Recaps

Ye Li killed Dao Lord Tianqing and punished several Western Region Dao Lords after reviewing their records. He left to pursue the remaining Dao Lords across the four regions and gather more Malice Points.

• Ye Li shattered Dao Lord Tianqing’s Cangyuan Dharma Seal, crushed his body, and killed his true spirit.
• Ye Li read Tianqing’s Memory Scroll and learned that Dao Master Cangyuan was connected to the events.
• Ye Li confronted the gathered Western Region Dao Lords for disobeying his Imperial Edict, and they blamed Tianqing for forcing them to attend.
• Ye Li killed seven or eight Dao Lords who had lied or committed severe crimes, then allowed the others to leave.
• Ye Li set out to hunt down the Dao Lords across the four regions and gather resources for his Dao Fruit.

Ye Li visited Dao Master Cangyuan at his humble clinic in the Silent Desolation Continent after Cangyuan’s messenger failed to dissuade him from coming. Cangyuan welcomed him and began to explain that he had requested the meeting for an important reason.

• Cangyuan treated patients at his cottage while Shenshui reported that Ye Li intended to visit in person.
• Cangyuan said he believed Ye Li was concerned that a conflict between them would damage the Primordial Continent’s earth veins.
• Ye Li appeared at the cottage after slipping past the Silent Desolation Continent’s defenses, startling Shenshui.
• Cangyuan welcomed Ye Li and served him tea, then asked how he had first risen to prominence.
• Ye Li offered to tell Cangyuan who killed Dao Lord Tianqing, but Cangyuan said Tianqing had been placed in the Western Region to deal with Taiyi and was unrelated to Ye Li.
• Cangyuan solemnly told Ye Li that he had called the meeting to discuss another matter of great importance.

Azure Abyss Dao Master recruited Ye Li to help seize a Boundary Heaven Treasure from a Supreme Boundary Heaven in exchange for Source Qi. Ye Li accepted the dangerous job, negotiated his payment, and prepared to enter the hostile world with Azure Abyss.

• Azure Abyss Dao Master told Ye Li that a Jade-Eyed Cultivator had offered Source Qi in exchange for seizing a Boundary Heaven Treasure in Azure-Green Boundary Heaven.
• Azure Abyss explained that he suspected the Jade-Eyed Cultivator was using him as a sacrificial pawn because he refused to act personally and demanded secrecy.
• Ye Li agreed to join the venture and insisted on an appearance fee; Azure Abyss offered a forty-sixty split of the Source Qi and the Boundary Heaven itself to Ye Li.
• Azure Abyss revealed that Azure-Green Boundary Heaven was a Supreme Boundary Heaven with a fully formed Heavenly Dao will, and Ye Li eagerly accepted the job.
• Azure Abyss said the Jade-Eyed Cultivator would get them inside, while he and Ye Li would quickly seize the treasure; Ye Li warned that he would take their payment by force if the man broke the agreement.

Azure Abyss revealed Warm Current’s plan to join forces against Ye Li, then chose to ally with Ye Li instead. In the Hall of Eternal Sorrow, Warm Current admitted she had been testing Azure Abyss to pursue a resource vital to advancing her Great Dao, and Forgotten River agreed to take the risk with her.

• Azure Abyss showed Ye Li Warm Current’s letter proposing that they divide Supreme One’s accumulated resources, and declared that he had chosen Ye Li as his ally.
• Ye Li warned Azure Abyss that he could lose everything, but Azure Abyss said he would accept the stakes and honor a loss.
• Warm Current told Forgotten River that Glazed Sea of Death cultivators were helping Ye Li consolidate the Supreme One Palace’s forces, suggesting that Azure Abyss and Ye Li had formed an alliance.
• Forgotten River challenged Warm Current’s show of surprise and reminded her not to conceal her plans from her co-ruler.
• Warm Current confessed that she had sent the letter to test Azure Abyss and wanted resources he held that could help advance her Great Dao.
• Forgotten River agreed to take the risk, recalling Warm Current’s wish to unite the divided Sea of Nine Harmonies.

