Recaps

Li Nanfeng gathered the Little Min Mountain Li Clan’s cultivators to decide whether to accept the Main Branch’s proposal to relocate. Most agreed to move, while a small group chose to remain and guard their ancestral land, as relocation preparations spread among the other collateral branches.

• Li Yansong delivered the Main Branch’s proposal to Li Nanfeng, who called the clan’s cultivators together to discuss it.
• The gathered cultivators argued over relocation, with elders opposing leaving their ancestral home and Li Yongyuan supporting the move.
• Li Nanfeng argued that the clan had stagnated without resources and urged them to seize the Main Branch’s support.
• The silver-haired elder changed his mind and agreed to relocate, while a small group chose to stay and guard Little Min Mountain.
• Li Nanfeng assigned Li Yongyuan to inform the Main Branch of their decision and told the rest to prepare for relocation.
• More than seventy collateral branches began preparing to move to East County and Stone County, with the Li Family offering limited resources to those who agreed.

Li Xinge learned that his grandfather had arranged a marriage between him and a Yu Family daughter in Yuhe County, so he sent Li Yanjing to investigate her before deciding whether to honor the engagement. Li Yanjing discovered that she was already engaged to another man and pregnant, and his shocked outburst attracted a drunken patron.

• Li Xinge asked the Grand Elder about his grandfather’s marriage arrangement and learned that his fiancée was the granddaughter of an old friend from the Yu Family in Yuhe County.
• Li Xinge asked whether the Yu Family daughter had Ninth-grade talent and joked about her becoming a mocked good-for-nothing, then ordered Li Yanjing to investigate the family.
• Li Yanjing and his team reached Yuhe County and investigated the Yu Family, finding that the family head was Yu Wenze and that his daughter was Li Xinge’s fiancée.
• A Night Owl Hall spy told Li Yanjing that Miss Yu seemed ordinary but had held an engagement ceremony two days earlier, planned to marry in half a month, and was already pregnant.
• Li Yanjing shattered the tavern table in anger, and a drunken patron approached to demand an apology.

Li Yanjing returned to Green Maple Valley with the results of his investigation into the Yu Family, prompting Li Xinge to uncover that their old marriage contract might be known to others. Li Xinge told the First Elder to forget the matter, then left with Li Family elites as the Yu Family prepared for the Eldest Young Lady’s wedding.

• Li Yanjing and the Night Owl Hall elites killed a drunk man who claimed to belong to the Yao Family, paid the tavern keeper, and left.
• More than ten days later, Li Yanjing returned to Green Maple Valley and presented his investigation report to Li Xinge.
• Li Xinge summoned the First Elder and asked who knew about his marriage contract with the Yu Family.
• Li Xinge told the First Elder to forget the contract and entrusted him with the family’s affairs before departing.
• One day later, Li Xinge led dozens of Li Family elites out of Green Maple Valley.
• The Yu Family decorated its compound for the Eldest Young Lady’s wedding to a powerful family scheduled for the next day.

Yu Wenze’s father, the Yu Family Ancestor, condemned him for arranging Yu Mingzhen’s pregnancy before her marriage contract with the Li Family was canceled, then revealed he planned to kill the Li Family’s grandson. On Yu Mingzhen’s wedding day, guests celebrated her marriage to the Tong Family’s eldest son while gossip spread that she had seduced him and become pregnant.

• Yu Wenze tried to persuade the Yu Family Ancestor to accept Yu Mingzhen’s marriage to the Tong Family’s eldest son, but the ancestor rebuked him for dishonoring the Li Family and risking its enmity.
• The Yu Family Ancestor said he would visit the Green Maple Li Clan after the wedding and kill his old friend’s grandson, leaving Yu Wenze stunned.
• Yu Mingzhen prepared for her wedding in a red gown and hoped her unborn child would be a boy who would secure her standing in the Tong Family.
• Guests at the Yu residence praised the match with the Tong Family’s future head and discussed the powerful people attending the wedding.
• A guest claimed that Yu Mingzhen had seduced the Tong Family’s eldest son and become pregnant, and the surrounding guests eagerly believed the gossip.

