Recaps

Ye Li demonstrated his strength by killing Li Chu, surviving the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s fleet bombardment, and effortlessly breaking Tao Yunsheng’s death sword. Tao Yunsheng fled as Ye Li’s golden light pursued him.

• Ye Li tested his strength against Li Chu, then caught and crushed Li Chu’s true spirit as he tried to escape.
• The Jade Dragon fleet fired a barrage at Ye Li, but his Five-Colored Divine Light shattered the energy beams without harming him.
• The Jade Dragon Empress recognized Ye Li’s mastery of the Five Elements Law but judged that it was not enough to challenge her.
• Tao Yunsheng attacked Ye Li with a ten-thousand-zhang sword formed from the Law of Death, but Ye Li stopped it with one palm.
• Ye Li shattered Tao Yunsheng’s sword, and Tao Yunsheng turned into black light and fled as Ye Li pursued him.

Ye Li defied the Jade Dragon Empress by defeating her intervention and killing Tao Yunsheng, prompting her to unleash the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s national fortune against him. As the Empress prepared to fight atop the National Fortune Jade Dragon, Ye Li began invoking Heaven and Earth Manifestation.

• The Jade Dragon Empress hurled her Mysterious Phoenix Ring at Ye Li to stop his attack, but he smashed it apart and sent it flying back.
• Ye Li struck Tao Yunsheng with a single punch, shattering his skull and blasting his body into the base of the Empress’s statue.
• Ye Li mocked the Jade Dragon Empress, who summoned the million-zhang National Fortune Jade Dragon and declared she would make him submit.
• The Jade Dragon Empress rode the National Fortune Jade Dragon into the sky as Ye Li began forming a hand seal and roared, “HEAVEN AND EARTH MANIFESTATION!!!!!”

Ye Li unleashed a colossal Heaven and Earth Manifestation and charged the Jade Dragon Empress in the Imperial Capital. The Empress summoned the dynasty’s defenses, but Ye Li shattered them as he built momentum for a devastating strike.

• Ye Li transformed into a golden manifestation several times larger than the National Fortune Jade Dragon, terrifying Tao Yunsheng and the Jade Dragon citizens.
• The Jade Dragon Empress merged with the National Fortune Jade Dragon and unleashed laws that bound Ye Li in azure chains.
• Ye Li broke the chains and charged across the Imperial Capital, tearing up the ground beneath his feet.
• The Jade Dragon Empress ordered the formation opened, raising more than ten thousand barriers in Ye Li’s path.
• Ye Li smashed through the barriers, while the Empress sensed that his next strike would be too powerful to withstand.

Ye Li shattered the Jade Dragon Empress’s national fortune and overwhelmed her in battle. After she refused to kneel and beg for mercy, he branded her with a slave mark and beat her into the ruins of the Imperial Capital.

• The Jade Dragon Empress used national fortune to raise a shield, but Ye Li’s Dharma Avatar smashed through it, seized her dragon form, and battered her until it cracked.
• The Empress unleashed her accumulated breath of destruction, but it failed to harm Ye Li, who tore open the Jade Dragon’s jaws and broke the national fortune.
• Ye Li struck the Empress from the sky and offered to spare her if she knelt, but she refused and attacked with tens of thousands of azure suns.
• Ye Li dispersed the suns, let the Empress pierce his chest, then burned a slave mark into her face and hurled her through the city.
• Ye Li pinned the Empress to the ground and battered her with a storm of punches, shattering her bones as the Imperial Capital shook.

Ye Li overwhelmed the Jade Dragon Empress and erased the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s forces when she summoned them to help. After she begged for mercy and offered him the dynasty’s treasury and herself, Ye Li burned away her true spirit and killed her.

• The Jade Dragon Empress drained the Imperial Guards’ Immortal Power to break free, then summoned Jade Dragon’s soldiers and formations to attack Ye Li.
• Ye Li unleashed a five-colored storm that erased the dynasty’s starships and battle formations across the sky.
• Ye Li caught the retreating Jade Dragon Empress and battered her until her Dharma body began to collapse.
• The Jade Dragon Empress begged Ye Li to stop and offered the dynasty’s treasures and herself, but he refused.
• After her Dao Heart collapsed, Ye Li burned the Jade Dragon Empress’s true spirit and killed her.

