Recaps

Ye Li rapidly comprehended Weapon-Limiting Mystic Art and traded away ten foundational martial techniques for a threefold increase in strength and true qi. The Dragon Maiden, stunned by his speed and power, reconsidered him as a candidate for her twin-born flesh.

• The Dragon Maiden expected Wei Wanxi to master Heavenheart Self-Will Art quickly while doubting Ye Li could learn Weapon-Limiting Mystic Art.
• Ye Li used [World-Shocking Wisdom] to comprehend Weapon-Limiting Mystic Art almost instantly and restrained the Nine Chapters Fist Manual, increasing his strength by 20%.
• Ye Li restrained nine more foundational techniques, raising his physical strength and true qi to three times their original levels.
• The Dragon Maiden embraced and examined Ye Li while he remained absorbed in cultivation, realizing his hidden trait enabled extraordinary comprehension.
• The Dragon Maiden became possessive of Ye Li and reconsidered him as a candidate for her twin-born flesh.

Ye Li used the Weapon-Limiting Mystic Art to open the Scarlet Gold doors and enter the Grandmaster Grotto-Heaven’s core, while the Dragon Maiden secretly accelerated Wei Wanxi’s cultivation and set a trap for her. Wei Wanxi entered next and was immediately attacked by invisible blades and threads, forcing her to flee in a fixed direction.

• Ye Li finished comprehending the Weapon-Limiting Mystic Art, opened the Scarlet Gold doors, and entered the Grotto-Heaven’s core.
• The Dragon Maiden weighed choosing Ye Li or Wei Wanxi and decided to secretly help Wei Wanxi comprehend the Heavenheart Self-Will Art while planting a hidden weakness in her.
• Wei Wanxi mastered the Heavenheart Self-Will Art and entered through the Scarlet Gold doors into the chaotic core space.
• The Dragon Maiden turned the starlight into invisible blades and threads that attacked Wei Wanxi as soon as she arrived.
• Wei Wanxi dodged the attacks and raced away, but the blades and threads drove her toward a fixed direction.

Ye Li and Wei Wanxi were caught in the Dragon Maiden’s spatial trap, which forced them into close contact and bound them together. As Ye Li carried Wei Wanxi through the attacks, she struggled to hide her identity while enduring the effects of the tampered Heavenheart Self-Will Art.

• The Dragon Maiden’s spatial blades and threads attacked Ye Li and Wei Wanxi, driving them into the same deadly crossfire.
• Wei Wanxi collided with Ye Li, and he accidentally grabbed her chest as they lost their balance.
• The threads bound Ye Li and Wei Wanxi together, triggering an intense reaction in Wei Wanxi because the Dragon Maiden had tampered with her Heavenheart Self-Will Art.
• The Dragon Maiden appeared and resumed the attack, teasing the pair about her matchmaking.
• Ye Li dodged through the chaos while carrying the bound Wei Wanxi, who feared he would discover her identity.

Ye Li and Wei Wanxi escaped the hall’s blades and threads, then argued and teased each other while examining the strange inscriptions in their new chamber. Wei Wanxi hoped to part from Ye Li for good, but the Dragon Maiden misread his growing obsession and decided to encourage it.

• Ye Li carried Wei Wanxi through the hall’s traps and crashed with her through a crimson-gold gate, where the blades and threads vanished.
• Ye Li and Wei Wanxi traded accusations and insults, and he eventually freed himself from the threads while she concealed her reaction to their closeness.
• Wei Wanxi said they should never meet again, but Ye Li teased her about marrying her as a concubine and tried to remove her mask.
• Ye Li examined the runes carved into the hall’s walls, while Wei Wanxi sensed that pressing them would reveal a great boon.
• The Dragon Maiden mistook Ye Li’s resentment for desire and decided to grant what she believed was his wish.

Wei Wanxi triggered a rune that filled her with a powerful desire, but Ye Li resisted her advances and exposed the Dragon Maiden’s manipulation. The Dragon Maiden appeared and asked why he had discovered her, while Ye Li held the exhausted Wei Wanxi and explained his reasoning.

