Recaps

Yue Niang protected Yunxi from the Shen Family by claiming the Baihe Li Clan had taken an interest in her, giving Yunxi hope that Huanxi Village could be saved. Shen Zhengyuan learned of the claim but, desperate to extend his life, decided to secretly go after Yunxi that night.

• Yue Niang ordered a guard to capture the Shen Family spy watching Yunxi and warned him that the Baihe Li Clan would protect her and Huanxi Village.
• The spy fled to the County Town and told Shen Zhengyuan that someone from the Baihe Li Clan had taken an interest in Yunxi.
• Shen Zhengyuan dismissed the First Elder's warning and insisted he needed Yunxi to avoid death and preserve his power.
• Shen Zhengyuan ordered trusted fighters to join him on a secret trip to Huanxi Village at midnight.

Li Xinge learned of a woman with the Mysterious Yin Charm Body and sent Elder Jiang to bring her to Green Maple Valley. Meanwhile, Shen Zhengyuan led the Shen Family into Huanxi Village to seize Yunxi, but his First and Second Elders suddenly attacked him.

• Li Xinge learned that Yue Niang had found a woman with the Mysterious Yin Charm Body in Min County and ordered Elder Jiang to bring her back safely.
• Elder Jiang set out for Qingshan Prefecture, while Li Xinge watched toward Huanxi Village and hoped the woman would aid his cultivation.
• Shen Zhengyuan led nearly all of the Shen Family's top fighters into Huanxi Village and ordered them to spare only Yunxi.
• Yue Niang sensed the invasion, confronted Shen Zhengyuan, and prepared to stop the Shen Family from slaughtering the villagers.
• The Shen Family First Elder and Second Elder struck Shen Zhengyuan from behind, leaving him badly injured and demanding to know why they had betrayed him.

Yue Niang spared the Shen Family after its elders killed Shen Zhengyuan, ordering them to protect Huanxi Village for generations. Elder Jiang arrived from the Baihe Li Clan and took Yunxi and Yue Niang to Green Maple Valley.

• Shen Nanrong and Shen Nanping revealed Shen Zhengyuan's crimes and the Shen Family's plot to kill him, then Shen Nanrong beheaded him.
• The Shen Family elders and clansmen pleaded for mercy and offered their lives to preserve their Lineage.
• Yue Niang agreed to spare the Shen Family on the condition that it guard Huanxi Village for generations.
• Yue Niang reassured Yunxi that the Baihe Li Clan would protect her, and Yunxi agreed to follow her.
• Elder Jiang arrived, recognized Yunxi's Mysterious Yin Charm Body, and took her and Yue Niang toward Green Maple Valley.

Yunxi arrived at Green Maple Valley and settled into Huanxi Pavilion, where the maids bathed and dressed her in fine clothes. As she wondered about the Baihe Li Clan's young clan head, she learned he was a celebrated prodigy whom many young women hoped to serve.

• Elder Jiang and Yue Niang brought Yunxi to Huanxi Pavilion in Green Maple Valley and left to report to the clan head.
• Qiu Ya and the other maids welcomed Yunxi and helped her bathe and change into a silk dress.
• Yunxi felt uneasy about enjoying luxuries her family and village had never known.
• Yunxi asked Qiu Ya about the clan head, and the maids said he was twenty-five, had taken over at seventeen, and was Yang Province's greatest cultivation genius.

Yue Niang told Li Xinge that Illusionary Love Valley possessed the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome, a near-Heaven Tier technique suited to Yunxi’s Mysterious Yin Charm Body. Convinced Yunxi could cultivate it and yield greater benefits later, Li Xinge ordered Yue Niang to retrieve the tome, despite the valley’s powerful defenses.

• Li Xinge rewarded Yue Niang for finding Yunxi by promising her an Innate Spirit Pill to help her reach the Innate Realm.
• Yue Niang revealed that Illusionary Love Valley’s true treasured technique was the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome, which only someone with a Mysterious Yin physique could cultivate safely.
• Yue Niang argued that Yunxi should learn the technique before Li Xinge tried to harvest her essence, since mastering it could greatly strengthen Yunxi and benefit Li Xinge and the Li Family.
• Yue Niang estimated that Yunxi could master the technique in three to eight years with sufficient resources, and Li Xinge agreed to pursue it.
• Yue Niang described Illusionary Love Valley’s Valley Master, elders, and Illusionary Love Great Array, which could trap even an Innately Great Perfection cultivator.
• Li Xinge declared that he would obtain the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome and tasked Yue Niang with bringing it back.

