Recaps

Emperor Sheng considered how to recruit Ye Li while Ye Li, Li Huaian, and Xiao Yu raced toward the Southern Territory to confront the Bone and Blood Cult. After learning that the cult had abducted entire cities and that local powers refused to help, Ye Li rejected Li Huaian’s plan to negotiate with them.

• Emperor Sheng planned to win Ye Li’s loyalty with both favors and punishments, and considered arranging for the Imperial Preceptor to take him as a disciple.
• Li Huaian joined Ye Li and Xiao Yu on a covert journey south and gave Ye Li the Gold Patrol Plaque, granting him authority to inspect the Southern Territory.
• Li Huaian explained that the Bone and Blood Cult had destroyed more than ten cities, leaving enormous blood pits, and had been narrowed down to the Three Continents of Yunze, Cangwu, and Liuhuo.
• Li Huaian reported that at least four Martial Path Venerables served the cult and that local sects and aristocratic families had largely refused the Nine Luminaries Division’s requests for aid.
• Li Huaian proposed negotiating with representatives of Yunze’s powerful families in Yongle City, but Ye Li told her to reject the plan.

With Yunze Continent on alert against the Bone and Blood Cult, Tang Xiao welcomed Plum Blossom Villa’s Mei Yuehua and Mei Xinfeng to a gathering of sect leaders. Mei Yuehua agreed to help only if the Nine Luminaries Division surrendered a Crystal Jade Fire Marrow vein, while relying on allied sects and Mei Xinfeng’s sword to protect her from being pressured.

• Tang Xiao waited for reinforcements in Yongle City as Great Sheng troops guarded the city and the Nine Luminaries Division struggled to contain the Bone and Blood Cult.
• Mei Yuehua and Mei Xinfeng arrived at the Residence, and Tang Xiao escorted them to the banquet for sect leaders.
• After Tang Xiao left, Mei Xinfeng asked whether Plum Blossom Villa would truly help Yunze Continent fight the Bone and Blood Cult.
• Mei Yuehua said the villa would help only if the Nine Luminaries Division handed over its Crystal Jade Fire Marrow vein; otherwise, they would refuse to act.
• Mei Yuehua explained that she had brought Mei Xinfeng to guard against coercion and had allies among the assembled sect leaders.

Ye Li used the Mountain River Seal to locate more than a hundred cities in Yunze Continent with strange fluctuations linked to the Bone and Blood Cult, while Cangwu and Lihuo had only five anomalous locations combined. He headed to the three-continent banquet to negotiate with the sect leaders whose cooperation could determine the success of the purge.

• Ye Li used the Mountain River Seal to survey the three continents and mark cities with strange fluctuations.
• Ye Li told the governors that Yunze Continent had more than a hundred anomalous cities, while Cangwu and Lihuo had five combined.
• Tang Xiao arrived, saw the marked cities, and realized Yunze's purge would depend on help from the sect forces.
• Ye Li told Tang Xiao that the negotiations were up to him, then led the group to the banquet.
• Ye Li took the seat of honor as the three-continent banquet began.

At the Yunze banquet, Ye Li confronted the sect leaders over their refusal to help fight the Bone and Blood Cult. When Plum Blossom Villa and other factions refused to provide reinforcements, Ye Li attacked Mei Yuehua, leaving the hall in chaos.

• Tang Xiao urged the attending factions to unite against the Bone and Blood Cult and promised rewards for outstanding service.
• Mei Yuehua claimed Plum Blossom Villa was too badly weakened to send reinforcements, while Mei Xinfeng displayed his sword intent as a warning.
• Ye Li accused Mei Yuehua of lying and asked the other factions whether they would also refuse to help.
• The sect leaders cited their own difficulties, and Mei Xinfeng rose to challenge the Nine Luminaries Division's authority.
• Ye Li suddenly seized Mei Yuehua and smashed her into the ground, severely injuring her.

Ye Li brutally defeated Mei Xinfeng after Mei Yuehua refused to commit Plum Blossom Villa to sending reinforcements against the Bone Evil Cult. When Mei Xinfeng finally offered reinforcements to save her, Ye Li killed Mei Yuehua anyway, leaving Mei Xinfeng’s Dao Heart shattered.

