Recaps

Ye Li confronted the Valley Master of Divine Crow Valley about the theft of the Nine Spirit Yuan Paste, despite having no plan beyond asking directly. When she denied the crime, Ye Li exposed her lie with a word as divine lightning erupted overhead.

• Chang Yun questioned Ye Li about their plan, and Ye Li said they would take things one step at a time.
• Ye Li told Li Yuyao and Chang Yun to seal off Divine Crow Valley once he made his move, and both agreed.
• The Valley Master and the Red-browed Old Ancestor arrived to receive Ye Li, Li Yuyao, and Chang Yun.
• Ye Li asked the Valley Master whether she knew about the stolen Nine Spirit Yuan Paste, and she blamed a fire-attributed great demon.
• Ye Li repeatedly asked whether Divine Crow Valley had robbed the medicinal treasure, while the Valley Master denied it and defended the sect.
• Ye Li declared the Valley Master’s denial a lie, and divine lightning burst through the storm clouds overhead.

Ye Li launched a decisive assault on Divine Crow Valley, using tribulation lightning to cripple its Valley Master while Li Yuyao and Chang Yun sealed off the valley. After Red-browed Old Ancestor was knocked away, Ye Li burned the Valley Master to ashes, leaving Divine Crow Valley under attack.

• Tribulation lightning struck the Main Reception Hall, and Red-browed Old Ancestor rescued the gravely wounded Valley Master of Divine Crow Valley from the blast.
• Ye Li emerged unharmed as Li Yuyao and Chang Yun sealed Divine Crow Valley with their Supreme power, revealing the operation as a Great Sheng expedition.
• Red-browed Old Ancestor tried to resist the seal, but Ye Li struck him with lightning and hurled him through the inner valley.
• The Valley Master of Divine Crow Valley begged for mercy and blamed the Demon Court, but Ye Li burned him, body and soul, into ashes.

Ye Li killed the Red-browed Old Ancestor and sealed Ancestor Chi Xiao inside the Boundary-Sealing Immeasurable Cymbals. With Divine Crow Valley’s Valley Master already dead, Chi Xiao abandoned his struggle and dreaded facing Ye Li alone.

• The Red-browed Old Ancestor called for Ancestor Chi Xiao after Ye Li’s aura surged beyond his own.
• Ye Li sealed Chi Xiao inside the Boundary-Sealing Immeasurable Cymbals as Chi Xiao rushed from the back mountain.
• Ye Li fought the Red-browed Old Ancestor at close range, battering him with his Divine Spear.
• Ye Li struck the Red-browed Old Ancestor with chaotic lightning, and heavenly bolts destroyed him body and soul.
• Chang Yun questioned what he had witnessed, while Li Yuyao said Ye Li’s strength was believable.
• Chi Xiao sensed the Valley Master’s death and the Red-browed Old Ancestor’s destruction, then stopped attacking the cymbals and hoped his confinement would last longer.

Ye Li destroyed Divine Crow Valley’s protective array and killed Ancestor Chi Xiao after he tried to flee. The valley was left devastated, with Chang Yun present as Ye Li’s assault ended.

• Ancestor Chi Xiao activated Divine Crow Valley’s protection array and tried to negotiate with Ye Li.
• Ye Li struck the Divine Crow Heaven-Burning Array twice with Great Dao Thunder Seals, shattering it and grievously injuring Ancestor Chi Xiao.
• Ancestor Chi Xiao burned his origin and fled toward the outskirts of Divine Crow Valley.
• Chang Yun prepared to intercept Ancestor Chi Xiao, but Ye Li summoned a thunder dragon that slammed him into the earth and blasted him to death.

Ye Li destroyed Chixiao and subdued the soul of Divine Crow Valley’s Valley Master, allowing Chang Yun and Li Yuyao to secure evidence and handle the aftermath. He then searched the valley’s treasure vault and used its medicinal ingredients to refine pills, wondering whether a special Alchemy Furnace could improve them further.

• Ye Li destroyed Chixiao, while Chang Yun and Li Yuyao checked on him after the battle.
• Ye Li summoned the Valley Master of Divine Crow Valley’s obedient soul, which offered to reveal the valley’s crimes and participants.
• Chang Yun accompanied the soul to gather evidence, while Li Yuyao stayed behind to manage the aftermath and capture the remaining disciples.
• Ye Li entered Divine Crow Valley’s treasure vault and collected Immortal Realm Treasure Medicine and the Skeletal Elder’s remaining ingredients.
• Ye Li refined the ingredients with the Second Mark Divine Fire and considered whether a special Alchemy Furnace could enhance the pills.

