Recaps

Li Xinge summoned Yang Province’s prefects to the Governor’s Mansion and secretly sealed the compound with the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net. As Fu Tiansheng tried to flee, Li Xinge and Zhao Wujiu blocked the hall’s doorway, beginning the reckoning against the Fu Family.

• Li Xinge visited Fu Tiansheng and delivered the State Governor’s order for all prefects to meet at the Governor’s Mansion in three days.
• Fu Tiansheng recalled that Fu Nanzhu had entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough into the Divine Mansion Realm using the Wei Family’s cultivation insights.
• The prefects of all thirty-seven commanderies gathered at the Governor’s Mansion, where Fu Tiansheng exchanged a glance with Sima Fu Yu.
• Li Xinge told Li Xuantong to set up the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net, sealing the Governor’s Mansion like a prison.
• Fu Tiansheng sensed danger and tried to leave the assembly hall, but Li Xinge and Zhao Wujiu stood in the doorway and stopped him.

Li Xinge took control of Yang Province using the Governor’s Seal and exposed Fu Tiansheng and the Fu Family’s treason. After executing Fu Tiansheng and arresting his allies, Li Xinge ordered a province-wide purge and set out to attack the Fu Family’s clan lands at Tianfu Mountain.

• Li Xinge entered the Governor’s Mansion hall with Zhao Wujiu and the Snowy Guard, then claimed the Governor’s throne and presented the Governor’s Seal as proof of his authority.
• Li Xinge accused Fu Tiansheng and the Fu Family of colluding with the Wu Province Wei Clan, and several prefects denounced them.
• Li Xinge ordered Fu Tiansheng’s execution; when Fu Tiansheng tried to flee, Zhao Wujiu struck him down and the Snowy Guard beheaded him.
• Li Xinge ordered the Snowy Guard to seize officials connected to the Fu Family, seal their cultivation, and imprison them.
• Li Xinge ordered Fu Yu to mobilize troops and uproot the Fu Family’s forces across the province, then led the officials to attack Tianfu Mountain.

Li Xinge led a vast army to Tianfu Mountain and declared the Fu Family guilty of colluding with the Wei Family, then broke through its protective array and launched an assault. As the Fu Family faced defeat, Fu Tiansheng called for its ancestor, who emerged from seclusion.

• Li Xinge sealed Tianfu Mountain with the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net and announced the State Governor’s order to exterminate the Fu Family for plotting with the Wei Family.
• Zheng Cangfeng revealed the Fu Family clan head’s severed head, and Li Xinge ordered his army to leave no one alive.
• Fu Tiansheng activated the Clan Protection Array, but Li Xinge shattered it with his second palm strike, devastating the Fu Family estate.
• Li Xinge’s forces charged into Tianfu Mountain and killed several Fu Family Innate Realm experts as the battle intensified.
• Fu Tiansheng called on the Fu Family ancestor for help, and an ancient figure emerged from the mountain.

Li Xinge fought Fu Nanzhu, who empowered himself with the Fu Family’s Earth Vein True Body after Li Xinge wounded him. Trapped by the Li Family’s Heaven and Earth Net, Fu Nanzhu began to detonate his borrowed power and charged at Li Xinge.

• Fu Nanzhu attacked Li Xinge with a powerful palm strike, but Li Xinge met it with his sword and wounded him.
• Fu Nanzhu activated the Fu Family’s Earth Vein True Body, drawing power from Tianfu Mountain and strengthening his body with stone-like armor.
• Li Xinge exchanged dozens of blows with Fu Nanzhu, draining the Earth Vein True Body and cracking its armor.
• Fu Nanzhu tried to flee toward Wu Province, but the Li Family’s Heaven and Earth Net trapped him around Tianfu Mountain.
• Fu Nanzhu refused to surrender and drained Tianfu Mountain’s subterranean spiritual vein to charge at Li Xinge, intending to blow up his Earth Vein True Body.

Li Xinge survived Fu Nanzhu’s self-detonation and led the Li Family to destroy the Fu Family and claim its vast resources. After discovering that the Wei Family’s genuine Divine Mansion cultivation insights concealed a flaw meant to make practitioners controllable, the Li Family learned that Fu Yu had begun a province-wide purge of Fu loyalists.

