Recaps

Li Ye transmigrated into the body of a frail, exiled young master in a world where martial strength depended on Blood Soul Power. After learning about his new life and Aunt Yun’s care, he discovered that the Vampire bite from his previous life had transformed him.

• Li Ye realized he had transmigrated after a Vampire killed him in his previous life and learned about the Cloud Soaring Continent and its martial cultivation.
• Aunt Yun visited Li Ye, urged him not to return to the Li Family, and said she would continue caring for him despite his father’s absence.
• Li Ye recalled that the Li Family had exiled him for failing to awaken a Blood Soul and that a beating during his latest attempt to return had killed him.
• After Aunt Yun left, Li Ye felt a scorching thirst and saw his eyes turn red as sharp fangs emerged, confirming he had become a Vampire.

Li Ye tested his new vampire body and discovered it was fast, powerful, and able to heal, despite his weak strength and inability to activate a Blood Soul. After mysterious memories revealed vampire ranks and abilities, he learned he was likely a Marquis-level vampire and gained confidence in his two innate talents.

• Li Ye tested sunlight and found it scorched him but did not burn him or turn him to ash.
• Li Ye discovered that his wounds healed rapidly, his strength matched a Spirit Martial Rank One cultivator, and his speed and senses rivaled someone at Spirit Martial Tier Three.
• Li Ye considered his failure to activate a Blood Soul and wondered whether vampires could grow stronger before obscure information overwhelmed him and he fainted.
• Li Ye woke after nightfall and received memories explaining vampire cultivation, ranks, and the possibility that he was a Marquis-level vampire.
• Li Ye learned vampires did not need to drink living people's blood and possessed two great talents: doubled strength at night and the Blood Eyes illusion technique.
• Li Ye grew confident that his nighttime strength could defeat even a Spirit Martial Tier Three opponent.

Li Ye learned to use his Blood-Eyed Illusion and confronted his cousin Li Haoran, whom he suspected of arranging the attack that nearly killed him. After Li Haoran attacked, Li Ye trapped him in an illusion and prepared to drink his blood.

• Li Ye adapted to his Vampire abilities and resolved to fulfill the lingering soul’s wish to return to the Li Family.
• Li Ye practiced controlling his Blood Eyes and learned that he could cast illusions on ordinary people without their notice.
• Li Haoran visited Li Ye, and Li Ye realized his cousin had likely arranged the beating that left him gravely injured.
• Li Haoran attacked Li Ye, but Li Ye dodged his first strike and then caught his gaze with Blood Eyes.
• Li Ye trapped Li Haoran in an illusion, approached him while he was defenseless, and bit his neck to drink his blood.

After draining Li Haoran’s vital blood, Li Ye condensed his Blood Soul and entered martial cultivation, but realized his strength was still insufficient to secure the Li Family’s respect. With the annual family tournament a month away, he planned to train and develop his abilities, while facing the immediate lack of cultivation methods and Combat Techniques.

• Li Ye drank Li Haoran’s vital blood, triggering a dangerous Blood Soul formation that he endured without anyone’s guidance.
• Li Ye sensed spiritual energy, tested his greatly increased strength, and judged that he could challenge fighters above his early-stage Spirit Martial Rank One realm.
• Li Ye decided to use the family tournament in a month to prove himself and aimed to reach Spirit Martial Tier Three before it began.
• Li Haoran woke with an instinctive fear of Li Ye and quickly left.
• Li Ye recognized that he had no cultivation methods or Combat Techniques to make full use of his strength.

Li Ye sought Combat Techniques while secretly draining the essence blood of seven notorious mercenaries, advancing to the late stage of Spirit Martial Rank One. When Li Tianwu came to attack him, Li Ye matched and surpassed his strength in a clash of fists, revealing that he had condensed a Blood Soul; the fight continued as Li Tianwu unleashed Thunderclap Fist.

• Li Ye considered how difficult it would be to obtain Combat Techniques from the Li Family and resolved to find Yellow Tier techniques.
• Over three nights, Li Ye ambushed seven notorious mercenaries and drank their essence blood, advancing to the late stage of Spirit Martial Rank One without killing them.
• Li Haoran arrived with his half-brother Li Tianwu, who insulted Li Ye and attacked him with a punch.
• Li Ye met Li Tianwu’s punch and forced him back, demonstrating strength greater than the late-stage Spirit Martial Tier Three cultivator’s.
• Li Tianwu realized Li Ye had condensed a Blood Soul and, alarmed, used the Thunderclap Fist Combat Technique.

