Recaps

Li Xinge defeated Xiao Yinglong and forced the Xie and Wang Families to submit, securing the Li Family's dominance in Ascending Dragon Prefecture. Zheng Cangfeng's army destroyed the Ge Family, while Li Xinge spared its surrendered retainers to send them to the spirit stone mines.

• Li Xinge crushed Xiao Yinglong's attack, captured him, and ordered Elder Jiang to send him to mine at Lingdang Mountain.
• The Xie and Wang Family ancestors emerged from hiding, denied aiding the Ge Family, and agreed to follow Li Xinge and the Baihe Li Clan.
• Li Xinge declared that Ascending Dragon Prefecture would have no Five Great Families, only the Baihe Li Clan.
• Zheng Cangfeng led the army into Ge Family territory, where the Ge Family Head, First Elder, and resisting cultivators were killed.
• Li Xinge spared the Ge Family retainers who surrendered so they could become mine slaves.

Li Yuran discovered she could hear the voices of plants and revived a neglected spiritual herb by tending to it. In Qu County, the Yang Clan faced destruction after Yang Zhongze sacrificed his remaining lifespan to protect his gifted grandson, and he entrusted Yang Zongxing with a last chance to save the clan.

• Li Xinge reclaimed all the territories of the Xie, Wang, and Ge clans, bringing Ascending Dragon Prefecture under the Baihe Li Clan's control.
• Zheng Cangfeng gathered a hundred Qi and Blood Realm Cultivators and two Innate Realm experts to join the Demon Purging Army in the provincial capital.
• Li Yuran heard plants speaking, tested whether she could understand them, and restored a withered spiritual herb with water and sunlight.
• Yang Zhongze's grandson killed the only son of Zhao Minglan and her monster-hunter husband during a fight at a brothel, bringing their wrath upon the Yang Clan.
• Yang Zhongze used a Blood Burning Pill to wound Zhao Minglan and drive her away, but his sacrifice left him dying as the clan faced her husband's return.
• Yang Zhongze told Yang Zongxing about a powerful person in Baihe County who owed him a favor, then died before Yang Zongxing could leave to seek help.

Yang Zongxing went to the Baihe Li Clan to claim the favor Li Xinge owed his late father, Yang Zhongze. He asked to make the Yang Family a Li Family vassal, and Li Xuantong accepted, preparing to act on the Yang Family’s behalf.

• Yang Zongxing presented the Li Family command arrow at Green Maple Valley and was escorted to meet First Elder Li Xuantong.
• Yang Zongxing recalled how Yang Zhongze had earned a favor from Li Xinge after sparing Jiang Dao, and how his father urged him to trade it for a chance for the Yang Family to become a Li Family vassal.
• Yang Zongxing told Li Xuantong that his father had died and asked whether Li Xinge’s favor still stood; Li Xuantong confirmed that it did.
• Yang Zongxing explained the Yang Family’s crisis and requested vassal status instead of asking the Li Family to eliminate Zhao Minglan and his wife.
• Li Xuantong granted the request, declared that the Li Family would protect its new vassal, and ordered someone to invite the Fourth Elder.

The First Elder sent Li Xuanzong to help the Yang family, while Zhao Minglan learned that the Yang family had killed his son and returned to Qu County seeking revenge. Zhao Minglan and his demon hunters marched toward the Yang family’s ancestral grounds as local families watched, expecting the Yang family to fall.

• The First Elder reminded Li Xuanzong of the Baihe Li Clan’s promise to Yang Zhongze and asked him to protect the Yang family from Zhao Minglan and his wife.
• Li Xuanzong agreed to act, and he left Green Maple Valley on a gigantic gray wolf.
• Zhao Minglan’s dying wife reached his demon-hunting party and told him that the Yang family had killed their son before she died in his arms.
• Zhao Minglan vowed to avenge his wife and son, and his demon hunters pledged to follow him.
• Two days later, Zhao Minglan and his men arrived in Qu County and headed toward the Yang family’s ancestral grounds.
• Several local family heads watched from a restaurant and discussed the Yang family’s impending destruction.

