Recaps

After Li Xiao defeated Tang Xuan and the others, the Li Lineage disciples celebrated his strength. He healed the injured seniors with rare pills, then fled inside when Liu Sanniang flirted with him.

• The Li Lineage disciples praised Li Xiao, and Ye Linglong and Li Chen checked on him while Li Yan marveled at his power.
• Li Xiao noticed Gu Chungang and the others were badly injured, apologized for forgetting them, and gave them White Bone Pills to heal.
• The Undying Man recognized the pills as nine-pattern treasures, and Li Xiao handed him a bottle, prompting him to swear loyalty to Li Xiao as his father.
• Liu Sanniang asked Li Xiao for pills while flirting with him, and he gave her several bottles before rushing into the residence.
• Li Kuangfeng invited the others inside to talk as Liu Sanniang wondered whether Li Xiao was still a virgin.

After Li Xiao destroyed the Executioners’ bodies and broke their artifact, the holy envoy planned to use the Four Symbols Sects’ techniques to entangle him in karmic burden. The spirits set out to steal the techniques, unaware that karmic burden could not affect Li Xiao, who came from outside their world.

• Tang Xuan told the holy envoy that Li Xiao had reached Peak Saint Realm, wielded an identical immortal artifact, and destroyed their physical bodies with dark flame.
• The holy envoy learned that Li Xiao had broken the Executioners’ magical artifact and declared that Li Xiao had to die before their superior discovered what happened.
• The holy envoy proposed stealing the Four Symbols Cultivation Techniques to unite them and use their supreme karmic burden against Li Xiao.
• Tang Xuan and the other two spirits set off to possess holy sons or maidens at three of the Four Symbols Sects, while the holy envoy went to the Black Tortoise Sect.
• The plan was doomed because Li Xiao came from Blue Star, outside the Three Realms and Five Elements, and was untouched by the world’s cause and effect or karmic burden.

Li Xiao made Gu Chungang and the others honorary elders of the Li Lineage and reassured everyone that the escaped Executioners would not remain a threat. Over the following month, the Li Lineage grew stronger, while Du Lie broke through and returned to the Azure Dragon Sect ahead of the Four Symbols Sects' baptism ceremony.

• Li Kuangfeng celebrated Li Xiao's victory by drinking with Gu Chungang and the others, whom Li Xiao appointed honorary elders to guide the Li Lineage disciples.
• Gu Chungang told Li Xiao that three Executioners had escaped with their spirit bodies, and Li Xiao said he could not track them but promised they would eventually come to him.
• Li Xiao allowed Du Lie to stay at the Li Lineage to recover and pursue a breakthrough with help from Du Dehai and Long Aotian.
• Over the next month, Li Yijian reached the Saint King realm, Long Aotian advanced to the late Saint realm, and Li Xiao's parents and other members of the Li Lineage also broke through.
• Du Lie reached early Saint and departed for the Azure Dragon Sect to prepare for the Four Symbols Sects' baptism ceremony, inviting Li Xiao to attend in a month.

Li Xiao took Li Tong to Luoyang City for food and candied hawthorns, then made her a promise to take her somewhere with even more delicious food someday. After buying the vendor’s entire stock, he realized Li Tong had disappeared and searched the city with his divine sense.

• Li Xiao comforted Li Tong when her mother refused to let her have more candied hawthorns and took her out for a stroll.
• Li Xiao ordered a tableful of food at an inn, where Li Tong ate eagerly.
• Li Xiao promised Li Tong he would take her somewhere with lots of delicious food, and they sealed the promise with a pinky swear.
• Li Xiao bought Li Tong treats and toys as they explored Luoyang City, then purchased the vendor’s entire stock of candied hawthorns.
• Li Xiao turned around and found Li Tong missing, so he spread his divine sense across Luoyang City.

Li Xiao rescued Li Tong after a young man hurt and threatened her in the street. He left after Li Tong forgave the young man, then used dark flames to kill the men and destroy their lineage.

• Li Tong broke a young man's leg when she charged into him, and his servants caught her as she tried to flee.
• Li Xiao arrived, severed the young man's arm, and comforted Li Tong.
• The young man invoked his lineage's ties to the Li Lineage, but his second uncle recognized Li Xiao and knelt before him.
• Li Tong forgave the young man after he apologized, and Li Xiao carried her away.
• Li Xiao used dark-red flames to reduce the young man and his second uncle to ashes and destroy their lineage with a fire dragon.

Li Xiao addressed the Li Lineage disciples about subordinate forces abusing the lineage’s name and ordered an investigation to protect its reputation. He then reassured his family that he would punish future offenders and went to ask the System whether Tong'er’s sacred physique could awaken early.