Ye Li destroyed the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty and left An Lingzhen to secure its territory while he departed to convert his Malice Points into strength. Qu Qingyao claimed the Jade Dragon Empress’s corpse, and the captured Ling Yue remained imprisoned aboard a ship.

• An Lingzhen reported that Xuanjian Mansion had intercepted fleeing enemies and begun taking over the Jade Dragon territory’s resource vaults.
• Qu Qingyao asked Ye Li for the Jade Dragon Empress’s corpse, explaining that she wanted the body even though its soul and true spirit had been destroyed.
• Ye Li agreed to let Qu Qingyao take the corpse and ordered An Lingzhen to consolidate resources and stabilize the territory.
• Ye Li left behind several souls as auxiliary fighters and vanished in a streak of golden light to attend to his own matters.
• Ling Yue remained trapped in a technique-suppressing iron cage aboard a ship, cursing under her breath.

Qu Qingyao shattered Ling Yue’s confidence by showing her the Jade Dragon Empress’s severed head and describing her humiliating defeat. Far away, Ye Li gained Malice Points from Ling Yue’s broken Dao Heart and prepared to spend nearly 240 million points.

• Ling Yue gloated over the Jade Dragon Dynasty’s supposed victory and imagined that her loyalty would restore her position.
• Qu Qingyao entered Ling Yue’s cell and tossed the Jade Dragon Empress’s head before her.
• Ling Yue recognized the head and collapsed in shock as Qu Qingyao taunted her about the Empress’s defeat and death.
• Ling Yue’s Dao Heart shattered, earning Ye Li Malice Points.
• Ye Li checked his panel, saw nearly 240 million Malice Points, and prepared to add points.

Ye Li used his Malice Points and Melding Dao Treasure Pills to rise to the Melding Dao Realm Peak Seventh Tier, then set his sights on the Western Divine Kingdom. News of his destruction of the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty spread across the Star Sea, drawing fear, speculation, and the attention of a hidden Church Walker.

• Ye Li consumed Melding Dao Treasure Pills and spent 220 million Malice Points, advancing from the Melding Dao Realm Third Tier to the Peak Seventh Tier.
• Ye Li tested his strengthened Five-Colored Divine Light, erasing nearly half a distant Milky Way, then decided to travel to the Western Divine Kingdom to help Chen Yu.
• The Alliance’s Dao Hearing Stone network spread news that Ye Li had killed the Jade Dragon Empress and destroyed the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty.
• The Ziwei Holy Land Saint Son feared Ye Li would retaliate for his earlier challenge, while cultivators debated Xuanjian Mansion’s rise and its possible connection to the fallen Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion.
• A green-robed cultivator warned that the White Tower Church might respond to Ye Li, and a hidden Church Walker aboard an Alliance starship studied the battle report and murmured his name.

After Xuanjian Mansion took control of Cuiwei Star and inventoried much of the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s wealth, Ye Li left An Lingzhen in charge and prepared to travel to the Western Divine Kingdom. Before he could leave, Lu Xuan of the Star Sea Merchant Alliance appeared to meet him.

• An Lingzhen reported that seventy percent of the Divine Dynasty’s reserves had been inventoried and handed Ye Li a ring of peerless Melding Dao Realm Treasure Medicines.
• Ye Li told An Lingzhen he would leave for the Western Divine Kingdom, entrusted her with Xuanjian Mansion, and allowed her to use the remaining Jade Dragon national destiny.
• Ye Li sensed someone hidden in the hall and ordered An Lingzhen to leave before calling the intruder out.
• Lu Xuan appeared inside a domain that froze the hall and said Chen Yu had told her Ye Li agreed to meet the alliance.
• Lu Xuan introduced herself as a current director of the Star Sea Merchant Alliance and greeted Ye Li.