Li Ye defeated Li Tianwu with the Blood-Eye Art and advanced rapidly through Spirit Martial Tier Two to Tier Three. He found a hidden sword and a letter from Li Kainian, which revealed a path leading to the Central Province Sacred Domain and left him the Moon Dream Heart Sutra.

• Li Tianwu used the Thunderclap Fist to overpower Li Ye and threatened to cripple his Blood Soul.
• Li Ye used the Blood-Eye Art to daze Li Tianwu, struck him down, and fed on his essence blood, reaching peak Spirit Martial Tier Two.
• Li Ye advanced to Spirit Martial Tier Three after his Blood Soul continued absorbing spiritual energy.
• Li Ye broke his bedframe, discovered a hidden longsword and letter, and heard Li Kainian's will tell him to seek him in the Central Province Sacred Domain after reaching the Heaven-Reaching Realm.
• Li Kainian's will left Li Ye a mysterious cultivation art and Combat Technique called the Moon Dream Heart Sutra.

Li Ye consolidated his cultivation and studied the Moon Dream Heart Sutra, discovering its nighttime enhancement technique and illusion art. After testing his strength by killing a rank-four demonic bear, he successfully used Dream-Making on its cub, combining the technique with his vampire Blood Eyes.

• Li Ye reached the peak of Spirit Martial Tier Three, then explored the Moon Dream Heart Sutra and its Moon Heart Sutra and Dream Heart Sutra techniques.
• Over three days, Li Ye improved his combat strength and learned that the nameless cultivation method accelerated his progress.
• Li Ye killed a rank-four brown bear with one punch in a forest outside Wuzhou City.
• Li Ye used Dream-Making together with his Blood Eyes to make the brown bear cub mistake him for its mother.

With the Li Family’s year-end gathering less than two days away, Li Ye watched the Three Great Families’ young talents from an inn and prepared to earn recognition and a place back in the family. Li Yue’s rivalry with Li Yating was revealed when Yu Wen Tianhua provoked him, and Li Ye sensed that Li Yue had reached the seventh level of the Spirit Martial Realm.

• Wuzhou City filled with young family descendants returning for the annual gathering and its competition for status within their families.
• Inn patrons identified Yu Wen Tianhua, Wu Wenhao, and Li Yue as prominent talents of the Three Great Families.
• Li Ye watched Li Yue from a corner and resolved to fulfill his former self’s wish to regain the Li Family’s recognition.
• Yu Wen Tianhua and Wu Wenhao suggested Li Yue would have to contend with Li Yating, a talented Li Family member returning from training outside the city.
• Li Yue angrily challenged Yu Wen Tianhua’s implication, and Li Ye sensed that Li Yue had entered the seventh level of the Spirit Martial Realm.

Li Ye confronted Li Yue, Yu Wen Tianhua, and Wu Wenhao after overhearing them insult him and his missing father in a tavern. He stood his ground against Li Yue, whose cultivation and aura revealed him to be a formidable opponent.

• Li Ye recalled that Li Yating had once protected him, while Yu Wen Tianhua reminded Li Yue and Wu Wenhao of the trouble she caused three years earlier.
• Wu Wenhao and Yu Wen Tianhua mocked Li Ye and his father, and Li Yue threatened to break Li Ye’s leg if he returned to the Lineage.
• Li Ye approached the three men and challenged Li Yue after hearing his threat.
• Li Yue sneered at Li Ye and called him a disgrace, but Li Ye answered with insults and dared him to try breaking his leg.
• Li Ye rebuffed Yu Wen Tianhua and Wu Wenhao as they tried to provoke the Li cousins against each other.
• Li Yue released an oppressive aura, and the tavern’s rogue cultivators recognized his seventh-level Spirit Martial Realm cultivation at age seventeen.

Li Ye faced Li Yue, the Li Family prodigy, in a tavern and was badly outmatched by his seventh-level Spirit Martial strength. Though Li Yue struck him twice and sent him crashing through the room, Li Ye survived and mocked him, leaving the tavern stunned by his newly revealed ability to cultivate.

• Li Yue threatened to make Li Ye kneel and kowtow, but Li Ye mocked his arrogance and refused.
• Li Yue smashed a table and attacked Li Ye, who met his blow with a punch and was thrown backward through several tables.
• The onlookers realized Li Ye had endured the attack with Blood Soul Power, and Li Yue learned he had reached Spirit Martial Tier Three.
• Li Yue attacked again in earnest and sent Li Ye through a partition into a private room.
• Li Ye stood up, wiped the blood from his mouth, and taunted Li Yue for failing to defeat him, shocking the tavern guests.

