Recaps

Ye Li returned to the Primordial Continent and learned that masked Dao Lords had attacked its territory, so he rushed to the Blueleaf Star Domain to confront them. He arrived during tense negotiations and was recognized with terror by the jade-crowned Dao Lord.

• Ye Li reached the Primordial Continent, found its defenses intact, and failed to divine what had happened.
• Master Li Ming told Ye Li that an unknown force had probed the continent and then attacked the Blueleaf Star Domain, prompting the other Dao Lords to defend it.
• Ye Li ordered Master Li Ming to keep watch and flew toward the Blueleaf Star Domain.
• The Azure Water Dao Lord rejected the invaders' demand for half the Primordial Continent's territory, and the two sides prepared to resume fighting.
• Ye Li appeared in the negotiating hall, and the Primordial Continent's Dao Lords bowed to him as the jade-crowned Dao Lord realized the feared figure had arrived.

Ye Li effortlessly killed the invading Dao Lords, then learned that Warm Current Dao Master and Forgotten River Dao Master had sent them to attack his territory. Eager to test his new power and gain Malice Points, he ordered his Dao Lords to prepare for an assault on both factions.

• Ye Li snapped his fingers and erased the invading Dao Lords with World-Cleansing Purity, reassuring the Dao Lords of the Primordial Continent.
• Ye Li praised Azure Water Dao Lord and the others for defending their foothold while he was away.
• Ye Li recovered the invaders' souls and learned that they served Warm Current Dao Master and Forgotten River Dao Master, who had allied to attack his domain.
• Ye Li ordered his Dao Lords to assemble and prepare to strike the Divination Manor and the Hall of Eternal Sorrow.
• Ye Li declared that Forgotten River and Warm Current would no longer exist.

Warm Current Dao Master learned that Ye Li had returned after wiping out her attacking Dao Lords, and she prepared to ambush him with help from White Creek Dao Master and Forgotten River Dao Master. The chapter left her confident that her forces and preparations would ensure Ye Li’s death.

• Warm Current Dao Master learned that Ye Li had returned and erased the soul imprints of the Dao Lords she had sent against him.
• Ji Xuan warned that Ye Li might retaliate, and Warm Current Dao Master ordered her to summon White Creek Dao Master.
• Warm Current Dao Master decided to seek extra protection and sent an avatar to ask Forgotten River Dao Master to oversee the coming battle.
• Forgotten River Dao Master agreed to watch over Warm Current Dao Master as she ambushed Ye Li.
• Warm Current Dao Master returned to her body and began preparing for the attack with renewed confidence.

The Warm Current Dao Master persuaded the White Creek Dao Master to confront Ye Li by exploiting his longstanding infatuation with her. She promised to settle down with him and hear his feelings if he saved her and killed Ye Li.

• The White Creek Dao Master arrived at the Divination Manor and greeted the Warm Current Dao Master with obvious adoration.
• The Warm Current Dao Master feigned distress and told him Ye Li had slaughtered her patrol Dao Lords and threatened her hold over the manor’s territory.
• The White Creek Dao Master promised to face Ye Li, confident that the newly ascended Dao Master could not challenge him.
• The Warm Current Dao Master let White Creek take her hand and promised to listen to his feelings if he helped her survive and killed Ye Li.

Warm Current Dao Master secured Bai Xi’s help in a plan to kill Ye Li, while the Forgotten River Dao Master hoped the conflict would reveal Ye Li’s true strength. The chapter left Warm Current preparing to lure Ye Li to Divination Manor, with an invasion of his Star Domains as a fallback.

• Warm Current Dao Master convinced Bai Xi that Cangyuan was no threat and that they could defeat Ye Li together.
• Bai Xi agreed to help kill Ye Li and asked how they would draw him to Divination Manor.
• Warm Current planned to invite Ye Li to discuss dividing the Star Domains, or attack his territories if he refused to come.
• Forgotten River Dao Master counted the Dao Masters in the Sea of Nine Harmonies and judged the new arrival a worthwhile replacement for the one who had died.
• Forgotten River urged Warm Current to draw out Ye Li’s full capabilities.

Ye Li mobilized a vast army to attack Divination Manor despite Warm Current Dao Master's invitation to negotiate. He and Azure Abyss Dao Master set out for the manor, with Cangyuan tasked with blocking anyone from escaping.

