Recaps

Ye Li used the Cause-and-Effect Calamity-Fate Saber against the Grandmasters who broke through his barrier, erasing Xingyan Venerable and carving a vast rift through the Southern Region. Though the strike cost him half his lifespan, his Traits remained, and he prepared to unleash another saber strike as a massive hand reached from the heavens.

• Xingyan Venerable tried to seize Ye Li and the others, but their barrier resisted his attacks while he and other Grandmasters worked to break it.
• Ye Li stopped Shen Fuyao from taking her own life and told her he would fight back, then learned the Cause-and-Effect Calamity-Fate Saber from the Dragon Maiden.
• Ye Li offered his cultivation, skills, insights, and Traits as fuel for the saber art while more Grandmasters gathered to attack the barrier.
• After the Grandmasters shattered the barrier and reached for the group, Ye Li swung his hand like a saber and unleashed a strike that erased Xingyan Venerable and tore open the Southern Region's sky.
• Ye Li lost half his lifespan but found that his Traits remained, and he grinned at the enormous hand reaching from the heavens as he considered striking again.

Ye Li unleashed the Karma Calamity-Fate Saber, killing more than a dozen Grandmaster Realm experts but permanently sacrificing half his lifespan and damaging his trait. As Emperor Qing reached for Shen Fuyao, Ye Li roared that he had not yet burned through his life and unleashed another saber.

• The saber tore open the Southern Region's sky and killed more than a dozen Grandmaster Realm experts, while Yun Huanzi sensed Ye Li's aura in its devastating strike.
• Yun Huanzi grieved for Ye Li and rushed toward the saber's path, while the surviving Grandmaster Realm experts realized Ye Li's trait and future path to Martial Saint might be ruined.
• Ye Li survived but learned the saber had halved his lifespan; Shen Fuyao and the others stared in shock at what he had done.
• Emperor Qing raged that Ye Li had damaged his trait, then reached down with imperial dragon qi to seize Shen Fuyao.
• Ye Li shouted at Emperor Qing and unleashed another saber, tearing through the darkness threatening Shen Fuyao.

Ye Li used the Karma Calamity-Fate Saber to destroy the Daqing Emperor’s dragon-aura hand, then exploited the Age-Reversing Primordial Sand to restore his lifespan and unleash a final slash. The slash erased two-thirds of Daqing’s dragon vein and killed the Emperor, leaving the imperial court drenched in blood.

• Ye Li’s second slash severed and erased one finger of the Daqing Emperor’s dragon-aura hand, damaging Daqing’s national fortune and causing the Emperor to cough up blood.
• Shen Fuyao, Luo Yuqing, and the others supported Ye Li as the Dragon Maiden explained that his remaining lifespan limited the saber’s power.
• Ye Li vowed to seal away the Karma Calamity-Fate Saber forever to strengthen a third slash, while Yun Huanzi rushed over and warned him not to risk his life.
• The Dragon Maiden used Age-Reversing Primordial Sand to restore Ye Li to his earlier condition and return his lifespan to its three-hundred-year limit.
• The Daqing Emperor tried to scatter his dragon aura and exile Ye Li through space, but Ye Li’s final slash destroyed the giant hand and erased two-thirds of Daqing’s dragon vein.
• The slash’s damage reached Daqing, where the Daqing Emperor’s upper body exploded before the assembled ministers.

Ye Li's final Cause-and-Effect Blade struck Emperor Qing and devastated Great Qing, while Ye Li was exiled into the void beyond the Universe Realm. The Heavenly Illusion Immortal Sect learned Ye Li was still alive and began searching for him, as Southern Region forces prepared to confront Great Qing over its attack.

• Ye Li's final strike erased Emperor Qing's upper body in concept, and the emperor's attempts to regenerate only caused it to explode again.
• Yun Huanzi learned Ye Li's soul lamp was still burning, though the Karma Calamity-Fate Saber had consumed much of Ye Li's lifespan and damaged his talent.
• Yun Huanzi asked the Grandmasters to search Beyond the Heavens for Ye Li and help find the hidden force behind the giant hand.
• Officials reported that Ye Li's strike had erased nearly seventy percent of Great Qing's dragon vein, crippling its territory, people, and national fortune.
• Emperor Qing imposed spiritual-energy rationing and resource restrictions to manage Great Qing's losses.
• A messenger announced that Southern Region sects had formed an allied army and were demanding territory and reparations, and Emperor Qing reacted in shock.

