Recaps

Ye Li defeated Yuwen Gan by trapping him on his own spear, then claimed the Gan King's jade belt, which replenished his True Qi. As the capital celebrated, Qi Yunjie feared Li Kingdom would send a Xiantian opponent next, while Ye Li returned home to Jiang Xiyue.

• Ye Li left Yuwen Gan helplessly skewered on the Coiled Dragon Black Iron Spear, while Su Xingcheng wondered whether they should throw him into a cesspit.
• Ye Li took Yuwen Gan's jade belt, named it [Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlit Night], and used its stored pills to replenish his blood and True Qi.
• The capital celebrated Ye Li's victory, and Qi Yunjie warned that Li Kingdom might send a Xiantian martial artist after him.
• Ye Li returned to the courtyard, where Jiang Xiyue embraced him and Shen Fuyao praised his victory.
• Ye Li told Jiang Xiyue that thinking about their cultivation had inspired his strategy, and she teased him before saying they could discuss his desire once he reached the Xiantian Realm.

Ye Li broke through to the late Post-Heaven Realm and learned that the Li Kingdom’s retaliation could involve powerful competitors rather than Xiantian experts. Du Xiaoyuan warned him that former National Destiny Grand Competition winners and secluded half-step Xiantian cultivators were likely heading to Xia Kingdom.

• Ye Li connected all 177 Bone Apertures and broke through to the late Post-Heaven Realm, doubling his strength, True Qi quality, and True Qi reserves.
• Ye Li discovered that the third-layer Azure Dragon Deliverance Method unlocked Dragon Joy, which granted him 30% of an enemy’s physical attributes after a head-on victory.
• Du Xiaoyuan arrived in Ye Li’s courtyard and congratulated him on defeating Yuwen Gan and reaching the late Post-Heaven Realm.
• Du Xiaoyuan explained that Immortal Sect rules prevented Xiantian experts from attacking Post-Heaven cultivators across kingdom borders unless provoked.
• Du Xiaoyuan warned Ye Li that the Li Kingdom’s former competition winners and secluded half-step Xiantian cultivators were likely coming to Xia Kingdom to avenge Yuwen Gan.

After warning Ye Li that older Li Kingdom martial artists would seek revenge, Du Xiaoyuan urged him to hide and wait ten years before competing for a place in an Immortal Sect. Ye Li instead asked to test the Xiantian Realm, and Du Xiaoyuan offered to guide him after revealing his decades of stagnation and centuries of failed cultivation.

• Du Xiaoyuan explained that older Li Kingdom martial artists, some stronger than Yuwen Gan, might come after Ye Li.
• Du Xiaoyuan urged Ye Li to lie low, cultivate for ten years, and then enter the National Destiny Grand Competition to pursue an Immortal Sect.
• Ye Li asked Du Xiaoyuan how strong the Xiantian Realm was and requested a spar to find out.
• Du Xiaoyuan explained the five Xiantian transformative passes and described how he had reached Xiantian at forty but made no further progress in over two hundred years.
• Du Xiaoyuan apologized for his outburst and offered to give Ye Li some guidance.

Ye Li sparred with Du Xiaoyuan in the mountains to test himself against a Xiantian expert, but Du Xiaoyuan demonstrated the overwhelming power of Xiantian. Ye Li’s speed and strength impressed Du Xiaoyuan, though he could not break through the elder’s protective Qi shield.

• Du Xiaoyuan carried Ye Li to remote mountains outside Capital City and lent him the Purple Palace sword.
• Ye Li unleashed his enhanced strength and struck Du Xiaoyuan with a massive sword aura, which Du Xiaoyuan dispersed with a flick of Qi.
• Ye Li activated [Swiftness] and launched a rapid barrage of sword attacks, but Du Xiaoyuan’s Glazed Qi Shield withstood them all.
• Du Xiaoyuan explained the difference between Xiantian and Post-Heaven power, then formed a giant spiritual-energy palm that Ye Li narrowly evaded.
• Du Xiaoyuan marveled at Ye Li’s strength and speed, judging that Ye Li might challenge a Xiantian expert if he advanced further.