• Wei Wanxi touched a water-shaped rune and obtained a Marrow Cleansing Bone-Washing Pill from the wall.
• The Dragon Maiden secretly altered a scarlet rune, causing pink mist to overwhelm Wei Wanxi with desire and drive her toward Ye Li.
• Ye Li remained unmoved despite Wei Wanxi’s advances and called on the hidden senior to reveal herself and restore Wei Wanxi.
• The Dragon Maiden appeared and suppressed the mist’s effects, allowing Wei Wanxi to regain her clarity and collapse into Ye Li’s arms.
• Ye Li explained how the suspicious trials and the way events followed his wishes led him to suspect manipulation, then told the Dragon Maiden that her appearance confirmed his guess.
• The Dragon Maiden smiled and urged Ye Li to continue and satisfy his obsession.

The Dragon Maiden revealed that she intended to possess Ye Li and replace him, forcing him and Wei Wanxi to choose between surrendering and dying. As they waited in the hall, Ye Li asked Wei Wanxi to let him see her panties.

• Ye Li explained how the Dragon Maiden had manipulated Wei Wanxi, then asked why she had arranged their encounter.
• The Dragon Maiden said she wanted Ye Li's body so she could share it with him, consume his soul and true qi, and eventually replace him.
• The Dragon Maiden demanded that Ye Li fulfill his obsession and threatened to possess Wei Wanxi or bury them both in the ancient coffin.
• After the Dragon Maiden vanished, Wei Wanxi asked Ye Li what he planned to do, and he said they had no way out.
• Wei Wanxi considered sacrificing herself to save Ye Li, but Ye Li instead asked to see her panties.

Ye Li revealed his [World-Shocking Wisdom] trait to the Dragon Maiden and demonstrated that he possessed numerous other traits, leaving her overwhelmed by greed. As the Dragon Maiden seized him, Ye Li concealed the trait’s true abilities and waited for a chance to turn the tables.

• Wei Wanxi reluctantly lifted her skirt for Ye Li, then angrily lowered it and called him a lecher.
• Ye Li and Wei Wanxi each asked the Dragon Maiden to spare the other, revealing that both had agreed to her proposal.
• The Dragon Maiden expelled Wei Wanxi and demanded that Ye Li prove his trait surpassed Wei Wanxi’s [Dao Heart Clarity].
• Ye Li privately disclosed that his gold-grade trait was [World-Shocking Wisdom] and claimed it let him cultivate martial arts quickly and copy other traits.
• Ye Li revealed the effects of his numerous traits, and the Dragon Maiden embraced him greedily while he concealed his trait’s specific abilities and waited for a chance to act.

The Dragon Maiden discovered Ye Li possessed more than ten unique traits and decided to keep him for herself. After she sent Wei Wanxi out of the secret realm, Ye Li and the Dragon Maiden remained behind as he faced his impending possession.

• The Dragon Maiden examined Ye Li and found that he had more than ten traits, making his potential as a future Martial Saint extraordinary.
• Wei Wanxi worried that Ye Li might die and tried to offer herself in exchange for his release, but the Dragon Maiden rejected her.
• Ye Li told Wei Wanxi to live, grow stronger, and defeat him before the Dragon Maiden completed her possession of his body.
• Wei Wanxi swore to save Ye Li before the Dragon Maiden sent her out of the secret realm.
• Ye Li asked the Dragon Maiden to spare Wei Wanxi and care for his family, wife, and master after taking his body; she agreed.

The Dragon Maiden explained how she planned to use the Heaven-Stealing Day-Swapping Grand Formation and the Age-Reversing Primordial Sand to weaken herself and seize Ye Li’s body while deceiving Heaven and Earth. As she activated the formation, the sand began pouring into the Scarlet Gold Hall and restoring her to Grandmaster power, leaving Ye Li bound as her ritual began.

• The Dragon Maiden told Ye Li that the hall’s formation would bind him, reverse her remnant soul to its peak Grandmaster state, and let her seize his body as her power declined.
• The Dragon Maiden revealed that she had used Xia Kingdom’s fortune and karmic links to find Ye Li, whose traits she now regretted discovering too late.
• The Dragon Maiden activated the Heaven-Stealing Day-Swapping Grand Formation, imprisoning Ye Li and beginning the ritual.
• Shen Fuyao and the other three people outside the hall felt the ground shake and watched the Age-Reversing Primordial Sand rush toward the sealed gate.
• As the sand vanished, the Secret Realm’s ground collapsed, forcing Shen Fuyao and the others to flee.
• The sand poured onto the Dragon Maiden’s remnant soul, restoring her to Grandmaster power, and she prepared to activate the formation before her strength faded.