Yunxi settled into life at Huanxi Pavilion as Li Xinge examined her aptitude, promised cultivation support, and reassured her that her parents were cared for. Meanwhile, Yue Niang reached Illusionary Love Valley and asked its gatekeepers to tell the Valley Master that an old friend had returned.

• Li Xinge visited Yunxi, asked about her treatment, and confirmed that the Li Family would provide for her cultivation.
• Li Xinge examined Yunxi’s Mysterious Yin Charm Body and said he would arrange an instructor and find her a cultivation method.
• Li Xinge told Yunxi that her parents had been brought from Huanxi Village and settled in a house in the county.
• After Li Xinge left, Yunxi wondered anxiously whether he had found her unworthy, while Li Xinge told Old Jiang that she was not bad.
• Half a month later, Yue Niang crossed Illusionary Love Valley’s Peach Blossom Barrier and asked two gatekeepers to inform the Valley Master that an old friend had returned.

Yue Niang returned to Illusionary Love Valley as an envoy of the Baihe Li Clan to request the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome, but Fairy Huanyue rejected the offered alliance terms. She said she might hand over the tome, but demanded the Family Head himself instead.

• Yue Niang revealed herself to the guards at Illusionary Love Valley, and Fairy Cold Moon stopped her from killing her after learning she represented the Baihe Li Clan.
• Fairy Cold Moon escorted Yue Niang to Huanyue Palace, where Fairy Huanyue confronted her about leaving the valley.
• Yue Niang asked Fairy Huanyue for the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome and relayed the Family Head's offer of pills, a cultivation method, an alliance, and protection.
• Fairy Huanyue struck Yue Niang and insisted the secret tome could never leave Illusionary Love Valley, while Yue Niang warned that the Baihe Li Clan could destroy the valley.
• Fairy Huanyue said she might give the Family Head the tome, but declared that she wanted him instead.

Fairy Huanyue insisted that Li Xinge come to Illusionary Love Valley in person for the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome, and Yue Niang suspected Huanyue’s cultivation had become unstable. Li Xinge traveled there with Yue Niang and Elder Jiang, where the valley’s disciples received him respectfully but whispered about his fearsome reputation.

• Fairy Huanyue told Yue Niang that Li Xinge must come take the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome himself and ordered her to leave.
• Yue Niang reported Huanyue’s demand and unstable aura to Li Xinge, who decided to visit Illusionary Love Valley despite Elder Jiang’s warning.
• Li Xinge set out with Yue Niang and Elder Jiang, reaching Illusionary Love Valley by dusk the next day.
• Fairy Cold Moon recognized Li Xinge and respectfully led him into the valley after Yue Niang introduced him.
• Illusionary Love Valley’s disciples gossiped about Li Xinge’s appearance and feared reputation, prompting him to resent being called a great demon.

Li Xinge confronted Fairy Huanyue over the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome and learned that she had modified the technique to create an unstable Acquired Mysterious Yin Charm Body. The chapter left him facing her condition: cultivate with her to help refine its power.

• Li Xinge entered the Palace of Illusions alone and demanded that Fairy Huanyue hand over the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome.
• When Fairy Huanyue refused, Li Xinge seized her by the throat, and she agreed to give him the tome on one condition.
• Fairy Huanyue revealed that the technique’s extreme yin and cold power was destroying her meridians and would likely kill her within a month.
• Fairy Huanyue explained that she had altered her meridians to cultivate the secret tome and create an Acquired Mysterious Yin Charm Body, but could not control its power.
• Fairy Huanyue demanded that Li Xinge cultivate with her and help her refine the power.

Li Xinge accepted Fairy Huanyue’s offer to exchange double cultivation for the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome after confirming that his cultivation could withstand her overwhelming yin power. After spending the night together, he left at dawn and hurried back to break through, leaving Fairy Huanyue furious.

• Fairy Huanyue explained why Li Xinge was suited to help her and offered him the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome in exchange for double cultivation.
• Li Xinge inspected the jade slip, confirmed the technique was genuine, and agreed to help Fairy Huanyue.
• Fairy Huanyue explained the difference between Pure and Turbid Cultivation and revealed that her accumulated Primal Yin came from centuries of Pure Cultivation.
• Li Xinge carried Fairy Huanyue from the lotus pond to the jade bed, and they spent the night together.
• Fairy Huanyue found that Li Xinge had left at dawn and angrily accused him of draining her.
• Li Xinge told Elder Jiang he needed to return to the valley and enter seclusion to break through to the next realm.