Li Ye fought Li Yue at Virtue Moon Tower and proved strong enough to exchange blows with the seventh-level Spirit Martial cultivator, despite still being outmatched. With Yu Wen Tianhua and Wu Wenhao urging him on, Li Yue pursued Li Ye into the street and prepared to attack again as the crowd watched.

• Li Yue unleashed his seventh-level Spirit Martial Realm aura and struck Li Ye, who was driven back but remained standing.
• Yu Wen Tianhua and Wu Wenhao provoked Li Yue into continuing the fight, and Li Yue’s punch sent him and Li Ye crashing through Virtue Moon Tower’s second floor.
• Li Ye and Li Yue exchanged another punch outside, and both retreated as onlookers marveled at Li Ye’s strength.
• Yu Wen Tianhua and Wu Wenhao feared Li Ye might have returned, but dismissed the possibility that the man they feared had come back.
• Li Yue accused Li Ye of violating family rules and demanded that he cripple his arms, while Li Ye challenged him to speak that way if Li Kainian were still in Wuzhou City.
• Li Yue dismissed Li Ye as an unfilial disappointment and gathered frost around his hands to use the Profound Yin Palm.

Li Ye fought Li Yue despite their four-realm gap, using his Blood-Eyed Illusion to create an opening before striking back with the Mighty God Palm. As Li Yue resumed his attack, a powerful burly man rescued Li Ye, saying he had been entrusted by someone else.

• Li Yue struck Li Ye with the Profound Yin Palm, fracturing his left arm, but Li Ye's Blood-Eyed Illusion briefly left Li Yue clutching his head in pain.
• Li Yue broke free of the illusion and attacked in a rage, but Li Ye dodged his punch and sent him flying with the Mighty God Palm.
• Yu Wen Tianhua and Wu Wenhao wondered how Li Ye had suddenly gained the ability to cultivate and reached such strength after years of surveillance.
• Li Yue attacked Li Ye again, and a burly man intervened, cut through Li Yue's palm strikes, and carried Li Ye away from danger.
• The burly man told Li Ye that he had been entrusted by someone else, then effortlessly neutralized Li Yue's frost attack and revealed strength far beyond the seventh level of the Spirit Martial Realm.

Li Ye tried to escape Li Huangran’s attempt to drag him back to the Li clan hall, using his Blood-Eyed Illusion to get away. Xiao Qing intervened to fight Li Huangran, leaving Li Ye to confront Li Yue with the same spiritual-power technique.

• Li Huangran arrived, accused Li Ye of betraying the family, and tried to seize him for trial at the clan hall.
• Li Ye evaded Li Huangran’s Eagle Claw Technique by using the Blood-Eyed Illusion, briefly disrupting the stronger man’s mind.
• Xiao Qing stepped in and fought Li Huangran, giving Li Ye an opening to face Li Yue.
• Li Yue attacked Li Ye with the Profound Yin Palm, but Li Ye used the Blood-Eyed Illusion and the first layer of the Dream Heart Sutra against him.

Li Ye defeated Li Yue and stood against his third uncle, Li Huangran, with Xiao Qing’s help. After the fight, Li Ye returned to his courtyard with Xiao Qing as rumors of his rise spread across Wuzhou City.

• Li Ye broke two of Li Yue’s ribs and rebuked him on behalf of his father.
• Yu Wen Tianhua and Wu Wenhao backed away from Li Ye, while Li Huangran attacked him and threatened to cripple him.
• Li Huangran struck Li Ye with a palm, but Xiao Qing stopped him from capturing Li Ye, forcing him to leave with the unconscious Li Yue.
• Li Ye admitted that Li Huangran’s attack had badly injured him, though he expected to recover within a few days, and asked Xiao Qing why he had helped.
• Stories about Li Ye’s fight spread through Wuzhou City, stirring excitement and uproar among the Three Great Families.
• Li Ye brought Xiao Qing to his courtyard, where Aunt Yun tended to him and prepared food.

Li Ye learned that Li Yating planned to return and help him rejoin the Li Family, but he insisted on earning his place through his own strength. Meanwhile, Li Dao Kui confronted the aftermath of Li Yue's defeat and demanded to know who had injured his grandson.

• Xiao Qing told Li Ye that he was a twenty-one-year-old Heavenly Profound Sect disciple and had helped him at someone else's request.
• Xiao Qing explained that Li Yating had asked to return to Wuzhou City to persuade the Li Family to accept Li Ye again, and that she was nearing Spirit Martial Tier Nine.
• Li Ye decided he would make the Li Family accept him through his own efforts rather than depend on Li Yating.
• Xiao Qing asked whether Aunt Yun was married, and Li Ye angrily told him to get lost.
• Li Dao Kui found Li Yue injured on a stretcher and roared that he would punish whoever had hurt his grandson.

