Recaps

Heguang True Cultivator tried to rally the Alliance Association against the Supreme Clarity Palace, but Palace Master Yuchen refused to add the Jade Dais Palace’s seal. Meanwhile, An Ziqing challenged Ye Li to a pill-refining contest at the Supreme Clarity Palace, and the chapter ended as the contest began.

• Heguang True Cultivator asked Palace Master Yuchen to endorse a letter condemning Ye Li’s actions, but he refused to seal it before hearing the Supreme Clarity Palace’s side.
• Heguang True Cultivator said she had already sent the letter to the Supreme Clarity Palace and would proceed with the support of other Dao Lineages.
• An Ziqing told Glass True Cultivator that he had chosen to challenge Ye Li in pill refining and would honor the outcome.
• A steward selected the Void-Breaking Dao-Sensing Pellet as the contest’s formula, and Ye Li admitted to himself that he could not understand it.
• Glass True Cultivator started the contest, and An Ziqing activated Snow Without Blame, summoning snow-white Dao fire that chilled the surroundings.

Ye Li refined a Void-Breaking Dao-Sensing Pellet by processing all its ingredients at once with divine fire, astonishing the watching pill refiners. An Ziqing's attempt faltered as he watched Ye Li finish, and he admitted defeat.

• An Ziqing began refining his ingredients separately with the Cold Purity Palace's snow-white Dao fire, while Ye Li swallowed all his ingredients with a crimson-gold fire dragon.
• Glass True Cultivator explained that the pellet required precise, complex adjustments and admitted she could not perform what Ye Li was attempting.
• Ye Li's fire dragon refined the ingredients into stable medicinal liquids and combined them into a pellet with distinct pill markings.
• Glass True Cultivator warned Mysterious Subtlety True Cultivator that the Medicine God Cliff might try to recruit Ye Li.
• Ye Li completed the pellet before An Ziqing had finished refining his first batch of ingredients; An Ziqing's cauldron failed, and he declared that he had lost.

Ye Li defeated An Ziqing in an alchemy contest and made him agree to stay by his side for two months. After questioning Sword Song Valley’s deputy Valley Master about Hidden Edge, Ye Li received compensation and learned that a jade missive from the Green Luo Continent Alliance Association had arrived.

• Ye Li won the alchemy contest, and An Ziqing accepted the wager to serve Ye Li for two months.
• Glass True Cultivator assured Mysterious Subtlety True Cultivator that she would handle any response from the Cold Purity Palace.
• Sword Song Valley’s deputy Valley Master Yingshan apologized to Ye Li for Hidden Edge’s crimes and answered questions about him.
• Yingshan said the Valley Master had entered seclusion and gave Ye Li compensation, adding that the Valley Master approved of Meng Lian staying with Ye Li.
• Qingyuan True Cultivator gave Ye Li a jade missive from the Green Luo Continent Alliance Association.

Ye Li received a summons from Zi Yue Valley on Green Luo Continent but refused to wait for the Palace Master and planned to go there himself. He intended to purge troublesome Dao Lineages first, while Qingyuan agreed to watch Sword Song Valley and urged him to use Heaven and Earth United if necessary.

• Ye Li learned that Zi Yue Valley was a powerful Green Luo Continent Dao Lineage leading a coalition against him.
• Qingyuan True Cultivator warned Ye Li about Zi Yue Valley and the danger of provoking its allied factions, but Ye Li said he would leave immediately and purge the problematic lineages.
• Ye Li explained that he understood why the Alliance Association had avoided suppressing the True Cultivator Dao Lineages, but insisted he was not afraid and could act quickly.
• Ye Li asked Qingyuan to watch Sword Song Valley and intercept its Valley Master if she emerged from seclusion; Qingyuan agreed to investigate the sect.
• Ye Li confirmed his Palace Heir authority on other continents, then went to check Lu Wan's preparations before setting out.

Ye Li killed the Deathwhisper Gate's Hall Master and finished the purge of the last Dao Lineage on the list. With five days of campaigns behind him and a vast stock of Malice Points, he wondered whether he was already close to becoming invincible.

