Recaps

The Yao County Li Family learned that Lin Fan, a survivor of the Lin Family massacre, had killed seventeen of its people and plotted to lure him out with Li Jiheng’s son, Little Five. Lin Fan reached Body Cultivation Grand Perfection and swore to avenge his family.

• The Huang Family and its former followers arrived in Yang Province, adding thirty Innate Realm cultivators and more than seven hundred Qi and Blood Realm cultivators to the Li Family’s forces.
• Li Jiheng and the Yao County Li Family elders confronted Li Huaiyong over his failure to find Lin Fan, whom he had spared after the Lin Family massacre.
• Li Huaiyong offered to kill Lin Fan to atone, but Li Jiheng warned that Lin Fan had grown strong enough to kill a cultivator at Body Cultivation Grand Completion.
• Li Jiheng ordered the family to use his son, Little Five, as bait and secretly follow him so they could attack Lin Fan when he appeared.
• Lin Fan absorbed sunlight in cultivation and reached Body Cultivation Grand Perfection.
• Lin Fan looked toward Yao County and vowed to avenge the slaughter of his family.

Lin Fan recalled how the Li Family massacred his maternal uncle’s family and began killing Li Family members in Yao County to seek revenge. After being gravely wounded, he healed under the sunlight, gained extraordinary power, and returned to hiding in the brothel as a servant.

• Lin Fan remembered how the Li Family killed his uncle, aunt, and five younger siblings, then burned their home to conceal the crime.
• Lin Fan hid in Yao County and secretly killed Li Family members until the family sealed the town and began searching for him.
• After overhearing a Li Family playboy threaten to desecrate his uncle’s family’s remains, Lin Fan attacked the playboy and his two lackeys, killing them before fleeing into the mountains with severe wounds.
• Sunlight poured into Lin Fan, healing his injuries and awakening a Golden Divine Bird Mark as his power surged.
• Lin Fan discovered that cultivating in sunlight greatly accelerated his growth, then killed several Body Realm Li Family cultivators.
• Lin Fan returned to the brothel where he was hiding and resumed his disguise as a meek servant.

Lin Fan hid in Cuiyan Tower and waited for a chance to kill Li Dachui, the Li Family’s fifth son. He nearly killed him in a midnight attack, but powerful Qi and Blood experts burst into the room before Lin Fan could finish the job.

• Lin Fan disguised himself as an unremarkable servant at Cuiyan Tower and spotted Li Dachui arriving with guards.
• Li Dachui dismissed his guards and bragged that he could kill Lin Fan himself, giving Lin Fan an opening to strike.
• After midnight, Lin Fan crept into Li Dachui’s private room and stabbed one of the people there when Li Dachui dodged his first attack.
• Lin Fan fought Li Dachui with his dagger, kicked him into a wall, and raised his blade to his throat.
• Several waves of Qi and Blood power smashed the private room apart as unseen attackers arrived.

Lin Fan was ambushed by the Li Family, crippled, and imprisoned after Li Jiheng defeated him. Li Jiheng revealed that he planned to torture Lin Fan into disclosing the secret behind his rapid cultivation, leaving Lin Fan's fate in the Li Family's hands.

• Li Jiheng and six other Qi-Blood Realm experts surrounded Lin Fan and attacked him after he declared his hatred for the Li Family.
• Li Jiheng struck Lin Fan with his palm, and two elders broke Lin Fan's limbs and crippled his dantian.
• The Li Family elders dragged Lin Fan to the dungeon, where Li Jiheng threatened to torture him and ordered the guards to keep him alive.
• The First Elder warned Li Jiheng that Lin Fan might become a future threat, but Li Jiheng said he wanted to uncover Lin Fan's secret.
• Li Jiheng planned to threaten Lin Fan with his uncle's family's remains and his mother's grave, then question him after three days of torture.

Lin Fan endured days of torture in the Li Family dungeon while the Golden Divine Bird Mark repeatedly healed him. He broke through to the Qi and Blood Realm, killed the two guards, and prepared to take revenge on the Li Family.

