Recaps

Li Yin bargained with Li Xinge for her life and the Witch God Hall’s survival, offering its allegiance and hidden treasures. Li Xinge demanded her Divine Soul True Fire and the sacred relic, and Li Yin revealed that the relic was a gu insect called the Heaven-Deceiving Creation Gu.

• Li Yin explained that the Witch God had prepared her body as a vessel and that its possession would erase her soul.
• Li Yin argued that sparing her would let Li Xinge bring the Witch God Hall and the Southern Wasteland tribes under his command, while also gaining access to three treasure vaults.
• Li Xinge agreed to spare Li Yin and preserve the Witch God Hall if she surrendered her Divine Soul True Fire and its sacred relic.
• Li Yin offered herself in exchange for the relic, but Li Xinge rejected her and threatened to slaughter the Southern Wasteland.
• Li Yin chose to hand over the relic and summoned a thumb-sized black gu insect, identifying it as the Witch God Hall’s Heaven-Deceiving Creation Gu.

Li Xinge seized the Heaven-Deceiving Creation Gu and rewarded Guhongzi for bringing Li Yin back. Far to the north, Hua Yu and Yan Kui reached a hidden stone door in the mountains.

• Li Yin explained that the Heaven-Deceiving Creation Gu could conceal heavenly secrets, revive its owner once, and steal another person’s cultivation and root bone, but only someone with supreme fortune or an unparalleled saint body could refine it safely.
• Li Xinge used his Golden Crow sacred body to subdue the Gu and placed it in his divine mansion world, then took Li Yin’s divine soul true fire as well.
• Li Xinge promised Guhongzi materials for a breakthrough to the Divine Mansion Realm, and Guhongzi wept with gratitude as Li Xinge helped him to his feet.
• Hua Yu and Yan Kui emerged from distorted space in a remote mountain range north of South Capital, where Hua Yu opened a hidden stone door in a sheer cliff.

Hua Yu and Yan Kui found the supposed Saintess in the underground palace, only to discover that Blood Abyss Demon Venerable had disguised himself as her and ambushed them. Yan Kui turned on Blood Abyss to save Hua Yu, then ignited his Divine Soul True Fire as the fight began.

• Hua Yu and Yan Kui entered the underground palace and approached the figure seated before the Witch God statue.
• Hua Yu grabbed the figure's shoulder, and the disguised Blood Abyss Demon Venerable struck her and revealed himself.
• Blood Abyss said Li Yin had betrayed the Witch God Hall and prepared to kill Hua Yu while Yan Kui begged to serve the King of Chu.
• Blood Abyss ordered Yan Kui to kill Hua Yu, and Yan Kui pretended to comply before attacking Blood Abyss instead.
• Yan Kui said Hua Yu had once saved his life, then ignited his Divine Soul True Fire, causing his body to shrivel as his aura surged.

Yan Kui sacrificed himself to save Hua Yu, but Cui Yuan captured her and delivered her to Li Xinge’s command tent. Li Yin became the new Great Priest and announced devastating news to the people of the Southern Wasteland.

• Yan Kui sent Hua Yu through a spatial rift, then detonated his Divine Mansion and destroyed the underground palace and the land around it.
• The Blood Abyss Demon Venerable and the others survived the blast, but Cui Yuan appeared with the barely living Hua Yu and said he had captured her.
• Cui Yuan reported that Yan Kui had died and Meng She had been killed by Hua Yu, while Hua Yu cursed Li Yin for betraying the Southern Wasteland.
• Li Yin accepted the position of Great Priest from Li Xinge and said the Southern Wasteland belonged to the King of Chu.
• Li Yin rang the Witch God Bell and identified herself as the Witch God’s Saintess before delivering terrible news to the gathered people.

Li Yin announced the deaths of the Great Priest and the other priests, then used the Witch God Bell to force the Southern Wasteland to surrender to Li Xinge. Three days later, Li Xinge abolished the Southern Wasteland Ancient Kingdom, established Desolation Province as part of Great Chu, and appointed its officials while warning Li Yin to ensure the Witch God Hall obeyed.

