Recaps

Su Yueli stepped in when Pang Hu attacked Lin Ye, revealing overwhelming strength by driving the Fourth Realm martial artist out of the inn. Pang Hu recovered from his shock and fixed his attention on her, while the onlookers feared the Pang Family would retaliate.

• Lin Ye challenged Pang Hu after seeing him bully a young woman, but Pang Hu blocked his saber strike and crushed him with a punch.
• Pang Hu noticed Su Yueli at the stairway and moved to claim her, while Lin Ye clung to his leg and urged her to run.
• As Pang Hu swung to kill Lin Ye, Su Yueli caught his fist and sent him flying through the inn's front doors.
• The onlookers warned that the Pang Family, led by Eighth Realm grandmaster Pang Jinbiao, would take revenge on Su Yueli.
• Pang Hu steadied himself, shook off his shock, and stared at Su Yueli with a savage grin.

Su Yueli killed Pang Hu after he attacked her from behind, leaving her in a deadly feud with the powerful Pang Family. She and Lin Ye reached the Great Li Imperial City and registered for the Martial Dao Tournament, where they were told to return for preliminary selection in three days.

• Su Yueli crippled Pang Hu's right arm, then killed him with a punch when he tried to stab her from behind.
• Lin Ye offered to take the blame for Pang Hu's death, but Su Yueli refused and chose to continue to the Imperial City and the tournament.
• Su Yueli and Lin Ye left Lingshui City the next morning and traveled for five days to reach the Great Li Imperial City.
• Su Yueli and Lin Ye crossed the bustling Imperial City and arrived at the Imperial Martial Arena to register for the Great Li Martial Dao Tournament.
• Lin Ye and Su Yueli received numbered wooden plaques and were instructed to return at the hour of the dragon in three days for the preliminary selection.

Su Yueli and Lin Ye entered the Great Li Imperial City as the Pang Family began hunting them for killing Pang Jinbiao’s son. Su Yueli tried to break through to the Fifth Realm overnight but failed, leaving her still vulnerable as the tournament approached.

• Su Yueli spotted an imposing young man guarded by two dangerous elders at the Imperial Martial Arena, then left with Lin Ye to find lodging before the tournament began in three days.
• Pang Jinbiao learned that Su Yueli and Lin Ye had come to the imperial city and ordered the Pang Family’s informants to search the major inns and capture them.
• Pang Jinbiao refused to summon his eldest son, Pang Xuan, who was cultivating with the Blood Fiend Sect, and demanded that Su Yueli be found within three days.
• Su Yueli and Lin Ye rented a secluded courtyard, where Su Yueli considered the city’s strict order a temporary safeguard against the Pang Family.
• Su Yueli practiced through the night, trying to reach the Fifth Realm of Martial Awakening, but could not break through before dawn, when someone knocked at her door.

Su Yueli and Lin Ye surveyed Great Li Imperial City’s factions and searched for a way to help her break through to the Fifth Realm. They discovered refined Third-Realm demon beast essence blood at Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, and Su Yueli asked the shopkeeper its price.

• Lin Ye gave Su Yueli a map of Great Li’s four leading Martial Dao lineages and explained that the Pang and Lin Lineages opposed the Yun and Chu Lineages.
• Su Yueli teased Lin Ye about possibly being related to the Lin Lineage, and he denied it.
• Su Yueli and Lin Ye explored the outer city while she searched for pills or other resources that could help her advance.
• At Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, the shopkeeper showed Su Yueli refined essence blood from Third-Realm demon beasts and described its benefits to martial artists.
• Su Yueli asked the shopkeeper how much the essence blood cost.

Su Yueli bought Demon Beast Blood Essence and used it to break through to the Fifth Realm, Martial Awakening. As she stabilized her cultivation, two Fifth Realm assassins sent by the Pang Family infiltrated the inn courtyard to kill her and Lin Ye.

• Su Yueli paid one thousand taels for a bottle of Demon Beast Blood Essence at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion and left Lin Ye behind to explore the market alone.
• Su Yueli drank the essence and used Lu Chen's breathing rhythm to break through the barrier into the Fifth Realm, Martial Awakening.
• Two black-clad Fifth Realm martial artists sent by the Pang Family confirmed Su Yueli's location and planned to kill her and Lin Ye quickly.
• The assassins vaulted over the courtyard wall and moved toward their targets as Su Yueli sensed killing intent and turned toward the window.