• A cultivator told the gathered crowds that Ye Li planned to unite the Star Sea, and they cheered his campaign.
• Azure Abyss Dao Master showed Ye Li Warm Current Dao Master's conciliatory letter and warned that Forgotten River Dao Master might intervene.
• Ye Li rejected the invitation, declared his intention to attack Divination Manor, and said he was ready to unite the Sea of Nine Harmonies early if necessary.
• Ye Li assigned Azure Abyss Dao Master to lead Dao Lords in sealing off Divination Manor so its powerful cultivators could not flee.
• Ye Li and Azure Abyss Dao Master led the assembled forces toward Divination Manor, which soon appeared in the Star Sea.

Cangyuan’s Highest Clarity army attacked Divination Manor, and Ye Li confronted the Warm Current Dao Master and White Creek Dao Master. Ye Li demanded their surrender and then unleashed overwhelming power that crushed the manor’s defenses and forced its cultivators to the ground.

• Cangyuan led the Highest Clarity army in an assault that surrounded Divination Manor and battered its protective array.
• The Warm Current Dao Master and White Creek Dao Master left the manor to meet Ye Li and his forces.
• The Warm Current Dao Master taunted Ye Li and refused to surrender, trusting in Divination Manor’s Slaughter Array and its two Dao Masters.
• Ye Li unleashed his power, driving Divination Manor tens of thousands of miles downward and crushing thousands of its cultivators beneath the pressure.

Ye Li overwhelmed Divination Manor, defeating Dao Master Bai Xi and destroying the estate’s protective formation. Warm Current Dao Master called for help from Forgotten River as Ye Li prepared to press his attack.

• Ye Li shattered Bai Xi’s White-Horned Rhino Seal with a slap and kicked Bai Xi through Divination Manor’s formation into the ground.
• Warm Current Dao Master ordered Divination Manor’s cultivators to activate their defensive formation after seeing Bai Xi defeated.
• Warm Current warned Ye Li that Forgotten River, the strongest in the Sea of Nine Harmonies, would come to her aid.
• Ye Li used World-Cleansing Purity to melt Divination Manor’s protective formation with a single finger, causing Warm Current to suffer severe backlash.
• Warm Current called to Forgotten River for help.

Ye Li used Soul Control's [Oblivion Calamity] to erase the White Creek Dao Master's fear and draw him into a fatal clash. White Creek's body was shattered, and his true spirit fled toward Warm Current for help.

• The White Creek Dao Master emerged from underground transformed by the Ancient White Rhino's [Transformation Technique], while the Azure Abyss Dao Master recognized the defensive secret art.
• Ye Li used [Oblivion Calamity] to erase White Creek's awareness of danger and provoke him into charging.
• Ye Li collided head-on with White Creek and shattered his body, earning Malice Points.
• White Creek's surviving true spirit fled to Warm Current and begged her to save him, while she cursed him for charging into the fight.

Ye Li’s attack on the Warm Current Dao Master was stopped by the Forgotten River Dao Master, who revealed her own treachery by trapping White Creek in a bottle. Warm Current escaped, but faced the threat of being refined into medicine despite their Great Dao Contract.

• Ye Li summoned a divine spear and shattered the Warm Current Dao Master’s three Dao Fruit-tier defenses as he attacked her and White Creek’s true spirit.
• The Forgotten River Dao Master appeared and knocked Ye Li’s spear aside, then placed Warm Current and White Creek behind her.
• The Forgotten River Dao Master offered them a White Porcelain Purification Bottle, but Ye Li warned that its runes would trap anyone who entered.
• The Forgotten River Dao Master activated the bottle’s suction; Warm Current escaped, but White Creek was pulled inside and sealed away.
• The Forgotten River Dao Master said she had planned to capture both Dao Masters and refine them into medicine, and Warm Current reminded her of their Great Dao Contract.

Forgotten River Dao Master revealed that she planned to refine the other Dao Masters into Treasure Pellets so she could break through the Dao Fruit Realm, and demanded Ye Li surrender his Dao Fruit essence or prove himself. Ye Li unleashed the Transcendent Sword Qi at her, tearing through her darkness and defenses as the Star Sea shook.

