Recaps

The Jade Dragon Empress refused to withdraw her troops from a tributary civilization and killed its envoy, then learned that Ye Li’s forces had taken control of territory in the Huatian Star Domain. She ordered a massive invasion and decided to lead it herself, intending to bring Ye Li into the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s service.

• The Jade Dragon Empress rejected the envoy’s plea to spare his nation and ordered him to take his own life, causing his cultivation and spirit to collapse.
• A feather-crowned scholar reported that the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens experts had vanished and Ye Li’s forces had taken over the area in the Huatian Star Domain.
• The scholar explained that Ye Li ranked first on the Latent Dragon Ranking and had killed powerful opponents, including a sixth-tier Dao Holder Realm cultivator.
• The Jade Dragon Empress dismissed Ye Li’s reputation and ordered more troops to seize the Huatian Star Domain.
• The Jade Dragon Empress announced that she would personally lead the expedition and intended to make Ye Li serve the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty.

After Ge Feng’s Soul Tablet shattered, the Mount Jiuhua Master concluded that Ye Li had killed his junior brother and was likely coming for Mount Jiuhua next. He ordered the sect to mobilize and sought assistance from the factions gathered for the festival, preparing to defend the mountain.

• The Mount Jiuhua Master sensed danger, then watched Ge Feng’s Soul Tablet shatter and realized his junior brother had died.
• The Mount Jiuhua Master blamed Ye Li and summoned Mount Jiuhua’s elders to discuss the threat.
• The elders debated whether to seek reconciliation or prepare for attack, and they decided to turn the festival into a sect-wide mobilization assembly.
• One Melding Dao Realm elder opposed the aggressive plan and left for his cave abode, while the Mount Jiuhua Master resolved to rely on the sect’s defenses.
• The Mount Jiuhua Master told Shaohua to invite the visiting faction representatives into the mountain so Mount Jiuhua could enlist their assistance.

Ye Li learned that the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty was moving into the Dragon Transformation Star Domain and told An Lingzhen to let it take the territory until he returned. He reached Mount Jiuhua during its ceremony, where Chen Shaohua mistook him for an ordinary visitor and led him inside with the other sect representatives.

• An Lingzhen explained that the Jade Dragon Empress had led the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty to rapid expansion and that the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens had feared it would lose the Dragon Transformation Star Domain.
• Ye Li told An Lingzhen to let the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty take the territory for now and said he would deal with matters after returning.
• Chen Shaohua learned that Second Elder Ge Feng's Soul Tablet had shattered, but her master ordered her to keep the news secret and admit visiting sect representatives to the ceremony.
• Chen Shaohua allowed the representatives to enter Mount Jiuhua and coldly directed Ye Li, who had just arrived, to follow them inside.
• Ye Li chose to observe courtesy before force and climbed Mount Jiuhua's steps with the representatives.

Ye Li entered Mount Jiuhua with the invited sect representatives, intending to question its mountain master before deciding whether the sect deserved punishment. Chen Shaohua expelled a representative who criticized Mount Jiuhua, and Ye Li then asked when he could meet the mountain master.

• Ye Li assessed Mount Jiuhua and decided to meet its mountain master and use Heartbeat Quizzes before choosing what to do.
• Chen Shaohua led the visiting sect representatives through Mount Jiuhua while thinking of them as bait to delay Ye Li.
• A representative criticized Mount Jiuhua for failing to help the Eastern Ji Family, and Chen Shaohua ordered him to leave.
• The other representatives condemned the expelled man and praised Chen Shaohua to avoid angering Mount Jiuhua.
• Ye Li asked Chen Shaohua when he would be able to meet the mountain master.

Ye Li demanded to see Mount Jiuhua’s mountain lord, but after Chen Shaohua ignored him and insulted him, he struck her down and revealed overwhelming Melding Dao Realm pressure. Learning that the mountain lord was gathering the sect to prepare for Ye Li, Ye Li seized Chen Shaohua and headed toward the speech.

• Chen Shaohua dismissed Ye Li’s request to see the mountain lord and told him to behave himself.
• Ye Li blasted Chen Shaohua into a mountain wall after she ignored his question.
• Ye Li pinned Chen Shaohua down with Melding Dao Realm pressure and demanded an answer.
• Chen Shaohua said the mountain lord was about to speak at the main mountain plaza and was preparing the sect to face Ye Li.
• Chen Shaohua realized Ye Li was the person Mount Jiuhua feared, and Ye Li grabbed her and vanished toward the mountain lord’s speech.