Li Yuran succeeded in refining third-tier pills and became a third-tier Alchemist at nineteen. Li Yanming then told her that the Pill Hall and Spiritual Plant Hall would merge and urged her to compete to lead the new hall, revealing that the position could bring her closer to someone she secretly loved.

• Li Yuran refined three Hundred Herbs Marrow Vein Pills, one mid-grade and two low-grade, and achieved third-tier Alchemist status.
• Li Yanming inspected Li Yuran's pills, praised her success, and explained that the family elders had approved a merger of the Pill Hall and Spiritual Plant Hall, pending the family head's decision.
• Li Yanming described how the merger would reduce friction between the halls and coordinate herb cultivation with pill refining, especially for high-tier medicines.
• Li Yanming urged Li Yuran to contend for leadership of the merged hall, arguing that her alchemy and spiritual-plant talents would help the family pursue its ambitions.
• Li Yanming said the position would bring Li Yuran closer to him, and Li Yuran froze as her hidden feelings were exposed.

Li Wu led his team to Sanxi Town, where they found a massacre and fought the Eastern Ridge Barbarians. After killing a Qi and Blood Great Accomplishment attacker with the Burning Blood Scripture, Li Wu confronted the sole survivor’s hatred and struck her down, leaving his team in shock.

• Li Wu and his nine companions entered Sanxi Town and found its residents dead and the town burning.
• Li Wu ordered his team to split up and hunt the barbarians while he fought them with his hammer.
• A Qi and Blood Great Accomplishment barbarian ambushed Li Wu, revealed he had targeted him for revenge, and nearly killed him.
• Li Wu used the Burning Blood Scripture to reach Qi and Blood Great Accomplishment and killed the attacker with the Earth Shaking Hammer.
• After the team wiped out the remaining barbarians, the sole surviving woman blamed Li Wu for arriving too late and for her family’s deaths and assault.
• Li Wu roared and struck the woman with his hammer.

Li Wu recovered from severe injuries in Green Maple Valley and set out for Li Family Town to visit his family. His companions joined him for the journey, and the group approached the town before noon.

• Seventh Elder Li Yanming treated Li Wu's damaged meridians with a Hundred Herbs Marrow Vein Pill after Li Wu lost consciousness from using the Burning Blood Scripture.
• Li Wu woke after more than a month and learned he would need at least three months of rest to recover.
• Li Wu grew restless during his recovery, missed his family, and received permission to return home.
• Li Lang and several other Li Family Disciples joined Li Wu outside Green Maple Valley and carried his bundle for the journey.
• Li Wu and his companions traveled toward Li Family Town, chatting along the way, and neared the town before noon.

Li Wu returned to Li Family Town, reunited with his family, and learned how his father had risen to become Li County’s magistrate. The chapter ended with his little brother Li Hao charging into him with enough force to send him flying.

• Li Wu entered Li Family Town and learned that the Baihe Li Clan had expanded it into Li County, with Li Zhenshan serving as County Magistrate.
• Li Wu reunited with his mother and Li Zhenshan, then introduced Li Lang and the others to his parents.
• Li Lang revealed that Li Wu had been seriously injured on the Eastern Ridge border, and Li Wu explained that a third-rank pill had healed him and strengthened his meridians.
• Li Zhenshan described his breakthrough to Qi and Blood Minor Accomplishment and urged Li Wu to repay the clan’s support through diligent training.
• Li Hao ran toward Li Wu asking to be picked up, but his collision sent Li Wu flying across the hall.

Li Wu discovered that his three-year-old brother Li Hao had immense strength and an enormous appetite, making him a danger to their hometown despite his cheerful, innocent nature. After recovering from his injuries, Li Wu took Li Hao to Green Maple Valley so the family elders could guide him, leaving their grieving parents behind.

• Li Hao accidentally sent Li Wu flying, then cheered up when Li Wu praised his strength and promised he could become a great hero.
• Li Zhenshan told Li Wu that Li Hao ate a Qi and Blood Realm beast every half month and had kicked the family's stone lions out of the city.
• Li Zhenshan asked Li Wu to take Li Hao to Green Maple Valley, where the family had more resources and experts who could help him control his strength.
• Li Wu recovered for half a month and watched Li Hao, finding that the boy was kind and cheerful but sometimes lost control when angry or excited.
• Mother Li tearfully packed Li Hao's belongings and clung to him as he protested that he wanted to stay home.
• At dawn, Li Wu and Li Hao said goodbye to Li Zhenshan and Mother Li, then set out for Green Maple Valley.

