jiang Family had supplied the information that led them to the survivors.
• Li Xinge decided to give the Jiang Family the Su Family’s businesses in Qishan Town and summoned the family’s senior members to a meeting the following morning.

Li Xinge led a family council that settled compensation and rewards after the battle with the Mangshan Su Clan, addressed the Li Family’s businesses and resources, and approved plans to strengthen the family. The elders agreed to double cultivator supplies and develop incentives to grow the family’s population.

• The First Elder reported that seventeen Li Family cultivators had died and nine had been disabled, and Li Xinge approved compensation, work arrangements, and rewards for the fighters.
• Li Xinge awarded the Hao Family five hundred taels and the small iron mine on Creekbrow Mountain for its help against the Su Family.
• The Third Elder reported that the Su Family’s largest mine had been mortgaged to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, so Li Xinge decided the Li Family would not pursue it.
• Fifth Elder Li Xuanqi requested two thousand more mine slaves and elite fighters to suppress trouble at the Silver Ridge Mine, and Li Xinge approved.
• Li Xinge proposed doubling resources for the family’s cultivators, and the elders unanimously agreed.
• Li Xinge proposed a policy to encourage childbearing, and the elders agreed to work out its specific rules.

Li Xinge received a system mission to suppress a planned uprising at Silver Ridge Mine, where brutal treatment had pushed the enslaved miners toward rebellion. As he considered the threat, a mysterious figure secretly consumed corpses to recover his strength and vowed revenge against the Li Family.

• The Li Family announced increased cultivation resources and rewards for having children as its influence and need for workers grew.
• Li Xinge received a mission to suppress an uprising at Silver Ridge Mine, with rewards including a seventh-grade-talent lineage member, spiritual fields, and a spiritual plant technique.
• At the mine, guards killed a collapsed miner to intimidate the others, while rebels discussed delaying their uprising and using the chaos to escape.
• A dark figure harvested blood energy from dozens of corpses at the mass grave and recovered to body cultivation grand completion.
• The dark figure blamed the Li Family for his humiliation and vowed to repay it once he regained his full strength.

Tie Xiong learned that a powerful Li Family cultivator would soon inspect the mine, prompting the weakened General to launch an early uprising. After secretly sacrificing the sleeping mine slaves to restore his strength, the General led the rebels out of the tunnel and began their revolt.

• Brother Hu whipped Tie Xiong, then spared him because the Li Family had ordered the overseers to behave before an important inspection.
• Tie Xiong overheard that someone powerful from the Li Family would soon visit and told the thin old man, whom the rebels called General.
• The General concluded that the expected visitor was a qi and blood realm cultivator and decided to start the uprising before the inspection.
• The General killed the sleeping mine slaves and consumed their blood and vitality until he recovered to body cultivation grand perfection.
• The General and his men killed the guards at the mine entrance and rallied the mine slaves to rise against the Li Family.

Han Jie led a group of mine slaves in an escape attempt, but Li Xinge stopped them at Silver Ridge Pass and killed them. Afterward, Li Xinge obtained a fragment of the Blood Demon True Technique and considered using it to train deathsworn.

• Han Jie and his companions used a slave uprising as cover to flee the mine and found Silver Ridge Pass unguarded.
• Li Xinge waited beyond the pass, recognized Han Jie’s escape attempt, and refused his plea for mercy.
• Li Xinge overwhelmed Han Jie and his companions with Qi and Blood Realm pressure, killing them all.
• The system offered Li Xinge a fragment of the Blood Demon True Technique, which he retrieved and learned about.
• Li Xinge recognized the technique’s unstable foundation and deadly drawbacks, then considered using it to train deathsworn.

Li Xinge crushed the mine-slave rebellion and forced the survivors into a deadly game, where Huang Gou'er revealed extraordinary talent and a rare physique. After recruiting Huang Gou'er and Heipi as overseers, Li Xinge secretly ordered the Fifth Elder to eliminate Huang Gou'er as a potential threat to the Li Family.

• Li Xinge arrived at Silver Ridge Mine and offered the rebellious slaves a chance to live by killing the black-lot holder in each group of five; the slaves beat an elderly dissenter to death.
• The mine overseers organized the lottery, and the slaves fought one another until only a few survived; Li Xinge noticed Huang Gou'er's exceptional strength and discovered his Sixth-grade talent and dormant Mad Demon Battle Body.
• Li Xinge congratulated the survivors and recruited Huang Gou'er and Heipi to serve the Li Family as overseers under the Fifth Elder.
• Li Xinge reprimanded Li Xuanqi for failing to detect the rebellion, then ordered him to restore production at Silver Ridge Mine.
• After the others left, Li Xinge ordered the Fifth Elder to find an opportunity to kill Huang Gou'er because he feared the gifted former slave might become a threat to the Li Family.