Chapter Summaries

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.

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.