Recaps

Ji Pingfa led the Latent Dragon Ranking geniuses toward the battlefield after Ye Li unleashed a devastating fire tornado, intending to attack while both sides were weakened. An Lingzhen recognized the danger and rushed to seek help for Ye Li, leaving the story with her warning underway.

• Chu Botian accused Ji Pingfa of retreating and risking their chance to kill Ye Li, but Ji Pingfa argued they should let others weaken him first.
• A massive fire tornado erupted at the distant battlefield, and Ji Pingfa asked the gathered geniuses who could withstand its power.
• Ji Pingfa concluded that both sides were likely depleted and led the group toward the battlefield.
• An Lingzhen spotted Ji Pingfa and more than a dozen powerful cultivators heading toward Ye Li after his technique, and realized they intended to attack him while he was exhausted.
• An Lingzhen raced after the group, notified Ye Li, and asked the local auction house manager to contact Prime Minister Du Heng for help.

Ye Li was pressed into a desperate fight against King of Gale, then faced an attack by Ji Pingfa and twelve other geniuses. Refusing to flee or seek help, he unleashed Heaven and Earth Manifestation as the chapter ended.

• King of Gale escaped Ye Li's fire tornado with the First Emperor's Spiritual Body shielding him, then attacked Ye Li in close combat.
• Ye Li and King of Gale exchanged thousands of blows, and Ye Li healed from a severe wound with Golden Soul Revival.
• Ji Pingfa arrived with twelve allies, announced they would challenge Ye Li to the death, and joined King of Gale in surrounding him.
• Ye Li considered fleeing but chose to fight, then unleashed Heaven and Earth Manifestation against the incoming attacks.

Ye Li unleashed a colossal golden Dharma manifestation whose overwhelming power crushed the prodigies’ attacks and sent their ranks into panic. As the manifestation caught up with those fleeing, Ji Pingfa and King of Gale were left terrified and unsure how to survive.

• Ye Li drew in the spiritual energy of tens of thousands of miles and transformed into a towering purple-gold Dharma manifestation.
• King of Gale attacked with his enormous sword, but the golden light shattered it and hurled him through mountains.
• The manifestation’s pressure crushed several prodigies and left Ji Pingfa, Chu Botian, and the others pale with fear.
• Several prodigies fled, but Ye Li’s manifestation crossed a thousand miles and struck down at them, collapsing mountains and sending a shockwave back toward Ji Pingfa’s group.
• King of Gale realized Ye Li’s power exceeded what he thought a Dao Seeking Realm cultivator could wield and trembled in fear.

Ye Li used his Heaven and Earth Manifestation to kill the King of Gale and Ji Pingfa, while Du Heng and the surviving prodigies struggled against the devastating aftermath. After the battle, Du Heng offered alliance support and invited Ye Li to enter a Blessed Land reserved for the top five of the Latent Dragon Ranking.

• Ye Li manifested his golden dharma form and killed the King of Gale, destroying the surrounding land with a single spear strike.
• Ji Pingfa and the other prodigies tried to block the shockwave, but Ji Pingfa was severely injured and then killed by it.
• Du Heng raised barriers of starlight to protect the area from the shockwave after An Lingzhen escaped under Ye Li's orders.
• Ye Li reunited with Du Heng, thanked him, and considered whether to take over the ruined territory.
• Du Heng offered the alliance's assistance and told Ye Li about an upcoming Blessed Land for the top five of the Latent Dragon Ranking.

Ye Li agreed to attend the Blessed Land in nine days, then planned to use King of Gale’s remnant memories to eliminate threats within the kingdom. News of his overwhelming victory spread across the stellar sea, drawing the attention of the prodigy Qu Qingyao.

