Recaps

Ye Li killed the Griffon Great Demon, confirmed its limited connection to the Celestial Horse Demon Race, and left the Heavenly Supervision Department experts stunned. He then spent Malice Points to upgrade Indestructible Golden Soul to LV7, gaining the True Self Dharma Body divine ability.

• Ye Li killed the Griffon Great Demon with his Divine Spear and learned from its memories that it had studied the Law of Divine Wind with a Celestial Horse Demon.
• Ye Li asked Kong Ting whether any other Divine Connection Realm threats remained, then told him to report future troubles through the Supreme Seal.
• The Heavenly Supervision Department experts watched Ye Li depart, while True Fire Elder accepted that no one in the Eastern Continent could stop him.
• Ye Li settled in the wilderness and spent Malice Points upgrading Indestructible Golden Soul.
• Ye Li advanced Indestructible Golden Soul to LV7, improving its healing and physical enhancement and gaining the True Self Dharma Body divine ability.

Ye Li considered the power of his Heaven and Earth Manifestation and how to earn Malice Points while seeking a Creation Realm cultivation method. Meanwhile, Ying Xuanji recommended him for the position of ninth Star Lord, and the group prepared to leave for the Central Continent.

• Ye Li realized his Heaven and Earth Manifestation could withstand the Power of Law, but found his Malice Points depleted.
• Ying Xuanji told Elder Tian that Ye Li had destroyed three sects in five days and recommended him as a candidate for the ninth Star Lord.
• Elder Tian agreed to meet Ye Li and promised that Ziwei Hall would reward his service even if he did not become a Star Lord.
• Ying Xuanji reflected on why she had sought to reward Ye Li, then heard Qin Han announce that Ye Li was ready to depart.
• Ying Xuanji confirmed she was prepared and left the courtyard to join the journey to the Central Continent.

Fu Yunshu, Qin Han, Ye Li, and Ying Xuanji traveled from Eastern Continent toward Central Continent Royal City so Fu Yunshu and Qin Han could seek entry to the secret realm through the Taiqing Dao Tablet. The flying shuttle neared Hongcheng Great Commandery, where Ying Xuanji planned to introduce Ye Li to a deputy hall master after the qualification test.

• True Fire Elder warned Fu Yunshu and Qin Han to keep a low profile and focus on obtaining the method, while assuring Ye Li that information about Divine Connection Realm threats would be sent to him.
• Fu Yunshu, Qin Han, Ye Li, and Ying Xuanji departed Eastern Continent aboard the Heavenly Supervision Department's flying shuttle.
• Qin Han explained that the Taiqing Dao Tablet was watched by the Central Continent Heavenly Supervision Department branch in Royal City and described the region's prosperity and spiritual resources.
• Ying Xuanji asked Ye Li to meet a deputy hall master she knew, and Ye Li said they would discuss it after testing their qualifications at the Taiqing Dao Tablet.
• As the shuttle approached Hongcheng Great Commandery, Fu Yunshu reflected that even Ying Xuanji treated Ye Li with respect.

Ye Li and the Eastern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department arrived in the Central Continent Royal City two days before the Five Continents War, where Qin Han and Fu Yunshu went to be tested by the Taiqing Dao Tablet. Ye Li was sent to register as an accompanying elder, while a young registrar secretly left after Qin Han and Fu Yunshu teleported away.

• The Eastern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department's flying shuttle entered the Royal City, drawing cautious attention from the powerful figures gathered there.
• Qiu Tianzong welcomed the group and directed Ying Xuanji to meet Hall Master Tian, but Ying Xuanji chose to help the Eastern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department first.
• Qiu Tianzong asked Ye Li to register as the group's accompanying elder, while Qin Han and Fu Yunshu went to the Taiqing Dao Tablet for their tests.
• A young registrar watched Qin Han and Fu Yunshu disappear through the teleportation array, sensed the surroundings, shut the ledger, and hurried out of the courtyard.

