Recaps

Chen Yan persuaded the Cao family to attend the grand elder’s Divine Mansion ceremony with their newborn son, hoping their connection to the King of Chu would help him advance as well. Cao Zhengxiong agreed to seize the opportunity, while Cao Wenzhao and Lady Jiang celebrated their son’s seventh-grade talent and considered announcing it with a lavish banquet.

• Chen Yan urged Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao to attend the Divine Mansion ceremony and bring the baby, arguing that their kinship with the King of Chu could win them favor.
• After Chen Yan left, Cao Zhengxiong remarked that the attendant seemed anxious, then told Cao Wenzhao to prepare for the ceremony.
• Cao Wenzhao handed the sleeping baby to the wet nurse and visited his wife, Lady Jiang.
• Cao Wenzhao told Lady Jiang that their son had seventh-grade talent, and she rejoiced at what it meant for her standing in the Cao Family.
• Lady Jiang urged Cao Wenzhao to hold a lavish banquet and publicize their son’s talent throughout Golden Crow Prefecture.

Cao Wenzhao told Lady Jiang that the Li Family would hold a ceremony for Lord Xuantong’s breakthrough to the Divine Mansion Realm, and they began discussing the King of Chu’s influence. Lady Jiang proposed bringing her younger sister to marry him, but Cao Wenzhao struck her and warned that the suggestion could endanger both their families.

• Cao Wenzhao told Lady Jiang that Lord Xuantong had reached the Divine Mansion Realm and that the Li Family would host a ceremony at Green Maple Valley in two and a half months.
• Cao Wenzhao said Attendant Chen had invited the Cao Family to attend, and Lady Jiang anticipated gaining influence through the King of Chu’s connections.
• Lady Jiang asked whether the King of Chu had married or had children, then proposed bringing her fifteen-year-old sister to Yang Province as his lawful wife.
• Cao Wenzhao slapped Lady Jiang, dragged her from the bed, and condemned her suggestion as a threat to the Cao and Jiang Families.
• Cao Wenzhao warned Lady Jiang that the King of Chu stood equal to the emperor of Great Zhou and that her sister was unworthy even to serve him.

Cao Wenzhao disciplined Lady Jiang for coveting a principal-wife position and endangering both the Cao and Jiang Families, then prepared with Cao Zhengxiong to travel to Yang Province. As they headed toward the King of Chu’s divine mansion realm ceremony, Cao Wenzhao reflected on how dramatically the family’s fortunes had changed.

• Cao Wenzhao told Lady Jiang that the King of Chu’s regard for the Cao Family came only from Cao Yueying, and warned her that overstepping could destroy both families.
• Cao Wenzhao ordered Lady Jiang confined to her room for several months and barred her from going to Yang Province.
• Cao Zhengxiong learned what Lady Jiang had said and agreed that Cao Wenzhao was right to strike and confine her.
• Three days later, Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao boarded a spirit vessel dispatched by Chen Yan and set off for Yang Province.
• On the spirit vessel, Cao Wenzhao recalled the Cao Family’s near-destruction three years earlier and marveled at their changed fortunes as he traveled to see the King of Chu.

Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao traveled to Ascending Dragon Prefecture for the Li Family grand elder’s Divine Mansion Realm ceremony, learning that their status as the King of Chu’s maternal relatives commanded great respect. They arrived at the city and entered under the Li Family’s arrangements, awed by its power and prosperity.

• Cao Zhengxiong warned Cao Wenzhao to behave discreetly and courteously in Yang Province.
• Chen Yan explained that powerful experts from across the southern provinces would attend the ceremony and reminded the Cao family that their royal ties protected them.
• The spirit vessel reached Ascending Dragon Prefecture, where a flight-prohibiting formation kept visitors from flying over the city.
• Li Mo welcomed Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao on behalf of the Li Family and arranged their carriage into the city.
• Cao Zhengxiong rode into Ascending Dragon Prefecture and marveled at its extraordinary prosperity.

Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao arrived in Ascending Dragon Prefecture and saw how powerful the King of Chu’s domain was, while local clans welcomed them with gifts because of their royal connection. Meanwhile, Li Xinge considered the lands beyond Great Zhou’s rule and declared his intention to conquer them.

• Li Mo settled Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao in a lavish villa and left guards at their disposal.
• Cao Zhengxiong urged Cao Wenzhao to carry himself confidently, and they welcomed Dou Changfeng and Zheng Boyun, who bowed and presented gifts.
• Cao Zhengxiong opened the Zheng Family’s gift and found a Blood Gathering Spirit Pill, which he reserved for the Cao Family’s Kirin Child; the Dou Family and Xie Family also brought gifts.
• Elder Jiang told Li Xinge that his maternal grandfather and Royal Uncle Cao had arrived in the prefectural capital.
• Li Xinge pointed out the southwestern region on the map, discussed why the Great Zhou Founder had failed to conquer it, and declared that he would bring it under his rule.

Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao repaid Old Zhou for saving their family, while Li Xinge considered the Cao Family’s conduct and set conditions for its place at the grand elder’s ceremony. The Cao Family was allowed to benefit from its ties to Li Xinge’s late mother, but he warned that he could withdraw his favor if they became greedy.

• Cao Wenzhao recalled that Old Zhou had guided him to the Li Family three years earlier, helping him save the Cao Family from destruction.
• Cao Zhengxiong decided to thank Old Zhou in person, and he and Cao Wenzhao walked through Ascending Dragon Prefecture in plain robes to find him.
• Cao Wenzhao recognized Old Zhou and bowed to him, while Cao Zhengxiong thanked him on behalf of the entire Cao Family.
• Elder Jiang reported the visit to Li Xinge, who said the Cao Family could prosper through his favor as long as it respected his limits.
• Li Xinge ordered that the Cao Family be seated below the Divine Mansion Immortal Clans and that a master of ceremonies teach them proper etiquette.

The Old Devil of Fengshan and his disciple attempted to place Elder Sun’s soul into a prepared body, but the body rejected it. As the Old Devil recalled his past in Yang Province, the chapter left him thinking of the patriarch who had once supported him.

• The effeminate young man brought an Elder of the Xu Province Sun Clan to the Soul Sect’s underground palace, where he was killed and his divine soul extracted.
• The Old Devil of Fengshan used Elder Sun’s soul in another attempt to create a living vessel, but the body rejected it and the attempt failed.
• The Old Devil told his disciple to find a new soul vessel because the current body’s remaining life force was running out.
• The Old Devil and his disciple discussed the First Elder’s approaching Divine Mansion Ceremony and their progress as Human Weapon Masters.
• After leaving the underground palace, the Old Devil looked toward Yang Province and remembered the patriarch who had encouraged and supported him more than twenty years earlier.

Li Changsheng overcame his fear of public ridicule and agreed to accompany his father to the Divine Palace ceremony at Green Maple Valley. Meanwhile, Cao Zhengxiong and his father prepared to attend the ceremony in Ascending Dragon Prefecture City, where they would be ranked beneath the Divine Mansion Immortal Clans.

• An effeminate young man refused to return home for the First Elder's Divine Palace ceremony until he completed his Living Vessel research, and Abundant Mountain Old Devil pledged to help him.
• Li Zhenshan told his wife he planned to take Li Changsheng to Green Maple Valley for the ceremony, but Li Changsheng offered to stay home to avoid bringing shame on his family.
• Li Zhenshan urged Li Changsheng to face the world with pride despite his ordinary talent, and Li Changsheng resolved to attend the ceremony with his father.
• Chen Yan informed Cao Zhengxiong and his father that the Divine Mansion Grand Ceremony would begin the next morning and that they would be ranked beneath the Divine Mansion Immortal Clans.
• Cao Zhengxiong assured Chen Yan that he and his father would arrive on time.

Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao arrived in Green Maple Valley for the Li Family’s Grand Ancestral Sacrifice and were given seats of honor reserved for the Cao Family. As the ceremony began, Li Taiying opened the ancestral hall.

• Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao entered Green Maple Valley and marveled at the Li Family’s Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower.
• A Li Family reception steward led the Cao father and son past the Innate Realm guests to seats of honor beneath the Divine Mansion Immortal Clans.
• Divine Mansion Realm experts arrived, followed by Cui Yuan, whose presence prompted everyone to rise and pay their respects.
• The Li Family assembled in ceremonial ranks, with Li Taiying, its oldest surviving elder, standing at the front despite his Body Realm strength.
• Li Xuantong told Li Taiying that the auspicious hour was near, and Li Taiying ordered the ancestral hall opened.

The Li Clan held its ancestral rites as Li Xinge, the King of Chu, presided over the ceremony and displayed the clan’s immense fortune and growing power. The rites concluded with offerings to the ancestors and congratulations from the gathered guests.

• The ancestral shrine opened, revealing the Li Clan’s spirit tablets as a vast dragon of fortune rose into the sky.
• Li Xuantong and tens of thousands of Li Clan members knelt to summon Li Xinge, who arrived in a dragon carriage and ordered the rites to begin.
• Li Xinge offered incense, and the ritual officer read an address recounting the Li Clan’s rise and Li Xuantong’s breakthrough to the Divine Mansion Realm.
• The Li Clan sacrificed three captured innate great demons, and its descendants prayed for their ancestors’ protection.
• The assembled guests congratulated Li Xinge and the Li Clan as the rites concluded.

After the grand banquet, Li Xinge summoned Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao and warned them not to overstep their place by meddling in his marriage. The terrified father and son left with their family’s favor—and their future—hanging on whether they heeded his warning.

• Li Xinge toasted the guests at the grand banquet, where they witnessed his majesty and the Li Clan's power.
• Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao returned to their guest courtyard shaken by the ceremony, then received Elder Jiang's summons to meet Li Xinge.
• The Cao father and son brought Cao Wenzhao's newborn son to Li Xinge, who remarked on the child's seventh-grade talent.
• Li Xinge confronted them over a Cao Family member's suggestion that he take a principal consort from the Jiang Family, frightening them into blaming Lady Jiang and promising to punish her.
• Li Xinge warned the Cao family not to exploit their ties to his late mother or seek advancement too quickly.

After warning Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao to behave on Golden Crow Island, Li Xinge learned that Li Changsheng was considered a cultivation failure and discovered through his system that the boy possessed the Longevity Dao Fruit. Li Xinge summoned Li Changsheng and his father, and the chapter ended with the system revealing the Dao Fruit’s extraordinary promise of eventual immortality.

• Li Xinge warned Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao to behave on Golden Crow Island, and they left shaken, with Cao Zhengxiong vowing to punish Lady Jiang.
• Li Xinge learned that Li Hao was in seclusion and that ten-year-old Li Changsheng had poor cultivation talent despite his family's efforts.
• After hearing Li Changsheng's name, Li Xinge summoned him and Li Zhenshan to the courtyard.
• Li Xinge scanned Li Changsheng and discovered that he possessed the Longevity Dao Fruit, an inactive protagonist halo, and fortune that could accumulate indefinitely.
• The system explained that the Longevity Dao Fruit would eventually let Li Changsheng transcend heaven and earth and attain longevity, provided he survived.

Li Xinge recognized Li Changsheng’s Longevity Dao Fruit and encouraged the boy to persevere despite his painfully slow cultivation. After Li Changsheng renewed his resolve, Li Xinge praised Li Zhenshan’s family and urged him to have more children.

