Recaps

Su Yueli destroyed the Zhao Household’s forces, but Han Zhen died from his wounds after naming Han Qingling the new head of the Han Household. As Su Yueli prepared to leave, Han Yu knelt and begged her to accept her as a disciple.

• Su Yueli killed the Zhao Household head, and the Han Household survivors killed the fleeing Zhao elites, wiping out the Zhao Household of Luochuan City.
• Han Zhen named Han Qingling the new head and entrusted Han Changqing with assisting and protecting her before dying.
• Han Qingling ordered the Zhao Household’s residences and shops sealed and demanded that its remaining bloodline be eliminated.
• Su Yueli said she was leaving and explained that she had helped because of Han Qingling’s earlier kindness on the official road.
• Han Yu knelt before Su Yueli and begged her to take her as a disciple, while Han Qingling tried to stop her and apologized.

Han Yu begged Su Yueli to take her as a disciple, determined to gain the strength to protect herself and the Han Household. After Han Yu survived Su Yueli’s brutal three-day trial, Su Yueli accepted her as a disciple.

• Han Yu refused Su Yueli’s advice to live peacefully and pleaded to become her disciple, explaining that she could no longer bear to watch loved ones die powerless.
• Su Yueli challenged Han Yu to carry a thousand-catty stone lion to the summit of the Spine Ridge Mountains within three days without using her Qi and Blood.
• Han Yu sealed her meridians and began carrying the stone lion, while Han Qingling tried unsuccessfully to stop her.
• Over three days, Su Yueli watched Han Yu endure repeated falls, severe injuries, rain, and exhaustion as she dragged the stone lion up the mountain.
• At dusk on the third day, Han Yu pushed the stone lion onto the summit, and Su Yueli acknowledged her resolve.
• Han Yu knelt before Su Yueli and declared herself her disciple.

After Han Yu recovered from her injuries, Su Yueli took her on as a disciple and began teaching her the Heaven-Swallowing Breath-Concealing Formula. They left Luochuan City to seek a rare medicinal ingredient in the Great Gan Dynasty, while Su Yueli reflected on her deceased master and parents.

• Han Yu woke in the Han Residence, reunited with Han Qingling, and declared that Su Yueli had accepted her as a disciple.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu to leave with her, and Han Yu discovered that her wounds and damaged meridians had healed.
• Han Qingling and the Han Household saw Han Yu and Su Yueli off, reassured that Su Yueli's power would protect the clan.
• Su Yueli and Han Yu set out for the Great Gan Dynasty to obtain Nine-Leaf Nirvana Ice Marrow.
• At a roadside inn, Su Yueli taught Han Yu the Heaven-Swallowing Breath-Concealing Formula, then remembered her late master, Lu Chen, and her parents.

Han Yu’s cultivation advanced under Su Yueli’s instruction as the two traveled to Zhenyuan City at the border of the Great Li and Great Qian dynasties. After entering the Great Qian Dynasty, they began seeking information about an eighth-grade herb that might be guarded by a Tenth Realm demonic beast or stronger.

• Han Yu’s cultivation loosened the barrier to the Third Realm, and she secretly climbed into bed beside the sleeping Su Yueli.
• Su Yueli woke to find Han Yu clinging to her, scolded her for sleeping in her bed, and hurried away with blushing ears.
• Su Yueli and Han Yu traveled north for eight days while Su Yueli taught Han Yu to refine her blood and qi and comprehend spiritual qi.
• Su Yueli paid a guard at Zhenyuan City’s gate and entered the Great Qian Dynasty with Han Yu.
• At a restaurant, Su Yueli told Han Yu that the Nine-Leaf Nirvana Ice Marrow was an eighth-grade herb likely guarded by a Tenth Realm demonic beast or stronger, leaving Han Yu stunned by her master’s apparent confidence.