• Forgotten River Dao Master dismissed the Great Dao Contract and demanded compensation from Ye Li for ruining her plans.
• Ye Li attacked Forgotten River Dao Master with Yin-Yang Divide, but she swallowed the slash in a dark domain and suffered only a faint mark.
• Forgotten River Dao Master explained that she intended to refine the other three Dao Masters into Treasure Pellets to withstand the explosion of her Dao Fruit.
• Forgotten River Dao Master revealed she had reached the pinnacle of the Dao Fruit Realm and demanded Ye Li surrender his Dao Fruit essence or show his strength.
• Ye Li unleashed the Transcendent Sword Qi, which tore through Forgotten River Dao Master's dark domain and engulfed her in a storm of destruction.

Ye Li nearly killed the Forgotten River Dao Master with Transcendent Sword Qi, leaving her badly injured and terrified. She recovered some of her strength with her Original Self Clone and met Ye Li’s charge in a physical clash.

• Ye Li confronted the wounded Forgotten River Dao Master and mocked her earlier question about who would be the main ingredient.
• The Forgotten River Dao Master recognized Ye Li’s Transcendent Sword Qi and asked which forbidden land had taught him the technique.
• Ye Li refused to reveal its source and charged at her again.
• The Forgotten River Dao Master used Transform into the Original Self to sacrifice a clone and erase about forty percent of her injuries.
• Ye Li reached her before she could use the ability again, and the two clashed with their fists among the stars.

Ye Li overwhelmed the Forgotten River Dao Master and trapped her when she tried to flee. After destroying her Dharma Body, he captured her surviving True Spirit, which begged him not to kill it.

• The Forgotten River Dao Master tried to create a True Self Clone, but Ye Li used the Highest Clarity Jade Edict to disrupt her Divine Ability and resume his barrage.
• The Forgotten River Dao Master burned her remaining vital blood to force Ye Li back, then fled into the Star Sea.
• Ye Li used Yin-Yang Divide to keep the Forgotten River Dao Master trapped within Divination Manor's territory.
• Ye Li summoned the Divine Spear and struck the Forgotten River Dao Master, destroying her Dharma Body.
• The Forgotten River Dao Master's True Spirit tried to escape, but Ye Li pulled it into his palm, where it begged for its life.

Ye Li burned the Forgotten River Dao Master's True Spirit to death after rejecting her pleas, then confronted the Warm Current Dao Master. She knelt and offered Divination Manor's resources and her submission, but Ye Li did not accept, and she activated five Dao Master-level formations.

• Ye Li burned the Forgotten River Dao Master's True Spirit in Divine Fire, killing her and earning Malice Points.
• The Warm Current Dao Master watched Forgotten River die and realized she could not escape Ye Li and Cangyuan.
• Ye Li turned toward the Warm Current Dao Master and told her she was next.
• The Warm Current Dao Master knelt before Ye Li, offered Divination Manor's resources, and vowed to serve him while secretly planning to flee.
• When Ye Li made no move to accept her surrender, the Warm Current Dao Master screamed and activated her five Dao Master-level formations.

Ye Li killed the Warm Current Dao Master and the White Creek Dao Master, ending the ambush and unifying the Sea of Nine Harmonies under his rule. He ordered Cangyuan to take over the defeated factions, then planned to spend two days in seclusion before accompanying him to Wutong Mountain.

• Ye Li smashed through the Warm Current Dao Master's formations, crushed her body, and burned away her True Spirit.
• Ye Li released the White Creek Dao Master from the purification bottle and burned away his True Spirit.
• With all three ambushing Dao Masters dead, Ye Li unified the Sea of Nine Harmonies.
• Cangyuan congratulated Ye Li and acknowledged that the entire Sea of Nine Harmonies was now under his rule.
• Ye Li ordered Cangyuan to consolidate the Hall of Eternal Sorrow and Divination Manor, then announced he would enter seclusion for two days before going with Cangyuan to Wutong Mountain.

Ye Li raided the Divination Manor’s treasury, then reached the Hall of Eternal Sorrow and stopped its floating continent from crashing after the Forgotten River Dao Master’s death. He found the Hall’s treasury nearly empty and demanded an explanation from the Forgotten River Dao Master’s summoned figure, who began to explain her cultivation’s appetite for treasure medicines.

