Recaps

Li Longxiang entered the Divine Mansion World and found a ruined settlement, where he discovered a terrestrial whisk. As he stored the whisk, a clear voice called to him and urged him to head north.

• The Qi Kingdom's Country Lord and the other Divine Mansion experts opened a spatial passage and warned everyone to obey the rules.
• Li Longxiang entered the passage with a group of Rogue Cultivators and arrived in a vast, lifeless wilderness.
• Li Longxiang searched the wilderness and found a stretch of ruined buildings, then cautiously explored them.
• Li Longxiang discovered a bronze whisk beneath a broken stone pillar and recognized it as a terrestrial weapon that might suit the Dirty Old Daoist.
• A mysterious ancient voice called to Li Longxiang and told him to keep heading north.

Li Longxiang was confronted by Qian Family cultivators who demanded his treasure, but he revealed overwhelming strength and killed them all. After collecting nearby ghostly shadows and erasing the evidence, he continued north toward the increasingly strong voice calling to him.

• A group led by a brocade-robed Qian Family youth surrounded Li Longxiang and demanded the Earth-grade magical treasure they believed he had obtained.
• Li Longxiang dodged the gloomy-faced youth’s attack and killed him with a single kick.
• The Qian Family group attacked together, but their weapons failed to harm Li Longxiang, who killed the brocade-robed youth and the others.
• Li Longxiang killed the thin-lipped woman when she begged for her life and offered herself to him.
• Li Longxiang sucked nearby phantom ghostly shadows into a black cloth bag, searched the bodies, erased all traces, and headed north toward the strengthening voice.

Li Longxiang followed a mysterious summons to an ancient underground palace, where a crowd of cultivators gathered but could not open its sealed doors. After the doors killed a man who tried to break them by force, they opened as soon as Li Longxiang slipped into the crowd.

• Li Longxiang followed the summons north and found a half-buried underground palace at the bottom of a mist-shrouded depression.
• Cultivators from the Qi Royal Family, the Xiao Family, the Wen Family, and other groups gathered at the palace entrance and failed to push open its stone doors.
• Old Yu identified an ancient restriction on the doors but admitted he could not break it.
• A bald late-stage innate cultivator struck the doors with his hammer, and their reflected force shattered his bones and killed him.
• Li Longxiang slipped into the crowd, and the stone doors immediately shook and opened, releasing an ancient aura.

Li Longxiang and the others entered an underground chamber where a jade bottle was guarded by stone dragons, and they discovered murals depicting a mighty ancient being. The first mural stirred Li Longxiang’s bloodline, suggesting a connection between him and the being.

• Li Longxiang followed the crowd down a stone stairway into an underground chamber containing nine dragon-wrapped pillars and a hovering jade bottle.
• Several people rushed for the bottle, but the stone dragons killed them with blasts of dragon breath before falling dormant again.
• Li Longxiang felt his bloodline yearn for the jade bottle and suppressed its agitation while the others debated how to break the pillars’ restrictions.
• The Qi Kingdom’s princess suggested that the murals might reveal how to break the restrictions, and the crowd examined them.
• The first mural seemed to show an ancient emperor whose gaze overwhelmed everyone, leading them to wonder whether he was a heavenly human saint.
• As the group continued studying the murals, Li Longxiang felt his bloodline stir more strongly at the image of the ancient being.

Zhao Nansheng discovered how to break the Nine-Dragon Restriction, but when the restriction fell, its light transported Li Longxiang into a void where a soul fragment revealed that his true name was Li Hao and recognized his primordial dragon elephant body. The fragment claimed its blood flowed in Li Hao’s veins and said that the figure in the mural was their forefather.