• Fu Nanzhu detonated himself in an attack that devastated Tianfu Mountain, but Li Xinge survived and announced that Fu Nanzhu had been slain.
• Li Xinge ordered the Li Family to kill the remaining Fu Family members, and the fighting ended with the Fu Family wiped out at Tianfu Mountain.
• Li Xinge ordered the spoils recorded, and Li Xuantong reported that the Li Family had gained enormous wealth and cultivation resources.
• Li Xinge examined the Wei Family’s Divine Mansion cultivation insights and recognized that they contained a hidden flaw designed to let the Wei Family control anyone who used them.
• Fu Yu, the Yang Province Sima, began a bloody purge of Fu Family members and loyalists throughout Yang Province.

Fu Yu’s campaign wiped out the Fu Family and its allies across Yang Province, leaving Li Xinge in control. In Wu Province, Wei Yiren learned that Li Xinge had humiliated Wei Wuyai and then received news of the Fu Family’s destruction.

• Yang Province forces slaughtered the Fu Family branch in Wu Commandery and seized its assets.
• Troops killed the Fu Family’s mine overseer, took control of the mine, and arrested or executed officials tied to the family.
• After half a month, the purge had killed more than ten million people, and Li Xinge’s bloc filled the power vacuum in Yang Province.
• Wei Yiren heard that the Li Family had thrown out Wei Wuyai and pulled out his teeth after rejecting the Wei Family’s demands.
• Wei Yiren decided Li Xinge had to die but wanted to learn what gave him confidence first.
• The Wei Family’s intelligence elder rushed in and told Wei Yiren that the Fu Family had been destroyed.

After the Fu Family was destroyed by Li Xinge, Wei Yiren summoned Wei Pingsheng to discuss the threat Li Xinge posed to the Wei Family. They agreed to act against him, with Wei Pingsheng going to meet Venerable Jingkong while Wei Yiren planned to confront Li Xinge.

• Wei Yiren learned that Li Xinge and his allies had destroyed the Fu Family, and ordered the intelligence elder to contact Wei Pingsheng.
• Wei Pingsheng, disguised as an old herb seller in Yang Province, gave a young man an extra herb before returning to Wu Province.
• Wei Pingsheng arrived at the Nanping Marquis Mansion, where Wei Yiren explained the Fu Family's destruction, Li Xinge's rise, and Wei Wuyai's humiliation.
• Wei Yiren urged Wei Pingsheng to visit Lingxu Mountain and keep Venerable Jingkong occupied while he went to meet Li Xinge.

Wei Yiren confronted Li Xinge at Green Maple Valley and used Divine Mansion Realm power to pin him and his companions in place. As Li Xinge prepared to rely on his contingency, the mysterious coffin beneath the valley began to shake.

• Venerable Jingkong faced Wei Pingsheng at Lingxu Mountain and vowed not to let the Wei Family bully Li Xinge.
• Wei Yiren arrived above Green Maple Valley and demanded that Li Xinge answer for harming the Wei Family and its allies.
• Li Xinge defended his actions against the Fu Family and warned Wei Yiren not to interfere in Yang Province.
• Wei Yiren used Space Annihilation to immobilize Li Xinge, Zhao Wujiu, Li Xuantong, and the others.
• Li Xinge called on the System as the unknown coffin beneath Green Maple Valley began shaking violently.

An ancient coffin rose beneath the Li Family ancestral shrine and its shattered heart killed Wei Yiren, saving the clan from destruction. The coffin vanished after sending Li Xinge a cryptic message, leaving him to conceal its true nature and present the incident as the work of a Li Family ancestor.

• A muffled boom shook Green Maple Valley and blocked Wei Yiren's divine sense from probing underground.
• An ancient black cold-jade coffin emerged beneath the Li Family ancestral shrine, and a shattered heart beat inside it.
• The heart released a blood-red ripple that erased Wei Yiren and his Divine Soul.
• Li Xinge sensed a faint Bloodline Connection to the heart and received a broken message asking him to take it back to the clan.
• The coffin sank back underground, and Li Xinge told the Great Elder to announce that a Divine Mansion ancestor had slain Wei Yiren.

