Recaps

Jiang Yinze learned that Li Xinge had killed Ji Wangtian and sent Eunuch Yu to Ascending Dragon Prefecture to punish the Baihe Li Clan. Ouyang Fengchai appeared at Prince Jingjiang's Mansion, killed Eunuch Yu, defeated Jiang Yinze's attack, and warned him that his princely title could be taken away.

• Jiang Yinze learned that Li Xinge had killed Ji Wangtian and that the Ji family had been exterminated, and he decided Li Xinge could not be allowed to live.
• Jiang Yinze ordered Eunuch Yu to go to Ascending Dragon Prefecture and make an example of those who opposed him.
• Ouyang Fengchai arrived at Prince Jingjiang's Mansion, and her Spirit Fire silently burned Eunuch Yu to ashes.
• Jiang Yinze attacked Ouyang Fengchai with the Ancestral Dragon Emperor Art, but she seized and shattered his golden dragon phantom.
• Ouyang Fengchai warned Jiang Yinze not to overreach or Prince Jingjiang would need to be replaced, then vanished.

As the Blood Demon Sacred Cult invaded Yang Province, Li Xuanqi rescued a group of Baihe Li Clan youths from two demonic cultivators in the Qinghe Mountain Range. A blood-red mist then spread across the mountains, forcing Li Xuanqi to order the youths to flee.

• Li Xingyue led the youths in hunting a demon bear and promised to share the profits from its remains.
• Two demonic cultivators ambushed the youths, hoping to refine their vigorous qi and blood, and attacked despite learning they belonged to the Baihe Li Clan.
• The youths defended themselves against the attackers’ demonic techniques, but several were wounded and they faced the black serpent with despair.
• Li Xuanqi arrived, destroyed the serpent, beheaded one attacker, and pursued the other as he fled.
• A chilling voice filled the forest with blood-red mist, and Li Xuanqi shouted for the youths to run.

Li Xuanqi fought the gaunt old man so Li Xingyue and the other Li Family youths could escape and seek help. The youths killed their pursuer with thorny purple fruits, while Li Xuanqi faced a deadly fight against the old man.

• The gaunt old man attacked the Li Family youths, and Li Xuanqi blocked him while ordering Li Xingyue to lead everyone down the mountain for help.
• The gaunt old man sent blood-red arrows after the fleeing youths, so Li Xuanqi used a secret art to break through to Qi and Blood Great Accomplishment and held him back.
• Li Xuanqi swallowed a Blood Burning Pill, aging rapidly as his Qi and Blood surged, and challenged the gaunt old man to fight to the death.
• The lanky man caught up with the fleeing youths and raised his saber to kill two who had fallen.
• Li Xingyue and the burly youth threw bloodied purple fruits, whose thorns exploded outward and killed the lanky man.

The young members of the Li Family escaped their attackers and reached Red Maple City, while Li Xuanqi died after holding off the gaunt old man. The city sent powerful figures toward the Qinghe Mountain Range as the survivors rode for the city center.

• Li Xingyue killed the wounded tall, thin man, then shamed the young members of the Li Family into hacking the corpse apart and declaring that the men of the Baihe Li Clan were no cowards.
• Li Xuanqi died with his saber in hand after telling the ancestors that the Li Family had risen, and the gaunt old man acknowledged how far Li Xuanqi had pushed him.
• Li Xingyue showed the gate commander the Baihe Li Clan's jade token, and the commander reopened Red Maple City's gates and provided the exhausted youths with warhorses.
• The young members of the Li Family rode toward the city center, and more than a dozen powerful auras left Red Maple City for the Qinghe Mountain Range.

After Li Xuanqi died protecting the Li Family, Li Xinge led the clan in bringing his body home and honoring him. As Li Xuanqi’s family mourned, Li Yanjing arrived with news that he had discovered what happened.

