Recaps

Li Xinge’s forces surrounded Yueya Prefecture City after the Wei, Che, Du, and Bai Families and the Profound Sword Sect overthrew Xun Gongming’s allies. As Li Xinge fought Xun Gongming, he secretly corrupted him with demonic aura, making the accusation that Xun was a Demonic Cultivator appear true.

• Xun Gongming ordered his allies to gather against Li Xinge, unaware that the four families and Profound Sword Sect had already seized the Prefecture Army camp and purged his followers.
• The allied forces surrounded Yueya Prefecture City, and Li Xinge demanded that Xun Gongming surrender; Xun refused and revealed his Middle Stage Innate cultivation.
• Li Xinge’s cultivators attacked the city, and Li Xuantong, Elder Jiang, and the others overwhelmed the Xun Family’s defenders and patriarchs.
• Xun Gongming attacked Li Xinge, but Li Xinge shattered his arm and hurled him into the city wall.
• Xun Gongming used a blood-red rune, and Li Xinge slipped demonic aura into his wound, causing Xun to transform and charge again with greatly increased strength.

Li Xinge killed Xun Gongming and destroyed the Xun Family, then rewarded his allies by appointing Wei Changfeng acting Prefect and Chen Shuyao acting Commander of Military Affairs. The surviving powers divided the remaining Yueya Prefecture posts and awaited their shares of the Xun Family’s wealth.

• Li Xinge cut down Xun Gongming after his demonic transformation, captured and destroyed his Divine Soul, and watched the other two Xun Family Innate experts fall.
• Li Xinge declared the Xun Family wiped out and praised Wei Changfeng for exposing Xun Gongming’s ties to the Demonic Path.
• Li Xinge appointed Wei Changfeng acting Prefectural Assistant and temporary Prefect of Yueya Prefecture.
• Li Xinge appointed Chen Shuyao acting Commander of Military Affairs, rewarding the Chen Family for its past help and loyalty.
• The gathered allies divided the remaining official posts, and Li Xinge promised to distribute the spoils after they were tallied.

Li Xingzong fled a Silver-backed Demonic Ape and stumbled upon a field of Blood Spirit Fruit Trees growing among giant demonic beast skeletons. After eating several fruits to collect their power, he overloaded his body and faced a dangerous crisis.

• Ming Lan became the new Prefect of Yueya Prefecture, visited Li Xinge, and earned his approval.
• Li Xingzong escaped the Silver-backed Demonic Ape by using a Swift Travel Pill, while the ape halted and retreated after sensing something ahead.
• Li Xingzong discovered more than a hundred Blood Spirit Fruit Trees growing in a blood-red forest among enormous demonic beast skeletons.
• Li Xingzong ate a ripe Blood Spirit Fruit, felt his stamina recover and his cultivation near a breakthrough, then began harvesting the fruits.
• After his bundle filled, Li Xingzong ate more than ten Blood Spirit Fruits and felt their surging Qi and Blood power threaten to tear apart his organs and meridians.

Li Xingzong entered a cave to refine the excess Qi and Blood power from the Blood Spirit Fruits, but the golden blood within him transformed the Blood Lake’s essence blood into a powerful new foundation. He left with the strange egg from the lake and decided to eat more Blood Spirit Fruits before leaving the grove.

• Li Xingzong stumbled into a cave to keep his overloaded body from exploding and discovered a Blood Lake filled with demon remains and a dark-red egg absorbing its essence blood.
• Li Xingzong failed to refine his excess power, plunged into the Blood Lake, and nearly died as the Great Demon Essence Blood worsened his condition.
• A hidden drop of golden blood activated, stabilized Li Xingzong’s body, and drew the lake’s essence blood away from the egg into him.
• Li Xingzong’s cultivation surged to the Innate Realm before the golden blood suppressed it, leaving him at Qi and Blood Great Accomplishment with a greatly strengthened body.
• Li Xingzong took the now-faded dark-red egg from the dry lakebed and left the cave, then decided to eat more Blood Spirit Fruits before departing.

Li Xingzong returned to Green Maple Valley after gaining a great opportunity, defeated the Silver-backed Demonic Ape, and hurried to report to Li Xinge. Li Xinge recognized Xingzong’s sudden growth and wondered whether his Protagonist Halo could grow stronger.

