Recaps

After silencing the ministers, Jiang Wuji ordered the emperor to send Jiang Qinghuang into the Imperial Mausoleum as nourishment for their ancestor. The emperor refused, but Jiang Wuji warned that the Jiang Clan’s survival depended on their father becoming a Heavenly Human and escaping the world’s limits.

• The emperor dismissed the ministers and confirmed to Jiang Yuandu that the imperial clansmen in the Imperial Mausoleum were dead.
• Jiang Wuji said the Jiang Clan could stop concealing its plans and act without restraint.
• Jiang Wuji ordered Jiang Qinghuang to be sent into the Imperial Mausoleum, explaining that her damaged Saint Body could no longer lead her to sainthood.
• The emperor refused to sacrifice his daughter, but Jiang Wuji argued that her cultivation and remaining Saint Body source essence could help their father succeed.
• Jiang Wuji warned that the Jiang Clan’s sacrifices would be wasted unless their father became a Heavenly Human and took them beyond the world’s limits.

Jiang Wuji explained why the Jiang family could not seek help from the powers that had backed them, while the emperor agreed to send Jiang Qinghuang to the imperial mausoleum. Surrounded by the Dragon Tiger Imperial Guard, Jiang Qinghuang refused Cao Jin’s offer to help her flee and prepared to face what came.

• The emperor accepted Jiang Wuji’s demand to send the Princess Royal to the imperial mausoleum and asked for time to handle her.
• Prince Wuning urged Jiang Wuji to contact their backers, but Jiang Wuji refused and explained that the Jiang family had been used as a mad dog and could not escape its fate.
• Jiang Qinghuang continued recovering from her injuries at the Princess’s Mansion, where Li Xinge’s Great Sun True Fire still damaged her foundations.
• The Dragon Tiger Imperial Guard surrounded the Princess’s Mansion, and Cao Jin warned Jiang Qinghuang that the emperor intended to act against her for the old progenitor in the imperial mausoleum.
• Cao Jin offered to risk his life to help Jiang Qinghuang escape, but she refused and said the outcome remained uncertain.

Shi Qianqiu, Chief Pavilion Master of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s Southern General Pavilion, visited Green Maple Valley to offer Li Xinge a Myriad Treasures Token. He revealed that the token granted Li Xinge valuable privileges and the pavilion’s protection, then said Li Xinge himself was worthy of it.

• Shi Qianqiu arrived at Green Maple Valley and presented his calling card to the mountain-guarding disciples.
• Li Xinge learned that Shi Qianqiu was waiting and went to welcome him personally.
• Shi Qianqiu was impressed by the Li Family’s growth as he and Li Xinge entered the reception hall.
• Shi Qianqiu offered Li Xinge a Myriad Treasures Token that granted discounts, priority access to resources, and protection from even a Heavenly Human.
• Li Xinge questioned why the Myriad Treasures Pavilion would give him such a valuable token, and Shi Qianqiu replied that Li Xinge himself deserved it.

Li Xinge accepted the Myriad Treasures Token after Shi Qianqiu explained the pavilion’s reach and pledge to protect its holders. Shi then warned that the Jiang Family planned to target the Princess Royal, and Li Xinge asked whether Shi knew of the Holy Emperor.

• Shi Qianqiu praised Li Xinge’s rise and explained that the Myriad Treasures Pavilion invested in promising people to secure future alliances.
• Shi Qianqiu confirmed that the pavilion could protect even a True Saint and assured Li Xinge that it had never broken its word to a token holder.
• Li Xinge accepted and bound the Myriad Treasures Token, gaining access to any Myriad Treasures Pavilion and its pavilion master.
• Shi Qianqiu warned Li Xinge that the Jiang Family planned to attack the Princess Royal to hasten the transformation of the person in the Imperial Mausoleum.
• Li Xinge considered the threat and asked Shi Qianqiu whether he knew of the Holy Emperor.

