Recaps

Little One showed extraordinary signs of awakening after drinking Drunken Immortal Brew, but the surges vanished and he remained an ordinary child. At the Xing Family feast, Ren Ye agreed to take the five children as disciples, while Xing Wu insisted he wanted Ren Ye as his adoptive father; then several white-robed Taoists arrived at the courtyard gate.

• Little One’s drunken poetry accompanied dozens of increasingly powerful surges of Star Source Power, but the signs disappeared before he awakened.
• Daoist Chu found no sign of awakening in Little One and said he had indigestion, while Chunniang was relieved that her son had not changed.
• Chunniang proposed that Ren Ye take her five children as adopted sons, and Ren Ye offered to take them as disciples instead.
• Xing Wu said he wanted Ren Ye to be his adoptive father, while Daoist Chu offered to teach Little One and Yin Tiger and Old Liu argued over taking disciples.
• Several white-robed Taoists appeared outside the Xing Family courtyard, and their leader asked whether it was the Xing Family.

Prime Minister Turtle and the Immortal Wave Sect used an altered household register to force Xing Wu into an awakening, but his apparent inability to cultivate thwarted their plan. When the Daoists threatened Chunniang’s youngest child and attacked her, Old Liu retaliated, crippling the young Daoist and striking at Prime Minister Turtle.

• Prime Minister Turtle arrived with Daoists and Tide Dragon Guards, declaring that Xing Wu had to undergo awakening under Tide Dragon City’s law.
• Chunniang protested that Xing Wu was not yet eighteen, but Prime Minister Turtle produced an altered household register claiming he was already past the required age.
• Xing Wu agreed to be tested and endured Prime Minister Turtle’s violent infusion of Star Source, then was declared incapable of awakening.
• The young Daoist demanded to test Little One and threatened to falsify the ages of Chunniang’s other children when she resisted.
• Old Liu attacked the young Daoist, crushed his Star Core, and crippled him while Chunniang refused to stop the retaliation.
• Prime Minister Turtle protested Old Liu’s attack, and Old Liu appeared beside him and slapped at his face.

Ren Ye and his companions beat the Immortal Wave Sect Taoists who tried to claim Xing Wu, then were arrested and taken to Tide Dragon City's Ministry of Justice. City Lord Long Yuqing learned that Ren Ye was protected by six sixth-grade elders, leaving him torn between the sect's demands and his debt to Chunniang.

• Ren Ye slapped Prime Minister Turtle, and Daoist Chu, Yin Tiger, and Ai Fei joined in beating the Immortal Wave Sect Taoists until Chunniang urged them to stop.
• Chunniang went to seek help at the City Lord's Residence while Ren Ye and the others stayed with the Xing family and waited for the authorities.
• Five hundred Tide Dragon Black Cavalry and Immortal Wave Sect Taoists arrived, arrested the courtyard's occupants, and escorted them to Tide Dragon City's Ministry of Justice.
• At the yamen, a fourth-grade Taoist threatened Ren Ye, while Prime Minister Turtle demanded revenge from his bed.
• Long Yuqing ordered harsh punishment for the outsiders, then learned Chunniang had come to invoke his promise to help her and heard that Ren Ye's six protectors were sixth grade.
• Long Yuqing realized that punishing Ren Ye could provoke his powerful backers, while sparing him risked offending the Immortal Wave Sect.

Yang Mingtang intervened in the Ministry of Justice’s effort to execute Ren Ye and his companions, forcing the Immortal Wave Sect’s Taoist Priest He to accept a thorough investigation instead. After the group was released, Ren Ye was summoned to meet Long Yuqing and won the city lord over with praise and a rare bamboo branch.

• Long Yuqing sent Chunniang away to tend the rare plants and ordered Steward Bao to give her fifty thousand star source, then summoned Yang Mingtang to discuss her family’s case.
• Yang Mingtang rejected the chief official’s death sentence, demanded an investigation into the awakening and the sect’s conduct, and warned that he would submit the case to the Immortal Wave Sect’s inspectorate.
• Taoist Priest He withdrew his support for Prime Minister Turtle, while Yang Mingtang ordered Turtle to seek Chunniang’s forgiveness and had the prisoners released.
• Ren Ye warned Prime Minister Turtle and went with the chief official to meet Long Yuqing, where he introduced himself as Zhu Zigui.
• Zhu Zigui praised Long Yuqing and presented him with a branch of Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo, delighting the city lord.

