Recaps

The Primordial Demon Lightning Ape emerged from the spirit beast pouch and overwhelmed the Breeze Sect, prompting the Ye Lineage to rally behind Ye Chen. Just as the ape attacked, Nan Fa of the Myriad Origins Holy Land arrived and prepared to fight it.

• A hundred-zhang Primordial Demon Lightning Ape burst from the spirit beast pouch, and its roar injured the Breeze Sect disciples and elders.
• Zhao Heng and Zhao Si mistook the demon ape's appearance as evidence of the Ye Lineage's reserves, while the Ye Lineage celebrated and regretted doubting Ye Chen.
• Ye Yan urged the Ye Lineage to focus on destroying the Breeze Sect, and the demon ape prepared to finish the sect with one strike.
• Nan Fa intervened with a blade of spiritual power that drove the demon ape back, then demanded to know where the Ye Lineage's imperial artifact was.
• Nan Fa recognized the ape's strength and readied himself to subdue it as the demon ape's fighting spirit rose.

Ye Chen appeared as a giant face in the heavens, restrained the battlefield, and killed Nan Fa before ordering the Breeze Sect’s destruction. The Ye Lineage wiped out the sect, and Ye Xuan sent Ye Yan to search for survivors and seize its resources.

• Nan Fa pierced the demon ape’s lightning attack and prepared to strike its head, leaving the Ye Lineage fearing defeat and the Breeze Sect celebrating.
• A giant face resembling Ye Chen appeared in the heavens and suppressed everyone; Ye Yan recognized the ancestor, and the Ye Lineage knelt to welcome him.
• Nan Fa realized the giant face belonged to the Ye Lineage’s ancestor and begged for mercy, but Ye Chen ordered him to perish and erased him.
• The giant face annihilated the Breeze Sect’s senior members and ordered the Ye Lineage to wipe out the sect before disappearing; the demon ape followed him.
• The Ye Lineage slaughtered the remaining Breeze Sect members, and Ye Yan reported their deaths to Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan ordered Ye Yan to check for survivors and search the Breeze Sect’s treasury and scripture pavilion for useful resources.

After the Ye Lineage destroyed the Breeze Sect, Ye Chen rewarded his followers and declared that the Ye Lineage would eventually rule the Heavenly Profound Continent. Meanwhile, the Myriad Origins Holy Land began investigating Elder Nan’s death, and powers across the Clear Wind Kingdom moved to court the victorious Ye Lineage.

• An elder reported Elder Nan’s shattered soul tablet to Wan Kong, who ordered an investigation into the Saint who had killed him.
• Ye Chen used three accumulated check-ins to obtain a Great Emperor puppet, then resumed cultivating the Chaos Dao Scripture.
• The Ye Lineage returned triumphantly to Clearwater Town, and news spread that it had wiped out the Breeze Sect.
• Steward Qian learned of the Breeze Sect’s destruction and hurried to prepare gifts for a personal visit to the Ye Lineage; other powers and the ruler also brought gifts.
• Ye Chen praised the Ye Lineage, ordered a victory banquet and rewards, and told Ye Xuan that the Clear Wind Kingdom, Heavenly Profound Province, and Heavenly Profound Continent would belong to the Ye Lineage.

The Ye Lineage received gifts and congratulations from Clear Wind Kingdom’s leaders, then Ye Xuan accepted Ye Chen’s preparations to protect the lineage as Ye Chen set out with Ye Yan. They arrived at Boundless Mountain, where Azure Province’s major forces had gathered for the opening of the Boundless Secret Realm.

• Ye Lineage members feasted on fifth-tier demonic beasts, astonishing visiting leaders and making them wary of the lineage.
• Ye Xuan received gifts from Steward Qian and heard the ruler and other leaders congratulate the Ye Lineage for destroying the Breeze Sect.
• Ye Xuan declared that the Ye Lineage would replace the Breeze Sect; after an unknown force killed a patriarch who started to object, the visitors agreed and presented gifts.
• Ye Chen gave Ye Xuan spirit beast pouches, a Great Emperor puppet, spirit stones, and a communication stone, then prepared to leave with Ye Yan so he could train him.
• Qingxuan and the Shangguan Lineage’s patriarch gathered with other forces at Boundless Mountain for the secret realm’s opening, and Ye Chen teleported there with Ye Yan.

