Chapter Summaries

Feng Lingyi returned to the Pure Yin Immortal Sect after Ye Li defeated her, but she found her master and fellow disciples behaving strangely and believed they were suffering from cultivation problems. Ye Li had secretly been with the sect’s women all along, and he ultimately led Feng Lingyi away while she remained unaware of his presence.

• Feng Lingyi reported that Ye Li had returned to the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Sect and defeated the other sects’ prodigies, but Yue Y any Chen comforted her instead of punishing her.
• After Feng Lingyi left the hall, its illusion faded to reveal Ye Li embracing Yue Y any Chen while the Pure Yin elders waited nearby.
• Feng Lingyi went to the Extreme Cold Hall and found Ji Youmeng and the other disciples inside, where Ji Youmeng pretended that her calls for Ye Li were hallucinations caused by her affliction.
• Feng Lingyi visited Elder Yue Ning and described the strange changes in the sect, but the elder blamed them on Feng Lingyi’s inner demon and told her to focus on cultivation.
• Ye Li slipped an arm around Feng Lingyi’s shoulders, and she unknowingly left with him into the snow.

Ye Li returned from a month in the past after absorbing the Pure Yin Immortal Sect’s cultivation methods and persuading its members to let his procession pass. He led hundreds of millions of cultivators to the Ji Kingdom, intent on seizing its vast store of martial arts and secret manuals.

• Ye Li absorbed and mastered the Pure Yin Immortal Sect’s extensive collection of cultivation methods, then considered creating an improved method of his own.
• Ye Li decided to obtain more manuals from the Ji Kingdom, whose people had plundered cultivation methods across the heavens.
• Ye Li told Yue Y any Chen to let his procession pass and keep their relationship secret before returning to the present.
• In the altered timeline, Yue Y any Chen granted the procession passage and invited Ye Li to spar with her and Feng Lingyi; Yun Huanzi warned Ye Li to beware of a trap.
• Shen Qinglian privately grew jealous of Ye Li’s closeness with the Pure Yin Immortal Sect and decided to assess him for her disciple.
• Ye Li led the procession to the Ji Kingdom, where its Grandmasters swarmed through the border membrane at his gesture.

Ye Li broke into the Ji Kingdom during the Yi Kingdom’s invasion and used his ability to travel into the past to rescue Yi Kingdom Grandmasters while secretly plundering the Ji Kingdom’s knowledge. As he uncovered records about powerful worlds beyond the Universe Realm, he considered visiting them to acquire stronger cultivation methods.

• Ye Li used the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Sect’s Martial Saint reserves to tear open the Ji Kingdom’s barrier, and he and the Yi Kingdom’s Infinite Realm cultivators entered as the kingdom’s restrictions counterattacked.
• Ye Li traveled through time to save Yi Kingdom Grandmasters from attacks that would have killed them, then continued upstream into the past.
• Ye Li secretly copied cultivation methods and memories from Ji Kingdom citizens, including the Graceful Three-Aspect Body and the Great Dharma Seal of Ten Thousand Ages.
• Ye Li focused on expensive, high-level knowledge, using the Ji Kingdom’s information network to locate martial arts and secret texts from powerful factions.
• Ye Li learned from Ji Kingdom records that the Universe Realm’s traits and Martial Saints had made powerful outside worlds wary of it, then considered visiting those worlds for cultivation methods.

Ye Li devoured the Ji Kingdom’s cultivation knowledge and began creating the Divine Being Invincible art, then revived dead Infinite Realm experts to seize control of the kingdom. The revived experts betrayed him and attacked, leaving Ye Li surrounded as he prepared to unleash a secret move.

• Ye Li studied countless Ji Kingdom cultivation arts and began revising the tenth level of the Azure Dragon Deliverance Method into Divine Being Invincible, but found his foundation insufficient to complete it.
• Ye Li traveled through the Ji Kingdom’s past and offered lifespan extension to dead Infinite Realm experts, including Feng Yuan, Jiang Kuang, Lei Mo Ancestor, and Tianqian Elder, in exchange for their allegiance.
• Ye Li awakened the revived experts during the battle between the Ji Kingdom and Yi Kingdom, giving them over seventy percent of the Ji Kingdom’s authority.
• Feng Yuan and the other revived experts refused to obey Ye Li, declared he was no longer useful, and called down a Martial Saint reserve to attack him.
• Ye Li faced the hostile experts as they tried to seal space and time, and raised his clenched right fist while warning that he could kill them as well as save them.

Ye Li used [Gift of Xiantian] to erase martial knowledge across Ji Kingdom and the Five Regions, forcing rival factions to protect him because he alone retained their lost legacies. After demanding the death of everyone at Infinite Realm and above, he vanished and reunited with Wei Wanxi, joking that he would make squeezing her part of Ji Kingdom’s law.

