Recaps

Ye Li confronted the Tide Life Gate Master after discovering the letter intended for Zhou Yan and revealed that he had already detained the elders who could activate the sect’s protection array. He identified himself as the Supreme Clarity Palace Heir and demanded that Zhou Ling tell him everything she knew.

• The Tide Life Gate Master gave Zhou Ling a sealed letter for Zhou Yan and discussed beginning [Tide Life Breath] once the letter was opened.
• The Tide Life Gate Master sensed that the letter’s Law Seal had vanished and went into the courtyard with the Grand Elder.
• They found Ye Li reading the opened letter beside Zhou Ling, and Ye Li confirmed that he had sensed the seal’s disappearance.
• Ye Li told the Tide Life Gate Master that the elders outside the Golden Virtue Institute had been detained and could not activate the sect’s protection array.
• The Tide Life Gate Master tried to explain away the letter, but Ye Li said he would not escape and placed his Palace Heir’s seal on the table.
• Zhou Ling recognized Ye Li as the Supreme Clarity Palace Heir, and he asked her to tell him everything she knew in exchange for her life.

Zhou Ling exposed the Tide Life Gate’s practice of draining disciples’ Spiritual Foundations and killing them, prompting the Gate Master and Grand Elder to flee after Ye Li stopped the Gate Master from silencing her. Ye Li summoned Chen Shouyi and the Golden Virtue Institute’s eleven elders to seal the sect, then caught and gravely injured the Gate Master.

• Zhou Ling told Ye Li that the Tide Life Gate had altered the Tide Life Breath manual to drain disciples and had secretly extracted a senior brother’s Spiritual Foundation and cultivation.
• The Tide Life Gate Master attacked Zhou Ling, but Ye Li kicked him through the courtyard gate and Zhou Yan rushed in to help his sister.
• The Grand Elder and Tide Life Gate Master fled in different directions as Zhou Ling watched in alarm.
• Ye Li summoned Chen Shouyi and the Golden Virtue Institute’s eleven elders, who surrounded and sealed the Tide Life Gate.
• Chen Shouyi caught the fleeing Gate Master, and Ye Li struck him down, leaving him severely injured.

Ye Li killed the Tide Life Gate Hall Master, then used the memories he seized to hunt down the cultivators involved in harming their fellow disciples. The purge ended with the uninvolved disciples spared and the Tide Life Gate’s implicated members dead.

• The Hall Master offered to submit, but Ye Li attacked and destroyed his body with a punch.
• Chen Shouyi intercepted the Hall Master’s fleeing divine soul, and Ye Li burned it away with Crimson-Gold Divine Fire.
• Zhou Ling asked Zhou Yan whether Ye Li was truly the Supreme Clarity Palace Heir, and Zhou Yan told her to stay out of danger.
• Ye Li joined the Golden Virtue Institute elders in stopping the Tide Life Gate cultivators from escaping, while Lu Wan and the Supreme Clarity Palace disciples sealed the exits.
• Using memories taken from the Hall Master, Ye Li tracked down and killed those involved in extracting or devouring disciples’ cultivation, while sparing those confirmed uninvolved.
• After nearly an hour, the purge ended and the uninvolved Tide Life Gate disciples were told to stay out of the way.

Ye Li dealt with the leadership of the Golden Virtue Institute and the Tide Life Gate, while the Cold Purity Palace prepared to apologize to him for its earlier treatment of him. Meng Lian stayed behind to keep her arrangement with An Ziqing as the delegation departed for the Supreme Clarity Palace.

• Ye Li ordered Lu Wan to find suitable cultivators to oversee the Golden Virtue Institute and Tide Life Gate, preserve both institutions, and replace their problematic teachings.
• The Glass True Cultivator reprimanded Shuanghua and Elder Cold Moon for failing to recruit Ye Li and nearly making him an enemy, then prepared to travel to the Supreme Clarity Palace to apologize.
• The Glass True Cultivator warned Shuanghua that Ye Li's response to their apology could determine whether she lived.
• Meng Lian told the Hidden Edge True Cultivator she had promised to meet An Ziqing, and he allowed her to stay behind.
• Meng Lian left the Glazed Hall and hurried toward An Ziqing's residence.

