Recaps

Little Stone killed a demon boar and found a mysterious Glass Ball inside it, then returned home to discover his mother had been robbed and threatened. He learned that his father had sent him cultivation resources, but his father's wife’s people had taken them and warned them to leave East County.

• Little Stone lured the demon boar into a boulder, wounded it, and waited for it to bleed to death.
• While butchering the boar, Little Stone found a crystal-clear Glass Ball inside its belly and pocketed it.
• Little Stone hid the remaining carcass in a cave and returned home, where he found his mother crying in their wrecked yard.
• Little Stone grabbed his dagger and tried to go after the woman responsible, but his mother stopped him and pleaded with him to stay.
• Little Stone's mother explained that Li Nanfeng had sent fifty gold pieces and cultivation resources, which the other woman’s people had taken before smashing the yard and threatening to drive them out of East County.
• Little Stone was revealed to be Li Nanfeng’s son by a concubine, from the Shi County Li Family, formerly known as the Xiao Min Mountain Li Clan.

After his stepmother drove him and his mother from the Li Family, Little Stone met a remnant soul inside the Glass Ball and learned to build a Spirit Gathering Array. He woke after a night of unusually fruitful cultivation just as his cousin called him to see visitors arriving from the Ancestral Land.

• Little Stone lamented his weakness beneath a tree and examined the Glass Ball he had found inside a demon boar.
• The remnant soul revealed itself as the Glass Ball’s occupant, sensed Little Stone had an unusual bloodline, and offered to teach him.
• Little Stone refused to become the remnant soul’s disciple immediately but agreed to learn a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Following the remnant soul’s instructions, Little Stone carved array patterns into the tree and gathered moonlight and spiritual energy.
• Little Stone cultivated through the night and found his progress far faster than usual, but the remnant soul had fallen silent by dawn.
• Little Stone returned to bed when his cousin called, saying visitors from the Ancestral Land were coming.

Li Qingshi went to the Stone County Li Family grounds with Li Qingwu to see visitors from Green Maple Valley, the Ancestral Land. After Li Qinglin defended him from Li Qingyu’s insults, a piercing cry sounded in the sky as the visitors’ arrival approached.

• Li Qingwu told Li Qingshi that visitors from the Ancestral Land were expected, and Li Qingshi left home with him despite his mother’s concern.
• Li Qingshi and Li Qingwu joined the clansmen gathering at the Li Family grounds, where Li Nanfeng and the elders waited for the visitors.
• Li Qingyu mocked Li Qingshi’s birth and his mother, and Li Qingwu tried to stop the insult.
• Li Qinglin slapped Li Qingyu, defended Li Qingshi as his younger brother, and told him to hold his head up before the visitors.
• A piercing cry rang out high in the sky.

Li Yanping arrived at the Stone County Li Family with an edict announcing the first Li Family Grand Clan Competition. Little Stone realized the competition could change his and his mother's circumstances, while the remnant soul promised to help him reach the Divine Mansion Realm.

• Li Yanping arrived on a Green Feathered Scale Eagle and introduced himself as the Ancestral Land's Internal Affairs Hall steward.
• The remnant soul assessed the Ancestral Land visitors' strength, mocked Little Stone for being untrained, then promised to help him achieve a Divine Mansion.
• Li Nanfeng and the clan welcomed Li Yanping, who read the edict announcing the Li Family Grand Clan Competition and its rewards for the Combat Arts and Hundred Arts rankings.
• The edict said that descendants under thirty could compete and that their results could affect their Branch Families' status and resources.
• Little Stone saw the competition as an opportunity to improve life for himself and his mother.

Li Yanping delivered the Ancestral Land's decree announcing a clan competition and praised Li Qinglin's talent after learning he was Li Yanfeng's nephew. After the envoys departed, Little Stone resolved to compete alongside Li Qingwu, and Li Qinglin left him money and Body Tempering Pills to help him cultivate.

