Recaps

After fifteen years of secluded cultivation, Su Yueli emerged having greatly mastered the Intent Ash Fist, while Han Yu had reached the Tenth Realm but could not find a path to the Eleventh. Learning that wars had engulfed the northern dynasties and threatened Great Li, Su Yueli suspected Motian Xing was feeding on the slaughter and prepared to confront him.

• Su Yueli left seclusion after fifteen years, having strengthened her Intent Ash Fist and her ability to draw out opponents' lifespans, though she still could not see a path to the Fifteenth Realm.
• Han Yu, now fifty and a Tenth Realm Martial God, greeted Su Yueli and lamented that her master had not aged.
• Su Yueli explained that Han Yu needed a life-and-death trial and an understanding of the Heavenly Dao to reach the Eleventh Realm.
• Han Yu told Su Yueli that Great Wei, Great Yan, and Great Zhao had fallen into all-out war, while border clashes had brought Great Li closer to joining the conflict.
• Su Yueli suspected Motian Xing had provoked the wars to absorb the Qi and Blood and Killing Intent of the dead, and vowed to counter him with her Intent Ash Fist.

Zhao Xuankong visited Su Yueli to ask for help amid the war between the three great dynasties, which Motian Xing had inflamed. Su Yueli agreed to hunt Motian Xing but refused to involve herself in the dynasties’ other conflicts, and Zhao Xuankong reflected on Han Yu’s extraordinary talent and mortal lifespan.

• Zhao Xuankong appeared at the Han Household, startling Han Yu with his Fourteenth Realm aura.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu to remain at the Han Household and left with Zhao Xuankong to discuss the war.
• Zhao Xuankong explained that Motian Xing had stirred conflict among the three great dynasties and asked Su Yueli to help stop the catastrophe.
• Su Yueli refused to save the dynasties or their people but agreed to kill Motian Xing.
• Zhao Xuankong praised Han Yu’s martial talent and lamented that even a Tenth Realm martial artist had a mortal lifespan.

Su Yueli learned that the Fourteenth Realm cultivators would gather in three days to besiege Motian Xing, and she planned to use the battle to free Shen Huai'an from the devil’s control. Across the continent, powerful figures from the great dynasties prepared for the coming assault as they awaited Mo Bufan’s discovery of Motian Xing’s hiding place.

• Zhao Xuankong told Su Yueli that Mo Bufan would locate Motian Xing within three days, after which the Fourteenth Realm cultivators would gather at the Great Li Imperial City to attack him.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu about the planned siege, and Han Yu resolved to enter seclusion and consolidate her foundation after realizing she could not join the battle.
• Su Yueli considered extracting Motian Xing’s incomplete divine soul from Shen Huai'an’s body so Shen Huai'an could regain his freedom for Shen Qing'an’s sake.
• Xun Wudao, Ancestor Gantian, Chu Huayu, and Xiahou Wuji discussed Mo Bufan’s coming deduction and agreed that the great dynasties had to destroy Motian Xing before he regained his former strength.
• The Fourteenth Realm cultivators acknowledged their wariness of Su Yueli but accepted her as an ally in the impending siege.

Su Yueli left Han Yu and joined the Fourteenth Realm cultivators who tracked Motian Xing to his hideout beneath Yin Mountain. As the punitive expedition approached, Motian Xing seized Shen Huai'an’s body and revealed that he had prepared a formation to sacrifice the attackers and pursue the Fifteenth Realm.

• Su Yueli spent three days guiding Han Yu, then departed for the Great Li Imperial City despite Han Yu and Han Qingling’s worries.
• Mo Bufan used the Heavenly Secrets Disc to locate Motian Xing beneath Yin Mountain in the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Xun Wudao and more than a dozen Fourteenth Realm cultivators set out for Motian Xing’s underground palace.
• Motian Xing bound Shen Huai'an’s soul and took control of his body, dismissing Shen Huai'an’s resistance.
• Motian Xing revealed that he had laid the Nine Nether Vein Heaven-Refining Formation to sacrifice the arriving cultivators and use the Great Yan earth veins to help him reach the Fifteenth Realm.

