Recaps

Li Xuanzong and the Yang Province Li Clan attended the Myriad Treasures Pavilion's Heavenly Treasure Auction, where the arrival of Divine Mansion Realm expert Murong Qiu revealed the Pavilion's strength. The auction began with the Crimson Phoenix Fan selling for twenty-one thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and Liu Yun then unveiled a pill as the next lot.

• Li Xuanzong, Zhao Wujiu, and their companions arrived at Tianbao Hall and saw leading powers from across the provinces, including Wei Wuyang's party.
• Gongsun Zhi noticed Zhao Wujiu's Innately Great Perfection cultivation and concluded that the Yang Province Li Clan had another powerful expert.
• Steward Zhou Tong escorted Li Xuanzong's party to the Li Family's private box in Tianbao Hall.
• Murong Qiu introduced himself as the Myriad Treasures Pavilion's deputy Pavilion Master and opened the Heavenly Treasure Auction with his Divine Mansion Realm presence silencing the hall.
• Liu Yun presented the Quasi-Earth Tier Crimson Phoenix Fan, which the Xiang Province Gongsun Clan won with a bid of twenty-one thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Liu Yun unveiled the auction's next lot, a pill surrounded by spiritual light and purple qi.

At the Heavenly Treasure Auction, Li Xuanzong won the Extreme Cold Ice Flame for the Yang Province Li Clan, intending it to help the Great Elder advance. After the auction, a representative of the Chu Province Cui Clan threatened the Li Clan over the lost bid, and Li Xuanzong dismissed him.

• The Wei Family bought the Spirit Nurturing Pill for thirty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and the Qiong Province Si Clan bought the talented infant for twenty-five thousand.
• The auction offered rare treasures and cultivation methods while Li Xuanzong and Zhao Wujiu mostly watched from their private room.
• Li Xuanzong entered the bidding for the Extreme Cold Ice Flame and outbid the Chu Province Cui Clan at one hundred and thirty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Liu Yun announced that the Northern Jizhou Li Clan had bought an Earth Tier Intermediate Cultivation Method for two hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, then closed the auction.
• Manager Zhou Tong said the Myriad Treasures Pavilion would deliver the Extreme Cold Ice Flame to Green Maple Valley within a month and collect payment then.
• The red-robed representative of the Chu Province Cui Clan threatened Li Xuanzong, who retorted that the highest bidder had won and sent him away.

Li Xuanzong returned to Green Maple Valley with the Extreme Cold Ice Flame, and the Li Family received the Myriad Treasures Pavilion elder Jin Wuqian to complete the auction delivery. As Jin Wuqian asked about the family head, an overwhelming pressure erupted from the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower.

• Li Xuanzong reported to Li Xuantong that he had bought the Extreme Cold Ice Flame for 130,000 Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and they discussed the expense and the risk of offending the Chu Province Cui Clan.
• Li Xuantong and Li Xuanzong agreed to wait for the family head to emerge from seclusion before deciding how to handle the Jiao Province Yan Clan.
• Jin Wuqian arrived at Green Maple Valley with the auction treasures, and he was impressed by the Li Family's Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower.
• Jin Wuqian opened the Mystic Ice jade box and showed Li Xuantong the Extreme Cold Ice Flame, while Li Xuanyong went to the family vault with Du Ming to hand over the spirit stones.
• Jin Wuqian asked why the family head was absent, and a vast pressure suddenly erupted from the top of the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower, shaking everyone in the valley.

Li Xinge attempted to break through to the Divine Mansion Realm as extraordinary phenomena gathered over Green Maple Valley. His Divine Mansion World expanded past a thousand li, while powerful cultivators across the provinces sensed the breakthrough and debated what it meant.

• Jin Wuqian recognized the purple qi as a Divine Mansion Realm breakthrough, and Li Xuantong confirmed that Li Xinge was attempting it.
• The energies of heaven and earth from every direction were drawn into the tower's vortex to form Li Xinge's Divine Mansion World.
• Powerful cultivators across several provinces sensed the phenomena, identified Li Xinge as the one breaking through, and two elders argued over his conflict with a junior.
• An old man in Wu Province awoke from his doze and praised the remarkable purple qi.
• Li Xinge watched his inner world expand beyond a thousand li as phantom suns, moons, and stars appeared and earth-vein qi surged into Green Maple Valley.
• Jin Wuqian was stunned as the Sun and Moon Shine Together and the earth veins came to pay homage, completing three supreme phenomena.