• Li Xinge learned from the system that the Longevity Dao Fruit could not be stolen because it was a manifestation of the supreme Heavenly Dao’s rules.
• Li Xinge praised Li Changsheng, then asked what mattered most in cultivation and taught him that character and an unyielding Dao-seeking heart mattered more than talent.
• Li Changsheng took Li Xinge’s words to heart, kowtowed, and vowed never to give up on cultivation.
• Li Xinge helped Li Changsheng to his feet, while Li Zhenshan realized that the patriarch had reforged his youngest son’s Dao Heart.
• Li Xinge reflected on the extraordinary gifts of Li Zhenshan’s three sons and told him to return home and have more children with his wife.

Li Xingzong and Wei Qingluo welcomed twins, a boy and a girl, and discovered both had sixth-grade talent. They named them Li Qizheng and Li Shuyao, while Li Xinge prepared to summon powerful experts to Lone Tyrant Manor.

• Li Xinge ordered Elder Jiang to summon Cui Yuan, Lin Chiyan, the Jade Shark Lord, Blood Abyss, Sky Eater, and other experts to Lone Tyrant Manor the next morning.
• Li Xingzong anxiously waited outside the birthing room as Wei Qingluo gave birth to twins.
• Granny Wang told Li Xingzong that the babies were a boy and a girl and assured him that Wei Qingluo was safe.
• Li Xingzong examined both newborns and found that each possessed sixth-grade talent.
• Li Xingzong and Wei Qingluo named their son Li Qizheng and their daughter Li Shuyao.

Li Qingshan comforted his father, who had sacrificed his place in the Ancestral Land to save their disgraced branch, and vowed to restore the family’s standing. The next morning, King of Chu Li Xinge announced plans to invade the Southern Wasteland, drawing warnings from Cui Yuan and the other Divine Mansion experts.

• Li Qingshan’s father lamented that their branch had been struck from the Li Clan Record after his grandfather’s crimes and that he had lost his chance to return to the Ancestral Land.
• Li Qingshan told his father he admired his sacrifice and promised to cultivate to the innate realm, restore their branch to the clan register, and make amends for his grandfather’s wrongdoing.
• King of Chu Li Xinge summoned the Divine Mansion Realm experts to the Hegemonic Mansion and declared his intention to wage war against the Southern Wasteland.
• Cui Yuan warned Li Xinge that the Southern Wasteland’s dangers and the Great Zhou Founder’s past defeat made an invasion premature, while the other experts agreed.

Li Xinge ordered the nine southern provinces to prepare for an invasion of the Southern Wasteland in three months, and the Southern Wasteland priests organized their defenses. The Second Priest ordered lethal traps and the awakening of the Gu Sovereign, while the Great Priest remained in secluded cultivation.

• Li Xinge dismissed objections to attacking the Southern Wasteland, and the court’s ministers pledged their support.
• Li Xinge ordered the armies to march on the Southern Wasteland in three months, prompting the nine southern provinces to mobilize openly.
• After hearing of the planned invasion, Third Priest Meng She and the other priests called for resistance, while Second Priest Hua Yu warned them of Li Xinge’s strength.
• Hua Yu invoked the Great Priest’s power to reassure the priests and ordered Meng She to summon the thirty-six caves and seventy-two tribes to abandon outer lands, fortify defenses, poison routes, and unleash toxic miasma.
• Hua Yu ordered Fourth Priest Wu Gu to awaken the Gu Sovereign, the Southern Wasteland’s guardian witch beast.

The emperor planned to exploit Li Xinge’s campaign in the Southern Wasteland to destroy the World-Purifying Cult, but Jiang Qinghuang’s breakthrough in Shenjing transformed the balance of power. The chapter ended with the Princess Royal surveying the city after reaching the great perfection of Divine Mansion.

• The emperor and Song Wuya discussed Li Xinge’s invasion of the Southern Wasteland and decided to summon the northern aristocratic clans to coordinate an attack on the World-Purifying Cult.
• A vast purple phenomenon erupted above the Princess's Mansion, and an ice phoenix appeared in the sky over Shenjing.
• The emperor and Song Wuya celebrated as they realized Jiang Qinghuang had broken through to the great perfection of Divine Mansion.
• Shenjing’s hidden experts reconsidered their disloyalty to Great Zhou after witnessing Jiang Qinghuang’s power.
• Jiang Qinghuang emerged above Shenjing and looked down on its people with cold indifference.