Ye Li used [Blue · Enemy and Self Share the Same Origin] to turn the Dragon Maiden’s possession attempt into a mutual struggle for their bodies. The Dragon Maiden awoke in Ye Li’s body and believed she had won, but a female voice revealed that Ye Li was still alive.

• The Dragon Maiden unleashed the Divine Light of Possession to erase Ye Li’s soul and take his body.
• Ye Li’s [Blue · Enemy and Self Share the Same Origin] trait reflected the fatal soul attack back at the Dragon Maiden, creating a two-way body-seizing struggle.
• Ye Li and the Dragon Maiden endured the chaotic contest as the Dragon Maiden’s stronger Grandmaster soul threatened to wear him down first.
• Ye Li shifted the trajectory of the possession light, and the struggle ended with the Dragon Maiden awakening in Ye Li’s body.
• The Dragon Maiden celebrated what she thought was Ye Li’s death, but a female voice told her that Ye Li was still alive.

Ye Li reversed the possession at the last moment, taking over the Dragon Maiden’s powerful body while trapping her soul in his own. As they fought inside the Scarlet Gold Hall, Ye Li waited for the Dragon Maiden’s soul to weaken along with his body’s regression.

• Ye Li used the chaotic possession divine light and [Enemy and Self Share the Same Origin] to swap bodies with the Dragon Maiden.
• Ye Li’s soul recovered inside the Dragon Maiden’s Grandmaster-level body, while the Dragon Maiden’s soul remained in Ye Li’s weakening body.
• The Dragon Maiden dismissed Ye Li’s soul attack and claimed her Grandmaster-level soul could destroy him.
• Ye Li struck the Dragon Maiden’s soul through his original body and taunted her as they fought.
• The Dragon Maiden pinned Ye Li down and battered him inside the shaking Scarlet Gold Hall.
• Ye Li endured the beating while waiting for his body’s regression to weaken the Dragon Maiden’s soul enough for him to reclaim it.

Ye Li used the Dragon Maiden’s declining body and Grandmaster-level mind to devise techniques that let him drive her soul into hiding and reclaim his own body. The Dragon Maiden ambushed him as soon as he returned, but Ye Li activated his newly created Yin-Yang Spirit-Calming Art, leaving the outcome of their soul battle unresolved.

• Ye Li fought the Dragon Maiden while using her body’s regression to devise the Flying Soul Soul-Seizing Heart Sutra and the Yin-Yang Spirit-Calming Art.
• Ye Li struck the Dragon Maiden’s soul with the Great Nirvana Heart Scenery, forcing her to retreat into a defensive state within his sea of consciousness.
• As the Grotto-Heaven Realm collapsed, Ye Li kicked Shen Fuyao and the others out, then waited until the Dragon Maiden’s strength had fallen to early Xiantian Realm.
• Ye Li used the Flying Soul Soul-Seizing Heart Sutra to return his soul to his own body and knock the Dragon Maiden’s body unconscious.
• The Dragon Maiden emerged from hiding and attacked Ye Li’s soul, but he activated the Yin-Yang Spirit-Calming Art.

Ye Li used the Yin-Yang Spirit-Calming Art to survive the Dragon Maiden's attacks, but the age-reversing primordial sand made him regress and lose consciousness once their realms matched. As the Dragon Maiden began implanting a slave seal, Ye Li's Post-Heaven Realm appeared to defend him, revealing that Ye Li's cultivation had not regressed and striking the Dragon Maiden with Martial Saint-level power.