Li Xinge arrived at the Yu Family’s wedding procession with a funeral cortege and a superior coffin, disrupting the Tong and Yu Families’ celebration. His followers welcomed him as Family Head, leaving Tong Mingliang overwhelmed by the strength of the Li Family forces.

• Jiang Dao told Li Xinge that the time had come, and Li Xinge ended his cultivation.
• Tong Huaiqing arrived at the Yu Family estate with Tong Mingliang and was welcomed by the Yu Family elders.
• Funeral music interrupted the wedding procession, and a caller announced that Li Xinge had brought a superior coffin as a congratulatory gift.
• Tong Mingliang confronted the approaching funeral procession, then saw its many Body Realm cultivators and four Qi and Blood Realm experts.
• The four experts bowed to Li Xinge and welcomed him as Family Head while the other cultivators knelt, and Tong Mingliang staggered and collapsed.

Li Xinge, Family Head of the Baihe Li Clan, confronted the Tong and Yu Families at the Yu Family residence and demanded to know whether they were dissatisfied with his gift. The guests fled, while the Yu Family patriarch denied offending the powerful clan, leaving Tong Mingliang baffled about why Li Xinge had come.

• Li Xinge arrived at the Yu Family residence and asked whether the Tong Family was dissatisfied with the gift he had sent.
• Tong Huaiqing tried to welcome Li Xinge, but Jiang Dao rebuked him and declared that they belonged to the Baihe Li Clan.
• The crowd recognized Li Xinge as the Baihe Li Clan's Family Head, and Jiang Dao ordered everyone outside the Tong and Yu Families to leave.
• Tong Mingliang questioned the Yu Family patriarch, Yu Wenhu, about offending Li Xinge and the Baihe Li Clan.
• Yu Wenhu denied that his family had offended them, and Tong Mingliang remained confused about why Li Xinge had come.

Li Xinge revealed that the Baihe Li Clan was the former Green Maple Li Clan and punished the Yu and Tong families for breaking Yu Mingzhen’s marriage contract. The Yu Family was slaughtered, while Yu Wenze was left to face torture and the Yao Family was marked for punishment.

• Yu Wenze and the Yu Family Old Ancestor realized that Li Xinge was connected to the former Green Maple Li Clan and to Yu Mingzhen’s marriage contract.
• Jiang Dao beat the Yu Family Old Ancestor and forced him to kneel before Li Xinge, who killed him.
• Tong Mingliang begged Li Xinge for mercy, but Jiang Dao beheaded him and Li Xinge ordered the Tong Family exterminated.
• Li Family warriors slaughtered the Yu Family, while Li Yanjing crippled Yu Wenze and Tong Huaiqing and dragged them before Li Xinge.
• Yu Wenze revealed that the Yao Family Old Ancestor knew about the marriage contract, and Li Xinge ordered one hundred and eight thousand cuts for Yu Wenze.
• Li Yanjing cut out Yu Wenze’s tongue as Yu Wenze regretted rejecting Li Xinge as his son-in-law.

Li Xinge spared Tong Huaiqing and Yu Mingzhen after forcing them to choose between killing each other, but threatened the Tong Family to make them comply. He ordered the Yao Family exterminated and prepared to turn his attention to the Tong Family.

• Li Xinge found Yu Mingzhen, whose pregnancy made him suspect the truth about her relationship with Tong Huaiqing.
• Yu Mingzhen and Tong Huaiqing refused Li Xinge's offer to spare one of them if the other killed their beloved.
• Li Xinge ordered Li Yanjing to take Tong Huaiqing and Yu Mingzhen to Green Maple Valley, then threatened the Tong Family to ensure Tong Huaiqing obeyed.
• Li Xinge sent Jiang Dao to wipe out the Yao Family because its Old Ancestor knew about the engagement.
• Cheng Zhao and Zhang He reported that the Yu Family had no survivors, and Li Xinge said he would take them on another trip.

