Chapter Summaries

After reuniting with Han Yu and healing her injuries, Su Yueli gave her disciple pills and warned her to live peacefully if she did not return. Su Yueli then went to Azure Moon Sect to seek justice for her master.

• Su Yueli found Han Yu after five years apart and used her Qi and Blood to heal her lingering injuries.
• Han Yu explained that she had not returned to find Su Yueli because her master was in seclusion, and Su Yueli told her she had dealt with the Wang Household and Qing Ling was safe.
• Su Yueli gave Han Yu medicinal pills, urged her to cultivate, and told her not to mention their master-disciple relationship if she failed to return.
• Su Yueli left Han Yu behind and vowed to settle the debt Azure Moon Sect owed her master.
• Su Yueli arrived at Azure Moon Sect and stood above its mountain gate.

Su Yueli entered the Azure Moon Sect seeking Shen Huai'an and killed three elders with the pressure of her Fourteenth Realm cultivation when they tried to stop her. The sect’s Sect Master Shen Tianzhou, First Elder Lu Kuangsheng, and a group of senior elders confronted her.

• Su Yueli ignored the gatekeeping disciples’ warning that Shen Huai'an was in secluded cultivation and vanished into the Azure Moon Sect.
• Su Yueli flew above the main peak, where three inner sect elders demanded to know why she had trespassed.
• Su Yueli told the elders to make Shen Huai'an roll out, then killed all three with a wisp of divine-sense pressure.
• The Azure Moon Sect panicked and called for its sect-protecting formation as Su Yueli realized how powerful her Fourteenth Realm cultivation was.
• Shen Tianzhou and Lu Kuangsheng arrived with more than ten senior elders to confront Su Yueli.

Su Yueli confronted Azure Moon Sect over Shen Huai'an’s connection to the massacre of her master’s village, revealing that the sect’s leaders had secretly ordered the killings. When they realized the secret was exposed, Shen Tianzhou signaled Lu Kuangsheng to seize her.

• Su Yueli refused Azure Moon Sect’s invitation to discuss matters in the hall and demanded to see Shen Huai'an about the village massacre.
• Su Yueli revealed that the village where Shen Huai'an had lived was slaughtered after he left, and that her master had died there.
• Azure Moon Sect’s elders dismissed the deaths as an insignificant mortal matter, while Shen Tianzhou and Lu Kuangsheng recognized the incident.
• Lu Kuangsheng recalled ordering the village wiped out to sever Shen Huai'an’s mortal attachments and wondered how Su Yueli knew about it.
• Shen Tianzhou signaled Lu Kuangsheng to capture Su Yueli, and Lu Kuangsheng unleashed the pressure of a half-step Fourteenth Realm cultivator.

Su Yueli fought the Azure Moon Sect after its leaders moved to silence her, overwhelming the elders and drawing out the sect master and Grand Elder. As she charged at them with Little Black transformed into a spear, powerful figures across the Great Li Dynasty sensed the battle and rushed toward the sect.

• Lu Kuangsheng ordered more than ten Twelfth Realm elders to attack Su Yueli, and she defeated several with her fists.
• Five elders formed the Li Fire Vermilion Bird Formation, but Su Yueli shattered it with one punch and sent them crashing into the great hall ruins.
• Shen Tianzhou and Lu Kuangsheng launched a combined attack, bringing out a glazed immortal sword and blood-red claw winds.
• Su Yueli summoned Little Black as a spear and charged at Shen Tianzhou and Lu Kuangsheng.
• Zhao Xuankong, Mo Bufan, and cultivators from other forces sensed the Fourteenth Realm-level disturbance and headed toward the Azure Moon Sect.

Su Yueli attacked the Azure Moon Sect to demand justice for her master, overwhelming Shen Tianzhou and Lu Kuangsheng with her martial power. When the two sect leaders summoned their Heaven-and-Earth Manifestations, Su Yueli revealed a towering Martial Soul and struck at them, while True Lord Cangming stayed in the grotto-heaven to guard Shen Huai'an.

• Su Yueli fought Shen Tianzhou and Lu Kuangsheng, and their clash shattered the Azure Moon Sect’s mountains and buildings as elders ordered disciples and civilians to evacuate.
• Lu Kuangsheng and Shen Tianzhou offered Su Yueli compensation, but she refused and demanded justice for her master over the village the sect had destroyed.
• Shen Tianzhou told Lu Kuangsheng to end the fight quickly so it would not affect Shen Huai'an, and the two men summoned their Heaven-and-Earth Manifestations.
• Su Yueli manifested a colossal Martial Soul and sent it spear-first against the two cultivators’ manifestations, shocking them.
• In the Azure Moon Grotto-Heaven, True Lord Cangming sensed the disturbance but stayed beside Shen Huai'an as he neared the Void God Stage.

