Recaps

Ye Li was teleported into the Wu Family’s sealed territory and fought Wu Zhongxian’s mecha force, surviving their attacks through his inexhaustible True Qi and rapid regeneration. As Wu Zhongxian exposed the mecha’s stellar core and threatened to destroy Tianjin, Ye Li faced him without backing down.

• Ye Li cultivated his Wood Divine Treasury to 70% and discovered that his True Qi could replenish instantly after being spent.
• Wu Zhongxian used spacetime anchors to teleport Ye Li’s house into the Wu Family’s sealed territory, where he and thirteen mecha-wearing fighters confronted Ye Li.
• Ye Li fought Wu Zhongxian’s mecha, then endured attacks from the other fighters and destroyed eleven suits while the Qi-Blood Network went offline.
• Yang Guicang, Zheng Yexiao, Le Yao, and Li Cunzhen found Ye Li’s courtyard gone and learned that the Wu Family grounds were under attack.
• Wu Zhongxian fled in his damaged mecha, struck down Li Cunzhen when he tried to intervene, and threatened to detonate its stellar core and destroy Tianjin.
• Ye Li blocked Wu Zhongxian’s path as the mecha’s chest opened around its exposed stellar core.

Ye Li defeated Wu Zhongxian’s mech threat by carrying its unstable star core into space, then used the deaths of the Wu Family’s martial artists to curse Li Weiguang. The chapter ended with Pei Taoyu embracing Ye Li after avenging her family, while a planet-killing warship exploded in space and two prayer beads traveled north.

• Wu Zhongxian threatened to detonate his mech’s star core and destroy Tianjin, but Ye Li seized the mech and carried it beyond the atmosphere, where it exploded harmlessly in space.
• Ye Li returned to Tianjin, where Li Cunzhen and Yang Guicang recognized his extraordinary power, and he told Le Yao that the Wu Family had likely colluded with foreigners over qigong.
• Li Weiguang ordered an Elixir Embrace expert to escort him out of Tianjin so he could escape and later attack Ye Li with a planet-destroying warship.
• Ye Li used the accumulated death aura of fourteen slain martial artists to curse Li Weiguang through a wooden figurine, then destroyed the figurine.
• Pei Taoyu told Ye Li that she had avenged her family and embraced him, while secretly developing possessive feelings toward him.
• A planet-killing warship streaked into space and exploded, and two faith prayer beads traveled north across the land.

Ye Li used the Faith Divine Bead to force the Qi-Blood Bank into the capital, triggering widespread breakthroughs and turning public opinion in its favor. After officials and Elixir Embrace experts invited him to the capital, he boarded a lightspeed vessel with Pei Taoyu, Zheng Leyao, and Li Cunzhen, where Zheng Leyao sought private martial arts instruction from him.

• A divine bead reached the capital, and Ye Li used it to connect residents to the Qi-Blood Bank and infuse each person with ten points of qi and blood.
• Jiang Zhenyue and the people of the capital felt the new qi and blood, and millions soon applied for further loans as martial artists broke through their bottlenecks.
• Capital newspapers reversed their attacks on qigong, while officials and Elixir Embrace experts invited Ye Li to meet them.
• Ye Li agreed to travel to the capital with Pei Taoyu, Zheng Leyao, and Li Cunzhen aboard a lightspeed vessel.
• During the voyage, Zheng Leyao visited Ye Li's cabin seeking help with her martial arts stance, while Pei Taoyu continued cultivating in the next room.

Ye Li attended a banquet with capital Elixir Embrace practitioners, who challenged his control of the Qi-Blood Bank and the spread of martial arts. After defeating their strongest fighters and forcing the gathering to submit, he pointed toward the Western starships overhead and asked how they compared.

• Le Yao reached the peak of Hidden Force after spending more than ten hours with Ye Li aboard the starship, then arrived with him in the capital.
• Li Cunzhen warned Ye Li that capital Elixir Embrace practitioners might challenge him at their welcome banquet because they feared the effects of his Qi-Blood Network.
• At the Jade-Wave Lake banquet, Yang Yizhen and other practitioners demanded that Ye Li regulate martial arts, change the bank's interest, or surrender the Qi-Blood Network to the government.
• Ye Li refused to change his decisions, flipped the stone table at the practitioners, and blasted Yang Yizhen and several other challengers away.
• Ye Li fought two late-stage Elixir Embrace practitioners, overwhelmed them with speed and a mental attack, and left the gathering kneeling or speechless.
• Ye Li pointed at the Western starships drawn to the battle and asked the subdued practitioners how they compared to them.

