Recaps

Ye Li brought Wang Jue’s True Spirit out of the law domain so Lu Yun could question him about her mother’s injuries. After learning the Wang Family had likely arranged them, Lu Yun watched Ye Li depart for the core inheritance, believing he planned to confront the family partly for her sake.

• Ye Li emerged from the law domain and summoned Wang Jue’s True Spirit for Lu Yun to question.
• Wang Jue admitted he did not know who injured Lu Yun’s mother but said the Wang Family was likely responsible.
• Wang Jue explained that the Wang Family treated Lu Yun’s mother as an outsider after deciding she had no further value.
• Ye Li told Lu Yun to leave the Secret Realm and said he would handle the Wang Family, then departed for the core inheritance.
• Lu Yun realized Ye Li’s claim that targeting the Wang Family was already part of his plan was an excuse, and she bowed in gratitude as he vanished.

Xiao Yueyi, a Mystic Master of the Yin-Yang Sect, visited the Kong Family to meet Kong Zhixia, but she was chiefly interested in the Kong Family’s inland sea. She concealed her knowledge of the Myriad Worlds Sea and set out to investigate it herself.

• Xiao Yueyi met Kong Chunqiu at the Kong Family’s rear mountain and said she had come because Kong Zhixia had mastered three laws at the fifth level of Illuminating Sea.
• Kong Chunqiu explained that Kong Zhixia was away seeking two more laws in a secret realm, and Xiao Yueyi decided to wait until she could meet her.
• Xiao Yueyi asked Kong Chunqiu about the inland sea, but he dismissed the rumors and claimed the Kong Family had found only a few ancient magic treasures there.
• Xiao Yueyi realized Kong Chunqiu was hiding the sea’s secret: it contained minor worlds rich in fortune, information Kong Zhixia had submitted to win the Yin-Yang Sect’s support.
• Xiao Yueyi decided to investigate the Myriad Worlds Sea herself and left, claiming she wanted to stroll around Changling.

Ye Li met Cang Liu, the remnant soul behind the Azure Current Secret Realm, and learned that his trial had been designed to secure a future favor. Cang Liu gave up on asking for Ye Li’s help after hearing that Ye Li had killed Kong and Wang family members despite their powerful elders still being alive.

• Kong Chunqiu’s Jade Pendant shattered, revealing that a direct heir of the Kong Family had died, and he rushed toward the indicated location.
• Xiao Yueyi became curious about the death and secretly followed Kong Chunqiu.
• Ye Li met Cang Liu inside the Azure Current Secret Realm and told him that the Kong and Wang Families still controlled Lu Hai Changling.
• Ye Li explained that he had killed members of those families because they had tried to kill him, even though their Heaven-Seizing Great Cultivators were still alive.
• Cang Liu revealed that he had created the secret realm to help a future prodigy and later ask for a favor, but decided Ye Li could not even save himself.

Ye Li heard Cang Liu recount how Sword Song Valley betrayed him after he uncovered its crimes, exposing a cover-up behind the widely known story of his death. The chapter left Ye Li asking what the Three Continents Alliance was, prompting Cang Liu to question how little he knew of the region.

• Ye Li called out Cang Liu for prolonging his story to make his favor seem more valuable, and Cang Liu quickly dropped his pretense and introduced himself.
• Cang Liu told Ye Li that he had once been a celebrated genius who gathered cultivators to fight injustice across Cold Sea Continent.
• Cang Liu recounted how he discovered that a Sword Song Valley disciple's spirit beast had slaughtered residents, then uncovered the sect's other crimes.
• Cang Liu said Sword Song Valley ambushed and pursued him after he resolved to expose its crimes, leaving him to die in a cave where he created the Secret Realm.
• Ye Li compared Cang Liu's account with the public story that Hundred Souls Death Mountain had killed him and realized Sword Song Valley had likely used the faction as a scapegoat.
• Ye Li asked about the Three Continents Alliance, and Cang Liu questioned how unfamiliar Ye Li was with the region.