The Mount Jiuhua Master rallied his disciples with a false account of Ge Feng’s encounter with Ye Li and declared war on him. Ye Li arrived immediately, broke through the Mountain Protection Array, and crushed the Master’s defenses, leaving Mount Jiuhua stunned as he appeared with the captured Shaohua.

• Mount Jiuhua disciples speculated about why the Mountain Master had summoned them and assumed the sect was preparing to deal with Ye Li.
• The Mount Jiuhua Master told the gathered disciples that Ye Li had attacked Ge Feng and threatened Mount Jiuhua, then urged them not to yield.
• The disciples activated the Mountain Protection Array, and the Mount Jiuhua Master officially declared war on Ye Li.
• Ye Li tore through the array and shattered the Master’s shield with a single stomp, sending him crashing through several mountain peaks.
• Ye Li appeared carrying Shaohua, dropped her before the disciples, and accepted the declaration of war.

Ye Li attacked Mount Jiuhua after recognizing its attempt to distort the truth, defeating its elders and battering the Mount Jiuhua Master despite the formation using disciples as shields. The chapter left the Mount Jiuhua Master gravely wounded and flying through the shattered mountains.

• Ye Li struck the Mount Jiuhua Master and revealed himself, prompting Mount Jiuhua's elders to attack.
• Ye Li unleashed a golden Divine Spear that killed several elders and destroyed countless mountain peaks, while the survivors fled.
• The Mount Jiuhua Master emerged from the ruins and tried to negotiate, but Ye Li vanished and attacked him again.
• The Mount Jiuhua Master used the Jiuhua All-Dust Wall to distribute Ye Li's blows among Mount Jiuhua's disciples, killing thousands.
• Ye Li refused to feel guilty for the deaths, calling the disciples shields for his enemies, and struck the Mount Jiuhua Master with a punch that crushed his chest and sent him flying through the mountains.

Ye Li overwhelmed Mount Jiuhua Master Tao An and killed him after sealing Jiuhua Star against escape. The remaining elders were trapped behind a vast Law barrier guarded by three Melding Dao Venerables.

• Ye Li's punch sent Tao An crashing into the mountains, while the escaping elders discovered a Law barrier sealing Jiuhua Star.
• The elders attacked the barrier in vain and saw three Melding Dao Venerables waiting beyond it.
• Tao An emerged from the ruins, and Ye Li resumed the fight, overcoming his Laws with the Five Elements and annihilation Laws.
• Ye Li smashed Tao An's head and gravely damaged his Dharma body, but Tao An fled as a blood-red true spirit.
• Ye Li summoned a colossal Divine Spear that struck down and killed Tao An's fleeing true spirit.

After destroying Mount Jiuhua, Ye Li took control of the place and used his battle gains to advance to the peak of Dao Holder Realm Level Nine. He realized that he was one step away from the Melding Dao Realm and began preparing for that breakthrough.

• Ye Li seized Tao An's soul and forced the Mount Jiuhua Supreme Elder to submit and accept a restriction.
• Ye Li left the Supreme Elder to manage Mount Jiuhua and traveled to a secluded valley on the Ninefold Splendor Planet.
• Ye Li checked his reserves and found that he had accumulated 92.4 million Malice Points.
• Ye Li consumed Dao Holder Realm treasures and spent Malice Points to advance from the peak of Level Seven to the peak of Dao Holder Realm Level Nine.
• Ye Li understood the sensation that his will was law and his body was a domain, then decided to prepare for the Melding Dao Realm.

Ye Li contacted Chen Yu to discuss obtaining a superior Melding Dao Method, but learned that the Western Divine Kingdom was pressuring the Star Sea Merchant Alliance over the Gaia Kingdom Lord’s death. Chen Yu said the alliance was avoiding direct conflict during a critical period and offered to ask his superiors whether he could reveal more.

• Ye Li decided to gather many methods and deduce a perfect Melding Dao Method for himself rather than settle for the methods he already possessed.
• Ye Li contacted Chen Yu, who praised his recent fight at the Ji family and the killing of the Mount Jiuhua Supreme Elder.
• An urgent young man interrupted Chen Yu to report that Saint Thunder Venerable Lord had become enraged after Chen Yu left their argument.
• Chen Yu explained that the Western Divine Kingdom demanded the Gaia Kingdom Lord’s Storage Treasure Tool and compensation from the alliance.
• Chen Yu told Ye Li that the alliance’s leaders had ordered him to avoid fighting during a critical period, and he offered to ask permission to disclose the reason.