Su Yueli and Han Yu met Great Gan’s crown prince, Jiang Yunsheng, and his Peak Tenth Realm guard, Pang Lie, in Zhenyuan City and agreed to travel with them to the Ice Soul Abyss. Jiang Yunsheng showed an interest in Su Yueli, while she remained focused on finding the Nine-Leaf Nirvana Ice Marrow and told him to fly ahead if he was in a hurry.

• Jiang Yunsheng told Su Yueli that Nine-Leaf Nirvana Ice Marrow grew in the dangerous Ice Soul Abyss in northern Great Gan.
• Jiang Yunsheng offered to travel with Su Yueli and Han Yu, and Su Yueli accepted.
• Han Yu worried about traveling with immortal cultivators, but Su Yueli reassured her that martial arts could make her powerful.
• Pang Lie questioned why Jiang Yunsheng had invited the two martial artists, and Jiang Yunsheng admitted he wanted Su Yueli near him because of her beauty.
• Jiang Yunsheng hinted that flying would get them to the abyss faster, and Su Yueli calmly told him to fly ahead while she and Han Yu followed.

Su Yueli effortlessly kept pace with Jiang Yunsheng and Pang Lie on the journey to the Ice Soul Abyss, astonishing them with her physical speed. The group entered the abyss, where Su Yueli sensed a potent icy medicinal power and a formidable hidden beast deeper within.

• Jiang Yunsheng and Pang Lie flew ahead to show off their speed, but Su Yueli carried Han Yu after them with astonishing physical movement and no Spiritual Power.
• Su Yueli and Han Yu kept pace with the cultivators for two days until they reached the outer perimeter of the Ice Soul Abyss in Great Gan.
• Pang Lie warned them about the abyss and led the group down its ice cliffs.
• Pang Lie killed several Third- and Fourth-Realm icefield beasts with a golden palm strike, hoping to impress Su Yueli and Han Yu.
• Su Yueli sensed a pure icy medicinal power and a concealed, immense demonic aura deeper in the abyss as the four continued onward.

Su Yueli and Jiang Yunsheng’s group reached the deepest cavern of the Ice Soul Abyss, where Su Yueli harvested the Nine-Leaf Nirvana Ice Marrow and awakened its guardian beast. As Pang Lie fought the mid-Tenth Realm beast, Jiang Yunsheng still mistook Su Yueli’s composure for fear and ordered him to kill it.

• Pang Lie killed a Seventh Realm Frostland Giant Bear to rescue cultivators, who fled after Su Yueli’s glare terrified them.
• Jiang Yunsheng told Su Yueli he had come to obtain a frigid beast’s crystal horn for his cultivation technique, and she realized the horn belonged to the guardian of the Nine-Leaf Nirvana Ice Marrow.
• Su Yueli harvested the Nine-Leaf Nirvana Ice Marrow in the cavern, causing its giant guardian beast to burst through the ice and attack her.
• Pang Lie intercepted the beast and traded blows with it while Jiang Yunsheng told him to slay it quickly so it would not startle Su Yueli.

Su Yueli saved Pang Lie and the others when a pair of ice beasts attacked in the Ice Soul Abyss, killing both with her Martial Dao fists. She left Jiang Yunsheng stunned and inspired Han Yu to pursue martial arts more fervently.

• Jiang Yunsheng flirted with Su Yueli while Pang Lie fought a Tenth Realm ice beast, then Su Yueli spotted a second beast and warned that Pang Lie seemed dead.
• An Eleventh Realm male ice beast emerged and badly wounded Pang Lie, while its Tenth Realm mate prepared to devour him.
• Su Yueli killed the female beast with one punch and drove back the male beast with another.
• Su Yueli killed the male beast with her Fourth Form, River Severing, then took its Extreme-Cold Crystal Horn and gave it to Jiang Yunsheng.
• Pang Lie thanked Su Yueli, Jiang Yunsheng stared in disbelief, and Han Yu resolved to become like her master.

After defeating the Ice Soul Abyss group, Su Yueli learned that the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine might be held by Great Yan’s imperial family and agreed to visit Great Qian’s Imperial City. The chapter left Su Yueli and Han Yu exploring the city, with Su Yueli accepting a hairpin after Han Yu innocently asked if her master was a girl.

