Recaps

Ye Li was formally installed as the Supreme Clarity Palace’s twentieth Palace Heir, while Chen Yuan secretly planned to lure him near the Yin-Yang Sect and expose him to Wuguang True Cultivator. The Supreme Clarity Palace Master forced Chen Yuan to reveal his scheme before the assembled crowd, then praised him with a chilling smile.

• Ye Li declared himself the Supreme Clarity Palace’s new Palace Heir, and the gathered elders, disciples, and faction representatives bowed to welcome him.
• Chen Yuan remained standing until the Supreme Clarity Palace Master’s True Cultivators fixed their attention on him, then bowed and claimed he had no objection.
• Lu Wan and Chen Yuan represented the younger disciples in congratulating Ye Li during the investiture ceremony.
• Chen Yuan invited Ye Li to join an Alliance Association purge mission, intending to leak his whereabouts to Wuguang True Cultivator near the Yin-Yang Sect.
• The Supreme Clarity Palace Master confronted Chen Yuan, who involuntarily confessed his plot aloud to the entire square.
• The Supreme Clarity Palace Master’s expression softened into a chilling smile as she told Chen Yuan, “You did very well.”

The Supreme Clarity Palace Master exposed Chen Yuan’s plan to help the Yin-Yang Sect kill Ye Li and prepared to execute him. Ye Li instead offered Chen Yuan a chance to win the Palace Heir position and his life by lasting three breaths against him, then revealed overwhelming power as their fight began.

• The Supreme Clarity Palace Master revealed Chen Yuan’s treachery, and Chen Yuan defended his actions by claiming the palace had wronged him.
• The Supreme Clarity Palace Master moved to kill Chen Yuan, but Ye Li intervened and argued that executing him would damage the palace’s reputation.
• Ye Li challenged Chen Yuan to fight, and Chen Yuan agreed, boasting of his ninth-level Heaven-Grasping Realm cultivation and perfected second-rank heavenly law.
• Ye Li set the terms: if Chen Yuan lasted three breaths, he would receive both the Palace Heir position and his life.
• Ye Li unleashed immense immortal essence, astonishing Chen Yuan and prompting the Supreme Clarity Palace Master to approve the contest.

Ye Li fought Chen Yuan after wagering the Palace Heir position on defeating him within three breaths. Ye Li overwhelmed Chen Yuan before the first breath ended, and the Palace Master declared the outcome decided.

• Ye Li accepted Chen Yuan's challenge and wagered the Palace Heir position on defeating him within three breaths.
• Chen Yuan activated [Severing the Mortal World] and layered defensive magic and protective powers around himself.
• Ye Li used Jade Clarity Qi to pin Chen Yuan's scattered form in place, then shattered his defenses with a single punch.
• Ye Li's crimson-gold flames burned away Chen Yuan's body and engulfed his escaping divine soul.
• The Supreme Clarity Palace Master declared the outcome decided.

Ye Li defeated Chen Yuan in a single punch, and Chen Yuan begged the Supreme Clarity Palace Master for mercy while Elder Yu tried to distance himself from the plot. Just as the Palace Master ordered Elder Yu to await an investigation, Ye Li accused him of lying about his loyalty.

• Ye Li's single punch defeated Chen Yuan, stunning the Supreme Clarity Palace disciples and earning their approval of him as Palace Heir.
• Chen Yuan begged the Supreme Clarity Palace Master to spare him and offered to surrender his resources, cripple his cultivation, and leave the palace.
• Elder Yu appeared, condemned Chen Yuan's actions, and admitted he had told Chen Yuan the Palace Heir position might return to him if Ye Li died, while denying he had intended murder.
• Elder Yu offered to relinquish authority and enter seclusion, and the Supreme Clarity Palace Master ordered him to await an investigation.
• Ye Li interrupted the Palace Master and twice called Elder Yu a liar, challenging his claim that he had devoted himself to Mountain Gate.

