Vol. 9The Li Family Ascendant

Li Xinge and the Li Family overcame Upper Realm threats, absorbed the Heavenly Dao, and gained the Dragon Ancestor’s legacy as they prepared for conflict with Great Zhou. The volume ended with Li Xinge victorious over the Princess Royal and the family confronting questions about its origins and Li Hao’s political marriage.

  • Xiao Yuan refined the sacred relic and fought Upper Realm forces hunting him, while an entity within him froze Zhou Lie and declared him an anomaly.
  • Li Xinge descended into the Far Northern Icefield as the prodigies knelt and the entity ordered him back across the boundary.
  • Li Xinge defeated and absorbed the Heavenly Martial Continent’s Heavenly Dao, then prepared the Li Family for conflict with Great Zhou as Yunxi brought Yun Shan home.
  • Li Longxiang entered a newly forming Divine Mansion World as Qi Kingdom and Great Zhou gathered to contest its inheritance.
  • Li Hao entered the Divine Mansion World and received his ancestor’s True Dragon Essence Blood, Primordial Scripture, and two Saint-tier Divine Abilities.
  • Li Wuyou and Li Xuantong confronted the Qi Kingdom and Qian Family powers, and Li Hao returned with the ancestor’s remnant soul.
  • Li Xinge defeated the Princess Royal and offered Ming Tianchen a chance to serve him, while the Li Family adopted merit-based elder appointments.
  • Li Xinge questioned Li Hao about losing his Primordial Yang and refused to arrange his marriage to Qi Kingdom’s princess despite Li Xuantong’s political argument.
Chapters 810–909 Read from Ch. 810

Arc 33The Heavenly Martial Invasion

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.

  • Xiao Yuan refined the Otherworldly Sacred Relic, broke through to the middle-level Martial Saint realm, and fled after the Mystic Sword Martial Saint threatened his captured companions and family.
  • Li Xinge sent ten prodigies, including Zhou Lie, through Sage Xuanji’s Two-Realm Teleportation Grand Array, while the Six-Eyed Demon Lord began massacring cities in the Lower Realm.
  • Cui Yulong and Lin Langtian forced the Heavenly Martial Dynasty to serve the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty and help search for Xiao Yuan and the sacred relic.
  • Xiao Yuan lured the Six-Eyed Demon Lord away from Green Mountain City and killed him, then fought Zhou Lie, whose awakened Jade Pendant gave him overwhelming power.
  • After Zhou Lie nearly killed him, a mysterious force carried Xiao Yuan to the far north, where he recovered beneath a glacier before Six Eyes and Cui Yulong led a hunt against him.
  • Six Eyes used Xiao Yuan’s captive family and clansmen to restrain him, but Xiao Yuan broke through to the upper-tier Martial Saint realm and fought the Upper Realm prodigies with the sacred relic.
  • Zhou Lie stopped Xiao Yuan from killing Six Eyes and battered Xiao Yuan, until an entity within him froze Zhou Lie and declared him an anomaly from beyond the world.
  • Li Xinge descended through a rift above the Far Northern Icefield as the Upper Realm prodigies and their allies knelt before him, while the entity ordered him back across the boundary.
Chapters 810–83425 summaries Read

Arc 34The Heavenly Dao and the Inheritance

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 Xinge crushed the Heavenly Dao’s attacks, exposed its failed plan to empower Xiao Yuan, and sealed it inside the Tianyuan Cauldron after it drained the continent to become a One-Calamity Saint.
  • Li Xinge destroyed the Heavenly Dao’s consciousness and absorbed its source essence, expanding his Divine Mansion World as Guhongzi broke through to the Divine Mansion Realm and joined the Li Family’s ranks.
  • Li Xinge confirmed Xiong Lie’s Li Family bloodline and spared him, while Gongsun Ban took Xiao Yuan to develop the living vessel path and Yunxi asked to visit her family.
  • Li Xinge awakened Li Xuanyong’s earth-bearing physique and rallied Divine Mansion cultivators to prepare for a future march on Great Zhou, then entered seclusion as Yunxi departed for Huanxi Village.
  • Yunxi reunited with her parents and relatives, then agreed to take Yun Shan to the Li Family after Elder Jiang confirmed the boy had fifth-grade superior talent.
  • Li Longxiang killed Ninth Master Song and the Song Family head and elders after they attacked him, then followed a mysterious bloodline call toward the Qi Kingdom as Feng Nishang ascended through the Long Life Gate.
  • Li Longxiang found a Divine Mansion World forming in the Azure Rosy-Cloud Mountains, while the Qi Kingdom and Great Zhou summoned experts and young talents to compete for its possible Half-Saint inheritance.
  • The Qi Kingdom’s Country Lord arrived with the Qi Imperial Seal, barred Divine Mansion experts from entering the fragile world, and restricted the juniors’ use of powerful treasures as Li Longxiang watched, eager to fight.
Chapters 835–85925 summaries Read

