Recaps

Li Xiao used his overwhelming strength to destroy the Pan and Xiao Lineages, strengthen the Li Lineage, and gather hidden Saints under his command. When the Executioners attacked the Li Lineage, Li Xiao returned with allies and defeated their assault, though three enemies escaped.

• Li Xiao returned to the Upper Realm at peak Emperor Realm strength, destroyed the Pan Lineage, and claimed its dragon vein with the help of Long Aotian.
• Li Xiao became head of the Li Lineage, strengthened its grounds and defenses, healed Li Yan, and learned that masked attackers had once crippled him.
• Li Xiao sent Li Dan to God-Worshipping Mountain, killed Xiao Huohuo and the Shadow Killing Pavilion assassins, and forced Yingzi to destroy the Xiao Lineage before submitting.
• Li Xiao brought the Shadow Killing Pavilion headquarters to the Li Lineage and concluded that an organization was targeting cultivators marked by God-Worshipping Mountain.
• Tang Xuan’s allies attacked Du Lie and hunted hidden Saints, while Li Xiao broke Li Dan’s bottleneck and brought Du Lie to the Li Lineage.
• Li Xiao found Du Dehai, Gu Chungang, Liu Sanniang, and the Undying Man in their desert refuge, erased their Soul-Chasing Taboos, and recruited them to the Li Lineage.
• Tang Xuan and the Executioners attacked the Li Lineage, but its formation held until Li Xiao returned with the hidden Saints and joined the battle.
• Tang Xuan’s replica Ruyi Staff badly injured Li Xiao’s allies, but Li Xiao summoned the genuine Ruyi Staff and broke the enemy’s weapon, while three Executioner spirit bodies escaped through a black vortex.

Li Xiao strengthened the Li Lineage, awakened Li Tong’s Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique, and brought the White Tiger Sect into his family’s orbit. The arc leaves him heading to the Black Tortoise Sect as its first ancestor appears against Yingzi’s trapped assassins.

• Li Xiao healed Gu Chungang and the other injured allies, while the Undying Man swore loyalty to him, and the surviving Executioners plotted against him through the Four Symbols Sects.
• After Li Xiao returned to the Li Lineage, its members advanced in cultivation, and he took Li Tong around Luoyang, where he punished a man who had harmed her and destroyed the man’s lineage.
• Li Xiao awakened Li Tong’s Heaven-Devouring Saint Physique despite a heavenly tribulation, then gave her a golden egg that Long Aotian nurtured until it hatched into Sun Wukun.
• Li Xiao expanded the Li Lineage, opened a White Jade Tower, and recruited hundreds of guest elders, while clashes with the Four Symbols Sects exposed the Li Lineage to further threats.
• Li Xiao split the Li Lineage’s forces among the White Tiger, Azure Dragon, and Vermilion Bird Sects, then helped the White Tiger Sect defeat its regenerating blood tiger and secured compensation for the survivors.
• Li Kuangfeng reunited with Nangong Meng, and Bai Jiangbo welcomed Li Xiao as his nephew after learning of their family connection.
• Tang Xuan took control of Bai Xiaolin during his White Tiger baptism, while Yingzi’s Shadow Killing Pavilion attacked the Black Tortoise Sect’s Holy Son and then raided its disciples.
• Li Xiao learned Yingzi had not returned and went to the Black Tortoise Sect, where its first ancestor emerged and sealed the assassins inside the sect.