• Jiang Yunsheng apologized to Su Yueli after witnessing her strength, and she let his group leave the Ice Soul Abyss with their belongings.
• Su Yueli asked about the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine, and Jiang Yunsheng explained that none had matured in Great Qian and that Great Yan’s imperial family might control some.
• Jiang Yunsheng invited Su Yueli to visit the Imperial City, and she agreed while Han Yu said her insight might soon help her break through to the Third Realm.
• Su Yueli, Han Yu, Jiang Yunsheng, and Pang Lie arrived in Great Qian’s bustling Imperial City, where Han Yu admired the streets and shops.
• Han Yu offered Su Yueli a blue-tasseled hairpin and asked if her master was a girl, leaving Su Yueli speechless before she accepted it.

Su Yueli obtained powerful medicines for Han Yu in the Great Qian Imperial City, and Han Yu broke through to the Third Realm after taking one. The next morning, Su Yueli and Han Yu set off toward the Great Yan Dynasty in search of the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine.

• Han Yu persuaded Su Yueli to wear a blue-tasseled hairpin, leaving Jiang Yunsheng awestruck by her beauty and fearful of her strength.
• Su Yueli asked Jiang Yunsheng for medicine to strengthen Han Yu, and he arranged for Pang Lie to bring pills and medicinal paste from the imperial treasury.
• Su Yueli insisted on paying Jiang Yunsheng for the medicines, then rested with Han Yu and their companions at Near-Immortal Tower.
• Han Yu used a third of a Bone-Tempering Marrow-Washing Pill and broke through from the peak of the Second Realm to the Third Realm.
• Su Yueli and Han Yu left the Great Qian Imperial City the next morning, and Jiang Yunsheng and Pang Lie saw them off as they headed for the Great Yan Dynasty.

Su Yueli and Han Yu encountered private soldiers of Great Yan’s Second Prince on a mountain road, where Han Yu fought her first battle and Su Yueli effortlessly defeated a Fourth Realm cultivator. After questioning the prince’s men, Su Yueli learned that Great Yan’s succession struggle had left the Imperial House in turmoil, giving them an opportunity to retrieve the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine.

• Su Yueli guided Han Yu through Third Realm training as they traveled along a mountain path.
• Han Yu defeated a Third Realm Late Stage guard with one punch after the guard attacked her.
• Su Yueli killed a Fourth Realm cultivator with a flick of her finger and incapacitated the remaining guards.
• Su Yueli questioned the brocade-robed young master and learned that the men served Great Yan’s Second Prince.
• Su Yueli learned that the emperor was gravely ill and the princes were struggling for the throne, then decided the chaos would help them enter the Imperial City and retrieve the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine.

Su Yueli and Han Yu reached Great Yan’s Imperial City seeking the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine and learned it was offered as a reward for curing the emperor’s strange poison. Su Yueli tore down the imperial notice and was challenged by the guards just as a likely prince arrived.

• Su Yueli and Han Yu crossed into Great Yan and traveled to its Imperial City, where they learned the succession struggle had intensified.
• At the Skyreach General Goods Association, Su Yueli paid two hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to learn that the Imperial House had offered the vine as a reward for curing the emperor’s Death-Baleful Poison.
• Su Yueli decided to pursue the reward openly rather than break into the palace, believing Little Black or her Martial Soul could counter the poison.
• At the Imperial City gate, Su Yueli tore down the notice, startling the crowd and prompting the guard captain to question her qualifications.
• The guard captain began to drive Su Yueli away, but a richly dressed middle-aged man with Eighth Realm cultivation arrived and asked what was happening.

Su Yueli persuaded Yan Yunxiao to let her treat the Great Yan emperor, whose mysterious Death Balefulness poison had resisted the palace's cultivators. She began drawing the poison from his body with her Martial Soul, leaving the treatment underway.