• Ye Li held the gravely wounded Mei Yuehua and challenged Mei Xinfeng to save her.
• Mei Xinfeng attacked Ye Li with a sword-qi dragon, but Ye Li destroyed it with the power of the Primordial Abyss Divine Sword.
• Ye Li struck Mei Xinfeng down and pierced him with Taiyuan, leaving the Sea-Opening Venerable gravely injured.
• Mei Xinfeng begged Ye Li to spare Mei Yuehua and pledged Plum Blossom Villa’s reinforcements against the Bone Evil Cult.
• Ye Li said it was too late and burned Mei Yuehua to death with the Three-Hour Divine Fire, causing Mei Xinfeng’s Dao Heart to collapse.

Ye Li killed the Plum Blossom Villa representatives and pressured the sect leaders into pledging support. When the Valley Master of Wind Jade Valley and the Flowing Cloud Sect Master tried to hedge their commitments, he attacked them, killing the Flowing Cloud Sect Master and leaving the Valley Master near death.

• Ye Li publicly burned Mei Yuehua and Mei Xinfeng of Plum Blossom Villa, terrifying the gathered sect leaders.
• Ye Li pressured the Valley Master of Wind Jade Valley, who insisted her sect could not immediately provide aid but promised to serve later.
• Sect leaders knelt and offered varying levels of support, while the Flowing Cloud Sect Master privately believed his sect's cautious offer was the safer choice.
• Mei Xinfeng suddenly reappeared and struck the Valley Master of Wind Jade Valley, severely injuring her.
• Ye Li killed the Flowing Cloud Sect Master and burned his body with divine fire.

Ye Li executed the Golden Saber Sect Hall Master, terrifying the surviving sect leaders and convincing Li Huaian that the Nine Luminaries Division’s actions could reshape the balance of power. He then turned to three venerable sect leaders accused of violating the prohibition and slaughtering commoners, and challenged them to fight together.

• Ye Li killed the fleeing Golden Saber Sect Hall Master with a silver-white strike, leaving the remaining sect leaders too terrified to move.
• Li Huaian reflected that the executions could provoke the Four Extremes Twelve Gates and change the balance across the three continents, though she was relieved the Mountain Gate matter had ended.
• Ye Li announced that he still had official business in the Southern Territory and accused the Crimson Firmament Cave Master, the Mysterious Yin Sect Master, and the Azure Haze Pavilion Master of slaughtering commoners in violation of the prohibition.
• Ye Li tossed a Black-tier Scroll before each of the three sect leaders as evidence of their recorded calamities.
• Ye Li ordered everyone else to withdraw and told the three sect leaders to face him together.

Ye Li confronted and killed the three Venerable sect leaders after exposing their crimes, while a Northern Cang Cold Palace messenger arrived with news about the Bone and Blood Cult. The massacre ended with Ye Li’s Three-Hour Divine Fire lighting its second mark, leaving Li Huaian shaken and envious of his loyalty to Li Yingluo.

• The three surviving Venerable sect leaders attacked Ye Li together, but his Pure Glazed Lotus Platform and divine fire thwarted their techniques.
• A Northern Cang Cold Palace messenger arrived to report that the Bone and Blood Cult’s movements had been uncovered, but an explosion from the hall interrupted him.
• Ye Li defeated the Crimson Firmament Cave Master, Mysterious Yin Sect Master, and Azure Haze Pavilion Master, then killed all three and burned their remains.
• Ye Li’s Three-Hour Divine Fire lit its second mark, while the gathered sect leaders and Li Huaian watched in shock.
• Li Huaian grew envious that Ye Li served Li Yingluo and wondered how she could win his heart.

Li Huaian brought Xu Yan of the Northern Cang Cold Palace to Ye Li with intelligence about the Bone and Blood Cult’s hiding places. Ye Li approved preparations to mobilize against the cult but wondered how the Cold Palace Supreme had identified the same locations as his own inspection, then decided to proceed and check his upgraded Three-Hour Divine Fire.