Tong Mingrui sought Dou Zhaoling’s help after learning that trouble had erupted at the Yu Family, but the attackers soon assaulted the Tong Family’s gates. As the Li Family fought at the gates, Li Xinge rewarded Jiang Dao with permission to learn a Profound Rank martial technique, leaving Jiang Dao deeply devoted to the Li Family.

• Tong Mingrui learned that a powerful group had appeared at the Yu Family and asked Dou Zhaoling to mediate.
• A Tong Family messenger reported that the family’s gates were under attack and its First Elder and Third Elder were fighting the invaders.
• At the Tong Family gates, Li Yanzhao fought the First Elder while Cheng Zhao battled the Third Elder, as Li Xinge and Jiang Dao watched.
• Li Xinge praised Jiang Dao’s service and granted him permission to study a Profound Rank martial technique.
• Jiang Dao swore lifelong loyalty to Li Xinge and the Li Family, and Li Xinge helped him to his feet.

Li Yanzhao and the Li Family fighters overwhelmed the Tong Family at its mountain gate, while Li Xinge rejected Dou Zhaoling’s attempt to stop them. After Li Xinge revealed himself as the Baihe Li Clan’s Family Head, Dou Zhaoling backed down, leaving the Tong Family without the Dou Family’s protection.

• Li Yanzhao severed the Tong Family First Elder’s arm with a Profound Rank martial technique, then Jiang Dao stepped in to block Tong Mingrui’s attack.
• Jiang Dao and Tong Mingrui began a fierce battle, while Cheng Zhao and Zhang He pressured the Tong Family Third Elder.
• Dou Zhaoling intervened on the Tong Family’s behalf, but Li Xinge refused his request to halt the fighting.
• Li Xinge identified himself as the Baihe Li Clan’s Family Head, and Dou Zhaoling recognized him and withdrew.

Li Xinge led the destruction of the Tong Family after killing Tong Mingrui, then accepted an invitation from Dou Changgeng and was welcomed with great ceremony at the Dou Family grounds. The story left Li Xinge wary that Dou Changgeng’s lavish hospitality meant he wanted something from him.

• Jiang Dao struck Tong Mingrui down after Tong Mingrui lost focus at the mention of Li Xinge, and Li Xinge killed him and took the black qi from his corpse.
• Li Xinge’s forces killed the Tong Family’s remaining Qi and Blood Realm cultivators and nearly wiped out the entire clan, while leaving a team to search for assets and surviving remnants.
• Dou Changgeng introduced himself to Li Xinge and explained that he had not come to avenge the Tong Family, then invited Li Xinge to visit the Dou Family.
• Li Xinge accepted Dou Changgeng’s invitation and arrived at the Dou Family grounds, where the elders gave him an elaborate welcome.
• Dou Family onlookers praised Li Xinge’s rumored Dragon-Phoenix Potential and Sun-like Appearance and wondered who could be worthy of marrying him.

Li Xinge and Dou Changgeng discussed the coming upheaval in Ascending Dragon Prefecture and agreed to ally their families under Li Xinge’s leadership. After revealing his half-step innate strength, Li Xinge proposed bringing every force in their territories into the alliance, threatening to destroy anyone who refused.

• Dou Changgeng told Li Xinge that Prefect An’s rise was connected to Prince Jingjiang, Jiang Yinze, and warned that Ascending Dragon Prefecture faced upheaval.
• Dou Changgeng proposed an alliance between the Dou Family and the Baihe Li Clan, explaining that both families needed a chance to expand beyond their current limits.
• Li Xinge demanded leadership of the alliance and revealed that he had reached half-step innate at nineteen.
• Convinced by Li Xinge’s strength, Dou Changgeng agreed that the Dou Family would follow his lead and described its cultivators and forces.
• Li Xinge proposed that every force within both families’ territories join the alliance and declared that those who refused would perish.

