Recaps

Ye Xuan wondered whether the mighty woman in his divine palace was his system, but she ignored his calls while secretly enjoying his praise. Han Bingning arrived at Blood Moon City to challenge its lord, Blood Moon, and left the city gates shattered with her challenge.

• Ye Xuan tried to speak with the black-robed woman in his divine palace and suspected she had designs on him, but she did not answer.
• The black-robed woman privately praised Ye Xuan's flattery and decided he was still too weak for her to engage with.
• Han Bingning arrived at Blood Moon City to challenge Blood Moon, the Saint Ranking's twenty-third expert.
• Han Bingning destroyed the city gates with her ice sword and called out, asking Blood Moon whether he dared to fight.

Han Bingning challenged Blood Moon and narrowly defeated him after a battle that lasted more than four hours, rising to twenty-third in the Divine Ranking. After recovering from her injuries, she told Ye Xuan that she would challenge Huo Long, ranked fifteenth, the next day.

• Blood Moon accepted Han Bingning’s challenge and met her at the ruined city gates.
• Han Bingning fought Blood Moon with her sword Dao and Ice Domain while Ye Xuan watched from the void.
• After more than four hours of battle, Han Bingning narrowly defeated Blood Moon, though both were badly injured and much of Blood Moon City was destroyed.
• News of Han Bingning’s victory spread, and she rose to twenty-third in the Divine Ranking as other geniuses began fighting to improve their ranks.
• Han Bingning healed in her room while Ye Xuan watched over her.
• After recovering, Han Bingning told Ye Xuan she would challenge Huo Long, ranked fifteenth, the next day.

Ye Xuan tried to stay the night with Han Bingning, but her Dao protector, Aunt Rong, appeared and told him to leave. Han Bingning sent Aunt Rong away and kept Ye Xuan with her, leaving them alone in an awkward silence.

• Ye Xuan doubted Han Bingning could defeat Huo Long and urged her not to challenge him, saying she could rely on the resources he earned.
• Han Bingning ordered Ye Xuan to leave, but he asked to stay and keep her company for the night.
• Aunt Rong appeared and told Ye Xuan that Han Bingning did not need his protection, but he argued that she could not intervene if someone from their generation challenged his master.
• Han Bingning told Aunt Rong to leave because she had things to discuss with Ye Xuan, and Aunt Rong warned him not to try anything.
• Ye Xuan asked Han Bingning what Aunt Rong meant, and Han Bingning blushed and glared at him.

Han Bingning challenged Huo Long, ranked fifteenth on the Saint Ranking, while Ye Xuan accompanied her to his city. Huo Long accepted the fight and attacked Han Bingning, who answered with a swarm of ice dragons.

• Han Bingning ordered Ye Xuan to stay quiet, and they spent the night without further words.
• The next day, Ye Xuan and Han Bingning traveled to Huo Long's city despite Ye Xuan's reluctance to let her challenge him.
• New talents fought for places on the Saint Ranking, and some began searching for Ye Xuan to challenge him.
• Huo Long waited outside the city and recognized Ye Xuan, but Han Bingning demanded that Huo Long accept her challenge.
• Huo Long dismissed Han Bingning's strength, then attacked her when she insisted on fighting.
• Han Bingning summoned thousands of ice dragons and sent them roaring toward Huo Long.

Han Bingning fought Huo Long but was defeated after he broke through her Ice Domain. Ye Xuan stepped in to protect her and asked Huo Long whether he still wanted to challenge him.

• Huo Long advanced through Han Bingning's ice dragons and unleashed his Heaven-Exterminating Strike against her.
• Han Bingning froze Huo Long with her Ice Domain and struck him with her divine sword, but he broke free at the cost of serious injuries.
• Huo Long closed in on the weakened Han Bingning, who admitted defeat.
• Ye Xuan stepped between Huo Long and Han Bingning, drew her into his arms, and gave her a healing pill.
• Ye Xuan asked Huo Long whether he still wanted to challenge him.

Ye Xuan turned from challenging the injured Huo Long to facing Lei Xiao, a powerful Thunder Sect prodigy who challenged him. Ye Xuan demanded ten thousand low-grade immortal crystals before accepting, leaving Lei Xiao angered and the crowd stunned.

