Recaps

Ye Li defeated Jiang Zhenyue, spared Jiang Chengyu for Jiang Xiyue’s sake, and left the ruined Jiang Mansion with her. His victory spread through the Capital City, drawing attention from powerful factions and warnings that enemies of the Xia Kingdom might target him.

• Su Xingcheng witnessed Ye Li’s victory and concluded that Ye Li had a powerful physical trait and exceptional cultivation talent.
• Ye Li reunited with Jiang Xiyue, thanked Su Xingcheng, and told Jiang Xiyue he had spared her father for her sake.
• Ye Li cut a cross-shaped wound into Jiang Chengyu and warned him not to heal it before leaving with Jiang Xiyue.
• The crowd and Capital City’s lineages watched Ye Li depart, reconsidering his strength after he defeated Jiang Zhenyue and wounded the Jiang Family.
• Qi Yunjie and an elder discussed Ye Li’s revealed abilities and warned that enemies seeking to divide the Xia Kingdom might try to eliminate him.
• The Capital City’s factions spread news of Ye Li’s victory, his killing of Yan Qinshang, Jiang Zhenyue’s lost arm, and his departure with Jiang Xiyue.

Ye Li tested the Jiang Family grand elder’s Distance Reduction gauntlet and teased Jiang Xiyue about joining him for life. After she learned he was still a virgin, they took Dragon-Tiger Pills as part of a bet, and she chose to begin their relationship; the chapter ended with Ye Li undergoing a transformation as the pill’s effects faded.

• Ye Li showed Jiang Xiyue the Distance Reduction gauntlet he had taken from the Jiang Family grand elder and tested its ability to draw objects toward him.
• Ye Li used the gauntlet to pull Jiang Xiyue into his arms and asked her to roam the martial world with him for life.
• Jiang Xiyue doubted Ye Li’s claim that he was a virgin, and he insisted he had resisted temptation despite taking three Dragon-Tiger Pills a day.
• Ye Li proposed a Dragon-Tiger Pill bet, but Jiang Xiyue took the pill and asked him to call her Xiyue, pledging herself to him.
• Jiang Xiyue took Ye Li’s second pill, and they embraced as its effects took hold; when the Yang Furnace trait’s effect faded, Ye Li underwent a transformation.

Ye Li spent a month distracted by Jiang Xiyue, slowly opening Bone Apertures while she advanced even faster, before Dean Su urged him to attend the Emperor’s gathering in the Golden Throne Hall. He left the courtyard to meet the Emperor of Xia Dynasty.

• Ye Li saw that the [Yang Furnace] trait had reactivated and learned that Jiang Xiyue had gained Bone Apertures overnight.
• Jiang Xiyue asked Ye Li to continue, and their intimacy opened more of her Bone Apertures while leaving Ye Li’s cultivation temporarily depleted.
• Ye Li joked that Heaven’s Will had sent Jiang Xiyue to distract him from cultivation, and over the following days his Bone Apertures rose from 55 to 58 while hers reached 121.
• A month passed, and Ye Li’s Bone Apertures reached 80 as he remained focused on Jiang Xiyue and ignored the public commotion outside.
• Dean Su urged Ye Li to attend the gathering of a hundred talented young people at the Golden Throne Hall, and Ye Li left to meet the Emperor of Xia Dynasty.

Ye Li joined the Xia Kingdom’s hundred prodigies on a tour of the capital and drew the crowd’s attention before attending the imperial audience. When ordered to kneel before the Xia Emperor, he refused and threatened to strike unless the emperor could withstand his sword, leaving the court on the brink of violence.

• Ye Li joined the hundred prodigies on their ceremonial tour of the capital, where the crowds focused on him and he waved to Jiang Xiyue.
• The prodigies entered the Golden Throne Hall and gathered before the Xia Emperor for their audience.
• When the Ceremonial Eunuch ordered everyone to bow, Ye Li remained standing while the other prodigies prostrated themselves.
• Ye Li rebuked the eunuch, drew the Cup Shadow Sword, and declared he would kneel only if the Xia Emperor could withstand one strike from him.
• The palace’s Half-Step Xiantian eunuchs rushed to shield Xia Changhan as the emperor faced Ye Li’s threat.

