Recaps

Ye Li returned to the Eastern Continent and learned that the immediate demonic threat had been dealt with, while the Silver Horned Heavenly Steed remained a target. He also heard that the Heavenly Talisman Sect was demanding compensation for Luo Lingxi’s death, and left to pursue the next threats as Ying Xuanji followed.

• Ye Li returned to the Liuchuan Heavenly Supervision Department after resolving matters in the Western Continent and killed a great True Lord demon.
• Ying Xuanji said the Silver Horned Heavenly Steed had been isolated, and Ye Li resolved to kill it before cleansing the Land of Ten Thousand Demons.
• Ye Li used the fox demon’s memories to learn the approximate locations of Chu Qiming and the Silver Horned Heavenly Steed.
• Ying Xuanji told Ye Li that the Heavenly Talisman Sect demanded his appearance or sixty million tons of Thick Earth Virtue in compensation for Luo Lingxi’s death, and threatened him with curse-killing divine talismans.
• Ye Li thanked Ying Xuanji and vanished from the courtyard, then Ying Xuanji followed him and confronted Jiang Minghuang, who questioned why she was serving an Eastern Continent elder.

Ye Li arrived at Eastern Continent’s border after killing the Thousand-Faced Demon Fox, ending Chu Qiming’s desperate standoff with the Silver Horned Heavenly Steed. He crushed the Celestial Horse True Lord with a single strike, while the Celestial Horse army remained at the border.

• Chu Qiming realized his borrowed Faithful Wish Power was fading and suspected the Silver Horned Heavenly Steed was stalling while the Thousand-Faced Demon Fox attacked Eastern Continent.
• The Silver Horned Heavenly Steed revealed that its fox brother had likely devoured Liuyun Grand Commandery and was preparing to devastate neighboring commanderies.
• Ye Li arrived at the battlefield with peak Creation Realm pressure and told Chu Qiming that he had already slapped the demon fox to death.
• Ye Li appeared above the Celestial Horse True Lord and shattered its spine with a light tap of his boot.

Ye Li killed the Heavenly Steed True Lord and its Silver Horned Heavenly Steed legion, ending the threat to Eastern Continent. After confirming there were no other abnormalities, he set out with Ying Xuanji for Southern Continent to confront the sect forces there.

• The Heavenly Steed True Lord recovered, accused humans of hiding Ye Li, and fled, but Ye Li annihilated it and its legion with a single strike.
• Ye Li gained Malice Points and planned to upgrade his abilities before testing himself against the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor.
• Chu Qiming thanked Ye Li, and the soldiers at Eastern Continent's border knelt in gratitude.
• Ye Li asked whether Eastern Continent faced any other threats, and Chu Qiming said there should be none.
• Ye Li told Ying Xuanji to lead him to Southern Continent.

After killing the heavenly horse, Ye Li decided to go to Southern Continent and give the Heavenly Talisman Sect an explanation for threatening him. As the group traveled, he advanced his Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon and asked Ying Xuanji for information about the sect.

• Ye Li asked Ying Xuanji to lead him to Southern Continent, and she eagerly agreed.
• Ying Xuanji worried that Jiang Minghuang, who had joined the journey and recovered much of her cultivation, was a rival for Ye Li’s attention.
• Ye Li used more than ten thousand Malice Points to raise the Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon to Major Success.
• Ye Li accidentally released the technique’s power aboard the flying shuttle, terrifying Ying Xuanji and Jiang Minghuang before he quickly restrained it.
• Ye Li asked Ying Xuanji to explain what she knew about Southern Continent’s Heavenly Talisman Sect.

Ye Li learned that the Heavenly Talisman Sect had demanded sixty million tons of Thick Earth Virtue from the Southern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department, possibly as a test backed by factions angered by the royal city genius massacre. Ying Xuanji discovered that Lord Chen had already paid the demand and secured a promise that the sect would stop using Curse Talismans against Ye Li if he wrote an apology.

• Ying Xuanji explained that Thick Earth Virtue was a key talisman-cultivation material and that the Heavenly Talisman Sect had demanded sixty million tons.
• Jiang Minghuang suggested the Heavenly Talisman Sect might represent other factions targeting Ye Li over the geniuses he had killed in the royal city.
• Ying Xuanji suspected the Southern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department had concealed its response to protect Ye Li.
• Ying Xuanji contacted Lord Chen, who said he had paid the Heavenly Talisman Sect sixty million tons of Thick Earth Virtue two days earlier.
• Lord Chen told Ying Xuanji that the sect had sworn to stop using Curse Talismans against Ye Li if Ye Li later wrote an apology.