Ye Li received three peerless-grade Melding Dao methods from Chen Yu and set out to retrieve them, but An Lingzhen alerted him that the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty had invaded Xuanjian Mansion’s frontier. He ordered a withdrawal to draw the invading army farther in, then accelerated toward the Star Sea with fury rising.

• Chen Yu gave Ye Li coordinates to collect three peerless-grade Melding Dao methods and told him an alliance director wanted to meet him.
• Fang Shuhan urged Chen Yu to stabilize the situation with Saint Thunder Venerable Lord, and Chen Yu went back to handling alliance affairs.
• Ye Li set off for the alliance branch, eager to obtain a Melding Dao method and strengthen his safeguards.
• An Lingzhen reported that the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty had occupied peripheral planets with a vanguard of at least a million troops, possibly followed by nearly ten million.
• Ye Li ordered An Lingzhen to withdraw from the frontier and let the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty advance toward the planets held by the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens.
• After ending the communication, Ye Li accelerated toward the Star Sea, furious that the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty had reached his doorstep.

Ye Li collected three supreme Melding Dao methods from a Star Sea Alliance branch and used his panel to perfect them and forge a cultivation method of his own. He reached the Half-step Melding Dao Realm on a desolate asteroid, where he realized his power could distort the Star Domain’s laws.

• Ye Li arrived at the alliance branch and was recognized by its attendants, who escorted him to the chief steward.
• Ye Li received the three top-secret Melding Dao methods and took them to a deserted asteroid to study them.
• Ye Li used Malice Points to perfect Heavenly River Seizes Stars, Nine Nether Soul Burning, and Great Dao Transforms into Dragon.
• Ye Li combined the three perfected methods with his lifetime of knowledge to create the Super Immortal Grade Myriad Daos Return to Me True Scripture.
• Ye Li broke through to the Half-step Melding Dao Realm and discovered he could distort the Five Elements Law or invoke the Destruction Law across the Star Domain.

The Jade Dragon Empress ordered an invasion of the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens to force Ye Li to appear and submit to her. She sent Shi Xingya and Ling Yue to bring him to her within five days, by invitation or under guard.

• The Jade Dragon Empress surveyed the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty's occupation of the Dragon Transformation Star Domain and ordered her armies to advance on the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens.
• The Jade Dragon Empress said she intended to pressure Ye Li into appearing, despite ministers warning that invading the territory he favored would provoke him.
• Ling Yue volunteered to lead the expedition, but Shi Xingya also offered to command and vowed to capture Ye Li alive.
• The Jade Dragon Empress appointed Shi Xingya commander and Ling Yue his deputy, ordering them to bring Ye Li before her on the planet within five days.

An Lingzhen reinforced Chuiwu Star’s defenses and prepared to evacuate its resources, suspecting the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s invasion of the Dragon Transformation Star Domain concealed a larger purpose. Just as she ordered Aila to take the resources back to Gale, the planet’s protective formation exploded, signaling the enemy’s arrival.

• Cultivators discussed the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s advance as An Lingzhen inspected Cloud Peak’s defensive reinforcements.
• Aila reported that Chuiwu Star’s city defenses and outer-space formation had been strengthened, but An Lingzhen doubted they could withstand the dynasty’s formation-breaking cannons.
• An Lingzhen ordered preparations to leave and learned that the silver-armored general’s name was Aila.
• Aila praised Ye Li and said his arrival would make the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s forces seem insignificant.
• An Lingzhen told Aila to load the resources onto a starship and return to Gale, but Chuiwu Star’s planet-level protective formation suddenly exploded.

An Lingzhen tried to evacuate valuable resources from Chuiwu Star, but Jade Dragon scouts arrived before she could finish. Qu Qingyao rescued her from the scouts, only for a vast Jade Dragon fleet to destroy the escaping starship and arrive overhead.

• An Lingzhen ordered a retreat when a Jade Dragon scout ship appeared over Yunfeng Great City, and its Dao Seeking Realm scouts formed a battle formation.
• Qu Qingyao arrived and shattered the formation, then struck down the Jade Dragon scouts with repeated palm attacks.
• An Lingzhen urged Aila to escape aboard the resource-filled starship, and Aila launched toward the Sea of Clouds.
• Qu Qingyao explained that Ye Li had sent her to handle the Ji family aftermath and that she had come to check on An Lingzhen.
• A vast Jade Dragon starship and army appeared, destroyed Aila's escaping starship, and threatened the remaining Treasure Medicine.

Qu Qingyao and An Lingzhen faced the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s advancing army as Shi Xingya arrived at Yunfeng City and demanded that Ye Li appear. Shi Xingya shattered the city’s defensive formation and confronted Qu Qingyao, leaving the defenders under threat while Ye Li remained absent.

