Recaps

After Ye Li’s slaughter of Tian Shu Venerable Lord spread, the Universal Sword Tomb debated revenge, but its Patriarch forbade retaliation and ordered the sect to avoid making Ye Li an enemy. The Patriarch planned to attend the Alliance’s Heavenly Domain War with Sword Venerable Ku Rong, while secretly harboring killing intent toward Ye Li.

• Reports of Ye Li killing Tian Shu Venerable Lord reached the Universal Sword Tomb, where elders demanded revenge.
• The Sword Patriarch exposed that some elders wanted to use revenge as an excuse to seize Ye Li’s plundered wealth.
• The Sword Patriarch declared that Tian Shu had died through his own lack of skill and ordered the disciples to be friendly toward Ye Li or retreat from him.
• The Sword Patriarch rejected a plan to obtain the Thunder Source Dao Fruit, warning that provoking Ye Li for treasure was not worth the risk.
• The Sword Patriarch ordered Sword Venerable Ku Rong to accompany him to observe the Alliance’s Heavenly Domain War, and Ku Rong reluctantly obeyed.
• After the elders left, the Sword Patriarch privately resolved to let Ye Li live for now.

The Myriad Thunder Kingdom Monarch tried to placate his citizens while hiding underground from Ye Li, but the Cosmic Profound Mirror Prefecture’s forces arrived and attacked the royal capital. Qu Qingyao reported that the monarch was trapped and close to defeat as she prepared to take control of the kingdom.

• The Myriad Thunder Kingdom Monarch announced sweeping benefits for his people, who recognized the decree as an attempt to save himself from Ye Li.
• The monarch hid in a secret chamber beneath the capital while a law-avatar read the decree aboveground.
• An old minister reported that the kingdom’s scouts around the ancestral star had been slaughtered.
• The Jade Dragon Empress, Tian Shu Venerable Lord, and Azure Kingdom Monarch arrived with the Cosmic Profound Mirror Prefecture’s fleet and attacked the capital.
• The monarch’s avatar exploded as the three figures plunged underground, and the royal capital’s foundations began to collapse.
• Qu Qingyao told a fellow Daoist that the Myriad Thunder Kingdom Monarch was trapped and that she would take over the city and purge its remaining forces.

Ye Li left the Azure Divine Kingdom after arranging to meet Chen Yu at the edge of the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain, but his Good Fortune Avoids Calamity warned him of a major threat. In the Senluo Demon Realm, the Destroyer Saint Venerable confronted the Heavenly Bull Saint Venerable over rumors of an unauthorized invasion.

• Ye Li told Chen Yu to travel ahead while he handled personal matters, and learned the Universal Sword Tomb had not responded to the alliance.
• Ye Li left the Azure Ancestral Star, but Good Fortune Avoids Calamity triggered an unprecedented warning as he approached the starry sky.
• The Heavenly Bull Saint Venerable feasted on a human cultivator in the Senluo Demon Realm while the Destroyer Saint Venerable arrived to question him.
• The Destroyer Saint Venerable broke the Heavenly Bull Saint Venerable's fingers with a snap of his fan and warned him not to violate the oath against invading the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain.

The scholar in green revealed that Qingfeng Continent was a trap intended to kill the Human Race’s Venerable Lords and weaken the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain. After secretly witnessing the plot, Ye Li resolved to enter the war and seek a breakthrough in battle, but Good Fortune Avoids Calamity activated again just as he prepared to depart.

• The scholar in green explained that the Demonic Heavenly Domain had selected Qingfeng Continent as a hidden burial ground for the Human Race’s ten Venerable Lords.
• The ox-headed great demon praised the scholar in green’s scheme to kill the Human Race’s powerful figures and undermine the alliance.
• Ye Li secretly watched the demons, understood the War Pact’s danger, and considered how he could survive the coming battle.
• Ye Li decided to enter the war and try to reach the Creation Realm by killing Venerable Lords and gathering enough Malice Points.
• As Ye Li prepared to depart, Good Fortune Avoids Calamity activated again within minutes.

Hilia reported Ye Li and the new Xuanjian Mansion to the White Tower bishop, including Ye Li’s inquiries into the Church’s past and the purge of the old Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion. As Hilia prayed, Ye Li saw that the Church’s apparent god was a hollow, dead thing, while another voice declared that Ye Li was already a dead man.