Ye Li arrived at the Southern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department and demanded that Chen Zhan muster its elite forces to attack the Heavenly Talisman Sect. After Ye Li revealed his overwhelming power and framed the sect’s actions as rebellion, Chen Zhan agreed to mobilize the department.

• Chen Zhan greeted Ye Li, Ying Potian, and Jiang Minghuang, and offered to accompany them to the Heavenly Talisman Sect.
• Ye Li rejected Chen Zhan’s offer to apologize and demanded that he assemble the department’s forces.
• Ying Xuanji clarified that Ye Li intended to encircle and suppress the Heavenly Talisman Sect.
• Chen Zhan tried to explain the hidden pressures surrounding the conflict, but Ye Li silenced him with his martial pressure.
• Ye Li declared that the sect’s attempt to curse the Star Lord of Ziwei Hall and the Eastern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department’s Supreme Elder constituted a crime worthy of execution.
• Chen Zhan declared the Heavenly Talisman Sect rebellious, knelt with his attendants, and promised to muster the forces.

Luo Jinghui and the Talisman Ancestor celebrated the resources extracted from the Southern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department and discussed how the concessions revealed Ye Li’s importance. When Chen Zhan arrived to apologize, Ye Li identified himself to Luo Jinghui over the Communication Jade Slip.

• Heavenly Talisman Sect disciples delivered treasure chests holding sixty million tons of Thick Earth Virtue, giving Luo Jinghui hope of advancing to the Creation Realm.
• The Talisman Ancestor questioned Chen Zhan’s plan to apologize for Luo Lingxi’s death, while Luo Jinghui concluded the Divine Continent was yielding because Ye Li mattered greatly.
• Luo Jinghui planned to share the Heavenly Talisman Sect’s gains and intelligence with other factions to encourage them to pressure the Divine Continent.
• A steward informed Luo Jinghui that Chen Zhan had arrived with an unfamiliar young man and requested a meeting.
• Ye Li spoke through Luo Jinghui’s Communication Jade Slip and asked whether Sect Master Luo remembered him.

Ye Li confronted the Heavenly Talisman Sect over whether it had threatened the Heavenly Supervision Department and tried to curse Eastern Continent elders to death. The Heavenly Talisman Old Ancestor dismissed his challenge and warned him not to think a True Lord could overturn the established order.

• Luo Jinghui learned that Ye Li had arrived and planned to make him wait while gathering sect elders to witness his apology.
• The Heavenly Talisman Old Ancestor warned Luo Jinghui not to provoke Ye Li, then accompanied him to the main hall.
• Luo Jinghui entered late and demanded that Ye Li explain why he had killed a Heavenly Talisman Sect genius in Central Continent Royal City.
• Ye Li said the Divine Continent Heavenly Supervision Department had authorized the killing, then asked whether the sect had threatened the department and tried to curse Eastern Continent elders to death.
• The Heavenly Talisman Old Ancestor warned Ye Li that he could not dominate Divine Continent or overturn its order unless he became a Great Void Realm saint.

Ye Li revealed overwhelming power in the Heavenly Talisman Sect’s main hall and rejected the Old Ancestor’s plea for mercy. He struck the Old Ancestor with enough force to send him crashing through the sect’s mountain range, leaving the sect’s leadership under threat.

• Ye Li unleashed a vast martial pressure that crushed the Heavenly Talisman Sect’s mountain-protecting formations and pinned its elders to the ground.
• The Heavenly Talisman Old Ancestor recognized Ye Li’s power and tried to deny the sect’s rebellious intentions.
• Ye Li told Chen Zhan to leave the Old Ancestor’s plea for mercy out of the records, then vanished from the hall.
• The Heavenly Talisman Old Ancestor raised talismans and a life-saving treasure against Ye Li’s attack, but Ye Li shattered his defenses.
• Ye Li blasted the Old Ancestor through the main hall and deep into the mountain range, heavily injuring him.

Ye Li crushed the Heavenly Talisman Sect, killing its Old Ancestor, sect master, and numerous elders after learning the sect had intended to stir turmoil across the Divine Continent. He left for the Northern Continent, anticipating an offensive from the Land of Ten Thousand Demons.

• Ye Li shattered the Heavenly Talisman Old Ancestor’s defenses and gravely wounded him with a palm strike.
• Ye Li used the Myriad Transformation Divine Iron to destroy the Old Ancestor’s life force deep in the mountains.
• Ye Li overwhelmed the Heavenly Talisman Sect’s members with his Martial Dao pressure and burned the sect master and elders to death.
• Ye Li declared that he had slain the sect’s participants on behalf of the Heavenly Supervision Department of the Divine Continent.
• After learning the Land of Ten Thousand Demons might attack the Northern Continent, Ye Li vanished into the skies.