• Li Xingyue found Li Xuanqi dead after the battle and carried him home, while Li Xinge ordered Li Yanjing to identify the killer within a day.
• Li Xinge led several thousand Li Family cultivators in welcoming Li Xuanqi’s spirit back to the clan and carried his body into Green Maple Valley.
• Li Xinge allowed Li Xuanqi’s favorite Crimson Flame Saber to remain with him and appointed Li Yanjiang East County chief steward.
• Li Yanjing returned to Li Xinge’s mourning hall and reported that he had found out what happened.

Li Xinge learned that the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect had killed a Baihe Li Clan elder while pursuing a scheme in the Qinghe Mountain Range, so he sent forces to investigate. As the sect worked to repair a teleportation array, two powerful figures arrived above its hidden cavern.

• Li Yanjing told Li Xinge that the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect had killed the Fifth Elder and was carrying out a scheme in the Qinghe Mountain Range.
• Li Xinge ordered Li Yanxiao to search the mountains with the Azure Wolf Cavalry, then left with the First Elder to investigate.
• In a hidden cavern, Master Feng tried to repair a damaged teleportation array so the Holy Sect's experts could be brought to Yang Province.
• The Third Ancestor learned from Wang Ming that he had killed a Baihe Li Clan elder, and worried that the clan would soon search for them.
• The Azure Wolf King detected a threat, so Li Yanxiao withdrew the cavalry; two figures then appeared above the cavern, alarming the old man inside.

Li Xinge and Li Xuantong confronted the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect in the Qinghe Mountain Range, where Xue Luohe revealed the sect’s plan to bring Blood Demon Sacred Cult forces into Yang Province through an ancient Teleportation Array. After Li Xinge rejected his offer to join them, Xue Luohe fled and many of his followers surrendered.

• Li Xuantong and Li Xinge arrived with the Azure Wolf Cavalry and surrounded Xue Luohe and the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect experts.
• Xue Luohe threatened them with the sect’s power and tried to persuade Li Xinge to join the Blood Demon Sacred Cult.
• Xue Luohe revealed that his sect was repairing a damaged Teleportation Array connecting the Qinghe Mountain Range to Tai Prefecture so Sacred Cult experts could enter Yang Province.
• Li Xinge rejected Xue Luohe’s offer and declared that he stood with the righteous path.
• Li Xuantong attacked Xue Luohe, who fled after realizing he was outmatched, while many of his sect members surrendered.

Li Xinge captured Xue Luohe, extracted the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect's location, and destroyed the sect's teleportation array. After returning to Green Maple Valley, he rallied the Li Family to avenge the Fifth Elder and wipe out the sect.

• Li Yanxiao ordered the Azure Wolf Cavalry to wipe out the resisting Blood Shadow Demonic Sect experts, while the Grand Elder captured Xue Luohe.
• Li Xinge revealed his demonic energy and tortured Xue Luohe's soul until he disclosed that the sect's headquarters lay beneath Death Cliff in Chishui County, Qingshan Prefecture.
• The Grand Elder accepted Li Xinge despite his demonic cultivation, and the Azure Wolf Cavalry found the hidden cave and captured the man repairing the teleportation array.
• The Grand Elder destroyed the array, and Li Yanxiao brought in the man identified as the culprit behind the Fifth Elder's murder; Li Xinge ordered that he be kept alive.
• Back in Green Maple Valley, Li Xinge declared that the Li Family would avenge the Fifth Elder and destroy the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect, and the clan answered with a battle cry.

Li Xinge led the Baihe Li Clan’s elites toward the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect, intending to destroy it and establish the clan’s reputation. At the border of Qingshan Prefecture, he killed Prefect Zhou Yueming after Zhou blocked their passage, then ordered Zhou’s three terrified subordinates to accompany him.