Ye Li confronted Xia Changhan and the court, arguing that martial artists should follow strength rather than bow out of habit. Xia Changhan yielded by granting Ye Li a seat in the Golden Throne Hall, but after Ye Li left, the emperor erupted in fury and ordered his death.

• Ye Li rebuked the kneeling officials and challenged Xia Changhan to justify demanding his submission.
• The Patriotic Faction urged Xia Changhan to put Xia Kingdom’s interests first, leaving him isolated and afraid to confront Ye Li.
• Xia Changhan dismissed the Black-Robed Eunuchs and ordered a seat brought for Ye Li, who sat beside the throne without thanking him.
• The court ceremony resumed as the officials knelt, and Ye Li left the Golden Throne Hall after the morning court session ended.
• After the hall emptied, Xia Changhan tore off his crown, threw it to the floor, and ordered Ye Li killed.

Emperor Xia Changhan revealed his treachery and plotted to have Ye Li killed, while Ye Li spent a month cultivating and broke through to the Mid-Post-Heaven Realm. The chapter ended with Ye Li carrying Jiang Xiyue off for an intimate encounter.

• Xia Changhan ordered an informant to tell the Li Kingdom about Ye Li and plotted to have him killed before he could threaten the kingdom’s plans.
• The Director of the Imperial Observatory suggested framing Ye Li for defying the emperor, and Xia Changhan considered using his new consort in the scheme.
• Ye Li spent a month cultivating in his courtyard and opened all 126 Bone Apertures.
• Ye Li broke through to the Mid-Post-Heaven Realm as his True Qi and cultivation technique advanced.
• Ye Li swept Jiang Xiyue into his arms and prepared to take her to bed.

After reaching the middle stage of the Post-Heaven Realm, Ye Li awakened the Azure Dragon Deliverance Method’s second-layer Dragon Blood effect and tested its dangerous power. He began training to master it, until Su Xingcheng told him that a Li Kingdom envoy had arrived and the Xia Emperor had invited him to a banquet.

• Ye Li reached the middle stage of the Post-Heaven Realm, opened all 126 Bone Apertures, and discovered that Dragon Blood could burn his blood to boost his physique and True Qi.
• Ye Li activated Dragon Blood, briefly gained overwhelming strength and a golden-eyed True Dragon aura, then stopped after three seconds when he felt the cost of burning his blood.
• Ye Li explained his Grandmaster technique to Jiang Xiyue and said he would find her a more suitable technique; she trusted him and rested against him.
• Ye Li began regularly training Dragon Blood and replenishing his blood, gradually increasing the time he could sustain the effect.
• Su Xingcheng informed Ye Li that a special envoy from the Li Kingdom had arrived and that the Xia Emperor had invited him to a banquet.

Su Xingcheng told Ye Li that the national destiny arena was an elimination contest and that the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking offered a direct path to becoming an Immortal Sect true disciple. Ye Li resolved to make the ranking and agreed to attend the palace banquet with Jiang Xiyue, while Xia Changhan gathered traitors to plot Ye Li's death.

• Su Xingcheng explained that the Li Kingdom's envoy had requested Ye Li's presence at a palace banquet in three days, likely intending to target him.
• Su Xingcheng described the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking as the route for exceptional young talents to gain direct admission as Immortal Sect true disciples.
• Ye Li declared he would enter the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking, but Su Xingcheng urged him to focus on the next national destiny arena tournament instead.
• Ye Li agreed to attend the banquet with Jiang Xiyue after learning he could bring a female companion.
• Xia Changhan revealed to Zhou Chenqi and other summoned collaborators that he served the Li Kingdom and intended to kill Ye Li.

Ye Li attended the Xia Kingdom’s palace banquet with Jiang Xiyue, where Li Kingdom envoy Yuwen You tried to recruit him and then provoke him. The chapter ended with Ye Li confronting Yuwen after the envoy turned his attention to Jiang Xiyue.