An Ziqing’s [Snow Without Blame] backlashed as he compared himself with Ye Li and could no longer find an advantage he genuinely believed in. After recovering enough to leave the Cold Pool, An Ziqing decided to visit the Supreme Clarity Palace alone and challenge Ye Li to settle his Dao-heart crisis.

• An Ziqing’s doubts about Ye Li’s strength, talent, heavenly law, and standing triggered a violent backlash that injured him.
• An Ziqing recovered from the Cold Pool and told Meng Lian he was going to the Supreme Clarity Palace to discuss the Dao with Ye Li.
• Meng Lian warned An Ziqing that Ye Li had killed a Path Opening Realm elder and offered to accompany him with two True Cultivators.
• An Ziqing refused Meng Lian’s offer and said he would go alone, bear the consequences himself, and avoid bringing trouble to the Cold Purity Palace.

After returning to Supreme Clarity Palace, Ye Li reported his discoveries and met with Glass True Cultivator, who apologized for Shuanghua’s actions and let him decide her fate. Ye Li spared Shuanghua but refused to take her as a servant, and the chapter ended with An Ziqing arriving to request an audience.

• Ye Li returned to Supreme Clarity Palace and submitted evidence about the Golden Virtue Institute, the missing cultivators, and the Tide Life Gate.
• Qingyuan True Cultivator introduced Glass True Cultivator, who brought Shuanghua to apologize for concealing the truth and nearly causing Ye Li to be punished.
• Glass True Cultivator explained that Shuanghua and her master, Cold Moon, had been punished, and promised the Cold Purity Palace would not retaliate if Ye Li chose to kill Shuanghua.
• Ye Li learned that Shuanghua no longer wanted revenge and spared her, allowing Glass True Cultivator to take her away.
• Glass True Cultivator offered Shuanghua as Ye Li’s servant, but Ye Li refused, easing Lu Wan’s anxiety.
• A Manager announced that An Ziqing of the Cold Purity Palace had arrived with an important matter, and Glass True Cultivator’s expression changed.

An Ziqing arrived at the Supreme Clarity Palace with Meng Lian and explained that he had come without informing the Cold Purity Palace so his actions would not implicate either sect. He faced Ye Li and appealed to his ability to discern whether his intentions were sincere.

• Glass True Cultivator learned that An Ziqing had arrived at the Supreme Clarity Palace and worried that his [Snow Without Blame] Law Seal might provoke a confrontation with Ye Li.
• The Manager reported that Meng Lian of Sword Song Valley had accompanied An Ziqing, and Ye Li ordered the pair admitted.
• An Ziqing and Meng Lian entered the hall and greeted the True Cultivators.
• Glass True Cultivator demanded to know why An Ziqing had come without telling her, and he replied that doing so kept his personal actions from involving either Mountain Gate.
• An Ziqing addressed Ye Li and said Ye Li could judge whether his words were sincere.

An Ziqing openly challenged Ye Li at the Supreme Clarity Palace, driven by Snow Without Blame and eager to experience defeat. Ye Li agreed to fight him at the largest Training Ground after giving him an hour to prepare.

• Meng Lian watched Ye Li and Lu Wan, noting Lu Wan's wariness toward the visitors and imagining Shen Zhaozhao's reaction.
• Ye Li asked An Ziqing whether he had come to ruin the occasion, and An Ziqing admitted that he had.
• Ye Li accepted the challenge, while Glass True Cultivator warned him not to hold back and make An Ziqing understand the gap between them.
• An Ziqing recounted his victories and demanded that Ye Li fight with all his strength so he could learn what defeat felt like.
• Ye Li gave An Ziqing an hour to reach peak condition and told him to meet at the Supreme Clarity Palace's largest Training Ground.

