Recaps

Ye Li killed Zuo Guannan and ordered the Alliance to temporarily take control of Snow God City, while realizing the Jade Purity Pavilion might retaliate. The chapter left Chu Xiyue behind and Lu Xuan preparing to contact the Alliance as Ye Li turned to more urgent matters.

• Chu Xiyue knelt and offered Ye Li a toast, surprising him by complying with his humiliating demand.
• Ye Li sensed danger from the Jade Purity Pavilion, then burned Zuo Guannan's True Spirit to nothingness.
• Ye Li took Zuo Guannan's soul into his Divine Ability space and ordered it to purge loyal Zuo family remnants and fleeing treasure-holders.
• Lu Xuan hurried to Ye Li and asked if he was safe after the battle.
• Ye Li told Lu Xuan to contact Director You and have the Alliance take control of Snow God City temporarily; they agreed to split its profits eighty-twenty.

After securing Snow God City, Ye Li discovered Zuo Guannan’s immense underground treasury and used its medicines and his accumulated malice points to forge a divine foundation. The chapter ended as his purple-gold foundation took shape and a terrifying aura erupted over the city.

• Ye Li left the White Tower God to purge Snow God City and gave Lu Xuan two Soul Treasures for protection.
• Ye Li found Zuo Guannan’s underground treasury, filled with vast stores of ancient Treasure Medicine and Eternal Life-grade divine medicines.
• Ye Li refined the treasury’s medicines into pills, consumed them, and used his more than 450 million malice points to advance his cultivation.
• Ye Li forged a crystalline purple-gold divine foundation marked with patterns representing the cosmic laws he had mastered.
• A terrifying aura erupted from Ye Li and swept across Snow God City as the sky churned above it.

Ye Li broke through to the middle of the fourth stage of the Eternal Life Realm and learned that the realm carried a Heavenly Tribulation every fifty thousand years. After deciding to confront the Soulbirth Sect before it could threaten the Chaos Star Sea, he planned to use the White Tower God’s identity and seek intelligence from Chu Xiyue.

• Ye Li advanced to the middle of the fourth stage of the Eternal Life Realm as his body, divine consciousness, and power transformed.
• Ye Li sensed his first Heavenly Tribulation would come in fifty thousand years and confirmed its nature through Zuo Guannan’s memories.
• Ye Li examined the identity token of the Soulbirth Sect that he had taken from the White Tower God’s treasury.
• Ye Li decided to infiltrate the Soulbirth Sect before its members could invade Myriad Laws and endanger the Chaos Star Sea.
• Ye Li recognized that he needed a guide with reliable knowledge of the Primordial Sea and chose Chu Xiyue.

Chu Xiyue weighed whether to seek Ye Li’s protection or win forgiveness from the Jade Purity Pavilion, but learned that he had no sect or backing and was going to the Primordial Sea to see the wider world. Convinced she could save herself by killing him, she summoned her guards and confronted him.

• Chu Xiyue considered attaching herself to Ye Li or offering his head to the Jade Purity Pavilion to escape punishment.
• Ye Li visited Chu Xiyue and asked her to guide him through the Primordial Sea.
• Ye Li told Chu Xiyue he had no Dao Lineage and was traveling to see the wider world.
• Chu Xiyue decided to kill Ye Li, secretly contacted her guards, and pretended to offer him tea.
• Ye Li accused Chu Xiyue of courting death, and she revealed her plan and called on her three Eternal Life Realm guards to kill him.

Ye Li revealed his Eternal Life Realm strength and killed the three Jade Purity Pavilion guards and Yuan Hui, who had possessed Chu Xiyue. He enslaved Yuan Hui’s soul, learned about the Primordial Sea and the Soulbirth Sect, and discovered where the real Chu Xiyue was sealed before preparing to explore the Primordial Sea.

• Ye Li’s divine power overwhelmed the three Eternal Life Realm guards sent by Chu Xiyue, and he killed them despite the elder’s threats about the Jade Purity Pavilion.
• Chu Xiyue revealed that she was Yuan Hui, a late-stage Eternal Life Realm cultivator from Cloudbank Moor who had possessed Chu Xiyue, and offered Ye Li information and service in exchange for her life.
• Ye Li killed Yuan Hui’s body, extracted Malice Points, and enslaved her surviving soul.
• Yuan Hui told Ye Li about the Soulbirth Sect’s growing influence in the Ghost Domain and revealed that the real Chu Xiyue remained alive, sealed in a remote Star Domain.
• Ye Li recorded the real Chu Xiyue’s location and prepared to explore the Primordial Sea.