• Li Yanping met with Li Nanfeng and the elders, then admired Li Qinglin's cultivation and warmed to him after hearing about his maternal uncle, Li Yanfeng.
• Li Yanping gave Li Qinglin a bottle of Body Tempering Pills and warned Li Nanfeng to select competitors fairly, regardless of family background.
• Li Yanping discussed the competition arrangements and departed for another Branch Family, leaving the Stone County juniors excited about their chance to compete.
• Little Stone felt discouraged as clan members praised Li Qinglin, but Li Qingwu encouraged him to trust his talent and work toward a good ranking.
• Li Qinglin gave Little Stone a pouch containing gold ingots and half a bottle of Body Tempering Pills, telling him to cultivate properly for the competition.

Little Stone accepted Li Qinglin’s gold and Body Tempering Pills and resolved to cultivate harder, while Li Qinglin confronted his parents over his mother’s efforts to suppress his younger half-brother. The chapter ended with Li Qinglan relenting and allowing Li Qinglin to choose his own path.

• Little Stone took the gold and pills Li Qinglin had given him, then decided to return home instead of going to Fragrant Pavilion.
• Li Qinglan accused Li Nanfeng of betraying her and objected to his earlier plan to let Li Qingshi and Li Qinglin compete fairly to inherit the family head position.
• Li Qinglan insisted that her elder brother’s support would protect Li Qinglin and warned Li Nanfeng not to let Li Qingshi stand in her son’s way.
• Li Qinglin entered and rebuked his mother for using underhanded means against Li Qingshi, arguing that the brothers should support each other and that strength mattered more than family status.
• Li Qinglan lowered her hand, accepted that Li Qinglin had grown up, and told him to walk his own road.

Little Stone accepted Sage Xuanji as his master and began studying formations to prepare for the Ancestral Land competition a year away. After a month of training and advancing to Minor Accomplishment in Body Cultivation, he headed into the mountains to build a Spirit Gathering Array, where dark clouds suddenly gathered.

• Little Stone swallowed a Body Tempering Pill and asked Sage Xuanji how far he could advance before the competition.
• Sage Xuanji promised to help Little Stone reach the Qi and Blood Realm within a year and asked him to become his disciple.
• Little Stone accepted Sage Xuanji as his master and began learning formations.
• Li Nanfeng offered to bring Little Stone and his mother back to the clan, but Little Stone refused and accepted the cultivation resources his father sent.
• With Sage Xuanji's guidance and the resources, Little Stone advanced to Minor Accomplishment in Body Cultivation and went into the mountains to set up a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Dark clouds gathered over the mountains as Little Stone arrived.

Little Stone and the Li Family watched the Qinghe Dragon Lord undergo a three-day Divine Mansion Tribulation, which he survived to become the Qinghe Dragon King. After revealing his immense power, the Dragon King expected his child to be born soon.

• Little Stone fled the mountains after Sage Xuanji warned him that a great demon was undergoing a Divine Mansion Tribulation.
• Li Xinge identified the tribulation as the Qinghe Dragon Lord's, and he ordered the bordering counties to strengthen their defenses without panicking.
• The tribulation lasted three days, and Sage Xuanji told Little Stone that the demon had probably survived its final lightning strike.
• The Qinghe Dragon Lord rose from the devastated pool as the Qinghe Dragon King and transformed into a thousand-zhang dragon.
• The Qinghe Dragon King roared, forcing beasts to submit and harming people near the mountains, then said his dragon child should be born soon.

After emerging from seclusion, Qinghe Dragon King discovered that his Dragon Son had vanished and learned that Chiyan Demonic Bear had fallen asleep while guarding him. Suspecting humans had stolen the Dragon Son, Qinghe Dragon King ordered the demons of the Qinghe Mountain Range to search for him and prepare to invade the human world.