After Ye Li destroyed the Heavenly Talisman Sect, he ordered the Southern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department to investigate the crimes of the other major Mountain Gates. He planned to use the Heavenly Talisman Sect’s resources and accumulated Malice Points to advance his cultivation technique.

• Ye Li reviewed files on the Mountain Gate forces involved in the coercion incident while Chen Zhan and the Southern Continent elders recalled his swift defeat of the Heavenly Talisman Sect.
• Ye Li asked Chen Zhan about the two other major Mountain Gates, and Chen Zhan reported that they had shown no recent signs of rebellion.
• Ye Li ordered Chen Zhan to compile records of their major crimes from the past five thousand years and send the files to the Eastern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department.
• Chen Zhan promised to prepare the files within two hours, and Ye Li dismissed the elders as he planned to perfect the Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon with Malice Points.

Ye Li prepared to expand his campaign against the Divine Continent’s Mountain Gates while Ying Xuanji and Jiang Minghuang offered help. After they left, he began using Malice Points to improve his Great Void Realm martial skill.

• Chen Zhan warned Ye Li that further action could destabilize the Divine Continent and leave the Northern Continent vulnerable to the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor.
• Ying Xuanji explained Chen Zhan’s warning, but Ye Li remained eager to confront greater troubles for the Malice Points they would yield.
• Ye Li asked Ying Xuanji to compile records of qualifying Mountain Gates across the other three continents.
• Jiang Minghuang offered her knowledge of Western Continent sects and help in Northern Continent, and Ye Li allowed her to accompany them.
• After sending both women away, Ye Li activated the quiet room’s isolation formation and spent Malice Points improving the Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon.

Ying Potian learned that Ye Li had destroyed the Heavenly Talisman Sect and authorized Ying Xuanji to help purge the Divine Continent’s corrupt sects. As Gu Kai challenged Ying Xuanji’s assignment, Zhang Shouzhen reported that an Upper Realm ship had arrived far ahead of schedule and would reach the Divine Continent within days.

• Ying Xuanji told Ying Potian that Ye Li had killed the Heavenly Talisman Old Ancestor and wiped out the Heavenly Talisman Sect in half a day.
• Ying Potian authorized Ying Xuanji to use records from all four continents to support Ye Li’s ongoing purge.
• Gu Kai urged Ying Potian to transfer Ying Xuanji, claiming her assignment was fueling rumors and accusing him of using her to befriend Ye Li.
• Ying Potian angrily rebuked Gu Kai and ordered him to return to the Central Continent if he continued spreading such claims.
• Zhang Shouzhen informed Ying Potian that the Upper Realm’s Heavenly Ship of the Nine Luminaries Division had entered the ancestral star’s reception route more than two thousand years early.

Ye Li completed the Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon and reviewed records on Southern Continent’s two remaining Creation Realm mountain gates. He found evidence that Tunyuan Pavilion had repeatedly drained great commanderies’ earth veins, and ordered Chen Zhan to gather forces and seal off the area.

• Ye Li mastered the Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon, gaining confidence that he could face the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor in Northern Continent.
• Chen Zhan brought Ye Li records on Juque Gate and Tunyuan Pavilion.
• Ye Li found Juque Gate’s records showed a long history of loyalty and aid to the Southern Continent border.
• Ye Li read that Tunyuan Pavilion’s elders and Hall Master had advanced in cultivation while earth veins dried up across multiple commanderies, causing deadly disasters.
• Ye Li concluded Tunyuan Pavilion had been drawing power from the earth veins and ordered Chen Zhan to gather men and seal off the surrounding area.

Tunyuan Old Ancestor learned that Ye Li had destroyed the Heavenly Talisman Sect and rushed to prepare gifts and surrender. Ye Li arrived at Tunyuan Pavilion almost immediately and raised his hand to unleash an attack.

• Tunyuan Old Ancestor meditated while reflecting on how Tunyuan Pavilion had secretly devoured Southern Continent's earth veins.
• The master of Tunyuan Pavilion told Tunyuan Old Ancestor that Ye Li had destroyed the Heavenly Talisman Sect and that its Old Ancestor was probably dead.
• Tunyuan Old Ancestor concluded that Ye Li might wield Faithful Wish Power and ordered the pavilion master to prepare lavish gifts for a visit to the Heavenly Supervision Department.
• Ye Li appeared above Tunyuan Pavilion before Tunyuan Old Ancestor could leave.
• Ye Li formed a point of darkness in his palm and called it a parting gift.