• Ye Li overwhelmed the Deathwhisper Gate's Hall Master, destroyed the summoned elders, and killed the Hall Master with Divine Fire.
• An Ziqing presented Ye Li with the purge list, and Ye Li confirmed the Deathwhisper Gate was the last Dao Lineage left to deal with.
• Ye Li handed the list to Qin Ya and ordered the Alliance Association to spare the people listed while he killed the rest.
• Qin Ya watched An Ziqing kneel before Ye Li and suspected An Ziqing's earlier actions had caused his humiliation.
• Ye Li sat on An Ziqing's back, checked his Malice Points, and wondered if he was already becoming invincible.

Zi Yue Valley’s leaders discussed the Demon threat, divine source allocations, and Ye Li’s conflict with Dao Lineages. After learning he had destroyed only sects without True Cultivators, they decided to send a True Disciple with gifts to maintain relations.

• Heguang True Cultivator and the Zi Yue Valley Master agreed to send some managers toward the Demon threat and pressure Green Luo Continent’s factions to contribute.
• Heguang True Cultivator said she had written to the Supreme Clarity Palace to restrain Ye Li, while the Zi Yue Valley Master worried that its rising influence could reduce Zi Yue Valley’s share of divine source.
• A valley manager reported that Ye Li had destroyed several Dao Lineages in Cold Sea Continent, including influential sects, all of which lacked a presiding True Cultivator.
• Heguang True Cultivator and the Zi Yue Valley Master concluded that Ye Li had restrained himself because of Qingyuan’s decision and agreed to send him gifts.
• The Zi Yue Valley Master accepted Heguang True Cultivator’s proposal to send a suitable True Disciple rather than an elder to visit Ye Li.

Ye Li departed Supreme Clarity Palace for Green Luo Continent aboard a Treasure Ship, accompanied only by An Ziqing. The palace elders worried about the dangers ahead, but Ye Li left with their warnings and a spatial talisman.

• Ye Li's recent actions spread across Cold Sea Continent, and many Supreme Clarity Palace disciples hoped to accompany him, but Qingyuan True Cultivator refused their requests.
• Ye Li left Lu Wan at the palace and sent Meng Lian back to Sword Song Valley, making An Ziqing his sole companion.
• Qingyuan True Cultivator and Mysterious Subtlety True Cultivator saw Ye Li off, and she warned him about Green Luo Continent's complicated Dao Lineages and ancient formations.
• Mysterious Subtlety True Cultivator gave Ye Li a Stone Talisman containing a Spatial Divine Ability and cautioned him about An Ziqing's possible resentment.
• Ye Li and An Ziqing boarded the Treasure Ship and vanished into the void, while Mysterious Subtlety True Cultivator criticized Qingyuan True Cultivator for letting Ye Li travel without a True Cultivator escort.

Lu Wan studied the cultivation methods Ye Li had left behind, hoping to advance enough to accompany him on future journeys. Aboard the treasure ship, Ye Li chose the Returning Balance Academy as his first stop on Green Luo Continent, while keeping his plan from An Ziqing.

• Lu Wan mourned Ye Li's departure, then resolved to study the Jade Slips and strive to reach Path Opening.
• An Ziqing briefed Ye Li on the Returning Balance Academy, whose disciples had died in the Dao-Nurturing Pool and whose past records included unresolved crimes by Green Luo Continent's Dao Lineages.
• Ye Li chose the academy as their first destination despite An Ziqing warning that its head had powerful allies.
• Ye Li ordered An Ziqing to stop questioning his decisions, withholding his plan because An Ziqing might reveal it to their target.
• An Ziqing organized the academy's files with pressed lips and uneven breathing.

At Returning Balance Academy, strict appointment rules turned away Green Creek Sect leader Xu Huaichuan, but the academy rushed to welcome Supreme Clarity Palace Heir Ye Li when he arrived with An Ziqing. Senior Disciple Sister Song Zhiyi hurried out to meet him, leaving her class in an uproar.