Li Xinge learned from Shi Qianqiu that the Holy Emperor was a True Saint and that the Rootless People had grown into a powerful faction in the Nine Mysteries Great World. As they left the reception hall, a spectacular breakthrough began at the Li Family’s Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower, where Li Hao was undergoing a calamity.

• Shi Qianqiu explained that the Holy Emperor was a True Saint and warned Li Xinge to remain vigilant toward him.
• Shi Qianqiu told Li Xinge that the Rootless People had risen to power in the Nine Mysteries Great World, led by the Five-Calamity True Saint Green Wood Saint.
• Shi Qianqiu and Li Xinge left the reception hall as purple qi spread across the sky above Green Maple Valley.
• Li Xinge invited Shi Qianqiu to watch a Li Family junior undergo a breakthrough to the Divine Mansion Realm.
• A dragon and elephant apparition appeared above the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower as the Li Family elders gathered to watch Li Hao’s aura rise.

Li Hao endured the Divine Mansion Tribulation and advanced to the Divine Mansion Realm, astonishing the Li Family and Shi Qianqiu. After celebrating with his family, he met Shi Qianqiu, who recognized his extraordinary potential.

• Li Hao’s Divine Mansion World took shape as spiritual energy and golden life-rain filled the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower.
• Li Hao faced the tribulation’s nine lightning bolts, enduring them with his body and Dragon-Elephant Divine Light until the clouds dispersed.
• Li Hao formed a Divine Mansion World and announced his breakthrough to the Divine Mansion Realm, prompting cheers from the Li Family.
• Li Hao bowed to Li Xinge and received his great-grandfather’s praise for succeeding.
• Shi Qianqiu congratulated Li Hao, while privately judging the twenty-year-old’s talent exceptional and continuing to regard Li Xinge as more impressive.

Li Xinge reassured the First Elder that he would defend the Li Family against the Rootless People, while Shi Qianqiu met the Chief Pavilion Master after leaving Green Maple Valley. The Chief Pavilion Master suspected Li Hao might be a Reincarnated Samsara Body linked to a slain Lin Clan Holy Emperor.

• Li Xinge warned Li Hao against arrogance after his breakthrough and discussed Shi Qianqiu's visit and the Myriad Treasures Token with the First Elder.
• Li Xinge told the First Elder he would face True Saint Qingmu if the storm came, and the First Elder pledged to fight beside him.
• Shi Qianqiu met the Chief Pavilion Master on a Barren Ridge and reported Li Hao's talent, composure, and familiarity with Upper Realm matters.
• The Chief Pavilion Master guessed that Li Hao was a Reincarnated Samsara Body and recalled a Lin Clan Holy Emperor slain by the Li Clan's Divine Power Emperor three hundred thousand years earlier.

The Chief Pavilion Master ordered Shi Qianqiu to watch the Li Family and hinted that the coming Upper Realm passage might offer them both a chance. Meanwhile, Li Xinge rallied the Southern forces at Cangwu Plain and launched the northern campaign, leaving armies marching toward Shenjing as the conflict erupted in full.

• The Chief Pavilion Master ordered Shi Qianqiu to keep close watch on the Li Family and reminded him that the Upper Realm passage would open in ten years.
• Armies and powerful cultivators from across the South gathered on Cangwu Plain beneath the Chu banners.
• Li Xinge appeared before the assembly, and the Southern forces bowed and hailed him as King of Chu.
• Li Xinge invoked six thousand years of Southern suffering under the Tyrannical Zhou and called on the army to march north and take Shenjing.
• The army divided into three columns as the five southern states bordering the north began their advance.

The emperor ordered Prime Minister Wen to write a proclamation condemning Li Xinge and binding Wen to Great Zhou. Wen accepted the order, parted from Wen Zhongyan, and completed the proclamation as the Sea Folk prepared to invade.