Forgotten River Dao Master agreed to help Warm Current Dao Master investigate Azure Abyss and Ye Li in exchange for a medium-grade boundary heaven. As Ye Li and Azure Abyss traveled toward their rendezvous, Azure Abyss warned him about Forgotten River’s relentless fighting and rapid recovery, while Ye Li considered facing her after claiming the Supreme Boundary Heaven.

• Forgotten River Dao Master asked Warm Current Dao Master for a medium-grade boundary heaven as an apology for withholding information, and Warm Current agreed.
• Warm Current Dao Master left to investigate Azure Abyss and Ye Li’s next move.
• Ye Li and Azure Abyss Dao Master traveled beyond the Sea of Nine Harmonies toward their rendezvous aboard a Star Skiff.
• Ye Li asked Azure Abyss Dao Master about his fear of Forgotten River Dao Master, and Azure Abyss described her peak-preserving technique and quick recovery from Dao injuries.
• Ye Li considered visiting Forgotten River Dao Master after dealing with the Supreme Boundary Heaven, while Azure Abyss warned him to flee if they became entangled.

Ye Li and the Azure Abyss Dao Master negotiated with the Jade-Eyed Man to seize a supreme Boundary Heaven, securing two strands of Source Energy and concealment talismans. They left with the Boundary Heaven’s coordinates and a seven-day deadline to return with its treasure.

• Ye Li and the Azure Abyss Dao Master arrived at a barren planet and met the Jade-Eyed Man, who objected to Ye Li joining their venture.
• Ye Li called the Jade-Eyed Man’s claim that he had other candidates a lie, prompting the Azure Abyss Dao Master to threaten to leave.
• The Jade-Eyed Man agreed to pay two additional strands of Source Energy and gave Ye Li and the Azure Abyss Dao Master Sky-Shielding Snake Talismans.
• The Jade-Eyed Man provided a contract and the Boundary Heaven’s coordinates, setting a seven-day deadline for them to return with its treasure.
• Ye Li and the Azure Abyss Dao Master marked the contract and departed aboard the Star Skiff.

Bi You learned from Lord Liu that a strand of transcendent sword qi made the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven almost impossible to enter, but he chose to continue his scheme and gamble on Cangyuan and Ye Li obtaining its treasure. His young master approved the attempt while warning him to protect himself.

• After the Star Skiff vanished, Bi You prepared to leave the barren planet but stopped when Lord Liu contacted him through a Twin-Headed Snake Talisman.
• Lord Liu warned Bi You that the Jade Capital Society had avoided the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven because transcendent sword qi inside its barrier struck anyone who tried to enter or leave.
• Bi You felt relieved that he had sent Cangyuan and Ye Li to face the danger, then pretended to Lord Liu that he still wanted to risk his life for the young master's commission.
• The young master praised Bi You's loyalty and allowed him to continue, telling him not to act recklessly or endanger himself.
• Bi You knelt before the talisman and swore that he would serve his young master without hesitation.

Ye Li and the Azure Abyss Dao Master entered the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven and were attacked by transcendent sword qi. Ye Li survived by using Dao Scripture My Book, and the sword qi’s patterns appeared on a new page of his book.

• Ye Li told the Azure Abyss Dao Master that the Jade-Eyed Man’s claims were probably less than half true, but Azure Abyss insisted on taking the risk.
• Ye Li and Azure Abyss broke through the Boundary Heaven’s barrier and activated their Sky-Shielding Snake Talismans when its hostile will detected them.
• A streak of transcendent sword qi attacked, and Azure Abyss used the Dead Sea Pagoda and his treasured artifacts to defend himself, but it gravely wounded him.
• Ye Li activated Dao Scripture My Book and collided with the sword qi, forcing it to recede as both men fell into a mountain forest.
• Ye Li recovered from the clash and saw sharp Sword Dao patterns from the transcendent sword qi appear on a new page of his book.

