Recaps

Ye Li ambushed Ying Jiangzhen with the Golden Great Bow, severely injuring and hurling the Divine Dao Sect leader out of the courtyard. Ying Jiangzhen recovered enough to threaten Ye Li, but Ye Li took flight and charged at him again.

• Yevna and the bold man from White Country sensed danger and retreated from the courtyard after Ye Li warned them.
• Ying Jiangzhen arrived and entered the courtyard, believing Ye Li was only a junior Dao Observation Realm cultivator.
• Ye Li drew the Golden Great Bow to eighty percent and struck Ying Jiangzhen before he could react.
• The arrow blasted Ying Jiangzhen through miles of forest and into a mountain, leaving him severely injured.
• Ying Jiangzhen recovered and vowed to overwhelm Ye Li, but Ye Li flew toward him through the night sky.

Ye Li overwhelmed Ying Jiangzhen with his physical strength and treasures, forcing the Divine Dao Sect Master to use his ultimate defensive art. As Ying Jiangzhen faced Ye Li’s final attack, a sudden Sword Qi split his giant phantom and cleaved his body in two.

• Ying Jiangzhen summoned the power of heaven and earth to stop Ye Li, but Ye Li broke through his defenses and landed a punch that hurled him into a mountain.
• Ye Li charged again, shattered Ying Jiangzhen’s katana, and smashed him into the ground with a series of blows.
• Yevna and the other White Country cultivator watched in shock as Ye Li battered the Divine Dao Sect Master without using Hegemony Realm methods.
• Ying Jiangzhen invoked the Divine Dao Sect’s ultimate life-saving art, manifesting a huge phantom around his battered body.
• A brilliant Sword Qi erupted from the ground, struck the phantom, and cleaved Ying Jiangzhen in two.

Ye Li killed Ying Jiangzhen and two Golden Moon Country Martial Dao Grandmasters after revealing overwhelming strength at the peak of the Dao Observation Realm. He returned to Yevna with the [Realm-Breaking Golden Vine], leaving her envious of Huaxia’s powerful new Arbiter.

• Ye Li beat Ying Jiangzhen to death after the Divine Dao Sect master’s death-substitution technique left him battered but alive.
• Ye Li killed the two Golden Moon Country Martial Dao Grandmasters when they tried to flee.
• Ye Li returned to the courtyard, where Yevna and the bold man waited nervously for him.
• Ye Li showed Yevna the half-inch [Realm-Breaking Golden Vine] he had taken from Ying Jiangzhen’s Storage Treasure Tool.
• Yevna recognized the treasure and reflected that Huaxia was fortunate to have Ye Li as its Arbiter.

Yevna accepted that Ye Li had no need to cooperate with White Country, though he left open the possibility of sharing treasure if they met again in the secret realm. Back at the Federation’s residence, Chris Zhenlin revealed unsettling changes in her eyes as Isabella reported a fight outside the city.

• Yevna admitted that Ye Li no longer needed White Country’s cooperation, and Ye Li said they could discuss a treasure split if they met in the secret realm.
• Ye Li returned to the courtyard to sort through his gains and prepare for a confrontation with the Temple Pope.
• Yevna scolded the bold man for failing to thank Ye Li, while he confessed that the fight had terrified him.
• The battle’s tremors and light reached Kyoto City, though the disturbances soon subsided.
• Chris Zhenlin reflected on Ye Li’s strength as strange patterns changed her eyes into vertical pupils.
• Isabella told Chris Zhenlin that Martial Dao Grandmaster-level experts were fighting outside the city and asked whether they should investigate.

Chris Zhenlin chose not to investigate the battle, focusing instead on the coming secret realm and her plans for Ye Li. In Golden Moon Country, officials discovered that Ye Li had killed Ying Jiangzhen and two other demigods, prompting the shaken leadership to seek friendly ties with Huaxia and conceal the deaths.

• Chris Zhenlin declined Isabella’s request to investigate the fighting, believing Ye Li might attack her and deciding to wait for the secret realm.
• Chris Zhenlin anticipated disciplining Ye Li in the secret realm and using a spiritual imprint to advance her martial path.
• Golden Moon Country officials arrived at the ruined battlefield, realized its three demigods were dead, and fled in fear of Ye Li.
• Young martial artists and other witnesses suffered severe shock and injuries after seeing Ye Li’s battle.
• Golden Moon Country’s leaders confirmed Ying Jiangzhen’s death and ordered a goodwill letter and medicinal gifts sent to Ye Li.
• Golden Moon Country’s leaders tried to keep the deaths secret, though they expected news of Ying Jiangzhen’s death to spread.