• Li Xiao gathered the Li Lineage disciples and revealed that subordinate forces had been committing evil in the lineage’s name, including one that had targeted him.
• Li Xiao said the offending lineage no longer existed and declared that the abuse would not be allowed to continue.
• Li Xiao appointed Gu Chungang, Liu Sanniang, Du Dehai, and Undying Man as law enforcers and assigned the Shadow Killing Pavilion to investigate and eliminate the offenders.
• Li Chen praised Li Xiao’s bearing, while Li Kuangfeng questioned whether he could prevent such wrongdoing in the future.
• Li Xiao vowed to kill future offenders and dismantle the subordinate forces if necessary, then headed to his eldest uncle’s courtyard.
• Li Xiao asked the System whether Tong'er’s sacred physique could awaken early, and the System assured him it could.

Li Xiao awakened Li Tong’s Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique, drawing a deadly tribulation that he destroyed before the heavens bestowed blessings across the Upper Realm. The chapter left Li Tong’s forbidden physique awakened and the Li Lineage celebrating the power and auspicious signs.

• Li Xiao told Li Yan that Li Tong possessed a saint physique and, with her parents’ approval, began awakening it.
• Dark red tribulation clouds gathered over the Li Lineage, and Li Xiao learned the Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique was forbidden by heaven and earth.
• Li Xiao absorbed a bolt of tribulation lightning with netherfire, then scattered the clouds with a single word.
• Ten thousand miles of purple Qi spread across the sky, while Li Xiao destroyed a taotie phantom that attacked him.
• Immortal figures sent blessings into Li Tong, awakening her Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique as people across the Upper Realm absorbed the purple Qi.

After Li Tong awakened her Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique, Li Xiao spoiled her with spirit-pill candied hawthorn skewers and gave her a golden pet egg. He sent her to Long Aotian at the main gate, insisting that Long Aotian would hatch it.

• Li Dan told Li Xiao that people across the Upper Realm were calling him a reincarnated immortal and treating him as a benchmark.
• Li Tong said she was hungry, and Li Xiao gave her candied hawthorn skewers coated with powdered spirit pills and stored in a pink pouch.
• Li Tong asked for a doggy, so Li Xiao used the system to produce a golden pet egg and gave it to her.
• When Li Tong asked him to hatch the egg, Li Xiao told her to find Grandpa Long at the gate, then ordered Li Dan to watch her.
• Li Xiao watched Li Tong head toward the main gate and declared that Long Aotian would hatch the egg whether he wanted to or not.

Long Aotian reluctantly agreed to incubate Li Tong’s golden egg, but discovered that it contained Chaos Innate Qi and believed it held a powerful Chaos Divine Beast. He coiled around the egg to nurture it while Li Tong watched eagerly for it to hatch.

• The onlookers laughed at Long Aotian for being asked to incubate an egg, and Li Tong insisted that he could do it.
• When Li Tong’s eyes filled with tears, Long Aotian gave in and took the golden egg from her.
• Long Aotian sensed Chaos Innate Qi in the egg and concluded that it contained a Chaos Divine Beast.
• Long Aotian realized the egg’s energy could benefit his cultivation and decided to nurture it with his Dragon Qi.
• Long Aotian coiled around the egg in a corner, while Li Tong sat beside him and watched for it to hatch.

Li Xiao expanded the Li Lineage grounds and built the White Jade Tower, stocking it with cultivation manuals, pills, and divine weapons. He opened recruitment for guest retainers at the Half-Saint Realm and above, drawing attention from across the Upper Realm and the Four Symbols Sects.

• Li Kuangfeng asked Li Xiao to help manage the growing Li Lineage, and Li Xiao reluctantly agreed.
• Li Xiao cleared the land around the Li Lineage and created space for its expanding ranks.
• Li Xiao summoned two white jade towers and stocked one with cultivation manuals, nine-pattern pills, and divine weapons.
• Li Xiao made the White Jade Tower available to the Li Lineage, and Gu Chungang chose the twin swords Specter and Shadow.
• Li Xiao announced that the Li Lineage would recruit guest retainers at the Half-Saint Realm or above, prompting people across the Upper Realm to set out for it.
• The holy sons and holy maidens of the Four Symbols Sects heard Li Xiao's announcement and looked toward the Li Lineage with dark expressions.

As the Li Lineage recruited cultivators, Li Xiao revealed that Long Aotian was hatching an Innate Chaos Divine Beast egg. When members of the Four Symbols Sects challenged the recruitment, Li Xiao killed one and injured the others, who threatened retaliation from the Black Tortoise Sect.

