Recaps

Ling Yi killed the Thunder Demon Ape leader and summoned him as a Blood Shadow, whose strength reached Beyond-Boundary Level and whose arrival drew the attention of a mysterious voice in a black vortex. After learning about the alliance between the magical beasts and the Blood Demon Sect, Ling Yi ordered the beasts to unite and destroy the sect, then headed into Cloud and Mist City.

• Ling Yi's Blood Shadow Thorn Poison Vine and three Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquitoes overcame the Thunder Demon Ape leader, drained his blood, and killed him.
• Ling Yi summoned the Thunder Demon Ape leader, whose 1,024-fold increase brought him to Beyond-Boundary Level and also raised Ling Yi to that realm.
• A black vortex appeared above the stone palace, and a voice spoke of a Boundary Breaking being, boundary soldiers, and sealing the world before the vortex disappeared.
• The Thunder Demon Ape told Ling Yi that the magical beasts traded with the Blood Demon Sect, which planned to use a Blood Refining Grand Formation to harvest human blood essence during the beasts' attack.
• Ling Yi ordered the Thunder Demon Ape to unite the magical beast territories, gather Hunting Points, and wipe out the Blood Demon Sect, then went invisible and entered Cloud and Mist City.

Ling Yi returned to school and prepared for the college entrance exam while Cloud and Mist City faced Blood Demon and magical beast threats. He agreed to team up with Mo Yumeng for the trial, and the chapter ended as he found her transformed into a dazzling beauty on the class bus.

• Situ Yun and seven other Martial Saint Realm experts searched Cloud and Mist City for Blood Demon People, while a magical beast army blocked outside aid.
• Jin Shiren explained the three college entrance exam assessments, and Ling Yi suspected Bai Hongjiang planned to attack him during the trial.
• Ling Yi finished the written exam early, encountered Bai Cheng, and agreed to team up with Mo Yumeng after noticing her divine sense and unusual confidence.
• Bai Hongjiang warned Bai Cheng to stay away from Ling Yi during the livestreamed trial and revealed that the released Pure Demon People would attack indiscriminately.
• Ling Yi boarded his class bus the next morning and was astonished to see Mo Yumeng dressed and looking strikingly different.

Ling Yi and Mo Yumeng entered the trial at Blackwater Valley as the city’s leaders watched from outside. The trial began with Bai Cheng’s sudden death, leaving Bai Hongjiang wailing over his son.

• Ling Yi questioned Mo Yumeng about joining him, learned she was a sixth-grade Dao master, and deduced that she faced a life-and-death calamity in Cloud and Mist City.
• The students arrived at Blackwater Valley, where Cheng Yun and Sun Cheng urged Ling Yi to stay safe and gave him a defensive talisman.
• Situ Yun announced the start of the trial, and the students entered Blackwater Valley while Bai Hongjiang asked the Formation Mark Bureau to activate the protective formation.
• Bai Cheng headed toward Ling Yi, stumbled after colliding with another student, and fell onto a dead branch that pierced his head.
• Bai Hongjiang saw Bai Cheng’s death on the projection screen and cried out in grief.

Ling Yi learned that Mo Yumeng was facing a certain-death tribulation and watched her use Dao Master techniques as they reached Blackwater Lake, where he sensed something unusual. Outside the valley, Mo Yumeng's revealed identity as a high-grade Dao Master alarmed the officials and made Bai Hongjiang fear that his Blood Demon identity and plans had been exposed.

