Recaps

Ye Xuan slaughtered the cultivators who attacked him, spared Xiao Yan, and left the city, while Ye Wushen arrived in pursuit. Elsewhere, Ye Xuan's master saw his name atop the Venerable Ranking and set out to earn a place on the rankings herself.

• Ye Xuan used his Saint Realm pressure to suppress and kill the hundreds of cultivators in the city lord's manor, while Xiao Yan escaped.
• Ye Xuan collected the storage rings and left the city, ignoring the injured Zixia as she limped away.
• Ye Wushen arrived at the city and entered, intent on finding Ye Xuan.
• A divine stele appeared in an immortal valley and displayed the Venerable, Half-Saint, and Saint Realm rankings.
• Ye Xuan's master saw him ranked first among Venerables and hurried off to pursue a place on the rankings.

Ye Xuan saw that he ranked first on the Venerable Ranking and began cultivating to break through, while his name stirred shock and excitement across Heavenly Void Divine Island. The rankings soon began changing rapidly, and Ye Xuan fell from first place to sixth.

• Ye Xuan searched the Saint Realm and Half-Saint rankings for his master, then saw his own name at the top of the Venerable Ranking and began devouring spirit stones to cultivate.
• Cultivators across Heavenly Void Divine Island were shocked that Ye Xuan of the Eastern Wasteland had claimed first place, and many began seeking ways to climb the rankings.
• Qiu Yue and the others saw Ye Xuan's ranking, and Di Cangtian celebrated until Chu Rufeng asked why his name was absent and provoked him.
• Yin Tianjiao saw Ye Xuan's name on the divine stele and wondered what its appearance foretold.
• Powerful cultivators began challenging one another to rise through the rankings, and within days Ye Xuan had dropped from first place to sixth.

Ye Xuan broke through to the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Venerable Realm and shattered the first shackle on his Chaos Sacred Body. After checking in for the Thunder Sacred Body and fusing with it, he gained greater control over lightning and displayed devastating power.

• Ye Xuan’s ranking fell from sixth to tenth, prompting cultivators to mock him for being from the Eastern Wasteland.
• Ye Xuan endured a vast Lightning Tribulation and broke through to the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Venerable Realm.
• Ye Xuan shattered the first shackle on his Chaos Sacred Body, strengthening his left arm until it rivaled a top-grade sacred artifact.
• The system offered Ye Xuan a refreshed check-in, and he briefly entered its mysterious region before his spiritual-sense avatar shattered inside a palace.
• Ye Xuan checked in and received the Thunder Sacred Body, then fused with it and blasted apart an area spanning hundreds of li with lightning.

Ye Xuan assessed his dwindling resources before the System offered him one thousand low-grade immortal crystals for taking first place on the Venerable Ranking. As he traveled toward the divine island’s core, Ye Wushen ambushed him and trapped him beneath an enormous attack.

• Ye Xuan checked his System Space and realized he lacked enough spirit stones to cultivate to the half-saint realm.
• The System assigned Ye Xuan a mission to reach first place on the Venerable Ranking, promising one thousand low-grade immortal crystals.
• Ye Xuan considered how the ranking was determined as he approached a vast mountain blocking the route to the divine island’s core.
• Ye Wushen ambushed Ye Xuan, shattered the bones in his hand, and sent him flying.
• Ye Wushen pinned Ye Xuan with his emperor realm domain and summoned a colossal hand to strike him.

Ye Xuan escaped Ye Wushen’s devastating attack by tearing through his domain and teleporting away, though he was badly injured. A spatial shift then brought him to a mountain peak where two groups of Half-Saints confronted him, and one young man ordered him to stay.

• Ye Xuan used the Demon-Devouring Divine Canon to tear a crack in Ye Wushen’s domain, then teleported away from his crushing palm strike.
• Ye Wushen failed to find Ye Xuan and sent countless afterimages searching in every direction.
• While hiding from Ye Wushen’s passing clone, Ye Xuan was suddenly transported from the forest to a mountain peak.
• Ye Xuan found himself facing seven women and eleven men, all Half-Saints, and explained that he had arrived through a spatial shift.
• As Ye Xuan tried to leave, a young man from the group of eleven stepped forward and told him, “Since you're here, don't leave.”

