Recaps

After Ye Xuan’s attacks left the Eighth Elder afraid to search for him, the deaths of Saint Realm cultivators drew the attention of the Hundred Leaves Kingdom and several major powers. In Saber Saint City, Huan'er and Xue'er were sent west to settle their obsessions with an enemy who had arrived in the Yuanqing Domain.

• The Eighth Elder waited for Ye Xuan after he vanished, afraid to hunt him for fear of another ambush.
• The emperor of the Hundred Leaves Kingdom failed to divine what had happened at Beast Gorge Ridge, suffered a backlash, and ordered an investigation.
• Experts from the Hundred Flowers Alliance, the Great Sword Sect, and Saber Saint City also investigated the unprecedented deaths of Saint Realm cultivators.
• Gai Wudi learned that Duan Tianxiong and the others were dead, then went to investigate the disaster himself.
• Huan'er and Xue'er left Saber Saint City after being told their enemy was in the west and that settling their obsessions would prepare them to enter the Saint Realm.

Ye Xuan recovered from his injuries while the Eighth Elder waited for him for three days in the Sealing Realm. Ye Xuan finally attacked with a barrage of lightning and charged at the furious elder, beginning their final confrontation.

• The Eighth Elder waited in the void for Ye Xuan, growing increasingly furious when he failed to appear.
• Ye Xuan stayed within a hundred li of the Eighth Elder and cultivated until his injuries healed.
• Ye Xuan noticed the elder was still waiting and decided to attack him.
• Ye Xuan struck the Eighth Elder with dense lightning, humiliating him despite causing little harm.
• Ye Xuan mocked the Eighth Elder and charged at him with Wandering Dragon Steps.

Ye Xuan fought the eighth elder head-on, growing stronger as his Wilds Body Refining Technique advanced and his Chaos Sacred Body recovered. As the battle continued, Gai Wudi, a Half-Emperor and vice president of the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association, arrived outside the Sealing Realm.

• Ye Xuan traded dozens of punches with the eighth elder, taking severe wounds while refusing to back down.
• Ye Xuan sensed imperial Dao resonance as he fought, alarming the eighth elder with his unexpected comprehension.
• Ye Xuan's Wilds Body Refining Technique advanced to the thirty-sixth level, rapidly repairing his body and strengthening his major-attainment Chaos Sacred Body.
• The eighth elder's Dao resonance vanished when it struck Ye Xuan, leaving the two to battle through physical strength and Spiritual Qi.
• Gai Wudi arrived outside the Sealing Realm.

Gai Wudi arrived outside the Sealing Realm but could not enter or locate the expert who had trapped the eighth elder. Inside, Ye Xuan ignored the elder’s plea for rescue and killed him, then concealed himself and escaped by teleportation.

• Gai Wudi sensed that the Sealing Realm was sealed, and his attempts to contact its creator received no answer.
• Gai Wudi spread his Emperor Realm Domain across the surrounding area but found no trace of the mysterious expert.
• Gai Wudi asked the unseen senior to spare the eighth elder and offered compensation on behalf of the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association and Caesar Palace.
• The eighth elder heard Gai Wudi’s voice and threatened Ye Xuan, claiming an Emperor Realm expert had arrived to save him.
• Ye Xuan attacked the wounded eighth elder with the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword and cleaved him in two.
• Ye Xuan absorbed the eighth elder’s cultivation, took his storage ring, concealed his presence, and escaped through several teleports.

Ye Xuan escaped before the Sealing Realm vanished, leaving Gai Wudi unable to find the killer of the eighth elder. He received his mission reward and began recovering in a secluded cave as powerful factions gathered at Beast Gorge Ridge.

• Ye Xuan fled at full speed, keeping his distance from Gai Wudi as the Sealing Realm disappeared.
• Gai Wudi found the eighth elder dead and discovered that his Dao resonance and cultivation had been stripped away, but his domain detected no trace of Ye Xuan.
• Gai Wudi vowed that the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association would pursue the killer, then failed to find any of the enemy’s blood.
• Ye Xuan entered a secluded cave and received a disc of hundred-year spirit spring water from the System for completing the first mission.
• Ye Xuan entered the spirit spring to recover, while experts from the Hundred Leaves Kingdom, Saber Saint City, and other factions arrived at Beast Gorge Ridge.

