Recaps

Ye Li thwarted the Dragon Maiden’s attempt to possess him, then used the inheritance and Age-Reversing Primordial Sand to awaken his former-life power and defeat the forces surrounding the capital. He returned to Guangming with treasures and reached the Starry Firmament Martial Arena Realm, where he found himself ranked ninth.

• Ye Li mastered Weapon-Limiting Mystic Art and entered the Grotto-Heaven’s core, where the Dragon Maiden manipulated Wei Wanxi and tried to force the pair together.
• The Dragon Maiden revealed her plan to take Ye Li’s body, but Ye Li used [Enemy and Self Share the Same Origin] to swap bodies with her during the possession ritual.
• Ye Li reclaimed his body as the Dragon Maiden weakened, then used the Yin-Yang Spirit-Calming Art to strengthen his soul and survive her attempt to bind him.
• Ye Li absorbed the grotto’s remaining resources, reached Post-Heaven Realm Perfection, and left the collapsing realm as outside forces prepared an ambush.
• The ambushers detonated Age-Reversing Primordial Sand, restoring Ye Li’s memories of his former incarnation and his overwhelming power.
• Ye Li slaughtered the attackers and defeated Ye Ganli and the Xiantian experts, then spared one survivor who praised Genshin before the sand’s effect ended.
• Ye Li returned to Guangming, reunited with Jiang Xiyue, and distributed the secret realm’s treasures while Xia Kingdom began rebuilding.
• The Heaven-Viewing Mirror sent Ye Li’s consciousness to the Starry Firmament Martial Arena Realm, where he discovered his seat was ranked ninth.

Ye Li joined the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Sect, climbed its Dao Stairway, and entered the National Destiny Grand Competition. After defeating Yang Xiao and breaking the Pure Yin Immortal Sect’s formation, he faced Ji Xun as the contest continued.

• Ye Li accepted Gu Feichi’s invitation to join the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Sect, and the sect’s protection caused Xia Kingdom to flourish by draining neighboring kingdoms’ resources.
• Elder Fuyao reversed the Dragon Maiden’s slave mark, giving Ye Li control over her, and Ye Li later amazed Shen Fuyao and the watching disciples by climbing to the 999th step of the Thousand-Step Dao Stairway.
• Ye Li studied Shen Qinglian’s vast collection of techniques before Yun Huanzi appointed him to lead the sect’s contestants, and Gu Tianchen, Xiao Jue, and Luo Yuqing conceded when he challenged them together.
• At the competition, Ye Li reunited with Wei Wanxi and entered the trial star, where Yang Xiao killed most of the attacking Ji Kingdom contestants before Ye Li walked through his explosion and killed him.
• Ye Li rescued the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Sect disciples from the Pure Yin Immortal Sect’s freezing formation and used strengthened soul attacks to break their formation after Feng Lingyi’s copied power and shared soul defense resisted him.
• Grandmaster Yue Ning conceded and withdrew the Pure Yin Immortal Sect disciples, while Ye Li told his own sectmates to act freely, then Ji Xun charged toward him.

Ye Li won the Prodigy Grand Competition, reached the Xiantian Realm, and gained the Heavenly Book’s fortune-gathering trait. As the Great Qing Dynasty and other forces turned against him, his departure from the Universe Realm ended in a massive ambush that left him trapped with his companions.

• Ji Xun opened his Immortal Battle Myriad Splendors Realm, but Ye Li’s realm incarnations erased Ji Xun’s and Du You’s, and Ye Li killed Du You before defeating Ji Xun.
• Ye Li hunted down the battlefield’s prodigies, then fought Shen Luo and advanced through Qi Gathering, Gang Transformation, and Pulse Condensation to kill him.
• The battlefield revived the defeated contestants and declared Ye Li champion, after which Ye Li completed his breakthrough to the Early Xiantian Realm and was summoned to comprehend the Heavenly Book.
• Yun Huanzi warned Ye Li that heavenly will had targeted him, while the Great Qing Dynasty arranged to lend him the Heavenly Book and spread news of his victory and suspected legendary trait.
• Ye Li absorbed the Heavenly Book’s Calamity Fortune Qi Gathering trait, learned to perceive and manipulate fortune, and discovered his own fortune had become overwhelmingly ill-fated.
• After Wei Wanxi departed, Yun Huanzi escorted Ye Li and his companions toward the Starry Vault Ancient Path, where concealed Grandmasters ambushed them and Yun Huanzi summoned past Grandmasters to defend the group.
• The Great Qing Emperor compressed the battlefield and its fighters into a black sphere, but a sword master and a Wutu giant hand intervened, scattering Ye Li’s group amid the chaos.
• A Grandmaster broke through the chaos and approached Ye Li’s radiant shield, declaring that he would reap the spoils while Ye Li and his companions remained trapped.

Ye Li survived his battle with Great Qing and built a qi-blood lending network that rapidly transformed martial artists across China. As the network spread, officials and foreign forces moved against him, leaving Ye Li preparing Pei Taoyu for a breakthrough while the Wu Family readied an attack.

• Ye Li used the Cause-and-Effect Calamity-Fate Saber to destroy Emperor Qing’s dragon-aura hand and cripple Great Qing’s dragon vein, then the Southern Region forced Great Qing to make reparations and publicly mourn him.
• After the Dragon Maiden carried Ye Li to another world, he helped Pei Taoyu avenge her family and developed methods and a visualization system that rapidly advanced martial artists.
• Ye Li gathered followers through Worry-Relief General Store and the Qi-Blood Bank, while Zhang Chengjun defeated Oleg and Yang Shaohou protected him from Eagle Nation starships.
• At the Jinmen Grand Tournament, Ye Li healed and empowered Zheng Yexiao, then introduced the Qi-Blood Galaxy method and drew thousands of martial artists into his network.
• Ye Li expanded the network through the Scarlet Gold Hall and Incense Prayer Beads as qigong spread across China, while Rothschild’s vampires and Goda Kazuo’s allies prepared attacks on the East’s younger generation.
• Ye Li refused Li Weiguang’s demand to surrender the Qi-Blood Bank, and Li joined with Eagle Nation’s consul Charles and the Wu Family to turn public opinion against Ye Li and prepare an assault.
• Ye Li dismissed the slander and told Pei Taoyu to prepare for a Transforming Force breakthrough, while Wu Zhongxian agreed to target Ye Li and Pei Taoyu.