• Ye Li activated [Gift of Xiantian], erasing martial arts knowledge, cultivation methods, and related memories from cultivators across Ji Kingdom and the Five Regions.
• Feng Yuan and the other Infinite Realm cultivators found their martial foundations erased, while Ye Li warned that he could potentially erase even more fundamental knowledge.
• The Universe Realm factions broke through the membrane of light and rushed to protect Ye Li, hoping to recover their secret arts and prevent him from destroying knowledge itself.
• Ye Li demanded that the factions kill everyone at Infinite Realm and above, then vanished after the surrounding space-time returned to normal.
• Ye Li embraced Wei Wanxi from behind, and she reluctantly accepted his teasing demand to squeeze her whenever they met.

Ye Li consolidated control over the Ji Kingdom by accepting the last surviving Infinite Realm cultivators’ surrender and transferring the kingdom’s authority to Wei Wanxi, making her queen. Shen Qinglian arrived to meet him, but Wei Wanxi returned and joined them, while Ye Li promised to raise their cultivation.

• Ye Li had the Ji Kingdom’s remaining Grandmasters hunted down and selected about a hundred fearful Infinite Realm cultivators to survive and submit to him.
• The surviving cultivators handed their authority over to Wei Wanxi, who gained control of the Ji Kingdom’s formations, restrictions, and Martial Saint reserves and became its queen.
• Wei Wanxi discussed concerns about reforming the Ji Kingdom with Ye Li, then left the hall to attend to other matters.
• Shen Qinglian entered the hall, and Ye Li confronted her over leaving without saying goodbye; Wei Wanxi used her authority to return and swap places with Shen Qinglian.
• Ye Li said he would help Wei Wanxi and Shen Qinglian cultivate, and the chapter later stated that he helped numerous people become Grandmasters within a few days.

Shen Fuyao woke after several days to learn that Ye Li had subdued the East Sea, brought the Dragon Clan to heel, and taken control of Central Province. She visited him with Shen Qinglian, discovered Ao Ying was with him, and left the palace poised to become one of Ye Li’s core administrators as he prepared to pursue the Star-Evolution Realm and the Primordial Era.

• Shen Fuyao woke in the Moon-Congealing Domain, read reports of Ye Li’s rapid conquests, and learned that she had been unconscious for three to five days after an attack at the Dragon Palace.
• Shen Qinglian took Shen Fuyao to the Ji Kingdom Palace, where Ye Li was reviewing secret cultivation texts and greeted Fuyao as a senior sister.
• After Shen Qinglian sent Shen Fuyao away to fetch a book, she found Ao Ying beneath Ye Li’s tablecloth, and Ao Ying said she had come willingly to atone for the Dragon Clan.
• Shen Fuyao returned to find Ao Ying standing behind Ye Li, and Ye Li said Shen Qinglian had gone into seclusion before offering Fuyao a role managing Central Province.
• Ye Li said he intended to reward his allies and, after studying the Five Regions’ books, break through to the Star-Evolution Realm and investigate the Primordial Era.

Ye Li broke through from the Creation Realm to the Star-Evolution Realm, then perfected his Azure Dragon Deliverance Method and chose a golden trait. He discovered that the two unchosen golden traits had remained available as well.

• Ye Li entered the Void Secret Realm and stopped suppressing his foundations, breaking through to the Star-Evolution Realm as his inner worlds evolved into a multitude of distinct realms.
• The breakthrough produced a vast pillar of light and a star chart across the Universe Realm; Ye Li suspected the Heavenly Will was trying to draw something to him and shattered the celestial manifestation.
• Ye Li created the tenth-level Azure Dragon Deliverance Method effect, Divine Being Invincible, which overwhelmed other techniques when their users had equal numerical values.
• Ye Li perfected the method and chose the golden trait Divine Being Invincible · Matchless to boost his numerical values.
• Ye Li saw that Divine Being Invincible · Ignore and Divine Being Invincible · Invincible had not disappeared, and wondered whether he could take them too.

Ye Li fused three golden traits into [Golden · Divine Being Invincible], gaining rulings that let him overwhelm opponents with finite numerical values and win against peers. He tested the trait on Wei Wanxi and Shen Qinglian, powering them up in a cycle that brought Shen Qinglian close to a Martial Saint breakthrough, then warned them not to advance until he had dealt with the Martial Saints.

• Ye Li selected the three golden traits [Divine Being Invincible · Peerless], [Ignore], and [Invincible], and [World-Shocking Wisdom] fused them into [Golden · Divine Being Invincible].
• Ye Li realized that breaking through to Martial Saint would draw every Martial Saint's attention, so he decided to build enough strength to defeat them before advancing.
• Ye Li designated Wei Wanxi and Shen Qinglian as opponents, and [Divine Being Invincible] vastly raised his strength to surpass theirs.
• Ye Li repeatedly transferred his increased cultivation to Wei Wanxi and Shen Qinglian, then used them as opponents again to raise his strength further.
• Shen Qinglian reached the threshold of a Martial Saint breakthrough, but Ye Li told both women to remain Grandmasters until he had cleared the way.
• Ye Li designated the women as opponents again and used [Divine Being Invincible] to improve his paired-cultivation skills.