• Ye Xuan pressed Huo Long to fight, but Lei Xiao appeared and offered to challenge Ye Xuan in his place.
• The crowd identified Lei Xiao as a Thunder Sect prodigy ranked ninth on the Divine Ranking, and Huo Long thanked him before putting away his golden staff.
• Lei Xiao praised Ye Xuan's accomplishments and challenged him, while Han Bingning warned Ye Xuan that Lei Xiao was exceptionally powerful and may have killed a half-emperor.
• Ye Xuan asked Lei Xiao's rank, then said it was not high enough and demanded ten thousand low-grade immortal crystals to accept the challenge.
• Lei Xiao grew angry at Ye Xuan's fee and insult, while the surrounding cultivators fell silent.

Lei Xiao threatened Ye Xuan after Ye Xuan refused his challenge, but Ye Xuan warned that his powerful protector would kill anyone who attacked him before he accepted. Ye Xuan prepared to leave with Han Bingning, and Lei Xiao finally agreed to pay the immortal crystals.

• Lei Xiao unleashed his peak Saint Realm aura and prepared to attack Ye Xuan, but Ye Xuan warned that his senior would kill him if he struck before Ye Xuan accepted the challenge.
• Ye Xuan demanded that Lei Xiao either pay the immortal crystals or fight, then took Han Bingning's hand and started to leave.
• Cultivators erupted in anger over Ye Xuan holding Han Bingning's hand, while some challenged him and offered to pool the ten thousand immortal crystals for Lei Xiao.
• Han Bingning warned Ye Xuan that many of the gathered cultivators were Saint Ranking experts backed by powerful forces, and Ye Xuan chose not to provoke them.
• Lei Xiao reconsidered attacking, called Ye Xuan to stop, and tossed him a storage pouch, agreeing to pay the immortal crystals.

Ye Xuan accepted Lei Xiao’s challenge after taking his ten thousand immortal crystals and forced him to clarify the stakes. They agreed to fight for victory, with either allowed to concede, and Lei Xiao opened the battle with a storm of lightning dragons.

• Lei Xiao paid Ye Xuan ten thousand immortal crystals for the chance to challenge him.
• Ye Xuan asked whether the fight would be an ordinary spar or to the death, unsettling Lei Xiao and drawing objections from Lei Xiao’s supporters.
• Lei Xiao proposed a fight to determine victory, with either contestant allowed to concede and accidental deaths treated as bad luck.
• Ye Xuan accepted, told Han Bingning to move back, and said he would eat with her after the fight.
• Lei Xiao unleashed his lightning essence and sent countless lightning dragons blasting toward Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan overwhelmed Lei Xiao in a lightning duel, then left the gathering with Han Bingning after no one else dared challenge him. News of the defeat spread across Heavenly Void Divine Island with one day remaining before the secret realm opened.

• Lei Xiao unleashed a torrent of lightning dragons, but Ye Xuan matched his lightning resonance and shattered them.
• Lei Xiao attacked with Thunder Kill, but the lightning blades could not harm Ye Xuan’s physique.
• Ye Xuan used Five Thunderbolts Strike the Crown to destroy Lei Xiao’s defenses and send him flying.
• Ye Xuan struck Lei Xiao with a giant lightning fist, then spared him and offered the crowd a chance to challenge him for ten thousand Immortal Crystals.
• When no one stepped forward, Ye Xuan returned to Han Bingning and left as Lei Xiao lay humiliated.
• News of Ye Xuan’s crushing victory spread throughout Heavenly Void Divine Island, one day before the secret realm’s opening.

On the final day of the rankings, Ye Xuan stayed with Han Bingning as they awaited the secret realms and prepared to part. When the realms opened, they exchanged promises before heading to their separate destinations, while a woman who had watched them vanished from the crowd.

• Ye Xuan stayed with Han Bingning and worried about the missing Yin Tianjiao as the final day passed.
• The divine stele opened passages to the secret realms, and the ranked cultivators flew toward them.
• Ye Xuan asked Han Bingning to wait for him at the Sacred Frost Palace, and she promised she would.
• Ye Xuan embraced Han Bingning, joked about beating her marriage suitors, and flew toward his secret realm as she headed to hers.
• Aunt Rong watched them part, while a woman who had witnessed their intimacy wished them happiness and vanished.

