Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Ye Li enters the meditation chamber carrying the severed head of Ancient Buddha Miefa, one of the Buddha Incense Golden Temple’s leaders. He says the temple’s forces refused to stand down, so he killed them.
• Hilia confronts Ye Li and releases divine pressure, seemingly suppressing him. Buddha Le Dharma takes the opportunity to attack, hoping to win favor with her.
• Ye Li moves freely despite the pressure, smashes Le Dharma’s body, then destroys his escaping True Spirit with a punch. The blow tears through the chamber and damages the White Tower Church’s vast foundations.
• Hilia recognizes that Ye Li can ignore a god’s pressure and realizes this explains reports of his extraordinary strength. She withdraws the ineffective pressure and faces him with open hostility.

Character developments

• Ye Li demonstrates that his power has grown dramatically: even elite Creation Realm Eighth Layer Saint Venerables are no match for him, and divine pressure cannot restrain him.
• Hilia, initially composed and confident, is surprised by Ye Li’s strength. Her surprise turns to serious anger and killing intent.
• Buddha Le Dharma shifts from terror to opportunistic aggression, then is killed instantly.
• The Blond Archbishop is left horrified, realizing Ye Li’s strength exceeds even his already high expectations.

Significant themes

• Power beyond established limits: Ye Li’s abilities defy the hierarchy between Saint Venerables and gods.
• Overconfidence and opportunism: Le Dharma mistakes Ye Li’s apparent suppression for an opening and pays for it.
• Violent consequences: The temple’s refusal to yield leads to the deaths of its leaders, while Ye Li treats the destruction as an expedient response.

Character interactions

• Ye Li casually presents Miefa’s head to Le Dharma and the Archbishop, provoking terror.
• Le Dharma attacks Ye Li while Hilia’s divine might is active, but Ye Li kills him before Hilia can intervene.
• Le Dharma’s True Spirit begs Hilia for help; she tries to increase her pressure, but Ye Li ignores it and destroys him.
• Hilia then directly confronts Ye Li, recognizing his ability to withstand divine force.

Key plot points and events

• Hilia, the White Tower God, effortlessly destroys Ye Li’s five-element chaos furnace, demonstrating the gulf between divine power and the techniques of even an exceptional Saint Venerable.
• Ye Li remains unfazed and attacks Hilia directly with his fist. His strength suddenly surges, overpowering her in a clash and sending her flying a great distance.
• Though injured and surprised, Hilia insists he will still die. She unleashes a divine art that transforms the sky into a vast white sea, raining down drops that pierce the void and dissolve techniques.
• Ye Li’s layered five-element defenses are quickly broken. Yet he continues to withstand the divine assault through sheer physical endurance and immense reserves of blood and vital energy.
• Hilia expects him to use his Dharma Manifestation so she can destroy it, but Ye Li keeps holding out—and his presence grows more threatening. She realizes he is the strongest Martial Dao Saint Venerable she has ever encountered.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li stays calm throughout, revealing that his confidence comes not just from his techniques but from extraordinary physical strength, endurance, and reserves. He fights Hilia directly rather than relying only on supernatural abilities.
• Hilia moves from contemptuous certainty to surprise and then wary respect. Although she still believes she can defeat Ye Li, his strength exceeds her expectations.
• The blond bishop begins in fanatical confidence in Hilia, but his certainty freezes when Ye Li drives her back.
• Ye Li and Hilia’s confrontation escalates from an apparent mismatch into a contest between divine power and Ye Li’s exceptional martial body.

Significant themes

• Martial strength versus divine status: Hilia’s divine techniques initially dominate, but Ye Li’s physical power challenges the assumed superiority of gods.
• Endurance and hidden reserves: Ye Li survives an attack designed to erase both techniques and cultivators, suggesting that sheer vitality can resist overwhelming power.
• Arrogance challenged by the unexpected: Hilia and her bishop underestimate Ye Li, and his performance forces Hilia to reassess him.

Plot and key events

• Ye Li activates Literary Dao Empowerment by burning a page of his Dao Scripture, dramatically increasing his physical strength and combat output.
• He catches the White Tower God, Hilia, off guard and lands two powerful punches, injuring her divine body and breaking both her arms.
• Hilia decides she cannot match him physically and retreats into the vast white ocean she controls, hiding within it and hoping his temporary power-up will fade.
• Ye Li burns another page to renew his strength. Rather than summon his Dharma Form—which Hilia has prepared to counter—he floods his Divine Saber with Immortal Power and Geng Metal Qi.
• Ye Li unleashes a massive saber slash that cuts through Hilia and the white firmament. He then drags her fleeing, half-destroyed body back into his grasp, leaving her apparently doomed.
• The Blond Archbishop watches and cries out in alarm for his god.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li reveals the power and cost of Literary Dao Empowerment: it greatly amplifies his strength, but quickly drains him and strains his qi sea and meridians. He responds to those limits with improvisation, using a second burned page and then his saber instead of relying on his Dharma Form.
• Hilia shifts from confidence and anger to caution, then fear. She recognizes Ye Li’s physical superiority, tries to avoid direct combat, and underestimates his ability to renew his power and finish the fight at range.
• Their conflict is a tactical contest: Hilia uses the white ocean to conceal herself and delay Ye Li, while Ye Li counters with renewed amplification and an enormous area-cleaving attack. The Archbishop’s cry underscores the Church’s shock at Hilia’s defeat.

