Recaps

The Song, Yan, Shen, and Lu families joined forces to destroy the Li Family, but the attackers walked into an ambush at Green Maple Valley. As Li Xinge and the elders prepared to meet them, family members old and wounded took up arms to defend their clan.

• The system gave Li Xinge a mission to annihilate the four attacking families and promised rewards for completing it.
• Song Zhong and the allied family heads led their forces toward Green Maple Valley, believing the Li Family had been caught unprepared.
• The Li archers exposed the attackers with signal flares and killed hundreds of Body Forging Realm Cultivators in successive volleys.
• Song Zhong rallied the family heads and their combined auras swept through the valley, alerting Li Xinge and the elders to the invasion.
• Li Xinge ordered the elders to meet the enemy, and the Li Family's bell rang nine times to summon its members.
• An elderly Li man armed himself with his treasured saber, while a one-armed man left his grieving wife to defend the family.

Li Xinge and Song Zhong fought a devastating duel while the Li Family and five-family alliance battled below, and Chen Shuyao’s betrayal turned the tide. As Li Xinge and Song Zhong unleashed a decisive strike, a radiant arrow suddenly shot toward Song Zhong from behind.

• Li Xinge revealed Qi and Blood Minor Accomplishment, shocking Song Zhong, and the two began a fierce duel that carried them to the valley summit.
• The five-family alliance initially overwhelmed the Li Family elders, but Chen Shuyao betrayed the alliance by killing the Lu Family head.
• Song Tianbo attacked Chen Shuyao, while the other family heads paired off and the alliance’s advantage collapsed.
• After hundreds of rounds, Li Xinge proposed settling the duel with one strike, and he and Song Zhong unleashed their strongest attacks.
• As their sword and blade forces collided, a radiant arrow shot toward Song Zhong from behind.

Li Xinge defeated the Song Family Alliance with Zheng Lingjun’s help, then met the Zheng Family’s powerful ancestor, who revealed his family’s connection to the Lingxu Sect. The chapter left Li Xinge learning that the sect had a Divine Mansion Realm cultivator and that the Zheng ancestor had once served it as an Innate Realm elder.

• Zheng Lingjun shot Song Zhong with a hidden arrow, allowing Li Xinge’s sword strike to defeat him.
• Li Xinge killed the fleeing Yan and Yuan Family patriarchs, while Li Xuantong and two others killed Song Tianbo.
• The Li Family’s cultivators overwhelmed the remaining Song Family Alliance forces, and Zheng Lingjun thanked Li Xinge for his promise to repay the Zheng Family’s aid.
• Li Xinge sensed Zheng Cangfeng, the Zheng Family’s Old Ancestor, and greeted him respectfully.
• Zheng Cangfeng told Li Xinge that the Lingxu Sect had a Divine Mansion Realm cultivator and that the Zheng Family’s ancestor had been an Innate Realm elder there.

Zheng Cangfeng offered Li Xinge a place for a young member of the Zheng Family in the Lingxu Sect, but Li Xinge declined to focus on raising the Green Maple Li Clan. After the Li Clan defeated the Song, Yan, Shen, and Lu families, Li Xinge ordered the remaining forces of three families destroyed and went to confront the Song Family.

• Zheng Cangfeng explained the Zheng Family's history and offered Li Xinge a chance to join the Lingxu Sect.
• Li Xinge declined the offer, saying he wanted to fulfill his ancestor's wish and bring the Green Maple Li Clan to greatness.
• Li Xinge reflected that the Song, Yan, Shen, and Lu families had been defeated and that the Green Maple Li Clan was poised to unite Baihe County.
• The First Elder, the Second Elder, and Chen Shuyao reported that the four families' forces had collapsed.
• Li Xinge sent the First Elder, the Second Elder, and Clan Leader Chen to eradicate the Yan, Shen, and Lu families, then prepared to go to the Song Family.

Li Xinge’s forces captured White Wave Valley and slaughtered the Song Family survivors. After coercing Song Jiao’er with threats against her clanspeople, he had her killed too, then ordered the valley burned.

