Chapter Summaries

Su Yueli visited the Imperial Heavenly Abyss Pavilion to read history, where a guardian attacked her and discovered that her Martial Immortal power could erase his strongest artifact with ease. She spared him and left for the Slums, where Han Yu was waiting.

• The gray-robed guardian detected Su Yueli on the ninth floor and attacked her with his Doomgold Shuttle.
• Su Yueli’s martial immortal field reduced the artifact to ordinary iron, and the backlash crippled the guardian and shattered his Dao heart.
• The guardian knelt and apologized, and Su Yueli told him she had only come to look at history and meant no harm.
• Su Yueli left the Imperial Heavenly Abyss Pavilion and walked through the heavy rain toward the Slums, where Han Yu was waiting.

Su Yueli bought a courtyard in Azure Cloud City, established the Eternal Life Martial Sect, and made Han Yu its first disciple as she began developing a Martial Dao path to extend mortal lifespans. When cultivators threatened the sect over its name, Su Yueli ignored them and ordered Han Yu to break their legs if they entered.

• Su Yueli bought a secluded courtyard with ancient spirit stones and carved a sign naming it the Eternal Life Martial Sect.
• Su Yueli named Han Yu the sect's first disciple and resolved to explore a Martial Dao method for extending mortal life without spiritual energy.
• The next morning, three Second Realm cultivators denounced the sect and threatened to force it out of Azure Cloud City by noon.
• Su Yueli posted a recruitment notice limiting applicants to those under twenty who passed the Bone Age Test.
• When Han Yu asked what to do if the cultivators came to tear down the sign, Su Yueli told her to break their legs if they entered.

Su Yueli taught Han Yu a breathing method and began rebuilding her damaged bones and meridians so her body could retain qi and blood. After enduring the brutal procedure through the night without losing consciousness, Han Yu collapsed in blood as dawn arrived.

• Su Yueli explained that ordinary martial artists shortened their lives by letting qi and blood drain away and taught Han Yu a basic breathing method.
• Han Yu tried the method, but her damaged meridians could not retain the warmth it produced.
• Su Yueli used her force field to crush and rearrange Han Yu’s bones and meridians, while Han Yu fought to stay conscious through the pain.
• Su Yueli observed Han Yu’s body regenerate and form a barrier that sealed qi and blood within her body.
• At dawn, Su Yueli ended the reconstruction, and Han Yu collapsed into the bloodied floor without having fainted.

After Su Yueli’s training transformed Han Yu into a second-realm martial artist overnight, Han Yu defended the Eternal Life Martial Sect from Zheng Biao of the Mighty Far Martial Arts Academy. She left him badly injured in the street, discouraging the surrounding onlookers from targeting the sect.

• Han Yu discovered that Su Yueli’s training had reshaped her body and raised her strength to the second realm, then washed up and cleaned the courtyard.
• Zheng Biao arrived to claim the sect’s courtyard for the Mighty Far Martial Arts Academy and tried to tear down its plaque.
• Han Yu blocked Zheng Biao at the gate and met his attack with her greatsword.
• Han Yu broke Zheng Biao’s wrist and struck him into the street, leaving him with a ruined arm and broken ribs.
• Su Yueli dismissed Zheng Biao as too old to advance further and told Han Yu to clean up outside the gate.
• Han Yu continued sweeping as the nearby onlookers withdrew their hostile attention from the Eternal Life Martial Sect.

After Han Yu defeated Zheng Biao, Lu Chang'an arrived at the Eternal Life Martial Sect seeking the power to avenge his murdered family. Su Yueli accepted him as her second disciple and began considering how to create a martial cultivation method that disciples could practice without her direct intervention.

• Han Yu defeated Zheng Biao and stabilized her blood energy, changing the onlookers’ view of the Eternal Life Martial Sect.
• Lu Chang'an came to the sect and told Han Yu that cultivators had killed his family and that he wanted to learn martial arts to take revenge.
• Su Yueli examined Lu Chang'an and found that his spiritless body rejected spiritual energy but held fierce, compressed blood energy.
• Su Yueli accepted Lu Chang'an as the Eternal Life Martial Sect’s second disciple, and he kowtowed and followed her into the courtyard.
• Su Yueli considered developing a martial cultivation method that would let disciples reshape their meridians and seal in their blood energy without her direct help.

Su Yueli established the Blood-Locking Art and explained that the Eternal Life Martial Sect sought to use the Martial Dao to extend mortal life beyond that of most cultivators. She assigned Han Yu to teach Lu Chang'an the breathing method as the sect began its training.

• Su Yueli completed the first level of the Blood-Locking Art, which used breathing and exertion to preserve vitality and could extend a mortal's lifespan to around two hundred years.
• Han Yu gave Lu Chang'an water and food, then warned him that betrayal and infighting among sect disciples were forbidden.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu and Lu Chang'an that the Eternal Life Martial Sect aimed to open a path to eternal life for mortals, rather than simply fight cultivators.
• Han Yu and Lu Chang'an pledged themselves to Su Yueli's teachings.
• Su Yueli ordered Han Yu to teach Lu Chang'an the breathing method and correct his movements, while she continued her deductions.