After surviving the transcendent sword strike, Ye Li parted ways with the injured Azure Abyss Dao Master and divined the structure of the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven. He headed for a mortal nation’s Ascension Assembly, where Azure Divine Court immortals were expected to appear.

• Ye Li confirmed he was unharmed, while Azure Abyss explained that the strike’s residual power was ravaging his dao foundation and that he needed three days to heal.
• Ye Li told Azure Abyss to find a secluded place and recover while he explored the boundary heaven alone; they exchanged contact imprints and separated.
• Ye Li used the Highest Clarity Heaven to learn that the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven had a mortal realm and an immortal realm ruled by the Azure Divine Court.
• Ye Li decided to conceal his identity and seek information from the divine court’s immortals rather than force his way into the nine heavens.
• Ye Li divined that he was near several mortal nations and learned that an imperial city hundreds of thousands of li away was hosting a once-a-century Ascension Assembly, where immortals would descend.
• Ye Li vanished from the mountain forest and set out for the Ascension Assembly.

The Azure Court Master learned that Heaven's Punishment had stirred again, but dismissed the disturbance as a minor fluctuation in the Heavenly Dao. He continued preparing to evade its detection and recreate the New World once enough Ethereal Immortals had emerged.

• A male immortal reported to the Azure Court Master that Heaven's Punishment had stirred again.
• The Azure Court Master sensed chaotic laws but found no obvious source for the disturbance.
• The Azure Court Master told the immortal to inspect the mortal realm for new Ethereal Immortals.
• After the immortal left, the Azure Court Master reflected that neither beings inside nor outside the Boundary Heaven could break Heaven's Punishment by force.
• The Azure Court Master judged that enough Ethereal Immortals had emerged, though he planned to gather a margin of safety before recreating the New World.

Ye Li interrupted the Ascension Assembly in Tongfeng Kingdom and exposed the Divine Court’s immortal destiny as insect eggs that transformed their hosts into Insect Race cultivators. After killing both Female Immortals, he learned the Azure Divine Court’s secrets and prepared to fight his way there.

• The Ruler of Tong Feng Kingdom bribed the two Female Immortals to grant his First Prince immortal destiny, and they made the stone stele produce a golden speck for him.
• Ye Li appeared beside the First Prince, seized the golden speck, and revealed that it was an insect egg rather than immortal energy.
• The Ruler of Tong Feng Kingdom ordered his guards to seize Ye Li, while a Female Immortal attacked him with the Five Elements Art.
• Ye Li dispersed the attack and killed the attacking Female Immortal, then used his pressure to annihilate the remaining Female Immortal and her Mother Insect.
• Ye Li searched the Female Immortals’ Memory Scrolls, learned the Azure Divine Court’s location and secrets, and resolved to fight his way there.

Ye Li exposed the Divine Court’s immortal pills as parasitic worms and used his divine power to purge them across the Tongfeng region. After the Heavenly Dao attacked him, Ye Li repelled its manifestation and stood unharmed.

• The ruler of the Tongfeng Kingdom apologized to Ye Li and repeatedly slapped himself after seeing the suffering caused by the immortal worms.
• Ye Li explained that the so-called immortal pills were Immortal Worms that fed on cultivators and eventually took over their bodies and memories.
• Ye Li destroyed the worm in his hand and unleashed World-Cleansing Purity, killing parasitized cultivators across a million miles.
• The Heavenly Dao manifested as a law-filled dragon and attacked Ye Li, who countered with his Myriad Manifestations Cave Heaven.
• Ye Li shattered the Heavenly Dao’s dragon and remained unharmed as the people below witnessed his victory.