Li Xuanzong of the Baihe Li Clan intervened to protect the Yang Family from Zhao Minglan, who sought revenge for his murdered wife and children. Zhao and a handful of loyal demon hunters fought Li Xuanzong, whose extraordinary body withstood their weapons.

• Zhao Minglan led his demon hunters to the Yang Family’s gate and threatened to wipe out the family, but Yang Zongxing confronted him.
• Li Xuanzong arrived, identified himself as the Baihe Li Clan’s Fourth Elder, and declared that he would not let Zhao harm the Yang Family.
• Zhao Minglan urged his demon hunters to leave rather than risk their families, and most departed; Scarface and a few others stayed with him.
• Zhao Minglan and the remaining hunters charged Li Xuanzong, but he struck Zhao’s saber with his fist and knocked Scarface back with another blow.
• Zhao Minglan and Scarface attacked together, but Li Xuanzong blocked a blade with his arm, leaving only a white mark on his skin.

Li Xuanzong defeated Zhao Minglan and Scarface after they burned their Qi and Blood, revealing his powerful Barbarian God transformation. He warned the Yang Family against tyranny, agreed to stay for the night, and drew the attention of local families eager to meet him.

• Zhao Minglan and Scarface attacked Li Xuanzong, but he shattered Zhao Minglan’s saber qi and fatally wounded Scarface with a punch.
• Zhao Minglan and Scarface burned their Qi and Blood and charged Li Xuanzong, who summoned the Barbarian God phantom and transformed.
• Li Xuanzong killed both men with a single punch that blasted a huge pit into the ground and collapsed nearby buildings.
• Yang Zongxing returned Li Xuanzong’s purple robe, and Li Xuanzong warned him that the Yang Family must not act tyrannically.
• Li Xuanzong agreed to stay at the Yang Family’s home for the night before returning to Green Maple Valley.
• Onlookers discussed Li Xuanzong’s strength, and several local families decided to prepare gifts and visit him.

Li Xuanzong asserted the Baihe Li Clan’s dominance over Qu County and confirmed the Yang family had become its vassal. Meanwhile, Sky Flame Mountain erupted, destroying nearby towns, and a strange seven-colored flame appeared three days later, drawing cultivators and the attention of powerful factions.

• Yang Zongxing introduced Li Xuanzong to the heads of Qu County’s five other Great Families.
• Li Xuanzong rebuked the Fu Family head for claiming the families could host him and declared the Baihe Li Clan the sole master of Ascending Dragon Prefecture.
• The family heads learned the Yang family had become a vassal of the Baihe Li Clan and recognized the advantage this gave it.
• Sky Flame Mountain erupted, and its magma destroyed the surrounding lands and hundreds of thousands of mortals.
• Three days later, a seven-colored crystalline flame appeared above the volcano, prompting cultivators to rush there and major powers to order investigations.

Cultivators gathered at Sky Flame Mountain after the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame was identified, and rival experts began staking claims to it. The Baihe Li Clan arrived under Li Xuantong, whose connection to Li Xinge impressed the crowd but did not make them take him seriously.

• The moon-white-robed elder identified the volcano’s seven-colored radiance as the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame, ranked twenty-seventh on the Heaven-and-Earth Strange Flame List.
• Qionshan Sanren threatened to kill anyone who tried to claim the flame, but heads of Innate Families challenged his authority.
• Xie Baifeng and Wang Tongyun arrived and exchanged greetings with the gathered experts, though both concealed their resentment toward the Li Family’s treatment of their clans.
• Li Xuantong arrived with the Baihe Li Clan, and Xie Baifeng and Wang Tongyun stood behind him, surprising the crowd.
• Wang Tongyun identified Li Xuantong as the First Elder of the Baihe Li Clan and linked him to Li Xinge, but the other experts remained unimpressed by Li Xuantong’s cultivation.

The Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame matured, unleashing fiery serpents that killed thousands of cultivators and drove the survivors into a desperate assault. Li Xuantong held back his clan while the powerful cultivators weakened the flame, and the Seven-Colored Lotus began to falter.