• Qu Qingyao told An Lingzhen that conflict was unavoidable and disappeared to buy time while An Lingzhen tried to contact Ye Li.
• Shi Xingya and Ling Yue discussed using Yunfeng City to force Ye Li to reveal himself after noticing that Qu Qingyao had destroyed their scout ship.
• Shi Xingya broke Yunfeng City’s protective light curtain with a casual strike, injuring the cultivators maintaining it.
• An Lingzhen confronted Shi Xingya and demanded to know why the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty had pursued them, while Ling Yue mocked her and Ye Li.
• Shi Xingya exposed Qu Qingyao’s hiding place, challenged her to summon the other defenders, and demanded that Ye Li appear immediately.

Ye Li arrived to confront the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty fleet and overwhelmed Shi Xingya, killing him and destroying more than a hundred starships. Ling Yue was left facing the scale of Ye Li’s power as the fleet was devastated.

• Ye Li struck Shi Xingya with a single blow, smashing him into the ground and destroying several dozen Jade Dragon starships in the shockwave.
• Ling Yue recognized Ye Li, and Qu Qingyao identified her as the one who had threatened to capture him for the Empress.
• Shi Xingya emerged from the ruins and challenged Ye Li, but Ye Li drove him underground and beat him severely.
• Shi Xingya begged Ye Li to stop, but Ye Li destroyed his head and true spirit with a blazing white light.
• The white light became a gigantic Divine Spear that tore through and destroyed more than a hundred Jade Dragon starships.

Ye Li destroyed Shi Xingya and overwhelmed the Jade Dragon Starship Fleet despite its coordinated cannonfire and defenses. Ling Yue watched the fleet collapse as Ye Li unleashed another devastating strike.

• Ye Li killed Shi Xingya with a single attack, leaving more than a third of the Jade Dragon Fleet in ruins.
• Ling Yue commanded the surviving ships to unite in a battle formation and unleash their immortal cannons at Ye Li.
• Ye Li used the Five Elements Law to swallow the cannon barrage, then drew the Gaia Divine Blade and shattered the fleet’s defensive barriers with a golden slash.
• Ling Yue tried to hold Ye Li back while the flagship’s teleportation formation activated, but Ye Li showed no sign of exhaustion.
• Ye Li struck the fleet again, tearing apart its starships and destroying its soldiers as Ling Yue realized the battle was lost.

Ye Li defeated the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s forces, while Qu Qingyao rescued the badly injured Ling Yue and brought her to him. Ye Li kept Ling Yue alive to make the dynasty pay for the damage to Chuiwu Star, as Ling Yue still believed the Empress would come to her rescue.

• After surviving Ye Li’s blade, Ling Yue fell from the sky, and Qu Qingyao caught her and sealed her damaged Qi Sea.
• Qu Qingyao carried Ling Yue to Ye Li and recognized that the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty had sent its forces to recruit him.
• Ye Li received Malice Points for the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty soldiers killed in the battle.
• Ye Li ordered Qu Qingyao to keep Ling Yue alive so he could make the dynasty repay the losses it had caused.
• Ling Yue regained hope that the Empress would avenge her, and Qu Qingyao slapped her twice at Ye Li’s command.

After defeating the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s assault on Cloudpeak City, Ye Li ordered the damage assessed and rescued the badly wounded Aila from her starship wreckage. An Lingzhen saw the battle as the start of Xuanjian Mansion’s counterattack, while Aila awoke to find the invading army defeated.

• An Lingzhen reported Cloudpeak City’s losses to Ye Li, who told her to count the damage and promised to recover it.
• Qu Qingyao struck the captured Ling Yue again, confined her in a Treasured Artifact, and asked Ye Li if she could later keep her in a cage; he agreed.
• Ye Li pulled Aila alive from her destroyed starship and used Immortal Power to stabilize her before handing her to An Lingzhen.
• An Lingzhen reflected that Ye Li’s victory could revive Xuanjian Mansion and signal the start of its counterattack.
• Aila awoke in the ruins and learned from An Lingzhen that the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s army had been defeated.

Ye Li used his Malice Points to break through to the Melding Dao Realm Third Tier, then experimented with combining the Five Elements Law and Destruction Law to create a new divine light. After successfully testing it on a dead star, he prepared to set off for Jade Dragon.

