Chapter Summaries

Su Yueli and Han Yu encountered private soldiers of Great Yan’s Second Prince on a mountain road, where Han Yu fought her first battle and Su Yueli effortlessly defeated a Fourth Realm cultivator. After questioning the prince’s men, Su Yueli learned that Great Yan’s succession struggle had left the Imperial House in turmoil, giving them an opportunity to retrieve the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine.

• Su Yueli guided Han Yu through Third Realm training as they traveled along a mountain path.
• Han Yu defeated a Third Realm Late Stage guard with one punch after the guard attacked her.
• Su Yueli killed a Fourth Realm cultivator with a flick of her finger and incapacitated the remaining guards.
• Su Yueli questioned the brocade-robed young master and learned that the men served Great Yan’s Second Prince.
• Su Yueli learned that the emperor was gravely ill and the princes were struggling for the throne, then decided the chaos would help them enter the Imperial City and retrieve the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine.

Su Yueli and Han Yu reached Great Yan’s Imperial City seeking the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine and learned it was offered as a reward for curing the emperor’s strange poison. Su Yueli tore down the imperial notice and was challenged by the guards just as a likely prince arrived.

• Su Yueli and Han Yu crossed into Great Yan and traveled to its Imperial City, where they learned the succession struggle had intensified.
• At the Skyreach General Goods Association, Su Yueli paid two hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to learn that the Imperial House had offered the vine as a reward for curing the emperor’s Death-Baleful Poison.
• Su Yueli decided to pursue the reward openly rather than break into the palace, believing Little Black or her Martial Soul could counter the poison.
• At the Imperial City gate, Su Yueli tore down the notice, startling the crowd and prompting the guard captain to question her qualifications.
• The guard captain began to drive Su Yueli away, but a richly dressed middle-aged man with Eighth Realm cultivation arrived and asked what was happening.

Su Yueli persuaded Yan Yunxiao to let her treat the Great Yan emperor, whose mysterious Death Balefulness poison had resisted the palace's cultivators. She began drawing the poison from his body with her Martial Soul, leaving the treatment underway.

• Yan Yunxiao questioned Su Yueli's ability to answer the imperial notice, then agreed to bring her into the palace.
• Su Yueli told Yan Yunxiao that she and Han Yu came from Great Li, and he explained that Death Balefulness poison had been consuming the emperor's life for half a year.
• The empress offered Su Yueli the Eighth-Grade Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine, an Upper-Grade Heaven Rank immortal artifact, and the imperial house's favor if she saved the emperor.
• Su Yueli ordered everyone except Yan Yunxiao and the empress to leave the bedchamber, then identified the emperor's affliction as Dark Nether Death Balefulness.
• Su Yueli summoned a faint Martial Soul and began pulling the Death Balefulness out of the emperor's body.

Su Yueli cured the Great Yan Emperor by absorbing his Death Balefulness poison and was rewarded with an Emperor-Rank Weapon of her choice. At the Imperial Armory, she found a black Emperor-Rank spear that made Little Black tremble with excitement and longing.

• Su Yueli absorbed the Death Balefulness poison, revived the Great Yan Emperor, and collected the promised Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine.
• The Emperor offered Su Yueli any Emperor-Rank Weapon in the Imperial Armory as thanks for saving his life.
• Su Yueli explained her Martial Soul to Han Yu while Yan Yunxiao led them to the armory.
• Yan Yunxiao let Han Yu choose a weapon below Heaven Rank as a meeting gift, and she excitedly went to browse.
• Su Yueli spotted a black Emperor-Rank spear, and Little Black reacted with intense excitement and longing.

Su Yueli and Han Yu selected weapons in the imperial armory after Su Yueli cured the emperor, while Yan Yunlie learned that his coup plans had been ruined. As Su Yueli left the palace with Yan Yunxiao’s token, Yan Yunlie decided to try recruiting her instead of attacking her.

• Su Yueli took the Emperor Tier spear, whose Baleful Intent submitted to her, and Han Yu chose an Upper-Grade Earth Tier short blade.
• Yan Yunlie learned that the emperor had awakened and that Su Yueli had received an Emperor Tier weapon, undoing his plans to seize the throne.
• Yan Yunlie recognized Su Yueli as the woman who had killed his men, but Withered Elder warned that attacking her would provoke the crown prince and proposed recruiting her.
• Yan Yunlie agreed to meet Su Yueli and offer her richer terms.
• Yan Yunxiao gave Su Yueli a royal token to use Great Yan’s merchant guilds and relay stations, and she left the palace with Han Yu.