• Gu Chungang, Du Dehai, and others registered cultivators outside the Li Lineage as onlookers celebrated the lineage’s strength.
• Li Tong watched Long Aotian, who continued to sit on a cracking golden egg and absorb Innate Qi.
• Li Xiao told Li Yijian that the egg was an Innate Chaos Divine Beast egg conceived from Chaos Qi.
• Several men from the Four Symbols Sects confronted Li Xiao over the Li Lineage recruiting their Half-Saint Realm cultivators.
• Li Xiao killed the first man with black flames, then struck the remaining peak Half-Saint experts and sent them flying.
• Li Xiao declared that a higher realm let him do whatever he wanted, and the surviving men warned him that the Black Tortoise Sect would retaliate.

Li Xiao killed the Black Tortoise Sect elders who tried to disrupt the Li Lineage’s recruitment, and the crowd afterward obeyed the rules. At the Azure Dragon Sect, Du Lie watched most of his elders leave for the Li Lineage, then decided the recruitment might benefit his sect through its ties to the Li Lineage.

• Li Xiao crushed the Black Tortoise Sect elders who challenged the Li Lineage and warned others not to cause trouble.
• The crowd stopped disrupting the Li Lineage’s grounds and waited obediently in line.
• Du Lie told his elders they could leave for the Li Lineage, then discovered that two-thirds had already gone.
• Old Yao asked to collect his unpaid allowance before leaving, and Du Lie angrily ordered him out.
• Du Lie reasoned that the Azure Dragon Sect could benefit from its ties to the Li Lineage, while the Azure Dragon Holy Son watched with a sneer.

Li Xiao welcomed over six hundred Half-Saint guest elders into the Li Lineage and urged them to cultivate for the challenges beyond the Upper Realm. As the divine beast’s golden egg began to hatch, Long Aotian announced that it was about to emerge.

• Gu Chungang reported that the Li Lineage had recruited six hundred and eighty Half-Saint-or-higher guest elders, and Li Xiao called the force decent while warning that it would be weak beyond the Upper Realm.
• Li Xiao told the new guest elders that the Half-Saint Realm was only their starting point and instructed them to cultivate diligently.
• Li Tong waited beside Long Aotian’s trembling golden egg while Li Dan persuaded her to share her spirit pill candied hawthorn.
• Li Xiao caught Li Dan eating the candied hawthorn, reproached him for taking a child’s snack, and then let the matter go.
• The golden egg shook violently and burst with golden light, prompting Long Aotian to tell Li Xiao that it was coming out.

The golden egg hatched into a Chaos Divine Beast, a golden ape that Li Xiao named Sun Wukun and contracted to Li Tong. Sun Wukun accepted the Ruyi Staff as Li Tong’s pet toy and stored it in its ear.

• The golden egg cracked open, and a golden ape burst out before falling into a crater outside the Li Lineage’s entrance.
• Li Tong picked up the ape, which thanked Long Aotian for nourishing its egg and agreed to call him Grandpa Long.
• Li Xiao established a contract between Li Tong and the ape, then named it Sun Wukun.
• Li Xiao gave Sun Wukun the Ruyi Staff and told Li Tong it was a toy for her pet.
• Sun Wukun demonstrated that the staff could change size, shrank it to the size of a hair, and tucked it into its ear.

Li Xiao shared a meal with his parents, gave them Beauty Pills that restored their youth, and then received invitations to the Four Symbols Sects’ Holy Son and Holy Maiden baptism ceremony. The Black Tortoise Sect had not invited the Li Lineage because Li Xiao had killed several of its elders.

• Li Xiao spent time eating with Ye Linglong and Li Chen and promised to visit them more often.
• Li Xiao gave Ye Linglong Beauty Pills, and she regained her youthful appearance after taking one.
• Li Chen took a Beauty Pill as well and regained his youthful appearance.
• Li Dan delivered invitations from the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird Sects to Li Xiao.
• Li Xiao explained that the Black Tortoise Sect had not invited the Li Lineage because he had killed several of its elders.

Li Xiao secretly led Li Kuangfeng toward the White Tiger Sect, where their shuttle was ambushed by two men who believed Li Xiao was headed to the Azure Dragon Sect. After Li Xiao killed them—or appeared to—he discovered they had survived and sent Nine Nether Underworld Fire after them.