Li Xinge expanded his Divine Mansion World to an unprecedented three thousand li, triggering a formidable Divine Mansion Tribulation. He survived the first seven bolts but was pushed to his limits by the eighth, while a gigantic eye watched from above.

• Li Xinge used the great spirit vein in the Void Ring to expand his Divine Mansion World to three thousand li.
• Celestial signs flooded into Li Xinge's newly formed Divine Mansion, and its pressure overwhelmed those nearby.
• The sky darkened as the Divine Mansion Tribulation began, and Li Xinge resolved to face it.
• Li Xinge endured the first six lightning bolts with his body, then used the Void Cutter Sword to defeat the seventh Thunder Dragon.
• Li Xinge fought the eighth bolt's storm of divine weapons with sword light, but his spiritual power dwindled as a gigantic eye appeared above him.

Li Xinge survived the weapon tribulation when a mysterious bloodline phantom froze time and destroyed the Heavenly Dao, then completed his Divine Mansion breakthrough. He declared the Yang Province Li Family an Immortal Clan of the Divine Mansion Realm and invited powerful clans to a grand ancestral sacrifice three months later.

• Li Xinge refused to spend eighty percent of his fortune to dispel the weapon tribulation, and a majestic phantom emerged from his bloodline.
• The phantom stopped time, shattered the Eye of the Heavenly Dao with a word, and vanished as the ancient coffin tried to follow it.
• The tribulation dissipated, and Li Xinge completed a three-thousand-li Divine Mansion, ascending to the Divine Mansion Realm.
• Li Xinge proclaimed the Yang Province Li Family an Immortal Clan, and his clansmen cheered while powerful clans and sects sent congratulations.
• Li Xinge invited the gathered powers to an ancestral sacrifice in three months and instructed the Grand Elder to prepare for the guests.

Li Xinge’s unprecedented advancement to the Divine Mansion Realm made rulers and great clans fear his growing power. The Great Zhou Emperor chose not to assassinate him, Eastern Ridge decided to wait for an opportunity, and the Cui Clan punished an elder who had provoked the Li Family.

• The Great Zhou Emperor considered sending an old eunuch to kill Li Xinge but abandoned the plan to avoid risking war with the great clans and the state’s stability.
• Eastern Ridge King Xiong Li lamented that Li Xinge’s power threatened his ambition to restore his kingdom, while Great Priest Wu Huo urged him to wait for Li Xinge’s enemies to act.
• Cui Mingyan reprimanded Cui Zhonglie for threatening Li Xuanzong over the Extreme Cold Ice Flame at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion auction.
• Cui Mingyan knocked Cui Zhonglie down, stripped him of his clan elder position, and confined him at home after explaining that Li Xinge had opened a thousand-mile Divine Mansion.

After Li Xinge’s breakthrough to the Divine Mansion Realm, the Li Family qualified for Level 4 and received a wealth of rewards, including a World Tree Sapling and powerful techniques. Li Xinge planted the sapling in his Divine Mansion World and considered which family member should receive a pill that could aid a Divine Mansion breakthrough.

• Li Xinge accepted the promotion, and the system raised the Li Family to Level 4, granting it new items, buffs, features, and talented clan members.
• The system explained that the World Tree could help Li Xinge’s Divine Mansion World evolve into a true great world and sustain him as long as it endured.
• Li Xinge planted the World Tree Sapling at the center of his Divine Mansion World, where it took root and began producing spiritual energy.
• Li Xinge stored the advanced cultivation technique and martial skill in the Clan Martial Pavilion, noting that most family members were not yet ready to use them.
• Li Xinge considered giving the Taiyi Spirit Nurturing Pill to Zhao Wujiu, but decided the precious pill should be reserved for a Li Family member.