• Li Yin declared that the Witch God had appointed her the twelfth Great Priest and ordered the Southern Wasteland to submit to Li Xinge.
• The Blood Bat Cave master and other rebels defied Li Yin's decree, and the Witch God Bell killed them; the tribes and caves then surrendered.
• Three days later, Li Xinge proclaimed the end of the Southern Wasteland Ancient Kingdom and established Desolation Province as Great Chu's tenth province.
• Li Xinge appointed Zhao Wujiu Governor and Zheng Cangfeng Chief Administrator of Desolation Province, then assigned other officials to provincial posts.
• Li Yin promised the Witch God Hall would cooperate with the new government, and Li Xinge warned her that he would destroy anyone who remained disloyal.

Li Xinge entered Witch God Hall’s ancient treasury with Li Yin, Cui Yuan, and the Li Family First Elder, then searched its records for information about the Holy Emperor. He found a damaged jade slip describing a world-shattering catastrophe and left wondering what the Holy Emperor had done.

• Li Yin opened the lake entrance to Witch God Hall’s treasury with her blood essence and Jade Pendant.
• Li Xinge entered the treasury and surveyed its immense stores of spirit stones, treasures, and ancient records.
• Li Xinge asked Li Yin and Cui Yuan about the Holy Emperor, but neither had heard of the name.
• Li Xinge searched the treasury’s records and found no mention of the Holy Emperor.
• Li Xinge discovered a damaged jade slip containing a terrified, fragmented account of a deity, a world-ending disaster, and sacred blood overturning heaven and earth.

After Li Xinge pacified the Southern Wasteland and established Desolation Province, the north prepared for an approaching decisive battle. In Xu Province, Gongsun Ban faced Lü Mengxuan, who demanded the return of the Lü Family’s stolen ancestral remains.

• Li Xinge’s forces emptied the Witch God Hall’s treasury, and news spread that he had pacified the Southern Wasteland and established Desolation Province.
• Princess Royal Jiang Qinghuang learned of Li Xinge’s victory and resolved to accelerate her preparations for the coming north-south battle.
• The Sacred Venerable of the Pure World Holy Church discussed Li Xinge’s victory with a refined young man and ordered preparations for a vicious battle.
• Gongsun Ban carved runes into the Divine Mansion Realm corpse stolen from the Lü Family’s ancestral tombs.
• Lü Mengxuan arrived at the Soul Sect with Lü Family elders, demanded the return of the remains, and threatened Gongsun Ban with death.
• Gongsun Ban denied that he had ordered the theft and claimed the Lü Family’s ancestral tomb had been untouched.

Lü Mengxuan confronted Gongsun Ban over the Lü Family ancestor’s remains, and Gongsun Ban claimed he had fed the bones to dogs. As Lü Mengxuan tried to kill him, Li Xinge, the King of Chu, appeared through a Void Ring and revealed himself as Gongsun Ban’s powerful protector.

• Lü Mengxuan presented a tortured Soul Sect elder, who confessed that Gongsun Ban and his disciple had stolen the Lü Family ancestor’s remains.
• Gongsun Ban admitted ordering the theft and taunted Lü Mengxuan by claiming he had fed the remains to dogs.
• Lü Mengxuan attacked Gongsun Ban with crushing spatial pressure, leaving him near death.
• The Void Ring Li Xuanzong had given Gongsun Ban blazed and summoned a towering phantom that drove back the pressure.
• The phantom identified himself as Li Xinge, the King of Chu, and warned Lü Mengxuan for attacking one of his people.

Li Xinge’s Divine Soul avatar killed Lü Mengxuan and his elders, then invited Gongsun Ban to return openly to Green Maple Valley. The Lü Family discovered Lü Mengxuan’s death and began preparing to resurrect him, just as Lü Fengxian announced his success.