• Bai Cheng died during the trial, and Bai Hongjiang was stopped from entering Blackwater Valley by Situ Yun and Sun Cheng.
• Mo Yumeng told Ling Yi that she had three hours left because she bore the tribulation of nine deaths and one life, a certain-death tribulation that required her to die before a chance of survival appeared.
• Mo Yumeng used Dao Master techniques to kill Vine Wolves and explained her spiritual-sense abilities as she and Ling Yi traveled deeper into Blackwater Valley.
• At Blackwater Lake, Mo Yumeng warned Ling Yi that Blood Demons were approaching and had run out of divine power, while Ling Yi became intrigued by the lake and sensed something unusual.
• The observers learned that Mo Yumeng was a high-grade Dao Master, and Situ Yun demanded an explanation from Principal Lu Ming and Jin Shiren.
• Bai Hongjiang feared Mo Yumeng and Ling Yi had discovered his Blood Demon identity, then left as Jin Shiren revealed that Mo Yumeng had missed her first-year talent testing period.

Ling Yi used Blood Shadow Guo Ming to kill Bai Hongjiang and stop the Blood Demon Sect’s plot, then transformed Mo Yumeng into a Blood Shadow to save her from her certain-death tribulation. With Cloud and Mist City’s crisis turning in their favor, Ling Yi and Mo Yumeng prepared to return to the city.

• Situ Yun learned that the Blood Demon Sect had infiltrated Cloud and Mist City and sent the Martial Saints back to confront the uprising.
• Bai Hongjiang ordered his followers to kill Jin Shiren and the others, but Guo Ming revealed himself as Blood Shadow Guo Ming and killed Bai Hongjiang.
• Ling Yi summoned Mo Yumeng as a Blood Shadow after killing her, raising her power and breaking her certain-death tribulation.
• Mo Yumeng discovered that she could use the Heavenly Deduction Technique to read others’ karma, while her own karma remained concealed.
• Ling Yi and Mo Yumeng decided to leave Blackwater Lake’s sealed demonic beast undisturbed and return to Cloud and Mist City.

Ling Yi returned to Cloud and Mist City with Mo Yumeng and the other trial students, then secured a place at Qingwu Military Academy, a manor, and access to city information in exchange for helping Situ Yun avoid blame. He searched for ways to break the boundary and ascend while strengthening his Blood Shadow squad, and ended the chapter with enough Hunting Points to upgrade the system to level 15.

• Ling Yi and Mo Yumeng drove back to Cloud and Mist City, and the surviving trial students followed in the remaining vehicles.
• Situ Yun asked Ling Yi and Mo Yumeng to stay, and Ling Yi agreed to support his account of a rescue in exchange for academy enrollment, a quiet home, and access to core information.
• Situ Yun gave Ling Yi Bai Hongjiang's manor villa, and Ling Yi settled in while planning to research ascension before a boundary soldier could find him.
• After Cloud and Mist City's network was restored, Ling Yi searched online for information about breaking the boundary and ascending but found only speculation.
• Ling Yi's Blood Shadow squad unified the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range, killing magical beasts that refused to submit and driving more than thirty kinds to extinction.
• Ling Yi accumulated enough Hunting Points to reach system level 15, with 710,000 points remaining and his realm listed as a Beyond-Boundary Level Martial God.

Ling Yi learned that the repaired teleportation array would let him and Situ Yun travel to the Qingyun Imperial Capital, and assigned Blood Shadow Guo Ming to support Situ Yun as he took charge of the Demon-Sweeping Bureau. Meanwhile, Mo Yumeng celebrated overcoming her tribulation with Mo Yanran, who planned to arrive the next day and travel with her to the capital.

• Ling Yi read news about Situ Yun's success against the Blood Demon Sect and Mo Yumeng becoming a sixth-grade Uncanny Dao Master.
• Situ Yun told Ling Yi that the teleportation array had been partly repaired and that they needed to leave for the Qingyun Imperial Capital within three days; he had also been appointed director of the new Demon-Sweeping Bureau.
• Ling Yi entrusted Blood Shadow Guo Ming, introduced as Ying Yi, to Situ Yun and promised that his powerful guardian would help the bureau and protect Situ Yun.
• Situ Yun asked Ying Yi whether he could defeat Martial Gods and sense blood demons, and Ying Yi answered yes, prompting Situ Yun to see the appointment as an opportunity.
• Mo Yanran congratulated Mo Yumeng on overcoming her tribulation and said she would arrive in Cloud and Mist City the next day so they could travel to the imperial capital together.