• Qinghe Dragon King found the Dragon Son’s cave empty and killed Chiyan Demonic Bear after it confessed to sleeping on guard for about ten years.
• Qinghe Dragon King ordered the demons to search the Qinghe Mountain Range, but after three days they found no trace of the Dragon Son.
• Fire Winged Tiger Lord reported the failed search, and Qinghe Dragon King struck him into a cliff.
• A gray-furred demon fox reported smelling human traces at the Dragon Son’s hatching ground and suggested that a human had stolen him.
• Qinghe Dragon King revealed his thousand-zhang flood-dragon form and ordered the demons to gather, search for the Dragon Son, and bloodwash the Human Race.

The Qinghe Demon King gathered the demon hordes to unleash a Demonic Tide, and the Li Family mobilized to stop them. Little Stone tried to flee Stone County with his mother, but a Wind Chasing Leopard attacked them before they could reach safety.

• The Demon Lords answered the Dragon King's Decree and gathered demon beasts across the Qinghe Mountain Range.
• Li Xinge ordered the Li Family's elite to block the demons, and the Great Elder rallied the clan to march for the mountains.
• Li Xingyue, Li Xingzong, Li Wu, and Li Qiyu set out aboard spirit boats with the Li Family forces.
• Sage Xuanji sensed the approaching Demonic Chaos and urged Little Stone to take his mother to Stone County's County Town.
• Little Stone carried his mother toward the County Town, but a Wind Chasing Leopard ambushed them, forcing him to draw his blade.

Little Stone and Li Qinglin fought off a Wind Chasing Leopard, then were overwhelmed by a wolf pack led by a Great Qi and Blood Demonic Beast. Li Xingzong rescued them and treated Li Qinglin before vanishing into the forest.

• Little Stone wounded the Wind Chasing Leopard but was badly injured, and Li Qinglin arrived to protect him and their mother.
• Li Qinglin killed the leopard with the Shi County Li Family's Profound Light Chasing Wind Sword and carried Little Stone toward County Town.
• A pack of Demonic Wolves attacked the brothers, and its Qi and Blood Realm wolf king struck Li Qinglin down.
• Li Xingzong killed the wolf king and scattered the pack with arrows formed from his Qi and Blood power.
• Li Xingzong examined Li Qinglin's injuries, gave him a pill, and identified himself as Li Xingzong before leaving.

Little Stone learned that Li Xingzong had reached Half-step Innate at a young age, and Sage Xuanji encouraged him to catch up through the clan competition. Meanwhile, the Li Family fought the Qinghe Mountain Range’s demon army, with Li Xuantong and the family’s cultivators battling the Demon Lords as the ground forces clashed below.

• Little Stone heard from Sage Xuanji that Li Xingzong was at Half-step Innate, then regained hope when his master said his bloodline and talent gave him a chance to catch up.
• Li Xuantong confronted the Green-Eyed Snake Lord at the Qinghe Mountain Range’s border and struck it with the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame.
• Li Xuantong wielded both the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame and the Extreme Cold Ice Flame as he fought the Green-Eyed Snake Lord in the sky.
• Li Xuanzong activated his Savage God Body and held off three Middle Stage Innate Demon Lords while the other Li Family cultivators fought their opponents.
• The Li Family’s Cloud Boats bombarded the demon horde before their disciples formed Battle Formations and joined the bloody melee.
• The Wolf King and Wolf Queen declared themselves the Li Family’s most loyal dogs as they fought three Demon Lords who called them traitors.

Li Xuantong used the Fire Phoenix Fan to turn the battle against Green-Eyed Snake Lord and severely wound him. As Green-Eyed Snake Lord fled from the phoenix phantom and begged the Dragon King for help, a terrifying presence stirred deep within the Qinghe Mountain Range.

• Green-Eyed Snake Lord released his Demonic Core and battered Li Xuantong with dark green beams, leaving him wounded and struggling to defend himself.
• Li Xuantong summoned the Fire Phoenix Fan, whose phoenix phantom unleashed a sea of flames that pierced Green-Eyed Snake Lord’s barriers and gravely burned him.
• Li Xuantong’s attack lifted the Li Family’s morale, while the Demon Race faltered and Li Xuantong smashed half of one Demon Lord’s body.
• Innate Realm cultivators from Qingshan Prefecture and Yueya Prefecture arrived as Li Xuantong struck again and sent the phoenix phantom after Green-Eyed Snake Lord.
• Green-Eyed Snake Lord fled from the phoenix phantom and cried for the Dragon King to save him, awakening a terrifying presence deep in the Qinghe Mountain Range.

