Chapter Summaries

After Ye Li’s shocking rise to the Divine Connection Realm alerted Qiu Tianzong to the danger of demons learning about him, Ye Li left the Royal City Heavenly Supervision Department with Ying Xuanji. Qiu Tianzong locked down the Royal City and detained the other prodigies, but feared its defenses might not withstand the threats ahead.

• Qiu Tianzong asked Ye Li to remain at the Royal City Heavenly Supervision Department until the Central Continent Director of the Celestial Observatory arrived, warning that demons might have sensed the Dao Tablet’s awakening.
• Ye Li refused special protection and left through the teleportation formation with Ying Xuanji, trusting his own abilities to keep him safe.
• Qiu Tianzong ordered the Dragon Cavalry Guard to seal the Royal City’s transit formations and forbade anyone from entering without permission.
• Qiu Tianzong ordered the Heavenly Supervision Department stewards to take the Five Continents prodigies into custody and impose the highest-grade restrictions on them.
• Qiu Tianzong feared that the Dao Tablet’s celestial disturbance had reached lurking demons and doubted the Royal City’s defenses could withstand the coming danger.

True Lord Jiuyin debated abandoning its infiltration of Central Continent after finding Ye Li’s name on a suspicious roster, then witnessed an unprecedented Dao Stele phenomenon revealing a nineteen-year-old peerless prodigy. Convinced the Divine Continent had not anticipated the prodigy’s emergence, Jiuyin saw an opportunity to exploit the situation.

• True Lord Jiuyin studied the roster and suspected the Heavenly Supervision Department had deliberately left Ye Li’s mismatched handwriting as a warning to make it withdraw.
• A vast spiritual-energy storm and nine hundred and eighty-one shining stars appeared across Central Continent before a formation concealed the phenomenon.
• True Lord Jiuyin realized the phenomenon marked an unprecedented prodigy, possibly a nineteen-year-old Sun Moon Realm or Heaven and Earth Realm cultivator.
• True Lord Jiuyin reasoned that the Divine Continent’s own surprise meant the prodigy was an unexpected variable, and it began plotting to exploit the opportunity.

Ye Li’s test shocked the factions across Taiqing Shenzhou, while Tian Qingwu urgently contacted Ying Potian to report the unprecedented genius. Ying Potian learned that nineteen-year-old Ye Li had reached the peak of the Divine Connection Realm and was left stunned.

• The Tianshu Star shifted, prompting cultivators and powerful factions across Central Continent to investigate the celestial anomaly.
• Tian Qingwu anxiously tried to contact Ying Potian from the Heavenly Supervision Department in Central Continent Royal City.
• Ying Potian answered from the Northern Continent and asked Tian Qingwu to keep the conversation brief because the Land of Ten Thousand Demons was stirring.
• Tian Qingwu told Ying Potian that the Taiqing Dao Tablet had verified Ye Li as a peerless genius.
• Tian Qingwu revealed that nineteen-year-old Ye Li had reached the peak of the Divine Connection Realm, leaving Ying Potian speechless with astonishment.

Ying Potian learned that Ye Li had reached the peak of the Divine Connection Realm before turning twenty and ordered the Royal City sealed to protect him from the lurking True Lord Jiuyin. Ye Li killed a demon spy and learned about the threat, then planned his next move toward the Western Continent with Ying Xuanji.

• Ying Potian ordered Tian Qingwu to keep Ye Li in the Royal City and prioritize his safety, even if True Lord Jiuyin attacked.
• Ying Potian identified True Lord Jiuyin as a third-level Creation Realm demon and ordered the Royal City spy killed before news of Ye Li could reach the Land of Ten Thousand Demons.
• Ye Li killed the demon executive, confirmed True Lord Jiuyin's existence, and prepared to escape any danger using souls he had scattered across the Central Continent.
• Ying Xuanji warned Ye Li that Palace Master Jiang of the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace disliked the Heavenly Supervision Department and advised him to bring generous gifts.
• Ye Li told Ying Xuanji he planned to visit the Western Continent, while she admitted his talent surpassed hers and struggled with her envy.

Tian Qingwu offered Ye Li the position of Ziwei Palace’s ninth Star Lord, promising extensive resources and authority to support his cultivation and actions across the Divine Continent. Ye Li accepted, and Tian Qingwu gave him the palace treasury catalogue while Ying Xuanji was to deliver his identity proof later.

• Tian Qingwu invited Ye Li to join Ziwei Palace as its ninth Star Lord.
• Tian Qingwu promised Ye Li access to the palace’s resources and the cooperation of the Heavenly Supervision Departments and Demon Suppression Departments, including authority to punish those who obstructed him.
• Ye Li considered the offer and accepted the Star Lord position, seeing it as a way to travel to the Western Continent openly and meet Palace Master Jiang of the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace.
• Tian Qingwu gave Ye Li Ziwei Palace’s treasury catalogue and said Ying Xuanji would provide his proof of identity later.