Su Yueli trained Han Yu in basic blade techniques and practiced spear skills as they traveled back toward Great Li. At the border, she confronted Yan Yunlie, the Second Prince of Great Yan, who admitted that his reason for following them was not as straightforward as he had claimed.

• Su Yueli taught Han Yu basic blade techniques, then practiced with her Emperor Tier spear using her physical strength and spear Dao.
• Su Yueli and Han Yu crossed Great Yan and reached the border wasteland, where Su Yueli revealed she had sensed two people following them.
• Yan Yunlie and Withered Elder appeared before Su Yueli and Han Yu, and Han Yu recognized them as immortals.
• Yan Yunlie claimed he had followed Su Yueli to offer gifts and express admiration for saving his father, but Su Yueli pointed out that he had waited until they left Great Yan's territory.
• Yan Yunlie's smile stiffened when Su Yueli exposed his excuse, and he acknowledged that she had seen through him.

Su Yueli rejected Yan Yunlie’s attempt to recruit her and intimidate her with treasures, then overwhelmed his Twelfth Realm bodyguard when he threatened her disciple. She left Yan Yunlie and Withered Elder afraid to act, while Han Yu realized how powerful her master was.

• Yan Yunlie offered Su Yueli pills and spirit stones in exchange for her friendship and future help, while hinting at the danger of refusing him.
• Su Yueli rejected his offer and said his men had deserved their deaths after trying to rob travelers.
• Withered Elder used his Twelfth Realm spiritual pressure against Su Yueli and Han Yu, nearly forcing Han Yu to her knees.
• Su Yueli stomped away Withered Elder’s pressure with her Qi and Blood, leaving him staggered and shocked.
• Su Yueli warned Withered Elder that she had killed Twelfth Realm cultivators before and threatened Yan Yunlie if he harmed Han Yu.
• Han Yu stared in shock as Withered Elder and Yan Yunlie became too afraid to move against Su Yueli.

Su Yueli subdued Yan Yunlie and Withered Elder before continuing toward Great Li with Han Yu. Back in Great Li, she learned that Zhao Yan had been exiled to Blackwind Pass and decided to visit him.

• Su Yueli unleashed her blood qi, forcing Yan Yunlie to the ground and making Withered Elder apologize before she and Han Yu left.
• Yan Yunlie swore in anger, but Withered Elder warned him never to provoke Su Yueli again.
• Han Yu told Su Yueli she hoped to become strong enough to protect her and travel with her, while Su Yueli remained silent when asked what she wanted most.
• After half a month, Su Yueli and Han Yu returned to Great Li and planned to obtain the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine and meet Yun Tianheng.
• Su Yueli learned that Zhao Yan had been exiled to Blackwind Pass and decided to visit him with Han Yu.

Su Yueli and Han Yu visited Zhao Yan at Blackwind Pass, where the former prince had settled into a peaceful life after abandoning his bid for power. Su Yueli thanked him for helping her a century earlier, and she left reflecting that ordinary days could be nice too.

• Su Yueli and Han Yu reached the military camp at Blackwind Pass and learned Zhao Yan lived in a residence in Blackwind Town.
• Gu Chen recognized Su Yueli and welcomed her and Han Yu into Zhao Yan's estate.
• Zhao Yan reunited with Su Yueli and heard her introduce Han Yu as her disciple.
• Zhao Yan explained that he had given up his ambitions after realizing the Crown Prince controlled the frontier army, and that he now valued his peaceful life.
• Su Yueli thanked Zhao Yan for giving her life-saving medicine for Lin Ye and helping her enter the secret realm.

Su Yueli and Han Yu returned to the Great Li Imperial City, where Yun Tianheng prepared to refine an Eighth-Grade Pill from the rare ingredients Su Yueli had gathered. Han Yu realized that her master’s long journey and battles had been for this pill.

• Zhao Yan asked Su Yueli how she had remained youthful for a century, and she claimed she practiced a technique that preserved her appearance.
• Su Yueli and Han Yu traveled toward the Great Li Imperial City, and Han Yu advanced close to the Third Realm Mid-Stage through daily training.
• A guard told Su Yueli that Yun Tianheng was waiting for her at an Immortal Abode outside the city to avoid the palace’s watchful eyes.
• Su Yueli presented Yun Tianheng with the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine and two other rare ingredients for the pill refinement.
• Yun Tianheng warned that refining the pill could fail, but he agreed to give it his all after Su Yueli promised him a favor if he succeeded.
• Han Yu realized Su Yueli had endured battles against powerful enemies and factions to gather the ingredients for the Eighth-Grade Pill.

While Yun Tianheng refined a peak Eighth-Grade Pill, Su Yueli explained the Martial Dao’s higher realms and her ambition to help martial artists overcome their limits. When the pill’s Pill Thunder gathered over the Immortal Abode, Su Yueli flew beneath the tribulation clouds to protect Yun Tianheng as he completed the refinement.