Ye Li discovered that a long-robed Heavenly Supervision Department official was an undercover agent for the Ten Thousand Monster Holy Land, but chose to let him go so he could trace the network behind him. Ye Li and Ying Xuanji left through a teleportation array while the agent carried away the roster booklet.

• The long-robed young man prepared to secretly send a list of Five Continents War prodigies to a hidden lord in the Central Continent.
• Ye Li collided with him, took the roster booklet, wrote down his own name and origin, and returned it.
• The long-robed young man believed Ye Li had not suspected him and hurried away with the booklet.
• Ying Xuanji warned Ye Li that the man was suspicious, and Ye Li said they should keep him alive to follow the foreign agents behind him.
• Ye Li entered the courtyard's teleportation array, and Ying Xuanji followed.

Ying Xuanji and Ye Li arrived at the Taiqing Dao Tablet, where prodigies from across the Five Continents had gathered to cultivate and undergo a test. Fu Yunshu went first, and the Dao Tablet revealed a modest result as the chapter left the others waiting to be tested.

• Ying Xuanji surveyed the gathered prodigies and recognized several renowned cultivators from the other continents.
• A gray-robed elder arrived to oversee the test and asked Qin Han and Fu Yunshu who would go first.
• Fu Yunshu volunteered, accepting that she was outmatched by the gathered prodigies and choosing to take the first test as the senior sister.
• The elder led Fu Yunshu to the Taiqing Dao Tablet and instructed her to touch it.
• Fu Yunshu's touch made the Dao Tablet illuminate a little over a hundred dim stars, revealing a Dao age of eight hundred and seventy-six years without triggering a phenomenon.

After Qin Han’s underwhelming Dao Tablet trial, Yang Shijian insulted the Eastern Continent disciples and threatened them, prompting Ye Li to intervene. Ye Li crushed Yang Shijian with his Divine Connection Realm pressure and advanced toward him, promising to kill him shortly.

• Ye Li realized the stars fading above the Taiqing Dao Tablet revealed the tested cultivators’ Dao ages and gathered power as the trial continued.
• Qin Han took his turn at the Taiqing Dao Tablet, but his result fell short of the strongest Five Continents prodigies.
• Yang Shijian mocked Qin Han and Fu Yunshu, then warned that aristocratic clan prodigies bore grudges against the Heavenly Supervision Department.
• Ye Li released his pressure, shattered Yang Shijian’s protective qi, and broke his knee as he pinned him to the ground.
• Ye Li walked toward Yang Shijian and told him to wait because he would kill him in a moment.

Ye Li approached the Taiqing Dao Tablet to have his Dao Age recorded, and Ying Xuanji realized she had never learned how old he was. When he touched the tablet, it reacted with unprecedented force, leaving the royal city trembling.

• Ye Li's Divine Connection Realm pressure forced the gathered prodigies to bow as he advanced toward the Taiqing Dao Tablet.
• Ye Li told the gray-robed Old Man to record his name and approached the tablet, while the prodigies doubted it could respond to him.
• Ying Xuanji realized she had never learned Ye Li's precise Dao Age and feared he might be young enough to qualify for the tablet's test.
• Ye Li touched the tablet, which emitted a dragon-like hum as a vast spiritual energy vortex collapsed toward it and the royal city shook.

The Taiqing Dao Tablet revealed Ye Li as a nineteen-year-old at the peak of the Divine Connection Realm, triggering a continent-wide spectacle and stunning the gathered cultivators. After the test, Ye Li turned his attention to Yang Shijian, whom he had previously subdued, and asked whether he had any last words.

