Recaps

Zhang Qingliu and Yang Qingshan faced the powerful chairman of the Blood Sea Society, who arrived to negotiate control over the Heavenly Balance Star Domain’s resources. Zhang Qingliu refused his offer and invoked the absent Ye Li, but the chairman concluded that their supposed protector was likely a bluff.

• The Blood Sea Society chairman dragged a lifeless planet into place and used his power to build a palace for negotiations.
• The chairman offered to help secure and develop the Heavenly Balance Star Domain, while Zhang Qingliu recognized the proposal as a bid to exploit its resources.
• Zhang Qingliu declined the offer and warned the chairman to consider why the domain’s powerful cultivators had become scarce.
• The chairman asked to meet the Heavenly Balance God of Slaughter, and Zhang Qingliu said Ye Li was traveling with no set return date.
• After Zhang Qingliu said the other lords were occupied, the chairman suspected the domain was bluffing about its protector.

Ye Li arrived as the Blood Sea Society tried to force Zhang Qingliu and Yang Qingshan to surrender the star domain’s resources. He killed the delegation and erased the Society’s headquarters, then greeted the shaken old acquaintances.

• The Blood Sea Society’s vice president demanded that Zhang Qingliu and Yang Qingshan sign over the star domain’s resources while its president pressured them with his aura.
• A red-robed girl appeared, but Ye Li’s voice made her withdraw before he transformed the surroundings into chaos.
• Ye Li confronted the Blood Sea Society’s president and killed him, the vice president, and their accompanying experts.
• Ye Li’s power also erased the Blood Sea Society’s distant headquarters from existence.
• The hall returned to normal, and Zhang Qingliu and Yang Qingshan recognized Ye Li as he greeted them.

Ye Li returned to Huaxia and saved it from the Blood Sea Society’s attack, then prepared to go back with Zhang Qingliu, Yang Qingshan, and Ye Shenfeng. Ye Shenfeng introduced herself as Ye Li’s future Dao companion, leaving the two Huaxia leaders stunned as the four departed.

• Ye Li reunited with Zhang Qingliu and Yang Qingshan after erasing the threat to Blue Star.
• Ye Li warned Zhang Qingliu that traveling beyond the Starry Sky Great Wall would be dangerous for someone at the late Mountain Sea Realm.
• Ye Li said he had already destroyed the Blood Sea Society’s headquarters and prevented its revival.
• Ye Shenfeng introduced herself to Zhang Qingliu and Yang Qingshan as Ye Li’s future Dao companion, shocking them.
• Ye Li led the group back to Huaxia, and the four vanished from the hall.

At Qingyi Bureau headquarters, Zuo Qingyu and Cai Jingyun discussed whether Huaxia should aid the Federation against multiple Ninth-Tier Alien Beasts and who should go. They agreed Cai Jingyun would lead the mission while Zuo Qingyu remained at headquarters with Ye Li’s protective jade slip, just as news arrived that General Ye had returned.

• Zuo Qingyu reported that Huaxia had verified the handover of the western-border Secret Realm clusters from the Federation.
• Cai Jingyun asked Zuo Qingyu whether Huaxia should help the Federation, and Zuo Qingyu insisted that Huaxia had a responsibility to act and uphold Ye Li’s reputation.
• When Cai Jingyun proposed going herself, Zuo Qingyu objected and offered to go with the lifesaving jade slip Ye Li had left her.
• Cai Jingyun persuaded Zuo Qingyu that sending her was the safest and most reasonable plan, with Zuo Qingyu staying at headquarters as a reserve.
• A surge of true energy erupted through Qingyi Bureau headquarters, and a voice announced that General Ye had returned.

Ye Li returned to Qingyi Bureau headquarters, where his arrival stirred powerful emotions among his colleagues. After Chen Jingli embraced him, Zuo Qingyu and Cai Jingyun welcomed him, and he said he expected to stay for two or three days.

• Zhou Shang excitedly announced Ye Li's return, and Zuo Qingyu and Cai Jingyun hurried toward the Pillar of the Nation's office.
• Chen Jingli entered the office and embraced Ye Li, then introduced herself to Ye Shenfeng after he asked her to let go.
• Zuo Qingyu arrived, struggled to speak to Ye Li, and introduced herself to Ye Shenfeng as the Qingyi Bureau's Ninth Adjudicator.
• Cai Jingyun welcomed Ye Li home and asked how long he would stay, and Ye Li answered that he would probably stay for two or three days.

