Chapter Summaries

Ye Li destroyed Tunyuan Pavilion by striking its earth veins with the perfected Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon, killing Tunyuan Old Ancestor and the pavilion’s other leaders. After learning that Azure Tide Pavilion had anticipated a purge and sought allies, Ye Li decided to investigate its hidden secrets.

• Ye Li attacked Tunyuan Pavilion’s earth veins with the Nine Heavens Abyss Shock Canon, shattering its seventy-two main peaks and killing Tunyuan Old Ancestor and the pavilion’s gathered cultivators.
• Tunyuan Old Ancestor realized Ye Li was the elder behind the Central Continent Royal City massacre and died before he could finish cursing him.
• Ye Li pulled Tunyuan Old Ancestor’s soul from his corpse and learned where the pavilion’s treasury was located.
• Tunyuan Old Ancestor’s soul told Ye Li that Azure Tide Pavilion had invited Tunyuan Pavilion to ally against a possible Heavenly Supervision Department purge.
• Ye Li concluded Azure Tide Pavilion had sensed danger unusually early and resolved to investigate the secrets hidden within it.

After destroying Tunyuan Pavilion, Ye Li told the Southern Continent’s Heavenly Supervision Department to spread the news and reviewed intelligence about Faithful Wish Power. He chose the distant Myriad Sword Sect as his first target, hinting that he planned to replace someone there without being noticed.

• Ye Li returned from Tunyuan Pavilion’s treasury, and Chen Zhan thanked him for destroying the sect and removing a threat to the Southern Continent.
• Ye Li told Chen Zhan to clean up the ruins without suppressing news of Tunyuan Pavilion’s destruction, and Chen Zhan agreed to spread the information.
• Ying Xuanji brought Ye Li compiled case files from across the continents, while she privately worried about the Nine Domains Realm arriving earlier than expected.
• Ye Li finished reviewing the files and chose the Myriad Sword Sect in the Northern Continent as the first target.
• When Ying Xuanji questioned his choice of a distant sect, Ye Li said nearby targets would make it harder for him to switch them out unnoticed.

The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor learned that Ye Li had helped kill the Four Lords of Soaring Serpent and was preparing to cleanse the Divine Continent’s Mountain Gates. Seeing the continent’s unity as an urgent threat, it resolved to launch an all-out invasion, promising to hold off Ying Potian while the Demon Lords faced the other defenders.

• The Elephant Demon confirmed that the Four Lords of Soaring Serpent had died, and the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor recognized Ye Li as a powerful new True Lord.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor warned the Demon Lords that Ye Li and the Celestial Observatories could soon unite the Divine Continent.
• The Tiger Demon urged an immediate attack on Northern Continent, but the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor asked how the demons would handle Ying Potian.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor declared that it would deal with Ying Potian while the other Demon Lords faced Ye Li and the remaining threats.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor ordered a campaign to seize the entire Divine Continent.

The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor set the demons’ invasion of Divine Continent for three days later, while the Tiger Demon planned to weaken Ying Potian’s Faithful Wish Power and confront Ye Li. Three days later, leaders gathered at Azure Tide Pavilion to discuss the upheaval, but the Hall Master of Myriad Sword Sect had not arrived.

• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor announced that the demons would attack Northern Continent from without on the night three days later, after unrest began in Divine Continent.
• The Demon Lords celebrated the coming invasion, while the Tiger Demon planned to devour people to weaken Ying Potian and possibly face Ye Li.
• The Heavenly Supervision Department’s manipulation helped unrest spread across Divine Continent over the next three days.
• More than a dozen figures arrived at Azure Tide Pavilion for a council convened by the Azure Sea Pavilion Master.
• The Azure Sea Pavilion Master asked who had yet to arrive, and her confidant said the Hall Master of Myriad Sword Sect was missing.

Mo Qingming gathered leaders of several Divine Continent factions to propose an alliance against Elder Ye’s coming crackdown. To prove Azure Tide Pavilion’s commitment, she revealed the corpse of the former Director of the Celestial Observatory of Northern Continent, leaving the assembled True Lords stunned.

• Mo Qingming grew wary when the Myriad Sword Sect’s Hall Master failed to arrive and ordered her aide to investigate Northern Continent.
• Her aide asked whether the Azure Sea Exorcism Festival would proceed, and Mo Qingming suspended it and barred anyone from entering the council hall without her order.
• Mo Qingming challenged the gathered True Lords to admit their hidden crimes and join forces rather than try to persuade Elder Ye separately.
• Mo Qingming summoned an ice coffin and shattered its lid, revealing the corpse of the former Director of the Celestial Observatory of Northern Continent.
• Xiao Wuya and the other True Lords recognized the corpse and were shocked that Mo Qingming possessed it.