Ye Li and the White Tower God, using the identity of Zhanqing, arrived at the Soulbirth Sect and passed its identity check. Xu Feng welcomed them and prepared to escort them to Zhanqing’s cave residence, while Ye Li introduced himself as a candidate for admission.

• Ye Li and the White Tower God climbed toward the Soulbirth Sect, and Ye Li assessed the sect’s powerful cultivators and abundant spiritual energy.
• Ye Li recalled traveling to the Primordial Continent aboard a Void-Crossing Star Whale after paying Fortune Commerce with Treasure Medicine.
• Xu Feng greeted Zhanqing at the Mountain Gate and explained that her master remained in seclusion while pursuing a breakthrough.
• Xu Feng verified Zhanqing’s identity with the jade register, and two hidden Soulbirth Sect members abandoned their plan to attack her as an impostor.
• Xu Feng asked Ye Li about himself, and Ye Li gave his name and explained how it was written.

Ye Li joined the Soulbirth Sect as a provisional disciple, and his golden blood drew the greed of Xu Feng and two Mortal Dust Peak disciples. He accepted Liu Yan and Zhang Zhengshan’s mission offer, while Xu Feng secretly planned to bring Waterbirth Peak disciples after them.

• Xu Feng asked Ye Li for blood to kindle a Soul Lamp, then swallowed the golden drop before registering him.
• Xu Feng told Ye Li he needed to complete an assessment mission to become a full disciple.
• Liu Yan offered to take Ye Li on a mission and asked him to join Mortal Dust Peak, while Ye Li sensed her excitement and suspected a trap.
• Ye Li accepted Liu Yan’s offer, and she led him and Zhang Zhengshan toward the Deacon Hall.
• Xu Feng watched them leave and planned to alert Waterbirth Peak disciples who needed Ye Li’s vitality.

Ye Li entered the Soulbirth Sect and learned that Liu Yan and Zhang Zhengshan planned to use him in a dangerous assignment against the Heavenly Origin Nine Heavens Mansion. He accepted the mission while recognizing that his companions intended to exploit him, leaving with his Life Token in Zhang Zhengshan’s hands.

• Liu Yan guided Ye Li through the sect, where he received a Life Token as a provisional disciple.
• Liu Yan claimed Ye Li could pass his entrance trial by joining an assignment to ambush disciples of the Heavenly Origin Nine Heavens Mansion.
• Ye Li learned from Yuan Hui that the two sects were rival powers, and realized the assignment was likely a scheme by Elder Lin to capture an important disciple without accepting responsibility.
• Liu Yan revealed that Elder Lin wanted to capture a woman with a Pure Yin Dao Body and harvest her essence to help break through his bottleneck.
• Zhang Zhengshan urged Ye Li to register for the mission, while privately plotting to devour Ye Li’s blood and vitality.
• Ye Li agreed and handed Zhang Zhengshan his Life Token, smiling as Zhang Zhengshan promised the trip would go smoothly.

Xu Feng told Luo Yin that Zhanqing had returned and that she had brought Ye Li, whose extraordinary blood essence could benefit Luo Yin’s cultivation. Luo Yin decided to kill Zhanqing before she could report his past attack, but when they reached her cave abode, she had disappeared and their Tracking Compass could not find her.

• Xu Feng settled Zhanqing into a cave abode, then went to tell Luo Yin about her return and Ye Li’s valuable blood essence.
• Luo Yin recalled that he had once attacked Zhanqing to steal her treasure and decided to silence her before she could reach their master.
• Luo Yin and Xu Feng went to Zhanqing’s cave abode, but found it empty.
• Luo Yin used a Tracking Compass to search for Zhanqing, but could not find her.

Liu Yan led Ye Li and three Soulbirth Sect disciples to ambush Zhou Yan, Tianyuanzi, while she harvested a rare medicine in Danview Gorge. After learning Tianyuanzi was a powerful inner disciple, Ye Li pretended to be alarmed but agreed to continue, and the group resolved to risk a close ambush.

• Liu Yan told the group that the Heavenly Origin Nine Heavens Mansion delegation would pass through Danview Gorge to harvest the Flowing Flame Golden Stamen, and planned to watch from fifty thousand li away.
• A gaunt cultivator warned that Tianyuanzi was an inner disciple who had killed a seventh-level Eternal Life cultivator, and that a prolonged fight could bring reinforcements.
• Ye Li confronted Liu Yan for hiding Tianyuanzi's strength and pretended he wanted to withdraw from the dangerous mission.
• Liu Yan downplayed Tianyuanzi's reputation and persuaded Ye Li to stay, while Zhang Zhengshan urged the group to kill her quickly.
• The group accepted the risk of the close ambush, and the starship sped toward their destination.