Jiang Qinghuang emerged from seclusion after reaching the great perfection of Divine Mansion and was assigned to deal with the World-Purifying Cult. The Li Family prepared to campaign against the Southern Wasteland, and Jiang Dao resolved to join the expedition out of gratitude to the lineage.

• Jiang Qinghuang reached the great perfection of Divine Mansion, heard the emperor's account of events, and accepted his assignment to handle the World-Purifying Cult.
• Li Yanzhao announced that the Li Family would march against the Southern Wasteland in three months and offered contribution points for enemies killed.
• The Li Family attendants eagerly discussed joining the campaign, and Guhongzi said he needed three more great-perfection innate warriors to earn materials for a Divine Mansion breakthrough.
• Jiang Dao told Xiuniang he would join the campaign because he owed the Li Family for saving and supporting him, and she promised to wait for his return.

Li Xinge’s forces began their invasion of the Southern Wasteland, annihilating the Ridge Mountain Tribe in a bombardment before Chu Province troops finished the survivors. Meanwhile, Guhongzi infiltrated Stone City and killed two innate cultivators from Meng She’s lineage to earn contribution points.

• Li Xinge’s army crossed into the Southern Wasteland, and Cui Jingze led Chu Province’s War Spirit Arks toward the Ridge Mountain Tribe.
• Cui Jingze ordered the Arks to bombard the Ridge Mountain Tribe, destroying its defenses and reducing its territory to scorched earth.
• Cui Jingze commanded the Chu Army to kill the survivors, and the troops erased the Ridge Mountain Tribe within two hours.
• Guhongzi spotted four innate cultivators among Meng She’s relatives in Stone City and calculated the lineage contribution points their deaths would earn.
• Guhongzi entered Stone City, killed two early-stage innate barbarians with his horsetail whisk, and then killed the women in the fort.

Guhongzi killed Stone City's four Innate cultivators, including its city lord, without being detected. As word of the murder passed from one frightened subordinate to another, a man finally reported it to Third Priest Meng She as “good news,” leaving the hall frozen in silence.

• Guhongzi ambushed and killed Stone City's four Innate cultivators, then escaped with their heads and forty-six thousand contribution points.
• Jin Muzhen discovered the city lord's headless body and sent A Mu to report the murder to Third Priest Meng She.
• A Mu instead told Fool to deliver the news, and Fool passed the dangerous task to Wild Dog.
• Wild Dog grew terrified of facing Meng She and passed the message to a low-ranking barbarian soldier.
• Three days later, the hunched soldier told Meng She that Stone City's city lord had been killed and described his death as a joyous occasion.

Meng She’s massacre of Stone City intensified the Southern Wasteland’s crisis, while Jiang Qinghuang confronted the Dongfang Clan and forced it to submit. The chapter ended with the Northern Aristocratic Coalition losing one of its leading clans to the Princess Royal.

• Meng She learned that his descendant had died, unleashed gu insects on Stone City, and slaughtered everyone there.
• Jin Muzhen and his companions escaped the Southern Wasteland and decided to join the Chu Kingdom’s army as guides.
• The Second Priest ordered Southern Wasteland cultivators to travel in groups and deployed the Witch God Guard against Li Xinge’s forces.
• Jiang Qinghuang arrived at the Dongfang Clan’s ancestral grounds and forced its supreme elders to summon Dongfang Jiming.
• Jiang Qinghuang challenged Dongfang Jiming to submit or die, and the Dongfang Clan announced its unconditional allegiance to her.