Ye Li departed Tong Feng Kingdom after declaring that he was not yet the master of the Divine Court, but would be. In the Azure Divine Court, the Azure Court Master controlled his hesitant Ethereal Immortals and sent them to delay Ye Li while preparing a final attempt to escape his predicament.

• Li Xiuqi, Chen Mosheng, and other nobles begged Ye Li to accept their service, but Ye Li prepared to leave.
• The Ruler of Tong Feng Kingdom asked if Ye Li was the master of the Divine Court, and Ye Li answered that he was not yet, but only for now, before flying toward the Divine Court.
• The Azure Court Master summoned hundreds of thousands of Ethereal Immortals and urged them to help kill the Extraterrestrial Fiend threatening their path to transcendence.
• When the Ethereal Immortals hesitated, the Azure Court Master used a red-glowing bracelet to erase their reason and send them out as expendable warriors against Ye Li.
• The Azure Court Master regretted delaying his escape from the Boundary Heaven and decided to stake everything on one final attempt.

Ye Li fought the Azure Court Master, whose plan to brainwash him and use him to escape the Boundary Heaven failed. Ye Li smashed the Master’s head with a punch and sent him crashing into the mortal earth.

• The Azure Court Master planned to use his Spirit-Seizing Bracelet to control Ye Li and make him draw the Boundary Heaven’s Sword Qi while he escaped.
• Ye Li tore through the Insect Race swarm, reached the Divine Court, and confronted the Azure Court Master over his use of the mortal world and his cruelty toward his disciples.
• The Azure Court Master revealed how he had planted insect eggs in his disciples and tried to brainwash Ye Li with the Spirit-Seizing Bracelet, but it had no effect.
• Ye Li invoked Metal-Clashing, and the Azure Court Master countered with the World-Eroding Azure Tide, which Ye Li burned away with Three-Hour Divine Fire.
• The Azure Court Master attacked Ye Li with blades grown from his arms, but Ye Li turned and punched through the blades, exploded his head, and drove him into the earth below.

Ye Li defeated the Azure Court Master and seized the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven’s Spirit-Seizing Bracelet, becoming its supreme ruler. He then sensed the wounded Azure Court Master fleeing and set out to hunt him down.

• Ye Li immobilized the Azure Court Master with a Jade Edict and struck him with an empowered Divine Spear, shattering his Golden Immortal body.
• The Azure Court Master split off a remnant bearing part of his essence and fled while Ye Li claimed the Spirit-Seizing Bracelet.
• Ye Li suppressed the Boundary Heaven’s furious World-Heaven Will and imprinted his True Spirit on the bracelet, gaining authority over the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven.
• Ye Li used the bracelet to locate the fleeing Azure Court Master and raced toward the Boundary Heaven’s edge to pursue him.

Ye Li killed the Azure Court Master and destroyed his insect remnants, while the Azure Abyss Dao Master emerged from seclusion and learned that Ye Li had already defeated the Boundary Heaven’s treasure holder. The chapter ended with Cangyuan hearing the news over the Communication Jade Talisman.

• Ye Li intercepted the fleeing Azure Court Master, dismissed his threat to unleash the sword qi, and burned him to ash.
• The Azure Abyss Dao Master suppressed the sword qi’s residual power and left his cave to help Ye Li.
• Cangyuan divined that the Azure Court Master was likely the holder of the Heaven-Realm Treasure and contacted Ye Li.
• Ye Li confirmed the Azure Court Master had held the treasure and told Cangyuan that he had already killed him.

Ye Li used the spoils from conquering Azure-Green Boundary Heaven to spend his accumulated malice points and break through from the half-step stage. He reached the first heaven of the Dao Fruit Realm, while dangers on his path remained ahead.