Liu Yan's group set up a concealed killing formation in a hidden valley, while Ye Li waited for Zhou Yan, the Heavenly Origin Master, to arrive. In Sunrise City, Zhou Yan acquired a dangerous Treasure Medicine and immediately led her companions toward Myriad Sounds Valley, heading into the trap.

• Liu Yan and her companions concealed formation flags and activated restrictions around the valley, then took hidden positions to await their targets.
• Ye Li watched the path from an ancient tree and wondered whether Zhou Yan had the skill her reputation suggested.
• At the Drunken Immortal Tower, Zhao Gang collected the Flowing Flame Golden Stamen from the manager and returned to Zhou Yan's party.
• Zhou Yan refused Zhao Gang's suggestion to stay in Sunrise City and ordered the group to leave immediately with the Treasure Medicine.
• Zhou Yan, Sun Yang, Zhao Gang, and Lu Ling departed the city aboard a white star skiff and flew toward the distant mountains.

Liu Yan’s group prepared to ambush Zhou Yan’s Star Skiff while Ye Li decided to carry out the mission without handing Zhou Yan over to the Soulbirth Sect elder. Aboard the skiff, Zhou Yan sensed danger and ordered the crew to accelerate and activate their strongest concealment formation.

• Liu Yan spotted Zhou Yan’s Star Skiff approaching the ambush, and Ye Li recognized Zhou Yan as a formidable fighter.
• Ye Li resolved to make Zhou Yan pay a travel toll rather than deliver her to the Soulbirth Sect elder.
• Zhao Gang and Lu Ling argued aboard the Star Skiff until Sun Yang intervened and ordered them to stop.
• Zhou Yan sensed something was wrong and told Sun Yang to accelerate the Star Skiff and activate its highest-level Concealment Formation.
• Zhou Yan gave Sun Yang a ring of Spirit Stones to cover the formation’s cost, and Zhao Gang hurried to activate it.

Zhou Yan and her companions were trapped in a Soulbirth Sect formation that shattered their Star Skiff and nearly overwhelmed them. Ye Li killed Zhang Zhengshan, seized Liu Yan’s Tracking Compass, and took control of the formation.

• Sun Yang tried to flee in the Star Skiff, but Liu Yan’s formation disc pinned it in place and the Blood Prison Cage trapped the vessel.
• Liu Yan and four Soulbirth Sect cultivators attacked Zhou Yan, Sun Yang, Zhao Gang, and Lu Ling, destroying the Star Skiff and forcing them into a desperate defense.
• Liu Yan used the formation and Zhang Zhengshan’s ambush to try to drag Ye Li into the Slaughter Array’s core.
• Ye Li killed Zhang Zhengshan with a roundhouse kick and his Divine Fire Furnace.
• Ye Li used the Heaven-Intercepting Spirit-Plundering Technique to take Liu Yan’s Tracking Compass and seize control of the formation.

Ye Li defeated Liu Yan and the other Soulbirth Sect cultivators, then watched Zhou Yan’s sealing formation begin to fail. The formation was close to breaking, leaving Zhou Yan poised to escape.

• Liu Yan fled after Ye Li killed Zhang Zhengshan and took control of her formation disc, but Ye Li blinded and killed her, capturing her true spirit.
• Liu Yan warned Ye Li that killing her would weaken the formation trapping Zhou Yan and expose them to Tianyuan Chongxiao Manor’s wrath.
• Two Soulbirth Sect cultivators pleaded with Ye Li, but he destroyed their bodies and true spirits along with Liu Yan’s.
• Ye Li crushed Liu Yan’s true spirit and burned all three spirits away, earning Malice Points from the system.
• Ye Li saw Zhou Yan’s sword qi crack the weakened formation barrier and put away the bronze formation disc.

Ye Li offered Zhou Yan and her companions freedom in exchange for signing a Life-and-Death Contract, but Lu Ling and Sun Yang challenged him. Ye Li crushed Sun Yang and seized Lu Ling, leaving Zhou Yan frozen by his killing intent as he threatened her.

