Recaps

Su Yueli left Luochuan City to seek a chance to break through to the Fifteenth Realm and investigate Gu Chen’s connection to the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom. At the ruins, she asked Little Black whether it remembered Gu Chen, but Little Black could not recall him.

• Han Yu broke through to the Fifth Realm after a month of training, and Su Yueli praised her solid foundation.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu she was leaving Luochuan City to seek a breakthrough, and Han Yu reluctantly stayed behind to cultivate and help Han Qingling.
• While traveling, Su Yueli recalled seeing Gu Chen in visions of the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom and became suspicious of his age and past.
• Su Yueli flew to the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom Ruins and broke through the golden sealing restriction.
• Su Yueli summoned Little Black and asked whether its ancient memories held anyone named Gu Chen, but Little Black shook its head.

Su Yueli discovered that Gu Chen had been the crown prince of the fallen Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom and decided to confront him at the Great Li border. Meanwhile, Motian Xing took control of Shen Huai'an's body and the Great Zhao Emperor to provoke war between Great Zhao and Great Li, hoping to use mass bloodshed to reach the Fifteenth Realm.

• Su Yueli searched the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom's imperial burial grounds and found the tomb of Gu Chen, its crown prince and the last emperor's only son.
• Su Yueli realized Gu Chen's identity contradicted his apparent role as Zhao Yan's guard and decided to ask him about it at the Great Li border.
• Motian Xing used Shen Huai'an's body to kill the Great Zhao Emperor and revive him as a puppet under his control.
• Motian Xing revealed that he planned to use the Great Zhao Emperor and national fortune to spark a war between Great Zhao and Great Li.
• Motian Xing told Shen Huai'an that he intended to harvest the blood and resentment of countless people to break through to the Fifteenth Realm.

Shen Huai'an resolved to wait for a chance to reclaim his body from Motian Xing, while Zhao Xuankong ordered a secret search for the escaped soul. Su Yueli visited Gu Chen at Zhao Yan’s manor and confronted him about his identity as the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom’s Crown Prince, but he continued to deny it.

• Shen Huai'an suppressed his fury and decided to wait for Motian Xing to reveal an opening so he could regain control of his body.
• Zhao Xuankong and Mo Bufan discussed Motian Xing’s escape, and Zhao Xuankong ordered Zhao Heng to mobilize the Shadow Guard and search Great Li for signs of the escaped soul.
• Su Yueli arrived at Zhao Yan’s manor and told Gu Chen she had come to see him, not Zhao Yan.
• Su Yueli revealed that she had found Gu Chen’s burial mound of clothes and crown in the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom Ruins and identified him as Crown Prince Gu Chen.
• Su Yueli summoned Little Black, an Ink Qilin, to prove Gu Chen’s connection to the ancient kingdom, but Gu Chen still denied his identity.
• Zhao Yan came out of the rear courtyard, saw Su Yueli, and reacted with shock.

Su Yueli visited Zhao Yan and discovered that his seemingly ordinary guard, Gu Chen, was the Fourteenth Realm Crown Prince of the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom. Gu Chen explained that he served Zhao Yan out of gratitude and sought only a peaceful life, and Su Yueli promised to keep his identity secret.

• Su Yueli met Zhao Yan and discussed the destruction of the Azure Moon Sect and the changing political landscape.
• When Zhao Yan went to fetch wine, Su Yueli confronted Gu Chen about concealing his age and cultivation.
• Su Yueli attacked Gu Chen to test him, and he blocked her strike with Fourteenth Realm strength, revealing his true identity.
• Gu Chen told Su Yueli that Zhao Yan’s mother had once saved his life and that he stayed to protect Zhao Yan, not to undermine Great Li.
• Su Yueli agreed not to expose Gu Chen, and Zhao Yan returned with aged wine as Gu Chen resumed serving them.

After sharing wine with Zhao Yan, Su Yueli met Gu Chen outside the city to learn Little Black’s origins and discovered it came from an egg found in the Skyspine Wasteland. Gu Chen also told her that Motian Xing had escaped the Azure Moon Sect’s forbidden grounds, and Su Yueli set out to hunt him down.

• Su Yueli ended the drinking gathering with Zhao Yan and left his residence with Little Black.
• Gu Chen followed Su Yueli outside the city, where she asked about Little Black’s origins.
• Gu Chen revealed that Little Black was the guardian beast of the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom, hatched from an egg found in the Skyspine Wasteland.
• Gu Chen told Su Yueli that Motian Xing had escaped after Cangming’s death and that the Azure Moon Sect’s damaged formation would have failed eventually anyway.
• Su Yueli vowed to find and kill Motian Xing, then flew away into the clouds.

