Recaps

Ross found a Dao Comprehension Golden Pill in the secret realm, but Ye Li arrived, killed him, and took the pill. Ye Li then used his Tracking Compass to head toward another Golden Pill.

• Ross found a Dao Comprehension Golden Pill beneath a snow mountain and awakened the beast guarding it.
• Ross fought the beast and weakened it, but Ye Li’s blade strike killed the creature and grievously wounded Ross.
• Ye Li took the Golden Pill and told Ross he would die without getting a chance to leave last words.
• Ye Li killed Ross with [World Dragon Spine] and gained Malice Points.
• Ye Li checked his Tracking Compass and sped toward the nearest of the nine remaining Golden Pill locations.

Ye Li reached the eighth Dao Comprehension Golden Pill and found Qu Qingyao waiting with it. She offered the pill and a trove of precious medicines in exchange for his future help escaping the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens, leaving Ye Li to consider her request.

• Ye Li collected seven Dao Comprehension Golden Pills and discovered that carrying them strengthened his cultivation and pressed against his Dao Holder Realm bottleneck.
• Ye Li followed the Golden Core Compass to the eighth pill’s location and found Qu Qingyao seated beside a table in a snowbound clearing.
• Qu Qingyao offered Ye Li the Golden Pill and explained that she wanted his help breaking free from the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens’ control.
• Qu Qingyao revealed that the Valley’s Heavenly Maiden Trial required candidates to surrender their virginity and take a powerful cultivator’s essence, a fate she refused to accept.
• Ye Li found piles of precious medicines in the storage ring, and Qu Qingyao said they were a tip and offered to secretly provide his future cultivation resources.

Ye Li accepted Qu Qingyao’s Dao Comprehension Golden Pill and agreed to consider her surrender, then helped her create evidence that she had lost her resources in the secret realm. After Qu Qingyao escaped, Ye Li set out to retrieve the two remaining ownerless Golden Pills.

• Ye Li refused Qu Qingyao’s additional precious medicine but accepted her Dao Comprehension Golden Pill and gave her an emergency Communication Jade Slip.
• Qu Qingyao asked Ye Li to injure her so she could explain the loss of her Golden Pill and cultivation resources.
• Ye Li struck Qu Qingyao with a controlled palm that left her seriously injured without killing her.
• Qu Qingyao crushed her Alliance token and teleported out of the secret realm.
• Ye Li put away the eighth Golden Pill and the resources, then took out the Golden Core Compass to find the two remaining ownerless Golden Pills.

Qu Qingyao escaped the Creation Secret Realm after encountering Dao Holder Realm beasts, but the Valley Elder punished and interrogated her for returning without a Dao Comprehension Golden Pill. As the elder dragged her back to the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens, Qu Qingyao concealed her Communication Jade Slip and hoped Ye Li would eventually grow strong enough to help her.

• Chen Yu welcomed the injured Qu Qingyao, learned she had seen Ye Li in good condition, and directed her to the waiting elders.
• The Valley Elder slapped Qu Qingyao and berated her for leaving the secret realm without obtaining a Dao Comprehension Golden Pill.
• Qu Qingyao explained that several Dao Holder Realm beasts had nearly killed her, while privately revealing she had given up the Golden Pill to protect her chance of survival.
• The Valley Elder warned that Qu Qingyao's master would soon return and that the Valley Master would investigate whether she was hiding anything.
• The Valley Elder dragged Qu Qingyao back toward the valley, and Qu Qingyao concealed her Communication Jade Slip while thinking of Ye Li.

Ye Li collected all ten Dao Comprehension Golden Pills in the Creation Secret Realm and used them to unlock a powerful cultivation boost. He spent hundreds of millions of Malice Points to reach the peak of the Seventh Layer of the Dao Holder Realm.

• Ye Li gathered the last two ownerless Dao Comprehension Golden Pills, completing his collection of all ten pills in the secret realm.
• Ye Li swallowed the pills and gained the Legacy of the Azure Dao White Fox, which reduced future breakthrough costs and increased his spiritual energy absorption.
• Ye Li used Malice Points to break through from the peak of the Dao Seeking Realm to the Dao Holder Realm.
• Ye Li swallowed refined Dao Holder Realm precious medicines and continued spending Malice Points to advance through the Dao Holder Realm.
• Ye Li reached the peak of the Seventh Layer of the Dao Holder Realm, unleashing an aura that swept across more than half the Creation Secret Realm.