Ye Li selected two Creation Realm martial techniques and the God-Tier Nirvana Method from Ziwei Palace’s vault, while Tian Qingwu arranged for Ying Xuanji to assist him. Outside the royal city’s Heavenly Supervision Department, a Tianwu Hall elder confronted Ye Li over Yang Shijian’s death, demanding an explanation.

• Ye Li chose the Star World Transformation Technique, Myriad Spirits Shatter Life Palm, and Abyss Tide Drawing Art, and Tian Qingwu agreed to provide them before the joint campaign.
• Tian Qingwu arranged for Ying Xuanji to stay by Ye Li’s side and said the Heavenly Supervision Department had prepared him a residence.
• As Ye Li and Ying Xuanji walked through the department, they found a hooded Tianwu Hall figure waiting on the threshold.
• Ye Li said Yang Shijian had threatened a department official and been executed under Supreme Pure Law, then asked whether Tianwu Hall objected.
• The Tianwu Hall elder accused Ye Li of killing a genius and demanded that the royal city’s Heavenly Supervision Department answer for it.

After Yang Shijian died, Cheng Zhou tracked his killer, Ye Li, to the Heavenly Supervision Department and attacked him. Ye Li effortlessly defeated Cheng Zhou with a palm strike, leaving the elder in two pieces and the department’s grounds devastated.

• Cheng Zhou discovered that Yang Shijian’s Life Jade had shattered and realized Tianwu Hall would hold him responsible for the prodigy’s death.
• Cheng Zhou tracked Yang Shijian’s storage ring to Ye Li and drank two bottles of Dragon Light Shakes the Sea Liquid to strengthen himself.
• Ying Xuanji explained that Tianwu Hall’s Demonic Blood medicines could impair its cultivators’ intelligence and destabilize their spiritual platforms.
• Cheng Zhou charged at Ye Li and Ying Xuanji, but Ye Li moved first and struck Cheng Zhou’s dantian with a palm.
• Ye Li’s blow sent Cheng Zhou crashing through the Heavenly Supervision Department’s buildings and tore his body in two.

After Ye Li killed Cheng Zhou, he rejected Ying Xuanji’s warning and declared that he would destroy the Divine Continent’s corrupt sects, clans, and mountain gates, even those protected by Creation Realm True Monarchs. Ying Xuanji and Tian Qingwu resolved to support or test his ambitions, while True Lord Jiuyin watched the Royal City from nearby.

• Ying Xuanji warned Ye Li that killing Tianwu Hall’s elder could deepen its hatred and create a fatal threat if the Lord of Ziwei Palace perished.
• Ye Li killed the unconscious Cheng Zhou with a Divine Spear and said he would spare none of the Divine Continent’s deserving sects, clans, or mountain gates.
• Ying Xuanji decided to watch Ye Li’s reckoning with the True Monarchs and considered using his campaign to learn about his cultivation insights.
• Tian Qingwu sensed that Ye Li had noticed her in hiding and resolved to show him the courage of the Supreme Pure Divine Continent.
• True Lord Jiuyin appeared in the wilderness near the Royal City and vowed to catch Ye Li.

Ye Li waited in the Royal City for True Lord Jiuyin, expecting the demon to target him before the Five Continents War began. While preparing to fight, he received two Creation Realm techniques and studied their uses.

• Three thousand Dragon Cavalry Guards activated the Heavenly Net Forbidden Ritual Array, but detected no unusual aura near the Royal City.
• Ye Li reasoned that True Lord Jiuyin would likely come for him before the Five Continents War and resolved to use his new True Self Dharma Body against it.
• Ying Xuanji delivered the Star World Transformation Technique and Myriad Spirits Shatter Life Palm to Ye Li, while explaining that the Nirvana Method would arrive the next day.
• Ye Li studied the Star World Transformation Technique and learned that it could imprison an enemy in a Minor World and be detonated to attack them.

Ye Li chose the Star World Transformation Technique and began upgrading it with Malice Points. In Northern Underworld, Cao Annian warned Cao Xiuyuan that Cao Yang must not harm the mysterious prodigy in the war, but the royal city’s blockade was likely to prevent the warning from reaching him.