More than a dozen Fourteenth Realm cultivators entered Yin Mountain Ruins to kill Motian Xing, but Shen Huai'an briefly regained control and warned Su Yueli that the underground palace was a blood-sacrifice trap. The others ignored him, and Motian Xing's crimson barrier stopped Chu Huayu's attack.

• Xun Wudao and the other Fourteenth Realm cultivators detected Motian Xing beneath Yin Mountain and began calculating how to claim his inheritance.
• Su Yueli sensed something wrong with the ley lines and warned the group, but Xun Wudao dismissed her concern.
• Xun Wudao shattered the ruins, revealing an underground palace, and the cultivators rushed inside to surround Motian Xing.
• Shen Huai'an briefly seized control and warned Su Yueli that Motian Xing had buried a killing formation to sacrifice them and break through.
• Chu Huayu dismissed the warning as a ploy and struck Motian Xing with the Nine Heavens Violet Thunder Palm.
• Motian Xing's dark crimson barrier halted Chu Huayu's lightning, and he mocked Shen Huai'an for his soft heart.

Motian Xing activated the Nine Nether Vein Heaven-Refining Formation, suppressing the gathered Fourteenth Realm cultivators and killing one Great Yan ancestor. Su Yueli resisted the formation’s suppression with her martial path and struck Motian Xing with Intent Ash, draining part of his lifespan as he reeled in disbelief.

• Motian Xing stomped on the blood-pool formation core and activated the Nine Nether Vein Heaven-Refining Formation, sealing away the crowd’s cultivation.
• Motian Xing detonated blood-sacrifice catalysts beneath thirty-six cities across Great Yan, strengthening the formation and sending blood-red chains against the trapped cultivators.
• The chains pierced a Great Yan ancestor and drained his Qi and Blood, marrow, and soul, killing him and leaving only ash.
• Su Yueli realized her body and martial path had escaped most of the formation’s suppression, then charged Motian Xing with Little Black formed into a fist blade.
• Su Yueli landed two Intent Ash punches, shattered Motian Xing’s protective Demon Qi, and made him lose a considerable portion of his lifespan.

Su Yueli and the surviving cultivators fought Motian Xing inside the Nine Nether Vein Heaven-Refining Formation, which Mo Bufan revealed was an absolute sacrificial formation designed to help the Demon Sect leader reach the Fifteenth Realm. After Zhao Xuankong sacrificed himself to restrain Motian Xing, Su Yueli’s full-strength strike was interrupted by the detonation of two fallen mighty figures’ source power, leaving her seriously injured.

• Su Yueli wounded Motian Xing with two punches, but he fled through the blood mist while the formation attacked the surviving cultivators.
• Mo Bufan used the Heavenly Secrets Disc to discover that the formation had no escape route and was extracting the Great Yan earth vein to fuel Motian Xing’s breakthrough; the backlash killed him.
• Su Yueli asked the survivors for help, and Zhao Xuankong sacrificed himself to bind Motian Xing with chains of golden dragon qi.
• Su Yueli compressed all her combat strength into a punch aimed at the restrained Motian Xing, but he detonated the remaining source power of Mo Bufan and Zhao Xuankong.
• The blast knocked Su Yueli backward and left her with serious internal injuries.

Motian Xing slaughtered the trapped righteous-path masters and absorbed their power, then turned on Su Yueli, seeking her vitality to break into the Fifteenth Realm. Su Yueli struck him with Intent Ash, rapidly draining his lifespan, but Motian Xing blasted her away and escaped the exchange weakened and terrified.

• Motian Xing used the formation to drain and kill Xun Wudao, Ancestor Gantian, Chu Huayu, Chu Huayu, and the other trapped Fourteenth Realm masters, raising his cultivation to the Late Stage.
• Motian Xing mocked Su Yueli and summoned a gigantic Demonic Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation to crush her.
• Su Yueli summoned her Martial Soul, pierced the manifestation’s palm, and struck Motian Xing with Intent Ash.
• Su Yueli’s punch made Motian Xing lose hundreds of years of lifespan at a time, rapidly weakening his cultivation.
• Motian Xing exploded his Demon Qi in a counterattack, sending Su Yueli flying while he retreated, spat out life essence, and fell back to the Fourteenth Realm Middle Stage.