Su Yueli returned to Luochuan City after deciding to hunt down Motian Xing and seek his method of breaking through to the Fifteenth Realm. Back at the Han Household estate, she began teaching Han Yu a breathing method she had created herself.

• Su Yueli comforted Little Black over Gu Chen and its lost homeland, then resolved to find Motian Xing before he could regain his strength and cause a calamity.
• Zhao Xuankong told Mo Bufan that Great Li had called on the other seven dynasties to investigate reports of people drained of their Qi and Blood.
• Mo Bufan refused to immediately use the Heavenly Mechanism Plate to locate Motian Xing because his Divine Soul was injured and prior calculations had nearly killed him.
• Su Yueli returned to Luochuan City, where Han Yu eagerly welcomed her and reported that she had diligently practiced during her absence.
• Su Yueli examined Han Yu's Qi and Blood, explained that her crude breathing wasted energy, and began teaching her a breathing method she had developed herself.

Su Yueli taught Han Yu a breathing technique that helped her reach the Sixth Realm, then traveled to Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion to seek Mo Bufan’s help finding Motian Xing. She arrived at the Pavilion Master’s hall and asked Mo Bufan for a favor.

• Su Yueli taught Han Yu a breathing technique that strengthened her Qi and Blood, and Han Yu practiced it under her guidance.
• Su Yueli decided to seek Mo Bufan’s help using Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion’s deductions to locate Motian Xing and learn about the Fifteenth Realm.
• Five days later, Han Yu broke through to the Sixth Realm, and Su Yueli left for Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion despite Han Yu asking to come along.
• A Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion elder told Mo Bufan that a powerful young woman had beaten him after he refused her entry.
• Su Yueli tore the doors from the Pavilion Master’s hall, entered, and asked Mo Bufan to do her a favor.

Su Yueli visited Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion and asked Mo Bufan to divine the whereabouts of Motian Xing, the demon she had released from beneath Azure Moon Sect. Mo Bufan located Motian Xing near the Great Zhao Imperial Palace, and Su Yueli headed there while Motian Xing sensed someone watching him.

• Mo Bufan drove off an elder who demanded that he kill Su Yueli, then asked whether she had come to take his life.
• Su Yueli told Mo Bufan she wanted help finding Motian Xing and offered to deal with him herself.
• Mo Bufan used the Heavenly Mechanism Plate to divine Motian Xing's location, suffering backlash as he revealed that Motian Xing was near the Great Zhao Imperial Palace.
• Su Yueli flew toward the Great Zhao Dynasty, and Mo Bufan ordered his people to alert Elder Prince Zhao and summon the Grand Elders.
• In an underground chamber beneath the imperial palace, Motian Xing, inhabiting Shen Huai'an's body, sensed that someone had spied on him.

Motian Xing possessed the Great Zhao Emperor and ordered the dynasty to invade Great Yan, seeking the bloodshed and resources needed to restore his power. Su Yueli reached the Great Zhao Imperial Palace to kill him and learned that he had likely taken control of the Emperor.

• Motian Xing failed to erase Shen Huai'an's divine sense and decided to use Great Zhao's imperial authority and the casualties of war to regain his strength.
• The possessed Great Zhao Emperor ordered three million troops and cultivators to invade Great Yan, dismissing Crown Prince Zhao Jing and the officials' pleas with threats.
• Su Yueli hurried toward Great Zhao and planned to enter its imperial palace without alerting Motian Xing or its Fourteenth-Realm defenders.
• Two Fourteenth-Realm sword cultivators confronted Su Yueli above the palace; she introduced herself and said she had come to eliminate Motian Xing.
• The sword cultivators told Su Yueli that Zhao Xuankong had warned them Motian Xing had escaped his seal, and they suspected he had controlled the Emperor's soul and caused the invasion order.

Su Yueli and the Great Zhao national guardian sword saints joined forces to trap Motian Xing inside the imperial palace. After Su Yueli discovered his hiding place and he fled in Shen Huai'an’s body, the sword formation blocked his escape and sent him crashing back.