• Ye Li told the Azure Abyss Dao Master that he had killed the Azure Court Master with one punch, and agreed to let Cangyuan take the promised source energy.
• Ye Li checked his system and found that his balance had risen to 14.2 billion malice points.
• Ye Li broke the seals on two Boundary Heaven Treasures from Ancient Hua Heaven and drove back Azure-Green Boundary Heaven's attempt to claim them.
• Ye Li sent the two treasures' realm origins into his Highest Clarity Grotto-Heaven and used his malice points to advance.
• Ye Li fused his soul, Grotto Heaven, and the two realms' origins, condensed a dao fruit, and reached the first heaven of the Dao Fruit Realm.

After reaching the early fourth level of the Dao Fruit Realm, Ye Li prepared for a future trade and spread orthodox cultivation methods across the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven. He emptied the Azure Divine Court’s remaining treasures and summoned the Azure Abyss Dao Master to leave.

• Ye Li spent malice points to advance to the early fourth level of the Dao Fruit Realm, alarming the Azure Abyss Dao Master with his immense aura.
• Ye Li adapted to his strengthened body and abilities, then decided to preserve the Spirit-Seizing Bracelet for his promised trade.
• Ye Li wrote thousands of orthodox cultivation methods and scattered them across the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven for mortals to discover.
• Ye Li gathered the Azure Divine Court’s supreme-grade Immortal Gold and other precious materials, even taking the jade pillars from its great hall.
• Ye Li contacted the Azure Abyss Dao Master and told him to prepare to leave.

Ye Li and Cangyuan returned from the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven and traded the Spirit-Seizing Bracelet for three streams of Source Energy. After they departed, the Jade-Eyed Cultivator revealed he had arranged an ambush with Mr. Liu to reclaim the Source Energy and kill them.

• Ye Li warned Cangyuan to follow his rules if anything went wrong, and the two passed through the boundary barrier unharmed.
• The Jade-Eyed Cultivator met Ye Li and Cangyuan on the barren planet and exchanged three streams of Source Energy for Ye Li’s Spirit-Seizing Bracelet.
• Cangyuan checked the Source Energy, and the completed contract scroll dissolved into starlight.
• After the Star Skiff departed, the Jade-Eyed Cultivator contacted his young master, who ordered Mr. Liu to close the net.
• The Jade-Eyed Cultivator said the Source Energy was only in Ye Li and Cangyuan’s temporary custody and disappeared into the void.

Ye Li detected that the Jade-Eyed Cultivator had concealed killing intent and used World-Cleansing Purity to free Azure Abyss Dao Master from a mind-clouding technique. A man from Green Snake Mountain appeared and demanded to know which sect Ye Li belonged to.

• Azure Abyss Dao Master gave Ye Li two portions of Source Energy and thanked him for turning the tide in Supreme Boundary Heaven.
• Ye Li sensed killing intent from the Jade-Eyed Cultivator, but Azure Abyss Dao Master dismissed it as ordinary dissatisfaction.
• Ye Li used World-Cleansing Purity on Azure Abyss Dao Master, revealing that someone had clouded his mind and dulled his sense of danger.
• The starry sky around the Star Skiff shattered as Liu Du of Green Snake Mountain emerged from the void.
• Liu Du praised Ye Li for resisting his Oblivion Calamity and demanded to know which sect's true disciple Ye Li was.

Liu Du of Green Snake Mountain confronted Ye Li and the Azure Abyss Dao Master over the Source Energy, while taunting Cangyuan about his wife and Wutong Mountain. Ye Li promised to accompany Cangyuan to Wutong Mountain and declared he would visit Green Snake Mountain too, then unleashed his power and vanished toward Liu Du.

• Liu Du ordered Jade Eyes to withdraw and seal the surrounding space so Ye Li and the Azure Abyss Dao Master could not escape.
• Liu Du taunted Cangyuan about his wife and his plan to rescue her from Wutong Mountain, provoking Cangyuan into a furious outburst.
• Ye Li suppressed Cangyuan's rage, ordered him to stand down, and said he might accompany him to Wutong Mountain in the future.
• Cangyuan retreated after Ye Li promised to help him, while Liu Du mocked Ye Li for challenging Wutong Mountain.
• Ye Li announced he would visit both Wutong Mountain and Green Snake Mountain, then unleashed his aura and vanished as Liu Du's expression changed in alarm.