• Du Heng told Ye Li that the Blessed Land would help cultivators break through any realm, and Ye Li agreed to attend in nine days.
• Ye Li accepted recovery treasures from Du Heng but planned to uproot threats in Gale Kingdom using King of Gale’s remnant memories.
• Factions across the stellar sea watched the broadcast of Ye Li killing Asel with ease and reacted with shock as Ye Li’s name spread.
• At Valley of the Heavenly Maidens, Qu Qingyao confirmed she could follow Ye Li’s movements and received a recording to study.
• Qu Qingyao returned to her secluded mountain residence and bowed before the patriarch’s statue.

Qu Qingyao showed Xiao Lingyu footage of Ye Li’s fight, and Xiao Lingyu recognized a woman in the audience as An Lingzhen. At the Ji Family headquarters, Ji Yuehan believed Ye Li had disappeared from the Latent Dragon Ranking, but Ji Xuanming revealed that Ye Li had risen to first place.

• Qu Qingyao brought Xiao Lingyu an image jade slip showing Ye Li, and Xiao Lingyu recognized An Lingzhen in the spectator stands.
• Ji Xuanming judged Ye Li to be powerful but expected Ji Pingfa to defeat him and return safely.
• Ji Renyuan reported that Ji Pingfa’s Soul Tablet had shattered, and Ji Yuehan ordered the family to watch for changes to the Latent Dragon Ranking.
• Ji Yuehan waited alone as Ye Li’s name remained on the ranking, then saw it vanish from third place and believed he had been removed.
• Ji Xuanming returned and told Ji Yuehan that Ye Li had not disappeared but had risen to first place.

After learning that Ye Li had become first on the Latent Dragon Ranking, Ji Xuanming tried to negotiate with him through Alliance Prime Minister Lin. Ye Li rejected reconciliation with a humiliating demand, leaving Ji Xuanming furious and the Ji Family’s conflict with him unresolved.

• Ji Yuehan and Ji Xuanming saw Ye Li ranked first and realized he could not be confronted lightly, so Ji Xuanming decided to contact him through Prime Minister Lin.
• Ji Yuehan warned that Ye Li would soon enter the Alliance’s Creation Secret Realm and suggested seeking help from her master at Nine Lights Mountain if contact failed.
• Ji Xuanming offered Prime Minister Lin two million Chaos Coins to relay a reconciliation request to Ye Li.
• While waiting for a response, Ji Xuanming considered paying substantial compensation or offering the Ji Family’s Second Miss as a concubine to preserve his family and wife.
• Prime Minister Lin reported Ye Li’s condition: Ji Xuanming had to wash his wife clean and send her over, then collect her two days later.
• Ji Xuanming erupted in fury and unleashed his Immortal Power, shaking the mountain until it collapsed.

Ye Li took control of the Gale royal palace and spared Princess Aliya after she begged for mercy, assigning her palace duties. Aliya reunited with the supposedly dead King of Gale, but after she revealed Ye Li’s location, the king killed her, and Ye Li received Malice Points for her death.

• Ye Li dismissed the Ji Family’s attempt at reconciliation and decided their conflict remained a matter of life and death.
• Aliya begged Ye Li to spare her, and he let her live in exchange for serving tea and pouring water in the palace.
• Aliya returned to her room and discovered that the King of Gale had survived by escaping with a secret art.
• The King of Gale asked Aliya where Ye Li was, and she told him Ye Li was in the main hall.
• The King of Gale killed Aliya after she revealed Ye Li’s location, and Ye Li received Malice Points for her death.

Ye Li spent more than seventy million Malice Points to rise from the peak of the third level to the peak of the ninth level of the Dao Seeking Realm. After An Lingzhen reported that the Gale Kingdom’s home planet had been taken over, she told him the Gaia Divine Kingdom’s Third Prince had challenged him, and Ye Li accepted.