Lu Xuan visited Ye Li to offer the Star Sea Alliance’s support in exchange for his future restraint, but he refused. She then recruited him for the Heavenly Domain War, explaining that the Demonic Heavenly Domain was invading Alliance territory and had proposed a duel to decide control of fifty border star systems.

• Lu Xuan offered Ye Li the Alliance’s support if he avoided acting against it after becoming a god, but Ye Li refused.
• Lu Xuan accepted his decision and said the Alliance had no need to pressure him, especially given his reported ability to slay a High-ranking Venerable Lord of the Melding Dao Realm.
• Lu Xuan invited Ye Li to join the Heavenly Domain War, which followed the Demonic Heavenly Domain’s invasion of the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain.
• Lu Xuan explained that both sides had agreed to choose ten Melding Dao Realm Venerable Lords for a life-and-death duel over fifty border star systems.
• Lu Xuan clarified that the Star Sea Alliance and a few affected groups were fighting the invasion while stronger Myriad Laws powers mostly stayed on the sidelines.

Ye Li agreed to join the Star Sea Alliance’s War Pact against the Demonic Heavenly Domain in exchange for a Creation Realm cultivation method and an advancement treasure medicine. After learning that the Western Divine Kingdom might soon apologize over the Gaia Kingdom Lord, he hurried there to claim compensation before it heard of his victory over the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty.

• Ye Li questioned Lu Xuan about the alliance’s forces, the Demonic Heavenly Domain’s strength, and the danger to Venerable Lords in the War Pact.
• Lu Xuan revealed that the Demonic Heavenly Domain had twelve Creation Realm cultivators while the alliance had only three, and admitted the alliance could not guarantee the participants’ safety.
• Ye Li agreed to fight for a future Creation Realm method and an advancement treasure medicine, and Lu Xuan accepted his terms.
• Lu Xuan said the War Pact would begin in ten days and offered to escort Ye Li to the border, but he declined to visit the Western Divine Kingdom first.
• Lu Xuan explained that the Western Divine Kingdom might apologize over the Gaia Kingdom Lord after learning of Ye Li’s destruction of the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty, so Ye Li rushed off to collect compensation.

Chen Yu confronted the Saint Thunder Venerable Lord over the Western Divine Kingdom’s extortionate compensation demands and learned that the Kingdom knew the Alliance’s secret predicament. Ye Li abruptly arrived and killed the Venerable Lord, leaving Chen Yu stunned.

• Chen Yu examined the Western Divine Kingdom’s demands for territory, treasures, and Tears of Stars, and suspected that its leaders had learned of the Alliance’s secret troubles.
• The Saint Thunder Venerable Lord gave Chen Yu three days to pay and threatened the Alliance’s branches, taunting him with the Kingdom’s knowledge of the Alliance’s predicament.
• Chen Yu demanded to know how the Kingdom had obtained its information, but the Saint Thunder Venerable Lord refused to reveal the source.
• Ye Li burst into the reception hall, tore off the Saint Thunder Venerable Lord’s arm, and crushed his head against the floor.
• Ye Li told Chen Yu that he had come to help, while Chen Yu stood stunned by the Venerable Lord’s swift death.

Ye Li arrived at the alliance after destroying the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty and killing Saint Thunder Venerable Lord, stunning Chen Yu and Fang Shuhan with his strength. After Chen Yu explained the Western Divine Kingdom’s pressure and the suspected leak about the Demonic Heavenly Domain, Ye Li offered to help the alliance investigate.

• Ye Li crushed Saint Thunder Venerable Lord, leaving Chen Yu and Fang Shuhan shocked by his strength.
• Chen Yu saw the headlines reporting the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty’s destruction and the Empress’s fall, then asked Ye Li why he had come.
• Chen Yu explained that Saint Thunder Venerable Lord’s death might deter the Western Divine Kingdom from pressuring the alliance further.
• Chen Yu told Ye Li about the Western Divine Kingdom’s demands and the suspected leak concerning the Demonic Heavenly Domain battlefield.
• Chen Yu said the alliance would handle its internal investigation without troubling Ye Li, but Ye Li offered to help repay the alliance for its support.