• Yun Tianheng began refining an Eighth-Grade Pill with the Myriad Tribulations Bloodwashing Vine and costly supplementary herbs.
• Su Yueli told Han Yu that the Martial Dao continued beyond the Tenth Realm, describing the Eleventh through Thirteenth Realms and revealing her ambition to extend martial artists’ lifespans.
• Su Yueli examined her strange, growing Martial Soul and wondered whether it was a clone while she and Han Yu waited for Yun Tianheng to finish refining.
• Pill Thunder gathered above the Immortal Abode as Yun Tianheng neared the final stage of collecting the peak Eighth-Grade Pill.
• Su Yueli ordered Han Yu to retreat, flew above the Immortal Abode, and told Yun Tianheng to continue while she faced the Pill Thunder.

Yun Tianheng refined a Peak Eighth-Grade Pill that summoned Pill Thunder, while Su Yueli shattered the heavenly lightning with her bare hands. The spectacle drew the Great Li Emperor and powerful figures from across the dynasty to the Immortal Abode, where they watched her fight off the escalating tribulation.

• Yun Tianheng stabilized the pill embryo as the first bolt of Pill Thunder descended, and Su Yueli destroyed it with a burst of Qi and Blood.
• Yun Tianheng hurried to finish refining the pill as Han Yu watched Su Yueli in awe.
• The Great Li Emperor learned that Yun Tianheng was refining a pill at the Immortal Abode and set out to investigate.
• The Azure Moon Sect Master and Shen Huai'an recognized the distant phenomenon as a Peak Eighth-Grade Pill’s tribulation and rushed toward it.
• Powerful figures from across Great Li arrived and saw Su Yueli punch apart successive bolts of Pill Thunder with her physical strength.

Su Yueli protected Yun Tianheng as he completed a Peak Eighth-Grade Dragonblood Crimson Marrow Pill, then left with Han Yu. The Great Li Emperor arrived too late to meet her, grew wary of the unknown expert, and ordered his ministers to keep watch.

• Su Yueli endured the powerful Pill Thunder while Yun Tianheng poured his remaining Spiritual Power into the cauldron and completed the pill.
• Yun Tianheng gave Su Yueli the pill, and she promised to repay his favor before taking Han Yu and departing.
• The Azure Moon Sect master and Shen Huai'an saw a blue-clad figure fly past, but could not sense her Spiritual Power.
• The Great Li Emperor and other powerful figures arrived at the Immortal Abode and questioned Yun Tianheng about the pill and the expert who had faced the thunder.
• Yun Tianheng refused to reveal his client's identity, prompting the displeased Great Li Emperor to order his ministers to watch for the unknown expert.
• Shen Huai'an suspected that the blue-clad figure he had seen was familiar and felt growing unease.

Su Yueli brought Han Yu to the ruined village where her master and fellow villagers had died, and taught her martial arts there for two years. After Han Yu reached the Third Realm Peak and mastered her lessons, Su Yueli prepared to enter seclusion to refine the Dragonblood Crimson Marrow Pill and attempt the Fourteenth Realm, leaving Han Yu to guard the village.

• Su Yueli recalled her blood feud and the sight of Shen Huai'an, who had reached the Eleventh Realm.
• Su Yueli took Han Yu to the abandoned village where she had once found refuge and introduced her to her deceased master, Lu Chen.
• Han Yu paid respects to Lu Chen, and Su Yueli began teaching her the Ultimate Dao Five Forms and Mountain-Shattering Heavenbreaker Force.
• Over two years, Han Yu trained in the ruins and stabilized her cultivation at the Third Realm Peak while Su Yueli prepared her state of mind.
• Su Yueli gave Han Yu a Jade Talisman and announced she would enter seclusion to refine the Dragonblood Crimson Marrow Pill and attempt the Fourteenth Realm.

Su Yueli returned to the mountain cave where she had trained with Lu Chen, then began a seclusion to consume the Dragonblood Crimson Marrow Pill and seek the unknown Fourteenth Realm. Years passed as she remained motionless in the cave, while Han Yu continued training and watched over her from afar.

• Su Yueli visited the old cave and comforted Little Black, which complained about being neglected.
• Little Black devoured the imperial-grade weapon and gained the ability to transform into weapons such as fist blades and a spear.
• Su Yueli swallowed the Dragonblood Crimson Marrow Pill and endured its immense Qi and Blood as she tried to break through toward the Fourteenth Realm.
• Su Yueli resolved to forge a path beyond the known limits of Martial Dao and entered deep meditation as the seasons passed.
• Han Yu practiced her fist techniques year after year and occasionally watched Su Yueli's unmoving figure at the cave from a distant peak.

