Chapter Summaries

Key events

• Ye Li, having settled the Cosmic Profound Mirror Prefecture’s major affairs and long-term plans, prepares to leave the Chaos Star Sea.
• He entrusts Xuanjian Mansion’s governance to An Lingzhen, assuring her that her cultivation and the Soul Treasures he provided should let her manage most threats.
• An Lingzhen reports that the elder Ye recently revived has chosen to join Xuanjian Mansion. Ye Li approves of assigning him to guard the strategically important Heavenly Maiden Star Domain.
• Ye Li gives An Lingzhen three jade slips, each containing a strand of his sword intent. Though limited by their materials, each can kill any Saint Venerable below the ninth level of the Creation Realm, serving as powerful emergency weapons.

Character developments and interactions

• An Lingzhen has advanced to the early Melding Dao Realm thanks to the fortune flowing from Ye Li’s victories, but she recognizes that she is still far beneath the level needed to accompany him to the Primordial Sea. She briefly feels reluctant and uncertain about his departure, then regains her composure and accepts responsibility for Xuanjian Mansion.
• Ye Li shows trust in An Lingzhen by placing the mansion in her hands, while preparing safeguards to protect her and the organization in his absence. He also approves of the revived elder’s decision to serve.
• Their exchange is respectful and restrained: An Lingzhen asks for instructions, and Ye Li offers reassurance, practical support, and final preparations before leaving.

Significant themes

• Power and distance: An Lingzhen’s rapid growth cannot erase the vast gap between her abilities and Ye Li’s.
• Legacy and responsibility: Ye Li’s reputation, the organization he built, and those he entrusts with its protection will endure after his departure.
• Protection and trust: His confidence in An Lingzhen is reinforced by concrete measures, especially the sword-intent jade slips.

Plot points and events

• In a protected VIP room, Zuo Miaoqing secretly consults her father, the Snow God City Lord. She reports that Ye Li accepted the invitation and that the [Ice-Soul Snow Lotus] was delivered, but Star Sea Merchant Alliance officials prevented her from assessing his power.
• Zuo believes Ye Li may not be an Eternal Life Realm cultivator, citing his admission that the White Tower God was weakened. Her father warns that even an injured Eternal Life god is far beyond an ordinary Creation Realm cultivator and insists Ye Li is an anomaly. He orders her to bring Ye Li to Snow God City, where he intends to uncover Ye Li’s abilities.
• Ye Li arrives, and he, Lu Xuan, and Zuo depart aboard a Snow God City shuttle. You Tiancheng and Wen Zhixing see them off, with You urging Ye Li to prioritize his safety.
• As they travel, powerful figures throughout the star domains rise to pay homage to Ye Li. Zuo is impressed by the loyalty he commands, while Ye Li remains indifferent to his prestige and privately considers seeking greater notoriety in the legendary Primordial Sea.
• Zuo and Lu trade polite but pointed remarks about their past conflict. Zuo privately intends to keep both Lu and Ye in Snow God City if Ye proves not to be an Eternal Life cultivator.
• To fill the journey, Zuo asks what Ye knows about Snow God City. He admits he knows almost nothing, so she begins explaining its history and importance.

Character developments and interactions

• Zuo Miaoqing maintains a gracious exterior while pursuing her father’s plan to assess and potentially trap Ye Li. She is confident in her scheme, but her father’s warning highlights how uncertain Ye’s true strength remains.
• The Snow God City Lord reveals himself as calculating and formidable. He views Ye as a dangerous anomaly and plans to force the truth out of him on home ground.
• Ye Li appears calm and uninterested in fame, despite the widespread reverence shown to him. His private ambition is to gain more notoriety through action in the Primordial Sea.
• Lu Xuan remains wary of Zuo but responds coolly to her taunts, presenting the journey as a chance to revisit an old place.
• You Tiancheng and Wen Zhixing show concern for Ye by seeing him off, underscoring the Alliance’s support and the risks of the trip.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: Zuo’s courteous welcome masks a plan to test Ye, while Ye’s unassuming manner conceals uncertain capabilities.
• Power and uncertainty: Ye’s feat of defeating a weakened god leaves others struggling to measure his strength.
• Loyalty and reputation: The mass homage demonstrates Ye’s influence, even as he personally dismisses it.
• Politeness concealing hostility: Zuo and Lu maintain formal manners despite their unresolved antagonism.

Key events

• After six days of travel, Ye Li, Lu Xuan, and Zuo Miaoqing arrive at Snow God City, a vast, snow-covered city suspended in space and shaped by powerful laws.
• They enter the luxurious city lord’s residence, crowded with guests attending Zuo Guannan’s wedding.
• Zuo Miaoqing explains that the bride is the niece of Jade Purity Pavilion’s leader, making the marriage a major event attended by powerful figures, including experts from the Eternal Life Realm.
• The city lord, Zuo Guannan, personally welcomes the party. He senses Ye Li’s extraordinary vitality and recognizes that Ye Li’s physical strength could make him dominant among Saint Venerable-level cultivators.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xuan returns to Snow God City, which she once left in disgrace. Though her outlook has changed, she remains wary of the city’s formidable power.
• Ye Li remains casually irreverent, joking about Zuo Guannan’s history of womanizing and frequent weddings. His bluntness repeatedly unsettles Zuo Miaoqing, though he acknowledges the bride’s faction with a brief congratulation.
• Zuo Miaoqing acts as guide and hostess. She explains the wedding’s importance and takes pride in the bride’s prestigious connections, while trying to maintain composure around Ye Li’s sharp remarks.
• Zuo Guannan presents himself as welcoming but immediately studies Ye Li, becoming wary and impressed by his immense vitality.