Su Yueli tried to tear Motian Xing’s remnant soul from Shen Huai'an, but their souls were too entangled, so Motian Xing escaped into the Endless Void. He swore revenge as Su Yueli remained in the ruined Yin Mountain Ruins.

• Su Yueli entered Shen Huai'an’s Sea of Consciousness and tried to rip Motian Xing’s remnant soul free, but Shen Huai'an’s lingering obsession caused a backlash.
• Su Yueli prepared to destroy Shen Huai'an’s body and Motian Xing along with it, so Motian Xing detonated part of his soul and the Nine Nether Vein Heaven-Refining Formation to escape.
• The blast collapsed the underground palace and left no life in the Yin Mountain Ruins, while Su Yueli noted that Motian Xing had fled into the Endless Void.
• Motian Xing landed on a drifting stone in the Endless Void, raged over his ruined plans and lost cultivation, and vowed to rebuild his body and take revenge on everyone around Su Yueli.

Motian Xing planned to ruin Su Yueli’s reputation, but Shen Huai'an fought him for control of the body to stop him. After the Yin Mountain massacre sent the continent into turmoil, Su Yueli stabilized Great Li and encouraged Han Yu to pursue greater strength.

• Motian Xing resolved to spread a false claim that Su Yueli had colluded with him to kill the Fourteenth Realm experts, but Shen Huai'an attacked him inside their shared body to prevent it.
• News that more than a dozen peak Fourteenth Realm cultivators had died at Yin Mountain plunged the continent and its dynasties into panic.
• After Zhao Xuankong’s death left Great Li vulnerable to infighting, Su Yueli returned to the Imperial City and crushed the rebellion with her overwhelming pressure.
• Su Yueli reflected on the fleeting nature of power and fame and concluded that immortality was the only way to transcend suffering.
• Han Yu and Han Qingling reached the Imperial City, and Han Yu asked to enter seclusion and stake everything on reaching the Eleventh Realm.
• Su Yueli gave Han Yu guidance on breaking through the Eleventh Realm and then gazed into the distance, lost in thought.

Motian Xing spread false rumors blaming Su Yueli for the Battle of Yin Mountain, prompting the great dynasties and sects to form an alliance and demand that Great Li hand her over. Su Yueli rejected the court’s pleas and resolved to crush anyone who attacked Great Li, leaving the ultimatum unanswered.

• Motian Xing suppressed Shen Huai'an and sent a secret command to his hidden demonic agents.
• The agents spread rumors that Su Yueli had colluded with the Ancient Devil and slaughtered the patriarchs at Yin Mountain.
• Surviving experts from the Great Xun, Great Gan, and Great Chu dynasties formed the Demon-Extermination Alliance and branded Su Yueli the age’s number one female devil.
• The alliance and more than a dozen great sects demanded that the Great Li Imperial Family surrender Su Yueli within three days or face invasion.
• Great Li officials urged Su Yueli to leave the city and answer the accusations, but she dismissed their pleas and vowed to strike down any forces that invaded Great Li.

Su Yueli faced the Demon-Subjugation Alliance alone at Great Li’s border and killed its three leading Peak Thirteenth Realm ancestors. After warning the remaining forces to stop pursuing her, she left, and the massacre silenced the alliance and its hidden observers.

• The Demon-Subjugation Alliance surrounded Great Li’s border and demanded that Su Yueli surrender.
• Su Yueli appeared alone, while Xu Yuntian accused her of atrocities and ordered her seized.
• Su Yueli charged into the alliance and killed Xu Yuntian with one punch.
• Su Yueli killed the two other Great Xun ancestors after they tried to flee.
• Su Yueli warned the alliance to tell its leaders that anyone else seeking a fight could come find her, then departed.

After Su Yueli killed three Peak Thirteenth Realm ancestors, Great Li’s court shifted to reverence and Han Yu broke through to the Eleventh Realm. Su Yueli failed to locate Motian Xing, who hid in the Sunset Burial Immortal Pit and planned to rebuild his body, while unrest spread across several dynasties.