• The Golden Divine Bird Mark appeared and healed Lin Fan’s injuries, rebuilding his dantian stronger than before.
• Seventeenth Master tortured Lin Fan for three days, but the Golden Divine Bird Mark helped him survive each night.
• After learning Seventeenth Master planned to use the Poison Dragon Drill, Lin Fan drew on the mark’s remaining power to break through to the Qi and Blood Realm.
• Lin Fan seized the two guards and snapped their necks, then resolved to strike the Li Family while they were off guard.

Lin Fan escaped the Li Family dungeon, killed thirteen people, and avenged his maternal uncle’s household by killing Li Huaiyong before fleeing into the mountains. Li Jiheng mobilized county forces and the Five Great Families to hunt him, while a masked Helm Master began investigating the sudden deployment.

• Lin Fan killed the Seventeenth Master and twelve others in the Li Family ancestral grounds.
• Lin Fan fought Li Huaiyong, killed him despite the arrival of Li Jiheng and other experts, and escaped into the mountains.
• Li Jiheng refused to report Lin Fan to the Ancestral Land because he wanted the secret behind Lin Fan’s recovery for the Li Family of Yao County.
• Li Jiheng sent the First Elder to County Magistrate Gu and the Second Elder to the Four Great Families, prompting a large force to search the mountains.
• A masked Helm Master ordered a subordinate to find out why the county troops and the Five Great Families had mobilized.

Li Jiheng mobilized Yao County’s forces and bribed its four great families to search for Lin Fan, while Lin Fan evaded the searchers in the mountains. An emergency report from Yao County reached Li Yanjing in Green Maple Valley, leaving him furious.

• A black-robed man reported Li Jiheng’s actions as an emergency and warned that Yang Province did not belong to the Li Family of Yao County.
• Li Jiheng sent thirty to forty thousand troops into the mountains to find Lin Fan and offered a Qi and Blood Pill to the heads of Yao County’s four other great families.
• The four family heads agreed to pretend to search for Lin Fan but planned to avoid fighting him and alert the Li Family if they found him.
• Lin Fan heard the troops searching nearby, mocked the Li Family, and slipped deeper into the mountains.
• A Night Owl Hall steward brought Li Yanjing an emergency report from Yao County, and Li Yanjing slammed his hand on the desk in anger.

Li Yanjing reported Li Jiheng’s betrayal and Lin Fan’s rapid growth to the Li Family elders, who dispatched a heavily armed force to capture Lin Fan. Meanwhile, Lin Fan ambushed a search party in the mountains, revealing his location to Li Jiheng.

• Li Yanjing told Grand Elder Li Xuantong and the elders that Li Jiheng had concealed Lin Fan’s progress and that Lin Fan had killed a Qi and Blood Realm elder.
• Li Xuantong ordered Second Elder Li Xuanzhong, Li Xingzong, and Li Wu to go to Zhaotian Prefecture and capture Lin Fan alive or bring back his corpse.
• Li Xuantong told Li Xuanzhong to gather local experts before acting and gave him the Li Family’s Heavenly Net and Earthly Net formation disc.
• Li Xuanzhong, Li Xingzong, Li Wu, and thirty Hall of Law Enforcement members departed aboard a Cloud Boat.
• Lin Fan killed a man from the search party beneath the tree where he was hiding.
• The search party discovered the body and raised the alarm, and Li Jiheng learned that Lin Fan was nearby.

Li Jiheng led Yao County forces in a fiery ambush against Lin Fan, but Lin Fan killed a Li Family elder and escaped into the mountains despite being wounded. As the Li Family prepared to report the threat to the Ancestral Land, an unseen voice announced that they had already arrived.

• Li Jiheng gathered County Magistrate Gu and more than ten thousand people to surround Lin Fan, then ordered archers to set the mountainside ablaze with fire arrows.
• Lin Fan shielded himself from the arrows, escaped the burning woods, and blasted a gap through the encirclement, killing dozens of people in his way.
• Li Jiheng struck Lin Fan with a palm, and the two clashed as the other Qi and Blood Realm experts closed in.
• Lin Fan killed a Li Family elder with a full-strength punch, used Li Jiheng's palm strike to break through the encirclement, and fled into the mountains.
• After searching through the night without finding Lin Fan, Li Jiheng agreed to report the matter to the Ancestral Land.
• A solemn voice from the heavens told Li Jiheng that there was no need to call for them because they were already there.