Blood Demon True Lord ordered the Snow Robe Demonic Cult to subdue the Nine Extremes Demonic Sect, whose leaders rejected his demand but prepared for the threat. The cult’s rapid assault captured the sect’s outer territory and reached the foot of the Nine Yin Mountain Range.

• Blood Demon True Lord ordered Li Xingtian to make the Nine Extremes Demonic Sect submit within one month.
• The Snow Robe Demonic Cult’s envoy demanded that Situ Sha and the Nine Extremes Demonic Sect submit, but Situ Sha refused and threatened to fight.
• The Great Elder warned Situ Sha that Blood Demon True Lord’s power might be formidable, while another figure appeared in the hall and drew everyone’s attention.
• The Snow Robe Demonic Cult declared war and quickly destroyed several allied devil sects of the Nine Extremes Demonic Sect.
• The Nine Extremes Demonic Sect’s remaining allies switched sides, and within half a month the Snow Robe Demonic Cult seized its territory beyond the Nine Yin Mountain Range and reached its foot.

The Snow Robe Demonic Cult attacked the Nine Extremes Demonic Sect, but Situ Sha’s formation held until Blood Demon True Lord arrived and broke it with one strike. As the invaders poured into the sect, Ten Thousand Poisons Granny and three other Innate experts revealed themselves to ambush Blood Demon True Lord, while Li Xinge sensed something from far away.

• Li Xingtian led the Snow Robe Demonic Cult against the Nine Extremes Demonic Sect, and Situ Sha activated the mountain formation to repel their attacks.
• Blood Demon True Lord arrived and broke the formation by striking one of its hidden nodes with a finger.
• Li Xingtian led the Snow Robe Demonic Cult into the mountain gate as the sect’s elders struggled against the attackers’ greater numbers.
• Situ Sha called out the ambush, and Ten Thousand Poisons Granny and three other Innate experts joined him and the Great Elder in surrounding Blood Demon True Lord.
• Li Xinge raised his head while fishing in Green Maple Valley’s rear mountains and looked toward the horizon.

Li Xingtian chose to stay and help Blood Demon True Lord fight the Nine Demon Palace experts, but the True Lord was overwhelmed by Ten Thousand Poisons Granny’s unleashed power. Just as he prepared to face her deadly attack, an immense pressure descended over the Nine Yin Mountain Range.

• Li Xingtian overcame his fear and charged to Blood Demon True Lord’s aid, where Situ Sha intercepted him.
• Blood Demon True Lord used the Burning Blood Scripture and his Heaven-ranked butterfly knife to kill one of the Late-stage Innate Realm attackers.
• Ten Thousand Poisons Granny’s poisonous serpent swallowed Blood Demon True Lord, but he burst out and dispersed it with his Qi-Blood.
• Ten Thousand Poisons Granny activated her Ten Thousand Poisons Demonic Body and launched Ten Thousand Poisons Corrupting Heaven at Blood Demon True Lord.
• As Blood Demon True Lord braced for the attack, a vast pressure suddenly enveloped the Nine Yin Mountain Range.

Blood Demon True Lord's jade bracelet summoned a Divine Soul incarnation, revealed as the Snow Robe Demon Venerable, who destroyed Ten Thousand Poisons Granny and four other Nine Demon Palace enemies. After the incarnation vanished, Blood Demon True Lord appointed Li Xingtian Left Protector and ordered him to eliminate the Nine Extremes Demonic Sect's remaining forces.

• Blood Demon True Lord's jade bracelet released a Divine Mansion incarnation, and Ten Thousand Poisons Granny and the others realized they faced a Divine Mansion Venerable.
• The incarnation declared that no one could bully Blood Demon True Lord and rejected the enemies' pleas for mercy.
• Ten Thousand Poisons Granny and four others fled in different directions, but the incarnation froze them and destroyed their bodies, absorbing their escaping Divine Souls.
• The incarnation struck Blood Demon True Lord, reminded him to return home for the grand ceremony, and faded away with the jade bracelet.
• Blood Demon True Lord told Li Xingtian that the incarnation was the Snow Robe Demon Venerable, Holy Cult Master of the Snowy Robe Sacred Cult.
• Blood Demon True Lord appointed Li Xingtian Left Protector and ordered him to wipe out the Nine Extremes Demonic Sect's remaining forces in southeast Taizhou.