Ye Li destroyed the Star Destroyers threatening him, convincing the Elixir Embraces and political powers that he was a Gang Force expert. He expelled those who had attacked him, took the remaining thirty-two Elixir Embraces to help them advance, and drew the attention of foreign powers seeking the secrets of his Qi-Blood Network.

• The factions controlling the Star Destroyers demanded that Ye Li surrender his qigong and Qi-Blood Network methods, but Ye Li formed a Fortune Vestment and used misfortune to make thousands of their ships explode.
• The Elixir Embraces accepted Ye Li's apparent Force Aura might and submitted, after which Ye Li blacklisted those who had attacked him and reclaimed the qi-blood they had borrowed.
• Yang Yizhen and the other punished Elixir Embraces begged for mercy, but Ye Li used a soul technique to drive them away, leaving thirty-two who had not attacked him.
• Ye Li told the remaining Elixir Embraces he would help them advance and planned to cultivate further, knowing his apparent Gang Force strength had depended on luck.
• United States generals watched footage of Ye Li destroying the Star Destroyers and resolved to uncover his Qi-Blood Network, while China's factions began treating him as an equal Gang Force expert.

After choosing a trait that converted his inexhaustible True Qi into spiritual energy, Ye Li prepared to break through to the Second Transformation and opened his Heart Divine Treasury. The breakthrough provoked a lightning tribulation, and Ye Li charged into the thunderclouds to refine its bolts as his body repeatedly burned and regenerated.

• Ye Li chose the trait that let him convert True Qi into spiritual energy, producing vast stores of spiritual energy and crystallized spiritual crystals.
• Li Cunzhen and twenty-seven other Elixir Embrace martial artists broke through minor realms as Ye Li supported them and harvested a portion of their golden fortune.
• Ye Li opened his Heart Divine Treasury and began his breakthrough to the Second Transformation, provoking a lightning tribulation over the capital.
• Ye Li flew into the thunderclouds, swallowed a massive lightning bolt, and refined its power into his body.
• After successive bolts charred him and he regenerated, Ye Li charged into another wave of lightning.

Ye Li survived a world-spanning lightning tribulation, reached the Second-Transformation Xiantian Realm, and expanded his Qi-Blood Network across China. After learning of Goda Kazuo’s challenge victories and Sakura Nation’s demon-backed influence, Ye Li considered whether he could use his traits to simulate the Dragon Maiden’s Mid-Grandmaster Realm True Qi.

• Ye Li endured the escalating lightning tribulation, transformed his body, true qi, and soul, and defeated the final bolt with a punch, reaching the Second-Transformation Xiantian Realm.
• Ye Li refined a million Incense Prayer Beads and sent them across China, rapidly expanding the Qi-Blood Network while he consolidated his breakthrough and guided Pei Taoyu.
• Ye Li walked through the market with Le Yao, discussed Pei Taoyu and Jiang Xiyue with her, and noticed reports that Goda Kazuo had defeated thirty Transforming Force martial artists.
• Goda Kazuo’s history revealed that he had made a pact with Overlord Zero and used the demon’s influence and the Tyrant Tortoise Divine Art to defeat Chinese challengers while plotting to help Sakura Nation spread its cursed spirits.
• Ye Li considered whether his traits could simulate another person’s true qi, examined the sleeping Dragon Maiden in his Scarlet Gold Hall, and contemplated reproducing her Mid-Grandmaster Realm True Qi.

Ye Li investigated Goda Kazuo’s string of victories and uncovered a demon’s influence manipulating Chinese martial artists. He challenged Goda under the contest’s own rules and struck him with overwhelming force, leaving Goda’s fate unclear.

• Ye Li studied the Dragon Maiden’s lingering Grandmaster Realm True Qi and considered learning to imitate it.
• Goda Kazuo defeated a Chinese Transforming Force fighter in one blow while the Overlord Demon’s influence made nearby masters dismiss him.
• Ye Li arrived, halted the demon’s influence, and revealed that Goda’s victories relied on a demon manipulating his opponents and diverting stronger challengers.
• Goda pleaded with Ye Li to spare him, but Ye Li insisted they were both eligible to fight under the martial exchange’s rules.
• Ye Li unleashed his True Qi and punched Goda with force that twisted space and devastated the surrounding earth.