• Ye Li decided to postpone cultivating the Myriad Spirits Shatter Life Palm and spent Malice Points upgrading the Star World Transformation Technique.
• Elder Yao questioned why Cao Yang had been told to treat Sun Moon Realm cultivators well, and Cao Xiuyuan suggested the war might include an exceptional young prodigy.
• Cao Annian warned that if Cao Yang killed the prodigy, Ziwei Palace and the Heavenly Supervision Department could destroy Northern Underworld Immortal Mountain.
• Cao Annian told Cao Xiuyuan to hope Cao Yang had truly restrained himself, then left with a warning that Cao Yang might die if he had not.
• Cao Xiuyuan feared his letter would not reach Cao Yang because Tian Qingwu had sealed off nearly all communications from the royal city.

Cao Yang grew jealous of the mysterious Eastern Continent prodigy who had stirred the royal city’s attention and planned to defeat him during the Five Continents War. Before the war began, Qiu Tianzong detained Cao Yang and the other Central Continent prodigies for privately investigating the Heavenly Supervision Department.

• At a banquet in Drunken Immortal Tower, Cao Yang asked whether Yang Shijian had died beneath the Dao Tablet and rebuked a guest for calling him a barbarian.
• Cao Yang and the other prodigies speculated about the mysterious cultivator’s strength, and Cao Yang vowed to defeat him in the Five Continents War.
• Qiu Tianzong arrived with Heavenly Supervision Department enforcers and ordered the gathered prodigies to come with him for investigating confidential matters.
• Cao Yang’s Dao protector, Le Yan, questioned Qiu Tianzong, who said the prodigies would remain detained until the war ended and their Dao protectors could not accompany them.

Tian Qingwu guarded the royal city while True Lord Jiuyin secretly infiltrated the Heavenly Supervision Department to kill Ye Li. Just as Jiuyin approached Ye Li’s guarded courtyard, a purple-clad young woman stopped it.

• Tian Qingwu questioned the Dragon Cavalry Guard captain and learned that the Heavenly Net Forbidden Ritual Array had detected no unusual movement.
• Tian Qingwu surveyed the territory around the royal city, determined to protect it until the Central Continent Director of the Celestial Observatory arrived.
• True Lord Jiuyin concealed its demonic power and entered the royal city using a divine ability that bypassed the defenses.
• True Lord Jiuyin disguised itself as a Heavenly Supervision Department cultivator and located Ye Li’s guarded courtyard.
• A purple-clad young woman holding a golden scroll confronted True Lord Jiuyin as it approached the courtyard.

Ying Xuanji discovered that her attendant was actually True Lord Jiuyin, and Ye Li ambushed the demon lord before he could kill her. Ye Li drove Jiuyin through the royal city as Tian Qingwu rushed to the scene, where Jiuyin was left badly injured and under pressure.

• Ying Xuanji sensed that her attendant was a demon and attacked him with the Power of Law of the stars.
• True Lord Jiuyin subdued Ying Xuanji’s starlight, but Ye Li struck him with a flying kick before he could crush it.
• Ye Li pursued Jiuyin through the royal city and declared that he had finally caught him.
• Tian Qingwu sensed the battle, crushed her emergency token, and raced toward the Heavenly Supervision Department.
• Tian Qingwu saw Ye Li press Jiuyin, whose body was cracking as he struggled against the young cultivator.

Ye Li battered True Lord Jiuyin outside the royal city, but Jiuyin opened his Creation Law Domain and transformed into an Eight-headed Giant Serpent. As the domain stalled Ye Li and Tian Qingwu moved to counter it, Ye Li began unleashing a mysterious divine ability, leaving Jiuyin terrified.

• Ye Li crushed True Lord Jiuyin's Coiled Bone attack and blasted him beyond the royal city's walls.
• Tian Qingwu and the royal city's other fighters prepared to help Ye Li finish off Jiuyin.
• True Lord Jiuyin unleashed his Creation Law Domain, transformed into an Eight-headed Giant Serpent, and strengthened himself within the field.
• Ying Xuanji recognized the Law Domain, and Tian Qingwu rushed out to try to counter it.
• Ye Li began releasing a mythic divine ability, ordered everyone to fall back, and pierced the clouds with a golden pillar of light as Jiuyin cried out in terror.

Ye Li unleashed a Heaven and Earth Manifestation, growing nearly one hundred thousand zhang tall and overwhelming True Lord Jiuyin and the surrounding region. True Lord Jiuyin fled underground, but Ye Li’s colossal punch smashed through the mountain range as devastation spread across the land.

• True Lord Jiuyin attacked Ye Li with poison-miasma hurricanes and [Star Shatter], but their powers dissipated before reaching him.
• Ye Li spoke the words “Law,” “Heaven,” “Manifestation,” and “Earth,” shattering Jiuyin’s two serpent heads and disrupting Tian Qingwu, Qiu Tianzong, and the Dragon Cavalry Guard.
• Ye Li grew into a golden manifestation visible across several cities, and True Lord Jiuyin abandoned the fight and burrowed underground.
• Ye Li crossed the landscape in an instant and struck the mountains with a colossal fist, unleashing a shockwave that vaporized creatures and broke apart the mountain range.