Ye Li accepted Cang Liu’s request to gather evidence against Sword Song Valley in exchange for Cang Liu’s fourth-rank Heavenly Law insights. After arranging to hide Cang Liu in his Storage Treasure Tool, Ye Li prepared to use his 345 billion malice points to strengthen himself before facing the Heaven-Seizing Great Cultivators waiting outside the Secret Realm.

• Cang Liu explained the Three-Continent Coalition and asked Ye Li to secretly gather irrefutable evidence against Sword Song Valley.
• Ye Li accepted the task and Cang Liu offered him his insights into a fourth-rank Heavenly Law regardless of whether he agreed.
• Cang Liu warned that Heaven-Seizing Great Cultivators from the Kong and Wang Families were waiting outside the Secret Realm to ambush Ye Li.
• Ye Li refused to let Cang Liu destroy the Secret Realm and offered to hide his remnant soul inside his Storage Treasure Tool.
• Ye Li sealed the tool, checked his 345 billion malice points, and called on the system to reveal its limits.

Ye Li gathered treasures from the Azure Current Secret Realm and forged them into pills to prepare for a battle against the Kong and Wang Family ancestors. He consumed the pills and broke through to the early stage of the first level of the Sea-Illuminating Realm, then began integrating the Five Elements Arts.

• Ye Li summoned treasures from across the secret realm using the five Law-Bearing Seals.
• He refined the treasures with Three-Hour Divine Fire into more than a dozen Top-Grade Treasure Pills.
• Ye Li swallowed the pills and used malice points to advance to the early stage of the seventh level of the True Source Realm and then the early stage of the first level of the Sea-Illuminating Realm.
• The system detected dozens of Five Elements Arts and asked whether to integrate them as the foundation for Ye Li's own Five Elements Art.
• Ye Li agreed to continue with the integration.

Ye Li fused the Five Elements Arts and advanced to the peak of the sixth level of the Sea-Illuminating Realm, creating two Supreme Grade Divine Abilities. He prepared to leave the Azure Current Secret Realm as it began to unseal.

• Ye Li fused the Five Elements Arts, nurtured his own Golden Law and fire law, and rose to the peak of the sixth level of the Sea-Illuminating Realm.
• Ye Li gained the Supreme Grade Divine Abilities Ten Thousand Tribulations Return and World-Cleansing Fire.
• Ye Li decided to use World-Cleansing Fire for killing and recognized that his new strength could challenge the two Heaven-Seizing Great Cultivators and surprise Lu Hai Changling.
• Ye Li released his aura across the Land of Inheritance and headed toward the Secret Realm's exit.
• The Azure Current Secret Realm's tremors subsided, and unaffiliated cultivators realized that it was about to unseal.

Pei You'an reached the Azure Current Secret Realm and discovered the Kong and Wang Families' Old Ancestors waiting to intercept those emerging from it. As the realm opened and its survivors fled, she still had not found Ye Li and waited to see what would happen.

• Pei You'an arrived near the secret realm and found thousands of unaffiliated cultivators gathered at a distance.
• Pei You'an recognized the Kong and Wang Families' Old Ancestors keeping watch beside the secret realm.
• Pei You'an paid a cultivator for an account of the blockade and learned that the Kong and Wang Families' representatives had all died inside the realm.
• Pei You'an searched the crowd for Ye Li but could not find him, and she reasoned that he might have left before the Old Ancestors arrived.
• The secret realm erupted in light, opened, and sent surviving cultivators fleeing in every direction.

Ye Li emerged from the Azure Current Secret Realm after taking it into his palm and confronted Kong Chunqiu, revealing that he had survived Kong Chunqiu’s earlier attack with Blood Shadow Escape. As Ye Li prepared to face Kong Chunqiu and the Wang Family Old Ancestor, he summoned his Supreme Grade metal and fire arts.