Significant themes

• Resourcefulness over expectation: Ye Li defeats Hilia without using the counter she anticipated—his Dharma Form—and adapts his methods as the battle changes.
• Power and its price: His extraordinary boost is temporary and physically taxing, making each use a calculated risk.
• Hubris and misjudgment: Hilia’s confidence in her defenses and her assumption that Ye Li’s power would simply expire leave her vulnerable.
• The limits of divine authority: Despite her godhood and command over the white firmament, Hilia can be overwhelmed by a determined mortal opponent.

Plot points and events

• Ye Li has defeated Hilia, the White Tower God, and holds her mutilated body before the ruined White Tower Church. Her followers and the Blond Archbishop watch in stunned disbelief as their supposedly invincible god is overpowered.
• Hilia’s attacks cannot break Ye Li’s grip: his wounds heal rapidly, and two crushing punches leave her dazed. She finally admits defeat and offers to teach him her Eternal Life methods, then promises alliance and even swears an oath.
• Ye Li recognizes that Hilia is lying, including about her willingness to honor an oath. He ignites her with divine fire and destroys her physical body.
• Hilia’s core true spirit escapes, but Ye Li traps it in his five-colored Law Furnace. She threatens that her powerful lineage on the Primordial Continent will take revenge if she dies.
• Rather than be deterred, Ye Li increases the furnace’s power. Hilia’s terror and despair overwhelm her, and her true spirit is ultimately refined away. The chapter confirms her death and awards Ye Li Malice Points.

Character developments

• Ye Li remains composed and merciless throughout. His extraordinary resilience and ability to detect lies let him see through Hilia’s attempted bargains, while her threats only encourage him to finish the job.
• Hilia shifts from proud god to desperate captive. As her escape attempts and negotiations fail, she reveals her fear of death and how survival has driven her past humiliations and deception.
• The Blond Archbishop and the worshippers are left shaken, their confidence and faith collapsing as they witness their god’s defeat.

Significant themes

• Faith shattered by reality: The White Tower God’s defeat overturns the believers’ image of her as invincible.
• Deception versus discernment: Hilia tries to use bargains, promises, and threats to survive, but Ye Li sees through her lies.
• The cost of survival: Hilia’s long struggle to live ends in the very place she hoped to find safety.
• Power and consequences: Her distant, formidable lineage may pose a future threat, but Ye Li chooses immediate vengeance over caution.

Character interactions

• Hilia repeatedly tries to negotiate with Ye Li, offering knowledge, alliance, and oaths; he rejects each attempt as dishonest.
• Ye Li’s overwhelming force and unshaken resolve contrast with Hilia’s growing panic.
• The Archbishop and congregation witness the confrontation as a public humiliation of their god and a devastating blow to their faith.

Key plot points and events

• After Ye Li annihilates the White Tower God in his Laws furnace, the White Tower Church’s headquarters falls into stunned silence. Its followers collapse in despair, especially Bishop Losse, who cannot accept that the Deity he trusted is dead.
• Ye Li brings forth two souls captured by his [Soul Control] ability: Hilia, the Church’s Walker, and the far more powerful White Tower God.
• The God’s soul appears in her original form, unfamiliar to most worshippers but instantly recognized by Losse. Before he can process what this means, she kneels to Ye Li and declares him her lord.
• Ye Li concludes that souls taken by his ability return to their essential forms. He briefly regrets that most believers cannot recognize their former Deity, costing him a chance to gain more points from their shock.
• Ye Li orders the White Tower God to kill the worshippers. She recreates her white canopy and rains destruction on the Church’s leadership, triggering a stream of system rewards.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li remains calm and calculating. He treats the God’s capture as confirmation of how his ability works, then quickly shifts from disappointment over missed points to collecting rewards by eliminating the Church.
• Bishop Losse is devastated twice: first by the Deity’s death, then by seeing her restored soul kneel to Ye Li. The collapse of his faith leaves him physically overwhelmed.
• The White Tower God has been reduced from a supreme being to Ye Li’s obedient soul puppet. She immediately accepts his command and turns her former power against her own followers.
• Ye Li and the White Tower God now have a master-and-servant relationship; her respectful obedience is made public before the Church.