• Li Xinge’s forces broke through the Song Family’s defenses at White Wave Valley and began killing its residents.
• Song Jiao’er tried to assassinate Li Xinge, but his cultivators captured her, and he recognized her as Song Tianbo’s granddaughter.
• Li Xinge threatened the Song Family survivors, including Song Jiao’er’s little sister, until Song Jiao’er agreed to sleep with him to save them.
• Afterward, Li Xinge promised to spare the survivors, then ordered Song Jiao’er killed and had the remaining Song Family members wiped out.
• Li Xinge’s forces took the Song Family’s hoard and burned White Wave Valley to the ground.

Chen Shuyao pledged the Chen Family as a vassal of the Li Family after helping it defeat four rival clans. Li Xinge then assigned the spoils, compensation, and rewards, leaving the Li Family to manage its newly expanded power.

• Chen Shuyao accepted a tenth of the spoils, then offered to make the Chen Family a vassal of the Li Family, and Li Xinge accepted.
• The First Elder reported that the Li Family had seized wealth, techniques, mines, marketplaces, shops, and other property from the four defeated families.
• Li Xinge ordered the Li Family to take over manageable assets, sell the rest, and establish a Clan Martial Pavilion for its new techniques.
• After hearing the casualty report, Li Xinge ordered compensation for fallen clansmen's families, support for dependents and the disabled, and rewards for battle participants.
• Li Xinge arranged rewards for the Hao and Jiang families and awarded the Zheng Family thirty percent of the spoils for its role in killing Song Zhong.

Li Xinge received rewards as his family advanced to Level 2, gaining powerful cultivation resources and new buffs for the Li Family. Meanwhile, the Li Family’s First Elder secured the surrender of two Song Family survivors and arranged to recommend a Li clan member for the vacant County Lieutenant post.

• Li Xinge collected system rewards, including arrays, pills, cultivation boosts, and increased family fortune, then accepted the promotion to Level 2.
• The system granted the Li Family new physiques, cultivation methods, artifacts, pills, talented newborns, and improved buffs, while seven-colored fortune strengthened the clan members.
• Li Xinge began cultivating with his Innate Immaculate Dao Body and new method, finding his comprehension and cultivation speed greatly improved.
• Li Xuanzhong told the First Elder that Song Tianlie and Song Tao had taken refuge in the Baihe County office, so the First Elder decided to negotiate with County Magistrate Gu Zhitíng.
• Gu Zhitíng refused to help the two Song survivors against the Li Family, then accepted five hundred taels of gold from Li Xuantong in exchange for handing them over.
• Li Xuantong arranged for Gu Zhitíng to recommend a Li Family member for the vacant County Lieutenant position, leaving Gu feeling powerless under the Li Family’s influence.

Li Xinge strengthened the Li Family’s authority and cultivation resources, then visited Li Wuyou and agreed to let her cultivate. At the Clan Martial Pavilion, Wuyou ignored the prominent methods and chose the Blood Demon True Technique, startling Li Xinge.

• The First Elder and other elders selected Li Xingcong as County Lieutenant, and the County Prefecture approved his appointment after Song Tianyang’s corruption and death were announced.
• Li Xinge told the First Elder to use three Spirit Gathering Arrays, expand the Clan Martial Pavilion’s collection, appoint Li Xuanzong to guard it, and distribute a hundred Body Tempering Pills.
• Li Xinge visited Li Wuyou, who embraced him and said she wanted to cultivate so she could kill his enemies; he reluctantly agreed to let her begin.
• Li Xinge took Li Wuyou to the Clan Martial Pavilion and asked her to choose a cultivation method from the fourth floor.
• Li Wuyou selected the inconspicuous Blood Demon True Technique, and Li Xinge’s pupils shrank in shock.

Li Xinge learned that the Li Family had successfully cultivated Spiritual Rice and promoted Li Yanxiu to Seventh Elder to lead the Spiritual Medicine Hall. He also established a Hall of Reverence to recruit powerful outsiders, and news of the Li Family’s growing influence spread across Baihe County.