Ye Chen brought Ye Yan into Wuyazi’s secret realm and directed him to claim its inheritances by passing the trials. While Ye Yan struggled through the fourth trial, Ye Chen revealed to the palace’s artifact spirit that he was an eighteen-year-old Quasi-Emperor.

• Ye Chen bypassed the guards and the secret realm’s restrictions, entering with Ye Yan before it officially opened.
• Ye Chen took Ye Yan to the palace at the realm’s heart, where its artifact spirit revealed Wuyazi’s three inheritances: a cultivation technique, a sword, and a pill.
• Ye Chen sent Ye Yan into the trial space to earn the inheritances while he spoke with the artifact spirit about Wuyazi.
• The artifact spirit doubted Ye Chen’s claim that he had quickly advanced beyond the Saint Realm, so Ye Chen revealed his Quasi-Emperor presence.
• Ye Chen told the stunned artifact spirit that he had entered the Emperor Realm only days earlier, when he was almost eighteen.
• Ye Yan reached the fourth trial, where four mirror images matching his cultivation overwhelmed him as he weakened and neared defeat.

Ye Chen helped Ye Yan claim Wuyazi's inheritance and plunder the Wuya Secret Realm before they left. When the other factions entered and found the realm stripped bare, Shangguan Hai attacked Qingxuan and then declared that the Azure Province Academy still had to die.

• Ye Chen cleared every trial for Ye Yan, who received Wuyazi's inheritance and the sacred artifact temple, whose artifact spirit chose to follow him.
• Ye Yan gathered resources throughout the secret realm, and Ye Chen suppressed an enormous fruit tree so Ye Yan could take its ripe fruit.
• Ye Chen and Ye Yan left the secret realm as Qingxuan, Shangguan Hai, and the other faction leaders opened its entrance and sent their disciples inside.
• Disciples emerged battered and reported that the secret realm had been plundered, the inheritance was gone, and its demonic beasts and fruit tree had attacked them.
• Shangguan Hai attacked Qingxuan, but after hearing what happened, he acknowledged that the academy's disciples were not responsible before threatening to kill them anyway.

Luo Chen returned to find the academy on the brink of war with the Shangguan Lineage, aided by the powerful Yama Hall. When Luo Chen begged Ye Chen for help, Ye Chen killed Shangguan Hai and the Yama Hall experts, leaving everyone stunned by his strength.

• Qingxuan warned Luo Chen to escape as the Shangguan Lineage and the academy prepared to fight over the Wuya Secret Realm.
• Four Yama Hall experts joined Shangguan Hai, and Qingxuan ordered the academy disciples to flee while he held them back.
• Luo Chen fled wounded, but Shangguan Hai sent an elder and several disciples after him.
• Luo Chen encountered Ye Chen and pleaded for him to save the academy, but Ye Chen initially prepared to leave.
• The Shangguan elder tried to detain Ye Chen, who killed him; Shangguan Hai then arrived and was killed by Ye Chen with a single palm.
• Ye Chen killed all four Yama Hall experts, terrifying everyone who witnessed his power.

Ye Chen visited Azure Province Academy and studied the history of the Heavenly Profound Continent, learning how the Human Heavenly Court collapsed and the Ye Lineage was destroyed. Qingxuan began explaining the calamity’s causes and ended with the Ye Lineage’s last followers dying while escorting Heavenly Emperor Ye Ming’s coffin.

• Ye Chen killed the Shangguan Lineage disciples and Yama Hall visitors, then accepted Qingxuan’s invitation to visit Azure Province Academy.
• Ye Chen spent half a month in the academy library studying the Heavenly Court’s fall, the continent’s division, and the foreign races’ domains.
• Qingxuan told Ye Chen that Heavenly Emperor Ye Ming founded the Heavenly Court and that resentment against the powerful Ye Lineage had grown before the foreign races invaded.
• Qingxuan explained that Ye Ming died after the second battle, the Heavenly Court fractured, and the Ye Lineage’s remaining allies perished escorting his coffin to its ancestral land.