Ye Xuan entered the secret realm through the gateway at the first-place position on the Saint Ranking. Beyond a small door, he found a sunlit world of spring and realized he could not return.

• Ye Xuan drew the attention of the gathered cultivators as he rose to the first-place gateway on the Saint Ranking.
• Ye Xuan entered his secret realm, and the other outstanding talents were pulled into their own gateways.
• The divine stele vanished, and white light carried the remaining cultivators away from Heavenly Void Divine Island.
• Ye Xuan climbed a flight of stairs and opened a small door.
• Ye Xuan saw a springlike landscape beyond the door, then discovered he could not turn back.

Ye Xuan entered a strange sea that sealed his Spiritual Qi and inflicted agonizing pain, but he continued forward while using the Wilds Body Refining Technique and pushing his spiritual sense toward a distant light. As he endured the sea’s trials, illusions tried to tempt him to stop, and a woman in a boudoir invited him to listen to her tune.

• Ye Xuan stepped into the sea, where his Spiritual Qi was sealed and his clothes shattered as piercing pain made his body bleed.
• Ye Xuan discovered that he could still circulate the Wilds Body Refining Technique, so he endured the pain and began walking through the sea.
• Ye Xuan tried to send out his spiritual sense, but it was squeezed and devoured as he struggled to push it toward a distant sliver of light.
• A voice urged Ye Xuan to stop, and an illusion of a luxurious paradise and carefree young man appeared, but Ye Xuan ignored it and pressed on.
• The illusion shattered and Ye Xuan found himself in a woman's boudoir, where a graceful figure invited him to stop and listen to a tune.

Ye Xuan struggled through a sea of illusions that used seductive women and people he loved to break his mind. He recognized Yin Tianjiao’s apparent rescue as another deception, but a sword strike descended on him as the scene vanished.

• Ye Xuan broke a seductive illusion of a woman behind vermilion curtains and pushed onward through the endless sea.
• Ye Xuan resisted an illusion of Han Bingning appearing as his master, shattering it despite its pleas and reproaches.
• Ye Xuan saw Yin Tianjiao trapped and wounded, then stopped charging when he noticed her subtle smile and realized the scene was an illusion.
• The illusion vanished, and a streak of sword light slashed down at Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan faced dangerous visions as he crossed the sea, breaking through to the Second Layer Saint Realm and defeating a humanoid Devil Creature. He shattered a third shackle, freed his spiritual sense, and reached the end of the sea, where a second doorway appeared.

• Ye Xuan destroyed a sword-light attack and broke through to the Second Layer Saint Realm.
• A black hole opened before Ye Xuan, and he fought off waves of Devil Creatures as the hole shrank.
• A humanoid Devil Creature attacked Ye Xuan, who shattered its claw and tore it apart.
• Ye Xuan returned to the sea and continued forward through the waves without encountering more strange visions.
• Ye Xuan shattered his third shackle, released his trapped spiritual sense, and reached the second doorway.

Ye Xuan entered the Profound Void Realm's first tower and met its guardian, Xu Huang, who offered him a chance to skip ten trials if he could defeat him. Their battle began with Xu Huang striking Ye Xuan from behind, leaving Ye Xuan shaken by his speed and power as another threat approached.

• Ye Xuan reached the portal at the peak of the Second Layer Saint Realm, with his third shackle shattered, and entered it.
• Ye Xuan arrived at a vast pyramid filled with Immortal Spiritual Qi and followed its source to a golden light.
• Xu Huang introduced himself as the first tower's guardian and said Ye Xuan could pass a hundred-move trial or skip to the eleventh trial by defeating him.
• Ye Xuan attacked Xu Huang with the Wandering Dragon Steps and Emperor Art, but Xu Huang vanished and reappeared behind him.
• Xu Huang punched Ye Xuan and sent him flying, and Ye Xuan sensed another danger approaching.

Ye Xuan endured Xu Huang’s relentless speed and passed the trial after surviving a hundred moves. After the reward raised his cultivation to the peak of the Second Layer Saint Realm, Ye Xuan suppressed the breakthrough and charged at Xu Huang to retaliate.