Ye Li told Blue Star’s leaders that he would improve the Star Domain’s cultivation environment before leaving again, and demonstrated that he could remove their cultivation bottlenecks. After dismissing everyone, he summoned his panel and saw the vast malice points accumulated during his advance through the great forbidden lands.

• Ye Li announced that he would leave again in two or three days and use the next two days to change Blue Star’s cultivation environment.
• Ye Li explained that he could elevate the Heavenly Balance Star Domain and make breakthroughs to higher realms easier.
• Ye Li released a ripple of power that briefly raised everyone’s cultivation before returning it to normal, while removing their barriers and bottlenecks up to the great void realm.
• Zhang Qingliu, Yang Qingshan, Cai Jingyun, Chen Jingli, Zuo Qingyu, and Ye Shenfeng thanked Ye Li and left the office.
• Ye Li summoned his panel and checked the malice points he had accumulated by destroying the great forbidden lands.

Zuo Qingyu overheard Ye Shenfeng recount Ye Li’s overwhelming feats and felt the gulf between them, then struggled to hide her feelings behind her duties as an Arbiter. After Chen Jingli challenged her to admit why she had taken the position, Zuo Qingyu left her office, while Ye Li was interrupted by a visitor.

• Zuo Qingyu overheard Ye Shenfeng describe Ye Li defeating powerful enemies and destroying a star domain, and she left feeling insignificant beside him.
• Chen Jingli confronted Zuo Qingyu in her office and asked why she had become an Arbiter if not for Ye Li.
• Chen Jingli told Zuo Qingyu to do what she wanted and left the office.
• Zuo Qingyu disappeared from her office as Federation documents scattered across the floor.
• Ye Li dismissed his System Panel when someone knocked on the door and invited them in.

Zuo Qingyu told Ye Li about Jiang Qingzhu’s rise and the northern factions that had threatened her, then became alarmed when Ye Li revealed how much he could know. The chapter ended with Ye Li reassuring her that he respected people’s privacy and urging her to say what she had come to say.

• Zuo Qingyu entered Ye Li’s office and asked whether he remembered Jiang Qingzhu.
• Zuo Qingyu reported that Jiang Qingzhu had reached the top ten of the Fengyun Ranking and that northern factions had tried to undermine the Jiang Family.
• Zuo Qingyu said she had personally dealt with the factions that went too far, and Ye Li confirmed they had since decided to leave Jiang Qingzhu alone.
• Zuo Qingyu was astonished that Ye Li could know what had happened from his office, and he said there was nothing in the Heavenly Balance Star Domain he could not know.
• Zuo Qingyu feared Ye Li had read her thoughts, but he joked that he did not snoop and told her to say what she had come to say.

Zuo Qingyu told Ye Li that she had become the Arbiter to help shoulder his burdens and asked him to visit Tianheng Star with her; he agreed. After learning that the Federation faced a threat from revived Ninth-Tier Alien Beasts, Ye Li vowed to handle it and then began his breakthrough, reaching the Transcendence Realm.

• Zuo Qingyu confessed that she had become the Arbiter to help Ye Li and asked him to visit Tianheng Star; Ye Li agreed.
• Zuo Qingyu told Ye Li that the Federation's [Knight King] had requested aid against several revived Ninth-Tier Alien Beasts in a Secret Realm.
• Ye Li told Zuo Qingyu to have Cai Jingyun stay home and said he would deal with the Federation's crisis himself.
• Ye Li entered his [Highest Clarity Grotto-Heaven], swallowed twenty-one Transcendence Realm Treasure Pellets, and used his malice points to begin his breakthrough.
• Ye Li detonated the [Highest Clarity Dao Fruit], endured the impact, and reached the pinnacle of the Martial Dao: Transcendence.

Ye Li spent his remaining Malice Points to reach the pinnacle of the transcendence realm, and his suppressed aura briefly shook the cosmos. He then considered how to pursue true origin, the realm beyond transcendence, by deriving a method suited to his own Great Dao.

