Recaps

Ye Li attended the opening of the Ying Province Martial Exam, learned the rules, and prepared to draw hostility from the other candidates. He openly taunted the Shanzhou City group with his golden badge, leaving Yang Wanfeng stunned.

• Cai Guocheng gathered the candidates before the Cracked Mountain Secret Realm and explained its regions, scoring, emergency talismans, and combat restrictions.
• Ye Li dismissed the danger of the emergency talismans and hoped the Qingshan City students would challenge him, even considering provoking Tang Yao again.
• Jiang Qingzhu gave Ye Li the Sea Dragon Blood-Stained Spear and promised to meet him in the core region; Ye Li wished her luck and left.
• Ye Li wandered to the Shanzhou City group and stood at its front with his golden badge visible, following Yu Weng's advice to taunt them.
• Yang Wanfeng heard the surrounding students discussing Ye Li's badge, saw it for himself, and froze as his eyelids twitched.

Ye Li confronted Yang Wanfeng and Yang Wan before the Martial Exam teleportation, then attacked Yang Wanfeng as the candidates were transported into the secret realm. He revealed his Third-Tier strength and left the badly injured Yang Wanfeng terrified, demanding that he explain his family’s plan to deal with him.

• Yang Wanfeng recognized Ye Li’s Fengyun University waist token and resolved to take revenge during the secret realm’s final six hours.
• Yang Wan mocked Ye Li for obtaining a Recommendation Quota, while Yang Wanfeng challenged him to meet in the core area.
• As Cai Guocheng began the teleportation, Ye Li attacked Yang Wanfeng and said he could make him experience the final six hours right away.
• The teleportation formation transported the candidates as Ye Li’s strike shattered Yang Wanfeng’s arms and sent him crashing through the forest.
• Yang Wanfeng realized Ye Li was a Third-Tier martial artist, and Ye Li demanded that he tell his father how he and Yang Wan had planned to deal with him.

Ye Li forced Yang Wanfeng to reveal the truth about how he and Yang Wan planned to deal with him. Yang Wan found them expecting her brother to have won, but instead saw him bloodied and terrified before Ye Li.

• Ye Li stabbed Yang Wanfeng in the thigh and threatened him until he agreed to tell the truth.
• Yang Wan worried about her brother but convinced herself he would defeat Ye Li, then set off to find him.
• As Yang Wan traveled through the secret realm, exotic beasts fled from her while she killed some and collected their heartblood.
• Yang Wan followed the scent of blood to a clearing and found Yang Wanfeng injured before Ye Li.
• Ye Li told Yang Wan, “I'm truly sorry to disappoint you,” and her heart clenched.

Ye Li defeated Yang Wanfeng and Yang Wan, then demanded that Yang Wan kowtow and apologize. Yang Wanfeng urged his sister to comply while secretly recovering, leaving Yang Wan pale and torn between humiliation and fear.

• Yang Wan arrived to find Ye Li holding the injured Yang Wanfeng at spearpoint, and he struck Yang Wanfeng when he tried to deceive her.
• Yang Wan attacked Ye Li, but he shattered her arm and sent her crashing through trees.
• Yang Wanfeng secretly healed while Ye Li taunted Yang Wan and demanded a kowtow as an apology.
• Yang Wanfeng told Yang Wan to agree, and Ye Li gained 2000 Malice Points by driving a wedge between the siblings.

Ye Li forced Yang Wan to kowtow for her earlier offense, then turned his attention to the plan she and Yang Wanfeng had made against him. He knocked Yang Wanfeng unconscious and eliminated him from the Martial Exam before announcing his intention to punish Yang Wan in kind.

• Yang Wan asked Ye Li if she could refuse to kneel, so he struck the recovering Yang Wanfeng and threatened him instead.
• Yang Wan agreed to kneel, kowtowed, and apologized to Ye Li.
• Ye Li confronted Yang Wan about her plan to strip him and hang him from a peak, and she revealed her surprise that he knew.
• Ye Li struck Yang Wanfeng with his spear, froze his meridians, and triggered his Talisman's shield, eliminating him from the Martial Exam.
• Ye Li told Yang Wan he would beat her unconscious and hang her from a high peak in the core area.

Ye Li defeated Yang Wan after exposing her brother’s confession and breaking her confidence with two powerful punches. He knocked her unconscious, leaving her fate in his hands.