• Li Huaian told Ye Li that Xu Yan had arrived with concrete information about the Bone and Blood Cult, and Ye Li invited him inside.
• Xu Yan presented a jade slip marking more than a hundred suspicious cities in Yunze Continent, including several that matched Ye Li’s findings with the Mountain River Seal.
• Tang Xiao praised the Cold Palace Palace Master’s deduction and discussed gathering troops and willing Mountain Gate sect masters to attack the cult.
• Ye Li asked whether the Northern Cang Cold Palace Supreme was known for deduction, and Tang Xiao said the Palace Master was famed for battle and powerful perception instead.
• Ye Li told the governors to proceed with their arrangements and resolved to examine how his Three-Hour Divine Fire had upgraded.

After arranging affairs with the three prefects, Ye Li strengthened his Divine Fire and prepared to advance toward the Immortal Realm. He refined and swallowed a batch of Treasure Pellets, then began absorbing their energy as he chose a Sacred-grade Eternal Law.

• Ye Li left the meeting, and Tang Xiao escorted him to his courtyard before the prefects returned to their territories.
• Ye Li discovered that his Three-Mark Divine Fire had lit its second mark, gaining greater strength and new healing, purification, and fire-control abilities.
• Ye Li found that the Mo Family of the Capital City and the corrupt forces of the three continents had earned him over ten million Malice Points, then used Cosmic Birth Realm Treasure Medicines to refine pills.
• Ye Li selected the Sacred-grade Eternal Law called the Divine Firmament World-Ending Scripture as his method for advancing to the Immortal Realm.
• The Divine Fire finished refining several dozen Treasure Pellets, and Ye Li swallowed them all, sending their energy into the universe within his spiritual platform.

Ye Li used the power of thirty superior treasure pills and Malice Points to complete the Divine Firmament World-Ending Scripture and break through from the Cosmic Birth Realm. His breakthrough shook Yong'an City, and he ultimately reached the Immortal Realm Supreme.

• Ye Li absorbed the pills’ power as the Second Mark Divine Fire tempered his body and boosted his cultivation.
• Ye Li used Malice Points to master the Divine Firmament World-Ending Scripture and advance to the early ninth level of the Cosmic Birth Realm.
• Ye Li raised his cultivation to the Half-Step Immortal Realm, unleashing a terrifying omen across Yong'an City.
• Li Huaian and Xiao Yu sensed the omen and realized Ye Li was attempting a Supreme breakthrough.
• Ye Li refined his Brow-Center Universe, shattered the Supreme barrier, and achieved the Immortal Realm Supreme.

Ye Li broke through to the early second level of the Immortal Realm, unleashing divine thunder that shook Yongle City and revealed his power to Li Huaian and Xiao Yu. After considering the Bone and Blood Cult and Great Brahma Palace, he was asked when the expedition should set out.

• Ye Li used Malice Points to advance to the peak of the first level and then the early stage of the second level of the Immortal Realm, gaining the technique Divine Thunder Sweeps the World.
• Ye Li raised a finger and summoned divine thunder over Yongle City, frightening its residents and exposing his supreme power.
• Li Huaian recognized Ye Li as the newly ascended supreme being and went with Xiao Yu to visit him about the expedition.
• Ye Li reflected on his Malice Points, the Bone and Blood Cult, and the threat he felt from Great Brahma Palace.
• Li Huaian told Ye Li that Prefect Tang had organized intelligence on suspicious cities and asked when the expedition should set out.

Xu Yan reported the deaths of three Venerables to the Ice Soul Supreme, who secretly coordinated with Zhengyang Arhat to target the Venerable surnamed Ye. The Ice Soul Supreme pledged Cold Palace support, leaving Zhengyang to carry out the Heavenly Palace’s plot against the Third Princess’s ally.