Ye Li decided to take the fight to the Li Kingdom, then stormed the Golden Throne Hall and crippled Xia Changhan before forcing him to consume a Malicious Heart Pill. The chapter ended with Ye Li using spiritual techniques to subdue the emperor’s will, leaving Xia Changhan vacant-eyed and under his control.

• Ye Li learned from Du Xiaoyuan that Xiantian experts could not openly interfere in the National Destiny Grand Competition, and decided to go after the Li Kingdom himself.
• Xia Changhan considered kidnapping Ye Li’s family, but Ye Li burst into the Golden Throne Hall and killed a royalist official who challenged him.
• Ye Li announced that he would visit the Li Kingdom’s capital and ordered the ministers to notify the Li Kingdom.
• Ye Li killed the royal death squads protecting Xia Changhan, seized the emperor, and destroyed his cultivation by wrecking his meridians and Dantian.
• Ye Li forced Xia Changhan to swallow a Malicious Heart Pill, then combined Malicious Heart Residual Pupil with Great Nirvana Heart Scenery to subdue his spiritual power.

Ye Li exposed Xia Changhan and his allies in the Xia court, then set out to confront the Li Kingdom. As Yuwen Po raced toward the Xia capital under orders to kill Ye Li, Ye Li appeared over Tianqi City and publicly challenged the Li Kingdom’s young prodigies.

• Ye Li controlled Xia Changhan to reveal that the emperor had defected to the Li Kingdom and to name traitorous families and court rivals.
• Ye Li killed Wang Kuan, then began sorting the named ministers into those to kill, spare, or imprison as he took control of the Xia Kingdom.
• After learning that Ye Li had defeated Gan King Yuwen Gan, Li Emperor Yuwen Kuo ordered his son Yuwen Po to lead young prodigies to the Xia capital and kill Ye Li.
• Yuwen Po launched toward the Xia capital, but Ye Li appeared before him in the skies above Tianqi City.
• Ye Li unfolded the Great Nirvana Heart Scenery and announced that he had come to weigh the Li Kingdom’s young prodigies.

Ye Li challenged the Li Kingdom’s capital, and Yuwen Kuo sent three peak Pulse Condensation Realm fighters to kill him. As their combined attacks closed in, Ye Li activated [Swiftness] and prepared to respond.

• Ye Li flew over Tianqi City and challenged the Li Kingdom’s geniuses to come fight him.
• Yuwen Kuo vowed to make Tianqi City Ye Li’s burial ground and called for warriors to attack.
• Yuwen Tao, Yuwen Yong, and Yuwen Po confronted Ye Li and taunted him over his defeat of Yuwen Gan.
• Yuwen Tao, Yuwen Yong, and Yuwen Po launched a coordinated attack from three directions.
• Ye Li activated [Swiftness], making the attacks seem slow and leaving him able to evade.

Ye Li perfected the Nine Prisons Demon-Slaying Sword and chose the Storm Demon-Slaying Sword trait, then used its stacking speed boosts to overwhelm the three Yuwen fighters. After killing Yuwen Tao and gaining a major increase in strength, Ye Li turned his attention to Yuwen Yong and Yuwen Po.

• Ye Li perfected the Nine Prisons Demon-Slaying Sword and selected the Storm Demon-Slaying Sword trait, which increased his speed with each sword strike.
• Ye Li accelerated to over 100 times the speed of sound and wounded Yuwen Tao while his attacks stacked the trait’s speed boosts.
• Ye Li reached 160 times the speed of sound, evaded the three Yuwen fighters’ combined attack, and unleashed his stored sword intents to kill Yuwen Tao.
• Ye Li absorbed part of Yuwen Tao’s physical strength through the Azure Dragon Deliverance Method’s Dragon Joy effect, raising his combat power to 63,158.
• Ye Li locked his killing intent onto Yuwen Yong and challenged the two surviving fighters as his speed reached 164 times the speed of sound.

Ye Li killed Yuwen Tao and Yuwen Yong, absorbing Yuwen Yong’s life-origin energy and raising his maximum strength to 113,158. He then faced Yuwen Po, whose forbidden technique and [Purple Wisdom Unique] entry amplified his power, and challenged him to fight.