• Lü Mengxuan failed to escape Li Xinge’s sealed domain and pleaded that Abundant Mountain Old Devil had desecrated his clan’s graves.
• Li Xinge dismissed Lü Mengxuan’s complaint, declared that his words were reason, and crushed Lü Mengxuan’s attack and Divine Mansion World with one palm.
• Li Xinge killed Lü Mengxuan and the Lü Family elders with his divine sense avatar, then told Gongsun Ban to return openly to Green Maple Valley for a welcoming feast.
• The Lü Family discovered that Lü Mengxuan’s soul lamp had gone out, prepared to resurrect him, and sent people to investigate his death.
• An overwhelming pressure enveloped the Lü Family estate, where Lü Fengxian proclaimed that he had succeeded.

After breaking through to late-stage Divine Mansion, Lü Fengxian learned that Li Xinge had killed Lü Mengxuan and rushed to avenge his family. He arrived at Green Maple Valley and challenged Li Xinge, unaware of how powerful the King of Chu had become.

• Lü Fengxian emerged from seclusion after reaching late-stage Divine Mansion and learned that Lü Mengxuan had fallen.
• The grand elder told Lü Fengxian that Lü Mengxuan died while pursuing the Soul Sect after its Young Master stole Ancestor Xuanzhao's remains.
• A Lü Family elder reported that the King of Chu, Li Xinge, had killed Lü Mengxuan and backed Abundant Mountain Old Devil.
• Lü Fengxian, still remembering his past defeat by Li Xinge, tore open the void and set out to settle their grievances.
• Lü Fengxian arrived above Green Maple Valley and called for Li Xinge to come out and die.

Lü Fengxian stormed into Green Maple Valley to challenge Li Xinge, only to be overwhelmed by more than twenty Divine Mansion Realm experts and brought before the King of Chu. When Blood Abyss Demon Venerable suggested he ask Li Xinge to become his adoptive father to save his life, Lü Fengxian eagerly began to accept, and Li Xinge sprang up in alarm.

• Lü Fengxian shouted for Li Xinge to come out and die, interrupting the victory banquet in Green Maple Valley.
• Cui Yuan identified Lü Fengxian as a newly advanced late-stage Divine Mansion cultivator, and the gathered experts rushed out to confront him.
• Lü Fengxian tried to retreat after realizing he was surrounded by more than twenty Divine Mansion Realm cultivators, but they attacked and captured him.
• Blood Abyss brought the battered Lü Fengxian before Li Xinge, who asked how he wanted to die.
• Blood Abyss suggested Lü Fengxian acknowledge Li Xinge as his adoptive father, and Lü Fengxian sincerely began to accept before Li Xinge leapt up in alarm.

Li Xinge refused to accept Lü Fengxian as an adopted son and demanded that he prove his worth before sparing his life. Two days later, the Li Family rewarded its fighters for pacifying the Southern Wasteland, and the ceremony ended with everyone waiting for the most important rewards.

• Li Xinge spared Lü Fengxian on the condition that he demonstrate his value, and Lü Fengxian left Green Maple Valley despondent.
• Li Yanzhao announced that the descendants of the eleven fallen cultivators would receive rewards, entry to the Li Family's outer sect, and the Lineage's protection.
• Li Qinglin arrived to distribute rewards as Li Yanzhao read out the cultivators' deeds and contribution points.
• Wen Meng received two thousand contribution points, and Liu Beifeng received forty thousand for his battlefield achievements.
• Li Yanzhao finished reading the ordinary rewards, leaving the assembled cultivators waiting for the main event.

Li Yanzhao awarded Guhongzi for his campaign achievements, giving him the resources and guidance to attempt the divine mansion realm and rallying outsiders to the Li Family. Meanwhile, Li Xuanzong broke through to innately great perfection, as a young man inside the Spirit Gathering Tower reached a critical moment.

