Recaps

Guhongzi joined the Li Family as a Red-robed Guest Official after promising his loyalty. In the Southern Wasteland, Li Wu confronted the bald youth Balu, who had just recognized the danger in Li Wu’s calm gaze.

• Li Yanzhao offered Guhongzi a place in the Li Family and explained its expectations for loyalty and conduct.
• Guhongzi pledged himself to the Li Family, and three days later the Patriarch and Elder Council approved him as a Red-robed Guest Official.
• Li Wu, disguised as a Southern Wasteland youth, sold demonic beast materials in a city while waiting for an opportunity.
• A procession led by the bald youth Balu passed Li Wu, and Li Wu’s beast fang frightened Balu’s one-horned fire rhinoceros.
• Balu demanded that Li Wu raise his head and struck at him with a whip, but Li Wu caught it and greeted him by name.

Li Wu killed Balu in Rock City and slaughtered the Southern Wasteland warriors who tried to avenge him before escaping with Balu’s head. When news reached the fifth priest Yan Kui, he flew into a rage and vowed to sacrifice the killer’s entire clan.

• Li Wu recognized Balu from their clash in the Half-Saint ruins and tore off his head.
• Li Wu crushed and scattered the Southern Wasteland warriors with a massive spiritual hammer, then left carrying Balu’s head.
• News of Balu’s death spread through the Southern Wasteland, revealing that he was Yan Kui’s favored successor.
• A black-robed cultivator told Yan Kui that Balu had been killed in Rock City, and Yan Kui killed the messenger in his fury.
• Yan Kui appeared above the royal court and vowed to sacrifice the killer’s entire clan.

After Li Wu killed Balu, Yan Kui offered the position of personal disciple to whoever avenged him, drawing the Southern Wasteland into a massive hunt. The Li Family sent Guhongzi to support Li Wu, but Li Wu was cornered while injured and exhausted, with enemies surrounding him.

• Yan Kui promised to take Balu's avenger as his personal disciple, prompting cultivators across the Southern Wasteland to hunt for Li Wu.
• Wu Gu and Meng She agreed that Balu's killer had insulted the Southern Wasteland Ancient Kingdom and would have to pay.
• Li Xuanyong ordered Guhongzi to support Li Wu and see whether he could be entrusted with greater tasks.
• Guhongzi traveled through Jiao Province toward the Southern Wasteland as Li Wu fled through the mountains, fighting more than twenty battles and killing over a hundred pursuers.
• Li Wu was discovered in a cave and killed two barbarian cultivators, exposing his location to the nearby hunters.
• A Late-stage Innate expert and numerous other cultivators surrounded the wounded Li Wu, leaving him with no clear escape route.

Li Wu awakened the power of the Heavenly Human Bone and annihilated the cultivators surrounding him, but the transformation left him gravely injured. A Night Owl Hall messenger sent him east to escape an Innately Great Perfection pursuer, and Li Wu was caught by a terrifying presence at God-Burial Ridge.

• Li Wu fought off a group of Innate cultivators, killed one with his hammer, and was badly wounded as more pursuers arrived.
• Li Wu unleashed the Heavenly Human Bone, whose golden power froze and annihilated the attackers.
• The transformation left Li Wu nearly incapacitated, but a Night Owl Hall messenger gave him pills and told him to flee east before an Innately Great Perfection expert arrived.
• Li Wu took the pills and continued toward Jiao Province, hoping to escape the Southern Wasteland Ancient Kingdom pursuer.
• At God-Burial Ridge, a killing pressure descended on Li Wu, and a pursuer announced that he had found him.

Red Slaughter attacked Li Wu at God-Burial Ridge and nearly killed him, but Guhongzi arrived and confronted the Southern Wasteland battle general. Guhongzi gained the upper hand and withstood Red Slaughter’s furious assault.