• Ye Li spent his Malice Points to strengthen his foundation and advance through the transcendence realm to its pinnacle.
• Ye Li's aura spread across the universe, startling cultivators and prompting them to recognize him as a newly born supreme being.
• Ye Li withdrew his aura into his white robes and judged the transcendence peak to be the current limit of his power.
• Ye Li recalled insights from the Memory Scrolls of Divine Lord Lihuo and Lu Fengsheng, along with the Sword Pavilion Founder's advice to derive his own path beyond transcendence.
• Ye Li understood that reaching true origin required condensing a new origin within himself and becoming a treasure ship able to withstand the laws of the universe.

Ye Li deduced a divine-grade True Source method and reached the half-step True Source Realm, but the Sword Talisman still filled him with dread. He traveled to the Federation, where Isabella asked him to save it from Ninth-Tier Alien Beasts, and he agreed.

• Ye Li used malice points to create the Highest Clarity Golden Immortal Salvation Art and attained the half-step True Source Realm.
• Ye Li examined Pei Wufeng’s Sword Talisman and sensed that the Upper Realm still posed a grave danger.
• Isabella received word that Ye Li would visit the Federation and organized an urgent welcome.
• Ye Li appeared before the Federation leadership, unsettling Isabella with memories of their past fight.
• Isabella explained that Ninth-Tier Alien Beasts were attacking the Secret Realm blockade and that Federation forces were near collapse.
• Ye Li agreed to help the Federation, prompting its citizens to praise Huaxia’s goodwill.

Ye Li destroyed the Federation’s enormous Secret Realm and its Ninth-Tier Alien Beasts with a snap, leaving Isabella and the Federation stunned. After Isabella thanked Huaxia for its assistance, Ye Li vanished from the conference hall, while Isabella found some consolation in her overwhelming defeat.

• Isabella pointed Ye Li toward the Secret Realm when he asked which direction it was in.
• Ye Li snapped his fingers and unleashed a golden storm that collapsed the abyss and slaughtered the Mutant Beasts inside it.
• Isabella thanked Ye Li for Huaxia’s assistance and privately felt relieved that her past defeat had come at the hands of someone far beyond human.
• Ye Li told Isabella to contact him if anything else came up, then vanished from the conference hall.
• Federation media celebrated Ye Li’s intervention and photographed the place where he had disappeared.

Ye Li left Blue Star after arranging for Ye Shenfeng to protect it, then returned to the Chaos Star Sea and the Xuanjian Mansion. He reunited with An Lingzhen and Lu Xuan, only to reveal that he had come to say goodbye.

• Ye Li refused Zhang Qingliu and Chen Jingli's pleas to stay, explaining that he had more important matters to pursue.
• Ye Li entrusted Blue Star's safety to Ye Shenfeng and told the others to summon her with a Jade Talisman if trouble arose.
• Ye Li and Ye Shenfeng vanished, leaving the Qingyi Bureau members to resume their duties; Chen Jingli insisted on keeping the chair Ye Li had used.
• An Lingzhen and Lu Xuan discussed managing the Xuanjian Mansion while Ye Li was away, and Ye Li suddenly appeared in their headquarters.
• An Lingzhen joyfully welcomed Ye Li back, but he told her he had returned only to say goodbye.

Ye Li prepared for his departure by leaving An Lingzhen Jade Slips linked to Ye Shenfeng and giving Lu Xuan three powerful spirit medicines. After telling An Lingzhen he would return soon, he left Ye Shenfeng with instructions and strengthened her cultivation before departing for the Upper Realm.

• Ye Li gave An Lingzhen three Jade Slips that could summon Ye Shenfeng for aid and contained Treasure Medicine for the Xuanjian Mansion.
• Ye Li thanked Lu Xuan for the Alliance’s support and gifted her three stalks of Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Materials.
• Ye Li refused An Lingzhen’s request to stay, promised he would return soon, and vanished from the Xuanjian Mansion.
• Ye Shenfeng asked Ye Li whether he had completed his arrangements, and he explained that she would sense the Jade Slips if they were broken.
• Ye Li used the Highest Clarity Jade Edict to increase Ye Shenfeng’s aura and aptitude, then told her to prioritize survival if she faced an enemy she could not defeat.
• Ye Li departed the lifeless star in a surge of golden light.

Ye Li spent 84.6 billion malice points to break through to the first level of the True Source Realm, transforming his divine power into source energy. His presence destabilized the universe, and after realizing it could no longer contain him, he used the Sword Talisman and saw the overlapping layers of light and shadow clearly.