Li Xinge stayed at the Dou residence, where Dou Yuling became his concubine and gained status and security for her family. After returning to Green Maple Valley, he learned that Master Gongsun had forged two powerful Human Weapons and began preparing a gathering of the major powers.

• Dou Changgeng sent Dou Yuling to attend Li Xinge, and Li Xinge accepted her after confirming she came willingly.
• Li Xinge left the next morning, and Dou Changgeng promised Dou Yuling's family greater status and rewards for serving him.
• Li Xinge returned to Green Maple Valley more than ten days later and learned that Master Gongsun had successfully forged two Human Weapons at Qi and Blood Great Accomplishment.
• Li Xinge ordered the elders to meet and discuss the Dou Family's proposed alliance in Yuhe County.
• The Li Family invited major powers and sects from three counties to Green Maple Valley for a meeting a month later.

The Li Family hosted a grand gathering in Green Maple Valley, drawing forces from several counties, including the powerful Yuhe Dou Clan. The chapter ended with Li Xinge taking the central throne as the assembled guests saluted him.

• Li Xingcong led six thousand county troops to the outskirts of Green Maple Valley while Li Family cultivators lined the valley path to receive guests.
• Representatives from Qi and Blood Realm families across Baihe, East, Stone, Yuhe, and Seven Mountain Counties arrived and took their seats.
• Zheng Cangfeng arrived with the Zheng Family and sat at the foremost position on the right, while guests discussed the family's ties to the Li Family.
• Dou Changgeng led the Yuhe Dou Clan to the gathering and sensed that Zheng Cangfeng was also a Qi and Blood Realm Great Perfection cultivator.
• Li Xinge emerged in ceremonial attire, took the central throne, and received a salute from the thousands gathered in Green Maple Valley.

Li Xinge intimidated the invited county powers by displaying the battered leaders who had refused his invitation, then proposed a Five County Alliance. The major families supported the proposal, and Li Xinge declared the alliance established.

• Li Xinge welcomed the guests, then summoned the Azure Wolf Cavalry with captured leaders who had refused to attend.
• A Stone County patriarch recognized the Dong Family Patriarch among the captives and revealed that the Dong Family had relied on the Prefectural Assistant for protection.
• Li Xinge threatened those who displeased him before the Great Elder explained the alliance’s protection and mandatory wartime service.
• Dou Changgeng of the Yuhe Dou Clan unexpectedly supported Li Xinge’s proposal, and Zheng Cangfeng and other family leaders followed.
• Li Xinge declared the Five County Alliance officially established.

The Five County Alliance chose Li Xinge as its Alliance Leader, with Dou Changgeng and Zheng Cangfeng appointed as Vice Alliance Leaders. After Li Xinge demanded obedience from the clans, the alliance prepared to make an offering to Heaven and swear its binding oath.

• Guo Taichang and the assembled clans urged Li Xinge to become Alliance Leader, while Dou Changgeng publicly supported him and led the hesitant counties to follow.
• Li Xinge accepted the position and warned the clans to obey his orders.
• Li Xinge appointed Dou Changgeng and Zheng Cangfeng as Vice Alliance Leaders, and the clans acknowledged them.
• The Li Family First Elder called for the alliance to begin its sacrifice to Heaven, which would bind its oath through the Heavenly Dao.

Li Xinge led the Land of Five Counties in forming an alliance, sealed its oath with the blood of three demonic beasts, and arranged for its headquarters and forces. News of the alliance spread across the Ascending Dragon Prefecture, where many feared a great upheaval was approaching.

• The Li Family executed the Dong Family Patriarch and dozens of others, then brought three qi and blood realm demonic beasts to the Altar of Heaven as sacrifices.
• Li Xinge slaughtered the three beasts, read the alliance declaration, and sealed the covenant with their blood as the gathered factions swore allegiance.
• At a private banquet, Li Xinge established the alliance headquarters in Baihe County and arranged for member factions to supply cultivators to guard it.
• News of the Land of Five Counties' alliance spread through the Ascending Dragon Prefecture, raising fears that the balance of power had shifted and a great upheaval was coming.