• Ye Xuan used his domains and Teleportation to dodge Xu Huang’s repeated attacks, though Xu Huang struck him three times.
• As the battle approached a hundred moves, Ye Xuan’s danger sense and speed improved until he could see Xu Huang clearly.
• Xu Huang stopped and declared that Ye Xuan had passed the trial after a hundred moves.
• The trial’s golden light entered Ye Xuan, raising his cultivation to the peak of the Second Layer Saint Realm.
• Ye Xuan suppressed his breakthrough with True Solar Fire and charged at Xu Huang, intent on striking back.

Ye Xuan overwhelmed Xu Huang in the first ten trials and earned passage to the eleventh floor. After Ye Xuan left, an old man in an Immortal Domain tried to uncover his identity but was struck by a powerful backlash from the Great Dao of Karma.

• Ye Xuan attacked Xu Huang and knocked him back with the Thunder Emperor Seal, paying him back for their earlier fight.
• Xu Huang recognized Ye Xuan's Chaos Sacred Body but stopped short of explaining what else he had sensed, prompting Ye Xuan to attack again.
• Ye Xuan used all his techniques and grew stronger as he fought, while the Saint Realm mystic light replenished him and Xu Huang began to fade.
• Ye Xuan punched Xu Huang until he yielded and announced that Ye Xuan had passed the first ten trials.
• Ye Xuan warned Xu Huang not to block his way, then vanished and arrived on the eleventh floor.
• An old man in an Immortal Domain deduced that Ye Xuan was in the Profound Void Realm, but the Great Dao of Karma wounded him and left him wondering who was concealing Ye Xuan's secrets.

In the Profound Void Realm, a crowd of monstrous geniuses watched a stone wall reveal that Ye Xuan had broken the Forbidden Sea crossing record and defeated Xu Huang. Ye Xuan reached the Profound Void Divine Tower’s eleventh floor, where he learned he had to sound a bell-drum eleven times to pass.

• Hundreds of cultivators from many races gathered in the Profound Void Realm and watched an image appear on an ancient stone wall.
• The image showed Ye Xuan crossing the Forbidden Sea and advancing through the Profound Void Divine Tower, astonishing the gathered geniuses.
• The cultivators speculated about Ye Xuan’s identity and marveled that he had defeated Xu Huang, a legendary powerhouse.
• Ye Xuan arrived on the eleventh floor and found a bell-drum beside a golden mystical light rich in Immortal Spiritual Qi.
• A message appeared in Ye Xuan’s mind, telling him to sound the bell-drum eleven times to pass the trial.

Ye Xuan approached the ancient bell-drum and discovered its sound waves cleansed his body and soul, helping him break through to the Saint Realm Third Stage. Believing the trial was a source of benefits, he struck five more beats in succession as the prodigies watching from the Profound Void Realm stared in shock.

• Ye Xuan called out to the system lady, cursed when she did not answer, and was struck on the back of the head by a punch from her.
• The prodigies of the various races watched Ye Xuan in the Profound Void Realm and complained that he was wasting their time.
• Ye Xuan approached the bell-drum, endured its pressure, and struck the first beat, whose sound wave cleansed his body and soul.
• Ye Xuan struck the second beat and broke through to the Saint Realm Third Stage under the cleansing of its sound waves.
• Ye Xuan struck five more beats in succession, unleashing a tremendous force that left the watching prodigies stunned.

Ye Xuan endured the drum’s crushing backlash and kept striking, using the pressure to refine his body. After twelve beats, he was badly injured but sensed that his Wilds Body Refining Technique was close to advancing.

• Ye Xuan resisted the backlash with his Spiritual Qi, True Solar Fire, and Wilds Body Refining Technique, absorbing the pressure to temper his body.
• He struck the drum four more times in succession, bringing the total to eleven and alarming the watching talents.
• The pressure made Ye Xuan spit blood and shatter two bones, but he sensed his Wilds Body Refining Technique nearing its next level.
• Ye Xuan raised his fist once more and struck the drum for the twelfth time.

