Recaps

Li Xuancang defeated Huang Jiuxuan, joined the Imperial Court's war against Prince Fu, and helped secure a three-year ceasefire before returning to the capital. As he prepared to marry Du Ruomei, Xu Zinian arrived and threatened to take Li Xuancang's place as groom.

• Du Tianhao warned Li Xuancang that the Hundred Herbs Sect would return, while Xu Zinian ordered Old Huang to seize Li Xuancang's family and the Profound Heaven Sect sent disciples to watch him.
• Li Xuancang secured the loyalty of Zhang Tianlong and his brothers, then turned away the imperial envoys ordering him to reinforce Spirit Yang Prefecture as Huang Jiuxuan attacked his manor.
• Li Xuancang defeated Huang Jiuxuan and earned the title Marquis Wu'an and command of Yu Prefecture, then agreed to join the Imperial Court's war against Prince Fu.
• Li Xuancang and the Imperial Court forces fought Prince Fu's alliance, forcing a three-year ceasefire, and Li Xuancang agreed to help the Prison Tiger Bureau hunt the Six-Eyed Great Demon.
• Li Xuancang fought the Six-Eyed Great Demon in the Demon Abyss, but the demon escaped after the Demon-Slaying Array exploded.
• Li Xuancang returned to the Imperial City, reunited with his family, and set the date of his wedding to Du Ruomei for the sixth day of the tenth month.
• Xu Zinian arrived in the capital with his iron cavalry, killed civilians, and declared he would take Li Xuancang's place as Du Ruomei's groom, prompting Du Tianyuan to hide the women and notify Li Xuancang.

Li Xuancang married Du Ruomei, defeated Xu Zinian’s forces, and established his authority in Yu Prefecture before leading Great Yan’s expedition to the Celestial Origin Secret Realm. After Xu Zinian escaped another attempt on his life, Li Xuancang joined the Prison Tiger Bureau’s attack on the Northern Liang Royal Residence, where a powerful force stopped his opening strike.

• Li Xuancang rescued Xu Zinian from the Du Family, but Li Xuancang later massacred Xu Zinian’s cavalry and married Du Ruomei amid a court debate over a marriage alliance with Northern Liang.
• Li Xuancang pursued Xu Zinian out of the Imperial City, killed Huang Jiuxuan and Sword Elder, and discovered that Xu Zinian had escaped using a substitute.
• Li Xuancang settled in Yu Prefecture, recruited soldiers, and helped commoners reclaim farmland while factions prepared to enter the Celestial Origin Secret Realm.
• At the secret realm, Li Xuancang crushed the Grassland People’s challenge, confronted the Barbarians, and assigned his allies to protect Li Ling’er.
• Li Xuancang fought Qian Sihai and Xu Zinian near the secret realm, but Xu Zinian escaped again before Li Xuancang could kill him.
• Li Xuancang learned that Xu Yanbing had attacked his family’s estate and vowed to destroy the Northern Liang Royal Residence when he could challenge its king.
• Li Xuancang guarded the secret realm’s entrance, then secretly joined Shen Qingshan and the Prison Tiger Bureau as they prepared to attack the Northern Liang Royal Residence.
• Li Xuancang struck at the residence’s defenders, but an overwhelming power emerged and crushed his attack.

Li Xuancang protected his family, fought the forces aligned with the Northern Liang King and Prince Fu, and helped rally the Human Race against their enemies. After leading Great Yan’s armies to victories, he pushed toward Prince Fu’s Residence while keeping Prince Fu and Tuoba Hong occupied.

• Li Xuancang fought the Northern Liang King, while Supreme Elder Chen and another elder trapped the king in the Heaven-and-Earth Same-Lifespan Formation, then Li Xuancang battled the Six-Eyed Great Demon and escaped with the Prison Tiger Bureau.
• After the Hundred Herbs Sect attacked Li Xuancang’s family, Zhang Yuanxiong and the Blacksteel Camp got them to safety, and Li Xuancang returned to Yu Prefecture furious at the sect.
• The Northern Liang King allied with the Demon and Blood Races, and the Human Race’s campaign to reclaim Northern Liang ended in defeat after the allied army was trapped at Northern Profound Pass.
• Li Xuancang sent his companions into seclusion, killed Mulin Stockade’s chiefs for Shangguan Hong, and rescued the Imperial Clan patriarch from Prince Fu before Shangguan Hong completed a powerful defensive formation.
• Li Xuancang traveled to the Imperial City and led Great Yan’s forces to Spirit Yang Prefecture, where he fought Prince Fu and Tuoba Hong and helped rout their armies.
• After suppressing Su Xinghai’s loss of control, Li Xuancang used Zhao Chongwu’s forces as a smokescreen and led the Blacksteel Camp in an attack that devastated Prince Fu and Tuoba Hong’s combined army.
• Li Xuancang ordered the Blacksteel Camp toward Prince Fu’s Residence while he fought Prince Fu and Tuoba Hong, and Prince Fu continued the battle despite Tuoba Hong urging him to retreat.

Li Xuancang helped the Human Race reclaim Northern Liang, then attacked the Hundred Herbs Sect and Profound Heaven Sect. After Long Yan, Xue Wujiu, and a Misty Rain Pavilion assassin cornered him, Li Xuancang fell into the Void and woke in the care of strangers.

• Li Xuancang killed Prince Fu, uncovered his evil cultivation texts, and ordered them burned while blaming the Barbarians for Prince Fu’s death.
• Li Xuancang and the Human Race forces defeated the Barbarians at Spirit Yang Prefecture, then returned to Northern Liang and drove back the Otherworldly Races at great cost.
• After Northern Liang was secured, Li Xuancang left for Azure Prefecture and led an assault on the Hundred Herbs Sect, fighting Dan Xuanzi and Cloudreturn Daoist before destroying one of the sect’s resource sites.
• Li Xuancang marched on the Profound Heaven Sect, broke its formation, and killed Wu Jianqing, but Long Yan attacked him as a Mid-Stage Divine Repository Realm Barbarian.
• Xue Wujiu and a Misty Rain Pavilion assassin joined Long Yan against Li Xuancang, who was badly wounded and fell unconscious after opening the Void.
• Li Xuancang’s allies protected his family and continued training while Human Race leaders sent assassins into Blood Race and Barbarian territory, and Su Xinghai entered Barbarian lands to avenge him.
• A young girl and three elderly people cared for Li Xuancang in a dilapidated hut, where he woke and asked where he was and how far it was from the Great Flame Dynasty.