Chapter Summaries

After killing Perfected Mingzhang, Ye Li uncovered the resentment-filled Dao-Nurturing Pool at Returning Balance Academy, suppressed its arrays, and took the academy’s treasures. With enough resources to advance into the Fortune-Mastery Realm, he considered his next targets as the Green Luo Continent Alliance Association began responding.

• Ye Li left An Ziqing in charge while he went to the Dao-Nurturing Pool and saw that the academy had concealed the resentment and remains of dead disciples beneath its clear water.
• Ye Li suppressed the pool’s arrays and sealed the site, deciding the Alliance Association’s inaction left him free to take matters into his own hands.
• Ye Li used the Three-Hour Divine Fire to turn the treasury’s Treasure Medicines into Treasure Pellets and found that his Malice Points had reached 2.658 trillion.
• Ye Li considered whether to attack unprepared Dao Lineages or go after the True Persons connected to them first.
• An Ziqing told Ye Li that the academy had settled down, a roster of the implicated cultivators was being compiled, and the Alliance Association planned to send someone to coordinate with them.

Three Continents Alliance True Persons debated how to respond to Ye Li after he killed Perfected Mingzhang and several alliance managers while exposing the Dao-Nurturing Pool. The meeting ended with Chongyue and Shoujing voting to summon Ye Li and restrict his actions, while Chongyue planned to seek support from Zi Yue Valley.

• A manager reported the battle at Returning Balance Academy, and Qin Fa was surprised by Ye Li's strength and agreed that he should be allowed to continue investigating.
• Chongyue argued that Ye Li had broken alliance rules by killing managers in public and demanded that someone oversee him.
• Qin Fa challenged Chongyue to name someone capable of restraining Ye Li, then refused to make Jade Dais Palace provide an overseer.
• Chongyue proposed asking a high-realm True Person to oversee Ye Li, and Shoujing agreed that Ye Li should report his findings before acting against Dao Lineages.
• Qin Fa left after yielding to the majority, while Chongyue asked Shoujing to summon Ye Li and set off to explain the matter to Zi Yue Valley.

Ye Li rejected True Person Shoujing’s invitation to discuss Returning Balance Academy’s future at the Alliance branch and dismissed the Green Luo Continent Alliance Association’s leverage. Shoujing discovered that the Ye Li who had spoken with her was only a clone, leaving her to wonder where his True Body had gone.

• Ye Li allowed academy life to resume, eased several harsh rules, and strolled around Returning Balance Academy as disciples and Alliance Association cultivators watched him.
• True Person Shoujing arrived at the academy and invited Ye Li to the Alliance branch to discuss the academy’s future and other matters.
• Ye Li questioned Shoujing about altered Dao-Nurturing Pool death records and violations of Alliance Association rules, then refused to attend the meeting.
• Ye Li told Shoujing that the Alliance Association needed him more than he needed it, and said he would visit if they gathered against him.
• Ye Li vanished from his chair, and Shoujing realized she had been speaking to his clone and wondered where his True Body was.

Ye Li rejected the Green Luo Continent Alliance Association’s request to negotiate and headed for the Wave-Subduing Residence to investigate suspected fraud involving military merits. As Huo Chuan and Qiao Suying concealed their own corruption, Ye Li’s unexpected arrival prompted the Residence to scramble to receive him.

• Ye Li chose to investigate the Wave-Subduing Residence after learning it had allegedly falsified military merits and traded them for Dao-Nurturing Pool places.
• Ye Li rebuffed An Ziqing when she asked about the Alliance Association’s intentions and planned to let others see him humiliating her.
• Qiao Suying denied an elderly woman compensation for her husband, citing records that accused him of damaging his armor and deserting.
• Huo Chuan claimed reimbursement for his armor and privately discussed inflated military merits and favors with Qiao Suying.
• A messenger announced that Ye Li’s Treasure Ship had arrived without notice, and Huo Chuan set out with Qiao Suying to welcome him.

