Su Yueli stood amid the endless turbulence of the void.
All around her lay deathly silent darkness.
Violent spatial gales tore relentlessly at her white robes, yet could not even pierce the outermost layer of blood-energy protection covering her body.
She found the remains of an enormous rock floating in the void.
She walked over and sat cross-legged.
She closed her eyes.
There were no old friends left in the world. She no longer needed to worry about anyone's life or death, or how many years they had left.
In all this vast heaven and earth, she was truly alone.
Su Yueli severed all perception of the outside world and drew her entire consciousness into her body.
She began trying to find her way along the fifteenth-realm martial path that no one had ever walked.
Within the void, there was no alternation of day and night, only stagnant time.
Another five hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.
Su Yueli slowly opened her eyes, a glimmer of understanding flashing through her golden irises.
After five hundred years of deduction, she had finally reached the threshold of the fifteenth realm.
Fourteenth-realm martial practitioners cultivated the physical limits of the flesh, compressing their blood energy to its utmost limit and destroying everything with pure strength.
The fifteenth realm was entirely different.
In the fifteenth realm, one cultivated one's own laws. The martial dao did not borrow the spiritual energy of heaven and earth-that was external power.
The true pinnacle of the martial dao required using blood energy to forcibly carve out an independently functioning inner world within one's own body, replacing the laws of heaven and earth with one's own will.
Having grasped this, Su Yueli closed her eyes again.
The vast longevity blood qi within her began surging madly