• Xu Yan told the Ice Soul Supreme that an unfamiliar youth had killed three Venerables with ease in Yongle City.
• The Ice Soul Supreme rewarded Xu Yan and promised him permission to visit his daughter, while asking him to keep the report confidential.
• After Xu Yan left, Zhengyang Arhat emerged and revealed that the Ice Soul Supreme had taken his daughter’s yin essence.
• The Ice Soul Supreme agreed to send two Cold Palace elders to help Zhengyang kill Ye and let him claim Ye’s head.
• The Ice Soul Supreme said the plan would sever the Third Princess’s remaining support, then vanished in a burst of ice crystals.

The Ice Soul Supreme told White Jade Fox Venerable that Ye Li could heal her Dao wound and revealed his plan to capture him with help from the Second Prince and powerful forces. White Jade remained outwardly cold but was shaken by the prospect, while Ice Soul departed resolved to act.

• The Ice Soul Supreme appeared beside White Jade Fox Venerable at the border of the Yunze Continent and said he had found a possible cure for her Dao wound.
• He identified Ye Li, an imperial envoy and regional inspector who had recently slain several venerables, as a blood meal whose life origin could repair her Nine-tailed Dao Foundation.
• White Jade questioned the plan and warned that attacking an imperial inspector could bring the Great Sheng down on the Northern Cang Cold Palace.
• The Ice Soul Supreme revealed that his elders and remnants of the Bone and Blood Cult were working with the Second Prince, who wanted Ye Li removed and the Third Princess weakened.
• He claimed three peak venerables and an Immortal-grade treasure could capture Ye Li, and White Jade showed a brief flicker of interest before telling him to speak again once he succeeded.
• The Ice Soul Supreme vanished, and White Jade reflected on why she had spared him and admitted to herself that his persistence had affected her slightly.

Ye Li learned that Northern Cang Cold Palace could not reinforce Yunze because it was guarding against an immortal Sky Fox, then ordered Yunze’s forces to remain in place rather than join the Bone and Blood Cult campaign. The chapter ended with Li Huaian realizing Ye Li intended to handle the cult himself.

• Ye Li learned from Li Huaian that Northern Cang Cold Palace was occupied guarding against an immortal Mystic Frost Sky Fox Empress beyond Yunze.
• Ye Li confronted Xiao Yu about repeatedly watching him, and she apologized after Li Huaian warned her.
• Tang Xiao reported that Yunze’s sects had agreed to obey the Nine Luminaries Division and that Cosmic Birth Realm venerables had gathered.
• Ye Li told the gathered venerables to wait in the discussion hall and ordered Li Huaian, Xiao Yu, and Yunze’s sects to stay put.
• Li Huaian questioned who would exterminate the Bone and Blood Cult, and Ye Li looked at her as if the answer were obvious.

Tang Xiao and the gathered prefectural representatives waited for Ye Li in Fuli City, but Li Huaian relayed his order that everyone remain there while he handled the Bone and Blood Cult alone. When the cult’s blood-red heavenly phenomenon appeared over Fuli, the others realized Ye Li had anticipated its target.

• Tang Xiao reassured the assembled Venerable representatives that Ye Li would arrive soon, and they expressed their fear and respect for the Inspector-General.
• Li Huaian told Tang Xiao that Ye Li had ordered everyone, including her and Xiao Yu, to remain in Fuli City while he dealt with the Bone and Blood Cult.
• Tang Xiao questioned the plan because more than a hundred cities could be vulnerable, but Li Huaian warned him to obey Ye Li’s orders and not interfere.
• A thunderous explosion shook the area, and scarlet bloodlines filled the sky above Fuli City, signaling the Bone and Blood Cult’s arrival.
• Tang Xiao marveled that Ye Li had predicted the attack’s target, while Li Huaian and Xiao Yu stared at the heavenly phenomenon in shock.

Zhengyang Arhat and two Cold Palace elders set a blood array around Fuli Ancient City to draw out Ye Li and capture him with a Buddhist Treasure. Ye Li revealed Supreme-level power, crushed the attackers, and challenged Zhengyang Arhat to use his treasure.