• Ye Li killed Yuwen Tao with a single sword strike, then faced Yuwen Yong and Yuwen Po.
• Yuwen Yong compressed and hardened the surrounding air to restrain Ye Li, while Yuwen Po unleashed his forbidden technique and summoned thousands of blood blades.
• Ye Li moved through Yuwen Yong’s force field, severed his arm, and killed him with a strike to the forehead.
• The Azure Dragon Deliverance Method’s “Dragon Joy” effect converted part of Yuwen Yong’s strength into life-origin energy, raising Ye Li’s maximum strength to 113,158.
• Ye Li shattered Yuwen Po’s blood blades and urged him to fight, and Yuwen Po answered with a colossal punch.

Ye Li defeated Yuwen Po, confronted Emperor Yuwen Kuo, and challenged Li Kingdom’s martial artists below the Xiantian realm to fight him for three days. He spent the first day killing every challenger from atop Xuanwu Gate while cultivating, as the capital watched in fear.

• Yuwen Po’s strength reached its limit as his intelligence fell to zero, and Ye Li prepared to kill him before Emperor Yuwen Kuo intervened.
• Ye Li told Yuwen Kuo that Li Kingdom had brought the conflict upon itself, then warned him that attacking would risk the Immortal Sect’s wrath.
• Ye Li announced that he would wait atop Xuanwu Gate for three days and fight any Li Kingdom martial artist below the Xiantian realm.
• Li Kingdom’s citizens gathered as an old Hua Gang Realm general and waves of other martial artists charged Ye Li, who killed them with swift sword strikes.
• Ye Li continued cultivating while defending his position through the day, and his Azure Dragon Deliverance Method reached its third layer, raising Dragon Joy’s share of devoured power to 31%.

Ye Li broke Li Kingdom’s Black Tortoise Sea-Suppressing Array and spent three days cultivating on its ramparts, where he perfected the Azure Dragon Deliverance Method and chose the Blue · Dragon Power Joy trait. As his strength surged, reports of his challenge reached Cangwu Kingdom, whose officials doubted that he could have risen so quickly.

• Ye Li shattered Li Kingdom’s Black Tortoise Sea-Suppressing Array with one step, badly injuring the Pulse Condensation Realm martial artists who formed it.
• Ye Li continued to defeat challengers and cultivate on the ramparts as Dragon Joy grew stronger and increased the strength he had inherited from Yuwen Yong.
• Ye Li perfected the Azure Dragon Deliverance Method’s third layer and chose [Blue · Dragon Power Joy] from its three trait options.
• The new trait let Ye Li perfectly absorb Yuwen Yong’s 180,000-times Body Tempering Perfection strength, and Ye Li advanced to Late Post-Heaven with two Bone Apertures opened.
• In Cangwu Kingdom, the Grand Preceptor and officials discussed reports of Ye Li’s deeds and rejected the suggestion that he possessed an Orange Trait.

After news broke of a possible Grandmaster Secret Realm in Xia Kingdom, the Cangwu State Preceptor rushed there to investigate. In Ji Kingdom, Wei Wanxi continued training with the aim of killing Ye Li and noticed a new mission concerning Xia Kingdom’s secret realm.

• The Cangwu State Preceptor dismissed concerns about Ye Li after learning he had defeated Yuwen Po, and neighboring kingdoms chose not to provoke him.
• A burning spirit talisman reported a suspected Grandmaster inheritance in Xia Kingdom, prompting the Cangwu State Preceptor to fly there and verify the news.
• Wei Wanxi broke through to Gang Transformation after months of cultivation and resolved to kill Ye Li when she was sent to Xia Kingdom.
• Wei Wanxi noticed a new follow-up mission about Xia Kingdom’s falling national destiny and a possible Grandmaster Secret Realm.

Wei Wanxi accepted a solo follow-up mission in Xia Kingdom while using fantasies of defeating Ye Li to fuel her cultivation. After three days at Li Kingdom's capital, Ye Li challenged Emperor Yuwen Kuo to a duel in one month and departed to return to Xia Kingdom and strengthen himself.

