Chapter Summaries

Ying Potian tried to negotiate with Mu Zhaorong after the Divine Continent refused to trade away the Dao Tablet, but her proposed terms escalated into a demand for Ying Xuanji to become her nephew’s concubine. After Ying Potian refused and concealed that Ye Li had subdued the tablet, Mu Zhaorong summoned the Divine Continent’s leaders for a public address, while Mu Jingtai anticipated using their words against them.

• Ying Potian told Mu Zhaorong and Mu Jingtai that the Divine Continent would not exchange the Dao Tablet and invited them to propose different terms.
• Mu Zhaorong demanded that Ying Potian betroth Ying Xuanji to her nephew as a concubine in exchange for the Great Void Method, and Ying Potian refused.
• Mu Zhaorong released her Great Void Realm Eighth Layer pressure, then asked Ying Potian who had subdued the Dao Tablet.
• Ying Potian withheld Ye Li’s name, and Mu Zhaorong ordered him to summon the Divine Continent’s high-ranking elders and Ziwei Hall’s Star Lords.
• Mu Jingtai told Ying Potian to comply and anticipated using any public misstatement to accuse the Divine Continent of tearing apart friendly relations between the two nations.

As Divine Continent’s leaders gathered for a meeting with the Nine Domains Realm Envoys, Gu Kai struggled to accept their demand that Ying Xuanji become a concubine but chose not to endanger the people with his anger. Ying Xuanji confessed her feelings to Ye Li, who told her to watch what he did for herself as the meeting approached.

• Word spread that Mu Zhaorong had summoned Divine Continent’s upper ranks, and Ye Li hurried to the meeting after Ying Potian contacted him.
• Gu Kai heard that an Upper Realm Envoy wanted Ying Xuanji as a concubine and nearly confronted the Envoys, but realized his protest could bring harm to Divine Continent’s people.
• Gu Kai saw Ye Li arrive and concluded that even the renowned True Lord had answered the Envoys’ summons.
• Ying Xuanji warned Ye Li about the concubine demand and urged him not to let the Envoys provoke him into a rash response.
• Ying Xuanji admitted she loved Ye Li and wanted to spend her life with him, but Ye Li stopped her and told her to see for herself what he would do.

Mu Jingtai condemned the Heavenly Supervision Department for failing to unify the Taiqing Ancestral Star and ordered its elders to punish one another’s blood relatives. Ye Li then transformed, revealed overwhelming power, and confronted Mu Jingtai and Mu Zhaorong.

• Mu Jingtai accused the Divine Continent elders of negligence and ordered them to bring each other’s blood relatives for three thousand heavy rod strikes.
• Ying Potian protested that the Divine Continent was not a vassal of Great Sheng, but Mu Jingtai threatened war and forced him to back down.
• Ye Li steadied Ying Potian and challenged Mu Jingtai’s logic as he walked up to the platform.
• Ye Li entered the state of Imperial Command Over Mountains and Seas, rapidly raising his aura beyond the Great Void Realm.
• Ye Li faced Mu Jingtai and Mu Zhaorong and declared that neither of them would escape.

Ye Li challenged the Great Sheng envoys and revealed power that overwhelmed them. After grievously wounding Mu Jingtai, he fought Mu Zhaorong and unleashed a rain of punches against her, with the battle still unresolved.

• Mu Jingtai recognized Ye Li as a powerful Great Void Saint and threatened him for defying Great Sheng.
• Mu Zhaorong ordered Ye Li to kneel, but her pressure had no effect on him as his realm surged toward the Great Void Realm Seventh Level.
• Ye Li crossed the plaza and punched through Mu Jingtai’s chest before Mu Zhaorong could stop him.
• Mu Zhaorong preserved Mu Jingtai’s life and attacked Ye Li with tens of thousands of jade-green palm prints.
• Ye Li endured the palm strikes, closed in on Mu Zhaorong, healed his injuries, and battered her with a rain of jade-like fists.

Ye Li overwhelmed Mu Zhaorong, a Great Void Realm cultivator from the Taicang Mu Family, and killed her with soul-burning flames. He left Mu Jingtai alive with his Dao Heart shattered, then asked him what his aunt looked like.

• Mu Zhaorong attacked Ye Li in an attempt to save Mu Jingtai, but Ye Li beat her down with his combined techniques.
• Mu Zhaorong escaped in an azure bird manifestation, but Ye Li shattered it with the Myriad Transformation Divine Soldier Iron and drove her into the ground.
• Mu Zhaorong threatened Ye Li with retaliation from the Taicang Mu Family, but he dismissed her warning and tossed the recovered Mu Jingtai beside her.
• Ye Li burned Mu Zhaorong to charcoal with soul-targeting flames while Mu Jingtai watched.
• Ye Li asked the despairing Mu Jingtai what his aunt looked like.