• Su Yueli agreed to let the two sword saints seal the palace and draw Motian Xing’s attention while she searched for him.
• The sword saints activated the Heaven-Locking Spirit-Sealing Sword Formation and confronted the emperor, whom Motian Xing controlled, over the planned war against Great Yan.
• Su Yueli sensed that Motian Xing’s true body was hidden beneath the Golden Palace Hall and exposed his position.
• Motian Xing severed his control of the emperor and fled the underground chamber in Shen Huai'an’s body as Su Yueli pursued him.
• Motian Xing struck the palace’s golden sword net while trying to escape, and the formation blasted him back.

Su Yueli cornered Motian Xing at the Great Zhao Imperial Palace and demanded the secret of reaching the Fifteenth Realm. As she attacked, Shen Huai'an broke free from Motian Xing’s control, and the chapter ended with him recognizing Su Yueli.

• Su Yueli blocked Motian Xing’s escape with the Heaven-Locking Spirit-Sealing Sword Formation and ordered him out of Shen Huai'an’s body.
• Su Yueli demanded Motian Xing’s method for breaking through to the Fifteenth Realm, while Motian Xing refused.
• Shen Huai'an awakened within the Sea of Consciousness and struggled against Motian Xing’s control.
• Su Yueli struck at Motian Xing as he tried to escape, and Shen Huai'an’s resistance weakened the invading soul.
• Motian Xing’s demonic intent vanished, and Shen Huai'an regained control of his body and asked Su Yueli if she was really there.

Su Yueli exposed Motian Xing’s disguise and cornered him, but the Old Devil used a forbidden art to escape after the Great Zhao emperor died. Su Yueli sensed the true body fleeing north and pursued it.

• Su Yueli struck Motian Xing after realizing he had impersonated Shen Huai'an, then prepared to seal him.
• The two Great Zhao Sword Saints arrived and revealed that Motian Xing had severed the emperor’s meridians, killing him.
• Motian Xing decided to use a secret escape art as Shen Huai'an’s divine sense tried to reclaim the body.
• Motian Xing sacrificed part of Shen Huai'an’s Heavenly Bone origin to split the body into nine blood-colored clones, three of which broke the formation by exploding.
• Six clones fled in different directions, and Su Yueli sensed the true body heading north and chased after it.

After Motian Xing fled the Great Zhao palace, Su Yueli pursued him into the Skyspine Wasteland and rejected his offer to cooperate. Motian Xing opened a fissure into an ancient ruin to escape, and Su Yueli followed him inside with Little Black, who recognized the place.

• The two sword saints returned to the imperial palace to help Crown Prince Zhao Jing take the throne after the emperor's death.
• Su Yueli caught up with the wounded Motian Xing in the Skyspine Wasteland, where he offered to share the secrets of an ancient ascension relic.
• Su Yueli refused Motian Xing's offer and attacked, driving him into the Great Desolation Storm.
• Little Black reacted to the storm and recognized the wasteland as the place where Gu Chen had found it.
• Motian Xing used Shen Huai'an's remaining essence blood to open a fissure into an ancient ruin, and Su Yueli followed him inside with Little Black.

Su Yueli chased Motian Xing through an underground Primordial Ruins, but he escaped her attack and unleashed an ancient sealed beast to cover his flight. Su Yueli arrived as the beast broke free and recognized its resemblance to Little Black.

• Su Yueli cornered Motian Xing in the ruins and demanded he leave Shen Huai'an's body, but he refused and escaped her punch with a forbidden blood technique.
• Motian Xing fled deeper into the ruins while Shen Huai'an's consciousness awakened and warned him against sacrificing them both.
• Motian Xing revealed the ruins were the Archaic Forbidden Zone and broke the seal on a Primordial Fierce Beast to distract Su Yueli.
• Su Yueli reached the altar as the beast emerged from the abyss, while Motian Xing escaped through a hidden passage.
• Su Yueli saw that the colossal beast resembled Little Black and realized Motian Xing had vanished.

Su Yueli fought the Primordial Ink Qilin progenitor after it rejected and struck Little Black, while Motian Xing escaped the Skyspine Wasteland. As the battle continued, both Su Yueli and the beast began to see the other as food, and Su Yueli charged into its jaws.

• The Primordial Ink Qilin progenitor called Little Black a disgrace and swatted it away when it tried to approach.
• Su Yueli summoned Little Black as fist blades and punched the progenitor, driving the ancient beast back.
• Motian Xing felt the battle shaking the wasteland, hoped both fighters would be wounded, and fled into the sands.
• Su Yueli battered the progenitor, breaking its scales and drawing its blood.
• The progenitor tried to devour Su Yueli to restore its strength, while Su Yueli planned to cook and eat the beast to break through her bottleneck.
• Su Yueli charged toward the progenitor's jaws with Little Black's fist blades blazing.