The Qinghe Dragon King intervened in the battle and threatened Li Xuantong, but Li Xinge arrived to defend the Li Family and challenged the dragon to fight beyond the heavens. With the Divine Mansion experts gone, the fighting continued below, where Li Xingyue sought out stronger opponents after easily killing three demonic bears.

• The Qinghe Dragon King saved the Green-Eyed Snake Lord and ordered Li Xuantong to stand aside, but Li Xuantong refused to let the Demon Race invade Li Family territory.
• Li Xinge appeared and stopped the Dragon King's attack, then accepted its challenge and drew it into battle high above the battlefield.
• Li Xuantong rallied the Li Family to drive back the demonic beasts as reinforcements arrived and the battle resumed.
• Li Xingzong killed a Qi and Blood Great Accomplishment demonic boar with his hammer.
• Li Xingyue slew three demonic bears in succession and charged deeper into the battlefield to find stronger opponents.

Li Xinge easily overpowered the Qinghe Dragon King in their clash above the Nine Heavens, revealing strength that stunned both humans and demons. After the battered Dragon King rose from the crater, it brought out its Dragon Pearl, and the confrontation continued.

• The Qinghe Dragon King attacked Li Xinge with a Dragon Roar and a devastating tail sweep, but Li Xinge blocked both without difficulty.
• Li Xinge seized the Qinghe Dragon King's tail with a giant spiritual-energy hand and slammed it into the earth, devastating the surrounding mountains and forests.
• Li Xuantong and the human experts marveled at Li Xinge's strength, while the Green-Eyed Snake Lord and other Demon Lords lost heart.
• The battered Qinghe Dragon King rose from the crater, swore to avenge its humiliation, and summoned its Dragon Pearl.

Li Xinge defeated Qinghe Dragon King by unleashing his immense Three-Thousand-Li Divine Mansion World, then took the Dragon Pearl and ended the Demonic Chaos. He revealed that Qinghe Dragon King’s son, Chixiao, had been living with him, but Chixiao chose to stay at Li Xinge’s side.

• Qinghe Dragon King unleashed the Dragon Pearl and sent countless water dragons at Li Xinge, who swallowed them with his vast Divine Mansion World.
• Li Xinge struck Qinghe Dragon King down, seized the Dragon Pearl, and routed the demonic beast army and Demon Lords.
• Qinghe Dragon King refused to yield, but Li Xinge said he had no intention of enslaving or killing him.
• Li Xinge revealed Chixiao, whom he had raised for several years, and Qinghe Dragon King recognized him as his son.
• Qinghe Dragon King asked Chixiao to return with him, but Chixiao chose Li Xinge and sprayed water over his angry father.

Li Xinge persuaded the Qinghe Dragon King to leave Chixiao in his care, promising to help the young dragon reach the Divine Mansion Realm within a hundred years. Before returning to the Underwater Dragon Palace, the Dragon King arranged for Green-Eyed Snake Lord and Fire Winged Tiger Lord to serve the Li Family.

• Li Xinge pointed out Chixiao's Middle Stage Innate Realm cultivation, and the Qinghe Dragon King agreed to leave his son with him for a hundred years after Li promised Chixiao would reach the Divine Mansion Realm.
• The Qinghe Dragon King revealed that Chixiao's mother was the Eldest Princess of the Underwater Dragon Palace, then agreed to give Green-Eyed Snake Lord to the Li Family as its guardian spirit beast.
• The Qinghe Dragon King seized Green-Eyed Snake Lord as he tried to flee, made him guard the Li Family's mountain gate, and handed Li Xinge the snake's Demonic Core as a means of control.
• The Qinghe Dragon King gave Fire Winged Tiger Lord a drop of his blood essence and ordered him to lead the Qinghe Mountain Range demons under Li Xinge's authority.
• The Qinghe Dragon King entrusted Chixiao to Li Xinge and flew toward the Endless Sea Region.