Ye Chen learned that powerful forces were secretly searching for the Ye Lineage and revealed to Qingxuan that he was a Quasi-Emperor from that lineage. After leaving Ye Yan with a protective jade pendant and restoring Xuan Danzi’s soul, Ye Chen set out for Heavenly Origin Holy Land while Ye Yan began training to become an alchemist.

• Qingxuan gave Ye Chen a storage ring, and Ye Chen told him to give it to Ye Yan instead before confirming that he was a Quasi-Emperor.
• Ye Chen used his accumulated check-ins to obtain the Bronze Trial Tower, then left Azure Province Academy for Heavenly Origin Holy Land.
• Outside Azure Province City, Ye Chen gave Ye Yan a jade pendant containing three of his strikes and departed.
• Xuan Danzi appeared after Ye Chen’s soul power restored him completely, and he offered to teach Ye Yan alchemy.
• Xuan Danzi and Ye Yan set off for Pill Province to begin Ye Yan’s alchemy training.

Elder Wei traced Elder Nan's death to Breeze Mountain in Heavenly Profound Province and connected it to the Ye Lineage, prompting Holy Lord Wan Kong to investigate personally. At Yama Hall's Eastern Domain headquarters, the Divine Son set out for Azure Province after the branch's senior members were reported dead, while Hall Master ordered those involved to be eliminated.

• Elder Wei told Holy Lord Wan Kong that Elder Nan had fallen at Breeze Mountain after being defeated with a single move.
• Elder Wei linked Elder Nan's death and the destruction of the Huayun Sect and two small sects to the Ye Lineage, and Wan Kong decided to go there himself.
• A gaunt old man reported that the Azure Province branch's senior members had been killed after the branch master conspired with the Shangguan Lineage against Azure Province Academy.
• The middle-aged Hall Master killed the messenger and ordered an investigation that would leave none of those involved alive.
• The Divine Son chose to travel to Azure Province, and the Hall Master assigned Great Saint Realm Elder Yan to follow and protect him.

Ye Chen met Ye Tian, a boy seeking strength after losing his family and master, and secretly helped him before continuing to Heavenly Origin Holy City. There, Ye Chen entered without paying the guards, who raised the entry fee after he left.

• Ye Chen shared roasted rabbit with Ye Tian and learned that Ye Tian hoped to join the Heavenly Origin Holy Land despite being too weak for its assessment.
• Ye Tian told Ye Chen that a martial cultivator in black had slaughtered his village, his mother had died after giving him a jade pendant, and his master had recently been killed while his junior sister was taken away.
• Ye Chen infused Ye Tian with immortal spirit Qi and left the power of one of his strikes in Ye Tian's body before departing.
• Ye Tian vowed to avenge his family and master and find his junior sister.
• Ye Chen reached Heavenly Origin Holy City and used a trace of Saint Realm pressure to pass the guards without paying the entry fee.
• After Ye Chen left, the guards increased the fee to three spirit stones per person.

Ye Chen began refining the Demon Slayer Immortal Sword while Ye Tian entered Heavenly Origin Holy City and confronted Zhang Yue, the man who had destroyed his sect and abducted his junior sister. The City Guard commander stopped their fight, but Ye Tian refused to let the matter end.

• Ye Chen used the Seventh Ancestor’s method to open the Demon Slayer Immortal Sword’s first seal, unleashing its immense killing intent.
• Ye Tian arrived at Heavenly Origin Holy City after Ye Chen’s touch had strengthened him and raised his cultivation to the Xiantian Realm.
• Ye Tian stopped a carriage from striking a little girl and discovered that its owner, Zhang Yue, had killed his master and sold his junior sister to a brothel.
• Ye Tian attacked Zhang Yue, but the City Guard commander struck him down and declared that the matter was over.
• Zhang Yue rejected the commander’s ruling, and Ye Tian also declared that he did not agree.

Ye Tian challenged Zhang Yue to a duel to the death, but the City Guard commander tried to sentence him to death. Ye Chen’s powerful phantom appeared and struck down the commander, after which the City Lord arranged for the duel to take place in one hour.