Wu Wen attacked Ye Xuan after blocking his escape, while Qin Xian tried to protect him and revealed that she and her companions were disciples of the Sacred Frost Palace. Ye Xuan vowed to help them, and Wu Wen trapped him in the Lychee Immortal Sect’s Death God Binding vines, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Wu Wen refused to let Ye Xuan leave and attacked him despite Qin Xian’s attempt to intervene.
• Wu Wen broke through Qin Xian’s ice attack and knocked her back, while his disciples surrounded her six companions.
• Ye Xuan warned Wu Wen to stop, then learned from Qin Xian that she was a Sacred Frost Palace disciple and promised to defeat her attackers.
• Wu Wen unleashed Death God Binding, and dense vines closed around Ye Xuan in a shrinking cocoon.

Ye Xuan broke free from Wu Wen’s vines, killed him, and slaughtered most of the Lychee Immortal Sect disciples who attacked him. As Qin Xian and the other Sacred Frost Palace disciples feared Ye Xuan might turn on them, Qin Xian gritted her teeth, still unsure whether they should leave.

• Wu Wen trapped Ye Xuan in vines, but Ye Xuan broke free, struck Wu Wen, and killed him with lightning dragons.
• A Lychee Immortal Sect disciple accused Ye Xuan of killing Wu Wen, and Ye Xuan killed him with a punch.
• Ye Xuan attacked the remaining Lychee Immortal Sect disciples and killed several more despite their threats and resistance.
• Qin Xian and the other six Sacred Frost Palace disciples debated whether to leave, fearing Ye Xuan might kill them to silence them.
• With only three Lychee Immortal Sect disciples still alive, Qin Xian gritted her teeth as she hesitated over what to do.

Ye Xuan killed the remaining Lychee Immortal Sect disciples as Li Chu arrived and challenged him. Li Chu attacked with Spiritual Essence Beast Transformation, and Ye Xuan countered with a golden finger imprint.

• Qin Xian urged her six junior sisters to flee, but they refused to leave her behind.
• Ye Xuan killed the last two Lychee Immortal Sect disciples while Qin Xian and the others watched.
• Li Chu arrived and confronted Ye Xuan, furious that he had killed members of the Lychee Immortal Sect.
• Li Chu unleashed Spiritual Essence Beast Transformation, leaving Qin Xian and the other cultivators unable to intervene.
• Ye Xuan activated his meridians and Wilds Body Refining Technique, then sent a golden finger imprint crashing toward Li Chu’s beast.

Ye Xuan fought Li Chu, overwhelming the peak Half-Saint with his swordsmanship, lightning, and ability to conceal his presence. He killed Li Chu and his Primordial Spirit, then returned to Qin Xian and the others to ask if they were unharmed.

• Ye Xuan shattered Li Chu's attack and broke through his domain and great seal with his Devour ability.
• Ye Xuan used Three Primordial Unity Forms and Imprison God, then called down lightning with Five Thunderbolts Strike the Crown.
• Ye Xuan concealed his presence, teleported behind Li Chu, and severed one of his arms with a sword strike.
• Ye Xuan punched Li Chu, seized him by the neck, and slammed him into the ground, killing him and destroying his Primordial Spirit with lightning.
• Ye Xuan descended beside Qin Xian and the others and asked whether they were unharmed.

Ye Xuan joined Qin Xian and six other women, and the Divine Ranking placed him third on the Venerable Ranking. After traveling together for several weeks, the group learned that the ruins Qin Xian had found on a map had been exposed and were drawing other cultivators.

• The Divine Ranking raised Ye Xuan to third place on the Venerable Ranking, prompting Qin Xian and the others to realize his identity.
• Ye Xuan dismissed Zi'er's doubts and continued traveling with the women, sharing the resources he gained along the way.
• Over several days, the women gradually relaxed around Ye Xuan, though Qin Xian remained wary of his intentions.
• After more than ten days, Qin Xian noticed cultivators converging in one direction and warned that someone had discovered the ruins.
• Qin Xian told Ye Xuan that she had a map to the ruins and that the Lychee Immortal Sect had pursued them to take it.

Ye Xuan and Qin Xian’s group entered the ruins and found a spatial rift leading to a hidden space created by a powerful expert. When a young man questioned Ye Xuan, he revealed that he was the famous Ye Xuan of the Eastern Wasteland, drawing the crowd’s attention and leaving Qin Xian and the others worried trouble would follow.