• Ye Li sealed the main hall, consumed his Dao Seeking Realm treasures, and used Malice Points to strengthen his Dao foundation and break through to the peak of the ninth level of the Dao Seeking Realm.
• An Lingzhen told Ye Li that Gale Kingdom’s home planet had been fully taken over and that Li Huaian of Great Sheng would help administer it.
• An Lingzhen reported that the Gaia Divine Kingdom’s Third Prince had publicly challenged Ye Li to fight at the Land of Shattered Stars.
• Ye Li accepted the challenge and asked An Lingzhen to issue a response announcement.

Ignas waited in the Land of Shattered Stars for Ye Li to answer his public challenge, intent on killing him before the Creation Secret Realm opened. He revealed that he had subdued a Supreme Dao Divine Weapon, convincing his uncle to stop trying to cancel the fight, though his uncle urged him to show restraint.

• Ignas's uncle told him that his declaration of war had been released and that they would wait to see whether Ye Li responded.
• Ignas admitted that he intended to kill Ye Li and had used a sparring match as an excuse to get his uncle to accompany him.
• Ignas's uncle tried to take him away, warning that Ye Li had slain a Dao Holder Realm expert while still in the Dao Seeking Realm.
• Ignas's body repelled his uncle's hand with seven-colored divine light, and he revealed that he had subdued It in recent days.
• Ignas's uncle accepted that the fight would proceed and warned him to restrain himself when the spectators arrived.

Ye Li left An Lingzhen in charge of the former Gale Kingdom and traveled toward the Land of Shattered Stars, where he prepared for the coming battle. During the journey, his Infamy Level rose to LV8 and he received the Golden Divine Ability Dao Scripture My Book.

• Ye Li entrusted An Lingzhen with governing the former Gale Kingdom, gave her seven powerful jade shards, and told her to seek help from the Alliance Auction House if needed.
• Ye Li declined to name the new force, then boarded an Alliance Void Starship bound for the Land of Shattered Stars.
• An Lingzhen watched Ye Li depart and planned to consolidate control of the Gale Kingdom with help from the Alliance Auction House.
• Ye Li considered the coming fight against the Gaia Divine Kingdom's Third Prince and relied on his Soul Anchor Point's teleportation talismans as a fallback.
• Ye Li's Infamy Level increased to LV8, earning him the Golden Divine Ability Dao Scripture My Book, which could preserve Dao traces and record phenomena.

Ye Li discovered that his new record-type divine ability could restore him to his peak or copy a witnessed spell, while the crowd gathered at the Land of Shattered Stars to watch the duel between the top two Latent Dragon Ranking geniuses. Qu Qingyao arrived as the new fifth, and a black Void Starship approached as the spectators awaited the challengers.

• Ye Li examined the colossal book in his Brow-Center Universe and realized it could record his peak state and copy spells or divine abilities for one-time use.
• Thousands of cultivators gathered at the Land of Shattered Stars, where Qu Qingyao had recently defeated Li Chengying and taken fifth place on the Latent Dragon Ranking.
• Qu Qingyao arrived with an elder from the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens and settled near the battlefield to observe the duel.
• Ignas dismissed Qu Qingyao as an unworthy opponent, while the tall alliance cultivator and Ross argued about greeting her and Ross's fellow church member.
• The tall alliance cultivator sensed a black Void Starship tearing through space and announced that the challengers had arrived.

Ye Li arrived at the Land of Shattered Stars for a life-or-death battle with Ignas, the Third Prince of Gaia, while the gathered prodigies watched. After Ignas revealed he had brought a Dao Protector, Ye Li said they could begin if he had no last words.

• Fang Shuhan, Ross, and Qu Qingyao watched for Ye Li’s arrival as rumors of his victories spread among the crowd.
• Ye Li stepped off the Alliance’s starship and released an overwhelming aura that silenced everyone and subdued Ignas’s battle intent.
• Ye Li asked Ignas about the battle’s procedure, and Ignas declared there would be no restrictions and no concern for life or death, then urged Ye Li to join Gaia Divine Kingdom to survive.
• Ye Li asked whether Ignas had brought a Dao Protector, and Ignas confirmed he had.
• Ye Li smiled and told Ignas that they could begin if he had no last words.

