Recaps

Ye Xuan escaped the battle after the royal Saint Realm cultivator’s Divine Arms of Xuan shattered, leaving him grievously wounded but alive. Ye Xuan then found the battered Qing Shang under the watch of nearby Saint Realm cultivators, while the Hundred Leaves Kingdom’s capital filled with experts responding to the growing crisis.

• The royal Saint Realm cultivator unleashed Divine Arms of Xuan, but it collided with the Primordial Unity Third Form and shattered, severely injuring him and destroying his right arm.
• Ye Xuan fled the battlefield amid the shockwaves, and the gathered Saint Realm cultivators failed to find him or Qian Xunyi.
• The injured cultivator swore to kill Xuan Ye, while the others discovered Yue Mei, Jian Jiu, and Fairy Qing Shang among the ruins.
• Ye Xuan spotted Qing Shang emerging from rubble and considered using her against the Saint Realm cultivators, but held back because their domains covered her.
• Saint Realm experts from several factions gathered over the Hundred Leaves Kingdom’s imperial capital as the deaths of their people drew widespread attention.

Half-Emperor Qianye faced accusations from the factions whose Saints had died inside a sealed realm, but insisted Xuan Ye was not part of his Thousand Leaves Merchant Association. Half-Emperor Baiye stopped the confrontation and directed everyone to Beast Gorge Ridge to seek a way into the realm.

• Half-Emperor Hanqiu and other faction leaders demanded that Qianye explain why their Saints had died and open the sealed realm.
• Hanqiu accused Xuan Ye of using a forbidden technique to attack their factions and threatened to kill Qianye if Qing Shang came to harm.
• Qianye denied that Xuan Ye belonged to his association, swore the deaths had nothing to do with him, and challenged the factions to fight if they wished.
• Half-Emperor Baiye said Caesar Palace powerhouses were on their way and proposed that everyone go to the sealed realm's location.
• The faction leaders restrained themselves and flew toward Beast Gorge Ridge.

Ye Xuan captured Qing Shang inside the Sealing Realm and forced her to call for help, using her as bait to lure the Saint Realm experts. After Qing Shang pointed the gathered experts toward Ye Xuan’s supposed location, he watched from nearby as they rushed away.

• Ye Xuan restrained Qing Shang and threatened to kill her unless she revealed whether the Hundred Flowers Alliance would rescue her.
• Qing Shang admitted that the Alliance’s Saint Realm experts would come for her, and Ye Xuan ordered her to shout for help.
• Qing Shang ran out and called for rescue, announcing that Xuan Ye was nearby.
• Several Saint Realm experts, including the four from the Hundred Flowers Alliance, arrived and asked Qing Shang where Xuan Ye was.
• Qing Shang pointed them toward Ye Xuan’s earlier location, and the experts rushed there while Ye Xuan watched unseen.

Ye Xuan ambushed the three Saint Realm cultivators of the Hundred Flowers Alliance, killing all three before the other experts could reach him. He seized their spatial rings and escaped, leaving the reinforcements to arrive too late.

• Ye Xuan used his concealed presence to ambush an early Saint Realm cultivator and kill him with one sword strike.
• The remaining early and middle Saint Realm cultivators charged Ye Xuan while Qing Shang watched in terror.
• Ye Xuan teleported between the two attackers, stunned the early Saint Realm cultivator with Azure Dragon Roar, and killed him with Primordial Unity Second Form.
• Ye Xuan trapped the middle Saint Realm cultivator with Imprison God and annihilated him with Good Fortune Heavenly Dipper Finger.
• Ye Xuan collected three spatial rings and teleported away just before the other experts arrived.

Ye Xuan hunted down Saint Realm cultivators in the Sealing Realm, using ambushes to kill thirteen and advance to the ninth level of the Divine King Realm. With only seven pursuers left, he began another breakthrough toward the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Divine King Realm.

• The Saint Realm cultivators pursued Ye Xuan after finding three of their allies dead, while the remaining Hundred Flowers Alliance cultivator took Qing Shang away and realized Ye Xuan had used her as bait.
• Ye Xuan hid, recovered, and planned to hunt weaker Saint Realm cultivators rather than risk fighting a late Saint Realm expert while injured.
• Ye Xuan killed three more Saint Realm cultivators and reached the ninth level of the Divine King Realm, but could not break through to Half-Saint or refresh his system sign-ins.
• Over the next half month, Ye Xuan killed ten more Saint Realm cultivators, leaving only five peak and two late Saint Realm cultivators from the original group.
• The seven remaining cultivators shouted for Ye Xuan to face them openly, but he ignored them and focused on breaking through to the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Divine King Realm.