Ye Li defeated Goda Kazuo and destroyed the Overlord Demon’s body, but the demon spread its influence through hundreds of millions of people in the city. Ye Li strengthened his soul and prepared to purge the corrupted minds with Big Jail’s Mamba Mentality.

• Ye Li struck Goda Kazuo with a devastating punch, scattering him into atoms while the Elixir Embrace martial artists watched in shock.
• The Overlord Demon revealed itself after realizing Ye Li had not reached the Grandmaster Realm, and Ye Li attacked it at superluminal speed.
• The demon used Minor Malice to disrupt Ye Li’s aim, but Ye Li overwhelmed it with a barrage of attacks and destroyed its body.
• The Overlord Demon spread its influence through the city’s residents and threatened Ye Li with the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
• Ye Li increased his soul strength with [Soul Severance] and chose Big Jail to attack the evil wills infecting the city.

Ye Li purified the Overlord Demon's seeds by forcing the city to laugh, then faced scrutiny from powerful martial artists after revealing that he was not a Gang Force practitioner. Yang Shaohou publicly pledged to protect him, and the chapter ended with Pei Taoyu asking whether God Perception could bring the dead back.

• Ye Li sent hundreds of millions of soul threads through the city, using Big Jail to stop people from harming and exploiting one another.
• Ye Li planted Milk Dragon seeds in the citizens' minds with Universal Joy, making the city laugh until the Overlord Demon's seeds were purified.
• Ye Li extracted the final demon seed and sensed hostile observers, while the dying Overlord Demon warned him that Gang Force practitioners would target him.
• Yang Shaohou arrived, questioned Ye Li about his qigong, thanked him for the Qi-Blood Bank, and vowed to protect him from covetous practitioners.
• Yang Shaohou followed Ye Li to the courtyard, where Pei Taoyu asked whether a God Perception master could bring the dead back from the River of Time.
• Yang Shaohou explained that his great-grandfather had not traveled through time but had used Eight Steps Chasing Cicadas to see the dead Spring-and-Autumn Cicada through refracted light.

Ye Li reassured Pei Taoyu that he would find a way to revive her parents, then told Yang Shaohou he was from another universe and could reach Force Realm strength within a month. After a Western demigod challenged him to fight over the Atlantic, Ye Li accepted and began preparing, while American officials were stunned by his decision.

• Ye Li comforted Pei Taoyu after Yang Shaohou explained that reversing time was only a rumor, and promised to take responsibility for reviving her parents.
• Ye Li told Yang Shaohou that he came from another universe, could not pass on his qigong to people with different bloodlines, and expected to rival Force Realm strength within a month.
• The People's Daily reported Ye Li's killing of Goda Kazuo, while Japanese and Western media portrayed Ye Li as a violent aggressor and international opinion turned against him.
• Ye Li expanded the Qi-Blood Network across China and rapidly advanced his cultivation as people joined the network and reached Hidden Force.
• Ye Li accepted a demigod's challenge to fight over the Atlantic Ocean in one month, despite Yang Shaohou's warning that enemies might attack him there.
• American officials learned that Ye Li had accepted the challenge at the announced time and place, and reacted with disbelief.

Fisher challenged Ye Li to a demigod duel and used a global broadcast to build public support for his planned shift from the military path to politics. Ye Li secretly trained to imitate the Dragon Maiden’s True Qi, then answered Fisher’s publicity campaign with a crude livestream that redirected attention and caused Fisher’s karmic power to plummet.

• Fisher broadcast from the Atlantic, taunted Ye Li, and tried to build public support to advance through the political path.
• Yang Guicang explained Fisher’s motives to Zheng Yexiao and the other Transforming Force practitioners, while Zheng Leyao assured them Ye Li intended to win.
• Ye Li repeatedly practiced simulating the Dragon Maiden’s True Qi, exploding and restoring his body as he refined the technique.
• Pei Taoyu told Ye Li about Fisher’s provocations, and Ye Li decided to livestream a response to undermine Fisher’s image.
• Ye Li publicly insulted Fisher, shifting worldwide attention toward his remarks and causing Fisher’s karmic power to collapse.

Ye Li perfected the Fire Divine Treasury, cultivated the Nine Nether True Extreme Seal, and traveled to the Atlantic Ocean to face Fisher. Their long-awaited duel began as Fisher unleashed his authority over the sea, while hidden demigods and other powerful observers waited nearby.