• The commander ordered Ye Tian and Zhang Yue taken to Blood Prison, and Ye Tian demanded a duel to the death under Holy City law.
• The commander dismissed Ye Tian’s challenge and attacked him, declaring him sentenced to death for disrespecting the Holy City.
• Ye Chen’s phantom appeared around Ye Tian and blasted the commander through dozens of buildings.
• The City Lord arrived and bowed to Ye Chen’s phantom, then offered to grant Ye Tian’s request.
• Ye Tian renewed his challenge, while Zhang Yue begged the City Lord to save him.
• The City Lord ordered Ye Tian and Zhang Yue to rest before dueling in one hour, then crushed a communication stone.

Ye Tian killed Zhang Yue in a duel, but the Zhang Clan's newly ascended Saint ancestor attacked him. Ye Chen's phantom destroyed the ancestor with one finger, while two elders at the Heavenly Origin Holy Land sensed the power and went to investigate.

• Ye Tian used his Origin Core Realm strength to kill Zhang Yue with a single sword strike.
• The Zhang Clan's ancestor appeared after breaking through to the Saint Realm and sent a giant palm toward Ye Tian.
• Ye Chen's phantom shattered the palm and obliterated the Zhang Clan's ancestor before vanishing.
• The Holy City's lord and the onlookers were stunned by the ancestor's sudden death.
• At the Heavenly Origin Holy Land, an elder sensed the immense pressure near the Holy City and went to investigate with his companion.

After Tian Yuanzi and Elder Wan arrived in Holy City, Tian Yuanzi decided to punish Ye Tian for the death of Heavenly Origin Holy Land’s elder. He struck at Ye Tian to draw out the mysterious expert behind him, and a sigh sounded from the void as his palm descended.

• Ye Tian looted Zhang Yue’s corpse while the Zhang Clan watched, furious and helpless after their ancestor’s death.
• Tian Yuanzi and Elder Wan appeared, and Holy City’s city lord explained how a phantom had killed Elder Zhang.
• Elder Wan suspected Ye Tian’s protector was a Central Province genius, but Tian Yuanzi insisted Heavenly Origin Holy Land could not let the elder’s death pass unpunished.
• Tian Yuanzi attacked Ye Tian while secretly watching for his protector to appear, and Ye Tian braced himself for death.
• A sigh rang out from the void as Tian Yuanzi’s palm descended, and Tian Yuanzi realized the mysterious expert had arrived.

Ye Chen revealed himself as a Quasi-Emperor to save Ye Tian and accepted Tian Yuanzi’s invitation to the Heavenly Origin Holy Land, where Ye Tian would take its entrance assessment. After sensing a faint, deliberately concealed scent of blood inside the holy land, Ye Chen suspected it was hiding a secret.

• Ye Chen appeared to stop Tian Yuanzi from killing Ye Tian, and Tian Yuanzi, Elder Wan, and the Zhang Clan were shocked to learn he was a Quasi-Emperor.
• Ye Tian felt delighted and grateful to see Ye Chen again, while Tian Yuanzi apologized and Ye Chen let the conflict end without punishment.
• Tian Yuanzi invited Ye Chen to the Heavenly Origin Holy Land, and Ye Chen agreed while confirming that Ye Tian would take its entrance assessment.
• Tian Yuanzi arranged for the assessment to begin the next day and escorted Ye Chen into the holy land with Elder Wan.
• Ye Chen detected a faint scent of blood inside the holy land and suspected that its people were concealing something.

Wan Kong, the Holy Lord of the Myriad Origins Holy Land, traced Elder Nan’s death to the Breeze Sect ruins and went to investigate the Ye Lineage. When he tried to seize the lineage’s two demonic beasts, Ye Xuan activated the puppet left by Ye Chen, releasing the presence of a Great Emperor.

• Wan Kong examined the Dao traces at the Breeze Sect ruins and confirmed that Elder Nan had died there.
• Wan Kong arrived unseen in Clearwater Town and discovered that the Ye Lineage was guarded by a Primordial Demon Lightning Ape and a Black Qilin.
• Wan Kong released his Great Saint Realm pressure and questioned the two beasts, but they gave him evasive answers.
• Wan Kong attacked the beasts, while the weakened Black Qilin tried to flee and the Demon Lightning Ape’s strike was crushed.
• Ye Xuan remembered Ye Chen’s puppet, fed it supreme-grade spirit stones, and unleashed a presence that all the Eastern Domain recognized as belonging to a Great Emperor.