Su Yueli went to Azure Cloud City's inner city to buy martial arts medicines for Han Yu and Lu Chang'an, whose cultivation required more nourishment. She paid for 460 pills with ancient spirit stones, leaving the Myriad Treasures Pavilion shopkeeper astonished by their exceptional quality.

• Han Yu practiced with her greatsword while Lu Chang'an endured the pain of learning the Blood-Locking Art, and Su Yueli recognized that their growing cultivation would require better nourishment.
• Su Yueli took ancient spirit stones from her Storage Pouch and left for Azure Cloud City's inner city.
• At the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, Su Yueli found only low-grade medicines for martial artists and ordered all the shop's quality pills from first to fourth grade.
• The shopkeeper offered 460 pills for 1,200 lower-grade spirit stones, and Su Yueli paid without bargaining.
• The shopkeeper realized Su Yueli's spirit stones were extraordinarily pure and eagerly offered to serve her again, but she took the pills and left.

Su Yueli realized the Eternal Life Martial Sect needed its own alchemist to secure a steady supply of pills, so she decided to kidnap one. She flew across the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty by sheer physical strength and began searching for a sect rich in spirit herbs and medicines.

• Su Yueli saw that buying pills would eventually exhaust the sect’s reserves and decided it needed an alchemist and spirit fields of its own.
• After concluding that no talented alchemist would join her newly established sect, Su Yueli chose to kidnap a high-ranking alchemist.
• Su Yueli launched herself into the sky using only her physical strength and flew across the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty.
• Su Yueli’s passage nearly destabilized a flying ship, whose cultivators debated how anyone could fly so fast without Spiritual Power.
• Su Yueli continued searching for a large cluster of sect buildings, planning to follow the strongest scent of spirit herbs and medicines.

Su Yueli found Gu Qinghe, a third-grade alchemist, in the Heavenly Spirit Mountain Range just as his guards and a demonic beast were about to kill him. After rescuing him, she claimed his life and ordered him to refine medicine for her.

• Su Yueli followed the scent of medicinal herbs to the Heavenly Spirit Mountain Range.
• Gu Quan and Gu Hai trapped the injured Gu Qinghe in a formation and revealed that his father had ordered his death so his younger brother could inherit the Gu lineage.
• An Ironclad Blade-Toothed Tiger attacked Gu Qinghe, but Su Yueli descended from the sky and pulverized the beast with the force of her landing.
• Su Yueli examined Gu Qinghe and recognized the fire-and-wood qi and blood of an alchemist.
• Gu Qinghe identified himself as a third-grade alchemist, and Su Yueli ordered him to serve her and refine medicine.

After saving Gu Qinghe, Su Yueli took him through the Heavenly Spirit Mountain Range to gather high-grade herbs and saw his exceptional skill as an alchemist. Gu Qinghe revealed that his father had sent him into danger as part of a plot, severed his emotional ties to his family, and prepared to lead Su Yueli to the Gu Household's camp at daybreak.

• Gu Qinghe treated his wounds and agreed to gather herbs for Su Yueli before going with her.
• Gu Qinghe led Su Yueli through the Heavenly Spirit Mountain Range, where he expertly harvested a fifth-grade Purpleheart Vine and other medicinal herbs.
• Gu Qinghe told Su Yueli that his stepmother and younger brother saw him as a threat to his claim to lead the Gu Household.
• Gu Qinghe recounted how his father sent him to retrieve Dragonblood Grass, then ordered the guards protecting him to kill him after he succeeded.
• Gu Qinghe's grief gave way to cold detachment as he renounced his family ties, and Su Yueli told him to lead her to the Gu Household's camp at daybreak.

Gu Qinghe returned to the Gu Household encampment, exposed his family’s plot, and severed his ties with them. Su Yueli defeated the household’s guards and took Gu Qinghe away, where he pledged to join the Eternal Life Martial Sect.

• Gu Qinghe entered the tent alive, shocking Gu Changfeng, Gu Qingyuan, and the guards who had claimed he died in Poison Miasma Valley.
• Gu Qinghe smashed the Dragonblood Grass and cut his palm, declaring that he severed every blood tie with the Gu Household.
• Gu Changfeng ordered the guards to kill Gu Qinghe, but Su Yueli crushed their flying swords and forced the guards and Gu Changfeng to their knees.
• Su Yueli declared that Gu Qinghe belonged to the Eternal Life Martial Sect and led him out of the encampment.
• Gu Qinghe kowtowed to Su Yueli and pledged to join the Eternal Life Martial Sect.

After Su Yueli brought Gu Qinghe to the impoverished Eternal Life Martial Sect, he accepted that it was his only refuge and resolved to help it prosper. He secured permission to turn the ruined rear courtyard into a medicinal herb plot, beginning his plan to provide pills for the sect.