Ye Li reached the deepest part of the secret realm, found a White Fox Golden Core inside the remains of a colossal demon, and took it before rushing away when his emergency jade slip shattered. Chen Yu and Fang Shuhan watched him leave as the secret realm began to dissipate.

• Ye Li passed through the crystal heavenly canopy and entered a cavern filled with destructive Gale Force and the immense remains of a fox-headed demon.
• Ye Li forced a White Fox Golden Core from the demon skeleton's skull and stored it in his Brow-Center Universe to nurture for future use.
• Ye Li's emergency jade slip for contacting An Lingzhen shattered just after he secured the Golden Core.
• Fang Shuhan told Chen Yu that Ye Li had taken all ten Dao Comprehension Golden Pills, then Ye Li appeared outside the secret realm with greatly increased cultivation.
• Ye Li hurried away in a streak of golden light, while Chen Yu reassured Fang Shuhan and the secret realm dissipated after its origin core was taken.

After news of Ye Li’s role in the battle that killed the Gaia Kingdom Lord spread, An Lingzhen reflected on his growing strength while overseeing Gale Kingdom affairs. A mysterious guest arrived and revealed herself to be someone An Lingzhen knew, crying that she had finally found her.

• The Alliance’s announcement reported that Ye Li had killed Ignas, his Dao Protector, and the Gaia Kingdom Lord with help from Alliance experts.
• An Lingzhen read the report and considered how Ye Li’s rapid growth could help her avenge her blood feud.
• An Lingzhen postponed her inspection after learning that a powerful expert had come to pledge allegiance and requested a personal meeting.
• An Lingzhen recognized the hooded guest as someone she knew when the woman entered under a suffocating pressure.
• The guest threw back her hood, released her Immortal Power, and shouted that she had finally found An Lingzhen.

Xiao Mingyu attacked An Lingzhen while Ye Li was believed to be away in the Creation Secret Realm, but Ye Li arrived and struck her down with his Divine Saber. The chapter ended with Xiao Mingyu severely injured after Ye Li’s attack shook Gale Great Star.

• Xiao Mingyu tracked An Lingzhen to the Gale Kingdom and attacked her during the Creation Secret Realm’s opening.
• An Lingzhen survived Xiao Mingyu’s assault with Soul Treasures and self-destructing jade slips, then crushed an emergency jade slip to summon help.
• A Divine Spear launched from the imperial capital, but Xiao Mingyu broke through its chains and knocked it aside.
• Ye Li appeared above Xiao Mingyu and brought his Divine Saber down on her, breaking her defenses and cleaving through more than half her body.
• Ye Li’s strike slammed Xiao Mingyu into the earth, making Gale Great Star tremble and severely injuring the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens’ Supreme Elder.

Ye Li defeated Xiao Mingyu after she attacked the Gale Kingdom and handed her over to An Lingzhen for revenge. An Lingzhen confronted Xiao Mingyu about the sect’s destruction, while Xiao Mingyu still blamed the sect for being too weak to protect her.

• Ye Li caught Xiao Mingyu as she fled, beat her until she could no longer resist, and brought her back to An Lingzhen.
• Ye Li told An Lingzhen to beat Xiao Mingyu as long as she did not kill her.
• An Lingzhen struck Xiao Mingyu and demanded to know why she had endangered and destroyed their sect.
• Xiao Mingyu internally blamed the sect’s weakness and incompetence for its destruction, insisting that its members were at fault.

Ye Li killed Xiao Mingyu after she tried to escape, then told An Lingzhen they would challenge the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens. Elsewhere, Du Heng learned that the Ji family wanted to ask Ye Li whether their previous condition for reconciliation still applied.

• Xiao Mingyu fled from Ye Li and An Lingzhen, but Ye Li intercepted and fatally wounded her.
• Ye Li killed Xiao Mingyu with a final strike of his divine blade, ending An Lingzhen's burden over their past.
• Ye Li told An Lingzhen they would challenge the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens.
• Du Heng arrived too late to help and wondered how Ye Li had returned from the Creation Secret Realm.
• Premier Feng told Du Heng that the Ji family of the Eastern Star Domain wanted to ask Ye Li whether his previous condition for reconciliation still counted.

Qu Qingyao returned to the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens badly injured after the Creation Secret Realm, and faced questions from Valley Master Shen Yan about her failure to return with a golden core. Shen Yan appeared to accept her explanation, then discovered something hidden in Qu Qingyao’s spiritual platform and attacked her.