• The blood-colored formation dispersed, and Zhou Yan sensed that several Eternal Life Realm experts had died.
• Ye Li told Zhou Yan and the others he had defeated the demonic cultivators and offered to let them leave if they signed a Life-and-Death Contract.
• Lu Ling rejected Ye Li's terms and urged Sun Yang to test his strength.
• Sun Yang attacked Ye Li, who vanished and struck him into the star skiff's cabin, leaving him gravely injured.
• Ye Li overwhelmed Lu Ling with pressure and seized her by the throat as Zhou Yan tried to intervene.
• Ye Li fixed Zhou Yan with a killing gaze and told her she must want to die.

Ye Li rejected the righteous cultivators’ offer to settle things peacefully and killed Lu Ling after learning about her powerful connections. He then turned his attention to the surviving Zhao Gang and Zhou Yan, delighted by the opportunity their backgrounds presented.

• Ye Li released his divine power and refused Zhou Yan’s apology and offer of compensation.
• Zhao Gang revealed that Lu Ling was the Pavilion Master’s daughter and named his own and Zhou Yan’s influential connections.
• Ye Li laughed at their threats and declared that he would not let them leave.
• Ye Li unleashed an even stronger surge of divine power and tore Lu Ling’s head from her body.

Ye Li killed Lu Ling and Zhao Gang in public after defeating Zhou Yan’s attempt to stop him. Zhou Yan survived and swore to kill him, while Ye Li welcomed the prospect of the Ninth Heaven Pavilion coming after him.

• Ye Li killed Lu Ling, destroyed her True Spirit, and took her protective Jade Pendant.
• Zhao Gang attacked Ye Li in a rage, but Ye Li shattered his protective Magic Treasure and gravely wounded him.
• Zhou Yan used her Sky-Cleaving sword technique to intervene, but Ye Li’s palm strike defeated her and sent her flying.
• Ye Li caught up with Zhao Gang and crushed his body and True Spirit despite Zhao Gang’s threats about the Ninth Heaven Pavilion.
• Zhou Yan watched Zhao Gang die and vowed to take Ye Li’s life.

Zhou Yan unleashed her full strength against Ye Li after he killed her fellow disciples, but his overwhelming physical power defeated and captured her. As Ye Li held her, the injured Sun Yang launched a concealed attack with a Soul-Shattering Bone Needle.

• Zhou Yan erupted in rage and attacked Ye Li with a sword strike fueled by her life force.
• Ye Li empowered himself with Golden Soul Revival and knocked Zhou Yan back with a blow from his Myriad Transformation Divine Soldier Iron saber.
• Zhou Yan accused Ye Li of killing her disciples and vowed that the sect's experts would avenge them, but Ye Li charged her again.
• Ye Li shattered Zhou Yan's sword attacks and seized her by the neck, suppressing her divine power.
• Sun Yang, who had secretly contacted the sect for reinforcements, attacked Ye Li from behind with his Soul-Shattering Bone Needle.

Ye Li stole Sun Yang’s Bone Needle, killed him, and captured Zhou Yan after sealing her cultivation. He took her aboard the Star Skiff and headed for the Soulbirth Sect, intending to keep her alive as evidence.

• Ye Li used the Heaven-Intercepting Spirit-Plundering Technique to seize Sun Yang’s Bone Needle and sever its bond to Sun Yang’s True Spirit.
• Ye Li sealed the area, questioned Sun Yang about the Bone Needle, and crushed him beneath a mountain of five-colored Laws.
• Zhou Yan tried to self-destruct, but Ye Li wounded her, sealed her cultivation and Meridians, and decided to keep her alive so Elder Lin would not suspect him.
• Zhou Yan feared Ye Li planned to use her Pure Yin Dao Body as a cultivation cauldron and begged him to kill her.
• Ye Li placed Zhou Yan aboard the Star Skiff and flew toward the Soulbirth Sect.

Liu Jingci watched the life lamps of the expedition team, confident that his scheme would lure the Soulbirth Sect into attacking Zhou Yan and justify a joint assault against them. The plan went disastrously wrong when Lu Ling’s life lamp went out, Zhao Gang’s followed, and Zhou Yan appeared gravely injured.

• Liu Jingci reviewed the life lamps of Zhou Yan, Lu Ling, Zhao Gang, and their companions while calculating the benefits of his plan.
• Liu Jingci revealed that Skysoar Pavilion had leaked Zhou Yan’s route to the Soulbirth Sect and placed Lu Ling on the expedition to strengthen the deception.
• Sun Yang’s life lamp began flickering, and Liu Jingci concluded that the Soulbirth Sect had intercepted the Star Skiff.
• Zhao Gang’s life lamp weakened, which Liu Jingci took as evidence of a fierce attack by powerful Soulbirth Sect disciples.
• Lu Ling’s life lamp went out despite the Divine-Guarding Jade Pendant Liu Jingci had given her, leaving him horrified.
• Zhao Gang’s life lamp went out, while Zhou Yan’s flame weakened sharply, suggesting she had suffered grievous injuries.