• Su Yueli brought Gu Qinghe to the shabby Eternal Life Martial Sect in Azure Cloud City, where he found only Han Yu and Lu Chang'an training in the muddy courtyard.
• Gu Qinghe overcame his despair at losing his former life and vowed to survive, build an Alchemy Hall, and take revenge on the Gu lineage.
• Lu Chang'an reacted to Gu Qinghe's spiritual power with murderous hostility, but Su Yueli ordered him to put away his killing intent.
• Su Yueli introduced Gu Qinghe as the person responsible for securing the sect's future pill supplies.
• Gu Qinghe pointed out that the sect lacked an earth fire, herb storage, and spirit fields, then asked for land to grow medicinal herbs.
• Su Yueli granted him the ruins in the rear courtyard and told Han Yu and Lu Chang'an to help with whatever he needed.

Gu Qinghe directed Han Yu and Lu Chang'an to clear and till the Eternal Life Martial Sect’s backyard, then used his qi and blood to accelerate the growth of spirit herbs. As Lu Chang'an repeated Inner City gossip meant to provoke him, Gu Qinghe stayed focused on building a life outside the Gu Household, while Su Yueli planned a new kind of pill for martial artists.

• Gu Qinghe ordered Han Yu and Lu Chang'an to demolish the backyard ruins and till two mu of soil, which they finished in half a day while competing against each other.
• Gu Qinghe sent Lu Chang'an to buy low-tier spirit herb seeds, then planted leftover herb roots and used a growth-accelerating method that depleted his qi and blood.
• Lu Chang'an told Gu Qinghe that the Gu Household had declared him dead and that Inner City cultivators were mocking him for living among mortal beasts of burden.
• Gu Qinghe ignored the gossip and told Lu Chang'an to plant the seeds, reflecting on how he was no longer a pawn of the Gu Household.
• Su Yueli monitored Han Yu and Lu Chang'an’s training and worked out a formula for martial-artist pills that would bind medicinal potency to their bones.

Gu Qinghe rejected Zhao Mu’s offer to join Greenwood Valley, choosing to stay with the Eternal Life Martial Sect despite the lack of resources. After Zhao Mu threatened to block him from buying spirit herbs, Gu Qinghe returned to the sect with his battered furnace, his resolve to refine pills growing stronger.

• Gu Qinghe bought a crude iron furnace in Azure Cloud Market and carried it back toward the Eternal Life Martial Sect.
• Zhao Mu of Greenwood Valley confronted Gu Qinghe and offered him status, beastfire, a pill-refining chamber, and unlimited spirit herbs to join the sect.
• Gu Qinghe refused, explaining that he would rather refine pills for the sect that had saved him than become Greenwood Valley’s tool.
• Zhao Mu threatened to prevent every shop in Azure Cloud City from selling Gu Qinghe spirit herbs and vowed to collect his corpse if he had nowhere left to turn.
• Gu Qinghe walked back to the Eternal Life Martial Sect with the furnace, feeling newly resolved to grow its spirit herbs and refine pills.

After a year of seclusion, Gu Qinghe perfected his alchemy and helped Su Yueli forge Han Yu and Lu Chang'an into formidable martial artists with Blood-Congealing Paste. Han Yu reached the third realm, while Lu Chang'an reached the peak of the second realm, and Su Yueli prepared to make them strong enough to challenge cultivators and live long lives.

• Su Yueli sealed the Eternal Life Martial Sect off from the world while Gu Qinghe worked to improve the spirit fields and refine pills.
• After a year of grueling practice, Gu Qinghe mastered his fire control and refined Blood-Congealing Paste with a success rate near ninety percent.
• Su Yueli shattered Han Yu's and Lu Chang'an's bones in training, and Gu Qinghe forced the hot paste into their mouths to rebuild and strengthen them.
• Han Yu reached the third realm and crushed refined steel in her hand, while Lu Chang'an reached the peak of the second realm and concealed his killing intent.
• Su Yueli judged the pair still unprepared to face cultivators of the same realm and live long lives, while Gu Qinghe eagerly returned to his furnace to make more medicine.

The Eternal Life Martial Sect expanded into a fortified compound, but its cultivation stalled when Gu Qinghe ran out of suitable herbs and could not advance as an alchemist. Su Yueli decided to take her disciples to Azure Cloud City's Inner City auction to obtain the resources they needed.

• Gu Qinghe sold inferior pills in the Outer City Black Market to fund the sect's expansion, while Han Yu and Lu Chang'an helped build its walls and halls.
• Su Yueli reflected that the sect and her three disciples had become anchors that made her feel the passage of time, while Han Yu and Lu Chang'an vowed to protect their new home.
• Three months later, Gu Qinghe told Su Yueli that his spirit fields could only produce third-tier herbs, their supply could no longer help Han Yu, and he needed a spirit flame to become a fourth-grade alchemist.
• Gu Qinghe revealed that the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion's upcoming Inner City auction would offer the fourth-tier Netherflame Earthfire and rare spirit herbs from ancient ruins, but warned that the prices would be enormous.
• Su Yueli told Gu Qinghe, Han Yu, and Lu Chang'an to accompany her to the auction and said they did not need to worry about money.