• Ye Li reflected on his journey and saw that he had gathered 84.6 billion malice points.
• Ye Li spent his malice points to cultivate the True Source Method and open a vast sea of source energy within every cell.
• Ye Li advanced to the first level of the True Source Realm as his divine power transformed into source energy.
• Ye Li's aura made the Primordial Sea tremble, collapsing space and disrupting galaxies and laws.
• Ye Li realized the universe could no longer accommodate him and released his aura while holding the Sword Talisman.
• Ye Li saw the overlapping layers of light and shadow clearly.

Ye Li used his Divine Ability to glimpse a treasure ship belonging to the Kong Family and learned that they were searching the Myriad Worlds Sea for a powerful woman who had escaped them. He realized his universe might be one of the Sea’s Minor Worlds and began considering how to leave without revealing its location, ending by reviewing his trump cards against the danger beyond.

• Ye Li’s Divine Ability revealed a vast, dark sea and a mountain-sized treasure ship crowded with Kong Family cultivators.
• The cultivators said the Kong Family head was anxious because they had failed to find a woman who had escaped and might soon reach the heaven seizing realm.
• The Kong Family leader ordered the crew to resume searching the Myriad Worlds Sea, where lingering Dao resonance prevented Divine Consciousness from finding Minor Worlds easily.
• Ye Li concluded that his universe was probably one of the Minor Worlds and weighed the risks of staying hidden against leaving and exposing its coordinates.
• Ye Li suspected the escaped woman might be the Sword Pavilion Founder, then resolved to be cautious and review his available trump cards.

Ye Li upgraded Indestructible Golden Soul to LV8, gaining External Incarnation, and the Divine Iron awakened a new power of its own. With his preparations complete, he unleashed his aura, shattered the cosmic void, and ascended toward the Upper Realm.

• Ye Li chose to upgrade Indestructible Golden Soul rather than rely on his escape technique, determined to protect his homeland from the Kong Family.
• Ye Li spent Malice Points to raise Indestructible Golden Soul to LV8, gaining immortality under the laws and the External Incarnation ability.
• The Divine Iron developed considerable intelligence and gained the ability to split into millions of divine blades.
• Ye Li stopped suppressing his aura, causing the universe to convulse and the void around him to shatter.
• Ye Li transformed into a golden rainbow and ascended toward the Upper Realm.

Ye Li emerged from his universe into the Myriad Worlds Sea, where the universe’s bright ascension pillar exposed his arrival to the Kong Family. Unable to flee across the corrosive sea, he prepared to face the approaching treasure ships.

• Ye Li crossed into the Myriad Worlds Sea and saw his universe as a small star beneath him.
• Ye Li suppressed the golden pillar of light erupting from his universe and adjusted to the higher-order laws restricting his power.
• Ye Li realized the pillar had alerted nearby Kong Family ships and that the seawater could burn his body.
• Ye Li abandoned the idea of fleeing, then saw Kong Family treasure ships approaching across the horizon.

Kong Rong’s fleet discovered Ye Li after he emerged from a Minor World and tried to lure him aboard, unaware that he knew the Upper Realm’s dangers. Ye Li killed Kong San and charged at Kong Rong, announcing he would be the second target.

• Kong Rong recognized Ye Li as a newly ascended cultivator and celebrated the chance to capture him.
• Kong Rong ordered Kong San to approach Ye Li with a friendly story and coax him onto the ship.
• Ye Li erupted in golden light, appeared before Kong San, and killed him with a single attack.
• Kong Rong flew into a rage and ordered his forces to kill Ye Li.
• Ye Li summoned [Dao Scripture My Book] and empowered himself with [Imperial Command Over Mountains and Seas].
• Ye Li tore through the Treasure Ship’s array formations and charged at Kong Rong, declaring, "The second!!"

Ye Li killed Kong Rong and overwhelmed the Kong Family cultivators aboard their treasure ship despite their suppressive array. He had slaughtered nearly all the elites on deck, while Kong Rong realized the battle had spiraled beyond his control.

• Ye Li punched through Kong Rong’s chest and sent him crashing into the cabin rubble.
• The Kong Family cultivators formed up and activated the Qi-Suppressing Frost-Birthing Array, but it failed to hinder Ye Li.
• Ye Li summoned a silver-white divine spear and attacked the cultivators as they charged him.
• Ye Li shattered their techniques and slaughtered nearly all the Kong Family elites on the deck.
• Kong Rong regained consciousness in the rubble and realized he could not stop Ye Li or save the small world.