• Fisher learned that Ye Li had accepted his challenge and planned to use the duel to capture him or let other demigods attack him.
• Ye Li completed the Fire Divine Treasury, and his growing spirit brought springlike warmth and new growth to the surrounding land.
• Ye Li began cultivating the Nine Nether True Extreme Seal, formed its true qi, and prepared to meet Fisher.
• Ye Li left China with Yang Shaohou and arrived above the Atlantic Ocean, where a vast fleet and global broadcast awaited him.
• Fisher sailed his warship through the sky using his authority over the sea, met Ye Li, and made the surrounding sea plunge downward as the duel began.

Ye Li fought Fisher at sea, using the Nine Nether True Extreme Seal to become a growing black hole before unleashing a world-opening blast that defeated the demigod. After Fisher died, Ye Li gained his physical attributes, but more than a dozen waiting demigods attacked him.

• Fisher compressed the surrounding sea and sky into two dimensions, but Ye Li transformed into a black hole and resisted the collapse.
• Ye Li and Fisher exchanged increasingly powerful blows as Fisher used the ocean to feed Ye Li's growing black-hole body and exhaust his energy.
• As Ye Li's black-hole form destabilized, he produced a strand of platinum-white Dragon Maiden True Qi and released it as Primordial: World-Opening, creating a blast that devastated Fisher.
• Ye Li survived the explosion by hiding inside the Scarlet Gold Hall, then appeared before the gravely wounded Fisher, who died shortly afterward.
• Dragon Joy activated, granting Ye Li Fisher's physical attributes and rapidly strengthening him.
• More than a dozen demigods who had been lying in wait attacked Ye Li after Fisher's death.

Ye Li defeated Fisher, then used his speed to overwhelm more than a dozen demigods before Herbert, a Western True God, trapped him and tried to cripple and kill him. Ye Li began a breakthrough under a lightning tribulation and kept regenerating despite Herbert’s attacks, leaving Herbert unable to stop the tribulation or make Ye Li stay dead.

• After Fisher died, more than a dozen demigods attacked Ye Li, but he used Dragon Joy’s power and stacked speed traits to strike faster than they could perceive.
• Ye Li battered the demigods with Star-River Lightfall, destroying one and forcing the others to defend themselves together.
• Herbert appeared, trapped Ye Li beneath a vast hand over the Atlantic Ocean, and revealed that the Eastern True God had died.
• Herbert recognized Ye Li as a man from Beyond the Heavens and tried to seize him, but Ye Li triggered a breakthrough and drew down a lightning tribulation.
• Herbert shattered Ye Li’s dantian and then killed him, yet Ye Li’s body regenerated repeatedly as the tribulation clouds continued to gather.
• Ye Li told the panicking Herbert that the breakthrough might be impossible to interrupt and suggested waiting until he passed the tribulation before killing him.

Ye Li completed his third-turn breakthrough while enduring Herbert’s attacks and Heavenly Tribulation, which killed Herbert and strengthened Ye Li’s body. When more than a dozen True Gods tried to seize him afterward, Ye Li used a trace of Gods and Devils-level energy to drive them away.

• Ye Li’s [World-Shocking Wisdom] rebuilt his shattered body and soul as Herbert attacked, allowing him to complete the Spleen Earth divine repository breakthrough.
• Herbert was trapped inside the Heavenly Tribulation by the other True Gods, and the lightning eventually reduced him to ash while Ye Li survived and reached the third revolution.
• Ye Li emerged with a peak Demigod body, then faced more than a dozen True Gods who accused him of causing Herbert’s death and tried to capture him.
• William Howard Taft failed to restrain Ye Li, who transformed his True Qi into a trace of Gods and Devils-level energy and slashed open the Atlantic Ocean.
• Ye Li unleashed repeated attacks that threatened the True Gods, forcing them to retreat and leaving him alone in the sky.

After driving back the True Gods, Ye Li crossed the Pacific and devastated Japan, killing its Transforming Force fighters and resistance while inscribing a formation that would prevent Japanese people from reaching Transforming Force. As he finished his purge and considered ending China’s warlord fragmentation, an existence beyond the Milky Way noticed the lightning tribulation.