• Red Slaughter reached God-Burial Ridge and struck Li Wu with a flaming axe, badly injuring him despite Li Wu activating the Burning Blood Scripture.
• As Red Slaughter approached to capture Li Wu alive, Guhongzi appeared and forced him back.
• Guhongzi gave Li Wu pills to heal, then insulted Red Slaughter and attacked him with his fly whisk.
• Guhongzi and Red Slaughter fought in the sky, and Red Slaughter realized he was being suppressed.
• Red Slaughter unleashed a furious barrage, but Guhongzi neutralized his attacks without being harmed.

Guhongzi fought Red Slaughter to buy Li Wu time to escape, but reinforcements arrived and turned the battle against him. Though he considered fleeing, he chose to stand his ground and fight for a chance to reach the Divine Palace.

• Guhongzi provoked Red Slaughter into making a reckless attack, dodged it, and stole his axe with his whisk.
• Li Wu recovered enough to flee east, while Guhongzi trapped Red Slaughter in a silver net to keep him from pursuing.
• Five Southern Wasteland cultivators arrived and attacked Guhongzi, mistaking him for Balu’s killer.
• Red Slaughter ordered two cultivators to chase Li Wu, forcing Guhongzi to fight the others while trying to block their pursuit.
• Guhongzi fell into a disadvantage and considered retreating, but stopped himself and vowed not to cower this time.

Guhongzi held off Red Slaughter and the Southern Wasteland experts long enough for Li Wu to escape, but Yan Kui arrived and overwhelmed him with Divine Mansion Realm power. Just as Guhongzi faced certain death, an unknown figure stepped out of a crack in the void.

• Guhongzi killed two Southern Wasteland experts with his fly whisk, taking heavy injuries from Red Slaughter and the others.
• Guhongzi's defiance frightened the remaining experts into refusing to help Red Slaughter, and he suppressed Red Slaughter in their one-on-one fight.
• Yan Kui, the Fifth Priest of the Southern Wasteland Ancient Kingdom, emerged from a void vortex and confronted Guhongzi over Balu's death.
• Guhongzi insulted Yan Kui, who attacked him with Space Annihilation and threatened to crush him.
• An unknown speaker laughed at Yan Kui, and a foot stepped out of a crack in the void.

Zhao Wujiu intervened when Yan Kui confronted Guhongzi over Balu’s death and challenged the Southern Wasteland priest to battle. Beyond the heavens, Zhao Wujiu defeated Yan Kui in their first clash, severing one of his hands and establishing his power as a newly advanced Divine Mansion cultivator.

• Zhao Wujiu appeared and admitted that someone from the Li Family had killed Balu, then dared Yan Kui to press the matter.
• Yan Kui challenged Zhao Wujiu to fight beyond the heavens, and Zhao Wujiu followed him into the sky.
• Zhao Wujiu’s blade broke through Yan Kui’s bloody wheel phantoms, while Yan Kui was shocked by Zhao Wujiu’s seven-hundred-li Divine Mansion.
• Zhao Wujiu overwhelmed Yan Kui in a contest of strength and severed one of his hands with a decisive slash.

Zhao Wujiu severed Yan Kui’s arm, and Yan Kui tried to sacrifice his demonic heart to kill him. The Second Priest Hua Yu stopped Yan Kui, then confronted Zhao Wujiu over the Li Family’s actions, leaving the two sides facing a possible conflict.

• Zhao Wujiu mocked the injured Yan Kui, who responded by tearing out his Blood Witch Demonic Heart and preparing to detonate it.
• Zhao Wujiu fled until the Second Priest Hua Yu appeared and halted Yan Kui’s attack.
• Hua Yu restrained Yan Kui’s demonic heart, reprimanded him, and pressed it back into his chest.
• Hua Yu accused the Li Family of killing a Southern Wasteland prodigy and injuring Yan Kui, and threatened to keep Zhao Wujiu there without an explanation.
• Zhao Wujiu defended the Li Family and warned that detaining him could lead to a destructive conflict, while Hua Yu argued that the Southern Wasteland had to defend its dignity.