The Southern Region coalition forced the weakened Great Qing Dynasty to accept humiliating terms for its plot against Ye Li, including mourning him nationwide and making Emperor Qing confess his crimes. Yun Huanzi then publicized Ye Li’s deeds in a special edition of the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking, leaving the Universe Realm stunned by his legend.

• Yun Huanzi led a Southern Region coalition to Great Qing’s border and demanded it answer for the plot that had ruined Ye Li’s Dao Path and left his fate unknown.
• Minister Yan accepted blame, and Great Qing officials offered culprits, treasures, aid for Ye Li, and reparations to avert war.
• Shen Qinglian and the coalition demanded that Great Qing build an Atonement Platform, wear mourning clothes for three years, and make Emperor Qing kneel and publicly confess; Emperor Qing agreed after the Southern Region Dao Sect condemned his rule.
• Great Qing surrendered wealth and culprits, began building the platform, and ordered the entire country to mourn Ye Li under threat of arrest.
• Yun Huanzi dictated a special All-Nations Prodigy Ranking entry recounting Ye Li’s battle against Great Qing and its humiliating surrender, and the edition spread throughout the Universe Realm.

After being dragged through the void, Ye Li entered a Republican-era world and lay unconscious in Pei Taoyu’s care. When a Hidden Force warrior attacked her, Ye Li woke and activated [White Yang Furnace] by kissing her, transferring power to her as the fight continued.

• Ye Li passed out from the Karma Calamity-Fate Saber's backlash, and Dragon Maiden carried him into a world he had chosen.
• Pei Taoyu, the sole survivor of the Pei Family massacre, remembered that her father had used the American genetic serum on her and awakened [Eternal Constancy].
• Pei Taoyu cared for the injured Ye Li and practiced Eight Extremes Fist while seeking a way to avenge her family.
• A Hidden Force warrior found Pei Taoyu and attacked her, demanding that she reveal where she had hidden the serum.
• The Hidden Force warrior wounded Pei Taoyu and entered her house, where Ye Li opened his eyes.
• Ye Li drew Pei Taoyu close and kissed her, activating [White Yang Furnace] and sending power into her body.

Ye Li empowered Pei Taoyu with a kiss, enabling her to kill the gray-clad assassin and escape to a new courtyard. After Pei Taoyu asked for help advancing her martial arts, Ye Li discovered that studying Eight Extremes Fist could generate entries and promised to teach her once he learned it.

• Ye Li's kiss rapidly healed Pei Taoyu's wounds and boosted her strength until she could contend with an early Post-Heaven martial artist.
• Pei Taoyu chased down and killed the fleeing gray-clad man with Eight Extremes Fist, then learned he had served a Transforming Force patron.
• Pei Taoyu carried the injured Ye Li to a new courtyard, where he observed her protagonist-like fortune and chose to leave its growing golden strand intact.
• Pei Taoyu begged Ye Li to take her as a disciple and teach her how to advance, but he asked her to demonstrate Eight Extremes Fist instead.
• After watching Pei Taoyu perform the Clear Force chapter, Ye Li mastered it, gained Comprehension, and confirmed that techniques from other martial systems could generate entries.
• Ye Li performed Eight Extremes Fist and told Pei Taoyu he would teach her how to break through Hidden Force after he learned the method.

Ye Li perfected the Eight Extremes Fist and gave Pei Taoyu an optimized manual while considering the world’s declining cultivation environment and its unusual history. After deducing that he could profit from helping others grow stronger, he began planning how to use Pei Taoyu’s gains to advance himself.

• Ye Li perfected the Eight Extremes Fist’s Clear Force chapter, then created and gave Pei Taoyu an improved manual while saying he still needed to deduce the Hidden Force chapter.
• Wu Tianxiong ordered his men to find Pei Taoyu and sent Attendant Chen to capture her alive and uncover the genetic fluid’s whereabouts.
• Pei Taoyu practiced Ye Li’s manual and found that it made her cultivation far more efficient, strengthening her foundation.
• Ye Li read historical books and inferred that past powers had damaged the world’s spiritual environment, leaving Guoshu, genetic potions, and Western disciplines as different paths to power.
• Ye Li assessed Pei Taoyu’s cultivation gains and realized that he could help her grow stronger and extract a small share of those gains for himself.

Ye Li mastered Hidden Force, gave Pei Taoyu a Body-Tempering Pill, and created a visualization method that connected users to a loan-like Blood Qi system. Pei Taoyu activated it and considered buying a breakthrough method before Ye Li rewarded her beta test with 100 Blood Qi Value.

