Chapter Summaries

Ye Li searched the Yun family treasury, claimed the Mystic Phoenix Ice Soul Bow, and discovered that the Tengshe Reverse Scale could sense its owner beyond the Eastern Continent. After taking several precious medicines and spending Malice Points, he broke through to Peak Seventh Tier Divine Connection Realm, with his aura still rising.

• Ye Li recalled the souls he had sent to collect the Yun family's spoils and acquired the Mystic Phoenix Ice Soul Bow, a high-grade Divine Connection Realm treasure tool.
• Ye Li examined the Tengshe Reverse Scale Arrow, sensed its connection to True Lord Tengshe beyond the Eastern Continent, and considered seeking him out after the Five Continents War.
• Ye Li swallowed four Divine Connection Realm precious medicines and gained buffs that increased his cultivation speed and reduced the Malice Points needed for breakthroughs.
• Ye Li spent Malice Points to raise his cultivation and reached Peak Seventh Tier Divine Connection Realm.
• Ye Li's surging aura shook the clouds above the Yun family estate as his strength continued to rise.

After reaching the peak of the Divine Connection Realm, Ye Li left the ruined Yun family estate and asked the Heavenly Supervision Department for intelligence on True Lord Tengshe and other threats. With the Five Continents War a week away, he planned to test his new strength against powerful opponents.

• The Heavenly Supervision Department disciples arrived at the Yun family estate and realized Ye Li’s breakthrough aura surpassed their expectations as the Yun family lay in ruins.
• Ye Li perfected his dharma body, advanced to the peak of the Divine Connection Realm, and replenished his true qi after spending nearly half a month cultivating.
• Ye Li met Fu Yunshu and said the Heavenly Supervision Department would soon receive his reward, which he hoped would include a method to advance into the Creation Realm.
• Ye Li asked Fu Yunshu for all intelligence on True Lord Tengshe and Divine Connection Realm threats in the other major prefectures.
• Fu Yunshu agreed to gather the requested information while Ye Li planned to seek opponents before the Five Continents War.

After learning that Ye Li had destroyed the Red Dust Immortal Gate, Purple Cloud Cave, and the Yun family, Chu Qiming praised his decisiveness and decided to support his efforts against threats across the Eastern Continent. He sent Tan Hua to give Ye Li the department’s Azure Sky Spirit Sea Grass and considered how to protect the continent from possible retaliation by True Lord Tengshe.

• Chu Qiming received a report detailing Ye Li’s destruction of Purple Cloud Cave and the Yun family, adding to his earlier destruction of the Red Dust Immortal Gate.
• Chu Qiming compared Ye Li’s decisive actions with his own cautious leadership and asked Tan Hua to retrieve the Azure Sky Spirit Sea Grass for Ye Li.
• Tan Hua read the report, then agreed to fetch the medicinal treasure for Ye Li.
• Chu Qiming ordered the grand commanderies to report Divine Connection Realm threats and warned that concealing them would be punished.
• Chu Qiming worried that True Lord Tengshe might seek revenge for the Yun family and considered asking Ye Li about the method of being Empowered by Wishes.

After Chu Qiming ordered the commanderies to report Divine Connection Realm disasters, officials across Eastern Continent prepared to identify hidden threats. Meanwhile, Ye Li agreed to travel with Fu Yunshu and Qin Han to Central Continent for the Five Continents War, where he hoped to earn a higher-tier cultivation method from the Taiqing Dao Tablet.

• Chu Qiming's message shocked the deputy directors across Eastern Continent, who began gathering records of Divine Connection Realm disasters to send to headquarters.
• Fu Yunshu asked Ye Li if he knew about the Five Continents War, and Ye Li said he had heard of it and planned to attend.
• Fu Yunshu invited Ye Li to travel with her and Qin Han to Central Continent, explaining that the Taiqing Dao Tablet revealed the Dao age of those it tested and could attract attacks from foreign races.
• Ye Li agreed to travel with them, and Fu Yunshu offered to share any Divine Connection Realm method she obtained.
• Ye Li asked when the commanderies would finish compiling their disaster reports, then left it to Fu Yunshu to decide whether to conceal the news from Wanjing Grand Commandery.

Ye Li returned to the Eastern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department, received a rare spirit medicine, and learned that a Ziwei Hall envoy had come to discuss his transfer. The chapter ended with Chu Qiming refusing to release Ye Li unless Ye Li agreed to go.