• Ye Xuan agreed to enter the ruins after Qin Xian and the others asked him to lead them.
• Ye Xuan and the Sacred Frost Palace disciples reached a clearing where a spatial rift released dense Spiritual Qi.
• Ye Xuan recognized that the rift contained a separate space created by a true Emperor Realm expert or someone even stronger.
• A young man approached Ye Xuan while eyeing Qin Xian and the other women, and Ye Xuan introduced himself as being from the Eastern Wasteland.
• The gathered cultivators recognized Ye Xuan as the third-ranked figure on the Venerable Ranking, and Qin Xian and the others reacted with surprise.

Lu Xuanyi challenged Ye Xuan, a Lower Realm Venerable, despite being a Half-Saint, while Qin Xian and the others protested. Zi'er revealed that she, Yue Rong, and Qin Xian belonged to the Sacred Frost Palace, forcing Lu Xuanyi to abandon his threat, while the crowd grew more hostile toward Ye Xuan.

• Lu Xuanyi politely challenged Ye Xuan to a fight, despite being a Half-Saint Realm expert facing a Venerable.
• Qin Xian objected that Lu Xuanyi was using his superior cultivation realm to pressure Ye Xuan, but Lu Xuanyi defended the challenge.
• Lu Xuanyi taunted Yue Rong and invited her to fight him, prompting Zi'er to insult him.
• As Lu Xuanyi prepared to strike, Zi'er named herself, Yue Rong, and Qin Xian as disciples of the Sacred Frost Palace of the Mystic Heaven Immortal Domain.
• Lu Xuanyi withdrew his killing intent, and the crowd became more jealous and hostile toward Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan accepted Lu Xuanyi’s challenge and used Rule Suppression to raise his presence to the saint realm while weakening Lu Xuanyi. He beat Lu Xuanyi into the ground and left the crowd silent as he asked whether anyone else wanted to challenge him.

• Lu Xuanyi demanded that Ye Xuan fight him, and Ye Xuan accepted the challenge.
• Lu Xuanyi attacked Ye Xuan, who activated the Nine Heavens Dragon Transformation Formula and Rule Suppression.
• Ye Xuan’s presence surged to the saint realm while Lu Xuanyi’s presence fell to the venerable realm peak stage.
• Ye Xuan swept aside Lu Xuanyi’s attack, grabbed him by the neck, and repeatedly smashed him into the ground.
• Ye Xuan planted his foot on the battered Lu Xuanyi and asked the crowd if anyone else wanted to challenge him.

Ye Xuan overwhelmed the crowd with his strength, then approached a spatial rift rich in Immortal Spiritual Qi and joined other cultivators in widening it. Though the others rushed inside first, Ye Xuan sensed danger and prepared to enter with Qin Xian and the other six women, warning them to stay close.

• Ye Xuan killed Lu Xuanyi with one move and led Qin Xian and the other six women to the front of the crowd.
• Ye Xuan sensed dense Immortal Spiritual Qi and agreed with Qin Tian, Xue Yong, Zha Meng, and Shi Jiao to break the restrictions around the rift.
• Qin Tian, Xue Yong, Zha Meng, Shi Jiao, and the other cultivators rushed into the widened rift while Ye Xuan waited outside.
• Ye Xuan told Qin Xian and the others that he sensed danger inside, but they reassured him they accepted the risks of cultivation.
• Ye Xuan agreed to enter the rift and told the seven women to stay close, prompting them to crowd around him and cling to his arms and clothes.

Ye Xuan and his companions entered a hidden realm filled with dense Immortal Spiritual Qi and visions of a flourishing immortal court. After his Divine Eyes revealed the ruined palaces beneath the illusions, the group advanced toward them, and Ye Xuan noticed that some apparitions seemed to watch him.

• Ye Xuan crossed the rift and found himself among floating immortal palaces and illusory immortals.
• Ye Xuan used his Divine Eyes to dispel the illusions, revealing ruined palaces and a black spear piercing the central palace, while Qin Tian and the others remained missing.
• Ye Xuan led Qin Xian, Yue Rong, and the others toward the palaces under layers of lightning defenses, but his Absolute Domain could not reach structures his eyes could see.
• The group relaxed as they traveled through increasingly dense Immortal Spiritual Qi, while Ye Xuan continued tempering his cultivation instead of breaking through to Half-Saint.
• Ye Xuan noticed that some illusory figures glanced at him, and Qin Xian asked what was wrong.

Ye Xuan discovered that True Solar Fire could destroy the otherwise invulnerable phantoms and used the energy released by them to help Qin Xian, Yue Rong, and the others cultivate. The group achieved a series of breakthroughs, while Ye Xuan stored the remaining energy and stayed below the Half-Saint Realm.

