Chapter Summaries

Xiao Jin and Luo Lingxi used a story about a vanished evil cultivation method to imply that the Eastern Continent prodigy had secretly killed Yang Shijian and devoured his foundation. The courtyard was left staring at evidence of Yang Shijian’s apparent death, while Ye Li’s identity remained concealed.

• Four Continents prodigies debated the Eastern Continent prodigy’s talent and guessed at his cultivation, while Xiao Jin silently planned to use their ignorance to benefit himself and Elder Ye.
• Xiao Jin invoked the Youdu Mountain Blood Massacre and projected a Dao Tablet scene to suggest that a Nether Soul Blood Venerable had once reached the late Heaven and Earth Realm through an evil cultivation method.
• The Heavenly Supervision Department restriction alarmed witnesses who knew the truth, and the Western Continent Buddhist Disciple warned Xiao Jin to watch his words.
• Luo Lingxi suggested that the Heavenly Supervision Department might conceal one of its own cultivators and said the evil method required prodigious foundations as its targets.
• Xiao Jin’s Mirage Pearl shattered, revealing Yang Shijian’s body dissipating while Ye Li remained concealed, and the courtyard fell silent.

Xiao Jin and Luo Lingxi manipulated the four-continent prodigies into believing an Eastern Continent prodigy was a powerful evil cultivator who planned to use them as nourishment. The crowd prepared to attack him, while Xiao Jin hoped to escape during the chaos and claim the Dao Tablet’s greatest rewards.

• Xiao Jin hinted that a historical blood cultivator had reached the late Heaven and Earth Realm, leading the informed prodigies to suspect the Eastern Continent prodigy had the same cultivation.
• Luo Lingxi secretly activated a Divine Connection Realm Talisman to influence the gathered prodigies, hoping to seize her share of the opportunity.
• The uninformed prodigies concluded that the Heavenly Supervision Department was hiding an evil cultivator and planned to use them as nourishment.
• The four-continent prodigies agreed to swarm the Eastern Continent prodigy and attack the Heavenly Supervision Department’s prodigies during the war.
• Xiao Jin celebrated the success of his scheme and planned to flee while the prodigies distracted the Eastern Continent elder, then seek powerful Dao Tablet rewards.

Ye Li revealed his overwhelming strength after Luo Lingxi and Xiao Jin incited the Four Continents’ prodigies to attack him. He left the prodigies barely alive as the Heavenly Supervision Department sealed off the underground space and Ye Li announced that he would begin killing.

• Luo Lingxi used the Mortal World Talisman to intensify the Four Continents’ prodigies’ anger while Xiao Jin watched their plan unfold.
• A Western Continent prodigy confronted Luo Lingxi and warned that her actions had changed many people’s fates, including her own.
• Ye Li rose and crushed Luo Lingxi’s emerald dragon and defenses with his martial pressure, collapsing the residence and gravely injuring the gathered prodigies, including Xiao Jin.
• The Heavenly Supervision Department descended into the underground space and sealed it off with icy chains.
• Ye Li advanced through the Dao patterns and declared that he was going to start killing people.

Ye Li revealed himself to the gathered geniuses after they condemned him, then used overwhelming force to kill Xiao Jin and Luo Lingxi. The survivors were left in terror as Ye Li continued his assault beneath the Heavenly Supervision Department’s sealed net.

• Ye Li arrived disguised as Western Continent’s Startling Swan Swift Sword and decided to confront the geniuses who had called him a demonic cultivator.
• Qiu Tianzong and the Heavenly Supervision Department experts opened their chains and sealed off the area, while Cao Yang stayed inside the Central Continent faction’s courtyard.
• Xiao Jin and other geniuses recognized Ye Li’s aura, and Xiao Jin knelt to beg for an explanation.
• Ye Li crushed Xiao Jin to death with his pressure after declaring it was too late.
• Luo Lingxi offered Ye Li a talisman and pleaded for mercy, but Ye Li crushed the talisman and killed her as well.

Ye Li slaughtered the prodigies gathered in the sunless royal city, including Zi Yue, whose father helped him kill her. He ordered Qiu Tianzong not to suppress news of the massacre, declaring that anyone in the Divine Continent who objected would be killed first.

• Ye Li summoned the Master of Purple Beard Cave and revealed him to Zi Yue, who demanded that her father rescue her.
• The Master of Purple Beard Cave killed Zi Yue with a single palm strike, and Ye Li gained Malice Points as prodigies' Dao Hearts collapsed.
• Ye Li released a wave of martial pressure that killed most of the remaining prodigies gathered there.
• The Heavenly Supervision Department's experts watched Ye Li's massacre with reverence, while Qiu Tianzong worried about the unrest it would cause.
• Ye Li told Qiu Tianzong not to block news of the massacre and warned that he would kill anyone in the Divine Continent who objected.