• Qu Qingyao and the Third Elder returned to the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens, where the disciples stared at Qu Qingyao’s injuries and early return.
• Shen Yan questioned Qu Qingyao in front of the valley’s elders, and Qu Qingyao said she had encountered multiple Dao Holder Realm beasts.
• Shen Yan revealed that Qu Qingyao had mastered the Clear Wind Divine Art, prompting the Third Elder to accuse her of lying.
• Qu Qingyao denied deliberately returning empty-handed to avoid Ye Li, and Shen Yan said avoiding his overwhelming strength had been wise.
• Shen Yan examined Qu Qingyao’s injuries and promised her defensive treasures, then suddenly pressed into her brow and accused her of hiding something in her spiritual platform.

Shen Yan imprisoned Qu Qingyao after discovering her communication jade slip and ordering her confined in the mountain’s forbidden grounds. When the slip activated, Ye Li learned Shen Yan had searched Qu Qingyao and announced he was coming to the valley.

• Shen Yan pulled Qu Qingyao’s communication jade slip from her spiritual platform and demanded to know whom it contacted.
• Qu Qingyao hinted that Shen Yan knew how the mountain of corpses and sea of blood had come to be, so Shen Yan ordered her imprisoned in the forbidden grounds.
• The elders feared Qu Qingyao might retaliate, but Shen Yan relied on the Life and Death Seal and said she needed Qu Qingyao to advance and complete the Heavenly Maiden Trial.
• Shen Yan asked about Elder Xiao and learned Martial Aunt Mingyu had left to settle a knot in her heart.
• The jade slip activated, and Ye Li deduced that Shen Yan had searched Qu Qingyao before declaring he would soon arrive at the valley gates.
• Shen Yan recognized Ye Li as the person Qu Qingyao had contacted and reacted with alarm.

Ye Li rushed toward the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens and used the Gaia Kingdom Lord’s power to open a spatial rift, arriving before the valley could flee. Shen Yan ordered the sect to prepare for battle and considered awakening the Insectoid Venerable Lord as a last resort, just as terrified cries erupted outside.

• Ye Li learned that the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens might prepare defenses or abandon its mountain gate before he arrived.
• Ye Li summoned the slain Gaia Kingdom Lord and ordered him to tear open a spatial rift to the valley.
• The starship entered the rift and vanished from its position in the Star Sea.
• The elders panicked after Shen Yan’s warning that Ye Li had killed Xiao Mingyu, but Shen Yan ordered the Sect Protection Array activated and placed the sect on highest alert.
• Shen Yan gripped a blood-red insect egg and considered awakening the Insectoid Venerable Lord as a final trump card.
• Terrified cries from the disciples outside the hall erupted as heaven and earth shook.

Ye Li arrived at the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens after learning it had harmed commoners to feed the insect race, and destroyed the sect’s defenses. He killed Shen Yan and freed Qu Qingyao, telling her he had come to save her as agreed.

• Disciples at the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens spread rumors about Qu Qingyao’s defeat and imprisonment.
• Ye Li descended from a starship, shattered the sect’s protection array, and overwhelmed the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens with his Martial Dao pressure.
• Ye Li confronted Shen Yan about the sect’s slaughter of commoners and revealed a Star Sea Boundary Patrol Envoy token.
• Ye Li used Shen Yan’s distraction to strike her down and crush her fleeing true spirit.
• Qu Qingyao emerged from the forbidden grounds, and Ye Li told her he had come to save her as agreed.

Ye Li annihilated Shen Yan and slaughtered the guilty elders and disciples of the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens. He left the sect in ruins, satisfied that his cultivation had not been in vain.

• Qu Qingyao escaped the forbidden grounds after its restrictions and the Life and Death Seal vanished, then saw Ye Li kill Shen Yan.
• Ye Li told Qu Qingyao to leave and announced that he would slaughter the rest.
• Using Xiao Mingyu's memories to identify the guilty, the Gaia Kingdom Lord helped Ye Li restrain his targets.
• Ye Li unleashed Destruction Law, killing the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens elders and crushing their true spirits as they begged, cursed, and fled.
• Ye Li walked through the plaza, killing sinful disciples until the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens lay devastated.
• Ye Li surveyed the blood-soaked ruins and remarked that his cultivation had not been in vain.

Ye Li destroyed the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens and accepted Qu Qingyao’s surrender, while An Lingzhen and Qu Qingyao offered to handle the valley’s affairs. The chapter ended with Ye Li naming their new force the Cosmic Profound Mirror Prefecture.