• Zhao Nansheng found an inscription explaining how nine people could break the Nine-Dragon Restriction, and the group took their positions at the stone pillars.
• The nine participants channeled spiritual energy into the pillars, breaking the restriction as everyone rushed toward the Jade Bottle.
• A beam of light enveloped Li Longxiang and transported him to an endless gray-white void, where he met the figure whose voice had been calling him.
• Li Longxiang gave the figure his real name, Li Hao, and the figure recognized his primordial dragon elephant body.
• The figure revealed that he was a soul fragment whose true self had died over seven thousand years earlier, and Li Hao questioned how their bloodlines could connect when the Li Family was only about two hundred years old.
• The figure reacted furiously to Li Hao’s mention of the Li Family’s age, then said the person in the mural was their forefather.

Li Hao met the remnant soul of his ancestor, learned of the Li Family’s near-destruction by the Rootless People, and received its legacy. The ancestor offered him True Dragon Essence Blood to refine, but Li Hao insisted on saving it for his great grandfather and angrily called the ancestor the old man.

• The remnant soul told Li Hao that the Rootless People had devastated the Li Family seven thousand years earlier and that he had died protecting his clan.
• The ancestor explained that he had waited for a Li Family descendant and urged Li Hao to avenge the clan when he became strong enough.
• The ancestor summoned the Jade Bottle from the underground palace, where the gathered fighters blamed its disappearance on Li Hao and vowed to kill him.
• The ancestor revealed that the bottle contained True Dragon Essence Blood suited to Li Hao’s Primordial Dragon Elephant Body.
• Li Hao refused to refine the blood because he wanted to take it to his great grandfather, then angrily told the ancestor that his great grandfather was not an old man and that the ancestor was.

Li Hao's ancestor forced him to consume a drop of true dragon essence blood, then helped him refine it despite the agonizing transformation. When the blood's lustful side effect overwhelmed Li Hao, the ancestor brought the princess of the Qi Kingdom to him, and Li Hao lost control.

• Li Hao's ancestor restrained him and made the true dragon essence blood enter his body.
• The essence blood ravaged Li Hao's body until his ancestor used two rays of profound light to help him refine it.
• Li Hao's body healed stronger as the essence blood merged into his flesh, but its side effect left him burning with lust.
• Li Hao resisted attacking the princess of the Qi Kingdom and told her to go, but his ancestor pulled her back and shoved her into his arms.
• After an hour and then another had passed, Li Hao's ancestor remarked on his stamina.

Li Hao received the Li Family’s secret legacy from his fading ancestor, who warned him to keep it hidden until he grew stronger. After the princess of the Qi Kingdom attacked him from behind, her sword shattered against his body, and Li Hao turned to face her.

• Li Hao covered the unconscious princess and confronted his ancestor, who explained that his seven-thousand-year vigil was ending.
• The ancestor passed Li Hao the Li Family legacy, including the Primordial Scripture and two Saint-tier Divine Abilities.
• Li Hao said he would share the legacy with his great-grandfather, but the ancestor warned him to keep it secret and said his great-grandfather could not understand it.
• The princess of the Qi Kingdom woke and attacked Li Hao from behind with her sword.
• The princess’s sword shattered against Li Hao’s back, leaving only a faint mark, and Li Hao turned around to face her.

Li Hao subdued the Qi Kingdom's imperial princess after she attacked him, and the Old Ancestor explained that their union had improved her cultivation potential. As the Divine Mansion World began collapsing, the Old Ancestor gave Li Hao a Void Translocation Talisman, but Li Hao refused to accept his imminent disappearance and insisted his great grandfather could save him.

• Li Hao caught the princess's sword, restrained her, and released her after she agreed to stop attacking.
• The Old Ancestor told the princess that Li Hao's Dragon-Elephant Bloodline had improved her constitution and her chances of advancing in the Divine Mansion Realm.
• The princess examined herself and realized her meridians and cultivation bottleneck had changed, then fell silent.
• The Old Ancestor warned Li Hao that the Divine Mansion World was collapsing and gave him a sixth-grade Void Translocation Talisman to escape ten thousand li.
• Li Hao asked how he could save the fading Old Ancestor, who said Li Hao was not yet capable; Li Hao replied that his great grandfather definitely could.