• Great Li’s officials and vassal kings abandoned their fear of Su Yueli and the imperial family outlawed slander against her.
• Han Yu emerged from cultivation after breaking through to the Eleventh Realm, and Su Yueli warned her against letting anger rule her.
• Su Yueli used Little Black and ancient records to search for Motian Xing but could not find him.
• Motian Xing devoured yin baleful intent in the Sunset Burial Immortal Pit and plotted to rebuild his body and pursue the Fifteenth Realm.
• Reports reached Great Li as vassal kings mobilized, Great Gan’s princes and armies fought over succession, and three Great Yan sects contested the Myriad Laws Sect’s spiritual vein.

After the Fourteenth Realm patriarch’s death plunged the dynasties into turmoil, Great Li’s court tried to use Su Yueli’s strength to expand its territory and bind her to the dynasty. Su Yueli refused to lend her name to their plans, and the chapter ended as she faced officials urging her to become Great Li State Preceptor.

• Su Yueli read reports of unrest across the dynasties and rejected a Great Li official’s proposal to seize Great Yan’s three eastern provinces under her authority.
• Su Yueli warned that she would kill anyone who publicly claimed she approved the invasion.
• Su Yueli examined Han Yu’s unstable breakthrough, found damage to three meridians, and ordered her to circulate her Qi and Blood nine times daily while recovering.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu she would watch the dynastic conflicts but would not intervene unless someone cultivated using mortal lives.
• An official announced that Great Li’s rulers and officials planned to petition Su Yueli to become State Preceptor, and she entered the main hall and asked them to speak plainly.

Su Yueli refused Great Li’s offer to become State Preceptor and left the palace rather than let the court use her power to wage wars. As she prepared to stay in the Imperial City with Han Yu, news of a massacre threatened to spark war between Great Qian and Great Xun.

• Great Li’s officials asked Su Yueli to become State Preceptor, but she refused after realizing they wanted her protection for their planned expansion.
• Su Yueli warned the court that she would help only if Great Li was invaded, then announced she would leave the palace; Han Yu stayed with her in the Imperial City to recover.
• Su Yueli and Han Yu headed toward the city’s outskirts while Little Black continued searching for Motian Xing, whose injuries and struggle with Shen Huai’an delayed his recovery.
• A messenger reported that all 173 members of Great Qian’s delegation to Great Xun, including the third prince, had been killed, with evidence pointing to Great Xun.
• Su Yueli suspected the conspicuous evidence was meant to frame Great Xun, then learned Great Qian had sent 300,000 troops and two Thirteenth Realm cultivators toward its border.

After the Great Qian delegation's massacre heightened tensions with Great Xun, Su Yueli suspected someone was deliberately provoking a war but could not identify the culprit. The massacre of Azure Stone City pushed both dynasties into battle, and Su Yueli realized the mastermind had planned the escalation.

• Su Yueli and Han Yu reviewed conflicting evidence about the delegation's deaths and suspected a hidden instigator, while Su Yueli refused to accuse Motian Xing without proof.
• Su Yueli forbade Han Yu from investigating in Great Xun because her connection to her master would make her appear biased, and ordered Great Li's spies to investigate instead.
• Great Qian and Great Xun continued mobilizing troops as their spies clashed, while both courts waited for an excuse to fight.
• Attackers wearing Great Qian armor entered Azure Stone City after its formation was opened from within, killed its defenders and civilians, and left a blood-debt message.
• Great Xun declared war after the massacre, and the two nations' armies clashed at the border, killing over ten thousand soldiers in an hour.
• After reading a secret report, Su Yueli recognized that the delegation massacre had only ignited the conflict and that Azure Stone City's slaughter had triggered the war.

Han Yu investigated the massacre in Azure Stone City and found signs that the victims’ life force had been drained while the supposed Great Qian attackers’ souls had been destroyed to conceal their identities. At the broken formation core, she detected Demon Qi linked to Motian Xing.

