Recaps

Li Xuancang rose from a wounded conscript to a Squad Leader through battlefield victories, earning protection and relief for his family. After the Barbarians broke through the border and the army retreated, Li Xuancang faced twelve cultivators as Zhao Changlin fought two powerful enemies.

• Li Xuancang survived his first battle, killed Barbarians during the defense of Lakeside Station, and became a Battle Soldier whose status protected his family from debt and abuse.
• After surviving a Demon Hound attack, Li Xuancang became a Five-Man Leader and led his squad to kill a Black-Ridge Demon Wolf, then defeated Zhou Mang in a public fight.
• Li Xuancang held off a gray-furred demon soldier during an invasion, though his squad suffered heavy losses, and his family received permanent tax and labor exemptions.
• During Zhao Changlin’s raid on a Barbarian grain convoy, Li Xuancang killed several enemies, burned their provisions, and carried the wounded Zhao Changlin back to camp.
• Wang Xuanshan promoted Li Xuancang to Squad Leader, and the border remained quiet for half a month after the Barbarian supplies were destroyed.
• When the Barbarians broke through the defenses, Wang Xuanshan ordered a retreat and left the conscripts to hold the rear, while Feng Long killed those who protested.
• Zhao Changlin and Feng Long led a rear guard against the pursuing Barbarians, and Zhao Changlin told Li Xuancang to face twelve cultivators while he fought two Late Body Tempering Stage enemies.

Li Xuancang rose through the army’s ranks as the Human Race defeated the Barbarians, while upheaval forced his family to flee toward Profound Sun Commandery City. The arc ended with the army trapped in a poisoned-arrow ambush and Li Xuancang fighting to lead his unit out.

• Li Xuancang helped Zhao Changlin and the Wang brothers escape the Barbarians, then carried the gravely wounded Zhao Changlin through Blackwind Ridge to Azure Cloud Ridge Camp.
• After recovering, Li Xuancang became a Squad Leader and helped defend Azure Cloud Ridge, killing many attackers before retreating with the survivors to Jade Sun City.
• Li Xuancang’s service protected his family and his sister’s household from taxes and forced conscription, while the Li Clan was punished for refusing to register under his protection.
• Li Xuancang joined Zhou Xiong’s expedition against the Yellow Wind Bandits, helped break their ambush, and was promoted to Hundred-Man Commander.
• During the campaign against Gu Shuo’s Barbarians, Li Xuancang led an ambush force, killed a Bone Forging Realm general, and survived the costly victory that ended with Gu Shuo slain.
• After receiving rewards, Li Xuancang learned of Prince Fu’s rebellion and sent Nangong Zhan to escort his parents and eldest sister’s family to Profound Sun Commandery City.
• Nangong Zhan gathered the Li and Zhang families and used Li Xuancang’s Military Merit Medal to drive off bandits and pass checkpoints on their journey.
• At Half-Moon Gorge, Barbarian and Demon Race forces ambushed Zhou Xingzhan’s army with poisoned arrows, and Li Xuancang led his unit through the attackers after Zhou Xiong sacrificed his foundation to protect Zhou Xingzhan.

Li Xuancang rose from Battalion Commander to Thousand-Man Commander while escorting grain, battling Demons, and holding Mystic Sun City against a Barbarian and Demon coalition. Peace Prefecture’s army used the city as bait to trap the enemy, then rewarded Li Xuancang after the victory.

• Li Xuancang fought through the retreat from the western defenses, brought Zhou Xiong’s body back, and reunited with his family after reaching the commandery city.
• Zhou Xingzhan promoted Li Xuancang to Battalion Commander, and Li Xuancang volunteered to escort grain from Azure Origin County as the invasion spread.
• Li Xuancang defeated Huyan Zhuo and his ambush force, returned the grain, and presented hundreds of Barbarian heads to prove his victory.
• Li Xuancang took charge of city patrols, drove off the Soul-Seizing Demon, and burned three Bloodthirsty Zombie Demons after they killed a family.
• When the coalition approached, Li Xuancang volunteered to defend the north gate while other commanders avoided the assignment.
• Li Xuancang killed enemy fighters and Demonic Beasts during the siege, held his ground against waves of attackers, and continued fighting as the city’s defenses collapsed.
• Peace Prefecture’s army arrived, revealed that Profound Sun Commandery had served as bait, and trapped the coalition in a counterattack.
• Du Tianfeng promoted Li Xuancang to Thousand-Man Commander and assigned him one thousand elite soldiers, while Zhou Xingzhan resented losing his strongest subordinate.

Li Xuancang took command in Peace Prefecture, fought Evil Cultivators, and raced back after they attacked his family. After tracing the threat to the Iron Fist Sect, he led soldiers against it and demanded Tie Yue surrender.

• Li Xuancang moved his family and followers to Peace Prefecture City, took command of a thousand soldiers, and crushed resistance from veteran officers before reorganizing the army.
• Li Xuancang volunteered to suppress Evil Cultivators in Blessed Abundance Commandery and led five hundred soldiers into Blackwood Forest, where he fought their forces and escaped a blood formation with survivors.
• While Li Xuancang was away, the Profound Yin Old Man attacked the Li Residence and targeted Li Ling'er, but Zhang Cuier helped her escape and Shen Qingshan drove the attacker off.
• Li Xuancang returned to find Li Ling'er safe and the surviving guards gravely wounded, then secured Foundation-Nourishing Pills from Du Tianfeng to save them.
• Shen Qingshan identified the attacker as the Profound Yin Old Man of the Heavenly Yin Sect and warned that he might return for Li Ling'er.
• Li Xuancang learned that the rouge-shop encounter had linked Li Ling'er to Tie Yue of the Iron Fist Sect, then marched three hundred soldiers to the sect and demanded that it hand him over.
• When the Iron Fist Sect attacked, Li Xuancang killed the Third Elder, injured Tie Shanhe in a direct clash, and overwhelmed the sect's fighters as he again demanded Tie Yue's surrender.