Ye Li killed Mu Jingtai and learned that he and his aunt had secretly come to the Divine Continent to seize the Taiqing Dao Tablet. He decided to go to Great Sheng to deal with the fallout and seek a way to protect the Divine Continent, asking Ying Potian for a recommendation to the former Envoy Lin.

• Ye Li burned Mu Jingtai to ash despite his threats, then examined his memories and confirmed that he had come to the Divine Continent without Great Sheng's approval to obtain the Taiqing Dao Tablet.
• Ye Li considered Mu Zhaorong a lingering threat and decided to go to Great Sheng, where joining the Nine Luminaries Division could help him gather intelligence and advance.
• Ying Potian arrived at the battlefield and saw the remains of Mu Jingtai and his aunt, then asked Ye Li what had happened.
• Ye Li asked Ying Potian about the former Envoy Lin and said he planned to leave the Divine Continent soon to resolve the trouble himself.
• Ying Potian offered to share responsibility, but Ye Li asked him instead for a letter of recommendation to Envoy Lin.

Mu Zhaorong mourned the destruction of her Bloodline Clone and planned to use Mu Jingtai’s death to turn Dasheng against the Divine Continent. Meanwhile, Ye Li entered a Ziwei Hall Blessed Land and began upgrading the Guixu Method he had taken from Mu Jingtai’s soul.

• Mu Zhaorong raged over Ye Li destroying her Bloodline Clone and killing Mu Jingtai, then decided to wait and fabricate evidence that Mu Jingtai had been murdered while on official business.
• Mu Zhaorong told the maidservants to inform the Mu Family head that she had an important matter to discuss.
• Ye Li entered a Blessed Land controlled by Ziwei Hall without meeting with Ying Xuanji, the others, or visitors from the Eastern Continent.
• Ye Li checked his Malice Points and used Soul Control to extract the Guixu Method from Mu Jingtai’s soul.
• Ye Li identified Mu Jingtai’s Spirit-grade Taicang Wusheng Scripture and began spending Malice Points to raise it.

Ye Li used Mu Jingtai’s insights and Treasure Medicine to master the Guixu Method, then created the Saint-grade Primordial Vortex and advanced to Half-step Saint. He began consuming pills and Malice Points to raise his Martial Arts Level before marching into Great Sheng.

• Ye Li discovered that Mu Jingtai’s storage ring held abundant Treasure Medicine suited to the Guixu Method and consumed it to deepen his vitality and comprehension.
• Ye Li mastered the Taicang Wusheng Scripture and learned that its Great Void Qi could destroy an enemy’s vitality.
• Ye Li used the Taicang Wusheng Scripture as a blueprint to create the Saint-grade Guixu Method, Primordial Vortex, which transformed his Creation Foundation.
• Ye Li’s cultivation raised him to Half-step Saint as the Blessed Land shook under the pressure of his transformation.
• Ye Li swallowed the pills he had prepared and began spending Malice Points to raise his Martial Arts Level before advancing into Great Sheng.

Ye Li broke through to the Great Void Realm Fourth Level, gaining a powerful Saint Body and destructive Great Void Qi. He then entered the Taiqing Dao Tablet again to meet the mysterious skeleton and learn more about its inheritance.

• Ye Li used his pills, Malice Points, and breakthrough insight to open his Great Void Space and advance to the Great Void Realm Fourth Level.
• Ye Li's eruption of Saintly might threw Shenzhou into chaos, and he tested his new strength by erasing a vast sea of forest with black stars.
• Ye Li judged that he needed an overwhelming advantage before confronting the Taicang Mu Family and its powerful patriarch.
• Ye Li activated the Taiqing Dao Tablet and returned to the White Jade Heavenly Ladder, where the mysterious skeleton awaited him.

Ye Li awakened the Skeletal Elder with his Great Void Qi and learned that the star core’s restriction had been left by an Immortal who might still sense it being opened. He broke the restriction and received the Boundary Patrol Envoy inheritance, whose creed raised questions about how to respond when powerful rulers lose their sanity.

• Ye Li fed Great Void Qi to the skeleton, awakening the Skeletal Elder, who was shocked that Ye Li had reached the Great Void Realm in less than a month.
• Ye Li asked how to open the star core, and the Skeletal Elder told him to conceal the area with Great Void Qi before breaking its restriction.
• The Skeletal Elder warned that an Immortal had left an imprint on the star core and could sense related activity, though he could no longer remember who it was.
• Ye Li poured his Magic Power into the star core until its restriction shattered and the Boundary Patrol Envoy waist token emerged.
• Ye Li grasped the token and received its inheritance, while the Skeletal Elder explained its creed about maintaining order and confronting rulers who lose their sanity.