Significant themes

• Faith shattered: The believers witness both their Deity’s destruction and her submission to Ye Li.
• Power and subjugation: Even a formidable god is bound and made to serve the victor.
• Cruel irony and calculated violence: The Church’s sacred power is repurposed to destroy its own members, while Ye Li views the massacre partly through the lens of points and rewards.

Key plot points and events

• After defeating the White Tower God, Ye Li checks his malice-point balance. It has passed 350 million and is still rising, though the battle had pushed him hard.
• He attributes his victory to his exceptional endurance, combat-enhancing techniques, and armor—advantages that let him overcome the gap between Immortal Power and divine power through sheer force. The White Tower God’s weakened condition also helped.
• Ye Li consumes his remaining Creation Realm pills and spends malice points to advance to the peak of the ninth stage of the Creation Realm. His sea of laws grows dense and begins to take on the outline of a divine foundation.
• He studies a damaged memory scroll taken from the White Tower God. Though much of it is missing, the essential cultivation knowledge survives.
• Using the White Tower God’s White Dew Water-Life Method as a starting point, Ye Li comprehends the Eternal Life Realm and creates his own perfected Divine Grade method: the Bright Origin Dao-Union Art.
• This breakthrough raises him to the Half-Step Eternal Life Realm. Ye Li then turns his attention toward the Primordial Sea, believing only one final push remains.

Character development

• Ye Li recognizes the limits of his current strength and the danger of fighting across realms, but remains confident in his ability to adapt and grow.
• Rather than simply adopting the White Tower God’s method, he reshapes it into a cultivation path of his own, demonstrating his ambition to surpass established limits.

Significant themes

• Preparation and ingenuity: Ye Li compensates for a disadvantage in power quality by combining endurance, techniques, armor, and accumulated resources.
• Growth beyond conventional limits: The Eternal Life Realm is presented as a major transformation—the sea of laws becomes a divine foundation—and Ye Li’s method aims beyond even that realm’s usual goals.
• Inheritance and innovation: Knowledge survives in the damaged scroll, but Ye Li advances it by forging a new path.

Character interactions

• Ye Li has no direct conversation with another character in this chapter. His main connection to the White Tower God is through the defeated god’s surviving memories, which provide both insight into Eternal Life cultivation and the foundation for Ye Li’s own breakthrough.

Key plot points and events

• The Star Sea Merchant Alliance assembles a heavily armed fleet, ready to support Ye Li at the White Tower Church, but Lu Xuan orders it to remain on standby.
• At headquarters, You Tiancheng, Wen Zhixing, and Lu Xuan debate whether to act despite Ye Li’s instruction to hold position. Ye Li has sent no further messages, and the directors fear he may be in danger.
• You Tiancheng decides to go to the White Tower Church alone, arguing that the Alliance needs its leaders and that his greater cultivation gives him the best chance of returning with news. Lu Xuan and Wen Zhixing insist on joining him, but he refuses.
• Before they can leave, Ye Li suddenly arrives at headquarters with a white-eyed woman dressed as a White Tower Church Walker. Her immense divine presence alarms the directors and the assembled forces.
• Ye Li questions why the Alliance has mobilized when he told them to stay put. You Tiancheng, realizing the conversation should not happen in public, invites him inside.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xuan follows Ye Li’s orders but is increasingly anxious as the silence continues. She volunteers to go in You Tiancheng’s place.
• Wen Zhixing grows impatient and argues passionately that waiting could amount to abandoning Ye Li. He is willing to risk the Alliance’s leaders going together.
• You Tiancheng balances concern for Ye Li against responsibility for the Alliance. He ultimately chooses to investigate alone, showing both caution and personal resolve.
• Ye Li returns apparently unharmed and remains casual about the Alliance’s preparations, suggesting the crisis has not unfolded as the directors feared.
• The white-eyed Walker’s extraordinary presence leaves You Tiancheng suspecting she may be far more than an ordinary Church member.