Ye Li destroyed Tunyuan Pavilion by striking its earth veins with the perfected Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon, killing Tunyuan Old Ancestor and the pavilion’s other leaders. After learning that Azure Tide Pavilion had anticipated a purge and sought allies, Ye Li decided to investigate its hidden secrets.

• Ye Li attacked Tunyuan Pavilion’s earth veins with the Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon, shattering its seventy-two main peaks and killing Tunyuan Old Ancestor and the pavilion’s gathered cultivators.
• Tunyuan Old Ancestor realized Ye Li was the elder behind the Central Continent Royal City massacre and died before he could finish cursing him.
• Ye Li pulled Tunyuan Old Ancestor’s soul from his corpse and learned where the pavilion’s treasury was located.
• Tunyuan Old Ancestor’s soul told Ye Li that Azure Tide Pavilion had invited Tunyuan Pavilion to ally against a possible Heavenly Supervision Department purge.
• Ye Li concluded Azure Tide Pavilion had sensed danger unusually early and resolved to investigate the secrets hidden within it.

After destroying Tunyuan Pavilion, Ye Li told the Southern Continent’s Heavenly Supervision Department to spread the news and reviewed intelligence about Faithful Wish Power. He chose the distant Myriad Sword Sect as his first target, hinting that he planned to replace someone there without being noticed.

• Ye Li returned from Tunyuan Pavilion’s treasury, and Chen Zhan thanked him for destroying the sect and removing a threat to the Southern Continent.
• Ye Li told Chen Zhan to clean up the ruins without suppressing news of Tunyuan Pavilion’s destruction, and Chen Zhan agreed to spread the information.
• Ying Xuanji brought Ye Li compiled case files from across the continents, while she privately worried about the Nine Domains Realm arriving earlier than expected.
• Ye Li finished reviewing the files and chose the Myriad Sword Sect in the Northern Continent as the first target.
• When Ying Xuanji questioned his choice of a distant sect, Ye Li said nearby targets would make it harder for him to switch them out unnoticed.

The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor learned that Ye Li had helped kill the Four Lords of Soaring Serpent and was preparing to cleanse the Divine Continent’s Mountain Gates. Seeing the continent’s unity as an urgent threat, it resolved to launch an all-out invasion, promising to hold off Ying Potian while the Demon Lords faced the other defenders.

• The Elephant Demon confirmed that the Four Lords of Soaring Serpent had died, and the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor recognized Ye Li as a powerful new True Lord.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor warned the Demon Lords that Ye Li and the Celestial Observatories could soon unite the Divine Continent.
• The Tiger Demon urged an immediate attack on Northern Continent, but the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor asked how the demons would handle Ying Potian.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor declared that it would deal with Ying Potian while the other Demon Lords faced Ye Li and the remaining threats.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor ordered a campaign to seize the entire Divine Continent.

The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor set the demons’ invasion of Divine Continent for three days later, while the Tiger Demon planned to weaken Ying Potian’s Faithful Wish Power and confront Ye Li. Three days later, leaders gathered at Azure Tide Pavilion to discuss the upheaval, but the Hall Master of Myriad Sword Sect had not arrived.

• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor announced that the demons would attack Northern Continent from without on the night three days later, after unrest began in Divine Continent.
• The Demon Lords celebrated the coming invasion, while the Tiger Demon planned to devour people to weaken Ying Potian and possibly face Ye Li.
• The Heavenly Supervision Department’s manipulation helped unrest spread across Divine Continent over the next three days.
• More than a dozen figures arrived at Azure Tide Pavilion for a council convened by the Azure Sea Pavilion Master.
• The Azure Sea Pavilion Master asked who had yet to arrive, and her confidant said the Hall Master of Myriad Sword Sect was missing.

Mo Qingming gathered leaders of several Divine Continent factions to propose an alliance against Elder Ye’s coming crackdown. To prove Azure Tide Pavilion’s commitment, she revealed the corpse of the former Director of the Celestial Observatory of Northern Continent, leaving the assembled True Lords stunned.

• Mo Qingming grew wary when the Myriad Sword Sect’s Hall Master failed to arrive and ordered her aide to investigate Northern Continent.
• Her aide asked whether the Azure Sea Exorcism Festival would proceed, and Mo Qingming suspended it and barred anyone from entering the council hall without her order.
• Mo Qingming challenged the gathered True Lords to admit their hidden crimes and join forces rather than try to persuade Elder Ye separately.
• Mo Qingming summoned an ice coffin and shattered its lid, revealing the corpse of the former Director of the Celestial Observatory of Northern Continent.
• Xiao Wuya and the other True Lords recognized the corpse and were shocked that Mo Qingming possessed it.