Ye Li ordered the Heavenly Supervision Department to publicize the deaths of the Four Continents' geniuses and challenge any factions that objected to take their grievances to him. Zhang Shouzhen and Tian Qingwu pledged support, though Tian Qingwu worried Ye Li did not grasp the scale of the forces he was confronting.

• Qiu Tianzong warned Ye Li that suppressing the Divine Continent's factions could provoke immense resistance, but Ye Li gave only a casual nod and walked away.
• Qiu Tianzong ordered his men to notify the factions behind the dead geniuses that those who murdered their own kind deserved death, and to direct any objections to Elder Ye.
• Zhang Shouzhen reviewed the operation report and recognized that Ye Li had chosen to confront the sects openly by releasing news of the massacre.
• Zhang Shouzhen pledged Central Continent's support for Ye Li, while Tian Qingwu said Ziwei Hall would also back him.
• Tian Qingwu worried that Ye Li had not been in the Divine Continent long enough to understand the difficulty of bearing the Four Continents' opposition.

Zhang Shouzhen left to help defend the Northern Continent border while Tian Qingwu planned to prepare gifts for Ye Li’s visit to Jiang Minghuang. At the Taiqing Dao Tablet, Ye Li learned about its training methods and decided to pursue a breakthrough and climb the Ascension Ladder.

• Zhang Shouzhen told Tian Qingwu that Ye Li was powerful enough to handle threats, then decided to leave for the Northern Continent border to help block the Land of Ten Thousand Demons.
• Tian Qingwu planned to prepare gifts for Ye Li to take to Jiang Minghuang and have Xuanji deliver them.
• Ye Li and the other prodigies gathered before the Taiqing Dao Tablet as its power began to activate.
• Qin Han explained the Dao Tablet’s trials, thirty-six-thousand-step Ascension Ladder, and dangerous option of attacking other participants.
• Ye Li decided to attempt a breakthrough into the Creation Realm inside the Dao Tablet and climb the Ascension Ladder to improve his evaluation and uncover its secrets.

Ye Li sent Qin Han and Fu Yunshu to search the secret realm’s nearby trials and treasures while he stayed behind. Cao Yang and more than a hundred Central Continent prodigies arrived to challenge Ye Li, leaving the other cultivators stunned by their recklessness.

• Cao Yang appeared with the Central Continent cultivators and noted how few prodigies from the other four continents remained.
• Ye Li surveyed the Ascension Ladder and nearby Sun Moon Realm structures, then told Qin Han and Fu Yunshu to explore and remember anything they found.
• Qin Han and Fu Yunshu eagerly agreed to follow Ye Li’s instructions, while the other cultivators envied their connection to him.
• Cao Yang introduced himself as the Young Mountain Master of Northern Underworld Immortal Mountain and questioned whether Ye Li deserved his reputation.
• Cao Yang and his supporters surrounded Ye Li as the other cultivators thought they were insane to provoke him.

Ye Li crushed Cao Yang and the nearby prodigies beneath the pressure of his cultivation, killing them and gaining Malice Points. As his breakthrough into the Creation Realm became secure, a heavenly light descended and bestowed the Tai Xu Dharma Gate upon him.

• The prodigies from the other continents fled when Cao Yang confronted Ye Li, while Murong Linfeng hesitated over whether to join him.
• Ye Li unleashed his cultivation and a vast pressure pinned Cao Yang and the surrounding prodigies to the ground.
• Ye Li refused Cao Yang’s plea and crushed him and the others to death, earning Malice Points.
• Ye Li realized the slaughter had secured his breakthrough and might fuel further advances.
• A pillar of light descended before Ye Li, and an ancient voice bestowed the Tai Xu Dharma Gate upon him.

Ye Li obtained the Great Void Realm martial skill Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon from the Taiqing Dao Tablet, then used precious pills and Malice Points to break through into the Creation Realm. He began constructing his own Creation Domain, freezing the surrounding world as the process continued.

• Ye Li received the Tai Xu Dharma Gate from the Taiqing Dao Tablet and wondered whether the tablet judged his realm by combat strength.
• Ye Li seized the white scroll and learned the Great Void Realm spirit-grade martial skill Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon.
• Ye Li considered the skill but prioritized raising his Martial Arts Level so he could resist Creation Domain suppression.
• Ye Li consumed pills from Ying Xuanji and spent Malice Points, gaining cultivation buffs as his Qi Sea strengthened.
• Ye Li formed a Creation Foundation, generated Creation Aura, and began building a Creation Domain from familiar elements.