Li Ye recovered from his injuries, broke through to Spirit Martial Tier Four, and headed to the Li Family’s year-end martial contest. After two gate guards mocked and blocked him, he knocked them into the gate and entered.

• Li Yue blamed Li Ye for his injuries, and Li Dao Kui was stunned to learn that Li Ye had beaten his grandson.
• Li Ye healed in less than two days and sparred with Xiao Qing, showing that his strength had greatly increased.
• Li Ye reached Spirit Martial Tier Four and set out with Xiao Qing for the Li Family’s year-end martial contest.
• Two guards mocked Li Ye and refused to let him enter, while onlookers ridiculed him as a good-for-nothing.
• Li Ye struck both guards into the gate and walked into the Li Family.

Li Ye returned to the Li Family and entered its Year-End Martial Contest, drawing the attention of relatives who feared and resented his father’s legacy. As the contest began, he recognized Li Xuan, one of his former tormentors, among the young contestants.

• Li Xian Nian learned that Li Ye had returned, defended his nephew to Li Zhong, and vowed to intervene if the clan bullied him again.
• Li Yue heard that Li Ye had arrived and urged Li Dao Kui to kill him, but Li Dao Kui said the family could make him despair without killing him.
• Li Huangran announced that Li Xian Nian had returned, unsettling Li Dao Kui and Li Yue before Li Yue pledged to win the contest and claim its championship.
• Thousands gathered for the Li Family’s Year-End Martial Contest, where Sixth Master took charge and Li Ye stood unnoticed among the crowd.
• Li Xuan mocked a weaker contestant, and Li Ye recognized him as Li Huangran’s son and one of the youths who had humiliated him.

Li Ye watched the Li Family's Year-End Martial Contest as branch-family disciples tested their strength against Black Obsidian, while Li Yanyan and Li Ergou's feud drew attention. The first round continued until Sixth Lord Li's young son tried to enter, but his father ordered him off the platform because he was underage.

• Li Zhong left a shallow fist mark on the Black Obsidian and passed the first round, earning praise for improving to Spirit Martial Tier Four.
• Li Yanyan used a Combat Technique to make the day's deepest mark, then argued with Li Ergou after he accused her of gaining the technique through her relationship with a main-family young master.
• Li Ergou passed the test with a weaker palm mark, while many other contestants failed or withdrew because they lacked the required strength.
• After more than a thousand contestants had tried, Sixth Lord Li's ten-year-old son stepped onto the platform and asked to participate.
• Sixth Lord Li rebuked his son and ordered him down, citing the rule that contestants had to be at least fourteen.

Li Hao demonstrated his Combat Technique during the family test, and the main-branch disciples passed their turn after the side branches. Li Xuan then called Li Ye onto the stage, where the family mocked him as a good-for-nothing, and Li Ye prepared to prove himself.

• Li Xuan persuaded Sixth Lord Li to let Li Hao test his strength, and the ten-year-old displayed Spirit Martial Tier Two cultivation and a Combat Technique.
• After more than half a day of testing, around three hundred side-branch disciples passed, and the main-branch disciples below Spirit Martial Tier Four arrived to take their turn.
• The main-branch disciples passed the test, with Li Hui impressing Sixth Lord Li through a powerful strike.
• As Sixth Lord Li began to end the first round, Li Xuan pointed out that Li Ye had not yet taken the test.
• Li Ye climbed onto the stage and challenged Sixth Lord Li's attempt to send him away, while Li Xuan and the crowd ridiculed him.

Li Ye insisted on taking the Black Obsidian test despite the crowd’s mockery and struck the stone with a punch. His fist left a mark nearly as deep as the famous imprint left by his father, stunning the thousands gathered.

• Li Ye cited the Lineage rules that allowed him to take the test, and Sixth Lord Li reluctantly let him proceed.
• Li Ye recalled the former soul’s painful failure at the Black Obsidian and resolved to succeed.
• Li Ye learned that his father had left a three-inch palm print before reaching twelve years old.
• Li Ye punched the Black Obsidian and asked Sixth Lord Li whether he had passed.
• Li Xuan rushed to inspect the stone and saw Li Ye’s fist mark beside his father’s nearly as deep, leaving the crowd in silence.

