Chapter Summaries

After sixty years of seclusion, Su Yueli remained safely hidden while a brutal war ravaged the Great Li–Great Wei border. Her Mutated Martial Soul devoured a Twelfth Realm remnant soul and evolved into a Void Bodyguard, while the returned soul power awakened her Ultimate Dao Will.

• Su Yueli completed thirty more years of cultivation, bringing her seclusion to sixty years and her physical defense to the threshold of perfection.
• The Great Li Dynasty and the Great Wei Dynasty fought a decades-long war over a Superior Spirit Stone mine, sending low-level cultivators to die on the battlefield.
• Su Yueli remained undisturbed in the Spiritless Death Valley, where the lack of spiritual energy kept the battlefield far away.
• Su Yueli's Mutated Martial Soul finished consuming the Peak Twelfth Realm cultivator's remnant soul and transformed into a Void Bodyguard that devoured probing divine sense.
• Pure soul power from the Void Bodyguard strengthened Su Yueli's spiritual will, giving her a three-zhang field of Ultimate Dao Will that could shatter ordinary Seventh and Eighth Realm cultivators' Sea of Consciousness.

Su Yueli completed eighty years of closed-door cultivation and entered the Thirteenth Realm, which she called the Myriad Tribulations Realm. Having reached Early Myriad Tribulations Realm and the peak of physical strength, she prepared to face the world beyond her sealed chamber.

• Su Yueli resolved to remain in seclusion until she reached the Thirteenth Realm, then destroy the sects’ hidden old monsters without mercy.
• Little Black shed its rust and transformed into an Emperor Tier Divine Weapon, resonating with Su Yueli’s golden bones.
• After eighty years, Su Yueli absorbed the last of the Demon Leech core’s medicinal power and Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Marrow as her bones completed their transformation.
• Su Yueli entered the Myriad Tribulations Realm, and her bones, flesh, and skin became capable of withstanding heavenly lightning and void storms.
• Su Yueli opened her eyes and melted two holes through the stone door with golden beams from her eyes.
• Su Yueli tested her Early Myriad Tribulations Realm strength, crushing visible airwaves with her fist and reaching the world’s physical-strength ceiling.

After eighty years of seclusion, Su Yueli emerged from Spiritless Death Valley, confident she could settle her old debt with the Azure Cloud Sect. She returned to Blackstone City and found that war and time had erased the places and people she remembered, leaving her with no old friends.

• Su Yueli left her sealed chamber, destroyed its stone door, and flew from Spiritless Death Valley toward Great Li Imperial City.
• Su Yueli crossed the wasteland left by the border immortal war and concealed her power as she entered Blackstone City.
• Su Yueli found that the old tavern where she had once eaten hotpot had been replaced by Dengfeng Pawnshop, and remembered that its former staff had died.
• Su Yueli heard people discussing unfamiliar new cultivation prodigies and realized that eighty years had left her with no old friends.

Su Yueli learned that Lu Feiyu, the young sect master of Azure Cloud Sect, was holding an advancement ceremony eighty years after he murdered her parents and their village. She put on the mask of the Masked God of Slaughter and climbed Azure Cloud Mountain toward the celebration.

• Su Yueli overheard teahouse cultivators gossiping about Lu Feiyu’s advancement ceremony and the opportunity he had seized by destroying a mortal village.
• She recalled Lu Feiyu killing her parents and resolved to interrupt his ceremony with a coffin.
• Su Yueli retrieved her white carved mask and resumed her identity as the Masked God of Slaughter.
• Guests gathered at Azure Cloud Mountain and praised Lu Feiyu, while some dismissed the village’s destruction as insignificant.
• Su Yueli, disguised in a black robe and mask, began climbing the white jade steps toward Azure Cloud Sect’s celebration.

Su Yueli arrived at the Azure Cloud Sect in disguise to wreck its celebration and avenge her parents, killing the disciples guarding the gate with a burst of physical force. When the sect raised its Heaven-Origin Mountain-Suppressing Formation, she pierced the barrier with her bare hands and seized its energy nodes.

• Su Yueli ignored the gatekeeping disciples’ demands for her invitation and decided to destroy the mountain gate.
• Su Yueli stomped on the white jade steps, unleashing physical force that killed the dozen or so Sixth and Seventh Realm disciples.
• The Azure Cloud Sect activated the Heaven-Origin Mountain-Suppressing Formation to block the road up the mountain.
• Su Yueli pierced the formation barrier with her bare hands and clamped onto its energy nodes.