• Ye Li sent Cangyuan to carry out his command, then entered the Divination Manor’s treasury and absorbed its resources into the Highest Clarity Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Li teleported to the Hall of Eternal Sorrow and discovered its continent was falling because the Forgotten River Dao Master’s power no longer sustained it.
• Ye Li used the Highest Clarity Jade Edict to halt the continent’s fall and secure it against future collapse.
• Ye Li searched the Hall of Eternal Sorrow’s treasury and found far fewer cultivation medicines than he expected.
• Ye Li summoned the Forgotten River Dao Master, who said her Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art had consumed nearly all her treasure medicines.

Ye Li consumed the Forgotten River Dao Master's treasure medicines, fused a Supreme Heaven-Realm Treasure with his Dao Fruit, and spent his malice points to advance to the peak of the eighth level of the Dao Fruit Realm. His breakthrough shook the Eternal Sorrow Continent, where people mistook his aura for their mistress's ascension.

• Ye Li slapped the Forgotten River Dao Master and made her explain that she had saved the treasure medicines to recover after their battle and defend against Cangyuan and the others.
• Ye Li ordered the Forgotten River Dao Master to guard the treasury entrance, then refined and consumed the remaining treasure medicines.
• Ye Li used his accumulated malice points and the Supreme Heaven-Realm Treasure's essence to strengthen his Dao Fruit and advance to the peak of the eighth level of the Dao Fruit Realm.
• Ye Li's three Life-Bound Divine Abilities transformed into mystic divine marks, and his aura swept across the Eternal Sorrow Continent.
• The continent's inhabitants worshiped toward the Hall of Eternal Sorrow, believing their mistress had transcended the Star Sea, while the Forgotten River Dao Master watched Ye Li's breakthrough under Soul Control.

Ye Li used Transcendent Source Energy to experience Transcendence Realm existential standing and inscribed three protective pages in Dao Scripture My Book. After taking control of the Sea of Nine Harmonies and looting the Hall of Eternal Sorrow, he learned that the Sword Chief of the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion had come to see him.

• Ye Li reached the peak of the eighth level of the Dao Fruit Realm and used two streams of Transcendent Source Energy to experience the Transcendence Realm.
• Ye Li recorded his transcendent state in three pages of Dao Scripture My Book so he could draw on Transcendence Realm power in a crisis.
• Ye Li left the emptied treasury and scoured the Hall of Eternal Sorrow for treasures and resources.
• The Azure Abyss Dao Master told Ye Li that the remaining forces and resources of the Hall of Eternal Sorrow and Divination Manor were under their control and that the Sea of Nine Harmonies had been brought under Ye Li's command.
• The Azure Abyss Dao Master reported that the Sword Chief of the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion had arrived specifically to request an audience with Ye Li.

The Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion learned of a swordsman using sword intent akin to its founder’s and decided to investigate. Meanwhile, a formidable sword-robed woman arrived at the Highest Clarity Divine Palace to meet Ye Li, and she sensed something while waiting for him.

• The Old Man in Hemp Clothes told the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion elders about founder-like sword qi sensed near the Sea of Nine Harmonies, and they agreed to make contact with its wielder.
• The Azure Water Dao Lord received a powerful sword-robed woman at the Highest Clarity Divine Palace and explained that Ye Li was away.
• The sword-robed woman said she would wait for Ye Li, while the Azure Water Dao Lord nervously endured the pressure from her unsheathed sword.
• The sword-robed woman stopped moving and looked through the doorway after sensing something.

Pei Wufeng defended Azure Water Dao Lord when Chen Ling of the Jade Capital Society arrived at the Highest Clarity Divine Palace demanding Ye Li and accusing the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion of helping him. The confrontation remained unresolved as Pei Wufeng challenged Chen Ling and insulted his faction.

• Azure Water Dao Lord mistook the newcomers for Ye Li, but Pei Wufeng said she was not associated with them.
• Chen Ling announced his arrival and used Dao Fruit Realm soul pressure to demand that Ye Li present himself.
• Pei Wufeng unleashed her sword qi to break Chen Ling's attack and rebuked him for intimidating the palace's guests.
• Chen Ling recognized Pei Wufeng's sword intent and accused the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion of helping Ye Li seize the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven's treasure.
• Pei Wufeng denied knowing what Chen Ling meant, warned him not to cause trouble, and mocked the Jade Capital Society.

Ye Li returned to the courtyard and killed Chen Ling after the Jade Capital Society Dao Master demanded the Boundary Heaven Treasure and threatened his sect. He then annihilated the Jade Capital Society cultivators who attacked him, leaving the courtyard strewn with their remains.