• Li Xinge rejected the grand elder’s suggestion to ask the provincial authorities for help and announced a surprise attack on the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect.
• Li Xinge assembled the Baihe Li Clan’s cultivators and led them out of Green Maple Valley on azure wolves.
• At the boundary of Qingshan Prefecture, Zhou Yueming blocked Li Xinge’s force and challenged him over his nephew’s humiliation.
• Li Xinge defeated Zhou Yueming with a single strike, crushed his head, and absorbed the fleeing black shadow from his body.
• Li Xinge told Zhou Yueming’s three subordinates that Zhou had colluded with the Demonic Path, and they agreed before he ordered them to come along.

Li Xinge led three Qingshan Prefecture family ancestors to Death Cliff and shattered the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect’s protective formation with one strike. As the sect’s stronghold collapsed, two blood-robed cultivators emerged to confront the attackers.

• Li Xinge learned that the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect’s Great Ancestor was nearly a thousand years old, but declared that he would destroy the sect unless its leader had reached the Divine Mansion Realm.
• The three ancestors of Qingshan Prefecture’s great families pledged allegiance to Li Xinge, and he accepted while warning them not to betray him.
• Li Xinge unleashed a golden Spiritual Energy Light Wheel that broke through the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect’s blood-mist formation.
• The formation’s collapse shook Death Cliff, brought down palaces and rocks, and killed some weaker disciples.
• Two blood-robed figures sensed the destruction, rushed out from their cultivation site, and demanded to know who had attacked the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect.

Li Xinge confronted the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect after learning it had killed a member of his family, and the sect unleashed its Blood Shadow Great Formation. Li Xinge summoned the Three Sha Demon God, which consumed the formation’s killing intent and left Xue Ku raging over the loss of the sect’s accumulated power.

• Xue Ku and Xueyu appeared before Li Xinge’s group, and Xue Ku recognized Li Xinge as the new Prefect who had slain Zhou Yueming.
• Li Xinge accused the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect of killing a member of the Li Family and vowed to wipe out the sect.
• Xue Ku activated the Blood Shadow Great Formation, filling Death Cliff with blood mist and illusions that threatened to turn Li Xinge’s companions into blood slaves.
• Li Xinge summoned the Three Sha Demon God, which took control of the formation’s evil ghosts and absorbed its killing intent.
• The Three Sha Demon God grew to more than two hundred zhang tall, and Xue Ku howled as the sect’s thousand years of accumulated power vanished into it.

Li Xinge destroyed the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect’s formation and absorbed its stored blood baleful energy, then forced the sect’s Great Ancestor to emerge from beneath the ruins. The Great Ancestor attacked with killing intent, but Li Xinge brushed it aside, and the two prepared to clash.

• Li Xinge mocked Old Ancestor Xue Ku and Xue Yu, then demanded that the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect summon its hidden Great Ancestor.
• Old Ancestor Xue Ku blew a bone flute, awakening the Great Ancestor beneath the sect’s ruins.
• Li Xinge shattered the ground with a step, and the Great Ancestor rose from a pillar of blood baleful energy.
• The Great Ancestor’s killing intent wounded Lu Zhenting, Li Xuantong, and Elder Jiang, but Li Xinge swept it away with a wave.
• Li Xinge mocked the Great Ancestor for clinging to life, and the Great Ancestor raised his arm to attack.

Li Xinge rejected the Great Ancestor of the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect’s offer to submit to the Demon Venerable and defeated him with the Three Sha Demon God. The Great Ancestor’s body was destroyed, and he knelt before Li Xinge begging for his life.

• The Great Ancestor’s blood-thread secret art failed to harm Li Xinge, who dismissed the attack with a flick of his sleeve.
• The Great Ancestor offered Li Xinge a place under the Demon Venerable, but Li Xinge mocked him and exposed his use of his descendants’ blood to prolong his life.
• The Great Ancestor transformed into his Blood Demon True Body and attacked the Three Sha Demon God with a blood spear.
• Li Xinge’s demon god struck down the Blood Demon True Body, destroying the Great Ancestor’s physical body.
• The Great Ancestor knelt before Li Xinge and begged him to spare his life, offering to serve him.