• Ye Li briefly went to the Jiang Mansion and taught Jiang Chengyu a lesson before returning to Jiang Xiyue.
• Ye Li and Jiang Xiyue arrived at Qionghua Hall, where Xia Changhan watched Ye Li with concealed hostility.
• Yuwen You entered the banquet and openly invited Ye Li to join the Li Kingdom.
• Ye Li refused, explaining that he had no interest in the National Destiny Grand Competition.
• Yuwen You turned his attention to Jiang Xiyue, and Ye Li appeared before him and threatened to kill him if he spoke disrespectfully.

Ye Li crippled Li Kingdom envoy Yuwen You and confronted the Gan King’s True Qi avatar, defeating it with his physical strength and sword. The Gan King vowed to visit the Xia Kingdom in half a month and kill Ye Li.

• Ye Li crippled Yuwen You’s cultivation instead of killing him and warned that the Li Kingdom would fall.
• The Gan King’s apparition appeared and demanded that Ye Li submit and hand over his techniques.
• Ye Li defied the Gan King, clashed with his avatar using only his physical strength, and knocked it back.
• Ye Li destroyed the Gan King’s avatar with the Nine Prisons Demon-Slaying Sword and challenged his real body to face him in the capital.
• The Gan King ordered a diplomatic visit to the Xia Kingdom in half a month and vowed to break the kingdom’s backbone.

Ye Li crippled Yuwen You, rejected the Xia court’s pleas, and slapped Emperor Xia Changhan before leaving the palace. Later, he followed a curse into the imperial harem, where he confronted Shen Fuyao, the woman behind the trap, and learned she was on a mission.

• Ye Li crippled Yuwen You after destroying Gan King’s clone and warned him that he would wipe out the Li Kingdom.
• Ye Li rebuked the guests for their cowardice, then slapped Xia Changhan when the emperor tried to stop him from leaving.
• After the guests dispersed, Xia Changhan ordered the Director of the Imperial Observatory to arrange Ye Li’s imprisonment under a fabricated charge as a pledge of allegiance to the Li Kingdom.
• Ye Li sensed a demonic curse, followed its whispers into the imperial harem, and found Shen Fuyao waiting in a bedroom.
• Ye Li pulled Shen Fuyao toward him with his Distance Reduction gauntlet, while Shen Fuyao privately revealed that she was on a mission and could not attack.

Ye Li resisted Shen Fuyao and cultivated through the night while Xia Changhan prepared to catch him in bed with the consort. At dawn, Ye Li grabbed Shen Fuyao just as Xia Changhan stormed in, then accused the emperor of trying to make him sleep with his consort and demanded payment.

• Shen Fuyao considered killing Ye Li, but stopped when he claimed Xia Changhan had drawn him into the bedchamber with witchcraft.
• Ye Li told Shen Fuyao to wait until dawn, then settled onto her bed and cultivated without touching her.
• Xia Changhan gathered four Gang Transformation warriors and an Aperture Condensation warrior, planning to catch Ye Li and offer him to the Gan King.
• Ye Li opened his seventh Bone Aperture and refined his cultivation as Shen Fuyao judged his unusually strong True Qi.
• At the fifth watch, Ye Li pulled Shen Fuyao into his arms just as Xia Changhan and his entourage broke down the door.
• Ye Li denounced Xia Changhan for trying to make him bed the consort and demanded payment for lending the emperor his seed.

Ye Li confronted Xia Changhan over being forced to spend the night with Shen Fuyao and demanded compensation, turning the accusation back on the emperor. When Xia Changhan ordered his men to seize Ye Li, Ye Li met Zhou Chenqi’s palm with an explosive burst of strength, but Zhou’s age-based trait suppressed him.