Significant themes

• Duty versus personal loyalty: The directors want to rescue Ye Li, but must also protect the Alliance.
• Trust and uncertainty: Ye Li’s brief instruction and subsequent silence force the Alliance to decide how far to rely on his judgment.
• Power and hidden danger: The Walker’s presence hints at a significant shift in the balance of power and raises new questions about what happened at the White Tower Church.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Li meets with You Tiancheng, Wen Zhixing, and Lu Xuan, with the White Tower God standing behind him as a bodyguard.
• When You Tiancheng asks who she is, Ye Li reveals that she was worshipped by the White Tower Church—but he has killed her and refined her into a soul servant. The others are stunned.
• Ye Li also confirms that he killed the two ancient Buddhas of the Buddha Incense Golden Temple. In less than two days, he has wiped out a succession of powerful figures, including the six Beast Venerables, the Sword Ancestor, the White Tower God, and the two Buddhas.
• Ye Li turns to his next target: the remaining Demon Race Saint Venerables. You Tiancheng provides four crystals containing the auras of four of them, collected with Lu Xuan’s help, so Ye Li can track them.
• You Tiancheng warns Ye Li to take special care around Lady Purple Seclusion, a Void Purple Marten whose concealment ability has helped her evade capture and devastate inhabited star domains.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li remains matter-of-fact about killing mighty opponents and converting the White Tower God into a servant. His attention is fixed on eliminating the remaining threats.
• You Tiancheng reacts with disbelief and awe, then eagerly supports Ye Li’s plan. Privately, he hopes to use Lu Xuan’s contribution to bring her closer to Ye Li.
• Lu Xuan is shocked by Ye Li’s feats and briefly overwhelmed by the revelations. She accepts his thanks modestly, though his appreciation visibly pleases her.
• Wen Zhixing is left speechless by Ye Li’s disclosure.
• The White Tower God’s silent, obedient presence underscores Ye Li’s power and control.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and rapid upheaval: Once-feared leaders and institutions are falling in quick succession.
• Pragmatism and loyalty: Ye Li treats former enemies as assets, while his allies supply intelligence and support.
• Understated affection and social maneuvering: You Tiancheng tries to turn Lu Xuan’s assistance into a personal favor, but she frames it as ordinary alliance duty.
• The danger of elusive threats: Lady Purple Seclusion’s ability to vanish makes her a different kind of challenge from the powerful opponents Ye Li has already defeated.

Key plot points

• Ye Li asks about Lady Purple Seclusion’s powerful backing. You Tiancheng reveals that she is connected to Snow God City, whose lord has reached the Eternal Life Realm.
• The alliance’s hostility toward Snow God City began when Lu Xuan, You Tiancheng, and Wen Zhixing traveled there seeking an Eternal Life Art. The city lord accepted their gifts, then offered Lu Xuan the art only if she became his concubine.
• Lu Xuan refused and beat the city lord’s Third Young Master. The group barely escaped, suffering injuries and losses that hindered Lu Xuan’s cultivation. The alliance suspects Snow God City has since encouraged Lady Purple Seclusion to harass its star domains.
• After hearing that Lu Xuan lacks an Eternal Life Art, Ye Li gives her a jade slip containing the Bright Origin Dao-Union Art, a high-grade cultivation art with his personal insights, saying it should help her reach the Eternal Life Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li remains confident rather than intimidated by the prospect of confronting Snow God City. He listens to the alliance’s history and responds by offering Lu Xuan a potentially life-changing gift.
• Lu Xuan reveals both her anger at Snow God City’s exploitation and the lasting cost of the encounter. Her joking confidence about reaching the Eternal Life Realm gives way to stunned disbelief when Ye Li produces the art.
• You Tiancheng warns Ye Li to consider the danger of antagonizing an Eternal Life Realm power and shares the alliance’s painful history.
• Wen Zhixing adds humor to the account by recalling Lu Xuan’s beating of the young noble.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Ye Li’s strength makes him confident, but the alliance faces serious consequences if he provokes another powerful faction.
• Exploitation and defiance: Lu Xuan rejects the idea that a cultivation art should be exchanged for submission, even at great personal cost.
• Generosity and opportunity: Ye Li’s gift offers the alliance a path toward a breakthrough that had previously seemed unattainable.

• Ye Li departs to hunt the remaining demons. At Alliance headquarters, he gives You Tiancheng a jade slip containing the powerful Bright Essence Dao Unification Art. He says the Alliance’s past help makes the gift only a repayment of friendship, and that the method is no longer useful to him. You Tiancheng accepts it with profound gratitude and promises the Alliance’s ships and personnel will be available to help Ye Li.
• The timing of Ye Li’s mission is urgent. He senses that four demonic Saint Venerables are still within the Chaos Star Sea. Because they may not yet know of his recent victories, he hopes to catch them before they flee. He leaves at once in a flash of golden light.
• The Alliance leaders recognize Ye Li’s exceptional potential. You Tiancheng and Wen Zhixing agree they were fortunate to support him, and suspect the Chaos Star Sea may not be able to contain someone of his stature for long.
• Lu Xuan reveals unexpected romantic feelings. While Ye Li is present, she is too flustered to thank him. His generous gift reminds her of Snow God City’s earlier attempt to trade a cultivation method for marriage—an offer she rejected. Though she knows Ye Li intended only to repay a favor, she privately wonders whether his gesture might carry romantic meaning.
• Lu Xuan plans to enter seclusion. She says she will gather medicinal treasures from the Alliance treasury and cultivate with the new art, brushing aside Wen Zhixing’s concerns about unfinished Alliance business. When You Tiancheng jokingly suggests she sees the method as a betrothal gift, she becomes mortified, denies it, and hurriedly leaves.
• Romance is presented as both comic and uncertain. Wen Zhixing teases that Lu Xuan is ready to “charge into romance,” but asks whether she could match Ye Li. You Tiancheng doubts she has a chance, despite her looks, talent, and status.
  Character developments and interactions: Ye Li’s calm generosity deepens the Alliance leaders’ respect and gratitude, while his urgent departure underscores his focus on the demon threat. Lu Xuan shifts from capable director to visibly flustered admirer, and her teasing exchange with You Tiancheng and Wen Zhixing adds a light, romantic contrast to the chapter’s ongoing danger.

