Arc 11The War of Eight Dynasties

Su Yueli uncovered Motian Xing’s role in driving the Eight Dynasties into war, but his manipulation of Shen Huai'an made stopping him costly. After Motian Xing used Demon Seeds to force her to choose between pursuing him and saving three cities, Su Yueli rescued the survivors and resolved to kill him even if millions of civilians perished.

  • Su Yueli found evidence that the Demon Path had impersonated both sides to reignite the Great Xun–Great Qian war, but the commanders refused to stop fighting.
  • Su Yueli tried to protect civilians across the continent as Motian Xing created crises to distract her, while Han Yu defended Great Li Pass and nearly died before Su Yueli arrived to save her.
  • Su Yueli discovered that Shen Huai'an remained trapped in the same body as Motian Xing and learned that killing Motian Xing would kill Shen Huai'an too.
  • Su Yueli failed to stop the Eight Dynasties from mobilizing and fighting, and Motian Xing absorbed the deathly energy generated by the widening war.
  • Su Yueli convened the Eight Dynasties at Sky Evolution Mountain and exposed Demon Marks behind two murders, but the representatives rejected her evidence and the talks collapsed.
  • Su Yueli exposed Demon Path networks across the dynasties, yet the armies chose to resume fighting, allowing Motian Xing to absorb the deaths and resentment at Red Sand Plains.
  • Su Yueli broke Motian Xing’s control over the dead and wounded him, but she abandoned her pursuit when he revealed that Demon Seeds were infecting three cities.
  • Su Yueli destroyed the Demon Seeds and saved survivors in all three cities while Motian Xing escaped, then told Han Yu she did not regret her choice and resolved to kill him regardless of the civilian cost.
Chapters 251–275 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 251Two Dynasties Go to War

Great Qian and Great Xun went to war after accusing each other of border attacks, and Su Yueli forcibly halted their advances. She secured a seven-day ceasefire to investigate the evidence, while both sides remained suspicious of her intentions.

  • Great Qian and Great Xun exchanged accusations and evidence after fighting began, and both dynasties ordered nearby sects to support their armies.
  • Great Xun retook Red Sand City at heavy cost and prepared to advance toward Azure River Prefecture.
  • Su Yueli suppressed the Great Xun camp and ordered its forces to stop advancing while she went to confront Great Qian.
  • Su Yueli also suppressed the Great Qian camp and ordered both armies to hold their lines, then found an unfamiliar aura on a Great Xun military token.
  • Envoys from both dynasties accepted Su Yueli's seven-day ceasefire, but each privately warned their side to guard against her favoring the other dynasty.

Ch. 252Attack from the Rear

Su Yueli uncovered signs that the attacks provoking Great Qian and Great Xun might have been staged, but both armies resumed fighting after false-flag strikes destroyed supplies and implicated each other. She arrived at Red Sand City as the battle raged and forcibly separated the armies.

  • Su Yueli found a shattered restriction and traces of Demon Qi in the corpses of supposed Great Xun attackers, then ordered the evidence kept secret while she investigated missing sect disciples.
  • Masked attackers in Great Xun uniforms destroyed Great Qian's grain convoy, planted a token bearing Great Xun's military designation, and triggered Great Qian's march on Red Sand City.
  • An attacker reported the grain route's destruction and was ordered to enter Great Xun territory with Great Qian tokens; disguised assailants then attacked an eastern watchtower and left Great Qian banners behind.
  • Convinced that the other side had broken the truce, Great Qian and Great Xun resumed battle, drawing nearby towns and sects into the expanding conflict.
  • After learning both armies blamed each other for the attacks, Su Yueli ordered a missing disciple's cultivation sealed and hurried to Red Sand City, where she split the fighting armies with a palm strike.

Ch. 253The Continent Spins Out of Control

Su Yueli uncovered proof that Demon Path agents had provoked the war between Great Qian and Great Xun, but conflicts spread across the continent faster than she could contain them. As Great Li faced danger and new attacks erupted, she was left unsure whether anyone would believe her evidence.