Ye Xuan began breaking through to the Divine King Realm’s Supreme Extreme Realm, drawing a terrifying lightning tribulation that brought the seven Saint Realm cultivators to his location. He survived repeated strikes by using pills, the Wilds Body Refining Technique, and Five Thunderbolts Strike the Crown, then charged back into the storm and challenged it to strike harder.

• Ye Xuan devoured spirit stones and pills to fuel his breakthrough, causing dark clouds and a lightning tribulation to gather.
• The seven Saint Realm cultivators sensed the tribulation and rushed toward Ye Xuan, but retreated when the first lightning arc descended.
• Ye Xuan laughed at the seven cultivators and charged directly into the lightning, taking a strike that blasted him away.
• When more lightning struck, Ye Xuan returned to the air, survived the attacks, and used pills, the Wilds Body Refining Technique, and Five Thunderbolts Strike the Crown to absorb the lightning essence.
• The seven Saint Realm cultivators realized Ye Xuan was undergoing a Divine King Realm Supreme Extreme Realm tribulation as he shouted for the lightning to strike harder and flew back into the storm.

Ye Xuan drew the lightning tribulation onto the Saints pursuing him, broke through to the supreme extreme realm, and used his newfound power to kill another peak Saint. He chased the three surviving Saints as they fled, while the survivors inside the Sealing Realm and the experts outside watched in dread.

• Ye Xuan redirected his lightning tribulation toward the seven Saints, killing Zhong Gai and two others as he broke through to the supreme extreme realm.
• Ye Xuan’s cultivation surged to the Half-Saint realm, and he killed a peak Saint with one sword strike.
• The three remaining peak Saints lost their will to fight and fled from Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan pursued the fleeing Saints, taunting them and demanding that they fight.
• Qing Shang, Jian Jiu, and the other conscious geniuses inside the Sealing Realm despaired, while the experts outside watched stars go dark and worried about what was happening.

Outside the Sealing Realm, the factions demanded answers from Emperor Baiye while Half-Emperor Qianye denied responsibility for the Saints’ deaths. Inside, Ye Xuan hunted down the last peak Saint Realm expert, who tried to bargain for his life.

• Hanqiu and the other experts pressed Emperor Baiye about Caesar Palace’s delayed envoy and the many Saints who had died.
• Half-Emperor Qianye said the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association had lost fifteen Saints and denied that Xuan Ye belonged to it.
• Ye Xuan killed a peak Saint Realm expert and pursued the last surviving peak Saint, intent on finishing the slaughter.
• The fleeing Saint accused Ye Xuan of bringing heavenly punishment and the factions’ wrath, but Ye Xuan reminded him that he had previously threatened to kill him.
• The last Saint offered to help Ye Xuan escape the factions in exchange for being spared.

Ye Xuan tricked the peak Saint Realm cultivator into lowering his guard, then killed him before he could hand over his soul imprint. As the Sealing Realm began to collapse, Ye Xuan signed in and flew toward Yue Mei.

• The peak Saint Realm cultivator offered to use his royal-family ties and soul imprint to help Ye Xuan escape after the Sealing Realm lifted.
• Ye Xuan agreed to accept the soul imprint and swore not to kill the cultivator, then teleported to him and struck with the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Ye Xuan killed the peak Saint Realm cultivator, and another brilliant star went dark.
• The system announced that Ye Xuan could sign in, and he signed in while flying toward Yue Mei as the Sealing Realm began to collapse.

Ye Xuan used a newly acquired Divine Escape Talisman to flee with the unconscious Yue Mei just as the Sealing Realm vanished and powerful experts arrived. The experts sealed the area, found Qing Shang and Jian Jiu alive, and then noticed Qian Xunyi appear.

• Ye Xuan signed in and received a Divine Escape Talisman, then hurried to Yue Mei and carried her away.
• The Sealing Realm vanished, and Ye Xuan activated the talisman to escape with Yue Mei before the experts could catch them.
• The Baiye Emperor, Emperor Qianye, Half-Emperor Hanqiu, the Sword Emperor, and other experts sealed the area and searched for survivors.
• Kui Tiancheng noticed a possible sign of two people vanishing but dismissed it as an illusion.
• Half-Emperor Hanqiu rescued Qing Shang, and the Sword Emperor brought the badly injured Jian Jiu to safety.
• The experts saw Qian Xunyi appear.