Significant themes

• Power and status: The scale of Snow God City and the influence of Jade Purity Pavilion establish the political weight behind the wedding.
• Reputation versus perception: Ye Li’s casual manner contrasts with the serious attention his strength commands.
• Return and unease: Lu Xuan’s return highlights how old places can still carry the weight of past disgrace, even after personal change.

Key plot points

• Snow God City Lord Zuo Guannan receives Ye Li and Lu Xuan with elaborate courtesy, concealing his hostility. He invites them to the wedding banquet, originally planned for the day after tomorrow.
• Zuo Guannan privately questions his son Zuo Qitai about Ye Li. Qitai admits Ye Li’s aura and strength far exceed his own.
• Qitai asks his father to help avenge Purple Hermit, his deceased wife, whom Ye Li killed. Zuo Guannan reveals that although he encouraged her to target the alliance, her repeated slaughter was largely driven by her own appetite for violence.
• Zuo Guannan agrees to act, ostensibly to defend Snow God City’s reputation. He moves the banquet to noon the next day and plans to use Qitai’s harassment of Lu Xuan to provoke Ye Li. He expects to kill Ye Li if the younger man loses control and proves not to be an Eternal Life Realm expert.
• Zuo Guannan also intends to notify the Jade Purity Pavilion personally, mindful of the high status of its Pavilion Master’s niece and her powerful attendants.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li remains calm through Zuo Guannan’s flattery and Lu Xuan’s tense reunion with him. He does not reveal his full power or react to the city lord’s antagonism.
• Lu Xuan meets Zuo Guannan’s concealed malice with defiance, making clear she has survived despite their past conflict.
• Zuo Guannan presents himself as a gracious host while coldly plotting against Ye Li. He treats Purple Hermit’s death as regrettable mainly for its political implications, not as a personal loss.
• Zuo Qitai is consumed by grief and hatred over Purple Hermit’s death and Lu Xuan’s past damage to his cultivation. Though he recognizes Ye Li’s superiority and initially restrains himself, he begs his father for revenge and eagerly accepts the plan to provoke Ye Li.

Significant themes

• Courtesy as a weapon: Zuo Guannan’s hospitality disguises a calculated trap.
• Restraint versus vengeance: Qitai shows new self-control, but remains driven by hatred.
• Power and political calculation: The city lord weighs reputation, factional relationships, and Ye Li’s unknown strength before acting.
• Moral hypocrisy: Zuo Guannan invokes justice for a dead guest elder while admitting that her violence was tolerated and enabled by Snow God City.

Plot points and events

• Snow God City holds an extravagant wedding banquet for City Lord Zuo Guannan, drawing powerful rulers and reclusive experts from across the Star Sea.
• Ye Li is seated prominently on the highest platform among Eternal Life Realm cultivators, despite appearing to be only at the Creation Realm. He suspects the placement is meant to test or probe him, but stays calm and drinks.
• He checks on Lu Xuan, seated below him. She reassures him with a smile and a raised cup; he acknowledges her.
• The banquet erupts when the bride arrives. Escorted by formidable attendants, she descends in bridal robes and takes the seat of honor, revealing herself as Chu Xiyue, a direct disciple of Jade Purity Pavilion and Snow God City’s new Matriarch.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li recognizes the possible challenge posed by his placement but chooses patience and confidence, intending to respond to events as they unfold.
• Lu Xuan appears composed and reassures Ye Li that she is fine, suggesting a quiet bond and mutual concern between them.
• Zuo Guannan welcomes the guests with the confidence and bearing of a powerful city lord.
• Chu Xiyue’s entrance establishes her authority: she is not merely Zuo Guannan’s bride but the city’s new Matriarch.

Significant themes

• Status and power: Seating arrangements and ceremonial gestures reveal the hierarchy among the guests.
• Testing and hidden strength: Ye Li suspects his prominent placement is intended to pressure him or expose his abilities.
• Authority and identity: Chu Xiyue’s arrival makes clear that her political and sectarian standing extends beyond her marriage.

Key events

• At Snow God City’s wedding banquet, Chu Xiyue, the Jade Purity Pavilion disciple marrying Zuo Guannan, refuses to treat him as her husband before the ceremony is complete. She keeps the seat of honor, leaving the groom in a visibly subordinate position.
• Zuo Guannan masks his resentment with politeness, while privately blaming Chu Xiyue’s backing and plotting to deal with her later.
• He spots Lu Xuan among the guests and resents her comfortable standing after she rejected Snow God City’s marriage proposal.
• Confident that Ye Li would not disrupt a politically important wedding, Zuo Guannan lets his son Zuo Qitai provoke Lu Xuan, hoping to humiliate her and test Ye Li’s limits.
• Qitai taunts Lu Xuan about refusing to marry his father and threatens her, boasting that he has reached the fifth layer of the Creation Realm. Lu Xuan responds coolly, reminding him she has beaten him before.
• Zuo Guannan quietly tells Qitai to stop before the dispute escalates. But when he turns to Ye Li’s seat, he finds it empty; only a still-warm cup of wine remains. He realizes Ye Li has vanished and is alarmed.