• Ye Li explained that weakened True Gods could not sustain a prolonged battle, then announced he would break Japan’s power and prevent its people from producing Transforming Force fighters.
• Ye Li and Yang Shaohou traveled toward Japan, where Japanese authorities sought foreign help and mobilized their forces to stop him.
• Ye Li destroyed Japan’s fleets and weapons, then defeated Amaterasu and refined the deities, samurai, and other resistance that attacked him.
• Ye Li completed a formation across Japan that drained the qi and blood of people above Transforming Force and made future Japanese descendants unable to reach that realm.
• Ye Li turned his thoughts toward ending China’s warlord fragmentation, while an existence beyond the Milky Way wondered how a lightning tribulation had occurred in the severed sector.

After purging Japan’s martial elite, Ye Li returned to China and let Yang Shaohou lead reforms while he traveled and repaired the Dragon Maiden’s soul. The awakened Dragon Maiden said Ye Li needed Grandmaster Realm perfection to return to the Universe Realm, while a mysterious youth arrived outside the Milky Way to investigate the lightning tribulation.

• Ye Li returned to China as most Gang Force warlords fled, then told Yang Shaohou to govern and reform the country while Ye Li guarded against invasion and unrest.
• Ye Li reunited with Le Yao and Pei Taoyu, and the three traveled across China during a month-long break as Yang Shaohou used force and strict laws to subdue separatist powers.
• Ye Li awakened the Dragon Maiden by repairing her fractured soul, and she revealed that returning to the Universe Realm required Grandmaster Realm perfection strength.
• The Dragon Maiden estimated Ye Li would need decades to gain the power to return, and Ye Li worried that his Master and Xi Yue would wait for him.
• A ritual-robed youth crossed the stars and arrived outside the Milky Way, intending to investigate the unusual lightning tribulation.

A blue-robed envoy from an upper realm began sealing supernatural civilizations across the galaxy with a magical book, rewriting their worlds and memories. As the envoy approached Earth and threatened to erase its supernatural history, Ye Li resolved to use his fortune-changing ability against him.

• Henry Campbell-Bannerman received a warning that darkness was consuming the galaxy and called for the true gods to unite against the approaching disaster.
• The envoy announced that he would gather the lower realm’s Daos and sever heaven from earth, while Dragon Maiden explained that his vast psychic power came from a powerful artifact.
• The envoy repelled a fleet’s attack, then used his book to shrink a crabfolk planet, weaken its inhabitants, erase most of its population, and regress its civilization to the steam age.
• The envoy sealed Isaac Newton into the book, causing people’s memories to change so that Newton was remembered only as an ordinary historical scientist.
• Ye Li reassured Pei Taoyu and Zheng Leyao, then planned to use his Calamity Fortune Qi Gathering ability to impose Grandmaster Realm death fortune on the envoy.

Ye Li confronted the blue-robed visitor who had threatened the Milky Way, but the visitor recognized him as Senior Brother Ye and revealed they both came from the Universe Realm. The immediate battle ended in a startling reunion, and Meng Xuan offered Ye Li the visitor’s sect-owned world.

• The blue-robed youth sealed William in his booklet after William revealed that Ye Li was in the world, then declared that he would destroy the star domain and find Ye Li.
• The True Gods blamed Ye Li for attracting the visitor and threatened China, so Ye Li severely wounded Henry and demanded that the gods join him in confronting the enemy.
• Ye Li led the True Gods toward the Solar System, where the blue-robed youth recognized him as Senior Brother Ye and introduced himself as Meng Xuan of the Star Stem Sect.
• Meng Xuan told Ye Li that Emperor Qing had been exposed as the one who drove him from the Universe Realm and had been forced to wear mourning clothes.
• Meng Xuan explained that the world was a realm created by his sect’s founding ancestor and offered it to Ye Li.

Meng Xuan helped Ye Li eliminate the True Gods who had fled or opposed him, while the surviving gods agreed to put China first. As Ye Li headed back to Earth and prepared to return to the Universe Realm, foreign leaders scrambled to appease him, with Russia sending famous authors to China in the hope that Ye Li would enjoy their books.

• Meng Xuan explained that his sect's patriarch had created the universe and gave Ye Li a talisman for returning to the Universe Realm after seven days.
• Ye Li asked Meng Xuan to intercept six fleeing True Gods, and Meng Xuan sealed them with his book; he then sealed five more True Gods Ye Li named.
• Ye Li spared Mendeleev and three other True Gods, who promised that the Milky Way's order would honor China, then asked Meng Xuan to suppress the remaining True Gods.
• Ye Li returned toward Earth and told the Dragon Maiden that the sudden chance to return to the Universe Realm felt like a trap, while she blamed his rapid advancement for attracting tribulations.
• China received cultural treasures and other goods returned by the Eight-Nation Alliance, while foreign governments investigated Ye Li's preferences to appease him.
• A Russian official told Mendeleev that Russia had sent Ye Li original manuscripts and their authors, including Mark Twain, Maxim Gorky, and Thomas Hardy, hoping he would enjoy urging them to update.