• The Taiqing Dao Tablet unleashed a vast celestial phenomenon that was visible across the Central Continent and shook cultivators throughout the Eight Wastelands.
• Ying Xuanji counted 981 burning stars and learned that Ye Li was only nineteen years old and already at the peak of the Divine Connection Realm.
• Qin Han and the others realized Ye Li had been steadily improving rather than recovering his strength, while the recording elder struggled to document the result.
• Ye Li received an iridescent mark that would draw him into the secret realm for the war, then left the platform as powerful auras gathered at the Heavenly Supervision Department.
• Ye Li confronted the subdued Yang Shijian and asked if he had any last words, leaving the frightened elder unable to speak.

Ye Li revealed his Divine Connection Realm peak cultivation, killed Yang Shijian, and left the gathered prodigies terrified of facing him at the Five Continents War. Qiu Tianzong arrived, confirmed Ye Li was only nineteen, and vowed that the royal city’s Dragon Cavalry Guard would protect him.

• Ye Li invoked the law and killed Yang Shijian with the Power of Law.
• Ying Xuanji steadied herself and urged Ye Li to leave before Hall Master Tian arrived.
• Ye Li warned the gathered prodigies that they would meet again at the Five Continents War, leaving many in despair.
• Qiu Tianzong arrived through the teleportation formation and asked whether Ye Li had caused the celestial phenomenon.
• Ye Li confirmed his age, and Qiu Tianzong promised the royal city’s three thousand Dragon Cavalry Guard would protect him.

After Ye Li’s shocking rise to the Divine Connection Realm alerted Qiu Tianzong to the danger of demons learning about him, Ye Li left the Royal City Heavenly Supervision Department with Ying Xuanji. Qiu Tianzong locked down the Royal City and detained the other prodigies, but feared its defenses might not withstand the threats ahead.

• Qiu Tianzong asked Ye Li to remain at the Royal City Heavenly Supervision Department until the Central Continent Director of the Celestial Observatory arrived, warning that demons might have sensed the Dao Tablet’s awakening.
• Ye Li refused special protection and left through the teleportation formation with Ying Xuanji, trusting his own abilities to keep him safe.
• Qiu Tianzong ordered the Dragon Cavalry Guard to seal the Royal City’s transit formations and forbade anyone from entering without permission.
• Qiu Tianzong ordered the Heavenly Supervision Department stewards to take the Five Continents prodigies into custody and impose the highest-grade restrictions on them.
• Qiu Tianzong feared that the Dao Tablet’s celestial disturbance had reached lurking demons and doubted the Royal City’s defenses could withstand the coming danger.

True Lord Jiuyin debated abandoning its infiltration of Central Continent after finding Ye Li’s name on a suspicious roster, then witnessed an unprecedented Dao Stele phenomenon revealing a nineteen-year-old peerless prodigy. Convinced the Divine Continent had not anticipated the prodigy’s emergence, Jiuyin saw an opportunity to exploit the situation.

• True Lord Jiuyin studied the roster and suspected the Heavenly Supervision Department had deliberately left Ye Li’s mismatched handwriting as a warning to make it withdraw.
• A vast spiritual-energy storm and nine hundred and eighty-one shining stars appeared across Central Continent before a formation concealed the phenomenon.
• True Lord Jiuyin realized the phenomenon marked an unprecedented prodigy, possibly a nineteen-year-old Sun Moon Realm or Heaven and Earth Realm cultivator.
• True Lord Jiuyin reasoned that the Divine Continent’s own surprise meant the prodigy was an unexpected variable, and it began plotting to exploit the opportunity.

Ye Li’s test shocked the factions across Taiqing Shenzhou, while Tian Qingwu urgently contacted Ying Potian to report the unprecedented genius. Ying Potian learned that nineteen-year-old Ye Li had reached the peak of the Divine Connection Realm and was left stunned.