Ye Li swiftly overwhelmed Ignas, who unleashed the World Dragon Spine to heal himself and empower his attacks. Ye Li stopped the divine saber with his fingers and broke Ignas’s neck with a kick, leaving the saber loose and Ignas severely injured again.

• Ignas charged Ye Li but was struck by a devastating punch that shattered his bones and gravely wounded him.
• Ignas’s guardian intervened to slow his flight, but Ignas angrily ordered him away and declared the fight would continue.
• Ignas drew the World Dragon Spine, which healed his wounds and unleashed immense power that shattered the ice surrounding them.
• Ignas swung the saber at Ye Li, but Ye Li caught its blade between his fingers and kicked Ignas in the throat, snapping his neck and knocking the saber free.

Ye Li defeated Ignas, then used the Heaven-Intercepting Spirit-Plundering Technique to seize the World Dragon Spine and erase Ignas’s spiritual imprint. When Ignas’s uncle demanded the Divine Saber’s return, Ye Li vanished and attacked him, invoking the fight’s declaration that life and death would be disregarded.

• Ye Li emerged unharmed from the Divine Saber’s mountain assault while Ignas struggled to recover.
• Ye Li used the Heaven-Intercepting Spirit-Plundering Technique to take the World Dragon Spine and erase Ignas’s imprint, causing Ignas to vomit blood.
• The spectators in the Land of Shattered Stars erupted in an uproar as Ignas realized he had lost.
• Ignas’s long-robed uncle told him to concede, and Ignas lowered his head and accepted defeat.
• The uncle demanded that Ye Li return the Divine Saber, but Ye Li reminded him of the life-and-death declaration and vanished to attack.

Ye Li killed Ignas of the Gaia Divine Kingdom and continued attacking Ignas’s Imperial Uncle despite threats and an approaching reinforcement. The Imperial Uncle was left severed and desperate, crying out for the Sovereign to save him as Ye Li closed in.

• Ye Li cut off the long-robed man's arm, wounded him, and struck him away before seizing Ignas and smashing him into a star.
• Ye Li killed Ignas with golden divine fire, ignoring his appeal to the Gaia Divine Kingdom.
• When the long-robed man threatened Ye Li and summoned help, Ye Li charged through his stellar attacks and cut him repeatedly.
• The long-robed man detonated compressed Immortal Power to escape, but Ye Li endured the blast, regenerated, and severed his lower body.
• As a powerful aura approached, Ye Li pressed his attack, and the long-robed man screamed for the Sovereign to save him.

Ye Li killed Ignas and a Dao Holder Realm Guardian despite the arrival of the Gaia Kingdom Lord, whose immense palm pursued him across the stars. A mysterious swordsman intervened to protect Ye Li and introduced himself as Chen Yu, a future director of the Star Sea Merchant Alliance.

• Ye Li overpowered the Gaia Divine Kingdom's Dao Holder Realm Guardian, who desperately called for help from the Kingdom Lord.
• As the Melding Dao Realm Kingdom Lord approached, Ye Li caught and killed the fleeing Guardian with the [World Dragon Spine].
• The furious Kingdom Lord sent an enormous palm after Ye Li, who used [Rook Exchange] to escape its initial strike.
• Ye Li prepared to activate Heaven and Earth Manifestation as the giant palm continued pursuing him.
• A Sword Qi dragon struck the palm apart, and its wielder, Chen Yu, appeared before Ye Li and introduced himself as a future director of the Star Sea Merchant Alliance.

Ye Li fought the Gaia Kingdom Lord alongside Chen Yu after the Lord attacked him to avenge Ignas. The chapter ended with Ye Li striking the Lord from behind with Chen Yu’s [Calamity Manifested], severely wounding him.