Ren Ye met with Long Yuqing in Tide Dragon City, gave him an azure bamboo branch, and described the Migration Land before Xingshan's red tide suddenly spread across the Nine Li Continent. As sects and factions prepared to contend over the awakening Great Emperor's Dao resonance, Long Yuqing planned a grand ancestral ceremony, and Ren Ye returned to Great Marsh Township to learn that Little One had a fever.

• Ren Ye gave Long Yuqing an azure bamboo branch and promised to seek nether river water and life green jade to help it thrive.
• Ren Ye spent nearly six hours telling Long Yuqing about the Migration Land, then tried to leave as the City Lord invited him to stay and continue talking.
• A great Dao resonance triggered Xingshan's red tide, turning the sky and landscape crimson and making Ren Ye's blood and star core boil.
• Long Yuqing recognized the red tide as the early awakening of the Great Emperor's broken Dao resonance, while elders and factions across the continent reacted and began preparing for the coming contest.
• Long Yuqing convened his relatives, worried about Tide Dragon City's position, and decided to hold a grand ancestral ceremony on Xingshan.
• Ren Ye returned to Great Marsh Township, where Xing Wu told him that Little One had a slight fever after being frightened by the Immortal Wave Sect's Taoists.

Ren Ye and his companions attended Long Yuqing’s ancestral ceremony, while Divine Baby detected elusive yin evil qi in a sealed courtyard behind the Guest Retainer Courtyard. As the procession reached Xingshan, Old Liu wandered up a deserted mountain path to relieve himself.

• Ren Ye gave Long Yuqing a copy of Records of Migration Land Encounters, earning a place as a guest retainer at the City Lord’s Residence.
• Divine Baby told Ren Ye he sensed growing yin evil qi near a sealed well; Ren Ye investigated the courtyard but left without opening its gate.
• Ren Ye and his companions joined the enormous procession to the Long Family Ancestral Land, where crimson mist shrouded Xingshan.
• Great General Yang Ganglie arrived with eight thousand armored riders and received a triumphant welcome from the city’s officials and soldiers.
• Old Liu, searching for a secluded place to relieve himself, left the crowd and climbed an empty mountain path.

Yang Ganglie and the Long family began the grand ancestral rites, but the Vengeful Ghost Sect attacked Tide Dragon City with a masked Fifth Grade woman wielding the Infinite Goblet. As Long Yuqing faced an incoming arrow and the Ancestral Land was engulfed in black rain, Old Liu found himself back at a familiar spot as the mountains turned crimson.

• Yang Ganglie returned to Tide Dragon City with eight thousand cavalry, and Ren Ye explained his power and influence to Xu Bangzi and the others.
• Yang Mingyuan received a secret report linking a captured Vengeful Ghost Sect user to the missing Third Grade military officers and decided to keep the findings from Long Yuqing until after the rites.
• Yang Ganglie and Long Yuqing and Yang Ling'er began the ancestral rites, but dark clouds suddenly covered the Ancestral Land.
• A masked Fifth Grade woman and dozens of Fourth Grade Vengeful Ghost Sect members emerged from the clouds, prompting Yang Ganglie to attack with his Dragon-Sealing Staff.
• The woman revealed the Infinite Goblet and unleashed black rain over the Ancestral Land as the commoners fled, while an unseen archer fired at Long Yuqing.
• Old Liu found fresh human waste in the mountains, realized he had returned to the same place, and saw the surrounding weeds turn crimson.

The Vengeful Ghost Sect attacked the Long family’s ancestral ceremony with the Divine Punishment Bow and Infinite Goblet, overwhelming the defenders and trapping Ren Ye and Daoist Chu in the fighting. Ren Ye revealed his strength to save Long Yuqing, then led him and Yang Ling’er toward an escape route.

