Recaps

Li Xinge saw through the Progenitor Emperor’s claims and refused to hand over the Celestial Person’s Heart, recognizing that the ancestor intended to possess his body. As the Progenitor Emperor attacked, Li Xinge summoned the Golden Dragon of Fortune from Green Maple Valley.

• Li Xinge questioned the Progenitor Emperor’s story about being betrayed, but the emperor claimed his enemies had coveted his legacy.
• Li Xinge recalled the Great Zhou Founder’s bloodline-devouring method of attaining sainthood and doubted that restoring the Progenitor Emperor would benefit him or the Li Family.
• The Progenitor Emperor threatened Li Xinge, then offered to help him reach the Saint Realm if he surrendered the Celestial Person’s Heart.
• Li Xinge accused the Progenitor Emperor of wanting to possess his body, and the emperor admitted his plan to take over Li Xinge’s flesh.
• The Progenitor Emperor unleashed a gray attack to erase Li Xinge’s divine soul, but Li Xinge summoned the Golden Dragon of Fortune from Green Maple Valley toward Shenjing.

Li Xinge absorbed the Fortune Divine Dragon’s power and became a Heavenly Human Saint, then defeated the “Progenitor Emperor” in a battle across the starry sky. After destroying the emperor’s Saint-Slaying Art and physical body, Li Xinge focused on the blood-red light left behind.

• The Fortune Divine Dragon entered Li Xinge, helping him break through to the Heavenly Human Realm and freeze the “Progenitor Emperor’s” attack.
• Li Xinge followed the “Progenitor Emperor” into the starry sky and wounded him with his Sacred Weapon.
• The “Progenitor Emperor” unleashed his Heavenly Human World and used the Jiang Family’s wronged souls to block Li Xinge’s sword strike.
• The “Progenitor Emperor” summoned his Saint-Slaying Art, but Li Xinge merged the Three Sha Demon God with the Ancestor Sacred Weapon and shattered the art and its altar.
• Li Xinge struck down the “Progenitor Emperor’s” physical body, then approached the remaining blood-red light as his saintly aura faded.

Li Xinge exposed the blood-red entity as a sentient half of the Holy Emperor’s Celestial Person’s Heart and refined it inside the Tianyuan Cauldron. In the Upper Realm, the Nine Mysteries Li Family’s grand elder sensed something alarming and reacted with terror.

• Li Xinge used the Ancestor Sacred Weapon to show that the blood-red entity was not the Holy Emperor.
• Li Xinge identified the entity as the half of the Holy Emperor’s Celestial Person’s Heart that had gained sentience through the Jiang Clan’s blood sacrifices.
• Li Xinge pulled the entity into the Tianyuan Cauldron and refined it despite its pleas.
• In the Nine Mysteries Li Family’s ancestral hall, the grand elder sensed something and asked the gathered elders if they had noticed it.
• The grand elder sensed again, opened his eyes, and showed terror to the elders.

The Nine Mysteries Li Family elders learned that the man they had betrayed had returned to life in the Lower Realm, but the Grand Elder believed he was still weak. They decided to wait for the family head to reach Six-Calamity True Saint before confronting him, expecting the breakthrough within a hundred years.

• The Grand Elder sensed the aura of the man the Li Family had betrayed and confirmed that he had returned to life.
• The Grand Elder reasoned that the man’s cultivation was greatly diminished and that he would need centuries to recover.
• The Grand Elder reassured the elders that the family head was attempting to break through to Six-Calamity True Saint.
• The Second Elder urged the Li Family to send experts to kill the man while he was weak, but the Grand Elder warned that Heavenly Dao suppression and the man’s Sacred Weapon would make their mission fatal.
• The Grand Elder said the family head must reach Six-Calamity True Saint before descending to defeat the man, and predicted he would reach the threshold within a hundred years.

Li Xinge defeated the Progenitor Emperor, ending the Jiang Clan's six-thousand-year scheme and the Great Zhou's rule. With his followers and the people calling on him to take the throne, he became emperor and ushered in a new era.

• In the upper realm, Li Family elders blamed the Jiang Clan for betraying them and vowed to destroy it when they descended to the lower realm.
• After recovering from his battle, Li Xinge returned to Shenjing City, where his forces had defeated or captured most of the Northern Aristocratic Clan's experts.
• Jiang Chonglou demanded to know where the Progenitor Emperor was, and Li Xinge told him he had slain him.
• At Li Xinge's order, Sky Eater killed Jiang Chonglou, and Cui Yuan asked Li Xinge to ascend the throne.
• Li Xinge accepted the throne as the crowd acclaimed him emperor, marking the start of a new era.

Li Xinge established the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty and approved Cui Yuan’s measured plan for punishing the northern aristocratic clans. After the court dispersed, Li Xinge went to Great Zhou’s Imperial Mausoleum to let the Three Sha Demon God feed on its accumulated resentful qi.

