Chapter Summaries

Su Yueli and Han Yu tried to hold off Motian Xing while the armies of the Eight Dynasties withdrew from the battlefield. Motian Xing activated an ancient grand formation beneath the wasteland, sealing the evacuation route and leaving the armies trapped.

• Su Yueli intercepted Motian Xing when he attacked the retreating Great Liang army, while commanders struggled to stop the intermingled armies from fighting.
• Han Yu led the Great Qian and Great Xun troops toward safety along a road marked by white flags, ordering the wounded to withdraw first.
• Motian Xing sent Demon Qi crashing down on the evacuation route, and Han Yu joined forces with cultivators from rival dynasties to hold it back until Su Yueli broke through the attack.
• Su Yueli stayed behind to fight Motian Xing while Han Yu hurried the armies onward, ordering them to abandon their military equipment.
• Motian Xing activated the ancient grand formation beneath the wasteland, raising eight pillars of black light and sealing the evacuation route.

Motian Xing used the battlefield’s death energy and the Eight Dynasties’ Spiritual Power to break through to the Fifteenth Realm. Su Yueli saved the retreating cultivators, but Motian Xing emerged fully restored and challenged her to kill him.

• Little Black identified that the formation absorbed Spiritual Power, but Motian Xing drew on the attacks and deaths to fuel his breakthrough.
• Su Yueli damaged the formation and wounded Motian Xing, while Shen Huai'an briefly awakened and urged her to destroy the eight nodes.
• Motian Xing overwhelmed Little Black with a demon soul and drained Spiritual Power from the Eight Dynasties’ military formations.
• Han Yu shielded the retreating cultivators from Motian Xing’s Demon Qi until Su Yueli rescued her and broke the sealing barrier.
• Motian Xing absorbed the formation’s accumulated power, reached the Fifteenth Realm, and asked Su Yueli if she could still kill him.

Su Yueli stayed behind to fight Motian Xing after he broke through to the Fifteenth Realm, while Han Yu led the others to safety. Though Su Yueli managed to cut off his source of recovery, Motian Xing overwhelmed and pinned her with a Black Spear, then prepared a killing blow.

• Su Yueli sent Han Yu and the others to retreat, then returned to face Motian Xing alone.
• Motian Xing used his control over the laws to suppress Su Yueli, but she fought back with her fists and wounded him.
• Motian Xing recovered through the death energy from the ongoing war, while Su Yueli freed the demon souls he had used to shield himself.
• Motian Xing injured Su Yueli and used the resentment of the dead to shake her Divine Soul, then pierced her shoulder with a Black Spear.
• Su Yueli admitted she had lost, and Motian Xing raised his hand to deliver a blow that would shatter her body and Divine Soul.

Su Yueli burned her immense lifespan to reach the peak of the fourteenth realm and withstand Motian Xing’s attack, but his Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation overwhelmed her. She burned another five hundred years of life and charged head-on at its enormous fist.

• Motian Xing pinned Su Yueli with a Black Spear and prepared to kill her as she assessed whether she could still wound him.
• Su Yueli activated Life Burning and transformed her lifespan into qi and blood, reaching the pinnacle of the fourteenth realm and shattering Motian Xing’s palm strike.
• Motian Xing summoned his Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation, whose stomp sent Su Yueli flying and left her at a disadvantage.
• Su Yueli burned another five hundred years of life, grew stronger, and charged straight into the manifestation’s enormous fist.

Su Yueli fought Motian Xing’s Demon Avatar by burning her lifespan, but realized physical attacks could not kill a fifteenth-realm Demon Venerable. She prepared her Intent Ash Fist, which could consume an enemy’s lifespan, as Motian Xing launched another attack.

• Su Yueli burned five hundred years of lifespan and shattered the Demon Avatar’s protective Demon Qi with a punch.
• Su Yueli and Motian Xing fought across the sky and earth, trading attacks until neither could overcome the other.
• Su Yueli realized she needed a technique that could strike Motian Xing’s essence and prevent him from rebuilding his Demon Avatar.
• Su Yueli prepared her Intent Ash Fist, which used her lifespan to drain her enemy’s years until they died of old age.
• Motian Xing sensed danger from Su Yueli’s golden fists and attacked her with another palm strike.