• Phantoms attacked Yue Rong and the Sacred Frost Palace group, injuring Zi'er, while their opponents' attacks repeatedly scattered the phantoms without killing them.
• Ye Xuan used Wandering Dragon Steps and the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword to protect Zi'er, then unleashed True Solar Fire and burned the phantoms into pure energy.
• Ye Xuan directed the released energy into Qin Xian, Yue Rong, and the others until they could absorb no more, then stored the remaining energy in System Space.
• Ye Xuan hunted down the remaining energy-bearing phantoms but stopped absorbing their energy to avoid breaking through to the Half-Saint Realm before claiming first place on the Divine Ranking.
• Qin Xian broke through to the fifth layer of the Half-Saint Realm, and Yue Rong and the others also began breaking through; Yue Rong accidentally blasted apart her dress when her breakthrough strength surged.

Ye Xuan’s group reached the immortal palaces, where an illusion scattered them and his Divine Eyes revealed the ruins and enormous chains hidden inside. As screams rang out, Ye Xuan was left confronting the unsettling possibility that the palaces were suppressing something.

• Yue Rong thanked Ye Xuan after he saved her from falling, while Zi’er teased him and made an outrageous remark about her master.
• Ye Xuan led the group toward the immortal palaces, using the True Solar Fire to attack phantoms as they traveled.
• More cultivators entered through the rift, including Yin Jiutian, a Half-Saint who had once ranked on the Half-Saint Divine Ranking and could kill Early Saints.
• Crossing an immortal palace’s boundary separated Ye Xuan from Qin Xian and the others, and he used his Divine Eyes to see through the illusion and locate them among the ruined palaces.
• Ye Xuan saw a divine spear pinning the central palace and discovered enormous black chains in the surrounding ruins, all leading toward it.
• A piercing scream sounded, and Ye Xuan turned back in alarm.

Ye Xuan rescued Yan Qing from three cultivators and discovered that blood from the maze’s battles was flowing toward the immortal palace. He hurried to find Qin Xian, who was ambushed in a corridor as the chapter ended.

• Yan Qing was overwhelmed by three cultivators and prepared to self-detonate before one struck her and sent her flying.
• Ye Xuan appeared, killed the three attackers, healed Yan Qing, and carried her away to find Qin Xian.
• Ye Xuan noticed that blood from fallen cultivators was gathering underground toward the immortal palace as battles spread through the maze.
• Qin Xian cautiously moved through a passage, was cut by a saber from ahead, and demanded to know who was there.

Ye Xuan rescued Qin Xian, Yan Qing, and the other Sacred Frost Palace fairies from the labyrinth, but the place transformed into a blood-soaked ruin and the surviving cultivators turned on him. The chapter ended with the cultivators charging at Ye Xuan as their common target.

• A burly Peak Half-Saint saber cultivator ambushed Qin Xian and wounded her as she tried to flee and defend herself.
• Yan Qing appeared just as the saber cultivator was about to kill Qin Xian, and Ye Xuan shattered the attacker with a barrage of punches.
• Ye Xuan gathered Qin Xian and Yan Qing, then rescued all the Sacred Frost Palace fairies by passing through walls that opened before him.
• Ye Xuan gathered the seven fairies and started to lead them out, but the labyrinth collapsed and revealed a ruin filled with corpses and battered cultivators.
• The surviving cultivators fixed their scarlet gazes on Ye Xuan and charged at him after someone shouted, “Kill!”

Ye Xuan fought off mind-controlled cultivators and tried to escape as a terrifying presence stirred inside the immortal palace. He killed Yin Jiutian when the sword cultivator blocked his way, then teleported away just as the palace exploded.

• Ye Xuan protected Qin Xian and the other six women, killing the attacking cultivators with lightning and sword strikes.
• As a menacing presence emerged from the immortal palace, Ye Xuan gathered the women and attempted to flee.
• Yin Jiutian intercepted Ye Xuan, but Ye Xuan severed both his legs with Three Primordial Unity Forms.
• Ye Xuan killed Yin Jiutian with Slay an Immortal with One Sword and escaped with Qin Xian and the others.
• The system announced that Ye Xuan had completed his mission and reached first place on the Venerable Ranking, then the immortal palace exploded.