Ling Yi and the others set out for Muyuan City, but their teleportation array overloaded and scattered them across the Pastoral God Plain. As the separated groups tried to cross the dangerous grassland, Ying Yi revealed his overwhelming power by destroying a huge pack of Cloud-Patterned Leopards.

• Situ Yun dismissed Murong Feng's warning about magical beasts as the party prepared to use the teleportation array to reach Muyuan City.
• The overloaded array scattered the travelers, leaving Ling Yi with Mo Yanran while Mo Yumeng and the others appeared far away.
• Ling Yi used his Blood Shadows' shared vision to confirm that Mo Yumeng and the separated group with Situ Yun were safe, and both groups chose to head west across the Pastoral God Plain.
• Situ Yun, Murong Feng, and Ying Yi encountered thousands of Cloud-Patterned Leopards, including an eighth-tier leader.
• Ying Yi unleashed a pillar of lightning that wiped out the leopard pack, shocking Situ Yun and Murong Feng.

Ling Yi subdued a Blazing Fire Qilin and gave its Soul Contract to Mo Yanran before they rode west toward Muyuan City. The Qilin revealed that magical beasts from several regions were massing to attack the city, and the group stopped before the vast army as Mo Yanran urged it to help.

• Ling Yi asked the Blazing Fire Qilin to become his mount, then beat it until it submitted and offered its Soul Contract.
• Ling Yi had Mo Yanran sign the contract, and the two rode west on the Qilin.
• The Blazing Fire Qilin told Mo Yanran that magical beasts from the Pastoral God Plain, Blazing Fire Mountain Range, and Gale Valley were converging on Muyuan City.
• Mo Yanran suspected the Blood Demon Sect had concealed the invasion and urged the Qilin to hurry toward the border.
• Ling Yi pointed out that the army blocked their way and suggested waiting for an opportunity; the Qilin refused to help because other beasts had seen it become a human's mount.

Ling Yi and Mo Yanran watched Muyuan City defend itself against a massive magical beast army, while Ying Yi prepared to move with his companions. The city’s defenses were overwhelmed by high-tier beasts, and Ying Yi led his group forward with eighteen clones.

• Ling Yi reassured Mo Yanran about Mo Yumeng, while Mo Yumeng’s group met Guo Ming’s Blood Shadow party and hid with them.
• Murong Feng asked to join the Demon-Sweeping Bureau, and Ying Yi told the group to enter the pass the following afternoon.
• Muyuan City used spikes, autocannons, missiles, and a vast formation to slaughter waves of magical beasts, but the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Bat destroyed the formation’s jade pieces.
• Ling Yi and Mo Yanran watched from a mountain as the magical beast army reached the city wall again.
• Ying Yi summoned eighteen clones, surrounded Murong Feng, Situ Yun, and the others, and ordered everyone to go.

Ling Yi’s Blood Shadow Squad turned the magical beast army attacking Muyuan City into a rout and killed a Beyond-Boundary Level Blood Demon Sect expert. After the survivors left for the imperial capital, Ling Yi, Mo Yanran, and Mo Yumeng arrived at Qingwu Military Academy.

• Blood Shadow Guo Ming and his clones charged into the magical beast army, while Ling Yi’s Blood Shadow Thorn Poison Vines and Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquitoes attacked it from other directions.
• The defenders at Muyuan City saw the Blood Shadow Squad clearing the beasts, and the battle turned in the city’s favor.
• Ling Yi told the Thunder Demon Ape to capture the black-robed Blood Demon Sect expert alive, and the ape beat him to death without destroying his corpse.
• With their commander dead, the magical beasts fled; Ling Yi stored the spoils, then sent the Blood Shadow Squad to attack other beast territories.
• Situ Yun and the others traveled to Leimu City and teleported to the imperial capital, while Ling Yi, Mo Yanran, and Mo Yumeng reached Qingwu Military Academy.