The Skeletal Elder entrusted Ye Li with his Boundary Patrol Envoy waist token and asked him to help restore his memories and sustain his consciousness. Ye Li explored the token’s grotto-heaven and discovered a vast hoard of precious medicines and powerful martial skills.

• The Skeletal Elder explained that he had served as a Boundary Patrol Envoy and asked Ye Li to investigate a Sword Immortal who had gravely injured him.
• The Skeletal Elder gave Ye Li his waist token, which held his remaining inheritance and could help him mobilize other Boundary Patrol Envoys.
• Ye Li asked whether the Skeletal Elder could be resurrected, and the elder said he could regain memories if nourished with enough energy after Ye Li reached the Dao Evolution Realm.
• The Skeletal Elder’s consciousness faded, and Ye Li sent his divine sense into the waist token to inspect its inheritance.
• Ye Li found a grotto-heaven filled with Great Void Realm precious medicines and martial skill scrolls, including Dao Evolution Realm techniques.

Ye Li surveyed the Skeletal Elder’s vast inheritance, promised to seek a way to revive him, and planned to visit the Nine Luminaries Division in the Great Sheng Dynasty. Meanwhile, Ying Potian feared the Dynasty would punish Ye Li and the Supreme Pure Divine Continent, and Ying Xuanji learned that even Ye Li reaching the Saint Realm might not prevent it.

• Ye Li examined the cultivation methods and medicinal treasures in the waist token’s pocket realm, then placed the Skeletal Elder’s skeleton on a chair and promised to help revive him if possible.
• Ye Li left the Dao Tablet space with the shrunken Taiqing Dao Tablet and waist token, kept Mu Jingtai’s soul as a guide, and decided to visit the Nine Luminaries Division first.
• Ying Potian considered how the Great Sheng Dynasty might demand that the Supreme Pure Divine Continent hand over Ye Li, and resolved he would claim responsibility himself if that could protect Ye Li.
• Ying Xuanji told Ying Potian that Ye Li’s cultivation fluctuation suggested further progress and asked whether attaining Sainthood would shield Ye Li and the Divine Continent from punishment.
• Ying Potian answered that such an outcome would be difficult.

Ye Li prepared to leave the Divine Continent for Dasheng after Ying Potian gave him a sealed letter. Ying Xuanji urged him to become a Domain Lord so Dasheng might spare the continent, and Ye Li departed into the heavens, leaving her behind.

• Ying Xuanji asked Ying Potian whether becoming a Domain Lord could resolve the threat from Dasheng, and Ying Potian said he did not know.
• Ye Li appeared in Ying Potian's hall, confirmed that the letter was ready, and took it before setting out for Dasheng.
• Ying Potian told Ye Li that the Divine Continent's elders feared he would be exposed and that the people revered him.
• Ying Xuanji chased after Ye Li and told him she believed he could reach the Dao Evolution Realm and save the Divine Continent.
• Ye Li praised Ying Xuanji's judgment, then flew away from the ancestral star as she watched in silence.

Ye Li traveled to Great Sheng aboard Mu Jingtai’s Nine Luminaries Star-Raft and learned about the local authorities and the dynasty’s Imperial Qi. He decided that joining the Dragon Pool Nine Luminaries Division would be the fastest way to deal with the Taicang Mu Family, then activated the star-raft’s teleportation formation.

• Mu Jingtai told Ye Li that Great Sheng lay ahead and recommended using the star-raft’s teleportation formation to reach Longtan Grand Commandery.
• Mu Jingtai explained that Lin, the governor of Longtan Grand Commandery and a senior Nine Luminaries Division official, had risen through a decree bearing the Vermilion Bird’s seal.
• Ye Li learned that Great Sheng’s Imperial Qi suppressed the powers of True Lords and considered whether he could refine the dynasty’s fortune.
• Ye Li assessed the Taicang Mu Family’s strength and concluded that joining the Dragon Pool Nine Luminaries Division would help him move against them quickly.
• Ye Li powered up the formation and sent the platinum star-raft into a leap.

Ye Li arrived in Great Sheng and met Prefect Lin Huaijin at the Dragon Pool Nine Luminaries Division, where he accepted an offer to serve. Lin assigned him to reinforce an elite team that had operated one member short for years.