Li Wu brought his three-year-old brother Li Hao to Green Maple Valley to begin cultivating. Li Yanyuan, who had doubted Li Hao’s strength, was nearly knocked out by the boy’s punch, and dozens of juniors witnessed it.

• Li Wu brought Li Hao into Green Maple Valley and explained the valley’s rules during their journey.
• Li Yanyuan greeted Li Wu and met Li Hao, then questioned why such a young child had come to cultivate.
• After Li Wu described Li Hao’s extraordinary strength, Li Yanyuan challenged the boy to punch him and dismissed the warning that he might be hurt.
• Li Hao punched Li Yanyuan in the chest and sent him flying into a green maple tree, then cried in fear that he had killed him.
• Li Yanyuan recovered enough to ask Li Wu to keep the incident secret, but discovered dozens of Li Family juniors had watched it happen.

After Li Hao injured Li Yanyuan with one punch, the Li Family elders tested his aptitude and discovered the Talent Testing Stone could not measure his talent. They concealed the result and planned to raise Li Hao discreetly, leaving his true potential secret.

• Li Yanyuan confirmed that three-year-old Li Hao had seriously injured him, and the news spread through the Li Family.
• Great Elder Li Xuantong summoned Li Hao to the ancestral hall to test his aptitude while Li Wu accompanied him.
• Li Hao's blood caused the Talent Testing Stone to blaze with light, but the stone displayed no talent result.
• Li Xuanyong suggested that Li Hao's talent exceeded the stone's measurement limits, and Li Xuantong ordered the elders to keep the discovery secret.
• Li Xuantong instructed the clan to claim Li Hao had Fifth-grade talent and to temper his body until the family head returned from seclusion.

Li Xinge broke through to Innately Great Perfection after a year in seclusion, then learned how the Li Family had developed and heard about Li Hao’s mysterious talent. The chapter ended with Li Xinge ordering Li Xuantong to bring Li Hao to him for examination.

• Li Xinge absorbed the spiritual energy gathering over Green Maple Valley and shattered the barrier between Late-stage Innate and Innately Great Perfection.
• Li Xuantong, Elder Jiang, and the Li Family leaders congratulated Li Xinge when he emerged from seclusion.
• Li Xuantong told Li Xinge that the family’s cultivators had advanced and that Wuyou had yet to break through to the Innate Realm.
• Li Xuantong explained that Li Hao had injured Li Yanyuan with one punch and caused an unusual reaction in the Talent Testing Stone.
• Li Xinge praised Li Xuantong for keeping Li Hao’s potential secret and ordered him to bring the boy for an examination.

Li Xinge discovered that four-year-old Li Hao possessed an extraordinary Primordial dragon elephant body and ordered the Li Family to give him the finest training. Meanwhile, the Fu Family debated the Wei Family’s bid to install Wei Yiren as Governor of Yang Province, and learned that their family had already accepted the offer.

• Li Xinge inspected Li Hao and found his powerful physique, talents, and unusual halos, then praised him as a future pillar of the Li Family.
• Li Xinge told the grand elder to ensure Li Hao received the finest training.
• Fu Yuntian told the Fu Family elders that the Wei Family wanted their support for Wei Yiren to become Governor of Yang Province.
• The elders protested the Wei Family’s ambitions, but Fu Yuntian listed the promised marriage alliance, cultivation resources, spirit stone mines, business support, and breakthrough experience.
• Fu Yuntian revealed that the Fu Family had already accepted the Wei Family’s terms.

Fu Yuntian and Fu Yu clashed over whether the Fu Family should side with the Wei Family or trust Li Xinge’s future strength, and the Second Elder persuaded them to delay their decision. After learning that Fu Yuntian had cut resources for collateral branches, Fu Yu resolved to make his own plans and wrote a letter.

• Fu Yuntian argued that the Fu Family should align with the Wei Family to protect itself, while Fu Yu urged the elders to trust Li Xinge and resist outside control.
• Fu Yuntian accused Fu Yu of favoring Li Xinge for personal reasons, and Fu Yu defended his position by comparing Li Xinge’s potential with Wei Yiren’s limited prospects.
• The Second Elder called for unity and advised the Fu Family to stall the Wei Family until their ancestor emerged from seclusion.
• Fu Yu’s supporters told him that Fu Yuntian had cut collateral-branch cultivation resources by thirty percent while increasing the main branch’s share.
• Fu Yu told his supporters to be patient, then sat down and wrote furiously after returning to his quarters.

Li Xinge confronted a Wu Province Wei Clan elder who demanded the Li Family support the Wei Family’s bid to govern Yang Province. He forced Wei Wuyai to his knees and ordered his teeth knocked out, leaving the Wei Clan’s envoy facing punishment for his threats.