Ye Li upgraded the Myriad Transformation Divine Soldier Iron with a new tracking attack after consuming a Land Immortal’s soul, then waited for the secret realm to open. The next morning, Yang Qingshan received confirmation that the Divine Dao Sect’s leader and two Martial Dao Grandmasters had died at Ye Li’s courtyard.

• Ye Li saved his Malice Points for the secret realm instead of breaking through to the Hegemony Realm.
• Ye Li fed the souls of two Martial Dao Grandmasters and a Land Immortal to the Divine Iron, awakening its second Divine Mark.
• Ye Li learned that the new mark let him lock an attack onto a target, making it impossible for them to evade regardless of distance or movement technique.
• Ye Li considered the limited intelligence about the divine temple and relied on his Indestructible Golden Soul and Divine Iron as safeguards.
• Yang Qingshan read a report stating that the Divine Dao Sect’s leader had brought two Martial Dao Grandmasters to Ye Li’s courtyard and that all three were confirmed dead later that night.

Yang Qingshan learned that Ye Li had overwhelmed Golden Moon Country’s three great powerhouses and realized how far the young general had surpassed him. At Heaven and Earth Pass, Zhou Shang worried that Cai Jingyun’s worsening condition and the lack of a new Land Immortal would eventually doom the defensive line.

• Yang Qingshan read reports of Ye Li’s victories, including the deaths of Golden Moon Country’s Divine Dao Sect leader and three great families.
• Yang Qingshan saw that Ye Li’s Precious Blood Glazed Lamp remained steady during the battle and concluded that Ye Li had held the upper hand.
• Yang Qingshan received a vibration from the Seal of Judgment and connected his consciousness to it.
• Zhou Shang patrolled Heaven and Earth Pass and observed that the secret realm’s beasts had stopped launching major Beast Tides.
• Zhou Shang recalled that Cai Jingyun was repeatedly fighting three powerful enemies while her condition worsened, and feared the pass would fall without a new Land Immortal.

Cai Jingyun learned that Yang Qingshan had not accompanied Ye Li to Golden Moon Country and feared the young Arbiter had been left in danger. Yang revealed that Ye Li had already killed the country’s Land Immortal and five Martial Dao Grandmasters, while Ye Li watched a powerful Spatial Gate form near Kyoto City.

• Cai Jingyun contacted Yang Qingshan through the [Seal of Judgment] and discovered that Meng Dongzhu had expected Yang to go to Golden Moon Country with Ye Li.
• Yang admitted that he had not gone, prompting Cai Jingyun to prepare to leave Heaven and Earth Pass and protect Ye Li herself.
• Yang told Cai Jingyun that Ye Li had killed Golden Moon Country’s Land Immortal and five Martial Dao Grandmasters in less than an hour, leaving only one Martial Dao Grandmaster alive there.
• Ye Li observed a Spatial Gate forming outside Kyoto City and sensed that its energy exceeded that of an early Hegemony Realm expert.
• The [Indestructible Golden Vine] inside Ye Li’s Fengyun Gold Medal stirred eagerly as the Spatial Gate took shape.

A Spatial Gate opened in the mountains beyond Kyoto, and Ye Li entered the secret realm ahead of the other representatives. Chris Zhenlin followed with Isabella, intending to deal with him, while the waiting Grandmasters wondered why Golden Moon Country had not arrived.

• A Spatial Gate formed, drawing demigod-level Grandmasters from many nations to wait outside under the four nations' agreement.
• Ye Li arrived first and entered the secret realm carrying the [Realm-Breaking Golden Vine], prompting some waiting Grandmasters to consider following him inside.
• Yevna and the other White Country representative arrived, and Yevna suspected Ye Li had sensed the Divine Dao Sect Leader's threat and hurried into the realm.
• Chris Zhenlin reasoned that Ye Li had the [Realm-Breaking Golden Vine] and planned to consume it for a desperate breakthrough, while Isabella asked to pursue him alone.
• Chris Zhenlin refused Isabella's request and took her into the secret realm, saying she could witness Ye Li's end.
• The remaining Grandmasters waited outside and wondered why Golden Moon Country's representatives had not appeared.