  • Su Yueli halted the fighting at Red Sand City, but the Great Qian and Great Xun commanders planned to resume hostilities once she left.
  • Su Yueli found Divine Soul Restrictions on the attackers’ corpses and learned that someone had impersonated cultivators from both dynasties to reignite the war.
  • Conflicts spread as Great Chu and Great Yan mobilized, sects seized rivals’ territory and resources, and Rogue Cultivators ambushed supply convoys.
  • After seeing the wounded and hearing a young cultivator ask whether the fighting would stop, Su Yueli agreed that Han Yu should defend Great Li’s border without pursuing enemies.
  • Su Yueli traced demonic qi to an abandoned mine, where uniforms, identity tokens, aura-altering pills, and a Formation marked “Kill” revealed the Demon Path’s role.
  • Su Yueli received simultaneous reports of an attack on Great Xun’s rear, the destruction of a Great Qian supply route, and the official start of war between Great Chu and Great Yan, and hesitated to send her evidence.

Ch. 254Death Breeds Demons

Han Yu and Su Yueli uncovered the Demon Path’s role in the escalating war, but Great Xun and Great Qian refused to withdraw their armies. After a controlled army massacred three villages, Su Yueli confronted a Demon Cultivator who recognized Motian Xing’s name and warned that she could not stop what was coming.

  • Han Yu opened Great Li’s gates to refugees, caught an old man carrying forged identity tokens and aura-altering pills, and tightened the city’s security after he died in prison.
  • Demon Path attacks struck Great Li’s villages, towns, and grain convoys while Great Xun, Great Qian, Great Chu, and Great Yan expanded the fighting.
  • Su Yueli showed Great Xun’s commander evidence of the Demon Path’s involvement, but he refused to withdraw because he wanted to weaken Great Qian; Great Qian’s commander also rejected peace.
  • A Great Xun army broke orders and slaughtered the people of three villages before its cultivators died with their Divine Souls destroyed.
  • Su Yueli tracked a black-robed Thirteenth Realm Demon Cultivator, sealed his attempt to detonate his Demon Qi, and questioned him about the army’s rampage and Motian Xing.
  • The Demon Cultivator resisted Su Yueli’s memory search with a Divine Soul restriction and told her she could not stop what was coming.

Ch. 255My Rules—Death to Those Who Break Them!

Su Yueli learned that Motian Xing was using deaths from the war to advance toward the Fifteenth Realm, so she ordered the four dynasties to stop fighting and set rules against attacks on mortals. When Great Chu, Great Qian, and Great Xun defied her, she killed their powerful cultivators and confronted a Great Xun elder holding thirty thousand commoners hostage.

  • A dying black-robed Demon Cultivator told Su Yueli that Motian Xing was cultivating through the war and that the Fifteenth Realm’s arrival would doom the continent.
  • Su Yueli ordered Great Xun, Great Qian, Great Chu, and Great Yan to stop the war and forbade powerful cultivators from attacking ordinary cities, mortals, or using large-scale slaughter techniques.
  • A Great Chu Thirteenth Realm Attendant attacked a Great Yan city, and Su Yueli killed him when he refused to withdraw; she then ordered Great Chu’s army to retreat.
  • Su Yueli pursued and killed a Great Qian Thirteenth Realm powerhouse who had destroyed a border city’s defenses.
  • A Great Xun Fourteenth Realm elder seized thirty thousand Great Qian commoners to demand a spirit mine, but Su Yueli destroyed his killing formation and told him he would die that day.

Ch. 256No One Slaughtered the City, Yet the City Was Full of Corpses

Su Yueli tried to protect civilians as the dynasties evaded her rules by destroying food and water supplies and driving refugees toward border cities. With three cities requesting aid at once, she faced the choice of which one to save.

  • Great Qian commanders ordered Twelfth Realm cultivators to destroy grain depots and supply routes without harming civilians, and other dynasties sent out similar squads.
  • After attackers burned a grain depot and a convoy, Su Yueli captured two cultivators but released them with a warning to their commander.
  • Enemy cultivators poisoned wells and cut off a city’s water, and Su Yueli cured many residents but arrived too late to save thousands.
  • Su Yueli ordered a city’s gates opened to refugees, then requisitioned grain from nearby sects to relieve the shortage.
  • Three border cities simultaneously asked Su Yueli for help with a siege, a plague, and burned granaries, leaving her to choose one.