• Ye Li arrived at Heavenly Supervision Department headquarters with Qin Han and was greeted as a Supreme Elder.
• Tan Hua gave Ye Li an Azure Sky Spirit Sea Grass as a reward for his service.
• Tan Hua told Ye Li that a Divine Connection Realm True Person from Ziwei Hall was asking about him.
• Ying Xuanji asked Chu Qiming to respond to the Western Continent's request to borrow Ye Li.
• Chu Qiming said he would not release Ye Li unless Ye Li agreed to the transfer.

Ye Li met Chu Qiming at the Eastern Continent Celestial Observatory and asked whether Shenzhou had a method for advancing to the Creation Realm. He learned that several major organizations possessed one, but postponed seeking access until after the Five Continents War.

• Ying Xuanji agreed to take Chu Qiming’s two disciples to Central Continent if they departed by the following night.
• Chu Qiming welcomed Ye Li and gave him a jade slip containing intelligence about True Lord Tengshe of Western Continent.
• Ying Xuanji sensed Ye Li’s immense blood energy and considered recruiting him into Ziwei Hall.
• Ye Li asked whether Shenzhou had a method for advancing to the Creation Realm, and Chu Qiming said Ziwei Hall, the Heavenly Supervision Department, and the Demon Suppression Department all had methods.
• Ye Li declined to apply to borrow a method yet, and Chu Qiming asked Yunshu and Qin Han when they planned to leave for the Five Continents War.

Fu Yunshu and Qin Han prepared to travel with Ye Li to Central Continent, while Ying Xuanji decided to accompany them and assess Ye Li's strength. Ye Li reviewed intelligence on True Lord Tengshe and learned why Jiang Minghuang of Blazing Heaven Flame Palace relentlessly pursued the demon.

• Fu Yunshu told Chu Qiming that she and Qin Han planned to invite Ye Li to travel with them to Central Continent in two days.
• Ye Li confirmed the plan, and Chu Qiming agreed to it while Ying Xuanji chose to stay with the group and travel with them.
• Chu Qiming left the courtyard, and Ying Xuanji asked Ye Li to call for her when the group departed.
• Ye Li returned to his residence to study intelligence on True Lord Tengshe while Fu Yunshu gathered information on corrupt Divine Connection Realm True Persons.
• Ye Li learned that True Lord Tengshe had killed Jiang Minghuang's younger sister during its invasion of Western Continent, prompting Jiang Minghuang to drive it out and pursue it whenever its trail appeared.

Ye Li reasoned that Jiang Minghuang likely knew True Lord Tengshe’s location and sought the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace’s help to track him. After receiving reports on Divine Connection Realm threats, Ye Li agreed to begin the department’s cleansing operation immediately.

• Ye Li considered why Jiang Minghuang had not acted against the Yun family and concluded she likely had a way to locate True Lord Tengshe.
• Ye Li decided he needed the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace’s assistance because his reverse scale could not track Tengshe efficiently.
• True Fire visited Ye Li and delivered a jade slip compiling reports of local Divine Connection Realm threats.
• True Fire suggested waiting until after the Five Continents War, but Ye Li said they could act immediately.
• True Fire eagerly welcomed Ye Li’s decision to start the cleansing operation.

Xuantian Zhai mined Blue Jade ore in the Blue Jade Mountain Range under an arrangement with the Griffon Great Demon, while Su Xue and Star Sword discussed her past killings and the sect’s influence. Kong Ting arrived with orders to halt the mining, and Su Xue insulted the Heavenly Supervision Department, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xuantian Zhai’s disciples mined Blue Jade ore in the Blue Jade Mountain Range, sharing the profits with the Griffon Great Demon who ruled it.
• Su Xue asked Star Sword to teach her the sect’s ultimate art, and he reminded her that her father had scolded her for killing ordinary cultivators during medicinal practice.
• Star Sword explained that Xuantian Zhai’s mining continued only because authorities had turned a blind eye and warned that the Heavenly Supervision Department could shut it down.
• Kong Ting arrived with orders from the Sicheng Mansion and demanded that Star Sword and Xuantian Zhai leave the mountain range.
• Su Xue angrily challenged Kong Ting and claimed that the Qingping Prefecture Heavenly Supervision Department was a dog raised by Xuantian Zhai.

Ye Li arrived at Blue Jade Mountain Range and instantly killed the Star Sword Elder and Su Xue, then turned his attention to the Griffon Great Demon. After learning it had ties to the Celestial Horse Demon Race, he attacked it, leaving the Eastern Continent's last Divine Connection Realm foe pierced by a divine spear.

