Recaps

Li Wu identified Liu Zhen hiding as a waiter and chased him out of town, where they fought in a forest. Li Wu killed Liu Zhen with his Black Iron Hammer, ending his hunt for the Liu Family remnant.

• Li Wu recognized the waiter as Liu Zhen and pursued him after he escaped through a latrine window.
• Liu Zhen confronted Li Wu in a forest, accused the Li Family of killing his family, and attacked him.
• Li Wu and Liu Zhen traded punches evenly until Liu Zhen used his Mountain Collapse Fist.
• Li Wu endured Liu Zhen's punch with his bronze-hardened body and struck Liu Zhen in the face, sending him crashing into a tree.
• Li Wu drew his Black Iron Hammer and chased the exhausted Liu Zhen until he crushed Liu Zhen's head with a final blow.

Li Wu returned to Green Maple Valley with Yue Niang following him, and Li Xinge discovered Li Wu possessed an awakened Heavenly Human Bloodline and a fused Heavenly Human Bone. After exposing Yue Niang as a male fugitive from Illusionary Love Valley, Li Xinge forced him to take a poisoned pill and serve him.

• Li Wu ignored Yue Niang's attempts to charm him and continued to Green Maple Valley, where Li Xinge came out to meet them.
• Li Xinge inspected Li Wu and discovered his awakened Heavenly Human Bloodline and fused half of a damaged Heavenly Human Bone.
• Elder Jiang stopped Yue Niang from escaping, and Li Xinge struck him down when he tried to use his charm technique on her.
• Yue Niang confessed that he was a male core disciple of Illusionary Love Valley who had fled its pursuit.
• Li Xinge gave Yue Niang a Seven Poisons Heart Piercing Pill, which he swallowed, and Elder Jiang ordered him to serve Li Xinge.

Li Wu returned to Green Maple Valley after killing Liu Zhen and claimed his mission reward. He then traveled to Li Family Town, where he had not been since leaving three years earlier, and headed toward the place he remembered.

• Li Wu presented Liu Zhen’s token at the Hall of Law Enforcement, where the disciples learned he had killed a Body Cultivation Grand Perfection expert while at Body Cultivation Grand Completion.
• Li Wu submitted his mission slip to Li Yanyuan, who warned him not to reveal that he had taught him the Golden Body Child Technique.
• After Li Wu left, Cheng Zhao teased Li Yanyuan about practicing the technique and bargained for a meal at Flying Snow Tower in exchange for keeping quiet.
• Li Wu collected a Qi and Blood Pill from the Internal Affairs Hall and left Green Maple Valley for Li Family Town.
• After a day’s journey, Li Wu arrived at Li Family Town at dusk and walked through its busy streets toward a familiar place.

Li Wu returned to Li Family Town, reunited with his family, and gave his father a Qi and Blood Pill that helped him break through to the Qi and Blood Realm. After Li Wu set off back to Green Maple Valley, a determined girl in a green dress arrived at the Clan Martial Pavilion and learned that the Fourth Elder was in seclusion.

• Li Wu returned home and reunited with Uncle Li, his mother, and his father, Li Zhenshan.
• Li Wu met his toddler brother, Li Hao, and promised to look after him.
• Li Wu gave Li Zhenshan a Qi and Blood Pill he had earned from a clan mission, and his father accepted it to protect the family and town.
• With Li Wu guarding him, Li Zhenshan took the pill and broke through to the Qi and Blood Realm two days later.
• Li Wu left for Green Maple Valley, while a girl in a green dress arrived at the Clan Martial Pavilion and learned the Fourth Elder had entered seclusion.

Li Yuran decided to challenge the childhood Marriage Contract tying her to Ye Canglan, and her father reluctantly agreed to stay out of it. She went to seek her master's support at the Pill Hall, where two Intern Alchemists approached her.