Zhao Wujiu rejected the Second Priest’s demands, and Li Xinge arrived just in time to stop her lethal attack. Li Xinge then provoked the Second Priest and injured Yan Kui with a glance, leaving the two elders on the verge of a confrontation.

• The Second Priest demanded that Zhao Wujiu hand over Balu’s murderer and sever his own arm to apologize to Yan Kui, but Zhao Wujiu refused.
• The Second Priest sealed Zhao Wujiu in place and sent a gray beam at him, prompting Zhao Wujiu to call for his lord as the attack neared.
• Li Xinge appeared and halted the gray beam, then mocked the Second Priest for failing to notice his presence.
• Yan Kui shouted at Li Xinge, who wounded him with a glance and made the Second Priest shield him.
• Li Xinge dismissed the Second Priest as unworthy of his regard, and she grew coldly furious after he called her too young.

Li Xinge defeated the Second Priest of the Southern Wasteland by unleashing the Great Sun Golden Crow and burning through her Withered Glory Death Domain. The Second Priest conceded defeat and escaped with Yan Kui, while Li Xinge chose not to pursue them or provoke the Southern Wasteland's Great Priest.

• The Second Priest unleashed her Withered Glory Death Domain against Li Xinge, but his divine radiance nullified its withering power.
• Li Xinge summoned the Great Sun Golden Crow, whose True Sun Fire overwhelmed the Second Priest's fully expanded domain.
• The Withered Glory Death Domain shattered, wounding the Second Priest and breaking her dragon-headed wooden staff.
• Yan Kui cried out as the Second Priest admitted defeat and conceded to Li Xinge.
• The Second Priest seized Yan Kui and escaped through the void, while Li Xinge let them go to avoid conflict with the Southern Wasteland's Great Priest.

Li Xinge’s victory over the Southern Wasteland’s Second Priest shook the cultivation world and strengthened the Li Family’s standing. As the family celebrated Zhao Wujiu’s advancement and several marriages, Li Xinge learned that Li Xuanyong was preparing to attempt the Innate Realm and ordered three high-quality Innate Spirit Pills for him.

• Li Xinge told Zhao Wujiu to publicize his defeat of the Second Priest, declaring that three provinces were no longer enough for the Li Family.
• Zhao Wujiu reported Guhongzi’s performance in the Southern Wasteland to Li Xuanyong, who assigned Guhongzi to serve as Li Hao’s dao guardian.
• The Li Family spread news of Li Xinge’s victory, and factions across the world were stunned that a mid-stage Divine Mansion cultivator had crushed a late-stage expert.
• Divine Mansion clans attended Zhao Wujiu’s advancement ceremony, and the Li and Wei families prepared for Li Xingzong and Wei Qingluo’s wedding before Li Qinglin married Dou Yunwan.
• Elder Jiang told Li Xinge that Li Xuanyong had sensed the Innate Realm threshold and planned to enter seclusion, so Li Xinge ordered three high-quality Innate Spirit Pills for him.

On Golden Crow Island, the Cao Family faced the threat of the Qin Family gaining a second qi and blood realm cultivator. Cao Wenzhao proposed seeking help from the northern man who had eloped with his sister, Cao Yueying, and the chapter ended as the family recalled the scandal that had estranged the Cao and Lü Families.

• Li Xinge hoped his third grandfather, Li Xuanyong, would break through to the innate realm.
• Cao Zhengxiong told the Cao Family elders that the Qin Family had obtained a Qi and Blood Pill and that Qin Zhengkun had entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough.
• The Cao Family elders argued over whether to attack the Qin Family or seek help from the Lü Family, but Cao Zhengxiong rejected both prospects.
• Cao Wenzhao proposed seeking outside help from the northern man who had eloped with his younger sister, Cao Yueying.
• The elders recalled that Cao Yueying's elopement had ruined the planned marriage alliance and damaged relations between the Cao and Lü Families.

As the Cao Family faced destruction at the hands of the Qin Family, Cao Wenzhao persuaded Cao Zhengxiong to seek help from the Li Family, where Cao Yueying had settled with Li Yanzong. Cao Zhengxiong agreed to send Wenzhao to Yang Province, though he told him not to pressure Yueying if her family could not help.