• Li Yanzhao announced that Guhongzi had earned first place by killing nine southern barbarian cultivators and capturing the Witch God Hall's Saintess.
• Li Qinglin presented Guhongzi with the treasures needed for a divine mansion breakthrough, seven days of Dao instruction, and access to the Spirit Gathering Tower's eighth floor.
• Guhongzi accepted the jade box in tears, and Li Yanzhao declared that the Li Family rewarded loyal service regardless of background, prompting more than a hundred Xiantian Experts to pledge themselves to the family.
• Li Xinge viewed Wang Siniu (Guhongzi)'s breakthrough probability of 36.17% and considered whether rogue cultivators had a hidden advantage.
• Li Xuanzong emerged from the Spirit Gathering Tower after reaching innately great perfection, and Li Xuantong congratulated him.
• A young man inside the Spirit Gathering Tower reached a critical moment.

Li Hao reached innately great perfection at seventeen and asked Li Xinge for permission to leave the family and temper himself. He declared that he wanted to forge a fearless heart, and Li Xinge showed concealed approval without yet granting permission.

• Li Hao broke through to innately great perfection in the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower, astonishing the Li Family elders.
• First Elder Li Xuantong praised Li Hao as the Li Family's Kirin Child, while Fourth Elder Li Xuanzong and the other elders celebrated his breakthrough.
• Li Hao asked Li Xuantong for permission to venture out and temper himself, and learned that only the family head could approve it.
• At the Listening Rain Pavilion, Li Hao knelt before Li Xinge and asked to leave the family to forge his own invincible heart.
• Li Hao explained that his invincible heart meant facing the strong without fear and refusing to bend after setbacks, and Li Xinge regarded his answer with approval.

Li Hao left Green Maple Valley to temper himself without the Li Family's protection, while Li Xinge watched him depart. In Desolation Province, Pei Lie rewarded Jin Muzhen, A Mu, and Fool with military posts for their service.

• Li Xinge permitted Li Hao to leave but forbade him from using the Li Family's name or taking any life-saving resources.
• Li Hao accepted the conditions, bowed to Li Xinge, and left Green Maple Valley at dawn carrying only ordinary clothes and a sword.
• Li Xinge watched Li Hao disappear into the mist and explained to Elder Jiang that cutting off his retreat would force him to persevere.
• Pei Lie received Jin Muzhen, A Mu, and Fool and appointed Jin Muzhen Commander of Military Affairs of Cold Mountain Prefecture, with the other two as deputy commanders.

Jin Muzhen received orders from Pei Lie to recruit two hundred thousand soldiers and seal off the Soulbreak Mountains, then tried to levy troops from the Black Scale Tribe. When Mohe defied Great Chu and insulted the King of Chu, an Innate Realm elder killed him and scattered the tribe’s guards, drawing a powerful figure from inside the valley.

• Pei Lie ordered Jin Muzhen, A Mu, and Fool to recruit two hundred thousand men and blockade the Soulbreak Mountains under orders from the Overlord Manor.
• Jin Muzhen decided to recruit warriors from the major tribes and warned A Mu and Fool to obey orders and avoid falsifying their troops.
• Jin Muzhen demanded fifty thousand soldiers from the Black Scale Tribe, but Mohe refused and threatened his party.
• When Mohe rejected the Great Chu Tiger Tally and insulted the King of Chu, Jin Muzhen called on an old man traveling with him to intervene.
• The old man revealed overwhelming power, killed Mohe, and hurled the Black Scale Tribe’s guards away before a formidable presence emerged from within the valley.

Uzas defeated Mo Tu after Mo Tu attacked him over his younger brother’s death, leaving the Black Scale Tribe’s chief trapped beneath rubble and Jin Muzhen’s boot. Jin Muzhen threatened Mo Tu’s family, while Uzas’s pressure forced the tribe’s elders to their knees.

• Mo Tu arrived at the valley entrance, mourned his younger brother, and demanded to know why the old man had killed him.
• The old man dodged Mo Tu’s poisoned spear and struck him into the rock wall, revealing himself as a late-stage innate cultivator named Uzas.
• Jin Muzhen praised Uzas, who reminded him of his promise to secure an introduction to the Prefect.
• Jin Muzhen trampled Mo Tu and threatened to send his wife and daughters to military camps and his sons to the palace.
• Black Scale Tribe elders rushed to rescue Mo Tu, but Uzas’s cultivation pressure forced them all to their knees.

