Recaps

Li Rui secured the Trade Commandant post and used the Anning Guard to protect the Witch Kingdom’s first trade caravan from an ambush. After saving the merchants and arranging replacement goods, he was mistaken for the Beast God Reincarnation, while Xia Xiaotang departed for the Witch Kingdom.

• Li Rui escaped with Ning Zhongtian after exposing Jiang Baichuan’s corrupt accounts, then received immortal qi from Jiang Linxian and formed the Western Heaven Gate.
• Li Rui deceived the Ghost Underworld Sect with substitute immortal qi, but He Lan was killed and He Shan left the Anning Guard to seek revenge.
• Li Rui developed new forms of Swimming Dragon Six Slashes, became the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s leader, and accepted Jiang Linxian’s offer to serve as Trade Commandant.
• Li Rui defeated Qi Ze in the contest for Trade Commandant and took charge of communication between the Anning Guard and the Trade Affairs Department.
• Li Rui expanded the escort for the Witch Kingdom caravan, led the merchants away from an approaching threat, and killed a merchant who refused to follow his orders.
• Li Rui’s forces evaded an ambush, and he helped arrange replacement trade goods so the mutual market could open despite the loss of the original caravan’s cargo.
• Xia Xiaotang declared Li Rui the Beast God Reincarnation after seeing the Beast God’s shadow around him, and Li Rui told her to keep the belief secret.
• Xia Xiaotang departed for the Witch Kingdom, leaving Li Rui an exquisite wooden box through Dao Meng.

Li Rui expanded the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s weapons trade, opened his Qi Sea, and helped Iron Madman forge an immortal blade. After Zhuang Renhe tried to seize his immortal qi, Li Rui used the blade to kill him and completed the Famous Throughout Jianghu storyline.

• Li Rui consumed Xia Xiaotang’s Great Soul Pill, mastered the remaining forms of the Swimming Dragon Six Slashes, and agreed to report rebel prince Xia Zhou’s faction to Dao Mo.
• Li Rui killed Liu Jiaoniang, helped Dao Mo capture Qi Yu, and learned that the Great Shaman threatened Xia Xiaotang over the pill she had given him.
• Li Rui organized the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s weapons trade with the Witch Kingdom, cultivated with its profits, and accepted Liu Tong as his deputy.
• Li Rui opened his Qi Sea with the Divine Flame Sky Burning Hammer and lent Iron Madman his true qi to help forge an immortal weapon.
• Li Rui helped Dao Mo uncover the Qi Clan’s bandit plot in the Witch Kingdom, then found Dragon Ambergris and gave it to Iron Madman.
• Li Rui poured Immortal Profound Qi into Iron Madman’s Crimson Long Blade, transforming its koi spirit into a dragon and completing the immortal weapon.
• Li Rui realized someone was luring him outside the city, pretended to suffer qi deviation, and borrowed the immortal blade from Iron Madman.
• Li Rui ambushed Zhuang Renhe, endured his attack while building Blade Momentum, and killed him with the immortal blade.

Li Rui uncovered the cause of the demon tide, helped repel the assault on Qinghe, and advanced to the Listening to Waves Realm as Jiang Linxian defeated the Nine Souls Law King. With Lady Lingluo dead and the trade routes reopening, Li Rui prepared for a new role under Marquis Yuan and the coming World Martial Evaluation.

• Li Rui completed his challenge, concealed the evidence of Zhuang Renhe’s death, and watched officials accept the Qi Clan as the culprit while Chai Jingong kept his discovery of an immortal weapon secret.
• Li Rui declined to join the Witch Kingdom campaign, but later investigated the demon tide with Xia Xiaotang and learned Duan Yu had provoked the Old Flood Dragon, then secured a truce and let Jiang Linxian take public credit.
• Li Rui advanced to the Ocean Gazing Realm, concealed his true rank, and bonded with the Little White Flood Dragon, which transformed and gave him its Dragon Yuan and remaining Yinglong blood.
• Lady Lingluo joined forces with Yuan Gao and the Nine Souls Law King, and their attack opened Qinghe’s gates and unleashed demonic beasts into the city.
• Li Rui protected Wang Zhao and Yang Yong, helped defend the Heaven and Earth Alliance, then killed Yuan Gao and Qi Rui as Jiang Linxian slew the Nine Souls Law King and drove the demon beasts away.
• Li Rui received Xu Xuan’s Yellow Court Qi, completed Foundation Establishment, and cultivated until his Qi Sea expanded, and Jiang Linxian then killed Lady Lingluo after Li Rui helped authorities track her down.
• Li Rui restored the Golden Road caravan trade with Shi Zhou, Zhou Ting, and Bai Jing, then learned Marquis Yuan might recruit him as a retainer.
• Li Rui broke through to the Listening to Waves Realm, reviewed the Martial Ranking with Ning Zhongtian, and considered how to build loyalty within the Heaven and Earth Alliance.

Li Rui became Marquis Yuan’s military adviser, gained standing through the Autumn Hunt, and helped Iron Madman forge an immortal blade. The arc ended with Li Rui discovering a plan to capture Little White Flood Dragon and deciding to send it to the Annan Marquis Residence.

• Marquis Yuan appointed Li Rui as his retainer and military adviser, while Dao Mo told him the Witch Kingdom faced a crisis from Lingluo and eight Demon Lords.
• After Xu Chuan returned wounded from the Witch Kingdom, Li Rui killed him, hid his body, and later learned that Yuan Xiong had slain the Black White Twin Devils.
• Li Rui discovered an Immortal Cave Abode in the Ten Thousand Mountains and secretly found a Spirit Root Testing Stone there.
• At the Autumn Hunt, Li Rui entered Yuan Dingting’s Martial Saint True Domain, experienced an epiphany, and impressed Yuan Dingting with his martial talent.
• Li Rui used Little White Flood Dragon and a fabricated Demon Summoning Horn to send a Demon Tide into the Qinghe Enclosure, then Little White gave him a rare Flood Dragon Scale.
• Li Rui helped Iron Madman forge an immortal blade with the Flood Dragon Scale, and Li Rui named the blade Flood Dragon Slayer.
• Li Rui took a tall boy from the demon pens, then caught and questioned a Crimson Flame Fox that revealed the lord of Giant Stone City planned to capture Little White Flood Dragon.
• Li Rui warned Little White Flood Dragon of the danger and told it he would send it to the Annan Marquis Residence as tribute the next day.