Ye Li traveled beyond the sealed timeline of the Universe Realm and discovered a vast cosmos where powerful martial artists and other cultivation systems existed. He entered a world ruled by a Song dynasty, where he learned that the legendary Wu Song was a formidable cultivator, and grew eager to explore its other famous figures.

• Ye Li told Jiang Xiyue, Ao Ying, Wei Wanxi, and the other women that he would return to the ancient past to gather power, then left the Ji Kingdom and plunged backward through time.
• Ye Li realized the Universe Realm’s timeline was sealed inside a larger cosmos and that the Martial Saints had escaped its restrictions by living beyond it.
• Ye Li entered a powerful ancient world, found his cultivation unrestricted, and traveled to Yanggu County, where he met the guide Zhou Yuan.
• Ye Li learned from Zhou Yuan that the world was ruled by the Great Song and bordered by rival kingdoms including Great Qin, Great Han, Great Tang, and Great Yuan.
• Ye Li saw Wu Song return to Yanggu County carrying a gigantic tiger and wondered what legendary beings might live in the neighboring kingdoms.

Ye Li discovered that the Heavenly Court was using destiny-bound Demon Stars such as Wu Song as trait materials for immortality pills, and he sought a way to obtain the court’s cultivation methods. After Ye Li intervened, Wu Song and Dai Zong awakened new powers, leaving their fated stories poised to change.

• Ye Li saw that cause-and-effect chains bound Wu Song and the other Demon Stars, then killed the Heavenly Court immortals watching over them and learned they planned to refine the traits into pills.
• Ye Li found the Supreme Prajñā Wisdom Heart Sutra among the immortals’ memories and decided that Wu Song’s fate-bound power could help him obtain a path to infinite strength.
• Wu Song delivered the tiger to the Yanggu County hall, where the magistrate promoted him to captain of the foot constables.
• Wu Song dreamed that an old immortal called him the Heavenly Wound Star and taught him the Great Sage Celestial Immortal Art.
• Dai Zong discovered that he could run with extraordinary speed and golden lightning, and an old immortal named his new power Speed Force.

Wu Song and other Demon Stars gained extraordinary powers, disrupting the destinies the Heavenly Court had arranged. As the immortal officials were told to ignore the upheaval, the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens descended to harvest a Universe Realm fiend, while Ye Li remained imprisoned in Jiangzhou.

• Wu Song sensed a tremor caused by Lu Zhishen killing Zheng the Butcher with a punch, and the watching immortals panicked over the Heavenly Solitary Star's growing power.
• Immortal officials from across the Water Margin Plane reported that Lu Junyi, Wu Yong, the Ruan brothers, and others had developed overwhelming abilities and were disrupting their assigned destinies.
• The Daily Duty Merit Officer ordered the officials to let the Demon Stars run their course, then secretly filed a report with the Heavenly Court's Archive.
• Wu Song resurrected Wu Dalang after Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian poisoned him, then was sentenced to exile in Mengzhou for killing Ximen Qing.
• The Demon Stars' upheavals spread across the Great Song, including Wu Yong's clash with Yang Zhi and Lin Chong's destruction of Gao Qiu's clan, while the watching immortals chose not to intervene.
• The Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens sent two immortal attendants to the mortal realm, as Ye Li remained trapped in Jiangzhou Prison and Dai Zong offered to help him escape.

Dai Zong sought help from Wu Yong to rescue Ye Li, but Zhu Wu Chu Xuan anticipated their plan and helped Lu Junyi capture him. As Ye Li’s execution began in Jiangzhou, Wu Song charged into the execution ground to save him.

• Ye Li warned Dai Zong that Lu Junyi was too powerful to face, but Dai Zong challenged him and returned battered after escaping Lu Junyi’s Fortress of Solitude.
• Dai Zong went to Mount Liang Marsh, where Wu Yong identified Ye Li’s plight and devised a plan to defeat Lu Junyi using a Kryptonite dagger.
• Dai Zong attacked Lu Junyi, but Zhu Wu Chu Xuan had anticipated the Kryptonite threat and outfitted Lu Junyi in lead armor, allowing him to capture Dai Zong.
• Wu Yong realized his plans had been countered by another script-reader and decided to summon his junior fellow disciple, Jiang Jing, while the Liangshan heroes considered how to rescue Ye Li.
• At Jiangzhou’s execution ground, Lu Junyi oversaw Ye Li’s impending beheading, and Wu Song arrived in golden armor, shouting that no one could harm his brother.