Character developments and interactions

• Chu Xiyue displays confidence and authority, making clear that her alliance with Snow God City does not place her beneath Zuo Guannan.
• Zuo Guannan maintains a gracious public façade while revealing himself as calculating and resentful. He uses Qitai to provoke Lu Xuan but wants to keep the conflict controlled.
• Lu Xuan remains composed in the face of Qitai’s insults, though his veiled threat makes her wary.
• Zuo Qitai is emboldened by his improved cultivation and his father’s support, and tries to reassert dominance over Lu Xuan.
• The exchange between Chu Xiyue and Zuo Guannan underscores their unequal public standing, while Qitai’s confrontation with Lu Xuan rekindles their hostility. Ye Li’s unexplained absence interrupts Zuo Guannan’s plan.

Significant themes

• Power and political leverage: Chu Xiyue’s sect backing shapes the wedding’s balance of power, while Zuo Guannan uses the occasion to pursue his own advantage.
• Public image versus private intent: Polite words conceal resentment and manipulation.
• Pride and unresolved rivalry: Qitai’s taunts revive his feud with Lu Xuan.
• Uncertainty and impending danger: Ye Li’s disappearance suggests that events may not follow Zuo Guannan’s cautious expectations.

Plot points and events

• At Zuo Guannan’s wedding celebration, Ye Li suddenly appears and crushes Zuo Qitai beneath his foot, leaving him gravely injured.
• Ye Li cites Snow God City’s own law—that those who offend the city lord’s family deserve death—and claims he is sparing Zuo Guannan the unpleasant task of punishing his son.
• He tears off and destroys Zuo Qitai’s body, then defeats Zuo Guannan’s furious charge with a single punch, sending the Eternal Life Realm city lord crashing through several artificial mountains.
• Ye Li catches Zuo Qitai’s fleeing true spirit and annihilates it, killing him completely.
• Rather than leaving, Ye Li turns to Zuo Guannan’s bride, Chu Xiyue, and orders her to lift her veil, come down, and pour him wine.
• Enraged by this further humiliation, Zuo Guannan commands the city’s elders to activate the City-Guarding Array. Snow God City’s powerful experts emerge and encircle Ye Li with chains of law.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li is revealed as unflinching, overwhelmingly powerful, and deliberately provocative. He uses Snow God City’s laws to justify his execution of Zuo Qitai, then escalates the confrontation by publicly insulting Zuo Guannan and Chu Xiyue.
• Zuo Qitai shifts from swaggering arrogance to terror and helplessness before Ye Li kills both his body and spirit.
• Zuo Guannan goes from stunned disbelief to rage after his son’s death. His attack fails, and Ye Li’s demand concerning Chu Xiyue drives him to abandon restraint and summon the city’s defenses.
• Chu Xiyue remains composed and seated throughout the violence. When Ye Li addresses her, she answers calmly, though her response does not yet reveal what she will do.
• Ye Li’s interaction with Zuo Guannan is openly antagonistic: he kills the city lord’s son, defeats the father, and challenges him to respond. His demand of Chu Xiyue turns the personal conflict into a public affront to both the city lord and her institution, the Jade Purity Pavilion.

Significant themes

• Power and defiance: Ye Li’s physical strength lets him challenge Snow God City’s authority on its own ground.
• Law as a weapon: He invokes the city’s rules not to uphold order impartially, but to frame his own violence as fitting punishment.
• Public humiliation and honor: The wedding setting magnifies the insult, as Ye Li attacks Zuo Guannan’s family and standing before the assembled guests.
• Escalation and revenge: Each act intensifies the conflict, ending with the city’s forces mobilizing against Ye Li.

Key plot points and events

• Snow God City activates its massive Slaughter Array, trapping Ye Li in a deadly cage. Ye Li reveals he had anticipated the city’s hostility and is ready to stop playing along.
• Lu Xuan fears for his safety, but Ye Li tells her to step aside and leave what follows to him.
• Zuo Guannan orders the array to kill Ye Li, then tries to reassure the wedding guests that he will restore order.
• Ye Li vanishes from the array’s attack and reappears beside Zuo Guannan. His saber breaks through the city lord’s defenses, severing his fingers and nearly decapitating him. The strike also splits the vast courtyard and cracks the City-Guarding Array.
• Zuo Guannan recognizes that Ye Li’s power, though still at the peak of the Creation Realm, is approaching that of an Eternal Life Realm cultivator. He retaliates with the Ten Thousand Dragon Ice Prison.
• Ye Li counters with a self-created dragon technique based on the true dragons he has defeated. His ice dragons initially clash with Zuo Guannan’s, but are gradually overwhelmed. As Zuo Guannan and Zuo Miaoqing begin to relax, the sound of turning pages interrupts the battle.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li shifts from calculated restraint to open confrontation. His fierce defense of Lu Xuan and the Star Sea Merchant Alliance reveals the depth of his loyalty, while his confidence and extraordinary strength unsettle Snow God City’s leaders.
• Lu Xuan moves from concern over the political fallout to fear for Ye Li’s life, recognizing how dangerous it is for him to challenge Snow God City on its home ground.
• Zuo Guannan suppresses his grief over his son’s death to maintain authority, but his composure collapses when Ye Li wounds him. He then relies on his cultivation and the city’s ice-based power to fight back.
• Zuo Miaoqing watches anxiously from below, briefly reassured when Ye Li’s dragons begin to lose ground.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and reciprocity: Ye Li’s willingness to risk himself for Lu Xuan reflects his gratitude toward the Alliance for supporting him and his forces.
• Power versus appearances: Ye Li’s apparent cultivation level understates his true combat strength, while Zuo Guannan’s confidence in his higher realm proves insufficient.
• Escalation and loss of control: A political dispute becomes an all-out battle once both sides abandon restraint.
• Innovation and growth: Ye Li’s dragon technique represents his ability to turn past victories and experiences into original power.