Su Yueli relentlessly used Intent Ash Fist to drain Motian Xing’s lifespan, enduring severe injuries as he aged and weakened. Motian Xing threatened to detonate the continent’s earth-vein core and kill countless mortals to force her to hesitate, but Su Yueli looked down at the doomed people and said it no longer mattered.

• Su Yueli struck Motian Xing with Intent Ash Fist, draining five hundred years of his lifespan despite his demonic manifestation’s attack.
• Su Yueli continued punching through Motian Xing’s spells and formations, burning away her lifespan and suffering grave injuries as his body rapidly aged.
• Motian Xing panicked and unleashed his magical treasures, but Su Yueli’s fists kept draining thousands of years from him.
• Motian Xing poured his remaining power into the earth-vein core and threatened to destroy half the continent, killing billions of mortals along with Su Yueli.
• Su Yueli watched the earth split and the mortals beg for their lives, then said, “It doesn't matter anymore...”

Su Yueli burned ten thousand years of lifespan to unleash her strongest fist and kill Motian Xing, though their battle devastated a third of the continent. As she rested beside his corpse, it inexplicably rose again.

• Su Yueli burned ten thousand years of lifespan and struck Motian Xing with Ultimate Dao Five Forms combined-Intent Ash as he detonated the continent's earth veins.
• The blast devastated a third of the continent, but Su Yueli's fist drained Motian Xing's lifespan and hurled them both into the ruins.
• Su Yueli healed enough to stand and walked to Motian Xing, whose fifteenth realm laws kept him barely alive.
• Su Yueli smashed Motian Xing's arms and chest with three punches, crushing his heart and obliterating his Divine Soul.
• As Su Yueli rested after killing Motian Xing, his lifeless corpse began to rise.

Su Yueli killed Motian Xing with her Intent Ash Fist, freeing Shen Huai'an from the darkness in which he had been imprisoned for tens of thousands of years. Shen Huai'an died in her arms, leaving Su Yueli alone in the ash-covered wasteland.

• Su Yueli stopped her next punch when the corpse called her big sister and she recognized Shen Huai'an.
• Shen Huai'an regained control of his ruined body after Su Yueli destroyed Motian Xing's Divine Soul, but Su Yueli's Longevity Blood Qi could not save him.
• Shen Huai'an confessed his guilt over the people Motian Xing had killed, and Su Yueli told him those crimes were not his.
• Shen Huai'an realized Su Yueli had attained longevity and apologized before dying in her arms.
• Su Yueli remained alone in the silent wasteland, grieving Shen Huai'an and the others she had lost.

After defeating Motian Xing, Su Yueli buried Shen Huai'an beside his brother Shen Qing'an and mourned the friends she had lost. Han Yu found her and reported that the continent's surviving factions were fighting over spiritual veins, then asked what Su Yueli would do next.

• Su Yueli carried Shen Huai'an's remains to a barren mountain outside Fengling City and buried him beside Shen Qing'an's grave.
• Su Yueli told Shen Qing'an that she had learned he had lied about going to Fengling City to become a shopkeeper and had died trying to help her cultivate immortality.
• Su Yueli sat between the graves and reflected on Shen Qing'an's sacrifice and Shen Huai'an's endurance.
• Han Yu found Su Yueli after searching for seven days and nights and saw her white hair and the two graves.
• Han Yu reported that Motian Xing and many powerful cultivators had died, leaving the major factions to fight over surviving spiritual veins.
• Han Yu asked Su Yueli what she intended to do with the shattered continent.

After defeating Motian Xing, Su Yueli rejected Han Yu’s suggestion that she rule the shattered continent and remained beside Shen Qing'an’s and Shen Huai'an’s graves. When Great Wei cultivators arrived to seize her and her cultivation method, Su Yueli’s eyes turned utterly cold.

• Su Yueli dismissed the surviving factions’ struggles as pointless and chose not to rule the continent.
• Han Yu hid the effects of repeatedly using Life Burning, which had consumed much of her lifespan while she searched for Su Yueli.
• Zhao Wuji and Wang Chongshan led Great Wei cultivators to the graves and mistakenly judged Su Yueli to be powerless.
• Zhao Wuji demanded Su Yueli surrender her cultivation method and threatened to take her to Great Wei’s capital.
• Han Yu stood between the Great Wei cultivators and Su Yueli, who remained seated as the last warmth left her golden eyes.