• Li Yuran recalled how her grandfather, Li Xuanzong, had promised her in marriage to Ye Canglan after protecting the Ye Family.
• Li Yuran told Li Yanlang she wanted to break the engagement, and he cautioned her to treat the Ye Family with restraint.
• Li Yuran refused to wait for Li Xuanzong to leave seclusion and told her father she would take responsibility for her decision.
• Li Yanlang supported her plan to consult her master, and Li Yuran headed to the Pill Hall.
• Two Intern Alchemists approached Li Yuran after she entered the Pill Hall.

Li Yuran asked her master, Li Yanming, to help her break her Marriage Contract with the Ye Family, and he agreed to approach her grandfather. He sent her to Dongning County with a Qi and Blood Pill as compensation and told her to ask Zhang Xingchen to escort her.

• Two youths gossiped that Li Yuran was secretly interested in the family head after seeing her gaze at his portrait.
• Li Yuran waited outside the Alchemy Room while Li Yanming refined a batch of Qi and Blood Pills, then helped collect the eight finished pills.
• Li Yuran asked Li Yanming to help her break her Marriage Contract with the Ye Family, and he agreed to speak to her grandfather.
• Li Yanming gave Li Yuran a Qi and Blood Pill for the Ye Family's family head and advised her to discuss the matter privately.
• Li Yanming told Li Yuran to find Zhang Xingchen at the Hall of Reverence to accompany her to Dongning County.
• After Li Yuran left, Li Yanming told someone hidden in a corner to come out.

Ye Canglan, a transmigrator whose cultivation had mysteriously regressed, learned that guests from his fiancée’s powerful Baihe Li Clan had arrived at the Ye Family. He met Li Yuran in the reception hall, and their first encounter began.

• Li Yanming persuaded his uncle not to pressure Li Yuran to marry outside the clan, and his uncle gave him a jade bottle before leaving.
• Li Yuran found Zhang Xingchen, then traveled with him and two Li Family cultivators toward Dongning County.
• Ye Bai recalled how he had transmigrated into Ye Canglan’s body and how his cultivation fell from Body Tempering Great Perfection to minor completion.
• Ye Rou told Ye Canglan that guests from the Baihe Li Clan had arrived, and he hurried with her to the reception hall.
• Ye Mingyuan introduced his son Ye Canglan to his fiancée, Li Yuran.

Li Yuran confronted Ye Canglan and Ye Mingyuan at the Ye Family reception hall, then announced she was ending her engagement to Ye Canglan. She offered a Qi and Blood Pill as compensation, leaving the Ye Family stunned.

• Ye Canglan insulted Li Yuran’s manners, and Li Yuran slapped him for offending her and the Li Family.
• Ye Mingyuan slapped Ye Canglan and demanded that he apologize to Li Yuran, but Li Yuran stopped him.
• Li Yuran told Ye Mingyuan she had come to end her marriage contract with Ye Canglan, insisting the decision was her own and had her master’s support.
• Li Yuran named the Li Family’s Eighth Elder, Li Yanming, as her master, making Ye Mingyuan wary.
• Li Yuran offered a Qi and Blood Pill as compensation for breaking off the engagement, shocking everyone in the reception hall.

Li Yuran forced the Ye Family to agree to end her engagement, using Zhang Xingchen’s strength to silence Ye Mingyuan and handing over a Qi and Blood Pill as compensation. Ye Canglan destroyed the pill in anger and challenged her, but Li Yuran kicked him into a wall before leaving with Zhang Xingchen.

• Li Yuran offered the Ye Family a Qi and Blood Pill and insisted that the engagement be called off, but Ye Mingyuan refused without approval from her uncle.
• When Ye Mingyuan used his cultivation pressure against Li Yuran, Zhang Xingchen revealed his Qi and Blood Realm strength and forced the Ye Family to back down.
• A young woman in a pale green dress insulted the Baihe Li Clan, and Li Yuran slapped her twice until she fled in tears.
• Li Yuran warned Ye Mingyuan that the engagement would end and gave him the Qi and Blood Pill as compensation, so he agreed.
• Ye Canglan accused Li Yuran of looking down on him, crushed the pill, and began a defiant speech before she kicked him into a wall.
• Li Yuran warned Ye Canglan to keep his head down until he had real strength, then left with Zhang Xingchen.

