Recaps

Lu Li led the Dao Academy through the Three Tiger Blessed Lands, gathered resources for Great Xia, and broke through to Nascent Soul. After the academy’s industrial support helped kill Thunder Leopard, Lu Li ordered a push into Spirit Transformation territory, while five Demon Lords gathered to assess the threat.

• Han Shiyi stole the Cloud Marsh ruler’s memories about the Three Tiger Blessed Lands and killed him, while Dong Qing’s soldiers began clearing the lands’ demon guards.
• Lu Li deployed the Dao Academy to seize resources and established the Contribution Heaven Ranking, then sent its banners to attack the three tiger demons’ lairs.
• Dong Qing defeated Chi Jin and Chi Lei, captured Qiu Mingzi, and helped Lu Li recover the Baleful Intent Tiger clan’s Jade Nascent Soul Tiger Ancestral Bone.
• Jiang Wuxie and Ye Chenfeng’s forces captured two more jade bones, and Lu Li sent the Three Tiger Blessed Lands’ resources to Great Xia before beginning his breakthrough in seclusion.
• Great Xia launched a nationwide smelting campaign while Lu Li shattered his Golden Core and formed a five-colored Nascent Soul, awakening his fish-shaped jade pendant as a Life-Bound Law Treasure.
• The Dao Academy expanded into the Clear Feather Blessed Lands, and its arcane warship destroyed five Golden Core bird demons as the academy’s advance drew the attention of Nascent Soul demon ancestors.
• Lu Li returned to Great Xia, learned that its industry had processed the seized resources in fifty-six days, and proposed attacking a Dongting domain for fifth-tier materials.
• Jiang Wuxie lured Thunder Leopard Demon Lord into range, and the academy’s space-based weapon wounded him before Lu Li pursued and killed him.
• Lu Li sent the academy toward a Spirit Transformation Dongting territory, while five Demon Lords found Thunder Leopard’s displayed head and chose to investigate before reporting to Ao Qing.

As Ao Qing’s Jiao Journey brought demons, sea races, and fleeing humans into conflict, Lu Li expanded the Dao Academy and uncovered more about fortune and the Central Continent’s schemes. He ambushed the five supervising demon lords and killed two, while Zongzheng Lie and the others learned that Lu Li was fighting them at the Demon Manor.

• Ao Qing’s blood cloud advanced toward Jingxi Prefecture as Zongzheng Lie ordered the people to flee, and Lu Li learned from Ye Chenfeng and Elder Jian that Ao Qing was transforming into an abomination dragon.
• Elder Jian explained Great Jin’s fall and the Central Continent schools’ pursuit of merit, and Lu Li sent his account to Great Xia, which began investigating providence and Lu Li’s fortune.
• Wang Zhiwen’s team completed a Spirit World experiment, while Lu Li expanded the academy, admitted new recruits, and distributed Guide to Immortal Cultivation among its disciples.
• Lu Changming reached Golden Core and confronted the Dongfang Household, so Lu Li intervened, learned Jiangxue had left, and sent Dongfang Yu and his clan to the Slave Cultivator Hall.
• As humans fled toward the Endless Sea, the Central Continent’s sea races moved to hinder them, while Ao Qing’s horde reached the coast and Zongzheng Lie sought Lu Li as their chance against him.
• Lu Li learned from Great Xia that his Kingly Dao Dragon Qi might be tied to national fortune, then received Nether Toad, Golden Ape, and Heavenly Wolf and ordered them to accelerate their resource gathering.
• Lu Li sent Ye Chenfeng and the banner masters east under concealment, then lured the five demon lords into attacking an apparent fleet and revealed his ambush with two tier-five combat puppets.
• Lu Li donned fifth-tier combat armor and killed Xuanxiong and Riyang, while Yintong fled and Canyue captured him, learning that Lu Li was fighting the demons at the Demon Manor.

Lu Li claimed the Western Continent’s dragon fate, defeated Zongzheng Lie, and established the Litian Dao Court while Great Xia prepared to reveal his story. The revelations moved Great Xia’s citizens to support him, attracted foreign interest in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm, and drew the attention of an ancient presence.

• Zongzheng Lie attacked Lu Li to seize his dragon fate, but Lu Li and Great Xia’s forces wore him down and Lu Li killed him with his fish-shaped jade pendant.
• Dongfang Jiangxue reunited with Lu Changming, introduced herself to Lu Li as his wife, and struggled against the hostile will within her.
• Lu Li established the Litian Dao Court, named himself its Dao Lord, and began organizing the Western Continent as its demons and survivors regrouped.
• Lu Li examined ancient objects belonging to Li Nanci, Qian Dabao, and Lu Changye, and suspected that Dongfang Jiangxue’s hidden presence came from Primordial Antiquity.
• Yinyang Qingfan recovered Ao Qing’s dragon pearl, named the mountain Imprisoned Dragon Mountain, and lured the demon horde toward Lu Li by offering it lordship to whoever killed him.
• Great Xia released productions about Lu Li’s story, and their success led Li Qingshan to disclose that Lu Li had spent sixty years trapped in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm while sending resources home.
• Great Xia citizens rallied behind Lu Li as foreign factions sought a way into the Imprisoned Dragon Realm, and an ancient presence in the starry heavens sent its will toward the fish-shaped jade pendant.

Lu Li subdued a million-strong demon army and brought it into the Dao Court, while the Hundred Schools and other powers began turning toward the Western Continent. As Lu Li entered long seclusion, Yinyang Qingfan reconsidered her oracle and a dormant presence stirred beneath the capital.

• Lu Li tested his strength against extreme gravity, then learned that a million demons had entered Litian Prefecture and ordered his forces to monitor them while protecting civilians.
• Lu Li killed Xuanyu and the Baleful Intent Tiger brothers, suppressed the demon horde, and accepted its pledge of allegiance to the Dao Court.
• Lu Li made Dong Qing his third disciple and organized the demons into the Dao Court, appointing Ying Fengquan to help oversee them.
• Yinyang Qingfan seized Elder Jian to use as a puppet’s soul, while Elder Jian’s questions about Lu Li’s origins made her reconsider her oracle.
• Lu Li approved Lu Yao’s Spirit Machinery and soul studies course, finalized plans with Great Xia, and began indefinite seclusion to prepare for Spirit Transformation.
• Zou Heng united the Hundred Schools against the Western Continent and proposed using the sea races and other continents to attack Lu Li’s rising power.
• Gu Yuan, Bing Wuhen, Qing Huayu, and Ao Li each moved to involve their factions in the Western Continent’s affairs as the Dao Court continued to grow.
• Xu Xiong, Wu Changgeng, and Jiang Yan watched Ye Xiaoyun win another Desperate Survival round, and Ye joined them aboard a spellship as Yinyang Qingfan observed the thriving capital and a dormant presence began to revive.