Su Yueli tore open Azure Cloud Sect’s ancient mountain-protecting formation and entered its centennial ceremony, where Lu Feiyu recognized the masked intruder as the mortal girl he had once left for dead. She confronted him as old debts came due.

• Su Yueli endured the formation’s lightning and fire, then ripped the Heaven-Origin Mountain-Suppressing Formation apart with her bare hands.
• Su Yueli entered Azure Cloud Sect’s main plaza as the severed head of a gate guard rolled across the white jade floor.
• Lu Feiyu saw Su Yueli’s blood-spotted white mask, dropped his jade cup, and remembered ordering the slaughter of her village years earlier.
• Lu Feiyu asked who Su Yueli was and claimed she must be the girl’s descendant.
• Su Yueli mocked Lu Feiyu for keeping his old, lofty manner.

Su Yueli faced Zhao Chengfeng, the Azure Cloud Sect Grand Elder seeking revenge for her killing his disciple Jiang Ran, and stopped his deadly attack with her bare hand. She left Zhao Chengfeng stunned as she held the Azure Sun Sword and dismissed it as too light.

• Zhao Chengfeng recognized Su Yueli as the woman who had killed Jiang Ran and vowed to avenge his disciple.
• Zhao Chengfeng summoned the Azure Sun Sword and unleashed a massive sword strike against Su Yueli.
• Su Yueli raised her bare hand and shattered the sword light without moving from her place.
• Su Yueli caught the Azure Sun Sword's blade, withstanding its sword qi as Zhao Chengfeng stared in terror.
• Su Yueli told Zhao Chengfeng that his sword was too light.

Su Yueli crushed Zhao Chengfeng’s divine weapon, killed him with a single punch, and devoured his Primordial Spirit with Little Black. She then advanced toward Lu Cangtian and declared that he was next.

• Su Yueli crushed Zhao Chengfeng’s bonded divine weapon with her bare hand, triggering a backlash that left him gravely weakened.
• Zhao Chengfeng tried to flee, but Su Yueli punched his body apart and Little Black swallowed his escaping Primordial Spirit.
• The cultivators watched in terror as Su Yueli’s physical strength shattered their beliefs about cultivation, while Lu Feiyu trembled and Lu Cangtian recognized her as a Martial Dao Zenith.
• Su Yueli told Lu Cangtian he was next and walked up the blood-stained stairs toward the elevated platform.

Su Yueli faced a joint assault from the Azure Cloud Sect’s current Sect Master and Lu Cangtian after overwhelming Zhao Chengfeng. Her Absolute Void bodyguard appeared and stopped Lu Cangtian’s descending Mountain-River Immortal Suppression Seal with its bare fists.

• The panicked cultivators fled after Su Yueli killed Zhao Chengfeng with one punch and devoured his Primordial Spirit.
• The current Sect Master blamed Lu Feiyu, while Lu Cangtian warned that Su Yueli’s Ten-Thousand Tribulations Realm body threatened the Azure Cloud Sect’s survival.
• The current Sect Master trapped Su Yueli with spatial chains and tried to slice her apart as Lu Cangtian summoned the Mountain-River Immortal Suppression Seal.
• Su Yueli summoned her Absolute Void bodyguard, which absorbed the spatial ripples around it.
• The bodyguard caught the massive seal with both fists and halted its descent.

Su Yueli endured the current sect master's spatial attacks and cut apart his Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation with Little Black, leaving the sect master crippled. Lu Cangtian remained on the high platform as the other sect leaders fled.

• Lu Cangtian's Mountain-River Immortal Suppression Seal was drained by the black-gold Martial Soul, weakening his connection to the treasure.
• Su Yueli walked unharmed through the current sect master's Grand Void Lock, her Flawless Golden Bone and glazed flesh resisting the spatial blades.
• The current sect master burned his origin mana and summoned a three-hundred-zhang Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation to attack Su Yueli.
• Su Yueli awakened Little Black and sliced the giant in two with a black blade gleam, causing the current sect master to suffer severe backlash.
• The other sect leaders fled the mountain, while Lu Cangtian watched Su Yueli remain before him.