After the Five County Alliance raised Li Xinge’s influence, the Liu and Zhang Families weighed how to contain him while Prefect An remained hostile to them. Four months later, Li Yanjing warned Li Xinge that the mysterious person the Liu Family had enlisted would likely act within days.

• Liu Jizu learned that the Five County factions had united under Li Xinge, who had reached Qi and Blood Great Perfection at nineteen.
• The Liu Family Great Ancestor revealed he would call in a favor from a powerful figure to eliminate Li Xinge, warning Liu Jizu to keep their connection secret.
• The Zhang Family Old Ancestor dismissed Zhang Xingyi’s anger and predicted that the Liu Family would soon act against the Li Family.
• Prefect An blamed the Li Family for its ambitions, while the Zhang and Liu Families’ renewed clash with him ended after he severely injured Zhang Xingyi.
• Four months after the alliance formed, Li Yanjing told Li Xinge that the Liu Family’s mysterious ally would likely make his move within a day or two.

Yu Mingzhen and Tong Huaiqing were kept under the Li Family’s watch until Li Xinge summoned them to a blood lake beneath Green Maple Valley. Bound above the lake, they learned that Li Xinge blamed Yu Mingzhen’s marriage for the Li Family’s cruelty.

• Yu Mingzhen feared the Li Family and questioned why Li Xinge had spared her, while Tong Huaiqing urged her to hide her hatred.
• A Li Family maid brought Yu Mingzhen a medicinal broth, which she drank after Tong Huaiqing tested it with a silver needle.
• That night, Li Yanjing led Yu Mingzhen and Tong Huaiqing to a cave in the back mountain at Li Xinge’s command.
• Li Xinge immobilized the couple and had Mysterious Iron Chains bind them above a vast, boiling blood lake.
• Tong Huaiqing demanded to know what Li Xinge had done to their families, and Li Xinge blamed Yu Mingzhen for marrying the wrong man.

Li Xinge revealed that Yu Mingzhen had been his forgotten fiancée and that he had kept her and Tong Huaiqing alive to create the Three Divine Fiends from their Yin and Yang Spirit Bodies. After refining the fiends into a Demonic Core and swallowing it, Li Xinge began his breakthrough to the Innate Realm.

• Li Xinge told Tong Huaiqing and Yu Mingzhen that Yu Mingzhen had been betrothed to him, and Yu Mingzhen recalled her grandfather’s arranged marriage.
• Li Xinge explained that Tong Huaiqing’s Yang Spirit Body and Yu Mingzhen’s Yin Spirit Body were the ingredients he had cultivated to create the Three Divine Fiends.
• Li Xinge bound Tong Huaiqing and Yu Mingzhen and sank them into the Blood Pool, where their deaths formed the Three Divine Fiends.
• Li Xinge used the Hundred Ghost Banner to erase the Three Divine Fiends’ intelligence and refine their baleful energy into a Demonic Core.
• Li Xinge swallowed the Demonic Core, uncovered spiritual stones beneath the Blood Pool, and began breaking through to the Innate Realm.

Li Xinge successfully condensed a Dao Demon Golden Core and entered the Innate Realm, but her extraordinary potential provoked a Divine Mansion Tribulation. Rather than spend half the Li Family’s fortune to survive it, she flew to Li Wuyou’s courtyard, leaving her next move unclear.

• Li Xinge endured the pain of merging Killing Intent and spiritual energy until her Dao Demon Golden Core formed.
• Li Yanjing and the Li Family felt Li Xinge’s Innate Pressure, while Old Man Fengshan realized she was breaking through to the Innate Realm.
• Li Xinge completed her breakthrough, but dark clouds gathered and she recognized that a Heavenly Tribulation had arrived.
• The system explained that Heaven’s jealousy had summoned a fifteen-minute Divine Mansion Tribulation and offered guaranteed defense in exchange for half the Family Fortune.
• Li Xinge refused to spend the fortune and flew to Li Wuyou’s courtyard as the tribulation clouds followed overhead.