• Wu Meng fired a Divine Punishment Arrow that broke through the fifth-grade generals’ defense and blasted open Long Yuqing’s father’s tomb.
• The witch used the Infinite Goblet to spread black water that devoured the defenders’ divine sense, allowing Wu Meng to ambush them with the Divine Punishment Bow.
• Vengeful Ghost Sect fighters stormed the Marquis Courtesy Platform, forcing Ren Ye and Daoist Chu to shelter beneath it while Yin Tiger escorted Chunniang’s family away.
• Yang Mingyuan tried to retreat but turned back after Long Yuqing called for help, while Ren Ye and Daoist Chu waited for a chance to escape.
• When the platform collapsed and a Vengeful Ghost Sect fighter attacked Long Yuqing, Ren Ye emerged, blocked the attack, and killed the fourth-grade attacker.
• Ren Ye helped Long Yuqing up and ordered Daoist Chu to carry Yang Ling’er as they prepared to flee southwest together.

Ren Ye fought off the Vengeful Ghost Sect while helping Long Yuqing and his wife escape, then deflected Wu Meng’s Divine Punishment Arrow with a mysterious ability. His group fled toward Tide Dragon City, but Yang Mingyuan was captured, and afterward Ren Ye realized that the man who had gone to take a dump was missing.

• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu carried Long Yuqing and his wife away from the ceremonial platform, but a Fourth Grade ghost general and his followers pursued them.
• Ren Ye wounded and severed the ghost general with the Human Emperor Sword and the Nine Peaks Divine Swords, while Daoist Chu joined the fight against the other Fourth Grades.
• Wu Meng fired the Divine Punishment Arrow at Ren Ye, who used a mysterious power to strip away its divinity and flick it aside.
• Brother Tiger, Ai Fei, and Xu Bangzi regrouped with Ren Ye’s party, and the Vengeful Ghost Sect retreated as two Fifth Grade auras approached from Tide Dragon City.
• Ren Ye’s group fled toward Tide Dragon City, while the ghost general’s forces captured Yang Mingyuan; later, Ren Ye noticed that the man who had gone to take a dump had not returned.

Ren Ye and his companions went back to Xingshan to search for Old Liu and were unexpectedly drawn into the mountain’s crimson domain. After finding Old Liu’s blood near a flower field, Ren Ye was repelled by a deadly force, but Xing Wu revealed that he knew a hidden path inside.

• Ren Ye, Daoist Chu, Yin Tiger, Ai Fei, Xu Bangzi, and Xing Wu rode back to the Long Family Ancestral Land to search for Old Liu.
• Yin Tiger tracked Old Liu’s scent along a narrow trail, but Xing Wu warned that the group was approaching the dangerous Foot of Xingshan.
• The surrounding wilderness turned crimson, trapping the group inside Xingshan; Daoist Chu planted a Wind-Guiding Flag to help them find their way back.
• The group found Old Liu’s droppings and footprints, then followed his trail to a fork where Yin Tiger identified a large pool of Old Liu’s blood.
• Ren Ye approached the flower field but was struck by overwhelming pressure and bloodline surges, forcing him to retreat with help from the Human Emperor Seal.
• Xing Wu admitted that he knew a hidden path into the area after Ren Ye decided they could not enter the flower-field route.

Xing Wu led Ren Ye and the others through a hidden cave toward the sea of flowers, recounting how he had survived Xingshan as a child. After the group searched for Old Liu and prepared to retreat, a headless figure in Old Liu’s clothes emerged from the flowers.

• Xing Wu admitted he had entered Xingshan years earlier and offered to guide the group through a hidden route to the sea of flowers.
• Xing Wu recounted how his companions died or disappeared, while he survived by eating strange fruits and escaped through a cave.
• Ren Ye and the others discovered their Star Source Power was being drained as they moved deeper into the mountain, but they continued together toward the sea of flowers to search for Old Liu.
• Ren Ye glimpsed an ancient gate marked with the character “Emperor” on the deeper branch of the tunnel, then led the group to an open area overlooking the flowers.
• The group found no sign of Old Liu and decided to retreat as their strength waned, but faint footsteps sounded in the flowers.
• A blood-covered, headless body wearing Old Liu’s clothes emerged from the sea of flowers, shocking the group.