Su Yueli defeated Mo Cang, a sealed Primordial Ink Qilin progenitor, and offered to spare it if it became her artifact spirit. Mo Cang refused, and Su Yueli prepared to kill it.

• Mo Cang recoiled at Su Yueli’s overwhelming strength as she battered it with her Martial Soul and forced it to yield.
• Su Yueli demanded compensation for the demon that had escaped, then declared she would consume Mo Cang’s flesh and Qi and Blood.
• After Su Yueli beat Mo Cang into a deep pit, Little Black pleaded for its fellow Ink Qilin’s life.
• Su Yueli offered Mo Cang a chance to live as her artifact spirit, but Mo Cang furiously refused to submit.
• Su Yueli’s patience ran out, and she surged with Qi and Blood to attack Mo Cang again.

Su Yueli defeated the ancient Ink Qilin Mo Cang, then ate its flesh with Little Black and gained a breakthrough. With Motian Xing still at large, she considered asking Mo Bufan to locate him.

• Mo Cang burned his remaining origin blood essence to launch a final attack, but Su Yueli shattered his claws and killed him despite being injured by the counterstrike.
• Su Yueli roasted and ate Mo Cang's flesh, and Little Black overcame its grief and ate some of its ancestor as well.
• The ancient divine beast essence repaired Su Yueli's unstable foundation and advanced her to the Fourteenth Realm Middle Stage.
• Little Black's bloodline evolved, raising it to the middle grade of Emperor Tier.
• Su Yueli acknowledged that Motian Xing had escaped and considered asking Mo Bufan of the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion to track him down.

Su Yueli returned from the Skyspine Wasteland after Motian Xing escaped, then met with leaders from the Great Li Dynasty, Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion, and Azure Firmament Sword Sect. She asked Mo Bufan to divine where Motian Xing was hiding.

• Su Yueli emerged from the collapsed underground ruins and concluded that the injured Motian Xing would need time to recover before he could cause trouble.
• Mo Bufan, Zhao Xuankong, and Qing Mo discussed Motian Xing’s return and the wanted orders issued across the eight dynasties.
• Su Yueli appeared in Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion’s forbidden bamboo grove by following Mo Bufan’s aura, startling the three Fourteenth Realm cultivators with her increased power.
• Su Yueli reported that Motian Xing had escaped after releasing a Primordial Ink Qilin, which she killed while the devil vanished.
• Su Yueli asked Mo Bufan to divine where Motian Xing was hiding.

Su Yueli gave up trying to divine Motian Xing’s whereabouts and returned toward Luochuan City, while resolving to save Shen Huai'an’s body from the old devil. In a blood pool, Motian Xing struggled to control Shen Huai'an as the young man’s remaining soul resisted.

• Mo Bufan said he could not divine Motian Xing’s whereabouts again without risking his life, and Su Yueli accepted Zhao Xuankong’s Message Jade Pendant before leaving.
• Su Yueli flew toward Luochuan City and vowed to remove Motian Xing’s Divine Soul from Shen Huai'an’s body if she encountered him again.
• Two Eighth Realm Demon Cultivators broke through to the Ninth Realm with Shen Huai'an’s guidance, then heard him alternate between urging them to spare innocents and ordering them to capture victims.
• The Demon Cultivators fled the blood pool, confused and frightened by their Lord’s shifting behavior.
• Motian Xing demanded that Shen Huai'an surrender his body, but Shen Huai'an’s remaining Divine Soul continued to resist.

Motian Xing suppressed Shen Huai'an's remnant soul and resolved to restore his strength before destroying it completely. Su Yueli returned to Luochuan City, where she reunited with Han Yu and learned that her disciple had reached the seventh realm.

• Motian Xing overcame Shen Huai'an's resistance and sealed his remnant soul deep in the sea of consciousness.
• Motian Xing decided to absorb cultivators' qi and blood to recover to the fourteenth realm, then vowed to settle his blood debt with Su Yueli.
• Su Yueli returned to the Han Household in Luochuan City and found Han Yu training in the courtyard.
• Han Yu joyfully welcomed Su Yueli back and said she had considered going to look for her.
• Han Yu told Su Yueli she had broken through to the seventh realm, and Su Yueli confirmed her progress.