• Li Xiao split the Li Lineage's forces among the Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, and White Tiger Sects, while tricking Li Kuangfeng into thinking they were headed to the Azure Dragon Sect.
• Two attackers intercepted the White Tiger-bound shuttle, killed many Li Lineage disciples, and searched its rooms for their target.
• Li Xiao emerged and learned the attackers had believed he was going to the Azure Dragon Sect, leading him to suspect a mole in the Li Lineage.
• Li Xiao smashed the attackers' shuttle with a palm strike, ordered Li Dan to preserve the fallen disciples' bodies, and continued onward.
• The two attackers revived on the shattered deck, but Li Xiao sensed their survival and sent Nine Nether Underworld Fire toward them.

Li Xiao sent Yingzi and Shadow Killing Pavilion assassins to target the Black Tortoise Holy Son, then arrived at the White Tiger Sect with Li Kuangfeng. Li Kuangfeng reunited with Nangong Meng, greeting her after many years apart.

• Li Xiao ordered Yingzi to infiltrate the Black Tortoise Sect and assassinate its Holy Son.
• Li Xiao told Li Dan that the Shadow Killing Pavilion could handle the mission, and vowed to destroy the Black Tortoise Sect himself if it broke the rules again.
• Li Xiao arrived at the White Tiger Sect, where Nangong Meng and other leaders came out to welcome him.
• Li Kuangfeng discovered the shuttle had gone to the White Tiger Sect instead of the Azure Dragon Sect and argued with Li Xiao.
• Nangong Meng called to Li Kuangfeng, who went down from the shuttle and greeted her after many years apart.

Li Xiao arrived at the White Tiger Sect for Bai Xiaolin’s baptism ceremony, where Nangong Meng welcomed him warmly and Li Kuangfeng fumed at their apparent closeness. Meanwhile, Tang Xuan, inhabiting Bai Xiaolin’s body, planned to kill Li Xiao after completing his scheme with the Holy Envoy.

• Li Xiao greeted Nangong Meng and the White Tiger Sect elders, while Li Kuangfeng watched resentfully as Nangong Meng led him inside.
• Li Dan bantered with Bai Xiaolin, whose body was secretly controlled by Tang Xuan; Tang Xuan resolved to kill Li Xiao after the ceremony.
• Nangong Meng escorted Li Xiao toward the main hall and welcomed his visit as a sign of friendship with the Li Lineage.
• Li Xiao told Nangong Meng that he had come to honor her friendship with his grandfather, provoking Li Kuangfeng to threaten him through gritted teeth.

Li Xiao arranged for Li Kuangfeng and Nangong Meng to speak alone, and Li Kuangfeng explained why he had abandoned their youthful promise. Nangong Meng let go of the past, while Li Xiao and Li Dan wandered the White Tiger Sect, joking about the possibility of a new grandmother.

• Li Xiao pulled Li Dan away from the banquet and stopped Li Kuangfeng from leaving, giving him and Nangong Meng a chance to talk.
• Nangong Meng confronted Li Kuangfeng about their past, and he admitted that he had accepted a marriage arranged by his lineage.
• Li Kuangfeng explained how he and Nangong Meng had fallen in love ten thousand years earlier before his family’s marriage alliance separated them.
• Nangong Meng accepted his explanation and said they should leave the past behind, then praised Li Xiao.
• Li Dan complained about missing the food, and Li Xiao scolded him for potentially disrupting Li Kuangfeng’s reunion with Nangong Meng.
• Li Xiao and Li Dan continued exploring the White Tiger Sect, joking that Li Kuangfeng might gain another wife.

Li Xiao noticed the White Tiger Sect’s blood-pool White Tiger Consciousness and warned the Li Lineage disciples to leave before it broke loose. The blood tiger rampaged through White Tiger Hall and confronted Bai Xiaolin, while Li Xiao remained outside the chaos.

• Li Xiao passed a guarded courtyard and recognized that the White Tiger Sect was facing trouble inside.
• The White Tiger Consciousness attacked Bai Jiangbo and the elders, grievously wounding the sect master.
• Li Xiao sent Li Dan to lead the Li Lineage disciples outside the White Tiger Sect’s gates.
• The blood tiger burst into White Tiger Hall and slaughtered amid the guests’ panic.
• Bai Xiaolin confronted the blood tiger and asked why the White Tiger Sect had such a terrifying creature.

Li Xiao confronted the White Tiger's will after it attacked the White Tiger Sect, rescuing Nangong Meng and overpowering the nearly Peak Saint Realm beast. The blood tiger dissipated, leaving the sect members stunned by Li Xiao's strength.