Ch. 257Can Only Save One City

Su Yueli tried to save three cities caught in the war, but she could protect only one before the other two suffered devastating losses. Motian Xing revealed that he had arranged the crises to force her to keep choosing who would live, leaving Su Yueli amid refugees with a cracked Message Jade Talisman.

  • Su Yueli stopped the siege of a border city and made the enemy army withdraw, but the general refused to promise that it would not attack again.
  • Su Yueli found the plague-stricken city in chaos, gathered its survivors, and brought medicine, then heard an old man say that his daughter had died waiting for her.
  • Su Yueli stopped the army that had driven civilians from the third city, gathered the displaced people, and brought them food, but many had already died on the road.
  • Su Yueli saw more pleas for help arrive on the Message Jade Talisman and hesitated to open it, fearing she would have to choose whom to save.
  • Motian Xing contacted Su Yueli through the talisman and told her he had prepared more crises to make her choose repeatedly; Su Yueli clenched the talisman until it cracked.

Ch. 258Chasing Demons, or Saving People

Su Yueli pursued Motian Xing but was forced to choose between chasing him and answering false and real calls for help. After saving several cities, she learned that Han Yu had entered battle at Great Li Pass against the Demon Path despite being badly outmatched.

  • Su Yueli followed Motian Xing's traces into the mountains and found a Fourteenth Realm Demon Cultivator instead of her target.
  • The Demon Cultivator revealed Motian Xing's dilemma: pursuing him would leave cities under attack, while saving people would give him time to advance.
  • Su Yueli imprisoned the Demon Cultivator and abandoned the pursuit to investigate six calls for aid, discovering that three were false and three were true.
  • Su Yueli repelled the attack on one city and restored its water source, though more than ten thousand people had died; another city had held until reinforcements arrived.
  • Su Yueli learned that Great Li Pass was under siege by the Demon Path and that Han Yu had led people into battle against enemies above the Thirteenth Realm, refusing to request her help.

Ch. 259Han Yu Holds the Pass to the Death

Han Yu led Great Li's defenders against a Demon Cultivator assault intended to draw Su Yueli away from the Four-Dynasty War, refusing to request her help as the pass fell under attack. After Han Yu was gravely wounded and the remaining defenders stood their ground, a messenger crushed her Message Jade Talisman, and Su Yueli's aura appeared on it.

  • Han Yu ordered civilians into the inner city and rallied the defenders against more than a thousand Demon Cultivators, including three Thirteenth Realm fighters.
  • Han Yu told the defenders to hold the walls and not pursue, but a young warrior chased the enemy and was killed in an ambush.
  • After the outer formation shattered, Han Yu blocked the breach and learned the attack was meant to lure Su Yueli away from other battlefronts.
  • Han Yu forbade anyone from asking Su Yueli for aid and fought on until the enemy leader and two other Thirteenth Realm cultivators overwhelmed her.
  • Han Yu sacrificed herself to maim the enemy leader, while the defending general and fewer than three hundred warriors continued to hold the breach.
  • A messenger finally crushed Han Yu's Message Jade Talisman before dying, and Su Yueli's aura appeared on it.

Ch. 260Master, your disciple has grown old

Su Yueli arrived at Great Li Pass in time to save Han Yu and capture the Demon Cultivators, but the battle left most of the defenders dead. While probing a captive’s memories for Motian Xing’s location, she heard Shen Huai'an conspiring with him and was left questioning whose side he was truly on.

  • Su Yueli reached Great Li Pass as its formation fell, rescued the gravely wounded Han Yu, and defeated the attackers without killing their leader.
  • Su Yueli sealed the fleeing Thirteenth Realm Demon Cultivators, and the defenders captured the surviving enemies, though fewer than thirty percent of the garrison had survived.
  • After dawn, Han Yu apologized to Su Yueli for not calling for help and explained that she had stayed to defend the people at the pass.
  • Su Yueli searched a captive’s memories and saw Motian Xing gathering strength from deaths across the four dynasties.
  • Su Yueli heard Shen Huai'an explain that forcing her to choose between saving people and protecting Han Yu would keep her from finding them, but the captive’s soul restriction destroyed the memory before she could see who was speaking.