Li Xinge defeated the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect’s leaders and forced two surviving Innate ancestors to submit to his control. He declared Elder Xuanqi’s vengeance avenged as the sect’s destruction and the Shen Family’s punishment loomed.

• The Great Ancestor begged Li Xinge to spare him, but Li Xinge absorbed his Divine Soul and prevented Xue Ku and another man from escaping.
• Li Xuantong and Elder Jiang captured Xue Ku and his companion after Li Xinge froze them in place.
• Li Xinge demanded Innate Golden Cores from Old Ancestor Lu Family and two other survivors; when one resisted, he killed him.
• Old Ancestor Lu Family and the white-robed elder surrendered their Golden Cores, which Li Xinge restricted before returning them.
• The two men agreed to wipe out the Shen Family for colluding with the Demonic Path, and Li Xinge promised loyalty could earn one of them the prefect’s position.
• Li Xinge looked toward the ruined Blood Shadow Demonic Sect and declared that Elder Xuanqi’s vengeance had been avenged.

Li Xinge met Fu Yu and reported that the Blood Demon Sacred Cult’s allies had plotted to infiltrate Yang Province, explaining that he had destroyed the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect with a clan-protecting weapon. He then revealed that he had executed Zhou Yueming for colluding with the Demonic Path.

• Li Xinge left Li Xuantong in charge and traveled to Wu Commandery to meet Fu Yu.
• Fu Yu told Li Xinge that he had driven off a Late-stage Innate Realm member of the Blood Demon Sacred Cult and warned that war was looming.
• Li Xinge informed Fu Yu that three demonic sects had pledged allegiance to the Blood Demon Sacred Cult and that the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect planned an attack in the Qinghe Mountain Range.
• Fu Yu reacted furiously, but Li Xinge revealed that he had already destroyed the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect using a weapon forged from a Divine Mansion Jade Bone.
• Li Xinge told Fu Yu that Zhou Yueming, the Prefect of Qingshan Prefecture, had colluded with the Demonic Path and that he had executed him.

Fu Yu reprimanded Li Xinge for killing Zhou Yueming and warned him against political scheming, prompting Li Xinge to reconsider his ambitions. Days later, the Baihe Li Clan buried Li Xuanqi and made two Blood Shadow Demonic Sect elders suffer as punishment, leaving the clan to honor Xuanqi’s loyalty and resolve.

• Fu Yu told Li Xinge that he would cover up Zhou Yueming’s killing, then warned him that strength and the greater tide mattered more than political schemes.
• Li Xinge accepted Fu Yu’s counsel and reflected that he had gotten carried away.
• At Li Xuanqi’s funeral in Green Maple Valley, Li Xinge and the clan sealed the Fifth Elder’s coffin in the ancestral tomb.
• Gongsun Ban presented human puppets made from Xue Ku and Xue Yu, whose Divine Souls were bound to remain trapped until they scattered.
• Li Xinge ordered Xue Ku and Xue Yu to kneel before Li Xuanqi’s tomb as the clan proclaimed that the Baihe Li Clan must not be humiliated.
• The clan memorialized Li Xuanqi’s sacrifice and urged descendants to remember that the clan must not be humiliated and its spirit must not yield.

After the Li Family destroyed the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect, rumors about its mysterious origins spread across Yang Province while Li Xinge remained unaware and entered seclusion. A year later, with the Blood Demon Sacred Cult’s invasion devastating Yang Province, Li Xinge awoke to review the family’s strength and standing.

• The Li Family promoted Li Yanxiao and Li Yanjing to core elders after handling Li Xuanqi’s funeral.
• Sima Fu Yu destroyed the Blood Moon Pavilion and the Formless Demonic Cave, while news spread that the Baihe Li Clan had destroyed the Blood Shadow Demonic Sect using a Divine Mansion Jade Bone.
• Investigators found that the Li Family had migrated to Ascending Dragon Prefecture about two hundred years earlier, but could uncover nothing about its prior origins.
• Li Xinge entered seclusion as war between the Blood Demon Sacred Cult and Yang Province threatened to erupt.
• The Blood Demon Sacred Cult invaded Yang Province, and six months of brutal fighting left nearly ten Innate Cultivators dead and seven commanderies fallen.
• After a year in seclusion, Li Xinge awoke and checked the family panel, which showed the Baihe Li Clan at Level 3 with 2,827 clan members.