Ye Li arrived at Wave-Subduing Residence and announced he would thoroughly investigate it on behalf of the Alliance Association. Huo Chuan contacted a branch manager for guidance, who warned him that Ye Li had just killed Perfected Mingzhang and several Alliance Association managers, leaving the residence in terrified silence.

• Huo Chuan welcomed Ye Li and An Ziqing, and Ye Li ordered An Ziqing to stand behind him instead of sitting.
• Ye Li told Huo Chuan he had come to investigate Wave-Subduing Residence, and Huo Chuan agreed to seek instructions from the nearest branch.
• Huo Chuan secretly crushed a Jade Pendant to summon Commander Ding while Qiao Suying and the other cultivators grew wary of Ye Li.
• Huo Chuan contacted a branch manager, who urgently warned him not to act rashly because Ye Li had slain Perfected Mingzhang and three Alliance Association managers at Returning Balance Academy.
• Huo Chuan, Qiao Suying, and the other cultivators fell silent in shock and fear.

Ye Li investigated the Wave-Subduing Residence and forced Huo Chuan and Qiao Suying to admit to corruption with overwhelming force. When Commander Ding Lie arrived and demanded paperwork, Ye Li subdued him and revealed Perfected Mingzhang, then threatened to kill Ding if he did not answer about fraud and bribes.

• Huo Chuan learned from the Alliance Association Manager that Ye Li had killed Perfected Mingzhang and warned him not to resist.
• Qiao Suying and Huo Chuan agreed to cooperate with Ye Li, who asked whether the Residence had falsified military merits or taken bribes.
• Ye Li struck Huo Chuan through his treasured armor and forced him to confess that merits had been reassigned and benefits accepted in military supplies.
• When Qiao Suying tried to defend the practice, Ye Li knocked her to the floor and ordered her to stay quiet.
• Commander Ding Lie arrived and demanded official documents before allowing the investigation, but Ye Li shattered his Dharma Form and pinned him to the floor.
• Ye Li revealed Perfected Mingzhang beside Ding Lie and gave him three breaths to answer whether he had falsified military merit or taken bribes.

Ye Li confronted Wave-Subduing Residence over its role in the deaths of battle cultivators and the manipulation of military merits. After Perfected Iron Face arrived and threatened to fight with the Residence’s forces, Ye Li declared he would kill them regardless and revealed five powerful allies.

• Ding Lie denied knowing anything about the accusations, but Perfected Mingzhang crushed his body and seized his Divine Soul.
• Perfected Iron Face intervened, but Ye Li stopped him from taking Ding Lie’s Divine Soul and revealed that tens of thousands of battle cultivators had surrounded the hall.
• Perfected Iron Face defended the Wave-Subduing Residence’s frontier service and threatened Ye Li with the Demon-Slaying Battle Formation and three incoming Perfected.
• Ye Li rejected Iron Face’s justification for sacrificing cultivators and vowed to kill the Residence’s leaders even if thirty thousand more allies arrived.
• Five figures emerged behind Ye Li, unleashing terrifying Fortune-Mastery auras as the battle formations outside began to shake.

Ye Li attacked the Wave-Subduing Residence and overwhelmed Perfected Iron Face with six summoned Perfecteds before joining the fight himself. When Xu Yan appealed to Qin Fa to intervene, Qin Fa ordered him to treat Ye Li’s assault as a routine inspection and cooperate fully.

• Perfected Iron Face offered to surrender the responsible cultivators and pay compensation, but Perfected Mingzhang and five other figures attacked him.
• The six summoned Perfecteds worked together to drive Perfected Iron Face onto the defensive while Ye Li watched.
• The Wave-Subduing Residence’s three other Perfecteds arrived, but Azure Roc, Golden Toad, and the Purple-Eyed Heavenly Serpent engaged them.
• Xu Yan appealed to Ye Li to show mercy and preserve the border defenses, but Ye Li joined the attack and struck Perfected Iron Face.
• Xu Yan contacted Qin Fa for instructions, and Qin Fa told him to cooperate with Ye Li’s investigation as though it were a routine inspection.