• Yang Wan realized Yang Wanfeng had confessed everything to Ye Li, and Ye Li gained Malice Points by driving a wedge between the siblings.
• Yang Wan activated the Yang Family’s Blood Burning Secret Technique and agreed to Ye Li’s challenge to withstand five [Qi Burst] attacks.
• Yang Wan fled toward the core area, but Ye Li caught up and struck her twice, leaving her severely injured.
• Ye Li reminded Yang Wan that she and her brother had plotted against him, then lifted her by her hair and taunted her before she begged him to stop.
• Ye Li slapped Yang Wan unconscious and gained Malice Points and the achievement Two Punches Shatter Your Passionate Dream.

Teachers watching the Cracked Mountain Secret Realm Martial Exam worried about the missing Yang siblings, while Lin Yinyun also searched for Fengyun University's recommended student. Yang Wanfeng was carried out gravely injured, leaving the teachers stunned as a new commotion erupted in the camp.

• Cai Guocheng praised the strong examinees, while the Shanzhou teachers grew uneasy because Yang Wan and Yang Wanfeng were absent from the core region and rankings.
• Lin Yinyun watched the screen for the recommended student from Linhai City but could not find him.
• A Shanzhou First High School teacher guessed that Yang Wanfeng was hiding to ambush late Third-Tier exotic beasts.
• Hanxia Warriors carried the gravely injured Yang Wanfeng into the medical area, shocking the teachers who recognized him.
• The Shanzhou teacher stared in disbelief as startled cries suddenly rose from the nearby camp.

The Martial Prodigies gathered on the plain while Shanwu wondered why Yang Wanfeng and Yang Wan had not arrived. Their questions were answered when Ye Li emerged from the forest carrying a badly beaten Yang Wan, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Tang Yao asked Jiang Qingzhu whether Ye Li had joined her, and Jiang said he had already secured admission.
• Shanwu introduced himself and asked whether anyone had seen Yang Wanfeng or Yang Wan.
• Jiang Qingzhu suspected Ye Li and Yang Wanfeng might have encountered each other in the forest, then worried about Yang Wan’s strength.
• The Martial Prodigies saw Ye Li walk out of the forest carrying the half-conscious Yang Wan.

Ye Li carried the defeated Yang Wan toward the mountain while Monk Shanwu tried to stop him, but the other examinees were too intimidated to intervene. Outside the secret realm, Lin Yinyun revealed Ye Li’s record of killing a Peak Third Order fugitive and persuaded the teachers to wait before judging him.

• Teachers at the temporary camp saw Ye Li had beaten Yang Wan, and the Shanzhou First High School teacher demanded that his examination qualification be revoked.
• Lin Yinyun showed Cai Guocheng a Qingyi Bureau record confirming Ye Li had killed a Peak Third Order fugitive, and she convinced the teachers to observe before deciding what to do.
• Monk Shanwu recognized Yang Wan and threatened Ye Li with the Yang Family’s young master and the gathered martial artists, but Ye Li declared that he would humiliate Yang Wan regardless.
• The martial artists recognized Ye Li as the prodigy admitted early by Fengyun University and stayed silent rather than challenge him.
• Monk Shanwu awkwardly asked Ye Li how he should address him.

Ye Li defeated Monk Shanwu with a single palm and frightened the other martial arts school representatives into fleeing. He carried Yang Wan to Split Mountain’s summit, where the system raised his Infamy Level and granted him a Gold Quality reward.

• Ye Li challenged Monk Shanwu, then struck him once and grievously injured him despite his golden body-tempering defense.
• The other student representatives feared Ye Li and fled, earning him Malice Points from the system.
• Ye Li declined Jiang Qingzhu’s offer to fight together and continued toward the core area with Yang Wan.
• After fighting several powerful exotic beasts, Ye Li reached Split Mountain’s summit and hung Yang Wan there.
• The system raised Ye Li’s Infamy Level to Level 2 and issued him a Gold Quality reward.

Ye Li won the Ying Province Martial Exam by an unprecedented margin after killing every Third-Tier exotic beast that challenged him at Cracked Mountain's peak. The chapter left him recognized as Ying Province's strongest Martial Science Student, with his victory set to spread across the province's twelve cities.

• The rankings showed Shanwu in tenth place, Wang Zixuan in ninth, Tang Yao in third, and Jiang Qingzhu in second.
• The rankings named Ye Li of Linhai First High School the champion, with a score far above Jiang Qingzhu's.
• Ye Li killed the Peak Third Order beast at Cracked Mountain and slew the Third-Tier beasts that kept attacking the summit until none dared challenge him by four in the morning.
• Li Haohan celebrated Ye Li's victory, and Cai Guocheng congratulated him on the resources Linhai First High School would receive.
• Lin Yinyun called Ye Li an undisputed genius and said his potential might rival Fengyun University's Heavenly Sun Saint Son.
• Cai Guocheng declared the Martial Exam concluded, with Ye Li the strongest Martial Science Student in Ying Province's class.