• Ye Li traveled to a desolate dead star and found nearly two hundred million Malice Points on his panel.
• Ye Li spent Malice Points to advance through the first, second, and third tiers of the Melding Dao Realm.
• Ye Li began combining the Five Elements Law with the Destruction Law to strengthen the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• After more than ten thousand failed attempts, Ye Li created an unstable five-colored Divine Light of Destruction.
• Ye Li tested the new light and silently erased more than half of the dead star, then decided to set off.

The Jade Dragon Empress punished the Blazing Fire Sect Leader and Wang Che for betraying Uncle Fangshan’s descendant, then annihilated Uncle Fangshan’s entire lineage for violating her prohibition. The chapter ended with news that Ye Li had apparently killed General Shi Xingya and every Jade Dragon soldier sent to the Heavenly Maiden Star Domain.

• A court official accused Li Xun and Wang Che of abandoning Uncle Fangshan’s descendant and demanding the Azure Dragon Scale as ransom.
• The Jade Dragon Empress crushed Li Xun and Wang Che to death, then summoned Uncle Fangshan.
• The Jade Dragon Empress declared Uncle Fangshan’s lineage would not be allowed to continue and destroyed their prison planet, killing its tens of thousands of inhabitants.
• Uncle Fangshan thanked the Jade Dragon Empress for her mercy despite grieving for his descendants.
• A Lamp of Life Hall eunuch reported that Shi Xingya, Ling Yue, and all the Jade Dragon troops sent to the Heavenly Maiden Star Domain had died, apparently at Ye Li’s hands.

After Ye Li destroyed the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s forces, the Jade Dragon Empress ordered her troops to abandon the Dragon Transformation Star Domain and return to Cuiwei Ancestral Star. She planned to activate the Jade Dragon Profound Destiny Great Array and draw Ye Li to the Imperial City, where she intended to defeat and enslave him.

• The Jade Dragon Empress laughed at the news that Ye Li had destroyed two hundred thousand troops and killed Shi Xingya, calling Ye Li a prize she wanted to capture herself.
• The Jade Dragon Empress ordered the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty to withdraw all its forces from the Dragon Transformation Star Domain and grant it to Ye Li.
• The Jade Dragon Empress commanded every elite legion campaigning abroad to halt its expansion and return to Cuiwei Ancestral Star.
• An old minister asked whether the Jade Dragon Empress intended to activate the Jade Dragon Profound Destiny Great Array, and she confirmed that she would use it to subdue Ye Li before the Dynasty’s citizens.
• The Jade Dragon Empress declared that Ye Li would come to the Imperial City because he would interpret her withdrawal as contempt and her concession as charity.
• The officials praised the Jade Dragon Empress after she revealed her plan to break Ye Li’s spirit and make him her running dog.

The Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty massed its forces on Cuiwei Star after Ye Li founded the Cosmic Profound Mirror Prefecture and declared war on the dynasty. Generals Li Chu and Tao Yunsheng learned that Ye Li had slain thousands of their troops and General Shi, leaving them to face a foe far more powerful than they had expected.

• Jade Dragon warships converged on Cuiwei Star as the Empress's orders mobilized the dynasty's forces.
• Cultivators in the Imperial Capital learned that Ye Li had founded the Cosmic Profound Mirror Prefecture, destroyed several major Star Sea forces, and declared war on the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty.
• Li Chu and Tao Yunsheng arrived at the Imperial Capital spaceport with thousands of Jade Dragon elites.
• Li Chu revealed that Ye Li had wiped out his Third Cavalry Division before it could activate a teleportation array.
• Tao Yunsheng told Li Chu that Ye Li had also killed thirty thousand Divine Strike elites and defeated Mount Jiuhua's three Melding Dao Realm masters and Mountain Protection Array.
• Tao Yunsheng disclosed that Ye Li had killed General Shi and warned Li Chu to keep the news secret.

The Jade Dragon Empress prepared the Imperial Capital’s defenses and awaited Ye Li, who arrived and immediately overwhelmed the Jade Dragon forces. The chapter ended with Ye Li publicly gravely injuring Li Chu before the watching city.

• Tao Yunsheng and Li Chu reported to the Jade Dragon Empress, who ordered them to guard the southern and northern cities while she mastered the [Mysterious Fate Great Array].
• Li Chu requested permission to fight Ye Li and received the Empress’s approval.
• Ye Li blasted through the array’s Sea of Clouds and appeared above the Imperial Capital, declaring that the Jade Dragon people knew how to welcome guests.
• Li Chu charged Ye Li without waiting for orders, but Ye Li shattered his arm and seized him by the throat.
• Ye Li blasted apart Li Chu’s armored body, leaving the Jade Dragon Imperial Capital staring at him as Immortal Blood rained down.