• Ye Li used the Yin-Yang Spirit-Calming Art to draw power from the Dragon Maiden and strengthen his damaged soul while enduring her counterattacks.
• The Dragon Maiden's realm fell to the late Post-Heaven Realm, triggering Ye Li's synchronized regression and causing him to lose consciousness.
• The Dragon Maiden began merging with Ye Li and planting a slave seal in his consciousness.
• Ye Li's Post-Heaven maiden appeared and ordered the Dragon Maiden to release her master's body.
• The Post-Heaven maiden struck the Dragon Maiden with everlasting attainment, while the Dragon Maiden realized Ye Li's realm and power had not regressed.

Ye Li survived the Dragon Maiden’s attempted possession, but their struggle left their lives bound together through matching slave seals. As Ye Li tried to kill her by using the Yin-Yang Spirit-Calming Art despite the shared pain, Post-Heaven warriors surrounded the Grandmaster Grotto-Heaven, waiting to ambush him.

• Post-Heaven and Body Tempering beat the weakened Dragon Maiden’s remnant soul inside Ye Li’s consciousness.
• Ye Li regained consciousness and saw that his realm and cultivation-method progress had increased during his struggle with the Dragon Maiden.
• The Dragon Maiden revealed that her possession had failed and that she now lived inside Ye Li’s body as a parasite.
• Ye Li discovered that harming the Dragon Maiden caused him pain, while she concealed that their slave seals had bound their lives together.
• Ye Li endured the pain and used the Yin-Yang Spirit-Calming Art against the Dragon Maiden as Post-Heaven warriors surrounded the grotto-heaven, ready to kill him when he emerged.

Ye Li endured the Dragon Maiden’s remnant soul while the kingdoms’ experts gathered outside the collapsing secret realm, convinced that he had obtained its inheritance and determined to kill him. The Dragon Maiden revealed that the grotto still held abundant Post-Heaven resources, leaving Ye Li stunned by the treasure that remained.

• Xiantian experts from several kingdoms surrounded Xia Kingdom’s capital with a force of Post-Heaven martial artists, while Ye Ganli threatened Du Xiaoyuan and the other Xia Kingdom experts into standing aside.
• Failed entrants emerged from the Grandmaster Secret Realm carrying Age-Reversing Primordial Sand, and the Cangwu Dragon Guard’s account convinced the gathered experts that Ye Li and a masked woman had obtained the final inheritance.
• Ye Li remained inside the Scarlet Gold Hall as the secret realm collapsed, repeatedly using the Yin-Yang Spirit-Calming Art on the Dragon Maiden’s remnant soul.
• The Dragon Maiden offered to let Ye Li cultivate with the grotto’s remaining Post-Heaven resources, explaining that she had sold the higher-level resources to obtain Age-Reversing Primordial Sand.
• Ye Li inspected the remaining treasure and was stunned by how abundant it was.

Ye Li inventoried the Scarlet Gold Hall’s enormous treasury, selected rare manuals and resources, and began using pills and lingzhi to break through to the Complete Post-Heaven Realm. The chapter ended with him attempting to open all 27 remaining skull Bone Apertures at once, horrifying the Dragon Maiden.

• Ye Li discovered the treasury contained vast stores of pills, lingzhi, and hundreds of priceless cultivation manuals.
• Ye Li chose 100 Heaven-Mending Pills and 1,000 stalks of Ten-Thousand-Year Lingzhi, planning to improve his aptitude and reach the Complete Post-Heaven Realm.
• The Dragon Maiden explained that she had siphoned national destiny from tens of thousands of small kingdoms, reducing their chances of producing good Traits, while Epic Traits remained unaffected.
• Ye Li began absorbing the pills and lingzhi and directed their energy toward the 27 unopened Bone Apertures in his skull.
• Ye Li attacked all 27 Bone Apertures simultaneously, leaving the Dragon Maiden alarmed about the danger to his sea of consciousness.

Ye Li opened all 29 Bone Apertures at once and reached Post-Heaven Realm Perfection, astonishing the Dragon Maiden. He gained a purple trait that let him transfer enhancement effects between traits of the same tier, and began testing it.