• The Marquis of Town Sea reported that the Underwater Dragon Palace had gathered troops for an invasion, and the emperor blamed Li Xinge.
• Jiang Wuji reassured the court that the Progenitor Emperor would destroy their enemies once he emerged from seclusion.
• The emperor ordered Wen Zhong to write a harsh proclamation against Li Xinge, and Wen realized the order severed his path back to the King of Chu.
• Wen Zhong returned to his residence and began writing the proclamation while Wen Zhongyan visited him.
• Wen Zhong told Wen Zhongyan that they would be enemies, and Wen Zhongyan bowed farewell and left.
• Wen Zhong's proclamation accused Li Xinge of rebellion, collusion with demons, and slandering the Jiang Clan, and threatened to exterminate the clans of those who resisted Great Zhou.

At the third Li Clan Grand Competition, Li Xuantong replaced the usual contests with a battle-merit competition tied to the Li Family’s war against Great Zhou. The young disciples volunteered to march north, while Li Xinge dismissed concerns about their inexperience and accepted that they would have to fight.

• Li Xuantong announced that the Li Clan would not hold its usual competition this year, prompting Li Hanfeng to ask why the disciples had trained for it.
• Li Xuantong revealed that the family head had raised an army to march on Shenjing City and called on eligible disciples to volunteer for the war against Great Zhou.
• Li Xuantong declared that battle merits would determine the competition’s winner, who would receive a precious treasure, instruction from an elder, a year on the seventh floor of the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower, and a place in the core training ranks.
• Li Zaiyuan pledged to ride to Shenjing, and tens of thousands of young disciples joined his call to bring glory to the Li Family.
• Elder Jiang warned Li Xinge that the young disciples had never seen battle, but Li Xinge said they had to bleed and fight for the family.

After the clan changed its tournament to reward war merit, Li Zaiyuan and Li Hanfeng embraced the chance to fight, while Li Qiren and other direct-line disciples worried about the danger. Li Hanfeng and Li Hanshan agreed to go to war together, and Li Zaiyuan left the direct-line youths chastened by his rebuke.

• Li Zaiyuan declared that he would fight for the Li Family despite his friend warning him that battlefields brought death.
• Li Hanfeng told Li Hanshan that the new rules suited him because victory would depend on strategy and courage as well as strength.
• Li Hanfeng persuaded Li Hanshan to join him in earning war merit and entering the Ancestral Land together.
• Li Qiren and the other direct-line disciples complained that the new rules put their lives at risk and blamed collateral branches for the change.
• Li Zaiyuan confronted Li Qiren, defended the campaign against Great Zhou, and reminded the youths not to forget the clan's roots.
• Li Zaiyuan walked away as Li Qiren and the other direct-line disciples fell silent in shame.

Li Xuanzong reviewed the Li Family disciples’ dossiers and assessed their character and potential after the family’s call to arms. He recommended Li Zaiyuan for focused nurturing and recognized Li Hanfeng’s composure and intellect, while leaving Li Qiren to prove himself through battlefield service.

• Li Xuanzong marked Li Qiren as talented but impetuous, and said he should receive no special treatment if he enlisted.
• Li Xuanzong read Li Zaiyuan’s dossier, praised his courage and sense of responsibility, and recommended special attention and focused nurturing for him.
• Li Xuanzong assessed Li Hanfeng’s courage, perseverance, composure, and intellect, and recommended that the family continue to watch over and nurture him.
• Li Xuanzong finished reviewing every dossier before dawn, aware that his assessments would shape the disciples’ futures and the Li Family’s prospects.

Lü Fengxian summoned the Sun and Yang clan elders and declared that Great Zhou would lose the war, so Xu Province should defect to the King of Chu. When Yang Chong refused, Lü Fengxian killed him and ordered Xu Province to welcome Li Xinge.

• Lü Fengxian asked Sun Kang and Yang Chong whether they believed Great Zhou would win the Northern-Southern War, and Sun Kang pledged to follow his lead.
• Yang Chong argued that the clans should stand with Great Zhou and urged Lü Fengxian not to defect to Li Xinge.
• Lü Fengxian revealed that he intended to defect to the King of Chu, but Yang Chong denounced the plan and tried to leave.
• Lü Fengxian killed Yang Chong with the Fangtian Halberd while Sun Kang watched in fear.
• Lü Fengxian ordered Sun Kang to announce that Xu Province would change its banners and welcome the King of Chu.