• Li Xingzong defeated the Silver-backed Demonic Ape with a single punch, killed it, and collected its Demonic Core.
• Li Xingzong returned to Green Maple Valley and passed the mountain gate after Li Huaiyi recognized him.
• The Snowy Guard initially refused Li Xingzong entry to Li Xinge’s compound, but Li Xinge heard him and let him in.
• Li Xinge inspected Li Xingzong’s status and saw that his cultivation, talent, Heavenly Human Bloodline, and Protagonist Halo had increased.
• Li Xinge wondered whether the Protagonist Halo could grow stronger.

Li Xinge learned that Li Xingzong had found a Blood Egg with the potential to become a powerful demon beast and used the family’s fortune to resume its hatching. Meanwhile, Li Xingzong challenged Li Wuyou, only to be swiftly defeated, and vowed to surpass her.

• Li Xingzong told Li Xinge about his encounter in the Qinghe Mountain Range and gave him the Blood Egg, which the system identified as a Unicorn Sea Splitting Flood Dragon egg with a trace of True Dragon Bloodline.
• Li Xinge accepted the egg, asked Li Xingzong to deliver his Blood Spirit Fruits to the Internal Affairs Hall, and encouraged him to fight for what was his.
• Li Xingzong challenged Li Wuyou to a fight, but she struck him down with half her strength and left him injured.
• Li Xingzong recovered and vowed that he would one day defeat Li Wuyou.
• Li Xinge used one percent of the Family Fortune to restore the Blood Egg’s life force and continue its hatching.

Li Xinge successfully contracted with the life inside the Blood Egg, then learned that Demonic Cultivators had infiltrated the three prefectures. Their Protector planned to kill him by attacking the Li Family and forcing him to come to their rescue, while secretly ordering an investigation into Daoist Sanhua.

• Li Xinge signed a contract with the life inside the Blood Egg, which was expected to hatch in thirty-five days.
• The Prefectural Envoy warned Li Xinge that Demonic Cultivators had infiltrated the three prefectures, and Li Xinge ordered the other prefectures to prepare for an attack.
• The Blood Demon Sacred Cult's Protector learned about Li Xinge and decided to kill him personally to destabilize the three prefectures.
• Daoist Sanhua warned that Li Xinge's fortune made him dangerous to target directly and proposed attacking the Li Family to draw him into a trap.
• Daoist Sanhua revealed that he and Li Xinge had once been old friends, and the Protector assigned him the attack on the Li Family.
• After Daoist Sanhua and the others left, the Protector ordered a black shadow to investigate Daoist Sanhua's background.

The Blood Demon Sacred Cult attacked Green Maple Valley, forcing Li Xuantong to strain himself to keep the clan’s protection array intact. Li Xinge returned and struck down two attackers, but the gray-robed elder’s sneak attack revealed an Innately Great Perfection enemy.

• The Blood Demon Sacred Cult’s gray-robed elder led dozens of experts in an assault on Green Maple Valley, and the clan’s protection array absorbed their attacks.
• Li Xuantong ordered the clan to reinforce the array with spirit stones and poured in his own spiritual power as their supplies ran low.
• Li Xinge arrived just as the array neared collapse and killed the cult’s Middle Stage Innate Realm expert with his bare hand.
• Li Xinge battered the middle-aged attacker with a sword beam, leaving him gravely wounded in a crater.
• The gray-robed elder attacked Li Xinge from behind, grazing his shoulder, and Li Xinge recognized him as an Innately Great Perfection expert.

Li Xinge faced a Blood Demon Sacred Cult elder at Innately Great Perfection and was nearly killed, but the Li Family awakened its Divine Mansion Jade Bone and destroyed the elder and his forces. The battle ended with the clan safe, though its stores of spirit stones and one use of its clan foundation were spent.

• Li Xinge realized the gray-robed old man had targeted him and attacked, then fought the man's nine blood dragons with his Void Cutter Sword.
• The gray-robed old man formed the dragons into a blood ring and unleashed a devastating beam that Li Xinge knew he could not withstand alone.
• Li Xuantong called on the Li Family's foundation, awakening a Divine Mansion Jade Bone from the ancestral hall.
• The jade bone's strike killed the gray-robed old man and swept away the distant Blood Demon Sacred Cult members, leaving a vast ravine.
• Li Xinge learned that the clan had suffered no casualties but had spent eighty percent of its accumulated spirit stones; he thanked Li Xuantong and vowed to reach the Divine Mansion Realm.