Ling Yi learned that Boundary Soldiers kept the Heavenly Origin Continent as a pasture and that their Boundary Tokens could let him ascend. After arranging for Blood Shadows to act on his plans, he stayed at Qingwu Military Academy and prepared to hunt Boundary Soldiers.

• Ling Yi reviewed his Blood Shadow System, summoned Su Jian, and learned that killing a Boundary Soldier could yield a Boundary Token for ascending.
• Su Jian revealed that Boundary Soldiers devoured the Life Origin of human experts, and that five more beyond-boundary level humans would trigger their descent.
• Ling Yi sent Su Jian to take control of the Blood Demon Sect after Su Jian claimed he could easily kill a Boundary Soldier with his enhanced strength.
• Ling Kai and Zhao Yuanwei came to Ling Yi's dormitory about a room mix-up, but Ling Yi rejected their invitation and shut the door on them.
• Ling Yi summoned Guo Ming, heard about the new Demon Suppression Bureau and Great Emperor Qingyun's request to meet, then told Guo Ming to handle another task.

Ling Yi summoned fifty Beyond-Boundary Level Blood Shadows to draw out the realm soldiers, then killed the soldiers who arrived and learned about the upper realms. When the system began a twenty-four-hour update and ordered him to leave the world, Ling Yi ascended alone, leaving the Blood Shadows behind to guard the Heavenly Origin Continent.

• Blood Shadow Guo Ming broke into the Qingyun Imperial Capital prison, killed fifty prisoners, and took their bodies for Ling Yi to summon as Blood Shadows.
• Ling Yi summoned the fifty Beyond-Boundary Level Blood Shadows in the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range, drawing three realm soldiers through a black vortex passage.
• The system detected higher-tier energy and world laws, then began a twenty-four-hour update that temporarily disabled most functions and told Ling Yi to leave the world.
• Ling Yi killed two realm soldiers, questioned the remaining one about the upper realms, and then killed him and stored his intact body in System Space.
• Ling Yi ordered the Blood Shadows to protect the Heavenly Origin Continent and kill any realm soldiers who appeared, then ascended through the teleportation passage alone.
• Mo Yumeng felt her connection with Ling Yi snap, while Blood Shadow Guo Ming rejoiced as the Blood Shadows were freed from Ling Yi's control.

After arriving in the Nine Palaces Realm, Ling Yi awakened in an Ascension Pool and discovered that his Blood Shadow System had reset, leaving him unable to summon his former Blood Shadows. Two months later, he reached White Moon City with Zhuge Feiyu to enroll at Asgard Academy and gather spirit stones.

• Ling Yi absorbed the Ascension Pool's energy, then woke more than twenty hours later to a notification that his Blood Shadow System had reset and updated.
• Ling Yi examined his new system, found himself at the third layer of the Spirit God Realm, and realized he could not summon Blood Shadows from the Heavenly Origin Continent.
• Two months later, Ling Yi heard locals discussing the bandits on Emerald Peak Mountain and Asgard Academy's enrollment while drinking in White Moon City.
• Zhuge Feiyu delivered five thousand low-grade spirit stones to Ling Yi, who had wiped out the bandits to obtain them.
• Ling Yi and Zhuge Feiyu headed toward Asgard Academy on enrollment day.

Ling Yi passed Asgard School’s talent test and entered its rule-free secret-realm trial, where he upgraded his Blood Shadow System and rescued Bai Zhantang from a giant spider. He offered to help Bai Zhantang pass the assessment, then laughed upon hearing his name.