Ch. 261The Voice of an Old Friend

Su Yueli learned from a Demon Cultivator’s memories that Shen Huai'an’s Divine Soul might still be resisting Motian Xing, leaving her unsure whether she could fight without killing him. When Motian Xing lured her to Burial Wind Valley, she chose to go and confirm whether her old friend was alive.

  • Su Yueli searched a Demon Cultivator’s shattered memories and saw Shen Huai'an briefly struggle against Motian Xing for control of his body.
  • Su Yueli told the recovering Han Yu that Shen Huai'an might still be alive, but she could not tell whether he was resisting Motian Xing or helping him.
  • The Demon Cultivator died when the dungeon’s restrictions erupted, and Motian Xing left a message directing Su Yueli to Burial Wind Valley if she wanted to save Shen Huai'an.
  • Han Yu warned Su Yueli that the invitation was a trap, but Su Yueli said she had to confirm whether her old friend was alive and departed for Burial Wind Valley.
  • Su Yueli ordered Han Yu to stay and recover, while Han Yu questioned whether Shen Huai'an truly stood with Motian Xing.

Ch. 262One Step Slow, Every Step Slow

Su Yueli pursued Motian Xing through a series of false leads while repeatedly leaving to stop wars and protect civilians, allowing him to stay ahead and exploit her concern for Shen Huai'an. After Little Black pointed out that the clues could be fabricated, Han Yu summoned her back over unusual movements at the borders, and Su Yueli insisted she would find Shen Huai'an.

  • Su Yueli found Motian Xing's abandoned hiding place, heard his recording taunt her, and pursued one of six identical Demon Qi traces north.
  • Su Yueli lost Motian Xing in a city when she avoided attacking among civilians, then learned that wars were flaring at multiple dynastic borders.
  • Su Yueli stopped two Fourteenth Realm experts from endangering evacuating civilians, but arrived in Beihe Prefecture after Motian Xing had destroyed its teleportation formations.
  • For several days, Su Yueli chased four more hiding-place clues while conflicts spread whenever she left the center of the continent.
  • Little Black told Su Yueli that Motian Xing could plant Shen Huai'an's aura and belongings to lure her away, and Su Yueli admitted she still had to pursue any clue that might be real.
  • Han Yu reported unusual movements at the dynastic borders, and Su Yueli left the underground palace saying she would find Shen Huai'an.

Ch. 263Don't Let Him Disturb Your State of Mind

Su Yueli followed Motian Xing’s trail to an abandoned city and found evidence that Shen Huai'an had briefly regained control of his body. Shen Huai'an left her a clue to the Sunset Immortal-Burial Pit, and Su Yueli chose to pursue it despite the worsening war.

  • Han Yu warned Su Yueli that Motian Xing was exploiting her concern for Shen Huai'an, but Su Yueli refused to decide what she would do if she had to kill him.
  • Little Black detected Motian Xing’s aura in the Old City, where two consciousnesses had fought over the body, and Su Yueli went there to investigate.
  • Su Yueli and Little Black found demonic cultivators killed by Shen Huai'an, along with signs that he had resisted Motian Xing and briefly controlled the body.
  • Su Yueli discovered Shen Huai'an’s blood-written clue, “Sunset,” and identified it as the Sunset Immortal-Burial Pit.
  • With the war still expanding, Su Yueli sent the location to Han Yu and left with Little Black for the forbidden zone.

Ch. 264Sunset Immortal-Burial Pit

Su Yueli found Motian Xing’s death-qi cultivation site and discovered that destroying it could not stop the power from flowing to him. Shen Huai'an’s lingering projection revealed that their souls could no longer be separated and urged her to kill Motian Xing even if it meant his own death; Su Yueli set out for the northeastern battlefield where Motian Xing was likely hiding.

