Recaps

Ye Xuan infiltrated Divine Mechanism City, killed several prodigies, and fought his way to Devil City to challenge Mo Gaishi. After defeating and killing Mo Gaishi and Mo Wufang, Ye Xuan claimed first place on the Divine Ranking as the opportunities were set to open in three days.

• Ye Xuan defeated Shi Chong, then traveled with Han Bingning toward Devil City while news of his victory spread.
• Thirty-six masked cultivators demanded that Ye Xuan leave Han Bingning, and he killed them before continuing toward Divine Mechanism City.
• Ye Xuan infiltrated the City Lord's Manor and killed Ji Xuan, Feng Qinglong, and several other Divine Ranking prodigies before escaping the Half-Emperors.
• Ye Xuan reached Saint Realm and entered Devil City, where he killed Tuoba Hao, a City Lord's Manor guard, and the Four Great Devil Masters.
• Mo Gaishi's Dao Protector Mo Tianyi ambushed Ye Xuan in an illusion, but the mysterious woman killed Mo Tianyi and Ye Xuan challenged Mo Gaishi at the manor.
• Ye Xuan defeated Mo Gaishi, crippled him, and killed him despite Mo Wufang's threats, then killed Mo Wufang as well.
• Ye Xuan took first place on the Divine Ranking, and the ancient voice announced that the opportunities would open in three days, so Ye Xuan urged Han Bingning to climb into the top ten and left to guard her.

Ye Xuan watched Han Bingning challenge powerful ranked cultivators before entering the secret realm and conquering the Profound Void Divine Tower. Stranded in the Heavenly Domain, he forced his way inside but was captured by a young girl and her old attendant.

• Han Bingning defeated Blood Moon, then lost to Huo Long before Ye Xuan stepped in and accepted Lei Xiao’s paid challenge.
• Ye Xuan crushed Lei Xiao in their fight, and he and Han Bingning parted to enter their respective secret realms.
• Ye Xuan endured the Forbidden Sea’s illusions and dangers, broke through to the Second Layer Saint Realm, and passed Xu Huang’s first ten trials.
• Ye Xuan struck the eleventh-floor bell-drum twelve times, broke through the Wilds Body Refining Technique, and reached the peak of the Fourth Layer Saint Realm.
• Ye Xuan completed the tower’s trials and emerged in an unfamiliar void, where he spent two months searching before finding the Heavenly Domain.
• Ye Xuan broke through the Heavenly Domain’s entrance, killed the half-emperor beast Qiu Wu, and evaded the powerful cultivators drawn by the fight.
• A young girl and her old attendant caught Ye Xuan as he searched for a way to the Immortal Domain, and the girl said she might keep him as a toy.

Ye Xuan escaped captivity in the Outer Heavenly Domain, killed Elder Xue Huo’s granddaughter, and fought his way through Starry Sky City while the major factions hunted him. With both routes to Heavenly Domain City under watch, he set out for the Heaven-Ascending Steps.

• Ye Xuan killed Ye Wushen and the Blood Baleful Intent Sect cultivators holding him, then escaped the flying artifact and returned to kill the girl who had captured him.
• Hu Yan pursued Ye Xuan until a mysterious illusory figure killed him, and Ye Xuan broke through to the Saint Realm Seventh Layer while powerful cultivators gathered around him.
• Ye Xuan killed pursuing Half-Emperors and headed for Starry Sky City as Elder Xue Huo launched a search for his granddaughter’s murderer.
• In Starry Sky City, Ye Xuan killed three Rogue Cultivator Sect pursuers and escaped Xue Chen, Wu Qiu, and Devil Moon by using Teleportation.
• Ye Xuan refused the Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s accusations at the Peace Inn, then slaughtered its cultivators and burned the inn down.
• Ye Xuan fought Wu Qiu, Xue Chen, Devil Moon, and the Peace Inn guardians, killed several Half-Emperors, and escaped their pursuit.
• After learning the factions were watching the routes to Heavenly Domain City, Ye Xuan chose the Heaven-Ascending Steps and set out with three cultivators who approached him.

Ye Xuan climbed the Heaven-Ascending Steps, surviving attacks from the three great powers and successive Lightning Tribulations as he advanced beyond the known records. At the summit, he met a young woman who had transformed from the skeleton and invited him to drink tea.

• Ye Xuan traveled with Zhang Xuan, Zhao Li, and Wu Rong to the Heaven-Ascending Steps, where he concealed his suspicions and noticed Xue Chen, Wu Qiu, and Devil Moon among the cultivators.
• Zhang Xuan, Zhao Li, and Wu Rong attacked Ye Xuan on the steps, but he restrained and killed them, then climbed while collecting spatial rings and fighting off other cultivators.
• Ye Xuan killed Xue Chen and Wu Qiu, defeated Elder Xue Huo and Xue Tu, and climbed past the previous records to the forty-seventh step.
• Ye Xuan survived a devastating Lightning Tribulation with the help of Primordial Qi, then taunted the three great powers and fought Tian Gu, Chi Long, and Mo Tian as they tried to stop him.
• Ye Xuan endured another tribulation on the fifty-fifth step, reached the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Saint Realm, and broke his fifth shackle.
• Ye Xuan climbed to the summit over the following months and found a secluded paradise where a young woman, formerly the skeleton, greeted him and offered him tea.