• The Kong and Wang Family Old Ancestors restrained the unaffiliated cultivators fleeing the secret realm and learned that a purple-robed, golden-eyed young man had killed their representatives.
• Kong Chunqiu suspected the young man resembled the lower-realm cultivator he had killed, but doubted that the man could have survived.
• Ye Li walked out of the secret realm, which shrank into a streak of light and disappeared into his palm.
• Kong Chunqiu recognized Ye Li and realized he had escaped the earlier palm strike with Blood Shadow Escape.
• Ye Li confirmed his survival, taunted Kong Chunqiu, and summoned his Supreme Grade metal and fire arts to prepare for battle.

Ye Li revealed his Sea-Illuminating Realm cultivation and two powerful Five Elements Arts, then fought the Wang Family Old Ancestor and Kong Chunqiu. He badly wounded the Wang Family Old Ancestor and gained the upper hand against Kong Chunqiu using several divine abilities and laws.

• Pei You'an recognized Ye Li among the cultivators and prepared to find a chance to rescue him from the two Heaven-Grasping Realm opponents.
• The Wang Family Old Ancestor attacked Ye Li with the eighth-grade heavenly law [Rolling Dragon Scales], but Ye Li used [Rook Exchange] to teleport behind him and pierced his immortal essence with Golden Law [Ten Thousand Tribulations Return].
• Kong Chunqiu struck Ye Li with [Great Wilderness Aura], but Ye Li used [Dao Scripture My Book] to copy [Rolling Dragon Scales] and shatter the attack.
• Ye Li and Kong Chunqiu exchanged over a thousand blows before Ye Li burned him with Fire Law [World-Cleansing Fire].
• Kong Chunqiu extinguished the Violet Flame by spending a vast amount of immortal essence, but Ye Li used the opening to tear through his defenses and badly injure him.

Ye Li killed Kong Chunqiu and the Wang Family Old Ancestor in public, stunning the cultivators who witnessed their battle. Xiao Yueyi discovered that the Ye Li who defeated Kong Chunqiu was only an avatar, while Ye Li’s true body finished off the Wang Family Old Ancestor.

• Ye Li grievously damaged Kong Chunqiu’s body and divine soul, then used [Rook Exchange] and [Dao Scripture My Book] to turn Kong Chunqiu’s own attack against him.
• Kong Chunqiu mistook Ye Li’s avatar for his true body and fled, but Xiao Yueyi stopped him with an invisible force and urged Ye Li to continue fighting.
• Ye Li killed Kong Chunqiu with his spear and divine fire, then took the eighth-grade [Great Wilderness Aura] and the Kong Family’s minor world from his remains.
• Xiao Yueyi offered to keep the minor world for Ye Li, but he refused and vanished, revealing that the figure who had fought Kong Chunqiu was an avatar.
• Ye Li’s true body defeated and killed the Wang Family Old Ancestor, while Pei You'an watched in shock.

After killing Kong Chunqiu, Ye Li offered to take Pei You'an back to her home world and said he would bring Lu Hai Changling under his control before taking over the Kong Family. He rejected Xiao Yueyi’s invitation to join the Yin-Yang Sect, leaving her to consider finding allies to seize the opportunity represented by his Myriad Worlds Sea.

• Ye Li told Pei You'an that the danger was over and asked whether she wanted to return to her home world, then said he planned to take control of Lu Hai Changling and the Kong Family.
• Pei You'an learned Ye Li’s name and saw Xiao Yueyi invite him to join the Yin-Yang Sect.
• Ye Li asked the imprisoned Kong Chunqiu about the Yin-Yang Sect and learned that it was a True Lord’s sanctuary whose ancestor had reached the Dao Source realm.
• Ye Li refused Xiao Yueyi’s invitation, while she privately considered recruiting helpers to claim his Myriad Worlds Sea.
• Ye Li left with Pei You'an, who warned him that Xiao Yueyi still seemed intent on pursuing him.

Ye Li arrived at the Changling Kong Family with Pei You'an and used Kong Chunqiu’s severed head to make the family believe their Old Ancestor was dead. After the descendants knelt before him, Ye Li claimed the family and began a ten-breath countdown for them to open their Spiritual Platforms.