• Cao Wenzhao revealed that Cao Yueying's letter described Li Yanzong as the heir to a powerful family in Yang Province.
• Cao Zhengxiong resisted asking the Li Family for aid, blaming Li Yanzong for the Cao Family's lost reputation and hardships.
• Cao Wenzhao pleaded that the family's survival mattered more than its honor, and Cao Zhengxiong agreed to seek the Li Family's help.
• Cao Wenzhao argued he could reach Yang Province before Qin Zhengkun broke through and consolidated his Qi and Blood Realm.
• Cao Zhengxiong privately instructed Cao Wenzhao to ask the Li Family for aid only if they were strong enough, and otherwise simply visit Cao Yueying without putting her in a difficult position.

Cao Wenzhao traveled from Golden Crow Island to Baihe County to visit his sister and assess the Li Family, learning along the way of the Marquis of Chu’s immense power. He arrived in Baihe County still unaware that the Marquis might be connected to his sister’s family.

• Cao Wenzhao promised Cao Zhengxiong he would investigate the Li Family, visit Cao Yueying, and return quickly before departing Golden Crow Island by boat.
• After a month at sea, Cao Wenzhao reached Yang Province and rode toward Baihe County, stopping at the Cloud Comes Inn after three days and nights on the road.
• At the inn, Cao Wenzhao overheard cultivators claim that the thirty-five-year-old Marquis of Chu had crushed the Southern Wasteland’s Second Priest in a single move.
• Cao Wenzhao recalled helping Cao Yueying elope nearly forty years earlier and briefly wondered whether her family might be related to the Marquis of Chu, but dismissed the idea.
• Cao Wenzhao resumed his journey before dawn and arrived in Baihe County ten days later.

Cao Wenzhao entered Baihe County and was overwhelmed by the Li Clan’s power and the city’s prosperity as he sought news of his sister, Cao Yueying. Old Zhou could not identify her or her husband, Li Yanzong, leaving Cao Wenzhao uncertain where to continue his search.

• Cao Wenzhao entered Baihe County and saw its crowded streets, powerful cultivators, and an Innate True Person flying overhead.
• Cao Wenzhao learned from a local elder that the Li Clan maintained order in the city and had gathered many Innate True Persons, including an expert at innately great perfection.
• Cao Wenzhao invited the elder, Old Zhou, to tea and asked about his sister Cao Yueying and her husband, Li Yanzong.
• Old Zhou explained that Baihe County had dozens of Li Family branches but said he had never heard of Cao Yueying or Li Yanzong.

Cao Wenzhao learned that the Li Family named in his sister’s old letter might be the powerful Yang Province Li Clan, and he went to its County Town branch to verify his connection. The guard denied that the clan had anyone named Li Yanzong or Cao Yueying, leaving Cao Wenzhao’s hopes in doubt.

• Cao Wenzhao showed Old Zhou his sister’s letter, and Old Zhou identified the Li Family as the Yang Province Li Clan.
• Cao Wenzhao fainted from shock, then woke and laughed with excitement at the possibility that his brother-in-law belonged to the powerful clan.
• Old Zhou urged Cao Wenzhao to verify his identity through the Li Family’s Internal Affairs Hall branch and offered to guide him there.
• Cao Wenzhao followed Old Zhou to the branch and presented his sister’s letter to an armored guard.
• The guard said the Li Family had no one named Li Yanzong or Cao Yueying, and Cao Wenzhao turned deathly pale.

Cao Wenzhao arrived at the Li Family seeking his sister Cao Yueying and her husband Li Yanzong, but was initially told they did not exist. Li Yanshang recognized their names and confirmed they had belonged to the family, then brought Cao Wenzhao inside, where his silence after Cao Wenzhao asked to see them left him fearing bad news.