Su Yueli stopped Lu Cangtian and Lu Feiyu from escaping the Azure Cloud Sect and confronted Lu Feiyu over the massacre of her village a hundred years earlier. She crushed his head, leaving her vengeance repaid while Lu Cangtian remained helpless.

• Lu Cangtian used the Great Luo Blood Escape Technique to try to take Lu Feiyu to the forbidden grounds, where the Patriarch was secluded.
• Su Yueli’s Martial Soul sealed the void with an Absolute Physical Force Field, disrupting Lu Cangtian’s escape and forcing both men to crash onto the plaza.
• Lu Feiyu threatened Su Yueli with the Azure Cloud Sect’s Twelfth Realm master and Thirteenth Realm Grand Elder, then begged for his life and offered his treasures.
• Su Yueli recalled how Lu Feiyu had overseen the deaths of her parents a hundred years earlier and told him he deserved to die.
• Su Yueli stomped on Lu Feiyu’s head and crushed it.

Su Yueli avenged her parents by killing the Lu Household, then awakened a Late Thirteenth Realm patriarch from Azure Cloud Sect’s forbidden ground. The ancient patriarch caught her from behind and crushed her under his overwhelming pressure.

• Su Yueli killed Lu Cangtian with a single punch after crushing Lu Feiyu, completing her revenge against the Lu Household.
• Su Yueli retrieved the cracked dark-gold Martial Bone and said that her parents had been avenged.
• A terrifying presence awoke beneath Azure Cloud Sect, and the forbidden ground split open as a divine coffin exploded.
• A decayed old man emerged from the coffin as a Late Thirteenth Realm cultivator and found Azure Cloud Sect’s descendants dead.
• The patriarch attacked Su Yueli from behind, seized her neck, and suppressed her with his corpse qi.

Su Yueli fought the Azure Cloud Sect Patriarch, who trapped her with the Heaven-Locking Mirror and wore down her body. As her Golden Bones cracked, she sacrificed half of her Mutated Martial Soul to break the mirror’s suppression and began burning her life force for a final attack.

• Su Yueli tried to make the Patriarch spare her by offering to extend his lifespan, but he rejected her claim and threatened to torment her Divine Soul.
• The Patriarch summoned the Heaven-Locking Mirror and sealed the space around the ruins, trapping Su Yueli beneath its immortal light.
• Su Yueli endured the mirror’s attacks and clashed with the Patriarch until her Golden Bones began to crack.
• Su Yueli ordered Little Black to prepare, then detonated half of her Mutated Martial Soul, tearing through the mirror’s light and dimming its power.
• Little Black poured its Darkness Origin into Su Yueli’s fist as she burned her Ultimate Dao Blood Qi with the Ultimate Dao Fifth Form, Life Burning.

Su Yueli escaped the Azure Cloud Sect after using five hundred years of lifespan to overpower its old ancestor, leaving the sect in ruins. Hiding in the Endless Wilderness, she began painfully repairing her shattered body as powerful factions searched for the wounded, masked Thirteenth Realm cultivator.

• Su Yueli burned five hundred years of lifespan to break the old ancestor's spatial chains and flee through a rift, while her punch cracked the Immortal Mirror and wounded him.
• The old ancestor saw the devastation of the Azure Cloud Sect, cried out about the unknown Thirteenth Realm cultivator, and collapsed after spitting black blood.
• The Great Li emperor ordered an investigation, while the Heavenly Sword Pavilion recalled its disciples and warned them not to provoke the masked cultivator.
• Cultivators, spies, and assassins from both dynasties searched the Endless Wilderness, hoping to find the wounded Su Yueli and whatever secrets she carried.
• Su Yueli hid in a cave with Little Black, swallowed ordinary healing pills, and decided to recover before returning to settle her debts.
• Su Yueli forced her displaced Golden Bones back into place with her own hands and prepared to mend them with Qi and Blood.

While Su Yueli recovered from her injuries, Little Black spat out Zhao Chengfeng’s Primordial Spirit, which her Mutated Martial Soul devoured to repair itself. Nearby cultivators began hunting for the wounded Su Yueli, and she used absolute feigned death to hide as a Twelfth Realm grand cultivator’s divine sense searched her cave.