• Returning Balance Academy’s gatekeepers turned away Xu Huaichuan because he had no appointment, despite his gifts and prior acquaintance with an elder.
• Ye Li arrived aboard a Supreme Clarity Palace treasure ship with An Ziqing following deferentially behind him.
• The gatekeeping disciples recognized Ye Li and sent a messenger into the academy before welcoming him at the Mountain Gate.
• Song Zhiyi told a messenger that visitors without appointments should be sent away, then learned that Ye Li had come.
• Song Zhiyi ended her lesson and hurried out to meet Ye Li, astonishing her disciples.

Ye Li forced his way into Returning Balance Academy to investigate the Dao-Nurturing Pool and confronted Senior Disciple Sister Song Zhiyi over altered death records. After her answer exposed her as a suspect, he severely injured and detained her, then asked the academy’s second elder, Liang Zheng, the same question.

• Song Zhiyi welcomed Ye Li at Returning Balance Academy, and he announced that he had come to investigate the Dao-Nurturing Pool.
• Ye Li presented Song Zhiyi with an order and ignored her attempts to delay the investigation.
• Ye Li asked whether Song Zhiyi had altered the Dao-Nurturing Pool’s death records, and her answer made him suspect she was lying.
• Ye Li broke Song Zhiyi’s legs and spine, then seized her and declared that he was detaining a suspect.
• Liang Zheng arrived with other elders and demanded an explanation, and Ye Li asked whether Liang Zheng had altered the death records.

Ye Li confronted Returning Balance Academy over altered Dao-Nurturing Pool death records, killed its four elders and Song Zhiyi after she confessed, and waited for Perfected Mingzhang to arrive. He warned the True Person that his next words might be his last.

• Ye Li demanded that Second Elder Liang Zheng explain whether the academy had altered the Dao-Nurturing Pool's death records, but Liang tried to deflect him and invoke the Alliance Association.
• Ye Li defeated the four elders, captured their divine souls, and killed them after Song Zhiyi summoned Perfected Mingzhang for help.
• Song Zhiyi confessed that she altered the death records on Perfected Mingzhang's orders, but Ye Li killed her with divine fire.
• Perfected Mingzhang appeared above the academy and challenged Ye Li's method of investigating the case.
• Ye Li told Perfected Mingzhang to consider his words carefully because they might be his last.

Ye Li confronted Perfected Mingzhang over the Dao-Nurturing Pool, and Mingzhang admitted arranging for cultivators’ Dao Foundations to be extracted while claiming it served the academy and the Three Continents. When the Alliance Association arrived to take over the investigation, Ye Li challenged its manager about whether he had altered the pool’s death records.

• Ye Li demanded that Perfected Mingzhang explain the Dao-Nurturing Pool’s abuses in public rather than offer him a private deal.
• Perfected Mingzhang admitted he had arranged to extract some disciples’ Dao Foundations, arguing that their deaths strengthened other disciples who later served the Alliance Association.
• Perfected Mingzhang offered compensation and punishment for those involved but argued that his service to the Alliance Association meant he should not be killed.
• Perfected Mingzhang predicted Ye Li could not kill him, and treasure ships bearing the Three Continents Alliance’s Law Seal arrived at Returning Balance Academy.
• Du Yuan announced that the Alliance Association would reopen the case, seal the files, question witnesses, and hold the previous managers accountable, while asking Ye Li to step aside.
• Ye Li asked Du Yuan whether he had altered the Dao-Nurturing Pool’s death records.

Ye Li confronted Du Yuan over his role in covering up the Dao-Nurturing Pool case and attacked him when he admitted no wrongdoing. The Alliance Association activated the Four-Direction Dao-Suppressing Array Formation, but Ye Li bypassed it and struck down Song Hui.

• Ye Li pressed Du Yuan about his involvement in recording the Dao-Nurturing Pool case, and Du Yuan’s evasive answer revealed that he had helped cover it up.
• Du Yuan warned Ye Li about the consequences of bypassing the Alliance Association, but Ye Li attacked him and smashed him into a Treasure Ship.
• A Manager ordered the Alliance Association cultivators to form the Four-Direction Dao-Suppressing Array Formation and called on Perfected Mingzhang to atone by attacking Ye Li.
• Ye Li slipped past the array’s chains and sealing Law Seals, then struck Song Hui into the ground and blasted his body apart.