• Su Yueli suspected Motian Xing had caused the Azure Stone City massacre, and Han Yu set out with Heavenly Secrets Pavilion cultivators to investigate.
• Han Yu’s party passed fleeing civilians whose food and able-bodied young men had been seized for the war between Great Qian and Great Xun.
• After entering Azure Stone City, Han Yu examined corpses and discovered that every one had been completely drained of life force.
• Han Yu found that the alleged Great Qian killers had destroyed their own Divine Souls with Soul-Destroying Pills, preventing their identities from being confirmed.
• At the shattered city-protecting formation core, Han Yu detected Demon Qi in the blood of a slain Great Xun cultivator.

Han Yu uncovered evidence of demonic involvement in Azure Stone City's massacre as Great Qian and Great Xun escalated their war. In Great Li, Su Yueli stopped an imperial army from exploiting the conflict to seize three border cities, leaving the court to resolve its territorial ambitions without claiming her support.

• Han Yu sealed a blood scab containing Demon Qi and suspected demonic cultivators were behind Azure Stone City's massacre, then saw the trace of Demon Qi shift westward.
• After Great Qian took Linchuan Pass, Great Xun and Great Qian reinforced their armies and traded attacks, while sects seized Spiritual Veins and hatred between the nations grew.
• Great Li's court debated taking three border cities and their nearby Spirit Ore before vassal kings could claim them, then the regent prince ordered thirty thousand soldiers to move out under the pretext of suppressing bandits.
• Su Yueli confronted the army commander, exposed the planned seizure, and ordered him to return while warning Great Li not to claim her backing.

Su Yueli uncovered that Motian Xing’s followers had used Demon Seeds to drain Azure Stone City’s dead and fuel his recovery, while their massacre also aimed to provoke a war. Han Yu found 372 corpses that had retained some life force in the city’s western district, leaving Su Yueli focused on why those dead were different.

• Great Li’s regent ordered the troops to withdraw after Su Yueli refused to help force other dynasties into surrender.
• Han Yu told Su Yueli that the corpses in Azure Stone City had lost their life force and that he had found Demon Qi at the City-Guarding Formation’s core.
• Su Yueli recognized the Demon Qi as connected to Motian Xing and ordered the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to investigate the Devil Dao Sects and old cases involving him.
• Su Yueli deduced that hidden Demon Seeds had sent the city’s stolen life force to Motian Xing and that the massacre was meant to provoke war and aid his recovery.
• Han Yu reported that 372 corpses retained some Qi and Blood and Divine Soul, and said they had died in the western district near a collapsed stone tower.

Han Yu uncovered evidence that Demon Seeds had been planted in Azure Stone City’s victims, then resisted Great Xun’s attempt to use her testimony against Great Qian. On the journey home, she stopped a Great Qian grain team from taking more than its authorized share, while recognizing she could only intervene once.

• Han Yu showed Su Yueli evidence of Demon Seeds in the corpses, and Su Yueli ordered her to seal the news and leave with the evidence.
• Great Xun cultivators tried to detain Han Yu and pressure her to blame Great Qian, but she invoked Su Yueli and led her group away.
• Han Yu’s companions worried their return journey would be dangerous, and she ordered them to travel through the night because their enemies feared her master.
• At a Great Qian border town, Han Yu stopped a grain requisition team from taking all the town’s grain and made them follow the order to take seventy percent.
• When a companion asked why she had not let the townspeople keep all their grain, Han Yu said she could only interfere this once.

Han Yu learned that Motian Xing was feeding on the deaths caused by the war, while Su Yueli set out to pursue the demon qi. Before she could leave, King Dongping invaded a neighboring city in Su Yueli’s name, and she went to confront whoever was responsible.

• Han Yu brought blood scabs and ashes from Azure Stone City to Su Yueli, and Little Black exposed a demon seed containing remnant souls.
• Su Yueli explained that Motian Xing had used demon seeds to absorb the life force of more than a hundred thousand victims, but the warring nations would not accept the truth easily.
• Su Yueli marked the demon qi’s path west and decided to follow it herself, telling Han Yu to remain in Great Li.
• A message reported that King Dongping had led a hundred thousand soldiers across the border, seized a city, and claimed Su Yueli authorized the invasion.
• Su Yueli departed to confront the responsible party as King Dongping occupied Anyuan City and assured its surrendered lord that he would protect the people.