Ye Li and his allies overwhelmed Perfected Iron Face while the Jade Dais Palace agreed to take over the Wave-Subduing Residence’s border defenses. The chapter ended with Ye Li destroying Perfected Iron Face’s body and Divine Soul, killing the Wave-Subduing Residence’s leader.

• Qin Fa arranged for the Jade Dais Palace to send two Perfected cultivators to take over the defensive line, while Xu Yan coordinated the handover.
• Ye Li, Perfected Mingzhang, and Hidden Edge True Cultivator broke through the Wave-Subduing Residence’s formations and drove Perfected Iron Face into retreat.
• Perfected Iron Face offered to confess and pleaded for his life, but Ye Li continued attacking and shattered his Dharma Form.
• Ye Li destroyed Perfected Iron Face’s body, then used the Divine Spear to knock down his fleeing Divine Soul.
• Ye Li seized Perfected Iron Face’s Divine Soul and crushed it, killing him as the surrounding land shook.

After Ye Li killed the Wave-Subduing Residence’s Prefectural Lord, the remaining Perfected fled and were hunted down while Huo Chuan exposed the Residence’s crimes. Ye Li killed Huo Chuan and Qiao Suying, then ordered seven Fortune-Mastery beings to seal the area so no one involved could escape.

• The Prefectural Lord’s death broke the Residence’s resistance, and its three remaining Perfected fled before Ye Li’s allies chased them down.
• Huo Chuan confessed to falsifying military merits, framing dead cultivators, and arranging the deaths of people who occupied posts the Residence wanted vacated.
• Ye Li killed Huo Chuan despite his confession, then burned Qiao Suying after she offered to help investigate the Residence’s accounts.
• The seven Perfected returned after destroying the last fleeing Perfected’s Divine Soul, and Ye Li ordered them to seal the area and let no one involved escape.
• The seven Fortune-Mastery beings joined forces to seal heaven and earth, freezing the Sea of Clouds and stilling the ocean.

Ye Li slaughtered the Wave-Subduing Residence’s remaining forces and killed two corrupt Alliance Association Managers. After agreeing to handle the aftermath, he left Branch President Xu Yan determined to report his own failure of oversight and request severe punishment.

• Ye Li used Perfected Iron Face's Memory Scroll and Qiao Suying's records to identify the guilty cultivators and ordered his forces to continue the slaughter.
• Qin Fa thanked Ye Li for destroying the Wave-Subduing Residence, then admitted he resented that an outsider had exposed the corruption.
• Ye Li rejected Qin Fa's offer to have Jade Dais Palace handle the aftermath and said he would deal with it himself.
• Ye Li killed two Alliance Association Managers after they pleaded with Xu Yan to protect them.
• Xu Yan distanced himself from the Managers and resolved to seek severe punishment at headquarters for his failure to oversee the branch.

Cheng Yanhui became the Valley Master of Zi Yue’s personal disciple just as Heguang True Cultivator revealed that Ye Li had destroyed Returning Balance Academy and declared control over Green Luo Continent. Perfected Chongyue then urged Zi Yue Valley and the other sects to challenge Ye Li’s authority and jointly control the investigation.

• The Valley Master of Zi Yue accepted Cheng Yanhui as her disciple after her success at the Teaching Ceremony, and Cheng Yanhui received a personal disciple’s waist token.
• Heguang True Cultivator arrived with a dossier and reported that Ye Li had secretly come to Green Luo Continent, destroyed Returning Balance Academy, slain Perfected Mingzhang and the Alliance managers, and declared that he would take over the continent.
• The Valley Master of Zi Yue and Heguang True Cultivator discussed Jade Dais Palace’s refusal to intervene, while Cheng Yanhui argued that Ye Li was challenging Zi Yue Valley’s authority.
• Perfected Chongyue arrived and said Ye Li’s investigation of those connected to the Dao-Nurturing Pool threatened every Dao Lineage on Green Luo Continent.
• Perfected Chongyue proposed that Zi Yue Valley send a Late Fortune-Mastery True Cultivator to summon Ye Li and that the sects jointly decide who should be investigated and punished.