Arc 35The Dragon Ancestor’s Legacy

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.

  • Li Longxiang entered the Divine Mansion World, found a bronze whisk, and followed an ancient voice north to a buried palace whose doors opened when he approached.
  • Li Hao entered the palace’s chamber of nine dragon-wrapped pillars and, after the restriction broke, met a soul fragment of his ancestor, who revealed that the Rootless People had devastated the Li Family seven thousand years earlier.
  • The ancestor made Li Hao refine True Dragon Essence Blood, gave him the Primordial Scripture and two Saint-tier Divine Abilities, and warned him that the Divine Mansion World was collapsing.
  • Li Hao returned to the palace, defeated cultivators who demanded the Half-Saint opportunity, and escaped the collapsing world as Old Ghost Qian attacked him outside.
  • Li Hao awakened his Primordial Dragon Elephant and shattered Old Ghost Qian’s spatial prison, but Li Wuyou arrived and attacked the Qi Kingdom and Qian Family experts who had harmed him.
  • Li Wuyou trapped and drained her opponents until Li Xuantong and four other powerful figures arrived, and Li Xuantong ordered her to stop, and Tian Xuanjing accepted that Qian Xingping had brought his fate upon himself.
  • Li Xuantong led the Li Family away, while Tian Xuanjing told King Sui to watch the clans, especially the weakened Qian Family.
  • Back with the Li Family, Li Hao recounted the ancestor’s revelations and legacy, then showed Li Xuantong and the others the black cloth bag containing the ancestor’s remnant soul.
Chapters 860–88425 summaries Read

Arc 36The King of Chu Rises

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 Xuantong questioned Li Qingcang about the Li Family’s lost ancestral land and Primordial Scripture, then promised to sustain his spirit until Li Xinge emerged from seclusion.
  • Li Hao tried to give Guhongzi an Earth Weapon whisk, but Guhongzi refused the private gift, so Li Xuantong later formally bestowed the whisk on him as a reward.
  • Zhao Qingyun persuaded Wu Yuan, Yu Bufan, and Ximen Xue to seek an alliance with Great Zhou, while the Qian Family was slaughtered by blood-robed attackers and Tian Xuanjing suspected the Li Family had sent a warning.
  • Li Xuantong’s proposal to require cultivation, assessment, and merit for elder promotions passed, as the southern provinces mobilized against Great Zhou and the Princess Royal’s campaign against the Pure World Holy Church continued.
  • The Princess Royal defeated and killed the Pure World Holy Venerable, but Li Xinge appeared to defend the wounded man in the bamboo hat and then defeated the Princess Royal with his Golden Crow power.
  • After Jiang Qinghuang admitted defeat and withdrew, Li Xinge offered Ming Tianchen a chance to serve him and ascend to the Upper Realm, while the remnants of the Pure World Holy Church scattered.
  • News of Li Xinge’s victory spread, and he approved the Li Family’s merit-based elder appointments before Li Xuantong raised a grave matter about the family’s origins.
  • Li Xinge questioned Li Hao about losing his Primordial Yang and refused to arrange his marriage to Qi Kingdom’s imperial princess, while Li Xuantong argued that the match could influence Qi Kingdom.
Chapters 885–90925 summaries Read
Volume 9 of 10
Volume 9 of 10