Li Xingtian’s forces annihilated the Nine Extremes Demonic Sect, while the Blood Demon True Lord absorbed the dead’s Qi and Blood power and resolved to return home in two years. At Green Maple Valley, Li Xinge’s rise to the Divine Mansion Realm spurred preparations for the Li Family’s grand ancestral ceremony, and his new Spiritual Plant Affinity began transforming the family’s lands.

• Li Xingtian led the slaughter of the Nine Extremes Demonic Sect, and the Blood Demon True Lord absorbed the sect’s Qi and Blood power before saying he would return home in two years.
• Li Xinge caught a mermaid from the Wei Family’s group of ten in his lake, fed her spirit fruit, and sent her back to warn her companions.
• Li Xinge told Elder Jiang that he had crushed a few ants, then returned with him to Green Maple Valley.
• Li Xuantong oversaw preparations for the Li Family’s grand ancestral ceremony, including expanding the ancestral hall, building guest estates, and sending Zhao Wujiu to hunt Innate Great Demons.
• Li Xinge’s Spiritual Plant Affinity spread vitality across Li Family territory, and the spiritual plant masters in East County felt the soil grow richer and its spiritual energy purer.

Li Jie discovered that spirit plants across the Li Family’s fields had grown faster and become more potent overnight. Li Yanxiu explained that the changes were blessings from the rising fortune of the Li Family after its family head reached the Divine Mansion Realm.

• Li Jie found that the Green Origin Grass in his fields had grown unusually quickly and gained richer spiritual energy.
• Li Xingyang inspected the fields and learned that other spirit plants had also grown or bloomed ahead of schedule.
• Li Xingyang ordered Li Qinghe and Li Shengyang to carefully guard the orchards reserved for the Ancestor Worship Ceremony before leaving to consult his master.
• Li Yanxiu attributed the sudden growth to the Li Family’s rising fortune following its family head’s advancement to the Divine Mansion Realm.
• Li Xingyang agreed that the flourishing spirit plants and the emergence of talented youths showed the Li Family was prospering.
• News from the Family Spirit Beast Garden soon provided further confirmation of Li Yanxiu’s theory.

As the Li Family's Ancestor-Worship Ceremony approached, several powerful clans considered how to respond to Li Xinge's rise and chose to seek better relations with the Li Family. Gongsun Yan and Wei Pingsheng planned to attend in person, while the Cui Clan prepared a valuable gift and delegation; other clans also began making arrangements.

• Gongsun Yan told Gongsun Boming he would attend the ceremony and bring the Nine-leaf Phoenix Ginseng after revealing that Li Xinge had opened a thousand-li Divine Mansion, like the Great Zhou Founder.
• Wei Pingsheng asked Wei Yiren whether he still hated the Li Family, and Wei Yiren said the Wei Clan must not make an enemy of the powerful figure who had wounded him.
• Wei Pingsheng decided to accompany Wei Yiren to the Li Family's Ancestor-Worship Ceremony.
• Cui Mingjue persuaded Cui Mingyan that the Cui Clan's ancestor had left the decision to him, and Cui Mingyan ordered the clan to attend with the Ten-thousand-year Blood Coral.
• The Yan Clan's ancestor decided to attend the ceremony in person with a congratulatory gift.

As the Li Family's ancestral worship ceremony approached, Li Xinge welcomed powerful guests from across the provinces, including several Divine Mansion Great Experts. At a banquet, Gongsun Yan proposed dividing up Tai Prefecture, but Li Xinge refused, and the ceremony began the next day.

• Li Xinge personally welcomed the Fu Family and received Fu Yu in recognition of his past kindness, while Li Xuantong hosted other arriving guests.
• Yun Bugui arrived on behalf of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, followed by Hundred Flowers Valley's deputy valley master with rare spirit plants.
• Gongsun Yan arrived by tearing open the void, and Li Xinge welcomed him; other Divine Mansion Great Experts soon gathered in Baihe County.
• At a banquet, Gongsun Yan proposed that the gathered powers join forces to destroy Tai Prefecture's Demon Dao and divide the territory.
• Yan Daoyi and Wei Pingsheng declined the proposal, Qu Tianwu supported it, and Li Xinge refused, citing Yang Province's need for peace.
• The Li Family's ancestral worship ceremony officially began the next day.