• Ling Yi slapped the arrogant fat man twice after he demanded a place in line and threatened him.
• Ling Yi passed the talent test, and fewer than two thousand applicants qualified to enter Asgard School.
• The chief examiner announced that applicants had to kill demonic beasts to pass, warned that any means were allowed, and explained how to use their assessment bracelets.
• Ling Yi entered the secret realm, upgraded the Blood Shadow System to level 6, and reached the first level of the Dharma Body Realm.
• Ling Yi killed a giant spider that was dragging Bai Zhantang toward its cave, then offered to help him pass the assessment.
• Bai Zhantang introduced himself, and Ling Yi laughed when he heard the name.

Ling Yi defeated and revived Liu Rui, a powerful Gu cultivator, then traveled with Liu Rui and Bai Zhantang through the assessment realm. They met Lin Xiaoxiao, a body cultivator carrying an enormous sword, and Ling Yi discovered the weapon’s power as she joined their group.

• Bai Zhantang completed his assessment with Ling Yi’s help, while Liu Rui pursued Ling Yi after vowing revenge.
• Ling Yi struck Liu Rui with lightning, then revived him as a Blood Shadow and learned about his Gu cultivation and thousands of insects.
• Ling Yi discovered that the Blood Shadow System had also brought Liu Rui’s Gu insects, and the three used them to earn assessment points on their way through ancient ruins.
• Liu Rui cooked a feast at the ruins, and Lin Xiaoxiao charged at their table with her giant sword before Ling Yi used his Spatial Domain to take it from her.
• Lin Xiaoxiao joined the group after eating, and Ling Yi swung her sword, discovering its formations drew in Spiritual Qi and let it release a crescent-shaped sword strike.

After entering Asgard Academy, Ling Yi learned how the Nine Palaces Realm’s advanced formation-pattern technology simplified cultivation and became curious about its secrets. He tested the system’s new Fuse All Things function and discovered that combining ordinary Qi Absorption Pills produced perfect-quality pills worth a fortune.

• Ling Yi and his companions finished the assessment trial among the top four, with Ling Yi first, Old Bai second, Liu Rui third, and Lin Xiaoxiao fourth, and joined Yunyao Branch Academy.
• At the Pattern Inscription Hall, a formation artist stamped Qi Gathering Formation Patterns onto Ling Yi and Old Bai, giving Ling Yi a seventh-grade pattern.
• Ling Yi attended academy courses and learned about formation-pattern grades, glyphs, and the restricted technology controlled by the nine great Asgards.
• Ling Yi returned to White Moon City, collected supplies from Zhuge Feiyu, and activated the system’s Fuse All Things function.
• Ling Yi fused two Qi Absorption Pills into a perfect-quality pill, and Zhuge Feiyu estimated it was worth at least a thousand low-grade spirit stones.

Ling Yi fused pills and other items to amass spirit stones, then learned that a Spirit Platform Realm expert had stolen goods from one of Zhuge Feiyu’s clones. He identified Cheng Yuan as the likely culprit and entered a month-long herb-garden secret realm combat class, where he brushed off Bai Wujiang’s demand to coordinate before fighting.

• Ling Yi tested his fusion function, sold upgraded goods through Zhuge Feiyu, and earned a billion low-grade spirit stones in a week.
• One of Zhuge Feiyu’s clones reported that a Spirit Platform Realm expert with a spatial divine ability had killed it and stolen its pills, so Ling Yi suspected someone from Asgard Academy.
• Lin Xiaoxiao identified Cheng Yuan as the only Spirit Platform Realm expert with a spatial divine ability and as the teacher leading the next day’s combat class.
• Cheng Yuan led nearly eighty new students through a portal into an herb-garden secret realm and assigned them to defend the gardens and kill demonic beasts for contribution points.
• Ling Yi led Old Bai, Liu Rui, and Lin Xiaoxiao out to fight, but Bai Wujiang, the city lord’s son, challenged him over sharing the contribution points.
• Ling Yi returned to the manor courtyard instead of confronting Bai Wujiang, and Liu Rui began preparing barbecue while Bai Wujiang seethed.