• Xia Changhan came to Ye Li’s chamber with guards, and Ye Li demanded payment for the cultivation time he claimed to have lost while being forced to defile Shen Fuyao.
• Ye Li accused Xia Changhan of coercing him and argued that his potential children and lost cultivation made the emperor responsible for compensation.
• The half-step Xiantian experts silently sympathized with Ye Li, while Shen Fuyao grew furious at his claim that she was not worth the loss.
• Xia Changhan ordered his men to seize Ye Li, and Zhou Chenqi attacked him with a palm strike.
• Ye Li activated [Explosion] and doubled his power to meet Zhou Chenqi’s attack, but [Age Discrimination] weakened him and left him standing in the ruined courtyard.

Ye Li broke through Zhou Chenqi and Guang Qianshan’s strength-suppressing traits with Dragon Blood Transformation and turned the palace battle around. With only minutes before the transformation would kill him, he began cutting down the defenders and faced Xia Changhan.

• Zhou Chenqi explained how his trait suppressed Ye Li’s strength based on their age difference.
• Guang Qianshan appeared and used [Purple Discrimination] to suppress Ye Li further by shifting his sex with the Desire Extinction Canon.
• Ye Li activated [Dragon Blood Transformation], unleashing enough power to contend with a Pulse Condensation Realm martial artist despite both suppressions.
• Ye Li warned that his transformation would last only about three minutes, then blitzed the palace defenders and killed several peak Hua Gang Realm martial artists.
• Ye Li struck down another opponent with a second sword and confronted Xia Changhan, who watched in terror.

Ye Li defeated the palace attackers and forced Xia Changhan to cover up the clash by claiming Ye Li had saved him. The emperor rewarded Ye Li and agreed to leave Shen Fuyao alone, while Shen moved to Autumn Flower Palace and prepared to contact her sect.

• Ye Li ended his Dragon Blood Transformation after killing the Pulse Condensation Realm Attendant and demanded compensation from Xia Changhan.
• As martial artists rushed into the palace, Xia Changhan claimed Ye Li had rescued him from an assassination plot and invented a story about sending him to comfort the harem.
• Xia Changhan offered Ye Li gold, Qi Gathering Pills, and access to the Royal Secret Treasury, then pledged to support him against the Gan King of the Li Kingdom.
• Ye Li accepted access to the Royal Martial Armory, and Xia Changhan agreed to move Shen Fuyao to Autumn Flower Palace and never touch her.
• Shen Fuyao settled into Autumn Flower Palace and took out a jade mirror to contact her sect.

Shen Fuyao told her master that Ye Li had groped her while she was disguised, then realized she had copied her master's body and hid the truth. Fearing Ye Li, Xia Changhan sent Noble Consort Shen to live at Ye Li's residence and ordered her to attend to him, leaving Shen furious as she prepared to endure the arrangement.

• Shen Fuyao complained to her master that Ye Li had taken advantage of her, then realized her disguise had copied her master's figure and ended the mirror call before her master could learn of it.
• Xia Changhan recalled Ye Li's interest in the harem and decided to use his consorts to keep Ye Li occupied until Gan King reached the capital.
• Xia Changhan ordered Noble Consort Shen to be sent to Ye Li's residence with a golden token granting her free passage in and out of the palace.
• Rumors spread through Capital City that Xia Changhan had arranged for Ye Li to spend the night with the Noble Consort and father a child.
• Shen Fuyao received the decree ordering her to move in with Ye Li and attend to him morning and night, then suppressed her anger and resolved to finish her mission.

Ye Li accepted the Xia Emperor’s decree sending Shen Fuyao to his courtyard, where Jiang Xiyue allowed her to stay while Ye Li focused on preparing to face Gan King. Su Xingcheng then took Ye Li to the Royal Martial Armory, where Ye Li discovered the Yin-Yang Harmony Secret Record and resolved to appraise it.

• Jiang Xiyue resolved to give Ye Li more time to cultivate, but Ye Li teased her before Shen Fuyao arrived at the courtyard.
• Shen Fuyao told Ye Li that the Xia Emperor had ordered her to attend to him, and Jiang Xiyue allowed her to live in the side courtyard.
• Over the next two days, Ye Li cultivated while Jiang Xiyue and Shen Fuyao settled into a peaceful routine.
• Su Xingcheng brought Ye Li to the Royal Martial Armory to choose three items that might help him fight Gan King.
• Ye Li searched the cultivation arts section and found the Yin-Yang Harmony Secret Record, an orthodox dual-cultivation method, then decided to appraise it.