Key plot points

• Ye Li’s knowledge-based power boost dramatically amplifies his strength, allowing his enormous ice dragons to overwhelm Zuo Guannan’s summoned dragons.
• Ye Li attacks with a devastating saber strike that badly wounds Zuo, then continues battering him. Zuo’s defensive treasures eventually shatter, leaving him near death.
• Chu Xiyue’s guards consider rescuing Zuo, but Chu calmly decides not to intervene, judging Ye Li the superior prospect and Zuo no longer worth protecting.
• Desperate, Zuo tries to activate Snow God City’s defensive formation. Before he can rely on it, the barrier explodes: a white-haired woman at the fourth level of the Eternal Life Realm emerges from a destroyed formation core, carrying the corpse of a city elder. Her apparent allegiance to Ye Li leaves Zuo convinced he cannot survive.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li turns a brief surge of power into overwhelming dominance, demonstrating both his combat skill and the strength of his resources.
• Zuo Guannan shifts from arrogant confidence to pain, panic, and despair as his defenses fail and a formidable enemy ally appears.
• Chu Xiyue reveals a ruthless, pragmatic outlook: she sees no reason to save Zuo once he is losing and favors the exceptional talent of Ye Li.
• The guards defer to Chu Xiyue and abandon their plan to intervene.
• The white-haired woman is revealed as Ye Li’s powerful subordinate, expanding the threat facing Zuo.

Significant themes

• Power and knowledge: Ye Li’s amplified strength embodies the idea that knowledge can translate directly into power.
• Survival of the fittest: Chu Xiyue treats alliances as conditional, favoring strength over obligation.
• Reversal of fortune: The wedding-day host who once wielded authority is reduced to helplessness, while Ye Li controls the battle.
• Escalating stakes: The destruction of the city barrier and arrival of Ye Li’s ally show that the conflict extends beyond a duel.

Key plot points and events

• Zuo Guannan, defeated and desperate, begs his bride Chu Xiyue and the Jade Purity Pavilion to save him. The Pavilion’s guard points out that the wedding is not complete and condemns Zuo for provoking Ye Li without consulting them.
• Chu Xiyue remains silent, and Zuo tries another tactic: offering Snow God City and his family’s service to Ye Li. Ye Li rejects the offer and destroys Zuo’s physical body with a single punch.
• Zuo’s True Spirit attempts to flee, but Ye Li traps it with Three-Hour Divine Fire, leaving it to burn in agony while the guests watch in terrified silence.
• Ye Li turns his attention to Chu Xiyue and challenges her to act. She removes her veil, reveals a gentle, smiling face, and kneels before him, offering him the wedding wine instead of her intended groom.

Character developments and interactions

• Zuo Guannan goes from swaggering city lord to helpless supplicant. His appeals to the Pavilion and his offer of submission both fail; Chu Xiyue’s public deference to Ye Li crushes what remains of his pride and resolve.
• Ye Li stays calm and in control throughout. He refuses Zuo’s submission, defeats him decisively, and deliberately prolongs the True Spirit’s torment before confronting Chu Xiyue.
• Chu Xiyue breaks her silence at last. Rather than defend Zuo or challenge Ye Li, she openly praises Ye Li and kneels to him, shocking everyone present.
• The Jade Purity Pavilion’s guard distances the Pavilion from Zuo, emphasizing that he is not yet family and that his reckless conduct is his own responsibility.
• The gathered cultivators watch in stunned fear as Zuo is defeated and Chu Xiyue’s allegiance appears to shift toward Ye Li.

Significant themes

• Power and submission: Zuo’s authority and status prove useless against Ye Li’s overwhelming strength.
• Humiliation and pride: Zuo’s public defeat, followed by his bride’s gesture to Ye Li, destroys his dignity.
• Political pragmatism: Zuo and Chu Xiyue respond to power differently—he offers control of his city, while she makes a conspicuous personal gesture of respect.
• Reversal of expectations: The supposed marriage alliance ends with the bride kneeling to the man who has just defeated her intended groom.