Key plot points

• Five Demon Race Saint Venerables gather in the Demonic Heavenly Domain after Ye Li kills White Dragon and Phantom Lizard and escapes their heartland.
• Death Chain Saint Venerable angrily complains that Lady Purple Seclusion previously refused to help, but the tiger-headed Saint Venerable warns him not to challenge her because of her powerful backing.
• Lady Purple Seclusion arrives late, shows no apology, and is treated with deference. Her connection to Snow God City—and its Eternal Life Realm city lord—gives her considerable influence.
• The demons admit they cannot defeat Ye Li alone. Even a united attack may fail, especially if the human Saint Venerables support him.
• The tiger-headed leader asks Lady Purple Seclusion to seek help from Snow God City. She reveals she has already reported the threat and expects the city lord’s reply within days, urging the others to wait.

Character developments and interactions

• Death Chain Saint Venerable is furious and resentful, but his hostility toward Lady Purple Seclusion gives way to silence when she arrives, exposing his fear of her status.
• The tiger-headed Saint Venerable acts as a measured leader: he acknowledges the demons’ weakness, restrains tensions, and proposes seeking outside aid.
• Lady Purple Seclusion is aloof and confident, using her powerful connections to command respect. She has already taken action, though she offers no immediate solution.
• The other demons are shaken by Ye Li’s strength and shift from confidence in their plans to anxious dependence on Snow God City.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: Strength and influential backing determine who can command respect; Lady Purple Seclusion is exempt from ordinary expectations because of her patron.
• Fear and strategic dependence: Ye Li’s victories have destabilized the demons and forced them to seek help beyond their own ranks.
• Unity under threat: The demons’ earlier ambitions are now overshadowed by the need to survive a formidable common enemy.

Key plot points and events

• Lady Purple Seclusion tells the Demon Race Saint Venerables that Snow God City’s lord may intervene against Ye Li. The others welcome the news, seeing it as their best chance to survive.
• Tiger-Head Saint Venerable and the other Beast Venerables thank her, while she savors their deference and deliberately keeps them bowing.
• Before she can rise, Ye Li appears beside her undetected. He confirms her identity and crushes her with one strike, leaving her gravely mutilated but alive.
• Ye Li’s overwhelming pressure pins the other Beast Venerables in place and transforms the surrounding sea and sky. Tiger-Head recognizes him as the famed Saint Venerable of the Myriad Laws Celestial Domain: the master of Xuanjian Mansion, Ye Li.
• Lady Purple Seclusion, stripped of her confidence, begs him to spare her.

Character developments and interactions

• Lady Purple Seclusion shifts from smug and domineering to terrified and helpless when Ye Li catches her off guard.
• The Beast Venerables, previously hostile or prideful, unite in gratitude toward Lady Purple Seclusion because they desperately need help against Ye Li. Their relief turns to shock and fear when Ye Li arrives.
• Ye Li is presented as so powerful that even a concealed expert cannot detect him, and his presence alone overwhelms the assembled Saint Venerables.
• Tiger-Head Saint Venerable leads the others in thanking Lady Purple Seclusion, then recognizes Ye Li and realizes the scale of the danger.

Significant themes

• Power determines status: the Beast Venerables’ respect for Lady Purple Seclusion is driven by the protection she might secure, while Ye Li instantly reverses the hierarchy.
• Pride and vulnerability: Lady Purple Seclusion’s delight in controlling others collapses when she faces someone far stronger.
• Overwhelming force and dread: Ye Li’s arrival is depicted as an apocalyptic event, establishing him as a threat beyond the demons’ ability to resist.

Key events

• Ye Li reveals that he knew Lady Purple Seclusion was a guest elder of Snow God City—and came specifically to target her. He ignores her pleas and crushes both her body and escaping demon soul.
• He turns on the remaining Demon Race Saint Venerables, whose escape routes are sealed.
• The Tiger-Head Saint Venerable urges the others to attack together. Ye Li kills him almost instantly with Spirit Light Hidden Eyes, destroying his body and melting his demon soul.
• The surviving demons flee, but Ye Li traps them in the Myriad Forms Furnace, where its laws begin to tear apart their bodies.
• As the captives suffer, Ye Li taunts them by asking how long Snow God City’s rescue will take.