• Ye Li entered Great Sheng after changing his customs seal and brought Ying Potian's letter to the Nine Luminaries Division branch.
• A guard escorted Ye Li to Lin Huaijin, who confirmed his Great Void Realm cultivation and praised his role in resolving the Northern Continent's Demonic Calamity.
• Lin Huaijin offered Ye Li a position in the Dragon Pool Nine Luminaries Division and warned him that the work was dangerous and required military merit.
• Ye Li accepted because he wanted access to the Division's intelligence and a way to oppose the Taicang Mu Family.
• Lin Huaijin gave Ye Li an iron plaque and assigned him to an elite Yao Xuan Envoy team that had been missing a member for years.

Lin Huaijin arranged for Ye Li to join the Nine Luminaries Division and assigned him to Chen Chuan’s team, hoping the captain would temper his arrogance. Chen Chuan’s team prepared to beat the newcomer into line before their investigation mission in Qingping City.

• Lin Huaijin hinted that joining the Nine Luminaries Division could protect the Supreme Pure Divine Continent from Mu Jingtai’s misconduct, and Ye Li thanked him before leaving.
• Lin Huaijin burned Ye Li’s letter, then decided to focus on problems left by the previous prefect.
• Lin Huaijin ordered Chen Chuan to train Ye Li, obey the law, and take him on the team’s Qingping City investigation in three days.
• Chen Chuan told his team that the newcomer had initial Great Void Realm cultivation, and Xie Huaiwei worried he might disrupt their mission.
• Chen Chuan decided the team would beat Ye Li as a warning, and Xie Huaiwei agreed to treat him while asking them to go easy because her medicine was running low.

Gongshu Yan and Chi Liao ambushed Ye Li at his residence in the Nine Luminaries Division, but Ye Li easily defeated them. Chen Chuan arrived and claimed that Ye Li was his to handle.

• Gongshu Yan and Chi Liao approached Ye Li's courtyard while Chen Chuan ordered them to take him down quickly.
• Gongshu Yan slipped into the house and stabbed at Ye Li, but Ye Li dodged and struck him through the abdomen, blasting him outside.
• Chi Liao tried to catch Gongshu Yan but was thrown back by the force, and Gongshu Yan warned that Ye Li was frighteningly fast.
• Ye Li emerged from the ruined courtyard and demanded that the remaining attacker reveal himself.
• Chen Chuan arrived, told Chi Liao to step back, and said he would handle Ye Li himself.

Chen Chuan challenged Ye Li to test his strength, but Ye Li overwhelmed him and his teammates before they could explain the situation. Xie Huaiwei was left facing Ye Li’s killing intent until an Old Man arrived and called for him to calm down, saying they were on the same side.

• Chen Chuan drew Funeral Snow and attacked Ye Li, offering to let him win if he survived three sword strikes.
• Ye Li erased Chen Chuan’s Sword Qi and battered him until he was gravely wounded and called for Chi Liao to flee.
• Chi Liao charged Ye Li, but Ye Li shattered his chains and arms and sent him crashing through several estates.
• Xie Huaiwei arrived and was struck before she could speak, leaving her injured and face-to-face with Ye Li.
• An Old Man called out to Ye Li from afar, telling him to calm down because they were on the same side.

Ye Li defeated Chen Chuan and three other Yao Xuan Envoys after they attacked him without identifying themselves. Lin Huaijin confirmed Ye Li's strength, made him their captain, and reassigned the injured envoys from their upcoming mission.

• Lin Huaijin arrived with senior Yao Xuan Envoys, confirmed Chen Chuan and the others' identities, and ordered them taken for treatment.
• Ye Li explained that the four had approached him with hostility and disturbed his secluded cultivation, and Lin Huaijin praised Ye Li's combat skill.
• After the injured envoys awoke, Ye Li reproached them for attacking without introducing themselves, and Chen Chuan apologized.
• Lin Huaijin appointed Ye Li captain, and Chen Chuan and the others accepted the decision.
• Lin Huaijin excused the injured envoys from the investigation mission in Qingping City and said the Division would send others instead.

Ye Li persuaded Lin Huaijin to keep Chen Chuan and his injured teammates on the Qingping City investigation mission, with Ye Li taking responsibility for confronting the demon. The team prepared to discuss the case, and Ye Li asked what was happening in Qingping City.

• Chen Chuan objected to losing the purple-level mission, but Lin Huaijin argued that the wounded team could not investigate safely.
• Ye Li offered to handle the demon himself and asked Lin Huaijin to let the four injured envoys remain on the mission.
• Chen Chuan volunteered for the preliminary work, and Xie Huaiwei offered her healing medicines so the team could recover enough to help.
• Lin Huaijin abandoned the plan to change formations, entrusted the Qingping City investigation to Ye Li and the four envoys, and encouraged them to be careful.
• Ye Li turned to Chen Chuan and the others and asked them to explain the situation in Qingping City.