Chapter Summaries

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.

After fifteen years of secluded cultivation, Su Yueli emerged having greatly mastered the Intent Ash Fist, while Han Yu had reached the Tenth Realm but could not find a path to the Eleventh. Learning that wars had engulfed the northern dynasties and threatened Great Li, Su Yueli suspected Motian Xing was feeding on the slaughter and prepared to confront him.

• Su Yueli left seclusion after fifteen years, having strengthened her Intent Ash Fist and her ability to draw out opponents' lifespans, though she still could not see a path to the Fifteenth Realm.
• Han Yu, now fifty and a Tenth Realm Martial God, greeted Su Yueli and lamented that her master had not aged.
• Su Yueli explained that Han Yu needed a life-and-death trial and an understanding of the Heavenly Dao to reach the Eleventh Realm.
• Han Yu told Su Yueli that Great Wei, Great Yan, and Great Zhao had fallen into all-out war, while border clashes had brought Great Li closer to joining the conflict.
• Su Yueli suspected Motian Xing had provoked the wars to absorb the Qi and Blood and Killing Intent of the dead, and vowed to counter him with her Intent Ash Fist.

Zhao Xuankong visited Su Yueli to ask for help amid the war between the three great dynasties, which Motian Xing had inflamed. Su Yueli agreed to hunt Motian Xing but refused to involve herself in the dynasties’ other conflicts, and Zhao Xuankong reflected on Han Yu’s extraordinary talent and mortal lifespan.

• Zhao Xuankong appeared at the Han Household, startling Han Yu with his Fourteenth Realm aura.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu to remain at the Han Household and left with Zhao Xuankong to discuss the war.
• Zhao Xuankong explained that Motian Xing had stirred conflict among the three great dynasties and asked Su Yueli to help stop the catastrophe.
• Su Yueli refused to save the dynasties or their people but agreed to kill Motian Xing.
• Zhao Xuankong praised Han Yu’s martial talent and lamented that even a Tenth Realm martial artist had a mortal lifespan.

Su Yueli learned that the Fourteenth Realm cultivators would gather in three days to besiege Motian Xing, and she planned to use the battle to free Shen Huai'an from the devil’s control. Across the continent, powerful figures from the great dynasties prepared for the coming assault as they awaited Mo Bufan’s discovery of Motian Xing’s hiding place.

• Zhao Xuankong told Su Yueli that Mo Bufan would locate Motian Xing within three days, after which the Fourteenth Realm cultivators would gather at the Great Li Imperial City to attack him.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu about the planned siege, and Han Yu resolved to enter seclusion and consolidate her foundation after realizing she could not join the battle.
• Su Yueli considered extracting Motian Xing’s incomplete divine soul from Shen Huai'an’s body so Shen Huai'an could regain his freedom for Shen Qing'an’s sake.
• Xun Wudao, Ancestor Gantian, Chu Huayu, and Xiahou Wuji discussed Mo Bufan’s coming deduction and agreed that the great dynasties had to destroy Motian Xing before he regained his former strength.
• The Fourteenth Realm cultivators acknowledged their wariness of Su Yueli but accepted her as an ally in the impending siege.

Su Yueli left Han Yu and joined the Fourteenth Realm cultivators who tracked Motian Xing to his hideout beneath Yin Mountain. As the punitive expedition approached, Motian Xing seized Shen Huai'an’s body and revealed that he had prepared a formation to sacrifice the attackers and pursue the Fifteenth Realm.

• Su Yueli spent three days guiding Han Yu, then departed for the Great Li Imperial City despite Han Yu and Han Qingling’s worries.
• Mo Bufan used the Heavenly Secrets Disc to locate Motian Xing beneath Yin Mountain in the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Xun Wudao and more than a dozen Fourteenth Realm cultivators set out for Motian Xing’s underground palace.
• Motian Xing bound Shen Huai'an’s soul and took control of his body, dismissing Shen Huai'an’s resistance.
• Motian Xing revealed that he had laid the Nine Nether Vein Heaven-Refining Formation to sacrifice the arriving cultivators and use the Great Yan earth veins to help him reach the Fifteenth Realm.

More than a dozen Fourteenth Realm cultivators entered Yin Mountain Ruins to kill Motian Xing, but Shen Huai'an briefly regained control and warned Su Yueli that the underground palace was a blood-sacrifice trap. The others ignored him, and Motian Xing's crimson barrier stopped Chu Huayu's attack.

• Xun Wudao and the other Fourteenth Realm cultivators detected Motian Xing beneath Yin Mountain and began calculating how to claim his inheritance.
• Su Yueli sensed something wrong with the ley lines and warned the group, but Xun Wudao dismissed her concern.
• Xun Wudao shattered the ruins, revealing an underground palace, and the cultivators rushed inside to surround Motian Xing.
• Shen Huai'an briefly seized control and warned Su Yueli that Motian Xing had buried a killing formation to sacrifice them and break through.
• Chu Huayu dismissed the warning as a ploy and struck Motian Xing with the Nine Heavens Violet Thunder Palm.
• Motian Xing's dark crimson barrier halted Chu Huayu's lightning, and he mocked Shen Huai'an for his soft heart.