Li Xingzong tested himself against dangerous opponents in the Qinghe Mountain Range, then Dou Yuling visited Li Xinge to seek advice on leading the Yuhe Dou Clan. The chapter left Li Xinge reacting with surprise to her request for guidance.

• Li Xingzong hunted a tusked boar, found a Demonic Core, and decided to venture farther into the mountains in search of stronger beasts.
• Scarface and four accomplices tried to rob Li Xingzong, but he killed three of them and drove the remaining two away.
• Li Xingzong recovered from his wounds in a cave and continued into the depths of the mountain range the next morning.
• Elder Jiang told Li Xinge that Dou Yuling had become the new head of the Yuhe Dou Clan and had come to visit.
• Dou Yuling asked Li Xinge for guidance because members of her clan refused to accept her leadership.

Li Xinge gave Dou Yuling the scriptures she wanted and ordered Elder Jiang to help her secure the Dou Clan leadership. Meanwhile, the Blood Demon Sacred Cult's Great Protector ordered an invasion of Yang Province, and the skies over the frontline stronghold of Wuyue City darkened as the battle approached.

• Dou Yuling visited Li Xinge, who gave her the scriptures after she used her charms to cool his temper.
• Li Xinge ordered Elder Jiang to help Dou Yuling secure her position as Family Head of the Yuhe Dou Clan.
• Yuan Mingzi told the Great Protector that an agent in Yang Province had agreed to help the Blood Demon Sacred Cult invade.
• The Great Protector struck Yuan Mingzi for proposing that he become Holy Cult Master, then ordered Yang Province conquered within three months.
• Yuan Mingzi relayed the order, awakening powerful cultivators across Ten Thousand Demon Mountain.
• Black clouds and fierce winds swept over Wuyue City, where five Innate True Persons were stationed.

The Blood Demon Sacred Cult captured several key strongholds in Yang Province, prompting Fu Tiansheng and Fu Yu to rally the province’s forces for a counterattack. To unify local forces, Fu Tiansheng announced the temporary establishment of a Governor-General’s office, leaving influential families eager to learn who would hold the powerful post.

• Yuan Xuzi led more than ten Innate cultivators in an assault that destroyed Wuyue City's protective array and captured the city.
• The Blood Demon Sacred Cult seized five key strongholds in Yang Province, killing thirteen defending Innate cultivators and winning two defectors.
• Fu Tiansheng warned Yang Province’s officials against surrendering and said the Fu and Fu Families’ Supreme Elders would reinforce the front lines.
• Representatives of the major families and sects pledged troops, gathering more than thirty Innate cultivators and over two thousand Qi-Blood cultivators.
• Fu Tiansheng announced that Yang Province would temporarily establish a Governor-General’s office to oversee several prefectures.

Li Xinge was appointed Governor-General over Ascending Dragon, Qingshan, and Yueya Prefectures as Yang Province prepared to face the Blood Demon Sacred Cult. After accepting the post, he began conscripting cultivators and summoning the prefects and local Innate forces to organize the defense.

• Fu Tiansheng silenced a dispute between the Wufeng Sword Sect elder and An Leshan, then removed their sects' leaders from consideration for Governor-General posts.
• Fu Tiansheng and Sima Fu Yu nominated Guo Huai and Li Xinge for the vacant posts, and the assembled officials approved their choices.
• A Prefectural Envoy delivered the State Governor's decree ordering Li Xinge to send one Innate Cultivator and one hundred Qi-Blood Realm cultivators to the Demon Purging Army and appointing him Governor-General of three prefectures.
• Li Xinge accepted the appointment and told the Li Family elders that repelling the Blood Demon Sacred Cult would be difficult.
• Li Xinge ordered the First Elder to conscript more Qi-Blood Realm cultivators, including Li Family guest officials and inexperienced family members, for the front lines.
• Li Xinge summoned the three prefectures' prefects and Innate forces to a meeting in Ascending Dragon Prefecture three days later.