Ye Li reached the [Realm-Breaking Golden Vine] and confronted the Earth Vein True Dragon guarding it. He killed the early-stage Hegemony Realm dragon with overwhelming force.

• Ye Li followed the [Realm-Breaking Golden Vine]’s connection through the secret realm and reached the mountain where it grew.
• Ye Li sensed the Hegemony Realm Earth Vein True Dragon beneath the mountain and broke into its underground palace.
• The Earth Vein True Dragon attacked Ye Li, but he shattered its claw with a punch and wounded it with a golden arrow.
• The Earth Vein True Dragon summoned stone spikes and tried to defend itself, but Ye Li crushed it with a massive black palm.
• Ye Li killed the Earth Vein True Dragon and gained Malice Points.

Ye Li used the Realm-Breaking Golden Vine and Malice Points to break through to the eighth-rank Hegemony Realm, becoming a Land Immortal. With the vine’s medicinal power still unspent, he continued advancing his cultivation.

• Ye Li killed the Earth Vein True Dragon and made it his loyal servant, ordering it to guard him as he cultivated.
• Ye Li harvested the Realm-Breaking Golden Vine, stored a piece in the golden plaque, and swallowed the rest.
• The vine’s medicinal power and Malice Points helped Ye Li construct the Gate of Heaven and Earth and enter the eighth-rank Hegemony Realm.
• Ye Li gained confidence that he could defeat the Divine Dao Sect Master without using Golden Soul Revival.
• Ye Li spent more Malice Points to keep advancing, gaining a 150% cultivation speed boost from the vine’s remaining medicinal power.

Chris Zhenlin and Isabella pursued Ye Li into the thousand-mile forest sea, where Chris Zhenlin destroyed a powerful Earth Dragon and discovered it was a black-qi impostor. Ye Li appeared above the mountains at the peak of the fourth level of the Hegemony Realm, and Chris Zhenlin prepared to force him into submission.

• Chris Zhenlin refused Isabella’s request to fight Ye Li herself and continued toward the forest sea with her.
• A Thousand-Zhang Earth Dragon trapped Chris Zhenlin and Isabella with its innate abilities, but Chris Zhenlin’s Divine Word nullified them.
• Chris Zhenlin struck the Earth Dragon and shattered its body, revealing that it was filled with black qi rather than blood.
• Chris Zhenlin and Isabella saw Ye Li rise from the central mountain, surrounded by a powerful aura.
• Chris Zhenlin told Ye Li she would make him submit by force.

Ye Li confronted Chris Zhenlin after advancing to Land Immortal, while she threatened to kill his loved ones and tried to subdue him. The chapter left their battle underway, with Ye Li’s punch sending Chris flying and Isabella fearing the Pope could lose.

• Isabella recognized that Ye Li had advanced to Land Immortal, and Chris Zhenlin soothed her before confronting him.
• Chris threatened to kill Ye Li’s friends, family, teachers, and elders to make him despair and submit.
• Ye Li sealed the thousand-mile forest, while Yevna and another White Country grandmaster watched from a distance.
• Chris tried to plant Battle Weariness in Ye Li’s Guardian Spirit Platform, then used Divine Word to forbid Guardian Spirit Platforms, but his divine object resisted her control.
• Ye Li unleashed a powerful punch that sent Chris flying thousands of zhang, leaving Isabella shocked and afraid that the Pope could not defeat him.

Ye Li overwhelmed Chris Zhenlin with his enhanced strength, breaking through her divine protection and pummeling her into the earth despite her use of Divine Word. The chapter left Chris near death as Ye Li demanded that she search her heart and explain what could make people like her change.

• Ye Li battered Chris Zhenlin with a relentless barrage of punches until her divine light shattered.
• Chris Zhenlin used Divine Word to halt Ye Li briefly, then struck him with her divine staff and crushed part of his abdomen.
• Ye Li instantly healed with Indestructible Golden Soul, broke free of Divine Word, and struck Chris before she could speak again.
• Ye Li beat Chris into the earth while Isabella watched in terror and the Knight King's Dao heart collapsed.
• Ye Li continued pummeling the nearly unconscious Chris and demanded that she search her heart and change.

Ye Li overwhelmed the Divine Temple Pope, Chris Zhenlin, and killed her despite her desperate escape attempt and offer of loyalty. The Pope’s warning that two pinnacle martial artists had crossed the Sea of Stars and might return left Huaxia facing a future threat.