• Hilia told the White Tower bishop that she had investigated the new Xuanjian Mansion and uncovered further information.
• Hilia explained that Ye Li had asked Chen Yu and others about the Church, and that Chen Yu had accessed secret files about its history and the purge of the Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion.
• The bishop decided the matter must be reported to God and left Hilia alone in the Divine Hall.
• Hilia prayed before the altar while Ye Li secretly watched and saw that the enormous Angel Phantom seemed like a dead thing.
• A vast voice told Hilia to pay no heed and declared that Ye Li was already a dead man.

Ye Li investigated the White Tower God's threat, judged it distant, and began planning how to protect Xuanjian Mansion while preparing for the Heavenly Domain War. Meanwhile, Lu Xuan recruited the Red Sun Sect's Supreme Elder, and Ye Li arranged to collect his Creation Realm advancement method before the war.

• Ye Li used his [Indestructible Golden Soul] to search for a curse or mark, found nothing, and concluded the White Tower God had not decided how or when to attack.
• Ye Li decided the White Tower Church's distant headquarters made its threat less immediate, then planned to exploit the Heavenly Domain War and considered Xuanjian Mansion's safety.
• Lu Xuan persuaded the Red Sun Sect's Supreme Elder to join the Heavenly Domain War and signed his contract.
• Ye Li called Lu Xuan to ask about recruitment and requested his Creation Realm advancement method in advance.
• Lu Xuan agreed to deliver the method, and Ye Li said they could meet in the outer Star Domains of the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain within two days.

As the Heavenly Domain War approached, the Star Sea Merchant Alliance publicly announced the ten-on-ten battle and sold spectator access, stirring the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain. Venerable Lords gathered at a staging ground in the Wutong Star Domain as a prebattle conference became inevitable.

• The Star Sea Merchant Alliance announced that ten Venerable Lords from the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain would fight ten from the Demonic Heavenly Domain, with the victor ruling the star domains.
• The Holy Lord of Ziwei refused the Saint Son's suggestion to help the alliance, warning that involvement would put his life at risk.
• Sword Venerable Ku Rong told the Sword Ancestor that the alliance was pressuring undecided factions, and the Sword Ancestor said they would go watch the battle.
• Cultivators across the Star Sea discussed the coming war, while the Star Sea Alliance launched an expensive live broadcast service and sold Spectator Tokens.
• Martial Dao Venerable Lords arrived at the alliance's staging ground in the Wutong Star Domain as the war and a prebattle conference drew near.

Nine Venerable Lords gathered to join the Celestial Domain Grand Formation battle, and Chen Yu worried about Ye Li’s absence as Chang Le questioned whether the Mansion Lord would arrive. Dongfang Li defended Ye Li’s judgment and rebuked Chang Le, before an unidentified Venerable Lord interrupted her.

• Six Venerable Lords representing the great powers arrived, bringing the gathering to nine, and Chen Yu worried that he was the weakest among them.
• Chang Le asked Chen Yu why Ye Li had not arrived, implying concern that Ye Li’s recent battles had delayed him.
• Chen Yu defended Ye Li and insisted he would not neglect the war pact.
• Dongfang Li said she trusted Ye Li’s judgment despite never meeting him, then criticized Chang Le for hiding behind others and wagging his tongue.
• An unidentified Venerable Lord laughed and told Dongfang Li to stop trying to make herself look good.

Ye Li arrived at the gathering of Venerable Lords and confronted Monk Changle over the Buddha Incense Golden Temple’s involvement in the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens. He left Changle gravely injured and announced that he would visit the temple after the alliance’s business was concluded.

• The Mad Shark Sovereign mocked Chen Yu’s support for Ye Li, but Ye Li’s overwhelming martial pressure silenced the gathered Venerable Lords when he appeared.
• Ye Li told Monk Changle that an elder from the Valley of the Heavenly Maidens had credited the Buddha Incense Golden Temple with providing intelligence and coordinates.
• Monk Changle realized Ye Li knew about the temple’s involvement and feared that Ye Li had discovered the temple’s secrets.
• Ye Li seized Monk Changle, slammed him into the ground, and burned him with divine flames until he was severely injured.
• Ye Li said he would visit the Buddha Incense Golden Temple after the alliance’s matters were settled, leaving the assembled Venerable Lords horrified by his strength.