Ye Li opened his Gold Quality Reward and gained the SSS-grade talent Soul Controller of Spirits, whose power awakened the undead across Rift Mountain. As the Martial Exam ended, Yang Wan watched him in terror, no longer thinking of revenge.

• Ye Li opened the Gold Quality Reward, and a golden pillar of light drew the attention of Martial Science Students throughout the secret realm.
• Black clouds and a deathly aura engulfed Rift Mountain as the undead stirred and the dead Third-Tier exotic beasts rose and bowed to Ye Li.
• Ye Li learned that he had gained the SSS-grade talent Soul Controller of Spirits and its Undead Slayer ability.
• Ye Li told Yang Wan he would wait for her revenge, but she trembled in terror and tried to beg for mercy.
• The teleportation array marking the end of the Martial Exam appeared beneath Ye Li and Yang Wan.

Ye Li learned that he ranked first in the province’s Martial Exam and that the organizers would retain his results despite his fight with the Yang siblings. Lin Yinyun approached him about Fengyun University’s mission system and explained the privileges of his Gold Medal, leaving him curious about the advantages it gave him.

• Cai Guocheng told Ye Li that he currently ranked first in the province and that his Martial Exam results would stand because Yang Wanfeng and Yang Wan had provoked him.
• Cai Guocheng warned Ye Li that the Yang Family might seek revenge and cautioned him about its powerful members.
• Cai Guocheng introduced Lin Yinyun, who offered to connect Ye Li’s waist token to Fengyun University’s mission system.
• Lin Yinyun explained that Ye Li’s Gold Medal let him choose most missions and gave him greater authority than her Silver Medal.
• Ye Li asked Lin Yinyun to kowtow because her rank was lower, then asked what benefits came with being a Gold Medal student.
• Lin Yinyun explained that Gold Medal students could mobilize municipal bureau enforcers during missions, while Silver Medal students generally had to rely on themselves.

Lin Yinyun explained the dangers facing Huaxia’s talented martial artists and warned Ye Li that foreign nations and domestic enemies might target him. Ye Li remained confident, and Lin Yinyun connected his gold medal to Fengyun University’s campus network before leaving to take missions.

• Lin Yinyun told Ye Li that Fengyun University’s Gold Medal Students received major benefits but faced serious risks.
• Lin Yinyun explained that Huaxia’s shortage of powerful experts left it vulnerable to foreign nations that might assassinate its rising geniuses.
• Ye Li showed no fear of becoming a target and said he would also deal with anyone in Huaxia who displeased him.
• Lin Yinyun connected Ye Li’s gold medal to Fengyun University’s campus network and warned him not to accept offers from Kyoto University or Modu University.
• Ye Li asked Lin Yinyun to kowtow to him, and she said goodbye and left.

News of Ye Li winning the Ying Province Martial Exam spread across the province, while he returned to Linhai City and considered his future at Fengyun University. He planned to wait for Jiang Qingzhu’s promised S-Grade Refinement Method and use his Malice Points to advance.

• Reports spread that Ye Li had won the Martial Exam championship and that the Yang Family Twin Stars had failed to qualify for a Martial Arts University.
• Ye Li returned home to Linhai City and used his Fengyun Gold Medal to browse the university’s Book Repository.
• Ye Li recalled Lin Yinyun’s explanation of the Fengyun Ranking, which listed thirty students based on missions and battles.
• Ye Li used the Harmony Ring to make Lin Yinyun kneel, earning 500 Malice Points.
• Ye Li decided to wait several days before going to Fengyun University and anticipated receiving Jiang Qingzhu’s S-Grade Refinement Method.

Jiang Qingzhu gave Ye Li the Jiang Family’s S-Grade Refinement Method, Snow Mountain Body Sculpting, and invited him to return with her to the Jiang Family, but he declined. After she left, Ye Li spent Malice Points to begin mastering the method, transforming his blood and gaining resistance to extreme cold.

• Jiang Qingzhu delivered Snow Mountain Body Sculpting to Ye Li and explained that it was difficult to learn without mastery of White Mist Frost Snow.
• Jiang Qingzhu invited Ye Li to the Jiang Family for protection from the Yang Family of Shanzhou, but he refused and called her his friend.
• Jiang Qingzhu left for the Jiang Family, happy that Ye Li considered her a friend and telling him to contact her if needed.
• Ye Li used Malice Points to cultivate Snow Mountain Body Sculpting and reached the Initiated level.
• Ye Li began tempering his blood with freezing true qi and gained resistance to extremely cold environments.