Li Xuanzhong and the Hall of Law Enforcement arrived in Yao County to arrest Li Jiheng and the senior members of his branch family, then ordered a massive search for Lin Fan. The Prefect of Zhaotian Prefecture and other regional powers gathered to carry out the order and seal off the area.

• Li Xuanzhong, Li Xingzong, and Li Wu arrived with thirty Hall of Law Enforcement elites and surrounded Li Jiheng and the Yao County Li Family elders.
• A Hall of Law Enforcement officer shattered Li Jiheng’s dantian, and the elites seized him and the branch family’s senior members.
• Li Xuanzhong questioned the Yao County Magistrate about Lin Fan, who had fled into the mountains.
• Prefect Yun Hai arrived and pledged to mobilize troops, seal Zhaotian Prefecture, and organize a search for Lin Fan.
• Li Xuanzhong ordered the regional powers to search the mountains and threatened to treat anyone who refused as Lin Fan’s accomplice.
• Officials, clans, and sects from nearby areas arrived to report for duty.

Li Xuanzhong led a massive search for Lin Fan, sealing off Zhaotian Prefecture and surrounding the mountains with millions of troops. While Lin Fan recovered and plotted revenge deep in the wilderness, a stampede of terrified beasts swept past him, leaving him relieved that it was not chasing him.

• Li Xuanzhong ordered more than twenty Innate experts to search for Lin Fan and bring him back alive or dead.
• Yun Hai announced the State Governor's orders to seal Zhaotian Prefecture and mobilize its forces and major clans to hunt Lin Fan.
• Four million troops, including twenty-four Innate experts, surrounded the mountains, and Li Xuanzhong offered rewards for capturing or killing Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan cultivated in hiding, failed to reach Qi and Blood Minor Accomplishment, and vowed to destroy the Li Family and eventually the entire Li Clan.
• Lin Fan climbed a tree to escape a stampede of fleeing beasts and realized they were not pursuing him.

Lin Fan saw the Innate Great Demons flee Mang Mountain and decided to enter the depths to search for treasures. Outside the mountains, Li Xuanzhong confronted the demons and revealed the Governor’s Jin Order, leaving the Green Crown Red Feather Eagle shaken.

• Lin Fan watched an Innate Great Demon and more than a dozen other powerful beasts rush out of Mang Mountain, then decided to take advantage of their departure and venture deeper inside.
• Li Xuanzhong led the human forces toward Mang Mountain while Yun Hai explained that the Green Crown Red Feather Eagle ruled the range.
• The Green Crown Red Feather Eagle gathered the Innate Great Demons and accused Li Xuanzhong of using the hunt for a traitor as an excuse to attack them.
• Li Xuanzhong displayed the Governor’s Jin Order, and the human cultivators bowed as the demons recognized the token’s authority.
• Li Xuanzhong challenged the Green Crown Red Feather Eagle to defy the Governor, who ruled over all living beings in Yang Province.

Li Xuanzhong persuaded the Green Crown Red Feather Eagle to help search Mang Mountain for Lin Fan, and the Demon Race’s beasts soon located him. Li Xuanzhong and the Innate cultivators followed the Demon Lord toward Lin Fan’s position to slay him.

• The Green Crown Red Feather Eagle backed down after Li Xuanzhong revealed the Governor’s Golden Order and agreed to let the humans search Mang Mountain.
• Li Xingzong urged the Mang Mountain demons to help find Lin Fan, and the Demon Lord summoned beasts across the mountain to join the hunt.
• Lin Fan hid from waves of searching beasts, but a circling bird spotted him and alerted the others.
• The Green Crown Red Feather Eagle told Li Xuanzhong that Lin Fan had been found and led the way into Mang Mountain.
• Li Xuanzhong ordered the twenty-three Innate cultivators to follow him, and they flew after the Demon Lord.