Ye Li demonstrated his strength by gravely wounding Monk Changle, then Lu Xuan arrived and explained the rules for the Heavenly Domain War Pact. Ye Li chose the central region of the battlefield, leaving the other Venerable Lords to decide whether to join him.

• Ye Li’s display of strength silenced the gathered Venerable Lords, who bowed and introduced themselves to him.
• Lu Xuan appeared and remarked that Ye Li had wisely spared Monk Changle’s life.
• Lu Xuan announced that the War Pact would take place on Qingfeng Continent, divided into five regions with spatial barriers and a final melee after each region’s survivors advanced.
• Lu Xuan told the participants to choose their regions, and most of them looked to Ye Li as the key to winning.
• Ye Li chose the central region and asked Chen Yu whether he would come with him.

Ye Li chose his companions for the five-region War Pact and received the Star Sea Alliance’s secret Creation Art from Lu Xuan. He then asked her how effective her strongest offensive divine ability would be against a Creation Realm Sacred Lord.

• Chen Yu refused Ye Li’s offer to join him in the Central Region and chose to go to the Eastern Region with Elder Wang.
• Ye Li rejected Dongfang Li’s request to accompany him and selected the long-bearded alliance elder instead, so Dongfang Li chose the Northern Region.
• The remaining Exalted Lords assigned themselves to the other regions, and Elder Lu promised to restore Monk Changle before the War Pact began.
• Lu Xuan placed Monk Changle in a Soul-Nurturing Artifact and gave Ye Li the alliance’s top-secret Creation Art.
• Ye Li asked Lu Xuan how powerful her strongest offensive divine ability was against a Sacred Lord in the Creation Realm.

Ye Li asked Lu Xuan to demonstrate a Creation Realm killing move so he could study its power. After she destroyed a desolate star domain, his Dao Scripture My Book recorded the technique, giving him a new trump card as he left for the battles ahead.

• Ye Li chose to focus on improving the quality of his abilities rather than spending Malice Points on upgrades, and asked Lu Xuan how powerful her killing move was.
• Lu Xuan agreed to demonstrate her strength and took Ye Li to a lifeless star domain at the edge of the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain.
• Lu Xuan unleashed her spacetime millstone, which ground the entire star domain out of existence in three breaths.
• Ye Li's Dao Scripture My Book recorded Lu Xuan's Creation Realm killing move, and he thanked her before departing.
• Lu Xuan watched Ye Li leave, puzzled by his excitement and wondering what he had thanked her for.

The Heavenly Domain War drew Creation Realm Saint Venerables from both domains to the Black Sea Star Region, where the Demonic Heavenly Domain outnumbered the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain. As the ten Myriad Laws Venerables prepared to enter the battlefield, Ye Li recorded his peak condition and awaited Lu Xuan’s signal to teleport.

• Lu Xuan saw that the Demonic Heavenly Domain had brought seven Creation Realm Demon Race Saint Venerables, while the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain had only five, including two reluctant observers.
• The Sword Ancestor and Sword Venerable Ku Rong arrived, and Ku Rong hoped Ye Li would die in the war so he could avenge Tianshu.
• At the rear staging area, Gu He asked Ye Li how to support him in the Central Domain Battle, but Ye Li kept his tactical arrangements secret until they entered.
• Ye Li completed a record of his peak essence, energy, spirit, Immortal Power, and physical condition in the [Dao Scripture My Book].
• Lu Xuan contacted Ye Li and told him that teleportation was about to begin.

You Tiancheng prepared to begin the war pact battle between the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain and the Demonic Heavenly Domain, while the Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form threatened to kill Ye Li. The teleportation formations activated, beginning the battle that would decide the two domains’ fate.

• Lu Xuan told You Tiancheng that Ye Li had agreed and that they could begin.
• You Tiancheng confronted the Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form above Qingfeng Continent, and the demon taunted him about choosing Ye Li as a Venerable Lord.
• The Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form vowed to kill Ye Li, and You Tiancheng threatened to kill the demon if anything happened to him.
• The Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form withdrew and announced that the war pact would activate in ten breaths.
• You Tiancheng activated the void node, causing ten pillars of white light to rise from Qingfeng Continent and signaling the start of the battle.

The Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form sent ten demons to Qingfeng Continent and urged them to wound the human Venerable Lords, promising to resurrect those who died. In the central region, Ye Li recognized that the continent had been prepared as a trap, then spread his Divine Consciousness across the area despite the powerful suppression, alarming Gu He.

• The Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form ordered two Silver-Horned Demon Rhinoceros brothers to exhaust Ye Li and make him reveal his abilities, while telling the other demons to cripple the human Venerable Lords at any cost.
• The Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form promised to resurrect the demons if they died in battle, then sent ten demons toward Qingfeng Continent.
• The Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form reassured the other Demon Race Saint Venerables that his plan was under control.
• Ye Li arrived in the central region with Gu He and sensed that the land had been ritually refined as part of the enemy's trap.
• Ye Li unleashed his Divine Consciousness across the central region despite the laws' intense suppression, and Gu He urged him to conserve his strength.

Ye Li drew the two peak melding Dao realm Silver-Horned Demon Rhinoceroses toward him and sent Gu He away before confronting them alone. He stopped their combined charge with a single blast of compressed air, overturning both demons and carving vast furrows into the earth.

• Ye Li refused Gu He's offer to help and revealed his presence while probing the surroundings.
• Ye Li sensed the approaching demons and ordered Gu He to withdraw, taking control of the battle himself.
• The two Silver-Horned Demon Rhinoceroses charged Ye Li, confident their combined strength would crush him.
• Ye Li unleashed a blast of compressed air that halted their charge, overturned them, and sent them plowing through the earth.

Ye Li fought the two Silver-Horned Demonic Rhinoceroses with overwhelming physical strength. He shattered one rhinoceros’s horn, killed it, and turned toward the survivor.

• The two Demon Rhinoceroses withstood Ye Li’s shock waves by shielding themselves with their demonic horns and believed his physical attacks could not break through.
• Ye Li charged one Demon Rhinoceros and snapped its horn with a single punch.
• Ye Li seized the broken-horned rhinoceros and smashed its head, killing it as the other rhinoceros rushed to rescue its brother.
• Ye Li blasted the surviving Demon Rhinoceros away and looked at it, saying, “Next.”

Ye Li defeated the remaining Silver-Horned Demon Rhinoceros with a devastating five-colored attack that carved a vast chasm through the Qingfeng Central Region. Gu He arrived and was left speechless by the destruction and Ye Li’s strength.

• The Silver-Horned Demon Rhinoceros feared Ye Li after witnessing him kill his younger brother and prepared to fight rather than flee.
• Ye Li struck the rhinoceros with a powerful kick, shattering its remaining horn and smashing its body into the ground.
• The rhinoceros burned its life essence and demonic power in a desperate attempt to survive.
• Ye Li pinned the rhinoceros down and obliterated it with his five-colored wheel of laws, splitting the land with a vast chasm.
• Ye Li noted that the two battles had consumed thirty percent of his Immortal Power and anticipated a good harvest of malice points.
• Gu He arrived, surveyed the ruins, and praised Ye Li’s strength from a distance.

After Ye Li killed the two Silver-Horned Demon Rhinoceroses with two punches, the spectators and rival powers were stunned by his strength. The Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form tried to rely on the Qingfeng Continent’s altered terrain and future reinforcements, but Ye Li flew toward the realm’s boundary wall, leaving its next move uncertain.

• Sword Ancestor decided to take Sword Venerable Ku Rong to the Cosmic Profound Mirror Prefecture to apologize to Ye Li in person.
• You Tiancheng and Lu Xuan praised Ye Li’s extraordinary strength and profound Martial Dao foundation.
• The Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form claimed the battle remained uncertain because the Qingfeng Continent’s barriers had not broken and it had a fallback plan.
• After speaking briefly with the elderly Alliance member, Ye Li flew toward the distant boundary wall, alarming the Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form.

After killing two Silver-Horned Demon Rhinoceroses, Ye Li learned that humans also lived under demonic rule in the Demonic Heavenly Domain and told Gu He to stay behind. He then flew toward the Central Domain Barrier, intent on breaking through it to reach the remaining Beast Venerables.