• Yan Yunxiao questioned Su Yueli's ability to answer the imperial notice, then agreed to bring her into the palace.
• Su Yueli told Yan Yunxiao that she and Han Yu came from Great Li, and he explained that Death Balefulness poison had been consuming the emperor's life for half a year.
• The empress offered Su Yueli the Eighth-Grade Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine, an Upper-Grade Heaven Rank immortal artifact, and the imperial house's favor if she saved the emperor.
• Su Yueli ordered everyone except Yan Yunxiao and the empress to leave the bedchamber, then identified the emperor's affliction as Dark Nether Death Balefulness.
• Su Yueli summoned a faint Martial Soul and began pulling the Death Balefulness out of the emperor's body.

Su Yueli cured the Great Yan Emperor by absorbing his Death Balefulness poison and was rewarded with an Emperor-Rank Weapon of her choice. At the Imperial Armory, she found a black Emperor-Rank spear that made Little Black tremble with excitement and longing.

• Su Yueli absorbed the Death Balefulness poison, revived the Great Yan Emperor, and collected the promised Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine.
• The Emperor offered Su Yueli any Emperor-Rank Weapon in the Imperial Armory as thanks for saving his life.
• Su Yueli explained her Martial Soul to Han Yu while Yan Yunxiao led them to the armory.
• Yan Yunxiao let Han Yu choose a weapon below Heaven Rank as a meeting gift, and she excitedly went to browse.
• Su Yueli spotted a black Emperor-Rank spear, and Little Black reacted with intense excitement and longing.

Su Yueli and Han Yu selected weapons in the imperial armory after Su Yueli cured the emperor, while Yan Yunlie learned that his coup plans had been ruined. As Su Yueli left the palace with Yan Yunxiao’s token, Yan Yunlie decided to try recruiting her instead of attacking her.

• Su Yueli took the Emperor Tier spear, whose Baleful Intent submitted to her, and Han Yu chose an Upper-Grade Earth Tier short blade.
• Yan Yunlie learned that the emperor had awakened and that Su Yueli had received an Emperor Tier weapon, undoing his plans to seize the throne.
• Yan Yunlie recognized Su Yueli as the woman who had killed his men, but Withered Elder warned that attacking her would provoke the crown prince and proposed recruiting her.
• Yan Yunlie agreed to meet Su Yueli and offer her richer terms.
• Yan Yunxiao gave Su Yueli a royal token to use Great Yan’s merchant guilds and relay stations, and she left the palace with Han Yu.

Su Yueli trained Han Yu in basic blade techniques and practiced spear skills as they traveled back toward Great Li. At the border, she confronted Yan Yunlie, the Second Prince of Great Yan, who admitted that his reason for following them was not as straightforward as he had claimed.

• Su Yueli taught Han Yu basic blade techniques, then practiced with her Emperor Tier spear using her physical strength and spear Dao.
• Su Yueli and Han Yu crossed Great Yan and reached the border wasteland, where Su Yueli revealed she had sensed two people following them.
• Yan Yunlie and Withered Elder appeared before Su Yueli and Han Yu, and Han Yu recognized them as immortals.
• Yan Yunlie claimed he had followed Su Yueli to offer gifts and express admiration for saving his father, but Su Yueli pointed out that he had waited until they left Great Yan's territory.
• Yan Yunlie's smile stiffened when Su Yueli exposed his excuse, and he acknowledged that she had seen through him.

Su Yueli rejected Yan Yunlie’s attempt to recruit her and intimidate her with treasures, then overwhelmed his Twelfth Realm bodyguard when he threatened her disciple. She left Yan Yunlie and Withered Elder afraid to act, while Han Yu realized how powerful her master was.

• Yan Yunlie offered Su Yueli pills and spirit stones in exchange for her friendship and future help, while hinting at the danger of refusing him.
• Su Yueli rejected his offer and said his men had deserved their deaths after trying to rob travelers.
• Withered Elder used his Twelfth Realm spiritual pressure against Su Yueli and Han Yu, nearly forcing Han Yu to her knees.
• Su Yueli stomped away Withered Elder’s pressure with her Qi and Blood, leaving him staggered and shocked.
• Su Yueli warned Withered Elder that she had killed Twelfth Realm cultivators before and threatened Yan Yunlie if he harmed Han Yu.
• Han Yu stared in shock as Withered Elder and Yan Yunlie became too afraid to move against Su Yueli.