• Li Daoshan greeted Li Xuantong and warmly noted their shared surname as powerful cultivators gathered around Sky Flame Mountain.
• Magma erupted from the mountain, killing fleeing low-ranking cultivators while Qi and Blood Realm cultivators protected themselves behind a barrier.
• When the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame matured, Li Xuantong stopped Li Xuanzong from rushing in, and the flame devoured cultivators who charged toward it.
• After the flame had killed thousands, Qionshan Sanren attacked, lost an arm to a fiery serpent, and fled.
• Powerful cultivators joined forces to attack the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame, making the lotus shake and its fiery serpents appear less often.

The cultivators on Sky Flame Mountain slaughtered one another over the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame as the lotus repeatedly changed hands. Old Man Ku Gu seized it from a fleeing cultivator, but Li Xuantong and Li Xuanzong confronted him, and more than ten figures stepped forward to meet his charge.

• The Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame engulfed the mountaintop, killing at least a hundred Qi and Blood Realm Cultivators before its radiance faded.
• Cultivators fought over the Seven-Colored Lotus, while Old Man Ku Gu revealed his Half-step Innate strength and redirected the crowd by throwing the lotus away.
• After the battle left fewer than half of the several hundred cultivators alive, Li Xuantong and Li Xuanzong led the Li Family toward the struggle.
• A Qi and Blood Great Perfection cultivator escaped with the lotus, but Old Man Ku Gu ambushed him, took it, and tried to leave.
• Li Xuantong demanded the lotus from Old Man Ku Gu, who charged at the Li Family after they refused to back down.
• Li Xuantong and Li Xuanzong retreated as more than ten figures stepped forward to face Old Man Ku Gu.

Old Man Ku Gu fought Li Xuanzong and Li Xuantong’s relentless Human Weapons while trying to protect the Seven-Colored Lotus. After his strength was exhausted and the weapons closed in, their runes suddenly dimmed, leaving him alive beneath a halted attack.

• Old Man Ku Gu discovered that the attackers could survive devastating injuries, even decapitation, and continue fighting.
• He used the Ku Gu Demonic Art to corrode one attacker into a skeleton, then noticed runes carved into its bones and realized the figures were Human Weapons.
• Old Man Ku Gu accused Li Xuanzong and Li Xuantong of refining people into weapons, while they demanded that he hand over the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame.
• Old Man Ku Gu failed to break through the Human Weapons and exhausted his spiritual energy and Qi and Blood power after smashing nine of them.
• As a skeleton's bone claws hovered over Old Man Ku Gu, the runes dimmed and the Human Weapons abruptly stopped moving.

Li Xuantong and Li Xuanzong captured Old Man Ku Gu and took the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame, but Li Daoshan and Li Sixuan blocked their escape and demanded the treasure. Li Xuanzong revealed his Special Physique as the two sides prepared to fight.

• Li Xuantong stopped Li Xuanzong from killing Old Man Ku Gu so they could offer him to Gongsun Ban after their Human Weapons were ruined.
• Li Xuantong took the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame, and Li Xuanzong knocked Old Man Ku Gu unconscious before they fled as pursuers approached.
• The pursuing cultivators found the battlefield, and a middle-aged man recognized Old Man Ku Gu's severed head as his ancestor.
• Li Daoshan and Li Sixuan ambushed Li Xuantong and Li Xuanzong, demanded the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame, and threatened to kill them.
• Li Xuanzong summoned the Barbarian God and revealed his Special Physique, while Li Xuantong prepared to fight Li Daoshan.

Li Xuantong and Li Xuanzong defeated Li Daoshan and Li Sixuan, forcing them to flee while securing the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame for the Baihe Li Clan. Li Daoshan convinced the pursuing forces that the Baihe Li Clan had taken the flame, sending them after the two elders.