• The Tianshu Star shifted, prompting cultivators and powerful factions across Central Continent to investigate the celestial anomaly.
• Tian Qingwu anxiously tried to contact Ying Potian from the Heavenly Supervision Department in Central Continent Royal City.
• Ying Potian answered from the Northern Continent and asked Tian Qingwu to keep the conversation brief because the Land of Ten Thousand Demons was stirring.
• Tian Qingwu told Ying Potian that the Taiqing Dao Tablet had verified Ye Li as a peerless genius.
• Tian Qingwu revealed that nineteen-year-old Ye Li had reached the peak of the Divine Connection Realm, leaving Ying Potian speechless with astonishment.

Ying Potian learned that Ye Li had reached the peak of the Divine Connection Realm before turning twenty and ordered the Royal City sealed to protect him from the lurking True Lord Jiuyin. Ye Li killed a demon spy and learned about the threat, then planned his next move toward the Western Continent with Ying Xuanji.

• Ying Potian ordered Tian Qingwu to keep Ye Li in the Royal City and prioritize his safety, even if True Lord Jiuyin attacked.
• Ying Potian identified True Lord Jiuyin as a third-level Creation Realm demon and ordered the Royal City spy killed before news of Ye Li could reach the Land of Ten Thousand Demons.
• Ye Li killed the demon executive, confirmed True Lord Jiuyin's existence, and prepared to escape any danger using souls he had scattered across the Central Continent.
• Ying Xuanji warned Ye Li that Palace Master Jiang of the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace disliked the Heavenly Supervision Department and advised him to bring generous gifts.
• Ye Li told Ying Xuanji he planned to visit the Western Continent, while she admitted his talent surpassed hers and struggled with her envy.

Tian Qingwu offered Ye Li the position of Ziwei Palace’s ninth Star Lord, promising extensive resources and authority to support his cultivation and actions across the Divine Continent. Ye Li accepted, and Tian Qingwu gave him the palace treasury catalogue while Ying Xuanji was to deliver his identity proof later.

• Tian Qingwu invited Ye Li to join Ziwei Palace as its ninth Star Lord.
• Tian Qingwu promised Ye Li access to the palace’s resources and the cooperation of the Heavenly Supervision Departments and Demon Suppression Departments, including authority to punish those who obstructed him.
• Ye Li considered the offer and accepted the Star Lord position, seeing it as a way to travel to the Western Continent openly and meet Palace Master Jiang of the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace.
• Tian Qingwu gave Ye Li Ziwei Palace’s treasury catalogue and said Ying Xuanji would provide his proof of identity later.

Ye Li selected two Creation Realm martial techniques and the God-Tier Nirvana Method from Ziwei Palace’s vault, while Tian Qingwu arranged for Ying Xuanji to assist him. Outside the royal city’s Heavenly Supervision Department, a Tianwu Hall elder confronted Ye Li over Yang Shijian’s death, demanding an explanation.

• Ye Li chose the Star World Transformation Technique, Myriad Spirits Shatter Life Palm, and Abyss Tide Drawing Art, and Tian Qingwu agreed to provide them before the joint campaign.
• Tian Qingwu arranged for Ying Xuanji to stay by Ye Li’s side and said the Heavenly Supervision Department had prepared him a residence.
• As Ye Li and Ying Xuanji walked through the department, they found a hooded Tianwu Hall figure waiting on the threshold.
• Ye Li said Yang Shijian had threatened a department official and been executed under Supreme Pure Law, then asked whether Tianwu Hall objected.
• The Tianwu Hall elder accused Ye Li of killing a genius and demanded that the royal city’s Heavenly Supervision Department answer for it.

After Yang Shijian died, Cheng Zhou tracked his killer, Ye Li, to the Heavenly Supervision Department and attacked him. Ye Li effortlessly defeated Cheng Zhou with a palm strike, leaving the elder in two pieces and the department’s grounds devastated.