• Kong Chunqiu’s life-bound spirit tablet exploded, and the Kong Family descendants argued over whether their Old Ancestor had fallen.
• Kong Zhiqiu called for the family to seal off the news and investigate Kong Chunqiu’s whereabouts.
• Ye Li and Pei You'an broke through the Mountain Protection Array and entered the Kong Family’s main residence.
• Ye Li tossed Kong Chunqiu’s blood-soaked severed head into the hall, convincing the descendants that their Old Ancestor was dead.
• Ye Li sat in the seat of authority, declared that he would take over the Changling Kong Family, and ordered the descendants to open their Spiritual Platforms within ten breaths.

Ye Li used his violet fire to judge the Kong Family’s surviving members, killing those with murderous or cannibalistic pasts and placing the few survivors under his control. Pei You'an planned to visit a Minor World before using the Yin-Yang Dao Seizure to build a reputation and seek admission to a greater Dao Lineage.

• The Kong Family members opened their Seas of Consciousness and pledged loyalty to Ye Li, while Kong Zhiqiu offered to do anything to survive.
• Ye Li used violet flames to kill Kong Family members who had wantonly killed their kin or eaten people to cultivate, including Kong Shen.
• Ye Li spared a handful of survivors and ordered Kong Zhiqiu to gather the remaining Kong Family members at their headquarters.
• Ye Li warned Kong Zhiqiu not to imitate her elder sister Kong Zhixia’s underhanded behavior.
• Pei You'an told Ye Li she would visit a Minor World, then pursue the Yin-Yang Dao Seizure to build a reputation and seek admission to the Three Continents Alliance or Sword Song Valley.

Ye Li and Pei You'an agreed to seek the Three Continents Alliance after one of them reached the Heaven-Grasping Realm, while Ye Li revealed that he planned to attempt the breakthrough soon and intended to kill Xiao Yueyi. Ye Li left the hall to be greeted by the crowd as the new Family Head.

• Ye Li persuaded Pei You'an to pursue the Three Continents Alliance instead of Sword Song Valley, and they agreed to approach the Alliance Association after one of them reached the Heaven-Grasping Realm.
• Ye Li and Pei You'an agreed to delay returning to the Myriad Worlds Sea until they had enough strength to protect their homeland and avoid attracting enemies.
• Pei You'an warned Ye Li that his two supreme Five Elements Arts made breaking through to the Heaven-Grasping Realm extremely dangerous, but Ye Li said he could not wait and would attempt it soon.
• Pei You'an resolved to attempt the Heaven-Grasping Realm within three years, but Ye Li told her he would try very soon.
• Ye Li told Pei You'an that Xiao Yueyi's silence about the Myriad Worlds Sea was suspicious and ordered that they find a chance to kill her while she remained in Lu Hai Changling.
• Ye Li walked out of the hall as the crowd outside greeted him as the Family Head.

Ye Li took control of the Kong Family, purged its cultivators who refined people, and left a clone to guard the estate. He then headed for the Wang Family headquarters with Pei You'an, who warned him that Xiao Yueyi of the Yin-Yang Sect was far more dangerous than the fallen ancestors and might have powerful connections.

• Kong Zhiqiu reported that the Kong Family had gathered its members and prepared its holdings for Ye Li to take over.
• Ye Li used the World-Cleansing Fire and the Memory Scrolls to identify and burn thousands of Kong Family cultivators who refined people for cultivation.
• Ye Li told the surviving Kong Family members they could keep living and cultivate under his rules, then warned them they had no choice but to trust him.
• Ye Li left a clone to guard the Kong Family estate and took Pei You'an with him to seize the leaderless Wang Family holdings.
• Pei You'an warned Ye Li that Xiao Yueyi's superior Heavenly Law and Yin-Yang Sect connections made her a serious threat, and Ye Li asked whether she could summon many helpers.

Ye Li dismissed Pei You'an's concerns about Xiao Yueyi having powerful backing and urged her to prepare for Yin-Yang Dao Seizure. Outside Lu Hai Changling, Xiao Yueyi began recruiting former lovers to help her seize an opportunity, securing promises from Wei Changge and Zhou Shen.