• Zhengyang Arhat assured the Cold Palace elders that Ye Li was inside Fuli City and told them to attack once their array was complete.
• The Bone and Blood Cult remnants activated the blood array, sealing Fuli Ancient City, and Ye Li appeared atop the city wall.
• Zhengyang Arhat struck the city wall, but Ye Li's Supreme-level Magic Power shattered his golden body and sent him flying.
• Ye Li passed between the two Cold Palace elders, suppressed them with Supreme pressure, and left them unable to move.
• Ye Li beckoned to the wounded Zhengyang Arhat and told him to use his Buddhist Treasure.

Ye Li crushed the Bone and Blood Cult believers and defeated Zhengyang Arhat after seizing the Great Brahma Palace’s immortal Buddhist Treasure. He unleashed a storm that killed the three peak Cosmic Birth Realm enemies outside Fuli Ancient City, leaving the city safe and the battlefield transformed.

• Ye Li’s Supreme pressure crushed the Bone and Blood Cult believers and forced the two Cold Palace elders to the ground.
• Zhengyang Arhat summoned the Immeasurable World-Sealing Cymbals and sent them down to seal Ye Li.
• Ye Li used the Heaven-Intercepting Spirit-Plundering Technique to seize the Golden Cymbals and take control of their sealing power.
• Ye Li ignored Zhengyang Arhat’s pleas and summoned a devastating lightning storm.
• The storm shattered Tang Xiao’s Cloud Province Mountain River Seal and killed Zhengyang Arhat and the two Northern Cang Cold Palace elders.

Ye Li discovered that the Northern Cang Cold Palace Supreme had orchestrated the Bone and Blood Cult's revival, and he decided to deal with both threats himself. After evidence linked the cult to the Cold Palace, Ye Li vanished to confront the situation there, leaving Li Huaian to mobilize troops.

• Ye Li searched the Cold Palace elders' memories and learned that the Cold Palace Supreme had orchestrated the Bone and Blood Cult's revival.
• Li Huaian arrived and offered Ye Li a Supreme-grade treasure, which he said she could give him later.
• Ye Li ordered Xiao Yu and Tang Xiao to examine the two Venerable corpses for evidence of Bone and Blood Cult cultivation.
• Li Huaian and Xiao Yu identified the Cold Palace's Spirit Grade Circulation Method in the corpses, confirming the connection.
• Li Huaian proposed requesting reinforcements, but Ye Li ordered local forces to surround the Cold Palace and said he would mediate the conflict himself.
• Ye Li vanished before Li Huaian could object, and she ordered Xiao Yu and Tang Xiao to carry out his instructions.

After learning that the two Elders sent to kill Ye Li had died, Ice Soul Supreme abandoned his plan to flee and chose to confront Ye Li so he could use his blood essence to heal White Jade Fox Venerable’s Dao wounds. He summoned Cold Palace’s stewards and elders, preparing to sacrifice whatever was necessary to achieve that goal.

• A Soul Lamp-keeping disciple reported that Elders Ice Ridge and Ice Wanderer had died, with their bodies and souls destroyed.
• Ice Soul Supreme concluded that Ye Li was far stronger than expected and considered escaping before the Great Sheng Dynasty could join forces against him.
• Ice Soul Supreme decided he could not leave Yunze while White Jade Fox Venerable’s Dao wounds remained untreated.
• He resolved to kill Ye Li and use his blood essence and origin to repair White Jade Fox Venerable’s Dao Foundation.
• Ice Soul Supreme summoned every Cold Palace steward and elder at the sixth level of the Dao Evolution Realm or above to the Supreme Hall.

Ice Soul Supreme gave White Jade Fox Venerable an enhanced blood pellet after Ye Li disrupted their plan, and she swallowed it to suppress her injuries. Ye Li arrived at Northern Cang Cold Palace and prepared to attack, prompting Ice Soul Supreme to rise and face him.

• Ice Soul Supreme delivered White Jade Fox Venerable a blood pellet and explained that Ye Li’s whereabouts had disrupted their plan.
• White Jade Fox Venerable swallowed the pellet as Ice Soul Supreme sensed that Ye Li had arrived.
• Ye Li appeared above Northern Cang Cold Palace, whose protective formation he had shattered, and questioned Ice Soul Supreme about the demon he had been guarding.
• Ye Li summoned a vast Divine Spear above the Cold Palace, terrifying its disciples.
• Ice Soul Supreme rose to confront Ye Li and formed dozens of enormous ice spikes for their battle.