• Li Xinge tasked Cui Yuan with suppressing rebellions and heard that Dongfang Jiming, Wen Zhong, and other northern clan rebels had been captured.
• Sky Eater called for the extermination of the northern aristocratic clans, but Cui Yuan argued for executing their leaders and main branches, enslaving lower-ranking cultivators, and pardoning commoners.
• Li Xinge accepted Cui Yuan’s proposal for settling accounts with the northern clans.
• At Ming Tianchen’s urging, Li Xinge named his new realm the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty, and the court and people of Shenjing celebrated.
• After the court dispersed, Li Xinge appeared above Great Zhou’s Imperial Mausoleum and ordered the Three Sha Demon God to devour its resentful qi.

Li Xinge’s elders established rules for the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty and deliberated titles and rewards for its non-Li allies. The chapter ended with the broad outline of the rewards settled after six hours of discussion.

• Li Xuantong announced that the dynasty would remain subordinate to the Li Family and that emperors must come from Li Xinge’s branch with approval from Li Xinge and most of the Elder Council.
• Li Xuantong explained that Li Family members would receive no rewards in this round because the dynasty’s offices were posts assigned to outsiders by the family.
• The elders approved Cui Yuan as Grand Preceptor and Chancellor, with hereditary privileges for the Chu Province Cui Clan.
• Li Xuantong proposed titles and offices for Ming Tianchen, Wei Pingsheng, three Demon Venerables, and other allies, including creating a Demon Suppression Bureau.
• The elders settled rewards for loyal allies and clans, including the Cao Family, after six hours of deliberation.

Li Xuantong revealed that the Li Family’s southern and northern branches shared an ancient lineage, and Li Xinge formally united them. The North Branch’s three Divine Mansion Realm cultivators became elders, greatly increasing the clan’s strength.

• Li Xinge introduced Li Taiming, Li Xuanxian, and Li Siyuan as three new elders, and the hall recognized them as Divine Mansion Realm cultivators.
• Li Xuantong explained that the Li Family originated in Ji Province and split into southern and northern branches after a calamity seven thousand years ago.
• Li Xuantong announced that the North Branch descendants would enter the Main Branch genealogy and that the two branches would unite.
• Li Xinge appointed Li Taiming a Purple-Robed Elder and Li Xuanxian and Li Siyuan Red Robe Elders.
• Li Xuantong urged the elders to treat the reunited branches as one family, while Li Xinge noted that their new allies and more than seventy Innate Realm cultivators had greatly strengthened the clan.

Li Xinge learned that the Ancestor Sacred Weapon was named Qieman, while Tian Xuanjing learned that Great Zhou had fallen to the Chu Emperor. The chapter ended with King Sui proposing that Qi Kingdom submit to the Chu Emperor to preserve its rule.

• Li Xinge asked Li Taiming for the Ancestor Sacred Weapon's name, and Li Taiming told him it was Qieman, a name given by the ancestor.
• Tian Xuanjing was interrupted in seclusion by King Sui, who reported that the Chu Emperor had slain the Great Zhou Founder and toppled Great Zhou.
• Tian Xuanjing realized that even if he reached the Great Perfection of Divine Mansion, he could not rival Li Xinge.
• King Sui proposed that Qi Kingdom acknowledge the Chu Emperor as its ruler and pay annual tribute to preserve its territory.

Tian Xuanjing concluded that tribute would not protect the Qi Kingdom from the Chu Emperor and decided to surrender its territory to save the Tian Clan. Several days later, he arrived at the Great Chu palace and knelt before the Chu Emperor.

• Tian Xuanjing explained to King Sui that the Chu Emperor's power left the Qi Kingdom no safety in holding its territory and ruling independently.
• Tian Xuanjing decided to surrender the Qi Kingdom's territory to the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty without making demands, and ordered King Sui to summon the officials.
• Several days later, Tian Xuanjing arrived above Shenjing City, where Chu banners flew and Chu Army patrols guarded the city.
• Zheng Cangfeng welcomed Tian Xuanjing by imperial command and escorted him to the palace.
• Tian Xuanjing entered the Golden Throne Hall, knelt before the Chu Emperor, and offered his greetings.

Tian Xuanjing surrendered the Qi Kingdom and its Heavenly Weapon to Li Xinge, securing a hereditary title and a future for the Tian Clan. After Chu forces crushed the northern holdouts and incorporated their lands, Li Xinge received confirmation that his quest to unite all under heaven was complete.