Lin Fan fought through a demonic beast horde as the Li Family and more than thirty Innate Realm experts trapped him with a massive formation. Surrounded and facing their combined attack, he summoned the Golden Divine Bird Mark and condemned the Li Family as the true evil.

• Lin Fan realized the Li Family had sent the beasts and raptors after him, then fought off waves of mountain rats and killed a diving raptor.
• As stronger beasts closed in, Lin Fan escaped up a steep cliff and struck down the demonic monkeys pursuing him.
• Li Xuanzhong joined Xingzong and Li Wu in activating the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net formation, which sealed the area around Lin Fan.
• More than thirty Innate Realm experts and great demons surrounded Lin Fan, and Li Xuanzhong ordered them to attack together.
• Lin Fan resisted their pressure, called the Li Family the true evil, and caused the Golden Divine Bird Mark to shine between his brows.

Lin Fan awakened the Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body and fought off a combined assault by more than thirty Innate Realm experts, but the Li Family wore down his power and killed him. Li Xinge then received a system mission to plunder Lin Fan’s physique, claiming it for himself.

• Lin Fan summoned the Three-legged Golden Crow phantom, and Li Xingzong rallied the experts to attack him together.
• The Golden Crow blocked their combined strike, but Li Xingzong recognized that Lin Fan’s power was temporary and urged everyone to wear him down.
• Lin Fan failed to break through the Li Family’s Heavenly Net and Earthly Net, while the experts repeatedly attacked and drained his strength.
• More than thirty Innate Realm experts launched a final combined strike, shattering the Golden Crow phantom and blasting Lin Fan into dust.
• Li Xinge received a system mission to eliminate Lin Fan and use a Plunder Card to seize his Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body, then tore open a rift in space.

Li Xinge arrived after Lin Fan’s apparent death and discovered that Lin Fan’s remnant soul had hidden as a ray of sunlight. He captured Lin Fan, erased the witnesses’ memories of the Great Sun Golden Crow, and plundered Lin Fan’s Sacred Body, leaving himself with a new source of power.

• Li Xinge tore through the void and searched the scorched earth, realizing Lin Fan was still alive despite finding no trace of him.
• Li Xinge covered the sun with his robe and exposed Lin Fan’s remnant soul hiding as a ray of sunlight.
• Li Xinge seized Lin Fan and erased the gathered humans’ and demons’ memories of the Golden Crow and its powers.
• Back in Green Maple Valley, Li Xinge used a Physique Plunder Card to take Lin Fan’s Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body.
• The plunder annihilated Lin Fan’s remnant soul, and Li Xinge celebrated gaining the Saint-grade physique.

Li Xinge fused with the Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body, greatly increasing his cultivation progress and combat strength. After Li Xuanzhong returned with Li Jiheng and the Yao County branch leaders, the Li Family sentenced Li Jiheng to execution and erased the branch from the clan records.

• Li Xinge asked the system about plundering his own physique, then learned that a Special Physique Plunder Card was available in the System Mall for an enormous price.
• The system upgraded the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net and awakened the Wrathful Ming King physique in Second Elder Li Xuanzhong.
• Li Xinge fused with the Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body, advancing his cultivation progress toward the Mid-stage Divine Mansion Realm and gaining a major combat boost.
• Li Xuanzhong returned to Green Maple Valley with Li Jiheng and the Yao County branch leaders, and the Hall of Law Enforcement put them on trial.
• Li Xuanzhong found Li Jiheng guilty of concealing Lin Fan's secret and other crimes, sentenced him to be cut in half, and ordered the Yao County branch struck from the Li Clan Record.

After the Yao County Branch Family’s leaders were executed, Li Dazhong gave up his place in the Ancestral Land to return home and support his disgraced family. He left Green Maple Valley carrying a Jade Bottle from Li Xuanyong, uncertain whether he would ever return.