• Ye Li battered Chris Zhenlin until her Dao Heart nearly collapsed, while Isabella and the others watched in terror.
• Chris Zhenlin used her life-preserving method to restore her strength and flee, but Ye Li blasted her back into a crater.
• Chris Zhenlin demanded to know how Ye Li had resisted her abilities, and he prepared to kill her with Sword Qi.
• Chris Zhenlin begged for mercy, offered loyalty to Huaxia, and warned that two pinnacle martial artists had left Blue Star across the Sea of Stars.
• Ye Li unleashed his Sword Qi, destroyed most of the forest sea, and killed Chris Zhenlin.

Ye Li killed Temple Pope Chris Zhenlin and claimed her divine scepter, while the surviving witnesses and Isabella faced the aftermath. Isabella left to report the Pope’s death, and Ye Li remained in possession of the Temple’s powerful artifact.

• Yevna and the bold man realized that Ye Li had killed Chris Zhenlin and were too frightened to approach him.
• Ye Li picked up the divine scepter and told the kneeling Isabella to return to the Federation and rebuild her Dao Heart.
• Isabella tried to ask for the scepter back, but Ye Li ordered her to leave.
• Isabella flew away to report the Pope’s death, leaving the divine scepter with Ye Li.

After defeating the Temple Pope, Ye Li used the Malice Points she yielded to upgrade Soul Control and summon her as a soul. The new ability let souls cultivate and return their gains to him, but Ye Li judged it too slow to prioritize over his own combat improvements.

• Ye Li reviewed his nearly four hundred thousand Malice Points and considered upgrading Soul Control to prepare for the Federation's two supreme ninth-rank martial artists.
• Ye Li spent Malice Points to raise Soul Control to LV2 and gained the innate divine ability Cultivation Master.
• Chris Zhenlin appeared as a soul, recognized Ye Li as her master, and understood how he had created the Earth Vein True Dragon.
• Ye Li assessed Cultivation Master's slow cultivation feedback and decided to prioritize upgrading Indestructible Golden Soul instead.

Ye Li questioned Chris Zhenlin about the Star Sea, civilizations beyond Blue Star, and the Federation’s absent Mountain Sea Realm experts. With their return possibly only weeks away, he prepared to use the Federation’s demand for the Papal Staff to gain more Malice Points and poured his remaining points into his Martial Arts Level.

• Ye Li asked Chris Zhenlin about the Federation’s two former popes who had crossed the Star Sea, and she explained that civilizations existed beyond Blue Star.
• Chris Zhenlin described the Star Sea as a dangerous asteroid belt that had once blocked travel from Blue Star, but had begun to thin two thousand years earlier.
• Ye Li learned that the two Federation Mountain Sea Realm martial artists might return in two or three weeks or as late as two or three months, and Chris warned him that the Papal Staff could be tracked.
• Chris said the Federation would most likely come to Huaxia to demand the Papal Staff, and Ye Li saw a chance to gain infamy levels and Malice Points.
• Ye Li returned Chris Zhenlin to his soul space and spent all his remaining Malice Points to increase his Martial Arts Level.

Ye Li advanced to the seventh level of the Hegemony Realm but found he still lacked the strength and Malice Points to reach its peak. After learning that a Golden Plume Peacock King guarded the secret realm’s Heaven and Earth Hegemony Tree, he set out to find the White Country representative and use her talent to locate more treasures.

• Ye Li strengthened his Gate of Heaven and Earth, advancing from the fourth to the fifth level of the Hegemony Realm and expanding his perception across hundreds of miles.
• Ye Li consumed more Malice Points and reached the seventh level of the Hegemony Realm, while two White Country Martial Dao Grandmasters watched from afar in shock.
• Ye Li reconstructed the Earth Vein True Dragon’s soul and learned that a mid-stage Hegemony Realm Golden Plume Peacock King guarded the Heaven and Earth Hegemony Tree.
• Ye Li decided to sweep the secret realm for treasures and use the White Country representative’s searching talent to find them.
• Ye Li left the mountain peak in an azure-gold aurora.

Ye Li met Yevna and took her to locate Treasure Medicines across the secret realm. They headed toward the Heaven and Earth Hegemony Tree, where Yevna expected to find the realm’s strongest guardian beast.