Ye Li perfected Snow Mountain Body Sculpting and used Malice Points to reach Peak Third Order, gaining powerful True Blood and heightened senses. With 6,000 Malice Points remaining, he considered how to obtain more and still wanted an excuse to destroy the Yang Family of Shanzhou.

• Ye Li perfected Snow Mountain Body Sculpting, making his Qi Burst colder and his blood refinement several times faster.
• Ye Li decided he needed an excuse to wipe out the Yang Family of Shanzhou, which he believed threatened him.
• Ye Li spent Malice Points to advance to Third Order Third Layer and improve the quality of his True Blood.
• Ye Li continued advancing through Third Order, reaching Peak Third Order as his senses and Qi Burst speed improved.
• Ye Li’s breakthrough unleashed a blast of force qi that shattered his bed and shook the building.
• Ye Li inspected his remaining 6,000 Malice Points and began considering how to get more.

Yu Weng learned that Ye Li had scored a seven-figure Martial Exam result and advanced to the Third-Tier True Blood Realm in about a week. After hearing that Ye Li had badly injured the Yang Family twins, Yu Weng decided to go to Shanzhou City and warn the family, while Lin Yinyun prepared to meet Ye Li in Linhai City.

• Yu Weng praised Ye Li's potential, and Lin Yinyun revealed that he had slaughtered nearly all the Third-Tier ferocious beasts in the Cracked Mountain Secret Realm.
• Lin Yinyun told Yu Weng that Ye Li had stolen the secret realm's [Throne] and killed the beasts that tried to reclaim it.
• Yu Weng learned that Ye Li had reached the Third Order True Blood Realm and could use Qi Burst after advancing from Second-Tier in roughly a week.
• Lin Yinyun warned Yu Weng that Ye Li had badly injured the Yang Family twins, one of whom might suffer lasting damage to his cultivation, and that the family could retaliate.
• Yu Weng decided to visit the Yang Family in Shanzhou City, while instructing Lin Yinyun to have Ye Li choose two Third-Tier Martial Skills when he came to the university.
• Lin Yinyun eagerly said she would head to Linhai City right away.

After Ye Li injured Yang Wanfeng, the Yang Family Patriarch decided to retaliate before Ye Li could enroll at Fengyun University. He sent Yang Wanfeng’s mother in place of Yang Rong to join two Fourth-Tier retainers in killing Ye Li.

• The Yang Family Patriarch said Yang Wanfeng’s damaged meridians could recover in about five years with treatment from a Fourth-Tier physician.
• Yang Wanfeng’s mother and the gathered clansmen demanded revenge against Ye Li to uphold the Yang Family’s creed of repaying every grievance.
• A Yang Family member reported that Ye Li was staying in Linhai City, and the Patriarch ordered Yang Rong to take [Disappointed Sword] and [Dragon Tablet Hand] to kill him.
• Yang Rong questioned the plan’s risks, but the Patriarch accepted that sacrificing two Fourth-Tier retainers was worthwhile to eliminate Ye Li.
• Yang Wanfeng’s mother asked to take Yang Rong’s place, and the Patriarch approved her request.

After learning that the Yang Family had sent Yang Wanfeng’s mother and two fourth-tier retainers to kill Ye Li, Yu Weng arrived at the estate to protect his disciple. He threatened the Yang Family patriarch and stayed at the estate, while the patriarch realized the two attackers had already left.

• The Yang Family patriarch told Yang Wanfeng that his mother had taken two fourth-tier retainers to ambush Ye Li and promised to help treat his injuries.
• A powerful aura arrived at the Yang Family estate, and Yu Weng introduced himself as Ye Li’s mentor and a senior instructor at Fengyun University.
• Yu Weng asked about the Yang Family’s fourth-tier martial artists, then claimed his Whispering Wind Art let him hear activity within ten li.
• Yu Weng warned the patriarch that he would turn hostile if any of the eight fourth-tier martial artists nearby disappeared within five days.
• The patriarch realized Yang Mei had already left with two retainers, and Yu Weng announced he would stay for several days and kill the patriarch if anything happened to Ye Li before he reached the fifth tier.

Lin Yinyun came to escort Ye Li to Fengyun University, believing it would protect him from the Yang family. When she sensed two hostile martial artists in the elevator, Ye Li refused to flee and calmly confronted Yang Mei, who had come to avenge her crippled son.