After learning that Ye Li had destroyed Wave-Subduing Residence, the leaders of Zi Yue Valley and the Mountain-Subduing Sect reconsidered how to deal with him. The Valley Master weighed whether to invite Ye Li to Zi Yue Valley and use the sect’s accumulated defenses against him.

• Perfected Chongyue learned from True Person Shoujing that Ye Li’s True Body had left Returning Balance Academy and that she had seen only his clone.
• True Person Shoujing reported that Ye Li had killed Perfected Iron Face, the other True Persons of Wave-Subduing Residence, and Ding Lie, then sealed the residence with seven Fortune-Mastery souls to investigate its cultivators.
• Cheng Yanhui regretted criticizing Ye Li after hearing of his victory, while the Valley Master of Zi Yue Valley recognized how much his strength had grown.
• True Person Shoujing said Jade Dais Palace had offered to defend Wave-Subduing Residence’s border, but Ye Li refused and claimed responsibility for it himself.
• Perfected Chongyue urged the Valley Master to intervene, and Heguang True Cultivator also argued that Zi Yue Valley could not delay its decision.
• The Valley Master considered inviting Ye Li into Zi Yue Valley, where the sect could use its ancestral defenses and gathered True Persons against him.

The Zi Yue Valley Master decided to confront Ye Li by gathering the factions that opposed his actions and inviting him to Zi Yue Valley. She reassured Cheng Yanhui that her status as a direct disciple would protect her, while the assembled factions prepared for Ye Li’s visit.

• Heguang True Cultivator and Perfected Chongyue urged the Zi Yue Valley Master to oppose Ye Li, and she agreed that he could no longer be allowed to challenge the factions’ authority.
• True Person Shoujing relayed Ye Li’s challenge for the factions to write another document and choose a place where he would visit them.
• The Zi Yue Valley Master told Perfected Chongyue to unite the opposing Dao Lineages and gather their representatives at Zi Yue Valley, with Heguang True Cultivator accompanying him.
• After the communication ended, the Zi Yue Valley Master comforted Cheng Yanhui about the Cheng Family’s past actions and promised that Ye Li could not defeat her in Zi Yue Valley.
• Cheng Yanhui accepted her master’s reassurance and bowed to her.

Ye Li arranged to lure the sealed Heavenly Wolf Demon King out, then pursued him alone across the border while the Alliance Association’s forces waited to follow. The chapter ended with the demon fleeing toward the Vast Wild Continent, unaware that Ye Li was behind him.

• Zhou Su told Ye Li that three Heavenly Wolf brothers had reached Fortune-Mastery and that one had been sealed by Perfected Iron Face.
• Ye Li dismissed Xu Yan’s dereliction for the moment, then struck An Ziqing when she challenged his decision; she retreated while hiding her pleasure at the humiliation.
• Ye Li ordered Zhou Su to make the seal appear to fail, and the staged damage released the bone-spurred wolf demon.
• The wolf demon broke through the cultivators’ formation and fled toward the Vast Wild Continent as Zhou Su asked how many troops Ye Li would muster.
• Ye Li dismissed the need for troops and vanished from the Treasure Ship, pursuing the fleeing demon alone.

The White Bone Wolf King escaped Iron Face’s seal and met the Azure Roc Demon King, who escorted him toward the Vast Wild Continent. When the Wolf King reunited with his brothers, they revealed that Azure Roc was already dead, and a Palace Heir appeared from the jade token to attack all three demons.

• The White Bone Wolf King fled the Green Luo Continent and encountered the Azure Roc Demon King, who claimed he was carrying out a Demon Lord’s orders.
• The Azure Roc Demon King escorted the White Bone Wolf King toward the Vast Wild Continent, where the Wolf King used his bloodline to contact his brothers.
• The Azure Roc Demon King gave the White Bone Wolf King a jade token and left to check for pursuers while the Wolf King waited near the boundary.
• The White Bone Wolf King’s two brothers arrived cautiously, and he told them that Azure Roc had helped him escape.
• The Black-Bearded Wolf King said Azure Roc had died days earlier in the Cold Sea Continent, and the jade token burst with golden light.
• A young man in a blue-and-white Palace Heir Robe emerged from the token and struck the three Demon Kings, hurling them into the buffer zone.