Ye Li confronted Perfected Mingzhang, who revealed that the Dao-Nurturing Pool exploited disciples’ hopes to make them endure deadly pain and preserve their Dao Foundations. Ye Li then summoned Hidden Edge, Wu Guang, and three Demon Kings, leaving Perfected Mingzhang horrified as he declared that he was taking over all of Green Luo Continent.

• Perfected Mingzhang stopped Ye Li’s attack with a golden character, but Ye Li shattered it and sent him flying with a punch.
• Perfected Mingzhang admitted that at least five True Persons in the Green Luo Continent Alliance Association had tacitly approved of his actions involving the Dao-Nurturing Pool.
• Perfected Mingzhang explained that he used promises of fulfilling disciples’ wishes to make them endure the pool’s pain, then preserved their Dao Foundations after they died.
• Ye Li summoned Hidden Edge, Wu Guang, the Azure Roc Demon King, the Golden Toad Demon King, and the Purple-Eyed Heavenly Serpent, overwhelming Perfected Mingzhang with their Fortune-Mastery-level pressure.
• Ye Li announced that he was taking over all of Green Luo Continent.

Ye Li and five Fortune-Mastery beings overwhelmed Perfected Mingzhang, while Ye Li’s External Incarnation hunted down the fleeing Alliance Association Managers. Ye Li killed Perfected Mingzhang and secured the remaining cultivators’ submission, leaving Returning Balance Academy defeated and the Alliance Association cleanup underway.

• Ye Li commanded Wuguang True Cultivator, Hidden Edge True Cultivator, the Golden Toad Demon King, the Azure Roc Demon King, and another Fortune-Mastery being to attack Perfected Mingzhang.
• Perfected Mingzhang offered the Dao-Nurturing Pool, the academy’s treasures, and information about those involved, but Ye Li refused to spare him.
• Ye Li sent out an External Incarnation, which caught and killed the fleeing Du Yuan and the other Alliance Association Managers.
• Ye Li’s Divine Spear shattered Perfected Mingzhang’s defenses and destroyed him in both body and soul.
• The remaining Alliance Association cultivators accepted Ye Li’s account and pledged to obey his Imperial Edict.

After killing Perfected Mingzhang, Ye Li uncovered the resentment-filled Dao-Nurturing Pool at Returning Balance Academy, suppressed its arrays, and took the academy’s treasures. With enough resources to advance into the Fortune-Mastery Realm, he considered his next targets as the Green Luo Continent Alliance Association began responding.

• Ye Li left An Ziqing in charge while he went to the Dao-Nurturing Pool and saw that the academy had concealed the resentment and remains of dead disciples beneath its clear water.
• Ye Li suppressed the pool’s arrays and sealed the site, deciding the Alliance Association’s inaction left him free to take matters into his own hands.
• Ye Li used the Three-Hour Divine Fire to turn the treasury’s Treasure Medicines into Treasure Pellets and found that his Malice Points had reached 2.658 trillion.
• Ye Li considered whether to attack unprepared Dao Lineages or go after the True Persons connected to them first.
• An Ziqing told Ye Li that the academy had settled down, a roster of the implicated cultivators was being compiled, and the Alliance Association planned to send someone to coordinate with them.

Three Continents Alliance True Persons debated how to respond to Ye Li after he killed Perfected Mingzhang and several alliance managers while exposing the Dao-Nurturing Pool. The meeting ended with Chongyue and Shoujing voting to summon Ye Li and restrict his actions, while Chongyue planned to seek support from Zi Yue Valley.

• A manager reported the battle at Returning Balance Academy, and Qin Fa was surprised by Ye Li's strength and agreed that he should be allowed to continue investigating.
• Chongyue argued that Ye Li had broken alliance rules by killing managers in public and demanded that someone oversee him.
• Qin Fa challenged Chongyue to name someone capable of restraining Ye Li, then refused to make Jade Dais Palace provide an overseer.
• Chongyue proposed asking a high-realm True Person to oversee Ye Li, and Shoujing agreed that Ye Li should report his findings before acting against Dao Lineages.
• Qin Fa left after yielding to the majority, while Chongyue asked Shoujing to summon Ye Li and set off to explain the matter to Zi Yue Valley.