• Tian Xuanjing offered Li Xinge the Qi Kingdom, its people, the letter of surrender, and the Qi Imperial Seal in exchange for a path to survival for the Tian Clan.
• Li Xinge incorporated Qi into Great Chu, ordered the Tian Clan’s main line to move to Shenjing, and made Tian Xuanjing the hereditary Marquis of Qi for three generations.
• Li Xinge assigned Cui Yuan to oversee Qi’s integration into Great Chu.
• Chu armies destroyed the northern aristocratic clans that had supported Jiang Zhou and pacified the Northern Border provinces within a few months.
• Li Xinge heard the system announce that all under heaven had been unified and the Main Quest was complete.

Li Xinge advanced his lineage to level five and received powerful rewards, including a way to enter the Heavenly Human Realm without its great tribulation, which he chose not to use yet. He improved the Li Family’s buffs and several elders’ talents, then learned that the Six Sha Demon God Refinement Method could surpass even his great sun golden crow sacred body.

• Li Xinge advanced his lineage to level five and decided to postpone his natural advancement to the Heavenly Human Realm.
• Li Xinge received a Special Physique Plunder Card, the Mystic Fire Mirror, cultivation methods and techniques, Taiyi Spirit Nurturing Pills, and other rewards.
• The system upgraded the Li Family’s buffs, increased Li Xinge’s heavenly human bloodline purity to sixty-seven percent, and announced the birth of three talented lineage members.
• Li Xinge reset Fifth Elder Li Yanzhao’s talent to third grade and Eighth Elder Li Yanjing’s and Ninth Elder Li Yanxiao’s talents to fourth grade.
• Li Xinge studied the Six Sha Demon God Refinement Method and realized its power could exceed that of his great sun golden crow sacred body.

Li Xinge summoned Li Qingcang and offered him the body of a captured Dongfang Clan prodigy, but Li Qingcang refused to possess someone outside the Li Family. He suggested the Jizhou Li Clan instead, revealing that its members carried their distant ancestor’s bloodline and that the clan had long hunted the Li Family on behalf of the Rootless People.

• Li Xinge decided he would eventually refine the Six Baleful Heavenly Demon God, though gathering six Saint Bodies would likely have to wait until he reached the Upper Realm.
• Li Xinge summoned Li Qingcang, whose Divine Soul had grown nearly indistinguishable from a living person.
• Li Xinge offered Li Qingcang the body of a captured Dongfang Clan prodigy so he could return to the world, but Li Qingcang refused because he did not want to abandon the Li Family bloodline.
• Li Qingcang assured Li Xinge that he would not possess a member of their own family, then warned that he could not survive much longer without a body.
• Li Qingcang revealed that the Jizhou Li Clan descended from their distant ancestor but had been planted in the Lower Realm by the Rootless People and had hunted the Li Family for centuries.
• Li Xinge understood that the Jizhou Li Clan’s bloodline could serve Li Qingcang and said he would arrange it.

Li Xinge learned that Li Chengzhang, a talented survivor of the destroyed Jizhou Li Clan, had escaped and ordered his agents to bring the survivors back alive. As Li Chengzhang led his exhausted clansmen toward a place marked by a jade token, he revealed their Upper Realm origins and their plan to seek help, but the group stopped in alarm at something ahead.

• Li Xinge questioned a black-robed agent about the Jizhou Li Clan and ordered him to capture the survivors alive.
• Li Chengzhang led an elder and seventeen clansmen through the mountains while fleeing the Chu Army, refusing to let the group rest.
• Li Chengzhang revealed that the clan head had given him a jade token guiding them to a place where they could send a message to the Upper Realm.
• Li Chengzhang told the survivors that their clan came from the Upper Realm and had been planted in the lower realm to eliminate Li Xinge's lineage.
• Li Chengzhang urged the exhausted group onward, but stopped when he saw something ahead in the mountain forest, and the others grew pale as they followed his gaze.

Li Chengzhang and the remnants of the Jizhou Li Clan were captured by the Snowy Guard and brought before Li Xinge, who learned their jade token could contact the Upper Realm. Li Qingcang took Li Chengzhang as a fleshly vessel, while Li Xinge ordered the remaining prisoners kept alive and supplied with women from the great aristocratic clans.

• The Snowy Guard surrounded Li Chengzhang and the remnants of the Jizhou Li Clan, subdued them, and sealed their cultivation.
• Two days later, the black-robed man brought Li Chengzhang and a dark-red jade token to Li Xinge, explaining that the token could guide its bearer to a place for contacting the Upper Realm.
• Li Xinge praised the black-robed man and ordered him to distribute prisoners from the Jia-Class Heavenly Prison among his men to drain their Qi and Blood before sending them to Master Gongsun.
• Li Xinge summoned Li Qingcang, who examined Li Chengzhang and claimed his body as a suitable fleshly vessel.
• Li Xinge told Elder Jiang to keep the other Jizhou Li Clan remnants alive and send them talented women captured from the great aristocratic clans.

Li Qingcang regained a physical body through Li Xinge’s help, received a Lifespan Pill, and vowed to protect the Li Family against the rootless people. Three days later, Li Xinge’s court heard that Great Chu had brought the Northern Border under its control.