• Wei Wanxi accepted the mission concerning Xia Kingdom's falling national destiny and a Grandmaster Secret Realm, driven by her obsession with Ye Li.
• Wei Wanxi used Delusional Obsession Visualization to imagine humiliating Ye Li, turning her resentment into motivation for cultivation.
• After three days of cultivation, Ye Li judged that he could defeat an ordinary blank-slate Xiantian Realm expert but was not yet ready to fight Yuwen Kuo.
• Ye Li challenged Li Emperor Yuwen Kuo to meet him three hundred li beyond Xia Kingdom's imperial city in thirty days, and Yuwen Kuo accepted.
• Ye Li left Li Kingdom to return to Xia Kingdom and consolidate his strength, while information in Qing State triggered Cause-Tracing and Effect-Tracking and emerged from the Heaven-Monitoring Tower.

The Heaven-Monitoring Tower’s evaluators discovered Ye Li’s extraordinary speed and added him to the candidate list for the Heavenly Pride Ranking, while rumors spread of a Five Regions Prodigy Grand Competition. In the Xia Kingdom’s Capital City, Wei Wanxi arrived intent on revenge but learned that Ye Li had been in the Li Kingdom for three days and was defying the Li Emperor.

• Heaven-Monitoring Tower evaluators reviewed Ye Li’s report and footage, noting his 79,000-meter speed despite his modest strength and late-stage Post-Heaven Realm cultivation.
• The evaluation group added Ye Li to the candidate list for the next Heavenly Pride Ranking and learned he was eighteen and from the Xia Kingdom.
• The evaluators discussed rumors that rising talents from all Five Regions would gather for a supervised Prodigy Grand Competition.
• Wei Wanxi appeared in the Xia Kingdom’s Capital City, checked her mission, and set out to avenge her humiliation.
• Wei Wanxi overheard that Ye Li had been in the Li Kingdom for three days and that even the Li Emperor could not deal with him.

Wei Wanxi learned that Ye Li had become far stronger than she expected and feared he would find her before she could complete her mission. At the Xia Kingdom imperial palace, Cangwu State Preceptor revealed that only young Post-Heaven Realm martial artists could enter the Grandmaster Secret Realm, prompting foreign Xiantian experts to gather their candidates.

• Wei Wanxi heard people in the capital praise Ye Li for defeating Li Kingdom’s geniuses and realized he had surpassed her despite her arduous cultivation.
• Wei Wanxi recalled Ye Li’s threats, feared being caught by him, and decided to complete her mission before he returned from Li Kingdom.
• Wei Wanxi located the Grandmaster Secret Realm, whose entrance had appeared above Zhengde Gate inside the imperial palace.
• Cangwu State Preceptor and Xia Kingdom’s Du Xiaoyuan met as Xiantian Realm experts from neighboring kingdoms arrived to claim the inheritance.
• Cangwu State Preceptor explained that only Post-Heaven Realm martial artists under fifty could enter, so the foreign experts departed to gather their young candidates.

After the Grandmaster inheritance appeared above Xia Kingdom, prodigies and powerhouses from neighboring kingdoms rushed toward Xia Capital to claim it. The capital descended into chaos as foreign competitors brutalized its people, while Ye Li hurried back, surprised by the gathering forces.

• The Cangwu State Preceptor ordered the Seven Stars of Heaven and Dragon-Tiger Twin Guards to enter Xia Kingdom, while Yunshui's emperor dispatched Shui Yue and Shui Hua to secure the inheritance.
• Shen Fuyao worried that far more competitors had arrived than her master had predicted, and Wei Wanxi disguised herself near Zhengde Gate to avoid Ye Li.
• Shi Poshan demanded that Xia Kingdom's warriors clear the area outside Zhengde Gate, then struck them with a shock wave that sent them flying and coughing blood.
• Shi Poshan saw a figure race across the capital, demolishing buildings in its wake, then witnessed a giant drag a steel ship through the eastern streets while a richly dressed young man watched from its deck.
• Ye Li noticed powerful auras traveling toward Xia Kingdom and wondered what had happened there.

Ye Li returned to find the Xia Kingdom’s capital in ruins as foreign prodigies fought unchecked, then confronted two of them and ordered everyone to leave. He left the city’s gathered warriors facing his threat after killing one prodigy and crushing another with a single blow each.