• Cao Wenzhao showed an old letter and asked the Li Family about Li Yanzong and Cao Yueying, but the armored soldier said they had no record of them.
• Li Xingjie dismissed the names as unfamiliar and told the soldier to send Cao Wenzhao away.
• Li Yanshang recognized the names and revealed that Li Yanzong and Cao Yueying had died more than thirty years earlier and were the late Patriarch's parents.
• Li Yanshang examined Cao Wenzhao's letter, brought him to a private room, and confirmed that he had known Cao Yueying.
• Cao Wenzhao explained that Cao Yueying was his full-blooded younger sister and asked where she and Li Yanzong were, but Li Yanshang fell silent.

Cao Wenzhao learned that his sister Cao Yueying had died decades earlier, but that her son was Li Xinge, the Marquis of Chu and patriarch of the Yang Province Li Clan. Li Yanshang brought Cao Wenzhao to Green Maple Valley, where the Third Elder promised to summon Li Xinge.

• Li Yanshang told Cao Wenzhao that Cao Yueying and her husband had been killed in an ambush over thirty years earlier.
• Cao Wenzhao learned that his nephew was Li Xinge, the Marquis of Chu, and Li Yanshang arranged for them to travel to Green Maple Valley.
• Li Yanshang and Cao Wenzhao rode a Green Feathered Scale Eagle to Green Maple Valley, where they learned Li Xinge was away at the grand provincial assembly.
• Li Yanshang brought Cao Wenzhao to meet Third Elder Li Xuanyong and identified him as Cao Yueying's elder brother.
• Li Xuanyong recognized Cao Wenzhao, expressed sorrow over Cao Yueying's fate, and promised to send an urgent message calling Li Xinge back.

Li Xinge ended a provincial assembly after receiving a message that brought Cao Wenzhao, his maternal uncle, to the Li Family seeking help for the Cao Family. He agreed to protect them, then privately gave Li Xuanyong a troubling instruction in service of the Li Family’s great undertaking.

• Li Xuanyong sent a Jade Talisman to summon Li Xinge and reassured Cao Wenzhao that the Li Family would hear his plea.
• At the Governor’s Mansion, Li Xinge received reports on Yang Province’s civil and military affairs before ending the assembly after the message arrived.
• Li Xinge met Cao Wenzhao, acknowledged him as his uncle, and promised not to stand aside while the Cao Family was in trouble.
• Li Xinge assigned the Cao Family’s affairs to Li Xuanyong and dismissed Cao Wenzhao.
• Li Xinge whispered an instruction to Li Xuanyong, who reacted with shock, while Li Xinge said that gaining something always required losing something for the Li Family’s great undertaking.

Li Xuanyong sent Cao Wenzhao back to Golden Crow Island with Li Family experts and an Unyielding Flying Army squad to protect the Cao Family from the Qin Family. As Qin Zhengkun broke through to the Qi and Blood Realm and vowed to destroy the Cao Family, a mysterious figure arrived outside the Qin estate.

• Li Xuanyong ordered Li Yanzhao to send two Guest Officials and fifty Unyielding Flying Army soldiers with Cao Wenzhao, and directed Li Yanjing to activate Night Owl Hall's hidden operatives in Jade Prefecture.
• Cao Wenzhao departed for Golden Crow Island with Chen Yan, Yang Song, and the squad, carrying ten Qi and Blood Pills from the Li Family.
• Qin Zhengkun emerged from seclusion after breaking through to the Qi and Blood Realm, and Qin Tianzhu announced he would eventually pass the Qin Family patriarch position to him.
• Qin Zhengkun vowed to avenge his uncle by wiping out the Cao Family, and Qin Tianzhu agreed to attack once Zhengkun had stabilized his realm.
• A mysterious, black-robed figure arrived silently outside the Qin Family estate and gazed at its gates with a strange smile.

A mysterious Qi and Blood Realm expert warned Qin Tianzhu that the Cao Family could gain powerful backing from the Li Family and persuaded him to attack before reinforcements arrived. After Qin Tianzhu mobilized the Qin Family, a hidden figure appeared and warned the mysterious man to stay within his limits.