Ye Li chose three techniques from the Martial Armory and used the Blood River True Explanation with Qi Gathering Pills to perfect the second layer of the Azure Dragon Deliverance Method. He unlocked a specialized trait enhancement and considered three possible traits.

• Ye Li studied the Yin-Yang Harmony Secret Record, the Blood River True Explanation fragment, and the Prison-Transforming Canon in the Martial Armory.
• Ye Li returned to the courtyard and told Jiang Xiyue what he had chosen, making her blush and run off.
• Ye Li entered the Dragon Blood state and used the Blood River True Explanation to replenish his burning blood by consuming Qi Gathering Pills.
• Ye Li perfected the Azure Dragon Deliverance Method's second layer after consuming more than a thousand pills.
• Ye Li unlocked a specialized trait enhancement and viewed the options Blood Healing, Blood Fury, and Blood Explosion.

Ye Li postponed choosing between two blood-related entries and tested the Yin-Yang Harmony Secret Record with Jiang Xiyue, discovering that their synchronized True Qi greatly accelerated cultivation. Shen Fuyao endured their nightly practice until she finally complained to her master, who was startled to hear how quickly Ye Li had advanced.

• Ye Li ruled out [Blood Healing] but deferred choosing between [Blood Fury] and [Blood Explosion], trusting his future self to decide.
• Ye Li practiced the Yin-Yang Harmony Secret Record with Jiang Xiyue, and their True Qi resonance improved their cultivation and recovery.
• Shen Fuyao spent sleepless nights enduring the sounds from Ye Li and Jiang Xiyue's room while pretending to be a frail woman without cultivation.
• After three days, Shen Fuyao fled the courtyard and complained to her master through a jade dressing mirror about Ye Li's nightly practice.
• Shen Fuyao told her master that Ye Li had risen from early Body Tempering to matching someone in the Hua Gang Realm in half a year, and her master reacted with surprise.

Shen Fuyao discussed Ye Li’s astonishing cultivation with her master, while rumors about the Gan King’s impending arrival spread through the capital. Ye Li reconstructed the Blood River True Explanation, combined it with Blood Fury, and prepared as the Gan King arrived.

• Shen Fuyao told her master that Ye Li had reached the middle stage of the Post-Heaven Realm and speculated that he had found a secret treasure, but her master said the evil sorcery remained near the imperial palace.
• Shen Fuyao rejected the idea of becoming Ye Li’s junior sister, then accidentally suggested that her master might fall for him; her master scolded her and ended their communication.
• As gossip about Xia Changhan faded, the capital’s attention turned to the Gan King’s approach, and people worried that Ye Li could not match the powerful Son of Xiantian.
• Ye Li focused on cultivating the Blood River True Explanation, used Qi Gathering Pills to reconstruct the fragment, and discovered the technique could manipulate his own blood.
• Ye Li selected Blood Fury, perfected the Blood River True Explanation’s effects, and shattered its mediocre White Trait before the Gan King arrived in the capital.

The Gan King arrived in the capital and demonstrated his overwhelming power by killing a Xia Kingdom martial artist who challenged him. While the city feared for Ye Li’s coming confrontation, Ye Li relaxed with Jiang Xiyue before taking up his Cup Shadow Sword and heading toward the imperial palace.

• Xia Changhan rejoiced at the Gan King's arrival, believing Ye Li's downfall was near.
• The Gan King entered the capital and crushed the commoners with his Pulse Condensation Realm aura.
• A Half-Step Xiantian expert challenged the Gan King, who seized him with a True Qi avatar and blasted him into a cloud of blood mist.
• The Gan King dared the Xia Kingdom's Post-Heaven martial artists to challenge him, while the crowd feared that even Xiantian experts might not stop him.
• Ye Li massaged Jiang Xiyue's feet in a hot spring as Shen Fuyao watched from concealment and wondered whether he could defeat the Gan King.
• Ye Li dressed, took his Cup Shadow Sword, and walked from the Martial Academy toward the imperial palace with fighting spirit in his eyes.