After twenty-five years of seclusion, Su Yueli broke through to the Ultimate Dao Fourteenth Realm, which she named Supreme, and her power sent shockwaves across the Great Li Dynasty. She emerged from the cave and found Han Yu gone, with a letter left behind.

• Han Yu continued cultivating while Su Yueli searched through the void for a path to the Fourteenth Realm.
• After five more years, Han Yu left a sealed letter outside the cave and departed without disturbing Su Yueli.
• Su Yueli awakened after twenty-five years and broke through to the Ultimate Dao Fourteenth Realm, naming it Supreme.
• The royal ancestor of Great Li and the experts of the Azure Moon Sect sensed Su Yueli's breakthrough and feared the upheaval it might bring.
• Su Yueli walked to the ruins of the old village, found Han Yu missing, and noticed the letter on the stone platform.

Su Yueli found Han Yu’s five-year-old letter and traveled to Luochuan City to look for her missing disciple. After Su Yueli left, three Fourteenth-Realm elders arrived at the village ruins and speculated about the mysterious power they had sensed.

• Su Yueli read Han Yu’s letter explaining that she had returned to Luochuan City because of an urgent change in the Han Household.
• Su Yueli postponed confronting the Azure Moon Sect and set out to find Han Yu.
• Cangming, Zhao Xuankong, and Mo Bufan arrived at the village ruins and discussed the powerful blood-and-qi force that had appeared there.
• The three elders realized that the mysterious force had exceeded the Thirteenth Realm, but they found no trace of its source.
• Su Yueli appeared outside Luochuan City and entered to search for the Han Household.

Su Yueli returned to the ruined Han Household and learned that the Wang Household had destroyed the clan, killed Han Changqing, imprisoned Han Qingling, and left Han Yu missing. After discovering where the Wang Household was, Su Yueli vanished to confront them while Wang Tianba and Wang Teng mocked Han Yu’s absent master.

• Su Yueli entered the Han Household estate and learned from its servants that the Wang Household had killed Han Changqing, abducted Han Qingling, and barred the clan from appointing a new leader or leaving its compound.
• A servant told Su Yueli that Han Yu had attacked the Wang Household to rescue Han Qingling, was injured by an immortal, and had disappeared.
• The servants explained that the Wang Household had taken control of Luochuan City five years earlier and named the former City Lord’s Residence as its base.
• Su Yueli vanished before the servants could finish warning her, leaving them to wonder whether she was Han Yu’s master.
• At the Wang Household residence, Wang Teng and Wang Tianba celebrated their power and mocked Han Yu’s master while discussing Han Qingling’s imprisonment.

Su Yueli crushed the Wang Household elders and rescued Han Qingling from its dungeon while searching for her disciple Han Yu. Han Qingling used the Shared-Origin Blood Jade to reveal that Han Yu was alive but gravely weakened in the Deathspine Mountains northwest of Luochuan City.

• Su Yueli arrived at the Wang Household and used Little Black's aura to crush the elders, then demanded to know where Han Yu was.
• Wang Teng revealed that Han Yu had escaped Luochuan City after being wounded and that Han Qingling was imprisoned in the rear courtyard dungeon.
• Su Yueli found Han Qingling, shattered the chains draining her Qi and Blood, and supported her as she recovered.
• Han Qingling begged Su Yueli to save Han Yu and explained that Han Yu had been badly wounded five years earlier while helping her escape.
• Han Qingling activated the Shared-Origin Blood Jade, which pointed toward the Deathspine Mountains and confirmed that Han Yu was alive but dangerously weak.

Su Yueli crippled Wang Tianba and Wang Teng, then left Han Qingling to take her revenge on the Wang Household. She traveled to the Deathspine Mountains to find Han Yu and unleashed her Qi and Blood to clear thousands of miles of forest and fog, leaving Han Yu’s fate unresolved as the mountain shook.

• Su Yueli crippled Wang Tianba and Wang Teng after refusing their pleas for mercy.
• Han Qingling emerged from the dungeon, found the Wang Household guards and servants dead, and slapped Wang Teng in revenge for the Great Elder, Xiaoyu, and the dead Han Household members.
• Han Qingling thanked Su Yueli and entrusted Xiaoyu to her care.
• Su Yueli traveled to the Deathspine Mountains, where she cleared the miasma, trees, rocks, and beasts across several thousand miles with her Qi and Blood.
• Han Yu, who had survived in the mountains for five years and reached the Peak Fourth Realm, felt the earth shake from Su Yueli’s blast.