Key plot points and events

• While being tortured inside Ye Li’s Five-Colored Divine Fire, Zuo Guannan is horrified to see Chu Xiyue—his former fiancée and a Jade Purity Pavilion disciple—kneel and offer Ye Li a toast rather than resist him.
• Ye Li had expected Chu Xiyue to oppose him, giving him a reason to attack her and the Pavilion’s guards. Her calm submission disrupts that plan. He lets her rise, but senses that the Jade Purity Pavilion may retaliate despite her personal compliance.
• Ye Li then intensifies the divine fire and completely destroys Zuo Guannan’s True Spirit. He takes custody of Zuo’s soul and orders it to eliminate remaining Zuo-family loyalists and fleeing treasure-bearers.
• Afterward, Lu Xuan checks on Ye Li and is startled when he asks the Alliance to take control of Snow God City. Ye Li explains that the newly rebuilt Xuanjian Mansion lacks the manpower and time to occupy it. Lu Xuan agrees to have the Alliance manage the city and its resources temporarily, with an eighty-twenty division of profits, and return it once the Mansion is ready.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li remains ruthless and pragmatic: he publicly kills Zuo Guannan, plans to eradicate his remaining faction, and delegates Snow God City’s administration. He also recognizes the danger posed by the more powerful Jade Purity Pavilion.
• Chu Xiyue reveals a survival-first, self-controlled side by submitting without hesitation. Her composure impresses and frustrates Ye Li, while leaving the Pavilion’s wider response uncertain.
• Zuo Guannan suffers a final collapse of pride and disbelief before being destroyed.
• Lu Xuan shows loyalty and integrity, initially refusing to let the Alliance claim territory Ye Li won. She ultimately accepts a temporary administrative role once he explains the practical constraints.

Significant themes

• Power and humiliation: Defeat strips Zuo Guannan of both life and dignity, while Chu Xiyue’s submission demonstrates how power can force outward compliance.
• Pragmatism versus pride: Chu Xiyue chooses survival over defiance; Lu Xuan resists an unfair advantage, while Ye Li prioritizes practical governance.
• Consequences and looming conflict: Ye Li’s victory over Snow God City may draw retaliation from the Jade Purity Pavilion, foreshadowing complications in the Primordial Sea.
• Consolidating gains: The chapter shifts from conquest to securing territory, eliminating remnants, and arranging temporary administration.

Key plot points and events

• After arranging the takeover of Snow God City, Ye Li has the White Tower God purge remaining resistance. Its power, combined with authority inherited from the late Zuo Guannan, keeps the city secure until the Alliance army arrives.
• Ye Li gives Lu Xuan two powerful Soul Treasures to guard against surprise attacks, then leaves to find Zuo Guannan’s treasury using the dead man’s memories.
• Beneath the city lord’s ruined estate, Ye Li discovers a vast hidden treasury filled with rare medicines—including numerous Eternal Life-grade divine medicines. He reflects that Zuo Guannan amassed his fortune by selling teachings and courses, and compares the hoard favorably even against the Star Sea Merchant Alliance’s wealth.
• Ye Li uses Five-Colored Divine Fire to refine the medicines into pills. He then consumes nine Eternal Life-grade medicines, gaining major cultivation boosts, and spends more than 450 million malice points to advance his cultivation.
• To enter the Eternal Life Realm, Ye Li must calm his inner law sea and forge a divine foundation. His foundation takes shape in a rare, exalted purple-gold, surpassing the usual green, blue, or even gold foundations. Its Dao patterns reflect the cosmic laws he has mastered.
• The forging releases an overwhelming aura over Snow God City, marking a dramatic breakthrough.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li remains pragmatic and ambitious: he secures Lu Xuan’s safety, exploits Zuo Guannan’s resources, and prioritizes reaching the Eternal Life Realm because the distant Primordial Sea is full of powerful sects and rivals.
• Lu Xuan accepts Ye Li’s protective treasures, visibly moved by his concern.
• Zuo Guannan, though dead, is revealed as a remarkably wealthy and calculating figure who built his fortune through courses, disciples, and preaching assemblies while withholding his most valuable teachings.
• Ye Li’s thoughts about Zuo Guannan’s defeat emphasize the role of psychological collapse: he credits Chu Xiyue’s devastating kneel with breaking Zuo Guannan’s Dao heart and producing most of his malice points.

Significant themes

• Power and preparation: Ye Li’s breakthrough is motivated by the dangers awaiting him in the Primordial Sea.
• Wealth and exploitation: Zuo Guannan’s fortune comes from monetizing spiritual instruction and others’ anxieties.
• Psychological victory: Defeating an enemy’s will can be as consequential as defeating them physically.
• Exceptional cultivation: Ye Li’s purple-gold divine foundation signals a rare level of talent and mastery.

Plot and key events

• Ye Li’s remaining Malice Points fuel a dramatic breakthrough: he advances from the first stage to the third stage, then to the middle of the fourth stage of the Eternal Life Realm.
• He discovers that reaching this realm brings extraordinary longevity and power, but also a Heavenly Tribulation every fifty thousand years. Failure means death and the return of his cultivation to the universe.
• After learning more from Zuo Guannan’s memories, Ye Li decides not to worry about a tribulation so far in the future. He focuses instead on a more immediate threat: the Soulbirth Sect of the Primordial Sea.
• Ye Li finds the sect’s identity token in the White Tower God’s vault. Since the White Tower God is now Ye Li’s soul-controlled puppet and retains his former aura, Ye Li believes he can use him to infiltrate the sect.
• The White Tower God’s fragmented memories and Zuo Guannan’s limited knowledge leave Ye Li without enough intelligence to enter safely. He decides to seek help from Chu Xiyue, a direct disciple of the Jade Purity Pavilion.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li becomes vastly more powerful and gains a clearer understanding of the risks of his new realm. He remains pragmatic, prioritizing threats he can address now over distant danger.
• The White Tower God continues to serve Ye Li as a puppet, providing a potential cover for infiltration despite his incomplete memories.
• Zuo Guannan provides useful information about the Heavenly Tribulation but knows little about the Primordial Sea or the Soulbirth Sect.
• Chu Xiyue is identified as the person best suited to guide Ye Li, though she has not yet appeared in the scene.