• Li Xinge asked Li Wuyou to move into his courtyard, and she eagerly agreed.
• The First Elder told Li Xinge that the Li Family’s Spiritual Rice had passed testing and that the family had produced its first Spiritual Plant Master.
• Li Xinge promoted Li Yanxiu to Seventh Elder and placed the newly established Spiritual Medicine Hall under his leadership.
• Li Xinge proposed a Hall of Reverence to recruit powerful rogue cultivators, and the family’s senior members approved the plan.
• News of the Li Family’s new Spiritual Plant Master and recruitment efforts spread through Baihe County, alarming and impressing people at a roadside teahouse.

Jiang Dao, a Qi and Blood Early Stage cultivator fleeing the Yang Family, sought refuge with the Li Family. After verifying his account, Li Xinge welcomed him into the family, which now had four Qi and Blood Realm cultivators.

• Jiang Dao traveled to the County Town and asked to join the Li Family through its Hall of Peculiar Individuals.
• The Li Family steward sent word to Li Xinge, who invited Jiang Dao to Green Maple Valley.
• Jiang Dao explained that he had killed the Yang Family Head’s son and was being pursued by the family’s Qi and Blood Minor Accomplishment ancestor.
• Li Xinge promised to protect Jiang Dao while the Li Family investigated his claims, and Jiang Dao agreed to wait.
• Two days later, Li Xinge confirmed Jiang Dao’s story and welcomed him into the Li Family.

Yang Zhongze visited the Green Maple Li Clan to demand Jiang Dao, but Li Xinge refused to hand over the new Li Family attendant. Yang Zhongze agreed to let the matter go in exchange for a favor from Li Xinge, then left pleased with the opportunity.

• A middle-aged man told Yang Zhongze that Jiang Dao had entered Green Maple Valley, where the Li Clan now had three Qi and Blood Realm cultivators and a seventeen-year-old head who had reached Qi and Blood Minor Accomplishment.
• Yang Zhongze and the middle-aged man presented a visiting card at Green Maple Valley, and Li Xinge invited them into the reception hall.
• Yang Zhongze explained that Jiang Dao had killed his grandson and asked Li Xinge to hand him over.
• Li Xinge said Jiang Dao had joined the Li Family as an Attendant and offered compensation, but Yang Zhongze instead asked Li Xinge to owe his clan a favor.
• Li Xinge agreed to a favor limited by his ability, and Yang Zhongze declared the grievance against Jiang Dao settled.
• Outside Green Maple Valley, Yang Zhongze told the middle-aged man he valued a favor from Li Xinge more than avenging his grandson, whom he considered replaceable.

After learning that Li Xuling had been imprisoned for three years by her husband, the Guo Family head, the Li Family tried to demand an explanation. When the Guo Family refused to let its envoy through the gate, the elders decided to confront it with force, and Second Elder Li Xuanzhong set out with Attendant Jiang Dao.

• During a year of quiet development, the Li Family grew to more than forty Body Realm Cultivators while Li Xinge went into seclusion.
• A Lian arrived at Green Maple Valley and collapsed after asking the Li Family to save Li Xuling.
• Li Xuanyong and his wife learned that Li Xuling had been imprisoned after her husband favored a courtesan and intercepted her appeal for help.
• The First Elder sent an envoy to the Guo Family, but the Guo Family refused him entry and declared Li Xuling's situation its own business.
• The elders agreed to make the Guo Family answer by force, and the First Elder sent Li Xuanzhong and Attendant Jiang Dao to confront it.

Guo Yulong defied his father over his treatment of Li Xuling, while the Li Family arrived at Guo Mansion in force to demand an explanation. Guo Taichang confronted the visitors and sensed their formidable cultivation as tensions threatened to erupt into battle.