Ye Li fought the three wolf Demon Kings in the buffer zone outside the Vast Wild Continent and killed them before they could reach the Demon Lord’s defenses. With all three dead, he stood amid the deathly rumble as their Demon King death phenomena shook the surrounding land.

• Ye Li used the Azure Roc Demon King’s identity to lure the White Bone Wolf King and the other two wolf demons out of the Vast Wild Continent’s territory.
• The three wolf demons recognized Ye Li as the Supreme Clarity Palace Son and tried to force him toward the continent, but his pure qi stopped their spatial push.
• Ye Li overwhelmed the wolf demons with his Divine Spear, breaking their attacks and repeatedly driving them back into the buffer zone.
• The Black-Bearded Wolf King offered to serve as an insider for the Human Race, but Ye Li killed him and burned his Divine Soul.
• The Crimson-Patterned Wolf King fled, but Ye Li caught and killed him; he then killed the fleeing White Bone Wolf King before he could reach the Vast Wild Continent.

After killing three Fortune-Mastery Demon Kings, Ye Li entered the Vast Wild Continent alone and triggered its True Lord-level restrictions. He survived repeated attacks and advanced tens of thousands of miles into the continent as Zhou Su and the other cultivators watched in shock.

• Ye Li examined his enormous Malice Point reserves and decided to enter the Vast Wild Continent despite sensing danger at its boundary.
• Zhou Su and the arriving Alliance Association cultivators witnessed Ye Li's victory over the three Demon Kings and prepared to welcome him.
• Ye Li crossed the boundary, triggering the Vast Wild Continent's restrictions and drawing the attention of cultivators across the Green Luo Continent.
• The restrictions unleashed True Lord-level attacks that repeatedly shattered Ye Li's body, but he reappeared each time and continued forward.
• Ye Li advanced tens of thousands of miles into the Vast Wild Continent while his surging blood energy scattered the demon clouds.

Ye Li walked through the Vast Wild Continent while its Demon Lords watched but refused to intervene, then left after Pei You'an contacted him about Qin Baiyi. He returned to the Green Luo Continent unharmed, leaving Zhou Su and the other cultivators stunned.

• Ye Li endured the Demon Lords’ restrictions as Demon Kings and other demons fled before him, while cultivators across the border watched in disbelief.
• Ye Li wondered whether the Demon Lords were luring him deeper, but Pei You'an contacted him and asked for help concerning Qin Baiyi.
• Ye Li agreed to meet Pei You'an, abandoned his advance into the Vast Wild Continent, and walked back out without being attacked.
• Ye Li returned to Zhou Su’s treasure ship and said he had personal matters to handle, while Zhou Su and the nearby cultivators reacted with awe.

After Ye Li left the Vast Wild Continent unharmed, its Demon Lords debated whether to pursue him and concluded he was too dangerous to provoke. They ordered the Demon Kings to retreat if they encountered him, leaving the Great Demons relieved that they had obeyed.

• Ye Li's departure appeared in a clearing, and the Demon Lords discussed how his safe escape would boost the Three Continents Alliance's morale.
• A woman challenged the deep-voiced Demon Lord for allowing Ye Li to leave, and their clash shook the mountains and sea until Cang King ordered them to stop.
• Cang King argued that Ye Li's abilities and hidden treasures suggested he might be an Outer World Immortal God's offspring, making it dangerous to attack him.
• Cang King said Ye Li would likely leave when the next [Heavenly Official Opens the Way] arrived and ordered the Demon Kings to retreat if they saw him.
• The Fortune-Mastery Great Demons realized the Demon Lords feared provoking Ye Li and felt relieved they had not acted against him.