After the fall of eleven Saints at Beast Gorge Ridge, Gai Wudi hurried back to warn the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association that hostile forces might seek a holy war. Meanwhile, Ye Xuan emerged from a month of cultivation at the Divine King Realm seventh layer and considered how he could complete his mission to destroy the association.

• Experts gathered at Beast Gorge Ridge to investigate the fallen Saints and search for a treasure, while Gai Wudi chose not to silence them and returned to alert the Holy Lord.
• Gai Wudi worried that the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association could face a holy war over the deaths of eleven Saints, including the peak Saint Realm Eighth Elder.
• Ye Xuan advanced through the Divine King Realm fifth and sixth layers to the seventh layer after bathing in hundred-year spirit marrow spring water.
• Ye Xuan considered how to destroy the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association, whose two Emperor Realm experts seemed beyond his ability to defeat.
• Ye Xuan wondered whether the Sealing Realm could suppress an Emperor Realm expert and whether Yue Mei, still outside, could help.

Yue Mei despaired as she waited in hiding for Ye Xuan, who emerged from seclusion and set out to find her before heading to the Hundred Leaves Kingdom’s capital. On the way, Ye Xuan provoked a royal party and attacked the ninth prince.

• Yue Mei treated her wounds in a cave and worried that Ye Xuan had forgotten or been killed, though she believed he had slain the Eighth Elder and his group.
• Ye Xuan emerged from seclusion and went to look for Yue Mei before pursuing the mission to destroy the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association.
• A group of cultivators led by the ninth prince confronted Ye Xuan, and he claimed to be Xuan Ye of the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association to stir up hostility toward it.
• The ninth prince identified himself and challenged Ye Xuan, who responded by drawing the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword and slashing at him.

Ye Xuan killed the Ninth Prince and fought off the imperial family's experts, blaming them for the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association's losses. After slaughtering three Venerable Realm attackers, he turned his gaze toward the terrified survivors as they began to flee.

• Ye Xuan ignored the Ninth Prince's pleas and cut him down, prompting the imperial family's experts to charge at him.
• Ye Xuan used the Nine Heavens Dragon Transformation Art to raise his cultivation and cleaved the Venerable Realm First Layer saber wielder in two.
• Ye Xuan shrugged off the Venerable Realm Fourth Layer woman's steel needles and smashed her head with a punch.
• Ye Xuan shattered the Venerable Realm Seventh Layer elder's attack and killed him with a golden palm strike.
• The remaining young people panicked when Ye Xuan looked toward them, and one shouted for them to split up and flee.

Ye Xuan impersonated a Thousand Leaves Merchant Association genius, killed the ninth prince and other cultivators, and let the fleeing survivors spread his name. As the factions blamed the association, Shen Junlin gave Gai Wudi three days to capture the killer.

• Ye Xuan let the young Tianjiao flee after killing the ninth prince, intending to direct suspicion toward the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association.
• Ye Xuan continued searching for Yue Mei and killed several groups of cultivators who attacked or challenged him, including Half-Saints.
• News spread that Xuan Ye had slaughtered dozens of cultivators from more than three factions in Beast Gorge Ridge.
• At the imperial palace, Shen Junlin demanded that Gai Wudi explain whether Xuan Ye belonged to the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association.
• Gai Wudi denied knowing Xuan Ye, but agreed to Shen Junlin's demand to capture the killer within three days.

Ye Xuan continued killing cultivators in Beast Gorge Ridge while pretending to be Xuan Ye of the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association, escalating the panic and confusion among the major factions. As Yue Mei heard the rumors, she wondered whether Xuan Ye was Senior Brother Ye.

• Ye Xuan mocked three Half-Saints from the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association, suppressed them with his rules, and knocked them back with his golden staff.
• Ye Xuan claimed their fight would prove he was not one of the association’s geniuses, then fled and left the Half-Saints to be blamed by a black-robed observer.
• The black-robed man accused the three Half-Saints of staging the encounter to protect Xuan Ye and departed before they could explain.
• Rumors of Xuan Ye’s killings spread through Beast Gorge Ridge, prompting weaker cultivators to flee as major factions sent powerful cultivators and Tianjiao to hunt him.
• Yue Mei heard the rumors from inside a secluded cave and wondered whether Xuan Ye was Senior Brother Ye.