An Ziqing arrived at the Supreme Clarity Palace to challenge Ye Li, drawing a crowd of disciples and elders. As Ye Li prepared to accept the duel, Glass True Cultivator questioned whether An Ziqing could truly defeat him.

• News of An Ziqing's challenge spread throughout the Supreme Clarity Palace, and disciples and elders gathered at the Training Ground to watch.
• Ye Li prepared for the duel in his Palace Heir Robe while Qingyuan True Cultivator explained that refusing a visiting prodigy's challenge could harm a Palace Heir's reputation.
• Qingyuan True Cultivator joined Hidden Edge True Cultivator and Elder Cold Moon at the spectator platform, where they learned Glass True Cultivator had gone to speak with An Ziqing.
• Glass True Cultivator asked An Ziqing whether he truly thought he could defeat Ye Li, and An Ziqing argued that Yu Liang's defeat did not prove Ye Li could beat every Path Opening Realm cultivator.
• When Glass True Cultivator asked whether he could have defeated Yu Liang, An Ziqing seriously replied that it was hard to say.

An Ziqing insisted that his unfamiliarity advantage and [Snow Without Blame] could let him defeat Ye Li, despite Glass True Cultivator’s warnings. The two Palace Heirs faced each other in the Supreme Clarity Palace’s Training Ground, where the duel began with An Ziqing preparing his opening technique.

• An Ziqing argued that Ye Li’s revealed techniques and lack of knowledge about [Snow Without Blame] gave him an advantage, while Glass True Cultivator warned him of the risks of defeat.
• Glass True Cultivator transported An Ziqing and Meng Lian to the Supreme Clarity Palace’s Training Ground, where the spectators recognized An Ziqing.
• Glass True Cultivator apologized to Qingyuan True Cultivator for the trouble, and Qingyuan reassured her that the duel would not harm relations between the palaces.
• Ye Li entered the Training Ground to a roar from the crowd and took his place opposite An Ziqing.
• An Ziqing activated [Snow Without Blame], assumed the Cold Purity Palace’s opening stance, and challenged Ye Li to live up to his words.

An Ziqing activated [Snow Without Blame] and blocked Ye Li’s first strike, then copied Ye Li’s speed to launch a counterattack. Ye Li overpowered him in their second clash and taunted him as An Ziqing’s confidence faltered.

• An Ziqing activated [Snow Without Blame], heightening his perception and preparing to fight Ye Li.
• Ye Li vanished and struck An Ziqing from behind, but An Ziqing’s Heavenly Law let him block the blow and spread freezing cold over Ye Li’s arm.
• Ye Li melted the ice with crimson-gold flames and dismissed An Ziqing’s defense as nothing special.
• An Ziqing used [Snow Without Blame] to copy Ye Li’s movement and matched his speed in a second palm strike.
• Ye Li stood his ground and gradually forced An Ziqing down with overwhelming strength, then taunted him as his eyes turned gold.

Ye Li decisively defeated An Ziqing, the Cold Purity Palace heir, and forced him to surrender. After the fight, An Ziqing obeyed Ye Li’s demand and barked, shocking the Supreme Clarity Palace and provoking an angry shout from the raised platform.

• Ye Li overwhelmed An Ziqing with repeated stomps, countering [Snow Without Blame] through sheer speed and strength.
• An Ziqing’s defenses failed, his Dao heart neared collapse, and he begged Ye Li to stop and accepted defeat.
• The Supreme Clarity Palace disciples cheered as Ye Li stood over the defeated An Ziqing.
• Ye Li taunted An Ziqing to bark, and An Ziqing trembled before barking twice.
• An enraged voice from the raised platform shouted at An Ziqing for obeying Ye Li.

Ye Li defeated An Ziqing, whose public humiliation forced Glass True Cultivator to intervene and end the match. Afterward, Ye Li ordered Lu Wan to gather information on the Cold Sea Continent’s Great Dao Lineage prodigies and planned to challenge them for more malice points.