Ye Li attacked Liu Du, a Dao Master from Green Snake Mountain, and overwhelmed him despite Liu Du’s higher cultivation and hidden trump card. He left Liu Du trapped and battered in deep space, unable to use the Transcendence Talisman.

• Liu Du’s [Oblivion Calamity] failed to affect Ye Li, so he summoned his green serpent mountain formation to defend himself.
• Ye Li shattered the formation with a punch and struck Liu Du in the chest, badly injuring him.
• Cangyuan watched in shock as Ye Li overpowered the eighth-level Dao Fruit Realm Liu Du.
• Liu Du tried to activate his Transcendence Talisman, but Ye Li used [Highest Clarity Jade Edict] to freeze him.
• Ye Li unleashed a storm of punches on Liu Du, scattering his golden flesh and blood across deep space.

Ye Li killed Liu Du by unleashing Transcendent Sword Qi that overcame the Green Snake Mountain Master's talisman, then exposed and killed the jade-eyed Green Snake hiding nearby. The Azure Abyss Dao Master watched Ye Li's overwhelming strength in stunned silence.

• Ye Li seized Liu Du's first Transcendence talisman, but Liu Du used a second to summon the Green Snake Mountain Master's phantom.
• The phantom attacked Ye Li with five-colored light, and Ye Li answered with Transcendent Sword Qi, which Liu Du recognized as the power of Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion.
• The two Transcendent attacks collided, but Ye Li's remaining Sword Qi swallowed Liu Du and erased him.
• Ye Li used the Highest Clarity Jade Edict to expose the jade-eyed man hiding in the void, then killed him after smashing apart his poisonous miasma.
• The Azure Abyss Dao Master watched Ye Li's victory and wondered whether they were truly cultivators of the same level.

Ye Li agreed to help the Azure Abyss Dao Master rescue his wife from Wutong Mountain, then sensed that Warm Current and Forgotten River were attacking their home and hurried back to the Sea of Nine Harmonies. Meanwhile, a gray-robed man at Green Snake Mountain learned that Ye Li’s sword qi was linked to the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion and dismissed the possibility that Ye Li had a personal disciple.

• The Azure Abyss Dao Master told Ye Li that Wutong Mountain’s young master had abducted his wife because of her rare constitution, and showed him a Soul Jade that indicated she was still alive.
• Ye Li asked Cangyuan for Wutong Mountain’s location and agreed to go, but clarified that they would first return to the Sea of Nine Harmonies.
• Ye Li sensed that someone was trying to raid their home and hurried through the starry sky, suspecting that the Dao Masters from Warm Current and Forgotten River had attacked.
• At Green Snake Mountain, a gray-robed man learned that the Transcendence sword qi came from the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion, doubted that its master had a personal disciple abroad, and dismissed the possibility.

The Mountain Lord of Green Snake Mountain ordered Qing Ruoxu to investigate the Sea of Nine Harmonies after Ye defeated their forces and took a coveted treasure. Qing Ruoxu obeyed and plotted to direct the Jade Capital Society against Ye, leaving Green Snake Mountain preparing to make him someone else’s target.

• The Mountain Lord of Green Snake Mountain sent a decree ordering Qing Ruoxu to investigate the recent developments in the Sea of Nine Harmonies or lose his position as young lord.
• Qing Ruoxu accepted the order and brooded over his dead lieutenants, the lost Supreme Heaven-Realm Treasure, and his anger toward Ye.
• Qing Ruoxu ordered his people to suspend other matters, recall their agents, and investigate Ye’s capabilities.
• Qing Ruoxu told his confidants to secretly leak details of Ye’s acquisition of the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven to the Jade Capital Society, hoping they would attack him.