At his investiture ceremony, Ye Li exposed Elder Yu’s lies and accused him of plotting against him with Chen Yuan and serving another sect. When Elder Yu refused the Supreme Clarity Palace Master’s offer to test him with the Heart-Questioning Law Seal and revealed his Path Opening cultivation, Ye Li prepared to confront him himself.

• Ye Li accused Elder Yu of planning to use Chen Yuan and the Yin-Yang Sect to kill him and restore Chen Yuan as Palace Heir.
• Ye Li’s truth-detecting ability exposed Elder Yu’s denials and revealed that Elder Yu had once cultivated in another sect.
• The Supreme Clarity Palace Master offered to test Elder Yu with the Heart-Questioning Law Seal, but Elder Yu refused.
• Qingyuan True Cultivator and the Supreme Clarity Palace Master sealed the surrounding space as Elder Yu erupted with his Path Opening aura.
• Ye Li declined Qingyuan True Cultivator’s offer to capture Elder Yu and threatened to tear out his divine soul to uncover the truth.

Ye Li chose to fight Elder Yu himself, a Path Opening Realm traitor, while the Supreme Clarity Palace watched. After vanishing from Elder Yu’s senses and striking him from above, Ye Li withstood a lightning barrage with Jade Clarity Qi, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Ye Li unleashed his power and declared his intent to personally fight Elder Yu, while Qingyuan True Cultivator assured the Supreme Clarity Palace Master that Ye Li knew what he was doing.
• Elder Yu summoned a storm of lightning with the Supreme Clarity Mystical Dao, Heaven and Earth Thunder Technique, but Ye Li vanished using Supreme Clarity Qi.
• Elder Yu spread lightning across the square, but Ye Li appeared above him and kicked him into the shattered platform.
• Elder Yu found Ye Li’s aura again and engulfed him in lightning, but Ye Li protected himself with Jade Clarity Qi, which shook but did not collapse.

Ye Li overwhelmed Yu Liang in close combat and exposed him as a Divine Dragon Mountain agent hidden within the Supreme Clarity Palace. After Yu Liang tried to surrender and reveal other agents, Ye Li killed him and extracted his divine soul, declaring the traitor executed.

• Elder Yu's Thunderbolt Fist failed to stop Ye Li, who repeatedly struck him before he could cast Dao arts.
• Yu Liang revealed his Dragon Transformation Body, exposing his connection to Divine Dragon Mountain.
• Ye Li activated Golden Soul Revival and fought Yu Liang through a prolonged exchange, healing his injuries and growing stronger.
• Yu Liang attempted to retreat and surrender, but Ye Li punched through his body and left him gravely wounded.
• Yu Liang offered to confess that Divine Dragon Mountain had other agents in the Supreme Clarity Palace, but Ye Li burned him to death, pulled out his divine soul, and announced his execution.

At his investiture ceremony, Ye Li killed Yu Liang, exposing him as a Divine Dragon Mountain sleeper agent, and then executed Chen Yuan for conspiring against a fellow disciple. The Supreme Clarity Palace Master confirmed Ye Li as the Twentieth-Generation Palace Heir and closed the ceremony.

• Ye Li crushed Yu Liang’s Divine Soul after Yu Liang revealed his Path Opening Realm strength, and the disciples celebrated the spy’s death.
• The Supreme Clarity Palace Master praised Ye Li’s victory, while Lu Wan returned his robe and Cui Wanting realized she had chosen to follow the new Palace Heir.
• The Supreme Clarity Palace Master questioned Chen Yuan about his past services, rejected his offer to investigate the Golden Virtue Institute, and handed his Divine Soul to Ye Li.
• Ye Li shattered Chen Yuan’s Divine Soul, and the Supreme Clarity Palace Master declared both men’s deaths justified before formally ending the investiture ceremony.

Lu Wan moved to the Palace Heir's residence to serve Ye Li and firmly rejected Cui Wanting, who reacted with fury and turned his attention toward the Forbidden Grounds. Meanwhile, Ye Li reviewed the malice points he had gained and decided he needed more high-value targets and cultivation resources.