Ye Xuan endured the twelfth drumbeat’s crushing pressure by cultivating the Wilds Body Refining Technique until it broke through, then absorbed the trial’s mystic light and reached the peak of the Fourth Layer Saint Realm. With the bell and drum gone, he climbed the golden stairway toward the thirteenth trial.

• The twelfth drumbeat nearly crushed Ye Xuan, who spat blood and began circulating the Wilds Body Refining Technique to survive.
• Ye Xuan’s bones repeatedly shattered and repaired under the pressure as the Profound Void Realm geniuses watched in shock.
• The Wilds Body Refining Technique broke through to the fifty-eighth layer, and a voice announced that Ye Xuan had passed the twelfth trial.
• Twelve rays of golden mystic light entered Ye Xuan, raising his cultivation to the peak of the Fourth Layer Saint Realm and strengthening his body.
• Ye Xuan found the bell and drum had vanished, then climbed the golden stairway toward the thirteenth trial.

After completing the ninety-ninth floor of the Profound Void Divine Tower, Ye Xuan was teleported to an unfamiliar, empty stretch of void instead of the place he expected. After two months of searching, he found a vast inhabited starry expanse and learned from its armed guardian that it was called the Heavenly Domain.

• Ye Xuan completed the ninety-ninth-floor trial and was teleported out of the Profound Void Realm, while the other geniuses left to warn their clans about him.
• Ye Xuan discovered he was stranded in an unfamiliar void with no living beings nearby and worried about Master, the others, and Yin Tianjiao.
• Ye Xuan traveled alone for two months, enduring isolation while continuing to search for a way out.
• Ye Xuan spotted a vast starry expanse with signs of life and teleported to its edge.
• A half-Emperor Realm cultivator confronted Ye Xuan and declared that the starry expanse was the Heavenly Domain.

Ye Xuan learned that the Heavenly Domain led to the Immortal Domain and forced his way inside despite being warned that only Emperor Realm cultivators could enter. He emerged in a sea of stars, while the guards were left astonished that a Saint Realm cultivator had breached the entrance.

• A cultivator warned Ye Xuan to leave the Heavenly Domain, explaining that it led to the Immortal Domain and admitted no one below the Emperor Realm.
• Ye Xuan insisted on entering, and the cultivator attacked him with a giant hand.
• Ye Xuan shattered the hand with the Thunder Emperor Seal, struck the cultivator, and rushed through the entrance.
• Shi Zun reported to the red-haired commander that a Saint Realm cultivator had forced his way inside, and the commander ordered them to leave Ye Xuan be.
• Ye Xuan appeared in a sea of stars.

Ye Xuan entered the Heavenly Domain and instantly killed the half-emperor realm demonic beast Qiu Wu. When several powerful cultivators arrived to investigate, Ye Xuan sensed them and escaped, leaving them puzzled that a saint realm cultivator had appeared there.

• A vicious bird attacked Ye Xuan as soon as he appeared in the sea of stars.
• Ye Xuan shattered the sixth-level half-emperor beast’s talons and beak, then kicked it apart and killed it instantly.
• Ye Xuan sensed several powerful presences approaching and used Teleportation to escape.
• Three humans and two demonic beasts arrived and found Qiu Wu’s remains.
• One demonic beast traced the enemy’s cultivation to the saint realm, but the peak half-emperor cultivator refused to pursue and questioned how a saint realm cultivator had reached the Heavenly Domain.

After arriving in the Heavenly Domain, Ye Xuan tried to learn about the unfamiliar place but was captured by a powerful old man at a young girl's command. He awoke in a dark, foul-smelling place, where the girl said she might keep him as a toy despite hating humans.

• Ye Xuan searched the area with his Saint Realm Domain, hoping to find a city and learn how to ascend to the Immortal Domain.
• A flying artifact rushed toward Ye Xuan, and he realized he could not escape its speed.
• A young girl and an old man emerged from the artifact, and the girl ordered the old man to seize Ye Xuan and take him to mine.
• Ye Xuan tried to flee and called to the senior in his divine palace, but the old man's pressure trapped him and the senior did not respond.
• The old man captured Ye Xuan, who came to in a dark place as the girl remarked that she might play with him as a toy.