• The Star Sword Elder demanded that Kong Ting surrender a Heavenly Supervision Department expert, but Ye Li arrived before their dispute could be settled.
• Ye Li killed the Star Sword Elder with a single punch and told Su Xue that her family was gone.
• The Master of Purple Cloud Cave threw Su Xue her father's severed head, and Ye Li killed her after her Dao heart collapsed.
• The True Fire Elder and local officials told Ye Li that the Griffon Great Demon had links to the Celestial Horse Demon Race.
• Ye Li flew toward the Griffon Great Demon's mountain lair and pierced the enormous demon with a descending Divine Spear.

Ye Li killed the Griffon Great Demon, confirmed its limited connection to the Celestial Horse Demon Race, and left the Heavenly Supervision Department experts stunned. He then spent Malice Points to upgrade Indestructible Golden Soul to LV7, gaining the True Self Dharma Body divine ability.

• Ye Li killed the Griffon Great Demon with his Divine Spear and learned from its memories that it had studied the Law of Divine Wind with a Celestial Horse Demon.
• Ye Li asked Kong Ting whether any other Divine Connection Realm threats remained, then told him to report future troubles through the Supreme Seal.
• The Heavenly Supervision Department experts watched Ye Li depart, while True Fire Elder accepted that no one in the Eastern Continent could stop him.
• Ye Li settled in the wilderness and spent Malice Points upgrading Indestructible Golden Soul.
• Ye Li advanced Indestructible Golden Soul to LV7, improving its healing and physical enhancement and gaining the True Self Dharma Body divine ability.

Ye Li considered the power of his Heaven and Earth Manifestation and how to earn Malice Points while seeking a Creation Realm cultivation method. Meanwhile, Ying Xuanji recommended him for the position of ninth Star Lord, and the group prepared to leave for the Central Continent.

• Ye Li realized his Heaven and Earth Manifestation could withstand the Power of Law, but found his Malice Points depleted.
• Ying Xuanji told Elder Tian that Ye Li had destroyed three sects in five days and recommended him as a candidate for the ninth Star Lord.
• Elder Tian agreed to meet Ye Li and promised that Ziwei Hall would reward his service even if he did not become a Star Lord.
• Ying Xuanji reflected on why she had sought to reward Ye Li, then heard Qin Han announce that Ye Li was ready to depart.
• Ying Xuanji confirmed she was prepared and left the courtyard to join the journey to the Central Continent.

Fu Yunshu, Qin Han, Ye Li, and Ying Xuanji traveled from Eastern Continent toward Central Continent Royal City so Fu Yunshu and Qin Han could seek entry to the secret realm through the Taiqing Dao Tablet. The flying shuttle neared Hongcheng Great Commandery, where Ying Xuanji planned to introduce Ye Li to a deputy hall master after the qualification test.

• True Fire Elder warned Fu Yunshu and Qin Han to keep a low profile and focus on obtaining the method, while assuring Ye Li that information about Divine Connection Realm threats would be sent to him.
• Fu Yunshu, Qin Han, Ye Li, and Ying Xuanji departed Eastern Continent aboard the Heavenly Supervision Department's flying shuttle.
• Qin Han explained that the Taiqing Dao Tablet was watched by the Central Continent Heavenly Supervision Department branch in Royal City and described the region's prosperity and spiritual resources.
• Ying Xuanji asked Ye Li to meet a deputy hall master she knew, and Ye Li said they would discuss it after testing their qualifications at the Taiqing Dao Tablet.
• As the shuttle approached Hongcheng Great Commandery, Fu Yunshu reflected that even Ying Xuanji treated Ye Li with respect.

Ye Li and the Eastern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department arrived in the Central Continent Royal City two days before the Five Continents War, where Qin Han and Fu Yunshu went to be tested by the Taiqing Dao Tablet. Ye Li was sent to register as an accompanying elder, while a young registrar secretly left after Qin Han and Fu Yunshu teleported away.

• The Eastern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department's flying shuttle entered the Royal City, drawing cautious attention from the powerful figures gathered there.
• Qiu Tianzong welcomed the group and directed Ying Xuanji to meet Hall Master Tian, but Ying Xuanji chose to help the Eastern Continent Heavenly Supervision Department first.
• Qiu Tianzong asked Ye Li to register as the group's accompanying elder, while Qin Han and Fu Yunshu went to the Taiqing Dao Tablet for their tests.
• A young registrar watched Qin Han and Fu Yunshu disappear through the teleportation array, sensed the surroundings, shut the ledger, and hurried out of the courtyard.

Ye Li discovered that a long-robed Heavenly Supervision Department official was an undercover agent for the Ten Thousand Monster Holy Land, but chose to let him go so he could trace the network behind him. Ye Li and Ying Xuanji left through a teleportation array while the agent carried away the roster booklet.