  • Su Yueli and Little Black found the bone platform and twelve pillars where Motian Xing had gathered death qi and resentment to heal and prepare to reach the Fifteenth Realm.
  • Su Yueli destroyed the platform and pillars, but the death qi redirected toward the northeastern battlefield because Motian Xing had carved the formation into his Divine Soul.
  • Little Black found Shen Huai'an’s faint divine sense beneath the ruins, and Su Yueli summoned his fading projection.
  • Shen Huai'an told Su Yueli that Motian Xing had not completed the possession and that their Divine Souls could no longer be separated, so killing Motian Xing would kill him too.
  • After Shen Huai'an urged her not to hesitate, Su Yueli learned that Great Xun and Great Qian were reinforcing the northeastern battlefield and headed there to find Motian Xing.

Ch. 265Total War

Su Yueli tried to stop the four dynasties from fighting after forged intelligence turned them against one another, but the war spread beyond her control. As armies and sects slaughtered each other, Motian Xing absorbed the deathly energy and began ascending toward the Fifteenth Realm.

  • Secret reports convinced Great Xun, Great Qian, Great Chu, and Great Yan that the other dynasties planned to attack them, prompting each to mobilize and strike first.
  • Great Xun and Great Qian launched a full-scale war, while Great Chu and Great Yan also began fighting and sects across the continent attacked one another.
  • Su Yueli reached the Great Xun–Great Qian battlefield and told the commanders that Motian Xing was absorbing the deathly energy, but neither side trusted the other enough to withdraw.
  • Messages informed Su Yueli that Great Chu and Great Yan were fighting decisively, an unidentified army had appeared at the Great Li border, and every dynasty was preparing for full-scale war.
  • Su Yueli shattered several formations but could not stop millions of cultivators from advancing, and Motian Xing's aura began climbing toward the Fifteenth Realm.

Ch. 266Eight Dynasties Enter the Fray

As the Eight Dynasties descended into war, Su Yueli tried to stop the fighting while searching for Motian Xing, whose Demon Path agents were fueling the chaos. She left Great Zhou and Great Chu under a fragile truce to answer a crisis at Great Li, but both armies resumed their advance after receiving forged reports, as a black-clad cultivator continued provoking the dynasties.

  • Su Yueli destroyed a ruined qi-drawing Formation but could not locate Motian Xing, while Little Black explained that battlefield resentment concealed his aura.
  • Great Wei, Great Zhou, Great Liang, and Great Li entered the spreading wars, drawing sects, clans, and local armies into the conflict and multiplying the deaths.
  • After finding Demon Qi in the collapsed mine tunnel, Su Yueli broke Great Zhou and Great Chu's battle formations and ordered both armies to withdraw three hundred miles until she returned.
  • Han Yu warned Su Yueli that Great Liang threatened Great Li and that Great Li's generals were preparing to strike, so Su Yueli left to stop them.
  • A false Great Chu mark on a Great Zhou grain convoy and a report of a planned Great Zhou attack drove both armies back toward the mining area after Su Yueli departed.
  • A black-clad cultivator reported that Great Zhou and Great Chu had moved, and an unseen voice ordered him to deepen the chaos until no one could distinguish allies from enemies.

Ch. 267Kill Everyone Who Wants to End the War

Su Yueli uncovered the Demon Path’s role in assassinations that were driving the Eight Dynasties toward war and arranged peace talks at Sky Evolution Mountain. As representatives prepared to meet, Motian Xing ordered his followers to kill two people whose deaths would reignite suspicion.

  • Han Yu refused to let Great Li attack first, and Su Yueli arrived to demand that Great Liang withdraw while she investigated its claims.
  • After a Great Liang Peace Faction general was assassinated and framed on Great Li, loyalists turned back toward the border, while further killings and fabricated evidence silenced peace advocates across the Eight Dynasties.
  • Su Yueli found Demon Qi in the Great Liang general’s wound and warned the army that Motian Xing was growing stronger through war, but the commander’s officers resisted withdrawing.
  • When Han Yu reported that Great Yan had proposed peace talks, Su Yueli agreed to summon the rulers of all Eight Dynasties to Sky Evolution Mountain in seven days and ordered their armies to hold position.
  • Motian Xing decided not to assassinate Su Yueli and ordered the deaths of two people whose loss would disrupt the peace talks.

Ch. 268Eight Dynasties at the Negotiating Table

Su Yueli brought the Eight Dynasties to a ceasefire agreement, but two deputies were murdered that night using techniques that implicated rival dynasties. The representatives accused each other and challenged Su Yueli to explain how a killer had bypassed her formations.