The Li Family announced that Wei Yiren had been gravely wounded by a secluded Divine Mansion Realm ancestor, but rumors soon spread that he had died. The Li Family became famous throughout the realm as the Yang Province Li Clan, while rival powers reconsidered their plans and Wei Pingsheng reacted to the news.

• On Lingxu Mountain, Wei Pingsheng's Jade Pendant shattered, and he rushed toward Green Maple Valley as Venerable Jingkong realized something had happened.
• The Li Family announced that its Divine Mansion Realm ancestor had appeared and grievously wounded Wei Yiren, whose fate remained unknown.
• Rumors spread that Wei Yiren had been crushed to death at the Li Family, and the existence of a Divine Mansion Realm protector behind the family became widely accepted.
• Li Xinge's prestige rose until the Li Family was known throughout the realm as the Yang Province Li Clan, and his authority in Yang Province went unchallenged.
• The Qu Family ancestor abandoned his original plan against Yang Province, while other powerful families reconsidered their plans.
• At the Wei Family estate, Wei Pingsheng stood before the ancestral hall with a dark expression.

Wei Pingsheng moved Wei Yiren’s fading Divine Soul True Fire to the Soul Nurturing Hall and ordered the clan to preserve it. Li Xinge found that the Li Family’s ancestral secret had been lost when his grandfather died, then went to his grandfather’s grave and summoned a banner.

• Wei Pingsheng ordered the elders to protect Wei Yiren’s Divine Soul True Fire with Soul Nurturing Jade and the Nine-Orifice Soul Returning Grass, and to keep the matter secret.
• Li Xinge searched the Li Family genealogy and learned that the First Generation Patriarch had concealed his origins and passed a secret only to successive family heads.
• Li Xinge realized the secret had been lost after Li Xuanfeng died before passing it on.
• Li Xinge went alone to the Li Family Ancestral Grave and knelt before Li Xuanfeng’s tomb, asking forgiveness before striking his head on the ground three times.
• Li Xinge rose and called, “Come, banner!”

Li Xinge uncovered the Li Family’s secret through a fragment of Li Xuanfeng’s dying obsession: they were Coffin Guardians charged with protecting an ancient coffin beneath Green Maple Valley. He ordered preparations for a Divine Mansion breakthrough and entered seclusion, while Li Wuyou reached the Innate Realm and found that her uncle was unavailable.

• Li Xinge used the Thousand Soul Banner at Li Xuanfeng’s grave and discovered a fading memory fragment instead of his soul.
• Li Xinge learned from Li Taiyun’s memory that the Li Family guarded an ancient coffin and had been warned about the Rootless People.
• Li Xinge failed to find more clues at the other patriarchs’ graves, then ordered Elder Jiang to prepare resources for his breakthrough and entered seclusion.
• Li Wuyou advanced to the Innate Realm before turning seventeen, but learned Li Xinge had gone into seclusion.
• Li Wuyou told the guards to protect Li Xinge’s courtyard, then returned home feeling lonely.

Wei Wuyang brought the Wei Family to Green Maple Valley on Wei Pingsheng’s orders to reconcile with the Li Family, despite their anger over Wei Yiren’s defeat. After revealing that Wei Yiren had survived, Wei Wuyang offered gifts and sought peace, and Li Xuantong invited the Wei delegation into the valley to talk.

• Wei Wuyang told the Wei Family elders that Wei Pingsheng had ordered them to bring gifts and make peace with the Li Family, silencing their objections.
• Wei Wuyang arrived at Green Maple Valley, where Li Xuantong activated the Clan Protection Array and demanded that the Wei Family leave.
• Wei Wuyang declared that he had come peacefully on the ancestor’s orders and offered generous gifts to settle the dispute.
• Wei Wuyang revealed that Wei Yiren was gravely wounded but alive because his Divine Soul True Fire remained, and Zhao Wujiu confirmed the claim.
• Li Xuantong accepted Wei Wuyang’s peaceful overture and invited the Wei Family delegation into Green Maple Valley for talks.