• Pei Wufeng identified herself as the Sword Chief of the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion and warned Chen Ling not to provoke her.
• Ye Li arrived and admitted that he had taken the bracelet from the Azure-Green Boundary Heaven.
• Chen Ling demanded the treasure or compensation and threatened to destroy Ye Li's Dao Lineage if he refused.
• Ye Li crushed Chen Ling's body, captured his True Spirit, and burned it away.
• The Jade Capital Society cultivators attacked Ye Li, who killed them with his Divine Ability, [World-Cleansing Purity].

Ye Li met Pei Wufeng of the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion after killing members of the Jade Capital Society, then discussed his planned visit to Wutong Mountain with Cangyuan. Pei Wufeng offered to take them to Wutong Mountain’s Emperor-Seeking Ceremony in two days under her pavilion’s name.

• Pei Wufeng introduced herself to Ye Li and explained that she had come to investigate sword intent linked to the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion’s founding master.
• Cangyuan returned, learned that Ye Li had killed members of the Jade Capital Society, and warned him about the society’s power.
• Ye Li reminded Cangyuan that they planned to visit Wutong Mountain, and Cangyuan set aside his fear of the Jade Capital Society.
• Cangyuan told Pei Wufeng that Wutong Mountain had taken his wife, while Ye Li said he was helping because he could not tolerate bullies.
• Pei Wufeng revealed that the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion had been invited to Wutong Mountain’s Emperor-Seeking Ceremony in two days and offered to bring Ye Li and Cangyuan along.

Pei Wufeng agreed to help Ye Li enter Wutong Mountain and revealed that she was the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion’s Sword Chief. Meanwhile, the Jade Capital Society’s three Demon Ape brothers learned that Chen Ling had died, and they debated how to respond to Ye Li.

• Pei Wufeng told Ye Li that she would help him reach Wutong Mountain because she wanted to see what he intended to do there.
• Pei Wufeng gave Cangyuan her token, revealing that she was the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion’s Sword Chief.
• Two days later, the Jade Capital Society’s leaders learned that Chen Ling and his companions had been killed.
• The second Demon Ape brother accepted blame for the failed mission and urged his brothers to send gifts to Ye Li and seek peace.
• Another Demon Ape brother angrily rejected the proposal to seek peace.

The Great Demon Ape persuaded Ape Two and Ape Three to join a strike against Ye Li, framing it as a defense of the Jade Capital Society’s standing. After his brothers left to gather forces and recruit Green Snake Mountain’s aid, he revealed that Wutong Mountain had secretly ordered them to kill Cangyuan and Ye Li.

• Ape Three urged the Jade Capital Society to retaliate against Ye Li, while Ape Two argued that the society should seek peace.
• The Great Demon Ape sided with Ape Three, saying they must attack before Ye Li grew stronger and to protect their alliance with Wutong Mountain.
• Ape Two agreed to gather the society’s elite, and the Great Demon Ape sent Ape Three to demand men and assistance from Green Snake Mountain.
• After his brothers left, the Great Demon Ape used a jade branch token to report to Wutong Mountain that the mission would be completed.
• The Great Demon Ape privately revealed that Wutong Mountain had ordered the society to kill Cangyuan, with Ye Li as an additional target.

Qing Ruoxu reported Ye Li’s abilities to the Mountain Lord of Green Snake Mountain, who approved his countermeasures and ordered preparations to suppress Ye Li. The Mountain Lord anticipated pressure from the Jade Capital Society, but a mysterious white-robed Dao Master arrived with a different demand: the head of a Transcendence Realm snake.

• Qing Ruoxu reported Ye Li’s techniques and proposed ways to counter them.
• The Mountain Lord praised Qing Ruoxu and ordered Qing Yuanlüe and Qing Chengshan to prepare against Ye Li.
• The Mountain Lord warned Qing Ruoxu that the Jade Capital Society would demand concessions, especially with Wutong Mountain’s ceremony approaching.
• A gray-robed Dao Master reported that a visitor had arrived at Green Snake Mountain’s Mountain Protection Array.
• The Mountain Lord guessed that the Jade Capital Society’s third leader had come to demand help hunting Ye Li, but the Dao Master revealed the visitor was an unknown white-robed Dao Master demanding the head of a Transcendence Realm snake.