Motian Xing activated the Nine Nether Vein Heaven-Refining Formation, suppressing the gathered Fourteenth Realm cultivators and killing one Great Yan ancestor. Su Yueli resisted the formation’s suppression with her martial path and struck Motian Xing with Intent Ash, draining part of his lifespan as he reeled in disbelief.

• Motian Xing stomped on the blood-pool formation core and activated the Nine Nether Vein Heaven-Refining Formation, sealing away the crowd’s cultivation.
• Motian Xing detonated blood-sacrifice catalysts beneath thirty-six cities across Great Yan, strengthening the formation and sending blood-red chains against the trapped cultivators.
• The chains pierced a Great Yan ancestor and drained his Qi and Blood, marrow, and soul, killing him and leaving only ash.
• Su Yueli realized her body and martial path had escaped most of the formation’s suppression, then charged Motian Xing with Little Black formed into a fist blade.
• Su Yueli landed two Intent Ash punches, shattered Motian Xing’s protective Demon Qi, and made him lose a considerable portion of his lifespan.

Su Yueli and the surviving cultivators fought Motian Xing inside the Nine Nether Vein Heaven-Refining Formation, which Mo Bufan revealed was an absolute sacrificial formation designed to help the Demon Sect leader reach the Fifteenth Realm. After Zhao Xuankong sacrificed himself to restrain Motian Xing, Su Yueli’s full-strength strike was interrupted by the detonation of two fallen mighty figures’ source power, leaving her seriously injured.

• Su Yueli wounded Motian Xing with two punches, but he fled through the blood mist while the formation attacked the surviving cultivators.
• Mo Bufan used the Heavenly Secrets Disc to discover that the formation had no escape route and was extracting the Great Yan earth vein to fuel Motian Xing’s breakthrough; the backlash killed him.
• Su Yueli asked the survivors for help, and Zhao Xuankong sacrificed himself to bind Motian Xing with chains of golden dragon qi.
• Su Yueli compressed all her combat strength into a punch aimed at the restrained Motian Xing, but he detonated the remaining source power of Mo Bufan and Zhao Xuankong.
• The blast knocked Su Yueli backward and left her with serious internal injuries.

Motian Xing slaughtered the trapped righteous-path masters and absorbed their power, then turned on Su Yueli, seeking her vitality to break into the Fifteenth Realm. Su Yueli struck him with Intent Ash, rapidly draining his lifespan, but Motian Xing blasted her away and escaped the exchange weakened and terrified.

• Motian Xing used the formation to drain and kill Xun Wudao, Ancestor Gantian, Chu Huayu, Chu Huayu, and the other trapped Fourteenth Realm masters, raising his cultivation to the Late Stage.
• Motian Xing mocked Su Yueli and summoned a gigantic Demonic Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation to crush her.
• Su Yueli summoned her Martial Soul, pierced the manifestation’s palm, and struck Motian Xing with Intent Ash.
• Su Yueli’s punch made Motian Xing lose hundreds of years of lifespan at a time, rapidly weakening his cultivation.
• Motian Xing exploded his Demon Qi in a counterattack, sending Su Yueli flying while he retreated, spat out life essence, and fell back to the Fourteenth Realm Middle Stage.

Su Yueli tried to tear Motian Xing’s remnant soul from Shen Huai'an, but their souls were too entangled, so Motian Xing escaped into the Endless Void. He swore revenge as Su Yueli remained in the ruined Yin Mountain Ruins.

• Su Yueli entered Shen Huai'an’s Sea of Consciousness and tried to rip Motian Xing’s remnant soul free, but Shen Huai'an’s lingering obsession caused a backlash.
• Su Yueli prepared to destroy Shen Huai'an’s body and Motian Xing along with it, so Motian Xing detonated part of his soul and the Nine Nether Vein Heaven-Refining Formation to escape.
• The blast collapsed the underground palace and left no life in the Yin Mountain Ruins, while Su Yueli noted that Motian Xing had fled into the Endless Void.
• Motian Xing landed on a drifting stone in the Endless Void, raged over his ruined plans and lost cultivation, and vowed to rebuild his body and take revenge on everyone around Su Yueli.

Motian Xing planned to ruin Su Yueli’s reputation, but Shen Huai'an fought him for control of the body to stop him. After the Yin Mountain massacre sent the continent into turmoil, Su Yueli stabilized Great Li and encouraged Han Yu to pursue greater strength.