• Ye Li forced open all 29 Bone Apertures simultaneously, overwhelming the Post-Heaven Realm within his sea of consciousness.
• Ye Li completed a grand circulation through all 206 bones and 362 acupoints, reaching Post-Heaven Realm Perfection.
• The Dragon Maiden watched Ye Li’s rapid breakthrough and wondered whether he was a Martial Saint reincarnated.
• Ye Li found the purple trait [Gift of Post-Heaven] on his panel, which could transfer trait enhancements between traits of the same tier.
• Ye Li used [Gift of Post-Heaven] with [Gift of Body Tempering] to reduce [White: Strongman] from +21 to +18 and make enhancement signs available on his other white-tier traits.

After reaching the Complete Post-Heaven Realm, Ye Li gained the Azure Dragon Deliverance Method’s Dragon Coil effect and learned from the Dragon Maiden that he could make the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking. He returned to the Xia Kingdom’s imperial palace, where hundreds of Half-Step Xiantian martial artists had prepared a killing formation to ambush him.

• Ye Li shifted trait points from Strongman to Dragon Body, then discovered Dragon Coil could revive him in a near-death state with doubled reinforcement for fifteen minutes.
• The Dragon Maiden judged Ye Li strong enough to rank in the top 100 of the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking and explained the political landscape, including the Ji Kingdom’s merit-based advancement.
• Ye Li rejected the Dragon Maiden’s offer to teleport him to a distant country and asked her to send him to the Xia Kingdom’s Grotto-Heaven exit.
• The Dragon Maiden absorbed the Scarlet Gold Hall into Ye Li’s soul, and Ye Li was transported out as the collapsing Grotto-Heaven’s mysterious black-robed woman gathered the scattered Age-Reversing Primordial Sand.
• Ye Li appeared outside the Xia Kingdom’s capital imperial palace and found himself surrounded by hundreds of Half-Step Xiantian martial artists using a killing formation.
• The ambushers used Hard to Move an Inch to restrain Ye Li while Multiplication and Indestructible Golden Body strengthened the trait’s bearer.

The martial artists used age-reversing primordial sand on Ye Li, but its power restored his previous incarnation, Saint Ye, with Ye Li’s memories and strength. Believing he had transmigrated, Ye Li confronted the martial artists as they tried to seal and capture him.

• A Pulse Condensation Realm martial artist delayed Ye Li long enough for the Xiantian Realm martial artists to detonate age-reversing primordial sand around him.
• The sand reversed Ye Li through childhood and into his previous incarnation, a rainbow-haired young man known as Saint Ye or Prison Ye.
• The sand’s effect ended, and Ye Li awoke with memories of his former life alongside Ye Li’s cultivation, abilities, and overwhelming power.
• Ye Li realized he had transmigrated and excitedly explored the powers he had inherited.
• A heavily armored martial artist attacked Ye Li, but Ye Li shattered the martial artist’s true qi with a casual shake of his arm.
• As the martial artists prepared to seal him, Ye Li charged fearlessly into their multicolored true qi.

Ye Li unleashed a devastating beam against the encircling martial artists, destroying most of them and reducing the imperial palace to a lava pit. After discovering that defeating enemies doubled his strength, he turned his attention to the Xiantian Realm experts watching from the sky.

• Hundreds of Pulse Condensation Realm martial artists attacked Ye Li from every direction, and he answered with a scarlet-gold Godzilla Plasma Burst Cannon that vaporized most of them and devastated the imperial palace.
• Ye Li emerged from the crater and slaughtered the surviving Purple Trait Post-Heaven martial artists with his eightfold time effect.
• Ye Li realized Dragon Joy had doubled his physical attributes after an enemy's defeat and recognized that he had a Killing Book.
• Ye Li looked toward the Xiantian Realm experts in the sky and prepared to kill them to gain more experience.

Ye Li attacked Ye Ganli and the gathered Xiantian experts, who answered with a coordinated assault that devastated much of Capital City. He pierced the armored First-Transformation Xiantian expert’s head, but the man regenerated and revealed that the wound was only superficial.

• Ye Li drew his purple sword and broke the Xiantian experts’ agreement by attacking them.
• Ye Ganli urged the others to suppress Ye Li, and the Xiantian experts joined their powers against him.
• Ye Li used Space Rend and his amplified speed to withstand their attacks and evade Ye Ganli’s World-Purifying Lotus, which obliterated nearly half of Capital City’s core.
• Ye Li forced his way through the experts’ defenses and pierced the armored First-Transformation Xiantian expert’s skull with the Storm Demon-Slaying Sword.
• The armored man regenerated, trapped Ye Li’s sword in his flesh, and explained that Xiantian vitality could remake the body.