• Cheng Zhou discovered that Yang Shijian’s Life Jade had shattered and realized Tianwu Hall would hold him responsible for the prodigy’s death.
• Cheng Zhou tracked Yang Shijian’s storage ring to Ye Li and drank two bottles of Dragon Light Shakes the Sea Liquid to strengthen himself.
• Ying Xuanji explained that Tianwu Hall’s Demonic Blood medicines could impair its cultivators’ intelligence and destabilize their spiritual platforms.
• Cheng Zhou charged at Ye Li and Ying Xuanji, but Ye Li moved first and struck Cheng Zhou’s dantian with a palm.
• Ye Li’s blow sent Cheng Zhou crashing through the Heavenly Supervision Department’s buildings and tore his body in two.

After Ye Li killed Cheng Zhou, he rejected Ying Xuanji’s warning and declared that he would destroy the Divine Continent’s corrupt sects, clans, and mountain gates, even those protected by Creation Realm True Monarchs. Ying Xuanji and Tian Qingwu resolved to support or test his ambitions, while True Lord Jiuyin watched the Royal City from nearby.

• Ying Xuanji warned Ye Li that killing Tianwu Hall’s elder could deepen its hatred and create a fatal threat if the Lord of Ziwei Palace perished.
• Ye Li killed the unconscious Cheng Zhou with a Divine Spear and said he would spare none of the Divine Continent’s deserving sects, clans, or mountain gates.
• Ying Xuanji decided to watch Ye Li’s reckoning with the True Monarchs and considered using his campaign to learn about his cultivation insights.
• Tian Qingwu sensed that Ye Li had noticed her in hiding and resolved to show him the courage of the Supreme Pure Divine Continent.
• True Lord Jiuyin appeared in the wilderness near the Royal City and vowed to catch Ye Li.

Ye Li waited in the Royal City for True Lord Jiuyin, expecting the demon to target him before the Five Continents War began. While preparing to fight, he received two Creation Realm techniques and studied their uses.

• Three thousand Dragon Cavalry Guards activated the Heavenly Net Forbidden Ritual Array, but detected no unusual aura near the Royal City.
• Ye Li reasoned that True Lord Jiuyin would likely come for him before the Five Continents War and resolved to use his new True Self Dharma Body against it.
• Ying Xuanji delivered the Star World Transformation Technique and Myriad Spirits Shatter Life Palm to Ye Li, while explaining that the Nirvana Method would arrive the next day.
• Ye Li studied the Star World Transformation Technique and learned that it could imprison an enemy in a Minor World and be detonated to attack them.

Ye Li chose the Star World Transformation Technique and began upgrading it with Malice Points. In Northern Underworld, Cao Annian warned Cao Xiuyuan that Cao Yang must not harm the mysterious prodigy in the war, but the royal city’s blockade was likely to prevent the warning from reaching him.

• Ye Li decided to postpone cultivating the Myriad Spirits Shatter Life Palm and spent Malice Points upgrading the Star World Transformation Technique.
• Elder Yao questioned why Cao Yang had been told to treat Sun Moon Realm cultivators well, and Cao Xiuyuan suggested the war might include an exceptional young prodigy.
• Cao Annian warned that if Cao Yang killed the prodigy, Ziwei Palace and the Heavenly Supervision Department could destroy Northern Underworld Immortal Mountain.
• Cao Annian told Cao Xiuyuan to hope Cao Yang had truly restrained himself, then left with a warning that Cao Yang might die if he had not.
• Cao Xiuyuan feared his letter would not reach Cao Yang because Tian Qingwu had sealed off nearly all communications from the royal city.

Cao Yang grew jealous of the mysterious Eastern Continent prodigy who had stirred the royal city’s attention and planned to defeat him during the Five Continents War. Before the war began, Qiu Tianzong detained Cao Yang and the other Central Continent prodigies for privately investigating the Heavenly Supervision Department.