Ye Li used an Immortal Realm offensive treasure to devastate the Northern Cang Cold Palace, then unleashed divine fire and overwhelmed the Ice Soul Supreme in close combat. The Ice Soul Supreme lay gravely wounded as divine fire erupted inside him again.

• Ye Li destroyed the Ice Soul Supreme’s ice attacks and blasted apart his ice palm and left arm with a Divine Spear.
• The Divine Spear shattered the Cold Palace’s two Sect Protection Array barriers and reduced over half its territory to dust, leaving its disciples gravely wounded.
• Ye Li struck the Ice Soul Supreme with a Void Shattering Fist while the Supreme’s Immortal-level cold froze half of Ye Li’s body.
• Ye Li’s Second Mark of Divine Fire purified the freezing energy and burned the Ice Soul Supreme’s origin, disrupting his Magic Power.
• Ye Li crushed the Ice Soul Supreme’s chest with a punch and sent him crashing through mountains into an iceberg.
• The Ice Soul Supreme struggled among the ruins as divine fire erupted inside him again.

Ye Li fought off the White Jade Fox Venerable’s surprise rescue attempt, then unleashed a terrifying blood-fueled power and overwhelmed her and the Ice Soul Supreme. The chapter ended with Ye Li tearing off one of the Fox Venerable’s tails.

• The White Jade Fox Venerable ambushed Ye Li and tried to carry the wounded Ice Soul Supreme away, but Ye Li wounded her tails and forced her to retreat with him.
• The Ice Soul Supreme warned the Fox Venerable about Ye Li, while she declared that the Supreme belonged to her and challenged Ye Li to fight her.
• Ye Li let his aura fade, then suddenly transformed his eyes to molten gold and attacked the Fox Venerable with overwhelming force.
• Ye Li battered the Fox Venerable and struck the Ice Soul Supreme so severely that the Supreme could only form a frail avatar.
• Ye Li seized the White Jade Fox Venerable by her tail and tore it off as the Ice Soul Supreme watched.

Ye Li overwhelmed White Jade Fox Venerable after she sacrificed a tail to escape his grasp, while Ice Soul Supreme was too badly injured to help her. White Jade Fox Venerable tried to flee toward Sea of Bitterness Cold Cliff, but Ye Li intercepted and smashed her into the ground, leaving her heavily injured.

• White Jade Fox Venerable unleashed her Supreme Demonic Blood to break free from Ye Li, losing one tail and blasting herself back beside Ice Soul Supreme.
• White Jade Fox Venerable called on Ice Soul Supreme to join forces, but he said Ye Li's divine fire had left his Qi Sea and meridians damaged, preventing him from fighting.
• Ye Li appeared before White Jade Fox Venerable, endured her ice storm through rapid regeneration, and shattered the eight tails she raised to block his punch.
• White Jade Fox Venerable used the force of Ye Li's punch to flee toward Sea of Bitterness Cold Cliff, but Ye Li used Golden Firmament Rainbow Transformation to cut off her escape.
• Ye Li stomped White Jade Fox Venerable into the glacial earth, cracking her bones and leaving her heavily injured.

Ye Li defeated and killed White Jade Fox Venerable, then revived her as his servant. Ice Soul Supreme’s devotion collapsed when she rejected him, and she killed him after Ye Li left.

• White Jade Fox Venerable begged Ye Li to spare her, but he tore away her final tail and burned her to death.
• Ice Soul Supreme’s Dao heart collapsed after he watched White Jade Fox Venerable die.
• Ye Li revived White Jade Fox Venerable, who knelt and welcomed him as her master.
• Ye Li ordered White Jade Fox Venerable to clean up and left the ruined land.
• Ice Soul Supreme approached White Jade Fox Venerable, but she attacked and killed him.