• Ye Li reshaped his body, mastered the Eight Extremes Fist: Hidden Force Chapter, and reached the pinnacle of Hidden Force.
• Ye Li gave Pei Taoyu a Dragon-Tiger Body-Tempering Pill, which greatly accelerated her cultivation.
• Ye Li created the Faux-Capital Final-Asset Visualization Method and had Pei Taoyu test it with a portrait and four honorific titles.
• Pei Taoyu activated the system, created the username Blood Feud, and discovered her Blood Qi Value, sign-in rewards, and borrowing options.
• Pei Taoyu considered using the system to obtain a Hidden Force breakthrough method, and Ye Li granted her 100 Blood Qi Value as her testing fee.

Pei Taoyu broke through to Hidden Force using Ye Li’s method and borrowed qi-blood, while Ye Li opened the Worry-Relief General Store and recruited new users to his Jiebei service. As his influence spread and his qi-blood value reached 5,024,000,000,000, Ye Li returned to find Pei Taoyu stronger and training in the courtyard.

• Pei Taoyu borrowed 110 points of qi-blood value, received spiritual qi from Ye Li, and broke through to Hidden Force before borrowing up to her new limit.
• Ye Li bought Chen's Pawnshop, renamed it Worry-Relief General Store, and used fortune manipulation to draw talented martial artists to him.
• Ye Li gave the Zheng Family's young master and Lü Ge a visualization method, and Lu Zhixing entered the store after being driven from Heavenly Gate Martial Arts Hall.
• Lu Zhixing borrowed 10 points of qi-blood value to approach Clear Force peak, while Lü Ge used Jiebei loans to advance into Clear Force and reach its peak.
• Ye Li watched his user base grow through referrals and collected fortune and qi-blood from the expanding network.
• Pei Taoyu revealed that she had reached Early Hidden Force and borrowed 72,900 points of qi-blood value, while Ye Li's displayed qi-blood value rose to 5,024,000,000,000.

Lu Zhixing used borrowed blood qi to win the Heavenly Gate Martial Arts Hall tournament and was selected for the Jinmen Grand Tournament, while Ye Li persuaded Zheng Leyao to borrow an immense amount of blood qi. Zheng Leyao left the store shaken by her newfound power, and Ye Li rewarded Zheng Tianyang for bringing her.

• Lu Zhixing revealed his greatly increased strength by defeating Wang Meng with one strike in the tournament’s opening match.
• Lu Zhixing crushed his remaining opponents and won the tournament, earning a place in the Jinmen Grand Tournament three days later.
• Yang Guicang questioned Lu Zhixing about his sudden breakthrough, but Lu Zhixing concealed the truth and gave a vague explanation.
• Zheng Leyao confronted Zheng Tianyang about his sudden strength and dragged him to Worry-Relief General Store to challenge Ye Li.
• Ye Li persuaded Zheng Leyao to borrow 72,900 points of blood and qi, and she experienced a tremendous surge of power.
• Zheng Leyao fled the store to test her new strength, and Ye Li credited Zheng Tianyang with 100 points of blood and qi for bringing her.

Ye Li watched Pei Taoyu rapidly develop her brain region while Zheng Leyao, newly empowered by a loan of qi and blood, reveled in her sudden strength and feared its withdrawal. When her fellow disciples arrived to practice, Le Yao hid her immense qi and blood and turned them away.

• Pei Taoyu advanced her brain-region development to 39%, and Ye Li praised her talent before returning to the small house.
• Ye Li sensed that five hundred people were practicing the Visualization Method.
• Zheng Leyao returned to her room and found that her borrowed 72,900 qi and blood had transformed her strength and accelerated her brain-region development.
• Le Yao practiced her family-inherited palm technique for an hour, raising her brain-region development from 21.3% to 22.3%, then panicked at the thought of losing the loan.
• Ji Chenyu, Shao Shi, and other martial arts disciples arrived to practice, but Le Yao refused to let them enter and struggled to conceal her qi and blood.

Zheng Leyao returned to Ye Li for more blood and qi, accepted his guidance and borrowing terms, and began learning stronger techniques. A foreign broadcast then showed Master Zhang facing Eagle Nation strongman Oleg, leaving Ye Li to consider how a Chinese defeat could devastate the people’s confidence in martial arts.