Li Hao recounted his great grandfather Li Xinge’s rapid rise and legendary victories to the blurry figure, who was increasingly astonished by the Li Family’s decline and Li Xinge’s strength. The figure learned that Li Xinge had defeated four Divine Mansion Realm foes and a stronger opponent, leaving him stunned by the ancestor’s reputation.

• Li Hao told the blurry figure that Li Xinge took over the Li Family Lineage at seventeen and made it the foremost Lineage in Baihe County.
• Li Hao explained that Li Xinge reached the Innate Realm at nineteen by using other families’ hoarded cultivation resources, then reached Innately Great Perfection seven years later.
• Li Hao said Li Xinge entered the Divine Mansion Realm at twenty-nine, making the blurry figure question the claim in disbelief.
• Li Hao recounted how, at thirty-four, Li Xinge fought four Divine Mansion Realm cultivators in the starry void and killed them all.
• Li Hao added that Li Xinge then defeated a powerful Mid-stage Divine Mansion cultivator while still in the Early-stage, leaving the blurry figure deeply shocked.

Li Hao told his ancestor about his great-grandfather Li Xinge's astonishing cultivation and feats, revealing that he possessed the Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body. The ancestor initially dismissed the body before realizing what Li Hao had said.

• Li Hao said Li Xinge reached the Divine Mansion Realm at twenty-nine and defeated a late-stage Divine Mansion expert with one move at thirty-five.
• Li Hao recounted how Li Xinge later killed a great-perfection Divine Mansion expert sent by the Royal House up north.
• Li Hao revealed that Li Xinge was only in his early forties, leaving the blurred ancestor stunned by his achievements.
• Li Hao said Li Xinge had seventh-grade talent as well as the Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body.
• The blurred ancestor first dismissed the name, then reacted with shock when he recognized the Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body.

Li Hao revealed that he possessed the Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body, astonishing his ancestor, who joked about regretting giving him the true dragon essence blood. When Li Hao learned his ancestor was too weak to leave the collapsing divine mansion, he gave him a Soul-Nourishing Lingzhi, restoring enough strength for the ancestor to endure another three years.

• Li Hao told his ancestor he had the Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body, and the ancestor realized it explained Li Hao’s remarkable victories.
• The ancestor joked about refining Li Hao to retrieve the true dragon essence blood, then admitted the blood had already merged with Li Hao and could not be extracted.
• Li Hao asked his ancestor to leave the divine mansion with him, but the ancestor explained his weakened soul would scatter if he tried.
• Li Hao produced a Soul-Nourishing Lingzhi he had found while training, and his ancestor identified it as a sixth-tier treasure that nourished the divine soul.
• Li Hao urged his ancestor to refine the lingzhi, and the ancestor accepted it, recovering enough strength to survive another three years.
• The ancestor said he hoped to see the lineage he had protected for seven thousand years one last time.

Li Hao sent the blurry figure’s remnant soul into a Soul Bag and returned with the Qi Kingdom princess to the underground palace, where the gathered experts demanded the Half-Saint opportunity. After the princess left, they surrounded Li Hao and threatened him, but he mocked their leader.

• Li Hao explained how the Li Family used enemies’ souls, corpses, and blood, then persuaded the blurry figure to hide inside the Soul Bag.
• The blurry figure entered the Soul Bag after warning Li Hao to use the Void Translocation Talisman and escape once he got out.
• The collapsing gray-white space returned Li Hao and the Qi Kingdom princess to the underground palace, where the red-robed middle-aged man demanded the Half-Saint opportunity.
• The princess denied obtaining the opportunity and stood her ground with the Qi Royal Family’s experts, keeping the crowd from attacking her.
• The princess left the underground palace, and the remaining experts surrounded Li Hao and demanded the opportunity.
• Li Hao mocked the red-robed middle-aged man, who threatened to kill him.