• Guo Taichang scolded Guo Yulong for discarding Li Xuling, but Guo Yulong revealed that his younger brother had died and rejected his father's threats to remove him as family head.
• Guo Taichang warned Guo Yulong that the next family head must be a legitimate son and that the Li Family must not learn of his affairs.
• Dozens of Li Family riders, led by A Lian, entered East County, killing a young soldier who tried to stop them at the city gate.
• Li Xuanzhong and Jiang Dao led the Li Family party to Guo Mansion, where two guards died resisting them and the group entered the courtyard.
• Guo Taichang learned that Guo Yulong had driven away an earlier Li Family envoy, slapped his son, and hurried with him to confront the visitors.
• Guo Taichang arrived at the gate, saw a dead guard, and sensed the strength of Li Xuanzhong and Jiang Dao.

Li Xuanzhong and Jiang Dao confronted the Guo Family over Li Xuling’s mistreatment, and Li Xuling took control of the punishment herself. The chapter ended with Guo Yulong crippled and Guo Taichang agreeing to make Qiu'er the next Patriarch, while Zhang Wan'er and her son were mutilated.

• Li Xuanzhong arrived with Jiang Dao and demanded that Guo Taichang answer for how the Guo Family had treated Li Xuling.
• Guo Taichang brought out Li Xuling, whose gaunt appearance enraged Li Xuanzhong, but she stopped him from attacking the Guo Family and asked to handle the matter herself.
• Li Xuling ordered Zhang Wan'er and her son brought before her, then had them beaten and sentenced to be blinded, silenced, and mutilated.
• Guo Yulong tried to protect Zhang Wan'er and his son, but Li Xuanzhong crippled him with a strike to his dantian.
• Li Xuanzhong pressured Guo Taichang to install Qiu'er as Patriarch, and Guo Taichang agreed to hold the ceremony in a few days.
• Guo Family clansmen carried out Li Xuling's order, leaving Zhang Wan'er and her son mutilated.

Li Xinge emerged from a year of seclusion having reached great accomplishment in the Qi and Blood Realm and reviewed the Li Family’s rapid growth. After the elders reported on the clan’s affairs and the younger generation, he left the lineage focused on nurturing its new talent.

• Li Xuling took control of the Guo Family, pledged to secure its medicinal herb supply for the Li Family, and used Li Xuanzhong’s support to consolidate her authority before they returned to Baihe County.
• Li Xinge ended his year in seclusion and reached great accomplishment in the Qi and Blood Realm.
• Li Xinge inspected the lineage panel and found that the Li Family had grown to 1,427 members, gained wealth and vassals, and strengthened its cultivation buffs.
• Li Xinge summoned the elders, heard their reports, and praised Li Xuanzhong and the others for defending the Li Family’s dignity in the Guo Family dispute.
• The elders reported that Li Wuyou had reached minor accomplishment in body cultivation at age nine and that the clan had discovered several children and recruits with ranked talent; Li Xinge ordered the clan to nurture them.

Li Xingzong found awakening clarity grass at a market stall and bought it, but a wealthy young man tried to take it by force. When the young man's attendant attacked, Uncle Yan Wu appeared to protect Li Xingzong and Li Wu.

• Li Xingzong spotted awakening clarity grass at an old man's stall and bought the entire collection for a silver ingot.
• A richly dressed young man offered gold for the herbs, but the old man upheld the sale and Li Xingzong refused to give them up.
• The young man attacked Li Xingzong, and their palm strikes collided with both stepping back three paces.
• The young man ordered his attendant to attack, and Li Xingzong told Li Wu to run for help.
• Uncle Yan Wu appeared, blocked the attendant's attack, and told the boys to leave the matter to him.

After Zhao Wude’s son was beaten by Li Yanwu and his companions, Zhao ordered Baihe County sealed and demanded that Li Xingcong be arrested. Li Xingcong ignored him, and Zhao’s constables abandoned him, leaving him humiliated and isolated.