• The long-robed young man prepared to secretly send a list of Five Continents War prodigies to a hidden lord in the Central Continent.
• Ye Li collided with him, took the roster booklet, wrote down his own name and origin, and returned it.
• The long-robed young man believed Ye Li had not suspected him and hurried away with the booklet.
• Ying Xuanji warned Ye Li that the man was suspicious, and Ye Li said they should keep him alive to follow the foreign agents behind him.
• Ye Li entered the courtyard's teleportation array, and Ying Xuanji followed.

Ying Xuanji and Ye Li arrived at the Taiqing Dao Tablet, where prodigies from across the Five Continents had gathered to cultivate and undergo a test. Fu Yunshu went first, and the Dao Tablet revealed a modest result as the chapter left the others waiting to be tested.

• Ying Xuanji surveyed the gathered prodigies and recognized several renowned cultivators from the other continents.
• A gray-robed elder arrived to oversee the test and asked Qin Han and Fu Yunshu who would go first.
• Fu Yunshu volunteered, accepting that she was outmatched by the gathered prodigies and choosing to take the first test as the senior sister.
• The elder led Fu Yunshu to the Taiqing Dao Tablet and instructed her to touch it.
• Fu Yunshu's touch made the Dao Tablet illuminate a little over a hundred dim stars, revealing a Dao age of eight hundred and seventy-six years without triggering a phenomenon.

After Qin Han’s underwhelming Dao Tablet trial, Yang Shijian insulted the Eastern Continent disciples and threatened them, prompting Ye Li to intervene. Ye Li crushed Yang Shijian with his Divine Connection Realm pressure and advanced toward him, promising to kill him shortly.

• Ye Li realized the stars fading above the Taiqing Dao Tablet revealed the tested cultivators’ Dao ages and gathered power as the trial continued.
• Qin Han took his turn at the Taiqing Dao Tablet, but his result fell short of the strongest Five Continents prodigies.
• Yang Shijian mocked Qin Han and Fu Yunshu, then warned that aristocratic clan prodigies bore grudges against the Heavenly Supervision Department.
• Ye Li released his pressure, shattered Yang Shijian’s protective qi, and broke his knee as he pinned him to the ground.
• Ye Li walked toward Yang Shijian and told him to wait because he would kill him in a moment.

Ye Li approached the Taiqing Dao Tablet to have his Dao Age recorded, and Ying Xuanji realized she had never learned how old he was. When he touched the tablet, it reacted with unprecedented force, leaving the royal city trembling.

• Ye Li's Divine Connection Realm pressure forced the gathered prodigies to bow as he advanced toward the Taiqing Dao Tablet.
• Ye Li told the gray-robed Old Man to record his name and approached the tablet, while the prodigies doubted it could respond to him.
• Ying Xuanji realized she had never learned Ye Li's precise Dao Age and feared he might be young enough to qualify for the tablet's test.
• Ye Li touched the tablet, which emitted a dragon-like hum as a vast spiritual energy vortex collapsed toward it and the royal city shook.

The Taiqing Dao Tablet revealed Ye Li as a nineteen-year-old at the peak of the Divine Connection Realm, triggering a continent-wide spectacle and stunning the gathered cultivators. After the test, Ye Li turned his attention to Yang Shijian, whom he had previously subdued, and asked whether he had any last words.

• The Taiqing Dao Tablet unleashed a vast celestial phenomenon that was visible across the Central Continent and shook cultivators throughout the Eight Wastelands.
• Ying Xuanji counted 981 burning stars and learned that Ye Li was only nineteen years old and already at the peak of the Divine Connection Realm.
• Qin Han and the others realized Ye Li had been steadily improving rather than recovering his strength, while the recording elder struggled to document the result.
• Ye Li received an iridescent mark that would draw him into the secret realm for the war, then left the platform as powerful auras gathered at the Heavenly Supervision Department.
• Ye Li confronted the subdued Yang Shijian and asked if he had any last words, leaving the frightened elder unable to speak.

Ye Li revealed his Divine Connection Realm peak cultivation, killed Yang Shijian, and left the gathered prodigies terrified of facing him at the Five Continents War. Qiu Tianzong arrived, confirmed Ye Li was only nineteen, and vowed that the royal city’s Dragon Cavalry Guard would protect him.

• Ye Li invoked the law and killed Yang Shijian with the Power of Law.
• Ying Xuanji steadied herself and urged Ye Li to leave before Hall Master Tian arrived.
• Ye Li warned the gathered prodigies that they would meet again at the Five Continents War, leaving many in despair.
• Qiu Tianzong arrived through the teleportation formation and asked whether Ye Li had caused the celestial phenomenon.
• Ye Li confirmed his age, and Qiu Tianzong promised the royal city’s three thousand Dragon Cavalry Guard would protect him.