Chapter Summaries

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.

Ye Xuan raced toward the Baiye imperial family’s underground dragon veins, hoping to seize their spirit stones, and the faction leaders ordered their forces to stop him. As a thousand cultivators converged on the imperial palace to kill him, Ye Xuan faced overwhelming odds.

• Ye Xuan discovered nine enormous spirit-stone dragons beneath the imperial palace and decided to risk taking their spirit stones.
• The imperial family’s experts recognized his goal and tried to stop him, while Half-Emperor Qianye and Gai Wudi urged him on under the holy war’s rules.
• The Baiye Emperor ordered all cultivators below the Divine Emperor Realm to return to the palace and slay Yang Tian, offering an official post, noble title, and lavish reward.
• The Hundred Flowers Alliance leader and Great Sword Sect sect master ordered their forces below the Divine Emperor Realm to reinforce the imperial family and kill Yang Tian.
• A thousand cultivators gathered at the imperial palace as more continued to arrive, while its defenders charged Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan entered the underground palace to seize the Baiye Imperial Dynasty’s nine dragon veins, while a mysterious woman in the divine palace devoured a hidden little purple-gold dragon. The dragon veins then began to disintegrate, leaving the underground palace shaking violently.

• Ye Xuan ignored the cultivators gathering outside and charged toward the underground palace, killing anyone who attacked him along the way.
• At the entrance, Ye Xuan called on the watching seniors to witness that he had not provoked the two Half-Saints, then passed through the protective barrier without resistance.
• The Baiye Emperor lost his composure when Ye Xuan entered the dragon-vein chamber, fearing damage to the imperial family’s carefully arranged dragon veins.
• Ye Xuan found nine enormous dragon veins and debated whether to take them all or just their spirit stones.
• The black-clad woman in the divine palace sensed purple qi Dao resonance and inhaled, making a little purple-gold dragon vanish.
• The nine dragon veins began to disintegrate, and the underground palace shook violently.

Ye Xuan destroyed much of the Baiye Imperial Palace’s dragon veins, causing the palace to collapse and drawing the furious attention of its defenders. Surrounded by thousands of cultivators, he fought his way through them while continuing to collect spirit stones.

• Ye Xuan used his Absolute Domain to collect much of the nine dragon veins, and the underground palace began collapsing as its Spiritual Qi and restrictions weakened.
• The Baiye Emperor flew into a rage and attacked Half-Emperor Qianye, while Qianye praised Yang Tian and resumed fighting with renewed strength.
• Ye Xuan faced a vast crowd of armed cultivators and warned them not to attack, invoking Caesar Palace and threatening those below the Divine Emperor Realm.
• Several cultivators charged anyway, and Ye Xuan killed dozens with his golden saber as their attacks left him bloodied.
• Ye Xuan continued fighting through the crowd, slashing down more attackers as blood covered the battlefield.

Ye Xuan slaughtered hundreds of attackers while refining his Spiritual Qi with True Solar Fire, drawing the alarm of the Baiye Emperor and the powerful observers. The Baiye Emperor ordered a Saint Realm cultivator to kill him, and the Saint launched a direct attack as Qianye was held back.

• Ye Xuan continued fighting the encirclement and used True Solar Fire to compress his Spiritual Qi, increasing his strength without advancing his cultivation.
• Ye Xuan killed hundreds of cultivators, including two or three hundred Divine Kings, leaving even Venerables and Half-Saints terrified.
• Feng Di confirmed that Ye Xuan was still only a Divine King, while the Baiye Emperor stopped fighting Qianye and ordered a Saint Realm cultivator to kill Ye Xuan.
• The Saint Realm cultivator decided to obey the order despite the danger of provoking Qianye and the other factions.
• Feng Di, Qianye, Gai Wudi, and others sensed the Saint’s movement; the Baiye Emperor blocked Qianye as the Saint unleashed his pressure and reached Ye Xuan.

A Saint Realm cultivator ambushed Ye Xuan, destroying his Sacred Armor but failing to kill him, and Ye Xuan retaliated by slaughtering weaker fighters. Feng Di then crushed the imperial palace and its occupants with one palm before warning the factions not to violate the rules again.

• Half-Emperor Qianye and Gai Wudi unleashed their imperial might against their opponents, killing countless cultivators below the Venerable Realm.
• A Saint Realm cultivator struck Ye Xuan, but his Sacred Armor blocked the blow and shattered.
• Ye Xuan charged into the weaker cultivators and killed nearly all those below the Divine Emperor Realm.
• Feng Di destroyed the imperial palace and killed the Saint Realm attackers and many other cultivators with a single palm strike.
• Feng Di declared that anyone who challenged Caesar Palace's authority would be executed and warned that he would show no mercy if the rules were broken again.