• Yevna decided to approach Ye Li, but he descended to meet her and asked how many Treasure Medicines she could sense.
• Yevna said she could detect every Treasure Medicine within a thousand miles unless a special formation blocked it, and Ye Li invited her to hunt for them.
• Yevna’s companion declined to go with them, and Ye Li carried Yevna away at once.
• As they flew toward the Heaven and Earth Hegemony Tree, Yevna sensed its fluctuations despite the guardian beast’s isolation formation.
• Yevna anticipated meeting the powerful guardian beast and considered refining its bloodline into an eighth-rank treasure tool for Ye Li.

The Golden Plume Peacock King hid while Ye Li and Yevna approached the Heaven and Earth Hegemony Tree. Ye Li smashed open its hiding place and heavily injured it, leaving Yevna stunned.

• The Golden Plume Peacock King watched over the nearly ripe Heaven and Earth Hegemony Tree and hid in a mountain cave when it sensed two intruders approaching.
• Yevna nervously asked Ye Li whether they should go straight to the treasure tree, and Ye Li led her there.
• Ye Li smashed the mountain wall with a punch, exposing the Golden Plume Peacock King in its cave.
• The Golden Plume Peacock King transformed and fled, but Ye Li caught up and blasted apart most of its body with a punch.
• Yevna stood beneath the tree, stunned by Ye Li's attack.

Ye Li killed the Peacock King, the Hegemony Realm guardian of the Heaven and Earth Hegemony Tree, and harvested the five fruits with Yevna. He planned to search the other secret realms and grow stronger before confronting the Beast God.

• Yevna realized the Peacock King was a Hegemony Realm beast, but Ye Li crushed it with overwhelming ease.
• The Peacock King offered to lead Ye Li to a Hegemony True Dragon and its Supreme Treasure, but Ye Li told it the dragon was already dead and finished killing it.
• Ye Li gathered the Peacock King's blood to nourish the Heaven and Earth Hegemony Tree, which produced five ripe Hegemony Fruits.
• Yevna carefully harvested the five fruits and gave them to Ye Li, who stored them in his golden plaque.
• Ye Li asked Yevna for the next location and resolved to plunder the secret realms' treasures before confronting the Beast God.

Ye Li and Yevna swept through the Hegemony Realm Secret Realm, killing its guardian beasts and collecting its treasures. After finding the realm nearly exhausted, Ye Li planned to return to the outside world and later target Northern Cold Country.

• Yevna sensed unusual true-qi fluctuations southwest, and Ye Li gave her the Hegemony Peacock's corpse so she could forge a treasure-tool prototype.
• Ye Li carried Yevna through the secret realm, slaughtering exotic beasts and gathering Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures for two days.
• Yevna reported that the Withered Absolute Shattered Wood was the last treasure in the area, and Ye Li agreed to rest before returning outside.
• Ye Li checked his Malice Points and planned to reach the peak of the Hegemony Realm by killing the two eighth-rank beasts at Heaven and Earth Pass.
• Ye Li learned from the Pope of the Divine Temple that Northern Cold Country had a Land Immortal, and planned to go there after clearing Huaxia's three high-rank secret realms.

Ye Li emerged from the secret realm with Yevna and the White Country representatives, telling the gathered Grandmasters that it was empty. He summoned the supposedly missing Temple Pope, Chris Zhenlin, who knelt before him and called him her Lord.

• Foreign Martial Dao Grandmasters waited outside the Spatial Gate, expecting Ye Li and the other representatives to return.
• Ye Li and the two White Country representatives emerged, and Ye Li said the secret realm was empty.
• Yevna began to explain what had happened to the Temple Pope, but Ye Li interrupted her with a snap of his fingers.
• Ye Li summoned Chris Zhenlin from black mist before the stunned Grandmasters.
• Chris Zhenlin knelt before Ye Li and greeted him as her Lord.

Ye Li left the Golden Moon Country secret realm after revealing that he had subdued Chris Zhenlin, while the Federal Temple learned of her death and the loss of its Divine Staff. Father Jim planned to contact the former popes and retrieve the staff from Huaxia, but none of the kings dared volunteer.

• Ye Li told the Martial Dao Grandmasters they could do as they pleased, then left with Chris Zhenlin’s soul as they saluted him.
• Isabella told Father Jim and the temple kings that Ye Li was at least at the seventh level of the Hegemony Realm and had killed Chris Zhenlin.
• Isabella revealed that Ye Li had also taken the shattered Divine Staff, leaving the temple kings shocked.
• Father Jim said he would contact the former popes and take several kings to Huaxia to retrieve the staff, but no one volunteered.