Liu Jingci watched Zhou Yan’s companions die rather than risk exposing Skysoar Pavilion’s secret surveillance, then discovered that Ye Li had defeated their prodigies. Ye Li brought the captured Zhou Yan into the Soulbirth Sect, where she was bound and displayed before its disciples.

• Liu Jingci ignored Sun Yang’s distress signal, deciding that rescuing Lu Ling was impossible and intervention would jeopardize the larger plan.
• Sun Yang’s life lamp went out, leaving Zhou Yan as the only survivor, and Liu Jingci used divine power to view Sun Yang’s final memories.
• Liu Jingci learned that a cultivator at the peak of the fourth level of the eternal life realm had defeated Skysoar Pavilion’s prodigies and hurried to inform the Pavilion Master.
• Ye Li returned to the Soulbirth Sect with Zhou Yan restrained by a chain and led her through the outer sect plaza toward Immortal Destiny Hall.
• Soulbirth Sect disciples recognized Zhou Yan and gawked at her capture, while she trembled with humiliation and despaired at being unable to kill herself.

Ye Li collected his mission reward and rejected a Soulbirth Sect cultivator’s offer to buy Zhou Yan, then defeated him when he attacked. After the wounded man tried to threaten nearby disciples, Ye Li returned and prepared to kill him.

• Ye Li completed his mission at the Immortal Destiny Hall and received Elder Lin’s cave location and an access token.
• A long-haired seventh-level Eternal Life Realm cultivator offered Ye Li treasures for Zhou Yan, but Ye Li took the pouch and walked away.
• The long-haired cultivator attacked Ye Li, who crushed him with two strikes and warned him not to appear before him again.
• After Ye Li left, the long-haired cultivator tried to attack disciples who were watching him.
• Ye Li returned, confronted the long-haired cultivator, and raised his bloodstained hand as his murderous intent intensified.

Ye Li brought Zhou Yan to a remote mountaintop and released her, deciding to spare her after learning she would have spared him. Elder Lin arrived, sealed the area, and revealed that he intended to kill Ye Li to keep his plans and secrets hidden.

• Ye Li told Zhou Yan that he personally was ruthless, then brought her to a secluded mountaintop in the Soulbirth Sect.
• Ye Li freed Zhou Yan and asked whether she would have spared him if he had fallen into her hands; she said she would have spared him if he was not irredeemably wicked.
• Ye Li believed Zhou Yan's answer and told her she could leave, but she hesitated, confused by his actions.
• Elder Lin arrived, praised Ye Li for completing the mission, and sealed off the mountaintop to keep the matter secret.
• Elder Lin declared that Ye Li would have to die, and Ye Li told Zhou Yan she would have to wait a little longer.

Ye Li confronted Lin Ku, a ninth-level Eternal Life Realm elder of the Soulbirth Sect, and revealed enough strength to repel his first attack. Lin Ku then summoned a powerful monk soul slave to continue the fight.

• Zhou Yan recognized Lin Ku and feared Ye Li could not match the Soulbirth Sect elder, but Ye Li advanced despite the danger.
• Ye Li unleashed his golden radiance and immense vital energy, shocking Zhou Yan and prompting Lin Ku to take him seriously.
• Lin Ku attacked Ye Li with a giant palm formed from the divine power of his Myriad Spirits Soulbirth Art.
• Ye Li's vital energy shattered the palm and blasted Lin Ku thousands of yards backward, revealing Ye Li's superior physical strength.
• Lin Ku summoned and awakened a powerful soul slave: a former martial cultivator monk from the Hanging Dharma Temple.

Ye Li used his Soul Control ability to overpower Lin Ku and destroy his Soul Slaves before killing him. Zhou Yan watched in stunned disbelief as the mountaintop was reduced to a crater.

• Lin Ku summoned his Flesh Buddha Soul Slave and coveted Zhou Yan’s pure yin dao body.
• The Flesh Buddha froze when Ye Li looked at it, and Ye Li destroyed it with a single strike.
• Ye Li fought Lin Ku and crushed his other Soul Slaves, which could not attack him.
• Lin Ku tried to bargain for his life, but Ye Li hurled a spear that killed him and flattened the mountaintop.
• Zhou Yan sat beside the crater, stunned by Ye Li’s victory.