• At a banquet in Drunken Immortal Tower, Cao Yang asked whether Yang Shijian had died beneath the Dao Tablet and rebuked a guest for calling him a barbarian.
• Cao Yang and the other prodigies speculated about the mysterious cultivator’s strength, and Cao Yang vowed to defeat him in the Five Continents War.
• Qiu Tianzong arrived with Heavenly Supervision Department enforcers and ordered the gathered prodigies to come with him for investigating confidential matters.
• Cao Yang’s Dao protector, Le Yan, questioned Qiu Tianzong, who said the prodigies would remain detained until the war ended and their Dao protectors could not accompany them.

Tian Qingwu guarded the royal city while True Lord Jiuyin secretly infiltrated the Heavenly Supervision Department to kill Ye Li. Just as Jiuyin approached Ye Li’s guarded courtyard, a purple-clad young woman stopped it.

• Tian Qingwu questioned the Dragon Cavalry Guard captain and learned that the Heavenly Net Forbidden Ritual Array had detected no unusual movement.
• Tian Qingwu surveyed the territory around the royal city, determined to protect it until the Central Continent Director of the Celestial Observatory arrived.
• True Lord Jiuyin concealed its demonic power and entered the royal city using a divine ability that bypassed the defenses.
• True Lord Jiuyin disguised itself as a Heavenly Supervision Department cultivator and located Ye Li’s guarded courtyard.
• A purple-clad young woman holding a golden scroll confronted True Lord Jiuyin as it approached the courtyard.

Ying Xuanji discovered that her attendant was actually True Lord Jiuyin, and Ye Li ambushed the demon lord before he could kill her. Ye Li drove Jiuyin through the royal city as Tian Qingwu rushed to the scene, where Jiuyin was left badly injured and under pressure.

• Ying Xuanji sensed that her attendant was a demon and attacked him with the Power of Law of the stars.
• True Lord Jiuyin subdued Ying Xuanji’s starlight, but Ye Li struck him with a flying kick before he could crush it.
• Ye Li pursued Jiuyin through the royal city and declared that he had finally caught him.
• Tian Qingwu sensed the battle, crushed her emergency token, and raced toward the Heavenly Supervision Department.
• Tian Qingwu saw Ye Li press Jiuyin, whose body was cracking as he struggled against the young cultivator.

Ye Li battered True Lord Jiuyin outside the royal city, but Jiuyin opened his Creation Law Domain and transformed into an Eight-headed Giant Serpent. As the domain stalled Ye Li and Tian Qingwu moved to counter it, Ye Li began unleashing a mysterious divine ability, leaving Jiuyin terrified.

• Ye Li crushed True Lord Jiuyin's Coiled Bone attack and blasted him beyond the royal city's walls.
• Tian Qingwu and the royal city's other fighters prepared to help Ye Li finish off Jiuyin.
• True Lord Jiuyin unleashed his Creation Law Domain, transformed into an Eight-headed Giant Serpent, and strengthened himself within the field.
• Ying Xuanji recognized the Law Domain, and Tian Qingwu rushed out to try to counter it.
• Ye Li began releasing a mythic divine ability, ordered everyone to fall back, and pierced the clouds with a golden pillar of light as Jiuyin cried out in terror.

Ye Li unleashed a Heaven and Earth Manifestation, growing nearly one hundred thousand zhang tall and overwhelming True Lord Jiuyin and the surrounding region. True Lord Jiuyin fled underground, but Ye Li’s colossal punch smashed through the mountain range as devastation spread across the land.

• True Lord Jiuyin attacked Ye Li with poison-miasma hurricanes and [Star Shatter], but their powers dissipated before reaching him.
• Ye Li spoke the words “Law,” “Heaven,” “Manifestation,” and “Earth,” shattering Jiuyin’s two serpent heads and disrupting Tian Qingwu, Qiu Tianzong, and the Dragon Cavalry Guard.
• Ye Li grew into a golden manifestation visible across several cities, and True Lord Jiuyin abandoned the fight and burrowed underground.
• Ye Li crossed the landscape in an instant and struck the mountains with a colossal fist, unleashing a shockwave that vaporized creatures and broke apart the mountain range.