Lü Fengxian surrendered Xu Province to the King of Chu’s forces, opening the route toward Shenjing and enraging the emperor. The emperor tried to use the Emperor’s Imperial Seal to kill Lü Fengxian, but Jiang Wuji warned that the move could draw him into Li Xinge’s trap.

• Lü Fengxian ordered Xu Province’s garrisons to change their banners and welcome the King of Chu’s Heavenly Weapons, allowing Southern Chu’s army to take more than half the province.
• Jiang Zhou’s intelligence network reported Lü Fengxian’s rebellion to Shenjing, where Song Wuya presented the urgent report to the emperor.
• The emperor erupted in anger over Xu Province’s surrender and activated the Emperor’s Imperial Seal, drawing on Great Zhou’s national destiny to strengthen his power.
• The emperor prepared to leave Shenjing and kill Lü Fengxian, but Jiang Wuji appeared and warned that Lü Fengxian could be baiting him into a confrontation with Li Xinge.
• Jiang Wuji stepped aside after challenging the emperor to go if he was confident, and the emperor hesitated before the open path.

Jiang Wuji urged the emperor to buy time by sending troops into Xu Province and warned that the Princess Royal could no longer be spared. Meanwhile, Li Xinge arrived in Xu Province to a mass welcome and accepted Lü Fengxian’s surrender, leaving the province under Chu’s control.

• Jiang Wuji gave the emperor a way to retreat from his threat against Li Xinge, then advised him to send troops into Xu Province and delay the rebels’ advance toward the capital.
• Jiang Wuji pressed the emperor to act against the Princess Royal, and the emperor said he understood.
• Lü Fengxian, Sun Kang, and Xu Province’s officials and experts gathered to welcome Li Xinge as Great Chu’s War Spirit Arks and Divine Mansion Realm powerhouses arrived.
• Li Xinge descended before the assembled crowd, and Lü Fengxian knelt to apologize and offer his service.
• Li Xinge accepted Lü Fengxian’s allegiance, lifted him to his feet, and said he would make good use of his talent.

Jiang Qinghuang confronted Emperor Jiang Chonglou after learning he planned to use her Saint Body to help the Progenitor Emperor become a Heavenly Human. She rejected his justification and fought him, leaving him wounded as their battle continued above Shenjing.

• Cao Jin told Jiang Qinghuang that the emperor had arrived at the Princess's Mansion, and she went to meet him.
• Jiang Chonglou said Jiang Qinghuang's cultivation and Saint Body could help the Progenitor Emperor ascend and resolve the Jiang Clan's crisis.
• Jiang Qinghuang scorned the plan, refused to call Jiang Chonglou her father, and drew her Heavenly Weapon sword.
• Jiang Chonglou and Jiang Qinghuang clashed, and their battle devastated the mansion as observers in Shenjing watched.
• After fighting for half a quarter of an hour, Jiang Qinghuang wounded Jiang Chonglou with her sword, and she rejected his plea that they were father and daughter.

Jiang Chonglou revealed his mastery of Nine Dragons Suppress the Heavenly Gate and used it against Jiang Qinghuang, but her Ice Phoenix Sacred Body shattered the attack. As he prepared to wield the Emperor's Imperial Seal, Jiang Qinghuang's wounds and the True Sun Fire weakened her.

• Jiang Chonglou summoned the phantom emperors of Great Zhou and unleashed Nine Dragons Suppress the Heavenly Gate at Jiang Qinghuang.
• Jiang Wuji and Prince Wuning realized that Jiang Chonglou had mastered the rare imperial art and no longer underestimated him.
• Jiang Qinghuang merged her Ice Phoenix Sacred Body with her Heavenly Weapon and struck the nine-dragon gate despite her lingering wounds.
• Jiang Qinghuang froze and shattered all nine golden dragons, forcing Jiang Chonglou to suppress the backlash from his broken technique.
• Jiang Chonglou summoned the Emperor's Imperial Seal, while Jiang Qinghuang spat blood as the True Sun Fire burned more fiercely around her Ice Phoenix.