Mo Qingming challenged the gathered True Lords to join Azure Tide Pavilion against Ye Li, warning that he was determined to destroy them. Ye Li arrived disguised as the Master of the Myriad Sword Sect and revealed why he was targeting the True Lords as the heavens shook around him.

• Mo Qingming warned the True Lords that Ye Li would not relent and urged them to remember the forces he had already destroyed.
• Xiao Wuya affirmed his support for Azure Tide Pavilion, while the True Lords remained wary of Mo Qingming's revelations.
• The Master of the Myriad Sword Sect arrived and asked whether everyone was present.
• Mo Qingming confronted the sword-robed man, asking why he sought to destroy the True Lords and offering wealth and women to make him stop.
• The man transformed into a Boy in Black, unleashed overwhelming Martial Dao pressure, and said he needed the True Lords out of his way.

Ye Li attacked Azure Tide Pavilion after Mo Qingming and the other sect leaders failed to persuade him to relent. He killed the gathered True Lords and left Mo Qingming frozen amid the slaughter.

• Mo Qingming recognized that Ye Li had come to attack, while his aura revealed power beyond the gathered True Lords.
• Xiao Wuya and the other sect leaders offered to surrender their treasures, but Ye Li said more words were useless and killed Xiao Wuya with one strike.
• Ye Li revealed the Myriad Transformation Divine Soldier Iron above Azure Tide Pavilion, blocking anyone from escaping.
• Ye Li killed the thick-browed Old Man and destroyed the Pagoda of the Floating Tu, then slaughtered the other True Lords with his overwhelming physical force.
• Mo Qingming warned the survivors to risk their lives, but she froze as the hall was torn apart and Ye Li's attack left Azure Tide Pavilion drenched in blood.

Ye Li destroyed Mo Qingming’s Qi Sea and tormented her soul, rendering her soul-based attacks useless. He left her alive briefly, but then annihilated her along with Azure Tide Pavilion.

• Mo Qingming begged Ye Li for mercy, claiming her connections to the Demon Emperor beyond Northern Continent could help him.
• Ye Li crushed Mo Qingming’s Qi Sea and burned her soul with divine fire.
• Mo Qingming sent her refined souls to attack Ye Li, but his Soul Control ability made them harmless and severed their connection to her.
• Mo Qingming’s Dao Heart collapsed, and Ye Li left her behind as she mistakenly believed he had spared her.
• Ye Li’s Divine Spear destroyed Azure Tide Pavilion, and Mo Qingming lost consciousness in terror.

After destroying the Tunyuan Pavilion and Myriad Sword Sect, Ye Li learned that Mo Qingming had contacted the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor and warned him of an impending attack. Ye Li’s Supreme Seal flashed a deadly warning as the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor led eight powerful Demon Lords toward Northern Continent’s border, where Ying Potian and Divine Continent’s forces prepared to face them.

• Ye Li questioned Mo Qingming’s soul about her dealings with the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor, and she revealed that she had shared intelligence with the demons in exchange for living souls.
• Mo Qingming said she had crushed a communication jade talisman before the council began to summon the demons once Divine Continent attacked Azure Tide Pavilion.
• Ye Li realized the demons beyond Northern Continent’s border might already be mobilizing, and his Supreme Seal began glowing crimson with danger.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor arrived at Northern Continent’s border with eight Demon Lords, whose auras pressed down on the continent.
• Ying Potian and Creation Realm True Monarchs emerged from the border fortress and confronted the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor.

The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor revealed that it had approached the Great Void Realm and overwhelmed Ying Potian, while five Demon Lords broke through the Northern Continent’s defenses. As Ying Potian prepared to sacrifice himself and the defenders considered asking Ye Li for help, a mysterious soul arrived and spoke a single word: “Switch.”

• Ying Potian charged the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor, but the Demon Emperor’s saber overwhelmed his spear and sent him crashing into the border wall.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor revealed that it had approached the Great Void Realm and ordered eight Demon Lords to attack the Northern Continent.
• Five Demon Lords broke through the defenses and rushed toward nearby prefectures while Jiang Minghuang and other True Lords tried to hold back the rest.
• Ying Xuanji worried that the defenders had no way to stop the invasion and considered contacting Ye Li for help.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor continued battering Ying Potian until a nameless humanoid soul entered the battlefield and said, “Switch.”