Ye Li faced a deadly siege after his purple longsword shattered, but revealed that his greatest weapon was his soul and unleashed a sword art with his bare fingers. His Great Nirvana Heart Scenery overwhelmed the Xiantian Realm attackers, whose souls began to collapse as they voiced his forced praise of Genshin.

• Ye Ganli and the other Xiantian Realm experts saw Ye Li's sword shatter and launched a combined assault against him.
• Ye Li relied on the soul he had strengthened through his experiences with the Dragon Maiden and raised his fingers like a sword.
• Ye Li unleashed Great Nirvana Heart Scenery, freezing the attackers' movements and minds with a vision of cosmic beauty and blankness.
• The heavily armored giant said, "Genshin is awesome!!!" and died as his soul was destroyed.
• The white-haired old crone and other first-turn Xiantian experts also died after being compelled to praise Genshin, while Ye Ganli and the second-turn experts resisted longer.

Ye Li annihilated the First-Turn Xiantian cultivators with his Genshin sword strike and absorbed their power, then killed Ye Ganli with overwhelming speed and strength. The remaining Second-Turn cultivators fled as Ye Li pursued them.

• Ye Li's Genshin sword strike killed the First-Turn Xiantian cultivators after they praised Genshin, terrifying the survivors.
• [Dragon Joy] absorbed the dead cultivators' power and greatly increased Ye Li's strength.
• Ye Ganli and the other Second-Turn cultivators resisted the sword's mental assault by declaring that Genshin was not awesome, then prepared to kill Ye Li.
• Ye Li activated [Swiftness · Eightfold Speed] and attacked Ye Ganli before he could defend himself.
• Ye Li killed Ye Ganli with a barrage of punches and absorbed his power through [Dragon Joy].
• The remaining Second-Turn cultivators lost their nerve and fled as Ye Li pursued them.

Ye Li’s eighteen-year-old MiHoYo-obsessed self massacred the invading Xiantian Realm experts, but after his time reversal ended, he killed the survivor who revealed what had happened. With Capital City devastated and the invasion defeated, Du Xiaoyuan asked whether Ye Li could now enter the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking.

• Ye Li used his overwhelming speed and strength to kill two fleeing second-transition Xiantian Realm experts.
• The final old man shouted that Genshin was awesome, so Ye Li spared him and passed Genshin knowledge into his mind.
• Ye Li’s Age-Reversing Primordial Sand wore off, and he killed the old man after discovering what his eighteen-year-old self had done.
• Ye Li considered silencing the distant onlookers but let them live, while the Dragon Maiden said she had caused no trouble during his reversal.
• Du Xiaoyuan and the other Xia Kingdom experts approached, and Du Xiaoyuan asked whether Ye Li could enter the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking.

After defeating the invading martial artists, Ye Li returned to Guangming and used the resources he had gained from the Grandmaster Secret Realm to help the Azure Dragon Gang and Xia Kingdom recover. As Great Qing’s new All-Nations Prodigy Ranking approached, the Heaven-Viewing Mirror brought him to the Starry Firmament Martial Arena Realm, where he discovered he had been ranked ninth.

• Ye Li told Du Xiaoyuan that he expected to enter the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking, and foreign Xiantian Realm experts offered aid to Xia Kingdom while asking him to decide the fate of its imprisoned emperor.
• Ye Li returned to Guangming, reunited with Jiang Xiyue, and revealed a vast store of cultivation treasures from the Grandmaster Secret Realm to Zheng Tong and the Azure Dragon Gang elders.
• Ye Li distributed resources to the Azure Dragon Gang, while foreign nations helped rebuild Xia Kingdom’s Capital City and news of Ye Li’s battle spread across surrounding nations.
• As the ranking announcement neared, the Heaven-Viewing Mirror’s guiding light transported Ye Li’s consciousness to the Starry Firmament Martial Arena Realm.
• Ye Li found his seat marked ninth, stunning the gathered prodigies, who turned their attention toward the unfamiliar newcomer.