  • Su Yueli presented evidence that the Demon Path had fueled much of the conflict and proposed a staged troop withdrawal while disputed cities and Spiritual Veins remained sealed.
  • All Eight Dynasties swore on their Divine Souls to cease fighting, exchange prisoners, and begin withdrawing troops the next day.
  • Su Yueli asked Han Yu and Little Black to inspect the attendants while she watched the mountain with her divine sense.
  • At midnight, the Great Xun King Who Guards the Nation's Deputy Envoy was found murdered with traces of Great Qian's technique, and Great Qian's deputy general was killed with Great Xun's Imperial Secret Art.
  • The Great Xun King Who Guards the Nation and the Great Qian Commander-in-Chief accused each other's sides, while Su Yueli realized Motian Xing had targeted the negotiations and intended to implicate her.

Ch. 269Even You Can't Be Trusted

After two Deputy Envoys died at Sky Evolution Mountain, the Eight Dynasties’ representatives accused Su Yueli of manipulating the war, while she investigated the killings. She discovered Motian Xing’s Demon Marks had controlled the victims, but the representatives rejected the evidence and Su Yueli ended the talks.

  • Su Yueli ordered Sky Evolution Mountain sealed, but the representatives of the Eight Dynasties suspected her after two Deputy Envoys were found dead.
  • The Great Zhou Ancestor, the Great Chu Representative, and the Great Yan Representative questioned Su Yueli’s role in the deaths and the evidence against Motian Xing, while Han Yu defended her.
  • The Great Xun and Great Qian delegations renewed their confrontation, and Su Yueli used her power to stop them and prevent anyone from leaving.
  • Su Yueli examined the bodies and found matching Demon Marks that had controlled the victims and destroyed their Divine Souls.
  • Su Yueli forced a Demon Mark from a corpse and revealed Motian Xing’s aura, but the Great Qian Commander-in-Chief dismissed the evidence as possibly planted.
  • Su Yueli declared the talks over after the representatives refused to accept her findings.

Ch. 270The Truth No Longer Mattered

After the peace talks collapsed, Su Yueli traced Motian Xing’s Demon Marks to a network of agents across the eight dynasties and exposed their role in fueling the war. The truth became public, but Great Xun and Great Qian resumed fighting over their losses and captured territory.

  • Su Yueli ended the talks, removed the Formation around Sky Evolution Mountain, and followed a Demon Mark to a county town.
  • Su Yueli rescued a child bearing a Demon Mark and discovered maps and an assassination list in a hidden passage beneath the County Office.
  • Su Yueli captured a clerk linked to the network and sent the marked locations to Han Yu and her allies for raids.
  • Han Yu’s forces uncovered imprisoned cultivators in Great Li, while Su Yueli captured a Great Xun Attendant who had served Motian Xing for over two hundred years.
  • Su Yueli destroyed twenty-seven sites and exposed evidence that Demon Path agents had staged attacks and manipulated all eight dynasties.
  • Great Xun and Great Qian resumed war over seized cities and Spirit Ore mines, as a Great Xun commander rejected a ceasefire proposal.

Ch. 271Hundreds of Thousands of Departed Souls, All Gather Within Me

Su Yueli learned that the Eight Dynasties’ war had continued despite the truth about Motian Xing, and she went to the Red Sand Plains as he began absorbing the battlefield’s deathly energy. She faced Motian Xing in Shen Huai'an’s body, but he used their joined souls and her memories of Shen Huai'an to prevent her from striking as the armies resumed fighting.

  • Han Yu reported that none of the dynasties had agreed to a ceasefire, and Su Yueli concluded that the war continued because its participants chose to fight.
  • Reports showed the Eight Dynasties mobilizing their forces for decisive battles, and Su Yueli sensed that Motian Xing was waiting at the Red Sand Plains.
  • The Great Xun and Great Qian armies clashed, while Motian Xing absorbed the deathly energy rising from the battlefield.
  • Su Yueli confronted Motian Xing, who admitted he had used Shen Huai'an’s memories and warned that killing him would also kill Shen Huai'an.
  • When the armies resumed their clash, Su Yueli turned to the battlefield and ordered everyone to stop.