Jin Muzhen forced Mo Feng to kill his father, Mo Tu, and pledge the Black Scale Tribe to Great Chu. After using the killing to cow the other tribes and assemble a two-hundred-thousand-strong army, Jin Muzhen led it toward the Soulbreak Mountains.

• Jin Muzhen offered the Black Scale Tribe leadership to whoever killed Mo Tu, and Mo Feng picked up the saber.
• Mo Feng killed Mo Tu, pledged the tribe to the King of Chu, and agreed to provide fifty thousand warriors.
• Mo Feng asked Jin Muzhen to become his adoptive father, and Jin Muzhen accepted while privately deciding to have him dealt with later.
• Jin Muzhen publicized Mo Tu's death to intimidate the tribes, then built and trained an army of two hundred thousand.
• Jin Muzhen personally led the army toward the Soulbreak Mountains.

Li Xinge arrived at the Soul Severing Mountain Range with Zhao Wujiu and summoned Sage Xuanji and the southern Array Masters to construct the Two-Realm Teleportation Grand Array. As the preparations began, a young man in another world abruptly opened his eyes.

• Jin Muzhen learned that important figures were coming and watched as Zhao Wujiu arrived at the Soul Severing Mountain Range.
• Zhao Wujiu welcomed Li Xinge, who arrived with dozens of renowned southern Array Masters.
• Li Xinge ordered Zhao Wujiu to protect Sage Xuanji while he built the array, and Zhao Wujiu sent Pei Lie to mobilize the Witch-Suppressing Army and seal off the area.
• Sage Xuanji confirmed the array materials with Li Qingshi and instructed the Array Masters to help construct the seventh-tier Two-Realm Teleportation Grand Array.
• Sage Xuanji used nine void stones to begin setting the array, while a young man in another world suddenly opened his eyes.

Xiao Yuan awakened half a year before the Outer Realm Divine Race’s invasion and resolved to claim the Sacred Relic and unite the Heavenly Martial Continent against them. He invoked the Martial Immortal Token to take command of the Martial Immortal Hall, then confronted the Elders’ objections with his overwhelming pressure.

• Xiao Yuan realized he had been reborn after the Outer Realm Divine Race killed him in his past life.
• Xiao Yuan recalled that the invasion would come in half a year and decided he needed to refine the Sacred Relic to gain the strength to resist it.
• Xiao Yuan ordered Yu Wu to summon the Martial Immortal Hall’s Elders and convene a meeting.
• Xiao Yuan entered the main hall, sat on the Hall Master's throne, and presented the Martial Immortal Token as proof that he had been ordered to take command while the Hall Master pursued a breakthrough.
• The First Elder and other Elders questioned Xiao Yuan’s claim about the crisis beyond the heavens and challenged his authority.
• Xiao Yuan declared he had not come to discuss the matter, then unleashed his blood and qi to pressure the hall.

After reaching the Martial Saint realm, Xiao Yuan took control of the Martial Immortal Hall and warned its elders that the Outer Realm Divine Race would invade in six months. He ordered the sect to prepare for war and summon the continent’s strongest, then visited his absent master’s sealed retreat, wondering where he had gone.

• Xiao Yuan revealed his Martial Saint strength, and the grand elder conceded the hall master’s authority to him.
• Xiao Yuan told the elders that the Outer Realm Divine Race would invade in six months and that even its weakest members were Martial Saints.
• Xiao Yuan ordered the Martial Immortal Hall to enter its highest state of war readiness and open its treasury to elite members.
• Xiao Yuan agreed to send Martial Immortal Invitations, setting a one-month deadline for the continent’s strongest to gather.
• Xiao Yuan asked the elders to unite against the invasion, and they pledged their loyalty to him.
• Xiao Yuan visited his master’s sealed retreat and wondered where his master had disappeared to.

Xiao Yuan left the Martial Immortal Hall to retrieve the Chrono Sundial Disk, a treasure that let him train for five years in the time available before the coming calamity. A month later, twenty-one Martial Saints gathered at the hall, where the Wine Martial Saint angrily challenged Xiao Yuan’s authority.