Ye Li broke through to the Creation Realm at nineteen and quickly rose to the peak of the Second Layer, unleashing the Eternal Frost Domain that terrified everyone in the secret realm. After improving the Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon, he prepared to climb the White Jade Heavenly Ladder.

• Ye Li consumed Malice Points and extreme-cold power to form his Eternal Frost Domain and enter the Thirteenth Order Creation Realm.
• His domain froze the surroundings and injured fleeing cultivators before Ye Li drew it back into his body.
• Ye Li advanced to the peak of the Second Layer Creation Realm and judged that he could kill an early Creation Realm Martial Dao True Lord without using Golden Soul Revival.
• Ye Li upgraded the Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon, refined his fourth Resonance Divine Mark, and gained powerful vibrational attacks.
• Ye Li turned his attention to the White Jade Heavenly Ladder and set out to reach its summit.

After breaking through to the Creation Realm, Ye Li charged up the Taiqing Dao Tablet’s Ascension Ladder, surpassing the known record and discovering that it continued beyond the clouds. He reached a platform with a Great Void Realm corpse and refined a mysterious crystal despite sensing danger.

• Qin Han and Fu Yunshu realized Ye Li had likely reached the Creation Realm and wondered whether the Ascension Ladder could stop him.
• Ye Li sprinted past the twenty-eight-thousandth step, broke the Divine Continent’s record, and vanished above the thirty-six-thousandth step.
• Beyond the clouds, Ye Li judged the ladder’s pressure manageable and noticed a platform ahead giving off an eerie aura.
• Ye Li found a bloodstained jade pillar, a mysterious crystal, and the skeleton of a Great Void Realm powerhouse on the platform.
• Ye Li tested the crystal, grabbed it, and refined it instantly.

Ye Li examined the platinum crystal and discovered it contained a vision of an ancient Boundary Patrol Envoy and a sealed legacy that would unlock only when he reached the Great Void Realm. The skeleton that guarded the inheritance briefly awakened, warned Ye Li against unlocking it early, and fell silent again, while Ye Li gained a new sense of control over the secret realm.

• Ye Li resisted the crystal’s attempt to merge with his body and saw a vision of a Boundary Patrol Envoy falling amid burning starships.
• Ye Li detected a sealed Heaven Tier Boundary Patrol Envoy Legacy that would unlock at the Great Void Realm.
• The mysterious skeleton awakened and marveled at Ye Li’s cultivation and age.
• Ye Li asked whether he could unlock the legacy early, and the skeleton warned him not to do so if he cared about people in the star domain.
• The skeleton told Ye Li to return after reaching the Great Void Realm, then lost its vitality and became still.
• Ye Li stored the crystal and gained a new sense of control over the secret realm.

Ye Li claimed the Taiqing Dao Tablet and explored its trials, then used his new control to award techniques to Qin Han and Fu Yunshu. As he prepared to take the tablet to the Western Continent, Ying Potian learned that Ying Xuanji was arranging contacts there while secretly studying Ye Li's preferences.

• Ye Li sensed that the Taiqing Dao Tablet was his and surveyed its secret realms, treasures, and technique rewards.
• Ye Li decided to bring the Dao Tablet to the Western Continent, hoping to use its dense spiritual energy and suppressive power against True Lord Tengshe.
• Ye Li sent techniques to Qin Han and Fu Yunshu after they completed their trials, and the two recognized his involvement.
• Tian Qingwu reported Ye Li's declaration about wiping out anyone dissatisfied in Shenzhou to Ying Potian, who accepted that Ye Li was unfamiliar with the continent's forces.
• Ying Potian asked about Ying Xuanji, and Tian Qingwu said she had gone ahead to arrange a meeting with Palace Master Jiang, while withholding that Ying Xuanji was meticulously recording Ye Li's habits and preferences.

After the Taiqing Dao Tablet acknowledged Ye Li, he gathered the Divine Continent prodigies and began refining the entire secret realm into a portable treasure. Outside, witnesses watched the massive Dao Tablet collapse into a jade pendant in his hand.

• Ye Li descended from the collapsed heavenly staircase and reflected on the power of the Western Continent's Teng Snake and Jiang Minghuang.
• The Divine Continent prodigies gathered in the secret realm and realized Ye Li's actions had changed the Taiqing Dao Tablet's rules.
• Ye Li stopped Qin Han from approaching and sent a storm to lift everyone out of the secret realm.
• Ye Li held up the secret realm and drew its accumulated spiritual energy into his fingertips as he refined the Taiqing Dao Tablet.
• Ying Potian and Tian Qingwu watched the Dao Tablet collapse into a jade pendant, and Ying Potian exclaimed that Ye Li had subdued it.