Su Yueli gave Han Yu a piece of Primordial Ink Qilin meat to strengthen her body and help her cultivation. Han Yu began enduring its powerful essence as it transformed her Qi and Blood, leaving her breakthrough underway.

• Han Yu asked Su Yueli about her recent journey, and Su Yueli briefly described helping quell turmoil in Great Zhao’s imperial family.
• Su Yueli resolved to use the time to grow stronger and brought out the meat of the Primordial Ink Qilin she had killed.
• Su Yueli roasted a tiny morsel of the beast’s meat and fed it to Han Yu, warning that it would temper her body.
• Han Yu’s Qi and Blood surged out of control, and Su Yueli ordered her to sit cross-legged and circulate her cultivation technique.
• Han Yu endured the pain as the primordial essence expelled impurities, strengthened her body, and began transforming her Qi and Blood.

Su Yueli entered a hundred-day meditation and glimpsed a profound punch that might sever karma or lifespan, revealing a possible path to the Fifteenth Realm. She awoke to find Han Yu had absorbed the Primordial Ink Qilin essence and reached the Peak Eighth Realm.

• Su Yueli reviewed her recent battles and realized brute force alone might not be enough to reach the Fifteenth Realm.
• Su Yueli imagined a punch that could knock out an opponent’s future and sensed it could sever karma or lifespan.
• Su Yueli recognized the punch as an application of the world’s supreme principles, but understood that mastering it would take time and could bring Heavenly Dao backlash.
• After a hundred days, Su Yueli awoke, and Han Yu told her she had sensed life within Su Yueli while her aura had vanished.
• Su Yueli saw that Han Yu had reached the Peak Eighth Realm after refining the Primordial Ink Qilin essence and praised her stable foundation.

After dinner with the Han Household, Su Yueli pondered whether her mysterious punch had severed causality or lifespan. She left Luochuan City to test it on a withered blade of grass, but nothing happened, so she decided to seek a living creature to try it on.

• Han Yu comforted Su Yueli about her past and promised to seek heavenly treasures for her once she became a great expert.
• Su Yueli and Han Yu joined Han Qingling and the Han Household's leaders for dinner, where Han Yu's progress to the Peak Eighth Realm drew praise.
• Han Qingling acknowledged Han Yu's talent and said her own priorities lay in managing the Han Household rather than martial arts.
• Su Yueli returned to the roof and wondered whether her punch had severed causality or lifespan, considering it as a possible path toward the Fifteenth Realm.
• Su Yueli flew into a distant forest and tested the punch's concept on a withered blade of grass, but it showed no change, so she decided to find a living creature.

Su Yueli tested her newly awakened fist on an Earth-Rending Bear and discovered that it drained the beast’s remaining lifespan, while seemingly costing her a tiny amount of her own. She named the technique Intent Ash Fist and flew back toward Luochuan City.

• Su Yueli found a sleeping Earth-Rending Bear and struck it with an unseen punch.
• The Earth-Rending Bear rapidly aged and died, prompting Su Yueli to realize that her punch had erased its remaining lifespan.
• Su Yueli concluded that the punch might sever an opponent’s future lifespan and touch the laws of time and life.
• Su Yueli sensed that using the punch might also consume a small fraction of her own lifespan.
• Su Yueli named the technique Intent Ash Fist and flew toward Luochuan City.

After fifteen years of seclusion, Su Yueli stirred as the continent was plunged into war and Shen Huai'an reached the Fourteenth Realm through demonic cultivation. Shen Huai'an resisted Motian Xing’s callousness but remained entangled in a path fueled by slaughter.

• Su Yueli spent fifteen years mastering Intent Ash Fist in seclusion at the Han Household courtyard.
• Three Ninth Realm righteous cultivators cornered an Eighth Realm Demon Cultivator, who triggered a Blood-Offering Formation that killed them and fed their life force to his master.
• Shen Huai'an reached the Fourteenth Realm after spending fifteen years devouring cultivators’ essence blood and resources.
• Shen Huai'an told Motian Xing that he had only killed people who deserved it and vowed not to slaughter the innocent.
• Shen Huai'an confronted Motian Xing for secretly inciting the Yan, Zhao, and Wei dynasties to war, but Motian Xing defended it as a way to harvest Qi and Blood and restore his origin.
• Shen Huai'an fell silent as Motian Xing revealed that he sought to restore his power and reach the Fifteenth Realm through the ongoing war.