Li Hao effortlessly defeated a late-stage innate expert, then confronted the Qian Family patriarch over the Half-Saint’s opportunity. He launched the patriarch out of the Divine Mansion World, leaving the underground palace’s onlookers speechless.

• Li Hao let a red-robed late-stage innate expert’s saber strike his head, then defeated him with one punch and absorbed the power of fortune released from the man’s crater.
• The Qian Family patriarch arrived and offered to spare Li Hao and let him marry into the Qian Family in exchange for the Half-Saint’s opportunity.
• Li Hao mocked the patriarch and let his palm strike hit his chest without injury.
• Li Hao broke the Qian Family patriarch’s arm, then struck him with a knee that sent him through the underground palace ceiling and out of the Divine Mansion World.
• A strand of power of fortune entered Li Hao as the crowd fell silent, while the Qian Family’s Divine Mansion Realm Great Expert watched the patriarch crash outside.

Li Hao defeated four more Innately Great Perfection experts who tried to seize the opportunity, then declared himself invincible below the Divine Mansion Realm. As the world began collapsing, the cultivators fled toward the spatial vortex while void turbulence consumed everything in its path.

• Four Innately Great Perfection experts confronted Li Hao and attacked him together after he refused to surrender the opportunity.
• Li Hao defeated all four in moments, using his strength to overpower their weapons and attacks.
• Li Hao declared that he was invincible below the Divine Mansion Realm and reflected that true dragon essence blood had helped make him so powerful.
• A vast fissure appeared in the sky as the world began to collapse, and void turbulence devoured the land.
• The cultivators abandoned the opportunity and raced toward the spatial vortex, while those who fell behind were swallowed by the void.

Li Hao emerged from the collapsing Divine Mansion World with the opportunity, astonishing the Divine Mansion experts with reports of his strength. After he rejected the Qi Kingdom Country Lord’s offer and the Qian Family expert attacked, the Country Lord held King Sui back, suspecting Li Hao was no ordinary rogue cultivator.

• The Divine Mansion World began collapsing, and Zhao Nansheng told Zhao Qingyun that a rogue cultivator had claimed the opportunity after defeating five Innately Great Perfection cultivators.
• A Lü Family member confirmed Zhao Nansheng’s account, while the injured Qian Family head identified the rogue cultivator as the opportunity’s holder before passing out.
• Li Hao emerged from the vortex, and the white-browed elder identified him as the man who had taken the opportunity.
• The Qi Kingdom Country Lord offered Li Hao a duke or marquis rank in exchange for the opportunity, but Li Hao refused and said he might consider taking the throne.
• The Qian Family Divine Mansion expert attacked Li Hao with Space Annihilation, while the Country Lord stopped King Sui from joining in and questioned whether Li Hao could really be an ordinary rogue cultivator.

Li Hao was trapped and nearly crushed by Old Ghost Qian’s divine mansion realm attack after underestimating the gap between their power. As he faced death, the primordial dragon elephant within him awakened.

• King Sui and the Qi Kingdom's Country Lord recognized Li Hao as an exceptionally young innate great perfection cultivator and wondered who stood behind him.
• Li Hao tried to resist Old Ghost Qian’s Space Annihilation, but the pressure immobilized him and began breaking his bones.
• The ancestor in the Soul Bag scolded Li Hao for not crushing the Jade Talisman and prepared to help him.
• Old Ghost Qian intensified his attack as Li Hao’s body cracked, leaving him convinced he was about to die.
• Li Hao roared in defiance, and the primordial dragon elephant awakened within him.

Li Hao broke Old Ghost Qian’s Space Annihilation, astonishing the onlookers and prompting the Qi Kingdom’s Country Lord to consider using him to protect the Tian Clan and Qi Kingdom amid the coming war. The Country Lord planned to offer Li Hao the throne while binding him to the royal house, though his strategy depended on whether Li Hao truly lacked powerful backing.