Yue Mei reunited with Ye Xuan in Beast Gorge Ridge as powerful enemies from across the Hundred Leaves Kingdom gathered to hunt him. Despite her warnings, Ye Xuan set out with her for the imperial capital, dismissing the threats and vowing to kill anyone who stood in his way.

• Yue Mei worried that Ye Xuan had made enemies of the Hundred Leaves Kingdom's major powers and feared leaving her hiding place alone.
• Ye Xuan appeared silently in Yue Mei's cave, pushed her away when she embraced him, and told her they were leaving.
• Yue Mei warned Ye Xuan that Saint Realm cultivators were hunting them, but he said he would kill anyone who attacked and continued toward the imperial capital.
• Ye Xuan and Yue Mei heard that the fifth prince, Qian Xunyi, Fairy Qing Shang, and two women from Saber Saint City had entered Beast Gorge Ridge to confront him.
• Yue Mei warned Ye Xuan that Qian Xunyi had fought Half-Saints and possessed ways to survive encounters with Saint Realm cultivators.

Ye Xuan learned that Yue Mei could disguise them and decided to impersonate Qian Xunyi to provoke the factions and deepen the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association’s troubles. The pair left the valley in disguise and continued toward the imperial capital.

• Ye Xuan dismissed the threat from the fifth prince and his allies, then hurried toward the Hundred Leaves Kingdom’s imperial capital with Yue Mei.
• Ye Xuan asked Yue Mei what Qian Xunyi looked like, and she sketched his appearance for him.
• Yue Mei offered to disguise Ye Xuan and herself, and Ye Xuan asked her to make him look like Qian Xunyi.
• Ye Xuan took Yue Mei into a nearby valley, where she disguised him as Qian Xunyi and herself as a young man.
• Ye Xuan decided to use Qian Xunyi’s appearance to kill people and further implicate the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association.

Disguised as Qian Xunyi, Ye Xuan killed cultivators who insulted Xuan Ye and intimidated a Saint Realm expert. He continued through Beast Gorge Ridge with Yue Mei and was confronted by Jian Qi of the Great Sword Sect.

• Qian Xunyi killed several cultivators for insulting Xuan Ye and dismissed a Saint Realm expert who challenged him.
• Ye Xuan returned to Yue Mei, then continued onward, hoping to encounter the Fifth Prince and Fairy Qing Shang.
• Ye Xuan and Yue Mei passed a group from the Great Sword Sect, whose members made Yue Mei feel oppressed.
• Jian Qi stopped Ye Xuan and called him Qian Xunyi, and Yue Mei quietly identified Jian Qi.

Ye Xuan, posing as Qian Xunyi, accepted Jian Qi’s challenge and killed him with a single strike. The Great Sword Sect cultivators were left facing Jian Qi’s death after he had demanded a fight to the death.

• Yue Mei recognized Jian Qi, and Ye Xuan remembered killing another Jian Qi in the past but gave no sign of recognition.
• Jian Qi blocked Ye Xuan’s path and demanded a duel, insisting he could defeat him.
• Ye Xuan warned Jian Qi that the loser would die, and Jian Qi agreed to the stakes.
• Ye Xuan matched Jian Qi’s Venerable Realm Seventh Layer cultivation and let him strike first.
• Jian Qi attacked with a fierce sword technique, but Ye Xuan drew Yaoguang and pierced his throat with one strike.

Ye Xuan used his Qian Xunyi identity to kill Jian Qi, provoking the Great Sword Sect, while Jian Jiu retaliated against the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association. As Beast Gorge Ridge descended into chaos, Qing Shang warned Xuan Ye and Qian Xunyi not to harm the Hundred Flowers Alliance.

• Ye Xuan killed Jian Qi in a duel, and the Great Sword Sect cultivators angrily threatened him but did not dare attack.
• Ye Xuan left with Yue Mei, continued killing cultivators as Qian Xunyi, and also used his Xuan Ye identity to commit killings.
• Jian Jiu attacked members of the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association and vowed to kill more of them until Qian Xunyi appeared.
• Qing Shang warned that she would show no mercy if Xuan Ye or Qian Xunyi harmed anyone from the Hundred Flowers Alliance, then departed.

Ye Xuan and Yue Mei reached the exit of Beast Gorge Ridge, where factions had gathered with a host of Saint Realm powerhouses waiting for them. Ye Xuan led Yue Mei out while pretending to be afraid, and inwardly prepared to deal with the weaker cultivators blocking their way.