Ye Li swallowed a dozen top-grade Treasure Pellets and poured nearly thirty million Malice Points into raising his Martial Arts Level. He broke through from the fifth level of the Immortal Realm to the peak of the eighth, while Li Yuyao and Chang Yun watched his aura surge from outside the treasure vault.

• Ye Li finished refining the Treasure Pellets, discovered nearly thirty million Malice Points on his panel, and swallowed the pills.
• The pills’ medicinal power and Ye Li’s Malice Points shattered his barriers and carried him through the sixth and seventh levels of the Immortal Realm.
• Li Yuyao and Chang Yun sensed Ye Li’s rising aura and attributed his breakthrough to the recent Supreme Being battle.
• Ye Li’s Brow-Center Universe underwent a qualitative transformation, and he reached the early eighth level of the Immortal Realm.
• Ye Li advanced through the late eighth level to its peak as his Supreme Thunder Armor condensed and the treasure vault’s walls began to crack.

Ye Li broke through to the Peak Ninth Tier of the Immortal Realm and mastered his power enough to conceal his aura. He set his sights on the Great Brahma Palace, the Demon Court of the Western Territory, and the Mystic Gates that had secretly sent hostile letters to the Great Sheng Official.

• Ye Li consumed Malice Points and advanced through the Early and Late Ninth Tiers to the Peak Ninth Tier of the Immortal Realm.
• Ye Li fully condensed the Supreme Thunder Armor and stabilized the Stellar Thunder Diagram within his Brow-Center Universe.
• Li Yuyao and Chang Yun sensed Ye Li’s terrifying pressure vanish, and Chang Yun wondered whether Ye Li had reached the True Spirit Realm.
• Ye Li assessed his depleted Malice Points and decided to confront the Great Brahma Palace and the Demon Court of the Western Territory.
• Ye Li resolved to investigate the remaining Mystic Gates after learning that at least eight had sent hostile letters to the Great Sheng Official.

After reaching the Peak Ninth Tier of Immortal Realm, Ye Li considered how to obtain a True Spirit Realm Cultivation Method and returned to the Taiqing Dao Tablet to check on the Skeletal Elder. He briefly revived the Elder’s consciousness with his Supreme Power, leaving the Elder stunned by Ye Li’s rapid growth.

• Ye Li decided to return to the Capital City to review the eight mystic sects’ letters and seek a True Spirit Realm Cultivation Method from the Shangqing Immortal.
• Ye Li used the ancient Boundary Token and the Taiqing Dao Tablet to return to the Skeletal Elder’s domain.
• Ye Li found the Skeletal Elder’s life force nearly exhausted and realized that ordinary healing might not restore his dispersed origin.
• Ye Li channeled his Supreme Power into the Skeletal Elder, briefly awakening his consciousness.
• The Skeletal Elder sensed Ye Li’s overwhelming strength and demanded to know how he had advanced so quickly.

Ye Li learned that the Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion’s Myriad Treasures Vault had become a desolate ruin, leaving him without a True Spirit Method. As he prepared to leave the Dao Tablet space, his Good Fortune Avoids Calamity ability activated and revealed an impending threat.

• Skeletal Elder told Ye Li that joining the Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion as a Boundary Patrol Envoy could give him access to a vault containing True Spirit Methods.
• Ye Li used the Boundary Token to view the Myriad Treasures Vault and found only the ruins of the destroyed Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion.
• Ye Li concealed the vault’s apparent destruction from Skeletal Elder and promised to seek a way to revive him.
• As Ye Li prepared to leave the Dao Tablet space, Good Fortune Avoids Calamity activated.

Ye Li saw a vision of a white-robed Sword Immortal who had discovered the Boundary Token’s activation and planned to investigate its location in the Greedy Wolf Star Domain. Realizing the Sword Immortal was likely Skeletal Elder’s killer and a major threat, Ye Li chose to prepare for a confrontation rather than destroy the token to avoid it.

• Ye Li witnessed a white-robed Sword Immortal sense the activated token, identify the Greedy Wolf Star Domain, and decide to investigate after reporting to the Church.
• Ye Li asked Skeletal Elder how he had died, and Skeletal Elder recounted how a newly advanced True Spirit Realm Sword Immortal had murdered his clan and hunted him down.
• Skeletal Elder said he had sent the Sword Immortal’s crimes and aura imprint to the Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion, believing its forces would eventually kill him.
• Back in Divine Crow Valley’s treasure vault, Ye Li concluded that the Sword Immortal was probably Skeletal Elder’s killer and that the Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion likely no longer existed.
• Ye Li considered destroying the Boundary Token to reduce the danger, but decided to accelerate his preparations and face the threat if necessary.