Ren Ye risked the Emperor’s Tomb’s power to retrieve Old Liu’s severed head and rescue his headless corpse, but the Great Emperor’s Dao resonance attacked him. The Ba Snake statue and Human Emperor Seal awakened Xingshan’s Red Tide, which chose multiple people across the Nine Li Continent as descendants of the Great Emperor, while Ren Ye’s fate remained unclear.

• Daoist Chu could not sense Old Liu’s divine sense or yin soul and suspected the Great Emperor’s Dao resonance had turned him into a corpse puppet.
• Ren Ye used the Human Emperor Seal’s purple fortune to enter the sea of flowers and retrieve Old Liu’s head.
• Ren Ye tried to conceal Old Liu’s headless corpse with purple fortune, but the Great Emperor’s Dao resonance attacked, and his companions prepared to intervene.
• Ren Ye pushed the Human Emperor Seal to its limit, inadvertently awakening the Ba Snake statue and stirring Xingshan.
• A beam of divine radiance struck Ren Ye, and a blood-red Emperor character appeared between his brows as the Xingshan Red Tide surged across the Nine Li Continent.
• Crimson marks appeared on a Falling Cloud Sect descendant and the Myriad States Crown Prince, while a beam of red light passed over the Immortal Wave Sect without choosing its sect master.

The Xingshan Red Tide chose 999 Blood Mark bearers across Nine Li, and Ren Ye escaped the sea of flowers with Old Liu’s body, which appeared lifeless. After learning that the Great Dao Contest would determine who could enter the Emperor’s Tomb, Ren Ye heard a mysterious voice from Xingshan addressing him as if he resembled an old acquaintance.

• Daoist Wuchen watched the crimson ray scatter over the Immortal Wave Five Cities without choosing a disciple and concluded that someone had stolen the sect’s opportunity.
• Heavenly Dao opened its eye and sent auspicious clouds to escort the Great Emperor’s crimson rays across Nine Li, choosing 999 heirs, including hidden talents among ordinary people.
• Ren Ye recovered from the pressure in the sea of flowers, saw the Blood Mark vanish from his brow, and used his purple fortune to conceal and carry Old Liu’s headless body away.
• Ren Ye and the others escaped Xingshan, but his examination of Old Liu found no sign of life; Daoist Chu urged them not to declare him dead while the Great Emperor’s Dao resonance remained.
• Ren Ye placed Old Liu’s body in the Phoenix Fire Furnace with nether river water and vowed to return to the Emperor’s Tomb for answers.
• Heavenly Dao announced that the Emperor’s Tomb would open in 100 days and that only the 99 participants with the most Blood Marks could enter; a voice from Xingshan then told Ren Ye that he resembled an old acquaintance.

Ren Ye learned that the emperor’s tomb would admit only the ninety-nine blood guide bearers who collected the most marks, while the Immortal Wave Sect searched for the person who had taken its expected opportunity. After Ren Ye returned to Tide Dragon City, Long Yuqing rewarded him for saving his life, but an Immortal Wave Sect master arrived demanding the six visitors.

• Ren Ye learned that blood guide bearers had to seize one another’s marks to qualify for entry into Great Emperor Jiuli’s Tomb, and he resolved to fight for a chance to save Old Liu.
• Daoist Wuchen ordered the Immortal Wave Sect to find whoever had intercepted its blood guide opportunity, while Chu Jin demanded permission to challenge that person and reclaim it.
• A Servants’ Court steward connected the recent visitors in Tide Dragon City to a dispute in which Ren Ye and the others had injured sect disciples, prompting the Immortal Wave Sect to send people to the city.
• Ren Ye returned to the City Lord’s Residence, where Long Yuqing questioned him about the Red Tide and then gave him three million Star Source and a Dragon Character Token for saving his life.
• Steward Bao summoned Long Yuqing to the Prefectural Yamen, where a Fifth Grade Immortal Master demanded that the six visitors be handed over that night.