• The Hundred Leaves Kingdom's fifth prince vowed to kill Xuan Ye and Qian Xunyi, but Old Zhu warned him not to underestimate them.
• Qian Xunyi denied killing anyone and swore to Elder Yu that someone was impersonating him; Elder Yu told him to stay close.
• Ye Xuan and Yue Mei reached the perimeter of Beast Gorge Ridge and found cultivators from several factions waiting outside, including more than twenty Saint Realm powerhouses.
• Ye Xuan learned that Thousand Leaves Merchant Association cultivators were among those gathered and decided to lead Yue Mei out rather than turn back.
• Several powerhouses surrounded Ye Xuan and Yue Mei as they emerged, and Ye Xuan acted terrified while inwardly resenting the Venerables and Half-Saints using their domains to pressure him.

Ye Xuan and Yue Mei were forced into a clearing with other rogue cultivators while factions searched for the killer Xuan Ye. When a guard tried to make them kneel and whipped at them, Ye Xuan killed him and revealed himself as Xuan Ye, calling on the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association to fight alongside him.

• A cultivator ordered Ye Xuan and Yue Mei, whom he recognized as a woman, to join the rogue cultivators held for questioning.
• Ye Xuan and Yue Mei saw that the rogue cultivators in the clearing were wounded and had been tortured.
• An armored cultivator ordered the pair to kneel and swung his whip at them when Ye Xuan refused.
• Ye Xuan punched through the armored cultivator's chest, seized the whip, and killed him with a blow to the head.
• Ye Xuan turned toward the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association, identified himself as Xuan Ye, and urged its elder to stop pretending and fight with him.

Ye Xuan used the Sealing Realm and Yue Mei’s identity to provoke the rival powers and force the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association into battle. After seven Saint Realm experts attacked him, Ye Xuan vanished, leaving Yue Mei exposed as the fighting continued.

• Ye Xuan raised his cultivation to the Venerable Realm Peak Stage, exposed Yue Mei as a member of the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association, and suppressed the Saint Realm experts with the Sealing Realm.
• Ye Xuan killed the cultivator who had blocked him, then slaughtered Venerable Realm cultivators and urged the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association’s elders to fight.
• The rival powers blamed the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association and launched a battle, while seven Saint Realm experts moved to attack Ye Xuan.
• A Saint Realm expert struck Ye Xuan with a powerful punch, and Ye Xuan’s sword clash caused an explosion that leveled nearby peaks.
• When the turbulence cleared, Ye Xuan had disappeared and Yue Mei stood dozens of li away; the Saint Realm experts ordered their forces to kill the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association’s people and moved to capture her.

Ye Xuan killed Zhao Zhong, a late Saint Realm expert, and urged the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association to fight back as the factions attacked them. He then faced Yang Wenxuan, whose spear pierced Ye Xuan’s shoulder, leaving their battle underway.

• The factions rejected the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association’s pleas and attacked, while six Saint Realm experts surrounded Yue Mei and demanded to know where Xuan Ye was.
• Ye Xuan ambushed Zhao Zhong with a dragon roar and a sword strike, killing the Saint Realm seventh-layer expert.
• Ye Xuan laughed, called on the association elders to attack, and charged toward another Saint Realm expert as the battle across the battlefield turned savage.
• Yang Wenxuan of Divine Spear Mountain Manor attacked Ye Xuan with a storm of spear rays; one pierced Ye Xuan’s left shoulder.
• Ye Xuan endured the wound and swung the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword with Slay an Immortal with One Sword.

Ye Xuan killed Yang Wenxuan after a fierce battle, then escaped with the wounded Yue Mei and hid with her while beginning a breakthrough. The fighting continued outside, and several other prominent figures remained trapped within the Sealing Realm.

• Ye Xuan overwhelmed Yang Wenxuan with successive techniques and killed him with a golden finger seal, extinguishing his Dao.
• Ye Xuan seized Yue Mei and fled, while the four surviving Saint Realm cultivators pursued them.
• Ye Xuan buried himself and Yue Mei in a secluded pit, concealed their presence, and began breaking through as Yue Mei healed with a pill.
• The Saint Realm cultivators continued searching for Ye Xuan while other fighters attacked the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association, whose people scattered and fought guerrilla-style.
• Qian Xunyi, Fairy Qing Shang, and Jian Jiu were also trapped within the Sealing Realm near Beast Gorge Ridge.