Qian Xunyi emerged from hiding after the barrier vanished and denied killing anyone, claiming that an impostor had framed him. Hanqiu accused the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association of orchestrating the killings, leaving the gathered factions suspicious and hostile.

• Qian Xunyi woke to find Emperor Realm experts surrounding him and scrambled to his feet when a familiar voice called him out.
• Half-Emperor Qianye questioned Qian Xunyi about the killings and Xuan Ye, and Qian Xunyi insisted someone had impersonated him.
• Half-Emperor Qianye argued that Qian Xunyi lacked the strength to kill so many Saint Realm experts, while the others wondered who the impostor was and where Xuan Ye had gone.
• The experts probed Jian Jiu and Qing Shang with their domains, leaving both incapacitated; Kui Tiancheng reported finding nothing abnormal about the three survivors.
• Hanqiu suggested Qian Xunyi might have concealed his identity and that Xuan Ye could have been his puppet, prompting Half-Emperor Qianye to accuse her of slander.
• Hanqiu countered that the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association might have staged the deaths of four of its own Saint Realm experts to conceal its role in the wider massacre.

Half-Emperor Hanqiu accused the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association of orchestrating the crisis and requested a holy war against it. Several factions joined her demand, leaving Caesar Palace to decide the matter and Qianye demanding answers from Qian Xunyi.

• Hanqiu accused the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association of staging the affair and asked Kui Tiancheng to authorize a holy war against it.
• Kui Tiancheng urged caution, but Hanqiu insisted and argued that Xuan Ye’s choice to impersonate a merchant association disciple was suspicious.
• The Baiye Emperor, the Great Sword Sect, and the Divine Spear Sect also requested a holy war, with the latter three offering to withdraw in exchange for Xuan Ye, the Sealing Technique, and resources.
• Kui Tiancheng said he would report the demands to Caesar Palace, and the faction leaders departed.
• Qianye cursed the departing factions, then asked Qian Xunyi who Xuan Ye was and whether he was Qian Xunyi’s incarnation.

Ye Xuan lingered in the Hundred Leaves imperial city while the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association suspected he had framed them and prepared for a holy war. As he waited to see whether the factions would attack the association, the Hundred Leaves Army announced that it would bar the association from leaving the city.

• Qian Xunyi denied being Xuan Ye, and Gai Wudi confirmed that the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association had likely been schemed against.
• Half-Emperor Qianye told Gai Wudi and Qian Xunyi to return and prepare for the holy war, and the three left furious at Xuan Ye.
• Ye Xuan relaxed at the Hundred Leaves Restaurant and told Yue Mei to return to her room so she would not be seen with him.
• Yue Mei worried that the factions would hunt her because she had been with Xuan Ye, while Ye Xuan weighed his spoils and hoped a holy war would let him profit further.
• A voice ordered the Hundred Leaves Army to keep the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association inside the imperial city and threatened to kill anyone who disobeyed.

The Baiye Emperor confined the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association to the imperial capital, and the Hundred Leaves Imperial Family, Hundred Flowers Alliance, and Great Sword Sect agreed to a holy war against it. Senior Feng set the rules and declared that the war would begin in three days, while Ye Xuan looked forward to exploiting the conflict.

• The Baiye Emperor announced a ban on the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association, and Ye Xuan welcomed the prospect of a holy war and the spoils it could bring.
• Imperial experts posted a portraitless wanted notice for Xuan Ye at the capital’s eight gates, making his name widely known and prompting Ye Xuan to worry about being identified.
• Senior Feng questioned the factions’ decision to wage war, and the Hundred Leaves Imperial Family, Hundred Flowers Alliance, and Great Sword Sect each confirmed their participation.
• Senior Feng ruled that only three factions could join the war, forbade attacks across major realms, and set its start for three days later.
• The Baiye Emperor told the Hundred Flowers Alliance leader and Great Sword Sect master to prepare carefully, while Half-Emperor Qianye and Gai Wudi left in anger.

The Thousand Leaves Merchant Association prepared for a holy war against three allied factions while Half-Emperor Qianye wondered about Xuan Ye’s role in the conflict. Ye Xuan gave Yue Mei resources and told her to leave the imperial city, while he remained behind.