Ling Yi upgraded his Blood Shadow System and discovered how its Blood Shadow Realm and unrestricted Coordinate Sharing could help him strengthen his foundation and travel between worlds. After Liu Rui punished Bai Wujiang for attacking their meal, Ling Yi sent Blood Shadows to steal spirit stones, and the robberies escalated from White Moon City’s families to Asgard Academy.

• Ling Yi spent nearly eight hundred million low-grade spirit stones upgrading his system to level 23, gaining the Blood Shadow Realm and removing world-boundary restrictions on Blood Shadow travel and Coordinate Sharing.
• Ling Yi realized that his Blood Shadows could cultivate for him and that he could reach new worlds by following their ascensions, even though he could not sense the force of ascension himself.
• Ling Yi summoned his Blood Shadows, sent them to steal spirit stones from Zhuge Feiyu’s location, and ordered them to ascend afterward.
• Bai Wujiang kicked over Ling Yi’s hot pot table and demanded an explanation, so Liu Rui used his Gu insects to badly injure him.
• Ling Yi’s group stayed in the manor while Bai Wujiang and the others returned to hunting demonic beasts for contribution points.
• Ling Yi’s Blood Shadows robbed White Moon City’s treasuries and more than a dozen families, then stripped Asgard Academy’s treasury, alarming its people.

Ling Yi changed his plan to bring the Nine Palaces Realm under Blood Shadow by ordering Zhuge Feiyu to kill Asgard lords and faction leaders for conversion. After returning to Asgard Academy, Ling Yi heard that its treasury and spirit stone vein had been plundered, while Lin Xiaoxiao arrived with a message that her mother wanted to meet him.

• Ling Yi spoke with Mo Yumeng in the Blood Shadow Realm, explained that another middle world planned to invade through the Heavenly Origin Continent, and sent her back to help gather spirit stones.
• Ling Yi ordered Cheng Yuan to pass information about the Asgards to Zhuge Feiyu, then named the transformed Thorn Poison Vine Qing Ji and told the other beasts to choose names.
• Ling Yi told Zhuge Feiyu to kill Asgard lords and major faction heads while preserving their bodies so he could summon them as Blood Shadows.
• After returning to Asgard Academy, Ling Yi saw Liu Rui's golden gu insects kill Bai Wujiang, while Liu Rui sent more insects to warn City Lord Bai.
• Old Bai told Ling Yi that Asgard Academy would be locked down after its treasury and White Moon City's spirit stone vein were plundered, but Ling Yi urged him to focus on cultivation.
• Lin Xiaoxiao came to Ling Yi's dormitory and said that her mother wanted to meet him.

Ling Yi revealed overwhelming strength when Lin Yun tested him, then learned that Lin Xiaoxiao's fiancé, Xu Nuo, was coming to White Moon City. Lin Yun wanted Ling Yi to defeat Xu Nuo, but Ling Yi instead proposed having him killed.

• Lin Yun questioned Ling Yi about his origins and strength, then brought him and Lin Xiaoxiao to a barren world for a fight.
• Ling Yi overwhelmed Lin Yun with eighteen powerful clones and thunder Dharma Bodies, then secretly turned her into Blood Shadow while leaving her unharmed.
• Lin Yun told Ling Yi that Xu Nuo, the son of Penglai Asgard's master and Lin Xiaoxiao's fiancé, would arrive in two days.
• Lin Yun explained that she wanted Ling Yi to defeat Xu Nuo so he could no longer claim Lin Xiaoxiao, but Ling Yi rejected the plan and offered to have Xu Nuo killed.
• Lin Yun worried about the consequences of killing Xu Nuo, but Ling Yi pointed out that the people who looted the secret realm treasury could plausibly be blamed.