Su Yueli subdued Yan Yunlie and Withered Elder before continuing toward Great Li with Han Yu. Back in Great Li, she learned that Zhao Yan had been exiled to Blackwind Pass and decided to visit him.

• Su Yueli unleashed her blood qi, forcing Yan Yunlie to the ground and making Withered Elder apologize before she and Han Yu left.
• Yan Yunlie swore in anger, but Withered Elder warned him never to provoke Su Yueli again.
• Han Yu told Su Yueli she hoped to become strong enough to protect her and travel with her, while Su Yueli remained silent when asked what she wanted most.
• After half a month, Su Yueli and Han Yu returned to Great Li and planned to obtain the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine and meet Yun Tianheng.
• Su Yueli learned that Zhao Yan had been exiled to Blackwind Pass and decided to visit him with Han Yu.

Su Yueli and Han Yu visited Zhao Yan at Blackwind Pass, where the former prince had settled into a peaceful life after abandoning his bid for power. Su Yueli thanked him for helping her a century earlier, and she left reflecting that ordinary days could be nice too.

• Su Yueli and Han Yu reached the military camp at Blackwind Pass and learned Zhao Yan lived in a residence in Blackwind Town.
• Gu Chen recognized Su Yueli and welcomed her and Han Yu into Zhao Yan's estate.
• Zhao Yan reunited with Su Yueli and heard her introduce Han Yu as her disciple.
• Zhao Yan explained that he had given up his ambitions after realizing the Crown Prince controlled the frontier army, and that he now valued his peaceful life.
• Su Yueli thanked Zhao Yan for giving her life-saving medicine for Lin Ye and helping her enter the secret realm.

Su Yueli and Han Yu returned to the Great Li Imperial City, where Yun Tianheng prepared to refine an Eighth-Grade Pill from the rare ingredients Su Yueli had gathered. Han Yu realized that her master’s long journey and battles had been for this pill.

• Zhao Yan asked Su Yueli how she had remained youthful for a century, and she claimed she practiced a technique that preserved her appearance.
• Su Yueli and Han Yu traveled toward the Great Li Imperial City, and Han Yu advanced close to the Third Realm Mid-Stage through daily training.
• A guard told Su Yueli that Yun Tianheng was waiting for her at an Immortal Abode outside the city to avoid the palace’s watchful eyes.
• Su Yueli presented Yun Tianheng with the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine and two other rare ingredients for the pill refinement.
• Yun Tianheng warned that refining the pill could fail, but he agreed to give it his all after Su Yueli promised him a favor if he succeeded.
• Han Yu realized Su Yueli had endured battles against powerful enemies and factions to gather the ingredients for the Eighth-Grade Pill.

While Yun Tianheng refined a peak Eighth-Grade Pill, Su Yueli explained the Martial Dao’s higher realms and her ambition to help martial artists overcome their limits. When the pill’s Pill Thunder gathered over the Immortal Abode, Su Yueli flew beneath the tribulation clouds to protect Yun Tianheng as he completed the refinement.

• Yun Tianheng began refining an Eighth-Grade Pill with the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine and costly supplementary herbs.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu that the Martial Dao continued beyond the Tenth Realm, describing the Eleventh through Thirteenth Realms and revealing her ambition to extend martial artists’ lifespans.
• Su Yueli examined her strange, growing Martial Soul and wondered whether it was a clone while she and Han Yu waited for Yun Tianheng to finish refining.
• Pill Thunder gathered above the Immortal Abode as Yun Tianheng neared the final stage of collecting the peak Eighth-Grade Pill.
• Su Yueli ordered Han Yu to retreat, flew above the Immortal Abode, and told Yun Tianheng to continue while she faced the Pill Thunder.