Ye Li rejected True Person Shoujing’s invitation to discuss Returning Balance Academy’s future at the Alliance branch and dismissed the Green Luo Continent Alliance Association’s leverage. Shoujing discovered that the Ye Li who had spoken with her was only a clone, leaving her to wonder where his True Body had gone.

• Ye Li allowed academy life to resume, eased several harsh rules, and strolled around Returning Balance Academy as disciples and Alliance Association cultivators watched him.
• True Person Shoujing arrived at the academy and invited Ye Li to the Alliance branch to discuss the academy’s future and other matters.
• Ye Li questioned Shoujing about altered Dao-Nurturing Pool death records and violations of Alliance Association rules, then refused to attend the meeting.
• Ye Li told Shoujing that the Alliance Association needed him more than he needed it, and said he would visit if they gathered against him.
• Ye Li vanished from his chair, and Shoujing realized she had been speaking to his clone and wondered where his True Body was.

Ye Li rejected the Green Luo Continent Alliance Association’s request to negotiate and headed for the Wave-Subduing Residence to investigate suspected fraud involving military merits. As Huo Chuan and Qiao Suying concealed their own corruption, Ye Li’s unexpected arrival prompted the Residence to scramble to receive him.

• Ye Li chose to investigate the Wave-Subduing Residence after learning it had allegedly falsified military merits and traded them for Dao-Nurturing Pool places.
• Ye Li rebuffed An Ziqing when she asked about the Alliance Association’s intentions and planned to let others see him humiliating her.
• Qiao Suying denied an elderly woman compensation for her husband, citing records that accused him of damaging his armor and deserting.
• Huo Chuan claimed reimbursement for his armor and privately discussed inflated military merits and favors with Qiao Suying.
• A messenger announced that Ye Li’s Treasure Ship had arrived without notice, and Huo Chuan set out with Qiao Suying to welcome him.

Ye Li arrived at Wave-Subduing Residence and announced he would thoroughly investigate it on behalf of the Alliance Association. Huo Chuan contacted a branch manager for guidance, who warned him that Ye Li had just killed Perfected Mingzhang and several Alliance Association managers, leaving the residence in terrified silence.

• Huo Chuan welcomed Ye Li and An Ziqing, and Ye Li ordered An Ziqing to stand behind him instead of sitting.
• Ye Li told Huo Chuan he had come to investigate Wave-Subduing Residence, and Huo Chuan agreed to seek instructions from the nearest branch.
• Huo Chuan secretly crushed a Jade Pendant to summon Commander Ding while Qiao Suying and the other cultivators grew wary of Ye Li.
• Huo Chuan contacted a branch manager, who urgently warned him not to act rashly because Ye Li had slain Perfected Mingzhang and three Alliance Association managers at Returning Balance Academy.
• Huo Chuan, Qiao Suying, and the other cultivators fell silent in shock and fear.

Ye Li investigated the Wave-Subduing Residence and forced Huo Chuan and Qiao Suying to admit to corruption with overwhelming force. When Commander Ding Lie arrived and demanded paperwork, Ye Li subdued him and revealed Perfected Mingzhang, then threatened to kill Ding if he did not answer about fraud and bribes.

• Huo Chuan learned from the Alliance Association Manager that Ye Li had killed Perfected Mingzhang and warned him not to resist.
• Qiao Suying and Huo Chuan agreed to cooperate with Ye Li, who asked whether the Residence had falsified military merits or taken bribes.
• Ye Li struck Huo Chuan through his treasured armor and forced him to confess that merits had been reassigned and benefits accepted in military supplies.
• When Qiao Suying tried to defend the practice, Ye Li knocked her to the floor and ordered her to stay quiet.
• Commander Ding Lie arrived and demanded official documents before allowing the investigation, but Ye Li shattered his Dharma Form and pinned him to the floor.
• Ye Li revealed Perfected Mingzhang beside Ding Lie and gave him three breaths to answer whether he had falsified military merit or taken bribes.