Jiang Qinghuang faced execution by Jiang Wuji and Prince Wuning until a Heavenly Human Saint descended and rescued her. The woman suppressed Li Xinge’s Great Sun True Fire, struck Prince Wuning down, and addressed Jiang Qinghuang as “Saintess.”

• Jiang Chonglou prepared to use the Emperor's Imperial Seal against Jiang Qinghuang, but Jiang Wuji and Prince Wuning arrived and told him to leave her to them.
• Jiang Wuji attacked Jiang Qinghuang with the Dragon-Slaying Sword while Prince Wuning struck from above, leaving her unable to defend herself.
• Just before Prince Wuning’s saber fell, an unseen force froze everyone in Shenjing as a black rift opened in the sky.
• A woman emerged from the rift, suppressed the Great Sun True Fire inside Jiang Qinghuang, and knocked Prince Wuning into the palace with a single blow.
• The woman bowed slightly to Jiang Qinghuang and addressed her as “Saintess.”

A woman from the Nine Cold Heavenly Palace revealed that Jiang Qinghuang was its Saintess and had come to escort her to the Upper Realm. Jiang Qinghuang spared Jiang Chonglou but severed ties with the Jiang Family, then collapsed as the woman discovered Great Sun True Fire inside her.

• The woman explained that the Nine Cold Heavenly Palace's Grand Elder had chosen Jiang Qinghuang as her personal disciple after her Ice Phoenix Sacred Body awakened, making her the Palace's Saintess.
• The woman found Jiang Qinghuang gravely injured and prepared to kill Jiang Wuji and Jiang Chonglou, but Jiang Qinghuang stopped her and said they had not been strong enough to hurt her.
• Jiang Qinghuang refused to identify who had injured her and insisted that she would settle her own scores.
• Jiang Qinghuang spared Jiang Chonglou for her mother's sake and declared that she had nothing more to do with him or the Jiang Family.
• As the woman prepared to take Jiang Qinghuang to the Upper Realm, Jiang Qinghuang collapsed unconscious, and the woman discovered Great Sun True Fire in her Divine Mansion World.

A Heavenly Human Saint from the Nine Cold Heavenly Palace learned that Li Xinge had injured Jiang Qinghuang and possessed the Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body, making him a dire threat to her sect. As she demanded his location, Li Xinge arrived above Shenjing in the radiance of the Great Sun Golden Crow.

• The woman holding Jiang Qinghuang suspected the Nine Suns Sacred Gate had sent Li Xinge to harm the Saintess because he wielded Great Sun True Fire.
• Jiang Wuji told the woman that Li Xinge had injured Jiang Qinghuang, and the emperor revealed that Li Xinge was a Lower Realm native who had reached Divine Mansion great perfection in his forties.
• The emperor claimed Li Xinge possessed the Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body, heightening the woman's hostility and fear for the Nine Cold Heavenly Palace.
• The woman enveloped Jiang Qinghuang in frigid power, then asked the emperor where Li Xinge was.
• Li Xinge appeared above Shenjing within a blazing Great Sun Golden Crow and announced his arrival.

Li Xinge confronted Chu Yuehan, an Upper Realm saint whose cultivation had been suppressed to Half-Saint, after she rescued Jiang Qinghuang and threatened him. Their battle escalated as Li Xinge revealed his Great Sun Golden Crow power and Demonic Path, leaving Chu Yuehan stunned by the Three Sha Demon God.

• Li Xinge revealed that he had been hiding nearby to disrupt the Jiang Family's plans, but Chu Yuehan's arrival to rescue Jiang Qinghuang changed his plans.
• Chu Yuehan stored Jiang Qinghuang in a Mystic Ice Coffin, then attacked Li Xinge after he challenged her arrogance.
• Chu Yuehan and Li Xinge fought in the starry sky, where his Great Sun Golden Crow repeatedly vaporized her icy attacks.
• Chu Yuehan used her cold moon and ice field to resist Li Xinge's True Sun Fire, while he realized he could not win a battle of attrition against her.
• Li Xinge unleashed demonic qi alongside his Great Sun True Fire and manifested a three-headed, six-armed demon, which Chu Yuehan recognized as the Three Sha Demon God.