Li Xinge’s victory over the demonic cult earned the Li Family lavish rewards from Yang Province, strengthening his influence in the three prefectures. He decided to give one Innate Spirit Pill to Zheng Cangfeng to help secure the Zheng Family’s loyalty and position him as Prefect of Ascending Dragon Prefecture.

• A masked man recognized Li Xinge’s exceptional fortune and abandoned his plan, while the demonic cult’s leaders learned that Old Ghost Tan had died and resolved to confront their enemies directly.
• Fu Yu told Fu Tiansheng that Li Xinge had destroyed the demonic cult infiltrators and slain an Innately Great Perfection expert, prompting Fu Tiansheng to award the Li Family spirit stones, pills, techniques, and weapons.
• Wang Dong arrived at Green Maple Valley with the provincial rewards, and Li Xinge welcomed his old acquaintance before learning the details of the generous grant.
• Li Xinge assigned two Innate Spirit Pills to the Second Elder and Fourth Elder and decided to send the third to Zheng Cangfeng.
• Li Xinge explained that he intended to have Zheng Cangfeng succeed him as Prefect of Ascending Dragon Prefecture and said the Li Family must repay the Zheng Family’s past support.

Elder Jiang delivered Zheng Cangfeng an Innate Spirit Pill from Li Xinge, prompting Zheng to pledge the Zheng Family’s loyalty to the Li Family and enter life-or-death seclusion. Half a month later, Li Xuanzong and Li Xuanzhong both broke through to the Innate Realm, bringing the Li Family’s total to four Innate Realm experts.

• Elder Jiang gave Zheng Cangfeng an Innate Spirit Pill on Li Xinge’s orders and urged him not to disappoint the Li Family.
• Zheng Cangfeng swore that the Zheng Family would follow Li Xinge and the Li Family, then announced he would enter life-or-death seclusion.
• After half a month of calm, Li Xuanzong manifested the Barbarian God during his breakthrough and emerged as an Innate True Person.
• Li Xuanzong credited his breakthrough to the Innate Spirit Pill and said his savage god body let him challenge opponents in the middle stage of the Innate Realm.
• Li Xuanzhong completed his breakthrough an hour later, giving the Li Family four Innate Realm experts under one roof.

Zheng Cangfeng broke through to the Innate Realm as Li Xinge’s Blood Egg hatched into a powerful flood dragon, whom Li Xinge named Chixiao and made the Baihe Li Clan’s Guardian Spirit Beast. Li Xinge then offered Zheng Cangfeng the position of Prefect of Ascending Dragon Prefecture, leaving him stunned and uncertain he was capable of taking it.

• Zheng Cangfeng emerged rejuvenated from seclusion and credited his breakthrough to the Governor-General.
• The Blood Egg hatched, releasing a Unicorn Sea Splitting Flood Dragon whose power shook Green Maple Valley and subdued nearby demonic beasts.
• Li Xinge named the flood dragon Chixiao and declared him the Baihe Li Clan’s Guardian Spirit Beast.
• Zheng Cangfeng arrived in Green Maple Valley to pay his respects to Li Xinge, who congratulated him on reaching the Innate Realm.
• Li Xinge explained that he planned to resign as Prefect of Ascending Dragon Prefecture and recommend Zheng Cangfeng for the position.
• Zheng Cangfeng doubted his own ability to serve, but Li Xinge insisted that he was capable.

Li Xinge secured Zheng Cangfeng's appointment as Prefect of Ascending Dragon Prefecture, then received the Marquis of Wu's order to muster Yang Province's cultivators against the Blood Demon Sacred Cult at Yanshui. After organizing the Li Family and gathering the forces of three prefectures, Li Xinge led the army north to begin the campaign.