• Li Xuanzhong put Li Wu in charge of the Hall of Law Enforcement while he entered seclusion, and the Ancestral Land announced the punishment of the Yao County Branch Family to the other Branch Families.
• Li Dazhong went to the Internal Affairs Hall and asked Li Xuanyong for permission to leave the Ancestral Land and resume his former Branch Family status.
• Li Dazhong explained that the Yao County Branch Family needed a Qi and Blood Realm Cultivator, and Li Xuanyong granted his request.
• Li Xuanyong gave Li Dazhong a Jade Bottle and wished to see the Yao County Branch Family restored to the Li Clan Record.
• Li Dazhong returned his Identity Jade Token, left Green Maple Valley, and knelt to bid it farewell as he wept.

Gongsun Boming and Qu Mingmei struggled to find a way to stop the Snow Robe Demonic Cult’s growing power in Tai Prefecture, while Li Wuyou ordered a final attack on their clans. The chapter ended with Li Wuyou revealing her overwhelming strength and declaring that anyone who stood in her way would die.

• Gongsun Boming and Qu Mingmei ruled out making peace or sending reinforcements and considered asking their clans’ ancestors to intervene.
• Gongsun Zhongming reported that the Divine Mansion Realm expert in Yang Province would not send troops because he was preparing to attack Eastern Ridge.
• Qu Mingmei proposed meeting with the Blood Demon True Lord before deciding whether to call upon both clans’ ancestors.
• Li Wuyou summoned nearly a hundred Demonic Path cultivators and ordered Yuan Mingzi and Li Xingtian to lead a final attack against the Gongsun and Qu Clans.
• Li Wuyou released a powerful aura that pushed Zhao Wujiu back and declared that whoever stood in her way would die.

Li Wuyou refused to negotiate with Gongsun Boming and Qu Mingmei, and the conflict between the Snowy Robe Sacred Cult and the Two Great Immortal Clans escalated into a massive battle. As Zhao Wujiu fought Gongsun Boming, Li Wuyou summoned a colossal demon phantom and seized Qu Mingmei by the throat.

• Gongsun Boming and Qu Mingmei sought a meeting with Li Wuyou, but she refused and said the clans could leave Tai Prefecture or keep fighting.
• After Blood Demon True Lord rejected their request, Gongsun Boming and Qu Mingmei called upon their old ancestor and led their forces into battle against the Snowy Robe Sacred Cult at Fu'an Prefecture.
• Yuan Mingzi and Li Xingtian fought the clans' Grand Elders while Gongsun Boming and Qu Mingmei confronted Blood Demon True Lord and Zhao Wujiu.
• Gongsun Boming challenged Zhao Wujiu, and the two clashed fiercely in the sky.
• Qu Mingmei attacked Li Wuyou, but she summoned a colossal demon phantom with her Heavenly Demon Seal and grabbed him by the throat.

Li Wuyou killed Qu Mingmei and crippled Gongsun Boming, but two Divine Mansion Realm ancestors arrived and Qu Tianwu crushed her with Space Annihilation. Li Wuyou emerged from the spatial turbulence unharmed, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Li Wuyou drained Qu Mingmei's cultivation with the Blood Demon True Technique and killed him as the Qu Clan elders failed to save their clan head.
• Li Wuyou struck Gongsun Boming with her demonic palm, leaving him gravely wounded, while the Qu Clan and Gongsun Clan cultivators fled.
• Gongsun Yan and Qu Tianwu arrived through cracks in the sky, and Qu Tianwu attacked Li Wuyou with Space Annihilation to avenge Qu Mingmei.
• Qu Tianwu crushed the space around Li Wuyou, but she walked out of the spatial turbulence unharmed and mocked the Divine Mansion Realm, shocking him.

Qu Tianwu and Gongsun Yan attacked Li Wuyou to seize her Flowing Immortal Skirt, but its defenses held until their strongest blows began to crack its radiance. Li Xinge appeared as the Snow Robe Demon Venerable, challenged the two elders, and stopped Qu Tianwu’s Mountain River Seal as Gongsun Yan turned his sword on him.