Li Xinge fused his Golden Crow and Three Sha powers into his complete form and overwhelmed Chu Yuehan in their battle. Though badly wounded, Chu Yuehan survived the attack as Li Xinge approached and mocked her.

• Li Xinge fused the Great Sun Golden Crow Dharma Form with the Three Sha Demon God, reaching the pinnacle of the half-saint level.
• Chu Yuehan summoned Cold Moon Reflecting the Illusory Realm, creating an illusory double to fight alongside her.
• Li Xinge unleashed Golden Crow Incinerates Heaven, Three Sha Destroy the World, shattering Chu Yuehan’s frozen mirror realm.
• Chu Yuehan was hurled through barren stars with a hole through her chest and her Dao foundation pierced.
• Li Xinge approached Chu Yuehan and told her she was not even fit to be his dog.

Chu Yuehan broke the Heavenly Dao’s restraints and regained her full strength, overwhelming Li Xinge with a cold-moon attack. Just before it could destroy him, the Heavenly Dao intervened, suppressed Chu Yuehan, and drained much of her lifespan.

• Chu Yuehan, enraged by Li Xinge’s insult, shattered the Heavenly Dao’s shackle and unleashed her saintly power.
• Chu Yuehan’s cold moon froze Li Xinge’s True Sun Fire and began breaking apart his Three Sha Demon God as she attacked him.
• Li Xinge briefly revealed the Tianyuan Cauldron, then concealed it and waited as Chu Yuehan’s cold moon descended.
• The Heavenly Dao opened an enormous eye and halted Chu Yuehan’s attack after she violated its rules.
• The Heavenly Dao’s Seven-Colored Divine Light reduced Chu Yuehan to a half-saint and rapidly aged her, taking a large portion of her lifespan.

After the Heavenly Dao punished Chu Yuehan, Li Xinge shot her as she fled to the Upper Realm, leaving her gravely wounded. She recovered in the Withered Star Sea and prepared to warn the Nine Cold Heavenly Palace about Li Xinge’s Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body, but the Red Sun Saint confronted her before she could leave.

• The Heavenly Dao stripped away half of Chu Yuehan’s lifespan, and she blamed Li Xinge before escaping toward the Upper Realm.
• Li Xinge shot Chu Yuehan with the Three Sha Demon God’s golden arrow, severely injuring her as she departed.
• Chu Yuehan arrived in the Withered Star Sea, recovered some of her strength, and confirmed that Jiang Qinghuang remained safe in the Mystic Ice Coffin.
• Chu Yuehan resolved to warn the Nine Cold Heavenly Palace about Li Xinge’s Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body before the Nine Suns Sacred Gate could act.
• The Red Sun Saint appeared in the Withered Star Sea and questioned the wounded Chu Yuehan about her trip to the Lower Realm.

The Red Sun Saint attacked the badly weakened Chu Yuehan in the Withered Star Sea and destroyed her physical body, though her heavenly human true spirit escaped. Discovering the scent of Great Sun True Fire where she had fallen, he realized something that convinced him the Nine Suns Sacred Gate would rise to greatness.

• Chu Yuehan refused to explain her affairs, and the Red Sun Saint unleashed his Three Tribulations Saint aura and attacked her.
• The Red Sun Saint sent a river of molten lava crashing toward Chu Yuehan, breaking her damaged cold moon dharma form and forcing her to spit blood.
• The Red Sun Saint used Three Suns Burn the World, and his heavenly human world amplified the attack until it shattered Chu Yuehan's defenses and physical body.
• Chu Yuehan's heavenly human true spirit fled into the void, escaping the Red Sun Saint.
• The Red Sun Saint sensed Great Sun True Fire at the site of Chu Yuehan's annihilation and declared that the Nine Suns Sacred Gate would rise to greatness.