• Half-Emperor Qianye and Gai Wudi recalled the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association’s absent powerhouses and prepared to fight the three allied factions.
• Gai Wudi suspected Caesar Palace had invented Xuan Ye as a pretext to seize the association, but Half-Emperor Qianye warned him not to speak without evidence.
• News of the holy war spread through the imperial city, prompting visiting cultivators and residents to flee before the fighting began.
• Ye Xuan told Yue Mei he could not leave but gave her a storage ring with resources and urged her to escape while it was still safe.
• Yue Mei accepted Ye Xuan’s advice, said goodbye, and left the restaurant.

As the holy war approached, Ye Xuan weighed joining a faction and decided the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association might provide him a useful cover. He spotted Yang Tian, a peak Divine King Realm member of the struggling association, and followed him after he left the restaurant, intending to take his identity.

• Over three days, factions prepared for the holy war while cultivators in Hundred Leaves Imperial City chose whether to flee or join an army.
• Ye Xuan considered joining the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association but worried that doing so might attract suspicion.
• Yang Tian entered the restaurant, cursed at the cultivators there, and identified himself as a member of the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association.
• Ye Xuan recognized Yang Tian as a possible alternate identity and secretly set his sights on him.
• After Yang Tian left the restaurant, Ye Xuan followed him to find a chance to strike.

Ye Xuan followed Yang Tian to the Yang residence, where he used his Absolute Domain to bypass the guards and appear in Yang Tian’s room. The chapter ended with Yang Tian recognizing the danger as Ye Xuan confronted him.

• Yang Tian complained about Xuan Ye and the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association’s enemies as he returned to the Yang residence with two guards.
• Ye Xuan watched Yang Tian enter the residence and checked for Saint Realm experts before deciding to infiltrate it.
• Ye Xuan concealed his presence and used Absolute Domain Teleportation to enter Yang Tian’s room past two Half-Saint guards.
• Yang Tian cursed Xuan Ye and the other forces before noticing Ye Xuan seated in his room.
• Ye Xuan asked Yang Tian who he thought had followed him after Yang Tian demanded to know his identity.

Ye Xuan subdued Yang Tian and disguised himself as him to infiltrate the Yang residence before the holy war. At daybreak, the holy war began, and Ye Xuan was ready to fight under his new identity.

• Ye Xuan trapped Yang Tian in the room and forced him to reveal details about the Yang residence and the people close to him.
• Ye Xuan shattered Yang Tian’s dantian and knocked him unconscious, then hid him beneath the bed without killing him.
• Ye Xuan burned away the bloodstains and spent four hours disguising himself as Yang Tian.
• Ye Xuan checked his disguise and prepared to fight when the holy war began at daybreak.
• Dawn arrived, and the holy war began.

As the Hundred Leaves Imperial Family, the Hundred Flowers Alliance, and the Great Sword Sect launched a holy war against the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association, Ye Xuan roused the Yang residence’s defenders and tested the enemy’s limits. The chapter ended with Ye Xuan killing a Divine King who had provoked Yang Tian, while the invading Half-Saints watched.

• The imperial forces, Hundred Flowers Alliance, and Great Sword Sect mobilized against the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association, whose members prepared to defend their holdings.
• At the Yang residence, Ye Xuan declared that the attackers would learn not to underestimate the Yang Lineage, lifting the defenders’ spirits while secretly searching for the treasury with his Absolute Domain.
• Nearly a hundred enemy cultivators broke through the Yang residence’s gates, led by two peak Half-Saints who challenged Yang Yue.
• Ye Xuan struck down a Divine King who had previously provoked Yang Tian, then urged the residence’s cultivators to attack the intruders.
• The Yang residence’s cultivators cheered and rallied behind Ye Xuan as the two Half-Saints watched him with killing intent.

Ye Xuan drew the pursuing Divine Kings away from the battle at the Yang residence, intending to seize the Yang Lineage’s spirit stones while its guards were fighting. He killed all of his pursuers, but an Emperor Realm Domain descended just as he turned toward the ore vein.

• The two Half-Saints ordered their Divine King cultivators to kill Ye Xuan as the battle spread through the Yang residence.
• Ye Xuan’s Absolute Domain revealed a store of mid-grade and high-grade spirit stones, and he headed for it while the Yang Lineage’s guards were away.
• More than a dozen Divine Kings caught up with Ye Xuan and attacked him, but he killed Lu Qiu with one punch and swiftly slew the rest with his fists.
• Ye Xuan collected the cultivators’ storage rings and prepared to enter the ore vein, but an Emperor Realm Domain came crashing down on him.

Ye Xuan stole the Yang estate’s entire spirit stone mine while an Emperor Realm expert watched him, then fled as the estate’s defenses and spiritual energy collapsed. He left the Yang Lineage fighting the invading forces without its mineral vein or runic barriers.