Su Yueli nearly killed Shen Tianzhou after Little Black transformed into an Ink Qilin and then fist blades, but Drunken Heaven Daoist intervened with a Spiritual Power barrier. The battle paused as Su Yueli confronted the newly arrived Fourteenth Realm cultivator and asked whether he wanted to be her enemy.

• Shen Tianzhou knocked Little Black’s spear from Su Yueli’s hand, but Little Black transformed into an Ink Qilin and blocked his sword before becoming fist blades on Su Yueli’s hands.
• Su Yueli exploited Shen Tianzhou’s distraction to smash his Dharma manifestation and send him flying with a punch.
• Lu Kuangsheng struck Su Yueli from behind, but she endured the blow and used its force to speed up as she pursued Shen Tianzhou.
• Drunken Heaven Daoist raised a Spiritual Power barrier that shattered under Su Yueli’s attack but saved Shen Tianzhou from death.
• Lu Kuangsheng thanked Drunken Heaven Daoist for intervening, and Su Yueli challenged the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion ancestor as Royal Elder Prince Zhao Xuankong and other experts arrived.

Su Yueli rejected Mo Bufan and Zhao Xuankong’s attempts to stop her from taking revenge on the Azure Moon Sect, declaring that she no longer cared about right or wrong. When Zhao Xuankong shielded the wounded Shen Tianzhou, Su Yueli announced that her trial was over and prepared to reveal her true strength.

• Mo Bufan asked Su Yueli about her past and offered to uphold justice for the Azure Moon Sect, but she refused and insisted the matter had to be settled in blood.
• The Azure Cloud Sect Master remembered his ancestor’s warning and stopped himself from approaching Zhao Xuankong to complain.
• Zhao Xuankong urged Su Yueli to spare the sect to protect the common people, but she recalled the suffering of her parents, friend, and master and said she would kill the Azure Moon Sect regardless of the cost.
• Zhao Xuankong condemned Su Yueli, and she agreed that the strong devoured the weak before charging at the wounded Shen Tianzhou.
• Zhao Xuankong raised a spiritual barrier to protect Shen Tianzhou, who laughed in relief, while Su Yueli declared that her trial was over and resolved to show her true strength.

Su Yueli shattered Zhao Xuankong's barrier and killed Shen Tianzhou in front of the Azure Moon Sect and the watching cultivators. After Lu Kuangsheng denied the sect's role in a village massacre and accused her of slander, Su Yueli struck him down and challenged the powerful figures in the sky.

• Su Yueli used her Ultimate Dao, First Form—Mountain Splitter, to break the barrier and crush Shen Tianzhou's head, Divine Soul, and Mud Pill Palace.
• The Azure Moon Sect disciples panicked over Shen Tianzhou's death, while Zhao Xuankong grew furious that Su Yueli had killed the man he meant to protect.
• Lu Kuangsheng begged Zhao Xuankong to suppress Su Yueli, but she accused the Azure Moon Sect of ordering the massacre of Shen Huai'an's village.
• Lu Kuangsheng denied the massacre and claimed Su Yueli wanted to possess Shen Huai'an's body, enraging her.
• Su Yueli struck Lu Kuangsheng into the ruins, but his Spiritual Power barrier reduced the damage; she then challenged the powerful figures in the sky.

Su Yueli forced her way toward the Azure Moon Grotto-Heaven while Mo Bufan used Heaven's Secrets Unveiled to investigate her, only to find that her past could not be seen. At the grotto entrance, a Fourteenth Realm expert appeared and Su Yueli identified him as True Lord Cangming.

• Zhao Xuankong defended the Azure Moon Sect, while Mo Bufan noted that Cangming had not appeared despite the sect's destruction.
• Mo Bufan activated Heaven's Secrets Unveiled, but he could not see Su Yueli's past and found her karmic traces seemed foreign to her.
• Mo Bufan spent his essence blood to use the Secret Art to peer into Su Yueli's future.
• Su Yueli brought Lu Kuangsheng to the Azure Moon Grotto-Heaven, struck him down, and prepared to punch him.
• A powerful aura from the grotto knocked Su Yueli backward, and True Lord Cangming appeared before her.

Su Yueli rejected True Lord Cangming’s offer to end the conflict and declared that everyone involved in her master’s murder would pay. After she killed Lu Kuangsheng, Cangming attacked her with the Glazed Immortal Sword, and Su Yueli charged to meet him.

• True Lord Cangming asked Su Yueli to release Lu Kuangsheng and settle their grievances peacefully, but she refused to forgive those responsible for her master’s death.
• Cangming proposed that both sides stop fighting, noting Shen Tianzhou was dead and Lu Kuangsheng was crippled, but Su Yueli demanded blood debts be repaid and called for collective punishment.
• Su Yueli snapped Lu Kuangsheng’s neck and threw his corpse before Cangming.
• Cangming manifested in person and attacked Su Yueli with the Glazed Immortal Sword, while Su Yueli charged forward to fight him.