Ye Li killed True Lord Jiuyin with his True Self Dharma Body, whose shockwave devastated the mountain range and nearly overwhelmed the royal city's City-Guarding Array. He returned toward the city as Tian Qingwu and Ying Xuanji reckoned with the gap between his power and their own.

• Ye Li's Dharma Manifestation shockwave battered the royal city's City-Guarding Array and erased the surrounding mountain range.
• The shockwave killed True Lord Jiuyin, and the system awarded Ye Li Malice Points.
• Ye Li absorbed True Lord Jiuyin's remnant soul and reflected on the potential of earning Malice Points from a soul's later revival.
• Ye Li told Tian Qingwu that True Lord Jiuyin was dead and headed back toward the royal city to recover his depleted Qi Sea.
• Tian Qingwu and Ying Xuanji praised Ye Li's strength, while Ying Xuanji regretted believing she could keep pace with him.

Ye Li received the Nirvana Method and permission to take herbs from Ziwei Palace’s treasury as he prepared for the Five Continents War. After he left, Tian Qingwu asked Ying Xuanji to help conceal and protect Ye Li’s status when he traveled to Western Continent, but Ying Xuanji argued that her presence would only diminish his standing.

• Ying Xuanji gave Ye Li the Nirvana Method scroll and let him take medicinal herbs without charging military merits.
• Ye Li returned to the royal city, departed for cultivation, and left Qiu Tianzong to handle the aftermath of the Nine Yin Demon Lord’s death.
• Tian Qingwu told Ying Xuanji that Ye Li’s strength and identity needed to remain secret from the other continents.
• Tian Qingwu said Ye Li would need help from someone with sufficient status when visiting Western Continent to meet Jiang Minghuang.
• Ying Xuanji replied that Ye Li was already a Star Lord and that accompanying him would lower his standing.

Ying Xuanji recovered her sense of purpose after Tian Qingwu asked her to accompany Ye Li on his trip to the Western Continent and help him navigate the Four Continents’ authorities. She accepted the assignment and headed to the Heavenly Supervision Department archives, already planning how to prepare for the journey.

• Ying Xuanji told Tian Qingwu that she felt unqualified to accompany Ye Li after seeing his extraordinary talent.
• Tian Qingwu explained that Ye Li’s talent was a top-secret matter and that Ying Xuanji’s presence would secure cooperation from the Four Continents’ Heavenly Supervision Departments.
• Ying Xuanji decided she could support Ye Li by preparing for his needs and helping him advance, even if that meant serving as his maid.
• Ying Xuanji accepted Tian Qingwu’s assignment and left for the royal city’s Heavenly Supervision Department archives.
• Ying Xuanji considered the long journey ahead and wondered what snacks Ye Li would prefer based on the meals he had eaten.

Ye Li perfected the Abyss Tide Drawing Art and advanced to the peak of the Half-Step Creation Realm, while Ying Xuanji concealed his breakthrough’s immense aura. With the Five Continents War approaching, Ye Li planned to study the young prodigies and target those with questionable backing.

• Ying Xuanji considered learning more about Ye Li’s clothes and gift for Palace Master Jiang, then sensed a breakthrough phenomenon erupting from his residence.
• Ying Xuanji used her cracked astrolabe to conceal Ye Li’s breakthrough with an illusion formation.
• Ye Li used Malice Points to overcome the Bone-Erosion and Condensing Vortex tribulations and reach major mastery of the Abyss Tide Drawing Art.
• Ye Li perfected the Spirit-grade Nirvana Method, gained Magic Power and a technique for absorbing enemy spells, and reached the peak of the Half-Step Creation Realm.
• As the Five Continents War neared, Ye Li decided to review the prodigies’ dossiers and target both them and any problematic forces behind them.

The Heavenly Supervision Department lifted its restrictions on the Five Continents War prodigies after verifying their identities, and the contestants gathered in separate regional factions. Cao Yang remained convinced he could defeat Ye Li and win fame, unaware that Ziwei Hall had already decided to cut the war’s broadcast.

• The Heavenly Supervision Department confirmed the prodigies posed no threat and freed them from their restrictions before the Five Continents War.
• Murong Linfeng used the Central Continent gathering to build connections while quietly assessing the other prodigies.
• Cao Yang refused wine and said he was in a bad mood, prompting others to speculate that he had clashed with Ye Li.
• Several Central Continent prodigies pledged to support Cao Yang against Ye Li, and Cao Yang resolved to defeat him publicly.
• Cao Yang remained unaware that Ziwei Hall had decided to cut the war’s broadcast, undermining his plan to gain fame.