• Pei You'an warned Ye Li that Xiao Yueyi could summon powerful lovers and might be acting with the Yin-Yang Sect's approval.
• Ye Li assured Pei You'an that Xiao Yueyi had no hidden backing and told her to prepare for Yin-Yang Dao Seizure.
• Xiao Yueyi used a Communication Jade Talisman to tell Wei Changge she was in trouble, and he promised to come help her claim the opportunity.
• Xiao Yueyi told Zhou Shen that an extraordinary opportunity was too dangerous for her to pursue alone, and he insisted on helping her.

Xiao Yueyi recruited three Heaven-Grasping Realm cultivators to pursue the opportunities of the Myriad Worlds Sea, hoping to gain a chance to glimpse the Great Dao. Meanwhile, Ye Li and Pei You'an approached the Changling Wang Family, where Ye Li made clear he intended to wipe out its members; his arrival began with a brutal display in the main hall.

• Xiao Yueyi offered Fellow Daoist Pei a share of the Myriad Worlds Sea’s opportunities and information about [Yin-Yang Dao Seizure], and he agreed to join her.
• Xiao Yueyi planned to support Fairy Qingchen in the Saintess selection and hoped to present her with an unclaimed Minor World.
• Pei You'an asked Ye Li how he would take over the Wang Family, and Ye Li said he would kill them all because they were rotten to the core.
• Duan Hong stayed at the Wang Family estate after learning its Old Ancestor had likely died, hoping to benefit from the family’s wealth.
• A dark figure crashed through the Wang Family main hall’s wall and burst into blood before Ye Li calmly entered through the hole.

Ye Li stormed into the Wang Family Ancestral Residence and slaughtered the family members who had exploited and killed cultivators. He confronted Duan Hong, who begged for mercy, while Pei You'an revealed that Duan Hong's son had cheated her out of three thousand Ancient Coins.

• Ye Li entered the Wang Family hall and declared that anyone uninvolved in the family's crimes could leave.
• Ye Li killed a Wang Family elder with a Golden Thunderbolt and began slaughtering the gathered family members.
• Ye Li killed the half-step Heaven-Grasping Realm grand elder after he rejected Ye Li's demand for fair pay and regular days off for the family's non-family cultivators.
• Duan Hong knelt and denied involvement, but Ye Li questioned him about investigating Ye Li.
• Pei You'an arrived, reported that the people who fled had been dealt with, and refused to help Duan Hong because his son had cheated her out of three thousand Ancient Coins.

After killing City Lord Gaoyang, Ye Li learned the Yin-Yang Dao Seizure would begin in four days and deduced that Xiao Yueyi would try to seize the Myriad Worlds Sea within two days. He sent Pei You'an to watch the sea while he stayed behind to loot the Wang Family.

• Duan Hong tried to flee, but Ye Li killed him and destroyed his body and soul.
• Ye Li burned away the evidence in the hall, and Pei You'an said the Yin-Yang Dao Seizure would begin in four days.
• Ye Li checked his Malice Points, which had risen toward seventy billion after the Kong and Wang Family killings.
• Ye Li reasoned that Xiao Yueyi would need to seize the Myriad Worlds Sea within two days before returning to the Yin-Yang Sect.
• Ye Li told Pei You'an to guard the Myriad Worlds Sea while he looted the Wang Family's fortune.

Lu Yun cared for her ailing mother and kept quiet about the deaths of the Kong and Wang Family Old Ancestors, fearing the news was not yet settled. When the Wang Family Old Ancestor appeared at their home, he revealed he had come on his master's orders to deliver the Black Tortoise Blood-Melting Pellet, then transformed into the young man Lu Yun recognized as Big Brother.