After Ye Li took the Taiqing Dao Tablet, Ying Potian agreed that Ziwei Hall would support him and learned that he planned to travel to Western Continent to ask Jiang Minghuang about tracking True Lord Tengshe. Ye Li prepared to depart the next morning, with Ying Xuanji already arranging contact with the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace.

• Ye Li removed the Taiqing Dao Tablet from Central Continent Royal City and transformed it into a jade pendant, shocking Ying Potian and Tian Qingwu.
• Ying Potian asked Tian Qingwu about Ying Xuanji's efforts to contact the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace and arranged to send Jiang Minghuang a letter and offer her Essence of Departing Fire.
• Ye Li met Ying Potian, who accepted his decision to keep the Dao Tablet and promised Ziwei Hall would support him.
• Ye Li told Ying Potian he wanted to ask Jiang Minghuang whether she could help track True Lord Tengshe.
• Ye Li said he would leave for Western Continent the following morning, and Ying Potian directed him to seek help from Ying Xuanji.

Ying Xuanji tried to arrange an audience with the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace's Divine Phoenix True Monarch on behalf of a talented friend, offering a fortune in Essence of Departing Fire. The Palace Master rejected the offer with a brutal warning, leaving Ying Xuanji searching for another way to secure the meeting.

• Ying Xuanji arrived at the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace headquarters with Western Continent Heavenly Supervision Department enforcers and offered thirty thousand jin of Essence of Departing Fire for an introduction.
• The elderly Flame Palace woman said Palace Master Jiang would not receive members of the three official powers, but Ying Xuanji raised her offer to sixty thousand jin plus five thousand jin in private compensation.
• The elder accepted the gifts and set a meeting for the day after tomorrow at the main gate of Blazing Heaven Hall.
• The next morning, the Flame Palace returned the sixty thousand jin of Essence of Departing Fire along with the elder's burned severed arm and letters reading “Scram.”
• Ying Xuanji drove away the Flame Palace messenger and considered how to meet the Divine Phoenix True Monarch, then her communication jade slip lit up.

Ying Xuanji told Ye Li that her efforts to arrange a meeting with the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace had failed and that Palace Master Jiang had barred her from returning. After reading Jiang's letter, Ye Li ordered Ying Xuanji to prepare to fight their way into the palace.

• Ying Potian sent Ying Xuanji a letter of recommendation and told her that Ye Li was already traveling to the Western Continent.
• Ying Xuanji tried to repair relations with the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace, but Ye Li arrived before she could leave.
• Ye Li handed Ying Xuanji her father's letter and asked how negotiations with the palace had gone.
• Ying Xuanji explained that the Flame Palace elder who agreed to her deal had lost an arm, Jiang Minghuang had returned the offered essence, and she had been forbidden from entering the palace.
• Ye Li read Jiang Minghuang's letter and ordered Ying Xuanji to prepare to fight their way into the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace.

Jiang Minghuang punished a Flame Palace elder for taking a bribe from Ziwei Hall and rejected any reconciliation with the Divine Continent's Heavenly Supervision Department. As she ordered the Palace to attack an intruder who returned, a Creation Realm True Lord shattered the Mountain Protection Array and demanded that Jiang Minghuang come out.

• Jiang Minghuang accused the Flame Palace elder of taking sixty thousand jin of Essence of Departing Fire from Ziwei Hall and of assuming she would make peace with the people responsible for her sister's death.
• Jiang Minghuang spared the elder's life because of her past contributions, but severed one arm and warned her not to repeat her offense.
• Jiang Minghuang ordered the Flame Palace elders to post the intruder's portrait and attack her if she returned without reporting directly to Jiang Minghuang.
• A powerful aura shook Blazing Heaven Flame Palace, and the intruder shattered its Mountain Protection Array.
• Jiang Minghuang recognized the intruder as a True Lord of the Creation Realm, who identified herself as investigating for the Heavenly Supervision Department and demanded that Jiang Minghuang come out.

Ye Li confronted Jiang Minghuang at the Blazing Heaven Flame Palace after she refused to accept the Heavenly Supervision Department’s authority. He overpowered her with two devastating punches, leaving her flying through the palace and the clash unresolved.

• Jiang Minghuang rejected Ye Li’s demand and ordered the Heavenly Supervision Department’s enforcers to leave her territory.
• Ying Xuanji warned Ye Li that Jiang Minghuang was a seasoned Creation Realm True Lord, but Ye Li advanced and charged at her.
• Ye Li’s punch shattered Jiang Minghuang’s jade-green protective barrier and sent her crashing through dozens of buildings.
• Jiang Minghuang counterattacked with divine fire, but Ye Li evaded it and punched her in the face, breaking her nose.