Li Ye passed the first test by leaving a deep fist mark on Black Obsidian, then defended himself when Li Yuan attacked him. As news of his return spread, Li Xuanji and Li Hou Nian recognized the significance of his talent and prepared for the next day's contest.

• Li Yuan accused Li Ye of cheating, attacked him, and was slapped down before Li Xuan stopped him and apologized to Li Ye.
• Li Ye accepted Li Xuan's apology, and Sixth Lord Li announced that Li Ye had passed the first round.
• Li Ye left, expecting the clan elders to hear of his success and anticipating the next day's contest.
• Sixth Lord Li reflected on Li Ye's father and realized the clan had misjudged Li Ye, then welcomed the returning Li Hou Nian.
• Li Hou Nian warned Sixth Lord Li to guard against tricks and said tomorrow would be exciting, while Li Xuanji promised Li Ye would reach the arena safely.

Li Ye prepared for the second round of the Li Family's martial contest, where hundreds of youths competed for valuable ranks and rewards. As the contest began, he was assigned to one of ten groups while Li Huangran watched him coldly from the stands.

• Xiao Qing praised Li Ye for handling the Li Family dispute without needing his help, while Li Ye awaited Li Yating's return on the contest's final day.
• Li Ye discovered that his Vampire speed had improved, making a lightly thrown punch faster than one from a Spirit Martial Tier Six cultivator.
• Li Ye entered the Li Family residence for the second round, where youths mocked him and suspected he had used Fossil Powder to cheat in the first round.
• Participants discussed rewards for the top ranks, including steward and elder positions and personal guidance from the Grand Supreme Elder, reportedly offered because Li Yating was returning.
• Li Family stewards opened the second round as Li Huangran and other elders observed from the stands, and the participants were divided into ten groups.

Li Ye entered the sixth arena’s tournament group and challenged its dominant contender, Li Dakui, after seeing Li Xuan reveal his breakthrough to Spirit Martial Tier Seven. Li Ye defeated Li Dakui with one punch, taking over his winning streak and stunning the spectators.

• Li Ye assessed the sixth group’s strong main branch contenders and decided the consecutive-win system could let him advance early.
• Li Ye watched Li Xuan defeat five opponents in the second group with one move apiece after reaching Spirit Martial Tier Seven.
• Li Ye stepped onto the sixth arena to face Li Dakui, who had won four matches in a row and planned to claim twenty consecutive victories.
• Li Dakui mocked Li Ye’s reputation as a good-for-nothing, while Li Huangran questioned Li Xuanji’s decision to let Li Ye pass the first round.
• Li Ye revealed his peak Spirit Martial Tier Four cultivation and met Li Dakui’s powerful punch head-on, sending him flying off the arena with one blow.
• Li Ye won his fifth consecutive match and inherited Li Dakui’s four-win streak, leaving the crowd and elders stunned.

Li Ye watched the martial arts arena’s first-round matches, noting the powerful dark horses and the Li Family’s renowned geniuses. After Li Yating returned to the Lineage and exchanged greetings with Li Mo, she searched the crowd and found Li Ye, leaving him focused on his ambition to rise through the ranks and challenge the geniuses.

• Li Datou defeated a string of main family disciples on the second platform, while Li Ye swept through the sixth platform and both advanced with twenty consecutive victories.
• Li Xuan took first place in the first group, and Li Ye assessed the strength of Li Datou and the Iceberg Beauty, recognizing they could fight well above their realms.
• The disciples discussed the Li Family’s three great geniuses—Li Mo, Li Yating, and Li Yue—as well as Li Xuan’s potential to join them.
• Li Ye saw Li Mo in the stands and reaffirmed his goal of reaching the top ten and eventually defeating the Lineage’s leading geniuses.
• Xiao Qing appeared in the stands, then Li Yating arrived with several figures and exchanged pointed greetings with Li Mo.
• Li Yating searched the crowd, spotted Li Ye, and briefly smiled knowingly.

Li Ye competed for the chance to enter the Martial Arts Pavilion and challenge the Li Family’s strongest disciples. After Li Datou won ten matches, he challenged an Inner Disciple, setting up their fight.

• The elders recognized Li Ye as Li Kainian’s son while the lineage announced that the top three would earn access to the Martial Arts Pavilion and become the Supreme Elder’s registered disciples.
• Li Ye resolved to pursue the rewards, especially the chance to learn Combat Techniques, and learned that the strongest ten could challenge the three great geniuses.
• The contestants began fighting, and Li Datou swept through several opponents with his strength.
• After winning ten consecutive matches, Li Datou challenged an Inner Disciple ranked twenty-sixth, who reacted with anger and unleashed his aura.