• Li Xinge resigned as Prefect of Ascending Dragon Prefecture and arranged for Zheng Cangfeng to take the post, prompting Zheng Cangfeng to swear his gratitude and Dou Changgeng to resent the appointment.
• The Marquis of Wu emerged from seclusion and ordered Yang Province's powerful clans and sects to join the hunt against the Blood Demon Sacred Cult at Yanshui.
• Li Xinge convened the Li Family elders and decided to lead the expedition, leaving Li Xuantong and Chixiao to guard Green Maple Valley.
• The Baihe Li Clan prepared for war as cultivators from Ascending Dragon, Qingshan, and Yueya Prefectures gathered at Green Maple Valley.
• Li Xinge ordered the assembled forces to move out, and the three prefectures' army set off north toward Yanshui.

Li Xinge attended a welcoming banquet for Yang Province’s Innate experts, where he met powerful provincial figures and witnessed the arrival of Venerable Jingkong and former Governor Ouyang Jing. The gathering fell silent when Prince Jingjiang entered, carrying a pressure that surpassed even theirs.

• Li Xinge arrived at the Yanshui River encampment with his cultivator corps and established their defensive camp.
• Fu Tiansheng invited the Innate experts to a welcoming banquet, where Li Xinge met the Fu Family’s Grand Elder and Xiang Yesheng.
• Venerable Jingkong arrived, and the gathered cultivators rose to pay their respects to the Divine Mansion Venerable.
• Ouyang Jing entered through a spatial rift, greeted Venerable Jingkong, and drew enthusiastic respect as Yang Province’s former Governor.
• Prince Jingjiang arrived at the command tent, and his overwhelming presence silenced the gathering.

At the Yanshui camp, the Marquis of Wu asserted her authority over Prince Jingjiang and rallied Yang Province for the coming battle. The demonic sect launched its assault across the river, and Li Xinge watched from high ground as the battle turned brutal.

• Prince Jingjiang arrived at the camp claiming he had come to oversee the campaign, but the gathering offered him a lukewarm reception.
• The Marquis of Wu appeared, and the assembled cultivators and armies greeted her with resounding loyalty.
• The Marquis of Wu dismissed Prince Jingjiang's claim to authority, forcing him to back down and pledge only to convey the court's concern.
• The Marquis of Wu warned that the decisive battle against the demonic sect was imminent, and the cultivators vowed to fight for her and Yang Province.
• Before dawn, the demonic sect attacked across the Yanshui, and both sides unleashed formations, banners, and spells as the river became a brutal battlefield.
• Li Xinge stood on high ground with the Innate Realm cultivators under his command while the Thousand Soul Banner stirred beneath his robes.

The Demonic Cult broke through the river-defense formation at the Battle of Yanshui, and the fighting escalated as Innate cultivators joined the fray. Li Xinge sent Ming Lan to battle and prepared Li Xuanzhong and Li Xuanzong to fight for the Baihe Li Clan.

• The Demonic Cult forced a breach in the river-defense formation and overwhelmed a Yang Province encampment, but Yang Province troops rushed to contain the attack.
• A middle-aged demonic cultivator killed a Yang Province Army general with a surprise strike and led an assault on the wavering front line.
• The Shadowless Blademaster and the Wufeng Sword Sect's First Elder attacked the demonic cultivator together, while his fellow cultivators initially refused to help him.
• Innate cultivators from both sides entered the battle, and Ming Lan joined the fight to aid an Innate cultivator from the Ming Clan.
• Li Xinge told Li Xuanzhong and Li Xuanzong to fight without bringing shame upon the Baihe Li Clan, and they vowed to bring glory to it.

Li Xingzong led the Baihe Li Clan’s disciples into battle and killed a Qi and Blood Great Perfection demonic cultivator despite being at the Qi and Blood Great Accomplishment stage. When an Early-stage Innate Realm enemy threatened him, a burly figure appeared to defend the Baihe Li Clan.

• Li Xingzong charged into the Blood Demon Sacred Cult’s formation with the Li Family Disciples, drawing nearby Yang Province cultivators to join them.
• An Innate Realm demonic cultivator sent a Qi and Blood Great Perfection subordinate to kill Li Xingzong.
• Li Xingzong used his Golden Body Child Technique to withstand the subordinate’s claw and crushed the demonic cultivator with his great hammer.
• Li Xingzong killed the wounded subordinate with a second hammer strike, enraging the Innate Realm demonic cultivator.
• The Early-stage Innate Realm demonic cultivator unleashed his pressure against Li Xingzong, but a burly figure appeared and challenged him for threatening the Baihe Li Clan.