Li Xinge presided over a grand ancestor-worship ceremony celebrating the Li Family’s rise to a Divine Mansion Immortal Clan. After the rites, the family’s destiny appeared as a dragon above the ancestral hall, impressing the gathered guests.

• Li Xinge appeared in ceremonial robes and began the ancestor-worship ceremony before the Li Family clansmen and assembled guests.
• Li Xinge and the clan’s descendants offered incense, wine, and three Innate Great Demons as sacrifices to their ancestors.
• Li Xuantong read the sacrificial text, recounting the Li Family’s history, recent rise, and duties as an Immortal Clan.
• The Li Family clansmen bowed and prayed for their ancestors’ blessings as the ceremony concluded.
• A Destiny Dragon manifested above the ancestral hall, and Gongsun Yan and the other Divine Mansion Realm experts recognized it as a sign of the Li Family’s flourishing future.

After the Li Family’s successful ancestral ceremony, Li Xinge praised Li Xuantong and summoned Li Wuyou, the Blood Demon True Lord, to reprimand her for risking her life in Tai Prefecture. He revealed that rival clans were eyeing the region and said her Snowy Robe Sacred Cult had helped his plans.

• Li Xinge thanked the guests after the ancestral ceremony, and the Li Family hosted a day-long banquet in Purple Extreme Hall.
• Li Xinge and Li Xuantong celebrated the family’s rising prestige, and Li Xuantong said he would refine the Extreme Cold Ice Flame in seclusion.
• Li Xinge summoned Li Wuyou and scolded her for secretly going to Tai Prefecture, where two Nine Demon Palace cultivators had nearly killed her.
• Li Xinge told Li Wuyou that Gongsun Yan had proposed joining the Qu Clan to destroy Tai Prefecture’s Demonic Path and divide the territory, but he had refused.
• Li Wuyou declared that Tai Prefecture belonged to the Li Family, and Li Xinge said he had plans for the region and that her Snowy Robe Sacred Cult had helped him.

Li Xinge arranged for Lingxu Sect and Yang Province’s great families to petition the court to appoint him Governor after Venerable Jingkong’s death was announced. The emperor withheld the petition, and Li Xinge hinted that he would respond with force.

• Li Xinge told Cui Haoran to announce Venerable Jingkong’s death and have Lingxu Sect lead Yang Province’s great families in petitioning the court to appoint him Governor.
• Cui Haoran agreed, and Li Xinge promised to protect Lingxu Sect as the province’s foremost sect.
• Lingxu Sect announced Jingkong’s passing, then Cui Haoran and Yang Province’s major families and sects signed a joint petition nominating Li Xinge as Governor.
• The Great Zhou emperor angrily read the petition but ordered it kept in the palace without being issued.
• Li Xinge dismissed the emperor’s maneuver as an attempt to preserve dignity and warned that he would act if the emperor refused to show him respect.

Li Xinge retaliated against the Emperor for shelving Yang Province’s petition by mobilizing public opinion, disrupting river trade, and uniting the southern clans against the court. Facing mounting pressure from the south and north, the Emperor drafted an edict, and its envoys arrived in Wu Commandery to a vast public welcome.

• Li Xinge ordered Elder Jiang to spread copies of the petition, impose new river transport taxes, and urge the other southern provinces to unite and withhold their tributes if the court continued ignoring Yang Province.
• The Gongsun Clan and other southern clans submitted memorials supporting Li Xinge’s appointment, while northern clans also complained about the increased trade costs.
• The Emperor recognized that the united pressure could shake the state and ordered an edict drafted to end the standoff.
• An imperial delegation carrying the edict traveled south without obstruction and arrived in Wu Commandery, where crowds filled the streets to welcome it.

Li Xinge welcomed Prince Cheng and the imperial delegation to Wu Commandery, where Prince Cheng delivered the emperor’s decree appointing him Governor of Yang Province and Marquis of Baihe County. Li Xinge accepted the appointment and was acclaimed as the province’s ruler.