Su Yueli’s unfathomable karma left Mo Bufan injured and unable to divine her future, while she overpowered True Lord Cangming with sheer physical force. After failing to break open the Azure Moon Grotto-Heaven, she confronted Cangming again as he called on Zhao Xuankong and Mo Bufan for help.

• Mo Bufan failed to see through Su Yueli’s future, suffered karmic backlash, and lost his confidence in the imperial family’s judgment.
• True Lord Cangming was hurled from the Azure Moon Grotto-Heaven after Su Yueli broke his sword art with a punch.
• Su Yueli tried three times to break the grotto-heaven’s barrier, then left to confront Cangming while Shen Huai'an remained trapped inside.
• Cangming unleashed his Fourteenth Realm Middle Stage power and urged Mo Bufan and Zhao Xuankong to join him, but Mo Bufan refused and Zhao Xuankong hesitated.
• Su Yueli charged Cangming with Mountain-Shattering Heavenbreaker Force, and Cangming raised an ice wall and defensive treasure against her Ultimate Dao, First Form—Mountain Splitter.

Su Yueli fought True Lord Cangming after he drained the Azure Moon Sect’s protective formation to reach the Fourteenth Realm Late Stage, and their clash destroyed the sect grounds. Shen Huai'an emerged from seclusion at the Twelfth Realm to find the Azure Moon Sect gone.

• Su Yueli overwhelmed True Lord Cangming with a series of martial techniques, injuring him without using mana.
• True Lord Cangming drained the Azure Moon Sect’s protective formation, healed his wounds, and broke through to the Fourteenth Realm Late Stage.
• Su Yueli summoned Little Black, the Ink Qilin phantom, and her Armored Martial Soul to face True Lord Cangming’s enormous Glazed Immortal Sword.
• Their clash razed the Azure Moon Sect grounds and swept nearby cultivators away in the shockwave.
• As True Lord Cangming and the others wondered whether Su Yueli had survived, Shen Huai'an emerged from the Azure Moon Grotto-Heaven at the Twelfth Realm and found the sect gone.

Su Yueli survived True Lord Cangming’s full-force strike and confronted Shen Huai'an, who had just entered the Twelfth Realm. During the renewed battle, Shen Huai'an’s attack shattered her mask, and he recognized her as Sister Yueli.

• Shen Huai'an emerged after entering the Twelfth Realm and found the Azure Moon Sect’s mountain gate in ruins.
• Su Yueli rose from the pit, injured but still powerful, and told Shen Huai'an that she had killed Shen Tianzhou and Lu Kuangsheng.
• True Lord Cangming urged Shen Huai'an to flee, but Shen Huai'an refused to abandon the sect or avenge his master from afar.
• Su Yueli attacked True Lord Cangming, and Shen Huai'an joined the fight with a surprise sword strike.
• Shen Huai'an’s sword missed Su Yueli but shattered her mask, revealing her face and prompting him to recognize her as Sister Yueli.

Su Yueli confronted Shen Huai'an with the truth that the Azure Moon Sect had destroyed his family and village, while True Lord Cangming tried to silence her. Cangming invoked the threat of an ancient sealed Demon Path master, drawing Zhao Xuankong and Mo Bufan into the battle as the Azure Moon Sect's mountain gate was crushed.

• Su Yueli told Shen Huai'an that his brother, village, and master had been lost because of the Azure Moon Sect's Severing Mortal Ties, contradicting the story he had been told.
• Shen Huai'an rejected Su Yueli's accusations, but True Lord Cangming blasted him away and declared he would kill her.
• True Lord Cangming warned Zhao Xuankong and Mo Bufan that the Azure Moon Sect's destruction could lead to the release of the Demon Path sect master sealed six thousand years earlier.
• Shen Huai'an tried to return and ask for an explanation, but Zhao Xuankong and Mo Bufan joined True Lord Cangming in confronting Su Yueli.
• The three late-Fourteenth-Realm experts unleashed their power, shattering the Azure Moon Sect's ruined mountain gate and forcing the watching cultivators back.

Su Yueli broke free from the Three Fourteenth Realm experts’ Heaven-and-Earth Confinement Formation and prepared to unleash her Ultimate Dao Fifth Form, Life Burning. As golden mist ignited around her, her hair began turning white.

