Recaps

After binding to the Invincible System, Li Xiao accepted peak Emperor Realm cultivation and decided to return to the upper realm to aid the Li Lineage against the Pan Lineage. He stepped through a spatial tear, leaving a nearby Qi Refining cultivator convinced he had witnessed an immortal ascend.

• Li Xiao awakened the Invincible System, which offered him cultivation powerful enough to dominate any plane.
• Li Xiao accepted peak Emperor Realm cultivation and chose not to conceal his strength.
• Li Xiao recalled that Old Master Li had sent him to the lower realm the day before because the Li Lineage faced danger from rival great lineages, including the Pan Lineage.
• Li Xiao ordered the system to take him back to the upper realm and leaped through a tear in space.
• A nearby Qi Refining cultivator saw Li Xiao disappear and kowtowed, believing he had witnessed an immortal ascend.

Li Xiao returned to the Upper Realm at the peak Emperor Realm, shocking his family after his grandfather had sent him to the Lower Realm to preserve the Li Lineage. He told them he had not finished breaking through, leaving them to wonder what power he would reach next.

• Li Xiao returned to the Upper Realm and frightened the guards at his home with his peak Emperor Realm pressure.
• A burly middle-aged man recognized Li Xiao and rushed to tell Li Kuangfeng that the young master had returned.
• Li Kuangfeng came out with a saber, but Li Xiao stopped its blade between two fingers and heard why his grandfather had sent him away to protect the Li Lineage from the Pan Lineage.
• Li Kuangfeng realized Li Xiao had reached the peak Emperor Realm in a single day, and Ye Linglong, Li Xiao's father, and other relatives welcomed him back.
• When Li Kuangfeng demanded an explanation, Li Xiao said his peak Emperor Realm breakthrough was not finished and stepped back.

After returning to the Upper Realm, Li Xiao used the system to rise to peak Saint, astonishing the Li Lineage. He revealed an extraordinary world he had encountered and then set off to settle accounts with the Pan Lineage.

• Li Xiao asked the system to raise his cultivation, and it advanced him to peak Saint.
• Li Yijian sensed Li Xiao’s breakthrough, confirmed his strength, and celebrated the rise of a peak Saint in the Li Lineage.
• Li Xiao told his family that he had entered a different world where time passed far faster and life was filled with powerful creatures and abundant food.
• Li Yijian wanted Li Kuangfeng to tear open space so he could enter that world, but Li Kuangfeng warned him of the danger and uncertainty.
• Li Xiao declared it was time to settle the Li Lineage’s grudge with the Pan Lineage and flew toward them.

Li Xiao annihilated the Pan Lineage after its patriarch ordered the extermination of his kin. Back at the Li Lineage, he reunited with his family, discovered that his younger sister Li Tong possessed an unawakened Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique, and vowed to make the Li Lineage the Upper Realm’s greatest power.

• The Pan patriarch ordered the Li Lineage exterminated, and Li Xiao appeared before him and killed him and the elders instantly.
• Li Xiao destroyed the Pan Lineage with two palm strikes, killing its newly ascended Saint King ancestor and everyone at the estate.
• A scout reported the Pan Lineage’s destruction to Li Kuangfeng, and Li Xiao returned to the Li Lineage.
• Li Yijian praised Li Xiao’s strength, while Li Chen and Ye Linglong welcomed him and Ye Linglong urged him to stay safe.
• Li Xiao discovered that his three-year-old sister Li Tong had an unawakened Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique and promised to make the Li Lineage the Upper Realm’s number one power.

Li Xiao decided to take the Hundred Thousand Mountains’ dragon vein for the Li Lineage and traveled there, where he found Li Lineage disciples facing an ambush by the Pan Lineage. He rescued them and revealed that he had reached the Saint Realm, leaving the disciples stunned by his return and power.