• Glass True Cultivator intervened after An Ziqing conceded and barked twice, and Ye Li agreed to end the match without further humiliating the Cold Purity Palace.
• Glass True Cultivator took the unconscious An Ziqing to Clearview Hall for treatment, while Qingyuan True Cultivator announced Ye Li as the winner.
• Lu Wan asked Ye Li about his injuries, and Ye Li ordered her to compile information on the Cold Sea Continent’s Great Dao Lineage prodigies and their Mountain Gates.
• Ye Li reviewed his gains of more than seven hundred billion malice points and planned to challenge Great Dao Lineage prodigies to earn even more.

Ye Li met Hidden Edge True Cultivator and Meng Lian in the Upper Bright Hall, where Qingyuan True Cultivator gave him a powerful ring filled with cultivation resources. Ye Li revealed he planned to visit other Great Dao Lineages, leaving Qingyuan worried he would challenge their prodigies while he was away.

• A Manager summoned Ye Li to the Upper Bright Hall, where he met Qingyuan True Cultivator and Hidden Edge True Cultivator.
• Hidden Edge True Cultivator praised Ye Li for defeating An Ziqing, and Meng Lian apologized for accompanying An Ziqing.
• Qingyuan True Cultivator gave Ye Li the Heaven and Earth United ring, stocked with resources and powerful protection.
• Ye Li inferred that Qingyuan planned to leave soon, and Qingyuan confirmed he would be away briefly.
• Ye Li said he planned to tour the Great Dao Lineages, prompting Qingyuan to warn him not to take challenges too far.

Ye Li studied dossiers on Cold Sea Continent’s prodigies and decided to seek challenges before the next ranking update. When Shen Zhaozhao announced she would challenge Lu Wan, Ye Li seized the opportunity to make her his first stop.

• Lu Wan brought Ye Li dossiers on the great Dao lineages’ prodigies, and Ye Li noted that many ranked below An Ziqing could refuse his challenges without seeming unreasonable.
• Lu Wan explained that the top three in the Heavenly Prodigy Rankings had held their positions for nearly a century, with Pei Xuandu ranked first.
• After learning that the rankings would be updated in fewer than four days, Ye Li picked up another dossier, intent on acting quickly.
• A disciple delivered a letter announcing that Shen Zhaozhao had emerged from seclusion and would soon challenge Lu Wan at Supreme Clarity Palace.
• Ye Li rejected Lu Wan’s offer to handle Shen Zhaozhao alone and declared that he would deal with her himself, making her his first stop.

Qingyuan True Cultivator summoned Xu Xuanwei, the Supreme Clarity Palace’s third Fortune-Mastery Realm True Cultivator, to guard Ye Li while he was away. Ye Li arrived to say goodbye before heading down the mountain to seek out prodigies for practice.

• After Hidden Edge True Cultivator left, Qingyuan True Cultivator waited in the Upper Bright Hall for Xu Xuanwei.
• Qingyuan True Cultivator asked Mysterious Subtlety True Cultivator to protect Ye Li during his absence, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Qingyuan True Cultivator explained that Xu Xuanwei’s survival skills and lack of factional ties made her the best choice to guard Ye Li.
• Ye Li entered the hall with a woman in white, and Xu Xuanwei sensed that his aura exceeded the middle stage of the Heaven-Grasping Realm.
• Ye Li told Qingyuan True Cultivator he planned to leave the mountain and find continental prodigies to practice against.

Xu Xuanwei agreed to protect Ye Li from older cultivators but refused to intervene in fights with his peers, then took him to challenge Heavenly Thunder Mountain. Meanwhile, An Ziqing woke from his defeat and struggled with shame and confusing thoughts until Glass True Cultivator noticed his flushed face.

• Xu Xuanwei argued with Ye Li over her role as his protector before agreeing to take him to his first challenge.
• Ye Li chose Heavenly Thunder Mountain, and Xu Xuanwei used her fly whisk to transport them away from the Supreme Clarity Palace.
• Qingyuan True Cultivator reflected that Ye Li's challenge was only an appetizer and planned to visit An Ziqing and ask Glass True Cultivator about Fallen God Ravine.
• An Ziqing woke in his temporary quarters and remembered losing to Ye Li and humiliating himself before the Supreme Clarity Palace.
• An Ziqing wondered how much further Ye Li might have humiliated him, grew flushed, and drew Glass True Cultivator's attention.