Long Yuqing learned that the Immortal Wave Sect suspected Ren Ye had taken Chu Jin’s Great Emperor opportunity and risked defying the sect to help Ren Ye and his companions escape. He led Ren Ye toward a secret passage, where Ren Ye sensed Yin Evil Qi and questioned who knew about it.

• Xun Immortal Master told Long Yuqing and Yang Mingtang that the Immortal Wave Sect believed Ren Ye’s group had taken Chu Jin’s Great Emperor opportunity and ordered a pursuit.
• Long Yuqing falsely claimed that Ren Ye and the others had left, then told Yang Mingtang to conceal their departure while he went to warn Ren Ye.
• Long Yuqing revealed the danger to Ren Ye, who admitted he had entered Xingshan and obtained a blood guide.
• Long Yuqing decided that Ren Ye, his companions, Chunniang and her son, Ming Quan, and Ming Quan’s family all had to escape the Immortal Wave Five Cities.
• Long Yuqing brought Ren Ye to an abandoned courtyard and explained that a well beneath it connected to a secret passage leading to the borderlands.
• Ren Ye sensed Yin Evil Qi near the courtyard and asked who knew about the passage, while Long Yuqing said he had never used it.

Ren Ye led the families through the Long estate’s hidden tunnel, but General Wang’s escort turned out to be an ambush backed by a Fifth Grade fighter. As Ren Ye prepared to fight, Long Yuqing learned that Yang Ganglie had arranged to hand Ren Ye over to the Immortal Wave Sect, and openly defied him before Yang Ganglie struck him.

• Steward Bao escorted Ren Ye and the families through the Long family’s secret tunnel, and Ren Ye gave him five hundred thousand Star Source in thanks.
• General Wang appeared with armed men and carriages, claiming he had orders to escort Ren Ye’s party; Ren Ye suspected betrayal and warned his companions to prepare for a fight.
• A powerful Fifth Grade aura emerged from a nearby mountain before Ren Ye’s group could act, leaving them facing what seemed like an inescapable ambush.
• Long Yuqing received a military message revealing that General Wang had taken Ren Ye’s party, then confronted Yang Ganglie at the grand general’s residence.
• Yang Ganglie admitted arranging the handover to the Immortal Wave Sect and ordered Long Yuqing to support the plan; Long Yuqing accused him of betraying his savior, and Yang Ganglie slapped him.

After the Immortal Wave Sect cornered Ren Ye and his companions, he used the unusual blood guide mark between his eyebrows to bargain for their escape and was taken toward the sect. A sudden storm brought the Demoness of the Vengeful Ghost Sect to intercept them, leaving Ren Ye caught between rival powers.

• Yang Ganglie slapped Long Yuqing and warned him not to endanger the Dragon and Yang Families with reckless decisions; Yang Ling'er and the others left him behind.
• Ren Ye realized the Immortal Wave Sect had surrounded the group and told Ai Fei and the others to follow his plan while he faced the sect alone.
• Ren Ye revealed his blurry blood guide mark and threatened to erase it unless the Immortal Wave Sect let his companions go; Xun Immortal Master agreed, and they escaped.
• After his companions departed, Ren Ye let Xun Immortal Master carry him toward Immortal Wave Mountain while he considered how to escape.
• Dark clouds and rain halted the group, and the Demoness of the Vengeful Ghost Sect descended, announcing that she had come for the Great Emperor's opportunity.

Ren Ye escaped the battle between the Immortal Wave Sect and the Vengeful Ghost Sect, revealing his Human Emperor Seal and using its power to kill the three disciples escorting him. He reached the Western Province and received a special assignment pointing him toward the Western Liang Imperial Clan and the Boundary-Space Stone.

• Xun Immortal Master and the Demoness fought in the sky as Wu Meng and the Vengeful Ghost Sect attacked the Immortal Wave Sect disciples protecting Ren Ye.
• Ren Ye maneuvered through the battle, provoking the Immortal Wave Sect disciples into rescuing him and convincing Sword Mound to retreat with him toward Tide Dragon City.
• Once they were clear of the dark clouds, Ren Ye released Purple Fortune and the Human Emperor Seal, suppressing the three fourth-grade disciples to third grade before killing them.
• The Demoness withdrew her forces after Xun Immortal Master and the others realized Ren Ye possessed Human Destiny and a supreme treasure.
• Ren Ye fled the Immortal Wave Five Cities and received a special assignment identifying the Boundary-Space Stone as a secret treasure possibly hidden in the Western Liang Imperial Clan.