• Li Hao awakened his Primordial Dragon Elephant phantom and shattered the spatial prison holding him, defying Old Ghost Qian’s Divine Mansion Realm power.
• King Sui and the Qi Kingdom’s Country Lord witnessed Li Hao’s feat, and the Country Lord compared his potential to the King of Chu.
• The Country Lord told King Sui he had changed his mind and would grant Li Hao the position of Qi Kingdom’s Country Lord.
• The Country Lord explained that he wanted to bind the Tian Clan and Qi Kingdom to Li Hao as protection against the coming war between Great Zhou’s northern and southern powers.
• The Country Lord said he would save Li Hao if he had no powerful backing, while Old Ghost Qian’s possible defeat could also weaken the five great Aristocratic Clans’ balance against the Tian Clan.

Li Hao repeatedly endured Old Ghost Qian’s attacks, astonishing the gathered cultivators with his resilience. As Old Ghost Qian prepared a deadly strike, a powerful woman emerged from a black lotus and asked Li Hao who had hurt him.

• The Country Lord of the Qi Kingdom hinted that the princess could resolve King Sui’s concerns about Li Hao’s bloodline.
• Li Hao charged Old Ghost Qian, but the Divine Mansion Realm expert repelled him with a palm strike.
• Old Ghost Qian struck Li Hao again, yet Li Hao survived and taunted him, stunning the crowd.
• Old Ghost Qian gathered power for a killing blow, while Li Hao prepared to escape with his Void Translocation Talisman.
• A black fissure opened and released overwhelming Demonic Qi as a woman in the mid-stage Divine Mansion Realm appeared above a black lotus.
• The woman saw Li Hao’s battered state and asked, “Little Rat,” who had done it to him.

Li Wuyou arrived to protect Li Hao after Old Ghost Qian beat him, and rejected the Qi Kingdom experts’ attempt to excuse the attack. She ended the chapter declaring that whoever hurt her family would pay with their life.

• Li Hao recognized Li Wuyou as his great-aunt and dropped his defiant act, while the Qi Kingdom princess realized he was not a rogue cultivator.
• Old Ghost Qian regretted attacking Li Hao and humbly tried to explain himself to Li Wuyou.
• Zhao Qingyun and the other Qi Kingdom Divine Mansion experts urged Li Wuyou to spare Old Ghost Qian for the sake of the kingdom’s balance of power.
• Li Wuyou dismissed their appeal for respect and vowed that whoever hurt someone from her family would pay with their life.

Li Wuyou overwhelmed Zhao Qingyun and faced a combined assault from four Divine Mansion cultivators. As she unleashed blood-colored Demonic Qi, the Qi Kingdom Country Lord recognized her as the Li Family's Eldest Young Lady of the Southern Li Clan.

• Li Wuyou vanished and struck Zhao Qingyun down with a butterfly knife and a palm, leaving him badly injured.
• Old Ghost Qian urged the other Divine Mansion cultivators to attack Li Wuyou together, and they unleashed their magic treasures and abilities.
• Li Wuyou's eyes turned blood-red, and her Demonic Qi transformed into a vast sea of blood that stirred the qi and blood of those nearby.
• The Qi Kingdom Country Lord recognized Li Wuyou as the Li Family's Eldest Young Lady stationed in Tai Prefecture and told King Sui that she belonged to the Southern Li Clan.
• The Qi Kingdom Country Lord reflected that the Li Clan's young geniuses surpassed his hopes of recruiting the boy for the Tian Clan, while King Sui was stunned by the clan's power.

Li Wuyou used the Blood Demon True Technique to defeat and consume Old Ghost Qian, then trapped the remaining Divine Mansion cultivators. The Country Lord of Qi Kingdom weighed the political consequences as the others begged him to intervene.