• Lu Wan packed her belongings and left for Ye Li's residence, accepting her new role as his personal assistant.
• Cui Wanting stopped Lu Wan, and she told him she would serve Ye Li and wanted him to stop pursuing her.
• After Lu Wan left, Cui Wanting cursed her, dismissed his attendants, and looked toward the Forbidden Grounds.
• Ye Li reviewed his abundant malice points and judged them insufficient for a major increase in strength.
• Ye Li closed the System Panel and planned to ask Qingyuan True Cultivator for more cultivation resources.

Ye Li rejected Lu Wan’s offer to discuss the Great Dao and instead sent her to retrieve confidential files on the Golden Virtue Institute. After learning the investigation required a Path Opening Realm leader, he considered whether his record of killing one would qualify him to take the mission.

• Lu Wan arrived at Ye Li’s residence as his new maid and gave him cultivation resources from Qingyuan True Cultivator.
• Ye Li told Lu Wan to retrieve the Golden Virtue Institute files, prioritizing his preparations and plans to gain malice points over the Supreme Clarity Immortal Pool or her invitation.
• Using his Palace Heir’s Token, Lu Wan obtained the confidential files and returned with several Jade Slips.
• Ye Li learned the Golden Virtue Institute was suspected of luring young cultivators and that investigators sent there had disappeared.
• Ye Li asked whether someone below the Path Opening Realm who had killed a Path Opening Realm cultivator could lead the investigation.

Ye Li accepted the mission to investigate the Golden Virtue Institute and traveled toward Southern Long Marsh with Lu Wan and Supreme Clarity Palace disciples. As Lu Wan briefed him on the Institute’s crimes, she revealed that Ye Li could destroy it outright even if the investigation found no evidence.

• Ye Li ordered Lu Wan to accept the Golden Virtue Institute mission in his name and bring along Palace disciples, while rejecting the idea of inviting a Path Opening Realm elder.
• Lu Wan prepared a fair selection of disciples, and a dozen or so hours later she and Ye Li traveled by treasure ship toward Southern Long Marsh.
• Lu Wan gave Ye Li the Alliance Association’s case files and explained that the Golden Virtue Institute targeted gifted youths from wealthy families before recruiting them.
• Lu Wan explained that the Institute slaughtered those youths’ families, took their wealth, and then recruited the survivors while claiming to offer protection and a chance for revenge.
• Lu Wan told Ye Li that the Institute also exploited Alliance Association subsidies by presenting its recruits as poor orphans.
• Lu Wan said the disappearance of investigators had changed the case and revealed that Ye Li could wipe out the Golden Virtue Institute even if the investigation found no evidence.

Ye Li assigned the local faction to surround the Golden Virtue Institute and questioned Cui Wanting, a Supreme Clarity Palace disciple Lu Wan suspected might pose a threat. Cui Wanting denied any connection to Southern Long Marsh and began explaining the Yin-Yang Sect’s hostility when Ye Li asked whether he was colluding with it.

• Ye Li ordered the local faction to prevent anyone from leaving the Golden Virtue Institute during the investigation.
• Lu Wan warned Ye Li that Cui Wanting had once pursued her and might have ulterior motives for joining the mission.
• Ye Li asked Lu Wan to summon Cui Wanting instead of sending him off the Treasure Ship.
• Cui Wanting told Ye Li he had volunteered to help investigate the Golden Virtue Institute and assist the missing Alliance Association cultivators.
• Ye Li asked whether Cui Wanting was colluding with local factions or the Yin-Yang Sect, and Cui Wanting replied that the Yin-Yang Sect was a faction the palace should guard against.

Ye Li questioned Cui Wanting about his motives for joining the Treasure Ship voyage, then attacked him and declared him guilty of plotting to murder a fellow disciple. As the ship was sealed, Cui Wanting realized Ye Li intended to execute him despite his plan against Ye Li never having been put into action.