Li Xuanzong entered the battle and crushed an Innate demonic cultivator before taking on the Heart-Corroding Demon Lord. As Li Xuanzong pressed his advantage, an unseen force killed a demonic cultivator who tried to ambush him, leaving the source of the intervention unknown.

• Li Xuanzong arrived to protect the Li Family Disciples and killed an Innate demonic cultivator with a punch and a kick.
• The Heart-Corroding Demon Lord challenged Li Xuanzong, and the two clashed as Yang Province cultivators compared him to Li Xinge.
• Li Xuanzong's Barbarian God Physique helped him overpower the Heart-Corroding Demon Lord, who struggled to defend himself.
• A cloaked demonic cultivator crept toward the fight and attacked Li Xuanzong from behind with a blood-red longsword.
• A cold snort shattered the ambusher's Divine Soul and burst his body apart before his attack could land.

Li Xinge intervened to save Li Xuanzong, then faced Old Demon Tuoshan, who challenged him for killing a fellow demon cultivator. Li Xinge annihilated Tuoshan with one sword, leaving the assembled experts and demonic cultivators stunned by his strength.

• Li Xinge killed the Middle Stage Innate demonic cultivator who had ambushed Li Xuanzong, and Li Xuanzong respectfully thanked him.
• The Heart-Corroding Demon Lord retreated rather than risk provoking Li Xinge, while the Black Lotus Demon Venerable watched from the demonic clouds.
• Old Demon Tuoshan confronted Li Xinge over the death of his man and attacked him with the Sky-Rending Claw.
• Li Xinge shattered the attack and killed Old Demon Tuoshan with a single sword strike.
• Venerable Jingkong, the old Governor, Prince Jingjiang, the Fu Family's Supreme Elder, and the demonic cultivators reacted to Li Xinge's overwhelming strength; the Heart-Corroding Demon Lord accepted that he was no match for him.

The battle above the Yan River escalated when White Bone Demon Venerable and Black Lotus Demon Venerable revealed themselves as the Blood Demon Sacred Cult’s Divine Mansion experts. Venerable Jingkong gained the advantage against White Bone, while Ouyang Jing was suppressed by Black Lotus, prompting Prince Jingjiang to join the fight.

• Yuan Mingzi attacked Li Xinge, but the Fu Family’s grand elder intercepted him as the two sides’ experts began a massive battle.
• White Bone Demon Venerable emerged from the demonic clouds and attacked the Yang Province fighters, but Venerable Jingkong appeared and stopped his strike.
• Venerable Jingkong and White Bone Demon Venerable began fighting, while Li Xinge watched their battle as he held off a Blood Demon Sacred Cult expert.
• Ouyang Jing challenged Black Lotus Demon Venerable, revealed his mid-stage Divine Mansion Realm cultivation, and clashed with him above the battlefield.
• Venerable Jingkong gained the upper hand against White Bone, while Black Lotus suppressed Ouyang Jing.
• Prince Jingjiang charged to help Ouyang Jing fight Black Lotus Demon Venerable.

Prince Jingjiang betrayed Yang Province and gravely wounded Ouyang Jing, revealing that he had allied with the Blood Demon Sacred Cult to help the court reclaim the province. Just as Black Lotus Demon Venerable moved to finish the fight, Ouyang Fengchai appeared and confronted the newly arrived Great Protector.

• Prince Jingjiang secretly redirected his attack and gravely wounded Ouyang Jing while he and Ouyang Jing were fighting Black Lotus Demon Venerable.
• Prince Jingjiang denounced Yang Province's local powers as rebels and revealed his plan to use the Blood Demon Sacred Cult to restore the court's control, even at the cost of the province's people.
• Black Lotus Demon Venerable urged Prince Jingjiang to honor their agreement and threatened Venerable Jingkong with the destruction of Lingxu Sect if he refused to surrender.
• Ouyang Fengchai stepped out of the void, restoring Yang Province's cultivators' morale and dismissing Prince Jingjiang's claim that the battle was already decided.
• Ouyang Fengchai called out the hidden Blood Nether Demon Venerable, whose arrival drew the Blood Demon Sacred Cult's worship, then questioned how a Divine Mansion cultivator could be its Great Protector.