• Feng Di used his Emperor Realm domain to scrutinize Ye Xuan, but the woman in black shielded him from detection.
• The two Half-Saints ordered reinforcements after Yang Tian killed eleven Divine Kings, while the Yang Lineage’s fighters struggled to hold their ground.
• Ye Xuan extracted the Yang estate’s mineral vein and claimed he would rather take it away than let the enemy seize it.
• Ye Xuan fled the estate, and the loss of the vein weakened its spiritual energy and disabled its runic restrictions.

After the Yang estate was destroyed, Ye Xuan, disguised as Yang Tian, drew the pursuing Divine Kings toward the imperial palace and revealed his strength by killing a Great Sword Sect expert with one punch. He continued toward the palace, intending to seize its resources while making a spectacle to deter stronger enemies from attacking.

• The invading forces killed the Yang estate’s Half-Saint, Venerables, Divine Emperors, and remaining experts after Ye Xuan left.
• Ye Xuan loudly boasted as Yang Tian and charged ahead, believing an Emperor Realm expert was watching him and that his display would discourage stronger cultivators from intervening.
• More than a dozen Divine Kings from the imperial family, the Hundred Flowers Alliance, and the Great Sword Sect pursued Ye Xuan but could not catch him.
• Ye Xuan turned on the Great Sword Sect’s peak Divine King, evaded his sword attack, and killed him with a single punch.
• Ye Xuan headed for the imperial palace to seize its resources and shouted threats at the Divine Kings pursuing him.

Ye Xuan provoked the imperial forces and drew the attention of Half-Emperor Qianye and the Baiye Emperor, who ordered the Hundred Leaves Imperial Family’s Divine Kings to kill him. As Ye Xuan reached the imperial palace, he warned the assembled cultivators not to attack from above the Divine King Realm, but a Divine King struck at him with a golden saber.

• Ye Xuan taunted the Divine Kings pursuing him, while the Baiye Emperor, the Hundred Flowers Alliance leader, and the Great Sword Sect master fought Half-Emperor Qianye in the void.
• Half-Emperor Qianye recognized Ye Xuan as Yang Tian, praised him, and promised to protect him, even as the Great Sword Sect master wounded Qianye’s left arm.
• The Baiye Emperor ordered the Hundred Leaves Imperial Family’s Divine Kings to kill Yang Tian before he could enter the imperial palace, drawing more Divine Kings toward Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan approached the imperial palace and threatened to kill anyone below the Divine King Realm who provoked him, while warning stronger cultivators that an expert from Caesar Palace was watching.
• A Divine King charged Ye Xuan and swung a golden saber ray toward his head.

Ye Xuan defeated and killed Baiyu, one of the imperial family's three great Divine Kings, then fought through the imperial cultivators and broke into the imperial palace. He left a trail of nearly a hundred dead as the battle with the imperial forces continued.

• Ye Xuan shattered Baiyu's saber attack with a punch and appeared before him in an instant.
• Ye Xuan broke Baiyu's left arm, seized his golden saber, and crushed his throat, killing him.
• The imperial cultivators charged at Ye Xuan, while Half-Emperor Qianye praised him and vowed to fight for the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association.
• Ye Xuan wielded Baiyu's saber and cut through the imperial cultivators, killing nearly a hundred of them.
• Ye Xuan carved a bloody path through the imperial forces and charged into the imperial palace.

Ye Xuan, posing as Yang Tian, slaughtered the Hundred Leaves Imperial Family’s Divine Kings and rampaged unchecked through Baiye Imperial Palace while higher-ranked fighters were restrained by the holy war’s rules. As the imperial family’s cultivators fled from him, Ye Xuan secretly searched for and seized their resources, eventually spotting a mineral vein.

• Ye Xuan cut down wave after wave of the imperial family’s cultivators, including the Divine Kings who charged out to stop him.
• The Baiye Emperor ordered his forces to kill Ye Xuan but could not intervene personally without breaking the holy war’s rules.
• Ye Xuan fought his way into Baiye Imperial Palace as Half-Emperor Qianye laughed and the other factions watched in shock.
• Ye Xuan spread his Absolute Domain to locate resources and secretly swept them into his spatial ring while continuing to hunt Divine Kings.
• The imperial family’s Divine Kings grew too terrified to approach Ye Xuan, who rampaged through the palace unchecked.
• Ye Xuan spotted a mineral vein and stared at it in astonishment.