• Li Yanwu and another man beat Zhao Wude’s son until his attendant revealed that he was the County Magistrate’s son, then Li Yanwu ordered them to stop.
• Zhao Wude struck the attendant for failing to protect his son and ordered guards to tell Li Xingcong to seal Baihe County Town.
• Li Xingcong refused to obey Zhao Wude’s order, viewing it as another attempt by Zhao to seize power.
• Zhao Wude rejected his advisor’s warning and ordered more than five hundred constables to arrest Li Xingcong at Baihe Great Camp.
• The constables invented excuses and fled, while the sole remaining constable collapsed, leaving Zhao Wude alone in the courtyard.

Zhao Wude confronted Li Xingcong at Baihe Great Camp after the County Lieutenant defied his order, but the soldiers refused to obey the magistrate and declared their loyalty to the Li Family. When Zhao Wude attacked Li Xingcong, the Li Family Head arrived and struck him down, leaving the camp’s soldiers kneeling in greeting.

• Zhao Wude left his adviser behind at the county office, and the adviser revealed his ties to the Li Family before sending a secret letter to Green Maple Valley.
• Zhao Wude brought his trusted followers to Baihe Great Camp, where the guards barred them from entering without Li Xingcong’s order.
• Li Xingcong defended his refusal to seal the County Town, and Zhao Wude ordered his men to seize him as a rebel.
• The soldiers stood by Li Xingcong and shouted that they ate, dressed, and served the Li Family, frightening Zhao Wude’s followers.
• Zhao Wude attacked Li Xingcong, but a Qi and Blood arrow pierced his shield and badly wounded him.
• The Li Family Head arrived, declared that Zhao Wude could not harm his people, and was greeted by Li Xingcong and the kneeling soldiers.

Li Xinge humiliated County Magistrate Zhao Wude, who sent his son Zhao Mingying to deliver an accusation against the Li Clan to the prefectural city. Meanwhile, strange changes in the Qinghe Mountain Range threatened the Li Clan’s Medicine Valley and the herb gatherers nearby.

• Li Xinge defeated Zhao Wude, ordered Li Xingcong to take him home, and warned him to keep his head down around the Li Clan.
• After waking, Zhao Wude wrote an accusation against the Li Clan and sent Zhao Mingying toward the prefectural city when his men failed to return.
• A hidden watcher followed Zhao Mingying as he slipped out of the Prefectural Office at night.
• Li Xinge learned that two groups of herb gatherers had gone missing from Medicine Valley and ordered the Clan to investigate the Demonic Snake and protect the valley.
• Herb gatherers discussed the rising number of beasts and the Mountain Spirit Squad’s disappearance before a colossal shadow engulfed their camp.

The demonic calamity spread through Ascending Dragon Prefecture as the Li Family evacuated its people and officials debated sending troops to the Qinghe Mountain Range. Red Maple City fell to a massive horde led by the Fire Winged Tiger Lord, leaving the Demon Race free to advance deeper into the prefecture.

• Li Xinge ordered the First Elder to evacuate family members from the Qinghe Mountain Range and tasked the Second Elder with protecting Li Family Town.
• The Prefect ordered Zhang Xingyi to lead Ascending Dragon Prefecture’s forces against the demonic chaos despite objections from the Prefectural Assistant’s faction.
• A vast demonic horde attacked Red Maple City, breached its walls, and overwhelmed its defenders.
• The Fire Winged Tiger Lord arrived, killed the fleeing Qi and Blood Realm commander and deputy generals with its roar, and allowed the Demon Race to advance into Ascending Dragon Prefecture.

After Red Maple City fell, the Li Family activated its Kindling Plan and prepared to face the Demonic Chaos alongside Baihe County’s other powers. First Elder tested whether the Li Family’s Attendants would stay, and Jiang Dao pledged to live and die with the Lineage.

• A messenger told the Li Family elders that Red Maple City had fallen, prompting them to activate the Kindling Plan.
• The elders urged Li Xinge to step down and lead the Lineage’s kindling out of Ascending Dragon Prefecture, but he refused and assigned Sixth Elder and Seventh Elder to carry out the plan.
• Li Xinge ordered invitations sent to Baihe County’s major families and sect leaders for a meeting at Green Maple Valley.
• First Elder told Jiang Dao and Tian Can that they were free to leave the Li Family before the coming danger, and Tian Can departed with the other Attendant.
• Jiang Dao stayed and vowed to live and die with the Lineage, after which Li Xinge emerged from behind a screen and shared a smile with First Elder.