After being humiliated by Li Yuran, Ye Canglan accepted a mysterious figure from his jade pendant as his master in exchange for help getting revenge. Li Xinge then received a temporary quest to eliminate the malicious individual of great fortune, with rewards including an upgraded fortune artifact and new awakenings.

• Ye Rou confronted Old Cui for failing to protect her, and he explained that he could not afford to antagonize the Baihe Li Clan.
• Ye Mingyuan and the Ye Family elders left Ye Canglan to recover, then consumed the Qi and Blood Pill he had ground into powder.
• Ye Canglan despaired over his weakness and inability to avenge himself against Li Yuran and the Li Family.
• A black-mist figure emerged from Ye Canglan's jade pendant, belittled him, and offered to help him grow stronger if he became its disciple.
• Ye Canglan agreed to do whatever the figure wanted for revenge, and the figure introduced itself as Demon... Old Mo.
• Li Xinge received a temporary quest to eliminate an individual of great fortune who harbored malice toward him and his affiliated family.

Li Xinge learned that the Ye Family’s engagement dispute had offended a Great Destiny Bearer and led an overwhelming force to Qingguo Town. Ye Canglan completed Body Tempering, then discovered Li Xinge’s forces had arrived and trapped the Ye Family inside a vast array.

• Li Xinge ordered Li Yanjing to investigate the Lineage’s recent events, prepared secret measures, and revealed the Li Family’s Tianyuan Cauldron.
• After learning the Ye Family had broken off an engagement and heard the phrase “Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river,” Li Xinge laughed with killing intent.
• Ye Canglan completed Body Tempering, but Old Mo warned him that surpassing Li Xinge would take time and then sensed more than a thousand powerful auras approaching.
• Li Xinge arrived near the Ye Family with Zheng Cangfeng, Li Xuantong, and other experts, and ordered the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net deployed.
• Li Xuantong activated an ancient array disc that expanded into a vast curtain of light and trapped the Ye Family grounds.

The Li Family surrounded the Ye Family with overwhelming forces and used an earth-grade spirit artifact to seal the area, then launched an attack. Ye Rou halted the assault by invoking the Lingxu Sect, but a mysterious young man arrived and was identified as an Innate True Person.

• The Grand Elder revealed that the Li Family had deployed the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net, which temporarily sealed the space around the Ye Family grounds.
• Old Mo warned Ye Canglan that the area had been sealed as Li Family forces surrounded the Ye Family, while the Bi and Feng Family Patriarchs watched from a distance.
• Li Xuanzong struck Ye Mingyuan and accused him of misusing the Li Family's name before the Li Family forces received the order to exterminate the Ye Family.
• Ye Rou stepped in front of the Ye Family and claimed her father was the Lingxu Sect's Sect Master, causing the attackers to pause.
• A purple-robed young man appeared above the Ye Family grounds, dismissed Ye Rou's claim to represent the Lingxu Sect, and was recognized as an Innate True Person.

Li Xinge destroyed the Ye Family compound and nearly killed Ye Rou, but her protective talisman saved her and Old Cui persuaded him to let her leave. As Li Xinge continued his attack on the Ye Family, Ye Canglan appeared and called on Old Mo to intervene.

• Li Xinge attacked Ye Rou, and his strike demolished the Ye Family compound, but her Jade Talisman shielded her from harm.
• Old Cui slapped Ye Rou, begged Li Xinge to spare her, and took her away after he agreed to give Lingxu Sect face.
• Li Xinge secretly attached a wisp of black flame to Ye Rou as she left, then ordered more than a hundred Qi and Blood attacks against the Ye Family.
• Ye Canglan stepped out, denounced Li Xinge, and urgently called for Old Mo to attack before the incoming strikes could kill him.