Ye Li confronted Wave-Subduing Residence over its role in the deaths of battle cultivators and the manipulation of military merits. After Perfected Iron Face arrived and threatened to fight with the Residence’s forces, Ye Li declared he would kill them regardless and revealed five powerful allies.

• Ding Lie denied knowing anything about the accusations, but Perfected Mingzhang crushed his body and seized his Divine Soul.
• Perfected Iron Face intervened, but Ye Li stopped him from taking Ding Lie’s Divine Soul and revealed that tens of thousands of battle cultivators had surrounded the hall.
• Perfected Iron Face defended the Wave-Subduing Residence’s frontier service and threatened Ye Li with the Demon-Slaying Battle Formation and three incoming Perfected.
• Ye Li rejected Iron Face’s justification for sacrificing cultivators and vowed to kill the Residence’s leaders even if thirty thousand more allies arrived.
• Five figures emerged behind Ye Li, unleashing terrifying Fortune-Mastery auras as the battle formations outside began to shake.

Ye Li attacked the Wave-Subduing Residence and overwhelmed Perfected Iron Face with six summoned Perfecteds before joining the fight himself. When Xu Yan appealed to Qin Fa to intervene, Qin Fa ordered him to treat Ye Li’s assault as a routine inspection and cooperate fully.

• Perfected Iron Face offered to surrender the responsible cultivators and pay compensation, but Perfected Mingzhang and five other figures attacked him.
• The six summoned Perfecteds worked together to drive Perfected Iron Face onto the defensive while Ye Li watched.
• The Wave-Subduing Residence’s three other Perfecteds arrived, but Azure Roc, Golden Toad, and the Purple-Eyed Heavenly Serpent engaged them.
• Xu Yan appealed to Ye Li to show mercy and preserve the border defenses, but Ye Li joined the attack and struck Perfected Iron Face.
• Xu Yan contacted Qin Fa for instructions, and Qin Fa told him to cooperate with Ye Li’s investigation as though it were a routine inspection.

Ye Li and his allies overwhelmed Perfected Iron Face while the Jade Dais Palace agreed to take over the Wave-Subduing Residence’s border defenses. The chapter ended with Ye Li destroying Perfected Iron Face’s body and Divine Soul, killing the Wave-Subduing Residence’s leader.

• Qin Fa arranged for the Jade Dais Palace to send two Perfected cultivators to take over the defensive line, while Xu Yan coordinated the handover.
• Ye Li, Perfected Mingzhang, and Hidden Edge True Cultivator broke through the Wave-Subduing Residence’s formations and drove Perfected Iron Face into retreat.
• Perfected Iron Face offered to confess and pleaded for his life, but Ye Li continued attacking and shattered his Dharma Form.
• Ye Li destroyed Perfected Iron Face’s body, then used the Divine Spear to knock down his fleeing Divine Soul.
• Ye Li seized Perfected Iron Face’s Divine Soul and crushed it, killing him as the surrounding land shook.

After Ye Li killed the Wave-Subduing Residence’s Prefectural Lord, the remaining Perfected fled and were hunted down while Huo Chuan exposed the Residence’s crimes. Ye Li killed Huo Chuan and Qiao Suying, then ordered seven Fortune-Mastery beings to seal the area so no one involved could escape.

• The Prefectural Lord’s death broke the Residence’s resistance, and its three remaining Perfected fled before Ye Li’s allies chased them down.
• Huo Chuan confessed to falsifying military merits, framing dead cultivators, and arranging the deaths of people who occupied posts the Residence wanted vacated.
• Ye Li killed Huo Chuan despite his confession, then burned Qiao Suying after she offered to help investigate the Residence’s accounts.
• The seven Perfected returned after destroying the last fleeing Perfected’s Divine Soul, and Ye Li ordered them to seal the area and let no one involved escape.
• The seven Fortune-Mastery beings joined forces to seal heaven and earth, freezing the Sea of Clouds and stilling the ocean.