• Cui Wanting dodged Ye Li's questions with truthful but irrelevant answers, while Lu Wan challenged him and Ye Li told her to let him continue.
• Ye Li asked whether Cui Wanting had joined the voyage to harm him, then confronted him for assuming evasive answers would keep him safe.
• Ye Li struck Cui Wanting with Golden Thunderbolt, sending him through the hall doors and onto the Treasure Ship's deck.
• Ye Li accused Cui Wanting of intending to murder a fellow disciple and sentenced him to death, stunning the surrounding disciples and Lu Wan.
• Ye Li ordered the disciples to seal the Treasure Ship, and Cui Wanting panicked because he had not yet acted on his plan to contact the Yin-Yang Sect and Wuguang True Cultivator.

Ye Li sealed the Treasure Ship and attacked Cui Wanting, who had threatened him and denied wrongdoing. After Cui Wanting begged for mercy, Ye Li burned him to death, leaving the other disciples to witness the killing.

• Cui Wanting threatened Ye Li with punishment from the Palace Master, the Supreme Clarity Palace, and the Cui Family, while the surrounding disciples stayed silent.
• Ye Li activated the Treasure Ship's array formation and seized Cui Wanting as he tried to escape.
• Ye Li repeatedly smashed Cui Wanting into the deck, using Three Clarity Qi to suppress his immortal essence and heavenly law.
• Cui Wanting broke down and begged Ye Li to spare him, admitting his resentment and his thoughts about Lu Wan.
• Ye Li refused to spare Cui Wanting and burned him to nothing with crimson-gold divine fire.

Ye Li killed Cui Wanting after foiling his plot, then ordered the Cui Family Head to come explain himself within three days. He arrived in Southern Long Marsh to investigate the Golden Virtue Institute and immediately set out for it despite Zhou Yan offering accommodations and information.

• Ye Li caught Cui Wanting’s divine soul and crushed it, while Lu Wan and the Treasure Ship’s disciples watched in shock.
• Lu Wan warned Ye Li that the Cui Family belonged to the Three Continents Alliance and had a path opening realm cultivator overseeing it.
• Ye Li told Lu Wan to demand that the Cui Family Head come in person within three days to explain himself, then ordered the Treasure Ship to hurry to Southern Long Marsh.
• The Supreme Clarity Palace Treasure Ship arrived above Southern Long Marsh, drawing attention from the nearby city and its cultivators.
• Zhou Yan of the Tide Life Gate welcomed Ye Li and offered accommodations and information about the Golden Virtue Institute.
• Ye Li declined to rest and told Zhou Yan to take them directly to the Golden Virtue Institute.

Ye Li ordered Zhou Yan to have the Tide Life Gate surround the Golden Virtue Institute before investigating the accusations against it. The Tide Life Gate’s Hall Master overcame the elders’ reluctance, mobilized the sect, and sent word that they would cooperate.

• Ye Li told Zhou Yan to summon the Tide Life Gate and seal every entrance and exit of the Golden Virtue Institute.
• The Tide Life Gate’s Hall Master told the elders that Ye Li had ordered them to mobilize their strongest fighters and prevent anyone from leaving the institute.
• Elder Ku and another elder objected that the Golden Virtue Institute’s powerful cultivators could endanger their people.
• The Hall Master warned the elders that defying the Supreme Clarity Palace could bring ruin upon the Tide Life Gate and that the Alliance Association was watching the Golden Virtue Institute.
• The Hall Master ordered two elders to guard the Tide Life Gate while the rest accompanied him to the institute, then informed Zhou Yan that they would cooperate fully.

Ye Li and his companions entered the Golden Virtue Institute to confront its head over the missing Alliance Association cultivators. After a student accidentally revealed the Institute’s connection to the disappearances, Ye Li ordered Lu Wan to ensure no one escaped, and they waited for the head to arrive.

• Zhou Yan warned Ye Li that the Golden Virtue Institute’s master had reached the Path Opening Realm and might have hidden resources.
• At the Mountain Gate, a student blurted out that the Institute had nothing to do with the missing Alliance Association cultivators, and another student slapped him for saying it.
• Ye Li’s group entered the Institute and saw students attending lessons and practicing as usual.
• Ye Li told Lu Wan not to let anyone leave the Institute, and she used her divine consciousness to mark its exits.
• The group waited in a guest residence, and footsteps soon sounded outside as the Institute head approached.