Ye Li refused Chen Yu’s offer to join an attack on the Western Divine Kingdom and asked instead for its expert deployments. Meanwhile, a Universal Sword Tomb swordsman manipulated the grieving Gaia Queen and neighboring kingdoms into a plan against Ye Li, until their representatives arrived in alarm.

• Ye Li told Chen Yu he would eliminate the leak by killing the relevant Western Divine Kingdom officials, but refused to let Chen Yu participate and requested intelligence on the kingdom’s forces.
• Chen Yu was left standing with his sword half-drawn after Ye Li said joining the attack would implicate the Alliance.
• The Gaia Divine Kingdom stabilized after a swordsman from the Universal Sword Tomb intervened and secured the neighboring kingdoms’ cooperation against Ye Li.
• The Blue Robe Swordsman promised the Gaia Queen that he would pressure Ye Li, while privately coveting her and the item she offered in exchange for revenge.
• Representatives from several neighboring divine kingdoms arrived at the palace in a state of alarm.

The Gaia Queen and the Blue Robe Swordsman learned that Ye Li had killed the Saint Thunder Venerable Lord and destroyed the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty. Though the Gaia Queen feared his arrival, the Blue Robe Swordsman insisted they could kill Ye Li if he came to Gaia Royal Capital.

• The divine kingdoms' envoys rushed onto the high platform and warned the Gaia Queen and the Blue Robe Swordsman that disaster threatened their survival.
• The envoys reported that Ye Li had killed the Saint Thunder Venerable Lord with one bare palm in less than three breaths.
• The envoys said Ye Li had also wiped out the Jade Dragon Divine Dynasty and killed the Jade Dragon Empress, leading them to fear he would settle old scores with their kingdoms.
• The Gaia Queen trembled at the thought of Ye Li coming for her, while the Blue Robe Swordsman privately worried about facing such a powerful enemy.
• The Blue Robe Swordsman dismissed the envoys' fear, claimed he could contend with three Star Sea Alliance Venerable Lords, and vowed to make sure Ye Li never left Gaia Royal Capital alive.

Ye Li attacked the Gaia capital after the Blue Robe Swordsman rallied the divine kingdoms against him. He crushed their defenses and left the swordsman disarmed and gravely wounded, then challenged the Universal Sword Tomb from above the ruins.

• The Blue Robe Swordsman persuaded the divine kingdom representatives to stand together against Ye Li, though he remained uneasy about the Alliance.
• Ye Li appeared above the Star-Plucking Platform and shattered the swordsman's giant sword with one palm.
• Ye Li's punch broke through the capital's defenses, killed several envoys, destroyed the platform, and hurled the Blue Robe Swordsman into the capital.
• The Blue Robe Swordsman invoked his final divine ability, but Ye Li's next shockwave shattered his ancient sword, severed both his hands, and injured Gaia Queen.
• Ye Li appeared above the ruined capital and asked the Blue Robe Swordsman whether the Universal Sword Tomb could fight that well.

Ye Li fought Tian Shu Venerable Lord and the Gaia Queen over the Heart of the Earth, the Gaia royal bloodline’s secret treasure. After the Queen gave Tian Shu the treasure, Ye Li killed him with his Divine Spear, leaving the fate of the Queen and Gaia Divine Kingdom unresolved.

• Ye Li attacked Tian Shu Venerable Lord again, breaking through his defenses and leaving him badly wounded.
• Tian Shu ordered the Gaia Queen to hand over the Heart of the Earth or they would both die.
• The Gaia Queen pulled the Heart of the Earth from the planet’s core and sent its power into Tian Shu, restoring his wounds and strengthening him.
• Tian Shu unleashed a giant sword made from nine sword suns, but Ye Li summoned a Divine Spear that shattered it.
• Tian Shu pleaded for mercy before Ye Li’s Divine Spear struck him and devastated the wilderness outside the imperial capital.