After Li Xinge defeated the Qinghe Dragon King, news of her power spread across Great Zhou, drawing the attention of Princess Royal Jiang Qinghuang. Meanwhile, Li Xingzong broke through to the Innate Realm, leaving the Li Family poised to appoint him as an elder.

• The Demonic Chaos ended with the Li Family gaining influence over the Qinghe Mountain Range, and Li Family Disciples entered the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower to cultivate.
• Reports of Li Xinge defeating the Qinghe Dragon King spread across Great Zhou, and Jiang Qinghuang discussed recruiting the Governor of Yang Province to support her bid for the throne.
• Cao Jin proposed a way to win Li Xinge's support, angering Jiang Qinghuang before she agreed to let him make arrangements discreetly.
• Half a month after the Demonic Chaos, Li Xingzong sensed his chance to advance and began condensing an Innate Golden Core in the Spirit Gathering Tower.
• Li Xingzong successfully reached the Innate Realm, and Li Xuantong said he would recommend promoting him to Li Family Elder.

Li Xingzong and Li Yanfeng broke through to the Innate Realm, and Li Xinge approved their promotions alongside Li Yuran’s. The Li Family held a ceremony to appoint all three as elders and assigned them new leadership roles.

• Li Xingzong reached the Innate Realm, and Li Xuantong and the other elders congratulated him and recommended him for promotion to elder.
• Li Yanfeng also broke through to the Innate Realm, adding another new cultivator to the Li Family.
• Li Xuantong asked Li Xinge to promote Li Xingzong, Li Yanfeng, and Li Yuran, and proposed merging the Pill Hall and Spiritual Plant Hall under Li Yuran as the Hundred Herbs Hall.
• Li Xinge approved the promotions and the hall merger, and the Li Family held a ceremony appointing Li Yuran, Li Yanfeng, and Li Xingzong as elders.
• Li Yuran took charge of the Hundred Herbs Hall, Li Yanfeng joined the Clan Martial Pavilion, and Li Xingzong was assigned to lead the new Artifact Forging Hall.

Cao Jin arrived at Green Maple Valley on Ji Qinghuang’s orders to recruit Li Xinge as an ally in her bid to change Great Zhou’s succession. Li Xinge rejected her offer of a royal title and rule over three provinces, leaving Cao Jin to consider a more substantial bargain.

• Cao Jin presented the Princess’s Mansion’s invitation, and Li Xuantong welcomed him to Green Maple Valley.
• After learning Li Xinge was away, Li Xuantong urgently summoned him back to meet Cao Jin.
• Cao Jin told Li Xinge that Ji Qinghuang wanted his support in overcoming court opposition and securing the throne.
• Cao Jin offered Li Xinge the title of King of Different Surname and hereditary rule over the southeastern provinces.
• Li Xinge refused the offer and claimed he would concern himself only with his duties as a loyal official, prompting Cao Jin to consider a richer offer.

Li Xinge rejected the Princess Royal’s offer to make him her Cultivation Partner and Imperial Husband, explaining that accepting would turn the Li Family against the realm’s great clans. He left Cao Jin furious and warned Li Xuantong that the alliance carried a fatal political danger.

• Cao Jin told Li Xinge that the Princess Royal would make him her Cultivation Partner and rule Great Zhou alongside him if he supported her.
• Li Xinge refused the offer, saying his ambitions lay in Yang Province and that he would not enter the struggle for the throne.
• Cao Jin angrily challenged Li Xinge, but Li Xinge ordered the guards to escort him out; Cao Jin departed, promising to report the refusal to the Princess Royal.
• Li Xuantong asked why Cao Jin had left in a rage, and Li Xinge explained the failed proposal.
• Li Xinge explained that accepting would make the Li Family imperial kin and alienate the great clans whose support helped it hold Yang Province.