• Li Xuantong revealed a Special Physique and attacked Li Daoshan and Li Sixuan with Spirit Fire while Li Xuanzong struck them with a tiger phantom.
• Li Daoshan and Li Sixuan were badly injured and fled, and Li Xuantong stopped Li Xuanzong from pursuing them so they could return the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame to the Lineage.
• Li Daoshan and Li Sixuan met the pursuing forces, and Li Daoshan claimed that the Baihe Li Clan's elders had injured them, captured Old Man Ku Gu, and taken the flame.
• The pursuers accused Li Daoshan of hiding the flame, but he swore that it was not in the Hengzhou Li Clan's hands and urged them to chase the Baihe Li Clan.
• The Liao Family Head accepted Li Daoshan's claim for the moment and led the group after the Baihe Li Clan, while Li Daoshan remarked that the two elders would now face trouble.

Li Xuantong and Li Xuanzong fled toward Jin Chuan County with the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame, but the Ji Family Head and their pursuers caught up and surrounded them. Xie Baifeng and Wang Tongyun switched sides after Li Xuantong threatened them, and as the battle began, a massive spirit-energy palm descended from above.

• Li Xuantong and Li Xuanzong turned toward the Lingdang Mountain Range, hoping to escape through the Teleportation Array.
• The Ji Family Head used the Wind Hành Step to overtake them, and Li Xuantong fought him with the Spirit Fire until the other pursuers arrived.
• Liao Family Head demanded the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame and ordered everyone to attack Li Xuantong and Li Xuanzong.
• Li Xuantong threatened Xie Baifeng and Wang Tongyun with the Baihe Li Clan's retaliation, prompting both family heads to join his side.
• Liao Family Head attacked Xie Baifeng, and the gathered cultivators began fighting before a hundred-zhang spirit-energy palm descended from above.

Li Xuantong used a pill from the clan head to enter the Innate Realm and confronted the Black-Robed Elder. After revealing his Fire Spirit Body and overwhelming the elder with a Magma Fire Dragon, Li Xuantong killed him, leaving the battle below decided by the fall of an Innate powerhouse.

• Li Xuantong swallowed the clan head’s pill, broke through to the Innate Realm, and shattered the Spiritual Energy Hand Seal descending from the sky.
• Li Xuantong revealed his Fire Spirit Body and battled the Black-Robed Elder, whose spear thrust clashed with Li Xuantong’s fire dragon.
• The Black-Robed Elder summoned a Spiritual Energy Light Wheel and unleashed countless spear shadows at Li Xuantong.
• Li Xuantong drew fire from beneath the earth’s veins and formed a Magma Fire Dragon that scattered the spear shadows.
• The Black-Robed Elder fled, but Li Xuantong’s Magma Fire Dragon struck him down and shattered his Innate body.

Li Xuantong returned to Green Maple Valley with the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame after defeating an Innate Realm expert, but suffered backlash from using the earth-vein fire. He and Li Xuanzong brought the flame to Li Xinge, who revealed it could help Li Xuantong advance to the Innate Realm and then let terrifying pressure escape.

• Li Xuantong drove off the remaining rivals and left with Li Xuanzong and Old Man Ku Gu, then coughed blood from the backlash of using the earth-vein fire.
• Li Xuantong and his companions used the Teleportation Array to return to Green Maple Valley and learned that Li Xinge was still in seclusion.
• Li Xuantong and Li Xuanzong persuaded Elder Jiang to let them deliver urgent news to Li Xinge.
• Li Xuantong presented Li Xinge with the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame and explained that he had used the Innate Spirit Pill to win it.
• Li Xuantong offered the flame to Li Xinge, but Li Xinge refused and said it could help the First Elder reach the Innate Realm.
• Li Xinge released a wisp of terrifying pressure, leaving Elder Jiang pale with shock.

Li Xinge revealed that he had reached the Middle Stage of the Innate Realm and gave the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame to Li Xuantong to refine, while promising to protect the Li Family from looming enemies. Meanwhile, Li Xuanzong brought the unconscious Old Man Ku Gu to Gongsun Ban’s eerie courtyard, where Gongsun Ban confronted him about the weapons he had taken.