Mo Qingming challenged the gathered True Lords to join Azure Tide Pavilion against Ye Li, warning that he was determined to destroy them. Ye Li arrived disguised as the Master of the Myriad Sword Sect and revealed why he was targeting the True Lords as the heavens shook around him.

• Mo Qingming warned the True Lords that Ye Li would not relent and urged them to remember the forces he had already destroyed.
• Xiao Wuya affirmed his support for Azure Tide Pavilion, while the True Lords remained wary of Mo Qingming's revelations.
• The Master of the Myriad Sword Sect arrived and asked whether everyone was present.
• Mo Qingming confronted the sword-robed man, asking why he sought to destroy the True Lords and offering wealth and women to make him stop.
• The man transformed into a Boy in Black, unleashed overwhelming Martial Dao pressure, and said he needed the True Lords out of his way.

Ye Li attacked Azure Tide Pavilion after Mo Qingming and the other sect leaders failed to persuade him to relent. He killed the gathered True Lords and left Mo Qingming frozen amid the slaughter.

• Mo Qingming recognized that Ye Li had come to attack, while his aura revealed power beyond the gathered True Lords.
• Xiao Wuya and the other sect leaders offered to surrender their treasures, but Ye Li said more words were useless and killed Xiao Wuya with one strike.
• Ye Li revealed the Myriad Transformation Divine Soldier Iron above Azure Tide Pavilion, blocking anyone from escaping.
• Ye Li killed the thick-browed Old Man and destroyed the Pagoda of the Floating Tu, then slaughtered the other True Lords with his overwhelming physical force.
• Mo Qingming warned the survivors to risk their lives, but she froze as the hall was torn apart and Ye Li's attack left Azure Tide Pavilion drenched in blood.

Ye Li destroyed Mo Qingming’s Qi Sea and tormented her soul, rendering her soul-based attacks useless. He left her alive briefly, but then annihilated her along with Azure Tide Pavilion.

• Mo Qingming begged Ye Li for mercy, claiming her connections to the Demon Emperor beyond Northern Continent could help him.
• Ye Li crushed Mo Qingming’s Qi Sea and burned her soul with divine fire.
• Mo Qingming sent her refined souls to attack Ye Li, but his Soul Control ability made them harmless and severed their connection to her.
• Mo Qingming’s Dao Heart collapsed, and Ye Li left her behind as she mistakenly believed he had spared her.
• Ye Li’s Divine Spear destroyed Azure Tide Pavilion, and Mo Qingming lost consciousness in terror.

After destroying the Tunyuan Pavilion and Myriad Sword Sect, Ye Li learned that Mo Qingming had contacted the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor and warned him of an impending attack. Ye Li’s Supreme Seal flashed a deadly warning as the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor led eight powerful Demon Lords toward Northern Continent’s border, where Ying Potian and Divine Continent’s forces prepared to face them.

• Ye Li questioned Mo Qingming’s soul about her dealings with the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor, and she revealed that she had shared intelligence with the demons in exchange for living souls.
• Mo Qingming said she had crushed a communication jade talisman before the council began to summon the demons once Divine Continent attacked Azure Tide Pavilion.
• Ye Li realized the demons beyond Northern Continent’s border might already be mobilizing, and his Supreme Seal began glowing crimson with danger.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor arrived at Northern Continent’s border with eight Demon Lords, whose auras pressed down on the continent.
• Ying Potian and Creation Realm True Monarchs emerged from the border fortress and confronted the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor.

The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor revealed that it had approached the Great Void Realm and overwhelmed Ying Potian, while five Demon Lords broke through the Northern Continent’s defenses. As Ying Potian prepared to sacrifice himself and the defenders considered asking Ye Li for help, a mysterious soul arrived and spoke a single word: “Switch.”

• Ying Potian charged the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor, but the Demon Emperor’s saber overwhelmed his spear and sent him crashing into the border wall.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor revealed that it had approached the Great Void Realm and ordered eight Demon Lords to attack the Northern Continent.
• Five Demon Lords broke through the defenses and rushed toward nearby prefectures while Jiang Minghuang and other True Lords tried to hold back the rest.
• Ying Xuanji worried that the defenders had no way to stop the invasion and considered contacting Ye Li for help.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor continued battering Ying Potian until a nameless humanoid soul entered the battlefield and said, “Switch.”