Yun Tianheng refined a Peak Eighth-Grade Pill that summoned Pill Thunder, while Su Yueli shattered the heavenly lightning with her bare hands. The spectacle drew the Great Li Emperor and powerful figures from across the dynasty to the Immortal Abode, where they watched her fight off the escalating tribulation.

• Yun Tianheng stabilized the pill embryo as the first bolt of Pill Thunder descended, and Su Yueli destroyed it with a burst of Qi and Blood.
• Yun Tianheng hurried to finish refining the pill as Han Yu watched Su Yueli in awe.
• The Great Li Emperor learned that Yun Tianheng was refining a pill at the Immortal Abode and set out to investigate.
• The Azure Moon Sect Master and Shen Huai'an recognized the distant phenomenon as a Peak Eighth-Grade Pill’s tribulation and rushed toward it.
• Powerful figures from across Great Li arrived and saw Su Yueli punch apart successive bolts of Pill Thunder with her physical strength.

Su Yueli protected Yun Tianheng as he completed a Peak Eighth-Grade Dragonblood Crimson Marrow Pill, then left with Han Yu. The Great Li Emperor arrived too late to meet her, grew wary of the unknown expert, and ordered his ministers to keep watch.

• Su Yueli endured the powerful Pill Thunder while Yun Tianheng poured his remaining Spiritual Power into the cauldron and completed the pill.
• Yun Tianheng gave Su Yueli the pill, and she promised to repay his favor before taking Han Yu and departing.
• The Azure Moon Sect master and Shen Huai'an saw a blue-clad figure fly past, but could not sense her Spiritual Power.
• The Great Li Emperor and other powerful figures arrived at the Immortal Abode and questioned Yun Tianheng about the pill and the expert who had faced the thunder.
• Yun Tianheng refused to reveal his client's identity, prompting the displeased Great Li Emperor to order his ministers to watch for the unknown expert.
• Shen Huai'an suspected that the blue-clad figure he had seen was familiar and felt growing unease.

Su Yueli brought Han Yu to the ruined village where her master and fellow villagers had died, and taught her martial arts there for two years. After Han Yu reached the Third Realm Peak and mastered her lessons, Su Yueli prepared to enter seclusion to refine the Dragonblood Crimson Marrow Pill and attempt the Fourteenth Realm, leaving Han Yu to guard the village.

• Su Yueli recalled her blood feud and the sight of Shen Huai'an, who had reached the Eleventh Realm.
• Su Yueli took Han Yu to the abandoned village where she had once found refuge and introduced her to her deceased master, Lu Chen.
• Han Yu paid respects to Lu Chen, and Su Yueli began teaching her the Ultimate Dao Five Forms and Mountain-Shattering Heavenbreaker Force.
• Over two years, Han Yu trained in the ruins and stabilized her cultivation at the Third Realm Peak while Su Yueli prepared her state of mind.
• Su Yueli gave Han Yu a Jade Talisman and announced she would enter seclusion to refine the Dragonblood Crimson Marrow Pill and attempt the Fourteenth Realm.

Su Yueli returned to the mountain cave where she had trained with Lu Chen, then began a seclusion to consume the Dragonblood Crimson Marrow Pill and seek the unknown Fourteenth Realm. Years passed as she remained motionless in the cave, while Han Yu continued training and watched over her from afar.

• Su Yueli visited the old cave and comforted Little Black, which complained about being neglected.
• Little Black devoured the imperial-grade weapon and gained the ability to transform into weapons such as fist blades and a spear.
• Su Yueli swallowed the Dragonblood Crimson Marrow Pill and endured its immense Qi and Blood as she tried to break through toward the Fourteenth Realm.
• Su Yueli resolved to forge a path beyond the known limits of Martial Dao and entered deep meditation as the seasons passed.
• Han Yu practiced her fist techniques year after year and occasionally watched Su Yueli's unmoving figure at the cave from a distant peak.