Character developments and interactions

• Lady Purple Seclusion goes from prideful confidence to desperate submission, relying on Snow God City’s reputation to save her. Her appeal fails: Ye Li has deliberately targeted her because of her affiliation.
• Ye Li is revealed as calculating as well as overwhelmingly powerful. He has hurried to reach this “valuable” target and shows no fear of Snow God City.
• The Tiger-Head Saint Venerable briefly takes command and chooses a desperate collective attack, but his swift death destroys the others’ resolve.
• The Death Chain Saint Venerable and the other survivors abandon the fight and flee, only to be captured. Ye Li’s final taunt underscores his control over their fate.

Significant themes

• Power and helplessness: Even formidable elders and rulers are reduced to pleading or fleeing before a far stronger opponent.
• Consequences of arrogance: Purple Seclusion disregarded a warning about powerful figures in the Chaos Star Sea and pays for it.
• Reputation versus reality: Snow God City’s name and promised protection offer no immediate safety.
• Desperation and false hope: The demons’ united attack and attempted escape both collapse, leaving rescue as their last uncertain hope.

Plot points and events

• Ye Li tests Myriad Forms Furnace on the Death Chain Saint Venerable and four other Beast Venerables. Its laws intensify until all five are refined to ash.
• He feeds the souls of the slain Beast Venerables into the Divine Iron in his divine ability space, strengthening it. Lady Purple Seclusion’s soul is kept separate.
• Ye Li questions Lady Purple Seclusion about reinforcements from Snow God City. She reveals that she requested aid two days earlier but has received no answer and cannot say whether help will come.
• Ye Li concludes that another letter would be pointless: Snow God City has a Soul Tablet for Lady Purple Seclusion, so it will know she is dead and recognize any new appeal as a trap. He returns her soul to his divine ability space.
• Ye Li expects Snow God City to respond eventually, since the death of one of its prominent guest elders would damage its reputation. Meanwhile, with all thirteen Demon Race Saint Venerables eliminated, he turns toward the former Demonic Heavenly Domain as an ideal territory for Xuanjian Mansion’s expansion.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li remains confident and pragmatic. He treats the Beast Venerables’ defeat as a test of his power, uses their souls to improve the Divine Iron, and weighs Snow God City’s likely political response before deciding where to focus next.
• Lady Purple Seclusion is terrified and submissive, repeatedly begging for mercy and offering to lure Snow God City figures to their deaths. Ye Li cuts off her plan, pointing out that her known death makes it useless.
• The Death Chain Saint Venerable is helpless and furious as the furnace suppresses him, but cannot answer Ye Li before being killed.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and its practical use: Ye Li tests, refines, and repurposes his defeated enemies rather than merely celebrating victory.
• Reputation and retaliation: Snow God City’s pride may compel it to act even if it has no immediate strategic reason to intervene.
• Expansion after conquest: The destruction of the Demonic Heavenly Domain’s leadership creates an opening for Xuanjian Mansion to extend its influence.

Plot points and events

• The rebuilt Cosmic Profound Mirror Prefecture thrives as the Xuanjian Mansion’s headquarters. Its cultivators admire Ye Li, whose reputation for defeating Saint Venerables has made him a legend.
• Ye Li slips through the crowded main hall and retreats to the quiet Righteous Law Prefecture.
• He retrieves the Taiqing Dao Tablet and draws out the nearly extinguished remains of the Skeletal Elder, a powerful cultivator who once guided and helped him.
• An Lingzhen arrives and initially questions why Ye Li would concern himself with such a weak remnant. Ye Li explains that the elder is a valued benefactor and a former member of the Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion.
• Ye Li pours his immense vitality into the skeleton, restoring its flesh and bringing the elder back to life. The elder awakens, confused, and recognizes Ye Li.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li is now so powerful that the elder who once seemed beyond reach could not withstand even a trace of his energy. Despite his elevated status, Ye Li remains grateful and treats the elder as family and a senior. He also dislikes the attention his fame attracts.
• An Lingzhen shifts from viewing the remains as insignificant to recognizing the elder’s importance after Ye Li explains their bond. She respectfully pays her respects.
• The Skeletal Elder returns to life after more than a hundred thousand years, though the chapter ends just as he begins to understand what has happened.