• Zheng Leyao admitted that she wanted more blood and qi, and Ye Li persuaded her to borrow more and learn improved techniques.
• Ye Li observed his growing user base while Zheng Leyao absorbed the new martial arts knowledge he had given her.
• A vast projection appeared over Tianjin, showing Master Zhang preparing to fight the genetically enhanced Oleg at the North Sea summit.
• Zheng Leyao explained that foreign powers were broadcasting the match to humiliate Chinese martial arts and warned Ye Li that a loss could make martial arts schools collapse.
• Ye Li sensed the people’s anger gathering into a powerful torrent of fortune and recognized that Master Zhang’s defeat could destroy confidence in Chinese martial arts.

Zhang Chengjun fought Oleg in a rigged death match and, after Ye Li grafted fortune onto him, reached a moment of enlightenment and killed his opponent. Yang Shaohou saved Zhang Chengjun from collapsing, then faced Western starships closing in to retaliate.

• Yang Shaohou warned the Freemasons to follow the duel’s rules after beheading Yamata no Orochi in Japan, while the Western leaders plotted to weaken China’s martial arts.
• Zhang Chengjun entered the Blood Rampage state and battled Oleg, whose genetic enhancements, vampire healing, and Western yielding arts steadily wore him down.
• Ye Li grafted a portion of the improved fortune of several thousand martial artists onto Zhang Chengjun, helping him glimpse the Elixir Embrace realm.
• Zhang Chengjun condensed his remaining life force into a single strike and killed Oleg, but collapsed after exhausting his vitality.
• Yang Shaohou caught Zhang Chengjun and protected his last vitality as Western starships approached, intent on destroying the area after Oleg’s defeat.

After Zhang Chengjun defeated Oleg and awakened Holding the Elixir, Eagle Nation starships tried to kill him, but Yang Shaohou shielded him and destroyed fifteen ships with punches that flattened them into two-dimensional paintings. Yang Shaohou vanished with Zhang Chengjun, whose breakthrough had left him with only months to live.

• Zhang Chengjun defeated Oleg with a single punch, and people across China celebrated his victory and the rise of martial arts.
• Eagle Nation starships targeted the unconscious Zhang Chengjun with star-destroying cannons, provoking fury among viewers in China.
• Yang Shaohou protected Zhang Chengjun with a force-aura barrier and deflected the cannon beams.
• Yang Shaohou struck the starships with punches that flattened fifteen of them into two-dimensional paintings.
• Yang Shaohou realized Zhang Chengjun might have only a few months to live and vanished with him.

After the heavenly broadcast showed a Gang Force master’s overwhelming strength, Ye Li explained the limits of martial arts and Western scholarship while urging people to use his visualization method. He invited Pei Taoyu to stay at his shop for a coming karmic entanglement, as Ghost Hand Chen Kangyan and the Wu Family closed in on her and Ye Li.

• Ye Li reflected that traditional martial arts and the Western scholar system had high ceilings but were difficult for ordinary people, while his visualization method could help them advance quickly.
• Ye Li teased Le Yao about her qi-and-blood loan, and she invited him to the Jinmen Grand Tournament before leaving to recruit more customers.
• Pei Taoyu visited Ye Li’s shop after reaching the middle stage of Hidden Force, and Ye Li praised her talent and asked her to stay until three in the afternoon to settle a karmic entanglement.
• Ye Li used his insight into fortune to bring Pei Taoyu to the shop, anticipating that someone would soon come seeking trouble.
• After three days of investigation, Ghost Hand Chen Kangyan found the shop where Pei Taoyu was staying and planned to deal with Ye Li before capturing her for the Wu Family.

Pei Taoyu defeated Ghost Hand Chen Kangyan, who revealed that Wu Tiansheng had ordered the Pei Family’s extermination. Ye Li then used Chen Kangyan to test forced cultivation before encouraging Pei Taoyu to pursue martial arts and seek a way to restore her family.

• Ghost Hand Chen Kangyan attacked Ye Li, but Pei Taoyu intercepted him and crushed his limbs with her overwhelming blood and qi.
• Pei Taoyu dragged Chen Kangyan before Ye Li, who controlled him and asked her to question him.
• Chen Kangyan revealed that Wu Tiansheng, the Wu Family’s young master, had exterminated the Pei Family.
• Ye Li infused Chen Kangyan with spiritual energy to test forced growth, then swept away his remains after his body burst.
• Pei Taoyu lamented that revenge could not bring her family back, and Ye Li urged her to cultivate toward the martial arts summit and hinted at a legendary realm.