Li Xinge used Li Wuyou’s Destiny to make the Divine Mansion Tribulation disperse, then discovered she had reached the Qi and Blood Realm at only ten years old. After stabilizing his realm, he invited Old Man Fengshan to become a guest elder of the Li Family, and Fengshan accepted, raising the clan’s prestige across neighboring prefectures.

• Li Xinge blocked the Divine Mansion Tribulation with Li Wuyou’s Destiny until the clouds dispersed, then learned she had become a Qi and Blood Realm Cultivator.
• Li Xinge emerged from three days of seclusion and went with Li Xuantong to visit Old Man Fengshan.
• Li Xinge met Li Xingzong, praised the young weapon-forging disciple, and greeted Old Man Fengshan with respect.
• Li Xinge invited Old Man Fengshan to become a guest elder of the Li Family, and Fengshan agreed.
• The Li Family announced Fengshan’s appointment, and news of the Baihe Li Clan spread through Ascending Dragon Prefecture and neighboring prefectures.

Li Xinge was ambushed by an Innate Realm Demonic Cultivator while traveling to the Five County Alliance headquarters, but revealed his own overwhelming power and defeated the attacker. The masked man survived and begged Li Xinge to spare him in exchange for his Demonic Core and servitude.

• A masked man in green fired a spiritual-energy arrow at Li Xinge's carriage, but Li Xinge stopped it effortlessly.
• Li Xinge confronted the attacker in midair and revealed he had reached the Innate Realm; the masked man tried to flee but Li Xinge caught him.
• The masked man revealed himself as a Demonic Cultivator and attacked with demonic techniques, but Li Xinge countered with the Void Cutter Sword and the Three Sha Demon God aspect.
• Li Xinge's demonic palm crushed the masked man into a mountainside and flattened the mountain, killing its several hundred residents.
• The wounded masked man begged Li Xinge to spare his life, offering his Demonic Core and service as a slave.

Li Xinge subdued Jiang Yinshu, learned that the Liu Family had sent him to kill him, and arrived at the Five County Alliance headquarters. He ordered the Alliance to prepare for war, declaring that the heavens over Ascending Dragon Prefecture were about to change.

• Li Xinge took Jiang Yinshu's Demonic Core and spared him after he swore loyalty, then learned that Liu Xuansheng had hired him to attack.
• Jiang Yinshu revealed that he owed the Liu Family Old Ancestor a favor for saving him after the imperial court put him on a wanted list for slaughtering two counties.
• Li Xinge arrived at the prefectural city, where Zheng Cangfeng and the Five County Alliance's cultivators welcomed him as their Alliance Leader.
• Li Xinge ordered Zheng Cangfeng to intensify training, stockpile supplies, and prepare the Alliance's forces for war.
• Li Xinge declared that it was time for the heavens over Ascending Dragon Prefecture to change.

Prefect An Chengyu seized control in Ascending Dragon Prefecture, prompting the Zhang and Liu Family ancestors to secretly ally against him and plan to destroy the Baihe Li Clan. After An Chengyu accepted the Zhang ancestor’s challenge to a duel, the news reached Li Xinge, who stood silently by his window.

• An Chengyu placed Zhang Xingyi under house arrest, injured Liu Jizu, and purged officials loyal to the Zhang and Liu Families while the provincial government remained silent.
• The Zhang and Liu Family ancestors agreed to join forces against An Chengyu and then kill Li Xinge and destroy the Baihe Li Clan; Liu Xuansheng promised his family would follow the Zhang Family’s lead.
• An Chengyu received the Zhang Family Old Ancestor’s challenge to a duel three days later and ordered his Supervisor to spread the news across Ascending Dragon Prefecture.
• Li Xinge learned of the challenge in Green Maple Valley and stood by the window with his head bowed.