• Li Xiao chose the dragon vein in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and told Li Kuangfeng he would bring it back to the Li Lineage.
• Li Xiao traveled to the Hundred Thousand Mountains and sensed that Li Lineage disciples were there, along with surviving members of the Pan Lineage.
• Li Dan defended Li Xiao against Li Yaoyao’s accusation that he had fled, insisting that Li Lineage disciples should not sow division among themselves.
• Pan Jinlian’s group confronted Li Dan and the other Li Lineage disciples, and she ordered her followers to kill them.
• Li Xiao appeared and killed the Pan Lineage disciples with a snap of his fingers.
• Li Dan and the others recognized Li Xiao, who told them he had reached the Saint Realm by a stroke of luck.

Li Xiao and Li Dan entered a cave in the Hundred Thousand Mountains to find its dragon vein and encountered a powerful flood dragon. After Li Xiao defeated it, the flood dragon submitted, and Li Xiao offered it true dragon blood to help it transform.

• Li Xiao took Li Dan to the dragon vein entrance in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Li Xiao lit the cave and identified the supposed demon dragon as an unformed flood dragon at Early Saint, while its roar injured Li Dan's ears.
• Li Dan charged the flood dragon but was struck by its tail and thrown into the cave wall.
• Li Xiao defeated the flood dragon with a punch, and it begged him to spare its life.
• Li Xiao demanded that the flood dragon submit or die, and it quickly agreed.
• Li Xiao offered the flood dragon a drop of true dragon blood that could let it transform instantly.

Li Xiao gave the demonic dragon true dragon blood, named it Long Aotian, and recruited it as the Li Lineage’s guardian beast. Long Aotian led Li Xiao and Li Dan to the dragon vein, where Li Xiao uprooted the altar that contained its power.

• Li Xiao gave the demonic dragon true dragon blood, helping it transform and submit to him.
• Li Xiao contracted with the demonic dragon, named it Long Aotian, and appointed it guardian demonic beast of the Li Lineage.
• Long Aotian shrank down and led Li Xiao and Li Dan deeper into the cave to the dragon vein.
• Li Dan recognized the Vermilion Fruits, and Li Xiao gathered them for him to share with the Li Lineage disciples.
• Li Xiao used the system to identify the altar’s prism crystal and broke the formation sealing the altar.
• Li Xiao uprooted the entire altar, leaving Li Dan and Long Aotian stunned.

Li Xiao returned to the Hundred Thousand Mountains and stopped the demonic beasts from rampaging after he took their dragon vein. He left them source power as compensation and led the Li Lineage home, where Li Dan declared that Li Xiao was invincible.

• Li Xiao arrived in the Hundred Thousand Mountains with Li Dan and Long Aotian, where Li Yaoyao and the Li Lineage disciples were surrounded by wild wolves.
• Long Aotian explained that the beasts had gone berserk because Li Xiao had dug up the mountains’ dragon vein and drained their Spiritual Qi.
• Li Xiao ordered Long Aotian to intimidate the beasts and tell them he would leave source power in exchange for the dragon vein.
• Long Aotian revealed his dragon form and forced the beasts to submit, while Li Xiao spread a ball of source power across the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Li Xiao told Li Dan to gather the disciples and led them home as the beasts cleared a path.
• The Li Lineage disciples questioned Li Dan about Li Xiao and the black dragon, and Li Dan said the young master was now invincible.

The Sacred Envoy learned that Du Lie was preparing to break through to the Saint Realm and ordered Tang Xuan to deal with the Azure Dragon Sect, while also hearing that a Half-Saint may have been involved in destroying the Pan Lineage. Back at the Li Lineage, Li Xiao returned with the demonic dragon Long Aotian, took over as head, and rewarded the clan with nine-mark pills.

• The Sacred Envoy ordered Tang Xuan to stop Du Lie of the Azure Dragon Sect from reaching the Saint Realm and to search for hidden old experts.
• Tang Xuan reported that the Pan Lineage had been destroyed in two palm strikes, possibly by someone connected to the Li Lineage, and the Sacred Envoy angrily postponed investigating it.
• Li Xiao returned to the Li Lineage with Long Aotian, revealed the dragon's true form, and named him the clan's guardian divine beast.
• Li Yijian announced that Li Xiao would become head of the Li Lineage, and Li Xiao promised tenfold cultivation resources while threatening traitors with death.
• Li Xiao distributed nine-mark pills to the clan, and Li Yijian took the bottles Li Kuangfeng had received, saying he should keep them for his ancestor.