After his crushing defeat by Ye Li, An Ziqing accepted responsibility and considered how to face defeat without abandoning his position as Palace Heir. The Glass True Cultivator left him to recover and departed with the Qingyuan True Cultivator to visit the Heavy Water True Cultivator’s cave abode.

• An Ziqing admitted his behavior at the Training Ground had disgraced the Cold Purity Palace and offered to step down as Palace Heir.
• The Glass True Cultivator told An Ziqing that Ye Li might even surpass Pei Xuandu and urged him to use the defeat to overcome [Snow Without Blame]’s weakness.
• An Ziqing realized the crushing defeat no longer left him suffocated and decided to trust his own way of facing it.
• The Glass True Cultivator told An Ziqing to recover and return to the Mountain Gate, then left the room.
• The Glass True Cultivator met the Qingyuan True Cultivator, and they set out for the Heavy Water True Cultivator’s cave abode.

After recovering from his defeat, An Ziqing decided to challenge Ye Li again, this time in alchemy, hoping to confront his fear of failure. Meng Lian tried to dissuade him but ultimately agreed to help arrange the contest once his injuries healed.

• Meng Lian visited An Ziqing and learned that he could accept losing to Ye Li but still struggled to regard failure as nothing.
• An Ziqing announced that he planned to challenge Ye Li to an alchemy contest, with the loser at the winner's mercy.
• Meng Lian warned An Ziqing that challenging Ye Li again could worsen the rumors and put him at risk, but he refused to give up.
• An Ziqing claimed that facing danger despite his fear was necessary to strengthen his Dao Heart, earning Meng Lian's respect.
• Meng Lian agreed to help arrange the alchemy contest after An Ziqing's injuries healed.

Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator confronted Shen Zhaozhao for sending a letter to Lu Wan at Great Clarity Mountain and warned her that the Supreme Clarity Palace had chosen a new Palace Heir. The Palace Heir, Ye Li, arrived at Heavenly Thunder Mountain and demanded to see Shen Zhaozhao.

• Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator dismissed the hall's elders and confronted Shen Zhaozhao about her letter to Lu Wan.
• Shen Zhaozhao defended her actions, arguing that strength mattered more than pleasing the Supreme Clarity Palace and claiming that winning Lu Wan would bring Heavenly Thunder Mountain influence.
• Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator told Shen Zhaozhao that the Supreme Clarity Palace had chosen a new Palace Heir and that Lu Wan was now following him.
• Shen Zhaozhao refused to be intimidated and said she would challenge the new Palace Heir if he came to demand an explanation.
• The Manager announced that Ye Li and a group of Supreme Clarity Palace cultivators had arrived, and Ye Li had specifically demanded to see Shen Zhaozhao.

Ye Li confronted Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator over Shen Zhaozhao’s coercive challenge letter to Lu Wan, rejecting the claim that Shen had acted without understanding. The confrontation ended with Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator objecting to Ye Li’s tone as Ye Li pressed him over whether the Supreme Clarity Palace lacked an immortal sect’s magnanimity.

• Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator learned Ye Li had arrived with Mysterious Subtlety True Cultivator and ordered the visitors welcomed.
• Ye Li entered Heavenly Thunder Mountain’s hall, sat in the seat of honor, and said he had come to make trouble.
• Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator called Shen Zhaozhao’s letter an impulsive act caused by inexperience and misunderstanding.
• Ye Li read aloud the letter’s demands that Lu Wan become Shen Zhaozhao’s wife or concubine if she lost, and argued Shen understood how she was using the Supreme Clarity Palace’s reputation to force the match.
• Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator admitted Heavenly Thunder Mountain had failed to discipline Shen and asked Ye Li to show magnanimity.
• Ye Li challenged Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator over whether pursuing the matter would mean the Supreme Clarity Palace lacked magnanimity, and the True Cultivator objected to being addressed like a criminal.