Ye Li annihilated Gaia Queen and the divine kingdom representatives after destroying Gaia, then learned from Chen Yu that the Myriad Thunder Divine Kingdom and Azure Divine Kingdom led the Western Divine Kingdom. Despite Chen Yu's warning that pursuing them could jeopardize Ye Li before the Heavenly Domain War, Ye Li continued onward with Chen Yu following him.

• Ye Li crushed Gaia Queen and the surrounding divine kingdom representatives beneath his pressure, while millions of Gaia cultivators suffered the collapse of their Dao Hearts.
• Chen Yu watched Ye Li's overwhelming victory over Tian Shu Venerable Lord and praised his strength.
• Chen Yu told Ye Li that the Myriad Thunder Divine Kingdom and Azure Divine Kingdom were the Western Divine Kingdom's strongest factions.
• Chen Yu warned Ye Li that pursuing the two nations could unite the Western Divine Kingdom and risk his strength before the Heavenly Domain War.
• Ye Li declared that he would attend the Heavenly Domain War and continue fighting the Western Divine Kingdom, and Chen Yu chose to accompany him.

Ye Li traveled toward the Giant Spirit Divine Kingdom while Chen Yu warned him that the White Tower Church might target the name Cosmic Profound Mirror Prefecture. Ye Li insisted on keeping the name and arrived at the kingdom, where he killed its monarch and took control in the name of the Xuanjian Mansion.

• Chen Yu explained that the White Tower Church had destroyed the Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion and urged Ye Li to change his faction's name.
• Ye Li said he kept the name because the Xuanjian Mansion's legacy had helped him, and he welcomed the chance to confront the White Tower Church.
• The Giant Spirit Monarch prepared a blood sacrifice to restore his strength before Ye Li arrived.
• Ye Li smashed into the royal hall, killed the Giant Spirit Monarch's body, and seized his remnant soul.
• The Giant Spirit Monarch pledged obedience as Ye Li declared that the Xuanjian Mansion would take over the Giant Spirit Divine Kingdom.

Ye Li destroyed the Giant Spirit Monarch’s divine kingdom and headed toward more targets among the Western Divine Kingdoms, while Chen Yu learned that his purge had put Prime Minister Ling Mo in danger. The chapter left Chen Yu facing a communications blackout after the Azure Divine Kingdom activated its protective formation.

• Ye Li left the collapsed divine hall after killing the Giant Spirit Monarch and taking over his living planet, while Chen Yu reflected on his rapid campaign against major forces.
• Ye Li studied the star map and resolved to pursue more monarchs among the Western Divine Kingdoms.
• Chen Yu received an urgent call from Ling Mo, who said the Azure Divine Kingdom had detained her while she negotiated with its monarch.
• Ling Mo blamed Chen Yu for using force without coordinating with her and warned that the western star region was nearing chaos.
• The Azure Divine Kingdom activated its protective formation, cutting off Ling Mo’s communication and leaving Chen Yu concerned about the worsening situation.

Ling Mo was trapped in the Azure Royal Capital after its National Protection Array sealed the city, and she tried to reassure Ying Yang that the Star Sea Alliance did not intend to attack the Azure Divine Kingdom. Ying Yang accused the Alliance of backing Ye Li’s killing of the Saint Thunder Venerable Lord and destruction of the Gaia Divine Kingdom, leaving Ling Mo to realize that Ye Li might have Venerable Lord-level strength.

• The Azure Divine Kingdom activated its National Protection Array, cutting off Ling Mo’s communications and sealing the Azure Royal Capital.
• Ling Mo blamed Chen Yu for acting impulsively and hoped the Star Sea Alliance would send someone to negotiate before the Azure Kingdom Monarch attacked her.
• Ying Yang arrived with Azure Armored Soldiers and ordered Ling Mo to attend a pre-war meeting with the Azure Kingdom Monarch.
• Ying Yang accused Ye Li of killing the Saint Thunder Venerable Lord and destroying the Gaia Divine Kingdom, citing recorded footage as evidence.
• Ling Mo remembered Chen Yu saying he was helping a friend purge the Western Divine Kingdoms and realized Ye Li might now have Venerable Lord-level combat strength.