Ye Li encouraged Pei Taoyu to pursue becoming a demon god and invited her to the Jinmen Grand Tournament, where she grew jealous of Le Yao’s closeness to him. At the tournament, Lu Zhixing revealed his breakthrough into Hidden Force, but Yang Guicang discovered that many other young martial artists had reached the same level.

• Ye Li told Pei Taoyu that Eight Steps might let her retrieve her parents from the River of Time and invited her to the Jinmen Grand Tournament.
• Two days later, Ye Li and Pei Taoyu arrived at the tournament, where Le Yao greeted Ye Li and clung to his arm, stirring Pei Taoyu’s jealousy.
• Le Yao and Pei Taoyu introduced themselves while each sensed hostility in the other’s gaze.
• Yang Guicang learned that Lu Zhixing had reached Hidden Force, and Lu Zhixing demonstrated his strength by producing a sonic boom with a punch.
• Yang Guicang sensed at least a hundred young martial artists nearby with Qi and Blood comparable to Hidden Force pinnacle and was stunned by their numbers.

Yang Guicang discovered that many young martial artists at the tournament had taken genetic drugs and resolved to investigate their supplier. Meanwhile, Ye Li took sugar paintings for Le Yao and Pei Taoyu, then effortlessly subdued Zheng Yexiao and the Transforming Force masters who attacked him, demanding that Zheng kneel and listen to his explanation.

• Yang Guicang sensed hundreds of peak Hidden Force martial artists and suspected they had taken Western genetic drugs, then led Lu Zhixing aside to discuss the matter.
• Le Yao asked Ye Li for a sugar painting, and Ye Li took two from the stall without the old martial artist noticing how he had done it.
• Zheng Yexiao arrived, accused Le Yao and Ye Li of distributing genetic drugs, and swung at his daughter before Ye Li intervened.
• Ye Li sensed that Zheng Yexiao had also used genetic drugs and stopped the Transforming Force grandmaster's attack with one hand.
• Zheng Yexiao summoned seven or eight Transforming Force masters to capture Ye Li, but Ye Li immobilized them all with his True Qi.
• Ye Li forced Zheng Yexiao to his knees and asked him to listen while he explained.

Ye Li suppressed the Jinmen Grand Tournament’s Transforming Force practitioners and revealed that he had helped more than a hundred martial artists reach peak Hidden Force through power transfers. He restored Zheng Yexiao’s youth and strength, leaving the martial world in awe and Zheng kneeling to thank him as an immortal master.

• Ye Li restrained the attacking Transforming Force practitioners, and Le Yao persuaded him to loosen his hold on her father, Zheng Yexiao.
• Lu Zhixing and Zheng Tianyang testified that Ye Li had raised their strength through power transfers, and over a hundred martial artists came forward to support their claims.
• Zheng Yexiao challenged Ye Li to prove his power, revealing that genetic drugs had left him scarred and unable to advance beyond late Transforming Force.
• Ye Li transferred immense energy into Zheng Yexiao, restoring his youth, healing his ailments, and raising his vital blood to the peak of Transforming Force.
• Zheng Yexiao knelt before Ye Li, apologized, and thanked him for granting him a new life as the gathered martial artists revered Ye as an immortal master.

At the Tianjin venue, Ye Li restored Zheng Yexiao’s youth and claimed his qigong could extend Zheng’s life by a thousand years. He then proposed the Qi-Blood Galaxy, a system for circulating qi-blood so martial artists could grow stronger and help cultivate others.

• Ye Li denied being a Seeing God, Unbreakable and told the crowd that he cultivated qigong.
• Ye Li infused Zheng Yexiao with pure qi-blood, and Zheng said he could live for a thousand years if he avoided fighting.
• Ye Li reassured Zheng that the infusion had not cost him his life and explained that he could sustain the method by collecting qi-blood from strengthened martial artists.
• Ye Li promised that his qigong could help talented practitioners reach Clear Force in half a day, Hidden Force in three to five days, and Transforming Force in roughly half a year.
• Ye Li unveiled the Qi-Blood Galaxy method, which would circulate qi-blood among cultivators, and Zheng Yexiao praised his virtue and wisdom.

At the Jinmen Grand Tournament, Ye Li turned his qigong demonstration into a mass recruitment drive by distributing portraits that let martial artists borrow qi and blood. The method won over the crowd and even the Transforming Force experts, but Ye Li realized his divine consciousness limited how far he could spread it.