• Li Xinge led Yang Province’s officials, clans, and troops outside Wu Commandery to welcome the imperial envoy.
• Prince Cheng arrived with Wei Zhongxian, four Late-stage Innate attendants, Imperial Guards, and a flood dragon carriage, then greeted Li Xinge warmly.
• At a banquet in the Governor’s Mansion, Prince Cheng announced that he had come to conduct imperial business and read the emperor’s decree.
• The decree promoted Li Xinge to Grand Master of the Household, appointed him Envoy bearing a Ceremonial Axe and Governor of Yang Province, and enfeoffed him as Marquis of Baihe County.
• Li Xinge accepted the decree, pledged to serve the emperor, and received the assembled officials’ acclaim as State Governor.

Li Xinge reflected on his rise to power and his ambition for the Li Family to rule the realm. When Prince Cheng pressed him over Yang Province’s levies and unpaid taxes, Li Xinge secured a ten-year reprieve while promising to continue the annual tribute.

• Li Xinge recalled arriving in Ascending Dragon Prefecture twelve years earlier and vowed that his family might one day rule the realm.
• Prince Cheng asked Li Xinge to end Yang Province’s bandit suppression tax, and Li Xinge ordered Qi Zheng to stop collecting it immediately.
• Prince Cheng raised Yang Province’s centuries of unpaid taxes, and Li Xinge argued that war and poverty made repayment impossible.
• Li Xinge prompted the commandery prefects to describe their hardships, and Prince Cheng agreed to forgive the old arrears and give Yang Province ten years to recover.
• Prince Cheng insisted that annual tribute continue, and Li Xinge promised Yang Province would send this year’s tribute to Shenjing on time.

Li Xinge took control of Yang Province, reshaped its official ranks, and abolished the Governor-General post. Three months later, Li Xuantong emerged from seclusion after refining the Extreme Cold Ice Flame, and Li Xinge gave him a spirit-bearing Fire Phoenix Fan to strengthen the Li Family.

• Li Xinge entered Governor's Mansion and took the Governor's throne as the officials of Yang Province pledged their allegiance.
• Li Xinge promoted Fu Yu, Wang Tianming, Zheng Cangfeng, and other loyalists, then abolished the Governor-General post.
• Li Xuantong completed his seclusion, refined the Extreme Cold Ice Flame, and reached the Late-stage Innate Realm.
• Li Xinge presented Li Xuantong with the mid-grade Earth-rank Fire Phoenix Fan, and Li Xuantong accepted it.

Li Xuantong proposed a family-wide competition to uncover talent and unite the expanding Li Family, and Li Xinge approved it for the following year. Li Xinge also promised to help Zhao Wujiu reach the Divine Mansion Realm, and Zhao Wujiu entered seclusion to attempt the breakthrough.

• Li Xuantong proposed holding the Li Clan Grand Competition at Green Maple Valley a year later, open to Li Family members under thirty and featuring cultivation and Hundred Arts assessments.
• Li Xinge approved the competition, assigned Li Xuantong to oversee it, and ordered fair rules and rewards to be prepared.
• Fifth Elder Li Yanzhao formed his core and advanced to the Innate Realm.
• Li Xinge told Zhao Wujiu he would fulfill his promise by providing foundation-forging materials and seven days of instruction to help him enter the Divine Mansion Realm.
• Seven days later, Zhao Wujiu entered seclusion to attempt his breakthrough.

Li Xingyue returned to the Li Family after hunting a demonic cultivator and reflected on the coming grand competition. The story then shifted to Stone County, where a young boy’s hunt for a Black-Maned Demonic Pig went wrong and he fled into the forest.

• Li Xingyue returned to Green Maple Valley carrying a demonic cultivator’s severed head, and the guards discussed his talent and prospects in the grand competition.
• Li Xingyue thought of the Li Family competition and promised his ancestors he would not let them down.
• In Stone County, a young boy hid in a tree and shot a bone arrow at a Black-Maned Demonic Pig.
• The wounded pig charged, smashed the tree, and forced the boy to dodge its attacks.
• The boy fled through the forest as the pig pursued him, destroying trees in its path.