Li Xinge secured control of Eastern Prefecture despite the court appointing Li Xuanxian and Wen Zhongyan, while the Xiong clan’s resurrection attempt failed and left Xiong Lie grieving his family. Back in Yang Province, the Blood Wing Flame Python joined the Li Family, and a golden pillar appeared in the southeastern mountains as cultivators gathered to investigate.
The Li Family joined rival forces in seeking the Crimson Flame Half-Saint’s hidden world, where Li Hao entered the Divine Palace and survived the Half-Saint’s attempt to take his body. The palace vanished with its inheritance, leaving Li Hao’s family to conceal what he had obtained.
Li Hao secretly obtained the Half-Saint’s Hidden Treasure, and Li Xinge used its resources to strengthen and reorganize the Li Family while forming new alliances. The story left Wen Zhongyan dead in Eastern Prefecture and Wen Zhong contemplating the meaning of an irreversible move in Shenjing.
Li Xinge strengthened the Li Family’s influence by subduing rival Demon Venerables, protecting Gu Qingtong, and helping Zhao Wujiu reach the Divine Mansion Realm. News of the Li Family’s support drew rogue cultivators to Yang Province, where Guhongzi arrived seeking a final chance to advance.
Li Wu’s killing of Balu drew the Southern Wasteland into conflict with the Li Family, while Li Xinge’s victory over the Second Priest strengthened the clan’s standing. Cao Wenzhao found his sister’s family through the Li Family and brought aid to the Cao Family just as the Qin Family attacked, leaving the Qin forces facing destruction.
Li Xinge used the Cao Family attack as grounds to conquer Jade Prefecture, while betrayals within Hundred Flowers Valley brought the sect to surrender and collapse. As the Li Family consolidated its new territory and gained strength, the valley’s survivors joined the Four Seas Alliance and vowed to prepare for revenge.
Li Xinge crushed the Four Seas Alliance's plans in Tai Prefecture, defeated King Ancestor Qin, and helped Li Wuyou break through to the Divine Mansion Realm. After revealing that he was the Marquis of Chu, he ordered the Demonic Path to defend Jade Prefecture against the alliance's coming invasion.
Li Xinge expanded his alliances, uncovered Great Zhou’s secret imperial mausoleum scheme, and secured the Dragon Palace’s aid despite the Eldest Princess’s neutrality. As the Four Seas Alliance mobilized to invade Jade Prefecture, Li Xinge’s forces prepared to meet it while keeping Chu Province’s allegiance concealed.
Li Xinge defeated the Four Seas Alliance, took control of the south, and received the title King of Chu from Great Zhou’s emperor. Three years later, Li Xuantong reached the Divine Mansion Realm, and the Li Family prepared to celebrate its growing strength.
As the Li Clan celebrated its rise and Li Xinge strengthened his allies, he launched a campaign against the Southern Wasteland. The invasion brought brutal fighting, Jiang Qinghuang’s growing power, and the capture of a mysterious outsider whose true nature Pei Lie began to uncover.
Li Xinge pursued the ascension passage and the Otherworldly Sacred Relic while the Chu forces broke through the Witch God Hall’s poisonous defenses. The Hall’s leaders fell, but Li Yin warned Li Xinge that Hua Yu might use her as a vessel to summon the Witch God’s will.
Li Xinge absorbed the Southern Wasteland into Great Chu, dealt with the Lü Family’s challenge, and oversaw the growth of his family and forces. As a reborn Xiao Yuan prepared the Martial Immortal Hall for an invasion, Li Xinge pushed to complete a passage to the Lower Realm.
Xiao Yuan refined the Otherworldly Sacred Relic as Upper Realm forces crossed into the Heavenly Martial Continent and joined its factions in hunting him. After Xiao Yuan fought off wave after wave of enemies to protect his family, an entity within him confronted Zhou Lie, and Li Xinge descended into the Far Northern Icefield.
Li Xinge defeated and absorbed the Heavenly Martial Continent’s Heavenly Dao, then prepared his forces for a northern campaign while Yunxi returned home and brought Yun Shan into the Li Family. Meanwhile, Li Longxiang’s journey led him to a contested Divine Mansion World, where Qi Kingdom and Great Zhou powers gathered to claim its inheritance.
Li Hao followed an ancient summons into the Divine Mansion World, where a remnant of his ancestor revealed the Li Family’s lost history and passed on its legacy. After Li Hao returned with the ancestor’s soul, Li Wuyou and the Li Family confronted Qi Kingdom’s powers, leaving Qi Kingdom wary and the Li Family reunited with its forefather’s remnant.
As the Li Family strengthened its rules and prepared for conflict, Li Xinge defeated the Princess Royal and shifted the balance of power. He returned to family matters, where Li Qingcang’s arrival raised questions about the Li Family’s origins and Li Hao’s time in Qi Kingdom led to a discussion of marriage and politics.
Li Xinge reunited the North Branch with the Main Branch and secured the Dragon Palace and Aquatic Race for his campaign against Great Zhou. As his Anti-Zhou Proclamation spread and southern forces prepared to march, the emperor revealed that the Progenitor Emperor was nearing the Heavenly Human Sacred Realm.
Li Xinge led the Southern forces against Great Zhou while the Jiang Family tried to sacrifice Jiang Qinghuang to awaken its progenitor. Chu Yuehan rescued Jiang Qinghuang but clashed with Li Xinge, then was punished by the Heavenly Dao and attacked by the Red Sun Saint as the Nine Suns Sacred Gate’s ambitions came into view.
Li Xinge’s forces destroyed Great Zhou’s defenses and Li Xinge faced the Progenitor Emperor with the Ancestor Sacred Weapon. Though Li Xinge’s strikes seemed to kill him, the Progenitor Emperor recovered and confronted Li Xinge over the Li Family’s destruction and the Rootless People’s betrayal.
No recap yet. An arc gets one once it has 25 chapters.