Wan Kong fled after discovering that the Ye Lineage was protected by a powerful puppet, then headed for the Heavenly Origin Holy Land. There, Ye Chen watched the holy land’s recruitment assessment begin and wondered why Tian Yuanzi was admitting candidates on such a massive scale.

• Wan Kong mistook the puppet Ye Chen had left with the Ye Lineage for a Great Emperor and pleaded for his life until Ye Xuan ordered it not to attack.
• Wan Kong claimed the Ye Lineage had nothing to do with his missing elder’s death, then fled and decided to report the puppet to the grand elder at the Heavenly Origin Holy Land.
• At the Heavenly Origin Holy Land, Tian Yuanzi and Elder Wan watched nearly a million candidates gather for the disciple assessment while Ye Chen questioned the purpose of recruiting so many people.
• The secret realm trial began, and Ye Tian rushed among the leading candidates toward the entrance, eager to join the Heavenly Origin Holy Land.

Ye Tian survived the first two entrance examinations, placing fourth in the first and surviving a deadly comprehension trial in the second. As the final examination began, Ye Chen secretly discovered the carnage inside the trials, while Tian Yuanzi defended the high death toll.

• Elder Wan and Tian Yuanzi praised Ye Tian and discussed betting on who would reach the finish line first, but Elder Wan dropped the wager when Tian Yuanzi immediately chose Ye Tian.
• Ye Tian placed fourth in the first examination and resolved to continue toward the sacred mountain despite the deaths in the secret realm.
• In the comprehension examination, Ye Tian avoided the brightest martial-technique lights, which killed many participants, and chose a less-contested light to study.
• After the second examination, Ye Chen used his divine sense to discover the immense number of mangled remains inside the trials, while Tian Yuanzi dismissed the casualties as necessary sacrifices.
• The third and final examination began, and Ye Tian hoped that passing it would let him enter the holy land and avenge his parents and the villagers.

Ye Tian survived the final battle-royale trial and was chosen as a disciple by a Heavenly Origin Holy Land inner sect elder. When the elder revealed his face, Ye Tian recognized him as the man who had massacred Ye Lineage Village, and the elder realized Ye Tian was a surviving remnant of the Ye Lineage.

• The final trial sent groups of more than a thousand disciples into secret realms, where only fifty from each group could survive.
• Elder Wan grew uneasy about the bloody trial and the Heavenly Origin Holy Land's strange quiet, while Ye Chen knew the holy land was collecting the disciples' flesh and blood for a demonic art.
• After half a day of slaughter, the survivors returned to the outer sect plaza, and ten inner sect elders selected disciples, including Ye Tian.
• Ye Tian eagerly accepted an inner sect elder's offer to become his disciple, then froze when the elder revealed a face he recognized.
• Ye Tian accused the elder of killing his family and everyone in Ye Lineage Village a year and a half earlier, and the elder realized he was a surviving remnant of the Ye Lineage.

Ye Tian confronted the inner sect elder over the slaughter of the Ye Lineage, then collapsed as memories of the past overwhelmed him. Tian Yuanzi persuaded Elder Wan to help him pursue a blood-sacrifice method and target Ye Chen, until Ye Chen appeared and revealed that his surname was Ye too.

• Ye Tian told the inner sect elder that he had survived the massacre of the Ye Lineage and demanded to know why the Ye surname was treated as a sin.
• The inner sect elder declared that the Ye Lineage had stolen something a hundred thousand years earlier and that this was the reason its descendants were killed.
• Ye Tian was overcome by the rain and his painful memories, and he seemed to glimpse a white-clad figure before collapsing.
• Tian Yuanzi told Elder Wan about the Blood Refining Devil Emperor's method and asked him to help use it; Elder Wan reluctantly agreed.
• Ye Chen arrived at the outer sect plaza carrying Ye Tian, unleashed a devastating presence that destroyed the surrounding buildings, and declared that his surname was Ye too.