• A mysterious man entered the Qin Residence and told Qin Tianzhu that disaster threatened the Qin Family and involved the Cao Family.
• The mysterious man claimed that Cao Wenzhao had gone to Yang Province to seek help from the Li Family, whose legitimate son had eloped with the Cao Family’s eldest daughter.
• Qin Tianzhu sent his Old Butler to investigate and confirmed that Cao Wenzhao had left for Yang Province over a month earlier.
• The mysterious man urged Qin Tianzhu to destroy the Cao Family before its reinforcements arrived, and Qin Tianzhu agreed to gather the Qin Family’s elites.
• After Qin Tianzhu and Qin Zhengkun left to prepare, a hidden figure appeared and warned the mysterious man not to harm someone beyond his authority.

Li Xinge received a main quest to unify the world and raise his Lineage to level 5. Meanwhile, Qin Tianzhu led an assault on the Cao Family, leaving Cao Zhengxiong facing two Qi and Blood Realm opponents as the battle began.

• Li Xinge received a 50-year quest to unify the world and advance his Lineage to level 5, with numerous rewards promised for its completion.
• Qin Tianzhu rallied more than two hundred Qin Family elites and ordered them to attack the Cao Family to avenge his brother.
• Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Zhengchun prepared for an attack while wondering whether Qin Zhengkun had broken through and whether the Li Family would help them.
• Qin Tianzhu, Qin Zhengkun, and Mr. Cai led the raid from three directions, and Qin Zhengkun's breakthrough convinced Cao Zhengxiong that the Cao Family faced three Qi and Blood Realm experts.
• Qin Zhengkun killed Cao Family members and clashed with Cao Zhengxiong, while Qin Tianzhu and Mr. Cai moved to attack Cao Zhengxiong together.

The Qin Family and Mr. Cai overwhelmed the Cao Family, but Mr. Cai revealed far greater strength and held back from killing Cao Zhengxiong. A powerful army led by the Li Family arrived on Golden Crow Island aboard a Golden-Crowned Scale Eagle, interrupting the battle.

• Qin Tianzhu and Mr. Cai attacked Cao Zhengxiong while Qin Zhengkun cut down Cao Family fighters and killed Cao Zhengchun.
• After Cao Zhengchun died, Cao Zhengxiong launched a desperate attack, but Mr. Cai struck him down from behind and revealed an aura far beyond the Qi and Blood Realm.
• Mr. Cai stopped Qin Tianzhu from killing Cao Zhengxiong and waited as he looked toward the horizon.
• A fourth-rank Golden-Crowned Scale Eagle arrived over Golden Crow Island, followed by dozens of Green Feathered Scale Eagles carrying armored soldiers.
• The island’s fighters recognized the overwhelming power of the newcomers, and a thunderous voice roared, “Impudent!”

Cao Wenzhao revealed that the Cao Family was the maternal kin of the Marquis of Chu, prompting the Li Family’s forces to destroy the Qin Family for attacking them. The slaughter continued as Qin Zhengkun was killed and Qin Tianzhu was left helpless beneath the Innate pressure.

• Chen Yan, Yang Song, and Cao Wenzhao arrived on the Golden-Crowned Scale Eagle and found the Cao Family being slaughtered, while Mr. Cai slipped away.
• Cao Wenzhao recognized his wounded father and the dead Grand Elder, then threatened Qin Tianzhu with the destruction of the Qin Family.
• Cao Wenzhao revealed that his sister, Cao Yueying, was the Marquis of Chu’s mother, leaving Qin Tianzhu and Qin Zhengkun terrified.
• Qin Tianzhu knelt and begged for mercy, but Cao Wenzhao asked Chen Yan and Yang Song to avenge the Cao Family.
• Chen Yan ordered the Unyielding Flying Army to exterminate the Qin Family, and its fifty soldiers attacked the Qin fighters with their Green Feathered Scale Eagles.
• Qin Zhengkun charged a soldier and was speared, then thrown from a hundred zhang as Qin Tianzhu watched, unable to move.