• Li Xinge learned that the Wei Family sought to control Yang Province and went to meet its elder, Wei Wuyai, at the reception hall.
• Wei Wuyai urged the Li Family to support the Wei Family, claiming the Fu Family had already joined them and warning that resistance would bring ruin.
• Li Xuantong challenged Wei Wuyai’s threats, but Wei Wuyai demanded that Li Xinge appear and answer him directly.
• Li Xinge arrived, overwhelmed Wei Wuyai with his aura, and ordered him to tell Wei Yiren that outsiders would not control Yang Province.
• Li Xinge seized on Wei Wuyai’s name as a joke and ordered the Snowy Guard to knock out his teeth.

Li Xinge recalled Zhao Wujiu and took him to visit the Fu Family, whose head, Fu Yuntian, was inclined to support the Wei Family. Li Xinge openly favored Fu Yu at the mountain gate, leaving the Fu Family divided and Fu Yuntian resentful.

• Li Xinge said the Li Family would stand firm against the Wei Family and ordered Zhao Wujiu recalled to Green Maple Valley.
• Zhao Wujiu returned and discovered Li Xinge had reached Innately Great Perfection; Li Xinge explained that they would visit Fu Yuntian's family to clarify the situation.
• Li Xinge and Zhao Wujiu arrived at the Fu Family's mountain gate, where Fu Yuntian and Fu Yu each gathered their supporters to welcome them.
• Fu Yuntian recognized Zhao Wujiu as an Innately Great Perfection master and grew uneasy about Li Xinge's purpose in bringing him.
• Li Xinge greeted Fu Yu warmly and asked him to call him nephew, while treating Fu Yuntian coolly and deepening tensions among the Fu Family's factions.

Li Xinge confronted Fu Yuntian over the Fu Family’s plan to side with the Wei Family, and Zhao Wujiu killed Fu Mingshan when he interrupted. The Grand Elder pledged the Fu Family’s allegiance to the Li Family, but Li Xinge rejected the offer as insufficient.

• Li Xinge accused Fu Yuntian of trying to ally with the Wei Family and said Fu Yu should replace him as head of the Fu Family.
• Fu Mingshan interrupted Li Xinge, and Zhao Wujiu killed him with a single blow.
• Li Xinge challenged Fu Yuntian, then addressed the Fu Family Grand Elder as he arrived from seclusion.
• The Grand Elder confronted Li Xinge, but Zhao Wujiu’s aura proved stronger and forced him to withdraw.
• The Grand Elder pledged that the Fu Family would follow the Li Family’s lead, but Li Xinge replied that it was not enough.

Li Xinge forced the Fu Family to depose Fu Yuntian and install Fu Yu as its new head, then revealed his plan to destroy the Fu Family for siding with the Wei Family. After convincing Fu Yu to support him with the promise of Venerable Jingkong’s protection, Li Xinge headed to Lingxu Sect to seek Jingkong’s help.

• Li Xinge demanded Fu Yuntian’s removal, and Fu Qingyun appointed Fu Yu as the new Fu Family head.
• Fu Qingyun crippled Fu Yuntian, imprisoned him in the mountain’s forbidden grounds, and ordered elders from his branch to step down and remain confined.
• Li Xinge told Fu Yu that he planned to destroy the Fu Family because it had sided with the Wei Family.
• Li Xinge revealed his Innately Great Perfection cultivation and persuaded Fu Yu to follow his orders.
• Li Xinge and Zhao Wujiu traveled to Lingxu Sect to seek Venerable Jingkong’s support.

Li Xinge visited the ailing Governor Venerable Jingkong to warn him that the Fu Family had sided with the Wei Family and to propose destroying them. Jingkong authorized Li Xinge to act as Governor and gave him the Governor's Seal, leaving Li Xinge to return to Green Maple Valley and confront the Fu Family himself.

• Li Xinge and Zhao Wujiu arrived at Lingxu Sect, where True Person Haoran welcomed them and escorted Li Xinge to meet Venerable Jingkong.
• Li Xinge warned Jingkong that the Fu Family planned to welcome the Wei Family into Yang Province after Jingkong's death.
• Li Xinge argued that the Fu Family had to be destroyed, and Jingkong agreed but said he could not join the campaign against Fu Nanzhu.
• Jingkong gave Li Xinge the Governor's Seal and authorized him to act with the Governor's authority.
• Li Xinge left Lingxu Sect and hurried back to Green Maple Valley.