Su Yueli effortlessly killed Zhao Wuji, Wang Chongshan, and the Great Wei lackeys who came to seize her, then learned that the Great Wei Emperor had ordered the attack. To keep the dynasty from disturbing Shen Qing'an and Shen Huai'an’s graves, she opened a passage to the Great Wei capital and went to destroy it.

• Zhao Wuji and Wang Chongshan attacked Su Yueli with a copper cauldron and flying swords, but she crushed them and their weapons with a single sweep of her hand.
• The surviving Great Wei lackeys fell in terror, and Han Yu forced one to reveal that the Great Wei Emperor had sent them to capture Su Yueli and obtain her cultivation techniques.
• Su Yueli killed the lackeys and decided to eliminate the Great Wei Dynasty so its forces would not disturb the graves.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu to watch over the graves, tore open a spatial passage to the Great Wei capital, and stepped through.

Su Yueli crossed the void to Pingyang City and annihilated the Great Wei Dynasty with one punch after Emperor Wei Wuji tried to capture her for her cultivation method. She returned to Han Yu and the two graves on the barren mountain, where she began recovering as the continent’s surviving powers declared the area forbidden.

• Wei Wuji celebrated the prospect of capturing Su Yueli and extracting her cultivation method while Zhao Wuji and Wang Chongshan went to seize her.
• Su Yueli appeared in Tai Chi Hall through a spatial fissure, and Wei Wuji recognized her as the woman who had killed a fifteenth-realm Demon Sovereign.
• Wei Wuji activated the Celestial Capital Blazing Fire Divine Formation and fled toward a secret passage, but Su Yueli shattered the formation and killed him with her Intent Ash Fist.
• Su Yueli’s punch erased Pingyang City and the Great Wei Dynasty, leaving a hundred-li crater that terrified the continent’s hidden powers into recalling their disciples and avoiding her.
• Su Yueli returned to the barren mountain, where Han Yu stood guard before the two graves, and began repairing her ruptured meridians.

After waking from her fifteen-year recovery, Su Yueli saw that Han Yu had aged to the brink of death, and her vitality could no longer prolong her disciple’s failing life. During a cold autumn night, Han Yu collapsed after vomiting black blood, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Fifteen years after Su Yueli was gravely wounded, she woke on Barren Mountain with her body healed but her hair still white from Life Burning.
• Su Yueli found Han Yu aged and frail, unable to retain the vitality Su Yueli poured into her failing body.
• Han Yu told Su Yueli not to waste her strength and joked about her deteriorating appearance to comfort her.
• As autumn rain battered the hut, Han Yu suddenly froze while tending the stove, vomited black blood, and collapsed onto the muddy ground.

Han Yu died in Su Yueli’s arms after her life-burning body rejected Su Yueli’s attempts to save her. Su Yueli held her disciple through the night, left alone in the rain.

• Su Yueli poured her life force into Han Yu, but the Laws of heaven and earth rejected it.
• Han Yu told Su Yueli she regretted never breaking through the Eleventh Realm and feared leaving her master alone.
• Su Yueli apologized for failing to find the path to the Twelfth Realm and take Han Yu with her.
• Han Yu asked Su Yueli not to forget her, then died in her arms.
• Su Yueli withdrew her life force and sat holding Han Yu’s corpse in the rain all night.

After burying Han Yu, Su Yueli accepted that immortality had left her alone and severed her remaining ties to the mortal world. She broke through the heavens with her power and entered a void rift to seek what lay beyond.

• Su Yueli buried Han Yu beside Shen Qing'an and Shen Huai'an, then mourned the people whose graves marked her lost connections.
• Su Yueli reflected that immortality meant watching everyone she cared about die while she remained alone.
• Su Yueli poured wine before the graves, drank the rest, and resolved to leave the broken continent and keep advancing in cultivation.
• Su Yueli unleashed her fourteenth-realm peak cultivation and punched a vast void rift through the heavens.
• Su Yueli entered the void rift, which closed behind her as Barren Mountain fell silent.

Su Yueli entered the heavily guarded Heavenly Abyss Pavilion and read ancient records that distorted the truth of her past, revealing how completely time had erased her history. She left with only Han Yu’s incomplete sword stance as evidence that her life had touched the present.