Ye Chen revealed his Ye surname and confronted the Heavenly Origin Holy Land’s leaders, who activated the Devil Domain Blood Refining Formation to consume him. He remained untouched and answered their empowered Devil Creatures with a single swing of the Demon Slayer Immortal Sword.

• Ye Chen killed the inner sect elder after declaring that he also bore the Ye surname, then confronted Tian Yuanzi and Elder Wan.
• Tian Yuanzi threatened to take Ye Chen’s flesh and blood as the Devil Domain Blood Refining Formation engulfed the holy land and dissolved everyone inside except Ye Chen.
• Tian Yuanzi, Elder Wan, and the Heavenly Origin Holy Lord drew power from the formation, raising their cultivation and summoning Devil Creatures to attack Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen manifested the Demon Slayer Immortal Sword, whose power dispersed the blood mist and destroyed the Devil Creatures, disrupting the formation.
• The three leaders used forbidden arts to intensify the formation and summon millions of Devil Creatures, including ten nearing the Quasi-Emperor level.
• Ye Chen dismissed their efforts as no match for his sword and swung it once to slay the devils.

Ye Chen destroyed the formation and killed the Heavenly Origin Holy Lord, then learned from his memories and confronted Elder Wan. The Myriad Origins Holy Lord withdrew after realizing Ye Chen belonged to the Ye Lineage, leaving Ye Chen to face Tian Yuanzi and anticipate his escape trick.

• Ye Chen shattered the formation with a sword strike, severely injuring Tian Yuanzi, Elder Wan, and the Heavenly Origin Holy Lord.
• The Heavenly Origin Holy Lord begged for mercy and blamed Tian Yuanzi, but Ye Chen rejected him, searched his mind, and killed him.
• Tian Yuanzi secretly promised Elder Wan a way to escape if Elder Wan could hold Ye Chen off for one breath, and Elder Wan agreed.
• The Myriad Origins Holy Lord arrived, found Elder Wan dead, and learned Ye Chen was from the Ye Lineage.
• The Myriad Origins Holy Lord disavowed Elder Wan's actions and left, while Ye Chen decided the Myriad Origins Holy Land would be his next stop.
• Ye Chen turned back to Tian Yuanzi, suspecting him of another trick and waiting to see what he would do.

Tian Yuanzi awakened the Blood Refining Devil Emperor, who attacked Ye Chen after learning he belonged to the Ye Lineage. Ye Chen annihilated the Devil Emperor, destroyed the Heavenly Origin Holy Land, and headed for Heavenly Origin Holy City as ancient experts sensed a Great Emperor’s power.

• Tian Yuanzi refined flesh, blood, and corpses to reach the Quasi-Emperor realm, but the Blood Refining Devil Emperor awakened within his divine sense and took over his body.
• The Blood Refining Devil Emperor learned that Ye Ming had been dead for a hundred thousand years and vowed to make the Ye Lineage pay.
• Ye Chen revealed that he belonged to the Ye Lineage, and the Blood Refining Devil Emperor attacked him.
• Ye Chen shattered the Blood Refining Devil Emperor’s soul, took the Heavenly Origin Holy Land’s treasury and scripture pavilion, and destroyed the Holy Land after retrieving the unconscious Ye Tian.
• Ye Chen headed toward Heavenly Origin Holy City while ancient beings across Heavenly Profound Continent sensed the Great Emperor’s power.

Ye Chen brought Ye Tian and Holy City's city lord back to the Ye Lineage and prepared to strengthen the lineage with resources and a transformation. While surveying the Eastern Domain for treasures, he found a mature top-grade spirit vein, whose mysterious guardian confronted him.

• Ye Chen healed Ye Tian, spared Holy City's city lord because he had opposed harming people surnamed Ye, and invited him to become a Ye Lineage steward.
• Holy City's city lord accepted Ye Chen's offer, and Ye Chen took him and Ye Tian back to the Ye Lineage.
• Ye Chen reviewed his system rewards, including spirit stones, cultivation techniques, martial skills, pills, and saint medicines, and judged that the lineage still needed more.
• Ye Chen spread his divine sense across the Eastern Domain, alarming powerful beings in secret realms and ancient ruins.
• Ye Chen discovered a mature top-grade spirit vein beneath Holy Province and reached for it, prompting a figure inside it to emerge and challenge him.