• Qu Tianwu and Gongsun Yan joined forces against Li Wuyou after recognizing the Flowing Immortal Skirt as a valuable protective treasure.
• The Flowing Immortal Skirt withstood their attacks, including Qu Tianwu’s Mountain River Seal and Gongsun Yan’s sword, but its radiance began to crack under their full power.
• Li Xinge emerged from the void, and Yuan Mingzi, Li Xingtian, and the Demonic Path cultivators recognized and saluted him as the Holy Cult Master and Snow Robe Demon Venerable.
• Li Xinge mocked Qu Tianwu and Gongsun Yan for ganging up on a junior, and the two elders agreed to fight him together.
• Qu Tianwu attacked with the Mountain River Seal, but Li Xinge’s demonic palm held it aloft as Gongsun Yan sent ten thousand streaks of sword light toward Li Xinge.

Li Xinge overwhelmed Qu Tianwu and Gongsun Yan with the Three Sha Demon God, then used his banner to capture their Divine Souls. The chapter ended with Li Xinge preparing to take Gongsun Yan’s soul as well.

• Li Xinge shattered Qu Tianwu’s Mountain River Seal phantom and effortlessly swallowed Gongsun Yan’s sword lights.
• Li Xinge summoned the Three Sha Demon God, which nearly destroyed Qu Tianwu’s treasure and shattered Gongsun Yan’s sword strike.
• Qu Tianwu tried to flee, but the Three Sha Demon God crushed his spatial rift and forced him to fight alongside Gongsun Yan.
• Qu Tianwu transformed into a thousand-zhang divine general, but the Three Sha Demon God smashed his body apart.
• Li Xinge captured Qu Tianwu’s fleeing Divine Soul in his banner, then dismissed Gongsun Yan’s strongest sword strike and revealed his Mid-stage Divine Mansion strength.
• Li Xinge rejected Gongsun Yan’s plea for mercy and used the banner to drag Gongsun Yan’s Divine Soul from his body.

Li Xinge and Li Wuyou defeated the Gongsun and Qu clans in Tai Prefecture, while Li Wuyou revealed her astonishing fortune and a quasi-Heaven-Rank protective robe. News of the clans’ leaders and ancestors dying spread across the world, leaving it shaken by the rising power of the demonic path.

• Li Xinge captured Gongsun Yan’s and Qu Tianwu’s Divine Souls in his Ten Thousand Souls Banner, while Li Wuyou claimed Gongsun Yan’s body and killed Gongsun Boming.
• Li Wuyou ordered the demonic figures to hunt down the survivors of both clans.
• In Myriad Bone Hall, Li Xinge learned that Li Wuyou had reached Innately Great Perfection and that her Phoenix Feather Neon Robe could soon advance to Heaven Rank.
• Li Wuyou removed the robe and offered it to Li Xinge, who fled after sternly reminding her that he was her uncle.
• The Gongsun and Qu clans discovered that their ancestors’ and clan heads’ soul lamps had gone out, and reports of their defeat spread across the world.

After Snow Robe Demon Venerable killed two Divine Mansion cultivators, demonic factions and Great Zhou’s emperor assessed his strength and what his rise could mean. The Heaven-Eating Demonic Sect’s leader decided to gather his disciples and go to Tai Prefecture.

• Demonic cultivators praised Snow Robe Demon Venerable, and Yuan led several of them toward Tai Prefecture to join the Snowy Robe Sacred Cult.
• The emperor of Great Zhou discussed Snow Robe Demon Venerable with the head of the Imperial City Department and decided his presence in Tai Prefecture could pressure the southern Aristocratic Clans.
• The elderly eunuch told the emperor that the ancestor had fused with one-third of the Heavenly Human Sacred Artifact and might complete the fusion within thirty years.
• The emperor coughed blood while declaring that Great Zhou would rise again once the ancestor commanded the power of a Heavenly Human.
• A black-robed messenger reported Snow Robe Demon Venerable’s victories to the leader of the Heaven-Eating Demonic Sect, who ordered his disciples to gather and set out for Tai Prefecture.