Li Xiao strengthened the Li Lineage with a dragon vein, a protective formation, and cultivation manuals, then used a saint-grade pill to heal Li Yan’s legs. Li Yan regained his Saint Realm presence and stood again.

• Li Xiao placed an altar and prism crystal in the forbidden grounds, greatly increasing the Li Lineage’s Spiritual Qi.
• Li Xiao selected the Ten Directions Killing Formation and set it around the Li Lineage as a protective barrier.
• Li Xiao gave Li Yijian cultivation manuals and agreed to examine Li Yan’s crippled legs.
• Li Xiao diagnosed the damage to Li Yan’s bones, tendons, and meridians and gave him a nine-mark Meridian-Generating Pill.
• Li Yan swallowed the pill, healed completely, and stood up in joy.

At a banquet celebrating Li Yan’s recovery, he revealed that masked Saints had crippled him, prompting the Li Lineage to suspect someone was hunting Saint Realm experts. Li Xiao agreed to send Li Dan to God-Worshipping Mountain, then learned a new flame technique and accidentally burned down a courtyard.

• Li Yan told Li Xiao and the Li Lineage that masked attackers, each at least an early Saint, had crippled his legs a thousand years earlier.
• Li Yijian revealed that he too had once sensed someone watching him after he entered the Saint Realm, and Li Kuangfeng wondered if Saints or geniuses were being hunted.
• Li Xiao’s mother urged him to be careful, but he resolved to destroy the attackers if they came for him.
• Li Kuangfeng told Li Xiao that God-Worshipping Mountain would open in three months, and Li Xiao agreed to send Li Dan in his place.
• Li Xiao asked the system for a cultivation technique and received Nine Nether Underworld Fire, then burned a nearby courtyard to ashes.
• Li Yijian came out cursing Li Xiao for destroying the house he had just built, but Li Xiao had already disappeared.

Li Xiao and Li Dan arrived at God-Worshipping Mountain, where Li Xiao killed the Xiao Lineage’s young master Xiao Huohuo and his protector after Xiao Huohuo provoked him. The witnesses were stunned by Li Xiao’s strength, and some lineages abandoned the trip.

• After three months of training, Li Dan had reached the middle stage of the Emperor Realm, and Li Xiao set off with him for God-Worshipping Mountain.
• At the mountain, Li Xiao dismissed the need for a larger entourage and greeted representatives of other lineages.
• Xiao Huohuo mocked Li Xiao, so Li Xiao slapped him, shattered his teeth, and threatened to wipe out the Xiao Lineage.
• Xiao Huohuo summoned Uncle Chen, but Li Xiao killed the Ancient Emperor with one punch.
• Li Xiao ordered Li Dan to finish Xiao Huohuo, and Li Dan killed him before the two left.
• The crowd spread news of the killings, and some lineages decided to withdraw from the trip.

Li Xiao encountered Nangong Meng of the White Tiger Sect and warned her grandson Bai Xiaolin off from challenging him. When God-Worshipping Mountain opened, Li Xiao sent Li Dan to climb it with a jade slip and watched the summit with interest.

• Li Dan wondered whether they had treated the Xiao Lineage too harshly, and Li Xiao said the weak would have died if their positions were reversed.
• Nangong Meng introduced herself to Li Xiao as an old friend of his grandfather, Li Kuangfeng, and pulled her grandson Bai Xiaolin away from a challenge.
• Nangong Meng warned Bai Xiaolin never to make an enemy of Li Xiao and suspected he had also been behind what happened to the Pan Lineage.
• God-Worshipping Mountain opened and announced that the disciples had one day to climb it.
• Li Xiao gave Li Dan a jade slip before sending him up the mountain, then watched the summit and remarked that it was interesting.