Ye Li confronted Chen Shouyi about the missing Alliance Association cultivators, and Chen Shouyi admitted he had killed them before Ye Li exposed the confession as a lie. Chen Shouyi explained how he had tried to restore the Golden Virtue Institute’s former reputation by raising Chen Yaoguang, leaving the real killer’s identity unresolved.

• Chen Shouyi arrived to meet Ye Li and dismissed his students so they could speak privately.
• Ye Li questioned Chen Shouyi about the missing Alliance Association cultivators and the Golden Virtue Institute’s actions in Southern Long Marsh.
• Chen Shouyi falsely claimed he had killed the cultivators, but Ye Li recognized the lie and Lu Wan warned him against lying again.
• Chen Shouyi knelt and described the Golden Virtue Institute’s decline and the rumors that had weakened its students’ resolve.
• Chen Shouyi said he had found and adopted a gifted boy named Chen Yaoguang, who later reached the Heaven Seizing realm and won a major Dao debate for the institute.

Ye Li confronted Chen Shouyi over Chen Yaoguang’s killing of Alliance Association cultivators and rejected the institute head’s offers to save him. Chen Yaoguang then arrived and accused the Supreme Clarity Palace of manufacturing the crisis to force him to join.

• Chen Shouyi admitted that Chen Yaoguang had killed the Alliance Association cultivators, then pleaded that he had acted to protect the Golden Virtue Institute.
• Ye Li accused Chen Shouyi of knowingly benefiting from elders who used sinister arts and rejected his offer to sacrifice himself and submit the institute.
• Chen Yaoguang forced his way into the residence after leaving the Merit Forest, despite Chen Shouyi’s order that he stay hidden.
• Chen Yaoguang accused Ye Li and the Supreme Clarity Palace of pressuring the institute so they could make him join, and called their conduct sanctimonious hypocrisy.

Ye Li met with Chen Yaoguang, who had murdered Three Continents Alliance cultivators and accused the Supreme Clarity Palace of coveting his talent. Chen Yaoguang challenged Ye Li to a wager duel, and Ye Li struck him through the chest, sending him crashing through the residence wall.

• Chen Shouyi slammed Chen Yaoguang into the ground after he accused the Supreme Clarity Palace of wanting his talent.
• Lu Wan declared that Chen Yaoguang would answer for murdering Alliance cultivators and slandering the Palace, then left to guard the institute at Ye Li's command.
• Chen Yaoguang challenged Ye Li to a body-only wager duel, offering his life if he lost and asking for clemency for himself and the Golden Virtue Institute if he won.
• Ye Li accepted Chen Yaoguang's terms, and Chen Yaoguang began gathering his blood vitality for a single decisive strike.
• Ye Li hit Chen Yaoguang in the chest, shattered his protective blood vitality, and blasted him through the residence's outer wall.

Ye Li defeated Chen Yaoguang, destroyed his body, and crushed his Divine Soul after Chen Yaoguang offered to confess and reveal the Golden Virtue Institute’s secrets. The institute’s disciples and Chen Shouyi watched in horror as the Golden Virtue Institute’s fate appeared sealed.

• Ye Li stomped Chen Yaoguang into the Training Ground and shattered his arm after declaring that he had lost.
• Chen Yaoguang tried to dispute the wager and activate his Heavenly Law, but Ye Li crushed his head and seized his Divine Soul.
• Lu Wan and the Supreme Clarity Palace disciples restrained the Golden Virtue Institute’s instructors and stewards while Chen Shouyi rushed to plead for Chen Yaoguang.
• Ye Li blasted Chen Shouyi away, and Chen Yaoguang offered to confess to murder and reveal the institute’s evil recruitment practices, hidden evidence, and Merit Forest treasures.
• Ye Li crushed Chen Yaoguang’s Divine Soul, and Chen Shouyi concluded that the Golden Virtue Institute was finished.