Ye Li accepted the West’s invitation to judge a global beauty pageant, disguising his interest as a concern for fairness and cultivation. Meanwhile, Meng Xuan returned to the Star Stem Sect and told Jiang Xingzi that he had encountered Ye Li, whom he believed could bring their sect a great opportunity.

• Yang Shaohou told Ye Li that the West had returned stolen cultural treasures and sent Western manuscripts and their authors as compensation.
• Pei Taoyu worried that her cultivation could never close the gap between her and Ye Li, while Le Yao remained content by his side as he fished to settle his power.
• Yang Shaohou invited Ye Li to judge a global beauty pageant, and Ye Li accepted after insisting that he personally assess every contestant.
• Ye Li listed the kinds of contestants he wanted, then swept Le Yao away in his arms while Pei Taoyu watched.
• Meng Xuan arrived at the Star Stem Sect and told Jiang Xingzi that he had encountered Ye Li in a self-created Realm-Sky.
• Jiang Xingzi learned that Meng Xuan believed Ye Li was a Heavenly Illusion Immortal Sect talent whose strength could offer the Star Stem Sect a tremendous opportunity.

Jiang Xingzi confirmed Meng Xuan’s report about Ye Li and set out for the Southern Region to investigate and court the opportunity for his sect. Meanwhile, Ye Li judged the Western beauty-pageant preliminaries, then revealed himself as the final judge and turned the contest into a battle royale.

• Jiang Xingzi examined Meng Xuan’s soul and memories, verified that his report about Ye Li was genuine, and secretly altered his memories to prevent leaks.
• Jiang Xingzi decided to travel to the Southern Region himself, leaving an avatar behind at the Star Stem Sect.
• Ye Li observed the Western Federation’s judges screen millions of contestants and approve a final list of 150 beauties.
• Angela and Shen Qingtang entered the finals hall, where the contestants were stunned by a newcomer they assumed would win the pageant.
• The newcomer revealed himself as Ye Li and explained that contestant numbers ranked combat strength, not beauty.
• Ye Li announced that the contestants would fight until one remained, with the first fifty defeated eliminated and the champion earning the chance to dual-cultivate with him.

Ye Li turned the beauty pageant into a combat tournament, where Shen Qingtang defeated the other contestants and became the winner. After perfecting the Yin-Yang Spirit-Calming Art, Ye Li chose the Fate-Bound Thread trait and tested it on Angela, whose favorability toward him surged beyond measurement.

• Ye Li announced that the contestants would compete by combat strength, and Shen Qingtang immediately attacked a rival, starting a chaotic brawl.
• Shen Qingtang defeated the remaining contestants and became the sole one left standing, while Ye Li removed the eliminated contestants from the venue.
• Ye Li used his overwhelming strength and the Green · Descent trait on Shen Qingtang, then perfected the Yin-Yang Spirit-Calming Art and unlocked three possible traits.
• Ye Li chose Blue · Love-Tie Threads, which let him link with someone and steadily raise their favorability toward him.
• Ye Li linked a red thread to Angela and sensed her thoughts and feelings as her favorability skyrocketed into incomprehensible figures.

Ye Li discovered that his Fate-Bound Thread trait had driven Angela’s affection to an extraordinary level, then left the women at the Crystal Palace after spending three days with them. In the Universe Realm, Jiang Xingzi reported Ye Li’s whereabouts to Yun Huanzi, who sent Shen Qinglian to bring their martial nephew back safely.

• Ye Li used Fate-Bound Thread on Angela, saw her affection reach 324,232 points, and realized he could link himself to people in quick succession.
• Ye Li spent three days at the Crystal Palace, where Shen Qingtang and Angela awakened and he told them they would return to their own lives while he went to cultivate.
• Jiang Xingzi reached the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Sect and told Yun Huanzi that he had confirmed Ye Li’s whereabouts in a small world.
• Yun Huanzi told Jiang Xingzi to keep the information secret and remain at the sect while he considered how to protect Ye Li.
• Shen Qinglian agreed to travel beyond the heavens and bring Ye Li back, saying her divination had foretold great fortune.