After Li Xiao sent Li Dan to God-Worshipping Mountain in his place, Li Dan defeated Bai Xiaolin in a fight over the pills inside a stone temple. He gave the ordinary pills away, showed Bai Xiaolin a nine-pattern Origin-Returning Pill, and left Bai Xiaolin eager to follow him.

• Xiao Dushui learned that his son and Uncle Chen had died, killed the reporting servant in anger, then ordered an investigation into God-Worshipping Mountain.
• At the mountain’s foot, Li Xiao watched Li Dan climb in his place and dismissed the opportunity and treasures as beneath him.
• Li Dan met Bai Xiaolin of the White Tiger Sect, who challenged him to fight for the pills in a stone temple.
• Li Dan and Bai Xiaolin fought for hours before Li Dan used Startled Swan Steps to strike from behind and defeat him.
• Li Dan gave the temple’s unpatterned pills to his companions, then tossed Bai Xiaolin a nine-pattern Origin-Returning Pill and left.

Xiao Dushui hired the Shadow Killing Pavilion to capture Li Xiao and Li Dan alive, while Li Dan received a divine blessing on God-Worshipping Mountain. The blessing’s golden rays were marks, and the chapter ended with assassins closing in on Li Xiao.

• Xiao Dushui learned Li Xiao was at least in the Saint Realm and offered the Shadow Killing Pavilion ten times its fee to capture Li Xiao and Li Dan alive.
• Li Dan, Bai Xiaolin, and the other survivors reached the summit of God-Worshipping Mountain, where a golden phantom appeared.
• The phantom bestowed golden rays on Li Dan, Bai Xiaolin, and three holy children of the Four Symbols Sects, while Li Dan remained standing instead of kneeling.
• Bai Xiaolin explained that divine blessings marked people who could eventually reach the Saint Realm, and Li Dan left the summit.
• Li Xiao learned from the system that the golden rays were markers, then masked Shadow Killing Pavilion assassins sped toward him.

After the blessing ceremony on God-Worshipping Mountain, Li Xiao protected Li Dan from an assassination attempt and wiped out the attackers. After searching the last assassin's soul, he left to visit the Shadow Killing Pavilion's headquarters.

• Li Xiao discovered a hidden golden mark inside Li Dan and erased it, then told Bai Xiaolin he would visit the White Tiger Sect.
• Masked assassins attacked Li Xiao at the foot of God-Worshipping Mountain, and Li Dan shielded him but was injured by the impact.
• Li Xiao blasted the attackers out of hiding and killed them with Netherworld Fire, sealing the space to prevent their escape.
• Li Xiao stopped the last assassin from self-detonating, searched his soul, and learned information about the Shadow Killing Pavilion.
• Li Xiao tore open space and vanished to visit the Shadow Killing Pavilion's headquarters as Li Dan called after him.

Li Xiao discovered that the Shadow Killing Pavilion had attacked him on Xiao Dushui’s orders and forced its master, Yingzi, to destroy the Xiao Lineage and submit. After the assassins completed the massacre, Li Xiao lifted the entire pavilion and took it with him to the Li Lineage.

• Yingzi learned that the assassins’ soul lamps had gone out and tried to relocate the Shadow Killing Pavilion before Li Xiao arrived.
• Li Xiao’s peak Saint Realm presence subdued the pavilion’s assassins, and Yingzi revealed that Xiao Dushui had hired them to capture Li Xiao and a Li Lineage disciple.
• Li Xiao gave Yingzi one incense stick’s time to wipe out the Xiao Lineage or face the Shadow Killing Pavilion’s destruction.
• Yingzi led his assassins to kill all thirteen hundred members of the Xiao Lineage and presented their heads to Li Xiao.
• Li Xiao accepted the Shadow Killing Pavilion’s submission, uprooted its entire headquarters, and set off for the Li Lineage with Yingzi and his followers.