Ye Li reached Northern Continent and confronted the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor, whose invasion threatened the frontier. He overwhelmed and severely wounded the near-Great Void Realm demon, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Ye Li used [Golden Firmament Rainbow Transformation] to race to Northern Continent, smashing through two Demon Lords on the way.
• Ye Li activated [Rook Exchange] to switch places with Ying Potian and face the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor.
• Ye Li struck the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor with his bare fist and blasted it backward, proving his physical strength surpassed the demon's expectations.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor tried to use its fang saber and Great Void Qi, but Ye Li caught the blade beneath his boot and revealed his golden eyes.
• Ye Li punched the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor in the face, severely wounding it and earning Malice Points as Ying Xuanji and the battlefield watched in shock.

Ye Li used [Golden Soul Revival] to overpower the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor and kill it publicly. The other fighters watched as the Demon Race’s strongest figure on the ancestral planet fell.

• Ye Li hurled the canine-fang broadsword into the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor, badly injuring it.
• Ye Li rushed the Demon Emperor and planted a technique inside its chest, shattering its organs with violent vibrations.
• The Sky Wolf Demon Emperor struck back with Great Void Qi, but Ye Li’s body withstood the attack and kept it pinned down.
• Ye Li smashed the Demon Emperor’s head, crushed its chest, and pursued it with a storm of sword strikes until it died.
• The system announced that Ye Li had publicly killed the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor and gained Malice Points.

Ye Li defeated the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor and three other demon lords, then learned that Ziwei Hall would seek a method for advancing to the Great Void Realm. The story left him waiting in the Central Continent for a Heavenly Ship from the Nine Domains Realm to arrive within three days.

• Ye Li killed the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor, surviving its purple qi assault and gaining the qualifications to approach the Great Void Realm.
• Ye Li used the Myriad Transformation Divine Soldier Iron to slay the three demon lords who tried to flee.
• Ying Potian thanked Ye Li for saving the Divine Continent, and Ye Li learned that the five demon lords who invaded the interior were dead.
• Ye Li asked Ying Potian for a method to advance to the Great Void Realm, and Ying Potian promised to seek one from the Nine Domains Realm's arriving Heavenly Ship.

Ye Li learned that the Nine Domains Realm was a powerful cultivation world ruled in part by the Great Sheng Dynasty, and he considered leaving the Ancestral Star to pursue further advancement. As he and Ying Potian headed to the border to meet an unexpectedly early Heavenly Ship, Ye Li remained wary of the visitors’ unknown intentions.

• Ye Li asked Ying Potian about the Nine Domains Realm, and Ying Potian described its rich spiritual energy and the Great Sheng Dynasty’s strength and ties to the Divine Continent.
• Ye Li concluded that little on the Ancestral Star remained worth his attention and decided to explore beyond it.
• Ying Potian warned Ye Li that the scheduled meeting with the Nine Domains Realm had been moved forward and that the interrealm letter lacked the Great Sheng Nine Luminaries Division’s official seal.
• Ying Potian said the visitors were unlikely to target the Divine Continent, but Ye Li kept his guard up because their intentions and knowledge of him were uncertain.
• Ying Potian suggested that Ye Li join the Great Sheng Dynasty’s Nine Luminaries Division if he could not obtain a method to enter the Great Void Realm, while a silver-haired girl stopped herself from approaching.

Ye Li declined Ying Potian’s proposal to join the Nine Luminaries Division until he learned more about the Great Sheng Dynasty, then left to prepare for the Upper Realm Envoys’ arrival. At a mountain peak in the Central Continent, he refined the continent’s energy to strengthen himself, pushing his cultivation beyond the Creation Realm and toward the Great Void Realm.

• Ye Li told Ying Potian he would decide later whether to join the Nine Luminaries Division, and said Ying Potian could summon him when the Upper Realm Envoy arrived.
• Ying Xuanji asked Ye Li if he had suffered hidden injuries; he said he was in excellent condition and then departed.
• Ying Xuanji resolved to reach the Creation Realm and travel to the Nine Domains Realm, while Jiang Minghuang arrived too late to speak with Ye Li.
• Ye Li examined his accumulated Malice Points and decided to wait for a suitable Great Void Method from the Upper Realm Envoy before using them to make deductions.
• Ye Li refined the Central Continent’s mountains-and-seas energy, raising his cultivation beyond the limits of the Creation Realm toward the Great Void Realm.

Ye Li refined the five regions of the Divine Continent with Imperial Command Over Mountains and Seas to strengthen himself before the Upper Realm Envoy arrived. As his Infamy Level rose, Mu Jingtai and Mu Zhaorong approached the planet to negotiate over the Taiqing Dao Tablet, with Mu Zhaorong promising to follow Great Sheng law.

