Recaps

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.

• Li Xinge’s allies outnumbered and defeated the Four Seas Alliance in Jade Prefecture, while Li Xinge drove Ming Tianchen away and forced the surviving alliance cultivators to submit or die.
• As the Pure World Holy Church’s rebellion spread through the north, Li Xinge took command of Chu Province and secured the allegiance of the Yan and Wei clans.
• Cui Yuan gathered support across the south for Li Xinge to become King of Chu, and the emperor granted Li Xinge the title, the Nine Bestowments, and permanent rule over the nine southern provinces.
• Li Xinge accepted the imperial decree as King of Chu, and the south prospered during three years of stalemate between Great Zhou and the World-Purifying Cult.
• Li Xuantong endured the Divine Mansion Tribulation and broke through to the Early-stage Divine Mansion Realm with a Divine Mansion World spanning fifteen hundred li.
• Li Xinge announced that the Li Family would hold a public ceremony and banquet to honor Li Xuantong, while Cui Yuan prepared to visit Green Maple Valley with a gift.
• Cao Wenzhao’s newborn son displayed Seventh-grade talent, and Chen Yan told the Cao family that Li Xuantong had become the Li Family’s third Divine Mansion cultivator.

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.

• Cao Zhengxiong and Cao Wenzhao traveled to Ascending Dragon Prefecture, attended Li Xuantong’s Divine Mansion ceremony, and were warned by Li Xinge not to exploit their ties to his late mother.
• Li Xinge discovered that Li Changsheng possessed the Longevity Dao Fruit and helped him strengthen his resolve to pursue cultivation.
• Li Xinge summoned the southern experts and ordered an invasion of the Southern Wasteland, while its priests prepared defenses and called for the Gu Sovereign to awaken.
• Jiang Qinghuang reached the great perfection of Divine Mansion, accepted the task of handling the World-Purifying Cult, and secured the Dongfang Clan’s unconditional allegiance.
• The Chu army invaded the Southern Wasteland, destroyed the Ridge Mountain Tribe, and Guhongzi killed four Innate cultivators in Stone City, prompting Meng She to slaughter the city’s inhabitants.
• Jin Muzhen, Fool, and A Mu captured the poisoned Primal Chaos Martial Saint and brought him to the Chu army, where Pei Lie inspected him and questioned the nature of his core.
• When Pei Lie ordered the guards to castrate the captive, the Primal Chaos Martial Saint sprang up, and Pei Lie confronted him about his unusual core.

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.

• Scarface tortured the Primal Chaos Martial Saint until he revealed he had ascended from the Heavenly Martial Continent, and Li Xinge learned of the ascender and sought the passage to his lower realm.
• Li Xinge learned that the ascension array might be difficult to locate, while the Martial Saint revealed that the Otherworldly Sacred Relic had revived cultivation on the Heavenly Martial Continent.
• Li Xuantong recruited Gongsun Ban’s eighty Human Weapons, and Li Xingzhou led them into the poisonous miasma to destroy its guarded formation nodes.
• Li Xingzhou’s Human Weapons destroyed the Poison Dragon Abyss nexus, and Zhao Wujiu and Li Xuantong defeated Meng She and Wu Gu as the Chu army pressed into the Southern Wasteland.
• Seven ancient Witch God Hall priests awakened to fight the Chu forces, while Guhongzi abducted the Saintess and brought her to Li Xinge.
• The Chu forces devastated the Witch God Hall, and Hua Yu awakened the Gu Sovereign, which battled Cui Yuan before Li Xinge drove it into retreat.
• The Gu Sovereign escaped by abandoning its shell, and Hua Yu killed Meng She before ordering Yan Kui to help sacrifice the Saintess.
• Li Yin escaped Guhongzi’s bindings and told Li Xinge that the Great Priest had transferred his cultivation to her, warning that Hua Yu might sacrifice her 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.

• Li Xinge subdued the Heaven-Deceiving Creation Gu, took Li Yin’s Divine Soul True Fire, and accepted her surrender of the Witch God Hall and Southern Wasteland.
• Li Yin used the Witch God Bell to force the rebel tribes and caves to submit, and Li Xinge established Desolation Province under Great Chu.
• Li Xinge found a damaged jade slip describing a deity, a world-ending disaster, and sacred blood, while his forces emptied the Witch God Hall’s treasury.
• Li Xinge killed Lü Mengxuan and the Lü Family elders, then spared Lü Fengxian after the latter attacked Green Maple Valley.
• Li Yanzhao and Li Qinglin rewarded the fallen cultivators’ descendants and Guhongzi, while Li Hao reached innately great perfection and left the family to temper himself.
• Jin Muzhen recruited two hundred thousand soldiers by forcing the Black Scale Tribe to submit, then led the army toward the Soulbreak Mountains as Li Xinge began preparations for a teleportation array.
• Reborn Xiao Yuan warned the Martial Immortal Hall that the Outer Realm Divine Race would invade in six months and summoned Martial Saints to form a Godslaying Alliance, while Li Xinge sensed the warning’s significance.
• Li Yuran became a Fifth-tier Alchemist after refining three Profound Clarity Foundation-Forging Pills, and Li Xinge ordered Sage Xuanji to open a passage to the Lower Realm within three months.