Significant themes

• Gratitude and loyalty: Ye Li repays an old debt of kindness, even when the benefactor can offer him nothing.
• Power and perspective: Ye Li’s immense growth contrasts with his former vulnerability, but it does not diminish his respect for those who helped him.
• Legacy and renewal: The elder’s revival restores a living link to the fallen Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion.
• Fame and isolation: The cultivators’ adoration underscores Ye Li’s renown, while his quick escape shows his discomfort with public attention.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Li has resurrected the former Xuanjian Mansion elder, who is now called the Nameless Elder. The elder is astonished by his renewed strength and by Ye Li’s seemingly immeasurable power.
• An Lingzhen praises Ye Li as the pinnacle of the Martial Dao, recounting his victories over major Star Sea factions. The elder struggles to believe how far Ye Li has risen in just two months.
• The elder asks whether Ye Li’s Cosmic Profound Mirror Prefecture is connected to the Star Sea Profound Mirror Mansion he once served. An Lingzhen explains that the White Tower Church destroyed the old mansion after it was weakened by war.
• Ye Li reveals that he has rebuilt the Xuanjian Mansion under the prefecture, with a new structure and rules, and offers the elder a place there. He also gives him resources and a Dao Hearing Stone in case he chooses to leave.
• Ye Li and An Lingzhen leave the elder time to process the news. Soon afterward, Lu Xuan arrives with an urgent warning: someone from Snow God City has come.

Character developments and interactions

• Nameless Elder moves from awe at his resurrection to grief and disbelief upon learning his old institution was destroyed. Though offered a home in the rebuilt mansion, he is too overwhelmed to decide.
• Ye Li shows both immense authority and compassion: he steadies the elder, welcomes him without pressure, and provides for him even if he refuses to stay.
• An Lingzhen proudly presents Ye Li’s achievements, then respectfully delivers the painful history of the old mansion.
• Lu Xuan’s arrival shifts the scene from reflection to a new potential crisis.

Significant themes

• Transformation and continuity: The old Xuanjian Mansion is gone, but Ye Li’s rebuilding preserves its legacy in a new form.
• Power and perspective: Ye Li’s rise is so extraordinary that even a newly empowered elder perceives an unbridgeable gulf between them.
• Loss and recovery: The elder must confront the destruction of his past while deciding whether to join its successor.
• Compassionate leadership: Ye Li offers belonging and practical support while respecting the elder’s need to choose freely.

Key plot points

• Ye Li and Lu Xuan travel to Star Sea Alliance headquarters after learning that Zuo Miaoqing, Snow God City’s eldest daughter, has arrived and asked to meet him personally.
• Lu Xuan warns that Snow God City may suspect Ye Li was involved in Lady Purple Seclusion’s death. Zuo’s visit could therefore be hostile—or reflect interest in Ye Li’s growing power.
• Ye Li chooses to meet her rather than evade the encounter.
• At headquarters, Wen Zhixing tries to impress upon Zuo that Ye Li is a major power in the Chaos Star Sea. Zuo listens politely but appears unconcerned and maintains an air of superiority.
• Ye Li and Lu Xuan arrive as the reception-room doors open; their meeting with Zuo is about to begin.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li remains calm and confident, treating a potentially dangerous meeting as something he should face directly.
• Lu Xuan is cautious and protective. Though she fears a confrontation with Snow God City, memories of Ye Li’s defeat of the White Tower Church and his mysterious abilities reassure her somewhat.
• Zuo Miaoqing is introduced as a capable, influential heir who represents her father in major affairs. Her courteous manners conceal confidence in her own standing and that of Snow God City.
• Wen Zhixing attempts to shield Ye Li’s position by emphasizing his influence, but Zuo’s composure suggests his warnings have little effect.

Significant themes

• Power and reputation: Ye Li’s rising influence draws attention from a major force, while the Alliance tries to establish his status.
• Caution versus confidence: Lu Xuan urges prudence, whereas Ye Li chooses direct engagement.
• Hidden motives and uncertain alliances: Zuo’s reason for coming remains unclear, leaving open whether she seeks confrontation, evaluation, or cooperation.

Key events

• Zuo Miaoqing, the heir of Snow God City, arrives to meet Prefect Ye Li and presents him with an expensive, chilling medicinal treasure as a gift from her father.
• You Tiancheng accepts and stores the gift on Ye Li’s behalf, cautiously checking it for possible danger.
• Zuo probes Ye Li about his recent destruction of the White Tower Church, asking whether its leader truly reached the Eternal Life Realm. Ye Li confirms it, but explains that the deity was injured and mentally impaired.
• Zuo asks how Ye Li views Snow God City. After he says his impression is good, she explains that her father worried past tensions with the alliance might have made Ye Li resent them.
• Ye Li cuts through her diplomatic preamble and asks her to state her real purpose. Zuo then invites him to visit Snow God City, where her father hopes to welcome him and discuss the Dao over drinks.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li remains composed and blunt, answering questions without embellishment and showing little patience for diplomatic evasions. His favorable view of Snow God City is influenced, humorously, by its valuable gift and Lady Purple Seclusion’s contribution of malice points.
• Zuo Miaoqing is polished and strategic: she flatters Ye Li, tests the extent of his power, and carefully assesses his attitude before delivering her father’s invitation. She stays gracious despite her private doubts about Ye Li’s candor and sophistication.
• You Tiancheng acts protectively on Ye Li’s behalf, treating the gift with suspicion until he has checked it.
• Lu Xuan and the other observers recognize that Zuo’s questions are really an attempt to gauge Ye Li’s strength.