• Chen Yu rebuked the Gaia Kingdom Lord for attacking Ye Li, but the Lord insisted on revenge for Ignas and the death of his Dao Holder Realm expert.
• The Gaia Kingdom Lord attacked Chen Yu and Ye Li, and Chen Yu held off his Melding Dao Realm assault.
• Chen Yu thought Ye Li had left, but Ye Li used [Golden Firmament Rainbow Transformation] and [Profound Technique Amplification] to appear behind the Lord.
• Ye Li activated [Calamity Manifested] through [Dao Scripture My Book] and struck the Gaia Kingdom Lord, severely wounding him.

Ye Li used Dao Scripture My Book to unleash Chen Yu’s Calamity Manifested and gravely wound the Gaia Kingdom Lord, but the technique left him apparently exhausted. The Gaia Kingdom Lord attacked Ye Li while Chen Yu was too far away to intervene, and Ye Li activated the Dao mark in his Brow-Center Universe.

• Ye Li’s Calamity Manifested devastated the Gaia Kingdom Lord, while Chen Yu realized Ye Li had reproduced his divine ability.
• The gravely wounded Gaia Kingdom Lord decided to flee before Chen Yu could finish him, but noticed that Ye Li seemed to have exhausted his Immortal Power.
• The Gaia Kingdom Lord sensed Ye Li’s weakness and tore open space to attack him, while Chen Yu drew his sword to intervene.
• Ye Li revealed that he had planned for the attack and had not truly left himself helpless.
• The tome in Ye Li’s Brow-Center Universe opened to the first page, where he had inscribed a Dao mark containing himself at peak strength.

Ye Li used his hidden trump cards to kill the Gaia Kingdom Lord, a mid-stage Melding Dao Realm Fourth Tier cultivator, with help from Chen Yu. Afterward, Chen Yu invited Ye Li elsewhere, while his disciple Fang Shuhan learned what had happened and struggled to address Ye Li.

• Ye Li survived the Gaia Kingdom Lord’s crushing attack through [Rook Exchange]’s spiritual protection and appeared behind him.
• Ye Li’s [Dao Scripture My Book] copied the Kingdom Lord’s giant palm attack and used it to smash through his defenses and kill him.
• Ye Li confirmed that the scripture’s three pages were exhausted, while Chen Yu was stunned by Ye Li’s feat.
• Ye Li thanked Chen Yu, who suggested they leave the Land of Shattered Stars and talk elsewhere.
• Fang Shuhan arrived, and Chen Yu rebuked him for calling Ye Li “Brother Ye” after they had slain a Melding Dao Realm lord together.
• Fang Shuhan stared at Ye Li in disbelief and managed to call him “Divine Immortal.”

Ye Li learned about the Creation Secret Realm and the White Tower Church after surviving a clash with the Gaia Kingdom Lord, while Chen Yu arranged for Ye Li to receive Fang Shuhan’s Dao Comprehension Golden Pills. Meanwhile, Qu Qingyao’s elder pressured her to challenge Ye Li and secure a pill, threatening to advance her Heavenly Maiden Trial if she failed.

• Chen Yu brought Ye Li and Fang Shuhan to an Alliance branch, where Ye Li asked for advancement methods for the Dao Holder Realm and Chen Yu agreed to provide them.
• Fang Shuhan suggested Ye Li wait for the Creation Secret Realm, and Chen Yu arranged for any Dao Comprehension Golden Pills Fang Shuhan found to go to Ye Li.
• Ye Li asked about the White Tower Church, and Chen Yu described its brutal rituals, its Creation Realm cultivators, and its slaughter of entire planets.
• Qu Qingyao and the Third Elder escaped to a distant asteroid and discussed the battle’s aftermath, with the elder urging Qu Qingyao to challenge Ye Li.
• Qu Qingyao agreed to challenge Ye Li only if he appeared weakened before the secret realm opened, while the Third Elder threatened to advance her Heavenly Maiden Trial if she failed to obtain a Golden Pill.