• Ye Li sensed many powerful martial artists heading toward the capital and hurried back instead of visiting Guangming.
• Foreign prodigies drawn by the Grandmaster Secret Realm caused widespread destruction, while Wei Wanxi rescued Su Xingcheng and Du Xiaoyuan failed to stop Li Chenguang and Jiang Zhen from fighting.
• Ye Li reached the capital, confirmed Jiang Xiyue was safe, and unleashed his domineering pressure across the city.
• Ye Li struck Li Chenguang into the ground and killed Jiang Zhen with a punch, silencing the capital.
• Ye Li drew his sword and ordered everyone to get out of the capital.

Ye Li returned to the Capital City and unleashed a devastating sword attack on the foreign prodigies who tried to kill him. After destroying the attackers and leaving the city in ruins, he asked why everyone had gathered there.

• Ye Li ordered the foreign martial artists to leave the Capital City, provoking Shi Poshan and dozens of prodigies to attack him.
• Ye Li drew his sword and used its golden light to kill the prodigies who had launched the siege, while wounding others who tried to flee.
• Xiantian Realm experts failed to stop Ye Li and could only protect their own disciples as he swept across the battlefield.
• Ye Li sheathed his sword and, seeing the ruined city and terrified survivors, asked what had happened and why everyone had gathered.

Ye Li slaughtered the prodigies who challenged him, intimidated the furious Xiantian experts, and learned that a Grandmaster's secret realm had appeared in the imperial palace. As the realm's barrier began to split open, he vanished to eliminate possible threats before its opening.

• Ye Li's speed and inherited strength let him cut through the Capital's prodigies, killing many and pushing his physical power to two hundred thousand times the norm.
• The Xiantian experts from neighboring nations demanded an explanation, but Ye Li threatened them and dared the Chuyuan Kingdom expert to strike him; the man backed down.
• Ye Li asked Du Xiaoyuan why the Capital was crowded, and Du Xiaoyuan explained that a Grandmaster's legacy had appeared in the imperial palace.
• Ye Li considered the secret realm and Xi Yue's safety, then dissolved into the wind to remove potential threats before the realm opened.
• The Cangwu State Preceptor praised Du Xiaoyuan for producing Ye Li, while the other nations' Xiantian experts treated their wounded prodigies and prepared to enter the unstable secret realm.

Ye Li returned Jiang Xiyue to Guangming, then hurried back to the Capital City as the Grandmaster Secret Realm opened. He entered the realm and became trapped in its Heart Inquiry trial, while hostile kingdoms plotted to ambush him after he emerged.

• Wei Wanxi realized Ye Li had grown far stronger than her and resolved to keep her identity hidden, while Ye Li recognized her behind her mask.
• Ye Li carried Jiang Xiyue to Guangming, where he briefly reunited with Zheng Tong before rushing back to the Capital City.
• The spatial rift opened into a portal, and Post-Heaven cultivators, including Wei Wanxi, charged into the Grandmaster Secret Realm.
• Ye Li entered the realm and, like the other prodigies, was ensnared by its first trial, Heart Inquiry.
• Xiantian experts plotted to have the kingdoms send hundreds or thousands of Post-Heaven cultivators to kill Ye Li after he left the secret realm.

Inside the Grandmaster Secret Realm’s Heart Inquiry Illusion Realm, Ye Li and the other prodigies relived ordinary lives with their memories and talents suppressed. Lie Yang endured a century of failure before awakening, while Wei Wanxi and Shen Fuyao quickly saw through the illusion; Ye Li’s preserved martial insights let him break the trial by demonstrating a perfect Azure Dragon Force.

• Lie Yang lived an entire ordinary lifetime in the illusion, accepted his failure at cultivation, and broke free at the moment of his death.
• Lie Yang awoke outside the secret realm with his youth and strength restored, overwhelmed by the century of despair he had experienced.
• Wei Wanxi and Shen Fuyao recognized that their lives in the illusion were false and shattered its disguise.
• When Feng Yue challenged Ye Li, Ye Li’s ingrained martial insights let him perform the Azure Dragon Force perfectly.
• Zheng Tong made Ye Li the Azure Dragon Gang’s young leader and gave him a century ginseng pill, which Ye Li refined to develop force in one day.