King of Chu Li Xinge learned that the Princess Royal had reached great perfection in Divine Mansion and forced the Dongfang Clan to submit, making her a formidable threat. In the Southern Wasteland, the Primal Chaos Martial Saint arrived through a spatial rift, only to collapse after being poisoned by the miasma.

• Li Xinge questioned Cui Yuanhe about the Chu Kingdom army’s advance into the Southern Wasteland, where poisonous miasma caused casualties despite the army’s success against local Innate Cultivators.
• Elder Jiang reported that the Princess Royal had reached great perfection in Divine Mansion, been appointed grand general, and secured the Dongfang Clan’s unconditional allegiance after defeating Dongfang Jiming.
• Li Xinge recognized the Princess Royal as a formidable enemy and concealed his alarm behind a composed demeanor.
• The Primal Chaos Martial Saint emerged from a spatial rift deep in the Southern Wasteland and celebrated finding the legendary land.
• The Primal Chaos Martial Saint noticed the spiritual energy was green, vomited black blood, and collapsed after realizing he had been poisoned.

Jin Muzhen and his companions found the unconscious Primal Chaos Martial Saint and mistook his helplessness for an opportunity to win favor with the Chu Kingdom. After they bound and sealed him, the Martial Saint woke up unable to use his spiritual energy, leaving him furious and humiliated.

• Jin Muzhen, Fool, and A Mu discovered the Primal Chaos Martial Saint lying naked beneath venomous creatures, unharmed by their bites.
• Jin Muzhen recognized him as an Innate Great Cultivator and decided to capture him as a pledge of allegiance to the Chu Kingdom.
• Jin Muzhen used pungent incense to drive away the venomous creatures, then had Fool and A Mu hold the Martial Saint down while he sealed his cultivation with Spirit-Locking Nails.
• Fool and A Mu tied the unconscious Martial Saint to a tree trunk, and the three men carried him toward the outer mountains.
• The Primal Chaos Martial Saint woke up bound and discovered that the nails prevented him from circulating spiritual energy.

Jin Muzhen, A Mu, and Fool surrendered to a Chu Kingdom patrol and offered the bound Primal Chaos Martial Saint as proof of allegiance. As the Chu soldiers took them toward their camp, Primal Chaos Martial Saint realized the upper realm’s military was vastly stronger than the world he had ruled.

• Jin Muzhen, A Mu, and Fool encountered a Chu Kingdom ambush while carrying the bound Primal Chaos Martial Saint through the Southern Wasteland.
• Jin Muzhen and his companions knelt and surrendered, presenting Primal Chaos Martial Saint as an Innate True Person they had captured.
• The Chu army colonel inspected Primal Chaos Martial Saint, confirmed his Innate Golden Core, and ordered the three men to seal their blood qi.
• The colonel had Jin Muzhen, A Mu, and Fool restrained and sent the group toward the vanguard camp with Primal Chaos Martial Saint being carried along.
• Primal Chaos Martial Saint discovered that the colonel was a peak Martial Venerable and even the Chu soldiers were Martial Sect experts, so he resolved to endure.

Jin Muzhen and his companions brought the Primal Chaos Martial Saint to the Chu Army’s Fourth Vanguard Camp, where Vanguard General Pei Lie discovered that the captive’s cultivation did not match the Innate Realm. Pei Lie demanded to know who he was and where he came from, revealing that the core inside him was not an Innate Golden Core.

• Jin Muzhen and his companions entered the elite Chu Army camp under guard, while the Primal Chaos Martial Saint was unnerved by the soldiers’ strength.
• Captain reported to Pei Lie that the group had captured an Innate Realm cultivator and offered to pledge allegiance.
• Pei Lie examined the Primal Chaos Martial Saint with his Spiritual Sense and sensed that something about his body was unusual.
• When Pei Lie ordered guards to castrate the seemingly unconscious captive, the Primal Chaos Martial Saint sprang up and stopped them.
• Pei Lie confronted the Primal Chaos Martial Saint and explained that the core inside him was not an Innate Golden Core.