Su Yueli fought off a Pang Family assassination attempt after stabilizing her Martial Awakening at the Fifth Realm, killing one attacker and forcing another to flee. The City Guards investigated the disturbance, and a mysterious young man who sensed Su Yueli’s strength left intrigued by the coming Martial Dao Tournament.

• Su Yueli hid as a Fifth Realm attacker entered her room, then killed him with the Fourth Form of River Severing.
• A second Fifth Realm attacker rushed in, grabbed his companion’s corpse, and escaped through the window when he realized Su Yueli had killed him.
• The City Guards arrived, and Su Yueli told them that thieves had attacked her and fled without mentioning the dead attacker.
• Lin Ye returned safely, and Su Yueli told him that an assassin had gone to his room while he was wandering outside.
• A young man in the crowd sensed Su Yueli’s strength and left, expecting the Martial Dao Tournament to be difficult to win.

Su Yueli arrived at Great Li’s Martial Dao Tournament, where she learned the champion would receive an earth-grade weapon and an imperial promise. After watching the opening matches, she stepped onto Arena Two for her first bout.

• Pang Jinbiao ordered his people to arrange for Su Yueli to be killed openly in the tournament arena rather than risk another assassination in the guarded Imperial City.
• Su Yueli stabilized her Fifth Realm cultivation while the inn remained peaceful, then traveled with Lin Ye to the tournament.
• Su Yueli spotted Pang Jinbiao among the Four Great Lineages and noticed a mysterious young man near the imperial prince whose strength she could not sense.
• The referee announced the tournament rules and prizes, including an earth-grade weapon and an imperial promise for the champion.
• Su Yueli drew Group Twenty-One and identified her opponent as Chen Tie, while Lin Ye drew Group Thirty-Five.
• After watching Yun He defeat a Third Realm opponent with one strike, Su Yueli handed Lin Ye her wine gourd and landed on Arena Two for her match.

Su Yueli defeated Chen Tie with one move and Lin Ye won his first-round match. The Pang Family arranged for Pang Lei to face Su Yueli in the next round, and she prepared to fight rather than forfeit.

• Pang Jinbiao ordered an official to arrange for Pang Lei to face Su Yueli and kill her in the next round.
• Zhao Yan noticed Su Yueli, while Gu Chen told him she had killed a Fifth Realm death warrior.
• Su Yueli knocked Chen Tie out of the arena with a single palm strike.
• Lin Ye won his match with three saber strikes, and the first round of preliminaries ended.
• Su Yueli drew Group Forty-Three and saw that her opponent was Pang Lei of the Pang Family.
• Lin Ye suggested forfeiting, but Su Yueli refused and resolved to face Pang Lei.

Lin Ye narrowly advanced before Su Yueli faced Pang Lei, whom the Pang Family had secretly equipped with a Bloodburst Pill to kill her. Su Yueli defeated Pang Lei with one punch before he could take the pill, leaving the crowd and Pang Jinbiao stunned.

• Lin Ye endured a brutal fight and advanced by knocking his Third Realm Peak opponent off the arena.
• Lin Ye warned Su Yueli about the Pang Family's trap and urged her to concede if she was in danger, but she went to fight Pang Lei.
• Pang Jinbiao and a gray-robed elder revealed that Pang Lei carried a Bloodburst Pill intended to boost his strength and help him kill Su Yueli.
• Pang Lei threatened Su Yueli, while she chose to use the second form of River Severing rather than risk killing him with the fourth form.
• Su Yueli struck Pang Lei once and sent him flying off the arena before he could take the Bloodburst Pill.
• Su Yueli told the injured Pang Lei that he would already be dead if the match had been a fight to the death.

Su Yueli advanced through the preliminary selection and resolved to win the Martial Dao Tournament so she could use the Great Li Imperial Family’s favor to protect herself from the Pang Family. The Top 100 Finals began the next morning, and she drew Group Three.

• Zhao Yan, Gu Chen, and the lineage leaders recognized Su Yueli’s Fifth Realm strength after she defeated Pang Lei, while Lin Ye narrowly advanced through his later matches.
• Su Yueli won her remaining preliminary matches easily, and the final hundred contestants were selected by sunset.
• Yun He and Chu Feng approached Su Yueli, then inferred that she had killed Pang Hu; Pang Jinbiao left the arena after the two mocked him.
• Su Yueli concluded that she needed to win the tournament’s top prize to gain the Imperial Family’s favor and prevent the Pang Family from pursuing her.
• Two Pang Family men watched Su Yueli’s courtyard overnight but did not attack, and she trained until morning.
• Su Yueli and Lin Ye arrived for the Top 100 Finals, where Su Yueli drew Group Three.