Elder Jiang delivered Li Xinge’s summons to the prefects and innate-level factions of Qingshan and Yueya Prefectures. Yang Mingzhao agreed to attend, but Xun Gongming rejected the order and forbade anyone in Yueya Prefecture from going.

• Elder Jiang told Yang Mingzhao that Li Xinge had summoned him and Qingshan Prefecture’s innate-level faction leaders to Ascending Dragon Prefecture in three days, and Yang agreed to attend.
• Yang Mingzhao slapped a young relative for insulting Li Xinge and warned him not to provoke the new governor-general.
• Elder Jiang reached Yueya Prefecture and found Xun Gongming denouncing Li Xinge before his officials.
• Xun Gongming refused to attend Li Xinge’s meeting, told Elder Jiang to leave, and ordered that no one from Yueya Prefecture go to Ascending Dragon Prefecture.

The major factions prepared to choose sides in the conflict between Li Xinge and Xun Gongming, while Li Xinge reacted angrily to Xun’s demands. As the three-prefecture discussions began, the four great families secretly gathered to support Li Xinge instead of Xun Gongming.

• The Profound Sword Sect decided to support Xun Gongming after the four great families publicly backed him.
• Elder Jiang reported that Xun Gongming demanded Li Xinge travel to Yueya Prefecture and forbade local forces from attending the meeting, prompting Li Xinge to destroy the lake in anger.
• Dou Changgeng welcomed representatives and Prefect Yang Mingzhao to the official residence in Ascending Dragon Prefecture City before the discussions.
• Wei Changfeng, Che Wuhen, Bai Wangtian, and Du Ruming met outside the city and admitted they had come despite claiming they could not attend.
• The four family leaders criticized Xun Gongming and agreed that backing Li Xinge was safer for their families.

Li Xinge secured Profound Sword Sect’s allegiance before the Three-Prefecture Conference, while Xiao Baishan and the Grand Elder planned to benefit from Xun Gongming’s defiance. The conference began with Li Xinge’s arrival, shocking the four great families of Yue Prefecture when they saw who followed him.

• Xiao Baishan visited Li Xinge and blamed Xun Gongming for opposing the conference and threatening Yue Prefecture’s powers.
• Xiao Baishan pledged Profound Sword Sect’s support, and Li Xinge accepted the sect’s allegiance.
• The Grand Elder predicted that Xun Gongming and the four great families would fall, giving Profound Sword Sect a chance to rise.
• Li Xinge arrived at the packed conference hall, and the four great families stared in shock at the person following him.

Li Xinge convened the three prefectures’ leaders and factions, then used Xun Gongming’s defiance and accusations of Demonic Path ties to launch a campaign against him. He ordered forces across the three prefectures to march on Yueya Prefecture and suppress Xun Gongming and his allies.

• Xiao Baishan appeared at Li Xinge’s gathering and stood loyally beside the Governor-General, angering the four great families.
• Dou Changgeng and Elder Jiang reported that Xun Gongming had refused Li Xinge’s summons and ordered Yueya Prefecture’s people to reject his commands.
• Lu Zhenting and other leaders pledged to campaign against Xun Gongming, while the Wei, Che, Du, and Profound Sword factions also declared their support.
• Wei Changfeng accused Xun Gongming of colluding with the Demonic Path, and Li Xinge declared that he could not spare him.
• Li Xinge ordered cultivators and Prefecture Army forces across the three prefectures to march on Yueya Prefecture and kill Xun Gongming’s accomplices or anyone who resisted.