Su Yueli confronted King Dongping after he used her name to seize Anyuan City for Great Li and exploit its resources. She forced him to withdraw his troops, return what they had taken, and release the arrested Azure Sun Sect disciples, then warned him against invoking her name again.

• King Dongping ordered the arrest of the Azure Sun Sect disciples occupying the Spirit Ore mine and threatened to execute anyone who resisted.
• Lord Mayor Liang questioned whether King Dongping had Su Yueli's written authorization, and King Dongping insisted Anyuan City now belonged to Great Li.
• Su Yueli entered the hall, found the military order requisitioning the city's resources, and accused King Dongping of using her name to take the city.
• King Dongping offered Su Yueli increasing shares of the Spirit Ore and other treasures, but she demanded that his army withdraw, return everything taken, and release the arrested disciples.
• Su Yueli forced King Dongping and his generals to their knees until he admitted his mistake, then gave him two hours to withdraw his troops.
• Su Yueli warned King Dongping that if he borrowed her name again, she would go to Dongping Prince's Palace and take his head.

Su Yueli forced King Dongping’s army to withdraw from Anyuan City, then learned that conflicts across the continent were spreading and that death aura was gathering in western Great Xun. Back in the Imperial City, she rejected the court’s attempt to make her capture King Dongping and warned the ministers that they had to handle Great Li’s affairs themselves.

• Su Yueli left Anyuan City after the Dongping Army returned everything it had taken and withdrew under King Dongping’s orders.
• Su Yueli told the Anyuan City Lord that the Azure Sun Sect would decide how to judge his choice to open the city gates.
• Su Yueli reviewed the Great Li Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s intelligence and learned that dozens of conflicts had erupted across the continent.
• Little Black sensed that death aura was gathering in western Great Xun, and Su Yueli concluded that someone was collecting power from the wars for Motian Xing.
• Han Yu told Su Yueli that the court wanted her back in the Imperial City to discuss King Dongping, so Su Yueli returned and confronted the ministers.
• Su Yueli refused to capture King Dongping for the court and told the ministers to deal with him according to Great Li’s laws.

Su Yueli refused to help Great Li reclaim military authority, then hurried toward Azure River Pass after receiving a desperate message about a demonic attack. She discovered that Motian Xing’s forces were gathering death qi from the war and learned that Azure River Pass had been infiltrated and massacred.

• Su Yueli rejected the ministers’ request to intervene against King Dongping, and they abandoned their plan to involve her in court struggles.
• Little Black sensed a powerful demonic fluctuation, and a Jade Talisman reported that Azure River Pass’s Formation had been breached and people were being killed.
• Su Yueli left for Azure River Pass alone, instructing Han Yu to remain in Great Li and protect the Imperial City.
• While crossing the battlefield between Great Qian and Great Xun, Su Yueli found and destroyed a demonic stone that had been collecting death qi for Motian Xing.
• Su Yueli met refugees fleeing Azure River Pass and learned that Great Qian-armored cultivators had used an imperial token to enter, killed the commander, and joined thousands of demonic cultivators in massacring the city.
• A one-armed guard told Su Yueli that the attackers had driven black objects into their victims’ corpses, suggesting they had planted Demon Seeds.

Su Yueli arrived at Azure River Pass and found its people massacred by Demon Cultivators gathering life force and death qi. After defeating them and learning of Motian Xing’s broader scheme, she followed a trail of death qi west toward a crucial location.

• Su Yueli reached Azure River Pass, killed or captured the Demon Cultivators at its gate, and watched the survivors destroy themselves with Soul-Destroying Pills.
• Su Yueli suppressed hundreds of fleeing Demon Cultivators, while Little Black stopped their strongest fighter from escaping through a teleportation talisman.
• Su Yueli extracted the Twelfth Realm Demon Cultivator’s Demon Seed and learned that Motian Xing had arranged attacks in both nations to prolong the war and directed death qi westward.
• Su Yueli destroyed the Demon Seed, rescued civilians hiding in the city, and found that nearly ninety thousand people had died in Azure River Pass.
• Little Black traced death qi gathered by formation pillars toward the west, and Su Yueli followed the trail, suspecting it led to a key part of Motian Xing’s plan.