Ye Canglan let Old Mo take control of his body, and Old Mo reached the Innate Realm to repel a second wave of attacks. Li Xinge summoned six other Innate experts, surrounding Old Mo and launching an attack.

• Old Mo's barrier saved Ye Canglan, but the Li Family's attacks killed all of Ye Canglan's clansmen, and Old Mo told him that true powerhouses were alone.
• Old Mo refused to kill Li Xinge outright or lend Ye Canglan his power, and instead persuaded Ye Canglan to let him control his body.
• Old Mo took over Ye Canglan's body, ascended to the Innate Realm, and scattered the attacks from over a hundred Qi and Blood Realm experts.
• Old Mo demanded that Li Xinge undo the spatial seal, but Li Xinge refused and called in Old Man Fengshan, Wang Dong, Zhao Ze, Chunyu Ye, Qin Jian, and Elder Jiang.
• The seven Innate experts surrounded Old Mo, and Li Xinge and the others attacked him together.

Ye Canglan and Old Mo fought seven Innate Realm experts, but Old Mo's power was running out and their enemies were wearing him down. Old Mo attempted to break the spatial confinement with a secret art, only to find the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net absorbed his strike, leaving their escape uncertain.

• Ye Canglan, possessed by Old Mo, used a six-armed demon god's shadow to repel the seven experts, but Li Xinge exposed that his power would soon run out.
• Li Xinge and the other six experts combined their attacks to stop the demon god, draining both sides and forcing Old Mo to reconsider his options.
• Ye Canglan panicked, and Old Mo revealed he would spend his soul power to break the spatial confinement and had placed a Blood Calamity Curse in Ye Canglan to compel him to find soul-restoring treasures.
• Old Mo unleashed the Void-Rending Slash against the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net while Wang Dong, Old Man Fengshan, and the others attacked, and Li Xinge vanished amid the distraction.
• The Heavenly Net and Earthly Net absorbed the demonic saber's power instead of breaking, shocking Old Mo and leaving the escape attempt in doubt.

Li Xinge killed Ye Canglan, welcomed the six Innate True Persons who helped him, and discovered that Ye Canglan was a fellow transmigrator from Blue Star. After learning this, Li Xinge burned Ye Canglan's soul away, declaring his loyalty to the Baihe Li Clan.

• Li Xinge killed Ye Canglan, destroyed his body, and collected the Jade Pendant that captured his remnant soul.
• The system awarded Li Xinge the Heart Devouring Soul Grasping Curse, and he learned that its drop rate rose with his Lineage level.
• Li Xinge thanked and hosted the six Innate True Persons, then gave each of them a generous parting gift.
• Li Xinge examined the Myriad Medicine Spiritual Body he had plundered from Ye Canglan and decided to give it to a clan member suited to alchemy or spiritual plants.
• Li Xinge released Ye Canglan's soul from the Jade Pendant and learned that Ye Canglan was a transmigrator from Blue Star.
• Li Xinge rejected Ye Canglan's offer to join forces and burned his soul to nothing, affirming his identity as Li Xinge of the Baihe Li Clan.

After slaying a Child of Great Fortune, Li Xinge awakened his Heavenly Human Bloodline and received the Primordial Chaos Scripture from a mysterious apparition. Grand Elder Li Xuantong also awakened the Fire Spirit Body and left to prepare for a breakthrough.

• The system upgraded Li Xinge’s Hundred Ghost Banner to the Thousand Soul Banner, awakened the Fire Spirit Body in Grand Elder Li Xuantong, and raised Li Xinge’s Heavenly Human Bloodline concentration to 37%.
• Li Xinge felt his strength surge and became confident he could kill a Middle Stage Innate Realm cultivator.
• A towering apparition appeared over Green Maple Valley, recognized Li Xinge’s awakened bloodline, and sent the Primordial Chaos Scripture into his mind.
• The apparition vanished after telling Li Xinge they would meet again, and Li Xinge realized Grand Elder Li Xuantong had not seen it.
• Li Xuantong told Li Xinge he had awakened the Fire Spirit Body and planned to enter seclusion to break through to Qi and Blood Great Accomplishment.