Significant themes

• Power brings new burdens: Immortality-like longevity does not eliminate danger; it introduces recurring trials.
• Proactive defense: Ye Li prefers to confront threats at their source rather than wait for the Soulbirth Sect to attack.
• Knowledge as protection: His strength alone cannot ensure a successful infiltration; he needs reliable intelligence.
• Pragmatism and preparation: Ye Li weighs distant risks against immediate ones and seeks the right ally before acting.

Plot points and events

• In her temporary quarters at Snow God City, Chu Xiyue weighs her options after helping Ye Li at the wedding banquet. She fears punishment from the Jade Purity Pavilion for the humiliation of its marriage alliance and considers either attaching herself to Ye Li or killing him and offering his head to the Pavilion’s master.
• Ye Li appears and asks about her plans. He says he is heading to the Primordial Sea and needs a guide familiar with it.
• Chu Xiyue probes his background, hoping he belongs to a powerful Dao Lineage. Ye Li tells her he has no sect or backing and is going simply to see the wider world.
• Concluding that Ye Li is an unsupported wandering cultivator, Chu Xiyue abandons the idea of relying on him. She secretly signals her guards and pretends to agree to guide him, offering him tea.
• Ye Li recognizes the trap and warns her. Chu Xiyue drops the act, claims her Jade Purity Pavilion identity will make her guards trust her over him, and calls on three Eternal Life Realm guards to surround him. She orders Ye Li to kill himself.

Character developments

• Chu Xiyue shifts from anxious calculation to admiration, then to contempt and hostility when she believes Ye Li has no powerful backing. Her choices are driven by fear of the Pavilion and a desire to survive.
• Ye Li remains composed and direct. Though he notices the strange fluctuations in Chu Xiyue’s spiritual platform, he has so far chosen to judge her by her actions and overlook her secret.

Themes

• Power and status: Strength alone may not protect someone in a world where lineage, reputation, and alliances determine whom people believe.
• Deception and mistrust: Chu Xiyue uses a false show of helplessness and hospitality to hide her plan.
• Misjudgment: Chu Xiyue mistakes Ye Li’s lack of affiliation for weakness and recklessness, while Ye Li’s calm response suggests he may understand the danger better than she does.

Character interactions

• Ye Li treats Chu Xiyue as a potential guide, while she initially presents herself as a grateful subordinate.
• Their conversation about his origins exposes the gap between his plainspoken outlook and her assumptions about how power works.
• The offered tea becomes the turning point: Ye Li refuses it, revealing that he has seen through her deception, and Chu Xiyue responds by invoking her guards and challenging him.

Key plot points and events

• Before Chu Xiyue can finish speaking, three Jade Purity Pavilion guards launch a surprise attack on Ye Li, expecting to kill a Creation Realm cultivator.
• Ye Li reveals that he is already in the Eternal Life Realm. His powerful purple-gold divine power overwhelms the guards and pins Chu Xiyue down.
• Ye Li kills all three guards, including their captain, despite the captain’s threat that the Pavilion’s master will retaliate.
• Desperate to survive, Chu Xiyue confesses that she is actually Yuan Hui, a late-Eternal-Life cultivator from Cloudbank Moor. She possessed the real Chu Xiyue’s body while recovering from injuries sustained while pursuing a major opportunity.
• Yuan Hui offers Ye Li information about the opportunity and her connections in exchange for her life. He kills her body anyway, then captures her surviving soul. A system notification awards him 54 million Malice Points.
• Bound by absolute loyalty after the capture, Yuan Hui becomes Ye Li’s guide. She explains that the Soulbirth Sect is a powerful demonic faction in the Ghost Domain, led by a late Spirit Nurturing Realm sect master.
• Yuan Hui reveals that the real Chu Xiyue is alive: her soul is sealed, and her body is hidden in a remote star domain. She gives Ye Li the coordinates.
• Ye Li stores Yuan Hui’s soul in his Brow-Center Universe and turns his attention toward exploring the Primordial Sea.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li proves far stronger and more cautious than his enemies expected. He refuses Yuan Hui’s bargain, kills her body, and takes the information and service he wants by capturing her soul.
• Yuan Hui shifts from a confident conspirator to a terrified captive. Her attempt to bargain fails, and her hatred is replaced by the enforced loyalty that makes her serve Ye Li.
• Chu Xiyue is revealed to have been Yuan Hui’s assumed identity; the original woman remains alive but imprisoned in a sealed state.
• The Jade Purity Pavilion’s guards move from arrogant attackers to helpless victims, while Ye Li’s confrontation with them deepens the threat of conflict with their powerful organization.

Significant themes

• Power and miscalculation: Ye Li’s concealed strength overturns the guards’ assumptions and Chu Xiyue’s plans.
• Deception and identity: Yuan Hui’s possession of Chu Xiyue’s body drives the chapter’s betrayals and complicates Ye Li’s potential use of her identity.
• Self-interest and survival: Yuan Hui offers every advantage she has to escape death, but Ye Li prioritizes his own gains.
• Rising conflict: The Jade Purity Pavilion, the Soulbirth Sect, and the real Chu Xiyue’s hidden location set up future political and personal complications.