Ross reported Ye Li’s strength to the White Tower Church and was ordered to avoid confronting him while pursuing Dao Comprehension Golden Pills in the secret realm. Hilia also assigned Ross a lengthy punishment, but her promise that God would bless him renewed his resolve to complete the mission.

• Ross contacted a White Tower Church elder and reported that Ye Li had killed Ignas and a Dao Holder Realm protector.
• The elder told Ross to abandon his plan to challenge Ye Li and focus on obtaining Dao Comprehension Golden Pills.
• Ross asked about the Envoy, and Hilia permitted him to avoid Ye Li but ordered him to establish White Towers on two Shepherd Stars after the secret realm.
• The elder said Hilia might reduce Ross’s punishment if he brought back two Dao Comprehension Golden Pills for her.
• Hilia promised that God would bless Ross if he obtained the Golden Pills and left the secret realm, and Ross vowed not to fail his mission.

Ye Li advanced to the Half-Step Dao Holder Realm after perfecting a powerful new cultivation method, while An Lingzhen managed the newly conquered Gale Kingdom and awaited his return. The Creation Secret Realm was due to open in three days, and An Lingzhen believed her position was safe despite Ye Li’s emergency precautions.

• Ye Li used Chen Yu’s authorization to obtain top-tier Dao Holder methods and learned that Melding Dao methods might require an exchange.
• Ye Li spent Malice Points to perfect multiple methods and fused them into the Super Immortal Grade Primordial Dao Interpretation True Scripture.
• Ye Li broke through to the Half-Step Dao Holder Realm and planned to use Dao Comprehension Golden Pills to advance further in the secret realm.
• An Lingzhen appointed officials from the Great Sheng Dynasty to key positions in the Gale Star Domain and postponed naming the new force.
• An Lingzhen noticed the emergency jade slip Ye Li had given her, but believed nothing major would happen before the Creation Secret Realm opened.

While waiting for the [Creation Secret Realm] to open, Ye Li searched the alliance’s Dao Holder Realm techniques but found none worth learning. Chen Yu warned him that the Gaia Divine Kingdom might seek revenge and asked him to choose how the alliance would explain the Gaia Kingdom Lord’s death; Ye Li chose a version that publicly credited him with helping kill the lord.

• Ye Li reviewed Dao Holder Realm techniques gathered by Fang Shuhan but found them inferior to his existing abilities.
• Chen Yu told Ye Li that the Gaia Divine Kingdom was concealing its kingdom lord’s death and warned him to be careful after leaving.
• Chen Yu presented two official accounts of the battle, and Ye Li chose the version that named him as a participant in the Gaia Kingdom Lord’s defeat.
• Ye Li left the chief office, planned to settle accounts with the Ji Family and the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens after the secret realm expedition, and checked in with An Lingzhen about the Gale Star Domain.

Chen Yu opened the Creation Secret Realm and sent Ye Li, Fang Shuhan, Ross, and Qu Qingyao inside to search for Dao Comprehension Golden Pills. After Chen Yu secretly gave Ye Li and Fang Shuhan Tracking Compasses, Ross arrived in a snowy region and sensed a newly formed Golden Pill beneath a mountain.

• Chen Yu opened a rift to the Creation Secret Realm and explained its three-day duration, dangers, and escape tokens.
• Ross entered first, and Chen Yu stopped the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens elder from interfering with Qu Qingyao.
• Chen Yu gave Ye Li and Fang Shuhan Tracking Compasses that could locate Golden Pills, while warning Fang Shuhan not to slack off or steal anything.
• Ye Li entered the secret realm, intent on killing Ross, and Fang Shuhan followed, though the realm’s random teleportation separated them.
• Ross sensed Dao aura beneath a snow-covered mountain and discovered a newly formed Dao Comprehension Golden Pill there.