• Zhao Xuankong, Mo Bufan, and True Lord Cangming attacked Su Yueli together, but could neither kill her nor overcome her powerful body.
• The three Fourteenth Realm experts trapped Su Yueli inside a shrinking Heaven-and-Earth Confinement Formation, and the watching cultivators believed she had been sealed.
• Shen Huai'an watched Su Yueli’s apparent defeat in despair and questioned whether his Master had told him the truth.
• A crack appeared in the sealing sphere, and Su Yueli burst free in an explosion that devastated the surrounding area.
• Su Yueli invoked Ultimate Dao Fifth Form, Life Burning, igniting golden mist around herself as strands of her hair turned white.

Su Yueli burned her lifespan to unleash overwhelming Qi and Blood, crushing True Lord Cangming’s attack and severely wounding him. She rejected Zhao Xuankong’s offer to negotiate and faced Zhao and Mo Bufan as they prepared to defend Azure Moon Sect and its ancient seal.

• Su Yueli used the Ultimate Dao Fifth Form, Life Burning, and charged at True Lord Cangming.
• Su Yueli shattered Cangming’s sword strike with a punch and broke his bones with a blow to the abdomen.
• Zhao Xuankong offered to guarantee Su Yueli justice and explain Azure Moon Sect’s secrets, but she refused to negotiate and vowed to kill everyone involved.
• Zhao Xuankong and Mo Bufan resolved to stop Su Yueli, unleashing their power and prompting the watching cultivators to retreat.
• Su Yueli burned her Qi and Blood more fiercely as the Ink Qilin and her enormous armored Martial Soul appeared behind her.

Su Yueli defeated the three Fourteenth Realm cultivators, killed True Lord Cangming, and wounded Zhao Xuankong and Mo Bufan, who escaped after trapping her in visions of the past. She then confronted Shen Huai'an, who denied knowing that his master had used her and the villagers to sever his mortal ties.

• Su Yueli burned more of her lifespan to overpower Zhao Xuankong, Mo Bufan, and True Lord Cangming, then crushed Cangming's head.
• Su Yueli broke Mo Bufan's arm and Zhao Xuankong's arm, and offered to end their grievances if each survived one punch.
• Mo Bufan used an ancient bell to distract Su Yueli with visions of the Great Li Dynasty destroying the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom, where she saw Little Black and a child who resembled Gu Chen.
• Zhao Xuankong and Mo Bufan escaped while Su Yueli watched the visions, leaving her alone with Shen Huai'an.
• Su Yueli punched Shen Huai'an and asked whether he knew about Severing Mortal Ties; he insisted he had not known his master used her and the villagers for it.

Su Yueli destroyed Shen Huai'an's spiritual foundation but spared his life, and he later died by suicide as his Divine Soul began to fade. Motian Xing then possessed Shen Huai'an's body, leaving the story with the former Blood Demon Sect Master rising amid the ruins.

• Su Yueli told Shen Huai'an their bond was over, shattered his Twelfth Realm spiritual foundation, and left him to die by suicide.
• Su Yueli's Little Black devoured the corpses of True Lord Cangming and Lu Kuangsheng, restoring its strength before she departed.
• Shen Huai'an's Divine Soul lingered beside his corpse as snow covered the Azure Moon Sect's ruins, and Motian Xing emerged from beneath the ground.
• Motian Xing offered to restore Shen Huai'an's cultivation and help him take revenge, but Shen Huai'an refused and said Su Yueli had done nothing wrong.
• Motian Xing forced his way into Shen Huai'an's body, seized his consciousness, and rose with scarlet light burning in his eyes.

Shen Huai'an lured the surviving Azure Moon Sect disciples into a gorge and drained their life essence to strengthen himself. After leaving the sect’s ruins, Su Yueli reflected on her completed vengeance, the friends she had lost, and the path she wanted to pursue next.

• Shen Huai'an led more than a hundred Azure Moon Sect disciples and several elders to a hidden gorge, claiming he would rebuild the sect.
• Shen Huai'an activated a demonic formation that drained the group’s blood energy and lifespan, leaving the disciples as skeletons and strengthening him.
• Su Yueli left the sect’s territory and helped an elderly refugee, who urged her to flee the immortals’ battle.
• Su Yueli traveled to a border town, bought spirits, and drank alone atop a snowy peak while considering what to do after her vengeance was complete.
• Su Yueli resolved to continue across the mountains and rivers, seeking a future beyond vengeance.

Su Yueli returned to the restored Han Household after settling her old grudges at the Azure Moon Sect. She decided to stay in Luochuan City and guide Han Yu in martial arts.

• Thirteenth and Fourteenth Realm experts sensed the battle at the Azure Moon Sect and realized Cangming had died.
• Su Yueli returned to the Han Household, where the guards welcomed her with awe.
• Han Qingling reported that the household had recovered its assets and compensated its injured members and bereaved families.
• Su Yueli confirmed she had settled her old grudges, and Han Yu asked whether she would leave again.
• Su Yueli said she would remain in Luochuan City for the time being and guide Han Yu's cultivation.