Ouyang Fengchai revealed power far beyond the Divine Mansion Realm, overwhelming the Blood Nether Demon Venerable and his blood sea. The Blood Nether Demon Venerable begged for his life, while Prince Jingjiang was erased as he tried to flee.

• The Blood Nether Demon Venerable questioned Ouyang Fengchai’s identity after she dismissed his Great Perfection of Divine Mansion cultivation.
• The Blood Nether Demon Venerable unleashed a vast sea of blood that devoured weaker cultivators.
• Ouyang Fengchai manifested a Nebula Dharma Form, purified the blood sea, and terrified the Blood Nether Demon Venerable.
• The Blood Nether Demon Venerable bowed and pleaded for mercy, invoking his master, Saint Blood Li, and the Blood Demon Sacred Cult.
• Prince Jingjiang tried to escape, but Ouyang Fengchai erased him with a casual wave.

After Ouyang Fengchai ended the Yanshui Battle, she revealed that Li Xinge had awakened a heavenly human bloodline and invited him to join her in the Heavenly Palace. Li Xinge refused so he could remain with the Baihe Li Clan, and left determined to reach the Upper Realm through his own strength.

• Ouyang Fengchai spared the Blood Nether Demon Venerable because of the Heavenly Palace's ties to the Blood Demon Sacred Cult, and he ordered his army to withdraw after she left.
• The Zhou Emperor stripped Prince Jingjiang of his royal status, granted Ouyang Fengchai the title King Wu, and gave her the Southern Eight Provinces as a royal fief.
• Ouyang Fengchai summoned Li Xinge and, with Fourth Elder Xue Daoqi present, explained that Li Xinge had awakened a heavenly human bloodline.
• Ouyang Fengchai offered to take Li Xinge to the Heavenly Palace and have Xue Daoqi accept him as a disciple, but Li Xinge declined to protect his lineage and its clansmen.
• Ouyang Fengchai accepted Li Xinge's decision, while Xue Daoqi criticized his limited horizons, and Li Xinge resolved to reach the Upper Realm through his own strength.

After Ouyang Fengchai announced her ascension to the Upper Realm, powerful figures gathered to beg to accompany her, while Li Xinge prepared the Baihe Li Clan to exploit the upheaval her departure would cause. The chapter left the clan anticipating a power struggle in Yang Province and considering how Venerable Jingkong might be pushed into becoming its next Governor.

• The Ouyang Clan announced that Ouyang Fengchai would ascend in three days with Ouyang Jing and several talented disciples, drawing ancient cultivators to seek a place among her followers.
• Ouyang Fengchai told Xue Daoqi to screen candidates by their temperament, potential, and karma, while Xue Daoqi regretted that Li Xinge was not among those he could recruit.
• Li Xinge warned the Baihe Li Clan elders that Ouyang Fengchai's departure would create a power vacuum and give the clan a chance to expand its influence.
• Li Xinge and Li Xuantong dismissed Li Xuanzong's suggestion that the Li Clan claim the Governor's position, saying it lacked the strength to do so.
• Li Xinge concluded that Yang Province's clans would pressure Venerable Jingkong to become Governor and urged the Baihe Li Clan to prepare for the coming chaos.

Ouyang Fengchai and her followers ascended to the Upper Realm, leaving desperate challengers dead or stranded as the passage closed. With the Lower Realm destabilized, Li Xinge ordered the Baihe Li Clan to bring other families under its command, while one Li envoy prepared a scheme after the Qian Family rejected him.

• Ouyang Fengchai entered the Guiding Immortal Light, and Xue Daoqi, Ouyang Jing, and the others followed as Venerable Hanbing and other challengers rushed after them; the world’s laws obliterated Hanbing before the passage closed.
• The Heavenly Palace welcomed the returning Holy Master, while the Lower Realm was left facing a power vacuum and an approaching storm.
• Li Xinge ordered Li Family envoys to recruit clans across the region, and the Qi Family agreed to follow the Baihe Li Clan after its envoy threatened retaliation.
• The Shen Family initially resisted the Li envoy, then agreed to obey the Baihe Li Clan rather than risk provoking Li Xinge.
• The Qian Family threw out its Li envoy, so the Li Family steward wounded himself and quietly told his subordinate what to do next.