• Li Wuyou's sea of blood devoured the attacks of Old Ghost Qian, the female cultivator in white, and the other Divine Mansion cultivators, then trapped them in a crimson prison.
• Old Ghost Qian offered the Qian Family's wealth in exchange for mercy, but Li Wuyou drained his cultivation, qi and blood, lifespan, and soul until he died.
• The female cultivator in white, Zhao Qingyun, and the others begged Li Wuyou to spare them, but she called them valuable cultivation nourishment and began draining them.
• Zhao Qingyun and the others pleaded with the Country Lord of Qi Kingdom to save them, while King Sui warned him that letting Li Wuyou keep killing could bring down the five great Immortal Clans.

Li Wuyou refused the Country Lord of the Qi Kingdom’s offer and began devouring Zhao Qingyun and the others, bringing her into confrontation with the Qi ruler. The Li Family First Elder arrived with four other powerful figures and ordered Li Wuyou to stand down, leaving Zhao Qingyun and the others alive.

• The Country Lord of the Qi Kingdom offered Li Wuyou an apology and treasures in exchange for sparing Zhao Qingyun and the other three pillars of Qi, but she refused and began devouring them with her blood sea.
• The Country Lord threatened to fight Li Wuyou and raised the Qi Imperial Seal, while Li Hao worried that she would be outmatched by his Heavenly Weapon and higher cultivation.
• Five powerful figures emerged from rifts in the south, including Li Xuantong, Blood Abyss Demon Venerable, Azure Sky Demon Venerable, an unknown mid-stage Divine Mansion expert, and Guhongzi.
• The Wen Family old woman identified the newcomers as Li Family figures, and the Country Lord of the Qi Kingdom reacted with visible unease.
• Li Xuantong ordered Li Wuyou to stand down, and she withdrew the blood threads from Zhao Qingyun and the others, who fled behind the Country Lord.

Li Xuantong ended the confrontation in Qi Kingdom, defended Li Hao, and led the Li Family away after Qian Xingping’s death. Tian Xuanjing’s survivors were left to reckon with the Li Family’s overwhelming power and the loss of their prestige.

• Li Xuantong greeted Tian Xuanjing, explained that Qian Xingping had started the conflict, and warned everyone not to oppress members of the Li Family.
• Tian Xuanjing accepted that Qian Xingping deserved his fate and promised Qi Kingdom would offer generous thanks for Li Xuantong’s restraint.
• Li Hao greeted Li Xuantong, Blood Abyss Demon Venerable, Azure Sky Demon Venerable, Old Turtle, and Guhongzi before Li Wuyou grabbed his ear for ignoring her.
• Li Xuantong led the Li Family through a spatial rift, and the oppressive force over the Azure Rosy-Cloud Mountains faded.
• Zhao Qingyun lamented that Qi Kingdom’s five great Divine Mansion Immortal Clans had lost their prestige, and Tian Xuanjing challenged him to pursue the Li Family if he wanted revenge.

After the Qi Kingdom's Country Lord ordered King Sui to watch the unsettled clans, Li Hao returned to the Li Family and recounted his journey into the divine mansion world. He revealed that a seven-thousand-year-old ancestor had given him a Saint-tier inheritance, then produced a black cloth bag and said he had brought someone back.

• The Qi Kingdom's Country Lord told King Sui to keep a close watch on the clans, especially the Qian Family, after Qian Xingping's death and the Qian Family head's grave injuries.
• Li Hao returned to the Li Family with Li Xuantong and the others, then described his journey and the mysterious voice that led him to the divine mansion world.
• Li Hao recounted how a remnant soul revealed that rootless people had attacked the Li Family seven thousand years earlier, nearly destroying its clan and Ancestral Land.
• Li Hao said the ancestor made him refine a drop of true dragon essence blood and gave him the Primordial Scripture and two Saint-tier Divine Abilities.
• Li Hao pulled a pitch-black cloth bag from his robes and told Li Xuantong and the others, "I brought him back."