Ren Ye learned that his SSS+ errand required him to steal and refine the Realmspace Stone from the Western Liang Kingdom, then was captured by the Demoness and recruited to kill Chu Jin at a gathering in ten days. After agreeing to travel with her to Western Liang, he left the thatched cottage for food and spotted the Demoness and Wu Meng drinking with a third, strangely familiar figure.

• Ren Ye received an SSS+ mission to steal and refine the Realmspace Stone in Western Liang, with failure costing him entry to Xingshan.
• The Demoness appeared with Wu Meng, tested Ren Ye with Infinite Water, and had Wu Meng carry him to the Vengeful Ghost Sect's hideout.
• After Ren Ye awoke, the Demoness asked him to kill Chu Jin at a gathering of prodigies in Western Liang ten days later.
• Ren Ye agreed to help, and the Demoness promised to cover for him if he caused trouble in the Western Liang Kingdom; they planned to travel there together the next day.
• That night, Ren Ye left the thatched cottage to find food and saw the Demoness and Wu Meng drinking with a third figure he recognized as familiar.

Ren Ye suspected that the Yang Family and the Vengeful Ghost Sect were conspiring after he saw someone who resembled Yang Mingyuan drinking with the Demoness and Wu Meng, while the Immortal Wave Sect prepared to send a vast army into Tide Dragon City. The chapter ended with the Demoness telling Ren Ye that they would travel alone to Western Liang to kill Chu Jin.

• Ren Ye spotted a figure resembling Yang Mingyuan with the Demoness and Wu Meng, then suspected the Yang Family had helped the Vengeful Ghost Sect infiltrate Tide Dragon City and stage the ancestral-ceremony massacre.
• Divine Baby warned Ren Ye that the guards had returned, forcing him to abandon his attempt to identify the figure in the pavilion.
• At the Immortal Wave Sect, Xun Immortal Master reported suspicious timing around Uncle Wang's discovery of Zhu Zigui and Long Yuqing's argument with Yang Ganglie; Sect Master Wuchen ordered four cities to send 240,000 troops to Tide Dragon City.
• Long Yuqing learned that Zhu Zigui had been captured again, then received word that the four cities' armies had surrounded Tide Dragon City and demanded entry; his prayer beads shattered as he faced the crisis.
• Ren Ye suggested traveling to Western Liang with a small group, but the Demoness said that only she and Ren Ye would go kill Chu Jin.

Yang Ganglie rode alone to halt the four-city army surrounding Tide Dragon City, won three days to appeal to the Immortal Wave Sect, and then knelt outside its gates when the Sect Master was away. Three days later, Ren Ye reached Western Liang without the Demoness, sensed a Boundary-Space Stone in the city, and realized its holder might sense him too.

• Long Yuqing refused to open Tide Dragon City's gates and activated its city-guarding formation as 240,000 troops surrounded the city.
• Yang Mingtang blamed Long Yuqing for the crisis, but Yang Ganglie armed himself and rode alone to confront the four City Lords.
• Yang Ganglie secured three days before the armies would enter, then rode to the Immortal Wave Sect and knelt at its gates after learning the Sect Master had gone to Western Liang.
• Three days later, the Demoness received news of the siege, left Ren Ye to enter Western Liang alone, and told him to wait for her.
• Ren Ye entered the city with the Demoness's Pass Permit, sensed the Boundary-Space Stone through his Blood Mark, and feared that its holder could sense him in return.

Yang Ganglie learned that the Immortal Wave Sect had decreed Long Yuqing must die, then returned to Tide Dragon City. In Western Liang City, Ren Ye traced the Boundary-Space Stone to the Ye Residence, where Situ Ye revealed that he was waiting for the Son of Destiny already in the city.