Su Yueli watched Pang Fei severely injure Lin Ye after the Pang Family arranged for him to replace Lin Ye’s original opponent, then received a Spring Return Pill from the Fourth Prince to keep Lin Ye alive. Su Yueli was matched against Pang Fei in the next round, unaware that he had secretly prepared to unleash a Bloodburst Pill.

• Su Yueli won her match after her Third Realm opponent sensed her Fifth Realm Qi and Blood and conceded.
• The Pang Family substituted Pang Fei, a Mid Fourth Realm fighter, for Lin Ye’s scheduled opponent, and Pang Fei beat Lin Ye until Su Yueli caught him as he fell from the arena.
• The Fourth Prince sent Lin Ye a Spring Return Pill, which Su Yueli gave him to stabilize his breathing.
• Su Yueli and Pang Fei were matched against each other in the next round.
• Pang Fei secretly prepared to release the suppressed effects of a Bloodburst Pill as soon as the match began.

Su Yueli defeated Pang Fei and Chu Feng to win the Great Li Martial Dao Tournament. The chapter ended with the referee announcing her rewards: a low-grade Earth Tier weapon and an unconditional promise from the imperial family.

• Pang Fei took a Bloodburst Pill and used the Pang Family's Blood Fiend Mountain-Shattering Fist, but Su Yueli broke his arm and defeated him with River Severing.
• Pang Jinbiao erupted in anger, while the Lin Lineage patriarch ordered his people not to interfere with Su Yueli.
• Chu Feng faced Su Yueli in the final match and fought hard, but admitted defeat after she stopped her punch inches from his face.
• The referee declared Su Yueli the Great Li Martial Dao Tournament champion and announced her rewards.

After winning the Martial Dao Tournament, Su Yueli went to the Imperial Palace to claim her rewards and weighed how to deal with the Pang Family. She requested a protected place to cultivate rather than immediate mediation or resources, and Zhao Yan agreed to grant her request.

• Su Yueli claimed the tournament's Purple-Gold Wooden Token and helped the injured Lin Ye leave the arena with her.
• Su Yueli returned to the inn, left Lin Ye in an attendant's care, and went to the Imperial Palace to collect her rewards.
• Zhao Yan offered Su Yueli a low-grade earth-rank weapon and invited her to name one request, provided it did not harm Great Li's interests.
• Su Yueli explained that the Pang Family would pursue her if she merely took cultivation resources, and asked for a secure place to grow stronger.
• Zhao Yan agreed to grant Su Yueli access to a special place suited to cultivation where no one would dare disturb her.

Su Yueli chose to enter the dangerous Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom Ruins to cultivate and selected a pair of powerful fist blades from the imperial armory. After warning Lin Ye to be careful as he prepared to return home, she left the inn and headed for the Imperial City gates.

• Su Yueli accepted Zhao Yan's offer to enter the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom Ruins, and Zhao Yan ordered someone to watch over the Pang Family until she departed.
• Su Yueli chose the high-grade Earth-rank Shadow Fist Blades and received the key and map to the ruins.
• Su Yueli returned to the inn, where Lin Ye told her he planned to leave for Lingshui City and train until he reached the Peak Fourth Realm.
• Su Yueli decided she had done all she could for Lin Ye and left the inn for the Imperial City gates, bound for the ruins.

Su Yueli escaped the Pang Family’s pursuit and entered the Azure Cloud Kingdom Ruins, where she chose to train cautiously in the outer region. After finding no remaining treasures, she continued practicing with her new fist blades.

• Pang Jinbiao ordered Seventh Elder to intercept and kill Su Yueli, but a golden-armored Inner Palace Guard blocked the road under the prince’s order.
• Seventh Elder turned back after the guard barred attacks within a hundred li of the Imperial City for three days.
• Su Yueli reached the ruins after a day and night of travel, unlocked the ancient stone gate with the bronze key, and entered alone.
• Su Yueli explored the quiet outer region, found a safe plaza, and practiced with her Shadow Fist Blades until her strikes grew more powerful.
• After several days of training and finding no valuable relics, Su Yueli avoided the dangerous inner region and returned to practicing in the plaza.

After five years in seclusion, Su Yueli reached the Sixth Realm and ventured into the ruins’ inner region to seek resources for further cultivation. She found and bound a Storage Pouch, but a savage beast’s roar sounded from deeper within the ancient palace.