After defeating Divine Crow Valley’s leaders, Ye Li returned to the Capital City, where Emperor Sheng praised his achievements and offered him rewards. Ye Li asked to see the memorial submitted by eight mystic sects and requested an introduction to the Imperial Preceptor.

• Li Yuyao invited Ye Li to remain in the Northern Territory, but he declined and vanished toward the Capital City.
• Li Huaian reported to Emperor Sheng that the Demon-Sealing Grand Formation in the Western Territory had been repaired.
• Li Huaian told Emperor Sheng that Ye Li had slain Divine Crow Valley’s Valley Master and its two Old Ancestors.
• Emperor Sheng praised Li Huaian’s judgment and compared her accomplishments favorably with those of his other children.
• Ye Li arrived at Golden Throne Hall, where Emperor Sheng praised his victories and said he had sent medicinal treasures to Ye Li’s residence.
• Ye Li asked Emperor Sheng to show him the memorial from eight mystic sects and asked Li Huaian to arrange a meeting with the Imperial Preceptor.

Ye Li asked Emperor Sheng to arrange an immediate audience with the Imperial Preceptor so he could seek guidance on reaching the True Spirit Realm and ask about other matters. Emperor Sheng warned that the Imperial Preceptor would not share her sect’s cultivation method, and Ye Li crossed the mist-covered lake to meet her.

• Emperor Sheng agreed to take Ye Li to see the Imperial Preceptor at once.
• Emperor Sheng asked where Ye Li came from, but Ye Li refused to reveal his homeland.
• Ye Li said he wanted to ask the Imperial Preceptor how to advance to the True Spirit Realm, and Emperor Sheng explained she had refused to share her sect’s method even with the emperors.
• Emperor Sheng led Ye Li to a mist-shrouded lake and stayed at the shore while Ye Li spotted the Imperial Preceptor in a pavilion.
• Ye Li crossed the lake in a streak of golden light and arrived before the Shangqing Immortal.

Ye Li demanded An Lingzhen’s method for advancing to the True Spirit Realm, then confronted her for secretly watching him. After overpowering her, he forced her to agree to hand over the method.

• An Lingzhen refused to share her sect’s secret method and told Ye Li to leave.
• Ye Li described being secretly watched in Capital City and asked An Lingzhen if she had been the watcher.
• An Lingzhen denied watching him, and Ye Li attacked her with overwhelming physical strength.
• An Lingzhen’s True Spirit pressure failed to affect Ye Li, who slammed her head into the stone table.
• An Lingzhen admitted she had watched him and promised to give him the method as compensation.
• Ye Li demanded that An Lingzhen produce the method, and she reluctantly agreed.

Ye Li chose both True Spirit Realm cultivation methods despite An Lingzhen’s warning that the immortal-grade method could bring danger in the Chaos Star Sea. Before leaving, he learned why An Lingzhen had once influenced Emperor Sheng to favor him and offered to repay her help.

• An Lingzhen presented Ye Li with the spirit-grade Azure Jade Spirit Guidance Art and the immortal-grade Jade Truth Returning Origin Method, warning him that the latter was dangerous to cultivate and could attract calamity in the Chaos Star Sea.
• Ye Li collected both methods and asked An Lingzhen about the Chaos Star Sea’s location and the standing of Immortal Realm martial supreme experts there.
• As Ye Li prepared to leave, he asked why An Lingzhen had spared the Demon Emperor of the Western Territory; she explained that the demon dragon’s clan had True Spirit Realm members in the Chaos Star Sea.
• An Lingzhen admitted she had told Emperor Sheng that Ye Li could never become immortal, leading him to accommodate Ye Li, because she had mistaken him for a young master or disciple from a powerful star-sea faction.
• An Lingzhen warned Ye Li not to risk enmity with the demon clan for Great Sheng, and Ye Li offered to help her in the future before departing.

After obtaining a method for advancing to the True Spirit Realm, Ye Li returned from the lake, while An Lingzhen refused to tell Emperor Sheng what had passed between them. Emperor Sheng left furious and suspicious of their secret dealings.

• Ye Li returned to shore and told Emperor Sheng that nothing had happened to him, but that Emperor Sheng should ask An Lingzhen about her own situation.
• Emperor Sheng saw An Lingzhen’s forehead wound and the scattered stone powder in the pavilion, then asked what had happened.
• An Lingzhen blasted Emperor Sheng backward with her True Spirit Realm pressure and refused to discuss her personal privacy.
• Emperor Sheng asked what Ye Li had requested, but An Lingzhen again refused to comment.
• Emperor Sheng grew suspicious that An Lingzhen and Ye Li had reached a secret arrangement, warned her to know what was good for her, and left in fury.