• Ye Li confirmed that the Insectoid Venerable Lord had died and checked his Malice Points.
• An Lingzhen arrived at the ruined valley and thanked Ye Li for avenging her.
• Qu Qingyao surrendered the surviving forces of the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens to Ye Li.
• An Lingzhen and Qu Qingyao offered to manage the valley’s remaining affairs, and Ye Li assigned them to work together.
• Ye Li named the new force the Cosmic Profound Mirror Prefecture.

Ye Li decided to revive the name of the Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion and head to the Eastern Star Domain to confront the Ji family, whose backing Qu Qingyao identified as Mount Jiuhua. Meanwhile, Hilia destroyed the Rhys Empire and its capital on the White Tower Church’s orders, then received a Divine Oracle to investigate an attempt to rebuild the Xuanjian Mansion.

• Ye Li rejected An Lingzhen’s warning and ordered the Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion’s name to be used, then announced he would settle accounts with the Ji family and uncover its backer.
• Qu Qingyao told Ye Li that the Ji family was attached to Mount Jiuhua in the Morning Prosperity Star Domain and offered to lead him there.
• Hilia healed a girl in Fengyun before entering the Rhys Empire’s palace, where she revealed the severed heads of the emperor’s trusted officials.
• Hilia told Abel that his kingdom would be destroyed and unleashed holy light that annihilated him, the palace, and the siblings who had tried to escape with her.
• An Angel Phantom appeared before Hilia and delivered the Divine Oracle’s command to investigate someone’s attempt to rebuild the Xuanjian Mansion.

Ji Xuanming sought Mount Jiuhua’s help after Ye Li threatened the Ji Family, and Second Elder Ge Feng agreed to mediate because Ji Yuehan was his former disciple. As Ge Feng prepared to leave, Mount Jiuhua’s master warned him to take protective Treasured Artifacts, while the Ji Family waited anxiously for Ji Xuanming’s return.

• Ji Xuanming knelt at Mount Jiuhua’s gate as disciples mocked the Ji Family for provoking Ye Li and then seeking peace.
• Ge Feng summoned Ji Xuanming and learned that Ji Yuehan’s mental and physical condition had worsened.
• Ge Feng agreed to accompany Ji Xuanming to mediate with Ye Li, despite the Mount Jiuhua master warning him that Ye Li was dangerous.
• The Mount Jiuhua master pulled Ge Feng away to prepare Treasured Artifacts, leaving Ji Xuanming waiting.
• At the Ji Family headquarters, Ji Yuehan and the elders gathered anxiously while awaiting Ji Xuanming’s return.

Ji Yuehan confronted the Ji Family elders over the threat Ye Li posed after Ji Pingfa’s failed mission was exposed. She declared that Ji Pingfa was unworthy of the Hall of Heroes and destroyed his memorial tablet, leaving the clan stunned.

• Ji Family elders argued over whether the Lineage should flee or face Ye Li, whose power and connection to the Star Sea Alliance made them fear for their survival.
• Ji Yuehan entered the Hall of Heroes as an elder accused her of sending Ji Pingfa to his death and endangering the Ji Family.
• Ji Yuehan asked who deserved a place in the Hall of Heroes and said its honored dead had brought glory to the Lineage and died for it.
• Ji Yuehan declared that Ji Pingfa had failed his mission, exposed the Ji Family’s intentions, and was unworthy of being enshrined.
• Ji Yuehan used her peak Dao Holder Realm pressure to silence the elders and shattered Ji Pingfa’s memorial tablet.

Ji Yuehan took command after the Ji Family’s failed assassination attempt brought Ye Li’s wrath, restoring the clan’s morale and preparing its defenses. Just as she expected aid from Mount Jiuhua, Ye Li arrived above the headquarters, and she ordered the clan to activate its formation.

• Ji Yuehan admitted her earlier decision was mistaken, disowned Ji Pingfa, and ordered the clan-protecting formation activated while declaring she would face Ye Li at the headquarters.
• Ji Yuehan announced that a Melding Dao Realm elder from Mount Jiuhua was coming to aid the Ji Family, and warned the elders not to weaken the clan’s resolve.
• Ji Yuehan sent Ji Shujun beyond the Star Domain to receive Ji Xuanming and Elder Ge Feng.
• A golden light tore through the clouds as Ye Li arrived, and Ji Yuehan ordered everyone to help activate the formation.