• Su Yueli left Han Yu waiting in the alley and crossed the Imperial City to the Heavenly Abyss Pavilion.
• Su Yueli passed through the Guardian Nation Grand Formation and the hidden guards without being detected.
• Su Yueli broke the seal on the first jade slip and read that later historians had portrayed her as a murderous witch who died fighting the Demon Venerable.
• Su Yueli read a second jade slip and realized that the pressure recorded eight thousand two hundred years earlier had marked her breakthrough into the fifteenth realm.
• Su Yueli reflected that the people and events she remembered had vanished from history, while Han Yu’s sword stance remained the only sign that she had existed.

After ten thousand years of solitary cultivation in the void, Su Yueli reached the martial immortal realm and returned to a transformed world ruled by the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty. Discovering that spiritual cultivation remained capped at the fourteenth realm, she set out to explore the dynasty and uncover what lay beneath its prosperity.

• Su Yueli spent five hundred years understanding the fifteenth realm, then another five hundred years breaking through and alarming the patriarchs of the three surviving dynasties.
• Su Yueli continued her seclusion for ten thousand years, watched her memories and emotions fade, and transformed her longevity blood qi into golden power as she entered the martial immortal realm.
• After eleven thousand years in the void, Su Yueli returned to a prosperous world and entered a vast city whose civilization had changed beyond recognition.
• Su Yueli paid the attendant Shunzi with an old spirit stone and learned that the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty ruled the continent in the year 8300 of its calendar.
• Su Yueli learned that no one had reached the fifteenth realm in ten thousand years, realized spiritual cultivation was limited by flaws in the world's laws, and decided to investigate the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty.

Su Yueli saw how the world had changed during her ten-thousand-year absence and learned that later generations had rewritten her history as the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady. After effortlessly stopping a stray sword attack, she left the tavern and disappeared among the crowds.

• Su Yueli visited the Drunken Immortal House and discovered that Bamboo Leaf Green and the memories of her era had vanished.
• A storyteller recounted a revised account of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady, claiming she had died after defeating the Demon Venerable.
• Su Yueli recognized herself in the tale and reflected that history had erased her real name, actions, and suffering.
• Li Fei and young cultivators from the Wang Household fought inside the tavern, and a blast of sword qi vanished against Su Yueli's martial immortal field.
• Su Yueli left silver on the table, stepped out through the window, and blended into the crowd.

Su Yueli found a poor girl practicing a heavy sword in the outer city's slums and recognized the grip as the first form she had taught Han Yu ten thousand years earlier. After watching the girl train until dusk, Su Yueli approached her, moved by proof that Han Yu's technique had endured.

• Su Yueli walked into the outer city's slums and saw a cultivator kill another over a fragment of lower-grade spirit stone.
• Su Yueli found a malnourished girl practicing with a heavy iron sword blank beside a smithy.
• Su Yueli recognized the girl's grip as the Sword-Draw Stance, the first form of the Ultimate Dao Martial Art that she had taught Han Yu.
• Su Yueli watched the girl practice for twelve hours as her hands blistered and bled, while memories of Han Yu resurfaced.
• At dusk, the exhausted girl dropped the sword and collapsed, and Su Yueli left the wall and walked toward her.

Su Yueli killed five Black Tiger Gang cultivators who were extorting a blacksmith and offered to teach martial arts to Han Yu, a girl who had attacked them with a broken ancestral sword technique. When Han Yu gave her name, Su Yueli recognized the name of her disciple from ten thousand years ago and wondered whether the girl was connected to her through reincarnation.

• Master Liu demanded doubled dues from the blacksmith, and Han Yu charged him with her greatsword after seeing him beaten.
• Master Liu kicked Han Yu aside and raised his saber to kill her, but Su Yueli flicked a raindrop and turned all five gang cultivators to powder.
• Su Yueli questioned Han Yu about her Broken Sword Technique and learned that the Great Xia dynasty reportedly took its name from an ancient ruin linked to Great Li.
• Su Yueli decided to open a Martial Arts Academy and asked Han Yu whether she wanted to learn martial arts.
• Han Yu said her name was Han Yu, and Su Yueli was shaken as memories of her disciple from ten thousand years ago resurfaced.