Li Yingluo learned that Ye Li had destroyed Divine Crow Valley and received an imperial gold token from Emperor Sheng. When she heard Ye Li had returned to the capital, she decided to visit him and apologize in hopes of repairing their relationship.

• Li Yingluo's search for her two former advisers failed, and she raged over losing Ye Li's support and her standing in the palace.
• Baiyue reported that Ye Li and two Great Sheng generals had killed Divine Crow Valley's master and two Supreme Old Ancestors after uncovering evidence of treason.
• Li Yingluo learned that Emperor Sheng had granted Ye Li an imperial gold token that gave him authority throughout Great Sheng.
• Baiyue told Li Yingluo that Ye Li had returned to the capital and met with Emperor Sheng.
• Li Yingluo ordered Baiyue to prepare a carriage and fine gifts so she could visit Ye Li and apologize.

Ye Li reviewed the eight Mystic Sects’ demands and secret records, then left their punishment to his discretion. When Li Yingluo begged for forgiveness at his mansion, he refused and sent her flying with his Immortal Supreme power, leaving her unconscious as Li Huaian called for an imperial physician.

• Ye Li returned to Zhenyuan Mansion, where Li Huaian gave him the medicinal treasures, letters from the eight Mystic Sects, and Nine Luminaries Division dossiers about their crimes.
• Li Huaian explained that two advisers had misled Li Yingluo into reclaiming Ye Li’s inspection gold token, and Ye Li left their punishment to her judgment.
• Li Yingluo arrived with Baiyue and knelt outside the mansion, begging Ye Li to forgive her and threatening to remain there if he refused.
• Ye Li asked Li Yingluo to leave, but when she refused, he unleashed his power and sent her flying more than ten thousand zhang, rendering her unconscious.
• Li Huaian stayed behind to summon an imperial physician for Li Yingluo while Ye Li departed.

After learning that Ye Li had destroyed Divine Crow Valley, the Wind Thunder Prefecture Lord hurried to plunder the treasury and flee before Ye Li could retaliate. He and the elders found Ye Li waiting outside the treasury, leaving their escape in doubt.

• During the Lightning Sacrifice Ceremony, the Wind Thunder Prefecture Lord and several core elders were absent, while the Prefecture Lord emptied the sect treasury with the help of elders guarding it.
• The Wind Thunder Prefecture Lord told the elders that Ye Li, Li Yuyao, and Chang Yun had destroyed Divine Crow Valley after exposing its collusion with foreign enemies.
• The Wind Thunder Prefecture Lord warned that Ye Li would punish the factions that had impeached him and ordered the elders to flee; when one elder hesitated, he left with the treasury's most valuable resources.
• Outside the treasury, the Wind Thunder Prefecture Lord and the elders discovered Ye Li waiting on a stone platform with letters bearing Wind Thunder Prefecture's crest.

Ye Li attacked the Wind Thunder Prefecture, killed its elders and Prefectural Lord, and summoned government forces to take control. He then left immediately to pursue the remaining seven mystic sects.

• Ye Li struck the Wind Thunder Prefecture Lord and blasted the elders to death with lightning from the letters.
• Ye Li chased the wounded Prefectural Lord to the Lightning Sacrifice Ceremony plaza, where the Prefectural Lord crashed into the ground before the gathered disciples.
• Ye Li crushed the Wind Thunder Prefecture crowd with his Supreme will and burned the Prefectural Lord to death after rejecting his plea to surrender.
• Ye Li destroyed the Wind Thunder Prefecture’s protective formations, and the prefect governor of Wutong Province arrived with Yao Xuan Envoys to take over.
• Ye Li ordered the Yao Xuan Envoys to clean up the prefecture and hurried away to confront the remaining seven mystic sects.

Ye Li annihilated Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain’s leaders and elders, then left the Sinking Bone Prefecture governor to manage the ruins. In a distant valley, he spent his Malice Points to begin improving two cultivation methods he had obtained from An Lingzhen.

• Ye Li burned the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain sect leader to death and destroyed the elders who tried to flee.
• The Sinking Bone Prefecture governor agreed to clean up the ruins after Ye Li ordered him to take charge.
• Ye Li left Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, while the Yao Xuan Envoys watched him with admiration.
• Ye Li checked his Malice Points, which exceeded 7.3 million, and summoned the cultivation-method panel.
• Ye Li began enhancing the Azure Jade Spirit Guidance Art and the Jade Truth Origin Returning Art with Malice Points.