Wei Wuyang saw the Li Family’s young Innate Realm talent and realized how dangerous it would be to remain at odds with them. He offered the Li Family lavish gifts, including the Soul Stabilizing Divine Pearl, and Li Xuantong accepted the Wei Family’s apology and proposal for an enduring alliance.

• Wei Wuyang was astonished to encounter Li Wuyou, a young Li Family cultivator who had already entered the Innate Realm.
• Li Xuantong explained that the Li Family Head was in seclusion, prompting Wei Wuyang to resolve to settle the feud before the head could grow stronger.
• Wei Wuyang presented the Li Family with a lavish gift list and a cold-jade casket containing the Soul Stabilizing Divine Pearl.
• Zhao Wujiu recognized the pearl as a rare treasure that could aid a cultivator’s breakthrough to the Divine Mansion Realm.
• Li Xuantong accepted the gifts and declared the families’ grudges over, while Wei Wuyang proposed an enduring alliance between them.

Li Wuyou confronted Yunxi, then persuaded Li Xuantong to let her leave Green Maple Valley and gain experience. A year later, the Li Family completed its nine-story Spirit Gathering Tower, marking a new stage in its development.

• Li Wuyou visited Yunxi at Huanxi Pavilion, warned her against coveting what was not hers, and left after Yunxi responded with an inscrutable smile.
• Li Wuyou asked Li Xuantong for permission to travel and gain experience, and he agreed on the conditions that she keep her cultivation secrets, report back, and return within two years.
• Two days later, Li Wuyou departed Green Maple Valley in disguise and headed west toward Tai Prefecture, sensing that a great opportunity awaited her there.
• Over the following year, the Li Family expanded its control of Yang Province's resources and built the nine-floor Spirit Gathering Tower at the heart of Green Maple Valley.
• At the tower's opening celebration, Li Xuantong announced that Li Family descendants could exchange Contribution Value for cultivation time, while the family introduced Contribution Value as its system for distributing resources.

The Ninefold Spirit-Gathering Tower opened, allowing Li family members to cultivate rapidly in exchange for Contribution Value. Its early breakthroughs and success spurred the clan to take on more missions, while Li Xuantong and the elders watched the family prosper.

• Li Xingfeng spent forty Contribution Value for two hours on the tower’s third floor and made rapid progress in cultivation.
• Cheng Zhao paid 1,600 Contribution Value for eight hours on the sixth floor, hoping to advance his Qi and Blood cultivation.
• A clan member broke through from the Great Perfection of the Fleshly Body to the Qi and Blood realm after cultivating in the tower.
• Li Xingfeng emerged delighted with his gains and resolved to earn more Contribution Value for another visit.
• Cheng Zhao emerged with stronger Qi and Blood and vowed to contribute more to the Li family.
• The tower’s popularity drove clan members to take missions in greater numbers, and Li Xuantong and the elders celebrated the family’s growing strength.

After Li Xuanzong broke through to the Middle Stage Innate Realm, Gongsun Ban worked on a Human Weapon while Li Xingzhou proposed using living people to create powerful, growing bodies for the Li Family. Gongsun Ban was startled by the idea but saw that it could open a new path in Human Weapon crafting.

• Li Xuanzong emerged from half a year of seclusion after advancing to the Middle Stage Innate Realm, and the Great Elder entered seclusion in the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower.
• Gongsun Ban carved runes into the skeleton of an Early-stage Innate cultivator from the Fu Family and explained how the finished Human Weapon could retain much of its strength.
• Li Xingzhou suggested using living people instead of corpses, stripping away their Divine Souls and crafting their bodies into obedient weapons that could grow stronger.
• Li Xingzhou proposed transferring clan members' Divine Souls into powerful Human Weapons so they could escape the limits of their talent and Lifespans.
• Gongsun Ban was astonished by Li Xingzhou's proposal but recognized its potential to advance the way of Human Weapons.