• Ye Li calculated that he had spent thirty percent of his Immortal Power and decided to hunt the remaining eight Beast Venerables rather than wait by the barrier.
• Gu He explained that many human factions lived in the Demonic Heavenly Domain and were oppressed and hunted by demons.
• Ye Li ordered Gu He to stay alive and await orders, then said the others would soon be gone.
• Ye Li shot toward the Central Domain Barrier, alarming the Saint Venerables watching from the battlefield and the stars.
• The Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form and other powerful cultivators doubted that Ye Li could break the law-formed barrier.

Ye Li shattered the realm barrier to the Eastern Region and revealed Chen Yu and the two venerable lords surrounded by demons. With the Divine Spear in hand, he then prepared to strike the other three realm barriers and confront the threats all at once.

• Ye Li summoned the Myriad Transformation Divine Soldier Iron and cleaved open the Eastern Region's realm barrier with one spear sweep.
• Chen Yu saw Ye Li break through and realized that his apparent rescue was real.
• Ye Li's Immortal Power surged as he turned toward the other three realm barriers and prepared to strike them.
• The Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form reacted with shock and horror, while You Tiancheng remarked that Ye Li seemed ready to clear the whole field at once.

Ye Li shattered the realm barriers enclosing Qingfeng Continent, freeing the eight surviving Evil Demon Beast Venerables to attack him together. As they charged, Ye Li revealed his golden eyes and prepared to face them alone.

• Dongfang Li and Elder Crimson Sun struggled against two Azure-Scaled Bloodbird Beast Venerables, while Elder Crimson Sun's attack failed to pierce their defenses.
• A blazing pillar of light from the Central Region struck Qingfeng Continent and shattered its realm barriers, sweeping the two Northern Region Beast Venerables away.
• The eight surviving Beast Venerables realized they could join forces and turned their killing intent toward Ye Li.
• Dongfang Li warned Ye Li as the eight Beast Venerables launched their combined attack.
• Ye Li opened his golden eyes, raised the Divine Spear, and challenged the charging Beast Venerables to attack.

Ye Li confronted eight Beast Venerables on Qingfeng Continent and proved his overwhelming strength by killing two of them. The remaining six were left facing his assault.

• The eight Beast Venerables decided to attack Ye Li together after sensing his immense power.
• The Bone-Melting Demon Ape charged Ye Li and was severely injured by a single blow.
• Ye Li killed the Bone-Melting Demon Ape with a punch empowered by Golden Soul Revival.
• The Azure-Scaled Demon Venerable urged the others to attack, but Ye Li struck first and killed it with a divine flame.

Ye Li endured the combined attacks of six Beast Venerables and killed three of them in an instant. The three survivors were left terrified, realizing their plan to exhaust his Immortal Power might kill them all before it worked.

• The six Beast Venerables unleashed their life-bound abilities and burned their blood essence against Ye Li.
• Ye Li's five-colored law wheel shattered, but the combined attacks failed to harm his body and instead strengthened his aura.
• Ye Li targeted the three Beast Venerables whose strength had waned and killed them before they could escape.
• Lu Xuan wondered whether Ye Li was the strongest Melding Dao cultivator in history.
• The three remaining Beast Venerables trembled as they questioned the Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form's attrition strategy.

Ye Li slaughtered the remaining Beast Venerables as they tried to flee, while the last survivor realized the invasion had been a trap arranged by the Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form. The chapter ended with all eight Beast Venerables dead and Monk Changle fearing Ye Li would eventually kill him for his earlier disrespect.

• One Beast Venerable fled underground, but Ye Li speared it out of the earth and destroyed it with a lightning seal.
• Ye Li caught and smashed the fleeing Red-Scaled Demon Venerable in midair.
• Monk Changle watched Ye Li's victories and despaired over the grudge he had created by insulting him.
• The final Beast Venerable concluded that the expedition had been a deception orchestrated by the Demon Venerable of Annihilating Form and Ye Li.
• Ye Li tore apart the Beast Venerable's destructive attack and crushed the Aquatic Snake Venerable, completing the destruction of all eight Beast Venerables.