• Two White Tiger Sect elders found Bai Jiangbo and the other elders wounded beside the blood pool, and Bai Jiangbo sent them to find Li Xiao for help.
• The elders admitted they had stopped Li Xiao at the entrance, and Bai Jiangbo ordered them to hurry after him before passing out.
• At the White Tiger Hall, Nangong Meng charged the blood tiger to protect Bai Xiaolin, and Li Xiao arrived and pulled her out of its attack.
• Li Xiao struck the blood tiger, discovered it could regenerate, and then used Nine Nether Underworld Fire to wound it and drive it back.
• Li Xiao pummeled the blood tiger and finished it with a palm strike that made it fade away, while the gathered sect members watched in shock.

After the White Tiger will rampaged through White Tiger Hall, Li Xiao faced survivors who accused the Li Lineage of abandoning them and waiting too long to intervene. He killed the loudest accusers and silenced the rest, while Nangong Meng promised compensation for the losses; the survivors agreed, hoping to leave alive.

• Li Dan led the unharmed Li Lineage disciples into White Tiger Hall, where Li Xiao confirmed that everyone from his lineage had evacuated safely.
• An old man accused the Li Lineage of knowing about the danger and blamed Li Xiao for waiting to act, prompting surviving disciples to echo the accusations.
• Li Xiao killed the old man with a strike and then killed several more people who challenged him.
• Li Xiao warned the survivors not to use moral blackmail against him, and the frightened crowd fell silent.
• Nangong Meng accepted responsibility for the White Tiger Sect's negligence and promised compensation, and the survivors agreed.

After the White Tiger Sect agreed to compensate the visiting factions, Li Xiao’s revelation that Nangong Meng was his grandmother led Bai Jiangbo to accept her relationship with Li Kuangfeng and welcome the Li Lineage as family. Li Xiao left for home with the Li disciples, while Bai Xiaolin went to the blood pool for his baptism and Li Kuangfeng said farewell to Nangong Meng.

• Bai Jiangbo apologized for the White Tiger Sect’s accident and dismissed the visiting factions after they accepted the compensation plan.
• Li Xiao told Bai Jiangbo that the Li Lineage and White Tiger Sect were family because of his grandmother, and Bai Jiangbo realized that Nangong Meng and Li Kuangfeng were connected.
• Bai Jiangbo accepted the family connection, welcomed Li Xiao as his nephew, and agreed to visit the Li Lineage.
• Li Xiao gave Bai Jiangbo bottles of nine-mark pills, then boarded the flying shuttle with Li Dan and the other Li Lineage disciples.
• Bai Xiaolin went to the White Tiger Sect’s blood pool for his baptism, while Li Kuangfeng bade farewell to Nangong Meng and joined the Li Lineage shuttle.

After the White Tiger Sect’s baptism ended early, Tang Xuan seized Bai Xiaolin’s body and obtained the White Tiger Sacred Art. Meanwhile, the Shadow Killing Pavilion failed to kill the Black Tortoise Holy Son, whom Yingzi suspected had been possessed, and launched a surprise attack on ordinary Black Tortoise Sect disciples.

• Tang Xuan entered the White Tiger blood pool in Bai Xiaolin’s body, and Bai Xiaolin received the White Tiger Sacred Art.
• Dozens of Shadow Killing Pavilion assassins attacked the Black Tortoise Holy Son during his baptism, but he escaped with only a cut on his neck.
• The Black Tortoise Holy Son blamed the Shadow Killing Pavilion and Li Xiao, while the sect elders ordered a search and increased patrols.
• Yingzi recovered from the Black Tortoise Holy Son’s palm strike with a Nine-Pattern Origin-Returning Pill, and he and the assassins suspected the Holy Son had been possessed.
• Yingzi led the Shadow Killing Pavilion in a new attack, targeting ordinary Black Tortoise Sect disciples while the sect focused on its Holy Son.

After returning to the Li Lineage, Li Xiao learned that Yingzi had not come back and went to the Black Tortoise Sect to investigate. Yingzi’s raid was trapped when an ancient power sealed the surrounding space, and the Black Tortoise Sect recognized its first ancestor’s protection.

• Li Xiao returned with Li Kuangfeng and assured him that he would keep his affair with Nangong Meng secret.
• Li Xiao learned that Yingzi had not returned and left for the Black Tortoise Sect, fearing the Shadow Killing Pavilion had run into trouble.
• Yingzi and more than a dozen Shadow Killing Pavilion members raided the Black Tortoise Sect, killing dozens of disciples.
• A white-haired old man awakened in the Black Tortoise Sect’s forbidden grounds and rose from its deep pool.
• Black Tortoise Sect elders confronted Yingzi’s group, but the assassins could not escape because someone had sealed the surrounding space.
• Xiao Zhen recognized the light barrier and black tortoise phantom as signs that the Black Tortoise Sect’s first ancestor had appeared.