Li Xingzhou searched the Heavenly Prison for suitable candidates to refine into Human Weapons, then clashed with his grandfather, Li Xuanzong, over his craft and years of perceived favoritism toward his sister. Li Xuanzong left without striking him again, and Li Xingzhou vowed to prove himself as a pillar of the family.

• Li Xingzhou left Gongsun Ban after asking him to consider a radical new approach to artifact refining.
• Using Gongsun Ban's token, Li Xingzhou inspected Qi and Blood Realm prisoners in the Heavenly Prison but rejected the candidates he saw.
• Li Xingzhou praised a tall prisoner's physique as top-grade material, then realized the man was his grandfather, Li Xuanzong, who slapped him.
• Li Xuanzong scolded Li Xingzhou for pursuing Human Weapons, and Li Xingzhou defended the craft as a way to strengthen the family.
• Li Xingzhou accused Li Xuanzong of favoring his sister and disrespecting Gongsun Ban, then declared that he would prove his worth.
• Li Xuanzong left after telling Li Xingzhou to behave himself, and Li Xingzhou vowed to become a pillar of the family.

Gongsun Ban proposed establishing an independent organization to research Living Vessel crafting and Divine Soul transplantation, and Li Xuanyong secured the elders’ approval. Gongsun Ban went into prolonged seclusion under his old identity while he and Li Xingzhou appeared in the jianghu as the Rogue Cultivators Fengshan Ban and Fengshan Xingzhou.

• Gongsun Ban and Li Xingzhou found that First Elder Li Xuantong was in seclusion, so they presented their proposal to Third Elder Li Xuanyong instead.
• Li Xingzhou explained Living Vessel crafting and Divine Soul transplantation, and Li Xuanyong warned that discovery could bring the Li Family widespread condemnation.
• Gongsun Ban proposed forming an independent organization, with the Li Family secretly providing support while remaining publicly unconnected.
• Li Xuanyong convened the elders, who approved the plan after debating its risks and potential benefits.
• Li Xuanyong told Gongsun Ban to change his appearance, and Gongsun Ban accepted the condition.
• Gongsun Ban announced he was entering prolonged seclusion to study Artifact Refining, while he and Li Xingzhou appeared in the jianghu as Fengshan Ban and Fengshan Xingzhou.

The Blood Demon True Lord destroyed the Demonic Heart Sect and established the Snow Robe Demonic Cult, which rapidly grew into a major force in Tai Prefecture. Meanwhile, Yunxi reached Great Accomplishment in her Xuanzha technique, awakening a deep, freezing power that Li Xinge sensed from afar.

• The Blood Demon True Lord drained a failed envoy of his blood and ordered the Demonic Heart Sect destroyed.
• The Blood Demon True Lord led an assault that wiped out the Demonic Heart Sect and its more than one hundred thousand disciples.
• The Blood Demon True Lord founded the Snow Robe Demonic Cult as its Great Protector, and the cult quickly recruited Innate experts and expanded by absorbing or destroying demonic sects.
• Yunxi cultivated the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome until a spark of Taiyin Origin appeared within her, marking her Xuanzha technique's Great Accomplishment.
• Yunxi's awakened power froze the chamber, and Li Xinge sensed it from his stone chamber and opened his eyes.

After nearly two years in seclusion, Li Xinge met Yunxi, who had mastered the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome and could help him break through to the Divine Mansion Realm. He learned that the Wei Family had made peace and gifted him the Soul Stabilizing Divine Pearl, which raised his chances of breaking through by a tenth.

• Li Xinge emerged from seclusion and congratulated Yunxi on mastering the Taiyin Xuanzha Secret Tome, then told her to keep cultivating until he was ready to break through.
• Li Xinge summoned Li Xuantong and learned that Li Wuyou had gone out to gain experience, Yue Niang had reached the Innate Realm, and Li Xuanzong had reached the Middle Stage Innate Realm.
• Li Xuantong reported that Wei Yiren had survived and that the Wei Family had sent gifts to make peace while Li Xinge was in seclusion.
• Li Xinge accepted the Great Elder's decision to settle the feud and examined the Wei Family's gift list.
• Li Xuantong presented the Soul Stabilizing Divine Pearl, and Li Xinge revealed that it increased his chances of reaching the Divine Mansion Realm by a tenth.