Li Xiao discovered that Li Yan’s near-fatal injury was connected to a mark from God-Worshipping Mountain and suspected an organization was hunting gifted cultivators. As the Li Lineage’s enemies began focusing on him, news of his recent victories made the family the Upper Realm’s foremost power.

• Li Xiao and his family admired the Shadow Killing Pavilion he had brought back, while Li Kuangfeng urged him to pursue his ambitions with the Li Lineage’s support.
• Li Xiao visited Li Yan and confirmed that his eldest uncle had received a blessing at God-Worshipping Mountain.
• Li Xiao reasoned that the blessing had marked gifted cultivators for an organization targeting those with the potential to reach the Saint Realm, and he resolved to draw its attention and confront it.
• Reports spread that Li Xiao had killed several Saint Realm experts, exterminated the Xiao Lineage, and destroyed the Shadow Killing Pavilion’s headquarters.
• The Li Lineage rose above the Four Symbols Sects to become the Upper Realm’s sole great lineage.

The Sacred Envoy learned that Li Xiao had reached the peak saint realm and ordered his elders to join Tang Xuan, attack the Azure Dragon Sect, and eliminate the Li Lineage. At the Azure Dragon Sect’s Forbidden Land, an old man was ambushed by a massive hand and sent a message for help.

• The Sacred Envoy questioned his elders after two Soul-Chasing Taboos went out and heard that Li Xiao had reached the peak saint realm at eighteen.
• The Sacred Envoy recalled that the Li Lineage’s Li Yan had once forced them to act early and declared that the lineage could not remain.
• The Sacred Envoy gave his elders a black iron box containing a magical artifact and ordered them to meet Tang Xuan, kill Li Xiao, and find the fugitives who had gone into hiding.
• In the Azure Dragon Sect’s Forbidden Land, an old man dodged a massive hand from the sky but was injured by its attack.
• The old man crushed a jade slip.

Tang Xuan failed to kill Du Lie, who escaped with a spatial jade slip and sensed true dragon power near the Li Lineage. As Du Lie hurried toward it, Long Aotian sensed an arrival and wondered who had come calling.

• Tang Xuan attacked Du Lie, but Du Lie escaped with a spatial jade slip; Tang Xuan concluded the mission was complete and left.
• Li Xiao broke Li Dan’s cultivation bottleneck, advancing him to the early spirit emperor realm.
• Li Dan told Li Xiao that Long Aotian had reached the middle saint realm and Li Yaoyao had reached the peak sovereign realm.
• Du Lie sensed complete true dragon power near the Li Lineage and headed toward its grounds.
• Long Aotian sensed someone approaching the Li Lineage and wondered which grandson had disturbed his secluded cultivation.

Du Lie arrived at the Li Lineage seeking its ancestor, Long Aotian, and was stunned by the lineage’s powerful array and Saint Realm cultivators. After Li Xiao discovered a concealed mark on Du Lie and learned that the Azure Dragon Sect’s previous sect master had warned him against breaking through, Li Xiao took Du Lie and Long Aotian to meet the former sect master.

• Long Aotian sensed Du Lie’s Azure Dragon bloodline and emerged, while Du Lie slammed into the Li Lineage’s barrier array.
• Du Lie recognized Long Aotian as his ancestor, and Li Xiao permitted him to enter the Li Lineage.
• Du Lie sensed the powerful cultivators and abundant Spiritual Qi within the Li Lineage, then introduced himself to Li Xiao as the Azure Dragon Sect’s sect master.
• Li Xiao discovered a concealed mark on Du Lie and asked whether he knew about the people targeting them.
• Du Lie showed Li Xiao a message stone bearing a warning from the Azure Dragon Sect’s previous sect master not to break through to the Saint Realm.
• Li Xiao took Du Lie and Long Aotian through a tear in space to meet the previous sect master.

Li Xiao found the Azure Dragon Sect’s hidden refuge and offered to free the old monsters hiding there from the Executioners. After they agreed to serve the Li Lineage for ten years, he removed their Soul-Chasing Taboos and prepared to confront the threat as Tang Xuan and other Saints headed toward the Li Lineage to destroy it.