• Su Yueli completed the fourth form of her master’s fist technique and advanced to the Sixth Realm after five years of cultivation.
• Fearing the Pang Family’s retaliation, Su Yueli decided to remain in the ruins until she became strong enough to defeat them.
• Su Yueli entered the ruins’ inner region and explored the remains of the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom’s royal palace.
• Su Yueli found a Storage Pouch, bound it with her blood, and began collecting valuables and intact weapons.
• A savage beast roared from deep within the palace, shaking the ruined hall.

Su Yueli fought and killed a Late First Realm Blood-Eyed Wolf, then drank its raw blood in hopes of strengthening herself. The blood’s energy erupted through her body, leaving her Qi and Blood surging out of control.

• Su Yueli faced the Blood-Eyed Wolf in the ruined hall and narrowly dodged its attack before striking its armored body with her Shadow Fist Blades.
• The wolf knocked Su Yueli into a wall and injured her, but she used her fully mastered Fourth Form, River Severing, to pierce its mouth and kill it.
• After assessing her injuries and thinking of the beast blood used by powerful families, Su Yueli decided to drink the wolf’s untreated blood.
• Su Yueli swallowed several mouthfuls and waited, but after several dozen breaths, boiling energy burst from her stomach and sent her Qi and Blood surging out of control.

Su Yueli endured the pain of absorbing a Blood-Eyed Wolf’s blood, then spent three years hunting demonic beasts until she advanced to the Seventh Realm. In the ruins’ core, she found the Azure Cloud Kingdom’s royal mausoleum and seized a jade stone containing its national fortune, attempting to activate it.

• Su Yueli endured the Blood-Eyed Wolf’s essence blood for more than two hours, strengthening her Qi and Blood and solidifying her Sixth Realm foundation.
• Su Yueli gathered the wolf’s blood, cooked its meat, and trained through the night while wondering how Tie Tu, Ling'er, and Lin Ye were doing.
• After three years of hunting First Realm demonic beasts, Su Yueli broke through to the Seventh Realm and decided to enter the ruins’ black-misted core region.
• Su Yueli discovered the Azure Cloud Kingdom’s royal mausoleum and found a silk page describing a National Fortune Jade that held eighty percent of the fallen kingdom’s remaining national fortune.
• Su Yueli took the jade stone and poured her Qi and Blood into it to activate its power.

Su Yueli entered the National Fortune Jade’s inner world, where a tiny spirit beast gave up its body to become the weapon spirit of her Shadow Fist Blade. After naming the upgraded Heaven Tier weapon Little Black, she returned to the Imperial Mausoleum and went into its black mist to seek stronger demonic beasts.

• Su Yueli met a palm-sized spirit beast with an ancient bloodthirsty bloodline inside the jade and refused to take it outside, fearing she could not protect it.
• The spirit beast transformed into black light and entered Su Yueli’s Shadow Fist Blade, raising it from Upper-Grade Earth Tier to Lower-Grade Heaven Tier and granting it the ability to grow stronger through killing.
• Su Yueli returned to the Imperial Mausoleum as the National Fortune Jade crumbled to dust, and she learned the creature’s grand title before naming it Little Black.
• Su Yueli judged that her Seventh Realm strength and Little Black were not enough to defeat the Pang Family, then plunged into the mausoleum’s black mist to hunt stronger demonic beasts.

Su Yueli fought and killed an Early Second Realm Armored Crocodile Tiger, then spent decades cultivating with Little Black in the Imperial Mausoleum. After reaching the Martial God Realm and exhausting the mausoleum’s demon beasts, she left the forbidden land to face the Pang Family.

• Su Yueli and Little Black killed the Armored Crocodile Tiger, with Little Black devouring part of the beast’s demon blood before reluctantly leaving the rest for her.
• Su Yueli and Little Black spent thirty years repeatedly hunting Second Realm demon beasts, fighting them, and using their blood to heal and cultivate.
• Su Yueli reached the Tenth Realm of Martial Dao, the Martial God Realm, but found that she could not advance further without spiritual roots.
• Little Black evolved into a Heaven-Tier Mid-Grade weapon after devouring demon blood essence for decades.
• After exterminating all the Second Realm demon beasts in the ruins, Su Yueli left the forbidden land, resolving to confront the Pang Family.

After emerging from thirty-five years of seclusion, Su Yueli waited at the Azure Cloud Ruins entrance to settle her grudge with the Pang Family. Pang Jinbiao arrived with three Seventh Realm elders, discovered that she had not aged, and suspected the ruins held a secret to immortality.