Ling Yi strengthened Guo Ming through bloodline advancement while keeping his Blood Shadows from ascending. Meanwhile, Lin Yun killed Xu Nuo and framed the Sixth Demon Realm, leaving the question of whether it planned to invade the Nine Palaces Realm.

• Ling Yi drank with the bruised and ostracized Old Bai, then left perfect-grade Qi Absorption Pills at his bedside.
• Ling Yi advanced Guo Ming's bloodline to god grade, greatly improving their strength, aptitude, comprehension, and affinity with Spiritual Qi.
• Xu Nuo traveled toward White Moon City with his second uncle, planning to take Lin Xiaoxiao back to Penglai Asgard as his bride.
• A mysterious figure seized Xu Nuo and demanded ten billion mid-grade spirit stones from Penglai Asgard, claiming to represent the Sixth Demon Realm.
• Lin Yun revealed herself as Xu Nuo's captor, killed him, and wondered whether the Sixth Demon Realm was planning to invade the Nine Palaces Realm.

Ling Yi advanced his Spatial Domain into the Law of Space, clarified his long-term cultivation path, and left Asgard Academy to travel north. After a month on the road, he reached Qiyun City, where soldiers attacked him and an armored man mistook him for someone named Ye Yu.

• Ling Yi spent one billion low-grade spirit stones to advance his Spatial Domain into the Law of Space and learned that laws could only become his own at the level of Dao.
• Ling Yi decided to leave Asgard Academy, rejected Lin Weiwei's offer to come with him, and departed White Moon City alone.
• Ling Yi traveled north as an ordinary wanderer while Blood Shadow Guo Ming killed Penglai Asgard's palace master Xu Potian, whom Ling Yi ordered to study time-related cultivation methods.
• Ling Yi studied formation patterns during his travels, then gave up and assigned the work to his Blood Shadows.
• Ling Yi arrived at Qiyun City, where soldiers fired arrows at him and an armored man called him Ye Yu.

Ling Yi watched Ye Yu use his time domain to kill the guards and retainers who stood between him and Nangong Zhong. Ye Yu found Yun'er dead, captured Nangong Zhong, and dragged him away, while Ling Yi wondered whether Ye Yu was the protagonist.

• Ye Yu arrived at Qiyun City and demanded that Zhuang Zhuo release Yun'er, while Ling Yi moved aside to watch.
• Ye Yu used his time domain to freeze the attacks, kill Zhuang Zhuo and the city guards, and press deeper into Qiyun City.
• Ye Yu reached the manor and found Yun'er dead in her wedding gown, then stored her corpse and confronted Nangong Zhong.
• Ye Yu used his time domain to regress Nangong Zhong into a child and sealed his Spiritual Power with a thorny vine.
• Ye Yu dragged Nangong Zhong out of the manor as Ling Yi observed his abilities and wondered whether he was the protagonist.

Ye Yu killed Nangong Zhong, but Nangong Zhong’s Soul Mark drew a Tribulation Transcendence powerhouse after him. Ling Yi killed the two men, turned them into Blood Shadows, gained Ye Yu’s time domain, and continued traveling north until he came upon a massive battle.

• Ye Yu used his plundered Divine Ability to kill Nangong Zhong, whose Soul Mark alerted his father, Nangong Xiangbei.
• Nangong Xiangbei caught Ye Yu and offered him freedom in exchange for ten years of service, but Ling Yi appeared and crushed both men with spatial power.
• Ling Yi revived the men as Blood Shadows, ordering Nangong Xiangbei to gather resources and Ye Yu to devour all thirty-six Divine Abilities.
• Ling Yi used Ye Yu’s shared time domain to advance it into a law, then continued north while accumulating resources and studying time and space laws.
• Three months later, Ling Yi found tens of thousands of cultivators fighting and asked an old man hiding in the grass what was happening.
• The old man pulled Ling Yi down and asked which side he belonged to, demanding to know where his red or blue shoulder badge was.