Ye Li spent what felt like a century enjoying an idealized life inside the Heart Inquiry Illusion Realm before recognizing it as false and waking. He discovered that practicing in the illusion had perfected the Great Nirvana Heart Scenery, leaving him with three azure trait enhancements to choose from.

• Ye Li transformed his bone structure, rapidly advanced to the late Post-Heaven Realm, and built an extravagant life inside the illusion.
• After a hundred years in the illusion, Ye Li finally sensed that something was wrong and chose to leave.
• Ye Li woke on the Fluorescent Grassland and saw that the trial had eliminated more than eighty percent of the entrants.
• Ye Li checked his panel and discovered that his time in the illusion had triggered cultivation records and perfected the Great Nirvana Heart Scenery.
• Ye Li focused on the three azure trait enhancement options, [Monthly Ticket] and [Recommendation Ticket] among them.

After completing Great Nirvana Heart Scenery, Ye Li entered a Grandmaster’s crumbling Grotto-Heaven and learned that its glowing grassland was made of Age-Reversing Primordial Sand. The prodigies discovered a colossal palace in the distance and hurried toward it, suspecting it marked the second trial.

• Ye Li reviewed the three mental traits granted by Great Nirvana Heart Scenery and postponed choosing one.
• Ye Li and the other prodigies entered a vast Grotto-Heaven and saw that cracks were spreading across its sky as the world neared collapse.
• Shen Fuyao identified the glowing ground as Age-Reversing Primordial Sand, which temporarily reversed a person’s body, memories, soul, and cultivation.
• The martial artists began collecting the sand, and Ye Li stored several handfuls in Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlit Night.
• Ye Li and the others spotted a towering crimson-gold palace on the horizon and rushed toward it, believing it might hold the second trial.

Ye Li and five other martial artists endured the Grotto-Heaven’s crushing pressure and reached the palace, where they were challenged to master a martial art. The Dragon Maiden awakened, recognized Ye Li’s Azure Dragon Deliverance Method and several extraordinary traits among the entrants, and saw a chance to escape.

• The pressure around the palace intensified according to each martial artist’s innate constitution, and most of the entrants were crushed before they could reach it.
• Wei Wanxi and Shen Fuyao led the survivors, followed by the black-robed masked figure and Ye Li; Shui Yue collapsed near the palace, leaving six people at its doors.
• The palace doors revealed that the entrants had to master a martial art, and countless techniques appeared for them to choose from.
• Wei Wanxi selected the Heavenheart Self-Will Art, while Ye Li spotted the Azure Dragon Deliverance Method he had already mastered.
• The Dragon Maiden awakened inside the hall, inspected the six entrants, recognized their extraordinary traits and Ye Li’s cultivation method, and realized they might help her escape.

The Dragon Maiden awakened in the Grandmaster Secret Realm and examined the six visitors, searching for a suitable vessel for her twin-lotus rebirth. She settled on Wei Wanxi, whose obsession involved Ye Li, while Ye Li chose the Weapon-Limiting Mystic Art instead of the Dragon Maiden’s Azure Dragon Deliverance Method.

• The Dragon Maiden emerged from the palace and found that Ye Li’s [Life Concealment] trait hid his traits from her detection.
• The Dragon Maiden examined Ye Li’s powerful body and considered possessing him, but decided to inspect the others first.
• The Dragon Maiden recognized Wei Wanxi’s [Dao Heart Clarity] and sensed that Wei Wanxi wanted to humiliate her mortal enemy, Ye Li, while Ye Li’s obsession was to mess with Wei Wanxi for a lifetime.
• Wei Wanxi chose the Heavenheart Self-Will Art, and the other four visitors selected cultivation arts before sitting down to study them.
• Ye Li weighed choosing the Azure Dragon Deliverance Method against selecting a more immediately useful martial art and chose the Weapon-Limiting Mystic Art.
• The Dragon Maiden reacted with surprise that Ye Li had chosen the Weapon-Limiting Mystic Art, which she herself had struggled to master.