As the Demonic Chaos approached Baihe County, Li Xuan­zhong killed the Heavenly Cripple Duo for abandoning the Li Family. Li Xinge gathered the county’s forces and established the Baihe County Aristocratic Alliance, becoming its Alliance Leader.

• Li Xuanzhong caught the fleeing Heavenly Cripple Duo and killed them with a blood-red palm strike.
• The Li Family sent invitations to Baihe County’s forces, who gathered at Green Maple Valley amid fears of the coming Demonic Chaos.
• Li Xinge welcomed the gathered leaders, including Zheng Cangfeng, and proposed forming an alliance to resist the crisis.
• The Chen Family and the Li Family’s vassals supported Li Xinge as Alliance Leader.
• Zheng Cangfeng and the Shangguan Family Head agreed to join and support Li Xinge, officially establishing the Baihe County Aristocratic Alliance with Li Xinge as its leader.

Li Xinge led the alliance forces to Feilong Gorge and defended their hastily built checkpoint against the Demonic Chaos. After he killed the Rat King and captured its fleeing ghost in the Hundred Ghost Banner, two immense demons approached, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• Li Xinge gathered the county's forces at Green Maple Valley and marched them to Feilong Gorge to stop the beast tide.
• The alliance forces built a stone checkpoint and used repeating crossbows to slaughter waves of attacking Rat Demons.
• Li Xinge formed a blood-red bow and killed the high-level Rat King with a single arrow.
• Li Xinge used the Hundred Ghost Banner to absorb the ghostly shadow that escaped the Rat King's death.
• The Rat Demons fell into disarray, while the Snake Demon and a gigantic demon bear advanced toward the checkpoint.
• Li Xinge calmly faced the approaching great demons as the alliance leaders feared for the Human Race.

Li Xinge and Zheng Cangfeng defended Feilong Gorge, killing two Great Demons and driving the Demon Race into retreat. Zheng Cangfeng and Baihe County's other powers pledged allegiance to the Li Family, leaving it as the county's undisputed first family.

• Li Xinge faced the Snake Demon while Zheng Cangfeng engaged the bear demon, as cultivators and demons fought fiercely around the pass.
• Li Xinge used Pure Heart Swordplay to kill the Snake Demon, then claimed its Demonic Core and captured its soul with the Hundred Ghost Banner.
• Zheng Cangfeng wounded the bear demon, and he and Li Xinge killed it together at Feilong Gorge.
• With both Great Demons dead, the Demon Race retreated, and the survivors cheered and gathered the fallen beasts' bodies.
• Zheng Cangfeng pledged the Dongjiang Zheng Clan's allegiance to Li Xinge, and the Shangguan Family and other powers followed, unifying Baihe County under the Li Family.

Li Xinge arranged Zhao Wude’s death and welcomed the fleeing Guo Family as the Li Family strengthened its position amid the demonic chaos. He then recruited Gongsun Ban, a Qi and Blood Realm weapon forger who turned corpses into Human Weapons, and resolved to use both the bodies and souls of the Li Family’s enemies.

• Li Xinge gave the Hundred Ghost Banner to the grand elder and ordered him to kill Zhao Wude during the chaos.
• A demon beast crushed Zhao Wude, and an immense force pulled away his escaping soul.
• After East County fell and the Guo Family fled to Baihe County, the Li Family agreed to shelter them for their own future advantage.
• The Li Family took in eleven Body Realm attendants as refugees poured into Baihe County.
• Gongsun Ban revealed that he forged corpses into Human Weapons and had been expelled by his master for his work.
• Li Xinge praised Gongsun Ban’s research, won his allegiance, and planned to turn enemies’ souls into servants and their bodies into weapons.