A chained demonic beast emerged from the shattered immortal palace and began slaughtering the cultivators. As Ye Xuan desperately absorbed energy to break through, the beast targeted him, and his Demon-Devouring Divine Canon made it pause briefly before it charged at him.

• A two-legged demonic beast with a divine spear embedded in its forehead emerged from the shattered immortal palace, and its presence injured cultivators who looked at it.
• Ye Xuan fled with Qin Xian and the other six women, but the beast shattered the surrounding palaces and unleashed pressure and chains that killed countless cultivators.
• Qin Xian and the others urged Ye Xuan to leave them behind as the beast's attacks wounded them and overwhelmed his defenses.
• Ye Xuan spent a thousand Immortal Crystals and absorbed the surrounding Immortal Spiritual Qi while attempting to break through as he fled.
• The beast noticed Ye Xuan absorbing its energy, roared, and charged at him; Ye Xuan unleashed the Demon-Devouring Divine Canon, briefly making it pause before it rushed at him again.

Ye Xuan broke through to Half-Saint but was repeatedly battered by the demonic beast until he used his new sign-in ability, Draw the Ground as a Prison, to trap it. He fled with Qin Xian and the others, while the trapped beast encountered a terrifying woman in black.

• Ye Xuan broke through to Half-Saint as the demonic beast charged, but its first collision severely injured Qin Xian, the others, and Ye Xuan.
• The demonic beast struck Ye Xuan three times without killing him, leaving him desperate and bewildering the beast.
• Ye Xuan used his refreshed sign-in to obtain and cultivate Draw the Ground as a Prison.
• Ye Xuan trapped the demonic beast inside a hazy prison, then gathered Qin Xian and the others and fled while absorbing immortal Spiritual Qi.
• The trapped demonic beast saw an illusory barefoot woman in black with a crown and whip, then trembled and asked how she was there.

Ye Xuan recovered in a carriage while Sacred Frost Palace disciples cared for him, and he learned that Han Bingning had reached the Saint Realm Ranking. Their conversation about Han ended when a powerful stranger confronted the carriage and demanded that Ye Xuan come out.

• A woman in black slapped and subdued the demonic beast that had attacked one of her disciples, then began transmitting her voice.
• Ye Xuan left the secret realm with Qin Xian and the others, who traveled deeper into Heavenly Void Divine Island while he treated his injuries.
• Ye Xuan's name appeared above the divine stele after he claimed first place on the Venerable Ranking, and Han Bingning made the Divine Ranking at Saint Realm Third Stage.
• Yue Rong and the other Sacred Frost Palace disciples promised to care for Ye Xuan, then praised Han Bingning and warned him not to entertain improper ideas about her.
• After Ye Xuan questioned Han Bingning's standing, a luxurious man stopped the carriage and threatened to slay him for speaking disrespectfully of Fairy Han.

Han Yu attacked Ye Xuan for insulting Han Bingning, and Qin Xian and the other women tried to protect him but were defeated. Ye Xuan dodged Han Yu’s first two strikes, then faced his third attack directly and disarmed him with the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword, leaving its tip at Han Yu’s throat.

• Han Yu identified himself as a disciple of the Star Immortal Domain and attacked Ye Xuan for disrespecting Han Bingning.
• Qin Xian intervened, but Han Yu defeated her and then struck down Yue Rong and the other five women who tried to protect Ye Xuan.
• Han Yu pressed his attack despite learning the women belonged to the Sacred Frost Palace, while Ye Xuan warned him to stop.
• Ye Xuan dodged Han Yu’s first two strikes and said he would die if he attacked a third time.
• Han Yu attacked a third time, and Ye Xuan drew the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword, shattered Han Yu’s divine sword, and held the blade to his throat.

Ye Xuan killed Han Yu after Han Yu threatened him with the power of the Han Clan, then trapped eleven Saint Realm guards with Draw the Ground as a Prison. He sent Qin Xian and the others away while preparing to face the trapped experts.

• Ye Xuan defeated Han Yu and initially offered to spare him, but Han Yu threatened him with retaliation from the Han Clan of the Star Immortal Domain.
• Han Yu taunted Ye Xuan to kill him, so Ye Xuan stabbed him through the throat with the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Han Yu's eleven Saint Realm subordinates attacked Ye Xuan, enraged by their master's death.
• Ye Xuan used Draw the Ground as a Prison to trap the Saint Realm experts behind a luminous barrier.
• Ye Xuan told Qin Xian and the others to leave, and Qin Xian led them away after warning him to be careful.