Jiang Qinghuang accepted Li Xinge’s refusal of her offer and turned her attention to the Crown Prince. As the Li Family’s grand competition approached, Little Stone reached Body Cultivation Grand Completion but grew anxious when he learned Li Qinglin would receive personal training from an Ancestral Land elder.

• Cao Jin reported that Li Xinge had declined Jiang Qinghuang’s offer, and she said he had good reason to refuse while ordering closer surveillance of the Crown Prince.
• After half a year of training, Little Stone reached Body Cultivation Grand Completion, but Sage Xuanji warned that he still needed to advance before the grand competition.
• Li Qingwu told Little Stone that True Person Yanfeng had arrived to take Li Qinglin to the Ancestral Land and train him personally.
• Little Stone felt pressure and bitterness at the news, but Sage Xuanji reassured him and promised to teach him an offensive technique once he stabilized his realm.
• Little Stone returned to cultivation, determined to improve before the Ancestral Land’s grand competition.

Li Yanfeng brought Li Qinglin to the Ancestral Land as his disciple and reprimanded Li Qinglan for mistreating Li Qingshi. He urged her to support both brothers so they could make their way in the Li Family Lineage.

• Li Yanfeng offered to take Li Qinglin to the Ancestral Land as his disciple, and Li Nanfeng accepted on his behalf.
• Li Yanfeng gave Li Nanfeng Qi and Blood Pills and asked him to treat Li Qinglan better.
• Li Yanfeng privately confronted Li Qinglan about rumors that she had been harsh toward children born to concubines.
• Li Qinglan admitted she had feared Li Qingshi would threaten Li Qinglin’s position, and Li Yanfeng warned that suppressing Qingshi could damage the whole family.
• Li Qinglan explained that Li Qinglin had already urged her to stop suppressing Qingshi, and Li Yanfeng praised his nephew’s maturity.
• Li Yanfeng told Li Qinglan that Qinglin and Qingshi needed to support each other to establish themselves at the Ancestral Land.

Li Qinglin asked Li Yanfeng to take Li Qingshi to the Ancestral Land, and Li Yanfeng agreed. Warned by Sage Xuanji about the danger of going there under someone else’s protection, Li Qingshi chose to earn his place through the competition in six months, while Li Qinglin gave him a Qi and Blood Pill before leaving.

• Li Qinglin asked Li Yanfeng to bring Li Qingshi to the Ancestral Land, and Li Yanfeng praised his concern for his brother before agreeing.
• Li Qinglin told Li Qingshi that Elder Yanfeng had agreed to take him to the Ancestral Land.
• Sage Xuanji warned Li Qingshi that experts there might discover the Soul Nurturing Bead and urged him to enter through the competition instead.
• Li Qingshi refused the offer and said he would prove himself in the competition six months later.
• Li Qinglin accepted Li Qingshi’s decision, gave him a Qi and Blood Pill, and left for the Ancestral Land.

Yuan Mingzi gathered the Devil Lords of Nine Demon Palace to confront the threat from the Gongsun Clan and Qu Family, who had already taken a fifth of their territory. He decided to seek protection from Snowy Robe Sacred Cult and set out to visit Blood Demon True Lord at Myriad Bone Mountain.

• Yuan Mingzi told the Devil Lords that Nine Demon Palace and the Demonic Path of Tai Prefecture faced destruction as the Gongsun Clan and Qu Family attacked.
• Flower Cherishing Demon Lord proposed allying with Snowy Robe Demonic Cult, despite Nine Demon Palace's blood feud with them.
• Vulture Demon Lord threatened Flower Cherishing Demon Lord for suggesting they seek help, and Yuan Mingzi stopped them with his half-step Divine Mansion Realm pressure.
• Yuan Mingzi declared that Nine Demon Palace would place itself under the Snow Robe Demon Venerable's protection, and the Devil Lords accepted his decision.
• Yuan Mingzi announced that he would go to Myriad Bone Mountain to visit Blood Demon True Lord.