• Motian Xing resolved to spread a false claim that Su Yueli had colluded with him to kill the Fourteenth Realm experts, but Shen Huai'an attacked him inside their shared body to prevent it.
• News that more than a dozen peak Fourteenth Realm cultivators had died at Yin Mountain plunged the continent and its dynasties into panic.
• After Zhao Xuankong’s death left Great Li vulnerable to infighting, Su Yueli returned to the Imperial City and crushed the rebellion with her overwhelming pressure.
• Su Yueli reflected on the fleeting nature of power and fame and concluded that immortality was the only way to transcend suffering.
• Han Yu and Han Qingling reached the Imperial City, and Han Yu asked to enter seclusion and stake everything on reaching the Eleventh Realm.
• Su Yueli gave Han Yu guidance on breaking through the Eleventh Realm and then gazed into the distance, lost in thought.

Motian Xing spread false rumors blaming Su Yueli for the Battle of Yin Mountain, prompting the great dynasties and sects to form an alliance and demand that Great Li hand her over. Su Yueli rejected the court’s pleas and resolved to crush anyone who attacked Great Li, leaving the ultimatum unanswered.

• Motian Xing suppressed Shen Huai'an and sent a secret command to his hidden demonic agents.
• The agents spread rumors that Su Yueli had colluded with the Ancient Devil and slaughtered the patriarchs at Yin Mountain.
• Surviving experts from the Great Xun, Great Gan, and Great Chu dynasties formed the Demon-Extermination Alliance and branded Su Yueli the age’s number one female devil.
• The alliance and more than a dozen great sects demanded that the Great Li Imperial Family surrender Su Yueli within three days or face invasion.
• Great Li officials urged Su Yueli to leave the city and answer the accusations, but she dismissed their pleas and vowed to strike down any forces that invaded Great Li.

Su Yueli faced the Demon-Subjugation Alliance alone at Great Li’s border and killed its three leading Peak Thirteenth Realm ancestors. After warning the remaining forces to stop pursuing her, she left, and the massacre silenced the alliance and its hidden observers.

• The Demon-Subjugation Alliance surrounded Great Li’s border and demanded that Su Yueli surrender.
• Su Yueli appeared alone, while Xu Yuntian accused her of atrocities and ordered her seized.
• Su Yueli charged into the alliance and killed Xu Yuntian with one punch.
• Su Yueli killed the two other Great Xun ancestors after they tried to flee.
• Su Yueli warned the alliance to tell its leaders that anyone else seeking a fight could come find her, then departed.

After Su Yueli killed three Peak Thirteenth Realm ancestors, Great Li’s court shifted to reverence and Han Yu broke through to the Eleventh Realm. Su Yueli failed to locate Motian Xing, who hid in the Sunset Burial Immortal Pit and planned to rebuild his body, while unrest spread across several dynasties.

• Great Li’s officials and vassal kings abandoned their fear of Su Yueli and the imperial family outlawed slander against her.
• Han Yu emerged from cultivation after breaking through to the Eleventh Realm, and Su Yueli warned her against letting anger rule her.
• Su Yueli used Little Black and ancient records to search for Motian Xing but could not find him.
• Motian Xing devoured yin baleful intent in the Sunset Burial Immortal Pit and plotted to rebuild his body and pursue the Fifteenth Realm.
• Reports reached Great Li as vassal kings mobilized, Great Gan’s princes and armies fought over succession, and three Great Yan sects contested the Myriad Laws Sect’s spiritual vein.

After the Fourteenth Realm patriarch’s death plunged the dynasties into turmoil, Great Li’s court tried to use Su Yueli’s strength to expand its territory and bind her to the dynasty. Su Yueli refused to lend her name to their plans, and the chapter ended as she faced officials urging her to become Great Li State Preceptor.

• Su Yueli read reports of unrest across the dynasties and rejected a Great Li official’s proposal to seize Great Yan’s three eastern provinces under her authority.
• Su Yueli warned that she would kill anyone who publicly claimed she approved the invasion.
• Su Yueli examined Han Yu’s unstable breakthrough, found damage to three meridians, and ordered her to circulate her Qi and Blood nine times daily while recovering.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu she would watch the dynastic conflicts but would not intervene unless someone cultivated using mortal lives.
• An official announced that Great Li’s rulers and officials planned to petition Su Yueli to become State Preceptor, and she entered the main hall and asked them to speak plainly.

Su Yueli refused Great Li’s offer to become State Preceptor and left the palace rather than let the court use her power to wage wars. As she prepared to stay in the Imperial City with Han Yu, news of a massacre threatened to spark war between Great Qian and Great Xun.

• Great Li’s officials asked Su Yueli to become State Preceptor, but she refused after realizing they wanted her protection for their planned expansion.
• Su Yueli warned the court that she would help only if Great Li was invaded, then announced she would leave the palace; Han Yu stayed with her in the Imperial City to recover.
• Su Yueli and Han Yu headed toward the city’s outskirts while Little Black continued searching for Motian Xing, whose injuries and struggle with Shen Huai’an delayed his recovery.
• A messenger reported that all 173 members of Great Qian’s delegation to Great Xun, including the third prince, had been killed, with evidence pointing to Great Xun.
• Su Yueli suspected the conspicuous evidence was meant to frame Great Xun, then learned Great Qian had sent 300,000 troops and two Thirteenth Realm cultivators toward its border.