• Su Yueli left the Azure Cloud Ruins and chose to wait there rather than risk leading Pang Family informants to Tie Tu and Ling'er.
• A shadow guard reported Su Yueli's return to Pang Jinbiao, who learned that she still looked twenty and ordered three elders to accompany him.
• Su Yueli practiced her fist art at the ruins entrance through a day and night as she waited for her enemies.
• Pang Jinbiao and the three Seventh Realm elders confronted Su Yueli, and Pang Jinbiao confirmed she had no signs of being a cultivator.
• Pang Jinbiao concluded that the ruins might contain an opportunity to halt aging and resolved to capture Su Yueli to learn its secret.

Su Yueli killed Pang Jinbiao and four Seventh Realm experts, revealing herself as a Tenth Realm Martial God, then set out for Azure Province City. A black-robed immortal cultivator reported her strength and Pang Jinbiao’s death to Fourth Prince Zhao Yan.

• Pang Jinbiao offered to drop the Pang Family’s grudges in exchange for Su Yueli’s secret, but she mocked him and refused.
• Su Yueli killed four Seventh Realm experts with one punch, then shattered Pang Jinbiao’s Heaven-Tier saber and killed him as he tried to flee.
• Little Black devoured the Qi and Blood of Pang Jinbiao and the four elders, strengthening its Heaven-Tier Mid-Grade foundation.
• Su Yueli left the ruins and headed for Azure Province City, while a hidden black-robed guard witnessed the battle and flew to the Great Li Imperial City.
• The black-robed guard told Fourth Prince Zhao Yan that Su Yueli had survived the Azure Cloud Ruins and killed Ninth Realm Pang Jinbiao.

Su Yueli returned to Azure Province City after thirty-five years and found that the Iron Clan Martial Hall had become a distillery. She reunited with the aged Tie Ling'er, while Zhao Yan ordered his shadow guards to watch Su Yueli from afar.

• Zhao Yan learned that Su Yueli had survived, remained unchanged in appearance, and destroyed the Pang Family, so he ordered his shadow guards to monitor her without confronting her.
• Su Yueli traveled back to Azure Province City and found that the roads and towns along her old route had changed greatly.
• Su Yueli discovered that the Iron Clan Martial Hall had become Iron's Distillery and learned that Tie Tu had died four years earlier.
• Su Yueli entered the inner courtyard and saw the aged Tie Ling'er, who recognized her and tearfully called her Sister Yueli.

Su Yueli reunited with Tie Ling'er after thirty-five years, learning how her disappearance had affected Tie Ling'er and her father, Tie Tu. After visiting Tie Tu's grave, Su Yueli admitted she would soon leave again to protect Tie Ling'er from the dangers pursuing her, and the two prepared to spend one last night together.

• Tie Ling'er wept in Su Yueli's arms and told her that Tie Tu had died four years earlier after spending years worrying about her and searching for her.
• Su Yueli explained how she had been forced into the Azure Cloud Ruins and endured thirty-five years there before becoming a Tenth Realm Martial God.
• Su Yueli and Tie Ling'er visited Tie Tu's grave, where Su Yueli poured out liquor and told him she could now protect herself.
• On the way back, Tie Ling'er said she had chosen to remain unmarried, while Su Yueli rejected the idea of starting a family.
• Tie Ling'er showed Su Yueli the room she had kept clean for her, and Su Yueli admitted she would soon leave to keep danger away from Azure Province City.
• Tie Ling'er asked to sleep beside Su Yueli as they had thirty-five years earlier, and Su Yueli agreed.

After parting from Tie Ling'er, Su Yueli traveled toward the Azure Moon Sect to investigate Lu Chen’s death and seek a path beyond the Tenth Realm. In Sunset Glow City, she learned of a wounded Fourth-Realm Monster Beast in Black Wind Valley and raced there to claim its blood or materials.

• Su Yueli said farewell to Tie Ling'er and left Azure Province City, determined to grow stronger and investigate whether Shen Huai'an had caused Lu Chen’s death.
• After three days of travel, Su Yueli stopped at an inn in Sunset Glow City and overheard two Azure Moon Sect cultivators discussing a bounty for a wounded Fourth-Realm Monster Beast in Black Wind Valley.
• The cultivators dismissed Su Yueli as a mortal martial artist, and she silently scorned their arrogance.
• Su Yueli saw the monster’s essence blood and materials as a chance to break through the Tenth Realm and followed the cultivators toward Black Wind Valley.