Ji Yuehan used the Ji family’s protective formation to empower herself and confronted Ye Li, but he easily shattered her strongest sealing technique. After he rejected her offer of peace, she drained the formation’s power sources to exceed her limits and fought him again, leaving the planet rocked by their clash.

• Ji Yuehan activated the Ji family’s grand formation, drawing power from the Hall of Heroes and raising her strength close to the Melding Dao Realm.
• Ye Li struck Ji Yuehan with a golden punch, damaging the formation and sending her crashing into a crater.
• Ji Yuehan summoned phantom mountains and a sealing divine mountain, but Ye Li destroyed them with his blade and a single punch.
• Ji Yuehan offered to make peace, but Ye Li rejected her and recounted the Ji family’s repeated attempts to kill him.
• Ji Yuehan drained the formation’s power sources, surpassed her limits, and charged into another clash with Ye Li that shook the planet.

Ji Xuanming, Ji Shujun, and Ge Feng returned to the Ji Family's ancestral planet and found it devastated. They discovered Ji Yuehan beaten and pleading before Ye Li, while the family's direct line lay dead, and Ge Feng erupted in fury.

• Ji Shujun told Ji Xuanming and Ge Feng that Ji Yuehan had restored the Ji Family's morale after Ye Li's attack.
• Ge Feng transported the three to the ancestral planet, where they found the land ravaged and lifeless.
• Ji Xuanming sensed his clansmen's fading auras and hurried toward the Hall of Heroes with the others.
• The three found Ye Li standing over the battered Ji Yuehan as she begged him for mercy.
• Ji Xuanming recognized his wife and saw the corpses of the Ji Family's direct line piled among the ruins.
• Ge Feng unleashed his killing intent and shouted at Ye Li.

Ge Feng arrived to save Ji Yuehan and confronted Ye Li, but Ye Li summoned two Melding Dao Realm battle souls that turned the battle against the Ji family and Mount Jiuhua elder. Ye Li broke Ge Feng’s mountain attack and struck him with a blow that sent him flying.

• Ge Feng arrived as Ji Yuehan escaped the crater and pleaded for her master to save her.
• Ge Feng ordered Ji Xuanming and Ji Yuehan to form an encirclement with him against Ye Li.
• Ye Li summoned the Gaia Kingdom Lord and the Insectoid Venerable Lord, two Melding Dao Realm battle souls, and ordered them to attack.
• Ge Feng blocked the Gaia Kingdom Lord with a Treasured Artifact and used Mount Jiuhua’s Myriad Mountains Pay Homage against Ye Li.
• Ye Li froze and shattered the summoned mountain range, then used Golden Firmament Rainbow Transformation to strike Ge Feng and send him flying.

Ye Li shattered the Ji family's grand formation and killed Ge Feng, then finished off Ji Xuanming and Ji Yuehan. With the Ji family leaders dead, the battle ended in Ye Li's favor.

• Ge Feng summoned an ancient bronze bell, but Ye Li seized it and used its sound waves to destroy the Ji family's grand formation.
• Ge Feng struck Ye Li with Mount Jiuhua's ultimate killing ability, but Ye Li blocked the ruler shadow with his Five Elements Laws and emerged unharmed.
• Ye Li pierced Ge Feng's defenses with the Divine Spear, shattered his body, and consumed his fleeing true spirit.
• The Insectoid Venerable Lord overwhelmed Ji Xuanming, and a strand of Sword Qi from Ye Li destroyed Ji Xuanming's remnant body.
• Ye Li drew Ji Yuehan into his grasp and killed her.

Ye Li destroyed the Ji Family’s defenders on their ancestral planet and began taking control of its remaining resources. After arranging for Qu Qingyao to handle the surviving Ji Family forces, he prepared to visit Mount Jiuhua and pursue a Melding Dao Realm cultivation method.

• Ye Li killed Ji Shujun after she lied about whether she would betray him, then collected the Gaia Kingdom Lord’s soul.
• Qu Qingyao arrived, and Ye Li ordered Ji Xuanming’s soul to find the Ji Family’s hidden treasuries.
• Ye Li told Qu Qingyao that a Melding Dao Realm Second Elder from Mount Jiuhua had joined the battle and gave her Ji Yuehan’s soul in a jade pendant.
• Qu Qingyao agreed to deal with the Ji Family’s remaining forces in other star domains and warned Ye Li that Mount Jiuhua had many Venerable Lords.
• Ye Li checked his nearly sixty million Malice Points and planned to sort through the spoils before visiting Mount Jiuhua.