• Lin Yinyun found Ye Li packing and explained that their teacher was keeping the Yang family in check while she offered to take him to Fengyun University.
• Lin Yinyun boasted about the Fengyun Ranking, and Ye Li teased her for being ranked twenty-ninth.
• Ye Li sensed heavy killing intent in the elevator, and Lin Yinyun used Reverse Deduction Heavenly Calculation to identify two approaching martial artists.
• Lin Yinyun tried to pull Ye Li away, but he stood his ground as the elevator reached the eighteenth floor.
• Ye Li and Lin Yinyun entered the elevator with Yang Mei and a burly martial artist, and Yang Mei accused Ye Li of crippling her son.
• Ye Li admitted he had crippled Yang Wanfeng and said he intended to hunt his horse next.

Ye Li defeated the Yang family's burly Fourth-Tier fighter and brutally incapacitated Yang Mei, but a green-robed swordsman arrived and demanded Ye Li's life. With Lin Yinyun warning that Linhai City's enforcers were on their way, Ye Li faced the new challenger and promised to take him and Yang Mei away together.

• Ye Li pierced the burly fighter with his spear and knocked him through the elevator and a wall, leaving him gravely wounded by a freezing Qi Burst.
• Ye Li seized Yang Mei and repeatedly smashed her against the wall, interrupting her attempts to use the Blood Burning Secret Technique.
• A green-robed swordsman blasted open the elevator floor, caught Yang Mei, and ordered Lin Yinyun to leave while he targeted Ye Li.
• Lin Yinyun displayed the shattered Silver Medal and warned that Linhai City's enforcers would arrive within a quarter of an hour.
• Ye Li stepped forward and told the green-robed swordsman to prepare to be sent flying alongside Yang Mei.

Ye Li fought the Qingshan Swordsman, a Fourth-Tier Martial Artist, and killed him despite the swordsman’s overwhelming strength and repeated attacks. Afterward, Ye Li received a large reward of Malice Points, while Yang Mei and Lin Yinyun witnessed his victory.

• Ye Li charged into the Qingshan Swordsman’s attack, using Golden Soul Revival and Bone Regeneration to survive his sword strikes.
• Ye Li blocked the swordsman’s enhanced sword aura with Qi Burst, regrew his severed fingers, and battered him with repeated attacks.
• Ye Li broke the swordsman’s azure blade and punched him through cars, then overwhelmed him in a close-quarters fight as Lin Yinyun and Yang Mei watched.
• The Qingshan Swordsman begged for mercy and claimed the Yang family had forced him to serve under a Blood Contract, but Ye Li punched through his chest and killed him.
• Ye Li recovered his breath and received Malice Points for killing the two Fourth-Tier Martial Artists.

After the Yang Family’s attack failed, Yang Mei realized Ye Li was a core student and tried to die rather than become evidence against her family. Ye Li killed her and summoned the dead attackers as kneeling figures, declaring he would stop the Yang Family’s descendants from seeking revenge.

• Lin Yinyun recognized that the Yang Family’s attack on Ye Li, a core student of Fengyun University, could bring the family down.
• Yang Mei denounced Ye Li and detonated her true qi, shattering her meridians and leaving her near death.
• Lin Yinyun urged Ye Li to call emergency services, but Ye Li twisted Yang Mei’s neck and killed her.
• Ye Li commanded the blue-robed swordsman, the burly man, and Yang Mei to rise from the dark earth, and they knelt behind him.
• Ye Li said he would prevent the Yang Family’s descendants from being born so they could not continue their revenge.

After Ye Li defeated the Yang Family conspirators, he asked Linhai City’s Qingyi Bureau to help surround the Yang Family estate in Shanzhou. As the enforcement officers advanced, Yang Wanfeng still believed his mother had killed Ye Li.

• Linhai City enforcement officers answered Lin Yinyun’s shattered Silver Medal emergency signal and found her at the residential compound.
• Lin Yinyun told the Old Man that the Yang Family intended to throw Huaxia into chaos and urged him to contact Shanzhou City’s Qingyi Bureau.
• Ye Li arrived with evidence and captured culprits, accused the Yang Family of conspiring to assassinate the deputy director, and asked the Old Man to help surround the estate without letting anyone escape.
• The Old Man ordered the officers to escort Ye Li to Shanzhou, and they accepted the mission.
• Yang Wanfeng recovered enough to walk but remained resentful toward Ye Li and expected his mother to have dealt with him.
• A large force of Qingyi Bureau officers advanced toward the Yang Family estate at Ye Li’s request.