• Li Qingcang emerged from the hall in Li Chengzhang’s body, now transformed to resemble his former self, and rejoiced at being alive again.
• Li Xuantong congratulated Li Qingcang, who explained that the family head had given him a new body.
• Li Qingcang bowed to Li Xinge in gratitude, and Li Xinge offered him heavenly treasures and a Lifespan Pill that could extend his life by two hundred years.
• After Li Xinge warned that the Li Family would soon face the rootless people in the Upper Realm, Li Qingcang vowed not to disappoint him.
• Three days later, at the Golden Throne Hall in Shenjing, Cui Yuan reported that the Northern Border’s provinces had been incorporated into Great Chu and its loyalist factions eliminated.

Li Xinge set the date for Great Chu’s founding ceremony and declared that he would rule as Human Sovereign rather than accept Heaven’s mandate as a Son of Heaven. He left Cui Yuan to arrange the ceremony without sacrifices to Heaven, while his thoughts remained fixed on the dangers of the Upper Realm.

• Li Xinge asked True Person Haoran for an auspicious date, and Haoran chose the ninth day of the ninth month for the founding ceremony.
• Li Xinge ordered Cui Yuan to oversee the ceremony and told the assembled officials that the realm belonged to them as well as the Li Family.
• Cui Yuan outlined the ceremony’s procedures and proposed building a Heaven-Sacrificing Altar to receive Heaven’s mandate.
• Li Xinge refused to offer sacrifices to Heaven and rejected the title of Son of Heaven.
• Li Xinge declared that he would be the Human Sovereign, and Cui Yuan reluctantly accepted his decision.

At the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty’s founding ceremony on Mount Tai, Li Xinge honored his ancestors and proclaimed the Li Family’s restoration. The ceremony ended with a sacrificial address that made no mention of August Heaven and Hallowed Earth, leaving the assembled officials and powers wondering what Li Xinge intended.

• Tian Xuanjing and his descendants climbed Mount Tai on foot, and he warned them that their former royal status meant they had to show humility before Li Xinge.
• Cao Zhengxiong urged Cao Wenzhao to keep the Cao Family even more low-profile now that they were relatives of the imperial family.
• The Dragon Palace Demon Kings and the Demon Suppression Bureau’s three Demon Venerables arrived at Mount Tai for the ceremony.
• Li Xinge appeared before the assembled officials and people, and he kowtowed three times before the Li Family ancestors’ spirit tablet.
• Li Qingcang read the sacrificial address, recounting the Li Family’s rise and declaring that the mountains and rivers belonged to the Li Family again.
• The address omitted any mention of August Heaven and Hallowed Earth, unsettling everyone who heard it.

At the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty’s founding, Li Xinge declared himself Human Sovereign, prompting the Heavenly Dao to challenge him. He defied heaven and attained the Heavenly Human Sacred Realm, while the celestial phenomena of his ascension healed and empowered those below.

• Cui Yuan announced that Li Xinge would take the title of Human Sovereign rather than Son of Heaven, and purple Qi dispersed as the Heavenly Dao’s Eye appeared.
• The Heavenly Dao demanded that Li Xinge explain why he would not kneel, and Li Xinge answered that he had no reason to revere heaven if it did not protect him.
• Li Xinge released a terrifying presence, drew Spiritual Qi into himself, and expanded his Divine Mansion World into a Heavenly Human World.
• Li Xinge broke through to the Heavenly Human Sacred Realm, and immortal music, rosy clouds, and seven-colored spiritual rain filled Mount Tai.
• Cui Yuan’s Dao Injury began to heal in the spiritual rain, while other people broke through their bottlenecks as Li Xinge became a saint.

After ascending to sainthood, Li Xinge forced the Heavenly Dao to retreat and was hailed as the Holy Emperor before disappearing from the world. He met Si Ren, who invited him to join the Myriad Treasures Pavilion before his eventual ascent, but Li Xinge declined for now and remained focused on arranging matters for his Lineage.

• Li Xinge faced the Heavenly Dao’s punishment without fear, and the Heavenly Dao withdrew after recalling the powerful figure who had once rebuked it.
• The people hailed Li Xinge as the Holy Emperor, while the Turtle Chancellor wondered whether the Holy Emperor had returned; Li Xinge then vanished as his ascension manifestations dispersed.
• Li Xinge met Si Ren, Chief Pavilion Master of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, who congratulated him and explained the dangers and hierarchy of the Upper Realm.
• Si Ren offered Li Xinge a Guest Elder position, abundant resources, and the pavilion’s protection if he joined after ascending.
• Li Xinge declined to decide, citing concerns about his Lineage and the need to settle clan affairs; Si Ren accepted his answer and kept the pavilion’s invitation open.