Li Xinge sought Void Stone to prepare for his breakthrough to the Divine Mansion Realm, then learned that Venerable Jingkong had died. Venerable Jingkong had left the Lingxu Sect under Li Xinge’s protection and entrusted him with a mysterious ore that Li Xinge recognized as Void Stone.

• Li Xuantong told Li Xinge that the clan had gathered nearly all the materials for a Divine Mansion foundation but could not find Void Stone.
• Li Xinge went to the Lingxu Sect to visit Venerable Jingkong, but True Person Haoran told him that his master had died two months earlier.
• The chapter recounted how Venerable Jingkong died alone atop Lingxu Mountain after a long life of guarding the sect.
• Li Xinge bowed to Venerable Jingkong and promised True Person Haoran that he would look after the Lingxu Sect.
• True Person Haoran gave Li Xinge a jade box containing a spatial ore that Li Xinge recognized.

Li Xinge obtained the finest Void Stone from Venerable Jingkong’s legacy and prepared to break through to the Divine Mansion Realm. He arranged for a double to maintain his public presence, summoned Fairy Huanyue and Yunxi, and began his breakthrough in the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower.

• Li Xinge received the Void Stone from Venerable Jingkong’s legacy and promised to protect the Lingxu Sect, while True Person Haoran agreed to keep Venerable Jingkong’s death secret.
• Li Xinge returned to Green Maple Valley, told Li Xuantong he would enter seclusion, and arranged for a trained double to represent him.
• Li Xinge ordered Elder Jiang to bring Fairy Huanyue to him, threatening Illusionary Love Valley if she refused; Fairy Huanyue angrily rejected the summons.
• Qiu Ya told Yunxi that Li Xinge had summoned her, and Yunxi reacted with confusion, nervousness, and anticipation.
• Li Xinge entered the ninth floor of the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower with the Soul Stabilizing Divine Pearl and the materials for his Divine Mansion foundation, then began preparing to break through.

The Myriad Treasures Pavilion invited the Li Family to its Heavenly Treasure Auction in Chu Province, and the family chose Li Xuanzong to lead its delegation. Three months later, the delegation arrived in Tianbao City and drew attention as onlookers discussed the Li Family’s growing power.

• Steward Qian delivered the Li Family an invitation to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s Heavenly Treasure Auction, scheduled for three months later in Chu Province.
• Li Xuantong and Li Xuanyong decided that Li Xuanzong would lead the delegation because he had reached the Middle Stage Innate Realm.
• Li Xuantong explained that invited factions could pay for auctioned items after the auction, when the Myriad Treasures Pavilion delivered them.
• Li Xuanzong selected ten Qi and Blood Realm disciples to accompany him and Zhao Wujiu to Tianbao City.
• The Li Family delegation arrived at Tianbao City’s Guest Reception Platform, where onlookers recognized its green maple leaf crest and discussed the family’s reputation.

Li Xuanzong and the Li Family arrived in Tianbao City for the Heavenly Treasure Auction, where the Jiao Province Yan Clan’s First Elder sought an alliance with them. Li Xuanzong agreed to report the proposal to the Li Family Head, and the auction began three days later.

• Zhou Tong escorted Li Xuanzong, Zhao Wujiu, and the Li Family Disciples to Green Maple Court, where they settled in ahead of the auction.
• Li Xuanzong told Zhao Wujiu that he had sensed numerous powerful Innate Realm experts in Tianbao City.
• Yan Luyi visited Li Xuanzong and, after recognizing Zhao Wujiu’s formidable strength, greeted him respectfully.
• Yan Luyi proposed friendly ties between the Jiao Province Yan Clan and the Yang Province Li Clan, citing the threat of sea demon attacks.
• Li Xuanzong said the Li Family Head would decide whether to accept the proposal, and Yan Luyi later took his leave.
• Three days later, the Heavenly Treasure Auction began.