At Lingxu Sect, True Person Haoran questioned Cui Jianghe and Ye Rou about their encounter with Li Xinge, then condemned Ye Rou for risking herself on behalf of outsiders. He left to confront Li Xinge and demand an explanation.

• True Person Haoran questioned Cui Jianghe about slapping Ye Rou, and Cui Jianghe said he had acted to save her from Li Xinge.
• Cui Jianghe recounted the clash with the Baihe Li Clan, and Ye Rou confirmed his account while accusing Li Xinge of trying to kill her.
• True Person Haoran dismissed Cui Jianghe, then slapped Ye Rou and scolded her for endangering herself over outsiders.
• True Person Haoran left the hall to confront Li Xinge and defend his daughter’s honor.

Cui Haoran was blocked by True Person Haoling and True Person Haode from confronting Li Xinge, as they feared provoking Governor Ouyang and making an enemy of a prodigy. A month later, Li Xinge received an order summoning every commandery prefect to the Governor's Mansion and set out for Wu Commandery.

• Cui Haoran tried to leave the Lingxu Sect but True Person Haoling and True Person Haode stopped him from standing up for his daughter.
• True Person Haoling explained that Li Xinge might have upper three-grade talent and warned that opposing him under Governor Ouyang's protection would endanger the Lingxu Sect.
• A month later, a spirit crane delivered the Governor's order for all commandery prefects to arrive at the Governor's Mansion within three days.
• Li Xinge told Grand Elder Li Xuantong to guard the Lineage and flew from Green Maple Valley toward Wu Commandery.

Li Xinge learned that the Blood Demon Sacred Cult planned to invade Yang Province, and Ouyang Fengchai ordered every commandery to recruit troops for a Demon Purging Army. Li Xinge refused Fu Yu’s offer to reduce his quota and left the Sima Residence smiling.

• Li Xinge visited Fu Yu, who told him about the Blood Nether Venerable, the Blood Demon Sacred Cult, and its plans to invade Yang Province.
• Ouyang Fengchai summoned Yang Province’s thirty-seven prefects and ordered each commandery to provide two Innate Realm cultivators and one hundred Qi-Blood Realm cultivators within a month.
• Ouyang Fengchai warned the prefects to strengthen their defenses and threatened punishment if they failed to carry out her orders.
• Fu Yu offered to reduce Ascending Dragon Prefecture’s quota to one Innate Realm cultivator and fifty Qi-Blood Realm cultivators, but Li Xinge refused the concession.
• Li Xinge promised Fu Yu he would handle the full assignment, then left the Sima Residence smiling.

Li Xinge told the Grand Elder that the Blood Demon Sacred Cult was preparing to invade Yang Province and saw the Governor’s call for fighters as an opportunity for the Li Family. At a meeting in Ascending Dragon Prefecture, Li Xinge announced the order and secured pledges from local families, gathering more than seventy Qi-Blood Realm fighters.

• Li Xinge returned to Green Maple Valley and told the Grand Elder about the coming invasion and the Governor’s order to form the Demon Purging Army.
• Li Xinge summoned Ascending Dragon Prefecture’s officials and announced that each county had to provide two Innate Realm experts and a hundred Qi-Blood Realm fighters.
• Zheng Cangfeng pledged eight fighters for the Zheng Family, and Dou Changgeng pledged fifteen for the Dou Family.
• Chen Shuyao offered two fighters for the Chen Family, while Hao Zhongli pledged his family’s only fighter and declared the Hao Family’s loyalty to Li Xinge.
• Officials and families volunteered contributions, and Li Xinge gathered more than seventy Qi-Blood Realm fighters within a short time.