Ye Li confronted the Gan King, Yuwen Gan, at the palace and overwhelmed him with a devastating sword strike. The strike forced Yuwen Gan to one knee, leaving him furious and shaken as Ye Li demanded to know if he was the Gan King.

• Ye Li walked toward the palace, and his Heart Scenery transformed the onlookers’ fear into fervent fighting spirit.
• Xia Changhan welcomed Yuwen Gan and learned the Li King had promised him a Barrier-Breaking Profound Passage Pill for helping transfer the Xia Kingdom’s national fortune.
• Yuwen Gan sent four Hua Gang Realm guards to test Ye Li as he approached Zichen Hall.
• Ye Li burst into the hall, destroyed the four guards with one sword strike, and attacked Yuwen Gan.
• Yuwen Gan’s thousandfold defense stopped Ye Li’s sword light, but the force drove him to one knee amid the ruined palace.
• Ye Li asked Yuwen Gan if he was the Gan King, and Yuwen Gan looked up at him with rage and fear.

Ye Li used [Blood Fury] and Blood River True Explanation to overwhelm Gan King with immense strength, though Gan King’s body remained unharmed. Gan King unleashed his body-tempering art and 206 True Qi avatars, but Ye Li brushed them aside and began battering him with repeated sword strikes.

• Ye Li’s sword forced Gan King to his knees and killed his four peak Gang Transformation Realm guards, while Xia Changhan and the gathered martial artists watched in shock.
• Ye Li sustained [Blood Fury] by storing most of his blood in his stomach and cycling it back into his vessels, leaving less than one percent in circulation.
• Gan King activated Qi Explosion Great Method and used Gold-Forging Spirit-Transforming Body to rise and counterattack with his Coiled Dragon Black Iron Spear.
• Gan King summoned 206 True Qi avatars, but Ye Li shattered them with a sweeping gust; the avatars began reforming as Gan King replenished his True Qi.
• Ye Li entered the [Swiftness] state, knocked Gan King’s spear away, and struck him repeatedly with the Cup Shadow Sword.

Ye Li stopped trying to injure Yuwen Gan after discovering that his [Indestructible] trait resisted every attack, then used the Gan King's own Coiled Dragon Black Iron Spear to exploit his body's flexibility. The chapter ended as Ye Li drove the spear into Yuwen Gan's mouth, intending to force it through his body.

• Ye Li battered Yuwen Gan with supersonic sword strikes until the Cup Shadow Sword cracked, then switched to attacking him with his bare hands.
• Yuwen Gan taunted Ye Li that his body could not be harmed, while Ye Li weakened from pushing his body to its limits.
• Ye Li admitted that his attacks could not damage Yuwen Gan and said he would try to restrain him instead.
• Ye Li used [Distance Reduction] to summon Yuwen Gan's Coiled Dragon Black Iron Spear and explained that Yuwen Gan's body remained flexible despite being indestructible.
• Ye Li appeared above Yuwen Gan and thrust the spear into his mouth, aiming to drive it through his body.

Ye Li defeated Yuwen Gan by forcing the Coiled Dragon Black Iron Spear through his body, humiliating and immobilizing the invulnerable king without killing him. Su Xingcheng took charge of the skewered Yuwen Gan as Ye Li recovered and prepared for the Li Kingdom’s retaliation and his breakthrough to the late Post-Heaven Realm.

• Ye Li spun the Coiled Dragon Black Iron Spear and drove it through Yuwen Gan’s intestines, leaving him unable to move or speak.
• Ye Li mocked Yuwen Gan and explained that he had chosen humiliation over killing him.
• The witnesses, including Su Xingcheng, watched as the exhausted Ye Li lifted Yuwen Gan on the spear.
• Ye Li handed the spear and Yuwen Gan to Su Xingcheng, warning him to prevent the king from escaping.
• Ye Li sat down to recover and resolved to prepare for the Li Kingdom’s retaliation by breaking through to the late Post-Heaven Realm.