• Li Xinge confirmed that he had reached the Middle Stage of the Innate Realm and showed Li Xuantong his Three Fiends Spirit Swallowing Flame.
• Li Xinge gave Li Xuantong the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame and urged him to refine it so he could break through to the Innate Realm.
• Li Xuantong warned Li Xinge that enemies from the struggle over the flame might bring disaster to the Li Family, but Li Xinge dismissed the threat and told him to focus on cultivation.
• Li Xuantong left to prepare for seclusion, while Li Xuanzong carried the unconscious Old Man Ku Gu to Gongsun Ban’s courtyard.
• Gongsun Ban mocked Li Xuanzong and asked whether he had returned the high-grade Human Weapons he had taken, but Li Xuanzong had brought none.

Li Xuanzong brought Old Man Ku Gu to Gongsun Ban as compensation for the ruined Human Weapons, giving Gongsun Ban a chance to advance as a Weapon Forger. Meanwhile, the Ji Clan decided to take the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame from the Baihe Li Clan and rally other Innate True Persons to its cause.

• Li Xuanzong told Gongsun Ban that the Human Weapons had been nearly destroyed, then lured him back with the promise of fine material.
• Gongsun Ban discovered that Old Man Ku Gu was a living Half-step Innate Cultivator and eagerly accepted him as material for a Human Weapon.
• The Ji Family Head told the Ji Clan's two ancestors that Li Xinge had obtained the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame.
• The Ji Family Head and the Ji Clan's Second Ancestor persuaded the Great Ancestor to seize the flame to aid his cultivation and please their backer.
• The Ji Clan's Great Ancestor ordered Yuming to invite the Innate True Persons from the clans involved in the struggle to accompany him to the Baihe Li Clan.

Ji Wangtian tried to recruit other Innate True Persons to help reclaim the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame from the Baihe Li Clan, but they refused after learning the Ji Clan had pledged allegiance to Prince Jingjiang. The others then planned to warn Lord Sima and protect the Li Clan, hoping to earn Li Xinge’s gratitude and gain favor with the State Governor.

• Ji Wangtian summoned eight Innate True Persons and asked them to join him in taking back the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame from the Baihe Li Clan.
• When the others refused to risk conflict with the State Governor, Ji Wangtian threatened to keep them at the Ji Clan ancestral grounds, but the Ji Clan’s Second Ancestor calmed the confrontation.
• The Ji Clan’s Second Ancestor revealed that the Ji Clan had pledged allegiance to Prince Jingjiang, prompting the visitors to leave rather than associate with the Ji Clan.
• Ji Wangtian resolved to attack the Baihe Li Clan anyway, hoping to reclaim the flame and prove his loyalty to Prince Jingjiang.
• After leaving, the Innate True Persons agreed that one of them would inform Lord Sima while the rest went to protect the Baihe Li Clan and earn Li Xinge’s gratitude.

Li Xinge returned Elder Jiang’s Demonic Core after secretly keeping a means to control him. The Ji Clan’s two ancestors arrived at Green Maple Valley demanding the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame and threatening the Li Family.

• Li Xinge offered Elder Jiang his Demonic Core, but Elder Jiang refused because he feared Li Xinge would kill him to protect his secret.
• Li Xinge reassured Elder Jiang, placed a hidden restriction on the Demonic Core, and returned it to him.
• Li Xinge sensed the Ji Clan’s Great Ancestor and Second Ancestor approaching Green Maple Valley.
• The Ji Clan’s ancestors eyed the Baihe Li Clan’s spirit vein and plotted to seize the valley if Li Xinge refused their demand.
• The two ancestors unleashed their auras over Green Maple Valley, and the Ji Clan’s Great Ancestor demanded the Seven-Colored Sky Burning Flame in exchange for sparing the Li Family.

Li Xinge confronted the Ji Clan’s two ancestors and overwhelmed them despite their confidence in their alliance with Prince Jingjiang. After receiving reassurance from a voice transmission, he killed Ji Wangtian and knocked out the Ji Clan’s Second Ancestor.

• Li Xinge dismissed the Ji Clan’s Great Ancestor and swallowed his Fire Phoenix attack with a black hole.
• Li Xinge revealed power sufficient to crush the two ancestors’ combined spiritual attack and send them crashing into the ground.
• The Ji Clan’s ancestors pleaded for their lives, citing their service to Prince Jingjiang and offering to introduce Li Xinge to him.
• A familiar voice transmission urged Li Xinge to kill them and said the State Governor would handle Prince Jingjiang.
• Li Xinge killed Ji Wangtian by drawing a phantom shadow from his body, then knocked out the Ji Clan’s Second Ancestor to keep him alive for later use.