Li Xinge forced the Xie, Wang, and Ge families to provide troops and military funds, then ordered Zhu Shao executed for defying him. The other officials feared the families might unite against the prefect, while Zheng Cangfeng and Dou Changgeng resolved to support Li Xinge.

• Zheng Cangfeng pressured the Xie, Wang, and Ge families to contribute Qi-Blood Realm experts, and they offered five, three, and one respectively.
• Li Xinge demanded that the Ge Family provide thirty Qi-Blood Realm experts and five hundred thousand gold within five days.
• Zhu Shao invoked the Xiao Family, insulted Li Xinge, and was sentenced to death along with his entire clan.
• Li Xinge ordered the Ge Family to provide its demanded troops and funds, and assigned additional experts from the Xie and Wang families.
• Zheng Cangfeng and Dou Changgeng worried the three families might unite against Li Xinge, then resolved to gather their family experts and support him.

After Li Xinge demanded troops and money from the Xie, Wang, and Ge Families, the Xie Family's ancestor summoned his allies while Wang Tongming warned the Wang Family against confronting Li Xinge. The Wang Family decided to wait and see rather than make the first move.

• Xie Baifeng learned that Li Xinge had demanded one Innate Realm cultivator and twenty-five Qi-Blood Realm cultivators from the Xie Family, and he summoned the Xie Family's ancestor.
• Xie Baifeng told the ancestor that Li Xinge had also demanded troops from the Wang Family and imposed harsh demands on the Ge Family after destroying a relative's clan.
• The Xie Family's ancestor ordered Xie Baifeng to invite the Wang Family's ancestor and the Ge Family's head to Jinshan to discuss a response.
• The Wang Family's ancestor and Wang Tongyun told Wang Tongming about Li Xinge's demands and asked him to use his connections to pressure Li Xinge.
• Wang Tongming warned that Li Xinge might have a plan and urged the Wang Family not to oppose him or act first, and the Wang Family agreed to wait and see.

Xiao Yinglong brought the Xiao Family's support to the Ge Family as Li Xinge's army advanced on their ancestral lands. As the Ge elders faced the impending assault, Ge Feilong introduced Xiao Yinglong as their powerful ally.

• Xiao Yinglong decided to aid the Ge Family and traveled from the provincial capital to challenge Li Xinge.
• The Xie Family contacted the Wang and Ge Families, whose leaders made a conspicuous trip to the Xiao Family to pressure Li Xinge.
• After the Ge Family failed to meet the deadline, Li Xinge ordered an attack and led a large force toward their ancestral lands.
• The Ge Family withdrew to its ancestral lands and argued anxiously as Li Xinge's army entered Lingchuan County.
• Xiao Yinglong arrived with Ge Feilong, and Ge Feilong introduced him to the elders as the Ge Family's ally.

The County Prefecture’s army attacked the Ge Family’s mountain stronghold with Mountain-Shattering Crossbow Carts, inflicting heavy casualties despite Ge Feilong and Xiao Yinglong’s efforts. Li Xinge turned the bolts back through Xiao Yinglong’s barrier and confronted him, ending with Xiao demanding to know his identity.

• Xiao Yinglong arrived to support the Ge Family, and Ge Feilong revealed that the Xie and Wang Families’ Innate experts were also nearby.
• Zheng Cangfeng ordered dozens of Mountain-Shattering Crossbow Carts to fire on the Ge Family’s clan lands, killing and wounding hundreds.
• Ge Feilong tried to intercept the bolts, but many struck the stronghold; Xiao Yinglong then stopped another volley with a spiritual barrier and sent the bolts back toward the County Prefecture’s army.
• Li Xinge gathered the returning bolts with spiritual power and hurled them through Xiao Yinglong’s barrier, devastating the Ge Family’s stronghold.
• Xiao Yinglong recognized Li Xinge as the young Innate expert of Yang Province, and Li Xinge told him to address him as the Li Family Head or the Prefect.