• Li Xiao, Long Aotian, and Du Lie entered the sealed desert refuge, where Du Dehai learned of Du Lie’s plight and recognized Long Aotian as an ancestor.
• Gu Chungang attacked Li Xiao, who stopped his sword and identified him; Liu Sanniang and Undying Man then emerged from their houses.
• Li Xiao offered to take the hidden Saints out if they stayed with the Li Lineage for ten years, and Gu Chungang agreed on their behalf.
• Li Xiao erased the group’s Soul-Chasing Taboos and explained that the Divine Blessing at God-Worshipping Mountain had marked them for the Executioners.
• The former fugitives bowed to Li Xiao as their young master, while Tang Xuan and several Saint Realm experts headed for the Li Lineage with an iron box to destroy it.

Tang Xuan and six Saint Realm cultivators attacked the Li Lineage, but the Ten Directions Killing Formation blocked them and struck back. After Yingzi and Ruoshui were defeated trying to assassinate Tang Xuan, Li Xiao’s voice rang out as the attackers prepared to kill them.

• Tang Xuan struck the Li Lineage with a Middle Saint Realm attack, but the Ten Directions Killing Formation stopped it, and Li Kuangfeng held Li Yan back from charging outside.
• Tang Xuan and the other cultivators repeatedly attacked the formation, which counterattacked with Peak Saint Realm power; Tang Xuan survived by using a magical artifact from the Holy Envoy.
• Yingzi, Ruoshui, Ye Linglong, and her husband recognized the formation’s power as Tang Xuan concluded that Li Xiao was absent from the Li Lineage.
• Tang Xuan mocked the Shadow Killing Pavilion, and Ruoshui attacked him with a dagger before he dodged and the elders defeated her and Yingzi.
• Tang Xuan ordered the two Shadow Killing Pavilion masters killed, but Li Xiao’s voice warned that no one could touch the Li Lineage’s people.

Li Xiao arrived with Gu Chungang and the others to rescue Yingzi and Ruoshui and confront Tang Xuan's Executioners. As the battle turned against them, Tang Xuan unleashed a size-changing black iron staff, and Li Xiao recognized it as resembling the Golden-Hooped Rod.

• Li Xiao appeared atop Long Aotian with Gu Chungang, the Undying Man, and the Azure Dragon Sect's current sect master, shocking Tang Xuan and the Li Lineage.
• Gu Chungang and the others joined the fight against Tang Xuan and the Executioners while Li Xiao healed Yingzi and Ruoshui and reassured them.
• Gu Chungang used his recovered early Saint strength and improved swordsmanship to gain a slight advantage over Tang Xuan.
• Tang Xuan retreated and brought out a black iron staff that expanded to several zhang as he and the other Executioners infused it with spiritual power.
• Tang Xuan and the Executioners activated the staff, sending it crashing toward Gu Chungang and the others as Li Xiao recognized its resemblance to the Golden-Hooped Rod.

Tang Xuan and his allies used a replica Ruyi Staff to overwhelm Gu Chungang and the others, but Li Xiao summoned the genuine immortal artifact and destroyed them. He left four elders dead, while three spirit bodies escaped through a vortex.

• Tang Xuan struck Gu Chungang and the others with the replica Ruyi Staff, shattering the Undying Man’s bone shield and leaving them badly injured.
• Li Xiao identified Tang Xuan’s weapon as a limited-use replica, then summoned a genuine Ruyi Staff from the system.
• Tang Xuan attacked Li Xiao with the replica, but Li Xiao’s staff summoned a monkey king phantom that broke it and struck Tang Xuan’s group.
• Li Xiao and Long Aotian burned four elders’ bodies and spirit bodies to oblivion, while three other spirit bodies escaped through a black vortex.
• The monkey king phantom vanished, and Li Xiao caught the Ruyi Staff before darting down below.