Ye Li perfected the Super Immortal Grade True Spirit Method, the Grand Unity Qi Merging Art, and advanced to the Half-step True Spirit Realm. As he began to explore his new power, Emperor Sheng contacted him to arrange an important meeting.

• Ye Li used Malice Points to study the True Spirit Realm and perfected the Spirit Grade Azure Jade Spirit Guidance Art.
• He perfected the Immortal Grade Jade Truth Origin Returning Art, fused both methods, and created the Super Immortal Grade Grand Unity Qi Merging Art.
• Ye Li entered the Half-step True Spirit Realm and felt his mind begin to merge with the Brow-Center Universe.
• Emperor Sheng contacted Ye Li and asked to meet him in person about an important matter.
• Ye Li agreed, intending to tell Emperor Sheng about his plan to merge with Great Sheng's mountains, rivers, and earth veins.

The Great Brahma Palace prepared to rebel in the Eastern Territory with Li Xuanyu’s support, while secretly allying with the Demon Emperor to hold An Lingzhen back. Ye Li met An Lingzhen as he returned to the Capital City, then set out to face the Eastern Territory crisis while she headed west.

• Divine Tiger Bodhisattva told Li Xuanyu that Emperor Sheng had encircled the Great Brahma Palace, leaving the conspirators no chance to retreat.
• Li Xuanyu agreed to act after the Buddha Lord and Divine Tiger Bodhisattva assured him of their plan and promised him the throne.
• After Li Xuanyu left, the Buddha Lord contacted the Demon Emperor and arranged for him to hold An Lingzhen in the Western Territory during the coming battle.
• Ye Li sensed An Lingzhen’s summons as he returned from the Northern Territory and met her at Shangqing Palace.
• An Lingzhen gave Ye Li jade through which they could communicate, then departed for the Western Territory while Ye Li continued toward the imperial palace.

Emperor Sheng summoned Ye Li and Li Yuyao to discuss a campaign against the Great Brahma Palace, which he suspected of fomenting rebellion in the Eastern Territory. After ordering the generals to join the forces already gathered there, he was interrupted when Ye Li asked what else was going on.

• Ye Li noticed that Great Sheng's dragon of national fortune was unusually restless as he entered the Imperial City.
• Ye Li met Li Yuyao, and she explained that Emperor Sheng had summoned the Immortal Realm generals while three others had already gone to the Eastern Territory.
• Emperor Sheng arrived and revealed that he suspected the Great Brahma Palace had conspired with Second Prince Li Xuanyu and helped incite the Eastern Territory rebellion.
• Emperor Sheng said the Imperial Preceptor had gone to the Western Territory to deter the Demon Court, while the other three supreme generals and the Eldest Princess had secretly reached the Eastern Territory.
• Emperor Sheng ordered Ye Li and Li Yuyao to set out for the Eastern Territory, but Ye Li interrupted him and asked, "What else?"

Ye Li forced Emperor Sheng to reveal that he planned to pit the Great Brahma Palace against Ye Li so he could profit from their mutual destruction and escape his short lifespan. Emperor Sheng seized Great Sheng’s national fortune to raise his power, and Ye Li confronted him as their battle began.

• Ye Li rejected Emperor Sheng’s stated reason for destroying the Great Brahma Palace and demanded the truth.
• Emperor Sheng admitted he wanted Ye Li and the Buddhist sect to fight to the death so he could reap the benefits.
• Emperor Sheng revealed that he feared dying before reaching thirty thousand years of age and had secretly plotted to overcome the limit.
• The national protection formations bound Great Sheng’s dragon of national fortune and funneled its power into Emperor Sheng, elevating him toward the True Spirit Immortal realm.
• Emperor Sheng declared that he would kill Ye Li and devour the people of Great Sheng’s territories, but Ye Li said Emperor Sheng would die that day.

Ye Li fought Emperor Sheng in the ruined Golden Throne Hall and proved far stronger despite the emperor’s national destiny and secret technique. As Emperor Sheng’s power continued to rise, Ye Li ordered Li Yuyao to evacuate the palace and nearby area before their battle continued.

• Emperor Sheng attacked Ye Li, but Ye Li won their first clash and nearly broke the emperor’s palm.
• Ye Li struck Emperor Sheng again, driving him through palace buildings and out of the imperial palace’s core grounds.
• Emperor Sheng rose bloodied but continued using a secret technique to increase his unstable power.
• Ye Li told Li Yuyao to evacuate the people in the imperial palace and surrounding area.
• Li Yuyao obeyed Ye Li and prepared to carry out the evacuation.