Recaps

The Li Family survived the Liu Family’s attack, strengthened its influence in Stone County, and made alliances while Li Xinge advanced toward the Innate Realm. The arc ended with new policies to grow the clan and extend its collateral branches into other counties.

• The First Elder hired Old Man Fengshan to forge the Divine Mansion Jade Bone, and Fengshan took Li Xingzong as his disciple before the Liu Family Second Ancestor broke through to the Innate Realm.
• The Liu ancestors moved against Li Xinge, but a wounded stranger captured Liu Yuheng above Green Maple Valley, and Old Man Fengshan later completed the Jade Bone and left with Li Xingzong.
• At Prefect An Chengyu’s seal-taking ceremony, Li Xuantong defeated a man who provoked the Li Family, and Old Man Fengshan’s presence helped establish the clan’s standing with the new Prefect.
• The Li elders rejected An Chengyu’s offer to join his struggle against the Zhang and Liu Families, then chose to challenge Jiang Mao’s authority in Stone County by winning over the Qi and Wei Families.
• The Qi Family accepted the Li Family’s proposal, but the Wei Family refused, so Li Yanxiao led the Azure Wolf Cavalry to destroy the Wei Clan and the Qi Family took control of Stone County’s great families.
• Li Xinge emerged at the Half-step Innate Realm and sent Zheng Cangfeng to protect the Qi Family, while he learned that Li Wuyou possessed a Void Ring and had reached Body Cultivation Grand Perfection.
• Liu Jizu sent elders to attack the Qi Family, but Zheng Cangfeng defeated them and forced their retreat, leading Liu Jizu to order Jiang Mao to hold Stone County rather than risk a broader conflict.
• Li Xinge and the elders approved rewards to grow the family and a plan to move collateral branches into Dong and Shi Counties, then Main Branch envoys arrived at Little Min Mountain.

Li Xinge avenged the broken marriage contract, crushed the Yu and Tong Families, and united five counties under his command. After reaching the Innate Realm and recruiting Jiang Yinshu, he prepared for war as An Chengyu and the Zhang and Liu Families moved toward open conflict.

• Li Nanfeng accepted the Main Branch’s offer and began moving most of the collateral branches to East County and Stone County, while a few stayed at Little Min Mountain.
• Li Yanjing discovered that Li Xinge’s betrothed, Yu Mingzhen, had married Tong Huaiqing and was pregnant, so Li Xinge left Green Maple Valley to confront the Yu Family.
• Li Xinge arrived at Yu Mingzhen’s wedding with the Baihe Li Clan’s forces, killed the Yu Family Ancestor and Tong Mingliang, and ordered the Yu and Tong Families destroyed.
• Li Xinge formed an alliance with Dou Changgeng, then gathered the powers of five counties at Green Maple Valley and became the Five County Alliance’s leader.
• Li Xinge sacrificed Tong Huaiqing and Yu Mingzhen to form the Three Divine Fiends, refined their baleful energy into a Demonic Core, and broke through to the Innate Realm by using Li Wuyou’s Destiny to withstand tribulation.
• Li Xinge recruited Old Man Fengshan as a guest elder and defeated the demonic cultivator Jiang Yinshu, who revealed that Liu Xuansheng had hired him to attack.
• Li Xinge ordered the Five County Alliance to prepare for war as An Chengyu purged Zhang and Liu Family allies and accepted the Zhang Family Old Ancestor’s challenge to a duel.
• The Zhang and Liu Family ancestors agreed to unite against An Chengyu and then destroy Li Xinge and the Baihe Li Clan, while Li Xinge learned of the challenge and stood by the window with his head bowed.

Li Xinge helped destroy the Zhang and Liu families, became Prefect, and strengthened the Li Family as it expanded its power. The arc ended with Li Wu tracking a Liu Family remnant to Huayue Tower and recognizing something about a hunched waiter.

• An Chengyu fled after Liu Family Old Ancestor ambushed him, but Li Xinge later betrayed and killed him, taking his Golden Core.
• Zhang Haocun and Liu Xuansheng’s families were condemned as traitors, and Fu Yu led the Heavenly Phoenix Army and Li Xinge’s alliance in destroying them.
• Li Xinge became Prefect of Ascending Dragon Prefecture, and his appointment raised the Li Family’s standing and fortune.
• Li Xinge advanced the Li Family to Level 3, merged a Spirit Vein beneath Green Maple Valley, and established a ranked hierarchy for clan members.
• Li Wuyou killed the Water Bandits’ chieftains with the Burning Blood Scripture and blood-red chains, while Elder Jiang secretly protected her.
• Chen Ziyi exposed a Spirit Stone Mine to the Wang Clan, and Li Xinge’s forces compelled the Wang and Xie families to share it with the Li Family and Sima Fu.
• Li Wu accepted a task to kill the Liu Family remnant Li Zhen and traveled to Huayue Tower, where he recognized something about a hunched waiter.

Li Xinge destroyed Ye Canglan after the Li Family’s assault on the Ye Family, then turned to mobilizing Ascending Dragon Prefecture against the Blood Demon Sacred Cult. When the Ge Family resisted his troop demands, Li Xinge led an attack on its stronghold and confronted Xiao Yinglong.

• Li Wu killed Liu Zhen, returned to his family, and gave Li Zhenshan a Qi and Blood Pill that helped his father break through to the Qi and Blood Realm.
• Li Yuran traveled to the Ye Family with Zhang Xingchen and ended her engagement to Ye Canglan, who then accepted Old Mo’s offer to help him grow stronger.
• Li Xinge surrounded and attacked the Ye Family, but Old Mo possessed Ye Canglan and fought the Li Family’s Innate experts before Li Xinge killed Ye Canglan and destroyed his soul.
• Li Xinge gained new powers and the Primordial Chaos Scripture, while the Lingxu Sect chose not to confront him under Governor Ouyang’s protection.
• Governor Ouyang Fengchai ordered Yang Province’s prefects to assemble forces against the Blood Demon Sacred Cult, and Li Xinge organized Ascending Dragon Prefecture’s contributions.
• Li Xinge demanded troops and funds from the Ge Family, punished Zhu Shao and his clan, and prompted the Xie and Wang families to discuss how to respond.
• After the Ge Family missed Li Xinge’s deadline, he led an army against its ancestral lands as Xiao Yinglong arrived to support it.
• Zheng Cangfeng’s crossbow carts battered the Ge Family stronghold, but Li Xinge gathered Xiao Yinglong’s redirected bolts and hurled them back through his barrier.