Ling Mo’s attempt to calm Azure failed when news of Ye Li’s attack on the Giant Spirit Divine Kingdom convinced Ying Yang that the Alliance had deceived them. As Azure’s guards moved to detain her, Ye Li arrived in the capital, destroyed its elite troops with a single punch, and continued toward the Monarch’s Hall.

• Ling Mo insisted that the Alliance would investigate and warned Ying Yang against detaining her, prompting him to consider demanding an apology from Ye Li.
• An Azure attendant reported that Ye Li had attacked the Giant Spirit Divine Kingdom and that its life crest had shattered, leading Ying Yang to order Ling Mo taken away.
• Escorted through Azure’s capital, Ling Mo concluded that Ye Li was acting on his own and worried that he could not defeat Azure and Myriad Thunder’s Venerable Lords.
• Ye Li appeared near the Monarch’s Hall, and Ying Yang’s guards attacked him as Ling Mo shouted that he was one of their own.
• Ye Li’s shockwave and punch obliterated Azure’s elite troops and carved a vast chasm through the capital; he then reassured Ling Mo and continued toward the Monarch’s Hall.

Ye Li attacked the Azure Kingdom Monarch and overwhelmed him with his physical strength, shattering his law domain and smashing him into the ground. The monarch then turned the Azure Royal Capital’s protective array into a seal powered by its citizens, but Ye Li charged through the chains as they broke around him.

• Ling Mo realized Ye Li had reached the Melding Dao Realm and tried to warn him about the Azure Kingdom Monarch.
• Ye Li burst from the Azure Grand Hall with the monarch in his grasp and smashed him into the ground.
• The Azure Kingdom Monarch unleashed his law domain, but Ye Li shattered its false sky with a punch and struck him down again.
• Ling Mo and the Azure cultivators recognized Ye Li, while the injured monarch realized he could not escape or defeat him directly.
• The Azure Kingdom Monarch burned his origin and turned the capital’s protective array into a seal that drew on the citizens’ life force.
• Ye Li let the chains of law bind him, then charged forward and broke them apart.

Ye Li killed the Azure Kingdom Monarch and took control of the Azure Divine Kingdom, while Chen Yu reported that the Giant Spirit Royal Capital had also submitted to Xuanjian Mansion. Ling Mo asked Ye Li to join the upcoming Heavenly Domain War, and the chapter ended with her teasing Chen Yu about his lack of contribution.

• Ye Li crushed the Azure Kingdom Monarch and annihilated his true spirit, then ordered the monarch's soul to suppress unrest until Xuanjian Mansion took over.
• Chen Yu told Ye Li that the Giant Spirit Royal Capital had declared allegiance to Xuanjian Mansion and that dissenters had been killed by the Giant Spirit Monarch's soul.
• Ling Mo thanked Ye Li for rescuing her and asked him to fight in the Heavenly Domain War; Chen Yu revealed that Ye Li had already agreed.
• Ye Li headed deeper into the Azure Royal Capital to begin the settlement, while Ling Mo and Chen Yu discussed Ye Li's age and mocked Chen Yu for merely watching him fight.

Ye Li plundered the Azure Divine Kingdom’s treasury, refined its medicines, and used them with his Malice Points to advance to the early ninth level of the Melding Dao Realm. He sent three powerful souls to target other divine kingdoms, but still needed more points to reach the Creation Realm.

• Ye Li entered the Azure Divine Kingdom’s underground treasury and refined its treasures into Top-Grade Treasure Pills.
• Ye Li sent the souls of the Jade Dragon Empress, Tian Shu Venerable Lord, and the Azure Kingdom Monarch to gather points from the remaining divine kingdoms.
• Ye Li consumed the pills and gained buffs that strengthened his cultivation, breakthrough efficiency, and physical body.
• Ye Li spent his Malice Points to rise through the eighth level and reach the early ninth level of the Melding Dao Realm.
• Ye Li realized he still needed more points to break into the Creation Realm.