Ye Li confronted Chen Shouyi over the Golden Virtue Institute’s crimes and rejected his offer to surrender, then overwhelmed him in battle. As the Institute’s elders tried to escape, Chen Shouyi spotted a possible opening amid the fighting.

• Chen Shouyi tried to negotiate with Ye Li by offering the Golden Virtue Institute’s inheritances and warning that its former students would become enemies if the academy were destroyed.
• Ye Li dismissed Chen Shouyi’s excuses and attacked, forcing Chen Shouyi to activate the Golden Body Technique.
• Ye Li’s blows drove Chen Shouyi back and steadily shattered his golden body, leaving him unable to counterattack.
• The Golden Virtue Institute’s elders failed to break through Lu Wan and the Supreme Clarity Palace disciples’ blockade, then tried to escape through the sky.
• Chen Shouyi saw the elders rise into the sky in reasonably good condition, and a sharp gleam appeared in his eyes.

Ye Li defeated Chen Shouyi and the Golden Virtue Institute elders with a single devastating sword strike. The Tide Life Gate’s experts realized the battle at the summit was already over, with all twelve opponents dead.

• Chen Shouyi urged the Golden Virtue Institute elders to capture Ye Li, and they flew toward him together.
• Ye Li told Lu Wan and the Supreme Clarity Palace disciples to fall back, then gathered platinum sword qi into his longsword.
• Chen Shouyi ordered a retreat, but Ye Li slashed through the air and engulfed all twelve Golden Bodies in a sword qi storm.
• Ye Li’s strike killed Chen Shouyi and the eleven elders, leaving no one else alive in the sky.
• The Tide Life Gate experts witnessed the platinum sword qi and learned that all twelve Golden Virtue Institute auras had vanished.
• The Tide Life Gate Master declared that the battle had already ended.

After Ye killed the Golden Virtue Institute’s leaders with one sword strike, the Tide Life Gate’s Hall Master celebrated the sect’s new standing and promised Zhou Yan that his sister would be released. Zhou Yan learned that Zhou Ling had discovered a dangerous secret within the Tide Life Gate and resolved to take her away once she returned, before finding himself face-to-face with someone whose pitch-black eyes left his next move uncertain.

• The Tide Life Gate elders discussed Ye’s devastating sword strike, and the Hall Master said their quick surrender had spared them and secured influence in Southern Long Marsh.
• Zhou Yan reported that the purge was complete and confirmed that Ye had killed all twelve leaders of the Golden Virtue Institute with one strike.
• The Hall Master promised to release Zhou Yan’s sister, Zhou Ling, without further deliberation in return for Zhou Yan’s service.
• Zhou Yan recalled that Zhou Ling had warned him she had learned a dangerous secret before the Hall Master took her away, and he had accepted the task of receiving visitors from the Supreme Clarity Palace to secure her pardon.
• After deciding to take Zhou Ling away once she returned, Zhou Yan looked up and found himself staring into a pair of pitch-black eyes.

The Hall Master of the Tide Life Gate and the grand elder discussed how they had concealed the sect’s exploitation of its disciples’ spiritual foundations from Ye Li. The Hall Master sent Zhou Ling to deliver a magically sealed letter to Zhou Yan, intending to use it to control what the siblings revealed.

• The Hall Master of the Tide Life Gate and the grand elder agreed that Zhou Yan had been a safe choice to receive Ye Li because he knew nothing of the sect’s secrets.
• The grand elder explained that Zhou Ling had witnessed the elders extracting disciples’ spiritual foundations through [Tide Life Breath].
• The Hall Master said he would release Zhou Ling as promised, but assured the grand elder he had a way to prevent her from causing trouble.
• The Hall Master wrote Zhou Yan a letter containing a concealed Heavenly Law designed to strike his Spiritual Platform and let [Tide Life Breath] influence his mind when the seal was opened.
• The Hall Master summoned Zhou Ling, told her she was free to go, and asked her to deliver the letter to Zhou Yan.