• Xiao Yuan told the grand elder he was leaving the sect and entrusted him with the Holy Son’s Hall, then secretly headed west.
• Xiao Yuan entered the Heaven-Burying Abyss and reached the ruined altar where he had found the Chrono Sundial Disk in his previous life.
• Xiao Yuan retrieved the Chrono Sundial Disk and recalled that it could create a temporal domain where one outside day equaled ten days inside, at the cost of his lifespan.
• Xiao Yuan vowed to use the extra time to grow stronger and kill the Outer Realm Divine Race and their allies.
• Twenty-one Martial Saints arrived at the Martial Immortal Hall in response to the Martial Immortal Invitation.
• The Wine Martial Saint condemned Xiao Yuan’s threat to punish those who failed to arrive and demanded an explanation from the Martial Immortal Hall.

Xiao Yuan urged the Martial Saints to unite against the Outer Realm Divine Race, which he said would invade the Heavenly Martial Continent in six months, but they dismissed his warning and demanded evidence. He revealed his Martial Saint strength and invoked his master's prophecy, while the King of Chu awoke in Green Maple Valley with a knowing smile.

• The Wine Martial Saint challenged Xiao Yuan's authority, and the Grand Elder defended the Holy Son and the Martial Immortal Hall.
• Xiao Yuan told the gathered Martial Saints that the Outer Realm Divine Race would arrive in six months and proposed forming a Godslaying Alliance.
• The Martial Saints mocked Xiao Yuan's warning, and the Wine Martial Saint tried to leave.
• Xiao Yuan used his Martial Saint pressure to stop the Wine Martial Saint, shocking the gathered experts.
• Xiao Yuan cited his master's divination and swore that the invasion warning was true, but the Martial Saints had asked him for evidence.
• The King of Chu opened his eyes while cultivating in Green Maple Valley and smiled meaningfully.

Li Yuran refined a fifth-tier Profound Clarity Foundation-Forging Pill in Hundred Herbs Hall, using her Myriad Medicine Spiritual Body to control and fuse the volatile ingredients. As she condensed the pill, extraordinary signs appeared over Green Maple Valley, but the result of the refinement remained unknown.

• Li Yuran began refining a Profound Clarity Foundation-Forging Pill with rare treasures in the Heaven-grade alchemy chamber.
• She activated her Myriad Medicine Spiritual Body to suppress the ingredients’ conflicting medicinal properties and fuse them.
• After seven days, Li Yuran completed purifying the medicinal power and replenished her spiritual energy before condensing the pill.
• Heaven and earth reacted as a five-colored pill cloud formed above Hundred Herbs Hall, while a strange fragrance spread across Green Maple Valley.

Li Yuran became a Fifth-tier Alchemist after refining three Profound Clarity Foundation-Forging Pills, while Li Xinge urged Sage Xuanji to finish the Two-Realm Teleportation Grand Array ahead of schedule. The chapter ended with Li Xinge giving Xuanji a nine nether soul-nourishing grass and ordering him to open a passage to the Lower Realm within three months.

• Li Yuran presented two middle-grade and one high-grade Profound Clarity Foundation-Forging Pills to the Li Family Elders, who congratulated her on becoming a Fifth-tier Alchemist.
• The First Elder gave the high-grade pill to Li Xuanzong and reserved the other two for the first elders to reach perfection in the Innate Realm.
• Li Xuanyong proposed a public announcement and promotion ceremony for Li Yuran, and the First Elder assigned the arrangements to the Internal Affairs Hall.
• At the Soulbreak Mountains, Sage Xuanji told Li Qingshi to study the construction of the formation and promised to help him become a Seventh-Rank Formation Grandmaster.
• Li Xinge arrived at the site and learned from Sage Xuanji that the Two-Realm Teleportation Grand Array would take about five more months to complete.
• Li Xinge gave Sage Xuanji a nine nether soul-nourishing grass and ordered him to open a passage to the Lower Realm within three months.