• Lu Yun fed her mother medicinal soup and said she was saving up to buy a Black Tortoise Blood-Melting Pellet from Master Gu.
• Lu Yun's Mother praised the Wang Family for sparing them, while Lu Yun concealed news of the Wang and Kong Family Old Ancestors' deaths.
• A terrified crowd's commotion drew Lu Yun outside, where she saw the Wang Family Old Ancestor hovering over the city.
• The Wang Family Old Ancestor descended and presented Lu Yun with a Black Tortoise Blood-Melting Pellet on his master's orders.
• The Wang Family Old Ancestor transformed into a purple-robed young man, and Lu Yun recognized him as Big Brother.

Ye Li delivered medicine and protection to Lu Yun and her mother, then returned to the Wang Family treasury and considered how to use his enormous reserve of malice points. He chose to strengthen Indestructible Golden Soul rather than raise his cultivation realm, beginning the upgrade as the chapter ended.

• Ye Li gave Lu Yun the medicine and told her to seek help at the Kong Family's former estate if she encountered trouble.
• Lu Yun's Mother understood her daughter's feelings for Ye Li but thought his interest in them was unlikely.
• Ye Li surveyed the Wang Family treasury and reflected on the family's wealth and the factions that had accepted its gifts.
• Ye Li checked his panel and found that he had accumulated 410 billion malice points.
• Ye Li decided to save his points for future threats instead of advancing his cultivation realm.
• Ye Li began spending malice points to enhance Indestructible Golden Soul toward level nine.

Ye Li advanced his Indestructible Golden Soul to LV9 and unlocked a new Divine Ability trait whose activation required him to provoke and escape beings two major realms stronger. Meanwhile, Pei You'an worried about the coming confrontation with Xiao Yueyi until four Heaven-Grasping experts arrived together, leaving her fearing the worst.

• Ye Li spent hundreds of billions of malice points and upgraded his Indestructible Golden Soul to LV9.
• Ye Li discovered that activating his new Divine Ability trait required him to confront stronger opponents, provoke their killing intent, and escape unharmed.
• Pei You'an considered the loyalty of the families’ cultivators and worried about facing Xiao Yueyi, a Heaven Seizing Mystic Master from the Yin-Yang Sect.
• Kong Zhiqiu rushed to warn Pei You'an that something was happening in the sky.
• Pei You'an saw four Heaven-Grasping experts descend, and Xiao Yueyi asked whether Ye Li was home.

Xiao Yueyi and three other great cultivators confronted Pei You'an and the Kong Family's people, discovered Ye Li was absent, and sensed spatial fluctuations beneath the dark waters. Xiao Yueyi attacked with her Yin-Yang Bliss Scripture, leaving the others vulnerable as Pei You'an fought to resist its influence.

• Pei You'an tried to convince Xiao Yueyi that Ye Li was nearby, but Zhou Shen used his Mind-Illuminating Nature-Seeing Art to detect her wavering spirit and conclude Ye Li was absent.
• Zhou Shen sensed spatial fluctuations beneath the dark waters, and Xiao Yueyi realized they had found what she was seeking.
• Xiao Yueyi declared that none of the people on the treasure ships could live and unleashed the pressure of her Heaven-Grasping Realm.
• Kong Zhiqiu pleaded for the Kong Family, but Xiao Yueyi accused her of switching sides and claimed she was acting out of loyalty to the late Kong Old Ancestor.
• Xiao Yueyi's Yin-Yang Bliss Scripture clouded the cultivators' minds, while Pei You'an wounded herself and circulated her laws to resist its influence.

Ye Li arrived and used his strength from [Golden Soul Revival] to overpower Xiao Yueyi’s allies. He separated Wei Changge and Liu Shanshui from the battlefield, leaving Xiao Yueyi alone to face him.

• Wei Changge charged at Ye Li, who struck him and sent him flying more than ten thousand li away.
• Ye Li defeated Zhou Shen with a second punch, smashing him into the Myriad Worlds Sea.
• Xiao Yueyi ordered Liu Shanshui and Wei Changge to attack Ye Li together.
• Ye Li summoned the souls of the Kong and Wang Families’ Old Ancestors and sent them to fight Wei Changge and Liu Shanshui.
• Ye Li approached Xiao Yueyi and told her that they were alone again.