Fu Yu praised Li Xinge for defeating the Ji Clan and explained that the State Governor would reward his service with five years of Ascending Dragon Prefecture’s tax revenue. The chapter ended with Brother Ruan waking after spending the night with Li Xinge’s lead dancer and feeling pain between his thighs.

• Fu Yu arrived to help Li Xinge, congratulated him on his strength, and revealed that he had reached the Late-stage Innate Realm.
• Li Xinge confronted the green-robed Innate experts who had been watching, then welcomed them to Green Maple Valley after Fu Yu explained they had warned him about the Ji Clan’s attack.
• At a banquet, Brother Ruan became captivated by Li Xinge’s lead dancer and left to enjoy her company.
• Fu Yu told Li Xinge that killing Ji Wangtian also served as a warning to Prince Jingjiang’s allies and earned the State Governor another merit.
• Fu Yu promised to propose that the Baihe Li Clan keep all taxes from Ascending Dragon Prefecture for five years, and warned Li Xinge to remain loyal to the State Governor.
• The next day, Brother Ruan woke with the dancer and complained of pain between his thighs.

Li Xinge disciplined Yue Niang for using her seduction arts recklessly, then assigned her trained women to the Li Family’s Night Owl Hall. At the Underground Heavenly Prison, Li Xuanyi brought his grandson Li Xingmu through the guarded levels and reached the chamber where a blind old man lay alone.

• Li Xinge slapped Yue Niang and warned her not to cause trouble after she drained Ruan Tianmo.
• Yue Niang told Li Xinge she had trained a hundred women in seduction arts, and he assigned them to the Night Owl Hall under her command.
• Li Xinge promised to protect Yue Niang if Illusionary Love Valley came after her, then vanished.
• Li Xuanyi led Li Xingmu through the Purple Blade Thorn entrance and explained the prison’s three levels and their prisoners.
• Li Xuanyi introduced Li Xingmu to Li Yanwen, who guarded the first level, before they continued past the second-level guards.
• Li Xuanyi and Li Xingmu reached the third level, where a blind old man rested in a reclining chair.

Li Xuanyi brought Li Xingmu to the Li Clan’s Heavenly Prison, where he showed him how the clan harvested flesh and blood from the captive Ji Clan's Second Ancestor to strengthen its Azure Wolves. As Li Xuanyi planned to repeat the torture each day, the heavens darkened over Green Maple Valley.

• Li Xuanyi warned Li Xingmu not to offend Old Zhou, a Half-step Innate Realm attendant guarding the Heavenly Prison.
• Li Xuanyi revealed that the Li Clan had imprisoned Ji Clan's Second Ancestor, an Innate True Person, and explained that his flesh would help the Azure Wolves break through to Qi and Blood Great Perfection.
• Li Xuanyi cut dozens of thin slices from Ji Clan's Second Ancestor while Li Xingmu collected his blood, and the Rune Chains drained the captive's spiritual power when he resisted.
• Li Xingmu forced a restorative pill into Ji Clan's Second Ancestor, whose wounds healed as Li Xuanyi promised the clan would harvest his flesh again after he recovered.
• The heavens darkened and winds rose above Green Maple Valley.

The First Elder successfully broke through to the Innate Realm, making the Baihe Li Clan a family with two Innates. At Prince Jingjiang’s Mansion, Jiang Yinze learned that the Hengzhou Ji Clan had been wiped out.

• Li Xinge arrived as the First Elder began his breakthrough and shielded the Li Family from the heat released by the spiritual energy infusion.
• The First Elder endured the tribulation and attained the Innate Realm, then briefly regained his youthful appearance before changing back.
• Li Xinge and the First Elder appeared above the clouds as the Li Family congratulated the First Elder on becoming the clan’s second Innate.
• Jiang Yinze crushed his jade cup and demanded confirmation that the Hengzhou Ji Clan had been wiped out.