Ye Li rejected Heavenly Thunder Mountain’s attempt to settle the dispute with a public apology and attacked Shen Zhaozhao. The chapter left him repeatedly slamming her into the Front Mountain Plaza before the gathered disciples.

• Ye Li exposed the Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator’s concern for his sect’s reputation, and Shen Zhaozhao angrily challenged him.
• Ye Li first demanded that Shen Zhaozhao publicly explain her actions and apologize, then changed his terms and ordered her to kneel.
• When Shen Zhaozhao refused, Ye Li slapped her out of the hall and kicked her down to the Front Mountain Plaza.
• The Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator agreed to the original apology terms, but Ye Li refused and continued attacking Shen Zhaozhao.
• Ye Li grabbed Shen Zhaozhao by the ankle and repeatedly slammed her into the Plaza before the watching disciples.

Ye Li brutally beat Shen Zhaozhao in front of the Heavenly Thunder Mountain disciples, forcing her to face the humiliation of her defeat. Shen Zhaozhao apologized, but Ye Li showed no sign that he considered it enough.

• Ye Li repeatedly slammed Shen Zhaozhao into the plaza as the Heavenly Thunder Mountain disciples watched and dared not intervene.
• The plaza’s array activated to repair the damage, and Ye Li stopped long enough to lift Shen Zhaozhao from the rubble and slap her awake.
• Shen Zhaozhao asked whether the punishment was enough, but Ye Li said he alone would decide and slammed her face into the ground again.
• Ye Li warned Shen Zhaozhao that she would die unless he was satisfied, and she trembled as she realized he might kill her.
• Shen Zhaozhao apologized publicly, but Ye Li continued holding her down, making clear that her apology still was not enough.

Ye Li forced Shen Zhaozhao to publicly admit her wrongdoing and apologize to Lu Wan, shattering her Dao Heart while Heavenly Thunder Mountain’s elders stayed away. He then humiliated her before the disciples and left for the mountain lord’s hall, where he would wait for six hours.

• Shen Zhaozhao apologized to Lu Wan and admitted she had provoked her and challenged her under false pretenses.
• Ye Li released Shen Zhaozhao after her Dao Heart crumbled, then challenged the Heavenly Thunder Mountain disciples to object to him.
• Ye Li made several disciples denounce Shen Zhaozhao publicly, worsening her humiliation and earning more Malice Points.
• Ye Li ordered everyone to leave Shen Zhaozhao untouched until Perfected Heavenly Thunder came to help her, then went to the mountain lord’s hall with Lu Wan.
• The Heavenly Thunder Mountain disciples stayed back as Shen Zhaozhao lay amid the rubble, and Ye Li waited for anyone to challenge him.

Ye Li and Mysterious Subtlety True Cultivator discussed their next move against Divine Dragon Mountain and Xiang Tiantian. Before Ye Li could explore Heavenly Thunder Mountain, an urgent Alliance Association call reported a suspected disaster at Jade Splendor Manor.

• Heavenly Thunder True Cultivator stayed silent as Ye Li returned after defeating Shen Zhaozhao and forcing her to apologize.
• Ye Li told Mysterious Subtlety True Cultivator that they would rest for six hours before going to Divine Dragon Mountain to confront Xiang Tiantian.
• Mysterious Subtlety True Cultivator warned Ye Li about Divine Dragon Mountain's strength and revealed its cultivators had once tried to kill her.
• Ye Li said he would destroy Divine Dragon Mountain if it had tried to kill him, and Mysterious Subtlety True Cultivator promised him a generous gift once he could kill one of its cultivators.
• Ye Li set out to walk around Heavenly Thunder Mountain, but his and Lu Wan's jade tokens received an urgent call for aid at Jade Splendor Manor, where at least a hundred cultivators had gone missing.