Ch. 272The taste

Su Yueli tried to stop the armies and confront Motian Xing, but he used Shen Huai'an’s body and the battlefield’s deaths to strengthen himself. The armies finally realized the war was helping Motian Xing approach the Fifteenth Realm, while Su Yueli stood wounded before his breakthrough.

  • Su Yueli suppressed the armies, but their commanders and Demon Path agents blamed her for not killing Motian Xing, who briefly let Shen Huai'an speak to her.
  • Motian Xing triggered explosions among both armies, shattering formations and turning the truce back into fighting.
  • Motian Xing forced Su Yueli to block his attack on the troops, then absorbed the resentment and divine souls of hundreds of thousands of dead cultivators.
  • Su Yueli tried to pull Motian Xing from the death-energy vortex, but the dead people's resentment distracted her and he struck her, drawing blood.
  • The armies stopped fighting as Motian Xing’s power surged toward the Fifteenth Realm, and he taunted Su Yueli about the millions killed in the Eight Dynasties’ war.

Ch. 273Finally Caught Him

Su Yueli began fighting Motian Xing in earnest while Han Yu led the armies away from the Red Sand Plains. Motian Xing used the dead to attack the retreating troops, but Su Yueli freed hundreds of thousands of Divine Souls from his control.

  • Motian Xing urged the armies of Great Xun and Great Qian to keep killing so he could absorb their resentment, and both commanders hesitated to continue the battle.
  • Su Yueli sent Han Yu and Little Black away from the fight, and Han Yu ordered the armies to retreat to their borders.
  • Su Yueli attacked Motian Xing and drove him into a crater, but he healed with the power he had absorbed from the dead.
  • Motian Xing controlled Divine Souls to shield himself and unleash deathly energy at the retreating armies, while Han Yu protected the troops and Little Black swallowed some of the energy.
  • Su Yueli froze the spiritual energy across the Red Sand Plains and broke Motian Xing's control over hundreds of thousands of Divine Souls.

Ch. 274One Punch Away

Su Yueli severed Motian Xing’s link to the dead and chased him from the Red Sand Plains, where the armies of Great Xun and Great Qian withdrew. After Shen Huai'an revealed that Demon Seeds threatened three cities, Su Yueli let Motian Xing go so she could save their inhabitants.

  • Su Yueli severed Motian Xing’s connection to the lingering souls, punched through his abdomen, and pursued him after he fled northeast.
  • The commanders of Great Xun and Great Qian ordered their armies to withdraw from the Red Sand Plains as Su Yueli and Motian Xing left.
  • Motian Xing attacked a village to slow Su Yueli, but she protected the villagers and caught up with him, breaking his arm and gravely wounding him.
  • Shen Huai'an briefly regained control and warned Su Yueli that Motian Xing had buried Demon Seeds in three cities southeast of them.
  • Motian Xing told Su Yueli the Demon Seeds would erupt after he left, and black qi began spreading through the three cities, infecting their inhabitants.
  • Su Yueli released Motian Xing and turned toward the cities, choosing to save the living people rather than finish him off.

Ch. 275The People? They Mean Nothing to Me Now. I Only Want You Dead!

Su Yueli abandoned her chance to pursue Motian Xing and raced to save three cities from Demon Seeds, accepting that she could not save everyone. After Motian Xing escaped, she decided that she would still protect civilians when she could, but resolved to kill him even if millions died in the process.

  • Motian Xing intensified the Demon Seeds as Su Yueli left him behind and rushed to the three cities.
  • Su Yueli cleansed the first city’s underground waterways of Demon Qi, extracted its Demon Seed, and destroyed it.
  • Su Yueli rescued the surviving people in the second city and destroyed the Demon Seed beneath its granary, though more than a thousand people had already died.
  • Su Yueli reached the third city, where the Demon Seed had spread corruption through the City-Guarding Formation, and saved the survivors while destroying it.
  • Motian Xing escaped while Su Yueli was saving the third city, and she told Han Yu that she did not regret her choice.
  • As survivors searched for the dead and missing, Su Yueli concluded that she would kill Motian Xing even if millions of civilians perished.
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