• Ye Li used his influence and promises of interest-free loans to persuade the tournament crowd to recite Capital Jiahao Immortal Venerable’s titles and connect to the Qi-Blood Bank.
• A frail Clear Force martial artist borrowed qi and blood, reached Clear Force peak, and sparked a rush of new users across the venue.
• Hidden Force martial artists borrowed up to their limits, and Yang Guicang and other Transforming Force experts joined the line after seeing the results.
• Ye Li infused Yang Guicang and the other Transforming Force experts with pure qi and blood, restoring their vitality and earning their reverence.
• Pei Taoyu helped distribute portraits, while reporters also tried the method and the gathering became a mass preaching event.
• Ye Li sensed tens of thousands of new users but realized his divine consciousness restricted the method’s reach to the area he could cover.

Ye Li’s qigong spread rapidly through Tianjin, while reports of it drew skepticism and opposition elsewhere in China. In the West, Rothschild’s vampire capitalists planned to use Japanese martial artists and friendly exchanges to undermine China and investigate the Yongle Encyclopedia’s secrets.

• Zheng Yexiao reprimanded Zheng Leyao for recklessly promoting Ye Li’s method and told her to serve Ye Li, suggesting that marriage to him was out of reach.
• Reporters who borrowed qi-blood reached Clear Force, published accounts of Ye Li’s demonstration, and helped news of qigong spread across China.
• As millions of Tianjin residents joined Ye Li’s qi-blood network, he decided he needed transmission nodes and a server to handle the growing demand.
• Newspapers and martial artists outside Tianjin disputed qigong’s claims, while a hundred Tianjin Transforming Force masters publicly vouched for it and challenged skeptics to visit.
• Rothschild’s new-blood vampires, angered by their losses in the East–West showdown, planned to use Sakura Nation’s martial artists to attack China’s younger generation and search for the secrets of Severing Heaven from Earth.
• Ye Li sensed trouble brewing as tensions began to stir throughout the West.

Goda Kazuo was ordered to travel to China and kill the East's younger generation, while Ye Li built a magical network of prayer beads that could automatically distribute qi-blood loans. After learning officials wanted control of his system and the Wu Family sought reconciliation, Ye Li emerged from seclusion to face a crowd gathered outside his courtyard.

• At Cambridge, Goda Kazuo revealed that he had been enduring humiliation to cultivate the Tyrant Tortoise Divine Art, and Williams ordered him to go to China as part of a diplomatic delegation and slaughter the East's younger generation.
• The blond man explained the West's limited sequence pathways and reflected on how modern research threatened established scholars, while considering Eastern martial arts as an alternative.
• Ye Li inscribed formations into the Scarlet Gold Hall and refined Incense Prayer Beads that automatically processed qi-blood loan requests and expanded his network.
• Ye Li considered using martial traits to generate spiritual energy, then sensed the cultivation and fortune of practitioners connected to the Scarlet Gold Network.
• Pei Taoyu told Ye Li that officials wanted him to surrender his qigong method and Qi-Blood Banks, and that the Wu Family had sought reconciliation; Ye Li reassured her and promised her a loan after her breakthrough.
• Ye Li left his courtyard with Pei Taoyu and found a large crowd waiting to see him.

Ye Li refused Deputy Minister Li’s demand to hand over the Qi-Blood Bank, despite being threatened by a planet-killing warship. Li joined forces with Eagle Nation consul Charles and the Wu Family to discredit Ye Li and capture him, while Ye Li prepared to expand the network and help Pei Taoyu advance.

• Ye Li emerged from seclusion to a crowd of grateful martial artists, then refused Li Weiguang’s demand that he surrender the Qi-Blood Bank and its qigong method.
• Ye Li sensed a distant planet-killing warship targeting him but remained calm and rejected Li’s offer, after which Li departed and Ye Li told the martial artists that the network could expand beyond Tianjin.
• Li Weiguang met Eagle Nation consul Charles, arranged for the Wu Family to capture Ye Li, and received exoskeleton armor and other weapons for the operation.
• Li ordered newspapers to denounce the Qi-Blood Bank, turning public opinion against Ye Li across China, while Tianjin residents protested the false reports.
• Ye Li dismissed the slander and told Pei Taoyu to prepare for a Transforming Force breakthrough; meanwhile, Li delivered battle armor to Wu Zhongxian, who agreed to target Ye Li and the Pei Family girl.