Ye Xuan broke through to the Divine King Realm eighth layer while cultivating, drawing a flood of powerful experts toward him. As he fled their approaching encirclement, he disguised himself as Qian Xunyi and ran into the Fifth Prince, who moved to surround him.

• Ye Xuan advanced from the Divine King Realm seventh layer to the eighth while Yue Mei struggled to absorb the surrounding Spiritual Qi.
• Ye Xuan’s cultivation drained Spiritual Qi across hundreds of li, prompting cultivators nearby to rush toward him.
• Ye Xuan sensed more than a hundred experts approaching, including twenty-one Saint Realm experts, and fled with Yue Mei.
• Ye Xuan spotted the Fifth Prince, concealed himself, and changed his appearance to Qian Xunyi.
• The Fifth Prince recognized Ye Xuan as Qian Xunyi and led his guards to surround him.

Ye Xuan confronted the Fifth Prince, who had come to avenge the imperial powerhouses Qian Xunyi had killed. Ye Xuan overwhelmed him in battle and killed him with a final punch, while the imperial powerhouses watched in shock.

• The Fifth Prince taunted Ye Xuan and ordered his subordinates to keep him from escaping while he attacked alone.
• The Fifth Prince unleashed golden dragons, but Ye Xuan destroyed them with one punch and wounded him.
• The Fifth Prince activated his Divine Arms of Xuan and golden armor, yet Ye Xuan battered him back with the Emperor Formula.
• Ye Xuan landed a final punch that blasted apart the Fifth Prince's head and killed him.

Ye Xuan killed the fifth prince and several imperial cultivators, including the Saint Realm expert Hu Qiu, while evading the remaining pursuers. He left with Yue Mei, and other Saint Realm experts arrived to find Hu Qiu dead and Ye Xuan gone.

• The Hundred Leaves Kingdom’s cultivators charged Ye Xuan after he killed the fifth prince, and he killed a Half-Saint with the Yaoguang Sword.
• Ye Xuan slew several more Half-Saints while using Wandering Dragon Steps, Absolute Domain, and Teleportation to evade the Late Half-Saints and the Saint Realm expert.
• The Saint Realm expert Hu Qiu pursued Ye Xuan, who killed him after mocking his demands to stand and fight.
• Ye Xuan reached his rendezvous with Yue Mei and left with her.
• Several Saint Realm experts found Hu Qiu’s body and searched in vain for Ye Xuan.

The Sealing Realm descended into panic as Ye Xuan hunted cultivators and was mistaken for the feared Qian Xunyi, who hid underground and protested his innocence. With his strength and skills rapidly improving, Ye Xuan prepared to hunt the remaining Saint Realm cultivators.

• Cultivators across the Sealing Realm panicked as Xuan Ye and Qian Xunyi were blamed for slaughtering the weak, while Saint Realm experts searched for them.
• Jian Jiu and Fairy Qing Shang feared they would die if they encountered Xuan Ye or Qian Xunyi.
• The real Qian Xunyi hid a thousand meters underground, concealed by a magical treasure, and cursed those impersonating him.
• Ye Xuan continued killing cultivators and devouring their cultivation, growing stronger and refining his techniques while Yue Mei remained hidden.
• A late Saint Realm expert from the Hundred Leaves Kingdom challenged Ye Xuan from the sky, but Ye Xuan stayed concealed and prepared to strike.
• Ye Xuan counted twenty-three Saint Realm cultivators remaining and resolved to kill them all.

Ye Xuan waited in hiding for a peak Saint Realm cultivator to enter his Absolute Domain, then launched a sudden attack with several techniques at once. The chapter ended as the cultivator fought back with his golden arm against Ye Xuan’s sword strike.

• Saint Realm cultivators searched for Ye Xuan and Qian Xunyi while cursing them, and Qing Shang and Jian Jiu hid in fear.
• Ye Xuan stayed concealed and waited for the imperial family's peak Saint Realm cultivator to enter the range of his Absolute Domain.
• Ye Xuan teleported behind the cultivator and unleashed Azure Dragon Roar, Imprison God, and Primordial Unity, Third Form in rapid succession.
• The cultivator broke free of Imprison God, recognized the sword strike's Sword Domain, and raised his golden right arm to resist.