• Xun Immortal Master told Yang Ganglie that Long Yuqing had to issue an Edict of Self-Blame and slit his own throat, while the Yang Family would take power if Yang Ganglie obeyed.
• Yang Ganglie accepted the Immortal Wave Sect's decree and visited Long Yuqing's father's tomb on his way back to Tide Dragon City.
• Ren Ye concealed his Emperor Character Blood Mark, entered Western Liang City, and followed the Boundary-Space Stone's resonance toward the inner city.
• A street vendor told Ren Ye that Situ Ye was the ruler's illegitimate son, and Ren Ye concluded the Boundary-Space Stone was likely inside the Ye Residence.
• Dozens of powerful cultivators left the Ye Residence, while Ren Ye decided he needed to plan carefully before taking the stone.
• Situ Ye told a middle-aged man that he was waiting for the Son of Destiny and that the man was already in Western Liang City.

Ren Ye learned that Western Liang City’s Heavenly Prodigy Grand Gathering had drawn powerful young talents who planned to hunt him for his destiny, while he gathered information at the Martial Temple market. After the gathering’s attendees discussed using bait to draw him out, Ren Ye saw a bound criminal displayed at the city gate and was overcome with fury when he recognized the person.

• Ren Ye discovered that Young Master Situ Ye was protected by fifth-grade experts, then heard the previous night’s battle in Lianghe Township had killed many people.
• The innkeeper told Ren Ye that the Heavenly Prodigy Grand Gathering would bring young talents to Western Liang City, many hoping to kill the outsider bearing human destiny.
• Ren Ye went to the Martial Temple market to gather information and learned that the Ye Residence’s forces had fought mysterious cultivators in Lianghe Township.
• At Zetian Lake, Situ Ye and other prodigies discussed hunting Ren Ye, while Yin Jiu mocked them, left the pavilion, and urinated into the lake.
• Situ Ye said Ren Ye had already arrived in Western Liang City and revealed that bait to lure him out had been secured.
• A bound criminal was hung before the city gate, and Ren Ye recognized the person and was overcome by the urge to kill.

Ren Ye found Xu Bangzi captured and displayed outside Western Liang City, then resolved to rescue him alone and disrupt the Heavenly Prodigy Grand Gathering. He prepared by seeking out a dying, notorious man and using the Book of Life and Death Paper to summon the King of Hell, prompting a mysterious man to send him an ancient token marked “Jiang.”

• Ren Ye recognized Xu Bangzi hanging beneath the city gate, inferred that the Western Liang Imperial Clan was using him as bait, and decided to save him without waiting for help.
• Ren Ye disguised himself and hired a tea-stall proprietor to find a dying evildoer and compile information on nearby Secret Realms.
• Ren Ye chose the gravely ill Old Master You, scouted the You family residence, and infiltrated it after the household had gone to sleep.
• Ren Ye used the Book of Life and Death Paper to record Old Master You’s life and summon the King of Hell, filling the room with Netherworld Qi.
• A black-robed man saw that Ren Ye had burned the yellow paper and sent an Ancient Token That Stirs Heaven and Earth to him; the token appeared above Ren Ye and bore the character “Jiang.”

Ren Ye arrived at Western Liang’s grand gathering to rescue Xu Bangzi and confront the sects and rulers plotting to seize his destiny. After breaking through the city gate and defeating Situ Ye, he stood over the gathering and again demanded to know who deserved to be called a prodigy.

• Ren Ye placed an ancient token inside the You Family residence, then spent the following nights searching for secret realms described in the Travelogue.
• Prodigies and experts from across the Nine Li Continent gathered at Zetian Lake, where Situ Ye prepared to open the Heaven Character Arena and the rulers discussed dividing Ren Ye’s destiny.
• Ren Ye arrived at Western Liang with the Human Emperor Sword, announced his challenge, and killed the fourth-grade general guarding the gate with a single strike.
• Ren Ye rescued Xu Bangzi from the city wall, while Situ Ye refused help from the other prodigies and flew out to fight him alone.
• Situ Ye trapped Ren Ye in darkness with his innate Secret Method, but Ren Ye used the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo and Ninety-Nine Human Emperor Seal to expose and bind him.
• Ren Ye struck Situ Ye with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire Finger, beheaded him, and asked the gathered prodigies who among them deserved the name.