Plot and events

• The White Tower God, using the identity Zhanqing, returns to the Soulbirth Sect with Ye Li. The sect sits in the Southern Region of the Primordial Continent, where spiritual energy is extraordinarily dense and even ordinary patrols are powerful cultivators.
• Ye Li reflects on his difficult journey from the Chaos Star Sea. With Yuan Hui’s guidance, he traveled through the Fortune Commerce aboard a void-crossing star whale, paying a steep fare but reaching the resource-rich Primordial Sea.
• He reviews what he has learned about the region’s cultivation hierarchy: beyond Eternal Life are Spirit-Nurturing, Myriad Forms, and Dao Fruit. The Soulbirth Sect’s master is at the peak of Spirit-Nurturing, while even higher realms remain mysterious.
• At the sect entrance, disciple Xu Feng welcomes Zhanqing. He confirms her identity with a jade register, which resonates with her identity token, and says her master remains in seclusion while pursuing a breakthrough.
• Two sect members hiding near the gate had apparently hoped Zhanqing was an impostor so they could ambush her for a reward. Their disappointment suggests her return is genuine and verified.
• Xu Feng turns his attention to Ye Li, asking his name and confirming that he is the talented outsider Zhanqing recommended for admission.

Character development and interactions

• Ye Li remains calm and confident despite entering a vastly more powerful sect. He is impressed by the cultivation environment and resources, but treats the Primordial Sea as an opportunity to grow rather than a reason for fear.
• Zhanqing / the White Tower God maintains a restrained, cool demeanor while presenting herself as a returning sect member. She respectfully acknowledges her master and keeps her explanation brief.
• Xu Feng is welcoming and respectful toward Zhanqing, but follows sect procedure by verifying her identity. He is curious about Ye Li and engages him politely.
• The hidden pair’s hostile intentions reveal that danger and opportunism persist even within the sect. Ye Li quietly observes Xu Feng’s sincerity through his soul fluctuations, reinforcing his cautious approach.

Significant themes

• A vast new world and power hierarchy: The Primordial Continent dwarfs Ye Li’s former surroundings in both cultivation strength and resources.
• Opportunity through adversity: Ye Li’s costly, arduous journey is worthwhile because it brings him to a place where he can advance rapidly.
• Caution and calculated infiltration: The pair arrange Zhanqing’s return in advance, while Ye Li checks Xu Feng’s honesty before trusting him.
• Ambition and patience: Ye Li recognizes that greater mysteries lie beyond his current knowledge, but believes stronger cultivation will eventually give him access to them.

Plot points and events

• Ye Li arrives at the Soulbirth Sect with Senior Sister Zhanqing’s recommendation. Gatekeeper Xu Feng explains that newcomers must provide blood to kindle a Soul Lamp.
• Ye Li offers a drop of golden, extraordinarily vital blood. Xu Feng, overcome by greed, swallows it before using its remaining energy to complete Ye Li’s provisional registration.
• Xu Feng tells Ye Li he must complete a sect mission at the Immortal Destiny Hall to become a full disciple.
• Liu Yan, an alluring disciple of Mortal Dust Peak, offers to take Ye Li on a supposedly easy, high-reward mission and promises him a share of the credit if he agrees to join her peak. Ye Li senses her excitement and recognizes the offer as a trap.
• Knowing the sect members covet his blood and intending to exploit their greed, Ye Li accepts. Liu Yan and her taciturn partner, Zhang Zhengshan, hurry him away to handle the arrangements.
• Xu Feng resents losing access to Ye Li and plans to alert Waterbirth Peak’s senior disciples, hoping to claim Ye Li later.

Character developments

• Ye Li proves perceptive and calculating: he recognizes the danger behind the friendly offers and deliberately uses his valuable blood to attract ambitious predators.
• Xu Feng shifts from official gatekeeper to openly covetous schemer, unable to resist consuming Ye Li’s blood and plotting to seize him later.
• Liu Yan and Zhang Zhengshan present themselves as helpful seniors but reveal themselves as practiced manipulators, eager to secure Ye Li for their own interests.

Character interactions

• Xu Feng’s apparent welcome is compromised by his greed; Ye Li watches him consume the blood but allows the registration to proceed.
• Liu Yan uses flattery, a tempting mission, and a personal invitation to recruit Ye Li, while Zhang Zhengshan reinforces her story.
• Ye Li plays along with the pair’s offer, while Xu Feng watches them take him away and silently plots against them.

Significant themes

• Predation disguised as opportunity: The sect’s rules and offers of assistance conceal self-interest.
• Greed as a weapon: Ye Li deliberately makes others’ avarice work to his advantage.
• Power and exploitation: His extraordinary vitality makes him both a valuable resource and a target in the sect’s internal rivalries.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Li enters the Soulbirth Sect as a provisional disciple and receives a Life Token.
• Liu Yan gives him a tour, then claims that passing the entrance trial is difficult without connections. She offers a shortcut: join an assignment and capture a disciple of the rival Heavenly Origin Nine Heavens Mansion.
• Liu Yan presents the targets as insignificant outer disciples, but Ye Li realizes the story is false. The two sects are powerful rivals, and the mission likely serves Elder Lin’s private aim while keeping him at a distance from any blame.
• Liu Yan reveals that Elder Lin wants a rare Pure Yin Dao Body to harvest its essence and help him break through a cultivation bottleneck.
• Zhang Zhengshan urges Ye Li to register for the mission and secretly plans to devour Ye Li’s unusually powerful blood and vitality for his own advancement.
• Ye Li agrees and hands over his Life Token, while privately recognizing that his companions may be the ones walking into a trap.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li stays composed and conceals how much he has understood. He questions Liu Yan carefully, uses Yuan Hui’s knowledge to verify the rival sect’s standing, and outwardly accepts the dangerous assignment.
• Liu Yan acts warm and protective, even linking arms with Ye Li, but sees him as an easy mark and valuable prey. She reassures him when she fears he might withdraw.
• Zhang Zhengshan shares Liu Yan’s predatory attitude and is eager to get Ye Li outside the sect, hoping to consume his vitality.
• Elder Lin, though absent, is presented as the mission’s hidden instigator: he wants to exploit the Pure Yin Dao Body while shielding himself from the consequences.
• The relationship between Ye Li and his supposed guides is built on mutual deception: they think they are luring him, while he sees through their intentions and plays along.