• Ye Li expanded the territory he refined, enduring damage to his meridians to increase his combat power before the Upper Realm Envoy arrived.
• The system announced that Ye Li's Infamy Level had increased and granted him a Gold Quality reward.
• Mu Jingtai and Mu Zhaorong traveled aboard a Nine Luminaries Star-Raft toward Supreme Pure Divine Continent.
• Mu Jingtai warned Mu Zhaorong that their private mission over the Taiqing Dao Tablet did not comply with Great Sheng law.
• Mu Zhaorong promised not to use force casually, while Mu Jingtai grew excited about the opportunity the Dao Tablet might offer the Taicang Mu Family.

The Nine Luminaries envoys arrived early at the Central Continent Heavenly Supervision Department and offered help against the Beast Emperor, only to learn that a Divine Continent prodigy had already slain it. Mu Zhaorong asked Ying Potian for the prodigy’s name, leaving Ye Li’s identity unspoken.

• The Nine Luminaries Star-Raft docked at the Heavenly Supervision Department, and the enforcers and elders reacted with awe and concern over the envoys’ early arrival.
• Mu Jingtai told Ying Potian that the Nine Luminaries Division intended to offer tangible benefits, including help against the Beast Emperor.
• Ying Potian revealed that a prodigy from the Divine Continent had already slain the Great Void Realm Beast Emperor and thanked the envoys for their concern.
• Mu Jingtai was caught off guard by the news, but Mu Zhaorong corrected his response and congratulated the Divine Continent.
• Mu Zhaorong asked Ying Potian for the name of the prodigy who had killed the Beast Emperor.

Ying Potian asked Mu Zhaorong for a Great Void Method to help Ye Li, but she demanded the Taiqing Dao Tablet in exchange. When he revealed the tablet had vanished from Central Continent, Mu Jingtai demanded to know where it went.

• Ying Potian told the Divine Continent's leaders that Ye Li had saved them from the Demon Emperor calamity.
• Ying Potian offered Ziwei Hall's secret treasury token in exchange for a Great Void Method for Ye Li.
• Mu Zhaorong refused the token and offered a spirit-grade Guixu Method in exchange for the Taiqing Dao Tablet.
• Ying Potian asked for two days to consider because the Dao Tablet held secrets of the Great Void Realm.
• Ying Potian revealed that the Taiqing Dao Tablet was no longer in Central Continent, and Mu Jingtai demanded to know where it had gone.

Ying Potian refused to reveal what happened to the Taiqing Dao Tablet, so Mu Zhaorong and Mu Jingtai stayed at the Heavenly Supervision Department to investigate. Mu Zhaorong concluded that a Divine Continent prodigy had subdued the tablet and began considering other ways to uncover its owner.

• Ying Potian told Mu Jingtai and Mu Zhaorong that the Dao Tablet matter could not be disclosed, and Mu Zhaorong arranged to stay for a few days.
• Mu Jingtai angrily complained that they had failed to secure the Taiqing Dao Tablet, but Mu Zhaorong calmed him and explained that pressing Ying Potian would only weaken their position.
• Mu Zhaorong reasoned that the Dao Tablet had likely selected and been subdued by a Divine Continent prodigy, and warned Mu Jingtai that investigating candidates would bring little advantage.
• Mu Jingtai suggested Elder Ye might have subdued the tablet, but Mu Zhaorong rejected the idea because the Sky Wolf Demon Emperor's cultivation exceeded what the tablet's requirements allowed.
• Mu Zhaorong decided to seek another way to provoke Ziwei Hall's leaders into acting out of line so she could gain leverage over the Divine Continent.

Ye Li completed refining the Divine Continent and the Land of Ten Thousand Demons into the range of his fortune-enhancing ability, then reached Malice Rank LV7 and received a new Golden Divine Ability. He refused to trade the Taiqing Dao Tablet for the Great Void Method and planned to use his surplus Creation Realm souls to feed the Myriad Transformation Divine Soldier Iron.

• Ye Li finished refining the five regions of the Divine Continent and the Land of Ten Thousand Demons, gaining the ability to invoke Mountains and Rivers Fortune throughout that territory.
• Ye Li's Malice Rank rose to LV7 after his vile name spread across the Supreme Pure Divine Continent, earning him a Gold Quality reward.
• Ying Potian told Ye Li that the Nine Domains Realm envoy would exchange the Great Void Method for the Taiqing Dao Tablet, and Ye Li instructed him to ask about other payment or abandon the deal.
• Ye Li opened his reward and obtained the Golden Divine Ability Heaven-Intercepting Spirit-Plundering Technique, which could seize others' treasures.
• Ye Li decided to save the new ability for later and feed his unused Creation Realm souls to the Myriad Transformation Divine Soldier Iron.