• Su Yueli expelled the deathly aura from her body while slowly healing her Golden Bones.
• Little Black spat out Zhao Chengfeng’s Primordial Spirit, and Su Yueli’s Mutated Martial Soul crushed and devoured it to restore some of its damage.
• Su Yueli sensed cultivators searching the wilderness for her after Azure Cloud Mountain collapsed and the immortal artifact escaped.
• As a Twelfth Realm grand cultivator’s divine sense approached her cave, Su Yueli concealed her spiritual presence, stopped her heart and breathing, and made her body appear lifeless.
• The grand cultivator’s divine sense entered the cave and swept through it as Su Yueli remained in feigned death.

Su Yueli hid motionless in a cave for 110 years while the world forgot the Masked God of Slaughter. After her injuries healed and her body reached the Leakless State, she prepared to leave the cave.

• Su Yueli evaded a divine-sense search and concealed herself in a nameless cave, waiting out the hunt.
• Over 110 years, the Azure Cloud Sect’s destruction faded into legend as generations of mortals and cultivators died.
• Su Yueli woke as her stone shell broke apart and discovered that her injuries from the Undying Realm had healed.
• Su Yueli realized her essence, energy, and spirit had merged into the Leakless State, giving her a body that could withstand a Tenth Realm flying sword.
• Little Black and Su Yueli’s Mutated Martial Soul recovered to their peak, and Su Yueli put on a new white mask before preparing to go outside.

Su Yueli returned to Fengling City and visited Shen Qing'an’s grave, recalling how he had sacrificed everything to help her pursue immortality. After confirming her resolve to uncover the truth about Shen Huai'an and Lu Chen’s death, she left for the Azure Moon Sect.

• Su Yueli revisited the ruined temple in Fengling City and remembered how Shen Qing'an had worked for twenty years to buy her a chance to cultivate.
• Su Yueli went to Shen Qing'an’s grave, placed the old jade slip beside it, and told him she had avenged him against the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Su Yueli vowed to investigate Shen Huai'an’s role in the village’s destruction and Lu Chen’s death, and to kill him if he was responsible.
• Su Yueli repaired the grave and set out for the Azure Moon Sect, intending to uncover the truth about her master and break through to the Fourteenth Realm.

Su Yueli returned to the diminished Azure Cloud Sect to settle her old grudge with its ancestor and sever the last of her karma with the sect. After entering the main peak, she waited for an elder’s personal disciple who might know where the ancestor was.

• Su Yueli heard Rogue Cultivators recount how the masked Thirteenth Realm fighter had devastated the Azure Cloud Sect and gravely wounded its ancestor more than a century earlier.
• Su Yueli resolved to find the ancestor and kill him if he was still alive, ending her connection to the sect.
• Su Yueli entered the Azure Cloud Sect without harming its low-level disciples and made her way to the main peak.
• Su Yueli spotted an arrogant young personal disciple carrying a jade slip and decided he would be useful.

Su Yueli tracked down the Azure Cloud Sect patriarch and confronted him in his forbidden cave residence. She told him she had come to sever their karmic ties by killing him.

• Su Yueli knocked out a blue-robed cultivator and forced him to reveal that the patriarch was recovering in a forbidden cave on the rear mountain.
• Su Yueli reached the cave, where its restriction opened before she could break it.
• The patriarch recognized Su Yueli and explained that he had opened the restriction to prevent her from destroying the main peak.
• The patriarch feared Su Yueli had come to wipe out the Azure Cloud Sect, but she said she would spare the uninvolved disciples and elders.
• Su Yueli told the patriarch that she had come to sever their karmic ties by killing him.

Su Yueli forced the Azure Cloud Sect's old ancestor to atone for protecting Lu Feiyu, then learned he had taken his own life and considered her century-long revenge complete. She left the past behind by changing into new robes, with her next goal being to break through to the Fourteenth Realm.

• Su Yueli told the old ancestor that she sought revenge for her parents and Shen Qing'an, and demanded that he die for having protected Lu Feiyu.
• The old ancestor asked Su Yueli to conceal his death to protect the Azure Cloud Sect, and she agreed while warning that the sect would be destroyed if he remained alive the next day.
• Su Yueli sensed that the old ancestor had taken his own life and decided that her feud with the Azure Cloud Sect was over.
• Su Yueli reflected on her loneliness among the townspeople and resolved to pursue a breakthrough to the Fourteenth Realm before approaching the Azure Moon Sect.
• Su Yueli bought a new pale blue-and-white robe, marking a fresh beginning as she returned to the bustling streets.