Significant themes

• Deception and hidden motives: Friendly guidance masks schemes for personal gain.
• Power and exploitation: Both the intended captive and Ye Li are treated as resources to advance others’ cultivation.
• Political risk and scapegoating: A covert attack on a rival sect could provoke major conflict, while its organizer seeks plausible deniability.
• Predator and prey: The chapter repeatedly reverses appearances, suggesting the apparent victim may not be the one truly in danger.

Plot points and events

• Xu Feng leaves Zhanqing at a secluded cave abode and rushes to tell Waterborn Peak’s second senior brother, Luo Yin, that she has returned.
• Luo Yin reveals he once helped attack Zhanqing to steal a treasure, leaving her badly injured and believing she had died. Fearing she will report the crime to their master, he decides to kill her before she can reach him.
• Xu Feng also tells Luo Yin about Ye Li, an unaffiliated cultivator whose extraordinary blood essence could greatly benefit cultivation. Luo Yin agrees Ye Li is valuable, but considers silencing Zhanqing the priority.
• The two go to Zhanqing’s cave, but find it empty. Luo Yin assumes she has sensed the danger and fled, then uses a Tracking Compass to search for her. It fails to locate her, leaving him baffled and furious.

Character developments and interactions

• Xu Feng is greedy for Ye Li’s potent blood essence and seeks Luo Yin’s help in keeping Ye Li from outsiders.
• Luo Yin is exposed as a ruthless, self-interested cultivator who betrayed Zhanqing in the past and is now prepared to kill her to protect himself.
• Zhanqing, though absent after entering her cave, appears cautious and resourceful: she vanishes before Luo Yin and Xu Feng arrive.
• Xu Feng reports to Luo Yin, and the two quickly align around their shared interests—claiming Ye Li and eliminating Zhanqing.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and self-preservation: Sect ties offer little protection when personal gain is at stake.
• Greed and exploitation: Ye Li is treated as a source of valuable resources rather than as a person.
• Suspicion and survival: Zhanqing’s apparent escape shows the danger of returning to a hostile environment and the value of anticipating betrayal.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Yan leads Ye Li, Zhang Zhengshan, and two other Soulbirth Sect disciples toward Danview Gorge. Their plan is to ambush a delegation from the Heavenly Origin Nine Heavens Mansion as it passes through to harvest the rare Flowing Flame Golden Stamen.
• Liu Yan intends to wait in a secluded valley fifty thousand li from the gorge, using a Tracking Compass to detect powerful spiritual-energy fluctuations. She argues that moving farther away could let the delegation evade them.
• A gaunt disciple warns that the target is led by Zhou Yan—Tianyuanzi—an inner-disciple prodigy reputed to have killed a seventh-level Eternal Life cultivator. He also points out that a prolonged fight could summon nearby reinforcements.
• Ye Li realizes Liu Yan had previously described the targets as insignificant outer disciples. He feigns alarm and considers withdrawing, making Liu Yan explain away Tianyuanzi’s reputation and urge him to stay.
• Ye Li pretends to accept her explanation, while reserving the right to retreat if the ambush turns dangerous. The group ultimately agrees to proceed, relying on a rapid, coordinated attack.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Li carefully plays the naïve recruit, concealing his true capabilities and using the others’ conflicting claims to expose Liu Yan’s deception. He remains wary and self-interested, treating the mission as a chance for profit as well as a test of his companions.
• Liu Yan is revealed as manipulative: she recruited Ye Li by understating the danger and becomes visibly rattled when that deception is exposed. She regains control by minimizing Tianyuanzi’s achievements and flattering Ye Li.
• Zhang Zhengshan backs Liu Yan’s plan, urging the group to commit fully and kill Tianyuanzi quickly. His forceful support also pressures the others to stop hesitating.
• The gaunt disciple voices legitimate concerns but accidentally reveals the truth Liu Yan was hiding. She angrily rebukes him, and he falls silent.
• The burly disciple supports Zhang’s call, motivated by the promised spoils. The group’s cooperation is therefore fragile, built on greed, pressure, and incomplete trust.

Significant themes

• Deception and performance: Liu Yan lies about the mission, while Ye Li counterfeits fear and reluctance to avoid revealing what he knows.
• Risk versus reward: The group accepts a dangerous, close-range ambush because the potential spoils are attractive and waiting farther away might cost them the opportunity.
• Fragile alliances and self-preservation: Though they act as a team, each person has private motives, and Ye Li makes clear he will retreat rather than sacrifice himself.