Ye Li escaped the Kong Family’s Heaven-Grasping powerhouse and learned more about the True Source World and the Changling Kong Family’s reach. He sent an incarnation carrying the trackable Sword Talisman away as a decoy, then chose the Azure Current Secret Realm as his next destination to confront the Kong Family and gain malice points.

• Ye Li escaped the mysterious Heaven-Grasping cultivator and realized the Kong Family remained a threat to his universe.
• Ye Li learned that the Kong Family dominated Lu Hai Changling under a Heaven-Grasping powerhouse who had perfected the Five Laws.
• Ye Li sensed that the Sword Talisman could lead him to the Sword Pavilion Founder and suspected the Kong Family could track its aura.
• Ye Li created an External Incarnation with nearly seventy percent of his combat strength and sent it away with the Sword Talisman as bait.
• Ye Li read Manager Kong Rong’s Memory Scroll and chose the Azure Current Secret Realm, where he expected the Kong Family to send cultivators he could kill.

Kong Zhixia and Bai Shan discussed her execution of a steward before the Kong Family’s Second Great-Uncle revealed that a newly ascended cultivator had destroyed the Fourth Ship and escaped his grasp. The elder ordered them to track the cultivator and planned to use a salvaged Boundary Heaven as bait, while Kong Zhixia prepared to enter the Azure Current Secret Realm.

• Kong Zhixia defended executing the Fifth Ship steward, while Bai Shan warned that her actions had damaged her reputation.
• The Kong Family’s Second Great-Uncle appeared and announced that the Fourth Ship had been wiped out and its attacker had escaped him.
• The elder said the attacker was a newly ascended lower-realm cultivator with an aura resembling the sword cultivator from years earlier.
• Bai Shan agreed to search for the escaped cultivator personally.
• The Second Great-Uncle told Kong Zhixia to publicize the Kong Family’s salvaged Boundary Heaven as bait after she left the Azure Current Secret Realm.

Pei You'an, founder of the Heaven-Cutting Sword Pavilion, failed to advance beyond the pinnacle of the Sea-Illuminating Realm and hoped the Azure Current Secret Realm would help her reach the Heaven-Grasping Realm. She then sensed that someone had broken through the universe’s barrier and ascended beyond it.

• Pei You'an practiced in seclusion at the Tree Court inn in Gaoyang Ancient City, where her five perfected laws formed a five-colored wheel.
• Pei You'an’s attempt to advance failed, and she reflected on the difficulty of reaching the Heaven-Grasping Realm and protecting her Minor World.
• Pei You'an decided to wait for the Azure Current Secret Realm to open, hoping it would yield something useful.
• Pei You'an sensed a shackle break in her sea of consciousness and realized someone had ascended beyond her universe.

The Sword Pavilion Founder discovered that someone had shattered the sealing shackles around her old universe and ascended, potentially exposing its location. After sensing her Sword Talisman beyond the Myriad Worlds Sea, she realized the ascender came from her Sword Pavilion and hurried to find them.

• The Sword Pavilion Founder dismantled her isolation array and left the Tree Court Inn, paying City Lord Gaoyang’s son three thousand Ancient Coins to check out early.
• City Lord Gaoyang’s son watched her leave and regretted missing the chance to capture her and earn his father’s favor.
• The Sword Pavilion Founder rode her sword light above the ancient city and sensed the Sword Talisman she had left in the Sword Pavilion beyond the Myriad Worlds Sea.
• The Sword Pavilion Founder concluded that the ascender was a rising talent from her Sword Pavilion and changed course to rescue them.

Ye Li traveled toward Gaoyang City while recovering from his battle with the Kong Family and using an avatar as bait to draw their pursuit away. After reaching the city, he tried to exchange two captured treasures for local currency and questioned the price offered.

• Ye Li sailed toward the Azure Current Secret Realm, while his avatar flew in the opposite direction to distract the pursuing Kong Family cultivators.
• Ye Li meditated aboard the merchant ship but recovered only about ninety percent of his source energy during the voyage.
• The ship reached Gaoyang City, where a woman warned Ye Li that the city accepted only Ancient Coins.
• Ye Li offered two captured True Source Realm Magic Treasures in exchange for Ancient Coins.
• The woman offered Ye Li one thousand Ancient Coins, and he asked whether she was trying to rip him off.