Significant themes

• Diplomacy and hidden motives: Gifts, compliments, and seemingly casual questions serve as tools for assessing and managing political relationships.
• Power and reputation: Ye Li’s reported victory over an Eternal Life Realm opponent has made him influential, though Zuo questions the circumstances behind it.
• Candor versus tact: Ye Li’s directness contrasts with Zuo’s careful, socially adept approach.
• Trust and caution: The valuable gift is welcomed but treated warily, reflecting the uncertainty between powerful factions.

Plot points

• Zuo Miaoqing invites Ye Li to Snow God City on behalf of her father, the city lord. Ye Li senses the invitation is at least partly genuine, though it may conceal an ambush, and accepts without hesitation.
• The alliance directors are alarmed. Lu Xuan privately warns Ye Li that the invitation is likely a trap, but he remains unmoved and says he will depart in a day or two after handling a few matters.
• Zuo Miaoqing asks to stay with the alliance until then. Lu Xuan reluctantly agrees and assigns Wen Zhixing to host her.
• After Zuo and Wen leave, Ye Li asks You Tiancheng to reopen the gift box. It contains a powerful Snow Lotus sealed in crystal, radiating extraordinary cold.
• Ye Li asks whether You Tiancheng could safely refine and absorb it. You realizes the treasure’s power is far beyond what a peak Eighth-Layer Creation Realm cultivator could withstand, implying it was not intended for someone at his level.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li is calm and deliberate: he accepts the potentially dangerous invitation and appears to have a specific reason for examining the Snow Lotus.
• Zuo Miaoqing maintains a courteous, welcoming façade while privately believing Ye Li’s acceptance proves that even powerful outsiders are drawn to Snow God City’s influence. She also uses her stay to observe the alliance.
• Lu Xuan is openly worried about Ye Li’s safety and distrustful of Snow God City, but she complies with his decision and hosts Zuo for the sake of diplomacy.
• Wen Zhixing reluctantly takes responsibility for entertaining Zuo, while You Tiancheng is unsettled by the treasure and recognizes its danger.

Significant themes

• Hospitality concealing danger: The invitation and lavish gift may mask ulterior motives.
• Power and vulnerability: The Snow Lotus’s potency suggests that its intended recipient must be far stronger than an ordinary Creation Realm cultivator.
• Trust and strategic judgment: Ye Li’s composure contrasts with the alliance leaders’ suspicion, setting up uncertainty about what he knows or intends.

Ye Li realizes that Snow God City’s rare Treasure Medicine is a test: its inability to be refined by anyone below the Eternal Life Realm would reveal his true cultivation. You Tiancheng and Lu Xuan recognize that Snow God City has also been probing Ye Li through questions about the White Tower God, since it could not observe his reaction to the medicine directly.
Ye Li remains unfazed. He sees Snow God City’s caution as an opportunity and decides to attend openly, despite genuinely being only a Creation Realm Saint Venerable. He intends to let the city discover the truth and provoke its contemptuous lord. After the visit, he plans to travel to the fabled Primordial Sea, a gathering place of ancient Dao lineages and cultivation opportunities.
You Tiancheng accepts Ye Li’s decision, though he and Lu Xuan remain worried. He wistfully admits he would like to visit the Primordial Sea too, but feels his cultivation potential is spent. He also tries to encourage Lu Xuan to speak about accompanying Ye Li, but she hesitates.
When Lu Xuan asks to join Ye Li on the trip to Snow God City, You Tiancheng sharply objects, warning that she lacks the realm, backing, and strength to survive in such dangerous places. Lu Xuan acknowledges the risks and claims she only needs to handle personal business in Snow God City, not travel onward to the Primordial Sea. Ye Li agrees to take her.
Lu Xuan’s stated reason is a cover: she intends to protect Ye Li if the visit turns dangerous. She possesses a last-resort Divine Ability that can tear open space and save people, though using it would require burning her Dao Foundation again.
Character developments and relationships: Ye Li’s confidence and independence are emphasized; he welcomes danger because he believes he can use Snow God City’s suspicions to his advantage. You Tiancheng acts as a cautious, protective elder, but recognizes he can no longer direct Ye Li’s choices. Lu Xuan’s quiet attachment to Ye Li becomes clearer: despite her vulnerability and the cost to herself, she is determined to be ready to save him.
Themes: Strategic deception and mutual probing; courage versus caution; the limits imposed by cultivation and past sacrifice; and devotion expressed through self-risk.